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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays reading "Exotic Locales: China\, Australia & the American Midwest"
DESCRIPTION:Setting is a device used in writing fiction. A particular setting can be exotic to one reader and prosaic to another. Odd Mondays has asked three authors of recent novels to read excerpts describing setting at “Exotic Locales\,” Monday\, October 1\, 7pm to 8pm\, at Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. After the readings\, the authors will discuss why they chose that setting and what function it serves in their novel. Former Noe Valley resident Kirstin Chen set her novel BURY WHAT WE CANNOT TAKE in Mao-era China and Hong Kong. Current Noe Valley resident Rebecca Winterer‘s novel THE SINGING SHIP takes place in Queensland\, Australia. TWISTER\, by Genanne Walsh\, is set in the American Midwest\, which is clearly exotic to San Franciscans\, expats or not. Admission is free and so are the refreshments! \nMORE ABOUT THE AUTHORS:\nKirstin Chen’s new novel\, BURY WHAT WE CANNOT TAKE\, was named a Most Anticipated Upcoming Book by Electric Literature\, The Millions\, The Rumpus\, Harper’s Bazaar\, and InStyle\, among others. She is also the author of SOY SAUCE FOR BEGINNERS. She was the fall 2017 NTU-NAC National Writer in Residence in Singapore and has received awards from the Steinbeck Fellows Program\, Sewanee\, Hedgebrook\, and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference. Born and raised in Singapore\, she currently resides in San Francisco. \nGenanne Walsh is the author of TWISTER\, which was awarded the Big Moose Prize for the Novel from Black Lawrence Press. Twister was also shortlisted for the Brighthorse Prize\, the Housatonic Book Award in Fiction\, and the Sarton Women’s Book Award. She lives in San Francisco with her wife and dogs. \nRebecca Winterer’s THE SINGING SHIP was awarded the Del Sol Press 2016 First Novel Prize and selected as a finalist for the Black Lawrence Press 2016 Big Moose Prize. She’s received fellowships at the Millay Colony\, the Vermont Studio Center\, Virginia Center for Creative Arts\, and Yaddo and has had a story published by Puerto del Sol. She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Raised in Queensland\, Australia\, she now lives in Noe Valley with her husband.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-reading-exotic-locales-china-australia-the-american-midwest/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:POETS! – featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-8/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Juan Gabriel Vasquez discusses his new novel\, The Shape of the Ruins
DESCRIPTION:Juan Gabriel Vasquez discusses his new novel\, The Shape of the Ruins. \n\nPraise for Juan Gabriel Vasquez \n\n“Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s The Shape of the Ruins is a highly sophisticated\, fast-moving political thriller set in Colombia and an excellent read.” —Alan Furst \n\n“One of the great novels of recent years.” —Mario Vargas Llosa \n\n“A reinventor of Latin American literature in the 21st century.” —Jonathan Franzen \n\n“Juan Gabriel Vásquez is a considerable writer.” —E. L. Doctorow \n\n“I felt myself under the spell of a masterful writer. Juan Gabriel Vásquez has many gifts—intelligence\, wit\, energy\, a deep vein of feeling–but he uses them so naturally that soon enough one forgets one’s amazement at his talents\, and then the strange\, beautiful sorcery of his tale takes hold.” —Nicole Krauss \n\nAbout The Shape of the Ruins \n\nA sweeping tale of conspiracy theories\, assassinations\, and twisted obsessions — the much anticipated masterpiece from Juan Gabriel Vásquez. \nThe Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy\, political obsession\, and literary investigation. When a man is arrested at a museum for attempting to steal the bullet-ridden suit of a murdered Colombian politician\, few notice. But soon this thwarted theft takes on greater meaning as it becomes a thread in a widening web of popular fixations with conspiracy theories\, assassinations\, and historical secrets; and it haunts those who feel that only they know the real truth behind these killings. \nThis novel explores the darkest moments of a country’s past and brings to life the ways in which past violence shapes our present lives. A compulsive read\, beautiful and profound\, eerily relevant to our times and deeply personal\, The Shape of the Ruins is a tour-de-force story by a master at uncovering the incisive wounds of our memories.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/juan-gabriel-vasquez-discusses-his-new-novel-the-shape-of-the-ruins/
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:H O L L O W A Y : R E A D I N G : S E R I E S Evie Shockley
DESCRIPTION:Evie Shockley \nREADINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC\n 
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-evie-shockley/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Robert Hass and Essy Stone
DESCRIPTION:This event is cosponsored by Poetry Society of America and the Mill Valley Library. This is sure to be a packed event\, so register on the Mill Valley Library website starting on October 15. \n \nRobert Hass\, former United States Poet Laureate\, has illumined the poetic landscape with his many books of poetry\, translation\, and essays. His honors include the National Book Award\, and the Pulitzer Prize. His celebrated books of essays include A Little Book on Form: An Exploration Into the Formal Imagination of Poetry and What Light Can Do: Essays on Art\, Imagination\, and the Natural World\, the recipient of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Hass translated many of the works of Czeslaw Milosz\, and he edited Selected Poems: 1954-1986 by Tomas Transtromer; The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho\, Buson\, and Issa; and Modernist Women Poets: An Anthology (with Paul Ebenkamp). His many honors include the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship\, the National Book Critics’ Circle Award (twice)\, and the Wallace Stevens Award. His poetry is deeply reflective of the California landscape\, domestic life\, and spiritual awareness. To hear him read or speak is transformative\, whether a Haiku from Issa\, a mediation from Miłosz\, or his own lyric work. \n\n\n\n\nEssy Stone is a PhD student in poetry at the University of Southern California. She holds an MFA from the University of Miami\, and recently completed a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. Her work has been published in the New Yorker\, 32 Poems\, and Prairie Schooner. Her first book\, What It Done to Us\, was awarded the Idaho Prize in Poetry and was published by Lost Horse Press in 2017. For much of her life she supported herself as a waitress. Her work reflects the East Tennessee culture in which she grew up\, an often oppressive world\, especially for women or minorities. The freshness of her language and imagery reflect and transform that environment just as she has transformed herself.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-hass-and-essy-stone/
LOCATION:Main Reading Room\, Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Jazz Stories: Live Jazz. Wonderful Stories.
