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SUMMARY:Jeanne Lupton
DESCRIPTION:Jeanne Lupton is a poet and writer\, montage artist\, and student of the dulcimer. She is self-employed doing odd jobs\, including reflexology\, caregiving\, and pet and house sitting\, She has featured and read at open mics in the bay area\, leads a memoir writing group at the North Berkeley Senior Center\, and cohosts poetry readings at Frank Bette Center for the Arts in Alameda. She also hosts the monthly talent show at Strawberry Creek Lodge\, where she lives with 149 other elders and her cat.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeanne-lupton/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays: So Much to be Done
DESCRIPTION:So Much to Be Done” The Writings of Breast Cancer Activist Barbara Brenner \nEdited by Barbara Sjoholm \nPresented by Susie Lampert and Elaine Elinson \nCollected in So Much to Be Done\, and framed by personal accounts of Barbara and her influential work\, Brenner’s columns and blog posts form a chronicle of breast cancer research and health care activism that is as inspiring as it is informative. \nFree admission!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-so-much-to-be-done/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Roy Scranton: War Porn
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Roy Scranton: \n“What impresses is the brutal immediacy of the writing\, its authority. Roy Scranton is a truth telling war writer.” — E.L. Doctorow\, author of Ragtime \n\n“I have never read a book like War Porn. Roy Scranton writes with unnerving power. There is much to admire here—the meticulous craftsmanship\, the hysterical comic passages\, the way the sheer audacity of vision is matched at every turn by the innovative skill to carry it out—but what I’m left with at the end is difficult to put into words. It’s intense and troubling. It’s what all truly excellent literature leaves you with. A sense of something shattering.” — Phil Klay\, author of Redeployment\n\n“War Porn is dire\, savage\, and brilliant\, a simmering fever-dream of a novel that’s as pure and true in its vision of the long war as anything I’ve read. Roy Scranton is merciless—and why should he be anything but? War’s corruption soaks through every layer of life\, and War Porn drives home that truth with unflinching\, and ultimately harrowing\, honesty.” — Ben Fountain\, author of Billy Flynn’s Long Halftime Walk\n\nAbout War Porn: \nThe term war porn refers to videos and images brought back from combat zones. IED explosions\, air strikes\, firefights\, images of death and gore largely shorn of context\, at times even evidence of potential war crimes (most famously\, the photos of detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib). \n\nWar porn is also\, in Scranton’s searing debut\, a metaphor for the fragmentation and confusion of modern combat\, the broken shards of experience that form the wartime experiences of soldiers and civilians alike. The three sections of “War Porn” fit inside one another like nesting dolls: from an end of summer barbecue in the American Southwest; to the perspective of a young US soldier in the early months of the occupation of Iraq; to the story of Qasim al-Zabadi\, an Iraqi math professor who faces the American invasion with a blend of fear\, denial\, and perseverance. Through the eyes of the occupiers\, we watch Qasim become an interpreter for US forces\, then prisoner and victim. As the scene switches from America to Iraq and back again\, as home and hell merge\, Qasim reveals the fragile humanity that connects occupier and occupied\, torturer and tortured.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roy-scranton-war-porn/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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