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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Kostova
DESCRIPTION:From the #1 bestselling author of The Historian comes The Shadow Land\, an engrossing novel that spans the past and the present and unearths the dark secrets of Bulgaria\, a beautiful and haunted country. \nA young American woman\, Alexandra Boyd\, has traveled to Sofia\, Bulgaria\, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. Soon after arriving in this elegant East European city\, however\, she helps an elderly couple into a taxi and realizes too late that she has accidentally kept one of their bags. Inside she finds an ornately carved wooden box engraved with a name: Stoyan Lazarov. Raising the hinged lid\, she discovers that she is holding an urn filled with human ashes. \nAs Alexandra sets out to locate the family and return this precious item\, she will first have to uncover the secrets of a talented musician who was shattered by oppression and she will find out all too quickly that this knowledge is fraught with its own danger. \nElizabeth Kostova’s new novel is a tale of immense scope that delves into the horrors of a century and traverses the culture and landscape of this mysterious country. Suspenseful and beautifully written\, it explores the power of stories\, the pull of the past\, and the hope and meaning that can sometimes be found in the aftermath of loss. \nElizabeth Kostova is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Historian\, for which she won the 2006 Book Sense Award for Best Adult Fiction and the 2005 Quill Award for Debut Author of the Year\, and The Swan Thieves. She graduated from Yale and holds an MFA from the University of Michigan\, where she won the Hopwood Award for Novel-in-Progress.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-kostova/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Rolling Writers: Let's Jew It!
DESCRIPTION:Let’s Jew It!\nSaturday\, April 15\, 6 to 8 pm\nAt Rolling Out\nSubmissions open. See guidelines below\, bubie. \nAlready On Board \nSusan Cohen\nRick May\nColleen McKee\n[Your Name Here?] Submissions are rolling … we’ll keep accepting subs until the lineup is full.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rolling-writers-lets-jew-it/
LOCATION:Rolling Out Cafe\, 1722 Taraval St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sponge: Cheena Marle Lo\, Angela Hume + Jacob Kahn
DESCRIPTION:Its the one-year anniversary of Sponge! We’re celebrating by having some great poets come out\, some of whom will be leaving the Bay Area\, heardbreaking but full of excitment. Just like Spring! Maybe we’ll even have some elderflower liqueur. \nCheena Marie Lo is the author of the full length title A Series of Un/Natural/Disasters (Commune Editions\, 2016). They co-edit the literary journal\, HOLD. \nAngela Hume has been a poet in Oakland for 11 years. But now she’s leaving town\, and having so many feelings! Angela is the author of the chapbooks Melos (Projective Industries\, 2015)\, The Middle (Omnidawn\, 2013) and Second Story of Your Body (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs\, 2011). Her first full-length book is Middle Time (Omnidawn\, 2016). \nJacob Kahn is a poet originally from the Rocky Mountains. He lives in Oakland\, CA\, where he works at E.M. Wolfman Books and teaches at an elementary school. A poetic guidebook\, ‘A Circuit of Yields: Conventional Wisdom for Giants’ (2015)\, is out from Wolfman Books. Other recent work can be found in Elderly\, Open House\, and Spork.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sponge-cheena-marle-lo-angela-hume-jacob-kahn/
LOCATION:976 21st st\, 976 21st st\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poets Night
DESCRIPTION:Poets Night at Sunnyvale Library\nMonday\, April 17\, 2017\, 6:00pm\nFeatures: Charlotte Muse\, Riley O’Connell\, and Kim Johnson\nopen mic follows with host Bill Cozzini \nSunnyvale Public Library \n665 W Olive Ave\, Sunnyvale\, CA 94086\nFree and open to the public \nCharlotte Muse received both her MA and MFA from San Francisco State\, where she taught poetry. Her most recent books include Violin (Blurb Books\, 2013)\, a series of poems illustrated by the artist Joyce Savre\, and A Story Also Grows (a Main Street Rag Editor’s Selection. A handmade letterpress edition by the Chester Creek Press is in both the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress rare book collections.) Her website is at www.charlottemuse.net. \nAn avid writer since the first grade\, Riley O’Connell served briefly as Denver’s inaugural Youth Poet Laureate before attending Santa Clara University\, where she founded both The Bronco Slam & Jam (a quarterly poetry slam/music open mic) and SCU’s first national CUPSI team during her studies in English and Communication. \nKim Johnson has been a member of several Bay Area slam teams and toured the US many times\, performing at slam venues\, clubs\, colleges\, festivals and performing arts centers. In 2009 she was an Individual World Poetry Slam finalist\, and in 2010 completed her first European poetry tour with performances in Germany\, Spain\, Austria and the Netherlands. She has been a poet mentor for Youth Speaks San Francisco\, Lyrical Minded SF and Future Arts Now.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-night/
