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SUMMARY:Todd Stadtman
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at Green Apple Books on Clement street Thursday\, September 13th at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Todd Stadtman as he reads from his newest novel\, So Good it’s Bad\, which is the second book of the trilogy he’s entitled\, SF Punk Trio.  \n\nAbout \nIn Please Don’t be Waiting for Me\, author Todd Stadtman introduced Scott\, Bridge\, Micah\, and Benny\, a tightknit band of teenage punk rockers whose loyalty is tested when one of their number is falsely charged with murder. In that book’s sequel\, So Good it’s Bad\, he picks up with those characters for another adventure that is every bit as terrifying\, suspenseful and unexpectedly hilarious as the first. \nSo Good it’s Bad catches up with Scott and Micah as they are wrapping up a zero-budget DIY tour with their band Fist Music. At their last show\, Scott becomes violently ill and awakes to find himself a virtual prisoner of a deranged super fan and her equally unbalanced mom. It is up to Bridge\, Benny\, Micah and Scott’s father to find and rescue him. Their efforts will be complicated by the exploits of a narcissistic serial killer called The Jackpot Killer. \n  \nPraise for So Good it’s Bad \n“Captures the unique\, bitter pathos—and dark comedy—of a vanished world: Bay Area youth culture at the dawn of the Reagan era.” \n-Andrew O’Hehir\, Executive Editor\, Salon.com \n“A slamming séance summoning early Eighties San Francisco\, a never-never land of mosh pits\, thrift shopping\, divorced dads\, police raids\, and white punks on dope.” \n– Grady Hendrix\, Author of My Best Friend’s Exorcism \n“Gritty and engaging.” \n– Nancy Davis Kho\, Midlife Mixtape \n“Captures the fun\, desperation\, grime\, confusion\, and joy of being a teen punk weirdo.” \n– Keith Allison\, Teleport City \n  \nTodd Stadtman is a musician-turned-author whose books include Funky Bollywood: The Wild World of 1970s Indian Action Cinema and the novel Please Don’t Be Waiting For Me. He is also the author of the blog Die\, Danger\, Die\, Die\, Kill! and a regular contributor to the perennial cult cinema website Teleport City. He has also contributed to Famous Monsters\, The Times of India\, and The World Directory of Cinema\, as well as the websites io9\, Mondo Macabro\, The Cultural Gutter\, and Monster Island Resort. He currently lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/todd-stadtman/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Susan Froderberg
DESCRIPTION:Susan Froderberg discusses her new novel Mysterium. \n\nPraise for Mysterium \n\nPraise for Mysterium \n“Mysterium is a beautifully rendered exploration of the essential role that landscape plays in the long and difficult journey from grief to understanding and acceptance. Susan Froderberg’s feeling-driven narrative is filled with both suspense and tenderness. A life-enhancing experience.” —Jane Urquhart\, author of The Night Stages \n\n“An adventure at the top of the world; a narrative of reflection\, insight\, and survival.” —Paulette Jiles\, author of News of the World \n\n“First there is the superbly drawn cast of complex and compelling characters\, none more beguiling than Sarasvati ‘Sara’ Troy\, the young woman who\, with a vision of climbing the mountain that is her namesake\, puts the plot in motion. Then there is the masterfully executed suspense and drama of the climb. Finally there is the lovely and lyric writing about the mountain herself—as monolith and metaphor. These three pleasures combine to make Mysterium impossible to put down.” —Pam Houston\, author of Contents May Have Shifted \n\nAbout Mysterium \n\nMysterium\, known as Mount Sarasvati\, looms over the Indian Himalayas as the range’s tallest peak in the dazzling fictional world Susan Froderberg has created. \n  \nSarasvati “Sara” Troy is determined to reach the peak for which she was christened\, and to climb it in honor of her mother\, who perished in a mountaineering accident when Sara was just a child. She asks her father\, a celebrated mountaineer and philosophy professor\, to organize and lead the expedition.The six climbers he recruits are an uneasy mix. They include his longtime friend Dr. Arun Reddy\, a recent widower\, and Reddy’s son\, who often challenges his father; Wilder Carson\, the acclaimed climber who is tormented by the death of his brother; Wilder’s wife\, Vida\, a former lover of Dr. Reddy; and the distinguished scholar of climbing Virgil Adams and his wife\, Hillary. Porters and Sherpas are recruited in India to assist and be part of the team. \n  \nThe party’s journey is harrowing\, taking them from the mountain’s gorge\, into its sanctuary\, and finally onto the summit\, a path that evokes the hell\, purgatory\, and heaven of Dante’s Inferno. As the air thins and this unforgettable journey unfolds\, Sara emerges as a Beatrice-like figure\, buoying her companions up the mountain through the sheer strength and beauty of her being. Both monumental quest and dreamlike odyssey\, Mysterium is infused with the language of climbing and profound existential insight.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-froderberg/
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:Pride Poetry Palooza\, Take 2
DESCRIPTION:Pride Poetry Palooza usually comes but once a year but everyone had so much fun in July we decided to do it all over again! Take 2 is Saturday\, September 15\, 7pm to 8:30pm at Strut\, 470 Castro St. in San Francisco. 8 poets will read 8 minutes each: Susan Dambroff\, Natasha Dennerstein\, Europa Grace\, Michael Tod Edgerton\, Philip Harris\, David Hathwell\, Vernon Keeve III\, and Randall Mann. Free admission. Better yet\, free fruit pies and cold glasses of milk will be served. (Nothing goes better with Queer poetry than fruit pie.) Eight–count em\, 8–door prizes awarded at 7pm to reward promptness. Book signing follow the readings. Come on out for Pride Poetry Palooza–and pie!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pride-poetry-palooza-take-2/
LOCATION:Strut\, 470 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:poetry in parks 2018 @ samuel p. taylor state park
DESCRIPTION:sunday\, sept 16\n \n12pm potluck\, 2pm readings\n  \nJoin us for an afternoon of readings in the redwoods! \ncurated by Chris Cole\, Evan Karp\, and Scott Green \nfree\, all-ages show \nall the authors are paid \nthe first 100 people receive a copy of sPARKLE & bLINK 95 \n  \nThanks so much to everyone who sent in writing!!! \n  \nWe received 71 submissions and will announce the selected authors by Wed\, 8/22. \n  \nCheck out those trees!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-in-parks-2018-samuel-p-taylor-state-park/
