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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170119T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170119T210000
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SUMMARY:Laura Walker\, Sarah Rosenthal\, + Micah Ballard
DESCRIPTION:Join Books Inc. in Berkeley for an evening of poetry with Laura Walker\, Sarah Rosenthal\, and Micah Ballard\, reading pieces from their respective new collections Story; Lizard; and Afterlives. \nIn Story\, Walker shares the strategies of telling\, which\, as every savvy writer knows\, is a constant tug between sharing and holding back\, finding\, losing\, and recovering the threads of narration. \nIn Lizard\, Rosenthal “explores the creaturely membranes that lie between the known-social and the unknown-social. This is bone instructive poetry. I love it.” – Rodrigo Toscano \nIn Afterlives\, Ballard continues the precarious yet successful envisioning of the spirited haunts of his native Louisiana amidst the streets of his long adopted San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laura-walker-sarah-rosenthal-micah-ballard/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170119T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170119T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T095746
CREATED:20170113T074109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T060456Z
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SUMMARY:Tamam Kahn
DESCRIPTION:Tamam Kahn is author of Fatima’s Touch\, Poems and Stories of the Prophet’s Daughter\, Ruhaniat Press\, 2016\, and Untold: A History of the Wives of Prophet Muhammad\, Monkfish Press\, 2010\, International Book Award winner\, 2011. She includes stories and poems as well as an occasional Spoken Word piece on these 7th century women. Tamam has traveled widely among the mystics of the Middle East\, India\, and North Africa\, was invited by the Royal Ministry of Morocco to read her poetry at the symposium in Marrakesh in 2009. Tamam lived in Damascus in 2003. She read from her book on Fatima at Poet’s House in NYC for The Wide Shore\, A Journal of Global Women’s Poetry\, 2015. She has been awarded writing residencies at Ragdale Foundation and Jentel Artist Residency.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tamam-kahn/
LOCATION:Willow Glen Library\, 1157 Minnesota Ave\, San Jose \, CA\, 95125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170119T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170119T213000
DTSTAMP:20260408T095746
CREATED:20161201T022557Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T022557Z
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SUMMARY:Jason Diamond
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith presents Jason Diamond and his hilarious and poignant new memoir\, Searching for John Hughes: Or Everything I Thought I Needed to Know about Life I Learned from Watching ’80s Movies\, the story of how a Jewish kid from a broken home in a Chicago suburb—sometimes homeless\, always restless—found comfort and connection in the likewise broken lives in the suburban Chicago of John Hughes’ oeuvre. \nA writer at heart\, Diamond decided early on that it would fall to him to write a biography of his favorite filmmaker. It didn’t matter to him that he had no qualifications\, training\, background\, platform\, or direction. Thus went the years-long\, delusional\, earnest\, and assiduous quest to reach his goal. In the meantime\, he brewed coffee\, guarded cupcake cafes\, and built up a respectable writing career. All the while\, he watched John Hughes movies religiously. Though his original biography of Hughes has long since been abandoned\, Jason has discovered he is a writer through and through\, and the adversity of going for broke has now been transformed into wisdom. Or\, at least\, a really\, really good story. \nThis is a memoir of growing up. One part big dream\, one part big failure\, one part John Hughes movies\, one part Chicago\, and one part New York. It’s a story of what comes after the “Go for it!” part of the command to young creatives to pursue their dreams—no matter how absurd they might seem at first. \nJason Diamond is a writer and editor from Brooklyn. He is the Sports Editor at Rolling Stone\, a columnist at Electric Literature\, former Literary Editor at Flavorwire\, former Associate Editor at Men’s Journal\, and the founding editor of Vol. 1 Brooklyn. He has been published by the New York Times\, Paris Review\, New York\, the Believer\, the New Republic\, the New York Observer\, Tablet\, The Rumpus\, The Awl\, and many other places. He lives in Brooklyn\, New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jason-diamond/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170120T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170120T120000
DTSTAMP:20260408T095746
CREATED:20170113T080730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T060644Z
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SUMMARY:A Day of Affirmation
