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SUMMARY:Booksmith Resists: A Radical Hope Party
DESCRIPTION:Feeling a little (or a lot) tired sixth months into this administration? Local and International Treasure Carolina De Robertis is here to help you stay fueled for the long haul with a new collection of letters called Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times. Carolina will be joined by Jeff Chang\, Aya De León\,Cristina García\, Kate Schatz\, and Jane Smiley to discuss how on earth we’ll keep resisting amid the daily chaos. \nRadical Hope is a collection of letters–to ancestors\, to children five generations from now\, to strangers in grocery lines\, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged–written by award-winning novelists\, poets\, political thinkers\, and activists. Provocative and inspiring\, Radical Hope offers readers a kaleidoscopic view of the love and courage needed to navigate this time of upheaval\, uncertainty\, and fear\, in view of the recent US presidential election. It serves as a kind of literary sustenance in dangerous times\, and together we’ll reflect on how to resist\, who we are\, the power and beauty of pluralism\, and how to hold on to our vision for a better world. \nJoin us for a night of readings\, drinks\, snacks\, bitching\, plotting\, tips\, tricks\, and actual facts. Sponsored by Quiet Lightning\, Lagunitas Brewing Co\, and more TBA. \nRSVP greatly appreciated so we know how much stuff to get.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-resists-a-radical-hope-party/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Peter N. Caroll + David Watts
DESCRIPTION:Peter Neil Caroll has just published his fourth poetry collection\, The Truth Lies on Earth: A Year by Dark\, by Bright (Turning Point Press). His work follows the cycle from winter solstice to winter solstice\, exploring how seasonal time affects ordinary moments of our lives. \nDavid Watts is a physician writer who has published seven books of poetry\, four anthologies\, two books of short stories\, and two novels. His most recent publication\, Having and Keeping\, was a runner-up in the Brick Road Poetry Press national contest\, and published as the ‘Editor’s Choice.’
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-n-caroll-and-david-watts/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Eastridge Open Mic: Robert Tinoco Duran
DESCRIPTION:Feature: Roberto Tinoco Duran\nopen mic follows \nRoberto Tinoco Duran is the author of six books of poetry\, A Friend of Sorrow (1980); Triple Crown (1987); Reality Ribs (1993)\, Darkspark (2006)\, Ace Race Card (2010)\, and Maximum in Minimum (2016). His work has been published in numerous anthologies and literary journals in the US and abroad. Duran has taught poetry in homeless shelters\, mental health agencies and in various City of San Jose programs supporting ‘at risk’ kids. He has performed and recited his poetry for nearly 40 years in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond and collaborated with many well known poets and writers including world renowned performance artist Guillermo Gomez Pena. Videographer Emilio Ratti of RAI Television\, Milan\, Italy\, has produced numerous videos from 2000-2016 that feature Roberto’s signature live performances from the streets of San Jose. Duran’s poetry was featured by director River O’Mahony Hagg in the 35mm experimental short film “86ed Again” which premiered at the San Diego Film Festival in 2002. Duran’s vocals and original poetry are showcased in four Music/Spoken word albums\, 86ed Again (2001); Poetry Pie (2003); Darkspark (2007); and The Poet (2010). For more information\, visit http://www.robertoduranpoet.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eastridge-open-mic-robert-tinoco-duran/
LOCATION:Barnes & Noble at Eastridge Mall\, 2200 Eastridge Loop\, Suite #1420\, San José\, CA\, 95122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:One Year Anniversary Bash
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate the one-year anniversary of Dog Eared Books keeping books in the Castro!! \nWe are beyond excited to have Cleve Jones\, Charlie Jane Anders\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\, and Jeff Chang as our featured readers. Pick up copies of their books before the big night! Faluda Islam [Zulfikar Ali Bhutto] will be our MC\, and their artwork will be on display in the store throughout June. \nThe reading schedule for the night: \n7pm – introduction by artist/performer Faluda Islam [Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]; Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\n8pm Charlie Jane Anders; Jeff Chang\n9pm Cleve Jones \nDelicious vegetarian food will be provided by Temo’s Cafe\n\nThank you to everyone who has supported us this past year – it has been a joy to see all of your faces in the store\, and we can’t wait to celebrate with you soon! \nBios:\nCLEVE JONES is a human rights activist\, lecturer\, and author of “When We Rise: My Life in the Movement\,” which partly inspired the ABC miniseries of the same name. Mentored by LGBTQ pioneer Harvey Milk\, Cleve co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation\, conceived and founded The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt\, led the 2009 National March for Equality in Washington D.C.