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SUMMARY:Ellen Klages
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco in 1940 is a haven for the unconventional. Tourists flock to the cities within the city: the Magic City of the World’s Fair on an island created of artifice and illusion; the forbidden city of Chinatown\, a separate\, alien world of exotic food and nightclubs that offer authentic experiences\, straight from the pages of the pulps; and the twilight world of forbidden love\, where outcasts from conventional society can meet. \nSix women find their lives as tangled with each other’s as they are with the city they call home. They discover love and danger on the borders where magic\, science\, and art intersect. \nInspired by the pulps\, film noir\, and screwball comedy\, Passing Strange is a story as unusual and complex as San Francisco itself from World Fantasy Award winning author Ellen Klages. \nEllen Klages is the author of two acclaimed historical novels: The Green Glass Sea\, which won the Scott O Dell Award\, and the New Mexico Book Award; and White Sands\, Red Menace\, which won the California and New Mexico Book awards. Her story\, “Basement Magic”\, won a Nebula Award and Wakulla Springs\, co-authored with Andy Duncan\, was nominated for the Nebula\, Hugo\, and Locus awards\, and won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella. She lives in San Francisco\, in a small house full of strange and wondrous things.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ellen-klages/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Min Jin Lee w/ Elaine Petrocelli
DESCRIPTION:Profoundly moving and gracefully told\, Pachinko follows one Korean family through the generations\, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja\, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family\, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them. Betrayed by her wealthy lover\, Sunja finds unexpected salvation when a young tubercular minister offers to marry her and bring her to Japan to start a new life. \nSo begins a sweeping saga of exceptional people in exile from a homeland they never knew and caught in the indifferent arc of history. In Japan\, Sunja’s family members endure harsh discrimination\, catastrophes\, and poverty\, yet they also encounter great joy as they pursue their passions and rise to meet the challenges this new home presents. Through desperate struggles and hard-won triumphs\, they are bound together by deep roots as their family faces enduring questions of faith\, family\, and identity. \nMin Jin Lee’s debut novel\, Free Food for Millionaires\, was one of the “Top 10 Novels of the Year” for The Times (London)\, NPR’s Fresh Air\, and USA Today. Her short fiction has been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts. Her writings have appeared in Conde Nast Traveler\, The Times (London)\, Vogue\, Travel+Leisure\, Wall Street Journal\, New York Times Magazine\, and Food & Wine. Her essays and literary criticism have been anthologized widely. She served as a columnist for the Chosun Ilbo\, the leading paper of South Korea. She lives in New York with her family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/min-jin-lee-w-elaine-petrocelli/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Nina LaCour
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Nina LaCour back to the store to discuss and sign her new young adult novel\, We Are Okay\, on Thursday\, February 16th at 7:00 pm. This will be Nina’s publication party and all are welcome and encouraged to attend. \nYou go through life thinking there’s so much you need. . . . Until you leave with only your phone\, your wallet\, and a picture of your mother.\nMarin hasn’t spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks\, not even her best friend Mabel\, but even thousands of miles away from the California coast\, at college in New York\, Marin still feels the pull of the life and tragedy she’s tried to outrun. Now\, months later\, alone in an emptied dorm for winter break\, Marin waits. Mabel is coming to visit and Marin will be forced to face everything that’s been left unsaid and finally confront the loneliness that has made a home in her heart.\nAn intimate whisper that packs an indelible punch\, We Are Okay is Nina LaCour at her finest. This gorgeously crafted and achingly honest portrayal of grief will leave you urgent to reach across any distance to reconnect with the people you\nlove. \nNina LaCour is the author of the award-winning Hold Still and the widely acclaimed The Disenchantments. Formerly a bookseller and high school English teacher\, she now writes and parents full time. A San Francisco Bay Area native\, Nina lives with her family in Richmond\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nina-lacour/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:To Live + Write in Alameda Story Slam
DESCRIPTION:To Live & Write in Alameda and Books Inc. proudly present Alameda Story Slam! February’s theme will be “Unrequited.” Join us for an evening full of original stories and fun!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/to-live-write-in-alameda-story-slam/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Alameda\, 1344 Park Street\, Alameda\, CA\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Oki Sogumi + Wendy Trevino
DESCRIPTION:Poets Oki Sogumi and Wendy Trevino read from new work\, and engage in conversation with one another and their audience. This event is free and open to the public. \nOki Sogumi first surfaced in Seoul\, Korea c. 1988 and resides in Philadelphia\, USA. Her chapbooks include Underglazy (Portable Press at Yo-Yo labs) and Smear Jelly Dreaming A goo daughter & Time Travel and Friendship (Museum of Expensive Things). She is currently writing a sci-fi novella (forthcoming from Publication Studio Oakland) that chronicles the end of the world.