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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon: Daniel Handler\, Jenny Odell\, Namwali Serpell\, Nancy Au\, Jason Sheeler: Fall
DESCRIPTION:Babylon Salon \n\npresents our Fall Reading \nSaturday\, Sept 14\, 2019\, 6.00 pm \nat The Armory Club\n1799 Mission Street \n(downstairs performance space)   \nfeaturing\n—\nDaniel Handler\n(Bottle Grove; A Series of Unfortunate Events)\n“Set in San Francisco during the Big Bang of tech\, Bottle Grove sees two marriages form and mutate under the influence of greed\, secrets\, and income inequality. With this dark\, timely comedy\, Handler continues to prove himself a writer of prodigious gifts.” –  Esquire\, “Most Anticipated Books of the Year”\n\n“Oh lucky you to have Bottle Grove in your hands! What a funny\, riveting\, heartbreaking\, wise and joyous read you have ahead of you! A masterpiece by Daniel Handler\, one of our greatest storytellers. How I envy you.” –  Andrew Sean Greer\, author of LESS\, Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize\n\nDaniel Handler is the author of seven novels\, including Bottle Grove\, which is forthcoming in August 2019. As Lemony Snicket\, he is responsible for numerous books for children\, including Swarm of Bees\, illustrated by Rilla Alexander. His books have sold more than 70 million copies and have been translated into 40 languages\, and have been adapted for screen and stage. The first season of Netflix“s adaptation ofA Series of Unfortunate Events\, for which he served as Executive Producer and Writer\, won a 2018 Peabody Award for its “lively excellence\, strange silliness\, and compelling storytelling\,” and the teleplay won a 2019 Writers Guild Award. He lives in San Francisco with the illustrator Lisa Brown\, to whom he is married and with whom he has collaborated on several books\, and one son.\n—\nJenny Odell\n(How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy)\n“Odell struck a hopeful nerve of possibility that I hadn’t felt in a long time.”—Jia Tolentino\, THE NEW YORKER\n\n“How to Do Nothing is a complex\, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual\, then blossoms into a wide-ranging political manifesto.”—Jonah Engel Bromwich\, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\n\n“Your chaotic\, fraught internal weather isn’t an accident\, it’s a business-model\, and while ‘thoughtful resistance’ isn’t ‘productive\,’ Odell proves that it is utterly necessary.”—Cory Doctorow\, author of Radicalized and Walkaway\n\nJenny Odell is an artist and writer who teaches at Stanford\, has been an artist-in-residence at places like the San Francisco dump\, Facebook\, the Internet Archive\, and the San Francisco Planning Department\, and has exhibited her art all over the world. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times\, SFMOMA’s Open Space\, McSweeney’s\, The Creative Independent\, Sierra Magazine\, Topic\, and Real Future. Her book\, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy\, was recently published by Melville House. She lives in Oakland.\n\n\nNamwali Serpell\n(The Old Drift) \n“Extraordinary\, ambitious\, evocative…. A dazzling debut\, establishing Namwali Serpell as a writer on the world stage.” Salman Rushdie\, The New York Times Book Review (cover) \n“This is a dazzling book\, as ambitious as any first novel published this decade. It made the skin on the back of my neck prickle….” Dwight Garner\, The New York Times \nNamwali Serpell is a Zambian writer who teaches at the University of California\, Berkeley. She won the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award for women writers in 2011 and was selected for the Africa39\, a 2014 Hay Festival project to identify the best African writers under 40. The Old Drift is her first novel and has been long listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the Historical Writers’ Association Debut Crown. \nNancy Au \n(Spider Love Song and Other Stories) \n“These stories sparkle with life and secrets\, joy and power\, pain and hilarity and sharp insights into the human heart. Nancy Au is a rare and blazing talent\, and this debut collection is a house of wonders\, thrilling and unforgettable.” Carolina De Robertis\, author of Cantoras \n“An original and delightfully off-kilter debut collection about searching for a sense of belonging. . . . Only a writer who knows how closely bound are heartbreak and resilience could write stories as emotionally stirring as these.” *starred review*\, Kirkus Review \nNancy Au‘s essays and stories appear in many journals\, including Redivider\, Gulf Coast\, Lunch Ticket\, and Michigan Quarterly Review. She teaches creative writing (to biology majors!) at California State University Stanislaus\, and in the Fall will begin teaching at San Francisco State University. She is co-founder of The Escapery\, a writing and art unschool. Her flash fiction is included in the Best Small Fictions 2018 anthology\, and in The Vestal Review as the winner of their 2018 VERA Flash Fiction Prize. Her flash also won Redivider‘s 2018 Blurred Genre Contest. Her debut full-length collection is Spider Love Song & Other Stories. \n\nJason Sheeler\nJason Sheeler is a writer newly based in San Francisco. Formerly the style director for Departures magazine\, editor-at-large at Entertainment Weekly\, senior editor at Glamour\, and contributing writer at Texas Monthly\, he has done recent work for The Hollywood Reporter\,Bloomberg Businessweek\, Travel + Leisure\, and Condé Nast Traveler. \n____________________ \n\n \nCheck out our partner Podcast: www.grottopod.com \n____________________ \nFree Admission \nCash Bar Exotica \nDoors at 5.30\, \nReading at 6.00 \n@ the Armory Club\, \n1799 Mission St.\, San Francisco\nacross from the San Francisco Armory
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-daniel-handler-jenny-odell-namwali-serpell-nancy-au-jason-sheeler-fall/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Daniel Handler: Fall 2019  Babylon Salon
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Handler: Fall 2019\n\n\n\nBabylon Salon\n\npresents our Fall Reading\nSaturday\, Sept 14\, 2019\, 6.00 pm \nat The Armory Club\n1799 Mission Street\n(downstairs performance space) \n\n\nfeaturing\n\nDaniel Handler\n(Bottle Grove; A Series of Unfortunate Events)\n\n“Set in San Francisco during the Big Bang of tech\, Bottle Grove sees two marriages form and mutate under the influence of greed\, secrets\, and income inequality. With this dark\, timely comedy\, Handler continues to prove himself a writer of prodigious gifts.” –  Esquire\, “Most Anticipated Books of the Year”\n\n“Oh lucky you to have Bottle Grove in your hands! What a funny\, riveting\, heartbreaking\, wise and joyous read you have ahead of you! A masterpiece by Daniel Handler\, one of our greatest storytellers. How I envy you.” –  Andrew Sean Greer\, author of LESS\, Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize\n\nDaniel Handler is the author of seven novels\, including Bottle Grove\, which is forthcoming in August 2019. As Lemony Snicket\, he is responsible for numerous books for children\, including Swarm of Bees\, illustrated by Rilla Alexander. His books have sold more than 70 million copies and have been translated into 40 languages\, and have been adapted for screen and stage. The first season of Netflix“s adaptation ofA Series of Unfortunate Events\, for which he served as Executive Producer and Writer\, won a 2018 Peabody Award for its “lively excellence\, strange silliness\, and compelling storytelling\,” and the teleplay won a 2019 Writers Guild Award. He lives in San Francisco with the illustrator Lisa Brown\, to whom he is married and with whom he has collaborated on several books\, and one son.\n\nand many more\, soon to be announced!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-handler-fall-2019-babylon-salon/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Parks 2019
DESCRIPTION:The 5th Annual Poetry in Parks / Ayala Cove on Angel Island\n\nSunday\, Sept 15\, 2019\, 11a – 4pm\nYouth readings\nA literary mixtape curated by Katie Tandy and July Westhale\nNeighborhood Heroes curated by Kearny Street Workshop\nMusic + Dance curated by Kearny Street Workshop\nLive painting by ArtSpan\nBeer courtesy Lagunitas\nRSVP / SUBMIT\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Quiet Lightning \nNow in its 10th year\, Quiet Lightning is a San Francisco-based literary nonprofit with the mission to foster community based on literary expression and to provide a safe and supportive arena for said expression. Its flagship is the literary mixtape\, a submission-based series with a completely blind selection process and different curators for every show\, for which there are no introductions or banter. The shows are published as books\, handed out free to the first 100 people at each show. All participating artists are paid and the shows are free to attend. We’ve now produced 126 shows\, featuring 1\,200+ readings by 900+ different authors in 80+ venues and 100+ books. Quiet Lightning also maintains Litseen.com\, a daily calendar of literary events. \nAbout California State Parks \nThe mission of CA State Parks is to provide for the health\, inspiration and education of the people of California by helping to preserve the state’s extraordinary biological diversity\, protecting its most valued natural and cultural resources\, and creating opportunities for high-quality outdoor recreation. \nAbout Kearny Street Workshop \nFounded in 1972\, during the height of the Asian American cultural movement\, Kearny Street Workshop (KSW) is the oldest Asian Pacific American multidisciplinary arts organization in the country. We offer classes and workshops\, salons\, and student presentations\, as well as professionally curated and produced exhibitions\, performances\, readings\, and screenings. KSW makes artists out of community members and community members out of artists. For the past 45 years\, KSW has nurtured the creative spirit\, offered an important platform for new voices to be heard\, and connected artists with community. \nAbout ArtSpan \nArtSpan believes in the power of art to enrich lives. For 20-plus years we’ve championed an inclusive art experience and provided diverse audiences with an authentic connection to local art and artists. We support emerging and established artists who contribute to San Francisco’s inimitable creative energy\, while bolstering the next generation of artists and encouraging the public to engage in preserving and furthering our vibrant art community. \nWith crucial support from SOMArts Cultural Center \nSOMArts leverages the power of art as a tool for social change through multi-disciplinary events and exhibitions. Equipping artists with the space\, mentorship and support they need to shift perspectives and innovate solutions\, SOMArts fosters access to arts and culture for collective liberation and self-determination. \n\nimage: Angel Island by Evan Karp