\, and served on the Advisory Board of the American Foundation for Equal Rights\, which challenged California’s Proposition 8 in the U.S. Supreme Court. Today he works as an organizer for the hospitality workers’ union UNITE HERE. \nCHARLIE JANE ANDERS is the author of All the Birds in the Sky\, which won a Nebula Award and a Crawford Award and has been shortlisted for the Hugo and Locus Awards. She organizes the Writers With Drinks reading series\, and was a founding editor of io9.com. Her story “Six Months\, Three Days” won a Hugo Award\, and her debut novel Choir Boy won a Lambda Literary Award. \nROXANNE DUNBAR-ORTIZ: Originally from rural Oklahoma\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\, has lived in San Francisco most of her adult life. She is Professor Emerita in Ethnic Studies at California State University East Bay. She is author or editor of 12 books\, including a memoir trilogy: Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie; Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years\, 1960–1975; and Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War. Her most recent book is An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. \nJEFF CHANG is the Executive Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University. His books include Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation\, Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop\, Who We Be: The Colorization of America (published in paperback in January 2016 under the new title\, Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post Civil Rights America). His latest\, We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes On Race and Resegregation\, was published in September 2016. His next book will be a biography of Bruce Lee. \nJeff co-founded CultureStr/ke and ColorLines. He was named by The Utne Reader as one of “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World” and by KQED as an Asian Pacific American Local Hero. He has been a USA Ford Fellow in Literature and the winner of the Asian American Literary Award. \nZULFIKAR ALI BHUTTO received his BA and an MAH in Art History from Edinburgh University and completed his MFA from San Francisco Art Institute this year. As an artist of mixed Pakistani and Lebanese descent and having grown up in Pakistan\, Bhutto sees his body caught in the middle of complex identity politics formed by centuries of colonialism and exacerbated by contemporary international politics. He explores political queerness and how that queerness exists in a constant in-between and non-aligned space. His work has been shown in the United States\, Pakistan\, Scotland\, Dubai\, and Colombia.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/one-year-anniversary-bash/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #25
DESCRIPTION:An amazing gathering of writers will read NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts) within a three-minute time limit. \nThe emcee for the night will be the one and only NO ‘HARE (Isobel O’Hareand Christine No.) \nFeatured lineup of writers include: and more TBA! \nMusical Guest: \nBeer made by Ale Industries on site and coffee by our good friends next door\, Red Bay Coffee. \nDonations will be kindly requested\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds. All ages are welcome\, though profanity will be present. \n\nCommunity\, Fruitvale Literary\, Ale Industries\, Nomadic Press\, Fruitvale Beer
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-25/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night
DESCRIPTION:Featured Poet: Val Ibarra! \nHosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir. Live jazz with Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. FREE admission\, all ages\, full menu and bar in the front room. Open Mic for poetry only – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night-4/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170620T203000
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SUMMARY:Laurie King
DESCRIPTION:The bestselling author of the Mary Russell mysteries\, Laurie King\, celebrates the release of an altogether new novel\, an ominous and stunningly intricate story set in an inner-city middle school. \nOn the eve of career day at Guadalupe Middle School\, Principal Linda MacDonald is dead-set on changing the course of a school known only for its truancy\, gang violence\, and failing test scores. But she never expects the cop with too many questions\, or the kid under pressure to prove himself\, or the basketball player with an affection guns … \nJoin one of Northern Californias most renowned mystery writers for the release of her most exciting thriller yet!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laurie-king/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170620T213000
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SUMMARY:Brontez Purnell Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join Brontez Purnell at Pegasus Books Downtown for the launch of his debut novel\, Since I Laid My Burden Down. \nDeShawn lives a high\, creative\, and promiscuous life in San Francisco. But when he’s called back to his cramped Alabama hometown for his uncle’s funeral\, he’s hit by flashbacks of handsome\, doomed neighbors and sweltering Sunday services. Amidst prickly reminders of his childhood\, DeShawn ponders family\, church\, and the men in his life\, prompting the question: Who deserves love? \nA raw\, funny\, and uninhibited stumble down memory lane\, Brontez Purnell’s debut novel explores how one man’s early sexual and artistic escapades grow into a life. \nAuthor Bio \nBrontez Purnell has been publishing\, performing\, and curating in the Bay Area for over ten years. He is author of the cult zine Fag School\, frontman for his band The Younger Lovers\, and founder and choreographer of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company. Formerly a dancer with Gravy Train!!!\, a queer electro indie band that gained national prominence in the mid-2000s\, Purnell’s other prominent artistic collaborations include his supporting role in the queer independent feature film\, “I Want Your Love” (dir. Travis Mathews\, 2012). \nHe was a guest curator for the Berkeley Art Museum’s L@TE program in 2012\, awarded an invitation to the 2012 Radar Lab queer arts summer residency\, honored by Out Magazine’s 2012 Hot 100 List and 2013 Most Eligible Bachelors List\, and most recently won the 2014 SF Bay Guardian‘s Goldie for Performance/Music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brontez-purnell-book-launch/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170621T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170621T200000
