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SUMMARY:Otessa Moshfegh: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION \nFrom one of our boldest\, most celebrated new literary voices\, a novel about a young woman’s efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes \nOur narrator should be happy\, shouldn’t she? She’s young\, thin\, pretty\, a recent Columbia graduate\, works an easy job at a hip art gallery\, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for\, like the rest of her needs\, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart\, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents\, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her\, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend\, Reva. It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? \nMy Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world\, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable\, even necessary\, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny\, merciless and compassionate\, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nOttessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Eileen\, her first novel\, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize\, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World. Her stories have been published in The Paris Review\, The New Yorker\, Granta\, and have earned her a Pushcart Prize\, an O. Henry Award\, the Plimpton Discovery Prize\, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her first book\, McGlue\, a novella\, won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/otessa-moshfegh-my-year-of-rest-and-relaxation/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Picture Book Surgery!
DESCRIPTION:What makes a great picture book? Let’s find out together! We’ll dissect our favorite picture books\, focusing each month on a different angle. We’ll go on a book hunt through the bookstore\, and then finish up with some time to write down or sketch about what we’ve discovered. \n  \nIllustrators Charlotte Cheng and Diana Toledano lead this workshop/book club where all participants come to learn from each other. \n  \nThis is the perfect event for author/illustrators looking forward to meet some colleagues\, discover new books\, and learn more about the craft. Authors interested in illustration\, and illustrators interested in writing are also welcome. \n  \nThis Month’s Topic is: The Role of Grown-Ups in Picture Book Stories. \n  \n\n  \nThings to Note: \n\nFeel free to bring a book from your personal collection\, but remember\, a good surgeon doesn’t have a relationship with the patient. In other words\, please do not bring your own work to discuss.\nThe people at the Booksmith are super kind letting us host our meetings there\, but they won’t be giving us any special treatment… You can politely ask them to carry your books or host your author event\, just be aware that the answer might be “no”.\n\n\nSpace is limited\, so sign up soon!\n\n  \n\n  \nThis is a monthly SCBWI Member-Hosted Event. \nTo get in touch or to join our mailing list please write us at: picturebooksurgery@gmail.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/picture-book-surgery/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:HAIGHT-ASHBURY LITERARY JOURNAL
DESCRIPTION:The Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal celebrates its 2018 edition. \nFeaturing readers: \n\nANDRENA ZAWINSKI\nEILEEN MALONE\nKIM SHUCK\nALICE ROGOFF\nCESAR LOVE\nK.R. MORRISON\nSTEPHEN KOPEL\nROCIO RAMIREZ
URL:https://litseen.com/event/haight-ashbury-literary-journal/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180713T190000
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SUMMARY:Ages 8-12! Ann Killion
DESCRIPTION:Ann Killion\n\n\n\n\npresents Champions of Men’s Soccer and Champions of Women’s Soccer\, the ultimate guides for young sports fans from an award-winning sports journalist. \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of either book by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, July 13\, 2018 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing Top Ten Lists and stunning photos of history-making moments\, these comprehensive pro soccer collections catalog the greatest international players and the greatest Americans. These are the perfect books for young sports fans eager to kick off their soccer schooling. \nAnn Killion has covered American sports for more than a quarter century. An award-winning columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle\, she has covered several World Cups and pivotal moments in the rise of both American men’s and women’s soccer. She was named the 2014 California Sportswriter of the Year. She is co-author of Solo: A Memoir of Hope with soccer star Hope Solo\, and Throw Like a Girl with softball great Jennie Finch. She lives in Mill Valley. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ages-8-12-ann-killion/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180714T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180714T163000
