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SUMMARY:Humble Pie presents: HearSay! with local poets Mg Roberts\, Zack Anderson\, and Aniqa Tasnim
DESCRIPTION:A2 Cafe\, Oakland Campus\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for poetry and (free) pie. Humble Pie presents HearSay! featuring local poets and Writing & Literature majors\, Zack Anderson and Aniqa Tasnim. \nMg Roberts is a teacher\, poet and multimedia artist. She is the author of the poetry collections\, Anemal\, Uter Meck (Black Radish 2017) and not so\, sea (Durga 2014). Currently\, she is co-editing Responses\, New Writing\, Flesh(forthcoming from Nightboat Books); an anthology on the urgency of avant-garde writing written for and by writers of color. She is a Kelsey Street Press member\, Northern California Kundiman co-chair and sits on the Board of Small Press Traffic. She lives in Oakland with her three daughters\, two hens\, Goldendoodle\, and geologist husband.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/humble-pie-presents-hearsay-with-local-poets-mg-roberts-zack-anderson-and-aniqa-tasnim/
LOCATION:A2 Cafe\, 5212 Broadway St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: Alan Felsenthal with Dylan Furcall
DESCRIPTION:Alan Felsenthal runs a small press called The Song Cave with Ben Estes. Together\, they edited A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton. Alan’s writing has appeared in BOMB\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Critical Quarterly\, Fence\, jubilat\, and Harper’s. Lowly\, published by Ugly Duckling Presse\, is his first collection of poems.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-alan-felsenthal-with-dylan-furcall/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Robert Aquinas McNally
DESCRIPTION:Robert Aquinas McNally\n\n  \ndiscussing the subject of his new book \nMODOC WAR: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America’s Gilded Age \nfrom University of Nebraska Press \nOn a cold\, rainy dawn in late November 1872\, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle and a Modoc Indian nicknamed Scarface Charley leveled firearms at each other. Their duel triggered a war that capped a decades-long genocidal attack that was emblematic of the United States’ conquest of Native America’s peoples and lands. Robert Aquinas McNally tells the wrenching story of the Modoc War of 1872–73\, one of the nation’s costliest campaigns against North American Indigenous peoples\, in which the army placed nearly one thousand soldiers in the field against some fifty-five Modoc fighters. \nAlthough little known today\, the Modoc War dominated national headlines for an entire year. Fought in south-central Oregon and northeastern California\, the war settled into a siege in the desolate Lava Beds and climaxed the decades-long effort to dispossess and destroy the Modocs. \nThe war did not end with the last shot fired\, however. For the first and only time in U.S. history\, Native fighters were tried and hanged for war crimes. The surviving Modocs were packed into cattle cars and shipped from Fort Klamath to the corrupt\, disease-ridden Quapaw reservation in Oklahoma\, where they found peace even more lethal than war. \nThe Modoc War tells the forgotten story of a violent and bloody Gilded Age campaign at a time when the federal government boasted officially of a “peace policy” toward Indigenous nations. This compelling history illuminates a dark corner in our country’s past. \nRobert Aquinas McNally is a freelance writer and editor based in Concord\, California. He is the author or coauthor of nine nonfiction books\, including So Remorseless a Havoc: Of Dolphins\, Whales\, and Men \n\nWhat has been said about the work of Robert McNally:\n\n“McNally provides a brutally frank and damningly well-documented account of the war’s sordid background.”—Bradley A. Scott\, Foreword Reviews\n“An excellent addition to Robert McNally’s body of work.”—Tombstone Epitaph\n“From the opening scene to the end\, The Modoc War unfolds with an unrelenting pace and engaging immediacy. One rarely comes across a historical account written with such verve\, truly deserving to be called a page-turner. Here is ethnohistory at its best\, an accounting of Indian-white relations from multiple perspectives.”—James J. Rawls\, author of Indians of California: The Changing Image \n“Robert McNally’s page-turning The Modoc War is one of the finest books ever written on this tragic history.”—Benjamin Madley\, author of An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe\, 1846–1873\n“Robert McNally’s history of the Modoc War\, convincingly told from engrossing start to finish\, tells the story of an American tragedy\, but not without powerfully illustrating the nobility and endurance of the people who suffered it.”—Greg Sarris\, chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and author of Grand Avenue and Watermelon Nights\n“Well paced\, with vividly drawn characters and exciting\, dramatic prose\, Robert Aquinas McNally’s narrative history of the Modoc War is the most thoroughly researched and historically accurate account of that tragedy to date. A tour de force of historical storytelling\, The Modoc War is an insightful exploration of one of America’s most important but forgotten Indian wars.”—Boyd Cothran\, author of Remembering the Modoc War: Redemptive Violence and the Making of American Innocence
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-aquinas-mcnally/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Arts & Letters: Morgan Jerkins
