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SUMMARY:Jesse Berrett
DESCRIPTION:Please join us as we welcome Jesse Berrett for a reading of his newest book Pigskin Nation on Wednesday\, May 30th at 6:30 p.m. in our Granny Smith Room! \nHistorian Berrett debuts with a superb cultural history of the period between 1966 and 1974\, when “football\, politics and culture entwined themselves in ever more complex ways.” Berrett concisely looks at how NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle used his newly acquired production company\, NFL Films\, to transform the violent image of the sport by producing films and TV programming that extolled football’s “meaning\, glory\, excitement\, and passion.” The book’s second half explores how politicians tried to capitalize on pro football’s cultural relevance\, particularly Richard Nixon’s use of the sport—and his endorsement of conservative coaches such as Vince Lombardi—as part of a “public strategy of rallying mainstream America against the dissent\, abnormality\, and un-American behavior” that could be linked to groups he sought to marginalize. An epilogue looks at how the battle over football’s meaning continued in the 1980s; Berrett observes that Ronald Reagan’s repeated use of “the Gipper” was used to embody the entire Reagan ethos of America as “still the shining city on a hill.” This thought-provoking sports history nicely looks at the significance professional football has had on American politics and culture. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jesse-berrett/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jessica Weisberg
DESCRIPTION:Jessica Weisberg discusses her new book\, Asking for a Friend: Three Centuries of Life\, Love\, Money and Other Burning Questions from a Nation Obsessed. \n\nPraise for Asking for a Friend \n\n“Rich with insight and surprising facts\, Jessica Weisberg’s ingenious appraisal of America’s guidance-givers doubles as a wholly unexpected history of our national psyche. At long last\, the lowly advice column gets its due!”―Kate Bolick\, author of Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own \n\n“An oddly soothing antidote to the millenarian terrors of today\, Jessica Weisberg’s history of ordinary American anxiety is as warm\, funny\, entertaining\, and chattily insightful as the advice-dispensers she portrays. In the centuries before the internet\, these were the ones we turned to with questions so obscure\, embarrassing\, weird\, or mortifyingly personal that only a stranger would do.”―Larissa MacFarquhar\, author of Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism\, Drastic Choices\, and the Urge to Help \n\n“Jessica Weisberg’s hilarious\, enlightening odyssey through the history of advice columns chronicles the evolution of our anxieties over how to act. However weird or offensive some of our questions have been\, it’s heartening to know that at least we’ve always been trying. A surprising and delightful read.”―Mac McClelland\, author of Irritable Hearts: A PTSD Love Story \n\nAbout Asking for a Friend \n\nA delightful history of Americans’ obsession with advice–from Poor Richard to Dr. Spock to Miss Manners \n  \nAmericans\, for all our talk of pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps\, obsessively seek advice on matters large and small. Perhaps precisely because we believe in bettering ourselves and our circumstances in life\, we ask for guidance constantly. And this has been true since our nation’s earliest days: from the colonial era on\, there have always been people eager to step up and offer advice\, some of it lousy\, some of it thoughtful\, but all of it read and debated by generations of Americans. \n  \nJessica Weisberg takes readers on a tour of the advice-givers who have made their names\, and sometimes their fortunes\, by telling Americans what to do. You probably don’t want to follow all the advice they proffered. Eating graham crackers will not make you a better person\, and wearing blue to work won’t guarantee a promotion. But for all that has changed in American life\, it’s a comfort to know that our hang-ups\, fears\, and hopes have not. We’ve always loved seeking advice–so long as it’s anonymous\, and as long as it’s clear that we’re not asking for ourselves; we’re just asking for a friend.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessica-weisberg/
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:Borderlands // an Aunt Lute Open Mic feat. Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:“… every step forward is a travesía\, a crossing. I am again an alien in a new territory. And again\, and again.”\n–Gloria Anzaldúa\, Borderlands/La Frontera \nJoin us for a poetry open mic the last Thursday of May. We want to hear about your new growth\, your crossings\, what territory you’ve uncovered with the shifting of the seasons. Poets of any level welcome: share with us your undone and your in-process! 15 available open slots\, one poem per poet\, sign-up upon arrival.\n\nMC and Featured Poet:\nKim Shuck is the current Poet Laureate of San Francisco. She has two full length collections of poetry\, one chapbook and one collection of prose poems to her name. Her recent works include Sidewalk NDN (Foothills Publishing\, 2014) and Clouds Running In (Taurean Press\, 2014). Kim serves on the board of directors for the San Francisco American Indian Cultural Center in planning\, is involved with the Cherokee Society of the Greater Bay Area and is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. In addition\, she is a former Indian Studies instructor and a visual artist who works with traditional textiles. \nThis event is free and open to the public! Beverages will be provided.\nThis event is funded in part by the CAC and the NEA. Questions? Email marketing@auntlute.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/borderlands-an-aunt-lute-open-mic-feat-kim-shuck/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:William Brewer reads poems about addiction Mill Valley Library Cosponsored by Marin Poetry Center
DESCRIPTION:These moving and dramatic poems tackle the pain of the opioid addiction in West Virginia\, how it affects family\, addicts and the community. Brewer manages to infuse the poems with beauty and hope as well as speaking in the many voices of the epidemic \nRooted in the physical and spiritual landscape of West Virginia\, the poems focus on the small town of Oceana (nicknamed Oxyana for the record number of overdoses there)\, Oceana acts as a stand-in for West Virginia as a whole\, which has the highest OD rate in the country. \nThe poems are at once dreamlike and visceral\, and the images in it draw on the beauty and pain of a West Virginia that is\, in Brewer’s words “last on every list\,” a state that people in the nation’s capital\, only a few hours away\, barely acknowledge and clearly don’t care much about. \nWilliam Brewer’s book\, I Know Your Kind (Milkweed Editions\, 2017) was the winner of the National Poetry Series. His work has appeared in Boston Review\, The Iowa Review\, Narrative (where it was awarded the 30 Below Prize)\, ZYZZYVA\, New England Review\, The New Yorker\, and other journals. Currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, he was born and raised in West Virginia. For more about William Brewer\, see the PBS segment or the ZYZZYVA interview.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/william-brewer-reads-poems-about-addiction-mill-valley-library-cosponsored-by-marin-poetry-center/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Vincent Pizzuto
