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SUMMARY:Guy Kawasaki
DESCRIPTION:A veritable icon of Silicon Valley\, Kawasaki is the author of 14 books\, including staples in the entrepreneur’s library like The Art of the Start. After working with some of the biggest tech companies in the world\, including a stint at Apple in the 1980s\, this guru of guerilla marketing went on to become the poster of reinvention\, solo-prenuership\, and a champion of self-branding. Today\, he’s a chief evangelist for Canva\, an online graphic-design tool\, a brand ambassador for Mercedes-Benz\, and an executive fellow of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. \nIn his most revealing book yet\, Guy shares personal stories from his childhood in Hawaii\, his education at Stanford and UCLA\, the ups and downs of working for Steve Jobs\, and taking up surfing at 60 — proving that you are never too old to learn something new. \nWise Guy is an utterly original and profoundly intimate look at the power of self-reflection. Always the clear-eyed mentor\, Guy invites us all to find the deeper truth in the smallest moments of our life. Join one of Silicon Valley’s biggest stars as he returns to Kepler’s to share the pivotal lessons he’s learned in his 30+ years in the valley — you might just learn a thing or two about surfing along the way!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/guy-kawasaki/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Morgan Parker
DESCRIPTION:Morgan Parker discusses her new poetry collection Magical Negro. \nMagical Negro is an archive of black everydayness\, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes\, an ethnography of ancestral grief\, and an inventory of figureheads\, idioms\, and customs. These American poems are both elegy and jive\, joke and declaration\, songs of congregation and self-conception.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/morgan-parker-3/
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:Quiet Lightning
DESCRIPTION:Submissions are open for our Mar 4 show @ The Bar at Hotel Kabuki! \nCurated by Christine No + Chad Koch\, submissions are open through Feb 6. \nThe Bar at Hotel Kabuki\, site of Quiet Lightning 125. Photo by Aubrie Pick.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-6/
LOCATION:The Bar at Hotel Kabuki\, 1625 Post St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94115
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Morgan Parker
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday March 5\, 2019 | 5:30 pm | Mills Hall Living Room\n\nMorgan Parker’s latest poetry collection Magical Negro delves into issues of ancestral trauma\, loneliness\, sexuality\, racism\, and objectification. Parker is the author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé and Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Tin House\, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop\, Best American Poetry\, the New York Times\, the Nation\, and more. She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and the recipient of a 2017 NEA in Literature Fellowship.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/morgan-parker-4/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:LOGIC Turns Two
DESCRIPTION:LOGIC A magazine about technology \nHost: Jim Fingal\, with special guests Megan Rose Dickey\, Alexis C. Madrigal\, Fred Turner\, Ellen Ullman\, and Julia Carrie Wong \nTwo years ago\, Logic launched its first issue at City Lights. They are a print magazine about technology that publishes three times per year\, with a small digital footprint. A great deal of enthusiasm has been generated by LOGIC. They continue to expand their editorial line to generate better conversations about technology and its effects on culture. \nTo celebrate the second anniversary of Logic’s launch\, join us for a conversation at City Lights about the state of technology writing. \nHow are writers telling the story of technology? And how has the way they are telling that story changed in recent years\, as a string of revelations and scandals fosters a darker mood about the role of technology in our lives? \nTo discuss these questions\, we’ll hear from friends of the magazine who write about technology in different genres: \nMegan Rose Dickey is a senior reporter at TechCrunch focused on diversity\, inclusion and social justice. She also covers the on-demand economy\, artificial intelligence and transportation. \nAlexis C. Madrigal is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology. \nFred Turner is the author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand\, the Whole Earth Network\, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism\, and a professor of Communication at Stanford University\, where he studies media\, technology and American cultural history. \nEllen Ullman is a computer programmer\, writer\, and novelist.  Her work has appeared in numerous publications\, including Harpers\, Wired\, The New Yprkl Times and Salon.  She is the author of a novel\, The Bug\, a New York Times Notable Book and runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award\, and the cult classic memoir Close to the Machine\, based on her years as a rare female computer programmer in the early years of the personal computer era. She lives in San Francisco. \nJulia Carrie Wong is a technology reporter for Guardian US\, based in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/logic-turns-two/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Guy Kawasaki\, Wise Guy: Lessons from a Life
DESCRIPTION:Silicon Valley icon and bestselling author Guy Kawasaki shares the unlikely stories of his life\, and the lessons we can draw from them\, in his new book\, Wise Guy. \nGuy Kawasaki has been a fixture in the tech world since he was part of Apple’s original Macintosh team in the 1980s. He’s widely respected as a source of wisdom about entrepreneurship\, venture capital\, marketing\, and business evangelism\, which he’s shared in bestselling books such as The Art of the Start and Enchantment. But before all that\, he was just a middle-class kid in Hawaii\, a grandson of Japanese immigrants\, who loved football and got a C+ in 9th grade English. \nWise Guy\, his most personal book\, is about his surprising journey. It’s not a traditional memoir but a series of vignettes. He toyed with calling it Miso Soup for the Soul\, because these stories (like those in the Chicken Soupseries) reflect a wide range of experiences that have enlightened and inspired him. \nFor instance\, you’ll follow Kawasaki as he . . . \n* Gets his first real job in the jewelry business–which turned out to be surprisingly useful training for the tech world. \n* Disparages