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SUMMARY:Book Launch for Julia Plevin\, author of The Healing Magic of Forest Bathing\, at The Bindery
DESCRIPTION:On March 20\, The Bindery is hosting the launch party for Julia Plevin and her first book\, The Healing Magic of Forest Bathing! \nThe Healing Magic of Forest Bathing is an engaging guide to the art of forest bathing\, inspired by the Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku\, for anyone who wants to explore the transformative power of nature in promoting health and happiness. \nAuthor Julia Plevin takes a traditional Japanese healing practice and presents her own unique program for those who are seeking better balance in their lives. As founder of the popular Forest Bathing Club (more than 1\,000 members)\, Julia has over a decade of experience guiding groups of people into the forest\, where the practice of forest bathing helps calm the mind and create space for wellness and prosperity. \nCome hear Julia discuss how her practice aims to help improve our lives through deeper connection\, alignment\, and attunement with Nature. \nThe Bindery is located at 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco\, CA 94117. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-for-julia-plevin-author-of-the-healing-magic-of-forest-bathing-at-the-bindery/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joyce Carol Oates
DESCRIPTION:Joyce Carol Oates\n\n\n\n\nreads from her latest novel The Hazards of Time Travel\, an ingenious\, dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society. \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of The Hazards of Time Travel by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, March 20\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n“Time travel”–and its hazards–are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (future) world and is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America–“Wainscotia\, Wisconsin”–that existed eighty years before. Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town she is set upon a course of “rehabilitation”–but cannot resist falling in love with a fellow exile and questioning the constrains of the Wainscotia world with results that are both devastating and liberating. \nArresting and visionary\, Hazards of Time Travel is both a novel of harrowing discovery and an exquisitely wrought love story that may be Joyce Carol Oates’s most unexpected novel so far. \nJoyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities\, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award\, the National Book Award\, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction\, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time\, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys\, Blonde\, which was nominated for the National Book Award\, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls\, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. She spends winters in Berkeley. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-carol-oates-8/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Tenderloin Cocktail Culture
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, March 21\, 2019\n7:00 PM  9:00 PM\n\n\nGoogle Calendar  ICS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs San Francisco’s roaring vice district\, the Tenderloin of the early 20th century figures greatly into the development of cocktail culture. Many of the bars\, restaurants\, and hotels represented in The Match Book: Tenderloin Historical Ephemera Project played a role in San Francisco cocktail history. Join us for a survey of the neighborhood’s historic bar culture and recipes from the innovators who shaped the modern cocktail landscape through a historical discussion\, guided tasting\, and hands-on class led by Shana Farrell\, author of Bay Area Cocktails: A History of Culture\, Community and Craft. In collaboration with the California Historical Society. \n— \nThis event is part of The Tenderloin Match Book: Historical Ephemera Project a multi-faceted project that also encompasses the publication of The Match Book: Vintage Matchbooks from San Francisco’s Tenderloin\, an artfully designed history book of the Tenderloin featuring the matchbooks of local businesses and cultural institutions; the Tenderloin Ephemera Exhibition\, featuring historical Tenderloin ephemera from the 1920’s-1950’s\, including bar signs\, glassware\, postcards\, menus\, matchbooks et al.; the first addition to the Tenderloin Museum’s permanent exhibit\, The Matchbook Map Exhibit\, featuring a searchable\, interactive touchscreen map that connects matchbook imagery to historical info on the associated business and address. \nThrough the everyday act of picking up a matchbook and striking a match\, one is transported to another place and time; the past is remembered through a pedestrian interaction with a tangible object. Matchbooks are emblems of local culture: accessible\, utilitarian ephemera that functioned as the chosen form of advertising for small businesses in an era before plastic lighters and health concerns about smoking. These ritual objects exist at a fascinating intersection of material culture\, local history\, and design art; matchbooks (and other local business ephemera) are striking populist artifacts that serve as portals to places and people in a neighborhood’s past. The Match Book: Tenderloin Historical Ephemera Project presents an illuminating new perspective on the Tenderloin’s often overlooked history\, enriches the detail and depth of the neighborhood’s narrative\, and ignites the Tenderloin community’s historical imagination. \nDoors at 6:30pm\, Program 7pm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tenderloin-cocktail-culture/
LOCATION:Tenderloin Museum\, 398 Eddy St\, San Francisco \, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime CLOSURE
DESCRIPTION:featuring Tongo Eisen-Martin (Heaven Is All Goodbyes)\, Anne-christine d’Adesky (The Pox Lover)\, Jenn Stroud Rossman (The Place You’re Supposed to Laugh)\, and others\, will be at Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster Street\, Oakland\, Thursday March 21st\, 7-9 pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-closure/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lynn Emanuel and Troy Jollimore
DESCRIPTION:Lynn Emanuel is the author of several volumes of poetry. She sees her Hotel Fiesta (1984)\, The Dig (1992)\, and Then\, Suddenly— (1999) as a triptych exploring the convention and flexibility of the book\, and the agency of readers and writers. The Dig received the National Poetry Series Award. Emanuel’s work has also been awarded a Pushcart Prize and has been featured in several Best American Poetry anthologies and the Oxford Book of American Poetry. She has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Eric Matthieu King Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her recent work\, including Noose and Hook (2010)\, explores violence\, the self\, and perspective. Noose and Hook includes a long monologue sequence\, “The Mongrelogues\,” that is told from a dog’s point of view. \nEmanuel holds a BA from Bennington College\, an MA from City College of New York\, where she studied with Adrienne Rich\, and an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has taught at the Warren Wilson Program in Creative Writing\, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, and the University of Pittsburgh. \nTroy Jollimore is the author of three books of poetry and three books of philosophy\, as well as numerous articles\, essays\, and reviews. His first collection of poetry\, Tom Thomson in Purgatory\, won the National Book Critics Circle award in poetry for 2006. His third\, Syllabus of Errors\, appeared on the New York Times’ list of the best books of poetry published in 2015. \nIn 2013 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry. He has also received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Stanford Humanities Center in Palo Alto\, California. He is currently a Professor in the Philosophy Department at California State University\, Chico
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lynn-emanuel-and-troy-jollimore/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Kurt Eichenwald
