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SUMMARY:Radar Productions: March Queer Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Reading followed by artist Q&A\nDid we mention there will be cookies? \nFEATURING…\nMarisa Crawford\nMarisa Crawford is the author of the poetry collections Reversible (2017) and The Haunted House (2010) from Switchback Books\, as well as two chapbooks. Her poems\, essays\, and articles have appeared in publications including Hyperallergic\, BUST\, Bitch\, The Hairpin\, and Fanzine\, and are forthcoming in Electric Gurlesque (Saturnalia Books\, 2017). Marisa is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the feminist literary/pop culture website Weird Sister. She lives in Brooklyn\, NY. \nZulfikar Ali Bhutto\nAs an artist of mixed Pakistani and Lebanese descent and having grown up in Pakistan\, Bhutto sees his body caught in the middle of complex identity politics formed by centuries of colonialism and exacerbated by contemporary international politics. In his work he explores the politics of queerness\, its intersections with Islam and how it exists in a constant liminal and non-aligned space. Bhutto is also interested in issues of state violence and how that violence resonates in our collective memory\, how it forms and shapes communities and by extension how it affects the individual. \nYuska Lutfi Tuanakotta\nYuska Lutfi Tuanakotta graduated from Saint Mary’s College of California with double MFA degrees in Creative Fiction Writing and Creative Nonfiction Writing and was a Lambda Literary Fellow in Nonfiction. His debut nonfiction\, Gentlemen Prefer Asians: Tales of Gay Indonesians and Green Card Marriages was on LitHub’s 2016 list of Books to Read on Pride Month. OUT Magazine puts Gentlemen Prefer Asians on its must-read list and describes it as “Graceful and sensitive\, yet pleasingly acerbic when necessary.” \nYuska lives in Los Angeles and works as a photographer. He recently launched Faglandia.com\, a website dedicated to bringing unabashedly gay news\, entertainment\, and propaganda. \nTrinidad Escobar\nTrinidad Escobar is an artist\, mother\, bruha\, and educator from the Bay Area\, California. Her writing and visual art have been featured in various publications such as Rust & Moth\, The Brooklyn Review\, The Womanist\, Red Wheelbarrow\, Solo Cafe\, Mythium\, Tayo\, the anthologies Walang Hiya\, Over the Line\, Kuwento\, and more. Trinidad has been a guest artist and speaker at the San Jose Museum of Art\, Pilipino Komix Expo\, LitQuake\, and The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco. Her graphic memoir CRUSHED\, published by Rosarium Publishing\, is available on Amazon\, Comixology\, Barnes and Noble. Trinidad teaches Comics & Race at California College of the Arts in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radar-productions-march-queer-reading-series/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Michael Finkel
DESCRIPTION:For readers of Jon Krakauer and The Lost City of Z\, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit is a remarkable tale of survival and solitude—the true story of a man who lived alone in a tent in the Maine woods\, never talking to another person and surviving by stealing supplies from nearby cabins for twenty-seven years. \nIn 1986\, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts\, drove to Maine\, and disappeared into the woods. He would not have a conversation with another human being until nearly three decades later when he was arrested for stealing food. Living in a tent even in winter\, he had survived by his wits and courage\, developing ingenious ways to store food and water\, to avoid freezing to death. He broke into nearby cottages for food\, clothes\, reading material\, and other provisions\, taking only what he needed\, but terrifying a community never able to solve the mysterious burglaries. Based on extensive interviews with Knight himself\, this is a vividly detailed account of the why and how of his secluded life—as well as the challenges he has faced returning to the world. A riveting story of survival that asks fundamental questions about solitude\, community\, and what makes a good life\, and a deeply moving portrait of a man who was determined to live his own way\, and succeeded. \nMichael Finkel is the author of True Story: Murder\, Memoir\, Mea Culpa\, which was adapted into a 2015 major motion picture. He has written for National Geographic\, GQ\, Rolling Stone\, Esquire\, Vanity Fair\, The Atlantic\, and The New York Times Magazine. He lives in western Montana.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-finkel/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Kendra Tanacea
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street Thursday\, March 23rd at 7:00pm as we welcome Author Kendra Tanacea\, reading from and discussing her book of poetry A Filament Burns in Blue. \nA Filament Burns in Blue Degrees explores life’s strains and joys and the human compulsion to create something lasting despite certain entropy. Teardowns\, remodels\, sex\, longing\, joy; sometimes tender\, sometimes humorous\, these poems explore interpersonal relationships of all kinds and embrace the competing impulses of working hard at changing life’s course and fatalistic acceptance. Kendra’s poems keep the light on in the darkest of places: “Come after midnight\, your hand / on the door\, and me\, lit\, humming.” \nKENDRA TANACEA\, an attorney in San Francisco\, holds a BA in English from Wellesley College and an MFA in writing and literature from Bennington College. A Filament Burns in Blue Degrees was a semifinalist for the Washington Prize and a finalist for the Idaho Prize for Poetry. Kendra’s poems have appeared in 5AM\, Rattle\, Moon City Review\, The Coachella Review\, Stickman Review\, and Juked\, among others. Visit Kendra Tanacea online here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kendra-tanacea/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Summer of Love
