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SUMMARY:Jana Casale
DESCRIPTION:Jana Casale discusses her new novel\, The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky. \nPraise for The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky \n“Casale writes with both energy and humor.  She is an exquisite storyteller.  In creating Leda and her story\, Casale magically weaves together the tiny moments in life\, allowing them to gain momentum and build off each other\, until they culminate into an extraordinary tale that has spunk and charm.” —Weike Wang\, author of Chemistry \n“As the perfect title suggests\, the books we don’t read can shape us just as much as the ones we do. However\, unlike our titular heroine and her copy of Problems of Knowledge and Freedom\, I guarantee you’ll fly through this one. It’s a rare gem of a debut–funny\, heartbreaking\, and genuinely profound.”--Ed Park\, author of Personal Days \n“How do you account for a life? In Jana Casale’s poignant debut\, the answer has as much to do with the things her protagonist\, Leda – college student\, wife\, writer\, temporary Orca expert\, mother – wanted to do and didn’t\, as what she actually lives. A funny\, tender and touching illumination of the extraordinary beauty contained in a seemingly everyday life. I can’t stop thinking about this book.”  —Julie Buntin\, author of Marlena \nAbout The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky \nWe first meet Leda in a coffee shop on an average afternoon\, notable only for the fact that it’s the single occasion in her life when she will eat two scones in one day. And for the cute boy reading American Power and the New Mandarins.  Leda hopes that\, by engaging him\, their banter will lead to romance. Their fleeting\, awkward exchange stalls before flirtation blooms. But Leda’s left with one imperative thought: she decides she wants to read Noam Chomsky. So she promptly buys a book and never—ever—reads it. \nAs the days\, years\, and decades of the rest of her life unfold\, we see all of the things Leda does instead\, from eating leftover spaghetti in her college apartment\, to fumbling through the first days home with her newborn daughter\, to attempting (and nearly failing) to garden in her old age. In a collage of these small moments\, we see the work—both visible and invisible—of a woman trying to carve out a life of meaning. Over the course of her experiences Leda comes to the universal revelation that the best-laid-plans are not always the path to utter fulfillment and contentment\, and in reality there might be no such thing. Lively and disarmingly honest\, The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky is a remarkable literary feat—bracingly funny\, sometimes heartbreaking\, and truly feminist in its insistence that the story it tells is an essential one.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jana-casale/
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:Zoé Samudzi
DESCRIPTION:Zoé Samudzi discussing the subject of her new book\n\nAs Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation \nby William C. Anderson and Zoé Samudzi with a foreword by Mariame Kaba \npublished by AK Press \n\nOver the course of United States history\, resistance against oppression and the gains made from various struggles for everyone’s equality have often been Black led. However\, liberal politics and the lack of strong leftist political power are two problems impeding the continued progress of Black America. Expanding on their original essay The Anarchism Of Blackness\, Samudzi and Anderson make the case for a new program of transformative politics for Black Americans\, one rooted in an anarchistic framework likened to the Black experience itself. This is not a compromising book that negotiates with intolerance. As Black as Resistance is a declaration for everyone who is ready to continue progressing towards liberation for all people. \nZoé Samudzi Zoé Samudzi is a writer and doctoral student in Medical Sociology at the University of California\, San Francisco. Her research focuses on the scientific logics that produce race and gender\, particularly focusing on transgender health and the ways Blackness is constructed. Her writing has appeared in The New Inquiry\, Warscapes\, Truthout\, ROAR Magazine\, Teen Vogue\, BGD\, Bitch Media\, and Verso\, among others. She is also a member of the 2017/18 Public Imagination cohort of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) Fellows Program\, and she is a member of the Black Aesthetic\, an Oakland-based collective and film series exploring the multitudes and diversities of Black artistic production & literary-visual culture. \nVisit http://www.zoesamudzi.com \nWilliam C. Anderson is a freelance writer. His work has been published by the Guardian\, MTV\, and Pitchfork\, among others. You can read many of his writings at Truthout or at the Praxis Center for Kalamazoo College\, where he’s a contributing editor covering race\, class\, and immigration. \nMariame Kaba is an organizer\, educator and the founder and director of Project NIA\, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoe-samudzi/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joel Selvin\, Fare Thee Well
DESCRIPTION:Joel Selvin\, Fare Thee Well\nThursday\, June 21\, 2018 – 7:00pm \nBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes music journalist and bestselling author Joel Selvin for a discussion and signing of his new book\, Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of The Grateful Dead’s Long\, Strange Trip. \nFARE THEE WELL is a tell-all biography of the epic in-fighting of the Grateful Dead in the years following band leader Jerry Garcia’s death in 1995. The Grateful Dead rose to greatness under the inspired leadership of guitarist Jerry Garcia\, but the band very nearly died along with him. When Garcia passed away suddenly in August of 1995\, the remaining band members experienced full crises of confidence and identity. So long defined by Garcia’s vision for the group\, the surviving “Core Four\,” as they came to be called\, were reduced to conflicting agendas\, strained relationships\, and catastrophic business decisions that would leave the iconic band in shambles. Wrestling with how best to define their living legacy\, the band made many attempts at restructuring\, but it would take twenty years before relationships were mended enough for the Grateful Dead as fans remembered them to once again take the stage. \nAcclaimed music journalist and New York Times bestselling author Joel Selvin was there for much of the turmoil following Garcia’s death\, and he’ll offer a behind-the-scenes account of the ebbs and flows that occurred during the ensuing two decades. Plenty of books have been written about the rise of the Grateful Dead\, but this final chapter of the band’s history has never before been explored in detail. Culminating in the landmark tour bearing the same name\, Fare Thee Well charts the arduous journey from Garcia’s passing all the way up to the uneasy agreement between the Core Four that led to the series of shows celebrating the band’s fiftieth anniversary and finally allowing for a proper\, and joyous\, sendoff of the group revered by so many. \nJOEL SELVIN is an award-winning journalist who has covered pop music for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1970. Selvin is the author of the bestselling Summer of Love and coauthor\, with Sammy Hagar\, of the #1 New York Times bestseller Red. He has written twelve other books about pop music. Selvin lives in San Francisco\, California. \n  \nThis event will be free at Bookshop Santa Cruz with open seating. Chairs for open seating are usually set up an hour before the event begins.  \nFare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead’s Long\, Strange Trip (Hardcover)\nBy Joel Selvin\, Pamela Turley (With) \n$27.00 \nISBN: 9780306903052 \nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now \nPublished: Da Capo Press – June 19th\, 2018 \nFare Thee Well–GET IT SIGNED!\n$27.00 \nSKU: S780306903052 \nName (optional) \nIf you cannot attend the event\, you can still have a copy of Fare Thee Well signed for you at the event. Books must be paid for in advance and can either be shipped or held for pick-up in the store after they have been signed. Internet orders must be placed by Wednesday\, June 19th. After that\, please call the store to inquire about signed editions. \nMost authors will be happy to add a name to their signature\, but this service is at their discretion and isn’t guaranteed.
