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SUMMARY:Denise Clifton
DESCRIPTION:Denise Clifton discusses her new book\, Tables from the Rubble: How the Restaurants That Arose After the Great Quake of 1906 Still Feed San Francisco Today. \n\nAbout Tables from the Rubble \n\nTABLES FROM THE RUBBLE transports readers to San Francisco in the years just after the Great Earthquake of 1906. Amid the ruins\, restaurants rose to feed the hungry and lead the recovery. Today\, a handful of the restaurants that opened in those boom years remain – some still serving customers in the same spaces where they first opened\, offering food and drinks with a direct link to a century-old past. TABLES FROM THE RUBBLE tells the stories of restaurants like Swan Oyster Depot\, Liguria Bakery\, Comstock Saloon\, the Palace Hotel\, the House of Shields\, John’s Grill and Schroeder’s. And it follows the journey of Chinatown’s Sam Wo\, which was saved by the hard work of one family and an entire community committed to the historic restaurant’s legacy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/denise-clifton/
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 story of the Spear of Longinus: Terry Tarnoff discusses his novel "The Thousand Year Journey of Tobias Parker"
DESCRIPTION:Author Terry Tarnoff discusses his novel The Thousand Year Journey of Tobias Parker with special focus on the story of the Spear of Longinus.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-story-of-the-spear-of-longinus-terry-tarnoff-discusses-his-novel-the-thousand-year-journey-of-tobias-parker/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180921T193000
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SUMMARY:Valerie Wallace\, Daniel Handler and Kevin Simmonds
DESCRIPTION:Valerie Wallace discusses her new poetry collection\, House of McQueen with Daniel Handler and Kevin Simmonds. \n\nPraise for House of McQueen \n\n“How does a writer begin to capture the wild glory and talent of someone like Lee Alexander McQueen\, the high-octane designer of the House of Givenchy and then of his own unmistakable label? One only has to look to Valerie Wallace’s debut collection House of McQueen for an answer. Wallace begins with an in-depth\, intuitive knowledge of the designer’s life gleaned from interviews\, studies of his ground-breaking collections\, visits to exhibitions of his visionary work\, and by collecting fragments of words spoken by the man himself as well as some of the famous people he dressed. But it is more than that. The mastery of Wallace’s own poetic art is what rips into the heart of a man who defied all odds by moving from a working class boyhood to the center of 21st century haute couture and the brutality of that game. Wallace captures the genius of McQueen not to memorialize his tragically short life (although she does) or to write a biography or history of the designer\, but rather to transform art—his art into a maelstrom of her own poetic brilliance. In the process\, we find a book that captures the flair of Valerie herself—as poet\, soothsayer\, designer\, and seeker of the strange and wonderful manifestations of what art can be. This is a book inspired by McQueen\, but one that rises into its own thing of beauty and myth.”~ Andrea Witzke Slot\, author of TO FIND A NEW BEAUTY \n  \n“I cut / a path to / the sacred” and “I am | you are / the voyeur | the mirror.” So declares Alexander McQueen amid these poems of a richly sounded sensorium: of the texture of cloth\, the silhouette of a waist\, the smell of orange peels\, the hook of a fang. If McQueen’s work resulted from the designer thinking with his bare hands\, Valerie Wallace’s poems in this arresting collection result from the poet speaking with all five of her senses fully engaged. House of McQueen is a remarkable book.”~ Peter O’Leary\, author of THICK AND DAZZLING DARKNESS\, THE SAMPO\, and others \n\nAbout House of McQueen \n\nFrom the publisher: Selected by Vievee Francis for the Four Way Books Intro Prize\, Valerie Wallace’s HOUSE OF MCQUEEN is a glittering debut by an assured new voice. Inhabiting the life and work of Alexander McQueen\, Wallace builds a fantastical world using both original language and excerpts drawn from interviews\, supermodels\, Shakespeare\, and more. At turns fierce and vulnerable\, here is a collection that leaps from runway to fairytale to  street with wild\, brilliant grace.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/valerie-wallace-daniel-handler-and-kevin-simmonds/
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:20180922T190000
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SUMMARY:BOOK RELEASE: NOMADIC PRESS' FALL 2018 CHAPBOOK COLLECTION
DESCRIPTION:Join us at our Uptown\, Oakland\, location for an amazing evening of readings\, live music\, gnosh / refreshments\, and friends of Nomadic Press as we launch seven new chapbooks in our Fall 2018 Chapbook Collection into the universe: TBA! \nReadings by all authors and all books will be available for purchase and signing at the event ($10 each). Music by TBA! \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-nomadic-press-fall-2018-chapbook-collection/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180923T080000
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SUMMARY:Dickson Lam
DESCRIPTION:Dickson Lam is author of Paper Sons: A Memoir. Lam’s work has appeared in StoryQuarterly\, the Kenyon Review Online\, Hyphen Magazine\, the Normal School\, PANK\, the Good Men Project\, the Rumpus\, and Kartika Review. He is a VONA alum and has been a resident fellow at the Millay Colony for the Arts and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Lam is an assistant professor of English at Contra Costa College and lives in Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dickson-lam/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Katya Apekina\, Bryan Hurt\, and Lisa Locascio
