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SUMMARY:Hot Boxx Girls by Darwin Bell
DESCRIPTION:September 5\, 6pm-9pm\nOpening Reception \nA free public celebration of the third Aunt Charlie’s art exhibition\, featuring the work of Darwin Bell. \nRecently named “Best Street Photographer” by SF Weekly\, Darwin Bell has captures the queens of the Hot Boxx Girls befriending and befamilying adoring crowds every weekend at Aunt Charlie’s.\n—\nDarwin Bell has lived in San Francisco for almost 30 years and sees the city as his photographic canvas. Specializing in colors and compositions\, he takes the big picture and narrows it down to abstracts and ideas. Darwin was recently named “Best Street Photographer” by SF Weekly.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hot-boxx-girls-by-darwin-bell/
LOCATION:Tenderloin Museum\, 398 Eddy St\, San Francisco \, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Billheimer
DESCRIPTION:John Billheimer joins us to discuss his new book\, Hitchcock and the Censors. \nAbout Hitchcock and the Censors\n \nThroughout his career\, Alfred Hitchcock had to deal with a wide variety of censors attuned to the slightest suggestion of sexual innuendo\, undue violence\, toilet humor\, religious disrespect\, and all forms of indecency\, real or imagined. From 1934 to 1968\, the Motion Picture Production Code Office controlled the content and final cut on all films made and distributed in the United States. Code officials protected sensitive ears from standard four-letter words\, as well as a few five-letter words like tramp and six-letter words like cripes. They also scrubbed “excessively lustful” kissing from the screen and ensured that no criminal went unpunished. \nDuring their review of Hitchcock’s films\, the censors demanded an average of 22.5 changes\, ranging from the mundane to the mind-boggling\, on each of his American films. Code reviewers dictated the ending of Rebecca (1940)\, absolved Cary Grant of guilt in Suspicion (1941)\, edited Cole Porter’s lyrics in Stage Fright (1950)\, decided which shades should be drawn in Rear Window (1954)\, and shortened the shower scene in Psycho (1960). \nIn Hitchcock and the Censors\, author John Billheimer traces the forces that led to the Production Code and describes Hitchcock’s interactions with code officials on a film-by-film basis as he fought to protect his creations\, bargaining with code reviewers and sidestepping censorship to produce a lifetime of memorable films. Despite the often-arbitrary decisions of the code board\, Hitchcock still managed to push the boundaries of sex and violence permitted in films by charming — and occasionally tricking — the censors and by swapping off bits of dialogue\, plot points\, and individual shots (some of which had been deliberately inserted as trading chips) to protect cherished scenes and images. By examining Hitchcock’s priorities in dealing with the censors\, this work highlights the director’s theories of suspense as well as his magician-like touch when negotiating with code officials. \n\nPraise for Hitchcock and the Censors \n“Here is a book that should have (and could have) been written years ago. Kudos\, then\, to Billheimer for slogging through the paper trail of correspondence between the British Board of Film Censors and Motion Picture Production Code Office (better known as the Breen Office) and Alfred Hitchcock regarding the content of his many provocative films. Each movie has a history all its own\, and while passing reference has been made to censorship in other studies of Hitchcock\, this is the first comprehensive book on the subject. No more be said: this is by definition an important piece of work.” — Leonard Maltin \n“A meticulous deep dive into the sweaty tango between Hitchcock and the Code. Amazing to witness how arbitrary and stringent the rules were and the resulting sacrifices movies had to make. Hitchcock rose to the challenge and made the debates part of his expression — but what a bloody tiresome waste of his time.” — Darren Aronofsky
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-billheimer/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Daniel Handler as Daniel Handler
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new novel \nBottle Grove \npublished by Bloomsbury Books \n\n\n\n\nA razor-sharp tale of two couples\, two marriages\, a bar\, and a San Francisco start-up from a best-selling\, award-winning novelist. \nThis is a story about two marriages. Or is it? It begins with a wedding\, held in the small San Francisco forest of Bottle Grove–bestowed by a wealthy patron for the public good\, back when people did such things. Here is a cross section of lives\, a stretch of urban green where ritzy guests\, lustful teenagers\, drunken revelers\, and forest creatures all wait for the sun to go down. The girl in the corner slugging vodka from a cough-syrup bottle is Padgett–she’s keeping something secreted in the woods. The couple at the altar are the Nickels–the bride is emphatic about changing her name\, as there is plenty about her old life she is ready to forget. \nSet in San Francisco as the tech-boom is exploding\, Bottle Grove is a sexy\, skewering dark comedy about two unions–one forged of love and the other of greed–and about the forces that can drive couples together\, into dependence\, and then into sinister\, even supernatural realms. Add one ominous shape-shifter to the mix\, and you