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SUMMARY:Turk & Divis / Quiet Lightning album release party
DESCRIPTION:Turk & Divis (Evan and Miles Karp) launch the Quiet Lightning album\, featuring 11 tracks of original music scored to excerpts of 50 Bay Area writers performing live in last year’s QL shows.\nCome celebrate! Activities include:\n> A listening/screening party\n> Performances by a stout list of the album’s contributors:\nJack Foley\, Lorraine Lupo\, Tara Dorabji\, Eric Kurhi\, Claire Calderon\, Zephir O’Meara\, Hugh Behm-Steinberg\, Rohan DaCosta\, Charles Kruger\, Peter Bullen\, Adam Moskowitz\, and Wildredhawk\nLimited edition lathe cut vinyl and cassettes will be available!\nMore info + to pre-order: http://www.turkanddivis.com/quiet-lightning-vinyl/\nThis event is free and all ages. Doors at 7\, performances at 8pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-album-release-party-oak/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lauren Groff discusses and signs FLORIDA
DESCRIPTION:Lauren Groff discusses and signs FLORIDA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, June 16\, 7:30 pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nCelebrated New York Times bestselling author Lauren Groff presents her highly anticipated new collection of short stories\, Florida. \n \nABOUT FLORIDA \nIn her vigorous and moving new book\, Lauren Groff brings her electric storytelling and intelligence to a world in which storms\, snakes\, and sinkholes lurk at the edge of everyday life\, but the greater threats and mysteries are of a human\, emotional\, and psychological nature. Among those navigating it all are a resourceful pair of abandoned sisters; a lonely boy\, grown up; a restless\, childless couple\, a searching\, homeless woman; and an unforgettable\, recurring character – a steely and conflicted wife and mother. \nThe stories in this collection span characters\, towns\, decades\, even centuries\, but Florida — its landscape\, climate\, history\, and state of mind — becomes its gravitational center: an energy\, a mood\, as much as a place of residence. Groff transports the reader\, then jolts us alert with a crackle of wit\, a wave of sadness\, a flash of cruelty\, as she writes about loneliness\, rage\, family\, and the passage of time. With shocking accuracy and effect\, she pinpoints the moments and decisions and connections behind human pleasure and pain\, hope and despair\, love and fury — the moments that make us alive. Startling\, precise\, and affecting\, Florida is a magnificent achievement. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nLauren Groff is the New York Times bestselling author of three novels\, The Monsters of Templeton\, Arcadia\, and Fates and Furies\, and the celebrated short story collection Delicate Edible Birds. Her work has been featured in the New Yorker\, Harper’s\, the Atlantic\, and several Best American Short Stories anthologies. She has won the Paul Bowles Prize for Fiction\, the PEN/O. Henry Award\, and the Pushcart Prize; and has been a finalist for the National Book Award\, the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Orange Award for New Writers\, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSaturday\, June 16\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFlorida (Hardcover)\n\nBy Lauren Groff\n$27.00\nISBN: 9781594634512\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: Riverhead Books – June 5th\, 2018
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lauren-groff-discusses-and-signs-florida/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Fiction Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Autumn by Ali Smith\nAutumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Two old friends–Daniel\, a centenarian\, and Elisabeth\, born in 1984–look to both the future and the past as the United Kingdom stands divided by a historic\, once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won\, love is lost. Hope is hand-in-hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round\, as ever. \n  \nA luminous meditation on the meaning of richness and harvest and worth\, Autumn is the first installment of Ali Smith’s Seasonal quartet\, and it casts an eye over our own time: Who are we? What are we made of? Shakespearean jeu d’esprit\, Keatsian melancholy\, the sheer bright energy of 1960s pop art. Wide-ranging in time-scale and light-footed through histories\, Autumn is an unforgettable story about aging and time and love–and stories themselves.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fiction-discussion-group/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Tommy Orange\, There There
DESCRIPTION:Tommy Orange\, There There\nMonday\, June 18\, 2018 – 7:00pm \nBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Tommy Orange for a reading and signing of his highly-anticipated debut novel\, There There. \nFierce\, angry\, funny\, groundbreaking—Tommy Orange’s first novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. Not since Sherman Alexie and Louise Erdrich has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. \nJacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame in Oakland. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle’s memory. Edwin Black has come to find his true father. Thomas Frank has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather; Orvil has taught himself Indian dance through YouTube videos\, and he has come to the Big Oakland Powwow to dance in public for the very first time. Tony Loneman is a young Native American boy whose future seems destined to be as bleak as his past\, and he has come to the Powwow with darker intentions–intentions that will destroy the lives of everyone in his path. Fierce\, angry\, funny\, groundbreaking–Tommy Orange’s first novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. There There is a multigenerational\, relentlessly paced story about violence and recovery\, hope and loss\, identity and power\, dislocation and communion\, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. A glorious\, unforgettable debut. \n“This is Tommy Orange. Remember his name. His book’s gonna blow the roof off.” —Pam Houston \n“Tommy Orange\, a young Native American from Oakland\, California\, has more raw talent than any young writer I’ve come across in a long\, long time. Maybe ever.” —Claire Vaye Watkins \nAUTHOR:  Born and raised in Oakland\, California\, Tommy Orange is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes\, as well as a graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts and a 2014 MacDowell Colony Fellow. \n  \nThis free event will be held at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up an hour before the event begins. \nThere There (Hardcover)\nBy Tommy Orange \n$25.95 \nISBN: 9780525520375 \nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now \nPublished: Knopf Publishing Group – June 5th\, 2018 \nThere There—GET IT SIGNED!\n$25.95 \nSKU: S9780525520375 \nName (optional) \nIf you cannot attend this event\, you can still have a copy of There Theresigned at the event. Books must be paid for in advance and can either be shipped or held for pick-up in the store. Internet orders must be placed by Sunday\, June 17th. After that\, please call the store to inquire about signed editions. \nMost authors will be happy to add a name to their signature\, but this service is at their discretion and isn’t guaranteed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tommy-orange-there-there/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Express presents a reading with Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Heavan Is All Goodbyes\, Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Avenue\, Berkeley\, free\, 7:00-9:00
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tongo-eisen-martin-2/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lauren Groff
