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SUMMARY:Tessa Fontaine / The Electric Woman
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Tessa Fontaine for her first book\, The Electric Woman\, in conversation with Molly Giles. Please join us! \nThis astonishing memoir of pushing past fear follows the author on a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discovery — through her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous\, spirited mother. \nTurns out\, one lesson applies to living through illness\, keeping the show on the road\, letting go of the person you love most\, and eating fire: \n  \nThe trick is there is no trick. \nYou eat fire by eating fire. \n  \nTwo journeys—a daughter’s and a mother’s—bear witness to this lesson in The Electric Woman. \nFor three years Tessa Fontaine lived in a constant state of emergency as her mother battled stroke after stroke. But hospitals\, wheelchairs\, and loss of language couldn’t hold back such a woman; she and her husband would see Italy together\, come what may. Thus Fontaine became free to follow her own piper\, a literal giant inviting her to “come play” in the World of Wonders\, America’s last traveling sideshow. How could she resist? \nTransformed into an escape artist\, a snake charmer\, and a high-voltage Electra\, Fontaine witnessed the marvels of carnival life: intense camaraderie and heartbreak\, the guilty thrill of hard-earned cash exchanged for a peek into the impossible\, and\, most marvelous of all\, the stories carnival folks tell about themselves. Through these\, Fontaine trained her body to ignore fear and learned how to keep her heart open in the face of loss. \nA story for anyone who has ever imagined running away with the circus\, wanted to be someone else\, or wanted a loved one to live forever\, The Electric Woman is ultimately about death-defying acts of all kinds\, especially that ever constant: good old-fashioned unconditional love. \n  \n\n  \nTessa Fontaine’s writing has appeared in PANK\, Seneca Review\, The Rumpus\, Sideshow World\, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of Alabama and is working on a PhD in creative writing at the University of Utah. She also eats fire and charms snakes\, among other sideshow feats. She lives in South Carolina. The Electric Woman is her first book. Author photo by Claire Marika. \n  \n  \n  \nMolly Giles has published a novel\, Iron Shoes\, and four award winning collections of short stories\, Rough Translations\, Creek Walk\, Bothered\, and All the Wrong Places. She taught Creative Writing for many years at San Francisco State University and the University of Arkansas. \n  \n  \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of The Electric Woman\, and/or any of Molly’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \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.
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LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer SF Book Reading "Contrasts: Poetry & Prose"
DESCRIPTION:Poets Susan Dambroff and David Hathwell and novelists Anne Raeff and Rob Rosen will read from new work at Perfectly Queer San Francisco’s “Contrasts: Poetry & Prose\,” Tuesday\, May 8\, 7pm to 8pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. in San Francisco. Author signing follows. Admission is free\, and free refreshments will be provided. Door prizes awarded at 7pm! \nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\nSusan Dambroff is a poet\, performer and teacher\, living in San Francisco. Her poetry chapbook Conversations With Trees was recently published by Finishing Line Press. Her first book of poetry\, Memory in Bone\, was published by Black Oyster Press. Her poems have appeared in Stoneboat\, Earth’s Daughters\, and Red Bird Chapbooks\, among other literary venues. She performs in Spoken Duets\, a poetic and improvisational collaboration with performance artist Chris Kammler. Throughout her creative work\, she is drawn to the detailed placement of words\, the alchemy of sequence and timing. \nDavid Hathwell published Between Dog and Wolf\, his second poetry collection\, in 2017. Muses\, his debut collection\, appeared in 2016 to acclaim from\, among others\, Richard Wilbur\, Dana Gioia\, and Edmund White. His poems have appeared in more than a dozen literary magazines .A former English teacher\, he has degrees in English from Stanford and Columbia and a degree in music theory from the City University of New York. He has studied piano at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and sung baritone in two Bay Area choruses. \nAnne Raeff’s second novel\, Winter Kept Us Warm\, just came out in February\, 2018. Her short story collection The Jungle Around Us won the 2015 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. It was also a finalist for the California Book Award and on The San Francisco Chronicle’s 100 Best Books of 2017 list. Her first novel\, Clara Mondschein’s Melancholia\, was published in 2002. Anne’s stories and essays have appeared in New England Review\, ZYZZYVA\, and Guernica\, among other places. She is proud to be a high school teacher and works primarily with recent immigrants. She lives in San Francisco with her wife and two cats. \nRob Rosen (www.therobrosen.com) is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Sparkle: The Queerest Book You’ll Ever Love\, Divas Las Vegas\, Hot Lava\, Southern Fried\, Queerwolf\, Vamp\, Queens of the Apocalypse\, Creature Comfort\, Fate\, Midlife Crisis\, Fierce\, and And God Belched. His short stories have appeared in more than 200 anthologies. You can find 20 of them in his erotic romance anthology Good & Hot. He is also the editor of Lust in Time: Erotic Romance Through the Ages\, Men of the Manor\, Best Gay Erotica 2015\, and Best Gay Erotica of the Year\, Volumes 1 and 2 and 3.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-sf-book-reading-contrasts-poetry-prose/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rita Bullwinkel and Lisa Brown
DESCRIPTION:Rita Bullwinkel and Lisa Brown\n\nRita Bullwinkel celebrates the release of \nBelly Up: Stories \nfrom A Strange Object Press \nLisa Brown presents a sneak preview of an upcoming new graphic novel forthcoming in late 2018 \nRita and Lisa will also discuss the creative process in an evening of readings accompanied by talks. \nabout Belly Up: \nThe stories of Belly Up occupy the space between the familiar and the surreal. Through fiercely intelligent prose and quotidian moments\, a receptionist becomes fascinated with harp music\, two high school girls debate taking gym class and a bored beauty corresponds with an inmate. Fantastical stories filled with ghosts\, mediums and carnivorous churches find humanity and warmth in the grotesque. The characters and voices of Belly Up\, whether a sentient snake who eats children or a widow building a life without her husband\, are all seeking to find a way to cope with the bodies they’ve been given and the bodies they must encounter. \nRita Bullwinkel’s writing has been published in Tin House\, Conjunctions\, Vice\, NOON\, and Guernica. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony\, Brown University\, Vanderbilt University\, Hawthornden Castle\, and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction and her translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an Editor at Large for McSweeney’s. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area\, she now lives in the Richmond and works in the Mission. This is her first book. \nLisa Brown draws things like illustration and comics\, writes things like books and book reviews\, and teaches things to kids and college students. Her debut picture book\, How to Be\, was one of the Thirteen Best Children’s Books for Family Literacy. Since then she has published a ton more books\, including Vampire Boy’s Good Night and The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming\, a New York Times bestseller by elusive author Lemony Snicket. She co-authored Picture the Dead\, an illustrated young adult novel\, with acclaimed writer Adele Griffin\, and created the award-winning Baby Be of Use series of board books for McSweeney’s. Lisa draws the Three Panel Book Review cartoon strip\, and is a comics contributor at The Rumpus. She teaches illustration at the California College of the Arts\, and is a long-time workshop instructor and field trip leader at the 826 Valencia tutoring center. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and son\, but can usually be found wandering around the internet.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rita-bullwinkel-and-lisa-brown/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:wordWind Chorus Live + Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:Institute Of advanced Uncertainty [I.O.U.] hosts wordWind Chorus: \nQ.R. Hand Jr. \nLewis Jordan \nBrian Auerbach \nWith Tongo Eisen-Martin \nTuesday\, May 8\, 2018 \nDoors: 6:30 p.m. \nProgram:7:00 p.m. \nFree entry \n296 Ivy Street\, between Gough & Franklin\, Western Addition\, S.F.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wordwind-chorus-live-tongo-eisen-martin/
LOCATION:Institute Of advanced Uncertainty\, P.O. Box 460908\, San Francisco\, 94146
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Launch for Nothing Short Of: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the launch for Nothing Short Of: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story\, with editors Grant Faulkner\,Lynn Mundell\, and Beret Olsen. Please join us! \nGems\, shards\, bon bons\, quickies … nuggets\, tickles\, or even pinpricks. Each 100 Word Story is its own kind of special. \nNothing Short Of presents the best of 100WordStory.org\, the leader in short-short fiction and a popular go-to for great reading. In these very short stories\, every word\, every detail\, every moment matters. And the things left out\, the spaces around the stories\, are just as intense. \nWhat can a hundred words do? They can send chills\, they can bring you to tears\, they can take your breath away. In charged\, sometimes racy encounters — from wild\, messy breakups to a disgruntled clown dinner to quiet revelations over folded laundry — these 100-word stories take us to lightning moments when everything is at stake. \n\n  \nGrant Faulkner is the Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month and the co-founder of 100 Word Story. His stories have appeared in dozens of literary magazines\, including Tin House\, The Southwest Review\, and The Gettysburg Review. His essays on creativity have been published in The New York Times\, Poets & Writers\, Writer’s Digest\, and The Writer. He has published a collection of one hundred 100-word stories\, Fissures\, and his book of essays on creativity\, Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Prompts to Boost Your Creative Mojo\, was published last fall by Chronicle Books. \n  \nLynn Mundell is co-founder and co-editor of 100 Word Story\, as well as a managing editor at a large health care organization. Her short-short stories and creative nonfiction have appeared in many U.S. and U.K. literary journals\, including Tin House online\, Booth\, Superstition Review\, Portland Review\, Permafrost\, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine\, The Sun\, and Five Points\, as well as in anthologies including The Lobsters Run Free (Bath Flash Fiction)\, Short on Sugar\, High on Honey (Flash International)\, and New Micros: Exceptionally Short Stories (W.W. Norton & Company\, August 2018). Lynn earned her MFA in Creative Writing from American University and is an advisory board member of the U.C. Berkeley Extension Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program in Writing. \n  \nBeret Olsen is a writer\, photographer\, and the photo editor for 100 Word Story. Her art\, essays\, and fictions have been published in a variety of places including: First Class Lit\, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine\, and her blog\, Bad Parenting 101. A longtime educator\, Beret has also written grants to help low-income\, first-generation college students get into\, through\, and beyond college. \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Nothing Short Of\, and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-nothing-short-of-selected-tales-from-100-word-story/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Matt Miller
DESCRIPTION:Matt Miller reads from his new poetry collection\, The Wounded for the Water. Also featuring readings by Mario Chard and Peter LaBerge. \n\nPraise for The Wounded for the Water \n\n“Matt W. Miller’s The Wounded for the Water is a horrific\, undulating\, beautiful\, sublime lesson on the art of drowning\, the wonder of living\, and the scars that act as memory.  You will have no choice but to dive into this meditation\, and you will have no choice but to go deep. Miller’s portrait of masculinity is a lyrical homage to the survived and resilient\, to the learned and unlearned\, a prayer for the departed. Like so many hurricanes\, Miller teaches us that sometimes you’re left with nothing\, and that is the moment when you can choose to be reborn or continue holding your breath.”—Willie Perdomo author The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon\, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award \n  \n“The reality of drowning\, and the powerful metaphor of it\, inform Matt Miller’s lyrical muscular new collection. Although water\, violent or not\, is often the book’s setting\, these relentless poems explore the pain and perils of tenderness \, of friendship\, our physical and moral vulnerability\, the challenges of loving and being loved. As Miller puts himself at risk again and again\, his poetry grabs me by the throat\, breaks my heart\, even makes me laugh—and\, oddly\, gives me hope.”—Gail Mazur\, author of Forbidden City \n  \n“One needs read only a poem or two in Matt Miller’s The Wounded for the Water to sense we’re in the hands of a poet with tremendous control. There are musical moments so lush I hear echoes of Hopkins\, coupled with a tender directness and images of clinical grit. Whether he’s offering the straight dope on the different suits boys try on as they audition for manhood\, or meditating on what the rain can and can’t wash away\, Miller takes us time and again to the moment\, as children\, when the force of the world struck us\, and we were left to examine the mark.” —Michael Bazzet\, author of Our Lands Are Not So Different
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matt-miller/
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:Ashley Dawson
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nExtreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change \nfrom Verso Books \n\nA cutting exploration of how cities drive climate change while being on the frontlines of the coming climate crisis \n\n\nNamed One of the Top 10 Books of the Year by Publishers Weekly and Planetizen \nHow will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from the coming chaos? In Extreme Cities\, Ashley Dawson argues that cities are ground zero for climate change\, contributing the lion’s share of carbon to the atmosphere\, while also lying on the frontlines of rising sea levels. Today\, the majority of the world’s megacities are located in coastal zones\, yet few of them are adequately prepared for the floods that will increasingly menace their shores. Instead\, most continue to develop luxury waterfront condos for the elite and industrial facilities for corporations. These not only intensify carbon emissions\, but also place coastal residents at greater risk when water levels rise. \nIn Extreme Cities\, Dawson offers an alarming portrait of the future of our cities\, describing the efforts of Staten Island\, New York\, and Shishmareff\, Alaska residents to relocate; Holland’s models for defending