LOCATION:Samuel P. Taylor State Park\, 8889 Sir Francis Drake Blvd.\, Lagunitas\, CA\, 34938\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Patricia Polacco Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 16\, 1:00pm – 4:00pm\nPegasus Books Oakland \nBeloved author and illustrator Patricia Polacco will be signing her best-selling children’s books\, including the newly released Holes in the Sky. \nThe book signing will take place in the Pegasus Books tent (outside and adjacent to Pegasus Books Oakland) as part of the annual Rockridge Out & About Street Festival. \n \nABOUT HOLES IN THE SKY \nMiss Eula is back! In this heartwarming companion to Chicken Sunday\, young Trisha is devastated when her grandmother passes away\, but finds joy in bonds with a new friend\, her new California neighborhood–and the invincible Miss Eula. \nThere will never be anyone like her grandmother\, Patricia Polacco thinks\, when her grandmother passes away. But when she and her family move to California–in the middle of a drought–she meets a new friend\, the irrepressible Stewart\, and his amazing grandmother\, Miss Eula\, who not only takes Trisha under her wing\, but\, with Trisha and Stewart\, steps up to lead their entire extraordinarily diverse neighborhood to help a hurting neighbor–and her once lush garden–survive the drought. \nTrisha’s grandmother’s old saying about the stars being Holes in the Sky turns out to be Miss Eula’s\, too\, convincing Trisha that she has miraculously discovered another unforgettable grandmother.\nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nStudying in the United States and Australia\, Patricia Polacco has earned an MFA and a PhD in art history\, specializing in Russian and Greek painting\, and iconographic history. She is a museum consultant on the restoration of icons. As a participant in many citizen-exchange programs for writers and illustrators\, Ms. Polacco has traveled extensively in Russia as well as other former Soviet republics. She continues to support programs that encourage Russo-American friendships and understanding. She is also deeply involved in inner-city projects in the United States that promote the peaceful resolution of conflict and encourage art and literacy programs. The mother of a grown son and a daughter\, she currently resides in Michigan\, where she has a glorious old farm that was built during the time of Lincoln. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSunday\, September 16\, 2018 – 1:00pm to 4:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Oakland\n5560 College Ave\n\nOakland\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patricia-polacco-book-signing/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jerry Ferraz's Trump Poem
DESCRIPTION:Jerry Ferraz’s Trump Poem
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jerry-ferrazs-trump-poem/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - Sharon Doubiago + Bill Bradd\, followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:POETS! – Sharon Doubiago + Bill Bradd\, followed by an open mic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-sharon-doubiago-bill-bradd-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:Margaret Randall celebrating the release of  Time's Language: Collected Poems
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nTime’s Language: Collected Poems \nfrom Wings Press \nUltimately\, there are two kinds of poets: those who have a long vitae and those who have an amazing life. Just glancing at Margaret Randall’s list of works is enough to show us we are before a distinguished and prolific writer. Beginning with Giant of Tears in 1959\, she has published over forty poetry collections. To this we can add dozens more—works of oral history\, essays\, photography\, translations\, and anthologies—for a total of approximately one hundred books\, many of which have been translated into Bengali\, Bulgarian\, Dutch\, French\, German\, Italian\, Japanese\, Portuguese\, Slovenian\, Turkish\, and for over four decades\, Spanish. Yet this impressive catalog of publications pales in comparison to her life.(from prologue by Hedeen and Rodríguez Núñez) \nMargaret Randall is a feminist poet\, writer\, photographer and social activist. Born in New York City in 1936\, she has lived for extended periods in Albuquerque\, New York\, Seville\, Mexico City\, Havana\, and Managua. Shorter stays in Peru and North Vietnam were also formative. In the turbulent 1960s she co-founded and co-edited EL CORNO EMPLUMADO / THE PLUMED HORN\, a bilingual literary journal which for eight years published some of the most dynamic and meaningful writing of an era. From 1984 through 1994 she taught at a number of U.S. universities. She was privileged to live among New York’s abstract expressionists in the 1950s and early ’60s\, share the rebellion of the Beats\, participate in the Mexican student movement of 1968\, live in Cuba during the second decade of that country’s revolution (1969-1980)\, reside in Nicaragua during the first four years of the Sandinista project (1980-1984)\, and visit North Vietnam during the heroic last months of the U.S. American war in that country (1974).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/margaret-randall-celebrating-the-release-of-times-language-collected-poems/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Roni Ben Hur - Harvie S - Sylvia Cuenca
DESCRIPTION:Roni Ben Hur – Harvie S – Sylvia Cuenca
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roni-ben-hur-harvie-s-sylvia-cuenca/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lisa Hanawalt: Coyote Doggirl
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, September 18\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nLisa Hanawalt presents and signs Coyote Doggirl \nBoJack Horseman producer / production designer and award-winning cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt presents Coyote Doggirl. The graphic novel is a playful homage to and send-up of classic Westerns\, presenting the story of the goofy\, dramatic\, and fiercely independent Coyote as she journeys through the desert on horseback. With Coyote Doggirl\, Hanawalt documents the harsh realities of sexism\, her insatiable admiration of horses\, and the indispensability of a good crop top. \n“Lisa’s work is a reminder of the limitless boundaries of one’s imagination. She somehow creates fantastical worlds within our own\, commenting on some of our most timely issues while exploring our most minute absurdities. I could spend all day inside this heartfelt\, beautiful\, twisted take on a classic Western.”