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SUMMARY:Laleh Khadivi
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, October 15\, 2019 | 5:30 pm | Mills Hall Living Room\n\nLaleh Khadivi was born in Esfahan\, Iran. She is the author of three novels that form an interconnected trilogy about nationalism\, belonging\, and migration. Khadivi is the recipient of the Whiting Award for Fiction\, the Barnes and Noble Discover New Writers Award\, a National Endowment for the Arts grant\, and a Pushcart Prize. Her debut documentary film 900 WOMEN aired on A&E and premiered at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in the Los Angeles Times\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, The Sun\, and other publications. She is an alumni of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Mills College and a professor at the University of San Francisco.
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LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Michelle Ruiz Keil presents All of Us with Wings
DESCRIPTION:Michelle Ruiz Keil presents All of Us with Wings\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, October 15\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nMichelle Ruiz Keil reads from and signs copies of All of Us with Wings\, a YA magical realism novel about love\, found family\, and healing from trauma. An ode to post-punk San Francisco through the eyes of a Mexican-American girl. \n   \n“A spellbinding tale about finding magic in the mundane and hope in the unknown. Filled with dizzying danger and electrifying music\, All of Us with Wings left me breathless.”\n—Ruth Ozeki\, author of A Tale for the Time Being  \n  \nAbout All of Us With Wings: \nSeventeen-year-old Xochi is alone in San Francisco\, running from her painful past: the mother who abandoned her\, the man who betrayed her. Then one day\, she meets Pallas\, a precocious twelve-year-old who lives with her rockstar family in one of the city’s storybook Victorians. Xochi accepts a position as Pallas’s live-in governess and quickly finds her place in the girl’s tight-knit household\, which operates on a free-love philosophy and easy warmth despite the band’s growing fame. \nBut on the night of the Vernal Equinox\, as a concert afterparty rages in the house below\, Xochi and Pallas perform a riot-grrrl ritual in good fun\, accidentally summoning a pair of ancient beings bound to avenge the wrongs of Xochi’s past. She would do anything to preserve her new life\, but with the creatures determined to exact vengeance on those who’ve hurt her\, no one is safe—not the family Xochi’s chosen\, nor the one she left behind. \n\nAbout the Author:\nMichelle Ruiz Keil is a Latinx novelist and playwright with an eye for the enchanted and a way with animals. She teaches writing with a focus on fairytale\, divination\, and archetype and curates All Kinds of Fur: A Fairytale Reading Series and Salon in Portland\, Oregon. She has been a fellow at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and Lit Camp and is a member of Las Musas\, a collective of Latinx kidlit authors. Her published short fiction can be found in Cosmonauts Avenue and the forthcoming anthology Color Outside The Lines. You can follow her on Twitter @MichelleRKeil and on Instagram @MichelleRuizKeil. ALL OF US WITH WINGS is her first novel. \n\nPRAISE\nA Barnes & Noble Most Anticipated #OwnVoices YA Book of 2019\nA Paste Best Young Adult Book of June 2019\nA Book Riot Most Anticipated LGBTQ Read of 2019\nA Book Riot Must-Read Debut Book of 2019 \n“Keil’s ambitious debut is jam-packed with twists and depth and froth and function . . . [this is] a book about embracing everything—people\, lifestyles\, beliefs\, experiences—and\, in so doing\, finding your own distinct power.”\n—The New York Times Book Review \n“In her debut novel\, Michelle Ruiz Keil crafts a fantastical ode to the Golden City’s postpunk era.”\n—Entertainment Weekly  \n“A spellbinding tale about finding magic in the mundane and hope in the unknown. Filled with dizzying danger and electrifying music\, All of Us with Wings left me breathless.”\n—Ruth Ozeki\, Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author of A Tale for the Time Being \n“Michelle Ruiz Keil creates a vivid and original novel full of music\, rage\, and characters that sing with purpose. Keil is a new voice to keep an eye on.”\n—Zoraida Córdova\, award-winning author of Labyrinth Lost   \n“A love letter to live music\, a poem to a city in novel form\, and a poignantly nuanced examination of the ways in which performance impacts life on and off stage. In equal parts realistic detail and surreal vision\, All of Us with Wings bursts off the page and goes with you into real life.”\n—Anna-Marie McLemore\, author of Stonewall Honor Book When the Moon Was Ours and Blanca & Roja \n“All of Us with Wings is a decadent slice of post-punk rockstardom that will have you begging to stay at the party till sunrise. This gorgeous debut looks unflinchingly into often unexplored experiences of adolescence—abuse and addiction\, lust and desire\, found families and chosen homes—finding beauty and redemption even in the darkest places.”\n—Tehlor Kay Mejia\, author of We Set the Dark on Fire \n“I’m convinced that Michelle Ruiz Keil has woven a magic spell into these pages. All of Us with Wings is gorgeous\, gritty\, and utterly transfixing.”\n—Sara Holland\, New York Times bestselling author of Everless \n“Michelle Ruiz Keil puts exquisite language and wild imagination to the fierce onslaught of sensation and doubt that is adolescence. This is a story for young adults\, but perhaps it is also a deeply poetic tale of what is lost in the transition to adulthood.”\n—Joanna Rose\, author of Little Miss Strange \n“An irresistible punk rock spirit . . . sets it apart from standard fantasy fare.”\n—Popsugar \n“[An] atmospheric debut . . . Keil plays with prose and imagery\, interweaving the dreamlike language of Francesca Lia Block with a Latin-American sensibility. The frank inclusion of sexual exploration and drug use adds an extra level of maturity to this thoughtful story about trauma and vengeance\, adult decision making\, and recovery.”\n—Publishers Weekly  \n“This intricately constructed urban fantasy is complex and beautiful\, blending folklore\, San Franciscan history\, the music scene\, vampires\, magic\, and the intertwined lives of characters\, including a cat named Peasblossom who sees and understands more than the humans . . . Fantasy fans will find this book appealing\, fun\, and hard to put down.”\n—School Library Journal \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, October 15\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
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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:MEGAN PHELPS-ROPER presents UNFOLLOW: A MEMOIR OF LOVING AND LEAVING THE WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH
DESCRIPTION:MEGAN PHELPS-ROPER presents UNFOLLOW: A MEMOIR OF LOVING AND LEAVING THE WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH\nWednesday\, October 16\, 2019\, 7:00pm\nHillside Club\, 2286 Cedar Street\, Berkeley\nTickets are available here! \nBerkeley Arts & Letters\, The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley\, and The Aspen Institute co-present an evening with Megan Phelps-Roper for her debut book Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church. \nAt the age of five\, Megan Phelps-Roper began protesting homosexuality and other alleged vices alongside fellow members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka\, Kansas. Founded by her grandfather and consisting almost entirely of her extended family\, the tiny group would gain worldwide notoriety for its pickets at military funerals and celebrations of death and tragedy. As Phelps-Roper grew up\, she saw that church members were close companions and accomplished debaters\, applying the logic of predestination and the language of the King James Bible to everyday life with aplomb – which\, as the church’s Twitter spokeswoman\, she learned to do with great skill. Soon\, however\, dialogue on Twitter caused her to begin doubting the church’s leaders and message: If humans were sinful and fallible\, how could the church itself be so confident about its beliefs? As she digitally jousted with critics\, she started to wonder if sometimes they had a point – and then she began exchanging messages with a man who would help change her life. \nA gripping memoir of escaping extremism and falling in love\, Unfollow relates Phelps-Roper’s moral awakening\, her departure from the church\, and how she exchanged the absolutes she grew up with for new forms of warmth and community. Rich with suspense and thoughtful reflection\, Phelps-Roper’s life story exposes the dangers of black-and-white thinking and the need for true humility in a time of angry polarization. \nYou can watch Megan’s TED talk here. \n——————- \nMegan Phelps-Roper is a writer and activist. She left the Westboro Baptist Church in November 2012 and is now an educator on topics related to extremism and communication across ideological lines. She lives in South Dakota. \nPlease note: \nDoors at 6pm. Program at 7pm. Duration of event is subject to 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.