DESCRIPTION:MORGAN JERKINS presents This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black\, Female\, and Feminist in (White) America\nWednesday\, February 21\, 2018\, 7:30PM\nat the Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St. in Berkeley\nTICKETS ON SALE NOW \n​Jerkins’ highly-anticipated collection of linked essays interweaves her incisive commentary on pop culture\, feminism\, black history\, misogyny\, and racism with her own experiences to confront the very real challenges of being a black woman today — perfect for fans of Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist\, Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me\, and Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists. \nMorgan Jerkins is only in her twenties\, but she has already established herself as an insightful\, brutally honest writer who isn’t afraid of tackling tough\, controversial subjects. In This Will Be My Undoing\, she takes on perhaps one of the most provocative contemporary topics: What does it mean to “be” — to live as\, to exist as — a black woman today? This is a book about black women\, but it’s necessary reading for all Americans. \nDoubly disenfranchised by race and gender\, often deprived of a place within the mostly white mainstream feminist movement\, black women are objectified\, silenced\, and marginalized with devastating consequences\, in ways both obvious and subtle\, that are rarely acknowledged in our country’s larger discussion about inequality. In This Will Be My Undoing\, Jerkins becomes both narrator and subject to expose the social\, cultural\, and historical story of black female oppression that influences the black community as well as the white\, male-dominated world at large. \nWhether she’s writing about Sailor Moon; Rachel Dolezal; the stigma of therapy; her complex relationship with her own physical body; the pain of dating when men say they don’t “see color”; being a black visitor in Russia; the specter of “the fast-tailed girl” and the paradox of black female sexuality; or disabled black women in the context of the “Black Girl Magic” movement\, Jerkins is compelling and revelatory. \n—\n“Morgan Jerkins is a star\, a force\, a blessing\, a scholar and a critic\, and now can add great American essayist to that list! I found myself sighing\, nodding\, gasping\, laughing\, and crying while reading this collection-but mostly cheering! We can all sleep well at night knowing this country will inherit heart\, mind\, and soul like this. It’s safe to say I’ve never read anyone this young-barely at quarter life!-who can understand herself\, those around her\, past and present\, with such dignity and clarity and generosity. Intersectionality in America is dissected\, investigated\, celebrated and challenged all without being pedantic or preachy or pretentious. And Jerkins is the sort of benevolent intellectual you want to spend time with-who will never lie to you\, but also will never let you lie to her. I’ve long known that feminism and arts and media owe so much to the excellent work of black women and This Will be My Undoing is yet another testament to that.” — Porochista Khakpour\, author of Sons & Other Flammable Objects\, The Last Illusion\, and Sick\n— \nMorgan Jerkins is a twenty-something-year-old living and writing in New York. She graduated from Princeton with an AB in comparative literature\, specializing in nineteenth-century Russian and modern Japanese literature\, and has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Jenkins is currently a contributing editor at Catapult and a Book of the Month judge. She has also written for Vogue\, the Atlantic\, Rolling Stone\, the New Yorker\, the Guardian\, andthe New York Times\, among many others. \nImportant signing details coming soon. Tickets on sale at this link. \nRSVP at this link: not required\, but\, as always\, greatly appreciated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-arts-letters-morgan-jerkins/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: February Love
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate love and whatever else at Lyrics & Dirges with five fabulous readers: Fisayo Adeyeye\, Candace Eros Díaz\, Jacqueline Doyle\, Gillian Hamel & Nancy Huang. Free with refreshments and bookstore cats. Hosted and curated by Mk Chavez\, Sharon Coleman and Lark Omura. \nblckfsh / bird enthusiast / benign boy / fisayo adeyeye has works published in souvenir lit journal / nailed magazine / the birds we piled loosely / and he is the author of cradles (nomadic press 2017) \nCandace Eros Díaz is a queer Xicana writer based in Oakland\, CA. She is a current Emerging Arts Professionals fellow and has previously held fellowships at the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto\, Lambda Literary\, and The Steinbeck Fellows Program of San José State University. She co-curates the San Francisco reading series Babylon Salon and is the Coordinator for the MFA in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College of California where she earned a dual-concentration Masters in Fine Art in creative nonfiction and fiction. Her work has appeared in Under the Gum Tree\, Arroyo Literary Review\, The East Bay Review\, and Huizache\, among others. She can be found at candaceerosdiaz.com. \nJacqueline Doyle’s flash chapbook The Missing Girl was recently published by Black Lawrence Press. She has new flash in Wigleaf\, Midway Journal\, and matchbook\, and new creative nonfiction in The Gettysburg Review\, Under the Gum Tree\, and Superstition Review. Find her online atwww.jacquelinedoyle.com. \nGillian Olivia Blythe Hamel is the author of occident (Called Back Books\, 2017). Her work has appeared in Public Pool\, The Elephants\, VOLT\, jubilat\, Dusie\, and The Offending Adam\, and was recently featured in the Aesthetic Blitz exhibition from the Asian American Women Artists Association. She is a senior poetry editor at Omnidawn Publishing and editor of OmniVerse. Gillian also co-publishes speCt!\, a chapbook series and book arts imprint\, with Peter Burghardt and Robert Andrew Perez. \nNancy Huang grew up in America and China. She is a winner of the 2016 Write Bloody Poetry Chapbook contest\, an Andrew Julius Gutow Academy of American Poets Prize\, a James F. Parker Award in Poetry\, a 2015 YoungArts Finalist prize\, and more. She has received fellowships from Voices/VONA and Tin House. Her debut poetry collection\, Favorite Daughter\, is out by Write Bloody Publishing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-february-love/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Nancy Huang\, "Favorite Daughter\," with Aurielle Marie
