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SUMMARY:Book Launch for Neon: A Light History (East Coast and European audiences)
DESCRIPTION:East Coast and European audiences are invited to celebrate the book launch of Neon: A Light History \nAbout this Event\nJoin us for the virtual book launch of Neon: A Light History\, which unearths neon’s vibrant legacy of scandal\, murder\, fascists\, and forgotten inventors. For this special morning program\, audiences across the globe will have the opportunity to celebrate this indispensable neon “bible.” Hosted by SF Neon\, this program will include a panel discussion with authors Dydia DeLyser and Paul Greenstein plus special guests including Tom Rinaldi\, author of New York Neon. \n***************************************** \nThis event is part of Seasons of Neon\, an ongoing series of illuminating talks and tours presented by the Tenderloin Museum and SF Neon that celebrate the recent publication of Neon: A Light History (Giant Orange Press\, 2021) and explore San Francisco history through the city’s rich legacy of iconic glowing signs. \nExisting at the intersection of material culture and built environment\, neon signs are emblematic of the many small businesses that comprise a vital thread in the dynamic tapestry of the urban ecosystem. The Tenderloin and Mid-Market sport the densest concentration of extant neon in the Bay Area\, which makes the Tenderloin Museum an ideal forum to consider neon and its powerful\, often overlooked ability to chronicle a city and its people. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-for-neon-a-light-history-east-coast-and-european-audiences-tickets-140884636741
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SUMMARY:Denise Riley and Jennifer Soong\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Remote access event\, free and open to the public \nREGISTER TO ATTEND\n—or—\nWatch this program at YouTube \nWith emcee\, Brandon Brown \nCo-sponsored with NYRB Poets and Futurepoem \nSupported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts \nThis remote-access event starts promptly at 12:00 pm Pacific Time\, and is free and open to the public. Real-Time Captioning link will be provided at the event. Media Captioning provided after the event\, at our YouTube channel and at Poetry Center Digital Archive. For other reasonable accommodations please contact poetry@sfsu.edu \nPlease note early start-time\, to accommodate our guest and audience in the UK\, and elsewhere. \n\n\n\nThe Poetry Center is honored to welcome poets Denise Riley\, in a rare US appearance\, and Jennifer Soong. Joining us\, respectively\, from London and the Eastern US\, the poets will each read from their work\, then engage in conversation\, along with emcee Brandon Brown\, and the audience.\nMaybe; maybe not \n  \nWhen I was a child I spoke as a thrush\, I \nthought as a clod\, I understood as a stone\, \nbut when I became a man I put away \nplain things for lustrous\, yet to this day \nsquat under hooves for kindness where \nfetlocks stream with mud—shall I never \nget it clear\, down in the soily waters.\n—Denise Riley\, from Say Something Back \n  \nBritish poet Denise Riley is one of the finest and most individual writers at work in English today\, and well-known among her peers as one of a generation of poets whose works and correspondences reach across the Atlantic. A distinguished philosopher and feminist theorist as well as poet\, Riley has produced a body of work both intellectually uncompromising and emotionally open. Her first collection of poems from an American press appeared in 2020 in the New York Review of Books Poets series—Say Something Back / Time Lived\, Without Its Flow includes her widely acclaimed lyric meditation on bereavement\, composed\, as she has written\, “in imagined solidarity with the endless others whose adult children have died\, often in far worst circumstances.” The accompanying prose work returns to the subject of grief. Time Lived\, Without Its Flow is a book\, as she indicates\, “not…about death\, but an altered condition of life.” \nRiley’s poetry collections include Marxism for Infants (1977)\, Dry Air (1985)\, Mop Mop Georgette (1993)\, two selections in the Penguin Modern Poets series (with Douglas Oliver and Iain Sinclair\, 1996; and\, in 2017\, with Maggie Nelson and Claudia Rankine)\, and\, most recently\, Selected Poems 1976–2016 (2019). Her critical and philosophical works include War in the Nursery: Theories of the Child and Mother (1983); “Am I That Name?”: Feminism and the Category of “Women” in History (1988); The Words of Selves: Identification\, Solidarity\, Irony (2000); The Force of Language (with Jean-Jacques Lecercle\, 2004); and Impersonal Passion: Language as Affect (2005). \n  \nThe Augurs \n  \nCome July\, the yolk of a year \nis dragged to lie on lawns of velvet sheen. \nDark-light blades\, one-tenth-an-inch wide \nover which the red sun hunches\, immobilized. \nWith what do we lie\, waiting the night \nand the hot black earth to erupt from us \na muddled report? How little we do. \nHow little we rest. How much we demand \nfrom the daily murders passing \nVulture-like\, like stars. \n  \n—Jennifer Soong\, from Near\, At\nJennifer Soong was born in central New Jersey in the nineties. Her writing has appeared in Social Text\, Berfrois\, Prelude Magazine\, DIAGRAM\, and Fanzine\, among other places\, and been translated into Spanish. She holds a B.A. in English and Visual Studies from Harvard College and is currently a doctoral candidate at Princeton University\, where she works on poetry and forgetting. Near\, At is her first book. \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nRegister to Attend:\n\n\nhttps://sfsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_prhew-KzRQmpM9aTE8V9Bw
