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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: A Memorial for Sean Bonney
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-a-memorial-for-sean-bonney/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lyric & Dirges: Ether Edition #1
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launching of Lyrics & Dirges: Ether Edition\nWe have a new format and the same literary wonderland.\nOur inaugural virtual reading is happening on April 1st with three amazing writers Norma Liliana Valdez\, Georgina Marie\, and Nick Johnson \nWe will be meeting on Zoom\, specific details below and if you’re new to Zoom you can download the app here:\nhttps://zoom.us/ and here’s a handy\nDescription:\n──────────\nLyrics & Dirges is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us04web.zoom.us/j/404739063 \nMeeting ID: 404 739 063\nPassword: 381415 \nOne tap mobile\n+17207072699\,\,404739063# US (Denver)\n+13462487799\,\,404739063# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 720 707 2699 US (Denver)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\nMeeting ID: 404 739 063\nFind your local number: https://us04web.zoom.us/u/fdcVI4ceEZ
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyric-dirges-ether-edition-1/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200401T190000
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SUMMARY:Beth Lisick
DESCRIPTION:reads from \nEdie On The Green Screen: A Novel \npublished by 7.13 Books \nCity Lights welcomes back Beth Lisick to celebrate her debut novel from 7.13 Books. \nEdie Wunderlich was the It girl\, on the covers of the city’s alt-weeklies\, repping the freak party scene on the eve of the first dot-com boom. Fast-forward twenty years\, and Edie hasn’t changed\, but San Francisco has. Still a bartender in the Mission\, Edie now serves a seemingly never-ending stream of tech bros while the punk rock parties of the millennium’s end are long gone. When her mother dies\, leaving her Silicon Valley home to Edie\, she finds herself mourning her loss in the heart of the Bay Area’s tech monoculture\, and embarks on a last-ditch quest to hold on to her rebel heart. New York Times bestseller Beth Lisick’s first novel EDIE ON THE GREEN SCREEN chronicles Silicon Valley’s rapidly changing culture with biting observational humor\, an insider’s wisdom\, and disarming pathos\, while asking\, “What comes after It?” \nBeth Lisick is a writer and actor from the San Francisco Bay Area\, currently living in Brooklyn. She is the author of five previous books\, including the New York Times bestseller Everybody Into the Pool\, and co-founder of the Porchlight Storytelling Series. Beth has also worked as a baker\, a promotional banana mascot\, a background extra for TV and film\, and an aide to people with developmental disabilities and dementia. This is her first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beth-lisick/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200401T193000
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SUMMARY:Jane Hirshfield / Ledger
DESCRIPTION:reads from her new volume of poetry Ledger\, a book of personal\, ecological\, and political reckoning from the internationally renowned poet named “among the modern masters” (Washington Post). \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, April 1\, 2020 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom one of our most celebrated contemporary poets–long-listed for the National Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and England’s T.S. Eliot Prize–comes Jane Hirshfield’s Ledger\, her most important work yet. From its already much-quoted opening lines of despair and defiance (“Let them not say: we did not see it. / We saw.”)\, Hirshfield’s poems inscribe a registry\, both personal and communal\, of our present-day predicaments\, and call us to action. They summon our responsibility to sustain one another and the earth while pondering\, acutely and tenderly\, the crises of refugees\, justice\, and climate. They consider “the minimum mass for a whale\, for a language\, an ice cap\,” recognize the intimacy of interconnection (“lichens\, burdocks\, mycelial mats between trees– / forgive this hubris”)\, and apply the lever of questions (“How came separation to chisel\, / to cherish\, to chafe?”) by which we might begin to find a way forward. Finally\, it is the human spirit and words themselves–loyal instruments of recognition\, humility\, and praise–that triumph in this stunning accounting by an essential poet. \nJane Hirshfield is the author of nine books of poetry\, including Ledger; The Beauty; Come\, Thief; and Given Sugar\, Given Salt. She is also the author of two now-classic collections of essays\, Nine Gates and Ten Windows\, and has edited and co-translated four books of world poets from the past. Her books have received the Poetry Center Book Award\, the California Book Award\, and the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Poetry. Hirshfield has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and the Academy of American Poets\, and presents her work at literary and interdisciplinary events worldwide. Her poems appear in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, The New York Review of Books\, The Times Literary Supplement\, The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, New Republic\, Harper’s\, and Poetry\, and have been selected for ten editions of The Best American Poetry. A resident of Northern California\, she is a 2019 elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jane-hirshfield-ledger/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Hilary Leichter\, Mary South\, Rita Bullwinkel\, & R.O. Kwon