DESCRIPTION:Nancy Huang will be reading from her first book of poems\, Favorite Daughter. \nNan Huang (黄洁) is a queer Chinese-American poet. She is a winner of the 2016 Write Bloody Poetry contest\, an Andrew Julius Gutow Academy of American Poets Prize\, a James F. Parker Award in Poetry\, a 2015 YoungArts Finalist prize\, and more. She has received fellowships from VONA and Tin House\, and is a former member of UT Spitshine. She competed/resisted at CUPSI 2017 in Chicago\, where all her poems were nominated for Best of the Rest. Her debut poetry collection\, Favorite Daughter\, is out by Write Bloody Publishing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nancy-huang-favorite-daughter-with-aurielle-marie/
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:Dear Diary Zine Fest Pre-Party!
DESCRIPTION:Oh my goodness\, it is almost time for the Bay Area’s only PERZINE FEST! We are celebrating by hosting a zine reading the night before the fest! \nOut-of-town and local zinestresses will be reading select works from their *super popular* zines. Come hangout with Enola Dismay\, Alex Wrekk\, Angela Roberts\, Neelybat Chestnut and the rest of the Dear Diary Zine Fest crew. All exhibitors\, attendees\, and zine fans are welcome to come mingle and trade zines. \nIt’s gonna be a fun event\, so don’t miss it!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dear-diary-zine-fest-pre-party/
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:Saturday Night Special: Shades of Gray
DESCRIPTION:February is the sluttiest month. Our theme is “shades of grey.” You know what to do. You’re welcome 😉 \nAs always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our optional theme (or any topic). \nOur fab February features are: Cassandra Dallett and Mimi Gonzalez\n— \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself! \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, February 24th\, 2018\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by Hollie Hardy \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/ \nBIOS coming soon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-shades-of-gray/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Generations #54
DESCRIPTION:*Free on-street parking after 6pm\n* Full bar and refreshments\n* On major transit lines\n6:30 pm –  Writers Mixer at the bar\n7:30 pm  – Show Starts\nSuggested Donation\n$7.00 (admission)\n$10.00 (admission + souvenir chapbook)\nNo one turned away for lack of funds\nGet Tickets! RSVP Today!\nCall for Submissions to Show #54 – Bay Area Generations. \nSee the BAG #54 Show – FaceBook \nBay Area Generations: a literary reading series\nthat features notable authors\, poets\, writers\,\nplaywrights and musicians in a monthly\npaired reading show.\nWeb:  www.bayareagenerations.com\nFB Page:  www.facebook.com/bayareagenerations\nTwitter:  www.twitter.com/bayareagenerati\nBAG Events: www.facebook.com/events\nLiterary and Poetry Submissions: www.bayareagenerations.com/how-to-submit/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-54/
LOCATION:The Bellevue Club\, 525 Bellevue Drive\, Oakland\, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer-East Bay: Celebrate African-American Literature
DESCRIPTION:Professor of African-American Literature at Mills College Dr. Ajuan Mance discusses nearly-lost works by Black authors in the United States prior to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Come hear voices from the past as we celebrate Black History Month.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-celebrate-african-american-literature/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Perfectly Queer East Bay":MAILTO:perfectlyqueersf@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: Tongo Eisen-Martin with Ismail Muhammad
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-tongo-eisen-martin-with-ismail-muhammad/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Immigrant Girl\, Radical Woman
DESCRIPTION:Robbin Légère Henderson discusses the incredible life of her grandmother Matilda Rabinowitz\, as told in the illustrated memoir Immigrant Girl\, Radical Woman. Featuring a slideshow of Henderson’s accompanying black-and-white scratchboard drawings.\n  \nABOUT THE BOOK \nMatilda Rabinowitz’s illustrated memoir challenges assumptions about the lives of early twentieth-century women. In Immigrant Girl\, Radical Woman\, Rabinowitz describes the ways in which she and her contemporaries rejected the intellectual and social restrictions imposed on women as they sought political and economic equality in the first half of the twentieth century. Rabinowitz devoted her labor and commitment to the notion that women should feel entitled to independence\, equal rights\, equal pay\, and sexual and personal autonomy. \nRabinowitz (1887–1963) immigrated to the United States from Ukraine at the age of thirteen. Radicalized by her experience in sweatshops\, she became an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World from 1912 to 1917 before choosing single motherhood in 1918. “Big Bill” Haywood once wrote\, “a book could be written about Matilda\,” but her memoir was intended as a private story for her grandchildren\, Robbin Légère Henderson among them. Henderson’s black-and white-scratchboard drawings illustrate Rabinowitz’s life in the Pale of Settlement\, the journey to America\, political awakening and work as an organizer for the IWW\, a turbulent romance\, and her struggle to support herself and her child.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/immigrant-girl-radical-woman/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Rosa Alcalá