one of Apple’s potential partners in front of that company’s CEO\, at the sneaky instigation of Steve Jobs. \n* Blows up his Apple career with a single sentence\, after Jobs withholds a pre-release copy of the Think Different ad campaign: “That’s okay\, Steve\, I don’t trust you either.” \n* Reevaluates his self-importance after being mistaken for Jackie Chan by four young women. \n* Takes up surfing at 62–which teaches him that you can discover a new passion at any age\, but younger is easier! \nKawasaki covers everything from moral values to business skills to parenting. As he writes\, “I hope my stories help you live a more joyous\, productive\, and meaningful life. If Wise Guy succeeds at this\, then that’s the best story of all.” \n\nGuy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist Canva\, an online graphic-design tool. He’s also a brand ambassador for Mercedes-Benz and an executive fellow of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He was previously the chief evangelist of Apple and a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation. His 14 books include The Art of the Start\, Enchantment\, Selling the Dream\, and The Art of Social Media. He has a BA from Stanford and an MBA from UCLA\, as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College. He and his wife\, Beth\, have four children. \nThis free event will take place in Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by March 3rd.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/guy-kawasaki-wise-guy-lessons-from-a-life/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Eva Hagberg Fisher with Tabitha Soren / How to Be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Eva Hagberg Fisher for her first book\, How to Be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship. Eva will be in conversation with Tabitha Soren. Please join us! \n  \nEva Hagberg Fisher spent her lonely youth looking everywhere for connection: drugs\, alcohol\, therapists\, boyfriends\, girlfriends. Sometimes she found it\, but always temporarily. Then\, at age thirty\, an undiscovered mass in her brain ruptured. So did her life. A brain surgery marked only the beginning of a long journey\, and when her illness hit a critical stage\, it forced her to finally admit the long-suppressed truth: she was vulnerable\, she needed help\, and she longed to grow. She needed true friendship for the first time. \nHow to Be Loved is the story of how an isolated person’s life was ripped apart only to be gently stitched back together through friendship\, and the recovery — of many stripes — that came along the way. It explores the isolation so many of us feel despite living in an age of constant connectivity; how our ambitions sometimes pull us apart more than bring us together; and how a simple doughnut\, delivered by a caring soul\, can become the essence of what makes a life valuable. With gorgeous prose shot through with empathy\, pain\, fear\, and the secret truths inside all of us\, Eva writes about the friends who taught her to grow up and open her heart — and how the relentlessness of suffering can give rise to the greatest joy. \n  \n\n  \nEva Hagberg Fisher‘s writing has appeared in the New York Times\, T: The New York Times Style Magazine\, Tin House\, Wallpaper*\, Wired\, Guernica\, and Dwell\, among other places. She lives in New York City. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nTabitha Soren left a successful career in television in 1999 to start another one as a photographer. Her work is included in public collections such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art\, Oakland Museum of California; Transformer Station\, Cleveland\, Ohio; Pier 24 Photography\, San Francisco; New Orleans Museum of Art; Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art\, Indiana; and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art\, New Orleans. Her work has been featured in Dear Dave\, McSweeney’s\, Vanity Fair\, New York Times Magazine\, Blink\, Slate\, New York\, Sports Illustrated\, California Sunday Magazine\, and ESPN The Magazine. She is represented by the Kopeikin Gallery\, Los Angeles \n  \n\n  \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. \nRSVP is appreciated\, but not required.  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of How to Be Loved\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eva-hagberg-fisher-with-tabitha-soren-how-to-be-loved-a-memoir-of-lifesaving-friendship/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Irvine Welsh in conversation with Alan Black
DESCRIPTION:  \n \ncelebrating the release of \nDead Men’s Trousers \nby Irvine Welsh \npublished by Melville House \n\nThe gang from Trainspotting have mostly cleaned up their act… until they are drawn back together to Scotland for one last scheme – a scheme one of them won’t survive. It’s an action-packed\, hilarious and rollicking trip\, as well as a moving elegy to the crew. \n\n\n\nIrvine Welsh was born in Edinburgh\, Scotland. Raised in the tenement homes of Leith\, the prefabs in West Pilton and the maisonettes in Muirhouse. At sixteen\, he left school\, took various jobs\, and eventually moved to London in the seventies. There he spent his free time exploring the London punk scene\, then moved back to Edinburgh to renew his studies. Back home\, and inspired by the nineties rave scene\, he ran into some fascinating characters he immortalised later\, in the pages of Trainspotting. At first dismissed for its unmarketable content\, Trainspotting shot Welsh to fame\, precipitated further by the release of the film\, by Danny Boyle\, three years later. Since then he has written eight other works of fiction. He currently lives in the US. \nAlan Black is a writer and served as the former literary manager of San Francisco’s famous bookish venue Edinburgh Castle Pub. His work has been published in the San Francisco Chronicle\, Salon.com\, and The Christian Science Monitor. He is cofounder of the Scottish Cultural and Arts Foundation and coeditor of Public House\, an anthology. He has also authored the book Kick the Balls: A Bruising Season in the Life of a Suburban Soccer Coach (Plume/Penguin) and co-authored the book The Glorious World Cup (with David Henry Sterry – NAL/Penguin) \nPraise for Irvine Welsh & Dead Men’s Trousers … \n“Raunchy\, profane\, violent\, and frequently hilarious… Dead Men’s Trousers delivers a strangely life-affirming dose of dark absurdity\, ensuring that\, if this is the last we see of these characters\, they won’t soon be forgotten.” – *STARRED* Booklist \n“Unfolds like a Keystone Kops version of Ocean’s 11… Welsh’s entire oeuvre crackles with idiomatic energy and brio\, and this rollicking novel is no different.” —Publishers Weekly \n“Welsh’s peculiar talent is finding the comedy in sex\, addiction\, betrayal\, and death\, and he handles the job so deftly that the novel nearly qualifies as comfort reading even in gross-out mode.”