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LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Story is the Thing
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, June 21st for our quarterly reading series – Story is the Thing – that highlights established authors and stars on the rise. This evening\, we’ll showcase a dynamic and diverse group of seven writers reading on the theme “Kindness”: Dinika Amaral\, Idris Anderson\, Tristen Chang\, Betsy Franco\, Carrie La Seur\, Elaine Castillo\, and Peg Alford Pursell. \n“We are real only in moments of kindness” -cited by Meave Brennan in her author’s note from “The Long-Winded Lady.” \nReading starts at 7:30 pm. Light refreshments and conversation at 7:00 pm. \nDinika Amaral was born and raised in Bombay\, India. Her work has appeared in Guernica\, The Times of India\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Golden Handcuffs Review\, Denver Quarterly\, the Massachusetts Review\, and in the Iowa Review (winner of the Tim McGinnis award). Presently\, a Steinbeck Fellow\, she is working on an unlinked story collection and a novel. \nIdris Anderson’s second collection of poems Doubtful Soundwas selected by Sherod Santos for the Hollis Summers Prize of Ohio UP\, and was just published in March 2018. Her first collection of poems Mrs. Ramsay’s Knee was selected by Harold Bloom for the May Swenson Poetry Award. She has won a Pushcart Prize (2010) and the New York Yeats Society Poetry Prize. She has published poems in AGNI Crab Orchard Review\, The Hudson Review\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Paris Review\, Plume\, Southern Review\, and other journals. \nTristen Chang grew up in Woodland\, California\, and received her MA in English from UC Davis. Her work has appeared in various journals and she was twice a finalist for Glimmer Train’s short story award. Recently\, she won first place in Six Fold’s fiction contest and was awarded the Tennessee Williams scholarship in fiction. She now lives in San Francisco and teaches creative writing. \nBetsy Franco is an award winning author of over eighty books\, including her novel Naked\, her YA\, Metamorphosis Junior Year\, and her picture books and poetry collections. She wrote the screenplay for Naked\, which has been optioned for a film\, and she was screenwriting mentor for Metamorphosis\, featured at the Mill Valley Film Festival and the basis of a sold-out play. She loves working with teens and is inspired by her creative sons\, James\, Tom\, and Dave. \nCarrie La Seur practices energy and environmental law on behalf of farmers\, ranchers\, and Native Americans\, and is a seventh generation Montanan. In 2016 she helped found The House of Books\, a co-op bookstore in downtown Billings\, MT. In 2006\, Carrie founded the legal nonprofit Plains Justice\, which provides public interest energy and environmental legal services in the northern plains states and played a key role in halting several new coal plants\, enacting clean energy reforms\, and launching the Keystone XL pipeline campaign. Her writing has appeared in Grist\, the Guardian\, Harvard Law and Policy Review\, Huffington Post\, Mother Jones\, Rumpus and Salon. \nElaine Castillo was born in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a graduate of the University of California\, Berkeley\, and received her MA in creative and life writing from Goldsmiths\, University of London. She lives in Milpitas\, California. America is Not the Heart is her first novel. \nPeg Alford Pursell is the author of Show Her a Flower\, A Bird\, A Shadow\, a collection of fiction and hybrid prose with praise from Peter Orner\, Joan Silber\, Antonya Nelson\, and others\, and featured by Poets & Writers magazine’s second annual 5 over 50\, December 2017. Her second book\, A Girl Goes into the Forest\, is forthcoming from Dzanc Books in 2019. Her work has appeared in Permafrost\, the Los Angeles Review\, Joyland Magazine\, and other journals and anthologies. She is the founder and director of the national reading series Why There Are Words and of WTAW Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/story-is-the-thing-2/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: an evening with Kim Addonizio\, Donna Masini\, and Brittany Perham
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts an evening with poets Kim Addonizio\, Donna Masini\, and Brittany Perham all reading from new work. Please join us! \n  \nMortal Trash by Kim Addonizio \n  \nPassionate and irreverent\, Mortal Trash transports the readers into a world of wit\, lament\, and desire. In a section called “Over the Bright and Darkened Lands\,” canonical poems are torqued into new shapes. “Except Thou Ravish Me\,” reimagines John Donne’s famous “Batter my heart\, Three-person’d God” as told from the perspective of a victim of domestic violence. Like Pablo Neruda\, Addonizio hears “a swarm of objects that call without being answered”: hospital crash carts\, lawn gnomes\, Evian bottles\, wind-up Christmas creches\, edible panties\, cracked mirrors. Whether comic\, elegiac\, or ironic\, the poems in Mortal Trash remind us of the beauty and absurdity of our time on earth. \n  \n  \n  \nKim Addonizio has been called “one of our nation’s most provocative and edgy poets.” She is the author of six poetry collections\, two novels\, two story collections\, and two books on writing poetry.  Her latest are Mortal Trash: Poems (W. W. Norton) and  Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life (Penguin). She has received fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundations\, two Pushcart Prizes\, and other honors.  Her writing has appeared in New York Times\, Poetry\, The Sun\, and numerous literary journals and anthologies. She offers poetry workshops privately in Oakland and online \n. \n  \n\n  \n4:30 Movie by Donna Masini \n  \nIn poems that are by turns intimate and wild\, provocative and tender\, award-winning poet Donna Masini explores personal loss\, global violence\, and the consolations of art. She brings her wit\, grief\, fury\, and propulsive energy to bear on the preoccupations of our daily lives and our attempts to bargain with endings of every kind. Equal parts lament and praise\, 4:30 Movie is fueled by despair and humor\, governed by the ways in which movies enter our imaginations and frame our experiences. The movie theater becomes a presiding metaphor: part waiting room\, part childhood\, part underground depths where the self is a bit player\, riding the subway with “its engine of extras.” Masini’s exquisite word play shows the mind wrestling ferociously to forestall grief\, as if finding the right words might somehow allow us to extend our beautiful foreshortened run. \n  \n  \nDonna Masini is the author of two previous collections of poetry and one novel. She was awarded the Barnard Women’s Poetry Prize\, a Pushcart Prize\, and New York Foundation of the Arts grant and a grant from the National Endowment for the arts. She