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SUMMARY:Catherine deCuir and Robert Schoen present The Rabbi Finds Her Way
DESCRIPTION:About the Book: \n“This rabbi gig. People have no idea what it’s all about.” \nA year after graduating from rabbinical school\, Pearl Ross-Levy lands the job of her life. As Associate Rabbi at Lakeshore Temple in Oakland\, California\, Pearl begins to learn what being a rabbi is all about. \nThrough compelling\, inspiring\, and often funny episodes\, the young rabbi meets a cast of quirky characters and discovers what it means to become a leader in the synagogue community. As Pearl faces the challenges of her new role\, we witness her kindness and compassion as well as her resourcefulness and courage. \nWhether it is caring for her high school classmate (the victim of a serious car accident)\, struggling with the anguish of a man who believes he’s committed a murder\, or bringing the community together to help a lonely cancer patient feel not so alone\, the rabbi teaches us how a little love and caring can affect people in wonderful ways. \nThe Rabbi’s strength and faith grow as she continues to see that God does\, indeed\, work in strange ways. \nAuthor Bios: \nRobert Schoen is the author of On God’s Radar—My Walk Across America and the award-winning book What I Wish My Christian Friends Knew About Judaism. He lives in Oakland\, California. \nCatherine deCuir is a cantorial soloist\, jazz vocalist\, and fiction writer. She lives in Albany\, California. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, July 11\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books on Solano\n1855 Solano Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94707
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LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Ruchika Tomar
DESCRIPTION:Ruchika Tomar discusses her new novel\, A Prayer for Travelers. \nPraise For A Prayer for Travelers \n“Sometimes characters come along that demand a new kind of novel. The young women at the center of Ruchika Tomar’s A Prayer for Travelers – elusive Penny and wounded Cale – are two spirits hitchhiking through geographies of dislocation and desire. The human collisions in Tomar’s novel are emotionally seismic\, and they leave us haunted and unsettled.”--Adam Johnson\, author of The Orphan Master’s Son \n“Ruchika Tomar is an ace cartographer of the heart and its urgent\, wild\, unruly ways. Radiant with longing\, A Prayer for Travelers is an unforgettable debut.”  —R.O. Kwon\, author of The Incendiaries  \n“A Prayer for Travelers is a novel haunted by missing persons and lost souls\, written in telepathic prose. Ruchika Tomar sees through walls\, around corners\, and into the deep heart of what matters\, and moves us\, the most. A beautiful debut.”—Ben Marcus\, author of The Flame Alphabet \nAbout A Prayer For Travelers \nCale Lambert\, a bookish loner of mysterious parentage\, lives in a dusty town near the California-Nevada border\, a place where coyotes scavenge for backyard dogs and long-haul truckers scavenge for pills and girls. Cale was raised by her grandfather in a loving\, if codependent\, household\, but as soon as she’s left high school his health begins an agonizing decline. Set adrift for the first time\, Cale starts waitressing at the local diner\, where she reconnects with Penélope Reyes\, a charismatic former classmate running mysterious side-hustles to fund her dreams. Penny exposes Cale to the reality that exists beyond their small town\, and the girls become inseparable—-until one terrifying act of violence shatters their world. When Penny vanishes without a trace\, Cale must set off on a dangerous quest across the desert to find her friend\, and discover herself. \nAn audacious debut\, told in deftly interwoven chapters\, A Prayer for Travelers explores the complicated legacy of the American West and the trauma of female experience.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ruchika-tomar/
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:Aaron Hamburger: Nirvana Is Here
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning author Aaron Hamburger (The View from Stalin’s Head\, Faith for Beginners) reads from his new novel Nirvana Is Here. When his ex-husband is accused of sexual harassment in the #metoo era\, history professor Ari Silverman is forced to confront long-buried trauma from his childhood\, where he and his high school crush bonded over the raw emotion of Kurt Cobain’s lyrics in the segregated suburbs of 1990s Detroit. Nirvana Is Here explores issues of identity\, race\, sex\, and family with both poignancy and unexpected humor. “A touching\, finely wrought portrait of secrets lying like buried ordinance beneath ordinary lives. The delicacy and observational wit of Aaron Hamburger’s prose are a marvel.”–Louis Bayard\, author of Courting Mr. Lincoln \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDog Eared Books (Castro) \n\n489 Castro St.\nSan Francisco\, CA 94114
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aaron-hamburger-nirvana-is-here/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry of Witness: Documenting what we see and feel
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: MK Chavez\, Sharon Coleman\, Judy Bebelaar\, Mary Mackey. 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/poetry-of-witness-documenting-what-we-see-and-feel/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Julia Phillips
DESCRIPTION:Julia Phillips discusses her new novel\, Disappearing Earth. \nPraise for Disappearing Earth \n“I cannot speak too highly of Julia Phillips’s thrilling\, impeccably written and splendidly imagined story\, set with rigorous attention to detail in one of the most volcanically dangerous and beautifully remote corners of the planet.  An exciting beginning from an author whose literary future looks set to be stellar.”—Simon Winchester  \n“Julia Phillips is at once a careful cartographer and gorgeous storyteller. Written with passion and patience\, this is the story of a people and the land that shapes them. A mystery of two missing girls burns at the center of this astonishing debut\, and the complexity of ethnicity\, gender\, hearth and kin illuminates this question and many more.”—Tayari Jones\, author of An American Marriage  \n“A genuine masterpiece\, but one that is easily consumed in a feverish stay-up-all-night bout of reading pleasure. It’s as much a portrait of humanity as of a small Kamchatka community.” —Gary Shteyngart \n“A feat of literary suspense. I felt like a wide-eyed kid reading Julia Phillips’s Disappearing Earth. I could live in her portrayal of this remote part of the world forever.”—Sloane Crosley\, author of I Was Told There’d Be Cake \nAbout Disappearing Earth \nOne August afternoon\, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia\, two girls–sisters\, eight and eleven–go missing. In the ensuing weeks\, then months\, the police investigation turns up nothing. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community\, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women. \nTaking us through a year in Kamchatka\, Disappearing Earth enters with astonishing emotional acuity the worlds of a cast of richly drawn characters\, all connected by the crime: a witness\, a neighbor\, a detective\, a mother. We are transported to vistas of rugged beauty–densely wooded forests\, open expanses of tundra\, soaring volcanoes\, and the glassy seas that border Japan and Alaska–and into a region as complex as it is alluring\, where social and ethnic tensions have long simmered\, and where outsiders are often the first to be accused. \nIn a story as propulsive as it is emotionally engaging\, and through a young writer’s virtuosic feat of empathy and imagination\, this powerful novel brings us to a new understanding of the intricate bonds of family and community\, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julia-phillips/
