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SUMMARY:Steve Almond Q&A with Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, February 19\, 2020 – 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nQ&A and discussion with Steve Almond\, author of William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life. The plot of the John Williams’s 1965 novel Stoner is straightforward enough—“Stoner\, the only son of subsistence farmers\, attends college\, unexpectedly falls in love with literature\, and becomes a teacher; he endures a disastrous marriage\, a prolonged academic feud\, and a doomed love affair\, then falls ill and dies\,” Almond writes—but in William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life\, the author sees the novel as a personal reckoning\, a catalyst for sharing his own struggles as a writer\, father\, and husband grappling with his own mortality. \nSteve Almond is the author of ten books of fiction and non-fiction\, including the New York Times bestsellers Against Football and Candyfreak. His short stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories\, the Best American Mysteries\, and the Pushcart Prize anthologies. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Magazine\, the Wall Street Journal\, the Washington Post\, and elsewhere. He hosts the New York Times “Dear Sugars” podcast with Cheryl Strayed. Steve lives outside Boston with his wife and three children. \n  \n\n\n\n\nADD TO CALENDAR\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\n\nKrista Varela Posell ext. 4762 \nwriters@stmarys-ca.edu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/steve-almond-qa-with-matthew-zapruder/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Vincent Meis Reads at Dog Eared Books Castro
DESCRIPTION:Novelist Vincent Meis reads from his just off the presses new novel\, Four Calling Birds\, 7pm\, Wednesday\, February 19 from at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. in San Francisco. The event is free. \nThe four Burd siblings head to Mexico to heal and regroup after the death of their mother. Midlife crises are revealed. At the age of forty-seven\, M wonders if she is too old to transition to the man she has been hiding inside her. Augie has a perfect gay family with a loving husband and an adorable bi-racial son. And yet\, something is missing. The charismatic Lio has squandered his marriage and relationship with his daughter in favor of a hedonistic lifestyle. The youngest sibling\, AJ\, is married to a man emboldened by the election of a fascist bully as president. It takes a kidnapping to shake them out of their self-absorption\, sending them on a new journey. \nMeis has published four previous novels: Eddie’s Desert Rose (2011)\, Tio Jorge (2012)\, and Down in Cuba (2013)\, and Deluge (2016). Tio Jorge received a Rainbow Award in the category of Bisexual Fiction in 2012. Down in Cuba received two Rainbow Awards in 2013\, and Deluge a Rainbow Award in 2016. Recently\, his stories have been published in three collections: With: New Gay Fiction\, Best Gay Erotica 2015\, and Best Gay Erotica\, Vol. 1. He has published pieces in publications such as The Advocate\, LA Weekly\, In Style\, and Our World. He lives in San Leandro\, California with his husband.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vincent-meis-reads-at-dog-eared-books-castro/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200219T190000
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SUMMARY:Catana Chetwynd / Snug
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith presents Catana Chetwynd\, in San Francisco for the first time to present her new book\, Snug. Come meet Catana and her boyfriend John! \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event\, to be held at Booksmith (1644 Haight St.). The price of admission is equal to the cost of Snug and/or Little Moments of Love\, which are included with each ticket — it’s also possible\, in advance only\, to get 2 tickets with just 1 book — please be sure to read the ticketing information closely. Advance tickets are highly encouraged — tickets are not guaranteed to be available at the door. \n\nWhy bother getting out of bed when you could stay bundled up with that special someone and a book of cozy\, cute comics. From the author of the bestselling Little Moments of Love comes Snug\, a collection of comics that perfectly captures the honest\, playful\, and relatable snapshots of romantic life. \nChetwynds second book has the same charming and inviting style as her first and includes 50 percent new\, never-before-shared comics. Snug is a celebration of the quirks and peculiarities of every one of usand the magic that happens when we find our matching puzzle piece. \n\nCatana Chetwynd is a self-taught traditional artist and the enthusiastic author of Catana Comics. She grew up in Saratoga Springs\, New York\, where she spent her time creating art and pursing an education in psychology until accidentally stumbling into the world of comics. Not only is her boyfriend John the daily inspiration for her drawings\, but he was also the one who suggested a comic series about their relationship in the first place. Thanks to his idea and his inspiring daily antics\, Catana was able to pursue her childhood dream of being a cartoonist. She currently lives on the East Coast with John and their tiny\, angry dog Murph. \n\n** Please note ** \n– This is an all-ages event. \n– The duration of this event is up to the authors. \n– Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. \n– To join the signing line\, you must purchase a book from Booksmith — no exceptions. If you already have a copy of Snug and Little Moments of Love\, remember that books make great gifts! If you’ve already gifted both of Catana’s books to all of your friends\, it’s ok to buy a different book from Booksmith instead — in that case\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com. \n– Candid photos will be allowed but due to timing we are unable to accommodate requests for posed photos. \n– Accessibility is important to us! Please let us know in advance if you have any special needs and we will do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com. \n– If you can’t attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Snug\, order below and be sure to enter your request in the special field.