—KIRKUS REVIEWS \n“Blisteringly funny…” —New York Times Book Review \n“It is funny\, unflinchingly abrasive\, authentic\, and inventive\, unerringly on-and off-the pulse. It is a true cult\, the kind of novel you press on perfect strangers. It validates a world fiction hasn’t recognized before.” —Time Out \n“Irvine Welsh writes with skill\, wit\, and compassion that amounts to genius. He is the best thing that has happened to British writing in decades.” —Nick Hornby\, Sunday Times \n“Irvine Welsh writes with style\, imagination\, wit\, and force\, and in a voice which those alienated by much current fiction clearly want to hear.” —The Times Literary Supplement \n“Irvine Welsh is the real thing-a marvelous admixture of nihilism and heartbreak\, pinpoint realism (especially in dialect and tone) and almost archetypal universality. —David Foster Wallace
URL:https://litseen.com/event/irvine-welsh-in-conversation-with-alan-black/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:On the Road Again: Rich With Possibilities
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Bruce Bagnell\, Jan Steckel\, Andrew O. Dugas\, Kathleen McClung. Late Night Open Mic follows the featured readers. Sign-up now. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-the-road-again-rich-with-possibilities/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Elinor Lipman
DESCRIPTION:Elinor Lipman\n\n\n\n\nreturns to Mrs. Dalloway’s to celebrate the publication of her latest novel\, Good Riddance\, in which one woman’s trash becomes another woman’s treasure\, with deliriously entertaining results. A pitch-perfect\, whip-smart new novel from an “enchanting\, infinitely witty yet serious\, exceptionally intelligent\, wholly original\, and Austen-like stylist” (Washington Post). \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, March 6\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this delightful new romantic comedy\, Daphne Maritch doesn’t quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high school yearbook she inherits from her mother\, who held this relic dear. Too dear.The late June Winter Maritch was the teacher to whom the class of ’69 had dedicated its yearbook\, and in turn she went on to attend every reunion\, scribbling notes and observations after each one–not always charitably–and noting who overstepped boundaries of many kinds. In a fit of decluttering (the yearbook did not\, Daphne concluded\, “spark joy”)\, she discards it when she moves to a small New York City apartment. But when it’s found in the recycling bin by a busybody neighbor/documentary filmmaker\, the yearbook’s mysteries–not to mention her own family’s–take on a whole new urgency\, and Daphne finds herself entangled in a series of events both poignant and absurd. \nElinor Lipman is the award-winning author of eleven novels\, including The View from Penthouse B and The Inn at Lake Devine; one essay collection\, I Can’t Complain; and Tweet Land of Liberty: Irreverent Rhymes from the Political Circus. She lives in New York City. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elinor-lipman-2/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Tarfia Faizullah
DESCRIPTION:Tarfia Faizullah is the author of REGISTERS OF ILLUMINATED VILLAGES (Graywolf Press\, 2018)\, and SEAM (Southern Illinois University Press\, 2014)\, winner of a VIDA Award\, a GLCA New Writers’ Award\, a Milton Kessler First Book Award\, Drake University Emerging Writer Award\, and other honors. Her poems are published widely in periodicals and anthologies both in the United States and abroad\, including Poetry Magazine\, Guernica\, Tin House\, and The Nation\, are translated into Persian\, Chinese\, Bengali\, Tamil\, and Spanish\, and have been featured at the Smithsonian\, the Rubin Museum of Art\, and elsewhere. In 2016 she was recognized by Harvard Law School as one of 50 Women Inspiring Change. In Fall 2018\, she will join the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a Visiting Writer in Residence.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tarfia-faizullah/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Brandon Shimoda with Aisuke Kondo\, reading\, art presentation\, and conversation
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, March 7 – 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nRuth Asawa Garden of Remembrance\, and The Poetry Center\, HUM 512\, San Francisco State University\n\n\n  \nWhat is it then between us?” Poetry and Democracy   \n\n“I’ve been thinking about…the descendants of incarceration are being fated\, or beings fated\, to return to the ruins\, to reenact/re-embody their ancestors’ arrest\, in order to reimagine and redirect it\, with a specific attention\, a necessarily fugitive and defiant motion\, and yet\, according to the dictates of the underworld\, without end.”\n—from “10 Questions for Brandon Shimoda\,” with Emily Wojcik\, The Massachusettes Review\n“I have been producing my artworks under the concept of ‘reconstruction’ since before I started working with the theme of my great-grandfather. The concept originates from my early experience. When I was a child\, I often broke my bones. This was because my body was very weak. Because of this experience I today think that a body is a fragile object\, and that my identity is uncertain…. I still have a sense that my body impairs its harmony.”\n—from diaspora memoria exhibition catalog; Aisuke Kondo with Dr. Brigitte Hausmann\, Kulturamt Steglitz-Zehlendorf\, Berlin\n\nThe Poetry Center is delighted to present poet Brandon Shimoda\, with us from Tucson\, Arizona\, together with Japanese artist Aisuke Kondo\, based in Berlin though at present a visiting scholar in Asian American Studies at San Francisco State. Tonight’s special program\, presented in conjunction with the Poetry Coalition\, is one of many programs being organized at venues across the U.S. during March 2019 in relation to a common theme: “What is it then between us?” Poetry and Democracy  borrows a citation from Walt Whitman’s poem “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry\,” 2019 being the bicentennial of Whitman’s birth. Funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation to the Academy of American poets in support of the Poetry Coalition\, this event is free and open to the public. \nWe’ll open this evening’s program at 6:00 pm with an unstructured\, informal and contemplative gathering in the Ruth Asawa Garden of Remembrance\, which is