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, May 31st at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Vincent Pizzuto as he reads from his new book Contemplating Christ. \nThe incarnation has made mystics of us all. What if we read the gospels as if that were true? In his book Contemplating Christ\, Vincent Pizzuto offers an exploration of the interior life for modern contemplatives that is as beautiful as it is compelling. With an emphasis on the gospels and Christian mystical tradition\, his book explores ancient themes in new and surprising ways. Drawing on his rich experience as an academic and priest\, Pizzuto gradually unfolds the Christian mystery of deification to which the whole of biblical revelation and the Christian contemplative life are ordered: through the incarnation\, we have all been made “other Christs” in the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vincent-pizzuto/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Naked Truth: real. stories. live
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, June 1st · 7:00pm \nWhether stories are hilarious\, poignant\, suspenseful\, or heartwarming\, the one thing you can count on is that our next edition of Naked Truth will be a fantastic night of true\, live storytelling. Josh Healey will emcee and tell a story along with Adam Mansbach\, Richard Sarvate\, and Judi Le.\nRegistration highly recommended. Click here to register. \nAdults and high school students only. Wine reception at 6:30pm for pre-registered guests.\n\nAdd to my:iCal/Outlook \nWhen:Friday\, June 1\, 2018 \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/naked-truth-real-stories-live/
LOCATION:Main Reading Room\, Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Michelle Markowitz and Caroline Moss / Hey Ladies!: The Story of 8 Best Friends\, 1 Year\, and Way\, Way Too Many Emails
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Michelle Markowitz and Caroline Moss\, in town to present Hey Ladies: The Story of 8 Best Friends\, 1 Year\, and Way\, Way Too Many Emails. Join us! \n  \nBased on the column of the same name that appeared in The Toast\, Hey Ladies! is a laugh-out-loud read that follows a fictitious group of eight 20-and-30-something female friends for one year of holidays\, summer house rentals\, dates\, brunches\, breakups\, and\, of course\, the planning of a disastrous wedding. This instantly relatable story is told entirely through emails\, texts\, DMs\, and every other form of communication known to man. \n  \nThe women in the book are stand-ins for annoying friends we all have. There’s Nicole\, who’s always broke and tries to pay for things in Forever21 gift cards. There’s Katie\, the self-important budding journalist\, who thinks a retweet and a byline are the same thing. And there’s Jen\, the DIY suburban bride-to-be. With a perfectly pitched sardonic tone\, Hey Ladies! will have you cringing and laughing as you recognize your own friends … and even yourself. \n  \n\n  \n“Hey Ladies! is fresh and seductive. The surface energy is irresistible but like any memorable book it’s the deeper emotion that will stay with you. A must-read for the Millennials and a true joy for the rest of us.” – Elin Hilderbrand\, author of The Perfect Couple \n  \n“DAMNNNNN!!!! This book is so funny and it feels like you’re reading emails on your phone\, so it goes down nice and easy! I devoured this book\, just like I devoured that half-handful of almonds I laid out as my entire lunch.” – Megan Amram\, NBC’s The Good Place and author of Science…For Her! \n  \n“[Buy this book to] remind your newly-engaged friend you were around before the fiancé.” – Vogue \n  \n“This is the ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’ of our time. By the way\, ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’ is a total masterpiece. The book\, not the movie. The movie is just ok. Anyway\, this book is a masterpiece. Share it with your bffs!!”— Emily Gould\, author of Friendship \n  \n“There’s a level of detail here that can only come from years of paying attention to one’s worst impulses\, and there’s something magical about watching those impulses be given free rein here. It’s as petty and profound as Samuel Pepys\, and it haunts my dreams.” — Daniel Mallory Ortberg and Nicole Cliffe\, co-founders of The Toast \n  \n  \n\n  \nMichelle Markowitz is a writer and director. She recently wrote and directed the pilot “Sidepiece” for Virgin Produced. Her work has been featured in the New York Times\, The Hairpin\, Fast Company\, Jezebel\, and New York\, and on The Today Show\, Good Morning America\, MTV\, and more. She lives in New York. \n  \nCaroline Moss is a writer and editor with bylines in The New York Times\, New York Magazine\, Racked\, Cosmopolitan\, and more. She is a contributing editor of The Wing’s No Man’s Land magazine and a producer at BuzzFeed’s morning show\, AM2DM. This is her first book. \n  \n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michelle-markowitz-and-caroline-moss-hey-ladies-the-story-of-8-best-friends-1-year-and-way-way-too-many-emails/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon\, featuring R.O. Kwon & Michael David Lukas
DESCRIPTION:Come join us Saturday\, June 2\, when Babylon Salon welcomes novelist and NEA Literature Fellow R.O. Kwon (The Incendiaries); novelist and Fulbright Scholar Michael David Lukas (The Last Watchman of Old Cairo); freelance journalist and EATER restaurant critic Rachel Levin (Look Big: and Other Tips for Surviving Animal Encounters of all Kinds); short story writer and Steinbeck Fellow Katie Flynn; and spoken word poet Jarvis Subia reading from their work. @ The Armory Club: 1799 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, 94103. FREE. Doors at 5:30 PM\, reading at 6:00 PM. www.babylonsalon.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-featuring-r-o-kwon-michael-david-lukas/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Chasing Mercury: A Novel by September Williams
DESCRIPTION:An epileptic Black ballerina and a Powwow dancer meet in the Montreal Airport. They are both scheduled to perform in 1973 Cold War Berlin. During the transatlantic crossing their love evolves. On a long layover in Zurich\, he stuns her by depositing many hundreds of thousands of dollars into his Swiss bank account\, to which he adds her name with no true explanation. Is she an accomplice to something\, or is this just love in the time of mercury poisoning? \nSeptember Williams’ debut novel is a romance-suspense-memoir that connects human rights\, environmental justice and romance. Williams is also a Bay Area physician\, bioethicist\, and filmmaker. \n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSeptember Williams
