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SUMMARY:Janet Dawson + Wendy Hornsby
DESCRIPTION:Meet mystery mavens Janet Dawson and Wendy Hornsby\, who will discuss their work and read from their newest novels. \nJanet Dawson is well known to local readers as the author of eleven novels featuring Oakland private investigator Jeri Howard. She was the winner of the St. Martin’s Press/Private Eye Writers of America contest for best first private eye novel and has been nominated for the Shamus\, Macavity and Anthony Awards. Her latest novel is Death Deals a Hand\, the second in her California Zephyr mystery series. \nEdgar Award-winning author Wendy Hornsby has written ten mystery novels and many\, many short stories. Until her recent retirement\, she also taught ancient and Medieval history at Long Beach City College. Her latest mystery featuring filmmaker Maggie MacGowen is called Disturbing the Dark. \nLocation: 1st Floor Reading Area\nBooks will be available for purchase from Laurel Bookstore.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/janet-dawson-wendy-hornsby/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library\, 125 14th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition First Saturday
DESCRIPTION:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING\nUpcoming First Saturday Readings in 2016: \nApril 2\, May 7\, June 4 \n3:00 – 5:00 PM\nSTRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA \nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot) \nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden) \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/bay-area-poets-coalition-first-saturday/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Christopher Scotton: The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
DESCRIPTION:Timely and timeless\, The Secret Wisdom of the Earth is a dramatic and deeply moving novel about an act of violence in a small\, Southern town and the repercussions that will forever change a young man’s view of human cruelty and compassion. \nAfter seeing the death of his younger brother in a terrible home accident\, fourteen-year-old Kevin and his grieving mother are sent for the summer to live with Kevin’s grandfather. In this peeled-paint coal town deep in Appalachia\, Kevin quickly falls in with a half-wild hollow kid named Buzzy Fink who schools him in the mysteries and magnificence of the woods. The events of this fateful summer will affect the entire town of Medgar\, Kentucky. \nChristopher Scotton is an experienced public speaker\, seminar leader\, online marketer and technology entrepreneur. After a stint as a venture capitalist\, he joined his third start-up\, a computer-aided design (CAD) software company\, where he is currently President and CEO. Scotton is a recognized expert and frequent speaker on search engine marketing\, search engine optimization\, social media marketing and online lead generation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christopher-scotton-the-secret-wisdom-of-the-earth/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Everybody’s Improper Maps to San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:It’s a book tour! Three NYC poets\, Mark Gurarie\, Alex Crowley and Keara Driscoll are on tour in support of the publication of Gurarie’s Everybody’s Automat and Crowley’s Improper Maps. This trio is joined by local poets Charlie Getter and Miguel Pereira. Learn more about the readers below: \nOriginally of Cleveland\, Ohio\, Mark Gurarie currently splits time between Brooklyn\, New York and Northampton\, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of the New School’s MFA program\, and is the author of Everybody’s Automat (The Operating System\, 2016)\, his debut collection. His poems and prose have appeared in Pelt\, Paper Darts\, Sink Review\, Everyday Genius\, The Rumpus\, The Literary Review\, Coldfront\, Publishers Weekly\, Lyre Lyre and elsewhere. In 2012\, the New School published Pop :: Song\, the 2011 winner of its Poetry Chapbook Competition. He co-curates the Mental Marginalia Poetry Reading Series in Brooklyn\, serves as the Printed Matter Editor at Boog City and lends bass guitar and occasional vocals to psych-punk band\, Galapagos Now!. In addition\, he is an adjunct instructor teaching online for George Washington University\, a book reviewer and free-lance copywriter. \nAlex Crowley is a reviews editor at Publishers Weekly and a cofounder of Brooklyn’s Mental Marginalia reading series. He was the recipient of the first annual Paul Violi Award from the New School\, and is the author of the chapbook Improper Maps (The Operating System\, 2016). Poems and reviews have appeared in Phantom Limb\, TLR\, Forklift Ohio\, BORT Quarterly\, DIAGRAM\, Handsome\, HARIBO\, and elsewhere. He is the guitarist/vocalist for the band Warmth and you can find him on Twitter @a_p_crowley. \nKeara Driscoll‘s poems have appeared in the Argos Books anthology Why I am Not a Painter\, Big Bell\, and Forklift\, Ohio. She holds an MFA in poetry from The New School\, and likes to make people drink wine with her. She was born in Queens and she will die in Queens.\nFind her on Twitter. \nCharlie Getter can’t spell\, except big words\, like forsythia or ragamuffin\, he’s left handed\, but only when he’s sleeping\, he’s been known to be known for something\, whatever that is\, well no one knows… \nTransplant local poet Miguel Pereira is a military brat who came to San Francisco after graduating from Princeton University with a BA in Creative Writing. A founding father of the 16th and Mission weekly gathering\, he has been publishing and reading locally since last century.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/everybodys-improper-maps-to-san-francisco/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Spokespeople: Ch-ch-ch-changes