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LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Word for Word presents: RETABLOS By Octavio Solis
DESCRIPTION:Featuring the Chapters Retablos\, The Way Over\, Consuelo\, El Judío\, La Migra\, La Llorona\, Nothing Happens\, The Quince\, Mexican Apology\, El Segundo\, Neto\, My Right Foot\, and Jeep in the Water\nFebruary 19 – March 15\nDirected by Sheila Balter and Jim Cave \nWord for Word’s latest full production is from author & playwright Octavio Solis. Retablos is a coming of age memoir; each chapter a memory tale\, verging on fable\, which paints a dreamlike picture of life in El Paso in the 60’s and ’70’s. Drawing from his own childhood\, Solis says that he wrote these stories “to see how that skinny brown kid riding his bike out there in the desert made sense of his complicated\, deeply beautiful and troubled world.” Octaviosolis.net \n\n\n\n\nTICKETS\n\n\n\n\n“A retablo is a devotional painting\, playwright Octavio Solis tells us. In this poignantly written\, heart-warming coming-of-age memoir\, Solis pays tribute to those cornerstone moments in his life\, negotiating borders at once personal and cultural\, with such color that the reader is left spellbound. Astonishing\, what more can I say?”\n—Greg Sarris\, author of How a Mountain Was Made and longtime Word for Word friend \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn Evening with Octavio Solis\nJoin us on February 27. The evening’s performance of Retablos will be followed by a conversation with the author\, moderated by Greg Sarris. Both writers are longtime friends of Word for Word. Mr. Solis is a nationally renowned playwright in addition to being a prose author\, and Greg Sarris is Tribal Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. The evening includes a reception and book signing to cap off the night. \n\n\n\n\nPURCHASE TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT
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LOCATION:Z Space\, 450 Florida Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges is a monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. Hosted and curated by Sharon Coleman and Mk Chavez. \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-14/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Month of Love: February Lyrics & Dirges
DESCRIPTION:Bring a date to this lit reading by five Northern Californian writers. We are feature local talent along with refreshments and a book store cat. All free!! Come enjoy and warm your winter bones. \nAntmen Pimentel Mendoza\nGrace Loh Prasad\nApollo Papafrangou\nWill Preston\nLisa Rosenberg \nHosted and curated by Sharon Coleman \nantmen pimentel mendoza (he\, him\, his & she\, her\, hers) is a scorpio\, bakla\, and writer. antmen is based in Huichin Ohlone Land (the San Francisco Bay Area) where he talks about pop music nearly all day and plays with friends. She works at a cultural center where she conspires with undergraduate students of color toward more free and just worlds\, manages a community lending library\, and geeks on curriculum development and workshop facilitation. \nApollo Papafrangou is the author of the acclaimed debut novel Wings of Wax (Olive Leaf Editions\, 2016) and the story collection Concrete Candy\, published by Anchor Books/Doubleday in 1996\, with French and Danish editions. He has also written for HBO Films\, which optioned the film rights to his story The Fence (2000-2004). His fiction and poetry has appeared in ZYZZYVA magazine\, Oakland Review\, The Bookends Review\, Sparkle & Blink\, and the Simon & Schuster anthology Trapped. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College in Oakland\, CA. \nGrace Loh Prasad was born in Taiwan and raised in New Jersey and Hong Kong before settling in the San Francisco Bay Area. Grace received her MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College\, and is an alumna of the VONA workshop for writers of color along with residencies at Hedgebrook and the Ragdale Foundation. Her essays have appeared in Longreads\, Catapult\, Jellyfish Review\, Ninth Letter\, Blood Orange Review\, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine\, Memoir Mixtapes\, The Manifest-Station\, and Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. She is a contributor to the anthology Six Words Fresh Off the Boat: Stories of Immigration\, Identity and Coming to America and has work forthcoming in Panorama\, and the anthologies Ms. Aligned 3 and Chrysanthemum: Voices of the TaiwanesDiaspora\, Vol. II. Grace is a member of The Writers Grotto and Seventeen Syllables\, an Asian Pacific American writers collective. She is currently finishing her memoir entitled The Translator’s Daughter (www.translatorsdaughter.com). \nWill Preston was born in Oakland where he is now a middle school teacher\, and will complete the MFA program in creative writing at St. Mary’s College where he is also the Senior Fiction Editor for the literary journal Mary. His short fiction appears in Milvia Street. \nPoet and recovering engineer\, Lisa Rosenberg is the author of A Different Physics\, winner of the Red Mountain Poetry Prize. She holds degrees in physics and creative writing\, and worked for many years in the space program. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford\, she served as the 2017/2018 Poet Laureate of San Mateo County. Lisa’s poems explore natural and cultural landscapes\, the art of making\, and the drive to question inherited models. She was recently named a MOSAIC Fellow with Sangam Arts\, and has been awarded a 2020 Djerassi Residency for Scientists and Artists.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/month-of-love-february-lyrics-dirges/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Slam ft. Terry Taplin!
DESCRIPTION:THE LONGEST RUNNING POETRY SLAM ON THE WEST COAST!\nBringing you some of the best poetry from across the world every week since 1999\, and third in the nation at the 2015 National Poetry Slam! \nhttp://berkeleyslam.org/\nhttps://twitter.com/berkeleyslam\nInstagram: @berkeleyslam \n—————�————-\nGet ready for our feature Terry Taplin! \nTerry Taplin holds an MFA from Saint Mary’s College where he served as the Lambda Literary Fellow. He is the former Poetry Editor of MARY: A Journal for New Writing\, and is Social Media Managing Editor at Fruity Feline Press. He holds a BA in Classical Languages: Greek and Latin. He is a former slam champion and the recipient of the Ina Coolbrith Prize for Undergraduate Poetry (academic year 2014-15). Terry’s work has appeared in PARADISE NOW and Baest: A Journal of Queer Forms and Affects. He is the author of fragmenta (Marigold 2016)\, and has a chapbook forthcoming from Nion Editions. \n—————�————-\nUPCOMING\n2/26: Ashia Ajani\n—————�————- \nTHE STARRY PLOUGH\n3101 Shattuck Avenue\, 510-841-2082\n(1 block uphill from the Ashby BART).\nEVERY WEDNESDAY\n$7 – $10 sliding scale (most nights)\nCash Prizes!\nWorkshop: 6:30 p.m. Sign-up: 7:30 p.m. Show: 8:30 p.m.\nALL AGES before 10 p.m.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-slam-ft-terry-taplin/
LOCATION:The Starry Plough\, 3101 Shattuck Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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