get a delightful and strange spectacle: a story of scheming and yearning and foibles and love and what we end up doing for it–and everyone has a secret. Looming over it all is the income disparity between San Francisco’s tech community and . . . everyone else. \nWhat has been said about Bottle Grove: \n“Set in San Francisco during the Big Bang of tech\, this taut novel sees two marriages form and mutate under the influence of greed\, secrets\, and income inequality. With this dark\, timely comedy\, Handler continues to prove himself a writer of prodigious gifts.” –  Esquire\, “Most Anticipated Books of the Year” \n“A hilarious tale about unlikely couples set during the San Francisco dot-com explosion. . . . Handler cleverly exposes the sinister sides of his protagonists as they clamor for what they think they deserve. Readers expecting Handler’s trademark humor and bite won’t be disappointed.” –  Publishers Weekly \n“A drunkenly humorous blend of alcohol\, entrepreneurial ambitions\, and a dash of cheating . . . [Handler’s] quickwitted\, timely characters and offbeat but perceptive one-liners make for an intoxicating delight. . . . Funny\, irreverent\, and clever.” –  Booklist \n“This witty book is\, like San Francisco itself\, simultaneously glossy and grimy\, hi-tech and low-life. Daniel Handler is one of the quickest minds around\, and he is clearly having a grand time here\, taking the reader down a drunken path that is both dreamy and as fast-paced as a screwball comedy.” –  Emma Straub\, New York Times bestselling author of MODERN LOVERS and THE VACATIONERS \n“Bottle Grove is a cozy bar\, a haunted forest\, and a spellbinding new novel by a master of contemporary fiction. With his sly sense of humor and surpassing wisdom about the wildness that exists just below the surface of our lives\, Daniel Handler has created an entrancing and very modern story that doubles as a folklore for our time. It’s one of those rare novels that you really don’t want to end\, and you’re in luck\, because you can read it again.” –  Tom Drury\, author of PACIFIC \n“Oh lucky you to have Bottle Grove in your hands! What a funny\, riveting\, heartbreaking\, wise and joyous read you have ahead of you! A masterpiece by Daniel Handler\, one of our greatest storytellers. How I envy you.” –  Andrew Sean Greer\, author of LESS\, Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize \n“Superb\, written with an unflinching eye for comedy and horror.” –  New York Times Book Review on WE ARE PIRATES \n“This impossible-to-put-down novel is a dare. Step in\, be swept away.” –  The Agony Column\, NPR\, on ALL THE DIRTY PARTS \n“A fascinating\, profane book . . . All the Dirty Parts is a shockingly original novel–readers might be reminded of Philip Roth’s famously raunchy Portnoy’s Complaint . . . It deserves to be read widely\, and not just by adults–it’s one of the most realistic depictions of the sex lives of young people to come around in a long time.” –  Los Angeles Times on ALL THE DIRTY PARTS \n“An irreverent\, intimate glimpse inside adolescent desire\, sexual identity\, and emotional discovery.” –  Buzzfeed\, “Exciting New Books You Need to Read This Fall” on ALL THE DIRTY PARTS \n“[A] dark and whimsical novel . . . Yes\, we are pirates\, but we’re chained on barren land. Has that theme ever been explored in such a weird mixture of impish wit and tender sympathy?” –  Washington Post on WE ARE PIRATES \n“The language is what’s sensuous here\, and Handler often dips his toe into Joyce–never a full descent into the Irishman’s decadence\, but the two are kinsmen in how fast their prose moves\, at the speed of rushing blood.” –  San Francisco Chronicle on ALL THE DIRTY PARTS
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-handler-as-daniel-handler/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Left Margin LIT 3rd Birthday Party (and Reading)
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate with us as we cap our 3rd year (and enter our 4th) as the East Bay’s creative writing center/workspace. This is also our 3rd event at Novel Brewing\, the most literary brewery in California. \nSample Novel Brewing’s finest beers and ales on tap. Soak in their friendly\, neighborhood atmosphere. Socialize with our writing community. Eat cake!\n​\nAnd enjoy some short readings by Left Margin instructors: Zubair Ahmed\, Katharine Dion\, Rachel Richardson\, and Laleh Khadivi.\n​\nZubair Ahmed was born and raised in Bangladesh. He and his family immigrated to the U.S in 2005 after winning the DV Lottery. He is the author of Ashulia\, a chapbook\, and City of Rivers\, the third book in the McSweeney’s Poetry Series. He lives in Oakland\, where he works as a software engineer.\n​\nKatharine Dion is the author of the novel The Dependents\, which has been translated into four languages. The San Francisco Chronicle called the novel “a gorgeously meditative debut about how unfully we live our lives or know ourselves and our loved ones.”\n​\nLaleh Khadivi’s novels include The Age of Orphans\, The Walking\, and A Good Country. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco and was the recipient of a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Grant and a 2016 Pushcart Prize.\n​\nRachel Richardson is co-founder and co-director of Left Margin LIT. She is also the author of two books of poems\, Hundred-Year Wave and Copperhead.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/left-margin-lit-3rd-birthday-party-and-reading/
