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SUMMARY:Reading
DESCRIPTION:Beloved poet Tinker Greene is being forced to leave San Francisco! Join us for a celebration of his work and contribution to the poetry community . Also featuring Carrie Hunter
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-2/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Egan
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 9\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will be held at our 9th Ave. location. \n\n\n\n\nJennifer Egan joins us on Saturday\, June 9th to celebrate the paperback release of Manhattan Beach. \n\nPraise for Manhattan Beach \n\n“A bounteous miracle that makes you feel that past time\, and our time\, differently; everything becomes freshly energized\, infused with humanity\, vital\, sad\, and full of importance. To see the world through Egan’s eyes is to be moved\, through language\, to new adoration of the world. I don’t know a better writer working today. There is a generosity in her prose that is vastly enlivening to its reader and brings about that beautiful effect fiction sometimes causes: more\, and better-grounded\, fondness for reality\, just as it is.”—George Saunders \n\n“Manhattan Beach is so rich in detail and atmosphere; such an exploration of underworlds of all kinds\, filled with lessons on lifelines and buoyancy and how to bear life’s weight by diving deep into it. Jennifer Egan has masterfully conjured an era we are on the cusp of losing. Her novel is an absorbing story\, beautifully written. Its strands of subtle intrigue and quiet heroism make you reluctant to leave each page while eager to get to the next.”—M.L. Stedman \n\n“An unusually well written\, well researched\, emotionally satisfying page-turner . . . Manhattan Beach is the kind of book you can immerse yourself in happily.” –Heller McAlpin\, San Francisco Chronicle \n\nAbout Manhattan Beach \n\nThe daring and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad. \nAnna Kerrigan\, nearly twelve years old\, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles\, a man who\, she gleans\, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men. \n‎Years later\, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard\, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men\, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver\, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations\, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub\, she meets Dexter Styles again\, and begins to understand the complexity of her father’s life\, the reasons he might have vanished. \nWith the atmosphere of a noir thriller\, Egan’s first historical novel follows Anna and Styles into a world populated by gangsters\, sailors\, divers\, bankers\, and union men. Manhattan Beach is a deft\, dazzling\, propulsive exploration of a transformative moment in the lives and identities of women and men\, of America and the world. It is a magnificent novel by the author of A Visit from the Goon Squad\, one of the great writers of our time. \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMANHATTAN BEACH (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer Egan\n$17.00\nISBN: 9781476716749\nAvailability: Coming Soon. Available for Pre-Order Now!\nPublished: Scribner Book Company – June 5th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction\n* Winner of the New York City Book Award\n* New York Times Bestseller \n* A San Francisco Chronicle Top 10 Book of the Year\n* A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2017 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer Egan\n$16.00\nISBN: 9780307477477\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Anchor Books – March 22nd\, 2011\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNATIONAL BESTSELLER\nNational Book Critics Circle Award Winner\nPEN/Faulkner Award Finalist\nA New York Times Book Review Best Book \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE KEEP (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer Egan\n$15.95\nISBN: 9781400079742\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Anchor Books – July 10th\, 2007\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAward-winning author Jennifer Egan brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep -the tower\, the last stand -is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOOK AT ME (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer Egan\n$16.95\nISBN: 9780385721356\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Anchor Books – October 8th\, 2002\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA National Book Award Finalist \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE INVISIBLE CIRCUS (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer Egan\n$16.95\nISBN: 9780307387523\nAvailability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships 1-10 business days from warehouse. ETA will be updated with email order confirmation.\nPublished: Anchor Books – October 9th\, 2007\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn Jennifer Egan’s highly acclaimed first novel\, set in 1978\, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of Phoebe O Connor\, age eighteen. Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith\, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEMERALD CITY (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer Egan\n$15.95\nISBN: 9780307387530\nAvailability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships 1-10 business days from warehouse. ETA will be updated with email order confirmation.\nPublished: Anchor Books – October 9th\, 2007\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThese eleven masterful stories – the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan – deal with loneliness and longing\, regret and desire. Egan’s characters – models and housewives\, bankers and schoolgirls – are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-egan-4/
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:Follow the Money!  The Dennis J. Bernstein KPFA Interviews
DESCRIPTION:Riva Enteen\, editor of KPFA radio commentator Dennis J. Bernstein’s new book “Follow the Money: Radio Voices for Peace and Justice\,” will host guests who have appeared on Bernstein’s influential and long-running program. “Follow the Money” compiles 66 of Bernstein’s incisive\, insightful interviews\, all conducted during the Obama era\, that provide the writing on the wall for how we got to Trump today. Taken together\, these interviews paint a vivid picture of the state of things in present day America.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/follow-the-money-the-dennis-j-bernstein-kpfa-interviews/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Heather Abel // The Optimistic Decade
