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SUMMARY:Peter Balakian
DESCRIPTION:Peter Balakian is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Ozone Journal\, which recounts the speaker’s memory of excavating the bones of Armenian genocide victims in the Syrian desert with a crew of television journalists. He is the author of five other poetry collections and the memoir Black Dog of Fate\, winner of the PEN/Albrand Prize for memoir\, and The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response. Balakian has published essays on poetry\, culture\, art\, and social thought\, and he’s appeared widely on national television and radio: ABC World News Tonight\, The Charlie Rose Show\, Terry Gross’s “Fresh Air”; NPR’s “Weekend Edition\,” and CNN. He teaches at Colgate University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-balakian/
LOCATION:Hammer Theater Center\, 101 Paseo De San Antonio Walk\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Get Lit Spring Reading!
DESCRIPTION:Come join us April 12 as we celebrate spring reads with a fun night of literary storytelling with featured readers Christine No\, Patty Somlo and Paul Corman-Roberts (and YOU on the open mic)! \n~~~~~~\n+ Christine No is a writer/organizer with work shown work at the Sundance Film Festival\, in publications including: The Rumpus\, sPARKLE+bLINK\, Columbia Journal\, Atlas And Alice\, Apogee\, The Brooklyn Quarterly & various anthologies. She is a VONA/Voices Fellow\, a Pushcart Prize & Best of The Net 2017 Nominee. She believes in radical kindness\, that magic exists\, and that “the only way out is through”. (She’s also a total dork and looks way better on paper.) She lives in Oakland with her dog\, Brandeh.www.christineno.com \n+ Patty Somlo’s most recent book\, Hairway to Heaven Stories\, a linked short story collection set in a gentrifying African American neighborhood\, was just published by Cherry Castle Publishing. Her previous books have beenFinalists in the International Book Awards\, the Best Book Awards\, the National Indie Excellence Awards\, and the Reader Views Literary Awards. She won Honorable Mention for Fiction in the Women’s National Book Associat ion Contest\, was a Finalist in the Adelaide Voices Literary Award for Short Story\, has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize\, Best of the Net and the storySouth Million Writers Award\, and had an essay selected as Notable for Best American Essays 2014. \n+ Paul Corman-Roberts is the author of the Nomadic Press chapbook “We Shoot Typewriters” which was nominated for a Northern California Book award. He is also a core-founder of the Beast Crawl Literary Festival in Oakland CA where he lives. He serves as fiction editor for the online zine Full of Crow as well as timekeeper for several East Bay rock bands. His work has appeared in The Rumpus\, Sparkle and Blink\, Red Fez\, Cherry Bleeds\, Buddy and many others. \n~~~~~ \nGet Lit is a FREE quarterly literary event hosted by Dani Burlison and Kara Vernor at Aqus Café in Petaluma. All ages are welcome but DISCLAIMER: our readers may share adult content and we don’t provide ear muffs.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-spring-reading/
LOCATION:Aqus Petaluma\, 101 H St\, Petaluma\, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Leslie Jamison
DESCRIPTION:Leslie Jamison discusses her new book\, The Recovering: Intoxication And Its Aftermath. \n\nPraise for The Recovering \n\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 (mostly writers\, but also Billie Holiday and Amy Winehouse) who also made the jump from soused to sober. And some who didn’t. 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. It’s important to debunk what Todd Rundgren called ‘the ever popular tortured artist effect.’ All in all\, vivid writing and required reading.”―Stephen King \n\n“Leslie Jamison’s The Recovering is a definitive investigation of both the romance of intoxication and the possibilities for recovery. Whether interviewing veterans of a communal rehab house\, digging through the archives of alcoholic writers\, or examining her own motives and thoughts\, Jamison shows ways of living alongside contradictions without diminishing their confusion and pain. Graceful\, forensic\, and intimate\, The Recovering sets a new bar in addiction studies. It is a courageous and brilliant example of what nonfiction writing can do.”―Chris Kraus\, author of I Love Dick \n\n“You don’t need to be an addict to be enthralled by The Recovering. This book is for anyone interested in a dazzlingly brilliant\, uncommonly compassionate\, and often hilarious study of human nature. Leslie Jamison’s work will definitely make you feel smarter–I’d like to borrow her brain to pick a fight with a couple of people–but The Recovering also reads like a gripping mystery as written by a subversive and deeply passionate philosopher. Her writing is unexpected\, profound\, and perverse–in short\, a thrill to read. Best of all\, for a writer so gifted at locating the excruciating commonalities of isolation\, Jamison manages this greatest feat of magic: when I read her words\, I come away feeling less alone.”―Mary-Louise Parker\, author of New York Times bestseller Dear Mr. You \n\nAbout The Recovering \n\nWith its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir\, cultural history\, literary criticism\, and journalistic reportage\, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head\, demonstrating that the story of recovery can be every bit as electrifying as the train wreck itself. Leslie Jamison deftly excavates the stories we tell about addiction–both her own and others’–and examines what we want these stories to do\, and what happens when they fail us. \nAll the while\, she offers a fascinating look at the larger history of the recovery movement\, and at the literary and artistic geniuses whose lives and works were shaped by alcoholism and substance dependence\, including John Berryman\, Jean Rhys\, Raymond Carver\, Billie Holiday\, David Foster Wallace\, and Denis Johnson\, as well as brilliant figures lost to obscurity but newly illuminated here.\nFor the power of her striking language and the sharpness of her piercing observations\, Jamison has been compared to such iconic writers as Joan Didion and Susan Sontag. Yet her utterly singular voice also offers something new. With enormous empathy and wisdom\, Jamison has given us nothing less than the story of addiction and recovery in America writ large\, a definitive and revelatory account that will resonate for years to come.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/leslie-jamison/
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:Kathleen Belew
