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SUMMARY:ANA ARANDA at Books Inc. Opera Plaza
DESCRIPTION:Join internationally exhibited artist Ana Aranda in celebration of her delightful new bilingual picture book\, ¡Our Celebración!: ¡la Celebracion! (Ages 5+) \nIt’s a sunny summer day. Come join the crowd headed for the parade! Marvel at the people riding motorcycles\, bicycles\, tricycles\, and unicycles. Duck out of the way as firefighters spray water on hot spectators. Clap to the music as bands of musicians playing clarinetes\, saxophones\, flautas\, trumpets\, and drums march by. Feast on lemonade\, watermelon\, tacos\, and ice cream. Wave to the corn princess as her float passes by. Then take cover when a quick rain shower comes\, followed by a bright rainbow. Back in the town plaza as night falls\, marvel at the sparkling fireworks that end the day’s festivities. Pop\, pop\, pop! ¡Bón\, bón\, bón! With engaging text and imaginative\, whimsical illustrations\, this story is the perfect way to enjoy a summer day–and learn some Spanish too. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, January 16\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n601 Van Ness Avenue\n\nSan Francisco\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ana-aranda-at-books-inc-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:The State of the LGBT Rights Movement in the US - What are we fighting for?
DESCRIPTION:In the last two years many of the gains the LGBT rights movement fought so hard for have either wiped away or are in serious danger. What’s the prognosis for the movement? How worried should we be? What are we fighting for in this time of uncertainty? Are we a unified voice? Who might we be leaving behind? \nIn a time of close to full legal equality what is the full picture of LGBT life in America and our equal status and treatment in everyday life? \nComing to Manny’s to go deep on this topic is the Executive Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights Kate Kendall\, Cecilia Chung\, Senior Director of Strategic Projects for Transgender Law Center\, and Strategist for the #BornPerfect Project and 2018 #Out100 awardee Mathew Shurka. \nMore about our speakers below: \nKate Kendall: \nKate Kendell leads the National Center for Lesbian Rights\, a national legal organization advancing the civil and human rights of LGBTQ people and their families. NCLR’s legal\, policy\, and legislative victories set important precedents that improve the lives of all LGBTQ people and their families across the country. Kate will be stepping down from her position at the end of 2018. \nKate grew up Mormon in Utah and received her J.D. degree from the University of Utah College of Law in 1988. After a few years as a corporate attorney she was named the first staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah. \nIn 1994 she accepted the position as Legal Director with the National Center for Lesbian Rights and made the move to San Francisco. In 1996 Kate was named as NCLR’s Executive Director. Under Kate’s leadership\, NCLR won custody and family law cases\, achieved victories on behalf of LGBT athletes\, won protections for LGBTQ students and elders and secured asylum for over 300 clients. NCLR was lead on the California marriage equality case in 2008 and was later part of the team of attorneys to secure national marriage equality in the 2015 US Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges. Together with GLAD\, NCLR filed a federal lawsuit challenging Trump’s transgender military ban in August 2017\, which secured a nationwide preliminary injunction stopping the ban from moving forward. \nDuring Kate’s 24-year career\, NCLR’s budget has grown from $500\,000 to more than $5 million; the number of staff members has increased by 25; and the organization now has both West Coast and East Coast offices in San Francisco and Washington\, D.C. \nKate acts as the primary spokesperson on behalf of NCLR to the media. She has appeared in hundreds of media outlets including the New York Times\, Washington Post\, BBC\, NPR\, Fox News\, MSNBC\, CNN\, and dozens of on-line blogs. Kate is also a visible and vibrant social media voice. \nKate lives in San Francisco with her wife Sandy. They have two children Julian\, 22 and Ariana\, 16. \nCecilia Chung:\nCecilia Chung\, Senior Director of Strategic Projects for Transgender Law Center\, is nationally recognized as an advocate for human rights\, social justice\, health equity\, and LGBT equality. She was the former Chair of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission and is currently serving on the Health Commission. Cecilia has been working tirelessly on the local\, national and international levels to improve access to treatment for transgender people and people living with HIV\, and to erase stigma and discrimination through education\, policy\, advocacy\, and visibility. \nBorn Perfect: \nIn June 2014\, NCLR launched Born Perfect: The Campaign to End Conversion Therapy by passing laws across the country to protect LGBT children and young people\, fighting in courtrooms to ensure their safety\, and raising awareness about the serious harms caused by these dangerous practices. \nFew practices hurt LGBT youth more than attempts to change their sexual orientation or gender identity through conversion therapy\, which can cause depression\, substance abuse\, and even suicide. \nBut some mental health providers continue to subject young LGBT people to these practices—also known as “reparative therapy\,” “ex-gay therapy\,” or “sexual orientation change efforts”—even though they have been condemned by every major medical and mental health organization in the country. \nNCLR has been working to protect LGBT youth from these practices for more than 20 years\, securing legislation protecting youth from these dangerous practices in California in 2012\, New Jersey in 2013\, Washington\, D.C. in 2014\, Oregon and Illinois in 2015\, Vermont in 2016\, and Connecticut\, Nevada\, New Mexico\, Rhode Island in 2017\, and Washington state\, Maryland\, Hawaii\, New Hampshire\, and Delaware in 2018. Today\, we are working with legislators and LGBT leaders in dozens of other states and helping bring similar protections to the rest of the country. We believe that every LGBT child is born perfect and that any young person’s identity as lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, or transgender should be honored\, celebrated\, and supported. \nWe are committed to ending these dangerous and stigmatizing practices across the country once and for all—relegating them to the dustbin of history\, and ensuring every child knows they were #BornPerfect \nMathew Shurka is a survivor of conversion therapyand full-time advocate in the fight to end these dangerous and discredited practices. Born and raised in Great Neck\, New York\, he was 16 years old when he came out to his father about being gay. From that time until he was 21\, he endured seeing four conversion therapists in four different states. Today\, the 27-year-old is out and proud\, a dedicated LGBTQ advocate\, and a member of the #BornPerfect Advisory Committee.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-state-of-the-lgbt-rights-movement-in-the-us-what-are-we-fighting-for/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:LYNDSAY FAYE at Books Inc. in Alameda