DESCRIPTION:Hi Spokesfans\, \nPHEW. We took a break after our Big Anniversary Show in January but now we’re back (did you miss us?) with more tales from your local living room. Please join us at House of Duke on Saturday\, April 2nd for stories of ch-ch-ch-changes! Bring your stories of all of life’s changes\, from quitting your first job to changing your first diaper. \nAs always\, new storytellers are welcome and encouraged. Feel free to interpret the theme as literally or figuratively as you wish. Email stories@spokesppl.org to sign up. Stories must be true\, told without notes\, and be about 10 minutes in length. \nDoors at 7:00 pm\, first storyteller at 7:30 pm\nFree admission (donations encouraged!)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spokespeople-ch-ch-ch-changes/
LOCATION:House of Duke\, 3133 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Express 15th Anniversary
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Express celebrates its 15th Anniversary with readings by the hosts Jim Barnard\, Jan Dedrick\, and Bruce Bagnell\, plus an open reading.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-express-15th-anniversary/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Velro: Emily Pinkerton + Lynn Brown
DESCRIPTION:Why did the Storm Trooper buy an iPhone? \nBecause he couldn’t find the Droid he was looking for! \nTo hear some even better stuff (WHAT?!) come on by to next Monday’s VelRo. We are proud to feature the amazing writing of Lynn Brown and Emily Pinkerton. And as always\, 5-minute open mic slots\, complimentary refreshments\, and cheesy snacks. \n… \nRaised in the shadow of Houston refineries\, Emily Pinkerton currently lives and writes in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her writing has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Pith\, Anthropoid\, Noble/Gas Qtrly\, Delirious Hem\, and LEVELER\, among others. She lived on a sailboat once\, and should probably do it again. Her favorite color is fog. \nLynn Brown was technically born and raised in New York\, but her heart (and most of her writing) will always belong to New Orleans. She is the co-curator of the Voices from the Margins reading series and editor of the forthcoming Footsteps of Baldwin Anthology\, a collection of works by African American expats living in Paris. Her nonfiction work has been published in Conde Nast Traveler\, the Colorado Daily News and the Matador Network\, while her fiction is still mostly lurking around the halls of San Francisco State. She is not at all convinced that the ghosts\, fairies and vampires she writes about in her speculative fiction work are not real.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/velro-emily-pinkerton-lynn-brown/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sharon Dolin + Jane Hirshfield
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books in welcoming poets Sharon Dolin and Jane Hirshfield on Monday\, April 4th\, 2016 at 7pm at our Clement St.location (506 Clement St.). \nThis evening will highlight the work of two of the nation’s foremost poets & heralds the release of Sharon Dolin’s Manual for Living. \nSharon Dolin is the author of six poetry collections\, including Manual for Living (2016)\, Serious Pink (2015 reissue)\, Whirlwind (2012)\, and Burn and Dodge (2008)\, which won the AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. Her other awards include the Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress\, a Fulbright Fellowship\, a Pushcart Prize\, and a Drisha Arts Fellowship. Her work has appeared in dozens of magazines as well as in these recent anthologies: Short Flights: Aphorism Anthology\, The Poet’s Quest for God\, The Incredible Sestina Anthology\, Ecopoetry\, Poetry in Medicine\, and the Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poets. She is co-founder and director of the Center for Book Arts Annual Poetry Chapbook Competition in New York City. Since 2014\, she directs and teaches in the international writing workshop\, Writing About Art in Barcelona. \nAward-winning poet\, essayist\, and translator Jane Hirshfield is the author of eight collections of poetry\, including The Beauty (2015)\, a finalist for the National Book Award\, Come\, Thief (2011)\, After (2006)\, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot prize\, and Given Sugar\, Given Salt (2001)\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Award\, among others. She is also the author of two books of essays\, the now-classic Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (1997) and Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World. (2015). Her awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Rockefeller Foundation\, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She has received honors including the Poetry Center Book Award\, Columbia University’s Translation Center Award\, the Bay Area Book Reviewer’s Award\, the Commonwealth Club of California Poetry Medal\, and the Hall-Kenyon Award. In 2004\, she was awarded the Academy Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. Elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2012\, she is the 2016 Mohr Visiting Poet at Stanford.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sharon-dolin-jane-hirshfield/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Gerard Sarnat + Keith Ekiss plus an open mic