DESCRIPTION:Kathleen Belew\n\n  \ndiscussing the subject of her new book \nBring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America \nfrom Harvard University Press \n\n\nThe white power movement in America wants a revolution. It has declared all-out war against the federal government and its agents\, and has carried out—with military precision—an escalating campaign of terror against the American public. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but are highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview of white supremacy\, anticommunism\, and apocalypse. In Bring the War Home\, Kathleen Belew gives us the first full history of the movement that consolidated in the 1970s and 1980s around a potent sense of betrayal in the Vietnam War and made tragic headlines in the 1995 bombing of Oklahoma City. \nReturning to an America ripped apart by a war which\, in their view\, they were not allowed to win\, a small but driven group of veterans\, active-duty personnel\, and civilian supporters concluded that waging war on their own country was justified. They unified people from a variety of militant groups\, including Klansmen\, neo-Nazis\, skinheads\, radical tax protestors\, and white separatists. The white power movement operated with discipline and clarity\, undertaking assassinations\, mercenary soldiering\, armed robbery\, counterfeiting\, and weapons trafficking. Its command structure gave women a prominent place in brokering intergroup alliances and bearing future recruits. \nBelew’s disturbing history reveals how war cannot be contained in time and space. In its wake\, grievances intensify and violence becomes a logical course of action for some. Bring the War Home argues for awareness of the heightened potential for paramilitarism in a present defined by ongoing war. \nKathleen Belew is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and the College at the University of Chicago. \nKathleen Belew on This American Life  and  The New York Times
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kathleen-belew/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jami Attenberg & Friends / All Grown Up
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate the paperback launch of Jami Attenberg’sAll Grown Up\, with local superheroes Charlie Jane Anders\, Rachel Khong\, and Esmé Weijun Wang all talking on the themes of adulthood and what it means to be a grown up. \n“I’m alone. I’m a drinker. I’m a former artist. I’m a shrieker in bed. I’m the captain of the sinking ship that is my flesh.” \nAndrea Bern is a whip-smart woman in NYC “who is doing what she wants with her life\, right or wrong\, and not apologizing for it… at times she is a wise sage\, and at other times\, a selfish mess. It makes her so achingly human” (Liberty Hardy\, Book Riot). Andrea’s single\, she’s childfree\, she’s successful and yet not entirely devoted to her career. Everyone around her seems to have an entirely different idea of what it means to be an adult: marriage\, babies\, ambition. But what if those things aren’t what you want? What does it actually mean to be a woman and a grown up\, in this day and age? \nAndrea’s brother seems unscathed by their shared tumultuous childhood\, but when he and her sister-in-law have a baby born with a heartbreaking ailment\, Andrea and her family have to confront everything they haven’t wanted to face\, and reexamine what really matters. In a world that still expects women to gravitate toward partnership and motherhood\, Jami Attenberg gives us a pithy and sharp novel of living life on your own terms\, and a character who is witty\, winning\, sexy and complicated. \n—————————————————— \n“I read it twice\, laughing\, cringing\, and even tearing up.” — Judy Blume\, New York Times \n“Jami Attenberg’s sharply drawn protagonist\, Andrea\, has such a riveting\, propulsive voice that All Grown Up is hard to put down\, but I urge you to resist reading it in one sitting. Both the prose and the author’s knowing excavation of one woman’s desires\, compromises\, strengths\, and fears deserve closer attention. Like Andrea herself\, this novel is beautiful and brutal\, intelligent and funny\, frank and sexy.” — Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney\, New York Times best-selling author of The Nest \n“Hilarious\, courageous\, and mesmerizing from page one\, All Grown Up is a little gem that packs a devastating wallop. It’s that rare book I’m dying to give all my friends so we can discuss it deep into the night. I’m in awe of Jami Attenberg.” — Maria Semple\, author of Where’d You Go\, Bernadette \n“Jami Attenberg’s Andrea is the most addicting female protagonist voice I have read in years\, with her cutting observations on human relationships. This witty journey through a mess of men\, female friendships\, family\, and boozy urban existence positions the single girl not as object to be fixed but as contemporary sage and seer: the ultimate witness of truth in love today.” — Melissa Broder\, author of So Sad Today \n—————————————————— \nJami Attenberg is the New York Times best-selling author of five novels\, including The Middlesteins and Saint Mazie. She has contributed essays about sex\, urban life\, and food to theNew York Times Magazine\, the Wall Street Journal\, the Guardian\, and Lenny Letter\, among other publications. \nCharlie Jane Anders is the author of All the Birds in the Sky\, out now. She’s the organizer of the Writers With Drinks reading series\, and she was a founding editor of io9\, a website about science fiction\, science and futurism. Her stories have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction\,The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction\, Tor.com\, Lightspeed\, Tin House\, ZYZZYVA\, and several anthologies. Her novelette Six Months\, Three Days won a Hugo award. \nRachel Khong grew up in Southern California\, and holds degrees from Yale University and the University of Florida. From 2011 to 2016\, she was the managing editor then executive editor of Lucky Peach magazine. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Joyland\,American Short Fiction\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, The Believer\, and California Sunday. She lives in San Francisco. Goodbye\, Vitamin is her first novel. \nEsmé Weijun Wang is a novelist and essayist. Her debut novel\, The Border of Paradise\, was called a Best Book of 2016 by NPR and one of the 25 Best Novels of 2016 by Electric Literature. She was named by Granta as one of the “Best of Young American Novelists” in 2017\, and is the recipient of the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize for her forthcoming essay collection\, The Collected Schizophrenias. Born in the Midwest to Taiwanese parents\, she lives in San Francisco\, and can be found at esmewang.com and on Twitter @esmewang.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jami-attenberg-friends-all-grown-up/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Angel Dominguez and Kit Schluter
DESCRIPTION:Two renowned poets\, Dominguez and Schluter read their work.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/angel-dominguez-and-kit-schluter/
LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive\, 2155 Center St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Half Past the Unlucky: A Friday the 13th Reading
