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SUMMARY:Sanpaku with Kate Gavino
DESCRIPTION:Meet the cartoonist\, Kate Gavino! \nSanpaku tells the story of Marcine\, a woman fascinated with the Japanese idea of Sanpaku—that seeing the white around the iris of your eyes is a bad omen. But it’s everywhere Marcine looks—her grandmother has it\, some classmates at Catholic school have it\, JFK had it… Even Marcine might suffer from this odd condition. Eating a strict macrobiotic diet and meditating is supposed to help\, but no matter how much Marcine wants it to\, it can’t save her grandmother’s life or make her days at school any easier.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sanpaku-with-kate-gavino/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, Excelsior\, 4400 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, 94112
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB MEETING
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lively discussion about \n“La Balsa de Piedra” by Jose Saramago \nTo join the book group please contact iranyi@me.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spanish-language-book-club-meeting-3/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Genevieve Hudson\, Thomas Moniz\, and Nancy Au
DESCRIPTION:This event will be held at our Clement street location. \nPlease join us at Green Apple Books on Clement street on Tuesday\, August 28th at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Genevieve Hudson to celebrate her debut collection of stories (from Future Tense Books)\, Pretend We Live Here. Genevieve will be joined by two more readers; Tomas Moniz\, creator of the popular zine Rad Dad\, and Nancy Au\, a writer\, artist\, and teacher living in Oakland. Editor and publisher Brian Hurley will be moderating the reading. \n\nGenevieve Hudson. \nIn her debut collection of stories\, Pretend We Live Here\, Genevieve Hudson explores the idea of home and what it means to find one: in the body\, in the world\, in other people. Her characters are seekers\, whose actions are influenced by their slippery identities and by the strange landscapes that surround them.  \n  \n“A terrific collection of stories. There are echoes here of Flannery O’Connor\, Barry Hannah\, and Denis Johnson\, but Genevieve Hudson is her own writer–impressively and gloriously so. Her eye for the clinching detail is unnerving and her sympathies are fascinatingly conflicted. I hope\, and suspect\, this book will be the start of a long and inspiring career.” -Tom Bissell\, author of The Disaster Artist and Magic Hours \n\n“In Pretend We Live Here\, characters bleed and breathe with a caustic energy that dares the reader to keep pace as they are taken from the Deep South to Western Europe and back again. Genevieve Hudson is a new\, coming-of-age voice that spotlights rural America\, injecting it with a queer freshness that makes her writing impossible to forget.” -Jing-Jing Lee\, author of How We Disappeared \n  \nTomas Moniz \nLibrary Journal (01/01/2017): Writing professor Moniz’s Rad Dad started as a zine over ten years ago\, and this reviewer had the pleasure of critiquing that title in 2011 during its growing pains. Now\, with a few more kids\, Rad Dad has a full-fledged family\, and this latest offering [Rad Families: A Celebration] exhibits growth in depth and advice. These collected essays\, written by various contributors\, are raw\, inspired\, and artful\, capturing the joys and pains of parenting with no apologies and no lack of grace. As such\, some entries will speak more to readers than others\, but the truth and beauty they evoke is elegant and grounding\, celebrating the victories and struggles of a generation of parents: “I did not grow up in a family where anything seemed possible. The future did not really exist because surviving the present was the priority.” Topics range from sex to incarceration to adoption and include the viewpoints of mothers and fathers both new and seasoned\, introspective and wishing for a do-over. VERDICT For the literary-minded\, this Rad Dad collective is a gem of inspired thought\, though this reviewer still loathes the book jacket. \n  \nNancy Au \n“I am a queer\, bisexual writer\, artist\, and teacher living in Oakland\, California. I graduated from U.C. Berkeley with a degree in anthropology. I have an MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University. I am currently an instructor at California State University Stanislaus\, where I teach creative writing (to biology majors!). And\, I am co-founder of The Escapery\, a collective of teachers who are dedicated to diversity\, and to writing and art as a form of resistance. \nMy short stories\, flash fiction\, creative nonfiction\, and poetry often center on the experiences of the elderly\, the young\, immigrants\, as well as with characters who struggle with mental health issues. I endeavor to write about (and to amplify\, diversify\, complicate) the voices that have been historically ignored (or stereotyped or diminished or demonized) within academia and literature. I am also particularly interested in exploring the lives of American-born Chinese and Chinese immigrants\, with an eye towards diverse perspectives and outlooks.” – Peas & Carrots
URL:https://litseen.com/event/genevieve-hudson-thomas-moniz-and-nancy-au/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Mara Altman / Gross Anatomy
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts an evening with Mara Altman\, as she celebrates her new book Gross Anatomy. Please join us! \n  \nMara Altman’s volatile and apprehensive relationship with her body has led her to wonder about a lot of stuff over the years. Like\, who decided that women shouldn’t have body hair? And how sweaty is too sweaty? Also\, why is breast cleavage sexy but camel toe revolting? Isn’t it all just cleavage? These questions and others like them have led to the comforting and sometimes smelly revelations that constitute Gross Anatomy\, an essay collection about what it’s like to operate the bags of meat we call our bodies. \n  \nDivided into two sections\, “The Top Half” and “The Bottom Half\,” with cartoons scattered throughout\, Altman’s book takes the reader on a wild and relatable journey from head to toe — as she attempts to strike up a peace accord with our grody bits. \n  \nWith a combination of personal anecdotes and fascinating research\, Gross Anatomy holds up a magnifying glass to our beliefs\, practices\, biases\, and body parts and shows us the naked truth: that there is greatness in our grossness. \n  \n\n  \n“I love how Gross Anatomy delightfully reveals Mara Altman’s upbeat and life-affirming obsession with the human body — our lovelinesses and not-so-lovelinesses. Lots of people will soon feel far more body-positive because of this book.”– Jon Ronson\, author of The Psychopath Test \n  \n “Forget that old fake news about sugar and spice. With wit and candor\, Mara Altman tells us what girls are really made of – and it’s a hair-raising revelation.”– Tom Robbins\, author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues \n  \n“Gross Anatomy is a charming\, deeply-researched\, whole-hearted embrace of our imperfections\, the things that women don’t talk about because we feel they mar our societally imposed notions of femininity. But after reading Mara Altman’s exploration of her body (and ours) you’ll feel more comfortable with yourself\, from head to toe.” – Jennifer 8. Lee\, author of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles \n  \n\n  \n \nMara Altman enjoys writing about issues that embarrass her (e.g. chin hair)\, because she has found that putting shame on the page diffuses the stigma\, leaving her with a sense of empowerment and freedom. Her first book\, Thanks for Coming\, an investigation into love and orgasm\, was translated into three languages. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, Salon and New York Magazine among other publications. Before going freelance\, She worked as a staff writer for the Village Voice and daily newspapers in India and Thailand. She is an alumna of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and lives in San Diego with quite a few other hairy beings. \n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-mara-altman-gross-anatomy/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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