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, October 2\, 7:30 pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Solano \nPeople love hearing jazz…and hearing about it. Musicians like Miles Davis\, Charlie Parker and Buddy Rich were original\, colorful characters artists who said and did astonishing things. Fortunately their colleagues cared enough to document these moments in stories and pictures and we now have a rich repository of photos and anecdotes about these artists\, and about the American songwriters and composers who created the raw material of jazz. \nJazz Stories is a performance of the songs of jazz from its most creative periods intensified with illuminating\, funny and touching true stories of the time. \nCome hear music and jazz stories you probably have never heard…but will never forget. Hosted by Richard Leiter. \nThe first Tuesday of every month at Pegasus Books Solano.\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, October 2\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books on Solano\n1855 Solano Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94707\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nSolano Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jazz-stories-live-jazz-wonderful-stories-2/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Hot New Books
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Kathleen McClung\, Casandra Dallett\, Mary Mackay\, Ingrid Keir. Open Mic Night follows the featured readers. Sign-up now for Ist Annual Open Mic Award’s Contest. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hot-new-books-2/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:7pm Book Club
DESCRIPTION:book club
URL:https://litseen.com/event/7pm-book-club/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Reyna Grande with Carolina De Robertis / A Dream Called Home
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the San Francisco launch for Reyna Grandeand her new memoir A Dream Called Home. She’ll be in conversation with Carolina De Robertis. Please join us! \n  \nFrom bestselling author Reyna Grande—whose remarkable memoir The Distance Between Us has become required reading in schools across the country—comes an inspiring account of one woman’s quest to find her place in America as a first-generation Latina university student and aspiring writer determined to build a new life for her family one fearless word at a time. \nWhen Reyna Grande was nine-years-old\, she walked across the US–Mexico border in search of a home\, desperate to be reunited with the parents who had left her behind years before for a better life in the City of Angels. What she found instead was an indifferent mother\, an abusive\, alcoholic father\, and a school system that belittled her heritage. \nWith so few resources at her disposal\, Reyna finds refuge in words\, and it is her love of reading and writing that propels her to rise above until she achieves the impossible and is accepted to the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nAlthough her acceptance is a triumph\, the actual experience of American college life is intimidating and unfamiliar for someone like Reyna\, who is now once again estranged from her family and support system. Again\, she finds solace in words\, holding fast to her vision of becoming a writer\, only to discover she knows nothing about what it takes to make a career out of a dream. \nThrough it all\, Reyna is determined to make the impossible possible\, going from undocumented immigrant of little means to “a fierce\, smart\, shimmering light of a writer” (Cheryl Strayed); a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist “speak[ing] for millions of immigrants whose voices have gone unheard” (Sandra Cisneros); and a proud mother of two beautiful children who will never have to know the pain of poverty and neglect. \nTold in Reyna’s exquisite\, heartfelt prose\, A Dream Called Home demonstrates how\, by daring to pursue her dreams\, Reyna was able to build the one thing she had always longed for: a home that would endure. \n  \n\n  \nReyna Grande is the recipient of the 2015 Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature. Her first novel\, Across a Hundred Mountains (Atria\, 2006)\, received a 2006 El Premio Aztlan Literary Award\, a 2007 American Book Award\, and a 2010 Latino Books Into Movies Award. Her second novel\, Dancing with Butterflies(Washington Square Press\, 2009) was critically acclaimed and was the recipient of a 2010 International Latino Book Award\, Best Women’s Issues\, and a 2010 Las Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club Selection. She was also a 2003 PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellow. The Distance Between Us was a 2012 National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalist and has been selected by numerous city-wide read programs\, including Rochester Reads 2018\, MacReads 2018\, One Book/One Michiana 2018\, All Henrico Reads 2018\, Timberland Reads Together 2017\, Telluride One Book/One Canyon 2017\, Estes Park One Book/One Valley 2017\, Saginaw One Book/One Community 2016\, Camarillo Reads 2016\, Roswell Reads 2015\, and One Maryland/One Book 2014\, among others. To learn more about Reyna Grande and her work\, visit www.reynagrande.com. Reyna’s author photo was taken by Imran Chaudhry. \n  \nA writer of Uruguayan origins\, Carolina De Robertis is the author of the novels The Gods of Tango\, Perla\, and the international bestseller The Invisible Mountain. Her books have been translated into seventeen languages\, and have been named Best Books of the Year in venues including the San Francisco Chronicle\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\, BookList\, and NBC. She is the recipient of a Stonewall Book Award\, Italy’s Rhegium Julii Prize\, and a 2012 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, among other honors. She is also an award-winning translator of Latin American and Spanish literature\, and editor of the anthology Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times\, which features essays by leading thinkers and writers in response to the shifting political atmosphere in the U.S. In 2017\, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts named De Robertis on its 100 List of “people\, organizations\, and movements that are shaping the future of culture.” She teaches fiction and literary translation at San Francisco State University\, and lives in Oakland\, California\, with her wife and two children. She is currently at work on her fourth novel\, The Burning Edge of the World. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-reyna-grande-with-carolina-de-robertis-a-dream-called-home/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Fady Joudah
