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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Sarah Cooper / How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men's Feelings: Non-Threatening Leadership Strategies for Women
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon with Sarah Cooper for her new book How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings: Non-Threatening Leadership Strategies for Women. Please join us! \n  \nAmbitious women are so scary. In this fast-paced business world\, female leaders need to make sure they’re not perceived as pushy\, aggressive\, or competent. In How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings\, Sarah Cooper\, author of the bestselling 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings\, illustrates how women can achieve their dreams\, succeed in their careers\, and become leaders\, without harming the fragile male ego. \n  \nChapters include\, among others\, “9 Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women\,” “How to Ace Your Job Interview Without Over-acing It\,” and “Choose Your Own Adventure: Do You Want to Be Likable or Successful?” It even includes several pages to doodle on while men finish what they’re saying. Each chapter also features an exercise with a set of “inaction items” designed to challenge women to be less challenging. \n  \nAnd\, when all else fails\, a set of wearable mustaches is included to allow women to seem more man-like. This will cancel out any need to change their leadership style. In fact\, it may even lead to a quick promotion! \n  \n\n  \nSarah Cooper is a blogger\, vlogger\, and comedian whose satirical blog TheCooperReview.com pokes fun at corporate culture\, the tech world\, and everything in between. After 15 years working for companies like Google and Yahoo!\, she knows her subject well. Her “10 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings” post has circled the globe\, with 5 million views and counting. Her work has appeared on The Washington Post\, Fast Company\, Business Insider\, Huffington Post\, and countless more. Sarah lives with her husband in San Francisco and enjoys 90s rock\, standup comedy\, and both sunny and cloudy days equally. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The Bindery’s bar opens with the store at 2pm; event starts at 4pm. \n  \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings\, and/or any of Sarah’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-sarah-cooper-how-to-be-successful-without-hurting-mens-feelings-non-threatening-leadership-strategies-for-women/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Peter Nathaniel Malae in conversation with Alan Soldofsky
DESCRIPTION:Peter Nathaniel Malae in conversation with Alan Soldofsky \ncelebrating the release of \nSon of Amity \nby Peter Nathaniel Malae – published by Oregon State University Press \nThree lives on the verge of ruin intersect in the small Oregon town of Amity: Pika\, a half-Samoan ex-con from California\, seeks to deliver justice to his sister’s rapist; Michael\, a five-tour Iraq War Marine\, faces the cracked mirror of his own embattled soul; and Sissy\, a recent convert to Catholicism\, must resist the lure of ruthless self-judgment and discover what love is. \nDetermined to escape the past\, these characters find themselves sharing the same torn-down house\, bordering tweaker poverty and bucolic wine country. Violence and penance\, family and legacy\, recidivism and post-traumatic stress disorder linger with the heavy rain of desperation. At the center of this storm is five-year old Benji\, whose wide-eyed energy and openhearted faith could show all of them how to still be saved. \nIn this unforgettable tale\, award-winning author Peter Nathaniel Malae explores the depths of human pain and trauma with cultural authority. Son of Amity is a novel whose voices cry out with truth and vulnerability\, never betraying that slight tilt toward hope needed to make the long\, hard trek to tomorrow. \nPeter Nathaniel Malae is the author of the novels\, Our Frail Blood and What We Are; the story collection\, Teach the Free Man; and the play\, “The Question.” A former Steinbeck\, MacDowell\, Arts Council Silicon Valley\, and Oregon Literary Arts Fellow\, Malae lives in western Oregon. \nAlan Soldofsky is the author of the poetry colleciton\, In the Buddha Factory\, from Truman State University Press. He is also co-editor with poet David Koehn of Compendium: A Collection of Thoughts on Prosody by Donald Justice. In addition he has published three chapbooks of poems: Kenora Station\, Staying Home\, and most recently a chapbook that includes a selection of poems by his son\, the poet Adam Soldofsky\, Holding Adam / My Father’s Books. His poems\, articles\, essays\, interviews\, and book reviews have appeared widely in periodicals including The Antioch Review\, The Crab Orchard Review\, The Georgia Review\, The Gettysburg Review\, The Greensboro Review\, Grand Street\, The Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Nation\, The North American Review\, Poetry East. Chelsea\, Narrative\, Poetry Flash\, Quarry West\, and The Writer’s Chronicle. He is a professor of English and Creative Writing at San Jose State University where he directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing. \n“From the farthest\, wettest corner of war-damaged America\, Peter Nathaniel Malae brings us the story of a family bound by a shared history of violence\, and liberated by the miracle of shared mercy. Written with immense intellect and swagger\, Son of Amity imbues the street-level realities ofour times — in our cities\, towns\, prisons\, and psyches — with the power of myth.”  — Jon Raymond\, author of Freebird and The Half-Life
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-nathaniel-malae-in-conversation-with-alan-soldofsky/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Susannah Carlson and Peter Bradbury\, editors of Sanctuary