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon of readings from new books by Katya Apekina (The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish)\, Bryan Hurt (Everyone Wants to be Ambassador to France)\, and Lisa Locascio (Open Me). Please join us! \n  \nThe Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish\nby Katya Apekina \n  \nIt’s sixteen year-old Edie who finds their mother Marianne dangling in the living room from an old jump rope\, puddle of urine on the floor\, barely alive. Upstairs\, fourteen year-old Mae had fallen into one of her trances\, often a result of feeling too closely attuned to her mother’s dark moods. After Marianne is unwillingly admitted to a mental hospital\, Edie and Mae are forced to move from their childhood home in Louisiana to New York to live with their estranged father\, Dennis\, a former civil rights activist and literary figure on the other side of success. The girls\, grieving and homesick\, are at first wary of their father’s affection\, but soon Mae and Edie’s close relationship begins to fall apart–Edie remains fiercely loyal to Marianne\, convinced that Dennis is responsible for her mother’s downfall\, while Mae\, suffocated by her striking resemblances to her mother\, feels pulled toward their father. The girls move in increasingly opposing and destructive directions as they struggle to cope with outsized pain\, and as the history of Dennis and Marianne’s romantic past clicks into focus\, the family fractures further. \n  \nMoving through a selection of first-person accounts and written with a sinister sense of humor\,The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish powerfully captures the quiet torment of two sisters craving the attention of a parent they can’t\, and shouldn’t\, have to themselves. In this captivating debut\, Katya Apekina disquietingly crooks the lines between fact and fantasy\, between escape and freedom\, and between love and obsession. \n  \n“The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish is an engrossing debut — Apekina’s brilliant story of a family in crisis is a remarkable feat of empathy and insight\, guided by unpredictable\, propulsive storytelling. I was increasingly and helplessly hooked. I can’t believe this remarkable tour de force is a first novel.”  – J. Ryan Stradal\, author of the New York Times Bestseller Kitchens of the Great Midwest \n  \nKatya Apekina has had stories published in The Iowa Review\, Santa Monica Review\, West Branch\, Joyland\, PANK and elsewhere\, and has appeared on the Notable List of Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013. She translated poetry and prose for Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky\, which was short-listed for the Best Translated Book Award. She co-wrote the screenplay for the feature film New Orleans\, Mon Amour\, which premiered at SXSW in 2008. Born in Moscow\, she currently lives in Los Angeles. Poets & Writers recently named Katya a writer to watch and The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish a big fiction debut for the Fall. \n  \n\n  \nEveryone Wants to be Ambassador to France\nby Bryan Hurt \n  \nA seagull\, a goat\, and a teenage boy enter into a bizarre love triangle that leaves one of them dead and the other two changed forever. A grief-stricken astronaut quits NASA to paint pictures of the moon. A lonely scientist creates stars in his basement and becomes enraged when he discovers that one of his stars harbors life. An eighteenth-century British aristocrat adopts two teenage girls and absconds with them to France\, determined to raise one of them to become his perfect wife. By turns humorous and heartbreaking\, this debut collection offers weird and wonderful stories that illuminate the hidden truths of life. \n  \n“Bryan Hurt’s stories are like no one else’s. They are by turns hilarious\, whimsical\, arresting\, and heartbreaking\, but what makes them such a delight is the sly simplicity and off-handed charm of their telling.” – T.C. Boyle \n  \nBryan Hurt is the author of Everyone Wants to be Ambassador to France\, selected by Alissa Nutting as the winner of the 10th Annual Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction. He is the editor of Watchlist: 32 Sstories by Persons of Interest and Midwest editor for Joyland Magazine. His short stories and essays have been published in The American Reader\, Guernica\, Kenyon Review Online\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, Tin House\, TriQuarterly\, and many others. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and named finalist for the Calvino Prize and Horatio Nelson Prize in Fiction. He’s received fellowships from the Sewanee and Tin House Writers’ Conferences. Bryan holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the university of Southern California. He lives in Columbus\, Ohio and is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Capital University.  \n  \n\n  \nOpen Me\nby Lisa Locascio \n  \nA political and erotically-charged debut that follows a young American woman’s transformative journey during one pivotal summer abroad hailed by Viet Thanh Nguyen as “unflinching in its portrayal of sex\, desire\, racism\, and the excitement and confusion of youth.” \n  \n​Roxana 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 Søren\, a twenty-eight year old guide who is meant to be her steward. Instantly drawn to one another\, Roxana and Søren’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\, Søren’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. \n  \n“Not since Henry James’ Daisy Miller have I been so beguiled by an American abroad. Lisa Locascio’s Roxana Olsen may only be eighteen but she is already a desperate sexual adventurer. Part captivity narrative\, part political awakening\, Open Me will open you\, reminding us that nothing really happens until it happens in the body.” – Darcey Steinke\, author of Suicide Blonde \n  \nLisa Locascio‘s work has appeared in The Believer\, Tin House\, n+1\, Bookforum\, and many other magazines. She is the editor of the anthology Golden State 2017: Best New Writing from California\, co-publisher of Joyland and editor of its West section\, as well as of the ekphrastic collaboration magazine 7x7LA. She is Executive Director of the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference. \n  \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery at 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens with the store at 2\, event begins at 4pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katya-apekina-bryan-hurt-and-lisa-locascio/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETRY EVENT!
