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SUMMARY:Gish Jen at The Ruby: Potluck and Discussion!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a very special lunchtime conversation with award-winning novelist\, Gish Jen. Jen will be in conversation with our very own Mimi Lok about her latest novel\, The Resisters (Knopf\, February 2020)\, which Ann Patchett has called ‘a stone-cold masterpiece.’ The Resisters is a dystopian story set in the not-too-distant future in what has become known as AutoAmerica that follows a family struggling to maintain its humanity and normalcy in circumstances that threaten their every value–as well as their very existence. Books will be available for purchase! NOTE: this event is a potluck so bring a dish to share! \nAbout Gish Jen: Gish Jen has published short work in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic Monthly\, and dozens of other periodicals\, anthologies and textbooks. Her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories four times\, including The Best American Short Stories of the Century\, edited by John Updike. Nominated for a National Book Critics’ Circle Award\, her work was featured in a PBS American Masters’ special on the American novel and is widely taught. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, she has been awarded a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction\, a Guggenheim fellowship\, a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study fellowship\, and a Mildred and Harold Strauss Living; she has also delivered the William E. Massey\, Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization at Harvard University. Her newest novel is her eighth book. Called THE RESISTERS\, it will be published by Knopf in February 2020. \nAbout Mimi Lok: Mimi Lok is the author of the story collection Last of Her Name\, published October 2019 by Kaya Press. The title story was a finalist for the 2018 Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize. She is the recipient of a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award and an Ylvisaker Award for Fiction\, and was a finalist for the Susan Atefat Arts and Letters Prize for nonfiction. Her work can be found in McSweeney’s\, Electric Literature\, LitHub\, Nimrod\, Lucky Peach\, Hyphen\, the South China Morning Post\, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a novel. Mimi is also the executive director and editor of Voice of Witness\, an award-winning human rights/oral history nonprofit she cofounded that amplifies marginalized voices through a book series and a national education program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gish-jen-at-the-ruby-potluck-and-discussion/
LOCATION:The Ruby\, 23rd and bryant street\, san francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Typewriter Art: Typestracts\, Artyping\, and Constellation Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Before ASCII art there was typewriter art. Taking advantage of a widely available office tool\, artists and poets used the typewriter to forge a new genre of art and poetry. Breaking the grid and exploding words\, these artists and poets used the limitations and practicalities of the typewriter to create beautiful and thought provoking pieces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/typewriter-art-typestracts-artyping-and-constellation-poetry/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200218T190000
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SUMMARY:Lewis Watts - Harlem of the West
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Lewis Watts to read from is new book\, Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era on Tuesday\, February 18th at 7pm. \nIn the 1940s and 50s\, a jazz aficionado could find paradise in the nightclubs of San Francisco’s Fillmore District: Billie Holiday sang at the Champagne Supper Club; Chet Baker and Dexter Gordon jammed with the house band at Bop City; and T-Bone Walker rubbed shoulders with the locals at the bar of Texas Playhouse. The Fillmore was one of the few neighborhoods in the Bay Area where people of color could go for entertainment\, and so many legendary African American musicians performed there for friends and family that the neighborhood was known as the Harlem of the West. Over a dozen clubs dotted the twenty-block-radius. Filling out the streets were restaurants\, pool halls\, theaters\, and stores\, many of them owned and run by African Americans\, Japanese Americans\, and Filipino Americans. The entire neighborhood was a giant multicultural party pulsing with excitement and music. In 220 lovingly restored images and oral accounts from residents and musicians\, Harlem of the Westcaptures a joyful\, exciting time in San Francisco\, taking readers through an all-but-forgotten multicultural neighborhood and revealing a momentous part of the country’s African American musical heritage. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n  \nLewis Watts is a photographer\, archivist\, and professor emeritus of art at UC Santa Cruz with a longstanding interest in the cultural landscape of the African diaspora in the Bay Area and internationally.