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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: Timothy Denevi / Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a special evening with Timothy Denevi(Hyper: A Personal History of ADHD) for his new book Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson’s Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism. Please join us! \n  \nHunter S. Thompson is often misremembered as a wise-cracking\, drug-addled cartoon character. This book reclaims him for what he truly was: a fearless opponent of corruption and fascism\, one who sacrificed his future well-being to fight against it\, rewriting the rules of journalism and political satire in the process. This skillfully told and dramatic story shows how Thompson saw the danger of Richard Nixon early and embarked on a life-defining campaign to stop it. In his fevered effort to expose institutional injustice\, Thompson pushed himself far beyond his natural limits\, sustained by drugs\, mania\, and little else. For ten years\, he cast aside his old ambitions\, troubled his family\, and likely hastened his own decline\, along the way producing some of the best political writing in our history. \nThis timely biography recalls a period of anger and derangement in American politics\, and one writer with the guts to tell the truth. \n  \n\n  \n  \nTimothy Denevi is an assistant professor in the MFA program at George Mason University\, and the nonfiction editor of Literary Hub. His first book\, Hyper: A Personal History of ADHD was published in 2014. He received his MFA in nonfiction from the University of Iowa and his work has appeared in The Atlantic\, Time\, The Paris Review\, andNew York Magazine\, among others. He has been awarded fellowships by the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Tim lives near Washington\, DC with his wife and children. \n  \n\n  \n  \nThis event is free and all ages. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \n  \nIf you’d like a signed copy of Freak Kingdom and/or Hyper\, order below and be sure to include your request in the special field. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-timothy-denevi-freak-kingdom-hunter-s-thompsons-manic-ten-year-crusade-against-american-fascism/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nicole Chung and Daniel Mallory Ortberg
DESCRIPTION:Nicole Chung discusses her new memoir All You Can Ever Know with Daniel Mallory Ortberg. \n\nPraise for All You Can Ever Know \n\n“This book moved me to my very core. As in all her writing\, Nicole Chung speaks eloquently and honestly about her own personal story\, then widens her aperture to illuminate all of us. All You Can Ever Know is full of insights on race\, motherhood\, and family of all kinds\, but what sets it apart is the compassion Chung brings to every facet of her search for identity and every person portrayed in these pages. This book should be required reading for anyone who has ever had\, wanted\, or found a family―which is to say\, everyone.” ―Celeste Ng\, author of Little Fires Everywhere \n\n“Adoption is neither an incident nor a process―it is an evergreen story of lives growing and resisting simple definitions. Chung’s All You Can Ever Know takes the grammar of adoption―nouns\, verbs\, and direct object―and with extraordinary integrity remakes them into a narrative about what it means to be a subject. A primary document of witness\, Chung writes her memoir as a transracial adoptee with honesty\, wisdom\, and love. Her search and what she discovers offer us life’s meaning and purpose of the very highest order.” ―Min Jin Lee\, author of Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko \n\n“This book will break your heart in all the best ways. Nicole Chung’s intimate exploration of motherhood\, race\, and identity is a beautiful personal story that also reveals something profound about our culture and country. I didn’t want it to end.” ―Jessica Valenti\, author of Sex Object \n\n“I’ve been waiting for this writer\, and this book―and everything else she’ll write―and now it is here.” ―Alexander Chee\,author of The Queen of the Night \n\nAbout All You Can Ever Know \n\nWhat does it mean to lose your roots―within your culture\, within your family―and what happens when you find them? \nNicole Chung was born severely premature\, placed for adoption by her Korean parents\, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood\, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting\, prepackaged myth. She believed that her biological parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hope of giving her a better life\, that forever feeling slightly out of place was her fate as a transracial adoptee. But as Nicole grew up―facing prejudice her adoptive family couldn’t see\, finding her identity as an Asian American and as a writer\, becoming ever more curious about where she came from―she wondered if the story she’d been told was the whole truth. \nWith the same warmth\, candor\, and startling insight that has made her a beloved voice\, Chung tells of her search for the people who gave her up\, which coincided with the birth of her own child. All You Can Ever Know is a profound\, moving chronicle of surprising connections and the repercussions of unearthing painful family secrets―vital reading for anyone who has ever struggled to figure out where they belong.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nicole-chung-and-daniel-mallory-ortberg/
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:BINDERY: Brian Posehn / Forever Nerdy: Living My Dorky Dreams and Staying Metal
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening with comedian\, actor\, and forever nerd Brian Posehn for his new memoir Forever Nerdy: Living My Dorky Dreams and Staying Metal. Please join us! \n  \n“I’m a full-blown nerd\,” Posehn writes in the preface. “And by full-blown nerd\, I mean I’m obsessed with a bunch of cool stuff that dumb people think is uncool\, like comics\, Dungeons & Dragons\, action and horror movies\, and HEAVY FUCKING METAL.” \n  \nForever Nerdy is a collection of stories from his life that amount to a celebration of growing up nerdy and different. Brian\, now middle-aged with a wife\, child\, and thriving career\, still feels like an outsider and is as big a nerd as ever. But that’s okay\, because in his five decades of nerdom he’s discovered that the key to happiness is not growing up. You can be a nerd forever and still become a beloved comedian\, writer\, and actor. Or\, as Brian introduces himself\, “a mildly successful\, not-so-widely known stand-up comic\, writer\, and actor mostly known for playing weirdos and half-wits in sitcoms.” \n  \nWe learn of his retreats to the Dunbar Elementary school library which\, of all places\, is where his obsession with KISS began; his watching Jaws repeatedly at his local movie theatre in the summer of ’75; the lethal combo of being super tall and super skinny with dorky black framed glasses\, pimples\, and braces; reading The Exorcist for the first time; getting kicked out of the house by his mother at 19; and that he inherited the dark side of his humor from Grandpa and the crass side from Nana. \n  \n\n  \n“Everyone has an origin story. For comedians\, they’re usually pretty sad\, tortured\, and depressing. Brian Posehn’s is no different\, and yet he’s so different. Forever Nerdy is a memoir about being brave enough to take your torture and find a way to make it your bliss\, and is so fun to read you’re gonna wish you took even longer poops.”  – Sarah Silverman\, author of The Bedwetter  \n  \n“Forever Nerdy is the only book on Brian Posehn and his curious\, eventful\, sad\, sometimes tragic\, defiant\, fun\, loopy life that you will ever need to read. Throw away all the others on this subject matter and get this one! Joyce had his Ulysses\, now Posehn has his Forever Nerdy to engage your eyeballs and wile away your hours\, whether you’re stuck in Omaha\, or in an airport\, or on the toilet\, or perhaps in a toilet on an airplane over Omaha (a trifecta). Buy it\, read it\, commit it to memory\, and you can be on my team on trivia night!” – Bob Odenkirk of Better Call Saul\, Breaking Bad\, and Mr. Show  \n  \n\n  \nBrian Posehn has appeared on Lady Dynamite\, The Big Bang Theory\, New Girl\, The Sarah Silverman Program\, and was a writer and performer on HBO’s Mr. Show. He co-produced Netflix’s With Bob and David and starred in the dark indie comedy Uncle Nick. He hosts and produces the Nerd Pokerpodcast and co-wrote a run of Marvel’s Deadpool. His next project is a comedy metal album titled Offenders of the Fake\, featuring members of Anthrax\, Dethklok\, Slayer\, and Soundgarden. \n  \n\n  \n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of Forever Nerdy\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-brian-posehn-forever-nerdy-living-my-dorky-dreams-and-staying-metal/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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