–Abbi Jacobson\, Broad City\n \n  \n \nCOYOTE DOGGIRL (DRAWN & QUARTERLY\, 2018) \nCoyote is a dreamer and a drama queen\, brazen and brave\, faithful yet fiercely independent. She beats her own drum and sews her own crop tops. A gifted equestrian\, she’s half dog\, half coyote\, and all power. Together with her trusty steed Red\, there’s not much that’s too big for her to bite off\, chew up\, and spit out right into your face\, if you deserve it. But when Coyote and Red find themselves on the run from a trio of vengeful bad dogs\, get clobbered by arrows\, and are tragically separated\, our protagonist is left fighting for her life\, and longing for her displaced best friend. Taken in by a wolf clan\, Coyote may be wounded\, but it’s not long before she’s back on the open road to track down Red and tackle the dogs who wronged her. \nLisa Hanawalt’s homage to and lampoon of westerns like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid\, Coyote Doggirl is a self-aware\, playful subversion of tropes. As our fallible hero attempts to understand the culture of the wolves\, we see a journey in understanding and misunderstanding\, adopting and co-opting. Uncomfortable at times but nonetheless rewarding and empowering\, the story of these flawed\, anthropomorphized characters is nothing if not relentlessly hilarious and heartbreakingly human. Told in Hanawalt’s technicolor absurdist style\, Coyote Doggirl is not just a send-up of the western genre\, but a deeply personal story told by an enormously talented cartoonist. \nLisa Hanawalt is the creator of the upcoming Netflix original series Tuca & Bertie\, as well as the producer and production designer of the Netflix original series BoJack Horseman. Her quarterly food column for Lucky Peach won her a James Beard Award for humor. Hanawalt’s first collection with Drawn & Quarterly was the critically acclaimed My Dirty Dumb Eyes. She co-hosts the podcast Baby Geniuses with comedian Emily Heller. Her second book with D+Q\, Hot Dog Taste Test\, won her the Ignatz Award and appeared on best-of-the-year lists from The Washington Post\, The Guardian\, NPR\, and elsewhere. \nPraise for Coyote Doggirl \n“Coyote Doggirl is uppity\, cocky\, and occasionally profane\, but she is also smart\, clever\, and outrageously funny. Lisa Hanawalt’s comicbook tale of a half-coyote\, half-dog feminist and her trusty steed\, Red\, makes you think as well as laugh. You go\, Coyote Doggirl!”\nSandra Dallas\, New York Times best-selling author \n“A story of flight and vengeance\, sunsets and sagebrush\, love and leather underwear. Hanawalt’s blues could be set in the sky and belong there; her pinks are almost alive. These are the cave paintings I want them to find in 10\,000 years.”\nPatricia Lockwood\, author of Priestdaddy \n“Hanawalt is known for her ability to deliver genuinely hilarious visual gags and Coyote Doggirl is no exception. What’s especially interesting to me\, however\, is how Coyote’s tone refuses to stay put\, venturing from slapstick to poignant\, and finally into downright bleak territory\, appropriate for a Western. Her deftness with color is also worth study. I’m taken by how her characters contrast with the iconic and carefully studied features of the western landscape\, from mountain plateaus to bright and delicate wildflowers.”\nKelly Sue DeConnick\, author of Bitch Planet\, Captain Marvel \n“Lisa’s work is a reminder of the limitless boundaries of one’s imagination. She somehow creates fantastical worlds within our own\, commenting on some of our most timely issues while exploring our most minute absurdities. I could spend all day inside this heartfelt\, beautiful\, twisted take on a classic Western.” Abbi Jacobson\, co-creator of Broad City \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, September 18\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-hanawalt-coyote-doggirl/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Maxim Loskutoff (Come West and See) and Mikkel Rosengaard (The Invention of Ana)
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a special evening of readings by Maxim Loskutoff (Come West and See) and Mikkel Rosengaard (The Invention of Ana). Please join us! \n  \n  \nCome West and See\nby Maxim Loskutoff \n  \nThis searing debut reimagines the American West through linked stories describing a violent rural separatist movement. \n  \nIn an isolated region of Idaho\, Montana\, and eastern Oregon known as the Redoubt\, an armed occupation of a wildlife refuge is escalating into civil war. Against this backdrop\, twelve stories of ordinary lives explore the loneliness\, fragility\, and heartbreak inherent to love. Families feel the far-reaching shockwaves of displacement and division. A mother makes a hard choice for her sons when their father goes to lead a standoff with the federal government. An unemployed carpenter joins a militia after his wife leaves him and the first airstrikes raze the streets of his hometown. A former soldier raises the daughter of a dead comrade in a bunker beneath an abandoned farm. \nRanging from the cities to the small towns of the West\, and imbued with its own brand of radical empathy\, Loskutoff’s fiction is both timely and timeless. Come West and See surges with rage\, longing\, and fear\, and offers startling insights into the wounds of the American people. \n  \nA graduate of New York University’s MFA program\, Maxim Loskutoff has been honored with the Nelson Algren Literary Award\, a Global Writing Fellowship in Abu Dhabi\, and the M Literary Fellowship in Bangalore. He lives in western Montana. \n  \n  \n\n  \nThe Invention of Ana\nby Mikkel Rosengaard \n  \nThe Invention of Ana illuminates the profound power of stories to alter the world around us—and the lives of the ones we love. \n  \nOn a rooftop in Brooklyn on a spring night\, a young intern meets the intriguing Ana Ivan who lives her life like a prime number: wild and unbroken and only divisible with herself. Before long\, the intern finds himself seduced by Ana’s enthralling stories—of her unlucky countrymen; of her parents’ romance during the worst years of Nicolae Ceaucescu’s dictatorship; of a Daylight Savings switchover gone horribly wrong. Ana also introduces him to her latest artistic endeavor. Following the astronomical rather than the Gregorian calendar\, she is trying to alter her sense of time—an experiment that will lead her to live in complete darkness for one month. \n  \nDescending into the blackness with Ana\, the intern slowly loses touch with his own existence\, entangling himself in the stories of Ana\, her starry-eyed mother Maria\, her math-prodigy father Ciprian\, and  their journey from Bucharest to Morocco’s Atlas Mountains to New York City. \n  \nA three-time recipient of the Danish Arts Foundation’s Literary Fellowship\,Mikkel Rosengaard’s stories have appeared in the Architectural Review\, Bomb Magazine\, PBS’s Art21\, and many other publications. He grew up in Elsinore\, Denmark\, and lives in New York City. \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maxim-loskutoff-come-west-and-see-and-mikkel-rosengaard-the-invention-of-ana/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Peter Phillips discussing the subject of his new book  Giants: The Global Power Elite