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chasing-mercury-a-novel-by-september-williams/
LOCATION:Mechanics Institute\, 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Silent Reading Party
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Lemony Snicket and Radio Silence. Bring a book to read to yourself in silence. Drinks and light snacks will be available. There is no admission cost and no reservations necessary. Proceeds from drink sales will benefit the library of Visitacion Valley Middle School\, a public school in San Francisco. \nSign up to receive emails about upcoming Silent Reading Parties here. \nMore information at this link. See you there\, readers!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silent-reading-party/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:A SENDOFF FOR ARISA WHITE AND THE TAPROOT CHAPBOOK RELEASE OF Perfect on Accident
DESCRIPTION:Readings by \nTONYA M. FOSTER \nLINNEA OGDEN \nARISA WHITE \nTuesday\, June 5\, 2018 \nDoors: 6:30 p.m. \nProgram: 7:00 p.m. \nFree Entry \nI.O.U. \nInstitute Of advanced Uncertainty \n296 Ivy Street\, San Francisco \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-sendoff-for-arisa-white-and-the-taproot-chapbook-release-of-perfect-on-accident/
LOCATION:Institute Of advanced Uncertainty [I.O.U.]\, 296 Ivy Street\, btwn. Gough and Franklin\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alexandra Mattraw\, Norman Fischer\, and Tiff Dressen
DESCRIPTION:This is a book launch and celebration for Alexandra Mattraws new book\, small siren. \nAlexandra Mattraw is a Berkeley poet and fourth generation native of Northern California. Her debut full-length book\, small siren\, was published this spring at Cultural Society. Alexandra is also the author of four chapbooks\, including flood psalm (2017)\, published with Dancing Girl Press. Her poems and reviews have appeared in American Letters and Commentary\, Denver Quarterly\, Eleven Eleven\, Fourteen Hills\, The Poetry Project\, VOLT\, The Volta\, and elsewhere. In Oakland\, she curates an art centric writing and performance series called Lone Glen\, now in its seventh year. \nAbout small siren: \n“When good poetry hits\, it animates the actual\, it becomes the actual. That’s small siren: a serious romp of constructive music that is what it says. Science and nature unlock their mysteries by being precise; in small siren the words — cut\, spliced\, compressed — form units of attention enacting the physical world so precisely that even the sun and the moon ride their arcs untroubled. Across cities and seas\, Alexandra Mattraw’s language isn’t attached to images; it comes out of them\, like a birthright. The authenticity is declarative and unmistakable: ‘A sign is a block\, an island\, a cloud\, a clock.’ She makes it real.”\n— Aaron Shurin \n“Though cradled by earth\, Mattraw’s poems wander through a new human condition. Or are the songs of spirits who won’t tiptoe around their biographers. Through the unregistered versions of ourselves\, we can read these poems and worry about having regular bodies later. Here is a beautiful lesson or wager that on a page you can risk your dreams.” \n—Tongo Eisen-Martin \n“In Alexandra Mattraw’s much-awaited first book\, small siren\, we encounter a poet of extraordinary observation and inquiry. An enchantment and engagement with the world commences: “when is a voice a piano\,’ “repetition needs to believe\,’ “what grew before you could speak’ build a kind of groundswell where Mattraw puts her ear to the hardscape of 21st century America and its global environs: Sao Paolo\, Iceland\, New Zealand. Ultimately\, notions of country and categories break down. What we find is heresy\, hearsay\, and yes\, wishes. Throughout\, what survives is a relationship of love and courage\, of errors and triumph. A human relationship of lovers\, of family. This is a book of wonder and awe and strength. When the world goes down\, I want to be in Alexandra Mattraw’s boat.” \n—Gillian Conoley \nNorman Fischer is a poet\, essayist\, and Zen Buddhist priest. The latest of his more than twenty-five prose and poetry titles are (poetry) any would be if (Chax\, 2017) and Magnolias All At Once (Singing Horse\, 2015). Forthcoming in 2018 from PURH in France is his serial poem On a Train at Night. And from Talisman the poem Untitled Series: Life As It is. His latest prose works are What Is Zen? Plain Talk for a Beginner’s Mind\, and Experience: Thinking\, Writing\, Language and Religion. He is the founder of the Everyday Zen Foundation (www.everydayzen.org)\, a network of Zen meditation groups and other projects. His books are distributed by Small Press Distribution in Berkeley\, CA. \nTiff Dressen was born and raised in St. Paul\, Minnesota. SONGS FROM THE ASTRAL BESTIARY (lyric& Press\, 2014) is their first full-length collection of poetry. They recently migrated from Oakland to the Portola neighborhood of San Francisco and work in the Office of Research at UC Berkeley. They are the author of Keeper (Woodland Editions\, 2005)\, Because Icarus-children (WinteRed Press\, December 2010) and for Aeolus: variations on the element (co-published by the g.e. collective and Poetry Flash\, 2011). Their work has appeared in many journals including New American Writing\, VOLT and 26: A journal of poetry and poetics\, and YewJournal. They enjoy spending time at the SF Center for the Book honing their typesetting and letterpress printing skills.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexandra-mattraw-norman-fischer-and-tiff-dressen/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Marin Poetry Center Summer Traveling show
DESCRIPTION:First reading of the season! This year we are offering a showcase of our own board members in a Cavalcade of Marin Poetry Center Board Member Stars: Sandy Cross\, Susan Gunter\, Roy Mash and Meryl Natchez\, hosted by Siân Killingsworth.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marin-poetry-center-summer-traveling-show/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Pamela Druckerman
DESCRIPTION:Pamela Druckerman is a journalist and the author of Bringing Up Bébé; and Lust In Translation. She was a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal and has written for The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Guardian\, The Observer\, the Financial Times and Marie Claire. She has appeared as a commentator on the Today Show\, Oprah.com\, BBC Women’s Hour\, National Public Radio\, Public Radio International\, Al Jazeera International\, France24 and CNBC. \nThe in-between decades … if you’re in them\, you know what they are. Your parents have stopped trying to change you. You get bored scrolling down to your birth year. There’s at least one sport your doctor forbids you to play. The internationally bestselling author of Bringing Up Bebe returns with a (midlife) coming of age story that will have you absolutely following out of your seat!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pamela-druckerman/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Jazz Stories: Live Jazz. Wonderful Stories.
