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SUMMARY:INVASIONS: Calvin Gimpelevich
DESCRIPTION:Author Calvin Gimpelevich is touring the West Coast in support of INVASIONS: the debut short fiction collection\, just out from Instar Books! Come out to Wolfman Books at 7 p.m. on Thursday\, November 15\, for an evening of rad new trans fiction by Calvin\, as well as work from other local LGBT writers! \nMore on Invasions: http://www.instarbooks.com/books/invasions.html \n“Invasions blew my mind. Flipping between speculative worlds deeply rooted in realness and emotion and more familiar landscapes that tip on the edges of personal apocalypses\, Gimpelevich’s writing is strong and sure\, taking us places we really haven’t been. I’m hooked.”–Michelle Tea \nAbout Calvin: Calvin Gimpelevich was born in San Francisco and has lived around the West Coast. A recipient of awards from Artist Trust\, Jack Straw Cultural Center\, the Speculative Literature Foundation\, 4Culture\, CODEX/Writer’s Block\, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center\, his work has appeared in Electric Literature\, Plentitude\, cream city\, THEM\, and other publications. He has cats. \nLocal featured readers TBA!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/invasions-calvin-gimpelevich/
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:BINDERY: Gina Arnold / Half A Million Strong: Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Gina Arnold for the launch of her new book\, Half a Million Strong: Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella. Please join us! \n  \n  \nFrom baby boomers to millennials\, attending a big music festival has basically become a cultural rite of passage in America. In Half a Million Strong\, music writer and scholar Gina Arnold explores the history of large music festivals in America and examines their impact on American culture. Studying literature\, films\, journalism\, and other archival detritus of the countercultural era\, Arnold looks closely at a number of large and well-known festivals\, including the Newport Folk Festival\, Woodstock\, Altamont\, Wattstax\, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival\, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass\, and others to map their cultural significance in the American experience. She finds that–far from being the utopian and communal spaces of spiritual regeneration that they claim for themselves– these large music festivals serve mostly to display the free market to consumers in its very best light. \n  \n\n  \n“At a moment when music festivals proliferate as both music and marketing phenomena\, Gina Arnold deftly explores their fascinating history in this compulsively readable book. Arnold\, as always\, writes conversationally\, as if she’s actively thinking on the page—generating fresh ideas as they occur to her and following them in previously unexplored directions. That excites the reader’s own thinking—and makes this book inspiring and a great\, welcome pleasure.” –Anthony DeCurtis\, author\, Lou Reed: A Life  \n  \n“Half a Million Strong tracks the rapid rise of the festivalization of music\, and outlines what it means to truly love and live through music and to be in community with other people who do too. With this book\, Arnold offers a very necessary examination of just how we got here\, as well as a rich\, accessible history that is mandatory reading for anyone who has ever spent a day in a muddy field screaming along with their favorite band.” – Jessica Hopper\, author\, The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic  \n  \n“From audience reactions to Dylan going electric at Newport in 1965 to Wattstax in Los Angeles in 1972 to the lost U.S. Festival in the 1980s and beyond\, Gina Arnold’s wonderful individual take on what being at a rock festival means offers new insights by focusing not on the stage\, but on us\, the festival-going crowd.” – George McKay\, University of East Anglia \n  \n“A much-needed\, well-observed reevaluation of rock-and-roll audiences from a writer with decades in the trenches. An illuminating\, historically informed conversation-starter for anyone with a stake in a live music community.” – Jesse Jarnow\, author\, Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-gina-arnold-half-a-million-strong-crowds-and-power-from-woodstock-to-coachella/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: ‘VEXATION\, AMPLITUDE’ BY TOM STOLMAR
DESCRIPTION:FRI. NOV. 16TH\, 7PM \n  \nJoin Tom Stolmar and friends in celebrating the release of his new poetry collection\, Vexation\, Amplitude. \nLong overdue\, this collection of Tom Stolmar’s poems bottles his impulse-driven barely containable talent for stringing words together that convey unexpected emotional truths laced with comedy of the highest and lowest orders. In some poems\, Stolmar appears to have channeled Wallace Stevens by way of a mad Hungarian street performer on the San Francisco waterfront. His antics attract a crowd. Stick around and he will bring you gales of much-needed laughter and just before the rain starts\, move you to tears. \nklipschutz\n\nTom Stolmar’s Vexation\, Amplitude is one of the more aptly named poetry collections that I’ve read this year because\, again and again\, it describes perplexing human oscillations at apex. The work is that of a writer puzzling his way through transitions – of language\, of art\, of meanings\, of eras\, of aging\, of bonds and breaking bonds. The poems flip tones\, and topics\, and approaches\, and directions\, but Stolmar remains on edge\, or on the edge\, throughout. This is a book from the edge\, a familiar human edge of passion and self-doubt and plunging forward. The pieces vacillate from complex examinations of mind and self\, “We draw inspiration/ from those who truly look/ at such a cost; time being infinite/ and your eyes the gesture of a clock…” to pure joyous wordplay. This is the work of a fella who’s been dedicated to writing for decades and it shows\, and who has been known to do backflips in the middle of a reading\, and that shows too. \nrichard loranger
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-vexation-amplitude-by-tom-stolmar/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Peter LaBerge & Rebecca Foust Falkirk Center
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Foust\, the Marin County Poet Laureate\, is the author of four books of poetry: Paradise Drive (2015)\, which won a Poetry Society of Virginia Book Award\, a National Indie Excellence Award for Poetry\, a San Francisco Book Festival Award for Poetry\, and a Royal Dragonfly Award for Poetry; All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song (2010)\, winner of a Many Mountains Moving Press Book Prize; and God\, Seed: Poetry & Art About the Natural World (2010)\, a collaboration with artist Lorna Stevens that won a Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Award for Poetry. Foust’s chapbooks include Mom’s Canoe (2009) and Dark Card (2008). Foust has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Frost Place\, where she was the 2014 Dartmouth poet-in-residence. She is on the board of the Marin Poetry Center\, a reader for the Northern California Book Award\, and assistant editor of fiction for Narrative magazine. She is an autism activist and a grassroots organizer. \nPeter LaBerge is the author of the chapbooks Makeshift Cathedral (YesYes Books\, 2017) and Hook (Sibling Rivalry Press\, 2015). His recent work appears in Best New Poets\, Crazyhorse\, Harvard Review\, Iowa Review\, Pleiades\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Adroit Journal\, and is the recipient of a fellowship from the Bucknell University Stadler Center for Poetry. He lives in Redwood City\, California\, where he works as a content marketer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-laberge-rebecca-foust-falkirk-center/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Kristen Tracy with Daniel Handler / Half-Hazard
