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SUMMARY:Chris Formant
DESCRIPTION:Jimi Hendrix\, Janis Joplin\, Brian Jones\, Jim Morrison\, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan\, Peter Ham—all of them iconic rock stars\, all of them dead at age twenty-seven. How could a group of great musicians all die at the same age? All evidence points to the deaths being unrelated\, but were they really? \nGantry Elliot is a relic of rock and roll era still writing for Rolling Stone magazine—covering “classic” rock and roll and struggling for relevance in the age of hip-hop and electronic dance music. Even though he’s an encyclopedia of music trivia\, Gantry can’t compete with the new kids on the block and is now reduced to watching the clock tick down on his once dynamic career. But Gantry’s vast knowledge may be the only thing that can unravel the Myth of 27. \nWhen anonymous packages start showing up at his office and then his home\, Gantry initially shrugs them off as another Myth of 27 conspiracy nerd trying to get attention. As the clues became more intimate\, more personal\, more sinister\, he realizes this is not a game: someone knows the truth\, and the truth may put Gantry’s life in serious danger. \nAptly called\, “The Da Vinci Code for rock and roll fans\,” author Chris Formant has written a terrific debut novel that creatively and deftly takes readers on a dangerous cold case hunt to uncover the mystery behind these deaths. Truth or fiction\, lies or conspiracy\, Bright Midnight will keep you guessing until its final chorus. \nFrom his early garage band days\, to a seat on the Board of Trustees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame\, Chris Formant has been a student of rock and roll his whole life. As an executive in a leading global company\, running a multi-billion dollar business\, Formant is the unlikeliest of authors of a murder mystery. But the continued unanswered questions surrounding the deaths of our most iconic rock legends led Formant to first speculate and then re-imagine what would happen if cutting edge technology were applied to these famous cold cases.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chris-formant/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Left Coast Writers: Andy Ross
DESCRIPTION:Left Coast Writers® Salon featuring Andy Ross\, literary agent and founder of the Andy Ross Literary Agency.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/left-coast-writers-andy-ross/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170206T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170206T210000
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning at The Stud Bar
DESCRIPTION:A literary mixtape performed live once by the authors and published as sPARKLE & bLINK 82\, free for the first 100 people \nSIDE A \nJoe Wadlington » Heather Bourbeau » Peter Bullen » Stephen Guai-Wu » MK Chavez » Rae Liberto » AshleyRose Sanchez » Miah Jeffra » Siamak Vossoughi » Adam Moskowitz » Peter Max Lawrence » Paul Corman-Roberts \nRAFFLE FOR THE STUD + TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER \nSIDE B \nPaul Corman-Roberts » Kyrsten Bean » Ingrid Keir » Kate Folk » Sage Curtis » Laura Zink » Kate Seifert » Kathryn Reeve » Cassandra Dallett » Paul Corman-Roberts » Isabella Borgeson\n\nfeaturing art by Irene Nelson \ncurated by Josey Rose + Christine No
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-at-the-stud-bar/
LOCATION:The Stud Bar\, 399 9th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170207T183000
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SUMMARY:Rafael Jesús Gonzalez
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Rafael Jesús González. An open mic follows the featured readers. Everyone welcome. There is always room. It’s time to showcase your work. Free drawing for books\, broadside\, and Spice Monkey Gift Card. The series is on the first Tuesday of each month in The Loft at Spice Monkey\, 1628 Webster Street\, Oakland\, 6:30-9:00 pm. Free\, we pass the hat.\ninformation: pandemoniumpress@gmail.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rafael-jesus-gonzalez/
LOCATION:Spice Monkey\, 1628 Webster St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170207T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170207T210000
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SUMMARY:Tim Z. Hernandez
DESCRIPTION:Tim Z. Hernandez celebrating the release of \nAll They Will Call You \nfrom University of Arizona Press \nwith special guests: Margi Dunlap\, Connie Ann Mart\, and Lance Canales \nAll They Will Call You is the harrowing account of “the worst airplane disaster in California’s history\,” which claimed the lives of thirty-two passengers\, including twenty-eight Mexican citizens—farmworkers who were being deported by the U.S. government. Outraged that media reports omitted only the names of the Mexican passengers\, American folk icon Woody Guthrie penned a poem that went on to become one of the most important protest songs of the twentieth century\, “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee).” It was an attempt to restore the dignity of the anonymous lives whose unidentified remains were buried in an unmarked mass grave in California’s Central Valley. For nearly seven decades\, the song’s message would be carried on by the greatest artists of our time\, including Pete Seeger\, Dolly Parton\, Bruce Springsteen\, Bob Dylan\, and Joan Baez\, yet the question posed in Guthrie’s lyrics\, “Who are these friends all scattered like dry leaves?” would remain unanswered—until now. \nTim Z. Hernandez will be joined by Margi Dunlap and Connie Ann Mart\, two women directly related to the song and the incident\, as well as Lance Canales\, a musician who helped secure a long-overdue memorial for the Mexican victims of the crash. \nCombining years of painstaking investigative research and masterful storytelling\, award-winning author Tim Z. Hernandez weaves a captivating narrative from testimony\, historical records\, and eyewitness accounts\, reconstructing the incident and the lives behind the legendary song. This singularly original account pushes narrative boundaries\, while challenging perceptions of what it means to be an immigrant in America\, but more importantly\, it renders intimate portraits of the individual souls who\, despite social status\, race\, or nationality\, shared a common fate one frigid morning in January 1948. \nTim Z. Hernandez was born and raised in California’s San Joaquin Valley. An award-winning poet\, novelist\, and performer\, he is the recipient of the American Book Award for poetry\, the Colorado Book Award for poetry\, the Premio Aztlán Prize for fiction\, and the International Latino Book Award for historical fiction. His books and research have been featured in the Los Angeles Times\, the New York Times\, CNN\, Public Radio International\, and