LOCATION:Sunnyvale Public Library\, 665 W Olive Ave\, Sunnyvale\, CA\, 94086\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:2017 Library Laureates: Library Love Stories
DESCRIPTION:Nion McEvoy and Camilla Smith are Co-Chairs of the 2017 Library Laureates Benefit Gala\, Library Love Stories\, which will take place on April 7\, 2017. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love and following the 2016 sold-out event\, we will again gather under the nautilus at the Main Library. Join us as we celebrate and honor author\, publisher\, and Library championPeter Booth Wiley; poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti (our first Honorary Library Laureate); and 35 other luminaries of the literary world. \nFeaturing specialty cocktails\, fine wine and a spectacular dinner in intimate salons\, the highlight of this one-of-a-kind evening is mixing\, mingling and dining with an author at each table. \nPlease join host and supporters Sarah & Jason Jones\, Ruth & William Isenberg\, Barbro & Bernard Osher\, Roselyne Chroman Swig\, Peter Wiley\, Donna Miller Casey\, Helen & Allan Ridley\, Diane Wilsey and other philanthropists\, community leaders\, authors and corporate partners in support of the partnership of Friends and the San Francisco Public Library that makes the exceptional difference for our community by offering a premier library system in San Francisco. \nSponsorship Opportunities/Table Sales available now (please note the February 15 print deadline.) \nPlease contact Laurie Berk at laurie.berk@friendssfpl.org for more information \n– See more at: http://www.friendssfpl.org/events/librarylaureates/overview.html#sthash.rRR9YDcH.dpuf
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2017-library-laureates-library-love-stories/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marcelo Hernandez Castillo & Javier Zamora: Undocupoets Resist
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the spring MFA in Writing Pop-Up Reading: \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo & Javier Zamora: Undocupoets Resist \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo was born in Zacatecas\, Mexico. He is a CantoMundo fellow and the first undocumented student to graduate from the University of Michigan’s MFA program. He was a finalist for the New England Review Emerging Writer Award and his full-length manuscript\, Origin of Drowning\, was a finalist for the Alice James Book Prize and the National Poetry Series. He co-founded the Undocupoets campaign which successfully eliminated citizenship requirements from all major first poetry book prizes in the country and was recognized with the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers” award from Poets and Writers Magazine. \nJavier Zamora was born in El Salvador and migrated to the US when he was nine. He is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow and holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, Colgate University\, MacDowell\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and Yaddo. His first book\, Unaccompanied\, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press\, Fall 2017. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Migration Studies. \nFree and open to the public. \nFor more information on the MFA in Writing Program visit: https://www.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/graduate-programs/writing213
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcelo-hernandez-castillo-javier-zamora-undocupoets-resist/
LOCATION:USF Lone Mountain Main – LM 100 – Handlery Room\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Gabriel Thompson
DESCRIPTION:Editor Gabriel Thompson discusses the latest Voice of Witness book\, Chasing the Harvest: Migrant Workers in California Agriculture. \nPrasie for Voice of Witness \n“To read a Voice of Witness book is to feel one’s habitual sense of disconnection begin to fall away.”—George Saunders\, author of The Tenth of December \n“[Voice of Witness] books are amazing… beautifully produced\, with incredible editing and literary sensibility. Voice of Witness has done a better job than I’ve seen anybody do with having people tell their stories in a way that really engages you.”—Rachel Maddow\, MSNBC \n“The Voice of Witness series is a megaphone for our country’s most marginalized voices.”—Van Jones\, former special advisor to the Obama White House\, author of Rebuilding the Dream \nAbout Chasing the Harvest \nMore than a million men\, women\, and children work in American agriculture\, and yet their stories are rarely told\, their low-wage jobs are not included in minimum-wage ordinances or campaigns\, and their work remains unorganized by labor unions. This book of oral histories restores to visibility these workers\, by telling stories of hardship but also bravery\, solidarity\, and improvization in California’s farm fields. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gabriel-thompson/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:MPC: B.H. Fairchild
