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SUMMARY:MARY: A Journal of New Writing
DESCRIPTION:MARY: A Journal of New Writing is accepting submissions for our Spring 2018 issue. If you have poetry\, nonfiction\, or fiction you would like to share\, please send it our way! Authors of works selected for the Spring 2018 Issue will be offered a small honorarium. Submissions are open until March 7th. 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:Holloway Reading Series: Alan Felsenthal with Dylan Furcall
DESCRIPTION:Alan Felsenthal runs a small press called The Song Cave with Ben Estes. Together\, they edited A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton. Alan’s writing has appeared in BOMB\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Critical Quarterly\, Fence\, jubilat\, and Harper’s. Lowly\, published by Ugly Duckling Presse\, is his first collection of poems.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-alan-felsenthal-with-dylan-furcall/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Robert Aquinas McNally
DESCRIPTION:Robert Aquinas McNally\n\n  \ndiscussing the subject of his new book \nMODOC WAR: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America’s Gilded Age \nfrom University of Nebraska Press \nOn a cold\, rainy dawn in late November 1872\, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle and a Modoc Indian nicknamed Scarface Charley leveled firearms at each other. Their duel triggered a war that capped a decades-long genocidal attack that was emblematic of the United States’ conquest of Native America’s peoples and lands. Robert Aquinas McNally tells the wrenching story of the Modoc War of 1872–73\, one of the nation’s costliest campaigns against North American Indigenous peoples\, in which the army placed nearly one thousand soldiers in the field against some fifty-five Modoc fighters. \nAlthough little known today\, the Modoc War dominated national headlines for an entire year. Fought in south-central Oregon and northeastern California\, the war settled into a siege in the desolate Lava Beds and climaxed the decades-long effort to dispossess and destroy the Modocs. \nThe war did not end with the last shot fired\, however. For the first and only time in U.S. history\, Native fighters were tried and hanged for war crimes. The surviving Modocs were packed into cattle cars and shipped from Fort Klamath to the corrupt\, disease-ridden Quapaw reservation in Oklahoma\, where they found peace even more lethal than war. \nThe Modoc War tells the forgotten story of a violent and bloody Gilded Age campaign at a time when the federal government boasted officially of a “peace policy” toward Indigenous nations. This compelling history illuminates a dark corner in our country’s past. \nRobert Aquinas McNally is a freelance writer and editor based in Concord\, California. He is the author or coauthor of nine nonfiction books\, including So Remorseless a Havoc: Of Dolphins\, Whales\, and Men \n\nWhat has been said about the work of Robert McNally:\n\n“McNally provides a brutally frank and damningly well-documented account of the war’s sordid background.”—Bradley A. Scott\, Foreword Reviews\n“An excellent addition to Robert McNally’s body of work.”—Tombstone Epitaph\n“From the opening scene to the end\, The Modoc War unfolds with an unrelenting pace and engaging immediacy. One rarely comes across a historical account written with such verve\, truly deserving to be called a page-turner. Here is ethnohistory at its best\, an accounting of Indian-white relations from multiple perspectives.”—James J. Rawls\, author of Indians of California: The Changing Image \n“Robert McNally’s page-turning The Modoc War is one of the finest books ever written on this tragic history.”—Benjamin Madley\, author of An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe\, 1846–1873\n“Robert McNally’s history of the Modoc War\, convincingly told from engrossing start to finish\, tells the story of an American tragedy\, but not without powerfully illustrating the nobility and endurance of the people who suffered it.”—Greg Sarris\, chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and author of Grand Avenue and Watermelon Nights\n“Well paced\, with vividly drawn characters and exciting\, dramatic prose\, Robert Aquinas McNally’s narrative history of the Modoc War is the most thoroughly researched and historically accurate account of that tragedy to date. A tour de force of historical storytelling\, The Modoc War is an insightful exploration of one of America’s most important but forgotten Indian wars.”—Boyd Cothran\, author of Remembering the Modoc War: Redemptive Violence and the Making of American Innocence
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LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:David Neiwert / Alt America
