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SUMMARY:Glen David Gold in conversation with Oscar Villalon
DESCRIPTION:Glen David Gold in conversation with Oscar Villalon\nTuesday\, June 26\, 2018\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\ndiscussing Glen David Gold’s new memoir \nI Will Be Complete \nfrom Alfred Knopf \nThis event is co-sponsored by Zyzzyva \nFrom the best-selling author of Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside\, a big-hearted memoir told in three parts: about growing up in the wake of the destructive choices of an extremely unconventional mother. \nGlen David Gold was raised rich\, briefly\, in southern California at the end of the go-go 1960s. But his father’s fortune disappears\, his parents divorce\, and Glen falls out of his well-curated life and into San Francisco at the epicenter of the Me Decade: the inimitable ’70s. Gold grows up with his mother\, among con men and get-rich schemes. Then\, one afternoon when he’s twelve\, she moves to New York without telling him\, leaving him to fend for himself. I Will Be Complete is the story of how Gold copes\, honing a keen wit and learning how to fill in the emotional gaps: “I feel love and then it’s like I’m driving on black ice with no contact against the road.” He leads us though his early salvation at boarding school; his dream job at an independent bookstore in Los Angeles in 1983; a punk rock riot; a romance with a femme fatale to the soundtrack of R.E.M.; and his attempts to forge a career as a writer. Along the way\, Gold becomes increasingly fascinated with his father’s self-described “cheerful amorality” and estranged from his mother\, who lives with her soulmate\, a man who threatens to kill her. Clear-eyed and heartbreaking\, Gold’s story ultimately speaks to everyone who has struggled with the complexity of parental bonds by searching for–and finding–autonomy. \nGlen David Gold’s first novel\, Carter Beats the Devil\, has been translated into fourteen languages.  His short stories and essays have appeared in McSweeney’s\, Playboy\, and The New York Times Magazine.  He lives in Los Angeles. \nAdvance praise for I Will Be Complete: \n“I Will Be Complete is the best memoir I’ve read in years. It’s likely the best memoir published in years. Gold’s a novelist and this book reads like the best fiction. It’s exciting\, beautiful\, and clear-eyed in a way most memoirs aren’t. Oh\, and you’ll never forget this charming\, intelligent\, unique narrator.” —Darin Strauss\, author of National Book Critics Circle Award winner Half a Life and Chang and Eng \n“We expect the story of a boy and his mother ought to go a certain way. I Will Be Complete goes in ways you’d never expect. The people shatter\, reassemble themselves\, and shatter all over again. The prose is crystalline\, hard as real diamonds\, flashing\, revealing. The story is simple\, just a boy and his mother’s long disintegration\, but the journey is darkly complicated\, heartbreaking\, beautiful as hell.”  —Mark Childress\, author of Crazy in Alabama \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/glen-david-gold-in-conversation-with-oscar-villalon/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, June 26th at 7:00 p.m. when we welcome editor Margot Kahn and award-winning author Pam Houston as they celebrate their new book This is the Place. \n\nPraise for This is the Place: \n\n“…an honest portrait of the U.S.\, pieced together like an imperfect American quilt. We need more books like this.” — BUST \n\n“This collection\, encompassing a spectrum of races\, ethnicities\, religions\, sexualities\, political beliefs and classes\, could not be timelier….open this book\, hear its chorus of voices and remember that we are a nation of individuals\, bound to each other by our humanity.” — The New York Times Book Review
URL:https://litseen.com/event/margot-kahn-and-kelly-mcmasters/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB MEETING
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lively discussion about \n“Milena o el femur mas bello del Mundo” by Jorge Cepeda Patterson \nTo join the book group please contact iranyi@me.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spanish-language-book-club-meeting/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:A Poetry Reading with Neeli Cherkovski & Clark Coolidge
DESCRIPTION:Neeli Cherkovski is the author of many books of poetry\, including his most recent collection\, Elegy for My Beat Generation (Lithic Press). He was the coeditor of Anthology of L.A. Poets (with Charles Bukowski) and Cross-Strokes: Poetry between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Cherkovski also wrote biographies of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Charles Bukowski\, as well as the critical memoir Whitman’s Wild Children (1988). He has lived in San Francisco since 1974. \nBorn and raised in Providence\, Rhode Island\, experimental poet and jazz musician Clark Coolidge has been connected to both the Language movement and the New York School. His poetry utilizes syntactical and sonic patterns to engage\, and generate\, meaning. In a 1968 poetics statement\, he noted\, “Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness\, Density\, Sound-Shape\, Vector-Force\, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity.” Coolidge’s numerous collections of poetry include his Selected Poems 1962-1985.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-poetry-reading-with-neeli-cherkovski-clark-coolidge/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Arts & Letters presents Porochista Khakpour / Sick: A Memoir / with Achy Obejas
DESCRIPTION:June 26\, 2018\, 7:30pm\nHillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St.\, Berkeley\nTickets available now! \nFor as long as writer Porochista Khakpour can remember\, she has been sick. For most of that time\, she didn’t know why.  All of her trips to the ER and her daily pain and lethargy only ever resulted in one question: How could any one person be this sick? Several drug addictions\, three major hospitalizations\, and over $100\,000 later\, she finally had a diagnosis: late-stage Lyme disease. In the tradition of Brain on Fire and Darkness Visible\, an honest\, beautifully rendered memoir of chronic illness\, misdiagnosis\, addiction\, and the myth of full recovery. SICK is a candid\, illuminating narrative of hope and uncertainty\, boldly examining the deep impact of illness on one woman’s life. \n Porochista Khakpour’s debut novel Sons and Other Flammable Objects was a New York Times Editor’s Choice\, one of the Chicago Tribune’s Fall’s Best\, and the 2007 California Book Award winner in the “First Fiction” category. Her second novel The Last Illusion was a 2014 “Best Book of the Year” according to NPR\, Kirkus\, Buzzfeed\, Popmatters\, Electric Literature\, and many more.  Among her many fellowships is a National Endowment for the Arts award. Her nonfiction has appeared in many sections of The New York Times\, the Los Angeles Times\, Elle\, Slate\, Salon\, and Bookforum\, among many others. Currently\, she is guest faculty at VCFA and Stonecoast’s MFA programs as well as Contributing Editor at The Evergreen Review. Born in Tehran and raised in the Los Angeles area\, she lives in New York City’s Harlem. Her author photo was taken by Sylvie Roskoff. \nPlease note: \nConversation to be followed by a Q&A and signing. \nThis event is all ages. Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you. If the cost of admission would be a financial hardship that might prevent you from attending\, please let us know.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-arts-letters-presents-porochista-khakpour-sick-a-memoir-with-achy-obejas/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:DAN PFEIFFER
DESCRIPTION: Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nDan Pfeiffer is Obama’s former communications director and current co-host of the popular political podcast Pod Save America. In his forthcoming book\, Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama\, Twitter\, and Trump\, Pfeiffer tells never-before-told stories from Obama’s presidential campaigns to his time in the White House\, providing readers with an in-depth\, behind the-scenes look at life on the front lines of politics. In it\, Pfeiffer details how the “Decade of Obama” was one of massive change that rewrote the rules of politics in ways we are only now beginning to understand. \nMarisa Lagos reports for KQED’s California Politics and Government Desk and co-hosts a weekly show and podcast\, Political Breakdown.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dan-pfeiffer/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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