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SUMMARY:Christopher DeLorenzo discusses his celebration of cooking\, KITCHEN INHERITANCE
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Christopher DeLorenzo to the store to discuss his part-memoir\, part-cookbook\, Kitchen Inheritance: Memories and Recipes from My Family of Cooks\, on Sunday\, May 20th at 3pm. This collection of narratives and recipes tells a non-traditional coming of age story. Christopher’s is the story of a man on a journey\, which ultimately leads him to see himself as part of a large and growing family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christopher-delorenzo-discusses-his-celebration-of-cooking-kitchen-inheritance/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jason Dewees
DESCRIPTION:Join Mrs. Dalloway’s and the Mediterranean Garden Society for a talk and signing by Jason Dewee’s on his just released book\, Designing with Palms (photography by Caitlin Atkinson). \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Designing with Palms by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, May 20\, 2018 – 3:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this comprehensive guide\, Dewees shares the many ways palms can transform courtyards\, gardens and landscapes. Detailing the most important species and highlighted by striking photography\, Designing with Palms imparts vital advice on making the most of these statement-making plants. \n“Contains virtually everything you need to know about these plants and their usage in gardens. This is the go-to book.”– Raymond Jungles\, landscape architect \nJason Dewees is the staff horticulturist at Flora Grubb Gardens and East West Trees in San Francisco. Responsible for the Tree Canopy Succession Plan for the San Francisco Botanical Garden\, he serves on the Horticultural Advisory Committee for the San Francisco Botanical Garden\, and on The San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers Advisory Council.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jason-dewees/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Express Yourself: Celebrating Gender Diversity
DESCRIPTION:When living in a world that is still learning about the gender spectrum\, forms of expression become survival tools helping trans and nonbinary people live authentically and tell their stories. This event celebrates all forms of expression we use to affirm who we are and ensure our voice is heard. Music\, writing\, art\, makeup\, style\, or dance are examples that will be discussed as strategies for survival\, building resilience\, and finding community. \nJoin us for this event celebrating gender diversity that is sure to be informative and inspiring. Lead by Mere Abrams\, MSW\, ASW\, Gender Specialist\, educator\, consultant and advocate\, and Janna Barkin\, author\, advocate\, and parent of a transgender son\, the event will feature a diverse panel of transgender\, gender expansive\, and non-binary people who will share their stories of self discovery and the many creative ways they have found to express themselves along the way. \nThere will be time for questions and discussion. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: This event will be at the Bindery\, 1727 Haight. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nBar opens at 3:30\, event begins at 4pm. \n  \nEvent image created by April Adelman
URL:https://litseen.com/event/express-yourself-celebrating-gender-diversity/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:KASSIDAT: Spoken word and music
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers – \nJames Zealous \nChristine No \nTifa Love \nClara Hsu \nSarita de la Madrid \nMusical guests: \nBrother Spellbinder \nEd Dang \nWith your host Bloodflower
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kassidat-spoken-word-and-music-2/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:An Opportunity to Meet London Breed
DESCRIPTION:As part of a series for meet and greet opportunities with San Francisco’s mayoral candidates\, we are pleased to host London Breed on Sunday\, May 20 starting at 6:30pm at The Bindery at 1727 Haight street. \nNew to the city? First time voter? Have a pressing issue on your mind? The Bindery has extended an invitation to all mayoral candidates to come meet our community. The format will be of a typical “house party” and include a short speech by the candidate\, followed by time for mingling and Q&A. \n  \nTimeline: \n6pm Doors open\n6:30pm – 7:30pm London speaks & fields questions\n8pm Event ends \n  \n\nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nThis event is free and all ages event. Doors open at 6\, event begins at 6:30pm. The bar will be open.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-opportunity-to-meet-london-breed/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:THE RACKET! #19
DESCRIPTION:It feels like The Racket has skewed dark as of late – obsession\, grief\, ghosts – so we thought\, let’s try something a little more positive oomph\, something with a little sensuality. Thus\, The Racket #19: PLEASURE. As well know\, writers are dark\, morbid folks\, and we expect this to be as probing of the seedier side of what pleasure is as any other event we’ve thrown. \nBut hey\, we can try. \nMore info to come.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-19/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rachel Kushner
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Kushner discusses her new novel\, The Mars Room. \nPrasie for Rachel Kushner \n“Kushner is a young master. I honestly don’t know how she is able to know so much and convey all of this in such a completely entertaining and mesmerizing way.” —George Saunders \n“Kushner is going to be one we turn to for our serious pleasures and for the insight and wisdom we’ll be needing in hard times to come. She is a novelist of the very first order.” —Robert Stone \n“Ms. Kushner can really write. Her prose has a poise and wariness and moral graininess that puts you in mind of….Robert Stone and Joan Didion…[Kushner has] a sensibility that’s on constant alert for crazy\, sensual\, often ravaged beauty…persuasive and moving…provocative.”–Dwight Garner\, The New York Times \nAbout The Mars Room \nFrom twice National Book Award–nominated Rachel Kushner\, whose Flamethrowers was called “the best\, most brazen\, most interesting book of the year” (Kathryn Schulz\, New York magazine)\, comes a spectacularly compelling\, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. \nIt’s 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility\, deep in California’s Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San Francisco of her youth and her young son\, Jackson. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living\, which Kushner evokes with great humor and precision. \nStunning and unsentimental\, The Mars Room demonstrates new levels of mastery and depth in Kushner’s work. It is audacious and tragic\, propulsive and yet beautifully refined. As James Wood said in The New Yorker\, her fiction “succeeds because it is so full of vibrantly different stories and histories\, all of them particular\, all of them brilliantly alive.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-kushner/
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:Kari Byron / Crash Test Girl: An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life's Toughest Questions
