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SUMMARY:Sarah Gailey
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Gailey’s wildfire debut River of Teeth is a rollicking alternate history adventure that Charlie Jane Anders calls “preposterously fun.” \nIn the early 20th Century\, the United States government concocted a plan to import hippopotamuses into the marshlands of Louisiana to be bred and slaughtered as an alternative meat source. This is true. \nOther true things about hippos: they are savage\, they are fast\, and their jaws can snap a man in two. \nThis was a terrible plan. \nContained within this volume is an 1890s America that might have been: a bayou overrun by feral hippos and mercenary hippo wranglers from around the globe. It is the story of Winslow Houndstooth and his crew. It is the story of their fortunes. It is the story of his revenge.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-gailey/
LOCATION:Borderlands Books\, 866 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170519T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170519T210000
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Finney Boylan
DESCRIPTION:Nationally recognized civil rights advocate and New York Times-bestselling author Jennifer Finney Boylan discusses her new work of fiction\, Long Black Veil. \nReview Quotes:\nPraise for Long Black Veil \n“This is Boylan’s best book. It’s one of the most eloquent pleas for empathy and moral imagination I’ve ever encountered.\n RICHARD RUSSO\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Nobody’s Fool \n“In the tradition of Donna Tartt\, Jennifer Finney Boylan has crafted a thriller that’s intellectual\, existential\, and compulsively readable. If change is the only constant in life\, how much can a person reinvent himself and still be the same? Long after the last page is turned\, you will be thinking about the nature of identity\, the pull of the past\, and whether you can ever outrun the person you used to be.\n JODI PICOULT\, New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and Leaving Time \nJennifer Finney Boylan rewards her fans with a riveting whodunit.The plot shapeshifts along with the unforgettable characters–including a woman whose family could be dismantled by her long-buried secrets. All this is rendered in Jenny’s signature hilarious\, wise and wise-assed prose. Bravo\, Boylan\, bring us another one!\n MARY KARR\, New York Times bestselling author of Liar s Club\, Lit and Cherry
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-finney-boylan/
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:20170519T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170519T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T122136
CREATED:20170513T005914Z
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SUMMARY:MARY: A Journal of New Writing Print Issue Release Party
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, May 19th\, MARY: A Journal of New Writing will be holding a release party for the latest print edition of MARY Journal! \nJoin us from 7pm – 9pm at Octopus Literary Salon in Oakland\, California for a night of celebration and literary readings. \nFeatured readers include Matthew Zapruder\, Arisa White\, Brontez Purnell\, Meg Elison\, Cesca Waterfield\, Emily Vizzo\, and Nicoleta Leontiades. Dramatic readings of MARY Journal published works by Genre Editors: Katie Walker\, Jennifer Burnside\, and Paola Vergara.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-a-journal-of-new-writing-print-issue-release-party/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170519T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170519T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T122136
CREATED:20170515T235547Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170515T235547Z
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SUMMARY:At The Inkwell Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:At The Inkwell returns with its usual variety of tender mayhem.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/at-the-inkwell-reading-series/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170519T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170519T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T122136
CREATED:20170519T102130Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170519T102409Z
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SUMMARY:Flash Fiction Forum Reading
DESCRIPTION:Flash Fiction Forum Reading Series event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flash-fiction-forum-reading/
LOCATION:364 S. Market St.\, 364 S. Market St.\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170519T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170519T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T122136
CREATED:20170519T102322Z
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SUMMARY:Flash Fiction Forum Reading
DESCRIPTION:Flash Fiction Forum reading.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flash-fiction-forum-reading-2/
LOCATION:364 S. Market St.\, 364 S. Market St.\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170520T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170520T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T122136
CREATED:20170118T063652Z
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SUMMARY:Megan Miranda