DESCRIPTION:Sarnat reads from Melting the Ice King\, his fourth collection of poems; over 75 of these poems have been published in various magazines. His first was Homeless Chronicles: From Abraham to Burning Man (2010). He has been a professor at Stanford Medical School and has built and staffed clinics for the marginalized and homeless. For more info\, see gerardsarnat.com. \nEkiss is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University\, and was a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford from 2005 to 2007 and has had residencies at the Bread Loaf and Squaw Valley Writers’ Conferences\, Santa Fe Art Institute\, Millay Colony for the Arts and the Petrified Forest National Park. His poems and translations have appeared in numerous journals\, and his creative nonfiction has been anthologized in Permanent Vacation: Living and Working in Our National Parks (Bona Fide Books\, 2011). He is the translator of Eunice Odio’s The Fire’s Journey (Tavern Books\, 2012).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gerard-sarnat-keith-ekiss-plus-an-open-mic/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers on Writing: Sarah Schulman
DESCRIPTION:Writer Sarah Schulman reads from and discusses her work. Free.\nLocation: Humanities Building\, Humanities Auditorium \nSarah Schulman is the author of novels\, nonfiction books\, plays and movies. Her forthcoming works are The Cosmopolitans (The Feminist Press) and nonfiction bookConflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm\, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair (Arsenal). She recently published Israel/Palestine and the Queer International(Duke University Press)\, The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination(University of California Press) and more. As a screenwriter\, her films include The Owls(written with director Cheryl Dunye)\, Mommy is Coming (written with Dunye) and Jason and Shirley. She is co-producer the feature documentary United in Anger: A History of ACT UP. As a journalist\, Schulman has written essays for The New York Times\, The Nation and Interview. She has won a Guggenheim Fellowship in playwriting\, Fulbright in Judaic studies\, two American Library Association Book Awards and the 2009 Kessler Prize for sustained contribution to LGBT studies. Schulman is distinguished professor at City University of New York and a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University. \nThe Creative Writing Department opens its Writers on Writing course to the public every semester. Taught by Dodie Bellamy\, the course features faculty and visiting writers reading from their works and discussing their creative process.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-on-writing-sarah-schulman/
LOCATION:San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Seanan McGuire: Every Heart a Doorway
DESCRIPTION:Book release party: Get your copy of Every Heart a Doorway at Booksmith day before pub date! \nIn Seanan McGuire’s Every Heart a Doorway\, children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe\, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells\, and emerging somewhere… else. But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children. The residents at Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children understand this all too well\,  and each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world.\n \n\n\nSeanan McGuire is the author of the October Daye urban fantasy series\, the InCryptid series\, and several other works\, both standalone and in trilogies. She also writes darker fiction as Mira Grant. She was the winner of the 2010 John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer\, and in 2013 she became the first person ever to appear five times on the same Hugo ballot.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/seanan-mcguire-every-heart-a-doorway/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Copus
DESCRIPTION:Royal Kent’s love of poetry goes back to his formative high school years. Originally inspired by the legendary Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron\, he has performed with dancers\, theatrical troupes\, poets\, and many bands including the Vancouver-based Band of Angels and Czech Republic-based Pseudo Pseudo. He has produced television\, radio and stage shows\, and is the co-founder of independent label Copus Music. Kira Njinsky\, daughter of the great Russian ballet star Njinksy\, said: “Royal Kent recites poetry the way my father danced!” \nComposer/pianist Wendy Loomis has released 10 CDs of her compositions for COPUS\, acoustic ensemble Phoenix Rising\, piano/vocal duo AWE\, and solo piano. She won the ASCAP award for composition 4 times and has received awards and nominations for her music from the Unisong International Songwriting competition\, the LA Music Awards\, and the Hollywood Music and Media Awards. Most recently she performed one of her compositions in Havana\, Cuba as part of the cultural exchange led by the American Composers Forum. Wendy earned her bachelor’s degree in Creative Arts and her master’s degree in Arts Education. She is the co-founder and president of Copus Music LLC and teaches private piano at her San Francisco studio. \nFlutist Monica Williams is a graduate of Eastman School of Music and has studied with several esteemed flutists such as Bonita Boyd\, Susan Levitin\, and Brad Garner. She has performed with orchestras in Rochester\, Cincinnati\, and Chicago\, and has toured Europe and the United States. Currently Monica is a member of several contemporary chamber ensembles in the Bay Area\, including Phoenix Rising and COPUS. Additionally\, she is the director of Flock of Flutes\, East Bay’s première flute choir\, and music coordinator for Civic Arts Education\, and Center Representative for the Carnegie Hall Music Development Program. She teaches private flute at Civic Arts Center of Walnut Creek and her home studio in San Francisco. \nBassist Patrick Mahon was born and raised in San Francisco. Patrick studied jazz with Tony P. Miller\, but he is primarily self-taught\, giving him a creative facility and an eager ear for new ways of expression\, including most recently using an unusual bowing technique on the electric bass. He joined COPUS in 2007\, played on the ‘Jah Provide’ trilogy\, and has performed at many Bay Area gigs as well as at the Sweet Auburn Springfest in Atlanta. His influences include Charles Mingus\, Marcus Miller\, Victor Wooten\, and Les Claypool. In addition to COPUS\, Patrick has performed with bands Scaramanga\, The Ambassadors\, and Electric Color Wheel. \nDrummer Greg McRay was fortunate to grow up in a musical family. His father\, saxophonist Robert McRay\, played the jazz circuit both in the U.S. and Europe. Greg has studied with Benny Green\, Jim Smith\, and Tony Williams and performed with many California-based jazz\, fusion\, and rock bands. Drawing on the powerful musicianship of Art Blakey\, Max Roach\, Bill Bruford\, and Billy Cobham\, Greg brought his creative drum playing to COPUS in 2002.