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SUMMARY:ZQ-287 PRESENTS: KILLING THE FUTURE
DESCRIPTION:ZQ-287 PRESENTS: \nKILLING THE FUTURE\nA Fiction Reading and Discussion on How to Make Sure There’s No Future Forever \nSep. 7 \n*featuring* \nAFFLICTION INCLUDED (AUTHOR’S CUT) by Steven T. Bramble\nAfter spending his youth as the son of a dissident mother who tried and failed to plot the overthrow of the consolidated world government\, Stanly Borque was punished for political crimes he didn’t commit. Now\, years\, later\, he’s none other than a compliant corporate employee\, working in the midst of the same authoritarian\, oligarchical system of total social surveillance his mother had hoped to eradicate. Which doesn’t actually bother him too much—until a business trip to Ghana where a bizarre accident catapults him back into the world of the powerful\, and the inescapable arms of the regime. \nAs an inept participant in so much conspiracy\, he’ll be confronted with a barrage of possibly important questions along the way. Like\, is freedom a dead concept? Why did a global pandemic of suicides cause a tenth of the world’s population to do itself in? And\, is there a reason to hope anymore? A story of the world in the total opposite of disarray\, and what it means when reality is at odds with the human spirit. \nSteven T. Bramble is the author of the Psychology of Technology Triptych\, which includes the novels GRID CITY OVERLOAD\, for which he won Honorable Mention in Foreword Review’s 2012 Book of the Year Award\, and DISPOSABLE THOUGHT\, which was awarded an editor’s pick by Kirkus Reviews.  \n“Bramble’s work evokes that of many 20th-century authors who sought to grapple with their eras’ technological tumult. His post-modern maximalism calls to mind Thomas Pynchon and William T. Vollmann; his grim dystopianism\, Orwell and Margaret Atwood; his overt social criticism\, Richard Wright and Kurt Vonnegut.”  — Kirkus \nBABYLON: ISSUE THREE by Alan Clark\nA hundred years in the future\, four deities are reborn in our universe after the death of their own. Now the events that destroyed their home universe have returned once again to kill them. BABYLON is the mind-bending gold-standard of the multi-dimensional doomsday soap opera category\, embracing such age-old maxims as “Love is a Dead Place\,” “Revenge is for Winners\,” and “No Future Forever.” A brutally hilarious sci-fi epic from the expansive imagination of Alan Clark\, and illustrated in inimitable\, painstakingly detailed style. \nAlan Clark is the author of IN SEARCH OF THE BLACK PANTHERS\, a graphic novel being published in serial. The second issue is set to release this September.\n“Skillyfully rendered and arresting\, [Alan Clark’s] illustrations invite reverie and instill a desire to return to look again.”  — Oakland Magazine
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zq-287-presents-killing-the-future/
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:Left Margin LIT Reading
DESCRIPTION:Now that we have a new space (1543 Shattuck in North Berkeley)\, it’s time to launch our own reading series. Come nosh on some snacks and listen to 5 Left Margin writers share their work: Lauren Markham\, Muhammad Umar Jee Salimi\, Keenan Norris\, Melinda Noack\, and Chris Arnold. This is a free event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/left-margin-lit-reading/
LOCATION:Left Margin Lit\, 1543 Shattuck\, Berkeley\, CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:OAKLAND FIRST FRIDAYS AT NOMADIC PRESS!