DESCRIPTION:Born and raised in Paterson\, NJ\, Rosa Alcalá is the author of three books of poetry\, most recently MyOTHER TONGUE. Her poetry also appears in a number of anthologies\, including Stephen Burt’s The Poem is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship\, her translations are featured in the forthcoming Cecilia Vicuña: New & Selected Poems. Alcalá teaches in the Department of Creative Writing and Bilingual MFA Program at the University of Texas-El Paso.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rosa-alcala/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Ann Raeff w/ Sylvia Brownrigg
DESCRIPTION:about Raeff’s new novel\, Winter Kept Us Warm. \n“Raeff writes with vivid assurance about Berlin\, America\, and Morocco\, about men and women\, about love and work. As the boundaries between characters shift\, as past and present converge\, Winter Kept Us Warm casts a dazzling spell. A wonderful novel.”–Margot Livesey\, author of Mercury and Criminals \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, March 1\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nUlli is a young woman squatting in a dismal\, empty Berlin apartment\, one year after the war has ended. She’s scraping together a living as an interpreter between American GIs and the wide-eyed local girls eager to meet them. One night\, Ulli meets two soldiers who will change her life: Leo\, handsome and ambitious and desperate to escape his small-town upbringing; and intellectual\, asthmatic Isaac\, whose refugee parents had fled Russia for New York. \nWinter Kept Us Warm follows Ulli\, Leo\, and Isaac through the next six decades of their lives–from Berlin to postwar Manhattan\, 1960s Los Angeles\, and contemporary Morocco. A marriage. Two children. And yet only one parent. At the core of this novel is the mystery of how this came to be: a twisting narrative that explores the dark corners and lantern slides of these characters’ lives\, revealing in pieces and fragments what became of their long-ago love triangle set against the brutality of postwar living. \nWinter Kept Us Warm is an evocative story of family\, strained by the cruelty of war and its generational repercussions. A novel of the heart\, filled to the brim with unforgettable characters stitching together the deep threads of love\, friendship\, loyalty\, and\, of course\, loss. \nAnne Raeffe’s short story collection\, The Jungle Around Us\, won the 2015 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. It was also a finalist for the California Book Award and named one of the 100 Best Books of 2016 by San Francisco Chronicle. Her stories and essays have appeared in New England Review\, ZYZZYVA\, and Guernica\, among other places. She lives in San Francisco. \nSylvia Brownrigg is the author of Pages for You and Pages for Her.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ann-raeff-with-sylvia-brownrigg/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Anne Raeff in Conversation with Sylvia Brownrigg
DESCRIPTION:Anne Raeff in Conversation with Sylvia Brownrigg about Raeff’s new novel\, Winter Kept Us Warm. \n\n\n\n\n“Raeff writes with vivid assurance about Berlin\, America\, and Morocco\, about men and women\, about love and work. As the boundaries between characters shift\, as past and present converge\, Winter Kept Us Warm casts a dazzling spell. A wonderful novel.”–Margot Livesey\, author of Mercury and Criminals \n\n\n\n\n\nUlli is a young woman squatting in a dismal\, empty Berlin apartment\, one year after the war has ended. She’s scraping together a living as an interpreter between American GIs and the wide-eyed local girls eager to meet them. One night\, Ulli meets two soldiers who will change her life: Leo\, handsome and ambitious and desperate to escape his small-town upbringing; and intellectual\, asthmatic Isaac\, whose refugee parents had fled Russia for New York.\n\n\n\n\n\nWinter Kept Us Warm follows Ulli\, Leo\, and Isaac through the next six decades of their lives–from Berlin to postwar Manhattan\, 1960s Los Angeles\, and contemporary Morocco. A marriage. Two children. And yet only one parent. At the core of this novel is the mystery of how this came to be: a twisting narrative that explores the dark corners and lantern slides of these characters’ lives\, revealing in pieces and fragments what became of their long-ago love triangle set against the brutality of postwar living. \nWinter Kept Us Warm is an evocative story of family\, strained by the cruelty of war and its generational repercussions. A novel of the heart\, filled to the brim with unforgettable characters stitching together the deep threads of love\, friendship\, loyalty\, and\, of course\, loss. \nAnne Raeff’s short story collection\, The Jungle Around Us\, won the 2015 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. It was also a finalist for the California Book Award and named one of the 100 Best Books of 2016 by San Francisco Chronicle. Her stories and essays have appeared in New England Review\, ZYZZYVA\, and Guernica\, among other places. She lives in San Francisco. \nSylvia Brownrigg is the author of Pages for You and Pages for Her.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-raeff-in-conversation-with-sylvia-brownrigg/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Get Over It! - An Evening with Iyanla Vanzant