DESCRIPTION:The Rebound Bookstore invites one and all\, to come together\non Friday\, January 20th\, 2017\nat 1611 4th Street\, San Rafael \nFrom 10 in the Morning until 12:00 Noon\nto a communal reading of the Constitution of the United States. \n(Copies available in the store) \nAnd a positive discussion thereafter on means of defending the Republic. \nAll who want to read may choose a section. \nRSVP to reboundbookstore@aol.com\nOr select a paragraph when you arrive. \nThere will be coffee\, and doughnuts\, courtesy of Johnny Doughnuts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-day-of-affirmation/
LOCATION:Rebound Bookstore\, 1611 4th Street\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170120T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170120T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T095746
CREATED:20170113T081011Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T060815Z
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SUMMARY:Uptown Fridays: Caits Meissner + Isobel O'Hare
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a very special evening of readings with Caits Meissner and Isobel O’Hare. With musical guest Thomas Nguyen. \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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/uptown-fridays-caits-meissner-isobel-ohare/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170120T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170120T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T095746
CREATED:20170113T081624Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T061037Z
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Moore
DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Moore shares his latest heart-pounding thriller\, The Dark Room. Gavin Cain\, an SFPD homicide inspector\, is in the middle of an exhumation when his phone rings. San Francisco’s mayor is being blackmailed and has ordered Cain back to the city; a helicopter is on its way. The casket\, and Cain’s cold-case investigation\, must wait. At City Hall\, the mayor shows Cain four photographs he’s received: the first\, an unforgettable blonde; the second\, pills and handcuffs on a nightstand; the third\, the woman drinking from a flask; and last\, the woman naked\, unconscious\, and shackled to a bed. The accompanying letter is straightforward: worse revelations are on the way unless the mayor takes his own life first. An intricately plotted\, deeply affecting thriller that keeps readers guessing until the final pages\, The Dark Room tracks Cain as he hunts for the blackmailer\, pitching him into the web of destruction and devotion the mayor casts in his shadow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jonathan-moore/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170121T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170121T150000
DTSTAMP:20260408T095746
CREATED:20170113T082227Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T061145Z
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SUMMARY:Songs of Protest
DESCRIPTION:Come to Adobe Books on Inauguration Day for music that will stir your protesting souls\, warm your weary hearts\, remind you of all that is beautiful and strange and hard about this thing we call democracy\, this country we call America. \nBlake Parkinson – Protesting on his bagpipes since 2001\, singing Bob Dylan covers since…? \nRosie Cima – singer songwriter\, lover not a fighter\, election nailbighter\, pulled that allnighter\, sings blues and songs lighter. \nTed Lee – \nAnd more guests to be announced!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/songs-of-protest/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170121T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170121T170000
DTSTAMP:20260408T095746
CREATED:20161223T030310Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T030310Z
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SUMMARY:Zine Release Party
DESCRIPTION:America\, I love you but you’re bringing me down : ZINE RELEASE\nThis collection of poetry\, drawings\, and personal essays presents views and experiences that do not fit into Trump’s America\, along with tips and recommendations for anyone who wants to get active in opposing his agenda. \nOrganized by Vanessa Hope Schneider\, these limited-run\, risographed zines will be available starting January 20th—inauguration day. We’ll be selling them for $14 each\, and all money will go to the Equal Justice Initiative and the Adobe Books & Arts Cooperative. \nJoin us for a reading from some of the contributors and pick up a copy. All are welcome!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zine-release-party/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170121T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170121T170000
DTSTAMP:20260408T095746
CREATED:20170109T102335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T102335Z
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SUMMARY:Corpi\, Álvarez\, BPorras-Hernandez\, + Vas
DESCRIPTION:Jingletown Reading & Open Mic celebrates poets and artists who are giving back to our communities\, determined to make a positive change. \nOn Saturday January 21st\, Jingletown celebrates educators and poets Lucha Corpi\, Amalia Álvarez\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and René Vasquez \nJingletown Reading & Open Mic\nEvery 3rd Saturday of the Month\n3-5 pm\nCurated by harold terezón\nCésar Chavez Library\, Oakland\nFruitvale BART accessible