dedicated to the 19 San Francisco State University Japanese American students who were imprisoned in U.S. concentration camps during World War II. The garden is located on the SF State campus\, just west of the César Chavez Student Center\, between Burke Hall and the Creative Arts Building. \nAt 7:00 pm\, we’ll move upstairs to The Poetry Center\, Room 512 in the Humanities Building. Brandon Shimoda will present his poetry\, and Aisuke Kondo will present his art\, then the two of them will join in conversation\, together with the audience. Both our featured artists’ current work is being considered and created in relation to the internment during World War II of Japanese American citizens and Japanese nationals living on the West Coast of the US in federally administered concentration camps—both artists’ grandfathers were among those imprisoned. \nBrandon Shimoda was born in California\, in the San Fernando Valley. His recent books are The Desert (poetry and prose\, The Song Cave)\, Dept. of Posthumous Letters (drawings to accompany text by Dot Devota and Caitie Moore\, Argos Books)\, and The Grave on the Wall (an ancestral memoir\, forthcoming from City Lights). He is currently researching-writing-disintegrating a book on the ongoing afterlife-ruins of Japanese American incarceration. His writings on Japanese-American incarceration have appeared in/on The Asian American Literary Review\, Densho\, Hyperallergic\, The Margins\, The New Inquiry\, and elsewhere\, and he has given talks on the subject at the University of Arizona\, Columbia University\, Fairhaven College\, and the International Center of Photography. Shimoda is also the co-editor\, with Thom Donovan\, of To look at the sea is to become what one is: An Etel Adnan Reader (Nightboat Books\, 2014). He lives in Arizona. \nAisuke Kondo Born and raised in Japan and currently based in Germany\, Aisuke Kondo explores questions of belonging\, identity\, memory\, and history across a variety of media\, from collage and gallery installation to video and performance. In 2008\, he completed a Meisterschüler in Fine Art at Berlin University of Arts. After his university graduation\, he received a grant from the Asian Cultural Council to research on his great-grandfather who was incarcerated at Topaz concentration camp in Utah during World War Ⅱ. Currently\, he is working in the Bay area on a grant from the Cultural Affairs Agency in Japan in order to conduct fieldwork as a visiting scholar in Asian American Studies at SF State. In his current “Matter and Memory” series (2017-present)\, Kondo retraces his great-grandfather’s life as an immigrant in the US from his arrival in the early 1900s. Kondo has had solo exhibitions at Gallery Turnaround in Sendai\, Japan (2018)\, Kommunale Galerie Steglitz-Zehlendorf in Berlin (2018)\, MINTMOUE in Los Angeles (2017) and Kyoto Art Center in Kyoto\, Japan (2016). His works are on view\, along with an extensive interview with the artist\, at aisukekondo.com \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\, in conjunction with the Poetry Coalition
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brandon-shimoda-with-aisuke-kondo-reading-art-presentation-and-conversation/
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:Steinbeck Fellows Alumni Night
DESCRIPTION:THURSDAY\nMarch 7\, 2019\n7PM \nMLK Library\nSteinbeck Center\, Room 590                                                                                                             San José State University \nReading followed by an audience Q&A\, plus a book sale and signing. \nJoin the CLA and the Steinbeck Center to welcome back former Steinbeck Fellows R.O. Kwon\, Kirstin Chen\, and Vanessa Hua as they read from their newest works. \n \nR.O. Kwon‘s first novel\, The Incendiaries\, was released by Riverhead in July of 2018. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian\, Vice\, BuzzFeed\, Noon\, Time\, Electric Literature\, Playboy\, San Francisco Chronicle\, and elsewhere. She has received awards and fellowships from Yaddo\, MacDowell\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, Omi International\, and the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony. Born in South Korea\, she’s mostly lived in the United States. \n  \n  \n  \n \nKirstin Chen’s new novel\, Bury What We Cannot Take (Little A\, March 2018)\, has been named a Most Anticipated Upcoming Book by Electric Literature\, The Millions\, The Rumpus\, Harper’s Bazaar\, and InStyle\, among others. She is also the author of Soy Sauce for Beginners. She was the fall 2017 NTU-NAC National Writer in Residence in Singapore\, and has received awards from the Steinbeck Fellows Program\, Sewanee\, Hedgebrook\, and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference. Born and raised in Singapore\, she currently resides in San Francisco. \n  \n  \n  \nVanessa Hua is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of a short story collection\, Deceit and Other Possibilities. For two decades\, she has been writing\, in journalism and fiction\, about Asia and the Asian diaspora. She has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature\, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award\, and a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing\, as well as honors from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Asian American Journalists Association. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, and The Washington Post. A River of Stars is Vanessa Hua’s first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/steinbeck-fellows-alumni-night/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Carolyn Burke
DESCRIPTION:  \ncelebrating her new book \nFoursome:Alfred Stieglitz\, Georgia O’Keeffe\, Paul Strand\, Rebecca Salsbury \npublished by Alfred Knopf \nA captivating\, spirited account of the intense relationship among four artists whose strong personalities\, passionate feelings\, and aesthetic ideals drew them together\, pulled them apart\, and profoundly influenced the very shape of twentieth-century art. \nNew York\, 1921: Alfred Stieglitz\, the most influential figure in early twentieth-century photography\, celebrates the success of his latest exhibition–the centerpiece\, a series of nude portraits of the young Georgia O’Keeffe\, soon to be his wife. It is a turning point for O’Keeffe\, poised to make her entrance into the art scene–and for Rebecca Salsbury\, the fiancée of Stieglitz’s protégé at the time\, Paul Strand. When Strand introduces Salsbury to Stieglitz and O’Keeffe\, it is the first moment of a bond between the two couples that will last more than a decade and reverberate throughout their lives. In the years that followed\, O’Keeffe