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SUMMARY:Curtis White
DESCRIPTION:Curtis White\n\n  \nreading from his new novel \nLACKING CHARACTER \nfrom Melville House \nThe man Paul Auster called “a master of bewitchments” and a founder of the Fiction Collective returns to the novel after twenty years \n\nIn the spirit of “transcendental buffoonery\,” Curtis White’s return to fiction is fun in the extreme. The story begins when a masked man with “a message both obscure and appalling” appears at the door of the Marquis claiming a matter of life and death\, declaring\, “I stand falsely accused of an atrocity!” \nDispatched by the Queen of Spells from the Outer Hebrides\, the Masked Man’s message was really just a polite request for the Marquis (a video game-playing burnout) to help him enroll in some community college vocational classes. But the exchange gets botched… badly. And our masked man is now lost in America\, encountering its absurdities at every turn\, and cursing those responsible for this cruel fate — including the author that created him. \nIn a time obsessed with the crisis du jour\, White asks us to remember what it’s like to laugh\, to be a little silly even\, in order to reclaim what used to be fundamental to us — the strength to create our own worlds. \nCURTIS WHITE has published seven earlier books of fiction\, including Memories of My Father Watching TV. His non-fiction includes The Middle Mind\, The Science Delusion\, and We\, Robots. His essays have appeared in Harper’s\, the Village Voice\, Orion\, Salon\, Tricycle\, and Playboy. \nPraise for the work of Curtis White: \n“Fun fact: Jonathan Swift spent four decades living incognito in the Midwest USA writing books under the name Curtis White.” —Joshua Cohen\, author of The Book of Numbers and Moving Kings \n“Raw\, rude and rowdy metaphysical slapstick\, packed with buffoonery\, frantic\, at times wistful — Lacking Character is meant to amuse\, piss off and\, above all\, distract from prevailing\, pandemic lunacies.” —Rikki Ducornet\, author of Brightfellow \n“Lacking Character is marvelous. It is what writing must be (what is required) in this very moment of the Kali Yuga.” —Mark Leyner\, author of The Sugar Frosted Nutsack and My Cousin\, My Gastroenterologist \n“The most inspiringly wicked social critic of the moment.” —Will Blythe\, Elle \n“Cogent\, acute\, beautiful\, and true.” —David Foster Wallace \n“Absolutely indispensable.” —Slavoj Žižek \n“A master of bewitchments\, parodies\, and dazzling tropes.” —Paul Auster \n“Splendidly cranky.” —Molly Ivins
URL:https://litseen.com/event/curtis-white/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sarah Andersen / Herding Cats
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith welcomes Sarah Andersen back for her new book\, Herding Cats! Please join us. \nMore #relatable comics from Sarah’s Scribbles! \n  \nPlease note: this is a free event\, but seating is limited. If you’d like to reserve a seat\, purchase a copy of Herding Cats below and put your request in the special field. \n— \nSarah Andersen is a young cartoonist and illustrator who lives in Portland\, Oregon. She’s actually really cool and collected in real life. Definitely.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-andersen-herding-cats/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Pandemonium Press: Whan That Aprile . . .
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Judy Wells\, Kirk Lumpkin\, Mary Mackey\, Rafael Jesús González. Late Night Open Mic follows the featured readers. Sign-up now for Ist Annual Open Mic Award’s Contest (see below). Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pandemonium-press-whan-that-aprile/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Elaine Castillo
DESCRIPTION:Elaine Castillo discusses her debut novel\, America Is Not The Heart. \n\nPraise for America Is Not The Heart \n\n“Elaine Castillo’s entrancing and magnificent debut is set to be a standout work of literature. Don’t say you were not told. What a dazzling book!”—NoViolet Bulawayo author of We Need New Names \n  \n“With the sheer propulsive power of her voice\, Elaine Castillo blasts readers into her story.”—John Freeman\, editor of Freeman’s \n  \n“The creative accomplishments of this story are incredible: this unexpected family\, this history\, this embrace of the sacred and the profane\, this easy humor\, this deeply felt human-ness\, this messy\, perfect love story. Elaine Castillo is a masterful\, heartfelt writer.”—Jade Chang author of The Wangs vs. the World \n\nAbout America Is Not The Heart \n  \nThree generations of women from one immigrant family trying to reconcile the home they left behind with the life they’re building in America. \n  \nHow many lives can one person lead in a single lifetime? When Hero de Vera arrives in America\, disowned by her parents in the Philippines\, she’s already on her third. Her uncle\, Pol\, who has offered her a fresh start and a place to stay in the Bay Area\, knows not to ask about her past. And his younger wife\, Paz\, has learned enough about the might and secrecy of the De Vera family to keep her head down. Only their daughter Roni asks Hero why her hands seem to constantly ache. \n  \nIlluminating the violent political history of the Philippines in the 1980s and 1990s and the insular immigrant communities that spring up in the suburban United States with an uncanny ear for the unspoken intimacies and pain that get buried by the duties of everyday life and family ritual\, Castillo delivers a powerful\, increasingly relevant novel about the promise of the American dream and the unshakable power of the past. In a voice as immediate and startling as those of Junot Diaz and NoViolet Bulawayo\, America Is Not the Heart is a sprawling\, soulful telenovela of a debut novel. With exuberance\, muscularity\, and tenderness\, here is a family saga; an origin story; a romance; a narrative of two nations and the people who leave home to grasp at another\, sometimes turning back.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elaine-castillo/