URL:https://litseen.com/event/corpi-alvarez-bporras-hernandez-vas/
LOCATION:César E. Chávez Branch Library\, 3301 E 12th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170121T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170121T180000
DTSTAMP:20260408T095746
CREATED:20170113T085816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T061302Z
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SUMMARY:Christine Marie Mason
DESCRIPTION:There are more people living alone than at any time in history\, and more depression than ever recorded. Violence to each other and ourselves continues to cast long shadows across generations. We are fragmented individually and collectively to the point of vile speech and hate crimes based on false divisions. How do we heal? How do we become more connected? \nIndivisible: Coming Home to Our Deep Connection is a transformational story of a deep human journey to the heart of connection. \nChristine Marie Mason asks questions such as: Why are people lonely and alienated from one another? Why are people angry? Or mean? Or violent to each other? Is that reversible? Why do we lie and hide our true selves? How do we make more love and less conflict happen? Can we make a world that works better for all of us? How might we shift our internal state and the design of our communities and institutions to be happier\, more connected?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christine-marie-mason/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170121T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170121T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T095746
CREATED:20170109T102055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T102055Z
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SUMMARY:Identity Crisis IV (IDCIV)
DESCRIPTION:THE GAME HAS RETURNED! \nThe social and literary experiment IDENTITY CRISIS\, hosted by Paul Corman-Roberts and Youssef Alaoui. \nEach person reads the next in line. The last person reads the first person’s work. No one reads their own. \nWriters hear their work read by another very talented reader\, expressed in a new way. Audience members hear some of their very favorite writers reading one another’s poetry\, which leads one to consider the artful combination of poetry and performance. How does the poem operate when portrayed by this skilled performer? This series adds new light and interpretation on poetics to an amazing collection of poets and poetry. \nWITH MUSIC from KAREN PENLEY \nREADERS:\nCassandra Dallett\nPeter Bullen\nAlexandra Naughton\nJuba Kalamka \nBREAK\nMUSIC: KAREN P \nREADERS:\nCharlie Getter\nMaw Shein Win\nChristine No\nArisa White
URL:https://litseen.com/event/identity-crisis-iv-idciv/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170122T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170122T150000
DTSTAMP:20260408T095746
CREATED:20170113T093648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T061448Z
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SUMMARY:Sheila Kohler
DESCRIPTION:When Sheila Kohler was thirty-seven\, she received the heart-stopping news that her sister Maxine\, only two years older\, was killed when her husband drove them off a deserted road in Johannesburg. Stunned by the news\, she immediately flew back to the country where she was born\, determined to find answers and forced to reckon with his history of violence and the lingering effects of their most unusual childhood—one marked by death and the misguided love of their mother. \nIn her signature spare and incisive prose\, Shelia Kohler recounts the lives she and her sister led. Flashing back to their storybook childhood at the family estate\, Crossways\, Kohler tells of the death of her father when she and Maxine were girls\, which led to the family abandoning their house and the girls being raised by their mother\, at turns distant and suffocating. We follow them to the cloistered Anglican boarding school where they first learn of separation and later their studies in Rome and Paris where they plan grand lives for themselves—lives that are interrupted when both marry young and discover they have made poor choices. Kohler evokes the bond between sisters and shows how that bond changes but never breaks\, even after death. \nOnce We Were Sisters is a stunningly beautiful\, heartrending literary memoir about the tragic death of the author’s beloved older sister and a tribute to their bond. \nSheila Kohler was born in Johannesburg\, South Africa. She is the author of fourteen works of fiction including the novels Dreaming for Freud\, Becoming Jane Eyre\, and Cracks\, which was nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and made into a film starring Eva Green. Her work has been featured in the New York Times and O Magazine and included in the Best American Short Stories. She has twice won an O’Henry Prize\, as well as an Open Fiction Award\, a Willa Cather Prize\, and a Smart Family Foundation Prize. She teaches at Princeton University and lives in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shelia-kohler/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170122T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170122T180000
DTSTAMP:20260408T095746
CREATED:20170109T102520Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T102520Z
