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SUMMARY:San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck + open mic
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck + open mic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-poet-laureate-kim-shuck-open-mic/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival Presents Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake
DESCRIPTION:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents Poetic Tuesdays guest curated by Litquake\, Poetic Tuesdays features an array of poets and music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yerba-buena-gardens-festival-presents-poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-4/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hope Ewing -- MOVERS AND SHAKERS
DESCRIPTION:MORE INFO TO COME \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, October 16\, 2018 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hope-ewing-movers-and-shakers/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:John Freeman in conversation with Rebecca Solnit
DESCRIPTION:This event cosponsored by LITQUAKE in conjunction with City Lights and Grove Press \ncelebrating the release of \nFreeman’s Literary Journal: POWER Issue \npublished by Grove Press \nFrom the voices of protestors to the encroachment of a new fascism\, everywhere we look\, power is revealed. Spouse to spouse\, soldier to citizen\, looker to gazed upon\, power is never static: it is either demonstrated or deployed. Its hoarding is itself a demonstration. This thought-provoking issue of the acclaimed literary annual Freeman’s explores who gets to say what matters in a time of social upheaval. \nMany of the writers are women. Margaret Atwood posits it is time to update the gender of werewolf narratives. Aminatta Forna shatters the silences which supposedly ensured her safety as a woman of color walking in public spaces. Power must often be seized. The narrator of Lan Samantha Chang’s short story finally wrenches control of the family’s finances from her husband only to make a fatal mistake. Meanwhile the hero of Tahmima Anam’s story achieves freedom by selling bull semen. Australian novelist Josephine Rowe recalls a gallery attendee trying to take what was not offered when she worked as a life-drawing model. Violence often results from power imbalances— Booker Prize winner Ben Okri watches power stripped from the residents of Grenfell Tower by ferocious neglect. But not all power must wreak damage. Barry Lopez remembers fourteen glimpses of power\, from the moment he hitched a ride on a cargo plane in Korea to the glare he received from a bear traveling with her cubs in the woods\, asking—do you plan me harm? \nFeaturing work from brand new writers Nicole Im\, Jaime Cortez\, and Nimmi Gowrinathan\, as well as from some of the world’s best storytellers\, including US poet laureate Tracy K. Smith\, Franco-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani\, and Turkish novelist Elif Shafak\, Freeman’s: Power escapes from the headlines of today and burrows into the heart of the issue. \nJohn Freeman was the editor of Granta until 2013. His books include How to Read a Novelist\, Tales of Two Cities\, Tales of Two Americas\, and Maps\, his debut collection of poems. He is executive editor at the Literary Hub and teaches at the New School and New York University. His work has appeared in the New Yorker and the Paris Review and has been translated into twenty languages. \nRebecca Solnit is a prolific writer\, and the author of many books including Hope in the Dark\, Men Explain Things To Me\, Savage Dreams\, Storming the Gates of Paradise\, and the best-selling atlases Infinite City and Unfathomable City. Her writing has appeared in Harpers\, UK Guardian\, and Tom Dispatch. She has received numerous honors for her work including the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Sally Hacker Prize from the Society for the History of Technology\, the Harvard Mark Lynton History Prize\, the Corlis Benefideo Award for Imaginative Cartography from the North American Cartographic Information Society\, and numerous fellowships. \nLitquake is the largest independent literary festival on the West Coast\, Litquake continues its mission as a ten-day literary spectacle for booklovers\, complete with cutting-edge panel discussions\, unique cross-media events\, and hundreds of readings. Whether it’s poets reciting in a cathedral\, authors discussing science versus religion in a library\, or novelists reading in a beekeeping supply store\, the goal remains the same: whet a broad range of literary appetites\, present the literary fare in a variety of traditional and unlikely venues\, and make it vivid\, real\, and entertaining. To learn more visit: http://www.litquake.org/ \nPraise for Freeman’s: \n“There’s an illustrious new literary journal in town . . . [with] fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry by new voices and literary heavyweights . . . alike.”—Vogue.com \n“A terrific anthology . . . Sure to become a classic in years to come.”—San Francisco Chronicle \n“Ambitious.”—O Magazine \n“Freeman draws from a global cache of talent . . . An expansive reading experience.”—Kirkus Reviews \n“Looking at what John [Freeman] has put together in this first edition\, I’m struck by how many names I don’t know and how diverse and global it is. My only disappointment is that it’s going to be twice a year—I think we need it 4 times a year.”—James Wood\, Radio Boston \n“Illuminating . . . Perfect reading for our ever-accelerating times.”—NPR’s Book Concierge \n“Freeman’s is fresh\, provocative\, engrossing.”—BBC.com \n“A first-rate anthology of bold\, searching and personal writing by emerging and established writers.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune \n“Freeman’s sets a new standard for literary journals . . . It’s refreshing and full of nuanced stories that will linger with you long after you finish them.”—Chicago Literati \n“[An] infinitely relatable and beautifully crafted prose and poetry anthology . . . Freeman has assembled a thoughtful and profoundly accessible collection of work that connects our vulnerabilities\, our expectations and our hopes.”—Newcity Lit \n“[A] thrillingly unique collection of voices.”—Toronto Star
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-freeman-in-conversation-with-rebecca-solnit/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Jay Osborn