DESCRIPTION:Marin Poetry Center and North Berkeley Library are proud to co-sponsor a reading by B.H. Fairchild. Come to the North Berkeley Library on Tuesday\, April 18th at 6 p.m. to hear this extraordinary poet read. (1170 The Alameda\, Berkeley\, CA)\n\n\nB.H. Fairchild grew up in small towns in Texas and Kansas. The son of a lathe operator\, his poetry explores the empty landscapes of the region of his birth\, and the lives of its working-class residents\, and the search for beauty and meaning in daily life. He is one of the great contemporary narrative poets. According to Paul Mariani\, Fairchild’s poems “insist on the beauty to be found in what seems to be a desolate landscape.” \nFairchild’s books of poetry include The Arrival of the Future (1985; reissued 2000); The Art of the Lathe (1998)\, which received the Beatrice Hawley Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award; Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest (2004)\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the California Book Award\, and the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry; Local Knowledge (2005); and Usher: Poems (2009). Fairchild has also written a critical study on the poetry of William Blake\, Such Holy Song: Music as Idea\, Form\, and Image in the Poetry of William Blake (1980).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mpc-b-h-fairchild/
LOCATION:North Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 1170 The Alameda\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Not Funny! Sad! Cartoonists Respond to Trump
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/not-funny-sad-cartoonists-respond-to-trump/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Eastridge Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Eastridge Open Mic\nwith host Lorenz Dumuk\nTuesday\, April 18\, 2017\, 6:00pm\nFeature: Michelle Lin\nopen mic follows \nBarnes & Noble at Eastridge Mall\n2200 Eastridge Loop\, Suite #1420\, San José\nNearest cross streets are Tully and E. Capitol Expressway\nFree and open to the public \nMichelle Lin is a poet\, activist\, and author of A House Made of Water (Sibling Rivalry Press)\, a lyrical examination of Asian American identity\, gender and daughterhood\, the inheritance of stories\, and survival from trauma. Her poems can be found in HEArt\, Apogee\, Powder Keg Magazine\, Dusie\, Asian American Literary Review\, North American Review\, ZYZZYVA\, Adrienne\, Quaint Magazine\, Aster(ix)\, and more. Her work was showcased in Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera’s “Lo Writer of the Week” and the Pennsylvania Center for the Book’s Public Poetry Project. She has performed for Kearny Street Workshop’s APAture\, grlhood\, Litquake\, and more. A former poetry teacher and editor\, she lives and works in the Bay Area for API Legal Outreach\, a social justice non-profit serving marginalized communities\, volunteers for Kearny Street Workshop\, the oldest multidisciplinary Asian Pacific American arts organization in the country\, and reads for Twelfth House Journal. She is a poetry fellow of Kundiman\, an organization dedicated to the creation and cultivation of Asian American literature. Learn more at michellelinpoet.wordpress.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eastridge-open-mic/
LOCATION:Barnes & Noble at Eastridge Mall\, 2200 Eastridge Loop\, Suite #1420\, San José\, CA\, 95122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Morgan Parker
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Morgan Parker to the store to discuss and sign There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé on Tuesday\, April 18th at 7:00 pm. \nThere Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé uses political and pop-cultural references as a framework to explore 21st century black American womanhood and its complexities: performance\, depression\, isolation\, exoticism\, racism\, femininity\, and politics. The poems weave between personal narrative and pop-cultural criticism\, examining and confronting modern media\, consumption\, feminism\, and Blackness. This collection explores femininity and race in the contemporary American political climate\, folding in references from jazz standards\, visual art\, personal family history\, and Hip Hop. The voice of this book is a multifarious one: writing and rewriting bodies\, stories\, and histories of the past\, as well as uttering and bearing witness to the truth of the present\, and actively probing toward a new self\, an actualized self. This is a book at the intersections of mythology and sorrow\, of