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SUMMARY:Resist! A Postmodern Times Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us as some of our favorite San Franciscans offer their writings on resistance in the new year.\nWith\nTony Robles\nKim Shuck\nTongo Eisen-Martin\nJennifer Joseph\nThea Matthews\nhosted by Denise Sullivan and United Booksellers of San Francisco in cooperation with San Francisco Vision
URL:https://litseen.com/event/resist-a-postmodern-times-reading/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170122T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170122T180000
DTSTAMP:20260408T095746
CREATED:20170113T092214Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T061552Z
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SUMMARY:Will Schwalbe
DESCRIPTION:From the author of the beloved New York Times bestselling The End of Your Life Book Club comes an inspiring and magical exploration of the power of books to shape our lives in an era of constant connectivity. \nWhy is it that we read? Is it to pass time? To learn something new? To escape from reality? \nFor Will Schwalbe\, reading is a way to entertain himself but also to make sense of the world\, to become a better person\, and to find the answers to the big (and small) questions about how to live his life. In this delightful celebration of reading\, Schwalbe invites us along on his quest for books that speak to the specific challenges of living in our modern world\, with all its noise and distractions. In each chapter\, he discusses a particular book what brought him to it (or vice versa)\, the people in his life he associates with it\, and how it became a part of his understanding of himself in the world. These books span centuries and genres (from classic works of adult and children’s literature to contemporary thrillers and even cookbooks)\, and each one relates to the questions and concerns we all share. Throughout\, Schwalbe focuses on the way certain books can help us honor those we ve loved and lost\, and also figure out how to live each day more fully. Rich with stories and recommendations\, Books for Living is a treasure for everyone who loves books and loves to hear the answer to the question: What are you reading? \nWill Schwalbe has worked in publishing; digital media\, as the founder and CEO of Cookstr.com; and as a journalist\, writing for various publications\, including The New York Times and the South China Morning Post. He is the author of the New York Times best seller The End of Your Life Book Club and co-author\, with David Shipley\, of Send: Why People Email So Badly and How to Do It Better.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/will-schwalbe/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170122T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170122T190000
DTSTAMP:20260408T095746
CREATED:20170113T093333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T061654Z
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SUMMARY:Kim Stanley Roberts + Cecelia Holland
DESCRIPTION:This event will now be on Sunday January 22nd\, but we’ll still be at The American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina Street\, San Francisco. Doors and cash bar open at 5:30pm – program begins at 6:30pm. $10 donation at the door (no one is turned away for lack of funds). As always Borderlands Books will be on hand with copies of the authors’ work. Further details will follow soon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-stanley-roberts-cecelia-holland/
LOCATION:The American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170124T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170124T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T095746
CREATED:20161223T030720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T030720Z
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SUMMARY:Deborah Kennedy
DESCRIPTION:In Nature Speaks\, Deborah Kennedy’s captivating poetry and illustrations bring to life the profound bond between ourselves and the larger natural world. Kennedy focuses on the ecological themes of our time\, infusing art and science with insight and passion. Her powerful poetry and earth-toned ink illustrations feature the elegance of birds and strength of redwood trees\, appealing to the eye\, the mind\, and the heart. Kennedy invites us to listen to the earth to appreciate nature’s grace\, complexity\, and vigoras we move toward pathways for healing ourselves and the earth. \nAn artist and poet\, Deborah Kennedy’s work has exhibited in the United States and Europe. Her art appeared on The Berlin Wall shortly before it was torn down and was an inspiration to thousands who witnessed art at the service of social change. She lives in San Jose\, CA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deborah-kennedy/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170124T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170124T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T095746
CREATED:20161201T023830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T023830Z
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SUMMARY:Shanthi Sekaran