DESCRIPTION:50 years ago\, young men and women put flowers in their hair and headed to San Francisco for the Summer of Love. San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury (Arcadia Press) by local author Katherine Powell Cohen\, Ph.D.\, chronicles this and other events in the history of San Francisco’s grooviest neighborhood. Cohen compiled vintage images and stories from individual sources\, public collections\, and from interviews she has conducted as a columnist for the Haight Ashbury Beat newspaper. The author will appear at our event and read from and discuss her book. A book signing follows. Free admission and free refreshments. A Word Week 2017 eventfacebook.com/events/376833466034270 \nKatherine Powell Cohen\, Ph.D.\, is an English professor at San Francisco State and Golden Gate Universities and has lived in the Haight-Ashbury for over 20 years. She is the author of several other books of local history.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/summer-of-love/
LOCATION:Cliché Noe Gifts + Home\, 4175 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kirsty Murray
DESCRIPTION:Not Your Mother’s Book Club proudly presents award-winning author Kirsty Murray in celebration of the story collection\, Eat the Sky\, Drink the Ocean. \nBe transported into dystopian cities and alternate universes. Hang out with unicorns\, cyborgs and pixies.  Learn how to waltz in outer space. Be amazed and beguiled by a fairy tale with an unexpected twist\, a futuristic take on a TV cooking show\, and a playscript with tentacles. In other words\, get ready for a wild ride! \nThis anthology is a groundbreaking collection of speculative fiction by twenty of India and Australia’s most talented writers and illustrators. I co-edited the book along with Indian authors Anita Roy and Payal Dhar and the collaborative process was both intense and richly rewarding. The collection includes 73 pages of graphically illustrated short stories\, ten prose stories and a playscript that I co-wrote with Manjula Padmanabhan. \nContributors include: Samhita Arni\, Kuzhali Manickavel\, Manjula Padmanabhan\, Vandana Singh\, Payal Dhar\, Anita Roy\, Annie Zaidi\, Penni Russon\, Kate Constable\, Isobelle Carmody\, Justine Larbalestier\, Alyssa Brugman\, Kirsty Murray\, Margo Lanagan\, Priya Kuriyan\, Prabha Mallya\, Amruta Pail\, Lily Mae Martin\, Nicki Greenberg and Mandy Ord.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kirsty-murray/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Because We come From Everything: The Poetics of Migration
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Society of America and City Lights Bookstore present SYRIA — Because We Come From Everything: The Poetics of Migration\, a poetry reading and discussion as part of the Poetry Coalition’s 2017 programming. Twenty-two nonprofit poetry organizations from across the United States have formed a historic coalition dedicated to working together to promote the value poets bring to our culture and communities\, and the important contribution poetry makes in the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds. As its first public offering\, throughout the month of March 2017\, Poetry Coalition members will present multiple programs on the theme: Because We Come From Everything: Poetry & Migration\, which borrows a line from U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera’s poem\,  “Borderbus.” The Poetry Society in conjunction with City Lights prsent an evening that focusses on the Syrian refugee crisis. Poets Jack Hirschman and Jack Marshall\, will read poems of theirs and others. Journalist Jonathan Curiel will join them in conversation. \nJonathan Curiel is a San Francisco-based writer and journalist who has written widely about the Middle East\, and has reported from Syria\, Lebanon\, Jordan\, and Egypt. His 2008 book\, Al’ America: Travels Through America’s Arab and Islamic Roots won an American Book Award. He has been a USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program fellow\, a Thomson Reuters Foundation fellow at Oxford University\, and a Fulbright Scholar at Punjab University in Lahore\, Pakistan. A former staff writer with the San Francisco Chronicle\, he has written about the arts for SF Weekly since 2010. \nJack Hirschman is the former Poet Laureate of the City of San Francisco\, a poet’s poet\, translator\, and editor. His powerfully eloquent voice set the tone for political poetry in this country many years ago. Since leaving a teaching career in the ’60s\, Hirschman has taken the free exchange of poetry and politics into the streets where he is\, in the words of poet Luke Breit\, “America’s most important living poet.” He is the author of numerous books of poetry\, plus some 45 translations from a half a dozen languages\, as well as the editor of anthologies and journals. Among his many volumes of poetry are Endless Threshold\, The Xibalba Arcane\, and Lyripol (City Lights\, 1976). \nBorn in Brooklyn to Jewish parents who emigrated from Iraq and Syria\, Jack Marshall now lives in California. He is the author of the memoir From Baghdad to Brooklyn and several poetry collections that have received the PEN Center USA Award\, two Northern California Book Awards\, and a nomination from the National Book Critics Circle. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/because-we-come-from-everything-the-poetics-of-migration/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Just Breathe: Kala Storytelling Night