DESCRIPTION:Kurt Eichenwald\n\n\n\n\npresents A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir\, the compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author’s ongoing struggle with epilepsy–his torturous decision to keep his condition a secret to avoid discrimination\, and his ensuing decades-long battle to not only survive\, but to thrive. \n“Inspirational in the true sense of the word….It is written with great verve and wisdom by someone who has closely and thoughtfully detailed his own plight as well as the journey out of it….A book to take heart from.”–Daphne Merkin\, The New York Times Book Review \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of A Mind Unraveled by speaking to a bookseller or ordering through our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, March 21\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nAs a college freshman\, Kurt Eichenwald awoke one night on the floor of his dorm room\, confused and in pain. In the aftermath of that critical moment\, his once-carefree life would be consumed by confrontations with medical incompetence\, discrimination that almost cost him his education and employment\, physical abuse\, and dark moments when he contemplated suicide. \nThis is the story of one man’s battle to pursue his dreams despite an often incapacitating brain disorder. From his early experiences of fear and denial to his exasperating search for treatment\, Eichenwald provides a deeply candid account of his years facing this misunderstood and often stigmatized condition. He details his encounters with the doctors whose negligence could have killed him\, but for the heroic actions of a brilliant neurologist and the family and friends who fought for him.  \nUltimately\, A Mind Unraveled is an inspirational story\, one that chronicles how Eichenwald\, faced often with his own mortality\, transformed trauma into a guide for reaching the future he desired. Defying relentless threats to his emotional and physical well-being\, he affirmed his decision to never give up\, and in the process learned how to rise from the depths of despair to the heights of unimagined success. \nKurt Eichenwald is the author of four previous nonfiction books. His second\, The Informant\, was made into a movie starring Matt Damon and directed by Steven Soderbergh. In addition to his distinguished work as a senior writer at Newsweekand a contributing editor at Vanity Fair\, Eichenwald spent two decades as a senior writer at The New York Times\, where he was a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is also a two-time winner of the George Polk Award\, as well as the winner of the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism and an Emmy Award nominee. He lives in Dallas with his family. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kurt-eichenwald/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:An Instinctive Feeling of Innocence: Dana Grigorcea and Alta L. Price
DESCRIPTION:Green Apple Books on the Park | 1231 9th Avenue | San Francisco\, CA \n\n\nRSVP\n\nSwiss-Romanian writer Dana Grigorcea and translator Alta L. Price discuss An Instinctive Feeling of Innocence. \nAn Instinctive Feeling of Innocence (Seagull Books) is the stunning second novel from Swiss-Romanian writer Dana Grigorcea and translated by Alta L. Price. With humor and wit\, An Instinctive Feeling of Innocence describes a world full of myriad surprises where new and old cultures weave together—a world bursting with character and spirit.Victoria has just recently moved from Zurich back to her hometown of Bucharest when the bank where she works is robbed. Put on leave so that she can process the trauma of the robbery\, Victoria strolls around town. Each street triggers sudden visions as memories from her childhood under the Ceausescu regime begin to mix with the radically changed city and the strange world in which she now finds herself. As the walls of reality begin to crumble\, Victoria and her former self cross paths with the bank robber and a rich cast of characters\, weaving a vivid portrait of Romania and one woman’s self-discovery. \n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812\n\n\n\n\nSHARE \n \n\n\n\n| ALL EVENTS >\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\nDana Grigorcea\n\n\nDana Grigorcea is a Swiss-Romanian essayist\, novelist\, and children’s book author. Her debut novel\, Baba Rada\, won the Swiss Literary Pearl. She lives in Zürich.\n\n\n\n\n\nTRANSLATOR\nAlta L. Price\n\n\n\nAlta L. Price runs a publishing consultancy specialized in literature and nonfiction texts on art\, architecture\, design\, and culture. A recipient of the Gutekunst Prize\, she translates from Italian and German into English\, and is currently shortlisted for The Peirene Stevns Translation Prize. Her latest book translations include Corrado Augias’s The Secrets of Italy\, Jürgen Holstein’s The Book Cover in the Weimar Republic\, and Martin Mosebach’s The 21. Her work has appeared on BBC Radio 4\, 3 Quarks Daily\, Maharam Stories\, Trafika Europe\, Words Without Borders\, and elsewhere. She is a member of ALTA\, PEN\, the Third Coast Translators Collective\, and Cedilla & Co.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-instinctive-feeling-of-innocence-dana-grigorcea-and-alta-l-price/
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:National Geographic Explorer Academy
DESCRIPTION:For science-loving\, world-exploring young adventurers… \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNational Geographic presents Explorer Academy with the help of actual National Geographic Explorer Erika Bergman — scientist\, submersible pilot\, and steamship engineer! \nErika will share her adventures and open up a world of wonder with this new book series that J.J. Abrams\, director and screenwriter of Star Wars: The Force Awakens\, and Lost\, calls “A fun\, exciting\, and action-packed ride that kids will love.” and LeVar Burton\, host of Reading Rainbow says “is sure to awaken readers’ inner adventurer and curiosity about the world around them! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou will get the chance to meet Bergman– a virtual reality engineer and an enthusiastic ocean explorer who received a National Geographic grant in 2013 for her “Classrooms Under the Sea” expedition to live stream video from submersibles. Erika will join author Trudi Trueit\, who has written more than 100 books for young readers. Trudi has been a TV news reporter and weather forecaster\, but knew her calling was in writing. \nCome find out about life as an explorer and about National Geographic’s buzzworthy newest series based on the research and adventures of National Geographic’s leading scientists\, photographers and journalists\, focusing on geography\, history\, space\, STEM\, exploration and world cultures. Steeped in fact and real-world investigation\, this series embodies National Geographic’s explorers and how they interact with the world. \nJoin the National Geographic adventure!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/national-geographic-explorer-academy/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Amy Glynn & Lucille Lang Day
DESCRIPTION:Amy Glynn is the Poet Laureate of Lafayette\, California. She is multi-generational Bay Area native and holds degrees from Mount Holyoke College and Lancaster University\, England. Her poems appear widely in journals and anthologies including The Best American Poetry (2010 and 2012). Her first collection\, A Modern Herbal\, was published by Measure Press in 2013; her second\, Romance Language\, is forthcoming\, also from Measure Press. She has received the SPUR Award of the Association of Western Writers\, Poetry Northwest’s Carolyn Kizer Award\, scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, Bread Loaf Environmental Writer’s Conference\, and Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, and two Pushcart Prize nominations. She is also an award-winning essayist. Amy lives in Lafayette with her two daughters. \nLucille Lang Day is the founder of Scarlet Tanager Books\, where she recently co-edited with Ruth Nolan Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California.  Her memoir\, Married at Fourteen: A True Story (Heyday\, 2012)\, received a 2013 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award and was a  finalist for the 2013 Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. Poetry collections include Becoming an Ancestor (Červená Barva\, 2015)\, Dreaming of Sunflowers: Museum Poems(Blue Light\, 2015)\, The Curvature of Blue (Červená Barva\, 2009)\, Infinities(Cedar Hill\, 2002)\, Wild One (Scarlet Tanager\, 2000)\, Fire in the Garden(Mother’s Hen\, 1997)\, and Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope (Berkeley Poets’ Workshop and Press\, 1982). Her first children’s book\, Chain Letter\, based on her poem “Letter from St. Jude\,” was published by Heyday Books in 2005; her second children’s book\, The Rainbow Zoo\, a rhyming picture book\, was released by Scarlet Tanager Books in 2016.  She has received numerous awards and accolades\, including multiple Pushcart nominations. \nThe reading will begin at 7:00 p.m. and end at 9:00 p.m. A limited open reading\, and a short interview with the featured readers will be included. This is a free event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amy-glynn-lucille-lang-day/
