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SUMMARY:Tom Lutz: Born Slippy
DESCRIPTION:Tom Lutz discusses his new novel\, Born Slippy. \nPraise for Born Slippy \n“A highly literary and always engaging 21st century noir… Born Slippy confronts contemporary questions about the relativity of evil that no one can dodge.”— Chris Kraus\, author of I Love Dick and After Kathy Acker. \n“Lutz has the seven deadly sins nailed and rethought for our 2020 world. You’ve got to dig this book!” — James Ellroy \n“What a pleasure\, to sink under the comedic spell of Tom Lutz’s debut novel! The perfect book for a dreary day– a gleeful\, twisty tale of an unlikely friendship. Its antagonist young bloviating Dmitry Heald\, with his wild schemes and hair-raising tales\, is the guy you can’t trust to go to the market\, while the older Frank\, his boss\, is a man who should know better\, and yet can’t resist. Infinitely entertaining. I’d put it on the shelf between Tom Robbins and Martin Amis\, if a place can be cleared there.” — Janet Fitch\, author of The Revolution of Marina M. and Chimes of a Lost Cathedral \nAbout Born Slippy \nA globetrotting novel about the seductions of and resistance to toxic masculinity. \n“Frank knew as well as anyone how stories start and how they end. This fiery mess\, or something like it\, was bound to happen. He had been expecting it for years.” \nFrank Baltimore is a bit of a loser\, struggling by as a carpenter and handyman in rural New England when he gets his big break\, building a mansion in the executive suburbs of Hartford. One of his workers is a charismatic eighteen-year-old kid from Liverpool\, Dmitry\, in the US in the summer before university. Dmitry is a charming sociopath\, who develops a fascination with his autodidactic philosopher boss\, perhaps thinking that\, if he could figure out what made Frank tick\, he could be less of a pig. Dmitry heads to Asia and makes a neo-imperialist fortune\, with a trail of corpses in his wake. When Dmitry’s office building in Taipei explodes in an enormous fireball\, Frank heads to Asia\, falls in love with Dmitry’s wife\, and things go from bad to worse. \nCombining the best elements of literary thriller\, noir and political satire\, Born Slippy is a darkly comic and honest meditation on modern life under global capitalism. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tom-lutz-born-slippy/
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:Our Voices Our Stories SF presents Ingrid Rojas Contreras
DESCRIPTION:Ingrid Rojas Contreras will join OVOSSF founder Lisa D. Gray in a conversation about her novel Conteras’ novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree. About OVOSsf Our Voices\, Our Stories SF began in 2014 with 16 amazing writers and four engaging book chats one of which featured Natalie Bazile of Queen Sugar Fame and the legendary Eunetta Boone\, the first black woman showrunner on the Disney Channel. We bring you high-quality authors eager to share and discuss their work. \nThe evening culminates in a book chat between Lisa D. Gray (the Founder and Curator of this landmark series)\, and one or more of the authors. The authors write across genres\, so when you come\, you hear everything from fiction to travel writing and poetry to memoir. These women’s stories paint vivid pictures of what it’s like to live in the world as a woman of color. They explore themes and topics everyone can relate to and understand. \nAbout Ingrid Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Doubleday) is an Indie Next selection\, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection\, and a New York Times editor’s choice. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, Buzzfeed\, Nylon\, and Guernica\, among others. Rojas Contreras has received numerous awards and fellowships from Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, VONA\, Hedgebrook\, The Camargo Foundation\, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture. She is the book columnist for KQED\, the Bay Area’s NPR affiliate. She teaches writing at the University of San Francisco\, and works with immigrant high school students as part of a San Francisco Arts Commission initiative bringing writers into public schools. She is working on a family memoir about her grandfather\, a curandero from Colombia who it was said had the power to move clouds. \nFruit of the Drunken Tree Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister Cassandra enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogotá\, but the threat of kidnappings\, car bombs\, and assassinations hover just outside the neighborhood walls\, where the godlike drug lord Pablo Escobar continues to elude authorities and capture the attention of the nation. \nInspired by the author’s own life\, and told through the alternating perspectives of the willful Chula and the achingly hopeful Petrona\, Fruit of the Drunken Tree contrasts two very different\, but inextricable coming-of-age stories. In lush prose\, Rojas Contreras sheds light on the impossible choices women are often forced to make in the face of violence and the unexpected connections that can blossom out of desperation. \nAbout Lisa Lisa D. Gray is a writer\, curator\, and social justice warrior who loves to cook and sees possibilities waiting to burst free in bubbles blown into air. Her interests range from dancing (her first career goal: Rockette) to star gazing\, and if an animal lived with her\, it’d be a turtle. She writes about the things that intrigue and perplex her and does it with humor and insight. She earned an MFA from Mills College and completed a residency at the Vermont Studio Center and a fellowship at The Fine Arts Works Center. Her work appears in the As Us Literary Journal. Mission at Tenth and the anthology New Haven Noir for which she won an Edgar Award in 2018. She’s a member of the San Francisco Writers Grotto and a Fellow at The Ruby in San Francisco. She is completing her first novel. \nWe encourage you to purchase the book using the PURCHASE BOOKS link on our website. Books sales will also occur on site.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/our-voices-our-stories-sf-presents-ingrid-rojas-contreras/
LOCATION:African American Art & Culture Complex\, 762 Fulton St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Readings from ZYZZYVA's Bay Area Issue
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS celebrates the latest issue of their dear friends at ZYZZYVA on Friday\, January 24! \nZYZZYVA dedicates its most recent issue to the region it has called home since 1985. Join the editors of ZYZZYVA and some of its contributors from the Bay Area Issue for a night of short readings and celebration. Tonight’s feature readers include Lydia Conklin\, Sara Mumolo\, Andrew Roe\, sam sax\, Nina Schuyler\, and Matthew Zapruder. \nABOUT THE READERS \nLYDIA CONKLIN is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Her fiction has appeared in Tin House\, The Southern Review\, The Gettysburg Review\, and other publications. \nSARA MUMOLO is the author of the poetry collection Day Counter (Omnidawn)\, and is the associate director for the MFA Creative Writing Program at St. Mary’s College of California. \nANDREW ROE is the author of the novel The Miracle Girl (Algonquin Books)\, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. \nsam sax is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and the author of Bury It (Wesleyan University Press)\, winner of the James Laughlin Award. \nNINA SCHUYLER is the author of the novels The Translator (Pegasus Books) and The Painting (Algonquin Books)\, a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. \nMATTHEW ZAPRUDER is the author of several poetry collections\, most recently Father’s Day (Copper Canyon Press)\, as well as the nonfiction book Why Poetry (Ecco)\, and is an associate professor at St. Mary’s College of California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/readings-from-zyzzyvas-bay-area-issue/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Robert Hass - Summer Snow
DESCRIPTION:A major collection of entirely new poems from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author\, Robert Hass \nA new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is always an event. In Summer Snow\, his first collection of poems since 2010\, Hass further affirms his position as one of our most highly regarded living poets. Hass’s trademark careful attention to the natural world\, his subtle humor\, and the delicate but wide-ranging eye he casts on the human experience are fully on display in his masterful collection. Touching on subjects including the poignancy of loss\, the serene and resonant beauty of nature\, and the mutability of desire\, Hass exhibits his virtuosic abilities\, expansive intellect\, and tremendous readability in one of his most ambitious and formally brilliant collections to date.\nRobert Hass was born in San Francisco. His books of poetry include The Apple Trees at Olema\, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Time and Materials\, Sun Under Wood\, Human Wishes\, Praise\, and Field Guide\, which was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Hass also co-translated several volumes of poetry with Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz and authored or edited several other volumes of translation\, including Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer’s Selected Poems and The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho\, Buson\, and Issa. His essay collection Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He lives in California with his wife\, poet Brenda Hillman\, and teaches at the University of California\, Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-hass-summer-snow/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Diverse Voices from Civil Liberties United
DESCRIPTION:Prose\, poetry and artwork from the Civil Liberties United anthology\, featuring Lorraine Bonner\, Sue Granzella\, Anahita Miller\, Sridevi Ramanathan & Shizue Seigel\, The anthology includes prose\, poetry\, and art by 100 writers/artists of color and allies. As civil liberties continue to be eroded nationwide\, it’s more important that ever to stand together and be counted in support of multicultural understanding.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/diverse-voices-from-civil-liberties-united/
LOCATION:Oakland Center for Spiritual Living\, 5000 Clarewood Dr.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Speak\, easy Vol. 12
DESCRIPTION:An artist showcase and open mic night honoring the voices of black women.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/speak-easy-vol-12/
LOCATION:Joyce Gordon Gallery\, 406 14th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Saturday Write-In!