DESCRIPTION: Editors Susannah Carlson and Peter Bradbury discuss Sanctuary: A Collection of Poetry and Prose. \n\nAbout Sanctuary \n\nWhen we started this project eight months ago\, we had no way of knowing how bad things would get or how timely the final product would be. The idea of sanctuary has become a flashpoint. Empathy and kindness seem\, on the surface\, to have taken a backseat to hatred\, nationalism\, and fear. Yet\, while some spew hatred\, still more speak out on behalf of kindness. Such scenarios are playing out around the world\, as war and economic and environmental pressures have driv- en people from their homes\, seeking sanctuary and too often being turned away or worse. \n  \nThe fifty pieces you find here were gleaned from over 700 sub- missions. They explore the concept of sanctuary from angles direct and oblique\, political and comical\, religious and secular. \n  \nSome approach the sanctuary itself\, the structure or the institu- tion. Nancy Cook’s two stories\, Illuminations and Illusions and The After- life\, were written during a residency in a 19th century insane asylum\, the stories pulled from old newspapers and brought to life in her deft prose. Several pieces deal with shelters\, both animal and human. Leslie Muzingo’s story\, Heroes on the Ceiling\, and Joyce Kryzak’s essay\, In the Whispering Breezes\, explore the experience of adults and children at bat- tered women’s shelters\, while Jennifer Stuart’s story\, House for Girls\, in- troduces us to youthful victims of human trafficking\, and Gayla Mills’s essay\, Becoming Human\, brings us inside an animal shelter and the heart of one who works there. \n  \nOther authors approached sanctuary from the point of view of those who seek it: refugees and escapees of both the innocent and the criminal kind\, sometimes blurring the lines between. Michelle S. Myers’s essay\, Communion on the Road\, relates her experience escorting “barely documented” Central American asylum seekers to submit their applications\, and Jennifer Stuart’s story\, The Other Side\, gives us a mo- ment in the life of one such refugee on the first steps of her journey to America. Caroline Taylor’s story Creature of Habit\, Charlotte Platt’s\, Claim Sanctuary\, and John M. Floyd’s\, The Blue Delta\, tell the stories of fugitives whose quest for sanctuary have very different ends\, while Jesse Falzoi’s story\, With Every Thought\, tells of a bittersweet experience housing a Syrian family before they move on to their new lives. \n  \nSeveral pieces are harder to pin down\, but the concept is still there. Gina Grande’s flash piece\, Drag\, explores the safety to be found in physical self-transformation\, while Scott Archer Jones’s story\, Con- tentment\, introduces us to an aging hedonist who seeks comfort in the hand of a friend\, and Sage Kalmus’s story\, The First Lo’ihian\, places one young man’s sanctuary 50\,000 years in his future\, on an island that today is just beginning to be born. Ed McCourt’s essay\, What We Leave on the Curb\, finds solace in the face of death\, in the rebirth of a bicycle\, while a physician-priest seeks sanctuary in the bottle in Nick Bouch- ard’s story\, Father Pearson’s Last Day. \n  \nIt’s a cold and disquieting world out there. I hope you find some comfort in these pages and will offer the same to any strangers who show up at your checkpoints or wash up on your shore. \n  \n–S.C.\, June 2018 \nSunnyvale\, California
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susannah-carlson-and-peter-bradbury-editors-of-sanctuary/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Idra Novey with Marie Mockett and Bernice Yeung
DESCRIPTION:Idra Novey discusses her new novel Those Who Knew with Marie Mockett and Bernice Yeung. \n\nPraise for Those Who Knew \n\n“There’s an urgent timeliness to this story of the crimes committed by a powerful man\, but Idra Novey’s riveting\, formally brilliant novel transcends any particular moment. Those Who Knew is a devastating inquiry into the way lofty ideals can serve as cover for brutal impulses\, the way struggles for control of the body politic wreak havoc on actual bodies. Most of all\, it’s an indictment\, at once fierce and compassionate\, of the collective silence that implicates us all in irrevocable wrongs.” —Garth Greenwell\, author of What Belongs to You \n“Genius. That’s what I kept thinking as I read this novel that somehow combines an invented island\, a political bookstore\, fragments of a stage production\, and a story that’s at once a damning critique of craven self-interest and a tale about our inescapable connectedness. Idra Novey has written an irreverent\, magical\, perfect puzzle of a book.”—Cristina Henriquez\, author of The Book of Unknown Americans \n“Those Who Knew is a beautiful novel about that which we cannot deny\, in ourselves or others\, and the price we are too often willing to pay for what we think is like freedom.”—Alexander Chee\, author of Queen of the Night \n\nAbout Those Who Knew \n\nOn an unnamed island country ten years after the collapse of a U.S.-supported regime\, Lena suspects the powerful senator she was involved with back in her student activist days is taking advantage of a young woman who’s been introducing him at rallies. When the young woman ends up dead\, Lena revisits her own fraught history with the senator and the violent incident that ended their relationship. \nWhy didn’t Lena speak up then\, and will her family’s support of the former regime still impact her credibility? What if her hunch about this young woman’s death is wrong? \nWhat follows is a riveting exploration of the cost of staying silent and the mixed rewards of speaking up in a profoundly divided country. Those Who Knew confirms Novey’s place as an essential new voice in American fiction. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/idra-novey-with-marie-mockett-and-bernice-yeung/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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