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, June 5\, 7:30 pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Solano \nJazz Stories: Live Jazz. Wonderful Stories. \nPeople love hearing jazz…and hearing about it. Musicians like Miles Davis\, Charlie Parker and Buddy Rich were original\, colorful characters artists who said and did astonishing things. Fortunately their colleagues cared enough to document these moments in stories and pictures and we now have a rich repository of photos and anecdotes about these artists\, and about the American songwriters and composers who created the raw material of jazz. \nJazz Stories is a performance of the songs of jazz from its most creative periods intensified with illuminating\, funny and touching true stories of the time. \nCome hear music and jazz stories you probably have never heard…but will never forget. Hosted by Richard Leiter. \nThe first Tuesday of every month at Pegasus Books Solano. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, June 5\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Solano\n1855 Solano Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jazz-stories-live-jazz-wonderful-stories/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Charlie LeDuff / Sh*tshow!: The Country's Collapsing . . . and the Ratings Are Great
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff (Detroit: An American Autopsy)\, reading from and discussing his new book Sh*tshow!: The Country’s Collapsing . . . and the Ratings Are Great. \n  \nPlease join us! \n  \nA daring\, firsthand\, and utterly-unscripted account of crisis in America\, from Ferguson to Flint to Cliven Bundy’s ranch to Donald Trump’s unstoppable campaign for President — at every turn\, Charlie LeDuff was there. \n  \nIn the Fall of 2013\, long before any sane person had seriously considered the possibility of a Trump presidency\, Charlie LeDuff sat in the office of then-Fox News CEO Roger Ailes\, and made a simple but prophetic claim: The American people were at a breaking point. The country was going broke and on high boil. No one in the bubbles of Washington\, DC.\, New York\, or Los Angles was talking about it — least of all the media. LeDuff wanted to go to the heart of the country to report what was really going on. Ailes baulked. Could the hard-living and straight-shooting LeDuff be controlled? But\, then\, perhaps on a whim\, he agreed. And so LeDuff set out to record a TV series called “The Americans”\, and\, along the way\, ended up bearing witness to the ever-quickening unraveling of The American Dream. \n  \nFor three years\, LeDuff travelled the width and breadth of the country with his team of production irregulars\, ending up on the Mexican border crossing the Rio Grande on a yellow rubber kayak alongside undocumented immigrants; in the middle of Ferguson as the city burned; and watching the children of Flint get sick from undrinkable water. Racial\, political\, social\, and economic tensions were escalating by the day. The inexorable effects of technological change and globalization were being felt more and more acutely\, at the same time as wages stagnated and the price of housing\, education\, and healthcare went through the roof. The American people felt defeated and abandoned by their politicians\, and those politicians seemed incapable of rising to the occasion. The old way of life was slipping away\, replaced only by social media\, part-time work\, and opioid addiction. \n  \nSh*tshow is that true\, tragic\, and distinctively American story\, told from the parts of the country hurting the most. A soul-baring\, irreverent\, and iconoclastic writer\, LeDuff speaks the language of everyday Americans\, and is unafraid of getting his hands dirty. He scrambles the tired-old political\, social\, and racial categories\, taking no sides — or prisoners. Old-school\, gonzo-style reporting\, this is both a necessary confrontation with the darkest parts of the American psyche and a desperately-needed reminder of the country’s best instincts. \n  \n\n  \nCharlie LeDuff is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist\, formerly at the New York Time sand the Detroit News\, and Detroit’s Fox 2 News. LeDuff has covered the war in Iraq\, crossed the border with Mexican migrants\, and chronicled a Brooklyn fire house in the aftermath of 9/11. The author of Detroit\, US Guys\,and Work and Other Sins\, he lives near Detroit. \n  \nPlease note: This event will be at the Bindery\, 1727 Haight. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nBar opens at 6 for Silent Reading Party (which ends at 7:30pm). This event begins at 8pm. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Sh*tshow!\, and/or any of Charlie’s books\, order below and be sure to put your request in the special field. \n\n\n\n\nBooks:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSh*tshow!: The Country’s Collapsing . . . and the Ratings Are Great (Hardcover)\n\nBy Charlie LeDuff\n$27.00\nISBN: 9780525522027\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: Penguin Press – May 22nd\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDetroit: An American Autopsy (Paperback)\n\nBy Charlie LeDuff\n$18.00\nISBN: 9780143124467\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: Penguin Books – January 28th\, 2014\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUS Guys: The True and Twisted Mind of the American Man (Paperback)\n\nBy Charlie LeDuff\n$16.00\nISBN: 9780143113065\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: Penguin Books – April 1st\, 2008
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-charlie-leduff-shtshow-the-countrys-collapsing-and-the-ratings-are-great/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Vigilance is No Orchard - Poets Hazel White\, Denise Newman and Jennifer S. Cheng