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:John Doe in conversation with Tom DeSavia
DESCRIPTION:John Doe in conversation with Tom DeSavia\nThursday\, June 6\, 2019\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\nCity Lights in conjunction with Litquake and San Francisco’s Rock n’ Roll Book Club \npresent \nJohn Doe and Tom DeSavia in conversation \ncelebrationg the release of \n  \nMore Fun in the New World: The Unmaking and Legacy of L.A. Punk \nby John Doe and Tom DeSavia \nfrom Da Capo Press \n\nSequel to Grammy-nominated bestseller Under the Big Black Sun\, continuing the up-close and personal account of the L.A. punk scene\, with 50 rare photos \nPicking up where Under the Big Black Sun left off\, More Fun in the New World explores the years 1982 to 1987\, covering the dizzying pinnacle of L.A.’s punk rock movement as its stars took to the national — and often international — stage. Detailing the eventual splintering of punk into various sub-genres\, the second volume of John Doe and Tom DeSavia’s west coast punk history portrays the rich cultural diversity of the movement and its characters\, the legacy of the scene\, how it affected other art forms\, and ultimately influenced mainstream pop culture. The book also pays tribute to many of the fallen soldiers of punk rock\, the pioneers who left the world much too early but whose influence hasn’t faded. \nAs with Under the Big Black Sun\, the book features stories of triumph\, failure\, stardom\, addiction\, recovery\, and loss as told by the people who were influential in the scene\, with a cohesive narrative from authors Doe and DeSavia. Along with many returning voices\, More Fun in the New World weaves in the perspectives of musicians Henry Rollins\, Fishbone\, Billy Zoom\, Mike Ness\, Jane Weidlin\, Keith Morris\, Dave Alvin\, Louis Pérez\, Charlotte Caffey\, Peter Case\, Chip Kinman\, Maria McKee\, and Jack Grisham\, among others. And renowned artist/illustrator Shepard Fairey\, filmmaker Allison Anders\, actor Tim Robbins\, and pro-skater Tony Hawk each contribute chapters on punk’s indelible influence on the artistic spirit. \nIn addition to stories of success\, the book also offers a cautionary tale of an art movement that directly inspired commercially diverse acts such as Green Day\, Rancid\, Red Hot Chili Peppers\, Wilco\, and Neko Case. Readers will find themselves rooting for the purists of punk juxtaposed with the MTV-dominating rock superstars of the time who flaunted a “born to do this\, it couldn’t be easier” attitude that continued to fuel the flames of new music. More Fun in the New World follows the progression of the first decade of L.A. punk\, its conclusion\, and its cultural rebirth. \n\n\nJohn Doe\, a founding member of groundbreaking punk band X\, has recorded eight solo records and as an actor has appeared in over fifty films and television productions. \nTom DeSavia is a long time record and music publishing A&R man based in Los Angeles\, California. DeSavia began his music industry career as a journalist. \nAbout Litquake: \n\nSan Francisco’s annual Litquake literary festival was founded by Bay Area writers as a week-long literary spectacle for book lovers\, complete with cutting-edge panels\, unique cross-media events\, and hundreds of readings. Since its founding in 1999\, the festival has presented close to 1400 author appearances for an audience of over 32\,000 in its lively and inclusive celebration of San Francisco’s thriving contemporary literary scene. Litquake seeks to foster interest in literature\, perpetuate a sense of literary community\, and provide a vibrant forum for Bay Area writing as a complement to the city’s music\, film\, and cultural festivals. \nvisit: www.litquake.org \n\nAbout the Rock ‘n Roll Book Club:\nFounded in 2011\, San Francisco’s Rock ‘n Roll Book Club is a loose group of regulars and non-regulars who enjoy music and reading about it. They generally meet every other month at a bar’s backroom to discuss a book and listen to related music\, over drinks and food mentioned in the book. They read new releases\, classic memoirs\, biographies\, oral histories and music criticism\, usually focusing on music from the 60s and 70s\, preferably including sex\, drugs\, and good writing. They’ve met with authors Alice Bag (via skype)\, Robert Gordon (via Skype)\, Greil Marcus and V. Vale (RE/Search). \nvisit: Rock n’ Roll Book Club
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-doe-in-conversation-with-tom-desavia/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sham-E-Ali Nayeem
DESCRIPTION:Sham-E-Ali Nayeem reads from her new poetry collection\, City of Pearls. Also featuring readings by Monica Sok\, Seema Yasmin\, Vanessa Huang and Janice Sapigao. \nAbout Sham-E-Ali \nSham-e-Ali Nayeem is a poet and visual artist who was born in Hyderabad\, India and raised in both the UK and the US. A former public interest lawyer supporting economic justice for survivors of family violence\, Sham-e-Ali is a recipient of the Loft Literary Center’s Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship. \nAbout Monkia Sok \nMONICA SOK is a Cambodian American poet and the daughter of former refugees. She is the author of Year Zero\, winner of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Her work has been recognized with a “Discovery” / Boston Review Poetry Prize. Other honors include fellowships from Hedgebrook\, Elizabeth George Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, Kundiman\, Jerome Foundation\, Montalvo Arts Center\, MacDowell Colony\, Saltonstall Foundation\, and others. Currently\, Sok is a 2018-2020 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and a Poet-in-Residence at Banteay Srei in Oakland. Her debut poetry collection A Nail the Evening Hangs On is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2020. \nAbout Seema Yasmin \nDr. Seema Yasmin is an Emmy-award winning journalist\, author\, medical doctor and professor. She trained in medicine at the University of Cambridge and in journalism at the University of Toronto. Her first book\, about her mentor who was killed on Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17\, charts the course of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and the life of a scientist who fought to end the outbreak. Her second book\, Debunked! dissects medical myths and pseudoscience and explores why we believe what we believe. Debunked! is released in 2019. She teaches science journalism and global health storytelling at Stanford University and is the founder of the Yasmin Scholarships. \nAbout Vanessa Huang \nBorn in Berkeley and home in diaspora from California and Taipei to Atlanta\, New York\, and Tianjin\, Vanessa Huang is a multimedia poet\, artist\, and cultural worker whose practice inherits teachings from the prison industrial complex abolition\, gender liberation\, and intersecting social justice movements. For over 15 years\, Vanessa has worked to shift cultural narratives and strategies based in fear\, violence\, and exploitation towards realities centering love\, vision\, and transformation. Vanessa’s deejaying extends this practice\, continuing to conjure public/digital space for sonic healing and freedom dreams. \nAbout Janice Sapigao \nJanice Lobo Sapigao is a daughter of Filipina/o immigrants.  She was named one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s 2017 Women to Watch by KQED Arts. She is the author of two books of poetry: Like a Solid to a Shadow (Timeless\, Infinite Light\, 2017) and microchips for millions (Philippine American Writers and Artists\, Inc.\, 2016) and three other chapbooks. She is a VONA/Voices and Kundiman Fellow\, and the Associate Editor of TAYO Literary Magazine. She co-founded Sunday Jump open mic in L.A. She earned her M.F.A. in Writing from CalArts\, and she has a B.A. in Ethnic Studies with Honors from UC San Diego. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sham-e-ali-nayeem/