DESCRIPTION:Lauren Groff reads from her new story collection\, Florida. \n\nAbout Florida \n\nThe bold new book from the celebrated New York Times-bestselling author of Fates and Furies. \n“Lauren Groff is a writer of rare gifts.” –The New York Times Book Review \nIn her vigorous and moving new book\, Lauren Groff brings her electric storytelling and intelligence to a world in which storms\, snakes\, and sinkholes lurk at the edge of everyday life\, but the greater threats and mysteries are of a human\, emotional\, and psychological nature. Among those navigating it all are a resourceful pair of abandoned sisters; a lonely boy\, grown up; a restless\, childless couple\, a searching\, homeless woman; and an unforgettable\, recurring character — a steely and conflicted wife and mother. \nThe stories in this collection span characters\, towns\, decades\, even centuries\, but Florida — its landscape\, climate\, history\, and state of mind — becomes its gravitational center: an energy\, a mood\, as much as a place of residence. Groff transports the reader\, then jolts us alert with a crackle of wit\, a wave of sadness\, a flash of cruelty\, as she writes about loneliness\, rage\, family\, and the passage of time. With shocking accuracy and effect\, she pinpoints the moments and decisions and connections behind human pleasure and pain\, hope and despair\, love and fury — the moments that make us alive. Startling\, precise\, and affecting\, Florida is a magnificent achievement. \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFLORIDA (HARDCOVER)\n\nBy Lauren Groff\n$27.00\nISBN: 9781594634512\nAvailability: Coming Soon. Available for Pre-Order Now!\nPublished: Riverhead Books – June 5th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe bold new book from the celebrated New York Times-bestselling author of Fates and Furies. \n“Lauren Groff is a writer of rare gifts.” —The New York Times Book Review \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFATES AND FURIES (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Lauren Groff\n$16.00\nISBN: 9781594634482\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Riverhead Books – September 13th\, 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\nA FINALIST FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD\nNPR MORNING EDITION BOOK CLUB PICK\nNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: THE WASHINGTON POST\, NPR\, TIME\, THE SEATTLE TIMES\, MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE\, SLATE\, LIBRARY JOURNAL\, KIRKUS\, AND MANY MORE \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nARCADIA (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Lauren Groff\n$16.00\nISBN: 9780316434706\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Hachette Books – July 13th\, 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\n“Timeless and vast… The raw beauty of Ms. Groff’s prose is one of the best things about Arcadia. But it is by no means this book’s only kind of splendor.”—Janet Maslin\, The New York Times \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE MONSTERS OF TEMPLETON (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Lauren Groff\n$16.00\nISBN: 9780316434713\nAvailability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships 1-10 business days from warehouse. ETA will be updated with email order confirmation.\nPublished: Hachette Books – July 13th\, 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER — the debut novel by the acclaimed author of Fates and Furies.\n“The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace\, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDELICATE EDIBLE BIRDS: AND OTHER STORIES (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Lauren Groff\n$16.00\nISBN: 9780316317771\nAvailability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships 1-10 business days from warehouse. ETA will be updated with email order confirmation.\nPublished: Hachette Books – August 30th\, 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom Lauren Groff\, author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling novel Fates and Furies\, comes Delicate Edible Birds\, one of the most striking short fiction debuts in years. Here are nine stories of astonishing insight and variety\, each revealing a resonant drama within the life of a twentieth-century American woman.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lauren-groff/
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:Poetry Jam
DESCRIPTION:Join us when San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck reads poetry with Ukiah Poet Laureate Linda Noel and Thea Matthews.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-jam/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Queer Words: In Conversation with Rob Rosen
DESCRIPTION:Wayne Goodman will sit in conversation with the author of “Sparkle: The Queerest Book You’ll Ever Love\,” “Fierce\,” “Hot Lava\,” “Queens of the Apocalypse\,” “Creature Comfort\,” “Southern Fried\,” “Midlife Crisis\,” and his most recent work\, “And God Belched.” He is also the editor of the “Best Gay Erotica” series.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queer-words-in-conversation-with-rob-rosen/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:David Stephen Calonne on Bukowski and writing
DESCRIPTION:David Stephen Calonne on Bukowski and writing\ncelebrating the release of\n\nThe Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: On Writers and Writing \nby Charles Bukowski \npublished by City Lights Books \n\nThe method behind the madness\, revealing the critical acumen of everyone’s favorite Dirty Old Man. \n“Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way\, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.”—Charles Bukowski \nIn The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way\, Charles Bukowski considers the art of writing\, and the art of living as writer. Bringing together a variety of previously uncollected stories\, columns\, reviews\, introductions\, and interviews\, Mathematics finds him approaching the dynamics of his chosen profession with cynical aplomb\, deflating pretentions and tearing down idols armed with only a typewriter and a bottle of beer. Beginning with the title piece—a serious manifesto disguised as off-handed remarks en route to the racetrack—Mathematics runs through numerous tales following the author’s adventures at poetry readings\, parties\, film sets\, and bars\, and also features an unprecedented gathering of Bukowski’s singular literary criticism. From classic authors like Hemingway to underground legends like d.a. levy to his own stable of obscure favorites\, Bukowski uses each occasion to expound on the larger issues around literary production. The book closes with a handful of interviews in which he discusses his writing practices and his influences\, making Mathematics a perfect guide to the man behind the myth and the disciplined artist behind the boozing brawler. \nDavid Stephen Calonne has edited four previous books of uncollected prose by Charles Bukowski for City Lights: Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays\, 1944-1990 (2008)\, Absence of the Hero: Uncollected Stories and Essays\, Vol. 2: 1946-1992 (2010)\, More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns (2011)\, and The Bell Tolls for No One (2015). He is the author of several books\, including the critical study Charles Bukowski\, and the editor of Charles Bukowski: Sunlight Here I Am/Interviews and Encounters 1963-1993. \n\nCharles Bukowski was born in Andernach\, Germany on August 16\, 1920\, the only child of an American soldier and a German mother. At the age of three\, he came with his family to the United States and grew up in Los Angeles. He attended Los Angeles City College from 1939 to 1941\, then left school and moved to New York City to become a writer. His lack of publishing success at this time caused him to give up