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SUMMARY:Achy Obejas
DESCRIPTION:reading from her new short story collection \nThe Tower of the Antilles \nfrom Akashic Books \nThe Cubans in Achy Obejas’s story collection The Tower of the Antilles are haunted by an island: the island they fled\, the island they’ve created\, the island they were taken to or forced from\, the island they long for\, the island they return to\, and the island that can never be home again. \nIn “Supermán\,” several possible story lines emerge about a 1950s Havana sex-show superstar who disappeared as soon as the Revolution triumphed. “North/South” portrays a migrant family trying to cope with separation\, lives on different hemispheres\, and the eventual disintegration of blood ties. “The Cola of Oblivion” follows the path of a young woman who returns to Cuba\, and who inadvertently uncorks a history of accommodation and betrayal among the family members who stayed behind during the revolution. In the title story\, “The Tower of the Antilles\,” an interrogation reveals a series of fantasies about escape and a history of futility. \nWith language that is both generous and sensual\, Obejas writes about lives beset by events beyond individual control\, and poignantly captures how history and fate intrude on even the most ordinary of lives. \nACHY OBEJAS is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Ruins\, Days of Awe\, and three other books of fiction. She edited and translated (into English) the anthology Havana Noir\, and has since translated Junot Díaz\, Rita Indiana\, Wendy Guerra\, and many others. In 2014\, she was awarded a USA Ford Fellowship for her writing and translation. She currently serves as the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College in Oakland\, California. \n\nPraise for the work of Achy Obejas: \n“Achy Obejas’s new story collection begins and ends with a question: What is your name? The answer is an abounding one. Counterrevolutionaries\, the witnesses to the arrival of Columbus’s caravels\, poets\, Supermán—the characters in these stories\, in all their riveting variety\, name themselves as Cuban\, and are bound in complex ways by the geography of their hearts\, if not the geography beneath their feet. An audacious and remarkable read!”\n—Chantel Acevedo\, author of The Distant Marvels \n“For twenty years I’ve been a fan of the genius Achy Obejas—since I first read Memory Mambo in 1996. Obejas has been the model of a writer for me in every way—a master in her aesthetics\, an inspiration in her politics\, fearless and vital in every page. The Tower of the Antilles is another brilliant collection\, a story of many Cubas\, intensely personal and political\, erotic and cerebral. I found myself holding my breath as I devoured this book\, as I navigated the various avenues of the body\, the blood\, and all those seemingly impossible roads that lead to a place we try to call home.”\n—Porochista Khakpour\, author of The Last Illusion \n“Obejas writes like an angel\, which is to say: gloriously . . . one of Cuba’s most important writers.”\n—Junot Díaz
URL:https://litseen.com/event/achy-obejas/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Paul Cohen
DESCRIPTION:Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Paul Cohen joins us in the Marina for a reading and discussion of his lyrical debut novel\, The Glamshack. \nReluctant fashion journalist Henry Folsom is in love with Her\, a deer-hued snake-taut beauty whose smile is an Event. The only problem is Her fiancE in New Orleans. And She’s going to see him for twelve days\, while Henry smolders in The Glamshack\, his borrowed Silicon Valley poolhouse and site of their months-long affair. Mesmerized by the American Indian wars\, grasping for the divine as he relives this bloodied love\, Henry must decide what it means to make his Last Stand. \nNominated for a Pushcart Press Editor’s Book Award\, The Glamshack is a lyrical\, darkly humorous novel on the nature of love\, divinity\, the Plains Indian Wars\, and the male gaze. A bold\, accomplished work set at millennium’s end\, the book echoes early prose masterpieces of Cormac McCarthy and Martin Amis\, but is entirely Paul Cohen. \nPaul Cohen’s fiction has been published in Tin House\, Five Chapters\, Eleven Eleven\, and he was a top-ten finalist in The Black Warrior Review Fiction Contest. His nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine\, Village Voice\, Details\, Christian Science Monitor and others. He lives in Boulder.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-cohen/
LOCATION:Books Inc. in The Marina\, 2251 Chestnut St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Janet Hamill + Camille O'Grady
DESCRIPTION:Mister WA is kickstarting a new series of cultural explorations with pioneer artists Janet Hamill and Camille O’Grady\, presenting a rare blend of poetry\, spoken word\, music\, and performance. \nO’Grady and Hamill have been friends and collaborators since they first met in the creatively rich and vibrant NYC that gave us Robert Mapplethorpe\, Patti Smith\, and the Velvet Underground. Poet Janet Hamill is currently on a West Coast teaching tour and will be joining O’Grady’s return to performance at The Beat Museum for one evening only. \nTurn on & Tune in to Mister WA’s multi-faceted collusion with SF Underground Arts and Performance on his SF Commons bi-monthly Web-TV Show! \nJANET HAMILL\nAuthor of seven books of poetry and short fiction: Troublante\, The Temple\, Nostalgia of the Infinite\, Lost Ceilings\, Body of Water\, Tales from the Eternal Café and Knock\, her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the William Carlos Williams Prize\, and Tales from the Eternal Café was named one of the “Best Books of 2014” by Publishers Weekly. \nHer most recent book\, Knock (Spuyten Duyvil Press\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 2016) is a surreal trip book written in the form of 72 pantoums. \nIn addition to writing\, Janet is a strong advocate for the