DESCRIPTION:John Jay Osborn discusses his new novel Listen to the Marriage. \n\nAbout Listen to the Marriage \n\nGretchen and Steve have been married for a long time. Living in San Francisco\, recently separated\, with two children and demanding jobs\, they’ve started going to a marriage counselor. Unfolding over the course of ten months and taking place entirely in the marriage counselor’s office\, John Jay Osborn’s Listen to the Marriage is the story of a fractured couple in a moment of crisis\, and of the person who tries to get them to see each other again. A searing look at the obstacles we put in our own way\, as well as the forces that drive us apart (and those that bring us together)\, Listen to the Marriage is a poignant exploration of marriage–heartbreaking and tender. \n  \nAbout John Jay Osborn \n\nJohn Jay Osborn graduated from Harvard Law School in 1970. He wrote The Paper Chase while he was a full-time law student. Osborn has clerked for the United States Court of Appeals\, practiced law in New York City\, taught at the University of Miami School of Law\, and practiced in the estate-planning field\, as well as giving advice and representation to artists and writers. He is the author of several novels and has written episodes for a variety of television shows. Since 1991 he has been a professor at the law school of the University of San Francisco. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-jay-osborn/
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:BINDERY: Erin Gibson / Feminasty: The Complicated Woman’s Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening with Erin Gibson for her debut book of essays Feminasty: The Complicated Woman’s Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death. Please join us! \n  \nErin Gibson has a singular goal – to create a utopian future where women are recognized as humans. In FEMINASTY—titled after her nickname on the hit podcast “Throwing Shade”—she has written a collection of make-you-laugh-until-you-cry essays that expose the hidden rules that make life as a woman unnecessarily hard and deconstructs them in a way that’s bold\, provocative and hilarious. Whether it’s about shaming women for having their periods\, allowing them into STEM fields but never treating them like they truly belong\, or dictating strict rules for how they should dress in every situation\, Erin breaks down the organized chaos of old fashioned sexism\, intentional and otherwise\, that systemically keeps women down. \n  \nFeminasty is Erin Gibson’s revolutionary handbook for dismantling the patriarchy\, one pay gap joke at a time \n  \n\n  \nEmmy-nominated Southern loudmouth Erin Gibson is an expert at mixing social commentary\, political satire\, and vagina jokes into neat little comedy packages. Based in Los Angeles\, she’s one half of the Throwing Shade empire\, which includes an award winning political absurdist comedy podcast\, international live touring show\, the Funny or Die web series and a TV Land late night show. She developed her social commentary chops as the host of “Modern Lady” and sharpened them writing and directing political sketches for Funny or Die\, where you’ve seen her impersonate terrible women like Michele Bachmann\, Megyn Kelly\, Michelle Duggar and Ivanka Trump. She also created the long running Emmy-nominated “Gay of Thrones” starring her real-life hair stylist\, Jonathan Van Ness. Feminasty is her debut book of comedic essays. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of Feminasty\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-erin-gibson-feminasty-the-complicated-womans-guide-to-surviving-the-patriarchy-without-drinking-herself-to-death/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Kaag discusses his new book\, Hiking With Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are
DESCRIPTION:John Kaag discusses his new book\, Hiking With Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are. \n\nPraise For Hiking With Nietzsche \n\n“Meditative . . . thought provoking . . . Kaag has crafted a stirring account of a personal encounter with a great mind.” –Publishers Weekly \n  \n“Kaag succeeds . . . through his courage to approach Nietzsche\, and philosophy in general\, from a personal―and not just intellectual―perspective . . . .A meditative work full of self-understanding that will resonate with anyone who has ever been drawn toward the void.” –Kirkus \n\nAbout Hiking With Nietzsche \n\nA revelatory Alpine journey in the spirit of the great Romantic thinker Friedrich Nietzsche \n  \nHiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are is a tale of two philosophical journeys―one made by John Kaag as an introspective young man of nineteen\, the other seventeen years later\, in radically different circumstances: he is now a husband and father\, and his wife and small child are in tow. Kaag sets off for the Swiss peaks above Sils Maria where Nietzsche wrote his landmark work Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Both of Kaag’s journeys are made in search of the wisdom at the core of Nietzsche’s philosophy\, yet they deliver him to radically different interpretations and\, more crucially\, revelations about the human condition. \n  \nJust as Kaag’s acclaimed debut\, American Philosophy: A Love Story\, seamlessly wove together his philosophical discoveries with his search for meaning\, Hiking with Nietzsche is a fascinating exploration not only of Nietzsche’s ideals but of how his experience of living relates to us as individuals in the twenty-first century. Bold\, intimate\, and rich with insight\, Hiking with Nietzsche is about defeating complacency\, balancing sanity and madness\, and coming to grips with the unobtainable. As Kaag hikes\, alone or with his family\, but always with Nietzsche\, he recognizes that even slipping can be instructive. It is in the process of climbing\, and through the inevitable missteps\, that one has the chance\, in Nietzsche’s words\, to “become who you are.” \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-kaag-discusses-his-new-book-hiking-with-nietzsche-on-becoming-who-you-are/
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:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 17\, 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 and Sharon Coleman. \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, October 17\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nShattuck Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-8/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:H O L L O W A Y : R E A D I N G : S E R I E S Tom Pickard
DESCRIPTION:Tom Pickard \nREADINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