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers tba \nCurated by Aakash Tyagi
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-event/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jackson Burgess
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at Green Apple Books on Clement street Sunday\, September 23rd at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Jackson Burgess as he reads from his newest poetry collection (from Write Bloody Publishig)\, Atrophy.  \n\nPraise for Atrophy \n“Jackson Burgess is the most dazzling\, urgently urban and unfailingly inventive young chronicler of lost highways and avenues of broken dreams since the early poems of Denis Johnson and the ballads of Tom Waits.” -David St. John\, Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets \n  \n“Atrophy is simply shattering–in its apocalyptic intensity\, its relentless drive\, its urgent music\, its desperate tenderness.” -Cecilia Woloch\, author of Carpathia \n  \n“Atrophy pulses with love\, vodka\, and the despair of things lost and things found…I want to gift Atrophy to every human I’ve ever met.” -Ruth Madievsky\, author of Emergency Brake \n  \nJackson Burgess is the author of Atrophy (Write Bloody Publishing\, 2018)and the chapbook Pocket Full of Glass\, winner of the 2014 Clockwise Competition (Tebot Bach\, 2017). He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, and his poetry and fiction have appeared in The Los Angeles Review\, The Cincinnati Review\, Rattle\, Cimarron Review\, Colorado Review\, and elsewhere. He has led workshops at the University of Iowa\, Los Angeles Southwest College\, and the St. Vincent de Paul Cardinal Manning Center on Skid Row. Jackson lives in Los Angeles\, where he works as an editor and educator.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jackson-burgess/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Katie Ford with Katie Peterson / If You Have to Go
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a special evening with Katie Ford\, to celebrate her new poetry collection If You Have to Go. Joining her for a reading and conversation is the poet Katie Peterson! Please join us. \n  \nThe poems in Katie Ford’s fourth collection implore their audience—the divine and the human—for attention\, for revelation\, and\, perhaps above all\, for companionship. The extraordinary sequence at the heart of this book taps into the radical power of the sonnet form\, bending it into a kind of metaphysical and psychological outcry. Beginning in the cramped space of selfhood—in the bedroom\, cluttered with doubts\, and in the throes of marital loss—these poems edge toward the clarity of “what I can know and admit to knowing.” In song and in silence\, Ford inhabits the rooms of anguish and redemption with scouring exactness. This is poetry that “can break open\, // it can break your life\, it will break you // until you remain.” If You Have to Go is Ford’s most luminous and moving collection. \n  \n\n  \n“In every poem in If You Have to Go\, Katie Ford risks seeing—she must\, because from her first book onward\, but never more so than here\, her poems have been poems that have seen. Here\, Ford has seen the end of a marriage\, and in her great refusal to make the world weep as she weeps\, she finds herself at times almost unbearably at odds with a world she sees unchanged by her suffering\, and so she sees the world—‘everyone thrashes / against a wall / in this life.’ Ford becomes stronger with each book\, and is among the best poets of our generation.” – Shane McCrae \n  \n“With the publication of her first book\, Katie Ford established herself as a distinct and powerful voice in American poetry\, and in subsequent books her aesthetic has evolved of necessity to meet the demands of new urgencies. Here\, she goes to the bottom of loss to explore the relationship between uncertainty\, desire\, and belief as well as the relationship between faith in the human and faith in a God. At times it seems that only the careful speaking of the heart-made thought stands between this speaker and an abyss. This is a complex\, riveting\, and heartbreaking book.” – Jane Mead \n  \n\n  \nKatie Ford is the author of three previous poetry collections: Blood Lyrics\, Colosseum\, and Deposition. The recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship and the Larry Levis Reading Prize\, she teaches at the University of California\, Riverside. Katie’s author photo was taken by Helge Brekke. \n  \n  \nKatie Peterson is the author of four books of poetry\, This One Tree\,Permission\, and The Accounts. Her fourth collection\, A Piece of Good News\, will be published by FSG in February 2019. The winner of the Rilke Prize in Poetry from the University of North Texas\, she is Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of California\, Davis. Katie’s author photo was taken by Jackson Frishman. \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katie-ford-with-katie-peterson-if-you-have-to-go/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Clara Bingham in conversation with Charles Kaiser
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, September 24\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nFifty years later\, Clara Bingham and Charles Kaiser reflect on 1968: a year which shaped a generation and proved a hinge point in history. \nClara Bingham’s Witness to the Revolution is a riveting story of America in the turbulent year when the 60s ended\, and the nation teetered on the edge of revolution. As the 1960s drew to a close\, the United States was coming apart at the seams. The death toll in Vietnam was approaching fifty thousand\, and the ascendant counterculture was challenging nearly every aspect of American society — from work\, family\, and capitalism to sex\, science\, and gender relations. Witness to the Revolution\, Clara Bingham’s unique oral history of that tumultuous time\, unveils anew that moment when America careened to the brink of a civil war at home\, as it fought a long\, futile war abroad. \nCharles Kaiser’s 1968 in America is widely recognized as one of the best historic accounts of the 1960s. Largely based on unpublished interviews and documents (including in-depth conversations with anti-war presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy and Dylan)\, this is compulsively readable popular history. Now\, fifty years later\, and with a new introduction by Hendrik Hertzberg\, it is even more clear that this was a uniquely terrible\, wonderful\, and pivotal year in the story of America. \nFree to attend. \n    \nABOUT THE AUTHORS \nCharles Kaiser\, the author of 1968 in America\, has been a reporter at The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, and Newsweek. He has also written for Vanity Fair\, New York\, and The Washington Post. He has taught journalism at Columbia and Princeton\, and is the author of The Gay Metropolis\, a history of gay life in New York City since 1940. \nClara Bingham is the author of Class Action: The Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law (with Laura Leedy Gansler) and Women on the Hill: Challenging the Culture of Congress. She is a former NewsweekWhite House correspondent\, and her writing has appeared in Vanity Fair\, Vogue\, Harper’s Bazaar\, Talk\, The Washington Monthly\, Ms.\, and other publications. Bingham produced the 2011 documentary The Last Mountain. She lives in Manhattan and Brooklyn with her husband\, three children\, and three stepchildren.\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nMonday\, September 24\, 2018 – 7:30pm to 8:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clara-bingham-in-conversation-with-charles-kaiser/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB MEETING