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:Saretta Morgan and Asiya Wadud
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, Jun 07\, 2019 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM \nLocation: \nIn the basement of the store\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nWebsite \nSaretta Morgan is the author of the chapbooks\, Feeling Upon Arrival (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2018) and room for a counter interior (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs\, 2017) as well as a forthcoming full-length collection Plan Upon Arrival (Selva Oscura/Three Count Pour\, 2020). Her work considers privacy and physical space in narrative. Her most recent writing considers Black migration to the southwest\, particularly as it relates to natural resource management\, indigenous erasure and contemporary border policies. She has received fellowships and residencies from the Jerome Foundation\, Arizona Commission on the Arts\, Headlands Center for the Arts\, the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council\, among others. She lives in Phoenix\, Arizona where she volunteers with Mariposas Sin Fronteras and No More Deaths Phoenix. She teaches creative writing at Arizona State University. \nAsiya Wadud is the author of Crosslight for Youngbird\, published by Nightboat Books in 2018 and recently completed a collaboration of songs and poems\, day pulls down the sky… a filament in gold leaf\, with Okwui Okpokwasili. Her book Syncope (Ugly Duckling Presse) will be out later this year and No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body will be out in 2020. She teaches poetry at Saint Ann’s School and leads an English conversation class for new immigrants at the Brooklyn Public Library.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saretta-morgan-and-asiya-wadud/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Obi Kaufmann - - The State of Water
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Obi Kaufmann to discuss his new new book The State of Water: Understanding Californi’as Most Precious Resource on Friday\, June 7 at 7pm. \nObi Kaufmann\, author of the best-selling California Field Atlas\, turns his artful yet analytical attention to the Golden State’s single most complex and controversial resource: water. In this new book\, full-color maps unravel the braided knot of California’s water infrastructure and ecosystems\, exposing a history of unlimited growth in spite of finite natural resources–a history that has led to its current precarious circumstances. Yet this built world depends upon the biosphere\, and in The State of Water Kaufmann argues that environmental conservation and restoration efforts are necessary not only for ethical reasons but also as a matter of human survival. Offering nine perspectives to illustrate the most pressing challenges facing California’s water infrastructure\, from dams to species revitalization\, Kaufmann reveals pragmatic yet inspiring solutions to how water in the West can continue to support agriculture\, municipalities\, and the environment. Interspersed throughout with trail paintings of animals that might yet survive under a caring and careful water ethic\, Kaufmann shows how California can usher in a new era of responsible water conservation\, and–perhaps most importantly–how we may do so together. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nFriday\, June 7\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/obi-kaufmann-the-state-of-water/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:After Hours - Naked Truth: real.stories.live.
DESCRIPTION:After Hours – Naked Truth: real.stories.live.\nFriday\, June 7th | 7:00pm \nWine reception at 6:30pm for registered guests. \nInternationally acclaimed comedian and storyteller Dhaya Lakshminarayanan emcees a night of engaging stories with JP Frary\, Trina Michelle Robinson\, Kathleen Auterio and Kyle Metzner. Throw your name in the hat to tell a one-minute story in the Lightning Round. \nKathleen Auterio is a heavy metal and horror movie fanatic in a constant battle with gravity and reality. When not disregarding medical advice to travel thousands of miles to see a concert\, she plays and records with her own band\, Beast of England. She’s recently told her stories from serious to absurd at The Moth GrandSlam\, Risk! Live show and Podcast\, Porchlight\, Fireside\, Spokespeople\, Bawdy\, and more. \nJP Frary designs and builds furniture in a shop on the old Naval Air Station in Alameda specializing in making beautiful things out of recycled materials. His stories can be heard in hardware stores and lumber yards throughout the Bay Area. JP won a Moth Story Slam with a story about trying to cross the Trinity Alps in mid-winter when he was eighteen. He failed. \nTrina Michelle Robinson is interested in exploring memory through video\, archival materials and text. Her video essay The Call has been exhibited in galleries and film festivals throughout the country. She has also told the story of exploring her ancestry on The Moth Mainstage at theaters in New York\, Portland\, OR and Westport\, CT. \nKyle Metzner is an educator\, craftsman\, and storyteller who lives in Oakland with his filmmaker wife and two daughters. He designed a project-based educational program which mixes dangerous power tools and fire with social justice and creativity. He is currently writing a book about how to use the power of storytelling to create more engaging classrooms. \nDhaya Lakshminarayanan’s accolades as an internationally recognized comedian include the 2016 Liz Carpenter Political Humor Award and Grand Prize Winner of ‘The Ultimate Comedy Challenge’ filmed in Singapore. Dhaya’s stories have appeared on NPR\, Snap Judgement and the Moth podcast. Dhaya also regularly acts as emcee at the monthly Moth StorySLAMs in San Francisco. \nAdults and high school students only. \nRegistration recommended. Click here to register. \nAdd to my:iCal/Outlook \nWhen:Friday\, June 7\, 2019 \nTime:7:00 PM – 9:00 PM \nWhere:Mill Valley Public Library – Main Reading Room\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley\, California\, 94941 \nEvent Type:Library\, After Hours \nContact:(415) 389-4292
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-naked-truth-real-stories-live/
LOCATION:Main Reading Room\, Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Faith G. Harper: Unf#ck!