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of her 18th book\, Get Over It! Thought Therapy for Healing the Hard Stuff (release date: January 30\, 2018)\, Vanzant will stop in Oakland on her first solo tour in 18 years. \nThis event will bring the beloved thought leader up-close and in-person to her dedicated fans for an evening of healing and restoration. Using the book as a guide\, Vanzant will introduce the spiritual principles behind her revolutionary thought therapy with love\, humor\, and her signature straight-talk. This immersive and provocative experience\, filled with meditative moments\, enlightening truths and self-reflection will enable audience members to remove the habitual negative thought patterns that often block them from living their best lives. \nSelect and willing audience members will be invited to join Iyanla on-stage to identify and address the hidden barriers that often sabotage the expression of their true light. These participants will gain a renewed sense of personal power and come one step closer to fulfilling their life’s destiny.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-over-it-an-evening-with-iyanla-vanzant/
LOCATION:Paramount Theatre of the Arts\, 2025 Broadway\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Cantíl: Lily Hoang\, Kevin Lo\, Andrea Marina
DESCRIPTION:Lily Hoang is the author of five books\, including A Bestiary (PEN USA Award finalist and winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s Nonfiction Contest) and Changing (recipient of a PEN Open Books Award). She teaches in the MFA program at UC San Diego. \nKevin Lo is a composer\, choreographer and writer based in Oakland (previously Australia\, born New Zealand). He works with spatiality\, machinic processes\, and has a background in the biological sciences. \nAndrea Marina is an indigenous writer originally from Miami\, whose topics mainly center on trauma\, killing men\, and her deep and abiding love for Florida swamps. She co-hosts Words of Resistance with Andrea Abi-Karam\, a monthly queer reading series focused on giving non-cis male identifying writers a platform to showcase their work. Her first chapbook “my dirty southern heart” was released through Mess Editions\, a local press. \n***\nCANTÍL is a venomous snake // a reading series that exclusively features poets of color. Read more about the series here: http://tinyurl.com/z4buglh + http://tinyurl.com/hdmtz4e
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cantil-lily-hoang-kevin-lo-andrea-marina/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180302T210000
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SUMMARY:Studio One Reading Series: Arisa White\, Aja Couchois Duncan\, Adam Giannelli\, and Catherine Theis
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, March 2nd for a reading featuring Arisa White\, Aja Couchois Duncan\, Adam Giannelli & Catherine Theis! \nEvent is FREE. \nLaguintas beer\, wine and snacks will be served. \nStudio One Art Center \n365 45th Street | Oakland\, CA\, 94609 \nHere’s a map. \nSpecial thanks to our generous sponsors! \nOakland Parks and Recreation Foundation \nLaguintas Brewing Company \nClorox Company Foundation  \nauthor bios and photos follow. \nCave Canem graduate fellow Arisa White received her MFA from UMass\, Amherst\, and is the author of Black Pearl\, Post Pardon\, Hurrah’s Nest\, and A Penny Saved. Her recent collection You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened was a nominee for the 29th Lambda Literary Award and the chapbook “Fishing Walking” and Other Bedtime Stories for My Wife won Daniel Handler’s inaugural Per Diem Poetry Prize. As the creator of the Beautiful Things Project\, Arisa curates cultural events and artistic collaborations that center narratives of queer and trans people of color. She serves on the board of directors for Nomadic Press and is a faculty advisor at Goddard College. Arisawhite.com \nAja Couchois Duncan is a Bay Area capacity builder and writer of Ojibwe\, French and Scottish descent. Her debut collection\, Restless Continent (Litmus Press) was selected by Entropy Magazine as one of the best poetry collections of 2016 and won the California Book Award in 2017. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and a variety of other degrees and credentials to certify her as human; Great Spirit knew it all along.\n\n \nAdam Giannelli is the author of Tremulous Hinge (University of Iowa Press\, 2017)\, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize\, and the translator of a selection of prose poems by Marosa di Giorgio\, Diadem (BOA Editions\, 2012). His poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review\, New England Review\, Ploughshares\, Yale Review\, FIELD\, and elsewhere. He lives in Salt Lake City\, where he is a doctoral candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Utah. \nCatherine Theis’ latest book\, MEDEA (Plays Inverse\, 2017) is an adaptation of the Euripides story. Her first book of poems is The Fraud of Good Sleep (Salt Modern Poets\, 2011)\, followed by her chapbook\, The June Cuckold\, a tragedy in verse (Convulsive\, 2012). Theis has received various fellowships and awards\, most notably from the Illinois Arts Council and the Del Amo Foundation. She is a Provost’s Fellow and PhD Candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California\, where she also translates contemporary Italian poetry into English. Theis’ scholarly interests primarily focus on the intersection between translation\, poetics\, and performance studies.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/studio-one-reading-series-arisa-white-aja-couchois-duncan-adam-giannelli-and-catherine-theis/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Stages of Her: OSA Literary Arts/Production Design Collab