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SUMMARY:When You Die… Workshop and Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:Oakland-based conceptual artist Lindsay Tunkl\, is pleased to present Parting Practice: Rituals for Endings and Failure. This multifaceted event coincides with the release of the artist’s latest book\, When You Die You Will Not Be Scared To Die\, a work of conceptual art that reframes death as something to look forward to instead of fight against. To celebrate the release of the new book\, a group workshop and book signing will take place at E.M. Wolfman General Interest Bookstore on July 14th from 2-4:30pm. The artist will also be conducting 50-minute one-on-one performance sessions at other locations in the bay area over the course of three days (July 15\, July 21 and July 22) where volunteer participants can connect around their fears of death and dying. \nLindsay Tunkl’s artistic practice has been described as absurd\, over-emotional\, healing\, and tragic. In an attempt to understand the particular experience of the human life cycle during the Anthropocene (the societal moment that our species began contributing to its own demise) Tunkl uses her art practice as a way to connect and share in the heartbreaking realities we all inhabit in this contemporary moment. Drawing from her own irrational fears of the apocalypse\, death and intimacy\, the artist has found that these topics – the things that scare us the most – are a platform for profound human connection and closeness.\n.\nParting Practice sprung from Pre Apocalypse Counseling\, a series of interactive\, one-on-one performances that took place in an SUV and lead participants through conversations\, psychological and physical exercises\, and visualizations in order to examine their emotional connection to the probable or improbable apocalypse (more than 100 sessions have taken place). Out of that project came two recently published works: Origins and Endings: A Divination Book and Inkblot Card Deck and the small book of meditations\, When You Die You Will Not Be Scared To Die. With a tender and humorous hand\, each of these works is an encounter that offers the viewer an opportunity to have a reflexive experience with their emotions within a world that is more often than not\, heartbreaking.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/when-you-die-workshop-and-book-signing/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180714T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180714T190000
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SUMMARY:Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Fiestas Fridas open mic \nAll topics/ All skill levels welcome
URL:https://litseen.com/event/open-mic/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180714T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180714T213000
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SUMMARY:POETRY READING & LIVE MUSIC with Swimming in Bengal / Invasive Species
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a wonderful evening of poetry and music! \n5:30 Poetry Reading features \nMichelle Bonilla Garcia \nSummer Bei \nAakash Tyagi \n7:30 Live Music \nSwimming in Bengal (Sacto) \nhttps://www.facebook.com/swimminginbengal/ \n  \nINVASIVE SPECIES\nhttps://invasivespeciesduo.bandcamp.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-reading-live-music-with-swimming-in-bengal-invasive-species/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180714T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180714T210000
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SUMMARY:Jessica Friedmann
DESCRIPTION:Australian author Jessica Friedmann discusses her new essay collection Things that helped: on Postpartum Depression. Jessica will be joined by local poet and writer Lauren Levin in a conversation moderated by Lydia Kiesling (editor of the Millions)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessica-friedmann/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180714T190000
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SUMMARY:JOURNAL RELEASE: NOMADIC JOURNAL 2017: WONDER (RETRO!)
DESCRIPTION:Join us at our Uptown\, Oakland\, location for the much-anticipated release of Nomadic Journal 2017 (Retro!): Wonder! \nIt’s going to be an amazing evening of readings\, live music\, gnosh / refreshments\, and friends of Nomadic Press as we launch this treasure of a book into the universe. \nReadings by TBA and pop-up surprise Nomadic Press readers. Books will be available for purchase and there will be a signing following the event ($15 each). Music by TBA! \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/journal-release-nomadic-journal-2017-wonder-retro-2/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180715T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180715T150000
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SUMMARY:Poets Julie Rogers & Gene Berson read their work
DESCRIPTION:Poets Julie Rogers & Gene Berson read their work
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-julie-rogers-gene-berson-read-their-work/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry!
DESCRIPTION:featuring Kyle Schlesinger  and Tim Shaner \nHosted by Kevin Killian
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-2/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180716T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180716T203000
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SUMMARY:Pride Poetry Palooza