\n\nWendy Trevino was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She now lives and works in San Francisco. Her chapbook 128-131 was published by Perfect Lovers Press in 2013. Her chapbook Brazilian Is Not a Race was published by Commune Editions in 2016. Her poems have appeared in various print and online journals\, including Abraham Lincoln\, Armed Cell\, the Capilano Review\, LIES\, Macaroni Necklace\, Mondo Bummer\, ELDERLY\, and Open House. Wendy is not an experimental writer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oki-sogumi-wendy-trevino/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Story Is the Thing: Kepler’s Quarterly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the second installment of the Story Is the Thing\, Kepler’s quarterly reading series on the theme That Electrifying Moment. \nJeanne Althouse‘s  flash fiction and longer stories have appeared in various literary journals and anthologies\, including Matter Press\, Shenandoah\, Pif Magazine\, Pindeldyboz \, Madison Review\, Hawaii Review\, the MacGuffin\, Red Rock Review\, Referential\, and Jewel\, a publication of Gray Sparrow Press. Her story\, “Goran Holds his Breath” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. An early draft of her first novel was finalist in the Augury Books Editor’s Prize. \nAngela Pneuman is the author of the novel Lay It on My Heart and the short story collection Home Remedies. She is a former Stegner fellow at Stanford\, where she has taught creative writing since 2001. Her fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories\, New England Review\, Ploughshares\, Iowa Review\, and many other literary journals. Recently she joined the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference as its executive director. \nShobha Rao is the author of the collection of short stories\, An Unrestored Woman\, published in March 2016. Kirkus Reviews called An Unrestored Woman “stunning and relentless.” She is the winner of the 2014 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction. She has been a resident at Hedgebrook and is the recipient of the Elizabeth George Foundation fellowship. Her story “Kavitha and Mustafa” was chosen by T.C. Boyle for inclusion in the Best American Short Stories 2015. She lives in San Francisco. \nTanya Rey‘s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Granta\, The Nervous Breakdown\, McSweeney’s\, Catapult and others. She holds an MFA degree in fiction from New York University and has received fellowships from the San Francisco Writers Grotto\, Hambidge Center for the Arts\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, the Rona Jaffe Foundation\, UCross Foundation and Blue Mountain Center. She lives and writes in Oakland\, CA. \nRick Trushel tutors recent immigrants from Mexico and Guatemala\, helping them improve their spoken and written language skills. Recently he’s had short pieces published at 101 Words and The SUN magazine. He likes to procrastinate\, as he erroneously believes his writing improves when he does this. \nGenanne Walsh is the author of Twister\, awarded the Big Moose Prize for the Novel from Black Lawrence Press. Twister was also a finalist for the 2016 Housatonic Book Award in Fiction. Excerpts appeared in Puerto del Sol\, Blackbird\, and Red Earth Review. She lives in San Francisco with her wife and dogs. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nJames Warner‘s short stories have appeared in ZYZZYVA\, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine\, Santa Monica Review\, Mid-American Review\, Narrative\, and many other literary magazines. He is also the author of All Her Father’s Guns\, a novel from Numina Press which satirized U.S. politics back in the days when that was even possible.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/story-is-the-thing-keplers-quarterly-reading-series/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170216T210000
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SUMMARY:Ethel Rohan
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith is delighted to host the launch party for Ethel Rohan’s debut novel\, The Weight of Him. Ethel will read from the book and be in conversation with Edan Lepucki\, followed by a Q&A and book signing. Join us! \nThe Weight of Him tells the story of Billy Brennan. At four hundred pounds\, Billy can always count on food. From his earliest memories\, he has loved food’s colors\, textures and tastes. The way flavors go off in his mouth. How food keeps his mind still and his bad feelings quiet. Food has always made everything better\, until the day Billy’s beloved son Michael takes his own life. \nBilly determines to make a difference in Michael’s memory and undertakes a public weight-loss campaign\, to raise money for suicide prevention—his first step in an ambitious plan to save himself\, and to save others. However\, Billy’s dramatic crusade appalls his family\, who want to simply try to go on. \nDespite his crushing detractors\, Billy gains welcome allies: his community-at-large; a co-worker who lost his father to suicide; a filmmaker with his own dubious agenda; and a secret\, miniature kingdom that Billy populates with the sub-quality dolls and soldiers he saves from disposal at the toy factory where he works. But it is only if Billy can confront the truth of the suffering and brokenness within and around him that he and others will realize the recovery they need. \nSet in rural\, contemporary Ireland\, The Weight of Him is an unforgettable\, big-hearted novel about loss and reliance that moves from tragedy to recrimination to what can be achieved when we take the stand of our lives. \n————————–————————–———\n“The Weight of Him is an achingly sad\, achingly lovely novel that speaks to the essential core of our shared human experience. I will not soon forget it. Ethel Rohan\, a prodigiously skilled short story writer\, has proved herself\, in this debut novel\, to be a master of the long form as well.” — Robert Olen Butler\, author of Perfume River \n“In The Weight of Him Ethel Rohan shows herself to be one of those rare\, courageous writers who dare to take on the ‘ordinary’ and show just how extraordinary it really is. A brave and moving book.” — John Banville\, author of The Blue Guitar \n“Ethel Rohan is a writer of great courage and emotional intelligence. She can also tell a damn good story. The Weight of Him is about loss and about life. It is involving\, terrifying and ultimately quite beautiful.” — Tom Barbash\, author of Stay Up With Me\n————————–————————–——— \nEthel Rohan’s debut novel\, The Weight of Him\, won the inaugural Plumeri Fellowship. She is the author of two story collections\, Goodnight Nobody and Cut Through the Bone\, the former longlisted for The Edge Hill Prize and the latter longlisted for The Story Prize. An award-winning short story writer\, her work has appeared in The New York Times\, World Literature Today\, Tin House Online\, GUERNICA Magazine\, The Stinging Fly\, and many others. Raised in Dublin\, Ireland\, she lives in San Francisco and received her MFA in fiction from Mills College\, CA. She is a member of San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. \nEdan Lepucki is the author of the novella If You’re Not Yet Like Me and the New York Times bestselling novel\, California. Her next novel\, Woman No. 17\, will be published in May. She’s a contributing editor at The Millions and the founder of Writing Workshops Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ethel-rohan-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Katie Kitamura