DESCRIPTION:Hazel White is the author of Vigilance Is No Orchard\, just published by Nightboat Books. And also of Peril as Architectural Enrichment\, from Kelsey Street Press. In 2016\, she completed with poet Denise Newman a two-year public poetry project\, Biotic Portal at Strawberry Creek\, bioticportal.com\, a collaboration with the UC Botanical Garden\, at Berkeley\, supported by a Creative Work Fund grant. Her poetry has appeared in New American Writing\, Denver Quarterly\, Elderly\, and Fence. She grew up on farms in England\, and works in the Agriculture and Natural Resources Department of UC Davis. \nIn Vigilance Is No Orchard\, Hazel White records her haunting romance with the Valentine Garden\, a famous garden\, now a ruin\, in Montecito\, California\, designed by landscape architect Isabelle Greene. White is jealous of Greene’s power to affect a dynamic experience of space\, tries to make language play faithfully in the game coursing between the body and Greene’s fiercely stirring landscape. Her poems dwell in shelter and view\, and time passing. They chase animation and survival\, forage and repair\, the act of making\, accumulation\, authority of form\, and realize a dream of overflow\, which gives way to loss\, as in flowering. \nDenise Newman’s poetry collections are Future People\, The New Make Believe\, Wild Goods\, and Human Forest. She is the translator of Azorno and The Painted Room\, both by the late Danish poet\, Inger Christensen\, and Baboon by Naja Marie Aidt\, which won the 2015 PEN Translation Award and an NEA Fellowship. She teaches at the California College of the Arts. \nJennifer S. Cheng writes at the intersection of essay and poetry. Her debut book\, House A \, was selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize\, and she is the author of the new collection MOON: Letters\, Maps\, Poems\, selected by Bhanu Kapil as winner of the Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize.Her writing appears in Tin House\, Conjunctions\, AGNI\, The Literary Hub\, Black Warrior Review\, DIAGRAM\, The Normal School\, Guernica\, Hong Kong 20/20 (a PEN HK anthology)\, and elsewhere. Having grown up in Texas\, Connecticut\, and Hong Kong\, she is a longtime resident of the Outer Sunset neighborhood in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vigilance-is-no-orchard-poets-hazel-white-denise-newman-and-jennifer-s-cheng/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Charlie LeDuff presents SH*TSHOW!
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Charlie LeDuff to the store to discuss his new book\, Sh*tshow!: The Country’s Collapsing . . . and the Ratings Are Great\, on Wednesday\, June 6th at 7pm.  \nA daring\, firsthand\, and utterly-unscripted account of crisis in America\, from Ferguson to Flint to Cliven Bundy’s ranch to Donald Trump’s unstoppable campaign for President–at every turn\, Pulitzer-prize winner and bestselling author of Detroit: An American Autopsy\, Charlie LeDuff was there \nIn the Fall of 2013\, long before any sane person had seriously considered the possibility of a Trump presidency\, Charlie LeDuff sat in the office of then-Fox News CEO Roger Ailes\, and made a simple but prophetic claim: The whole country is bankrupt and on high boil. It’s a shitshow out there. No one in the bubbles of Washington\, DC.\, New York\, or Los Angles was talking about it–least of all the media. LeDuff wanted to go to the heart of the country to report what was really going on. Ailes baulked. Could the hard-living and straight-shooting LeDuff be controlled? But\, then\, perhaps on a whim\, he agreed. And so LeDuff set out to record a TV series called\, “The Americans\,” and\, along the way\, ended up bearing witness to the ever-quickening unraveling of The American Dream. \nFor three years\, LeDuff travelled the width and breadth of the country with his team of production irregulars\, ending up on the Mexican border crossing the Rio Grande on a yellow rubber kayak alongside undocumented immigrants; in the middle of Ferguson as the city burned; and watching the children of Flint get sick from undrinkable water. Racial\, political\, social\, and economic tensions were escalating by the day. The inexorable effects of technological change and globalization were being felt more and more acutely\, at the same time as wages stagnated and the price of housing\, education\, and healthcare went through the roof. The American people felt defeated and abandoned by their politicians\, and those politicians seemed incapable of rising to the occasion. The old way of life was slipping away\, replaced only by social media\, part-time work\, and opioid addiction. \nSh*tshow is that true\, tragic\, and distinctively American story\, told from the parts of the country hurting the most. Old-school\, gonzo-style reporting\, LeDuff confronts the darkest parts of the American psyche and a desperately-needed reminder of the country’s best instincts. \nAbout the Author \nCharlie LeDuff is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist\, formerly at the New York Times and the Detroit News\, and currently on Detroit’s Fox 2 News. He was one of several reporters who worked on the New York Times series “How Race Is Lived in America\,” which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2001. LeDuff has covered the war in Iraq\, crossed the border with Mexican migrants\, and chronicled a Brooklyn fire house in the aftermath of 9/11. The author of Detroit\, US Guys\, and Work and Other Sins\, he lives near Detroit. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, June 6\, 2018 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSh*tshow!: The Country’s Collapsing . . . and the Ratings Are Great (Hardcover)\n\nBy Charlie LeDuff\n$27.00\nISBN: 9780525522027\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: Penguin Press – May 22nd\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrowse For Books\n\nPeruse our shelves \n\n\n\nBestsellers\n\nFiction & Poetry Bestsellers \nNonfiction Bestsellers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNewsletter\n\nSign up \n\n\n\nAudio\n\nYour audiobook needs await you at Libro.fm \nCouldn’t make it to an event? See here for audio! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHours & Directions | Contact Us | Privacy Policy | Return Polic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charlie-leduff-presents-shtshow/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Viet Thanh Nguyen\, Thi Bui and Meron Hadero