writing in 1946 and spurred a ten-year stint of heavy drinking. After he developed a bleeding ulcer\, he decided to take up writing again. He worked a wide range of jobs to support his writing\, including dishwasher\, truck driver and loader\, mail carrier\, guard\, gas station attendant\, stock boy\, warehouse worker\, shipping clerk\, post office clerk\, parking lot attendant\, Red Cross orderly\, and elevator operator. He also worked in a dog biscuit factory\, a slaughterhouse\, a cake and cookie factory\, and he hung posters in New York City subways. \nBukowski published his first story when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. His first book of poetry was published in 1959; he went on to publish more than forty-five books of poetry and prose\, including Pulp (Black Sparrow\, 1994)\, Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960-1970 (1993)\, and The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992)\, and the following books with City Lights Publishers: Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1981)\, The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories (1983)\, Tales of Ordinary Madness (1984)\, Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays\, 1944-1990 (2008)\, Absence of the Hero: Uncollected Stories and Essays\, Vol. 2: 1946-1992 (2010)\, More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns (2011)\, and The Bell Tolls for No One (2015). He died of leukemia in San Pedro on March 9\, 1994.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-stephen-calonne-on-bukowski-and-writing/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Susie Bright\, Santa Cruz Noir
DESCRIPTION:Susie Bright\, Santa Cruz Noir\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, June 19\, 2018 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocal writer and editor Susie Bright will discuss and sign copies of her highly-anticipated new book\, Santa Cruz Noir. Bright will be joined by contributing authors to the anthology at this free event. \nAkashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies\, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories\, each one set in a distinct location within the geographic area of the book. Following in the footsteps of Los Angeles Noir\, San Francisco Noir\, San Diego Noir\, Orange County Noir\, and Oakland Noir\, this new volume further reveals the seedy underbelly of the left coast. \nFeaturing brand-new stories by: Tommy Moore\, Jessica Breheny\, Naomi Hirahara\, Calvin McMillin\, Liza Monroy\, Elizabeth McKenzie\, Jill Wolfson\, Ariel Gore\, Jon Bailiff\, Maceo Montoya\, Micah Perks\, Seana Graham\, Vinnie Hansen\, Peggy Townsend\, Margaret Elysia Garcia\, Lou Mathews\, Lee Quarnstrom\, Dillon Kaiser\, Beth Lisick\, and Wallace Baine. \nFrom the introduction by Susie Bright: \nEvery town has its noir-ville. It’s easy to find in Santa Cruz. We live in what’s called “paradise\,” where you can wake up in a pool of blood with the first pink rays of the sunrise peeking out over our mountain range. The dewy mist lifts from the bay. Don’t hate us because we’re beautiful–we were made that way\, like Venus rising off the foam with a brick in her hand. We can’t help it if you fall for it every time… \n“If I lived in a place like this\,” visitors often say\, “I’d wake up with a smile every day.” \nOh\, we do\, thank you for that. There’s no beauty like a merciless beauty–and like every crepuscular predator\, it thrives at dawn and dusk. You’re just the innocent we’ve been waiting for\, with your big paper cone of sugar-shark cotton\, whipped out of pure nothing. We have just the ride for you\, the longest tunnel ever. Santa Cruz is everything you ever dreamed\, and everything you ever screamed\, in one long drop you’ll never forget. \nEditor Susie Bright is a best-selling author and editor who landed in Santa Cruz in 1979. Her previous short story collections include The Best American Erotica\, Herotica\, Bitten\, and X. She is the host of the podcast In Bed with Susie Bright\, author of the memoir Big Sex Little Death\, and cowrote and choreographed the noir film Bound. \n  \nThis free event will take place in Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up an hour before the event begins. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSanta Cruz Noir (Akashic Noir) (Paperback)\n\nBy Susie Bright (Editor)\n$15.95\nISBN: 9781617756221\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: Akashic Books – June 5th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSanta Cruz Noir—GET IT SIGNED!\n\n$15.95\nSKU: S9781617756221\n\n\n\n\n\n\nName (optional)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you cannot attend this event\, you can still have a copy of Santa Cruz Noir signed at the event. Books must be paid for in advance and can either be shipped or held for pick-up in the store. Internet orders must be placed by Monday\, June 18th . After that\, please call the store to inquire about signed editions. \nMost authors will be happy to add a name to their signature\, but this service is at their discretion and isn’t guaranteed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susie-bright-santa-cruz-noir/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Richard Rhodes
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nENERGY: A Human History \npublished by Simon and Schuster \n\n\nPulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time—wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond. \n\n\n\nPeople have lived and died\, businesses have prospered and failed\, and nations have risen to world power and declined\, all over energy challenges. Ultimately\, the history of these challenges tells the story of humanity itself. \nThrough an unforgettable cast of characters\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes explains how wood gave way to coal and coal made room for oil\, as we now turn to natural gas\, nuclear power\, and renewable energy. Rhodes looks back on five centuries of progress\, through such influential figures as Queen Elizabeth I\, King James I\, Benjamin Franklin\, Herman Melville\, John D. Rockefeller\, and Henry Ford. \nIn Energy\, Rhodes highlights the successes and failures that led to each breakthrough in energy production; from animal and waterpower to the steam engine\, from internal-combustion to the electric motor. He addresses how we learned from such challenges\, mastered their transitions\, and capitalized on their opportunities. Rhodes also looks at the current energy landscape\, with a focus on how wind energy is competing for dominance with cast supplies of coal and natural gas. He also addresses the specter of global warming\, and a population hurtling towards ten billion by 2100. \nHuman beings have confronted the problem of how to draw life from raw material since the beginning of time. Each invention\, each discovery\, each adaptation brought further challenges\, and through such transformations\, we arrived at where we are today. In Rhodes’s singular style\, Energy details how this knowledge of our history can inform our way tomorrow.\n\nRichard Rhodes is the author of numerous books and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize\, the National Book Award\, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He graduated from Yale University and has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation\, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Appearing as host and correspondent for documentaries on public television’s Frontline and American Experience series\, he has also been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT and is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Visit his website: RichardRhodes.com\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/richard-rhodes/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Omerta Publications Presents: KRA! & War in America  Genny Lim & William Cross reading from their new chapbooks