teaches at Hunter College and lives in New York City. \n  \n\n  \nDouble Portrait by Brittany Perham \n  \nEach poem in Brittany Perham’s prize-winning collection links two portraits: lover and beloved\, child and parent\, citizen and country\, spirit and body\, living and dead. Each speaker investigates what it means to be in relationship to another: what does it mean to see and be seen\, to reflect and be reflected\, to address and be addressed? With musicality\, grit\, and humor\, these poems challenge our conceptions of identity and language. By questioning the ways we think and speak\, the ways we rehash and reshape our experience\, they formalize obsession. Emotionally stirring and unapologetic\, Double Portrait contemplates the nature of devotion. \n  \n  \nBrittany Perham is the author of Double Portrait (W.W. Norton\, 2017)\, which was selected by Claudia Rankine for the Barnard Women Poets Prize; The Curiosities (Free Verse Editions\, 2012); and\, with Kim Addonizio\, the collaborative chapbook The Night Could Go in Either Direction (SHP\, 2016). She is a Jones Lecturer in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University\, where she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. She lives in San Francisco. \n  \n\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 be sure to put your request in the special field. \n\n\n\n\nBooks:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMortal Trash: Poems (Paperback)\n\nBy Kim Addonizio\n$15.95\nISBN: 9780393354348\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – August 1st\, 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life (Paperback)\n\nBy Kim Addonizio\n$16.00\nISBN: 9780143128465\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: Penguin Books – June 21st\, 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrdinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within (Paperback)\n\nBy Kim Addonizio\n$16.95\nISBN: 9780393334166\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – February 1st\, 2009\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLucifer at the Starlite: Poems (Paperback)\n\nBy Kim Addonizio\n$15.95\nISBN: 9780393335255\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – January 1st\, 2011\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Palace of Illusions: Stories (Paperback)\n\nBy Kim Addonizio\n$15.95\nISBN: 9781593766252\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: Soft Skull Press – September 15th\, 2015\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4:30 Movie: Poems (Hardcover)\n\nBy Donna Masini\n$25.95\nISBN: 9780393635508\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – May 29th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTurning to Fiction: Poems (Paperback)\n\nBy Donna Masini\n$15.95\nISBN: 9780393328448\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – April 1st\, 2006\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDouble Portrait (Hardcover)\n\nBy Brittany Perham\n$26.95\nISBN: 9780393354010\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – August 8th\, 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Curiosities (Free Verse Editions) (Paperback)\n\nBy Brittany Perham\n$14.00\nISBN: 9781602352391\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: Parlor Press – November 3rd\, 2011
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-an-evening-with-kim-addonizio-donna-masini-and-brittany-perham/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hazel White
DESCRIPTION:presents Vigilance is No Orchard\, an experimental poem sequence inspired by a famous garden now in ruin.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hazel-white/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:After Hours: Jeff Goodell - The Water Will Come
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, June 22nd · 7:00pm \nJeff Goodell\, author of The Water Will Come: Rising Seas\, Sinking Cities\, and the Remaking of the Civilized World\, has traveled across 12 countries to interview scientists and leaders about climate change. He will present his findings and report how climate change and sea level rise are affecting major cities\, coastal villages\, island nations and the military. \nRegistration recommended. Registration opens June 4th. \nAdd to my:iCal/Outlook \nWhen:Friday\, June 22\, 2018 \nTime:7:00 PM – 9:00 PM \nWhere:Mill Valley Public Library – Main Reading Room\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley\, California\, 94941 \nEvent Type:Library\, After Hours \nContact:(415) 389-4292
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-jeff-goodell-the-water-will-come/
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:TELEGRAPH OPEN MIC (FEATURES: DAPHNE GOTTLIEB AND SAGE CURTIS)
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 23rd and Telegraph in Oakland for a six-slot open mic alongside two amazing features. This month’s show features Daphne Gottlieb and Sage Curtis! \nMusic by TBA. \nTelegraph Open Mic takes place every fourth Friday from 7-9:00 PM at our Uptown location. It will have six open-mic slots open to the public. Spots are filled on a first-come\, first-serve basis and the list opens at 7:00 PM sharp. As is the case with our musicians and features at all events\, open-mic readers from the community will be held to the Nomadic Press Safe Space Statement. Please see below. \nSafe Space Statement \nNomadic Press events are safe spaces for those who have been silenced and marginalized. There is no room for racism\, misogyny\, homophobia\, or transphobia whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. We will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone if we feel they have violated these guidelines\, and we encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. We are a community\, and we will work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nCome early to sign up for the open mic and share your latest work! Curated and emceed by Rene Vaz. \nTo help pay for our space and our artists and ensure that we can continue our robust programming series\, we are calling for $10 at the door (plus whatever else you may be able to give)\, but no one turned away for lack of funds. Nomadic Press books\, as always\, will be for sale at the event. \nWine and Red Bay coffee will be available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/telegraph-open-mic-features-daphne-gottlieb-and-sage-curtis/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Julian Francis Park\, Lauren Levin\, and Isabel Bezerra Balee
