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SUMMARY:The Wig Diaries Book Signing at Copperfield's Books Napa
DESCRIPTION:Mary Ladd\, author of The Wig Diaries\, will host a book signing at Copperfield’s Books in Napa. \nThe Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd’s debut disrespectful cancer book. Delivered with bold gallows humor\, it intimately address the gravity of cancer and invites the reader to bear witness to both the horror and the joke(s). Armed with creative sensibility\, Ladd robs her diagnosis of its dour weightiness. Refusing to tiptoe around the gnarlier elements of treatment and recovery\, the narrative is powerful in its unvarnished honesty and contagious lust for life exemplified by hilarious anecdotes. \nA uniquely fresh modern and black comedy take on cancer\nCovers and pokes fun at everything from diagnosis to treatment to medical bills\nIllustrated by San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist Don Asmussen\, who has cancer for the second time \n“I love this book.”—Mary Roach\, author of the books Grunt\, Stiff\, Spook\, and Bonk \n“This looks like a hoot and a half. I want more.”—Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket)\, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events \n“Clear-eyed\, fun\, and reassuring\, it’s the perfect guide!”—Vanessa Hua\, author of A River of Stars and Deceit and Other Possibilities \nMary Ladd’s writing has appeared in Playboy\, Time Magazine\, the San Francisco Chronicle and in five anthologies. She is a Writers Grotto member who collaborated with Anthony Bourdain on his Bay Area episodes of No Reservations. Illustrator Don Asmussen is the creator of Bad Reporter\, a twice-weekly political comic strip in the San Francisco Chronicle that is syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wig-diaries-book-signing-at-copperfields-books-napa/
LOCATION:Copperfield’s Books Napa\, 3740 Bel Aire Plaza\, Napa\, 94558
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Cutting Up The Century: A Burroughs Birthday Miscellany
DESCRIPTION:with Joan Hawkins\, Alex Wermer-Colan\, Peter Hale\, and Jon Longhi \ncelebrating the release of \nWilliam S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century \nEdited by Joan Hawkins and Alex Wermer-Colan \npublished by University of Indiana Press \n\nWilliam S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century is the definitive book on Burroughs’ overarching cut-up project and its relevance to the American twentieth century. Burroughs’s Nova Trilogy (The Soft Machine\, Nova Express\, and The Ticket That Exploded) remains the best-known of his textual cut-up creations\, but he committed more than a decade of his life to searching out multimedia for use in works of collage. By cutting up\, folding in\, and splicing together newspapers\, magazines\, letters\, book reviews\, classical literature\, audio recordings\, photographs\, and films\, Burroughs created an eclectic and wide-ranging countercultural archive. This collection includes previously unpublished work by Burroughs such as cut-ups of work written by his son\, cut-ups of critical responses to his own work\, collages on the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal\, excerpts from his dream journals\, and some of the few diary entries that Burroughs wrote about his wife\, Joan. \nWilliam S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century also features original essays\, interviews\, and discussions by established Burroughs scholars\, respected artists\, and people who encountered Burroughs. The essays consider Burroughs from a range of starting points—literary studies\, media studies\, popular culture\, gender studies\, post-colonialism\, history\, and geography. Ultimately\, the collection situates Burroughs as a central artist and thinker of his time and considers his insights on political and social problems that have become even more dire in ours. \nJoan Hawkins is Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Media School at Indiana University. She is author of Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avant-garde and editor of the anthology Downtown Film and TV Culture\, 1975-2001. She co-organized the Burroughs Century conference and symposium held at Indiana University Bloomington in 2014. \nAlex Wermer-Colan is a Council of Library and Information Resources Postdoctoral Fellow at Temple University’s Digital Scholarship Center. He researched and edited The Travel Agency is on Fire\, a collection of unpublished archival prose poems Burroughs produced by cutting up a range of canonical texts. Wermer-Colan was the organizer of the William S. Burroughs Centennial Conference held at the City University of New York in 2014.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cutting-up-the-century-a-burroughs-birthday-miscellany/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Dmitry Samarov Returns With His New Book Soviet Stamps
DESCRIPTION:Dmitry’s new book is Soviet Stamps\, wherein he recounts how he became an artist. Through written vignettes\, artwork\, and family photos the book charts Samarov’s emigration from the USSR in 1978\, on to his attempts to fit into American society and peripatetic attempts to earn a living\, while continuing to create artwork. Published in a limited-edition\, foil-stamped hardcover run of 800 signed-and-numbered copies. \nDmitry will be in conversation with Ben Terrall\, author of the locally sourced underground ‘zine Namaste\, Motherf**ker!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dmitry-samarov-returns-with-his-new-book-soviet-stamps/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tomas Moniz in Conversation with Nancy Au
