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SUMMARY:Launch for Katie Burke / Urban Playground: What Kids Say About Living in San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:To outsiders\, the Bay Area is intrinsically linked to tech hubs and counterculture. But what about San Francisco’s kid culture? In her new book\, “Urban Playground: What Kids Say About Living in San Francisco\,” Katie Burke explores the experience of kids ages five to nine living in one of the country’s most iconic cultural hubs. \nThe book also includes thoughtful discussion questions designed to draw laughs\, explore various topics from silly to serious\, and facilitate discussion. \nWriter of Noe Kids\, a column of kid profiles for San Francisco neighborhood newspaper The Noe Valley Voice\, Katie Burke brings city kids’ personalities and perspectives to the page\, leading readers to see the joys and challenges to being a San Francisco kid. \nOne five-year-old tries to articulate the city’s aroma\, “I smell a delicious smell\, and it always smells like San Francisco. I don’t know what the smell is\, so I can’t really tell it to people\, but it smells different from ice cream.” \nBut it isn’t all about parks and ice cream. Drawing on her experience being an aunt to six nieces and two nephews (all of whom grew up in major cities)\, Burke unearths an often hidden and unasked perspective on the city’s more complicated subjects –– from homelessness to immigrant parents. By leaning in and crouching down to see a child’s point of view\, Burke shows us a part of San Francisco we never knew. \n\nKatie Burke is a family law attorney and writer in San Francisco. Prior to entering law school\, she earned a master’s degree in counseling. She owns Burke Family Law and writes Noe Kids\, a monthly column for The Noe Valley Voice\, in which she spotlights children ages four to twelve who live in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood\, after interviewing them on various themes. She also regularly contributes judicial and attorney profiles to San Francisco Attorney\, the Bar Association of San Francisco’s magazine. Burke has been published by HarperCollins\, the L.A. Times\, The Journal of Law and Social Challenges\, Trial Insider\, BASF Bulletin (the Bar Association of San Francisco’s newspaper)\, Legal by the Bay (the Bar Association of San Francisco’s blog)\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, The Examiner\, The Fairfield Citizen-News\, The SoMa Literary Review\, Women’s Voices\, The Sitting Room\, The Compass\, Culture-Voice\, and The Street Spirit. She has been broadcast for KQED\, read at Litquake\, and taught writing at City College of San Francisco. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. The bar opens at 5:30pm; event starts at 6pm. \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 Urban Playground\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-katie-burke-urban-playground-what-kids-say-about-living-in-san-francisco/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Solnit / Recollections of My Nonexistence
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts the inimitable Rebecca Solnit reading from and discussing her memoir\, Recollections of My Nonexistence. \nPlease note: This event is ticketed and will be at the Internet Archive HQ\, 300 Funston Ave.\, San Francisco. Tickets\, including discounted book bundles\, are on sale now. \nAdvance tickets are highly encouraged to ensure admission. Unless noted here\, tickets will be available at the door. \n\nIn Recollections of My Nonexistence\, Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco\, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. She tells of being poor\, hopeful\, and adrift in the city that became her great teacher; of the small apartment that\, when she was nineteen\, became the home in which she transformed herself; of how punk rock gave form and voice to her own fury and explosive energy. \nSolnit recounts how she came to recognize the epidemic of violence against women around her\, the street harassment that unsettled her\, the trauma that changed her\, and the authority figures who routinely disdained and disbelieved girls and women\, including her. Looking back\, she sees all these as consequences of the voicelessness that was and still is the ordinary condition of women\, and how she contended with that while becoming a writer and a public voice for womens rights. \nShe explores the forces that liberated her as a person and as a writer — books themselves\, the gay men around her who offered other visions of what gender\, family\, and joy could be\, and her eventual arrival in the spacious landscapes and overlooked conflicts of the American West. These influences taught her how to write in the way she has ever since\, and gave her a voice that has resonated with and empowered many others. \n\nRebecca Solnit is the author of fourteen books\, including A Paradise Built in Hell\, A Field Guide to Getting Lost\, River of Shadows\, Wanderlust: A History of Walking\, and As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape\, Gender\, and Art\, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. In 2003\, she received the prestigious Lannan Literary Award. She lives in San Francisco. \n\n*** Please note *** \nDoors at 6pm. Program at 7pm. Duration of event is subject to the author’s preference. \nSigning details TBA soon. \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \nThis event is all ages. Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you. \nIf you can’t attend the event but would like to order a signed copy of the book\, order below and put your request in the special field. \nFacebook RSVP is appreciated\, but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-solnit-recollections-of-my-nonexistence/
LOCATION:Internet Archive\, 300 Funston Ave.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Wyoming by JP Gritton Reading and Release!
