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SUMMARY:An evening with Ishmael Reed
DESCRIPTION:Time is a pendulum. \n  \n Not a river.  \n  \n More akin to what goes around comes around. \n  \n–Ishmael Reed\, Mumbo Jumbo \n  \nIshmael Reed has asked Theo Konrad Auer to organize a poetry reading with him\, and also to make it good. \nAuer has carefully thought about it and decided to have a group reading rather than just Reed and himself. Auer aims toward addressing the culture and decontextualizing history. With that in mind\, he has approached several leading lights from the fervent literary community\, those being Ishmael Reed\, Maw Shein Win\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Paul Corman- Roberts\, and some of Ishmael’s students. Among them\, there is a Guggenheim fellow\, a couple of laureates\, an American Book award winner and a guy who helped start the Art Murmur. \nThis group of people\, younger writers\, elders and those who are firmly mid-career\, hope to serve as an informal survey of this place and time. \nPro Arts & COMMONS is honored to co-host the group of intellectuals with Kalahati Projects. The poetry reading is on Wednesday\, June 12\, 7- 9 PM. It’s free and open to public. \n 
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LOCATION:Pro Arts Gallery\, 150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:William E. Jones / I'm Open to Anything
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts William E. Jones for his debut novel I’m Open to Anything\, out now from We Heard You Like Books. More information to come soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nA perverse and explicit new take on the coming of age novel\, William E. Jones’s I’m Open to Anything explores bohemian Southern California of the late 1980s and early 90s\, before gentrification ruined everything. The book’s narrator flees a crumbling industrial wasteland in the Midwest and finds himself in sunny Los Angeles without a car\, working in a neighborhood video store and spending many hours watching films. He explores his adopted city and befriends a number of men\, most of them immigrants\, who teach him the finer points of sex. He acquires the skill of fisting\, giving his partners intense pleasure\, and at the same time hearing the stories of their lives. They too have fled their hometowns: one to escape torture at the hands of a Salvadoran death squad; another to study anthropology after years of wandering and religious questioning. \nAlternating between explicit scenes of kinky sex and intimate conversations about matters of life and death\, I’m Open to Anything is a porno novel of rare ambition and humor. The book recalls Olympia Press’s heyday\, when authors made quick money churning out dirty books\, but couldn’t hide the intellectual obsessions that made them writers in the first place. \n\nWilliam E. Jones’s previous book\, True Homosexual Experiences (also published by We Heard You Like Books)\, a biography of Straight to Hell’s iconoclastic editor Boyd McDonald\, celebrates the frank\, raunchy language of the first queer ’zine. Jones brings the same unsparing and profane attitude to I’m Open to Anything\, his debut novel. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThe Bindery bar opens at 7pm. Event starts at 7:30pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of I’m Open to Anything\, order below and put your request in the comments field. For signed copies ofTrue Homosexual Experiences\, order here and sure to include your request in the special field. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/william-e-jones-im-open-to-anything/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alix Ohlin
DESCRIPTION:Alix Ohlin discusses her new novel\, Dual Citizens. \nPraise for Dual Citizens \n“Ohlin’s story of sisters wraps its tendrils deep as any family. Dual Citizens leads a reader through landscapes of compassion and crisis in this deeply felt\, iridescent novel of the spells and surprises a sibling creates.”—Samantha Hunt\, author of The Dark Dark \n“For long-time admirers of Alix Ohlin’s fiction\, the psychological complexity and keen observations in this novel will come as no surprise. In Dual Citizens\, Ohlin examines the conflicting desires of two sisters from Montreal with a riveting precision reminiscent of fellow Montreal native Mavis Gallant. However\, unlike Gallant’s Montreal girls\, Ohlin’s are not of a generation ‘trained to be patient’ but to follow their ambitions. A lifelong witness to one’s shifting longings\, this wise and luminous novel shows\, is a sibling.”—Idra Novey\, author of Those Who Knew \n“This novel sneaks up on you the way life does—full of chance and yearning. It’s a precise\, subtle\, sad and graceful story about how we care for each other\, and how we try to\, and how we fail.”—Jia Tolentino\, author of Trick Mirror \nAbout Dual Citizens \nLark and Robin are half-sisters whose similarities end at being named for birds. While Lark is shy and studious\, Robin is wild and artistic. Raised in Montreal by their disinterested single mother\, they form a fierce team in childhood regardless of their differences. As they grow up\, Lark excels at school and Robin becomes an extraordinary pianist. At seventeen\, Lark flees to America to attend college\, where she finds her calling in documentary films\, and her sister soon joins her. \nLater\, in New York City\, they find themselves tested: Lark struggles with self-doubt\, and Robin chafes against the demands of Juilliard. Under pressure\, their bond grows strained and ultimately is broken\, and their paths abruptly diverge. Years later\, Lark’s life is in tatters and Robin’s is wilder than ever. As Lark tries to take charge of her destiny\, she discovers that despite the difficulties of their relationship\, there is only one person she can truly rely on: her sister. \nIn this gripping\, unforgettable novel about art\, ambition\, sisterhood\, motherhood\, and self-knowledge\, Alix Ohlin traces the rich and complicated lives of two indelible women. Dazzlingly insightful and beautifully crafted\, Dual Citizens captures the unique language of sisters and makes visible the imperceptible strings that bind us to the ones we love for good.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alix-ohlin/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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