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM SHARP! Join us at Nomadic Press as we celebrate Oakland First Fridays! Featuring readings by 4-5 Nomadic Press authors in our intimate space amongst the hustle at 23rd and Telegraph Avenue. Come early and catch our authors reading on a street stage just down the block at 6:30 PM. This month features readings by TBD and music by TBD. \nTo help pay for our space and our artists and ensure that we can continue our robust programming series\, we are asking for suggested donations of $10-15 at the door\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Nomadic Press books\, as always\, will be for sale at the event. \nWine and Red Bay coffee will be available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-first-fridays-at-nomadic-press-5/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Obi Kaufmann in conversation with Oscar Villalon
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, September 7\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nObi Kaufmann presents his award-winning best seller\, The California Field Atlas. \nFollowing a visual presentation\, Obi will be joined in conversation by ZYZZYVA Managing Editor Oscar Villalon\, discussing the importance of reframing the language of conservation\, and the impact of the California Field Atlas\, one year on from publication. \nOn sale for the first time at Pegasus will be the California Field Atlas Note Card Sets (Heyday\, 2018) featuring beautiful reproductions of the watercolor illustrations of mammals and birds of prey\, created by Obi for the book. \nWinner\, 2018 California Book Award Gold Medal (Notable Contribution to Publishing)\nWinner\, 2018 NCIBA Book of the Year Award (Regional Interest)\n#1 San Francisco Chronicle Best Seller \n  \n  \nTHE CALIFORNIA FIELD ATLAS (HEYDAY\, 2017) \nThis lavishly illustrated atlas takes readers off the beaten path and outside normal conceptions of California\, revealing its myriad ecologies\, topographies\, and histories in exquisite maps and trail paintings. Based on decades of exploring the backcountry of the Golden State\, artist-adventurer Obi Kaufmann blends science and art to illuminate the multifaceted array of living\, connected systems like no book has done before. Kaufmann depicts layer after layer of the natural world\, delighting in the grand scale and details alike. The effect is staggeringly beautiful: presented alongside California divvied into its fifty-eight counties\, for example\, we consider California made up of dancing tectonic plates\, of watersheds\, of wildflower gardens. Maps are enhanced by spirited illustrations of wildlife\, keys that explain natural phenomena\, and a clear-sighted but reverential text. Full of character and color\, a bit larger than life\, The California Field Atlas is the ultimate road trip companion and love letter to a place. \nGrowing up in the East Bay\, Obi Kaufmann spent most of his weekends mapping Mount Diablo’s creeks\, oak forests\, and sage mazes. Into adulthood he would regularly journey into the mountains\, spending more summer nights without a roof than with one. Based on decades of exploring the backcountry of the Golden State\, Kaufmann’s lavishly illustrated atlas takes readers off the beaten path and outside normal conceptions of California. His book blends science and art to illuminate the multifaceted array of living\, connected systems like no book has done before\, and outlines the epic narrative of the California backcountry\, which holds enough art\, science\, mythology\, and language for a hundred field atlases to come. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nFriday\, September 7\, 2018 – 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/obi-kaufmann-in-conversation-with-oscar-villalon/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Amplify: A Storytellling Conference for People of Color
DESCRIPTION:Featuring workshops with Shanthi Sekaran on Writing Outside Your Cultural Experience\, Norman Antonio Zelaya on Cadence\, Community and Representation\, and Vanessa Hua on Narrative Journalism\, amongst others.\n\n\nWe’ve already sold 30% of our tickets in the first 3 days\, so get the Early-Bird deal and buy with a friend now! \n\n\n\nAbout Amplify \n\nWe write\, produce\, craft\, investigate\, report as a means to tell our and our communities stories\, because the stories we hear about us are not told by us. As storytellers\, we contribute to and preserve culture\, we entertain with anecdotes\, and most importantly\, we shape the popular narratives\, fictional or factual\, that inform public opinion and in turn\, public policy. \nAmplify is a chance to connect with other storytellers\, learn from their mastery\, and explore issues that influence your work including race\, class\, community\, and ethics. Keynotes include Glynn Washington from WNYC’s Snap Judgment\, Aimee Allison\, President of Democracy In Color\, Rhodessa Jones\, Director of The Medea Project\, and Mina Morita\, Artistic Director of Crowded Fire Theater. \nBuy your tickets now at bit.ly/amplifypoc
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amplify-a-storytellling-conference-for-people-of-color/
LOCATION:UC Berkeley
CATEGORIES:East Bay,San Francisco,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl present RAD GIRLS CAN
