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SUMMARY:Krys Lee
DESCRIPTION:In How I Became a North Korean\, Yongju is an accomplished student from one of North Korea’s most prominent families. Jangmi\, on the other hand\, has had to fend for herself since childhood\, most recently by smuggling goods across the border. Danny is a Chinese-American teenager of North Korean descent whose quirks and precocious intelligence have long marked him as an outcast in his California high school. \nThese three disparate lives converge when each of them travels to the region where China borders North Korea—Danny to visit his mother\, who is working as a missionary there\, after a humiliating incident keeps him out of school; Yongju to escape persecution after his father is killed at the hands of the Dear Leader himself; and Jangmi to protect her unborn child. As they struggle to survive in a place where danger seems to close in on all sides\, in the form of government informants\, husbands\, thieves\, abductors\, and even missionaries\, they come to form a kind of adopted family. But will Yongju\, Jangmi and Danny find their way to the better lives they risked everything for? Transporting the reader to one of the most complex and threatening environments in the world\, and exploring how humanity persists even in the most dire of circumstances\, How I Became a North Korean is a brilliant and essential first novel by one of our most promising writers. \nKrys Lee was born in Seoul\, South Korea\, raised in California and Washington\, and studied in the United States and England. Her debut story collection\, Drifting House\, was awarded the 2012 Story Prize Spotlight Award and was a finalist for the 2012 BBC International Story Prize. Her work has appeared in the Kenyon Review\, Narrative magazine\, Granta (New Voices)\, The Guardian\, Financial Times\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Conde Nast Traveller\, UK\, and other publications. She is a professor of creative writing at Yonsei University’s Underwood International College in Seoul
URL:https://litseen.com/event/krys-lee/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Megan Abbott
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning author Megan Abbott shares her much buzzed new novel\, You Will Know Me. With Starred Reviews from Publishers Weekly\, Kirkus Reviews\, Booklist\, and Library Journal\, You Will Know Me is a breathless rollercoaster of a novel about the desperate limits of parental sacrifice\, furtive desire\, and the staggering force of ambition.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/megan-abbott/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jedediah Caesar + Kate Costello w/ Dodie Bellamy
DESCRIPTION:Shop Talk brings creative practitioners from disparate fields together for a casual conversation about the conceptual overlaps\, or contradictions\, within their work\, as well as the personal stakes or investments that are involved in their practices. This summer\, Los Angeles based visual artists Jedediah Caesar and Kate Costello (AIRs ‘16) speak with San Francisco novelist\, essayist\, and editor Dodie Bellamy. Together they will unpack the themes that live among and around their distinct projects\, which often deftly undo all expectations—by employing formal upendings\, shifting narratives\, and destabilizing established notions of authorship and truth.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jedediah-caesar-kate-costello-w-dodie-bellamy/
LOCATION:Mess Hall\, Headlands Center for the Arts\, 944 Simmonds Road\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Catamaran Literary Reader\, Live Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join Catamaran Literary Reader and some of their fantastic contributors–including Jacob Moniz\, Pat Zylius\, Vito Victor\, and Melissa Sanders-Self–for a celebration of the release of their Summer Issue\, Issue 14. Light refreshments will be provided!\n\nCatamaran Literary Reader is a gorgeous print magazine published quarterly and distributed nationwide and in Canada\, featuring the fine art\, fiction\, poetry\, and creative nonfiction of both emerging and established contributors from all over the world. Founded by Catherine Segurson\, who this year received a Gail Rich Award recognizing her work\, the collection often highlights works about the environment\, the artistic spirit\, personal freedom\, and innovation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/catamaran-literary-reader-live-reading/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Knapp\, Kline\, Vossoughi\, Salvatierra\, + Matus