DESCRIPTION:in conversation with Oscar Villalon \ncelebrating the release of \nLucky Boy \nfrom G.P. Putnam & Sons \nA gripping tale of adventure and searing reality\, Lucky Boy gives voice to two mothers bound together by their love for one lucky boy. \nSolimar Castro Valdez is eighteen and drunk on optimism when she embarks on a perilous journey across the US/Mexican border. Weeks later she arrives on her cousin’s doorstep in Berkeley\, CA\, dazed by first love found then lost\, and pregnant. This was not the plan. But amid the uncertainty of new motherhood and her American identity\, Soli learns that when you have just one precious possession\, you guard it with your life. For Soli\, motherhood becomes her dwelling and the boy at her breast her hearth. \nKavya Reddy has always followed her heart\, much to her parents’ chagrin. A mostly contented chef at a UC Berkeley sorority house\, the unexpected desire to have a child descends like a cyclone in Kavya’s mid-thirties. When she can’t get pregnant\, this desire will test her marriage\, it will test her sanity\, and it will set Kavya and her husband\, Rishi\, on a collision course with Soli\, when she is detained and her infant son comes under Kavya’s care. As Kavya learns to be a mother–the singing\, story-telling\, inventor-of-the-universe kind of mother she fantasized about being–she builds her love on a fault line\, her heart wrapped around someone else’s child. \nLucky Boy is an emotional journey that will leave you certain of the redemptive beauty of this world. There are no bad guys in this story\, no obvious hero. From rural Oaxaca to Berkeley’s Gourmet Ghetto to the dreamscapes of Silicon valley\, author Shanthi Sekaran has taken real life and applied it to fiction; the results are moving and revelatory. \nShanthi Sekaran teaches creative writing at California College of the Arts\, and is a member of the Portuguese Artists Colony and the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Her work has appeared in Best New American Voices and Canteen\, and online at Zyzzyva and Mutha Magazine. Her first novel\, The Prayer Room\, was published by MacAdam Cage. \nOscar Villalon is the Managing Editor of Zyzzyva Magazine. He has formerly served as book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle. A member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle\, he’s also a long-time juror of the California Book Awards\, sponsored by the Commonwealth Club. His writing has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review and The Believer\, and his reviews have aired on KQED’s The California Report. \nWhat has been said about the work of Shanthi Sekaran: \n“Remarkably empathetic . . . Deeply compassionate . . . Delivers penetrating insights into the intangibles of motherhood and indeed\, all humanity.” —Booklist (starred) \n“How lucky the reader who gets to devour Shanthi Sekaran’s extraordinary\, necessary novel. Lucky Boy is both timely and timeless\, depicting the comedy and delights of the world as well as its brutalities and injustices. It’s a story about immigration\, privilege\, and parenthood\, and shows us how we are connected\, and how we are\, perhaps irreparably\, divided. It swept me away and took a little piece of my heart with it. It’s a perfect book.” —Edan Lepucki\, New York Times bestselling author of California
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shanthi-sekaran/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170125T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170125T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T095746
CREATED:20170109T102709Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T102709Z
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SUMMARY:Funny Bits: Humorous Stories from East Bay Queer Writers
DESCRIPTION:Ajuan Mance\, Willy Wilkinson\, and Anna Pulley read Funny Bits from their works.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/funny-bits-humorous-stories-from-east-bay-queer-writers/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170125T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170125T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T095746
CREATED:20170113T131231Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T131231Z
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SUMMARY:Jon Else
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jon-else-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170125T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170125T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T095746
CREATED:20170113T132101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T132101Z
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SUMMARY:Get Lit Reading Series: New Year Edition
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-reading-series-new-year-edition/
LOCATION:Corkscrew Wine Bar\, 100 Petaluma Blvd N #103\, Petaluma\, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170125T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170125T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T095746
CREATED:20170113T133818Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T061858Z
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SUMMARY:Gregg Hurwitz
