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SUMMARY:Patrick Nathan discusses Some Hell
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is very pleased to welcome Patrick Nathan to discuss his dynamic debut novel\, Some Hell\, on Tuesday\, March 13th at 7pm. He will be joined in conversation with our dear friend\, Scott Esposito. \nA wrenching and layered debut novel about a gay teen’s coming-of-age in the aftermath of his father’s suicide \nMiddle school hasn’t been going well for Colin. His teenage sister teases him mercilessly\, his autistic brother lashes out at him\, and he has a crush on his best friend\, Andy. But after the tragic night when his father commits suicide\, none of that matters. Diane\, his mother\, seeks solace in therapy. Colin is awash in guilt\, and casts about for someone to confide in: first his estranged grandfather\, then a predatory science teacher. But nothing helps as much as the strange writing his father kept in a series of notebooks locked in his study. Colin looks for answers there–in fragments about disaster scenarios\, the violence of snow\, mustangs running wild in the west–but instead finds the writing infecting his worldview. Diane\, meanwhile\, has a miserable fling with a co-worker\, and leans more heavily on Colin for support as things go from bad to worse. But spring is unfolding\, and a road trip to Los Angeles gives them a tantalizing glimpse of what the future might hold. In Some Hell\, a debut novel of devastating intensity and aching\, pointillistic detail\, Patrick Nathan shows how unspeakable tragedy shapes a life\, and how imagination saves us from ourselves.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patrick-nathan-discusses-some-hell/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Nov'Ell Goes West: Oakland
DESCRIPTION:Eileen G’Sell reads from Life After Rugby and JoAnna Novak reads from Noirmania.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/novell-goes-west-oakland/
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:Poetry Reading in Celebration of Muni Art 2018: Kay Ryan
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of Muni Art 2018\, hear a reading by participating poet#KayRyan at the San Francisco Public Library Presidio Branch. Bay Area poet #HilaryRand will introduce Ryan. Audience members will be invited to enter a raffle and the winner will receive a Muni Art 2018 print! Share your experience using #SFMuniArt. \nKay Ryan\, acknowledged as one of the most original voices in the contemporary landscape\, has published several collections of poetry\, including Erratic Facts (Grove Press\, 2015) and The Best of It: New and Selected Poems (Grove Press\, 2010)\, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2011. Ryan’s awards include a National Humanities Medal\, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, an Ingram Merrill Award\, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Union League Poetry Prize\, the Maurice English Poetry Award\, and three Pushcart Prizes. Her work has been selected four times for The Best American Poetry and was included in The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997. \nCo-Sponsored by San Francisco Beautiful\, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency\, San Francisco Public Library\, and the Poetry Society of America. \nFree and open to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-reading-in-celebration-of-muni-art-2018-kay-ryan/
LOCATION:Presidio Branch Library\, 3150 Sacramento St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94115\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer SF Reading "Korima Press\, Queer Latinx Publisher"
DESCRIPTION:Perfectly Queer San Francisco is proud to spotlight Korima Press\, a Queer Chicana/Chicano publishing house founded by poet and essayist Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano and based in San Francisco. Join us Tuesday\, March 13\, from 7pm to 8:30pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. in San Francisco. 4 Korima Press authors will read: Cathy Arellano\, Maya Chinchilla\, Dino Foxx\, and Michael Nava. A discussion of writing as a Queer Chincana/Chicano will follow the readings. The authors’ books will be available for sale and signing. Free admission and refreshments. Door prizes at 7pm sharp! \nABOUT KORIMA PRESS:\nKórima’s purpose is to infuse both the Chicana/o & Latina/o and Queer literary cannons with works by author’s whose craft\, stories\, and identities exist at the intersections of Queerness\, Chicanidad\, and Latinidad. Founded in 2010\, the Kórima catalogue\, which is expected to nearly double in the next two years\, counts 17 titles that have been taught in dozens of colleges\, high schools\, and universities across the United States\, Puerto Rico\, and Mexico. \nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\nCathy Arellano is a Mexican lesbian poet from The Mission. Cathy is the author of two collections of poetry: Salvation on Mission Street\, a memoir in poetry and prose about love and loss within her San Francisco-based family from the 1960s to the 2000s; and\, I Love My Women\, Sometimes they Love Me. In 2017\, Arellano was the recipient of the Golden Crown Literary Society award for Debut Author. \nMaya Chinchilla is a Guatemalan\, Bay Area-based writer\, video artist\, and educator with an MFA in English and Creative Writing from Mills College. She writes and performs poetry that explores themes of historical memory\, heartbreak\, tenderness\, sexuality\, and alternative futures. Her work–sassy\, witty\, performative\, and self-aware-draws on a tradition of truth-telling and poking fun at the wounds we carry. Maya is the author of The Cha Cha Files: A Chapina Poética and the editor of the forthcoming anthology Centromariconadas: A Queer & Trans Central American Anthology. \nDino Foxx\, born and raised in San Antonio\, Texas\, is a nationally presented actor\, singer\, poet\, arts educator\, and activist. They are a founding member of a Queer Xicana/o Performance Poetry Collaborative and a company member with Jump-Start Performance Co. Their poetry has been published in such collections as Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry\, the 19th issue of Suspect Thoughts: A Journal of Subversive Writing\, and Queer Codex: Chile Love. Dino is the author of When the Glitter Fades and co-author of Tragic Bitches: An Experiment in Queer Xicana & Xicano Performance Poetry. \nMichael Nava is the six-time Lambda Literary award-winning author of the Henry Rios novels and the historical novel\, The City of Palaces. In 2016\, he released Lay Your Sleeping Head\, a reimagining of the first Henry Rios novel\, which was hailed as “one of the literary events of the year\,” and earned him his tenth Lambda Literary award nomination. His most recent book\, released in 2017\, is titled Street People.