National Public Radio. Hernandez holds a BA from Naropa University and an MFA from Bennington College. Hernandez makes his home in El Paso\, where he is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at El Paso’s MFA Program in Creative Writing. You can find more information at his website\, www.timzhernandez.com \nMargi Dunlap is a resident of Pilot Hill\, California\, where she retired after 34 years working in immigrant rights and immigration law. She is the niece of Martin Hoffman\, the musician who is credited with turning Woody Guthrie’s poem\, “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee)” into the popular protest song that later went on to be recorded by music icons such as Pete Seeger\, Bruce Springsteen\, Joan Baez\, and many others. \nConnie Ann Mart is a resident of West Marin County\, California\, where she makes her living as controller for West Marin Senior Services. She is the niece of pilot Frank Atkinson\, who perished in the 1948 plane wreck at Los Gatos Canyon. \nLance Canales\, a musician who collaborated with Hernandez on creating a new arrangement of the song that now includes the names of the Mexican victims. \nWhat has been said of Tim Z. Hernandez work:\n“Tim Z. Hernandez is the real thing. This epic\, tragic story is finally being told\, and it is in the best possible hands.”—Luis Alberto Urrea \n“An important and moving book\, exploring the theme of identity and loss and disenfranchisement—topics that have never been more urgent than they are now. Hernandez has illuminated the present with this original and riveting examination of the past.”—Susan Orlean \n“There’s something miraculous about the storytelling feat Tim Z. Hernandez has pulled off in All They Will Call You. With great compassion and patience\, he has immersed himself in a long-forgotten episode of California history\, and uncovered a multilayered epic of love\, injustice\, and family fortitude\, stretching across generations and borders. This is an intelligent\, empathic\, and deeply moving work.”—Héctor Tobar \n“In his lyrics to ‘Plane Wreck at Los Gatos\,’ my father\, Woody Guthrie\, asked a simple question\, ‘Who are these friends?’ and finally someone has answered that question. It was unknown if their stories would ever come to light\, or if they would simply remain ghosts without names\, as if they had no lives at all—as if they didn’t count. Through Hernandez’s amazing work\, I now know who these people were\, their lives\, their loves\, and their journeys. All They Will Call You is a heart-wrenching read for anyone who cares\, and the names—now etched in stone in a far-off graveyard—have become friends who will travel with me as long as I am walking.”—Arlo Guthrie
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tim-z-hernandez/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sarah Schulman
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street Tuesday\, February 7th at 7:00pm as we welcome Author Sarah Schulman\, reading from and discussing her book Conflict is Not Abuse. \n  \nFrom intimate relationships to global politics\, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between Conflict and Abuse\, Schulman directly addresses our contemporary culture of scapegoating. This deep\, brave\, and bold work reveals how punishment replaces personal and collective self-criticism\, and shows why difference is so often used to justify cruelty and shunning. Rooting the problem of escalation in negative group relationships\, Schulman illuminates the ways cliques\, communities\, families\, and religious\, racial\, and national groups bond through the refusal to change their self-concept. She illustrates how Supremacy behavior and Traumatized behavior resemble each other\, through a shared inability to tolerate difference. \n  \nThis important and sure to be controversial book illuminates such contemporary and historical issues of personal\, racial\, and geo-political difference as tools of escalation towards injustice\, exclusion\, and punishment\, whether the objects of dehumanization are other individuals in our families or communities\, people with HIV\, African Americans\, or Palestinians. Conflict Is Not Abuse is a searing rejection of the cultural phenomenon of blame\, cruelty\, and scapegoating\, and how those in positions of power exacerbate and manipulate fear of the “other” to achieve their goals. \n  \nSarah Schulman is a novelist\, nonfiction writer\, playwright\, screenwriter\, journalist and AIDS historian\, and the author of eighteen books. A Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellow\, Sarah is a Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the City University of New York\, College of Staten Island. Her novels published by Arsenal include Rat Bohemia\, Empathy\, After Delores\, and The Mere Future. She lives in New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-schulman-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Veronica Chambers
DESCRIPTION:Critically-acclaimed author Veronica Chambers discusses her tribute to Michelle Obama\, The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own. Joining Veronica for this panel will be Los Angeles Times reporter Julie Makinen\, and Senior Director of Content Partnerships and Business Development at Getty Images Elodie Mailliet. \nAbout The Meaning of Michelle: Michelle Obama is unlike any other First Lady in American History. From her first moments on the public stage\, she has challenged traditional American notions about what it means to be beautiful\, to be strong\, to be fashion-conscious\, to be healthy\, to be First Mom\, to be a caretaker and hostess\, and to be partner to the most powerful man in the world. What is remarkable is that\, at 52\, she is just getting started. \nWhile many books have looked at Michelle Obama from a fashion perspective\, no book has fully explored what she means to our culture. The Meaning of Michelle does just that\, while offering a parting gift to a landmark moment in American history. In addition to a tribute to Michelle Obama\, this book is also a rollicking\, lively dinner party conversation about race\, class\, marriage\, creativity\, womanhood and what it means to be American today. \nContributors include: Ava DuVernay\, Veronica Chambers\, Benilde Little\, Damon Young\, Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran\, Brittney Cooper\, Ylonda Gault Caviness\, Chirlane McCray\, Cathi Hanauer\, Tiffany Dufu\, Tanisha Ford\, Marcus Samuelsson\, Sarah Lewis\, Karen Hill Anton\, Rebecca Carroll\, Phillipa Soo\, and Roxane Gay.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/veronica-chambers/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Palo Alto\, 74 Town & Country Village\, Palo Alto\, CA\, 94301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Launch Party with Meredith Jaeger