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:Facades Everywhere
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, April 4\, 2018\, The Bindery will become a truth machine. Three writers\, Devi S. Laskar\, Claudia H. Long\,Crystal Jo Reiss\, and a surprise poet/novelist\, will ferry readers across borders\, around the world\, and through time. In an era of despotism\, misrepresentations\, fake news and “fake news\,” forced migrations\, and missing time\, facades fall away and bare the truth. Come find your truth with writers who don’t flinch when questions become inquisitions\, maps are revised\, and skies fall onto pages that will not turn anyone away. \n— \nDevi S. Laskar is a native of Chapel Hill\, N.C. She holds an MFA from Columbia University in New York. A former newspaper reporter\, she is now a poet\, photographer and artist. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Atlanta Review\, Fairy Tale Review\, Tin House and The Raleigh Review\, which nominated her for Best New Poets 2016. She is an alumna of both TheOpEdProject and VONA/Voices\, and poetry workshops at the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. Finishing Line Press published the first of two poetry chapbooks\, “Gas & Food\, No Lodging” in March 2017 and has nominated her for a Pushcart Prize—and will publish Anastasia Maps in December. She now lives in California. \nClaudia H. Long is the author of three books about the Spanish Inquisition in Mexico: Josefina’s Sin\, The Duel for Consuelo\, and just out\, Chains of Silver. Her books have been described as “riveting”\, “beautifully researched and lyrically written\,” “spell-binding” and “very\, very sexy.” She grew up in Mexico City\, and makes her home in the East Bay\, with her husband\, nearby grown children\, perfect grandson\, and anywhere from three to five dogs\, depending on who’s home. When she isn’t writing she practices law\, mediating ugly business disputes and employment discrimination cases. \nCrystal Jo Reiss began her writing career with the publication of her first poem\, The Girl Who Pricked Her Finger\, in The Louisville Review’s anthology of children’s poetry. Years later\, while working on her M.F.A. in Creative Writing at Columbia University\, she wrestled with narrative and drafted her first novel. Later\, she attended The Squaw Valley Writer’s Conference\, and spent a summer at The Edward Albee Foundation and Dorland Mountain Arts Colony. Between assisting a renowned physical anthropologist\, serving as a transcription editor for a law firm that represented members of the Cosa Nostra\, teaching college-level composition\, and working on spreadsheets for nurse practitioners\, she wrote for a variety of publications\, including a trade magazine focused on post-production houses in the advertising industry. She has since cofounded an editorial and design business\, and is celebrating the publication of her novel\, Jane is Everywhere. She lives with her husband and son in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/facades-everywhere/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shanthi Sekaran
DESCRIPTION:Shanthi Sekaran lives in Berkeley\, California. Her latest novel\, Lucky Boy\,was named an Indie Next Great Read and an Amazon Editors’ Pick. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in The New York Times\, Canteen Magazine\, Huffington Post and Best New American Voices. She’s a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto and a Distinguished Visiting Writer in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction at Saint Mary’s College. www.shanthisekaran.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shanthi-sekaran-5/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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SUMMARY:Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Zapruder is the author most recently of Sun Bearand Why Poetry\, a book of prose about poetry. An Associate Professor in the MFA program at Saint Mary’s College of California\, he is also Editor at Large at Wave Books\, and from 2016-7 was Editor of the Poetry Column for the New York Times Magazine. He lives in Oakland\, CA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matthew-zapruder-2/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Presidio Live - Western Hemisphereans
DESCRIPTION:PRESIDIO LIVE – Thursday Evenings at 7 pm \nIn Presidio Live\, experience live music\, theatre\, dance\, film\, and dialogues that offer a contemporary take on the history and nature of the Presidio and the culture of our diverse Bay Area community. \nToss your expectations aside and come hear contemporary work from teachers and visionaries from many parts of this side of the planet. All of these writers — Avotcja\, Linda Noel\, San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck\, Rene Voz and Norman Zelaya — have indigenous connections to the western hemisphere. \nPhoto: San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck
URL:https://litseen.com/event/presidio-live-western-hemisphereans/
LOCATION:Presidio Officers’ Club\, 50 Moraga Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94129
