BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Litseen - ECPv6.15.11//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://litseen.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Litseen REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20180101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190226T080000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190226T170000 DTSTAMP:20260409T101548 CREATED:20190227T010358Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190227T010358Z UID:50194-1551168000-1551200400@litseen.com SUMMARY:DESTINY BEYOND EARTH: INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL & IMMORTALITY WITH DR. MICHIO KAKU In Conversation with Alexis Madrigal DESCRIPTION:DESTINY BEYOND EARTH: INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL & IMMORTALITY WITH DR. MICHIO KAKU\nIn Conversation with Alexis Madrigal\nMonday\, April 8\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Conversations on Science \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nDr. Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist and futurist\, and the co-founder of string field theory\, a branch of the theoretical framework of string theory. His work follows the directive of Einstein\, attempting to develop a Theory of Everything that unites the four fundamental forces of the universe. His books include The Future of the Mind\, Physics of the Future\, Physics of the Impossible\, and Parallel Worlds. His most recent\, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars\, Interstellar Travel\, Immortality\, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth considers the concrete\, scientific possibility of moving human civilization to outer space\, drawing upon astrophysics\, artificial intelligence\, and cutting-edge developments in robotics\, nanotechnology\, and biotechnology to make a case for the potentials of sustainable human life as it intersects with new technology. Dr. Kaku is also the science correspondent for CBS: This Morning\, host of two weekly science radio programs\, Science Fantastic and Explorations in Science and a Professor in Theoretical Physics at the City University of New York.\n\n\nAlexis Madrigal is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology. He created and hosted Containers\, a podcast about the machinery of global capitalism and the city of Oakland. URL:https://litseen.com/event/destiny-beyond-earth-interstellar-travel-immortality-with-dr-michio-kaku-in-conversation-with-alexis-madrigal/ LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/michio-kaku-square.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190226T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190226T210000 DTSTAMP:20260409T101548 CREATED:20190130T004024Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190130T004024Z UID:49659-1551207600-1551214800@litseen.com SUMMARY:SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB Meeting DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lively discussion about “Patricia sigue Aqui” by Maria Minguez Arias. \nFor more information about the bookclub please contact J. Iranyi \n  \nPosted in BOOK CLUB URL:https://litseen.com/event/spanish-language-book-club-meeting-6/ LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/adobe.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190226T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190226T210000 DTSTAMP:20260409T101548 CREATED:20190130T225410Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190130T225410Z UID:49686-1551207600-1551214800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Maxine Gordon on the life and legacy of Jazz legend Dexter Gordon DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nSophisticated Giant:The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon \nby Maxine Gordon (Author)\, Farah Jasmine Griffin (Foreword)\, Woody Louis Armstrong Shaw III (Afterword) \npublished by University of California Press \nSophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon (1923–1990)\, one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography\, history\, and memoir\, Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began\, weaving his “solo” turns with her voice and a chorus of voices from past and present. Reading like a jazz composition\, the blend of research\, anecdote\, and a selection of Dexter’s personal letters reflects his colorful life and legendary times. It is clear why the celebrated trumpet genius Dizzy Gillespie said to Dexter\, “Man\, you ought to leave your karma to science.” \nDexter Gordon the icon is the Dexter beloved and celebrated on albums\, on film\, and in jazz lore–even in a street named for him in Copenhagen. But this image of the cool jazzman fails to come to terms with the multidimensional man full of humor and wisdom\, a figure who struggled to reconcile being both a creative outsider who broke the rules and a comforting insider who was a son\, father\, husband\, and world citizen. This essential book is an attempt to fill in the gaps created by our misperceptions as well as the gaps left by Dexter himself. \n\n\nMaxine Gordon is an independent scholar with a lifetime career working with jazz musicians. As an oral historian and archivist in the fields of jazz and African American cultural history\, Sophisticated Giant fulfills the promise she made to her late husband\, jazz saxophonist and Academy Award-nominated actor Dexter Gordon\, to complete his biography. URL:https://litseen.com/event/maxine-gordon-on-the-life-and-legacy-of-jazz-legend-dexter-gordon/ LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/DexterGordon.