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SUMMARY:H O L L O W A Y : R E A D I N G : S E R I E S presents Aditi Machado  with Lindsay Choi
DESCRIPTION:Aditi Machado  with Lindsay Choi\nREADINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC\nReadings begin at 6:30pm unless otherwise noted. 2018-2019 Holloway events will be held in the MAUDE FIFE ROOM (315 Wheeler Hall)\nFor updates and event announcements\, join the Holloway Facebook group
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LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Small Publishers Night book exhibition & readings
DESCRIPTION:The consolidation of publishing house after publishing house into five mega book businesses foretold a future where reading choices for the many would be controlled by the few. In addition\, the kind of books being published changed. Small-run and medium-sized sellers fell by the wayside. But\, good news! Small presses began to abound\, startups and labors of love\, which published what editors felt needed to be published\, rather than what might make the executives and shareholders mega bucks. \nAt Word Week’s Small Publishers Night\, we feature four of the best Bay Area small presses: Manic D Press\, Nomadic Press\, Two Lines Press\, and Why There Are Words Press. Join us at 7pm\, Wednesday\, March 13\, at Umpqua Bank Noe Valley\, 3938 24th St.\, for an exhibition of books from these excellent publishers and readings by a few of their authors. Free admission and free refreshments provided by Umpqua Bank Noe Valley. \nThis is a Word Week 2019 event. Word Week is Noe Valley’s annual literary festival. For a full listing of Word Week 2019 events\, go to http://bit.ly/2WXT09H. \nAbout the publishers and their authors:\nManic D Press\nFounded in 1984\, Manic D Press is a critically acclaimed\, internationally distributed\, award-winning independent literary press based in San Francisco. D Manic Press \nJon Longhi has published four books of hilarious fiction with Manic D\, all having to do with the absurdities of life in San Francisco. \nNomadic Press\nNomadic Press collectively weaves together platforms for intentionally marginalized voices to take their rightful place within the world of the written and spoken word through publications\, events\, and active community participation. \nJames Cagney is a Cave Canem fellow and author of Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory (Nomadic Press\, 2018). He has authored five self-produced chapbooks. \nTwo Lines Press\nTwo Lines Press and its Two Lines journal specialize in presenting exceptional new writing and overlooked classics that have not previously been translated into English. The Center for the Art of Translation \nSenior Editor Emily Wolahan works to bring great international literature\, often previously untranslated\, to a wider audience. She will read from their spring journal\, Two Lines 30: The Future of Translation. \nWTAW Press\nWTAW Press is a non-profit\, woman-run publisher that supports the artistic development of writers and fosters a thriving literary community with its national reading series\, Why There Are Words. \nSarah Stone is the author of the novels Hungry Ghost Theater and The True Source of the Nile (Doubleday). She teaches at the Warren Wilson MFA Program and Stanford Continuing Studies.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/small-publishers-night-book-exhibition-readings/
LOCATION:Umpqua Bank Noe Valley\, 3938 24th Street\, San Francisco\, 94114
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ali Liebegott with special guests: Doddie Bellamy and Kevin Killian
DESCRIPTION:Ali Liebegott reads from \nThe Summer of Dead Birds \npublished by Feminist Press \njoined by special guests: Doddie Bellamy and Kevin Killian \n“A fierce\, funny\, agonized\, cracked-open aria in homage to the presence and passing of fiercely loved things.” —Maggie Nelson\, author of The Argonauts \nhow does a person dislodge the scenes\nthat burn inside them like arsoned cars? \nAli Liebegott is reeling from a fresh\, painful divorce. She wallows in grief and overassigns meaning to everyday circumstance\, clinging to an aging Dalmatian and obsessing over dead birds. Going through the motions of teaching and walking her dog\, she eventually decides to hit the road: Ali and Rorschach at the Center of the World. \nThis autobiographical novel-in-verse is a chronicle of mourning and survival\, documenting depression and picking apart failed intimacy. But Ali Liebegott’s poetry is laced with compassion\, for herself and the reader and the world\, as she learns to balance the sting of death with the tender strangeness of life. \nAli Liebegott is the author of three books\, and the recipient of two Lambda Literary Awards and a Ferro-Grumley Award. She currently live in Los Angeles and writes for Transparent.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ali-liebegott-with-special-guests-doddie-bellamy-and-kevin-killian/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Carolyn Burke\, Foursome
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes author Carolyn Burke for a discussion and signing of her new book\, Foursome\, a captivating\, spirited account of the intense relationship among four artists whose strong personalities\, passionate feelings\, and aesthetic ideals drew them together\, pulled them apart\, and profoundly influenced the very shape of twentieth-century art. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute UC Santa Cruz. \nNew York\, 1921: Alfred Stieglitz\, the most influential figure in early twentieth-century photography\, celebrates the success of his latest exhibition—the centerpiece\, a series of nude portraits of the young Georgia O’Keeffe\, soon to be his wife. It is a turning point for O’Keeffe\, poised to make her entrance into the art scene—and for Rebecca Salsbury\, the fiancée of Stieglitz’s protégé at the time\, Paul Strand. When Strand introduces Salsbury to Stieglitz and O’Keeffe\, it is the first moment of a bond between the two couples that will last more than a decade and reverberate throughout their lives. In the years that followed\, O’Keeffe and Stieglitz became the preeminent couple in American modern art\, spurring each other’s creativity. Observing their relationship led Salsbury to encourage new artistic possibilities for Strand and to rethink her own potential as an artist. In fact\, it was Salsbury\, the least known of the four\, who was the main thread that wove the two couples’ lives together. Carolyn Burke mines the correspondence of the foursome to reveal how each inspired\, provoked\, and unsettled the others while pursuing seminal modes of artistic innovation. The result is a surprising\, illuminating portrait of four extraordinary figures. \n“The lives of a quartet of some of the most influential painters and photographers of the early 20th century are chronicled in this intimate and exhaustively researched group biography. [Foursome] offers detailed insight into one of the most important periods in American art.” —Publishers Weekly \nCAROLYN BURKE is the author of No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf\, Lee Miller: A Life (finalist for the NBCC)\, and Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy. Born in Sydney\, Australia\, she now lives in Santa Cruz\, California. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by March 11th. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carolyn-burke-foursome/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Sophia Shalmiyev with Shanthi Sekaran\, Melissa Stein\, and Matthew Zapruder / Mother Winter: A Memoir
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Sophia Shalmiyev for her debut book Mother Winter: A Memoir. Joining her for readings and conversation are Shanthi Sekaran (Lucky Boy)\, Melissa Stein (Terrible Blooms)\, and Matthew Zapruder (Sun Bear). Please join us! \n  \nRussian sentences begin backward\, Shalmiyev tells us on the first page of her striking\, lyrical memoir. To understand the end of her story we must go back to her beginning. \n  \nBorn to a Russian mother and an Azerbaijani father\, Shalmiyev was raised in the stark oppressiveness of 1980s Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). An imbalance of power and the prevalence of antisemitism in her homeland led her father to steal Shalmiyev away\, emigrating to America\, abandoning her estranged mother\, Elena. At age eleven\, Shalmiyev found herself on a plane headed west\, motherless and terrified of the new world unfolding before her. \n  \nNow a mother herself\, in Mother Winter Shalmiyev depicts in urgent vignettes her emotional journeys as an immigrant\, an artist\, and a woman raised without her mother. She tells of her early days in St. Petersburg\, a land unkind to women\, wayward or otherwise; her tumultuous pit-stop in Italy as a refugee on her way to America; the life she built for herself in the Pacific Northwest\, raising two children of her own; and ultimately\, her cathartic voyage back to Russia as an adult\, where she searched endlessly for the alcoholic mother she never knew. Braided into her physical journey is a metaphorical exploration of the many surrogate mothers Shalmiyev sought out in place of her own–whether in books\, art\, lovers\, or other lost souls banded together by their misfortunes. \n  \nMother Winter is the story of Shalmiyev’s years of travel\, searching\, and forging meaningful connection with the worlds she occupies–the result is a searing observation of the human heart and psyche’s many shades across time and culture. As critically acclaimed author Michelle Tea says\, “with sparse\, poetic language Shalmiyev builds a personal history that is fractured and raw; a brilliant\, lovely ache.” \n  \n\n  \n“Vividly awesome and truly great.” – Eileen Myles \n  \n“I love this gorgeous\, gutting\, unforgettable book.” – Leni Zumas \n  \n“A rich tapestry of autobiography and meditations on feminism\, motherhood\, art\, and culture\, this book is as intellectually satisfying as it is artistically profound. A sharply intelligent\, lyrically provocative memoir.” – Kirkus Reviews (starred) \n  \n\n  \nSophia Shalmiyev emigrated from Leningrad to NYC in 1990. An MFA graduate of Portland State University\, she was the nonfiction editor for The Portland Review and is a recipient of the Laurels Scholarship and numerous Kellogg’s Fellowship awards. She has a second master’s degree in creative arts therapy from The School of Visual Arts\, previously counseling survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking. Her work has appeared in Vela Magazine\, Entropy\, Electric Lit\, The Seattle Review of Books\, Ravishly\, and The Literary Review\, among others; all with a feminist lens. She lives in Portland with her two children. Mother Winter is her first book. \n  \nShanthi Sekaran is a writer and educator from Berkeley\, California. Her recent novel\, Lucky Boy\, was named an IndieNext Great Read and an NPR Best Book of 2017. It won the Housatonic Book Award and was a finalist for Stanford University’s Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Her essays and stories have also appeared in The New York Times\, Salon.com\, and the LA Review of Books. She’s a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto\, an AWP mentor\, and teaches writing at Mills College. \n  \nMelissa Stein is the author of the poetry collections Terrible Blooms (Copper Canyon Press) and Rough Honey\, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. She’s received awards and fellowships from the NEA\, Pushcart Prize\, Bread Loaf\, MacDowell\, and Yaddo. She lives in San Francisco. \n  \n  \n  \nMatthew Zapruder’s most recent book is Why Poetry (Ecco\, 2017). His fifth collection of poetry\, Father’s Day\, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon in fall 2019. He is Associate Professor in the MFA at Saint Mary’s College of California\, and editor at large at Wave Books. \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  \nAs with all of our events\, seating is limited and may be reserved by purchasing a book in advance. To reserve a seat\, order with the link below and be sure to include your request in the comments field. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of Mother Winter\, and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sophia-shalmiyev-with-shanthi-sekaran-melissa-stein-and-matthew-zapruder-mother-winter-a-memoir/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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