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Presidio Live | Literary Reading: Western Hemisphereans
DESCRIPTION:In Presidio Live\, experience live music\, theatre\, dance\, film\, and dialogues that offer a contemporary take on the history and nature of the Presidio and the culture of our diverse Bay Area community. On April 5\, come hear contemporary work from teachers and visionaries hailing from many parts of this side of the planet. All of these writers — Avotcja\, Linda Noel\, San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck\, Rene Voz and Norman Zelaya– have indigenous connections to the western hemisphere. \nPhoto: San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck
URL:https://litseen.com/event/presidio-live-literary-reading-western-hemisphereans/
LOCATION:Presidio Officers’ Club\, 50 Moraga Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94129\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Henri Cole
DESCRIPTION:City Lights Booksellers in conjunction with Mechanics’ Institute Library and NYRB present\n\nHenri Cole celebrating the release of \n  \nOrphic Paris \nfrom New York Review Books \nHenri Cole’s Orphic Paris combines autobiography\, diary\, essay\, and prose poetry with photographs to create a new form of elegiac memoir. With Paris as a backdrop\, Cole\, an award-winning American poet\, explores with fresh and penetrating insight the nature of friendship and family\, poetry and solitude\, the self and freedom. \nCole writes of Paris\, “For a time\, I lived here\, where the call of life is so strong. My soul was colored by it. Instead of worshiping a creator or man\, I cared fully for myself\, and felt not guilt and confessed nothing\, and in this place\, I wrote\, I was nourished\, and I grew.” Written under the tutelary spirit of Orpheus—mystic\, oracular\, entrancing—Orphic Paris is an intimate Paris journal and a literary commonplace book that is a touching\, original\, brilliant account of the city. \nWhat has been said about the work of Henri Cole \nHenri Cole’s Orphic Paris is a remarkable work—a poet’s most intimate diary\, written entirely in Paris\, in a sequence of visits that take us into the interior of the city as into the interior of the questing poet’s soul. The voice of the poet here is confiding\, erudite\, tender\, unexpected in its sympathies and discoveries; like Henri Cole’s extraordinary poetry\, it is both finely crafted and yet—seemingly—artless\, unpretentious. One of the great pleasures of Orphic Paris is the poet’s delight in the work and words of others—fellow poets\, artist-friends\, Parisians who drift into his ardently observant life\, and move on.\n—Joyce Carol Oates \nHenri Cole was born in Fukuoka\, Japan\, to a French mother and an American father. He has published nine collections of poetry\, including Middle Earth\, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer.  He has received many awards for his work\, including the Jackson Prize\, the Kingsley Tufts Award\, the Rome Prize\, the Berlin Prize\, the Lenore Marshall Award\, and the Medal in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent collection of poetry is Nothing to Declare. He teaches at Claremont McKenna College and lives in Boston. \nVisit  https://www.milibrary.org for more info on ticket availability
URL:https://litseen.com/event/henri-cole/
LOCATION:Mechanics Institute\, 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Dan Bransfield / Pizzapedia
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is excited to host a launch for Dan Bransfield’sPizzapedia. Join us for a meet and greet\, pizza (obviously)\, and a cash bar! \nA book for the pizza obsessed\, with 80 charming illustrations and information about the history\, ingredients\, and lore of everyone’s favorite food. \nPizza is a food that lends itself to legend and obsession\, spanning geography\, generations\, and gender. In lavish illustrations and hand-lettered text\, Pizzapedia celebrates all there is to fixate about: the stories behind its origin (we have the ancient Greeks to thank before the Italians); the delectable ingredients\, from San Marzano tomatoes to buffalo mozzarella; the failed and the famous inventions (like “the pizza saver\,” the piece of plastic that prevents a pizza delivery box top from drooping into the pie); the merits of Sicilian vs. New York vs. Chicago vs. new (Detroit?!) styles; and much more. Like the universally beloved food\, this art-driven book of miscellany is inviting\, colorful\, and a delicious gift to give and get. \n  \n— \nDan Bransfield is a food-loving illustrator and pun enthusiast. Much of his illustration work is made for the food and dining industry\, including True Story Foods\, Applegate Farms\, Beringer Winery ads in The New Yorker\, NOPA restaurant\, and regular contributions to the Rumpus and Edible San Francisco magazine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dan-bransfield-pizzapedia/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Curtis White discusses Lacking Character
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/curtis-white-discusses-lacking-character/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Tom Raworth (1938–2017): A Celebration of His Life and Work
