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SUMMARY:Julia Claiborne Johnson
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Julia Claiborne Johnson to the store to discuss and sign\, Be Frank with Me. \nReclusive literary legend M. M. Mimi Banning has been holed up in her Bel Air mansion for years\, but after falling prey to a Bernie Madoff-style ponzi scheme\, she’s flat broke. Now Mimi must write a new book for the first time in decades\, and to ensure the timely delivery of her manuscript\, her New York publisher sends an assistant to monitor her progress. The prickly Mimi reluctantly complies with a few stipulations: No Ivy-Leaguers or English majors. Must drive\, cook\, tidy. Computer whiz. Good with kids. Quiet\, discreet\, sane.\nWhen Alice Whitley arrives at the Banning mansion\, she’s put to work right away as a full-time companion to Frank\, the writer’s eccentric nine-year-old\, a boy with the wit of Noel Coward\, the wardrobe of a 1930s movie star\, and very little in common with his fellow fourth-graders. As she slowly gets to know Frank\, Alice becomes consumed with finding out who Frank’s father is\, how his gorgeous piano teacher and itinerant male role model Xander fits into the Banning family equation and whether Mimi will ever finish that book.\nFull of heart and countless only-in-Hollywood moments\, Be Frank with Me is a captivating and unconventional story of an unusual mother and son\, and the intrepid young woman who finds herself irresistibly pulled into their unforgettable world. \nJulia Claiborne Johnson worked at Mademoiselle and Glamour magazines before marrying and moving to Los Angeles\, where she lives with her comedy-writer husband and their two children. Be Frank with Me is her fiction debut.
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LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Pan Dulce Poets: Summer Series!
DESCRIPTION:September’s edition of Pan Dulce Poets presents the ecstaic poetry of Kari Riesgo Bañuelos\, Natalie Enright and Naomi Quiñonez. \nOpen Mic sign up starts at 7pm and coffee & canela are free during readings.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pan-dulce-poets-summer-series/
LOCATION:La Reyna Bakery\, 3114 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mauro Javier Cardenas w/ Oscar Villalon
DESCRIPTION:Mauro Javier Cardenas discusses his debut novel\, The Revolutionaries Try Again\, with Zyzzyva magazine’s Oscar Villalon. \nFeaturing a performance by the Word for Word Theatrical Company! \nPraise for The Revolutionaries Try Again: \n“Exuberant\, cacophonous . . . Cardenas dizzyingly leaps from character to character\, from street protests to swanky soirees\, and from lengthy uninterrupted interior monologues to rapid-fire dialogues and freewheeling satirical radio programs\, resulting in extended passages of brilliance.” —Publishers Weekly\, review *starred* \n“An unhinged novel about three childhood friends contemplating a presidential run against the crooked Ecuadorian president Abdalá “El Loco” Bucaram. This is double-black-diamond high modernism\, so do some warm-up stretches before you crack this baby.” —Shelf Awareness \n“In The Revolutionaries Try Again\, Mauro Javier Cardenas has taken the edifice of arch modernism and suffused it with tender details of a boyhood in Ecuador. The long\, unraveling sentences reveal an extraordinarily musical ear. This is a debut that will last.” —Karan Mahajan \n“Beware of this writer! The book you’re holding bites. If the reader dares enter after this warning\, he’ll never forget it\, and the memory will stay just as sharp as the humor and velocity in the stories themselves. Incisive\, forceful\, and written in an English that’s fiercely subversive\, The Revolutionaries Try Again evokes a pair of great Latin American novels: Bolaño’sThe Savage Detectives and Cortázar’s Hopscotch. But this book goes even further: it’s the novel we’ve been waiting for\, witness to the most recent wave of immigration from Latin America to the US\, told through the eyes of a privileged class that forces their conationals out of their countries. It’s been ten years since a book this alive\, this incandescent\, has fallen into my hands.” —Carmen Boullosa \nAbout The Revolutionaries Try Again: \nThree former members of an idealistic Jesuit volunteer group attempt to transform Ecuador in the lost decade of austerity packages and the populist demagogy of El Loco Bucaram. Antonio\, an expat and artist in San Francisco\, wants to believe he’s left his country’s extreme poverty behind for good\, but his childhood friend Leopoldo\, now a political bureaucrat\, persuades him to return to make a run for office. Meanwhile\, Rolando suspects his girlfriend Eva will leave him if he acts on his violent revolutionary impulses\, so he agrees to stage political plays with her instead. Their relationship is strained by the struggles they’ve hidden from each other: her brother’s disappearance by paramilitary squadrons\, his sister’s misfortunes crossing the border to the United States.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mauro-javier-cardenas-w-oscar-villalon/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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