DESCRIPTION:In The Perfect Stranger\,  the masterful follow-up to the runaway hit All the Missing Girls\, a journalist sets out to find a missing friend\, a friend who may never have existed at all. \nConfronted by a restraining order and the threat of a lawsuit\, failed journalist Leah Stevens needs to get out of Boston when she runs into an old friend\, Emmy Grey\, who has just left a troubled relationship. Emmy proposes they move to rural Pennsylvania\, where Leah can get a teaching position and both women can start again. But their new start is threatened when a woman with an eerie resemblance to Leah is assaulted by the lake\, and Emmy disappears days later. \nDetermined to find Emmy\, Leah cooperates with Kyle Donovan\, a handsome young police officer on the case. As they investigate her friend’s life for clues\, Leah begins to wonder: did she ever really know Emmy at all? With no friends\, family\, or a digital footprint\, the police begin to suspect that there is no Emmy Grey. Soon Leah’s credibility is at stake\, and she is forced to revisit her past: the article that ruined her career. To save herself\, Leah must uncover the truth about Emmy Grey—and along the way\, confront her old demons\, find out who she can really trust\, and clear her own name. \nEveryone in this rural Pennsylvanian town has something to hide—including Leah herself. How do you uncover the truth when you are busy hiding your own? \nMegan Miranda is the author of several books for young adults\, including Fracture\, Hysteria\, Vengeance\, and Soulprint. She grew up in New Jersey\, attended MIT\, and lives in North Carolina with her husband and two children. Her novels for adults include All the Missing Girls and Watch Me Go.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/megan-miranda/
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:20170520T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170520T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T122136
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SUMMARY:Mike Marinacci Reads
DESCRIPTION:Author Mike Marinacci will read from\, and sign his book CALIFORNIA JESUS: A (Slightly) Irreverent Guide to the Golden State’s Christian Sects\, Evangelists\, and Latter-Day Prophets (Berkeley: Ronin Publishing – ISBN 978-1-57951-230-9) on Saturday\, May 20th\, from 2-4pm\, at Florey’s Book Co.\, 2120 Palmetto Ave.\, Pacifica\, CA. \nThe author of several titles about California’s more unusual cultural byways\, Mike will read from this book about Golden State’s strangest and most unorthodox Christian groups and leaders\, and discuss how their sometimes-scandalous and always-colorful doings affected not only the region\, but worldwide religious history and practices. \nCopies of the book will be available at Florey’s for purchase\, and will be signed by the author. Believers\, skeptics\, and the merely curious alike are encouraged to stop by this landmark Pacifica business for a unique view of an eccentric spiritual subculture and its saintly and sinful inhabitants.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mike-marinacci-reads/
LOCATION:Florey’s Book Co.\, 2120 Palmetto Ave.\, Pacifica\, CA\, 94044\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170520T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170520T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T122136
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SUMMARY:Revolutionary Poets Against Fascism
DESCRIPTION:POETS AND MUSICIANS AGAINST FASCISM!NOTABLE POETS AND MUSICIANS WILL COME TOGETHER IN THIS\, THE SECOND IN A SERIES OF EVENTS TO EXPRESS OUR SHARED SOLIDARITY AS WE DECLARE “ALL ARE WELCOME HERE!” \nFEATURED ARTISTS INCLUDE: \n*ALFREDO GOMEZ–GUITAR AND VOCALS ( ACCLAIMED MISSION BASED MUSICIAN/RECORDING ARTIST) \n* MAURO FORTISSIMO–PIANO\, POETRY AND SONG (OF “TWELVE PIANOS” FILM) \n*ALEJANDRO MURGUIA\, POET LAUREATE \n*JACK HIRSCHMAN\, EMERITUS POET LAUREATE \n* CHRISTINA GUITEREZ THE “MOTHER WARRIOR” OF THE FRISCO FIVE HUNGER STRIKERS\, LIFELONG MISSION ACTIVIST \nAND THE FOLLOWING POETS:\n*CHITO CUELLAR\n*MAURISSA THOMPSON\n*DOTTIE PAYNE\n*MAHNAZ BADIHIAN\n*ROSEMARY MANNO\n*DAVID KUBRIN\n*FRANCISCO ORREGO\n*SARAH MENEFEE \n***FOOD AND LIBATIONS OFFERED***\n***************************************\nTHIS FREE EVENT IS SPONSORED BY THE REVOLUTIONARY POETS BRIGADE AND THE JUANA BRIONES CULTURAL COMMITTEE
URL:https://litseen.com/event/revolutionary-poets-against-fascism/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170520T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170520T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T122136
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SUMMARY:Norman Zelaya