DESCRIPTION:Heather Abel will read from her just-released novel\, The Optimistic Decade. The Optimistic Decade has received praise from the New York Times\, Publisher’s Weekly\, Kirkus\, New York Magazine\, BBC\, People Magazine\, EW.com\, Buzzfeed\, NY Post\, Library Journal. Bookpage says: “The Optimistic Decade deserves the elusive accolade of “original” for its believable construction and flawless attention to detail. Within the brilliant\, multilayered canopy of the novel’s world\, Heather Abel’s writing comes across as a sincere and tender channel for a story that must be told. \nBuzzfeed says: “I loved every minute I spent reading Heather Abel’s The Optimistic Decade\, a sharply rendered portrait of the United States in 1990. The novel is rich in the conflicting energies of the time — lingering resentments from the previous decade’s stark class divisions\, a renewed hope for the decade to come — and these clashes are played out over the course of one summer at a Colorado camp. … The result is an exuberant and nonjudgmental examination of the unique conflicts of the era.” \nPittsburg Post-Gazette says: Writing with both warmth and incisiveness\, Ms. Abel has crafted an engaging look at idealism and the difficulties in maintaining it…The Optimistic Decade is an exceptionally timely look at what it means to be politically aware and reminds readers of the intoxicating power of idealism\, particularly when we find ourselves on the precipice of independence.” \nMore info here: http://heatherabel.com/reviews/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/heather-abel-the-optimistic-decade/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:THE RACKET! #20
DESCRIPTION:Details soon! \nhttps://www.facebook.com/theracketseries/ \nHosted by Noah B. Sanders
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-20/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:David Graeber
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nBullshit Jobs \nfrom Simon and Schuster \nFrom bestselling writer David Graeber\, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless\, unfulfilling jobs\, and their consequences. \nDoes your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013\, David Graeber asked this question in a playful\, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.” It went viral. After a million online views in seventeen different languages\, people all over the world are still debating the answer. \nThere are millions of people—HR consultants\, communication coordinators\, telemarketing researchers\, corporate lawyers—whose jobs are useless\, and\, tragically\, they know it. These people are caught in bullshit jobs. \nGraeber explores one of society’s most vexing and deeply felt concerns\, indicting among other villains a particular strain of finance capitalism that betrays ideals shared by thinkers ranging from Keynes to Lincoln. Bullshit Jobs gives individuals\, corporations\, and societies permission to undergo a shift in values\, placing creative and caring work at the center of our culture. This book is for everyone who wants to turn their vocation back into an avocation. \nDavid Graeber is a Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. He is the author of the bestseller DEBT: The First 5\,000 Years\, and a contributor to Harper’s\, The Guardian\, and The Baffler. He was a leading figure in the OCCUPY Wall Street movement\, He lives in London.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-graeber/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival Presents Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake
DESCRIPTION:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents Poetic Tuesdays guest curated by Litquake\, Poetic Tuesdays features an array of poets and music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yerba-buena-gardens-festival-presents-poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Turk & Divis / Quiet Lightning album release party
DESCRIPTION:Turk & Divis (Evan and Miles Karp) launch the Quiet Lightning album\, featuring 11 tracks of original music scored to excerpts of 50 Bay Area writers performing live in last year’s QL shows. \nCome celebrate! Activities include: \n> A listening/screening party \n> Performances by a stout list of the album’s contributors: Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, Margaret McCarthy\, Matt Leibel\, Miah Jeffra\, AshleyRose Sanchez\, Matt Carney\, Roberto F. Santiago\, Rayan Mustafa\, Kristina Ten\, Linette Escobar\, Riss Rosado\, John Panzer\, Danielle Bero\, Abe Becker\, Cassandra Dallett\, and Paul Corman-Roberts: performer links and bios can be found here. \n> An open mic: sign up to read/perform during an improv set by Turk & Divis (more info soon) \nLimited edition lathe cut vinyl and cassettes will be available! \n> more info + to pre-order < \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis event is free and all ages. Doors at 6:30\, show at 7pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/turk-divis-quiet-lightning-album-release-party/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: Pride Zine Fest
DESCRIPTION:Guest curator Anand Vedawala presents four Bay Area queer Zine artists: Tyler Cohen\, Ajuan Mance\, Lee Marrs\, and Joshua Trujillo
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-pride-zine-fest/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alexandra Mattraw with Tiff Dressen and Norman Fischer
DESCRIPTION:Alexandra Mattraw with Tiff Dressen and Norman Fischer\nTuesday\, June 12\, 2018\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\n \nAlexandra Mattraw launches her new book small siren with Tiff Dressen and Norman Fischer  \n \nAbout small siren: \nsmall siren believes the inanimate is alive. Here\, a speaker navigates music rendered from a terrain of fracture\, where emergency and becoming intertwine.  A family’s narrative threads and unthreads through the book\, as do the ethics of projection. What confrontations arise where people and objects are involuntarily constructed through a mutual process of projection? Truth is slippery but so is the ground. Here\, she listens for appendages of herself in nature and in the cities she encounters\, where she ritualistically attempts to distinguish between beauty and disaster. \nAlexandra Mattraw is a Berkeley poet and fourth generation native of Northern California. Her debut full-length book\, small siren\, emerges this spring from Brooklyn’s 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. \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. \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. \nNorman Fischer’s new book\, On a Train at Night\, was published in March 2018 by Presse Universite de Rouen et Havre\, in France. This book-length serial poem explores consciousness\, meaning\, and what can’t be said or written of. June 1 is also the scheduled publication date of Untitled Series:Life As It Is (Talisman Press)\, also a serial poem in short fragments that describes the hidden\, underlying\, linguistic shape of ordinary daily events. \nAlexandra Mattraw is a Berkeley poet and fourth generation native of Northern California. Her debut full-length book\, small siren\, emerges this spring from Brooklyn’s 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. \nWhat has been said about 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
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexandra-mattraw-with-tiff-dressen-and-norman-fischer/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Laurie R. King\, Island of the Mad