DESCRIPTION:Born in San Francisco\, Genny Lim\, San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate\, earned a BA and an MA from San Francisco State University.  The poems in KRA! invoke history\, myth\, biography\, political confrontations\, and personal experience. Lim writes about fellow writers\, musicians\, and radical cultural activists Francisco X. Alarcon\, James Baldwin\, Amiri Baraka\, Fred Ho\, and Alfonso Texidor. “Odes” are dedicated to the people of Black Lives Matter\, Standing Rock\, and Flint\, Michigan. In their lyric fiber\, the poems themselves struggle for the survival of cultures of mutual respect and solidarity in the face of rapacious capitalism. \nWhen War in America was printed by Arroyo-Sheldon Publishers in 1993\, its battle-cry poems became an instant “hit” radical pamphlet—sold at human rights rallies and marches—and quickly disappeared as all copies of the small press run were snapped up. This 25th anniversary edition has those poems\, some revised\, and newer poems\, and an excerpt from the libretto of John Brown’s Truth\, William Crossman’s musical of récitatif\, improvised music\, and dance.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/omerta-publications-presents-kra-war-in-america-genny-lim-william-cross-reading-from-their-new-chapbooks/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night
DESCRIPTION:NEXT up: Tuesday June 19th\, 2018\nOur featured artist is: James Zealous (Ellis)\n\nat PianoFight: 144 Taylor Street (between Turk & Eddy)\,\nSan Francisco\, CA 94102 – Powell Street BART \nHosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir\, live jazz with Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends.\nOpen Mic sign-up for poetry only starts at 6:45pm – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment\, a few open slots to read without music mid-set. FREE admission. Full menu and bar available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night-7/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: Yrsa Daley-Ward / The Terrible
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Yrsa Daley-Ward for her remarkable new book The Terrible: A Storyteller’s Memoir. Please join us! \n  \nFrom the celebrated poet behind bone\, a lyrical memoir — part prose\, part verse — about coming-of-age\, uncovering the cruelty and beauty of the wider world\, and redemption through self-discovery and the bonds of family \n“You may not run away from the thing that you are\nbecause it comes and comes and comes as sure as you breathe.” \n  \nThis is the story of Yrsa Daley-Ward\, and all the things that happened–“even the terrible things. And God\, there were terrible things.” It’s about her childhood in the northwest of England with her beautiful\, careworn mother Marcia; the man formerly known as Dad (half fun\, half frightening); and her little brother Roo\, who sees things written in the stars. \n  \nIt’s also about the surreal magic of adolescence\, about growing up and discovering the power and fear of sexuality\, about pitch-gray days of pills and powder and connection. It’s about damage and pain\, but also joy. Told with raw intensity and shocking honesty\, The Terrible is a memoir of going under\, losing yourself\, and finding your voice. \n  \n\n  \nYrsa Daley-Ward is a writer and poet of mixed West Indian and West African heritage. Born to a Jamaican mother and a Nigerian father\, Yrsa was raised by her devout Seventh Day Adventist grandparents in the small town of Chorley in the North of England. She splits her time between London and New York. \n  \n  \nThis event is free and all ages. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you. \n\n\n\n\nBooks:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Terrible: A Storyteller’s Memoir (Paperback)\n\nBy Yrsa Daley-Ward\n$16.00\nISBN: 9780143132622\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: Penguin Books – June 5th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBone (Paperback)\n\nBy Yrsa Daley-Ward\, Kiese Laymon (Foreword by)\n$15.00\nISBN: 9780143132615\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: Penguin Books – September 26th\, 2017
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-yrsa-daley-ward-the-terrible/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Chris Feliciano Arnold
DESCRIPTION:Chris Feliciano Arnold discusses his new book\, The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First Century Amazon. \nAbout The Third Bank of the River \nA sweeping look at the war over the Amazon―as activists\,locals\, and indigenous tribes struggle to save it from the threat of loggers\, drug lords\, and corrupt cops and politicians \nFollowing doctors and detectives\, environmental activists and indigenous tribes\, The Third Bank of the River traces the history of the Amazon from the arrival of the first Spanish flotilla to the drones that are now mapping unexplored parts of the forest. Grounded in rigorous firsthand reporting and in-depth research\, Chris Feliciano Arnold reveals a portrait of Brazil and the Amazon that is complex\, bloody\, and often tragic. \n  \nDuring the 2014 world cup\, an isolated Amazon tribe emerged from the rain forest on the misty border of Peru and Brazil\, escaping massacre at the hands of loggers who wanted their land. A year later\, in the jungle capital of Manaus\, a bloody weekend of reprisal killings inflame a drug war that has blurred the line between cops and kingpins. Both events reveal the dual struggles of those living in and around the world’s largest river. As indigenous tribes lose their ancestral culture and territory to the lure and threat of the outside world\, the question arises of how best to save isolated tribes: Keep them away from the modern world or make contact in an effort to save them from extinction? As Brazil looks to be a world leader in the twenty-first century\, this magnificent and vast region is mired in chaos and violence that echoes the atrocities that have haunted the rain forest since Europeans first traveled its waters. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chris-feliciano-arnold/
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:Katharine Dion
DESCRIPTION:Launch celebration for her debut novel\, The Dependents\, a wise and lyrical debut novel about a new widower confronting the truth about his long marriage. \n“A marvel of a novel. With great subtlety and tact\, it evokes the love\, devotion\, and sadness that bind a grieving father to his troubled daughter. Its cumulative power comes from the depth of Dion’s entry into her characters and the vividness of her prose that brings them to life. The Dependents is one of the best debut novels I’ve read in years\, and a very auspicious one.”–Adam Haslett \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, June 19\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter the sudden death of his wife\, Maida\, Gene is haunted by the fear that their marriage was not all it appeared to be. Alongside Ed and Gayle Donnelly\, friends since college days\, he tries to resurrect happy memories of the times the two couples shared\, raising their children in a small New Hampshire town and vacationing together at a lake house every summer. Meanwhile\, his daughter\, Dary\, challenges not only his happy version of the past but also his view of Maida. As a long-standing rift between them deepens\, Gene starts to understand how unknown his daughter is to him–and how enigmatic his wife was as well. And a lingering suspicion seizes his mind that could upend everything he thought he knew. \nKatharine Dion’s assured debut moves seamlessly between Gene’s present-day journey and the long history of a marriage and friendship. Rich and wonderfully alive\, The Dependents is the most moving kind of drama\, an intimate glance into the expanse of family life and the way we must all eventually bridge the chasm between what we want to believe and what we know to be true. \nKatharine Dion is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where she was awarded the Iowa Arts Fellowship. She has also been a MacDowell Fellow and the recipient of a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation. She lives in Berkeley. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Dependents (Hardcover)\n\nBy Katharine Dion\n$26.00\nISBN: 9780316473873\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: Little Brown and Company – June 19th\, 2018