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery presents former Mythbusters‘ host Kari Byron for her new book Crash Test Girl: An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life’s Toughest Questions. \nCrash test your way through life\, no lab coat required. \nKari Byron’s story hasn’t been a straight line. She started out as a broke artist living in San Francisco\, writing poems on a crowded bus on the way to one of her three jobs. Many curve balls\, unexpected twists\, and yes\, literal and figurative explosions later\, and she’s one of the world’s most respected women in science entertainment\, blowing stuff up on national television and getting paid for it! In Crash Test Girl\, Kari reveals her fascinating life story on the set of MythBusters and beyond. With her signature gusto and roll-up-your-sleeves enthusiasm\, she invites readers behind the duct tape and the dynamite\, to the unlikely friendships and low-budget sets that turned a crazy idea into a famously inventive show with a rabid fanbase. \nThe truth is\, Mythbusters was never meant to be a science show. But attaching a rocket to a car\, riding a motorcycle on water\, or lighting 500 pounds of coffee creamer on fire requires a decent understanding of chemistry\, physics\, and engineering. Thus\, the cast and crew brought in the scientific method to work through each problem: Question. Hypothesize. Analyze. Experiment. Conclude. And as Kari came to learn in her own life\, not only is the scientific method the best approach for busting myths\, it’s also the perfect tool for solving everyday issues\, including: \nCareer – Love – Creativity – Setbacks – Money – Sexuality – Depression – Bravery \nCrash Test Girl reminds us that science is for everyone\, as long as you’re willing to strap in\, put on your safety goggles\, hit a few walls\, and learn from the results. Using a combination of methodical experimentation and unconventional creativity\, you’ll come to the most important conclusion of all: In life\, sometimes you crash and burn\, but you can always crash and learn. \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend this event but would like to request a signed copy of Crash Test Girl\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, at 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kari-byron-crash-test-girl-an-unlikely-experiment-in-using-the-scientific-method-to-answer-lifes-toughest-questions/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Heather Gautney / Crashing the Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Bernie Sanders campaign advisor Heather Gautney for her new book Crashing the Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement. Please join us! \nSenator Bernie Sanders shocked the political establishment by winning 13 million votes and a majority of young voters in the 2016 Democratic primary. He emerged from the contest against Hillary Clinton as the most popular politician in the US\, despite being a 75-year-old self-professed “democratic socialist.” What lessons can be drawn from this surprising but—in the end—losing campaign? \nVermont resident Heather Gautney was a legislative fellow in Sanders’ Washington office and researcher and organizer for his presidential campaign. The author and editor of several books on social movements and American politics\, she brings her academic expertise and left politics to bear on the scenes and conflicts she witnessed during the campaign. In reviewing what enabled Sanders to reach out to an unprecedented number of people with a socialist message—and what stalled his progress and radical punch—she draws lessons about the prospects and perils of building a leftist movement in the United States. Gautney’s reflections on the role that race and class played in this election cycle and analysis of where Democrats stand following Trump’s victory will serve as a useful starting point for many newly aware of the limitations of the Democratic party and the challenges ahead. \n  \n\n  \nHeather Gautney was a policy fellow in Bernie Sanders’s Washington DC office and a volunteer researcher and organizer on his presidential campaign. She is an associate professor of sociology and Fordham University\, and the author of Protest and Organization in the Alternative Globalization Era. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Crashing the Party\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/heather-gautney-crashing-the-party-from-the-bernie-sanders-campaign-to-a-progressive-movement/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Keith Gessen / A Terrible Country
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts All the Sad Young Literary Men author Keith Gessen for his new novel A Terrible Country. Please join us! \n  \nWhen Andrei Kaplan’s older brother Dima insists that Andrei return to Moscow to care for their ailing grandmother\, Andrei must take stock of his life in New York. His girlfriend has stopped returning his text messages. His dissertation adviser is dubious about his job prospects. It’s the summer of 2008\, and his bank account is running dangerously low. Perhaps a few months in Moscow are just what he needs. So Andrei sublets his room in Brooklyn\, packs up his hockey stuff\, and moves into the apartment that Stalin himself had given his grandmother\, a woman who has outlived her husband and most of her friends. She survived the dark days of communism and witnessed Russia’s violent capitalist transformation\, during which she lost her beloved dacha. She welcomes Andrei into her home\, even if she can’t always remember who he is. \n  \nAndrei learns to navigate Putin’s Moscow\, still the city of his birth\, but with more expensive coffee. He looks after his elderly–but surprisingly sharp!–grandmother\, finds a place to play hockey\, a café to send emails\, and eventually some friends\, including a beautiful young activist named Yulia. Over the course of the year\, his grandmother’s health declines and his feelings of dislocation from both Russia and America deepen. Andrei knows he must reckon with his future and make choices that will determine his life and fate. When he becomes entangled with a group of leftists\, Andrei’s politics and his allegiances are tested\, and he is forced to come to terms with the Russian society he was born into and the American one he has enjoyed since he was a kid. \n  \nA wise\, sensitive novel about Russia\, exile\, family\, love\, history and fate\, A Terrible County asks what you owe the place you were born\, and what it owes you. Writing with grace and humor\, Keith Gessen gives us a brilliant and mature novel that is sure to mark him as one of the most talented novelists of his generation. \n  \n\n  \n“A cause for celebration: big-hearted\, witty\, warm\, compulsively readable\, earnest\, funny\, full of that kind of joyful sadness I associate with Russia and its writers.” – George Saunders\, Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo \n  \n“Keith Gessen is one of my favorite writers and A Terrible Country is even better than I hoped. By turns sad\, funny\, bewildering\, revelatory\, and then sad again\, it recreates the historical-psychological experience of returning\, for twenty-first-century reasons\, to a country one’s parents left in the twentieth century. It’s at once an old-fashioned novel about the interplay between generational roles\, family fates\, and political ideology\, and a kind of global detective mystery about neoliberalism (plus a secret map of Moscow in terms of pickup hockey). Gessen is a master journalist and essayist\, as well as a storyteller with a scary grasp on the human heartstrings\, and A Terrible Country unites the personal and political as only the best novels do.” – Elif Batuman\, author of The Idiot and The Possessed \n  \n“A Terrible Country is an engaging and entertaining novel\, full of humor and humility\, and always after one thing–the truth of contemporary life. Gessen gives us the people of Moscow–businessmen\, anarchists\, grandmothers\, dissidents\, baristas\, hockey goalies\, prostitutes\, and FSB agents–not as fanciful characters but with the full force of the real. His affectionate\, clear-eyed portrait of one terrible country has plenty to teach us about our own.” – Chad Harbach\, author of The Art of Fielding \n  \n\n  \nKeith Gessen is the author of All the Sad Young Literary Men and a founding editor of n+1. He is the editor of three nonfiction books and the translator or co-translator\, from Russian\, of a collection of short stories\, a book of poems\, and a work of oral history\, Nobel Prize-winner Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices from Chernobyl. A contributor to The New Yorker and The London Review of Books\, Gessen teaches journalism at Columbia and lives in New York with his wife and son. \n  \n  \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of A Terrible Country and/or any of Keith’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-keith-gessen-a-terrible-country/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY\, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES...
