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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Cohen + Hodges
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday\, June 12th at 3pm. The featured guest poets will be Susan Cohen and Catherine Abbey Hodges. \nPoetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible; ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.org for more events and reviews! Poetry Flash has begun a Kickstarter campaign. Click here to learn more about helping them so they can better serve and support the literary communities of the West Coast and beyond. \nJoin us for the official book launch of Susan Cohen’s second full-length collection\, A Different Wakeful Animal\, winner of the 2015 Meadowhawk Prize from Red Dragonfly Press. Stephen Dunn says\, “Her descriptions constitute what I want to call intelligence—someone in the act of getting the world right\, making it ours as well as hers.” A former contributing writer for the Washington Post Magazine\, she was also a professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley. Her poems have been widely published in literary journals and anthologized in the Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry. \nCatherine Abbey Hodges’s debut book of poems is Instead of Sadness\, winner of the 2015 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize from Gunpowder Press. Paulann Petersen says\, “Catherine Abbey Hodges offers us—inside each musical line\, within each vibrant trope—a luminous wisdom. Each poem gives us a world ‘replenished like a well // in blues and greens and wings.’” She is also author of the chapbook All the While\, and she is professor of English at Porterville College in central California. \nCopies of each book will be available for purchase at the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-cohen-hodges/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Sixteen Rivers Press: Rosa Lane + Nina Lindsay
DESCRIPTION:Rosa Lane is a native of coastal Maine\, with familial and ancestral roots in lobster fishing. She earned her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and is the author of the poetry chapbook Roots and Reckonings (Granite Press\, East\, 1980). Her work has won several awards and appeared in numerous journals\, including The Briar Cliff Review\, Crab Orchard Review\, New South\, and Ploughshares. After earning her second master’s and a PhD in sustainable architecture from UC Berkeley\, Lane works as an architect and divides her time between coastal Maine and the San Francisco Bay Area\, where she lives with her partner. \n“Rosa Lane’s poetry reminds us why\, at a certain time in our lives\, we’ve had enough of innocence. Here is a compendium of those so crucial\, chronology-defying self-revelations that we only know through our skin. Every line carries with it a resonant sense of what matters\, and why. Her voice is soft and sure\, mature and intimate\, the boldness of insight always subsumed by an extraordinary empathy for her demons. Each poem is a skiff sculling through sounds almost Hopkinsesque\, each measure of music anchored by the ground base we feel more than hear.” —Jeffrey Levine \nNina Lindsay’s first collection of poetry\, Today’s Special Dish\, was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2007. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and has been awarded the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize. Lindsay also writes children’s literary criticism and reviews for Kirkus\, The Horn Book Magazine\, School Library Journal\, and other publications. She lives in Oakland\, California\, where she works for the Oakland Public Library. \n“Nina Lindsay’s Because is beautiful work. The poems pick through the things of the world\, her world\, exposing the unseen and intensifying the seen. They question what she calls ‘our multifrond uncertainties and errors’ and ‘hesitant happiness.’ She negotiates with great poise the push-pull of darkness and light\, presence and absence\, waking consciousness and the dream life. The familiar becomes\, in her telling\, unfamiliar and fraught. ‘February’s dust is rapturous\,’ she says. The poems\, too\, even in their melancholies\, are rapturous.” —W. S. Di Piero
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sixteen-rivers-press-rosa-lane-nina-lindsay/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:California Book Awards
DESCRIPTION:Winners of the 85th Annual California Book Awards \nFICTION\nGold: Lucia Berlin\, A Manual for Cleaning Women\, Farrar\, Straus and Giroux\nSilver: Ernest J. Finney\, Elevation 6040\, Texas Review Press\n\nNONFICTION\nGold: Jill Leovy\, Ghettoside\, Spiegel & Grau\nSilver: Steve Silberman\, Neurotribes\, Avery Publishing\n\nYOUNG ADULT\nGold: Neal Shusterman\, Challenger Deep\, Harper Teen\nSilver: Andrew Smith\, The Alex Crow\, Dutton Books for Young Readers\n\nFIRST FICTION\nGold: Viet Thanh Nguyen\, The Sympathizer\, Grove Press; First Edition\n\nJUVENILE\nGold: Alex Gino\, George\, Scholastic Press\n\nPOETRY\nGold: Beth Murray\, Cancer Angel\, Belladonna Publishing\n\nCALIFORNIANA\nGold: Tom Killion\, California’s Wild Edge\, Heyday\n\nCONTRIBUTION TO PUBLISHING\nGold: The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers\, Edited by James Karman\, Stanford University Press\n\nImportant Upcoming Dates \n#CBA85: 85th Annual California Book Awards Competition\nAwards Ceremony: June 13\, 2016 \n#CBA86 Submission Deadline: Submissions for The Commonwealth Club of California’s 86th Annual California Book Awards will be accepted starting in July 2016. Authors and publishers are invited to submit entries online for books published in 2016 to the 86th California Book Awards. Deadline is December 23\, 2016. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/california-book-awards/
LOCATION:Inforum at the Commonwealth Club\, 555 Post Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Pride Poetry Panel
DESCRIPTION:Annual Pride Poetry Panel features MK Chavez\, Natasha Dennerstein\, Nico Peck and James J. Siegel Monday\, June 13\, 7-8pm at Books Inc. Castro. Celebrate Queer pride\, these fabulous poets\, and 20-years of Books Inc. Castro! Door prizes at 7pm. Champagne and chocolates. A free event open to all.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pride-poetry-panel/
LOCATION:Books Inc. In the Castro\, 2275 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Return to Butternut Lake with local author Mary McNear!
DESCRIPTION:Local author and New York Times bestseller Mary McNear returns to Butternut Lake with the fourth novel of her popular series. Space Between Sisters uncovers the complicated bond between two sisters during one memorable summer season. 10% of all store book sales from 6 pm to close will go to benefit The Women’s Building\, a community space for women in San Francisco\, http://womensbuilding.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/return-to-butternut-lake-with-local-author-mary-mcnear/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Get Lit! Sonoma County CHAPBOOK LAUNCH Edition!
DESCRIPTION:Kara would be so excited to see your face at the Sonoma County launch of her chapbook\, Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song\, out on Split Lip Press 6/15. No open mic this time\, but she will be joined by some fabulous readers\, including Ms. Dani Burlison\, who will be reading from her new zine Lady Parts\, Shirin Bridges\, Guy Biederman\, Leilani Clark\, Jessica Dur\, and Tricia McWorter. Let’s hang out!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-sonoma-county-chapbook-launch-edition/
LOCATION:Corkscrew Wine Bar\, 100 Petaluma Blvd N #103\, Petaluma\, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Grady Hendrix w/ Katie Crouch
DESCRIPTION:Grady Hendrix celebrates the release of his new book My Best Friend’s Exorcism with his best friend from high school and local SF author Katie Crouch (Girls in Trucks\,Abroad). These two embarrassment experts are going to exorcise their high school humiliation demons and take the plunge into pure insanity. See! Grady and Katie talk about the bizarre alternate universe that was high school in the deep South in the 1980s. Hear! Katie and Grady read the most cringe-inducing passages from their teenage diaries. Weep! As Grady reads horrifying fan letters he wrote celebrities. Wonder! At how Katie manages to dress herself in the morning after listening to the poetry she submitted to the high school literary journal. Thank God! It’s not you up there revealing what a complete and total teenager you were. \nGrady Hendrix is a novelist and screenwriter based in New York City. His previous novel\,Horrorstör\, was named one of the best books of 2014 by National Public Radio. \n  \nKatie Crouch is the New York Times bestselling author of Girls in Trucks and Abroad\, among other novels. She has written for The Guardian\, McSweeney’s\, Tin House\,Slate\, Salon\, and has a regular column on the Rumpus called “Missed.” A MacDowell Fellow\, Crouch teaches at San Francisco State University and lives in Bolinas\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/grady-hendrix-w-katie-crouch/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lyrics and Dirges
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Readers: \nJuliana Spahr \nJuliana Delgado Lopera \nRochelle Spencer \nJoy Elán \nRené Vazquez \nKay Nillson \nHosted and Curated by MK Chavez \nLyrics & Dirges is a 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. \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-and-dirges-2/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:ArtSpan Mixer: Art\, Readings\, & Reactions with Quiet Lightning + Modern Eden
DESCRIPTION:Join ArtSpan and Quiet Lightning at Modern Eden Gallery for the third annual Art\, Readings\, & Reactions event! This Artist Mixer invites writers from Quiet Lightning to view Modern Eden’s exhibition\, Portraits of Friends\, and to write from its inspiration. The writers then share their literary creations by reading to an audience equipped with sketch books to react with drawings…! \nAll are weclome to join! ArtSpan will provide sketch books and drawing materials. \nQuiet Lighting Guest Curator: Tess Taylor \nWriters/Readings: Keith Ekiss\, Katie Peterson\, Dean Rader\, Brynn Saito\, and Tess Taylor \nFeatured Modern Eden Art Exhibition: \nPortraits of Friends: The ever-popular annual portrait show – Nearly 50 top contemporary artists interpret this theme to create portraits of their friends\, fans\, and/or acquaintances. \nParticipant Biographies: \nKeith Ekiss is the author of Pima Road Notebook (New Issues Poetry & Prose\, 2010) and the translator of The Fire’s Journey\, an epic poem by the Costa Rican writer Eunice Odio forthcoming from Tavern Books in four volumes. Territory of Dawn: The Selected Poems of Eunice Odio is recently out from The Bitter Oleander Press. He is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and a Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University where he teaches courses on poetry\, poetry and film\, fiction\, and the essay. \nKatie Peterson is the author of three books of poetry\, This One Tree\, Permission\, and The Accounts\, the winner of the 2014 Rilke Prize from the University of North Texas. She is back in her native California after years in Boston and lives in El Cerrito with her husband\, the photographer and filmmaker Young Suh\, with whom she collaborates. She teaches at the University of California at Davis. \nDean Rader’s debut collection of poems\, Works & Days\, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize\, and Tess Taylor named his Landscape Portrait Figure Form one of the Best Books of Poetry of the year in The Barnes & Noble Review. He is also the editor of the 2014 anthology 99 Poems for the 99 Percent. Rader writes regularly for The Huffington Post and San Francisco Chronicle and is a professor of English at the University of San Francisco. Two collections of poetry are forthcoming\, including a book of collaborative sonnets written with Simone Muench\, entitled Suture (Black Lawrence Press) and Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry (Copper Canyon). \nBrynn Saito is the author of Power Made Us Swoon (Red Hen Press\, 2016) and The Palace of Contemplating Departure (Red Hen Press\, 2013)\, a finalist for the Northern California Book Award and winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award. Brynn is a recipient of the Kundiman Asian American Poetry Fellowship and winner of the Key West Literary Seminar’s Scotti Merrill Memorial Award. Originally from Fresno\, CA\, Brynn lives in Los Altos and teaches and works in San Francisco. \nTess Taylor is the author of The Forage House\, finalist for the Believer Poetry Award\, and Work & Days. An avid gardener and cook\, she dropped out of Amherst College in her twenties to become a translator and chef’s assistant at L’Ecole Ritz Escoffier in Paris. Her poems and essays have appeared widely in publications including The New Yorker\, The Academy of American Poets\, and The New York Times. She is currently the on air poetry reviewer for NPR’s “All Things Considered\,” and was most recently visiting professor of English and creative writing at Whittier College. She lives in El Cerrito\, CA. \nWith ice cold beer\, courtesy of Lagunitas! \nMore about the exhibition\, Portraits of Friends:http://www.moderneden.com/pages/portraits-of-friends \nPhotos + vids from previous ArtSpan + Quiet Lightning mixers:\n• 2015: litseen.com/quiet-lightning-superhero/\n• 2014: litseen.com/quiet-lightning-fairy-tales/ \nArtwork Image: Archer Dougherty\, Every Person Sees Themselves\, 2016\, Oil on wood\, 18 x 24 in.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/artspan-mixer-art-readings-reactions-with-quiet-lightning-modern-eden/
LOCATION:Modern Eden Gallery\, 801 Greenwich St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Flynn Berry: Under the Harrow
DESCRIPTION:When Nora takes the train from London to visit her sister in the countryside\, she expects to find her waiting at the station\, or at home cooking dinner. But when she walks into Rachel’s familiar house\, what she finds is entirely different: her sister has been the victim of a brutal murder. \nStunned and adrift\, Nora finds she can’t return to her former life. An unsolved assault in the past has shaken her faith in the police\, and she can’t trust them to find her sister’s killer. Haunted by the murder and the secrets she unravels\, she is under the harrow—distressed and in danger. As Nora’s fear turns to obsession\, she becomes as unrecognizable as the sister her investigation uncovers. \nA riveting psychological thriller and a haunting exploration of the fierce love between two sisters\, the distortions of grief\, and the terrifying power of the past\, Under the Harrow marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer. \nFlynn Berry is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers\, and has been awarded a Yaddo residency. This is her first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flynn-berry-under-the-harrow/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Series #3
DESCRIPTION:Candace Eros Diaz | Louise Mathias | The Bayonettes | Kamikaze Palm Tree \nCurated by Sara Mumolo\nhttp://www.proartsgallery.org/event/hybrid-series-3/ \nPro Arts Gallery is excited to announce the third of its Hybrid Series events—blurring the traditional boundaries between artistic disciplines. \nCandace Eros Diaz is the recipient of a 2015-2016 Steinbeck Fellowship out of The Steinbeck Fellows Program of San José State University. She is a former San Francisco Writer’s Grotto Fellow\, and will be a 2016 Lambda Literary Fellow this summer. She is the Coordinator of Admissions and Student Services for the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College of California. She is a recipient of a Vermont Studio Center residency and her work has appeared in MARY: A Journal of New Writing\, The East Bay Review\, and Huizache\, among others. She is currently at work on a historical creative nonfiction novel about her women ancestors. She lives in Oakland\, CA and can be found at www.candaceerosdiaz.com. \nLouise Mathias is the author of two books of poems\, Lark Apprentice\, which won the New Issues Poetry Prize\, and The Traps (Four Way Books)\, as well as a chapbook Above All Else\, the Trembling Resembles a Forest\, chosen by Martha Ronk for the Burnside Review Chapbook competition. Raised in England and Los Angeles\, for the last seven years she has lived in Joshua Tree\, California\, where she drives around the Mojave taking photos and writing poems about wildflowers\, desolation\, sex and trash. \nThe Bayonettes are a raw rock trio from the Bay Area. Check out their magic HERE: https://thebayonettes.bandcamp.com/ \nKamikaze Palm Tree is a two-person art experiment from Oakland. Check out their sound HERE: https://kamikazepalmtree.bandcamp.com/ \n*This event is made possible with matching grant by Poets & Writers\, Inc.\nBeverage sponsor: Ordinaire Wine
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hybrid-series-3/
LOCATION:Pro Arts Gallery\, 150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The Bloom: Reading #50
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE EVENT\nMembers of MIXED WRITES\, a group of mixed race women writers\, will honor Father’s Day and the Summer Solstice—the most light-filled day of the year\, by reading work on the theme of fathers and inner light. \nWe will be celebrating the 50th Reading of The Bloom\, and the anniversary of Mixed Writes (Faith Adiele\, Maria T. Allocco\, Jackie Graves and Audrey T. Williams). \nABOUT THE WRITERS\nMARIA T. ALLOCCO is a South Korean and Italian Voices of Our Nation alum and was an Academy of American Poets Prize winner by age twenty. Her pieces have been featured on KPFA andMutiny Radio\, and performed for SOMArts\, LitQuake\, Kearny Street Workshop\, The Intersection For The Arts\, and The San Francisco International Arts Festival. Her work has been published inThe Lantern Review\, Fusion Magazine\, Monday Night\, Sparkle and Blink\, and in the new book Pariahs: Writing From Outside The Margins. She’s a co-founder of the bay area’s first mixed race meditation group\, and teaches yoga to ‘at-risk’ youth. Find her at: writetoheal.us \nJACKIE GRAVES believes in the transformative power of words. She is currently working on a memoir of healing that celebrates family\, spirituality\, and sisterhood. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including residencies at the Julia and David White Artist Colony\, Jentel Artist Residence Program\, Djerassi Resident Artist Program\, and Soapstone\, a Writing Retreat for Women. She received theCity of Oakland Spoken Word Fellowship\, the Ardella Mills Prize for Fiction\, and was a finalist in the Poets & Writers California Voices Contest. She teaches English at Laney College. \nAUDREY T. WILLIAMS is an Oakland-based writer. She is a VONA alum\, and working towards an MFA in Creative Nonfiction at CCA. Audrey is currently writing the manuscript for “Chutney and Chitlins\,” a mixed-race family memoir that makes use of hybrid creative nonfiction using narratives and images. The book begins with stories from her African-American father as he joined thenewly integrated US Marines in the late 1950’s (possibly the first African American US Marine sent to US embassy duty in Rangoon\, Burma). In Burma\, he mets Audrey’s mother\, whose heritage is a mixture of European and South Asian ancestry (Anglo-Indian-Burmese). Her website:audreyTwilliams.com. \nABOUT THE BLOOM\nThe Bloom is a literary series featuring Bay Area writers\, where a past reader curates five readers around a theme. It’s an entertaining evening of diverse voices and personal style\, bridging narratives and communities. It was founded by Margaret Bacon\, Tara Dorabji\, and Jason Wyman in the summer of 2012.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-bloom-reading-50/
LOCATION:Mercury Cafe\, 201 Octavia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joe Clifford Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Pegasus Downtown hosts the launch party for December Boys – a new thriller by local author Joe Clifford  \nJay Porter\, the newest employee at NorthEastern Insurance in New Hampshire\, is investigating an accident claim when he learns the teenager behind the wheel was arrested for minor drug possession and sentenced to a hardcore behavioral modification center. At the county courthouse\, Jay meets Nicki\, a young college intern\, who tips him off to a possible scandal – first-time juvenile offenders being shipped to private institutions for political kickbacks. He learns that long-time family nemeses\, Adam and Michael Lombardi\, may have a stake in the scheme. Is Jay’s mission to help these kids a legitimate crusade? Or is his thirst for revenge driven by the guilt he feels over his own junkie brother’s death? These questions conspire to tear apart tranquility and drive a wedge between Jay and his wife Jenny. With help from new friend Nicki\, and a couple of old friends\, Jay finds himself thrust back into a past he had hoped to leave behind\, putting everything – and everyone he loves – at risk in pursuit of the truth. \nJoe Clifford is acquisitions editor for Gutter Books and managing editor of The Flash Fiction Offensive. He also produces Lip Service West\, a “gritty\, real\, raw” reading series in Oakland\, CA. Joe is the author of three books: Choice Cuts\, Wake the Undertaker\, and Junkie Love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joe-clifford-book-launch/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Reek bell + Jai Arun Ravine
DESCRIPTION:Come see Reek bell and Jai Arun Ravine at our June 20th Cantíl reading! Entry is FREE and open to the public. Donations welcome. Qilombo is wheelchair accessible. \nJai Arun Ravine is a writer\, dancer and graphic designer currently living in Philadelphia. As a mixed race\, mixed gender and mixed genre artist\, their work arises from the simultaneity of text and body and takes the form of video\, performance\, comics and handmade books. Jai’s first full-length book\, แล้ว AND THEN ENTWINE: LESSON PLANS\, POEMS\, KNOTS\, re-imagines immigration history and attempts to transform cultural inheritances of silence. Their short film TOM/TRANS/THAI approaches the silence around female-to-male (FTM) transgender identity in the Thai context and has screened internationally. THE ROMANCE OF SIAM (Timeless\, Infinite Light) is their second book. jaiarunravine.com \nReek bell is a queer mixed-media artist based in Oakland\, from South Jersey. Her work reflects experiences within blackness\, resistance\, friendship\, and exhaustion. A poet since third grade\, she embraces melancholy\, values intimacy\, magic\, and militancy. twitter.com/reekokay \nCantíl is a reading series that exclusively features poets of color. Read more about Cantíl\nhere: http://tinyurl.com/z4buglh + http://tinyurl.com/hdmtz4e
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reek-bell-jai-arun-ravine/
LOCATION:Qilombo\, 2313 San Pablo Ave\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Zoe Zolbrod w/ Brian Hurley
DESCRIPTION:Zoe Zolbrod remained silent about her early childhood molestation for nearly a decade. When she finally decided to tell\, she wasn’t sure what to expect\, or what to say. In a kaleidoscopic series of experiences\, Zolbrod hitchhikes with a boyfriend from one coast to another\, hangs out in a strip club in Philadelphia\, meets and marries her husband\, and gives birth to her children. She traces the development of her sexuality\, her relationships with men\, and the cultivation of her motherhood in the shadow of her childhood sexual abuse. Bolstered with research\, Zolbrod argues passionately for the empowerment of sexual abuse victims and the courage it takes to talk about it. The Telling is an intimate examination of one woman’s reckoning with a past she can’t always explain\, and a life lived in search for the right words. \nZoe Zolbrod’s work has appeared in Salon\, The Nervous Breakdown\, The Weeklings\, and The Rumpus\, where she serves as the Sunday Editor. Her debut novel Currency won a 2010 Nobbie Award and received an honorable mention by Friends of American Writers. Zolbrod lives in Evanston\, Illinois\, with her husband and children. \nBrian Hurley is Books Editor at The Rumpus\, Curator of the Critical Hit Awards at Electric Literature’s blog The Outlet\, and Co-Editor of Fiction Advocate. \nCopies of The Telling will be available for purchase at the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoe-zolbrod-w-brian-hurley/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160621T210000
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SUMMARY:Chinaka Hodge
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nDated Emcees \npublished by City Lights Books (Sister Spit Imprint). With Tongo Eisen-Martin & RyanNicole.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chinaka-hodge/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160624T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160624T200000
DTSTAMP:20260430T172847
CREATED:20160602T003505Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160602T003505Z
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SUMMARY:Elin Hilderbrand
DESCRIPTION:Here’s to Us is an emotional\, heartwarming story from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand about a grieving family that finds solace where they least expect it. \nCelebrity chef Deacon Thorpe has always been a force of nature with an insatiable appetite for life. But after that appetite contributes to Deacon’s shocking death in his favorite place on earth\, a ramshackle Nantucket summer cottage\, his (messy\, complicated) family is reeling. Now Deacon’s three wives\, his children\, and his best friend gather on the island he loved to say farewell. The three very different women have long been bitter rivals\, each wanting to claim the primary place in Deacon’s life and his heart. But as they slowly let go of the resentments they’ve held onto for years and remember the good times\, secrets are revealed\, confidences are shared\, and improbable bonds are formed as this unlikely family says goodbye to the man who brought them all together\, for better or worse–and the women he loved find new ways to love again. \nElin Hilderbrand does her best writing on the beaches of Nantucket and on the charming streets of Beacon Hill in Boston.Here’s to Us is her seventeenth novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elin-hilderbrand/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20160602T003217Z