DESCRIPTION:Book Launch: Orlando & Other Stories by Norman Zelaya\nSaturday\, May 20\, 2017 \n\nJoin us in celebration for the book launch of Orlando & Other Stories\, a collection of poetry by Norman Zelaya published by Pochino Press.\n\n  \n\nPochino Press is proud to present Orlando & Other Stories\, a collection of short stories by Nicaraguan American writer Norman Zelaya. Passionately writing about the highs and lows of the human experience\, he skillfully weaves in the diversity of the San Francisco Bay in a way that highlights the uniqueness of the region\, but touches on our common humanity. No stone goes unturned. The layers of gentrification\, love\, substance abuse\, violence\, friendship\, and religion are given a human face in this powerful dedication to the everyday people of his beloved Mission District.\n\n\nAbout the author:\n\n\nNorman Antonio Zelaya was born and raised in San Francisco\, CA. He has published stories in ZYZZYVA\, NY Tyrant\, 14 Hills\, Cipactli\, Apogee Journal\, among others\, and he was a 2015 Zoetrope: All-Story finalist. He is a founding member of Los Delicados\, and has performed extensively throughout the US with them. Zelaya has appeared on stage\, in film and in the squared circle as luchador\, Super Pulga. Currently\, he lives and works in San Francisco’s Mission District as a special education teacher. Orlando & Other Stories is his first published book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/norman-zelaya/
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:20170521T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170521T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T122136
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SUMMARY:Oakland Book Festival 2017
DESCRIPTION:  \nOakland Book Festival \nFree and open to the public \nRead. Debate. Celebrate. \n  \nOakland Book Festival  \nSunday\, May 21\, 2017\, 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. \nOakland City Hall\, 1 Frank Ogawa Plaza\, Oakland CA  \n  \nOne day – Seven Hours – 100 Writers – 50 Events \nThe Oakland Book Festival hosts over 100 novelists\, poets\, historians\, philosophers\, journalists\, editors\, and activists at City Hall\, engaging event goers in panels\, interviews\, and open debate. This year’s Festival will feature Angela Davis\, Judith Butler\, Danielle Allen\, Jeff Chang\, Arlie Hochschild\, Sheryl Oring\, Mistah F.A.B\, Wendy Brown\, Ishmael Reed\, Laura Albert and Anthony Marra (among many others). \n  \nChildren’s Area – Music – Booksellers – Food \nThe outdoor portion of the festival\, on Frank Ogawa Plaza\, includes a dedicated children’s area with performances from Children’s Fairyland\, “favorite-stories” read by librarians from the Oakland Public Library\, and book-making projects courtesy of Chapter 510. Oakland Youth Poet Laureate will be announced on the amphitheater at 1:00pm. \n  \nThere will be live music on the amphitheater all day. Booksellers\, magazine publishers and local literary organizations will have booths on the plaza; food trucks will provide nourishment. \n  \nAnd don’t miss … \n  \nKeynote Address  \nWhen: Saturday\, May 20\, 2017\, 5:00pm \nWhere: Oakland City Hall\, 1 Frank Ogawa Plaza\, Oakland CA  \nThe Oakland Book Festival 2017 will kick off with a keynote address on “Equality” by Danielle Allen at 5pm on Saturday May 20th in Council Chambers at Oakland City Hall. This event is free and open to the public. \n  \nOpening night Party \nWhen: Saturday May 20\, 6:30pm \nWhere: Starline Social Club\, 2236 M.L.K. Jr Way\, Oakland\, CA 94612 \nThe Starline Social Club will host a gala reception for the OBF from 6:30-8pm. This is an opportunity for you to meet the novelists\, journalists\, philosophers\, poets\, artists\, and editors participating this year\, from Danielle Allen to Sheryl Oring to Mistah F.A.B.\, privately and in person\, over the Starline’s delicious cocktails and food—all while supporting the Oakland Book Festival’s present and future efforts! \nPlease purchase tickets for the OBF gala here. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/975549984/2017-oakland-book-festival?ref=project_share \n  \nThe event at the Starline will continue with a general admission party starting at 8pm. There will be mercifully few readings\, many musical performances\, and non-stop dancing from 8pm-2am. \n  \nSocial Media Information: \n  \nWebsite  \nhttp://www.oaklandbookfestival.org/ \n  \nFacebook \nWe hope you will tag us on Facebook (Oakland Book Festival) \nThe Festival event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/268851293569074/ \nThe Festival Facebook page: http://bit.ly/obf-event \n  \nTwitter and Instragm \nOn Twitter\, find us @oaklandbookfest \n Instagram @oaklandbookfestival.  \nFor any posts on the day of the Festival\, please tag them #oaklandbookfestival.  \n  \nKickstarter \nhttp://kck.st/2qthU3p \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-book-festival-2017/
LOCATION:Oakland City Hall\, 1 Frank Ogawa Plaze\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170521T160000
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SUMMARY:Poets @ Play
DESCRIPTION:Free parking in the Staff/Volunteer lot on Phelan Avenue.\nPlease enter History Park from the Phelan Avenue side. \nQuestions? Call 408-368-0353\nRSVP recommended but not required: poetsatplay@pcsj.org \nWith this month’s leader Pushpa MacFarlane.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-play/
LOCATION:Edwin Markham House in History Park\, 1650 Senter Road\, San Jose\, 95112\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170521T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170521T153000
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SUMMARY:Sydney Clemens