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 7:30pm\nShow at 8pm\n$10 online & at the door…\nTICKETSSSSSS: https://ticketf.ly/2k4yp1g \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\,\na communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\,\nto embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-14/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jenny Xie
DESCRIPTION:Jenny Xie\n\n  \nreading from her award winning poetry collection \nEye Level \npublished by Graywolf Press \nWinner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets\, selected by Juan Felipe Herrera \nJenny Xie’s award-winning debut\, Eye Level\, takes us far and near\, to Phnom Penh\, Corfu\, Hanoi\, New York\, and elsewhere\, as we travel closer and closer to the acutely felt solitude that centers this searching\, moving collection. Animated by a restless inner questioning\, these poems meditate on the forces that moor the self and set it in motion\, from immigration to travel to estranging losses and departures. The sensual worlds here—colors\, smells\, tastes\, and changing landscapes—bring to life questions about the self as seer and the self as seen. As Xie writes\, “Me? I’m just here in my traveler’s clothes\, trying on each passing town for size.” Her taut\, elusive poems exult in a life simultaneously crowded and quiet\, caught in between things and places\, and never quite entirely at home. Xie is a poet of extraordinary perception—both to the tangible world and to “All that is untouchable as far as the eye can reach.” \nJenny Xie was born in Hefei\, China\, and raised in New Jersey. She holds degrees from Princeton University and New York University\, and has received fellowships and support from Kundiman\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Elizabeth George Foundation\, and Poets & Writers. She is the recipient of the 2017 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets for Eye Level and the 2016 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Prize for Nowhere to Arrive. Her poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review\, Harvard Review\, the New Republic\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. She teaches at New York University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jenny-xie/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Daegan Miller discusses THIS RADICAL LAND
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Daegan Miller to the store to discuss his book\, This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent\, on Tuesday\, May 22nd at 7pm.  Joining him in conversation this evening is our very own Brad Johnson. \n“It’s hard to feel hopeful about the future of the United States\, given its ruinous past and present. But occasionally\, the present will surprise you (e.g.\, kids leading the contemporary struggle against gun violence). Sometimes\, too\, as explored in Daegan Miller’s spirited new book the past will too. His book will give you loads more to read about such past(s) … which might even lend room yet for some hope. — Brad Johnson \n“The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness\, draining swamps\, straightening rivers\, peopling the solitude\, and subduing nature\,” wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. That’s largely how we still think of nineteenth-century America today: a country expanding unstoppably\, bending the continent’s natural bounty to the national will\, heedless of consequence. A country of slavery and of Indian wars. There’s much truth in that vision. \nBut if you know where to look\, you can uncover a different history\, one of vibrant resistance\, one that’s been mostly forgotten. This Radical Land recovers that story. Daegan Miller is our guide on a beautifully written\, revelatory trip across the continent during which we encounter radical thinkers\, settlers\, and artists who grounded their ideas of freedom\, justice\, and progress in the very landscapes around them\, even as the runaway engine of capitalism sought to steamroll everything in its path. Here we meet Thoreau\, the expert surveyor\, drawing anticapitalist property maps. We visit a black antislavery community in the Adirondack wilderness of upstate New York. We discover how seemingly commercial photographs of the transcontinental railroad secretly sent subversive messages\, and how a band of utopian anarchists among California’s sequoias imagined a greener\, freer future. At every turn\, everyday radicals looked to landscape for the language of their dissent–drawing crucial early links between the environment and social justice\, links we’re still struggling to strengthen today. \nWorking in a tradition that stretches from Thoreau to Rebecca Solnit\, Miller offers nothing less than a new way of seeing the American past–and of understanding what it can offer us for the present . . . and the future. \nAbout the Author \nDaegan Miller has taught at Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, and his writing has appeared in a variety of venues\, from academic journals to literary magazines. His research has received funding from the A.W. Mellon Foundation\, the Social Science Research Council\, the American Antiquarian Society\,  the National Endowment for the Humanities (twice)\,  and Cornell University\, and I’ve won awards from Cornell\, the Southern American Studies Association\, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society\, and the Forest History Society. This Radical Land is his first book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daegan-miller-discusses-this-radical-land/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:This is Now with Angie Coiro presents James Hatch on Combat Recovery
DESCRIPTION:James Hatch served with the Navy SEALs\, where he rose to the rank of special ops Senior Chief. He fought in 150 missions\, including service in Iraq and Afghanistan. He earned four Bronze Stars with Valor. But it was when he broke into tears over the death of a service dog by enemy fire that he came to national attention. \nHatch was testifying in the trial of Bowe Bergdahl\, who abandoned his post in Afghanistan\, then was captured by the Taliban. As he joined the dragnet to find the missing soldier\, Hatch said later\, he knew Americans would be killed or hurt. He turned out to be one of them. Sprayed with the same AK-47 fire that took down the service dog at his side\, Hatch swirled into a maelstrom of pain\, surgeries\, amputation\, and alcoholism. He found his way back with hard work\, love of friends and family\, and – fittingly enough – by founding a charity to care for retired service dogs. \nJames Hatch tells his story of his struggle and recovery in Touching the Dragon\, And Other Techniques for Surviving Life’s Wars. Anderson Cooper says it “reveals with such honesty and openness\, the ‘second war’ that Jimmy and other special operators must fight when they come back to a society that seems so alien to them\, a society completely divorced from the purity of combat.” Join Angie Coiro for another This Is Now conversation with this very special guest.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-with-angie-coiro-presents-james-hatch-on-combat-recovery/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Lucy Jane Bledsoe / The Evolution of Love