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-in-parks-2019/
LOCATION:Ayala Cove\, Angel Island\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,North Bay,San Francisco,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Chuck Poling's "Growing Up Bernal"
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/chuck-polings-growing-up-bernal/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Anna Merlan
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her recently released book \nRepublic of Lies:American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power \nfrom Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Co. \nA riveting tour through the landscape and meaning of modern conspiracy theories\, exploring the causes and tenacity of this American malady\, from Birthers to Pizzagate and beyond. \nAmerican society has always been fertile ground for conspiracy theories\, but with the election of Donald Trump\, previously outlandish ideas suddenly attained legitimacy. Trump himself is a conspiracy enthusiast: from his claim that global warming is a Chinese hoax to the accusations of “fake news\,” he has fanned the flames of suspicion. \nBut it was not by the power of one man alone that these ideas gained new power. Republic of Lies looks beyond the caricatures of conspiracy theorists to explain their tenacity. Without lending the theories validity\, Anna Merlan gives a nuanced\, sympathetic account of the people behind them\, across the political spectrum\, and the circumstances that helped them take hold. The lack of a social safety net\, inadequate education\, bitter culture wars\, and years of economic insecurity have created large groups of people who feel forgotten by their government and even besieged by it. Our contemporary conditions are a perfect petri dish for conspiracy movements: a durable\, permanent\, elastic climate of alienation and resentment. All the while\, an army of politicians and conspiracy-peddlers has fanned the flames of suspicion to serve their own ends. \nBringing together penetrating historical analysis and gripping on-the-ground reporting\, Republic of Lies transforms our understanding of American paranoia. \nAnna Merlan is a journalist specializing in politics\, crime\, religion\, subcultures\, and women’s lives. Merlan is a reporter at the Special Projects Desk\, the investigative division of Gizmodo Media Group. She was previously a senior reporter at Jezebel and staff writer at the Village Voice and the Dallas Observer. Republic of Lies is her first book. She lives in New York. \nVisit: https://annamerlan.net/ \nWhat has ben said about the work of Ana Merlan: \n\n\n“A captivating book that illuminates the landscape of conspiracy theories and what they might say about society as a whole.” —New York Magazine \n“Meticulously researched.” —Mother Jones \n“A frequently jaw-dropping\, yet deeply sensitive and curious\, journey through some of the most pervasive conspiracy theories in America today.” —Huffington Post \n“Merlan approaches conspiracy theories and the people who believe them as a thoughtful\, thorough journalist\, looking at how those in power wield them at the expense of those who are destabilized and looking for answers. An amazing read.” —Literary Hub \n“A fascinating perspective on the current political era.” —Refinery29 \n“[Merlan] is one of the sharpest reporter/commentators in the game.” —Flavorwire \n“Engrossing assessment of the profitable mainstreaming of conspiracymongering in civic and political life … A lucid look at a slippery topic.” —Kirkus
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anna-merlan/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! 1st and 3rd Monday of each month\, 7-9 pm Featured poets + open mic hosted by Jerry Ferraz
DESCRIPTION:POETS!\n1st and 3rd Monday of each month\, 7-9 pm\nFeatured poets + open mic\nhosted by Jerry Ferraz \nOn the first and third Monday of each month\, Jerry Ferraz hosts a poetry reading that showcases local legends\, poets passing through and folks from around the Bay — typically two featured poets followed by an open mic. We can count on a warm group of poets and poetry fans eager to hear the features and the potpourri of poets of every stripe who come out to read and keep the open mic scene alive. Drawing on the generosity of our neighbors and patrons\, we’re able to pay a small honorarium to the featured poets\, a rarity in reading series off the college campuses… your additional dollar or two tossed in the bucket at the readings makes it that much sweeter. 2018-19 SF Poet Laureate Kim Shuck has graciously taken on some booking chores since assuming her laurels\, and much fun\, and some magnificent poetry\, is to be had as a result!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-1st-and-3rd-monday-of-each-month-7-9-pm-featured-poets-open-mic-hosted-by-jerry-ferraz-2/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Diesel Readers Book Group - - Future Home of the Living God
DESCRIPTION:East Bay Booksellers invites you to The Diesel Readers Book Group’s discussion of Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich\, on Monday September 16th at 7pm. \nLouise Erdrich\, the New York Times bestselling\, National Book Award-winning author of LaRose and The Round House\, paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic event. \nThe world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself\, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop the world from running backwards\, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. Twenty-six-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker\, adopted daughter of a pair of big-hearted\, open-minded Minneapolis liberals\, is as disturbed and uncertain as the rest of America around her. But for Cedar\, this change is profound and deeply personal. She is four months pregnant. \nThough she wants to tell the adoptive parents who raised her from infancy\, Cedar first feels compelled to find her birth mother\, Mary Potts\, an Ojibwe living on the reservation\, to understand both her and her baby’s origins. As Cedar goes back to her own biological beginnings\, society around her begins to disintegrate\, fueled by a swelling panic about the end of humanity. \nThere are rumors of martial law\, of Congress confining pregnant women. Of a registry\, and rewards for those who turn these wanted women in. Flickering through the chaos are signs of increasing repression: a shaken Cedar witnesses a family wrenched apart when police violently drag a mother from her husband and child in a parking lot. The streets of her neighborhood have been renamed with Bible verses. A stranger answers the phone when she calls her adoptive parents\, who have vanished without a trace. It will take all Cedar has to avoid the prying eyes of potential informants and keep her baby safe. \nA chilling dystopian novel both provocative and prescient\, Future Home of the Living God is a startlingly original work from one of our most acclaimed writers: a moving meditation on female agency\, self-determination\, biology\, and natural rights that speaks to the troubling changes of our time. \n  \n\n** The Diesel Readers is an ongoing group\, and is open to all. ** \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nMonday\, September 16\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-diesel-readers-book-group-future-home-of-the-living-god/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Janaka Stucky
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of his new book \nAscend Ascend \nfrom Third Man Books \nWritten over the course of twenty days\, coming in and out of trance states brought on by intermittent fasting and somatic rituals while secluded in the tower of a 100-year-old church\, Ascend Ascend is Janaka Stucky’s most powerful book to date. \nRooted in the Jewish mystical tradition of Hekhalot literature\, which chronicles an ascent up the Kabbalistic Tree of Life to witness the Merkabah\, or “chariot of God\,” this book-length poem drafts a surreal\, mythological landscape in which maximalist language shreds the natural world. Light becomes rainbowed sex. Intestines tangle into an aria. The sky is gallowed. At the center of this apocalyptic devastation stands the speaker of these poems\, asserting: I explode. I shall love. I ascend. Stucky’s verse reminds us that even as we sink deeper and deeper into unknown darkness\, we become our own flashlight beaming outward. \nEqual parts Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” and Funkadelic’s “Maggot Brain\,” Ascend Ascend makes us both passenger and witness as we participate in the ecstatic destruction of the self through its union with the divine. \nJanaka Stucky is a poet\, performer\, independent-press publisher\, and impresario\, based in Boston\, Massachusetts. The founder of Black Ocean\, an independent press\, and publisher of its journal Handsome\, he is also the author of three collections of his poetry: Your Name Is The Only Freedom\, The World Will Deny It For You\, and The Truth Is We Are Perfect. \nVisit: http://www.blackocean.org/ \nWhat has been said about the work of Janaka Stucky: \n\n\n“Janaka Stucky is extraordinary\, and his work riveting.”— Jimmy Page\, Led Zeppelin \n\n\n\n\n\n“It is steeped in soil\, rot\, stardust\, moonlight\, the dissolution of the self\, and ‘heartblood pouring from a ram horn/ On the pubic shadow of the earth.’ Part prayer\, part yowl\, part spell\, it’s grounded in the ancient and the occult.”— The Boston Globe \n\n\n\n\n\n“Ascend Ascend is a passionate trance poem of praise\, incantation and divination … One is grateful\, in these imperiled times\, for such forceful ritual and invocation: ‘Every word along the way / Lit like a flame upon / The wick of its origin.’— Anne Waldman\, author of Trickster Feminism \n\n\n\n\n\n“Stucky’s writing is a miracle\, not only in its genius\, but in its generosity. This is a love poem that shocks with secret links and revelations. It will lift you out of whoever you think you are.”— Pam Grossman\, host of The Witch Wave podcast \n\n\n\n\n\n“A genuine return to a poetry of extasis\, both in experience & in language. Breathtaking and wonderful\, I’m truly delighted to add Ascend Ascend to my repertory of contemporary works.”— Jerome Rothenberg\, editor of Technicians of the Sacred \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/janaka-stucky/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Launch for Anniqua Rana / Wild Boar in the Cane Field
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the launch for Anniqua Rana‘s debut novel\, Wild Boar in the Cane Field. More information to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nOne day\, a baby girl\, Tara\, is found\, abandoned and covered in flies. She is raised by two mothers in a community rife with rituals and superstition. As she grows\, Tara pursues acceptance at all costs. Saffiya\, her adoptive mother\, and Bhaggan\, Saffiya’s maidservant\, are victims of the men in their community\, and the two women\, in turn\, struggle and live short but complicated lives. The only way for the villagers to find solace is through the rituals of ancient belief systems. Tara lives in a village that could be any village in South Asia\, and she dies\, like many young women in the area\, during childbirth. Her short life is dedicated to her efforts to find happiness\, despite the fact that she has no hope of going to school or making any life choices in the feudal\, patriarchal world in which she finds herself. Poignant and compelling\, Wild Boar in the Cane Field depicts the tragedy that often characterizes the lives of those who live in South Asia — and demonstrates the heroism we are all capable of even in the face of traumatic realities. \n\nAnniqua Rana lives in California with her husband and two sons. When she’s not working as an educator in the community college system\, she visits her family in Pakistan and England. The rest of the time\, she reads\, cooks\, travels\, and enjoys mystical music and poetry and does whatever it takes to keep her grounded and happy. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-anniqua-rana-wild-boar-in-the-cane-field/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement
DESCRIPTION:Editor Shelly Oria discusses the new collection Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement  with Rita Bullwinkel\, Thea Matthews and Yalitza Ferreras. \nPraise for Indelible in the Hippocampus \n“This book is a proper danger to patriarchal silencing.” —Ashley Judd  \n“This anthology does so much to humanize\, again\, the stories that have emerged from the #MeToo Movement\, already much dismissed and pushed off to the margins. And while that would be enough\, it is more than that. There are many beloved writers here\, in discussions of the movements that led to this moment\, the ways in which too many of us have struggled alone with what happened to us\, the legacy of the culture that created these assaults\, and inspiration for taking action on restorative justice. This is a book for those losing heart\, those already fighting\, and those just finding their voice. Which means give it to everyone.” — Alexander Chee  \n“Indelible in the Hippocampus is a vital act of witnessing\, a fortification for the body and the sprit\, a reckoning with violences that belong to both the present and the past. ‘Speaking lights a candle in a room inside us\,” Gabrielle Bellot writes. This is a book that is going to light so many candles\, in so many rooms.” — Laura van den Berg  \nAbout Indelible in the Hippocampus \n“Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter\,” said Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford when she testified to congress in September 2018 about the men who victimized her. A year earlier\, in October 2017\, the hashtag #MeToo shone a light on the internalized\, normalized sexual harassment and abuse that’d been ubiquitous for women for generations. \nAmong the first books to emerge from the #MeToo movement\, Indelible in the Hippocampus is a truly intersectional collection of essays\, fiction\, and poetry. These original texts sound the voices of black\, Latinx\, Asian\, queer\, and trans writers\, to name but a few\, and says “me too” 22 times. Whether reflecting on their teenage selves or their modern-day workplaces\, each contributor approaches the subject with unforgettable authenticity and strength. \nTogether these pieces create a portrait of cultural sea-change\, offering the reader a deeper understanding of this complex\, galvanizing pivot in contemporary consciousness. \nFeaturing Kaitlyn Greenidge\, Melissa Febos\, Syreeta McFadden\, Rebecca Schiff\, Diana Spechler\, Hossannah Asuncion\, Nelly Reifler\, Courtney Zoffness\, Quito Ziegler\, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan\, Jolie Holland\, Lynn Melnick\, Caitlin Delohery\, Caitlin Donohue\, Gabrielle Bellot\, Karissa Chen\, Elissa Schappell\, Samantha Hunt\, Honor Moore\, Donika Kelly\, Paisley Rekdal\, and Hafizah Geter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/indelible-in-the-hippocampus-writings-from-the-me-too-movement/
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:Sarah M. Broom -- The Yellow House
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Sarah Broom to discuss her expansive yet probing biography The Yellow House on Wednesday\, September 18th at 7pm. \nIn 1961\, Sarah M. Broom’s mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant–the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed\, Ivory Mae remarried Sarah’s father Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually number twelve children. But after Simon died\, six months after Sarah’s birth\, the Yellow House would become Ivory Mae’s thirteenth and most unruly child. \nA book of great ambition\, Sarah M. Broom’s The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America’s most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother’s struggle against a house’s entropy\, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts\, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina. The Yellow House expands the map of New Orleans to include the stories of its lesser known natives\, guided deftly by one of its native daughters\, to demonstrate how enduring drives of clan\, pride\, and familial love resist and defy erasure. Located in the gap between the “Big Easy” of tourist guides and the New Orleans in which Broom was raised\, The Yellow Houseis a brilliant memoir of place\, class\, race\, the seeping rot of inequality\, and the internalized shame that often follows. It is a transformative\, deeply moving story from an unparalleled new voice of startling clarity\, authority\, and power. \nAbout the Author \nSarah M. Broom is a writer whose work has appeared in the New Yorker\, The New York Times Magazine\, The Oxford American\, and O\, The Oprah Magazine among others. A native New Orleanian\, she received her Masters in Journalism from the University of California\, Berkeley in 2004. She was awarded a Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant in 2016 and was a finalist for the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction in 2011. She has also been awarded fellowships at Djerassi Resident Artists Program and The MacDowell Colony. She lives in New York state. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, September 18\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-m-broom-the-yellow-house/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Catherine Flynn
