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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171202T150000
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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-4/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171202T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171202T200000
DTSTAMP:20260507T115526
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon Winter '17 Reading
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday Dec 2\, Babylon Salon welcomes an all-female lineup of award-winning writers: ACHY OBEJAS (Ruins; Days of Awe) Poet ARISA WHITE (Hurrah’s Nest: A Penny Saved); BARBARA JANE REYES (Invocation to Daughters; To Love as Aswang); LAURIE ANN DOYLE (World Gone Missing); and KATE FOLK (2016-18 Affiliate Artist at the the Headlands Center for the Arts) \n@ The Armory Club\, downstairs performance space. 1799 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, 94103. FREE ADMISSION– Cash bar exotica. Doors open at 5:30 PM\, reading at 6:00 PM. www.babylonsalon.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-winter-17-reading/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171204T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171204T210000
DTSTAMP:20260507T115526
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SUMMARY:Javier Zamora: Unaccompanied
DESCRIPTION:Javier Zamora was nine years old when he traveled unaccompanied 4\,000 miles\, across multiple borders\, from El Salvador to the United States to be reunited with his parents. This dramatic and hope-filled poetry debut humanizes the highly charged and polarizing rhetoric of border-crossing; assesses borderland politics\, race\, and immigration on a profoundly personal level; and simultaneously remembers and imagines a birth country that’s been left behind. \nThrough an unflinching gaze\, plainspoken diction\, and a combination of Spanish and English\, Unaccompanied crosses rugged terrain where families are lost and reunited\, coyotes lead migrants astray\, and “the thin white man let us drink from a hose / while pointing his shotgun.” \nFrom “Let Me Try Again”: \nHe knew we weren’t Mexican.\nHe must’ve remembered his family\ncoming over the border\, or the border\ncoming over them\, because he drove us\nto the border and told us next time\, rest\nat least five days\, don’t trust anyone calling\nthemselves coyotes\, bring more tortillas\, sardines\,\nAlhambra. He knew we would try again.\nAnd again–like everyone does. \nJavier Zamora was born in El Salvador and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine. He earned a BA at UC-Berkeley\, an MFA at New York University\, and is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/javier-zamora-unaccompanied/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171205T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171205T213000
DTSTAMP:20260507T115526
CREATED:20171022T024814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T024814Z
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SUMMARY:Charif Shanahan + Sam Sax
DESCRIPTION:Charif Shanahan and Sam Sax read from their latest poetry collections. \n\nAbout Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing \nWinner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award \nIn this affecting poetry debut\, Charif Shanahan explores what it means to be fully human in our wounded and divided world. In poised yet unrelenting lyric poems\, Shanahan–queer and mixed-race–confronts the challenges of a complex cultural inheritance\, informed by colonialism and his mother’s immigration to the United States from Morocco\, navigating racial constructs\, sexuality\, family\, and the globe in search of “who we are to each other . . . who we are to ourselves.” \nAbout Madness \nWinner of the 2016 National Poetry Series CompetitionIn \nIn this powerful debut collection\, sam sax explores and explodes the linkages between desire\, addiction\, and the history of mental health. These brave\, formally dexterous poems examine antiquated diagnoses and procedures from hysteria to lobotomy; offer meditations on risky sex; and take up the poet’s personal and family histories as mental health patients and practitioners. Ultimately\, Madness attempts to build a queer lineage out of inherited language and cultural artifacts; these poems trouble the static categories of sanity\, heterosexuality\, masculinity\, normality\, and health. sax’s innovative collection embodies the strange and disjunctive workings of the mind as it grapples to make sense of the world around it.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charif-shanahan-sam-sax/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171206T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171206T193000
DTSTAMP:20260507T115526
CREATED:20171020T023621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171020T023621Z
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SUMMARY:Rabih Alameddine
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Main Library as Rabih Alameddine reads from\, and discusses\, his new novel The Angel of History. \nSet over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic\, The Angel of History follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life\, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS. Hovered over by the presence of alluring\, sassy Satan who taunts Jacob to remember his painful past and dour\, frigid Death who urges him to forget and give up on life\, Jacob is also attended to by 14 saints. Set in Cairo and Beirut; Sana’a\, Stockholm\, and San Francisco; Alameddine gives us a charged philosophical portrait of a brilliant mind in crisis. This is a profound\, philosophical and hilariously winning story of the war between memory and oblivion we wrestle with every day of our lives.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rabih-alameddine/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171206T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171206T210000