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Lucy Jane Bledsoe in conversation with Rabih Alameddine about her new novel\, The Evolution of Love. Please join us! \n“She’d told herself\, and her husband Tom\, that she was coming to rescue Vicky. And she was. She would. She’d been rescuing her sister her entire life. But she’d never done anything remotely this extreme. She knew the region had been evacuated\, and yet somehow hadn’t pictured everyone literally gone. . .The stark\, devastated landscape heightened all her senses\, as if her fear made the colors deeper\, the smells headier\, the sounds crisper. She couldn’t give in to the terror; if she did\, it might never end. She had no choice but to finish what she’d begun.” \nA devastating earthquake has just hit the San Francisco Bay Area\, cutting off the outside world completely. When Lily decides to fly from Nebraska to California and make the treacherous journey into the Bay Area to find her sister\, she knows she’s headed for a disaster zone\, but nothing prepares her for what she finds. \nThose who survived and didn’t evacuate are making shelters\, running meals programs\, rigging their own technologies — and redefining the very meaning of community. Lily bands together with a couple of feral kids\, a steadfast activist\, and a bonobo researcher\, among others\, to forge a new life. \nA story of hope in the face of crisis\, The Evolution of Love asks what it takes for people to come together\, what dangers must they fend off in their bid for survival\, and what lengths will they go to rebuild home. \n— \n“Given our current seemingly endless string of natural disasters\, this is a timely story and a compelling one. In the context of a twisting plot\, in the company of appealing characters\, Bledsoe asks us to think about the resilience of love and hate; what our responsibility to each other is; and who we really are\, right down to our DNA. Highly recommended.”  — Karen Joy Fowler\, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves and The Jane Austen Book Club \n— \nLucy Jane Bledsoe is the author of five previous novels\, including A Thin Bright Line. Her fiction has won a California Arts Council Fellowship in Literature\, an American Library Association Stonewall Award\, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize\, a Pushcart nomination\, a Yaddo Fellowship\, and two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships. She’s been a six-time Lambda Literary Award finalist and a two-time Ferro-Grumley Award Finalist. Bledsoe lives in the Bay Area where she spends as much time as possible kayaking in the bay\, as well as hiking and cycling in the hills. \n  \nRabih Alameddine is the author of the novels Koolaids\, and I\, the Divine\, The Hakawati\, An Unnecessary Woman (finalist for the National Book Critics Award)\, the story collection\, The Perv\, and most recently\, The Angel of History (winner of the Arab American Book Award and Lambda Literary Award). He divides his time between San Francisco and Beirut.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lucy-jane-bledsoe-the-evolution-of-love/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer East Bay Reading "Contrasts: Poetry & Prose"
DESCRIPTION:Poetry and prose: apples and oranges? Decide for yourself at Perfectly Queer East Bay “Contrasts: Poetry & Prose” Wednesday\, May 23\, 7pm at Laurel Bookstore in Oakland. Poets Vernon Keeve III & Luiza Flynn-Goodlett and novelists Dale Chase & Hilary Zaid all read new work. Author signing follows. Free\, tasty refreshments! Thematic door prizes at 7pm. \nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\nVernon Keeve III is a Virginia-born writer that California molded into an educator. He lives and teaches in Oakland. His purpose is to teach the next generation the importance of relaying their personal narratives\, sharing their experiences\, and taking control of their destinies. He holds a MFA from California College of the Arts\, and a Masters in Teaching Literature from Bard College. \nLuiza Flynn-Goodlett is the author of the chapbooks Unseasonable Weather (dancing girl press\, 2018) and Congress of Mud (Finishing Line Press\, 2015). Her work can be found in Third Coast\, Granta\, Quarterly West\, DIAGRAM\, The Rumpus\, and elsewhere. She serves as poetry editor for Foglifter Press and lives in sunny Oakland\, California. \nDale Chase has been writing gay men’s erotica for 20 years. To date nearly 200 of her stories have been published in magazines\, anthologies\, and collections. The Great Man is her third novel. Her first\, Wyatt: Doc Holliday’s Account of an Intimate Friendship\, was published in 2012\, her second Takedown: Taming John Wesley Hardin\, in 2013. Hot Copy: Classic Gay Erotica from the Magazine Era\, a collection of Dale’s stories written for the magazines over a decade ago\, was published in 2015. More at www.dalechase.com \nHilary Zaid is a 2017 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and an alumna of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and the Tin House Writers’ Workshop. Her short fiction has appeared in print and online\, including Lilith Magazine\, The Southwest Review\, The Utne Reader\, CALYX\, The Santa Monica Review\, and The Tahoma Literary Review and has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. An alumna of Harvard and Radcliffe\, she holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and works as a freelance editor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-reading-contrasts-poetry-prose/
LOCATION:Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Daegan Miller
DESCRIPTION:Daegan Miller\n\n  \ndiscussing the subject of his new book \nThis Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent \nfrom University of Chicago Press \n“The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness\, draining swamps\, straightening rivers\, peopling the solitude\, and subduing nature\,” wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. That’s largely how we still think of nineteenth-century America today: a country expanding unstoppably\, bending the continent’s natural bounty to the national will\, heedless of consequence. A country of slavery and of Indian wars. There’s much truth in that vision. \nBut if you know where to look\, you can uncover a different history\, one of vibrant resistance\, one that’s been mostly forgotten. This Radical Land recovers that story. Daegan Miller is our guide on a beautifully written\, revelatory trip across the continent during which we encounter radical thinkers\, settlers\, and artists who grounded their ideas of freedom\, justice\, and progress in the very landscapes around them\, even as the runaway engine of capitalism sought to steamroll everything in its path. Here we meet Thoreau\, the expert surveyor\, drawing anticapitalist property maps. We visit a black antislavery community in the Adirondack wilderness of upstate New York. We discover how seemingly commercial photographs of the transcontinental railroad secretly sent subversive messages\, and how a band of utopian anarchists among California’s sequoias imagined a greener\, freer future. At every turn\, everyday radicals looked to landscape for the language of their dissent—drawing crucial early links between the environment and social justice\, links we’re still struggling to strengthen today. \nDaegan Miller has taught at Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, and his writing has appeared in a variety of venues\, from academic journals to literary magazines. He is on Twitter at @daeganmiller. \nCritical praise for This Radical Land: \n\n\n\n“A debut book that ranges across disciplines and decades to connect the natural environment–especially long-lived trees–to a scathing critique of American-style capitalism. Alternating abstract theory with impressive research\, both bolstered by extensive sources . . . the author builds his case about understanding American history by examining destruction of the environment through essays grounded in the 19th century. . . . He offers an eclectic education often marked by soaring prose.” – Kirkus Reviews \n\n\n\n\n“Inventive. . . . A creative linking of landscape and radicalism.” -Publishers Weekly \n\n\n\n\n“Drawing on superb scholarly detective work\, This Radical Land tells fascinating stories about the history of our ties to the land that give us an alternative to viewing natural spaces as either a resource to exploit or a wilderness museum for the privileged. Miller peels back the history to reveal that\, however ignored\, Americans have always resisted the exploitation of nature. Perhaps his more nuanced environmental history will inspire those today who\, continuing the mute protest of the witness tree\, would pull the planet back from the brink of death.” Richard Higgins\, author of Thoreau and the Language of Trees \n\n\n\n\n“Daegan Miller rekindles a legacy of environmental dissent. The ideas and landscapes of nineteenth-century ‘countermoderns’ are signposts\, still legible\, to alternative futures. This book bears witness like a burning bush.” -Jared Farmer\, author of Trees in Paradise: A California History \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daegan-miller/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Andrew Sean Greer / Less