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lewis-watts-harlem-of-the-west/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Dennis Baron at City Lights Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:What’s Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She \nPublished by Liveright \n\n\n\n\n\nAddressing one of the most pressing cultural questions of our generation\, Dennis Baron reveals the untold story of how we got from he and she to zie and hir and singular-they. \nLike trigger warnings and gender-neutral bathrooms\, pronouns are sparking a national debate\, prompting new policies in schools\, workplaces\, even prisons\, about what pronouns to use. Colleges ask students to declare their pronouns along with their majors; corporate conferences print name tags with space to add pronouns; email signatures sport pronouns along with names and titles. Far more than a by-product of the culture wars\, gender-neutral pronouns are\, however\, nothing new. Pioneering linguist Dennis Baron puts them in historical context\, noting that Shakespeare used singular-they; women invoked the generic use of he to assert the right to vote (while those opposed to women’s rights invoked the same word to assert that he did not include she); and people have been coining new gender pronouns\, not just hir and zie\, for centuries. Based on Baron’s own empirical research\, What’s Your Pronoun? chronicles the story of the role pronouns have played—and continue to play—in establishing both our rights and our identities. It is an essential work in understanding how twenty-first-century culture has evolved. \nDennis Baron\, professor emeritus of English and linguistics at the University of Illinois\, has long been a national commentator on language issues\, from the Washington Post to NPR and CNN. He is the author of A Better Pencil: Readers\, Writers\, and the Digital Revolution. A recent Guggenheim Fellow\, he lives in Champaign\, Illinois. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dennis-baron-at-city-lights-bookstore/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200218T190000
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SUMMARY:Get Lit # 57: (Music by: GALA)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nDoors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM sharp! Suggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Donate ahead of time via the Eventbrite ticket link on this event! \nGet beer. Get tacos. Get lit. \nThis month’s performers: TBA \nMusic by: GALA \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-57-music-by-gala/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Oakland Poetry Slam and Wide Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Come join us at our new home! There will be music\, a writing workshop\, and Luka’s has 1/2 off burgers! You should come eat\, drink\, and be merry. And of course\, hop on our open mic or poetry slam list to flex your skills. \nYour Feature for the night is D’mani Thomas \n7:00 PM Doors Open \n7:20 PM Writing Workshop led by Tino V.H. Jr. \n7:30 Open mic and Slam lists open \n8:15 Show Begins! \nAbout the Feature: \nD’mani Thomas (he/him/they) is a writer\, horror film enthusiast\, and dance lover. A graduate of UC Berkeley\, D’mani is a two-time member of CAL Slam ( 2017 & 2018)\, earning the “Best Writing As a Team” accolade in 2018. They were a 2019 Pink Plastic House Resident\, a 2019 WUS GOOD Black Hogwarts workshop participant\, and will be a 2020 SHOW US YOUR SPINES resident as well as a 2020 Alley Cat resident . Their work can be found in Cerurove literary journal\, MARY: A Journal of New Writing\, and is forthcoming in Foglifter and elsewhere. \n$Cover$: \nGeneral Admission: $10 \nPerformers (door only): $5 \nBring yo friends\, Bring yo family\, Bring yo date\, but most importantly\, Bring YOSELF!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-poetry-slam-and-wide-open-mic/
LOCATION:Luka’s Taproom & Lounge\, 2221 Broadway\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200218T193000
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SUMMARY:Conor Dougherty: Golden Gates
DESCRIPTION: Conor Dougherty discusses his new book Golden Gates: Fighting For Housing in America. \nPraise for Golden Gates \n“Golden Gates is a careful consideration of the Bay Area’s slow-burning housing crisis and deepening socioeconomic cleft\, and a finely reported exploration of some more recent accelerants: political infighting\, arcane policy\, the strictures and incentives of capitalism\, and\, of course\, the rapid growth and ascendance of Silicon Valley tech corporations. With precision\, insight\, and flashes of humor\, Conor Dougherty delivers intimate glimpses of a region in transition\, and a sobering reminder that San Francisco\, these days\, is not so much an exception as a harbinger of the future for America’s cities.”—Anna Wiener\, author of Uncanny Valley \n“Golden Gates is a terrific work of explanatory journalism. If you want to understand the colliding forces that have turned the San Francisco Bay Area into a housing powder keg and threaten to engulf many more cities across the country\, you need to read this book.”—John Carreyrou\, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Blood \n“How do we solve a problem like California\, with its three-hour commutes and sky-high rents? Deeply-reported and fast-paced\, Golden Gates introduces you to the people fighting for and against affordable housing in one of the world’s hottest real estate markets. In following the clashes between political leaders\, tenant activists\, developers\, and working families\, Dougherty brings a novel perspective to one of the nation’s most urgent problems.”