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts The Perfectly Queer reading series for their annual celebration of queerness at Pride Poetry Palooza! Eight amazing LGBTQ poets will read from new work and discuss queer poetic inspiration. Book signings follow. Free admission\, free and delicious refreshments. Queer (and poetic) door prizes awarded at 7pm. More about Perfectly Queer here. \n  \nMore info to come. Save the date and join us!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pride-poetry-palooza-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! every 1st & 3rd Monday Monday\, July 16th – 7-9 pm Kathleen McClung & Dawn McGuire\,  followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:Kathleen McClung is the author of two collections of poetry\, The Typists Play Monopoly (2018) and Almost the Rowboat (2013). Her poetry\, memoir\, and fiction appear widely in journals and anthologies. Recipient of the Rita Dove Poetry Award from Salem College 2012 International Literary Awards\, Kathleen was selected by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the 2012 National Poetry Competition sponsored by the Cultural Center of Cape Cod. Nye also honored Kathleen’s work in The MacGuffin’s 2017 National Poet Hunt. Kathleen has taught writing and literature classes at Skyline College in San Bruno\, California for over twenty years. Dawn McGuire is a neurologist and author of two poetry collections\, Sleeping in Africa and Hands On. She grew up in Eastern Kentucky and was educated at Princeton University\, Union Theological Seminary\, and Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. Her scientific work is focused in two areas: developing biological and gene therapies for diseases such as Huntington’s disease and Multiple Sclerosis; and in reducing disparities in stroke and other neurologic conditions. Her poems have appeared in various literary magazine and anthologies\, and she has won several poetry awards\, including the Troubadour Prize (UK)\, the National League of American Pen Women\, and the 2011 Sarah Lawrence/Campbell Corner Academy of Language Exchange Poetry Prize for “poems that treat larger themes with lyric intensity.” She is Adjunct Professor of Neurology at the Neurosciences Institute of Morehouse School of Medicine\, and divides her time between Atlanta and Northern California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-every-1st-3rd-monday-monday-july-16th-7-9-pm-kathleen-mcclung-dawn-mcguire-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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180716T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180716T210000
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SUMMARY:An evening of poetry
DESCRIPTION:an evening of poetry with Matt Potter\, Carly Moore\, and Dia Felix \nHosted by Kevin Killian
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-of-poetry/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cara Black's Murder on the Left Bank book reading & signing
DESCRIPTION:Join Cara Black\, New York Times bestselling author of the Aimée Leduc series (set in Paris) AND Noe Valley resident for a special Summer Stride post-Bastille Day author talk! \nShe will read from her latest book\, Murder on the Left Bank\, which will be released on June 19\, 2018. \nHer previous book\, Murder in Saint-Germain\, is on the list of Kirkus Reviews’ “Best Mysteries and Thrillers of 2017” list. \nWhether you’re a Francophile or just love mysteries\, please join us for this special event.  A book signing will follow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cara-blacks-murder-on-the-left-bank-book-reading-signing/
LOCATION:Noe Valley Metting Room\, 451 Jersey St\, San Francisco\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lisa Jensen\, Beast
DESCRIPTION:This is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information\, or sign up for our events emails. \nThis free event will take place in Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs are usually set up for open seating about an hour before the event start time. \nThey say Château Beaumont is cursed. Servant-girl Lucie can’t believe such foolishness about handsome Jean-Loup\, Chevalier de Beaumont\, master of the estate. But the chevalier’s cruelty is revealed\, and Lucie vows to see him suffer. A wisewoman grants her wish with a spell that transforms Jean-Loup into terrifying Beast\, reflecting the monster he is inside. \nBut Beast is nothing like the chevalier. Jean-Loup would never tend his roses so patiently\, attempt poetry\, or express remorse for the wrong done to Lucie. Gradually\, Lucie comes to realize that Beast is an entirely separate creature\, with a heart more human than Jean-Loup’s ever was. \nLucie dares to hope that noble Beast has permanently replaced cruel Jean-Loup — until an innocent beauty arrives at the chateau with the power to break the spell. \nFilled with gorgeous writing\, magic and fierce emotion\, Beast: A Tale of Love and Revenge will challenge all you think you know about good and evil\, and beauty and beastliness. \n\n“When is beauty shaped by ugliness? When does a simple fairy tale give way to the dark textures beneath its surface? When Lisa Jensen takes it on\, that’s when.  Beast: A Tale of Love and Revenge is a love story\, and so much more.” — Laurie R. King\, New York Times bestselling author of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice and Island Of the Mad \n\nLisa Jensen is the author of the adult novels Alias Hook and The Witch From the Sea. A longtime film critic with Good Times\, her reviews are also posted on Rotten Tomatoes. She lives in Santa Cruz\,with her husband\, artist James Aschbacher.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-jensen-beast/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Summer Reading at the El Cerrito Library