DESCRIPTION:Just as Donald Trump’s victorious campaign for the US presidency shocked the world\, the seemingly sudden national prominence of white supremacists\, xenophobes\, militia leaders\, and mysterious “alt-right” figures mystifies many. But the American extreme right has been growing steadily in number and influence since the 1990s with the rise of patriot militias. Following 9/11\, conspiracy theorists found fresh life; and in virulent reaction to the first black US president\, militant racists have come out of the woodwork. Nurtured by a powerful right-wing media sector in radio\, TV\, and online\, the far right\, Tea Party movement conservatives\, and Republican activists found common ground. Figures such as Stephen Bannon\, Milo Yiannopoulos\, and Alex Jones\, once rightly dismissed as cranks\, now haunt the reports of mainstream journalism. \nInvestigative reporter David Neiwert has been tracking extremists for more than two decades. In Alt-America\, he provides a deeply researched and authoritative report on the growth of fascism and far-right terrorism\, the violence of which in the last decade has surpassed anything inspired by Islamist or other ideologies in the United States. The product of years of reportage\, and including the most in-depth investigation of Trump’s ties to the far right\, this is a crucial book about one of the most disturbing aspects of American society. \n— \nDavid Neiwert is a journalist and author and an acknowledged expert in American right-wing extremism. He has appeared on Anderson Cooper 360\, CNN Newsroom\, and The Rachel Maddow Show. His work has also appeared in the American Prospect\, the Washington Post\, MSNBC\, Salon\, and other publications. His previous books include The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right\, Strawberry Days: How Internment Destroyed a Japanese-American Community\, as well as And Hell Followed With Her: Crossing the Dark Side of the American Border\, which won the 2014 International Latino Book Award.
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LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:George Saunders with Dan Stone
DESCRIPTION:George Saunders is the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo; Tenth of December; In Persuasion Nation; The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil; Pastoralia; CivilWarLand in Bad Decline; The Braindead Megaphone; and a children’s book\, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip. His work appears regularly in the New Yorker\, Harper’s and GQ. In 2006\, he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant.” In 2000\, The New Yorker named him one of the “Best Writers Under 40.”  He is a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. He teaches at Syracuse University.
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LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Arts & Letters: Morgan Jerkins
DESCRIPTION:MORGAN JERKINS presents This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black\, Female\, and Feminist in (White) America\nWednesday\, February 21\, 2018\, 7:30PM\nat the Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St. in Berkeley\nTICKETS ON SALE NOW \n​Jerkins’ highly-anticipated collection of linked essays interweaves her incisive commentary on pop culture\, feminism\, black history\, misogyny\, and racism with her own experiences to confront the very real challenges of being a black woman today — perfect for fans of Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist\, Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me\, and Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists. \nMorgan Jerkins is only in her twenties\, but she has already established herself as an insightful\, brutally honest writer who isn’t afraid of tackling tough\, controversial subjects. In This Will Be My Undoing\, she takes on perhaps one of the most provocative contemporary topics: What does it mean to “be” — to live as\, to exist as — a black woman today? This is a book about black women\, but it’s necessary reading for all Americans. \nDoubly disenfranchised by race and gender\, often deprived of a place within the mostly white mainstream feminist movement\, black women are objectified\, silenced\, and marginalized with devastating consequences\, in ways both obvious and subtle\, that are rarely acknowledged in our country’s larger discussion about inequality. In This Will Be My Undoing\, Jerkins becomes both narrator and subject to expose the social\, cultural\, and historical story of black female oppression that influences the black community as well as the white\, male-dominated world at large. \nWhether she’s writing about Sailor Moon; Rachel Dolezal; the stigma of therapy; her complex