against the seas; and the development of New York City before and after Hurricane Sandy. Our best hope lies not with fortified sea walls\, he argues. Rather\, it lies with urban movements already fighting to remake our cities in a more just and equitable way. \nAs much a harrowing study as a call to arms Extreme Cities is a necessary read for anyone concerned with the threat of global warming\, and of the cities of the world. \nAshley Dawson is a professor of English at the City University of New York\, and the author of Extinction: A Radical History. \n\n\n\nWhat has been said about Extreme Cities: \n“Extreme Cities is a ground-breaking investigation of the vulnerability of our cities in an age of climate chaos. We feel safe and protected in the middle of our great urban areas\, but as Sandy and Katrina made clear\, and as this fine book reveals anew\, the massive shifts on our earth increasingly lay bare the social inequalities that fracture our civilization.” \n– Bill McKibben\, author and founder of 350.org \n\n\n\n“A substantive contribution to the growing dialogue about our response—or lack thereof—to climate change.” \n– Kirkus Reviews \n\n\n“The way we design and live in cities will determine humanity’s ability to avoid an anthropogenic mass extinction event in the coming century. Dawson makes this vividly clear in Extreme Cities\, laying out in detail the nature of the problem and some possible positive actions we can take. Crucial to his argument is the fact that technological solutions will not be enough\, so that we need to drastically reform the capitalist economic system to properly price and value the biosphere and human lives. His point that social justice is now a necessary survival strategy makes this not just a meticulous history and analysis of our situation\, but also an exciting call to action.” \n– Kim Stanley Robinson\, author of The Red Mars Trilogy and New York 2140 \n\n\n“Dawson makes a convincing case that\, unless urban dwellers and civic leaders engage in a fundamental reconceptualization of the city and whom it serves\, the future of urban life is dim.” \n– Publishers Weekly (★ Starred Review) \n\n\n“Cities both in the North and the South are already suffering the effects of climate change. Government and business fitfully recognize and respond\, but in ways that reinforce existing injustices and as often as not make things worse. Dawson shows how social movements have combined action on disaster relief with forms of equitable common life to produce models for radical adaptation from which we can all learn. This is a brillant summation of what we know and what we can do build a new kind of city in the ruins of the old.” \n– McKenzie Wark\, author of Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene \n\n\n“Many books have elucidated the ever-increasing dangers of climate change\, particularly the disastrous impact that rising sea levels will have on coastal regions\, but Dawson goes further as he outlines some potential solutions to this crisis. Massive technological projects may not be what’s needed\, he finds; instead\, the solution may already exist in radical movements to forge a more just and equitable society.” \n– Publishers Weekly \n\n\n“A powerful argument in a dire situation: that we revise our cities to the new game changer\, or climate change will revise urban existences as we know it.” \n– Kazi Khaleed Ashraf\, director-general of Bengal Institute of Architecture\, Landscapes and Settlements \n\n\n“A sophisticated and provocative exploration of the unfolding impact of climate change on urban environments.” \n– Christoph Lindner\, Professor of Urban Theory and Visual Culture\, University of Oregon \n\n\n“A revelatory confrontation between two forms of ‘surplus liquidity’: the rent-seeking excess of circulating global capital and the more literal liquidity of the rising tides of climate change. The setting is the city and this meticulously researched and argued book probes the nexus of myopia\, greed\, environmental disaster – and hope – that has placed the urban habitat of billions of us in extremis.” \n– Michael Sorkin\, author of All Over the Map: Writing on Buildings and Cities \n\n\n“A must-read for everyone who wants to understand the politics of climate change in an increasingly urban planet\, and to explore the possibilities for radical change beyond all technological fixes and governmental adjustments that only reproduce the system as it is.” \n– Marco Armiero\, director of the Environmental Humanities Laboratory\, KTH Royal Institute of Technology\, Sweden \n\n\n“An ultimate call to action.” \n– Joep Janssen\, author of Living with the Mekong: Climate Change and Urban Development in Ho Chi Minh City and the Mekong Delta \n\n\n“A superb essay of political ecology\, Extreme Cities demonstrates that there is nothing more depending on nature than the city\, offering both a diagnosis and a possible therapy for one of the greatest challenges of our time.” \n– Serenella Iovino\, editor of Material Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities: Voices from the Anthropocene \n\n\n“Extreme Cities takes the critical long view to challenge city decision-makers to deal seriously with the clash of business-as-usual development\, threats from climate change\, and persistent social inequality to develop real transformations to drive cities toward sustainability and resilience.” \n– Timon McPhearson\, Director\, Urban Systems Lab at The New School\, New York City \n\n\n“With the majority of humanity located in cities\, it behooves us to consider urban ecologies as recent and future sites of non-natural disasters as well as inspiring places of collective resilience and struggles for justice. Dawson’s book is a guiding light.” \n– T.J. Demos\, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at UC Santa Cruz\, Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies \n\n\n“The definitive study of an urban – and planetary – system pushed to the breaking point. Extreme Cities paints a terrifying\, but also hopeful\, picture\, weaving together accounts of iron-fisted states\, greedy real estate developers\, and the communities that challenge their rule.” \n– Jason W. Moore\, author of Capitalism in the Web of Life \n\n\n“A profoundly sobering picture of climate change’s uneven urban toll\, both across global expanses and within particular neighborhoods\, while also spotlighting instances of radical\, on-the-ground resistance to such trends.” \n– Emily Scott\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture\, ETH Zuric and co-editor of Critical Landscapes: Art\, Space\, Politics \n\n\n“[Ashley Dawson] is well attuned to the ways that upheavals and disasters disproportionately affect the socioeconomically disadvantaged. As Donald Trump continues to roll back protection measures and disavow the U.S.’s role in global cooperation to mitigate the effects of climate change\, this book is a clear-eyed reminder of who\, and what\, will be left most vulnerable as a result.” \n– Fast Company \n\n\n“Dawson’s book destroys the comforting global discourse of climate change\, resilience and adaptation and introduces the key words of our time: the dramatic ‘climate apartheid’ currently unfolding in front of us. A shrewd analysis of the prodigious contradiction of capitalism at the time of the anthropocene: what happens when coastal cities\, the great capital sinks of capital\, literally sink.” \n– Jean-Baptiste Fressoz\, coauthor of The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth\, History and Us \n\n\n“Books on climate change are a dime a dozen now\, but few\, if any\, truly reckon with the potential scale of the disasters that await. Dawson reveals the inadequacies of current plans to deal with the problems that cities around the world will face. Forget such buzzwords as ‘green cities\,’ ‘resilience\,’ and ‘sustainable development’ — the age of ‘disaster communism’ is here.” \n– Publishers Weekly \n\n\n“Extreme Cities is a sobering account of how planetary urbanization has put us on a collision course with the natural world.” \n– Sierra Club \n\n\n“Extreme Cities is an angry book—as it should be. ….Ashley Dawson outlines the existential dilemma facing coastal cities\, and the refusal of various powerbrokers to acknowledge that reality\, in bold and frequently horrifying terms.” \n– Chris Barsanti\, Rain Taxi