DESCRIPTION:Please join Baruch Porras-Hernandez and Maw Shein Win on Tuesday\, July 17th at the El Cerrito Library. \nWe’ll begin with an open mic followed by readings & a short Q&A. Bring a poem to share and hope to see you there! \nFood and bevs courtesy of the Friends of the El Cerrito Library. \nBios \nBaruch Porras-Hernandez moved to El Cerrito his sophomore year of high school and lived here for 11 years till he moved to San Francisco. His mother still lives here\, so he is normally in El Cerrito every weekend\, walking to Fat Apples for their strong coffee and lemon meringue pie. He is a Pushcart Prize nominated writer\, named one of the 13 Top Bay Area Writers to Watch in 2016 by 7×7 Magazine in San Francisco\, and is a regular host and organizer of live literary shows for KQED. You can find his writing published online at The Tusk\, his poems on Drunk in a Midnight Choir\, Santa Ana River Review\, and several other poetry anthologies like Assaracus\, Foglifter\, Red Light Lit\, Quiet Lightning Rio Grande Review\, Divining Divas\, and two anthologies with Write Bloody Publishing. He was named a Lambda Literary Poetry Fellow in 2014\, and a Lambda Literary Playwriting Fellow in 2016. He’s been featured in Writers with Drinks\, has performed several times with Radar Productions\, LitQuake\, and Quiet Lightning. He is a winner of Literary Death Match\, has won The Moth\, Write Club SF\, and was the reigning Muni Diaries Haiku Champion for 3 years. He is the head organizer of ¿Donde Esta Mi Gente? a Latinx literary performance series\, created in part by the REGEN artist grant from the Galerìa de la Raza. He is an immigrant\, originally from Mexico\, and is currently the lead artist in a multidisciplinary project that will create new Queer Latino Superheroes with MACLA\, which stands for Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana in San Jose. \nMaw Shein Win is a Burmese American poet and educator who lives and works in the Bay Area. Her writing has appeared in many journals and several anthologies\, including MARY: A Journal of New Writing\, Cimarron Review\, Poetry International\, Fanzine\, The Fabulist\, and others. She often collaborates with visual artists\, musicians\, and other writers. Along with composer and musician\, Amanda Chaudhary\, she is part of musical duo Pitta of the Mind that combines poetry with abstract electronic music. A collaborative book with paintings by artist Mark Dutcher\, Ruins of a glittering palace\, was published by SPA/Commonwealth Projects. Her poetry chapbook Score and Bone is on Nomadic Press\, and her full-length collection Invisible Gifts: Poems was recently published by Manic D Press. She is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/summer-reading-at-the-el-cerrito-library/
LOCATION:El Cerrito Public Library\, 6510 Stockton Ave\, El Cerrito\, CA\, 94530\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Rush
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Rush discusses her new book\, Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore. \n\nPraise for Rising \n\n“Sea level rise is not some distant problem in a distant place. As Elizabeth Rush shows\, it’s affecting real people right now. Rising is a compelling piece of reporting\, by turns bleak and beautiful.”―Elizabeth Kolbert\, author of The Sixth Extinction \n\n“A smart\, lyrical testament to change and uncertainty. Elizabeth Rush listens to both the vulnerability and resiliency of communities facing the shifting shorelines of extreme weather. These are the stories we need to hear in order to survive and live more consciously with a sharp-edged determination to face our future with empathy and resolve. Rising illustrates how climate change is a relentless truth and real people in real places know it by name\, storm by flood by fire.”―Terry Tempest Williams\, author of The Hour of Land \n\n“A strange new kind of travel guide\, Rising is a journey through the turbulent forefront of climate change―the coastal communities\, rich and poor\, human and nonhuman\, that are already feeling the first effects of our rising seas. Elizabeth Rush sets out to put a face on a subject that is all too often depicted in abstract graphs and statistics\, and gives us a group portrait of the men and women who are fighting\, fleeing\, and adapting to the terrible disappearance of the land they live on.”―Charles C. Mann\, author of 1491 \n\n“In this moving and memorable book\, the voice of the author mingles with the voices of people in coastal communities all over the country―Maine\, Rhode Island\, Louisiana\, Florida\, New York\, California―to offer testimony: The water is rising. Some have already lost their homes; some will lose them soon; others are studying or watching or grieving. Though they haven’t met each other\, their commonality forms a circle into which we are inexorably pulled by Elizabeth Rush’s powerful words.”―Anne Fadiman\, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down \n\nAbout Rising \n\nHarvey. Maria. Irma. Sandy. Katrina. We live in a time of unprecedented hurricanes and catastrophic weather events\, a time when it is increasingly clear that climate change is neither imagined nor distant―and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways. \nIn this highly original work of lyrical reportage\, Elizabeth Rush guides readers through some of the places where this change has been most dramatic\, from the Gulf Coast to Miami\, and from New York City to the Bay Area. For many of the plants\, animals\, and humans in these places\, the options are stark: retreat or perish in place. Weaving firsthand accounts from those facing this choice―a Staten Islander who lost her father during Sandy\, the remaining holdouts of a Native American community on a drowning Isle de Jean Charles\, a neighborhood in Pensacola settled by escaped slaves hundreds of years ago―with profiles of wildlife biologists\, activists\, and other members of the communities both currently at risk and already displaced\, Rising privileges the voices of those usually kept at the margins. \nAt once polyphonic and precise\, Rising is a shimmering meditation on vulnerability and on vulnerable communities\, both human and more than human\, and on how to let go of the places we love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-rush/