spoken word and has read at Bumbershoot Festival\, The Andy Warhol Museum\, and many other US and international venues. She performs with the band Lost Ceilings\, and together they have released two CD’s of poetry and music: Flying Nowhere and Genie of the Alphabet. She is the founder and co-director of Megaphone\, a monthly literary series. \nShe’s taught at Naropa University and New England College\, where she received her MFA. \nAt present she is a senior artist advisor at the Seligmann Center in Sugar Loaf\, NY where she co-directs Megaphone\, a monthly series of workshops\, readings and presentations focusing on surrealism’s literary origins\, its predecessor and legacy. \nFor more information about Janet\, please visit to janethamill.com. \nCAMILLE O’GRADY\nAt 19\, this artist-poet-rocker-medium was described by a famed reader as ‘an artistic science fiction soap opera’ and decades later\, this manifesto is still obvious! \nO’Grady cut her creative teeth in the center of the NYC avant-garde of visual artists\, writers\, and musicians\, starting with the Chelsea Hotel\, Max’s Kansas City\, and pre-nascent Soho\, and went on to a rock-by-way-of-poetry career starting as an early draw at CBGB and a wide swath of clubs\, galleries\, and reading situations\, including St Mark’s. A lifetime activist\, particularly in the fields of sex and gender politics\, O’Grady created ground-breaking Jack Savage\, a male ‘drag persona’ in the early ’70s. She and her cutting edge band toured with Lou Reed on both coasts before her move to the West Coast in ’79\, when she became instrumental to the burgeoning art and rock scenes in both LA and SF to this day and pioneered the use of digital and analog electronics with her performance. \nO’Grady will be reading and singing her very unique mix of spoken and sung word for the first time after a long hiatus. She is marking her return with a review of her wide world of experience\, including sex\, drugs\, rock’n’ roll \, art\, politics\, people\, humor and a world of visionary experience fed by a rich and unusual life of exceptional psychic events and revelations.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/janet-hamill-camille-ogrady/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:June Lyrics & Dirges
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges invites you to a reading featuring 5 East Bay writers on Wednesday 21 June at 7:30pm at Pegasus Bookstore\, 2349 Shattuck Avenue\, downtown Berkeley. \n\nCharif Shanahan \nNancy Patrice Davenport \nAndré Le Mont Wilson \nAndrew J. Thomas \nNick Johnson \n\nCurated by Mk Chavez and Sharon Coleman.   Hosted by Sharon Coleman \n\nFree refreshments and a bookstore cat!!!  Bring a date! \n\nCharif Shanahan is the author of Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing (SIU Press\, 2017)\, winner of the 2015 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. His poems and translations have appeared in numerous publications\, including Baffler\, Boston Review\, Callaloo\, Literary Hub\, New Republic\, Poetry International\, A Public Space\, and Prairie Schooner\, which awarded him the Edward Stanley Poetry Award. He has received awards and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets\, Cave Canem Foundation\, the Frost Place\, the Fulbright Program/IIE\, Millay Colony for the Arts\, and the Starworks Foundation. Currently\, he is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. \n  \nNancy Patrice Davenport was born in the San Francisco Bay Area and lives in Oakland\, California. She has proudly raised a son as a single mother. Nancy has been writing professionally since 2011.  Her poems have been published in various journals and anthologies\, [including The Burning Grape\, Mountain Gazette\, The Bicycle Review\, Oakland Review\, Lilliput Review\, Blue Fifth Review\, RED FEZ\, Poetry Quarterly\, Full of Crow\, The Lake\, Yellow Chair Review\, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal\, Blue Mountain Review\, OTATA\, and The Naked Bulb]. Nancy’s chapbook\, LA BRIZNA\, was published in May 2014; this year she had a broadsheet published and available by Country Valley Press. Her poems have been translated into German and Spanish. Nancy had a Best of Net nomination this year for her JUNE 2 RETROGRADE MINDFULNESS poem. \n\nWhenever André Le Mont Wilson is asked for his bio\, he always tells the same story. He was born in Los Angeles to parents who were both poets. When they died in 2012 eleven weeks apart\, he began to write his own poetry. He later branched out into storytelling and has performed at many events throughout the West Coast. Last month\, Haiku Anthology: Observations and Insight published a collection of his haiku. In November\, The New Engagement will publish his free verse. Wilson lives in the East Bay with his partner and their Chihuahua. \n\nAndrew J. Thomas has no classic training in the art of the written word\, other than years of heartbreak and a love of whiskey. He is a founding member of the Beast Crawl Literary Festival and enjoys participating and supporting literary events in the Bay Area. He hopes his poems make you cry. \n\nNick Johnson was born and raised in Baltimore\, Maryland but now calls Oakland home. He received his BA in English from Morgan State University and his MFA in Creative Writing from the California College of the Arts. His work has been featured on KPFA’s Rude Awakening\, and has appeared in The Cincinnati Review\, Black Renaissance Noire\, Brilliant Corners\, Red Light Lit\, Metazen\, Samizdat\, and Conversations at the Wartime Café: A Decade of War. His book music for mussolini was just released by Nomadic Press. He enjoys telling long-winded stories\, Instagraming\, making spicy curries\, and drinking whiskey; typically in that order\, but not always.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/june-lyrics-dirges/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Grant Jarrett