DESCRIPTION:Come Write With Us! \nNovelists\, poets\, nonfiction writers\, artists\, all genre/ genrequeer/ no genre. \nWe’ll bring a few writing prompts/ poems to help start you off if you’d like\, or just bring a current project. \nJust show up\, the writing will take care of itself!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-write-in/
LOCATION:Farley’s East\, 33 Grand Avenue\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special presents: Out of the Dark
DESCRIPTION:Welcome back! I’m excited to see my SNS family following our annual holiday hiatus\, for our first reading of 2020. Our January theme (suggested by Lisa Martinovic) is “Out of the Dark” and it can’t come soon enough. Whether it’s the dark of winter you’re tired of\, politics\, ennui\, a mono-chromatic fashion sense\, the cave of your own dirty mouth\, or something darker you’re exiting\, this month we’ll explore emergence—wake up from your long sleep; unfold your wings; turn on the sun! Write something. \nJanuary featured writers: Vernon Keeve III and Alvin Orloff \nBring your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our (optional) theme (or any topic). \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself! \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, January 25\, 2020\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by: Hollie Hardy \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/ \nBIOS forthcoming
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-presents-out-of-the-dark/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Silent Book Club SF
DESCRIPTION:Bring a book\, bring a friend\, and join Silent Book Club for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club\, there’s no assigned reading. All books and all ages are welcome. \nWe’ll kick off introvert happy hour at 4pm with some light chatter and informal book recommendations before settling in to read quietly\, but if you’d rather just pull up a chair and read\, by all means do so. No one will be shushed or shamed. The bar will be open for late afternoon libations. \nHappy reading and hope to see you there! \n\nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nPhoto by Cody Pickens for O Magazine
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silent-book-club-sf-4/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Susan Browne\, Peter Kline\, Emily Pinkerton\, and Marco Rafalà\nHosted by Brittany Perham \nSusan Browne’s poetry has appeared in Ploughshares\, The Sun\, Subtropics\, The Southern Review\, Superstition Review\, Rattle\, New Ohio Review\, B O D Y\, American Life in Poetry\, The American Journal of Poetry\, Love’s Executive Order\, and 180 More\, Extraordinary Poems for Every Day. She has published two books of poetry\, Buddha’s Dogs and Zephyr. Awards include prizes from Four Way Books\, the Los Angeles Poetry Festival\, the River Styx International Poetry Contest\, and The Fischer Poetry Prize. She received a fellowship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center\, and her work has been nominated for three Pushcart Awards. She has also collaborated to create a word/music CD. Her third collection\, Just Living\, recently won the Catamaran Poetry Prize. She lives in Oakland\, California. www.susanbrownepoems.com \nPeter Kline teaches writing at the University of San Francisco and Stanford University. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow\, he has also received residency fellowships from the Amy Clampitt House\, James Merrill House\, and Kimmel Harding Nelson Foundation. His poetry has appeared in Ploughshares\, Poetry\, Tin House\, and many other journals\, as well as the Best New Poets series\, the Verse Daily website\, and the Random House anthology of metrical poetry\, Measure for Measure. Since 2012 he has directed the San Francisco literary reading series Bazaar Writers Salon. He is the author of two poetry collections\, Deviants (Stephen F. Austin State University Press\, 2013)\, and Mirrorforms\, published by Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions in November 2019. www.peterklinepoetry.com \nEmily Pinkerton holds an MFA from San Francisco State University\, and her writing has previously appeared in ZYZZYVA\, Juked\, BlazeVOX\, and Berkeley Poetry Review\, among others. Emily is the author of three chapbooks: Natural Disasters (Hermeneutic Chaos Press\, 2016)\, Bloom (Alley Cat Press\, 2018) and Adaptations (Nomadic Press\, 2018). She was a 2017-2018 Writer in Residence at Alley Cat Books in San Francisco and is a 2020 Fellow at The Writers Grotto. More of Emily’s publications can be found at thisisemilypinkerton.tumblr.com\, and she tweets as @neongolden. \nMarco Rafalà is a first-generation Sicilian American novelist\, musician\, and writer for award-winning tabletop role-playing games. He earned his MFA in Fiction from The New School and is a cocurator of the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series in New York City. Born in Middletown\, Connecticut\, he now lives in Brooklyn\, New York. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review and LitHub. How Fires End is his debut novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-15/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Anna Wiener: Uncanny Valley
DESCRIPTION:Anna Wiener discusses her new memoir Uncanny Valley. \nPraise for Uncanny Valley \n“I’ve never read anything like Uncanny Valley\, which is both a searching bird’s-eye study of an industry and a generation\, as well as an intimate\, microscopic portrait of ambition and hope and dread. Anna Wiener writes about the promise and the decay of Silicon Valley with the impossibly pleasurable combination of a precise\, razored intellect and a soft\, incandescent heart. Her memoir is diagnostic and exhilarating\, a definitive document of a world in transition: I won’t be alone in returning to it for clarity and consolation for many years to come.”  —Jia Tolentino\, author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion \n“Uncanny Valley is a generation-defining account of the amoral late-capitalist tech landscape we are fatally enmeshed in. With grace and humor\, Anna Wiener shows us the misogyny\, avarice\, and optimistic self-delusion of our cultural moment\, wrapped up in the gripping story of a young woman navigating the blurred boundaries of a seductive world. Insightful\, compelling and urgent.” —Stephanie Danler\, author of Sweetbitter: A Novel \n“Like Joan Didion at a startup.”—Rebecca Solnit\, author of Call Them By Their True Names \n“A rare mix of acute\, funny\, up-to-the-minute social observation\, dead-serious contemplation of the tech industry’s annexation of our lives\, and a sincere first-person search for meaningful work and connection. How does an unworn pair of plain sneakers ‘become a monument to the end of sensuousness’? Read on.”—William Finnegan\, author of Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life \nAbout Uncanny Valley \nThe prescient\, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital age \nIn her mid-twenties\, at the height of tech industry idealism\, Anna Wiener—stuck\, broke\, and looking for meaning in her work\, like any good millennial–left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco\, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance\, dubious success\, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination\, glory\, and\, of course\, progress. \nAnna arrived amidst a massive cultural shift\, as the tech industry rapidly transformed into a locus of wealth and power rivaling Wall Street. But amid the company ski vacations and in-office speakeasies\, boyish camaraderie and ride-or-die corporate fealty\, a new Silicon Valley began to emerge: one in far over its head\, one that enriched itself at the expense of the idyllic future it claimed to be building. \nPart coming-age-story\, part portrait of an already-bygone era\, Anna Wiener’s memoir is a rare first-person glimpse into high-flying\, reckless startup culture at a time of unchecked ambition\, unregulated surveillance\, wild fortune\, and accelerating political power. With wit\, candor\, and heart\, Anna deftly charts the tech industry’s shift from self-appointed world savior to democracy-endangering liability\, alongside a personal narrative of aspiration\, ambivalence\, and disillusionment. \nUnsparing and incisive\, Uncanny Valley is a cautionary tale\, and a revelatory interrogation of a world reckoning with consequences its unwitting designers are only beginning to understand.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anna-wiener-uncanny-valley/