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:Keep Begin Detach: Inspired by Isadora Duncan
DESCRIPTION:July 18 in the evening time from 6:30-8pm \nThe Event \nKeep Begin Detach: Inspired by Isadora Duncan \nCome to EM Wolfman for an exploration of text and image\, music and silence\, meditation and performance. Inspired by Isadora Duncan\, Katarina Countiss and friends will bring engaging elements to classics and original work.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/keep-begin-detach-inspired-by-isadora-duncan/
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:Poets Jane Gregory & Claire Marie Stancek
DESCRIPTION:Poets Jane Gregory & Claire Marie Stancek\n\n\n\n\nReading from their recent respective volumes Yeah No and Oil Spell\, and introduced by Lyn Hejinian. \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of either book by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, July 18\, 2018 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJane Gregory’s mystifying second collection begins with a “Knock knock\,” inviting the reader into a realm where “Everything is a pattern / of yesses and no.” Within these pages we find Gregory constructing a multivalent world—ripe with struggle\, prophecy\, and\, by the end\, a resemblance of hope. Using her highly-tuned sensibility throughout\, Gregory guides us through the anxieties of this journey by inventing new and enigmatic forms filled with sonic experimentation and polyphony. \nJane Gregory is from Tucson and lives in Oakland. Her first book\, My Enemies\, was published in 2013. She is co-founder and co-editor\, with Lyn Hejinian and Claire Marie Stancek\, of Nion Editions\, a chapbook press. She recently completed her PhD in English at UC Berkeley. \nClaire Marie Stancek’s Oil Spell gathers many of today’s dark energies—US drone strikes\, environmental disaster—and asks: what kind of tool is poetry to mirror these violences? The poems here are counter-conjurations\, but they also query whether poetry itself might be a violent entrance of language into the world. Oil Spell animates diverse influences—Dorothy Wordsworth’s journals\, environmental reports of extinction and endangerment\, and the Pakistani government assessments of drone strikes. The poems do not attempt to negotiate or domesticate this diversity\, but ask what function poetry might have alongside these various performative linguistic functions. While poetry appears to have a dark function in these connections\, Oil Spell also asks whether we might invest language with the capacity to conjure towards other possibilities. Oil Spell performs the ways in which narratives of loss and narratives of everyday joy curl into one another and mutually contaminate. The beauty that results is a troubled reflection\, like a rainbow in a slick of oil. \nClaire Marie Stancek is also the author of Mouths. With Lyn Hejinian and Jane Gregory\, she edits Nion Editions\, a chapbook press. She has recently completed a PhD in English at UC Berkeley\, where she teaches classes on literature and creative writing. Originally from outside Toronto\, Ontario\, she now lives in Berkeley. \nPoet\, essayist\, translator\, and publisher Lyn Hejinian teaches at UC Berkeley. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-jane-gregory-claire-marie-stancek/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Launch for Heather June Gibbons / Her Mouth as Souvenir
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the launch event for Heather June Gibbons‘ Her Mouth as Souvenir\, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize. More information to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \n  \nIn a startling voice propelled by desire and desperation on the verge of laughter\, these poems leap from the mundane to the sublime\, from begging to bravado\, from despair to reverie\, revealing the power that comes from hanging on by a thread. Poet Heather June Gibbons conjures belief in the absence of faith\, loneliness in the digital age\, beauty in the face of absurdity —all through the cataract of her sunglasses’ cracked lens. In this debut collection\, we are shown a world so turbulent\, anxious\, and beautiful\, we know it must be ours. Under pressure\, these poems sing. Includes a fore-word by Jericho Brown. \n  \n  \nFrom the poem “Bobby Reads Chekhov”: \n  \nThey say if you’re sad\, you haven’t been\nsmiling enough. Want to make better decisions?\nEat more cheese. Perception is reality\,\nmy horrible boss used to say when I’d try\nto explain anything she couldn’t see\,\nthough maybe she was right. Can we know\nreality any other way? The painter saw\npurple in the trees\, so he painted them purple.\nLeaving the gallery\, we see purple everywhere.