DESCRIPTION:Sydney Gurewitz Clemens is an author of books for adults about helping children grow. She has given workshops for parents and teacher in 41 states\, New Zealand\, Australia\, Singapore and Nagoya\, Japan. \nA survivor of cancer\, she has written a cycle of poetry about that struggle; an activist\, she writes about those thing that need to be done\, or congratulated. \nA Q&A period and an open mic will follow Sydney’s reading.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sydney-clemens/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170521T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170521T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T122136
CREATED:20170516T001122Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170516T001122Z
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SUMMARY:Alan Fleishman
DESCRIPTION:Local author Alan Fleisman shares his new work of historical fiction\, Odyssey of Chaos: And Other Stories. With the Gestapo pounding on every door\, no Jew in Athens is safe. At the start of Odyssey of Chaos\, Theo Kantos\, a dress shop owner\, has a desperate choice to make if he is to save his family. Does he trust the most despicable man he knows to hide them? Or does he place the lives of those he loves in the hands of a communist? And what does he do about his obsti-nate brother who always has to have the last word? Nearly 90% of Greece’s Jews perished in the Holocaust\, the highest percentage lost in any country. Odyssey of Chaos was inspired by the true story of the author’s Greek cousins who survived hidden in a cellar by a shepherd. Other cousins joined the partisan resistance. And others died in Auschwitz. Six contemporary stories follow the title novella. All are about dramatic events and choices that alter the course of lives and form who we are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-fleishman/
LOCATION:Belmont Library\, 1110 Alamade de las Pulgas\, Belmont\, CA\, 94002\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170521T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170521T180000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20170515T234114Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading: Kassidat
DESCRIPTION:An afternoon of Bay Area poetry\, hosted by Bloodflower.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-reading-kassidat/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170521T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170521T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T122136
CREATED:20170515T235940Z
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SUMMARY:Cole Swensen
DESCRIPTION:Nightboat books presents legendary poet Cole Swensen reading from her new book “Walking On.” Additional readers include Susan Gevirtz and more TBA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cole-swensen/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170522T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170522T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T122136
CREATED:20170504T234002Z
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SUMMARY:Amber Flame w/ Arisa White
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is excited to host Amber Flame for the San Francisco launch of her debut poetry collection\,Ordinary Cruelty! With Amber will be the poet Arisa White—please join us! \nIn Ordinary Cruelty\, Flame spells out rituals in everyday decisions to hold on or let go. While questioning the role of elder\, mentor\, mother in the face of losing those figures\, Flame details the unrelenting nature of parenthood through the cycles of grief. Her poems rejoice in the brown skin of the female body\, while soberly acknowledging the societal dangers of claiming such skin as home. Flame takes the reader through a visceral examination of the body’s processes of both dying and continuing to live and the joy to be found while we do. \nAn award-winning writer\, composer and performer\, Amber Flame is also a professional singer\, Hedgebrook alum\, and member of The Watering Hole tribe. Flame’s original work has been published and recorded in diverse arenas\, including Def Jam Poetry\, Winter Tangerine\, The Dialogist\, Split This Rock\, Black Heart Magazine\, Sundress Publications\, Redivider Journal and more. A Jack Straw Writer and recipient of the CityArtist grant from Seattle’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs\, Flame’s first full-length collection\, Ordinary Cruelty is just out with Write Bloody Press. Flame works with a Black independent media company\, This Week in Blackness\, co-produces the Oakland Slam\, and teaches workshops for all ages. Amber Flame is a queer Black single mama just one magic trick away from growing her unicorn horn. \nArisa White is a Cave Canem fellow\, a graduate from the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst\, and author of the books Disposition for Shininess\,dear Gerald\, and Black Pearl. Her most recent book is the full length poetry collection You’re The Most Beautiful Thing That Happened (Augury Books\, 2016.)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amber-flame-w-arisa-white/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170522T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170522T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T122136
CREATED:20170505T000623Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170505T000631Z