DESCRIPTION:Lyndsay Faye\, author of Edgar-nominated Jane Steele and Gods of Gotham\, will discuss her exciting new historical thriller\, The Paragon Hotel\, which follows Alice “Nobody” from Prohibition-era Harlem to Portland’s the Paragon Hotel. \nThe year is 1921\, and “Nobody” Alice James is on a cross-country train\, carrying a bullet wound and fleeing for her life following an illicit drug and liquor deal gone horribly wrong. Desperate to get as far away as possible from New York City and those who want her dead\, she has her sights set on Oregon: a distant frontier that seems the end of the line. \nShe befriends Max\, a black Pullman porter who reminds her achingly of Harlem\, who leads Alice to the Paragon Hotel upon arrival in Portland. Her unlikely sanctuary turns out to be the only all-black hotel in the city\, and its lodgers seem unduly terrified of a white woman on the premises. But as she meets the churlish Dr. Pendleton\, the stately Mavereen\, and the unforgettable club chanteuse Blossom Fontaine\, she begins to understand the reason for their dread. The Ku Klux Klan has arrived in Portland in fearful numbers—burning crosses\, inciting violence\, electing officials\, and brutalizing blacks. And only Alice\, along with her new “family” of Paragon residents\, are willing to search for a missing mulatto child who has mysteriously vanished into the Oregon woods. \nWhy was “Nobody” Alice James forced to escape Harlem? Why do the Paragon’s denizens live in fear—and what other sins are they hiding? Where did the orphaned child who went missing from the hotel\, Davy Lee\, come from in the first place? And\, perhaps most important\, why does Blossom Fontaine seem to be at the very center of this tangled web? \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, January 16\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc. in Alameda\n1344 Park St\n\nAlameda\, CA 94501
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyndsay-faye-at-books-inc-in-alameda/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Alameda\, 1344 Park Street\, Alameda\, CA\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:MATT COYLE with TERRY SHAMES at Books Inc. Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:Joining Books Inc. in Berkeley for an evening of thrills and chills with award-winning mystery writer Matt Coyle sharing his intriguing new novel\, Wrong Light: Rick Cahill #5. Matt will be in conversation with Mystery Writers of America member Terry Shames\, author of the charming Samuel Craddock mystery series. \n\nAbout Wrong Light: Perfect for hard-boiled PI and Noir fans who like a tainted hero living by his own code.\n\nNaomi Hendrix’s sexy voice hovering over the radio waves isn’t the only thing haunting the Southern California nights. A demented soul is stalking Naomi\, hiding in the shadows of the night\, waiting for the right moment to snatch her and fulfill a twisted fantasy.\nWhen Naomi’s radio station hires PI Rick Cahill to protect Naomi and track down the stalker\, he discovers that Naomi is hiding secrets about her past that could help unmask the man. However\, before Rick can extract the truth from Naomi\, he is thrust into a missing person’s case–an abduction he may have unwittingly caused. The investigating detective questions Rick’s motives for getting involved and pressures him to stop meddling.\nWhile Rick pursues Naomi’s stalker and battles the police\, evil ricochets from his own past and embroils Rick in a race to find the truth about an old nemesis. Is settling the score worth losing everything?\n\n\nAbout An Unsettling Crime for Samuel Craddock: When the Jarrett Creek Fire Department is called to douse a blaze on the outskirts of town\, they discover a grisly scene: five black young people have been murdered. Newly elected Chief of Police Samuel Craddock\, just back from a stint in the Air Force\, finds himself an outsider in the investigation headed by the Texas Highway Patrol. He takes an immediate dislike to John Sutherland\, a racist trooper \nCraddock’s fears are realized when Sutherland arrests Truly Bennett\, a young black man whom Craddock knows and respects. Sutherland cites dubious evidence that points to Bennett\, and Craddock uncovers facts leading in another direction. When Sutherland refuses to relent\, Craddock is faced with a choice that will define him as a lawman–either let the highway patrol have its way\, or take on a separate investigation himself. \nAlthough his choice to investigate puts both Craddock and his family in danger\, he perseveres. In the process\, he learns something about himself and the limits of law enforcement in Jarrett Creek. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, January 16\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n1491 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matt-coyle-with-terry-shames-at-books-inc-berkeley/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jessica Trounstine
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nSegregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities \nfrom Cambridge University Press \nSegregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation. Starting in the early twentieth century\, cities have used their power of land use control to determine the location and availability of housing\, amenities (such as parks)\, and negative land uses (such as garbage dumps). The result has been segregation – first within cities and more recently between them. Documenting changing patterns of segregation and their political mechanisms\, Trounstine argues that city governments have pursued these policies to enhance the wealth and resources of white property owners at the expense of people of color and the poor. Contrary to leading theories of urban politics\, local democracy has not functioned to represent all residents. The result is unequal access to fundamental local services – from schools\, to safe neighborhoods\, to clean water. \nJessica Trounstine teaches in the School of Social Sciences\, Humanities\, and Arts\, University of California\, Merced \nAdvance praise: \n‘This is a terrific and timely book. Trounstine analyzes one of the pillars of structural racism and how it was built cumulatively to become something that on the surface looks like the workings of a color-free market. While big outcomes seldom derive solely from a single factor\, Trounstine does a superb job of placing the political dominance of white homeownership in a long and consequential directory.’ Clarence Stone\, Research Professor of Political Science and Public Policy\, The George Washington University \n‘Segregation by Design is one of the best books on urban politics in years. Trounstine takes on fundamental issues of segregation and inequality across cities and shows how policies meant to guarantee equal access to public services have often had perverse consequences. The book is beautifully written\, erudite\, and interesting on virtually every page. We need more books like this.’ Christopher Berry\, William J. and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor\, University of Chicago \n‘Trounstine’s effective use of primary and secondary historical evidence and a wide range of quantitative data and methods results in a convincing argument about the role of local government actors in generating residential segregation. This book is a compelling and important contribution to the large literature on the causes and consequences of geographic segregation in the US.’ Elisabeth R. Gerber\, Jack L. Walker\, Jr Professor of Public Policy\, Associate Dean\, Ford School of Public Policy\, University of Michigan \n‘Trounstine fills an enormous hole in our understanding of how segregation evolved in the United States.’ J. Eric Oliver\, University of Chicago
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessica-trounstine/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Jeremy N. Smith / Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien"