DESCRIPTION:Giants: The Global Power Elite \nBy Peter Phillips \nIntroduction by William I. Robinson \npublished by Seven Stories Press \nWho holds the purse strings to the majority of the world’s wealth? There is a new global elite at the controls of our economic future\, and here former Project Censored director and media monitoring sociologist Peter Phillips unveils for the general reader just who these players are. The book includes such power players as Mark Zuckerberg\, Bill Gates\, Jeff Bezos\, Jamie Dimon\, and Warren Buffett. \nAs the number of men with as much wealth as half the world fell from sixty-two to just eight between January 2016 and January 2017\, according to Oxfam International\, fewer than 200 super-connected asset managers at only 17 asset management firms—each with well over a trillion dollars in assets under management–now represent the financial core of the world’s transnational capitalist class. Members of the global power elite are the management–the facilitors–of world capitalism\, the firewall protecting the capital investment\, growth\, and debt collection that keeps the status quo from changing. Each chapter in Giants identifies by name the members of this international club of multi-millionaires\, their 17 global financial companies—and including NGOs such as the Group of Thirty and the Trilateral Commission—and their transnational military protectors\, so the reader\, for the first time anywhere\, can identify who consitutes this network of influence\, where the wealth is concentrated\, how it suppresses social movements\, and how it can be redistributed for maximum systemic change. \nPeter Phillips\, director emeritus of Project Censored and president of the Media Freedom Foundation\, is an associate professor of sociology at Sonoma State University. Known for his op-ed pieces in the alternative press and independent newspapers nationwide\, such as Z magazine and Social Policy\, Phillips is also the winner of the 2009 Dallas Smythe Award\, presented by the Union for Democratic Communication. He lives in Southern California. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-phillips-discussing-the-subject-of-his-new-book-giants-the-global-power-elite/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lisa Hanawalt
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Hanawalt discusses her new graphic novel\, Coyote Doggirl. \n\nPraise for Coyote Doggirl \n\n“Lisa’s work is a reminder of the limitless boundaries of one’s imagination. She somehow creates fantastical worlds within our own\, commenting on some of our most timely issues while exploring our most minute absurdities. I could spend all day inside this heartfelt\, beautiful\, twisted take on a classic Western.” Abbi Jacobson\, co-creator of Broad City \n\n“Coyote Doggirl is uppity\, cocky\, and occasionally profane\, but she is also smart\, clever\, and outrageously funny. Lisa Hanawalt’s comicbook tale of a half-coyote\, half-dog feminist and her trusty steed\, Red\, makes you think as well as laugh. You go\, Coyote Doggirl!”  Sandra Dallas\, New York Times best-selling author \n  \n“A story of flight and vengeance\, sunsets and sagebrush\, love and leather underwear. Hanawalt’s blues could be set in the sky and belong there; her pinks are almost alive. These are the cave paintings I want them to find in 10\,000 years.” Patricia Lockwood\, author of Priestdaddy \n  \n“Hanawalt is known for her ability to deliver genuinely hilarious visual gags and Coyote Doggirl is no exception. What’s especially interesting to me\, however\, is how Coyote’s tone refuses to stay put\, venturing from slapstick to poignant\, and finally into downright bleak territory\, appropriate for a Western. Her deftness with color is also worth study. I’m taken by how her characters contrast with the iconic and carefully studied features of the western landscape\, from mountain plateaus to bright and delicate wildflowers.” Kelly Sue DeConnick\, author of Bitch Planet\, Captain Marvel \n  \nAbout Coyote Doggirl \n  \nCoyote is a dreamer and a drama queen\, brazen and brave\, faithful yet fiercely independent. She beats her own drum and sews her own crop tops. A gifted equestrian\, she’s half dog\, half coyote\, and all power. Together with her trusty steed Red\, there’s not much that’s too big for her to bite off\, chew up\, and spit out right into your face\, if you deserve it. But when Coyote and Red find themselves on the run from a trio of vengeful bad dogs\, get clobbered by arrows\, and are tragically separated\, our protagonist is left fighting for her life\, and longing for her displaced best friend. Taken in by a wolf clan\, Coyote may be wounded\, but it’s not long before she’s back on the open road to track down Red and tackle the dogs who wronged her. \n  \nLisa Hanawalt’s homage to and lampoon of westerns like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid\, Coyote Doggirl is a self-aware\, playful subversion of tropes. As our fallible hero attempts to understand the culture of the wolves\, we see a journey in understanding and misunderstanding\, adopting and co-opting. Uncomfortable at times but nonetheless rewarding andempowering\, the story of these flawed\, anthropomorphized characters is nothing if not relentlessly hilarious and heartbreakingly human. Told in Hanawalt’s technicolor absurdist style\, Coyote Doggirl is not just a send-up of the western genre\, but a deeply personal story told by an enormously talented cartoonist.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-hanawalt/
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:Creative Writing Reading Series with Kevin Young
DESCRIPTION:Creative Writing Reading Series with Kevin Young\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, September 19\, 2018 –  \n7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nKevin Young is the Director for the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture\, newly named a National Historic Landmark\, and Poetry Editor of the New Yorker. He is the author of thirteen books of poetry and prose\, most recently Brow (2018); Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995-2015 (Knopf\, 2016)\, longlisted for the National Book Award; and Book of Hours (Knopf\, 2014)\, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize for Poetry from the Academy of American Poets. His collection Jelly Roll: a blues (Knopf\, 2003) was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/creative-writing-reading-series-with-kevin-young/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, September 19\, 7:30pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series \nLyrics and Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. \nReading this month: Valerie Wallace\, Sarah Gladstone\, and Norma Smith. \nHosted and Curated by Mk Chavez and Sharon Coleman. \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, September 19\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nShattuck Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-7/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:H O L L O W A Y : R E A D I N G : S E R I E S Roberto Harrison
DESCRIPTION:Roberto Harrison \nREADINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
URL:https://litseen.com/event/h-o-l-l-o-w-a-y-r-e-a-d-i-n-g-s-e-r-i-e-s-roberto-harrison/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Forrest Gander in conversation with Jonathan Santlofer (moderated by Susan Steinberg)