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ashley-dawson/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Flash Fiction Forum Reading Series:
DESCRIPTION:Upcoming Readings
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flash-fiction-forum-reading-series-3/
LOCATION:Works Gallery\, 364 S. Market St.\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Roman Muradov
DESCRIPTION:Roman Muradov discusses his new book\, On Doing Nothing: Finding Inspiration in Idleness. \n\nPraise for On Doing Nothing \n\n“Roman Muradov’s whimsical\, clever\, and companionable book On Doing Nothing provides a much-needed correction to our distracted\, anxiety-ridden\, and increasingly disembodied culture. Muradov has written and illustrated a kind of Situationist\, Oulipian Ways of Seeing—a manual for clarity and presence\, a book which issues a call to attention; a call to pay attention. The smart yet approachable philosophical reflections unfold like a leisurely stroll through a beautiful and unfamiliar city\, provoking thoughtfulness and eliciting in the reader a spirit of discovery.” —Peter Mendelsund\, author of What We See When We Read \n\nAbout On Doing Nothing \n\nIn an age of obsessive productivity and stress\, this illustrated ode to idleness invites readers to explore the pleasures and possibilities of slowing down. Beloved author and illustrator Roman Muradov weaves together the words and stories of artists\, writers\, philosophers\, and eccentrics who have pursued inspiration by doing less. He reveals that doing nothing is both easily achievable and absolutely essential to leading an enjoyable and creative life. Cultivating idleness can be as simple as taking a long walk without a destination or embracing chance in the creative process. Peppered with playful illustrations\, this handsome volume is a refreshing and thought-provoking read.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roman-muradov/
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:Melissa Broder / The Pisces
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts an evening with So Sad Today author Melissa Broder reading from her anticipated debut novel\, The Pisces. With her in conversation is The Millions editor\, Lydia Kiesling — please join us! \nLucy has been writing her dissertation on Sappho for nine years when she and her boyfriend break up in a dramatic flameout. After she bottoms out in Phoenix\, her sister in Los Angeles insists Lucy dog-sit for the summer. Annika’s home is a gorgeous glass cube on Venice Beach\, but Lucy can find little relief from her anxiety — not in the Greek chorus of women in her love addiction therapy group\, not in her frequent Tinder excursions\, not even in Dominic the foxhound’s easy affection. \nEverything changes when Lucy becomes entranced by an eerily attractive swimmer while sitting alone on the beach rocks one night. But when Lucy learns the truth about his identity\, their relationship\, and Lucy’s understanding of what love should look like\, take a very unexpected turn. A masterful blend of vivid realism and giddy fantasy\, pairing hilarious frankness with pulse-racing eroticism\, THE PISCES is a story about falling in obsessive love with a merman: a figure of Sirenic fantasy whose very existence pushes Lucy to question everything she thought she knew about love\, lust\, and meaning in the one life we have. \n— \nMelissa Broder is the author of the essay collection So Sad Today and four poetry collections\, including Last Sext. Her poetry has appeared in POETRY\, The Iowa Review\, Tin House\, Guernica\, and she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize. She writes the “So Sad Today” column at Vice\, the astrology column for Lenny Letter\, and the “Beauty and Death” column on Elle.com. She lives in Los Angeles. Author photo by Lord Byron. \nLydia Kiesling is the editor of The Millions and the author of The Golden State\, a novel publishing September from FSG/MCD. Her essays and criticism have appeared at outlets including The New York Times Magazine\, The Guardian\, Slate\, and The New Yorker online\, and have been recognized in Best American Essays 2016. She lives in San Francisco with her family. Author photo by Andria Lo.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/melissa-broder-the-pisces/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:MARX NOW: Karl Marx @ 200 - A Reading & Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Opening Statement by Jale Yoldas (Goethe Institut San Francisco) with guest appearances by  Alan Black\, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz\, and Richard Walker. Moderator Frederick Young \nOn the occasion of the 200th Anniversary of Karl Marx’ birthday Goethe-Institut San Francisco and City Lights Booksellers and Publishers will pick up on the tradition of small group study focused on specific texts like Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto. We will concentrate on a few brief passages\, interpret and critically analyze them together with guest speakers well versed in the work of Karl Marx and the audience. The event will begin with readings followed by a moderated round table discussion and open up to the audience after. \nKarl Marx would have celebrated his 200th birthday in 2018. His criticism of capitalism appears even more pertinent today amidst climate crisis\, chronical unemployment and global inequality. A reason to look back and re-read. Marx’s idea that tools and the mode of production of a society determine its political and social structure\, and that human thought is formed by the use of tools and moral positions by interests – insights which Marx and Engels encapsulated in the concept of “historical materialism” – have found their way into many individual sciences\, into sociology\, educational theory\, psychology\, the study of religion\, law\, literary theory\, engineering and the cognitive sciences\, to name only a few. Join us in an evening of discussion examining where we stand in relation to marx and his ideas in contemporary times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marx-now-karl-marx-200-a-reading-discussion/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Clemantine Wamariya / The Girl Who Smiled Beads
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Clemantine Wamariya for her extraordinary debut\, The Girl Who Smiled Beads\, and her coauthor Elizabeth Weil\, who collaborated intimately with Clemantine to write this luminescent book. Clemantine and Elizabeth will be in conversation — please join us! \nClemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers\, when neighbors began to disappear\, and when she heard the loud\, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder. In 1994\, she and her fifteen-year-old sister\, Claire\, fled the Rwandan massacre and spent the next six years migrating through seven African countries\, searching for safety — perpetually hungry\, imprisoned and abused\, enduring and escaping refugee camps\, finding unexpected kindness\, witnessing inhuman cruelty. They did not know whether their parents were dead or alive. \nWhen Clemantine was twelve\, she and her sister were granted refugee status in the United States; there\, in Chicago\, their lives diverged. Though their bond remained unbreakable\, Claire\, who had for so long protected and provided for Clemantine\, was a single mother struggling to make ends meet\, while Clemantine was taken in by a family who raised her as their own. She seemed to live the American dream: attending private school\, taking up cheerleading\, and\, ultimately\, graduating from Yale. Yet the years of being treated as less than human\, of going hungry and seeing death\, could not be erased. She felt at the same time six years old and one hundred years old. \nIn The Girl Who Smiled Beads\, Clemantine provokes us to look beyond the label of “victim” and recognize the power of the imagination to transcend even the most profound injuries and aftershocks. Devastating yet beautiful\, and bracingly original\, it is a powerful testament to her commitment to constructing a life on her own terms. \n— \n“Extraordinary and heartrending. Clemantine Wamariya is as fiercely talented as she is courageous.”  — Junot Díaz\, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao \n  \n“Clemantine Wamariya has written a defining\, luminescent memoir that shines a sharp light on the dark forces that roil our age. If you read this book—and once you read the first page\, you will not put it down—you will never think about political violence\, displacement\, or the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship the same way again. Clemantine summons us to follow her fierce and unrelenting example to try to help build the world we wish to see.” —Samantha Power\, author of A Problem from Hell \n— \nClemantine Wamariya is a storyteller and human rights advocate. Born in Kigali\, Rwanda\, displaced by conflict\, Clemantine migrated throughout seven African countries as a child. At age twelve\, she was granted refugee status in the United States and went on to receive a BA in Comparative Literature from Yale University. She lives in San Francisco. Author photo by Julia Zave. \nElizabeth Weil is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine\, a contributing editor to Outside magazine\, and writes frequently for Vogue and other publications. She is the recipient of a New York Press Club Award for her feature reporting\, a Lowell Thomas Award for her travel writing\, and a GLAAD Award for her coverage of LGBT issues. In addition\, her work has been a finalist for a National Magazine Award\, a James Beard Award\, and a Dart Award for coverage of trauma. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two daughters. Author photo by Ana Homonnay.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clemantine-wamariya-the-girl-who-smiled-beads/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kent Harrington
DESCRIPTION:Kent Harrington discusses his new novel\, Last Ferry Home\, with Kevin Hunsanger. \n\nPraise  for Kent Harrington \n\n\n“Strong\, hard-edged stuff by a writer in complete control of the narrative. Respected noir veteran Harrington returns with a tough and thoughtful novel about grief and its consequences.” ―Kirkus Reviews \n\n“Delivers quite a punch. The alternating time lines keep readers on their toes and do a stellar job of creating a sense of impending doom. The author also fleshes out several minor characters and story lines with depth and color that add greatly to this noir tale.”―Library Journal \n“Dark Ride is a gripping tale that takes you into the dark and violent heart of obsession. It reads like Jim Thompson interpreted by Quentin Tarentino. This one puts a chilling finger down your spine.” –Michael Connelly \n\nAbout Last Ferry Home \n\nSince his wife’s death at sea\, San Francisco Police Detective Michael O’Higgins has been paralyzed by grief and shame – unable to care for their teenaged daughter\, who saw her mother swept away\, and unable to deal with the daily requirements of his job. Almost a year after his wife’s death\, O’Higgins takes a ferry ride as part of his therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder. On the boat\, he meets a charming Indian family: successful young husband\, two lovely daughters\, and a kind\, beautiful wife and mother. \nO’Higgins has no idea that he will meet this woman again on his first day back after bereavement leave\, when he and his partner are called to a Nob Hill mansion to investigate a homicide. The victim is the handsome man O’Higgins met on the ferry\, and his wife\, Asha Chaundhry\, is the obvious suspect. \nAsha Chaundhry becomes the center of O’Higgins’ investigation. The victim’s father\, a prominent Indian politician and business tycoon\, is anxious to keep his son’s death out of the public eye\, and to have the investigation resolved as quickly as possible. As O’Higgins digs into the Chaundhrys’ business and political dealings\, he becomes convinced of Asha’s innocence\, while her father-in-law seeks to isolate her from friends and defenders\, even sending her children back to extended family in India. Increasingly desperate\, Asha turns to O’Higgins for comfort\, in a way that threatens both his recovery and his career. \nLAST FERRY HOME is a riveting novel of grief\, obsession\, recovery and passion from acclaimed author Kent Harrington\, as well as a gripping portrait of a man torn apart by loss\, but looking for something\, anyone\, to believe in.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kent-harrington/
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:Jennifer Firestone and Tonya M. Foster
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Firestone is the author of five books of poetry and four chapbooks\,including Story (Ugly Duckling Presse\, forthcoming)\,Ten\, (BlazeVOX [books]\, forthcoming)\, Gates & Fields (Belladonna* Collaborative)\, Swimming Pool(DoubleCross Press)\, Flashes (Shearsman Books)\, Holiday (Shearsman Books)\, Waves (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs)\, from Flashes and snapshot (Sona Books) and Fanimaly (Dusie Kollektiv). She co-edited (with Dana Teen Lomax) Letters to Poets: Conversations about Poetics\, Politics and Community (Saturnalia Books) and is collaborating with Marcella Durand on a book about Feminist Avant-garde Poetics. Firestone has work anthologized in Kindergarde: Avant-Garde Poems\, Plays\, Songs\, & Stories for Children and Building is a Process / Light is an Element: essays and excursions for Myung Mi Kim. She won the 2014 Marsh Hawk Press’ Robert Creeley Memorial Prize. Firestone is an Assistant Professor of Literary Studies at the New School’s Eugene Lang College and is also the Director of their Academic Fellows pedagogy program. \nTonya M. Foster was born in Bloomington\, Illinois\, and raised in New Orleans. She earned a BA from Newcomb College\, Tulane University\, and an MFA from the University of Houston. Foster is the author of the poetry collection A Swarm of Bees in High Court (Belladonna*\, 2015) and co-edited the book Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art (2002). Her work has appeared in Callaloo\, MiPoesias\, Western Humanities Review\, the Hat\, and elsewhere. In a review\, Patricia Spears Jones says\, “Foster’ s imaginative work glories in language’s ambiguities\, discords\, emotions and logic—she allows that imaginative thrall to explore race and gender and political dysfunction.” \nFoster has received fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Macdowell Colony\, the Ford Foundation\, the Mellon Foundation\, and the Graduate Center\, CUNY\, where she is a PhD candidate. She has taught at Bard College\, Queens College CUNY\, Baruch College CUNY\, and she currently is an assistant professor at California College of the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-firestone-and-tonya-m-foster/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Poetry Review Issue 48 Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Poetry Review will be holding a release party for issue 48 of our annual poetry journal. The party will be hosted by E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore @ 410 13th st\, Oakland\, near Broadway\, @ 6pm and will feature readings by a few of the poets to be published in our journal\, Lo Ferris\, Claire Marie Stnacek\, and Daniel Benjamin. Snacks and beverages will be included & we hope to see