DESCRIPTION:Fady Joudah’s fourth and most recent poetry collection is Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance. He is the recipient of a Yale Younger Poets prize\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, Lannan Residency\, and the Griffin International Poetry prize. He is the translator of several volumes of Arabic poetry into English. He is also a practicing physician of internal medicine in Houston\, TX.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fady-joudah-2/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Mazza Writer in Residence Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta with special guest Daisy Zamora\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:As part of their Mazza Writer in Residency for October 1–6\, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta will be joined by celebrated Nicaraguan poet—and SF State faculty member in Latina/Latino Studies—Daisy Zamora\, with the two poets reading from their works\, followed by a conversation between them and in response to their audience. Supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation\, this event is free and open to the public. Please join us! \nA Nicaraguan Californian via Mexico raised both in Huntington Park and Highland Park neighborhoods of Los Angeles\, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta lives in a rent controlled apartment in the Mission District of San Francisco. An artist\, writer\, reproductive justice activist\, patient advocate\, and lapsed full spectrum doula who supports themself through working at a neighborhood cafe and cleaning houses\, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta’s work attempts\, as fellow poet Lauren Levin writes\, to “include direct revolutionary action\, up to and including revolutionary violence\, as part of a continuum of care\, and their use of this redefinition of care-work to rethink gendered paradigms.” Their first book\, The Easy Body\, was published by Oakland queer art & publishing collective Timeless\, Infinite Light in 2017. Photo: Dickie Bahto. \nDaisy Zamora is one of the most prominent figures in contemporary Latin American poetry.  Her work is known for its uncompromising voice and wide-ranging subject matter that explores and expresses the realities of  everyday life while encompassing human rights\, politics\, revolution\, feminist issues\, literature\, art\, history\, and culture.  During Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution she was a combatant for the FSLN (Sandinista National Liberation Front)\, and during the final 1979 Sandinista offensive became the voice and program director for clandestine Radio Sandino.  After the triumph of the revolution\, she was appointed Vice Minister of Culture for the new government. She worked with fellow poet and mentor Ernesto Cardenal\, Minister of Culture to create and implement numerous programs that successfully revitalized the war‑damaged cultural life of Nicaragua\, including a popular\, highly successful national literacy program that brought books and reading\, poetry\, and visual arts to even the remotest areas of the country. \nAuthor of numerous books of poetry in Spanish\, as well as a collection of political essays\, she also edited the first comprehensive anthology of Nicaraguan women poets published in Latin America.  Her latest poetry collection\, La violenta espuma\, was published in Madrid by renowned Spanish poetry publisher Visor in late December 2017.  Also recently\, she was featured in director Jenny Murray’s award winning documentary ¡Las Sandinistas!\, soon to be aired on PBS. Among her poetry books in English\, The Violent Foam: New & Selected Poems\, a bilingual collections\, was published by Curbstone Press.  Life for Each\, was published in England by Katabasis in 1994;  an earlier collection\, Riverbed of Memory\, was published by City Lights Books in 1992\, and Clean Slate by Curbstone Press in 1993. \nA political activist and advocate for women’s rights throughout her life\, for the last several years she has taught poetry workshops at a number of universities and colleges\, and has been a lecturer of Latin American culture and literature for the Latin American & Latino Studies Department at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, the University of San Francisco\, and currently at San Francisco State University. She resides in Managua and San Francisco\, where she lives with her husband\, U.S. poet and writer George Evans. Photo: Frank Pineda. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nTatiana Luboviski-Acosta\nin performance\, participants tba\nSaturday OCT 6\n7:00pm @ The Green Arcade\n1680 Market Street\, San Francisco\, free and open to the public\nsupported by a grant from the Sam Mazza Foundation \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/mazza-writer-in-residence-tatiana-luboviski-acosta-with-special-guest-daisy-zamora-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Sims
DESCRIPTION:Multi-media conceptual artist\, writer and activist visits City Lights to celebrate the release of his video poem chapbook\, A Blazing Grace and the AfroDixieRemixes: The San Francisco Session \nThe AfroDixie music project confronts the song “Dixie” – the anthem of the Confederacy subversively by remixing\, remapping and cross-appropriation with a collection of 14 tracks of Dixie in the many genres of black music: Spiritual\, Blues\, Gospel\, Jazz\, Funk Calypso\, Samba\, Soul\, R&B\, House\, Hip Hop. To critically engage this project with both historical and current social- political-cultural themes\, the artist has been hosting listening sessions around the country\, inviting poets\, artists\, scholars\, activist and community members to respond to the music. This session has visited Martha’s Vineyard Film Center\, Detroit Institute of Arts and the Bowery Poetry Club. Special guest poets/writers and performers in the Bay Area will be invited to respond to the various tracks. \nThis sound performance is a part of the artist’s 16-year multi-media project\, Recoloration Proclamation\, a 16 yearmultimedia project which explores the complexity of identity\, cultural appropriation/remixing\, white supremacy\, visual terrorism in the context of Confederate iconography and African-American culture. This system of works features recolored Confederate flags\, a noose hanging installation in Gettysburg\, a 13 southern states Confederate flag funeral\, videos\, site specific performances\, a play\, a documentary film\, the music project AfroDixieRemixes\, the annual Burn and Bury Confederate Flag Memorial and most recently the outside performance and Kennedy Museum exhibition of The Proper Way to Hang to a Confederate Flag at Ohio University.  