LOCATION:St. Alban’s Episcopal Church\, 1501 Washington Avenue\, Albany\, CA\, 94706-1856
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:After Hours - Brendan Kiely: Consent and #MeToo
DESCRIPTION:After Hours – Brendan Kiely: Consent and #MeToo\nFriday\, March 22nd · 7:00pm \nWine reception at 6:30pm for registered guests. \nThrough discussion of personal experiences\, research\, and his novel Tradition\, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Brendan Kiely examines issues of consent\, privilege\, and toxic masculinity as well as their long lasting consequences in the wake of #MeToo and Kavanaugh. \nAdults and high school students only. \nRegistration recommended. Registration opens March 4th. \nAdd to my:iCal/Outlook \nWhen:Friday\, March 22\, 2019 \nTime:7:00 PM – 9:00 PM \nWhere:Mill Valley Public Library – Main Reading Room\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley\, California\, 94941 \nEvent Type:Library\, After Hours \nContact:(415) 389-4292
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-brendan-kiely-consent-and-metoo/
LOCATION:Main Reading Room\, Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Poets Karen Hildebrand and Ron Riekki - with new books
DESCRIPTION:Poets Karen Hildebrand and Ron Riekki – with new books \n  \nSun\, March 24\, 2pm – 4pm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-karen-hildebrand-and-ron-riekki-with-new-books/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:James Sturm
DESCRIPTION:James Sturm discusses his new graphic novel Off Season. \n\nPraise for Off Season \n“James Sturm’s Off Season is a big-hearted meditation on the shifting sands of family and manhood in our uneasy era—I swallowed this book whole and I’ll be pressing it on anyone who asks me for a great read this year.”—Emily Bazelon\, Cohost of Political Gabfest \n“A haunting examination of the inner life of men in the age of Trump. Off Season is the kind of novel we need in this moment\, forcing us to confront the personal despair at the heart of our national destiny. I was mesmerized by every image\, every word.”—Steve Almond\, Chost of Dear Sugars and author of Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country \n“Mr. Sturm knows when to let the images speak for themselves.” —New York Times \n“James Sturm’s graphic narratives are strongly grounded in American history\, drawing upon this history to tell fictional stories with ongoing relevance.” —Los Angeles Review of Books \n“Sturm’s… words and images achieve the quiet lyricism of the folktale\, the fable.” —NPR \n\nAbout Off Season \nRage. Depression. Divorce. Politics. Love. A visceral story that you can see\, taste\, and feel. \nHow could this happen? The question of 2016 becomes deeply personal in James Sturm’s riveting graphic novel Off Season\, which charts one couple’s divisive separation during Bernie Sanders’s loss to Hillary Clinton\, Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump\, and the disorienting months that followed. \nWe see a father navigating life as a single parent and coping with the disintegration of a life-defining relationship. Amid the upheaval lie tender moments with his kids—a sleeping child being carried in from the car\, Christmas-morning anticipation\, a late-night cookie after a temper tantrum—and fallible humans drenched in palpable feelings of grief\, rage\, loss\, and overwhelming love. Using anthropomorphized characters as a tactic for tempering an otherwise emotionally fraught situation\, Off Season is unaffected and raw\, steeped in the specificity of its time while speaking to a larger cultural moment. \nA truly human experience\, Off Season displays Sturm’s masterful pacing and storytelling combined with conscious and confident growth as the celebrated cartoonist and educator moves away from historical fiction to deliver this long-form narrative set in contemporary times. Originally serialized on Slate\, this expanded edition turns timely vignettes into a timeless\, deeply affecting account of one family and their off season.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-sturm/
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:Ashley M. Jones\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Monica Sok\, and Yaccaira Salvatierra
DESCRIPTION:Ashley M. Jones reads from her new poetry collection dark // thing. Also featuring readings by Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Monica Sok\, and Yaccaira Salvatierra. \n\ndark // thing is a multi-faceted work that explores the darkness/otherness by which the world sees Black people. Ashley M. Jones stares directly into the face of the racism that allows people to be seen as dark things\, as objects that can be killed/enslaved/oppressed/devalued. This work\, full as it is of slashes of all kinds\, ultimately separates darkness from thingness\, affirming and celebrating humanity. \nAshley M. Jones received an MFA in Poetry from Florida International University. Her debut poetry collection\, Magic City Gospel\, was published by Hub City Press in January 2017\, and it won the silver medal in poetry in the 2017 Independent Publishers Book Awards. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in many journals and anthologies\, including the Academy of American Poets\, Tupelo Quarterly\, Prelude\, Steel Toe Review\, Fjords Review\, Quiet Lunch\, Poets Respond to Race Anthology\, and The Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy. She received a 2015 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award and a 2015 B-Metro Magazine Fusion Award. She currently lives in Birmingham\, Alabama\, where she is a board member of the Alabama Writers’ Conclave \, co-coordinator of the Nitty Gritty Magic City Reading Series\, founding director of the Magic City Poetry Festival\, and a faculty member in the Creative Writing Department of the Alabama School of Fine Arts. \nTongo Eisen-Martin was born in San Francisco and earned his MA at Columbia University. He is the author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015)\, nominated for a California Book Award; and Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights\, 2017)\, which received a 2018 American Book Award\, a 2018 California Book Award\, was named a 2018 National California Booksellers Association Poetry Book of the Year\, and was shortlisted for the 2018 Griffin International Poetry Prize. Eisen-Martin is also an educator and organizer whose work centers on issues of mass incarceration\, extrajudicial killings of Black people\, and human rights. He has taught at detention centers around the country and at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. He lives in San Francisco. \nMonica Sok is a Cambodian American poet and the daughter of former refugees. She is the author of Year Zero\, winner of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Her work has been recognized with a “Discovery” / Boston Review Poetry Prize. Other honors include fellowships from Hedgebrook\, The Elizabeth George Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, Kundiman\, The Jerome Foundation\, Montalvo Arts Center\, MacDowell Colony\, Saltonstall Foundation\, and others. Currently\, Sok is a 2018-2020 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and a Poet-in-Residence at Banteay Srei in Oakland. Her debut poetry collection is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press. \nYaccaira Salvatierra is a native Californian having lived in various cities from the San Diego/Tijuana border to the magical town of Arcata. She is inspired by people’s stories and a city’s movement. Her BA is in Latin American and Latino Studies from UC Santa Cruz and she has an MA in Education from San José State University where she is currently working on an MFA in poetry.  She is a teacher and lives with her two sons in San José.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ashley-m-jones-tongo-eisen-martin-monica-sok-and-yaccaira-salvatierra/