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190226T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190226T210000 DTSTAMP:20260409T101548 CREATED:20190131T000740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T000740Z UID:49751-1551207600-1551214800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Mikhail Iossel w/ Matthew Zapruder - - Notes from Cyberground DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, February 26\n7:00pm\n\nEAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Mikhail Iossel to discuss his new new book Notes From Cyberground: Trumpland and My Old Soviet Feeling\, on Tuesday\, February 26th at 7pm. He will be in conversation with Matthew Zapruder. \nAmerica under Donald Trump. Russia under Vladimir Putin. Many have ridiculed them. None have done so with such scathing wit as Mikhail Iossel. From a youth spent in the USSR to a life remade in the USA\, Iossel shares the brunt of this experience on Facebook\, where thousands follow his blistering posts on Trump’s America and Putin’s Russia\, and his lyrical\, eerily timely reflections on life under totalitarianism. Notes from Cyberground brings together a choice selection of Iossel’s aphorisms\, ranging from a few words to a few hundred words. Each chapter covers a month from Election Day 2016 to October 2018. Even when comical\, this gem of a book is dead serious. It will bring solace to anyone who feels distressed by today’s surreal politics \n  \n* * * \n  \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nMikhail Iossel\, the Leningrad-born author of the story collection Every Hunter Wants to Know (W. W. Norton) and coeditor of the anthologies Amerika: Russian Writers View the United States (Dalkey Archive\, 2004) and Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia (Tin House\, 2010)\, is a professor of English/Creative Writing at Concordia University in Montreal and the founding director of the Summer Literary Seminars international program. Back in the Soviet Union\, he worked as an electromagnetic engineer/submarine demagnetizer and as roller-coaster security guard\, and belonged to the organization of samizdat writers\, Club-81. He came to the US in 1986\, at the age of thirty\, a whole and complete life behind him\, and started writing in English in 1988. Among his awards are Guggenheim\, NEA\, and Stegner Fellowships. His stories and other prose\, in English and in translation to several languages\, have appeared in NewYorker.com\, Guernica\, Literarian\, AGNI\, North American Review\, Threepenny Review\, Interia\, Boulevard\, Best American Short Stories\, and elsewhere. \nMATTHEW ZAPRUDER is the author of four collections of poetry. His poetry\, essays\, and translations have appeared in publications including The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Tin House\, and The Believer. An associate professor in the Saint Mary’s College of California MFA program and English department\, he is also editor at large at Wave Books and\, from 2016 to 2017\, was the editor of the poetry page of the New York Times Magazine. He lives in Oakland\, California\, with his wife and son.\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, February 26\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618 URL:https://litseen.com/event/mikhail-iossel-w-matthew-zapruder-notes-from-cyberground/ LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618 CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/notes.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190226T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190226T210000 DTSTAMP:20260409T101548 CREATED:20190104T030354Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190104T030354Z UID:49297-1551209400-1551214800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Charlie Jane Anders DESCRIPTION:The Hugo\, Nebula and Locus awards all agree on Charlie Jane Anders\, as do the devotees of her stunning 2016 achievement in literary science fiction\, All the Birds in the Sky. This author is a Kepler’s favorite! \nVivid\, charming\, quick-witted and ever-curious\, Anders’ professional work ranges from captivating short stories and novels to a spoken-word variety show of over ten years\, the lauded Writers With Drinks in San Francisco. Her vibrant speaking presence and dauntless intellectual curiosity have made this author an invaluable jewel in the Bay Area writing community for decades. She’s not only someone whose work you want to read\, but someone you want to meet. \nNow you have the chance! \nThe Literary Foundation is so excited to welcome Charlie Jane back to the stage for a talk and book-signing based around her latest novel\, The City in the Middle of the Night. This story is set in January\, a dying planet\, half lit by endless sun and half-plunged into icy night\, where our protagonist Sophie has recently been exiled to the darkness. Left for dead\, Sophie crafts unusual friendships which help her to survive night … and with the help of a ragtag supporting crew\, this student revolutionary is poised to change the world. \nAttend with a friend\, bask in the glow of a rising literary star\, and get your book signed! URL:https://litseen.com/event/charlie-jane-anders/ LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States CATEGORIES:South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Charlie-Jane-Anders.jpeg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR