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SUMMARY:Glori Simmons and Dickson Lam
DESCRIPTION:Glori Simmons and Dickson Lam read from their latest works from Autumn House Press \nAbout Carry You \n \n  \nIn Carry You\, a Sunni museum official accidentally hits a Shiite child with her car. A group of young GIs sneak into the women’s quarters wearing night vision goggles. A father makes a daily ritual of searching the streets of war-torn Baghdad for his missing daughter. An injured vet finally mails a letter he found in a dying woman’s pocket. Moving between the Khalil family in Iraq and Clark\, an American soldier from Deer Park\, Washington\, the eleven stories in Carry You reveal the redeeming powers of love and family in a time of war. \n  \nAbout Glori Simmons \nGlori Simmons is an award-winning writer whose books include Graft: poems (Truman State University Press\, 2002)\, Suffering Fools: stories (Spokane Prize\, Willow Springs Books\, 2017)\, and Carry You: stories (Fiction Prize\, Autumn House Press\, 2018). She lives in Oakland and directs the Thacher Gallery at the University of San Francisco. \n  \nAbout Paper Sons \n \nSet in a public housing project in San Francisco\, Lam’s memoir explores his transformation from a teenage graffiti writer to a high school teacher working with troubled youth while navigating the secret violence in his immigrant’s family’s past. \n  \nAbout Dickson Lam \n  \nDickson Lam’s work has appeared in StoryQuarterly The Kenyon Review Online\, Hyphen Magazine\, The Normal School\, PANK\, The Good Men Project\, The Rumpus\, and Kartika Review. He is a VONA alum and has been a resident fellow at the Millay Colony for the Arts and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. He holds MFA degrees in creative writing from the University of Houston and Rutgers-Newark. Lam is an Assistant Professor of English at Contra Costa College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/glori-simmons-and-dickson-lam/
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:Ellen Forney / Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Ellen Forney for Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life\, the anticipated companion volume to her bestselling graphic memoir Marbles: Mania\, Depression\, Michelangelo\, and Me\, which she presented at Booksmith. Please join us in welcoming Ellen back to San Francisco! \nWhereas Marbles was a memoir about her bipolar disorder\, Rock Steady turns the focus outward\, offering a self-help guide of tips\, tricks\, and tools by someone who has been through it all and come through stronger for it. \nWith Marbles\, Forney helped de-stigmatize mood disorders with her candid presentation of her struggle to find mental stability while retaining her passion and creativity. This is the jumping off point for her new book\, Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life. Personal stories and solid advice from Forney on how to overcome the hassle of meds\, recognize red flags\, and other tools from her own experience of 14 years of stability — all in comics form. Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life invites readers into Ellen’s home\, head\, and Peanuts pill box. \n  \n\n  \n“Ellen Forney is an inspiration to me as an artist and as a human being! Let her drawings springboard you into self-acceptance!” — Maria Bamford\, Lady Dynamite \n  \nEllen Forney lives in Seattle\, WA\, with her partner. She was the 2012 recipient of The Stranger Genius Award for Literature as well as the winner of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis 2013 Gradiva Award. \n  \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Rock Steady and/or Marbles order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ellen-forney-rock-steady-brilliant-advice-from-my-bipolar-life/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash presents Melissa Stein and C. Dale Young
DESCRIPTION:Melissa Stein’s new book of poems is Terrible Blooms. The New York Times says\, “Ms. Stein reminds us that there is no honey—rough\, or otherwise—without the sting.” Her first book of poems\, Rough Honey\, won the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. She’s received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the MacDowell Colony\, Yaddo\, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She’s a freelance editor in San Francisco. \nC. Dale Young’s new novel-in-stories\, The Affliction\, is his first collection of fiction. Charles Baxter says\, “The linked stories in C. Dale Young’s The Affliction send us off to a magical location\, where the fantastical can seem both miraculous and ordinary. These tales treat life-and-death