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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic. \nCurated by Marguerite Munoz and Renee Vaz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-our-monthly-bilingual-poetry-series-and-open-mic-15/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tommy Orange
DESCRIPTION:Tommy Orange reading from\n\nThere There \npublished by Alfred Knopf \nNot since Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange’s There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career.Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame in Oakland. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle’s memory. Edwin Black has come to find his true father. Thomas Frank has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather; Orvil has taught himself Indian dance through YouTube videos\, and he has come to the Big Oakland Powwow to dance in public for the very first time. Tony Loneman is a young Native American boy whose future seems destined to be as bleak as his past\, and he has come to the Powwow with darker intentions–intentions that will destroy the lives of everyone in his path.\nFierce\, angry\, funny\, groundbreaking–Tommy Orange’s first novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. There There is a multi-generational\, relentlessly paced story about violence and recovery\, hope and loss\, identity and power\, dislocation and communion\, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. A glorious\, unforgettable debut. \nTommy Orange is a recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a 2014 MacDowell Fellow\, and a 2016 Writing by Writers Fellow. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland\, California\, and currently lives in Angels Camp\, California. \nPraise for the work of Tommy Orange: \n“When Tommy Orange first sent me a chapter of his novel\, There There\, I read it and marveled. I then read it aloud to my wife. And then I emailed and called my closest writer friends. I said\, ‘It’s here. That book I’ve been waiting for. It has arrived.’ Tommy Orange has indeed arrived. And his debut novel is a beautiful\, dangerous\, sad\, poetic\, and hilarious revelation. Set in Oakland\, California\, There There is truly the first book to capture what it means to be an urban Indian—perhaps the first novel ever to celebrate and honor and elevate the joys and losses of urban Indians. You might think I’m exaggerating but this book is so revolutionary—evolutionary—that Native American literature will never be the same.”\n—Sherman Alexie \n“There\, There is an urgent\, invigorating\, absolutely vital book by a novelist with more raw virtuosic talent than any young writer I’ve come across in a long\, long time. Maybe ever. Tommy Orange is a stylist with substance\, a showboater with a deeply moral compass. I want to call him heir to Gertrude Stein by way of George Saunders\, but he is even more original than that. This book will make your heart swell.”\n—Claire Vaye Watkins \n“This is Tommy Orange. Remember his name. His book’s gonna blow the roof off.”\n—Pam Houston
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tommy-orange/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:WHY THERE ARE WORDS SAUSALITO PRESENTS BODY LANGUAGE
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words on June 14\, 2018\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito when six acclaimed authors read on the theme of “Body Language.” Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10 entry fee at the door (cash or check made payable to Studio 333). Cash bar. Studio 333 is located at 333 Caledonia Street \nKelly Alsup\, a graduate of the University of Oregon and Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School\, works from coastal California where she gardens\, teaches\, dances\, swims\, and sings. Born in California and raised in Nebraska\, her writing can be found in The Axe Factory\, Bombay Gin\, Buddhist Poetry Review\, and Inverness Almanac. She celebrates publication of her first chapbook\, When If Ever Alive\, from Finishing Line Press in 2018. \nLucy Jane Bledsoe is the author of six novels\, including the just-released The Evolution of Love (Rare Bird Books\, May 2018) and A Thin Bright Line (University of Wisconsin Press\, 2016). 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. Her story collection\, Lava Falls\, is forthcoming from University of Wisconsin Press this fall 2018. She 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. \nJane Rosenberg LaForge is a poet and author of two full-length poetry collections and four chapbooks; an experimental memoir; and a new novel\, The Hawkman: A Fairy Tale of the Great War from Amberjack Publishing (June 2018). The Hawkman has been named a book to watch by Publisher’s Lunch BuzzBooks 2018. Her memoir\, An Unsuitable Princess: A True Fantasy/A Fantastical Memoir (Jaded Ibis Press\, 2014)\, received an honorable mention for the best books of the (Jewish) year 5774 in HEEB magazine. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize\, a storySouth Million Writers Award\, and the Best of the Net collection. \nJan Reid spent much of his early career writing wide-ranging nonfiction for publications that include Texas Monthly\, Esquire\, New York Times Magazine\, Men’s Journal\, and Slate. His non-fiction books include The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock (University of Texas Press\, 2004)\, for more than forty years held to be a classic portrayal of the Austin-based music boom; Let the People In (University of Texas Press\, 2013)\, his widely praised biography of the late Texas governor Ann Richards; and his own favorite\, The Bullet Meant for Me (University of Texas Press\, 2005)\, a memoir that questions ingrained masculine values and relates a dire confrontation in Mexico and his recovery from it. In recent years he has returned to his first love\, fiction. His second novel\, Comanche Sundown (Texas Christian University Press\, 2010)\, won a best fiction award from the Texas Institute of Letters in 2010\, an honor that puts him in company with previous honorees Cormac McCarthy and Katherine Ann Porter. His writing has been anthologized in many collections\, and his honors include the career achievement award from the Texas Institute of Letters\, a creative nonfiction award from PEN Southwest\, and a research and travel grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The latter spawned the book he considers his best\, his third novel\, Sins of the Younger Sons (TCU Press\, 2017)\, a love story and thriller that plunges an American agent inside dangerous intrigues in South America and the Basque separatist insurgency in Spain. \nJenn Scott‘s debut collection of stories\, Her Adult Life\, was just published this year by Acre Books. Her stories have appeared in such places as Gettysburg Review\, Santa Monica Review\, Cincinnati Review\, Gulf Coast\, Los Angeles Review\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, and Fiction. She lives and writes and eats and drinks in Oakland with four cats and a husband. Currently\, she is revising a novel spanning nearly eighty years in that city’s Rockridge district. \n \nTownsend Walker’s novella La Ronde was published in 2015 by Truth Serum Press. His short stories have appeared in over seventy-five literary journals. “A Little Love\, A Little Shove” and “Holding Tight” were nominated for PEN/O.Henry Awards\, two stories that are included in his new collection\, 3 Women\, 4 Towns\, 5 Bodies(Deeds Publishing\, 2018). During a career in finance he wrote A Guide for Using the Foreign Exchange Market (John Wiley & Sons Inc\, 1981)\, Managing Risk with Derivatives (American Bankers Association\, 1996)\, and Managing Lease Portfolios (Wiley\, 2005). He lives in San Francisco and conducts a creative writing workshop at San Quentin Prison. \nWhy There Are Words (WTAW) is an award-winning national reading series founded in Sausalito in 2010 by Peg Alford Pursell\, now expanded to six additional major cities in the U.S.\, with more planned in the future. The series draws a full house of Bay Area residents every second Thursday to Studio 333\, located at 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito\, CA 94965. The series is a program of the 501(c)3 non-profit WTAW Press\, publisher of award-winning exceptional literary books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-sausalito-presents-body-language/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash presents Gillian Conoley and Paul Hoover
DESCRIPTION:Gillian Conoley’s most recent book of poems is Peace. A. Anupama\, in Numéro Cinq\, wrote\, “White space percolates this lyric\, while the current lull in American military actions forms the occasion of this book\, Gillian Conoley’s seventh poetry collection. With poems  titled “late democracy\,’ “[Peace] contrary to history\,” and “Trying to Write a Poem about Gandhi\,” the work pulls one way and then pushes back another\, testing the inner ground for breath.” Others of her collections include The Plot Genie\, Profane Halo\, and Lovers in the Used World. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry\, American Hybrid\, and Postmodern American Poetry. Her translations include Thousand Times Broken\, Three Books\, three previously untranslated books of the French poet Henri Michaux. Founder and editor of the literary journal VOLT\, she has\, among her honors\, four Pushcart Prizes\, the Jerome J. Shestack Prize from APR\, an NEA fellowship\, and a Fund for Poetry Award. \nPaul Hoover’s new book of poems is The Book of Unnamed Things. Mary Jo Bang says\, “Hoover’s concern with language’s representational inadequacy is shared by the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets he’s championed for years….However\, his own poems are more direct\, more lyrical\, and sometimes seethingly and seductively  melancholic. Central to all of them (regardless of language’s irrefutable limitations) is his keen intelligence and laconic wit.” Author of fourteen previous poetry collections\, he co-edited with Maxine Chernoff the literary magazine New American Writing and co-translated with her The Selected Poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin\, which won a PEN-USA Translation Award. Editor\, as well\, of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology\, his honors include an NEA Fellowship\, the Frederick Bock Award of Poetry\, and the Jerome J. Shestack Prize of American Poetry Review.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-presents-gillian-conoley-and-paul-hoover/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:This is Now with Angie Coiro presents: Ken Auletta on media and advertising