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, Jun 08\, 2019 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM \nLocation: \nIn the basement of the store\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nWebsite \nMoe’s welcomes Faith G. Harper\, author of Unf#ck Your Brain and Unf#ck Your Adulting\, as well as This is Your Brain on Anxiety and Depression\, and ( just out from Microcosm Publishing) Unf#ck Your Intimacy and Coping Skills. \nFrom the Author: \nHi\, I’m Faith. I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and board supervisor in the State of Texas\, experienced with individual\, family\, and group work in both community mental health settings and partial hospitalization programs. I am also a certified sexologist and nutritionist. \nI adhere to both state regulations for Licensed Professional Counselors\, the American Counseling Association Code of Ethics\, and the NBCC Code of Ethics. \nMicrocosm Press has published many of my zines on various topics\, and they are also publishing my books UNF**K YOUR BRAIN and THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON ANXIETY. I also write for Dysfunksion Magazine and for Out in SA Magazine as the Intimacy Dr. I am also responsible for the TedX talk “Shame\, Sex\, and Silence\,” which can be found on YouTube. \nI am married to the writer Joseph E. Green. He likes fideo and bunnies.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/faith-g-harper-unfck/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poetry Marathon
DESCRIPTION:* Saturday\, June 8\n____ Guest co-curators: Eric Dolan & Lisa Wenzel ____\nReaders:  Tongo Eisen-Martin  *  Jennifer Elise Foerster\nStacy Johnson  *  Jevohn Newsome  *  Linda Norton\nDjenanway Se-Gahan  *  Hunter Thomas\nLisa Wenzel  *   Maw Shein Win \n  \n* Saturday\, July 20\n____ Curator: Tongo Eisen-Martin ____\nReaders:  TBA \n  \n       * Saturday\, September 28\n100 Thousand Poets For Change / Bay Area Poetry Marathon joint event\n____ Curator: Donna de la Perrière ____\nReaders:  TBA \n  \n_____________________________________________________ \nAll events will be held at ALLEY CAT BOOKS\,\n3036 24th Street (in the Mission\, between Harrison & Treat)\n\nDoors open at 7:00pm.  Readings begin at 7:30pm sharp. \n+ + + + + + +\nFor more information\, email Donna de la Perrière at baypoma@zoho.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poetry-marathon-5/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190609T173000
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Chinatown: Greg Pond and Dee Allen. Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Poets Greg Pond and Dee Allen. will read from their new publications. They will be joined by trumpeter Greer Rocket. \nGreg Pond is an American poet born in Brooklyn\, New York\, to Panamanian immigrants. He moved to San Francisco in the late 1970’s and had a thirty-plus year career in radio\, commercial and local cable television. Some of his duties included programming coordination and producing public service announcements and special programs. \nGreg has published two books of poetry: Aftermoon and Blackened Blue. \nHis poems can be found in the Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal and Overthrowing Capitalism anthologies.  \nSince his retirement from his career Greg started The Visiting Poet\, a service that offers poetry readings to assisted-living facilities and hospitals. Greg is also a volunteer facilitator of Poetically Speaking\, a weekly telephone conference-call program for seniors. \nGreg will introduce his two books of poetry\, 4:00 am (light) and 4:00 am (dark) \nDee Allen. is an African-Italian performance poet based in Oakland\, California. Active on the creative writing and Spoken word tips since the early 1990s. Author of 4 books (Boneyard\, Unwritten Law\, Stormwater and his newest\, Skeletal Black\, all from POOR Press) and 19 anthology appearances (including Poets 11: 2014\, Feather Floating On the Water\, Rise\, Your Golden Sun Still Shines\, What is Love\, The City is Already Speaking\, The Land Lives Forever and the newest from Los Angeles-based Vagabond Books\, Extreme) under his figurative belt so far.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-in-chinatown-greg-pond-and-dee-allen-book-launch/
LOCATION:Clarion Music Performing Arts Center\, 816 Sacramento St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190609T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190609T180000
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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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPosted in LIVE POETRY
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gears-turning-w-kim-shuck-6/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190609T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190609T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T150503
CREATED:20190501T232709Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190501T232709Z
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SUMMARY:Josh Frank with Paul Myers / Giraffes on Horseback Salad: Salvador Dali\, the Marx Brothers\, and the Strangest Movie Never Made
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon event with Josh Frankfor his book Giraffes on Horseback Salad. With him in conversation is Paul Myers. Please join us! \nGiraffes on Horseback Salad is a never-made Marx Brothers film written by Salvador Dali. Thought to be lost forever\, this mislaid masterpiece has finally arrived — recreated as a graphic novel. The lushly illustrated graphic novel\, adapted by Josh Frank with Tim Heidecker (Tim and Eric) reveals the true history of this incredible find. Join us for an illustrated talk about this incredible story with special guest host Paul Myers accompanied by live harp performance by Josh Frank with multi media piece and special Marx/Dali shorts. \n\nJosh Frank is a writer\, producer\, director and composer. Josh has spent the last 5 years writing and adapting Giraffes on Horseback Salad with the full support of the Marx and Dali estates. He has penned numerous plays\, including an authorized adaptation of Werner Hergoz’s Stroszek\, stage musicals\, including The Jonathan Richman Musical\, screenplays\, including an adaptation of Mark Vonnegut’s The Eden Express\, and Flup\, a 3D CGI musical feature film with puppets. He is the author of Fool The World\, the Oral History of the Band Called Pixies (St. Martins Press USA/Virgin Books U.K.) and In Heaven Everything Is Fine – – The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers” (Simon and Schuster/Free Press). His third book (published by Harper Collins in the Spring 2014)\, with collaborator Black Francis\, frontman for The Pixies is called The Good Inn. Over the last decade\, Frank has worked with some of the most interesting and innovative musicians\, filmmakers\, producers and artists in the industry\, including Black Francis\, David Lynch and Harold Ramis. He has interviewed over 200 of America’s most notable names in entertainment for his books and screenplays. ​In his spare time\, he built\, owns\, and operates the Blue Starlite Mini-Urban Drive-In Movie Theatre in