DESCRIPTION:Writer\, ghostwriter\, editor\, musician\, and occasional songwriter Grant Jarrett shares his spectacular new novel\, The Half-Life of Remorse. When two vagrants meet on the streets of Muncie\, Indiana\, they are both unaware that their paths crossed years before. Chic\, crude and uneducated\, is convinced that Sam is nothing more than a harmless lunatic\, and Sam\, emotionally scarred and psychologically traumatized by events long past\, regards Chic as just another denizen of the street. But Chic has spent his adult life trying to purge his soul of the brutal crime he committed as a teenager?the same botched burglary that resulted in the deaths of Sam’s wife and son. Meanwhile\, Sam’s daughter Claire is still unable to give up hope that her father might someday reappear. When these three lives converge\, the puzzle of the past gradually falls together\, but redemption commands a high price\, and what is revealed will test the limits of love and challenge the human capacity for forgiveness.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/grant-jarrett/
LOCATION:Books Inc. in The Marina\, 2251 Chestnut St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Books & Brews Series Kick-off!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our Books & Brews SUMMER SERIES KICKOFF for 2017 at Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing! Now in its third year\, this exciting series brings locals and those with literary hearts out to the many wonderful taprooms and breweries of Santa Cruz County to share in BOOKS\, GAMES\, DISCUSSIONS\, plus a whole lot of community fun accented by craft beer. \nAs your community booksellers\, it is one of our very favorite events\, and we hope that you will join us! \nSanta Cruz Mountain Brewing hosts this year’s kickoff event\, a “Literary Drinking” round of Trivia that will mine the depths of lettered drunkenness amidst the pages of your favorite books. We’ll touch on biography\, history\, poetry\, fiction and nonfiction… Drop by on your own or bring a friend! No pre-registration required. We will pair you off with a team for a lighthearted round (or two!) of trivia. Prizes will include both free books and Books & Brews series perks. Test your mettle as a reader who loves a good ale\, and we’ll give you a preview of all of the great events in this summer’s six-part Books & Brews summer tour. \n_____________________________________________________________________________ \nSpecial Offer from our friends at SCMB: Buy any book or ticket package from the upcoming summer series\, and get a pint of one of SCMB’s Flagship beers for $1.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/books-brews-series-kick-off/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing\, 402 Ingalls Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Prison University Project - Open Line
DESCRIPTION:The Prison University Project extends an educational lifeline to people who have been historically excluded from the arts and humanities. Our students\, like most people in prison\, come from some of the nation’s most vulnerable communities. Over 70% of students are men of color\, and many are the first in their family to earn a degree. The Prison University Project was awarded the 2015 National Humanities Medal by President Obama\, in recognition of the organization’s impact and leadership in supporting educational opportunities for the incarcerated. \nOpenLine features essays\, poetry\, and artwork from Prison University Project students\, amplifying their voices and humanizing the image of incarcerated people in the public imagination. OpenLine strives to change public perceptions of currently and formerly incarcerated people\, playing a critical role in bringing about a more rational and humane discussion about criminal justice reform in the United States. The 2016 edition of OpenLine\, titled Live: Performances in Print celebrates student performances from an Open Mic event hosted by the Prison University Project.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/prison-university-project-open-line/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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CREATED:20170619T141308Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash Presents Cal Freeman + Janet Hamill
DESCRIPTION:Cal Freeman’s latest book of poems is Brother of Leaving. Alan Michael Parker says\, “Cal Freeman’s a poet who measures the world and constructs\, at angles\, a whole shining city\, a self-portrait he calls Detroit. With a bardic poignancy Brother of Leaving hums the sorrowful anthem of capitalism and its discontents. Pretty as a trash fire\, and sad as a mirror\, these are poems to remember.” He is the author of the chapbook Heard Among the Windbreak\, and his second full-length collection\, Fight Songs\, is forthcoming in the fall. \nJanet Hamill’s new book of poems is Knock. Patti Smith says\, “Janet Hamill’s Knock is intensely visual and invigorating…This is an ambitious work\, rich with unexpected juxtapositions—Casanova and the Huns\, Rothko and Goat’s Head Soup. A bounteous world into which we’re drawn by one of our true poets.” Among her six published books of poetry and fiction are Nostalgia of the Infinite\, Lost Ceilings\, Body of Water\, and The Eternal Café. Widely published in literary journals\, her work has been anthologized in Up Late: American Poetry Since 1970\, Bowery Women Poems\, and elsewhere. A strong proponent of spoken word\, she’s read at The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church\, CBGB’s Gallery\, Seatle’s Bumbershoot Festival\, Patti Smith’s Meltdown Festival in London\, and many other festivals and venues. In collaboration with the band Lost Ceilings she’s released two CDs of spoken word and music\, Flying Nowhere and Genie of the Alphabet.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-presents-cal-freeman-and-janet-hamill/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Courtney Morgan
