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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: giovanni singleton
DESCRIPTION:giovanni singleton earned a BA from American University and an MFA from the New College of California. She is the author of the poetry collections AMERICAN LETTERS: works on paper (2017) and Ascension (2011)\, which won a California Book Award for Poetry. The book earned praise for its evocative use of white space\, silence\, and omissions. \nsingleton is founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts. Her honors and awards include fellowships from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers\, Cave Canem\, and the Napa Valley Writers Conference. Her work has been anthologized widely and appeared on the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts building. Coordinator for the Lunch Poems reading series at the University of California–Berkeley\, singleton has taught at Saint Mary’s College\, Naropa University\, and New Mexico State University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-giovanni-singleton/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Victor Serge translator James Brook
DESCRIPTION:This is the East Bay book launch for A Blaze in a Desert: Selected Poems by Victor Serge\, translated and edited by James Brook (PM Press). \nVictor Serge (1890-1947) played many parts\, as he recounted in his indelible Memoirs of a Revolutionary. The son of anti-czarist exiles in Brussels\, Serge was a young anarchist in Paris; a syndicalist rebel in Barcelona; a Bolshevik activist in Petrograd; a Comintern agent in Central Europe; a comrade of Trotsky’s; a friend of writers like Andrei Bely\, Boris Pilnyak\, and André Breton; a prisoner of Stalin; a dissident Marxist in exile in Mexico . . . \nLike Serge’s extraordinary novels\, A Blaze in a Desert: Selected Poems bears witness to revolutionary upheavals in Europe and the advent of totalitarian rule. Many of the poems were written during the “immense shipwreck” of Stalin’s ascendancy. In poems datelined Petrograd\, Orenburg\, Paris\, Marseille\, the Caribbean\, and Mexico\, Serge composed elegies for the fallen — as well as tributes to the living who\, like him\, endured prison\, exile\, and bitter disappointment in the revolutions of the first half of the twentieth century. \n“Victor Serge was a major novelist\, a revolutionary\, and a historical witness\, so it is perhaps not surprising that his poetry has been overlooked. But his poetry is for real. It is as grounded in specifics as you might expect from a fighter in some of the twentieth century’s great struggles\, and as visionary as you’d hope from a disciple of Rimbaud and a friend to the Surrealists. Reading it is like coming upon an unsuspected corridor in the house of literature. James Brook’s lucid translation does it full justice.”\n–Luc Sante\, author of The Other Paris \nJames Brook is a poet whose translations include works by Guy Debord\, Henri Michaux\, Gellu Naum\, and Benjamin Péret. He is the principal editor of Resisting the Virtual Life (with Iain Boal) and Reclaiming San Francisco (with Chris Carlsson and Nancy J. Peters). The New York Times named his translation of Jean-Patrick Manchette’s The Prone Gunman a Notable Book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/victor-serge-translator-james-brook/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Novelist Jac Jemc & "Snap Judgement's" Eliza Smith
DESCRIPTION:Jac Jemc will read from her new novel THE GRIP OF IT (FSG Originals) and discuss with Eliza Smith. \nTHE GRIP OF IT by Jac Jemc weaves the tale of a troubled married couple looking for a new start in an old home full of secrets.\n“The Grip of It is a stunning\, smart\, genuinely creepy page-turner that I couldn’t put down. It’s got depth\, thrills\, twists\, and great writing. I’d recommend this novel to anyone. One of the few haunted house stories that sticks the landing.”\n— Jeff VanderMeer\, author of the Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation\, Authority\, and Acceptance)\, Borne and City of Saints & Madmen \nJac Jemc is the author of The Grip of It newly released from FSG Originals in August 2017. Her first novel\, My Only Wife (Dzanc Books) was a finalist for the 2013 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and winner of the Paula Anderson Book Award\, and her collection of stories\, A Different Bed Every Time (Dzanc Books) was named one of Amazon’s best story collections of 2014. She edits nonfiction for Hobart. \nEliza Smith is a producer at WNYC’s Snap Judgment. In addition to producing nonfiction stories\, she is also the fiction editor and adapts work by writers like Manuel Gonzalez\, Amelia Gray\, and Kelly Link into radio plays. Sometimes\, she’ll freelance for publications like The Organist and The Litography Project.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/novelist-jac-jemc-snap-judgements-eliza-smith/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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