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SUMMARY:Elisha Cooper
DESCRIPTION:In Falling\, the award-winning children’s book author confronts a new world when faced with his daughter’s illness in this frank\, moving\, and beautiful memoir. \nElisha Cooper spends his mornings writing and illustrating children’s books\, his afternoons playing with his two daughters. The phrase he hates most is “throw like a girl\,” so he teaches them to climb trees and play ball. But when he discovers a lump in five-year-old Zoë’s midsection as she sits on his lap at a Chicago Cubs game\, everything changes. Surgery\, sleepless nights\, treatments\, a drumbeat of worry. Even as the family moves to New York and Zoë starts kindergarten\, they must navigate a new normal: school and soccer games and hot chocolates in cafés regularly interrupted by anxious visits to the hospital. And Elisha is forced to balance his desire to be a protective parent—even as he encourages his girls to take risks—against the increasing helplessness he feels for his child’s well-being\, and his own. \nElisha Cooper is the author of Train\, Farm\, Homer\, and\, most recently\, 8: An Animal Alphabet. His children’s book\, Beach\, won the 2006 Society of Illustrators Gold Medal. Dance! was a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year. Other books include A Year in New York and the memoir Crawling: A Father’s First Year. He lives with his family in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elisha-cooper/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Indy Press Night ft. Ig Publishing w/ Carswell + Tanner
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the release of two new novels \nMetaphysical Ukulele \nby Sean Carswell \n& \nMissile Paradise \nby Ron Tanner \nboth books published by Ig Press \nAbout Metaphysical Ukulele: \nMixing the flair of literary invention with real events in the lives of some of our most well-known writers—Herman Melville living with a tribe of cannibals; Raymond Chandler holding The Blue Dahlia screenplay hostage from Paramount Studios; Flannery O’Connor falling in love; Chester Himes threatening to decapitate his landlord\, a ukulele player who may or may not be Thomas Pynchon\, among others—Sean Carswell takes the nonfiction of the literary life and turns it into exquisite fiction\, with a ukulele thrown in to each story for good measure. At times heartbreaking\, at times absurd\, the stories in this truly one-of-a-kind collection delightfully blur the line between what is life\, and what is literature. \nSean Carswell is the author of the novels Drinks for the Little Guy\, Train Wreck Girl\, and Madhouse Fog\, and the short story collections Barney’s Crew and Glue and Ink Rebellion. He co-founded the independent book publisher Gorsky Press and the music magazine Razorcake. He currently teaches writing and literature at California State University\, Channel Islands. \nAbout Missle Paradise: \nIn the Marshall Islands\, an island-nation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that was once a testing ground for nuclear bombs\, American engineers and programmers are making and testing missiles while their “hosts\,” the indigenous Marshallese\, sweep their streets and clean their houses. It’s 2004\, the Iraq war is heating up\, and 9/11 is fresh in everyone’s minds. Following four interconnected story lines—the meltdown of a burned-out cultural liaison who has “gone native” and bitterly resents his role in keeping the Marshallese down; a young programmer who has lost his leg in a reckless solo sailing journey; the struggles of a young widow with two children whose husband drowned in a mysterious diving accident; and the destructive spiral of a Marshallese teenager whose American girlfriend rejects him when she returns to the States—Missile Paradise is an extraordinary novel that deals with the major social and political issues of our time\, including racism\, represented by the relationship between the Americans who enjoy life on Kwajalein and the subservience of the native Marshallese\, who live on the neglected and trash-strewn island of Ebeye; and climate change—the climax of the novel is a great storm and flood which forces the Marshallese on Ebeye to flee to Kwajalein. \nRon Tanner’s awards for writing include a Faulkner Society gold medal\, a Pushcart Prize\, a New Letters Award\, a Best of the Web Award\, a Maryland Arts Council grant\, and many others. He is the author of A Bed of Nails (stories)\, Kiss Me Stranger (illustrated novel)\, and From Animal House to Our House (memoir). He teaches writing at Loyola University-Maryland and directs the Marshall Islands Story Project. \nIg Publishing produces original literary fiction from writers who have been overlooked by the mainstream publishing establishment\, and political and cultural nonfiction. Their Young Adult imprint\, Lizzie Skurnick Books\, is devoted to bringing back the very best in young adult literature\, from the classics of the ’30s and ’40s to the thrillers and social issue novels of the ’70s and ’80s.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/indy-press-night-ft-ig-publishing-w-carswell-tanner/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Hundy: Poems in Translation