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LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Prerna Lal
DESCRIPTION:Prerna Lal\n\n\n\n\nlaunching Unsung America: Immigrant Trailblazers and Our Fight for Freedom. Please join us for a most timely discussion. \n“Deeply insightful and intentionally detailed–Prerna Lal has conceived a text that breaks down the inner workings of the United States immigration system and the impact it has had on the lives of countless immigrants and families. Lal lays out a timeline both old and new\, that vividly chronicles the birth and impact of certain policies\, views\, and opinions within the realm of immigration policy.”–Juan Escalante \nTo reserve your seat please purchase a copy of Unsung America by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, October 16\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nFar too often\, immigrants are demonized and scapegoated\, when they should be celebrated as heroes and revolutionaries. This book strings together both triumphant and painful stories of immigrants who blazed trails and broke barriers in their fight for American citizenship and fundamental human rights. \nThese are ordinary people who have used their own stories on the fight for citizenship to illustrate their triumphs and trials as immigrants in a new land. Each uses a different strategy and tactics; what works for one does not work for another. They all have one thing in common\, however—a desire for racial and social justice. \n  \nPrerna Lal is a naturalized United States citizen\, born and raised in Fiji Islands with roots in the San Francisco Bay Area. Lal is an Indo-Fijian attorney\, based in the Bay Area\, and founder of DreamActivist\, an online advocacy network led by undocumented youth. Through the use of social media\, Lal has been credited for organising an online network to stop the deportations of undocumented youth and they are well known as one of the pivotal figures and leaders of the DREAM Act movement. A clinical law professor\, Lal is a frequent writer on immigration\, racial justice\, sexual orientation\, and how these forces intersect. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, October 16\, 7:30 pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. It’s aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. Hosted and curated by Sharon Coleman and Mk Chavez. \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, October 16\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nShattuck Location
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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:LITQUAKE! LIT-Crawl
DESCRIPTION:LIT-Crawl SF\nPlease join us for a great night of literary fun along 24th Street!\n5:00pm – Phase 1:  TONGO EISEN-MARTIN and friends \n8:00pm – Phase 3:  THE RACKET: INFO \nDownload the Lit Crawl map here
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-lit-crawl-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Zeitgeist Press Presents: Julia Vinograd Release Party – Selected Works and Tribute Anthology
DESCRIPTION:Zeitgeist Press is very excited to present two new Julia Vinograd books with a celebration at Himalayan Flavors. Publisher Bruce Isaacson has put together A Symphony for Broken Instruments\, a seminal collection of selected works along with a big section of previously unpublished poems. Never before has such a tour de force of Vinograd’s work been together in one volume\, which is 384 pages in total\, including art by Deborah Vinograd and Chris Trian. At the same event\, editor Deborah Fruchey presents Our Lady of Telegraph Avenue\, the new tribute anthology of poems to\, for\, and about Julia Vinograd by a slew of friends and local writers. \nPlease join us for a festive afternoon celebrating the life and work of this remarkable woman who energized and shaped the poetry of the SF Bay Area for over fifty years. \nZeitgeist Press Presents: \nJulia Vinograd Release Party –  Selected Works and Tribute Anthology \n  \nwith \nBruce Isaacson presenting A Symphony for Broken Instruments: Selected and New Works by Julia Vinograd \nand \nDeborah Fruchey presenting the Julia Vinograd tribute anthology Our Lady of Telegraph Avenue \n  \nwith readings from both volumes \nHosted by Bruce Isaacson & Deborah Fruchey \nSunday\, October 20\, 2019 \n2-4 pm \n  \nevent is free of charge and books for sale at a one-time discount \n  \nABOUT JULIA VINOGRAD \n  \nJulia Vinograd\, the popular poet identified with the streets of Berkeley\, California\, published 70 books during her life (1943-2018).  She was raised in Pasadena and Berkeley\, where her mother was a poet and English Professor.  Her father was announced to win a Nobel Prize in Biochemistry but passed away before the award. Julia earned a B.A. at U.C. Berkeley and an M.F.A. at the famed Iowa Writer’s Workshop at the University of Iowa.  She won an American Book award from the Before Columbus Foundation\, a Pushcart Prize\, and a “Lifetime Achievement Award as Berkeley’s unofficial Poet Laureate.” She was also famed as the Bubble Lady for her love of blowing soap bubbles for children on Telegraph Avenue. This book represents a life’s work of Street Poems that are accessible\, charming\, and deeply human.
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LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Avenue\, Berkeley\, 94703
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lawrence Weschler
DESCRIPTION:Lawrence Weschler\n\n\n\n\npresents And How Are You\, Dr. Sacks? A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks\, the untold story of the famous neurologist\, his own most singular patient. \n“The story of Lawrence Weschler’s faithful four-decade friendship with the amazing Oliver Sacks offers pleasures and amazements on every page. This loving but unblinking portrait will delight fans of Dr. Sacks as well as devotees of Weschler’s always-pathfinding nonfiction.”–Ian Frazier \nTo reserve your seat in advance please purchase a copy of And How Are You\, Dr. Sacks? by speaking with a bookseller or clicking on the cover image below. \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, October 23\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nLawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s\, when he set out to profile the neurologist for The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier\, Dr. Sacks had published his masterpiece Awakenings–the account of his long-dormant patients’ miraculous but troubling return to life in a Bronx hospital ward. But the book had hardly been an immediate success\, and the rumpled clinician was still largely unknown. Over the ensuing four years\, the two men worked closely together until\, for wracking personal reasons\, Sacks asked Weschler to abandon the profile\, a request to which Weschler acceded. The two remained close friends\, however\, across the next thirty years and then\, just as Sacks was dying\, he urged Weschler to take up the project once again. This book is the result of that entreaty. \nWeschler sets Sacks’s brilliant table talk and extravagant personality in vivid relief\, casting himself as a beanpole Sancho to Sacks’s capacious Quixote. We see Sacks rowing and ranting and caring deeply; composing the essays that would form The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat; recalling his turbulent drug-fueled younger days; helping his patients and exhausting his friends; and waging intellectual war against a medical and scientific establishment that failed to address his greatest concern: the spontaneous specificity of the individual human soul. And all the while he is pouring out a stream of glorious\, ribald\, hilarious\, and often profound conversation that establishes him as one of the great talkers of the age. Here is the definitive portrait of Sacks as our preeminent romantic scientist\, a self-described “clinical ontologist” whose entire practice revolved around the single fundamental question he effectively asked each of his patients: How are you? Which is to say\, How do you be? \nA question which Weschler\, with this book\, turns back on the good doctor himself. \nLawrence Weschler\, a longtime veteran of The New Yorker and a regular contributor to NPR\, is the director emeritus of the New York Institute of the Humanities at NYU and the author of nearly twenty books\, including Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees\, Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder\, Everything That Rises\, and Vermeer in Bosnia. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Rosalind Brackenbury returns to read from her exquisite new novel\, Without Her.