vulnerability and posturing\, of desire and disgust\, of tragedy and excellence. \nMorgan Parker is the author of Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night\, selected by Eileen Myles for the 2013 Gatewood Prize. Her work has been featured in numerous publications and anthologies\, including Why I Am Not A Painter\, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop\, and Best American Poetry 2016. Winner of a 2016 Pushcart Prize and a Cave Canem graduate fellow\, Morgan lives in Brooklyn\, New York. She works as an editor for Little A and Day One\, moonlights as poetry editor of The Offing\, and co-curates the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading series with Tommy Pico. With poet and performer Angel Nafis\, she is The Other Black Girl Collective.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/morgan-parker-2/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night
DESCRIPTION:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night: Every 3rd Tuesday of the Month from 7:00-9:30pm\nNEXT: Tuesday April 18th\, 2017\nFeatured Poet: EK Keith for Nat’l Poetry & Jazz Month! \nat PianoFight: 144 Taylor Street (between Turk & Eddy)\, San Francisco\, CA 94102 – Powell Street BART \nHosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir. Live jazz with Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. FREE admission\, all ages\, full menu and bar in the front room. Open Mic for poetry only – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #23 (Music by Turk and Divis)
DESCRIPTION:An amazing gathering of writers will read NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts) within a three-minute time limit. \nThe emcee for the night will be the one and only Christine No \nFeatured lineup of writers include: K.R. Morrison\, Evan Karp\, Kate Ambash\, Alex Ivey\, Giavanna Ortiz de Candia\, Josey Duncan\, Preeti Vangani\, James Warner\, Garrett Murphy\, Lyndsey Ellis\, Charlie Getter\, Andrew J. Thomas\, Kelechi Marie and more TBA \nMusical Guest: Turk and Divis
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-23-music-by-turk-and-divis/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Sarah Ladipo Manyika
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is proud to host the launch for Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s second novel\, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun. Sarah will be in conversation with Daniel Handler. Please join us! \n‘Morayo Da Silva\, a cosmopolitan Nigerian woman\, lives in Cole Valley\, San Francisco. On the cusp of seventy-five\, she is in good health and makes the most of it\, enjoying road trips in her vintage Porsche\, chatting to strangers\, and recollecting characters from her favorite novels. Then she has a fall and her independence crumbles. Without the support of family\, she relies on friends and chance encounters. As Morayo recounts her story\, moving seamlessly between past and present\, we meet Dawud\, a charming Palestinian shopkeeper\, Sage\, a feisty\, homeless Grateful Dead devotee\, and Antonio\, the poet whom Morayo desired more than her ambassador husband. Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun is a subtle and mesmerizing meditation on aging\, friendship\, and loss. It is also a nuanced portrait of the erotic yearnings of an older woman. \n————————–————————–————– \nLike the dusty spines on Morayo’s bookshelves\, every character in this novel hides a vibrant\, teeming inner world behind an unspectacular façade. […] Ladipo Manyika’s book reminds us of the value of indulgence and delight – in sex\, in food\, in company\, and in reading. – The New Statesmen \nSarah Manyika’s Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun is the rare sort of book that\, from the instant you pick it up\, you know that you will privy to the most intimate secrets. It is as if Dr. Morayo Da Silva is speaking directly into your ear. A real life-force of a character whose honesty\, warmth\, energy\, and bravery in the face of inevitable loss springs forth on the page. Chekhov once said that the ‘Russian loves to recall living\, but he does not love living.” Da Silva manages\, in her unique way\, to love both\, the remembering and life in the present tense. A beautiful\, important new novel\, and one that will continue to echo in a reader’s mind for a long time after. – Peter Orner \nDr. Morayo Da Silva is one of the most memorable characters you are likely to encounter on the page – intelligent\, indomitable\, author and survivor of a large life. In dreamlike prose\, Manyika dips in and out of her present\, her past\, in a story that argues always for generosity\, for connection\, for a vigorous and joyful endurance. – Karen Joy Fowler \n————————–————————–————– \nSarah Ladipo Manyika was raised in Nigeria and has lived in Kenya\, France\, and England. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and for several years taught literature at San Francisco State University. Sarah currently serves on the boards of Hedgebrook and the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco. Sarah is a Patron of the Etisalat Prize for Literature and host to OZY’s video series “Write.” Her second novel Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun was shortlisted for the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-ladipo-manyika-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Edie Meidav w/ Larry Bensky