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Andrew Sean Greer for the paperback launch of Less\, one of our favorite novels of 2017 and winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Joining Andy in conversation isR. O. Kwon. Come celebrate with us! \n  \nPlease note: This event — which is now rescheduled for May 23 at 7pm — will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. If you would like to reserve a seat for the event\, please pre-purchase a copy of Less via the form below and specify that you would like to reserve a seat in the comments field. \n  \nWho says you can’t run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can’t say yes—it would be too awkward—and you can’t say no—it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world. \n  \nQuestion: How do you arrange to skip town? \n  \nAnswer: You accept them all. \n  \nWhat would possibly go wrong? Arthur Less will almost fall in love in Paris\, almost fall to his death in Berlin\, barely escape to a Moroccan ski chalet from a Saharan sandstorm\, accidentally book himself as the (only) writer-in-residence at a Christian Retreat Center in Southern India\, and encounter\, on a desert island in the Arabian Sea\, the last person on Earth he wants to face. Somewhere in there: he will turn fifty. Through it all\, there is his first love. And there is his last. \n  \nBecause\, despite all these mishaps\, missteps\, misunderstandings and mistakes\, Less is\, above all\, a love story. \n  \nA scintillating satire of the American abroad\, a rumination on time and the human heart\, a bittersweet romance of chances lost\, by an author The New York Times has hailed as “inspired\, lyrical\,” “elegiac\,” “ingenious\,” as well as “too sappy by half\,” Less shows a writer at the peak of his talents raising the curtain on our shared human comedy. \n  \n— \n” Less is the funniest\, smartest and most humane novel I’ve read since Tom Rachman’s 2010 debut\, The Imperfectionists….Greer writes sentences of arresting lyricism and beauty. His metaphors come at you like fireflies….Like Arthur\, Andrew Sean Greer’s Less is excellent company. It’s no less than bedazzling\, bewitching and be-wonderful.” —New York Times Book Review \n  \n“Greer’s novel is philosophical\, poignant\, funny and wise\, filled with unexpected turns….Although Greer is gifted and subtle in comic moments\, he’s just as adept at ruminating on the deeper stuff. His protagonist grapples with aging\, loneliness\, creativity\, grief\, self-pity and more.”—San Francisco Chronicle \n  \n“I recommend it with my whole heart.” —Ann Patchett \n— \nAndrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of five works of fiction\, including The Confessions of Max Tivoli\, which was named a best book of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune. He is the recipient of the Northern California Book Award\, the California Book Award\, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award\, the O Henry award for short fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Public Library. Greer lives in San Francisco. He has traveled to all of the locations in this novel\, but he is only big in Italy. \n  \nR. O. Kwon’s first novel\, The Incendiaries\, is forthcoming from Riverhead in July of 2018. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian\, Vice\, BuzzFeed\, Noon\, Time\, Electric Literature\, Playboy\, San Francisco Chronicle\, and elsewhere. She has received awards and fellowships from Yaddo\, MacDowell\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, Omi International\, and the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony. Born in South Korea\, she’s mostly lived in the United States. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like a request a signed copy of Less and/or any of Andrew’s other books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nBar opens at 6:30\, event begins at 7pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrew-sean-greer-less-2/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Release / Bad Luck of the Draw Club
DESCRIPTION:details TBA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-bad-luck-of-the-draw-club/
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:Aja Gabel and Vanessa Hua
DESCRIPTION:Aja Gabel discusses her new novel\, The Ensemble. \nPraise for The Ensemble \n“Aja Gabel’s powerful debut offers a sensitive portrait of four young musicians forging their paths through life: sometimes at odds with each other\, sometimes in harmony\, but always inextricably linked by their shared pasts.” —Celeste Ng  \n“With uncommon clarity and empathy\, Aja Gabel brings us inside the passionate\, complex\, and sometimes cutthroat intimacy that exists among the four members of a string quartet. A wise and powerful novel about love\, life\, and music. I didn’t want it to end.” —Maggie Shipstead  \nAja Gabel is a brilliant young writer with the rare gift of an old soul.”—Mat Johnson \nAbout The Ensemble \nThe addictive novel about four young friends navigating a cutthroat world and their complex relationships with each other\, as ambition\, passion\, and love intertwine over the course of their lives. \n  \nJana. Brit. Daniel. Henry. They would never have been friends if they hadn’t needed each other. They would never have found each other except for the art which drew them together. They would never have become family without their love for the music\, for each other. \n  \nBrit is the second violinist\, a beautiful and quiet orphan; on the viola is Henry\, a prodigy who’s always had it easy; the cellist is Daniel\, the oldest and an angry skeptic who sleeps around; and on first violin is Jana\, their flinty\, resilient leader. Together\, they are the Van Ness Quartet. After the group’s youthful\, rocky start\, they experience devastating failure and wild success\, heartbreak and marriage\, triumph and loss\, betrayal and enduring loyalty. They are always tied to each other – by career\, by the intensity of their art\, by the secrets they carry\, by choosing each other over and over again. \n  \nFollowing these four unforgettable characters\, Aja Gabel’s debut novel gives a riveting look into the high-stakes\, cutthroat world of musicians\, and of lives made in concert. The story of Brit and Henry and Daniel and Jana\, The Ensemble is a heart-skipping portrait of ambition\, friendship\, and the tenderness of youth.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aja-gabel/
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:Geoffrey G. O'Brien\, Jane Gregory\, and Wendy Trevino
DESCRIPTION:Wendy Trevino was born & raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She is a Grant Writer in San Francisco\, where she shares an apartment with her boyfriend\, friend & 2 senior cats. She has published chapbooks with Perfect Lovers Press\, Commune Editions & Krupskaya Books. Her chapbook #YourHarveyWeinstein was published by Spoilsport Editions – an online press she started with the writer Oki Sogumi – in 2017. Cruel Fiction (Commune Editions\, Fall 2018) is her first full-length book of poetry. Wendy is not an experimental writer. \nJane Gregory is from Tucson and lives in Oakland. She is the author of My Enemies (Song Cave\, 2013) and Yeah No (Song Cave\, 2018)\, and co-co-editor of Nion Editions\, a chapbook press. \nGeoffrey G. O’Brien’s next book\, Experience in Groups\, will be out from Wave Books in April 2018. He is the author most recently of People on Sunday (Wave\, 2013) and the coauthor (with John Ashbery and Timothy Donnelly) of Three Poets(Minus A Press\, 2012). O’Brien is an Associate Professor in the English Department at UC Berkeley and also teaches for the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/geoffrey-g-obrien-jane-gregory-and-wendy-trevino/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poem Jam