DESCRIPTION:Join local author Meredith Jaeger for a Launch Party celebrating her stunning debut novel\, The Dressmaker’s Dowry. For readers of Lucinda Riley\, Sarah Jio\, or Susan Meissner\, this gripping historical debut novel tells the story of two women: one\, an immigrant seamstress who disappears from San Francisco’s gritty streets in 1876\, and the other\, a young woman in present day who must delve into the secrets of her husband’s wealthy family only to discover that she and the missing dressmaker might be connected in unexpected ways.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-party-with-meredith-jaeger/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170208T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170208T210000
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SUMMARY:Suzun Lucia Lamaina
DESCRIPTION:A social documentary photographic essay about former members of the Black Panther Party. Ms. Lamaina spent five years traveling throughout the United States photographing former Party members. The contemporary portraits and stories reflect their time in the Party and how their individual legacies have progressed. \nPublished in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party. These Panthers\, who dedicated their lives to community service and were known as “Rank and File” members\, are long overdue for recognition in serving the people–body and soul.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/suzun-lucia-lamaina/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170208T193000
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SUMMARY:Brandon Brown
DESCRIPTION:Brandon Brown’s books include THE GOOD LIFE (Big Lucks Books\, 2016)\, TOP 40 (Roof Books\, 2014)\, FLOWERING MALL (Roof Books\, 2012)\, THE PERSIANS BY AESCHYLUS (Displaced Press\, 2011)\, and THE POEMS OF GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS (Krupskaya\, 2011)\, and many chapbooks\, including Tooth Fairy (2008) and Memoirs of my Nervous Illness (Cy Press\, 2006). Since 1998\, he has lived in the Bay Area\, where he has programmed literary events\, edited small press materials under the imprint OMG!\, and written about art and culture for Art Practical and Open Space\, the blog and magazine of the SFMOMA. He is a co-editor at Krupskaya\, organizes with the Bay Area Public School\, and lives in Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brandon-brown/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Laura Atkins w/ Stan Yogi
DESCRIPTION:Fred Korematsu Speaks Up \nLaura Atkins and Stan Yogi chronicle the real-life story of Fred Korematsu and his fight for justice when his family is forced into internment by the U.S. government during WWII.\nAbout Fred Korematsu Speaks Up \nFred Korematsu liked listening to music on the radio\, playing tennis\, and hanging around with his friends—just like lots of other Americans. But everything changed when the United States went to war with Japan in 1941 and the government forced all people of Japanese ancestry to leave their homes on the West Coast and move to distant prison camps. This included Fred\, whose parents had immigrated to the United States from Japan many years before. But Fred refused to go. He knew that what the government was doing was unfair. And when he got put in jail for resisting\, he knew he couldn’t give up. \nInspired by the award-winning book for adults Wherever There’s a Fight\, the Fighting for Justice series introduces young readers to real-life heroes and heroines of social progress. The story of Fred Korematsu’s fight against discrimination explores the life of one courageous person who made the United States a fairer place for all Americans\, and it encourages all of us to speak up for justice.\nAdvance Praise \n“Atkins and Yogi raise good questions…that will inspire a new generation of activists. This first book in the Fighting for Justice series is a must-read for all civics classrooms.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n“Brilliant.”—Elizabeth Partridge\, award-winning author of Marching for Freedom: Walk Together\, Children\, and Don’t You Grow Weary
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laura-atkins-w-stan-yogi/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Adam Hochschild
DESCRIPTION:Adam Hochschild is the author of eight books; the latest\, Spain in Our Hearts: Americans and the Spanish Civil War\, 1936-1939\, appeared in 2016. Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, the PEN USA Literary Award\, the Gold Medal of the California Book Awards\, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has twice been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adam-hochschild/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Women of Color Author Panel at Books Inc. Alameda
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of African American History Month Books Inc. in Alameda proudly presents the Women of Color Author Panel featuring CaT Bobino\, author of In the Know: Setting Up Your Child for the Stem World; Brittney Shipp\, Emmy-nominated TV meteorologist and author of the picture book The Meteorologist in Me; Yvetta Franklin\, author of the middle grade kids book The Code Switch; Marietta Harris\, author of Thou Shalt Not Kill\, an Emily Jenkins mystery; and Tina Maria Scott\, author of the inspiring memoir One Breast to Love and Living Life Victoriously.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/women-of-color-author-panel-at-books-inc-alameda/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Alameda\, 1344 Park Street\, Alameda\, CA\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170210T210000
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SUMMARY:Digging for Pony Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Come help Justine TenZeldam celebrate my first book of poetry\, prose and photographs with some of my favorite people – Gina and the group at LIMINAL! Copies of the book will be on the sale at the event and are also on sale now onAmazon.com with a 25% off DISCOUNT CODE available for pre-orders now: X6XUPBW9 \nMore: Self-published\, the book covers a period in the writer’s life when she was breaking loose from old ideas\, patterns and from a long career in advertising sales. tenZeldam also has a background in publishing and events promotion/sponsorship. \nMost of the work is adult oriented\, with the disclaimer of NSFW applicable. Her nickname is “Badd Gramma” after all. (She is a grandmother\, actually\, and a good one according to said children.) \nIn the spirit of DIY there will be an open mic for poets and singers and open floor for dancers (must sign up 30 minutes prior. Space limited and be cleared by organizers.) \nGina Goldblatt\, Founder and Creative Director of LIMINAL\, will be serving tasty beverages to support the community programs they offer. There will also be a raffle\, and donations of prizes are currently being sought. \nPre-sale copies of the book are on sale now with a discount code of X6XUPBW9 offering 25% off. Order now and get your copy signed by the author (moi) that night! \nFor more information contact me directly via facebook or email eastbayjustine@ gmail \n(18 and over. Donation optional)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/digging-for-pony-release-party/