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lively discussion about \n“Milena o el femur mas bello del Mundo” by Jorge Cepeda Patterson \nTo join the book group please contact iranyi@me.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spanish-language-book-club-meeting-4/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Dubravka Ugresic
DESCRIPTION:Croatian writer Dubravka Ugresic discusses her new novels\, Fox and American Fictionary. \n\nPraise for Fox \n\n“Ugresic is also affecting and eloquent\, in part because within her quirky\, aggressively sweet plot she achieves moments of profundity and evokes the stoicism innate in such moments.”—Mary Gaitskill \n\n“Never has a writer been more aware of how one narrative depends on another.”—Joanna Walsh \n\n“Dubravka Ugresic is the philosopher of evil and exile\, and the storyteller of many shattered lives.”—Charles Simic \n\nAbout Fox \n\nFox is the story of literary footnotes and “minor” characters―unnoticed people propelled into timelessness through the biographies and novels of others. With Ugresic’s characteristic wit\, Fox takes us from Russia to Japan\, through Balkan minefields and American road trips\, and from the 1920s to the present\, as it explores the power of storytelling and literary invention\, betrayal\, and the randomness of human lives.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dubravka-ugresic/
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:Kathryn Jordan reads poems from Riding Waves
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, September 25\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Solano \nKathryn Jordan reads select poems from her new collection\, Riding Waves. \nKathryn Jordan’s Riding Waves is not for the faint of spirit. Do not pick it up unless you are prepared to be jolted by hurts\, inspired by survival\, and charmed by metaphors that can only come from a wounded place within us.\nJohn Warley\, author of A Southern Girl \nKathryn Jordan’s beautiful book reverberates with the beauty and pain of a lost era. Scenes from a fragmented military childhood at the height of the Vietnam War are interspersed with meditations on Nature\, family\, love\, loss\, travel and music. It’s a rich tapestry of memory and spiritual inquiry. Jordan finds her way through a tumultuous time by paying rapt attention to the sensory details and small epiphanies that accompanied her on her journey. \nAlison Luterman\, author of Desire Zoo \nA strong book\, crafted and elegant\, utterly unsparing of hard truths and lit ablaze by the flamed-open heart of saying. These are poems that pull us close with their unflinching presence; roped in\, caught up by Kathe Jordan’s work\, we turn pages that spill a tough and aching history\, broken\, bled through\, and fraught with beauty. \nJudyth Hill\, editor\, poet\, author of Dazzle Wobble \nAbout the Author \n\nAt UC Berkeley\, Kathryn won the Elizabeth Mills Crothers Prize for Short Story and has placed narrative non-fiction with The Sun Magazine. She is the winner of the 2016 San Miguel de Allende Writers’ Conference Prize for Poetry. Her work was selected for Bay Area Generations and chosen to represent B.A.G. at Oakland Beast Crawl in 2016. Her poems have appeared in Roar Magazine and in the anthology\, Solamente en San Miguel. \n\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, September 25\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Solano\n1855 Solano Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kathryn-jordan-reads-poems-from-riding-waves/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Craft Conversation with Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:Afternoon Craft Conversation with Tongo Eisen-Martin\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, September 26\, 2018 –  \n2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-craft-conversation-with-tongo-eisen-martin/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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SUMMARY:H O L L O W A Y : R E A D I N G : S E R I E S Sara Nicholson
DESCRIPTION:Sara Nicholson \nREADINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
URL:https://litseen.com/event/h-o-l-l-o-w-a-y-r-e-a-d-i-n-g-s-e-r-i-e-s-sara-nicholson/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Preti Taneja reading from her new novel  We That Are Young
DESCRIPTION:We That Are Young \npublished by Alfred Knopf \nA stunning debut novel\, a modern-day King Lear set in contemporary India: the tale of a battle for power within a turbulent family\, for status within a nation in a constant state of transformation\, and for the love and respect of a father disappearing into dementia \nJivan Singh\, the bastard scion of the Devraj family returns to his New Delhi childhood home at the age of twenty-three after fifteen years in the United States. His arrival coincides with the unexpected resignation of the founder and aging patriarch of the Company–its simple name belying its vast holdings across industry and entertainment\, and the family’s national renown. On the same day\, Sita\, Devraj’s youngest daughter\, disappears–refusing to marry the man her father wants for her. Now\, Radha and Gargi\, Sita’s older sisters\, are given the Company–and a brutal struggle for power begins. Set against the backdrop of the anti-corruption protests that spread across India in 2011 and 2012\, We That Are Young is brilliant in its fierce\, incandescent storytelling and the energy of its prose. It tells a deeply insightful tale of India today\, the pace of life in one of the world’s fastest growing economies\, the clash of youth and age\, and the ever-present specter of death. But more than that\, it is a novel about the human heart–and its inevitable breaking point. \nPRETI TANEJA was born in the England to Indian parents and spent most of her childhood holidays in New Delhi. She has worked as a human rights reporter and filmmaker in Iraq\, Jordan\, Rwanda\, and Kosovo\, and her work has been published in The Guardian and openDemocracy. A fellow at Warwick University\, Preti’s 2014 novella\, Kumkum Malhotra\, won the Gatehouse Press New Fictions Prize. She is also the editor of Visual Verse and was selected as an AHRC/BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker for 2014. We That Are Young has been shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize for first-time novelists \nRead the UK Guardian Article Here !