DESCRIPTION:Join San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck and others for a poetry jam. \nThis is a Reading\, Writing & Poetry program from SFPL. We love reading/sharing/creating words.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poem-jam/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Chuck Klosterman / X: A Highly Specific\, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith welcomes Chuck Klosterman back to the store for the paperback release of X: A Highly Specific\, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century. Please join us! \nPlease note: this event begins at 7pm. Seating is limited\, and is first come\, first served. If you would like to reserve a seat\, please purchase a copy of X below and put your request in the notes field. Remember\, 1 seat = 1 book \nChuck Klosterman has created an incomparable body of work in books\, magazines\, newspapers\, and on the Web. His writing spans the realms of culture and sports\, while also addressing interpersonal issues\, social quandaries\, and ethical boundaries. Klosterman has written nine previous books\, helped found and establish Grantland\, served as the New York Times Magazine Ethicist\, worked on film and television productions\, and contributed profiles and essays to outlets such as GQ\, Esquire\, Billboard\, The A.V. Club\, and The Guardian. \nChuck Klosterman’s tenth book (aka Chuck Klosterman X) collects his most intriguing of those pieces\, accompanied by fresh introductions and new footnotes throughout. Klosterman presents many of the articles in their original form\, featuring previously unpublished passages and digressions. Subjects include Breaking Bad\, Lou Reed\, zombies\, KISS\, Jimmy Page\, Stephen Malkmus\, steroids\, Mountain Dew\, Chinese Democracy\, The Beatles\, Jonathan Franzen\, Taylor Swift\, Tim Tebow\, Kobe Bryant\, Usain Bolt\, Eddie Van Halen\, Charlie Brown\, the Cleveland Browns\, and many more cultural figures and pop phenomena. This is a tour of the past decade from one of the sharpest and most prolific observers of our unusual times. \n  \n\n  \n“Often imitated and rarely replicated\, the writing style of Chuck Klosterman has proven rather influential in all manner of 21st century writing. From news stories to critical reviews to artist profiles\, Klosterman’s often irreverent\, self-deprecating\, footnote happy smart/funny observations make for highly entertaining reading.” — John Paul\, Popmatters \n  \n“Infectious…. Though Klosterman may be pigeonholed as a guy who thinks too much about Kiss\, his 10th book shows he’s something else: a philosopher.” — Justin Wm. Moyer\, The Washington Post \n  \n“Klosterman is a master of the high-low…He injects a level of intellectual rigor into subjects that receive precious little…With X\, Klosterman wallows in the trivial…but he’s not trivializing…proving that culture essays can teach us something about ourselves and the people around us…Each of his essays is a love letter to a moment.” — B. David Zarley\, Paste \n  \n\n  \nChuck Klosterman is the bestselling author of eight books of nonfiction (including Sex\, Drugs\, and Cocoa Puffs and But What If We’re Wrong?) and two novels (Downtown Owl and The Visible Man). He has written for The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, GQ\, Esquire\, Spin\, The Guardian\, The Believer\, Billboard\, The A.V. Club\, and ESPN. Klosterman served as the Ethicist for The New York Times Magazine for three years\, appeared as himself in the LCD Soundsystem documentary Shut Up and Play the Hits\, and was an original founder of the website Grantland with Bill Simmons. Author photo by Jason Booher. \n  \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you are unable to attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of X and/or any of Klosterman’s other books\, order below and put your notes in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chuck-klosterman-x-a-highly-specific-defiantly-incomplete-history-of-the-early-21st-century/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kim Malcolm presents A COUNTRY WITHIN
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Kim Malcolm to the store to discuss her book\, A Country Within: A Journey of Love and Hope During the Refugee Crisis in Greece\, on Thursday\, May 24th at 7pm.  \nA Country Within shares a professional woman’s life-changing journey to Greece to work with refugees arriving from the Middle East and Asia. The story begins on the island of Lesvos where overloaded boats of refugees landed on local beaches\, and moves to Athens where the author unexpectedly becomes a member of a family of refugees from four countries. \nThis timely portrayal describes the effects of geopolitics on people escaping war\, the generosity of the people of Lesvos and how love transcends culture\, religion and experience.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-malcolm-presents-a-country-within/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Weimar Mirror: Revisiting Alfred Döblin
DESCRIPTION:Weimar Mirror: Revisiting Alfred Döblin\n\nIntroduction by Peter Maravelis (City Lights Booksellers)\nOpening Statement and moderation by William T Vollmann (National Book Award winner\, EUROPE CENTRAL)\nPresentations and roundtable participation by Adrian Daub\, Thomas O. Haakenson\, Deniz Göktürk\, and Mel Gordon. \nThe Goethe Institut San Francisco in conjunction with City Lights Booksellers and New York Review Books present an evening re-exploring the classic work of German writer Alfred Döblin\, Berlin Alexanderplatz\, on the eve of the release of a new translation by Michael Hoffmann published by New York Review Books. The evening is unique as it utilizes a joint examination of the novel juxtaposed against Werner Fassbinder‘s epic 15 hour film treatment of the book. Local scholars in German literature and history will read from the novel\, discuss elements of the story\, show film clips from Fassbinder’s film\, and participate in a roundtable discussion. Film and novel are reflected against each other to explore the Weimar period and its significance in modern times. Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz is considered one of the most innovative works of Weimar Germany. It’s collage-like form and stream of consciousness narrative drive the reader into the metropolis of Berlin in the 1920’s exploring all its complexity. In 1983 Werner Rainer Fassbinder released his film adaptation of Berlin Alexanderplatz which gained a cult following. Susan Sontag penned an appreciation of the film\, and Michael Mann and Francis Ford Coppola have cited it as one of their greatest influences. This evening utilizes both novel and film to bring us closer to the life and work of Alfred Döblin and the Weimar Period. The issues explored will include: \n-How Doblin’s work speaks to us today.\n-The rise of fascism in Germany in the 20th century\n-Sexual freedom in the Weimar Period\n-Crime in Berlin\n-Jewish Assimilation and Separatism\n-The critical reception of Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz adaptation after its release \nAlfred Döblin (1878–1957) was born in German Stettin (now the Polish city of Szczecin) to Jewish parents. When he was ten his father\, a master tailor\, eloped with a seamstress\, abandoning the family. Subsequently his mother relocated the rest of the family to Berlin. Döblin studied medicine at Friedrich Wilhelm University\, specializing in neurology and psychiatry. While working at a psychiatric clinic in Berlin\, he became romantically entangled with two women: Friede Kunke\, with whom he had a son\, Bodo\, in 1911\, and Erna Reiss\, to whom he had become engaged before learning of Kunke’s pregnancy. He married Erna the next year\, and they remained together for the rest of his life. His novel The Three Leaps of Wang Lun was published in 1915 while Döblin was serving as a military doctor; it went on to win the Fontane Prize. In 1920 he published Wallenstein\, a novel set during the Thirty Years’ War\, which was an oblique comment on the First World War. He became president of the Association of German Writers in 1924\, and published his best-known novel\, Berlin Alexanderplatz\, in 1929\, achieving modest mainstream fame while solidifying his position at the center of an intellectual group that included Bertolt Brecht\, Robert Musil\, and Joseph Roth\, among others. He fled Germany with his family soon after Hitler’s rise\, moving first to Zurich\, then to Paris\, and\, after the Nazi invasion of France\, to Los Angeles\, where he converted to Catholicism and briefly worked as a screenwriter for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. After the war he returned to Germany and worked as an editor with the aim of rehabilitating literature that had been banned under Hitler\, but he found himself at odds with conservative postwar cultural trends. He suffered from Parkinson’s disease in later years and died in Emmendingen in 1957. Erna committed suicide two months after his death and was interred along with him. \nWhat has been said of the work of Alfred Döblin: \nThe story of Franz Biberkopf is the Éducation sentimentale of the petty thief. The most extreme\, dizzying\, last\, and most advanced embodiment of the old bourgeoisbildungsroman.