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SUMMARY:Story is the Thing
DESCRIPTION:The fifth installment of the Story Is the Thing Quarterly Reading Series is only a month away! Join us on November 16th at 7:30 PM for an evening of storytelling with seven local literary stars\, reading on the theme “The Unsent Letter.” We’ll start with light refreshments at 7:00 PM. \nReaders this time will be David Denny\, Joyce Kiefer\, Michael David Lukas\, Chiseche Salome Mibenge\, Marian Palaia\, Austin Smith\, and Rebecca Winterer. \nDavid Denny’s fiction has recently appeared in Narrative\, Catamaran\, and New Ohio Review. His short story collection\, The Gill Man in Purgatory\, is now available from Shanti Arts. He is also the author of three poetry collections: Man Overboard\, Fool in the Attic\, and Plebeian on the Front Porch. More information at daviddenny.net. \nJoyce Kiefer is a lifelong Bay Area resident.  She majored in English and Journalism at San Jose State. She has had poetry published in several award winning collections including Cradle Songs: An Anthology of Poems on Motherhood\, and Lavanderia: A Mixed Load of Women\, Wash and Word. Joyce has also had feature pieces published in the San Jose Mercury News and was a regular contributor to The Columnists. She contributes travel pieces to Bay Area Family Travel and has had memoir pieces appeared in By the Bay and Cooking Up Stories.” Joyce enjoys writing memoir\, travel experience\, and wry commentary on the small things in life that turn out to be bigger than we think. Read her blog: http://lifeinthepursuit.blogspot.com. \nMichael David Lukas is the author of the international bestselling novel The Oracle of Stamboul\, which was a finalist for the California Book Award\, the NCIBA Book of the Year Award\, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize\, and has been published in fifteen languages. His second novel\, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo\, is forthcoming from Spiegel & Grau in March 2018. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey\, a student at the American University of Cairo\, and a night-shift proofreader in Tel Aviv. A graduate of Brown University\, he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Bread Loaf Writers Conference\, and the Santa Maddalena Foundation\, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, Slate\, and VQR. He lives in Oakland\, California. \nMichael David Lukas is the author of the international bestselling novel The Oracle of Stamboul\, which was a finalist for the California Book Award\, the NCIBA Book of the Year Award\, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize\, and has been published in fifteen languages. His second novel\, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo\, is forthcoming from Spiegel & Grau in March 2018. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey\, a student at the American University of Cairo\, and a night-shift proofreader in Tel Aviv. A graduate of Brown University\, he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Bread Loaf Writers Conference\, and the Santa Maddalena Foundation\, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, Slate\, and VQR. He lives in Oakland\, California. \nChiseche Salome Mibenge is the author of Sex and International Tribunals: The Erasure of Gender From The War Narrative (UPenn Press\, 2013). She studied Law in Zambia\, her country of birth and received her PhD in International Human Rights Law from Utrecht University in 2010. She is a human rights educator\, writer\, and editor and blogs at chisechemibenge.com. Chiseche is an awardee of the Columbia Journal of Literature and Art winter 2017 contest for her short story\, The Protected Party. \nMarian Palaia’s first novel\, The Given World\, (Simon and Schuster\, 2015) was shortlisted for the Saroyan International Prize for Fiction\, longlisted for The PEN/Bingham First Novel Prize\, a finalist for the VCU/Cabell Award\, and recognized by Kirkus as a Best Novel of 2015. She lives in San Francisco\, California and in Missoula\, Montana with her Mongolian Barking Shepherd\, Tupelo. \nAustin Smith grew up on a family dairy farm in northwestern Illinois. His poems and stories have appeared in The New Yorker\, Harpers\, Poetry Magazine\, Narrative Magazine\, Threepenny Review\, ZYZZYVA\, Yale Review\, Sewanee Review\, Ploughshares and New England Review\, amongst others. His first collection of poems\, Almanac\, was chosen for the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets and published in 2013. A second collection\, Flyover Country\, will be published by Princeton in the fall of 2018. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in fiction\, Smith teaches poetry\, fiction\, documentary journalism and environmental literature classes at Stanford University. \nRebecca Winterer is the author of The Singing Ship\, awarded the Del Sol Press 2016 First Novel Prize and selected as a finalist for the Black Lawrence Press 2016 Big Moose Prize. Shes received fellowships at the Millay Colony\, the Vermont Studio Center\, Virginia Center for Creative Arts\, and Yaddo; and has had a story published by Puerto del Sol.  She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Raised in Queensland\, Australia\, she now lives in San Francisco\, California with her husband.
