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SUMMARY:Tonya Foster
DESCRIPTION:Tonya M. Foster was born in Bloomington\, Illinois\, and raised in New Orleans. She earned a BA from Newcomb College\, Tulane University\, and an MFA from the University of Houston. Foster is the author of the poetry collection A Swarm of Bees in High Court (Belladonna*\, 2015) and coedited the book Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art (2002). Her work has appeared in Callaloo\, MiPoesias\, Western Humanities Review\, the Hat\, and elsewhere. In a review\, Patricia Spears Jones says\, “Foster’ s imaginative work glories in language’s ambiguities\, discords\, emotions and logic—she allows that imaginative thrall to explore race and gender and political dysfunction.” \nFoster has received fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Macdowell Colony\, the Ford Foundation\, the Mellon Foundation\, and the Graduate Center\, CUNY\, where she is a PhD candidate. She has taught at Bard College\, Queens College CUNY\, Baruch College CUNY\, and she currently is an assistant professor at California College of the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tonya-foster/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Luis Valdez
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the newly refurbished Hammer Theatre for a gala evening celebrating the CLA’s 30 years of bringing top authors to San José. Our featured speaker will be none other than acclaimed author\, playwright\, actor\, and director\, Luis Valdez. A San José State alumnus\, Valdez founded the theatre El Teatro Campesino in 1965 on the Delano Grape Strike picket lines of Cesar Chavez’s United Farmworkers Union to dramatize the plight and cause of farmworkers. El Teatro Campesino was honored with an Obie Award for “demonstrating the politics of survival.” In 1979\, Valdez’s play Zoot Suit became the first Chicano work to debut on Broadway. His self-directed movie\, La Bamba\, was nominated for the 1988 Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture in the Drama category. Valdez has won the Hispanic Heritage award in Literature\, as well as the Presidential Medal of the Arts. He has also won three Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards and an Emmy Award.  Meet Luis at a private VIP reception and CLA fundraiser following the show.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/luis-valdez/
LOCATION:SJSU Hammer Theatre\, 101 Paseo de Antonio\, San Jose\, CA\, 95112\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:An evening with Lidija Dimkovska
DESCRIPTION:reading from her new novel \nA Spare Life \nTranslated by Christina Kramer \npublished by Two Lines Press \nHosted by Scott Esposito \nIt is 1984\, and 12-year-old twins Zlata and Srebra live in communist Yugoslavia. In many ways their lives are like that of young girls anywhere\, except for one immense difference: Zlata’s and Srebra’s bodies are conjoined at their heads. \nA Spare Life tells the story of their emergence from girls to young adults\, from their desperately poor\, provincial childhoods to their determination to become successful\, independent women. After years of discovery and friendship\, their lives are thrown into crisis when an incident threatens to destroy their bond as sisters. They fly to London\, determined to be surgically separated—but will this dangerous procedure free them\, or only more tightly ensnare them? \nIn A Spare Life master poet and award-winning novelist Lidija Dimkovska lovingly tells the lives of two astonishing girls caught up in Eastern Europe’s transition from communism to democracy. A saga about families\, sisterhood\, and being outcasts\, A Spare Life reveals an existence where even the simplest of actions is unlike any we’ve ever experienced. \nLidija Dimkovska is the recipient of numerous awards\, including the 2013 European Union Prize for Literature for A Spare Life. She is also the author of the poetry collection pH Neutral History (Copper Canyon Press\, 2012)\, which was a finalist for the 2013 Best Translated Book Award\, and Do Not Awaken Them With Hammers(Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2006). She lives in Ljubljana\, Slovenia. \nChristina E. Kramer is a professor of Slavic and Balkan languages and linguistics at the University of Toronto. She is the author of numerous books on the Macedonian language and the Balkans and is the translator of Freud’s Sister\, The Time of the Goats\, and My Father’s Books. She lives in Toronto. \nWhat has been said about A Spare Life: \n\n\n\n“Lidija Dimkovska enriches our contemporary museum of literary wonders with her powerful\, grotesque\, weird details and episodes told within the merry old novelistic tradition.”\n— Dubravka Ugrešić\, author of Baba Laid an Egg \n“A Spare Life uses the boldest of metaphors – the life of conjoined twins – to embody the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia. This strange and wonderful novel brings to mind Elena Ferrante and Magda Szabó in the acuity of its social observation and the depth of its mordant humor.”— Katie Kitamura\, author of The Longshotand A Separation \n“Dimkovska has an eye for detail befitting of a poet and the stark\, unrelenting prose of a master storyteller.A Spare Life is a weird and wonderful book\, capturing the quirk and complexity of both a declining Yugoslavia\, and the inseparable lives of two sisters with clarity\, wit\, and heart.”— Sara Nović\, author of Girl at War\, finalist for the\nLos Angeles Times Book Prize
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-lidija-dimkovska/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Geraldine Brooks
DESCRIPTION:Pulitzer Prize winning author Geraldine Brooks will join us to read and sign copies of her most recent novel\, The Secret Chord. Now out in paperback\, The Secret Chord traces the arc of King David’s journey from obscurity to fame\, from shepherd to soldier\, from hero to traitor\, from beloved king to murderous despot and into his remorseful and diminished dotage. \n“Deeply sympathetic. Brooks offers new perspectives on a character whose story has captured the Western imagination for millennial… she breaks from the biblical version by giving voice to the voiceless women in David’s life: wives and lovers\, a daughter\, a mother—the beloved and the scorned.” —The Boston Globe \n“A compelling read\, contemporary in its relevance… powerful storytelling\, its landscape and time evoked in lyrical prose.” —The Guardian \n“The best historical fiction… Brooks gives the whole king his due… It’s a tall order to breathe life into such a human being\, and she manages it admirably.” —NPR \nGeraldine Brooks is the author of four novels\, the Pulitzer Prize-winning March and the international bestsellers Caleb’s Crossing\, People of the Book\, and Year of Wonders. She has also written the acclaimed nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Born and raised in Australia\, she lives on Martha’s Vineyard with her husband\, the author Tony Horwitz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/geraldine-brooks/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:October Lyrics & Dirges!
