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SUMMARY:THE RACKET! #19
DESCRIPTION:It feels like The Racket has skewed dark as of late – obsession\, grief\, ghosts – so we thought\, let’s try something a little more positive oomph\, something with a little sensuality. Thus\, The Racket #19: PLEASURE. As well know\, writers are dark\, morbid folks\, and we expect this to be as probing of the seedier side of what pleasure is as any other event we’ve thrown. \nBut hey\, we can try. \nMore info to come.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-19/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rachel Kushner
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Kushner discusses her new novel\, The Mars Room. \nPrasie for Rachel Kushner \n“Kushner is a young master. I honestly don’t know how she is able to know so much and convey all of this in such a completely entertaining and mesmerizing way.” —George Saunders \n“Kushner is going to be one we turn to for our serious pleasures and for the insight and wisdom we’ll be needing in hard times to come. She is a novelist of the very first order.” —Robert Stone \n“Ms. Kushner can really write. Her prose has a poise and wariness and moral graininess that puts you in mind of….Robert Stone and Joan Didion…[Kushner has] a sensibility that’s on constant alert for crazy\, sensual\, often ravaged beauty…persuasive and moving…provocative.”–Dwight Garner\, The New York Times \nAbout The Mars Room \nFrom twice National Book Award–nominated Rachel Kushner\, whose Flamethrowers was called “the best\, most brazen\, most interesting book of the year” (Kathryn Schulz\, New York magazine)\, comes a spectacularly compelling\, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. \nIt’s 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility\, deep in California’s Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San Francisco of her youth and her young son\, Jackson. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living\, which Kushner evokes with great humor and precision. \nStunning and unsentimental\, The Mars Room demonstrates new levels of mastery and depth in Kushner’s work. It is audacious and tragic\, propulsive and yet beautifully refined. As James Wood said in The New Yorker\, her fiction “succeeds because it is so full of vibrantly different stories and histories\, all of them particular\, all of them brilliantly alive.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-kushner/
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:Kari Byron / Crash Test Girl: An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life's Toughest Questions
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery presents former Mythbusters‘ host Kari Byron for her new book Crash Test Girl: An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life’s Toughest Questions. \nCrash test your way through life\, no lab coat required. \nKari Byron’s story hasn’t been a straight line. She started out as a broke artist living in San Francisco\, writing poems on a crowded bus on the way to one of her three jobs. Many curve balls\, unexpected twists\, and yes\, literal and figurative explosions later\, and she’s one of the world’s most respected women in science entertainment\, blowing stuff up on national television and getting paid for it! In Crash Test Girl\, Kari reveals her fascinating life story on the set of MythBusters and beyond. With her signature gusto and roll-up-your-sleeves enthusiasm\, she invites readers behind the duct tape and the dynamite\, to the unlikely friendships and low-budget sets that turned a crazy idea into a famously inventive show with a rabid fanbase. \nThe truth is\, Mythbusters was never meant to be a science show. But attaching a rocket to a car\, riding a motorcycle on water\, or lighting 500 pounds of coffee creamer on fire requires a decent understanding of chemistry\, physics\, and engineering. Thus\, the cast and crew brought in the scientific method to work through each problem: Question. Hypothesize. Analyze. Experiment. Conclude. And as Kari came to learn in her own life\, not only is the scientific method the best approach for busting myths\, it’s also the perfect tool for solving everyday issues\, including: \nCareer – Love – Creativity – Setbacks – Money – Sexuality – Depression – Bravery \nCrash Test Girl reminds us that science is for everyone\, as long as you’re willing to strap in\, put on your safety goggles\, hit a few walls\, and learn from the results. Using a combination of methodical experimentation and unconventional creativity\, you’ll come to the most important conclusion of all: In life\, sometimes you crash and burn\, but you can always crash and learn. \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend this event but would like to request a signed copy of Crash Test Girl\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, at 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kari-byron-crash-test-girl-an-unlikely-experiment-in-using-the-scientific-method-to-answer-lifes-toughest-questions/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Heather Gautney / Crashing the Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Bernie Sanders campaign advisor Heather Gautney for her new book Crashing the Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement. Please join us! \nSenator Bernie Sanders shocked the political establishment by winning 13 million votes and a majority of young voters in the 2016 Democratic primary. He emerged from the contest against Hillary Clinton as the most popular politician in the US\, despite being a 75-year-old self-professed “democratic socialist.” What lessons can be drawn from this surprising but—in the end—losing campaign? \nVermont resident Heather Gautney was a legislative fellow in Sanders’ Washington office and researcher and organizer for his presidential campaign. The author and editor of several books on social movements and American politics\, she brings her academic expertise and left politics to bear on the scenes and conflicts she witnessed during the campaign. In reviewing what enabled Sanders to reach out to an unprecedented number of people with a socialist message—and what stalled his progress and radical punch—she draws lessons about the prospects and perils of building a leftist movement in the United States. Gautney’s reflections on the role that race and class played in this election cycle and analysis of where Democrats stand following Trump’s victory will serve as a useful starting point for many newly aware of the limitations of the Democratic party and the challenges ahead. \n  \n\n  \nHeather Gautney was a policy fellow in Bernie Sanders’s Washington DC office and a volunteer researcher and organizer on his presidential campaign. She is an associate professor of sociology and Fordham University\, and the author of Protest and Organization in the Alternative Globalization Era. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Crashing the Party\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/heather-gautney-crashing-the-party-from-the-bernie-sanders-campaign-to-a-progressive-movement/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Keith Gessen / A Terrible Country
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts All the Sad Young Literary Men author Keith Gessen for his new novel A Terrible Country. Please join us! \n  \nWhen Andrei Kaplan’s older brother Dima insists that Andrei return to Moscow to care for their ailing grandmother\, Andrei must take stock of his life in New York. His girlfriend has stopped returning his text messages. His dissertation adviser is dubious about his job prospects. It’s the summer of 2008\, and his bank account is running dangerously low. Perhaps a few months in Moscow are just what he needs. So Andrei sublets his room in Brooklyn\, packs up his hockey stuff\, and moves into the apartment that Stalin himself had given his grandmother\, a woman who has outlived her husband and most of her friends. She survived the dark days of communism and witnessed Russia’s violent capitalist transformation\, during which she lost her beloved dacha. She welcomes Andrei into her home\, even if she can’t always remember who he is. \n  \nAndrei learns to navigate Putin’s Moscow\, still the city of his birth\, but with more expensive coffee. He looks after his elderly–but surprisingly sharp!–grandmother\, finds a place to play hockey\, a café to send emails\, and eventually some friends\, including a beautiful young activist named Yulia. Over the course of the year\, his grandmother’s health declines and his feelings of dislocation from both Russia and America deepen. Andrei knows he must reckon with his future and make choices that will determine his life and fate. When he becomes entangled with a group of leftists\, Andrei’s politics and his allegiances are tested\, and he is forced to come to terms with the Russian society he was born into and the American one he has enjoyed since he was a kid. \n  \nA wise\, sensitive novel about Russia\, exile\, family\, love\, history and fate\, A Terrible County asks what you owe the place you were born\, and what it owes you. Writing with grace and humor\, Keith Gessen gives us a brilliant and mature novel that is sure to mark him as one of the most talented novelists of his generation. \n  \n\n  \n“A cause for celebration: big-hearted\, witty\, warm\, compulsively readable\, earnest\, funny\, full of that kind of joyful sadness I associate with Russia and its writers.” – George Saunders\, Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo \n  \n“Keith Gessen is one of my favorite writers and A Terrible Country is even better than I hoped. By turns sad\, funny\, bewildering\, revelatory\, and then sad again\, it recreates the historical-psychological experience of returning\, for twenty-first-century reasons\, to a country one’s parents left in the twentieth century. It’s at once an old-fashioned novel about the interplay between generational roles\, family fates\, and political ideology\, and a kind of global detective mystery about neoliberalism (plus a secret map of Moscow in terms of pickup hockey). Gessen is a master journalist and essayist\, as well as a storyteller with a scary grasp on the human heartstrings\, and A Terrible Country unites the personal and political as only the best novels do.” – Elif Batuman\, author of The Idiot and The Possessed \n  \n“A Terrible Country is an engaging and entertaining novel\, full of humor and humility\, and always after one thing–the truth of contemporary life. Gessen gives us the people of Moscow–businessmen\, anarchists\, grandmothers\, dissidents\, baristas\, hockey goalies\, prostitutes\, and FSB agents–not as fanciful characters but with the full force of the real. His affectionate\, clear-eyed portrait of one terrible country has plenty to teach us about our own.” – Chad Harbach\, author of The Art of Fielding \n  \n\n  \nKeith Gessen is the author of All the Sad Young Literary Men and a founding editor of n+1. He is the editor of three nonfiction books and the translator or co-translator\, from Russian\, of a collection of short stories\, a book of poems\, and a work of oral history\, Nobel Prize-winner Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices from Chernobyl. A contributor to The New Yorker and The London Review of Books\, Gessen teaches journalism at Columbia and lives in New York with his wife and son. \n  \n  \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of A Terrible Country and/or any of Keith’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-keith-gessen-a-terrible-country/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY\, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES...
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 7:30pm\nShow at 8pm\n$10 online & at the door…\nTICKETSSSSSS: https://ticketf.ly/2k4yp1g \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\,\na communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\,\nto embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-14/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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