DESCRIPTION:Katie Kitamura reads from and discusses her novel\, A Separation. \nPraise for Katie Kitamura: \n“A slow burn of a novel that gathers its great force and intensity through careful observation and a refusal to accept old\, shopworn narratives of love and loss.” —Jenny Offill\, author of Dept. of Speculation \n“The burnt landscape\, the disappearance of a man\, the brilliantly cold\, precise\, and yet threatening\, churning tone of the narrator—make A Separation an absolutely mesmerizing work of art.” —Rachel Kushner\, author of The Flamethrowers \n“Profound and gripping. I had that rare sense of feeling like I was in a creation specifically made out of words\, that couldn’t have been made out of any other substance. Kitamura combines the calm complexity of Joseph Conrad with the pacing and reveal of Patricia Highsmith. This novel is a wonder and a pleasure.” —Rivka Galchen\, author of Atmospheric Disturbances and Little Labors \n“Hemingway’s returned to life—and this time\, he’s a woman.” —Tom McCarthy\, author of Satin Island \n\nAbout A Separation: \nA mesmerizing\, psychologically taut novel about a marriage’s end and the secrets we all carry. \n\nA young woman has agreed with her faithless husband: it’s time for them to separate. For the moment it’s a private matter\, a secret between the two of them. As she begins her new life\, she gets word that Christopher has gone missing in a remote region in the rugged south of Greece; she reluctantly agrees to go and search for him\, still keeping their split to herself. In her heart\, she’s not even sure if she wants to find him. Adrift in the wild landscape\, she traces the disintegration of their relationship\, and discovers she understands less than she thought about the man she used to love. \n\nA story of intimacy and infidelity\, A Separation is about the gulf that divides us from the lives of others and the narratives we create for ourselves. As the narrator reflects upon her love for a man who may never have been what he appeared\, Kitamura propels us into the experience of a woman on the brink of catastrophe. A Separation is a riveting stylistic masterpiece of absence and presence that will leave the reader astonished\, and transfixed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katie-kitamura/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Five-Fingered Mitten: A Michigan-ish Reading
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Killian hosts a special historic reading featuring five writers with ties to Washtenaw County\, Michigan. \nVisiting writers and current Michiganders David Kuhnlein and Addy Malinowski will be joined by local writers and ex-Michigan residents Kellie Nadler\, Yalitza Ferraras\, and Amy Berkowitz. \nAbout our writers: \nAccording to his friends David Kuhnlein’s work is “disgusting”. He coaxes unconscious material to the surface by dangling his body like a worm above the page. His recent collection of essays titled Anything but Surgery explores the relationship between sexuality\, disease\, chronic pain\, and surrender. David Kuhnlein is a writer\, filmmaker and farmer living and working in Ypsilanti\, Michigan. Some of his work can be found on his blog: cryoutinanimals.tumblr.com \nAddy Malinowski is a noise musician and poet from the Detroit area. Addy would like to think he’s investigating intersecting affective realities of addiction\, social-disease\, and memory in his work and would like to thank his friends and fellow creatures the trees\, birds\, and land-mammals for their sustained generosity & love. \nAmy Berkowitz is the author of Tender Points\, the co-organizer of Sick Fest\, and the host of the Amy’s Kitchen Organics reading series. In 2014\, she was the inaugural Writer in Residence at Alley Cat Bookstore & Gallery. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan where she won a Hopwood Writing Award; this is likely the first time she’s mentioned her MFA in a bio. She moved from Ann Arbor to San Francisco almost seven years ago and has no regrets. \nYalitza Ferreras was recently a Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University. Her writing appears in Best American Short Stories\, Colorado Review\, and the anthologies: Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education and Daring to Write: Contemporary Narratives by Dominican Women. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan where she won the Delbanco Thesis Prize\, and is the recipient of fellowships from Djerassi Resident Artists\, the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto\, and Voices of Our Nation. She was raised in New York and the Dominican Republic\, and currently lives in San Francisco where she is working on a novel and a collection of short stories. \nKellie Nadler is a somatic writer and artist whose work can be found in the Oaken Transformations Art and Sculpture Walk\, Oxford Magazine\, Dressing Room Poetry Journal\, and the Rukeyser Living Archive. She’s a non-traditional educator\, working to bring students’ social and emotional needs into classroom learning. She’s taught incarcerated women\, college students\, at-risk teens\, and illiterate adults. She was teaching creative writing at Eastern Michigan University before she decided to uproot and move to the East Bay\, where she’s been living for the past couple of months.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-five-fingered-mitten-a-michigan-ish-reading/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:From All Points But the Center Brunch Reading
DESCRIPTION:Monthly Reading Series featuring 4-6 readers & performers\nfree mini writing workshop at 11am\nreadings begin at noon\nPotluck- Bring a dish to share! \nSuggested donation of $10 NOTAFLOF \nFeaturing Terrilynn Cantlon\, Jessica Hahn\, Shara DeShara and Nicia De’Lovely \nMini Writing Workshop with Mg Roberts! \nBios:\nDeShara Darshell is a MFA Candidate at California College of the Arts where she she studies Writing and a co-founder of the Daughter’s Tongue Coalition. DeShara is a Callaloo fellow and has released two poetry video on her Youtube channel\, Supershardom. She is also published in the latest edition of the Oakland Review\, and Art Cult Zine. You can find more of her work via her Instagram under the #butimcrazy hashtag.\nIG: Supershara\nFB Page: DeShara Darshell\nYoutube Supershardom \nJessica Erica Hahn was born on a renovated WWII ship off the coast of Florida to globetrotting parents\, but spent much of her life in San Francisco\, where she lives to this day. She’s a special education teacher by trade\, a mother of three\, a spontaneous traveler\, and an avid reader. She self published a couple of books in the 1990s\, and has had shorter\, more recent pieces in Peripheral Surveys\, Prime Number\, The Tonopah Review\, Prime Mincer\, Ontologica\, Wordrunner E-Chapbooks\, Holy Cow! Press\, and more! \nCheck out our community membership option at www.oaklandliminal.com/shop/ to attend more community events at LIMINAL!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/from-all-points-but-the-center-brunch-reading/
