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SUMMARY:Poetry Event: GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets\, artists\, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. \nTo participate in the open mic sessions\, please arrive by 4 and plan to listen to all of the featured poets. Seating/space is limited.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-event-gears-turning-w-kim-shuck-5/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alice Bolin / Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon event with Alice Bolinfor her superb debut\, Bad Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession. Please join us! \n  \nIn this poignant collection\, Alice Bolin examines iconic American works from the essays of Joan Didion and James Baldwin to Twin Peaks\, Britney Spears\, and Serial\, illuminating the widespread obsession with women who are abused\, killed\, and disenfranchised\, and whose bodies (dead and alive) are used as props to bolster men’s stories. Smart and accessible\, thoughtful and heartfelt\, Bolin investigates the implications of our cultural fixations\, and her own role as a consumer and creator. \n  \nBolin chronicles her life in Los Angeles\, dissects the Noir\, revisits her own coming of age\, and analyzes stories of witches and werewolves\, both appreciating and challenging the narratives we construct and absorb every day. Dead Girls begins by exploring the trope of dead women in fiction\, and ends by interrogating the more complex dilemma of living women – both the persistent injustices they suffer and the oppression that white women help perpetrate. \n  \nReminiscent of the piercing insight of Rebecca Solnit and the critical skill of Hilton Als\, Bolin constructs a sharp\, perceptive\, and revelatory dialogue on the portrayal of women in media and their roles in our culture. \n  \n\n  \n“Dead Girls is everything I want in an essay collection: provocative lines of inquiry\, macabre humor\, blistering intelligence… I love this book.” –Carmen Maria Machado\, author of Her Body and Other Parties \n  \n“Bracing and blazingly smart\, Alice Bolin’s Dead Girls could hardly be more needed or more timely.”  – Megan Abbott\, Edgar Award-winning author of You Will Know Me \n  \n\n  \nAlice Bolin is the author of Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession\, a collection of essays forthcoming from Morrow/HarperCollins on June 26\, 2018. It was named one of the most anticipated nonfiction reads of 2018by Bitch magazine. Kirkus called it “an illuminating study on the role women play in the media and in their own lives.” \n  \n  \n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery at 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event\, which begins at 4pm. The bar will be open. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alice-bolin-dead-girls-essays-on-surviving-an-american-obsession/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jessamyn Stanley\, Every Body Yoga
DESCRIPTION:This event will be a part of Bookshop Santa Cruz’s Women’s Voices effort in August. You can read more about the program here. \nBookshop is delighted to welcome Yoga teacher Jessamyn Stanley\, who will discuss and sign copies of her book\, Every Body Yoga\, in which she shares her path to becoming a yogi and embracing looking different from the lean practitioners typically shown in the media. This mix of memoir and guide is suffused with Stanley’s enthusiasm and honesty. Part one reveals her early encounters with yoga\, along with the discouragement that stemmed from being a “fat girl”; it goes back to her childhood eating habits and family life\, and also includes an honest\, vulnerable FAQ (“What if I’m the fattest person in the class and everyone stares at me?”). Part two includes Stanley’s witty nutshell history of modern yoga and breaks down the different styles and recommends useful clothing\, mats\, and props. Part three is devoted to the “ABCs of Asana\,” or yoga postures\, and also recommends asking “How do I feel?” rather than “How do I look?” In part four\, Stanley teaches readers to do yoga on their own by sharing stories of her own triumphs. In part five\, Stanley reminds readers that everyone struggles while doing yoga\, including her. This touching work is a must for those new to yoga\, no matter their age or body type. – Publisher’s Weekly \nHere are “directions to 50 basic yoga poses and 10 sequences to practice at home\, all photographed in full color. It’s a book that challenges the larger issues of body acceptance and the meaning of beauty. Most of all\, it’s a book that changes the paradigm\, showing us that yoga isn’t about how one looks\, but how one feels\, with yoga sequences like ‘I Want to Energize My Spirit\,’ ‘I Need to Release Fear\,’ ‘I Want to Love Myself'” \nAs an internationally recognized yoga teacher and Instagram star\, Jessamyn Stanley conducts yoga workshops across the country\, teaching students of all shapes\, sizes\, and colors how to make yoga a permanent part of their lives. A rising media favorite\, Jessamyn has been profiled and featured by a wide range of international and national news outlets\, including Good Morning America\, New York\, Glamour\, Shape\, Al Jazeera English\, the Huffington Post\, The Daily Mail\, The Sunday Times Style\, and People\, among others. She won a 2016 Shortie Award (honoring excellence in social media) in the Healthy Living Category. She lives in Durham\, North Carolina. \n  \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Open seating is usually set up about an hour before the event begins.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessamyn-stanley-every-body-yoga/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Non-Fiction Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Sapiens by Yuval Harari\nOne hundred thousand years ago\, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods\, nations\, and human rights; to trust money\, books\, and laws; and to be enslaved by bureaucracy\, timetables\, and consumerism? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come? \nIn Sapiens\, Professor Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history\, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical–and sometimes devastating–breakthroughs of the cognitive\, agricultural\, and scientific revolutions. Drawing on insights from biology\, anthropology\, paleontology\, and economics\, and incorporating full-color illustrations throughout the text\, Harari explores how the currents of history have shaped our human societies\, the animals and plants around us\, and even our personalities. Have we become happier as history has unfolded? Can we ever free our behavior from the legacy of our ancestors? And what\, if anything\, can we do to influence the course of the centuries to come? \nBold\, wide-ranging\, and provocative\, Sapiens integrates history and science to challenge everything we thought we knew about being human: our thoughts\, our actions\, our heritage…and our future.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/non-fiction-discussion-group/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:R.O. Kwon presents THE INCENDIARIES (w/ Nayomi Munaweera)
