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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime will be at Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster Street\, Oakland\, Thursday November 15th\, 7-9pm. \ndetails TBA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Daniel Levin Becker on the Oulipo
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Levin Becker on the Oulipo \n\n\n\ncelebrating the release of \nAll That is Evident is Suspect \nedited by Ian Monk and Daniel Levin Becker \npublished by McSweeney’s \n\n\n\nSince its inception in Paris in 1960\, the OuLiPo—ouvroir de littérature potentielle\, or workshop for potential literature—has continually expanded our sense of what writing can do. It’s produced\, among many other marvels\, a detective novel without the letter e (and a sequel of sorts without a\, i\, o\, u\, or y); an epic poem structured by the Parisian métro system; a story in the form of a tarot reading; a poetry book in the form of a game of go; and a suite of sonnets that would take almost 200 million years to read completely. \nLovers of literature are likely familiar with the novels of the best-known Oulipians—Italo Calvino\, Georges Perec\, Harry Mathews\, Raymond Queneau—and perhaps even the small number of texts available in English on the group\, including Warren Motte’s Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature and Daniel Levin Becker’s Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature. But the actual work of the group in its full\, radiant collectivity has never before been showcased in English. (“The State of Constraint\,” a dossier in issue 22 of McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern\, comes closest.) \nEnter All That is Evident is Suspect: the first collection in English to offer a life-size picture of the group in its historical and contemporary incarnations\, and the first in any language to represent all of its members (numbering 41 as of April 2018 ). Combining fiction\, poetry\, essays and lectures\, and never-published internal correspondence—along with the acrobatically constrained writing and complexly structured narratives that have become synonymous with oulipian practice—this volume shows a unique group of thinkers and artists at work and at play\, meditating on and subverting the facts of life\, love\, and the group itself. It’s an unprecedentedly intimate and comprehensive glimpse at the breadth and diversity of one of world literature’s most vital\, adventurous presences. \nTopics to be discussed: Sharks as poets and vice versa\, the Brisbane pitch drop experiment\, novel classifications for real or imaginary libraries\, the monumental sadness of difficult loves\, the obsolescence of the novel\, the symbolic significance of the cup-and-ball game\, holiday closures across the Francophone world\, what happens at Fahrenheit 452\, Warren G. Harding’s dark night of the soul\, Marcel Duchamp’s imperviousness to conventional spacetime laws\, bilingual palindromes\, cartoon eodermdromes\, oscillating poems\, métro poems\, metric poems\, literary madness\, straw cultivation. \nDaniel Levin Becker is reviews editor for the Believer and has been a member of the Oulipo since 2009. He is the author of Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature published by Harvard University Press. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-levin-becker-on-the-oulipo/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:INVASIONS: Calvin Gimpelevich
DESCRIPTION:Author Calvin Gimpelevich is touring the West Coast in support of INVASIONS: the debut short fiction collection\, just out from Instar Books! Come out to Wolfman Books at 7 p.m. on Thursday\, November 15\, for an evening of rad new trans fiction by Calvin\, as well as work from other local LGBT writers! \nMore on Invasions: http://www.instarbooks.com/books/invasions.html \n“Invasions blew my mind. Flipping between speculative worlds deeply rooted in realness and emotion and more familiar landscapes that tip on the edges of personal apocalypses\, Gimpelevich’s writing is strong and sure\, taking us places we really haven’t been. I’m hooked.”–Michelle Tea \nAbout Calvin: Calvin Gimpelevich was born in San Francisco and has lived around the West Coast. A recipient of awards from Artist Trust\, Jack Straw Cultural Center\, the Speculative Literature Foundation\, 4Culture\, CODEX/Writer’s Block\, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center\, his work has appeared in Electric Literature\, Plentitude\, cream city\, THEM\, and other publications. He has cats. \nLocal featured readers TBA!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/invasions-calvin-gimpelevich/
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:BINDERY: Gina Arnold / Half A Million Strong: Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Gina Arnold for the launch of her new book\, Half a Million Strong: Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella. Please join us! \n  \n  \nFrom baby boomers to millennials\, attending a big music festival has basically become a cultural rite of passage in America. In Half a Million Strong\, music writer and scholar Gina Arnold explores the history of large music festivals in America and examines their impact on American culture. Studying literature\, films\, journalism\, and other archival detritus of the countercultural era\, Arnold looks closely at a number of large and well-known festivals\, including the Newport Folk Festival\, Woodstock\, Altamont\, Wattstax\, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival\, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass\, and others to map their cultural significance in the American experience. She finds that–far from being the utopian and communal spaces of spiritual regeneration that they claim for themselves– these large music festivals serve mostly to display the free market to consumers in its very best light. \n  \n\n  \n“At a moment when music festivals proliferate as both music and marketing phenomena\, Gina Arnold deftly explores their fascinating history in this compulsively readable book. Arnold\, as always\, writes conversationally\, as if she’s actively thinking on the page—generating fresh ideas as they occur to her and following them in previously unexplored directions. That excites the reader’s own thinking—and makes this book inspiring and a great\, welcome pleasure.” –Anthony DeCurtis\, author\, Lou Reed: A Life  \n  \n“Half a Million Strong tracks the rapid rise of the festivalization of music\, and outlines what it means to truly love and live through music and to be in community with other people who do too. With this book\, Arnold offers a very necessary examination of just how we got here\, as well as a rich\, accessible history that is mandatory reading for anyone who has ever spent a day in a muddy field screaming along with their favorite band.” – Jessica Hopper\, author\, The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic  \n  \n“From audience reactions to Dylan going electric at Newport in 1965 to Wattstax in Los Angeles in 1972 to the lost U.S. Festival in the 1980s and beyond\, Gina Arnold’s wonderful individual take on what being at a rock festival means offers new insights by focusing not on the stage\, but on us\, the festival-going crowd.” – George McKay\, University of East Anglia \n  \n“A much-needed\, well-observed reevaluation of rock-and-roll audiences from a writer with decades in the trenches. An illuminating\, historically informed conversation-starter for anyone with a stake in a live music community.” – Jesse Jarnow\, author\, Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-gina-arnold-half-a-million-strong-crowds-and-power-from-woodstock-to-coachella/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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