LOCATION:LIMINAL\, 3037 38th Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94619\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Lescroart w/ K.J. Howe
DESCRIPTION:There are twenty-five elite kidnap and ransom (K&R) specialists in the world. Only one is a woman: Thea Paris. And she’s the best in the business. \nIn The Freedom Broker\, twenty years ago\, a terrified young boy was abducted in the middle of the night by masked intruders while his sister watched\, paralyzed with fear. Returned after a harrowing nine months with his captors\, Thea’s brother has never been the same. \nThis life-shattering experience drove Thea to become what she is today: a world-class freedom broker. Most hostage-recovery work is done at the negotiation table\, but when diplomacy fails\, Thea leads Quantum Security International’s black-ops team on highly sensitive rescue missions to political hot spots around the globe. \nHer childhood nightmare resurfaces when her oil magnate father\, Christos Paris\, is snatched from his yacht off Santorini on his sixtieth birthday\, days away from the biggest deal of his career. The brutal kidnappers left the entire crew slaughtered in their wake\, but strangely\, there are no ransom demands\, no political appeals\, no prisoner release requests-just obscure and foreboding texts written in Latin sent from burner phones. \nKnowing the survival window for kidnap victims is small\, Thea throws herself into the most urgent and challenging rescue mission of her life-but will she be able to prevent this kidnapping from destroying her family for good? \nK.J. Howe is the executive director of ThrillerFest\, the annual conference of International Thriller Writers. A three-time Daphne du Maurier Award winner\, she completed her MA in Writing Popular Fiction at Seton Hill University. She is an avid traveler who has raced camels in Jordan\, surfed in Hawaii\, and dove with the great whites in South Africa. She became fascinated by the kidnap and ransom (K&R) world after meeting Peter Moore\, a British computer consultant who became the longest-held hostage in Iraq and the only person to survive of the five men who were taken that day. This is her debut novel. \n………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. \nFrom New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart\, a riveting standalone novel about the unexpected\, shattering\, and lethal consequences of a one-night stand on a seemingly happily married couple. \nKate loves her life. At forty-four\, she’s happily married to her kind husband\, Ron\, blessed with two wonderful children\, and has a beautiful home in San Francisco. Everything changes\, however\, when she and Ron attend a dinner party and meet another couple\, Peter and Jill. Kate and Peter only exchange a few pleasant words but that night\, in bed with her husband\, Kate is suddenly overcome with a burning desire for Peter. \nWhat begins as an innocent crush soon develops into a dangerous obsession and Kate’s fixation on Peter results in one intense\, passionate encounter between the two. Confident that her life can now go back to normal\, Kate never considers that Peter may not be so willing to move on. \nNot long after their affair\, a masked man barges into the café Kate is sitting in with her best friend\, firing an assault weapon indiscriminately into the crowd. This tragedy is the first in a series of horrifying events that will show Kate just how grave the consequences of one mistake can be. \nAn explosive story of infidelity\, danger\, and moral ambiguity\, John Lescroart’s latest thriller Fatal will excite and satisfy both his current and new fans. \nJohn Lescroart is the author of twenty-five previous novels\, including the New York Times bestsellers The Ophelia Cut\, The Keeper\, and The Fall. He lives in Northern California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-lescroart-w-k-j-howe/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Sunnylyn Thibodeaux + Lauren Levin
DESCRIPTION:Sunnylyn Thibodeaux will read to celebrate the release of her new chapbook\, What’s Going On\, along with Lauren Levin\, whose book\, The Braid\, is fresh out from Krupskaya\, at 2pm on Sunday\, February 19th at Bird & Beckett Books: 653 Chenery Street at Diamond\, in San Francisco — two blocks from Glen Park BART\, MUNI lines J\, 23\, 35\, 36\, 44\, 52\, and Interstate 280. Please join us! \nSunnylyn Thibodeaux is the author of AS WATER SOUNDS (Bootstrap Press\, 2014) and PALM TO PINE (2011) and the forthcoming Universal Fall Precautions (Spuyten Duyvil\, 2017). Small books include 20/20 Yielding (Blue Press\, 2005)\, Hidden Driveways Ahead\, Room Service Calls (Lew Gallery\, 2009)\, United Untied (Private Edition\, 2008) and What’s Going On (Bird & Beckett. She co-edits Auguste Press and Lew Gallery Editions. \nLauren Levin is the author of THE BRAID (Krupskaya\, 2016) and the forthcoming TWO ESSAYS (Timeless\, Infinite Light\, 2018) as well as several chapbooks\, including The Lens (Little Red Leaves\, 2014) and Working (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs\, 2012). From 2011-2014\, she co–edited the Poetic Labor Project. She grew up in New Orleans and lives in Richmond\, CA with her family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sunnylyn-thibodeaux-lauren-levin/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash w/ Michael McLaughlin + Raina J. Léon
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday\, February 19th at 3pm featuring Michael McLaughlin and Raina J. León. \nPoetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible; ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.org for more events and reviews! \nMichael McLaughlin’s debut book of poems is Countless Cinemas. Connie Post says\, “These poems are honest and hard-hitting\, sensual and erotic…Find a quiet seat in the theatre of your mind and absorb the carefully created cinematography of each script.” He is also the author of two novels and two poetry chapbooks and the artist-in-residence at Atascadero State Hospital\, a maximum security forensic facility\, and San Luis Obispo County Coordinator for California Poets in the Schools. A former Poet Laureate of San Luis Obispo County\, he runs the Central Coast’s Live from the Core poetry/performance series and is the founding editor of USC’s The Southern California Poetry Anthology. \nRaina J. León’s new book of poems is sombra: (dis)locate. Tara Betts says\, “…León’s new collection…hints at the shadows within history\, languages\, sexuality\, loss\, grief\, and violence unveiled in poems that span countries\, the enigmatic specter of Josephine Baker flouting conventions of respectability and race\, and the brutalities that split peoples’ emotional cares like simple apples.” Her previous collections include Canticle of Idols and Boogeyman Dawn. She also has a 2016 chapbook\, Profeta without Refuge. She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow\, CantoMundo fellow\, and a member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective. She is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly promoting and publishing LatinX arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-w-michael-mclaughlin-raina-j-leon/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:KASSIDAT Poetry Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Blood Flower \nAn afternoon of local poets reading from their latest publications