DTSTAMP:20260507T115526
CREATED:20170926T014636Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171001T002913Z
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SUMMARY:Pandemonium Press: Sugartown Voices
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: TBA. An open mic follows the featured readers. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2021 Webster St.\, Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pandemonium-press-sugartown-voices/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171207T121000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171207T125000
DTSTAMP:20260507T115526
CREATED:20170816T002121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T002121Z
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SUMMARY:Rita Dove
DESCRIPTION:Rita Dove is a former U.S. Poet Laureate (1993-1995) and recipient of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Thomas and Beulah. The author of numerous poetry books\, most recently Collected Poems 1974-2004 (2016) and Sonata Mulattica(2009)\, she also published a collection of short stories\, a novel\, a play and\, as editor\, The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry (2011). Among her many awards are the 2011 National Medal of Arts from President Obama and the 1996 National Humanities Medal from President Clinton. Rita Dove is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rita-dove/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171207T121000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171207T125000
DTSTAMP:20260507T115526
CREATED:20171208T023948Z
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SUMMARY:Rita Dove
DESCRIPTION:Rita Dove is a former U.S. Poet Laureate (1993-1995) and recipient of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Thomas and Beulah. The author of numerous poetry books\, most recently Collected Poems 1974-2004 (2016) and Sonata Mulattica(2009)\, she also published a collection of short stories\, a novel\, a play and\, as editor\, The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry (2011). Among her many awards are the 2011 National Medal of Arts from President Obama and the 1996 National Humanities Medal from President Clinton. Rita Dove is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rita-dove-2/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171207T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171207T203000
DTSTAMP:20260507T115526
CREATED:20171208T023108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171208T023108Z
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime ATTRACTORS
DESCRIPTION:Will feature readings from: Sarah Ladipo Manyika (Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun)\,\nRaina Leon (Profeta Without Refuge)\,\nJanine Kovac (Spinning)\,\nAndrew J. Thomas (Strangeland)\,\nand Sam Gong.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-attractors/
LOCATION:Martuni’s\, 4 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171207T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171207T210000
DTSTAMP:20260507T115526
CREATED:20170721T233843Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170721T233843Z
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SUMMARY:Sam Sax + D.A. Powell
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of Sam Sax’s new poetry collection \nMADNESS \npublished by Penguin Books \nAn “astounding” (Terrance Hayes) debut collection of poems – Winner of the 2016 National Poetry Series Competition \nIn this ­­­powerful debut collection\, sam sax explores and explodes the linkages between desire\, addiction\, and the history of mental health. These brave\, formally dexterous poems examine antiquated diagnoses and procedures from hysteria to lobotomy; offer meditations on risky sex; and take up the poet’s personal and family histories as mental health patients and practitioners. Ultimately\, Madness attempts to build a queer lineage out of inherited language and cultural artifacts; these poems trouble the static categories of sanity\, heterosexuality\, masculinity\, normality\, and health. sax’s innovative collection embodies the strange and disjunctive workings of the mind as it grapples to make sense of the world around it. \nsam sax is a queer Jewish writer and educator. He’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Lambda Literary\, The MacDowell Colony\, the Blue Mountain Center\, and the Michener Center for Writers. He’s the winner of the 2016 Iowa Review Award and his poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review\, Gulf Coast\, Ploughshares\, Poetry\, and other journals. \n\nD. A. Powell is the author of four previous collections of poetry\, the trilogy of Tea\, Lunch\, and Cocktails\, and Chronic\, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His last two books have been finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He teaches in the English department at University of San Francisco and lives in the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sam-sax-d-a-powell/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171207T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171207T210000
DTSTAMP:20260507T115526
CREATED:20171208T030733Z