DESCRIPTION:& DRAWING FOR POEMS UNDER THE DOME\nFRI. APRIL 13TH\, 7PM \nOn Friday the 13th\, join us for an auspicious evening of poetry in celebration of National Poetry Month. \nThis event will also include the only drawing for a guaranteed spot to read at the13th Annual Poems Under the Dome at City Hall! \n\nDAPHNE GOTTLIEB\n \nDaphne Gottlieb \n\nDaphne Gottlieb stitches together the ivory tower and the gutter just using her tongue. She is the award-winning author of 10 books including Pretty Much Dead\, short stories about the people hanging on to the edge of the world in San Francisco. Previous works include Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in her Own Words\, letters from Death Row by the “first female serial killer”. She has won a bunch of awards\, and recently finished her first novel\, which is sort of about anonymous sex. \n\nTHE POET I\n \nthe poet i \n\nA lyrical powerhouse\, “-i-” has the ability to transform any room into a sanctuary. Voted Sacramento\, California’s Best Female Spoken Word artist and often called “The Storyteller” this award winning poet can take you on an emotional journey and back again in minutes. Though an Oakland\, CA native\, the mother of 8 currently resides in Carmichael\, CA. \n\nKIMBERLY DARK\n \nKimberly Dark \n\nKimberly Dark is a writer\, professor and raconteur\, working to reveal the hidden architecture of everyday life one clever essay\, poem\, and story at a time. She uses humor\, surprise and intimacy to help audiences discover their influences\, and reclaim their power as social creators. Kimberly teaches in Sociology and Women’s Studies at CSU San Marcos\, and writing and theatre courses for Cal State Summer Arts. Kimberly Dark has written award-winning plays\, taught and performed for a wide range of audiences in various countries over the past two decades. She is the author of Love and Errors\, a book of poetry and co-editor of the anthology Ways of Being in Teaching. Her essays appear in popular online publications such as Everyday Feminism and Ravishly. \n\n…PLUS SPECIAL GUEST \nE.K. KEITH\n \nE.K. Keith \n\nE.K. Keith shouts her poems on the street corner and takes the mic at bars\, coffee shops\, and radio stations. For the love of poetry\, she organizes and hosts Poems Under the Dome\, San Francisco’s annual open mic celebration of National Poetry Month inside City Hall. Print & online journals publish her poetry on all three coasts and places beyond. E.K. is currently turning internal cartwheels about Nomadic Press releasing Ordinary Villains in September 2018. \n\nCHARLIE GETTER\n \nCharlie Getter \n\nCharlie Getter’s work was described in the San Francisco Chronicle (8/25/2011) “as beguiling as Dr. Seuss.” He’s performed for the past fourteen years at the corner of 16th & Mission every Thursday night\, and holds an MFA in Poetics from the New College of California. His latest collection is titled How to Arrange Physics and Geography to Your Advantage(seventh tangent\, 2016).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/half-past-the-unlucky-a-friday-the-13th-reading/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cliterary Salon: Unlucky in Love
DESCRIPTION:Cliterary Salon is a show of ribald and rowdy stories about the clitoris\, bringing a spirit of fun sexuality to a literary scene that’s traditionally been focused on cis male experience. (Note: Not all women have clits\, not all clits belong to women.) \nIt’s Friday the 13th and Cliterary Salon’s theme will be Unlucky in Love. Bring your ex\, your diary\, all those old love letters\, and prepare to dump them in the trash as our lineup of writers pour out their hearts\, souls\, and sexy bits for a night of entertainment. \nEnjoy an evening of readings by Bay Area Cliterary Types in a secret Speakeasy in Soma (location and passwords will be emailed out a week prior to the event! Doors open at 6pm.) \nReaders: Lauren Parker\, Maggie Tokuda-Hall\, Louis Evans\, Meg Elison and MORE! \nAssistance is available upon request\, however\, the venue is patently inaccessible for most chair-users.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cliterary-salon-unlucky-in-love/
LOCATION:SOMA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETRY EVENT! Perversions / Perversións / Perverseco
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-event-perversions-perversions-perverseco/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Celebrating The Collected Letters of Alan Watts\, and Zen Odyssey with Anne Watts\, Janica Anderson\, and Steven Zahavi Schwartz
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special celebration of two new books: The Collected Letters of Alan Watts\, edited by two of his daughters\, Joan and Anne Watts\, and Zen Odyssey: The Story of Sokei-An\, Ruth Fuller Sasaki\, and the Birth of Zen in America\, by Janica Anderson andSteven Zahavi Schwartz\, who will be in conversation with Anne. Please join us! \n  \nThe Collected Letters of Alan Watts \nPhilosopher\, author\, and lecturer Alan Watts (1915–1973) popularized Zen Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies for the counterculture of the 1960s. Today\, new generations are finding his writings and lectures online\, while faithful followers worldwide continue to be enlightened by his teachings. The Collected Letters of Alan Watts reveals the remarkable arc of Watts’s colorful and controversial life\, from his school days in England to his priesthood in the Anglican Church as chaplain of Northwestern University to his alternative lifestyle and experimentation with LSD in the heyday of the late sixties. His engaging letters cover a vast range of subject matter\, with recipients ranging from High Church clergy to high priests of psychedelics\, government officials\, publishers\, critics\, family\, and fans. They include C. G. Jung\, Henry Miller\, Gary Snyder\, Aldous Huxley\, Reinhold Niebuhr\, Timothy Leary\, Joseph Campbell\, and James Hillman. Watts’ letters were curated by two of his daughters\, Joan Watts and Anne Watts\, who have added rich\, behind-the-scenes biographical commentary.\nAnne Watts’ philosophies were strongly shaped by her experience as the daughter of Alan Watts. Anne is a certified hypnotherapist and an educator and counselor in the areas of human sexuality\, sexual abuse\, family stress\, self-esteem\, and healing the inner child.  She also works with financial and aging issues. Since 1985 she has led hundreds of human growth workshops in the United States\, Canada\, Australia\, Japan\, England\, and Germany as a facility with the Human Awareness Institute.  Anne lives in Santa Rosa\, California with her long-time partner and husband. \n  \nZen Odyssey: The Story of Sokei-An\, Ruth Fuller Sasaki\, and the Birth of Zen in America \nRuth Fuller Sasaki and Sokei-an Shigetsu Sasaki: two pioneers of Zen in the West. Ruth was an American with a privileged life\, even during the height of the Great Depression\, before she went to Japan and met D. T. Suzuki. Sokei-an was one of the first Zen priests to come to America; he brought the gift of the Dharma to the United States but in 1942 was put in an internment camp. One made his way to the West and the other would find her way to the East\, but together they created the First Zen Institute of America and helped birth a new generation of Zen practitioners: among them\, Alan Watts\, Gary Snyder\, and Burton Watson. They were married less than a year before Sokei-an died\, but Ruth would go on to helm trailblazing translations in his honor and to become the first foreigner to be the priest of a Rinzai Zen temple in Japan. \n  \nWith lyrical prose\, Janica Anderson and Steven Zahavi Schwartz bring Ruth and Sokei-an to life. Two dozen intimate photographs show us two people who aren’t mere historical figures\, but