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:Andre Perry / Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new book \nSome of Us Are Very Hungry Now: a collection of essays \npublished by 2 Dollar Radio \nWith luminous insight and fervent prose\, Andre Perry’s debut collection of personal essays\, Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now\, travels from Washington DC to Iowa City to Hong Kong in search of both individual and national identity. While displaying tenderness and a disarming honesty\, Perry catalogs racial degradations committed on the campuses of elite universities and liberal bastions like San Francisco while coming of age in America. \nThe essays in Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now take the form of personal reflection\, multiple choice questions\, screenplays\, and imagined talk-show conversations\, while traversing the daily minefields of childhood schoolyards and Midwestern dive-bars. The impression of Perry’s personal journey is arresting and beguiling\, while announcing the author’s arrival as a formidable American voice. \nWhat has been said about Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now: \n*A “Most Anticipated Book of 2019” —LitReactor\, The A.V. Club\, Big Other \n“Beautiful\, brilliant\, bold… Tantamount to a slice from the Americana songbook. These essays are ballads\, images from the self\, isolated and marginalized in other countries and in his own land. These are songs of identity and sexuality and expectations the world has of African American males from those perspectives. Here’s hoping this book will mark the start of a long and varied journey for Perry. If the goal of a literary traveler is to show how connected we are to one another\, his debut collection is an assured indication of deeper glories yet to come.”\n—Christopher John Stephens\, PopMatters \nAndre Perry is an essayist and arts advocate. He received his MFA from the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program and his work has appeared in The Believer\, Catapult\, Granta and other journals. He co-founded Iowa City’s Mission Creek Festival\, a celebration of music and literature\, as well as the multidisciplinary festival of creative process\, Witching Hour. He continues to live and work in Iowa City. This is his first book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andre-perry-some-of-us-are-very-hungry-now/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Peggy Orenstein\, Boys & Sex
DESCRIPTION:This 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. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by January 26th. \n\nThe author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestsellers Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter now turns her focus to the sexual lives of young men\, once again offering “both an examination of sexual culture and a guide on how to improve it” (Washington Post). \nPeggy Orenstein’s Girls & Sex broke ground\, shattered taboos\, and launched conversations about young women’s right to pleasure and agency in sexual encounters. It also had an unexpected effect on its author: Orenstein realized that talking about girls is only half the conversation. Boys are subject to the same cultural forces as girls–steeped in the same distorted media images and binary stereotypes of female sexiness and toxic masculinity–which equally affect how they navigate sexual and emotional relationships. In Boys & Sex\, Peggy Orenstein dives back into the lives of young people to once again give voice to the unspoken\, revealing how young men understand and negotiate the new rules of physical and emotional intimacy. \nDrawing on comprehensive interviews with young men\, psychologists\, academics\, and experts in the field\, Boys & Sex dissects so-called locker room talk; how the word “hilarious” robs boys of empathy; pornography as the new sex education; boys’ understanding of hookup culture and consent; and their experience as both victims and perpetrators of sexual violence. By surfacing young men’s experience in all its complexity\, Orenstein is able to unravel the hidden truths\, hard lessons\, and important realities of young male sexuality in today’s world. The result is a provocative and paradigm-shifting work that offers a much-needed vision of how boys can truly move forward as better men. \nPeggy Orenstein is the New York Times bestselling author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter\, Waiting for Daisy\, Flux\, and Schoolgirls. A contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine\, she has been published in USA Today\, Parenting\, Salon\, the New Yorker\, and other publications\, and has contributed commentary to NPR’s All Things Considered. She lives in Northern California with her husband and daughter. \n“Expertly written…. [A] candid and fascinating portrait of young American masculinity.”– Publishers Weekly\, starred review\n \n“Peggy Orenstein has done something rare. She has listened to young men in ways that have allowed them to speak candidly about the fraught world of their sexuality\, and she has been true to the complexities of their experiences — their hopes but also the fears\, shame\, pressures and angers that cause them to violate others and corrode their capacity for care and love. What they say is scary and heartbreaking and vitally important for us all to hear. This is a bracing\, insightful\, humane\, engaging\, invaluable book. And it charts the course for real change.”–Richard Weissbourd\, Senior Lecturer and Faculty Director of Making Caring Common\, Harvard Graduate School of Education \n“As a psychotherapist who’s raising a boy\, I can’t think of a more important book for our times. Eye-opening and nuanced\, this compassionate exploration of boys’ sexual lives gives voice to their deepest struggles and should be mandatory reading for anyone who cares about the next generation–which is to say\, all of us.”–Lori Gottlieb\, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone \n“Peggy Orenstein dared to do what so many of us are afraid of: actually ask boys about sex and then listen to what they had to say. She has given boys the opportunity to speak honestly about their feelings around sexuality\, pornography\, gender\, consent and so much more. Their answers are illuminating\, often times surprising–and essential.”–Nick Kroll\, co-creator\, writer\, and star of Big Mouth \n\n“Forget what you thought you knew about boys and sex. Here\, at last\, is an honest book about the sexual lives of boys and young men; the good\, the bad\, the endlessly complicated and emotionally fraught. Peggy Orenstein has peeled back typical male bravado and exposed the raw hearts of boys struggling to navigate a confusing sexual landscape. Boys & Sex is a crucial contribution to the long overdue conversation about masculinity.”–Michael Ian Black\, author\, comedian\, and actor
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peggy-orenstein-boys-sex/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200128T203000
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SUMMARY:Bob Perelman\, Norman Fischer\, James Sherry