DESCRIPTION:The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives \nEdited by Viet Thanh Nguyen \nfrom Abrams Image \n \nPulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Sympathizer)\, and contributors Thi Bui (The Best We Could Do) and Meron Hadero discuss their new anthology The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives. Edited by Nguyen\, himself a refugee\, The Displaced brings together a host of prominent refugee writers from around the world to explore and illuminate their experiences. The Displaced is an indictment of closing our doors and a powerful look at what it means to be forced to leave home and find a place of asylum. The publisher will donate 10 percent of the cover price of this book\, a minimum of $25\,000 annually\, to The International Rescue Committee (IRC)\, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing humanitarian aid\, relief\, and resettlement to refugees and other victims of oppression or violent conflict. \nViet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam in 1971. After the fall of Saigon in 1975\, he and his family fled to the United States. The author of three books including The Sympathizer\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a recently published story collection\, The Refugees\, Nguyen is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles. \nMeron Hadero was born in Addis Ababa\, Ethiopia and lived in Germany before arriving in the United States as a refugee. She has been published in Best American Short Stories\, Selected Shorts on NPR/PRI\, the Missouri Review\, Boulevard\, e O ng\, Indiana Review\, e Normal School\, and Addis Ababa Noir. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times Book Review and O Assignment. She lives in Oakland and is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. \nThi Bui was born in Vietnam and immigrated to the United States as a child. She studied art and law and thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer\, but became a public school teacher instead. Bui lives in Berkeley\, California\, with her son\, her husband\, and her mother. A Different Pond by Bao Phi\, illustrated by Thi Bui\, was named a 2018 Caldecott Honor Book. The Best We Could Do is her debut graphic novel. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/viet-thanh-nguyen-thi-bui-and-meron-hadero/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mostly Flash With a Dash of Haiku
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Sara McAulay\, Amos White\, Jon Sindell\, Jacqueline Doyle. Late Night Open Mic follows the featured readers. Sign-up now for Ist Annual Open Mic Award’s Contest (see below). Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mostly-flash-with-a-dash-of-haiku/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:ANDREW WEATHERS/ROOTLESS/FOREST FLORO
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an evening of relaxing ambient electronic music and dreamy acoustic sounds by Andrew Weathers (TX)/Rootless (LA) / and Oakland’s own Forest Floor. Doors open at 7:20. Show at 7:30. 5-10 dollar donation NOTALOTOF \nAndrew Weathers:\nhttps://andrewweathers.bandcamp.com/album/under-the-tree \nRootless:\nhttps://cabinflooresoterica.bandcamp.com/album/cfe-66-sculptures-deep-within-the-cave \nForest Floor:\nhttps://forestfloorpragmatism.bandcamp.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrew-weathers-rootless-forest-floro/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Mariko Tamaki / Supergirl: Being Super
DESCRIPTION:Mariko Tamaki\, author of the Caldecott Honor and Eisner Award-winning This One Summer\, and Eisner Award-nominated artist Joëlle Jones (Lady Killer) combine forces for Supergirl: Being Super​​​​​​! This is the Girl of Steel as you’ve never seen her before. A truly innovative origin story\, a coming-of-age tale of “Being Super\,” full of heart with added teenage irony. \n  \nWelcome to Midvale\, home to Liberty High School and an unusual girl named Kara Danvers. While it may seem like your ordinary town\, girls like Kara make it extraordinary. She’s super-strong\, she can fly and she crash-landed on Earth in a rocket ship. But for Kara Danvers\, winning the next track meet\, celebrating her 16th birthday and surviving her latest mega-zit are her top concerns. \n  \nNow Kara’s incredible powers are kicking into high gear–and people she trusted are revealing creepy ulterior motives. The time has come for her to choose between the world where she was born and the only world she’s ever known. \n  \n\n  \n  \n“A gateway for new readers.” – Hollywood Reporter \n  \n“This is the most grounded\, authentic Supergirl I’ve ever read.” – The Mary Sue \n“A comic book that was long overdue. ”  – SYFYWIRE \n  \n\n  \n \nMariko Tamaki is an award-winning Canadian writer living in Oakland\, California. She is the author of Saving Montgomery Sole and the co-creator\, with Jillian Tamaki\, of This One Summer\, which received the prestigious Eisner and Ignatz awards as well as Caldecott and Printz honors. Her growing slate of critically acclaimed comics and graphic novels includes Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\, Tomb Raider\, Adventure Time\, She-Hulk\, Lumberjanes\, Supergirl: Being Super and New Super-Man. \n  \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nPlease note: This event will be at the Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Supergirl\, and/or any of Mariko’s books\, order below and be sure to put your request in the special field. \n\n\n\n\nBooks:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSupergirl: Being Super (Paperback)\n\nBy Mariko Tamaki\, Joelle Jones (Illustrator)\n$16.99\nISBN: 9781401268947\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: DC Comics – June 5th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLumberjanes: The Moon Is Up (Hardcover)\n\nBy Mariko Tamaki\, Brooklyn Allen (Illustrator)\, Boom! Studios\n$14.99\nISBN: 9781419728686\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: Amulet Books – May 8th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLumberjanes: Unicorn Power! (Lumberjanes #1) (Hardcover)\n\nBy Mariko Tamaki\, Brooklyn Allen (Illustrator)\n$14.99\nISBN: 9781419727252\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: Amulet Books – October 10th\, 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTomb Raider Volume 2 (2017) (Paperback)\n\nBy Mariko Tamaki\, Phillip Sevy (Illustrator)\, Tula Lotay (Illustrator)\n$19.99\nISBN: 9781506701622\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: Dark Horse Books – May 23rd\, 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShe-Hulk Vol. 2: Let Them Eat Cake (Paperback)\n\nBy Mariko Tamaki (Text by (Art/Photo Books))\, Georges Duarte (Illustrator)\n$17.99\nISBN: 9781302905682\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: Marvel Comics – January 23rd\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShe Hulk\, Volume 1: Deconstructed (Paperback)\n\nBy Mariko Tamaki (Text by (Art/Photo Books))\, Nico Leon (Illustrator)\n$17.99\nISBN: 9781302905675\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: Marvel Comics – July 25th\, 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaving Montgomery Sole (Paperback)\n\nBy Mariko Tamaki\n$9.99\nISBN: 9781250104403\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: Square Fish – April 18th\, 2017