DESCRIPTION:To reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Without Her in advance by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, October 24\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen her old friend Hannah doesn’t show up at her house in the south of France\, everyone assumes that Claudia\, who has known Hannah since their shared years at boarding school\, will know where she is\, and what has happened. But as Claudia travels from the USA to France to help Hannah’s husband and children conduct their search\, she is forced to deal with her old jealousy of Hannah\, as well as her own relationship in the present with her French lover\, Alexandre. As events unfold\, Claudia begins to wonder if Hannah and Alexandre may have had an affair and if that has had something to do with Hannah’s mysterious disappearance. In this exquisitely written\, Ferrante-esque novel\, the question of whether or not Hannah will come back becomes urgent and bewildering. And if she doesn’t come back\, what will the lives of her friends and family be without her? \nPoet and novelist Rosalind Brackenbury is the author of Becoming George Sand\, Paris Still Life\, The Third Swimmer\, and The Lost Love Letters of Henri Fournier. A former writer-in-residence at the College of William and Mary\, she has also served as poet laureate of Key West\, teaching poetry workshops. Born in London\, Rosalind lived in Scotland and France before moving to the United States. She now lives in Key West. Her latest poetry collection\, Invisible Horses\, was published in May. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
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SUMMARY:Haiku with Bruce Feingold\, Renée Owen\, & Chuck Brickley
DESCRIPTION:October 25\, 2019: Haiku with Bruce Feingold\, Renée Owen\, & Chuck Brickley\nBruce Feingold has been a psychologist for forty years in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Bruce’s haiku have been published world-wide and have won numerous awards including the Haiku Poets of Northern California Chime Award (2012)\, First Place in the HPNC International Senryu Contest (2012)\, First Prize in the Haiku Canada Betty Drevnoik Award (2018)\, Third Place in the International Kusamakura Haiku Competition (2011)\, First Place in the Hawaii Education Association Twenty-Eighth Annual International Haiku Contest\, Hawaii Word (2005)\, and the Individual Poem Haiku Foundation Touchstone Shortlist (2011).  His haiku have been chosen four times for the Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku. Old Enough(2016)\, Sunrise on the Lodge (2010) and\, A New Moon (2004) were published by Red Moon Press.  Bruce is on the Board of Directors of The Haiku Foundation\, chairs The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Awards\, and is the Vice-President of the Haiku Poets of Northern California. \nRenée Owen‘s reading will feature haiku & haibun\, accompanied by her musician husband\, Brian Foster\, on shakuhachi. Her full-length collection\, Alone on a Wild Coast\, jointly received first prize in the Snapshot Press Book Awards and Honourable Mention in the 2014 Touchstone Distinguished Book Awards. She edited Scent of the Past…Imperfect (Two Autumns Press)\, receiving Honorable Mention in the Haiku Society of America’s 2017 Merit Book Awards. Renée’s handsewn chapbook Blossoms was commended in Modern Haiku\, and her poetry\, widely published internationally\, has won numerous awards\, including Haiku Society of America contests\, CVHC’s Kilbride Haibun Contests\, and the San Francisco International Haiku and Rengay Competitions. Renée serves on The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Awards’ Individual Haiku juror panel\, has judged numerous contests\, and has selections of her work featured in Haiku 21 and New Resonance 7:Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku. Her poetry is also featured in her award-winning mixed-media book & fiber artwork. A practicing psychotherapist\, she enjoys hiking the wilds near her North Bay home. \nA native San Franciscan\, Chuck Brickley lived in rural British Columbia for thirty-five years. He was Associate Editor of Modern Haiku under the editorship of Bob Spiess from 1980-1985. In addition to haiku magazines\, his work has appeared in numerous anthologies\, including Canadian Haiku Anthology (edited by George Swede)\, Haiku: Anthologie Canadienne/Canadian Anthology (edited by Dorothy Howard\, André Duhaime)\, The Haiku Anthology (edited Cor Van Den Heuvel)\, and the Norton Anthology Haiku In English: The First Hundred Years (edited by Jim Kacian\, Phillip Rowland\, Allan Burns). His book of haiku\, earthshine(Snapshot Press\, 2017) won a Touchstone Award for Distinguished Books from The Haiku Foundation (2017)\, and a Haiku Society of America Merit Book Award Honorable Mention (2017). His haibun Is Where The Car Is was nominated last year for a Pushcart Prize. \nThe reading will begin at 7:00 p.m. and end at 9:00 p.m. A limited open reading\, and a short interview with the featured readers will be included. This is a free event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/haiku-with-bruce-feingold-renee-owen-chuck-brickley/
LOCATION:St. Alban’s Episcopal Church\, 1501 Washington Avenue\, Albany\, CA\, 94706
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191026T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191026T180000
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SUMMARY:Deborah Landau and Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:Tara Hall Pittman South Branch Berkeley Library\n1901 Russell St. Berkeley CA \nDeborah Landau is director of the Creative Writing Program at New York University. She is the author of Soft Targets; The Uses of the Body and The Last Usable Hour\, both Lannan Literary Selections from Copper Canyon Press; and Orchidelirium\, which was selected by Naomi Shihab Nye for the Robert Dana Anhinga Prize for Poetry. \nLandau studied at Stanford University\, Columbia University\, and Brown University\, where she was a Jacob K. Javits Fellow and earned a PhD in English and American xd. For many years she co-directed the KGB Bar Monday Night Poetry Series and co-hosted the video interview program Open Book on Slate.com. In 2016\, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. \nMatthew Zapruder is an associate professor in the Saint Mary’s College of California MFA Program in Creative Writing\, as well as editor at large for Wave Books. He is the author of several collections of poetry\, including Sun Bear\, Come On All You Ghosts\, The Pajamaist\, and American Linden\, in addition to his collaborations and translations. His most recent book is Why Poetry\, a book of prose about reading poetry for a general audience.  \nZapruder’s honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship\, the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America\, and the May Sarton Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has taught at New York University\, the New School\, the University of California Riverside – Palm Desert Low Residency MFA Program\, the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst’s Juniper Summer Writing Institute\, and at the University of California at Berkeley as the Holloway Fellow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deborah-landau-and-matthew-zapruder/
LOCATION:Tara Hall Pittman South Branch Berkeley Library\, 1901 Russell St\, Berkeley\, CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T022945
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SUMMARY:Marc Brackett presents Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids\, Ourselves\, and Our Society Thrive