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kassidat-poetry-reading-series/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170219T213000
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CREATED:20170202T050022Z
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SUMMARY:Pals 'N' Gals
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special round of paired readers in this post-Valentines Day Bazaar Cafe series of flash prose and poetry. Readers include:\nIngrid Keir & MK Chavez\nChristine No & Josey Rose Duncan\nGrant Faulkner & Andy Dugas\nPaul Corman-Roberts & Peter Thomas Bullen.\nOur special guest musician is Azuah\n\n\nRecent Posts
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pals-n-gals/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170219T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170219T200000
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CREATED:20170131T060703Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T060850Z
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SUMMARY:Emily Fridlund
DESCRIPTION:A BEA Buzz Book Selection and one of the most daring literary debuts of the season\, History of Wolves is a profound and propulsive novel from an urgent\, new voice in American fiction \n“So delicately calibrated and precisely beautiful that one might not immediately sense the sledgehammer of pain building inside this book. And I mean that in the best way. What powerful tension and depth this provides!”—Aimee Bender \nFourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in the beautiful\, austere woods of northern Minnesota\, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as a last vestige of a lost counter-culture world. Isolated at home and an outlander at school\, Linda is drawn to the enigmatic\, attractive Lily and new history teacher Mr. Grierson. When Mr. Grierson is charged with possessing child pornography\, the implications of his arrest deeply affect Linda as she wrestles with her own fledgling desires and craving to belong. \nAnd then the young Gardner family moves in across the lake and Linda finds herself welcomed into their home as a babysitter for their little boy\, Paul. It seems that her life finally has purpose but with this new sense of belonging she is also drawn into secrets she doesn’t understand. Over the course of a few days\, Linda makes a set of choices that reverberate throughout her life. As she struggles to find a way out of the sequestered world into which she was born\, Linda confronts the life-and-death consequences of the things people do—and fail to do—for the people they love. \nWinner of the McGinnis-Ritchie award for its first chapter\, Emily Fridlund’s propulsive and gorgeously written History of Wolves introduces a new writer of enormous range and talent. \nEmily Fridlund grew up in Minnesota and currently resides in the Finger Lakes region of New York. Her fiction has appeared in a variety of journals\, including Boston Review\, Zyzzyva\, Five Chapters\, New Orleans Review\, Sou’wester\, New Delta Review\, Chariton Review\, The Portland Review\, and Painted Bride Quarterly. She holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. Fridlund’s collection of stories\, Catapult\, was a finalist for the Noemi Book Award for Fiction and the Tartts First Fiction Award. It won the Mary McCarthy Prize and will be published by Sarabande in 2017. The opening chapter of History of Wolves was published in Southwest Review and won the 2013 McGinnis-Ritchie Award for Fiction.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emily-fridlund/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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CREATED:20170131T061356Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T061356Z
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SUMMARY:Petra Kuppers + Stephanie Heit
DESCRIPTION:At this unique event\, Stephanie Heit and Petra Kuppers will hold open spaces of healing by sharing scores and insights from Tendings\, small everyday collaborative practices that combine experiential anatomy\, eco-specific investigations\, somatic exercises\, and writing. They will follow these practical explorations with sample writings from Stephanie’s The Color She Gave Gravity\, and Petra’s PearlStitch\, feminist poetics in queer/crip/mad space.\nStephanie Heit is a poet\, dancer\, and teacher of somatic writing\, Contemplative Dance Practice\, and Kundalini Yoga. She lives with bipolar disorder and is a member of the Olimpias\, an international disability performance collective. Her debut poetry collection\, The Color She Gave Gravity (The Operating System 2017)\, was a Nightboat Poetry Prize finalist. Her work most recently appeared in Midwestern Gothic\, Typo\, Streetnotes\, Nerve Lantern\, QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology\, Spoon Knife Anthology\, Theatre Topics\, and Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance.\nstephanieheitpoetry.wordpress.com\nPetra Kuppers is a disability culture activist\, a community performance artist\, and a Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan\, teaching in performance studies. She also teaches on the low-residency MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College. Her most recent poetry collection\, PearlStitch\, appeared with Spuyten Duyvil Press (2016). She is the Artistic Director of The Olimpias\, an international disability culture collective\, and in 2016/7 she was engaged in the Asylum Project\, co-led with her partner Stephanie Heit.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/petra-kuppers-stephanie-heit/
LOCATION:California College of Arts\, 1111 8th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170220T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T034604
CREATED:20170217T035403Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170217T035403Z
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SUMMARY:Rise and Resist!