URL:https://litseen.com/event/h-o-l-l-o-w-a-y-r-e-a-d-i-n-g-s-e-r-i-e-s-tom-pickard/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The City Is Already Speaking: The Sound of Calle 24 Live Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join United Booksellers\, San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck\, and the poets \n\nfor what is likely to be the last live reading of 2018 from the limited edition chapbook\,\nThe City Is Already Speaking: The Sound of Calle 24 \n Featured readers:\n*Josiah Luis Alderete * Dee Allen * Simon Crafts * Flavia Elisa * E.K. Keith * Thea Matthews * Linda Noel * Raul Ruiz * Denise Sullivan & Ricardo Tavarez plus special guests.\n\njoin United Booksellers\, San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck\, and the poets of \n\nThe City Is Already Speaking: The Sound of Calle 24 \nfor what is likely to be the last live reading of 2018 from our limited edition chapbook. Featured readers on this night are…\n*Josiah Luis Alderete * Dee Allen * Simon Crafts * Flavia Elisa * E.K. Keith * Thea Matthews * Linda Noel * Raul Ruiz * Denise Sullivan & Ricardo Tavarez plus special guests. LITQUAKE DETAILS HERE\n\nThis is the first publication by United Booksellers which in addition to the above listed contributors\, also includes work from former San Francisco Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguía and California Book Award\, Griffin Poetry Prize and American Book Award winner\, Tongo Eisen-Martin. Fresh copies of the chap\, from a limited run and printed on higher quality paper stock\, will be available for sale at the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-city-is-already-speaking-the-sound-of-calle-24-live-reading/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:H. Bruce Franklin discusses his new book Crash Course: From the Good War to the Forever War
DESCRIPTION:H. Bruce Franklin discusses his new book Crash Course: From the Good War to the Forever War. \n\nAbout Crash Course \n\nGrowing up during the Second World War\, H. Bruce Franklin believed what he was told: that America’s victory would lead to a new era of world peace. Like most Americans\, he was soon led to believe in a world-wide Communist conspiracy that menaced the United States\, forcing the nation into a disastrous war in Korea. But once he joined the U.S. Air Force and began flying top-secret missions as a navigator and intelligence officer\, what he learned was eye-opening. He saw that even as the U.S. preached about peace and freedom\, it was engaging in an endless cycle of warfare\, bringing devastation and oppression to fledgling democracies across the globe. \nNow\, after fifty years as a renowned cultural historian\, Franklin offers a set of hard-learned lessons about modern American history. Crash Course is essential reading for anyone who wonders how America ended up where it is today: with a deeply divided and disillusioned populace\, led by a dysfunctional government\, and mired in unwinnable wars. It also finds startling parallels between America’s foreign military exploits and the equally brutal tactics used on the home front to crush organized labor\, antiwar\, and civil rights movements. \nMore than just a memoir or a history book\, Crash Course gives readers a unique firsthand look at the building of the American empire and the damage it has wrought. Shocking and gripping as any thriller\, it exposes a decades-long deception of the American public and commemorates the few brave souls who fought for truth and justice.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/h-bruce-franklin-discusses-his-new-book-crash-course-from-the-good-war-to-the-forever-war/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Erica Dawson -- WHEN RAP SPOKE STRAIGHT TO GOD
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 18\n7:00pm\n\nMORE INFO TO COME \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, October 18\, 2018 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/erica-dawson-when-rap-spoke-straight-to-god/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Carolyn Miller & Carol Moldaw
DESCRIPTION:Carolyn Miller is a poet and painter living in San Francisco. Route 66 and Its Sorrows\, her most recent book of poetry\, was published by Terrapin Books in 2017. Two other full-length collections\, Light\, Moving (2009) and After Cocteau (2002)\, were published by Sixteen Rivers Press. Miller’s work has appeared The Georgia Review\, The Southern Review\, Prairie Schooner\, and The Gettysburg Review\, among other journals\, and her awards include the James Boatwright III Prize for Poetry from Shenandoah and the Rainmaker Award from Zone 3. \n \n\n\n\n\n\nCarol Moldaw is the author of Beauty Refracted\, a poetry collection (Four Way Books 2018); The Widening\, a short novel; The Lightning Field\, which won The FIELD Prize; and a chapbook\, Through the Window\, published as Pencereden in Istanbul\, in a bi-lingual Turkish-English edition. Moldaw is the recipient of an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship in poetry\, a Pushcart Prize\, and a Lannan Foundation Marfa Writer’s Residency. Her book So Late\, So Soon: New and Selected Poems\, was shortlisted for the PEN Southwest Book Award (2011). Moldaw grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and received her undergraduate degree from Harvard College and an M.A. in Creative Writing from Boston University. Moldaw has been on the faculty of the Stonecoast low-residency M.F.A. program\,and has conducted residencies at the Vermont Studio Center\, taught at the College of Santa Fe and in the MFA program at Naropa University and Bucknell’s Stadler Center for Poetry. In the spring of 2011 she served as the Louis D. Rubin\, Jr.\, Writer-in-Residence at Hollins University. Moldaw teaches privately and lives in Santa Fe\, New Mexico with her husband and daughter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carolyn-miller-carol-moldaw/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Damion Searls discusses his translation of Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl\, by Uwe Johnson. Sponsored by The Center for the Art of Translation
DESCRIPTION:Damion Searls discusses his translation of Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl\, by Uwe Johnson. Sponsored by The Center for the Art of Translation. \n\nAbout Anniversaries \n\nA landmark of 20th Century literature about New York in the late 1960s\, now in English for the first time. \nLate in 1967\, Uwe Johnson\, already one of the most celebrated German novelists of his generation\, set out to write a book that would take the form of an entry for every day of the year that lay ahead.  The  first entry is August 21\, 1967\, and every subsequent entry is dated the following day\, through August 20\, 1968. Of course\, Johnson had no idea what the year would bring—that was part of the challenge—but he did have his main character: Gesine Cresspahl\, a German émigré living on the Upper West Side of New York City and working as a translator for a bank\, who is the single mother of a ten-year-old daughter\, Marie. \nThe book tells the story of a year in the life of this little family in relation to the unfolding stories of the year\, as winnowed from the pages of The New York Times\, of which Gesine is a devoted if wary reader. These stories in turn are overlayed by another: Gesine\, born just as Hitler was coming to power\, has decided to tell Marie the story of her grandparents’ lives and of her own rural childhood in Nazi Germany. \nAnniversaries courts comparison to Joyce’s Ulysses\, the book of a day\, and to Proust’s In Search of Lost Time\, the book of a lifetime\, but it stands apart in its dense polyphonic interplay of voices and stories. It is a novel of private life\, a political novel\, and a new kind of historical novel\, reckoning not only with past history but with history in the making.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/damion-searls-discusses-his-translation-of-anniversaries-from-a-year-in-the-life-of-gesine-cresspahl-by-uwe-johnson-sponsored-by-the-center-for-the-art-of-translation/