DESCRIPTION:Join Tracey Knapp in celebrating her month-long Poet-in-Residence at the Bazaar Cafe with writers Peter Kline\, Siamak Vossoughi\, Yaccaira Salvatierra and Gerardo Pacheco Matus. \nPETER KLINE teaches writing at the University of San Francisco and Stanford University. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow\, he has also received residency fellowships from the Amy Clampitt House\, James Merrill House\, Marble House Project\, and Kimmel Harding Nelson Foundation. His poetry has appeared in Ploughshares\, Five Points\, Poetry\, Tin House\, and many other journals\, as well as the Best New Poets series and the 2015 Random House anthology\, Measure for Measure. Since 2012 he has directed the San Francisco literary reading series Bazaar Writers Salon. His first collection of poetry\, Deviants\, was published by SFASU Press in 2013. \nYACCAIRA SALVATIERRA was born and raised in California. Her poems have appeared\, or are forthcoming in the The Acentos Review\, Huizache\, Diálogo\, MiPOesías\, Puerto del Sol\, Rattle and Kweli among others. She is a VONA (Voices of Our Nation) alumna\, has received the Dorrit Sibley Award for poetry\, is the 2015 winner of the Puerto del Sol Poetry Prize\, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in San José\, California with her two sons. \nSIAMAK VOSSOUGHI is an Iranian-American writer living in San Francisco. He has had stories published in various journals and his short story collection\, Better Than War\, received a 2014 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. \nGERARDO PACHECO MATUS\, a Mayan native\, was recipient of a 2015 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Work-Study Scholarship. In 2012\, The San Francisco Foundation awarded Pacheco the distinguished Joseph Henry Jackson Award. Pacheco’s poems and essays have appeared and are forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press\, Jambu Press\, La Bloga Online Magazine\, Grantmakers in the Arts\, San Francisco Foundation\, Spillway Magazine\, Transfer Magazine\, El Tecolote Newspaper\, Cipactli Magazine\, Amistad Howard-University\, Poets Responding to SB1070\, The University of Arizona Press\, APRICITY PRESS\, The Packinghouse Review & West Branch Wired. Pacheco was also selected to participate on “The Pintura:Palabra National Ekphrastic Workshops\, in tandem with the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Travelling Exhibit\, “Our America: The Latino Presence in America Art.”” Pacheco’s manuscript\, Child of the Grasses\, was chosen as finalist for the Andrés Montaya Poetry Prize in 2016. This summer\, Pacheco joined The Frost Place Conference on Poetry and became a CantoMundo fellow. \nTRACEY KNAPP’s first full-length collection of poems\, Mouth\, won the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award and was published in 2015. Tracey has received scholarships from the Tin House Writers’ Workshop and the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fund. Her work has been anthologized in Best New Poets 2008 and 2010\, The Cento: A Collection of Collage Poems (Red Hen Press)\, and has appeared in Poetry Daily\, Five Points\, The National Poetry Review\, Red Wheelbarrow Review\, The New Ohio Review and elsewhere.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/knapp-kline-vossoughi-salvatierra-matus/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kaui Hart Hemmings
DESCRIPTION:New York Times bestselling author Kaui Hart Hemmings returns with her new novel How to Party with an Infant. In this hilarious and charming story set in San Francisco\, food blogger and single mom\, Mele Bart finds herself involved in her ex-boyfriend’s wedding when he requests that their daughter be the flower girl. Mele has also agreed to attend the nuptials and finds herself quietly obsessing about Bobby and his fiancée. Out of desperation\, she enters the San Francisco Mother’s Club Cookbook competition and unexpectedly discovers the friends\, inspiration\, and comfort she needs to make it through. Author of The Descendants and The Possibilities\, Kaui Hart Hemmings has an uncanny ability to make disastrous romances and calamitous circumstances relatable\, funny\, and unforgettable. \nKaui Hart Hemmings has degrees from Colorado College and Sarah Lawrence\, and she was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her first novel\, a New York Times bestseller\, The Descendants\, has been published in twenty-two other countries and is now an Oscar-winning film directed by Alexander Payne and starring George Clooney. She is also the author of a story collection House of Thieves\, the novel The Possibilities and the YA novel Juniors. She lives in Hawaii.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kaui-hart-hemmings/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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