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katharine-dion/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Novelist Moriel Rothman-Zecher
DESCRIPTION:Moe’s welcomes Moriel Rothman-Zecher\, author of Sadness is a White Bird. \n“Ultimately\, “Sadness is a White Bird” is a nuanced examination of what it is like to be just one person at the front line of a century-old conflict. Rothman-Zecher delicately tells one deeply unique story without claiming to explain every individual’s experience or devaluing experiences unlike his own. Written in beautiful prose\, with sentences that will leave you tearing up on the bus ride to work\, Rothman-Zecher complicates our worldview and forces us to look internally\, examining how we hold ourselves and our world morally accountable.” The Daily Californian \nMoriel Rothman-Zecher is an American-Israeli writer\, poet\, and novelist. Born in Jerusalem\, he graduated from Middlebury College with a degree in Arabic and political science. A recipient of a 2017 MacDowell Colony Fellowship for Literature\, his work has been published in The New York Times\, Haaretz\, The Paris Review’s Daily\, and elsewhere. Moriel lives in Yellow Springs\, Ohio with his wife\, Kayla\, and their dog\, Silly Department. Read more at TheLefternWall.com and follow him on Twitter @Moriel_R
URL:https://litseen.com/event/novelist-moriel-rothman-zecher/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Ana Raquel Minian
DESCRIPTION:Ana Raquel Minian\nWednesday\, June 20\, 2018\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\n \ndiscussing the subject of her new book \nUndocumented Lives The Untold Story of Mexican Migration \nfrom Harvard University Press \n\nIn the 1970s the Mexican government acted to alleviate rural unemployment by supporting the migration of able-bodied men. Millions crossed into the United States to find work that would help them survive as well as sustain their families in Mexico. They took low-level positions that few Americans wanted and sent money back to communities that depended on their support. But as U.S. authorities pursued more aggressive anti-immigrant measures\, migrants found themselves caught between the economic interests of competing governments. The fruits of their labor were needed in both places\, and yet neither country made them feel welcome. \nAna Raquel Minian explores this unique chapter in the history of Mexican migration. Undocumented Lives draws on private letters\, songs\, and oral testimony to recreate the experience of circular migration\, which reshaped communities in the United States and Mexico. While migrants could earn for themselves and their families in the U.S.\, they needed to return to Mexico to reconnect with their homes periodically. Despite crossing the border many times\, they managed to belong to communities on both sides of it. Ironically\, the U.S. immigration crackdown of the mid-1980s disrupted these flows\, forcing many migrants to remain north of the border permanently for fear of not being able to return to work. For them\, the United States became known as the jaula de oro—the cage of gold. \nUndocumented Lives tells the story of Mexicans who have been used and abused by the broader economic and political policies of Mexico and the United States. \nAna Raquel Minian is Assistant Professor of History and of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. \n\nRelated Links: \n\nRead Ana Raquel Minian’s essay in the Washington Post on the ways in which Mexico itself has served as a “wall” keeping Central American migrants from reaching the United States\nRead Minian’s Los Angeles Times essay arguing that tying DACA to border security ignores the process of “circular migration”: increased border security is whythere are so many Dreamers\nRead a Vox interview with Minian on how Donald Trump’s “sh*thole” comment should be considered in relation to America’s problematic history with eugenics\nWatch Minian discuss DACA on Univision\nAt the Atlantic\, read Minian’s argument that a U.S.–Mexico border wall could have the unintended effect of discouraging Mexicans from leaving the U.S.\nAt Univision\, read about the oral histories that Minian collected while researching Undocumented Lives\nWatch a C-SPAN interview with Minian about 20th century Mexican migration to the United States
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ana-raquel-minian/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Moriel Rothman-Zecher\, author of Sadness is a White Bird
DESCRIPTION:Moe’s welcomes Moriel Rothman-Zecher\, author of Sadness is a White Bird. \n“Ultimately\, “Sadness is a White Bird” is a nuanced examination of what it is like to be just one person at the front line of a century-old conflict. Rothman-Zecher delicately tells one deeply unique story without claiming to explain every individual’s experience or devaluing experiences unlike his own. Written in beautiful prose\, with sentences that will leave you tearing up on the bus ride to work\, Rothman-Zecher complicates our worldview and forces us to look internally\, examining how we hold ourselves and our world morally accountable.” The Daily Californian
URL:https://litseen.com/event/moriel-rothman-zecher-author-of-sadness-is-a-white-bird/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Moriel Rothman-Zecher in conversation with Ayelet Waldman
DESCRIPTION:Moe’s welcomes Moriel Rothman-Zecher\, author of Sadness is a White Bird. \n“Ultimately\, “Sadness is a White Bird” is a nuanced examination of what it is like to be just one person at the front line of a century-old conflict. Rothman-Zecher delicately tells one deeply unique story without claiming to explain every individual’s experience or devaluing experiences unlike his own. Written in beautiful prose\, with sentences that will leave you tearing up on the bus ride to work\, Rothman-Zecher complicates our worldview and forces us to look internally\, examining how we hold ourselves and our world morally accountable.” The Daily Californian \nAyelet Waldman is the author of A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood\, My Marriage\, and My Life\, the novels Love and Treasure\, Red Hook Road\, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits\, and Daughter’s Keeper\, as well as of the essay collection Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes\, Minor Calamities\, and Occasional Moments of Grace and the Mommy-Track Mystery series. She is the editor of Inside This Place\, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons and of the forthcoming Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation. \nMoriel Rothman-Zecher is an American-Israeli writer\, poet\, and novelist. Born in Jerusalem\, he graduated from Middlebury College with a degree in Arabic and political science. A recipient of a 2017 MacDowell Colony Fellowship for Literature\, his work has been published in The New York Times\, Haaretz\, The Paris Review’s Daily\, and elsewhere. Moriel lives in Yellow Springs\, Ohio with his wife\, Kayla\, and their dog\, Silly Department.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/moriel-rothman-zecher-in-conversation-with-ayelet-waldman/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, June 20\, 7:30pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series \nLyrics and Dirges is our flagship 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\, Sharon Coleman\, and Lark Omura. \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, June 20\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA\n\n\n\n\n\nShattuck Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-4/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jana Casale
