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SUMMARY:A Night of Readings and A Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 4\, 2018\n7:00 PM  9:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for an evening of readings & writings\, words & language\, lit & luminosity in toast to Laura Ritland’s debut poetry collection\, EAST AND WEST (http://www.vehiculepress.com/q.php?EAN=9781550655032). Books will be sold\, readers will read\, feelings will be felt! \nFeaturing readings by: \nLAURA RITLAND \nJANE HU \nMAX KAISLER \nJARED ROBINSON \nLaura Ritland’s poems have appeared in magazines across Canada\, including The Walrus\, Maisonneuve\, Arc Poetry Magazine\, and CNQ. She is the author of the chapbook Marine Science (Anstruther 2016)\, a graduate of the Masters in Creative Writing Program at the University of Toronto\, and recipient of the 2014 Malahat Far Horizons Award for Poetry. She currently divides her time along the west coast between Vancouver and the California Bay Area\, where she is a PhD student in English at UC Berkeley. East and West is her debut collection. \nJane Hu is a Berkeley English PhD and freelancer who has published in The New Yorker\, Slate\, The Guardian\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, and The Awl. \nMax Kaisler is a second-year graduate student in Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley\, with an MFA in Poetry from the University of Montana and a BA in English & Classics from Amherst College. She’s worked as an editor and intern at Ploughshares\, The Common\, Bare Journal\, and Cutbank\, her own poetry and nonfiction has been published online and in print\, and she’s received multiple prizes for her original poetry and translations from Latin and Ancient Greek and for her essays on Rilke’s Book of Hours and Book of Images. \nJared Robinson is from Indianapolis\, IN and moved to the Bay to study Literature at Berkeley. He has never published nor left the country.
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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:Aline Kominsky-Crumb
DESCRIPTION:Legendary cartoonist Aline Kominsky-Crumb discusses Love That Bunch. \n\nPraise for Aline Kominsky-Crumb \n\n“For over 40 years\, Kominsky-Crumb has chronicled agony and ecstasy through brutally honest portraits . . . She changed the game for women comics—not to mention women comedians\, authors and artists.”—The Huffington Post \n\n“Kominsky-Crumb’s line has a freshness and energy that make her strips feel more honest and closer to autobiography than self-mythologizing.”—The New Republic \n\nAbout Love That Bunch \n\nAline Kominsky-Crumb redefined the Bay Area’s underground comix scene with unabashedly raw\, dirty\, unfiltered comics chronicling the thoughts and desires of a woman coming of age in the 1960s. Kominsky-Crumb didn’t worry about self-flattery: her darkest secrets and deepest insecurities were the fodder for groundbreaking stories. Her exaggerated comix alter ego\, Bunch\, is self-destructive and grotesque but crackles with the self-deprecating humor and honesty of a cartoonist confident in the story she wants to tell. \n  \nCollecting comics from the 1970s through today\, Love That Bunch is shockingly prescient while still being an authentic story of its era. Kominsky-Crumb was ahead of her time in juxtaposing the contradictory nature of female sexuality with a proud\, complicated feminism. Most important\, she does so without apology. \n  \nOne of the most famous and idiosyncratic cartoonists of our time\, Kominsky-Crumb traces her steps as a Beatles-loving fangirl\, an East Village groupie\, an adult grappling with her childhood\, and a 1980s housewife and mother. A new thirty-page story\, “Dream House\,” looks back on her childhood forty years later. Love That Bunch will be Kominsky-Crumb’s only solo-authored book in print. Originally published in 1990\, this new expanded edition follows her to the present\, including a foreword penned by the noted comics scholar Hillary Chute.
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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:Tessa Fontaine\, author of The Electric Woman
DESCRIPTION:Tessa Fontaine’s writing has appeared in PANK\, Seneca Review\, The Rumpus\, Sideshow World\, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of Alabama and is working on a PhD in creative writing at the University of Utah. She also eats fire and charms snakes\, among other sideshow feats. She lives in South Carolina. The Electric Woman is her first book. \nAdvance praise for The Electric Woman \n“With fearless grace and piercing intensity\, Tessa Fontaine juxtaposes the thrill of eating fire with the luminous mystery of her mother’s devastating strokes and harrowing transformations. I have never read a book more tender or more true. We all live in a World of Wonders\, a world of terror. The Electric Woman delivers us to the potent mercy of unmitigated love\, the passion of shared suffering\, the resilience of the spirit\, and the ecstasies of our transfigurations. The heart breaks\, and breaks open—in the divine light of despair\, we discover radiant joy: the hidden holiness of every breath\, every being\, every moment.”\n—Melanie Rae Thon
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LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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