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is very excited to welcome one of our dear friends\, R.O. Kwon to discuss her debut novel\, The Incendiaries\, on Tuesday\, August 14th at 7pm. Joining her in conversation tonight is Nayomi Munaweera (What Lies Between Us). \nFirst … check out this advance praise! \n“The Incendiaries is a God-haunted\, willful\, strange book written with a kind of savage elegance. I’ve said it before\, but now I’ll shout it from the rooftops: R. O. Kwon is the real deal.” —Lauren Groff\, author ofFates and Furies and Florida \n“Every explosive requires a fuse. That’s R. O. Kwon’s novel\, a straight\, slow-burning fuse. To read her novel is to follow an inexorable flame coming closer and closer to the object it will detonate—the characters\, the crime\, the story\, and\, ultimately\, the reader.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen\, author of The Sympathizer and The Refugees \n“The Incendiaries probes the seductive and dangerous places to which we drift when loss unmoors us. In dazzlingly acrobatic prose\, R. O. Kwon explores the lines between faith and fanaticism\, passion and violence\, the rational and the unknowable.” —Celeste Ng\, author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You  \nA powerful\, darkly glittering novel about violence\, love\, faith\, and loss\, as a young Korean American woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult tied to North Korea. \nPhoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn’t tell anyone she blames herself for her mother’s recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers to Edwards from Bible college\, waiting tables to get by. What he knows for sure is that he loves Phoebe. \nGrieving and guilt-ridden\, Phoebe is increasingly drawn into a religious group–a secretive extremist cult–founded by a charismatic former student\, John Leal. He has an enigmatic past that involves North Korea and Phoebe’s Korean American family. Meanwhile\, Will struggles to confront the fundamentalism he’s tried to escape\, and the obsession consuming the one he loves. When the group bombs several buildings in the name of faith\, killing five people\, Phoebe disappears. Will devotes himself to finding her\, tilting into obsession himself\, seeking answers to what happened to Phoebe and if she could have been responsible for this violent act. \nThe Incendiaries is a fractured love story and a brilliant examination of the minds of extremist terrorists\, and of what can happen to people who lose what they love most. \n* * * \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nR. O. Kwon is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her writing is published or forthcoming in The Guardian\, Vice\, Buzzfeed\, Time\, Noon\, Electric Literature\, Playboy\, and elsewhere. She has received awards from Yaddo\, MacDowell\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, Omi International\, the Steinbeck Center\, and the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony. Born in South Korea\, she has lived most of her life in the United States. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nMonday\, August 13\, 2018 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/r-o-kwon-presents-the-incendiaries-w-nayomi-munaweera/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Paula Saunders\, The Distance Home
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes Paula Saunders for a reading and signing of her riveting novel\, The Distance Home. This event is part of our Debuts of Summer series. \nIn the years after World War II\, the bleak yet beautiful plains of South Dakota still embody all the contradictions–the ruggedness and the promise–of the old frontier. This is a place where you can eat strawberries from wild vines\, where lightning reveals a boundless horizon\, where descendants of white settlers and native Indians continue to collide; and where\, for most\, there are limited options. \nRené shares a home\, a family\, and a passion for dance with her older brother\, Leon. Yet for all they have in common\, their lives are on remarkably different paths. In contrast to René\, a born spitfire\, Leon is a gentle soul. The only boy in their ballet class\, Leon silently endures often brutal teasing. Meanwhile\, René excels at everything she touches\, basking in the delighted gaze of their father\, whom Leon seems to disappoint no matter how hard he tries. \nAs the years pass\, René and Leon’s parents fight with increasing frequency–and ferocity. Their father–a cattle broker–spends more time on the road\, his sporadic homecomings both yearned for and dreaded by the children. And as René and Leon grow up\, they grow apart. They grasp whatever they can to stay afloat–a word of praise\, a grandmother’s outstretched hand\, the seductive attention of a stranger–as René works to save herself\, crossing the border into a larger\, more hopeful world\, while Leon embarks on a path of despair and self-destruction. \nTender\, searing\, and unforgettable\, The Distance Home is a profoundly American story spanning decades–a tale of haves and have-nots\, of how our ideas of winning and losing\, success and failure\, lead us inevitably into various problems with empathy and caring for one another. It’s a portrait of beauty and brutality in which the author’s compassionate narration allows us to sympathize\, in turn\, with everyone involved. \nPaula Saunders grew up in Rapid City\, South Dakota. She is a graduate of the Syracuse University creative writing program\, and was awarded a postgraduate Albert Schweitzer Fellowship at the State University of New York at Albany\, under then-Schweitzer chair Toni Morrison. She lives in California with her husband. They have two grown daughters. \n“Paula Saunders has given us a riveting family saga for the ages. The Distance Home is fresh\, with a seductive Midwestern innocence\, though the book’s outwardly ideal clan holds dark secrets that kept me turning pages into the wee hours. This is one of the best books I’ve read in years–destined to become a classic.” –Mary Karr \n\nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up an hour before the start time of the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paula-saunders-the-distance-home/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Middle Grade Writers' Craft Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend\nThe Middle Grade Writers’ Craft Discussion Group meets monthly to discuss children’s novels aimed at a middle grade (8-12 year old) audience from a writing craft perspective. \nWe are middle grade writers ourselves\, and our goal is to study the techniques used by other writers to improve our writing. For an overview of our past book selections and discussion topics\, see our blog at http://www.mglunchbreak.com. \nWe welcome both new and experienced writers with an interest in a craft-focused book discussion.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/middle-grade-writers-craft-discussion-group/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival Presents Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake
DESCRIPTION:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents Poetic Tuesdays guest curated by Litquake\, Poetic Tuesdays features an array of poets and music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yerba-buena-gardens-festival-presents-poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-5/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: Queer Authors read other Queer Authors
DESCRIPTION:Queer authors Jim Provenzano\, Margo Perin\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and Nona Caspers read from their favorite Queer authors