DESCRIPTION:New York Times-bestselling author Gregg Hurwitz shares his latest critically-acclaimed thriller\, The Nowhere Man: An Orphan X Novel. \nSpoken about only in whispers\, the Nowhere Man can only be reached by the truly desperate\, he can He will do anything to save them. \nEvan Smoak is the Nowhere Man. \nTaken from a group home at twelve\, Evan was raised and trained as part of the Orphan Program\, an off-the-books operation designed to create deniable intelligence assets i.e. assassins. Evan was Orphan X. He broke with the Program\, using everything he learned to disappear and reinvent himself as the Nowhere Man. \nBut his new life is interrupted when a surprise attack comes from an unlikely angle and Evan is caught unaware. Captured\, drugged\, and spirited off to a remote location\, he finds himself heavily guarded and cut off from everything he knows. His captors think they have him trapped and helpless in a virtual cage but they don’t know who they re dealing with or that they ve trapped themselves inside that cage with one of the deadliest and most resourceful men on earth. \nContinuing his electrifying series featuring Evan Smoak\, Gregg Hurwitz delivers a blistering\, compelling new novel in the series launched with the instant international bestseller\, Orphan X.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gregg-hurwitz/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Palo Alto\, 74 Town & Country Village\, Palo Alto\, CA\, 94301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Rachel Cusk
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Cusk  discusses Transit\, the second volume in a trilogy that began with Outline (a NY Times 10 Best Books selection for 2015) with Caille Millner. \n\nPraise for Rachel Cusk: \n“[A] lethally intelligent novel . . . reading Outline mimics the sensation of being underwater\, of being separated from other people by a substance denser than air. But there is nothing blurry or muted about Cusk’s literary vision or her prose: Spend much time with this novel and you’ll become convinced that she is one of the smartest writers alive.” —Heidi Julavits\, The New York Times Book Review \nAbout Transit: \n The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline\, one of The New York Times Book Review’s ten best books of 2015.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-cusk/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20161223T021903Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T021903Z
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SUMMARY:Disaster by Madison Davis Book Release
DESCRIPTION:BOOK RELEASE FOR MADISON DAVIS’S DISASTER\nWe’re having a reading / we’re having a show / we’re excited to share this new book with all of you. \nPERFORMERS\nMadison Davis\nFisayo Adeyeye\nWendy Trevino\nOut of Pocket (Sharmi Basu & Angel Castellon) \nPerformer Bios:\n\n//Madison Davis//\nMadison Davis writes about family\, water\, mourning & disaster. Her recent work can be found in Elderly\, Hold: A Journal\, The Portable Boog Reader\, It’s Night in San Francisco but it’s Sunny in Oakland\, & Open House. She lives\, writes\, and works retail in Oakland\, CA. Disaster is her first book. \n//Fisayo Adeyeye//\nFisayo Adeyeye has works published in The Collapsar\, The Birds We Piled Loosely\, The Wildness\, and work forthcoming in Print Oriented Bastards\, New American Writing\, and This Magazine. He is the current Poetry Editor of Fourteen Hills\, a Co-Curator of the VelRo Graduate Reading Series. His chapbook Blackfish was a finalist for the 2015 Best Prize Chapbook Contest (Big Lucks). His first full length book Cradles is forthcoming from Nomadic Press in April 2017. \n//Out of Pocket//\nA performance that attempts to create a non narrative experience of the vibrational transition and tension between the material and immaterial that occurs within intimacy. \n//Wendy Trevino//\nWendy Trevino was born & raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She now lives and works in San Francisco. Her chapbook 128-131 was published by Perfect Lovers Press in 2013. Her chapbook Brazilian Is Not a Race was published by Commune Editions in 2016. Her poems have appeared in various print and online journals\, including Abraham Lincoln\, Armed Cell\, the Capilano Review\, LIES\, Macaroni Necklace\, Mondo Bummer\, ELDERLY\, and Open House. Wendy is not an experimental writer. \nMore about the new release: Disaster is an investigation into what is possible when everything goes perfectly wrong; when planes crash\, trains derail\, and structures collapse. The details are put forward as a way to examine how each disaster is mourned as a catastrophic exception to the order of things. Ultimately\, looking at these events creates space to explore the connection between the collective trauma experienced in the wake of a large scale disaster and a personal story of mourning. \nDoors @ 5:30\nPerformances promptly @ 6
URL:https://litseen.com/event/disaster-by-madison-davis-book-release/
LOCATION:Aggregate Space Gallery\, 801 W Grand Ave\, Oakland \, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170126T200000
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CREATED:20161201T025052Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T025052Z
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SUMMARY:ZYZZYVA Winter Issue Release Party!
