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SUMMARY:THEORY
DESCRIPTION:Stories of compelling arguments and spurious speculations\, quandaries\, questions\, and scientific revelation\n  \nCurated by Lilia Gutnik \nArtwork by Imogen Speer\nTuesday\, May 22\nPublic Works SF: 161 Erie St\, San Francisco \nDoors at 6:30 for pre-salon cocktails\, conversation and gallery show; talks begin at 7:30\nGeneral Admission $15\nLimited Reserved tickets $25\nAges 21+
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LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jenny Xie
DESCRIPTION:Jenny Xie\n\n  \nreading from her award winning poetry collection \nEye Level \npublished by Graywolf Press \nWinner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets\, selected by Juan Felipe Herrera \nJenny Xie’s award-winning debut\, Eye Level\, takes us far and near\, to Phnom Penh\, Corfu\, Hanoi\, New York\, and elsewhere\, as we travel closer and closer to the acutely felt solitude that centers this searching\, moving collection. Animated by a restless inner questioning\, these poems meditate on the forces that moor the self and set it in motion\, from immigration to travel to estranging losses and departures. The sensual worlds here—colors\, smells\, tastes\, and changing landscapes—bring to life questions about the self as seer and the self as seen. As Xie writes\, “Me? I’m just here in my traveler’s clothes\, trying on each passing town for size.” Her taut\, elusive poems exult in a life simultaneously crowded and quiet\, caught in between things and places\, and never quite entirely at home. Xie is a poet of extraordinary perception—both to the tangible world and to “All that is untouchable as far as the eye can reach.” \nJenny Xie was born in Hefei\, China\, and raised in New Jersey. She holds degrees from Princeton University and New York University\, and has received fellowships and support from Kundiman\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Elizabeth George Foundation\, and Poets & Writers. She is the recipient of the 2017 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets for Eye Level and the 2016 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Prize for Nowhere to Arrive. Her poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review\, Harvard Review\, the New Republic\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. She teaches at New York University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jenny-xie/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Daegan Miller discusses THIS RADICAL LAND
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Daegan Miller to the store to discuss his book\, This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent\, on Tuesday\, May 22nd at 7pm.  Joining him in conversation this evening is our very own Brad Johnson. \n“It’s hard to feel hopeful about the future of the United States\, given its ruinous past and present. But occasionally\, the present will surprise you (e.g.\, kids leading the contemporary struggle against gun violence). Sometimes\, too\, as explored in Daegan Miller’s spirited new book the past will too. His book will give you loads more to read about such past(s) … which might even lend room yet for some hope. — Brad Johnson \n“The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness\, draining swamps\, straightening rivers\, peopling the solitude\, and subduing nature\,” wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. That’s largely how we still think of nineteenth-century America today: a country expanding unstoppably\, bending the continent’s natural bounty to the national will\, heedless of consequence. A country of slavery and of Indian wars. There’s much truth in that vision. \nBut if you know where to look\, you can uncover a different history\, one of vibrant resistance\, one that’s been mostly forgotten. This Radical Land recovers that story. Daegan Miller is our guide on a beautifully written\, revelatory trip across the continent during which we encounter radical thinkers\, settlers\, and artists who grounded their ideas of freedom\, justice\, and progress in the very landscapes around them\, even as the runaway engine of capitalism sought to steamroll everything in its path. Here we meet Thoreau\, the expert surveyor\, drawing anticapitalist property maps. We visit a black antislavery community in the Adirondack wilderness of upstate New York. We discover how seemingly commercial photographs of the transcontinental railroad secretly sent subversive messages\, and how a band of utopian anarchists among California’s sequoias imagined a greener\, freer future. At every turn\, everyday radicals looked to landscape for the language of their dissent–drawing crucial early links between the environment and social justice\, links we’re still struggling to strengthen today. \nWorking in a tradition that stretches from Thoreau to Rebecca Solnit\, Miller offers nothing less than a new way of seeing the American past–and of understanding what it can offer us for the present . . . and the future. \nAbout the Author \nDaegan Miller has taught at Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, and his writing has appeared in a variety of venues\, from academic journals to literary magazines. His research has received funding from the A.W. Mellon Foundation\, the Social Science Research Council\, the American Antiquarian Society\,  the National Endowment for the Humanities (twice)\,  and Cornell University\, and I’ve won awards from Cornell\, the Southern American Studies Association\, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society\, and the Forest History Society. This Radical Land is his first book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daegan-miller-discusses-this-radical-land/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:This is Now with Angie Coiro presents James Hatch on Combat Recovery