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/copus/
LOCATION:Top of the Mark at the InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel\, 999 California St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rachael Herron: The Ones Who Matter Most
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Rachael Herron to the store for her publication party for her new novel\, The Ones Who Matter Most\, on Tuesday\, April 5th at 7:00pm. \nFrom the acclaimed author of Splinters of Light and Pack Up the Moon comes a beautiful novel about two very different women who are about to get a second chance at creating a family. After her husband dies unexpectedly\, Abby Roberts comes across something startling: wedding photographs of him with another woman\, along with pictures of a baby boy. Shocked\, Abby does something utterly impulsive: she embarks on a journey to discover the family her husband apparently left behind. Even though money has been tight\, single mom Fern Bailey has returned every monthly check her ex-husband has sent. Except this month\, in place of a check\, a perky woman with far too many questions appears on her doorstep. Unfortunately\, her young son is so taken with Abby that Fern doesn’t have the heart to send her away. What begins as one woman’s search for truth becomes a deep bond forged between the unlikeliest of people\, and the discovery that there are many ways to make a family as long as you take care. \nRachael Herron has been knitting since she was five years old. She is the author of the book of essays\, A Life in Stitches: Knitting My Way through Love\, Loss\, and Laughter\, and the Cypress Hollow Yarn series of books\, among them Wishes and Stitches\, How to Knit a Love Song\, and How to Knit a Heart Back Home. She also writes the popular website yarnagogo.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachael-herron-the-ones-who-matter-most/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Robert Hill: The Remnants
DESCRIPTION:Robert Hill shares his much-buzzed novel\, The Remnants. “As the wind picks up and the sky grays over\, Kennesaw trudges the remaining miles into town\, catching his breath by the hole in the stone wall at Nedewen Field where dust returns to dust. He passes the broken stone markers that show their old age like chipped teeth in a mouth full of mourning\, and lays to rest the memories of those who have gone before him. He continues on down the gravel road and crosses the tangled patch that had once been the village green\, and past the strip of acre beside the barn behind True s house where the prized row of Granny-Macs once stood. It s taken him all of the morning and most of the afternoon and much of the last ninety-nine years to reach here. The weather is due to turn calamitous. Kennesaw runs a moist hand across his moist scalp as he continues on his way to True s. He approaches her plain front gate where he rests a moment before starting up again and making his way up her walkway and onto her front stone slab\, which is only a pebble less settled than his.\nOne arm pumping and then the other. One leg shuffling and then the other. One ache and then another and then another and then another. And this is how the aged walk into heaven.\nHe s ninety-nine. It s been a long journey. Tea sounds good to him.”\nRobert Hill’s second novel\, The Remnants\, is an ebullient ode to the last days of the last three residents of the town of New Eden. It follows his highly acclaimed debut\, When All Is Said and Done\, which was shortlisted for the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and touted as “a bravura and resounding performance” by Donna Seaman of Booklist.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-hill-the-remnants/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Danielle Dutton + Stephen Sparks
DESCRIPTION:Danielle Dutton\, founder of Dorothy\, a publishing project\, will discuss Margaret the First with Green Apple’s book buyer\, Stephen Sparks. \nPraise for Margaret the First: \n“Margaret the First is set in the seventeenth century\, but don’t let that fool you. It’s a strikingly smart and daringly feminist novel with modern insights into love\, marriage\, and the siren call of ambition.” —Jenny Offill\, author of Dept. of Speculation \n“All this trouble for a girl\,” say the bears in the book Margaret Cavendish writes within this remarkable book written by Danielle Dutton\, the story of a very real woman at a very particular moment in history that is at the same time the story of every woman artist who has ever burst loose the constraints of her particular moment in history to create “a new world called the blazing world.” —Kathryn Davis\, author of The Thin Place and Duplex \n“Ever since I first encountered her writing\, I’ve told every serious reader I know that Danielle Dutton is one of the most original and wonderfully weird prose stylists of our time\, every bit the contemporary of Lydia Davis\, Cesar Aira\, and Diane Williams. How perfect that her new novel is a portrait of Margaret of Newcastle\, whose perceived excesses and eccentricities were an object of fascination for her time\, as well as for Virginia Woolf\, who laments in A Room of One’s Own\, ‘What a vision of loneliness and riot the thought of Margaret Cavendish brings to mind!’ And what a visionary portrait Margaret the First is\, not only for the sheer joy of the sentences\, but also as it’s a marvel of tenderness\, rewriting a historical caricature as a life\, delighting in Margaret’s passion for writing and love of the beautiful and strange from childhood on. I am in awe of what Dutton accomplishes here\, in this novel of the small and the sublime. What a triumph!”\n—Kate Zambreno\, author of Green Girl \nAbout Margaret the First: \nMargaret the First dramatizes the life of Margaret Cavendish\, the shy\, gifted\, and wildly unconventional 17th-century Duchess. The eccentric Margaret wrote and published volumes of poems\, philosophy\, feminist plays\, and utopian science fiction at a time when being a writer was not an option open to women. As one of the Queen’s attendants and the daughter of prominent Royalists\, she was exiled to France when King Charles I was overthrown. As the English Civil War raged on\, Margaret met and married William Cavendish\, who encouraged her writing and her desire for a career. After the War\, her work earned her both fame and infamy in England: at the dawn of daily newspapers\, she was Mad Madge\, an original tabloid celebrity. Yet Margaret was also the first woman to be invited to the Royal Society of Londona mainstay of the Scientific Revolutionand the last for another two hundred years.\nMargaret the First is very much a contemporary novel set in the past\, rather than historical fiction. Written with lucid precision and sharp cuts through narrative time\, it is a gorgeous and wholly new narrative approach to imagining the life of a historical woman.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/danielle-dutton-stephen-sparks/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Garth Greenwell: What Belongs to You
DESCRIPTION:Garth Greenwell’s widely acclaimed novel What Belongs to You begins when an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia’s National Palace of Culture and meets Mitko\, a charismatic young hustler. When the teacher returns again and again to see Mitko over the next few months\, they find themselves in a relationship that is mutually predatory\, where tenderness can transform into violence at any moment. With lyric intensity and startling eroticism\, What Belongs to You is a stunning debut novel of desire and its consequences. \nGarth Greenwell will be in-conversation with Kevin Killian. \n\n  \nGarth Greenwell is the author of Mitko\, which won the 2010 Miami University Press Novella Prize and was a finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction Award and a Lambda Award. A native of Louisville\, Kentucky\, he holds graduate degrees from Harvard University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where he was an Arts Fellow. His short fiction has appeared in The Paris Review and A Public Space. \n\nKevin Killian is a San Francisco novelist and poet. Recent books include PINK NARCISSUS POEMS (The Song Cave); EYEWITNESS by Carolyn Dunn\, the memoirs of a Beat Generation legend “as told to” Kevin Killian (Granary Books); and TAGGED\, a collection of Killian’s intimate photographs of artists\, writers\, musicians\, filmmakers\, etc.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/garth-greenwell-what-belongs-to-you/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Raina J. León + Paul Casey
DESCRIPTION:As part of a Poetry Month celebration\, Pegasus Books presents a reading with local poet Raina Leon and visiting Irish poet Paul Casey \nBoth authors have new books of poetry\, released in 2016 by Salmon Poetry \nRaina J. León\, Cave Canem graduate fellow (2006)\, CantoMundo fellow\, and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective\, has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry\, fiction and nonfiction.  Her first collection of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, was a finalist for both the Cave Canem First Book Poetry Prize (2005) and the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize (2006). Her second book\, Boogeyman Dawn (2013\, Salmon Poetry)\, was a finalist for the Naomi Long Madgett Prize (2010).  Her third book\,sombra : (dis)locate\, will be published in 2016.  She has received fellowships and residencies with Cave Canem\, CantoMundo\, Montana Artists Refuge\, the Macdowell Colony\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, Vermont Studio Center\, the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Annamaghkerrig\, Ireland and Ragdale.  She also is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly\, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latino and Latina arts.  She is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California.\n\nPaul Casey was born in Cork\, Ireland in 1968. Recently awarded a travel bursary from Culture Ireland\, he will be reading at a number of venues around Los Angeles and San Francisco to promote his second collection of poetry\, Virtual Tides (Salmon Poetry\, 2016). His début\, home more or less\, appeared from Salmon in 2012.He grew up between Ireland\, Zambia and South Africa\, and has worked primarily in film\, multimedia and teaching. While employed as scriptwriting lecturer at the Nelson Mandela University\, he convened the greater Port Elizabeth Poetry Competition in three languages and four age-groups. His poems have been published in journals and anthologies in Ireland\, the US\, China and South Africa. A chapbook of his longer poems\, It’s Not all Bad\, was published by The Heaventree Press in May 2009. In June 2010 he completed a poetry-film based on the award-winning poem by Ian Duhig\, The Lammas Hireling\, which premiered at the Zebra Poetry-Film Festival in Berlin. He is the founder and organiser of the weekly Ó Bhéal poetry reading series in Cork city\, where he lives.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/raina-j-leon-paul-casey/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160406T190000