and Stieglitz became the preeminent couple in American modern art\, spurring each other’s creativity. Observing their relationship led Salsbury to encourage new artistic possibilities for Strand and to rethink her own potential as an artist. In fact\, it was Salsbury\, the least known of the four\, who was the main thread that wove the two couples’ lives together. Carolyn Burke mines the correspondence of the foursome to reveal how each inspired\, provoked\, and unsettled the others while pursuing seminal modes of artistic innovation. The result is a surprising\, illuminating portrait of four extraordinary figures. \nCAROLYN BURKE is the author of No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf\, Lee Miller: A Life (finalist for the NBCC)\, and Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy. Born in Sydney\, Australia\, she now lives in Santa Cruz\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carolyn-burke/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Dana Frank\, The Long Honduran Night
DESCRIPTION:Professor Dana Frank will join us to discuss and sign copies of her new book\, The Long Honduran Night—a story of resistance\, repression\, and U.S. policy in Honduras in the aftermath of a violent military coup. \nThis powerful narrative recounts the dramatic years in Honduras following the June 2009 military coup that deposed President Manuel Zelaya\, told in part through first-person experiences\, layered into deeper political analysis. It weaves together two broad pictures: first\, the repressive regime that was launched with the coup\, and the ways in which U.S. policy has continued to support that regime; and second\, the brave and evolving Honduran resistance movement\, with aid from a new solidarity movement in the United States. \nAlthough it is full of terrible things\, this is not a horror story: the book directly counters mainstream media coverage that portrays Honduras as a pit of unrelenting awfulness\, in which powerless people sob in the face of unexplained violence. Rather\, it’s about sobering challenges with roots in political processes\, and the inspiring collective strength with which people face them. \n\nDana Frank is Professor of History Emerita at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America (2005; repr. Haymarket 2016); Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism (Beacon\, 1999); Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing\, Gender\, and the Seattle Labor Movement\, 1919-1929 (Cambridge\, 1994); Local Girl Makes History: Exploring Northern California’s Kitsch Monuments (City Lights\, 2007); and\, with Howard Zinn and Robin D. G. Kelley\, Three Strikes: Miners\, Musicians\, Salesgirls and the Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century (Beacon\, 2001). Her contribution to Three Strikes has been reprinted\, with a new introduction\, by Haymarket Books as Women Strikers Occupy Chain Store\, Win Big (2012). Since the 2009 military coup her articles about human rights and U.S. policy in Honduras have appeared in The Nation\, New York Times\, Politico Magazine\, Foreign Affairs.com\, Foreign Policy.com\, Miami Herald\, Los Angeles Times\, The Baffler\, and many other publications\, and she has testified before both the U.S. Congress and Canadian Parliament. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by March 5th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dana-frank-the-long-honduran-night/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Shobha Rao with Ingrid Rojas Contreras / Girls Burn Brighter (paperback launch)
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery welcomes San Francisco author Shobha Rao for the paperback launch of her debut novel Girls Burn Brighter\, which was recently named a best book of the year by many outlets\, including NPR and The Washington Post. She’ll be joined by our friend and yours\, Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Fruit of the Drunken Tree). Please join us! \n  \nPoornima and Savitha have three strikes against them: they are poor\, they are ambitious\, and they are girls. After her mother’s death\, Poornima has very little kindness in her life. She is left to care for her siblings until her father can find her a suitable match. So when Savitha enters their household\, Poornima is intrigued by the joyful\, independent-minded girl. Suddenly their Indian village doesn’t feel quite so claustrophobic\, and Poornima begins to imagine a life beyond arranged marriage. But when a devastating act of cruelty drives Savitha away\, Poornima leaves behind everything she has ever known to find her friend. \n  \nHer journey takes her into the darkest corners of India’s underworld\, on a harrowing cross-continental journey\, and eventually to an apartment complex in Seattle. Alternating between the girls’ perspectives as they face ruthless obstacles\, Shobha Rao’s Girls Burn Brighter introduces two heroines who never lose the hope that burns within. \n  \n\n  \nShobha Rao moved to the United States from India at the age of seven. She is the author of the short story collection\, An Unrestored Woman\, and the novel\, Girls Burn Brighter. She is the winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction\, and her story “Kavitha and Mustafa” was chosen by T.C. Boyle for inclusion in Best American Short Stories 2015. She is currently the Grace Paley Teaching Fellow at The New School in New York City. \n  \n  \nIngrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Electric Literature\, Guernica\, and Huffington Post\, among others. She has received fellowships and awards from The Missouri Review\, Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, VONA\, Hedgebrook\, The Camargo Foundation\, Djerassi Resident Artists Program\, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures. She is the book columnist for KQED Arts\, the Bay Area’s NPR affiliate. \n  \n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \n  \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Girls Burn Brighter\, and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shobha-rao-with-ingrid-rojas-contreras-girls-burn-brighter-paperback-launch/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Leland de la Durantaye and Lydia Kiesling