matters with a beautifully eloquent fervor\, and\, like the stories of Julio Cortázar\, they remind us off how varied and unpredictable short stories\, like the world itself\, can be.” He’s published four collections of poetry\, most recently The Halo\, and his poetry has been anthologized several times in Best American Poetry. He’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He practices full-time as a medical doctor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-presents-melissa-stein-and-c-dale-young/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bookworks :: An Artist's Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:About the Bookworks :: An Artist’s Book Fair \nBookworks at San Francisco Center for the Book is a great place to start your artist’s book collection\, to meet fantastic book artists\, and spend time with friends over cocktails and light hors d’oeuvres. The vision of Bookworks is to encourage the beginning artist’s book collector\, support local book artists (especially in the early stages of their career)\, and provide a social event for the community.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bookworks-an-artists-book-fair/
LOCATION:San Francisco Center for the Book\, 375 Rhode Island St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Friday Night Poetry: w/ Carmen Giménez Smith & MK Chavez
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 18\n7:00pm\n \nEast Bay Booksellers is excited to host a fantastic Friday night of contemporary poetry\, featuring Carmen Giménez Smith and MK Chavez\, on May 18th at 7pm. \nCarmen Giménez Smith \n“In the body\, through the lyric\, and twitching with every sense of the word ‘nerve\, ‘ [Cruel Futures] book sings a mongrel nation into and across its cruel futures. Like Neruda in his Plenos Poderes/Full Powers\, Giménez Smith has all the mastery she needs to cast a cold eye on her positioning\, and ours. In this way Cruel Futures is an autobiography that won’t stay in its genre or premise\, caring less to author a self than to follow turns of magic in words that might soothe our ‘collisions with the living.'”–Farid Matuk \nA Latina feminist State of the Union address at the intersection of pop culture and interiority. \nCruel Futures is a witchy confessional and wildly imagistic volume that examines subjects as divergent as Alzheimers\, Medusa\, mumblecore\, and mental illness in sharp-witted\, taut poems dense with song. Chronicling life on an endangered planet\, in a country on the precipice of profound change compelled by a media machine that produces our realities\, the book is a high-energy analysis of popular culture\, as well as an exploration of the many social roles that women occupy as mother\, daughter\, lover\, and the resulting struggle to maintain personhood–all in a late capitalist America. \nCarmen Giménez Smith is the author of four poetry collections\, including Milk and Filth\, a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. She was awarded an American Book Award for her memoir Bring Down the Little Birds (2010) and the Juniper Prize for Poetry for Goodbye\, Flicker (2012). She also co-edited Angels of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing (2014)\, an anthology of contemporary Latinx writing. Be Recorderwill be published by Graywolf Press in 2019. She now serves on the planning committee for CantoMundo and on the board of RASA\, which sponsors the Thinking Its Presence conference on race and art. She serves as the publisher of Noemi Press. She is a professor of creative writing at Virginia Tech and the poetry editor for The Nation. \n* * * \nMK Chavez \n“MK Chavez wields a torrential consciousness that exists both as racing music and a suspended realm of human astronomy. Memorials share food with births.  Freedom fighters and artists must be one. Patriarchy must answer for its brutalization and farce. Sketches of loves expand the boundaries of poetry. Reading her poetry\, I feel invincible. Dear Animal\, is the incantation before justice\, and truly our return.” – Tongo Eisen-Martin\, author ofsomeone’s dead already \nMK Chavez will be reading from their most recent collection\, Dear Animal\, which is a re-imagination of the Linnaean taxonomy from a feminist perspective. This collection is a love letter to the resilient feral female and an exploration of the myriad Animalia that dwell in the margins. \nChavez is co-founder/co-curator of the Berkeley-based monthly reading series Lyrics & Dirges\, and the co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival. She believes in literary confrontation and its capacity to obliterate all forms of oppression. Recent and upcoming work can be found in Story Magazine\, Aspasiology\, and Jam Tarts Literary Magazine. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nFriday\, May 18\, 2018 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/friday-night-poetry-w-carmen-gimenez-smith-mk-chavez/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:THERE
