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SUMMARY:Cleve Jones - When We Rise
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to announce our second What We Do Now event featuring the amazing Cleve Jones in conversation with David Talbot to discuss activism and dissent In Trump’s America. \nCleve Jones’ career as an activist began in San Francisco in 1970s. He co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and conceived the idea of the AIDS Memorial Quilt\, which memorializes over 85\,000 Americans who have died from AIDS. He lives in San Francisco and works as a labor activist. \nHis new book\, When We Rise: My Life in the Movement provided inspiration for the ABC television mini-series of the same name. \nBorn in 1954\, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were. Like thousands of other young people\, Jones\, nearly penniless\, was drawn in the early 1970s to San Francisco\, a city electrified by progressive politics and sexual freedom. \nJones found community–in the hotel rooms and ramshackle apartments shared by other young adventurers\, in the city’s bathhouses and gay bars like The Stud\, and in the burgeoning gay district\, the Castro\, where a New York transplant named Harvey Milk set up a camera shop\, began shouting through his bullhorn\, and soon became the nation’s most outspoken gay elected official. \nWith Milk’s encouragement\, Jones dove into politics and found his calling in “the movement.” When Milk was killed by an assassin’s bullet in 1978\, Jones took up his mentor’s progressive mantle–only to see the arrival of AIDS transform his life once again. By turns tender and uproarious\, When We Rise is Jones’ account of his remarkable life. When We Rise is not only the story of a hero to the LQBTQ community\, but the vibrantly voice memoir of a full and transformative American life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cleve-jones-when-we-rise/
LOCATION:Bookshop West Portal\, 80 W Portal Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94127\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hope in the Dark: Activist Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Not just any book club. An intentional\, socially engaged book club with an activist agenda. It all started with a pervasive sense of dread and overwhelm…do you know the feeling? \nIf you are ready to ameliorate this sense of dread and overwhelm by grounding yourself in community\, to listen to and feel empathy for perspectives different from your own\, if you believe in story\, please join us. If you are ready to do the work of facing challenging topics and checking our privileges and assumptions in a supportive\, safe environment; if you want some mutual accountability to keep each other moving forward; if you want to organize action but don’t know how\, join us. We don’t have the answers\, but we are armed to the teeth with questions! \nWe can’t really say it better than the folks at Finding steady ground: “The goal is to become a student of history so that you can take inspiration and deepen your understanding of how to struggle and thrive.” \nOur first book is Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit! It’s a quick read but full of important stories and\, well\, hope. \nThe Deets:\nActivist Book Club\nevery 3rd Thursday\n6 p.m.\nMission Pie (near 24th and Mission)\nco-hosted by Ava Rosen and Hannah Smith\nFree \n*Please let us know if you’d like to participate but the time or location doesn’t work for you! \n**You are welcome no matter how you identify\, when you were born\, or where you come from. All we ask is that you are open to discomfort\, and act from a place of kindness.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hope-in-the-dark-activist-book-club/
LOCATION:Mission Pie\, 2901 Mission St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bahiyyih Nakhjavani: Coming from Nowhere
DESCRIPTION:Coming from Nowhere: Breaking Free of Cultural Branding and Identity Politics \nBahiyyih Nakhjavani was born in Iran\, raised in Uganda\, and educated in the UK and the States. She has taught literature and creative writing in many countries\, is the author of non-fiction as well as novels\, and has adapted Persian poetry into English during her career as a teacher and a writer. Her latest work\, “Us & Them\,” is a satire about the Iranian diaspora all over the world. She currently lives in Strasburg\, France. \nFree and open to the public\, no RSVP required. Lecture is in English. \nCopies of Ms. Nakhjavani’s newest book will be available for sale at the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bahiyyih-nakhjavani-coming-from-nowhere/
LOCATION:Bishop Auditorium\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Mystical Poetry and the Awakened Heart
