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SUMMARY:Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:It’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business. First up: Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon in conversation\, including a Q&A. \nAyelet Waldman is the author of the novels Love and Treasure\, Red Hook Road\, and Love and Other Impossible Pursuits. Plus the memoir A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood\, My Marriage\, and My Life. \nMichael Chabon is the author of several novels\, including Moonglow\, Telegraph Ave.\, the Yiddish Policemen’s Union\, Wonder Boys and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. \nBoth Chabon and Waldman wrote for the recent TV series\, Star Trek: Picard. \nThe beneficiary \nPegasus Books has been delivering books and dreams to the Berkeley area since 1969\, and they’re a vital part of our book-loving community. They have an amazing selection of new and used books and a warm\, friendly atmosphere\, complete with adorable cats. They give dog treats to dogs\, and stickers to kids\, and they have some of the most fun events in the city\, and we’d be lost without them. \nEvery penny you spend on tickets to this event goes directly to Pegasus Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-chabon-and-ayelet-waldman-in-conversation/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Online MoAD Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Open Mic at MoAD is going virtual! Use this link to participate in the Open Mic online. You can sign up below to read\, or just be part of the audience.\nOPEN MIC THIRD THURSDAYS continue. Because we were going to still be installing our new shows this month on the Third Thursday we decided to host Open Mic on the FOURTH THURSDAY this month! Even though we will be having the event online\, we will still hold it on March 26\, 2020 from 6-8pm. Here are the instructions for joining via ZOOM: \nURL: https://zoom.us/j/543019969?pwd=L2xNZ3JlTWdITXduVTJTK29ZamRkdz09\nThe Meeting ID is: 543 019 969\nPassword: 020976 \nDial-in number for folks without smartphones who only want to listen\, not video conference: 669 900 9128 \nYou do not need an account to participate in a Zoom session. Simply click on the link and follow the easy directions. For the best experience\, download the Zoom app to your phone\, laptop or tablet. It’s quick and easy. However\, you may participate from your browser without downloading the app\, but with limited functionality. Depending on the age of your computer\, you may need a speaker and microphone to hear and speak. On a smartphone\, just put the meeting on speaker or use ear/headphones for enhanced audio. Here’s a 53-second YouTube video explaining how to join a meeting: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362193-How-Do-I-Join-A-Meeting- \nHosted by poet Nia McAllister\, join us for an evening of spoken word\, featuring amazing poets from throughout the Bay Area. Participate or just watch. \nSign up to read here: https://www.moadsf.org/event/moad-open-mic-3/?instance_id=15641 \nOur featured artist this month: \nTONGO EISEN-MARTIN \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet\, movement worker\, and educator. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His book titled\, “Someone’s Dead Already” was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book “Heaven Is All Goodbyes” was published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series\, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won a California Book Award and an American Book Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/online-moad-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Canceled: Geometry of Shadows: Stefania Heim on Giorgio de Chirico
DESCRIPTION:Poet and translator Stefania Heim joins Olivia Sears to talk about Giorgio de Chirico’s Italian poetry\, visual and verbal juxtapositions\, and interlingual negotiations. \n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\nGiorgio de Chirico\n\n\nGiorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) was born in Greece to Italian parents. A gifted and prolific painter\, de Chirico is considered the founder of the metaphysical school of art and a significant influence on the surrealists. Over the course of his long career\, he was involved with many of the twentieth century’s major art-world figures: he designed costumes for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and set productions for Luigi Pirandello; he was photographed by Irving Penn. De Chirico was also a prolific writer. His French writing has been translated by John Ashbery\, Louise Bourgeois\, and others. Geometry of Shadows compiles for the first time in translation the entirety of de Chirico’s Italian poems.\n\n\n\n\n\nTRANSLATOR\nStefania Heim\n\n\nStefania Heim is a poet\, scholar\, translator\, editor\, and educator. She is author of the poetry collections HOUR BOOK\, chosen by Jennifer Moxley as winner of the Sawtooth Prize and published in 2019 by Ahsahta Books and A Table That Goes On for Miles (Switchback Books\, 2014). Geometry of Shadows\, her book of translations of metaphysical artist Giorgio de Chirico’s Italian poems\, was published in October 2019 by A Public Space Books. Stefania is the recipient of a 2019 Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for her work on Giorgio de Chirico.\n\n\n\n\n\nTRANSLATOR\nOlivia E. Sears\n\n\nOlivia E. Sears is the founder of the Center for the Art of Translation and served as editor of Two Lines for twelve years. She is a translator from Italian.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/geometry-of-shadows-stefania-heim-on-giorgio-de-chirico/
LOCATION:Center for the Art of Translation office\, 582 Market St #700\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Robert Glück
