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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer East Bay Reading "Contrasts: Poetry & Prose"
DESCRIPTION:Poetry and prose: apples and oranges? Decide for yourself at Perfectly Queer East Bay “Contrasts: Poetry & Prose” Wednesday\, May 23\, 7pm at Laurel Bookstore in Oakland. Poets Vernon Keeve III & Luiza Flynn-Goodlett and novelists Dale Chase & Hilary Zaid all read new work. Author signing follows. Free\, tasty refreshments! Thematic door prizes at 7pm. \nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\nVernon Keeve III is a Virginia-born writer that California molded into an educator. He lives and teaches in Oakland. His purpose is to teach the next generation the importance of relaying their personal narratives\, sharing their experiences\, and taking control of their destinies. He holds a MFA from California College of the Arts\, and a Masters in Teaching Literature from Bard College. \nLuiza Flynn-Goodlett is the author of the chapbooks Unseasonable Weather (dancing girl press\, 2018) and Congress of Mud (Finishing Line Press\, 2015). Her work can be found in Third Coast\, Granta\, Quarterly West\, DIAGRAM\, The Rumpus\, and elsewhere. She serves as poetry editor for Foglifter Press and lives in sunny Oakland\, California. \nDale Chase has been writing gay men’s erotica for 20 years. To date nearly 200 of her stories have been published in magazines\, anthologies\, and collections. The Great Man is her third novel. Her first\, Wyatt: Doc Holliday’s Account of an Intimate Friendship\, was published in 2012\, her second Takedown: Taming John Wesley Hardin\, in 2013. Hot Copy: Classic Gay Erotica from the Magazine Era\, a collection of Dale’s stories written for the magazines over a decade ago\, was published in 2015. More at www.dalechase.com \nHilary Zaid is a 2017 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and an alumna of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and the Tin House Writers’ Workshop. Her short fiction has appeared in print and online\, including Lilith Magazine\, The Southwest Review\, The Utne Reader\, CALYX\, The Santa Monica Review\, and The Tahoma Literary Review and has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. An alumna of Harvard and Radcliffe\, she holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and works as a freelance editor.
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LOCATION:Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Daegan Miller
DESCRIPTION:Daegan Miller\n\n  \ndiscussing the subject of his new book \nThis Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent \nfrom University of Chicago Press \n“The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness\, draining swamps\, straightening rivers\, peopling the solitude\, and subduing nature\,” wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. That’s largely how we still think of nineteenth-century America today: a country expanding unstoppably\, bending the continent’s natural bounty to the national will\, heedless of consequence. A country of slavery and of Indian wars. There’s much truth in that vision. \nBut if you know where to look\, you can uncover a different history\, one of vibrant resistance\, one that’s been mostly forgotten. This Radical Land recovers that story. Daegan Miller is our guide on a beautifully written\, revelatory trip across the continent during which we encounter radical thinkers\, settlers\, and artists who grounded their ideas of freedom\, justice\, and progress in the very landscapes around them\, even as the runaway engine of capitalism sought to steamroll everything in its path. Here we meet Thoreau\, the expert surveyor\, drawing anticapitalist property maps. We visit a black antislavery community in the Adirondack wilderness of upstate New York. We discover how seemingly commercial photographs of the transcontinental railroad secretly sent subversive messages\, and how a band of utopian anarchists among California’s sequoias imagined a greener\, freer future. At every turn\, everyday radicals looked to landscape for the language of their dissent—drawing crucial early links between the environment and social justice\, links we’re still struggling to strengthen today. \nDaegan Miller has taught at Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, and his writing has appeared in a variety of venues\, from academic journals to literary magazines. He is on Twitter at @daeganmiller. \nCritical praise for This Radical Land: \n\n\n\n“A debut book that ranges across disciplines and decades to connect the natural environment–especially long-lived trees–to a scathing critique of American-style