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SUMMARY:Folkland Book Club featuring books from Small Press Distribution
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a monthly book club featuring titles from Small Press Distribution. Pick up a free copy of our February book at the January Book Club meeting (1/30)\, or at the Main Library Reference desk starting on January 31 while supplies last. \nFEBRUARY’S BOOK CLUB PICK: PRIMITIVITY: STORIES BY AMY SAYRE BAPTISTA \nThe landscape of Amy Sayre Baptista’s PRIMITIVITY is mapped by cracked asphalt and dark woods\, by broken bridges spanning greedy rivers\, sunbaked dirt and ghost roads\, séances held in gun repair shops\, and retribution exacted in long grasses and hog pits and Segway tracks. These nine stories weave together a community borrowed from history and spanning centuries in a re-imagined Pike County\, a geographical conundrum found in three different states yet joined by the same hungry river. From strangers to spiritualists to families bound by love and blood\, the characters who populate Sayre Baptista’s stories tell tall tales of survivorship in the American south. To enter PRIMITIVITY’s pages is to arrive in a harsh yet beguiling topography of ghosts\, thieves\, and a hangman’s lament. \nAmy Sayre Baptista’s writing has appeared in The Best Small Fictions (2017)\, Corium\, SmokeLong Quarterly\, Ninth Letter\, The Butter\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, and other journals. She was a SAFTA fellow (2015)\, a CantoMundo Poetry fellow (2013)\, and a scholarship recipient to the Disquiet Literary Festival in Lisbon\, Portugal (2011). She performs with Kale Soup for the Soul\, a Portuguese-American artist’s collective\, and Poetry While You Wait (Chicago). She is a co-founder of Plates&Poetry\, a community arts program focused on food and writing. She has an MFA in Fiction from the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign\, and teaches Humanities at Western Gov-ernors University. She lives in Illinois. \nOur Book Club moderator\, Nirvana Shahriar is a senior undergraduate student at the University of California\, Berkeley. A lover of language and literature\, she studies English and Linguistics. Her love for language\, and interest in both the written and spoken word has led her to fa-cilitate classes at UC Berkeley that are structured around liter-ature\, like book clubs. Experienced in facilitating and leading discussion\, Nirvana is looking forward to more literary reads with new folks and faces.
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LOCATION:Oakland Public Library – Main Branch\, 125 - 14th Street\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jan Steckel and Tom Odegard at #we
DESCRIPTION:#we presents Tom Odegard speaking on “Being Intersex” and reading poetry on the subject\, and Jan Steckel speaking on “Bi Babes in the Woods” and reading bi poems from her new book Like Flesh Covers Bone. A Q&A will follow. Hosted by Richard Loranger.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jan-steckel-and-tom-odegard-at-we/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:James Weeks: Meditations Across the Kings River
DESCRIPTION:About the Book \nTens of thousands of spiritual seekers around the world have been touched by James Weeks’s online essays and affirmations. Now in book form for the first time\, Meditations Across The King’s River is inspired by James’s travels throughout the Caribbean and West Africa as an Ifa priest. Here\, readers will find hope\, encouragement\, and wisdom to sustain them on their soul’s journey. \nAbout the Author \nJames Weeks is the producer of the upcoming documentary film\, Across The King’s River. He is also a babalawo\, or priest in the Ifa spiritual tradition\, an award-winning photographer\, and a journalist who has published in Parenting magazine\, the S.F. Weekly\, Reggae Beat\, The Virgin Islands Daily News and the St. Croix Avis. James is a native of St. Croix\, U.S. Virgin Islands and currently lives in Oakland with his wife and youngest son. To learn more\, visit his website www.acrossthekingsriver.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-weeks-meditations-across-the-kings-river/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Children's Storyteller Series
DESCRIPTION:CHILDREN’S STORYTELLER SERIES (6-7pm) \nCome enjoy a night with Adonal Foyle (Former Golden State Warriors NBA Player) reading from his children’s book series “Too-Tall Foyle“. \nAdonal Foyle – is a retired NBA player\, a published author\, national speaker\, and consultant. Adonal currently serves as the Community Ambassador for the World Champion Golden State Warriors. \nBring your young ones out for an early evening of storytelling\, book signing with Adonal\, hands on arts activities\, tiny bookmaking projects\, food\, music and more! \nIN THE SPACE ALL NIGHT \nMusic spun by DJ XCAIROCITOSX \nTiny bookmaking activities for all!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/childrens-storyteller-series/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:What Happened When I Stopped Watching TV Book Release Party
DESCRIPTION:***Friday\, March 1st\, Wolfman Books\, Downtown Oakland\, 7:00pm*** The “What Happened When I Stopped Watching TV” Book Release Party Featuring Readings By \nAlec West\nPhilip Staley\nLena Nicodemus\nJoseph Kim \nAlec West is a 26 year old East Bay native. He has worked with incarcerated youth as a mentor and writing instructor. He graduated from the Evergreen State College in Olympia\, Washington with a degree in activism\, organic agriculture and creative writing. When he’s not writing you can find him at music events and poetry slams\, hiking in the woods\, or splitting lanes down Martin Luther King or San Pablo on his bike. He is working on a Master’s in Education as an education specialist and hopes to become a special education teacher. “What Happened When I Stopped Watching TV” is his first book. \n“What Happened When I Stopped Watching TV” is a collection of prose poetry based on the author’s experiences growing up in the Bay Area. The work focuses