DESCRIPTION:ACTION: JOIN THIS STORY CIRCLE FOR A NIGHT OF HUMOR AND POLITICS \nAre you politically burned out? Do you spend too many evenings scrolling on your phone and feel overwhelmed by the onslaught of political news? Join us for a night of music and live storytelling where you can sit\, relax and just breathe. Kala’s amazing line-up of Bay Area storytellers will have the floor to share humor\, compassion and connection in their experiences dealing with the changes in our country right now. \nStorytellers include comedian Dhaya Lakshminarayanan\, comedian and Second City veteran Rachel Hamilton\, Moth performer Daniel Ari\, NPR storyteller Scott Sanders\, and author Emily Meg Weinstein! Music by: Lexa Welsh Emcees: Artists Christy Chan & Maria Finn. \nRSVP here. This is a benefit for the ACLU. $10 suggested donation taken at the door\, no one turned away for lack of funds.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/just-breathe-kala-storytelling-night/
LOCATION:Kala Art Institute\, 2990 San Pablo Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lisa See
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is thrilled to welcome New York Times bestselling author Lisa See as she presents her new novel\, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane. See’s previous books\, including China Dolls\, Dreams of Joy\, and Snow Flower and the Secret Fan\, have been celebrated for their authentic\, deeply researched\, lyrical stories about Chinese characters and cultures. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane explores the bonds between a Chinese woman from the Akha ethnic minority and the daughter she gives up for adoption. \nLi-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea in their remote Yunnan village. There is ritual and routine\, as there has been for generations. When Li-Yan has a baby outside of wedlock\, rather than stand by tradition and kill her daughter (which Akha custom deems “a human reject”)\, she wraps the baby girl in a blanket\, with a tea cake hidden in her swaddling\, and takes a perilous journey to the nearest city. There\, although devastated\, she abandons the infant\, hoping someone else can care for her. \nLi-yan slowly emerges from her grief and begins to look beyond the security and insularity of her village. As she encounters modern life\, her daughter Haley grows up a privileged and well-loved California girl. Despite Haley’s happy home life\, she wonders about her origins\, and Li-yan longs for her lost daughter. They both search for and find answers in the tea that has shaped their family’s destiny for generations. \nSee\, who grew up in a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles\, incorporates impressive research on international adoption; the history of the Akha people in China; and Pu’er tea farming and customs to tell a powerful story about a family separated by circumstances\, culture\, and distance. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane paints an unforgettable portrait of a little known region and its people and celebrates the bond that connects mothers and daughters. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-see/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Ivy Anderson + Devon Angus
DESCRIPTION:Please join Ivy Anderson and Devon Angus as they discuss Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute\, winner of the 2015 California Historical Society Book Award. \n\nPraise for Alice: \n\n“With its unflinching honesty\, the political relevance of Alice’s story and analysis resonates today. By speaking out from ‘the underground\,’ Alice’s narrative predicts contemporary San Francisco sex worker discourse\, motivating political action against all odds. An important book.”—Carol Leigh\, artist\, author\, filmmaker\, and sex workers’ rights advocate \n\n“Not only for Bay Area history buffs\, Alice will enlighten all readers to early shifts in gender roles and societal correlations today.”—Cassie Duggan\, Literary Hub \n\nIvy Anderson is a San Francisco–based writer who focuses on issues of ecology and radical history. Her reportage on water management issues was published in Water Efficiency Magazine and and her poetry in Poecology. \n  \nDevon Angus is an artist\, activist\, and historian based in San Francisco. He composed and performed a conceptual folk operetta based on San Francisco history\, The Ghosts of Barbary\, throughout the Bay Area\, Switzerland\, and Italy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ivy-anderson-devon-angus/
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:Elif Batuman + Yiyun Li
DESCRIPTION:Ever since her bestselling collection of essays\, The Possessed\, was published in 2010\, her quirky but highly literary vision of life\, literature and language has made readers take notice. A staff writer now for The New Yorker\, she has developed a cult-like following\, and with the publication of The Idiot\, her career reaches an irrepressible crescendo. \nThe Idiot takes a kind of story that we all think we know well\, and turns it completely on its head. Batuman’s novel reminds us that to be American means to be from elsewhere. Our heroine\, Selin\, is the daughter of Turkish immigrants who have made deep sacrifices so that their daughter may be able to experience all the privileges of the American way of life\, in particular\, when it comes to her education at Harvard. But the weight of that expectation does not sit lightly. “This book is a bold\, unforgettable\, un-put- downable read by a new master stylist\,” Mary Karr wrote\, “Not since Don Quixote has a quest for love gone so hilariously and poignantly awry.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elif-batuman-yiyun-li/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Peg Alford Pursell
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is proud to host Peg Alford Pursell as she celebrates the publication of her debut book\,Show Her a Flower\, A Bird\, A Shadow. She’ll read and be in conversation with Grant Faulkner. Join us!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peg-alford-pursell/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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