For more context\, review John Sims’ CNN Op-Ed piece\, Don’t Resurrect the Confederacy – de-zombify it.  \nThe City Lights event will feature\, as an opening act video poems from the text of Sims’ limited edition artist chapbook\, Blazing Grace produced especially for this event. The event is also in conjunction with the group exhibition\, “Reinterpretation as Resistance: Artists Questioning Normative Iconography” which includes various element of John Sims’ RecolorationProclamation. The show is curated by Aaron Wilder at The Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery at San José State University\, October 2-November 2\, 2018. \nFor more info this music\, see the infomercial\, liner notes\, music video\, participating musicians. To preview the music tracks go to www.afrodixieremixes.com. \nJohn Sims\, a Detroit native\, is a multi-media conceptual artist\, writer and activist creating projects spanning the areas of installation\, text\, music\, film\, performance and large scale activism. His main projects are informed by mathematics\, the politics of sacred symbols/anniversaries and the agency of poetry. His work has been featured in the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Wall Street Journal\,   CNN\, NBC News\, USA Today\, NPR\,The Guardian\, ThinkProgress\, Al Jazeera\,  Art in America\, Sculpture\, BOMB\, Science News\, Nature and Scientific American. He has written for CNN\, Al Jazeera\, The Huffington Post\, Guernica Magazine\, and The Rumpus.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-sims/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Man Booker International Prizewinners Olga Tokarczuk and Jennifer Croft
DESCRIPTION:Man Booker International Prizewinners Olga Tokarczuk and Jennifer Croft discuss Flights. Sponsored by The Center for the Art of Translation. \n\nAbout Flights \n\nFlights is a novel about travel in the 21st century and human anatomy. From the 17th  century\, we have the story of the real Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen\, who dissected and drew pictures of his own amputated leg\, discovering in so doing the Achilles tendon. From the 18th century\, we have the story of a North African-born slave turned Austrian courtier stuffed and put on display after his death in spite of his daughter’s ever more desperate protests\, as well as the story of Chopin’s heart as it makes the covert journey from Paris to Warsaw\, stored in a tightly sealed jar beneath his sister’s skirt. From the present we have the trials and tribulations of a wife accompanying her much older professor husband as he teaches a course on a cruise ship in the Greek islands\, the quest of a Polish woman who emigrated to New Zealand as a teenager but must now return to Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart\, and the slow descent into madness of a young husband whose wife and child mysteriously vanished on a vacation on a Croatian island and then appeared again with no explanation. \n  \nThrough these narratives\, interspersed with short bursts of analysis and digressions on topics ranging from travel-sized cosmetics to the Maori\, Flights guides the reader beyond the surface layer of modernity and towards the core of the very nature of humankind.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/man-booker-international-prizewinners-olga-tokarczuk-and-jennifer-croft/
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:MARY: A Journal of New Writing
DESCRIPTION:MARY: A Journal of New Writing is accepting submissions for our Fall 2018 issue. If you have poetry\, nonfiction\, or fiction you would like to share\, please send it our way! Authors of works selected for the Fall 2018 Issue will be offered a small honorarium. Submissions are open until November 7th. We look forward to reading your work! For more information about our submission guidelines\, please use the following link: https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/MarySubmissionForm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-a-journal-of-new-writing-3/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Rise & Shine: A Back To School Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a family friendly night of live music\, storytelling\, art making and community! \nCome get down with the GRAMMY nominated Oakland based children’s music group Alphabet Rockers who make learning come alive with the beats\, rhymes\, dance moves\, and community of hip hop. \nListen to local children’s book author Tiffany Golden take us on a journey with Midnight\, Keeper of Dreams and Protector of Children in the mystical land of Shina\, as she reads from her Midnight Stories Series. \nGet inspired by Spotlight:Girls\, a program where girls learn how to be bold and brave by making theater\, art\, music and media. \nFeaturing: \nAlphabet Rockers – http://alphabetrockers.com \nSpotlight:Girls – a women-owned organization with a mission to educate\, inspire\, and activate girls to take center stage\, https://spotlightgirls.com \nTiffany Golden – storyteller and author of Midnight Stories Series www.midnightstoryseries.net \nKaia Marbin – Youth Activist\nhttps://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/How-one-child-s-view-on-immigration-can-help-in-13041715.php \nThis event is family friendly and welcomes all families\, teachers\, educators\, youth workers and community members! \nIn The Space: \n• Delicious food available from Two Mamacitas Pop Up Kitchen\n• Fresh music jams spun by DJ XCAIROCITOSX\n• Interactive art and book making activities\n• Live illustration booth with Allah El Henson!\n• Local children’s books for sale \nSchedule: \n6-6:30pm – interactive arts activities\, live illustration booth and food available from Two Mamacitas \n6:30-7:30pm – performances start promptly at 6:30pm \n7:30-8:30pm – DJ XCAIROCITOSX
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rise-shine-a-back-to-school-celebration/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Kai Carlson-Wee -- RAIL
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, October 5\n7:00pm\n\nMORE INFO TO COME \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nFriday\, October 5\, 2018 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kai-carlson-wee-rail-2/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:No Where to Go: How Public Bathrooms Fail Our Private Needs
DESCRIPTION:Lezlie Lowe discusses the history and current dilemmas of public bathrooms. Everybody must use them\, so how come public restrooms still aren’t universally accessible? And why do so many people have “bathroom confusion”? Don’t miss this eye-opening author talk/book signing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/no-where-to-go-how-public-bathrooms-fail-our-private-needs/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library – Main Branch\, 125 - 14th Street\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash - featuring Terese Svoboda