on themes of addiction\, rebellion and hope as characters struggle against a world that would grind them up. Through disaster\, the book brings the reader into the highs and lows of living life with eyes open\, leaping and landing heart-first. Survival comes at a cost\, but the lessons learned can bring healing across generations. \nPhilip Staley is a psychiatric nurse in the Bay Area and a contributor to the Green Windows Writing Anthology. \nWith over a decade of occult research and perfecting the art of the mental health report\, Philip’s writing focuses on the underworld components of emotional landscapes. He manages to weave tension\, humor\, and a melancholy sovereignty into relatable fiction narratives. \nPhilip has been a near lifelong writer\, cultivating plots and storylines for numerous roleplaying groups. His professional duties have taken him through the most desperate locales of several cities\, and these experiences have shaped his writing and polished the neo-noir lens\, through which he evaluates the world. \nAs a Bay Area writer\, Philip Staley enjoys field trips to unconventional locations with a laptop\, some headphones\, and a daring sense of curiosity. \nLena Nicodemus is a writer/therapist/human originally from Baltimore\, Maryland and now settled in Oakland. By day she works with children with autism and their families and by night she writes sometimes biting\, sometimes gentle works ranging in topics from explorations of the fear about not having enough time to survival humor about rape culture. \nLena’s work has appeared in local publications and performances such as Quiet Lightning\, Bay Area Generations\, and the Green Windows anthology. \n“Lena Nicodemus’ writing expands our own world. She moves through her life with her heart open\, curious\, and demanding then gifts her listeners by recreating in rich detail on paper the people and places she knows: from unanswered telephones to the variety of expressions possible on a child’s face; handmade bowls to grumpy voices. Her writing can bounce off the walls with anger or deepen a silence with intense love and compassion or demand answers to questions we didn’t realize we had. Her writing is always authentic and always relevant\, even to those with a different experience.”\n-Peggy Simmons\, founder of Green Windows
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LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Teen Poetry Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Bring your poems\, verses\, spoken word pieces and prose to share at our Teen Open Mic\, hosted by Vice Youth Poet Laureate – Oakland Samuel Getachew! \nSpecial Guest Performance By: \nIsha Clarke of Destiny Arts- born\, raised\, and educated in Oakland\, Isha grew up surrounded by the art and culture that permeates this amazing city. Inspired by her surroundings\, Isha is a poet who love dance and other art forms. She hopes that her writing inspires and energizes listeners. \nOpen mic sign up begins at 7pm (must be 19 or under to sign up). First seven poets who sign up are guaranteed a spot in the open mic. Open mic begins at 7:30pm. \nIN THE SPACE ALL NIGHT \nMusic spun by DJ XCAIROCITOSX \nTiny bookmaking activities for all!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/teen-poetry-open-mic/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:BAPC Open Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:STRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n \nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n \nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂\n \n \n\n\n\n\nAfter the reading\, join us for dinner if you’d like at a nearby restaurant
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bapc-open-poetry-reading-4/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash presents a reading by Keith Emmons\, Moondrifter Reverie\, and Lisa Rosenberg\, A Different Physics
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Flash presents a reading by Keith Emmons\, Moondrifter Reverie\, and Lisa Rosenberg\, A Different Physics\, East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, wheelchair accessible\, 3:00 (510/653-9965\, ebbooksellers.com)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-presents-a-reading-by-keith-emmons-moondrifter-reverie-and-lisa-rosenberg-a-different-physics/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190305T173000
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SUMMARY:Morgan Parker
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday March 5\, 2019 | 5:30 pm | Mills Hall Living Room\n\nMorgan Parker’s latest poetry collection Magical Negro delves into issues of ancestral trauma\, loneliness\, sexuality\, racism\, and objectification. Parker is the author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé and Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Tin House\, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop\, Best American Poetry\, the New York Times\, the Nation\, and more. She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and the recipient of a 2017 NEA in Literature Fellowship.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/morgan-parker-4/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:On the Road Again: Rich With Possibilities
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Bruce Bagnell\, Jan Steckel\, Andrew O. Dugas\, Kathleen McClung. Late Night Open Mic follows the featured readers. Sign-up now. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-the-road-again-rich-with-possibilities/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Elinor Lipman