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-queer-authors-read-other-queer-authors/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Virgie Tovar / You Have the Right to Remain Fat
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Virgie Tovar for the launch of her first book\,You Have the Right to Remain Fat. Please join us! \n  \nGrowing up as a fat girl\, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt\, she was over it—and gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again. Ever since\, she’s been helping others to do the same. \nTovar is hungry for a world where bodies are valued equally\, food is free from moral judgment\, and you can jiggle through life with respect. In concise and candid language\, she delves into unlearning fatphobia\, dismantling sexist notions of fashion\, and rejecting diet culture’s greatest lie: that fat people need to wait before beginning their best lives. \n  \n\n  \n“The importance of Virgie Tovar’s perspective and identity cannot be understated. As we collectively deconstruct our society’s addiction to body negativity\, Virgie’s words provide crucial guidance\, clarity\, and support for all those who champion universal body liberation.”  — Jessamyn Stanley\, author of Every Body Yoga \n  \n“Virgie Tovar is the radical voice we need\, with a gift for expressing what so many women feel but cannot always articulate. In this bold new book\, she eviscerates diet culture\, proclaims the joyous possibilities of fat\, and shows us that liberation is possible.” — Sarai Walker\, author of Dietland \n  \n“Virgie Tovar is a vital voice in contemporary activism\, media\, and feminism. The joy she takes in her own body and life\, combined with the righteous anger she expresses at an oppressive world is a truly radical act. Virgie is deeply thoughtful\, but does not equivocate. She confronts bigotry\, but does not engage with bullshit.” — Kelsey Miller\, author of Big Girl \n  \n“Virgie does the thing we need to see more of in political writing: she shares every bit of her humanity\, right down to her feelings about her own nipple color\, without missing a beat on sharp critiques of the systems that oppress her. Her clear descriptions of antifat-bias and the social construction that is “diet culture\,” make it difficult to disagree with her main point: you are not the problem\, society is the problem. The world desperately needs to be told this truth—this book will be required reading for my clients going forward.” — Isabel Foxen Duke\, Coach and Creator of StopFightingFood.com \n  \n“Fierce\, passionate\, and poignant\, Virgie Tovar has written a manifesto that will inspire you and ignite the revolution.” — Linda Bacon\, PhD\, author of Health at Every Size \n  \n“You Have the Right to Remain Fat feels like spending a margarita-soaked day at the beach with your smartest friend. She shares juicy secrets and makes revolutionary ideas viscerally accessible. You’ll be left enlightened\, inspired\, happier\, and possibly angrier than when you started. If you’ve ever thought you’d heard it all about fat liberation and body acceptance\, Virgie Tovar has a few more light bulbs to switch on. Don’t miss this captivating\, eye-opening\, and hilarious book!” — Joy Nash\, actress \n  \n\n  \nVirgie Tovar is an author\, activist and one of the nation’s leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She is the founder of Babecamp\, started the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight\, and edited the groundbreaking anthology Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life\, Love and Fashion (Seal Press 2012). Virgie has been featured by the New York Times\, MTV\, Al Jazeera\, NPR\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, the Huffington Post\, Cosmopolitan\, and BUST. \n\n\n\nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7pm\, event begins at 7:30pm. The venue has no steps for entry from the street level\, is wheelchair accessible and has a mix of sofa seating and fold out chair seating. Sofa seating will be reserved for bigger bodied babes until 10 minutes before the event starts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-virgie-tovar-you-have-the-right-to-remain-fat/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Anil Ananthaswamy discusses Through Two Doors at Once
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, August 14\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nAnil Ananthaswamy discusses Through Two Doors at Once: the intellectual adventure story of the “double-slit” experiment\, showing how a sunbeam split into two paths first challenged our understanding of light and then the nature of reality itself–and continues to almost 200 years later.\n    \nMany of the greatest scientific minds have grappled with this experiment. Thomas Young devised it in the early 1800s to show that light behaves like a wave\, and in doing so opposed Isaac Newton’s view that light is made of particles. But then Albert Einstein showed that light comes in quanta\, or particles. Quantum mechanics was born. This led to a fierce debate between Einstein and Niels Bohr over the nature of reality–subatomic bits of matter and its interaction with light–again as revealed by the double-slit experiment. Richard Feynman held that it embodies the central mystery of the quantum world. Decade after decade\, hypothesis after hypothesis\, scientists have returned to this ingenious experiment to help them answer deeper and deeper questions about the fabric of the universe. \nHow can a single particle behave both like a particle and a wave? Does a particle\, or indeed reality\, exist before we look at it\, or does looking create reality\, as the textbook “Copenhagen interpretation” of quantum mechanics seems to suggest? How can particles influence each other faster than the speed of light? Is there a place where the quantum world ends and the familiar classical world of our daily lives begins\, and if so\, can we find it? And if there’s no such place\, then does the universe split into two each time a particle goes through the double-slit? \nThrough Two Doors at Once celebrates the elegant simplicity of an iconic experiment and its profound reach. With his extraordinarily gifted eloquence\, Anil Ananthaswamy travels around the world\, through history and down to the smallest scales of physical reality we have yet fathomed. It is the most fantastic voyage you can take. \nAnil Ananthaswamy is an award-winning journalist and former staff writer and deputy news editor for the London-based New Scientist magazine. He has been a guest editor for the science writing program at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and organizes and teaches an annual science journalism workshop at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bengaluru\, India. He is a freelance feature editor for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science’s Front Matter. He contributes regularly to the New Scientist\, and has also written for Nature\, National Geographic News\, Discover\, Nautilus\, Matter\, The Wall Street Journal and the UK’s Literary Review. His first book\, The Edge of Physics\, was voted book of the year in 2010 by Physics World\, and his second book\, The Man Who Wasn’t There\, won a Nautilus Book Award in 2015 and was long-listed for the 2016 Pen/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anil-ananthaswamy-discusses-through-two-doors-at-once/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Paul Matthew Maisano