DESCRIPTION:Julian Francis Park lives in Oakland and writes poems\, narrative\, literary criticism\, and social theory. Through the Bay Area Public School Julian facilitates a writing workshop\, “Writing with world stuff\,” at the Omni Commons\, where Julian also is on the Communications and Challenging Dominant Cultures working groups. Julian works reception in Causa Justa/Just Cause’s Tenants’ Rights Clinic. Tweets: @jfpark3; links: https://jfpark.tumblr.com/texts \nLauren Levin is the author of The Braid (Krupskaya) and Justice Piece/Transmission (forthcoming\, Timeless\, Infinite Light 2018). They are a Summer 2018 Columnist at Open Space\, SFMoma’s arts and culture platform and from 2011-2014\, co-edited the Poetic Labor Project. Lauren is from New Orleans and lives in Richmond\, CA. \nIsabel Bezerra Balée writes poems and works at a nonprofit in Berkeley. Previously\, she has taught creative writing at Tulane University. Born and raised in New Orleans\, with roots in Northern Brazil\, she feels a deep connection to floodplains. Links and writings can be found at: ibalee.tumblr.com. Isabel lives in Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julian-francis-park-lauren-levin-and-isabel-bezerra-balee/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry with Kim Addonizio\, Donna Masini\, Brittany Perham
DESCRIPTION:Poetry with Kim Addonizio\, Donna Masini\, Brittany Perham\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, June 22\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nPegasus welcomes renowned poets Kim Addonizio\, Donna Masini\, and Brittany Perham\, for an evening of shared words from recent works. \nKim Addonizio is the author of a dozen books\, most recently Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life (Penguin)\, and a poetry collection\, Mortal Trash (W.W. Norton). Her writing has appeared in the New York Times\, The Sun\, Poetry\, Narrative\, and elsewhere. She is an occasional presenter for BBC Radio. She lives in Oakland\, CA\, and teaches poetry workshops privately and online. Visit her at www.kimaddonizio.com. \n \n  \nDonna Masini’s third book of poems\, 4:30 Movie (W.W. Norton and Co.\, 2018) will be out this May.  She is the author of Turning to Fiction (W.W. Norton 2004)\, That Kind of Danger (Beacon Press\, 1994)\, and a novel\, About Yvonne (W.W. Norton\,1998). Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies including Poetry\, Ploughshares\, American Poetry Review\, Open City\, The Paris Review\, Parnassus\, Pushcart Prize\, Brooklyn Poets\, Best American Poetry 2015.  A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships\, she is a Professor of English at Hunter College where she teaches in the MFA Creative Writing program. She is at work on a novel\, The Good Enough Mother. \n \nBrittany Perham is the author of Double Portrait (W.W. Norton\, 2017)\, which received the Barnard Women Poets Prize; The Curiosities (Free Verse Editions\, 2012); and\, with Kim Addonizio\, the collaborative chapbook The Night Could Go in Either Direction (SHP\, 2016). She is a Jones Lecturer in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University\, where she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. She lives in San Francisco. \n \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nFriday\, June 22\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMortal Trash: Poems (Paperback)\n\nBy Kim Addonizio\n$15.95\nISBN: 9780393354348\nAvailability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – August 1st\, 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4:30 Movie: Poems (Hardcover)\n\nBy Donna Masini\n$25.95\nISBN: 9780393635508\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – May 29th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDouble Portrait (Hardcover)\n\nBy Brittany Perham\n$26.95\nISBN: 9780393354010\nAvailability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – August 8th\, 2017
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-with-kim-addonizio-donna-masini-brittany-perham/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:For Kids ages 4-8 Leslie Crawford
DESCRIPTION:Presents Sprig the Rescue Pig\, nspired by the true story of a feisty swine who escapes a delivery truck and ends up at an animal sanctuary\, this gently humorous tale introduces kids to an intelligent\, inquisitive\, and very appealing pig. \n“May Sprig help people to see what wonderful individuals pigs truly are.”–Sy Montgomery\, author of The Good Good Pig\, Tamed & Untamed\, and The Soul of an Octopus \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Sprig the Rescue Pig by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, June 23\, 2018 – 4:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThings aren’t looking good for Sprig\, who is packed into a fast-moving truck with dozens of other pigs. He doesn’t know where they’re going but his nose knows there’s something better out there. \nSo with one dramatic leap\, or really more of a tumble\, Sprig sets out on a pig-centered adventure that leads him to his new best friend\, a girl named Rory. Inspired by true events\, this light-hearted tale introduces kids to an intelligent and inquisitive pig who finds his way to an animal sanctuary. \nThe book includes a bonus section called “More About Pigs\,” where curious readers will learn that pigs are smart enough to play video games\, enjoy sleeping in cozy pig piles\, run really fast\, and other amazing facts. \nA journalist and editor for more than twenty years\, Leslie Crawford has primarily written about health and education. It was thanks to her 12-year-old daughter Molly\, who has never met an animal she doesn’t like\, that Leslie developed an interest in writing about animals. Crawford lives in San Francisco with her two children\, six chickens\, five foster pigeons\, and a bearded dragon lizard named Georgia.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/for-kids-ages-4-8-leslie-crawford/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:CATHY CASSADY: TRAVEL TIPS FOR THE TIMID
DESCRIPTION:SAT. JUNE 23RD\, 4-6PM \n\n\nTRAVEL TIPS FOR THE TIMID BY CAROLYN CASSADY\n\nJoin us for an afternoon with Cathy Cassady\, eldest daughter of Neal and Carolyn Cassady\, and editor of the newly published Travel Tips for the Timid\, written and richly illustrated by Carolyn. \nFor many years\, and somewhat unbeknownst to her children until after her passing\, Carolyn Cassady remained hard at work writing and painting\, and this book is part of the trove of art and writing she left behind. Travel Tips for the Timid follows Carolyn’s journeys abroad with her children\, dispelling the kind of surprises that often catch travelers—particularly first-time travelers—by surprise. \nThis event will include readings from the book\, as well as a discussion and Q&A with Cathy about Carolyn’s exceptional life and work. \n\nCarolyn Cassady (April 28\, 1923–September 20\, 2013)\, immortalized as “Camille” in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road\, graduated from Bennington College with a degree in Drama. She moved to Denver to pursue her Masters in Theater Arts; while there\, she met and married Neal Cassady\, who became known as the inspiration for Jack Kerouac\, Allen Ginsberg\, and Ken Kesey. But Carolyn was a prolific artist in her own right. Aside from enjoying painting\, sculpting\, drafting\, block printing\, embroidery\, upholstering\, and theater arts\, she also published two memoirs\, Heart Beatand Off the Road. She was fortunate enough to be able to pursue her passion for the theater as the Artistic Director for both the San Jose Light Opera Company and the Santa Clara University Drama Department. For many years\, she designed stage sets\, costumes\, and hairstyles for the local dance school. When her three kids were grown and gone\, Carolyn moved to England\, where she lived her remaining thirty years.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cathy-cassady-travel-tips-for-the-timid/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Rodney Koeneke\,  Dodie Bellamy\, and Ross Simonini \nHosted by Kevin Killian