DESCRIPTION:Laurie R. King\, Island of the Mad\nTuesday\, June 12\, 2018 – 7:00pm \nBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes beloved and best-selling author Laurie R. King back to the store for a reading and signing of her new novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes\, Island of the Mad. \nMary Russell and Sherlock Holmes untangle the slippery threads of insanity and deadly secrets as they investigate a disappearance in the New York Times bestselling series that Lee Child called “the most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today.” \nA June summer’s evening\, on the Sussex Downs\, in 1925. Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are strolling across their orchard when the telephone rings: an old friend’s beloved aunt has failed to return following a supervised outing from Bedlam. After the previous few weeks–with a bloody murder\, a terrible loss\, and startling revelations about Holmes–Russell is feeling a bit unbalanced herself. The last thing she wants is to deal with the mad\, and yet\, she can’t say no. \nThe Lady Vivian Beaconsfield has spent most of her adult life in one asylum after another\, yet she seemed to be improving–or at least\, finding a point of balance in her madness. So why did she disappear? Did she take the family’s jewels with her\, or did someone else? The Bedlam nurse\, perhaps? \nThe trail leads Russell and Holmes through a lunatic asylum’s stony halls to the warm Venice lagoon\, where ethereal beauty is jarred by Mussolini’s Blackshirts\, where the gilded Lido set may be tempting a madwoman\, and where Cole Porter sits at a piano\, playing with ideas…\nLAURIE R. KING is the award-winning\, bestselling author of fourteen Mary Russell mysteries\, five contemporary novels featuring Kate Martinelli\, and many acclaimed stand-alone novels such as Folly\, Touchstone\, The Bones of Paris\, and Lockdown. She lives in Northern California\, where she is at work on her next Mary Russell mystery. \n  \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up an hour before the event begins. \nIsland of the Mad: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes (Hardcover)\nBy Laurie R. King \n$28.00 \nISBN: 9780804177962 \nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now \nPublished: Bantam – June 12th\, 2018 \nIsland of Mad—GET IT SIGNED!\n$28.00 \nSKU: S9780804177962 \nName (optional) \nIf you cannot attend this event\, you can still have a copy of Island of Madsigned at the event. Books must be paid for in advance and can either be shipped or held for pick-up in the store. Internet orders must be placed by Monday\, June 11th. After that\, please call the store to inquire about signed editions. \nMost authors will be happy to add a name to their signature\, but this service is at their discretion and isn’t guaranteed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laurie-r-king-island-of-the-mad/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Weekday Wanderlust
DESCRIPTION:Hello Wanderlusters! It’s coming that time again…the most wanderlust time of the year. Weekday DONderlust. Mark your calendar for Tuesday JUNE 12. It’s our LAST event before our summer hiatus. We will celebrate great travel writing\, readings\, summer\, our fantastic community\, and of course the birthday of our own Don George. Champagne toasts and funny Don stories are welcome. Don has invited three of his besties\, who happen to be extraordinary writers\, too. Please come to welcome Larry Habegger\, Amanda Jones\, and Jeff Greenwald. There will be stories. There will be laughter. There will be giveaways. This is is Donderlust. Readings start at 7pm but we will be at the bar by 6 pm at the Mystic Hotel (417 Stockton). See you then.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/weekday-wanderlust-4/
LOCATION:mystic hotel\, 417 Stockton St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jennifer S. Cheng and Vi Khi Nao
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, June 12\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will be held at our 9th Ave. location. \n\n\n\nJennifer S. Cheng and Vi Khi Nao join us on Tuesday June 12th to celebrate the release of their new collections\, Moon: Letters\, Poems\, Maps and Sheep Machine. \n\nPraise for Moon: Letters\, Maps\, Poems \n  \n“What are the secret aspects of a book\, which cannot be spoken of and that unfold in ways that nobody can describe to us in advance? In a world where ‘boundaries are slipping\,’ what modes of metamorphosis now become possible? Can radical change be read as a ‘map of the body in motion’? I am interested in Cheng’s idea of story as the place where we come to ‘forget something\, as much as remember.’ This is a formulation that precipitates the artifacts and deities of the book: ‘the logic of dust cloud\, spiral.’ Everything that’s left behind. If reading is a form of pilgrimage\, then Cheng gives us its charnel ground events\, animal conversions\, guiding figures and elemental life. ‘I want to mark a new map for a body opening\,’ she writes\, and then she does.” —Bhanu Kapil \n  \n“…What distinguishes this study of the Self in proximity to Other and to the World is the way Cheng refuses to tell stories and instead\, insists on asking them. With curiosity and attention\, MOON shines its light on inquiry as art\, asking as making. In the tradition of Fanny Howe’s poetics of bewilderment\, Cheng gives us a poetics of possibility.” —Jennifer Tseng \n\nAbout Moon: selected by Bhanu Kapil as winner of the Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards:  \n  \nMixing fable and fact\, extraordinary and ordinary\, Jennifer S. Cheng’s hybrid collection\, MOON: Letters\, Maps\, Poems\, explores the feminine monstrous as it draws on various Chinese mythologies about women\, particularly that of Chang’E (the Lady in the Moon)\, uncovering the shadow stories of our myths — with the belief that there is always an underbelly. MOON explores bewilderment and shelter\, destruction and construction\, unthreading as it rethreads\, shedding as it collects. \n\nPraise for Sheep Machine \n\n“The unglamorous labor of ‘logging’ footage is\, like childbirth\, often seen as a necessary torment best forgotten once its productive work is done . . . Vi Khi Nao empowers this deceptively objective art of time-coded naming with a wild heart\, a deep ethics\, and the slant-philosophical poetics that returns me continuously to her gorgeous\, necessary (and frankly addictive) work.” —Anna Moschovakis \n  \n“Vi Khi Nao’s poetic ekphrasis of Leslie Thornton’s Sheep Machine is a visceral companion to an optical theatre of ordinary and extraordinary images that rub off the burning edge of consciousness . . . This is hallucinatingly generative work.” —Dong Li \n  \nAbout Sheep Machine \n  \nSHEEP MACHINE is a textual inscape\, a poetically painted nonfictional pasture where mechanical violence and visceral fear coalesce into a kind of science prosody\, a post-human panorama whose beauty liesr in the ruins of reality it depicts. Influenced by Leslie Thornton’s film of sheep feeding in a field as a conveyor belt of cable cars ascend and return from a mountain in the Swiss Alps\, Vi Khi Nao takes perception into tumultuous terrains\, into a pastoral-celestial void in which temporality is transcended\, progress is a bourgeois invention\, and god is a liability for our life spent in hunger and grazing. Vi Khi Nao’s SHEEP MACHINE is grace said at the ontological last supper. \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFISH IN EXILE (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy VI Khi Nao\n$16.95\nISBN: 9781566894494\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Coffee House Press – November 1st\, 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPraise for Vi Khi Nao: \n“Here I was allowed to forget for a while that that is what books aspire to tell\, so taken was I by more enthralling and mysterious pleasures.” –Carole Maso \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHOUSE A (OMNIDAWN 1ST/2ND BOOK CONTEST) (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer S. Cheng\n$17.95\nISBN: 9781632430236\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Omnidawn – October 4th\, 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHouse A investigates the tones and textures of immigrant home-building by asking: How is the body inscribed with a cosmology of home\, and vice versa?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-s-cheng-and-vi-khi-nao/