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:LAUNCH for Namwali Serpell / The Old Drift
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to host the launch party for Namwali Serpell‘s debut novel\, The Old Drift. Joining her in conversation is Michelle Quint. Please save the date and join us! \nOn the banks of the Zambezi River\, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls\, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. Here begins the epic story of a small African nation\, told by a mysterious swarm-like chorus that calls itself man’s greatest nemesis. The tale? A playful panorama of history\, fairytale\, romance and science fiction. The moral? To err is human. \nIn 1904\, in a smoky room at the hotel across the river\, an Old Drifter named Percy M. Clark\, foggy with fever\, makes a mistake that entangles the fates of an Italian hotelier and an African busboy. This sets off a cycle of unwitting retribution between three Zambian families (black\, white\, brown) as they collide and converge over the course of the century\, into the present and beyond. As the generations pass\, their lives – their triumphs\, errors\, losses and hopes – form a symphony about what it means to be human. \nFrom a woman covered with hair and another plagued with endless tears\, to forbidden love affairs and fiery political ones\, to homegrown technological marvels like Afronauts\, microdrones and viral vaccines – this gripping\, unforgettable novel sweeps over the years and the globe\, subverting expectations along the way. Exploding with color and energy\, The Old Drift is a testament to our yearning to create and cross borders\, and a meditation on the slow\, grand passage of time. \n  \n\n  \n“In turns charming\, heartbreaking\, and breathtaking\, The Old Drift is a staggeringly ambitious\, genre-busting multigenerational saga with moxie for days. . . . I wanted it to go on forever. A worthy heir to Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude.” – Carmen Maria Machado\, author of Her Body and Other Parties\n \n“From the poetry and subtle humor constantly alive in its language\, to the cast of fulsome characters that defy simple categorization\, The Old Drift is a novel that satisfies on all levels. Namwali Serpell excels in creating portraits of resilience – each unique and often heartbreaking. In The Old Drift the individual struggle is cast against a world of shifting principles and politics\, and Serpell captures the quicksand nature of a nation’s roiling change with exacting precision. My only regret is that once begun\, I reached the end all too soon.” – Alice Sebold\, author of The Lovely Bones\n \n“An astonishing novel\, a riot for the senses\, filled with the music and scents and sensations of Zambia. Namwali Serpell writes about people\, land\, and longing with such compassionate humor and precision there’s an old wisdom in these pages. In short\, make room on your shelf next to a few of your other favorites: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\, Tsitsi Dangarembga\, and Edwidge Danticat jump to mind. It’s brilliant. This woman was born to write!” – Alexandra Fuller\, author of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight \n  \n\n  \nNamwali Serpell is a Zambian writer who teaches at the University of California\, Berkeley. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award for women writers in 2011 and was selected for the Africa 39\, a 2014 Hay Festival project to identify the best African writers under 40. She won the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing. The Old Drift is her first novel. \n  \n  \nMichelle Quint is the Executive Editor of TED Books and Culture Curator for TED Conferences. She is the author of a young adult book\, The Defiant\, published by McSweeney’s in 2015. She lives in San Francisco. \n  \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 The Old Drift\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-namwali-serpell-the-old-drift/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Express presents a reading by Zephyr Omeira\, hosted by Gary Turchin\, open mic
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Express presents a reading by Zephyr Omeira\, hosted by Gary Turchin\, open mic\, Himalayan Flavors Restaurant\, 1585 University Avenue\, Berkeley\, free\, 7:00-9:00 (poetryexpressberkeley.com)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-express-presents-a-reading-by-zephyr-omeira-hosted-by-gary-turchin-open-mic/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Folkland Book Club featuring books from Small Press Distribution
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a monthly book club featuring titles from Small Press Distribution. Pick up a free copy of our March book at the February Book Club meeting (2/27)\, or at the Main Library Reference desk starting on February 28 while supplies last. \nMARCH’S BOOK CLUB PICK:\nBLUETS\nBY MAGGIE NELSON \n  \nLiterary Nonfiction. “Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color.” A lyrical\, philosophical\, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love\, as refracted through the color blue\, while folding in\, and responding to\, the divergent voices and preoccupations of such generative figures as Wittgenstein\, Sei Shonagon\, William Gass and Joan Mitchell. BLUETS further confirms Maggie Nelson’s place within the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists. \nIn 2015\, the editors of Bookforum included BLUETS on their list of 10 of their favorite books over the past two decades. \nMaggie Nelson is a writer\, poet and scholar. Her book The Argonauts (2015) won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Nelson has also been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship\, a Creative Capital Literature Fellowship\, a NEA Fellowship in Poetry\, a Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction\, and an Andy Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant. \n  \nOur Book Club moderator\, Nirvana Shahriar is a senior undergraduate student at the University of California\, Berkeley. A lover of language and literature\, she studies English and Linguistics. Her love for language\, and interest in both the written and spoken word has led her to facilitate classes at UC Berkeley that are structured around literature\, like book clubs. Experienced in facilitating and leading discussion\, Nirvana is looking forward to more literary reads with new folks and faces. \n  \n  \n\n\n\nWhen\n\n\nWednesday\, March 27\, 2019 – 6:00pm\n\n\n\n\nWhere\nMain Library\n1st Floor Reading Area \n\n\n\n\n\n125 14th St.\nOakland\, CA 94612 \nPhone: (510) 238-3134
URL:https://litseen.com/event/folkland-book-club-featuring-books-from-small-press-distribution-2/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library – Main Branch\, 125 - 14th Street\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Shiv Kotecha\, Ed Steck\, and Syd Staiti
DESCRIPTION:Poets from all over! Converging in one place! On one night! \nShiv Kotecha is the author of The Switch (Wonder\, 2018) and EXTRIGUE (Make Now\, 2015). Writing can also be found in frieze\, Art in America\, The Brooklyn Rail\, The Believer and elsewhere. \nEd Steck is the author of An Interface for a Fractal Landscape (Ugly Duckling Presse)\, The Garden: Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulation (Ugly Duckling Presse)\, The Rose (with Adam Marnie\, Hassla)\, Far Rainbow (Make Now Books)\, The Necro-Luminescence of Pink Mist (Skeleton Man Press)\, and others. His work has been performed and exhibited nationally and internationally\, most recently at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and Chateau Shatto. He lives in Tampa\, FL. \nSyd Staiti is author of The Undying Present (Krupskaya 2015) and chapbooks In the Stitches (Trafficker 2015) and Verse/Switch & Stop Motion (2008). Work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Believer\, Tripwire\, Amerarcana\, and The Bigness of Things: New Narrative and Visual Culture (Wolfman 2017). Staiti has been involved with The (New) Reading Series at 21 Grand\, Small Press Traffic\, and is currently a collective member of Light Field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shiv-kotecha-ed-steck-and-syd-staiti/