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SUMMARY:Collectivity\, Intersectionality & Possibility: A Night of Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Nomadic Press for a night of poetry\, book readings and conversation on the themes of collectivity\, intersectionality and possibility. We will be considering the role and experience of the individual in the collective; what intersectionality can mean for us today; and where we can possibly go from here. \nHow is the inflection of gender\, race\, class\, sexuality and religion relevant to our feminisms and resistance efforts? \nWhat does it mean to represent? Can anyone? Should anyone? Who never gets a chance? \nThere will be readings from an unpublished anthology of essays by women of color including Odelia Younge and Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan\, as well as poetry\, prose and conversation with Amber Butts. \nBring energy\, critique\, questions and good vibes. Its sure to be an enriching night. \nInformation about the performers: \nDelia Younge is a San Francisco-based educator\, writer\, researcher\, spiritualist\, and builder residing in San Francisco. Her research focuses on black male youth identity\, transgressions\, and resistance\, within spatial theory\, critical youth studies\, and radical black feminist theory. Her previous work has focused on black women collectives and historical memory. She believes that knowing is about forgetting what you have been taught to be true\, and building anew. She is driven by the principle of doing well by those she loves and for who her research speaks to and helps provide a platform for. Delia is an editor at Blaqueerflow and many of her writings can be found on her personal blog on journeys\, love and the durability of faith at www.footprintsinair.wordpress.com. \nSuhaiymah Manzoor-Khan is a Muslim writer and spoken-word poet from Britain. She is interested in race\, gender\, Islamophobia\, the construction of Muslims in Britain\, intersectional feminism and knowledge production. She writes on these topics at her popular blog: www.thebrownhijabi.comand in her poetry which can be found on YouTube. \nAmber Butts is a writer\, educator and tenants rights organizer from Oakland\, CA. Her work has appeared in Blaqueerflow\, KPFA’s Women’s Magazine Radio and 6×8 Press. She is currently at work on an afro-futurist novel focused on themes of intergenerational trauma\, imagination\, Black survival and environmental racism. Amber’s writing challenges multiple systems of oppression through the use of queer and womanist frameworks. She works to amplify the stories of poor Black folks\, with an emphasis on mamas\, children and elders. She believes in asking big and small questions that lead to tangible expressions of freedom and liberation. \nProverbs\, a New York City native\, is a preacher\, poet\, educator\, and Emmy-award-winning media producer. She is passionate about ending male sexual violence against women and children\, the arts\, and being Black af. Proverbs lives and loves in Oakland with her hubby\, Brandon\, and can be found on the media of social: Lyvonne Proverbs Picou
URL:https://litseen.com/event/collectivity-intersectionality-possibility-a-night-of-poetry/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171208T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171208T213000
DTSTAMP:20260507T115526
CREATED:20171022T024954Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T024954Z
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SUMMARY:Karen + Jim Shepard
DESCRIPTION:Karen and Jim Shepard discuss their new books from Tin House\, The Tunnel at the End of the Light and Kiss Me Someone. \nAbout Kiss Me Someone \nBold and unapologetic\, Karen Shepard’s Kiss Me Someone is inhabited by women who walk the line between various states: adolescence and adulthood\, stability and uncertainty\, selfishness and compassion. They navigate the obstacles that come with mixed-race identity and instabilities in social class\, and they use their liminal positions to leverage power. They employ rage and tenderness and logic and sex\, but for all of their rationality they’re drawn to self-destructive behavior. Shepard’s stories explore what we do to lessen our burdens of sadness and isolation; her characters\, fiercely true to themselves\, are caught between their desire to move beyond their isolation and a fear that it’s exactly where they belong. \nAbout The Tunnel at the End of the Light \nGiven that most Americans proudly consider themselves non-political\, where do our notions of collective responsibility come from? Which self-deceptions\, when considering ourselves as actors on the world stage\, do we cling to most tenaciously? Why do we so stubbornly believe\, for example\, that our country always means well when intervening abroad? The Tunnel at the End of the Light argues that some of our most persistent and destructive assumptions\, in that regard\, might come from the movies. In these ten essays Jim Shepard weaves close readings of film with cultural criticism to explore the ways in which movies work so ubiquitously to reflect how Americans think and act. Whether assessing the “high-spirited glee of American ruthlessness” captured in GoodFellas\, or finding in Lawrence of Arabia a “portrait of the lunatic serenity of our leaders’ conviction in the face of all evidence and their own lack of knowledge\,” he explores how we enter into conversations with specific genres and films–Chinatown\, The Third Man\, and Badlands among others–in order to construct and refine our most cherished illusions about ourselves.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-jim-shepard/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171209T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171209T180000
DTSTAMP:20260507T115526
CREATED:20171208T023646Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171208T023646Z
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SUMMARY:Paseo Artístico - How Do You Carry Home With You?