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we remember poet and friend Tom Raworth\, with readings and tributes\, at UC Berkeley’s Maud Fife Room in Wheeler Hall. Miles Champion\, poet and editor of Raworth’s As When: A Selection (Carcanet\, 2015) will be flying in from New York City\, and other poet and artist friends from nearer by and far-flung places will be present\, the latter via audio recording or written memories and tributes. \nCo-sponsored by The Poetry Center and UC Berkeley Department of English\, this event is free and open to the public. \nProgram \nWelcome: Lyn Hejinian \nStephen Emerson\nNorma Cole\nAlastair Johnston\nRita degli Esposti\nDavid Southern\nJean Day\nAlan Bernheimer\nMerrill Gilfillan\nArmando Pajalich\nStephen Vincent\nBruce Ackley\nFanny Howe\nJennifer Dunbar Dorn\nKit Robinson\nGian Antonio Pozzi\nJim Nisbet\nDuncan McNaughton\nLyn Hejinian\nClark Coolidge\nAndy Berlin\nSteve Dickison\nMiles Champion \nFinale: recording of Tom Raworth reading \n\n\n\n\n\n\n• In Memoriam: Tom Raworth\, by Martin Corless-Smith | Tarpaulin Sky\n• Tom Raworth 1938-2017\, by SJ Fowler | 3:AM Magazine\n• Tom Raworth obituary | The Guardian\n• Tom Raworth | Poetry Foundation \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and UC Berkeley Department of English
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tom-raworth-1938-2017-a-celebration-of-his-life-and-work/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Book Release: Occasionally Accurate Science by July Westhale/Liz Laribee
DESCRIPTION:Join us at our Uptown\, Oakland\, location for the much-anticipated release of Occasionally Accurate Science by July Westhale and Liz Laribee! \nIt’s going to be an amazing evening of readings\, live music\, gnosh / refreshments\, and friends of Nomadic Press as we launch this treasure of a book into the universe. \nReadings by TBA\, pop-up surprise Nomadic Press readers\, and of course\, the stars of the evening\, July Westhale and Liz Laribee. Books will be available for purchase and there will be a signing following the event ($12 each). Music by TBA! \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-occasionally-accurate-science-by-july-westhaleliz-laribee/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:NoViolet Bulawayo\, Gina Berriault Award for Fiction\, reading
DESCRIPTION:Junot Díaz writes of Zimbabwean novelist NoViolet Bulawayo\, “I knew this writer was going to blow up. Her honesty\, her voice\, her formidable command of her craft\, all were apparent from the first page\, but it’s only when you reach the haunting conclusion of ‘Hitting Budapest’ that you realize just how tremendously talented NoViolet is.” \nThe Gina Berriault Award for 2018 is being given to NoViolet Buyawayo by the SF State Department of Creative Writing\, and the long-lived SF State literary journal Fourteen Hills. The award was inaugurated by former SF State Professor Peter Orner in conjunction with Fourteen Hills Press to pay homage to the writer Gina Berriault\, who taught at San Francisco State and who with every story embodied a certain selflessness and unflinching compassion. The award is given annually to a writer with a similar spirit who has shown a love for storytelling and a commitment to supporting emerging writers. Past recipients include Cristina García\, Yiyun Li and Adam Johnson. \nThis reading and celebration\, followed by a conversation with the audience\, is co-sponsored by the SF State Department of Creative Writing\, Fourteen Hills\, and The Poetry Center\, and is free and open to the public. \nNoViolet Bulawayo (nom de plume for Elizabeth Zandile Tshele) is the author of the novel We Need New Names (2013)\, which has been recognized with the LA Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction\, the Pen/Hemingway Award\, the Etisalat Prize for Literature\, the Barnes and Noble Discover Award (second place)\, and the National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Fiction Selection. We Need New Names was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award\, and selected to the New York Times Notable Books of 2013 list\, and the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers list\, among others. Her story “Hitting Budapest” (which became the opening chapter of her novel) won the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing. \nBulawayo\, who grew up in Zimbabwe\, earned her Master of Fine Arts at Cornell University where she was a recipient of the Truman Capote Fellowship. She was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, where she now teaches as a Jones Lecturer in Fiction. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n• NoViolet Bulawayo \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nSF State Department of Creative Writing\, Fourteen Hills\, and The Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/noviolet-bulawayo-gina-berriault-award-for-fiction-reading/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mills College MFA Alumnae Reading & Reception
DESCRIPTION:Reception at 5:15 pm for newly admitted graduate students\, followed by readings
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mills-college-mfa-alumnae-reading-reception/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Andrea Abi-Karam
DESCRIPTION:Andrea Abi-Karam is an Arab American genderqueer punk poet cyborg. Their first full-length book Extratransmission is forthcoming from Kelsey Street Press in early 2018. Abi-Karam’s previous work\,The Aftermath (Commune Editions) attempts to queer Fanon’s vision of how poetry fails to inspire revolution. Abi-Karam is also a printer and publisher whose small press project Mes Editions seeks to publish emerging writings from queers\, people of color\, and those involved in social movements yet uninvolved in poetry and art scenes. Catch them on the 2018 Sister Spit tour.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrea-abi-karam/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Michelle Cruz Gonzales