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of her new book \nJames Joyce and the Matter of Paris \npublished by Cambridge University Press \nIn James Joyce and the Matter of Paris\, Catherine Flynn recovers the paradigmatic city of European urban modernity as the foundational context of Joyce’s imaginative consciousness. Beginning with Joyce’s underexamined first exile in 1902–03\, she shows the significance for his writing of the time he spent in Paris and of a range of French authors whose works inflected his experience of that city. In response to the pressures of Parisian consumer capitalism\, Joyce drew on French literature to conceive a somatic aesthetic\, in which the philosophically disparaged senses of taste\, touch\, and smell as well as the porous\, digestive body resist capitalism’s efforts to manage and instrumentalize desire. This book resituates the most canonical of Irish modernists in a European avant-garde context while revealing important links between Anglophone modernism and critical theory. \n\nCatherine Flynn works on British and Irish modernist literature in a European avant-garde context. Her book\, James Joyce and the Matter of Paris\, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press (2019). She is currently at work on Flann O’Brien/Myles na gCopaleen/Brian O’Nolan’s comic\, ployglot Irish Times column\, Cruiskeen Lawn. Profess Flynn joined the Department of English at the University of California at Berkeley in 2012. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University’s Introduction to the Humanities Program from 2009 to 2012. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University in 2009 and her B.A. in English and Philosophy from University College Cork in 2000. Previously\, she practiced as an architect in Ireland and in Vienna\, Austria; she has a B.Arch from University College Dublin. She is an Affiliate of the Program in Critical Theory and currently also serves as Director of Berkeley Connect in English and as Associate Director of Irish Studies. \n\nWhat has been said about James Joyce and the Matter of Paris: \n\n\n‘This strikingly original book advances several interrelated arguments about the importance of Paris for understanding Joyce’s work. Flynn shows that for Joyce\, Paris embodied the spectacle\, and the challenges\, of the modern city and its burgeoning consumer capitalism.  She argues that Joyce responded to Paris by imagining new ways of thinking through the senses\, the body\, and materiality generally. This ‘sentient thinking’\, as Flynn articulates it\, is both an innovative model of subjectivity and the formulation of an embodied aesthetic. James Joyce and the Matter of Paris departs from the dominant scholarly trends of the last two decades and promises to reshape scholarship on Joyce\, modernism\, and aesthetics decisively.’ \nMarjorie Howes – Boston College \n‘James Joyce and the Matter of Paris changes our sense of Joyce’s entire trajectory. Flynn’s eloquent and original book demonstrates that Paris was for Joyce more than a place to publish and flourish\, more than a theme in his texts\, it was a style\, a way of writing\, of thinking and of feeling. Thanks to this compelling study of the impact of a French poetic sensibility on Joyce\, we discover a more capacious and politicized author immersed in a modernité conceptualized by Walter Benjamin.’ \nJean-Michel Rabaté – University of Pennsylvania \n‘Catherine Flynn gives us the first comprehensive guide not to Joyce’s Paris\, but rather to Paris’s Joyce: how the city\, and the artistic\, economic\, and cultural landscape he encountered there fundamentally shaped the writer’s vision. This book\, for the first time\, shows us how Paris is the second city of the Joycean imagination.’ \nBarry McCrea – University of Notre Dame\, Indiana \n‘This book presents evidence of Joyce’s development that has the authority of a documentary chronicle. With intellectual and critical intelligence of exceptional discernment\, Catherine Flynn has given us a field-altering account of Joyce’s literary career and its establishing circumstances.  James Joyce and the Matter of Paris will be indispensable for Joyce studies as well as for scholars of modernism.’ \nVincent Sherry – Washington University\, St Louis
URL:https://litseen.com/event/catherine-flynn/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Avan Jogia / Mixed Feelings
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a special evening with actor Avan Jogia for his debut book\, Mixed Feelings: Poems and Stories. This will be his only SF/Bay Area appearance. Please join us! \nPlease note: this is a ticketed event\, to be held at Booksmith (1644 Haight St.) in San Francisco. The price of admission is equal to the cost of Mixed Feelings\, which is included with each ticket. Tickets can be purchased here. \nIn a raw and moving collection of poetry\, stories\, and art about living as a mixed-race person\, Avan Jogia explores his complicated emotions around race\, identity\, religion\, and family. Drawing on the author’s own life story as well as interviews he’s conducted with friends and strangers\, Mixed Feelings serves as a dialogue starter for difficult topics that now\, more than ever\, need to be discussed. \n\nAvan Jogia is an artist whose work spans film\, writing\, and music. He was raised in Canada\, the son of an Indian-British father and English-Irish mother. This is his first book. \n\n** Please note ** \n– This is an all-ages event. \n– The duration of this event is up to the author. \n– Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. \n– 1 ticket = 1 book\, no exceptions. The book must be purchased from Booksmith. If you already have a copy of Mixed Feelings\, remember that books make great gifts! If you’ve already gifted Mixed Feelings to all of your friends\, it’s ok to buy a different book from Booksmith instead — in that case\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com. \n– If you can’t attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Mixed Feelings\, order below and be sure to put your request in the special field. \n– Signing\, photo\, and Q&A details to come.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/avan-jogia-mixed-feelings/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bathsheba Demuth: Floating Coast
DESCRIPTION:Bathsheba Demuth discusses her new book\, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait. \nPraise for Floating Coast \n“In Floating Coast\, Bathsheba Demouth has written a brilliant hybrid book about one of the most fragile and forgotten of Anthropocene front-line territories\, the Bering Strait. Uniting ecology\, anthropology\, reportage and more\, this is a superb work of environmental history\, often reminiscent to me of Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams in its combination of rigorous research\, intense looking and listening\, and its clear ethical vision.” — Robert Macfarlane \n“… Demuth has now herself written the history she calls for. Floating Coast is a historian’s Moby Dick\, a great white whale of a book that spans centuries and links landscapes\, living beings\, and the flux of time\, into a marvelously readable narrative.”    — Amitav Ghosh \nAbout Floating Coast \nWhales and walruses\, caribou and fox\, gold and oil: through the stories of these animals and resources\, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 years. \nThe first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia\, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada\, Floating Coast breaks away from familiar narratives to provide a fresh and fascinating perspective on an overlooked landscape. The unforgiving territory along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans–the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska\, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia–before Americans and Europeans arrived with revolutionary ideas for progress. Rapidly\, these frigid lands and waters became the site of an ongoing experiment: How\, under conditions of extreme scarcity\, would the great modern ideologies of capitalism and communism control and manage the resources they craved? \nDrawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people in the region\, as well as from archival sources\, Demuth shows how the social\, the political\, and the environmental clashed in this liminal space. Through the lens of the natural world\, she views human life and economics as fundamentally about cycles of energy\, bringing a fresh and visionary spin to the writing of human history. \nFloating Coast is a profoundly resonant tale of the dynamic changes and unforeseen consequences that immense human needs and ambitions have brought\, and will continue to bring\, to a finite planet. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bathsheba-demuth-floating-coast/
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:John James w/Jay Deshpande & Noah Warren / The Milk Hours
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Bay Area poet John James for his debut book of poems\, The Milk Hours. Reading with him are local poets Jay Deshpande (The Destroyer in the Glass) & Noah Warren (Love the Stranger). Please join us! \nWinner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize\, The Milk Hours is an elegant debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist in a state of loss. \n“We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery.” So begins the title poem of this collection\, whose recursive temporality is filled with living\, grieving things\, punctuated by an unseen world of roots\, bodies\, and concealed histories. Like a cemetery\, too\, The Milk Hours sets unlikely neighbors alongside each other: Hegel and Murakami\, Melville and the Persian astronomer al-Sufi\, enacting a transhistorical poetics even as it brims with intimacy. These are poems of frequent swerves and transformations\, which never stray far from an engagement with science\, geography\, art\, and aesthetics\, nor from the dream logic that motivates their incessant investigations. \nIndeed\, while John James begins with the biographical — the haunting loss of a father in childhood\, the exhausted hours of early fatherhood — the questions that emerge from his poetic synthesis are both timely and universal: what is it to be human in an era where nature and culture have fused? To live in a time of political and environmental upheaval\, of both personal and public loss? How do we make meaning\, and to whom — or what — do we turn\, when such boundaries so radically collapse? \n\nJohn James is the author of Chthonic\, winner of the 2014 CutBank Chapbook Award. His poems appear in Boston Review\, Kenyon Review\, Gulf Coast\, Poetry Northwest\, Best American Poetry 2017\, and elsewhere. Also a digital collagist\, his visual art is forthcoming in the Adroit Journal\, Quarterly West\, and LIT. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where he is pursuing a PhD in English at the University of California\, Berkeley. \nJay Deshpande is the author of Love the Stranger\, named a top debut of 2015 by Poets & Writers\, and of the chapbook The Rest of the Body (both from YesYes Books). His poems have appeared inBoston Review\, Denver Quarterly\, Narrative\, and elsewhere. A graduate of Harvard University and Columbia University’s School of the Arts\, he has received fellowships or support from Kundiman\, Civitella Ranieri\, Saltonstall Arts Colony\, and the Key West Literary Seminar. Currently\, he is a 2018-2010 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. He is at work on a collection of poems and on a book of translations of Egyptian surrealist Georges Henein. \nNoah Warren is the author of The Destroyer in the Glass (2016)\, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford\, he is currently a PhD student in English at UC Berkeley. His poems appear in The Paris Review\, ZYZZYVA\,Poetry\, PEN America\, The New England Review\, Narrative\, The Iowa Review\, The Sewanee Review\, poets.org\, and elsewhere. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of The Milk Hours\, order below and put your request in the comments field; if you’d like to order Jay’s book\, do the same here; for Noah’s book\, here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-james-w-jay-deshpande-noah-warren-the-milk-hours/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Deborah Fruchey and Jan Steckel at Expressions Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Reading featuring Zeitgeist Press poets Jan Steckel and Deborah Fruchey at Expressions Gallery\, 2035 Ashby Ave. in Berkeley – Open Mic to follow! \nJan Steckel is a former pediatrician who stopped practicing medicine because of chronic pain. Her latest book Like Flesh Covers Bone (Zeitgeist Press\, December 2018) was a finalist for the poetry category of the Bi Book Awards. Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press\, 2011) won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press\, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press\, 2006) also won awards. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Scholastic Magazine\, Bellevue Literary Review\, Yale Medicine\, and elsewhere. She works as a medical editor and lives in Oakland\, California. \nDeborah Fruchey tried to write her first book at the age of 8. Her first novel was chosen as a Best Book by the American Bookseller’s Association. Her poetry book Armadillo was released by Cyborg Productions in 2014. Her latest is a volume of flash fiction called Priestess of Secrets. She is the editor of an upcoming anthology in tribute to Julia Vinograd\, from Zeitgeist Press\, and also editor of a volume of Vampyre Mike Kassel’s unpublished work\, due in November 2019 from Last Laugh Productions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deborah-fruchey-and-jan-steckel-at-expressions-gallery/
LOCATION:Expressions Gallery\, 2035 Ashby Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Oakland Peace Festival: Peace
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the inaugural Oakland Peace Festival organized by Nomadic Press and hosted at the Oakland Peace Center. It’ll be a daytime celebration of all that is Oakland and peaceful through music\, art\, writing\, food\, guest speakers\, and community building. All are welcome\, and this is a kid-friendly event. \nThe festival will take place on three Saturdays: July 27 (theme: Justice)\, August 24 (theme: Equity)\, and will culminate on September 21 (theme: Peace)\, which is International Day of Peace. \nOutside in the parking lot (free) just off of Fairmount Avenue\, there will be food and arts/crafts vendors\, a Poet’s Corner with a 5-hour open mic\, a new mural by Gremlin1114\, beer by Ale Industries\, and iced coffee by Nomadic Coffee. \nInside in the sanctuary ($10 GA / $20 VIP): \n11:30–12:30 PM: DJ XCairocitosX\n12:30–1:15 PM: Poetry by Gondola Perpetua (Terry Taplin)\, Jevohn Tyler Newsome\, Madi Dangerously\, Joyce E. Young\, Asantewaa Bee Boykin\n1:15–2:30 PM: Guest speakers\, Sandhya Jha and Yvette Felarca\n2:45–3:15 PM: Music by Azuah\n3:30–4:30 PM: Music by Imerald Brown Music \nLanterns will be hung throughout the sanctuary as part of a three-month celebration of lights and peace and separate lanterns will be available for folks to hang with individually written messages of peace on them for a small donation of $10. \nThis event is organized by Nomadic Press with support from a large and loving community\, both old and new. All proceeds will go toward the production of this\, and future\, festivals.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-peace-festival-peace/
LOCATION:Oakland Peace Center\, 111 Fairmount Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Petina Gappah / Out of Darkness\, Shining Light
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon event with Petina Gappah (The Book of Memory) reading from her second novel\, Out of Darkness\, Shining Light. Please join us! \n“This is how we carried out of Africa the poor broken body of Bwana Daudi\, the Doctor\, David Livingstone\, so that he could be borne across the sea and buried in his own land.” So begins Petina Gappah’s powerful novel of exploration and adventure in nineteenth-century Africa — the captivating story of the loyal men and women who carried explorer and missionary Dr. Livingstone’s body\, his papers and maps\, fifteen hundred miles across the continent of Africa\, so his remains could be returned home to England and his work preserved there. Narrated by Halima\, the doctor’s sharp-tongued cook\, and Jacob Wainwright\, a rigidly pious freed slave\, this is a story that encompasses all of the hypocrisy of slavery and colonization — the hypocrisy at the core of the human heart — while celebrating resilience\, loyalty\, and love. \n\n“Engrossing\, beautiful\, and deeply imaginative\, Out of Darkness\, Shining Light is a novel that lends voice to those who appeared only as footnotes in history\, yet whose final\, brave act of loyalty and respect changed the course of it. An incredible and important book by a masterful writer.” ​– Yaa Gyasi\, author of Homegoing \n\nPetina Gappah is an award-winning and widely translated Zimbabwean writer. She is the author of two novels\, Out of Darkness\, Shining Light\, The Book of Memory\, and two short story collections\, Rotten Row andAn Elegy for Easterly. Her work has also been published in\, among others\, The New Yorker\, Der Spiegel\, The Financial Times\, and the Africa Report. For many years\, Petina worked as an international trade lawyer at the highest levels of diplomacy in Geneva where she advised more than seventy developing countries from Africa\, Asia\, the Caribbean and Latin America on trade law and policy.  Petina has also been a DAAD Writing Fellow in Berlin\, an Open Society Fellow and a Livingstone Scholar at Cambridge University.  She has law degrees from Cambridge\, Graz University in Austria\, and the University of Zimbabwe. She currently lives in Harare. Author photo by Marina Cavazza. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens with The Bindery at 2pm; event starts at 4pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of any of Petina’s other books\, order here and include your request in the comments field. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/petina-gappah-out-of-darkness-shining-light/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Isabel Tree
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nWilding:Returning Nature to Our Farm \nfrom New York Review Books \nwith an introduction by Eric Schlosser \nFor many years Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell struggled to make a go as farmers\, doing everything they could to make the heavy clay soils of their farm at Knepp in West Sussex as productive as possible\, while rarely succeeding in making a profit. By 2000\, facing bankruptcy\, the couple decided they would try something new. They would hand their 3\,500 acres\, farmed for centuries\, even millennia\, back to nature. They would let it go wild. \nThis was no simple matter. What form did the land have before it took on the form that human beings have given it? The answer to that question was controversial and required real\, and fascinating\, research. And then the land had once been open to whole hosts of animals that had since been prevented from running wild\, if not killed off or made extinct. These had been a crucial actor in the landscape and its ecology\, and how were they\, or their likes\, to be reintroduced into it? And finally there were the neighbors\, often appalled at the sight of once-tidy fields now running riot with what they considered dangerous weeds. \nThe experiment however\, was a success. With minimal human intervention\, and with herds of free-roaming animals stimulating new habitats\, Knepp is now full of new life. Rare species such as turtle doves\, peregrine falcons\, and purple emperor butterflies breed there. The fabled English nightingale\, heard less and less in modern times\, sings again. \nThe Knepp project has become a leading light for conservation in the UK\, demonstrating how letting nature take its course can revive both the land and wildlife\, reversing the cataclysmic declines in biodiversity that challenge Britain and the world. The story of rewilding Knepp points the way to a wilder\, richer future—a countryside that benefits farming\, nature\, and us. Wilding is an inspiring story of hope. \n\nWhat has been said about WILDING: \n\n[F]ans of Roger Deakin\, Robert Macfarlane\, Nan Shepherd\, and other British naturalists will follow right along … A fine work of environmental literature that demands a tolerance for detail and should inspire others to follow suit.\n—Kirkus \nThis wonderfully readable book\, which is partly a memoir and partly a plan of action\, is an inspirational guide for how to “rewild” a landscape….This honest\, thoroughly researched and deeply hopeful book will appeal to everyone—especially farmers—who is concerned about how intensive farming practices are degrading the environment and how to restore nature to ravaged lands.