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SUMMARY:Pola Oloixarac in conversation with John Freeman
DESCRIPTION:reading and discussing her new novel \nMONA \nTranslated by Adam Morris\, published by Farrar Straus Giroux \n———- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. to register. \n———– \nMona\, a Peruvian writer based in California\, presents a tough and sardonic exterior. She likes drugs and cigarettes\, and when she learns that she is something of an anthropological curiosity—a woman writer of color treasured at her university for the flourish of rarefied diversity she brings—she pokes fun at American academic culture and its fixation on identity. \nWhen she is nominated for “the most important literary award in Europe\,” Mona sees a chance to escape her downward spiral of sunlit substance abuse and erotic distraction\, so she trades the temptations of California for a small\, gray village in Sweden\, close to the Arctic Circle. Now she is stuck in the company of all her jet-lagged—and mostly male—competitors\, arriving from Japan\, France\, Armenia\, Iran\, and Colombia. Isolated as they are\, the writers do what writers do: exchange compliments\, nurse envy and private resentments\, stab\nrivals in the back\, and hop in bed together. All the while\, Mona keeps stumbling across the mysterious traces of a violence she cannot explain. \nAs her adventures in Scandinavia unfold\, Mona finds that she has not so much escaped her demons as locked herself up with them in the middle of nowhere. In Mona\, Pola Oloixarac paints a hypnotic\, scabrous\, and ultimately jaw-dropping portrait of a woman facing down a hipster elite to which she does and does not belong. A survivor of both patronization and bizarre sexual encounters\, Mona is a new kind of feminist. But her past won’t stay past\, and strange forces are working to deliver her the test of a lifetime. \nPola Oloixarac was born in Buenos Aires in 1977. Her debut novel Savage Theories was a breakout bestseller in Argentina and Spain\, and was nominated for a Best Translated Book Award; in 2010 Granta recognized her as one of the best young contemporary novelists in Spanish. Oloixarac is a regular contributor to The New York Times\, and her fiction has appeared in Granta\, n+1\, The White Review\, and in an issue of Freeman’s dedicated to “The Future of New Writing.” Previously a resident of San Francisco\, CA\, Oloixarac currently resides in Barcelona. \nJohn Freeman is the editor of Freeman’s\, a literary biannual of new writing\, and executive editor of Literary Hub. His books include How to Read a Novelist and Dictionary of the Undoing (forthcoming)\, as well as a trilogy of anthologies about inequality\, including Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation\, and Tales of Two Planets (forthcoming)\, which features storytellers from around the globe on the climate crisis. Maps\, his debut collection of poems\, was published in 2017. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, and The New York Times. He is the former editor of Granta and is a Writer in Residence at New York University. \n  \nPraise for Mona \n\n\n“Smart\, provocative . . . The rich inner life of its namesake character propels this vibrant examination of the writing world.” —Publishers Weekly \n“A rapturous tour de force by Pola Oloixarac—one of the few writers I cannot live without—Mona is that novel that\, once finished\, leaves its reader perfectly\, beautifully undone. Part mystery\, part send-up of a literary world\, part journey into night\, Mona reminds us that no matter how far you fly\, the past is always near. If Mona were any smarter\, any funnier\, any truer\, I’m not sure my tender heart could have taken it.” —Junot Diaz\, author of This is How You Lose Her \n“Sly\, bitter\, and smart\, Mona is at once a satirical comedy\, a harrowing psychological portrait of a woman’s dissociation\, and a philosophical indictment of the hubris of now. Read it and be surprised.” —Siri Hustvedt\, author of Memories of the Future \n“Pola Oloixarac’s Mona is\, simultaneously\, a hilarious satire of literary pretensions\, a sincere exploration of a damaged psyche\, and a brilliantly unnerving new chapter in this writer’s inimitable body of work. It reads as though Rachel Cusk’s Outline Trilogy was thrown in a blender with Roberto Bolaño’s 2666\, and then lightly seasoned with the bitter flavor of Horacio Castellanos Moya. In other words: Oloixarac is one of my new favorite writers.” —Andrew Martin\, author of Cool for America