DESCRIPTION:Pegasus Books Downtown\nSaturday September 8\, 5:30pm \nKate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl\, the New York Times best-selling authors of Rad Women Worldwide and Rad American Women A-Z\, present and sign copies of Rad Girls Can: a bold and brave collection of stories and art about inspiring and accomplished girls who have made positive impacts on the world before the age of 20. \nAll ages welcome! Free to attend.\n \n\nABOUT RAD GIRLS CAN\nFrom the New York Times best-selling authors of Rad Women Worldwide and Rad American Women A-Z\, a bold and brave collection of stories and art about inspiring and accomplished girls who have made positive impacts on the world before the age of 20. \nYou might know the stories of Malala Yousafzai\, Anne Frank\, Jazz Jennings\, and Joan of Arc. But have you heard about Yusra Mardini\, a Syrian refugee who swam a sinking boat to shore\, saved twenty lives\, then went on to compete as an Olympic swimmer? Or Trisha Prabhu\, who invented an anti-cyberbullying app at age 13? Or Barbara Rose Johns\, whose high school protest helped spark the civil rights movement? \nIn Rad Girls Can\, you’ll learn about a diverse group of young women who are living rad lives\, whether excelling in male-dominated sports like boxing\, rock climbing\, or skateboarding; speaking out against injustice and discrimination; expressing themselves through dance\, writing\, and music; or advocating for girls around the world. Each profile is paired with the dynamic paper-cut art that made the authors’ first two books New York Times best sellers. Featuring both contemporary and historical figures\, Rad Girls Can offers hope\, inspiration\, and motivation to readers of all ages and genders. \n— \nKate Schatz  is the New York Times-bestselling author of Rad American Women A-Z\, Rad Women Worldwide\, Rad Girls Can\, and the illustrated journal My Rad Life. She’s a writer\, activist\, public speaker\, and educator\, who’s been passionate about both writing and politics since she was a kid. She’s a co-founder of Solidarity Sundays\, a nationwide network of over 200 feminist activist groups who meet monthly to take coordinated non-violent political action. She lives with her kids\, cats\, and partner on the island of Alameda. \nMiriam Klein Stahl is the New York Times-bestselling illustrator of Rad American Women A-Z\, Rad Women Worldwide\, Rad Girls Can\, and the illustrated journal My Rad Life. She is a Bay Area-based artist\, educator and activist. In addition to her work in printmaking\, drawing\, sculpture\, paper-cut and public art\, she is also the co-founder of the Arts and Humanities Academy at Berkeley High School where she’s taught since 1995. As an artist\, she follows in a tradition of making socially relevant work\, creating portraits of political activists\, misfits\, radicals and radical movements. As an educator\, she has dedicated her teaching practice to address equity through the lens of the arts. Her work has been widely exhibited and reproduced internationally. She lives in Berkeley with her wife\, daughter\, and their dog Lenny.\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSaturday\, September 8\, 2018 – 5:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kate-schatz-and-miriam-klein-stahl-present-rad-girls-can/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry reading by Diane Frank\, Erik Levins\, and Mary Kay Rummel
DESCRIPTION:Poetry reading by Diane Frank\, Erik Levins\, and Mary Kay Rummel\, followed by an open mic\, hosted by Jeanne Lupton every second Saturday monthly\, Frank Bette and Center for the Arts\, 1601 Paru Street\, Alameda\, 7:00 (510/523-6957\, www.frankbettecenter.org\n\nEvent is free\, a hat is passed for donations
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-reading-by-diane-frank-erik-levins-and-mary-kay-rummel/
LOCATION:Frank Bette Center for the Arts\, 1601 Paru Street\, Alameda\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:44th Annual Solano Stroll
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 9\, 10:00am – 5:00pm\nSolano Ave\, Berkeley \nSOLANO STROLL \nSince 1974 Solano Avenue and the twin-cities of Albany and Berkeley CA\, have hosted the Solano Avenue Stroll\, the East Bay’s largest street festival! The Solano Avenue Association invites you to see what makes Solano Avenue a wonderful place. We feature over five hundred vendors including 50 entertainers\, 50 food booths\, 150 government and non-profit agencies\, 150 juried hand-crafters\, a 75 entry parade\, state of the art mechanical rides and much more! (Parade begins at 10am.) \nMore information here. \nFEATURING Storytime on Solano: Imagination Flannel Boards at 10:30am \nBring your little ones to Pegasus on Solano for a fun\, interactive\, and educational morning. Imagination Flannel Boards will be on hand to celebrate the Solano Stoll with stories and songs that spark your children’s imagination. They will engage with the storyteller through singing\, repetition\, and movement. They will cheer when the ducklings find their mother and laugh when the Old Lady swallows a cow! \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSunday\, September 9\, 2018 – 10:00am to 5:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nSolano Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nOffsite Location\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNot all titles are in our stores currently. Please call us. We are happy to check 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/44th-annual-solano-stroll/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Chris Hedges: America: The Farewell Tour
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents \nCHRIS HEDGES\nAmerica: The Farewell Tour\nHosted by Norman Solomon \nTickets: $15\, 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores\, $18 door\, Benefit KPFA Radio\, Info: kpfa.org/events \nAmerica\, The Farewell Tour is a book that should disturb and anger all of us. It is a profoundly sobering\, upsetting portrait of our country as it is\, not as we wish it to be. \nChris Hedges shows us a country that should shame us\, a land of rampant and deadly drug addiction\, of escape into gambling and pornography\, of xenophobic scapegoating – a country where the super rich exploit the poor and vulnerable. He is calling us out for having become a corporate state where the dignity and worth of the individual no longer matter. \nThis is a profound and provocative examination of America in crisis\, convulsed by pathologies that have risen from the sense of hopelessness. Hedges examines our retreat into gambling\, pornography\, and drugs as Americans attempt to cope with an economic collapse that has left so many out of work and others working two or even three jobs just to stay afloat. As our society unravels\, we also must face global upheavals\, specifically the emerging catastrophes wrought by climate change. He argues that we must reverse the corporate coup d’etat destroying our country and combat the current crisis by waging a cultural\, moral and even spiritual resistance. \nChris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has reported from more than 50 countries. He spent 15 years at The New York Times as a foreign correspondent and bureau chief. He is the author of twelve previous books\, including the bestselling American Fascists\, Death of the Liberal Class\, and War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. \nNorman Solomon is a media critic and a journalist with ExposeFacts.org\, a project of the Institute for Public Accuracy. He is also the author of numerous books and a co-founder of RootsAction.