DESCRIPTION:Book Description\nThe nineteen stories in The Seven Autopsies of Nora Hanneman track the splintered trajectory of the title character\, tracing a chickenscratch line of psychosexual development from childhood to old age. Two schoolgirls culminate their sexual exploration in a surreal act of cannibalism. A sister molds her dead brother’s body into a bird. A woman gives birth to balls of twine and fur (among other things). A sex worker engages a version of herself in a brothel of prostituted body parts. Courtney E. Morgan tears apart a host of archetypes and tropes of femininity— dismembering them\, skinning them\, and then draping them one by one over her characters like fur coats—revealing them as ill-fitting\, sometimes comedic\, sometimes monstrous\, and always insufficient\, masks. In stories that range from fairy tale to horror story\, from confessional to erotica to creation myth\, mutability\, instability\, and liminality are foregrounded\, blurring the lines between birth and death\, death and sex\, tugging at the transitional spaces of adolescence and gestation. \nBio\nCourtney E. Morgan received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Colorado\, Boulder\, where she has also taught creative writing workshops. Her collection of stories\, The Seven Autopsies of Nora Hanneman\, was a semifinalist for the FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize and was published by FC2 Press in Spring 2017. She is a recipient of the Thompson Award for Western American Writing\, and was longlisted for the Diana Woods Memorial Award at Lunch Ticket and Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Fiction. Morgan is the founder and managing editor of The Thought Erotic journal on sexuality and gender. She teaches at Lighthouse Writers Workshop and The Gathering Place women’s shelter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/courtney-morgan/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170621T123546Z
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SUMMARY:The Black Aesthetic Season 1 Book Launch!
DESCRIPTION:The First Season Publication is finally here and we want to celebrate with you! \nAs an outgrowth of the series we sent out an open call for submissions based on the films screened. From that grew the Black Aesthetic: Season One publication. A short anthology that combines personal essay’s\, poetic criticism\, and mixed media into print. \nCome join us for a evening of music videos and readings from the publication\, bring your friends! \nThe Black Aesthetic was created order showcase rare\, unknown\, and influential films that highlight the creativity and generative imagination of black filmmakers. Over the course of 8 weeks we will used this film series to bring together a community of film buffs\, students\, community organizers\, and local citizens to discuss the importance of preserving these films\, to document the contemporary struggles that these films run parallel to\, and to experience the joy of the black imaginative force. \nhttp://www.theblkaesthetic.com/ \nPre-Order Link:\nhttps://squareup.com/market/em-wolfman-books/item/black-aesthetic-magazine?t=modal-em\nhttp://www.theblkaesthetic.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-black-aesthetic-season-1-book-launch/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Anywhere Zines Closing Reception
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the closing reception of Anywhere Zines on June 24th from 2 pm – 5 pm. The show is a culmination of artist Raphael Villet’s 5 month residency at the Tenderloin Museum. The exhibition chronicles the 5 months that Raphael spent facilitating a space on the street for people to make art\, write stories\, and share knowledge through zines. In collaboration with the Tenderloin Museum\, Raphael released an Anthology book housing all the zines made by 45+ people in the Tenderloin during his residency. \nThis free community Saturday afternoon event features Tenderloin performances and refreshments. Also\, Raphael will set up outside the TL Museum and make zines with attendees and neighbors. An exhibition featuring zines and photographs chronicling the artist’s process will be on display in the Tenderloin Museum Gallery\, and the Zine Anthology will be available for viewing and purchasing. \nArtist Raphael Villet grew up in San Francisco and now lives and works in Oakland California. He incorporates his studies of Sociology into his artwork\, seeking to contextualize\, consider and break down social constructs relating to gender\, class and race. His artwork spans the realms of documentary\, social practice and visual arts. His last major exhibition was at the Oakland Museum of California\, in which he made photos and audio recordings of Bay Area residents who collect vinyl records. He also runs Play Press\, a small publishing house that focuses on printing artist books/zines by women and gender non binary people. Play Press provides free art book printing by splitting each edition with the artist.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anywhere-zines-closing-reception/
LOCATION:Tenderloin Museum\, 398 Eddy St\, San Francisco \, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170201T050528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170620T015812Z
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SUMMARY:R-Dub Death
DESCRIPTION:Lineup\nSusannah Carlson\nCassandra Dallet\nNancy Davenport\nLucille Lang Day\nRoy Mash\nAndrew Sano\nNorma Smith\nSandra Wassilie\nLaura Zink \nMusic by Steven Kacsmar of Phantom City and Michael Crabtree
URL:https://litseen.com/event/r-dub-death/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Kay Gabriel\, Chris Nealon\, + Jordan Reynolds
DESCRIPTION:Verse from Kay Gabriel\, Chris Nealon\, and Jordan Reynolds. Hosted by KK.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kay-gabriel-chris-nealon-and-jordan-reynolds/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Thomas Centolella