DESCRIPTION:James Hatch served with the Navy SEALs\, where he rose to the rank of special ops Senior Chief. He fought in 150 missions\, including service in Iraq and Afghanistan. He earned four Bronze Stars with Valor. But it was when he broke into tears over the death of a service dog by enemy fire that he came to national attention. \nHatch was testifying in the trial of Bowe Bergdahl\, who abandoned his post in Afghanistan\, then was captured by the Taliban. As he joined the dragnet to find the missing soldier\, Hatch said later\, he knew Americans would be killed or hurt. He turned out to be one of them. Sprayed with the same AK-47 fire that took down the service dog at his side\, Hatch swirled into a maelstrom of pain\, surgeries\, amputation\, and alcoholism. He found his way back with hard work\, love of friends and family\, and – fittingly enough – by founding a charity to care for retired service dogs. \nJames Hatch tells his story of his struggle and recovery in Touching the Dragon\, And Other Techniques for Surviving Life’s Wars. Anderson Cooper says it “reveals with such honesty and openness\, the ‘second war’ that Jimmy and other special operators must fight when they come back to a society that seems so alien to them\, a society completely divorced from the purity of combat.” Join Angie Coiro for another This Is Now conversation with this very special guest.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-with-angie-coiro-presents-james-hatch-on-combat-recovery/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Lucy Jane Bledsoe / The Evolution of Love
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Lucy Jane Bledsoe in conversation with Rabih Alameddine about her new novel\, The Evolution of Love. Please join us! \n“She’d told herself\, and her husband Tom\, that she was coming to rescue Vicky. And she was. She would. She’d been rescuing her sister her entire life. But she’d never done anything remotely this extreme. She knew the region had been evacuated\, and yet somehow hadn’t pictured everyone literally gone. . .The stark\, devastated landscape heightened all her senses\, as if her fear made the colors deeper\, the smells headier\, the sounds crisper. She couldn’t give in to the terror; if she did\, it might never end. She had no choice but to finish what she’d begun.” \nA devastating earthquake has just hit the San Francisco Bay Area\, cutting off the outside world completely. When Lily decides to fly from Nebraska to California and make the treacherous journey into the Bay Area to find her sister\, she knows she’s headed for a disaster zone\, but nothing prepares her for what she finds. \nThose who survived and didn’t evacuate are making shelters\, running meals programs\, rigging their own technologies — and redefining the very meaning of community. Lily bands together with a couple of feral kids\, a steadfast activist\, and a bonobo researcher\, among others\, to forge a new life. \nA story of hope in the face of crisis\, The Evolution of Love asks what it takes for people to come together\, what dangers must they fend off in their bid for survival\, and what lengths will they go to rebuild home. \n— \n“Given our current seemingly endless string of natural disasters\, this is a timely story and a compelling one. In the context of a twisting plot\, in the company of appealing characters\, Bledsoe asks us to think about the resilience of love and hate; what our responsibility to each other is; and who we really are\, right down to our DNA. Highly recommended.”  — Karen Joy Fowler\, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves and The Jane Austen Book Club \n— \nLucy Jane Bledsoe is the author of five previous novels\, including A Thin Bright Line. Her fiction has won a California Arts Council Fellowship in Literature\, an American Library Association Stonewall Award\, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize\, a Pushcart nomination\, a Yaddo Fellowship\, and two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships. She’s been a six-time Lambda Literary Award finalist and a two-time Ferro-Grumley Award Finalist. Bledsoe lives in the Bay Area where she spends as much time as possible kayaking in the bay\, as well as hiking and cycling in the hills. \n  \nRabih Alameddine is the author of the novels Koolaids\, and I\, the Divine\, The Hakawati\, An Unnecessary Woman (finalist for the National Book Critics Award)\, the story collection\, The Perv\, and most recently\, The Angel of History (winner of the Arab American Book Award and Lambda Literary Award). He divides his time between San Francisco and Beirut.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lucy-jane-bledsoe-the-evolution-of-love/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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