— Matthew Desmond\, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City \nAbout Golden Gates \nA stunning\, deeply reported investigation into the housing crisis \nSpacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today\, however\, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties where the homeless make their homes. The adage that California is a glimpse of the nation’s future has become a cautionary tale. \nWith propulsive storytelling and ground-level reporting\, New York Times journalist Conor Dougherty chronicles America’s housing crisis from its West Coast epicenter\, peeling back the decades of history and economic forces that brought us here and taking readers inside the activist uprisings that have risen in tandem with housing costs. \nTo tell this new story of housing\, Dougherty follows a struggling math teacher who builds a political movement dedicated to ending single-family-house neighborhoods. A teenaged girl who leads her apartment complex against their rent-raising landlord. A nun who tries to outmaneuver private equity investors by amassing a multimillion-dollar portfolio of affordable homes. A suburban bureaucrat who roguishly embraces density in response to the threat of climate change. A developer who manufactures homeless housing on an assembly line. \nSweeping in scope and intimate in detail\, Golden Gates captures a vast political realignment during a moment of rapid technological and social change.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conor-dougherty-golden-gates/
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:Devi S. Laskar discusses The Atlas of Reds and Blues
DESCRIPTION:Devi S. Laskar will be joined in conversation by Vijaya Nagarajan\, Christine O’Brien\, and Elizabeth Stark\, to celebrate the paperback release of The Atlas of Reds and Blues. \n  \nAbout the Book: \n“Devi S. Laskar’s The Atlas of Reds and Blues is as narratively beautiful as it is brutal. In prose that moves between cushioning characters’ falls and ushering our understandings of characters’ utopias\, Laskar creates a world where the consequences of American terror never stop reverberating. I’ve never read a novel that does nearly as much in so few pages. Laskar has changed how we will all write about state-sanctioned terror in this nation.” —Kiese Laymon\, author of Heavy \n“The entire novel takes place over the course of a single morning\, as Mother lies waiting for help\, and the effect is devastatingly potent.” —Marie Claire \nWhen a woman—known only as Mother—moves her family from Atlanta to its wealthy suburbs\, she discovers that neither the times nor the people have changed since her childhood in a small Southern town. Despite the intervening decades\, Mother is met with the same questions: Where are you from? No\, where are you really from? The American-born daughter of Bengali immigrants\, she finds that her answer—Here—is never enough. \nMother’s simmering anger breaks through one morning\, when\, during a violent and unfounded police raid on her home\, she finally refuses to be complacent. As she lies bleeding from a gunshot wound\, her thoughts race from childhood games with her sister and visits to cousins in India\, to her time in the newsroom before having her three daughters\, to the early days of her relationship with a husband who now spends more time flying business class than at home. \nThe Atlas of Reds and Blues grapples with the complexities of the second-generation American experience\, what it means to be a woman of color in the workplace\, and a sister\, a wife\, and a mother to daughters in today’s America. Drawing inspiration from the author’s own terrifying experience of a raid on her home\, Devi S. Laskar’s debut novel explores\, in exquisite\, lyrical prose\, an alternate reality that might have been. \n  \nSPEAKER BIOS \nDevi S. Laskar is a native of Chapel Hill\, North Carolina\, and holds an MFA from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in Tin House and Rattle\, among other publications. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, and is an alumna of The OpEd Project and VONA. The Atlas of Reds and Blues is her first novel. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nVijaya Nagarajan is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies and in the Program of Environmental Studies at the University of San Francisco. She is the author of Feeding A Thousand Souls: Women\, Ritual and Ecology in India\, An Exploration of the Kolam (Oxford University Press\, 2019) \nChristine O’Brien’s lyrical essays and short stories have appeared in The Seneca Review and The Slush Pile Magazine\, among other publications. Her memoir\, CRAVE\, A Memoir of Food and Longing\, released in 2018\, was hailed as a “page turner” by Booklist and “a 20th Century fairytale” by The New York Times. She is currently an adjunct professor at Saint Mary’s College of California where she has taught composition for nine years. \nElizabeth Stark is host of the Story Makers Show podcast. She produced the 2019 film Lost in the Middle\, the documentary FtF: Female to Femme\, and the film short\, Little Mutinies. She has taught at UCSC\, Pratt\, St. Mary’s and more\, and is currently teaching at SonomaCountyWritersCamp.com and BookWritingWorld.com. Look out for Optical Illusions\, a forthcoming novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/devi-s-laskar-discusses-the-atlas-of-reds-and-blues/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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