\nStudies have shown meditation makes\nbrain waves akin to coma. Is that so\,\nyou say\, fingering your tiny screen. \n  \n\n  \n“Not since Josh Bell’s No Planets Strike have I encountered an emerging poet’s book that took the top of my head off with as sure a slice as Heather June Gibbon’s Her Mouth as Souvenir. Her language is wicked\, syncopated and full of canny stings\, with a quality of idiosyncratic consciousness that’s ut-terly contemporary. This is a singular collection\, serving notice that Gibbons is a force with whom poetry readers will be thrilled to reckon.” – Erin Belieu\, author of Six Slant and Black Box  \n  \n“Part garage-rock\, part requiem\, part power ballad\, Gibbons’ book is a whirl-ing ‘study in loss.’ These pulsing poems sing\, shout\, and interrogate everything from desire to the digital age to a Mid-western waterpark\, while luring us into their restless beauty\, fervor and humor. Her Mouth as Souvenir is both torch and torch singer as it shines its light into our mouths\, illuminating us.”  – Simone Muench\, author of Wolf Centos  \n  \n\n  \nHeather June Gibbons was born in Utah and grew up on an island in Washington state. She is the author of the poetry collection Her Mouth as Souvenir\, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize and forthcoming from the University of Utah Press. She is also the author of two chapbooks\, Sore Songs (Dancing Girl Press)\, and Flyover(Q Avenue Press). Her poems have appeared widely in literary journals\, including Blackbird\, Boston Review\, Drunken Boat\, Gulf Coast\, Indiana Review\, jubilat\, New American Writing\, and West Branch. She received an MFA in Poetry from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where she held a Callen Graduate Scholarship\, and she has been the recipient of a Full Fellowship Residency from the Vermont Studio Center\, the Pavel Strut Poetry Fellowship from the Prague Summer Program\, the Agha Shahid Ali Scholarship from the Fine Arts Work Center\, and the Harold Taylor Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Heather teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University\, and in the community as a Teaching Artist for Performing Arts Workshop\, a youth education non-profit. She lives in San Francisco. \n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery at 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-heather-june-gibbons-her-mouth-as-souvenir/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, July 18\, 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. \nHosted and Curated by Mk Chavez\, Sharon Coleman\, and Lark Omura. \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, July 18\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nShattuck Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-5/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Kelli Maria Korducki discusses her new book Hard To Do: The Surprising Feminist History of Breaking Up
DESCRIPTION:About Hard To Do \n\nFrom Jane Austen to Taylor Swift\, a look at the surprising politics of romantic love and its dissolution. \n  \nWhatever the underlying motives – be they love\, financial security\, or mere masochism – the fact is that getting involved in a romantic partnership is emotionally\, morally\, and even politically fraught. \n  \nIn Hard To Do\, Kelli María Korducki turns a Marxist lens on the relatively short history of romantic partnership\, tracing how the socio-economic dynamics between men and women have transformed the ways women conceive of domestic partnership. With perceptive\, reported insights on the ways marriage and divorce are legislated\, the rituals of twentieth-century courtship\, and contemporary practices for calling it off\, Korducki reveals that\, for all women\, choosing to end a relationship is a radical action with very limited cultural precedent.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kelli-maria-korducki-discusses-her-new-book-hard-to-do-the-surprising-feminist-history-of-breaking-up/
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:InsideStorytime HUBRILITY
DESCRIPTION:2101 Webster Street\, Oakland\, on Thursday July 19th\, 7-9 pm\, will feature Shobha Rao (Girls Burn Brighter)\, Maw Shein Win (Invisible Gifts)\, Kitty Costello (Upon Waking)\, Grant Faulkner (Fissures)\, and Graham Todd.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-hubrility/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Richard Rhodes\, Energy
DESCRIPTION:This event is cosponsored by Ecology Action. \nPulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes will join us to discuss his new book\, Energy\, which reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time–wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond. People have lived and died\, businesses have prospered and failed\, and nations have risen to world power and declined\, all over energy challenges. Ultimately\, the history of these challenges tells the story of humanity itself. \nThrough an unforgettable cast of characters\, Rhodes explains how wood gave way to coal and coal made room for oil\, as we now turn to natural gas\, nuclear power\, and renewable energy. Rhodes looks back on five centuries of progress\, through such influential figures as Queen Elizabeth I\, King James I\, Benjamin Franklin\, Herman Melville\, John D. Rockefeller\, and Henry Ford. \nIn Energy\, Rhodes highlights the successes and failures that led to each breakthrough in energy production; from animal and waterpower to the steam engine\, from internal-combustion to the electric motor. He addresses how