you there! \nReaders:\nClaire Marie Stancek\nBio: Originally from outside Toronto\, Ontario\, Claire Marie Stancek now lives in Berkeley\, California. She is the author of MOUTHS (Noemi\, 2017)\, and with Lyn Hejinian and Jane Gregory\, she edits Nion Editions. These poems are taken from her second book of poetry\, Oil Spell\, which is forthcoming from Omnidawn in spring 2018. \nLo Ferris\nBio: Lo Ferris is a poet and translator living in the East Bay. Their work can also be found in Fence\, Bombay Gin\, and The Atlas Review. \nDaniel Benjamin\nBio: Daniel Benjamin is a PhD candidate in English and Critical Theory at UC Berkeley\, researching minoritarian forms of universality in lyric poetry. With Eric Sneathen\, he is the co-editor of The Bigness of Things: New Narrative and Visual Culture (Wolfman Books\, 2017); with Claire Marie Stancek\, he is the co-editor of Active Aesthetics: Contemporary Australian Poetry (Tuumba / Giramondo\, 2016). \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.facebook.com/events/2122238844723108/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-poetry-review-issue-48-release-party/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:After Hours: 7th Annual Poetry World Series
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 11th – 7:00pm\nMain Reading Room \nDaniel Handler returns to emcee as baseball and poetry collide to create a fabulous and wacky literary event. Two teams of illustrious poets duke it out using words to swing for the fences. This boisterous slugfest of wordplay\, repartee\, and quips\, mixed with ballpark music\, beer and popcorn\, makes for a great outing. You don’t even have to like poetry or baseball to enjoy this animated and quirky program. \nFeatured Poets:\nTongo Eisen-Martin\, Kai Carlson-Wee\, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo\, Arisa White\, Maw Shein Win\, and Kathleen Winter \nFor adults and high school students only. Pregame refreshments starting at 6:30pm for registered guests. Program starts at 7:00pm. \nRegistration is strongly recommended. Click here to register. \nAdd to my:iCal/Outlook \nWhen:Friday\, May 11\, 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\, Teens \nContact:(415) 389-4292
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-7th-annual-poetry-world-series/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Reading - Eckes\, Seidenberg\, Spencer Smith
DESCRIPTION:  \nEckes\, Seidenberg\, and Spencer Smith
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-eckes-seidenberg-spencer-smith/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Brenda Hillman and giovanni singleton
DESCRIPTION:Brenda Hillman and Giovanni Singleton discuss recent work and the role poets can play as activists. \nAbout the poets: \nBrenda Hillman is an activist\, writer\, editor\, and teacher. She has published nine collections of poetry\, all from Wesleyan University Press\, including Practical Water\, for which she won the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry. Hillman serves on the faculty of Saint Mary’s College in Moraga\, California\, as the Olivia Filippi professor of poetry. \ngiovanni singleton is a poet\, teacher\, and founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts\, a journal dedicated to the work of artists and writers of the African Diaspora and other contested spaces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brenda-hillman-and-giovanni-singleton/
LOCATION:Pt. Reyes Books\, 11315 CA-1\, Pt. Reyes Station\, CA\, 94956\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:5th Annual Ecopoetry Festival at the John Muir House
DESCRIPTION:The Fifth Annual Ecopoetry Festival will feature two poet laureates of Central Valley\ncities\, along with special guests.  Indigo Moor\, current laureate of Sacramento\, and\nGillian Wegener\, former laureate of Modesto\, will read along with Alhambra students\,\nand other poets who have a long personal association with Martinez.  The theme will be\nthe evolution of ecological stewardship and poetry’s contribution to it. To root that\nevolution\, we will also express the essence of place\, specifically Martinez\, where John\nMuir settled as an adult.\nWHERE:  The John Muir National Historic Site\, 4202 Alhambra Avenue\, Martinez\, CA\nWHEN:    Saturday\, May 12th\, 5-8 PM\nCOST:      Free\, but reservations required \nContact: Eliot Schain or James McDonald\nPhone: 925-228- 8860\, ext. 6431 (the John Muir House)\nEmail: eschain@martinez.k12.ca.us (Alhambra High School)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/5th-annual-ecopoetry-festival-at-the-john-muir-house/
LOCATION:John Muir House\, 4202 Alhambra Avenue\, Martinez\, CA\, CA\, 94553\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Event: GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets\, artists\, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. \nTo participate in the open mic sessions\, please arrive by 4 and plan to listen to all of the featured poets. Seating/space is limited.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-event-gears-turning-w-kim-shuck-3/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Virginia Eubanks talks about her book: Automating Inequality:  How High-Tech Tools Profile\, Police\, and Punish the Poor
DESCRIPTION:Virginia Eubanks is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany\, SUNY. She is also the author of Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age. Her writing about technology and social justice has appeared in The American Prospect\, The Nation\, Harper’s and Wired. For two decades\, Eubanks has worked in community technology and economic justice movements.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virginia-eubanks-talks-about-her-book-automating-inequality-how-high-tech-tools-profile-police-and-punish-the-poor/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich / The Fact of a Body
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich for her murder-memoir ten years in the making\, The Fact of a Body. Please join us! \n  \nWhen she applied to Harvard Law School\, Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich wrote her admissions essay about her staunch opposition to the death penalty. The child of two lawyers\, her position had always been clear in her mind. So when she finds herself at her first summer internship at a New Orleans law firm that is working on the re-trial of death-row convicted murderer and child molester Ricky Langley\, she feels ready to begin her life’s work. \nBut when she watches the tape of Ricky’s confession\, she is overcome by one thought: she wants him to die. Shocked by her reaction\, Alexandria digs deeper and deeper into the case and realizes that something about this story\, so seemingly distant from her own suburban upbringing in New Jersey\, is uncannily familiar. As she pores over the details of the trial and the complicated narrative of Ricky’s childhood\, she is forced to face her own story\, to unearth long-buried family secrets\, and to reckon with how her own past colors her view of Ricky’s crime. \nThrough Alexandria’s meticulously researched and vividly reconstructed telling of Ricky’s story and her deeply personal investigation into her own past\, it becomes clear that she isn’t the only one using her own memories to understand the case. Everyone—from the judge to the jury foreman to the defense attorney to Ricky’s own mother—sees what happened through the lens of their own experience. \n\n\n  \n“The balancing act here performed between autobiography and journalism\, documentary and imagination\, witnessing and reckoning\, the tender and the terrible\, is shrewd and graceful…Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich has given us an exquisite and exquisitely difficult work of art that makes a fierce claim on our attention\, conscience\, and heart.” — Maggie Nelson\, NBCC award-winning author of The Argonauts \n  \n\n\n  \nAlexandria Marzano-Lesnevich was awarded numerous fellowships to write this book\, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, a Rona Jaffe Award\, and fellowships to the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in The New York Times\, Oxford American\, Salon\, and the anthology True Crime. She has a JD from Harvard\, an MFA from Emerson and a BA from Columbia University. Alexandria currently lives in Boston\, Massachusetts\, where she teaches memoir writing at Grub Street and graduate public policy students at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexandria-marzano-lesnevich-the-fact-of-a-body/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night Featuring Alan Harris
