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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series \nLyrics and Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. \nHosted and Curated by Mk Chavez\, Sharon Coleman\, and Lark Omura. \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown
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LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Meaghan O'Connell with Lydia Kiesling
DESCRIPTION:Meaghan O’Connell discusses her new memoir\, And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I was Ready with Lydia Kiesling. \n\nPraise for And Now We Have Everything \n\nI began And Now We Have Everything on a Friday evening and was finished with it by Saturday afternoon–and that was with house guests to entertain and two children to keep alive! Meaghan O’Connell’s honesty\, humor\, vulnerability\, and willingness to explore motherhood in all of its messy complexities made me feel understood in a way few books do. I never wanted it to end. A necessary\, brilliant debut.”—Edan Lepucki\, author of California and Woman No. 17 \n  \n“Meaghan O’Connell writes with bracing clarity about the milk-soaked days of pregnancy and early parenthood\, and I (truly) laughed and cried reading her account of crossing the great human divide. Maybe there are parents who don’t have to wrestle with themselves and their spouses for a free hour\, who dance out of the delivery room feeling sexy and serene\, but I want to throw them out a window and then stay inside and talk to Meaghan about how life really is. The biggest compliment of all: I used several hours of daylight childcare hours reading this book\, just because I didn’t want to put it down.”—Emma Straub \n\n“O’Connell’s honest\, heartbreaking\, and hilarious book about motherhood and identity is unlike anything I’ve ever read. And Now We Have Everything is a smart\, tell-it-like-it-is essay collection from a much-needed voice.”—Esmé Weijun Wang\, author of The Border of Paradise \n\nAbout And Now We Have Everything \n\nA raw\, funny\, and fiercely honest account of becoming a mother before feeling like a grown up. \n  \nWhen Meaghan O’Connell got accidentally pregnant in her twenties and decided to keep the baby\, she realized that the book she needed — a brutally honest\, agenda-free reckoning with the emotional and existential impact of motherhood — didn’t exist. So she decided to write it herself. \n  \nAnd Now We Have Everything is O’Connell’s exploration of the cataclysmic\, impossible-to-prepare-for experience of becoming a mother. With her dark humor and hair-trigger B.S. detector\, O’Connell addresses the pervasive imposter syndrome that comes with unplanned pregnancy\, the fantasies of a “natural” birth experience that erode maternal self-esteem\, post-partum body and sex issues\, and the fascinating strangeness of stepping into a new\, not-yet-comfortable identity.Channeling fears and anxieties that are still taboo and often unspoken\, And Now We Have Everything is an unflinchingly frank\, funny\, and a visceral motherhood story for our times\, about having a baby and staying\, for better or worse\, exactly yourself.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meaghan-oconnell-with-lydia-kiesling/
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:Melissa Stein / Terrible Blooms
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is so excited to host the launch party for Melissa Stein’s second book of poems! Don’t miss it\, friends—more deets to come soon. \nIn this lush\, disturbing second collection from Melissa Stein\, exquisite images are salvaged from harm and survival. Set against the natural world’s violence—both ordinary and sublime—pain shines jewel-like out of these poems\, illuminating what lovers and families conceal. Stein uses her gifts for persona and lyric richness to build worlds that are vivid\, intricate\, tough\, sexy\, and raw: “over and over // life slapping you in the face / till you’re newly burnished / flat-out gasping and awake.” Breathless with risk and redemption\, Terrible Blooms shows how loss claims us and what we reclaim. \n— \n“Ms. Stein reminds us that there is no honey—rough\, or otherwise—without the sting.” —The New York Times \nQuarry \nAs you slept\nI was thinking about the quarry\,\nabout light going deeper\ninto earth\, into rock\, the hurt\nof light hitting layers\nthat should be hidden\,\nthat should be buried\,\nand how when it rained\nfor a long time that absence filled\nwith suffering\, and we swam. \n— \nMelissa Stein is the author of the poetry collections Terrible blooms (Copper Canyon Press) and Rough Honey\, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize\, selected by Mark Doty. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares\, Tin House\, The American Poetry Review\, Best New Poets\, Harvard Review\, New England Review\, and many other journals and anthologies. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the MacDowell Colony\, and Yaddo. She is a freelance editor in San Francisco.
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LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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