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:Katy Butler\, The Art of Dying Well
DESCRIPTION:WEDNESDAY\, MARCH 27\, 2019 – 7:00PM\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updates\, 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 an hour before the event begins. Please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by March 25th\, 2018 if you have any ADA accommodation requests. \nIn The Art of Dying Well\, Katy Butler seeks to restore an element of the sacred to the process of dying\, and provides the tools to navigate a modern medical system that is inadequately designed to meet the needs of the elderly and patients managing prolonged illnesses. This crucial guide prepares readers for seven phases of late life\, from vigorous old age to the final breath. Filled with life-affirming and relatable anecdotes\, each chapter addresses a specific stage: Resilience\, Slowing Down\, Adaptation\, Awareness of Mortality\, House of Cards\, Preparing for a Good Death\, and Active Dying. \nThe author of the New York Times bestseller Knocking on Heaven’s Door\, Katy Butler’s articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine\, The Best American Science Writing\, and The Best American Essays. A finalist for a National Magazine Award\, she lives in Northern California. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Hospice of Santa Cruz County.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katy-butler-the-art-of-dying-well/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Carolyn Forché
DESCRIPTION:Carolyn Forché discusses her new memoir\, What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance. \n\nPraise for What You Have Heard Is True \n“In this searing\, vital memoir\, Carolyn Forché at last reveals the dark stories behind her famous early poems: she brings alive the brutality\, complexity and idealism of El Salvador in the late 1970s\, a time of revolution that echoes all too painfully in the present. What You Have Heard Is True\, a riveting and essential account of a young woman’s political and human awakening\, is as beautiful as it is painful to read.” —Claire Messud\, author of The Burning Girl \n“Carolyn Forché asks us not only to hear\, but to see\, the scale of human and moral devastation in El Salvador. For those of us who are citizens and residents of the United States\, Forché’s powerful\, moving\, and disturbing memoir also demands that we recognize our country’s responsibility for the atrocities committed by the El Salvadoran military. As is the case with her poetry\, Forché’s nonfiction asserts the need for truth—in our politics\, in our writing\, in our witnessing.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen\, author of The Sympathizer \n“What You Have Heard Is True is as much an enthralling account of a life marked by an encounter as it is a document of a time and place. Carolyn Forche’s urgent and compelling memoir narrates her role as witness in an especially explosive and precarious period in El Salvador’s history. This incredible book shapes chaos into accountability. It marries the attentive sensibility of a master poet with the unflinching eyes of a human rights activist.” —Claudia Rankine\, author of Citizen \n\nAbout What You Have Heard Is True \nThe powerful story of a young poet who becomes an activist through a trial by fire \nWhat You Have Heard is True is a devastating\, lyrical\, and visionary memoir about a young woman’s brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others. Written by one of the most gifted poets of her generation\, this is the story of a woman’s radical act of empathy\, and her fateful encounter with an intriguing man who changes the course of her life. \nCarolyn Forché is twenty-seven when the mysterious stranger appears on her doorstep. The relative of a friend\, he is a charming polymath with a mind as seemingly disordered as it is brilliant. She’s heard rumors from her friend about who he might be: a lone wolf\, a communist\, a CIA operative\, a sharpshooter\, a revolutionary\, a small coffee farmer\, but according to her\, no one seemed to know for certain. He has driven from El Salvador to invite Forché to visit and learn about his country. Captivated for reasons she doesn’t fully understand\, she accepts and becomes enmeshed in something beyond her comprehension. \nTogether they meet with high-ranking military officers\, impoverished farm workers\, and clergy desperately trying to assist the poor and keep the peace. These encounters are a part of his plan to educate her\, but also to learn for himself just how close the country is to war. As priests and farm-workers are murdered and protest marches attacked\, he is determined to save his country\, and Forché is swept up in his work and in the lives of his friends. Pursued by death squads and sheltering in safe houses\, the two forge a rich friendship\, as she attempts to make sense of what she’s experiencing and establish a moral foothold amidst profound suffering. This is the powerful story of a poet’s experience in a country on the verge of war\, and a journey toward social conscience in a perilous time.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carolyn-forche/
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:Karen Russell and Michael Ray
DESCRIPTION:Karen Russell discusses her new story collection\, Orange World with Zoetrope editor Michael Ray. \n\nPraise for Karen Russell \n“Amidst the leading pack of talents Karen Russell writes the most like she’s on fire\, as in: this close to revelations. Orange World is her best collection yet. Her imagination’s baroque syntax has been planed down to the absolute essentials\, allowing the power of her vision to speak for itself…This is prophetic work written with clarifying fury.”–John Freeman\, Lit Hub \n“Hilarious\, exquisite\, first-rate.” —Joy Williams\, The New York Times Book Review  \n“From apparent influences as disparate as George Saunders\, Saki\, Stephen King\, Carson McCullers and Joy Williams\, [Russell] has fashioned a quirky\, textured voice that is thoroughly her own: lyrical and funny\, fantastical and meditative.” —Michiko Kakutani\, The New York Times  \n“One of the most innovative\, inspired short-story collections in the past decade. . . . There’s absolutely no living author quite like Karen Russell.” —Michael Schaub\, NPR \n\nAbout Orange World \nFrom the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove\, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell’s extraordinary\, irresistible gifts of language and imagination. \nKaren Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant\, arrestingly vivid\, unforgettable stories.  In“Bog Girl”\, a revelatory story about first love\, a young man falls in love with a two thousand year old girl that he’s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog.  In “The Prospectors\,” two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory\, and find themselves fighting for their lives.  In the brilliant\, hilarious title story\, a new mother desperate to ensure her infant’s safety strikes a diabolical deal\, agreeing to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection. The landscape in which these stories unfold is a feral\, slippery\, purgatorial space\, bracketed by the void—yet within it Russell captures the exquisite beauty and tenderness of ordinary life. Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master. \nAbout Karen Russell \nKAREN RUSSELL won the 2012 and the 2018 National Magazine Award for fiction\, and her first novel\, Swamplandia! (2011)\, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has received a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship\, the “5 under 35” prize from the National Book Foundation\, the NYPL Young Lions Award\, the Bard Fiction Prize\, and is a former fellow of the Cullman Center and the American Academy in Berlin. She currently holds the Endowed Chair at Texas State University’s MFA program\, and lives in Portland\, Oregon with her husband and son. More at https://karenrussellauthor.com. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-russell-and-michael-ray/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:THE RACKET!
