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SUMMARY:Aysegül Savas
DESCRIPTION:Aysegül Savas discusses her new novel\, Walking on the Ceiling. \nPraise for Walking on the Ceiling \n“Ayşegül Savaş is an enormous new talent who writes with the rigor of Didion and the tenderness of Sebald. Walking on the Ceiling holds the immediacy of youth and the depth of long-earned wisdom at once. Its elegant voice is sure to summon old memories and longings from each reader\, relighting them anew.”\n—Catherine Lacey\, author of The Answers \n“In Walking on the Ceiling\, Aysegul Savas investigates the inability of any story to accurately evoke lived experience—yet her unconventional narrative succeeds in doing just that. Savas’s celebration of the minutest details of Paris and Istanbul is juxtaposed\, to devastating effect\, against rising political tensions. This quietly intense debut is the product of a wise and probing mind.”\n—Helen Phillips\, author of The Beautiful Bureaucrat \n“Walking on the Ceiling is an elegant meditation on grief\, identity\, memory and homecoming. Moving between Paris and Istanbul\, the novel captures the tangle of narrative around history\, both personal and collective. I fell in love with this book.”\n—Katie Kitamura\, author of A Separation \n“Sensual\, fragile\, scented with hope and loss\, Walking on the Ceiling is a powerful debut and Ayşegül Savaş is an extremely talented rising star.” —Dorthe Nors\, author of Mirror\, Shoulder\, Signal \nAbout Walking on the Ceiling \nA mesmerizing novel set in Paris and a changing Istanbul\, about a young Turkish woman grappling with her past – her country’s and her own – and her complicated relationship with the famous British writer who longs for her memories. \nAfter her mother’s death\, Nunu moves from Istanbul to a small apartment in Paris. One day outside of a bookstore\, she meets M.\, an older British writer whose novels about Istanbul Nunu has always admired. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris and talking late into the night. What follows is an unusual friendship of eccentric correspondence and long walks around the city. \nM. is working on a new novel set in Turkey and Nunu tells him about her family\, hoping to impress and inspire him. She recounts the idyllic landscapes of her past\, mythical family meals\, and her elaborate childhood games. As she does so\, she also begins to confront her mother’s silence and anger\, her father’s death\, and the growing unrest in Istanbul. Their intimacy deepens\, so does Nunu’s fear of revealing too much to M. and of giving too much of herself and her Istanbul away. Most of all\, she fears that she will have to face her own guilt about her mother and the narratives she’s told to protect herself from her memories. \nA wise and unguarded glimpse into a young woman’s coming into her own\, Walking on the Ceiling is about memory\, the pleasure of invention\, and those places\, real and imagined\, we can’t escape.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aysegul-savas/
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:John Doe in conversation with Tom DeSavia
DESCRIPTION:John Doe in conversation with Tom DeSavia\nThursday\, June 6\, 2019\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\nCity Lights in conjunction with Litquake and San Francisco’s Rock n’ Roll Book Club \npresent \nJohn Doe and Tom DeSavia in conversation \ncelebrationg the release of \n  \nMore Fun in the New World: The Unmaking and Legacy of L.A. Punk \nby John Doe and Tom DeSavia \nfrom Da Capo Press \n\nSequel to Grammy-nominated bestseller Under the Big Black Sun\, continuing the up-close and personal account of the L.A. punk scene\, with 50 rare photos \nPicking up where Under the Big Black Sun left off\, More Fun in the New World explores the years 1982 to 1987\, covering the dizzying pinnacle of L.A.’s punk rock movement as its stars took to the national — and often international — stage. Detailing the eventual splintering of punk into various sub-genres\, the second volume of John Doe and Tom DeSavia’s west coast punk history portrays the rich cultural diversity of the movement and its characters\, the legacy of the scene\, how it affected other art forms\, and ultimately influenced mainstream pop culture. The book also pays tribute to many of the fallen soldiers of punk rock\, the pioneers who left the world much too early but whose influence hasn’t faded. \nAs with Under the Big Black Sun\, the book features stories of triumph\, failure\, stardom\, addiction\, recovery\, and loss as told by the people who were influential in the scene\, with a cohesive narrative from authors Doe and DeSavia. Along with many returning voices\, More Fun in the New World weaves in the perspectives of musicians Henry Rollins\, Fishbone\, Billy Zoom\, Mike Ness\, Jane Weidlin\, Keith Morris\, Dave Alvin\, Louis Pérez\, Charlotte Caffey\, Peter Case\, Chip Kinman\, Maria McKee\, and Jack Grisham\, among others. And renowned artist/illustrator Shepard Fairey\, filmmaker Allison Anders\, actor Tim Robbins\, and pro-skater Tony Hawk each contribute chapters on punk’s indelible influence on the artistic spirit. \nIn addition to stories of success\, the book also offers a cautionary tale of an art movement that directly inspired commercially diverse acts such as Green Day\, Rancid\, Red Hot Chili Peppers\, Wilco\, and Neko Case. Readers will find themselves rooting for the purists of punk juxtaposed with the MTV-dominating rock superstars of the time who flaunted a “born to do this\, it