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LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Red\, Yellow\, Green: Alejandro Saravia + María José Giménez
DESCRIPTION:AUTHOR\n\nAlejandro Saravia\n\n\nAlejandro Saravia was born in Cochabamba\, Bolivia\, and since 1986 has lived in Quebec\, where he works as a journalist. His publications include the novel Rojo\, amarillo y verde (2003)\, Borealis Antología Literaria de El Dorado (Verbum Veritas – La cita trunca Editores\, Ottawa\, 2011)\, Dieciocho voces de la poesía hispano-canadiense (Acento Editores\, Guadalajara\, México\, 2009)\, Cuentos de nuestra palabra en Canadá: primera hornada(Editorial Nuestra Palabra\, Toronto\, 2009)\, Las imposturas de Eros\, cuentos de amor en la posmodernidad (Editorial Lugar Común\, Ottawa\, 2009)\, The Fourth River (Chatham University\, Pittsburgh\, 2009) Retrato de una nube\, Primera antología del cuento hispano canadiense (Editorial Lugar Común\, Ottawa\, 2008)\, La poésie prend le métro (Éditions Adage\, Montréal\, 2004) and Boreal\, Antología de poesía latinoamericana en Canadá(Editorial Verbum Veritas – La cita trunca\, Ottawa\, 2002).He is co-director of Montreal’s Hispanic-Canadian collective The Apostles Review. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nTRANSLATOR\nMaría José Giménez\n\n\nMaría José Giménez is a Venezuelan-Canadian poet and translator. Recipient of a 2016 Gabo Prize for Translation and fellowships from the NEA\, The Banff International Literary Translation Centre\, and the Katharine Bakeless Nason Endowment\, María José is co-director of Montreal’s collective The Apostles Review and Assistant Translation Editor for Drunken Boat.\n\n\n\n\n\nNOVEMBER 16\, 2017 | 7:30PM\n\nRSVP\n\nBolivian-Canadian writer Alejandro Saravia and poet and translator María José Giménez discuss his new novel\, Red\, Yellow\, Green\, the first to be translated into English\, as well as the tumultuous existence of the exile\, the crossings of language\, and Latino-Canadian literature.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-yellow-green/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Emma Cline
DESCRIPTION:Emma Cline’s fiction has appeared in Tin House\, Granta\, and The Paris Review\, and she was the recipient of the 2014 Paris Review Plimpton Prize. Her debut novel\, The Girls\, was named one of the best books of the year by NPR\, The Guardian\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Esquire\, Vogue\, Publishers Weekly\, and more. \n“The Girls is a seductive and arresting coming-of-age story\, told in sentences at times so finely wrought they could almost be worn as jewelry…a spellbinding story. Cline gorgeously maps the topography of one loneliness-ravaged adolescent heart. She gives us the fictional truth of a girl chasing danger beyond her comprehension\, in a summer of Longing and Loss.”\n– The New York Times \n“Emma Cline has an unparalleled eye for the intricacies of girlhood\, turning the stuff of myth into something altogether more intimate. She reminds us that behind so many of our culture’s fables exists a girl: unseen\, unheard\, angry. Thi
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LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Julia Bouwsma + Tess Taylor
DESCRIPTION:Julia Bouwsma lives off-the-grid in the mountains of western Maine\, where she is a poet\, farmer\, freelance editor\, critic\, and small-town librarian. She is the author of MIDDEN (Fordham University Press\, forthcoming 2018) and Work by Bloodlight (Cider Press Review\, 2017). Her poems and book reviews appear in Bellingham Review\, Colorado Review\, Muzzle\, Salamander\, RHINO\, River Styx\, and other journals. She is the recipient of the 2016-17 Poets Out Loud Prize\, the 2015 Cider Press Review Book Award\, and residencies from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. A former Managing Editor for Alice James Books\, Bouwsma currently serves as Book Review Editor for Connotation Press: An Online Artifact and as Library Director for Webster Library in Kingfield\, Maine.\n\n\n\n\n\nTess Taylor‘s chapbook\, The Misremembered World\, was selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook fellowship. The San Francisco Chronicle called her first book\, The Forage House\, “stunning” and it was a finalist for the Believer Poetry Award. Her second book\, Work & Days\, was called “our moment’s Georgic” by critic Steph Burt and was named one of the 10 best books of poetry of 2016 by the New York Times. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic\, Boston Review\, Harvard Review\, The Times Literary Supplement\, and other places. Taylor has received awards and fellowships from MacDowell\, Headlands Center for the Arts\, and The International Center for Jefferson Studies. Taylor currently chairs the poetry committee of the National Book Critics Circle and is the on-air poetry reviewer for NPR’s All Things Considered. She was most recently a Distinguished Fulbright US Scholar at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University in Belfast\, Northern Ireland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julia-bouwsma-tess-taylor/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's Hurts So Good
DESCRIPTION:Doors and Bang-O at 7pm. Stories start at 8pm. Come early and make a few new friends! We recommend you arrive by 7.15pm. \nTickets: $30 reserved premium seating\, $20 advance general admission. \nPERFORMERS \nThis evening features tales of hurting – but in a good way – and is hosted by nationally-known sexual folklorist Dixie De La Tour. Come on out and play some Bang-O before the show for a chance to win prizes just for talking to sexy strangers! The bar will be serving Bawdy-themed cocktails\, so expect some interesting conversation. \nWe’ll be posting more details about the storytellers and musical act soon. \nGot a story about a time when you found out how good hurt can be that you’d like to share at the show? Send a voice mail with your pitch to dixie@bawdystorytelling.com.  If you’re selected\, you get a free coaching session from Dixie for the show\, and your chance to shine on our stage.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-hurts-so-good/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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