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;VALUE=DATE:20181020
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181021
DTSTAMP:20260407T202045
CREATED:20180731T230654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T215808Z
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SUMMARY:Lit Crawl SF
DESCRIPTION:FREE! \nOne of the most anticipated literary nights of the year\, San Francisco’s Lit Crawl began in 2004\, and has grown to attract nearly 10\,000 people. Today\, it is the world’s largest such event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lit-crawl-sf/
LOCATION:The Mission\, the mission\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181020T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181020T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T202045
CREATED:20180825T020710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180825T020710Z
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SUMMARY:LITQUAKE! LIT-Crawl
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a great night of literary fun along 24th Street! \nPhase 1:  FLOR Y CANTO 2018 \nhttps://www.facebook.com/SFFloryCanto/ \nPhase 2:  FORUM Magazine \nhttps://www.facebook.com/ForumMagazine/ \nPhase 3:  THE RACKET \nhttps://www.facebook.com/theracketseries/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-lit-crawl/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181020T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181020T200000
DTSTAMP:20260407T202045
CREATED:20180924T022149Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180924T022149Z
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SUMMARY:14th Annual Lit Crawl SF: Hazel Reading Series / The Escapery
DESCRIPTION:Date: Saturday\, October 20\, 2018\nTime: 6pm doors\, 6:30pm event\nAdmission: Free \nHazel Reading Series features an all-star lineup of readers. After the intermission\, The Escapery readers explore life’s peaks and craters\, the ways that the moonshine reaches all of us\, the glint and glare of love and death\, and the waning gleam of the moon as we move through our lives. \nOne of the most anticipated literary nights of the year\, Lit Crawl San Francisco is a massive\, one-night literary pub crawl throughout the city’s Mission District. Lit Crawl SF brings together 500+ authors and close to 10\,000 fans for the world’s largest free pop-up literary event. Started in 2004\, Lit Crawl cultivates a unique\, resonant brand: smart and silly\, worldly and wacky events presented in venues usual (bars\, cafes\, galleries\, and bookstores) and unusual (police stations\, tattoo parlors\, barbershops\, and laundromats). \nHazel Reading Series\nFeaturing:\nCiera-Jevae Gordon\nMeilan Carter-Gilkey\nNatasha Dennerstein\nSara Marinelli\nThea Matthews\nYang Huang \nThe Escapery: Your Writing Unschool\nNancy Au\nCarson Beker\nHaldane C. King\nKathryn Kruse\nPloi Pirapokin \nABOUT HAZEL READING SERIES:\nHazel Reading Series is a San Francisco-based monthly reading series and an ever-evolving community. Each month\, emerging and established women writers share their work and go on to choose next month’s readers. Hazel is a place for experimentation\, for support and community\, for writers and literature lovers of all kinds to bump into new work and new ideas. Hazel Reading Series is also invested in creating a space that represents and celebrates the diverse ethnicity\, sexuality\, ability\, age\, and form of the Bay Area’s artists. \nABOUT THE ESCAPERY:\nThe Escapery is your Writing and Other Arts Unschool. We use themed classes\, field trips\, day-long intensives\, craft intensives\, five/ten week adventures\, and more to create spaces for artists to play\, learn\, find community\, create\, and share. Playful\, community-oriented\, queer\, re-centering women/NB\, queer/trans artists\, and artists of color. No famous white men\, no tear-down workshops\, zero-tolerance for micro or macro aggressions. We are always all/no levels\, always genre-queer\, anti-competition and pro-tearing down the walls. SF/Oakland originated\, extending our kraken tentacles all over the map and in your virtual spaces. \nABOUT THE READERS:\nNancy Au is co-founder of The Escapery. Her writing appears in Tahoma Literary Review\, Lunch Ticket\, The Pinch\, Foglifter\, and elsewhere. Au’s flash fiction is included in the forthcoming Best Small Fictions 2018 anthology\, and her full-length collection\, Spider Love Song & Other Stories\, is forthcoming from Acre Books in March 2019. \nCarson Beker is co-founder of The Escapery. They are a writer\, playwright\, and storyteller. His stories have appeared in Foglifter (Pushcart Nomination 2016)\, Gigantic Sequins\, and Radar Literary Series. They were a 2016 Lambda Fellow and Tin House Workshop scholar. \nHaldane C. King is the founder of Terra Incognita Literary Reading Series and an instructor and board member of The Escapery. He earned his MFA degree in writing and consciousness from the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2012. He is an editor of WTAW Press\, a data analyst\, and helps bring literature to the people with the Why There Are Words Literary organization. \nKathryn Kruse received her MFA from the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas and holds a BA in English with a certificate in creative writing from University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was an instructor with The Escapery from 2016-2017. She founded and curated the NeonLit reading series. Her work is published\, among other places\, in Indiana Review\, The Manchester Review\, The Adirondack Review\, I Hope You’re Feeling Better Collaborative Exhibition. \nPloi Pirapokin has work featured in Tor.com\, Apogee Journal\, the Bellingham Review\, Fiction International\, Cleaver Magazine\, and more. She has received grants and fellowships from the San Francisco Arts Commission\, the Creative Capacity Fund\, the Headlands Center for the Arts\, the Ragdale Foundation\, Kundiman\, and others. Pirapokin holds an MFA in fiction from San Francisco State University. \nLEARN MORE:\nwww.litquake.org/lit-crawl-sf\nwww.facebook.com/hazelreadingseries\nwww.theescapery.org\nhttp://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/lit-crawl-sf-20181020/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/14th-annual-lit-crawl-sf-hazel-reading-series-the-escapery/
LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181020T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181020T193000
DTSTAMP:20260407T202045
CREATED:20180817T024711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180924T022436Z
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime SHADOW
DESCRIPTION:part of phase 2 of the 2018 San Francisco Lit Crawl\, will take place at Incline Gallery\, 766 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, Saturday October 20th\, 6.30-7.30 pm\, featuring Emer Martin (The Cruelty Men)\, Colin Winnette (The Job of the Wasp)\, Anca Szil�gyi (Daughters of the Air)\, Cyrus Armajani (Benefits of Doubt)\, and Simi Singh Juneja.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-shadow/
LOCATION:Incline Gallery\, 766 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181020T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181020T193000
DTSTAMP:20260407T202045
CREATED:20181017T192716Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181017T192716Z
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SUMMARY:Lit Crawl: Babar in Exile
DESCRIPTION:Poets associated with and influenced by the Babarians of the Cafe Babar in the 1980s\, the Punks of Poetry\, hosted by Richard Loranger in Phase 2 of Lit Crawl. Featuring Bruce Isaacson\, Jan Steckel\, Tarin Towers\, Margery Snyder\, Kathleen Wood\, Julia Vinograd\, David Gollub\, and Paul Corman-Roberts. Intentionally Blank\, 1360 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lit-crawl-babar-in-exile/
LOCATION:Intentionally Blank\, 1360 Valencia\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Richard Loranger":MAILTO:mythkiller@hotmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181021T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181021T170000
DTSTAMP:20260407T202045
CREATED:20181017T193527Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181017T193527Z
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SUMMARY:Book Arts Showcase | APAture 2018 - RE:place
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy your Sunday afternoon with us at our Book Arts Showcase for APAture 2018 at SFPL! Featuring Jess Wu-O. Showcase artists: TBA. \n*Supporter level and Festival Passes (with reserved seats) can be acquired by donating to our Indiegogo campaign! \nWe’ve asked artists to explore ‘place\,’ including but not limited to: displacement\, reclaiming space\, relationship or orientation to place\, movement and migration\, the loss or lack of place\, or the various dimensions of place (spatial-emotional\, past-present\, individual-communal\, etc.). How does ‘place’ resonate with you? \nAPAture is Kearny Street Workshop’s annual multidisciplinary arts festival celebrating emerging Asian and Pacific American (APA) artists of the San Francisco Bay Area. For 16 years\, APAture has been a site of dialogue\, collaboration\, and political action between artists and community members around contemporary issues affecting the Asian and Pacific Islander community. \nAPAture 2018: RE:place will showcase over 60 artists in book arts\, film\, literary arts\, music\, performing arts\, and visual arts\, and will present their work to approximately 1\,000 festival-goers across multiple dates and venues in the South of Market neighborhood. \nCome join us and help us celebrate our local emerging APA artists for the 17th year! You don’t want to miss this! \nFree \nPresented by Kearny Street Workshop.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-arts-showcase-apature-2018-replace/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181021T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181021T154500
DTSTAMP:20260407T202045
CREATED:20180830T220651Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T220651Z
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SUMMARY:Poets Chernoff & Chernovski
DESCRIPTION:Poets Chernoff & Chernovski
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-chernoff-chernovski/
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:20181023T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181023T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T202045
CREATED:20180825T020812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180825T020812Z
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SUMMARY:SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB MEETING
DESCRIPTION:Details soon! \nTo join the book group please contact iranyi@me.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spanish-language-book-club-meeting-5/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181023T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181023T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T202045
CREATED:20180825T063454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180825T063707Z
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SUMMARY:Preserving Fire: A meditation on the prose of Philip Lamantia
DESCRIPTION:with Garrett Caples and Friends \nCelebrating the release of \nPreserving Fire: Selected Prose \nBy Philip Lamantia \nEdited by Garrett Caples \npublished by Wave Books \nPreserving Fire recounts the life and thought of Surrealist\, Beat Generation\, and San Francisco Renaissance poet Philip Lamantia through his fugitive prose works. Ranging from poetry to politics to mythology to dance\, from manifestos to travelogues to wartime declarations of conscientious objection\, these writings—expertly collected by Garrett Caples—offer a dynamic picture of Lamantia’s multifaceted intellectual life and the artistic movements he helped shape. \nPhilip Lamantia (1927–2005) was an influential Surrealist\, Beat\, and San Francisco Renaissance poet. He is the author of many books\, including Erotic Poems\, Touch of the Marvelous\, Meadowlark West\, Tau and Journey to the End\, and The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia. \nGarrett Caples is the editor of Philip Lamantia’s Preserving Fire: Selected Prose (Wave Books\, forthcoming 2018)\, as well as the author of Power Ballads (Wave Books\, 2016)\, Retrievals (2014)\, The Garrett Caples Reader (1999)\, Complications (2007)\, and Quintessence of the Minor (2010). He is also the co-editor of The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia (2013)\, Particulars of Place (2015) by Richard O. Moore\, and Incidents of Travel in Poetry: New and Selected Poems (2016) by Frank Lima. He is an editor at City Lights Books and curates the Spotlight Poetry Series there. He was also a contributing writer to the San Francisco Bay Guardian. He has written articles and blogged for the Poetry Foundation and occasionally blogs for blogcitylights.com. He has a Ph.D. in English from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and lives in San Francisco. \nPhilip was a visionary like Blake\, and he really saw the whole world in a grain of sand.\n—Lawrence Ferlinghetti \nPhilip Lamantia’s Collected Poems is beyond scale\, weight\, or measure. There is no proportion in this intertwining of soul-buildings. These are the inexorable and ineffable projects of an inspired consciousness set at full tilt in raging protest\, kisses\, prayers\, blessings and outraged demands. All from the deepest silence and farthest travel. The reader’s excitement is carried by Lamantia’s spiritual and physical beat. This surreal and mantic project drives farther than anything before or after. Breathtaking! These works are of synesthetic beauty to the eye\, the ear\, and the open interior of the heart. They come from the peaks and herbs and forests where the meadowlark speaks.\n—Michael McClure