DESCRIPTION:celebrating two new books: \nBe With – by Forrest Gander – from New Directions \nWidows Notebook – by Jonathan Santlofer – from Penguin Books \nabout Be With: \nDrawing from his experience as a translator\, Forrest Gander includes in the first\, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical poet St. John of the Cross. He continues with a long multilingual poem examining the syncretic geological and cultural history of the U.S. border with Mexico. The poems of the third section—a moving transcription of Gander’s efforts to address his mother dying of Alzheimer’s—rise from the page like hymns\, transforming slowly from reverence to revelation. Gander has been called one of our most formally restless poets\, and these new poems express a characteristically tensile energy and\, as one critic noted\, “the most eclectic diction since Hart Crane.” \nabout Widows Notebook: \nOn a summer day in New York Jonathan Santlofer discovers his wife\, Joy\, gasping for breath on their living room couch. After a frenzied 911 call\, an ambulance race across Manhattan\, and hours pacing in a hospital waiting room\, a doctor finally delivers the fateful news. Consumed by grief\, Jonathan desperately tries to pursue life as he always had–writing\, social engagements\, and working on his art–but finds it nearly impossible to admit his deep feelings of loss to anyone\, not even his to beloved daughter\, Doria\, or to himself. \nAs Jonathan grieves and heals\, he tries to unravel what happened to Joy\, a journey that will take him nearly two years. \nabout the authors: \n\nForrest Gander was born in the Mojave Desert and grew up\, for the most part\, in Virginia. Trenchant periods of his life were spent in San Francisco\, Dolores Hidalgo (Mexico)\, and Eureka Springs\, Arkansas. With degrees in both geology and English literature\, Gander is the author of numerous books of poetry\, translation\, fiction\, and essays. He’s the A.K. Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literature at Brown University. A U.S. Artists Rockefeller fellow\, Gander has been recipient of grants from the NEA\, the Guggenheim\, Howard\, Witter Bynner and Whiting foundations. His 2011 collection Core Samples from the World was an NBCC and Pulitzer Prize finalist for poetry. \n\nJonathan Santlofer is a writer and artist. His debut novel\, The Death Artist\, was an international bestseller\, translated into seventeen languages\, and is currently in development for screen adaptation. His fourth novel\, Anatomy of Fear\, won the Nero Award for best novel of 2009. His short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies. He is also the creator and editor of several anthologies including It Occurs to Me That I Am America\, a collection of original stories and art. His paintings and drawings are included in many public and private collections. He lives in New York City. \nSusan Steinberg is the author of the short story collections\, Hydroplane and The End of Free Love\, and her third collection\, Spectacle\, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press. Her stories have appeared in McSweeney’s\, Conjunctions\, American Short Fiction\, and elsewhere\, and she was the recipient of a 2012 Pushcart Prize. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/forrest-gander-in-conversation-with-jonathan-santlofer-moderated-by-susan-steinberg/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime IN EXTREMIS
DESCRIPTION:Thursday September 20th\, 7-9pm\, will feature Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar (The Map of Salt and Stars)\, Rita Bullwinkel (Belly Up)\, Philip Harris (The Flowers In My Mothers’ Name)\, Kate Folk\, and Steven Black.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-in-extremis/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180920T210000
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SUMMARY:Marin Poetry Center 2018 Anthology Launch Thursday\, September 20\, 7pm
DESCRIPTION:The annual event to launch the Marin Poetry Center is always popular. Come join us to start the Marin Poetry Center fall season and read and hear selections from this unique anthology. This is an evening of reconnecting with other members\, having a glass of wine\, and celebrating our unique anthology. \nWe will also let you know about exciting new events\, partnerships\, and venues for our Spring Season. \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marin-poetry-center-2018-anthology-launch-thursday-september-20-7pm/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:MK Chavez and Heather June Gibbons\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this reading by Bay Area poets MK Chavez and Heather June Gibbons. We’ll be helping to debut the first full-length book\, Her Mouth As Souvenir\, by SF State Creative Writing faculty member Gibbons. This event\, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts\, is free and open to the public. \nOakland based Latinx writer MK Chavez is the author of Mothermorphosis and Dear Animal (both from Nomadic Press.) She is a recipient of a 2017 Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award and her poem The New Whitehouse\, Finding Myself Among the Ruins was selected by Eileen Myles for the Cosmonauts Avenue 2017 Poetry Award. She is a co-founder/curator of the reading series Lyrics & Dirges and co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival\, a fellow with CantoMundo\, and guest curator of the reading series at UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in the Fall of 2018. \nHeather June Gibbons is the author of the poetry collection Her Mouth as Souvenir\, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize from the University of Utah Press\, as well as two chapbooks\, Sore Songs and Flyover. Her poems have appeared widely in literary journals\, including Blackbird\, Boston Review\, Gulf Coast\, Indiana Review\, jubilat\, New American Writing\, and West Branch. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, she has been the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Vermont Studio Center\, Academy of American Poets and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She lives in San Francisco\, where she teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University and in the community. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nVIDEO: MK Chavez at Radar Reading Series\, San Francisco Public Library\nVIDEO: Heather June Gibbons at Quiet Lightning/Poetry in Parks \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mk-chavez-and-heather-june-gibbons-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Readings by R. O. Kwon\, Anisse Gross\, Rachel Khong\, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton\, Caille Millner\, Esmé Weijun Wang\, and Colin Winnette