Austin\, Texas\, the first Mini-Urban Drive-In Movie Theater in the world. \nBerkeley\, California based (Toronto\, Canada raised)\, writer and musicianPaul Myers is the author of the critically acclaimed biographies Kids In The Hall: One Dumb Guy (House of Anansi)\, A Wizard A True Star: Todd Rundgren In The Studio (Jawbone Press)\, and It Ain’t Easy: Long John Baldry and the Birth of the British Blues (Greystone Books). Paul has also contributed to a number of periodicals and websites\, including Mojo Magazine\,FastCoCreate\, Paste\, Crawdaddy\, and Mix Magazine. He has been a regular feature at both the SF Sketchfest and LitQuake festivals in San Francisco. In 2008 he was nominated for a Gemini Award (Canadian Emmy) for writing the music documentary Long John Baldry: In The Shadow Of The Blues (Bravo Canada/BBC 4). Paul is also an experienced musician and songwriter and is currently one half of the San Francisco rock duo\, The Paul & John (Inner Sunset\, 2014 Mystery Lawn Music)\, and all of the electronic music project Flam! (Garden Variety\, 2018 Bandcamp). Follow Paul Myers on Twitter and Instagram: @pulmyears. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Giraffes on Horseback Salad\, order below and put your request in the comments field. For signed copies of Josh’s other books\, order here; for signed copies of Paul’s books\, order here — in both cases\, be sure to include your request in the special field. \nThe Bindery bar opens with doors at 2pm. Show starts at 4pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/josh-frank-with-paul-myers-giraffes-on-horseback-salad-salvador-dali-the-marx-brothers-and-the-strangest-movie-never-made/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190609T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190609T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T150503
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SUMMARY:LOTERIA READING SERIES\, No. 3: La Luna\, El Arbol\, El Pino
DESCRIPTION:INSTITUTE OF (advanced) UNCERTAINTY + McROSKEY 3RD FLOOR FACTORY LOFT  \nare pleased to present: LOTERIA READING SERIES\, No. 3: La Luna\, El Arbol\, El Pino \n J.K. FOWLER \nMARGUERITE MUNOZ \nJULIAN TALAMANTEZ BROLASKI \nCURATED BY MK CHAVEZ \n  \nSUNDAY\, JUNE 9th\, 2019   \nDoors ➬ 4PM  \nProgram ➬ 4:30PM \nFREE ENTRY! \n  \nINSTITUTE OF (advanced) UNCERTAINTY \n@ McROSKEY 3RD FLOOR FACTORY LOFT \n1687 MARKET STREET (@ GOUGH)\, S.F.\, CA \nWHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE \n  \nBART ➬ Van Ness Station\nMUNI METRO ➬ F | K | L | M | N | 6 | 7 \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/loteria-reading-series-no-3-la-luna-el-arbol-el-pino/
LOCATION:Institute Of advanced Uncertainty [I.O.U.]\, 296 Ivy Street\, btwn. Gough and Franklin\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Institute Of advanced Uncertainty":MAILTO:advanceduncertainty@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190609T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190609T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T150503
CREATED:20190501T224038Z
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SUMMARY:Best Breakup Ever Book Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:Come to a book party that is an experience of celebration for those who are single\, happily coupled\, heartbroken\, recently divorced. Come one come all.\n*Laughter\n*Book Signing\n*Tarot\n*Appetizers\n*Beverages!\n*Self-care experiences \nAbout BBE!\nThis is more then just a book. You are stepping into a warm\, funny\, friendly space where someone is talking about all the aspects of a breakup while making you LAUGH OUTLOUD. Drawing on her 20-plus years as a tarot reader and decade as a life coach Hirschman shares tools\, practices\, and suggestions to help you reflect AND move forward. You’ll get chapters about picking the right and WRONG movies to watch\, songs to listen to\, and TV series to tuck in at night. There’s even letting go rituals to free you from the prickly bonds of a breakup. This book is a perfect combination of levity and expertise and a must read for someone going through this transition. This is THE tool-kit every broken heart needs. \nAbout the Author\nApril Hirschman is a Leadership and Transition Coach\, belly dancer\, tarot reader\, filmmaker\, yoga instructor\, artist\, amateur stand-up comedian\, and one of the 10 Priestesses you should know in the 21st century! She smoked her first vape with Armi¬stead Maupin and put on her makeup with John Cameron Mitchell. She lives in California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/best-breakup-ever-book-launch-party/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190610T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190610T200000
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SUMMARY:Michael Chabon: Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, Jun 10\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation: \nIn the basement of the store\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nWebsite \nJoin us for a very special early Father’s Day event. Michael Chabon will read from “Pops”\, due out soon in paperback. \n“Magical prose stylist” Michael Chabon (Michiko Kakutani\, New York Times) delivers a collection of essays—heartfelt\, humorous\, insightful\, wise—on the meaning of fatherhood. \nFor the September 2016 issue of GQ\, Michael Chabon wrote a piece about accompanying his son Abraham Chabon\, then thirteen\, to Paris Men’s Fashion Week. Possessed with a precocious sense of style\, Abe was in his element chatting with designers he idolized and turning a critical eye to the freshest runway looks of the season; Chabon Sr.\, whose interest in clothing stops at “thrift-shopping for vintage western shirts or Hermès neckties\,” sat idly by\, staving off yawns and fighting the impulse that the whole thing was a massive waste of time. Despite his own indifference\, however\, what gradually emerged as Chabon ferried his son to and from fashion shows was a deep respect for his son’s passion. The piece quickly became a viral sensation. \nWith the GQ story as its centerpiece\, and featuring six additional essays plus an introduction\, Pops illuminates the meaning\, magic\, and mysteries of fatherhood as only Michael Chabon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-chabon-pops-fatherhood-in-pieces/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190610T200000
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SUMMARY:Michael Chabon: Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a very special early Father’s Day event. Michael Chabon will read from “Pops”\, due out soon in paperback. \n“Magical prose stylist” Michael Chabon (Michiko Kakutani\, New York Times) delivers a collection of essays—heartfelt\, humorous\, insightful\, wise—on the meaning of fatherhood.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-chabon-pops-fatherhood-in-pieces-2/
LOCATION:moe’s books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, Berkeley\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190611T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190611T133000
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CREATED:20190429T211710Z