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Jeremy N. Smith for Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called “Alien”. Please join us! \n  \nWhen she arrived at MIT in the 1990s\, Alien was quickly drawn to the school’s tradition of high-risk physical trespassing: the original “hacking.” Within a year\, one of her hallmates was dead and two others were arraigned. Alien’s adventures were only just beginning. \n  \nAfter a stint at the storied\, secretive Los Alamos National Laboratory\, Alien was recruited by a top cybersecurity firm where she deployed her cache of virtual weapons—and the trespassing and social engineering talents she had developed while “hacking” at MIT. The company tested its clients’ security by every means possible—not just coding\, but donning disguises and sneaking past guards and secretaries into the C-suite. \n  \nAlien now runs a boutique hacking outfit that caters to some of the world’s biggest and most vulnerable institutions—banks\, retailers\, government agencies. Her work combines devilish charm\, old-school deception\, and next generation spycraft. In Breaking and Entering\, cybersecurity finally gets the rich\, character-driven\, fast-paced treatment it deserves. \n  \n\n  \nJeremy N. Smith writes regularly for the New York Times\, the Atlantic\, and Discover\, and he and his work have been featured by CNN\, NPR News\, and Wired\, among other outlets. Born and raised in Evanston\, Illinois\, he is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Montana. \n  \n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \n  \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Breaking and Entering\, and/or any of Jeremy’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-jeremy-n-smith-breaking-and-entering-the-extraordinary-story-of-a-hacker-called-alien/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Stevan Allred and Renee Macalino Rutledge
DESCRIPTION:Stevan Allred discusses his new novel\, The Alehouse at the End of the World with Renee Macalino Rutledge. \n\nAbout The Alehouse at the End of the World \n\nWhen a fisherman receives a mysterious letter about his beloved’s demise\, he sets off in his skiff to find her on the Isle of the Dead. The Alehouse at the End of the World is an epic comedy set in the sixteenth century\, where bawdy Shakespearean love triangles play out with shapeshifting avian demigods and a fertility goddess\, drunken revelry\, bio-dynamic gardening\, and a narcissistic\, bullying crow\, who may have colluded with a foreign power. A raucous\, aw-aw-aw-awe-inspiring romp\, Stevan Allred’s second book is a juicy fable for adults\, and a hopeful tale for out troubled times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stevan-allred-and-renee-macalino-rutledge/
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:Rachel Roy & Ava Dash: 96 Words for Love
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Roy & Ava Dash: 96 Words for Love\n\n\n\n\n\n01/17/2019 – 6:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFiction\n\n\n\n\nReading/Talk\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEver since her acceptance to UCLA\, 17-year-old Raya Liston has been quietly freaking out. She feels simultaneously lost and trapped by a future already mapped out for her. Then her beloved grandmother dies\, and Raya jumps at the chance to spend her last free summer at the ashram in India where her grandmother met and fell in love with her grandfather. Raya hopes to find her center and her true path. A modern retelling of the classic Indian legend of Shakuntala and Dushyanta\, 96 Words for Love is a coming-of-age story about finding yourself in unexpected places. \nRachel Roy is the daughter of an Indian immigrant father and Dutch mother. Rachel is the founder and creative director of her eponymous brand and a tireless activist for using your voice to cultivate change in the world and to design the life you wish to live. Ava Dash is the daughter of fashion designer Rachel Roy. Ava works with young adults that have aged out of the foster care system as well as former sex trafficked girls in India. Inspired from her travels with her mother\, Ava hopes to start a give back business that provides critical resources to educate and empower the girls she has met on her travels to India. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBook Passage \n\n1 Ferry Building\nSan Francisco\, CA 94111
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-roy-ava-dash-96-words-for-love/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Launch with TONY PLATT at Books Inc. Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:Tony Platt\, Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law & Society\, UC Berkeley\, discusses his groundbreaking new work\, Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States. \nBeyond These Walls is an ambitious and far-ranging exploration that tracks the legacy of crime and imprisonment in the United States\, from the historical roots of the American criminal justice system to our modern state of over-incarceration\, and offers a bold vision for a new future. Author Tony Platt\, a recognized authority in the field of criminal justice\, challenges the way we think about how and why millions of people are tracked\, arrested\, incarcerated\, catalogued\, and regulated in the United States. \nBeyond These Walls traces the disturbing history of punishment and social control\, revealing how the criminal justice system attempts to enforce and justify inequalities associated with class\, race\, gender\, and sexuality. Prisons and police departments are central to this process\, but other institutions – from immigration and welfare to educational and public health agencies – are equally complicit. \nPlatt argues that international and national politics shape perceptions of danger and determine the policies of local criminal justice agencies\, while private policing and global corporations are deeply and undemocratically involved in the business of homeland security. \nFinally\, Beyond These Walls demonstrates why efforts to reform criminal justice agencies have often expanded rather than contracted the net of social control. Drawing upon a long tradition of popular resistance\, Platt concludes with a strategic vision of what it will take to achieve justice for all in this era of authoritarian disorder. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, January 17\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n1491 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-with-tony-platt-at-books-inc-berkeley/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:AZATI SEHATTI at Books Inc. Mountain View
DESCRIPTION:Family nurse practitioner\, nutritional consultant and health educator Azati Sehatti discusses her critical guides The Inner Control Is the True Control: Making Lasting Lifestyle Changes and The Inner Control Is the True Control Workbook. \nThe Inner Control Is The True Control empowers you to make lasting lifestyle and behavioral changes. It embarks on this journey by helping you to cultivate principles and values that prompt positive internal dialogues and support mindfulness\, compassion\, and forgiveness. As you gain awareness\, cultivate self-compassion\, and learn to forgive and let go of resentments\, you become empowered to engage in responsible self-care. No longer behaving automatically\, you make better choices\, feel more in control of your lives\, and sustain your lifestyle changes during times of stress. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, January 17\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n317 Castro Street\n\nMountain View\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/azati-sehatti-at-books-inc-mountain-view/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Mountain View\, 301 Castro St\, Mountain View \, CA\, 94041\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Zoé Samudzi in conversation w/ Joshua Sperling about his new book "A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger"