relationship with her own physical body; the pain of dating when men say they don’t “see color”; being a black visitor in Russia; the specter of “the fast-tailed girl” and the paradox of black female sexuality; or disabled black women in the context of the “Black Girl Magic” movement\, Jerkins is compelling and revelatory. \n—\n“Morgan Jerkins is a star\, a force\, a blessing\, a scholar and a critic\, and now can add great American essayist to that list! I found myself sighing\, nodding\, gasping\, laughing\, and crying while reading this collection-but mostly cheering! We can all sleep well at night knowing this country will inherit heart\, mind\, and soul like this. It’s safe to say I’ve never read anyone this young-barely at quarter life!-who can understand herself\, those around her\, past and present\, with such dignity and clarity and generosity. Intersectionality in America is dissected\, investigated\, celebrated and challenged all without being pedantic or preachy or pretentious. And Jerkins is the sort of benevolent intellectual you want to spend time with-who will never lie to you\, but also will never let you lie to her. I’ve long known that feminism and arts and media owe so much to the excellent work of black women and This Will be My Undoing is yet another testament to that.” — Porochista Khakpour\, author of Sons & Other Flammable Objects\, The Last Illusion\, and Sick\n— \nMorgan Jerkins is a twenty-something-year-old living and writing in New York. She graduated from Princeton with an AB in comparative literature\, specializing in nineteenth-century Russian and modern Japanese literature\, and has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Jenkins is currently a contributing editor at Catapult and a Book of the Month judge. She has also written for Vogue\, the Atlantic\, Rolling Stone\, the New Yorker\, the Guardian\, andthe New York Times\, among many others. \nImportant signing details coming soon. Tickets on sale at this link. \nRSVP at this link: not required\, but\, as always\, greatly appreciated.
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LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: February Love
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate love and whatever else at Lyrics & Dirges with five fabulous readers: Fisayo Adeyeye\, Candace Eros Díaz\, Jacqueline Doyle\, Gillian Hamel & Nancy Huang. Free with refreshments and bookstore cats. Hosted and curated by Mk Chavez\, Sharon Coleman and Lark Omura. \nblckfsh / bird enthusiast / benign boy / fisayo adeyeye has works published in souvenir lit journal / nailed magazine / the birds we piled loosely / and he is the author of cradles (nomadic press 2017) \nCandace Eros Díaz is a queer Xicana writer based in Oakland\, CA. She is a current Emerging Arts Professionals fellow and has previously held fellowships at the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto\, Lambda Literary\, and The Steinbeck Fellows Program of San José State University. She co-curates the San Francisco reading series Babylon Salon and is the Coordinator for the MFA in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College of California where she earned a dual-concentration Masters in Fine Art in creative nonfiction and fiction. Her work has appeared in Under the Gum Tree\, Arroyo Literary Review\, The East Bay Review\, and Huizache\, among others. She can be found at candaceerosdiaz.com. \nJacqueline Doyle’s flash chapbook The Missing Girl was recently published by Black Lawrence Press. She has new flash in Wigleaf\, Midway Journal\, and matchbook\, and new creative nonfiction in The Gettysburg Review\, Under the Gum Tree\, and Superstition Review. Find her online atwww.jacquelinedoyle.com. \nGillian Olivia Blythe Hamel is the author of occident (Called Back Books\, 2017). Her work has appeared in Public Pool\, The Elephants\, VOLT\, jubilat\, Dusie\, and The Offending Adam\, and was recently featured in the Aesthetic Blitz exhibition from the Asian American Women Artists Association. She is a senior poetry editor at Omnidawn Publishing and editor of OmniVerse. Gillian also co-publishes speCt!\, a chapbook series and book arts imprint\, with Peter Burghardt and Robert Andrew Perez. \nNancy Huang grew up in America and China. She is a winner of the 2016 Write Bloody Poetry Chapbook contest\, an Andrew Julius Gutow Academy of American Poets Prize\, a James F. Parker Award in Poetry\, a 2015 YoungArts Finalist prize\, and more. She has received fellowships from Voices/VONA and Tin House. Her debut poetry collection\, Favorite Daughter\, is out by Write Bloody Publishing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-february-love/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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