DESCRIPTION:Elinor Lipman\n\n\n\n\nreturns to Mrs. Dalloway’s to celebrate the publication of her latest novel\, Good Riddance\, in which one woman’s trash becomes another woman’s treasure\, with deliriously entertaining results. A pitch-perfect\, whip-smart new novel from an “enchanting\, infinitely witty yet serious\, exceptionally intelligent\, wholly original\, and Austen-like stylist” (Washington Post). \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, March 6\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this delightful new romantic comedy\, Daphne Maritch doesn’t quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high school yearbook she inherits from her mother\, who held this relic dear. Too dear.The late June Winter Maritch was the teacher to whom the class of ’69 had dedicated its yearbook\, and in turn she went on to attend every reunion\, scribbling notes and observations after each one–not always charitably–and noting who overstepped boundaries of many kinds. In a fit of decluttering (the yearbook did not\, Daphne concluded\, “spark joy”)\, she discards it when she moves to a small New York City apartment. But when it’s found in the recycling bin by a busybody neighbor/documentary filmmaker\, the yearbook’s mysteries–not to mention her own family’s–take on a whole new urgency\, and Daphne finds herself entangled in a series of events both poignant and absurd. \nElinor Lipman is the award-winning author of eleven novels\, including The View from Penthouse B and The Inn at Lake Devine; one essay collection\, I Can’t Complain; and Tweet Land of Liberty: Irreverent Rhymes from the Political Circus. She lives in New York City. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elinor-lipman-2/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Tarfia Faizullah
DESCRIPTION:Tarfia Faizullah is the author of REGISTERS OF ILLUMINATED VILLAGES (Graywolf Press\, 2018)\, and SEAM (Southern Illinois University Press\, 2014)\, winner of a VIDA Award\, a GLCA New Writers’ Award\, a Milton Kessler First Book Award\, Drake University Emerging Writer Award\, and other honors. Her poems are published widely in periodicals and anthologies both in the United States and abroad\, including Poetry Magazine\, Guernica\, Tin House\, and The Nation\, are translated into Persian\, Chinese\, Bengali\, Tamil\, and Spanish\, and have been featured at the Smithsonian\, the Rubin Museum of Art\, and elsewhere. In 2016 she was recognized by Harvard Law School as one of 50 Women Inspiring Change. In Fall 2018\, she will join the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a Visiting Writer in Residence.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tarfia-faizullah/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Second Sunday Poetry series presents a reading by Meryl Natchez\, Francesca Bell\, and William Brewer\, curated by Barb Reynolds
DESCRIPTION:Second Sunday Poetry series presents a reading by Meryl Natchez\, Francesca Bell\, and William Brewer\, curated by Barb Reynolds\, Britt-Marie’s Restaurant\, 1369 Solano Avenue\, Albany\, free\, 3:30-5:00 (510/527-1314\, brittmariesolano.com)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/second-sunday-poetry-series-presents-a-reading-by-meryl-natchez-francesca-bell-and-william-brewer-curated-by-barb-reynolds/
LOCATION:Brit-Marie’s Restaraunt\, 1369 Solano Avenu\, Albany\, CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Second Sunday Poetry series
DESCRIPTION:Second Sunday Poetry series presents a reading by Meryl Natchez\, Francesca Bell\, and William Brewer\, curated by Barb Reynolds\, Britt-Marie’s Restaurant\, 1369 Solano Avenue\, Albany\, free\, 3:30-5:00 (510/527-1314\, brittmariesolano.com)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/second-sunday-poetry-series-2/
LOCATION:Brit-Marie’s Restaraunt\, 1369 Solano Avenu\, Albany\, CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190313T183000
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SUMMARY:H O L L O W A Y : R E A D I N G : S E R I E S presents Aditi Machado  with Lindsay Choi
DESCRIPTION:Aditi Machado  with Lindsay Choi\nREADINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC\nReadings begin at 6:30pm unless otherwise noted. 2018-2019 Holloway events will be held in the MAUDE FIFE ROOM (315 Wheeler Hall)\nFor updates and event announcements\, join the Holloway Facebook group
URL:https://litseen.com/event/h-o-l-l-o-w-a-y-r-e-a-d-i-n-g-s-e-r-i-e-s-presents-aditi-machado-with-lindsay-choi/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: Maryam Ivette Parhizkar and Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle\, reading from their work
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 15 – 7:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nUniversity Press Books\, 2430 Bancroft Avenue\, Berkeley\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI am always haunted by the wise words of my great great Uncle Tony when a family heirloom was lost. He said\, “You got to look where it ain’t.”… I make work that allows the dead to talk.\n—Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle\, KACH Studio\n\nThe Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series presents Maryam Ivette Parhizkar and Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle\, in the second event of a two-evening program\, reading their work at amazing University Press Books on Bancroft Avenue in Berkeley. Supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, this event is free and open to the public. \nKenyatta A.C. Hinkle is an interdisciplinary visual artist\, writer and performer. Her artwork and performances of experimental texts have been reviewed by the LA Times\, Artforum\, The Huffington Post and The New York Times. Her writing has appeared in Not That But This\, Obsidian Journal\, and Among Margins: Critical & Lyrical Writing on Aesthetics. She is the author of an artist book\, Kentifrications: Convergent Truth(s) & Realities\, published by Occidental College and Sming Sming Books. SIR\, a relection on naming as a tool for undefining the defined\, is her first book of poetry\, and is newly published by Litmus Press. Hinkle is currently Assistant Professor of Painting at UC Berkeley’s Department of Art Practice. Her visual art and performance works are on view at kachstudio.com. \nMaryam Ivette Parhizkar is a writer\, scholar\, occasional musician\, and author of the chapbooks Pull: a ballad (The Operating System\, 2014) and As For the Future (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs\, 2016)\, the latter originating from a talk at Naropa speculating on