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate writer Joshua Sperling’s new book\, A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger. We love John Berger here at Wolfman and we couldn’t be more excited about this book! Sperling “draws on first-hand\, unpublished interviews and archival sources only recently made available\, to dig beneath the moments of controversy to reveal a figure of remarkable complexity and resilience.” Yes\, please! Sign us up for that! Even better\, Joshua Sperling will be in conversation with one of our local faves and New Life Quarterly columnist\, Zoé Samudzi\, who is also a Berger enthusiast. \nThe two will be in conversation about how Joshua came to the book\, their different connections to Berger\, delineate some themes or dialectical tensions at the heart of the book and ask you how these are pertinent to each’s current work and activism\, including the processes of collaboration\, the role of self-questioning and doubt during transitional political moments\, the motive-force of love in activism\, working inside/outside of academia\, and so much more! \nCopies of A Writer of Our Time will be available. You don’t want to miss this! \nJoshua Sperling was born in New York City and grew up in California. His writing has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail\, Guernica\, Film Quarterly\, Jump Cut and Bullett Magazine\, among other publications. He received a PhD in Comparative Literature\, Film and Media from Yale University and currently teaches at Oberlin College. \nZoé Samudzi is a Sociology doctoral student at the University of California-San Francisco\, and writer and photographer. She is the co-author of As Black as Resistance (AK Press 2018). Her work seeks to merge political theory\, visual studies\, and critical approaches to science in service of a multidisciplinary means of articulating Blackness(es).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoe-samudzi-in-conversation-w-joshua-sperling-about-his-new-book-a-writer-of-our-time-the-life-and-work-of-john-berger/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lyndsay Faye\, The Paragon Hotel
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop is delighted to welcome Lyndsay Faye\, author of the best-selling staff favorites Jane Steele and The Gods of Gotham\, for a reading and signing of her new novel\, The Paragon Hotel—a historical thriller which follows Alice “Nobody” from Prohibition-era Harlem to Portland’s the Paragon Hotel. \nPraise for The Paragon Hotel \n“This historical novel\, which carries strong reverberations of present-day social and cultural upheavals\, contains a message from a century ago that’s useful to our own time: ‘We need to do better at solving things.’ A riveting multilevel thriller of race\, sex\, and mob violence that throbs with menace as it hums with wit.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n“Faye once again vividly illuminates history with her fiction…. remarkably fluid fiction\, framed as a love letter and based in fact.”—Booklist (starred review) \n“From the opening scene\, this novel had me in its grip. Faye delivers a riveting story filled with unforgettable characters and stunning prose\, while never flinching from the painful truths surrounding America’s legacy of racial injustice. A remarkable\, significant novel.”—Fiona Davis\, bestselling author of The Masterpiece \n“Full of wry wit\, dark humor and magnificent period details\, THE PARAGON HOTEL is a wickedly poetic tour de force.”—Laura Lane McNeal\, national bestselling author of Dollbaby \n“Gangsters and prostitutes\, nightclub singers and dodgy cops\, an African-American hotel under constant threat of violence… Lyndsay Faye drops us right in the middle of the tumult of the Prohibition Era\, bringing to life one of the darker times in our nation’s history with wit and heart.”—Lauren Willig\, New York Times-bestselling author of The English Wife \n“A novel at once thrilling and wise\, historic and timely. ‘Nobody’ is somebody who will stay with you long after you turn the last page.”—Natasha Solomons\, New York Times-bestselling author of House of Gold \nLyndsay Faye is the author of five critically acclaimed books: Jane Steele\, which was nominated for an Edgar for Best Novel; Dust and Shadow; The Gods of Gotham; also Edgar-nominated; Seven for a Secret; and The Fatal Flame. Faye\, a true New Yorker in the sense she was born elsewhere\, lives in New York City with her husband\, Gabriel. \n  \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. Please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com with any ADA acommodation requests by January 15th\, 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyndsay-faye-the-paragon-hotel/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime WORKAROUNDS
DESCRIPTION:featuring Roman Muradov (Vanishing Act)\, Colleen McKee (The Kingdom of Roly-Polys)\, James Cagney (Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory)\, Dinika Amaral\, and Ralph Paone\, will be at Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster Street\, Oakland\, Thursday January 17th\, 7-9 pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-workarounds/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Austin Smith and Dora Malech
DESCRIPTION:East Bay Booksellers welcomes Austin Smith and Dora Malech to read from their books Flyover Countryand Stet. Smith’s Flyover Country is a powerful collection of poems about violence: the violence we do to the land\, to animals\, to refugees\, to the people of distant countries\, and to one another. In Stet\, Malech takes constraint as her catalyst and subject\, exploring what it means to make or break a vow\, to create art out of a life in flux\, to reckon with the body’s bounds\, and to arrive at a place where one might bear and care for another life. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers \n\n5433 College Avenue\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/austin-smith-and-dora-malech/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:David St. John & Jane Mead
DESCRIPTION:David St. John has won many significant prizes\, including both the Rome Fellowship and the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters\, the O.B. Hardison Prize for teaching and poetic achievement from the Folger Shakespeare Library\, and the George Drury Smith Lifetime Achievement Award from Beyond Baroque. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nHe is the author of eleven collections of poetry\, including Study for the World’s Body (1994)\, which was nominated for the National Book Award\, and more recently the The Auroras (2012)\, The Window (2014)\, and The Last Troubadour: Selected and New Poems (2017). St. John is also the author of a volume of essays\, interviews and reviews entitled Where the Angels Come Toward Us (1995) and is coeditor of American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry (2009). He teaches at University of Southern California. \n  \n\n  \n  \n\n  \n\n \n  \nJane Mead is the author of five collections of poetry: The Lord and the General Din of the World (1996)\, The House of Poured-Out Waters (2001)\, The Usable Field (2008)\, Money Money Money Water Water Water (2014)\, and World of Mad and Unmade (2016). Mead is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Lannan\, Whiting\, and Guggenheim foundations. She has taught at Colby College\, Washington University\, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was for many years poet-in-residence at Wake Forest University. Mead is currently on the faculty of the Drew University Low-Residency MFA program. \n\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-st-john-jane-mead/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:JAMIE WEIL at Books Inc. Alameda
