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SUMMARY:Patrick Hoffman
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Patrick Hoffman to the store to discuss and sign his new thriller\, Every Man a Menace\, on Wednesday\, October 26th at 7:00pm. \nPatrick Hoffman burst onto the crime fiction scene with The White Van\, a bank heist thriller set in the back streets of San Francisco and a finalist for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award. Now he returns with his second novel\, Every Man a Menace\, the inside story of a ruthless ecstasy-smuggling ring.\nSan Francisco is about to receive the biggest delivery of MDMA to hit the West Coast in years. Raymond Gaspar\, just out of prison\, is sent to the city to check in on the increasingly erratic dealer expected to take care of distribution. In Miami\, the man responsible for getting the drugs across the Pacific has just met the girl of his dreams\, a woman who can’t seem to keep her story straight\, and thousands of miles away in Bangkok\, someone farther up the supply chain is about to make a phone call that will put all their lives at risk. Stretching from the Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia to the Golden Gate of San Francisco\, Every Man a Menace offers an unflinching account of the making\, moving\, and selling of the drug known as Mollypure\, happiness sold by the brick\, brought to market by bloodshed and betrayal. \nPatrick Hoffman is a writer and private investigator based in Brooklyn. His first novel\, The White Van\, was a finalist for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and was named a Wall Street Journal best book of the year. He was born in San Francisco and worked there as an investigator\, both privately and at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patrick-hoffman/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Francine Prose
DESCRIPTION:The acclaimed bestselling author weaves an ingenious\, darkly humorous\, and brilliantly observant story that follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters affiliated with an off-off-off-off Broadway children’s musical. \nMister Monkey—a screwball children’s musical about a playfully larcenous pet chimpanzee—is the kind of family favorite that survives far past its prime. Margot\, who plays the chimp’s lawyer\, knows the production is dreadful\, and bemoans the failure of her acting career. She’s settled into the drudgery of playing a humiliating part—until the day she receives a mysterious letter from an anonymous admirer . . . and later\, in the middle of a performance\, has a shocking encounter with Adam\, the twelve-year-old who plays the title role. \nFrancine Prose’s effervescent comedy is told from the viewpoints of wildly unreliable\, seemingly disparate characters whose lives become deeply connected as the madcap narrative unfolds. There is Adam\, whose looming adolescence informs his interpretation of his role; Edward\, a young audience member who is candidly unimpressed with the play; Lakshmi\, the musical’s costume designer\, who imagines herself the hero of her own production; Ray\, the author of the novel on which the musical is based\, who witnesses one of the most awkward first dates in literature; and even the eponymous Mister Monkey\, the Monkey God himself. \nFrancine Prose is the author of twenty-one works of fiction\, including the New York Times bestselling novel\, Lovers at the Chameleon Club: Paris\, 1932; A Changed Man\, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and Blue Angel\, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her most recent works of nonfiction include Anne Frank: The Book\, the Life\, the Afterlife\, and the New York Times bestseller Reading like a Writer. She is a former president of PEN American Center\, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Prose lives in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/francine-prose/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Brit Benett
DESCRIPTION:Praise for The Mothers: \n“Brit Bennett is the real thing. The Mothers is a stellar novel — moving\, thoughtful. Stunning. I couldn’t put it down. I’m so excited to have this brilliant new voice in the world.”  –Jacqueline Woodson\, National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming  and Another Brooklyn \n“Brit Bennett’s masterful debut is brimming with unforgettable scenes and the sort of keenly-observed\, precise language that makes you look at your own relationships anew. Told with the wisdom of a seasoned\, compassionate storyteller\, The Mothers is a novel about community\, friendship\, grief and growth. The two women at the center of this novel are characters you will find yourself thinking about long after you’ve turned the last page– they pull you in close and never let you go. Bennett is a brilliant and much-needed new voice in literature.” –Angela Flournoy\, author of National Book Award-finalist The Turner House\n \n“Brit Bennett’s The Mothers is an engaging and assured debut novel of depth\, and introspective power. It succeeds as a brilliant study of a modern black woman\, and as a lyrical and majestic portrait of her place in society.” —Chigozie Obioma\, author of The Fishermen \n\n“Conveys the complexities and challenges of young love with refreshing honesty and beautiful sentences. I cared about Brit Bennett’s characters\, and the choices they made\, and couldn’t stop reading this remarkable debut.” –Vendela Vida\, author of The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty \n\nAbout The Mothers: \nA dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice\, “The Mothers “is a surprising story about young love\, a big secret in a small community and the things that ultimately haunt us most.\nSet within a contemporary black community in Southern California\, Brit Bennett’s mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community\, love\, and ambition. It begins with a secret.\n“All good secrets have a taste before you tell them\, and if we’d taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths\, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret\, plucked too soon\, stolen and passed around before its season.”\nIt is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner\, a rebellious\, grief-stricken\, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother’s recent suicide\, she takes up with the local pastor’s son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one\, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it’s not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance and the subsequent cover-up will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth. As Nadia hides her secret from everyone\, including Aubrey\, her God-fearing best friend\, the years move quickly. Soon\, Nadia\, Luke\, and Aubrey are full-fledged adults and still living in debt to the choices they made that one seaside summer\, caught in a love triangle they must carefully maneuver\, and dogged by the constant\, nagging question: What if they had chosen differently? The possibilities of the road not taken are a relentless haunt.\nIn entrancing\, lyrical prose\, “The Mothers “asks whether a “what if” can be more powerful than an experience itself. If\, as time passes\, we must always live in servitude to the decisions of our younger selves\, to the communities that have parented us\, and to the decisions we make that shape our lives forever.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brit-benett/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:USF MFA Faculty Reading
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the fall MFA in Writing Faculty Reading featuring the work of: \nLaleh Khadivi\, author of the novels The Age of Orphans and The Walking. Honors include the Whiting Award\, Barnes and Noble Discover New Writers Award\, NEA Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. \nDave Madden\, author of the story collection\, If You Need Me I’ll Be Over There and The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy\, a nonfiction book. Bernard DeVoto Fellow in Nonfiction at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Tennessee Williams Scholar in Fiction at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. \nD.A. Powell\, author of the poetry collections Cocktails and Chronic\, both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry\, and Useless Landscape\, or A Guide for Boys\, winner of the  2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. Recipient of Kingsley Tufts Prize\, the Pushcart Prize\, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. \nSusan Steinberg\, author of the short story collections The End of Free Love\, Hydroplane\, and Spectacle. Recipient of a United States Artists Ziporyn Fellowship in Literature and a Pushcart Prize. \nFree and open to the public. Reception to follow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/usf-mfa-faculty-reading/
LOCATION:FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, USF\, 2130 Fulton St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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