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:Heather Abel // The Optimistic Decade
DESCRIPTION:Heather Abel will read from her just-released novel\, The Optimistic Decade. The Optimistic Decade has received praise from the New York Times\, Publisher’s Weekly\, Kirkus\, New York Magazine\, BBC\, People Magazine\, EW.com\, Buzzfeed\, NY Post\, Library Journal. Bookpage says: “The Optimistic Decade deserves the elusive accolade of “original” for its believable construction and flawless attention to detail. Within the brilliant\, multilayered canopy of the novel’s world\, Heather Abel’s writing comes across as a sincere and tender channel for a story that must be told. \nBuzzfeed says: “I loved every minute I spent reading Heather Abel’s The Optimistic Decade\, a sharply rendered portrait of the United States in 1990. The novel is rich in the conflicting energies of the time — lingering resentments from the previous decade’s stark class divisions\, a renewed hope for the decade to come — and these clashes are played out over the course of one summer at a Colorado camp. … The result is an exuberant and nonjudgmental examination of the unique conflicts of the era.” \nPittsburg Post-Gazette says: Writing with both warmth and incisiveness\, Ms. Abel has crafted an engaging look at idealism and the difficulties in maintaining it…The Optimistic Decade is an exceptionally timely look at what it means to be politically aware and reminds readers of the intoxicating power of idealism\, particularly when we find ourselves on the precipice of independence.” \nMore info here: http://heatherabel.com/reviews/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/heather-abel-the-optimistic-decade-2/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetic Observations of a Black\, Queer Young Man
DESCRIPTION:Southern Migrant Mixtape relays the experiences and observations of a black\, queer man from Virginia who thought he was leaving racism and sexual intolerance behind in the regions where he initially experienced them. Plunge heart first into this emotive journey of growth\, transformation of pain into armor\, and the lessons that can be learned when one is true to themselves.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetic-observations-of-a-black-queer-young-man/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Vi Khi Nao\, Jennifer S. Cheng\, and Rita Bullwinkel
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, June 13\, 2018\n7:00 PM  9:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCome celebrate new books by favorite writers! Jennifer S. Cheng’s “MOON: LETTERS\, MAPS\, POEMS” (Tarpaulin Sky\, May 2018) and Vi Khi Nao’s “Sheep Machine” (Black Sun Lit 2018). We might even have more writers releasing more books! \nJennifer S. Cheng writes at the intersection of essay and poetry. Her second book\, a hybrid collection MOON: LETTERS\, MAPS\, POEMS\, was selected by Bhanu Kapil as winner of the Tarpaulin Sky Book Award. She is also the author of HOUSE A\, selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize\, and INVOCATION: AN ESSAY\, an image-text chapbook published by New Michigan Press. 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 Hong Kong anthology)\, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships and awards from Brown University\, the University of Iowa\, San Francisco State University\, the U.S. Fulbright program\, Kundiman\, Bread Loaf\, and the Academy of American Poets. Having grown up in Texas\, Connecticut\, and Hong Kong\, she lives in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco.www.jenniferscheng.com \nVI KHI NAO was born in Long Khanh\, Vietnam. She is the author\, most recently\, Umbilical Hospital\, and of the forthcoming story collection\, A Brief Alphabet of Torture\, which won FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize in 2016\, the novel\, Fish in Exile (Coffee House Press\, 2016)\, and the poetry collection\, The Old Philosopher\, which won the Nightboat Books Prize for Poetry in 2014. She holds an MFA in fiction from Brown University\, where she received the John Hawkes and Feldman Prizes in fiction and the Kim Ann Arstark Memorial Award in poetry. www.vikhinao.com \nRita Bullwinkel is the author of the story collection Belly Up(forthcoming from A Strange Object May 8th 2018). Her writing has been published or is forthcoming in Tin House\, Conjunctions\, BOMB\, Vice\, NOON\, and Guernica. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony\, Brown University\, Vanderbilt University\, Hawthornden Castle\, and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction and her translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an Editor at Large for McSweeney’s. She lives in San Francisco. Read more about her here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vi-khi-nao-jennifer-s-cheng-and-rita-bullwinkel/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 7 pm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-club/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Roman Muradov
DESCRIPTION:Roman Muradov discusses his new book\, On Doing Nothing: Finding Inspiration in Idleness. \n\nPraise for On Doing Nothing \n\n“Roman Muradov’s whimsical\, clever\, and companionable book On Doing Nothing provides a much-needed correction to our distracted\, anxiety-ridden\, and increasingly disembodied culture. Muradov has written and illustrated a kind of Situationist\, Oulipian Ways of Seeing—a manual for clarity and presence\, a book which issues a call to attention; a call to pay attention. The smart yet approachable philosophical reflections unfold like a leisurely stroll through a beautiful and unfamiliar city\, provoking thoughtfulness and eliciting in the reader a spirit of discovery.” —Peter Mendelsund\, author of What We See When We Read \n\nAbout On Doing Nothing \n\nIn an age of obsessive productivity and stress\, this illustrated ode to idleness invites readers to explore the pleasures and possibilities of slowing down. Beloved author and illustrator Roman Muradov weaves together the words and stories of artists\, writers\, philosophers\, and eccentrics who have pursued inspiration by doing less. He reveals that doing nothing is both easily achievable and absolutely essential to leading an enjoyable and creative life. Cultivating idleness can be as simple as taking a long walk without a destination or embracing chance in the creative process. Peppered with playful illustrations\, this handsome volume is a refreshing and thought-provoking read. \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nON DOING NOTHING: FINDING INSPIRATION IN IDLENESS (HARDCOVER)\n\nBy Roman Muradov\nEmail or call for price\nISBN: 9781452164267\nAvailability: Backordered\nPublished: Chronicle Books – April 3rd\, 2018\n\n\nIn an age of obsessive productivity and stress\, this illustrated ode to idleness invites readers to explore the pleasures and possibilities of slowing down. Beloved author and illustrator Roman Muradov weaves together the words and stories of artists\, writers\, philosophers\, and eccentrics who have pursued inspiration by doing less. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n(IN A SENSE) LOST AND FOUND (HARDCOVER)\n\nBy Roman Muradov\n$19.95\nISBN: 9781907704956\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Nobrow – September 16th\, 2014\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe first graphic novel by rising star Roman Muradov explores the theme of innocence by treating it as a tangible object–something that can be used\, lost\, mistreated. Roman Muradov’s crisp delicate style conjures a world of strange bookstores and absurd conspiracies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJACOB BLADDERS AND THE STATE OF THE ART (HARDCOVER)\n\nBy Roman Muradov\n$16.99\nISBN: 9781941250105\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Uncivilized Books – December 13th\, 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJacob Bladders: illustrator\, braggart\, and victim of assault by thugs sent by the mysterious Charlie. Part satire of commercial art\, part noirish detective story\, part puzzle to be solved or left in pieces. Roman Muradov’s latest is an ink-smeared Blakean vision of 1940s New York where Twitter exists as a network of pneumatic tubes\, but artwork is still delivered by hand.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roman-muradov-2/
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:Tommy Orange
DESCRIPTION:Tommy Orange reading from\n\nThere There \npublished by Alfred Knopf \nNot since Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange’s There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career.Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame in Oakland. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle’s memory. Edwin Black has come to find his true father. Thomas Frank has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather; Orvil has taught himself Indian dance through YouTube videos\, and he has come to the Big Oakland Powwow to dance in public for the very first time. Tony Loneman is a young Native American boy whose future seems destined to be as bleak as his past\, and he has come to the Powwow with darker intentions–intentions that will destroy the lives of everyone in his path.\nFierce\, angry\, funny\, groundbreaking–Tommy Orange’s first novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. There There is a multi-generational\, relentlessly paced story about violence and recovery\, hope and loss\, identity and power\, dislocation and communion\, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. A glorious\, unforgettable debut. \nTommy Orange is a recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a 2014 MacDowell Fellow\, and a 2016 Writing by Writers Fellow. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland\, California\, and currently lives in Angels Camp\, California. \nPraise for the work of Tommy Orange: \n“When Tommy Orange first sent me a chapter of his novel\, There There\, I read it and marveled. I then read it aloud to my wife. And then I emailed and called my closest writer friends. I said\, ‘It’s here. That book I’ve been waiting for. It has arrived.’ Tommy Orange has indeed arrived. And his debut novel is a beautiful\, dangerous\, sad\, poetic\, and hilarious revelation. Set in Oakland\, California\, There There is truly the first book to capture what it means to be an urban Indian—perhaps the first novel ever to celebrate and honor and elevate the joys and losses of urban Indians. You might think I’m exaggerating but this book is so revolutionary—evolutionary—that Native American literature will never be the same.”\n—Sherman Alexie \n“There\, There is an urgent\, invigorating\, absolutely vital book by a novelist with more raw virtuosic talent than any young writer I’ve come across in a long\, long time. Maybe ever. Tommy Orange is a stylist with substance\, a showboater with a deeply moral compass. I want to call him heir to Gertrude Stein by way of George Saunders\, but he is even more original than that. This book will make your heart swell.”\n—Claire Vaye Watkins \n“This is Tommy Orange. Remember his name. His book’s gonna blow the roof off.”\n—Pam Houston
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tommy-orange/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash presents Gillian Conoley and Paul Hoover
DESCRIPTION:Gillian Conoley’s most recent book of poems is Peace. A. Anupama\, in Numéro Cinq\, wrote\, “White space percolates this lyric\, while the current lull in American military actions forms the occasion of this book\, Gillian Conoley’s seventh poetry collection. With poems  titled “late democracy\,’ “[Peace] contrary to history\,” and “Trying to Write a Poem about Gandhi\,” the work pulls one way and then pushes back another\, testing the inner ground for breath.” Others of her collections include The Plot Genie\, Profane Halo\, and Lovers in the Used World. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry\, American Hybrid\, and Postmodern American Poetry. Her translations include Thousand Times Broken\, Three Books\, three previously untranslated books of the French poet Henri Michaux. Founder and editor of the literary journal VOLT\, she has\, among her honors\, four Pushcart Prizes\, the Jerome J. Shestack Prize from APR\, an NEA fellowship\, and a Fund for Poetry Award. \nPaul Hoover’s new book of poems is The Book of Unnamed Things. Mary Jo Bang says\, “Hoover’s concern with language’s representational inadequacy is shared by the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets he’s championed for years….However\, his own poems are more direct\, more lyrical\, and sometimes seethingly and seductively  melancholic. Central to all of them (regardless of language’s irrefutable limitations) is his keen intelligence and laconic wit.” Author of fourteen previous poetry collections\, he co-edited with Maxine Chernoff the literary magazine New American Writing and co-translated with her The Selected Poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin\, which won a PEN-USA Translation Award. Editor\, as well\, of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology\, his honors include an NEA Fellowship\, the Frederick Bock Award of Poetry\, and the Jerome J. Shestack Prize of American Poetry Review.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-presents-gillian-conoley-and-paul-hoover/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:This is Now with Angie Coiro presents: Ken Auletta on media and advertising
DESCRIPTION:We’re saturated in advertising. Online\, on billboards\, flashing on sidewalks – iSpace in Japan plans to project ads on the moon by 2020. \nBut advertising is no longer a robust industry. Consumer distrust and ad-killing technology have frayed it into hostile camps with uncertain futures. Still: if you’re not in the business\, why should you care? \nBecause\, Ken Auletta says: no advertising means no media. \nAuletta adds to his long career as a savvy observer of American business and communication with Frenemies: The Epic Destruction of the Advertising Industry (And Why This Matters). Auletta is uniquely positioned to probe this latest turn in a key industry. He’s penned the “Annals of Communications” column for The New Yorker since 1992; he’s profiled the greatest influencers of media both traditional and digital\, including Bill Gates\, Rupert Murdoch\, and Ted Turner. \nKen Auletta joins KLF’s journalist in residence Angie Coiro for her This Is Now series\, for an evening of wide-ranging conversation about media\, advertising\, and its role in the life of us all.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-with-angie-coiro-presents-ken-auletta-on-media-and-advertising/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Maria Hummel and Sara Houghteling