DESCRIPTION:Leland de la Durantaye discusses his new novel\, Hannah Versus the Tree with Lydia Kiesling. \n\nPraise for Hannah Versus the Tree  \n“An heiress to the ancient money of a storied family seeks revenge for personal and global wrongs in this powerful debut novel of […] stark beauty and even starker consequence.” —Kirkus \n“Hannah Versus The Tree is unlike anything I have ever read—thriller\, myth\, dream\, and poem combined. It tells the story of a terrible act of violence and a terrible act of revenge\, but in ways that hardly resemble contemporary fiction. Sometimes I thought I was reading the Chorus’s part from a lost Greek tragedy\, or perhaps an impossibly updated Beowulf. Written in an immaculate\, lyrically charged\, uncannily autonomous prose\, this lovely novel is at once a modern story about money and politics and sexual violence\, and an ancient fable of grievance and justice.” —James Wood \n“Betrayal and vengeance have rarely been so elegantly rendered as in this searing novel. It invokes Roman history and mythology to accompany an aristocratic\, brutalized girl who is sacrificed by the family matriarch in a fatal flaw of judgment. The beautiful prose exposes and illumines the cost of underestimating an extraordinary girl.” —Amy Hempel \n\nAbout Hannah Versus the Tree \nHannah is a fiercely intelligent young woman\, daughter of a powerful family’s black sheep son\, and raised to question who has been\, is\, and will be damaged by business deals meant to protect and maintain the dynasty. A devastating wrong is done to her when she opposes a family scheme and her response is a battle cry of astounding violence and beauty. As haunting as Shelly Jackson or Thomas Bernhard\, as enthralling as Nabokov or Joyce\, Leland de la Durantaye’s debut novel is a radical departure from contemporary storytelling. At once the story of a terrific act of vengeance and of a lifelong love\, Hannah versus the Tree presents a new literary genre\, the mythopoetic thriller.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/leland-de-la-durantaye-and-lydia-kiesling/
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:Word Week Celebrates International Women's Day
DESCRIPTION:Word Week celebrates International Women’s Day\, Friday\, May 8 with “Thelma & Louise: Back Behind the Wheel.” Remember this iconic road movie directed by Ridley Scott in 1991 about two friends on a heady weekend trip that turns crazy as they become desperados in a high-speed flight from the law? Remember how they drove off the cliff? Would Thelma and Louise have more options today? Would they need to drive off a cliff into the Grand Canyon or could they turn around and forge a life? How far have women come 25 years on? Indeed\, have things really changed for women? 7pm\, Folio Books San Francisco with San Francisco Chronicle film critic Ruthe Stein\, documentary filmmaker Wendy Slick\, law professor Susan Rutberg\, and moderator Maxine Einhorn. Free admission. \nThis is a Word Week 2019 event. Word Week is Noe Valley’s annual literary festival. For a full listing of Word Week 2019 events\, go to http://bit.ly/2WXT09H. \nPanelist biographies:\nRUTHE STEIN\nRuthe Stein is the senior movie writer for the San Francisco Chronicle\, covering the film industry for 20 years\, writing reviews\, celebrity profiles\, and industry trend stories. She also created the Chronicle Film Series bringing celebrities to San Francisco to talk about their work. \nWendy Slick\nhttp://www.wendyslick.com/WendySlick/Films.html\nwabi sabi productions\nWendy Slick is a producer\, director\, writer and editor. Her women’s rights documentary “Passion and Power” had a successful theater run\, following its Lincoln Center premiere. Her work has won trophies and plaques from numerous film festivals. \nSusan Rutberg\nAs a public defender\, Susan developed innovative techniques to humanize trial lawyering. As a professor at Golden Gate Law School\, Susan taught trial advocacy and directed clinics. In 2002\, she founded Golden Gate’s Innocence Project. \nMaxine Einhorn\nMaxine taught film studies\, communications\, and media literacy in London colleges for over 25 years before joining KQED’s Education Department. She has a B.A. in History and an M.A. in Film. She is now senior programmer for the Mostly British Film Festival.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/word-week-celebrates-international-womens-day/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Noe Valley Authors Festival
DESCRIPTION:The 5th Noe Valley Authors Festival will feature local authors like best-selling novelist Cara Black\, award-winning historian and war correspondent Mary Jo McConahay\, children’s book author Emma Bland Smith\, poets Susan Dambroff and Eveline Kanes\, and memoirist & novelist Ramon Sender. Book exhibits and readings run from 3pm to 5pm\, Saturday\, March 9 at Umpqua Bank Noe Valley\, 3938 24th St. Free admission and free refreshments. \nThis is a Word Week 2019 event. Word Week is Noe Valley’s annual literary festival. For a full listing of Word Week 2019 events\, go to http://bit.ly/2WXT09H.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/noe-valley-authors-festival-2/
LOCATION:Umpqua Bank Noe Valley\, 3938 24th Street\, San Francisco\, 94114
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Big Ideas Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson\nWhat is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. \nBut today\, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly\, with sparkling wit\, in tasty chapters consumable anytime and anywhere in your busy day. \nWhile you wait for your morning coffee to brew\, for the bus\, the train\, or a plane to arrive\, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry will reveal just what you need to be fluent and ready for the next cosmic headlines: from the Big Bang to black holes\, from quarks to quantum mechanics\, and from the search for planets to the search for life in the universe.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/big-ideas-reading-group-2/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Second Sunday Poetry series presents a reading by Meryl Natchez\, Francesca Bell\, and William Brewer\, curated by Barb Reynolds
DESCRIPTION:Second Sunday Poetry series presents a reading by Meryl Natchez\, Francesca Bell\, and William Brewer\, curated by Barb Reynolds\, Britt-Marie’s Restaurant\, 1369 Solano Avenue\, Albany\, free\, 3:30-5:00 (510/527-1314\, brittmariesolano.com)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/second-sunday-poetry-series-presents-a-reading-by-meryl-natchez-francesca-bell-and-william-brewer-curated-by-barb-reynolds/
LOCATION:Brit-Marie’s Restaraunt\, 1369 Solano Avenu\, Albany\, CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Second Sunday Poetry series
DESCRIPTION:Second Sunday Poetry series presents a reading by Meryl Natchez\, Francesca Bell\, and William Brewer\, curated by Barb Reynolds\, Britt-Marie’s Restaurant\, 1369 Solano Avenue\, Albany\, free\, 3:30-5:00 (510/527-1314\, brittmariesolano.com)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/second-sunday-poetry-series-2/
