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SUMMARY:Beyond the Shortest Month Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Beyond The Shortest Month is a book club dedicated to reading and celebrating authors of color year round. \nGreen Apple Books and Music\n506 Clement Street\, Upstairs in our Granny Smith Room \nThe Beyond The Shortest Month September title is Gullah Days: Hilton Head Islanders Before the Bridge 1861-1956\nMeeting and discussion will be on Wednesday\, October 2\nSee you there! \nCan’t make this month? Stay tuned for the Beyond The Shortest Month pick for October 2019! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Gullah culture\, though borne of isolation and slavery\, thrived on the US East Coast sea islands from pre-Civil War times until today\, and nowhere more prominently than on Hilton Head Island\, SC. On this small barrier island descendants of the first generations of Gullah people continue to preserve Gullah language\, customs\, arts\, and cuisine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beyond-the-shortest-month-book-club-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Maxim Osipov
DESCRIPTION:Reading excerpts from the new translation of his short fiction collection \nRock\, Paper\, Scissors and other stories \nby Maxim Osipov \nPreface by Svetlana Alexievitch\, edited by Boris Dralyuk\, translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk\, Alex Fleming\, and Anne Marie Jackson \npublished by NYRB Classic Originals \nApril 2019 selection of the NYRB Classics Book Club. \nMaxim Osipov\, who lives and practices medicine in a town ninety miles outside Moscow\, is one of Russia’s best contemporary writers. In the tradition of Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams\, he draws on his experiences in medicine to write stories of great subtlety and striking insight. Osipov’s fiction presents a nuanced\, collage-like portrait of life in provincial Russia—its tragedies\, frustrations\, and moments of humble beauty and inspiration. The twelve stories in this volume depict doctors\, actors\, screenwriters\, teachers\, entrepreneurs\, local political bosses\, and common criminals whose paths intersect in unpredictable yet entirely natural ways: in sickrooms\, classrooms\, administrative offices and on trains and in planes. Their encounters lead to disasters\, major and minor epiphanies\, and—on occasion—the promise of redemption. \nMaxim Osipov (b. 1963) is a Russian writer and cardiologist. In the early 1990s he was a research fellow at the University of California\, San Francisco\, before returning to Moscow\, where he continued to practice medicine and also founded a publishing house that specialized in medical\, musical\, and theological texts. In 2005\, while working at a local hospital in Tarusa\, a small town ninety miles from Moscow\, Osipov established a charitable foundation to ensure the hospital’s survival. Since 2007\, he has published short stories\, novellas\, essays\, and plays\, and has won a number of literary prizes for his fiction. He has published five collections of prose\, and his plays have been staged all across Russia. Osipov’s writings have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He lives in Tarusa. \nWhat has been said of the work of Maxim Osipov \nOsipov makes his English-language debut with this masterful and sublime collection\, largely set in rural Russian villages….This collection showcases Osipov’s talent in creating subtle\, sophisticated character portraits that carry a good dose of suspense.\n—Publishers Weekly\, starred review \nMasterful and often startling stories\, suffused with an irony that is as merciless as it is tender.\n—Daniel Medin \nMaxim Osipov’s stories cut me to the quick\, because he does what true writers do: he tries to make sense of life with his own mind\, puts his soul into the effort\, and\, most importantly\, presents everything in his own words.\n—Sergey Gandlevsky \nOsipov’s prose — remarkable\, transparent\, Russian\, painful and tough\, timely and timeless — is imbued with compassion. It may not always console\, but it always gratifies.\n—Lev Dodin \nOsipov writes not only laconically\, but simply\, plainly\, without going into excessive details but ‘going into’ the essence of contemporary Russian life. … Irony\, Robert Musil once noted in his diaries\, combines enmity with compassion. And this is what we find in the work of Maxim Osipov.\n—Alexander Livergrant\, Novy Mir \nMaxim Osipov’s stories are kaleidoscopic. [He] is continuing Russian literature’s great love story with medicine\, a flame lit by writer-physicians Mikhail Bulgakov and Anton Chekhov.\n—Matthew Janney\, The Calvert Journal
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maxim-osipov/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:LAUNCH for Jon Roemer / Five Windows
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the launch party for Jon Roemer‘s debut novel Five Windows. More to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nAt a busy intersection on a crammed city hillside\, an overworked book editor looks up long enough to watch a trio of houses go up in flames. Once the smoke clears\, he becomes increasingly concerned by what he sees out his windows and starts asking questions he never bothered with before: Is the encampment in the park responsible for the fires — or are his new upscale neighbors somehow to blame? Has the man upstairs even bothered to notice\, or is his time better spent battling with his boyfriend? What’s his own ex-wife doing\, resurfacing now just when things are getting tense? Is everyone safer with more fire trucks around? And\, just a block down the hill\, is the new mixed-use project the perfect urban remedy\, or will it do even more damage? \nBy the time the duplex across the street catches fire\, he has to face a few questions