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SUMMARY:David Marriott
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday February 19\, 2019 | 5:30 pm | Mills Hall Living Room\n\nDavid Marriott is originally from the UK\, but now lives in Oakland\, California. His most recent book of poetry is Duppies\, a collection that mixes the tonality of lyric poetry with the aggression\, grit\, and speed of grime\, London’s street music. Marriott’s other books of poetry include Hoodoo Voodoo and In Neuter. His book Whither Fanon? Studies in the Blackness of Being is forthcoming from Stanford University in June. A leading theorist of afro-pessimism\, he teaches black critical theory and culture at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.
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LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Ayesha Harruna Attah
DESCRIPTION:reading from \nThe Hundred Wells of Salaga: A Novel \npublished by Other Press \n\nBased on true events\, a story of courage\, forgiveness\, love\, and freedom in precolonial Ghana\, told through the eyes of two women born to vastly different fates. \nAminah lives an idyllic life until she is brutally separated from her home and forced on a journey that transforms her from a daydreamer into a resilient woman. Wurche\, the willful daughter of a chief\, is desperate to play an important role in her father’s court. These two women’s lives converge as infighting among Wurche’s people threatens the region\, during the height of the slave trade at the end of the nineteenth century. \nThrough the experiences of Aminah and Wurche\, The Hundred Wells of Salaga offers a remarkable view of slavery and how the scramble for Africa affected the lives of everyday people. \nAyesha Harruna Attah grew up in Accra\, Ghana and was educated at Mount Holyoke College\, Columbia University\, and New York University. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, Asymptote Magazine\, and the 2010 Caine Prize Writers’ Anthology. Attah is an Instituto Sacatar Fellow and was awarded the 2016 Miles Morland Foundation Scholarship for nonfiction. She lives in Senegal. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ayesha-harruna-attah/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sandy Allen in conversation with Rahawa Haile - - A Kind of Miraculous Paradise
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Sandy Allen to discuss A Kind of Miraculous Paradise\, on Tuesday\, February 19th at 7pm. She will joined in conversation by friend of the store Rahawa Haile. \nSandra Allen did not know their uncle Bob very well. As a child\, Sandy had been told Bob was “crazy\,” that he had spent time in mental hospitals while growing up in Berkeley in the 60s and 70s. But Bob had lived a hermetic life in a remote part of California for longer than Sandy had been alive\, and what little Sandy knew of him came from rare family reunions or odd\, infrequent phone calls. Then in 2009 Bob mailed Sandy his autobiography. Typewritten in all caps\, a stream of error-riddled sentences more than sixty\, single-spaced pages\, the often-incomprehensible manuscript proclaimed to be a “true story” about being “labeled a psychotic paranoid schizophrenic\,” and arrived with a plea to help him get his story out to the world. \n“Searing” (O\, The Oprah Magazine)\, “enthralling” (Star-Tribune\, Minneapolis)\, and “a marvel” (Esquire)\, A Kind of Mirraculas Paradiseshows how Sandy translated Bob’s autobiography\, artfully creating a gripping coming-of-age story while sticking faithfully to the facts as he shared them. Sandy also shares background information about their family\, the culturally explosive time and place of their uncle’s formative years\, and the vitally important questions surrounding schizophrenia and mental healthcare in America more broadly. The result is a heartbreaking and sometimes hilarious portrait of a young man striving for stability in his life as well as his mind\, and an utterly unique lens into an experience that\, to most people\, remains unimaginable. \n* * * \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nSandy Allen is a writer\, speaker\, editor and teacher. Their essays and features stories have been published by BuzzFeed News\, CNN Opinion\, Bon Appétit’s Healthyish\, and Pop-Up Magazine. Sandy was previously BuzzFeed News’s deputy features editor. They also founded and ran the online-only literary quarterly Wag’s Revue. Sandy’s work focuses on constructs of normalcy\, including psychiatric disability and gender. Sandy is non-binary trans. Originally from Muir Beach\, CA\, they live in the Catskills. A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise is their first book. For more\, visit HelloSandyAllen.com \nRahawa Haile is an Eritrean American writer. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, The Atlantic\, The New Yorker\, Outside\, and Pacific Standard. In Open Country\, her forthcoming memoir about through-hiking the Appalachian Trail\, explores what it means to move through American and the world as a black woman. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, February 19\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
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LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Dani Shapiro