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SUMMARY:Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney: The Nest
DESCRIPTION:Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled\, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonably cold afternoon in New York City as Melody\, Beatrice\, and Jack Plumb gather to confront their charismatic and reckless older brother\, Leo\, freshly released from rehab. Months earlier\, an inebriated Leo got behind the wheel of a car with a nineteen-year-old waitress as his passenger. The ensuing accident has endangered the Plumbs’ joint trust fund\, “The Nest\,” which they are months away from finally receiving. Meant by their deceased father to be a modest mid-life supplement\, the Plumb siblings have watched The Nest’s value soar along with the stock market and have been counting on the money to solve a number of self-inflicted problems. \nThe Nest is a story about the power of family\, the possibilities of friendship\, the ways we depend upon one another and the ways we let one another down. In this tender\, entertaining\, and deftly written debut\, Sweeney brings a remarkable cast of characters to life to illuminate what money does to relationships\, what happens to our ambitions over the course of time\, and the fraught yet unbreakable ties we share with those we love. \nCynthia D’Aprix Sweeney lives in Los Angeles\, California\, with her husband and children. She has an MFA from Bennington.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cynthia-daprix-sweeney-the-nest/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160406T200000
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CREATED:20160404T114455Z
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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: Anna Moschovakis
DESCRIPTION:Readings are free & open to the public \nLocation: Maude Fife Room (Wheeler Hall #315)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-anna-moschovakis/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160406T203000
DTSTAMP:20260505T175637
CREATED:20160404T100227Z
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SUMMARY:Winter Reading Program Wrap-up Party
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the beautiful just-opened Buttercup Cakes location on Pacific Avenue for final event for our third annual Winter Reading Program\, this time to wrap up the season and talk about the books we read! \nIf you haven’t started yet\, there is still time: Bookshop Santa Cruz’s third annual Winter Reading Program offers rewards for your reading. From December through March\, read any 3 books from our eight recommended titles and receive a $5 gift card to Bookshop Santa Cruz\, a certificate for one cupcake from Buttercup Cakes\, and a voucher for a free “Doonster Flight” from Bonny Doon Vineyard tasting room*! Turn in your bookmark with your completed reading choices by March 31 to reap the rewards. Pick up a bookmark at Bookshop to track your reading achievements (or download one from our website) and get started. Use our easy-access display table with all your book choices in Bookshop to peruse the selection. \nAt this book-lovers’ party\, you’ll have to opportunity to mingle with other readers and chat about your Winter Reading book choices. Don’t worry if you didn’t finish your reading selections; come for the delicious cupcakes\, tea and coffee\, and the amazing new savory items on Buttercup Cakes’ expanded menu—and bookish conversation\, of course! We’ll provide questions and topics to spark rotating small-group conversations about the books you’ve read\, facilitated by Bookshop Santa Cruz staff. You might even find a new book group! \n*You must be 21 or older to participate in the alcoholic portion of this program; Bonny Doon Winery also offers a non-alcoholic beverage reward choice.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/winter-reading-program-wrap-up-party/
LOCATION:Buttercup Cakes\, 1411 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Noah Warren + Callan Wink
DESCRIPTION:Location: Terrace Room\, Margaret Jacks Hall \nNoah Warren was born in Nova Scotia and lives in Palo Alto. In 2015\, his collection The Destroyer in the Glass won the Yale Series of Younger Poets; it will appear in April 2016. His poems have appeared in The Southern Review\, The Yale Review\, Poetry\, AGNI\, Poetry Daily\, The Missouri Review\, and elsewhere. He is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. \nCallan Wink is a fly fishing guide in Livingston\, Montana. His stories have appeared in Men’s Journal\, the New Yorker\, Granta\, The Best American Short Stories Anthology\, and others. He is the recipient of a 2014 NEA creative writing fellowship.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/noah-warren-callan-wink/
LOCATION:Stanford University\, 450 Serra Mall\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160406T210000
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SUMMARY:April in Paris
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Sharon Coleman • Yanina Gotsulsky • Simon Rogghe • Judy Wells. On guitar: Hao C. Tran. Curated by Leila Rae. An open mic follows the featured readers. Free Drawing: Book\, Broadside\, and Spice Monkey Gift Card. Book Table.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/april-in-paris/