DESCRIPTION:An Evening with Acharya Shunya and Yogacharya Ellen Grace O’Brianfeaturing heartfelt conversations on Bhakti and the Hidden Sweetness\, and poetry reading by Yogacharya from her latest award-winning poetry collection\, “The Moon Reminded Me”. \nPoetry says what the mind can only glimpse but the heart knows full well. It is the ancient language of the soul spoken by all mystic bards of Bhakti\, the yoga of devotion calling us to awaken to divine Love. Through the ages\, poetry persists as the soul insists on revealing itself again and again. Yogacharya Ellen O’Brian’s reading from her collection of poems invites the mind to sink into the heart of divine remembrance. \nCome—listen\, meditate\, remember what matters most\, who you really are. \nApril 20\, 2017 | 6:30 – 8:30 pm\, 8:30 – 9:00 pm – Book signing by Yogacharya\nVedika Global Emeryville\, CA\nThis event is open to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mystical-poetry-and-the-awakened-heart/
LOCATION:Vedika Global\, 5950 Doyle St.\, Emeryville\, CA\, 94608\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Dana Goia Reading
DESCRIPTION:Please join California poet laureate\, Dana Gioia\, El Cerrito poet laureate\, Maw Shein Win\, and Kiara Chatman and Camila Morales-Jimenez\, Poetry Out Loud Student Champions of Contra Costa County for a poetry reading and conversation. The event will take place on Thursday\, April 20th at 6:30pm at the El Cerrito Public Library located at 6510 Stockton Avenue. \nWe look forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dana-goia-reading/
LOCATION:El Cerrito Public Library\, 6510 Stockton Ave\, El Cerrito\, CA\, 94530\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Morgan Parker + Arisa White in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼\nThursday\, April 20\, 2017\nAlley Cat Books\n3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\n6:30 PM\n==FREE==\n▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼\n\nAbout the Writers: \nArisa White\nCave Canem fellow Arisa White received her MFA from UMass\, Amherst\, and is the author of Black Pearl\, Post Pardon\, Hurrah’s Nest\, and A Penny Saved. She teaches in the low-residency BFA program at Goddard College and is a lecturer at San Francisco State University. She is the distinguished visiting writer in residence at Saint Mary’s College of California. You’re the Most Beautiful Thing that Happened is her newest collection from Augury Books. \nFind out more at http://www.arisawhite.com \nMorgan Parker\nParker is the author of Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night (Switchback Books 2015) and There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce (Tin House 2017). Her work has been published in the The Paris Review\, Poetry\, The New York Times\, The Nation\, Buzzfeed\, and elsewhere. Her poetry has been anthologized in Why I Am Not A Painter\, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop\, and Best American Poetry 2016. Parker is the recipient of a 2017 National Endowment of the Arts Literature Fellowship\, winner of a 2016 Pushcart Prize\, and a Cave Canem graduate fellow. She lives with her dog Braeburn in Brooklyn\, NY. With Tommy Pico\, she co-curates the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading series\, and with Angel Nafis\, she is The Other Black Girl Collective. \nFind out more at http://www.morgan-parker.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/morgan-parker-arisa-white-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Omar El Akkad
DESCRIPTION:American War \npublished by Knopf \nAn audacious and powerful debut novel. a second American Civil War\, a devastating plague\, and one family caught deep in the middle—a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself. \nOMAR EL AKKAD\, formerly of the Globe and Mail\, is an award-winning journalist and author who has travelled around the world to cover many of the most important news stories of the last decade. His reporting includes dispatches from the NATO-led war in Egypt and the Black Lives Matter movement in Ferguson\, Missouri. He is a recipient of the National Newspaper Award for investigative reporting for his coverage on the “Toronto 18” terrorism arrests. He has also received the Goff Penny Memorial Prize for Young Journalists\, as well as three National Magazine Award honourable mentions. He is a graduate of Queen’s University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/omar-el-akkad/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jacob Weisman on Jews in Science Fiction: It’s Not a Fantasy