DESCRIPTION:co-sponsored by the low residency MFA in translation at Mills College \nAlan Bernheimer’s latest collection is The Spoonlight Institute\, published by Adventures in Poetry in 2009. Recent work has appeared at Annex Press\, Across the Margin\, and Hambone. He has lived in the Bay Area since the mid-1970s and publishes a portrait gallery on flickr of poets reading. His translation of Philippe Soupault’s Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism\, Dada\, and Surrealism is forthcoming this fall from City Lights. \nCarlota Caulfield is a poet\, translator and literary critic. She is the author of eleven books of poems\, amongst them At the Paper Gates with Burning Desire and The Book of Giulio Camillo (a model for a theater of memory)\, El libro de Giulio Camillo (maqueta para un teatro de la memoria) / Il Libro de Giulio Camillo (modello per un teatro della memoria). She has translated into Spanish selections of poems by the American writer Jack Foley\, and by the Irish poets Eavan Boland\, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin\, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill\, Rita Ann Higgins\, Paula Meehan\, Medbh McGuckian\, Sara Berkeley and Catherine Walsh. Amongst her published translations into English are poems by Regino E. Boti\, José Angel Valente\, and Gustavo Vega. \nElana Chavez is a writer and urban gardener living in Oakland. \nBrenda Hillman has published nine collections of poetry with Wesleyan University Press\, including Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire (2013). With Garrett Caples and Paul Ebenkamp\, she co-edited Richard O. Moore’s Particulars of Place (Omnidawn\, 2105). Hillman teaches at St. Mary’s College where she is the Filippi Professor of Poetry. \nGeraldine Kim is the author of Povel (Fence\, 2005) and Parallel Play (Fence\, forthcoming)\, the play Donning Cheadle\, and the chapbooks Things I’d Let You Do To Me and no face\, just boobs. She is also the Reviews Editor for the blog Weird Sister. \nAva Koohbor is a native Farsi speaker poet and visual artist. During the last couple of years\, many of her poems appear in various publications such as Streetnotes\, AMERARCANA\, Eleven Eleven\, Dusie… Her recent chapbook\, Triangle Squared\, has been published by Bootstrap Press. She believes that each artist is a medium to transfer the world of possibilities to what is. \nBorn in Mexico\, based in Oakland\, Hugo García Manríquez is a poet and translator. \nJanice Sapigao is a daughter of Filipina/o immigrants. Her first book of poetry about her mom\, microchips for millions\, critiques the Silicon Valley and its exploitation of immigrant women workers\, and will be published by Philippine American Writers and Artists (PAWA)\, Inc. Her second book\, like a solid to a shadow about fatherlessness\, grieving\, and family lineages is also forthcoming from Timeless\, Infinite Light. She is the Associate Editor of TAYO Literary Magazine. She earned her M.F.A. in Writing from CalArts\, and she has a B.A. in Ethnic Studies with Honors from UC San Diego. She teaches English at San José City College and Skyline College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-hundy-poems-in-translation/
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:Nicholas Karavatos + Noor Al-Samarrai
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a very special evening of readings with world renowned poet performer Nicholas Karavatos accompanied by musical guest Jeff Kelley\, and renaissance performance artist and “Jill of all trades” Noor Al-Samarrai. \nDonations will be called for throughout the night\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \nWine and Red Bay coffee will be available. \nParking: Street parking is usually available\, but the easiest thing to do is to park at the Walgreens just a block away. Here is a handy map (you should see Nomadic Press on there): https://goo.gl/maps/SgaHMhV88MA2
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LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Winston Smith w/ V. Vale
DESCRIPTION:Pegasus Books teams up with 924 Gilman to present Winston Smith (illustrator of Dead Kennedy’s: Fresh Fruit for for Rotting Vegetables) in conversation with V. Vale (founder of RE/SEARCH: San Francisco’s longest running punk rock publication). \nPresented as part of “Mosh Lit:” A Pegasus Books and 924 Gilman Event Series \nDead Kennedys routinely top both critic and fan polls as the greatest punk band of their generation. Their debut full-length\, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables\, in particular\, is regularly voted among the top albums in the genre. Fresh Fruit offered a perfect hybrid of humor and polemic strapped to a musical chassis that was as tetchy and inventive as Jello Biafra’s withering broadsides. Those lyrics\, cruel in their precision\, were revelatory. But it wouldn’t have worked if the underlying sonics were not such an uproarious rush\, the paraffin to Biafra’s naked flame. \nDead Kennedys’ continuing influence is an extraordinary achievement for a band that had practically zero radio play and only released records on independent labels. They not only existed outside of the mainstream but were\, as V. Vale of Search and Destroy noted\, the first band of their stature to turn on and attack the music industry itself. The DKs set so much in motion. They were integral to the formulation of an alternative network that allowed bands on the first rung of the ladder to tour outside of their own backyard. They were instrumental in supporting the concept of all-ages shows and spurned the advances of corporate rock promoters and industry lapdogs. They legitimized the notion of an American punk band touring internationally while disseminating the true horror of their native country’s foreign policies\, effectively serving as anti-ambassadors on their travels. \nThe book uses dozens of first-hand interviews\, photos\, and original artwork to offer a new perspective on a group who would become mired in controversy almost from the get-go. It applauds the band’s key role in transforming punk rhetoric\, both polemical and musical\, into something genuinely threatening—and enormously funny. The author offers context in terms of both the global and local trajectory of punk and\, while not flinching from the wildly differing takes individual band members have on the evolution of the band\, attempts to be celebratory—if not uncritical. \n“We have a sense of humor and we’re not afraid to use it in a vicious way if we have to. In some ways\, we’re cultural terrorists\, using music instead of guns.