DESCRIPTION:Hosted 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-featuring-alan-harris/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers\, Longhairs\, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat by Jonathan Kauffman
DESCRIPTION:This enlightening narrative history—an entertaining fusion of Tom Wolfe and Michael Pollan— traces the colorful origins of once unconventional foods and the diverse fringe movements\, charismatic gurus\, and counterculture elements that brought them to the mainstream and created a distinctly American cuisine. \n“An outstanding food and cultural history…In this informative\, briskly paced first book…Kauffman is equally thorough in tracing how these early innovators inspired the food co-ops and whole food stores that exist today.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hippie-food-how-back-to-the-landers-longhairs-and-revolutionaries-changed-the-way-we-eat-by-jonathan-kauffman/
LOCATION:Mechanics Institute\, 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer Plus Book Reading "Murderous Fiction: 3 Novels About Death"
DESCRIPTION:Visiting author James Han Mattson joins local authors Andrew Demcak and Tim Floreen at a Perfectly Queer Plus San Francisco book reading\, “Murderous Fiction: 3 Novels About Death\,” on Tuesday\, May 15 from 7pm to 8pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St.\, San Francisco. Author signing follows the readings. Free admission\, free refreshments. Door prizes at 7pm! \nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\nJames Han Mattson was born in Seoul\, Korea and raised in North Dakota. A Michener-Copernicus Fellowship recipient and graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he has taught at the University of Iowa\, the University of Cape Town\, the University of Maryland\, the George Washington University\, and the University of California – Berkeley. His first novel The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves was an Amazon Literature and Fiction Pick\, an Amazon Best Book of the Month\, a Publishers Lunch Bookseller Pick\, a Kindle First Pick\, a New York Post Required Reading\, and was featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition with Scott Simon. He currently lives in Maryland. \nAndrew Demcak is an American poet and novelist\, the author of four poetry collections and five young adult novels. His books have been featured by the American Library Association\, Verse Daily\, Lambda Literary Foundation\, The Best American Poetry\, and Poets & Writers. His new book Lazarus was a finalist for the prestigious 2018 Dorset Prize for Poetry. \nTim Floreen writes young adult science fiction. The New York Public Library named his first novel\, Willful Machines\, one of the best teen books of 2015 and\, in a starred review\, Kirkus described it as “gothic\, gadgety\, and gay\,” which is an accurate assessment. Booklist called his second novel\, Anatomy of a Murderer\, “incisive\, startling\, and intense.” Tim lives in San Francisco with his partner\, their two cat-obsessed daughters\, and two very patient cats. To find out more about Tim and his secret obsession with Wonder Woman\, visit him online at timfloreen.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-plus-book-reading-murderous-fiction-3-novels-about-death/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Carmen Giménez Smith
DESCRIPTION:Carmen Giménez Smith\nTuesday\, May 15\, 2018\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\n  \ncelebrating the release of \nCruel Futures \nCity Lights Spotlight Series No. 17 \n\nA Latina feminist State of the Union address at the intersection of pop culture and interiority. \nCruel Futures\, the fifth collection from Latinx feminista Carmen Giménez Smith\, is a witchy confessional and wildly imagistic volume that examines subjects as divergent as Alzheimers\, Medusa\, mumblecore\, and mental illness in sharp-witted\, taut poems dense with song. Chronicling life on an endangered planet\, in a country on the precipice of profound change compelled by a media machine that produces our realities\, the book is a high-energy analysis of popular culture\, as well as an exploration of the many social roles that women occupy as mother\, daughter\, lover\, and the resulting struggle to maintain personhood—all in a late capitalist America. Like Joanne Kyger\, Giménez Smith deploys humor while depicting the quotidian and its function as sacrament. \nPraise for Cruel Futures: \n“Carmen Giménez Smith’s beautiful book\, Cruel Futures is one of those rare books\, rare pieces of art\, that manages to be extremely intimate\, vulnerable and close while also doing a kind of searing cultural critique. The poems can be tender or ironic\, and sometimes a blending of the two\, which is not easy\, but occasionally yields lines like these\, from the amazing and amazingly titled poem ‘Ravers Having Babies’: ‘So much to do so little skin / left for transformation . . .’ Somehow those lines for me get at the remarkable humanity in this book\, the remarkable wisdom\, which is ravenous\, sorrowful\, and dreaming. Like\, probably\, you are. Like me.”––Ross Gay \n“In the body\, through the lyric\, and twitching with every sense of the word ‘nerve\,’ this book sings a mongrel nation into and across its cruel futures. Like Neruda in his Plenos Poderes/Full Powers\, Giménez Smith has all the mastery she needs to cast a cold eye on her positioning\, and ours. In this way Cruel Futures is an autobiography that won’t stay in its genre or premise\, caring less to author a self than to follow turns of magic in words that might soothe our ‘collisions with the living.’ Inheritor and conduit of an Latinx artistic tradition\, this primer on how to ‘feed the yearning’ Anzaldúa wrote of leaves us broken and stronger\, ‘Slick with lip gloss\, with legend.'”––Farid Matuk \n“Declamatory anthems to no nation\, these songs stride as they deal and wheel with skin and kin: history\, catastrophe\, the body\, love. ‘Upturned and defiant\, all types of shade\, no outskirt\, / vital like a saint\,’ the poems in Cruel Futures shimmer with Giménez Smith’s lyric attention: full of grit\, sharp and knowing.”––Hoa Nguyen
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carmen-gimenez-smith-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Genny Lim\, Kitty Tsui and Nellie Wong w/Bill Crossman on piano
