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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:Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake at Jessie Square
DESCRIPTION:The monthly collaboration between Litquake: San Francisco’s Literary Festival and the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival features an array of Bay Area poets and musicians.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-at-jessie-square-2/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Allan Peterson
DESCRIPTION:reading poetry from \nThis Luminous: New and Selected Poems \nfrom Panhandler Books \nFrom the vast complexities of a world in which synesthesia is our natural translator\, Allan Peterson’s poems convey the consistent message that the ordinary isn’t. Selected from books and chapbooks covering almost thirty years of writing\, Peterson’s work draws heavily from landscapes like the Gulf Coast\, the sciences\, history\, and the author’s background in visual arts. Details of perception and observation demonstrate why these reflective works\, often dense with images and intuitive jumps\, have received national and international recognitions. \nBoth poet and visual artist\, Allan Peterson is the author of five previous poetry collections and is a recipient of fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and the State of Florida. His second book\, All the Lavish in Common\, won the Juniper Prize from the University of Massachusetts. His third\, Fragile Acts\, from McSweeney’s\, was a finalist for both The National Book Critics Circle and Oregon Book Awards. \nPraise for Allan Peterson’s Previous Work \n“Peterson is one of our most valuable poet-thinkers and thinker-poets\, a writer who can show us how much is within our grasp and much is beyond it.” — LA Review of Books \n“His observing eye\, as astute as the most finely-honed telephoto lens\, is such that he¹s able to transform even the ordinary into something so exquisite it provokes wonder and awe.” —Mary Jo Bang \n“Like ‘Brazil’s undiscovered caverns of amethyst’\, Allan Peterson’s Fragile Acts is a major find.” —John Ashbery \n“He puts music to the tension between the desperate human experience and the cool removal of the cosmos. His poems are refreshingly discrete artifacts—perfected and edgy—raw at the same time. “ —Laura Kasischke \n“Allan Peterson’s meditations on domestic tranquility and ecocatastrophe are so smart that they could actually make you smarter” —Boston Review \n“Soul-poppingly magnetic”—The Rumpus
URL:https://litseen.com/event/allan-peterson/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kathryn Scanlan / Aug 9—Fog
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Kathryn Scanlan for her first book\,Aug 9—Fog. More to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nFifteen years ago\, Kathryn Scanlan found a stranger’s five-year diary at an estate auction in a small town in Illinois. The owner of the diary was eighty-six years old when she began recording the details of her life in the small book\, a gift from her daughter and son-in-law. The diary was falling apart—water-stained and illegible in places—but magnetic to Scanlan nonetheless. \nAfter reading and rereading the diary\, studying and dissecting it\, for the next fifteen years she played with the sentences that caught her attention\, cutting\, editing\, arranging\, and rearranging them into the composition that became Aug 9—Fog (she chose the title from a note that was tucked into the diary). “Sure grand out\,” the diarist writes. “That puzzle a humdinger\,” she says\, followed by\, “A letter from Lloyd saying John died the 16th.” An entire state of mourning reveals itself in “2 canned hams.” The result of Scanlan’s collaging is an utterly compelling\, deeply moving meditation on life and death. \nIn Aug 9—Fog\, Scanlan’s spare\, minimalist approach has a maximal emotional effect\, remaining with the reader long after the book ends. It is an unclassifiable work from a visionary young writer and artist—a singular portrait of a life revealed by revision and restraint. \n\nKathryn Scanlan lives in Los Angeles. Her stories have appeared in NOON\, Fence\, American Short Fiction\, Tin House\, Caketrain\, and The Iowa Review\, among other publications. Author photo by Roxane Hopper. \n\nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event\, with mature themes. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Aug 9—Fog\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kathryn-scanlan-aug-9-fog/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ryan Jacobs
DESCRIPTION:Ryan Jacobs discusses his new book\, The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery\, Mayhem and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World’s Most Expensive Fungus. \nAbout The Truffle Underground \nBeneath the gloss of star chefs and crystal-laden tables\, the truffle supply chain is touched by theft\, secrecy\, sabotage\, and fraud. Farmers patrol their fields with rifles and fear losing trade secrets to spies. Hunters plant poisoned meatballs to eliminate rival truffle-hunting dogs. Naive buyers and even knowledgeable experts are duped by liars and counterfeits. \nDeeply reported and elegantly written\, this page-turning exposé documents the dark\, sometimes deadly crimes at each level of the truffle’s path from ground to plate\, making sense of an industry that traffics in scarcity\, seduction\, and cash. Through it all\, a question lingers: What\, other than money\, draws people to these dirt-covered jewels? \nPraise for The Truffle Underground \n“In elegant\, mesmerizing prose\, Ryan Jacobs has delivered a forest-to-table page-turner from the outer limits of our foodie culture\, a place where colorful farmers\, serial dog murderers and famous chefs grapple over a crudely foraged fungus that’s traded in parking lots and bars\, like heroin. The Truffle Underground is an eye-opener for anyone who’s picked up a fork.”—Steve Fainaru\, New York Times bestselling author of League of Denial and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter \n“The Truffle Underground is a fascinating\, genre-blending romp. It’s a business book\, a mystery\, a science lesson\, and a love story that’s as seductive as the buttery fungus at the heart of it all.”—Derek Thompson\, national bestselling author of Hit Makers and staff writer at The Atlantic \n“Investigative journalist and first-time author Jacobs does a remarkable job reporting from the front lines of the truffle industry\, bringing to vivid life French black-truffle farmers\, Italian white-truffle foragers\, and their marvelously well-trained dogs.”—Booklist (starred review)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ryan-jacobs/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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