\n—Forbes\, “Ten of the Best Books About Climate Change\, Conservation And The Environment of 2018” \nWilding is one of the most exhilarating books I know. Knepp Castle is a modern marvel\, a wild ancient landscape in a modern domestic country\, a place filled with birds and animals leading their own independent and remarkable lives. Isabella Tree\, who lives there\, tells the rich\, complicated story of Knepp. As a writer\, Tree is both elegant and deeply informed\, and the story is full of poetic awareness and scientific foundations. This story will delight anyone who’s interested in nature\, wildlife and hope.\n—Roxana Robinson\, author of Sweetwater \nIn a story that is part personal memoir\, part work of conservation\, Tree reveals the capacity of the wild to reclaim the land–as long as humans step out of the way.\n—Smithsonian\, “The Ten Best Science Books of 2018” \nWilding is both a timely and important book.\n—Tim Flannery\, The New York Review of Books \nA poignant\, practical and moving story of how to fix our broken land\, this should be conservation’s salvation; this should be its future; this is a new hope.\n—Chris Packham \nEvery farmer (and perhaps every conservationist) in Britain needs to go and spend a day at Knepp. The Knepp “wilding” project is a vitally important experiment for working out what we can do to let nature back into our farmed landscapes…This book tells this vital story and deserves to be widely read.\n—James Rebanks\, author of A Shepherd’s Life \nThe remarkable story of an astounding transformation.\n—George Monbiot \nIsabella Tree’s apparently quixotic tale of Exmoor ponies\, longhorn cattle\, red deer and Tamworth pigs roaming free on an aristocratic estate is a hugely important addition to the literature of what can be done to restore soil and soul.\n—Caspar Henderson\, The Guardian
URL:https://litseen.com/event/isabel-tree/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jess Row: White Flights
DESCRIPTION:Jess Row discusses his new book\, White Flights: Race\, Fiction and the American Imagination. \nPraise for White Flights \n“These are brilliant\, sweeping\, intimate delights—and afterward\, you may never read the same way again.”—Alexander Chee \n“A major literary and intellectual intervention\, clarifying the real stakes in what we too complacently call ‘identity politics.’”—Pankaj Mishra \n“We need this book\, now and yesterday.”—Kiese Laymon \n“Jess Row performs a much-needed analysis. . . . The landscape of the imagination\, like the country itself\, he argues with rich insight and brio\, is neither equal nor free.”—John Keene \n“White Flights will change my work\, and my life\, and for that I’m grateful.”—Jonathan Lethem \nAbout White Flights \nA bold\, incisive look at race and reparative writing in American fiction\, by the author of Your Face in Mine \nWhite Flights is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of the civil rights movement to the present. At the heart of the book\, Jess Row ties “white flight”—the movement of white Americans into segregated communities\, whether in suburbs or newly gentrified downtowns—to white writers setting their stories in isolated or emotionally insulated landscapes\, from the mountains of Idaho in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping to the claustrophobic households in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections. Row uses brilliant close readings of work from well-known writers such as Don DeLillo\, Annie Dillard\, Richard Ford\, and David Foster Wallace to examine the ways these and other writers have sought imaginative space for themselves at the expense of engaging with race. \nWhite Flights aims to move fiction to a more inclusive place\, and Row looks beyond criticism to consider writing as a reparative act. What would it mean\, he asks\, if writers used fiction “to approach each other again”? Row turns to the work of James Baldwin\, Dorothy Allison\, and James Alan McPherson to discuss interracial love in fiction\, while also examining his own family heritage as a way to interrogate his position. A moving and provocative book that includes music\, film\, and literature in its arguments\, White Flights is an essential work of cultural and literary criticism.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jess-row-white-flights/
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:Timothy Faust / Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Timothy Faust\, back in San Francisco to present his first book\, Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next. Please join us! \nThe sun is setting on America’s half-century of punishing the sick\, and this book promises a bright new dawn for us all. \nSingle payer healthcare is not complicated: the government pays for all care for all people. It’s cheaper than our current model\, and most Americans (and their doctors) already want it. So what’s the deal with our current healthcare system\, and why don’t we have something better? \nIn Health Justice Now\, Timothy Faust explains what single payer is\, why we don’t yet have it\, and how it can be won. He identifies the actors that have misled us for profit and political gain\, dispels the myth that healthcare needs to be personally expensive\, shows how we can smoothly transition to a new model\, and reveals the slate of humane and progressive reforms that we can only achieve with single payer as the springboard. \nIn this impassioned playbook\, Faust inspires us to believe in a world where we could leave our job without losing healthcare for ourselves and our kids; where affordable housing is healthcare; and where social justice links arm-in-arm with health justice for us all. Single payer is the tool—health justice is the goal! \n\nTimothy Faust‘s writing has appeared in Splinter\, Jacobin\, and Vice\, among others. He has worked as a data scientist in the healthcare industry\, before which he enrolled people in ACA programs in Florida\, Georgia\, and Texas\, where he saw both the shortcomings of the ACA and the consequences of the Medicaid gap firsthand. Since 2017\, he’s been driving around the United States in his 2002 Honda CR-V talking to people about health inequity in their neighborhoods. He lives in Brooklyn. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Health Justice Now\, order below and include your request in the comments field. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/timothy-faust-health-justice-now-single-payer-and-what-comes-next/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Meet Author E.R. Ramzipoor
DESCRIPTION:Join author E.R. Ramzipoor for a reading of her debut novel\, The Ventriloquists. Publishers Weekly calls her book a “magnetic debut… Sprawling and ambitious\, with crisp pacing and fully realized characters\, this will fascinate anyone looking for an unusual\, enthralling war story.” Kirkus Reviews touts her novel as one “that will have special resonance for today’s resisters.” \nBooks will be available for sale and signing courtesy of Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore. \nThe Ventriloquists is set in Brussels\, 1943. Twelve-year-old street orphan Helene survives by living as a boy and selling copies of the country’s most popular newspaper\, Le Soir\, now turned into Nazi propaganda. Helene’s world changes when she befriends a rogue journalist\, Marc Aubrion\, who draws her into a secret network that publishes dissident underground newspapers.The Nazis track down Aubrion’s team and give them an impossible choice: turn the resistance newspapers into a Nazi propaganda bomb that will sway public opinion against the Allies\, or be killed. Faced with no decision at all\, Aubrion has a brilliant idea. While pretending to do the Nazis’ bidding\, they will instead publish a fake edition of Le Soir that pokes fun at Hitler and Stalin — daring to laugh in the face of their oppressors.   The ventriloquists have agreed to die for a joke\, and they have only eighteen days to tell it. Featuring an unforgettable cast of characters and stunning historical detail\, E.R. Ramzipoor’s dazzling debut novel illuminates the extraordinary acts of courage by ordinary people forgotten by time. It is a moving and powerful ode to the importance of the written word and to the unlikely heroes who went to extreme lengths to orchestrate the most stunning feat of journalism in modern history. \nE.R. Ramzipoor is a writer based in California. She also works as a content marketer\, writing about cybercrime and online fraud. She studied political science at UC Berkeley\, where she researched underground literature in resistance movements and discovered the forgotten story of Faux Soir. Her writing has been featured in McSweeney’s and The Ventriloquists is her first novel. She lives with her partner and a terrier mix named Lada.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meet-author-e-r-ramzipoor/
LOCATION:Oakland Main Library\, 125 14th St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Maria Tumarkin - - Axiomatic
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Maria Tumarkin to celebrate the publication of her book of essays\, on Monday\, September 24th at 7pm. \nWinner of the Melbourne Prize for Literature’s Best Writing Award \nShortlisted for the Stella Prize \n“Tumarkin presents a remarkable tour de force . . . These essays will linger in readers’ minds for years after.”–Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) \nDrawing on nine years of research\, Axiomatic explores the ways we understand the traumas we inherit and the systems that sustain them. In five sections–each one built on an axiom about how the past affects the present–Tumarkin weaves together true and intimate stories of a community dealing with the extended aftermath of a suicide\, a grandmother’s quest to kidnap her grandson to keep him safe\, one community lawyer’s struggle inside and against the criminal justice system\, a larger-than-life Holocaust survivor\, and the history of the author’s longest friendship. \nWith verve\, wit\, and critical dexterity\, Tumarkin asks questions about loss\, grief\, and how our particular histories inform the people we become in the world. Axiomatic introduces an unforgettable voice. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nMaria Tumarkin is a writer and cultural historian. She is the author of three previous books of ideas\, Traumascapes\, Courage\, and Otherland\, all of which received critical acclaim in Australia\, where she lives. Her most recent work\, Axiomatic\, won the 2018 Melbourne Prize for Literature’s Best Writing Award. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, September 24\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maria-tumarkin-axiomatic/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Aimee Lucido w/Kwame Alexander / Launch for Emmy in the Key of Code