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SUMMARY:Max Porter w/ Anthony Marra
DESCRIPTION:Here he is\, husband and father\, scruffy romantic\, a shambolic scholar–a man adrift in the wake of his wife’s sudden\, accidental death\, and there are his two sons who\, like him\, struggle in their London apartment to face the unbearable sadness that has engulfed them. The father imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness\, while the boys wander\, savage and unsupervised.\nIn this moment of violent despair they are visited by Crow–antagonist\, trickster\, goad\, protector\, therapist\, and babysitter. This self-described “sentimental bird\,” at once wild and tender\, who “finds humans dull except in grief”\, threatens to stay with the wounded family until they no longer need him. As weeks turn to months and the pain of loss lessens with the balm of memories\, Crow’s efforts are rewarded and the little unit of three begins to recover: Dad resumes his book about the poet Ted Hughes; the boys get on with it\, grow up. \nPart novella\, part polyphonic fable\, and part essay on grief\, Max Porter’s extraordinary work combines compassion and bravura style to dazzling effect. Full of angular wit and profound truths\, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers is a startlingly original and haunting debut by a significant new talent. \nMax Porter works in publishing. He lives in South London with his wife and children. Grief Is the Thing with Feathers is his first book. Watch a video teaser and read an excerpt from Grief is the Thing with Feathers. \nAnthony Marra is the author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena\, which won the National Book Critics Circle’s inaugural John Leonard Prize\, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction\, and appeared on over twenty year-end lists. Marra’s novel was a National Book Award long list selection as well as a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and France’s Prix Medicis. He received an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, where he teaches as the Jones Lecturer in Fiction. He has lived and studied in Eastern Europe\, and now resides in Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/max-porter-w-anthony-marra/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Sloane Crosley
DESCRIPTION:Kezia\, Nathaniel\, and Victor are reunited for the extravagant wedding of a college friend. Now at the tail end of their twenties\, they arrive completely absorbed in their own lives—Kezia the second-in-command to a madwoman jewelry designer in Manhattan; Nathaniel the former literary cool kid\, selling his wares in Hollywood; and the Eeyore-esque Victor\, just fired from a middling search engine. They soon slip back into old roles: Victor loves Kezia. Kezia loves Nathaniel. Nathaniel loves Nathaniel. \nIn the midst of all this semi-merriment\, Victor passes out in the mother of the groom’s bedroom. He wakes to her jovially slapping him across the face. Instead of a scolding\, she offers Victor a story she’s never even told her son\, about a valuable necklace that disappeared during the Nazi occupation of France. And so a madcap adventure is set into motion\, one that leads Victor\, Kezia\, and Nathaniel from Miami to New York and L.A. to Paris and across France\, until they converge at the estate of Guy de Maupassant\, author of the classic short story “The Necklace.” \nHeartfelt\, suspenseful\, and told with inimitable spark and wit\, The Clasp is a story of friends struggling to fit together now that their lives haven’t gone as planned\, of how to separate the real from the fake. Such a task might be possible when it comes to precious stones\, but is far more difficult to pull off with humans. \nSloane Crosley is the author of the bestsellers I Was Told There’d Be Cake (a Thurber Prize finalist) and How Did You Get This Number. A frequent contributor to The New York Times\, she lives in Manhattan.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sloane-crosley/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160626T160000
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CREATED:20160602T004017Z
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SUMMARY:California Writers Club: Molly Giles
DESCRIPTION:Molly Giles has published four award-winning collections of stories: Rough Translations\, which won The Flannery O’Connor Prize\, the Boston Globe Award\, and The Bay Area Book Reviewers’ Award; Creek Walk\, which won The Small Press Best Fiction Award\, the California Commonwealth Silver Medal for Fiction\, and was a New York Times Notable Book; Bothered\, which won the Split Oak Press Flash Fiction Award and\, most recently\, All The Wrong Places\, which won the Spokane Prize for Fiction. She has also published a novel\, Iron Shoes\, which has won no prizes at all\, and an ebook of stories\, Three For The Road. Her stories have been included in numerous anthologies including The O. Henry and the Pushcart Prize (twice) and she has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Marin Arts Council\, and the Arkansas Arts Council. \nMolly has taught fiction writing at San Francisco State University\, University of Hawaii in Manoa\, San Jose State University\, the National University of Ireland at Galway\, and The University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. She has edited many published writers and mentors through the Path to Publishing program at Book Passage.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/california-writers-club-molly-giles/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160628T210000
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CREATED:20160602T005241Z
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SUMMARY:Rikki Ducornet
DESCRIPTION:reading from her new novel \nBrightfellow \npublished by Coffee House Press \nA feral boy comes of age on a campus decadent with starched sheets\, sweating cocktails\, and homemade jams. Stub is the cause of that missing sweater\, the pie that disappeared off the cooling rack. Then Stub meets Billy\, who takes him in\, and Asthma\, who enchants him\, and all is found\, then lost. A fragrant\, voluptuous novel of imposture\, misplaced affection\, and emotional deformity. \nAn artist and writer\, Rikki Ducornet has illustrated books by Robert Coover\, Jorge Luis Borges\, Forrest Gander\, and Joanna Howard. Her paintings have been exhibited widely\, including\, most recently\, at the Pierre Menard Gallery in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, and the Salvador Allende Museum in Santiago\, Chile. \nCritical Praise for the work of Rikki Ducornet: \n“Linguistically explosive . . . one of the most interesting American writers around.”—The Nation \n“Rikki Ducornet\, in the effervescent and airy Brightfellow\, deftly executes a hefty lightness\, the lightest of a bright\, light touch that delights and spontaneously combusts right before our eyes. Like an unbounded baron in the trees\, like a goat boy on the loose in the groves of academe\, this book inscribes a lofty scaffolding of amazing mazes\, canopies of wonder. Ignited luminescence\, irresistible levitation\, iridescent images—the words skip like philosophic stones through a saturated and shimmering exhalation.” —Michael Martone\, author of Michael Martone and Winesburg\, Indiana \n“Ducornet—surrealist\, absurdist\, pure anarchist at times—is one of our most accomplished writers\, adept at seizing on the perfect details and writing with emotion and cool detachment simultaneously. I love her style because it is penetrating and precise but also sensual without being overwrought. You experience a Ducornet novel with all of your senses.”—Jeff VanderMeer
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rikki-ducornet/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marin Poetry Center Traveling Show
DESCRIPTION:The Marin Poetry Center Summer Traveling Show brings together local poets (MPC members from all over the Bay Area) to read their own or others’ work aloud. In groups of no more than five\, these poets hold forth at coffee houses\, bookstores\, libraries\, the occasional bar\, and some civic sites. The shows are short (one hour and change)\, punchy\, pithy\, informal\, and well attended. \nThe Marin Poetry Center is a local organization dedicated to the development and appreciation of poetry. It has a number of activities and programs; please visit its website at marinpoetrycenter.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marin-poetry-center-traveling-show/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160628T213000
DTSTAMP:20260430T172847
CREATED:20160602T004458Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160602T004458Z
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SUMMARY:Happy Hour Stories Celebrates PRIDE!
DESCRIPTION:Pegasus on Solano’s story time for adults celebrates SF Pride month with readings celebrating LGBTQI writing! Featuring guest readers TBA.\n\n\nAbout Happy Hour Stories: \nCreated in 2014 by Pegasus on Solano’s Elizabeth Freeman and Manuela Aronofsky\, Happy Hour Stories is a special story time – for adults! \n\nEvery last Tuesday of the month\, short stories on a theme are read aloud by Pegasus employees and friends…. Served up with a refreshing drink\, and light snacks. \nPast Happy Hour Stories themes have included a celebration of Black History Month\, LGBTQ Pride\, California-inspired fiction\, and school stories; with special guests such as local authors Elizabeth Rosner\, Darryl Brock\, Nia King\, and Alex Gino\, as well as the Oakland-based band Halcyonaire\, and various professional actors.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-hour-stories-celebrates-pride/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160628T213000
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CREATED:20160602T004953Z
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SUMMARY:Mark Jacobson
DESCRIPTION:In March\,1979\, a young street hustler in San Francisco stumbles into an emergency room with lungs so congested he can barely breathe. Seen by a perplexed medical resident\, the patient becomes the first of many thousands to die from a yet-to-be named plague. Sensing Light is a raw\, compelling novel that follows the personal and professional lives of the men and women on the front lines of the emerging AIDS epidemic. \nThis breakout book by Mark A. Jacobson\, a leading Bay Area HIV/AIDS physician\, follows the lives of three people from vastly different backgrounds who are thrown together by a shared urgency to find out what is killing so many men in the prime of their lives. Kevin\, a gay medical resident from working class Boston\, has just moved to San Francisco in search of acceptance of his own sexual identity. Herb\, the supervising physician\, struggles with his emotional rigidity in the exhausting world of one of the nation’s toughest hospitals. And Gwen\, a divorced mother with a teen daughter\, looks for a sense of self and security while completing her medical training. \nMark A. Jacobson is a professor of medicine at UCSF and an attending physician at San Francisco General Hospital. He began his internship days after the CDC reported a mysterious\, fatal form of immunodeficiency in five gay men and soon after was assigned responsibility for critically ill patients with this syndrome.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mark-jacobson/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Elisha Cooper
DESCRIPTION:In Falling\, the award-winning children’s book author confronts a new world when faced with his daughter’s illness in this frank\, moving\, and beautiful memoir. \nElisha Cooper spends his mornings writing and illustrating children’s books\, his afternoons playing with his two daughters. The phrase he hates most is “throw like a girl\,” so he teaches them to climb trees and play ball. But when he discovers a lump in five-year-old Zoë’s midsection as she sits on his lap at a Chicago Cubs game\, everything changes. Surgery\, sleepless nights\, treatments\, a drumbeat of worry. Even as the family moves to New York and Zoë starts kindergarten\, they must navigate a new normal: school and soccer games and hot chocolates in cafés regularly interrupted by anxious visits to the hospital. And Elisha is forced to balance his desire to be a protective parent—even as he encourages his girls to take risks—against the increasing helplessness he feels for his child’s well-being\, and his own. \nElisha Cooper is the author of Train\, Farm\, Homer\, and\, most recently\, 8: An Animal Alphabet. His children’s book\, Beach\, won the 2006 Society of Illustrators Gold Medal. Dance! was a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year. Other books include A Year in New York and the memoir Crawling: A Father’s First Year. He lives with his family in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elisha-cooper/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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CREATED:20160602T011816Z