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a very special evening of readings with one of San Francisco’s longest-running writing groups! It all started in 2003\, when some friends in college started a group called Chapter Room. It’s gone through a lot of iterations since then\, and names (Kick-It Boys\, Pre-Party Forever); it’s now bicoastal and nameless\, with one branch in San Francisco and one in New York. Please come join us for a celebratory group reading\, and for revelry afterward! \n  \nReadings by (clockwise\, from top left): Margaret Wilkerson Sexton\, Esmé Weijun Wang\, Colin Winnette\, Anisse Gross\, Caille Millner\, Rachel Khong\, and R. O. Kwon! \n  \n\n  \nBorn and raised in New Orleans\, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton studied creative writing at Dartmouth College and law at UC Berkeley. Her debut novel\, A Kind of Freedom\, was a 2017 National Book Award Nominee\, a New York Times Notable Book of 2017 and a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. Her work has been published in The New York Times Book Review\, Oprah.com\, Lenny Letter\, The Massachusetts Review\, Grey Sparrow Journal\, and other publications. She lives in the Bay Area\, California\, with her family. \n  \nEsmé Weijun Wang is the author of the novel The Border of Paradise. She received a 2018 Whiting Award\, was named by Granta as one of the “Best of Young American Novelists” in 2017\, and is the recipient of the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize for her forthcoming essay collection\, The Collected Schizophrenias. Born in the Midwest to Taiwanese parents\, Esmé lives in San Francisco. \n  \nColin Winnette is the author of several books\, including Haints Stay (Two Dollar Radio) and The Job of the Wasp (Soft Skull Press). He lives in San Francisco. \n  \nAnisse Gross is a writer and editor living in San Francisco. \n  \nCaille Millner is the author of a memoir\, The Golden Road: Notes on my Gentrification. Her fiction has appeared in Zyzzyva\, the Cimarron Review\, and Best American Short Stories 2016. Her nonfiction has appeared in the Paris Review Daily\, Longreads\, and many other publications. She is also a cultural columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle. \n  \nRachel Khong is a writer living in the Mission. She’s the author of the novel Goodbye\, Vitamin\, which was released by Henry Holt in 2017\, and recently in paperback by Picador. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Joyland\, Tin House\, and The Paris Review. She is the founder of The Ruby\, also located in the Mission\, a shared work and gathering space for women of all definitions. \n  \nR. O. Kwon is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her writing is published or forthcoming in The Guardian\, Vice\, Time\, Noon\, Electric Literature\, Playboy\, and elsewhere. She has received awards from Yaddo\, MacDowell\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, Omi International\, the Steinbeck Center\, and the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony. Born in South Korea\, she has lived most of her life in the United States. \n  \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n\n  \nR. O. Kwon is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her writing is published or forthcoming in The Guardian\, Vice\, Time\, Noon\, Electric Literature\, Playboy\, and elsewhere. She has received awards from Yaddo\, MacDowell\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, Omi International\, the Steinbeck Center\, and the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony. Born in South Korea\, she has lived most of her life in the United States. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/r-o-kwon-the-incendiaries/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Denise Clifton
DESCRIPTION:Denise Clifton discusses her new book\, Tables from the Rubble: How the Restaurants That Arose After the Great Quake of 1906 Still Feed San Francisco Today. \n\nAbout Tables from the Rubble \n\nTABLES FROM THE RUBBLE transports readers to San Francisco in the years just after the Great Earthquake of 1906. Amid the ruins\, restaurants rose to feed the hungry and lead the recovery. Today\, a handful of the restaurants that opened in those boom years remain – some still serving customers in the same spaces where they first opened\, offering food and drinks with a direct link to a century-old past. TABLES FROM THE RUBBLE tells the stories of restaurants like Swan Oyster Depot\, Liguria Bakery\, Comstock Saloon\, the Palace Hotel\, the House of Shields\, John’s Grill and Schroeder’s. And it follows the journey of Chinatown’s Sam Wo\, which was saved by the hard work of one family and an entire community committed to the historic restaurant’s legacy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/denise-clifton/
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:20180920T220000
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SUMMARY:The story of the Spear of Longinus: Terry Tarnoff discusses his novel "The Thousand Year Journey of Tobias Parker"
DESCRIPTION:Author Terry Tarnoff discusses his novel The Thousand Year Journey of Tobias Parker with special focus on the story of the Spear of Longinus.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-story-of-the-spear-of-longinus-terry-tarnoff-discusses-his-novel-the-thousand-year-journey-of-tobias-parker/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180921T193000
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SUMMARY:Valerie Wallace\, Daniel Handler and Kevin Simmonds
DESCRIPTION:Valerie Wallace discusses her new poetry collection\, House of McQueen with Daniel Handler and Kevin Simmonds. \n\nPraise for House of McQueen \n\n“How does a writer begin to capture the wild glory and talent of someone like Lee Alexander McQueen\, the high-octane designer of the House of Givenchy and then of his own unmistakable label? One only has to look to Valerie Wallace’s debut collection House of McQueen for an answer. Wallace begins with an in-depth\, intuitive knowledge of the designer’s life gleaned from interviews\, studies of his ground-breaking collections\, visits to exhibitions of his visionary work\, and by collecting fragments of words spoken by the man himself as well as some of the famous people he dressed. But it is more than that. The mastery of Wallace’s own poetic art is what rips into the heart of a man who defied all odds by moving from a working class boyhood to the center of 21st century haute couture and the brutality of that game. Wallace captures the genius of McQueen not to memorialize his tragically short life (although she does) or to write a biography or history of the designer\, but rather to transform art—his art into a maelstrom of her own poetic brilliance. In the process\, we find a book that captures the flair of Valerie herself—as poet\, soothsayer\, designer\, and seeker of the strange and wonderful manifestations of what art can be. This is a book inspired by McQueen\, but one that rises into its own thing of beauty and myth.”~ Andrea Witzke Slot\, author of TO FIND A NEW BEAUTY \n  \n“I cut / a path to / the sacred” and “I am | you are / the voyeur | the mirror.” So declares Alexander McQueen amid these poems of a richly sounded sensorium: of the texture of cloth\, the silhouette of a waist\, the smell of orange peels\, the hook of a fang. If McQueen’s work resulted from the designer thinking with his bare hands\, Valerie Wallace’s poems in this arresting collection result from the poet speaking with all five of her senses fully engaged. House of McQueen is a remarkable book.”~ Peter O’Leary\, author of THICK AND DAZZLING DARKNESS\, THE SAMPO\, and others \n\nAbout House of McQueen \n\nFrom the publisher: Selected by Vievee Francis for the Four Way Books Intro Prize\, Valerie Wallace’s HOUSE OF MCQUEEN is a glittering debut by an assured new voice. Inhabiting the life and work of Alexander McQueen\, Wallace builds a fantastical world using both original language and excerpts drawn from interviews\, supermodels\, Shakespeare\, and more. At turns fierce and vulnerable\, here is a collection that leaps from runway to fairytale to  street with wild\, brilliant grace.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/valerie-wallace-daniel-handler-and-kevin-simmonds/