DESCRIPTION:Norman Fischer is a poet\, essayist\, and Zen Buddhist priest. The latest of his more than twenty-five prose and poetry titles are the serial poems On a Train at Night and Untitled Series: Life As It is. His latest prose works are Experience: Thinking\, Writing\, Language and Religion and The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path. His website is http://www.normanfischer.org/ \nBob Perelman will be reading from his new book\, Jack and Jill in Troy (Roof\, 2019). He is the author of numerous poetry collections\, including Iflife\, Virtual Reality\, The First World and Ten to One: Selected Poems. He collaborated with his wife\, the painter Francie Shaw\, on Playing Bodies. His latest critical book is Modernism the Morning After. He taught at UPenn for 25 years and now lives in Berkeley. \nJames Sherry is the author of 10 books of poetry and prose. He is editor of Roof Books and president of the Segue Foundation\, Inc. in New York City. … He lives in New York City with his wife\, Deborah Thomas\, publisher of Extra!\, the magazine of Fairness And Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bob-perelman-norman-fischer-james-sherry/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Moe's Books":MAILTO:owenmoes@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200128T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200128T210000
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SUMMARY:Crissy Van Meter: Creatures
DESCRIPTION:Crissy Van Meter discusses her new novel\, Creatures. \nPraise for Creatures \n“Creatures is the kind of beautiful book that makes you want to lick the salt from its pages. It’s so physically present you can feel the waves hit your body\, smell the sea life\, hear the roar of the ocean as your hair whips around your face in the breeze. Crissy Van Meter has written a book about the complexities of love and families\, yes\, but it’s also a careful look at intimacy through the lens of a person learning and relearning how to love the people who continually let us down. It’s inventive and surprising. The text is tactile; a punch to the heart. It’s one of the best novels I’ve read this year.”—Kristen Arnett\, New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things \n“Crissy Van Meter pulls us into depths of loneliness\, sweetness\, pain\, history\, and pulsing vulnerability in prose swift and clear as an ocean current\, in Creatures. On Winter Island\, time and landscape ache with memory; need spills over in subtle moments of intense connection\, fracture\, deprivation\, and wound; unconditional love may be a concept as unreachable as the mainland\, and as isolating. Like water\, loss and longing fill the space between each prism of a word in this gorgeous\, jewel-tone debut.” —Sarah Gerard\, author of Sunshine State \n“At the intersection of the natural world and the human heart\, Van Meter explores alcoholism\, absence\, daughterly loyalties and longing in this slim and beautiful tale that contains a whole aqueous universe in its depths.”—Melissa Broder\, author of The Pisces \nAbout Creatures \nOn the eve of Evangeline’s wedding\, a dead whale is trapped in the harbor of Winter Island\, the groom may be lost at sea\, and Evie’s mostly absent mother has shown up out of the blue. From there\, in this mesmerizing\, provocative debut\, Evie remembers and reckons with her complicated upbringing in this lush\, wild land off the coast of Southern California. \nEvie grew up with her well-meaning but negligent father\, surviving on the money he made dealing the island’s world-famous strain of marijuana\, Winter Wonderland. Although he raised her with a deep respect for the elements\, the sea\, and the creatures living within it\, he also left her to parent herself. With wit\, love\, and bracing ashes of anger\, Creatures probes the complexities of love and abandonment\, guilt and forgiveness\, betrayal and grief—and the ways in which our ability to love can be threatened if we are not brave enough to conquer the past. \nLyrical\, darkly funny\, and ultimately cathartic\, Creatures exerts a pull as strong as the tides. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/crissy-van-meter-creatures/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200129T193000
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SUMMARY:Journalism and Politics in the Corn Belt: Art Cullen in conversation with Michael Pollan
DESCRIPTION:Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Art Cullen in conversation with Michael Pollan \nArt Cullen is editor of The Storm Lake Times\, a family-run newspaper published in Storm Lake\, Iowa (population 10\,076). In 2017\, Cullen won a Pulitzer prize for his reporting on polluted water\, fertilizer runoff\, and powerful corporate agricultural interests. Just a few days before the Iowa Caucuses\, Cullen and Pollan will sit down together to discuss Trump and the farm vote; trade wars; journalism in rural America; immigration; agricultural consolidation and antitrust laws; regenerative agriculture; and the potential for farmers to sequester carbon and help curb climate change. \nThis event is sponsored by the UC Berkeley-11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/journalism-and-politics-in-the-corn-belt-art-cullen-in-conversation-with-michael-pollan/
LOCATION:Sibley Auditorium\, University of California\, Berkeley\, Bechtel Engineering Center\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Lincoln Mitchell
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco native Lincoln Mitchell will discuss his new book with Penelope Houston\, the singer for the seminal San Francisco punk band The Avengers and accomplished solo artist.\nIn San Francisco Year Zero: Political Upheaval\, Punk Rock and a Third Place Baseball Team\, Mitchell deftly weaves together the personal and the political\, tracing the city’s current state back to three key events that all occurred in 1978: the assassination of George Moscone and Harvey Milk (occurring fewer than two weeks after the massacre of Peoples Temple members in Jonestown\, Guyana); the explosion of the city’s punk rock scene; and a breakthrough season for the San Francisco Giants.\nSponsored by the San Francisco History Center\nA book sale follows the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-talk-lincoln-mitchell/
LOCATION:Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room\, SF Main Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="san francisco public library":MAILTO:anissa.malady@sfpl.org
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200129T203000
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SUMMARY:Samuel C. Woolley / The Reality Game
DESCRIPTION:discussing his new book \nThe Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth \npublished by Public Affairs \n\nFake news posts and Twitter trolls were just the beginning. What will happen when misinformation moves from our social media feeds into our everyday lives? \nDespite Samuel Woolley’s warnings as early as 2013\, the problem of online disinformation stormed our political process in 2016 and has only worsened since. Yet as Woolley shows in this urgent book\, it may pale in comparison to what’s to come: human-like automated voice systems\, machine learning\, “deepfake” AI-edited videos and images\, interactive memes\, virtual reality\, and more. In stories both deeply researched and compellingly written\, Woolley describes this future and imagines its profound impact on our politics. \nInformation literacy is an essential ingredient in a healthy democracy\, and The Reality Game shows how the breakneck rate of technological change is making it nearly impossible. Woolley argues for a new culture of invention\, one built around accountability and especially transparency. We cannot afford to continue re-litigating the past. Instead\, we must follow signals to prevent manipulation in the future–and use our new tools not to control people but to empower them. \nDr. Samuel Woolley is a writer and researcher specializing in the study of automation/AI\, emergent technology\, politics\, persuasion\, and social media. He