Clarice Lispector and Sun Ra. Her recent writings have been published by Omniverse\, Social Text Online\, Amerarcana/Shuffle Boil (on musician/composer Matana Roberts — check Coldfront for a prefatory note to Roberts’ Coin Coin project)\, The Daily Gramma\, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day\, She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies and African American Studies at Yale University. Born and raised in Houston\, Texas by Iranian and Salvadoran immigrants\, she lives in Jersey City\, New Jersey. Her current poetics circles around diasporic myth-making\, family histories\, the sociopolitical entanglements that bring people together\, and the relationship between spirit(s)\, possession\, and American history and identity. More here. \nIn Common Writers Series Thanks to a generous grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, The Poetry Center will present six double-programs (twelve events in all) during 2018–19\, featuring a series of remarkable writers from across the US\, paired in conversation and performance with (for the most part) local area writers with whom they share strong affinities. Each featured guest writer appears at The Poetry Center—we’re doing outreach in particular to students and faculty in SF State’s College of Ethnic Studies—reading and in conversation with their paired guest writer and the audience. Then\, moving off-campus\, both writers read their work at one of the Bay Area’s local bookstores. We want to recognize our bookstores as crucial cultural centers and\, paradoxically maybe\, among the most long-lived and durable cultural sites in this violently gentrified region. Details on our six 2018-19 programs and featured artists here. \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and University Press Books
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-maryam-ivette-parhizkar-and-kenyatta-a-c-hinkle-reading-from-their-work/
LOCATION:University Press Books\, 2430 Bancroft Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Helen Oyeyemi - - Gingerbread
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Helen Oyeyemi to discuss Gingerbread\, on Saturday\, March 16th at 7pm. \nInfluenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children’s stories\, beloved novelist Helen Oyeyemi invites readers into a delightful tale of a surprising family legacy\, in which the inheritance is a recipe. \nPerdita Lee may appear to be your average British schoolgirl; Harriet Lee may seem just a working mother trying to penetrate the school social hierarchy; but there are signs that they might not be as normal as they think they are. For one thing\, they share a gold-painted\, seventh-floor walk-up apartment with some surprisingly verbal vegetation. And then there’s the gingerbread they make. Londoners may find themselves able to take or leave it\, but it’s very popular in Druhástrana\, the far-away (or\, according to many sources\, non-existent) land of Harriet Lee’s early youth. The world’s truest lover of the Lee family gingerbread\, however\, is Harriet’s charismatic childhood friend Gretel Kercheval —a figure who seems to have had a hand in everything (good or bad) that has happened to Harriet since they met. \nDecades later\, when teenaged Perdita sets out to find her mother’s long-lost friend\, it prompts a new telling of Harriet’s story. As the book follows the Lees through encounters with jealousy\, ambition\, family grudges\, work\, wealth\, and real estate\, gingerbread seems to be the one thing that reliably holds a constant value. Endlessly surprising and satisfying\, written with Helen Oyeyemi’s inimitable style and imagination\, it is a true feast for the reader. \n* * * \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nHelen Oyeyemi is the author of the story collection What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours\, along with five novels– most recently Boy\, Snow\, Bird\, which was a finalist for the 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She received a 2010 Somerset Maugham Award and a 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. In 2013\, she was named one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSaturday\, March 16\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/helen-oyeyemi-gingerbread/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lea Kirk at Alameda Authors Series 3
DESCRIPTION:For the third year\, AAUW Alameda presents a spring series of talks featuring authors who live and write in Alameda and nearby\, now co-sponsored by the Friends of the Alameda Free Library. Our March author Lea Kirk will discuss her Prophecy series novels Prophecy\, Salvation\, and Collision\, and her current writing projects. \nBiography \nUSA Today Bestselling Author Lea Kirk loves to transport her readers to other worlds with her science fiction romance Prophecy series. She’s an avid Trekkie\, Gryffindor\, and wannabe space explorer. She’s made one foray into paranormal romance with her vampire novella\, Made for Her\, part of S.E. Smith’s Worlds of Magic\, New Mexico series. When she’s not busy writing\, she’s hanging out with her wonderful hubby\, their five kids (aka\, the nerd herd)\, and their seriously spoiled Dobie mix pup.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lea-kirk-at-alameda-authors-series-3/
LOCATION:Alameda Free Library\, 1550 Oak Street\, Alameda\, 94501
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Shobha Rao
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday March 19\, 2019 | 5:30 pm | Mills Hall Living Room\n\nShobha Rao’s novel Girls Burn Brighter\, longlisted for the 2018 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize\, appeared on many “best of” 2018 lists including the Washington Post\, NPR\, Shelf Awareness\, Paste\, LitHub\, and Real Simple. Her debut short story collection An Unrestored Woman illuminated how the division of India and Pakistan into two countries violently disrupted the lives of the region’s citizens for years. Rao is the winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction\, and her story “Kavitha and Mustafa” was chosen by T.C. Boyle for inclusion in Best American Short Stories 2015.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shobha-rao-3/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Moira Crone\, Rodger Kamenetz\, and Ariel Resnikoff