DESCRIPTION:Writer and youth mental health advocate Jamie Weil shares her powerful novel for young adults\, First Break. \nWhen your first break from home is your first break with reality … Paige Masters knows something isn’t quite right\, but figures once she gets to college\, life will get better. Instead\, it gets worse. Desperate to quiet the voices in her head telling her to kill herself\, Paige overdoses on her roommate’s sleeping meds\, her ticket to the university emergency room and\, from there\, a 72-hour hold at an adolescent psychiatric facility that turns into months that feel like they’ll never end. Inside those cotton-candy-pink walls\, Paige turns 18\, and discovers that adulthood brings a whole new set of rights. When she checks herself out\, she is ill-prepared for what comes next. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, January 22\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n1344 Park St\n\nAlameda\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jamie-weil-at-books-inc-alameda/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Alameda\, 1344 Park Street\, Alameda\, CA\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Tessa Hadley
DESCRIPTION:Tessa Hadley\n\n\n\n\nreturns to Mrs. Dalloway’s to read from her new novel\, Late in the Day. \n“Perceptive\, finely wrought….Hadley is a writer of the first order\, and this novel gives her the opportunity to explore\, with profound incisiveness and depth\, the inevitable changes inherent to long-lasting marriages.”– Publishers Weekly \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Late in the Day by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, January 22\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThe lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in this latest from Hadley. Alexandr and Christine and Zachary and Lydia have been friends since they first met in their twenties. Thirty years later\, Alex and Christine are spending a leisurely summer’s evening at home when they receive a call from a distraught Lydia: she is at the hospital. Zach is dead. \nIn the wake of this profound loss\, the three friends find themselves unmoored; all agree that Zach\, with his generous\, grounded spirit\, was the irreplaceable one they couldn’t afford to lose. Inconsolable\, Lydia moves in with Alex and Christine. But instead of loss bringing them closer\, the three of them find over the following months that it warps their relationships\, as old entanglements and grievances rise from the past\, and love and sorrow give way to anger and bitterness. \nLate in the Day explores the complex webs at the center of our most intimate relationships\, to expose how\, beneath the seemingly dependable arrangements we make for our lives\, lie infinite alternate configurations. Ingeniously moving between past and present and through the intricacies of her characters’ thoughts and interactions\, Tessa Hadley once again “crystallizes the atmosphere of ordinary life in prose somehow miraculous and natural.” (Washington Post) \nTessa Hadley is the author of five highly praised novels: Accidents in the Home\, Everything Will Be All Right; The Master Bedroom; The London Train\, and Clever Girl\, and two short story collections\, Sunstroke and Married Love. Her stories appear regularly in The New Yorker. She lives in London. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tessa-hadley-3/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion: The Art of Relevance
DESCRIPTION:How can you re-ignite your community and create greater participation? \nJoin us for an informal discussion of Nina Simon’s recent book\, The Art of Relevance\, followed by the chance to chat and network with people who work in museums\, zoos\, aquariums\, parks\, historical organizations\, and nature centers. \nNina Simon has been described as a “museum visionary” by Smithsonian Magazine for her audience-centered approach to design. “Whether you work in museums or libraries\, parks or theaters\, churches or afterschool programs\, relevance can work for you. Relevance is not something an institution can assign by fiat. Your work matters when it matters to people—when THEY deem it relevant\, not you. The Art of Relevance will help you identify the people you seek to engage\, empathize with their concerns and interests\, and develop authentic ways to invite them into your work on their own terms.” (From www.artofrelevance.org). \nYou can read the book for free online. \nThis free event is open to the public\, but will be of special interest to professionals and aspiring professionals from museums and related fields. You do not have to have read the book to come to the discussion! \nCo-hosted by Cultural Connections\, a community of Bay Area museum professionals who meet regularly to exchange ideas\, share resources\, and inspire creativity and action. We value diversity\, pushing boundaries\, being responsive\, and professional development. To learn more\, please visit our website.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-discussion-the-art-of-relevance/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library – Main Branch\, 125 - 14th Street\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
DESCRIPTION:reading from her new novel \nSketchtasy \nfrom Arsenal Pulp Press \nSketchtasy takes place in that late-night moment when everything comes together\, and everything falls apart: it’s an urgent\, glittering\, devastating novel about the perils of queer world-making in the mid-’90s. \nThis is Boston in 1995\, a city defined by a rabid fear of difference. Alexa\, an incisive twenty-one-year-old queen\, faces everyday brutality with determined nonchalance. Rejecting middle-class pretensions\, she negotiates past and present traumas with a scathing critique of the world. Drawn to the ecstasy of drugged-out escapades\, Alexa searches for nourishment in a gay culture bonded by clubs and conformity\, willful apathy\, and the spectre of AIDS. Is there any hope for communal care? \nSketchtasy brings 1990s gay culture startlingly back to life\, as Alexa and her friends grapple with the impact of growing up at a time when desire and death are intertwined. With an intoxicating voice and unruly cadence\, this is a shattering\, incandescent novel that conjures the pain and pageantry of struggling to imagine a future. \nMattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the award-winning author of a memoir and three novels\, and the editor of five non-fiction anthologies. Her memoir The End of San Francisco won a Lambda Literary Award\, and Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? was an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. Her latest book is the novel Sketchtasy. Mattilda lives in Seattle. \nPraise for Sketchtasy \nIf Sketchtasy doesn’t become a classic\, we are doomed. Mattilda has such complete command of craft here that she is able to evoke experience rather than simply describe it. Whether or not we identify with her characters\, she lets us into their hearts and perceptions through sheer talent\, raw honesty\, and the sophisticated ability to handle word