DESCRIPTION:Maria Hummel discusses her new novel\, Still Lives with  Sara Houghteling. \nPraise for Still Lives \n“Still Lives offers its readers that delicious combination of entertainment and brilliance. It’s at once profound and suspenseful\, and while the plot kept me up nights (the ending had me gasping in surprise!)\, the book as a whole asks important questions about art and representation and how we\, as a culture\, objectify and endanger and victimize women. Maria Hummel has written a remarkable\, relevant\, and necessary novel.” —Edan Lepucki\, Woman No. 17 and California \n“There’s nothing I like better than a well-written page-turner about the art world\, and Maria Hummel has delivered this and more with her new literary thriller\, Still Lives. Flawed characters abound as do clever plots and subplots along with irresistible peeks into hidden chambers of the LA art scene. Riveting.” —B.A. Shapiro\, author of The Art Forger and The Muralist \n“As gritty and glittering as the L.A. art world it depicts\, Maria Hummel’s latest novel soars into the sun-swept heights of fame and beauty\, then plunges us into violence. In Still Lives\, Hummel does what she does best: delving with sensitivity and wit into complex\, intertwined lives\, lives that strain the frames that enclose them. Intelligent\, vivid\, and impeccably paced\, this thrilling novel forces us to confront how dangerous art can be.” —Kirstin Valdez Quade\, author of Night at the Fiestas \nAbout Still Lives \nKim Lord is an avant-garde figure\, feminist icon\, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Livesis comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous\, murdered women–the Black Dahlia\, Chandra Levy\, Nicole Brown Simpson\, among many others–and the works are as compelling as they are disturbing\, implicating a culture that is too accustomed to violence against women. \n  \nAs the city’s richest art patrons pour into the Rocque Museum’s opening night\, all the staff\, including editor Maggie Richter\, hope the event will be enough to save the historic institution’s flailing finances. \n  \nExcept Kim Lord never shows up to her own gala. \n  \nFear mounts as the hours and days drag on and Lord remains missing. Suspicion falls on the up-and-coming gallerist Greg Shaw Ferguson\, who happens to be Maggie’s ex. A rogue’s gallery of eccentric art world figures could also have motive for the act\, and as Maggie gets drawn into her own investigation of Lord’s disappearance\, she’ll come to suspect all of those closest to her. \n  \nSet against a culture that often fetishizes violence\, Still Lives is a page-turning exodus into the art world’s hall of mirrors\, and one woman’s journey into the belly of an industry flooded with money and secrets. \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSTILL LIVES (HARDCOVER)\n\nBy Maria Hummel\n$26.00\nISBN: 9781619021112\nAvailability: Coming Soon. Available for Pre-Order Now!\nPublished: Counterpoint LLC – June 12th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Still Lives offers its readers that delicious combination of entertainment and brilliance. It’s at once profound and suspenseful\, and while the plot kept me up nights (the ending had me gasping in surprise )\, the book as a whole asks important questions about art and representation and how we\, as a culture\, objectify and endanger and victimize women. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMOTHERLAND (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Maria Hummel\n$15.95\nISBN: 9781619024663\nAvailability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships 1-10 business days from warehouse. ETA will be updated with email order confirmation.\nPublished: Counterpoint LLC – January 13th\, 2015\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMotherland is inspired by stories from author Maria Hummel’s father and his German childhood\, and letters between her grandparents that were hidden in an attic wall for fifty years. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Sara Houghteling\n$16.50\nISBN: 9780307386304\nAvailability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships 1-10 business days from warehouse. ETA will be updated with email order confirmation.\nPublished: Vintage – February 9th\, 2010\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA sweeping and sensuous novel of a son’s quest to recover his family’s lost masterpieces\, looted by the Nazis during the occupation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maria-hummel-and-sara-houghteling/
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:Leslie Jonath
DESCRIPTION:Presents Foraged Art: Creating Projects Using Blooms\, Branches\, Leaves\, Stones\, and Other Elements Discovered in Nature. \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Foraged Art by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, June 14\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the spirit of land artists like Andy Goldsworthy\, the book is as much about discovery as it is about creation. Leaves shaped like lips might inspire a face; an array of rocks might be become an eclectic mosaic; winter’s first snow might be carved into glowing luminaria.Whether you love to look for heart-shaped flowers or want to make a peacock made with flower petals\, you will find great inspiration and joy in Foraged Art. \nArt\, meditation\, and nature meet in this adult focused activity book\, with projects that take inspiration from the natural environment\, using blooms\, pods\, branches\, stones\, and other natural elements. Divided into chapters by natural elements–flowers\, leaves\, rocks and pods\, and more\, the book encourages readers to forage and play outside using nature’s seasonal art box. With quotes by artists on nature and creativity\, Foraged Art is about making art from what you find and finding art in what you see. \nLeslie Jonath is an author\, book packager\, and producer specializing in content for food\, art\, design\, and children’s projects. She is the author of many books including Snowmen\, Everyone Loves Paris\, Give Yourself A Gold Star and Love Found. She lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/leslie-jonath/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Art\, Readings\, & Reactions with Quiet Lightning and Modern Eden