couldn’t be easier” attitude that continued to fuel the flames of new music. More Fun in the New World follows the progression of the first decade of L.A. punk\, its conclusion\, and its cultural rebirth. \n\n\nJohn Doe\, a founding member of groundbreaking punk band X\, has recorded eight solo records and as an actor has appeared in over fifty films and television productions. \nTom DeSavia is a long time record and music publishing A&R man based in Los Angeles\, California. DeSavia began his music industry career as a journalist. \nAbout Litquake: \n\nSan Francisco’s annual Litquake literary festival was founded by Bay Area writers as a week-long literary spectacle for book lovers\, complete with cutting-edge panels\, unique cross-media events\, and hundreds of readings. Since its founding in 1999\, the festival has presented close to 1400 author appearances for an audience of over 32\,000 in its lively and inclusive celebration of San Francisco’s thriving contemporary literary scene. Litquake seeks to foster interest in literature\, perpetuate a sense of literary community\, and provide a vibrant forum for Bay Area writing as a complement to the city’s music\, film\, and cultural festivals. \nvisit: www.litquake.org \n\nAbout the Rock ‘n Roll Book Club:\nFounded in 2011\, San Francisco’s Rock ‘n Roll Book Club is a loose group of regulars and non-regulars who enjoy music and reading about it. They generally meet every other month at a bar’s backroom to discuss a book and listen to related music\, over drinks and food mentioned in the book. They read new releases\, classic memoirs\, biographies\, oral histories and music criticism\, usually focusing on music from the 60s and 70s\, preferably including sex\, drugs\, and good writing. They’ve met with authors Alice Bag (via skype)\, Robert Gordon (via Skype)\, Greil Marcus and V. Vale (RE/Search). \nvisit: Rock n’ Roll Book Club
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-doe-in-conversation-with-tom-desavia/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sham-E-Ali Nayeem
DESCRIPTION:Sham-E-Ali Nayeem reads from her new poetry collection\, City of Pearls. Also featuring readings by Monica Sok\, Seema Yasmin\, Vanessa Huang and Janice Sapigao. \nAbout Sham-E-Ali \nSham-e-Ali Nayeem is a poet and visual artist who was born in Hyderabad\, India and raised in both the UK and the US. A former public interest lawyer supporting economic justice for survivors of family violence\, Sham-e-Ali is a recipient of the Loft Literary Center’s Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship. \nAbout Monkia Sok \nMONICA SOK is a Cambodian American poet and the daughter of former refugees. She is the author of Year Zero\, winner of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Her work has been recognized with a “Discovery” / Boston Review Poetry Prize. Other honors include fellowships from Hedgebrook\, Elizabeth George Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, Kundiman\, Jerome Foundation\, Montalvo Arts Center\, MacDowell Colony\, Saltonstall Foundation\, and others. Currently\, Sok is a 2018-2020 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and a Poet-in-Residence at Banteay Srei in Oakland. Her debut poetry collection A Nail the Evening Hangs On is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2020. \nAbout Seema Yasmin \nDr. Seema Yasmin is an Emmy-award winning journalist\, author\, medical doctor and professor. She trained in medicine at the University of Cambridge and in journalism at the University of Toronto. Her first book\, about her mentor who was killed on Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17\, charts the course of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and the life of a scientist who fought to end the outbreak. Her second book\, Debunked! dissects medical myths and pseudoscience and explores why we believe what we believe. Debunked! is released in 2019. She teaches science journalism and global health storytelling at Stanford University and is the founder of the Yasmin Scholarships. \nAbout Vanessa Huang \nBorn in Berkeley and home in diaspora from California and Taipei to Atlanta\, New York\, and Tianjin\, Vanessa Huang is a multimedia poet\, artist\, and cultural worker whose practice inherits teachings from the prison industrial complex abolition\, gender liberation\, and intersecting social justice movements. For over 15 years\, Vanessa has worked to shift cultural narratives and strategies based in fear\, violence\, and exploitation towards realities centering love\, vision\, and transformation. Vanessa’s deejaying extends this practice\, continuing to conjure public/digital space for sonic healing and freedom dreams. \nAbout Janice Sapigao \nJanice Lobo Sapigao is a daughter of Filipina/o immigrants.  She was named one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s 2017 Women to Watch by KQED Arts. She is the author of two books of poetry: Like a Solid to a Shadow (Timeless\, Infinite Light\, 2017) and microchips for millions (Philippine American Writers and Artists\, Inc.\, 2016) and three other chapbooks. She is a VONA/Voices and Kundiman Fellow\, and the Associate Editor of TAYO Literary Magazine. She co-founded Sunday Jump open mic in L.A. She earned her M.F.A. in Writing from CalArts\, and she has a B.A. in Ethnic Studies with Honors from UC San Diego. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sham-e-ali-nayeem/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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