order\, duration\, pacing\, and soul. The form of this novel is determined organically from the emotions at their core. A lesson in how to write\, how to remember\, how to grapple with history. -Sarah Schulman\, author of Conflict Is Not Abuse \nI thought it was impossible that Sycamore could get any better\, but Sketchtasy is a vivid masterpiece that rivals the likes of Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr. It’s dangerous\, hilarious\, scary\, and transcendentally beautiful. Sycamore’s prose is so searing\, you might want to read it with sunglasses. -Jake Shears\, singer; author of Boys Keep Swinging \nEvery sentence in Sketchtasy is a living thing\, fierce and funny and a little bit dangerous — a voice made of coke dust and club lights\, cut with crackling insight. I was completely addicted to the story of Alexa’s search for connection\, set in the gritty Boston nightclub scene in the 90s. Nobody writes like Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore — most writers wouldn’t dare try. -Julie Buntin\, author of Marlena \nReading Sketchtasy is like a night of stealing other people’s drinks\, or a much-needed slap to the face\, or a little of both. Bold\, glittering\, wise\, fun\, the novel as found poem alive in the mouth of this truth-telling queen\, making her way through a wasteland of other people’s lies (and a few of her own)\, and looking for something near paradise. Follow her and live. -Alexander Chee\, author of The Queen of the Night \nSketchtasy is a breakneck spree through a cultural moment\, scratching off the patina of nostalgia to show how urgently relevant it still is. If you’ve heard her read\, you know Sycamore’s voice is one in a zillion. She’s at her very best here. –Shelf Awareness
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mattilda-bernstein-sycamore/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: Ian S. Port / The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender\, Les Paul\, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith hosts former SF Weekly music editor Ian S. Port for the Bay Area launch of his first book\, The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender\, Les Paul\, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock ‘n’ Roll. Please join us! \n  \nIn the years after World War II\, music was evolving from big-band jazz into the primordial elements of rock ‘n’ roll — and these louder styles demanded revolutionary instruments. When Leo Fender’s tiny firm marketed the first solid-body electric guitar\, the Esquire\, musicians immediately saw its appeal. Not to be out-maneuvered\, Gibson\, the largest guitar manufacturer\, raced to build a competitive product. The company designed an “axe” that would make Fender’s Esquire look cheap and convinced Les Paul — whose endorsement Leo Fender had sought — to put his name on it. Thus was born the guitar world’s most heated rivalry: Gibson versus Fender\, Les versus Leo. \n  \nWhile Fender was a quiet\, half-blind\, self-taught radio repairman from rural Orange County\, Paul was a brilliant but egomaniacal pop star and guitarist who spent years toying with new musical technologies. Their contest turned into an arms race as the most inventive musicians of the 1950s and 1960s–including bluesman Muddy Waters\, rocker Buddy Holly\, the Beatles\, Bob Dylan\, and Eric Clapton–adopted one maker’s guitar or another. By the time Jimi Hendrix played “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Woodstock in 1969 on his Fender Stratocaster\, it was clear that electric instruments–Fender or Gibson–had launched music into a radical new age\, empowering artists with a vibrancy and volume never before attainable. \n  \n\n  \n“More than an essential\, colorful\, and gripping history of the electric guitar\, The Birth of Loud introduces Ian Port\, the best new non-fiction writer of the past twenty years.” — Daniel J. Levitin\, author of This Is Your Brain on Music \n  \n“Ian Port’s found a way to tell the story of the birth of rock ‘n’ roll–for some of us\, among the postwar American stories\, those that help define who we feel ourselves to be–in beautifully-evoked dual portraits of the men who made the instruments. In doing so\, he re-situates this story in its context so neatly it is as if it had never been told before at all.” — Jonathan Lethem\, author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude \n  \n\n  \nIan S. Port is an award-winning writer and music critic whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone\, Village Voice\, The Threepenny Review\, and The Believer\, among others. He is also the former music editor of the San Francisco Weekly. A California native and lifelong guitar player\, he now lives in New York with his wife\, Lindsay. The Birth of Loud is his first book. \n  \n\n  \nThis event is free and all ages. RSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-ian-s-port-the-birth-of-loud-leo-fender-les-paul-and-the-guitar-pioneering-rivalry-that-shaped-rock-n-roll/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:RANDY SHAW at Books Inc. Mountain View
DESCRIPTION:Randy Shaw\, Director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic\, discusses his compelling new book\, Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America. \nGeneration Priced Out is a call to action on one of the most talked-about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing the working and middle classes out of urban America. From San Francisco to New York\, Seattle to Denver\, and Los Angeles to Austin\, Generation Priced Out tells the stories of tenants\, developers\, politicians\, homeowner groups\, and housing activists from over a dozen cities impacted by the national housing crisis and criticizes cities for advancing policies that increase economic and racial inequality. Randy Shaw exposes how boomer homeowners restrict millennials’ access to housing in big cities\, a generational divide that increasingly dominates city politics. Defying conventional wisdom\, Shaw demonstrates that neighborhood gentrification is not inevitable and presents proven measures for cities to preserve and expand their working- and middle-class populations and achieve more equitable and inclusive outcomes. Generation Priced Out is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future of urban America. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, January 24\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n317 Castro Street\n\nMountain View\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/randy-shaw-at-books-inc-mountain-view/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Mountain View\, 301 Castro St\, Mountain View \, CA\, 94041\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:MICHELLE CADY at Books Inc. Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:Health & wellness coach Michelle Cady discusses her quintessential lifestyle guide\, Self-Care in the City: 100 Ways to Optimize Your Nutrition\, Fitness. Brimming with practical tips for finding balance in your busy urban lifestyle\, Self-Care in the City will not only make you feel unstoppable\, but will also give you an edge. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, January 24\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n1491 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michelle-cady-at-books-inc-berkeley/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The Fiction of Amparo Dávila