about himself\, too\, including his own role in the neighborhood’s upheaval. Inspired by Rear Window and set in San Francisco\, Jon Roemer’s debut novel explores a fabled American city divided by rapid and aggressive change. \n\n“A disquieting take on Rear Window set in contemporary San Francisco… Like Hitchcock\, Roemer excels at establishing and then deepening the reader/viewer’s unease — but his interest is less in the plot complications that fuel Hitchcock’s film than in the psychological drama unfolding within the apartment as the publisher’s life implodes. Roemer’s achievement here is to discomfit the reader without sacrificing the story’s fundamental realism. This book reads\, often\, like a dystopian novel\, but — disturbingly — it’s one set in a dystopia we already live in. A frightening fable about the watcher and the watched.” – Kirkus Reviews \n“Jon Roemer knows his way around a sentence. From the first line through the last\, readers feel they’re in the hands of an accomplished craftsman. Roemer’s writing is nuanced\, controlled\, and full of surprises. Five Windows follows a reclusive editor\, obsessed with his neighbors and the turmoil of San Francisco in the throes of gentrification\, but trapped inside a fishbowl of his own design. Roemer writes with an intimacy that becomes almost claustrophobic as our protagonist flirts with madness and the plot spirals toward its apocalyptic climax. An impressive\, engrossing debut from a bold new voice.” – Alia Volz\, author of Home Baked: My Mother\, Marijuana and the Stoning of San Francisco \n“Darkly funny and surreal\, Five Windows is a timely\, page-turning debut about alienation and breakdowns communal and individual.” – Vanessa Hua\, author of A River of Stars \n“Jon Roemer channels Hitchcock in this noirish stunner. An indie publisher watches with increasing horror as his San Francisco neighborhood is rattled by small explosions\, fires\, domestic disputes\, demolition\, gunshots\, broken windows — a sinister series of skin-prickling accidents coming ever closer to home. In Roemer’s hands\, the online “world of whispers” and the outside timeline of strange occurrances merge into an uncanny approximation of our times.” – Jane Ciabattari\, author of Stealing the Fire \n\nJon Roemer is a writer and editor based in San Francisco. He is founder and senior editor of Outpost19\, an award-winning book publisher. He is queer\, a San Francisco resident since 1991 and an explorer of urban change. Roemer studied literature and fiction writing at Northwestern. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \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 Five Windows\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-jon-roemer-five-windows/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ivan Orkin and Chris Ying
DESCRIPTION:Ivan Orkin and Chris Ying dicuss their new cookcbook\, The Gaijin Cookbook: Japanese Recipes from a Chef\, Father\, Eater\, and Lifelong Outsider. \nAbout The Gaijin Cookbook \nIvan Orkin is a self-described gaijin (guy-jin)\, a Japanese term that means “outsider.” He has been hopelessly in love with the food of Japan since he was a teenager on Long Island. Even after living in Tokyo for decades and running two ramen shops that earned him international renown\, he remained a gaijin. \nFortunately\, being a lifelong outsider has made Orkin a more curious\, open\, and studious chef. In The Gaijin Cookbook\, he condenses his experiences into approachable recipes for every occasion\, including weeknights with picky kids\, boozy weekends\, and celebrations. Everyday dishes like Pork and Miso-Ginger Stew\, Stir-Fried Udon\, and Japanese Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce are what keep the Orkin family connected to Japan. For more festive dinners\, he suggests a Temaki Party\, where guests assemble their own sushi from cooked and fresh fillings. And recipes for Bagels with Shiso Gravlax and Tofu Coney Island (fried tofu with mushroom chili) reveal the eclectic spirit of Ivan’s cooking. \nIVAN ORKIN is the author of Ivan Ramen and a star of Chef’s Table and Mind of a Chef. He owns Ivan Ramen and Ivan Ramen Slurp Shop in NYC\, where the food is “so good it makes your eyes explode” (Eater). \nCHRIS YING is the co-founder of Lucky Peach\, the former publisher of McSweeney’s\, and the author and editor of numerous titles including Ivan Ramen\, the Mission Chinese Food Cookbook\, and You and I Eat the Same. He lives in San Francisco\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ivan-orkin-and-chris-ying/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SONTAG: HER LIFE AND WORK In Conversation with Benjamin Moser and Rebecca Solnit
DESCRIPTION:SONTAG: HER LIFE AND WORK\nIn Conversation with Benjamin Moser and Rebecca Solnit\nWednesday\, October 2\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Cultural Studies \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nNovelist\, activist\, essayist\, playwright\, filmmaker\, and critic\, Susan Sontag was one of the most emblematic writers of the American 20th century\, one whose name conjures an immediate image\, one so well-known that 15 years after her death\, a day rarely goes by without her somehow\, somewhere\, being mentioned. Ben Moser (Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector) offers the definitive portrait of Sontag\, and a single-volume introduction to the American twentieth century\, refracted through the life of one of its most extraordinary figures. He is joined by writer\, historian and activiist Rebecca Solnit (Hope in the Dark\, The Mother of All Things\, Men Explain Things to Me).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sontag-her-life-and-work-in-conversation-with-benjamin-moser-and-rebecca-solnit/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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