DESCRIPTION:Michelle Cruz Gonzales is the author of The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band. Before attending Mills College\, Gonzales played drums in and wrote lyrics for the groundbreaking 90s femme punk band Spitboy— the subject of the 2017 documentary\, Turn it Around: Story of East Bay Punk. Gonzales holds a BA and MFA in English and creative writing from Mills and is an English instructor at Las Positas College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michelle-cruz-gonzales/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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CREATED:20180329T033304Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180329T033304Z
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SUMMARY:Steve Zolno: The Future of Democracy
DESCRIPTION:What is democracy and where did it come from? Is it a new development or was it always present in human society? And perhaps the most important question: what can we do to preserve and strengthen democracy among the forces that oppose it? \nIn this book we explore trends throughout history that have brought democratic – and undemocratic – government to people wherever civilization exists. We discuss where democracy has been most\, and least\, successful and why. But our most important task is to clarify what each of us can do\, as politicians or ordinary citizens\, to bring the benefits of democracy more fully into the personal and political lives of those who cherish it.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/steve-zolno-the-future-of-democracy/
LOCATION:Rockridge Branch\, 5366 College Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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CREATED:20180325T075353Z
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: National Poetry Month
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating National Poetry Month with San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck\, Aja Couchois Duncan\, Luna Merbruja\, and Lourdes Figueroa
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-national-poetry-month/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Perfectly Queer SF":MAILTO:perfectlyqueersf@gmail.com
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CREATED:20180329T031756Z
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SUMMARY:Weekday Wanderlust
DESCRIPTION:Hello Wanderlusters. Mark your calendars for TUESDAY APRIL 10. We have a superb line-up waiting just for you with Julia Scott\, John Ellis\, and Amanda Jones reading. Woot! Check out their bios on the FB page as we get closer to the event. \nA reminder: We are at the Mystic Hotel —417 Stockton Street. \nReadings start at 7 p.m. but a group of thirsty travelers and writers can always be found in the Burritt Room (upstairs) at 6 p.m. \nDrop in and say hi\, and come give a warm Weekday Wanderlust welcome to Julia\, John and Amanda. \nSee you on Tuesday\, April 10.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/weekday-wanderlust-3/
LOCATION:Weekday Wanderlust\, 562 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180410T203000
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CREATED:20180219T023829Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180219T023829Z
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SUMMARY:Maw Shein Win
DESCRIPTION:Maw Shein Win\n\n  \ncelebrating the release of her new collection of poetry \nInvisible Gifts: Poems \npublished by Manic D Press \nThemes of vulnerability and power emerge through reflections on family\, art\, and loss from an award-winning poet. \nIn her full-length collection of poems\, Win depicts a colorful world imbued with unexpected paradoxes:  nature is both comforting and savagely unnerving; love is permanent and fleeting; and the accuracy and flaws of memory abound. Her experiences with illness and recovery intertwine with her identity as a Burmese American daughter of immigrant doctors. For instance\, in poems like “Hands”: My father’s hands\, frail birds\, shaking wings. / In Burmese\, “win” means bright. / Hands that stitched skin together and brought back life. Win’s unique perspective and artful language offer readers insight into how the heart can bend and mend without breaking. \nMaw Shein Win is a Burmese American poet\, editor\, and educator who lives and works in the Bay Area. Her writing has appeared in many journals and several anthologies\, including Cimarron Review\, Fanzine\, The Fabulist\, and others. She was an Artist in Residence at Headlands Center for the Arts and is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. She often collaborates with visual artists\, musicians\, and other writers. Along with composer and musician\, Amanda Chaudhary\, she is part of musical duo Pitta of the Mind that combines poetry with abstract electronic music. A collaborative book with paintings by Los Angeles artist Mark Dutcher\, Ruins of a glittering palace\, was published by SPA/Commonwealth Projects. Her most recent poetry chapbook is Score and Bone on Nomadic Press\, and her poetry was featured in artist Megan Wilson’s mural\, Flower Interruption\, a public artwork in the exhibition Flower Power at San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum. She is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito. http://www.el-cerrito.org/poets
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maw-shein-win-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rachel Levin