LOCATION:The Liminal Center\, 3037 38th Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94619\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="The Liminal Center":MAILTO:gina@theliminalcenter.com
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SUMMARY:Elan Mastai
DESCRIPTION:Screenwriter Elan Mastai shares his critically-acclaimed debut novel\, All Our Wrong Todays. You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we’d have? Well\, it happened. In Tom Barren’s 2016\, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars\, moving sidewalks\, and moon bases\, where avocados never go bad and punk rock never existed . . . because it wasn’t necessary.\nExcept Tom just can’t seem to find his place in this dazzling\, idealistic world\, and that’s before his life gets turned upside down. Utterly blindsided by an accident of fate\, Tom makes a rash decision that drastically changes not only his own life but the very fabric of the universe itself. In a time-travel mishap\, Tom finds himself stranded in our 2016\, what we think of as the real world. For Tom\, our normal reality seems like a dystopian wasteland.\nBut when he discovers wonderfully unexpected versions of his family\, his career\, and maybe\, just maybe his soul mate\, Tom has a decision to make. Does he fix the flow of history\, bringing his utopian universe back into existence\, or does he try to forge a new life in our messy\, unpredictable reality? Tom’s search for the answer takes him across countries\, continents\, and timelines in a quest to figure out\, finally\, who he really is and what his future our future is supposed to be.\nAll Our Wrong Todays is about the versions of ourselves that we shed and grow into over time. It is a story of friendship and family\, of unexpected journeys and alternate paths\, and of love in its multitude of forms. Filled with humor and heart\, and saturated with insight and intelligence and a mind-bending talent for invention\, this novel signals the arrival of a major talent.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elan-mastai/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Alameda\, 1344 Park Street\, Alameda\, CA\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lunada Spring Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Featured artists ASHA\, Joseph Jason Santiago LaCour\, and Raphael Cohen. \nOpen Mic sign-up 7:15pm\, hosted by Sandra García Rivera. \nThe Lunada 2017 Spring season opener features spoken word at it’s finest\, with the passion and power of three poets whose work challenges the pueblo to Recognize\, Rise\, and Resist. We will amplify the poems of South Bay poet ASHA\, righteous evolutionary Joseph Jason Santiago LaCour\, and an excerpt from the solo performance of Raphael Cohen called Rebel Elegant\, about the life of former NBA star Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf. The Lunada OPEN MIC invites poets\, lyricists\, emcees\, musicians\, storytellers\, laureates and first-timers to share their inspiration under the lunar spotlight.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunada-spring-reading-series/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170211T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170211T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111224
CREATED:20170114T080939Z
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SUMMARY:Daphne Evans
DESCRIPTION:Beyond Beauty: A Warrior’s Story is a book of triumph\, love\, tears and laughter – with a shot of “Divatude”. \nDaphne Evans is Founder and CEO of Heaven’s Door Cancer Foundation\, starting in 2005 after coming home from a double mastectomy. She has also been diagnosed and has survived ovarian cancer in 1998 and metastatic spinal carcinoma in 2009; she has been cancer free since 2010. Daphne has visited hospitals to be with her sisters and has placed cancer patients from the hospital in national magazine photo shoots and fashion runways in the San Francisco Bay Area. Sending thousands of women to spas across the country since 2005 and having girls come with stiletto shoes to take selfies before being wheeled into surgery\, her mantra is “We will NOT be defined by our diagnosis.” \nDaphne is still a Firm Administrator and Controller Consultant to law firms and eCommerce corporations and has been for nearly 20 years. She is also a fundraiser\, public speaker and philanthropist. Nominated for Woman of the Year by Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Member of Ovarian Cancer Research Fund\, Ovarian Cancer National Alliance\, The Canary Foundation\, Italian Make A Wish Foundation and Society for Oncology Massage. Board of Directors Member of Springfield Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Founder of Evans Relief Foundation. Daphne is also an ordained minister\, feeling it necessary to be with “her girls” from before surgery and in recovery. \nDaphne’s parents\, Reverend Donald and Mrs. Ida Evans have been her inspiration. Her parents taught her that to help others was a ministry that was not passé. With this shining example and encouragement\, Daphne began to volunteer at an early age to care for cancer patients\, sometimes staying for weekends to relieve the overtaxed caregivers. She visited Nicaragua after the Sandinista regime and had trucks bring clothing over the bombed out roads for the villagers while she flew in by a Russian parachute plane. She started Evans Relief Foundation and has hosted clothing drives in San Francisco during the tsunami; finding pilots of private planes to fly the supplies to the victims there. She also found jobs for young professionals stranded by Katrina and paid out of pocket to fly them to their new job locations; opening her vacant home to stranded Joplin\, MO tornado refugees. Daphne became a member of the Italian Make-A-Wish Foundation and would visit Genoa and speak directly to the children\, encouraging hotels to offer free accommodation for the children and their parents. In 2008\, she was nominated as San Francisco’s Woman of the year by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society; devoting 3 months in marathon fundraising. She could never have had the courage or the tenacity to do any of this without her parents showing her that “it is\nmore blessed to give than to receive.” \nAll proceeds from this book go towards the purchase Heaven’s Door’s Vacation Home located in Tarpon Springs\, FL for women with cancer to have a time away with a loved one. This home will be replete with spa therapy\, organic catering restaurants and “Diva counseling” staff\, Daphne has promised to make this happen at the request of a number of the cancer divas who have benefited from this charity. She is working toward making this a dream come true. Donations toward this home can be made to: Heaven’s Door Cancer Foundation\, 727 Via Casitas\, Greenbrae\, CA 94904. Heaven’s Door is a 501 (c) 3 charity.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daphne-evans/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170211T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111224