DESCRIPTION:Seven Literary Arts students at Oakland School for the Arts will read their original work within sculptural environments created by Production Design students. Both the Lit Arts work and their mini-sets will largely explore progressions from girlhood to womanhood in a messed up world.\n\nPerformances of Stages of Her are Saturday March 3 at 3:00 PM and 6:00 PM in OSA’s Black Box. It runs 45 minutes and admission is $15. (Advanced purchase highly recommended.)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stages-of-her-osa-literary-artsproduction-design-collab/
LOCATION:Oakland School for the Arts’ Black Box Theater\, 530 19th St\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:BAPC First Saturday Reading
DESCRIPTION:Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot) \nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden) \nAll Ages Welcome \nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bapc-first-saturday-reading-5/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition
DESCRIPTION:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING\n\n \n\n\n\nUpcoming First Saturday Readings in 2018:\n \nMarch 3\, April 7\, May 5\, June 2\n\n3:00 – 5:00 PM\n\n\n\n \n \nSTRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n \nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)\n\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n \nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂\n \n \n\n\n\n\nAfter the reading\, join us for dinner if you’d like at a nearby restaurant
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Joyce Carol Oates
DESCRIPTION:Joyce Carol Oates \n\n\n\n\nreads from her new collection of short stories\, Beautiful Days\, which includes the 2017 Pushcart Prize-winning “Undocumented Alien.” \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, March 6\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the diverse stories of Beautiful Days\, Joyce Carol Oates explores the most secret\, intimate\, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ourselves\, who assert their independence in acts of bold and often irrevocable defiance. \n“Fleuve Bleu” exemplifies the rich sensuousness of Oates’s prose as lovers married to other persons vow to establish\, in their intimacy\, a ruthlessly honest\, truth-telling authenticity missing elsewhere in their complicated lives\, with unexpected results. In “Big Burnt\,” set on lushly rendered Lake George in the Adirondacks\, a cunningly manipulative university professor exploits a too-trusting woman in a way she could never have anticipated. In a more experimental but no less intimate mode\, “Les beaux jours” examines the ambiguities of an intensely erotic\, exploitative relationship between a “master” artist and his adoring young female model. And the tragic “Undocumented Alien” depicts a young African student enrolled in an American university who is suddenly stripped of his student visa and forced to undergo a terrifying test of courage. \nIn these stories\, as elsewhere in her fiction\, Joyce Carol Oates exhibits her fascination with the social\, psychological\, and moral boundaries that govern our behavior–until the hour when they do not. \nJoyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities\, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award\, the National Book Award\, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction\, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time\, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys\, Blonde\, which was nominated for the National Book Award\, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls\, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. Her most recent novel is A Book of American Martyrs. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-carol-oates-4/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:KPFA Radio 94.1FM present Michio Kaku: The Future of Humanity
DESCRIPTION:In The Future of Humanity\, Dr. Michio Kaku —#1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind — traverses the frontiers of astrophysics\, artificial intelligence\, and technology to offer a stunning vision of man’s future in space\, from settling Mars to traveling to distant galaxies. \nFormerly the domain of fiction\, moving human civilization to the stars is increasingly becoming a scientific possibility— and a necessity. Whether in the near future due to climate change and the depletion of finite resources\, or in the distant future due to catastrophic cosmological events\, we all must face the reality that humans will one day need to leave planet Earth to survive as a species. \nWorld-renowned physicist and futurist Michio Kaku explores in detail the process by which humanity may gradually move away from this planet and develop a sustainable civilization in outer space. He reveals how cutting-edge developments in robotics\, nanotechnology\, and biotechnology may allow us to terraform and build habitable cities on Mars. He then takes us beyond the solar system to nearby stars\, which may soon be reached by nanoships traveling on laser beams at near