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, October 7\n3:00pm\n\nEAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome back our friends from Poetry Flash on Sunday\, October 7th at 3pm. Terese Svoboda will be discussing her book Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge\, Radical Poet. \nAuthor\, poet\, and memoirist Svoboda takes the reader on a fascinating journey from Ridge’s childhood as a newly arrived Irish immigrant in the grim mining towns of New Zealand\, to her years as a budding writer in Sydney\, Australia\, to her migration to America and the cities of San Francisco\, Chicago\, and New York. Once considered one of the most popular poets of her day\, Ridge later fell out of critical favor due to verse that looked head on at the major issues of her time. This lively portrait is a who’s who of all the key players in the arts\, literature\, and radical politics of the time\, in which Lola Ridge stood front and center. Now more than ever this biography offers inspiration to all those engaged in dissenting literature of our time and the movements that have inspired this renaissance of literary activism that we are seeing today. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSunday\, October 7\, 2018 – 3:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-featuring-terese-svoboda/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: an afternoon with children's books authors Jim Averbeck\, Julie Downing\, Christy Hale\, and Yuyi Morales
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon of readings by children’s books authors Jim Averbeck (Trevor)\, Julie Downing (Tessa Takes Wing)\, Christy Hale (Water Land: Land and Water Forms from Aroud the World)\, and Yuyi Morales (Dreamers). Please join us! \n  \nTrevor \nby Jim Averbeck \n  \nTrevor is a lonely yellow canary looking for a friend. \nHe stretches his wings the width of his boring cage and notices the tree outside stretching its branch. And on the end of that branch? Another canary! But he’s so shy and quiet. \nTrevor knows just how to make him feel comfortable. \nThis is an elegantly told\, truly unique tale by author Jim Averbeck and illustrator Amy Hevron\, of a canary who befriends a lemon and finds that you don’t have to be two of a kind to form a meaningful and lasting friendship. \n  \nJim Averbeck works\, plays\, and evades the law in San Francisco\, California. His first book\, In a Blue Room\, was a Charlotte Zolotow Honor book. His popular books Except If and Oh No\, Little Dragon! feature charming protagonists with pointy teeth. His book\, The Market Bowl and his middle grade novel A Hitch at the Fairmont were Junior Library Guild Selections. His book\, One Word From Sophia\, was an IndyNext Top 10 for Summer 2015. Check out his newest picture books: Trevor\, from Neal Porter Books and Two Problems for Sophia from Margaret K. McElderry Books. Spy agencies can find Jim online at jimaverbeck.com. Author photo by Sonya Sones. \n  \n\n  \nTessa Takes Wing\nby Richard Jackson\, illustrated by Julie Downing \n  \nIt’s almost morning and everyone’s asleep. Everyone except Tessa. \n  \nQuiet as a mouse\, Tessa takes flight . . . UP . . . UP until she’s flying high above her crib. Her first stop: her sister Maggie’s blue elephant! Then\, Maggie’s fire truck . . . and her polka-dot umbrella. But she better be quiet and quick before her daddy hears and stops all her fun! \n  \nJulie Downing was born in Denver\, Colorado\, graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and currently lives in San Francisco\, CA\, where she can see a corner of the Golden Gate Bridge from her studio window. Noted for rich\, jewel like watercolor illustrations\, she has illustrated over 45 picture books. Julie’s work has been featured at The Society of Illustrator’s Original Art Show in NYC and has been exhibited at galleries throughout the United States and England. She has won numerous awards for her work\, including a Parent’s Choice Award\, the New York Public Library Best Books Award\, APAAL Best Illustrated Book\, and the Irma Black Silver Medal. She was selected to appear in Talking with Artists Too\, a book about 12 of the nation’s best Children’s’ Book Illustrators. Julie also teaches illustration to both graduate and undergraduate students at the Academy of Art University and UC Berkeley Extension. You can see more of her work at juliedowning.com. \n  \n\n  \nWater Land: Water and Land Forms Around the World\nwritten and illustrated by Christy Hale \n  \nA lake turns into an island. \nA cozy bay into a secluded cape. \nA gulf with sea turtles transforms into a peninsula surrounded by pirate ships. \n  \nThis unique information book for the very young switches between bodies of water and corresponding land masses with the simple turn of a page. Readers will delight as the story of Water Land unfolds and will see just how connected the earth and the water really are. \n  \nChristy Hale has illustrated numerous award-winning books for children\, including two that she also wrote: The East-West House: Noguchi’s\nChildhood in Japan and Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building\, an ALA Notable\, a Boston Globe Horn Book Honor Award Recipient\, an International Reading Association Award winner\, a California Eureka! Award winner\, and much more. An art director\, designer\, and educator\, Hale teaches Writing for Picture Books at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She lives with her family in Palo Alto\, California. \n  \n\n  \nDreamers \nby Yuyi Morales \n  \nCaldecott Honor artist and five-time Pura Belpré Award winnerYuyi Morales tells her own immigration story in this picture-book tribute to the transformative power of hope … and reading. \nIn 1994\, Yuyi Morales left her home in Xalapa\, Mexico and came to the US with her infant son. She left behind nearly everything she owned\, but she didn’t come empty-handed. \nShe brought her strength\, her work\, her passion\, her hopes and dreams…and her stories. Caldecott Honor artist and five-time Pura Belpré winner Yuyi Morales’s gorgeous new picture book Dreamers is about making a home in a new place. Yuyi and her son Kelly’s passage was not easy\, and Yuyi spoke no English whatsoever at the time. But together\, they found an unexpected\, unbelievable place: the public library. There\, book by book\, they untangled the language of this strange new land\, and learned to make their home within it. \nDreamers is a celebration of what migrantes bring with them when they leave their homes. It’s a story about family. And it’s a story to remind us that we are all dreamers\, bringing our own gifts wherever we roam. Beautiful and powerful at any time but given particular urgency as the status of our own Dreamers becomes uncertain\, this is a story that is both topical and timeless. \n  \nBorn in Xalapa\, Mexico\, where she currently resides\, Yuyi Morales lived for many years in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where she still maintains close relations with booksellers and librarians. Professional storyteller\, dancer\, choreographer\, puppeteer\, and artist\, she has won the prestigious Pura Belpré Award for Illustration five times\, for Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book (2003)\, Los Gatos Black on Halloween (2006)\, Just in Case: A Trickster Tale and Spanish Alphabet Book (2008)\, Niño Wrestles the World (2013)\, and Viva Frida (2014)\, also a Caldecott Honor Book. \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. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-an-afternoon-with-childrens-books-authors-jim-averbeck-julie-downing-christy-hale-and-yuyi-morales/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Terrian Walling and George Gerard
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Green Apple Books on Clement street on Sunday\, October 7th at 7:00 p.m. to welcome Terrian Walling and George Gerard as they read from their (with Ramazan Saral) collection of collaborative poems and prose\, Tegara.  \n  \nAbout Tegara\nTegera is a collection of collaborative poems and prose written by three individuals who live on different parts of the planet. As you journey through the book\, you will realize that Tegera is not a classical poem book. The reader becomes a traveller and an active participant in the process of timelessness. You have the freedom to follow APEƩ\, TaW\, or GeoS through the seven realms of Tegera. You can choose to read the book linearly\, or to choose your own path through Land\, Forest\, Shore\, Sea\, Mountain/Fire\, Air/Space\, and The Unknown. With complimentary celestial art created by the Turkish artist Yaren Gezer\, this book will transport you to where you need to be. \n  \n  \nTerriann Walling\nTerriann Walling holds an honours degree in English\, a Bachelor’s degree in Education\, and a Master’s Degree in English from the University of Saskatchewan. She is currently a High School teacher with Saskatoon Public Schools in Saskatoon\, Saskatchewan\, Canada. She teaches at Bedford Road Collegiate with amazing staff and students (shout out to Bedford!). She has 4 fantastic kids\, Noah\, Liam\, Claire and Hannah. Her main area of study is Twentieth Century American Literature and Literary Trauma Theory with a particular interest in modernism and William Faulkner. She is a writer and a poet whose passions lie in collaborative work\, both academically as well as creatively. \n  \nRamazan Saral\nRamazan Saral is a research assistant at the Department of English Language and Literature at Ege University\, Turkey. He is currently a PhD candidate at the same department focusing on Scottish Romanticism. He is the director of the English Drama Club. He teaches poetry and academic writing. \n  \nGeorge Gerard\nGeorge Gerard is currently a Product Manager in San Francisco\, California. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Syracuse University. His main area of research study focused on human memory and emotion. He pursues his love of writing and art through collaborative partnership and discovery.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/47617/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Diesel Readers book group discuss MANHATTAN BEACH
DESCRIPTION:East Bay Booksellers invites you to The Diesel Readers Book Group’s discussion of Manhattan Beach\, by Jennifer Egan\, on Monday October 8th at 7pm. \nAnna Kerrigan\, nearly twelve years old\, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles\, a man who\, she gleans\, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men. \n‎Years later\, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard\, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men\, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver\, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations\, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub\, she meets Dexter Styles again\, and begins to understand the complexity of her father’s life\, the reasons he might have vanished. \n  \n\n** The Diesel Readers is an ongoing group\, and is open to all. ** \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nMonday\, October 8\, 2018 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-diesel-readers-book-group-discuss-manhattan-beach/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Launch for Cary McClelland / Silicon City
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the launch party for Cary McClelland andSilicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of The Valley\, an intimate\, eye-opening portrait of San Francisco transformed by the tech boom. More TBA soon — save the date and join us! \n  \nSan Francisco is changing at warp speed. Famously home to artists and activists\, and known as the birthplace of the Beats\, the Black Panthers\, and the LGBTQ movement\, in recent decades the Bay Area has been reshaped by Silicon Valley\, the engine of the new American economy. The richer the region gets\, the more unequal and less diverse it becomes\, and cracks in the city’s facade—rapid gentrification\, an epidemic of evictions\, rising crime\, atrophied public institutions—have started to show. \n  \nInspired by Studs Terkel’s classic works of oral history\, writer and filmmaker Cary McClelland spent several years interviewing people at the epicenter of the recent change\, from venture capitalists and coders to politicians and protesters\, from native sons and daughters to the city’s newest arrivals. The crisp and vivid stories of Silicon City’s diverse cast capture San Francisco as never before. \n  \nThe book opens with a longtime tour guide recounting the history of the original Gold Rush and observing how little the people of his city pay attention to its history; it ends on Fisherman’s Wharf\, with the proprietor of an arcade game museum reminding us that even today’s technology will become relics of the past. In between we hear from people who have passed through Apple\, Google\, eBay\, Intel\, and the other big tech companies of our time. And we meet those who are experiencing the changes at the grassroots level: a homeless advocate in Haight-Ashbury\, an Oakland rapper\, a pawnbroker in the Mission\, a man who helped dismantle and rebuild the Bay Bridge\, and a woman who runs a tattoo parlor in the Castro. \n  \nSilicon City masterfully weaves together a candid conversation across a divided community to create a dynamic portrait of a beloved city—and a cautionary tale for the entire country. \n  \n\n  \nCary McClelland is a writer\, filmmaker\, lawyer\, and rights advocate whose work has taken him around the world. He met his wife in San Francisco\, where they settled down and built their first home. They now live in Brooklyn with their son. \n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7pm; event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-launch-for-cary-mcclelland-silicon-city/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetic Tuesdays with Jason Bayani