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Kristen Tracy for her first book of poems\,Half-Hazard\, winner of the Emily Dickinson First Book Award from the Poetry Foundation. Joining Kristen in conversation isDaniel Handler. Please join us! \n  \nHalf-Hazard is a book of near misses\, would-be tragedies\, and luck. As Kristen Tracy writes in the title poem\, “Dangers here. Perils there. It’ll go how it goes.” The collection follows Tracy’s wide curiosity\, from her growing up in a small Mormon farming community to her exodus out into the forbidden world\, where she finds snakes\, car accidents\, adulterers\, meteors\, and death-marked mice. These wry\, observant narratives are accompanied by a ringing lyricism and Tracy’s own knack at noticing what’s so funny about trouble and her natural impulse to want to put all the broken things back together. Full of wrong turns\, false loves\, quashed beliefs\, and a menagerie of animals\, Half-Hazardintroduces a vibrant new voice in American poetry\, one of resilience\, faith\, and joy. \n  \n\n  \nKristen Tracy is a poet and acclaimed author of more than a dozen novels for young readers. Her poems have been published in Poetry\, Prairie Schooner\, and the Threepenny Review\, among other magazines. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son. \n  \n  \nDaniel Handler is the author of the novels We Are Pirates\, The Basic Eight\,Watch Your Mouth\, Adverbs\, and Why We Broke Up\, a 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book. He is responsible for many books for children\, including the thirteen-volume sequence A Series of Unfortunate Events and the four-book series All the Wrong Questions. He is married to the illustrator Lisa Brown\, and lives with her and their son in San Francisco. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event\, with mature themes. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of Half-Hazard\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-kristen-tracy-with-daniel-handler-half-hazard/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Chaya Bhuvaneswar / White Dancing Elephants
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon with Chaya Bhuvaneswar for her debut story collection\, White Dancing Elephants\, winner of both the Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize and Narrative Magazine’s Top Five Stories of the Week for 2017. Please join us! \n  \nA woman grieves a miscarriage\, haunted by the Buddha’s birth. An artist with schizophrenia tries to survive hatred and indifference in small-town India by turning to the beauty of sculpture and dance. Orphans in India get pulled into a strange “rescue” mission aimed at stripping their mysterious powers. A brief but intense affair between two women culminates in regret and betrayal. A boy seeks memories of his sister in the legend of a woman who weds death. And fragments of history\, from child brickmakers to slaves in Renaissance Portugal\, are held up in brief fictions\, burnished\, made dazzling and unforgettable. \nIn sixteen remarkable stories\, Chaya Bhuvaneswar spotlights diverse women of color–cunning\, bold\, and resolute–facing sexual harassment and racial violence\, and occasionally inflicting that violence on each other. Winner of the 2017 Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize\, White Dancing Elephants marks the emergence of a new and original voice in fiction and explores feminist\, queer\, religious\, and immigrant stories with precision\, drama\, and compassion. \n  \n\n  \n“A magnificent collection of stories that defy conventions\, stereotypes\, and reveal the universal complexity we all share as humans–gifted and flawed individuals\, who struggle to reconcile the mixed signals of our own hearts.” – Jamie Ford\, New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet \n  \n“Reading Chaya Bhuvaneswar is like receiving Lasik via literature–the world you return to is a little clearer and sharper for the time you’ve spent in her pages. She is a formidable talent\, formally accomplished and intellectually alive.” – Anthony Marra\, Whiting-award winning author of The Constellation of Vital Phenomena \n  \n“A bold\, honest\, often provocative first collection from a fresh new voice.” – Jeff VanderMeer\, author of Annihilation \n  \n“Bhuvaneswar’s daring mix of ancient\, contemporary\, and dystopic stories carries us to the heart of rarely exposed longing\, loss\, and the politics of violence and endurance in remarkable\, elegant\, heart-stopping prose.” – Jimin Han\, author of A Small Revolution \n  \n“White Dancing Elephants is a searing and complex collection\, wholly realized\, each piece curled around its own beating heart. Tender and incisive\, Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a surgeon on the page; unflinching in her aim\, unwavering in her gaze\, and absolutely devastating in her prose. This is an astonishing debut.” – Amelia Gray\, author of Isadora \n“Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s debut collection maps with great assurance the intricate outer reaches of the human heart. What a bold\, smart\, exciting new voice\, well worth listening to; what an elegant story collection to read and savor.” – Lauren Groff\, author of Florida\n“White Dancing Elephants is a timely stunner\, a wild collection that touches on everything from motherhood\, race\, and privilege\, to Rachael Ray and Jay Z. This book unsettles as much as it entertains. Bhuvaneswar shows an impressive range and deep emotional intelligence–this is one of those rare books that refuses to look away.” – Kelly Luce\, Electric Lit \n  \n\n  \nChaya Bhuvaneswar is a practicing physician and writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Narrative Magazine\, Tin House\, Electric Lit\, The Rumpus\, The Millions\, Joyland\, Large Hearted Boy\, Chattahoochee Review\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Awl\, jellyfish review\, aaduna and elsewhere\, with poetry in Cutthroat\, sidereal\, Natural Bridge\, apt magazine\, Hobart\, Ithaca Lit\, Quiddity and elsewhere. Her poetry and prose juxtapose Hindu epics\, other myths and histories\, and the survival of sexual harassment and racialized sexual violence by diverse women of color. In addition to the Dzanc Books Short Story Collection prize under which her debut collection White Dancing Elephants will be released on Oct 9 2018\, she recently received a MacDowell Colony Fellowship and a Henfield award for her writing. Her work received several Pushcart Prize anthology nominations this year as well as a Joy Harjo Poetry Contest prize. Follow her on Twitter at @chayab77 including for upcoming readings and events. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The Bindery’s bar opens with the store at 2pm; event starts at 4pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-chaya-bhuvaneswar-white-dancing-elephants/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nick Mamatas & Michael Marshall Smith