DESCRIPTION:Jana Casale discusses her new novel\, The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky. \nPraise for The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky \n“Casale writes with both energy and humor.  She is an exquisite storyteller.  In creating Leda and her story\, Casale magically weaves together the tiny moments in life\, allowing them to gain momentum and build off each other\, until they culminate into an extraordinary tale that has spunk and charm.” —Weike Wang\, author of Chemistry \n“As the perfect title suggests\, the books we don’t read can shape us just as much as the ones we do. However\, unlike our titular heroine and her copy of Problems of Knowledge and Freedom\, I guarantee you’ll fly through this one. It’s a rare gem of a debut–funny\, heartbreaking\, and genuinely profound.”--Ed Park\, author of Personal Days \n“How do you account for a life? In Jana Casale’s poignant debut\, the answer has as much to do with the things her protagonist\, Leda – college student\, wife\, writer\, temporary Orca expert\, mother – wanted to do and didn’t\, as what she actually lives. A funny\, tender and touching illumination of the extraordinary beauty contained in a seemingly everyday life. I can’t stop thinking about this book.”  —Julie Buntin\, author of Marlena \nAbout The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky \nWe first meet Leda in a coffee shop on an average afternoon\, notable only for the fact that it’s the single occasion in her life when she will eat two scones in one day. And for the cute boy reading American Power and the New Mandarins.  Leda hopes that\, by engaging him\, their banter will lead to romance. Their fleeting\, awkward exchange stalls before flirtation blooms. But Leda’s left with one imperative thought: she decides she wants to read Noam Chomsky. So she promptly buys a book and never—ever—reads it. \nAs the days\, years\, and decades of the rest of her life unfold\, we see all of the things Leda does instead\, from eating leftover spaghetti in her college apartment\, to fumbling through the first days home with her newborn daughter\, to attempting (and nearly failing) to garden in her old age. In a collage of these small moments\, we see the work—both visible and invisible—of a woman trying to carve out a life of meaning. Over the course of her experiences Leda comes to the universal revelation that the best-laid-plans are not always the path to utter fulfillment and contentment\, and in reality there might be no such thing. Lively and disarmingly honest\, The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky is a remarkable literary feat—bracingly funny\, sometimes heartbreaking\, and truly feminist in its insistence that the story it tells is an essential one.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jana-casale/
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:Zoé Samudzi
DESCRIPTION:Zoé Samudzi discussing the subject of her new book\n\nAs Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation \nby William C. Anderson and Zoé Samudzi with a foreword by Mariame Kaba \npublished by AK Press \n\nOver the course of United States history\, resistance against oppression and the gains made from various struggles for everyone’s equality have often been Black led. However\, liberal politics and the lack of strong leftist political power are two problems impeding the continued progress of Black America. Expanding on their original essay The Anarchism Of Blackness\, Samudzi and Anderson make the case for a new program of transformative politics for Black Americans\, one rooted in an anarchistic framework likened to the Black experience itself. This is not a compromising book that negotiates with intolerance. As Black as Resistance is a declaration for everyone who is ready to continue progressing towards liberation for all people. \nZoé Samudzi Zoé Samudzi is a writer and doctoral student in Medical Sociology at the University of California\, San Francisco. Her research focuses on the scientific logics that produce race and gender\, particularly focusing on transgender health and the ways Blackness is constructed. Her writing has appeared in The New Inquiry\, Warscapes\, Truthout\, ROAR Magazine\, Teen Vogue\, BGD\, Bitch Media\, and Verso\, among others. She is also a member of the 2017/18 Public Imagination cohort of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) Fellows Program\, and she is a member of the Black Aesthetic\, an Oakland-based collective and film series exploring the multitudes and diversities of Black artistic production & literary-visual culture. \nVisit http://www.zoesamudzi.com \nWilliam C. Anderson is a freelance writer. His work has been published by the Guardian\, MTV\, and Pitchfork\, among others. You can read many of his writings at Truthout or at the Praxis Center for Kalamazoo College\, where he’s a contributing editor covering race\, class\, and immigration. \nMariame Kaba is an organizer\, educator and the founder and director of Project NIA\, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoe-samudzi/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joel Selvin\, Fare Thee Well
DESCRIPTION:Joel Selvin\, Fare Thee Well\nThursday\, June 21\, 2018 – 7:00pm \nBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes music journalist and bestselling author Joel Selvin for a discussion and signing of his new book\, Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of The Grateful Dead’s Long\, Strange Trip. \nFARE THEE WELL is a tell-all biography of the epic in-fighting of the Grateful Dead in the years following band leader Jerry Garcia’s death in 1995. The Grateful Dead rose to greatness under the inspired leadership of guitarist Jerry Garcia\, but the band very nearly died along with him. When Garcia passed away suddenly in August of 1995\, the remaining band members experienced full crises of confidence and identity. So long defined by Garcia’s vision for the group\, the surviving “Core Four\,” as they came to be called\, were reduced to conflicting agendas\, strained relationships\, and catastrophic business decisions that would leave the iconic band in shambles. Wrestling with how best to define their living legacy\, the band made many attempts at restructuring\, but it would take twenty years before relationships were mended enough for the Grateful Dead as fans remembered them to once again take the stage. \nAcclaimed music journalist and New York Times bestselling author Joel Selvin was there for much of the turmoil following Garcia’s death\, and he’ll offer a behind-the-scenes account of the ebbs and flows that occurred during the ensuing two decades. Plenty of books have been written about the rise of the Grateful Dead\, but this final chapter of the band’s history has never before been explored in detail. Culminating in the landmark tour bearing the same name\, Fare Thee Well charts the arduous journey from Garcia’s passing all the way up to the uneasy agreement between the Core Four that led to the series of shows celebrating the band’s fiftieth anniversary and finally allowing for a proper\, and joyous\, sendoff of the group revered by so many. \nJOEL SELVIN is an award-winning journalist who has covered pop music for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1970. Selvin is the author of the bestselling Summer of Love and coauthor\, with Sammy Hagar\, of the #1 New York Times bestseller Red. He has written twelve other books about pop music. Selvin lives in San Francisco\, California. \n  \nThis event will be free at Bookshop Santa Cruz with open seating. Chairs for open seating are usually set up an hour before the event begins.  \nFare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead’s Long\, Strange Trip (Hardcover)\nBy Joel Selvin\, Pamela Turley (With) \n$27.00 \nISBN: 9780306903052 \nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now \nPublished: Da Capo Press – June 19th\, 2018 \nFare Thee Well–GET IT SIGNED!\n$27.00 \nSKU: S780306903052 \nName (optional) \nIf you cannot attend the event\, you can still have a copy of Fare Thee Well signed for you at the event. Books must be paid for in advance and can either be shipped or held for pick-up in the store after they have been signed. Internet orders must be placed by Wednesday\, June 19th. After that\, please call the store to inquire about signed editions. \nMost authors will be happy to add a name to their signature\, but this service is at their discretion and isn’t guaranteed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joel-selvin-fare-thee-well/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Story is the Thing
