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SUMMARY:Tangled Paths: True Stories from Latin America
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with local nonfiction authors Mary Jo McConahay and Chris Feliciano Arnold\, spanning World War II to the modern Amazon basin\, Tuesday\, March 12 in the ground floor meeting room of the Noe Valley/Sally Brunn Library\, 451 Jersey St.\, between Castro and Diamond Streets. Moderated by Brandon Brown. Free admission and free wine reception at 6:30pm. The readings and discussion begin at 7pm. \nThis is a Word Week 2019 event. Word Week is Noe Valley’s annual literary festival. For a full listing of Word Week 2019 events\, go to http://bit.ly/2WXT09H. \nCHRIS FELICIANO ARNOLD has written for The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, Harper’s\, Foreign Policy\, Vice News and more. The recipient of a 2014 creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, he teaches writing in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco. Chris Arnold \nMARY JO MCCONAHAY is an award-winning reporter and documentary filmmaker who covered the wars in Central America and economics in the Middle East. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times\, Newsweek\, Salon.com\, and other outlets. Her previous books include Maya Roads and Ricochet. \nBRANDON BROWN is Professor of Physics and department chair of the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of Planck: Driven by Vision\, Broken by War and the forthcoming The Apollo Chronicles: Engineering America’s First Moon Mission. Brandon R. Brown’s author page
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tangled-paths-true-stories-from-latin-america/
LOCATION:Noe Valley Library\, 451 Jersey Street\, San Francisco\, 94114
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Happy Endings: Bad Advice and Lucky Breaks
DESCRIPTION:HAPPY ENDINGS is a monthly reading series that showcases new writing and offers a little sunshine for your soul. \nWhat’s gonna happen? Five writers will come with a piece they’ve prepared in response to a single prompt. (“Happy Endings” is a loooose directive for each writer to do with what they will.) A panel of judges will be selected from the audience\, and the panel will pick a winner! \n$10/Pay what you can \nThis month’s prompt: Bad Advice and Lucky Breaks \nThis month’s participating writers: TBDs\, and February’s winner
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-endings-bad-advice-and-lucky-breaks/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nina Revoyr
DESCRIPTION:reading from her latest novel \nA Student of History \nfrom Akashic Books \nA contemporary Los Angeles story of uncrossable social lines\, allegiance and betrayal\, immeasurable power\, and the ways the present is continuously shaped by the past. \nRick Nagano is a graduate student in the history department at USC\, struggling to make rent on his South Los Angeles apartment near the neighborhood where his family once lived. When he lands a job as a research assistant for the elderly Mrs. W—\, the heir to an oil fortune\, he sees it at first simply as a source of extra cash. But he grows closer to the iconoclastic\, charming\, and feisty Mrs. W—\, he gets drawn into a world of privilege and wealth far different from his racially mixed\, blue-collar beginnings. \nPutting aside his half-finished dissertation\, Rick sets up office in Mrs. W—’s grand Bel Air mansion and begins to transcribe her journals—which document an old Los Angeles not described in his history books. He also accompanies Mrs. W— to venues frequented by the descendants of the land and oil barons who built the city. One evening\, at an event\, he meets Fiona Morgan—the elegant scion of an old steel family—who takes an interest in his studies. Irresistibly drawn to Fiona\, he agrees to help her with a project of questionable merit in the hopes he’ll win her favor. \nA Student of History explores both the beginnings of Los Angeles and the present-day dynamics of race and class. It offers a window into the usually hidden world of high society\, and the influence of historic families on current events. Like Great Expectations and The Great Gatsby\, it features\, in Rick Nagano\, a young man of modest means who is navigating a world where he doesn’t belong. \nNINA REVOYR is the author of five previous novels\, including The Age of Dreaming\, which was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Southland\, a Los Angeles Times best seller and “Best Book” of 2003; and Wingshooters\, which won an Indie Booksellers’ Choice Award and was selected by O\, The Oprah Magazineas one of “10 Titles to Pick Up Now.” Revoyr lives and works in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nina-revoyr/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mitchell S. Jackson / Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Mitchell S. Jackson for his new book Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family. Please join us! \n  \nIn a thrillingly alive\, candid new work\, award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson takes us inside the drug-ravaged neighborhood and struggling family of his youth\, while examining the cultural forces—large and small—that led him and his family to this place. \nWith a poet’s gifted ear\, a novelist’s sense of narrative\, and a journalist’s unsentimental eye\, Mitchell S. Jackson candidly explores his tumultuous youth in the other America. Survival Math takes its name from the calculations Mitchell and his family made to keep safe—to stay alive—in their community\, a small black neighborhood in Portland\, Oregon blighted by drugs\, violence\, poverty\, and governmental neglect. \nSurvival Math is both a personal reckoning and a vital addition to the national conversation about race. Mitchell explores the Portland of his childhood\, tracing the ways in which his family managed their lives in and around drugs\, prostitution\, gangs\, and imprisonment as members of a tiny black population in one of the country’s whitest cities. He discusses sex work and serial killers\, gangs and guns\, near-death experiences\, composite fathers\, the concept of “hustle\,” and the destructive power of drugs and addiction on family. \nIn examining the conflicts within his family and community\, Jackson presents a microcosm of struggle and survival in contemporary urban America—an exploration of the forces that shaped his life\, his city\, and the lives of so many black men like him. As Jackson charts his own path from drug dealer to published novelist\, he gives us a heartbreaking\, fascinating\, lovingly rendered view of the injustices and victories\, large and small\, that defined his youth. \n  \n\n  \nMitchell S. Jackson is the author of Survival Math. His debut novel The Residue Years was praised by publications\, including The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, and The Times(London). The novel won the Ernest Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence\, and it was also a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize\, the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction\, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Jackson’s honors include fellowships from the Whiting Foundation\, TED\, the Lannan Foundation\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, and the Center for Fiction. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review\, Salon\, and Tin House\, among other publications. He serves on the faculty at New York University and Columbia University. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \n  \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mitchell-s-jackson-survival-math-notes-on-an-all-american-family/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Santa Cruz is dedicated to nurturing the poetry community and bringing poetry to the larger community in Santa Cruz County. They present poetry readings at Bookshop Santa Cruz and other locations in Santa Cruz County\, and the Poet/Speak open reading. They also provide free information on other poetry-related events in the area. \nThis free event will take place in Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for opening seating are usually set up an hour before the event begins.
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LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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