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chris-hedges-america-the-farewell-tour/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Patricia Polacco Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 16\, 1:00pm – 4:00pm\nPegasus Books Oakland \nBeloved author and illustrator Patricia Polacco will be signing her best-selling children’s books\, including the newly released Holes in the Sky. \nThe book signing will take place in the Pegasus Books tent (outside and adjacent to Pegasus Books Oakland) as part of the annual Rockridge Out & About Street Festival. \n \nABOUT HOLES IN THE SKY \nMiss Eula is back! In this heartwarming companion to Chicken Sunday\, young Trisha is devastated when her grandmother passes away\, but finds joy in bonds with a new friend\, her new California neighborhood–and the invincible Miss Eula. \nThere will never be anyone like her grandmother\, Patricia Polacco thinks\, when her grandmother passes away. But when she and her family move to California–in the middle of a drought–she meets a new friend\, the irrepressible Stewart\, and his amazing grandmother\, Miss Eula\, who not only takes Trisha under her wing\, but\, with Trisha and Stewart\, steps up to lead their entire extraordinarily diverse neighborhood to help a hurting neighbor–and her once lush garden–survive the drought. \nTrisha’s grandmother’s old saying about the stars being Holes in the Sky turns out to be Miss Eula’s\, too\, convincing Trisha that she has miraculously discovered another unforgettable grandmother.\nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nStudying in the United States and Australia\, Patricia Polacco has earned an MFA and a PhD in art history\, specializing in Russian and Greek painting\, and iconographic history. She is a museum consultant on the restoration of icons. As a participant in many citizen-exchange programs for writers and illustrators\, Ms. Polacco has traveled extensively in Russia as well as other former Soviet republics. She continues to support programs that encourage Russo-American friendships and understanding. She is also deeply involved in inner-city projects in the United States that promote the peaceful resolution of conflict and encourage art and literacy programs. The mother of a grown son and a daughter\, she currently resides in Michigan\, where she has a glorious old farm that was built during the time of Lincoln. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSunday\, September 16\, 2018 – 1:00pm to 4:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Oakland\n5560 College Ave\n\nOakland\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patricia-polacco-book-signing/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:GET LIT #40 (MUSIC BY TBD)
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM SHARP! An amazing gathering of 12-15 writers will read NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts) within a three-minute time limit. \nFeatured lineup of writers TBA \nSuggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). \nBeer made by Ale Industries on site and wonderful food by Guadalajara Restaurant & Tequila Bar just down the block. All ages are welcome\, though profanity will be present. \nGet beer. Get lit. Then Get Tacos.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-40-music-by-tbd/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Lisa Hanawalt: Coyote Doggirl
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, September 18\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nLisa Hanawalt presents and signs Coyote Doggirl \nBoJack Horseman producer / production designer and award-winning cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt presents Coyote Doggirl. The graphic novel is a playful homage to and send-up of classic Westerns\, presenting the story of the goofy\, dramatic\, and fiercely independent Coyote as she journeys through the desert on horseback. With Coyote Doggirl\, Hanawalt documents the harsh realities of sexism\, her insatiable admiration of horses\, and the indispensability of a good crop top. \n“Lisa’s work is a reminder of the limitless boundaries of one’s imagination. She somehow creates fantastical worlds within our own\, commenting on some of our most timely issues while exploring our most minute absurdities. I could spend all day inside this heartfelt\, beautiful\, twisted take on a classic Western.”–Abbi Jacobson\, Broad City\n \n  \n \nCOYOTE DOGGIRL (DRAWN & QUARTERLY\, 2018) \nCoyote is a dreamer and a drama queen\, brazen and brave\, faithful yet fiercely independent. She beats her own drum and sews her own crop tops. A gifted equestrian\, she’s half dog\, half coyote\, and all power. Together with her trusty steed Red\, there’s not much that’s too big for her to bite off\, chew up\, and spit out right into your face\, if you deserve it. But when Coyote and Red find themselves on the run from a trio of vengeful bad dogs\, get clobbered by arrows\, and are tragically separated\, our protagonist is left fighting for her life\, and longing for her displaced best friend. Taken in by a wolf clan\, Coyote may be wounded\, but it’s not long before she’s back on the open road to track down Red and tackle the dogs who wronged her. \nLisa Hanawalt’s homage to and lampoon of westerns like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid\, Coyote Doggirl is a self-aware\, playful subversion of tropes. As our fallible hero attempts to understand the culture of the wolves\, we see a journey in understanding and misunderstanding\, adopting and co-opting. Uncomfortable at times but nonetheless rewarding and empowering\, the story of these flawed\, anthropomorphized characters is nothing if not relentlessly hilarious and heartbreakingly human. Told in Hanawalt’s technicolor absurdist style\, Coyote Doggirl is not just a send-up of the western genre\, but a deeply personal story told by an enormously talented cartoonist. \nLisa Hanawalt is the creator of the upcoming Netflix original series Tuca & Bertie\, as well as the producer and production designer of the Netflix original series BoJack Horseman. Her quarterly food column for Lucky Peach won her a James Beard Award for humor. Hanawalt’s first collection with Drawn & Quarterly was the critically acclaimed My Dirty Dumb Eyes. She co-hosts the podcast Baby Geniuses with comedian Emily Heller. Her second book with D+Q\, Hot Dog Taste Test\, won her the Ignatz Award and appeared on best-of-the-year lists from The Washington Post\, The Guardian\, NPR\, and elsewhere. \nPraise for Coyote Doggirl \n“Coyote Doggirl is uppity\, cocky\, and occasionally profane\, but she is also smart\, clever\, and outrageously funny. Lisa Hanawalt’s comicbook tale of a half-coyote\, half-dog feminist and her trusty steed\, Red\, makes you think as well as laugh. You go\, Coyote Doggirl!”\nSandra Dallas\, New York Times best-selling author \n“A story of flight and vengeance\, sunsets and sagebrush\, love and leather underwear. Hanawalt’s blues could be set in the sky and belong there; her pinks are almost alive. These are the cave paintings I want them to find in 10\,000 years.”\nPatricia Lockwood\, author of Priestdaddy \n“Hanawalt is known for her ability to deliver genuinely hilarious visual gags and Coyote Doggirl is no exception. What’s especially interesting to me\, however\, is how Coyote’s tone refuses to stay put\, venturing from slapstick to poignant\, and finally into downright bleak territory\, appropriate for a Western. Her deftness with color is also worth study. I’m taken by how her characters contrast with the iconic and carefully studied features of the western landscape\, from mountain plateaus to bright and delicate wildflowers.”\nKelly Sue DeConnick\, author of Bitch Planet\, Captain Marvel \n“Lisa’s work is a reminder of the limitless boundaries of one’s imagination. She somehow creates fantastical worlds within our own\, commenting on some of our most timely issues while exploring our most minute absurdities. I could spend all day inside this heartfelt\, beautiful\, twisted take on a classic Western.” Abbi Jacobson\, co-creator of Broad City \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, September 18\, 2018 – 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/lisa-hanawalt-coyote-doggirl/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading Series with Kevin Young
DESCRIPTION:Creative Writing Reading Series with Kevin Young\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, September 19\, 2018 –  \n7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nKevin Young is the Director for the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture\, newly named a National Historic Landmark\, and Poetry Editor of the New Yorker. He is the author of thirteen books of poetry and prose\, most recently Brow (2018); Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995-2015 (Knopf\, 2016)\, longlisted for the National Book Award; and Book of Hours (Knopf\, 2014)\, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize for Poetry from the Academy of American Poets. His collection Jelly Roll: a blues (Knopf\, 2003) was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/creative-writing-reading-series-with-kevin-young/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, September 19\, 7:30pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series \nLyrics and Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. \nReading this month: Valerie Wallace\, Sarah Gladstone\, and Norma Smith. \nHosted and Curated by Mk Chavez and Sharon Coleman. \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, September 19\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nShattuck Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-7/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180920T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180920T203000
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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 Roberto Harrison
DESCRIPTION:Roberto Harrison \nREADINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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-roberto-harrison/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180920T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180920T210000
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime IN EXTREMIS
DESCRIPTION:Thursday September 20th\, 7-9pm\, will feature Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar (The Map of Salt and Stars)\, Rita Bullwinkel (Belly Up)\, Philip Harris (The Flowers In My Mothers’ Name)\, Kate Folk\, and Steven Black.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-in-extremis/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180922T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180922T210000
DTSTAMP:20260412T083921
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SUMMARY:BOOK RELEASE: NOMADIC PRESS' FALL 2018 CHAPBOOK COLLECTION
DESCRIPTION:Join us at our Uptown\, Oakland\, location for an amazing evening of readings\, live music\, gnosh / refreshments\, and friends of Nomadic Press as we launch seven new chapbooks in our Fall 2018 Chapbook Collection into the universe: TBA! \nReadings by all authors and all books will be available for purchase and signing at the event ($10 each). Music by TBA! \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-nomadic-press-fall-2018-chapbook-collection/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180923T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180923T170000