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:BOOK RELEASE: NOMADIC PRESS' FALL 2018 CHAPBOOK COLLECTION
DESCRIPTION:Join us at our Uptown\, Oakland\, location for an amazing evening of readings\, live music\, gnosh / refreshments\, and friends of Nomadic Press as we launch seven new chapbooks in our Fall 2018 Chapbook Collection into the universe: TBA! \nReadings by all authors and all books will be available for purchase and signing at the event ($10 each). Music by TBA! \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-nomadic-press-fall-2018-chapbook-collection/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Dickson Lam
DESCRIPTION:Dickson Lam is author of Paper Sons: A Memoir. Lam’s work has appeared in StoryQuarterly\, the Kenyon Review Online\, Hyphen Magazine\, the Normal School\, PANK\, the Good Men Project\, the Rumpus\, and Kartika Review. He is a VONA alum and has been a resident fellow at the Millay Colony for the Arts and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Lam is an assistant professor of English at Contra Costa College and lives in Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dickson-lam/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Katya Apekina\, Bryan Hurt\, and Lisa Locascio
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon of readings from new books by Katya Apekina (The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish)\, Bryan Hurt (Everyone Wants to be Ambassador to France)\, and Lisa Locascio (Open Me). Please join us! \n  \nThe Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish\nby Katya Apekina \n  \nIt’s sixteen year-old Edie who finds their mother Marianne dangling in the living room from an old jump rope\, puddle of urine on the floor\, barely alive. Upstairs\, fourteen year-old Mae had fallen into one of her trances\, often a result of feeling too closely attuned to her mother’s dark moods. After Marianne is unwillingly admitted to a mental hospital\, Edie and Mae are forced to move from their childhood home in Louisiana to New York to live with their estranged father\, Dennis\, a former civil rights activist and literary figure on the other side of success. The girls\, grieving and homesick\, are at first wary of their father’s affection\, but soon Mae and Edie’s close relationship begins to fall apart–Edie remains fiercely loyal to Marianne\, convinced that Dennis is responsible for her mother’s downfall\, while Mae\, suffocated by her striking resemblances to her mother\, feels pulled toward their father. The girls move in increasingly opposing and destructive directions as they struggle to cope with outsized pain\, and as the history of Dennis and Marianne’s romantic past clicks into focus\, the family fractures further. \n  \nMoving through a selection of first-person accounts and written with a sinister sense of humor\,The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish powerfully captures the quiet torment of two sisters craving the attention of a parent they can’t\, and shouldn’t\, have to themselves. In this captivating debut\, Katya Apekina disquietingly crooks the lines between fact and fantasy\, between escape and freedom\, and between love and obsession. \n  \n“The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish is an engrossing debut — Apekina’s brilliant story of a family in crisis is a remarkable feat of empathy and insight\, guided by unpredictable\, propulsive storytelling. I was increasingly and helplessly hooked. I can’t believe this remarkable tour de force is a first novel.”  – J. Ryan Stradal\, author of the New York Times Bestseller Kitchens of the Great Midwest \n  \nKatya Apekina has had stories published in The Iowa Review\, Santa Monica Review\, West Branch\, Joyland\, PANK and elsewhere\, and has appeared on the Notable List of Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013. She translated poetry and prose for Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky\, which was short-listed for the Best Translated Book Award. She co-wrote the screenplay for the feature film New Orleans\, Mon Amour\, which premiered at SXSW in 2008. Born in Moscow\, she currently lives in Los Angeles. Poets & Writers recently named Katya a writer to watch and The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish a big fiction debut for the Fall. \n  \n\n  \nEveryone Wants to be Ambassador to France\nby Bryan Hurt \n  \nA seagull\, a goat\, and a teenage boy enter into a bizarre love triangle that leaves one of them dead and the other two changed forever. A grief-stricken astronaut quits NASA to paint pictures of the moon. A lonely scientist creates stars in his basement and becomes enraged when he discovers that one of his stars harbors life. An eighteenth-century British aristocrat adopts two teenage girls and absconds with them to France\, determined to raise one of them to become his perfect wife. By turns humorous and heartbreaking\, this debut collection offers weird and wonderful stories that illuminate the hidden truths of life. \n  \n“Bryan Hurt’s stories are like no one else’s. They are by turns hilarious\, whimsical\, arresting\, and heartbreaking\, but what makes them such a delight is the sly simplicity and off-handed charm of their telling.” – T.C. Boyle \n  \nBryan Hurt is the author of Everyone Wants to be Ambassador to France\, selected by Alissa Nutting as the winner of the 10th Annual Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction. He is the editor of Watchlist: 32 Sstories by Persons of Interest and Midwest editor for Joyland Magazine. His short stories and essays have been published in The American Reader\, Guernica\, Kenyon Review Online\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, Tin House\, TriQuarterly\, and many others. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and named finalist for the Calvino Prize and Horatio Nelson Prize in Fiction. He’s received fellowships from the Sewanee and Tin House Writers’ Conferences. Bryan holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the university of Southern California. He lives in Columbus\, Ohio and is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Capital University.  \n  \n\n  \nOpen Me\nby Lisa Locascio \n  \nA political and erotically-charged debut that follows a young American woman’s transformative journey during one pivotal summer abroad hailed by Viet Thanh Nguyen as “unflinching in its portrayal of sex\, desire\, racism\, and the excitement and confusion of youth.” \n  \n​Roxana Olsen has always dreamed of going to Paris\, and after high school graduation finally plans to travel there on a study abroad program — a welcome reprieve from the bruising fallout of her parents’ divorce. But a logistical mix-up brings Roxana to Copenhagen instead\, where she’s picked up at the airport by Søren\, a twenty-eight year old guide who is meant to be her steward. Instantly drawn to one another\, Roxana and Søren’s relationship turns romantic\, and when he asks Roxana to accompany him to a small town in the north of Denmark for the rest of the summer\, she doesn’t hesitate to accept. There\, Roxana’s world narrows and opens as she experiences fantasy\, ritual\, and the pleasures of her body\, a thrilling realm of erotic and domestic bliss. But as their relationship deepens\, Søren’s temperament darkens\, and Roxana finds herself increasingly drawn to a mysterious local outsider whom she learns is a refugee from the Balkan War. \n​ \nAn erotic coming-of-age like no other\, from a magnetic new voice in fiction\, Open Me is a daringly original and darkly compelling portrait of a young woman discovering her power\, her sex\, and her voice; and an incisive examination of xenophobia\, migration\, and what it means to belong. \n  \n“Not since Henry James’ Daisy Miller have I been so beguiled by an American abroad. Lisa Locascio’s Roxana Olsen may only be eighteen but she is already a desperate sexual adventurer. Part captivity narrative\, part political awakening\, Open Me will open you\, reminding us that nothing really happens until it happens in the body.” – Darcey Steinke\, author of Suicide Blonde \n  \nLisa Locascio‘s work has appeared in The Believer\, Tin House\, n+1\, Bookforum\, and many other magazines. She is the editor of the anthology Golden State 2017: Best New Writing from California\, co-publisher of Joyland and editor of its West section\, as well as of the ekphrastic collaboration magazine 7x7LA. She is Executive Director of the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference. \n  \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery at 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens with the store at 2\, event begins at 4pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katya-apekina-bryan-hurt-and-lisa-locascio/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETRY EVENT!
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers tba \nCurated by Aakash Tyagi
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-event/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jackson Burgess
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at Green Apple Books on Clement street Sunday\, September 23rd at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Jackson Burgess as he reads from his newest poetry collection (from Write Bloody Publishig)\, Atrophy.  \n\nPraise for Atrophy \n“Jackson Burgess is the most dazzling\, urgently urban and unfailingly inventive young chronicler of lost highways and avenues of broken dreams since the early poems of Denis Johnson and the ballads of Tom Waits.” -David St. John\, Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets \n  \n“Atrophy is simply shattering–in its apocalyptic intensity\, its relentless drive\, its urgent music\, its desperate tenderness.” -Cecilia Woloch\, author of Carpathia \n  \n“Atrophy pulses with love\, vodka\, and the despair of things lost and things found…I want to gift Atrophy to every human I’ve ever met.” -Ruth Madievsky\, author of Emergency Brake \n  \nJackson Burgess is the author of Atrophy (Write Bloody Publishing\, 2018)and the chapbook Pocket Full of Glass\, winner of the 2014 Clockwise Competition (Tebot Bach\, 2017). He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, and his poetry and fiction have appeared in The Los Angeles Review\, The Cincinnati Review\, Rattle\, Cimarron Review\, Colorado Review\, and elsewhere. He has led workshops at the University of Iowa\, Los Angeles Southwest College\, and the St. Vincent de Paul Cardinal Manning Center on Skid Row. Jackson lives in Los Angeles\, where he works as an editor and educator.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jackson-burgess/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Katie Ford with Katie Peterson / If You Have to Go
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a special evening with Katie Ford\, to celebrate her new poetry collection If You Have to Go. Joining her for a reading and conversation is the poet Katie Peterson! Please join us. \n  \nThe poems in Katie Ford’s fourth collection implore their audience—the divine and the human—for attention\, for revelation\, and\, perhaps above all\, for companionship. The extraordinary sequence at the heart of this book taps into the radical power of the sonnet form\, bending it into a kind of metaphysical and psychological outcry. Beginning in the cramped space of selfhood—in the bedroom\, cluttered with doubts\, and in the throes of marital loss—these poems edge toward the clarity of “what I can know and admit to knowing.” In song and in silence\, Ford inhabits the rooms of anguish and redemption with scouring exactness. This is poetry that “can break open\, // it can break your life\, it will break you // until you remain.” If You Have to Go is Ford’s most luminous and moving collection. \n  \n\n  \n“In every poem in If You Have to Go\, Katie Ford risks seeing—she must\, because from her first book onward\, but never more so than here\, her poems have been poems that have seen. Here\, Ford has seen the end of a marriage\, and in her great refusal to make the world weep as she weeps\, she finds herself at times almost unbearably at odds with a world she sees unchanged by her suffering\, and so she sees the world—‘everyone thrashes / against a wall / in this life.’ Ford becomes stronger with each book\, and is among the best poets of our generation.” – Shane McCrae \n  \n“With the publication of her first book\, Katie Ford established herself as a distinct and powerful voice in American poetry\, and in subsequent books her aesthetic has evolved of necessity to meet the demands of new urgencies. Here\, she goes to the bottom of loss to explore the relationship between uncertainty\, desire\, and belief as well as the relationship between faith in the human and faith in a God. At times it seems that only the careful speaking of the heart-made thought stands between this speaker and an abyss. This is a complex\, riveting\, and heartbreaking book.” – Jane Mead \n  \n\n  \nKatie Ford is the author of three previous poetry collections: Blood Lyrics\, Colosseum\, and Deposition. The recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship and the Larry Levis Reading Prize\, she teaches at the University of California\, Riverside. Katie’s author photo was taken by Helge Brekke. \n  \n  \nKatie Peterson is the author of four books of poetry\, This One Tree\,Permission\, and The Accounts. Her fourth collection\, A Piece of Good News\, will be published by FSG in February 2019. The winner of the Rilke Prize in Poetry from the University of North Texas\, she is Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of California\, Davis. Katie’s author photo was taken by Jackson Frishman. \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katie-ford-with-katie-peterson-if-you-have-to-go/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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