DESCRIPTION:Hilary Leichter and Mary South discuss their new works\, Temporary and You Will Never Be Forgotten\, with Rita Bullwinkel and R.O. Kwon. \nPraise for Temporary \n“A narrative so deliciously allusive and disarmingly literal that this reader kept thinking maximum glee had been attained\, only for the glee to somehow grow even more maximal just a few sentences later.” —Helen Oyeyemi \n“Temporary took me by storm. Each short chapter is a wallop of topsy-turvy wisdom and humor\, and together they build a strange and sparkling universe. The novel is about work and identity and the masks we wear\, but it’s also about our weird little human hearts and what they can bear. I am a Hilary Leichter superfan.”—Ramona Ausubel \n“In Temporary\, the quest for gainful employment is epic; operatic; deliciously\, sunnily\, terrifyingly entertaining. Hilary Leichter is a conjurer of rare talent.” —Kelly Link \nAbout Temporary \nIn Temporary\, a young woman’s workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness\, connection\, and something\, at last\, to call her own. Whether it’s shining an endless closet of shoes\, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship\, assisting an assassin\, or filling in for the Chairman of the Board\, for the mythical Temporary\, “there is nothing more personal than doing your job.” \nThis riveting quest\, at once hilarious and profound\, will resonate with anyone who has ever done their best at work\, even when the work is only temporary. \nPraise for You Will Never Be Forgotten \n“Mary South gets it. With dark humor\, she knocks down like so many lined-up ducks all the consoling pieties that nurture humanist fiction\, and sets up in their place a vision of subjects irremediably mediated\, strung out along networks that far exceed them. Her universe is glitchy\, full of weakly-encrypted memory\, open-source desire\, self-replicating fantasy: the human in hock to the algorithm.” —Tom McCarthy\, author of Satin Island \n“Mary South’s stories are a vital mix of wry humor\, cunning provocation\, disturbing prophecy and deep feeling. A brilliant and brilliantly strange and strangely funny and menacing debut!” —Sam Lipsyte\, author of Hark \n“Mary South’s wickedly\, exquisitely hilarious collection dwells in the intimate aches of modern life\, writ large in strange\, delightful stories that include\, but are not limited to\, clones\, brain surgery\, internet trolls\, and warehouses full of spare men. Dazzlingly imagined and full of wit\, You Will Never Be Forgotten is a gift to readers everywhere\, a ferocious transmission from one of the most audacious\, most original new voices in fiction.” —Alexandra Kleeman\, author of Intimations \nAbout You Will Never Be Forgotten \nIn this provocative\, bitingly funny debut collection\, people attempt to use technology to escape their uncontrollable feelings of grief or rage or despair\, only to reveal their most flawed and human selves \nAn architect draws questionable inspiration from her daughter’s birth defect. A content moderator for “the world’s biggest search engine\,” who spends her days culling videos of beheadings and suicides\, turns from stalking her rapist online to following him in real life. At a camp for recovering internet trolls\, a sensitive misfit goes missing. A wounded mother raises the second incarnation of her child. \nIn You Will Never Be Forgotten\, Mary South explores how technology can both collapse our relationships from within and provide opportunities for genuine connection. Formally inventive\, darkly absurdist\, savagely critical of the increasingly fraught cultural climates we inhabit\, these ten stories also find hope in fleeting interactions and moments of tenderness. They reveal our grotesque selfishness and our intense need for love and acceptance\, and the psychic pain that either shuts us off or allows us to discover our deepest reaches of empathy. This incendiary debut marks the arrival of a perceptive\, idiosyncratic\, instantly recognizable voice in fiction—one that could only belong to Mary South.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hilary-leichter-mary-south-rita-bullwinkel-r-o-kwon/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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