DESCRIPTION:Join ArtSpan and Quiet Lightning at Modern Eden Gallery for the fourth annual Art\, Readings\, & Reactions event! \nART: Curated by Modern Eden\nREADINGS: Curated by Quiet Lighning\nREACTIONS: Empowered by ArtSpan \nThis Artist Mixer showcases writers from Quiet Lightning as they share literary creations inspired by the artwork at Modern Eden. The audience will be equiped with sketch books and drawing materials from ArtSpan to react with drawings.\n\nPLUS MUSIC: A performance by Turk & Divis (Evan and Miles Karp)\, who on June 12 launch the Quiet Lightning album: featuring 50 Bay Area writers performing live at last year’s QL shows\, a rough version of each track was scored and released each month last year. Now mixed\, mastered\, and cut to vinyl\, the album is a mixtape of mixtapes. For music\, visuals\, and pre-orders: turkanddivis.com. \nDon’t forget snacks\, beverages\, and mingling with fellow artists! \nON DISAPLY ART MODERN EDEN GALLERY: \nBaby Mama: Portrait Invitational VI\, June 8–July 6\, 2018 \nModern Eden Gallery proudly presents the 6th edition of our portrait show. Baby Mama\, is inspired by medieval and renaissance religious depictions of the Madonna and Child. A hand-selected lineup of top contemporary figurative artists will bring this archetype into a modern context\, using present-day imagery and iconography to put a new twist on the classical icon\, and interpreting Madonna and Child through the modern lens. \nQUIET LIGHTNING READERS/WRITERS:\n> for author links: http://quietlightning.org/baby-mama/\n \n  \nLinda Norton: Linda is the author of a chapbook\, Hesitation Kit (EtherDome\, 2007) and The Public Gardens: Poems and History (Pressed Wafer\, 2011; introduction by Fanny Howe)\, a hybrid work of poetry and non-fiction and a finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her second book\, Wite-Out (Love and Work)\, is scheduled for 2018-2019 publication. In 2014 Norton received a Creative Work Fund award and a Dickey Fellowship at SF State. She is also a visual artist. Her collages have appeared on the covers of books by Claudia Rankine\, Julie Carr\, and other poets\, and have been exhibited at the Dock Arts Centre in Ireland.\n \n  \n \n\nThea Matthews: Born and raised in San Francisco\, CA\, Thea Matthews is a queer Black and Mexican American awarded poet\, spoken word artist\, activist\, curator\, bruja\, revolutionary\, collaborator\, and researcher. She writes on the complexities of trauma\, grief\, resiliency\, and ultimately\, the triumph over trauma. Her work can be found in For Harriet’s Soar\, Rag Queen Periodical\, as well as SoundCloud\, YouTube\, and Ello. As a seasoned performer\, Thea frequents the San Francisco Bay Area literary scene; and has featured at literary festivals such as Beast Crawl Oakland\, Lit Crawl San Francisco; and reading series such as Paseo Artístico\, Lyrics & Dirges\, Nomadic Press’s First Fridays and Get Lit\, as well as performances hosted by Still Here San Francisco. Currently\, Thea is working on her first volume of poetry–– a thematic collection incorporating flower medicine and city life. She will be at the Berkeley Poetry Festival this upcoming September. \n  \n \nCarla Trujillo: Carla is the editor of two anthologies published by Third Woman Press\, Living Chicana Theory and Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About\, winner of a Lambda Book Award & the Out/Write Vanguard Award. Her novel\, What Night Brings (Curbstone Press 2003)\, won the Marmol prize focusing on human rights\, along with the Paterson Fiction Prize\, the Latino Literary Foundation Book Award\, Bronze Medal from Foreword Magazine\, Honorable Mention for the Gustavus Meyers Books Award\, and was a LAMBDA Book Award finalist. Her latest novel\, Faith and Fat Chances (Curbstone Books/Northwestern University Press 2015)\, was a finalist for the PEN-Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nChristine No: is a first-generation Korean American writer and filmmaker. She believes in the power of Radical Vulnerability and that Magic exists in all strange places. Christine is an advocate for ridding the stigma surrounding mental health; and creating education and dialogue in its place. She is a Sundance Alum\, VONA Fellow\, two-time Pushcart Prize nominee [2015 & 2017] and Best of the Net 2017 nominee. Her work can be found in The Rumpus\, sPARKLE+bLINK\, Columbia Journal\, Story Online\, Apogee\, Atlas and Alice\, Vagabond Lit\, The Brooklyn Quarterly\, and various anthologies. She is a cohort of the Winter Tangerine Workshop\, the Kearny Street Workshop Interdisciplinary Writer’s Lab\, and sits on the board of Quiet Lightning\, a literary non-profit based in San Francisco. Christine is an Assistant Features Editor at The Rumpus. \n  \n  \n  \n \nNatasha Dennerstein: Natasha was born in Melbourne\, Australia\, to a family originating in Belarus. She worked as a psychiatric nurse for many years\, which gave her an interesting perspective on the human condition. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University. Natasha has had poetry published in many journals including Landfall\, Shenandoah\, Bloom\, Red Light Lit\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, Foglifter and North American Review. Her collections Anatomize (2015)\, Triptych Caliform (2016) and her novella-in-verse About a Girl (2017) were published by Norfolk Press in San Francisco. Her chapbook Seahorse (2017) was published by Nomadic Press in Oakland. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nKim Shuck: Kim is the current Poet Laureate of San Francisco; her books include the poetry collections Smuggling Cherokee and Sidewalk NDN and the book of poetic fiction Rabbit Stories; her heritage is Tsulagi\, Sauk\, Fox\, and Polish. She is the first Native American poet laureate of a major American city. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nWith a musical performance by Turk & Divis (Evan and Miles Karp)\, who on June 12 and June 16 launch the Quiet Lightning album: featuring 50 Bay Area writers performing live at last year’s QL shows\, a rough version of each track was scored and released each month last year. Now mixed\, mastered\, and cut to vinyl\, the album — their second — is a mixtape of mixtapes. \n————————–—- \n  \n  \n  \nAbout Modern Eden Gallery: Modern Eden is located in San Francisco’s historic North Beach Neighborhood since June of 2010. The gallery features monthly exhibitions of established and emerging artists. The gallery’s contemporary aesthetic ranges from realism to surrealism with a strong focus on illustrative painting and representational sculpture. \nAbout Quiet Lightning: A literary nonprofit based in San Francisco\, QL created the literary mixtape and since December 2009 has produced 120 events featuring 1200 readings by 800 authors in 80 venues\, from dive bars and art galleries to state parks and national landmarks. \nAbout ArtSpan Artist Mixers: ArtSpan produces Artist Mixer events throughout the year to give San Francisco artists a chance to meet\, mingle\, and make art with each other. Past events have included mixers at artist studios\, a Crochet Jam at a cafe\, a literary reading and sketchfest at a gallery\, a figure drawing session in the Dogpatch\, and much much more! All events are free and open to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/art-readings-reactions-with-quiet-lightning-and-modern-eden/
LOCATION:Modern Eden Gallery\, 801 Greenwich St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tommy Orange presents his debut novel\, THERE THERE (w/ R.O. Kwon)