flesh and blood people\, walking their paths. \n  \n— \nJanica Anderson\, a master falconer\, has been a student and teacher of esoteric traditions for fifty years\, which included being a research assistant in the psychology department at Harvard University and an instructor at Esalen Institute. She founded Big Sur Tapes\, which preserved and published audio archives of institutes such as Esalen and individuals such as Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts. \n  \nSteven Zahavi Schwartz is a writer\, editor\, visual artist\, and teacher with many years of immersion in Buddhist study and practice\, including a year in Asia during which he was a student of Ajahn Buddhadasa at Wat Suan Mokh in Southern Thailand. He is the author of “Making Sanctuary: Craft\, Nature\, and the Architecture of Attention.” He lives in Sonoma\, where he runs Meantimes Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/celebrating-the-collected-letters-of-alan-watts-and-zen-odyssey-with-anne-watts-janica-anderson-and-steven-zahavi-schwartz/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETRY! C. Arellano / Estela de la Cruz / Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-c-arellano-estela-de-la-cruz-lorenzo-herrera-y-lozano/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:East Bay Launch for "Invisible Gifts\, Poems" with Maw Shein Win and Guests
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of Maw Shein Win’s first full-length poetry collection Invisible Gifts\, Poems. \nWith readings by: \nMK Chavez\nSharon Coleman\nCassandra Dallett\nTim Donnelly\nTongo Eisen-Martin\nMaw Shein Win \n+++ \nInvisible Gifts\, Poems by Maw Shein Win \nManic D Press April 2018 \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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/east-bay-launch-for-invisible-gifts-poems-with-maw-shein-win-and-guests/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Michael Hoerman
DESCRIPTION:Born and raised in the Ozarks and now residing in Fayetteville\, Michael’s award-winning poetry embodies the bone-deep passion he feels for our rural culture and his reverence for the power of imagination. Michael is listed in A Readers’ Map of Arkansas for his groundbreaking cultivation of Fayetteville’s literary landscape. In 1995 he co-founded Arkansas’s first National Poetry Slam team. In 1997 he edited a Frank Stanford feature entitled “Death in the Cool Evening” that brought renewed critical attention to the legendary poet. \nMichael is touring to share a selection of earlier and never-heard-before poems in his new chapbook\, Disoriented Fascination\, featuring three poems nominated and now under consideration for Pushcart Prizes.\nA poet active since 1985\, Michael’s publication history and critical recognitions include a Massachusetts Artists Fellowship in the category of Poetry\, Bad Rotten\, his debut chapbook published by Pudding House Publications\, inclusion in Lavender Ink’s 2012 anthology entitled Fuck Poems and four other anthologies\, journals including Arkansas Literary Forum and Eureka Literary Magazine\, and residencies at Spiva Center for the Arts and Sedona Summer Colony among many others. \nBorn into rural poverty in the Ozarks\, Michael is a survivor. Though living in poverty\, disabled by PTSD\, a formerly incarcerated person\, with only a GED\, Michael’s poetry has broken through barriers that have too long kept the poor\, the disabled\, the uncredentialed and the formerly incarcerated out in the cold. His story will empower others like him\, and challenge those who would keep them down and out in the communities where they are integral.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-hoerman/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Book Launch with Christopher Moore at Opera Plaza!
DESCRIPTION:New York Times-bestselling author Christopher Moore joins us in celebration of his hilarious new novel\, Noir. One day before the book’s official release\, this very special event gives fans a chance to grab their copy of Noir before anyone else!\n*Please note: A Books Inc. receipt for Noir is required for a place in the signing line*
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-with-christopher-moore-at-opera-plaza/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Samantha Irby / Meaty
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host Samantha Irby\, in town to read from her beloved first collection of essays—and the basis for the upcoming FX Studios series—Meaty! Please join us. \nSamantha Irby exploded onto the printed page with this debut collection of essays about trying to laugh her way through failed relationships\, taco feasts\, bouts with Crohn’s disease\, and more. Every essay is crafted with the same scathing wit and poignant candor thousands of loyal readers have come to expect from visiting her notoriously hilarious blog\, bitchesgottaeat.com. \n  \n— \n“Raunchy\, funny and vivid…Those faint of heart beware…strap in and get ready for a roller-coaster ride to remember.”—Kirkus Reviews \n  \n“Amazingly crass\, defiant\, witty\, terrifying\, and wondrous…[Irby] cuts the bawdy\, wickedly funny pieces with some truly poignant palate cleansers…Irby’s voice is raw\, gripping\, and …Delicious.”—Booklist \n  \n“Her candor in style and subject matter–mostly sex\, dating\, and the general lousiness of men–has earned Samantha Irby a cult following… Honesty mixed with self-deprecating humor is what propels reader.”—Time Out Chicago \n  \n— \nSamantha Irby writes a blog called bitches gotta eat and is the author of the essay collections Meaty and the New York Times Bestseller We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/samantha-irby-meaty/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Queer Words: In Conversation with Natasha Dennerstein
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate National Poetry Month with Australian-born poet Natasha Dennerstein\, as she shares with us snippets from her various books\, “Anatomize\,” “Triptych Caliform\,” “Seahorse\,” and “About a Girl\,” a novella in verse.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queer-words-in-conversation-with-natasha-dennerstein/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sloane Crosley with Mallory Ortberg