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to host the release of ZYZZYVA: The Winter Issue on Thursday\, January 26th at 7:00 pm. Copies of this issue will be available for purchase at the event. \nCome celebrate ZYZZYVA‘s Winter issue with a reading featuring contributors Kathleen Alcott\, Ella Martinsen Gorham\, Matthew Zapruder\, and Scott O’Connor. We promise a night of exemplary prose and verse\, so please join us! \nKathleen Alcott is the author of the novels Infinite Home and The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets\, which was translated into several languages. Her fiction\, criticism\, and essays appear in publications including The New York Times\, The Guardian\, The New Yorker Online\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, and The Coffin Factory. Born in Northern California\, she currently resides in New York City. \nElla Martinsen Gorham‘s story\, I Have Jonah\, which is told from the perspective of a mother of a developmentally disabled child\, was nominated by Edan Lepucki for the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program’s James Kirkwood Literary Prize\, and placed second. \nMatthew Zapruder is the author of author of the poetry collections Sun Bear\, Come On All You Ghosts\, The Pajamaist\, and American Linden\, and the forthcoming essay collection\, Why Poetry. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship\, the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America\, and the May Sarton Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He lives in Oakland\, where he is an instructor in the Saint Mary’s College of California MFA Program\, as well as editor-at-large for Wave Books. \nScott O’Connor is the author of the novella Among Wolves\, and the novels Untouchable and Half World. He has been awarded the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award\, and his stories have been shortlisted for the Sunday Times/EFG Story Prize and cited as Distinguished in Best American Short Stories. Additional work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine\, Zyzzyva\, The Rattling Wall\, VLAK\, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zyzzyva-winter-issue-release-party/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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CREATED:20170114T010458Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170114T010537Z
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SUMMARY:Be About It Zine #14 Release Party
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/madison-davis/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170126T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T095746
CREATED:20170114T010857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T062110Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Rachel Richardson + Martin Rock
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Richardson’s new book of poems is Hundred-Year Wave. Victoria Chang says\, “Hundred-Year Wave is a gorgeous book that borrows its vast subject matter from new parenthood\, marriage\, the ocean\, whales\, and Sylvia Plath….Her gifts are wide and deep like the ocean\, as she shows us that ‘we are not lost/ in the vast expanse of lostness.’” A former Stegner fellow at Stanford and a recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts\, she coordinates poetry programming for the Bay Area Book Festival and co-directs Left Margin Lit\, a new literary arts center in Berkeley. \nMartin Rock’s collection Residuum was chosen for the Cleveland State Poetry Center’s 2015 First Book Award. Erin Belieu says\, “Martin Rock’s remarkable debut collection\, Residuum\, takes on nothing less than making the unsayable (as Heidegger perceives it) ‘legible.’ I find the partial erasure form of this book dynamic\, and lyrically fluid. Residuum is also genuinely moving and funny in spots.” A translator from the Japanese widely published in literary journals\, he has held senior editorial positions at several journals and is Founding Editor of Loaded Bicycle\, an online journal of poetry\, art\, and translation. Poet-in-Residence at Texas Children’s Hospital\, he helps young patients express themselves through writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-rachel-richardson-martin-rock/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170128T213000
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CREATED:20170109T102905Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T102905Z