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash -- featuring Kim Addonizio\, Donna Masini\, and Brittany Perham
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome back our friends from Poetry Flash on Sunday\, June 24th at 3pm. The month’s feature poets are Kim Addonizio\, Donna Masini\, and Brittany Perham. \nKim Addonizio’s latest book of poems is Mortal Trash. Terrance Hayes calls it  “Peerless poetry…reliably remarkable clarity\, edge\, and emotion.” This is her seventh collection. She’s been a finalist for the National Book Award\, received a Guggenheim Fellowship\, two NEA Fellowships\, and a Pushcart Prize. Among her other publications are four books of fiction and her Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life. An occasional presenter for BBC radio\, she teaches workshops privately and online. \nDonna Masini’s new book of poems is 4:30 Movie. Tracy K. Smith says\, “Truly inspired…4:30 Movie is a stunning\, playful\, searing\, healing collection that will enlarge the reader and revive something crucial in American poetry.” Her two previous collections are Turning to Fiction and That Kind of Danger.  She has also published a novel\, About Yvonne. The recipient of an NEA Fellowship and another from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, she has won a Pushcart Prize and appeared in Best American Poetry 2015. \nBrittany Perham’s second book of poems\, Double Portrait\, won the Barnard Women Poets Prize\, selected by Claudia Rankine. Eavan Boland says\, “This unswerving\, ambitious work brings the reader on a wild and thrilling journey. The poems lead into a world where desire\, the body\, memory and invention are looked at in the bright light of language; nothing forgiven\, everything laid bare.…” She is also the author of the full-length collection The Curiosities and\, with Kim Addonizio\, the chapbook The Night Could Go in Either Direction. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, she is now a Jones Lecturer in their Creative Writing Program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-featuring-kim-addonizio-donna-masini-and-brittany-perham/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Wolff Translator’s Prize Winner Isabel Fargo Cole: Unearthing Wolfgang Hilbig
DESCRIPTION:Goethe-Institut San Francisco | ART-Lounge | 530 Bush Street (entrance street level) | San Francisco\, California \n\n\n\nJoin us for a double celebration at the Goethe-Institut San Francisco! We will toast Berlin-based translator Isabel Fargo Cole\, winner of this year’s Helen & Kurt Wolff Prize for her translation of Wolfgang Hilbig’s Old Rendering Plant\, and the recent publication of The Tidings of the Trees. Cole will discuss the translator as discoverer\, the challenges of recreating the experience of language\, and the artistic intimacy one cultivates by translating multiple works by the same writer with editor and critic Joseph Schreiber.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wolff-translators-prize-winner-isabel-fargo-cole-unearthing-wolfgang-hilbig/
LOCATION:Goethe Institut\, 530 Bush St #204\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jonathan White\, Tides
DESCRIPTION:Jonathan White\, Tides\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday\, June 25\, 2018 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes marine conservationist Jonathan White for a reading and signing of his new book\, Tides: The Spirit of the Ocean. \nIn Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean\, writer\, sailor and surfer Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic\, he shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China\, he races the Silver Dragon\, a twenty-five foot tidal bore that crashes eighty miles up the Qiantang River; in France\, he interviews the monks that live in the tide-wrapped monastery of Mont St. Michel; in Chile and Scotland\, he investigates the growth of tidal power generation; and in Panama and Venice\, he delves into how the threat of sea level rise is changing human culture – the very old and very new. \nJonathan White is an active marine conservationist\, a sailor\, and a surfer. His first book\, Talking on the Water: Conversations about Nature and Creativity\, is a collection of interviews exploring our relationship with nature and features Gretel Ehrlich\, David Brower\, Ursula K. Le Guin\, Gary Snyder\, Peter Matthiessen\, and others. White has written for the Christian Science Monitor\, The Sun\, Orion\, Surfer’s Journal\, and other publications. He holds an MFA in creative nonfiction and lives with his wife and son on a small island in Washington State. \n\nThis event will be free at Bookshop Santa Cruz with open seating. Chairs for open seating are usually set up an hour before the event begins.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean (Paperback)\n\nBy Jonathan White\, Peter Matthiessen (Foreword by)\n$18.95\nISBN: 9781595348517\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: Trinity University Press – June 15th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTides–GET IT SIGNED\n\n$18.95\nSKU: S781595348517\n\n\n\n\n\n\nName (optional)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you cannot join us for this event\, you can still have a copy of his book Tides signed for you at the event. Books must be paid for in advance and can either be shipped or held for pick-up in the store once they are signed. Internet orders must be placed by Friday\, June 22nd. After that\, please call the store to inquire about signed editions at 831-423-0900. \nMost authors will be happy to add a name to their signature\, but this service is at their discretion and isn’t guaranteed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jonathan-white-tides/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Poetry Express presents a reading with Sandra Anfang\, Looking Glass Heart
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Express presents a reading with Sandra Anfang\, Looking Glass Heart\, Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Avenue\, Berkeley\, free\, 7:00-9:00
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-express-presents-a-reading-with-sandra-anfang-looking-glass-heart/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Joel Selvin / Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead's Long\, Strange Trip