DESCRIPTION:Sloane Crosley discusses her new book\, Look Alive Out There with Mallory Ortberg. \n\nPraise for Sloane Crosley \n\nSloane Crosley is another mordant and mercurial wit from the realm of Sedaris and Vowell. What makes her so funny is that she seems to be telling the truth\, helplessly.—Jonathan Lethem \n\nI took so much pleasure in every sentence of The Clasp\, fell so completely under the spell of its narrative tone—equal parts bite and tenderness\, a dash of rue—and became so caught up in the charmingly dented protagonists and their off-kilter caper\, that the book’s emotional power\, building steadily and quietly\, caught me off-guard\, and left me with a lump in my throat. —Michael Chabon \n\nHow sure-footed and observant Sloane Crosley is. How perfectly\, relentlessly funny. If you needed a bib while reading I Was Told There’d Be Cake\, you might consider diapers for How Did You Get This Number.—David Sedaris \n\n\nAbout Look Alive Out There \n\nFrom the New York Times–bestselling author Sloane Crosley comes Look Alive Out There―a brand-new collection of essays filled with her trademark hilarity\, wit\, and charm. The characteristic heart and punch-packing observations are back\, but with a newfound coat of maturity. A thin coat. More of a blazer\, really. \n  \nFans of I Was Told There’d Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number know Sloane Crosley’s life as a series of relatable but madcap misadventures. In Look Alive Out There\, whether it’s playing herself on Gossip Girl\, scaling active volcanoes\, crashing shivas\, befriending swingers\, or staring down the barrel of the fertility gun\, Crosley continues to rise to the occasion with unmatchable nerve and electric one-liners. And as her subjects become more serious\, her essays deliver not just laughs but lasting emotional heft and insight. Crosley has taken up the gauntlets thrown by her predecessors―Dorothy Parker\, Nora Ephron\, David Sedaris―and crafted something rare\, affecting\, and true. \n  \nLook Alive Out There arrives on the tenth anniversary of I Was Told There’d be Cake\, and Crosley’s essays have managed to grow simultaneously more sophisticated and even funnier. And yet she’s still very much herself\, and it’s great to have her back―and not a moment too soon (or late\, for that matter).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sloane-crosley-with-mallory-ortberg/
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:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series \nLyrics and Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. \nHosted and Curated by Mk Chavez\, Sharon Coleman\, and Lark Omura. \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-2/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Meaghan O'Connell with Lydia Kiesling
DESCRIPTION:Meaghan O’Connell discusses her new memoir\, And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I was Ready with Lydia Kiesling. \n\nPraise for And Now We Have Everything \n\nI began And Now We Have Everything on a Friday evening and was finished with it by Saturday afternoon–and that was with house guests to entertain and two children to keep alive! Meaghan O’Connell’s honesty\, humor\, vulnerability\, and willingness to explore motherhood in all of its messy complexities made me feel understood in a way few books do. I never wanted it to end. A necessary\, brilliant debut.”—Edan Lepucki\, author of California and Woman No. 17 \n  \n“Meaghan O’Connell writes with bracing clarity about the milk-soaked days of pregnancy and early parenthood\, and I (truly) laughed and cried reading her account of crossing the great human divide. Maybe there are parents who don’t have to wrestle with themselves and their spouses for a free hour\, who dance out of the delivery room feeling sexy and serene\, but I want to throw them out a window and then stay inside and talk to Meaghan about how life really is. The biggest compliment of all: I used several hours of daylight childcare hours reading this book\, just because I didn’t want to put it down.”—Emma Straub \n\n“O’Connell’s honest\, heartbreaking\, and hilarious book about motherhood and identity is unlike anything I’ve ever read. And Now We Have Everything is a smart\, tell-it-like-it-is essay collection from a much-needed voice.”—Esmé Weijun Wang\, author of The Border of Paradise \n\nAbout And Now We Have Everything \n\nA raw\, funny\, and fiercely honest account of becoming a mother before feeling like a grown up. \n  \nWhen Meaghan O’Connell got accidentally pregnant in her twenties and decided to keep the baby\, she realized that the book she needed — a brutally honest\, agenda-free reckoning with the emotional and existential impact of motherhood — didn’t exist. So she decided to write it herself. \n  \nAnd Now We Have Everything is O’Connell’s exploration of the cataclysmic\, impossible-to-prepare-for experience of becoming a mother. With her dark humor and hair-trigger B.S. detector\, O’Connell addresses the pervasive imposter syndrome that comes with unplanned pregnancy\, the fantasies of a “natural” birth experience that erode maternal self-esteem\, post-partum body and sex issues\, and the fascinating strangeness of stepping into a new\, not-yet-comfortable identity.Channeling fears and anxieties that are still taboo and often unspoken\, And Now We Have Everything is an unflinchingly frank\, funny\, and a visceral motherhood story for our times\, about having a baby and staying\, for better or worse\, exactly yourself.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meaghan-oconnell-with-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:Melissa Stein / Terrible Blooms
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is so excited to host the launch party for Melissa Stein’s second book of poems! Don’t miss it\, friends—more deets to come soon. \nIn this lush\, disturbing second collection from Melissa Stein\, exquisite images are salvaged from harm and survival. Set against the natural world’s violence—both ordinary and sublime—pain shines jewel-like out of these poems\, illuminating what lovers and families conceal. Stein uses her gifts for persona and lyric richness to build worlds that are vivid\, intricate\, tough\, sexy\, and raw: “over and over // life slapping you in the face / till you’re newly burnished / flat-out gasping and awake.” Breathless with risk and redemption\, Terrible Blooms shows how loss claims us and what we reclaim. \n— \n“Ms. Stein reminds us that there is no honey—rough\, or otherwise—without the sting.” —The New York Times \nQuarry \nAs you slept\nI was thinking about the quarry\,\nabout light going deeper\ninto earth\, into rock\, the hurt\nof light hitting layers\nthat should be hidden\,\nthat should be buried\,\nand how when it rained\nfor a long time that absence filled\nwith suffering\, and we swam. \n— \nMelissa Stein is the author of the poetry collections Terrible blooms (Copper Canyon Press) and Rough Honey\, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize\, selected by Mark Doty. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares\, Tin House\, The American Poetry Review\, Best New Poets\, Harvard Review\, New England Review\, and many other journals and anthologies. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the MacDowell Colony\, and Yaddo. She is a freelance editor in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/melissa-stein-terrible-blooms/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Drag Queen Story Hour Featuring Yves St. Croissant
DESCRIPTION:Created by Michelle Tea and RADAR Productions in San Francisco\, Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) is just what it sounds like—drag queens reading stories to children in libraries\, schools\, and bookstores. DQSH captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous\, positive\, and unabashedly queer role models. In spaces like this\, kids are able to see people who defy rigid gender restrictions and imagine a world where people can present as they wish\, where dress up is real. \nABOUT YVES\nContrary to her picture perfect exterior Yves Saint Croissant is a rebel heart who’s always romping around with the punks\, queers and club kidz. She’s immersed herself in a culture-making crowd both past and present and is headed straight to the top with them right by her side.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/drag-queen-story-hour-featuring-yves-st-croissant/