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Centolella’s new poems register attraction\, delight\, expectations fulfilled and foiled\, and moments of great feeling cherished and/or lamented. Employing the vividness of narrative without yielding to its linear strictures and overly familiar tonalities\, many of the first-person protagonists are mysterious figures at once engaging and idiosyncratic\, even outright eccentric. Often betwixt and between\, neither here nor there\, they are uncertain of actually getting anywhere. Almost Human documents the restive life-force incarnated in an endangered species—our own—and charts the movement of the self between spirit and human\, recalling the idea\, attributed to Teilhard de Chardin\, that we aren’t human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience. \nThomas Centolella is the author of four books of poetry. His awards include the American Book Award\, the California Book Award\, the Northern California Book Award\, the Lannan Literary Award\, and publication in the National Poetry Series. He is also a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. His poems have appeared widely in magazines\, anthologies\, and on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac. He has been a visiting writer at many colleges\, universities and literary centers and has taught creative writing in the Bay Area for 30 years\, notably at College of Marin and in private Marin workshops.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/thomas-centolella/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special\, A "Family" Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:As always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our optional theme (or any topic).\nOur June features are: Rebecca Gaydos and Tomas Moniz.\nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm).\nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages.\nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself!\nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm. \nBring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!). \n21+ \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-a-family-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:June 2017 Poetry at Florey's
DESCRIPTION:The featured poets this month are Clifford Hunt and Christine Rodgers. \nFrom Sherri: \nI’m pleased to invite you to join Aaron and me as we welcome Half Moon Bay poet Clifford Hunt\, and San Francisco poet Christine Rodgers for an evening of their artistry\, and hope you will consider joining us. Remember that open mic comes first\, at 7:30\, followed by the break\, and featured poets. \nYou are invited to read at open mic (3 minutes\, please)\, either your own\, or a favorite poets’s work\, or come simply to revel in the luxury of artful language. If you can\, please bring a snack or beverage to share\, or supplies for the table (paper plates\, napkins\, cups); this is such a help in making a truly convivial evening. \nAbout the featured poets: \nClifford Hunt is a husband\, father\, and writer who lives and works in Half Moon Bay\, California. Before that\, he lived and worked in Bethel Alaska\, San Francisco\, Seattle\, Arcata\, San Diego\, and Beirut\, Lebanon. Clifford is co-founder\, editor\, and publisher with Tim Badger of Just Press\, small press publishers of poems\, essays\, and the periodical Violent Milk\, and co-curator of the Just Press Forums. Publications include Chapter Ø\, Outside & Elsewhere\, The Weekly\, You Amuse Yourself You Amass Yourself (with Tim Badger). \nChristine Rodgers is an actor and poet living in San Francisco. Her poetry has appeared in America\, Fellowship\, the National Catholic Reporter\, Radical Grace and on a variety of websites including The Jesuit Retreat Center\, The Witness\, Poets Against the War and Grace Cathedral. In 2000 she appeared as a panelist in The Forum at Grace Cathedral entitled “The Creative Spirit in Poetry” – with Francisco X. Alarcon\, Judy Grahn and Dean Alan Jones. She is grateful to the many Jesuits who have included her as a partner in their ministry. Her poems have been used in a number of retreat centers\, and some are still floating around Africa. She has published three books of poetry: Into the Great Green Heart of God\, Upon a Luminous Night and Embracing the Sacred Journey. She facilitates a Poetry Circle in the Tenderloin at the Healing Well. \n————————–——\nWe hope to see you!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/june-2017-poetry-at-floreys/
LOCATION:Florey’s Book Co.\, 2120 Palmetto Ave.\, Pacifica\, CA\, 94044\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Writing Workshop Reading
DESCRIPTION:The San Francisco Writing Workshop presents their annual reading of work from their authors to benefit Alley Cat! Food and drinks and good company!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-writing-workshop-reading/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash w/ Andrena Zawinski + Cathleen Calbert
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday\, June 25th at 3pm. The featured guest poets will be Andrena Zawinski and Cathleen Calbert. \nPoetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible; ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.orgfor more events and reviews! \nAndrena Zawinski’s new book of poems is Landings. Rebecca Foust says\, “These poignant\, plainspoken poems span lifetimes and continents\, chronicling a childhood in Pennsylvania when Coal (or Steel) was King and furnaces glowed the night skies red and an adulthood in California where stunning natural beauty paints a chiaroscuro with the daily news…Part paean and elegy to what was\, part lyric and dirge to what is. Landings asks the question of what remains—where we land—after great loss.” Her two previous full-length collections are Something About\, which won a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award\, and Traveling in Reflected Light\, winner of a Kenneth Patchen competition. She has been a Features Editor at PoetryMagazine.com and founder of the San Francisco Bay Area Women’s Poetry Salon\, and she also edited Turning a Train of Thought Upside Down: An Anthology of Women’s Poetry. \nCathleen Calbert’s new book of poems is The Afflicted Girls\, winner of the Vernice Quebodeaux “Pathways” Prize for Women. Thomas Lux calls it “a book filled with powerful voices. The poems are lush and textured\, subtle yet fierce…Cathleen Calbert is a poet who has learned her trade\, and her music is sure and original.” Her previous collections are Lessons in Space\, Bad Judgment\, and Sleeping with a Famous Poet. Her poetry and prose have appeared in such publications as The New Republic and The New York Times\, and her honors include a The Nation Discovery Award\, a Pushcart Prize\, and the Gordon Barber Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-with-andrena-zawinski-and-cathleen-calbert/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The Racket #8: The Body