DESCRIPTION:Two New Orleans based writers–poet and dreamworker Rodger Kamenetz and fiction writer Moira Crone–join forces with East Bay native and recent returnee Ariel Resnikoff for a speculative set of their latest work. All three of them habitually push hard on boundaries\, whether it’s the divide between conscious and subconscious life or the linguistic borders dividing cultures. \nRodger and Moira both taught writing at LSU in Baton Rouge for many years. Ariel is finishing up a PhD at Penn\, where he has been very active as a teacher and a multilingual editor and translator. \nAuthor of seven works of fiction\, Moira Crone has won distinction for her short stories\, novels\, and her speculative fiction. In 2009 she received the Robert Penn Warren Award from the Southern Fellowship of Writers for the body of her work. Her 2014 novel THE ICE GARDEN\, a coming of age tale set in the 1960’s South\, won the Independent Booksellers Regional Gold Medal and was hailed by author Lee Smith\, as “a heart-stopper.”   Her 2012 dystopian THE NOT YET\, set in a drowned Louisiana in 2121\, was one of seven finalists for the international Philip K. Dick Award\, for sci-fi paperback of the year. She has received fellowships from the NEH\, the NEA\, Bunting Institute at Harvard-Radcliffe\, and other institutions. Her works have been selected for the prize anthology New Stories from the South: The Year’s Bestfive times\, have appeared in two dozen anthologies\, and in such magazines as The New Yorker\, Mademoiselle\, TriQuarterly\, Oxford American\, Fantasy and Science Fiction\, and Image. She lives in New Orleans. \nPoet\, author\, essayist\, biographer\, religious thinker and dreamwork practitioner\, Rodger Kamenetz is probably best known for his breakthrough account of Jewish-Buddhist dialogue\, The Jew in the Lotus. A serious student of dreams since 1999\, his The History of Last Night’s Dream was featured on Oprah Winfrey’s Soul Series. His poems have appeared in hundreds of periodicals and 25 anthologies. His previous books of poetry include The Missing Jew\, Stuck\, The Lowercase Jew\, and To Die Next To You. YONDER is his seventh collection. Kamenetz lives in New Orleans where he practices Natural Dreamwork. Visit him at kamenetz.com or  thenaturaldream.com \nAriel Resnikoff  is a poet\, translator\, editor & teacher. His most recent works include Ten-Four: Poems\, Translations\, Variations (Operating System 2015)\, with Jerome Rothenberg\, & Between Shades (Materialist Press 2014). With Stephen Ross\, he is at work on the first critical bilingual edition of Mikhl Likht’s modernist Yiddish long poem\, Processions; and with Lilach Lachman and Gabriel Levin\, he is translating the collected writings of the translingual-Hebrew poet\, Avot Yeshurun. Ariel is a contributing editor of Global Modernists on Modernism (Bloomsbury\, forthcoming ‘19)\, an anthology of multilingual modernist source texts\, as well as a commissioning editor at Jacket2. His writing has been translated into French & Spanish and is forthcoming in German in a special issue of Schreibheft.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/moira-crone-rodger-kamenetz-and-ariel-resnikoff/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Joyce Carol Oates
DESCRIPTION:Joyce Carol Oates\n\n\n\n\nreads from her latest novel The Hazards of Time Travel\, an ingenious\, dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society. \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of The Hazards of Time Travel by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, March 20\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n“Time travel”–and its hazards–are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (future) world and is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America–“Wainscotia\, Wisconsin”–that existed eighty years before. Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town she is set upon a course of “rehabilitation”–but cannot resist falling in love with a fellow exile and questioning the constrains of the Wainscotia world with results that are both devastating and liberating. \nArresting and visionary\, Hazards of Time Travel is both a novel of harrowing discovery and an exquisitely wrought love story that may be Joyce Carol Oates’s most unexpected novel so far. \nJoyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities\, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award\, the National Book Award\, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction\, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time\, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys\, Blonde\, which was nominated for the National Book Award\, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls\, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. She spends winters in Berkeley. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-carol-oates-8/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:GREG GRANDIN The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents \nGREG GRANDIN\nThe End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall In the Mind of America \nadvance tickets: $12\, T: 800-838-3006 or Pegasus Books (3 sites)\, Books Inc (Berkeley)\, Moe’s Books\, Walden Pond Bookstore\, East Bay Books\nMrs. Dalloway’s $15 door\, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM info: kpfa.org/events \nA finalist for the Pulitzer Prize\, National Book Award & National Book Critics’ Circle Award now offers an eye-opening new interpretation of our history. \nFrom the very beginning of this nation\, the idea of an open frontier has been at the core of our American identity\, symbolizing a future full of promise. Today\, however\, the USA has an entirely new symbol: the border wall. In The End of the Myth\, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin explores the meaning of the frontier across