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SUMMARY:Fresh & Best: Farid Matuk & Tonya Foster
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore welcomes Farid Matuk and Tonya Foster to the store on Monday\, March 27th at 7pm as part of a Special Edition FRESH AND BEST poetry reading series. \nFarid Matuk is the author of This Isa Nice Neighborhood (Letter Machine) and\, most recently\, of the chapbook My Daughter La Chola (Ahsahta). He serves on the editorial team at Fence\, on the board of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race & Creative Writing\, and on the MFA faculty at the University of Arizona. With the support of a New Works Grant from the Headlands Center for the Arts\, Matuk is currently at work on two books of poems that in their distinct ways consider the question with which Orlando Patterson’s ended 1982’s Slavery and Social Death: “must we challenge our conception of freedom and the value we place upon it?” \nTonya Foster was born in Bloomington\, Illinois\, and raised in New Orleans. She 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. Foster has received fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Macdowell Colony\, the Ford Foundation\, the Mellon Foundation\, and the Graduate Center\, CUNY. 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.
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LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Terry Tarnoff
DESCRIPTION:It was a different time in a different world. Terry Tarnoff spent eight years during the 1970s traveling throughout Europe\, Africa and Asia. It was the early days of exploring what were to become legendary spots on the traveler’s trail. Whether playing the clubs of Amsterdam\, skirting the Yakuza in Japan\, surviving the winters of Kathmandu\, or forming a band in Goa\, India\, Terry’s adventures are alternately engrossing\, hilarious and deeply moving. The Reflectionist is Tarnoff’s long-awaited follow-up to The Bone Man of Benares\, a highly acclaimed book and play that told the first half of the story. This new work continues the tale\, adding new meaning as it looks back from the perspective of modern times upon a period that continues to fascinate people of all generations across the globe. \nTerry Tarnoff was born in Rice Lake\, Wisconsin\, a small town in the northern United States. His family later moved to Milwaukee where\, at the age of twelve\, he became a cub reporter for The Northwest Reporter. He was paid a penny a word to write phony letters to the editor to help fill out a half-empty newspaper. He attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison during the political upheaval of the 1960s\, worked at the East Side Bookstore in New York’s East Village during the Summer of Love\, lived for several years in Berkeley\, then headed for Europe\, where he supported himself as a blues musician\, playing harmonica in bands from London to Amsterdam to Stockholm. \nSoon after\, he hooked up with an international brigade of travelers–a new generation of expatriates who took their cues from Henry Miller\, Paul Bowles and Jack Kerouac as they pushed further down the road. That road led to the coast of Kenya and the plains of Tanzania\, to the deserts of India and the mountains of Nepal\, to the war-torn villages of Laos and the islands of Indonesia. Along the way\, Terry explored the mysteries of Hinduism and Buddhism\, played with an African band in Mombasa\, performed as a singer-guitarist in the Far East\, and was a founding member of a rock band in Goa\, India. After eight years on the road\, he returned to San Francisco in 1978\, where he continued his musical career for several years before turning to writing. He has since worked as a screenwriter\, taught two film courses\, driven a taxi\, managed an African art gallery\, and written for an internet film site. \nTerry’s first book\, The Bone Man of Benares\, was published in the U.S. by St. Martin’s Press in 2004. It was subsequently published by Bantam Books in the U.K.\, by Allen & Unwin Publishers in Australia\, and has been translated into Italian\, Japanese\, and Chinese. The book was reprinted in the U.S. by Avian Press in 2013. A one-man show adapted from The Bone Man of Benares was produced shortly after its initial publication by the Encore Theatre Company in San Francisco\, where it had a very successful six-week run. The book and play were soon thereafter optioned for a feature film in Hollywood. Terry’s last three books\, The Thousand Year Journey of Tobias Parker\, The Chronicle of Stolen Dreams\, and The Reflectionist\, have been published by Avian Press. Terry lives in San Francisco with his wife\, artist Tina Tarnoff.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/terry-tarnoff/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Jim Shephard
DESCRIPTION:“Without a doubt the most ambitious story writer in America\,” (The Daily Beast)\, Jim Shepard delivers a new collection. The World to Come spans borders and centuries\, with voices belonging to — among others — English Arctic explorers in one of history’s most nightmarish expeditions\, a young contemporary American negotiating the shockingly underreported hazards of our crude-oil trains\, eighteenth-century French balloonists inventing manned flight\, and two mid-nineteenth-century housewives trying to forge a connection despite their isolation on the frontier of settlement. In each case the personal is the political as these characters face everything from the emotional pitfalls of everyday life to historic catastrophes on a global scale. In his fifth collection\, Shepard makes each of these wildly various worlds his own\, and never before has he delineated anything like them so powerfully. \n“One of the most perceptive\, intelligent\, and fearless writers of fiction in America today.” — NPR \n“His genius resides in his omnivorous curiosity and imaginative inventiveness [and his] stories have the strangeness and bell-like clarity of truth…a vision of literature that is\, in its sideways fashion\, legitimately unique.” — The Washington Post \nJim Shepard is the author of seven novels and four previous story collections. He lives in Williamstown\, Massachusetts\, with his wife\, three children\, and three beagles. He teaches at Williams College. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend the event\, but would like to request a signed copy of The World to Come\, please order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jim-shephard/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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