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SUMMARY:Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake at Jessie Square
DESCRIPTION:The monthly collaboration between Litquake: San Francisco’s Literary Festival and the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival features an array of Bay Area poets and musicians.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-at-jessie-square-2/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190611T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190611T210000
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SUMMARY:Allan Peterson
DESCRIPTION:reading poetry from \nThis Luminous: New and Selected Poems \nfrom Panhandler Books \nFrom the vast complexities of a world in which synesthesia is our natural translator\, Allan Peterson’s poems convey the consistent message that the ordinary isn’t. Selected from books and chapbooks covering almost thirty years of writing\, Peterson’s work draws heavily from landscapes like the Gulf Coast\, the sciences\, history\, and the author’s background in visual arts. Details of perception and observation demonstrate why these reflective works\, often dense with images and intuitive jumps\, have received national and international recognitions. \nBoth poet and visual artist\, Allan Peterson is the author of five previous poetry collections and is a recipient of fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and the State of Florida. His second book\, All the Lavish in Common\, won the Juniper Prize from the University of Massachusetts. His third\, Fragile Acts\, from McSweeney’s\, was a finalist for both The National Book Critics Circle and Oregon Book Awards. \nPraise for Allan Peterson’s Previous Work \n“Peterson is one of our most valuable poet-thinkers and thinker-poets\, a writer who can show us how much is within our grasp and much is beyond it.” — LA Review of Books \n“His observing eye\, as astute as the most finely-honed telephoto lens\, is such that he¹s able to transform even the ordinary into something so exquisite it provokes wonder and awe.” —Mary Jo Bang \n“Like ‘Brazil’s undiscovered caverns of amethyst’\, Allan Peterson’s Fragile Acts is a major find.” —John Ashbery \n“He puts music to the tension between the desperate human experience and the cool removal of the cosmos. His poems are refreshingly discrete artifacts—perfected and edgy—raw at the same time. “ —Laura Kasischke \n“Allan Peterson’s meditations on domestic tranquility and ecocatastrophe are so smart that they could actually make you smarter” —Boston Review \n“Soul-poppingly magnetic”—The Rumpus
URL:https://litseen.com/event/allan-peterson/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190611T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190611T213000
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SUMMARY:Kathryn Scanlan / Aug 9—Fog
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Kathryn Scanlan for her first book\,Aug 9—Fog. More to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nFifteen years ago\, Kathryn Scanlan found a stranger’s five-year diary at an estate auction in a small town in Illinois. The owner of the diary was eighty-six years old when she began recording the details of her life in the small book\, a gift from her daughter and son-in-law. The diary was falling apart—water-stained and illegible in places—but magnetic to Scanlan nonetheless. \nAfter reading and rereading the diary\, studying and dissecting it\, for the next fifteen years she played with the sentences that caught her attention\, cutting\, editing\, arranging\, and rearranging them into the composition that became Aug 9—Fog (she chose the title from a note that was tucked into the diary). “Sure grand out\,” the diarist writes. “That puzzle a humdinger\,” she says\, followed by\, “A letter from Lloyd saying John died the 16th.” An entire state of mourning reveals itself in “2 canned hams.” The result of Scanlan’s collaging is an utterly compelling\, deeply moving meditation on life and death. \nIn Aug 9—Fog\, Scanlan’s spare\, minimalist approach has a maximal emotional effect\, remaining with the reader long after the book ends. It is an unclassifiable work from a visionary young writer and artist—a singular portrait of a life revealed by revision and restraint. \n\nKathryn Scanlan lives in Los Angeles. Her stories have appeared in NOON\, Fence\, American Short Fiction\, Tin House\, Caketrain\, and The Iowa Review\, among other publications. Author photo by Roxane Hopper. \n\nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event\, with mature themes. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Aug 9—Fog\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kathryn-scanlan-aug-9-fog/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190611T213000
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SUMMARY:Ryan Jacobs
DESCRIPTION:Ryan Jacobs discusses his new book\, The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery\, Mayhem and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World’s Most Expensive Fungus. \nAbout The Truffle Underground \nBeneath the gloss of star chefs and crystal-laden tables\, the truffle supply chain is touched by theft\, secrecy\, sabotage\, and fraud. Farmers patrol their fields with rifles and fear losing trade secrets to spies. Hunters plant poisoned meatballs to eliminate rival truffle-hunting dogs. Naive buyers and even knowledgeable experts are duped by liars and counterfeits. \nDeeply reported and elegantly written\, this page-turning exposé documents the dark\, sometimes deadly crimes at each level of the truffle’s path from ground to plate\, making sense of an industry that traffics in scarcity\, seduction\, and cash. Through it all\, a question lingers: What\, other than money\, draws people to these dirt-covered jewels? \nPraise for The Truffle Underground \n“In elegant\, mesmerizing prose\, Ryan Jacobs has delivered a forest-to-table page-turner from the outer limits of our foodie culture\, a place where colorful farmers\, serial dog murderers and famous chefs grapple over a crudely foraged fungus that’s traded in parking lots and bars\, like heroin. The Truffle Underground is an eye-opener for anyone who’s picked up a fork.”—Steve Fainaru\, New York Times bestselling author of League of Denial and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter \n“The Truffle Underground is a fascinating\, genre-blending romp. It’s a business book\, a mystery\, a science lesson\, and a love story that’s as seductive as the buttery fungus at the heart of it all.”—Derek Thompson\, national bestselling author of Hit Makers and staff writer at The Atlantic \n“Investigative journalist and first-time author Jacobs does a remarkable job reporting from the front lines of the truffle industry\, bringing to vivid life French black-truffle farmers\, Italian white-truffle foragers\, and their marvelously well-trained dogs.”—Booklist (starred review)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ryan-jacobs/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190612T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190612T210000