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SUMMARY:Dickson Lam
DESCRIPTION:Dickson Lam is author of Paper Sons: A Memoir. Lam’s work has appeared in StoryQuarterly\, the Kenyon Review Online\, Hyphen Magazine\, the Normal School\, PANK\, the Good Men Project\, the Rumpus\, and Kartika Review. He is a VONA alum and has been a resident fellow at the Millay Colony for the Arts and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Lam is an assistant professor of English at Contra Costa College and lives in Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dickson-lam/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180924T213000
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SUMMARY:Clara Bingham in conversation with Charles Kaiser
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, September 24\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nFifty years later\, Clara Bingham and Charles Kaiser reflect on 1968: a year which shaped a generation and proved a hinge point in history. \nClara Bingham’s Witness to the Revolution is a riveting story of America in the turbulent year when the 60s ended\, and the nation teetered on the edge of revolution. As the 1960s drew to a close\, the United States was coming apart at the seams. The death toll in Vietnam was approaching fifty thousand\, and the ascendant counterculture was challenging nearly every aspect of American society — from work\, family\, and capitalism to sex\, science\, and gender relations. Witness to the Revolution\, Clara Bingham’s unique oral history of that tumultuous time\, unveils anew that moment when America careened to the brink of a civil war at home\, as it fought a long\, futile war abroad. \nCharles Kaiser’s 1968 in America is widely recognized as one of the best historic accounts of the 1960s. Largely based on unpublished interviews and documents (including in-depth conversations with anti-war presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy and Dylan)\, this is compulsively readable popular history. Now\, fifty years later\, and with a new introduction by Hendrik Hertzberg\, it is even more clear that this was a uniquely terrible\, wonderful\, and pivotal year in the story of America. \nFree to attend. \n    \nABOUT THE AUTHORS \nCharles Kaiser\, the author of 1968 in America\, has been a reporter at The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, and Newsweek. He has also written for Vanity Fair\, New York\, and The Washington Post. He has taught journalism at Columbia and Princeton\, and is the author of The Gay Metropolis\, a history of gay life in New York City since 1940. \nClara Bingham is the author of Class Action: The Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law (with Laura Leedy Gansler) and Women on the Hill: Challenging the Culture of Congress. She is a former NewsweekWhite House correspondent\, and her writing has appeared in Vanity Fair\, Vogue\, Harper’s Bazaar\, Talk\, The Washington Monthly\, Ms.\, and other publications. Bingham produced the 2011 documentary The Last Mountain. She lives in Manhattan and Brooklyn with her husband\, three children\, and three stepchildren.\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nMonday\, September 24\, 2018 – 7:30pm to 8:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clara-bingham-in-conversation-with-charles-kaiser/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180925T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180925T213000
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SUMMARY:Kathryn Jordan reads poems from Riding Waves
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, September 25\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Solano \nKathryn Jordan reads select poems from her new collection\, Riding Waves. \nKathryn Jordan’s Riding Waves is not for the faint of spirit. Do not pick it up unless you are prepared to be jolted by hurts\, inspired by survival\, and charmed by metaphors that can only come from a wounded place within us.\nJohn Warley\, author of A Southern Girl \nKathryn Jordan’s beautiful book reverberates with the beauty and pain of a lost era. Scenes from a fragmented military childhood at the height of the Vietnam War are interspersed with meditations on Nature\, family\, love\, loss\, travel and music. It’s a rich tapestry of memory and spiritual inquiry. Jordan finds her way through a tumultuous time by paying rapt attention to the sensory details and small epiphanies that accompanied her on her journey. \nAlison Luterman\, author of Desire Zoo \nA strong book\, crafted and elegant\, utterly unsparing of hard truths and lit ablaze by the flamed-open heart of saying. These are poems that pull us close with their unflinching presence; roped in\, caught up by Kathe Jordan’s work\, we turn pages that spill a tough and aching history\, broken\, bled through\, and fraught with beauty. \nJudyth Hill\, editor\, poet\, author of Dazzle Wobble \nAbout the Author \n\nAt UC Berkeley\, Kathryn won the Elizabeth Mills Crothers Prize for Short Story and has placed narrative non-fiction with The Sun Magazine. She is the winner of the 2016 San Miguel de Allende Writers’ Conference Prize for Poetry. Her work was selected for Bay Area Generations and chosen to represent B.A.G. at Oakland Beast Crawl in 2016. Her poems have appeared in Roar Magazine and in the anthology\, Solamente en San Miguel. \n\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, September 25\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Solano\n1855 Solano Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kathryn-jordan-reads-poems-from-riding-waves/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180926T143000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180926T153000