DESCRIPTION:Details soon! \nHosted by Noah B. Sanders
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-4/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ruby Ray
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nRuby Ray: Kalifornia Kool / Photographs 1976-1982 \nIntroduction by Carl Abrahamsson \npublished by Trapart \n\n\n\nSpanning music\, art and literature\, the industrial and punk scenes of San Francisco in the late 1970s and early 1980s were diverse but united by a DIY\, anti-authoritarian attitude. Photographer Ruby Ray was there to capture it all in the same spirit. With her work appearing in the legendary punk zine Search & Destroy and its successor RE/Search\, Ray was at the epicenter of\, and a key participant in\, a vital cultural moment vibrant with provocation and creativity. A local experimental music and art scene supported artists like Bruce Conner and William S. Burroughs\, and attracted groundbreaking bands like Devo\, the Mutants\, Boyd Rice and the Dead Kennedys\, as well as established international bands like Throbbing Gristle\, the Clash and the Sex Pistols. Ruby Ray: Kalifornia Kool collects the photographer’s images from this time: live shots\, backstage parties\, apartments overflowing with youthful exuberance\, elegant portraits of key people and photographic experiments. Her work captures a time and a place where West Coast open-mindedness\, youth\, art\, music and electricity merged. \n\n\n\n“Late 70s\, early 80s… Ruby Ray and her camera\, capturing the movers and shakers of the San Francisco punk and industrial scenes… And then some… Performance art\, music\, literature\, photos\, videos made with a “fuck you” and “do it yourself” attitude. Ruby sees and Ruby captures… Knowns and unknowns\, winners and losers\, sane and insane\, constructive and destructive… William Burroughs with his gun\, Bruce Conner being fueled by punk energy\, Sex Pistols’ last ever gig in San Fran\, Throbbing Gristle\, The Cramps live at Napa Mental Hospital\, Search and Destroy Magazine\, and bands and gigs galore… Devo\, Mutants\, Slits\, Bags\, Dead Kennedys\, Cabaret Voltaire\, Roky Erickson\, Nico\, DOA\, Chrome\, Factrix\, Boyd Rice\, Z’EV\, Flipper… You name’em and there was Ruby Ray: the spectacularly talented lens of Kalifornia Kool. We should be grateful for her work. It’s invaluable\, evocative\, loud\, sexy and more inspiring now than ever before… Ruby’s images open up a portal to a mythic and frenzied scene and show that it’s true: all mythologies are real… Turn up the volume and dive into this one.” – Carl Abrahamsson\, from the Introduction
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ruby-ray/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Adam Morris and Chris Jennings
DESCRIPTION:Adam Morris discusses his new book\, American Messiahs: False Prophets of a Damned Nation with Chris Jennings. \n\nAbout American Messiahs \nA history with sweeping implications\, American Messiahs challenges our previous misconceptions about “cult” leaders and their messianic power. \nMania surrounding messianic prophets has defined the national consciousness since the American Revolution. From Civil War veteran and virulent anticapitalist Cyrus Teed\, to the dapper and overlooked civil rights pioneer Father Divine\, to even the megalomaniacal Jim Jones\, these figures have routinely been dismissed as dangerous and hysterical outliers. \nAfter years of studying these emblematic figures\, Adam Morris demonstrates that messiahs are not just a classic trope of our national culture; their visions are essential for understanding American history. As Morris demonstrates\, these charismatic\, if flawed\, would-be prophets sought to expose and ameliorate deep social ills—such as income inequality\, gender conformity\, and racial injustice. Provocative and long overdue\, this is the story of those who tried to point the way toward an impossible “American Dream”: men and women who momentarily captured the imagination of a nation always searching for salvation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adam-morris-and-chris-jennings/
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:Julie Moss / Crawl of Fame: Julie Moss and the Fifteen Feet that Created an Ironman Triathlon Legend
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery and Women Sports Film Festival hosts a special evening with Julie Moss for her new book\, co-written with Robert Yehling\, Crawl of Fame: Julie Moss and the Fifteen Feet that Created an Ironman Triathlon Legend. Please join us! \n  \nIn 1982\, Julie Moss ran the Ironman triathlon for her college senior research project. Her idea was quirky\, even crazy; only a handful of hardcore\, highly trained enthusiasts competed in the little-known\, 140.6-mile combination of swimming\, cycling\, and running. Julie brought no experience or appreciable training beyond running two marathons. She did bring a latent willpower that\, the world soon found out\, wouldn’t be denied. What happened next changed Ironman forever…. After becoming the unlikely leader during the marathon\, the final leg of the Ironman\, Julie fell and lost all bodily function fifteen meters (50 feet) from the finish. While on hands and knees\, she watched her rival pass her. Thirty seconds later\, she crawled across the line – stunning the millions who were watching on television. \n \n  \nAt age twenty-three\, Julie became the instant global icon\, and the public face of fitness and endurance sports – which exploded in popularity\, partly because of her inspiration. That this young co-ed would represent such a new sport was unlikely. That she would inspire millions to change the courses of their lives in the three decades since was unthinkable. Yet\, it happened. And keeps happening. In April 2017 Julie won her age group in the Ironman North American Championships – racing 25 minutes faster than her 1982 Ironman. How does a 58-year-old woman beat the time of her 23-year-old self? Crawl of Fame is the long-awaited release of her incredible story. Julie describes how she found her greater purpose while lying across the finish line at Ironman 1982 – and how that greater purpose as a woman\, athlete\, endurance sports symbol and\, now\, iconic figure has defined her life and inspired others since. Several endurance sports athletes have written memoirs\, but none have changed a sport so dramatically as Julie Moss. Now\, readers will join the inner and outer journey of one of the world’s most impressive athletes\, a woman who has already inspired millions – with millions more to come. \n  \n\n  \nJulie Moss is a member of the Ironman Hall of Fame\, U.S.A. Triathlon Hall of Fame and a ten-time Ironman competitor.  She was the 2012 Triathlon Business International Female Athlete of the Year and was the 2017 Ironman North American Champion in her age group. Julie has served as a commentator for ABC\, NBC\, CBS\, and the Goodwill Games. Julie is a member of the Hoka One One sports team\, which has been featured inPeople\, Sports Illustrated\, ESPN: The Magazine\, The New York Times\, and the Los Angeles Times.  She lives in San Diego\, California. \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 Crawl of Fame\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julie-moss-crawl-of-fame-julie-moss-and-the-fifteen-feet-that-created-an-ironman-triathlon-legend/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:LAUNCH for Cindy Derby / How to Walk an Ant