DESCRIPTION:Doors open 6:00pm\nEvent begins 6:30pm \nAt the American Bookbinders Museum \n  \nPlease join us for an evening with author Nick Mamatas reading and in conversation with Bay Area writer\, editor\, and raconteur Terry Bisson. \nNick Mamatas is the author of six and a half novels\, including The Last Weekend (PS Publishing)\, Love is the Law (Dark Horse)\, The Damned Highway with Brian Keene (Dark Horse)\, Bullettime (CZP)\, Sensation (PM Press)\, Under My Roof (Counterpoint/Soft Skull)\, and Move Under Ground (Night Shade/Prime). His latest collection is The Nickronomicon\, from Innsmouth Free Press. His novels have been translated into German\, Italian\, and Greek. Nick is also an anthologist and editor of short fiction: with Masumi Washington he co-edited the Locus Award-nominated The Future Is Japanese (Haikasoru)\, and with Ellen Datlow he co-edited the Bram Stoker Award-winning Haunted Legends (Tor Books). Nick’s own short fiction has appeared in genre publications such as Asimov’s Science Fiction and Tor.com\, lit journals including New Haven Review and subTERRAIN\, and anthologies such as Hint Fiction and Best American Mystery Stories 2013. His fiction and editorial work has been nominated for the Bram Stoker award five times\, the Hugo Award twice\, the World Fantasy Award twice\, and the Shirley Jackson\, International Horror Guild\, and Locus Awards. \nDoors and cash bar open at 5:30 – Program begins at 6:30. \n$10 donation at the door (no one is turned away for lack of funds). As always Borderlands Books will be on hand with copies of the authors’ work. \nWe hope to see you here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nick-mamatas-michael-marshall-smith/
LOCATION:The American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:May-Lee Chai and Jamel Brinkley
DESCRIPTION:May-Lee Chai discusses her new story collection Useful Phrases for Immigrants with Jamel Brinkley. \n\nPraise for Useful Phrases For Immigrants \n\n“May-lee Chai’s Useful Phrases for Immigrants holds multitudes\, taking us into a dazzling range of lives. With exquisite prose and unforgettable characters\, the collection is a must-read.”–Vanessa Hua\, A River of Stars\n \nThe eight stories in this collection contain multitudes. Chai interrogates heavy subjects with a light touch. She grants each character with the gift of a gleaming voice\, rendering them to be shaped by circumstances\, while also transcending them. Useful Phrases for Immigrants is more than merely “useful\,” this is essential reading and I’m honored to choose this book for the Bakwin Award.–Tayari Jones\, author of An American Marriage\, Silver Sparrow\, The Untelling\, and Leaving Atlanta\, judge of the 2017 Bakwin Award for Writing by a Woman.\n \n“With insight\, compassion\, and clarity\, May-lee Chai vividly illustrates the reverberations of migration―both physical and psychological; between countries\, cities\, and generations; and within families and individuals. You won’t forget these characters.”–Lisa Ko\, author of The Leavers\, finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction\n \n“May-lee Chai presents us with a splendid gem of a story collection . . . Complementing the vivid characters\, the reader has the gift of language―’a wind so treacherous it had its own name\,’ ‘summer days stretched taffy slow’….Chai’s work is a grand event.” –Edward P. Jones\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World\, All Aunt Hagar’s Children\, and Lost in the City. \n  \nAbout Useful Phrases For Immigrants \n\nIn the title story of this timely and innovative collection\, a young woman wearing a Prada coat attempts to redeem a coupon for plastic storage bins while her in-laws are at home watching the Chinese news and taking her private phone calls. It is the lively and wise juxtaposition of cultures\, generations\, and emotions that characterize May-lee Chai’s amazing stories. Within them\, readers will find a complex blend of cultures spanning China\, the Chinese diaspora in America\, and finally\, the world at large. \n  \nWith luminous prose and sharp-eyed observations\, Chai reveals her characters’ hopes and fears\, and our own: a grieving historian seeking solace from an old lover in Beijing\, a young girl discovering her immigrant mother’s infidelity\, workers constructing a shopping mall in central China who make a shocking discovery. Families struggle with long-held grudges\, reinvent traditions\, and make mysterious visits to shadowy strangers from their past―all rendered with economy and beauty. \n  \nWith hearts that break and sometimes mend\, with families who fight and sometimes forgive\, the timely stories in Useful Phrases for Immigrants illuminate complicated lives with empathy and passion. Chai’s stories are essential reading for an increasingly globalized world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/may-lee-chai-and-jamel-brinkley/
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:The Racket #24: AFTER LIFE w/ Nona Caspers
DESCRIPTION:We’re celebrating our two year anniversary with cake\, beer\, champagne and the absolutely amazing Nona Caspers reading from her debut novel The Fifth Woman. \nNona’s picked 5 readers – some new to The Racket\, some old hands – that we are very excited to welcome. \nThe Readers: \nChance Kroll\nChad Koch\nCarson Beker\nJuliana Delgado Lopera\nJane McDermott \nAlso\, it’s our two year anniversary so … cake and champagne? \nSee you there.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-24-after-life-w-nona-caspers/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bill Berkson Tribute
DESCRIPTION:Bill Berkson Tribute \n\n\n\nwith appearances by \nConstance Lewallen \nChou Chou \nGordon Knos \nJonathan Lewallen \nSiobhan Mora-Lopez \nAmanda Eicher \nMac McGinnes \ncelebrating the release of \nSince When: A Memoir In Pieces \nBy Bill Berkson \npublished by Coffee House Press \nFrank O’Hara\, Marilyn Monroe\, John Cage\, Allen Ginsberg—champagne-soaked postwar Manhattan and bohemian 1960s San Francisco come alive in Berkson’s memoirs. \nBill Berkson was a poet\, art critic\, bon vivant\, and joyful participant in the best of postwar and bohemian American culture. Since When gathers the ephemera of a life well lived\, a collage of bold-face names\, parties\, exhibitions\, and literary history from a man who could write “of [Truman Capote’s Black and White] ball\, which I attended as my mother’s escort\, I have little recollection” and reminisce about imagining himself as a character from Tolstoy while tripping on acid at Woodstock. Gentle\, witty\, and eternally generous\, this is Bill Berkson\, and a particular moment in American history\, at its best. \nBill Berkson was a poet\, critic\, teacher\, and curator. He collaborated with many artists and writers\, including Alex Katz\, Philip Guston\, and Frank O’Hara\, and his criticism appeared in ARTnews\, Art in America\, and elsewhere. Formerly a professor of liberal arts at the San Francisco Art Institute\, he was born in New York in 1939. He died in June 2016. \nCritical praise for Since When: \n“Imagine an ideal friend\, someone of good character\, honorable\, congenial\, smart\, well-read\, judicious\, articulate\, self-aware\, open-minded\, and socially graceful\, a gifted writer at the center of New York’s and the Bay Area’s artistic communities for sixty years. That ideal friend is Bill Berkson\, and in this marvelous book he tells the true and fascinating story of his life and times.” —Ron Padgett \n“Since When captures the throbbing zeitgeist of a NYC/California experimental poetry/art rhizome and brims with dazzling encounters and glamorous portraiture of some of the best\, most talented minds\, including the author’s own parents and their coterie. Enthralling conversation\, quotation\, and astute commentary: Judy Garland! Ezra Pound! Greta Garbo! Frank O’Hara! Joan Mitchell! Amiri Baraka! Poet and art critic Bill Berkson spanned high and low: uptown/downtown zones of radical art mind. The Bohemian\, dandyish\, psychedelic\, and the troubling hegemonic follies of a USA growing old because it ‘entered the twentieth century first’ (G. Stein) all romp in here. Bill had a shining boyish inquisitiveness\, phenomenal memory\, and a panoramic intelligence. Read this and eat your heart out for the belletristic\, wild\, and intimate days of the New York School. Entertaining—you feel you are in a very glamorous movie—but never shallow\, this is serious history\, required reading.” —Anne Waldman \n“It’s tough to write a blurb about one of the most effortlessly cool and genuinely wise people you’ve ever met\, especially when they already said it best with their high school yearbook quote: ‘Plato or comic books\, I’m versatile.’ That was Bill\, all the way. As his student\, the main theme was\, ‘Be kind\, be clear\, and a little humor goes a long way\,’ a message that impacted our class deeply and continues to do so to this very day. This memoir is a celebration of his life and friends as told by Bill Himself\, in that gentle and knowing voice\, tales of getting karate chopped at by Norman Mailer\, drinking with Joan Mitchell\, long nights with Frank O’Hara\, Elaine de Kooning\, and Amiri Baraka\, to name a few. Essential reading for any and all!” —Devendra Banhart \n“Bill was a still point in a turning world. He made grace and kindness\, careful intelligence and everyday happiness\, seem properties of a social commons—where you found yourself\, when around him\, and missed\, when not. This beautiful book immortalizes that spell.” —Peter Schjeldahl \nAbout the San Francisco Art Institute: \nSince 1871\, SFAI has attracted individuals who push beyond boundaries to discover uncharted artistic terrain. With an ever-expanding roster of esteemed faculty and alumni\, robust exhibitions and public programs\, and a mission dedicated to the intrinsic value of art\, SFAI is poised to expand upon the West Coast legacy of radical innovation that grounds SFAI’s philosophy for another century.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bill-berkson-tribute/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jeffrey Yang
DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Yang \n\n\n\nreading from new poetry and a new book: \nHey Marfa: poems \npublished by Graywolf Press \nSituated in the outreaches of southwest Texas\, the town of Marfa has long been an oasis for artists\, immigrants looking for work\, and ranchers\, while the ghosts of the indigenous and the borders between languages and nations are apparent everywhere. The poet and translator Jeffrey Yang experienced the vastness of desert\, township\, sky\, and time itself as a profound clash of dislocation and familiarity. What does it mean to survive in a physical and metaphorical desert? How does a habitat long associated with wilderness and death become a center for nourishment and art? \nYang has fashioned a fascinating\, multifaceted work—an anti-travel guide\, an anti-western\, a book of last words—that is a lyrical\, anthropological investigation into history\, culture\, and extremity of place. Paintings and drawings of Marfa’s landscapes and substations by the artist Rackstraw Downes intertwine with Yang’s texts as mutual nodes and lines of energy. Hey\, Marfa is a desert diary scaled to music that aspires to emit particles of light. \n\n\nJeffrey Yang is the author of Hey\, Marfa; Vanishing-Line; and An Aquarium\, winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award. He is the translator of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Liu Xiaobo’s June Fourth Elegies. Yang lives in Beacon\, New York. \n\n\n\nGraywolf Press is a leading independent publisher committed to the discovery and energetic publication of contemporary American and international literature. We champion outstanding writers at all stages of their careers to ensure that diverse voices can be heard in a crowded marketplace. Graywolf believes books that nourish the individual spirit and enrich the broader culture must be supported by attentive editing\, superior design\, and creative promotion.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeffrey-yang/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kevin Killian
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Killian \ncelebrating the release of \nFascination: Memoirs \nfrom Semiotexte \n\nA memoir of gay life in 1970s Long Island by one of the leading proponents of the New Narrative movement. \nFascination brings together an early memoir\, Bedrooms Have Windows (1989) and a previously unpublished prose work\, Bachelors Get Lonely\, by the poet and novelist Kevin Killian\, one of the founding members of the New Narrative movement. The two together depict the author’s early years struggling to become a writer in the sexed-up\, boozy\, drug-ridden world of Long Island’s North Shore in the 1970s. Fascination offers a moving and often funny view of the loneliness and desire that defined gay life of that era—a time in which Richard Nixon’s resignation intersected with David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs—from one of the leading voices in experimental gay writing of the past thirty years. “Move along the velvet rope\,” Killian writes in Bedrooms Have Windows\, “run your shaky fingers past the lacquered Keith Haring graffito: ‘You did not live in our time! Be Sorry!'” \nKevin Killian\, a founder and former director of Small Press Traffic\, is a San Francisco-based poet\, novelist\, playwright\, and art writer. His recent books include the poetry collections Tony Greene Era and Tweaky Village. He is the coauthor of Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance. With Dodie Bellamy\, he coedited Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative Writing\, 1977–1997. City Lights published his short story collection Impossible Princess.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kevin-killian/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20181130T041635Z
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SUMMARY:Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: Sketchtasy
DESCRIPTION:Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore presents Sketchtasy. Sketchtasy brings 1990s gay culture startlingly back to life\, as Alexa and her friends grapple with the impact of growing up at a time when desire and death are intertwined. With an intoxicating voice and unruly cadence\, this is a shattering\, incandescent novel that conjures the pain and pageantry of struggling to imagine a future. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers \n\n5433 College Avenue\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mattilda-bernstein-sycamore-sketchtasy/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Eric Karpeles on Józef Czapski