the full sweep of US history\, from the American Revolution all the way to the Trump presidency. Throughout the centuries\, Grandin shows\, America’s constant expansion served as a “gate of escape\,” helping to deflect domestic conflicts outward. But this deflection meant that they country’s problems\, from racism to inequality\, were never confronted directly. Now the 2008 financial meltdown and our unwinnable wars in the Middle East have slammed this gate shut\, bringing political passions and ugly racist nationalism back home with a vengeance. \nGreg Grandin is the author of The Empire of Necessity\, which won the Bancroft Prize; Fordlandia\, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize\, the National Book Award\, and the National Book Critics Circle Award\, plus a number of other widely acclaimed books\, including Kissinger’s Shadow\, Empire’s Workshop\, The Last Colonial Massacre\, and The Blood of Guatemala. \n$12 advance\, $15 door. \nPresented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/greg-grandin-the-end-of-the-myth-from-the-frontier-to-the-border-wall/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime CLOSURE
DESCRIPTION:featuring Tongo Eisen-Martin (Heaven Is All Goodbyes)\, Anne-christine d’Adesky (The Pox Lover)\, Jenn Stroud Rossman (The Place You’re Supposed to Laugh)\, and others\, will be at Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster Street\, Oakland\, Thursday March 21st\, 7-9 pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-closure/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Kurt Eichenwald
DESCRIPTION:Kurt Eichenwald\n\n\n\n\npresents A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir\, the compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author’s ongoing struggle with epilepsy–his torturous decision to keep his condition a secret to avoid discrimination\, and his ensuing decades-long battle to not only survive\, but to thrive. \n“Inspirational in the true sense of the word….It is written with great verve and wisdom by someone who has closely and thoughtfully detailed his own plight as well as the journey out of it….A book to take heart from.”–Daphne Merkin\, The New York Times Book Review \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of A Mind Unraveled by speaking to a bookseller or ordering through our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, March 21\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nAs a college freshman\, Kurt Eichenwald awoke one night on the floor of his dorm room\, confused and in pain. In the aftermath of that critical moment\, his once-carefree life would be consumed by confrontations with medical incompetence\, discrimination that almost cost him his education and employment\, physical abuse\, and dark moments when he contemplated suicide. \nThis is the story of one man’s battle to pursue his dreams despite an often incapacitating brain disorder. From his early experiences of fear and denial to his exasperating search for treatment\, Eichenwald provides a deeply candid account of his years facing this misunderstood and often stigmatized condition. He details his encounters with the doctors whose negligence could have killed him\, but for the heroic actions of a brilliant neurologist and the family and friends who fought for him.  \nUltimately\, A Mind Unraveled is an inspirational story\, one that chronicles how Eichenwald\, faced often with his own mortality\, transformed trauma into a guide for reaching the future he desired. Defying relentless threats to his emotional and physical well-being\, he affirmed his decision to never give up\, and in the process learned how to rise from the depths of despair to the heights of unimagined success. \nKurt Eichenwald is the author of four previous nonfiction books. His second\, The Informant\, was made into a movie starring Matt Damon and directed by Steven Soderbergh. In addition to his distinguished work as a senior writer at Newsweekand a contributing editor at Vanity Fair\, Eichenwald spent two decades as a senior writer at The New York Times\, where he was a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is also a two-time winner of the George Polk Award\, as well as the winner of the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism and an Emmy Award nominee. He lives in Dallas with his family. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kurt-eichenwald/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:BERKELEY ARTS & LETTERS: Cory Doctorow / Radicalized
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Arts & Letters presents New York Times bestselling author of Little Brother and co-editor of BoingBoing Cory Doctorow for his new book Radicalized\, a collection of four new\, urgent sci-fi novellas of America’s present and future from one of the most on-pulse genre voices of our generation. \n  \nPlease note: This event is ticketed\, and will take place at Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St.\, Berkeley. Tickets\, including discounted book bundles\, are available in advance here. Unless otherwise noted here\, general admission tickets will be available at the door. \nConnected by social\, technological\, and economic visions of today and what America could be in the near\, near future\, the stories are: \n“Unauthorized Bread” is a tale of immigration\, the toxicity of economic and technological stratification\, and the young and downtrodden fighting against all odds to survive and prosper. \nIn “Model Minority”\, a Superman-like figure attempts to rectifiy the corruption of the police forces he long erroneously thought protected the defenseless…only to find his efforts adversely affecting their victims. \n“Radicalized” is a story of a darkweb-enforced violent uprising against insurance companies told from the perspective of a man desperate to secure funding for an experimental drug that could cure his wife’s terminal cancer. \nThe fourth story\, “Masque of the Red Death”\, harkens back to Doctorow’s Walkaway\, taking on issues of survivalism versus community. \n— \nPraise for Walkaway \n“Is Doctorow’s fictional utopia bravely idealistic or bitterly ironic? The answer is in our own hands. A dystopian future is in no way inevitable; Walkaway reminds us that the world we choose to build is the one we’ll inhabit. Technology empowers both the powerful and the powerless\, and if we want a world with more liberty and less control\, we’re going to have to fight for it.”  — Edward Snowden \n“The darker the hour\, the better the moment for a rigorously-imagined utopian fiction. Walkaway is now the best contemporary example I know of\, its utopia glimpsed after fascinatingly-extrapolated revolutionary struggle. A wonderful novel: everything we’ve come to expect from Cory Doctorow and more.” — William Gibson \n“The Bhagavad Gita of hacker/maker/burner/open source/git/gnu/wiki/99%/adjunctfaculty/Anonymous/shareware/thingiverse/cypherpunk/LGTBQIA*/squatter/upcycling culture…zipped it down into a pretty damned tight techno-thriller with a lot of sex in it.” — Neal Stephenson \n— \nCanadian-born Cory Doctorow is the author of the New York Times bestselling young adult novel Little Brother\, and the co-editor of the popular blog BoingBoing. His other YA novels include Pirate Cinema andHomeland (2013)\, the sequel to Little Brother. His adult novels and short stories have won him three Locus Awards and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He has been named one of the Webs twenty-five influencers by Forbes Magazine and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He lives in London with his wife and daughter. \n  \nPlease note: \n– Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \n– Signing and additional details coming soon. \n– This event is all ages. RSVP is appreciated but not necessary. \n– 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. \n– If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Radicalized\, and/or any of Cory’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-arts-letters-cory-doctorow-radicalized/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Carolyn Forche: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents \nCarolyn Forche\nWhat You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance\nHosted by Dennis Bernstein \nadvance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores\, $15 door\, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM info: kpfa.org/events \nCarolyn Forche is one of the most gifted poets of her generation. Her work-including Blue Hour\, The Angel of History\, The Country Between Us\, and Gathering the Tribes-has been translated into more than twenty languages. For decades\, however\, the story of how she became an activist through trial by fire has lived inside her until now. Carolyn Forche was twenty-seven when the mysterious stranger appeared on her doorstep- a charming polymath with a mind as seemingly disordered as it was brilliant. She’d heard rumors about who he might be: a lone wolf\, a communist\, a CIA operative\, a sharpshooter\, a revolutionary\, a small coffee farmer…He has driven from El Salvador to invite her to his country. Captivated\, she accepts and becomes enmeshed in something beyond her comprehension as they meet with high-ranking military officers\, impoverished farm workers\, and clergy desperately trying to assist the poor and keep the peace. These encounters are a part of his plan to educate her. As priests and farm-workers are murdered and protest marches attacked\, Forche is swept up in his work and in the lives of his friends. Pursued by death squads\, sheltering in safe houses\, the two forge a rich friendship as she attempts to make sense of what she’s experiencing and establish a moral foothold amidst profound suffering. Forche learns how she can act as a witness and translate that into an art that might illumine the lives of others. That is “the poetry of witness.” \nWhat You Have Heard Is True- a riveting and essential account of a young woman’s political awakening- is as beautiful as it is painful to read.” – Claire Messud\, author of The Burning Girl \n$12 advance\, $15 door. \nPresented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carolyn-forche-a-memoir-of-witness-and-resistance/
LOCATION:Berkeley Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\, Berkeley\, 94709
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Poetry Express presents a reading by Zephyr Omeira\, hosted by Gary Turchin\, open mic
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Express presents a reading by Zephyr Omeira\, hosted by Gary Turchin\, open mic\, Himalayan Flavors Restaurant\, 1585 University Avenue\, Berkeley\, free\, 7:00-9:00 (poetryexpressberkeley.com)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-express-presents-a-reading-by-zephyr-omeira-hosted-by-gary-turchin-open-mic/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190327T193000
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SUMMARY:Folkland Book Club featuring books from Small Press Distribution
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a monthly book club featuring titles from Small Press Distribution. Pick up a free copy of our March book at the February Book Club meeting (2/27)\, or at the Main Library Reference desk starting on February 28 while supplies last. \nMARCH’S BOOK CLUB PICK:\nBLUETS\nBY MAGGIE NELSON \n  \nLiterary Nonfiction. “Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color.” A lyrical\, philosophical\, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love\, as refracted through the color blue\, while folding in\, and responding to\, the divergent voices and preoccupations of such generative figures as Wittgenstein\, Sei Shonagon\, William Gass and Joan Mitchell. BLUETS further confirms Maggie Nelson’s place within the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists. \nIn 2015\, the editors of Bookforum included BLUETS on their list of 10 of their favorite books over the past two decades. \nMaggie Nelson is a writer\, poet and scholar. Her book The Argonauts (2015) won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Nelson has also been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship\, a Creative Capital Literature Fellowship\, a NEA Fellowship in Poetry\, a Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction\, and an Andy Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant. \n  \nOur Book Club moderator\, Nirvana Shahriar is a senior undergraduate student at the University of California\, Berkeley. A lover of language and literature\, she studies English and Linguistics. Her love for language\, and interest in both the written and spoken word has led her to facilitate classes at UC Berkeley that are structured around literature\, like book clubs. Experienced in facilitating and leading discussion\, Nirvana is looking forward to more literary reads with new folks and faces. \n  \n  \n\n\n\nWhen\n\n\nWednesday\, March 27\, 2019 – 6:00pm\n\n\n\n\nWhere\nMain Library\n1st Floor Reading Area \n\n\n\n\n\n125 14th St.\nOakland\, CA 94612 \nPhone: (510) 238-3134