capitalism. Alternating abstract theory with impressive research\, both bolstered by extensive sources . . . the author builds his case about understanding American history by examining destruction of the environment through essays grounded in the 19th century. . . . He offers an eclectic education often marked by soaring prose.” – Kirkus Reviews \n\n\n\n\n“Inventive. . . . A creative linking of landscape and radicalism.” -Publishers Weekly \n\n\n\n\n“Drawing on superb scholarly detective work\, This Radical Land tells fascinating stories about the history of our ties to the land that give us an alternative to viewing natural spaces as either a resource to exploit or a wilderness museum for the privileged. Miller peels back the history to reveal that\, however ignored\, Americans have always resisted the exploitation of nature. Perhaps his more nuanced environmental history will inspire those today who\, continuing the mute protest of the witness tree\, would pull the planet back from the brink of death.” Richard Higgins\, author of Thoreau and the Language of Trees \n\n\n\n\n“Daegan Miller rekindles a legacy of environmental dissent. The ideas and landscapes of nineteenth-century ‘countermoderns’ are signposts\, still legible\, to alternative futures. This book bears witness like a burning bush.” -Jared Farmer\, author of Trees in Paradise: A California History \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daegan-miller/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Andrew Sean Greer / Less
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Andrew Sean Greer for the paperback launch of Less\, one of our favorite novels of 2017 and winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Joining Andy in conversation isR. O. Kwon. Come celebrate with us! \n  \nPlease note: This event — which is now rescheduled for May 23 at 7pm — will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. If you would like to reserve a seat for the event\, please pre-purchase a copy of Less via the form below and specify that you would like to reserve a seat in the comments field. \n  \nWho says you can’t run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can’t say yes—it would be too awkward—and you can’t say no—it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world. \n  \nQuestion: How do you arrange to skip town? \n  \nAnswer: You accept them all. \n  \nWhat would possibly go wrong? Arthur Less will almost fall in love in Paris\, almost fall to his death in Berlin\, barely escape to a Moroccan ski chalet from a Saharan sandstorm\, accidentally book himself as the (only) writer-in-residence at a Christian Retreat Center in Southern India\, and encounter\, on a desert island in the Arabian Sea\, the last person on Earth he wants to face. Somewhere in there: he will turn fifty. Through it all\, there is his first love. And there is his last. \n  \nBecause\, despite all these mishaps\, missteps\, misunderstandings and mistakes\, Less is\, above all\, a love story. \n  \nA scintillating satire of the American abroad\, a rumination on time and the human heart\, a bittersweet romance of chances lost\, by an author The New York Times has hailed as “inspired\, lyrical\,” “elegiac\,” “ingenious\,” as well as “too sappy by half\,” Less shows a writer at the peak of his talents raising the curtain on our shared human comedy. \n  \n— \n” Less is the funniest\, smartest and most humane novel I’ve read since Tom Rachman’s 2010 debut\, The Imperfectionists….Greer writes sentences of arresting lyricism and beauty. His metaphors come at you like fireflies….Like Arthur\, Andrew Sean Greer’s Less is excellent company. It’s no less than bedazzling\, bewitching and be-wonderful.” —New York Times Book Review \n  \n“Greer’s novel is philosophical\, poignant\, funny and wise\, filled with unexpected turns….Although Greer is gifted and subtle in comic moments\, he’s just as adept at ruminating on the deeper stuff. His protagonist grapples with aging\, loneliness\, creativity\, grief\, self-pity and more.”—San Francisco Chronicle \n  \n“I recommend it with my whole heart.” —Ann Patchett \n— \nAndrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of five works of fiction\, including The Confessions of Max Tivoli\, which was named a best book of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune. He is the recipient of the Northern California Book Award\, the California Book Award\, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award\, the O Henry award for short fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Public Library. Greer lives in San Francisco. He has traveled to all of the locations in this novel\, but he is only big in Italy. \n  \nR. O. Kwon’s first novel\, The Incendiaries\, is forthcoming from Riverhead in July of 2018. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian\, Vice\, BuzzFeed\, Noon\, Time\, Electric Literature\, Playboy\, San Francisco Chronicle\, and elsewhere. She has received awards and fellowships from Yaddo\, MacDowell\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, Omi International\, and the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony. Born in South Korea\, she’s mostly lived in the United States. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like a request a signed copy of Less and/or any of Andrew’s other books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nBar opens at 6:30\, event begins at 7pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrew-sean-greer-less-2/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Release / Bad Luck of the Draw Club
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-bad-luck-of-the-draw-club/
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:Aja Gabel and Vanessa Hua
DESCRIPTION:Aja Gabel discusses her new novel\, The Ensemble. \nPraise for The Ensemble \n“Aja Gabel’s powerful debut offers a sensitive portrait of four young musicians forging their paths through life: sometimes at odds with each other\, sometimes in harmony\, but always inextricably linked by their shared pasts.” —Celeste Ng  \n“With uncommon clarity and empathy\, Aja Gabel brings us inside the passionate\, complex\, and sometimes cutthroat intimacy that exists among the four members of a string quartet. A wise and powerful novel about love\, life\, and music. I didn’t want it to end.” —Maggie Shipstead  \nAja Gabel is a brilliant young writer with the rare gift of an old soul.”—Mat Johnson \nAbout The Ensemble \nThe addictive novel about four young friends navigating a cutthroat world and their complex relationships with each other\, as ambition\, passion\, and love intertwine over the course of their lives. \n  \nJana. Brit. Daniel. Henry. They would never have been friends if they hadn’t needed each other. They would never have found each other except for the art which drew them together. They would never have become family without their love for the music\, for each other. \n  \nBrit is the second violinist\, a beautiful and quiet orphan; on the viola is Henry\, a prodigy who’s always had it easy; the cellist is Daniel\, the oldest and an angry skeptic who sleeps around; and on first violin is Jana\, their flinty\, resilient leader. Together\, they are the Van Ness Quartet. After the group’s youthful\, rocky start\, they experience devastating failure and wild success\, heartbreak and marriage\, triumph and loss\, betrayal and enduring loyalty. They are always tied to each other – by career\, by the intensity of their art\, by the secrets they carry\, by choosing each other over and over again. \n  \nFollowing these four unforgettable characters\, Aja Gabel’s debut novel gives a riveting look into the high-stakes\, cutthroat world of musicians\, and of lives made in concert. The story of Brit and Henry and Daniel and Jana\, The Ensemble is a heart-skipping portrait of ambition\, friendship\, and the tenderness of youth.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aja-gabel/
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:Geoffrey G. O'Brien\, Jane Gregory\, and Wendy Trevino
DESCRIPTION:Wendy Trevino was born & raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She is a Grant Writer in San Francisco\, where she shares an apartment with her boyfriend\, friend & 2 senior cats. She has published chapbooks with Perfect Lovers Press\, Commune Editions & Krupskaya Books. Her chapbook #YourHarveyWeinstein was published by Spoilsport Editions – an online press she started with the writer Oki Sogumi – in 2017. Cruel Fiction (Commune Editions\, Fall 2018) is her first full-length book of poetry. Wendy is not an experimental writer. \nJane Gregory is from Tucson and lives in Oakland. She is the author of My Enemies (Song Cave\, 2013) and Yeah No (Song Cave\, 2018)\, and co-co-editor of Nion Editions\, a chapbook press. \nGeoffrey G. O’Brien’s next book\, Experience in Groups\, will be out from Wave Books in April 2018. He is the author most recently of People on Sunday (Wave\, 2013) and the coauthor (with John Ashbery and Timothy Donnelly) of Three Poets(Minus A Press\, 2012). O’Brien is an Associate Professor in the English Department at UC Berkeley and also teaches for the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/geoffrey-g-obrien-jane-gregory-and-wendy-trevino/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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