DESCRIPTION:Our eighth edition of our monthly reading series\, THE RACKET\, is coming to Adobe Books on Monday\, June 26th at 7:00PM. \nThe theme: THE BODY. \nWe’re gathering a talented cast of readers to share their thoughts on the body. Is it erotic? Is it repulsive? Is it a creepy arm of a futuristic government attempting to sway the leanings of a disenfranchised population? \nThe readers: \nJoe Wadlington\nKrista Varela Posell\nJared Roehrig\nChristina Gardner\nSarah Broderick\nChad Koch \nYou’ll have to come and find out. \nAdobe Books\, Monday\, June 26th\, 7:00PM. \nBe there.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-the-body/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Thrity Umrigar
DESCRIPTION:In Everybody’s Son\, during a terrible heat wave in 1991–the worst in a decade–ten-year-old Anton has been locked in an apartment in the projects\, alone\, for seven days\, without air conditioning or a fan. With no electricity\, the refrigerator and lights do not work. Hot\, hungry\, and desperate\, Anton shatters a window and climbs out. Cutting his leg on the broken glass\, he is covered in blood when the police find him. \nJuanita\, his mother\, is discovered in a crack house less than three blocks away\, nearly unconscious and half-naked. When she comes to\, she repeatedly asks for her baby boy. She never meant to leave Anton–she went out for a quick hit and was headed right back\, until her drug dealer raped her and kept her high. Though the bond between mother and son is extremely strong\, Anton is placed with child services while Juanita goes to jail. \nThe Harvard-educated son of a US senator\, Judge David Coleman is a scion of northeastern white privilege. Desperate to have a child in the house again after the tragic death of his teenage son\, David uses his power and connections to keep his new foster son\, Anton\, with him and his wife\, Delores–actions that will have devastating consequences in the years to come. \nFollowing in his adopted family’s footsteps\, Anton\, too\, rises within the establishment. But when he discovers the truth about his life\, his birth mother\, and his adopted parents\, this man of the law must come to terms with the moral complexities of crimes committed by the people he loves most. \nThrity Umrigar is the author of six novels—The Story Hour\, The World We Found\, The Weight of Heaven\, The Space Between Us\, If Today Be Sweet\, and Bombay Time—and the memoir First Darling of the Morning. The Armington Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University and a journalist for nearly twenty years\, she is the winner of the Nieman Fellowship to Harvard and was a 2006 finalist for the PEN/Beyond Margins Award. She lives in Cleveland\, Ohio.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/thrity-umrigar-2/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Johanna Ely
DESCRIPTION:Johanna Ely is a retired teacher who has been published in several anthologies and online journals including\, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily\, Poetry Breakfast\, California Quarterly\, and most recently\, The Poeming Pigeon. In 2015\, Johanna published a small collection of her poetry titled Transformation. Johanna is the host of a monthly poetry series in Benicia at Rosanna’s European Delights\, and also facilitates the First Tuesday Poetry Group at the Benicia Public Library. She is honored to be the current Poet Laureate of Benicia\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/johanna-ely/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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CREATED:20170522T132640Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170523T020751Z
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SUMMARY:Amelia Gray + Rosecrans Baldwin
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is doubly excited to host a joint reading by Amelia Gray and Rosecrans Baldwin to celebrate their anticipated new books\, Isadora and The Last Kid Left. Don’t miss this! \nIsadora \nAmelia Gray’s Isadora is a shocking and visceral portrait of an artist and woman drawn to the brink of destruction by the cruelty of life; a legendary artist churning through prewar Europe. Isadora seeks to obliterate the mannered portrait of a dancer and to introduce the reader to a woman who lived and loved without limits\, even in the darkest days of her life. \nThe Last Kid Left \nRosecrans Baldwin’s The Last Kid Left is loosely inspired by a true crime in 1930’s New England. After a double-murder kicks off a scandal in a beach town\, a young woman struggles to create a life for herself and escape the lurid interest of a tight-knit community. This novel is a sort of modern day witch hunt\, involving the precarious lives of two teens\, a small town sheriff\, a retired big-city police officer\, and an aspiring young journalist desperate to make the pages of the New Yorker— they all collide in a media firestorm that threatens to swallow them whole. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amelia-gray-and-rosecrans-baldwin/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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