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SUMMARY:An evening with Ishmael Reed
DESCRIPTION:Time is a pendulum. \n  \n Not a river.  \n  \n More akin to what goes around comes around. \n  \n–Ishmael Reed\, Mumbo Jumbo \n  \nIshmael Reed has asked Theo Konrad Auer to organize a poetry reading with him\, and also to make it good. \nAuer has carefully thought about it and decided to have a group reading rather than just Reed and himself. Auer aims toward addressing the culture and decontextualizing history. With that in mind\, he has approached several leading lights from the fervent literary community\, those being Ishmael Reed\, Maw Shein Win\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Paul Corman- Roberts\, and some of Ishmael’s students. Among them\, there is a Guggenheim fellow\, a couple of laureates\, an American Book award winner and a guy who helped start the Art Murmur. \nThis group of people\, younger writers\, elders and those who are firmly mid-career\, hope to serve as an informal survey of this place and time. \nPro Arts & COMMONS is honored to co-host the group of intellectuals with Kalahati Projects. The poetry reading is on Wednesday\, June 12\, 7- 9 PM. It’s free and open to public. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-ishmael-reed/
LOCATION:Pro Arts Gallery\, 150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190612T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190612T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T150503
CREATED:20190501T233033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190501T233033Z
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SUMMARY:William E. Jones / I'm Open to Anything
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts William E. Jones for his debut novel I’m Open to Anything\, out now from We Heard You Like Books. More information to come soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nA perverse and explicit new take on the coming of age novel\, William E. Jones’s I’m Open to Anything explores bohemian Southern California of the late 1980s and early 90s\, before gentrification ruined everything. The book’s narrator flees a crumbling industrial wasteland in the Midwest and finds himself in sunny Los Angeles without a car\, working in a neighborhood video store and spending many hours watching films. He explores his adopted city and befriends a number of men\, most of them immigrants\, who teach him the finer points of sex. He acquires the skill of fisting\, giving his partners intense pleasure\, and at the same time hearing the stories of their lives. They too have fled their hometowns: one to escape torture at the hands of a Salvadoran death squad; another to study anthropology after years of wandering and religious questioning. \nAlternating between explicit scenes of kinky sex and intimate conversations about matters of life and death\, I’m Open to Anything is a porno novel of rare ambition and humor. The book recalls Olympia Press’s heyday\, when authors made quick money churning out dirty books\, but couldn’t hide the intellectual obsessions that made them writers in the first place. \n\nWilliam E. Jones’s previous book\, True Homosexual Experiences (also published by We Heard You Like Books)\, a biography of Straight to Hell’s iconoclastic editor Boyd McDonald\, celebrates the frank\, raunchy language of the first queer ’zine. Jones brings the same unsparing and profane attitude to I’m Open to Anything\, his debut novel. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThe Bindery bar opens at 7pm. Event starts at 7:30pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of I’m Open to Anything\, order below and put your request in the comments field. For signed copies ofTrue Homosexual Experiences\, order here and sure to include your request in the special field. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/william-e-jones-im-open-to-anything/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alix Ohlin
DESCRIPTION:Alix Ohlin discusses her new novel\, Dual Citizens. \nPraise for Dual Citizens \n“Ohlin’s story of sisters wraps its tendrils deep as any family. Dual Citizens leads a reader through landscapes of compassion and crisis in this deeply felt\, iridescent novel of the spells and surprises a sibling creates.”—Samantha Hunt\, author of The Dark Dark \n“For long-time admirers of Alix Ohlin’s fiction\, the psychological complexity and keen observations in this novel will come as no surprise. In Dual Citizens\, Ohlin examines the conflicting desires of two sisters from Montreal with a riveting precision reminiscent of fellow Montreal native Mavis Gallant. However\, unlike Gallant’s Montreal girls\, Ohlin’s are not of a generation ‘trained to be patient’ but to follow their ambitions. A lifelong witness to one’s shifting longings\, this wise and luminous novel shows\, is a sibling.”—Idra Novey\, author of Those Who Knew \n“This novel sneaks up on you the way life does—full of chance and yearning. It’s a precise\, subtle\, sad and graceful story about how we care for each other\, and how we try to\, and how we fail.”—Jia Tolentino\, author of Trick Mirror \nAbout Dual Citizens \nLark and Robin are half-sisters whose similarities end at being named for birds. While Lark is shy and studious\, Robin is wild and artistic. Raised in Montreal by their disinterested single mother\, they form a fierce team in childhood regardless of their differences. As they grow up\, Lark excels at school and Robin becomes an extraordinary pianist. At seventeen\, Lark flees to America to attend college\, where she finds her calling in documentary films\, and her sister soon joins her. \nLater\, in New York City\, they find themselves tested: Lark struggles with self-doubt\, and Robin chafes against the demands of Juilliard. Under pressure\, their bond grows strained and ultimately is broken\, and their paths abruptly diverge. Years later\, Lark’s life is in tatters and Robin’s is wilder than ever. As Lark tries to take charge of her destiny\, she discovers that despite the difficulties of their relationship\, there is only one person she can truly rely on: her sister. \nIn this gripping\, unforgettable novel about art\, ambition\, sisterhood\, motherhood\, and self-knowledge\, Alix Ohlin traces the rich and complicated lives of two indelible women. Dazzlingly insightful and beautifully crafted\, Dual Citizens captures the unique language of sisters and makes visible the imperceptible strings that bind us to the ones we love for good.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alix-ohlin/
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:Erik Davis