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Levin celebrates the release of her new book Look Big: And Other Tips for Surviving Animal Encounters of All Kinds. \n\nAbout Look Big \n\nA humorous and helpful illustrated field guide to avoiding interactions–both dangerous and annoying–with 50 wild animals\, including survival techniques\, wildlife etiquette\, and other essential advice. \nAs humans encroach on wild places\, encounters with animals–from bears\, bison\, mountain lions\, and mice to turkeys\, ticks\, rats\, and raccoons–have become increasingly commonplace. But\, wait\, what are the rules for facing a moose up close? Do you run from a coyote or stand your ground? How deadly\, really\, are black widow spiders\, rattlesnakes\, and sharks? Packed with expert tips\, fascinating animal facts\, and harrowing true tales\, Look Big is a must-have survival guide for outdoor\, urban\, and suburban adventurers alike. If you have ever feared the approach of a grizzly\, the spray of a skunk\, or an army of cockroaches in the kitchen\, this book is for you.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-levin/
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:Emerging Writers Festival
DESCRIPTION:TUESDAY\, APRIL 10 7:45 – 9:30 p.m.\nFromm Hall – FR 125 – Maraschi Room\n\n\n\nElizabeth Greenwood is the author of the nonfiction book Playing Dead: A Journey through the World of Death Fraud (Simon & Schuster). Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic\, The New Yorker\, O\, the Oprah Magazine\, Glamour\, Longreads\, The Believer\, Poets & Writers\, Al Jazeera America\, and Dissent\, among others. She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony\, Hedgebrook\, the Ucross Foundation\, the Norman Mailer Center and the Edward F. Albee Foundation. She holds a BA in history from the University of San Francisco and an MFA in literary nonfiction from Columbia University\, where she teaches. \nPhillip B. Williams is a Chicago\, IL native and author of Thief in the Interior\, winner of the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a 2017 Lambda Literary award. He received a 2017 Whiting Award and 2013 Ruth Lilly Fellowship. Phillip is the co-editor in chief of the online journal Vinyl. He is currently visiting professor in English at Bennington College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emerging-writers-festival-2/
LOCATION:Fromm Hall – FR 120 – Xavier Auditorium\, USF\, 2130 Fulton St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20180303T071315Z
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SUMMARY:A Talk with The Black Aesthetic
DESCRIPTION:A Talk with The Black Aesthetic\nWednesday / 4.11.18 / 12:00\nFree\, no ticket needed. \nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC \n—\nThe Black Aesthetic is an Oakland-based artist collective of artists\, writers\, filmmakers and designers who curate film screenings and publish a journal of essays about black film and culture. \nJamal Batts\nRyanaustin Dennis\nMalika “Ra” Imhotep\nZoé Samudzi\nLeila Weefur \nThe Black Aesthetic is a creative organization\, whose mission is to curate and assemble both a collective and distinct understanding of Black visual culture. We post the question: What is the Black aesthetic sensibility and what does it look like to you? \nBy working with artists\, writers\, filmmakers and designers\, we cultivate work that asks our audience to consider their relationship to Black art. Based in Oakland\, we are invested in developing a community who will participate and engage with our mission. When you support The Black Aesthetic\, you are actively supporting a network of Black Artists. Through film screenings\, publications and product development\, we want to add to a growing collection of artistic visions that are grounded in place\, body\, lived-experience and are responsive to its respective environment. \n———\nArts + Design Wednesdays @ BAMPFA is a public lecture series embedded inside our Creative Gateway undergraduate course. \nBerkeley Arts + Design features\, fortifies\, and mobilizes existing excellence in the arts and design at Berkeley\, while fostering dynamic collaboration\, innovation\, and public access across all arts and design fields\, on campus and in public life. \nLearn more at: http://artsdesign.berkeley.edu/wednesdays \n—\nArts + Design Wednesdays @ BAMPFA is organized and sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Arts + Design Initiative in partnership with Big Ideas courses. The series is co curated by the Arts Research Center; Art\, Technology\, and Culture Colloquium; Berkeley Center for New Media; Graduate School of Journalism; Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation; Regents’ Lectureship Program; Department of Art Practice; Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities; and Department of English\, all at UC Berkeley. \nThe spring 2018 series of Arts + Design Wednesdays is made possible thanks to a generous donation from Jan and Buzz Wiesenfeld. In-kind support is provided by BAMPFA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-talk-with-the-black-aesthetic/
LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive\, 2155 Center St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:This is Now with Angie Coiro Presents: Leslie Jamison on Alcoholism