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the new edition of \nMargery Kempe \nby Robert Glück\, introduction by Colm Toibin \npublished by New York Review Books \nFirst published in 1994\, Robert Glück’s Margery Kempe is one of the most provocative\, poignant\, and inventive American novels of the last quarter century. The book tells two stories of romantic obsession. One\, based on the first autobiography in English\, the medieval Book of Margery Kempe\, is about a fifteenth-century woman from East Anglia\, a visionary\, a troublemaker\, a pilgrim to the Holy Land\, and an aspiring saint\, and her love affair with Jesus. It is complicated. The other is about the author’s own love for an alluring and elusive young American\, L. It is complicated. Between these two Margery Kempe\, the novel\, emerges as an unprecedented exploration of desire\, devotion\, abjection\, and sexual obsession in the form of a novel like no other novel. Robert Glück’s masterpiece bears comparison with the finest work of such writers as Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus. \nRobert Glück is a poet\, fiction writer\, critic\, and editor. With Bruce Boone\, he founded the New Narrative movement in San Francisco. His poetry collections include Reader and\, with Boone\, La Fontaine. His fiction includes the story collection Denny Smith\, and the novel Jack the Modernist. Glück edited\, with Camille Roy\, Mary Berger\, and Gail Scott\, the anthology Biting The Error: Writers Explore Narrative\, and his collected essays\, Communal Nude\, appeared in 2016. Glück served as the director of San Francisco State’s Poetry Center\, co-director of the Small Press Traffic Literary Center\, and associate editor at Lapis Press. He lives in San Francisco. \nPraise for Margery Kempe  \n\nBy the bold device of telling two stories in terms of each other (one of Margery Kempe and Jesus\, and the other of a twentieth-century love affair)\, Robert Glück has produced a book without precedent. This novel brings to mind the huge wings of a painted angel—a texture of brilliant richness covered regularly with small\, detailed shadows of implication.\n—Thom Gunn \nAt once embracing and thwarting two worlds\, two centuries\, two sensibilities\, what a subtle and powerful amalgam is Margery! Gluck’s exquisitely controlled\, sensuously textured writing evokes a deeply integrated ecstatic vision that in the end spares us nothing—being nuanced and brutal\, passionate and colored with levity\, elegant and outrageous.\n—Lydia Davis \nI\, for one\, find much to admire in contemporary gay authors. One of my favorites is Robert Gluck.\n—Edmund White \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-gluck/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Racket 40: Light
DESCRIPTION:We can still remember celebrating our mother’s 40th birthday with a cake shaped like a coffin and a bunch of people wearing underwear on their heads. This will not be our evening. Our evening will consist of great writers from in and around the Bay Area reading on the eye-opening subject of LIGHT. It will\, as these things do\, probably get pretty dark. \nFree beer ’till there ain’t. \nThe Readers: \nJennifer Lewis\nThea Matthews\nElizabeth Gonzalez James\nLis Owuor\nHugh Behm-Steinberg\nTracey Knapp\nChristine No\nAllison Landa
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-40-light/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Daniel Kirsch\, Sold My Soul for a Student Loan at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:With unprecedented student debt keeping an entire generation from realizing the “American Dream\,” this book sounds a warning about how that debt may undermine both higher education—and our democracy. \nAmerican higher education boasts one of the most impressive legacies in the world\, but the price of admission for many is now endless debt. As this book shows\, increasing educational indebtedness undermines the real value of higher education in our democracy. To help readers understand this dilemma\, the book examines how student debt became commonplace and what the long-term effects of such an ongoing reality might be. Sold My Soul for a Student Loan examines this vitally important issue from an unprecedented diversity of perspectives\, focusing on the fact that student debt is hindering the ability of millions of people to enter the job market\, the housing market\, the consumer economy\, and the political process. \nAmong other topics\, the book covers the history of consumer debt in the United States\, the history of federal policy toward higher education\, and political action in response to the issue of student debt. Perhaps most importantly\, it explores the new relationship debtor-citizens have to the government as a result of debt\, and how that impacts democracy for a new generation. \nDaniel T. Kirsch\, PhD\, is an author who earned his doctorate in political science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and now teachers at California State University\, Sacramento. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by March 24th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-kirsch-sold-my-soul-for-a-student-loan-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Jordan Kisner