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to host the launch party for Cindy Derby‘s debut picture book\, How to Walk an Ant. Please save the date and join us for this special afternoon event\, which will include a puppetry performance — with ant puppets! — and innovative activities for adults and their kids. \n  \nThere are nine steps to becoming an ant walker\, and Amariyah\, the expert ant walker\, is here to show you how it’s done. This irreverent and quirky picture book follows a young girl as she goes through the process of walking ants\, from polite introductions to tragic leash entanglements. In the end\, this unique book shows that as long as you’re doing what you’re best at\, you may find a like-minded friend to tag along. \n  \n\n  \nCindy Derby is an illustrator and author based out of San Francisco. How to Walk an Ant is her first picture book (Roaring Brook Press\, March 2019). Other picture book titles (as illustrator) include: Climbing Shadows by Shannon Bramer (Groundwood Books\, 2019); Outside by New York Times best selling author Deborah Underwood (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, 2020); The Boy and the 800-Pound Gorilla by Jackie Azua Kramer (Candlewick Press\, 2020). Cindy’s background is in puppetry and she has performed all over the world. She received her Master of Arts from The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and was awarded grants from organizations such as The Jim Henson Foundation and Puppet Animation Scotland to assist in the creation of her shows. In 2014 Cindy won the grand prize for her illustration portfolio at the international SCBWI conference in Los Angeles. Her work is done in watercolor\, india ink\, gouache and inktense pencils. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens with doors at 2pm; event starts at 4pm. \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 How to Walk an Ant\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-cindy-derby-how-to-walk-an-ant/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - Michael Koch + Robert Anbian followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:A Night Horn Press celebration…  On April 1st\, poet and Night Horn Press publisher Robert Anbian joins poet Michael Koch to recite verse and celebrate Night Horn’s most recent release\, Koch’s poetry collection Street Theology  The featured readers will be followed by the usual Monday open mic.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-michael-koch-robert-anbian-followed-by-an-open-mic/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:LAUNCH for Meredith May / The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss\, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to host longtime San Francisco Chronicle columnist Meredith May for the launch of her book\, The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss\, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees. More information to be announce\, but please save the date and join us! \nMeredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old\, her parents had recently split and suddenly she found herself in the care of her grandfather\, an eccentric beekeeper who made honey in a rusty old military bus in the yard. That first close encounter was at once terrifying and exhilarating for May\, and in that moment she discovered that everything she needed to know about life and family was right before her eyes\, in the secret world of bees. \nMay turned to her grandfather and the art of beekeeping as an escape from her troubled reality. Her mother had receded into a volatile cycle of neurosis and despair and spent most days locked away in the bedroom. It was during this pivotal time in May’s childhood that she learned to take care of herself\, forged an unbreakable bond with her grandfather and opened her eyes to the magic and wisdom of nature. \nThe bees became a guiding force in May’s life\, teaching her about family and community\, loyalty and survival\, and the unequivocal relationship between a mother and her child. Part memoir\, part beekeeping odyssey\, The Honey Bus is an unforgettable story about finding home in the most unusual of places and how a tiny\, little-understood insect could save a life. \n  \n\n  \nMeredith May spent sixteen years at the San Francisco Chronicle\, where her narrative reporting won the PEN USA Literary Award for Journalism and was short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize. She is coauthor of I\, Who Did Not Die and is a fifth-generation beekeeper. She lives in San Francisco\, where she keeps several hives in a community garden. \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 The Honey Bus\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-meredith-may-the-honey-bus-a-memoir-of-loss-courage-and-a-girl-saved-by-bees/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:K Chess
DESCRIPTION:This event will be held at our 9th Ave. location. \nK Chess discusses her new novel\, Famous Men Who Never Lived. \n\nPraise for Famous Men Who Never Lived \n“With an eerie and ingenious premise\, K Chess explores in a fresh way the most universal of human experiences: loss\, regret\, and the longing for what might have been. With its refugees from a parallel universe\, this inventive book does what only fiction can do: describes an impossible world in order to more clearly show us our own.”—Karen Thompson Walker\, author of The Age of Miracles \n“Famous Men Who Never Lived is a fascinating novel: complex\, uncanny\, powerful. K Chess adroitly enacts Joyce’s  ‘cracked looking glass’ and gives us an off-kilter reflection that allows us to really see who we are. The wit\, elaboration\, and detail of her invention are spectacular.”—Dana Spiotta\, author of Innocents and Others \n“The novel jumps off from a fascinating premise into strange and fertile territory. K Chess constructs not just one universe\, but two\, and delicately entangles them to create a rich\, engrossing exploration of displacement\, history\, memory\, of the past and the present. Conceptually adventurous yet full of feeling\, Famous Men Who Never Lived is a smart\, thought-provoking and thoroughly enjoyable debut.”—Charles Yu\, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe \n  \nAbout Famous Men Who Never Lived \nFor readers of Station Eleven and Exit West\, Famous Men Who Never Lived explores the effects of displacement on our identities\, the communities that come together through circumstance\, and the power of art to save us. \nWherever Hel looks\, New York City is both reassuringly familiar and terribly wrong. As one of the thousands who fled the outbreak of nuclear war in an alternate United States―an alternate timeline―she finds herself living as a refugee in our own not-so-parallel New York. The slang and technology are foreign to her\, the politics and art unrecognizable. While others\, like her partner Vikram\, attempt to assimilate\, Hel refuses to reclaim her former career or create a new life. Instead\, she obsessively rereads Vikram’s copy of The Pyronauts―a science fiction masterwork in her world that now only exists as a single flimsy paperback―and becomes determined to create a museum dedicated to preserving the remaining artifacts and memories of her vanished culture. \nBut the refugees are unwelcome and Hel’s efforts are met with either indifference or hostility. And when the only copy of The Pyronauts goes missing\, Hel must decide how far she is willing to go to recover it and finally face her own anger\, guilt\, and grief over what she has truly lost.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/k-chess/
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:Unnamed Press @ City Lights with Rheea Mukherjee & Adam Nemett