DESCRIPTION:Audrey Harris and Matt Gleeson in conversation \ncelebrating the release of \nThe Houseguest: Fiction by Amparo Dávila \nby Amparo Dávila \ntranslated by Audrey Harris and Matt Gleeson \npublished by New Directions Publishing \nLike those of Kafka\, Poe\, Leonora Carrington\, or Shirley Jackson\, Amparo Dávila’s stories are terrifying\, mesmerizing\, and expertly crafted—you’ll finish each one gasping for air. \nWith acute psychological insight\, Dávila follows her characters to the limits of desire\, paranoia\, insomnia\, and fear. She is a writer obsessed with obsession\, who makes nightmares come to life through the everyday: loneliness sinks in easily like a razor-sharp knife\, some sort of evil lurks in every shadow\, delusion takes the form of strange and very real creatures. After reading The Houseguest—Dávila’s debut collection in English—you’ll wonder how this secret was kept for so long. \nAmparo Dávila was born in Mexico in 1928. She has published several collections of short stories and for a time worked as Alfonso Reyes’s secretary. In recent years a massive resurgence of interest has acknowledged her as one of Mexico’s finest masters of the short story. Awarded the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize in 1977\, she was honored with the Medalla Bellas Artes in 2015. \nA former Mellon Public Scholar\, Audrey Harris holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic languages and literatures from the University of California\, Los Angeles. \nMatthew Gleeson is a writer\, translator\, and co-editor of Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960-2010 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-fiction-of-amparo-davila/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kristin Wilson\, Others’ Milk
DESCRIPTION:THURSDAY\, JANUARY 24\, 2019 – 7:00PM \nThis is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information\, or sign up for our events emails. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. \nIf you have ADA accommodation requests for this event\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by January 22nd. \n  \nBreastfeeding rarely conforms to the idealized Madonna-and-baby image seen in old artwork\, now re-cast in celebrity breastfeeding photo spreads and pro-breastfeeding ad campaigns. The personal accounts in Others’ Milkillustrate just how messy and challenging and unpredictable it can be—an uncomfortable reality in the contemporary context of high-stakes motherhood in which “successful” breastfeeding proves one’s maternal mettle. \nExceptional breastfeeders find creative ways to feed and care for their children—such as by inducing lactation\, sharing milk\, or exclusively pumping. They want to adhere to the societal ideal of giving them “the best” but sometimes have to face off with dogmatic authorities in order to do so. Kristin J. Wilson argues that while breastfeeding is never going to be the feasible choice for everyone\, it should be accessible to anyone. \nKRISTIN J. WILSON is chair of the anthropology department at Cabrillo College in Aptos\, California. She is the author of Not Trying: Infertility\, Childlessness\, and Ambivalence.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kristin-wilson-others-milk/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Kristen Roupenian / You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts “Cat Person” author Kristen Roupenian for her debut story collection\, You Know You Want This. Please join us! \n  \nYou Know You Want This brilliantly explores the ways in which women are horrifying as much as it captures the horrors that are done to them. Among its pages are a couple who becomes obsessed with their friend hearing them have sex\, then seeing them have sex… until they can’t have sex without him; a ten-year-old whose birthday party takes a sinister turn when she wishes for “something mean”; a woman who finds a book of spells half hidden at the library and summons her heart’s desire: a nameless\, naked man; and a self-proclaimed “biter” who dreams of sneaking up behind and sinking her teeth into a green-eyed\, long-haired\, pink-cheeked coworker. \n  \nSpanning a range of genres and topics — from the mundane to the murderous and supernatural — these are stories about sex and punishment\, guilt and anger\, the pleasure and terror of inflicting and experiencing pain. These stories fascinate and repel\, revolt and arouse\, scare and delight in equal measure. And\, as a collection\, they point a finger at you\, daring you to feel uncomfortable–or worse\, understood–as if to say\, “You want this\, right? You know you want this.” \n  \n\n  \nKristen Roupenian graduated from Barnard College and holds a PhD in English from Harvard\, as well as an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. She’s the author of the short story “Cat Person”\, published in The New Yorker and selected by Sheila Heti for The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018. She is currently at work on a novel. Photo by Elisa Roupenian Toha. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \n  \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of You Know You Want This\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-kristen-roupenian-you-know-you-want-this-cat-person-and-other-stories/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190125T190000
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SUMMARY:The Heart of the Goddess: Art\, Myth and Meditations on the World’s Sacred Feminine
DESCRIPTION:The Sacred Feminine is rising all over the planet\, and with it\, the values of compassion\, peacemaking\,\nnurturance and love of the Earth. There is renewed awareness of feminine expressions that have been revered for millenia. Hallie Iglehart Austen shares a wide-reaching selection of art\, meditations\, poetry\, prayers\, values\, and living lessons of Goddess culture. Respect for the Earth\, restoration of community\, and regaining the long-lost power of women are inseparable. Immerse yourself in a rich\, multi-media experience of Goddesses from around the world and throughout time\, for a transmission of healing\, teaching\, and the Sacred Feminine in all of us. Hallie Iglehart Austen began studying ancient Greek language and mythology in her youth. She has been teaching spirituality and the wisdom of the divine feminine since 1974\, and is author of Womanspirit Meditations and The Heart of the Goddess.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-heart-of-the-goddess-art-myth-and-meditations-on-the-worlds-sacred-feminine-4/
LOCATION:Copperfield’s Books\, 138 North Main Street\, Sebastopol\, CA
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190126T120000
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SUMMARY:YANovCon at the Millbrae Library