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the launch for Aimee Lucido‘s debut\,Emmy in the Key of Code. With her in conversation isKwame Alexander (The Crossover). Please join us! \nIn this innovative middle grade novel\, coding and music take center stage as new girl Emmy tries to find her place in a new school. Perfect for fans of Girls Who Code series and The Crossover. \nIn a new city\, at a new school\, twelve-year-old Emmy has never felt more out of tune. Things start to look up when she takes her first coding class\, unexpectedly connecting with the material—and Abigail\, a new friend—through a shared language: music. But when Emmy gets bad news about their computer teacher\, and finds out Abigail isn’t being entirely honest about their friendship\, she feels like her new life is screeching to a halt. Despite these obstacles\, Emmy is determined to prove one thing: that\, for the first time ever\, she isn’t a wrong note\, but a musician in the world’s most beautiful symphony. \n\n \nAimee Lucido is a software engineer who has worked at Uber\, Facebook\, and Google. Women in technology is a subject close to her heart\, and she brings this passion to the page. In her spare time\, she runs\, bakes\, does musical improv\, and writes crossword puzzles. She lives in San Francisco\, CA. \n  \nKwame Alexander is a poet\, educator\, and the New York Times Bestselling author of 28 books\, including Rebound\, the follow-up to his Newbery Medal-winning middle grade novel\, The Crossover. Some of his other works include Booked\, which was longlisted for the National Book Award\, The Playbook: 52 Rules to Help You Aim\, Shoot\, and Score in this Game of Life\, Swing\, and the picture books\, Out of Wonder and The Undefeated. A regular contributor to NPR’s Morning Edition\, Kwame is the recipient of numerous awards\, including The Coretta Scott King Author Honor\, The NCTE/Charlotte Huck Honor\, Three NAACP Image Award Nominations\, and the 2017 Inaugural Pat Conroy Legacy Award. He believes that poetry can change the world\, and he uses it to inspire and empower young people around the world through The Write Thing\, his K-12 Writing Workshop. Kwame is the founder of Versify\, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, and the host and producer of the literary variety/talk show\, Bookish\, which airs on Facebook Watch. He’s led cultural exchange delegations to Brazil\, Italy\, Singapore\, and Ghana\, where he built the Barbara E. Alexander Memorial Library and Health Clinic\, as a part of LEAP for Ghana\, an international literacy program he co-founded. Author photo by Portia Wiggins Photography. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThe Bindery bar opens at 7pm. Event starts at 7:30pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Emmy in the Key of Code\, order below and put your request in the comments field. To request signed copies of Kwame’s books\, do the same thing here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aimee-lucido-w-kwame-alexander-launch-for-emmy-in-the-key-of-code/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Leland Cheuk: No Good Very Bad Asian
DESCRIPTION: Leland Cheuk discusses his new novel\, No Good Very Bad Asian with Vanessa Hua. \nPraise for No Good Very Bad Asian \n“A touching\, funny tale of a Chinese American underachiever’s unlikely journey into standup comedy while also navigating the duties and obligations of society and his traditional family. The comic yet poignant acts that make up the life of Sirius Lee will both entertain and haunt you.”– Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan\, author of Sarong Party Girls \n“An epistolary novel with a devastating sense of humor that will break your heart and captures that space between a rock and hard place of being Asian American in search of unconditional love. Self-centered outcast\, precocious megastar Sirius Lee (Hor Luk Lee) shares his life lessons with his daughter\, making himself known to her with courage and candor in an appeal that will make you nod with recognition and laugh in that way that only the sharpest comedians can make you laugh\, with tears in your eyes.”– Jimin Han\, author of A Small Revolution \n“Leland Cheuk’s No Good Very Bad Asian tears the tarp from the Asian American experience and exposes its deepest desires and fears. It articulates perfectly the amusements that make the entire room uncomfortable. Cringing never felt so good.”– Ed Lin\, author of 99 Ways to Die \n“Leland Cheuk’s wacky and wondrous novel follows Sirius Lee\, the ultimate anti-hero\, an Asian American comedian who overcomes all odds to become a star. With brio and humor\, Sirius fights prejudice\, substance abuse\, and his own worst instincts\, always striving for a world bigger than his own. By the last page\, he was so real to me that I longed to turn on the TV and watch the legendary comedy special that gives the novel its name.”– Kirstin Chen\, author of Bury What We Cannot Take \nAbout No Good Very Bad Asian \nMeet Sirius Lee\, a fictive famous Chinese American comedian. He’s a no good\, very bad Asian. He’s not good at math (or any other subject\, really). He has no interest in finding a “good Chinese girlfriend.” And he refuses to put any effort into becoming the CEO/Lawyer/Doctor his parents so desperately want him to be. All he wants to do is making people laugh. A cross between Paul Beatty’s The Sellout and Jade Chang’s The Wangs Vs. The World\, NO GOOD VERY BAD ASIAN follows Sirius from his poor upbringing in the immigrant enclaves of Los Angeles to the loftiest heights of stardom as he struggles with substance abuse and persistent racism despite his fame. Ultimately\, when he becomes a father himself\, he must come to terms with who he is\, where he came from\, and the legacy he’ll leave behind.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/leland-cheuk-no-good-very-bad-asian/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Nancy Au -- Spider Love Song and Other Stories
DESCRIPTION:Nancy Au’s debut collection is rich with scents\, sounds\, imaginative leaps\, and unexpected angles of vision. These seventeen stories present the challenges facing characters whose inner and outer lives often do not align\, whose spirits attempt flight despite dashed hopes and lean circumstances. Marginalized by race\, age\, and sexuality\, they endeavor to create new worlds that honor their identities and their Chinese heritage. SPIDER LOVE SONG AND OTHER STORIES treads the fault line that forms between lovers\, families\, friends\, cultures—exposing injuries and vulnerabilities\, but also the strength and courage necessary to recast resentment and anger into wonder and power. Au’s lyrical style\, humor\, and tender attention to her characters’ fancies and failings make this powerful debut a delight to read. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nNancy Au’s stories and essays have appeared in Redivider\, Gulf Coast\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, Cincinnati Review\, and The Pinch\, among many others. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University and teaches creative writing at California State University–Stanislaus. She is co-founder of The Escapery\, a writing and art un-school. Her flash fiction\, which is included in the Best Small Fictions 2018\, also won The Vestal Review’s 2018 VERA Flash Fiction Prize as well as Redivider’s Blurred Genre Contest. \n  \nPraise for SPIDER LOVE SONG AND OTHER STORIES: \n“These stories sparkle with life and secrets\, joy and power\, pain and hilarity and sharp insights into the\nhuman heart. Nancy Au is a rare and blazing talent\, and this debut collection is a house of wonders\,\nthrilling and unforgettable.”    —Carolina De Robertis\, author of CANTORAS \n“Foxes\, turtles\, ducks\, oysters\, fish\, badgers\, beetles\, damselflies\, bees: all manner of creatures scratch\, swim\, thrum\, and shimmer through these tender and fantastic stories. Characters struggle with the entanglements of the living and the dead\, like the “spiders’ webs [that] can wind around anything that doesn’t pay attention\,” while they long to be out in the world that both compels and terrifies. I was spellbound by Au’s unique vision and language that pay attention to the many wild\, rich worlds that hold us.”  —Peg Alford Pursell\, author of A GIRL GOES INTO THE FOREST
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-nancy-au-spider-love-song-and-other-stories/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:LIT STARTS: Writing Humor