DESCRIPTION:Edie Meidav in Conversation with Larry Bensky\n\n\n\n\ndiscussing Meidav’s story collection\, Kingdom of the Young. \n“Ambitious\, original\, deliciously philosophical. Kingdom of the Young invites comparison to the cronicas of Clarice Lispector and the fabulas of Italo Calvino.”–Carolyn Cooke\, author of Daughters of the Revolution \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, April 18\, 2017 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThe dynamic characters in Kingdom of the Young are searching: for adventure\, work\, love\, absolution\, better chances elsewhere. In a symphonic stream of consciousness\, a fanatical child army loses faith in its commander as he ages unforgivably into his thirties. A woman possessed with wanderlust and a small inheritance seeks love among the cave-dwelling Roma in Granada. Traumatized war veterans run local rackets; smarmy bureaucrats rise through the ranks of repressive regimes; civilians attempt to escape the stranglehold of life under dictatorships. From the honeycombed caves outside the Alhambra to the streets of Havana\, from hospital wards to quinceanera parties\, these stories–along with the collection’s illuminating nonfiction coda–testify to Meidav’s vast imaginative range. \nEdie Meidav is the author of three novels–The Far Field\, Crawl Space\, and Lola\, California. Her honors include a Lannan Literary Award\, the Kafka Award for Best Novel by an American Woman\, the Bard Fiction Prize\, a Whiting Award\, and a Howard Fellowship. She teaches at the UMass MFA program and lives in Amherst. \nLarry Bensky is a Berkeley journalist\, radio host\, political activist\, educator\, and Proust scholar. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/edie-meidav-w-larry-bensky/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Eveline Kanes + MaryLee McNeal
DESCRIPTION:Poets Eveline Kanes (A Coin Worn Thin) and MaryLee McNeal (The Way We Fall) will read from their latest collections.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eveline-kanes-marylee-mcneal/
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:20170419T193000
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CREATED:20170118T061308Z
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SUMMARY:Morgan Parker
DESCRIPTION:The Holloway Series of Poetry presents a reading with Morgan Parker.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/morgan-parker/
LOCATION:Hearst Field Annex\, Hearst Field Annex\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Joyce Maynard
DESCRIPTION:Joyce Maynard is the author of sixteen books including the novels To Die For and Labor Day (both adapted for film) and the best-selling memoir\, At Home in the World. A fellow of the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo\, she founded the Lake Atitlan Writers’ Workshop in 2001. Maynard makes her home in Lafayette\, CA\, where she is currently at work on the screenplay for her novel\, Under the Influence. A memoir about finding her husband at age 58\, marrying him at 59\, and losing him to cancer three years later\, will be published in Fall\, 2017.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-maynard/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Zachary Mason
DESCRIPTION:Not far in the future the seas have risen and the central latitudes are emptying\, but it’s still a good time to be rich in San Francisco\, where weapons drones patrol the skies to keep out the multitudinous poor. Irina isn’t rich\, not quite\, but she does have an artificial memory that gives her perfect recall and lets her act as a medium between her various employers and their AIs\, which are complex to the point of opacity. It’s a good gig\, paying enough for the annual visits to the Mayo Clinic that keep her from aging. \n  \nKern has no such access; he’s one of the many refugees in the sprawling drone-built favelas on the city’s periphery\, where he lives like a monk\, training relentlessly in martial arts\, scraping by as a thief and an enforcer. Thales is from a different world entirely—the mathematically inclined scion of a Brazilian political clan\, he’s fled to L.A. after the attack that left him crippled and his father dead. \n  \nA ragged stranger accosts Thales and demands to know how much he can remember. Kern flees for his life after robbing the wrong mark. Irina finds a secret in the reflection of a laptop’s screen in her employer’s eyeglasses. None are safe as they’re pushed together by subtle forces that stay just out of sight. \n  \nVivid\, tumultuous\, and propulsive\, Void Star is Zachary Mason’s mind-bending follow-up to his bestselling debut\, The Lost Books of the Odyssey.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zachary-mason/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joan Frank