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SUMMARY:Gina Apostal Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for a book talk on The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata with award-winning author Gina Apostal and host MT Vallarta. \nHosted by Eastwind Books of Berkeley \nRSVP FOR ACCESS TO ZOOM EVENT \nAbout the book:\nGina Apostol’s riotous second novel takes the form of a memoir by one Raymundo Mata\, a half-blind bookworm and revolutionary\, tracing his childhood\, his education in Manila\, his love affairs\, and his discovery of writer and fellow revolutionary\, Jose Rizal. Mata’s 19th-century story is complicated by present-day foreword(s)\, afterword(s)\, and footnotes from three fiercely quarrelsome and comic voices: a nationalist editor\, a neo-Freudian psychoanalyst critic\, and a translator\, Mimi C. Magsalin. In telling the contested and fragmentary story of Mata\, Apostol finds new ways to depict the violence of the Spanish colonial era\, and to reimagine the nation’s great writer\, Jose Rizal\, who was executed by the Spanish for his revolutionary activities\, and is considered by many to be the father of Philippine independence. The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata offers an intoxicating blend of fact and fiction\, uncovering lost histories while building dazzling\, anarchic modes of narrative. \nPraise for The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata:\nWinner of 2010 Philippine National Book Award\nWinner of 2010 Gintong Aklat (Golden Book) Award \n“Gina Apostol’s The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata weaves the complex tangle of Philippine history\, literature\, and languages (along with contemporary academic scholarship) into a brilliant tour de force of a novel. Brava!”\n–John Barth \n“Gina Apostol tells our revolutionary history–or fragments of our history–using a pastiche of writing from the academe\, a diary\, stories within stories\, jokes\, puns\, allusions\, a virtual firecracker of words. Her novel is fearlessly intellectual\, anchored firmly on the theories of Jacques Lacan. But it is also funny and witty as it picks–lice\, nits\, and all–on the hoaxes in our history. It affirms\, if it still needs to be affirmed\, the power of fiction to shape and reshape the gaps in the narratives of our history as a nation. The main character here is History\, and its protagonist\, Imagination. For this audacious sword-play of a novel\, the National Book Award is given to Gina Apostol’s The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata.”\n–Judges’ Citation\, Philippine National Book Award \n“Edward Said wrote that the role of the intellectual is to present alternative narratives on history than those provided by the ‘combatants’ who claim entitlement to official memory and national identity–who propagate ‘heroic anthems sung in order to sweep all before them.’ In this fearlessly intellectual novel\, Gina Apostol takes on the keepers of official memory and creates a new\, atonal anthem that defies single ownership and\, in fact\, can only be performed by the many–by multiple voices in multiple readings. We may never look at ourselves and our history the same way again.”\n–Eric Gamalinda\, author of My Sad Republic \nAbout the Author:\nGina Apostal is the PEN Open Book Award-winning author of Gun Dealers’ Daughter\, as well as a two-time winner of the National Book Award in the Philippines for her novels Bibliolepsy and The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata. Her short stories have appeared in various anthologies and journals including The Gettysburg Review and the Penguin anthology of Asian American fiction\, Charlie Chan Is Dead\, Volume 2. \nAbout the host:\nMT Vallarta is a poet and Ph.D. candidate in Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Riverside\, where they study feminist theory\, queer theory\, and Filipinx poetics. Their poetry and scholarship is published and forthcoming in The Velvet Light Trap\, The Asian American Literary Review\, Breadcrumbs\, Nat. Brut\, Apogee Journal\, and others. They were raised and live in Historic Filipinotown\, Los Angeles. \n—-\nTo purchase copies of the featured authors’ work\, visit www.asiabookcenter.com\nHardcover:\nhttps://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2950/Revolution_According_to_Raymundo_Mata.html \nEastwind Books Multicultural Services (EBMS) is a 501(3)c non-profit dedicated to the promotion and accessibility of Asian American and Ethnic Multicultural Literature. EBMS is the community education arm of Eastwind Books of Berkeley which is comprised of a dedicated staff of booksellers\, artists\, poets\, and community workers. Our events are for educational purposes and we appreciate your tax-deductible donations and continued support.
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SUMMARY:Jingletown Reading & Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Jingletown Reading & Open Mic is a monthly event that celebrates writers & artists committed to social justice and determined to make a positive change in our communities.\n\n\n\n3rd Saturday of the Month\n2-4 pm\nCurators/Hosts: Adela Najarro & harold terezon
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