DESCRIPTION:FREE! \nEnjoy line breaks during your lunch break\, as some of the Bay Area’s best poets and musicians share their work in the great outdoors. \nThis year see’s a new host and curator\, Jason Bayani\, artistic director for Kearny Street Workshop (the oldest multi-disciplinary Asian Pacific American multi-disciplinary arts organization in the country) as well as a Kundiman fellow and a veteran of the National Poetry Slam scene whose work has been published in Fourteen Hills\, Muzzle Magazine\, Mascara Review\, the National Poetry Slam anthology Rattapallax\, Write Bloody’s classroom anthology Learn Then Burn\, and other publications. \nLearn more here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetic-tuesdays-with-jason-bayani-2/
LOCATION:Yerba Buena Gardens\, 750 Howard St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writing Hope: Queer Authors in Times of Oppression
DESCRIPTION:The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence present hopeful readings from various Queer Authors written during time of oppression
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writing-hope-queer-authors-in-times-of-oppression/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books\, 900 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Voices of Witness @ City Lights
DESCRIPTION:with Mateo Hoke\, Taylor Pendergrass\, and Mohammed “Mike” Ali \ncelebrating the release of \nSix By Ten: Stories From Solitary Confinement \nEdited by Mateo Hoke and Taylor Pendergrass\, \npublished by Haymarket Books \n\nThis compelling collection of stories told directly by people personally impacted by solitary confinement is the first book in a new Voice of Witness series with Haymarket Books. \nAn estimated 80\,000 Americans are held in solitary confinement in prisons across the country. Solitary confinement\, often in cells no bigger than six-by-ten-feet\, means twenty-four hours per day with little or no meaningful human contact. \nSix By Ten explores the mental\, physical\, and spiritual impacts of America’s widespread embrace of solitary confinement\, as told through the first-person narratives of individuals subjected to solitary confinement\, family members on the outside\, and corrections officers. \nEach chapter presents a different individual’s story and shows how Americans from all over the country and all walks of life find themselves held in solitary for years or even decades at a time. In addition to evocative first-hand accounts\, the book also includes essays and analysis on how solitary became such a prominent feature of the US prison system today. \nMateo Hoke is writer\, journalist\, and co-editor of Palestine Speaks: Narratives of Life Under Occupation. \nTaylor Pendergrass is a lawyer and activist focused on criminal justice reform. He currently works for the American Civil Liberties Union. \nMohammed “Mike” Ali grew up in the Bay Area after his family immigrated to the United States from Fiji. Growing up romanticizing gang life\, he escalated through youth detention\, jails\, and prisons before landing in solitary in a private immigration detention facility in Arizona. \nVoice of Witness is nonprofit that advances human rights by amplifying the voices of people impacted by injustice. We explore urgent and underrepresented human rights issues and force space for marginalized voices to be heard and seen through our two core programs: (1) Our oral history book series\, which illuminates firsthand accounts of injustice\, and (2) Our education program\, which brings these stories and ethics-driven oral history methodology to classrooms and communities across the U.S. \nCritical Praise for Six By Ten: \n“Some of the people in Six by Ten were convicted of crimes\, but this book convicts the United States of an incomparably greater crime: blighting the lives and searing the souls of untold hundreds of thousands of men\, women\, and teenagers by a practice that more enlightened countries consider inhuman. You will not find a more riveting indictment anywhere of our reckless use of solitary confinement\, nor one told through such a variety of moving\, poignant voices.” \n—Adam Hochschild\, author\, King Leopold’s Ghost \n“The voices heard in this powerful collection are haunting. As these men and women make inescapably clear\, the practice of removing human beings from everything that makes them sane and stable—keeping them for days\, months\, and years in utter isolation without light\, touch\, sound\, space\, and hope—is unimaginably cruel. Six by Ten is a deeply moving and profoundly unsettling wake up call for all citizens. The use of solitary confinement is deeply immoral and we must insist that it be banned in all of our nation’s prisons. Immediately.” \n—Heather Ann Thompson\, Pulitzer Prize–winning author\, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voices-of-witness-city-lights/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Lisa Brennan-Jobs / Small Fry
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Lisa Brennan-Jobs for Small Fry\, her smart\, frank\, and captivating coming-of-age memoir. \n  \nNote: Seating is limited for what will surely be a big night. If you would like to reserve a seat\, please pre-order a copy of Small Fry below\, and put your request in the ‘comments’ field. Thanks!  \n  \nBorn on a farm and named in a field by her parents—artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs—Lisa Brennan-Jobs’s childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young\, Lisa’s father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. As she grew older\, her father took an interest in her\, ushering her into a new world of mansions\, vacations\, and private schools. His attention was thrilling\, but he could also be cold\, critical and unpredictable. When her relationship with her mother grew strained in high school\, Lisa decided to move in with her father\, hoping he’d become the parent she’d always wanted him to be. \n  \nSmall Fry is Lisa Brennan-Jobs’s poignant story of a childhood spent between two imperfect but extraordinary homes. Scrappy\, wise\, and funny\, young Lisa is an unforgettable guide through her parents’ fascinating and disparate worlds. Part portrait of a complex family\, part love letter to California in the seventies and eighties\, Small Fry is an enthralling book by an insightful new literary voice. \n  \n\n  \nLisa Brennan-Jobs lives in Brooklyn\, NY. Small Fry is her first book. Her articles and essays have appeared in Vogue\, O Magazine\, Southwest Review\, Massachusetts Review\, Harvard Advocate\, and the Los Angeles Times. \n  \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is a free\, all-ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-lisa-brennan-jobs-small-fry/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Fan Shigang discusses Striking to Survive: Workers’ Resistance to Factory Relocations in China