LOCATION:Spice Monkey\, 1628 Webster St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160406T210000
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CREATED:20160404T095040Z
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SUMMARY:Andre Dubus III
DESCRIPTION:Andre Dubus III is the author of House of Sand and Fog\, a finalist for the National Book Award and a #1 New York Times Bestseller; the novel was later adapted as an Oscar-nominated film. His new book\, Dirty Love\, has been listed as a New York Times “Editors’ Choice”; a “Notable Fiction” selection from the Washington Post; and a Kirkus Reviews “Starred Best Book of 2013.” His memoir\, Townie\, became a New York Times bestseller and “Editors Choice.” His other works include The Cage Keeper and Other Stories; Bluesman; and The Garden of Last Days. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship\, two Pushcart Prizes\, and is a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. \nApril 6\, 4:30pm – Screening of House of Sand and Fog\, Student Union Theater\nApril 6\, 7pm – Reading and Book Signing\, Student Union Theater\nApril 7\, 1:30pm – In Conversation with Cathleen Miller\, MLK 225/229 \n\nPRAISE FOR ANDRE DUBUS III \n“A mixture of classical tragedy perfectly imbued with film noir…. House of Sand and Fog is the work of a writer who is the real thing.”\n— The Baltimore Sun \n“I can think of no novelist who renders the gritty\, down-and-out corners of New England better than Dubus\, and those beautifully specific\, contained slices of American life open into whole universes of love\, violence\, guilt\, and betrayal.\n— The New Republic \n“Affecting…. A gentle and winning first novel [Bluesman]…. Dubus is a sympathetic and compassionate chronicler of ordinary lives.”\n— Publishers Weekly \nAll events are free\, open to the public\, and wheelchair accessible.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andre-dubus-iii/
LOCATION:Student Union Theater\, San Jose State University\, 1 Washington Square\, San Jose \, CA\, 95192\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160406T210000
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CREATED:20160404T120534Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160404T120534Z
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SUMMARY:Tony Tulathimutte: Private Citizens
DESCRIPTION:With writing published in publications such as VICE and The New Yorker online\, Tony Tulathimutte shares his critically-acclaimed novel\, Private Citizens. Capturing the anxious\, self-aware mood of young college grads\, this is the story of four whip-smart friends torn between fixing the world and cannibalizing it\, and who–though estranged–stagger through the Bay Area\, always washing up in each other’s lives.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tony-tulathimutte-private-citizens/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:China on Strike: Narratives of Workers’ Resistance
DESCRIPTION:China on Strike is based on dozens of interviews with workers in Pearl River Delta factories\, an industrial region of region of 60 million people that has become the “workshop of the world\,” as China has become the fastest growing major economy in the world over the last three decades. Pearl River Delta factories supply the world’s most profitable corporations\, like Apple\, Nike\, Hewlett Packard\, and many others. These interviews document the processes of internal migration in China\, changing employment relations\, worker culture\, and other issues related to China’s explosive growth. China on Strike is the first English-language book to provide an intimate and revealing window into the lives of workers as they organize against low pay and brutal working conditions\, launching the world’ largest strike wave in the 21st century. \n“As these vivid case-studies illustrate\, the real sleeping dragon—China’s enormous factory proletariat—is wide awake and fighting back on all fronts. Indeed\, here is first-hand evidence that Chairman Xi Jinping may soon confront the largest labor rebellion in history.”—Mike Davis\, Professor Emeritus\, University of California\, Riverside\, and author ofPlanet of Slums\n\nFang Gang has worked in factories since he graduated from university\, conducting interviews with other workers about their collective struggles in the Pearl River Delta and compiling them into articles that are published and distributed. An example is his 2013 piece “Strikes over the relocation of factories.” Currently\, Fan Gang assists with workers taking collective action in the Pearl River Delta. \nMi Tu has been engaged in doing translations of literature on workers’ struggles in other countries\, as well as researching the conditions of workers in China’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs)\, since her university days. Since graduating\, Mi has worked in factories\, interviewed workers engaged in struggles in the Pearl River Delta\, and compiled and circulated these oral histories. Mi currently assists workers taking collective action against occupational diseases. \nAlex T. Tom (interpreter) is the Executive Director of San Francisco’s Chinese Progressive Association.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/china-on-strike-narratives-of-workers-resistance/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160406T210000
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CREATED:20160404T115607Z