DESCRIPTION:Paul Matthew Maisano discusses his debut novel\, Bindi. \n\nPraise for Bindi \n\n“Reading Paul Matthew Maisano’s BINDI was a revelation.This is the prose I’ve been looking for―worldly and soulful\, enduring\, its surface beauty underwritten by adventure and excitement and a deep love of life.”―Rebecca Lee\, author of Bobcat and Other Stories \n  \n“Paul Matthew Maisano is an extraordinary writer\, and one we all should be hearing from right now\, with his thoughtful and nuanced view of the global stage. His unique\, compassionately drawn characters are ones you have not met before. He is a writer of the moment. BINDI is a book everyone should be reading.”―Karen Bender\, author of the National Book Award Finalist Refund \n\n“As the novel moves between Los Angeles\, London and India\, Maisano shows how loss and longing can be converted into hope\, meaningful work\, and love. His beautiful prose\, his immensely sympathetic characters\, and the wonderfully dramatic story he tells make BINDI a novel in which many readers will find a home.”―Margot Livesey\, New York Times bestselling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy \n\nAbout Bindi \n\nA richly imagined debut set against the backdrop of southern India\, London\, and Hollywood that tells the story of a young boy in India\, suddenly orphaned\, and the adults around him\, each of whom is also looking for a home in the world. \n  \nKerala\, 1993: Eight-year-old Birendra suddenly loses his mother\, but he refuses to believe he’s an orphan. He’s certain that his mother’s twin sister\, the troubled but winning Nayana\, will come for him all the way from West London. But when the letter informing Nayana of her sister’s death goes missing\, numerous lives are forever altered\, and Birendra is set adrift. \n  \nMadeline\, a Los Angeles native and interior designer to the stars\, is floundering in her personal life. In the aftermath of a failed attempt to get pregnant\, she flies to India where she finds herself face-to-face with Birendra. In a moment of sudden certainty\, she decides she must adopt the boy in order to save them both. \n  \nAs Nayana falls deeper into crisis at work and in her marriage in London\, Birendra learns to make himself at home in Los Angeles\, forging an especially close bond with Madeline’s younger brother\, Edward\, who begins to worry that his sister may have met her match in motherhood. When he learns of his adopted nephew’s family in London\, Edward is faced with an impossible choice. If he can find Nayana and reunite her with her nephew\, should he? Even if in doing so he would risk unwittingly setting the two women who love the boy most against each other?Written in stirring prose\, and infused with keen emotional insight\, Bindi is about our search for family and for home\, and an exploration of the ways that loss and longing can be converted into hope\, connection\, and love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-matthew-maisano/
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:Jason Heller presents STRANGE STARS (w/ Nick Mamatas & Richard Kadrey)
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Jason Heller to discuss his book Strange Stars: David Bowie\, Pop Music\, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded\, on Wednesday\, August 15th at 7pm. Joining him in conversation will be Nick Mamatas and Richard Kadrey. \nAs the 1960s drew to a close\, and mankind trained its telescopes on other worlds\, old conventions gave way to a new kind of hedonistic freedom that celebrated sex\, drugs\, and rock ‘n’ roll. Derided as nerdy or dismissed as fluff\, science fiction rarely gets credit for its catalyzing effect on this revolution. \nIn Strange Stars\, Jason Heller recasts sci-fi and pop music as parallel cultural forces that depended on one another to expand the horizons of books\, music\, and out-of-this-world imagery. \nIn doing so\, he presents a whole generation of revered musicians as the sci-fi-obsessed conjurers they really were: from Sun Ra lecturing on the black man in the cosmos\, to Pink Floyd jamming live over the broadcast of the Apollo 11 moon landing; from a wave of Star Wars disco chart toppers and synthesiser-wielding post-punks\, to Jimi Hendrix distilling the “purplish haze” he discovered in a pulp novel into psychedelic song. Of course\, the whole scene was led by David Bowie\, who hid in the balcony of a movie theater to watch 2001: A Space Odyssey\, and came out a changed man… \nIf today’s culture of Comic Con fanatics\, superhero blockbusters\, and classic sci-fi reboots has us thinking that the nerds have won at last\, Strange Stars brings to life an era of unparalleled and unearthly creativity–in magazines\, novels\, films\, records\, and concerts–to point out that the nerds have been winning all along. \n* * * \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nJason Heller has written for publications including the New Yorker\, Rolling Stone\, Pitchfork\, NPR\, and The AV Club. His latest book was Taft 2012.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jason-heller-presents-strange-stars-w-nick-mamatas-richard-kadrey/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: Launch for Vanessa Hua / A River of Stars
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith welcomes Vanessa Hua (Deceit and Other Possibilities) back to the store to launch her debut novel\, A River of Stars. Joining her in conversation is Zyzzyva managing editor Oscar Villalon. More information coming soon — please save the date\, and join us! \n  \nHoled up with other mothers-to-be in a secret maternity home in Los Angeles\, Scarlett Chen is far from her native China\, where she worked in a factory and fell in love with the owner\, Boss Yeung. Now she’s carrying his baby. Already married with three daughters\, Boss Yeung is overjoyed because the doctors have confirmed that he will finally have the son he has always wanted. To ensure that his child has every advantage\, Boss Yeung has shipped Scarlett off to give birth on American soil. U.S. citizenship will open doors for their little prince. \n  \nAs Scarlett awaits the baby’s arrival\, she chokes down bitter medicinal stews and spars with her imperious housemates. The only one who fits in even less is Daisy\, a spirited teenager and fellow unwed mother who is being kept apart from her American boyfriend. \n  \nThen a new sonogram of Scarlett’s baby reveals the unexpected. Panicked\, she escapes by hijacking a van–only to discover that she has a stowaway: Daisy\, who intends to track down the father of her child. The two flee to San Francisco’s bustling Chinatown\, where Scarlett will join countless immigrants desperately trying to seize their piece of the American dream. What Scarlett doesn’t know is that her baby’s father is not far behind her. \n\n“Illuminates the lives of her characters with energy\, verve\, and heart. Hua tracks the minutest emotional terrain of these characters while simultaneously interrogating the cultural and economic forces that shape their worlds.” – Emma Cline\, New York Times bestselling author of The Girls \n  \n“A River of Stars splits the ‘Chinese immigrant story’ into a kaleidoscopic spectrum\, putting human faces to the many groups — rich and poor\, privileged and marginalized\, documented and not — who come to America. Vanessa Hua’s debut is an utterly absorbing novel about the ruthless love of parenthood and the universal truth that sometimes family runs deeper than blood alone.” – Celeste Ng\, New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You \n  \n“How does Scarlett Chen — pregnant\, with her immigration status in peril — make her way in America without friends\, language\, and money? Vanessa Hua’s compelling A River of Stars is a story of resistance\, survival\, and self-determination in a world that is seemingly indifferent to the needs of the poor and disenfranchised.” – Min Jin Lee\, author of National Book Award finalist Pachinko \n  \n“A River of Stars is as pleasurable in its parts as it is profound in its sum. It is a road novel\, an immigrant narrative\, a family saga\, a mystery\, and the unlikeliest of love stories\, all animated by a magnificent cast of characters who bear out John Berger’s assertion that ‘never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.’ Vanessa Hua’s debut contains multitudes.” – Anthony Marra\, New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and The Tsar of Love and Techno \n  \n\n  \nVanessa Hua is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of a short story collection\, Deceit and Other Possibilities. For two decades\, she has been writing\, in journalism and 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. A River of Stars is Vanessa Hua’s first novel. Her author photo is by Andria Lo. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-launch-for-vanessa-hua-a-river-of-stars/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime WILDSTYLE
DESCRIPTION:will feature Kirsten Chen (Bury What We Cannot Take)\, Dickson Lam (Paper Sons)\, Peter Clarke (Apocryphal Pataphysics)\, Lisa Galloway\, and Lila Vasudevan. \nThe Thursday September 20th\, 7-9pm\, InsideStorytime at Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster Street\, Oakland\, will feature Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar (The Map of Salt and Stars)\, Rita Bullwinkel (Belly Up)\, Kate Folk\, Steven Black\, and others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-wildstyle/
LOCATION:THE LAUNDRY\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ingrid Rojas Contreras presents FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Ingrid Rojas Contreras to discuss her novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree on Thursday\, August 16th at 7pm. \nSeven-year-old Chula and her older sister Cassandra enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogot \, but the threat of kidnappings\, car bombs\, and assassinations hover just outside the neighborhood walls\, where the godlike drug lord Pablo Escobar continues to elude authorities and capture the attention of the nation. \nWhen their mother hires Petrona\, a live-in-maid from the city’s guerrilla-occupied slum\, Chula makes it her mission to understand Petrona’s mysterious ways. But Petrona’s unusual behavior belies more than shyness. She is a young woman crumbling under the burden of providing for her family as the rip tide of first love pulls her in the opposite direction. As both girls’ families scramble to maintain stability amidst the rapidly escalating conflict\, Petrona and Chula find themselves entangled in a web of secrecy that will force them both to choose between sacrifice and betrayal. \nInspired by the author’s own life\, and told through the alternating perspectives of the willful Chula and the achingly hopeful Petrona\, Fruit of the Drunken Tree contrasts two very different\, but inextricable coming-of-age stories. In lush prose\, Rojas Contreras sheds light on the impossible choices women are often forced to make in the face of violence and the unexpected connections that can blossom out of desperation. \n* * * \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nIngrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Electric Literature\, Guernica\, and Huffington Post\, among others. She is the book columnist for KQED Arts\, the Bay Area’s NPR affiliate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ingrid-rojas-contreras-presents-fruit-of-the-drunken-tree/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Clifford Mae Henderson\, Perfect Little Worlds
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is pleased to present award-winning author Clifford Mae Henderson for a book discussion and signing of her new novel set in Santa Cruz during the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake\, Perfect Little Worlds. \nLucy can’t hold the secret any longer. Twenty-six years ago\, her sister did the unthinkable. \nPortland\, Oregon\, 1989: Lucy Mustin\, living somewhat happily\, pumping out wedding cakes for starry-eyed heterosexuals while she\, a lesbian\, can’t legally marry\, is called upon to travel to Santa Cruz to help her autistic sister\, Alice\, care for their Alzheimer’s-afflicted mother. She knew the call was coming sooner or later. She’d just hoped it would be later. Mother issues. The possibility that resolution might be lost to dementia is a heartbreak she doesn’t feel like feeling. \nSanta Cruz\, California\, one week later: a trip to the family bakery ups the ante tenfold when the Loma Prieta/World Series Earthquake\, racking up a whopping 7.1 on the Richter scale\, traps the sisters below ground. There\, Alice reminds Lucy of a promise made to their mother many years ago\, a promise she plans to keep. \nClifford Mae Henderson\, also writing under the name Clifford Henderson\, was named after her grandmother Clifford who once wore a nightgown to a formal event because she liked it better than any of the dresses she could find. Clifford Mae has attempted to follow in her renegade grandmother’s footsteps\, spending as much time as possible trying to shake things up. Her novels have each garnered awards\, including a Foreword Review Book of the Year Award\, an Independent Publisher Book Award\, and a Golden Crown Literary Award. When not writing\, Clifford Mae and her life partner of over a quarter century run the Fun Institute\, an improv school in Northern California where they teach the art of collective pretending. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clifford-mae-henderson-perfect-little-worlds/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:John Copenhaver and Paddy Hirsch
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n  \nPaddy Hirsch and John Copenhaver discuss their new novels\, The Devil’s Half Mile and Dodging and Burning. \nAbout The Devil’s Half Mile \nSeven years after a financial crisis nearly toppled America\, traders chafe at government regulations\, racial tensions are rising\, gangs roam the streets and corrupt financiers make back-door deals with politicians… 1799 was a hell of a year. \n  \nThanks to Alexander Hamilton\, America has recovered from the panic on the Devil’s Half Mile (aka Wall Street)\, but the young country is still finding its way. When young lawyer Justy Flanagan returns to solve his father’s murder\, he exposes a massive fraud that has already claimed lives\, and one the perpetrators are determined to keep secret at any cost. The body count is rising\, and the looming crisis could topple the nation. \n  \nAbout Dodging and Burning \nIn the summer of 1945\, Ceola Bliss is a lonely twelve-year-old tomboy\, mourning the loss of her brother\, Robbie\, who was declared missing in the Pacific. She tries to piece together his life by rereading his favorite pulp detective story “A Date with Death” and spending time with his best friend\, Jay Greenwood\, in Royal Oak\, VA. One unforgettable August day\, Jay leads Ceola and Bunny to a stretch of woods where he found a dead woman\, but when they arrive\, the body is gone. They soon discover a local woman named Lily Vellum is missing and begin to piece together the threads of her murder\, starting with the photograph Jay took of her abandoned body As Ceola gets swept up playing girl detective\, Bunny becomes increasingly skeptical of Jay\, and begins her own investigation into the connection between Jay and Lily. She discovers a series of clues that place doubt on Jay’s story about the photograph. She journeys to Washington\, D.C.\, where she is forced to confront the brutal truth about her dear friend–a discovery that triggers a series of events that will bring tragedy to Jay and decades of estrangement between her and Ceola.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-copenhaver-and-paddy-hirsch/