DESCRIPTION:Eric Karpeles on Józef Czapski \n\n\n\nin conversation with Cynthia Haven \ncelebrating the release of three new books \nfrom New York Review Books: \nInhuman Land: A Wartime Journey through the USSR \nby Józef Czapski\, translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones\, with an introduction by Timothy Snyder \nAlmost Nothing: The 20th Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski \nby Eric Karpeles \nand \nLost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp \nby Józef Czapski\, introduction and translated from French by Eric Karpeles \nJózef Czapski (1896–1993) was a writer and artist\, as well as an officer in the Polish army. In 1918\, he enrolled in the Warsaw School of Fine Arts\, but shortly thereafter he suspended his studies in order to travel to Russia at the request of military authorities to search for officers in his division who had disappeared in action. At the end of the Russian Civil War\, he went back to his studies\, this time at Kraków’s Academy of Fine Arts\, and soon relocated to Paris with some fellow students\, thus founding the Komitet Paryski (Paris Committee)\, later known as the Kapist movement. Czapski was drafted into the army at the beginning of World War II\, soon after landing in a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp. Once free\, he was assigned to investigate another disappearance of officers\, who he would discover were victims of the Katyn Massacre\, the subject of Inhuman Land. Czapski spent the rest of his years painting and writing. \nEric Karpeles is a painter\, writer\, and translator. His comprehensive guide\, Paintings in Proust\, considers the intersection of literary and visual aesthetics in the work of the great French novelist. He has written about the paintings of the poet Elizabeth Bishop and about the end of life as seen through the works of Emily Dickinson\, Gustav Mahler\, and Mark Rothko. The painter of The Sanctuary and of the Mary and Laurance Rockefeller Chapel\, he is the also the translator of Józef Czapski’s Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp and Lorenza Foschini’s Proust’s Overcoat. He lives in Northern California. \nCynthia Haven is a 2018 National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar. She writes regularly for The Times Literary Supplement\, and has also contributed to The New York Times Book Review\, The Nation\, The Virginia Quarterly Review\, The Washington Post\, The Los Angeles Times\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, and World Literature Today. Her work has also appeared in Le Monde\, La Repubblica\, Die Welt\, Zvezda\, Colta\, Zeszyty Literackie\, The Kenyon Review\, Quarterly Conversation\, The Georgia Review\, and Civilization. She has been a Milena Jesenská Journalism Fellow with the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna\, as well as a visiting writer and scholar at Stanford’s Division of Literatures\, Languages\, and Cultures and a Voegelin Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. Peter Dale in Conversation with Cynthia Haven was published in London\, 2005. Her Czeslaw Milosz: Conversations was published in 2006; Joseph Brodsky: Conversations in 2003; An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czeslaw Milosz was published in 2011 with Ohio University Press / Swallow Press. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eric-karpeles-on-jozef-czapski/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sarah Stone
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Stone discusses her new novel\, Hungry Ghost Theater. \n\nPraise for Hungry Ghost Theater \n\n“Sarah Stone traces out the quirky\, fateful dramas of one family\, while having the visionary originality to take the longest possible view of human action. I found this an unforgettable book\, astute\, vivid\, and stubbornly ambitious in its scope.” —Joan Silber \n\n“With her laser intelligence and gorgeous prose style\, Sarah Stone has written a thrilling hybrid of a novel about the intricacies of family life and the inevitable handing down from one generation to the next of our deepest passions and pathologies. Set around the world–and in the next one–this book is both marvelously inventive and deeply humane. I loved it.”--Ann Packer. \n\nAbout Hungry Ghost Theater \n\nAn inventive\, funny\, sometimes heart-breaking exploration of the connections between art and hunger\, duty and desire\, and loss and survival. Brother and sister Robert and Julia Zamarin are trying to awaken the world to its peril with their tiny political theater company\, while their sister Eva\, a neuroscientist\, searches for the biological roots of empathy. As Julia attempts to break free of Robert’s influence\, Robert\, as lost without her as she is without him\, takes on dark material and drives away members of their company. Meanwhile\, the whole family contends with the ongoing troubles of Eva’s youngest daughter\, Arielle\, as she struggles with addiction. Finally\, after a family catastrophe\, Julia and Robert reunite to create a new piece in a possibly haunted theater institute. When Arielle shows up after her latest relapse\, they all have to find a new way of living in–and with–a world out of balance. \n  \nThe adventures of the eccentric\, memorable Zamarin family take the reader from San Francisco to Seoul\, from theater spaces to psychiatric hospitals\, from Zanzibar to the Santa Cruz Mountains\, and into and through a series of Sumerian and Tibetan hells. This imaginative\, provocative novel is a contemporary Inferno for fans of Margaret Atwood\, Ruth Ozeki\, and Lydia Millet.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-stone/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Amira Makansi / Literary Libations: What to Drink with What You Read
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Amira Makansi for the launch of her first book\, Literary Libations: What to Drink with What You Read. More information to come\, but please save the date and join us! \n  \nA bubbly\, boozy French 75 with The Great Gatsby. Trappist beer with Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose. Old vine California Zinfandel with The Grapes of Wrath. And don’t you dare open Bram Stoker’s Dracula on a Sunday morning without a Bloody Mary near at hand. Want to know what to pour when your book club meets to discuss the latest literary sensation? Then you need a copy of Literary Libations! \nPresented as a list and organized by genre\, Literary Libations offers pairing recommendations for nearly two hundred works of fiction across many genres. With background information on both the book and the beverage as well as an explanation of why the pairing works this is a fantastic gift for anyone who loves to read or drink. \nReaders will: \n\nLearn more about the world’s most iconic books.\nIncrease their knowledge of wine\, beer\, and spirits.\nIncrease their appreciation for famous authors.\nLearn to craft beautiful modern and classic cocktails.\nAnd gain a fun and unique way to revolutionize their book club.\n\n  \n\n  \nAmira K. Makansi is the author of Literary Libations: What to Drink With What You Read\, an informal guide to pairing great drinks with famous books. After graduating from the University of Chicago with a degree in history\, Amira quickly abandoned her quest to become a lawyer in favor of all things beverage-related. She spent her first few years out of college climbing around in stacks of wine barrels and hoeing weeds out of vineyards in France. She has served cocktails at a Michelin-starred restaurant in Chicago and cleaned hundred-year-old foudres at an Alsatian winery whose first vintage predates the French revolution. She got into writing accidentally\, when her mother had a crazy dream and wanted to turn it into a book. That book became The Sowing\, the first book in the young adult dystopian Seeds series\, which has been optioned for a Hollywood production. Now a full-time writer\, Amira is delighted to spend her days writing\, reading\, drinking\, cooking and exploring the great outdoors of her adopted state of Oregon. \n  \nRSVP appreciated by not required. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amira-makansi-literary-libations-what-to-drink-with-what-you-read/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING
DESCRIPTION:Upcoming First Saturday Readings in 2018:\n\n November 3\, December 1\n\n3:00 – 5:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\nSTRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n\nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n\nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂\n\n\nRelated
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bapc-open-poetry-reading-2/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: Janice Lee and Brenda Iijima\, reading from their works
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series\, supported by a generous grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, continues with the second event in our premier program. Prolific essayist\, fiction writer\, and editor Janice Lee\, visiting from Portland\, Oregon\, will be joined by poet\, editor\, and publisher Brenda Iijima\, visiting from Brooklyn\, New York\, each reading from their own works. This event also marks The Poetry Center’s first-time collaboration with local landmark Alley Cat Books\, currently one of the very best bookstores and cultural centers — featuring its remarkable\, community-currated gallery and among the best-selected shelves of books — in the Bay Area. This event is free and open to the public. Please note our afternoon start-time! \nJanice Lee is a Korean-American writer\, artist\, and editor. She is the author of KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Press\, 2010)\, Daughter (Jaded Ibis\, 2011)\, Damnation (Penny-Ante Editions\, 2013)\, Reconsolidation (Penny-Ante Editions\, 2015)\, and The Sky Isn’t Blue (Civil Coping Mechanisms\, 2016). She writes about the filmic long take\, slowness\, interspecies communication\, the apocalypse\, and asks the question\, how do we hold space open while maintaining intimacy? She is Founder & Executive Editor of Entropy\, Co-Publisher at Civil Coping Mechanisms\, Contributing Editor at Fanzine\, and Co-Founder of The Accomplices LLC. She currently lives in Portland\, Oregon where she is an Assistant Professor of Fiction at Portland State University. \nBrenda Iijima’s involvements occur at the intersections and mutations of poetry\, research movement\, animal studies\, ecological sociology and submerged histories. She is the author of seven full-length collections of poetry and numerous chapbooks and artist’s books. Her most recent book\, Remembering Animals was published by Nightboat Books in 2016. She is also the editor of the eco language reader (Nightboat Books and PP@YYL). She is the editor of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs\, located in Brooklyn\, NY. Currently she is working on the collected works of Charley Shively that include his luminous and radical Fag Rag essays\, poems\, ephemera\, photos and letters. She is also researching the phenomena of extinction. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nJanice Lee\nreading and in conversation with Brenda Iijima\nThursday NOV 29\n7:00 pm @ The Poetry Center\nHUM 512\, SFSU\, free and open to the public\nsupported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-824-1761\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and Alley Cat Books
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-janice-lee-and-brenda-iijima-reading-from-their-works/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon
DESCRIPTION:Babylon Salon \n\npresents our Winter Reading \nSaturday\, Dec 1\, 2018\, 6.00 pm \nat The Armory Club\n1799 Mission Street \n(downstairs performance space)   \nfeaturing \n— \nVanessa Hua is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of a short story collection\, Deceit and Other Possibilities\, and the novel\, A River of Stars\, which O\, The Oprah Magazine calls “a marvel” and The Economist says is “delightful.” For two decades\, she has been writing\, in journalism and in fiction\, about Asia and the Asian diaspora. She has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature\, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award\, and a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing\, as well as honors from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Asian American Journalists Association. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, and The Washington Post. She lives in the Bay Area with her family. \nBeth Winegarner‘s new book\, Tenacity: Heavy Metal in the Middle East and Africa\, examines bands and fans in the restless region and how they manage to keep their communities alive in times of struggle. Her previous book\, The Columbine Effect\, reveals how Slayer\, Satanism and Grand Theft Auto can be a healthy part of growing up. Winegarner is a veteran Bay Area journalist who has contributed to San Francisco Magazine\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, SF Weekly and the San Francisco Examiner\, as well as national publications including the New Yorker\, The Guardian\, Mother Jones and Wired. She is a member of the San Francisco Writers Grotto.  \nHeather June Gibbons is the author of the new poetry collection Her Mouth as Souvenir\, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize\, and published by the University of Utah Press. She’s also the author of two chapbooks\, Sore Songs and Flyover\, and her work has appeared widely in literary journals. A graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, she teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University. She lives in San Francisco. More about her work can be found here. \nSara Mumolo is the author of Mortar (Omnidawn\, 2013) and the Associate Director for theMFA in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College of CA. She created and curated theStudio One Reading Series in Oakland\, CA from 2007-2012\, and Cannibal Books published her chapbook\, March\, in 2011. Poems have appeared in 1913: a journal of forms\, Action Yes\, Lana Turner\, The Offending Adam\, PEN Poetry Series\, Volta\, and Volt\,among others. She has received residencies to Vermont Studio Center\, Caldera Center for the Arts\, and has served as a curatorial resident at Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland\, CA. Her next book Day Counter is forthcoming in 2019 from Omnidawn. \nChristine O’Brien grew up in New York and Beverly Hills and teaches at Saint Mary’s College of California. Her work has appeared in The Seneca Review and The Slush Pile. Her memoir Crave: A Memoir of Food and Longing\, which Booklist calls “compelling” and a “page turner\,” and Lit Hub lists as one of ten memoirs to look for in the fall of 2018\, will be published by St. Martin’s Press on November 13\, 2018. \n____________________\n\n \nCheck out our partner Podcast: www.grottopod.com \n____________________ \nFree Admission \nCash Bar Exotica \nDoors at 5.30\, \nReading at 6.00 \n@ the Armory Club\, \n1799 Mission St.\, San Francisco\nacross from the San Francisco Armory
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-3/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:JOURNAL RELEASE: NOMADIC JOURNAL 2018: COVENANT
DESCRIPTION:Join us at our Uptown\, Oakland\, location for the much-anticipated release of Nomadic Journal 2018: Covenant! \nIt’s going to be an amazing evening of readings\, live music\, gnosh / refreshments\, and friends of Nomadic Press as we launch this treasure of a book into the universe. \nReadings by TBA and pop-up surprise Nomadic Press readers. Books will be available for purchase and there will be a signing following the event ($15 each). Music by TBA! \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/journal-release-nomadic-journal-2018-covenant/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Norma Cole with Steve Dickison: An Omnidawn Party