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SUMMARY:Peter Cole w/ Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Peter Cole: \n“A matchless translator and one of the handful of authentic poets in his own American generation. Hymns & Qualms is a majestic work\, a chronicle of the imaginative life of a profoundly spiritual consciousness.” — Harold Bloom \n“His vivid\, sonorous English translations of secular and mystical Hebrew verse that was previously ­neglected or regarded as esoteric\, parochial\, or simply too difficult have remade the American Jewish canon.” — Joshua Cohen\, The Paris Review
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-cole-w-matthew-zapruder/
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:20170522T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170522T213000
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CREATED:20170522T134812Z
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SUMMARY:Clark Coolidge
DESCRIPTION:Moe’s welcomes poet\, musician and old friend Clark Coolidge in celebration of two new releases\, Selected Poems 1962-1985 (Barrytown/Station Hill Press) and The Circus (Flow Press). \nClark Coolidge is the author of more than forty books\, including SELECTED POEMS: 1962-1985\, Space\, Solution Passage\, The Crystal Text\, At Egypt\, NOW IT’S JAZZ: WRITINGS ON KEROUAC & THE SOUNDS\, THE ACT OF PROVIDENCE\, and most recently 88 SONNETS and A BOOK BEGINNING WHAT AND ENDING AWAY. In 2011 he edited a collection of Philip Guston’s writings and talks for University of California Press. Initially a drummer\, he was a member of David Meltzer’s Serpent Power in 1967 and Mix group in 1993-94. Currently he has returned to active drumming with Thurston Moore and the free jazz band Ouroboros.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clark-coolidge-2/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170523T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170523T200000
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SUMMARY:Madison Smartt Bell
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Madison Smartt Bell to the store to discuss and sign his novel\, Behind the Moon\, on Tuesday\, May 23rd at 7:00 pm. \nWhen Julie skips school and sets off with her best friend and some local boys for a camping trip in the desert\, she finds herself the target of unwanted\, drug-fueled sexual attention. Running away in fear\, she takes a dangerous fall down the shaft of a vast underground cave\, and it takes two days for her to be rescued. Lying unconscious in her hospital bed\, Julie hovers between life and death as she travels in a seductive parallel universe inspired by remarkable cave paintings left behind by prehistoric humans.\nMarko\, her attacker\, tries to cover his tracks\, menacing those who know what happened in the desert that night. Jamal\, the youngest son in a family of Iraqi refugees living in Julie’s small town\, is one of his prime targets. He defies Marko\, keeping him away from Julie’s bedside and refusing to fall prey to his threats of violence.\nMeanwhile\, Marissa\, who gave Julie up for adoption fifteen years earlier when she became pregnant as an adolescent\, is following an instinct that leads her back to the daughter she once abandoned. With the aid of Jamal and a local Native American hitman/shaman\, she attempts to draw Julie back to consciousness. \nMadison Smartt Bell is an American novelist best known for his trilogy of novels about Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution\, including All Souls’ Rising\, which was a finalist for the 1995 National Book Award and the 1996 PEN/Faulkner Award. It also won the 1996 Anisfield-Wolf Award for the best book of the year dealing with matters of race. Bell is a Professor of English at Goucher College in Towson\, Maryland\, where he was Director of the Creative Writing Program from 1998 to 2004. In addition to many books of fiction and non-fiction\, he has published essays and reviews in Harper’s\, The New York Review of Books\, The New York Times Book Review\, and The Village Voice.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/madison-smartt-bell/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:6 Years in Gay Conversion Therapy
DESCRIPTION:Peter Gajdics is the author of The Inheritance of Shame\, just published by Brown Paper Press\, which tells the harrowingly true story of his six years in Gay conversion therapy. \nGarrard Conley\, author of Boy Erased\, says the Gajdics memoir is “a necessary\, incredibly nuanced portrait of a survivor. The Inheritance of Shame will change lives.” Gajdics\, from Canada\, appears with Bay Area author Anne Raeff Tuesday\, May 23\, 7-8 p.m. at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. in San Francisco. Raeff will interview Gajdics\, and both authors will read from their work. Raeff’s short-story collection The Jungle Around Us is a finalist for the California Book Award and won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. \nFree admission and free refreshments. A book signing follows the discussion.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/6-years-in-gay-conversion-therapy-2/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170523T210000
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CREATED:20170425T014156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T014156Z
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SUMMARY:China Miéville