DESCRIPTION:NEXT THERE: THERE 23 – Friday\, May 18\, 2018\, with East Bay novelist Cameron MacKenzie\, award-winning local writer Tamara Schuyler\, local novelist Yang Huang\,and musical guest TBA. \nTHERE (THe Eastbay Reading Extravaganza) is a reading series showcasing emerging and established writers from Oakland and Berkeley\, with the occasional San Franciscan. Doug hosts it on the third Friday of each month at Octopus Literary Salon in Uptown Oakland. It also features a live original musical performance by a local musical artist at “halftime” of each month’s reading\, and Doug’s famous original LitQuiz literary trivia contest. It’s from 7:00-9:00pm. THERE has been putting the there back in Oakland since 2015! \nTHERE will take its annual summer break from June-August and return in September!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/there-2/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:‘NEARING THE EXIT’: POEMS BY HERBERT GOLD
DESCRIPTION:Novelist\, memoirist\, essayist\, Herbert Gold returns to his earliest form of literary expression\, poetry—here in a publishing first\, Nearing the Exit. In these poems 94-year-old Gold visits his past and future\, with a tip of the hat to the theme of his recent book Still Alive: A Temporary Condition(2008\, republished as Not Dead Yet\, 2011). \nIncludes an interview with Herb by publisher Les Gottesman at Omèrta Press. \n\nHerbert Gold began writing poetry in high school in Cleveland in the 1930s. Writing propelled him to New York City after several of his poems had been accepted by New York literary magazines. He studied philosophy at Columbia University (interrupted by 3 years in “downtown World War II\,” as he calls it) and became involved with the burgeoning Beat Generation\, which resulted in a lifelong friendship with Allen Ginsberg. He won a Fulbright to Paris\, where he joined a literary scene around Saul Bellow. Gold recalls\, “Somehow I got to writing prose\, confining my poetry to folders which will in due course be excavated by my children. Along the way\, I’ve published approximately 20 novels and collections of stories (who’s counting?) and maybe 6 or 8 nonfiction books (I’m not a mathematician). I’ve temporarily taught at Harvard\, Cornell\, Stanford\, UC-Berkeley\, and UC-Davis\, but didn’t want to depart San Francisco. I’ve had 2 wives and 5 children Isn’t that enough bio? There could be more…” At age 94\, Gold returns to poetry in these new poems\, lyrical but tough reflections on his loves\, joys\, and losses.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nearing-the-exit-poems-by-herbert-gold/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Laura Catherine Brown
DESCRIPTION:Laura Catherine Brown dicusses her new novel\, Made By Mary. \n\nAbout Made By Mary \n\nWhen Mary and Ann agree to a surrogacy partnership everything goes awry. Ann\, a pre-school teacher\, is desperate for the children she physically can’t have. Mary\, a 50-year-old pagan jeweler\, hopes to make amends for years of maternal neglect. Together\, they plunge into the expensive\, morally complex world of reproductive technology and an intimacy neither they\, nor Ann’s husband\, Joel\, is prepared for. Financially hard-pressed\, Joel goes behind Ann’s back and agrees to help Mary grow a marijuana crop in her attic. Ann struggles with the rigors and enforced togetherness of the reproductive regime. And Mary’s delight in being a “bountiful earth mother” is offset by the physical ordeal of bearing multiple fetuses. The stakes escalate as the police start sniffing around the grow house\, a pagan ritual goes tragically awry\, and the pregnancy becomes more perilous\, forcing Ann\, Joel\, and Mary to confront the potentially calamitous consequences of pursuing their deepest desires. Sharp and audacious\, Made by Mary is a black comedy using magic realism to blow up myths about women\, mothers\, and motherhood\, where even the most extreme situations are rendered with candor\, intelligence\, and empathy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laura-catherine-brown/
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:Molly Crabapple / Brothers of the Gun