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of two new books of poetry from Omnidawn Press \nFate News \nby Norma Cole \nand \n\n\n\nInside Song  \nby Steve Dickison \nabout Fate News: \nAll timing all the time! Fate News is poetry in the crosshairs of action (kairos) and clock time (chronos). With a topical setlist in four sections\, “Local\,” “On-Going\,” “Stay Songs\,” and “Harmolodics\,” Fate News relentlessly pierces the surface of lyric gesture. Its osmotic exchanges and searching encounters vibrate with the clarity of fiercely delicate shouts and murmurs\, undertones and overtones. The vision of “Mount Fiasco” is on fire. \nNorma Cole is a poet\, translator\, and visual artist. Her books of poetry include Actualities\, Where Shadows Will\, and Win These Poster and Other Unrelated Prizes Inside. To Be At Music: Essays & Talks appeared in 2010. Her visual work has been shown at 2nd floor projects in San Francisco and the Berkeley Art Museum. Born in Toronto\, Canada\, Cole lives in the sanctuary city of San Francisco. \n\n\n\nabout Inside Song : \nThese poems sense music as a generative force\, always gone other ways than culture and commerce need and declare it to travel. Half the book (Zora Neale Hurston) obliquely teases out the practice of “fieldwork” as the study of “getting into the crowd\,” and half follows from Charlie Haden’s deployment of “liberation music” as communitarian voice in the face of acts of State targeted at peoples and persons. \nSteve Dickison teaches at San Francisco State University\, where he directs The Poetry Center. His work has appeared in SFMOMA’s Open Space\, BAX 2015: Best American Experimental Poetry\, and Bomb\, which awarded him the 2014 Poetry Prize. He was born and raised in Northern Minnesota. \nOmnidawn Press is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization\, seeks to support and expand the community of writers and readers through the work we choose to publish\, which questions\, in both form and content\, the prevailing limits of convention. Omnidawn began in 2001 with the intent is to explore internal and external boundaries and push\, with compassionate insight\, the limits of risk. At the core of Omnidawn’s mission is the belief that lively\, culturally pertinent\, emotionally and intellectually engaging literature can be of great value\, and they participate in the dissemination of such work.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/norma-cole-with-steve-dickison-an-omnidawn-party/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Wall of Birds
DESCRIPTION:Jane Kim and Thayer Walker discuss their new book\, The Wall of Birds:One Planet\, 243 Families\, 375 Million Years. \n\nAbout The Wall of Birds \n\nA celebration of the diversity and evolution of birds\, as depicted in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s magnificent 2\,500-square-foot Wall of Birds mural by artist Jane Kim. \n  \nPart homage\, part artistic and sociological journey\, The Wall of Birds tells the story of birds’ remarkable 375-million-year evolution. With a foreword by John W. Fitzpatrick\, director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology\, and full of lush photographs of gorgeous life-size birds painted in exacting detail\, The Wall of Birds lets readers explore these amazing creatures family by family and continent by continent. Throughout\, beautifully crafted narratives and intimate artistic reflections tell of the evolutionary forces that created birds’ dazzling variety of forms and colors\, and reveal powerful lessons about birds that are surprisingly relevant to contemporary human challenges. \n  \nFrom the tiny five-inch Marvelous Spatuletail hummingbird to the monstrous thirty-foot Yutyrannus\, The Wall of Birds is a visual feast\, essential for bird enthusiasts\, naturalists\, and art lovers alike.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wall-of-birds/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181204T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181204T213000
DTSTAMP:20260410T202014
CREATED:20181031T225121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181031T225121Z
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SUMMARY:Thomas Lynch reads Truman Capote’s “A Christmas Memory”
DESCRIPTION:Join us for fruitcake and cheer in this annual Mrs. Dalloway’s tradition. \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, December 4\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nFirst published in 1956\, this much sought-after autobiographical recollection from Capote about his rural Alabama boyhood is a perfect gift for fans young and old\, a “gem of a holiday story.” (School Library Journal\, starred review). \nSeven-year-old Buddy inaugurates the Christmas season by crying out to his cousin\, Miss Sook Falk: “It’s fruitcake weather!” Thus begins an unforgettable portrait of an odd but enduring friendship and the memories the two friends share of beloved holiday rituals. \nReader Thomas Lynch is an actor and longtime resident of the Elmwood. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/thomas-lynch-reads-truman-capotes-a-christmas-memory/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181204T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181204T213000
DTSTAMP:20260410T202014
CREATED:20181231T220929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181231T220929Z
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SUMMARY:1st Tuesday's Spoken Word & Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:1st Tuesday’s Spoken Word TV showcase is a community event that creates a positive space for expression through the arts. \nWe highlight local talent and bring awareness to local business\, including Radio Africa and Kitchen Cuisine and the new Cafe Envy. \nThis event is an upscale\, black carpet affair where artists receive lots of press coverage\, exposure and a great experience to share their art. We highlight spoken word artists\, poets\, storytellers\, singers\, artists and more. \nJoin us every 1st Tuesday from 7:30-9:30pm. This is a free event & Cafe Envy’ has extended their Happy Hour menu just for this special evening. \nWe’re doing this to build community & on our own so come out and support. \n#BigMouthProductions #1stTuesdaysRemixTV #BayviewHuntersPoint
URL:https://litseen.com/event/1st-tuesdays-spoken-word-open-mic/
LOCATION:Cafe Envy\, 1701 Yosemite Ave\, San Francisco\, 94124
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Big Mouth Productions":MAILTO:karwanna1@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181205T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181205T200000
DTSTAMP:20260410T202014
CREATED:20181127T002105Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181127T002105Z
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SUMMARY:El Cerrito Out Loud: Poetry Event
DESCRIPTION:Join City Poet Laureate Dani Gabriel for “El Cerrito Out Loud” at Off the Grid. Hear featured poets and participate in an open mic and writing activities. All ages encouraged to participate. No experience necessary. Food available for purchase at food trucks.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/el-cerrito-out-loud-poetry-event/
LOCATION:San Pablo & Fairmount Avenues\, 6159 Fairmount Avenue\, El Cerrito\, 94530
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181205T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181205T210000
DTSTAMP:20260410T202014
CREATED:20181029T024100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181029T024100Z