DESCRIPTION:Joan Frank\n\n\n\n\nreads from her new novel\, All the News I Need\, winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction admiistered by UMass Press.\n“A deep dive into the heart of friendship\, of memory and regret\, of aging and loss… redemptive and wholly satisfying surprises…Joan Frank has gifted us with two unforgettable characters in a novel filled to bursting with hard truths and shimmering beauty.”—Bob Wake\, Cambridge Review \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, April 19\, 2017 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nA story of love and sex and friendship\, of art and travel—and of those small changes\, within our reach\, that may help us save ourselves—somewhere toward the end. \n“This wholly original novel asks and answers the most urgent of all questions: how are we to live? In precise\, pointillist prose\, Joan Frank humbly delivers an unforgettable and unconventional love story with characters who both define and defy the rules of aging. Beneath the surface of these deceptively quiet pages lies a barely containable exuberance\, a life-force I found moving and inspiring.”—Christopher Castellani \nJoan Frank is also the award-winning author of Because You Have To: A Writing Life\, and Make It Stay\, among other novels and story collections. A reviewer of literary fiction for the San Francisco Chronicle\, she lives in Northern California. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joan-frank-2/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 19\, 7:30pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series \nLyrics 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. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, April 19\, 2017 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nShattuck Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170419T213000
DTSTAMP:20260409T102409
CREATED:20170323T001847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170323T001847Z
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SUMMARY:Marcy Dermansky w/ Daniel Hadler
DESCRIPTION:Praise for The Red Car \n“I’ve been waiting and waiting for a new book from Marcy Dermansky and finally that new book is here. The Red Car is taut and smart and strange and sweet and perfect. I want to eat this book or sew it to my skin or something.” Roxane Gay\, author Bad Feminist \n“A new book by the inimitable Marcy Dermansky is worth cheering for. The Red Car is droll\, unflinching\, and mysterious\, a feat of efficient storytelling. I could not put it down. This novel mesmerized me.” Edan Lepucki\, author of California \n“There are few writers who can do what Marcy Dermansky does so effortlessly in The Red Car\, the way she pushes this story in such surprising and thrilling directions\, never losing control\, taking your breath away line by beautiful line. Dermansky writes with such unnerving clarity about grief\, not just for the loss of a loved one\, but for our own unexpected lives. A strange\, unflinching\, utterly amazing novel.” Kevin Wilson\, author of The Family Fang \n\nAbout the Red Car \nLeah is living in Queens with a possessive husband she doesn’t love and a long list of unfulfilled ambitions\, when she’s jolted from a thick ennui by a call from the past. Her beloved former boss and friend\, Judy\, has died in a car accident and left Leah her most prized possession and\, as it turns out\, the instrument of Judy’s death: a red sports car. \nJudy was the mentor Leah never expected. She encouraged Leah’s dreams\, analyzed her love life\, and eased her into adulthood over long lunches away from the office. Facing the jarring disconnect between the life she expected and the one she is now actually living\, Leah takes off for San Francisco to claim Judy’s car. In sprawling days defined by sex\, sorrow\, and unexpected delight\, Leah revisits past lives and loves in search of a self she abandoned long ago. Piercing through Leah’s surreal haze is the enigmatic voice of Judy\, as sharp as ever\, providing wry commentary on Leah’s every move. \nFollowing her “irresistible” (Time) and “wicked” (Slate) novel Bad Marie\, Dermansky evokes yet another edgy\, capricious\, and beautifully haunting heroine one whose search for realization is as wonderfully unpredictable and hypnotic as the twists and turns of the Pacific Coast Highway. Tautly wound\, transgressive\, and mordantly funny\, The Red Car is an incisive exploration of one woman’s unusual route to self-discovery.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcy-dermansky-w-daniel-hadler/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Spring in Translation: Poets on Translation
