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SUMMARY:Jennifer Dwight
DESCRIPTION:Recently widowed and adapting to the challenges of single motherhood\, Mercedes Bell is a paralegal at Crenshaw\, Slayne & McDonough when she meets Jack Soutane\, a dashing San Francisco lawyer who has recently begun leasing office space from the firm. It’s the 1980s. The crack epidemic\, homelessness\, and AIDS explode on the scene\, Jack’s law practice booms―and the Crenshaw firm eagerly shares his bounty. Meanwhile\, despite all the warning signs\, Mercedes falls under Jack’s spell. \nWhen calamity strikes and Jack succumbs to his own dark surprise\, Mercedes finds herself in a race to survive and to protect her daughter. In order to do so\, she must make sense of wildly inconsistent information―and face the truths that emerge. Compelling and full of suspense\, The Tolling of Mercedes Bell is a story about honesty in the face of deception\, courage in the pursuit of happiness\, and the unexpected places that quest can lead. \nJennifer Dwight has lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area’s legal community\, the setting for her upcoming suspense novel\, for more than 30 years. She has written and published several law practice-related nonfiction books\, many articles\, a sixty-segment fiction serial\, and numerous short stories. She received a B.A. in Religion from The Colorado College and has studied creative writing at U.C. Extension in Berkeley\, CA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-dwight/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jose Gutierrez + Tracey Knapp
DESCRIPTION:Jose Gutierrez was born in Miami and raised in Panama. He’s been a poet of repute in San Francisco for a decade. We’re pleased to host a release reading of his new collection\, “A World Less Away.” Tracey Knapp\, whose book “Mouth” was published in 2015\, will open the reading.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jose-gutierrez-tracey-knapp/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jo Baker
DESCRIPTION:From the best-selling author of Longbourn\, a stunning new novel that follows an unnamed writer–Samuel Beckett–whose life and extraordinary literary gift are permanently shaped in the forge of war.\nWhen war breaks out in Europe in 1939\, a young\, unknown writer journeys from his home in neutral Ireland to conflict-ridden Paris and is drawn into the maelstrom. With him we experience the hardships yet stubborn vibrancy at the heart of Europe during the Nazis’ rise to power; his friendships with James Joyce and other luminaries; his quietly passionate devotion to the Frenchwoman who will become his lifelong companion; his secret work for the French Resistance and narrow escapes from the Gestapo; his flight from occupied Paris to the countryside; and the rubble of his life after liberation. And through it all we are witness to workings of a uniquely brilliant mind struggling to create a language that will express his experience of this shattered world. Here is a remarkable story of survival and determination\, and a portrait of the extremes of human experience alchemized into timeless art.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jo-baker/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Carol Snow + Brian Teare
DESCRIPTION:Carol Snow’s new book is Position Paper: New and Selected Poems. Robert Hass has called her work “brilliant\, funny\, subtle\,” Cole Swenson “delicate and masterful\,” and Fanny Howe has deemed it “a new and mesmerizing way of looking at things.” Her previous books are Artist and Model\, selected by Robert Hass for the National Poetry Series and winner of the Poetry Center Book Award; For; The Seventy Prepositions; and Placed: Karesansui Poems. Among her honors are the Joseph Henry Jackson Award\, a Pushcart Prize\, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, and a Poetry Fund grant. \nBrian Teare’s new book of poems is The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven. Cole Swensen says\, “A kind of stillness gradually builds through these carefully-shaped pieces\, a distilled poise in which one comes to hear Agnes Martin as one simultaneously sees the Zen koan that the collection itself slowly\, precisely forms.” He’s published four previous books of poems\, The Room Where I Was Born\, winner of the Brittingham Prize; Sight Map; Pleasure\, which won the Lambda Award; and Companion Grasses\, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award. A 2015 Pew Fellow in the Arts\, he’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fund for Poetry\, among others. An Assistant Professor at Temple University\, he lives in South Philadelphia\, where he makes books by hand for his micropress\, Albion Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carol-snow-brian-teare/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press Author Readings
DESCRIPTION:Pegasus Books presents an evening with authors from Oakland’s Nomadic Press \nFeaturing Readers: \nTongo Eisen-Martin\nCassandra Dallett\nSoma Mei Sheng Frazier\nAllie Marini\nNick Johnson\nand MK Chavez \nAbout Nomadic Press (from their website): \n“We are proud to print all of our books locally in Oakland\, CA. We strongly believe in supporting local authors\, publishers\, and printers and growing together. We distribute our books with a local distributor and every week—multiple times a week—feature local writers\, musicians\, and artists in our diverse events across the Bay Area and Brooklyn\, NY. Thank you for visiting and supporting your small\, community-focused non-profit publishing organization.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-author-readings/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Dana Gioia: 99 Poems
DESCRIPTION:We are so honored to bring the newly appointed Poet Laureate of California\, Dana Gioia\, to celebrate the publication of his new collection. We hope youll join us in welcoming this profound and meaningful artist to Keplers Books in Menlo Park. \nDana Gioia is widely known in the literary community for his rigorous craft and his imaginative use of traditional forms\, rhyme and meter. He tackles the everyday drama and emotional moments in our lives and explores universal themes like grief\, love\, time\, family and his own mortality. This is the first collection of Gioias to gather work from across his storied career\, including a dozen remarkable new poems. \nThe Washington Post raves\, 99 Poems is one of the most anticipated collections of 2016\, and it does not disappoint. No matter what the topicmystery\, place remembrance\, imagination\, stories\, songs\, loveor the form\, these polished pieces are vibrant and inviting. \nDana Gioia is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning poet. Former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts\, Gioia is a native Californian of Italian and Mexican descent. He earned an M.B.A at Stanford University and an M.A. in Comparative Literature at Harvard University. In December of 2015\, Gioia was named Poet Laureate of California by Governor Jerry Brown and will advocate for the education and practice of poetry during his two-year term. He has published four full-length collections of poetry\, as well as eight chapbooks. He divides his time between Los Angeles and Sonoma County\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dana-gioia-99-poems/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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