DESCRIPTION:MARC BRACKETT presents PERMISSION TO FEEL: UNLOCKING THE POWER OF EMOTIONS TO HELP OUR KIDS\, OURSELVES\, AND OUR SOCIETY THRIVE\nTuesday\, October 29\, 2019\, 7:00pm\nHillside Club\, 2286 Cedar Street\, Berkeley\nTickets are available here!Berkeley Arts & Letters and The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley co-present an evening with Marc Brackett\, Ph.D. for his new book\, Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids\, Ourselves\, and Our Society Thrive.We have a crisis on our hands\, and its victims are our children. \nMarc Brackett is a professor in Yale University’s Child Study Center and founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. In his 25 years as an emotion scientist\, he has developed a remarkably effective plan to improve the lives of children and adults  a blueprint for understanding our emotions and using them wisely so that they help\, rather than hinder\, our success and well-being. The core of his approach is a legacy from his childhood\, from an astute uncle who gave him permission to feel. He was the first adult who managed to see Marc\, listen to him\, and recognize the suffering\, bullying\, and abuse he’d endured. And that was the beginning of Marcs awareness that what he was going through was temporary. He wasn’t alone\, he wasn’t stuck on a timeline\, and he wasn’t wrong to feel scared\, isolated\, and angry. Now\, best of all\, he could do something about it. \nIn the decades since\, Marc has led large research teams and raised tens of millions of dollars to investigate the roots of emotional well being. His prescription for healthy children (and their parents\, teachers\, and schools) is a system called RULER\, a high-impact and fast-effect approach to understanding and mastering emotions that has already transformed the thousands of schools that have adopted it. RULER has been proven to reduce stress and burnout\, improve school climate\, and enhance academic achievement. This book is the culmination of Marc’s development of RULER and his way to share the strategies and skills with readers around the world. It is tested\, and it works.\n​\nPermission to Feel combines rigor\, science\, passion and inspiration in equal parts. Too many children and adults are suffering; they are ashamed of their feelings and emotionally unskilled\, but they don’t have to be. Marc Brackett’s life mission is to reverse this course\, and this book can show you how. \n——————- \nMarc Brackett\, Ph.D. is the Founder and Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a Professor in the Child Study Center of Yale University. He is the lead developer of RULER\, an evidence-based approach to social and emotional learning that has been adopted by nearly 2\,000 pre-K through high schools across the United States and in other countries. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Collaborative for Academic\, Social\, and Emotional Learning (CASEL).\nAs a researcher for over 20 years\, Brackett has focused on the role of emotions and emotional intelligence in learning\, decision making\, creativity\, relationships\, health\, and performance. He has published 125 scholarly articles and received numerous awards and accolades for his work in this area. He also consults regularly with corporations\, such as Facebook\, Microsoft\, and Google on integrating the principles of emotional intelligence into employee training and product design. Most recently\, he co-founded Oji Life Lab\, a corporate learning firm that develops innovative digital learning systems on emotional intelligence.\n​\nBrackett’s mission is to educate the world about the value of emotions and the skills associated with using them wisely. I want everyone to become an emotion scientist\, he says. We need to be curious explorers of our own and others emotions so they can help us achieve our goals and improve our lives. \n​\n​Please note: \nDoors at 6pm. Program at 7pm. Duration of event is subject to 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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marc-brackett-presents-permission-to-feel-unlocking-the-power-of-emotions-to-help-our-kids-ourselves-and-our-society-thrive/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191030T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191030T193000
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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 October book at the September Book Club meeting on 9/25\, or at the Main Library Reference desk starting on 9/26 while supplies last. \nOUR OCTOBER BOOK CLUB PICK: \nROOM IN ROME\nPoetry by Jorge Eduardo Eielson \n“As a person\, Eielson always kept something secret\, an intimacy he preserved even beyond the reach of his closest friends. This mysterious depth intrigued and fascinated those who knew him and is a salient feature of his writing\, sculpture\, and paintings. Perhaps this depth will help ensure that his visual and poetic works endure. Though inseparable from the period in which it was created\, Eielson’s work deserves to live on and bear witness for future generations to the myths\, dreams\, miseries\, and achievements pertaining to the world in which Eielson both suffered and enjoyed his life.”\n—Mario Vargas Llosa \n“David Shook’s translation of Jorge Eduardo Eielson’s ROOM IN ROME rescues an essential voice of contemporary Peruvian poetry. A poet of the world who rebels against national as well as aesthetic borders\, Eielson rejects simplistic discords between social and artistic commitment. His poetry heralds the power of words: gathering them\, sculpting them\, changing them to gunshots.”\n—Katherine Hedeen \n“Alongside his other Roman collection\, Noche oscura del cuerpo\, critics consider ROOM IN ROME to be Eielson’s masterpiece. The collection displays its author’s rare ability to ‘knot’ together past and present\, tradition and novelty\, the anguish of modern life and the resplendence of another\, serene existence within reach.”\n—Martha Canfield \n“There was a time when poetry belonged to the world\, both the known world and the one beyond knowing. Eielson taught me everything.”—Mario Bellatín
URL:https://litseen.com/event/folkland-book-club-featuring-books-from-small-press-distribution-4/
LOCATION:Oakland Main Library\, 125 14th St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191030T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191030T213000
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SUMMARY:Susan Steinberg presents Machine
DESCRIPTION:Susan Steinberg presents Machine\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, October 30\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nSusan Steinberg discusses Machine: a haunting story of guilt and blame in the wake of a drowning\, the first novel by the author of Spectacle. \nIn conversation with Lucy Corin\, author of One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses.\n  \nSusan Steinberg’s first novel\, Machine\, is a dazzling and innovative leap forward for a writer whose most recent book\, Spectacle\, gained her a rapturous following. Machine revolves around a group of teenagers—both locals and wealthy out-of-towners—during a single summer at the shore. Steinberg captures the pressures and demands of this world in a voice that effortlessly slides from collective to singular\, as one girl recounts a night on which another girl drowned. Hoping to assuage her guilt and evade a similar fate\, she pieces together the details of this tragedy\, as well as the breakdown of her own family\, and learns that no one\, not even she\, is blameless. \nA daring stylist\, Steinberg contrasts semicolon-studded sentences with short lines that race down the page. This restless approach gains focus and power through a sharply drawn narrative that ferociously interrogates gender\, class\, privilege\, and the disintegration of identity in the shadow of trauma. Machine is the kind of novel—relentless and bold—that only Susan Steinberg could have written. \nPRAISE \n\n“The narrative shifts\, experimental structure and poetic language in Steinberg’s hypnotic first novel capture the teen years with their shifting emotional tides and heightened awareness of class\, gender\, self and others.”—BBC Culture\nAfter making waves with her book ‘Spectacle\,’ bold stylist Susan Steinberg resurfaces with her first novel\, a tale of gender\, class\, privilege and trauma set during a summer at the shore. . . . The narrative grapples with guilt and blame while eschewing formal conventions.”—Chicago Tribune\n“With simple\, lyrical language\, Steinberg presents a mystery of privilege and youth that deftly captures the unadulterated gear quaking deep behind a teenagers invincible front.”—Booklist\n“What makes [Machine] so thrilling is Steinberg’s artistry with form; she fractures narrative into its fundamental parts. Steinberg writes prose with a poet’s sense of meter and line\, and a velocity recalling the novels of Joan Didion. The result is a dizzying work that perfectly evokes the feeling of spinning out of control.”—Publishers Weekly\, starred review\n“Steinberg writes in small\, interconnected\, and poetic fragments. . . . Heartbreaking\, eerie\, and acutely observant.”—Kirkus\, starred review\n\nAUTHOR BIO \nSusan Steinberg is the author of Machine\, Spectacle\, Hydroplane\, and The End of Free Love. She is the recipient of a United States Artists Fellowship\, a National Magazine Award\, and a Pushcart Prize. She teaches at the University of San Francisco. \nLucy Corin is the author of two short story collections\, One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses (McSweeney’s Books) and The Entire Predicament (Tin House Books) as well as a novel\, Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls (FC2). She won an American Academy of Arts and Letters Rome Prize. She lives in San Francisco and teaches at the University of California at Davis\, and is at work on a novel\, The Swank Hotel. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, October 30\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-steinberg-presents-machine/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191031T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191031T133000
DTSTAMP:20260419T022945
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SUMMARY:Impromptu writing online via Zoom!