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:Lisa Locascio and Kate Folk
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Locascio discusses her new novel\, Open Me with Kate Folk. \n\nPraise for Open Me \n\n“Locascio’s story of a young American abroad is unflinching in its portrayal of sex\, desire\, racism\, and the excitement and confusion of youth. Infused with erotics and politics\, this is a novel that will haunt you.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer \n  \n“Through the care of her tremendous observations and the beauty of her prose\, Lisa Locascio writes a kind of love letter to the female body and all its power and visceral complexity. This is a story of many important layers\, but one of the many reasons it remains distinct in my mind is because of its honesty about our complicated\, yearning physical selves. A remarkable\, fearless debut.”—Aimee Bender\, author of The Color Master \n  \n“Captivating and darkly clever\, Locascio’s debut melds self-discovery and self-abnegation with raw\, muscular grace.  By turns beguiling\, guileless\, and penetratingly felt\, this book seethes with eroticism\, both physical and emotional—you won’t dare to pry yourself away from it.”—Alexandra Kleeman\, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine \n  \n“An evocative and compelling remapping of Bluebeard’s Castle for our times. In Open Me\, Locascio offers a daring\, unapologetic\, and vital exploration of female desire.”—Emily Fridlund\, author of History of Wolves \n  \n“A lush\, evocative novel you won’t be able to put down. Open Me is a masterful debut.”—T.C. Boyle\, author of The Harder They Come \n\nAbout Open Me \n\nRoxana Olsen has always dreamed of going to Paris\, and after high school graduation finally plans to travel there on a study abroad program–a welcome reprieve from the bruising fallout of her parents’ divorce. But a logistical mix-up brings Roxana to Copenhagen instead\, where she’s picked up at the airport by Soren\, a twenty-eight year old guide who is meant to be her steward. Instantly drawn to one another\, Roxana and Soren’s relationship turns romantic\, and when he asks Roxana to accompany him to a small town in the north of Denmark for the rest of the summer\, she doesn’t hesitate to accept. There\, Roxana’s world narrows and opens as she experiences fantasy\, ritual\, and the pleasures of her body\, a thrilling realm of erotic and domestic bliss. But as their relationship deepens\, Soren’s temperament darkens\, and Roxana finds herself increasingly drawn to a mysterious local outsider whom she learns is a refugee from the Balkan War. \n  \nAn erotic coming-of-age like no other\, from a magnetic new voice in fiction\, Open Me is a daringly original and darkly compelling portrait of a young woman discovering her power\, her sex\, and her voice; and an incisive examination of xenophobia\, migration\, and what it means to belong.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-locascio-and-kate-folk/
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:Gretchen McNeil with Stephanie Kuehn
DESCRIPTION:Discover the true horror of social media in #murdertrending by critically-acclaimed author Gretchen McNeil Think Scream Queens meets The Hunger Games\, in which seventeen-year-old Dee Guerrera is wrongfully convicted and sent to a prison island where  convicts are hunted down and their deaths are streamed on social media for “spikes.” With its morbid\, tongue-in-cheek sense of humor and twisty\, gasp-inducing mystery\, this novel has already been optioned for development by television studio ABC Signature. \nWelcome to the near future\, where good and honest citizens can enjoy watching the executions of society’s most infamous convicted felons\, streaming live on The Postman app from the suburbanized prison island Alcatraz 2.0.  Can Dee  prove she’s innocent before she ends up wrongfully murdered for the world to see? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis dark\, unique\, and intelligent novel comments on the horrors of social media\, and draws upon the fascination with today’s trend of murder in entertainment\, such as Serial and Making a Murderer. \nGretchen McNeil is the author of I’m Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl \, the Don’t Get Mad duology\, and the YA horror novels Possess\, 3:59\, Relic\, and Ten which was a 2013 YALSA Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers and was adapted as the Lifetime original movie Ten: Murder Island in 2017. \nGretchen will be chatting with Stephanie Kuehn\, author of the William C Morris Award winning Charm and Strange\, Complicit\, The Smaller Evil\, Delicate Monsters\, and When I Am Through With You. Booklist has praised her work as “Intelligent\, compulsively readable literary fiction with a dark twist.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gretchen-mcneil-with-stephanie-kuehn/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Poets @ Play
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, August 19\, 1pm-3:30pm\nthis month: Jarvis Subia\nEdwin Markham House in History Park\n1650 Senter Road\, San José\, CA 95112\nAdmission FREE\nFree parking in the Staff/Volunteer lot on Phelan Avenue.\nPlease enter History Park from the Phelan Avenue side. \nJarvis Subia\, San Jose’s 2018 Grand Slam Poetry Champ and a youth poetry workshop facilitator\, will be facilitating a poetry and personal story writing workshop. This will include elements such a check in\, word pallets\, poetry from current spoken word artists\, group discussion\, open sharing\, and writing prompts. The purpose of this 2 hour workshop would be to generate drafts of writing hopefully to be read on stage. This is a continuation of the workshop Jarvis began last month. If you attended that one\, you can benefit from the new material. I you missed that one\, you will not be at a disadvantage.. \nQuestions? Call 408-368-0353\nRSVP recommended but not required: poetsatplay@pcsj.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-play-2/
LOCATION:Edwin Markham House in History Park\, 1650 Senter Road\, San Jose\, 95112\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:David Corbett with Cara Black