URL:https://litseen.com/event/preserving-fire-a-meditation-on-the-prose-of-philip-lamantia/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181023T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181023T213000
DTSTAMP:20260407T202045
CREATED:20180825T024820Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180825T024820Z
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Yeah Yeah Yeah's Nick Zinner\, Zachary Lipez & Stacy Wakefield / 131 Different Things
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening with the Yeah Yeah Yeah’sNick Zinner\, Zachary Lipez\, and Stacy Wakefield for their new book\, 131 Different Things. Please join us! \n  \nWhen Sam\, a bartender in New York\, hears that his ex\, Vicki\, his one true love\, has quit AA and is out drinking again\, he embarks on a quest to find her. Sam and his sidekick Francis trek from dive bars to gay bars to rocker bars—encountering skinheads\, party promoters\, underage drug dealers\, and dominatrixes—but they are always one step behind Vicki. It begins to seem like 131 different things are keeping the lovers apart. Before the night is over\, Sam will have to wrestle with what he is really looking for. \nNick Zinner—who plays guitar in the three-time Grammy-nominated band Yeah Yeah Yeahs—provides the visual framework for this inventive novella with his intimate photography. Known for his essays and music writing for Noisey\, Vice\, and Penthouse\, Zachary Lipez brings his pithy\, multilayered\, and self-deprecating voice to this debut work of fiction. The prose and photography are tied together in a playful taxonomic scheme by editor and art director Stacy Wakefield\, the author of the novel The Sunshine Crust Baking Factory. The three artists have collaborated on four previous books\, most recently Please Take Me Off the Guest List. \n  \n\n  \nZachary Lipez lives in New York City\, where he has tended bar for the last twenty years. He is a regular contributor to Noisey\, and his music and culture writing have also appeared in Vice\, Hazlitt\, Pitchfork\, Bandcamp Daily\, Talkhouse\, Inc.\, and Penthouse. \nNick Zinner plays guitar in the three-time Grammy-nominated band Yeah Yeah Yeahs and hardcore group Head Wound City. His photos have been published in four previous books\, as well as in the New York Times\, Vice\, and Rolling Stone. He has exhibited in solo shows in Tokyo\, Berlin\, New York\, London\, Los Angeles\, and Mexico City. \nStacy Wakefield’s artist books\, published for many years under the imprint Evil Twin\, have been collected by institutions including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and London’s Tate Modern. She runs a studio dedicated solely to book design and production. Her first novel\, The Sunshine Crust Baking Factory\, was published by Akashic in 2015. She lives in the Catskills and Brooklyn. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery at 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is a free\, all-ages event\, with mature themes. The bar opens with doors at 7pm; event begins at 7:30. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-yeah-yeah-yeahs-nick-zinner-zachary-lipez-stacy-wakefield-131-different-things/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181023T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181023T213000
DTSTAMP:20260407T202045
CREATED:20180825T210005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180825T210005Z
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SUMMARY:Chaya Bhuvaneswar discusses her new story collection\, White Dancing Elephants with Lydia Kiesling
DESCRIPTION:Chaya Bhuvaneswar discusses her new story collection\, White Dancing Elephants with Lydia Kiesling. \n\nPraise for White Dancing Elephants \n\n“Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s debut collection maps with great assurance the intricate outer reaches of the human heart. What a bold\, smart\, exciting new voice\, well worth listening to; what an elegant story collection to read and savor.” Lauren Groff \n\n“A bold\, honest\, often provocative first collection from a fresh new voice.” Jeff VanderMeer \n\n“Reading Chaya Bhuvaneswar is like receiving Lasik via literature—the world you return to is a little clearer and sharper for the time you’ve spent in her pages. She is a formidable talent\, formally accomplished and intellectually alive.”  Anthony Marra \n\nAbout White Dancing Elephants \n\nA woman grieves a miscarriage\, haunted by the Buddha’s birth. An artist with schizophrenia tries to survive hatred and indifference in small-town India by turning to the beauty of sculpture and dance. Orphans in India get pulled into a strange “rescue” mission aimed at stripping their mysterious powers. A brief but intense affair between two women culminates in regret and betrayal. A boy seeks memories of his sister in the legend of a woman who weds death. And fragments of history\, from child brickmakers to slaves in Renaissance Portugal\, are held up in brief fictions\, burnished\, made dazzling and unforgettable. \nIn sixteen remarkable stories\, Chaya Bhuvaneswar spotlights diverse women of color–cunning\, bold\, and resolute–facing sexual harassment and racial violence\, and occasionally inflicting that violence on each other. Winner of the 2017 Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize\, White Dancing Elephants marks the emergence of a new and original voice in fiction and explores feminist\, queer\, religious\, and immigrant stories with precision\, drama\, and compassion. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chaya-bhuvaneswar-discusses-her-new-story-collection-white-dancing-elephants-with-lydia-kiesling/
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:20181024T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181024T150000
DTSTAMP:20260407T202045
CREATED:20180824T232235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180824T233448Z
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Craft Conversation and Panel with Irish Poets