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is delighted to host Joel Selvin and Pamela Turley for Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead’s Long\, Strange Trip. Please join us! \nThe Grateful Dead rose to greatness under the inspired leadership of guitarist Jerry Garcia\, but the band very nearly died along with him. When Garcia passed away suddenly in August of 1995\, the remaining band members experienced full crises of confidence and identity. So long defined by Garcia’s vision for the group\, the surviving “Core Four\,” as they came to be called\, were reduced to conflicting agendas\, strained relationships\, and catastrophic business decisions that would leave the iconic band in shambles. Wrestling with how best to define their living legacy\, the band made many attempts at restructuring\, but it would take twenty years before relationships were mended enough for the Grateful Dead as fans remembered them to once again take the stage. \nAcclaimed music journalist and New York Times bestselling author Joel Selvin was there for much of the turmoil following Garcia’s death\, and he’ll offer a behind-the-scenes account of the ebbs and flows that occurred during the ensuing two decades. Plenty of books have been written about the rise of the Grateful Dead\, but this final chapter of the band’s history has never before been explored in detail. Culminating in the landmark tour bearing the same name\, Fare Thee Well charts the arduous journey from Garcia’s passing all the way up to the uneasy agreement between the Core Four that led to the series of shows celebrating the band’s fiftieth anniversary and finally allowing for a proper\, and joyous\, sendoff of the group revered by so many. \n  \n\n  \nJoel Selvin is an award-winning journalist who has covered pop music for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1970. Selvin is the author of the bestselling Summer of Love and coauthor\, with Sammy Hagar\, of the #1 New York Times bestseller Red. He has written twelve other books about pop music. Selvin lives in San Francisco\, California. \n  \n  \nAtlanta-based freelance writer Pamela Turley was the founder and executive director of Square Globe Theater\, an award-winning educator and pioneer in the home schooling field\, producer-writer of “Blind Alley Radio Show” for Atlanta NPR outlet\, and author of a dating manual. Her articles on health\, beauty and science have appeared in a variety of newspapers\, magazines and Web sites. She attended more than 150 concerts by various editions of the post-Garcia Grateful Dead bands. \n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery at 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-joel-selvin-fare-thee-well-the-final-chapter-of-the-grateful-deads-long-strange-trip/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Glen David Gold in conversation with Oscar Villalon
DESCRIPTION:Glen David Gold in conversation with Oscar Villalon\nTuesday\, June 26\, 2018\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\ndiscussing Glen David Gold’s new memoir \nI Will Be Complete \nfrom Alfred Knopf \nThis event is co-sponsored by Zyzzyva \nFrom the best-selling author of Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside\, a big-hearted memoir told in three parts: about growing up in the wake of the destructive choices of an extremely unconventional mother. \nGlen David Gold was raised rich\, briefly\, in southern California at the end of the go-go 1960s. But his father’s fortune disappears\, his parents divorce\, and Glen falls out of his well-curated life and into San Francisco at the epicenter of the Me Decade: the inimitable ’70s. Gold grows up with his mother\, among con men and get-rich schemes. Then\, one afternoon when he’s twelve\, she moves to New York without telling him\, leaving him to fend for himself. I Will Be Complete is the story of how Gold copes\, honing a keen wit and learning how to fill in the emotional gaps: “I feel love and then it’s like I’m driving on black ice with no contact against the road.” He leads us though his early salvation at boarding school; his dream job at an independent bookstore in Los Angeles in 1983; a punk rock riot; a romance with a femme fatale to the soundtrack of R.E.M.; and his attempts to forge a career as a writer. Along the way\, Gold becomes increasingly fascinated with his father’s self-described “cheerful amorality” and estranged from his mother\, who lives with her soulmate\, a man who threatens to kill her. Clear-eyed and heartbreaking\, Gold’s story ultimately speaks to everyone who has struggled with the complexity of parental bonds by searching for–and finding–autonomy. \nGlen David Gold’s first novel\, Carter Beats the Devil\, has been translated into fourteen languages.  His short stories and essays have appeared in McSweeney’s\, Playboy\, and The New York Times Magazine.  He lives in Los Angeles. \nAdvance praise for I Will Be Complete: \n“I Will Be Complete is the best memoir I’ve read in years. It’s likely the best memoir published in years. Gold’s a novelist and this book reads like the best fiction. It’s exciting\, beautiful\, and clear-eyed in a way most memoirs aren’t. Oh\, and you’ll never forget this charming\, intelligent\, unique narrator.” —Darin Strauss\, author of National Book Critics Circle Award winner Half a Life and Chang and Eng \n“We expect the story of a boy and his mother ought to go a certain way. I Will Be Complete goes in ways you’d never expect. The people shatter\, reassemble themselves\, and shatter all over again. The prose is crystalline\, hard as real diamonds\, flashing\, revealing. The story is simple\, just a boy and his mother’s long disintegration\, but the journey is darkly complicated\, heartbreaking\, beautiful as hell.”  —Mark Childress\, author of Crazy in Alabama \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/glen-david-gold-in-conversation-with-oscar-villalon/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, June 26th at 7:00 p.m. when we welcome editor Margot Kahn and award-winning author Pam Houston as they celebrate their new book This is the Place. \n\nPraise for This is the Place: \n\n“…an honest portrait of the U.S.\, pieced together like an imperfect American quilt. We need more books like this.” — BUST \n\n“This collection\, encompassing a spectrum of races\, ethnicities\, religions\, sexualities\, political beliefs and classes\, could not be timelier….open this book\, hear its chorus of voices and remember that we are a nation of individuals\, bound to each other by our humanity.” — The New York Times Book Review
URL:https://litseen.com/event/margot-kahn-and-kelly-mcmasters/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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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/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:A Poetry Reading with Neeli Cherkovski & Clark Coolidge