DESCRIPTION:Nellie Wong was born and raised in Oakland. A long-time activist for radical social change and a retired office worker\, Nellie was honored by Oakland High School with a building in her name. She is the author of four poetry books: Dreams in Harrison Railroad Park\, The Death of Long Steam Lady\, Stolen Moments and Breakfast Lunch Dinner. She is co-featured in the documentary film\, “Mitsuye and Nellie Asian American Poets\,” by Allie Light and Irving Sarah. Genny Lim is San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate. She has been featured at Jazz Festivals and World Poetry Festivals in the U.S. and around the world. Her award-winning play “Paper Angels\,” was the first Asian American play to be aired on PBS’s American. Lim’s performance piece\, “Don’t Shoot! A Requiem in Black\,” dedicated to Black Lives Matter\, recently premiered at Safe House. She is author of five poetry collections and co-author of the seminal\, Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island. Kitty Tsui’s WORDS OF A WOMAN WHO BREATHES FIRE was the first book by a Chinese American lesbian; her second BREATHLESS – EROTICA won the Firecracker Alternative Book Award. WORDS OF A WOMAN WHO BREATHES FIRE will be out as a Sapphic Classic along with new poems from NICE CHINESE GIRLS DON’T in July\, 2019. Bill Crossman is a pianist\, composer\, human rights activist\, philosopher/educator\, poet\, playwright\, and author. As a pianist\, Crossman’s specialty is free jazz/free improvisation. His musically improvised “John Brown’s Truth” musical premiered at the 2009 International Society of Improvised Music Festival at UC Santa Cruz\, and has since been performed throughout northern California and in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/genny-lim-kitty-tsui-and-nellie-wong-w-bill-crossman-on-piano/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rahna Reiko Rizzuto / Shadow Child
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Rahna Reiko Rizzuto (Hiroshima in the Morning and Why She Left Us) for her new novel\, Shadow Child. Please join us! \nShadow Child is a gorgeous novel about three strong women\, the dangerous ties of family and identity\, and the long shadow our histories can cast. Twin sisters Hana and Kei grew up in a tiny Hawaiian town in the 1950s and ‘60s\, so close they shared the same nickname. Mixed-race and fatherless\, they were raised in dreamlike isolation by their loving yet unstable mother. But when their cherished threesome with Mama is broken\, and then further shattered by a violent betrayal that neither young woman can forgive\, it seems their bond may be severed forever—until\, six years later\, Kei arrives on Hana’s lonely New York City doorstep with a secret that will change everything. Flashing back to 1942\, readers meet Lillie\, a young Japanese woman orphaned as a baby on the steps of a rural church in California. After she falls in love with Donald\, the only other Japanese person Lillie has known\, the young couple weds and moves in with his parents in Los Angeles\, only to find that in that time of war\, Japanese Americans were viewed with distrust and hostility. From the internment camps in World War II America\, to the exotic beaches and caves of Hawaii\, to the bustling metropolis of New York City\, Shadow Child follows these extraordinary women as they search for acceptance\, family\, and a truer sense of identity and happiness than what they’d known. \nRahna Reiko Rizzuto is the author of the memoir Hiroshima in the Morning\, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle. Her debut novel\, Why She Left Us\, won an American Book Award. The first woman to graduate from Columbia College with a BA in Astrophysics\, she was raised in Hawaii and lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rahna-reiko-rizzuto-shadow-child/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Julia Dixon Evans
DESCRIPTION:Julia Dixon Evans discusses her new novel\, How to Set Yourself on Fire. \n\nPRAISE FOR HOW TO SET YOURSELF ON FIRE \n\n“How to Set Yourself on Fire is a family mystery that slowly reveals itself\, illuminating a poignant emptiness in its lovable but complicated main character. Sheila is funny\, depressed\, searching\, and unpredictable. Her story will move you long after its lovely final scene.”—Lindsay Hunter\, author of Eat Only When You’re Hungry \n\n“This book had me glued. I came for the intrigue buried in the treasure hunt of letters\, but I stayed for the unlikely friendship of thirty-five-year-old Sheila and twelve-year-old Torrey. I would read a whole series of these two having adventures together\, but I’ll have to relish this singularly heartbreaking and hilarious story of lost and found love\, in all its guises.”—Jac Jemc\, author of The Grip of It \n\n“This book features my favorite type of protagonist: the creepy\, socially awkward woman who you can’t help but fall in love with. It’s also the best kind of reading experience: a book that is funny and difficult to put down\, and builds to something that is disarmingly touching.”—Juliet Escoria\, author of Witch Hunt \n\nABOUT HOW TO SET YOURSELF ON FIRE \n\nSheila’s life is built of little thievings.  Adrift in her mid-thirties\, she sleeps in fragments\, ditches her temp jobs\, eavesdrops on her neighbor’s Skype calls\, and keeps a stolen letter in her nightstand\, penned by a UPS driver she barely knows.  Her mother is stifling and her father is a bad memory.  Her only friends are her mysterious\, slovenly neighbor Vinnie and his daughter Torrey\, a quirky twelve-year-old coping with a recent tragedy. \nWhen her grandmother Rosamond dies\, Sheila inherits a box of secret love letters from Harold C. Carr—a man who is not her grandfather. In spite of herself\, Sheila gets caught up in the legacy of the affair\, piecing together her grandmother’s past and forging bonds with Torrey and Vinnie as intense and fragile as the crumbling pages in Rosamond’s shoebox. \nAs they get closer to unraveling the truth\, Sheila grows almost as obsessed with the letters as the man who wrote them.  Somewhere\, there’s an answering stack of letters—written in Rosamond’s hand—and Sheila can’t stop until she uncovers the rest of the story.  Threaded with wry humor and the ache of love lost or left behind\, How to Set Yourself on Fire establishes Julia Dixon Evans as a rising talent in the vein of Shirley Jackson and Lindsay Hunter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julia-dixon-evans/
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:Mark Greenside
DESCRIPTION:Mark Greenside\n\n\n\n\nReads from (not quite) Mastering the Art of French Living\, a sequel of sorts to I’ll Never Be French (no matter what I do)\, about which the San Francisco Chronicle wrote: “Imagine Larry David . . . spending a summer in a French village–against his will\, of course–and you get some sense of what Mark Greenside goes through.” \nTo reserve a seat\, purchase a copy of (not quite) Mastering the Art of French Living by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, May 15\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nEvery year upon arriving in Plobien\, the small Breton town where he spends his summers\, Mark Greenside picks back up where he left off with his faux-pas-filled Francophile life. Mellowed and humbled\, but not daunted (OK\, slightly daunted)\, he faces imminent concerns: What does he cook for a French person? Who has the right-of-way when entering or exiting a roundabout? Where does he pay for a parking ticket? And most dauntingly of all\, when can he touch the tomatoes? \nDespite the two decades that have passed since Greenside’s snap decision to buy a house in Brittany and begin a bi-continental life\, the quirks of French living still manage to confound him. Continuing the journey begun in his 2009 memoir about beginning life in France\, (not quite) Mastering the Art of French Living details Greenside’s daily adventures in his adopted French home\, where the simplest tasks are never straightforward but always end in a great story. Through some hits and lots of misses\, he learns the rules of engagement\, how he gets what he needs–which is not necessarily what he thinks he wants–and how to be grateful and thankful when (especially when) he fails\, which is more often than he can believe. \nMark Greenside has been a civil rights activist\, Vietnam War protestor\, anti-draft counselor\, Vista Volunteer\, union leader\, and college professor. His short stories have appeared in numerous journals and he is the author of a collection\, I Saw a Man Hit His Wife. Greenside resides in Alameda and Brittany.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mark-greenside/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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