DESCRIPTION:Lighting one candle\nWith another candle;\nAn evening of spring.\n–Yosa Buson \nA reading by five poet/translators. A reading of translation\, of translating and of not translating. \nNorma Cole\nJavier O. Huerta\nAlex Cigale\nAraceli\nTerry Taplin
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spring-in-translation-poets-on-translation/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170420T210000
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SUMMARY:Cleve Jones - When We Rise
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to announce our second What We Do Now event featuring the amazing Cleve Jones in conversation with David Talbot to discuss activism and dissent In Trump’s America. \nCleve Jones’ career as an activist began in San Francisco in 1970s. He co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and conceived the idea of the AIDS Memorial Quilt\, which memorializes over 85\,000 Americans who have died from AIDS. He lives in San Francisco and works as a labor activist. \nHis new book\, When We Rise: My Life in the Movement provided inspiration for the ABC television mini-series of the same name. \nBorn in 1954\, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were. Like thousands of other young people\, Jones\, nearly penniless\, was drawn in the early 1970s to San Francisco\, a city electrified by progressive politics and sexual freedom. \nJones found community–in the hotel rooms and ramshackle apartments shared by other young adventurers\, in the city’s bathhouses and gay bars like The Stud\, and in the burgeoning gay district\, the Castro\, where a New York transplant named Harvey Milk set up a camera shop\, began shouting through his bullhorn\, and soon became the nation’s most outspoken gay elected official. \nWith Milk’s encouragement\, Jones dove into politics and found his calling in “the movement.” When Milk was killed by an assassin’s bullet in 1978\, Jones took up his mentor’s progressive mantle–only to see the arrival of AIDS transform his life once again. By turns tender and uproarious\, When We Rise is Jones’ account of his remarkable life. When We Rise is not only the story of a hero to the LQBTQ community\, but the vibrantly voice memoir of a full and transformative American life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cleve-jones-when-we-rise/
LOCATION:Bookshop West Portal\, 80 W Portal Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94127\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Bookshop West Portal":MAILTO:info@bookshopwestportal.com
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SUMMARY:Hope in the Dark: Activist Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Not just any book club. An intentional\, socially engaged book club with an activist agenda. It all started with a pervasive sense of dread and overwhelm…do you know the feeling? \nIf you are ready to ameliorate this sense of dread and overwhelm by grounding yourself in community\, to listen to and feel empathy for perspectives different from your own\, if you believe in story\, please join us. If you are ready to do the work of facing challenging topics and checking our privileges and assumptions in a supportive\, safe environment; if you want some mutual accountability to keep each other moving forward; if you want to organize action but don’t know how\, join us. We don’t have the answers\, but we are armed to the teeth with questions! \nWe can’t really say it better than the folks at Finding steady ground: “The goal is to become a student of history so that you can take inspiration and deepen your understanding of how to struggle and thrive.” \nOur first book is Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit! It’s a quick read but full of important stories and\, well\, hope. \nThe Deets:\nActivist Book Club\nevery 3rd Thursday\n6 p.m.\nMission Pie (near 24th and Mission)\nco-hosted by Ava Rosen and Hannah Smith\nFree \n*Please let us know if you’d like to participate but the time or location doesn’t work for you! \n**You are welcome no matter how you identify\, when you were born\, or where you come from. All we ask is that you are open to discomfort\, and act from a place of kindness.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hope-in-the-dark-activist-book-club/
LOCATION:Mission Pie\, 2901 Mission St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bahiyyih Nakhjavani: Coming from Nowhere
DESCRIPTION:Coming from Nowhere: Breaking Free of Cultural Branding and Identity Politics \nBahiyyih Nakhjavani was born in Iran\, raised in Uganda\, and educated in the UK and the States. She has taught literature and creative writing in many countries\, is the author of non-fiction as well as novels\, and has adapted Persian poetry into English during her career as a teacher and a writer. Her latest work\, “Us & Them\,” is a satire about the Iranian diaspora all over the world. She currently lives in Strasburg\, France. \nFree and open to the public\, no RSVP required. Lecture is in English. \nCopies of Ms. Nakhjavani’s newest book will be available for sale at the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bahiyyih-nakhjavani-coming-from-nowhere/