DESCRIPTION:Neeli Cherkovski is the author of many books of poetry\, including his most recent collection\, Elegy for My Beat Generation (Lithic Press). He was the coeditor of Anthology of L.A. Poets (with Charles Bukowski) and Cross-Strokes: Poetry between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Cherkovski also wrote biographies of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Charles Bukowski\, as well as the critical memoir Whitman’s Wild Children (1988). He has lived in San Francisco since 1974. \nBorn and raised in Providence\, Rhode Island\, experimental poet and jazz musician Clark Coolidge has been connected to both the Language movement and the New York School. His poetry utilizes syntactical and sonic patterns to engage\, and generate\, meaning. In a 1968 poetics statement\, he noted\, “Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness\, Density\, Sound-Shape\, Vector-Force\, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity.” Coolidge’s numerous collections of poetry include his Selected Poems 1962-1985.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-poetry-reading-with-neeli-cherkovski-clark-coolidge/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Keep Begin Detach: inspired by Pauline Oliveros
DESCRIPTION:June 27 (wednesday) in the evening time from 6:30-8pm \nThe Event \nKeep Begin Detach: Multimedia Essays \nCome to EM Wolfman for an exploration of text and image\, music and silence\, meditation and performance. Inspired by Pauline Oliveros\, Katarina Countiss and friends will bring engaging elements to classics and original work. \nThere’s time for you to read or perform something if you want to (read: open mic) \nHope to see you there and tune in to the event streaming on fb!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/keep-begin-detach-inspired-by-pauline-oliveros/
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:Perfectly Queer-East Bay: Pride Zine Fest
DESCRIPTION:Guest curator Anand Vedawala presents four East Bay queer zine creators: Erin Stokes\, Lawrence Lindell\, Maira\, and Nia King
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-pride-zine-fest/
LOCATION:Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Who Will Speak For America?
DESCRIPTION:Who Will Speak For America?\nWednesday\, June 27\, 2018\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\nwith Veronica Scott Esposito\, Charlie Jane Anders\, and Craig Santos Perez \nDrawing on the success of Writers Resist\, a national day of literary protest\, Who Will Speak for America? presents the best contemporary writing on American identity\, justice\, and dissent\, and asserts a constructive vision of American society. Coedited by Stephanie Feldman and Nathaniel Popkin. \nIncluding essays\, poetry\, stories\, photography\, speeches\, and cartoons from: Samira Ahmed\, Charlie Jane Anders\, Cynthia Arrieu-King\, Cynthia Atkins\, Linh Dinh\, Veronica Scott Esposito\, Ken Kalfus\, Eileen Myles\, Marc Anthony Richardson\, Craig Santos Perez\, and many others. \nAll royalties benefit the Southern Poverty Law Center\, which is dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry\, and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of our society.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/who-will-speak-for-america/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Porochista Khakpour / Sick
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts an evening with the author of Sons and Other Flammable Objects and The Last Illusion\, Porochista Khakpour for her new book Sick: A Memoir. Porochista will be in conversation with Esmé Weijun Wang (The Border of Paradise). Please join us! \n  \nFor as long as writer Porochista Khakpour can remember\, she has been sick. For most of that time\, she didn’t know why. All of her trips to the ER and her daily pain and lethargy only ever resulted in one question: How could any one person be this sick? Several drug addictions\, three major hospitalizations\, and over $100\,000 later\, she finally had a diagnosis: late-stage Lyme disease. In the tradition of Brain on Fire and Darkness Visible\, an honest\, beautifully rendered memoir of chronic illness\, misdiagnosis\, addiction\, and the myth of full recovery. Sick is a candid\, illuminating narrative of hope and uncertainty\, boldly examining the deep impact of illness on one woman’s life. \n  \n\nPorochista Khakpour’s debut novel Sons and Other Flammable Objects was a New York Times Editor’s Choice\, one of the Chicago Tribune’s Fall’s Best\, and the 2007 California Book Award winner in the “First Fiction” category. Her second novel The Last Illusion was a 2014 “Best Book of the Year” according to NPR\, Kirkus\, Buzzfeed\, Popmatters\, Electric Literature\, and many more.  Among her many fellowships is a National Endowment for the Arts award. Her nonfiction has appeared in many sections of The New York Times\, the Los Angeles Times\, Elle\, Slate\, Salon\, and Bookforum\, among many others. Currently\, she is guest faculty at VCFA and Stonecoast’s MFA programs as well as Contributing Editor at The Evergreen Review. Born in Tehran and raised in the Los Angeles area\, she lives in New York City’s Harlem. Her author photo was taken by Sylvie Roskoff. \n  \nEsmé Weijun Wang is a novelist and essayist. Her debut novel\, The Border of Paradise\, was called a Best Book of 2016 by NPR and one of the 25 Best Novels of 2016 by Electric Literature. She was named by Granta as one of the “Best of Young American Novelists” in 2017\, and is the recipient of the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize for her forthcoming essay collection\, The Collected Schizophrenias. Born in the Midwest to Taiwanese parents\, she lives in San Francisco\, and can be found at esmewang.com and on Twitter @esmewang. \n  \n\nPlease note: This event is free and all ages\, and will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nDoors and bar open at 7. Event starts at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you. \n\n\n\n\nBooks:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSick: A Memoir (Paperback)\n\nBy Porochista Khakpour\n$15.99\nISBN: 9780062428738\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: Harper Perennial – June 5th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSons and Other Flammable Objects (Paperback)\n\nBy Porochista Khakpour\n$14.00\nISBN: 9780802143860\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: Grove Press – September 1st\, 2008\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Border of Paradise (Paperback)\n\nBy Esme Weijun Wang\n$16.00\nISBN: 9781939419699\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: Unnamed Press – April 12th\, 2016
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-porochista-khakpour-sick/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Jam
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-jam-2/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:LONG SHOT & WORKS BY DANNY SHOT