DESCRIPTION:Observe President’s Day and join the resistance. Say NO to Trump’s agenda of hate and division. Love and Solidarity. Amor y Solidaridad. Bring signs and banners. Castro Street and Market\, San Francisco. Regardless of weather. \nSpeakers will include some of the real activists portrayed in the ABC mini-series\, “When We Rise.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rise-and-resist/
LOCATION:Harvey Milk Plaza\, 2401 Market Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170220T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170220T210000
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CREATED:20170117T023037Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170117T023037Z
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SUMMARY:Ian Rankin
DESCRIPTION:It’s the 30th anniversary of Ian Rankin’s Detective Inspector John Rebus! In his latest outing he may have stopped smoking and drinking\, but he hasn’t stopped flouting the rules. 2017 marks the thirtieth anniversary of one of crime fiction’s greatest characters\, John Rebus\, created by one of the world’s leading crime writers\, Ian Rankin. Rebus’s anniversary coincides with the release of the much-anticipated Rather Be the Devil\, Rankin’s 21st Rebus novel.\nRather Be the Devil finds John Rebus\, as incapable of settling into his retirement as he is of playing by the rules\, investigating a cold case from the 1970s involving a gorgeous and wealthy female socialite who was found dead in a bedroom at one of Edinburgh’s most luxurious hotels. No one was ever found guilty\, but the scandalous circumstances of the murder have kept the town talking for over forty years. Now\, Rebus has his own reasons to investigate\, but his inquiries—along with those of Malcolm Fox and Siobhan Clarke—quickly make him some very dangerous and powerful enemies who will stop at nothing to ensure that the case remains unsolved and the gossip falls on deaf ears.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ian-rankin-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170221T200000
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CREATED:20170117T023626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170117T023626Z
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SUMMARY:Joyce Carol Oates
DESCRIPTION:A BOOK OF AMERICAN MARTYRS \nfrom Ecco Press \nA BOOK OF AMERICAN MARTYRS intimately links the stories of two very different families. Luther Dunphy is an ardent Evangelical who envisions himself as acting out God’s will when he assassinates an abortion provider in his small Ohio town. Augustus Voorhees\, the idealistic doctor who is killed\, leaves behind a wife and children scarred and embittered by grief. As the story moves forward\, the daughters of these men—one a boxer\, the other a journalist—continue to be inextricably tied by the dramatic connection they share. As she alone can\, Oates renders whole these two very different families—with very different values and views. Epic and intimate\, the narrative explores their warring convictions with dazzling equanimity. A story as immediate as today’s headlines\, it also offers a larger perspective on the ways that issues tear us apart as individuals and as a nation. \nJoyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal\, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award\, the National Book Award\, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time\, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys\, Blonde (a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize)\, and the New York Times bestsellers The Falls (winner of the 2005 Prix Femina Etranger) and The Gravedigger’s Daughter. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. In 2003 she received the Common Wealth Award for Distinguished Service in Literature\, and in 2006 she received the Chicago Tribune Lifetime Achievement Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-carol-oates-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170131T061747Z
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SUMMARY:Shannon Leone Fowler
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Shannon Leone Fowler Tuesday\, February 21st for the launch of her new memoir\, Traveling With Ghosts. \nGrowing up in California\, Shannon Leone Fowler always felt a deep connection to the ocean and declared\, at eight years old\, that she wanted to study marine biology. In that pivotal moment\, there was no way for her to know that one day\, her beloved ocean would betray her. In 2002\, Fowler—then a twenty-eight-year-old marine biologist—went backpacking through Asia with her fiancé\, Sean. Avid travelers\, the two decided on a quick trip to Thailand to celebrate their recent engagement. During an afternoon swim on the island of Ko Pha Ngan\, a box jellyfish—the most venomous animal in the world—wrapped around Sean’s legs\, stinging and killing him as Fowler helplessly watched. \nWith her future forever changed\, Fowler abandoned her professional commitments to travel the world\, lost and stumbling and in search of healing. Unable to understand how the ocean—the very thing she had dedicated her life to before she had dedicated it to Sean—could betray her\, she first sought solace in landlocked countries marked by tragedy: war-torn Israel; shelled-out Bosnia; poverty-stricken Romania; and Oświęcim\, Poland\, the site of Auschwitz. Despite Eastern Europe’s deep wounds\, Fowler remembers the kindness of those she encountered\, fellow travelers and countrymen alike\, and the comfort and perspective they offered. \nA moving tribute to those we have lost and the unexpected ways their memories find us afterward\, Fowler “turn[s] her devastating\, beautiful\, honest\, and personal story into something universal” (Booklist\, starred review) as she remembers the shocking death of her fiancé and wrestles with life before and after tragedy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shannon-leone-fowler/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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CREATED:20170131T063108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T063108Z
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SUMMARY:Valeria Luiselli
DESCRIPTION:Green Apple Books and 826 Valencia present Valeria Luiselli and student writers for a special event for Tell Me How it Ends\, Luiselli’s new book-length essay about her work with undocumented Latin-American children facing deportation. \n\nPraise for Valeria Luiselli \n\n“Luiselli follows in the imaginative tradition of writers like Borges and Márquez\, but her style and concerns are unmistakably her own… Luiselli has become a writer to watch\, in part because it’s truly hard to know (but exciting to wonder about) where she will go next.” —The New York Times \n\n“Although buoyant\, Luiselli’s work never seems flippant\, perhaps because of her precise prose style . . . Linear at first glance\, it soon opens out into a world of stories\, like a mouth with one tooth from every artist in the world.” —Chicago Tribune \n\n“Valeria Luiselli is one of the most exciting new writers working today.” —Los Angeles Times \n\nAbout Tell Me How it Ends \n\nStructured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American children facing deportation\, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman’s essay of the same name) humanizes these young migrants and highlights the contradiction of the idea of America as a fiction for immigrants with the reality of racism and fear—both here and back home. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/valeria-luiselli/