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Molly Crabapple for Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War\, which she illustrated and co-authored with Marwan Hisham. Please join us! \nA bracingly immediate memoir by a young man coming of age during the Syrian war\, Brothers of the Gun is an intimate lens on the century’s bloodiest conflict and a profound meditation on kinship\, home\, and freedom. \nIn 2011\, Marwan Hisham and his two friends — fellow working-class college students Nael and Tareq — joined the first protests of the Arab Spring in Syria\, in response to a recent massacre. Arm-in-arm they marched\, poured Coca-Cola into one another’s eyes to blunt the effects of tear gas\, ran from the security forces\, and cursed the country’s president\, Bashar al-Assad. It was ecstasy. A long-bottled revolution was finally erupting\, and freedom from a brutal dictator seemed\, at last\, imminent. Five years later\, the three young friends were scattered: one now an Islamist revolutionary\, another dead at the hands of government soldiers\, and the last\, Marwan\, now a journalist in Turkish exile\, trying to find a way back to a homeland reduced to rubble. \nBrothers of the Gun is the story of a young man coming of age during the Syrian war\, from its inception to the present. Marwan watched from the rooftops as regime warplanes bombed soldiers; as revolutionary activist groups\, for a few dreamy days\, spray-painted hope on Raqqa; as his friends died or threw in their lot with Islamist fighters. He became a journalist by courageously tweeting out news from a city under siege by ISIS\, the Russians\, and the Americans all at once. He watched the country that ran through his veins — the country that held his hopes\, dreams\, and fears — be destroyed in front of him\, and eventually joined the relentless stream of refugees risking their lives to escape. \nIllustrated with more than eighty ink drawings by Molly Crabapple that bring to life the beauty and chaos\, Brothers of the Gun offers a ground-level reflection on the Syrian revolution—and how it bled into international catastrophe and global war. This is a story of pragmatism and idealism\, impossible violence and repression\, and\, even in the midst of war\, profound acts of courage\, creativity\, and hope. \n\n  \n“This powerful memoir\, illuminated with Molly Crabapple’s extraordinary art\, provides a rare lens through which we can see a region in deadly conflict\, a struggle for peace\, and a human tragedy in desperate need of attention. It is a compelling\, sobering\, and necessary book.”— Bryan Stevenson\, author of Just Mercy \n“From the anarchy\, torment\, and despair of the Syrian war\, Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple have drawn a book of startling emotional power and intellectual depth. Many books will be written on the war’s exhaustive devastation of bodies and souls\, and the defiant resistance of many trapped men and women\, but the Mahabharata of the Levant has already found its wisest chroniclers.”— Pankaj Mishra\, author of Age of Anger and From the Ruins of Empire\n \n“A revelatory and necessary read on one of the most destructive wars of our time . . . In great personal detail\, Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple poignantly capture the tumultuous life in Syria before\, after\, and during the war—from inside one young man’s consciousness.”— Angela Davis \n“Marwan Hisham took part in the uprising against Bashar al-Assad and then did the unthinkable—wrote journalism from inside ISIS territory\, risking his life so that the world might know the truth. He gives us an unforgettable portrait of what it feels like to resist a tyrannical dictator\, live under ISIS occupation\, brave bombs falling from the sky\, and somehow survive with your humanity intact. Punctuated by Molly Crabapple’s beautiful\, haunting art\, this heart-rending memoir is essential reading to understand one of the greatest catastrophes of our time.”— Anand Gopal\, author of No Good Men Among the Living \n  \n\n  \nMolly Crabapple is an artist and writer in New York. Her memoir\, Drawing Blood\, was published by HarperCollins in 2015. Brothers of the Gun\, her illustrated collaboration with Syrian war journalist Marwan Hisham\, will be published by One World/Penguin Random House in May 2018. Her reportage has been published in the New York Times\, New York Review of Books\, The Paris Review\, Vanity Fair\, The Guardian\, VICE\, and elsewhere. She has been the recipient of a Yale Poynter Fellowship\, a Front Page Award\, and a Gold Rush Award\, and shortlisted for a Frontline Print Journalism Award. She is often asked to discuss her work chronicling the conflicts of the 21st Century\, and has appeared on All In with Chris Hayes\, Amanpour\, NPR\, BBC News\, PRI\, and more. The New Yorker described her 2017 mural “The Bore of Babylon” as “a terrifying amalgam of Hieronymus Bosch\, Honoré Daumier\, and Monty Python’s Flying Circus.” Her art is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art\, the Rubin Museum of Art and the New York Historical Society. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend this event but would like to request a signed copy of Brothers of the Gun\, and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, at 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/molly-crabapple-brothers-of-the-gun/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Laura Catherine Brown and Maw Shein Win