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon event with David Corbett (The Long-Lost Love Letters of Doc Holliday) and Cara Black (Murder on the Left Bank) for their new books. Please join us! \n  \nThe Long-Lost Love Letters of Doc Holliday\nby David Corbett \n  \nThe most notorious love letters in American history–supposedly destroyed a century ago—mysteriously reappear and become the coveted prize in a fierce battle for possession that brings back to life the lawless world evoked in the letters themselves. \n  \nLisa Balamaro is an ambitious arts lawyer with a secret crush on her most intriguing client: former rodeo rider and reformed art forger\, Tuck Mercer. In his newfound role as an expert in Old West artifacts\, Tuck gains possession of the supposedly destroyed correspondence between Doc Holliday and his cousin and childhood sweetheart\, Mattie—who would become Sister Mary Melanie of the Sisters of Mercy. \n  \nGiven the unlikelihood the letters can ever be fully authenticated\, Tuck retains Lisa on behalf of the letters’ owner\, Rayella Vargas\, to sell them on the black market. But the buyer Tuck finds\, a duplicitous judge from the Tombstone area\, has other\, far more menacing ideas. \n  \nAs Lisa works feverishly to make things right\, Rayella secretly enlists her ex-marine boyfriend in a daring scheme of her own. \n  \nWhen the judge learns he’s been blindsided\, he rallies a cadre of armed men for a deadly standoff reminiscent of the moment in history that made Doc famous: The Gunfight at the OK Corral. \n  \n  \nDavid Corbett worked for the San Francisco private investigation firm of Palladino & Sutherland\, and played a significant part in a number of high-profile criminal and civil litigations\, as well as numerous other drug\, murder\, and fraud cases. Corbett is the author of The Devil’s Redhead\, Done for a Dime\, Blood of Paradise\, Do They Know I’m Running? The Mercy of the Night\, The Devil Prayed and Darkness Fell. His short fiction stories have appeared twice in Best American Mystery Stories. He also contributed chapters to The Chopin Manuscript and The Copper Bracelet\, serial audio thrillers that now have been combined into a single hard cover version titled Watchlist. In 2013 he published his writing guide The Art of Character\, which national bestseller Elizabeth Brundage called “a writer’s bible that will lead to your character’s soul.” He teaches and gives seminars and workshops at conferences throughout the United States\, Canada\, and Mexico; he’s a regular contributor to the writers’ blog Writer Unboxed; and his articles on craft and theory have appeared in the New York Times\, Narrative\, Writer’s Digest (where he is a contributing editor)\, The Writer\, Zyzzyva\, MovieMaker\, Bright Ideas\, Crimespree and other outlets. \n  \n\n  \nMurder on the Left Bank\nby Cara Black \n  \nA confession fifty years in the making puts everyone’s favorite Paris d t ctive tr’s chic\, Aim e Leduc\, on a collision course with the “Hand\,” a cabal of corrupt Parisian cops among who masterminded her father’s murder–and among whose ranks he might have once found membership. When a friend’s child is kidnapped while wearing her daughter’s hoodie\, Aim e realizes that the case has crossed into the realm of the personal in more ways than one. \n  \nA dying man drags his oxygen machine into the office of ric Besson\, a lawyer in Paris’s 13th arrondissement. The old man\, an accountant\, is carrying a dilapidated notebook full of meticulous investment records. For decades\, he has been helping a cadre of dirty cops launder stolen money. The notebook contains his full confession–he’s waited 50 years to make it\, and now it can’t wait another day. He is adamant that Besson get the notebook into the hands of La Proc\, Paris’s chief prosecuting attorney\, so the corruption can finally be brought to light. But en route to La Proc\, Besson’s courier–his assistant and nephew–is murdered\, and the notebook disappears. \n  \nGrief-stricken ric Besson tries to hire private investigator Aim e Leduc to find the notebook\, but she is reluctant to get involved. Her father was a cop and was murdered by the same dirty syndicate the notebook implicates. She’s not sure which she’s more afraid of\, the dangerous men who would kill for the notebook or the idea that her father’s name might be among the dirty cops listed within it. Ultimately that’s the reason she must take the case\, which leads her across the Left Bank\, from the Cambodian enclave of Khmer Rouge refugees to the ancient royal tapestry factories to the modern art galleries. \n\n  \nCara Black is the author of eighteen books in the New York Times bestselling Aimée Leduc series. She has received multiple nominations for the Anthony and Macavity Awards\, and her books have been translated into German\, Norwegian\, Japanese\, French\, Spanish\, Italian\, and Hebrew. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and son and visits Paris frequently. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens with doors at 2\, event begins at 4pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-corbett-with-cara-black/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Fiction Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:The Girl who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen\nEmily Benedict has come to Mullaby\, North Carolina\, hoping to solve at least some of the riddles surrounding her mother’s life. But the moment Emily enters the house where her mother grew up and meets the grandfather she never knew\, she realizes that mysteries aren’t solved in Mullaby\, they’re a way of life: Here are rooms where the wallpaper changes to suit your mood. Unexplained lights skip across the yard at midnight. \nAnd a neighbor\, Julia Winterson\, bakes hope in the form of cakes\, not only wishing to satisfy the town’s sweet tooth but also dreaming of rekindling the love she fears might be lost forever. Can a hummingbird cake really bring back a lost love? Is there really a ghost dancing in Emily’s backyard? The answers are never what you expect. But in this town of lovable misfits\, the unexpected fits right in.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fiction-discussion-group-2/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:an evening with williwaw
DESCRIPTION:The highly protracted world tour lives ever on\, as our amp’d uke comrade williwaw applies a sonic salve to the Paris of the West with some fine films as visual counterpoint. Sounds\, sights and perpetual fog. \n  \nTranslation: live scores of Scottish film\, with processed ukelele! Come grab a drink or two and settle in for a squall. \n  \nHere’s an example of what a williwaw experience might look like: \n  \n \nwilliwaw : www.donkeyscratch.com\nwillicamp : williwaw.bandcamp.com\nwillicloud : www.soundcloud.com/williwaw\nwillitube : www.youtube.com/user/donkeyscratch \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 8pm. \n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-williwaw/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Look Big: And Other Tips for Surviving Animal Encounters of All Kinds by Rachel Levin