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is very excited to welcome Tommy Orange to discuss his jaw-droppingly good debut novel\,There There on Friday\, June 15th at 7pm. Tommy will be in conversation with R. O. Kwon. \n“We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy\, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid–tied to the back of everything we’d been doing all along to get us here. There will be death and playing dead\, there will be screams and unbearable silences\, forever-silences\, and a kind of time-travel\, at the moment the gunshots start\, when we look around and see ourselves as we are\, in our regalia\, and something in our blood will recoil then boil hot enough to burn through time and place and memory. We’ll go back to where we came from\, when we were people running from bullets at the end of that old world. The tragedy of it all will be unspeakable\, that we’ve been fighting for decades to be recognized as a present-tense people\, modern and relevant\, only to die in the grass wearing feathers.” \nJacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame in Oakland. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle’s memory. Edwin Black has come to find his true father. Thomas Frank has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather; Orvil has taught himself Indian dance through YouTube videos\, and he has come to the Big Oakland Powwow to dance in public for the very first time. Tony Loneman is a young Native American boy whose future seems destined to be as bleak as his past\, and he has come to the Powwow with darker intentions–intentions that will destroy the lives of everyone in his path. \nFierce\, angry\, funny\, groundbreaking–Tommy Orange’s first novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. There There is a multi-generational\, relentlessly paced story about violence and recovery\, hope and loss\, identity and power\, dislocation and communion\, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. A glorious\, unforgettable debut. \n* * * \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nTommy Orange is a recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a 2014 MacDowell Fellow\, and a 2016 Writing by Writers Fellow. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland\, California\, and currently lives in Angels Camp\, California. \nR. O. Kwon is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. 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. Her debut novel\, The Incendiaries\, is forthcoming this summer from Riverhead. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nFriday\, June 15\, 2018 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm\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\nThere There (Hardcover)\n\nBy Tommy Orange\n$25.95\nISBN: 9780525520375\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: Knopf Publishing Group – June 5th\, 2018
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tommy-orange-presents-his-debut-novel-there-there-w-r-o-kwon/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta Presents: Poetry Comes Out of My Mouth
DESCRIPTION:Come to Alley Cat Books on 24th Street in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District\, June 15 at 7 pm to hear the poetry of Mario Santiago Papasquiaro–Mexican literary outsider to the extreme. Anti-establishment with a punk rocker attitude\, Mario Santiago has gone virtually untranslated into English until now with the publication of Poetry Comes Out of My Mouth. \nArturo Mantecón will read the translations contained in the new book (to be for sale at the bookstore).\nMaceo Montoya\, Chicano master artist\, and novelist will give a brief presentation on the 10 original paintings he created to serve as illustrations for the book.\nArturo Balderrama\, multi-talented musician\, will provide musical backup for the reading. \nAn open mic follows this once in a lifetime presentation and performance! Bring a poem and friend! \nCurated by René Vazquez and Marguerite Muñoz!\nJune 15\, 7 pm\nAlley Cat Books\n3036 24th Street\nSan Francisco
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-presents-poetry-comes-out-of-my-mouth/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Reading
DESCRIPTION:Arturo Mantecon will be reading from his new translation of Mario Santiago Papasquiaro’s poetry. \nFeaturing artwork by Maceo Montoya.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-3/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bloomsday! Thomas Lynch reads from James Joyce's Ulysses
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Irish soda bread as Thomas Lynch continues reading the whole of Ulysses. Chapter Nine up next.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bloomsday-thomas-lynch-reads-from-james-joyces-ulysses/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Turk & Divis / Quiet Lightning album release party
DESCRIPTION:Turk & Divis (Evan and Miles Karp) launch the Quiet Lightning album\, featuring 11 tracks of original music scored to excerpts of 50 Bay Area writers performing live in last year’s QL shows.\nCome celebrate! Activities include:\n> A listening/screening party\n> Performances by a stout list of the album’s contributors:\nJack Foley\, Lorraine Lupo\, Tara Dorabji\, Eric Kurhi\, Claire Calderon\, Zephir O’Meara\, Hugh Behm-Steinberg\, Rohan DaCosta\, Charles Kruger\, Peter Bullen\, Adam Moskowitz\, and Wildredhawk\nLimited edition lathe cut vinyl and cassettes will be available!\nMore info + to pre-order: http://www.turkanddivis.com/quiet-lightning-vinyl/\nThis event is free and all ages. Doors at 7\, performances at 8pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-album-release-party-oak/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lauren Groff discusses and signs FLORIDA
DESCRIPTION:Lauren Groff discusses and signs FLORIDA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, June 16\, 7:30 pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nCelebrated New York Times bestselling author Lauren Groff presents her highly anticipated new collection of short stories\, Florida. \n \nABOUT FLORIDA \nIn her vigorous and moving new book\, Lauren Groff brings her electric storytelling and intelligence to a world in which storms\, snakes\, and sinkholes lurk at the edge of everyday life\, but the greater threats and mysteries are of a human\, emotional\, and psychological nature. Among those navigating it all are a resourceful pair of abandoned sisters; a lonely boy\, grown up; a restless\, childless couple\, a searching\, homeless woman; and an unforgettable\, recurring character – a steely and conflicted wife and mother. \nThe stories in this collection span characters\, towns\, decades\, even centuries\, but Florida — its landscape\, climate\, history\, and state of mind — becomes its gravitational center: an energy\, a mood\, as much as a place of residence. Groff transports the reader\, then jolts us alert with a crackle of wit\, a wave of sadness\, a flash of cruelty\, as she writes about loneliness\, rage\, family\, and the passage of time. With shocking accuracy and effect\, she pinpoints the moments and decisions and connections behind human pleasure and pain\, hope and despair\, love and fury — the moments that make us alive. Startling\, precise\, and affecting\, Florida is a magnificent achievement. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nLauren Groff is the New York Times bestselling author of three novels\, The Monsters of Templeton\, Arcadia\, and Fates and Furies\, and the celebrated short story collection Delicate Edible Birds. Her work has been featured in the New Yorker\, Harper’s\, the Atlantic\, and several Best American Short Stories anthologies. She has won the Paul Bowles Prize for Fiction\, the PEN/O. Henry Award\, and the Pushcart Prize; and has been a finalist for the National Book Award\, the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Orange Award for New Writers\, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSaturday\, June 16\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFlorida (Hardcover)\n\nBy Lauren Groff\n$27.00\nISBN: 9781594634512\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: Riverhead Books – June 5th\, 2018
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lauren-groff-discusses-and-signs-florida/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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