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nHigh Weirdness: Drugs\, Esoterica\, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies \nfrom MIT Press \nA study of the spiritual provocations to be found in the work of Philip K. Dick\, Terence McKenna\, and Robert Anton Wilson\, High Weirdness charts the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality that arose from the American counterculture of the 1970s. These three authors changed the way millions of readers thought\, dreamed\, and experienced reality—but how did their writings reflect\, as well as shape\, the seismic cultural shifts taking place in America? \nIn High Weirdness\, Erik Davis—America’s leading scholar of high strangeness—examines the published and unpublished writings of these vital\, iconoclastic thinkers\, as well as their own life-changing mystical experiences. Davis explores the complex lattice of the strange that flowed through America’s West Coast at a time of radical technological\, political\, and social upheaval to present a new theory of the weird as a viable mode for a renewed engagement with reality. \nErik Davis is an American journalist\, critic\, podcaster\, counter-public intellectual whose writings have run the gamut from rock criticism to cultural analysis to creative explorations of esoteric mysticism. He is the author of Techgnosis: Myth\, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information\, The Visionary State: A Journey through California’s Spiritual Landscape\, and Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica. \nVisit: http://techgnosis.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/erik-davis/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Louise Aronson
DESCRIPTION:Louise Aronson\n\n\n\n\npresents Elderhood: Redefining Aging\, Transforming Medicine\, Reimagining Life\, an essential\, empathetic look at a vital but little respected stage of life. \n“In the latter years there are possibilities for joy\, transcendence\, and meaning\, but also for just the opposite. Aronson writes like a memoirist while giving us scientific insight\, philosophical wisdom\, and wise counsel for a journey and destination we all share. Elderhood is a lovely and thoughtful exploration of this voyage.”–Abraham Verghese \nTo reserve your seat please purchase a copy of Elderhood by speaking to a bookseller or ordering through our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, June 13\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nFor more than 5\,000 years\, “old” has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood\, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before\, we’ve made old age into a disease\, a condition to be dreaded\, denigrated\, neglected\, and denied. \nReminiscent of Oliver Sacks\, noted Harvard-trained geriatrician Louise Aronson uses stories from her quarter century of caring for patients\, and draws from history\, science\, literature\, popular culture\, and her own life to weave a vision of old age that’s neither nightmare nor utopian fantasy–a vision full of joy\, wonder\, frustration\, outrage\, and hope about aging\, medicine\, and humanity itself. \nElderhood is for anyone who is\, in the author’s own words\, “an aging\, i.e.\, still-breathing human being.” \nLouise Aronson\, MD\, is the author of the story collection A History of the Present Illness and a geriatrician\, educator\, and professor of medicine at UCSF\, where she directs UCSF Medical Humanities. A graduate of Harvard Medical School and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College\, Dr. Aronson has received numerous awards for her medical work\, teaching\, educational research\, and writing. The recipient of a MacDowell fellowship and four Pushcart nominations\, her articles and stories have appeared in many publications\, including The New York Times\, New England Journal of Medicine\, Lancet\, and Bellevue Literary Review. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/louise-aronson-2/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Ted Chiang and Robin Sloan
DESCRIPTION:Ted Chiang discusses his new story collection\, Exhalation\, with Robin Sloan. \nPraise for Ted Chiang \n“Ted Chiang’s stories are lean\, relentless\, and incandescent.”—Colson Whitehead\, author of The Underground Railroad \n“Ted Chiang writes with such a matter-of-fact grace and visionary power that one simply takes on faith that his worlds and his characters exist\, whether they are human or robot or parrot; he is the rare author who makes me feel\, also\, that he believes in his readers\, in our integrity and our imagination.”—Karen Russell\, author of Orange World \n“Ted Chiang has no contemporary peers when it comes to the short story form. His name deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Carver\, Poe\, Borges\, and Kafka. Every story is a universe. Every story is a diamond. You will inhale Exhalation in a single\, stunned sitting\, because true genius doesn’t come along nearly as often as advertised. This is the real thing.”—Blake Crouch\, author of Dark Matter \n“From Ted Chiang’s singular mind comes another innovative and mind-bending collection of short stories. With boundless empathy\, curiosity\, and wisdom\, Chiang asks all the important questions that come with being human. Reading Exhalationis like standing outside on a clear\, starry night. Chiang’s writing does what good writing should: make the universe feel both vast and small at the same time.”—Rachel Khong\, author of Goodbye\, Vitamin \nAbout Exhalation \nFrom an award-winning science fiction writer (whose short story “The Story of Your Life” was the basis for the Academy Award-nominated movie Arrival)\, the long-awaited new collection of stunningly original\, humane\, and already celebrated short stories \nThis much-anticipated second collection of stories is signature Ted Chiang\, full of revelatory ideas and deeply sympathetic characters. In “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate\,” a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and the temptation of second chances. In the epistolary “Exhalation\,” an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications not just for his own people\, but for all of reality. And in “The Lifecycle of Software Objects\,” a woman cares for an artificial intelligence over twenty years\, elevating a faddish digital pet into what might be a true living being. Also included are two brand-new stories: “Omphalos” and “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom.” \nIn this fantastical and elegant collection\, Ted Chiang wrestles with the oldest questions on earth–What is the nature of the universe? What does it mean to be human?–and ones that no one else has even imagined. And\, each in its own way\, the stories prove that complex and thoughtful science fiction can rise to new heights of beauty\, meaning\, and compassion.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ted-chiang-and-robin-sloan/
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:Clearly Meant presents Adam David Miller
DESCRIPTION:Adam David Miller reads his poems\,\nfollowed by an interview and discussion \nAdam David Miller has worked in northern California for four decades as a teacher\, writer\, poet\, editor\, publisher\, and radio and television producer. He has won many awards\, including the Bay Area Writing Project’s Teachers as Writers Lifetime Achievement Award. Elise Peeples will be joining her husband for this presentation. \nA free chapbook is available at Berkeley Public Library branches. Please pick one up!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clearly-meant-presents-adam-david-miller/
LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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