is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and program director for computational propaganda research at the Center for Media Engagement\, both at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining UT\, Woolley founded and directed the Digital Intelligence Lab at the Institute for the Future\, a 50-year-old think tank based in the heart of Silicon Valley. He also cofounded and directed the research team at the Computational Propaganda Project at the Oxford Internet Institute\, University of Oxford. He has written on political manipulation of technology for a variety of publications including Wired\, the Atlantic Monthly\, Motherboard/VICE\, TechCrunch\, theGuardian\, Quartz and Slate. His research has been featured in publications such as the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, and the Wall Street Journal and on The Today Show\, 60 Minutes\, and Frontline. His work has been presented to members of NATO\, the US Congress\, the UK Parliament\, and to numerous private entities and civil society organizations. His PhD is from the University of Washington. He tweets from @samuelwoolley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/samuel-c-woolley-the-reality-game/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:#we music - a talk and performance series of queer perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the seventh installment of #we\, a talk and performance series of queer perspectives hosted by Richard Loranger. Each event features two writers\, musicians\, or performers from various segments of the queer spectrum\, who each give a talk on their perspective on or experience of queerness\, along with a reading or performance of their creative work. \nFor our seventh event\, Chinese-American vocalist and performance artist Sidney Chen will speak on expressing gayness in two cultures and languages in his talk “Mother Tongues: Reclaiming a Discarded Self”\, and perform vocally as well as play us a few of his handmade music box pieces; and non-binary singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rybree Tree will give a talk titled “In Between: Visions from the Outskirts & People People” and regale us with their amazing and joyous voice and music. \nNote that #we has a new home through 2020 at ProArts Gallery in downtown Oakland. We try to start promptly at 7 pm. Q&A and chat time will follow. \nAbsolutely all are welcome to this sharing of perspectives. The venue is wheelchair accessible\, and ASL translation for the deaf is available on request\, with a two-week notice preferred. \n  \n#we music \na talk and performance series of queer perspectives \n  \nfeaturing \nSidney Chen \nand Rybree Tree \n  \nHosted by Richard Loranger \n  \nPERFORMER BIOS \nSinger and performance artist Sidney Chen specializes in the creation of new works for voice. He is fascinated by the voice’s infinite capacity to communicate\, both with and without words. In recent seasons he has toured with composer/choreographer Meredith Monk as a member of her Vocal Ensemble\, and as a guest musical artist with ODC/Dance. Current projects include Anne Hege’s The Furies\, a laptOpera with SLOrk (Stanford Laptop Orchestra); Brian Baumbusch’s The Pressure\, with a large ensemble of custom metallophones; Ryan Brown’s medical oratorio Mortal Lessons; and solo work with DIY music boxes. \nRybree Tree is a transient genderfull singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from San Diego\, CA. They move with the seasons and have come home to Oakland for the past 11 years. They have played a number of tours in the continental US\, both solo and in groups such as Belligerence and This Body Wants To Live!. Currently\, they play here and there in the Bay Area while working toward some life goals\, musical and otherwise. They are a child care provider on some days and unemployed on others. They love people\, animals\, and plants and are striving toward a balanced way of life in harmony with our planet and all that is. You can support their music here: https://rybreetree.bandcamp.com/releases
URL:https://litseen.com/event/we-music-a-talk-and-performance-series-of-queer-perspectives/
LOCATION:ProArts\, 150 Frank Ogawa Plaza (around the corner from Awaken Café)\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Power Unit 17":MAILTO:hello@richardloranger.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200129T210000
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SUMMARY:Hand To Mouth/WORDS Spoken OUT #105
DESCRIPTION:Our first reading of the year will feature Marin Poet Laureate Terry Lucas\, and poet Kat Crawford. \nTerry Lucas is the author of two full-length poetry collections: Dharma Rain (Saint Julian Press\, 2016) and In This Room (CW Books\, 2016)\, in addition to two prize-winning chapbooks. His poems\, essays\, and reviews have appeared in numerous national literary journals\, including Alaska Quarterly Review\, Best New Poets\, Crab Orchard Review\, Fifth Wednesday Journal\, Green Mountains Review\, and others. An excerpt of his memoir\, Flight\, is published in the current issue of Great River Review\, and immediately received a Pushcart nomination—his seventh. A regular speaker at the Dominican University of California’s Low-Residency MFA Program and a free-lance poetry coach\, Terry is the current and sixth Poet Laureate of Marin County\, California. \nKat Crawford’s poetry has been published in several quarterlies including Creative Woman\, Nomads’ Choir\, Marin Poetry Anthology\, Tuxedo of Dominican University and Spillway. Her first poetry collection\, A Particular Kind of Heaven\, was published in 2014. A recent graduate of the Dominican University MFA Poetry Program\, Kat is busy planning a group that will use poetry to link the communities of teenagers and elders. \nThere will be refreshments\, and open mic after our features read. Remember to grab a coupon (only good for evening of Hand To Mouth) with discounts on food and drinks from our neighbors Cafe Arrivederci\, Whipper Snapper\, and The Mayflower Pub\, for before or after the reading. \nHand To Mouth/WORDS SPOKEN OUT\, emceed by Joel and Toni Eis\, is in its 15th year\, with readings generally taking place on the last Wednesday of the month\, except for August and December.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hand-to-mouth-words-spoken-out-105/
LOCATION:Rebound Bookstore\, 1611 4th Street\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200129T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200129T210000
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SUMMARY:Lizzie O'Shea: Future Histories
DESCRIPTION:Lizzie O’Shea discusses her new book Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace\, Tom Paine\, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology. \nPraise for Future Histories \n“Before we became big data bundles for the lackeys of Dorsey\, Jobs\, Zuckerberg\, and Bezos\, to exploit\, the digital revolution seemed to promise a democratic utopia\, a commons in cyberspace not governed by neoliberal norms. Can we realize that revolutionary dream and stop desiring our own domination? Incredibly\, yet thrillingly and plausibly\, Lizzie O’Shea argues that\, if only we can mobilize history to serve rather than enervate us\, the answer is yes.”—Stuart Jeffries \n“There has never been a better time to pull the politics of platform capitalism into the foreground where it belongs. Lizzie O’Shea brings a hacker’s curiosity\, a historian’s reach and a lawyer’s precision to bear on our digitally saturated present\, emerging with a compelling argument that a better world is there for the taking.”—Scott Ludlam \n“A potent\, timely\, and unrepentantly radical reminder of history’s creative potential. Lizzie O’Shea’s Future Histories should be required reading for anyone planning on surviving—and even repairing—our grim technological moment.”