CREATED:20170109T103336Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T103336Z
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SUMMARY:28 Kisses Chapbook Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Kimberly Kim’s first chapbook\, 28 Kisses\, will be published by be about it press in February 2017. To celebrate\, Kimberly Kim is bringing some friends together for a special evening of poetry and fun. 28 Kisses is the perfect Valentine’s day gift for your person to kiss this holiday. \nWe will have copies of the chapbook for sale at the event\, as well as refreshments. Please stay tuned for more information. \nWe have two confirmed readers for the night so far: \nAdriane Tillman\nand\nIvy Johnson \nMore to be announced soon!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/28-kisses-chapbook-release-party/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170211T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170211T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111224
CREATED:20170202T044852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170202T044852Z
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SUMMARY:Bad Book Party
DESCRIPTION:Join us on February 11th for a Bad Book Party\, hosted by I Don’t Even Own a Television and Friends\n– come together and celebrate all things related to Bad Books with America’s Favorite Bad Books Podcast(TM)\, I Don’t Even Own a Television!\n– your hosts\, J. W. Friedman and Chris Collision will be bringing a selection of their favorite (and least favorite!) bad books to read from and introducing a fun selection of very special guests (that we’re currently working on and will finalize as soon as we can)\n– want to join in the fun?  Bring your own favorite bad book to the event and we’ll read from it! \n\nAbout I Don’t Even Own a Television \n\nI Don’t Even Own a Television is a podcast about bad books. Every two weeks\, hosts J. W. Friedman and Chris Collision get together to talk about a book you almost certainly should not read.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bad-book-party/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170211T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170211T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111224
CREATED:20170131T051659Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T052100Z
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SUMMARY:Writers with Drinks
DESCRIPTION:About the readers/performers: \nTom Tomorrow is the creator of the weekly political cartoon\, This Modern World\, which appears in approximately 80 newspapers across the U.S.\, and on websites such as Daily Kos\, Truthout and Credo. His work has appeared in publications including The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, Spin\, Mother Jones\, Esquire\, The Economist\, The Nation\, U.S. News and World Report\, and The American Prospect\, and has been featured on Countdown with Keith Olbermann. In 2011\, he ended a 16 year run at Salon to create and edit a new comics section at Daily Kos. He has published nine anthologies of his work: Greetings From This Modern World\, Tune in Tomorrow\, The Wrath of Sparky\, Penguin Soup for the Soul\, When Penguins Attack\, The Great Big Book of Tomorrow\, Hell in a Handbasket\, The Future’s So Bright I Can’t Bear to Look\, and Too Much Crazy. He is also the author of a book for children\, The Very Silly Mayor. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2015. He was also the winner of the 2013 Herblock award\, a 2015 Society of Illustrators Silver Medal; the first place AAN award for cartooning in 2015\, and the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism in 1998 and in 2003. \nSarah Schulman’s latest book is Conflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm\, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair. Her recent novel The Cosmopolitans was picked as one of the “Best Books of 2016” by Publishers’ Weekly. Her other non-fiction publications include Israel/Palestine and the Queer International\, The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination\, Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences\, Stagestruck: Theater\, AIDS and the Marketing of Gay America\, and My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush Years. Her novels include The Mere Future\, The Child\, Shimmer\, Empathy\, Rat Bohemia\, People In Trouble\, After Delores\, Girls Visions and Everything\, and The Sophie Horowitz Story. Her plays include Carson McCullers\, Manic Flight Reaction\, and the theatrical adaptation of Isaac Singer’s Enemies: A Love Story. Her screenplays include The Owls (co-written with director Cheryl Dunye)\, Mommy is Coming (co-written with director Cheryl Dunye)\, and Jason and Shirley. She’s a co-producer of the documentary United in Anger: A History of ACT UP. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times\, The Nation\, and Interview. She has won a Guggenheim Fellowship in Playwrighting\, a Fullbright in Judaic Studies\, two American Library Association Book Awards\, and is the 2009 recipient of the Kessler Prize for sustained contribution to LGBT studies. Sarah is Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York\, College of State Island\, and a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University. \nSean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology. He’s the author of the books The Particle at the End of the Universe\, From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time\, and Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity. He has been awarded prizes and fellowships by the National Science Foundation\, NASA\, the Sloan Foundation\, the Packard Foundation\, the American Physical Society\, the American Institute of Physics\, and the Royal Society of London. Carroll has appeared on TV shows such as The Colbert Report\, PBS’s NOVA\, and Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman\, and frequently serves as a science consultant for film and television. \nJennifer Ouellette is the author of four popular science books for the general public: Me\, Myself and Why: Searching for the Science of Self\, The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight\, Win in Vegas\, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse\, The Physics of the Buffyverse\, and