LOCATION:826 Valencia\, 826 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Word Party
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir\, Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. FREE admission\, all ages\, full menu and bar in the front room. Open Mic for poetry only – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-word-party/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170117T024840Z
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SUMMARY:Marc Bojanowski
DESCRIPTION:From the author of The Dog Fighter\, hailed by Geoff Dyer as “the most exciting debut…by an American writer since Eugenides’s The Virgin Suicides\,” comes Journeyman\, a tightly wound novel by Marc Bojanowski about dwelling\, building\, belonging\, love\, and the value of a place to call home. \nNolan Jackson is a journeyman carpenter by trade and a wanderer by nature. Set in 2007\, while fellow Americans fight in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars\, Nolan builds tract homes across California\, traveling between jobs. Following a shocking workplace accident in his temporary home of Las Vegas\, he uproots himself from the tentative relationships he has made and heads west towards the ocean. On his way he passes through his brother’s town\, where circumstances force him to stay put. Bereft of his trailer and his tools\, Nolan turns to the task of building the foundations of a meaningful life. The specter of war and questions of the Western-film notions of masculinity are woven throughout the novel; from the damage to Nolan’s family by the Vietnam War in which his father fought\, to the ubiquity and consequence of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan\, to slow unraveling of his brother’s marriage and mental state\, to the mysterious series of arsons being set around their small town. \nOne of “31 Brilliant Books That You Really Must Read This Spring.” — Buzzfeed\n“A rich but unrefined seam of allegorical meaningfulness [runs] through this pleasing tale.” — The Irish Times\n“Bojanowski keeps it simple … his direct\, unassuming style keeps the reader engaged in the ultimately optimistic story of Nolan’s attempt to overcome the contradictions in his life.” — Herald Scotland \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marc-bojanowski/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Elinor Lipman
DESCRIPTION:At thirty-two\, Faith Frankel has returned to her claustro-suburban hometown\, where she writes institutional thank-you notes for her alma mater. It’s a peaceful life\, really\, and surely with her recent purchase of a sweet bungalow on Turpentine Lane her life is finally on track. Never mind that her fiance is off on a crowdfunded cross-country walk\, too busy to return her texts (but not too busy to post photos of himself with a different woman in every state). And never mind her witless boss\, or a mother who lives too close\, or a philandering father who thinks he’s Chagall.When she finds some mysterious artifacts in the attic of her new home\, she wonders whether anything in her life is as it seems. What good fortune\, then\, that Faith has found a friend in affable\, collegial Nick Franconi\, officemate par excellence . . .Elinor Lipmanmay well have invented the screwball romantic comedy for our era\, and here she is at her sharpest and best. On Turpentine Lane is funny\, poignant\, and a little bit outrageous. \nElinor Lipman is the author of ten novels\, including The View from Penthouse B and The Inn at Lake Devine;one essay collection\, I Can’t Complain; and Tweet Land of Liberty: Irreverent Rhymes from the Political Circus. She lives in Massachusetts and New York City. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elinor-lipman/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170117T032645Z
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SUMMARY:Yiyun Li
DESCRIPTION:Yiyun Li reads from her memoir\, Dear Friend\, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. \n\n\n\n\n“In this exquisite\, intimate\, lyrical memoir\, Yiyun Li reveals her life in flashes appended to an arrestingly coherent philosophy of time\, self\, and place. Uniting the discipline of a scientist with the empathy of a novelist\, she scatters profound and often difficult truths through these generous\, wise\, challenging pages.”– Andrew Solomon\, author of The Noonday Demon and Far from the Tree \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, February 22\, 2017 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nIn her first nonfiction book\, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li explores the questions we ask ourselves as readers and writers\, as citizens and solitary travelers\, as parents and children: How does one make life livable? How do writing and reading bring us solace\, and help us embrace the conflicts of our daily reality? Tracing the course of her life from China to America\, and from biologist to writer\, Li reflects with startling generosity and humanity on the writers who have shaped her—William Trevor\, Katherine Mansfield\, Marianne Moore\, Ivan Turgenev\, Stefan Zweig\, and more. \nYiyun Li is the author of four works of fiction: Kinder Than Solitude\, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers\, The Vagrants\, and Gold Boy\, Emerald Girl. A native of Beijing and a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, she is the recipient of many awards. In 2007\, Granta named her one of the best American novelists under thirty-five. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, A Public Space\, The Best American Short Stories\, and The O. Henry Prize Stories\, among others. She teaches writing at the UC\, Davis\, and lives in Oakland with her husband and their two sons.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yiyun-li-2/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Roof Books
DESCRIPTION:David Buuck lives in Oakland\, CA. He is the co-founder and editor of Tripwire\, a journal of poetics\, and founder of BARGE\, the Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics. Recent publications include SITE CITE CITY (2015) An Army of Lovers\, co-written with Juliana Spahr (2013) and Noise In The Face Of (Roof Books\, 2017) \nJean Day’s new books are The Triumph of Life\, soon to appear from Insurance Editions\, and Daydream\, forthcoming from Litmus Press in June. Her various but not exactly checkered career has included bookselling\, marketing\, fundraising\, union activism\, and for the last two decades\, working as a scholarly editor. One of her first books\, A Young Recruit\, was published by Roof in 1988. \nLaura Moriarty is the author of numerous collections of poetry\, including Rondeaux (1990)\, A Semblance: Selected and New Poems\, 1975–2007 (2007)\, A Tonalist (2010)\, and Who That Divines (2014). She is also the author of the short novel Cunning (2000) and the science fiction novel Ultravioleta (2006). \nIn her work\, Moriarty engages language and feminism; the poems buckle and fold against the constraints of hybrid\, projectivist\, and received forms. \nMoriarty has served as archive director for the Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives at San Francisco State University and as deputy director of Small Press Distribution. She has taught at Naropa University\, the Otis Art Institute\, and Mills College. Her honors include a Poetry Center Book Award\, a Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Award in Poetry\, a New Langton Arts Award\, and a Fund for Poetry grant.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roof-books/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:James Sherry