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nRheea Mukherjee reads from The Body Myth \nAdam Nemett reads from We Can Save Us All \nAbout The Body Myth: \nA moving exploration of loss\, Mukherjee delivers an intense and unexpected modern love story as Mira reconciles reality with desire. \nMira is a teacher living in the heart of Suryam\, a modern bustling city in India\, and the only place in the world the fickle Rasagura fruit grows. Mira lives alone\, and with only the French existentialists as companions\, until the day she witnesses a beautiful woman having a seizure in the park. Mira runs to help her but is cautious\, for she could have sworn the woman looked around to see if anyone was watching right before the seizure began. \nMira is quickly drawn into the lives of this mysterious woman Sara\, who suffers a myriad of unexplained illnesses\, and her kind\, intensely supportive husband Rahil\, striking up intimate\, volatile and fragile friendships with each of them that quickly become something more. \nPraise for The Body Myth \n“Witty\, melancholic\, and dramatic by turns\, Rheea Mukherjee’s THE BODY MYTH is a touching love story about misfits searching for togetherness\, even if that togetherness might not be healthy for all concerned… THE BODY MYTH is a compelling tale\, rich in emotional undercurrents and empathy for its unconventional characters.”\n—Foreword Reviews\, \n“Rheea Mukherjee has written a thought provoking and memorable meditation on the meaning of life. In seductive prose\, THE BODY MYTH\, explores the depths and boundaries of relationships\, conventional and unconventional\, and the meaning of intimacy in sickness and health. A fine novel.”\n—Soniah Kamal\, award winning author of ‘Unmarriageable: Pride and Prejudice in Pakistan’ \n“Like the Rasagura fruit Rheea Mukherjee so eloquently writes about\, THE BODY MYTH is a tender love story at its core: sweet\, sour\, and bursting with wisdom. An intoxicating read.”\n—Neel Patel\, author of IF YOU SEE ME\, DON’T SAY HI \nAbout We Can Save Us All: \nWelcome to The Egg\, an off-campus geodesic dome where David Fuffman and his crew of alienated Princeton students train for what might be the end of days: America is in a perpetual state of war\, climate disasters create a global state of emergency\, and scientists believe time itself may be collapsing. \nFunded by the charismatic Mathias Blue and fueled by performance enhancers and psychedelic drugs\, a student revolution incubates at The Egg\, inspired by the superheroes that dominate American culture. The arrival of Haley Roth—an impassioned heroine with a dark secret—propels David and Mathias to expand their movement across college campuses nationwide\, inspiring a cult-like following. As the final superstorm arrives\, they toe the line between good and evil\, deliverance and demagogues\, the damned and the saved. \nIn this sprawling\, ambitious debut\, Adam Nemett delves into contemporary life in all of its chaos and unknowing.  We Can Save Us All is a brave\, ribald\, and multi-layered examination of what may be the fundamental question of our time: just who is responsible for fixing all of this? \nPraise for We Can Save Us All \n“Adam Nemett is the kind of smart and the kind of funny we need right now. WE CAN SAVE US ALL has the savvy\, dangerous feel of early Don DeLillo.”\n—Sam Lipsyte\, author of ‘THE ASK’ and ‘THE SUBJECT STEVE’ \n“Adam Nemett has done something superheroic here. WE CAN SAVE US ALL is a wild and uproarious debut that is also wise and deeply felt. Come for the costumes\, comedy\, and psychedelics; stay for the searching questions about what it means to live an honorable life—to try to be one of the Good Guys—at the (maybe) end of time.”\n—Justin Taylor\, author of ‘THE GOSPEL OF ANARCHY’\, ‘FLINGS’\, and ‘EVERYTHING HERE IS THE BEST THING EVER’ \n“Adam Nemett is a terrific new writer\, and in WE CAN SAVE US ALL he has crafted a wildly entertaining and often moving book about what it’s like to be young and rebellious in a dangerous world.”\n—Tom Barbash\, bestselling author of ‘ON TOP OF THE WORLD’\, ‘STAY UP WITH ME’\, and ‘THE LAST GOOD CHANCE’ \nabout the authors: \nRheea Mukherjee’s fiction and non-fiction has been published in several publications including Scroll.in\, Southern Humanities Review\, Out of Print\, QLRS and Bengal Lights\, among others. Her previous stories have been Pushcart nominees\, Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Finalists\, and semi-finalists for the Black Lawrence Press Award. She co-founded Bangalore Writers Workshop in 2012 and currently co-runs Write Leela Write\, a Design and Content Laboratory in Bangalore. You can learn more about Rheea at www.rheeamukherjee.com. \nAdam Nemett serves as creative director and author for The History Factory\, where he’s written award-winning nonfiction books for Lockheed Martin\, Brooks Brothers\, City of Hope Medical Center\, and Huntington Bank\, and directed campaigns for 21st Century Fox\, Adobe Systems\, HarperCollins\, National Renewable Energy Laboratory\, New Balance\, Pfizer and Whirlpool. An excerpt of his debut novel\, WE CAN SAVE US ALL\, was anthologized in The Apocalypse Reader. He is the writer/director of the feature film\, The Instrument (2005). Adam’s work has been published\, reviewed and featured in Variety\, LA Weekly\, The New Yorker\, Washington Post\, The Brooklyn Rail\, as well as many others. \nabout the publisher: \nUnnamed Press is an independent publisher based in Los Angeles\, California. Unnamed Press publishes literary fiction and non-fiction\, with an emphasis on debuts by women\, underrepresented voices and people of color\, as well as internationally focused speculative and fantasy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/unnamed-press-city-lights-with-rheea-mukherjee-adam-nemett/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Meredith May - - The Honey Bus
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Meredith May to discuss her new new book The Honey Bus\, on Tuesday\, April 2nd at 7pm. \nAn extraordinary story of a girl\, her grandfather and one of nature’s most mysterious and beguiling creatures: the honeybee. Meredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old\, her parents had recently split and suddenly she found herself in the care of her grandfather\, an eccentric beekeeper who made honey in a rusty old military bus in the yard. That first close encounter was at once terrifying and exhilarating for May\, and in that moment she discovered that everything she needed to know about life and family was right before her eyes\, in the secret world of bees.May turned to her grandfather and the art of beekeeping as an escape from her troubled reality. Her mother had receded into a volatile cycle of neurosis and despair and spent most days locked away in the bedroom. It was during this pivotal time in May’s childhood that she learned to take care of herself\, forged an unbreakable bond with her grandfather and opened her eyes to the magic and wisdom of nature.The bees became a guiding force in May’s life\, teaching her about family and community\, loyalty and survival and the unequivocal relationship between a mother and her child. Part memoir\, part beekeeping odyssey\, The Honey Bus is an unforgettable story about finding home in the most unusual of places\, and how a tiny\, little-understood insect could save a life. \n  \n* * * \n  \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nMeredith May is an award-winning journalist and fifth-generation beekeeper. \nDuring her sixteen-year career at the San Francisco Chronicle\, her reporting won the PEN USA Literary Award for Journalism\, the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism\, and first place feature writing awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Associated Press. Her series about an Iraqi boy wounded during the second Gulf War was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize. \nMeredith is a former professor of  journalism and podcasting at Mills College in Oakland\, CA. She lives in San Francisco\, where she rows on the Bay and cares for several beehives in a community garden. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, April 2\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meredith-may-the-honey-bus/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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