DESCRIPTION:  \nLaura Catherine Brown and Maw Shein Win read from their latest works\, Made By Mary and Invisible Gifts. \nAbout Made By Mary \n \n  \nWhen Mary and Ann agree to a surrogacy partnership everything goes awry. Ann\, a pre-school teacher\, is desperate for the children she physically can’t have. Mary\, a 50-year-old pagan jeweler\, hopes to make amends for years of maternal neglect. Together\, they plunge into the expensive\, morally complex world of reproductive technology and an intimacy neither they\, nor Ann’s husband\, Joel\, is prepared for. Financially hard-pressed\, Joel goes behind Ann’s back and agrees to help Mary grow a marijuana crop in her attic. Ann struggles with the rigors and enforced togetherness of the reproductive regime. And Mary’s delight in being a “bountiful earth mother” is offset by the physical ordeal of bearing multiple fetuses. The stakes escalate as the police start sniffing around the grow house\, a pagan ritual goes tragically awry\, and the pregnancy becomes more perilous\, forcing Ann\, Joel\, and Mary to confront the potentially calamitous consequences of pursuing their deepest desires. Sharp and audacious\, Made by Mary is a black comedy using magic realism to blow up myths about women\, mothers\, and motherhood\, where even the most extreme situations are rendered with candor\, intelligence\, and empathy. \n  \nAbout Invisible Gifts \n \n  \nIn her first full-length collection of poems\, Win depicts a colorful world imbued with unexpected paradoxes: nature is both comforting and savagely unnerving; love is permanent and fleeting; the accuracy and flaws of memory abound. Her experiences with illness and recovery intertwine with her identity as a Burmese American daughter of immigrant doctors\, flowing in poems like “Hands” My father’s hands\, frail birds\, shaking wings. / In Burmese\, “win” means bright. / Hands that stitched skin together and brought back life. Win’s unique perspective and artful language offer readers insight into how the heart can bend and mend without breaking.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laura-catherine-brown-and-maw-shein-win/
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:David Ulrich
DESCRIPTION:David Ulrich\n\n\n\n\npresents Zen Camera: Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice of Photography\, an unprecedented photography practice that guides you to the creativity at your our fingertips\, calling for nothing more than your vision and any camera\, even the one embedded in your phone. \n“Zen Camera is to photographers what The Artist’s Way is to writers. This master class in creativity deserves a place in your home.”–Create with Joy \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Zen Camera by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, May 18\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Ulrich draws on the principles of Zen practice as well as forty years of teaching photography to offer six profound lessons for developing your self-expression. Doing for photography what The Artist’s Way and Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain did for their respective crafts\, Zen Camera encourages you to build a visual journaling practice called your Daily Record in which photography can become a path of self-discovery. Beautifully illustrated with 83 photographs\, its insights into the nature of seeing\, art\, and personal growth allow you to create photographs that are beautiful\, meaningful\, and uniquely your own. \nYou’ll ultimately learn to change the way you interact with technology–transforming it into a way to uncover your innate power of attention and mindfulness\, to see creatively\, and to live authentically. \n\nDavid Ulrich is a professor and co-director of Pacific New Media Foundation in Honolulu\, Hawai’i. He teaches frequent classes and workshops\, and is an active photographer and writer whose work has been published in numerous books and journals including Aperture\, Manoa\, and Sierra Club publications. Ulrich’s photographs have been exhibited internationally in more than 75 one-person and group exhibitions. He blogs about creativity and consciousness at www.theslenderthread.org\, and is a consulting editor for Parabola magazine. Visit his website at: www.creativeguide.