DESCRIPTION:Come join us to write together from the comfort of home! This chance to meet via computer or mobile device (or by phone) is surprisingly akin to being together in “real life” (!!) and offers the added bonus of seeing each participant as though we are sitting across from each other. \nWe do short\, timed writings together from writing prompts (or from words drawn from the magic word pouch!). We read our impromptu work out loud and receive good\, specific feedback from the group\, words or phrases that strike people\, images\, feelings the work evokes. (There is no critique\, no advice for strengthening the writing\, because this is spontaneous writing\, not polished work.) This is a great chance to encourage agile writer’s minds\, to stretch\, to bypass our critic and censor\, practice sharing our impromptu work\, grow larger in ourselves. I think you’ll find these online sessions can be surprisingly warm and filled with lovely connections. 🙂 \nRegister here on Meetup:\nhttps://www.meetup.com/Desert-People-Writing-Together/events/265241826/ \nAbout the leader of this session\, Riba Taylor\nI’m in my 18th year of teaching community college English and have been leading on-the-ground spontaneous writing groups for the past 2-1/2 years at the Cathedral City library (near Palm Springs). For more details about me and writing\, please scroll down on this page to “About the retreat leader”:\nhttps://499words.org/retreat/ \n(All times are Pacific time.)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/impromptu-writing-online-via-zoom/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,North Bay,San Francisco,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191101T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191101T200000
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SUMMARY:SoMa Lurk Book Launch & Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join on First Friday. \nBook description:\nSoMa Lurk is a collection of poems and photographs by José Vadi that documents\, channels\, and writes from the many physical\, cultural and economic changes the Bay Area has undergone since 2015. \nAbout the author:\nJosé Vadi is an award-winning poet\, essayist\, and producer based in Oakland\, California. His previous poetry chapbooks include Marrow (Discantbelife Press). His work has been featured by the PBS NewsHour\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, McSweeney’s\, New Life Quarterly\, and Catapult. (josevadi.com | @vadiparty)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/soma-lurk-book-launch-reading/
LOCATION:Project Kalahati\, 150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191101T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191101T230000
DTSTAMP:20260419T022945
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SUMMARY:Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything - Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join Sarah Kobrinsky for the celebration of the launch of her new book\, Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything (New Rivers Press). Expect a small reading and a big party. \n“Whether writing about dry-cleaned gorilla suits or stillborn infants\, cigarettes or hammers\, moonshine or ashrams\, Sarah Kobrinsky balances with grace on a tightrope strung between the human platforms of the ridiculous and the sublime. Honest\, lyrical\, irreverent\, and profound\, these are poems honed by the blade of awareness and engraved with empathy. ” \n-Elizabeth Rosner\, author of Survivor Cafe\, and the Speed of Light
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nighttime-on-the-other-side-of-everything-book-launch/
LOCATION:Jered’s Pottery\, 5743A Horton St.\, Emeryville\, CA\, 94608\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191103T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191103T150000
DTSTAMP:20260419T022945
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SUMMARY:50 Hikes with Kids Reading and Nature Scavenger Hunt
DESCRIPTION:50 Hikes with Kids Reading and Nature Scavenger Hunt\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Solano\nSunday\, November 3\, 2pm – 3pm \nPegasus families\, come join author Wendy Gorton for an afternoon of adventure with your littles! \nWe will: \n-Read an adventure storybook\n-Read a local map\n-Plan our adventure!\n-Take photos and identify scavenger hunt plants out front and try a fun identification app on a phone\n-Trace plants and sketch in a provided nature journal\n-Read “”50 Hikes with Kids” to plan your next adventure!\n-Sign books \nA Love of Nature Starts Here! \nCalifornia kids live in a magnificent natural playground\, and 50 Hikes with Kids California helps them explore its beaches\, deserts\, mountains\, and forests. Scavenger hunts for every hike make it fun for families to learn about the region’s geology\, flora\, and fauna. For successful adventures with even the youngest trekkers\, award-winning author Wendy Gorton includes a detailed map\, trustworthy and intuitive directions\, a difficulty rating\, restroom info\, and places to grab a snack nearby for every trip. \nWendy Gorton holds a master’s degree in learning technologies and is a former classroom teacher. She has worked as a National Geographic Fellow in Australia researching Tasmanian devils\, a PolarTREC teacher researcher in archaeology in Alaska\, an Earthwatch teacher fellow in the Bahamas and New Orleans\, and a GoNorth! teacher explorer studying climate change via dogsled in Finland\, Norway\, and Sweden. Today\, she is a global education consultant who has traveled to more than fifty countries to design programs\, build communities\, and train other educators to do the same. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSunday\, November 3\, 2019 – 2:00pm to 3:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Solano\n1855 Solano Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/50-hikes-with-kids-reading-and-nature-scavenger-hunt/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191105T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191105T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T022945
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SUMMARY:Raina Telgemeier
DESCRIPTION:Raina Telgemeier OFFSITE TICKETED EVENT\n\n\n\n\npresents Guts\, a true story from the bestselling\, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile\, Sisters\, Drama\, and Ghosts. Telgemeier once again brings a thoughtful\, charming\, and funny tale about growing up and gathering the courage to face–and conquer–her fears. \nThis event is now SOLD OUT. \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, November 5\, 2019 – 6:30pm to 8:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nRaina Telgemeier has been captivating readers young and old for years\, and once again she brings us a thoughtful\, charming\, and funny true story about growing up and gathering the courage to face–and conquer–your fears. She is the bestselling\, multiple Eisner Award-winning creator of Smile and Sisters\, which are both graphic memoirs based on her childhood. She is also the creator of Drama and Ghosts\, and is the adapter and illustrator of four Baby-sitters Club graphic novels. Telgemeier lives in the Bay Area. To learn more\, visit her online at goRaina.com. \nDuring this evening event\, sponsored by Mrs. Dalloway’s and Berkwood Hedge School\, Telgemeier will give a dynamic presentation and answer audience questions\, and ticketholders will have the opportunity to meet her and take a photo together after the event. \nBooks will be distributed at the event\, including a special signed book plate. Those who wish to pick up their books before the event can do so at Mrs. Dalloway’s\, 2904 College Ave in Berkeley\, (510) 704-8222. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nFirst Congregational Church of Berkeley\n2345 Channing Way @ Dana St\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/raina-telgemeier/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191105T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191105T203000
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SUMMARY:Jane Hirshfield & Ellery Acres A Benefit Reading for the Sierra Club
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, November 5\, 2019 at 6:30pm\nJane Hirshfield & Ellery Acres\nA Benefit Reading for the Sierra Club\n2101 Webster St.\, 13th Floor\, Oakland\nPoems in Defense of Our Planet: Please join us at Sierra Club’s national headquarters in Oakland\, CA as we hear two insightful poets read their inspiring work to support Sierra Club’s mission to protect the world we love. Beer\, wine\, and small bites will be served. \nRSVP and Donate Here \nCan’t make it? To make a tax-deductible donation through Sierra Club Foundation\, click here. Thank you. \nJane Hirshfield’s ninth\, forthcoming poetry collection is Ledger (Knopf\, 2020)\, centered on the crises of climate and biosphere\, and on our interconnection with one another and all beings.  She is the founder of #PoetsForScience\, a project originating with the first March For Science in D.C. in 2017\, and the author of two now-classic books of essays\, Nine Gates and Ten Windows. Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts\, as well as Poetry Center and California Book Awards. The Washington Post has named her “among the modern masters” and the New York Times called her last book\, The Beauty\, “a deep well of wisdom.” \nEllery Akers is the author of two award-winning poetry books\, Practicing the Truth and Knocking on the Earth. Her new poetry collection\, Swerve: Environmentalism\, Feminism\, and Resistance\, is forthcoming in January from Blue Light Press.  She has won thirteen writing awards\, including the Poetry International Prize and an Independent Publisher Book Award. Her poetry has been featured on National Public Radio and has appeared in such journals as Poetry and The New York Times Magazine.  She is also the author of a children’s novel\, Sarah’s Waterfall.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jane-hirshfield-ellery-acres-a-benefit-reading-for-the-sierra-club/