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-mariko-tamaki-supergirl-being-super/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tapestries of Shadow and Light: Three Writers and the Legacy of the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Meet authors Rachel Hall\, Elizabeth Rosner and Hilary Zaid as they read from their work and discuss how the Holocaust continues to resonate in their lives and in their writing. \nBooks will be available for sale and signing courtesy of Laurel Book Store. \nMore about the authors: \nRachel Hall is the author of Heirlooms (BkMk Press)\, which was selected by Marge Piercy for the G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize. Winner of the Phillip McMath Post Publication Award\, Heirlooms was also the runner-up for the Edward Wallant award\, and finalist for the Balcones Prize for Fiction\, the Montaigne Medal\, and the Eric Hoffer Award. It was longlisted for the Chautauqua Prize. Rachel’s short stories and essays have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies including Black Warrior Review\, Crab Orchard Review\, Gettysburg Review\, Guernica\, and New Letters\, which awarded her the Alexander Cappon Prize for Fiction. She has received other honors and awards from Lilith\, Glimmer Train\, Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ conferences\, Ragdale\, the Ox-Bow School of the Arts\, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. Her family’s wartime papers and photographs\, the inspiration for these stories\, are housed in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington\, DC. \nElizabeth Rosner is an internationally award-winning novelist\, poet\, and essayist\, whose books have been translated into ten languages. Her national-bestselling first novel\,The Speed of Light\, won Hadassah Magazine’s Ribalow Prize of 2001\, judged by Elie Wiesel. Her second novel Blue Nude and her third novel Electric City were named by The San Francisco Chronicle and NPR among the best books of 2006 and 2014\, respectively. \nBorn in Schenectady\, New York\, Rosner is the daughter of two Holocaust survivors\, and much of her work is inspired by the impact of their experiences on her imagination and identity. Her newest book\, Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory\, published in fall 2017\, was featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered” and in The New York Times. She holds degrees from Stanford\, UC Irvine\, and the University of Queensland in Australia\, and she lives in Berkeley. \nHilary Zaid is the author of Paper is White\, a novel. A 2017 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, she is also an alumna of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and the Tin House Writers’ Workshop. Her short fiction has appeared in print and online venues including Lilith Magazine\, The Southwest Review\, The Utne Reader\, CALYX\, The Santa Monica Review\, and The Tahoma Literary Review and has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. An alumna of Harvard and Radcliffe\, she holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of California\, Berkeley. She lives in Oakland with her family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tapestries-of-shadow-and-light-three-writers-and-the-legacy-of-the-holocaust/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library\, 125 14th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Third Man Books @ City Lights : Destruction of Man by Abraham Smith and The Terraformers by Dan Hoy
DESCRIPTION:Third Man Books @ City Lights\n\ncelebrating new books by Dan Hoy and Abraham Smith\n\n  \nDestruction of Man \nby Abraham Smith \n& \nThe Terraformers \nby Dan Hoy \n  \nabout Abraham Smith: \nAbraham Smith is the author of four poetry collections: Ashagalomancy (Action Books\, 2015); Only Jesus Could Icefish in Summer (Action Books\, 2014); Hank (Action Books\, 2010); and Whim Man Mammon (Action Books\, 2007). In 2015\, he released Hick Poetics (Lost Roads Press)\, a co-edited anthology of contemporary rural American poetry and related essays. His creative work has been recognized with fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center\, Provincetown\, MA\, and the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Presently\, he is at work upon a poetry manuscript about cranes–birds whose song and stature electrify him. Destruction of Man\, his book-length poem about farming\, is forthcoming in 2018 from Third Man Books. \n  \nabout The Terraformers: \nThe second title in Third Man Books “C” chapbook series\, Dan Hoy’s latest collection of poetry chronicles the last days of an expedition stranded on a desolate planet and beset by depression\, sabotage and failing equipment. In The Terraformers\, human life is mediated by domes and pressure suits\, and the history of human beings is buried in ecocide\, oppression and longing for the infinite\, even if (or because) “the infinite / is death for us.” \n  \nThird Man Books and Records: Where your turntable’s not dead\, and your page still turns. Visit http://thirdmanbooks.com/.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/third-man-books-city-lights/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStoryTime: Resoundings
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime RESOUNDINGS at Edinburgh Castle\, 950 Geary Street\, San Francisco\, on Thursday June 7th\, 7-9 pm\, will feature readings accompanied by the music of Makram Abu-Shakra. Readers will be Karen Bjorneby (Hurricane Season)\, Marianne Villanueva (Jenalyn)\, Nick Johnson (Music for Mussolini)\,                judy b (Stories For Airports)\, Edmund Zagorin (Craquelure)\, and others. With guest MC Lael Gold.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-resoundings/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Castle Pub\, 950 Geary St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180607T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T022346