DESCRIPTION:Jewish writers\, including many from the Bay Area\, are responsible for some of the most entertaining and mind-bending stories\, books\, and scripts written in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. Who are these local writers\, and how do they apply Jewish ideas and themes to their work? Jacob Weisman\, editor and publisher at Tachyon Publications\, a San Francisco-based publisher of science fiction\, fantasy\, and literary fiction\, will speak about writers including Peter S. Beagle\, Avram Davidson\, Lisa Goldstein\, Robert Silverberg\, and Richard A. Lupoff. He’ll also answer questions about publishing. \nJacob Weisman founded Tachyon Publications in 1995. He has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award three times and is the series editor of Tachyon’s multi-award-winning novella line. His writing has appeared in The Nation\, Realms of Fantasy\, the Louisville Courier-Journal\, The Seattle Weekly\, and The Cooper Point Journal. He is the editor of “The Treasury of the Fantastic” (with David Sandner)\, “The Sword & Sorcery Anthology” (with David G. Hartwell)\, and “Invaders: 22 Stories from the Outer Limits of Literature.” His latest anthology\, “The New Voices in Fantasy\,” co-edited with Peter S. Beagle\, will be published this year.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jacob-weisman-on-jews-in-science-fiction-its-not-a-fantasy/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Library\, 1835 Ellis St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94115\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Small Press Celebration: Editorial Argonáutica
DESCRIPTION:IESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Mark Haber\, Scott Esposito and Editorial Argonáutica to the store to celebrate their latest bilingual books on Thursday\, April 20th at 7pm. \nArgonáutica is a Mexican press based in Monterrey\, Mexico\, an industrial city torn between the “Texas Way of Life” and one of the richest cultures in the world. Their mission is to bring world literature together\, to reflect on the translation process and to promote authors that would otherwise not cross their borders. In addition to its artistic value\, literature tells the story of culture and its individuals\, as well as the way they interact with each other. Argonáutica’s goal is to help create a dialogue between the voices in each culture. \n[El proyecto editorial de Argonáutica arrancó con el objetivo de acercar las literaturas del mundo\, profundizar en el acto de la traducción y destacar la figura del traductor.  Un aspecto distintivo de la editorial es la intención de publicar ediciones bilingües en las que sea posible cotejar las particularidades\, giros y modos de cada lengua. Este enfoque permite abordar el fenómeno de la traducción como arte y como intercambio cultural. \nEn Argonáutica vemos la literatura como un elemento de contacto entre culturas y\, por lo tanto\, buscamos colaborar con instituciones culturales de diferentes países para establecer alianzas y proyectos editoriales en conjunto. Además de su valor estético\, la literatura da cuenta de la diversidad de individuos y comunidades que interactúan en el contexto global de la contemporaneidad. \nArgonáutica\, además de proyecto editorial\, pretende ser una plataforma para el diálogo intercultural de voces literarias provenientes de distintas latitudes.] \n* * * \nMark Haber‘s Melville´s Beard [Las barbas de Melville] is a collection of nine absurd stories varying in structure and tone. Each examines the human condition and the dilemmas we face in the tempest of our own self-induced problems. These are obscure\, weird and\, in many cases\, disturbing stories. Mark’s stories are ageless because they speak to us\, demanding we question our own natures\, regardless of time and space. \n[Es un libro de nueve relatos absurdos\, con diferentes estructuras y tonos. Mark escribe sobre la condición humana\, sobre los problemas a los que nos enfrentamos y que nosotros mismos creamos. Las suyas son historias oscuras\, extrañas y perturbadoras. Son atemporales porque cuestionan la naturaleza del hombre sin importar tiempo o espacio.] \nMark was born in Washington D.C. and grew up in Clearwater\, Florida. He is the store manager of Brazos Bookstore in Houston\, Texas. He has been a juror on the Best Translated Book Award for 2016 and 2017. His criticism has appeared in The Rumpus\, Music & Literature\, LitHub. and The Quarterly Conversation. His debut collection of short stories\, Deathbed Conversions\, was published in 2009. \n* * * \nScott Esposito‘s Latin American Mixtape [Mixtape Latinoamericano] is not just a collection of literary essays on Latin American writers\, it’s also about the insight that comes from a magnificent reader from abroad reading the great writers of a foreign continent. It includes three never-before-published pieces\, exclusive interviews and a sharp point of view on literature. \n[La serie de ensayos «lados b»\, como los llama el autor\, no hablan solo del trabajo de autores latinoamericanos\, sino también de la perspectiva de un extradordinario lector extranjero a partir de la lectura de grandes escritores. Incluye tres textos inéditos\, entrevistas y una agudísima visión de la literatura en general.] \nScott is the author of The Surrender (2016\, Anomalous Press)\, The Doubles (forthcoming\, Civil Coping Mechanisms) and co-author of The End of Oulipo? (written with Lauren Elkin\, Zero Books\, 2013). Some of his texts have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement\, La Tempestad (Mexican magazine)\, Granta en español\, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times\, among others. He is a senior editor of Two Lines Press\, contributing editor of BOMB magazine\, and founder of The Quarterly Conversation. \n  \nBoth books will be available for purchase at the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/small-press-celebration-editorial-argonautica/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:JP Voyer