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\n\nWednesday\, October 24\, 2018 –  \n1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nSaint Mary’s College Museum of Art\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nOne of the most politically charged acts a people can do is read and write for themselves. Visiting Irish writers\, including Leanne O’Sullivan\, will share one poem and their ruminations on a panel that explores the displays of power and violence in myth and beyond it.  In this conversation\, O’Sullivan will explicitly respond to selections from Hannah Arendt’s essay “On Violence” in her work and in her reading of the contemporary moment.  Conversation facilitated by Rosemary Graham. \n  \nLeanne O’Sullivan was born in 1983\, and comes from the Beara peninsula in West Cork. She received an MA in English in 2006 from University College\, Cork\, where she now teaches. The winner of several of Ireland’s poetry competitions in her early 20s (including the Seacat\, Davoren Hanna and RTE Rattlebag Poetry Slam)\, she has published four collections\, all from Bloodaxe\, Waiting for My Clothes (2004)\, Cailleach: The Hag of Beara (2009)\, winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2010\, The Mining Road (2013) and A Quarter of an Hour (2018). She was given the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award in 2009 and the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry in 2011\, and received a UCC Alumni Award in 2012. Her work has been included in various anthologies\, including Selina Guinness’s The New Irish Poets(Bloodaxe Books\, 2004) and Billy Collins’s Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry(Random House\, 2003). Residencies and festival readings have taken her to France\, India\, China and America\, amongst other locations. \n  \nSponsored by: Collegiate Seminar and the Informal Seminar Seminar Curriculum\, January Term\, the College Committee on Inclusive Excellence\, Ó Bhéal (Cork\, Ireland)\, the Cork Arts Council\, the Kalmanovitz School of Education\, The English Department\, the MFA in Creative Writing\, and the Los Gatos Irish Writers Festival
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-craft-conversation-and-panel-with-irish-poets/
LOCATION:Saint Mary’s College of California\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181024T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181024T200000
DTSTAMP:20260407T202045
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T220325Z
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SUMMARY:William E. Glassley presents "A Wilder Time"
DESCRIPTION:Bill Glassley returns to Bird & Beckett to present his newly published book\, A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice (Bellevue Literary Press\, 2018). \nIn A Wilder Time\, Glassley\, a surfer turned geologist at the University of California at Davis and an emeritus researcher at Aarhus University\, Denmark\, retraces his several expeditions to Greenland alongside Danish colleagues Kai Sorensen and John Korstgard in this thoughtful volume about how his scientific work shifted his perspective on notions of wilderness. The men spent weeks camped out and “isolated from the rest of humanity” to sample\, photograph\, and measure ancient bedrock. Though their scientific interests were purely academic\, Glassley says\, their experiences were “almost mystical.” Glassley divides his narrative into three primary sections\, each featuring observations that helped to change his perception of Greenland’s vast terrain. The first part\, “Fractionation\,” deals with ways in which Glassley’s expectations had been altered. In the second\, “Consolidation\,” he comes to terms with the reality that “ignorance is an integral part of being aware.” The third\, “Emergence\,” contains “small epiphanies about our place in existence.” Glassley documents his observations\, spending considerable time and effort among “rolling outcrops\, tundra plains and pockets\, massive rock walls and glaciated peaks.” Evincing humility in the midst of the great “unshaped wild\,” Glassley exudes a palpable and infectious sense of wonder that is bound to draw contemplative readers. \nBill’s first presentation of material from this book to the public took place in a reading at Bird & Beckett in the summer of 2016\, in the company of artist and poet Elsa Marley. Bill and Elsa began collaborating on a parallel project in 1999\, looking at Greenland for evidence of the effects of climate change demonstrated in Bill’s scientific data and Elsa’s paintings and poems.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/william-e-glassley-presents-a-wilder-time/
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:20181024T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181024T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T202045
CREATED:20180825T063623Z
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SUMMARY:In Situ: Guy Debord\, Raoul Vaneigem\, and the Situationist Moment
DESCRIPTION:with Donald Nicholson Smith with Anselm Jappe \non the occasion of the release by PM Press of \nGuy Debord – by Anselm Jappe \nTranslated by Donald Nicholson-Smith • Foreword by T.J. Clark \n& \nLetters to My Children and the Children of the World to Come – by Raoul Vaneigem \nTranslated by Donald Nicholson-Smith \nabout Guy Debord: \nThis is the first and best intellectual biography of Guy Debord\, prime mover of the Situationist International (1957–1972) and author of The Society of the Spectacle \, perhaps the seminal book of the May 1968 uprising in France. Anselm Jappe offers a powerful corrective to the continual attempts to incorporate Debord’s theoretical work into “French theory.” Jappe’s focuses\, to the contrary\, on Debord’s debt to the Hegelian-Marxist tradition\, to Karl Korsch and Georg Lukács\, and more generally to left-Marxist currents of council communism. His close reading of Debord’s magnum opus supplies a superb gloss that has never been rivaled despite the great flood of writing on the Situationists in recent decades. \nAt the same time\, Debord is placed squarely in context among the Letterist and Situationist anti-artists who\, in the aftermath of World War II\, sought to criticize and transcend the legacy of Dada and Surrealism. Jappe’s book offers a lively account of the Situationists’ theory and practice as this “last avant-garde” made its way from radical bohemianism to revolutionary agitprop. \nGuy Debord has been translated into many languages. This PM reprint edition benefits from a new author’s preface and a bibliographical update. \nPraise: \n“A clear-headed account . . . far and away the best we have so far.”\n—Times Literary Supplement \n“The only book on Debord in either French or English that can be unreservedly recommended . . . particularly useful for its extensive treatment of the Marxian connection that is usually ignored in culture-oriented accounts of the Situationists.”