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-sf-reading-korima-press-queer-latinx-publisher/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lynne Tillman
DESCRIPTION:Lynne Tillman\n\n  \ncelebrating the release of \nMen and Apparitions: A Novel \nfrom Soft Skull Press \nWhy do human beings feel the need to create\, remake\, and keep images from and of everything? How are we supposed to live amid this glut of images? Men and Apparitions takes on a central question of our time through the wild musings and eventful life of Ezekiel Hooper Stark\, cultural anthropologist\, ethnographer\, specialist in family photographs. As Zeke goes from being a child obsessed with his family’s photo albums to a young and passionate researcher to a man broken by betrayal in love\, his academic fascinations reflect his course\, touching on such various subjects as discarded images\, pet pictures\, spirit mediums\, the tragic life of his long-dead cousin the semi-famous socialite Clover Adams\, and the nature of contemporary masculinity. Kaleidoscopic and encyclopedic\, madcap and wry\, Men and Apparitions showcases Lynne Tillman not only as a brilliantly original novelist but as one of our most prominent thinkers on visual art and culture today. \nLynne Tillman is a novelist\, short story writer\, and cultural critic. Her novels are Haunted Houses; Motion Sickness; Cast in Doubt; No Lease on Life\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and American Genius\, A Comedy. Her nonfiction books include The Velvet Years: Warhol’s Factory 1965–1967\, with photographs by Stephen Shore; Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co.; and What Would Lynne Tillman Do?\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Her most recent short story collections are Someday This Will Be Funny and The Complete Madame Realism. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writing Fellowship. Tillman is Professor/Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at The University of Albany and teaches at the School of Visual Arts’ Art Criticism and Writing MFA Program in New York. She lives in Manhattan with bass player David Hofstra. \nPraise for Men and Apparitions by Lynne Tillman \n“Lynne Tillman is still her established sui generis self. In this creation she gives us an emblematic (but unique) protagonist’s sharp observations and drive-by meditations on the many conundrums of identity and purpose of our time. This book is compelling and bracing and you read many sentences twice to get all the juice there is in them.” ―Norman Rush\, author of Mating and Subtle Bodies \n“No one anywhere writes more vibrantly and astutely into the gut of culture than Lynne Tillman. I always want to eat her books because her language is profoundly embodied. She is my secular art angel\, my intellectual and creative hope\, my full-blown galaxy. In Men and Apparitions\, readers take a ride on the back of Zeke Hooper through culture\, masculinity\, art\, being\, and knowing―like entering a language-and-experience kaleidoscope.” ―Lidia Yuknavitch\, author of The Misfit’s Manifesto and The Chronology of Water ​ \n“A powerful disquisition on memory\, media and melancholia.” ―Tom McCarthy\, author of Satin Island and Remainder \n“Lynne Tillman’s first novel in a dozen years crackles with pent-up energy. Brimming with her trademark wit and vibrancy\, Men and Apparitionsis a confirmation of a sadly under-acknowledged truth: Lynne Tillman is a genius.” ―Stephen Sparks\, Point Reyes Books (Point Reyes Station\, CA)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lynne-tillman/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Linor Goralik
DESCRIPTION:Linor Goralik discusses her new book\, Found Life: Poems\, Stories\, Comics\, a Play\, and an Interview a part of Columbia’s Russian Library series. \nAbout Found Life \nOne of the first Russian writers to make a name for herself on the Internet\, Linor Goralik writes conversational short works that conjure the absurd in all its forms\, reflecting post-Soviet life and daily universals. Her mastery of the minimal\, including a wide range of experiments in different forms of micro-prose\, is on full display in this collection of poems\, stories\, comics\, a play\, and an interview\, here translated for the first time. \nIn Found Life\, speech\, condensed to the extreme\, captures a vivid picture of fleeting interactions in a quickly moving world. Goralik’s works evoke an unconventional palette of moods and atmospheres—slight doubt\, subtle sadness\, vague unease—through accumulation of unexpected details and command over colloquial language. While calling up a range of voices\, her works are marked by a distinct voice\, simultaneously slightly naïve and deeply ironic. She is a keen observer of the female condition\, recounting gendered tribulations with awareness and amusement. From spiritual rabbits and biblical zoos to poems about loss and comics about poetry\, Goralik’s colorful language and pervasive dark comedy capture the heights of ridiculousness and the depths of grief.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/linor-goralik/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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