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T205029Z
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SUMMARY:Reading
DESCRIPTION:Headlands Center for the Arts presents their writers in residence
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180607T213000
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SUMMARY:Kai Carlson-Wee
DESCRIPTION:This event will be held at our 9th Ave. location. \n\n\n\nKai Carlson-Wee reads from his new poetry collection\, Rail. \n\nPraise for Rail \n\n“Rail is a lovely book\, strong and inspired.” ―Robert Bly \n“This is a wholly unique and powerful collection of poems. The sense of purpose puts one in mind of Whitman’s ‘Song of the Open Road.’ Encounters with fellow vagabonds recalls the tramp-poetry of Vachel Lindsay. But the darker need to search for meaning in the American plains and points farther west―a vastness forlorn and almost unknowable―belongs to the particular vision of this poet. His journey through our national ambiguity discovers a flicker in our roots\, a spark popping from obscurity that rises into the heavens. The lived experience behind these deft and subtle poems seems necessary\, and reiterates the fact that resilience is not only a feature of the American character\, it is a recurring tenet of American art.” ―Maurice Manning  \n“Brotherly love\, a sense of displacement and lost time\, and the deep care that reminds us of our humanity\, form the heart of this book. These poems are a scavengers guide\, a survivalist manifesto\, a reminder of the way our daily experiences can fuel and forge our faith. A hauntingly beautiful and unusual debut.” ―Dorianne Laux \n“Equal parts dithyramb and lament\, the great American bardic tradition celebrates lonesome wandering even as it hungers for enduring communion. Kai Carlson-Wee is a worthy inheritor of its dusty mantle\, worn by Whitman and Kerouac before him\, and Rail is a moving testament to the territories of freight trains\, Minnesota roads\, dumpster diving\, and brotherhood. ‘The road goes on. With or without us.’ Yes\, but how much better to have this unforgettable music to guide the way.” ―Campbell McGrath \n\nAbout Rail \n\nSet against a landscape of rail yards and skate parks\, Kai Carlson-Wee’s debut collection captures a spiritual journey of wanderlust\, depression\, brotherhood\, and survival. These poems―a “verse novella” in documentary form―build momentum as they travel across the stark landscapes of the American West: hopping trains through dusty prairie towns\, swapping stories with mystics and outlaws\, skirting the edges of mountains and ridges\, heading ever westward to find meaning in the remnants of a ruined Romantic ideal. Part cowboy poet\, part prophet\, Carlson-Wee finds beauty in the grit and kinship among strangers along the road. \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRAIL (POULIN #41) (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Kai Carlson-Wee\n$16.00\nISBN: 9781942683582\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: BOA Editions – April 24th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSet against a landscape of rail yards and skate parks\, Kai Carlson-Wee’s debut collection captures a spiritual journey of wanderlust\, depression\, brotherhood\, and survival.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kai-carlson-wee/
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=UTC:20180607T223000
DTSTAMP:20260413T022346
CREATED:20180521T210213Z
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY\, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES...
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 7:30pm\nShow at 8pm\n$10 online & at the door…\nTICKETSSSSSS: https://ticketf.ly/2rOcW0A \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\,\na communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\,\nto embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-13/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="You're Going to Die":MAILTO:ned@yg2d.com
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SUMMARY:Poe Ballantine
DESCRIPTION:Poe Ballantine discusses his new novel\, Whirlaway. \nPraise for Poe Ballantine \nPoe Ballantine is the most soulful\, insightful\, funny\, and altogether luminous “under-known” writer in America. He knocks my socks off\, even when I’m barefoot. —TOM ROBBINS\, Tibetan\nPeach Pie \nPoe Ballantine is brilliant. —CHERYL STRAYED\, Wild \nWhirlaway is a fever dream of my favorite things: horse racing\, records\, booze\, insanity\, and women. What a strange and crazed comedic ride. Ballantine’s writing is like no other. —WILLY\nVLAUTIN\, The Free \nAbout Whirlaway \nEddie Plum\, who insists he’s been unjustifiably committed to a California psychiatric hospital\, manages to finally escape after fourteen years of incarceration to start his life anew. On the run\, he holes up in a sheltered barrio on a bluff above the Pacific Ocean owned by his wealthy but unsympathetic father. Here he meets Sweets\, the telepathic dog\, laments the loss of Sofia\, his madhouse lover\, and plays the horses at the Del Mar Racetrack. Eventually he meets up with an old friend\, Shelly Hubbard\, a fellow horseplayer\, record collector/dealer\, and hardcore loner\, who tells him about his brother\, Donny\, dead at the age of eighteen from a tragic dive off a thirty-foot La Jolla sea cliff known as the Clam. Eddie discovers a family secret and wants to help\, but by then he’s already embroiled in the psychotic incident with the Tijuana prostitutes\, the madhouse lover\, and the police\, who are hot on his tail. Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride has nothing on Whirlaway\, a hilarious novel of escaped mental patients\, horseplayers\, and record collectors.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poe-ballantine/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Clearly Meant presents Bruce H. Feingold
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Haiku poet Bruce Feingold will read his poems\, then sit for an interview and discussion.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clearly-meant-presents-bruce-h-feingold/
LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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