DESCRIPTION:Discussing the subject of his new book: October: The Story of the Russian Revolution. \nAward-winning author China Miéville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside down \nChina Miéville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution and here\, on the centenary of the revolution\, he provides his own distinctive take on its history. \nIn February 1917\, in the midst of bloody war\, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months later\, it became the first socialist state in world history. How did this unimaginable transformation take place? How was a ravaged and backward country\, swept up in a desperately unpopular war\, rocked by not one but two revolutions? \nThis is the story of the extraordinary months between those upheavals\, in February and October\, of the forces and individuals who made 1917 so epochal a year\, of their intrigues\, negotiations\, conflicts and catastrophes. From familiar names like Lenin and Trotsky to their opponents Kornilov and Kerensky; from the byzantine squabbles of urban activists to the remotest villages of a sprawling empire; from the revolutionary railroad Sublime to the ciphers and static of coup by telegram; from grand sweep to forgotten detail. \nHistorians have debated the revolution for a hundred years\, its portents and possibilities: the mass of literature can be daunting. But here is a book for those new to the events\, told not only in their historical import but in all their passion and drama and strangeness. Because as well as a political event of profound and ongoing consequence\, Miéville reveals the Russian Revolution as a breathtaking story. \nChina Miéville is the multi-award-winning author of many works of fiction and non-fiction. His fiction includes The City and the City\, Embassytown and This Census-Taker\, and has won the Hugo\, World Fantasy and Arthur C. Clarke awards; his non-fiction includes the photo-illustrated essay London’s Overthrow and Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law. He has written for various publications\, including the New York Times\, Guardian\, Conjunctions and Granta and he is a founding editor of the quarterly Salvage.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/china-mieville/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170516T001324Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170516T001324Z
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SUMMARY:Jeffrey Gettleman
DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Gettleman\, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist\, will discuss his memoir about finding love and finding a calling in one of the most violent and yet most beautiful places in the world\, Love\, Africa: A Memoir of Romance\, War\, and Survival.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeffrey-gettleman/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170523T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170523T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T122136
CREATED:20170425T012007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T012007Z
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SUMMARY:Mary Gordon
DESCRIPTION:Mary Gordon reads from her new novel\, There Your Heart Lies\, a deeply moving novel about an American woman’s experiences during the Spanish Civil War\, the lessons she learned\, and how her story will shape her granddaughter’s path. \n“An emotionally and historically rich work with a strong character portrait holding together its disparate parts.”–Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, May 23\, 2017 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nMarian cut herself off from her wealthy\, conservative Irish Catholic family when she volunteered during the Spanish Civil War–an experience she has always kept to herself. Now in her nineties\, she shares her Rhode Island cottage with her granddaughter Amelia\, a young woman of good heart but only a vague notion of life’s purpose. Their daily existence is intertwined with Marian’s secret past: the blow to her youthful idealism when she witnessed the brutalities on both sides of Franco’s war and the romance that left her trapped in Spain in perilous circumstances for nearly a decade. When Marian is diagnosed with cancer\, she finally speaks about what happened to her during those years–personal and ethical challenges nearly unthinkable to Amelia’s millennial generation\, as well as the unexpected gifts of true love and true friendship. \nMarian’s story compels Amelia to make her own journey to Spain\, to reconcile her grandmother’s past with her own uncertain future. With their exquisite female bond at its core\, this novel\, which explores how character is forged in a particular moment in history and passed down through the generations\, is especially relevant in our own time. Its call to arms–a call to speak honestly about evil when it is before us\, and equally about goodness–will linger long with its readers. \nMary Gordon is the author of seven novels\, including Final Payments\, Pearl\, and The Love of My Youth; six works of nonfiction\, including the memoirs The Shadow Man and Circling My Mother; and three collections of short fiction\, including The Stories of Mary Gordon\, which was awarded the Story Prize. She has received many other honors\, including a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and an Academy Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She teaches at Barnard College and lives in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-gordon/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170523T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T122136
