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SUMMARY:Silent Book Club SF
DESCRIPTION:Bring a book\, bring a friend\, and join Silent Book Club for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club\, there’s no assigned reading. All books and all ages are welcome. \nWe’ll kick off introvert happy hour at 4pm with some light chatter and informal book recommendations before settling in to read quietly\, but if you’d rather just pull up a chair and read\, by all means do so. No one will be shushed or shamed. The bar will be open for late afternoon libations. \nHappy reading and hope to see you there! \n\nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nPhoto by Cody Pickens for O Magazine
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LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Silent Book Club SF
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: UPDATE – the April 26 Silent Book Club meetup will take place online. \nFor the health and safety of our community and out of respect to the social distancing measures enacted in San Francisco\, we will be canceling the in-person meeting of Silent Book Club SF. Instead\, we will be hosting a group video chat from 4-4:30pm. We’d love to see your faces\, hear your voices\, and learn about what you’re reading. \nPlease stay tuned to the Facebook event for a link to join the virtual meetup on April 26. \nNote: You’ll need to download the Zoom video app for your computer or mobile device prior to the meetup. You can find a free version at zoom.us \nQuestions? Please email guinevere@silentbook.club. Thanks! \n\nBring a book\, bring a friend\, and join Silent Book Club for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club\, there’s no assigned reading. All books and all ages are welcome. \nWe’ll kick off introvert happy hour at 4pm with some light chatter and informal book recommendations before settling in to read quietly\, but if you’d rather just pull up a chair and read\, by all means do so. No one will be shushed or shamed. The bar will be open for late afternoon libations. \nHappy reading and hope to see you there! \n\nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nPhoto by Cody Pickens for O Magazine
URL:https://litseen.com/event/online-silent-book-club-sf/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:The Irresistible Beauty of All Things: A reading and conversation with poets Cyrus Cassells and Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nSunday\, April 26\, 2020 – 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nHacienda de las Flores\, 2100 Donald Dr. in Moraga.\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nThe Irresistible Beauty of All Things: A reading and conversation with poets Cyrus Cassells and Matthew Zapruder \nSunday\, April 26 from 4:00 – 6:00pm.\nCelebrate National Poetry Month with a reading\, conversation\, and q and a with poets and Saint Mary’s College MFA professors Cyrus Cassells and Matthew Zapruder. Cassells\, a winner of the National Poetry Series\, an NEA fellowship\, a William Carlos Williams award\, and a Lamba Literary Award\, and Zapruder\, a Guggenheim fellow and former editor of the New York Times Magazine poetry page\, will read from their latest collections. After the reading they will be in conversation about their poetry and process\, and will gladly entertain questions from the audience. Free and open to all ages\, and a reception in the Hacienda garden to follow. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Saint Mary’s College MFA in Creative Writing \n\n\n\n\nADD TO CALENDAR
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LOCATION:Hacienda de las Flores\, 2100 Donald Dr.\, Moraga\, CA\, 94556\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:We Are The Voices Presents: Social Listening w/ MK Chavez + More
DESCRIPTION:We Are The Voices Presents: SOCIAL LISTENING\nSocial Listening is a new series of virtual readings from local artists. \nReserve your spot here through eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/we-are-the-voices-presents-social-listening-with-mk-chavez-more-tickets-103398327180 \nTo wrap up National Poetry Month\, we have the honor of hosting MK Chavez\, Maw Shein Win\, and Dena Rod. \nEach guest will be doing a reading along with a brief Q&A afterwards.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/we-are-the-voices-presents-social-listening-w-mk-chavez-more/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Maurice Carlos Ruffin in conversation with Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
DESCRIPTION:Maurice Carlos Ruffin reading from \nWe Cast A Shadow \npublished by One World \n\nAbout We Cast a Shadow: \n“An incisive and necessary” (Roxane Gay) debut for fans of Get Out and Paul Beatty’s The Sellout\, about a father’s obsessive quest to protect his son—even if it means turning him white \nLonglisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize • “Stunning and audacious . . . at once a pitch-black comedy\, a chilling horror story and an endlessly perceptive novel about the possible future of race in America.”—NPR \nNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND THE WASHINGTON POST \n“You can be beautiful\, even more beautiful than before.” This is the seductive promise of Dr. Nzinga’s clinic\, where anyone can get their lips thinned\, their skin bleached\, and their nose narrowed. A complete demelanization will liberate you from the confines of being born in a black body—if you can afford it. \nIn this near-future Southern city plagued by fenced-in ghettos and police violence\, more and more residents are turning to this experimental medical procedure. Like any father\, our narrator just wants the best for his son\, Nigel\, a biracial boy whose black birthmark is getting bigger by the day. The darker Nigel becomes\, the more frightened his father feels. But how far will he go to protect his son? And will he destroy his family in the process? \nThis electrifying\, hallucinatory novel is at once a keen satire of surviving racism in America and a profoundly moving family story. At its center is a father who just wants his son to thrive in a broken world. Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s work evokes the clear vision of Ralph Ellison\, the dizzying menace of Franz Kafka\, and the crackling prose of Vladimir Nabokov. We Cast a Shadow fearlessly shines a light on the violence we inherit\, and on the desperate things we do for the ones we love. \nPraise for We Cast a Shadow \n“We Cast a Shadow asks some of the most important questions fiction can ask\, and it does so with energetic and acrobatic prose\, hilarious wordplay and great heart. . . . Love is at the core of this funny\, beautiful novel . . . . At any moment\, Ruffin can summon the kind of magic that makes you want to slow down\, reread and experience the pleasure of him crystallizing an image again. . . . Read this book.”—Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah\, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) \n“A full-throated novelistic debut of ferocious power and grace . . . a story that refracts the insanity of the world into a shape so unique you wonder how this book wasn’t there all along.”—Lit Hub \n“Propulsive . . . We Cast a Shadow proves that the eeriest works of speculative fiction are those that hit closest to home.”—Vulture \n\nMaurice Carlos Ruffin has been a recipient of an Iowa Review Award in fiction and a winner of the William Faulkner–William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition for Novel-in-Progress. His work has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review\, AGNI\, The Kenyon Review\, The Massachusetts Review\, and Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas. A native of New Orleans\, Ruffin is a graduate of the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop and a member of the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance. \nBorn and raised in New Orleans\, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton studied creative writing at Dartmouth College and law at UC Berkeley. Her debut novel\, A Kind of Freedom\, \, was a 2017 National Book Award Nominee\, a New York Times Notable Book of 2017 and a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. Her work has been published in The New York Times Book Review\, Oprah.com\, Lenny Letter\, The Massachusetts Review\, Grey Sparrow Journal\, and other publications. She lives in the Bay Area\, California\,
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maurice-carlos-ruffin-in-conversation-with-margaret-wilkerson-sexton/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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