LOCATION:Sierra Club National Headquarters\, 2101 Webster St\, 13th Floor\, Oakland\, CA - California
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Tamim Ansary discusses The Invention of Yesterday
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, November 6\, 730pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nTamim Ansary discusses and signs copies of The Invention of Yesterday: A 50\,000-Year History of Human Culture\, Conflict\, and Connection. \n  \nABOUT \nFrom language to culture to cultural collision: the story of how humans invented history\, from the Stone Age to the Virtual Age \nTraveling across millennia\, weaving the experiences and world views of cultures both extinct and extant\, The Invention of Yesterday shows that the engine of history is not so much heroic (battles won)\, geographic (farmers thrive)\, or anthropogenic (humans change the planet) as it is narrative. \nMany thousands of years ago\, when we existed only as countless small autonomous bands of hunter-gatherers widely distributed through the wilderness\, we began inventing stories–to organize for survival\, to find purpose and meaning\, to explain the unfathomable. Ultimately these became the basis for empires\, civilizations\, and cultures. And when various narratives began to collide and overlap\, the encounters produced everything from confusion\, chaos\, and war to cultural efflorescence\, religious awakenings\, and intellectual breakthroughs. \nThrough vivid stories studded with insights\, Tamim Ansary illuminates the world-historical consequences of the unique human capacity to invent and communicate abstract ideas. In doing so\, he also explains our ever-more-intertwined present: the narratives now shaping us\, the reasons we still battle one another\, and the future we may yet create. \nPRAISE \n“A beautifully written world history focused on the stories different civilizations have told about who we are. It ends with a fundamental question: In today’s extraordinary world\, can we build new narratives that are inclusive and global enough to encourage worldwide cooperation in the task of building a better future for humanity?”―David Christian\, distinguished professor\, Macquarie University\, Sydney\, Australia\, and author of Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History and Origin Story: A Big History of Everything \n“Tamim Ansary has done it again\, writing an expansive\, wonderfully readable account of our present world. With deft examples drawn from across history\, he skewers the idea that there’s anything pure about culture or race. Ideas have blended and meshed across space and time to make the modern world what it is. Ansary is a charming guide to this blesh of civilizations\, and to the world’s permanent-and hopeful-capacity for change.”―Raj Patel\, author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System \n“Brimming with essential insights and yet always approachable\, this is the global history we need now.”―Lynn Hunt\, author of Writing History in the Global Era \n“Weaving together multiple complex strands of the human experience into a single compelling storyline\, Ansary delivers-in his usual down-to-earth yet erudite style-an engaging global ‘narrative of narratives’ informed by decades of critical study\, reflection\, and personal transcultural experience. A deeply enriching\, highly relevant read from an important\, unique voice of our day.”―R. Charles Weller\, Central Eurasian and Islamic world history\, Washington State and Kazakh National University \n“The Invention of Yesterday is an insightful guide into human civilization packed with information that shows how we have been connected globally since the beginning of history. Tamim Ansary unpacks complicated theories to make sense of how we became who we are today.”―Fariba Nawa\, author of Opium Nation: Child Brides\, Drug Lords and One Woman’s Journey through Afghanistan \n“Ansary offers a remarkable big-picture synthesis that draws upon geography but resists determinism\, and celebrates diversity while embracing humanity’s commonalities.”―Booklist \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nTamim Ansary is the author of Destiny Disrupted and Games without Rules\, among other books. For ten years he wrote a monthly column for Encarta.com\, and has published essays and commentary in the San Francisco Chronicle\, Salon\, Alternet\, TomPaine.com\, Edutopia\, Parade\, Los Angeles Times\, and elsewhere. He has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show\, Bill Moyers\, PBS The News Hour\, Al Jazeera\, and NPR. Born in Afghanistan in 1948\, he moved to the U.S. in 1964. He lives in San Francisco. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, November 6\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tamim-ansary-discusses-the-invention-of-yesterday/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191107T121000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191107T125000
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SUMMARY:Monica Youn
DESCRIPTION:Monica Youn is the author of three books of poems\, most recently BLACKACRE (2016)\, which won the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America and was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley Tufts Award\, and longlisted for the National Book Award. Her book IGNATZ (2010) was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress\, and a Stegner Fellowship\, among other awards. She teaches at Princeton and in the MFA programs at NYU and Columbia. She is a former lawyer\, a daughter of Korean immigrants\, and a member of the curatorial collective The Racial Imaginary Institute.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/monica-youn/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191107T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191107T220000
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SUMMARY:Julia Scheeres hosting Q & A with author Mary Merv Ladd
DESCRIPTION:Mary Ladd will co-host a book-signing and Q&A with author and journalist Julia Scheeres. \nThe Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd’s debut disrespectful cancer book\, delivered with bold gallows humor to intimately address the gravity of cancer\, invites the reader to bear witness to both the horror and the joke(s). Armed with humor and creative sensibility\, Ladd robs her diagnosis of its dour weightiness. Refusing to tiptoe around the gnarlier elements of treatment and recovery\, the narrative is powerful in its unvarnished honesty. Infused with a contagious lust for life and exemplified by hilarious anecdotes. \n· A uniquely fresh modern and black comedy take on cancer\n· Covers and pokes fun at everything from diagnosis to treatment to medical bills\n· Illustrated by San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist Don Asmussen\, who has brain cancer for the second time \n“I love this book.”—Mary Roach\, author of the books Grunt\, Stiff\, Spook\, and Bonk \n“This looks like a hoot and a half. I want more.”—Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket)\, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events \n“Clear-eyed\, fun\, and reassuring\, it’s the perfect guide!”—Vanessa Hua\, author of A River of Stars and Deceit and Other Possibilities
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julia-scheeres-hosting-q-a-with-author-mary-merv-ladd/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191108T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191108T210000
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SUMMARY:Release Party for New great weather for MEDIA Anthology