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes James Sherry to the store to discuss and sign his latest poetry collection\, Entangled Bank on Thursday\, February 23rd at 7:00 pm. Joining him in conversation will be local poet Sara Larsen.\n“Entangled Bank opens with a set of five line poems dedicated to the ‘beauty’ of various poets\, a nuanced and generous version of Joseph Kaplan’s infamous Kill List\, and concludes with a wrenchingly honest prose piece on Sherry’s correspondence with the late poet Stacy Doris on the limits of empathy. Between these gestures toward a troubled yet significant human connection\, Sherry places poems in a variety of styles\, as if styles were species in an ecosystem\, a veritable ‘entangled bank’. Often he writes with scathing wit on the degradation of the environment and the fraudulence of the financial system. One line admonishes\, ‘Wake up\, this is about you.’ And it is. You’re going to want it.” — Rae Armantrout \nJames Sherry is the author of eleven previous books of poetry and prose\, including Oops! Environmental Poetics. He is publisher of Roof Books and started the Segue Foundation\, Inc.\, a multi arts producer\, in 1977 in New York City. \nSara Larsen is a poet living in Oakland\, CA. Her previous book is All Revolutions Will Be Fabulous\, and her chapbooks include Riot Cops en Route to Troy\, Merry Hell\, and The Hallucinated\, among others. Sara has performed her work widely\, including at The Berkeley Art Museum\, Grace Cathedral\, LitQuake\, and at Multifarious Array in NYC. Over the course of two years\, she and David Brazil published more than 60 issues of the seminal literary zine Try Magazine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-sherry/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Kevin Smokler
DESCRIPTION:From the fictional towns of Hill Valley\, CA\, and Shermer\, IL\, to the beautiful landscapes of the Goondocks in Astoria and the time of your life dirty dancing resort still alive and well in Lake Lure\, NC\, ’80s teen movies left their mark not just on movie screen and in the hearts of fans\, but on the landscape of America itself. Like few other eras in movie history\, the ’80s teen movies has endured and gotten better with time. In Brat Pack America\, Kevin Smokler gives virtual tours of your favorite movies while also picking apart why these locations are so important to these movies. \nIncluding interviews with actors\, writers\, and directors of the era\, and chock full of interesting facts about your favorite ’80s movies\, this book is a must for any fan. Smokler went to Goonies Day in Astoria\, OR\, took a Lost Boys tour of Santa Cruz\, CA\, and deeply explored every nook and cranny of the movies we all know and love\, and it shows. \nKevin Smokler is the author of the essay collection Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books You Haven’t Touched Since High School\, which the Atlantic Wire called “truly enjoyable\,” and the editor of Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times\, a San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book of 2005. His writing on pop culture has appeared in the LA Times\, Salon\, BuzzFeed\, Vulture\, the San Francisco Chronicle and on NPR. In 2013\, he was BookRiot’s first ever Writer-in-Residence. He can be found on twitter at @weegee. He lives in San Francisco with his wife\, cat\, and most of MTV’s first year on vinyl.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kevin-smokler-2/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Rachel Aspen
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nGeneration Revolution:  On the Front Line\nBetween Tradition and Change in the Middle East \nfrom Other Press \nIn 2011 during the Arab Spring\, the government of Egypt transformed\nfrom a dictatorship to a democratic presidency. The chaos that\nresulted during this time erupted from a decade of social and\npolitical unrest among the Egyptian people. GENERATION REVOLUTION is\nthe story of the millennial generation in Egypt during the Arab\nSpring\, from the perspective of several different young men and women\nwhose different views explore the way Egypt has been shaped before\,\nduring\, and after the 2011 end of Hosni Mubarak’s presidency. \nAspden spent years in Egypt during the beginning of unrest in 2003 and\nmoved back again during the years following post-revolution in 2011.\nAspden offers a window into the world of the Middle East during the\nArab Spring\, before\, during\, and after Egypt’s chaotic overthrow of\ntheir President Mubarak and his successor\, the democratically elected\nMuslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi.\nThrough Aspden’s curious and unbiased gaze\, readers hear the Egyptian\nvoices of Amr\, an atheist university-educated software engineer\, Amal\,\na fiercely independent young woman who lives on her own in Cairo which\nis practically unheard of\, Ayman\, a devout Muslim teenager who chooses\nto follow ultraconservative Salafi Islam to the surprise of his\nmiddle-class parents\, and Mazen\, a fan of TV preacher Amr Khaled who\nfinds himself on the front lines during the revolution. With these\nperspectives along with others’\, readers learn that from atheists to\nultra-religious\, from conservative young men to liberal young women\,\nthe growing generation of Egypt is vastly different\, struggling to\nfind a place for various voices during chaotic government upheaval.\nAspden writes from the front lines of this new generation\, sharing\ntheir stories and harbouring their own doubts\, resentments\, and hope\nfor what is to come. \nRachel Aspden became literary editor of the New Statesman in 2006\, at\nthe age of 26. She now works at the Guardian\, and also writes on a\nfreelance basis for the New Statesman\, Observer\, Prospect and Think\nmagazine (Qatar). She lived in Cairo in 2003-4 and worked as an editor\nand reporter on the English-language Cairo Times. Since then\, from her\nUK base\, she has travelled to and reported from across the region and\nthe wider Muslim world: Yemen\, the UAE\, Turkey\, Lebanon\, Syria\,\nJordan\, the Palestinian territories\, Egypt\, Morocco\, Sudan\, Pakistan\nand north India. In 2010\, she was awarded a year-long travelling\nfellowship by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust to research\nactivists working to fight extremism within Islam.Following the Arab\nspring uprisings in 2011\, she moved back to Egypt to research this book.\nShe is currently based in London and reports for the Guardian. \n\n\n\n\n 
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