LOCATION:Brit-Marie’s Restaraunt\, 1369 Solano Avenu\, Albany\, CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Classical Mediterranean Poetry: Greek\, Roman\, Hebrew\, & Egyptian
DESCRIPTION:Local poets and authors read from Classic Mediterranean poetry on Sunday\, March 10\, 4pm to 5pm at Olive This Olive That\, 304 Vicksburg St.\, just off 24th St. in Noe Valley. Erika Atkinson reads from Roman poetry\, Marylee Mcneal from Greek\, Wayne Goodman Hebrew\, and San Francisco poet laureate Kim Shuck New Kingdom Egyptian. Readings will be in English\, with snippets in the original languages to give a flavor of how they sounded in their time. Free admission and free refreshments. \nThis is a Word Week 2019 event. Word Week is Noe Valley’s annual literary festival. For a full listing of Word Week 2019 events\, go to http://bit.ly/2WXT09H. \nMore about the readers:\nErika Atkinson has published five books\, including Exhort the Goddesses\, a poetry collection; Ode to the Castro; and three travel memoirs. She has been a long-time reader of classic and ancient literature and poetry and will read the prose poem “Pyramus and Thisbe” from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. \nWayne Goodman has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area most of his life (with too many cats). He hosts Queer Words Podcast\, conversations with Queer-identified authors about their works and lives. When not writing\, he enjoys playing Gilded Age parlor music on the piano\, with an emphasis on women\, Gay\, and Black composers. He will be reading from King David’s “Song of Solomon and Jonathan.” \nMaryLee McNeal writes poetry and fiction. Her novel Home Again\, Home Again won the Clark award at San Francisco State University. Her poetry chapbooks are The Space Between Us and The Way We Fall. Her work has been published in The Bellevue Literary Review\, Chattaqua\, Santa Clara Review\, and other magazines and anthologies. She will be reading poems by Sappho. \nKim Shuck is a silly protein. Born and raised in San Francisco\, Shuck has been writing and reading poems since the early 70s. She has three full-length solo books and one chapbook. Shuck is currently the poet laureate of San Francisco. She will be reading rarely heard New Kingdom Egyptian poetry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/classical-mediterranean-poetry-greek-roman-hebrew-egyptian/
LOCATION:Olive This Olive That\, 304 Vicksburg Street\, San Francisco\, 94114
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets\, artists\, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. \nTo participate in the open mic session\, please arrive by 4 and plan to listen to all of the featured poets. Seating/space is limited.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gears-turning-w-kim-shuck-2/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Luis Alberto Urrea / The House of Broken Angels
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Luis Alberto Urrea in celebration of the paperback release of his widely acclaimed novel The House of Broken Angels. Please join us! \n  \n“All we do\, mija\, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops it. Not borders. Not death.” \n  \nIn his final days\, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz\, affectionately called Big Angel\, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches\, his mother\, nearly one hundred\, dies\, transforming the weekend into a farewell doubleheader. Among the guests is Big Angel’s half brother\, known as Little Angel\, who must reckon with the truth that although he shares a father with his siblings\, he has not\, as a half gringo\, shared a life. \n  \nAcross two bittersweet days in their San Diego neighborhood\, the revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti\, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother\, and recounting the many inspiring tales that have passed into family lore\, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought these citizens to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home. \n  \nTeeming with brilliance and humor\, authentic at every turn\, The House of Broken Angels is Luis Alberto Urrea at his best\, and cements his reputation as a storyteller of the first rank. \n  \n\n  \nA finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his landmark work of nonficiton The Devil’s Highway\, Luis Alberto Urrea is also the bestselling author of the novels The Hummingbird’s Daughter\, Into the Beautiful North\, and Queen of America\, as well as the story collection The Water Museum\, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist. He has won the Lannan Literary Award\, an Edgar Award\, and a 2017 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature\, among many other honors. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and American mother\, he lives outside of Chicago and teaches at the University of Illinois-Chicago. \n  \n\n  \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. \nRSVP is appreciated\, but not required. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/luis-alberto-urrea-the-house-of-broken-angels-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tangled Paths: True Stories from Latin America
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with local nonfiction authors Mary Jo McConahay and Chris Feliciano Arnold\, spanning World War II to the modern Amazon basin\, Tuesday\, March 12 in the ground floor meeting room of the Noe Valley/Sally Brunn Library\, 451 Jersey St.\, between Castro and Diamond Streets. Moderated by Brandon Brown. Free admission and free wine reception at 6:30pm. The readings and discussion begin at 7pm. \nThis is a Word Week 2019 event. Word Week is Noe Valley’s annual literary festival. For a full listing of Word Week 2019 events\, go to http://bit.ly/2WXT09H. \nCHRIS FELICIANO ARNOLD has written for The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, Harper’s\, Foreign Policy\, Vice News and more. The recipient of a 2014 creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, he teaches writing in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco. Chris Arnold \nMARY JO MCCONAHAY is an award-winning reporter and documentary filmmaker who covered the wars in Central America and economics in the Middle East. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times\, Newsweek\, Salon.com\, and other outlets. Her previous books include Maya Roads and Ricochet. \nBRANDON BROWN is Professor of Physics and department chair of the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of Planck: Driven by Vision\, Broken by War and the forthcoming The Apollo Chronicles: Engineering America’s First Moon Mission. Brandon R. Brown’s author page