we learned from such challenges\, mastered their transitions\, and capitalized on their opportunities. Rhodes also looks at the current energy landscape\, with a focus on how wind energy is competing for dominance with cast supplies of coal and natural gas. He also addresses the specter of global warming\, and a population hurtling towards ten billion by 2100. \nHuman beings have confronted the problem of how to draw life from raw material since the beginning of time. Each invention\, each discovery\, each adaptation brought further challenges\, and through such transformations\, we arrived at where we are today. In Rhodes’s singular style\, Energy details how this knowledge of our history can inform our way tomorrow. \nRichard Rhodes is the author of numerous books and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize\, the National Book Award\, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He graduated from Yale University and has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation\, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Appearing as host and correspondent for documentaries on public television’s Frontline and American Experience series\, he has also been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT and is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Visit his website: RichardRhodes.com \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave.\, Santa Cruz\, CA. Chairs for open seating are usually set up an hour before the event begins.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/richard-rhodes-energy/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Marin Poetry Center Summer Traveling Show
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Meryl Natchez\, readers include Linda Lancione\, Patricia McCaron\,\nJanis Seagrave\, Doreen Stock\, and Elizabeth Underwood\nHear local poets read their poems!\nReaders and Host TBA\nClick here for more information about the Marin Poetry Center. \n\nFREE – Donations accepted
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marin-poetry-center-summer-traveling-show-2/
LOCATION:O’Hanlon Center for the Arts\, 616 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Launch for Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl / Rad Girls Can
DESCRIPTION:Join feminist artists and activists Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl—the Bay Area duo behind the New York Timesbest-selling books Rad Women Worldwide and Rad American Women A-Z\, for the San Francisco launch of their third bookRad Girls Can. “This is a celebration of and a thank you to every girl who has have ever stood up\, spoken out\, taken a chance\, tried something new\, or followed a dream\,” they write in the introduction of their latest collaboration. The book features fifty rad girls from around the world\, who have done something to make the world a better place. Sabrina Moyle\, the co-author of Be the Change: The Future is in Your Hands and co-founder of Hello!Lucky\, will lead a discussion with Kate and Miriam about their activism\, love of reading\, writing and drawing\, and we will end this interactive evening with storytelling\, artwork\, activism and creativity! \n  \nAs Kate and Miriam embark on a national book tour this summer and fall\, they will use gatherings like these in bookshops around the country to inspire more radness and activism in the world. \n  \nAll big people and little people are welcome. Voter registration forms will be available. #radgirlscan #bethechangebook \n  \n\n  \nKate Schatz is a feminist writer\, activist\, and educator. She is the author of the New York Times best sellers Rad American Women A-Z and Rad Women Worldwide\, and the accompanying journal\, My Rad Life. Kate is the co-founder of Solidarity Sundays\, a nationwide network of feminist activist groups\, and she speaks often about politics\, resistance\, feminism\, race\, parenting\, and more. \n  \n  \nMiriam Klein Stahl is a Bay Area artist\, educator and activist and the New York Times-bestselling illustrator of Rad American Women A-Z and Rad Women Worldwide. In addition to her work in printmaking\, drawing\, sculpture\, paper-cut and public art\, she is also the co-founder of the Arts and Humanities Academy at Berkeley High School where she’s taught since 1995. As an artist\, she follows in a tradition of making socially relevant work\, creating portraits of political activists\, misfits\, radicals and radical movements. As an educator\, she has dedicated her teaching practice to address equity through the lens of the arts. Her work has been widely exhibited and reproduced internationally. She lives in Berkeley\, California with her wife\, artist Lena Wolff\, daughter Hazel\, and their dog Lenny. \n  \n\n  \nThis event is free and all ages. RSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-kate-schatz-and-miriam-klein-stahl-rad-girls-can/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Olympian Eddie Hart and sports journalist Dave Newhouse discuss Disqualified