LOCATION:Bishop Auditorium\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Mystical Poetry and the Awakened Heart
DESCRIPTION:An Evening with Acharya Shunya and Yogacharya Ellen Grace O’Brianfeaturing heartfelt conversations on Bhakti and the Hidden Sweetness\, and poetry reading by Yogacharya from her latest award-winning poetry collection\, “The Moon Reminded Me”. \nPoetry says what the mind can only glimpse but the heart knows full well. It is the ancient language of the soul spoken by all mystic bards of Bhakti\, the yoga of devotion calling us to awaken to divine Love. Through the ages\, poetry persists as the soul insists on revealing itself again and again. Yogacharya Ellen O’Brian’s reading from her collection of poems invites the mind to sink into the heart of divine remembrance. \nCome—listen\, meditate\, remember what matters most\, who you really are. \nApril 20\, 2017 | 6:30 – 8:30 pm\, 8:30 – 9:00 pm – Book signing by Yogacharya\nVedika Global Emeryville\, CA\nThis event is open to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mystical-poetry-and-the-awakened-heart/
LOCATION:Vedika Global\, 5950 Doyle St.\, Emeryville\, CA\, 94608\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Dana Goia Reading
DESCRIPTION:Please join California poet laureate\, Dana Gioia\, El Cerrito poet laureate\, Maw Shein Win\, and Kiara Chatman and Camila Morales-Jimenez\, Poetry Out Loud Student Champions of Contra Costa County for a poetry reading and conversation. The event will take place on Thursday\, April 20th at 6:30pm at the El Cerrito Public Library located at 6510 Stockton Avenue. \nWe look forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dana-goia-reading/
LOCATION:El Cerrito Public Library\, 6510 Stockton Ave\, El Cerrito\, CA\, 94530\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Morgan Parker + Arisa White in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼\nThursday\, April 20\, 2017\nAlley Cat Books\n3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\n6:30 PM\n==FREE==\n▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼\n\nAbout the Writers: \nArisa White\nCave Canem fellow Arisa White received her MFA from UMass\, Amherst\, and is the author of Black Pearl\, Post Pardon\, Hurrah’s Nest\, and A Penny Saved. She teaches in the low-residency BFA program at Goddard College and is a lecturer at San Francisco State University. She is the distinguished visiting writer in residence at Saint Mary’s College of California. You’re the Most Beautiful Thing that Happened is her newest collection from Augury Books. \nFind out more at http://www.arisawhite.com \nMorgan Parker\nParker is the author of Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night (Switchback Books 2015) and There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce (Tin House 2017). Her work has been published in the The Paris Review\, Poetry\, The New York Times\, The Nation\, Buzzfeed\, and elsewhere. Her poetry has been anthologized in Why I Am Not A Painter\, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop\, and Best American Poetry 2016. Parker is the recipient of a 2017 National Endowment of the Arts Literature Fellowship\, winner of a 2016 Pushcart Prize\, and a Cave Canem graduate fellow. She lives with her dog Braeburn in Brooklyn\, NY. With Tommy Pico\, she co-curates the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading series\, and with Angel Nafis\, she is The Other Black Girl Collective. \nFind out more at http://www.morgan-parker.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/morgan-parker-arisa-white-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170118T061548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170118T061548Z
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SUMMARY:Omar El Akkad
DESCRIPTION:American War \npublished by Knopf \nAn audacious and powerful debut novel. a second American Civil War\, a devastating plague\, and one family caught deep in the middle—a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself. \nOMAR EL AKKAD\, formerly of the Globe and Mail\, is an award-winning journalist and author who has travelled around the world to cover many of the most important news stories of the last decade. His reporting includes dispatches from the NATO-led war in Egypt and the Black Lives Matter movement in Ferguson\, Missouri. He is a recipient of the National Newspaper Award for investigative reporting for his coverage on the “Toronto 18” terrorism arrests. He has also received the Goff Penny Memorial Prize for Young Journalists\, as well as three National Magazine Award honourable mentions. He is a graduate of Queen’s University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/omar-el-akkad/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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