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-ulrich/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:AfroSurreal Writers Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Folks\, do the grown person thing and RSVP yes only if you can confirm your attendance so we can plan accordingly. We need to know how much food\, chairs\, etc to bring. \nThose who RSVP yes will receive the venue address via messenger. Thank you! \nThis is the monthly (every 3rd Saturday) meeting of the AfroSurreal Writers Workshop in Oakland. \nWe welcome new members so please share with your networks even if you aren’t able to join this month. \nThis group was “HOTLISTED” by the Writers Guild of America for Experimental Writing and we have exciting events planned for the coming year! \nJoin us to be in like-minded community with artists of all genres (literary\, podcasting\, digital storytelling\, film\, comics\, theater\, photography\, sculpture\, trans-media\, singing\, dancing\, audio\, video\, spoken word…) who creatively express with persepectives rooted and centered in the African diaspora and all communities of color. \nOur current members’ work focuses on AfroSurreal\, AfroFuturist\, horror\, fantasy\, science fiction\, speculative fiction\, memoir\, absurd\, weird\, or uncategorical art forms.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afrosurreal-writers-monthly-meeting/
LOCATION:AfroSurreal Writers Workshop\, Oakland\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Mitali Perkins
DESCRIPTION:Get up close and personal with Mitali Perkins\, author of ten novels for young readers.  Her latest book\, You Bring the Distant Near\, is an unforgettable story that spans decades and continents as it moves among three generations of Indian women\, some new immigrants to the U.S.\, all struggling to bridge cultures.  Come and discover why Mitali has been honored by independent booksellers across the country as a “Most Engaging Author.”  A book-signing session will follow the presentation.  Join us! \nFor more information about the author\, visit www.mitaliperkins.com. \nThis is a Reading\, Writing & Poetry program from SFPL. We love reading/sharing/creating words.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mitali-perkins/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180519T160000
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SUMMARY:Bikes to Books Five-Year Anniversary Spring Ride
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate five years of Bikes to Books with our annual spring ride! Combining San Francisco history\, art\, literature\, cycling\, and urban exploration\, Bikes to Books began as an homage to the 1988 street-naming project spearheaded by City Lights founder and former San Francisco Poet Laureate\, Lawrence Ferlinghetti\, in which 12 San Francisco streets were renamed for famous artists and authors who had once made San Francisco their home. The resulting 7.1-mile tour is a diverting and unique way to celebrate both the literary and the adventurous spirit of San Francisco. Learn about the authors and neighborhoods that made San Francisco a known literary hub\, from South Park to North Beach\, Jack London to Jack Kerouac\, all from the comfort of your own bicycle seat! \n  \nBring bikes with gears\, snacks\, and enthusiasm.  \n  \nThis is an urban ride of moderate difficulty\, recommended for riders 16 years of age and older.  \n  \nMeet at 12:45 p.m. at Jack London Alley \n(Northside of South Park in San Francisco) \nRide will commence at 1:00 p.m. sharp \nRide will end at approximately 4:00 p.m. in North Beach \n(outside City Lights Books)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bikes-to-books-five-year-anniversary-spring-ride/
LOCATION:Jack London Street\, Jack London Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Caroline Paul / You Are Mighty: A Guide to Changing the World