URL:https://litseen.com/event/folkland-book-club-featuring-books-from-small-press-distribution-2/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library – Main Branch\, 125 - 14th Street\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Shiv Kotecha\, Ed Steck\, and Syd Staiti
DESCRIPTION:Poets from all over! Converging in one place! On one night! \nShiv Kotecha is the author of The Switch (Wonder\, 2018) and EXTRIGUE (Make Now\, 2015). Writing can also be found in frieze\, Art in America\, The Brooklyn Rail\, The Believer and elsewhere. \nEd Steck is the author of An Interface for a Fractal Landscape (Ugly Duckling Presse)\, The Garden: Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulation (Ugly Duckling Presse)\, The Rose (with Adam Marnie\, Hassla)\, Far Rainbow (Make Now Books)\, The Necro-Luminescence of Pink Mist (Skeleton Man Press)\, and others. His work has been performed and exhibited nationally and internationally\, most recently at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and Chateau Shatto. He lives in Tampa\, FL. \nSyd Staiti is author of The Undying Present (Krupskaya 2015) and chapbooks In the Stitches (Trafficker 2015) and Verse/Switch & Stop Motion (2008). Work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Believer\, Tripwire\, Amerarcana\, and The Bigness of Things: New Narrative and Visual Culture (Wolfman 2017). Staiti has been involved with The (New) Reading Series at 21 Grand\, Small Press Traffic\, and is currently a collective member of Light Field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shiv-kotecha-ed-steck-and-syd-staiti/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:BERKELEY ARTS & LETTERS: Siri Hustvedt / Memories of the Future
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Arts & Letters presents international bestselling author of The Blazing World Siri Hustvedt for Memories of the Future\, a provocative\, exuberant novel about time\, memory\, desire\, and the imagination that tells the story of a young Midwestern woman;s first year in New York City in the late 1970s and her obsession with her mysterious neighbor\, Lucy Brite. \n  \nPlease note: This event is ticketed\, and will take place at Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St.\, Berkeley. Tickets\, including discounted book bundles\, are available in advance here. Unless otherwise noted here\, general admission tickets will be available at the door. \n  \nAs she listens to Lucy through the thin walls of her dilapidated building\, S.H.\, aka Minnesota\, transcribes her neighbors bizarre and increasingly ominous monologues in a notebook\, along with sundry other adventures\, until one frightening night when Lucy bursts into her apartment on a rescue mission. \n  \nForty years later\, S.H.\, now a veteran author\, discovers her old notebook\, as well as early drafts of a never-completed novel while moving her aging mother from one facility to another. Ingeniously juxtaposing the various texts\, S.H. measures what she remembers against what she wrote that year and has since forgotten to create a dialogue between selves across decades. The encounter both collapses time and reframes its meanings in the present. \n  \nElaborately structured\, intellectually rigorous\, urgently paced\, poignant\, and often wildly funny\, “Memories of the Future” brings together themes that have made Hustvedt among the most celebrated novelists working today: the fallibility of memory; gender mutability; the violence of patriarchy; the vagaries of perception; the ambiguous borders between sensation and thought\, sanity and madness; and our dependence on primal drives such as sex\, love\, hunger\, and rage. \n  \n\n  \n“Among the many riches of Siri Hustvedt’s portrait of a young woman finding her way as an artist are her reflections on how acts of remembering\, if they reach deep enough\, can heal the broken present\, as well as on the inherent uncanniness of feeling oneself brought into being by the writing hand.” – J.M.Coetzee \n  \n“Like all the best postmodern novels\, this metafictional investigation of time\, memory\, and the mutating self is as playful as it is serious.” – Kirkus Reviews \n  \n\n  \nSiri Hustvedt is the internationally acclaimed author of a book of poems\, six novels\, four collections of essays\, and a work of nonfiction. In 2012 she was awarded the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities. Her novel “The Blazing World” was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Lost Angeles Book Prize for Fiction. She has also published numerous papers in scholarly and scientific journals. She has a PhD in English literature from Columbia University and is a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages. She lives in Brooklyn\, New York. \n  \n\nPlease note: \n– Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \n– Signing and additional details coming soon. \n– This event is all ages. RSVP is appreciated but not necessary. \n– 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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-arts-letters-siri-hustvedt-memories-of-the-future/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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