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SUMMARY:Graham Foust
DESCRIPTION:Holloway Series in Poetry presents a reading with Graham Foust.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/graham-foust/
LOCATION:Hearst Field Annex\, Hearst Field Annex\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Immigrant Writers on Embodying 2 Cultures at Once
DESCRIPTION:Moderated and co-hosted by Kirstin Chen. \nHow do immigrant writers navigate multiple cultural and geographical perspectives? In this reading and panel discussion\, Kirstin Chen\, Ingrid Rojas Contreras\, Andrew Lam\, and Juliana Delgado Lopera will share how they encapsulate two—or more—sometimes radically different cultural identities in their work and the complications and opportunities that arise when those identities intermingle on the page. \nCopies of the authors’ books will be available for sale and signing. Free refreshments! This event is in the Library Meeting Room on the ground floor of the Noe Valley Library. A free Word Week 2017 eventwww.facebook.com/Word-Week-314929538630095 \nBiographies:\nKIRSTIN CHEN is the author of the novels Bury What We Cannot Take\, forthcoming in 2018\, and Soy Sauce for Beginners. A former Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing\, her short stories have appeared in Zyzzyva\, Hobart\, Pank\, and others. Born and raised in Singapore\, she currently lives in San Francisco. \nINGRID ROJAS CONTRERAS was born in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Electric Literature\, and Guernica\, among others. She has a column called Book Spine at KQED. Her debut novel\, The Fruit of the Drunken Tree\, is forthcoming from Doubleday in 2018. \nANDREW LAM is the author of two books of literary essays\, “Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora\,” “East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres\,” and a collection of short stories\, “Birds of Paradise Lost.” He is also an editor at New America Media and has a column with the Shanghai Daily and is widely published in many newspapers and magazines. \nJULIANA DELGADO LOPERA is an award-winning Colombian writer\, oral-historian\, literary-drag-queen based in San Francisco. The author of ¡Cuéntamelo! an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latin@ immigrants\, Juliana is the executive director of RADAR Productions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/immigrant-writers-on-embodying-2-cultures-at-once/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Elif Batuman
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of her new novel \nThe Idiot \npublished by Penguin Press \nA portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. \nThe year is 1995\, and email is new. Selin\, the daughter of Turkish immigrants\, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of\, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate\, Svetlana\, and\, almost by accident\, begins corresponding with Ivan\, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan\, but with each email they exchange\, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings. \nAt the end of the school year\, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer\, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside\, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan’s friends. On the way\, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin’s summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students\, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin\, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love\, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer. \nWith superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity\, mordant wit\, and pitch-perfect style\, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman’s fiction is unguarded against both life’s affronts and its beauty–and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail. \nElif Batuman has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010. She is the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them. The recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award\, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, and a Paris Review Terry Southern Prize for Humor\, she also holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elif-batuman/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Susan Orlean
DESCRIPTION:The New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean has been called “a national treasure” by the Washington Post. Her deeply moving—and deeply humorous—explorations of American stories have earned her a reputation as one of our most distinctive journalistic voices. Her bestseller The Orchid Thief inspired the Academy Award-winning film Adaptation. A staff writer for The New Yorker for over 20 years and a former contributing editor at Rolling Stone and Vogue\, she penned the collection My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who’s Been Everywhere. \nPraise for Susan Orlean \n“Orlean is a beautiful writer\, and her story is compelling even for those whose knowledge of orchids is limited to the long-ago prom corsage. The Orchid Thief is a lesson in the dark\, dangerous\, sometimes hilarious nature of obsession–any obsession. You sometimes don’t want to read on\, but find you can’t help it.” – USA Today \n“Orlean’s buoyant\, self-assured style makes the journey fun.” – Salon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-orlean/
LOCATION:SJSU Student Union Theatre\, 211 S 9th St.\, San Jose\, CA\, 95112\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer-East Bay: Queer Speculative Fiction
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-queer-speculative-fiction/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Arisa White
DESCRIPTION:Arisa White is a Cave Canem fellow and a faculty advisor in the low-residency BFA Creative Writing Program at Goddard College. White’s debut collection\, Hurrah’s Nest\, was a finalist for the 2013 Wheatley Book Awards\, the 82nd California Book Awards\, and nominated for the 44th NAACP Image Award. A Penny Saved\, inspired by the true-life story of Polly Mitchell\, was published in 2012. Forthcoming is the full-length collection You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/arisa-white/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Jami Attenberg
DESCRIPTION:I’m alone. I’m a drinker. I’m a former artist. I’m a shrieker in bed. I’m the captain of the sinking ship that is my flesh.\nAndrea Bern is a whip-smart woman in NYC “who is doing what she wants with her life\, right or wrong\, and not apologizing for it… at times she is a wise sage\, and at other times\, a selfish mess. It makes her so achingly human” (Liberty Hardy\, Book Riot). Andrea’s single\, she’s childfree\, she’s successful and yet not entirely devoted to her career. Everyone around her seems to have an entirely different idea of what it means to be an adult: marriage\, babies\, ambition. But what if those things aren’t what you want? What does it actually mean to be a woman and a grown up\, in this day and age?\nAndrea’s brother seems unscathed by their shared tumultuous childhood\, but when he and her sister-in-law have a baby born with a heartbreaking ailment\, Andrea and her family have to confront everything they haven’t wanted to face\, and reexamine what really matters. In a world that still expects women to gravitate toward partnership and motherhood\, Jami Attenberg gives us a pithy and sharp novel of living life on your own terms\, and a character who is witty\, winning\, sexy and complicated. \n“Jami Attenberg’s sharply drawn protagonist\, Andrea\, has such a riveting\, propulsive voice that All Grown Up is hard to put down\, but I urge you to resist reading it in one sitting. Both the prose and the author’s knowing excavation of one woman’s desires\, compromises\, strengths\, and fears deserve closer attention. Like Andrea herself\, this novel is beautiful and brutal\, intelligent and funny\, frank and sexy.” — Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney\, New York Times best-selling author of The Nest
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jami-attenberg/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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