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SUMMARY:George Lakey
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nHow We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning \nby George Lakey \nfrom Melville House \nA lifetime of activist experience informs this playbook for building and conducting nonviolent direct action campaigns — teaching us how to achieve real progressive change. \n\nToday’s new direct action campaigns require a new\, down-to-earth guide to effective campaigning. George Lakey’s How We Win is that timely guide. The Women’s March of January 21\, 2017 was estimated at four million people — the largest assembly of activist protest in U.S. history. Many of those assembled were in the streets for the first time\, or returning after a period of inactivity. \nLakey\, a lifelong activist\, helps us understand our political moment (extreme polarization\, ripe for political change)\, teaches us how to plan a campaign to overcome that polarization\, demonstrates how to launch these ideas into action\, and shows us how to grow and sustain our movements. This is what democracy looks like. \nGEORGE LAKEY has been active in direct action campaigns for six decades. Recently retired from Swarthmore College\, where he was the Eugene M. Lang Visiting Professor for Issues in Social Change\, Lakey was arrested for the first time at a civil rights demonstration in March 1963\, and most recently on March 29\, 2018 in the Power Local Green Jobs Campaign. He lives in Philadelphia. \nWhat has been said about the work of George Lakey: \n“If you want to be a soldier\, you can go to West Point. If you want to be a nonviolent change-maker — well\, this is an awfully good place to start. George Lakey has been near the center of American resistance for decades\, and so he has both remarkable stories and remarkable insights — not to mention some remarkable colleagues who add their perspective to this necessary manual!” \n–Bill McKibben\, co-founder of 350.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/george-lakey/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181205T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181205T210000
DTSTAMP:20260410T202014
CREATED:20181128T214847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181128T214847Z
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SUMMARY:2ND SET: ‘OVERTHROWING CAPITALISM’ ANTHOLOGY RELEASE
DESCRIPTION:WED. DEC. 5TH\, 7PM \nBy popular demand\, we’ve added a second night of readings from the newly released Overthrowing Capitalism: Volume Five. \nFeatured readers: \n\nLincoln Bergman\nWilliam Crossman\nAnita Odena Cruz\nRomeo Cruz\nCarol Denney\nArnoldo Garcia\nLapo Guzzini\nDan Katz\nKaren Melander Magoon\nJanice Mirikitani\nAlejandro Murguia\nJeanne Powell\nStephen Schur\nNina Serrano\nCathleen Williams\nNellie Wong\nAndrena Zawiinsky\nFady Zouby\nFacilitator:\nRosemary Manno
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2nd-set-overthrowing-capitalism-anthology-release/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181205T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181205T213000
DTSTAMP:20260410T202014
CREATED:20181029T014859Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181029T014859Z
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Poetry from USF's Graduate Program in Writing
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the concluding event in Prof. D. A. Powell‘s “San Francisco Poetics\,” an open classroom experience celebrating poets in San Francisco. The founding director of the University of San Francisco’s Master of Fine Arts degree in writing program\, Aaron Shurin (pictured)\, will read and discuss his own work and how it relates to ideas of community and culture in San Francisco. Graduate students from the USF’s MFA program will read poems written this semester. Please join us! \n  \n\n  \nThis is a free\, all-ages event open to the public. \n  \nRSVP appreciated by not required. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-poetry-from-usfs-graduate-program-in-writing/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181205T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181205T213000
DTSTAMP:20260410T202014
CREATED:20181031T024327Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181031T024327Z
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SUMMARY:Joshua Rivkin and R.O. Kwon
DESCRIPTION:Joshua Rivkin discusses his new biography\, Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly\, with R.O. Kwon. \n\nPraise for Chalk \n\n“Reviled when young\, revered when old\, the elusive Twombly surprisingly emerges in this fascinating biography\, which traces the difficulties of tracking down the man as thoroughly as it fills in the blurred\, half-erased likeness. This is the record of a heroic journey of discovery.” —acclaimed author and memoirist Edmund White\n \n\n“Joshua Rivkin’s sensitive eye and investigative ambition expand and enrich our understanding of Cy Twombly’s genius in this tenderly rendered biography.”—Rachel Corbett\, author of You Must Change Your Life \n\n“So much more than a study of the life and work of the famously guarded Twombly. At once candid and tender\, meditative and unsparing . . . this book is a gift to Twombly devotees and newcomers alike—as imbued with beauty\, genius\, and vitality as the artist’s work that is its subject.” —Lacy Johnson\, author of The Other Side \n\nAbout Chalk \n\nThe first book to explore the life and work of painter Cy Twombly\, one of the most important and influential artists of the Twentieth Century \nCy Twombly was a man obsessed with myth and history—including his own. Shuttling between stunning homes in Italy and the United States where he perfected his room-size canvases\, he managed his public image carefully and rarely gave interviews. \nUpon first seeing Twombly’s remarkable paintings\, writer Joshua Rivkin became obsessed himself with the mysterious artist\, and began chasing every lead\, big or small—anything that might illuminate those works\, or who Twombly really was. \nNow\, after unprecedented archival research and years of interviews\, Rivkin has reconstructed Twombly’s life\, from his time at the legendary Black Mountain College to his canonization in a 1994 MoMA retrospective; from his heady explorations of Rome in the 1950s with Robert Rauschenberg to the ongoing efforts to shape his legacy after his death. \nIncluding previously unpublished photographs\, Chalk presents a more personal and searching type of biography than we’ve ever encountered\, and brings to life a more complex Twombly than we’ve ever known. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joshua-rivkin-and-r-o-kwon/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181206T121000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181206T125000
DTSTAMP:20260410T202014
CREATED:20180818T212718Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180818T212718Z
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SUMMARY:Mary Jo Bang
DESCRIPTION:Mary Jo Bang is the author of eight books of poems—including A Doll For Throwing\, Louise in Love\, The Last Two Seconds\, and Elegy\, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award—and a translation of Dante’s Inferno\, illustrated by Henrik Drescher. She has received a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship at the American Academy of Berlin. She teaches creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-jo-bang/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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