LOCATION:Oakland Main Library\, 125 14th St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jacqueline Winspear
DESCRIPTION:Jacqueline Winspear reads from her new Maisie Dobbs mystery\, To Die But Once. \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of To Die But Once by calling the store (510) 704-8222 and speaking to one of our booksellers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDuring the months following Britain’s declaration of war on Germany\, Maisie Dobbs investigates the disappearance of a young apprentice working on a hush-hush government contract. As news of the plight of thousands of soldiers stranded on the beaches of France is gradually revealed to the general public\, and the threat of invasion rises\, another young man beloved by Maisie makes a terrible decision that will change his life forever. \nMaisie’s investigation leads her from the countryside of rural Hampshire to the web of wartime opportunism exploited by one of the London underworld’s most powerful men\, in a case that serves as a reminder of the inextricable link between money and war. Yet when a final confrontation approaches\, she must acknowledge the potential cost to her future–and the risk of destroying a dream she wants very much to become reality. \nJacqueline Winspear’s  bestselling Maisie Dobbs series includes In This Grave Hour\, Journey to Munich\, A Dangerous Place\, Leaving Everything Most Loved\, Elegy for Eddie\, and eight other novels. Her standalone novel\, The Care and Management of Lies\, was also a New York Times bestseller and a Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist. Originally from the United Kingdom\, Winspear now lives in California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jacqueline-winspear-2/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:13th Annual Poems Under the Dome
DESCRIPTION:Mark your calendars! \nSpeak in verse in the belly of the beast! \nAll are welcome to celebrate National Poetry Month inside beautiful San Francisco City Hall. This unique FREE event invites ALL AGES to share a poem or enjoy the magic of the spoken word. Put your name in the hat\, and reading slots will be drawn throughout the evening. \nSerious folks who want a chance to ‘win’ a guaranteed reading spot can check www.poemdome.net in April to see which open mics we’ll be visiting to draw names throughout the month. If you host an open mic in San Francisco\, and would like a Poem Dome volunteer to attend your event and do a drawing in April\, please leave a comment here. \nReaders are permitted ONE poem\, not to exceed 3 minutes. The shorter your piece\, the more people we can get up to the mic. \nThursday\, April 19th 2018\nSan Francisco City Hall – North Light Court\n5:30-8pm sharp!\nFREE & ALL AGES\nwww.poemdome.net \nNOTE:\nPoetry only. No music/songs.\nMusical instruments are not allowed into City Hall without prior registration\, which the hosts cannot accommodate.\nThank you for your cooperation 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/13th-annual-poems-under-the-dome/
LOCATION:San Franscico City Hall\, San Francisco City Hall
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Words and Music Double Bill\, Steve Dalachinsky ||| Cosmic Diaspora: Jake Marmer\, John Schott\, Joshua Horowitz
DESCRIPTION:Join us\, as The Poetry Center Reading Room transforms into a one-night-only performance space\, for a very special evening of improvised music and poetry deployed out of the spirit of the music and related impulses. It’s unlikely that any one poet has been as immersed\, and for so long\, in the New York and European jazz and improvised music scenes\, or has collaborated in some manner with as many of its extraordinary artists\, as has Steve Dalachinsky. He\, among other participatory roles\, has written liner notes for the recordings of Anthony Braxton\, Charles Gayle\, James “Blood” Ulmer\, Rashied Ali\, Roy Campbell\, Matthew Shipp\, and Roscoe Mitchell\, among others. Tonight\, visiting San Francisco on a rare West Coast excursion\, he’ll share the bill with Bay Area poetry and music trio Cosmic Diaspora\, fresh from their own turn through New York City\, as part of guitarist/composer John Schott’s week-long residency at The Stone\, the famed improvised music space run by John Zorn\, now in its revived venue at The New School in Manhattan. Besides the extraordinary Mr Schott on guitars\, Cosmic Diaspora features Joshua Horowitz on keyboards and accordion\, and Jake Marmer\, voice and poetry. This event is free and open to the public. \n“He lives the music\, and his poems capture its heat and illumination.” —Francis Davis\, on Steve Dalachinsky \nSteve Dalachinsky was born in Brooklyn (1946) after the last big war and has managed to survive lots of little wars. His book The Final Nite & Other Poems: Complete Notes from a Charles Gayle Notebook 1987–2006 (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2006) won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award. His latest CDs are The Fallout of Dreams with Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach (RogueArt\, 2014) and ec(H)o-system with the French art-rock group\, the Snobs (Bambalam\, 2015). He has received both the Kafka and Acker Awards and is a 2014 recipient of a Chevalier D’ le Ordre des Artes et Lettres. His poem “Particle Fever” was nominated for a 2015 Pushcart Prize. His books include: Fools Gold (feral press\, 2014). A Superintendent’s Eyes (revised and expanded\, Autonomedia/Unbearables\, revised and expanded\, 2013/14). flying home\, a collaboration with German visual artist Sig Bang Schmidt (Paris Lit Up Press\, 2015). “The Invisible Ray” (Overpass Press\, 2016) with artwork by Shalom Neuman.\, Frozen Heatwave\, a collaboration with Yuko Otomo (Luna Bissonte Prods\, 2017) and Black Magic (New Feral Pressm\, 2017). His column “outtakes” appears regularly in The Brooklyn Rail. His most recent audio release is With Shelter Gone\, a full length 12-inch LP on the German label Psych.KG\, and his latest book is Where Night and Day Become One – the French Poems (a selection 1983-2017) (Great Weather for Media\, 2018). He lives\, with Yuko Otomo\, in New York City. \nCosmic Diaspora. Near the close of 2017\, in a burst of verbal improv\, John Schott wrote this: \n“I love my band Cosmic Diaspora with pianist/accordionist Josh Horowitz (Veretski Pass\, Budowitz) and poet Jake Marmer(Jazz Talmud). Josh and I come up with little loose compositions to serve as accompaniments to Jake’s poems\, which are mostly fixed but allow for spontaneous elaborations and disruptions. It’s a very tricky thing\, finding the right amount of activity and density\, so as not to overwhelm the listener\, but allow them to take in the words. I like Jake Marmer’s poetry very\, very much. He has the wonderful quality of savoring the English language from a non-Native speaker’s perspective — he immigrated to the U.S. from Ukraine when he was a teenager. He also thoughtfully works through various Jewish and Rabbinic texts and tropes in his work\, which creatively stimulate me as well. Josh Horowitz is both a virtuoso