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, October 9\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nFan Shigang discusses Striking to Survive: Workers’ Resistance to Factory Relocations in China. \nIn China\, capitalist development since the 1980s has given rise to an enormous new industrial working class. In the vast export-processing zones along China’s southeastern coast\, countless so-called “migrant workers” or “peasant workers” from interior provinces eke out a living in innumerable factories. Through thirty-five years of struggle\, they have gradually established a foothold as part of China’s new industrial working class. \nThe book\, Striking to Survive is written by a young worker activist in Guangzhou. It is a uniquely fine-grained account of a pivotal strike that took place in 2013. Led by an unusually adept worker\, Wu Guijun\, the book is an interlocking set of oral history narratives that bring one into the lived experience of the workers. Wu Guijun was arrested and served more than a year in prison\, and was the focus of this New York Times produced video\, which gives some sense of him\, and the environment in which he works. \n— \nFan Shigang was born into a family of workers for state-owned enterprises in a northern Chinese city. He has worked as a basic-level employee in several machining factories. He is a contributor to the underground labor periodical\, Factory Stories\, conducting interviews with factory workers in southern China\, documenting their lives\, work\, and struggles.\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, October 9\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fan-shigang-discusses-striking-to-survive-workers-resistance-to-factory-relocations-in-china/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:How To Read A Poem
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, October 10\, 2018 –  \n1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nSaint Mary’s College Museum of Art\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nUsing a short selection from Matthew Zapruder’s book Why Poetry\, two distinguished Saint Mary’s poets share strategies for unpacking poems in Seminar. Participants will practice these strategies by exploring selected poems in conversation with their peers. \nWith Brenda Hillman & Matthew Zapruder
URL:https://litseen.com/event/how-to-read-a-poem/
LOCATION:Saint Mary’s College of California\, 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:Heather Havrilesky
DESCRIPTION:Heather Havrilesky discusses her new essay collection\, What If This Were Enough? \nPraise for What If This Were Enough? \n“Heather Havrilesky is a singular talent and an indomitable force. When it comes to the tension between thinking and feeling\, of being out in the world and being alone with yourself\, there is no one sharper\, wiser\, funnier\, most honest\, or more insightful. In What If This Were Enough\, readers will find a splendid mix of Havrilesky’s familiar and intimate ‘Ask Polly’ voice and the authority and erudition of a seasoned cultural critic. I couldn’t get enough.”—Meghan Daum\, author of The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects Of Disucssion \n“There’s an effortlessness to Heather Havrilesky’s writing that is incredibly rare. Her funniest sentences are still empathetic. Her darkest confessions are still pretty funny. It doesn’t seem to matter what she’s writing about\, or what point she’s trying to make. She’s just good at it.”—Chuck Klosterman\, author of But What If We’re Wrong? and Killing Yourself to Live \n“Heather is that dear friend you run into at a bad party at which you’re stuck and you say ‘Oh thank God you’re here’ and spend the rest of the night making dark and hilarious jokes about the party\, other attendees\, and the human condition. Thank God she’s here.”—Jake Tapper\,author of The Hellfire Club and The Outpost \nAbout What If This Were Enough? \nBy the acclaimed critic\, memoirist\, and advice columnist\, an impassioned collection tackling our obsession with self-improvement and urging readers to embrace the imperfections of the everyday \nHeather Havrilesky’s writing has been called “whip-smart and profanely funny” (Entertainment Weekly) and “required reading for all humans” (Celeste Ng). In her work for New York\, The Baffler\, The New York Times Magazine\, and The Atlantic\, as well as in “Ask Polly\,” her advice column for The Cut\, she dispenses a singular\, cutting wisdom–an ability to inspire\, provoke\, and put a name to our most insidious cultural delusions. \nWhat If This Were Enough? is a mantra and a clarion call. In its chapters–many of them original to the book\, others expanded from their initial publication–Havrilesky takes on those cultural forces that shape us. We’ve convinced ourselves\, she says\, that salvation can be delivered only in the form of new products\, new technologies\, new lifestyles. From the allure of materialism to our misunderstandings of romance and success\, Havrilesky deconstructs some of the most poisonous and misleading messages we ingest today\, all the while suggesting new ways to navigate our increasingly bewildering world. \nThrough her incisive and witty inquiries\, Havrilesky urges us to reject the pursuit of a shiny\, shallow future that will never come. These timely\, provocative\, and often hilarious essays suggest an embrace of the flawed\, a connection with what already is\, who we already are\, what we already have. She asks us to consider: What if this were enough? Our salvation\, Havrilesky says\, can be found right here\, right now\, in this imperfect moment.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/47620/
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:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:When : Thu\, October 11\, 6:30pm – 9:00pm\nDescription : Sponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. This month’s readers TBD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-our-monthly-bilingual-poetry-series-and-open-mic-27/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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