Black Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales from the Annals of Physics. She’s formerly the science editor at Gizmodo\, and also edited The Best Online Science Writing 2012. Jennifer’s work has appeared in the Washington Post\, Los Angeles Times\, New York Times Book Review\, Slate\, Smithsonian\, Mental Floss\, Pacific Standard\, Discover\, Salon\, Nature\, BOOM\, Physics Today\, Symmetry\, Physics World\, and New Scientist\, among other venues. She maintains a personal science-and-culture blog called Cocktail Party Physics\, and has also written for Quanta\, Discovery News (2008-2012)\, NOVA’s Nature of Reality blog\, and Nautilus’ Facts So Romantic blog. Jennifer was the founding director of the Science & Entertainment Exchange. She was also a Journalist in Residence at the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. She’s also been an instructor at the Santa Fe Science Writing Workshop\, and was a journalist in residence at the University of Wisconsin\, Madison’s journalism school. \nAlia Volz hosted and produced the landmark reading series Literary Death Match – SF\, from 2010-12. She is also an LDM champion; her story “Near Unison” brought home the crown from Episode 42. She has been profiled in Dark Sky Magazine\, and SF Weekly\, and has been a guest on the television show Lady Brain. San Francisco’s Litquake Festival has recruited her to curate and/or host several high-profile events—sometimes in disguise; for the good of literature\, she’s taken the stage as Anaïs Nin\, Louise Brooks\, and even WWF World Champion Slick Ric Flair. In 2014\, Alia placed second at The MOTH’s San Francisco GrandSLAM Championship. She also received a 2014 award from SF Weekly for “Best San Francisco Writer Without a Book.” To rectify that situation\, she has recently completed her first novel\, HOOF\, a contemporary western set in urban San Francisco. Alia’s stories and essays are found in Tin House\, The New York Times\, Threepenny Review (forthcoming)\, New England Review (forthcoming)\, Utne Reader\, ZYZZYVA\, Huizache\, The Rumpus\, Narratively\, Nerve\, Literary Orphans\, The Normal School\, Covered w/ Fur\, Dark Sky Magazine\, Defenestration\, The Writing Disorder’s “Best Nonfiction of 2012” anthology\, and elsewhere.\nAbout Writers With Drinks: \nWriters With Drinks has won numerous “Best ofs” from local newspapers\, and has been mentioned in 7×7\, Spin Magazine and one of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City novels. The spoken word “variety show” mixes genres to raise money for local causes. The award-winning show includes poetry\, stand-up comedy\, science fiction\, fantasy\, romance\, mystery\, literary fiction\, erotica\, memoir\, zines and blogs in a freewheeling format.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-2/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170212T150000
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CREATED:20170114T082204Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170120T034742Z
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SUMMARY:Raphael Block
DESCRIPTION:In his poetry\, Raphael Block pulls the seen and the unseen together. Strings of Shining Silence reflects empathy for all life — this luminous collection is a love song to the Holy. Here are words that nourish the soul with the ancient music of creation\, the songs that are all around us but so easily unnoticed. The poems are simple\, unadorned and deeply felt — they will take you back to where you belong.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/raphael-block/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170212T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170212T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111224
CREATED:20170114T082334Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170120T034815Z
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SUMMARY:Joyce Carol Oates
DESCRIPTION:In this striking\, enormously affecting novel\, Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of two very different and yet intimately linked American families. Luther Dunphy is an ardent Evangelical who envisions himself as acting out God’s will when he assassinates an abortion provider in his small Ohio town while Augustus Voorhees\, the idealistic doctor who is killed\, leaves behind a wife and children scarred and embittered by grief. \nIn her moving\, insightful portrait\, Joyce Carol Oates fully inhabits the perspectives of two interwoven families whose destinies are defined by their warring convictions and squarely-but with great empathy-confronts an intractable\, abiding rift in American society. \nA Book of American Martyrs is a stunning\, timely depiction of an issue hotly debated on a national stage but which makes itself felt most lastingly in communities torn apart by violence and hatred. \nJoyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities\, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award\, the National Book Award\, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-carol-oates/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170213T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111224
CREATED:20170114T083140Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170120T034922Z
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SUMMARY:Jason Rekulak
DESCRIPTION:Jason Rekulak\, publisher of Quirk Books\, where he has acquired a dozen New York Times-bestsellers\, shares his dazzling debut novel\, The Impossible Fortress. The Impossible Fortress begins with a magazine The year is 1987 and Playboy has just published scandalous photographs of Vanna White\, from the popular TV game show Wheel of Fortune. For three teenage boys Billy\, Alf\, and Clark who are desperately uneducated in the ways of women\, the magazine is somewhat of a Holy Grail: priceless beyond measure and impossible to attain. So\, they hatch a plan to steal it.\nThe heist will be fraught with peril: a locked building\, intrepid police officers\, rusty fire escapes\, leaps across rooftops\, electronic alarm systems\, and a hyperactive Shih Tzu named Arnold Schwarzenegger. Failed attempt after failed attempt leads them to a genius master plan: they’ll swipe the security code to Zelinsky’s convenience store by seducing the owner’s daughter\, Mary Zelinsky. It becomes Billy’s mission to befriend her and get the information by any means necessary. But Mary isn’t your average teenage girl. She’s a computer loving\, expert coder\, already strides ahead of Billy in ability\, with a wry sense of humor and a hidden\, big heart. But what starts as a game to win Mary’s affection leaves Billy with a gut-wrenching choice: deceive the girl who may well be his first love or break a promise to his best friends.\nAt its heart\, The Impossible Fortress is a tender exploration of young love\, true friends\, and the confusing realities of male adolescence with a dash of old school computer programming.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jason-rekulak/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Palo Alto\, 74 Town & Country Village\, Palo Alto\, CA\, 94301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170213T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111224