—Claire L. Evans \nAbout Future Histories \nWhen we talk about technology we always talk about tomorrow and the future — which makes it hard to figure out how to even get there. In Future Histories\, public interest lawyer and digital specialist Lizzie O’Shea argues that we need to stop looking forward and start looking backwards. Weaving together histories of computing and progressive social movements with modern theories of the mind\, society\, and self\, O’Shea constructs a “usable past” that can help us determine our digital future. \nWhat\, she asks\, can the Paris Commune tell us about earlier experiments in sharing resources–like the Internet–in common? How can Frantz Fanon’s theories of anti colonial self-determination help us build digital world in which everyone can participate equally? Can debates over equal digital access be helped by American revolutionary Tom Paine’s theories of democratic\, economic redistribution? What can indigenous land struggles teach us about stewarding our digital climate? And\, how is Elon Musk not a future visionary but a steampunk throwback to Victorian-era technological utopians? \nIn engaging\, sparkling prose\, O’Shea shows us how very human our understanding of technology is\, and how when we draw on the resources of the past\, we can see the potential for struggle\, for liberation\, for art and poetry in our technological present. Future Histories is for all of us–makers\, coders\, hacktivists\, Facebook-users\, self-styled Luddites–who find ourselves in a brave new world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lizzie-oshea-future-histories/
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:20200130T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200130T133000
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SUMMARY:We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race\, Resegregation\, and Public Art
DESCRIPTION:Jeff Chang gives a talk related to his latest book\, We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation. Published in 2016\, it was named the Northern California Nonfiction Book of the Year\, and the Washington Post declared it “the smartest book of the year.” \nJeff Chang is vice president for narrative\, arts and culture at Race Forward. His books include Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation\, Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop\, and Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post Civil Rights America. Cofounder of CultureStr/ke and ColorLines\, Chang was named by The Utne Reader as one of “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World” and by KQED as an Asian Pacific American Local Hero. He has been a USA Ford Fellow in Literature and the winner of the Asian American Literary Award. He was recently named to the Frederick Douglass 200.\nFor more information\, visit artsdesign.berkeley.edu. \nJeff Chang has written extensively on culture\, politics\, the arts\, and music. \nHis first book\, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation\, garnered many honors\, including the American Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award. Slate named it one of the best nonfiction books of the past 25 years. He edited the book\, Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop. \nWho We Be: The Colorization of America (St. Martin’s Press) was released on October 2014\, to critical acclaim. It was published in paperback in January 2016 under the new title\, Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post Civil Rights America (Picador). The book won the Ray + Pat Browne Award for Best Work in Popular Culture and American Culture and was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award\, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize\, and Books For A Better Life Award. \nHis latest book\, We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes On Race and Resegregation (Picador)\, was published in September 2016 on Picador. It was named the Northern California Nonfiction Book Of The Year\, and the Washington Post declared it “the smartest book of the year.” In May 2019\, he and director Bao Nguyen created a four-episode digital series adaptation of the book for PBS Indie Lens Storycast. \nHis next project is a biography of Bruce Lee (Little\, Brown). \nJeff has been a USA Ford Fellow in Literature. He was named by The Utne Reader as one of “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World\,” by KQED as an Asian Pacific American Local Hero\, and by the Yerba Buena Center for The Arts to its 2016 YBCA 100 list of those “shaping the future of American culture.” He was recently named to the Frederick Douglass 200\, as one of “200 living individuals who best embody the work and spirit of Douglass.” \nHe has also been a winner of the North Star News Prize\, and the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association’s Ray & Pat Browne Award for Best Single Work in Popular Culture and American Culture. With H. Samy Alim\, he received the St. Clair Drake Teaching Award at Stanford University. \nJeff co-founded CultureStr/ke and ColorLines. He has written for The Guardian\, Slate\, the New York Times\, The Nation\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, The Believer\, N+1\, Mother Jones\, Salon\, and Buzzfeed\, among many others. \nBorn and raised in Honolulu\, Hawai’i\, he is a graduate of ‘Iolani School\, the University of California at Berkeley\, and the University of California at Los Angeles. \nFor the past seven years he was the Executive Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University. He serves as the Vice President for Narrative\, Arts and Culture at Race Forward. \nArts + Design Thursdays @ BAMPFA is made possible thanks to support from the Big Ideas Courses Program in the College of Letters & Science at UC Berkeley and from generous supporters of Berkeley Arts + Design. In-kind support is provided by BAMPFA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/we-gon-be-alright-notes-on-race-resegregation-and-public-art/
LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive\, 2155 Center St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200130T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200130T193000
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SUMMARY:Author Mary Ladd in conversation with Author Leticia Hernandez
DESCRIPTION:Mary Ladd\, author of The Wig Diaries\, will be in conversation with Leticia Hernandez\, author of Mucha Muchacha\, Too Much Girl. \nThe Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd’s debut disrespectful cancer book. Delivered with bold gallows humor\, it intimately address the gravity of cancer and invites the reader to bear witness to both the horror and the joke(s). Armed with creative sensibility\, Ladd robs her diagnosis of its dour weightiness. Refusing to tiptoe around the gnarlier elements of treatment and recovery\, the narrative is powerful in its unvarnished honesty and contagious lust for life exemplified by hilarious anecdotes. \nA uniquely fresh modern and black comedy take on cancer\nCovers and pokes fun at everything from diagnosis to treatment to medical bills\nIllustrated by San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist Don Asmussen\, who has cancer for the second time \n“I love this book.”—Mary Roach\, author of the books Grunt\, Stiff\, Spook\, and Bonk \n“This looks like a hoot and a half. I want more.”—Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket)\, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events \n“Clear-eyed\, fun\, and reassuring\, it’s the perfect guide!”—Vanessa Hua\, author of A River of Stars and Deceit and Other Possibilities \nMary Ladd’s writing has appeared in Playboy\, Time Magazine\, the San Francisco Chronicle and in five anthologies. She is a Writers Grotto member who collaborated with Anthony Bourdain on his Bay Area episodes of No Reservations. Illustrator Don Asmussen is the creator of Bad Reporter\, a twice-weekly political comic strip in the San Francisco Chronicle that is syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-mary-ladd-in-conversation-with-author-leticia-hernandez/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Carmen Maria Machado with Esmé Weijun Wang
