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SUMMARY:Smut: An Unseemly Story (The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson)
DESCRIPTION:One of England’s finest and most loved writers\, Alan Bennett\, explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people’s public appearance and their private desires in this tender and surprising story. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson\, a recently bereaved widow finds interesting ways to supplement her income by performing as a patient for medical students\, and renting out her spare room. Quiet\, middle-class\, and middle-aged\, Mrs. Donaldson will soon discover that she rather enjoys role-play at the hospital\, and the irregular and startling entertainment provided by her tenants.A master storyteller dissects a very English form of secrecy with this story of the unexpected in otherwise apparently ordinary lives.  Directed by Amy Kossow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/smut-an-unseemly-story-the-greening-of-mrs-donaldson/
LOCATION:Z Space\, 450 Florida Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:3 Blues-y Ladies
DESCRIPTION:Intimate wordy emotive acoustic singer-songwriter and poet bookstore show! Starring: \nBanty Hen (Ester Kang) — Ukulele and voice. Clarion\, drowning\, knock-you-out-and-leave-you-for-dead beautiful. Like driving down the 1 in the fog. You’ve never heard a voice or songwriting quite like this. \nAndrea Passwater — Poet from Alabama\, by way of Taiwan\, will do a short reading that might make you cry. Like reading your great aunt’s teenage diary. Her poems are better than most blues singers at singing the blues. \nRosie Cima — Guitar and voice. Singer songwriter no.2\, with more gravel\, has lots of new stuff for this show\, not all of it sad. Been meditating a lot lately\, and listening to a lot of Nina Simone.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/3-blues-y-ladies/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Courtney Maum
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Courtney Maum to the store to discuss and sign her new novel\, Touch\, on Sunday\, June 4th at 3:00 pm. \nSloane Jacobsen is one of the world’s most powerful trend forecasters (she was the foreseer of “the swipe”)\, and global fashion\, lifestyle\, and tech companies pay to hear her opinions about the future. Her recent forecasts on the family are unwavering: the world is over-populated\, and with unemployment\, college costs\, and food prices all on the rise\, having children is an extravagant indulgence.\nSo it’s no surprise when the tech giant Mammoth hires Sloane to lead their groundbreaking annual conference\, celebrating the voluntarily childless. Not far into her contract\, Sloane begins to sense the undeniable signs of a movement against electronics that will see people embracing compassion\, empathy\, and “in-personism” again. She’s struggling with the fact that her predictions are hopelessly out of sync with her employer’s mission and that her closest personal relationship is with her self-driving car when her partner\, the French “neo-sensualist” Roman Bellard\, reveals that he is about to publish an op-ed on the death of penetrative sex–a post-sexual treatise that instantly goes viral. Despite the risks to her professional reputation\, Sloane is nevertheless convinced that her instincts are the right ones\, and goes on a quest to defend real life human interaction\, while finally allowing in the love and connectedness she’s long been denying herself.\nA poignant and amusing call to arms that showcases her signature biting wit and keen eye\, celebrated novelist Courtney Maum’s new book is a moving investigation into what it means to be an individual in a globalized world. \nCourtney Maum is the author of the novel I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You and the chapbook Notes from Mexico. Her short fiction\, book reviews\, and essays on the writing life have been widely published in outlets such as The New York Times\, Tin House\, Electric Literature\, and Buzzfeed\, and she has co-written films that have debuted at Sundance and won awards at Cannes. At various points in her life\, she has been a trend forecaster\, a fashion publicist\, and a party promoter for Corona Extra. She currently works as a product namer for M-A-C cosmetics from her home in Litchfield County\, CT.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/courtney-maum/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon Reading
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Aamina Ahmad\, Peg Alford Pursell\, Michael Shewmaker\, and Shelley Wong\nHosted by Peter Kline \nAamina Ahmad grew up in London. She completed her MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. Her full length play\, The Dishonored\, toured the UK in 2016. Her short fiction has appeared in The Normal School\, The Missouri Review\, Ecotone and the anthology\, And the World Changed. \n\nPeg Alford Pursell is the author of Show Her a Flower\, A Bird\, A Shadow (ELJ Editions\, March 2017)\, a collection of hybrid prose and micro-fictions with praise from Peter Orner\, Joan Silber\, Antonya Nelson and others. Her stories and poems have appeared in Permafrost\, the Los Angeles Review\, Forklift Ohio\, Joyland Magazine\, RHINO\, VOLT\, and many other journals and anthologies. She is the founder and director of the national reading series Why There Are Words and founder and director of WTAW Press. Visit her at www.pegalfordpursell.com \nMichael Shewmaker is the winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and author of Penumbra (Ohio UP\, 2017). Born in Texarkana\, Texas\, he earned an MFA from McNeese State University and a PhD in creative writing from Texas Tech University. His poems have recently appeared in Yale Review\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, Sewanee Review\, Poetry Daily\, Parnassus\, Oxford American\, Narrative\, and elsewhere. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow\, he is a Jones Lecturer in poetry at Stanford University. \nShelley Wong is the author of RARE BIRDS\, a winner of the 2016 Diode Editions chapbook award. Her poems have recently appeared in Crazyhorse\, The Volta\, Sixth Finch\, and Southern Humanities Review. A Kundiman fellow and a Pushcart Prize recipient\, she holds an MFA from Ohio State University and lives in Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-reading/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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