\n—Ken Knabb\, editor of Situationist International Anthology \n“Jappe successfully gets to grips with the content of Debord’s and the SI’s activity in a way that is accessible and doesn’t require a vast amount of prior knowledge or an extensive vocabulary of obscure jargon in order to understand it. Debord has got a somewhat undeserved reputation for having an impenetrable and complex writing style—a myth which Jappe goes a long way towards refuting by examining the major concepts in Society of the Spectacle and other works\, and putting them in the context of a wider historical basis and in terms of the SI as a whole.”\n—Do or Die \n“Political writing is always instrumental as well as utopian. Debord’s is no exception. Only sometimes writing has to reconcile itself to the idea that its time of instrumentality—its time as a weapon—lies a little in the future. Jappe’s book is true to its subject\, above all\, because it reads Debord\, and helps us read him\, with that future in mind.”\n—T.J. Clark\, from the Foreword \nabout Letters to My Children and the Children of the World to Come: \nReaders of Vaneigem’s now-classic work The Revolution of Everyday Life\, which as one of the main contributions of the Situationist International was a herald of the May 1968 uprisings in France\, will find much to challenge them in these pages written in the highest idiom of subversive utopianism. \nSome thirty-five years after the May “events\,” this short book poses the question of what kind of world we are going to leave to our children. “How could I address my daughters\, my sons\, my grandchildren and great-grandchildren\,” wonders Vaneigem\, “without including all the others who\, once precipitated into the sordid universe of money and power\, are in danger\, even tomorrow\, of being deprived of the promise of a life that is undeniably offered at birth as a gift with nothing expected in return?” \nLetters to My Children provides a clear-eyed survey of the critical predicament into which the capitalist system has now plunged the world\, but at the same time\, in true dialectical fashion\, and “far from the media whose job it is to ignore them\,” Vaneigem discerns all the signs of “a new burgeoning of life forces among the younger generations\, a new drive to reinstate true human values\, to proceed with the clandestine construction of a living society beneath the barbarity of the present and the ruins of the Old World.” \nPraise: \n“In this fine book\, the Situationist author\, whose writings fueled the fires of May 1968\, sets out to pass down the foundational ideals of his struggle against the seemingly all-powerful fetishism of the commodity and in favor of the force of human desire and the sovereignty of life.”\n—Jean Birnbaum\, Le Monde \n“A startling and invigorating restatement for the present ghastly era of humanity’s choice: socialism or barbarism.”\n—Dave Barbu\, Le Nouveau Père Duchesne \nAnselm Jappe was born in Bonn in 1962. He is an independent scholar currently teaching art history and political and economic theory at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris and at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Sassari in Sardinia. He is the author of several works of critical theory. A collection of his essays translated by Alastair Hemmens is The Writing on the Wall: On the Decomposition of Capitalism and Its Critics (London: Zero\, 2017). \nBorn in Manchester\, England\, Donald Nicholson-Smith is a longtime resident of New York City. A sometime Situationist  (1965-67)\, he has translated Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle (Zone) and Henri Lefebvre’s The Production of Space (Blackwell)\, as well as works by Guillaume Apollinaire\, Antonin Artaud\, Jean-Patrick Manchette\, Thierry Jonquet\, Paco Ignacio Taibo II\, etc. His film work includes the English-language version of René Viénet’s anti-Maoist classic Peking Duck Soup(1977).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-situ-guy-debord-raoul-vaneigem-and-the-situationist-moment/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marc Dollinger: Black Power\, Jewish Politics
DESCRIPTION:The Osher Marin JCC is pleased to host an evening in celebration of Marc Dollinger’s new book Black Power\, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s. He will be joined in discussion by Ilana Kaufman\, the Director of the Jews of Color Field Building Initiative. \nAn audience Q&A and book signing will follow the program. \nABOUT THE BOOK\nMarc Dollinger charts the transformation of American Jewish political culture from the Cold War liberal consensus of the early postwar years to the rise and influence of Black Power-inspired ethnic nationalism. He shows how\, in a period best known for the rise of black antisemitism and the breakdown of the black-Jewish alliance\, black nationalists enabled Jewish activists to devise a new Judeo-centered political agenda-including the emancipation of Soviet Jews\, the rise of Jewish day schools\, the revitalization of worship services with gender-inclusive liturgy\, and the birth of a new form of American Zionism. \nUndermining widely held beliefs about the black-Jewish alliance\, Dollinger describes a new political consensus\, based on identity politics\, which drew blacks and Jews together and altered the course of American liberalism. \n“Dollinger’s illuminating book illustrates that many American Jewish leaders were not only sympathetic to Black Power but were supportive of it. Dollinger shows that the American Jewish turn toward issues of Jewish continuity owes a great debt to the Black Power movement and that Jewish leaders understood that early on. This book will significantly change how we view the American Jewish 1960s and their aftermath.”\n-Shaul Magid\, Indiana University\, Bloomington and Shalom Hartman Institute of North America \nFree\, RSVP by emailing rsvp_cjp@marinjcc.org. \nPresented by Osher Marin JCC.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marc-dollinger-black-power-jewish-politics/
LOCATION:Osher Marin JCC\, 200 North San Pedro Road\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94903\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading Series Welcomes Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, October 24\, 2018 –  \n7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet\, educator\, and movement worker. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His poetry has been published in Harper’s and the New York Times magazines.  His book titled\, Someone’s Dead Already was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book Heaven Is All Goodbyes was published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series\, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize\, won a California Book Award\, and won an American Book Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/creative-writing-reading-series-welcomes-tongo-eisen-martin/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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