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SUMMARY:The Racket #24: AFTER LIFE w/ Nona Caspers
DESCRIPTION:We’re celebrating our two year anniversary with cake\, beer\, champagne and the absolutely amazing Nona Caspers reading from her debut novel The Fifth Woman. \nNona’s picked 5 readers – some new to The Racket\, some old hands – that we are very excited to welcome. \nThe Readers: \nChance Kroll\nChad Koch\nCarson Beker\nJuliana Delgado Lopera\nJane McDermott \nAlso\, it’s our two year anniversary so … cake and champagne? \nSee you there.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-24-after-life-w-nona-caspers/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bill Berkson Tribute
DESCRIPTION:Bill Berkson Tribute \n\n\n\nwith appearances by \nConstance Lewallen \nChou Chou \nGordon Knos \nJonathan Lewallen \nSiobhan Mora-Lopez \nAmanda Eicher \nMac McGinnes \ncelebrating the release of \nSince When: A Memoir In Pieces \nBy Bill Berkson \npublished by Coffee House Press \nFrank O’Hara\, Marilyn Monroe\, John Cage\, Allen Ginsberg—champagne-soaked postwar Manhattan and bohemian 1960s San Francisco come alive in Berkson’s memoirs. \nBill Berkson was a poet\, art critic\, bon vivant\, and joyful participant in the best of postwar and bohemian American culture. Since When gathers the ephemera of a life well lived\, a collage of bold-face names\, parties\, exhibitions\, and literary history from a man who could write “of [Truman Capote’s Black and White] ball\, which I attended as my mother’s escort\, I have little recollection” and reminisce about imagining himself as a character from Tolstoy while tripping on acid at Woodstock. Gentle\, witty\, and eternally generous\, this is Bill Berkson\, and a particular moment in American history\, at its best. \nBill Berkson was a poet\, critic\, teacher\, and curator. He collaborated with many artists and writers\, including Alex Katz\, Philip Guston\, and Frank O’Hara\, and his criticism appeared in ARTnews\, Art in America\, and elsewhere. Formerly a professor of liberal arts at the San Francisco Art Institute\, he was born in New York in 1939. He died in June 2016. \nCritical praise for Since When: \n“Imagine an ideal friend\, someone of good character\, honorable\, congenial\, smart\, well-read\, judicious\, articulate\, self-aware\, open-minded\, and socially graceful\, a gifted writer at the center of New York’s and the Bay Area’s artistic communities for sixty years. That ideal friend is Bill Berkson\, and in this marvelous book he tells the true and fascinating story of his life and times.” —Ron Padgett \n“Since When captures the throbbing zeitgeist of a NYC/California experimental poetry/art rhizome and brims with dazzling encounters and glamorous portraiture of some of the best\, most talented minds\, including the author’s own parents and their coterie. Enthralling conversation\, quotation\, and astute commentary: Judy Garland! Ezra Pound! Greta Garbo! Frank O’Hara! Joan Mitchell! Amiri Baraka! Poet and art critic Bill Berkson spanned high and low: uptown/downtown zones of radical art mind. The Bohemian\, dandyish\, psychedelic\, and the troubling hegemonic follies of a USA growing old because it ‘entered the twentieth century first’ (G. Stein) all romp in here. Bill had a shining boyish inquisitiveness\, phenomenal memory\, and a panoramic intelligence. Read this and eat your heart out for the belletristic\, wild\, and intimate days of the New York School. Entertaining—you feel you are in a very glamorous movie—but never shallow\, this is serious history\, required reading.” —Anne Waldman \n“It’s tough to write a blurb about one of the most effortlessly cool and genuinely wise people you’ve ever met\, especially when they already said it best with their high school yearbook quote: ‘Plato or comic books\, I’m versatile.’ That was Bill\, all the way. As his student\, the main theme was\, ‘Be kind\, be clear\, and a little humor goes a long way\,’ a message that impacted our class deeply and continues to do so to this very day. This memoir is a celebration of his life and friends as told by Bill Himself\, in that gentle and knowing voice\, tales of getting karate chopped at by Norman Mailer\, drinking with Joan Mitchell\, long nights with Frank O’Hara\, Elaine de Kooning\, and Amiri Baraka\, to name a few. Essential reading for any and all!” —Devendra Banhart \n“Bill was a still point in a turning world. He made grace and kindness\, careful intelligence and everyday happiness\, seem properties of a social commons—where you found yourself\, when around him\, and missed\, when not. This beautiful book immortalizes that spell.” —Peter Schjeldahl \nAbout the San Francisco Art Institute: \nSince 1871\, SFAI has attracted individuals who push beyond boundaries to discover uncharted artistic terrain. With an ever-expanding roster of esteemed faculty and alumni\, robust exhibitions and public programs\, and a mission dedicated to the intrinsic value of art\, SFAI is poised to expand upon the West Coast legacy of radical innovation that grounds SFAI’s philosophy for another century.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bill-berkson-tribute/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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