DESCRIPTION:Gold Medal-winning Olympian Eddie Hart and award-winning sports journalist Dave Newhouse discuss Disqualified: Eddie Hart\, Munich 1972\, and the Voices of the Most Tragic Olympics. \n\n\n\nABOUT DISQUALIFIED \nHaving previously tied the world record\, Eddie Hart was a strong favorite to win the 100-meter dash at the 1972 Olympics in Munich\, Germany. Then the inexplicable happened: he was disqualified after arriving seconds late for a quarterfinal heat. Ten years of training to become the “World’s Fastest Human\,” the title attached to an Olympic 100-meter champion\, was lost in a heartbeat. But who was to blame? \nHart’s disappointment\, though excruciating\, was just one of many subplots to the most tragic of Olympic Games\, at which eight Arab terrorists assassinated eleven Israeli athletes and coaches as the world watched in horror. Five terrorists were killed\, but three escaped to their homeland as heroes and were never brought to trial. Swimmer Mark Spitz won seven gold medals but was rushed out of Germany afterward because he was Jewish. Other American athletes\, besides Hart\, seemed jinxed in Munich. The USA men’s basketball team thought it had earned the gold medal\, but the Russians received it instead through an unprecedented technicality. Bob Seagren\, the defending pole vault champion\, was barred from using his poles and forced to compete with unfamiliar poles. And swimmer Rick DeMont lost one gold medal and the possibility of winning a second because of an allergy drug that had passed U.S. Olympic Committee specifications but was disallowed by the International Olympic Committee. \nIt was that kind of Olympics\, confusing to some\, fatal to others. Hart traveled back to Munich forty-three years later to relive his utter disappointment. He returned to the same stadium where he did earn a gold medal in the 400-meter relay. In Disqualified\, his interesting life story\, told with author Dave Newhouse\, sheds entirely new light on what really happened at Munich. It includes interviews with Spitz and the victimized American athletes and conversations with two Israelis who escaped the terrorists. And Hart finally learned who was responsible for his disqualifications and those of Rey Robinson\, who was in the same heat\, leading to an interesting epilogue in which these two seniors reflect on the opportunity denied them long ago. \nEddie Hart earned his undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley and a master’s from Cal State-Hayward before embarking on a career as a teacher and coach at the college level. \nDave Newhouse was an award-winning sportswriter and columnist at the Oakland (CA) Tribune prior to his retirement in 2011. This is his twelfth book. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, July 19\, 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/olympian-eddie-hart-and-sports-journalist-dave-newhouse-discuss-disqualified/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:SF Art Book Fair Opening Night!
DESCRIPTION:The 2018 SF Art Book Fair is an annual multi-day festival of artists’ publications. This event is FREE and OPEN to the public and will feature artists’ books\, art catalogs\, monographs\, periodicals\, zines\, printed ephemera\, and artists’ multiples. These works will be presented by over 100 independent publishers\, antiquarian dealers\, artists\, collectors\, and enthusiasts. Over the course of the weekend\, the fair will be complemented by a diverse range of talks\, discussions\, book launches\, on and off-site special projects\, exhibitions and signings. \nThe mission of the fair is to foster the unique art publishing community of the Bay Area while providing a platform for national and international publishers to exhibit their work to a new audience. \nLast year we welcomed 110 exhibitors and over 10\,000 visitors. We aim to reach an even larger audience this year and create an event that continues to showcase some of the most interesting publishers and booksellers in the world. \nThe SF Art Book Fair will be held at Minnesota Street Project. The project’s landmark location\, 1275 Minnesota Street\, houses 10 galleries\, a not-for-profit\, temporary exhibitions spaces\, media room\, and a recently opened restaurant. \nThe San Francisco Art Book Fair is organized by: \nMinnesota Street Project is in San Francisco’s historic Dogpatch district\, Minnesota Street Project offers affordable and economically sustainable spaces for art galleries\, artists and related nonprofits. Inhabiting three warehouses\, the Project seeks to retain and strengthen San Francisco’s contemporary art community in the short term\, while developing an internationally recognized arts destination in the long term. \nColpa is the collaborative practice of Luca Antonucci and David Kasprzak. They work together as a publisher\, designer\, printer and curator. They publish art books\, limited edition prints and art objects\, often working with artists on unique projects. \nPark Life is an independent retail store and art gallery established by Jamie Alexander and Derek Song based in San Francisco. Park Life features art and design products culled together from all over the world and includes books\, editions\, prints\, design objects\, paper goods\, original art and apparel. Park Life specializes in limited edition artist collaborations\, having worked with dozens of artist over the last 10 years to produce products ranging from books\, zines and prints to tees\, skate decks\, and objects.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sf-art-book-fair-opening-night/
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:Release party for "the World has a Timestamp\, and so do I" by Ash Tre` Philips
DESCRIPTION:Release party for “the World has a Timestamp\, and so do I” by Ash Tre` Philips
URL:https://litseen.com/event/release-party-for-the-world-has-a-timestamp-and-so-do-i-by-ash-tre-philips/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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