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SUMMARY:MARY: A Journal of New Writing
DESCRIPTION:MARY: A Journal of New Writing is accepting submissions for our Winter 2017 issue. If you have poetry\, nonfiction\, or fiction you would like to share\, please send it our way! Authors of works selected for the Winter 2017 Issue will be offered a small honorarium. Submissions are open until November 8th. We look forward to reading your work! For more information about our submission guidelines\, please use the following link: https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/nod e/15842
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Reza Farazmand
DESCRIPTION:In the follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Poorly Drawn Lines\, beloved webcomic artist Reza Farazmand returns with a new collection of comics that hilariously skewers our modern age. Comics for a Strange World takes readers through time\, space\, and alternate realities\, reuniting fans with favorite characters and presenting even more ridiculous scenarios. A squirrel adapts to human society by purchasing a cell phone—and a gun. And an old man shares memories of the Internet with his granddaughter: “A vast network of millions of idiots. Together\, the idiots created endless shitty ideas. It was a true renaissance of shit.” In the world of Poorly Drawn Lines\, nothing is too weird or too outlandish for parody. \nFeaturing 50 percent brand-new content alongside some of the most popular comics of the past year\, Comics for a Strange World will be the perfect gift for your most sardonic friend or family member. \nReza Farazmand lives and draws in San Francisco. He started putting his comics on the Internet in college at pdlcomics.tumblr.com\, and was soon surprised to learn that this activity could make for an actual career. His work has since been featured in and around such places as television sets\, websites\, magazines\, and now this book. When he’s not writing or drawing\, Reza enjoys drinking coffee and looking at things on screens. He is generally a pretty good guy.
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LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Karen Melander Magoon + Nina Serrano
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Tuesday evening in the historic literary epicenter of San Francisco to hear poets from near and far read their work! \nTuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman.
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LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Barry Gifford
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nThe Cuban Club: Stories \nfrom Seven Stories Press \nA masterpiece of mood and setting\, character and remembrance\, The Cuban Club is Barry Gifford’s ultimate coming-of-age story told as sixty-four linked tales\, a creation myth of the Fall as seen through the eyes of an innocent child on the cusp of becoming an innocent man. Set in Chicago in the 1950s and early 1960s against the backdrop of small-time hoodlums in the Chicago mob and the girls and women attached to them\, there is the nearness of heinous crimes\, and the price to be paid for them. To Roy and his friends\, these twists and tragedies drift by like curious flotsam. The tales themselves are koan-like\, often ending in questions\, with rarely a conclusion. The story that closes the book is in the form of a letter from Roy to his father four years after his father’s death\, but written as if he were still alive. Indeed\, throughout The Cuban Club Roy is still in some doubt whether divorce or even death really exists in a world where everything seems so alive and connected. Barry Gifford has been writing his Roy stories on and off for over thirty years\, and earlier Roy stories have been published as Wyoming\, Memories from a Sinking Ship and The Roy Stories. But it is in The Cuban Club that he brings the form he has created in these stories to its crystallization. Indeed\, to find precedents for The Cuban Club\, we must look not to other story collections\, but to other creation myths–to Gilgamesh\, or the Old Testament\, or Eduardo Galeano’s Memory of Fire trilogy. Roy’s age in these stories wends back and forth between six and nineteen and back to twelve. He sees with the eyes of a seer who doesn’t seem to age\, and knows not to judge the good or the bad in circumstances or people\, or even to question why things are as they are\, instead filled with the romance of the world teetering on catastrophe always\, but abounding in saving graces. \nBarry Gifford is the author of more than forty published works of fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry\, which have been translated into twenty-eight languages. His most recent prose works are The Up-Down\, Writers\, Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels\, Sad Stories of the Death of Kings\, Imagining Paradise: New and Selected Poems\, The Roy Stories\, and Landscape with Traveler. Gifford lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. More at www.barrygifford.com.
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LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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