DESCRIPTION:Join Pro Arts and Little Black Cart on April 20th\, 7:00 – 9:00 at Pro Arts Gallery for a book launch and reception for the English language version of “Inquiry Into the Causes and Nature of the Misery of People” by JP Voyer. \nThis statement from the co-translator of Voyer’s book\, Isaac Cronin\, explains briefly why he believes The Inquiry is the most important work of social criticism written since World War II. \n“In the early 70s as the Situationist International imploded Voyer’s timely call for a detailed critique of Marx and the materialist economists fell on deaf ears in Paris. There was no public response by Debord or anyone else in his camp who had been directly challenged to take up this task. In the following years Voyer proceeded to make a series of bold discoveries. An Inquiry Into The Causes And Nature of The Misery of People takes on\, among other classic economists\, Adam Smith\, whose masterpiece is alluded to in Voyer’s title. For the first time\, and in a systematic fashion\, Voyer shows: 1) that the economy doesn’t exist except as a false idea and practice on the part of our enemies; 2) that in our world communication\, the most human of human acts\, is what commodities\, not people\, do and 3) that there is no such thing as exchange value vs. use value\, that there is only value which is the language of abstraction commodities speak to each other without slaves who transport these commodities participating in the discussion.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jp-voyer/
LOCATION:Pro Arts Gallery\, 150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Janice A. Lowe\, Yohann Potico + Kevin Carnes
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special evening of poetry and song in The Poetry Center\, featuring New York-based poet\, musician\, and Dark Room Collective co-founder Janice A. Lowe (text\, voice\, and piano) performing works from her debut book\, Leaving Cle (Miami University Press\, 2016)\, with Yohann Potico (bass) and Kevin Carnes (drums). \nCheck out their work in advance here: Edge-acation and Boy Flower Tamir. This event is free and open to the public. \nFred Moten writes: “Leaving Cle is a beautiful document of eccentric return. A collection of unforecast surprise\, it keeps giving home away\, disbursing and dispersing hard\, pleasurable weather like a new kind of lake effect. Cleveland is Brooklyn is Chicago and elsewhere\, everywhere in a set of absolute specificities\, upSouth\, back east\, out and out. There’s a black cosmology of ‘difference without separation’ of which Denise Ferreira da Silva\, sociologist\, speaks. Janice A. Lowe\, poet\, sings it so hard\, makes her air such an irreducible element of the general air\, that you couldn’t get away from it if you tried\, which is fine\, because that’s the last thing you’ll want. Her sound\, her time\, is everything you do.” \nJanice A. Lowe is a composer and poet. She is the author of Leaving Cle: poems of nomadic dispersal (Miami University Press) and the chapbook SWAM (Belladonna Series.) Her poems have been published in Callaloo\, Best American Experimental Writing 2016\, The Poetry Project Online\, Pre) Conceivable Bridges\, American Poetry Review\, Radiant Re-Sisters\, The Hat and on a digital album with Drew Gardner’s Poetics Orchestra. She composed the musicals Lil Budda\, (Text by Stephanie L. Jones\,) Sit-In at the Five & Dime\, (Words by Marjorie Duffield) and Somewhere in Texas\, (Book and Lyrics by Charles E. Drew\, Jr.). Her works for musical theater have been performed extensively in New York City and regionally and have received developmental residencies from the Eugene O’Neill Musical Theater Conference and the National Alliance for Musical Theater. She has composed for the plays 12th and Clairmont by Jenni Lamb\, The Super Starlet Shero Show by The Jones Twins\, and Door of No Return by Nehassaiu deGannes. She is the composer of Make Some Learned Noise\, text by Randall Horton\, an interactive poem with music\, performed with the incoming freshman class\, University of New Haven\, 2015. Recently\, she was commissioned to compose a song cycle based on the “Millie-Christine” poems\, from the collection OLIO\, by Tyehimba Jess. She is a co-founder of The Dark Room Collective and a founding member of absolute theater co. She has performed with the experimental bands w/o a net\, HAGL\, and Digital Diaspora. She teaches songwriting workshops at White Bird Productions and has taught Poetry and Performance at Purchase College and at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics She holds an MFA in Musical Theater Writing from New York University-Tisch School of the Arts. More at janicelowe.com