DESCRIPTION:Jordan Kisner discusses her new essay collection\, Thin Places: Essays From In Between. \nPraise for Thin Places \n“Jordan Kisner’s essays are like intricate tattoos: etched with a sharp and exacting blade of intellect\, but made of flesh; richly drawn in their details; comprised of equal parts pleasure and pain. Like tattoos\, their natural habitat is that strange borderland where our skin meets the world—where we confront our edges\, or everything we can’t keep out. Always\, and thrillingly\, they look inward and outward with exacting grace.” —Leslie Jamison\, author of The Empathy Exams \n“Jordan Kisner’s essays are a bewitchingly original and highly personal synthesis of incisiveness\, gracefulness\, thoughtfulness\, and selflessness. She is an intellectual empath with the deepest moral instincts and a willingness to consider herself alongside her subjects\, as a person no more or less worthy of attention. Her work gives me the feeling that I’m being told an urgent secret about humanity that is meant to be savored\, then shared.” —Heidi Julavits\, author of The Folded Clock \n“Jordan Kisner is a pilgrim for our times. She ventures into the operating room where a surgeon inserts an electrode into a patient’s brain. She mingles with the debutantes of Laredo\, Texas as they navigate the fraught space between Wasp and Hispanic privilege. Wherever she is\, Kisner probes the ambiguities that we live and dream\, exploring the spaces where\, in her words\, ‘Distinctions between you and not-you\, real and and unworldly\, fall away.’ She is a tender but fierce writer; rigorous and wise.” —Margo Jefferson\, author of Negroland: A Memoir \nAbout Thin Places \nIn this perceptive and provocative essay collection\, an award-winning writer shares her personal and reportorial investigation into America’s search for meaning \nWhen Jordan Kisner was a child\, she was saved by Jesus Christ at summer camp\, much to the confusion of her nonreligious family. She was\, she writes\, “just naturally reverent\,” a fact that didn’t change when she—much to her own confusion—lost her faith as a teenager. Not sure why her religious conviction had come or where it had gone\, she did what anyone would do: “You go about the great American work of assigning yourself to other gods: yoga\, talk radio\, neoatheism\, CrossFit\, cleanses\, football\, the academy\, the American Dream\, Beyoncé.” \nA curiosity about the subtle systems guiding contemporary life pervades Kisner’s work. Her celebrated essay “Thin Places” (Best American Essays 2016)\, about an experimental neurosurgery developed to treat severe obsessive-compulsive disorder\, asks how putting the neural touchpoint of the soul on a pacemaker may collide science and psychology with philosophical questions about illness\, the limits of the self\, and spiritual transformation. How should she understand the appearance of her own obsessive compulsive disorder at the very age she lost her faith? \nIntellectually curious and emotionally engaging\, the essays in Thin Places manage to be both intimate and expansive\, illuminating an unusual facet of American life\, as well as how it reverberates with the author’s past and present.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jordan-kisner/
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:Jordan Kisner and Esmé Weijun Wang at Green Apple Books
DESCRIPTION:Jordan Kisner discusses her new essay collection\, Thin Places: Essays From In Between with Esmé Weijun Wang. \nPraise for Thin Places \n“Jordan Kisner’s essays are like intricate tattoos: etched with a sharp and exacting blade of intellect\, but made of flesh; richly drawn in their details; comprised of equal parts pleasure and pain. Like tattoos\, their natural habitat is that strange borderland where our skin meets the world—where we confront our edges\, or everything we can’t keep out. Always\, and thrillingly\, they look inward and outward with exacting grace.” —Leslie Jamison\, author of The Empathy Exams \n“Jordan Kisner’s essays are a bewitchingly original and highly personal synthesis of incisiveness\, gracefulness\, thoughtfulness\, and selflessness. She is an intellectual empath with the deepest moral instincts and a willingness to consider herself alongside her subjects\, as a person no more or less worthy of attention. Her work gives me the feeling that I’m being told an urgent secret about humanity that is meant to be savored\, then shared.” —Heidi Julavits\, author of The Folded Clock \n“Jordan Kisner is a pilgrim for our times. She ventures into the operating room where a surgeon inserts an electrode into a patient’s brain. She mingles with the debutantes of Laredo\, Texas as they navigate the fraught space between Wasp and Hispanic privilege. Wherever she is\, Kisner probes the ambiguities that we live and dream\, exploring the spaces where\, in her words\, ‘Distinctions between you and not-you\, real and and unworldly\, fall away.’ She is a tender but fierce writer; rigorous and wise.” —Margo Jefferson\, author of Negroland: A Memoir \nAbout Thin Places \nIn this perceptive and provocative essay collection\, an award-winning writer shares her personal and reportorial investigation into America’s search for meaning \nWhen Jordan Kisner was a child\, she was saved by Jesus Christ at summer camp\, much to the confusion of her nonreligious family. She was\, she writes\, “just naturally reverent\,” a fact that didn’t change when she—much to her own confusion—lost her faith as a teenager. Not sure why her religious conviction had come or where it had gone\, she did what anyone would do: “You go about the great American work of assigning yourself to other gods: yoga\, talk radio\, neoatheism\, CrossFit\, cleanses\, football\, the academy\, the American Dream\, Beyoncé.” \nA curiosity about the subtle systems guiding contemporary life pervades Kisner’s work. Her celebrated essay “Thin Places” (Best American Essays 2016)\, about an experimental neurosurgery developed to treat severe obsessive-compulsive disorder\, asks how putting the neural touchpoint of the soul on a pacemaker may collide science and psychology with philosophical questions about illness\, the limits of the self\, and spiritual transformation. How should she understand the appearance of her own obsessive compulsive disorder at the very age she lost her faith? \nIntellectually curious and emotionally engaging\, the essays in Thin Places manage to be both intimate and expansive\, illuminating an unusual facet of American life\, as well as how it reverberates with the author’s past and present.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jordan-kisner-and-esme-weijun-wang-at-green-apple-books/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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