DESCRIPTION:The Young Adult Novelist Convention (YANovCon) is your exclusive connection to some of today’s top authors of books for middle and high school youth (and everyone else who appreciates these amazing talents). This free half-day celebration will include panel discussions\, author hangouts\, and book signings with at least twenty award-winning\, notable\, and new YA novelists including: \n2018 Printz Medal winner Nina LaCour\, 2018 Newbery Medal winner Erin Entrada Kelly\, Kristin Elizabeth Clark\, J.H Diehl\, Heidi Kling\, Mitali Perkins\, Hugo-nominated Mark Oshiro\, 2018 Beatty and Stonewall Book Award winner Dashka Slater\, Robin Benway\, William C. Morris Award Finalist Akemi Dawn Bowman\, Kayla Cagan\, Brandy Colbert\, William C. Morris Award Finalist Kelly Loy Gilbert\, C.G. Watson\, E. E Charlton-Trujillo\, Adib Khorram\, Pura Belpré Award-winner Meg Medina\, Randy Ribay\, Lisa Super\, and unexpected guests! \nBooks will be available to purchase on site thanks to our wonderful partnership with Books Inc.! \nNot only will you get to connect with your favorite authors about their writing and publishing process\, we are also working with local organizations to help shine a light on the issues teens face inside the home and how they demonstrate their resilience. We’re constantly impressed with the strength our teens show and want to highlight their courage. \nWhile we don’t require an RSVP to attend\, we are giving out random free prizes randomly to those who attend and RSVP in advance. \nAnticipated schedule: \n\n12-1 Early arrivals\, book sale\, and community fair (the first 200 to arrive will get a free totebag)\n1-2 Opening session\n2:25-3:05 1st breakout sessions\n3:15-3:55 2nd breakout sessions\n4:05-5:05 Author one-on-ones\n5:05-5:45 All author book signing\n\nThere is ample parking at Millbrae Library\, but we highly recommend carpooling and using public transit to reduce your impact on the environment. Millbrae Library is easily accessible via samTrans\, Bart\, and Caltrain. \nTo encourage literacy and writing for students in 6th-12th grades\, YANovCon is also sponsoring a Teen Short Story Contest. Visit your local library for information and enter here (coming soon). \nCheck out #YANovCon on Instagram\, Twitter\, and Facebook! \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSaturday\, January 26\, 2019 – 12:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nMillbrae Library\n1 Library Avenue\n\nMillbrae\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yanovcon-at-the-millbrae-library/
LOCATION:Millbrae Library\, 1 Library Avenue\, Millbrae\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Rolling Writers 'Rolling this Way'
DESCRIPTION:Submissions are OPEN for our first 2019 reading: \nBeginnings\nSaturday\, January 26\, 2019\, 6 pm\nRolling Out\n1722 Taraval St.\nSan Francisco \nTo submit work for consideration\, please write the host\, Jon Sindell\, at jsind [at] sbcglobal [net]\, pasting your work into the body of the email\, and marking the subject line as follows: RW Beginnings\, [Writer’s Name]. You must submit personally: no submissions by representatives will be considered. Limit prose submissions to 1\,200 words. This series primarily features complete works of fiction and memoir\, but poetry and reasonably self-contained novel excerpts are presented to a limited extent. Submissions are rolling—we generally consider submissions until a lineup is filled. \nLet the fun begin! \n  \nAbout Rolling Writers \nLike the baker Rageneau in Cyrano\, master baker Bruno Tsé supports the arts. And our pastry-preparing patron of poetry and prose shows love for the muse by giving his Taraval Street café up for lit readings\, with themed musical and gustatory accoutrements. \nRolling–Out: 1722 Taraval\, between 27th and 28th Avenues\, \nSan Francisco. The L-Taraval streetcar line stops at 26th Avenue. \nTo submit work for an upcoming theme\, please write the host\, Jon Sindell\, at jsind [at] sbcglobal [net]\, pasting your work into the body of the email\, and marking the subject line as follows: RW [Name Of Show]\, [Writer’s Name]. You must submit personally—no submissions by representatives will be considered. Unless otherwise indicated on the Upcoming Events page\, limit prose submissions to 1\,200 words; shorter submissions are preferred. This series primarily features complete works of fiction and memoir\, but poetry and reasonably self-contained novel excerpts are presented to a limited extent. Submissions are rolling—we generally consider submissions until a lineup is filled. \nWon’t you join us?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rolling-writers-rolling-this-way/
LOCATION:Rolling Out Cafe\, 1722 Taraval St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sarah Stone in Conversation with Sylvia Brownrigg
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Stone in Conversation with Sylvia Brownrigg\n\n\n\n\ndiscussing Stone’s new novel\, Hungry Ghost Theater\, “a thrilling hybrid of a novel about the intricacies of family life and the inevitable handing down from one generation to the next of our deepest passions and pathologies. . . . both marvelously inventive and deeply humane.”–Ann Packer \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Hungry Ghost Theater by speaking to a bookseller. \n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, January 27\, 2019 – 3:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn inventive\, funny\, sometimes heart-breaking exploration of the connections between hunger and art\, duty and desire\, and\nloss and survival. Brother and sister Robert and Julia Zamarin are trying to awaken the world to its peril with their tiny political theater company\, while their sister Eva\, a neuroscientist\, searches for the biological roots of empathy. As Julia attempts to break free of Robert’s influence\, Robert\, as lost without her as she is without him\, takes on dark material and drives away members\nof their company. Meanwhile\, the whole family contends with the ongoing troubles of Eva’s youngest daughter\, Arielle\, as she struggles with addiction. The adventures of the eccentric\, memorable Zamarin family take the reader from San Francisco to Seoul\, from theater spaces to psychiatric hospitals\, from Zanzibar to the Santa Cruz mountains\, and into and through a series of Sumerian and Tibetan hells. \nSarah Stone’s is the author of The True Sources of the Nile. Her stories\, essays\, and reviews have appeared in Ploughshares\,\nStoryQuarterly\, The Believer\, The Millions\, and The Writer’s Chronicle\, among other places. She teaches creative writing for Stanford Continuing Studies and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Visit her online at www.sarahstoneauthor.com. \nSylvia Brownrigg is the author of Pages for You and Pages for Her. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-stone-in-conversation-with-sylvia-brownrigg/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:The wait is over! Please join us for the relaunch of Bazaar Writers Salon in the newly remodeled Bazaar Café with this fantastic lineup of writers. \nReadings by Kate Folk\, J.P. Grasser\, Sarah McColl\, and sam sax\nHosted by Peter Kline \nKate Folk is a fiction writer whose work has appeared most recently in Zyzzyva\, The New York Times Magazine\, Tupelo Quarterly\, and One Story\, and is forthcoming in McSweeney’s Quarterly. She’s an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts\, and is writing a novel about a clandestine service that allows people to outsource their emotional and intellectual labor. \nA current Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, J.P. Grasser is a PhD candidate in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Utah\, where he serves as Editor-in-Chief for Quarterly West. Find him online at www.jpgrasser.com. \nSarah McColl is the author of the memoir Joy Enough. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review\, McSweeney’s\, and StoryQuarterly\, which nominated her essay on singer-songwriter Connie Converse for a Pushcart Prize. She has received fellowships from Ucross\, the Millay Colony\, and the MacDowell Colony\, where she was named the 2017 Mary Carswell Fellow. She’s based in Los Angeles. \nsam sax is a queer\, Jewish writer and educator\, the author of Madness\, winner of The National Poetry Series\, and Bury It\, winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. He’s the two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion\, with poems in BuzzFeed\, The Nation\, The New York Times\, and other journals. In 2018\, he was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-11/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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