DESCRIPTION:Leslie Jamison is the author of the essay collection The Empathy Exams\, a New York Times bestseller. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine and Harper’s\, among others\, and she is a columnist for the New York Times Book Review. \nWith comparisons to Joan Didion and Susan Sontag\, Jamison has turned the traditional addiction narrative on its head in this deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir\, cultural history\, literary criticism\, and journalistic reportage. Join us for an evening on addiction and learn more about the writers whose work was shaped by alcohlism and substance dependence\, including Raymond Carver\, David Foster Wallace\, and others. \n“Leslie Jamison has written an honest and important book. It will be important to recovering alcoholics who wonder if there really is life after booze\, and I think it will be important to writers and critics\, because she weaves her story of recovery into those of other artists”… “The most important thematic thread may be its insistence that the talented artist who needs booze or drugs to support his work and withstand his own vision does not\, in fact\, exist. All in all\, vivid writing and required reading.” ―Stephen King
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-with-angie-coiro-presents-leslie-jamison-on-alcoholism/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Caspar Henderson
DESCRIPTION:Caspar Henderson\, author of The Book of Barely Imagined Beings\, discusses his new book A New Map of Wonders: A Journey in Search of Modern Marvels. \n\nPraise for A New Map of Wonders \n\n“This book does exactly what it says on the cover\, and shows us where wonder is to be found. His account of familiar phenomena shows how unfamiliar and extraordinary they really are.” Philip Pullman\, author of the His Dark Materials trilogy \n\n“A wondrous brew of science\, history\, and sheer exhilaration. Read it and marvel.” Sarah Bakewell\, author of At the Existentialist Café \n\n“For Henderson\, the universe is constantly birthing wonders. A book that tries to give articulate voice to the gasps of astonishment at each birth is almost bound to fail. Yet this is a glorious success: breathless but musical; humble but confident; smart\, kind\, and glittering. It will turn the most jaded reductionist into a delighted child.” Charles Foster\, author of Being a Beast \n\nAbout A New Map of Wonders \n\nWe live in a world that is known\, every corner thoroughly explored. But has this knowledge cost us the ability to wonder? Wonder\, Caspar Henderson argues\, is at its most supremely valuable in just such a world because it reaffirms our humanity and gives us hope for the future. That’s the power of wonder\, and that’s what we should aim to cultivate in our lives. But what are the wonders of the modern world? \nHenderson’s brilliant exploration borrows from the form of one of the oldest and most widely known sources of wonder: maps. Large\, detailed mappae mundi invited people in medieval Europe to vividly imagine places and possibilities they had never seen before: manticores with the head of a man\, the body of a lion\, and the stinging tail of a scorpion; tribes of one-eyed men who fought griffins for diamonds; and fearsome Scythian warriors who drank the blood of their enemies from their skulls. As outlandish as these maps and the stories that went with them sound to us today\, Henderson argues that our views of the world today are sometimes no less incomplete or misleading. Scientists are only beginning to map the human brain\, for example\, revealing it as vastly more complex than any computer we can conceive. Our current understanding of physical reality is woefully incomplete. A New Map of Wonders explores these and other realms of the wonderful\, in different times and cultures and in the present day\, taking readers from Aboriginal Australian landscapes to sacred sites in Great Britain\, all the while keeping sight questions such as the cognitive basis of wonder and the relationship between wonder and science. \nBeautifully illustrated and written with wit and moral complexity\, this sequel to The Book of Barely Imagined Beings is a fascinating account of the power of wonder and an unforgettable meditation on its importance to our future.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/caspar-henderson/
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:Meg Wolitzer / The Female Persuasion
DESCRIPTION:To be admired by someone we admire—we all yearn for this: the private\, electrifying pleasure of being singled out by someone of esteem. But sometimes it can also mean entry to a new kind of life\, a bigger world. \nGreer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank\, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at sixty-three\, has been a central pillar of the women’s movement for decades\, a figure who inspires others to influence the world. Upon hearing Faith speak for the first time\, Greer—madly in love with her boyfriend\, Cory\, but still full of longing for an ambition that she can’t quite place—feels her inner world light up. And then\, astonishingly\, Faith invites Greer to make something out of that sense of purpose\, leading Greer down the most exciting path of her life as it winds toward and away from her meant-to-be love story with Cory and the future she’d always imagined. \nCharming and wise\, knowing and witty\, Meg Wolitzer delivers a novel about power and influence\, ego and loyalty\, womanhood and ambition. At its heart\, The Female Persuasion is about the flame we all believe is flickering inside of us\, waiting to be seen and fanned by the right person at the right time. It’s a story about the people who guide and the people who follow (and how those roles evolve over time)\, and the desire within all of us to be pulled into the light. \n— \nMeg Wolitzer is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Interestings\, The Uncoupling\,The Ten-Year Nap\, The Position\, The Wife\, and Sleepwalking. She is also the author of the young adult novel Belzhar. Wolitzer lives in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meg-wolitzer-the-female-persuasion/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Emerging Writers Festival