DESCRIPTION:Look Big: And Other Tips for Surviving Animal Encounters of All Kinds is a lighthearted but legitimately helpful illustrated field guide for what to do in the face of 50 of our most feared—or frustrating—animals. From mountain lions to moose\, bears to bees\, rats\, raccoons\, mice… even lice!  As humans encroach on wild places\, encounters with animals have become increasingly commonplace. But what are the rules for facing a moose up close? Do you run from a coyote or stand your ground? How deadly\, really\, are black widow spiders\, rattlesnakes\, and sharks? \nPacked with expert tips\, fascinating animal facts\, and harrowing true tales (from writers like Peter Orner and Samin Nosrat)\, Look Big is a must-have survival guide for outdoor\, urban\, and suburban adventurers alike. If you have ever feared the approach of a grizzly\, the spray of a skunk\, or an army of cockroaches in the kitchen\, this book is for you. \nRachel Levin is the first San Francisco restaurant critic for Eater and a freelance journalist who has written for the New York Times\, the New Yorker\, Outside\, Sunset\, and elsewhere. Look Big is her first book. byrachellevin.com \n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRachel Levin
URL:https://litseen.com/event/look-big-and-other-tips-for-surviving-animal-encounters-of-all-kinds-by-rachel-levin/
LOCATION:Mechanics Institute\, 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:North Beach Poetry Reading with Heather Bourbeau and Steven Gray
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to Heather Bourbeau and Steven Gray read their works as part of Tuesdays at North Beach\, a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. \nSteven Gray has lived in San Francisco since the 1970s and reads his work all over town. Sometimes he accompanies other poets on guitar. He has two books of poetry: Shadow on the Rocks (2011)\, and Jet Shock and Culture Lag (2012). He also writes reviews for Litseen. \nHeather Bourbeau’s fiction and poetry have been published in 100 Word Story\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, Cleaver\, Eleven Eleven\, Francis Ford Coppola Winery’s Chalkboard\, and The Stockholm Review of Literature. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, and her work has been featured in several anthologies\, including “Nothing Short Of 100: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story” (Outpost 19) and the upcoming “I Just Wanna Testify: Poems About Detroit Music” (Michigan State University Press) and “America\, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience” (Sixteen Rivers Press). \nThe library in North Beach is at 850 Columbus.  After the reading some of us will go to Specs to recover from a rarified exposure to the spoken word. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/north-beach-poetry-reading-with-heather-bourbeau-and-steven-gray/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night : Kelechi Ubozoh
DESCRIPTION:at PianoFight: 144 Taylor Street (between Turk & Eddy)\,\nSan Francisco\, CA 94102 – Powell Street BART \nHosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir\, live jazz with Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends.\nOpen Mic sign-up for poetry only starts at 6:45pm – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment\, a few open slots to read without music mid-set. FREE admission. Full menu and bar available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night-kelechi-ubozoh/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:D. Wystan Owen presents OTHER PEOPLE'S LOVE AFFAIRS
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes D. Wystan Owen to discuss his story collection\, Other People’s Love Affairs\, on Tuesday\, August 21st at 7pm. \nIn the ten luminous stories of D. Wystan Owen’s debut collection\, the people of Glass\, a picturesque village on the rugged English coast\, are haunted by longings and deeply held secrets\, captive to pasts that remain as alive as the present. Each story takes us into the lives of characters reaching earnestly and often courageously for connection to the people they have loved. Owen observes their heartbreaks\, their small triumphs\, and their generous capacity for grace. \nA young nurse\, reeling from the disappearance of her mother\, forges an unlikely friendship with a local vagrant. A young boy is by turns dazzled and disillusioned by a trip to the circus with a family friend. A widower revisits the cinema where\, as a teenager\, he and an older woman shared trysts that both thrilled and baffled him. A woman is offered fragile\, uneasy forgiveness for a cruel act from years ago. And in the title story\, a shopkeeper’s vision of the woman she loved is upended by the startling revelation of a secret life. Surprising and powerful\, and in the classic tradition of fiction by James Joyce\, William Trevor\, and Elizabeth Strout\, Owen’s interconnected stories strike a deep and resounding emotional chord. \n* * * \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nD. Wystan Owen holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His fiction and essays have appeared in A Public Space\, the American Scholar\, Literary Hub\, and the Threepenny Review. A dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom\, he now lives in Northern California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/d-wystan-owen-presents-other-peoples-love-affairs/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Queer Authors read other Queer Authors
DESCRIPTION:Queer authors Natasha Dennerstein\, Gar McVey-Russel\, Anand Vedawala\, Vernon Keeve III\, and Luiza Flynn-Goodlett read from their favorite Queer authors.\nLaurel Bookstore will be closing at the end of August\, and this is our final event there.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queer-authors-read-other-queer-authors/
LOCATION:Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Books & Brews: Book Swap
DESCRIPTION:Book Swap! \nAt Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing \n402 Ingalls Street\, Santa Cruz \nEvent #4 of Bookshop’s 2018 Books & Brews Passport Series \n\nHave you ever loved a book so much that you wanted to read passages of it to people around you and share it with all your friends? Bookshop’s Books & Brews Book Swap offers passionate readers a chance to promote their favorite books and go home with a new discovery–while also enjoying delicious brews at Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing. Bring one of your favorite books (that you are willing to give away) and join a small group to talk about your books\, then listen to others sell you theirs–you’ll have 40 seconds (and we’ll have a timer). Then we swap\, White Elephant-style (except you’ll actually want the gift you get)! \n_________________________________________________________________________________________ \nSpecial Offer: Our hosts at SCMB are offering a $1-price on a single pint of any of their flagship beers for all event attendees who bring a book to swap. Thanks SCMB! \nThis event is free and open for anyone 21+ to attend. \n_________________________________________________________________________________________ \n*Remember that you must bring a book you are willing to give away to participate in this event.* \n\nAbout the series… \nBookshop’s popular summer event series returns! Books & Brews combines our love of literature and our love of craft beer. Five book-focused events will be held at some of our favorite beer houses (and one distillery!) this summer. Enjoy special offers and discounts at each beer house on the night of their event. \nBONUS: Pick up a Books & Brews Passport in the store (or print one here). Get it stamped at three or more events in the series and you’ll be entered to win a $150 Bookshop gift card.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/books-brews-book-swap-3/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing\, 402 Ingalls Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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