\n—Walter Benjamin\nI found myself reading Berlin Alexanderplatz in a way that you could hardly call reading—more like devouring\, gobbling\, gulping down. And these expressions still don’t do justice to that way of reading\, which dangerously often wasn’t reading at all\, but more life\, suffering\, despair\, and fear.\n—Rainer Werner Fassbinder\nA classic German novel of the criminal demimonde of the Weimar era…Hofmann’s version is vigorous and fresh\, bringing Döblin to a new generation of readers. A welcome refurbishing of a masterpiece of literary modernism\, one of the most significant German novels of the 20th century.\n—Kirkus starred review\n[A] major writer who grappled with the roots of darkness in our time….\n—Ernst Pawel\, The New York Times\nHis was an extraordinary mind.\n—Philip Ardagh\, The Guardian\nWithout the futurist elements of Döblin’s work from Wang Lun to Berlin Alexanderplatz\, my prose is inconceivable…. He’ll discomfort you\, give you bad dreams. If you’re satisfied with yourself\, beware of Döblin.\n—Günter Grass\nI learned more about the essence of the epic from Döblin than from anyone else. His epic writing and even his theory about the epic strongly influenced my own dramatic art.\n—Bertolt Brecht\nAs we look back over the rich literary output of this great writer\, as we look back over the long and fruitful life of this fighter and this friend of man\, this perennial spring of spiritual life\, we venture to ask: When will the gentlemen of the Nobel Prize jury discover him?\n—Ludwig Marcuse\, Books Abroad
URL:https://litseen.com/event/weimar-mirror-revisiting-alfred-doblin/
LOCATION:Goethe Institut\, 530 Bush St #204\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Written Within the Body: A Salon with Lone Mørch\, Sarah Kornfeld\, September Williams and Kristin Kaye
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts an evening salon exploring the body in fiction and nonfiction with Lone Mørch\, Sarah Kornfeld\, September Williams and Kristin Kaye\, all reading from their new books. Please join us for readings\, Q&A\, and signings! \n  \nEmbody by Lone Mørch \nEmbody is a tribute to the sensual body. In photos & prose\, Mørch examines and illuminates the light and shadows in women’s bodies\, minds and psyches. With a loving gaze\, artistic nerve\, and poetry\, the book reveals how women today work hard to discover and get in touch with their own bodies\, on their own terms. For the past fourteen years nearly a thousand women of all ages have found the courage and freedom before Lone’s camera to explore the many expressions of beauty\, sensuality and eroticism in themselves – on their own terms. The male gaze has dominated the representation of women for the past 150 years. Embody reveals what happens when women choose to be photographed by women\, and decide how they want to be seen. \n  \nLone Mørch is an award-winning author\, photographer and speaker whose work lives at the intersection of art\, body\, identity\, culture and life’s journey. A Danish native\, she has for the past 25+ years traveled\, lived\, loved and worked in Asia\, Europe and USA. She’s the founder of Lolo’s Boudoir and has helped a thousand women find healing\, transformation\, adventure and celebration through her photography. Her previous work included the award-winning memoir Seeing Red: A Woman’s Quest for Truth\, Power and the Sacred about her own path towards liberation. Her photos and essays have been featured in Danish and American magazines\, newspapers and blogs such as InStyle\, Cosmopolitan\, People\, SF Chronicle\, Huffington Post\, Light Journal\, East Bay Express and 7×7.  She splits her time between Denmark and USA. \n  \n\n  \nWhat Stella Sees by Sarah Kornfeld \nNo one saw it coming that Moise and Stella would fall in love because everyone assumed they were too sick to do so. Though\, why shouldn’t a guy with Cerebral Palsy and a young woman with seizures be sexy? In a story that reaches from Israel to San Francisco\, Bucharest to Paris\, this story of two people\, defined as “disabled” explores what being “broken” truly is in society – particularly in the arts. \n  \nSarah E. Kornfeld‘s debut novel\, What Stella Sees\, will be published by Cove International Publishers in the summer of 2018. Sarah was born and raised in the experimental theater of New York City\, and received her B.A. at Sarah Lawrence College where she focused on writing and choreography. Her master teacher in poetry/writing was Kate Knapp Johnson. Her master teacher in choreography was Merce Cunningham’s lead dancer\, Viola Farber. Sarah is a proud member of the National Writers Union and has read twice at the San Francisco LitQuake/LitCrawl festival (2016 and 2017). She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of San Francisco\, School of Education\, International + Multicultural Studies Department where she teaches Cultural Curation to Masters and Ph.D students. She lives in the Bay Area by the sea with her Son. \n  \n\nChasing Mercury by September Williams \nAn epileptic black ballerina and a Powwow dancer\, whistleblower journalist meet in the Montreal airport. They are both performing at an international youth festival in Berlin\, 1973 Cold War Berlin. During a long layover in Zürich\, he takes the ballerina to a Swiss Bank. Speaking French\, the Powwow dancer deposits many thousands of dollars into his numbered account to which he adds her name\, providing no true explanation. Is she an accomplice–or is this just love in the time of mercury poisoning? \n  \nChasing Mercury is a romance-suspense-memoir inspired by the events leading to the Minamata World Convention on Mercury\, ratified and entered into force August 16\, 2017.  Spanning three continents\, the story covers decades and the world’s waters. The novel connects human rights\, environmental justice and romance. Chasing Mercury is the first in a series of three books in the Chasing Mercury Toxic Trilogy. \n  \nSeptember Williams is an American physician-writer\, bioethicist and filmmaker. All of her work seeks a better understanding of and between ourselves.  She focuses on promoting resilience for people who are ill\, aging\, dying\, or stressed by environmental and humanitarian violation. Yet\, her writing is fired by the humor which allows people and characters to make it through hard times. September’s nonfiction writing covers health disparities\, bioethics and film. She is a member of the National Writers Union (AFLCIO/UAW 1981)\, an affiliate of the International Federation of Journalists\, and the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. She lives in Marin. \n  \n\n  \nTree Dreams by Kristin Kaye \nWhen seventeen-year-old Jade Reynolds witnesses a violent clash between a protesting tree sitter and a local logger\, she runs as far as she can from the battles that plague her home and from the mysteries of the redwood forest. But the ancient redwoods are embedded in her psyche—she feels their call even in the dark and forgotten back alleys of Portland\, Oregon where she’s hiding out. She soon becomes entangled with a lovable misfit and a band of radical slackers\, environmentalists\, and anarchists\, and finds herself living 100 feet high in the canopy of a redwood grove\, trying to decide whose side she’s on: the logging community she’s known her entire life or the environmentalists who are risking their lives for the future of the forest. To find a way beyond the division between Us and Them\, Jade turns to the ancient trees themselves—and the thread-thin web that connects us all. \n  \nKristin Kaye is an author\, ghostwriter and teacher whose work sits at the intersection of nature\, narrative and spirituality. Tree Dreams: A Novel is forthcoming in April\, 2018 from Spark Press. The novel gave rise to a global tree tagging campaign that celebrates the myriad ways we are connected to each other\, to nature and to our future. Tree Dreams tags now hang in over 20 states and 12 countries around the world. Kristin’s previous work includes Iron Maidens: The Celebration of the Most Awesome Female Muscle in the World\, which details her experience directing twenty-five of the world’s strongest and most muscular women in an off-Broadway show. The book was a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards\, and described by Utne Reader as “one of 5 new titles for women who resist easy definition. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you are unable to attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of any of the authors’ books\, send an email to events AT booksmith DOT com to put in your requuest.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/written-within-the-body-a-salon-with-lone-morch-sarah-kornfeld-september-williams-and-kristin-kaye/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Barbara Berman