CREATED:20170114T082907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T143523Z
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SUMMARY:Norman Fischer + Kit Robinson
DESCRIPTION:Norman Fischer is a poet\, essayist\, and Zen Buddhist priest. A graduate of the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop\, his latest poetry collections are Magnolias All At Once (Singing Horse\, 2015) Escape This Crazy Life of Tears: Japan 2010 (Tinfish\, 2014)\, and The Strugglers (Singing Horse\, 2013).  Just out from Chax a collection of tanka (very brief poems): any would be if. In 2015 Universiity of Alabama Press brought out a collection of essays\, Experience: Thinking\, Writing\, Language and Religion. Fischer lives with his wife Kathie on a cliff overlooking the Pacific at Muir Beach. \nKit Robinson was born in Evanston\, Illinois\, grew up in Cincinnati\, went to Yale\, and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area ever since. He is the author of Marine Layer (BlazeVOX)\, Catalan Passages (Streets and Roads)\, Determination (Cuneiform)\, The Messianic Trees: Selected Poems\, 1976-2003 (Adventures in Poetry)\, and many other books of poetry\, including collaborations with Ted Greenwald\, A Mammal of Style (Roof) and Takeaway (c_L Books).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/norman-fischer-and-kit-robinson/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170213T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111224
CREATED:20170131T054148Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T054148Z
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SUMMARY:Paul Auster
DESCRIPTION:Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Sunset Park\, Invisible\, The Book of Illusions\, and The New York Trilogy\, among many other works. In 2006\, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. Inventive and dexterously constructed\, Auster’s new book 4 3 2 1 tells the story of Archibald Isaac Ferguson in four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Auster is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in Brooklyn\, New York. \nTeju Cole is a writer\, art historian\, and photographer. He is the Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College and photography critic of the New York Times Magazine. Cole is the author of three books\, a novella\, Every Day is for the Thief; a novel\, Open City; and an essay collection\, Known and Strange Things. This year\, Cole became the first writer ever to be named finalist for two PEN America literary awards (for Known and Strange Things).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-auster/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170215T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170215T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111224
CREATED:20170114T083929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170204T041606Z
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SUMMARY:Simone White
DESCRIPTION:Readings begin at 6:30pm\, are free & open to the public\, and will take place in the Hearst Field Annex\, room D37\, at UC Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/simone-white/
LOCATION:Hearst Field Annex\, Hearst Field Annex\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170215T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170215T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111224
CREATED:20170114T084749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170114T084749Z
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SUMMARY:David Hartsough w/ Norman Solomon
DESCRIPTION:An evening of discussion between lifleong activists and authors David Hartsough and Norman Solomon \ncelebrating David Hartsough’s recently released book \nWaging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist \nfrom PM Press \nAn evening to discuss the current political climate and how we can move forward constructively and powerfully. We will hear stories of courageous nonviolent responses to racism\, war and violence during sixty years of organizing actions and movements for peace and justice in the US and around the world. What has worked and what are some of the lessons learned as we build campaigns and movements to challenge Trump’s extremist policies? Where do we find hope in the gloom of the Trump presidency? The American people may be more motivated and ready to get actively involved than any time since the 1960’s. We do have the power if we mobilize it to completely change the future course of our country. \nAbout Waging Peace: \nDavid Hartsough knows how to get in the way. He has used his body to block Navy ships headed for Vietnam and trains loaded with munitions on their way to El Salvador and Nicaragua. He has crossed borders to meet “the enemy” in East Berlin\, Castro’s Cuba\, and present-day Iran. He has marched with mothers confronting a violent regime in Guatemala and stood with refugees threatened by death squads in the Philippines. \nWaging Peace is a testament to the difference one person can make. Hartsough’s stories inspire\, educate\, and encourage readers to find ways to work for a more just and peaceful world. Inspired by the examples of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.\, Hartsough has spent his life experimenting with the power of active nonviolence. It is the story of one man’s effort to live as though we were all brothers and sisters. \nEngaging stories on every page provide a peace activist’s eyewitness account of many of the major historical events of the past sixty years\, including the Civil Rights and anti–Vietnam War movements in the United States and the little-known but equally significant nonviolent efforts in the Soviet Union\, Kosovo\, Palestine\, Sri Lanka\, and the Philippines. \nHartsough’s story demonstrates the power and effectiveness of organized nonviolent action. But Waging Peace is more than one man’s memoir. Hartsough shows how this struggle is waged all over the world by ordinary people committed to ending the spiral of violence and war. \nPraise: \n“Peace will only come when all of us become the change we wish to see in this world. David Hartsough became that change and has spent the best part of sixty years working to bring peace to our troubled world. His book is one that every peace-loving person must read and learn from.” —Arun Gandhi\, president\, Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute (grandson of Mahatma Gandhi) \n“It has been my privilege to work with David Hartsough over the years and to be arrested and jailed with him for nonviolent civil disobedience. I highly recommend Waging Peace to every American who wishes to live in a world with peace and justice and wants to feel empowered to help create that world.” —Daniel Ellsberg\, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers \n“When great events happen\, such as the falling of the Berlin Wall\, we must never forget that people like David Hartsough and many others have worked hard to prepare the ground for such ‘miracles.’ David’s belief in the goodness of people\, the power of love\, truth\, and forgiveness and his utter commitment to making peace and ending war will inspire all those who read this book.” —Mairead Maguire\, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate\, Peace People\, Northern Ireland \n“David Hartsough has lived an exemplary nonviolent life. Waging Peace highlights the numerous ways he has done this in many troubled parts of the world as well as in the United States.” —Martin Sheen\, actor \n“If you want to know what it means to live a ‘life well lived\,’ read David Hartsough’s masterful book. It is not only a page turner\, but it will probably transform the way you look at your own life—your priorities\, your lifestyle\, your future.” —Medea Benjamin\, cofounder of Code Pink and Global Exchange \n“Over thirty years ago with great trepidation I went through nonviolence training in order to join the blockade at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant.   David Hartsough was my trainer\, and his personal stories inspired me to put myself on the line for what I believed in.   Later I went on to become a trainer myself\, and for some years Hartsough and I were in a training collective together.   Now he’s compiled his tales of moments of crisis and his life story into this wonderful book.   Waging Peace will inspire anyone who is concerned with social and environmental justice\, and will help you formulate your own approach to the activism so crucial now for the world!”\n—Starhawk\, Author\,The Fifth Sacred Thing\, San Francisco \n“Waging Peace is a collection of powerful and moving stories about how one remarkable person has acted on his belief that peace is possible. It’s a must-read for anyone who wants to help create the world we all hope and pray for. Be prepared to be empowered!”\n—Parker J. Palmer author of Healing the Heart of Democracy\, Let Your Life Speak\, and The Courage to Teach
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-hartsough-w-norman-solomon/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170215T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170215T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111224
CREATED:20170114T085838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170120T035317Z
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SUMMARY:Lyrics + Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics and 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. \nHosted and curated by Mk Chavez and Sharon Coleman. Every third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170215T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170215T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111224
CREATED:20161129T055920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T055920Z
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SUMMARY:Natalie Bazsile
DESCRIPTION:Natalie Baszile is the author of the novel\, Queen Sugar\, adapated for TV by writer/director Ava DuVernay of Selma and co-produced by Oprah Winfrey for the OWN network. Queen Sugar was named one of the San Francisco Chronicles’ Best Books of 2014\, was long-listed for the Crooks Corner Southern Book Prize\, and nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Baszile has a MA in Afro-American Studies from UCLA\, and an MFA from Warren Wilson College’s Program for Writers. She lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/natalie-bazsile/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170215T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170215T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111224
CREATED:20161201T023315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170114T083440Z
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SUMMARY:Min Jin Lee
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading\, talk\, and signing of Min Jin Lee‘s new novel\, Pachinko; a tour de force following one Korean family through the generations. The story begins in early 1900s Korea with Sunja\, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family\, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame and ruin them. Deserted by her lover\, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan. So begins a sweeping saga of an exceptional family in exile from its homeland and caught in the indifferent arc of history. Through desperate struggles and hard-won triumphs\, its members are bound together by deep roots as they face enduring questions of faith\, family\, and identity. \n  \nThere is a long and troubled history of legal and social discrimination against Koreans living in Japan\, even those who have partial ethnic Korean background. Some never disclose their heritage\, although it can follow them in their identification papers and government records. While writing Pachinko\, Min Jin (who herself was born in Korea before moving to the United States) lived in Japan with her husband and son and interviewed dozens of ethnic Koreans about their family histories. Min Jin wanted to acknowledge their stories when so much of their lives had been denied\, erased and despised. \n  \nPachinko is a popular type of adult pinball game\, which originated in Japan in the first half of the twentieth-century. Those who run and operate pachinko parlors\, many of them of Korean ethnicity\, are looked down upon socially\, but some parlors can generate immense fortunes. Many Korean-Japanese families today have some original ties to the pachinko industry. Struggling to find their place in Japanese society\, Sunja’s family finds work in the pachinko business and attempts to build their lives in a new land. \nMin Jin Lee’s debut novel\, Free Food for Millionaires\, was one of the “Top 10 Novels of the Year” for the Times (London)\, NPR’s Fresh Air\, and USA Today. Her short fiction has been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts. Her writings have appeared in Conde Nast Traveler\, Times (London)\, Vogue\, Travel + Leisure\, Wall Street Journal\, New York Times Magazine\, and Food & Wine. Her essays and literary criticism have been anthologized widely. She served as a columnist for Chosun Ilbo\, the leading paper of South Korea. She lives in New York City with her family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/min-jin-lee/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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