CREATED:20170504T234200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170504T234200Z
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SUMMARY:Mat Callahan
DESCRIPTION:As the fiftieth anniversary of the Summer of Love floods the media with debates and celebrations of music\, political movements\, “flower power\,” “acid rock\,” and “hippies”; The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco\, 1965-1975 offers a critical re-examination of the interwoven political and musical happenings in San Francisco in the Sixties. Author\, musician\, and native San Franciscan Mat Callahan explores the dynamic links between the Black Panthers and Sly and the Family Stone\, the United Farm Workers and Santana\, the Indian Occupation of Alcatraz and the San Francisco Mime Troupe\, and the New Left and the counterculture. \nCallahan’s meticulous\, impassioned arguments both expose and reframe the political and social context for the San Francisco Sound and the vibrant subcultural uprisings with which it is associated. Using dozens of original interviews\, primary sources\, and personal experiences\, the author shows how the intense interplay of artistic and political movements put San Francisco\, briefly\, in the forefront of a worldwide revolutionary upsurge. \nA must-read for any musician\, historian\, or person who “was there” (or longed to have been)\, The Explosion of Deferred Dreams is substantive and provocative\, inviting us to reinvigorate our historical sense-making of an era that assumes a mythic role in the contemporary American zeitgeist. \nMat Callahan is a musician and author originally from San Francisco\, where he founded Komotion International. He is the author of three books\, Sex\, Death & the Angry Young Man\, Testimony\, and The Trouble with Music as well as the editor of Songs of Freedom: The James Connolly Songbook. He currently resides in Bern\, Switzerland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mat-callahan/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170523T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T122136
CREATED:20170524T122335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170524T122335Z
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SUMMARY:Find Yourself Reading
DESCRIPTION:Find Yourself is an art exhibit that ponders the parallels between a revealing phrase in story-telling and a common occurrence while reading: “one finds oneself…” Artist/author Chris Kerr combines endpapers\, sentences by various writers\, and playful\, austere sculptures (using books he unwittingly found himself purchasing a second time) in order to guide viewers in contemplation of how we use statements like “I found myself [doing this]” or “she finds herself [thinking that].” The opening party on June 9 (7:00-9:30 PM) includes a find-myself-themed poetry reading at 8:00 PM by Genine Lentine\, Cedar Sigo\, and Stephanie Young!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/find-yourself-reading/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Kerr":MAILTO:muddoctorkerr@yahoo.com
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170524T204500
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CREATED:20170519T110253Z
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SUMMARY:Whistlestop Writers Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Another Whistlestop Writers Open Mic at Swirl on the Square is rolling into town. The event\, which is open to writers of all genres (and lit lovers)\, occurs on Wednesday\, May 24th at 6:45 p.m. Come join us!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/whistlestop-writers-open-mic/
LOCATION:Swirl on the Square\, 21 S Livermore Ave\, Livermore\, CA\, 94550\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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CREATED:20170524T013618Z
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SUMMARY:Peg Alford Pursell + Robert Thomas Reading
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning local authors Peg Alford Pursell and Robert Thomas will be stopping by our store to read excerpts from their works!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peg-alford-pursell-robert-thomas-reading/
LOCATION:Mad Monk Center for Anachronistic Media\, 2454 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Magazine Launch Party: Forum (CCSF)
DESCRIPTION:Established in 1937\, Forum Magazine is a student-run literary journal that serves the City College of San Francisco community. Dedicated to providing a platform for the contemporary\, urban voices of our institution\, Forum collects\, edits and publishes quality works of literature and the visual arts as produced by the CCSF family. Publication is open to any who have ever been involved with the school\, whether as student\, educator or employee. Forum is published twice each year\, once in both the Fall and Spring semesters. \nForum Magazine is a student-produced publication of the City College of San Francisco and the stories\, artwork and views expressed within its pages are not necessarily those of\, or shared by\, the college as a whole or its administration. \nFor those who wish to view or purchase copies of Forum\, you can find them for purchase at the Ocean Campus bookstore\, at the English department on the 5th floor of Batmale Hall\, or you can request a copy via email through editor@forumccsf.org. \nQuestions or comments concerning Forum? Interested in sharing a short piece regarding literary matters? You can also email us at editor@forumccsf.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/magazine-launch-party-forum-ccsf/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170524T200000