Photo: Eric Perl. \nYohann Potico grew up in a West Indian family in France. He brings a distinctive perspective to his bass playing\, producing and composing by blending an eclectic mix of influences—ranging from soul and jazz to funk and trip hop—with a unique melodic approach. He performed and recorded with Brooklyn-based independent rock trio California King from 2007 to 2014. With California King\, he recorded and co-wrote tracks on three albums—Adoration of the Boogie Bear\, 2008\, La Belle Epoque 2010\, and Sankofa\, 2015. He has performed and recorded as a session musician with numerous bands including Sierra Leone-based hip-hop group Dry Eye\, soul vocalist Annakei house/techno producer Michele Papa. For three years\, Yohann has been in residence as bass player for the Eastern European and North African influenced group Balkan Stomp. As a producer and sound engineer\, Yohann has worked with a wide range of artist including folk songwriter and performer Megan Palmer\, jazz pianist and composer Jesse Elder\, jazz vocalist Zack Foley and singer/artist Sabrina Iyadede. \n\nKevin Carnes is a drummer\, composer and producer based in the Bay Area since 1984. He founded the Afro-Punk-Industrial band Beatnigs and is celebrating 25 years as a founding member of Broun Fellinis. Carnes has served as musical director/composer for City Circus and the Marin Theater’s production of August Wilson’s “Gem of the Ocean.”\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/janice-a-lowe-yohann-potico-kevin-carnes/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lidia Yuknavitch
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Lidia Yuknavitch for her much-anticipated novel The Book of Joan! \nA raucous celebration\, a searing condemnation\, and a fiercely imaginative retelling of Joan of Arc’s transcendent life. — Roxane Gay\, New York Times-bestselling author of Bad Feminist \nIn the near future\, world wars have transformed the earth into a battleground\, a place to hide in caves and horde ammunition. Fleeing the unending violence and the planet’s now-radioactive surface\, humans have regrouped to a mysterious platform known as CIEL\, hovering over their erstwhile home. The changed world has turned evolution on its head\, the surviving humans becoming sexless\, hairless pale-white creatures floating in isolation\, inscribing stories upon their skin. \nOut of the ranks of the endless wars rises Jean de Men\, a charismatic cult leader who appoints himself to rule over CIEL as a kind of corporate police state. To combat de Men’s vicious acts and thirst for blood\, a group of rebels unite to dismantle his iron rule – galvanized by the heroic song of Joan\, a child-warrior who possesses an unnatural talent\, a force that lives within her and communes with the earth. When de Men and his armies fashion Joan into a martyr\, instead of the living\, breathing force of nature she is\, the consequences are astonishing. And no one – not the rebels\, Jean de Men\, nor even Joan herself – can foresee the ways her life story will\, in a brilliant instant\, forge the destiny of an entire world for generations. \nThe Book of Joan is a riveting tale of destruction and the beauty found in unlikely places—even at the extreme end of post-human experience. A book suffused with dirt\, sweat\, and blood\, it raises questions about what it means to be human\, the meaning of sex and gender\, and the role of art as means for survival. \n“It’s unfair to compare Yuknavitch to only female authors. With her verve and bold imagination\, she’s earned the throne left empty since the death of David Foster Wallace.” — Chuck Palahniuk \n“Reading The Book of Joan is a meditation on art and sex and war. My brain is full-bloomed. Get ready\, it’s glorious.” — Amber Tamblyn\, author of Dark Sparkler \nLidia Yuknavitch is the author of the National Bestselling novel The Small Backs of Children\, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award’s Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the Reader’s Choice Award\, the novel Dora: A Headcase\, and three books of short stories. Her widely acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader’s Choice. She founded the workshop series Corporeal Writing in Portland\, OR\, where she also teaches Women’s Studies\, Film Studies\, Writing\, and Literature. She received her doctorate in Literature from the University of Oregon. Her novel The Book of Joan is forthcoming from Harper\, as well as a book based on her recent TED Talk\, “The Misfit’s Manifesto.” She lives in Oregon with her husband Andy Mingo and their Renaissance man son\, Miles. She is a very good swimmer. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend the event\, but would like to request a signed copy of The Book of Joan\, please order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lidia-yuknavitch/
LOCATION:Tenderloin Museum\, 398 Eddy St\, San Francisco \, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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