pianist and accordionist with a jaw-dropping\, encyclopedic knowledge of Jewish music\, Jazz\, and Classical music — truly one of the most remarkable musicians I’ve ever met. Like\, he published an article in a learned German musical journal with a ground-breaking discovery about Bach’s puzzle canons. He is completely conversant with the McCoy/Herbie/Keith vocabulary\, and can casually quote the opening to Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire in an improvisation. Also\, he’s one of the greatest authorities/educators on Jewish music in the world\, period. But in this project\, he’s totally out of all of his boxes\, and sort of free-floating in a world without definitions. \n“We recently played at a very special house concert venue in Palo Alto that was filmed. Here’s a selection:” \n\n\n\n\n\n\nCosmic Diaspora in performance:\n• Warp\n• Panic\n• Turbine\n• Cosmo-Chameleon\n• Purple Rocks \nVideos\, Interview\, Review:\n• John Tchicai and Steve Dalachinsky\n• Steve Dalachinsky and Dave Liebman at The Stone\n• Steve Dalachinsky and The Snobs\n• Steve Dalachinsky interviewed by Lisa Chau in The Huffington Post\n• Steve Dalachinsky in the New York Times \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
URL:https://litseen.com/event/words-and-music-double-bill-steve-dalachinsky-cosmic-diaspora-jake-marmer-john-schott-joshua-horowitz/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:A Translator Walks into a Bar with Jessica Cohen
DESCRIPTION:Translator Jessica Cohen will discuss the joys and challenges of rendering the work of some of the finest Israeli writers into English. Translators are bridge-builders between different languages and cultures\, and the bridge between Hebrew and English can be particularly difficult. Cohen will consider different ways of contextualizing Israeli cultural references for English-language readers\, and the particular difficulties posed by jokes and humor. She will focus especially on David Grossman’s award-winning A Horse Walks into a Bar\, which employs humor (often of the dark variety) more to unsettle than to entertain. \nFree admission with free garage parking on Pierce Street between Ellis and Eddy streets. \nCo-presented with the Jewish Community Library and the Consulate General of Israel. \n  \n\n\n\n\nJessica Cohen translates contemporary Israeli prose and poetry. She has translated some of Israel’s finest writers\, including David Grossman\, Etgar Keret\, Assaf Gavron\, Rutu Modan\, Amir Gutfreund\, Yael Hedaya\, Ronit Matalon and Tom Segev\, as well as with prominent screenwriters such as Ari Folman and Ron Leshem.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-translator-walks-into-a-bar-with-jessica-cohen/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Library\, 1835 Ellis St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94115\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStoryTime: Unrest
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime UNREST at Cinnabar\, 397 Ellis St. San Francisco\, on Thursday April 19th\, 7-9 pm\, will feature Yang Huang (My Old Faithful)\, Sumiko Saulson (Somnalia)\, Dominica Phetteplace\, Caitlin Myer\, and Ishita Arora.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-unrest/
LOCATION:Cinnabar\, 397 Ellis St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joanna Scutts
DESCRIPTION:Joanna Scutts discusses her new book\, The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hills Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It. \n\nPraise for The Extra Woman \n\n“The fascinating and formidable Marjorie Hillis has at last found her rightful biographer\, champion\, and exegete in Joanna Scutts. This is a beautifully written\, insightful\, and wise account of the life and work of an important but heretofore largely unremembered writer\, wit\, and proto-feminist.” — Rosie Schaap\, author of Drinking with Men \n\n“Long before Girls\, Carrie Bradshaw\, and Mary Tyler Moore\, Marjorie Hillis inspired women to live more independently as ‘Live-Aloners\,’ and she deserves more recognition than she gets. Joanna Scutts’ account of Hillis and the cultural transformations she made possible is as witty\, forthright\, and elegant as its subject.” — Lauren Elkin\, author of Flâneuse \n\n“Scutts should feel proud that she did what she set out to do: return Hillis to her rightful place in the pantheon of women who made it possible for the rest of us to enjoy that freedom. ‘Recovering the spirit of daring that defined the Live-Alone heyday can remind us that a different story is always possible\,’ Scutts writes\, ‘and might just inspire us anew\, to resist and rebel against convention\, and to fight to create the life we really want.’ Here’s hoping every reader has the chance to do just that.” — Ellen McCarthy\, Washington Post \n\nAbout The Extra Woman \n\nFrom the flapper to The Feminine Mystique\, a cultural history of single women in the city through the reclaimed life of glamorous guru Marjorie Hillis. \n  \nYou’ve met the extra woman: she’s sophisticated\, she lives comfortably alone\, she pursues her passions unabashedly\, and—contrary to society’s suspicions—she really is happy. Despite multiple waves of feminist revolution\, today’s single woman is still mired in judgment or\, worse\, pity. But for a brief\, exclamatory period in the late 1930s\, she was all the rage. A delicious cocktail of cultural history and literary biography\, The Extra Woman transports us to the turbulent and transformative years between suffrage and the sixties\, when\, thanks to the glamorous grit of one Marjorie Hillis\, single women boldly claimed and enjoyed their independence. \n  \nMarjorie Hillis\, pragmatic daughter of a Brooklyn preacher\, was poised for reinvention when she moved to the big city to start a life of her own. Gone were the days of the flirty flapper; ladies of Depression-era New York embraced a new icon: the independent working woman. Hillis was already a success at Vogue when she published a radical self-help book in 1936: Live Alone and Like It: A Guide for the Extra Woman. With Dorothy Parker–esque wit\, she urged spinsters\, divorcées\, and “old maids” to shed derogatory labels and take control of their lives\, and her philosophy became a phenomenon. From the importance of a peignoir to the joy of breakfast in bed (alone)\, Hillis’s tips made single life desirable and chic. \n  \nIn a style as irresistible as Hillis’s own\, Joanna Scutts\, a leading cultural critic\, explores the revolutionary years following the Live-Alone movement\, when the status of these “brazen ladies” peaked and then collapsed. Other innovative lifestyle gurus set similar trends that celebrated guiltless female independence and pleasure: Dorothy Draper’s interior design smash\, Decorating Is Fun!transformed apartments; Irma Rombauer’s warm and welcoming recipe book\, The Joy of Cooking\, reassured the nervous home chef that she\, too\, was capable of decadent culinary feats. By painting the wider picture\, Scutts reveals just how influential Hillis’s career was\, spanning decades and numerous best sellers. As she refashioned her message with every life experience\, Hillis proved that guts\, grace\, and perseverance would always be in vogue. \n  \nWith this vibrant examination of a remarkable life and profound feminist philosophy\, Joanna Scutts at last reclaims Marjorie Hillis as the original queen of a maligned sisterhood. Channeling Hillis’s charm\, The Extra Woman is both a brilliant exposé of women who forged their independent paths before the domestic backlash of the 1950s trapped them behind picket fences\, and an illuminating excursion into the joys of fashion\, mixology\, decorating\, and other manifestations of shameless self-love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joanna-scutts/