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CREATED:20170118T063951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170204T041757Z
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SUMMARY:David Brazil w/ Julien Poirier
DESCRIPTION:David Brazil celebrates the release of \nHoly Ghost  \npublished by City Lights Books \nThe third full-length collection from poet-scholar-activist David Brazil\, Holy Ghost is a hymnal with secular burdens\, poured from the mold of our actual life in common\, sung against its limits. It seeks a way to find and build a soul together\, and records the seekers’ findings along the way\, proposing love as our common human denominator. A record of the author’s struggle to forge a relationship between two distinct vocations—one historical\, as an activist (with Occupy Oakland\, among other projects)\, and one spiritual\, as he explores the path of radical Christian discipleship (in his life as a pastor)—Holy Ghost attempts to articulate an understanding of where class struggle meets the will of God. \nDavid Brazil is a poet\, translator\, and novelist. His books include The Ordinary and Antisocial Patience. With Kevin Killian\, he edited the Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater 1945-1985. From 2008 to 2011 he published over sixty issues of the seminal TRY! magazine with Sara Larsen. David co-pastors a house church in Oakland and works for social justice with the Faith Alliance for a Moral Economy. He’s a Scorpio. \nJulien Poirier is a co-founder of Ugly Duckling Presse. He has taught poetry in New York City and San Francisco public schools and at San Quentin State Prison. Previous books include Way Too West (2015) and El Golpe Chileño (2010). City Lights Books recently published his poetry collection titled OUT OF PRINT\, as volume 14 in the Spotlight Poetry Series.\nPraise for Holy Ghost: \n“All singing is contemporaneous in the heart\, & thus I’d call Holy Ghost heart-felt. It keeps time with the forms of its devotion\, touching various eras of diction\, prayer & song & verse & hymn. In the mind then\, all at once\, it does becomes a work of love; for the reader\, for paths of grace & liberation\, & for the singing that refuses to abide our time but takes its measure\, day by day\, in wounded\, contemplative poems. Everywhere it must be poor it is. It comes to us in penury because the search for company & love is the struggle of students & poets who seeks out such wealth in an era when they’re ever more in peril. So it arrives rich\, by which I mean empty handed\, & so doing makes the book into a little ball of light\, a trove of mercy’s tone\, & my heart’s treasure.” ––Dana Ward\n“Musings on Holy Ghost . . . remarkable loveliness . . . a Soul singing praises to souls\, free of general rancor . . . One of the special books of this decade and should be read by Souls or Ghosts or Geists in search of assurance and aware of Ecclesiastes’ Preacher who says that the souls of men fly up\, up\, up\, and that the undersoul of beasts dives down\, down into the earth. A key to Holy Ghost is that it’s all going at once in all directions. Each time Brazil’s extended poem folds\, or curls\, or shifts\, the point of concentration or consideration is experienced as if under a loupe of the spirit. It is clear that the Holy Ghost is everywhere at all times at once. The poem is not held to historical imaginings of time-space. Resembling the speech of Dogen in his visionary 13th-century fascicles\, or the Cloud of Unknowing\, or Saint Francis’ lamb in the furnace\, Holy Ghost does not speak about itself—it is itself. There is not wisdom to speak of because the field for wisdom does not exist except in a convention that is elsewhere. Brazil’s Holy Ghost is as Romantic as a long poem by Percy Shelley. An act of beauty—breath-taking. As unexpected as A.N. Whitehead’s Function of Reason and Christian Morgenstern’s nonsense poetry. Brazil brings to mind the tenseless\, non-subjective (not centered on the ‘I’ figure)\, and numberless of some Asian languages. I free-float in the presence of this wholly Kindness-Ghost as I would float in a Navajo world—like that world\, the surrounding is strange and natural. Bask in it . . . Slip in or out of it . . . Any muscular ring or reflection in\, on\, or part of the Holy Ghost\, is the Ghost. The Holy Ghost shimmers with Jack Kerouac’s Blues\, and on the page (typographically) can be as precise as Diane di Prima’s poetry and Leslie Scalapino’s . . . It’s not impossible to hear Kurt Cobain humming in the background.”––Michael McClure \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-brazil-w-julien-poirier/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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