DESCRIPTION:We’re saturated in advertising. Online\, on billboards\, flashing on sidewalks – iSpace in Japan plans to project ads on the moon by 2020. \nBut advertising is no longer a robust industry. Consumer distrust and ad-killing technology have frayed it into hostile camps with uncertain futures. Still: if you’re not in the business\, why should you care? \nBecause\, Ken Auletta says: no advertising means no media. \nAuletta adds to his long career as a savvy observer of American business and communication with Frenemies: The Epic Destruction of the Advertising Industry (And Why This Matters). Auletta is uniquely positioned to probe this latest turn in a key industry. He’s penned the “Annals of Communications” column for The New Yorker since 1992; he’s profiled the greatest influencers of media both traditional and digital\, including Bill Gates\, Rupert Murdoch\, and Ted Turner. \nKen Auletta joins KLF’s journalist in residence Angie Coiro for her This Is Now series\, for an evening of wide-ranging conversation about media\, advertising\, and its role in the life of us all.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-with-angie-coiro-presents-ken-auletta-on-media-and-advertising/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Maria Hummel and Sara Houghteling
DESCRIPTION:Maria Hummel discusses her new novel\, Still Lives with  Sara Houghteling. \nPraise for Still Lives \n“Still Lives offers its readers that delicious combination of entertainment and brilliance. It’s at once profound and suspenseful\, and while the plot kept me up nights (the ending had me gasping in surprise!)\, the book as a whole asks important questions about art and representation and how we\, as a culture\, objectify and endanger and victimize women. Maria Hummel has written a remarkable\, relevant\, and necessary novel.” —Edan Lepucki\, Woman No. 17 and California \n“There’s nothing I like better than a well-written page-turner about the art world\, and Maria Hummel has delivered this and more with her new literary thriller\, Still Lives. Flawed characters abound as do clever plots and subplots along with irresistible peeks into hidden chambers of the LA art scene. Riveting.” —B.A. Shapiro\, author of The Art Forger and The Muralist \n“As gritty and glittering as the L.A. art world it depicts\, Maria Hummel’s latest novel soars into the sun-swept heights of fame and beauty\, then plunges us into violence. In Still Lives\, Hummel does what she does best: delving with sensitivity and wit into complex\, intertwined lives\, lives that strain the frames that enclose them. Intelligent\, vivid\, and impeccably paced\, this thrilling novel forces us to confront how dangerous art can be.” —Kirstin Valdez Quade\, author of Night at the Fiestas \nAbout Still Lives \nKim Lord is an avant-garde figure\, feminist icon\, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Livesis comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous\, murdered women–the Black Dahlia\, Chandra Levy\, Nicole Brown Simpson\, among many others–and the works are as compelling as they are disturbing\, implicating a culture that is too accustomed to violence against women. \n  \nAs the city’s richest art patrons pour into the Rocque Museum’s opening night\, all the staff\, including editor Maggie Richter\, hope the event will be enough to save the historic institution’s flailing finances. \n  \nExcept Kim Lord never shows up to her own gala. \n  \nFear mounts as the hours and days drag on and Lord remains missing. Suspicion falls on the up-and-coming gallerist Greg Shaw Ferguson\, who happens to be Maggie’s ex. A rogue’s gallery of eccentric art world figures could also have motive for the act\, and as Maggie gets drawn into her own investigation of Lord’s disappearance\, she’ll come to suspect all of those closest to her. \n  \nSet against a culture that often fetishizes violence\, Still Lives is a page-turning exodus into the art world’s hall of mirrors\, and one woman’s journey into the belly of an industry flooded with money and secrets. \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSTILL LIVES (HARDCOVER)\n\nBy Maria Hummel\n$26.00\nISBN: 9781619021112\nAvailability: Coming Soon. Available for Pre-Order Now!\nPublished: Counterpoint LLC – June 12th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Still Lives offers its readers that delicious combination of entertainment and brilliance. It’s at once profound and suspenseful\, and while the plot kept me up nights (the ending had me gasping in surprise )\, the book as a whole asks important questions about art and representation and how we\, as a culture\, objectify and endanger and victimize women. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMOTHERLAND (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Maria Hummel\n$15.95\nISBN: 9781619024663\nAvailability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships 1-10 business days from warehouse. ETA will be updated with email order confirmation.\nPublished: Counterpoint LLC – January 13th\, 2015\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMotherland is inspired by stories from author Maria Hummel’s father and his German childhood\, and letters between her grandparents that were hidden in an attic wall for fifty years. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Sara Houghteling\n$16.50\nISBN: 9780307386304\nAvailability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships 1-10 business days from warehouse. ETA will be updated with email order confirmation.\nPublished: Vintage – February 9th\, 2010\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA sweeping and sensuous novel of a son’s quest to recover his family’s lost masterpieces\, looted by the Nazis during the occupation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maria-hummel-and-sara-houghteling/
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:Leslie Jonath
DESCRIPTION:Presents Foraged Art: Creating Projects Using Blooms\, Branches\, Leaves\, Stones\, and Other Elements Discovered in Nature. \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Foraged Art by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, June 14\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the spirit of land artists like Andy Goldsworthy\, the book is as much about discovery as it is about creation. Leaves shaped like lips might inspire a face; an array of rocks might be become an eclectic mosaic; winter’s first snow might be carved into glowing luminaria.Whether you love to look for heart-shaped flowers or want to make a peacock made with flower petals\, you will find great inspiration and joy in Foraged Art. \nArt\, meditation\, and nature meet in this adult focused activity book\, with projects that take inspiration from the natural environment\, using blooms\, pods\, branches\, stones\, and other natural elements. Divided into chapters by natural elements–flowers\, leaves\, rocks and pods\, and more\, the book encourages readers to forage and play outside using nature’s seasonal art box. With quotes by artists on nature and creativity\, Foraged Art is about making art from what you find and finding art in what you see. \nLeslie Jonath is an author\, book packager\, and producer specializing in content for food\, art\, design\, and children’s projects. She is the author of many books including Snowmen\, Everyone Loves Paris\, Give Yourself A Gold Star and Love Found. She lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/leslie-jonath/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Michael Eric Dyson: Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM & Marcus Books present \nMICHAEL ERIC DYSON\nWhat Truth Sounds Like: RFK\, James Baldwin\, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America\nHosted by Kevin Cartwright \nEntry $20\, entry & book $35\, 2 entries & book $45\, Tickets: 800-838-3006\, or independent bookstores\, Benefit KPFA\, Info: kpfa.org/events \nMichael Eric Dyson is one of America’s premier public intellectuals. The author of last year’s outstanding bestseller\, “Tears We Cannot Stop\,” Dyson is University Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University\, a frequent contributor to the New York Times\, and an editor of The New Republic. Ebony magazine named him one of America’s 100 most influential African-Americans. In addition\, Dyson is a uniquely outstanding public speaker\, employing exceptionally deep knowledge with a talent for immediacy\, terrific wit\, and an extraordinarily rich voice. \nHis new book\, What Truth Sounds Like deftly explores the tense intersection of the conflict between politics and prophecy- of whether we embrace political resolution or moral redemption to fix our fractured landscape. Dr. Dyson examines key players today\, from Jay-Z to Jordan Peele and LeBron James\, from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Kamala Harris. He ends with a paean to Wakanda\, the all too mythical nation celebrated in the film “Black Panther”. “If James Baldwin and his glorious crew could gather again\, they could hardly have a better place to reconvene and let the beautiful momentum of blackness wash over them as they sought to make America truly great. For the first time.” \nWhat Truth Sounds Like reveals how every big argument about race that persists to this day got a hearing in a crucial meeting convened in 1963 when Robert F. Kennedy invited James Baldwin and a few of his friends to discuss Black America’s rage: disdain for black dissent\, the belief that black folk wallow in the politics of ingratitude and victimhood\, and that they lack hustle and ingenuity.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-eric-dyson-our-unfinished-conversation-about-race-in-america/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Oakland\, 2501 Harrison St\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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