DESCRIPTION:Leticia Hernández-Linares\nAngela Hume\nBonnie Wailee Kwong\nAqueila M. Lewis\nAnne Raeff \nHosted and curated by Sharon Coleman \nLeticia Hernández-Linares is an award-winning writer and community worker. She has performed her poemsongs throughout the country and in El Salvador. Her work has appeared in Street Art San Francisco\, U.S. Latino Literature Today\, Teatro bajo mi piel\, Huizache\, and Pilgrimage among other publications. A member of the CantoMundo Organizing Committee\, she lives\, writes\, and works in the Mission District of San Francisco.  \nAngela Hume lives in Oakland. She is the author of the poetry chapbooks Melos (Projective Industries\, 2015)\, The Middle (Omnidawn\, 2013) and Second Story of your Body (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs\, 2011). Her first full-length book of poetry is Middle Time (Omnidawn\, 2016). You can learn more about Angela http://angelamhume.tumblr.com/. \nBonnie Wailee Kwong’s first poetry collection is ravel\, a finalist for the Many Voices Project by New Rivers Press\, and the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. Her work in poetry and fiction has garnered several Pushcart nominations. She creates in many mediums and languages: English\, Cantonese\, Mandarin\, Japanese\, ruby\, and javascript. She is currently artist-in-residence at Stanford University. Her website is: www.bonniekwong.info. \nAqueila M. Lewis is an award-winning writer\, Bay Area native and resident of Oakland\, CA. As a multi-talented artist and poet\, she is also well versed in journalism (print and radio) composing\, singing\, poetry/spoken word\, modeling as a plus-model. She also currently holds the titles as Ms. Oakland Plus America 2014 and SF Raw Performing Artist of the Year 2015. Aqueila’s articles have been published in numerous publication and on radio such as 94.1 FM KPFA Radio’s First Voice Media Apprenticeship Program and Full Circle Show\, Sideshow Radio\, After Hours Radio\, All the Rest of US Radio on 89.3 FM KPFB\, National Radio Project Making Contact Storytelling Fellowship\, Sistah’s With Ink Voices Anthology\, Reflections: A Collaboration Between Painting And Literature\, In Her Soul Magazine\, Til Death Do Us Part Lady Warrior Zine and Walking in the Feminine: Stepping in our Shoes Anthology. Aqueila is currently a CounterPulse Communications Fellow\, Liminal Writers-in Residence and creates workshops and circles focused on issues in relation to social justice and community. \nAnne Raeff’s stories and essays have appeared in New England Review\, ZYZZYVA\, and Guernica among other places. Her first novel Clara Mondshien’s Melancholia was published in 2002 (MacAdam/Cage). Her short story collection\, The Jungle Around Us won the 2016 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. She is proud to be a high school teacher and works primarily with recent immigrants. She too is a child of immigrants and much of her writing draws on her family’s history as refugees from war and the Holocaust. She lives in San Francisco with her wife and two cats.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/october-lyrics-dirges/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Sarah Griffin
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith alum\, prolific tweeter\, and International Treasure Sarah Maria Griffin joins us for the launch of her debut novel\, Spare and Found Parts. \nSpare & Found Parts tells the story of Nell\, a girl with a ticking mechanical heart\, living with her pet stoat and her genius scientist father in a futuristic Ireland ravaged by an epidemic and enduring a fragile recovery. Nell is lonely\, ambitious\, and anxious about living up to her potential—until she finds a mannequin hand while salvaging at the beach. As she begins to build herself a companion\, the city\, her father\, and her true feelings begin to reveal themselves. A soulful steampunk-dystopian romp with undertones of Station Eleven\, Gold\, Fame Citrus\, and\, of course\, Frankenstein\, Spare and Found Parts will be the highlight of your fall reading list. \nAin’t no party like a Booksmith party\, and ESPECIALLY when it’s one of our own. Join us to launch Griffski in style! \nSarah Maria Griffin is from Dublin\, Ireland\, and received a master’s degree in creative writing from National University of Ireland\, Galway. After moving to San Francisco in 2012\, she began to contribute essays about emigration to The Irish Times\, which developed into Not Lost\, a nonfiction collection published for adults. She has since returned to Dublin\, and lives in a small red brick house by the sea with her husband and cat. You can find her online at www.sarahgriff.com\, on Twitter @griffski\, and on Instagram @sarahgriffski.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-griffin/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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