the speed of light. Finally\, he brings us beyond our galaxy\, and even beyond our universe\, to the possibility of immortality\, showing us how humans may someday be able to leave our bodies entirely and laser-port to new havens in space. With irrepressible enthusiasm and wonder\, Dr. Kaku takes readers on a fascinating journey to a future in which humanity may finally fulfill its long-awaited destiny among the stars. \nMICHIO KAKU is a professor of physics at the City University of New York\, cofounder of string field theory\, and the author of several widely acclaimed science books\, including Hyperspace\, Beyond Einstein\, Physics of the Impossible\, and Physics of the Future. He is the science correspondent for CBS’s This Morning\, host of the radio programs Science Fantastic and Explorations in Space\, and a regular broadcaster on KPFA. \nPHILIP MALDARI\, veteran KPFA broadcaster\, hosts the two-hour Sunday Morning Show every week.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kpfa-radio-94-1fm-present-michio-kaku-the-future-of-humanity/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Joyce Carol Oates
DESCRIPTION:Joyce Carol Oates reads from her new collection of short stories\, Beautiful Days\, which includes the 2017 Pushcart Prize-winning “Undocumented Alien.” \n\n\n\nIn the diverse stories of Beautiful Days\, Joyce Carol Oates explores the most secret\, intimate\, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ourselves\, who assert their independence in acts of bold and often irrevocable defiance. \n“Fleuve Bleu” exemplifies the rich sensuousness of Oates’s prose as lovers married to other persons vow to establish\, in their intimacy\, a ruthlessly honest\, truth-telling authenticity missing elsewhere in their complicated lives\, with unexpected results. In “Big Burnt\,” set on lushly rendered Lake George in the Adirondacks\, a cunningly manipulative university professor exploits a too-trusting woman in a way she could never have anticipated. In a more experimental but no less intimate mode\, “Les beaux jours” examines the ambiguities of an intensely erotic\, exploitative relationship between a “master” artist and his adoring young female model. And the tragic “Undocumented Alien” depicts a young African student enrolled in an American university who is suddenly stripped of his student visa and forced to undergo a terrifying test of courage. \nIn these stories\, as elsewhere in her fiction\, Joyce Carol Oates exhibits her fascination with the social\, psychological\, and moral boundaries that govern our behavior–until the hour when they do not. \nJoyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities\, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award\, the National Book Award\, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction\, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time\, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys\, Blonde\, which was nominated for the National Book Award\, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls\, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. Her most recent novel is A Book of American Martyrs. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-carol-oates-6/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Pandemonium Press: Sugartown Voices
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Bruce Bagnell\, Catherine Elizabeth Dana\, Constance Mastores\, and TBA. An open mic follows the featured readers. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pandemonium-press-sugartown-voices-2/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Christian Wiman\, poet and essayist
DESCRIPTION:Poet\, essayist and Yale Divinity School professor Christian Wiman will be featured at an event called the “The Art of Faith\, the Faith of Art” on Friday\, March 9 at 7:30 pm in the Sanctuary of First Church Berkeley. He will speak and then be interviewed by First Church’s Public Theologian in Residence and poet Marvin K. White. Audience questions will follow. Tickets available at christianwiman.brownpapertickets.com. \nFollowing Friday’s event\, on Saturday morning at 10:30a at All Souls Episcopal Parish in Berkeley\, Mr. Wiman will meet fellow poet and local bay area resident\, Nate Klug\, in conversation. Tickets may be purchased at the door for a $5 suggested donation. \n  \nChristian Wiman is the author\, editor\, or translator of ten books\, including his essays My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer\, and his poetry collection Every Riven Thing. From 2003 until 2013 he was the editor of Poetry magazine\, the premiere magazine for poetry in the English-speaking world.  \nMr. Wiman has written for the New Yorker\, the New York Times Book Review\, the Atlantic Monthly\, and numerous other publications. His particular interests include modern poetry\, the language of faith\, “accidental” theology (that is\, theology conducted by unexpected means)\, and what it means to be a Christian intellectual in a secular culture.