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special\, An "Animal" Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Night Special is ready to put 2016 to sleep and wake up in a shiny new 2017. (As a reminder\, December is our one hiatus of the year\, but we’re excited for a fresh and sexy January reading). \nGet out your grrr and your fur\, your teeth and tails\, your fierce and feral hearts; our theme for January is ANIMAL! \nAs always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances on our optional theme (or any topic). \nOur January features are: MK Chavez and Alexandra Kostoulas\n— \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself. Dance! \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, January 28th\, 2017\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by Hollie Hardy \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/ \nBIOS \nOakland based writer\, MK CHAVEZ is the author of several chapbooks\, including “Mothermorphosis.” “Dear Animal\,” was released in October 2016 by Nomadic Press. Chavez is co-founder/curator of the reading series Lyrics & Dirges\, curator of Fruitvale Friday Readings in Oakland\, and co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival. In 2016 she was awarded an Alameda County Arts Leadership Award. \nALEXANDRA KOSTOULAS is an award-winning writer of poetry\, fiction and journalism. She is the founder of the San Francisco Creative Writing Institute and publisher of the Mid-Market News. She has performed her work on stage locally and nationally at Santa Barbara Book & Author festival\, Los Angeles Festival of Books\, UC Berkeley\, Beyond Baroque Bookstore in Venice\, CA\, Mills College\, the Lit Symposium at UC Santa Barbara\, June Jordan’s Poetry for the People in Berkeley\, Books and Books in Miami\, and the Bowery Poetry Club in New York and more. \nShe has just finished a book of poems called Leaving Los Angeles about a young poet’s coming-of-age. She is currently working on finishing up her novel\, “Persephone Stolen\,” which weaves in tales of the Persephone myth\, the immigrant experience and stolen artifacts. \nShe teaches people to find their voice and unblock themselves creatively every day at methodwritingsf.com and http://sfwriting.institute/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-an-animal-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Oakland Review #4
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate the release of Oakland Review #4 with us! There will be a reading featuring authors published in issue #4 (lineup tba\, so please stay tuned). Hosted by OR eds Paul Corman-Roberts\, J de Salvo\, Vernon Keeve III\, and Laura Zink.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-review-4/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170129T160000
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CREATED:20161223T033628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T033628Z
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SUMMARY:Far Out: Poems of the ’60’s
DESCRIPTION:Far Out: Poems of the ’60s features poems from 78 writers including work from several past poets laureate of the U.S. and several U.S. states\, as well as iconic cultural figures\, who remember that tumultuous decade from a wide range of vantage points. This collection covers the most important themes of the time; protest\, civil rights\, the counter-culture\, drugs\, sex\, rock & roll\, liberation\, and the Vietnam War. It brings to life the experiences of people who vividly remember the effects of the assassinations of Medgar Evers\, JFK\, Malcolm X\, and Martin Luther King\, and those who lived through the period of the Vietnam War and the protests against it. Also included are poems from those who experienced the rise of Second-Wave Feminism\, the Civil Rights Act and the emergence of the Black Power Movement\, as well as the Apollo 11 moon landing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/far-out-poems-of-the-60s/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Paulette Jiles
DESCRIPTION:In the wake of the Civil War\, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas\, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them\, the captain enjoys his rootless\, solitary existence. \nIn Wichita Falls\, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier\, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna’s parents and sister; sparing the little girl\, they raised her as one of their own. Recently rescued by the U.S. army\, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows. \nNews of the World follows their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain. Johanna has forgotten the English language\, tries to escape at every opportunity\, throws away her shoes\, and refuses to act “civilized.” Yet as the miles pass\, the two lonely survivors tentatively begin to trust each other\, forming a bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land. \nArriving in San Antonio\, the reunion is neither happy nor welcome. The captain must hand Johanna over to an aunt and uncle she does not remember—strangers who regard her as an unwanted burden. A respectable man\, Captain Kidd is faced with a terrible choice: abandon the girl to her fate or become—in the eyes of the law—a kidnapper himself. \nPaulette Jiles is a poet\, memoirist\, and bestselling novelist. Her books include Cousins\, a memoir; and the novels Enemy Women; Stormy Weather; The Color of Lightning; and Lighthouse Island. She lives on a ranch near San Antonio\, Texas.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paulette-jiles/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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