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SUMMARY:Humble Pie: Pie Drive & Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Pie Drive: 3-7:30 p.m. (A2 Café patio)\nOpen Mic: 7:30-9 p.m. (A2 Café) \nCome join the editorial staff of Humble Pie Volume 13. Bring something to share at our open mic. \nLight refreshments provided. \nWhat Is Humble Pie?\nHumble Pie is the undergraduate literary journal written and published by students enrolled in CCA’s Literature and Writing Program. \nThe popular publication features fiction\, nonfiction\, poetry\, and visual art. \nFaculty editor Caroline Goodwin works with the student staff to compile selected writings and choose which artworks to feature.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/humble-pie-pie-drive-open-mic/
LOCATION:A2 Cafe\, 5212 Broadway St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160406T213000
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CREATED:20160404T121133Z
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SUMMARY:Jason Buchholz: A Paper Son
DESCRIPTION:A Paper Son is the story of Peregrine Long—a third-grade teacher in San Francisco who spends his evenings composing stories—who\, just as a massive storm falls upon San Francisco\, discovers the image of a Chinese family on the surface of his tea\, thereby thrusting him into the center of a century-old mystery. Peregrine becomes an unwitting guide in a search for a stranger’s uncle that dates back to 1920s China. Along the way\, he is reunited with his brash and self-righteous sister and joins forces with Annabel Nightingale—an exotic polyglot who teaches kindergarten during the mornings and spends her nights beckoning to ghosts ships and cataloguing their arrivals. A Paper Son is an exquisite exploration of the Pacific immigration experience that calls to mind Gabriel García Márquez and Nicole Krauss’s The History of Love. \nJason Buchholz is an editor\, writer\, and artist. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in Gobbledegook and Switchback. He holds a BA in Psychology from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco. He lives in El Cerrito with his wife and son.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jason-buchholz-a-paper-son/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160406T213000
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SUMMARY:Sarah Schulman
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Schulman reads from her new novel\, The Cosmopolitans. \nPraise for Sarah Schulman: \n“This bracing\, powerful\, and well-reasoned work reaffirms the author’s stature as a distinctive American woman of letters. Ideal for an academic setting\, it will also precipitate discussion among all those interested in learning more about this painful chapter in U.S. history. Highly recommended.”—Richard Drezen (Library Journal)\, on Gentrification of the Mind \n“[The Cosmopolitans] is book club gold. . . . The Cosmopolitans is a great group read—weighty dilemmas\, unforgettable characters\, and a roller-coaster plot!”—Tayari Jones\, author of Silver Sparrow \nAbout The Cosmopolitans: \nA modern retelling of Balzac’s classic “Cousin Bette “by one of America’s most prolific and significant writers. Earl\, a black\, gay actor working in a meatpacking plant\, and Bette\, a white secretary\, have lived next door to each other in the same Greenwich Village apartment building for thirty years. Shamed and disowned by their familied\, both found refuge in New York and in their domestic routine. Everything changes when Hortense\, a wealthy young actress from Ohio\, comes to the city to “make it.” Textured with the grit and gloss of midcentury Manhattan\, “The Cosmopolitans “is a lush\, inviting read.The truths it frames about the human need for love and recognition remain long after the book is closed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-schulman/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hannah Sanghee Park
DESCRIPTION:Hannah Sanghee Park is the author of The Same-Different(LSU Press\, 2015)\, the 2014 winner of The Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award. She holds degrees from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Writing for Screen & Television Program at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. A former U.S. Fulbright Scholar and recipient of artist grants from Washington and Iowa\, Park received honors from The Poetry Foundation (Ruth Lilly Fellowship)\, The MacDowell Colony\, and elsewhere. Park was a 2015 CBS Writers Program Fellow. She was named one of Variety’s “110 Students to Watch” for her film and television writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hannah-sanghee-park/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160407T190000
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CREATED:20160404T124341Z
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SUMMARY:Robert Alter & Chana Kronfeld
DESCRIPTION:Discussing the poetry of Yehuda Amichai\, considered to be Israel’s greatest contemporary poet. \n“Amichai is one of the biggest\, most essential\, most durable poetic voices of this past century–one of the most intimate\, alive and human\, wise\, humorous\, true\, loving\, inwardly free and resourceful\, at home in every human situation. One of the real treasures.”–Ted Hughes \nRobert Alter\, Professor of the Graduate School and Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley will read from The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai and Chana Kronfeld\, Professor of Hebrew\, Yiddish and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley will read from The Full Severity of Compassion: The Poetry of Yehuda Amicha. Discussion and reception to follow. \nEvent is free and open to the public. Books will be available for sale. RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/a/mrsdalloways.com/forms/d/1-MBTlUeXFel9h1mmwaecBwDg-2y_4VJ4WOSpPF3Jv2E/viewform?c=0&w=1 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-alter-chana-kronfeld/
LOCATION:Magnus Collection of Jewish Art and Life\, 2121 Allston Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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