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SUMMARY:Indy Press Night ft. Ig Publishing w/ Carswell + Tanner
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the release of two new novels \nMetaphysical Ukulele \nby Sean Carswell \n& \nMissile Paradise \nby Ron Tanner \nboth books published by Ig Press \nAbout Metaphysical Ukulele: \nMixing the flair of literary invention with real events in the lives of some of our most well-known writers—Herman Melville living with a tribe of cannibals; Raymond Chandler holding The Blue Dahlia screenplay hostage from Paramount Studios; Flannery O’Connor falling in love; Chester Himes threatening to decapitate his landlord\, a ukulele player who may or may not be Thomas Pynchon\, among others—Sean Carswell takes the nonfiction of the literary life and turns it into exquisite fiction\, with a ukulele thrown in to each story for good measure. At times heartbreaking\, at times absurd\, the stories in this truly one-of-a-kind collection delightfully blur the line between what is life\, and what is literature. \nSean Carswell is the author of the novels Drinks for the Little Guy\, Train Wreck Girl\, and Madhouse Fog\, and the short story collections Barney’s Crew and Glue and Ink Rebellion. He co-founded the independent book publisher Gorsky Press and the music magazine Razorcake. He currently teaches writing and literature at California State University\, Channel Islands. \nAbout Missle Paradise: \nIn the Marshall Islands\, an island-nation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that was once a testing ground for nuclear bombs\, American engineers and programmers are making and testing missiles while their “hosts\,” the indigenous Marshallese\, sweep their streets and clean their houses. It’s 2004\, the Iraq war is heating up\, and 9/11 is fresh in everyone’s minds. Following four interconnected story lines—the meltdown of a burned-out cultural liaison who has “gone native” and bitterly resents his role in keeping the Marshallese down; a young programmer who has lost his leg in a reckless solo sailing journey; the struggles of a young widow with two children whose husband drowned in a mysterious diving accident; and the destructive spiral of a Marshallese teenager whose American girlfriend rejects him when she returns to the States—Missile Paradise is an extraordinary novel that deals with the major social and political issues of our time\, including racism\, represented by the relationship between the Americans who enjoy life on Kwajalein and the subservience of the native Marshallese\, who live on the neglected and trash-strewn island of Ebeye; and climate change—the climax of the novel is a great storm and flood which forces the Marshallese on Ebeye to flee to Kwajalein. \nRon Tanner’s awards for writing include a Faulkner Society gold medal\, a Pushcart Prize\, a New Letters Award\, a Best of the Web Award\, a Maryland Arts Council grant\, and many others. He is the author of A Bed of Nails (stories)\, Kiss Me Stranger (illustrated novel)\, and From Animal House to Our House (memoir). He teaches writing at Loyola University-Maryland and directs the Marshall Islands Story Project. \nIg Publishing produces original literary fiction from writers who have been overlooked by the mainstream publishing establishment\, and political and cultural nonfiction. Their Young Adult imprint\, Lizzie Skurnick Books\, is devoted to bringing back the very best in young adult literature\, from the classics of the ’30s and ’40s to the thrillers and social issue novels of the ’70s and ’80s.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/indy-press-night-ft-ig-publishing-w-carswell-tanner/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Hundy: Poems in Translation
DESCRIPTION:co-sponsored by the low residency MFA in translation at Mills College \nAlan Bernheimer’s latest collection is The Spoonlight Institute\, published by Adventures in Poetry in 2009. Recent work has appeared at Annex Press\, Across the Margin\, and Hambone. He has lived in the Bay Area since the mid-1970s and publishes a portrait gallery on flickr of poets reading. His translation of Philippe Soupault’s Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism\, Dada\, and Surrealism is forthcoming this fall from City Lights. \nCarlota Caulfield is a poet\, translator and literary critic. She is the author of eleven books of poems\, amongst them At the Paper Gates with Burning Desire and The Book of Giulio Camillo (a model for a theater of memory)\, El libro de Giulio Camillo (maqueta para un teatro de la memoria) / Il Libro de Giulio Camillo (modello per un teatro della memoria). She has translated into Spanish selections of poems by the American writer Jack Foley\, and by the Irish poets Eavan Boland\, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin\, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill\, Rita Ann Higgins\, Paula Meehan\, Medbh McGuckian\, Sara Berkeley and Catherine Walsh. Amongst her published translations into English are poems by Regino E. Boti\, José Angel Valente\, and Gustavo Vega. \nElana Chavez is a writer and urban gardener living in Oakland. \nBrenda Hillman has published nine collections of poetry with Wesleyan University Press\, including Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire (2013). With Garrett Caples and Paul Ebenkamp\, she co-edited Richard O. Moore’s Particulars of Place (Omnidawn\, 2105). Hillman teaches at St. Mary’s College where she is the Filippi Professor of Poetry. \nGeraldine Kim is the author of Povel (Fence\, 2005) and Parallel Play (Fence\, forthcoming)\, the play Donning Cheadle\, and the chapbooks Things I’d Let You Do To Me and no face\, just boobs. She is also the Reviews Editor for the blog Weird Sister. \nAva Koohbor is a native Farsi speaker poet and visual artist. During the last couple of years\, many of her poems appear in various publications such as Streetnotes\, AMERARCANA\, Eleven Eleven\, Dusie… Her recent chapbook\, Triangle Squared\, has been published by Bootstrap Press. She believes that each artist is a medium to transfer the world of possibilities to what is. \nBorn in Mexico\, based in Oakland\, Hugo García Manríquez is a poet and translator. \nJanice Sapigao is a daughter of Filipina/o immigrants. Her first book of poetry about her mom\, microchips for millions\, critiques the Silicon Valley and its exploitation of immigrant women workers\, and will be published by Philippine American Writers and Artists (PAWA)\, Inc. Her second book\, like a solid to a shadow about fatherlessness\, grieving\, and family lineages is also forthcoming from Timeless\, Infinite Light. She is the Associate Editor of TAYO Literary Magazine. She earned her M.F.A. in Writing from CalArts\, and she has a B.A. in Ethnic Studies with Honors from UC San Diego. She teaches English at San José City College and Skyline College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-hundy-poems-in-translation/