URL:https://litseen.com/event/preti-taneja-reading-from-her-new-novel-we-that-are-young/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series: Jen Hofer and John Pluecker\, reading from their poetry
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series debuts September 2018 with a two-day series by poet-translator-activists Jen Hofer and John Pluecker\, who collectively organize Antena\, a language justice and language experimentation collaborative\, focusing on writing\, art- and book-making\, translating\, interpreting\, and language justice. Hofer and Pluecker\, visiting respectively from Los Angeles and Houston\, will read from their own work on Wednesday\, September 26\, at E. M. Wolfman Books in downtown Oakland\, then present their work around Antena the following evening\, Thursday\, September 27\, at The Poetry Center. Both events are free and open to the public. Please join us! \nJen Hofer (bio coming) \nJohn Pluecker is a language worker who writes\, translates\, organizes\, interprets\, and creates. In 2010\, he co-founded the collaborative Antena and in 2015 the social justice interpreting collective Antena Houston. His undisciplinary work is informed by experimental poetics\, language justice\, and cross-border/cross-language cultural production. He has translated numerous books from the Spanish\, including most recently Gore Capitalism (Semiotext(e)\, 2018) and Antígona González (Les Figues Press\, 2016). His book of poetry and image\, Ford Over\, was released in 2016 from Noemi Press. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore info at johnpluecker.com \nRelated event: \nTripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series\nAntena: a language justice and language experimentation collaborative\nJen Hofer and John Pluecker\nThursday SEPT 27\n7:00pm @ The Poetry Center\nHUM 512\, SFSU\, free and open to the public \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\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center & E. M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tripwire-cross-cultural-poetics-series-jen-hofer-and-john-pluecker-reading-from-their-poetry/
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:THE RACKET! #23: The Dark
DESCRIPTION:The summer’s over and light is getting dimmer in the evenings. Let’s gather a bunch of writerly souls together to shed a little light on THE DARK. \nDetails soon! \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/212401529441541/ \nHosted by Noah B. Sanders
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-23-the-dark/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Léonora Miano
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with the Cultural Services of the Consul General of France in San Francisco present \nLéonora Miano \ncelebrating the release of \nSeason of the Shadow \nPublished by Seagull Press \nThis powerful novel presents the early days of the transatlantic slave trade from a new perspective: that of the sub-Saharan population that became its first victims. Cameroonian novelist Léonora Miano presents a world on the brink of disappearing—a pre-colonial civilization with roots that stretch back for centuries. One day\, a group of villagers find twelve of their people missing. Where have they gone? Who is responsible? A collective dream\, troubling a group of mothers in a communal dwelling\, may have some of the answers\, as the women’s missing sons call to them in terror; at the same time\, a thick shadow settles over the huts\, blocking out the light of day. It is the shadow of slavery\, which will soon grow to blight the whole world. \nMiano renders this brutal story in deliberately strange\, dreamlike prose\, befitting a situation that is\, on its face\, all but impossible for the villagers to believe. \nLéonora Miano is a Cameroonian writer who lives in France. She is author of seven novels and two collections of essays. Season of the Shadow is her second book to be translated into English; her debut novel\, Dark Heart of the Night\, won the prix Femina when it was published in French in 2013. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/leonora-miano/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Antena: a language justice and language experimentation collaborative\, Jen Hofer and John Pluecker
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series debuts September 2018 with a two-day series by poet-translator-activists Jen Hofer and John Pluecker\, who collectively organize Antena\, a language justice and language experimentation collaborative\, focusing on writing\, art- and book-making\, translating\, interpreting\, and language justice. Hofer and Pluecker\, visiting respectively from Los Angeles and Houston\, will read from their own work on Wednesday\, September 26\, at E. M. Wolfman Books in downtown Oakland\, then present their work around Antena the following evening\, Thursday\, September 27\, at The Poetry Center. Both events are free and open to the public. Please join us! \nAntena is a language justice and literary experimentation collaborative founded by Jen Hofer and John Pluecker\, both writers\, artists\, literary translators\, bookmakers and activist interpreters. Antena activates links between social justice work and artistic practice by exploring how critical views on language can help us to reimagine and rearticulate the worlds we inhabit. Antena has exhibited\, published\, performed\, organized\, advocated\, translated\, curated\, interpreted\, and/or instigated with numerous groups and institutions\, including Blaffer Art Museum\, Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics\, and Project Row Houses. Antena publishes bilingual chapbooks and pamphlets through our Libros Antena Books imprint\, and collaborates with BOMB Magazine and Ugly Duckling Presse on the Señal Series of Latin American literature in translation. \nJohn Pluecker is a language worker who writes\, translates\, organizes\, interprets\, and creates. In 2010\, he co-founded the collaborative Antena and in 2015 the social justice interpreting collective Antena Houston. His undisciplinary work is informed by experimental poetics\, language justice\, and cross-border/cross-language cultural production. He has translated numerous books from the Spanish\, including most recently Gore Capitalism (Semiotext(e)\, 2018) and Antígona González (Les Figues Press\, 2016). His book of poetry and image\, Ford Over\, was released in 2016 from Noemi Press. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore info at Antena\nVIDEOS: Antena: Jen Hofer and John Pluecker at Vimeo \nRelated event: \nTripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series\nJen Hofer and John Pluecker \nreading from their poetry\nWednesday SEPT 26\n7:00pm @ E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\n410 13th Street (one block from 12th Street BART)\, Oakland\nfree and open to the public \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\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/antena-a-language-justice-and-language-experimentation-collaborative-jen-hofer-and-john-pluecker/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Zulema Renee Summerfield / Every Other Weekend
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Zulema Renee Summerfield for her debut novel\, Every Other Weekend. Please join us! \n  \nThe year is 1988\, and America is full of broken homes. The protagonist of this stunning debut novel is eight-year-old Nenny. Her life turns upside down when her parents announce they are getting a divorce. Her weekends are spent shuttling between their homes\, watching her mother move on quickly while her father struggles to keep it together. Nenny’s mother soon remarries and moves them into a home with her new husband and his own children. The memories of their former family life have been swept under the rug. \n  \nNenny has always been an anxious child with an overactive imagination but recently has had a creeping premonition that something terrible is going to happen. In her new home\, intimations of impending earthquakes (gulp) and neighborhood home invasions converge with ghosts from her stepfather’s days in Vietnam. Knock-kneed and a little stormy-eyed\, she is far too small for the thoughts that haunt her—yet her fears are not entirely unfounded. Indeed\, tragedy does come—in the most awful and unexpected way. \n  \nSet in the sun-scorched suburbs of California\, where teased hair and Bret Michaels mania reign supreme\, Every Other Weekend is a story about the surprising ways in which families fracture and reform. It’s a story of love lost and found\, and how sometimes the closest bonds we create come in the wake of unimaginable tragedy. \n  \n\n  \nZulema Renee Summerfield’s short fiction has appeared in the Threepenny Review\, Guernica\, and elsewhere. Her first book\, Everything Faces All Ways at Once\, is available from Fourteen Hills Press. A MacDowell Colony fellow\, she lives in Portland\, Oregon. \n  \n  \nThis event is free and all ages\, with mature themes. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zulema-renee-summerfield-every-other-weekend/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Christian Kracht
DESCRIPTION:Christian Kracht reads from his new novel\, The Dead. \n\nPraise for Christian Kracht \n\n“Imperium is astonishing and captivating\, a tongue-in-cheek Conradian literary adventure for our time.” ―Karl Ove Knausgaard\, author of My Struggle \n\n“To say a word about Christian Kracht’s Imperium would be like engraving Goethe’s Conversations of German Refugees into an orange seed. Or perhaps into a coconut? The cocovore on his South Sea isle would consume it at some point\, and then the writing would be gone. But then shadowy mountains of fate would still form in the background: the German history behind the dropouts who made it by escaping it\, when the evil procession of fate halted for a moment. An adventure novel. No doubt. That there even is still such a thing.”―Elfriede Jelinek\, author of The Piano Teacher and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature \n\n“Reads at times like the best Werner Herzog movie Herzog has yet to make.”―Tobias Carroll\, Biographile \n\nAbout The Dead \n\nIn The Dead\, the follow-up to his acclaimed novel Imperium (a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year)\, Christian Kracht mines the feverish film culture of the 1930s to produce a Gothic tale of global conspiracy\, personal loss\, and historical entanglements large and small. \n  \nIn Berlin\, Germany\, in the early 1930s\, the acclaimed Swiss film director Emil Nägeli receives the assignment of a lifetime: travel to Japan and make a film to establish the dominance of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi empire once and for all. But his handlers are unaware that Nägeli has colluded with the Jewish film critics to pursue an alternative objective―to create a monumental\, modernist\, allegorical spectacle to warn the world of the horror to come. \n  \nMeanwhile\, in Japan\, the film minister Masahiko Amakasu intends to counter Hollywood’s growing influence and usher in a new golden age of Japanese cinema by exploiting his Swiss visitor. The arrival of Nägeli’s film-star fiancée and a strangely thuggish\, pistol-packing Charlie Chaplin―as well as the first stirrings of the winds of war―soon complicates both Amakasu’s and Nägeli’s plans\, forcing them to face their demons . . . and their doom.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christian-kracht/