DESCRIPTION:Barbara Berman reads from her new poetry collection\, Currents. \nPraise for Currents \nThe reach of these graceful\, ambitious poems ranges across stars\, cities\, storms. Their music is both political and deeply private\, braiding the two undersongs together in challenging and sometimes wrenching poetry. These are poems to be savored and remembered\, touchstones of a felt world. —Eavan Boland\, Director of the Creative Writing Program\, Stanford University. \n Barbara Berman offers up a book of psalms to praise the mysterious and divine. Part Miriam Sagan\, part Gretel Ehrlich\, this is a true faith quest with cameos by Thomas Merton\, Sojourner Truth and Bruce Chatwin. —Richard Peabody\, Editor of Gargoyle Magazine
URL:https://litseen.com/event/barbara-berman/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash presents Jane Mead and Carol Muske-Dukes
DESCRIPTION:Jane Mead’s new book of poems is World of Made and Unmade. C.D. Wright said\, “As the laundry room floods and the grape harvest gets done; as Michoacán waits for another time\, her beautiful\, practical mother is dying. Ashes are scattered in the pecan groves of her own Rincon\, her own corner of the world\, and the poet\, in elementary script\, draws a sustaining record of the only feeling worth the struggle.…” She’s authored four previous collections\, most recently Money\, Money\, Money | Water\, Water\, Water\, and her honors include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship\, a Whiting Writers Award\, and a Lannan Foundation Completion Grant. \nCarol Muske-Dukes’s new book of poems is Blue Rose. Linda Gregerson says\, “Scathing intelligence and an open heart: the most difficult combination in the world\, and bountifully manifest on every page. In the birth room\, at the death bed\, beneath the falling ash of a California wildfire\, before the whole\, hurt spectacle of an imperiled and beloved world\, these poems remind us what it’s truly like to see and feel.” Author of eight poetry collections\, including Sparrow\, a finalist for the National Book Award\, she’s also published four novels\, two collections of essays\, and co-edited Crossing State Lines: An American Renga with Bob Holman. She was California Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2011.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-presents-jane-mead-and-carol-muske-dukes/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Ted Scheinman
DESCRIPTION:reads from Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan\, a raucous tour through the world of Mr. Darcy imitations\, tailored gowns\, and tipsy ballroom dancing. \n“A treat for any Jane Austen fan . . . a fascinating window into a man’s experience in a largely female world. Scheinman is a wonderful guide to the world of Austen\, and this honest and thoughtful discussion of the role Austen’s works have played in his family will delight any Janeite.” —Booklist \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Camp Austen by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, May 24\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThe son of a devoted Jane Austen scholar\, Ted Scheinman spent his childhood eating Yorkshire pudding\, singing in an Anglican choir\, and watching Laurence Olivier as Mr. Darcy. Determined to leave his mother’s world behind\, he nonetheless found himself in grad school organizing the first ever UNC-Chapel Hill Jane Austen Summer Camp\, a weekend-long event that sits somewhere between an academic conference and superfan extravaganza. \nWhile the long tradition of Austen devotees includes the likes of Henry James and E. M. Forster\, it is at the conferences and reenactments where Janeism truly lives. In Camp Austen\, Scheinman tells the story of his indoctrination into this enthusiastic world and his struggle to shake his mother’s influence while navigating hasty theatrical adaptations\, undaunted scholars in cravats\, and unseemly petticoat fittings. \nIn a haze of morning crumpets and restrictive tights\, Scheinman delivers a hilarious and poignant survey of one of the most enduring and passionate literary coteries in history. Combining clandestine journalism with frank memoir\, academic savvy with insider knowledge\, Camp Austen is perhaps the most comprehensive study of Austen that can also be read in a single sitting. Brimming with stockings\, culinary etiquette\, and scandalous dance partners\, this is summer camp as you’ve never seen it before. \nTed Scheinman is a writer and scholar based in Southern California\, where he works as a senior editor at Pacific Standard magazine. He has taught courses on journalism\, satire\, and poetry at the University of North Carolina and has written for The New York Times\, the Oxford American\, Playboy\, Slate\, and many other publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ted-scheinman/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Eli Jaxon-Bear
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, May 25rd at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Eli Jaxon-Bear for a reading and signing of his latest book An Outlaw Makes It Home! \n\nEli Jaxon-Bear\, was a 30 year Marin County author\, teacher and farmer starting in 1976. His new book is being released this spring. We are currently planning our book tour and hoping we can schedule Eli for a reading and book signing  at your bookstore. \n  \nPraise for An Outlaw Makes It Home: \n\n“An Outlaw Makes It Home bares it all in this machine-gun like compilation of adventures. A serious\, playing-for-keeps quest for spiritual wisdom and enlightenment with a startling turn in the heartwarming discovery after an eighteen year search. Jaxon-Bear does not spare himself or try to polish his flaws and mistakes: in that regard\, he is a warrior. I consumed this book in huge gulps and would do it again. I urge others to read it.” ~ Peter Coyote\, actor\, author\, ordained Zen Buddhist priest \n  \n“Outlaw rocks!. . .brutally honest yet deeply loving. This takes great courage. Bravo!” ~ Ed and Deb Shapiro\, authors\, meditation teachers \n  \n“An Outlaw Makes It Home\, can be seen as a coming of age story\, a modern journey of self-discovery but it is a classic hero’s journey\, an odyssey\, a journey out and a return home. What a journey\, and what a home! Eli takes us from a shattering moment in a Brooklyn childhood through radical and sometimes terrifying times in the 60’s\, being literally outside the law\, escape to Peru\, lots of drugs and women\, Japan\, Morocco\, India\, learning to be a farmer of sorts back home in the US…. all the way to waking up and discovering what home truly is. His honesty about fear and failure are very moving\, but what really shines forth from these pages is a fierce love and commitment to the truth. I absolutely loved An Outlaw Makes it Home!” ~ Nancy Baker\, Professor of Philosophy Emerita\, Sarah Lawrence College and Zen Roshi in NYC
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eli-jaxon-bear/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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