DESCRIPTION:Alley Cat Books presents a reading of JP Gritton’s newest book\, Wyoming.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wyoming-by-jp-gritton-reading-and-release/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:1968 + Global Cinema w/ Author and Editor Christina Gerhardt
DESCRIPTION:A reading and conversation with Christina Gerhardt\, who will discuss her recent three books about 1968. \n1968 and Global Cinema puts cinemas of the long 1968 into dialogue with one another across national boundaries\, considering them in tandem histories of 1968 and the interplay among social movements globally. Screening the Red Army Faction: Historical and Cultural Memory studies the Red Army Faction (RAF)\, a German left-wing armed struggle group that existed from 1970 to 1998\, presenting the historical and political context out of which they emerged\, in post-fascist era West Germany and globally as the Cold War set in and self-liberation and self-determination wars were waged. Celluloid Revolt: German Screen Cultures and the Long 1968 considers Germany’s political cinema of the long sixties.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/1968-global-cinema-w-author-and-editor-christina-gerhardt/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Eugene Ostashevsky and Brandon Brown at Moe's Books
DESCRIPTION:Eugene Ostashevsky is a Russian-American poet and translator based in Berlin and New York. He is the author of three full-length poetry collections in English: Iterature (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2005)\, The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2008)\, and The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi (New York Review of Books\, 2017). \nWriting in LARB\, Boris Dralyuk calls The Pirate a “raucous modern-day Anatomy of Melancholy\, a seriocomic linguistic performance the likes of which we rarely see\, in any tongue. It is a beautiful song\, broadcast by an outcast whose language is all his own.” The Italian newspaper Il Manifesto speaks of The Pirate’s “poetics of immigration.” The German edition of the book\, translated by Uljana Wolf and Monika Rinck\, was awarded the International Poetry Prize from the City of Münster\, with the jury praising the original’s “polyphonic and polyglot verbal acrobatics” and linguistic multiplicity. For the Süddeutsche Zeitung\, Ostashevsky’s work “argues that one must have\ndistance from language\, and also an awareness that no language is only ‘mine’; it is rather many languages of different times and speakers that collide or coalesce under the name ‘English.’ Every\nlanguage is\, in a sense\, a parrot language.” For another German reviewer\, The Pirate “deconstructs the strategies of linguistic exclusion concealed by such concepts as “indigenous\,” “refugee\,” and “native language.” A short opera based on The Pirate by the Italian composer Lucia Ronchetti has recently premiered at the Venice Biennale. \nAs translator and scholar\, Ostashevsky focuses mainly on Russian avant-garde and underground literature. His translation\, with Matvei Yankelevich\, of Alexander Vvedensky’s An Invitation for Me to Think (New York Review of Books\, 2013) won the 2014 National Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association. He was also the editor and co-translator of OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism (Northwestern\, 2006)\, as well as of a number of books of contemporary Russian poetry\, including Arkadii Dragomoshchenko’s Endarkenment (Wesleyan\,\n2014). He is currently working on puns in Russian Futurist and European avant-garde poetry and painting circa 1913\, and preparing an English-language edition of Vasily Kamensky’s Tango with Cows\, the first book of Futurist visual poetry. \nAs visiting professor and writer-in-residence at Humboldt University and Free University in Berlin\, Ostashevsky leads seminars on translingual literature. He is also Clinical Professor at the Liberal Studies program at NYU. \nBrandon Brown is the author of several books\, most recently The Four Seasons (Wonder) and The Good Life (Big Lucks). His work has recently appeared in Art in America\, Frieze\, Open Space\, Believer\, and Berkeley Poetry Review. He is an editor at Krupskaya\, and edits as well the zine Panda’s Friend. Atelos will publish his next book\, a long poem called Work. He lives in El Cerrito\, California\, under the shade of Albany Hill.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eugene-ostashevsky-and-brandon-brown-at-moes-books/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
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SUMMARY:Lisa Robertson at Point Reyes Books
DESCRIPTION:Poet Lisa Robertson visits Point Reyes to discuss her debut novel\, The Baudelaire Fractal. \nAbout The Baudelaire Fractal\nOne morning\, Hazel Brown awakes in a badly decorated hotel room to find that she’s written the complete works of Charles Baudelaire. In her bemusement the hotel becomes every cheap room she ever stayed in during her youthful perambulations in 1980s Paris … This is the legend of a she-dandy’s life. Part magical realism\, part feminist ars poetica\, part history of tailoring\, part bibliophilic anthem\, part love affair with nineteenth-century painting\, The Baudelaire Fractal is poet and art writer Lisa Robertson’s first novel. \n“As far as I’m concerned\, it’s already a classic.” – Anne Boyer \n“Robertson’s debut novel\, for those interested in the possibilities of fiction\, is not to be missed.” – Publishers Weekly \n“A new Lisa Robertson book is both a public event and a private kind of bacchanal.” – Los Angeles Review of Books. \nAbout Lisa Robertson\nLisa Robertson is a Canadian poet and essayist currently living in France. Born in Toronto in 1961\, she was a longtime resident of Vancouver\, where in the early 90s she began writing\, publishing and collaborating in a community of artists and poets that included Artspeak Gallery and The Kootenay School of Writing. In 2017 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Letters by Emily Carr University of Art and Design\, and in 2018\, the Foundation for the Contemporary Arts in NY awarded her the inaugural CD Wright Award in Poetry. She has taught at Cambridge University\, Princeton\, UC Berkeley\, California College of the Arts\, Piet Zwart Institute\, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and American University of Paris\, as well as holding research and residency positions at institutions across Canada\, the US\, and Europe.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-robertson-at-point-reyes-books/
LOCATION:Point Reyes Books\, 11315 CA-1\, Point Reyes Station\, CA\, 94956\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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