DESCRIPTION:appearing with Jack Hirschman and Jessica Loos \nWorks honors the longtime Long Shot magazine\, credo of “Writing from the Real World.” This collection of poems traverses a course from the swamps of New Jersey to the endless possibilities of the open road\, with rest stops along the way to visit with family ghosts\, highlight striking moments encountered during a 30-plus year career as a New York City public high school teacher\, and report upon the twilight years of the Beat Generation. Shot’s engaging poetry is raw\, from the gut\, deceptively rich\, and humane in the face of an increasingly post-humanistic world. \n\nDanny Shot was a longtime publisher and editor of Long Shot arts and literary magazine\, which he founded along with Eliot Katz in 1982 in New Brunswick\, New Jersey. Born in the Bronx and raised in Dumont\, New Jersey\, by German Jewish refugees\, Danny graduated Rutgers College in 1980 with a B.A. in English. Shot’s poetry has appeared in bum rush the page (Def Poetry Jam)\, Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe (Henry Holt)\, and The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Thunder’s Mouth) among other anthologies and numerous journals. Shot has read his poetry throughout the United States and appeared on television (WNBC\, New York) as part of Felipe Luciano’s Wordchestra. He has spent over 30 years as a NYC public high school teacher\, serving in the South Bronx\, Harlem\, and Brooklyn. Mr. Shot lives in Hoboken (home of Frank Sinatra and baseball) where he is the poet-in-residence of the Hoboken Historical Museum.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/long-shot-works-by-danny-shot/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Michael Isikoff & David Corn\, Russian Roulette
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Michael Isikoff and David Corn—”Two of the best and most accomplished investigative reporters of their generation…[A] superpower reporting team” (Rachel Maddow)—for a discussion and signing of their #1 New York Timesbestseller Russian Roulette. \n  \nTWO OF AMERICA’S TOP REPORTERS AND THE EXPLOSIVE UNTOLD STORY OF THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY \nThe incredible\, harrowing account of how American democracy was hacked by Moscow as part of a covert operation to influence the U.S. election and help Donald Trump gain the presidency. \nRUSSIAN ROULETTE covers the bizarre events and relationships\, explains the stakes\, and reveals how a foreign government nefariously infiltrated the country’s political process and helped alter the future of America. \n\nWhat were Trump’s business deals in Russia—and how did they really come about?\nWhat was the huge business deal Trump signed with a Putin-connected oligarch and what happened to it?\nWho was the secret Russian government source who alerted U.S. officials that Putin planned to mount an extensive covert operation to undermine American democracy—and why didn’t the Obama administration act on this tip-off?\nWhy did Vladimir Putin hold a grudge against Hillary Clinton— and how did that influence his decision to order a cyber-attack on the U.S. election?\nWhat role did Russian social media trolls play in the 2016 election—and how did they secretly influence the highest levels of the Trump campaign?\nHow did Obama and his aides react to the intelligence showing Putin hacked the 2016 campaign? What did they fear the most? And why didn’t Obama respond more forcefully?\nWhat was the secret plan that White House officials prepared to strike back against Putin and why did a senior Obama aide order it shelved?\nWhy were Hillary Clinton campaign officials so worried about the FBI that they wouldn’t meet with FBI agents to discuss Russian cyber-attacks against her campaign?\nWhy did it take nine months for the Democratic National Committee to do something about Moscow’s penetration of its computer system?\n\n  \nRUSSIAN ROULETTE is a story of political skullduggery un­precedented in American history. It weaves together tales of international intrigue\, cyber espionage\, and superpower rivalry. After U.S.-Russia relations soured\, as Vladimir Putin moved to reassert Russian strength on the global stage\, Moscow trained its best hackers on U.S. political targets and exploited WikiLeaks to disseminate information that could affect the 2016 campaign. The Russians were wildly successful\, and the great break-in of 2016 was no “third rate burglary.” It was far more sophisticated and sinister—a brazen act of political espionage designed to interfere with the election. At the end of the day\, Trump\, the candidate who pursued business deals with Russia\, won. And millions of Americans were left wondering what the hell happened? \nThis gripping and behind-the-scenes story of high-tech spying and political crisis takes the reader inside the White House\, the Kremlin\, the U.S. intelligence community\, the Trump and Clinton campaigns\, and both political parties. It chronicles the strange relationship between Trump and Putin and the ties between Trump’s inner circle—including Paul Manafort\, Donald Trump Jr.\, Michael Flynn\, and Jared Kushner—and the Russians. \n  \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz with open seating. Chairs for open seating are usually set up an hour before the event begins.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-isikoff-david-corn-russian-roulette/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:My Old Faithful: Book Talk and Signing with Author Yang Huang
DESCRIPTION:Local author Yang Huang’s new novel My Old Faithful\, a Juniper Prize winner\, depict the lives of one family over thirty years in China and the United States. Richly textured narratives from the mother\, the father\, the son\, and the daughters paint a nuanced portrait of family life\, full of pain\, surprises\, and subtle acts of courage. \nJoin us to hear about the inspirations for My Old Faithful as a family navigates the children’s adolescent years amidst vast social and economic change. \nThe Mercury News says: My Old Faithful is “a rich contemporary narrative of family dynamics and social upheaval.”\n\nSan Francisco Chronicle says\, “My Old Faithful zooms readers straight into the minds and hearts of each member of a middle-class family in a struggling\, censored\, restricted China….we feel ourselves becoming each protagonist in the course of each story.”\n\nYang Huang previously spoke at San Francisco Main Library about her debut novel Living Treasures\, a Nautilus Book Award winner. Books will be available for purchase. The program is to be conducted in English and Chinese.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-old-faithful-book-talk-and-signing-with-author-yang-huang/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, Main Branch\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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