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:Åsne Seierstad / Two Sisters
DESCRIPTION:Two Sisters\, by the international bestselling author Åsne Seierstad\, tells the unforgettable story of a family divided by faith. Sadiq and Sara\, Somali immigrants raising a family in Norway\, one day discover that their teenage daughters Leila and Ayan have vanished—and are en route to Syria to aid the Islamic State. Seierstad’s riveting account traces the sisters’ journey from secular\, social democratic Norway to the front lines of the war in Syria\, and follows Sadiq’s harrowing attempt to find them. \nEmploying the same mastery of narrative suspense she brought toThe Bookseller of Kabul and One of Us\, Seierstad puts the problem of radicalization into painfully human terms\, using instant messages and other primary sources to reconstruct a family’s crisis from the inside. Eventually\, she takes us into the hellscape of the Syrian civil war\, as Sadiq risks his life in pursuit of his daughters\, refusing to let them disappear into the maelstrom—even after they marry ISIS fighters. Two Sisters is a relentless thriller and a feat of reporting with profound lessons about belief\, extremism\, and the meaning of devotion. \n— \nPraise for Åsne Seierstad’s One of Us (2015)\, a New York Times Book Review ‘10 Best Books of 2015’ selection: \n“Like Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song and Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood\, [One of Us] has an omniscient narrator who tells the story of brutal murders and\, by implication\, sheds light on the society partly responsible for them. Although those two books are beautifully written\, I found One of Us to be more powerful and compelling . . . The book attains an almost unbearable weight . . . One of Us must have been difficult to write\, and yet from the opening pages it has an irresistible force.” —Eric Schlosser\, The New York Times Book Review \n“‘Utøya’ and ‘July 22nd’ assume new meaning for me when I read [One of Us]. Once again\, that day becomes something concrete\, not a phenomenon\, not an affair\, not an argument in a political discussion but a dead body bent over a stone at the water’s edge.”—Karl Ove Knausgaard\, The New Yorker \n“One of Us reads like a true crime novel\, but it has the journalistic chops to back it up . . . [It] is the story of Norway\, its people\, and the lengths one will go to feel like they belong. Not only a stunning achievement in journalism\, it’s a touchstone on how to write about tragedy with detail\, honesty\, and compassion.”—Samantha Edwards\, The A.V. Club\n— \nÅsne Seierstad is an award-winning Norwegian journalist and writer known for her work as a war correspondent. She is the author of One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway—and Its Aftermath\, The Bookseller of Kabul\, One Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal\,Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War\, and With Their Backs to the World: Portraits of Serbia. She lives in Oslo\, Norway.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/asne-seierstad-two-sisters/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alexis Rhone Fancher + D.A. Powell
DESCRIPTION:** THIS IS A READING OF EROTIC POETRY. ADULTS ONLY. **\n\n\n\nAlexis Rhone Fancher is a professionally trained theatre actress who gave it all up for poetry. She is the author of How I Lost My Virginity To Michael Cohen and other heart stab poems\, (2014)\, State of Grace: The Joshua Elegies\, (2015)\, and her latest erotic collection\, Enter Here (2017). She is published in Best American Poetry 2016\, Rattle\, Slipstream\, Plume\, Nashville Review\, Diode\, Glass\, Tinderbox\, and elsewhere. Her photos are published worldwide\, including the covers of Witness\, Heyday\, The Chiron Review\, and Nerve Cowboy. A multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee\, Alexis is poetry editor of Cultural Weekly. She lives in Los Angeles. www.alexisrhonefancher.com\n\n\n\n\n\nD.A. Powell is the author of five collections\, including Useless Landscape\, or A Guide for Boys which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. His honors include the Kingsley Tufts Prize in Poetry\, the Shelley Memorial Prize\, and an Arts & Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.\n\nCritic Steph Burt\, writing in the New York Times\, said of D. A. Powell “No accessible poet of his generation is half as original\, and no poet as original is this accessible.” \nA former Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Poetry at Harvard University\, Powell has taught at Stanford\, Columbia\, University of Texas at Austin\, University of Iowa’s Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, and Davidson College. He is a Professor at University of San Francisco and lives in San Francisco. \nPowell’s most recent book is Repast: Tea\, Lunch & Cocktails\, a reissue of his first three collections with an introduction by novelist David Leavitt.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexis-rhone-fancher-d-a-powell/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Dodie Bellamy: "Hoarding as Écriture"
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Lecture Series]\nDodie Bellamy: “Hoarding as Écriture” \nThroughout her career\, Dodie Bellamy has undermined the fantasy of the autonomous subject. Her work compulsively explores the permeable boundaries between self and other\, the conflicting desires to merge with the outside and to protect oneself from invasion. Bellamy will discuss her use of appropriation to trouble the ever-wavering relation between self and culture. For her\, cut-ups\, collage\, citations\, and rewritings are more than literary techniques; they betray a libidinal urge to devour and spit up the world. \nDodie Bellamy writes genre-bending works that focus on sexuality\, politics\, and narrative experimentation\, challenging the distinctions between fiction\, essay\, and poetry. Her most recent collection is When the Sick Rule the World. Her chapbook\, The Beating of Our Hearts\, was published in conjunction with the 2014 Whitney Biennial. With Kevin Killian she edited Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977-1997 (2017). Also with Killian she curated the 2018 exhibit There’s a Dark Secret in Me: Precarity\, Exposure\, Camouflage for di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art. \n—\nImage: Tariq Alvi\, “Two Hankies: Pony\, The Bandaged Lady\,” 2005; Linen hanky. Courtesy the artist.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dodie-bellamy-hoarding-as-ecriture/
LOCATION:San Francisco Art Institute\, 800 Chestnut St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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