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SUMMARY:Litquake: No Shadow Without Light
DESCRIPTION:“I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no shadow unless there is also light.”\n—Margaret Atwood \nAs with the rest of the Bay Area\, Litquake has been festering over the unexpected election of Donald Trump. Do we publish a manifesto? Or curl up in the fetal position? \nYes\, times are dark indeed\, but it’s incumbent on the creative class to stand tall and contribute. And so we are proud to present these diverse and electric Bay Area voices\, who speak to our nation’s fear\, anger\, and perhaps even optimism. \nIn the words of Toni Morrison:\n“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair\, no place for self-pity\, no need for silence\, no room for fear. We speak\, we write\, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.” \nCome and join the chorus! Admission free. \nWords from: \nELMAZ ABINADER\nArab-American author\, poet\, and Mills College professor (“Children of the Roojme: A Family’s Journey from Lebanon”) \nFAITH ADIELE\nAuthor and editor (“The Nigerian-Nordic Girls Guide to Lady Problems”; “Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology”) \nROBERT MAILER ANDERSON\nNovelist and playwright (“The Death of Teddy Ballgame”; “Boonville”) \nDEVORAH MAJOR\nSan Francisco’s third Poet Laureate (“and then we became”) \nSARAH LADIPO MANYIKA\nNovelist and editor (“In Dependence”; “The Weaverbird Collection: New Fiction from Nigeria 2008”) \nALEJANDRO MURGUIA\nSan Francisco’s current Poet Laureate (“Stray Poems: San Francisco Poet Laureate Series No. 6”; “This War Called Love”) \nISHMAEL REED\nAuthor\, editor\, journalist\, SFJAZZ Poet Laureate (“The Complete Muhammad Ali”; “Black Hollywood Unchained”) \nTENNESSEE REED\nPoet and activist (“City Beautiful: Poems 1998-2006”) \nT.J. STILES\nAuthor and twice recipient of the Pulitzer Prize (“Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America”; “The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt”)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-no-shadow-without-light/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170118T200000
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SUMMARY:Cary Tennis + Danelle Morris
DESCRIPTION:All too many people start a writing project with grand ambitions but reach a crisis of completion. Finishing School helps writers reignite the passion that started them on the project in the first place and work steadily to get it done. \nUntold millions of writing projects begun with hope and a little bit of hubris lie abandoned in desk drawers\, in dated files on computer desktops\, and in the far reaches of the mind. Too often\, writers get tangled in self-abuse their self-doubt\, shame\, yearning for perfection\, and even arrogance get in the way. In this new work\, Cary Tennis and Danelle Morton help writers overcome these emotional blocks and break down daunting projects into manageable pieces. \nTennis first convened a finishing school so that writers could help one another stay on track and complete their work. Since they weren’t actually critiquing one another’s writing\, there was no jockeying for the title of best writer or the usual writing group politics; there was only a shared commitment to progress. Without guilt\, blame\, and outside critique\, students were more productive than they imagined possible. Through this program\, they were able to complete novels that they d been struggling with for almost two decades\, finish screenplays drafts\, and revive interest in long-neglected PhD theses. In this book\, the authors share this proven and easily replicable technique\, as well as their own writing success stories. \nCary Tennis wrote the advice column “Since You Asked\,” which appeared on Salon.com for twelve years. As an advice columnist\, he never missed a deadline\, but in his literary writing\, he found himself stalled. Through the Finishing School method that he created\, he completed his novel and now helps others through theirs in his writing workshops and international retreats. \nDanelle Morton is a journalist and the coauthor of fifteen books. Morton has worked for The New York Times\, was an associate bureau chief for People\, and has been a foreign correspondent. She was a finalist for the PEN/USA Literary Nonfiction Award and the ASME magazine award in the public interest category.She has received investigative journalism grants from The Nation Institute and the George Polk Foundation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cary-tennis-danelle-morris/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170118T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170118T210000
DTSTAMP:20260512T205443
CREATED:20161201T023713Z
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SUMMARY:UNNAMED PRESS SHOWCASE
DESCRIPTION:City Lights celebrates Indy Publisher UNNAMED PRESS \nwith two new works of fiction \nOne Life  \nby David Lida \nand \nBorder of Paradise \nby Esme Weijun Wang \nWhat has been said about One Life: \n\n\n\n“ONE LIFE will be deservedly praised for the light it trains on a previously unexposed dark corner of the primitively cruel and racist U.S. justice system. But David Lida also writes\, in his remarkable novel\, about a Mexico that even very few Mexican writers have any first-hand knowledge of\, and does it in a way that readers on both sides of the border have rarely encountered.”                                                       –Francisco Goldman\,  author of ‘Say Her Name’ and ‘The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle’. \n\n\n\n“David Lida’s ONE LIFE is simply revelatory. It’s Juan Rulfo meets Raymond Chandler\, Roberto Bolaño meets Chester Himes. It’s the American justice system\, exposed\, and the inside story of the frenetic\, cruel push and pull that lures Mexican migrants from of their homes to the US. I’ve never read a book quite like this\, and neither have you.”\n—Daniel Alarcón\, author of AT NIGHT WE WALK IN CIRCLES \n“I haven’t read a book this harrowing since Atticus Lish’s PREPARATIONS FOR THE NEXT LIFE. David Lida has written an extraordinary account of the cruelty\, squalor\, and occasional enchantment of life on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border. It is an indictment of a justice system mired in cynicism and bad faith\, and an economic system that hits the poorest hardest\, and repays ambition with betrayal; but at the same time\, ONE LIFE is an incredible love story\, not just in the romantic sense\, but in the sense that it’s about coming to love life itself\, despite everything.”\n—Paul LaFarge\, author of ANOTHER LIFE \nPraise for The Border of Paradise: \n“THE BORDER OF PARADISE is a magnificent achievement – an exhortation for human tenderness and individual dignity in the most difficult of circumstances. Wang explores identity and family with a sense of drama that borders on gothic\, without ever sacrificing the psychological texture that connects us to her characters.”\n—Adrienne Celt\, author of THE DAUGHTERS \n“Wang’s prose is beautiful and restrained\, and her generous\, precise characterization makes every perspective feel organic and utterly real in the face of increasingly theatrical circumstances. The result — the story of an American family stretched and manipulated into impossible shapes — is an extraordinary literary and gothic novel of the highest order.”\n—Carmen Maria Machado\, NPR \nDavid Lida is the author of four books\, including the very well received travel narrative First Stop in the New World (Riverhead\, 2009). One Life is his first novel and will be published in Mexico in Spanish in 2016. He has been a journalist for more than twenty years\, principally in the U.S. and Mexico\, but also for magazines in England\, Canada and Peru. When David is not writing\, he works as a mitigation specialist\, conducting investigations for lawyers in the U.S. who defend clients who are charged with capital murder and facing the death penalty. He is based in Mexico City. \nEsmé Weijun Wang is an award-winning mental health advocate and speaker\, as well as a journalist and essayist. The Border of Paradise is her first novel. She lives in San Francisco. \nThe Unnamed Press publishes literature from around the world. Whether it’s fiction\, memoir or something in between\, they are always interested in unlikely protagonists\, undiscovered territories and courageous voices. To learn more visit: http://unnamedpress.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/unnamed-press-showcase/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170118T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170118T213000
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SUMMARY:Lyrics and Dirges
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges is a monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. \nHosted and curated by and Mk Chavez Sharon Coleman. Every third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-and-dirges-4/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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