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:Nicholas Karavatos + Noor Al-Samarrai
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a very special evening of readings with world renowned poet performer Nicholas Karavatos accompanied by musical guest Jeff Kelley\, and renaissance performance artist and “Jill of all trades” Noor Al-Samarrai. \nDonations will be called for throughout the night\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \nWine and Red Bay coffee will be available. \nParking: Street parking is usually available\, but the easiest thing to do is to park at the Walgreens just a block away. Here is a handy map (you should see Nomadic Press on there): https://goo.gl/maps/SgaHMhV88MA2
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nicholas-karavatos-noor-al-samarrai/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Winston Smith w/ V. Vale
DESCRIPTION:Pegasus Books teams up with 924 Gilman to present Winston Smith (illustrator of Dead Kennedy’s: Fresh Fruit for for Rotting Vegetables) in conversation with V. Vale (founder of RE/SEARCH: San Francisco’s longest running punk rock publication). \nPresented as part of “Mosh Lit:” A Pegasus Books and 924 Gilman Event Series \nDead Kennedys routinely top both critic and fan polls as the greatest punk band of their generation. Their debut full-length\, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables\, in particular\, is regularly voted among the top albums in the genre. Fresh Fruit offered a perfect hybrid of humor and polemic strapped to a musical chassis that was as tetchy and inventive as Jello Biafra’s withering broadsides. Those lyrics\, cruel in their precision\, were revelatory. But it wouldn’t have worked if the underlying sonics were not such an uproarious rush\, the paraffin to Biafra’s naked flame. \nDead Kennedys’ continuing influence is an extraordinary achievement for a band that had practically zero radio play and only released records on independent labels. They not only existed outside of the mainstream but were\, as V. Vale of Search and Destroy noted\, the first band of their stature to turn on and attack the music industry itself. The DKs set so much in motion. They were integral to the formulation of an alternative network that allowed bands on the first rung of the ladder to tour outside of their own backyard. They were instrumental in supporting the concept of all-ages shows and spurned the advances of corporate rock promoters and industry lapdogs. They legitimized the notion of an American punk band touring internationally while disseminating the true horror of their native country’s foreign policies\, effectively serving as anti-ambassadors on their travels. \nThe book uses dozens of first-hand interviews\, photos\, and original artwork to offer a new perspective on a group who would become mired in controversy almost from the get-go. It applauds the band’s key role in transforming punk rhetoric\, both polemical and musical\, into something genuinely threatening—and enormously funny. The author offers context in terms of both the global and local trajectory of punk and\, while not flinching from the wildly differing takes individual band members have on the evolution of the band\, attempts to be celebratory—if not uncritical. \n“We have a sense of humor and we’re not afraid to use it in a vicious way if we have to. In some ways\, we’re cultural terrorists\, using music instead of guns.“\n—Jello Biafra\, Dead Kennedys \n  \nPunk art surrealist Winston Smith\, a master of “hand-carved“ collage\, has been crafting his thought-provoking art since the 1970s. Smith first became known for his collaborations with punk legends Dead Kennedys and his numerous album covers\, inserts\, and flyers for the band in their formative years. His technique of cutting out by hand and gluing each individual element has inspired a generation of artists. His published collections include Act Like Nothing’s Wrong\, Artcrime\, and All Riot on the Western Front. \nIn 1977 V. Vale founded as sole proprietor Search & Destroy\, San Francisco’s first Punk Rock publication. It was published at City Lights Bookstore\, where V. Vale worked\, and was funded by $100 each from Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg. In 1980\, V. Vale launched as sole proprietor RE/SEARCH. V. Vale is most likely the longest lasting (and still active) Punk publisher. Although Vale released books which include Jello Biafra\, Henry Rollins\, Lydia Lunch\, and many other Punk notables\, RE/SEARCH is actually best known for its impact on the total world of underground culture.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/winston-smith-w-v-vale/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Cathleen Schine
DESCRIPTION:Joy Bergman is not slipping into old age with the quiet grace her children\, Molly and Daniel\, would prefer. She won’t take their advice\, and she won’t take an antidepressant. Her marriage to their father\, Aaron\, has lasted through health and dementia\, as well as some phenomenally lousy business decisions. The Bergman clan has always stuck together\, growing as it incorporated in-laws\, ex-in-laws\, and same-sex spouses. But families don’t just grow\, they grow old. Schine’s latest novel is a tender\, sometimes hilarious intergenerational story about searching for where you belong as your family changes with age.\n\nWhen Aaron dies\, Molly and Daniel have no shortage of solutions for their mother’s loneliness and despair\, but there is one challenge they did not count on: the reappearance of an ardent suitor from Joy’s college days. They didn’t count on Joy suddenly becoming as willful and rebellious as their own kids. \nCathleen Schine is the author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport\, To the Birdhouse\, The New Yorkers\, and The Love Letter\, among other novels. She has contributed to The New Yorker\, The New York Review of Books\, and The New York Times Magazine. She grew up in Westport\, Connecticut\, and lives in New York City and Venice\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cathleen-schine/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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