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tangled-paths-true-stories-from-latin-america/
LOCATION:Noe Valley Library\, 451 Jersey Street\, San Francisco\, 94114
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nina Revoyr
DESCRIPTION:reading from her latest novel \nA Student of History \nfrom Akashic Books \nA contemporary Los Angeles story of uncrossable social lines\, allegiance and betrayal\, immeasurable power\, and the ways the present is continuously shaped by the past. \nRick Nagano is a graduate student in the history department at USC\, struggling to make rent on his South Los Angeles apartment near the neighborhood where his family once lived. When he lands a job as a research assistant for the elderly Mrs. W—\, the heir to an oil fortune\, he sees it at first simply as a source of extra cash. But he grows closer to the iconoclastic\, charming\, and feisty Mrs. W—\, he gets drawn into a world of privilege and wealth far different from his racially mixed\, blue-collar beginnings. \nPutting aside his half-finished dissertation\, Rick sets up office in Mrs. W—’s grand Bel Air mansion and begins to transcribe her journals—which document an old Los Angeles not described in his history books. He also accompanies Mrs. W— to venues frequented by the descendants of the land and oil barons who built the city. One evening\, at an event\, he meets Fiona Morgan—the elegant scion of an old steel family—who takes an interest in his studies. Irresistibly drawn to Fiona\, he agrees to help her with a project of questionable merit in the hopes he’ll win her favor. \nA Student of History explores both the beginnings of Los Angeles and the present-day dynamics of race and class. It offers a window into the usually hidden world of high society\, and the influence of historic families on current events. Like Great Expectations and The Great Gatsby\, it features\, in Rick Nagano\, a young man of modest means who is navigating a world where he doesn’t belong. \nNINA REVOYR is the author of five previous novels\, including The Age of Dreaming\, which was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Southland\, a Los Angeles Times best seller and “Best Book” of 2003; and Wingshooters\, which won an Indie Booksellers’ Choice Award and was selected by O\, The Oprah Magazineas one of “10 Titles to Pick Up Now.” Revoyr lives and works in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nina-revoyr/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mitchell S. Jackson / Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Mitchell S. Jackson for his new book Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family. Please join us! \n  \nIn a thrillingly alive\, candid new work\, award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson takes us inside the drug-ravaged neighborhood and struggling family of his youth\, while examining the cultural forces—large and small—that led him and his family to this place. \nWith a poet’s gifted ear\, a novelist’s sense of narrative\, and a journalist’s unsentimental eye\, Mitchell S. Jackson candidly explores his tumultuous youth in the other America. Survival Math takes its name from the calculations Mitchell and his family made to keep safe—to stay alive—in their community\, a small black neighborhood in Portland\, Oregon blighted by drugs\, violence\, poverty\, and governmental neglect. \nSurvival Math is both a personal reckoning and a vital addition to the national conversation about race. Mitchell explores the Portland of his childhood\, tracing the ways in which his family managed their lives in and around drugs\, prostitution\, gangs\, and imprisonment as members of a tiny black population in one of the country’s whitest cities. He discusses sex work and serial killers\, gangs and guns\, near-death experiences\, composite fathers\, the concept of “hustle\,” and the destructive power of drugs and addiction on family. \nIn examining the conflicts within his family and community\, Jackson presents a microcosm of struggle and survival in contemporary urban America—an exploration of the forces that shaped his life\, his city\, and the lives of so many black men like him. As Jackson charts his own path from drug dealer to published novelist\, he gives us a heartbreaking\, fascinating\, lovingly rendered view of the injustices and victories\, large and small\, that defined his youth. \n  \n\n  \nMitchell S. Jackson is the author of Survival Math. His debut novel The Residue Years was praised by publications\, including The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, and The Times(London). The novel won the Ernest Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence\, and it was also a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize\, the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction\, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Jackson’s honors include fellowships from the Whiting Foundation\, TED\, the Lannan Foundation\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, and the Center for Fiction. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review\, Salon\, and Tin House\, among other publications. He serves on the faculty at New York University and Columbia University. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \n  \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mitchell-s-jackson-survival-math-notes-on-an-all-american-family/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Santa Cruz is dedicated to nurturing the poetry community and bringing poetry to the larger community in Santa Cruz County. They present poetry readings at Bookshop Santa Cruz and other locations in Santa Cruz County\, and the Poet/Speak open reading. They also provide free information on other poetry-related events in the area. \nThis free event will take place in Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for opening seating are usually set up an hour before the event begins.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-santa-cruz-2/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:H O L L O W A Y : R E A D I N G : S E R I E S presents Aditi Machado  with Lindsay Choi
DESCRIPTION:Aditi Machado  with Lindsay Choi\nREADINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC\nReadings begin at 6:30pm unless otherwise noted. 2018-2019 Holloway events will be held in the MAUDE FIFE ROOM (315 Wheeler Hall)\nFor updates and event announcements\, join the Holloway Facebook group
URL:https://litseen.com/event/h-o-l-l-o-w-a-y-r-e-a-d-i-n-g-s-e-r-i-e-s-presents-aditi-machado-with-lindsay-choi/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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