DESCRIPTION:in conversation and celebrating the release of \nCarmen Maria Machado’s \nIn The Dream House \npublished by Graywolf Press \nIn the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad\, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman\, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. \nAnd it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope—the haunted house\, erotica\, the bildungsroman—through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence\, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian\, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. \nMachado’s dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit\, playfulness\, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings\, fairy tales\, Star Trek\, and Disney villains\, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching\, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be. \nCarmen Maria Machado is the author of Her Body and Other Parties\, a finalist for the National Book Award. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, she is the writer in residence at the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Philadelphia with her wife. Visit: https://carmenmariamachado.com/ \nEsmé Weijun Wang is the author of The Collected Schizophrenias and The Border of Paradise. She received the Whiting Award in 2018 and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists of 2017. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan and lives in San Francisco. Visit: https://esmewang.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carmen-maria-machado-with-esme-weijun-wang/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Orin & Manjula Martin\, Fruit Trees for Every Garden
DESCRIPTION:Just in time for pruning season! Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Orin Martin\, long-time manager of the renowned Alan Chadwick Garden at UC Santa Cruz\, and writer/editor Manjula Martin\, Orin’s daughter\, for a discussion and signing of Fruit Trees for Every Garden—their substantial\, authoritative\, and beautiful full-color guide which covers everything you need to know about organically growing healthy\, bountiful fruit trees. \nFor more than forty years\, Orin Martin has taught thousands of apprentices\, students\, and home gardeners the art and craft of growing fruit trees organically. In Fruit Trees for Every Garden\, Orin shares—with hard-won wisdom and plenty of humor—his recommended fruit varieties and techniques for productive trees\, including apple\, pear\, peach\, plum\, apricot\, nectarine\, sweet cherry\, orange\, lemon\, fig\, and more. \nIf you crave crisp apples\, juicy peaches\, or varieties of fruit that can never be found in the store\, they are all within reach in your own backyard. Whether you have one tree or a hundred\, Orin gives you all the tools you need\, from tree selection and planting practices to seasonal feeding guidelines and in-depth pruning tutorials. Along the way\, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the core principles of organic gardening and soil stewardship: compost\, cultivation\, cover crops\, and increasing biodiversity for a healthier garden. This book is more than just a gardening manual; it’s designed to help you understand the why behind the how\, allowing you to apply these techniques to your own slice of paradise and make the best choices for your individual trees. \nFilled with informative illustrations\, full-color photography\, and evocative intaglio etchings by artist Stephanie Martin\, Fruit Trees for Every Garden is a striking and practical guide that will enable you to enjoy the great pleasure and beauty of raising homegrown\, organic fruit for years to come. \nORIN MARTIN is manager of the three-acre Alan Chadwick Garden (home of 600 fruit trees) at the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Farming Systems at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and manager of the orchard at UCSC’s Farm & Garden. Since 1977\, he has taught classes\, lectures\, and workshops to thousands of home gardeners\, apprentices\, students\, and budding farmers who have gone on to found and lead organic farms\, teaching gardens\, and food justice projects around the country and the world. MANJULA MARTIN\, Orin’s daughter\, is a writer\, managing editor of the literary magazine Zoetrope: All-Story\, and editor of the book Scratch: Writers\, Money\, and the Art of Making a Living. \nMANJULA MARTIN\, Orin’s daughter\, is a writer\, managing editor of the literary magazine Zoetrope: All-Story\, and editor of the book Scratch: Writers\, Money\, and the Art of Making a Living. \n“An excellent guide for those of us who are ‘addicted’ to the joys\, pleasures\, and sweat of growing tree fruit—a sweet blend of the skills and art required to grow the perfect peach (or apple\, citrus\, fig …)”\n—David Mas Masumoto\, organic fruit farmer and author of Epitaph for a Peach\, Wisdom of the Last Farmer\, and Changing Season \n“Like the best teacher you’ve ever had\, Orin Martin knows how to light the fire. Yes\, this beautifully written and illustrated little book provides clear instructions for planting an orchard. It lovingly introduces you to more than a hundred varieties of fruit. But it is so much more. It’s about the power of observation\, talking to our neighbors\, and investing in our food\, families\, and Mother Earth.”\n—NPR’s The Kitchen Sisters (Nikki Silva & Davia Nelson) \n“The opportunity to learn from one of the great organic farmers is an opportunity not to be missed! The UCSC Farm & Garden has always been a place of joy\, awe\, and wonder for me; this book captures the thought process and techniques that help us understand the unseen beneath our feet.”\n—Nell Newman\, founder of Newman’s Own Organics \n“Here you have all the practical tools to create your own orchard of any size—information on rootstocks\, pruning\, thinning\, and a thrilling array of varieties—but moreover\, you have Orin’s wise and gently wry voice to guide you through it.”\n—Alice Waters\, chef\, author\, food activist\, and founder of Chez Panisse restaurant \n“In this book\, Orin Martin gives us his true mastery of trees. Here is a man who lived his life working in paradise\, took care of the land\, and planted an orchard. His gifts: the Chadwick Garden\, and this book to be shared by all.”\n—Karen Washington\, co-owner of Rise & Root Farm and cofounder of Black Urban Growers \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 any ADA accommodation requests\, please email them to info@bookshopsantacruz.com by January 28th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/orin-manjula-martin-fruit-trees-for-every-garden/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Literary Speakeasy's toast to 2020