DESCRIPTION:Perch Coffee House and great weather for MEDIA present an inspiring evening of cutting edge poets and prose writers from across the Bay Area and the U.S.  They come together to celebrate the release of great weather’s new anthology\, Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea\, which features work by intense wordsmiths – including those you’ll hear tonight – along with an interview with musician and artist Walter Steding. Come prepared for revelations\, epiphanies\, and a few broad smiles. \nThis evening features writers from across the US and beyond\, including Mary Mackey (Berkeley)\, Julian Mithra (Oakland)\, Guy Biederman (Sausalito)\, Carol Dorf (Berkeley)\, Kit Kennedy (Rossmoor\, CA)\, Cathyann Cusimano (Mountain View\, CA)\, Richard Loranger (Oakland)\, and great weather editor Jane Ormerod (from NY and UK). \nBased in New York City\, great weather for MEDIA publishes established and emerging writers from across the United States and beyond. \nPlease stop by\, get yourself dangerously verbiaged up\, and pick up a copy of Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea to call your very own. \n  \n Release party for new great weather for MEDIA Anthology \nBirds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea \n  \na reading by \nMary Mackey\nJulian Mithra\nGuy Biederman\nCarol Dorf\nKit Kennedy\nCathyann Cusimano\nRichard Loranger\nand Jane Ormerod \nplus a brief open mic \nhosted by Richard Loranger \n  \nPERFORMER BIOS \nMary Mackey became a poet by running high fevers\, tramping through tropical jungles\, dodging machine gun fire\, being caught in volcanic eruptions\, swarmed by army ants\, stalked by vampire bats\, threatened by poisonous snakes\, making catastrophic decisions with regard to men\, and reading. She is the author of 14 novels\, one of which made The New York Times bestseller list; and 8 collections of poetry including Sugar Zone\, which won a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence\, and The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams: New and Selected Poems 1974 to 2019\, which won a 2018 CIIS Women’s Spirituality Book Award and the 2019 Erich Hoffer Award for the Best Book Published by a Small Press. You can contact her at https://marymackey.com. \nJulian née Sara Mithra’s first book If the Color Is Fugitive (Nomadic Press\, 2018) traces queer desire on the frontier of the American West and was a finalist for the 2019 Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Poetry. They eke out a living in Oakland encouraging young people to write. \nGuy Biederman is the author of Soundings and Fathoms (Finishing Line Press). He has won awards in Exposition Review’s Flash 405 contests\, and his stories and poems appear in journals such as Carve\, Flashback Fiction\, and Sea Letter. Guy hosts This Day Afloat on Radio Sausalito\, lives on a houseboat with his wife and two mutinous cats\, and walks the planks daily. \nCarol Dorf has two chapbooks available: Some Years Ask (Moria Press) and Theory Headed Dragon (Finishing Line Press). Her poetry appears in Bodega\, E-ratio\, About Place\, Glint\, Slipstream\, The Mom Egg\, Sin Fronteras\, Surreal Poetics\, The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics\, Scientific American\, Maintenant\, and The Other Side of Violet (great weather for MEDIA). She is poetry editor of Talking Writing and teaches math in Berkeley. \nKit Kennedy serves as Poet in Residence of SF Bay Times and Poet in Residence of her church. She has published six collections of poetry. She regrets little except she never (to date) has skateboarded but she is an avid pickleball player. \nCathyann Cusimano’s work has a way of making the ordinary speak as if it were a stop along a traveler’s journey. She is at once academic and undisciplined\, is rebellious and constrained by the polite dance of her own way of seeing. Cathyann has published four books of poetry: Being Myself on Fire\, The Soul Made Visible\, The Main Content\, and Ordinarily Divine. \nRichard Loranger is a multi-genre writer\, performer\, musician\, visual artist\, and all-around squeaky wheel\, currently residing in Oakland\, CA. He is the founder of Poetea\, a monthly literary conversation group. His publications include the books Sudden Windows\, Poems for Teeth\, The Orange Book\, nine chapbooks\, and work in over 100 magazines and journals. He curates the reading series Babar in Exile\, and the queer talk and reading series #we. You can find more about his work and scandals at www.richardloranger.com. \nJane Ormerod is the author of the full-length poetry collections Welcome to the Museum of Cattle and Recreational Vehicles on Fire (both from Three Rooms Press)\, and the chapbook 11 Films (Modern Metrics/EXOT Books). Her work also appears in publications including Maintenant\, Flapperhouse\, Marsh Hawk Press Review\, Post (BLANK)\, Sensitive Skin\, and Paris Lit Up. Born on the south coast of England\, Jane now lives in New York City and performs extensively across the United States and beyond. She is a founding editor of great weather for MEDIA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/release-party-for-new-great-weather-for-media-anthology-2/
LOCATION:Perch Coffee House\, 440 Grand Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191108T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191108T210000
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SUMMARY:Shanthi Sekaran\, Rachel Howard\, and Nathaniel Popkin
DESCRIPTION:Parents and Children\, Hope and Despair: Three Novels \nJoin Wolfman Books for an evening of fiction with Shanthi Sekaran (Lucky Boy)\, Rachel Howard (The Risk of Us)\, and Nathaniel Popkin (The Year of the Return). Each author will give a reading\, followed by a discussion of their work and a book signing. \nThis event is free and open to the public! \n* * * * * \nAbout the authors: \nShanthi Sekaran is a writer and educator from Berkeley\, California. Her recent novel\, Lucky Boy (Putnam/Penguin)\, was named an IndieNext Great Read\, and an NPR Best Book of 2017. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times\, Salon.com\, LA Review of Books and Huffington Post. She teaches creative writing and literature at Mills College in Oakland\, CA. \nRachel Howard earned her MFA in fiction from Warren Wilson College and is the author of a novel\, The Risk of Us\, and a memoir\, The Lost Night. She is the recipient of a MacDowell Colony fellowship\, and her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, ZYZZYVA\, and other journals. She lives in Nevada City\, California. \nNathaniel Popkin is a nationally recognized writer and editor of fiction and non-fiction\, film\, criticism\, and journalism. He is the author of three books of non-fiction and two novels\, including Everything Is Borrowed (New Door Books) and Lion and Leopard (The Head and The Hand Press)\, which reimagines the life and tragic death of the first American genre painter\, John Lewis Krimmel. Lion and Leopard was a finalist for the Foreword Reviews Indie Book of the Year Award. He is also the co-editor of a recent anthology\, Who Will Speak for America? (Temple University Press). In 2018\, he turned his attention to the ecological crisis\, describing the present era as an “age of loss” in a short essay in The New York Times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shanthi-sekaran-rachel-howard-and-nathaniel-popkin/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191112T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191112T213000
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SUMMARY:Danny Fingeroth presents A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee
DESCRIPTION:About A Marvelous Life \nThe comprehensive biography of STAN LEE\, father of SPIDER-MAN and THE AVENGERS\, beloved comic book writer and editor\, and former president and publisher of Marvel Comics\, by Lee’s colleague of over four decades. \nStan Lee co-created SPIDER-MAN! And IRON MAN! And the HULK! And the X-MEN! And more than 500 other iconic characters! His name has appeared on more than a billion comic books\, in 75 countries\, in 25 languages. His superheroes have starred in multibillion-dollar grossing movies and TV series. This is the story of how Stanley Martin Lieber\, a poor kid from Washington Heights became STAN LEE\, international legend. \nDanny Fingeroth (comics industry veteran\, author\, and longtime Stan Lee friend and colleague) writes a comprehensive biography of this powerhouse of ideas who changed the world’s understanding of what a hero is and how a story should be told\, while exploring Lee’s unique path to becoming the face of comics. \nWith behind-the-scenes stories and sourced with exclusive\, new interviews with Lee himself and other legendary comics and media figures\, A Marvelous Life has insights and revelations that only an insider like Fingeroth can offer. \nFingeroth\, himself a longtime writer and editor at Marvel Comics and now a lauded pop culture critic and historian\, knew and worked closely with Stan Lee for over forty years. Fingeroth is able to put Lee’s life and work in a context that makes events and actions come to life as no other writer could.\nAbout the Author: \nDANNY FINGEROTH is a native New Yorker\, comics world insider\, writer and editor\, and pop-culture critic and historian. He is famous for his books on comics and superheroes and offers informed\, insightful observations about the psychological motivations of the people who create our popular culture. He grew up in the first generation of Marvel-loving kids and has had a career in comics for 40 years\, working closely with Stan Lee on numerous projects\, seeing him as both an icon and a colleague. Fingeroth was involved in the writing and editing of Spider-Man\, Iron Man\, the X-Men and The Avengers at Marvel Comics. For more information\, please visit http://dannyfingeroth.com/. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, November 12\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/danny-fingeroth-presents-a-marvelous-life-the-amazing-story-of-stan-lee/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191113T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191113T200000