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:Léonora Miano - English Translation Release of "Season of the Shadow"
DESCRIPTION:We’re incredibly excited to be hosting the author\, Léonora Miano\, in collaboration with the Cultural Services French Embassy in the US. We’ll have more info about the event’s specific program soon! \nLéonora Miano is the author of Season of the Shadow\, published in the United States by Seagull Books (distributed by the University of Chicago Press) in April 2018 in a translation by Gila Walker. \nBorn in Cameroon\, Léonora Miano moved to France as a student. She has written fourteen books that have been translated into many languages. Miano’s award-winning first novel\, L’intérieur de la nuit\, was released in 2005 and translated in English by Tasmin Black. Her other books include Contours du jour qui vient\, which was awarded the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens in 2006. Upon its release in France in 2013\, the book Season of the Shadow won the prestigious Fémina prize and the Grand prix du roman metis. \nAbout the book: Season of the Shadow \n(Seagull Books\, 2018\, Translation by Gila Walker) \nThis powerful novel recounts the early days of the transatlantic slave trade in the perspective of its first victims\, the sub-Saharan population. Léonora Miano presents a world on the brink of disappearing—a pre-colonial civilization with roots that stretch back for centuries. One day\, a group of villagers finds twelve of their people missing. Where have they gone? Who is responsible? A collective dream\, troubling a group of mothers in a communal dwelling\, may hold some of the answers\, as the women’s missing sons call to them in terror. At the same time\, a thick shadow settles over the huts\, blocking out the light of day. It is the shadow of slavery\, which will soon grow to blight the whole world. \nMiano renders this brutal story in deliberately strange\, dreamlike prose\, befitting a situation that is\, on its face\, all but impossible for the villagers to believe.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/leonora-miano-english-translation-release-of-season-of-the-shadow/
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:THERE
DESCRIPTION:NEXT THERE: THERE 24 – Friday\,  September 28\, 2018\, with a great lineup of writers and musicians to be announced. See you in the fall! \nTHERE (THe Eastbay Reading Extravaganza) is a reading series showcasing emerging and established writers from Oakland and Berkeley\, with the occasional San Franciscan. Doug hosts it on the third Friday of each month at Octopus Literary Salon in Uptown Oakland. It also features a live original musical performance by a local musical artist at “halftime” of each month’s reading\, and Doug’s famous original LitQuiz literary trivia contest. It’s from 7:00-9:00pm. THERE has been putting the there back in Oakland since 2015!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/there-3/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jessica Hopper presents Night Moves\, in conversation with Carvell Wallace
DESCRIPTION:Written in taut\, mesmerizing\, often hilarious scenes drawn from 2004 through 2009\, Night Moves captures the fierce friendships and small moments that form us all. Drawing on her personal journals\, Jessica Hopper chronicles her time as a DJ\, living in decrepit punk houses\, biking to bad loft parties with her friends\, exploring Chicago deep into the night. And\, along the way\, she creates an homage to vibrant corners of the city that have been muted by sleek development. A book birthed in the amber glow of Chicago streetlamps\, Night Moves is about a transformative moment of cultural history–and how a raw\, rebellious writer found her voice. \nJessica Hopper will be discussing her memoir with the writer Carvel Wallace.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessica-hopper-presents-night-moves-in-conversation-with-carvell-wallace/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="University of Texas Press":MAILTO:jpinckney@utpress.utexas.edu
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SUMMARY:Jessica Hopper
DESCRIPTION:Jessica Hopper\, author of The First Collection of Criticism By A Living Female Rock Critic\, dicusses her new memoir\, Night Moves. \n\nPraise for Night Moves \n\n“Jessica Hopper’s Night Moves reads like a diary—immediate and urgent. Hopper and her friends prowl the streets of Chicago on bicycles\, always moving\, surrounded by both the city and a cocoon of occupied affection. It’s full of music and pets and friendship and made me feel as if the heating bills in Chicago would be worth it\, if one could have this sort of busy\, free life. The book exists in that space between fact and fiction\, between novel and memoir—but I knew right away that every word was true.” Emma Straub\, best-selling author of Modern Lovers \n\n“In Night Moves\, Jessica Hopper opens the window to a past that might have been my past\, or your past\, or the past of someone you know. It is a book of poems\, it is a memoir\, it is a living journal\, all at once. This is the best writing—personal\, but with two arms held wide open to invite you in. Night Moves is a book teeming with generosity. It gives and gives and asks only for an eager imagination in return.” Hanif Abdurraqib\, author of They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us \n\n“In this vivid collection of snapshots from Hopper’s life as a beneficent renegade rock girl\, she manages to