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, June 21st for our quarterly reading series – Story is the Thing – that highlights established authors and stars on the rise. This evening\, we’ll showcase a dynamic and diverse group of seven writers reading on the theme “Kindness”: Dinika Amaral\, Idris Anderson\, Tristen Chang\, Betsy Franco\, Carrie La Seur\, Elaine Castillo\, and Peg Alford Pursell. \n“We are real only in moments of kindness” -cited by Meave Brennan in her author’s note from “The Long-Winded Lady.” \nReading starts at 7:30 pm. Light refreshments and conversation at 7:00 pm. \nDinika Amaral was born and raised in Bombay\, India. Her work has appeared in Guernica\, The Times of India\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Golden Handcuffs Review\, Denver Quarterly\, the Massachusetts Review\, and in the Iowa Review (winner of the Tim McGinnis award). Presently\, a Steinbeck Fellow\, she is working on an unlinked story collection and a novel. \nIdris Anderson’s second collection of poems Doubtful Soundwas selected by Sherod Santos for the Hollis Summers Prize of Ohio UP\, and was just published in March 2018. Her first collection of poems Mrs. Ramsay’s Knee was selected by Harold Bloom for the May Swenson Poetry Award. She has won a Pushcart Prize (2010) and the New York Yeats Society Poetry Prize. She has published poems in AGNI Crab Orchard Review\, The Hudson Review\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Paris Review\, Plume\, Southern Review\, and other journals. \nTristen Chang grew up in Woodland\, California\, and received her MA in English from UC Davis. Her work has appeared in various journals and she was twice a finalist for Glimmer Train’s short story award. Recently\, she won first place in Six Fold’s fiction contest and was awarded the Tennessee Williams scholarship in fiction. She now lives in San Francisco and teaches creative writing. \nBetsy Franco is an award winning author of over eighty books\, including her novel Naked\, her YA\, Metamorphosis Junior Year\, and her picture books and poetry collections. She wrote the screenplay for Naked\, which has been optioned for a film\, and she was screenwriting mentor for Metamorphosis\, featured at the Mill Valley Film Festival and the basis of a sold-out play. She loves working with teens and is inspired by her creative sons\, James\, Tom\, and Dave. \nCarrie La Seur practices energy and environmental law on behalf of farmers\, ranchers\, and Native Americans\, and is a seventh generation Montanan. In 2016 she helped found The House of Books\, a co-op bookstore in downtown Billings\, MT. In 2006\, Carrie founded the legal nonprofit Plains Justice\, which provides public interest energy and environmental legal services in the northern plains states and played a key role in halting several new coal plants\, enacting clean energy reforms\, and launching the Keystone XL pipeline campaign. Her writing has appeared in Grist\, the Guardian\, Harvard Law and Policy Review\, Huffington Post\, Mother Jones\, Rumpus and Salon. \nElaine Castillo was born in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a graduate of the University of California\, Berkeley\, and received her MA in creative and life writing from Goldsmiths\, University of London. She lives in Milpitas\, California. America is Not the Heart is her first novel. \nPeg Alford Pursell is the author of Show Her a Flower\, A Bird\, A Shadow\, a collection of fiction and hybrid prose with praise from Peter Orner\, Joan Silber\, Antonya Nelson\, and others\, and featured by Poets & Writers magazine’s second annual 5 over 50\, December 2017. Her second book\, A Girl Goes into the Forest\, is forthcoming from Dzanc Books in 2019. Her work has appeared in Permafrost\, the Los Angeles Review\, Joyland Magazine\, and other journals and anthologies. She is the founder and director of the national reading series Why There Are Words and of WTAW Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/story-is-the-thing-2/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: an evening with Kim Addonizio\, Donna Masini\, and Brittany Perham
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts an evening with poets Kim Addonizio\, Donna Masini\, and Brittany Perham all reading from new work. Please join us! \n  \nMortal Trash by Kim Addonizio \n  \nPassionate and irreverent\, Mortal Trash transports the readers into a world of wit\, lament\, and desire. In a section called “Over the Bright and Darkened Lands\,” canonical poems are torqued into new shapes. “Except Thou Ravish Me\,” reimagines John Donne’s famous “Batter my heart\, Three-person’d God” as told from the perspective of a victim of domestic violence. Like Pablo Neruda\, Addonizio hears “a swarm of objects that call without being answered”: hospital crash carts\, lawn gnomes\, Evian bottles\, wind-up Christmas creches\, edible panties\, cracked mirrors. Whether comic\, elegiac\, or ironic\, the poems in Mortal Trash remind us of the beauty and absurdity of our time on earth. \n  \n  \n  \nKim Addonizio has been called “one of our nation’s most provocative and edgy poets.” She is the author of six poetry collections\, two novels\, two story collections\, and two books on writing poetry.  Her latest are Mortal Trash: Poems (W. W. Norton) and  Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life (Penguin). She has received fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundations\, two Pushcart Prizes\, and other honors.  Her writing has appeared in New York Times\, Poetry\, The Sun\, and numerous literary journals and anthologies. She offers poetry workshops privately in Oakland and online \n. \n  \n\n  \n4:30 Movie by Donna Masini \n  \nIn poems that are by turns intimate and wild\, provocative and tender\, award-winning poet Donna Masini explores personal loss\, global violence\, and the consolations of art. She brings her wit\, grief\, fury\, and propulsive energy to bear on the preoccupations of our daily lives and our attempts to bargain with endings of every kind. Equal parts lament and praise\, 4:30 Movie is fueled by despair and humor\, governed by the ways in which movies enter our imaginations and frame our experiences. The movie theater becomes a presiding metaphor: part waiting room\, part childhood\, part underground depths where the self is a bit player\, riding the subway with “its engine of extras.” Masini’s exquisite word play shows the mind wrestling ferociously to forestall grief\, as if finding the right words might somehow allow us to extend our beautiful foreshortened run. \n  \n  \nDonna Masini is the author of two previous collections of poetry and one novel. She was awarded the Barnard Women’s Poetry Prize\, a Pushcart Prize\, and New York Foundation of the Arts grant and a grant from the National Endowment for the arts. She teaches at Hunter