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SUMMARY:InsideStoryTime: Persist
DESCRIPTION:Coming up: InsideStorytime SWAY at Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St\, Oakland\, on Thursday May 17th\, 7-9 pm\, will feature\, Kaitlin Solimine (Empire of Glass)\, Townsend Walker (3 Women 4 Towns 5 Bodies)\, Colette Phair (In Your Shadow)\, and Juba Kalamka.
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LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Todd Robert Petersen presents IT NEEDS TO LOOK LIKE WE TRIED
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 17\n7pm\n \nEAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Todd Robert Petersen to discuss his novel\, It Needs to Look Like We Tried\, on Tuesday\, May 17th at 7pm. \n“Todd Robert Petersen is crazy-talented\, and the wild\, weird\, hilarious stories of It Needs to Look Like We Tried are just what’s called for in these bizarre\, frightening times.” — Richard Russo\, author of Trajectory \nEveryone has a dream\, an idea\, a goal. But what happens when those desires are thwarted\, when dreams and goals fall apart? In It Needs to Look Like We Tried\, Todd Robert Petersen explores the ways in which our failures work on the lives of others\, weaving an intricate web of interconnected stories. \nA fastidious man takes a detour on the way to his father’s wedding and kicks off a series of events that ricochets from the bride to her real estate clients; to a crazed former homeowner and his sister-in-law’s reality TV lover; to a hoarding family whose lives are wrecked by their appearance on the second-rate show. Their daughter decides to escape the gravity of her tiny town with the help of her boyfriend who has a not-quite-legal plan to scrape together enough money to fund their departure. \nOn their way across the country\, these star-crossed lovers encounter our fastidious man\, and the Rube-Goldberg machine of life continues. Their fling has petered out\, and they are driving home\, whatever home is left after walking away from everything they abandoned a month before. \nAbout the Author \nTodd Robert Petersen’s work has appeared in Mid-American Review\, Hobart\, and the Wisconsin Review\, and he has published two books with a small regional press. He is currently writing a dark comedy about Native American antiquities theft set in the desert Southwest. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, May 17\, 2018 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/todd-robert-petersen-presents-it-needs-to-look-like-we-tried/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer Plus East Bay Book Reading "Queer Fiction Authors"
DESCRIPTION:Visiting author James Han Mattson (The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves) reads with local authors Wayne Goodman\, Lori Ostlund\, and Barbara Ridley at a Perfectly Queer Plus East Bay book reading\, Thursday\, May 17\, 7:30pm to 8:30pm at Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave.\, Berkeley. An author signing follows the readings. Free admission\, free refreshments. Door prizes at 7:30! \nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\nJames Han Mattson was born in Seoul\, Korea and raised in North Dakota. A Michener-Copernicus Fellowship recipient and graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he has taught at the University of Iowa\, the University of Cape Town\, the University of Maryland\, the George Washington University\, and the University of California – Berkeley. His first novel The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves was an Amazon Literature and Fiction Pick\, an Amazon Best Book of the Month\, a Publishers Lunch Bookseller Pick\, a Kindle First Pick\, a New York Post Required Reading\, and was featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition with Scott Simon. He currently lives in Maryland. \nWayne Goodman has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area most of his life (with too many cats). He and his fiancé Rick May host Perfectly Queer\, a reading series which holds monthly events in San Francisco and Oakland. Goodman also hosts Queer Words\, a quarterly in-conversation series. His books include Better Angels\, Britain’s Glory\, Fortune’s Lot\, The Last Great Hope\, The Seed of Immortality\, and Vanya Says Go! When not writing\, he enjoys playing Gilded Age parlor music on the piano\, with an emphasis on women\, Gay\, and Black composers. \nLori Ostlund’s story collection The Bigness of the World won the Flannery O’Connor Award\, the California Book Award for First Fiction\, the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award\, and was a Lambda Finalist. Stories from it appeared in the Best American Short Stories and the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories. Her second book\, After the Parade (Scribner\, 2015)\, was a Barnes & Noble Discover pick and a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the Ferro-Grumley Award. She is a teacher and lives in San Francisco with her wife and cats\, though she spent her formative years in Minnesota\, cat-less. \nBarbara Ridley was born in England but has lived in California for over 35 years. After a successful career as a nurse practitioner\, she is now focused on creative writing. Her work has appeared in journals such as Writers Workshop Review\, Ars Medica\, The Copperfield Review\, Blood and Thunder\, and Stoneboat. Her debut novel When It’s Over (She Writes Press\, 2017) is set in Europe during World War Two and is based on her mother’s story as a Holocaust refugee. Barbara can be followed at www.barbararidley.com
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LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash presents Melissa Stein and C. Dale Young
DESCRIPTION:Melissa Stein’s new book of poems is Terrible Blooms. The New York Times says\, “Ms. Stein reminds us that there is no honey—rough\, or otherwise—without the sting.” Her first book of poems\, Rough Honey\, won the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. She’s received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the MacDowell Colony\, Yaddo\, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She’s a freelance editor in San Francisco. \nC. Dale Young’s new novel-in-stories\, The Affliction\, is his first collection of fiction. Charles Baxter says\, “The linked stories in C. Dale Young’s The Affliction send us off to a magical location\, where the fantastical can seem both miraculous and ordinary. These tales treat life-and-death matters with a beautifully eloquent fervor\, and\, like the stories of Julio Cortázar\, they remind us off how varied and unpredictable short stories\, like the world itself\, can be.” He’s published four collections of poetry\, most recently The Halo\, and his poetry has been anthologized several times in Best American Poetry. He’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He practices full-time as a medical doctor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-presents-melissa-stein-and-c-dale-young/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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