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a FREE neighborhood celebration that will bring an eclectic mix of music\, entertainment and art activities at venues along the 24th Street corridor. \n— DECEMBER 9 EVENT SCHEDULE — \nPrecita Eyes Muralists | 2981 24th Street\n11 AM to 12:30 PM\nBILINGUAL GUIDED MURAL TOUR\n– Trace decades of visual storytelling on our bilingual guided mural tour through the 24th Street Corridor. \nColibri | 2919 24th St\n1 PM to 4 PM\nBROWN SANTA CLAUS\n-With your family or friends\, take a picture with Brown Santa! \nAlley Cat Books | 3036 24th Street\n1 PM to 3 PM\nLIVE SCREEN PRINTING\n– A live screen printing workshop and demonstration lead by renowned Mission printmaker Calixto Robles. \nBook Mobile\n1 PM to 4 PM\nFREE BOOKS\n– The San Francisco Public Libraries Book Mobile will be accessible to the neighborhood and will be providing free books. \nGalería de la Raza |2857 24th St\n3 PM to 5 PM\nSCREEN PRINTING & POETRY READINGS\n-Suavecita Press\n– QR Hand\n– Thea Matthews\n– Rene Vaz\n– Joyce Lee \nBrava for Women in the Arts | 2781 24th Street\n2 PM to 4 PM\nLATINX POETRY READINGS\n– Juliana Lopera\n– Cathie Arrellano\n– Maya Chincilla\n– Denise Benevides \nDance Brigade’s Dance Mission | 3316 24th Street\n4:30 PM to 6 PM\nCENTRAL AMERICAN FOLKLÓRICO DANCE CLASS\n– Chavalos de Aquí y Alla’s folklórico dance group\, Danzas por Nicaragua and dance director\, Diana Aburto will be teaching the basics of folkloric dance\, a preview of the main regional dances from Nicaragua and dances from the pacific and Atlantic coast. Folkloric dance skirts will be provided to participants. \nMission Cultural Center for Latino Arts | 2868 Mission Street\n12 PM to 3 PM\nART EXHIBIT & STENCIL MURAL WORKSHOP\n– EXHIBIT: Xanath Mirell\n– Otomí Stencil mural workshop\n– Screening of: Boy and The World \nAcción Latina | 2958 24th St\n1 PM to 3 PM\n– Free public reading and presentation by author Adriana Camarena of the first two issues of “Unsettled in the Mission.”\n4 PM\n-Screening of: Your Name \nArtillery AG | 2751 Mission Street\n1PM to 5PM\nMURAL WORKSHOP & LIVE MUSIC\n-1PM-3PM Mural Workshop\n-3PM Dj Leydis de Cuba\n-3:30PM Chhoti Maa from Mexico\n– 4PM Bocafloja from Mexico \n—\nTHANK YOU TO OUR 24TH STREET / MISSION DISTRICT PARTNERS\, SPONSORS\, MERCHANTS\, AND SUPPORTERS!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paseo-artistico-how-do-you-carry-home-with-you/
LOCATION:Latino Cultural District\, 24th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171211T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171211T200000
DTSTAMP:20260507T115526
CREATED:20171119T031013Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171119T031013Z
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SUMMARY:A Dyke\, a Pervert\, + a Transwoman Walk into a Bookstore...
DESCRIPTION:Authors Deb Busman\, Jordy Jones\, and Natasha Dennerstein read from their recent works.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-dyke-a-pervert-a-transwoman-walk-into-a-bookstore/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171213T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260507T115526
CREATED:20171022T023622Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T023622Z
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SUMMARY:Matthew McIntosh
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \ntheMystery.doc \npublished by Grove Press \nFunny\, highly inventive\, and deeply moving\, theMystery.doc is a vast\, shape-shifting literary novel that reads like a page-turner. It’s a comedy\, a tragedy\, a big book about America. It’s unlike anything you’ve read before. Rooted in the western United States in the decade post-9/11\, the book follows a young writer and his wife as he attempts to write the follow-up to his first novel\, searching for a form that will express the world as it has become\, even as it continually shifts all around him. Pop-up ads\, search results\, web chats\, snippets of conversation\, lines of code\, and film and television stills mix with alchemical manuscripts\, classical works of literature—and the story of a man who wakes up one morning without any memory of who he is\, his only clue a single blank document on his computer called themystery.doc. From text messages to The Divine Comedy\, first love to artificial intelligence\, the book explores what makes us human—the stories we tell\, the memories we hold on to\, the memories we lose—and the relationships that give our lives meaning. Part love story\, part memoir\, part documentary\, part existential whodunit\, theMystery.doc is a modern epic about the quest to find something lasting in a world where everything—and everyone—is in danger of slipping away.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matthew-mcintosh/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171215T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171215T210000
DTSTAMP:20260507T115526
CREATED:20171208T025820Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171208T025820Z
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SUMMARY:THERE 19
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, December 15\, 2017 –  featuring award-winning\, best-selling local author Tom Barbash\, the very funny Pamela Weymouth\, searing memoirist Dr. Vanessa Grubbs\, and musical guests TBA. \nTHERE (THe Eastbay Reading Extravaganza) is a reading series showcasing emerging and established writers from Oakland and Berkeley\, with the occasional San Franciscan. Doug hosts it on the third Friday of each month at Octopus Literary Salon in Uptown Oakland. It also features a live original musical performance by a local musical artist at “halftime” of each month’s reading\, and Doug’s famous original LitQuiz literary trivia contest. It’s from 7:00-9:00pm. THERE has been putting the there back in Oakland since 2015!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/there-19/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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