“\n—Jello Biafra\, Dead Kennedys \n  \nPunk art surrealist Winston Smith\, a master of “hand-carved“ collage\, has been crafting his thought-provoking art since the 1970s. Smith first became known for his collaborations with punk legends Dead Kennedys and his numerous album covers\, inserts\, and flyers for the band in their formative years. His technique of cutting out by hand and gluing each individual element has inspired a generation of artists. His published collections include Act Like Nothing’s Wrong\, Artcrime\, and All Riot on the Western Front. \nIn 1977 V. Vale founded as sole proprietor Search & Destroy\, San Francisco’s first Punk Rock publication. It was published at City Lights Bookstore\, where V. Vale worked\, and was funded by $100 each from Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg. In 1980\, V. Vale launched as sole proprietor RE/SEARCH. V. Vale is most likely the longest lasting (and still active) Punk publisher. Although Vale released books which include Jello Biafra\, Henry Rollins\, Lydia Lunch\, and many other Punk notables\, RE/SEARCH is actually best known for its impact on the total world of underground culture.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/winston-smith-w-v-vale/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Cathleen Schine
DESCRIPTION:Joy Bergman is not slipping into old age with the quiet grace her children\, Molly and Daniel\, would prefer. She won’t take their advice\, and she won’t take an antidepressant. Her marriage to their father\, Aaron\, has lasted through health and dementia\, as well as some phenomenally lousy business decisions. The Bergman clan has always stuck together\, growing as it incorporated in-laws\, ex-in-laws\, and same-sex spouses. But families don’t just grow\, they grow old. Schine’s latest novel is a tender\, sometimes hilarious intergenerational story about searching for where you belong as your family changes with age.\n\nWhen Aaron dies\, Molly and Daniel have no shortage of solutions for their mother’s loneliness and despair\, but there is one challenge they did not count on: the reappearance of an ardent suitor from Joy’s college days. They didn’t count on Joy suddenly becoming as willful and rebellious as their own kids. \nCathleen Schine is the author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport\, To the Birdhouse\, The New Yorkers\, and The Love Letter\, among other novels. She has contributed to The New Yorker\, The New York Review of Books\, and The New York Times Magazine. She grew up in Westport\, Connecticut\, and lives in New York City and Venice\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cathleen-schine/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Mychal Denzel Smith
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Invisible Man\, Got the Whole World Watching: \n“This is the book that could have saved so many of our lives.” —Kiese Laymon \n\n“Mychal Denzel Smith answers the pressing but unasked question\, what would happen if all those black boys felled by bullets had a chance to make mistakes\, read books\, fall in love\, hone skills\, take new paths\, and grow up? The story is fully and unflinchingly Mychal’s and because Mychal is so distinctively self-aware\, so intellectually invested\, and emotionally raw\, it cannot simply stand in as a generic tale for all the lost black boys– except that they too would have had stories entirely their own to tell if only they had had a chance to write them. We owe it to them and more importantly to ourselves to read Mychal’s book and render visible what we would rather forget.” —Melissa Harris-Perry \n\n“If I kept a diary of my deepest thoughts\, plaguing insecurities and varied triumphs—this would be it. It is a cover to cover conversation with the reader on the complexity of (hopefully) growing to be a Black Man in the American Empire. Mychal’s coming of age book\, his first\, is a masterful meld of personal reflection\, political analysis and honest insight that yearns to be felt\, must be read and demands to be seen.”  —umi selah\, organizer and co-founder\, the dream defenders \n\nAbout Invisible Man\, Got the Whole World Watching: \nHow do you learn to be a black man in America? For young black men today\, it means coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama. It means witnessing the deaths of Oscar Grant\, Trayvon Martin\, Michael Brown\, Akai Gurley\, and too many more. It means celebrating powerful moments of black self-determination for LeBron James\, Dave Chappelle\, and Frank Ocean.\nIn “Invisible Man\, Got the Whole World Watching\,” Mychal Denzel Smith chronicles his own personal and political education during these tumultuous years\, describing his efforts to come into his own in a world that denied his humanity. Smith unapologetically upends reigning assumptions about black masculinity\, rewriting the script for black manhood so that depression and anxiety aren t considered taboo\, and feminism and LGBTQ rights become part of the fight. The questions Smith asks in this book are urgentfor him\, for the martyrs and the tokens\, and for the Trayvons that could have been and are still waiting.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mychal-denzel-smith/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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