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Craft Conversation with Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:Afternoon Craft Conversation with Tongo Eisen-Martin\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, September 26\, 2018 –  \n2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-craft-conversation-with-tongo-eisen-martin/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180926T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180926T203000
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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 Sara Nicholson
DESCRIPTION:Sara Nicholson \nREADINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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-sara-nicholson/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180926T190000
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SUMMARY:Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series: Jen Hofer and John Pluecker\, reading from their poetry
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series debuts September 2018 with a two-day series by poet-translator-activists Jen Hofer and John Pluecker\, who collectively organize Antena\, a language justice and language experimentation collaborative\, focusing on writing\, art- and book-making\, translating\, interpreting\, and language justice. Hofer and Pluecker\, visiting respectively from Los Angeles and Houston\, will read from their own work on Wednesday\, September 26\, at E. M. Wolfman Books in downtown Oakland\, then present their work around Antena the following evening\, Thursday\, September 27\, at The Poetry Center. Both events are free and open to the public. Please join us! \nJen Hofer (bio coming) \nJohn Pluecker is a language worker who writes\, translates\, organizes\, interprets\, and creates. In 2010\, he co-founded the collaborative Antena and in 2015 the social justice interpreting collective Antena Houston. His undisciplinary work is informed by experimental poetics\, language justice\, and cross-border/cross-language cultural production. He has translated numerous books from the Spanish\, including most recently Gore Capitalism (Semiotext(e)\, 2018) and Antígona González (Les Figues Press\, 2016). His book of poetry and image\, Ford Over\, was released in 2016 from Noemi Press. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore info at johnpluecker.com \nRelated event: \nTripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series\nAntena: a language justice and language experimentation collaborative\nJen Hofer and John Pluecker\nThursday SEPT 27\n7:00pm @ The Poetry Center\nHUM 512\, SFSU\, free and open to the public \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 & E. M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tripwire-cross-cultural-poetics-series-jen-hofer-and-john-pluecker-reading-from-their-poetry/
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:Léonora Miano - English Translation Release of "Season of the Shadow"
DESCRIPTION:We’re incredibly excited to be hosting the author\, Léonora Miano\, in collaboration with the Cultural Services French Embassy in the US. We’ll have more info about the event’s specific program soon! \nLéonora Miano is the author of Season of the Shadow\, published in the United States by Seagull Books (distributed by the University of Chicago Press) in April 2018 in a translation by Gila Walker. \nBorn in Cameroon\, Léonora Miano moved to France as a student. She has written fourteen books that have been translated into many languages. Miano’s award-winning first novel\, L’intérieur de la nuit\, was released in 2005 and translated in English by Tasmin Black. Her other books include Contours du jour qui vient\, which was awarded the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens in 2006. Upon its release in France in 2013\, the book Season of the Shadow won the prestigious Fémina prize and the Grand prix du roman metis. \nAbout the book: Season of the Shadow \n(Seagull Books\, 2018\, Translation by Gila Walker) \nThis powerful novel recounts the early days of the transatlantic slave trade in the perspective of its first victims\, the sub-Saharan population. Léonora Miano presents a world on the brink of disappearing—a pre-colonial civilization with roots that stretch back for centuries. One day\, a group of villagers finds twelve of their people missing. Where have they gone? Who is responsible? A collective dream\, troubling a group of mothers in a communal dwelling\, may hold some of the answers\, as the women’s missing sons call to them in terror. At the same time\, a thick shadow settles over the huts\, blocking out the light of day. It is the shadow of slavery\, which will soon grow to blight the whole world. \nMiano renders this brutal story in deliberately strange\, dreamlike prose\, befitting a situation that is\, on its face\, all but impossible for the villagers to believe.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/leonora-miano-english-translation-release-of-season-of-the-shadow/
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:THERE
DESCRIPTION:NEXT THERE: THERE 24 – Friday\,  September 28\, 2018\, with a great lineup of writers and musicians to be announced. See you in the fall! \nTHERE (THe Eastbay Reading Extravaganza) is a reading series showcasing emerging and established writers from Oakland and Berkeley\, with the occasional San Franciscan. Doug hosts it on the third Friday of each month at Octopus Literary Salon in Uptown Oakland. It also features a live original musical performance by a local musical artist at “halftime” of each month’s reading\, and Doug’s famous original LitQuiz literary trivia contest. It’s from 7:00-9:00pm. THERE has been putting the there back in Oakland since 2015!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/there-3/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180928T210000
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SUMMARY:TELEGRAPH OPEN MIC (FEATURES: TBD AND TBD)
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 23rd and Telegraph in Oakland for a six-slot open mic alongside two amazing features. This month’s show features TBD and TBD! Music by TBD! \nTelegraph Open Mic takes place every fourth Friday from 7-9:00 PM at our Uptown location. It will have six open-mic slots open to the public. Spots are filled on a first-come\, first-serve basis and the list opens at 7:00 PM sharp. As is the case with our musicians and features at all events\, open-mic readers from the community will be held to the Nomadic Press Safe Space Statement. Please see below. \nSafe Space Statement \nNomadic Press events are safe spaces for those who have been silenced and marginalized. There is no room for racism\, misogyny\, homophobia\, or transphobia whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. We will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone if we feel they have violated these guidelines\, and we encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. We are a community\, and we will work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nCome early to sign up for the open mic and share your latest work! Curated and emceed by Rene Vaz. \nTo help pay for our space and our artists and ensure that we can continue our robust programming series\, we are calling for $10 at the door (plus whatever else you may be able to give)\, but no one turned away for lack of funds. Nomadic Press books\, as always\, will be for sale at the event. \nWine and Red Bay coffee will be available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/telegraph-open-mic-features-tbd-and-tbd-3/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Shane Bauer: American Prison
DESCRIPTION:Shane Bauer is a senior reporter for Mother Jones. He is the recipient of the National Magazine Award for Best Reporting\, Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting\, Atlantic Media’s Michael Kelly Award\, the Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism\, and at least 20 others. Bauer is the co-author\, along with Sarah Shourd and Joshua Fattal\, of a memoir\, A Sliver of Light\, which details his time spent as a prisoner in Iran. \nABOUT AMERICAN PRISON \nIn 2014\, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield\, Louisiana. An award-winning investigative journalist\, he used his real name; there was no meaningful background check. Four months later\, his employment came to an abrupt end. But he had seen enough\, and in short order he wrote an expose about his experiences that won a National Magazine Award and became the most-read feature in the history of the magazine Mother Jones. Still\, there was much more that he needed to say. In American Prison\, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America from their origins in the decades before the Civil War. For\, as he soon realized\, we can’t understand the cruelty of our current system and its place in the larger story of mass incarceration without understanding where it came from. Private prisons became entrenched in the South as part of a systemic effort to keep the African-American labor force in place in the aftermath of slavery\, and the echoes of these shameful origins are with us still. \nThe private prison system is deliberately unaccountable to public scrutiny. Private prisons are not incentivized to tend to the health of their inmates\, or to feed them well\, or to attract and retain a highly-trained prison staff. Though Bauer befriends some of his colleagues and sympathizes with their plight\, the chronic dysfunction of their lives only adds to the prison’s sense of chaos. To his horror\, Bauer finds himself becoming crueler and more aggressive the longer he works in the prison\, and he is far from alone. \nA blistering indictment of the private prison system\, and the powerful forces that drive it\, American Prison is a necessary human document about the true face of justice in America.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shane-bauer-american-prison/
LOCATION:moe’s books\, 2476 TELEGRAPH AVE\, BERKELEY\, CA\, 94704-2322\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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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 Evie Shockley
DESCRIPTION:Evie Shockley \nREADINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC\n 
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-evie-shockley/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jazz Stories: Live Jazz. Wonderful Stories.
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, October 2\, 7:30 pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Solano \nPeople love hearing jazz…and hearing about it. Musicians like Miles Davis\, Charlie Parker and Buddy Rich were original\, colorful characters artists who said and did astonishing things. Fortunately their colleagues cared enough to document these moments in stories and pictures and we now have a rich repository of photos and anecdotes about these artists\, and about the American songwriters and composers who created the raw material of jazz. \nJazz Stories is a performance of the songs of jazz from its most creative periods intensified with illuminating\, funny and touching true stories of the time. \nCome hear music and jazz stories you probably have never heard…but will never forget. Hosted by Richard Leiter. \nThe first Tuesday of every month at Pegasus Books Solano.\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, October 2\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books on Solano\n1855 Solano Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94707\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nSolano Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jazz-stories-live-jazz-wonderful-stories-2/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Hot New Books
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Kathleen McClung\, Casandra Dallett\, Mary Mackay\, Ingrid Keir. Open Mic Night follows the featured readers. Sign-up now for Ist Annual Open Mic Award’s Contest. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hot-new-books-2/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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