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SUMMARY:Claire Rudy Foster / Shine of the Ever
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Claire Rudy Foster (I’ve Never Done This Before) for their new book\, Shine of the Ever. Please join us! \nShine of the Ever is a literary mix tape of queer voices out of 1990s Portland. By turns tender and punk-tough\, fierce and loving\, this collection of short stories explores what binds a community of queer and trans people as they negotiate love\, screwing up and learning to forgive themselves for being young and sometimes foolish. \n\n“The characters in Foster’s fiction are all achingly lonely and the victims of human error\, yes—but they’re also miracles of endurance whose devastations\, large and small\, illuminate the better parts of ourselves.” – Benjamin Percy\, author of The Dead Lands \n“Shine of the Ever is a compassionate ode to a Pixies-infused era. With its mix of fear and fearlessness\, it deftly portrays love on the fringes.” – Foreword Reviews \n\nClaire Rudy Foster is a queer\, trans writer from Portland\, Oregon. Their work on sex\, identity\, relationships\, and recovery appears in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, and McSweeney’s\, among others. Foster is the author of I’ve Never Done This Before (978-0998072708\, Sept. 2016). Their essays and fiction have been recognized for excellence\, including four nominations for the Pushcart Prize. Foster holds an MFA in creative writing and teaches writing workshops in Portland. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Shine of the Ever\, email events@booksmith.com.
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LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Miranda Popkey\, Topics of Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes Santa Cruz native Miranda Popkey for a reading and signing of her searing new novel\, Topics of Conversation. \nFor readers of Rachel Cusk\, Lydia Davis\, and Jenny Offill—a compact tour de force about sex\, violence\, and self-loathing from a ferociously talented new voice in fiction. \nTopics of Conversation follows an unnamed female narrator from her first summer post-college to her years as a single mother in California’s Central Valley\, always hungry for experience and hell bent on upending her life. The narrative unfolds in a series of conversations between women—the stories they tell one another; the stories they tell themselves—circling questions of desire\, disgust\, anger\, envy\, guilt\, and despair. Topics of Conversation is a searing look at what it means to come of age\, to grow up\, and to love as a woman in this world. “There’s always someone\, or so I’d been led to believe: on business or in the dog house or out on the proverbial prowl\,” pronounces Miranda’s narrator. “That was the danger of being a woman.” At the center of her striking debut is this: what kinds of bad behavior are we still willing to permit?   \n“An intimate evisceration of our narrow imaginings of female sexuality\, a brilliantly structured character study\, and a book that repeatedly asks how women can fully trust their own desires when they’ve grown up steeped in the wrong stories. Its narrator is as skeptical of her own self-delusive fictions as she is of the stifling clichés and shallow fantasies about women’s interior lives perpetuated by the wider culture.” —Karen Russell \n“Penetrating\, brutal\, a brilliant new voice in contemporary fiction” —Ben Marcus \nMIRANDA POPKEY was born in Santa Cruz\, California in 1987. She graduated with a BA in Humanities from Yale in 2009 and with an MFA in Creative Writing from Washington University in St. Louis in 2018. She has written for\, among other outlets\, The New Republic\, The New Yorker‘s Page-Turner blog\, the Paris Review Daily\, The Hairpin\, The Awl\, GQ\, and New York magazine’s The Cut. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by January 15th.
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LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Christopher Bernard
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Bernard joins us to discuss his novel\, Meditations on Love & Catastrophe at The Liars’ Cafe. \nAbout Meditations on Love & Catastrophe at The Liars’ Cafe \nA challenging and innovative exploration of narrative\, emotion\, and the possibilities of language\, part dream vision\, part prose poem\, part series of dialogues about love\, nature\, politics\, the nature of good and evil\, and the meaning of human life. \nAbout the Author \nChristopher Bernard is a writer living in San Francisco. He is the founder\, a principal and co-editor (with Ho Lin) of the literary and arts webzine Caveat Lector and contributes regularly to the monthly online magazine Synchronized Chaos. His books include the novels A Spy in the Ruins and Voyage to a Phantom City; two books of stories\, In the American Night and Dangerous Stories for Boys; The Rose Shipwreck: Poems and Photographs; Chien Lunatique (poems); and numerous plays\, including most recently The Beast and Mr. James. His work has appeared in several anthologies and many periodicals\, including cultural and arts journalism in the New York Times\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Chicago Tribune\, San Francisco Bay Guardian\, Philadelphia Inquirer and elsewhere\, and poetry and fiction in literary reviews in the U.S. and U.K. He has also written plays that have been produced and radio broadcast\, in part or complete\, in the San Francisco Bay Area. His poetry films have been screened in San Francisco and his poetry and fiction have been nominated for the Puschcart Prize and Best of the Web. His diaries and journals are being compiled under the title “Voyage Around My Life.” His autobiographical essay appeared in Contemporary Authors\, Volume 180 (Gale Group). In 2019\, he received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. He is also a photographer and composer; an excerpt from his opera “Nachtstück: An Opera on the Death of Anton Webern\,” has been radio broadcast (KPFA).
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LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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