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SUMMARY:Sarah Henry hosting Q&A and book-signing with author Mary Ladd
DESCRIPTION:Mary Ladd will co-host a book-signing and Q&A with author Sarah Henry. \nThe Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd’s debut disrespectful cancer book\, delivered with bold gallows humor to intimately address the gravity of cancer\, invites the reader to bear witness to both the horror and the joke(s). Armed with humor and creative sensibility\, Ladd robs her diagnosis of its dour weightiness. Refusing to tiptoe around the gnarlier elements of treatment and recovery\, the narrative is powerful in its unvarnished honesty. Infused with a contagious lust for life and exemplified by hilarious anecdotes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-henry-hosting-qa-and-book-signing-with-author-mary-ladd/
LOCATION:Rakestraw Books\, 3 Railroad Avenue\, Danville\, 94526
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191113T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191113T213000
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SUMMARY:Peter Jan Honigsberg
DESCRIPTION:Peter Jan Honigsberg\n\n\n\n\nlaunches his new book A Place Outside the Law: Forgotten Voices of Guantánamo\, containing firsthand testimonies from Guantánamo Bay\, inspiring future generations to never repeat the human rights violations of the detention center. \n“The definitive account of what happened at Guantánamo in all of its chilling and horrifying detail. What makes this book unique and compelling is that it is the story of what it does to people’s lives to create ‘a place outside the law.’ Through his countless interviews\, Professor Honigsberg describes the impact of Guantánamo on those who have been part of it: soldiers\, medical personnel\, lawyers\, interrogators\, torturers\, detainees. It is the story of what happens when a country abandons the rule of law.”–Erwin Chemerinsky\, UC Berkeley\, School of Law \nTo reserve your seat please purchase a copy of A Place Outside the Law by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, November 13\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nLaw scholar and Witness to Guantánamo founder Peter Jan Honigsberg uncovers a haunting portrait of life at the military prison and its toll\, not only on the detainees and their loved ones but also on its military and civilian personnel and the journalists who reported on it. \nHonigsberg conducted 158 interviews across 20 countries so that the people who lived and worked there could tell their heartbreaking and inspirational stories. In each one\, we face the reality that the healing process cannot begin until we start the conversation about what was done in the name of protecting our country. These are a few of them. Many alleged operatives in Guantánamo were purchased by the United States for ransom from Afghan and Pakistani soldiers. Brandon Neely\, a prison guard who processed the first group of suspected operatives to arrive in Cuba\, flew to London to embrace the detainees he guarded after leaving the military. Navy whistleblower Matt Diaz covertly released the names of 500 detainees by sending them in a greeting card to a lawyer in New York. Journalist Carol Rosenberg committed the past 17 years of her career to documenting life at Guantánamo. And Damien Corsetti\, an interrogator who came to be known as the “King of Torture\,” received ribbons and awards for the same cruel actions for which he was later prosecuted. \nIn startling\, aching prose\, A Place Outside the Law shines a light on these unheard voices\, and through them\, encourages the global community to embrace humanity as our greatest tool to make the world a safer place. \nPeter Jan Honigsberg is a professor at USF School of Law and the founder and director of Witness to Guantánamo. His research and teaching focuses on the rule of law and human rights violations that occurred in the detention center in Guantánamo\, as well as on the study of terrorism and post-9/11 issues. His books include Our Nation Unhinged: The Human Consequences of the War on Terror and Crossing Border Street: A Civil Rights Memoir. Honigsberg lives in Berkeley. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-jan-honigsberg/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191114T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191114T210000
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SUMMARY:Babar in Exile #21: Till Death Do We Part
DESCRIPTION:Babar in Exile continues it’s November tradition with “Till Death Do We Part”\, a reading that celebrates our vociferous dead and the living who go right on singing despite it all. Presiding over the departed will be Vampyre Mike Kassel (1953-2008)\, who will be honored with the release of Bat Flower\, a new compilation of his mixed-genre work by Deborah Fruchey and Last Laugh Productions. Representing the living will be Chris & Deirdre Trian\, original denizens of the Café Babar readings who have been partnered for 47 years. Fantastic and skilled performers\, they will each do a set of poetry and (if we’re lucky) song\, and Chris will also be displaying some of his paintings during the event. We’ll have multiple genres\, media\, and states of being\, meaning something for everyone on this fine autumn eve. With\, as always\, our fab open mic\, which for this occasion will ask participants to read one poem from a departed Babarian along with their own. Books will be available to read from. \nSo come on down to check out a slice of Bay Area poetry history\, now and in the making\, and make your way home with a bindle full of inspiration and a thimbleful more hope for the species. \n  \nBabar in Exile #21: Till Death Do We Part\na revival of the Cafe Babar\, Paradise Lounge\, and Club Chameleon reading series \n  \nfeaturing \nChris Trian\nDeirdre Trian\nand the work of Vampyre Mike Kassel \nand you\, in our spooky open mic \n  \nHosted by Richard Loranger and Paul Corman-Roberts \n  \nPERFORMER BIOS \nChris Trian was born in Hollywood\, CA\, and raised in San Francisco. He is a veteran of the bars and cheap hotels and poetry readings of North Beach. He has a full-length collection of poetry\, When There’s No More Room in Heck\, the Darned Will Walk the Earth\, published by Zeitgeist Press\, and has pieces in Howl magazine and the Street Spirit newspaper. He lives and writes with Deirdre Trian. \nDeirdre Trian was born in Oakland\, CA\, and grew up in San Francisco after spending her first five years in Berkeley. She wrote from an early age since her great aunt and mother both wrote. Since her mother was blinded by spinal meningitis before she was born\, Deirdre helped her to write by correcting spelling\, et al. She has been writing since then with Christopher Trian\, with whom she’s spent 47 years. She has been going to poetry readings with Chris throughout that time. \nBorn in 1953 in Boston\, “Vampyre” Mike Kassel moved to San Francisco in 1974 and was given his nickname by an audience at the Mabuhay Gardens who called for “Vampire Mike.” In 1980 Mike’s play Bat Soup\, a musical comedy version of Dracula\, ran for 86 performances at the Hotel Utah. His bands included The Hellhounds\, The Fabulous Dumonts\, The Bones of Kryptos\, the Welfare Cheats\, and the ‘60s homage band The Mysterious Icewyrms. He established himself as a spoken word powerhouse in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s at the Cafe Babar and the Above Paradise Lounge. He had seven books\, including Going for the Low Blow (Zeitgeist Press\, 1989); I Want to Kill Everything (Zeitgeist Press\, 1990); Graveyard Golf (Manic D Press 1991); The Worlds According to Loki (Valknot Publishing\, 2001); and Toxic Vaudeville (Ajax Press of San Francisco\, 2007). His work has been translated into German\, Czech and Russian. He also wrote for the Western Edition newspaper\, the quarterly Yggdrasil\, and the Sunday magazine of the San Francisco Chronicle/Examiner. Mike died suddenly of pneumonia on March 22\, 2008. Two posthumous books have emerged\, The Dead Poet Talks Back (Zeitgeist Press 2009) and the newly released Bat Flower: Poems\, Plays\, and Other Perversions (Last Laugh Productions\, 2019).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babar-in-exile-21-till-death-do-we-part/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Avenue\, Berkeley\, 94703
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Oakland | Ivanna Baranova CONFIRMATION BIAS Launch & Reading
DESCRIPTION:Since November 19th Guatemalan-Slovak poet Ivanna Baranova has been touring across Canada and the US with her debut full-length poetry collection CONFIRMATION BIAS (Metatron Press\, 2019). Now after a month\, it’s finally here in Oakland\, CA at Wolfman Books or one night only. I mean the book will be there afterwards (if it isn’t sold out!) but she won’t\, so please join us for this launch event featuring readings from Ren Cook\, Alexandra Naughton\, Brent Reichenberger\, and Jesse Prado.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-ivanna-baranova-confirmation-bias-launch-reading/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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