DESCRIPTION:WEDNESDAY\, APRIL 11 7:30 – 9 p.m.\nFromm Hall – FR 125 – Maraschi Room\n\n\n\nPatricia Horvath is the author of the memoir All the Difference (Etruscan Press). Her stories and essays have been published widely in literary journals including Shenandoah\, The Massachusetts Review\, New Ohio Review\, The Los Angeles Review\, and Confrontation. She is the recipient of New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in both fiction and literary nonfiction and the Goldenberg Prize for Fiction at Bellevue Literary Review\, and has held residency fellowships at Hedgebrook\, The Millay Colony for the Arts\, and The Blue Mountain Center. She teaches creative writing at Framingham State University in Massachusetts. \nChristopher Kempf is the author of Late in Empire of Men\, which won the 2015 Levis Prize from Four Way Books. Recipient of a Pushcart Prize\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University\, his work has appeared in Gettysburg Review\, Kenyon Review\, The New Republic\, PEN America\, and Ploughshares\, among other places. He is currently a PhD candidate in English Literature at the University of Chicago. \nJung Yun is the author of Shelter\, published by Picador in 2016. Her work has appeared in Tin House (the “Emerging Voices” issue); The Best of Tin House: Stories; The Massachusetts Review; The Atlantic Monthly\, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. She is the recipient of two Artist Fellowships in fiction from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and an honorable mention for the Pushcart Prize. Currently\, she is an Assistant Professor of English at the George Washington University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emerging-writers-festival/
LOCATION:Fromm Hall – FR 120 – Xavier Auditorium\, USF\, 2130 Fulton St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marcel Schwob: Chris Clarke and Kit Schluter
DESCRIPTION:Join translators Chris Clarke and Kit Schluter in an overdue celebration of the beguiling French writer Marcel Schwob\, a cult phenomenon who secretly influenced a generation of writers from Guillaume Apollinaire and Jorge Luis Borges to Roberto Bolaño. \n\nMarcel Schwob’s Imaginary Lives\, translated by Chris Clarke\, remains\, over 120 years since its original publication in French\, one of the secret keys to modern literature: under-recognized\, yet a decisive influence on such writers as Guillaume Apollinaire\, Jorge Luis Borges\, Alfred Jarry\, and Antonin Artaud\, and more contemporary authors such as Roberto Bolaño and Jean Echenoz. Drawing from historical influences such as Plutarch and Diogenes Laërtius\, and authors more contemporary to him such as Thomas de Quincy and Walter Pater\, Schwob established the genre of fictional biography with this collection: a form of narrative that championed the specificity of the individual over the generality of history\, and the memorable detail of a vice over the forgettable banality of a virtue. \nThese twenty-two portraits present figures drawn from the margins of history\, from Empedocles the “Supposed God” and Clodia the “Licentious Matron” to the pirate Captain Kidd and the Scottish murderers Messrs. Burke and Hare. In his quest for unique existences\, Schwob also formulated an early conception of the anti-hero\, and discarded historical figures in favor of their shadows\, be they divine\, mediocre\, or criminal. These “imaginary lives” thus acquaint us with the “Hateful Poet” Cecco Angiolieri instead of his lifelong rival\, Dante Alighieri; the would-be romantic pirate Major Stede Bonnet instead of the infamous Blackbeard who would lead him to the gallows; the false confessor Nicolas Loyseleur rather than Joan of Arc\, whom he cruelly deceived; or the actor Gabriel Spenser in place of the better-remembered Ben Jonson who ran a sword through his lung. \nMarcel Schwob’s 1896 novella The Children’s Crusade\, translated by Kit Schluter\, retells the medieval legend of the exodus of some 30\,000 children from all countries to the Holy Land\, who traveled to the shores of the sea\, which instead of parting to allow them to march on to Jerusalem\, instead delivered them to merchants who sold them into slavery in Tunisia or to a watery death. It is a cruel and sorrowful story mingling history and legend\, which Schwob recounts through the voices of eight different protagonists: a goliard\, a leper\, Pope Innocent III\, a cleric\, a qalandar\, and Pope Gregory IX\, as well as two of the marching children\, whose naïve faith eventually turns into growing fear and anguish. \nThough it is a tale drawn from the early thirteenth century\, Schwob presents it through a modern framework of shifting subjectivity and fragmented coherency\, and its subject matter and its succession of different narrative perspectives has been seen as an influence on and precursor to such diverse works as Alfred Jarry’s The Other Alcestis\, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s “In a Grove\,” William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying\, and Jerzy Andrzejewski’s The Gates of Paradise. It is a tale told by many yet understood by few\, a mosaic surrounding a void\, describing a world in which innocence must perish.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcel-schwob-chris-clarke-and-kit-schluter/
LOCATION:THE LAUNDRY\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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