LOCATION:Novel Brewing Company\, 6510 San Pablo Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94608
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Neeli Cherkovski and Jim Dunn\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Neeli Cherkovski and Jim Dunn\, reading and in conversation\nThursday\, September 5 – 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm\nThe Poetry Center\, Humanities 512\, San Francisco State University \nThe Poetry Center’s Fall 2019 season opens with readings followed by a conversation with the audience by San Francisco poet\, biographer\, and literary chronicler of the Beat Movement\, Neeli Cherkovski\, together with Boston poet Jim Dunn on a rare visit to San Francisco. We welcome both for their first reading for The Poetry Center. This event is free and open to the public. \nNeeli Cherkovski was born in Los Angeles and attended Los Angeles State College (now Cal State Los Angeles). He is the author of many books of poetry\, including Animal (1996)\, Leaning Against Time (2005)\, From the Canyon Outward (2009)\, The Crow and I (2015)\, and Elegy for My Beat Generation (2018). Forthcoming is Coolidge and Cherkovski in Conversation (with Clark Coolidge). He is the coeditor of Anthology of L.A. Poets (with Charles Bukowski)\, Cross-Strokes: Poetry between Los Angeles and San Francisco (with Bill Mohr)\, and Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman (with Raymond Foye and Tate Swindell). He has also published bilingual editions in Austria\, Mexico\, Italy\, and Greece. A facsimile edition of one of his notebooks was published by Viviani Edizione in Verona\, Italy. Cherkovski also wrote biographies of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Charles Bukowski\, as well as the critical memoir Whitman’s Wild Children (1988). His papers are held at the Bancroft Library\, University of California\, Berkeley. Cherkovski received the 2017 Jack Mueller Poetry Prize awarded at the Jack Mueller Festival in Fruita\, Colorado. He has lived in San Francisco since 1974. \nJim Dunn is a poet and author of Soft Launch (Bootstrap\, 2008)\, Convenient Hole (Pressed Wafer\, 2004)\, and Insects In Sex (Falling Angel Press\, 1995). His work has appeared in several publications\, including spoKe\, Polis\, Bright Pink Mosquito\, The Process\, eoagh\, Gerry Mulligan\, Cafe Review\, and The Battersea Review. He edited the poet John Wieners’ journal\, A New Book From Rome\, with Derek Fenner and Ryan Gallagher of Bootstrap Press. Along with Kevin Gallagher\, he also edited an extensive feature on six Massachusetts poets\, for Jacket 2 magazine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/neeli-cherkovski-and-jim-dunn-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mike Isaac w/Casey Newton / SF Launch for Super Pumped
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts New York Times technology correspondent Mike Isaac for the San Francisco launch ofSuper Pumped: The Battle for Uber. With Mike in conversation is Casey Newton (The Interface). Please join us! \nIn June 2017\, Travis Kalanick\, the hard-charging CEO of Uber\, was ousted in a boardroom coup that capped a brutal year for the transportation giant. Uber had catapulted to the top of the tech world\, yet for many came to symbolize everything wrong with Silicon Valley. \nAward-winning New York Times technology correspondent Mike Isaac’s Super Pumped presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber\, set against an era of rapid upheaval in Silicon Valley. Backed by billions in venture capital dollars and led by a brash and ambitious founder\, Uber promised to revolutionize the way we move people and goods through the world. A near instant “unicorn\,” Uber seemed poised to take its place next to Amazon\, Apple\, and Google as a technology giant. \nWhat followed would become a corporate cautionary tale about the perils of startup culture and a vivid example of how blind worship of startup founders can go wildly wrong. Isaac recounts Uber’s pitched battles with taxi unions and drivers\, the company’s toxic internal culture\, and the bare-knuckle tactics it devised to overcome obstacles in its quest for dominance. With billions of dollars in the balance\, Isaac shows how venture capitalists asserted their power and seized control of the startup as it fought its way toward its fateful IPO. \nMike Isaac has been covering Uber for years. Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees\, along with previously unpublished documents\, Super Pumped is a page-turning story of ambition and deception\, obscene wealth\, and bad behavior that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic twelve-month periods in American corporate history. \n\n\n\nMike Isaac is a technology reporter at the New York Times whose Uber coverage won the Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business reporting. He writes frequently about Uber\, Facebook\, and other Silicon Valley giants for the Times\, and appears often on CNBC and MSNBC. He lives in San Francisco. \nCasey Newton‘s bio is forthcoming. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \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. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mike-isaac-w-casey-newton-sf-launch-for-super-pumped/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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