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christian-wiman-poet-and-essayist/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading and Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public\nEnjoy poetry readings by members of a North Berkeley writing group: Rebecca Radner\, Glenn Ingersoll and Alan Bern. Special guest John Altman\, Santa Barbara translator\, will read from his translations of Neruda. After the reading\, the poets will talk about marketing and publishing\, sharing stories about their own struggles\, pet peeves\, and delights. Q & A and discussion will follow: audience participation will be most welcome. \nJohn Altman lives in Santa Barbara. He writes and translates poetry in English and Spanish. His translation of Section III — Los Conquistadores from Pablo Neruda’s Canto General will be published in 2018 by Modoc Books. \nAlan Bern is a poet\, short story writer\, and performer. He has two books published by Fithian Press: No no the saddest (2004) and Waterwalking in Berkeley (2007). His third book\, greater distance and other poems\, with design and illustrations by Robert Woods\, was released by Lines & Faces in 2015. Alan worked for over 15 years in the commercial printing industry. He became a librarian in 1992 and is now a Children’s Librarian at Berkeley Public Library. \nRebecca Radner is a writer and editor who has lived in the Bay Area most of her life. She now lives in Berkeley.  A volume of her poetry\, What you least expect—selected poems 1980-2011\, was published in 2011 by Class Action Ink.  Her work has also appeared in Harvard Magazine\, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review\, The Iowa Review\, The New England Review\, The Journal of Popular Culture\, ArtWeek\, Inquiring Mind\, What Book!? Buddha Poems from Beat to HipHop\, and other publications. For over twenty years she reviewed books regularly for The San Francisco Chronicle and other periodicals.  She has given poetry readings in a number of Bay Area venues. \nGlenn Ingersoll has been writing poetry seriously since turned on to it by a California Poets-in-the-Schools class at his high school in 1982. In the years since he’s had work in magazines (Seventeen\, Exquisite Corpse\, Poetry East) and ezines (Cortland Review\, The Opiate)\, and has published two chapbooks\, City Walks (1999) and Fact (2013). He currently hosts the reading and interview series Clearly Meant at the Claremont Branch of the Berkeley Public Library. Glenn keeps two blogs\, one on his reading http://dareiread. blogspot.com/ and one on his writing http://lovesettlement.blogspot.com/.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-reading-and-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center\, 1275 Walnut Street\, Berkeley\, 94709
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading and Panel Discussion with Alan Bern
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy poetry readings by members of a North Berkeley writing group: Rebecca Radner\, Glenn Ingersoll and Alan Bern. Special guest John Altman\, Santa Barbara translator\, will read from his translations of Neruda. After the reading\, the poets will talk about marketing and publishing\, sharing stories about their own struggles\, pet peeves\, and delights. Q & A and discussion will follow: audience participation will be most welcome. \nABOUT BERKELEY ART CENTER  In 1967\, the Berkeley Art Center was built by the Rotary Club as a gift to the City of Berkeley. Ever since\, BAC has been a cutting-edge art gallery\, presenting the work of talented local and regional artists in many media\, expressing diverse points of view. As we celebrate our 50th anniversary\, we are proud of our role in the community. Over the past five decades we have presented exhibitions that reflect and shape what is happening now. We still seek to inspire positive cultural change by nurturing artists and encouraging our community to participate in creative expression.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-reading-and-panel-discussion-with-alan-bern/
LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center\, 1275 Walnut Street\, Berkeley\, 94707
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Berkeley Art Center":MAILTO:info@berkeleyartcenter.org
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SUMMARY:Patrick Nathan discusses Some Hell
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is very pleased to welcome Patrick Nathan to discuss his dynamic debut novel\, Some Hell\, on Tuesday\, March 13th at 7pm. He will be joined in conversation with our dear friend\, Scott Esposito. \nA wrenching and layered debut novel about a gay teen’s coming-of-age in the aftermath of his father’s suicide \nMiddle school hasn’t been going well for Colin. His teenage sister teases him mercilessly\, his autistic brother lashes out at him\, and he has a crush on his best friend\, Andy. But after the tragic night when his father commits suicide\, none of that matters. Diane\, his mother\, seeks solace in therapy. Colin is awash in guilt\, and casts about for someone to confide in: first his estranged grandfather\, then a predatory science teacher. But nothing helps as much as the strange writing his father kept in a series of notebooks locked in his study. Colin looks for answers there–in fragments about disaster scenarios\, the violence of snow\, mustangs running wild in the west–but instead finds the writing infecting his worldview. Diane\, meanwhile\, has a miserable fling with a co-worker\, and leans more heavily on Colin for support as things go from bad to worse. But spring is unfolding\, and a road trip to Los Angeles gives them a tantalizing glimpse of what the future might hold. In Some Hell\, a debut novel of devastating intensity and aching\, pointillistic detail\, Patrick Nathan shows how unspeakable tragedy shapes a life\, and how imagination saves us from ourselves.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patrick-nathan-discusses-some-hell/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Nov'Ell Goes West: Oakland
DESCRIPTION:Eileen G’Sell reads from Life After Rugby and JoAnna Novak reads from Noirmania.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/novell-goes-west-oakland/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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