DESCRIPTION:It’s time for the first Literary Speakeasy of 2020! We are celebrating with five amazing writers – Heather Bourbeau\, Vincent Chu\, Kevin Dublin\, Lauren Ito\, and Sarah Kobrinsky. It’s going to be an amazing night of poetry and prose. Come raise a glass to Bay Area authors! \nLiterary Speakeasy is always FREE and there is NO drink minimum. Arrive early for a FREE raffle ticket for your chance to win the evening’s secret Speakeasy prize. \nPerformer bios:\nHeather Bourbeau’s fiction and poetry have been published in Alaska Quarterly Review\, Cleaver\, Eleven Eleven\, Francis Ford Coppola Winery’s Chalkboard\, The Stockholm Review of Literature\, and the anthologies Nothing Short Of 100: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story and America\, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience (Sixteen Rivers Press). She has worked with various UN agencies\, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia and UNICEF Somalia. \nVincent Chu is a Bay Area writer and author of the debut story collection Like a Champion. His fiction has appeared in STILL Magazine\, Fjords Review\, Pithead Chapel\, PANK Magazine\, East Bay Review\, The Collapsar\, Stockholm Review and elsewhere. He is a 2019 Hambidge Center Fellow and member of The Writers Grotto. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from UCLA. Vincent lives in San Francisco and can be found online at @herrchu. He is working on his first novel. \nKevin Dublin is editor of Etched Press and author of the chapbook How to Fall in Love in San Diego. He has been the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing\, North Carolina Poetry Society\, and more. His words have appeared in North Carolina Literary Review\, Menacing Hedge\, Poetry International\, The Rumpus\, and more. He holds an MFA from San Diego State University and enjoys developing web apps for writers. Kevin also leads workshops as a part of Litquake’s Elder Writing Project\, at Syzygy Academy SF\, and all over the Bay Area. Follow him on Twitter @PartEverything. \nLauren Ito is a Seattle-born Gosei (fifth generation Japanese American) poet\, designer\, and community craftswoman committed to advancing equity through art and design. As a poet\, Lauren delves into the tensions inherited within diasporic experiences\, including explorations of American concentration camps\, identity\, and home. Lauren’s art been featured by The Seattle Times\, Japanese American National Museum\, Nomadic Press\, The City is Already Speaking Anthology\, and various performance venues\, such as the Mission Arts Performance Project\, Lit Crawl San Francisco\, and Gears Turning. She is a 2019 Grotto Rooted & Written Fellow\, 2019 Novalia Collective Fellow\, and Asian American Women Arts Association Emerging Curators Fellow. She is currently working on her first manuscript. Lauren lives in San Francisco and can almost always be found by the sea. \nSarah Kobrinsky was the 2013-2015 Poet Laureate of Emeryville\, CA. Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything (New Rivers Press) is her first collection of poetry. Her poems and stories have appeared in Magma Poetry\, Eleven Eleven\, Monkeybicycle\, *82 Review\, 100 Word Story\, Fjords Review\, among many others. She was long-listed for the 2019 University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize. She was born in Canada\, raised in North Dakota\, seasoned in England\, and tempered in California. Sarah and her husband have a handmade dinnerware company called Jered’s Pottery.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-speakeasys-toast-to-2020/
LOCATION:Martuni’s\, 4 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Racket 38 : Flight
DESCRIPTION:It’s 2020! The future is here! We’ve got flying cars and robot butlers and harmless lasers that come out of our fingers because it’s the future! Oh wait\, no\, no we don’t. We have ignorance and we have\, oh my\, we have a general regression in terms of social views and\, well\, yeah. Doesn’t matter though\, ’cause it’s 2020 and it’s a new year and even if everything feels like a broken septic tank\, come hang out and celebrate the ticking forward of the biggest hand of all. \nFree beer until the free beer has been consumed. \nThe Readers (So Far): \nNick O’Brien\nChelsea Davis\nAnna Allen\nPeter Thomas\nClaire Calderon\nSpencer Tierney\nCandy Shue
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-38-flight/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poets Michael Gottlieb\, Brian Ang\, Sara Larsen\, and James Sherry
DESCRIPTION:Michael Gottlieb is the author of twenty books\, most recently Mostly Clearing\, from Roof Books\, published in November 2019. Other recent titles include What We Do: Essays for Poets\, I Had Every Intention\, Dear All\, and Memoir and Essay\, an account of NYC in the 70s and the early days of the Language school. To mark its publication\, selections from Mostly Clearing were staged at the Poetry Project at St. Marks in New York in November. Other work of his which has been adapted for the stage include We Will Never Speak of This Again and The Dust\, his 9/11 poem\, which was also produced at the Poetry Project\, on the 10th anniversary of the attacks. He works in tech and divides his time between New York and Connecticut. \nBrian Ang’s current poetic project is The Totality Cantos\, for Atelos. Editor: ARMED CELL (2011-17). Radio: A Thousand Records on KALX. \nSara Larsen is a poet and writer living in Oakland\, CA. Her newest book is a polyvocal exploration of punk and poetics\, The Riot Grrrl Thing (Roof\, 2019). Previous books include Merry Hell (Atelos\, 2016)\, and All Revolutions Will Be Fabulous (Printing Press\, 2014). She is also the author of several chapbooks including Our Ladies\, Riot Cops En Route To Troy\, The Hallucinated\, among others. \nJames Sherry is the author of 13 books of poetry and prose\, most recently The Oligarch (London: Palgrave MacMillan\, 2017) and the poetry book Entangled Bank (Victoria\, TX: Chax Press\, 2016). Since 1976\, he has edited Roof Books and Roof Magazine\, publishing more than 150 titles of seminal works of language writing\, flarf\, conceptual poetry\, new narrative\, and environmental poetry. He started The Segue Foundation\, Inc. in 1977\, producing over 10\,000 events of poetry and other arts in New York City. Tonight\, he’ll read from his new manuscript\, Selfie: Ecology & Individuals\, forthcoming from Palgrave this year.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-michael-gottlieb-brian-ang-sara-larsen-and-james-sherry/
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:Bay Area Poets Coalition
DESCRIPTION:STRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n \nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)\n\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n \nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂\n\nAfter the reading\, join us for dinner if you’d like at a nearby restaurant
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-9/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200201T213000
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SUMMARY:Poetry with Gregory Pond and Silvi Alcivar
DESCRIPTION:Gregory Pond was born in Brooklyn\, NY to Panamanian parents and moved to San Francisco in the late 1970’s. Author and publisher of four books of poetry\, aftermoon and Blackened Blue\, 4:00 a.m. (DARK) and 4:00 a.m. (LIGHT). He has been featured in the Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal and Overthrowing Capitalism anthologies and has read all over the Bay Area\, including events sponsored by SF Public Library\, Howard Zinn Book Fair and Queer Rebels. He is currently a member of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade and as The Visiting Poet\, he offers readings to hospitals and assisted-living facilities\, as well as volunteering as facilitator of Poetically Speaking\, a weekly conference-call program for seniors featuring classic and contemporary poetry.\n~\nSilvi Alcivar’s poetry lives in the moment two strangers meet over her red royal typewriter–the anonymity an invitation to speak\, the typewriter keys a willing listener. As poet and owner of The Poetry Store since 2008\, Silvi’s written and sold an estimated 75K poems that live in wallets\, on refrigerators\, and an army bunker in antarctica. She’s worked events as small as a stranger’s living room\, intimate as a funeral\, big as a 5000 person party\, appeared on The California Report Magazine\, the TEDx stage\, published in anthologies\, and exhibited art in galleries through the bay area. She holds degrees in writing and art from Cornell University and Penn State. Follow her @thepoetrystore.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-with-gregory-pond-and-silvi-alcivar/
LOCATION:Black & Brown for Justice\, Peace and Equality\, 474 Valencia St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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