communicate so much more than what happened and what she thought about it. She takes you with her\, on every steamy summer bike ride\, to every jukebox and rock show and dive bar in her wild\, sweet young life.” Lizzy Goodman\, author of Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001–2011 \n\nAbout Night Moves \n\nWritten in taut\, mesmerizing\, often hilarious scenes drawn from 2004 through 2009\, Night Moves captures the fierce friendships and small moments that form us all. Drawing on her personal journals\, Jessica Hopper chronicles her time as a DJ\, living in decrepit punk houses\, biking to bad loft parties with her friends\, exploring Chicago deep into the night. And\, along the way\, she creates an homage to vibrant corners of the city that have been muted by sleek development. A book birthed in the amber glow of Chicago streetlamps\, Night Moves is about a transformative moment of cultural history–and how a raw\, rebellious writer found her voice.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessica-hopper/
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:11TH ANNUAL BEAT MUSEUM POETRY FESTIVAL
DESCRIPTION:IN ASSOCIATION WITH 100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE\nSAT. & SUN. SEPT. 29TH & 30TH\, 1-6PM \nTwo days of poetry and music\, produced by Fred Dodsworth\, Paul Corman-Roberts\, and Marguerite Munoz. \n\nKim Shuck\nMarguerite Munoz\nPaul Corman-Roberts\nBill Gainer\nMK Chavez\nRaina De Leon\nPreeti Vangani\nAmelia Alvarez\nMaw Shein Win (F)\nTerry Adams\nDiane Mooney\nDale Jensen (SAT)\nAlexandra Naughton\nAnne Cheliek\nPeter Kline\nChris Olander\nDiego DeLeo\nQ.R. Hand\nMichael Joseph ArchAngelini\nMatthew Siegel\nNaomi Quinonez\nAbe Becker\nWilliam Taylor Jr.\nBen Gucciardi\nLeah Lubin\nCesar Love\nGwynn O’ Gara\nCaroline Goodwin\nNeeli Cherkovski\nNatasha Dennerstein\nK.R. Morrison\nJoel Landmine\nTongo Eisen-Martin\nFred Dodsworth\nKirk Lumpkin\nAlexandra Kostoulas\nYoussef Alaoui\nRichard Martin\nCarol Denney\nAllen Fleming\nBlack Lyrics Ileah\nThea Matthews\nCarl Macki\nJessica Loos\nMary Marcia Casoly\nJoe Cottonwood\nGary Horsman w. Bill Haines\nTracy Knapp\nBill Vartnaw\nJeanne Powell\nColleen McKee\nBrittany Perham\nNicole Henares\nGarrett Murphy\nPeggy Morrison\nGary Turchin\nDaniel Ari\nEsther Kamkar\nCarol Dorf\nNorm Mattox\nCara Vida\nRichard Loranger\nDeamer Dunn\nAideed Medina
URL:https://litseen.com/event/11th-annual-beat-museum-poetry-festival/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:KASSIDAT: Spoken word and music
DESCRIPTION:Details soon! \nFeatured readers – \nMusical guests: \nWith your host Bloodflower
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kassidat-spoken-word-and-music-3/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:100 Thousand Poets For Change / Bay Area Poetry Marathon joint event
DESCRIPTION:Curator: Donna de la Perrière ____\nReaders:  Info To Come \nDoors open at 6:30pm.  Readings begin at 7:00pm sharp.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/100-thousand-poets-for-change-bay-area-poetry-marathon-joint-event/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shane Bauer: American Prison
DESCRIPTION:Shane Bauer is a senior reporter for Mother Jones. He is the recipient of the National Magazine Award for Best Reporting\, Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting\, Atlantic Media’s Michael Kelly Award\, the Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism\, and at least 20 others. Bauer is the co-author\, along with Sarah Shourd and Joshua Fattal\, of a memoir\, A Sliver of Light\, which details his time spent as a prisoner in Iran. \nABOUT AMERICAN PRISON \nIn 2014\, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield\, Louisiana. An award-winning investigative journalist\, he used his real name; there was no meaningful background check. Four months later\, his employment came to an abrupt end. But he had seen enough\, and in short order he wrote an expose about his experiences that won a National Magazine Award and became the most-read feature in the history of the magazine Mother Jones. Still\, there was much more that he needed to say. In American Prison\, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America from their origins in the decades before the Civil War. For\, as he soon realized\, we can’t understand the cruelty of our current system and its place in the larger story of mass incarceration without understanding where it came from. Private prisons became entrenched in the South as part of a systemic effort to keep the African-American labor force in place in the aftermath of slavery\, and the echoes of these shameful origins are with us still. \nThe private prison system is deliberately unaccountable to public scrutiny. Private prisons are not incentivized to tend to the health of their inmates\, or to feed them well\, or to attract and retain a highly-trained prison staff. Though Bauer befriends some of his colleagues and sympathizes with their plight\, the chronic dysfunction of their lives only adds to the prison’s sense of chaos. To his horror\, Bauer finds himself becoming crueler and more aggressive the longer he works in the prison\, and he is far from alone. \nA blistering indictment of the private prison system\, and the powerful forces that drive it\, American Prison is a necessary human document about the true face of justice in America.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shane-bauer-american-prison/
LOCATION:moe’s books\, 2476 TELEGRAPH AVE\, BERKELEY\, CA\, 94704-2322\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Moe's Books":MAILTO:owenmoes@gmail.com
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