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the release of The San Francisco Writers Grotto’s new series LIT STARTS with a writing night on humor. \nAbout Writing Humor \nA fill-in book from the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto\, authors of the best-selling 642 Things series. \nFocus on a single aspect of the craft of writing with help from the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Writing Humor starts with a foreword by author Chris Colin\, who offers pointers for developing your own comedic style. The rest of the book consists of prompts and space to write\, providing opportunities to explore your voice in various hilarious scenarios. Among other ideas\, you’ll be asked to write: \n\nan account of a bachelor\, from the perspective of his refrigerator\na Craigslist ad for something you are desperate to sell\na eulogy to a pair of jeans that no longer fit\nan evaluation of a coworker in the form of a school report card\na list of embarrassing moments that are funny in hindsight\n\nPerfectly sized to take to a café\, on vacation\, or on your morning commute\, this book is designed for practicing your creative writing a little bit at a time.\nSpecial Features \n\nPaperback with textured cover stock\, flaps\, and a lay-flat binding\nAdvice from a published writer\, followed by fill-in prompts and space to write\nPart of a collection of single-subject writing prompt books by the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto\n\nCheck out the other books in the Lit Starts series: Writing Action\, Writing Character\, and Writing Dialogue. \nThe San Francisco Writers’ Grotto is a community of writers that was founded in 1994. It now has more than 100 members who share workspace and teach classes in downtown San Francisco. Chris Colin is the author most recently of What to Talk About\, and the coauthor of This Is Camino\, which was nominated for a James Beard Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lit-starts-writing-humor/
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:J.D. Moyer - - The Guardian
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome J. D. Moyer to celebrate the publication of his new novel\, The Guardian\, on Thursday\, September 26th at 7pm. \nIn the year 2737\, Earth is mostly depopulated in the wake of a massive supervolcano\, but civilization and culture are preserved in vast orbiting ringstations. Tem\, the nine-year-old son of a ringstation anthropologist and a Happdal bow-hunter\, wants nothing more than to become a blacksmith like his uncle Trond. But after a rough patch as the only brown-skinned child in the village\, his mother Car-En decides that the family should spend some time on the Stanford ringstation. Tem gets caught up in the battle against Umana\, the tentacle-enhanced ‘Squid Woman’\, while protecting a secret that could change the course of humanity and civilization. The Guardian\, the sequel to the The Sky Woman\, is a story of colliding worlds and the contested repopulation of a wild Earth. FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners\, and exciting\, original voices. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nJ.D. Moyer lives in Oakland\, California\, with his wife\, daughter\, and mystery-breed dog. He writes science fiction\, produces electronic music in two groups (Jondi & Spesh and Momu)\, runs a record label (Loöq Records)\, and blogs at jdmoyer.com. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, September 26\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/j-d-moyer-the-guardian/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bill Berkson's A Frank O'Hara Notebook
DESCRIPTION:Jordan Kantor and Connie Lewallen discuss the life and work of Bill Berkson and his book A Frank O’Hara Notebook. \nAbout Bill Berkson \nBorn in New York City on August 30\, 1939\, William Craig Berkson studied at Brown University\, Columbia University\, the New School for Social Research\, and New York University’s Institute for Fine Arts. \nDuring the 1960s\, Berkson took on editorial roles at ARTNews\, Arts\, and the Museum of Modern Art. He also served as the associate producer of a public television art program and taught literature and writing courses at the New School and Yale University. \nIn 1970\, Berkson moved to Northern California\, where he began editing and publishing poetry books and magazines under the Big Sky imprint. He also taught in the California Poets in the Schools program. \nBerkson soon returned to regularly writing art criticism\, contributing to publications such as American Craft\, Aperture\, Artforum\, Art in America\, Art on Paper\, Modern Painters\, and others. In 1984\, he began teaching art history and poetry at the San Francisco Art Institute—where he also directed the Letters and Science and public lectures programs—until 2008. \nBerkson’s honors include two Fund for Poetry Awards\, the San Francisco Bay Guardian’s Goldie Award for Literature\, and a Poets Foundation Grant\, along with fellowships from the Briarcombe Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, and Yaddo. He divided his time between New York City and San Francisco. Berkson died on June 16\, 2016. \nAbout A Frank O’Hara Notebook \nA fascinating account of Frank O’Hara in the prime of his creative life in New York\, told through notes\, images\, and poems by his friend Bill Berkson. \nPoet and art critic Bill Berkson (1939-2016) had planned for many years to write a lengthy study on his friend and mentor Frank O’Hara (1926-1966) but died with the project still incomplete. This volume reproduces the sketchbook in which Berkson gathered notes\, images\, and poems about O’Hara\, focusing on his memories of their collaborations in New York\, from their initial meeting in 1960 to O’Hara’s untimely death in 1966. A Frank O’Hara Notebook offers a fascinating first-person account of the heyday of O’Hara’s creative life\, and memorably sketches the heady social milieus of the poetry and art worlds of New York that O’Hara inhabited in the early 1960s. In addition to an exact-scale photographic reproduction of Berkson’s handwritten notebook\, this volume includes a typesetting of Berkson’s notes and two texts on O’Hara derived from these notes published under Berkson’s direction\, titled “A Frank O’Hara File” and “What Frank O’Hara Was Like.” The book shows the evolution of Berkson’s ideas from notes to fragmentary phrases and sentences into finished pieces of writing. Ultimately\, this collection reveals as much about Berkson’s writing practice as it does about his famous subject and friend. \nThe book’s translation of Berkson’s handwritten notes and collaged material into type honors the idiosyncratic format of Berkson’s handwritten text\, precisely following the line breaks\, capitalizations\, and drawn graphic elements in the holograph. The book also includes an introduction by fellow New York School poet Ron Padgett and an afterword by Berkson’s wife\, curator Constance Lewallen. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bill-berksons-a-frank-ohara-notebook/
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:Jacqueline Woodson / Red at the Bone
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts the beloved New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodsonfor her new novel\, Red at the Bone. Please join us! \nTwo families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. Moving forward and backward in time\, with the power of poetry and the emotional richness of a narrative ten times its length\, Jacqueline Woodson’s extraordinary new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences\, decisions\, and relationships of these families\, and in the life of this child. \nAs the book opens in 2001\, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody’s coming of age ceremony in her grandparents’ Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends\, making her entrance to the soundtrack of Prince\, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier\, that very dress was measured and sewn for a different wearer: Melody’s mother\, for her own ceremony — a celebration that ultimately never took place. \nUnfurling the history of Melody’s parents and grandparents to show how they all arrived at this moment\, Woodson considers not just their ambitions and successes but also the costs\, the tolls they’ve paid for striving to overcome expectations and escape the pull of history. As it explores sexual desire and identity\, ambition\, gentrification\, education\, class and status\, and the life-altering facts of parenthood\, Red at the Bone most strikingly looks at the ways in which young people must so often make long-lasting decisions about their lives — even before they have begun to figure out who they are and what they want to be. \n\nJacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. She received the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award and the 2018 Children’s Literature Legacy Award\, and is the 2014 National Book Award Winner for her New York Times bestselling memoir Brown Girl Dreaming\, which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award\, a Newbery Honor\, the NAACP Image Award and a Sibert Honor. In 2015\, Woodson was named the Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. Her recent adult book\, Another Brooklyn\, was a National Book Award finalist\, and her new adult book\, Red at the Bone\, is coming in September 2019. She is the author of more than two dozen award-winning books for young adults\, middle graders and children; among her many accolades\, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner\, a four-time National Book Award finalist\, and a two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. Her books include The Other Side\, Each Kindness\, Caldecott Honor book Coming On Home Soon; Newbery Honor winners Feathers\, Show Way\, and After Tupac and D Foster; and Miracle’s Boys\, which received the LA Times Book Prize and the Coretta Scott King Award. Jacqueline is also the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement for her contributions to young adult literature and the winner of the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award. She lives with her family in Brooklyn\, New York. Author photo by Tiffany A. Bloomfield. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Red at the Bone\, order below and put your request in the comments field; for any of Jacqueline’s other books\, order here and be sure to do the same.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jacqueline-woodson-red-at-the-bone/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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