DESCRIPTION:Dani Shapiro returns to Mrs. Dalloway’s to present Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy\, Paternity\, and Love. \n“Identity is frail business\, and in her searing story\, Dani Shapiro makes the most disquieting discovery: that everything\, from her lineage\, to her father\, down to her very own sense of self is an astounding error. How do we live with ourselves after finding we are not who we thought we were? The answer is not disquieting. It is beautiful.”–Andre Aciman\, author of Call Me by Your Name \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Inheritance by speaking with a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, February 19\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat makes us who we are? What combination of memory\, history\, biology\, experience\, and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us?\nIn the spring of 2016\, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis\, Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological father. She woke up one morning and her entire history–the life she had lived–crumbled beneath her. \nInheritance is a book about secrets–secrets within families\, kept out of shame or self-protectiveness; secrets we keep from one another in the name of love. It is the story of a woman’s urgent quest to unlock the story of her own identity\, a story that had been scrupulously hidden from her for more than fifty years\, years she had spent writing brilliantly\, and compulsively\, on themes of identity and family history. It is a book about the extraordinary moment we live in–a moment in which science and technology have outpaced not only medical ethics but also the capacities of the human heart to contend with the consequences of what we discover. \nTimely and unforgettable\, Dani Shapiro’s memoir is a gripping\, gut-wrenching exploration of genealogy\, paternity\, and love. \nDani Shapiro is the author of the memoirs Hourglass\, Still Writing\, Devotion\, and Slow Motion and five novels including Black & White and Family History. Also an essayist and a journalist\, Shapiro’s short fiction\, essays\, and journalistic pieces have appeared in The New Yorker\, Granta\, Tin House\, One Story\, Elle\, Vogue\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\, The New York Times Book Review\, the op-ed pages of the New York Times\, and many other publications. She has taught in the writing programs at Columbia\, NYU\, the New School\, and Wesleyan University; she is cofounder of the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano\, Italy. She lives with her family in Litchfield County\, Connecticut.
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry at Pegasus: GennaRose Nethercott and Miriam Bird Greenberg
DESCRIPTION:GennaRose Nethercott’s book The Lumberjack’s Dove (Ecco/HarperCollins) was selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the National Poetry Series for 2017. She is also the lyricist behind the narrative song collection Modern Ballads\, and is a Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellow. Her work has appeared widely in journals and anthologies including The Massachusetts Review\, The Offing\, and PANK\, has she been a writer-in-residence at the Shakespeare & Company bookstore\, Art Farm Nebraska\, and The Vermont Studio Center\, among others. A born Vermonter\, she tours nationally and internationally composing poems-to-order for strangers on a 1952 Hermes Rocket typewriter. \n\nMiriam Bird Greenberg is the author of In the Volcano’s Mouth (University of Pittsburgh\, 2016)\, winner of the 2015 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center\, and the Poetry Foundation\, she’s written about the nomads\, hitchhikers\, and hobos living on America’s margins and crossed the continent as a hitchhiker and aboard freight trains herself. The author of two chapbooks—All night in the new country (Sixteen Rivers\, 2013) and Pact-Blood\, Fevergrass (Ricochet Editions\, 2013)\, Miriam grew up on an organic farm in rural Texas\, the daughter of a New York Jew and a goat-raising anthropologist involved in the back-to-the-land movement. These days she lives in  the San Francisco Bay Area\, where she teaches creative writing and ESL\, helping jewelry students use laser cutters and architecture grad students wrap their heads around building information systems.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-at-pegasus-gennarose-nethercott-and-miriam-bird-greenberg/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Marlon James
DESCRIPTION: Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nMarlon James is the author of the novels A Brief History of Seven Killings\, John Crow’s Devil\, and The Book of Night Women\, all of which explore and retell twentieth-century Jamaica through a litany of perspectives.  His forthcoming novel\, Black Leopard\, Red Wolf is the first in the Dark Star Trilogy\, a fantasy series rooted in African legend\, which James describes as an “African Game of Thrones” (Entertainment Weekly). Born in Kingston\, James was the first Jamaican author to win the Man Booker Prize in 2015. He has published short pieces in Black Noir\, Esquire\, Granta\, Harper’s\, The Caribbean Review of Books\, New York Times Magazine\, and elsewhere. In his 2016 viral video Are you Racist? ‘No’ isn’t a good enough answer\, he makes a case for more rigorous anti-racism\, as opposed to mere non-racist complacency. James lives and teaches in Minnesota\, and spends the rest of his time in New York
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marlon-james/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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