College and lives in New York City. \n  \n\n  \nDouble Portrait by Brittany Perham \n  \nEach poem in Brittany Perham’s prize-winning collection links two portraits: lover and beloved\, child and parent\, citizen and country\, spirit and body\, living and dead. Each speaker investigates what it means to be in relationship to another: what does it mean to see and be seen\, to reflect and be reflected\, to address and be addressed? With musicality\, grit\, and humor\, these poems challenge our conceptions of identity and language. By questioning the ways we think and speak\, the ways we rehash and reshape our experience\, they formalize obsession. Emotionally stirring and unapologetic\, Double Portrait contemplates the nature of devotion. \n  \n  \nBrittany Perham is the author of Double Portrait (W.W. Norton\, 2017)\, which was selected by Claudia Rankine for the Barnard Women Poets Prize; The Curiosities (Free Verse Editions\, 2012); and\, with Kim Addonizio\, the collaborative chapbook The Night Could Go in Either Direction (SHP\, 2016). She is a Jones Lecturer in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University\, where she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. She lives in San Francisco. \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of any of the authors’ books\, order below and be sure to put your request in the special field. \n\n\n\n\nBooks:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMortal Trash: Poems (Paperback)\n\nBy Kim Addonizio\n$15.95\nISBN: 9780393354348\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – August 1st\, 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life (Paperback)\n\nBy Kim Addonizio\n$16.00\nISBN: 9780143128465\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: Penguin Books – June 21st\, 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrdinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within (Paperback)\n\nBy Kim Addonizio\n$16.95\nISBN: 9780393334166\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – February 1st\, 2009\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLucifer at the Starlite: Poems (Paperback)\n\nBy Kim Addonizio\n$15.95\nISBN: 9780393335255\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – January 1st\, 2011\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Palace of Illusions: Stories (Paperback)\n\nBy Kim Addonizio\n$15.95\nISBN: 9781593766252\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: Soft Skull Press – September 15th\, 2015\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4:30 Movie: Poems (Hardcover)\n\nBy Donna Masini\n$25.95\nISBN: 9780393635508\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – May 29th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTurning to Fiction: Poems (Paperback)\n\nBy Donna Masini\n$15.95\nISBN: 9780393328448\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – April 1st\, 2006\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDouble Portrait (Hardcover)\n\nBy Brittany Perham\n$26.95\nISBN: 9780393354010\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – August 8th\, 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Curiosities (Free Verse Editions) (Paperback)\n\nBy Brittany Perham\n$14.00\nISBN: 9781602352391\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: Parlor Press – November 3rd\, 2011
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-an-evening-with-kim-addonizio-donna-masini-and-brittany-perham/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hazel White
DESCRIPTION:presents Vigilance is No Orchard\, an experimental poem sequence inspired by a famous garden now in ruin.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hazel-white/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:After Hours: Jeff Goodell - The Water Will Come
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, June 22nd · 7:00pm \nJeff Goodell\, author of The Water Will Come: Rising Seas\, Sinking Cities\, and the Remaking of the Civilized World\, has traveled across 12 countries to interview scientists and leaders about climate change. He will present his findings and report how climate change and sea level rise are affecting major cities\, coastal villages\, island nations and the military. \nRegistration recommended. Registration opens June 4th. \nAdd to my:iCal/Outlook \nWhen:Friday\, June 22\, 2018 \nTime:7:00 PM – 9:00 PM \nWhere:Mill Valley Public Library – Main Reading Room\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley\, California\, 94941 \nEvent Type:Library\, After Hours \nContact:(415) 389-4292
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-jeff-goodell-the-water-will-come/
LOCATION:Main Reading Room\, Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:TELEGRAPH OPEN MIC (FEATURES: DAPHNE GOTTLIEB AND SAGE CURTIS)
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 23rd and Telegraph in Oakland for a six-slot open mic alongside two amazing features. This month’s show features Daphne Gottlieb and Sage Curtis! \nMusic by TBA. \nTelegraph Open Mic takes place every fourth Friday from 7-9:00 PM at our Uptown location. It will have six open-mic slots open to the public. Spots are filled on a first-come\, first-serve basis and the list opens at 7:00 PM sharp. As is the case with our musicians and features at all events\, open-mic readers from the community will be held to the Nomadic Press Safe Space Statement. Please see below. \nSafe Space Statement \nNomadic Press events are safe spaces for those who have been silenced and marginalized. There is no room for racism\, misogyny\, homophobia\, or transphobia whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. We will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone if we feel they have violated these guidelines\, and we encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. We are a community\, and we will work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nCome early to sign up for the open mic and share your latest work! Curated and emceed by Rene Vaz. \nTo help pay for our space and our artists and ensure that we can continue our robust programming series\, we are calling for $10 at the door (plus whatever else you may be able to give)\, but no one turned away for lack of funds. Nomadic Press books\, as always\, will be for sale at the event. \nWine and Red Bay coffee will be available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/telegraph-open-mic-features-daphne-gottlieb-and-sage-curtis/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Julian Francis Park\, Lauren Levin\, and Isabel Bezerra Balee
DESCRIPTION:Julian Francis Park lives in Oakland and writes poems\, narrative\, literary criticism\, and social theory. Through the Bay Area Public School Julian facilitates a writing workshop\, “Writing with world stuff\,” at the Omni Commons\, where Julian also is on the Communications and Challenging Dominant Cultures working groups. Julian works reception in Causa Justa/Just Cause’s Tenants’ Rights Clinic. Tweets: @jfpark3; links: https://jfpark.tumblr.com/texts \nLauren Levin is the author of The Braid (Krupskaya) and Justice Piece/Transmission (forthcoming\, Timeless\, Infinite Light 2018). They are a Summer 2018 Columnist at Open Space\, SFMoma’s arts and culture platform and from 2011-2014\, co-edited the Poetic Labor Project. Lauren is from New Orleans and lives in Richmond\, CA. \nIsabel Bezerra Balée writes poems and works at a nonprofit in Berkeley. Previously\, she has taught creative writing at Tulane University. Born and raised in New Orleans\, with roots in Northern Brazil\, she feels a deep connection to floodplains. Links and writings can be found at: ibalee.tumblr.com. Isabel lives in Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julian-francis-park-lauren-levin-and-isabel-bezerra-balee/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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