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SUMMARY:Shane Bauer: American Prison
DESCRIPTION:Shane Bauer is a senior reporter for Mother Jones. He is the recipient of the National Magazine Award for Best Reporting\, Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting\, Atlantic Media’s Michael Kelly Award\, the Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism\, and at least 20 others. Bauer is the co-author\, along with Sarah Shourd and Joshua Fattal\, of a memoir\, A Sliver of Light\, which details his time spent as a prisoner in Iran. \nABOUT AMERICAN PRISON \nIn 2014\, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield\, Louisiana. An award-winning investigative journalist\, he used his real name; there was no meaningful background check. Four months later\, his employment came to an abrupt end. But he had seen enough\, and in short order he wrote an expose about his experiences that won a National Magazine Award and became the most-read feature in the history of the magazine Mother Jones. Still\, there was much more that he needed to say. In American Prison\, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America from their origins in the decades before the Civil War. For\, as he soon realized\, we can’t understand the cruelty of our current system and its place in the larger story of mass incarceration without understanding where it came from. Private prisons became entrenched in the South as part of a systemic effort to keep the African-American labor force in place in the aftermath of slavery\, and the echoes of these shameful origins are with us still. \nThe private prison system is deliberately unaccountable to public scrutiny. Private prisons are not incentivized to tend to the health of their inmates\, or to feed them well\, or to attract and retain a highly-trained prison staff. Though Bauer befriends some of his colleagues and sympathizes with their plight\, the chronic dysfunction of their lives only adds to the prison’s sense of chaos. To his horror\, Bauer finds himself becoming crueler and more aggressive the longer he works in the prison\, and he is far from alone. \nA blistering indictment of the private prison system\, and the powerful forces that drive it\, American Prison is a necessary human document about the true face of justice in America.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shane-bauer-american-prison/
LOCATION:moe’s books\, 2476 TELEGRAPH AVE\, BERKELEY\, CA\, 94704-2322\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays reading "Exotic Locales: China\, Australia & the American Midwest"
DESCRIPTION:Setting is a device used in writing fiction. A particular setting can be exotic to one reader and prosaic to another. Odd Mondays has asked three authors of recent novels to read excerpts describing setting at “Exotic Locales\,” Monday\, October 1\, 7pm to 8pm\, at Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. After the readings\, the authors will discuss why they chose that setting and what function it serves in their novel. Former Noe Valley resident Kirstin Chen set her novel BURY WHAT WE CANNOT TAKE in Mao-era China and Hong Kong. Current Noe Valley resident Rebecca Winterer‘s novel THE SINGING SHIP takes place in Queensland\, Australia. TWISTER\, by Genanne Walsh\, is set in the American Midwest\, which is clearly exotic to San Franciscans\, expats or not. Admission is free and so are the refreshments! \nMORE ABOUT THE AUTHORS:\nKirstin Chen’s new novel\, BURY WHAT WE CANNOT TAKE\, was named a Most Anticipated Upcoming Book by Electric Literature\, The Millions\, The Rumpus\, Harper’s Bazaar\, and InStyle\, among others. She is also the author of SOY SAUCE FOR BEGINNERS. She was the fall 2017 NTU-NAC National Writer in Residence in Singapore and has received awards from the Steinbeck Fellows Program\, Sewanee\, Hedgebrook\, and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference. Born and raised in Singapore\, she currently resides in San Francisco. \nGenanne Walsh is the author of TWISTER\, which was awarded the Big Moose Prize for the Novel from Black Lawrence Press. Twister was also shortlisted for the Brighthorse Prize\, the Housatonic Book Award in Fiction\, and the Sarton Women’s Book Award. She lives in San Francisco with her wife and dogs. \nRebecca Winterer’s THE SINGING SHIP was awarded the Del Sol Press 2016 First Novel Prize and selected as a finalist for the Black Lawrence Press 2016 Big Moose Prize. She’s received fellowships at the Millay Colony\, the Vermont Studio Center\, Virginia Center for Creative Arts\, and Yaddo and has had a story published by Puerto del Sol. She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Raised in Queensland\, Australia\, she now lives in Noe Valley with her husband.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-reading-exotic-locales-china-australia-the-american-midwest/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:POETS! – featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-8/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Juan Gabriel Vasquez discusses his new novel\, The Shape of the Ruins
DESCRIPTION:Juan Gabriel Vasquez discusses his new novel\, The Shape of the Ruins. \n\nPraise for Juan Gabriel Vasquez \n\n“Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s The Shape of the Ruins is a highly sophisticated\, fast-moving political thriller set in Colombia and an excellent read.” —Alan Furst \n\n“One of the great novels of recent years.” —Mario Vargas Llosa \n\n“A reinventor of Latin American literature in the 21st century.” —Jonathan Franzen \n\n“Juan Gabriel Vásquez is a considerable writer.” —E. L. Doctorow \n\n“I felt myself under the spell of a masterful writer. Juan Gabriel Vásquez has many gifts—intelligence\, wit\, energy\, a deep vein of feeling–but he uses them so naturally that soon enough one forgets one’s amazement at his talents\, and then the strange\, beautiful sorcery of his tale takes hold.” —Nicole Krauss \n\nAbout The Shape of the Ruins \n\nA sweeping tale of conspiracy theories\, assassinations\, and twisted obsessions — the much anticipated masterpiece from Juan Gabriel Vásquez. \nThe Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy\, political obsession\, and literary investigation. When a man is arrested at a museum for attempting to steal the bullet-ridden suit of a murdered Colombian politician\, few notice. But soon this thwarted theft takes on greater meaning as it becomes a thread in a widening web of popular fixations with conspiracy theories\, assassinations\, and historical secrets; and it haunts those who feel that only they know the real truth behind these killings. \nThis novel explores the darkest moments of a country’s past and brings to life the ways in which past violence shapes our present lives. A compulsive read\, beautiful and profound\, eerily relevant to our times and deeply personal\, The Shape of the Ruins is a tour-de-force story by a master at uncovering the incisive wounds of our memories.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/juan-gabriel-vasquez-discusses-his-new-novel-the-shape-of-the-ruins/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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