DESCRIPTION:Big Familia follows Juan Gutiérrez\, a self-employed single father\, as he navigates a tumultuous year of inescapable change. His daughter\, Stella\, is on the verge of moving away to college; his lover\, Jared\, is pressing him for commitment; and his favorite watering hole—a ramshackle dive presided over by Bob the Bartender—is transforming into a karaoke hotspot. The story is set in a neighborhood that is also changing\, gentrification inciting the ire of the established community. \nUpon the unexpected death of one of the bar’s regulars\, Juan is sent reeling\, and a series of upheavals follow as he both seeks and spurns intimacy\, pondering the legacy of distant parents and a failed marriage and grappling with his sexuality—all the while cycling and dating\, drinking at Nicks Lounge\, and parenting a determined and defiant child-become-woman. \nWhen his incarcerated father dies and Stella reveals she’s pregnant\, Juan is forced to examine the emotional bonds that both hold and hinder him\, to reassess his ideas of commitment\, of friendship\, of love. His encounters with various characters—his mother\, his ex-wife\, a middle-aged punker\, an aspiring acupuncturist\, a dapper veteran—lead Juan to the realization that he himself must change to thrive. \nThis is a story of making family and making mistakes\, of rending and of mending. As a Latinx queer father with a mixed-race daughter\, Juan exemplifies the ways identity connects and divides us. With wit\, insight\, and tenderness\, Big Familia explores the complexities of desire\, devotion\, and the mysteries of the heart. \nAUTHOR BIOS \nTomas Moniz is the editor of Rad Dad and Rad Families\, as well as the children’s book Collaboration/Colaboración\, and the author of the novella Bellies and Buffalos. He is the recipient of the SF Literary Arts Foundation’s 2016 Award\, the 2016 Can Serrat Residency\, the 2017 Caldera Residency\,and the 2018 SPACE on Ryder Farm residency. \nNancy Au’s is the author of Spider Love Song and Other Stories (Acre Books\, 2019). She has an MFA from San Francisco State University and teaches creative writing at California State University–Stanislaus. She is co-founder of The Escapery\, a writing and art un-school. Her flash fiction\, which is included in the Best Small Fictions 2018\, also won The Vestal Review’s 2018 VERA Flash Fiction Prize as well as Redivider’s Blurred Genre Contest.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tomas-moniz-in-conversation-with-nancy-au/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: 'Gay Like Me' with author Richie Jackson
DESCRIPTION:Richie Jackson is an award-winning Broadway\, television and film producer. He is coming to Manny’s to talk about his new book ‘Gay Like Me’. \nIn this poignant and urgent love letter to his son\, award-winning Broadway\, TV and film producer Richie Jackson reflects on his experiences as a gay man in America and the progress and setbacks of the LGBTQ community over the last 50 years. \n“My son is kind\, responsible\, and hardworking. He is ready for college. He is not ready to be a gay man living in America.”\nWhen Jackson’s son born through surrogacy came out to him at age 15\, the successful producer\, now in his 50s\, was compelled to reflect on his experiences and share his wisdom on life for LGBTQ Americans over the past half-century. \nGay Like Me is a celebration of gay identity and parenting\, and a powerful warning for his son\, other gay men and the world. Jackson looks back at his own journey as a gay man coming of age through decades of political and cultural turmoil.\nJackson’s son lives in a seemingly more liberated America\, and Jackson beautifully lays out how far we’ve come since Stonewall — the increased visibility of gay people in society\, the legal right to marry\, and the existence of a drug to prevent HIV. But bigotry is on the rise\, ignited by a president who has declared war on the gay community and fanned the flames of homophobia. A newly constituted Supreme Court with a conservative tilt is poised to overturn equality laws and set the clock back decades. Being gay is a gift\, Jackson writes\, but with their gains in jeopardy\, the gay community must not be complacent. \nAs Ta-Nehisi Coates awakened us to the continued pervasiveness of racism in America in Between the World and Me\, Jackson’s rallying cry in Gay Like Me is an eye-opening indictment to straight-lash in America. This book is an intimate\, personal exploration of our uncertain times and most troubling questions and profound concerns about issues as fundamental as dignity\, equality\, and justice. \nGay Like Me is a blueprint for our time that bridges the knowledge gap of what it’s like to be gay in America. This is a cultural manifesto that will stand the test of time. Angry\, proud\, fierce\, tender\, it is a powerful letter of love from a father to a son that holds lasting insight for us all. \nMore about Richie Jackson: \nRichie Jackson is an award-winning Broadway\, television and film producer who most recently produced the Tony Award-nominated Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song on Broadway. He executive produced Showtime’s Nurse Jackie (the Emmy and Golden Globe nominee for Best Comedy Series) for seven seasons and co-executive produced the film Shortbus\, written and directed by John Cameron Mitchell. As an alumnus of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts\, he endowed a fellowship program\, the Richie Jackson Artist Fellowship\, at his alma mater in 2015 to assist graduates in the transition from academia to a lifelong career in the arts. He and his husband\, Jordan Roth\, were honored with the Trevor Project’s 2016 Trevor Hero Award. They live in New York City with their two sons. \nCheck out his website: www.richiejacksongaylikeme.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-talk-gay-like-me-with-author-richie-jackson/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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