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a launch party for Caroline Paul‘s new book\, You Are Mighty: A Guide to Changing the World. Bring the family and join us for fun\, food\, and books! \nKids all over the world are making a difference. With protests\, marches\, town halls\, and speeches\, kids have proven that they are paying attention. They’re not going to let their age be a reason to stay quiet. \nIt’s time for the youngest generation to show what they can do. \nTo guide them\, New York Times bestselling author of The Gutsy Girl Caroline Paul has written an inspiring\, instructional\, and fun guide for kid activists: The Gutsy Girl\, You Are Mighty: A Guide to Changing the World. \nThis guide features change-maker tips as well as anecdotes of young activists around the globe and throughout history. The suggested activist tactics covered range from tweaking everyday habits—like the sisters who call themselves the Plastic Patrol and convinced their family to stop using grocery bags and straws—to stretching to achieve something extraordinary—like the teen who used food waste to invent a water purification system. \nTold in Caroline’s trademark breezy voice and including delightful illustrations from Lauren Tamaki\, as well as tons of DIY activities\, this is the ultimate practical—and fun!—manual for anyone looking to change the world. \n  \n\n  \nCaroline Paul is the author of the New York Times bestselling The Gutsy Girl: Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure as well as the adult titles Lost Cat: A True Story of Love\, Desperation\, and GPS Technology; East Wind\, Rain; and Fighting Fire. She lives in San Francisco\, California. \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens at 4\, event begins at 4:30pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/caroline-paul-you-are-mighty-a-guide-to-changing-the-world/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180520T170000
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SUMMARY:Spring Poetry & Place | El Cerrito
DESCRIPTION:Spring Poetry & Place | El Cerrito \nPlease join us on Sunday\, May 20 from 1:30 – 5 pm at the El Cerrito Community Center for our Spring Poetry & Place celebration! \nThis event will feature readings by Rafael Jesús González\, poet laureate of Berkeley\, Indigo Moor\, poet laureate of Sacramento\, Kim Shuck\, poet laureate of San Francisco\, and Maw Shein Win\, poet laureate of El Cerrito. \nMusic by Dan Plonsey\, Ethan Port\, and Thomas Scandura in their debut as Moeser. \nThere will also be an all-ages open mic. Please bring a poem! \nIn addition\, there will be tables for local authors\, presses and organizations such as Sixteen Rivers\, Manic D Press\, Nomadic Press\, Works and Conversations\, Left Margin Lit\, Poetry Flash and others. This event will be in partnership with Poetry Flash\, one of the key literary organizations that has served the state of California since 1972. poetryflash.org \nSnacks and beverages will be served and the event will be free to the public. \nEl Cerrito Community Center\, 7007 Moeser Lane\, EC\, 94530\nhttps://www.el-cerrito.org/Facilities/Facility/Details/El-Cerrito-Community-Center-18 \nhttps://www.facebook.com/poetryandplace.elcerrito/ \n\n\n\n\nLiterature\nKid Friendly\nPoetry\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare In Messenger \n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdd a message…\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecent Posts \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nPoetry & Place El Cerrito — Rafael Jesús González\, Prof. Emeritus of literature and creative writing\, was born and raised biculturally/bilingually in El Paso\, Texas/Cd. Juárez\, C… \nMarch 14 at 8:48am\n\n\n\nRead More \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nMimi Heft — Wow\, this is going to be amazing!!! \nMarch 3 at 12:19pm\n\n\n\nRead More \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nPoetry & Place El Cerrito — Poet Laureate of Sacramento\, Indigo Moor is also a scriptwriter and author. His first book\, Tap-Root\, was published as part of Main Street Rag’s Edito… \nFebruary 26\n\n\n\nRead More \n\n\n\nSee All Posts\n\n\n\nFeaturing \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nPoetry & Place El Cerrito\nCommunity\n\nWelcome to my events & announcements page for literary & art events taking place in El Cerrito. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nPoetry Flash\nArts & Entertainment · Berkeley\, California\nFounded in 1972\, Poetry Flash magazine builds community through literature through its online review and events.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4 posts in the discussion.\n\nSee Discussion
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spring-poetry-place-el-cerrito/
LOCATION:El Cerrito Community Center\, 7007 Moeser Lane\, El Cerrito\, CA\, 94530\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180520T163000
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SUMMARY:Christopher DeLorenzo discusses his celebration of cooking\, KITCHEN INHERITANCE
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Christopher DeLorenzo to the store to discuss his part-memoir\, part-cookbook\, Kitchen Inheritance: Memories and Recipes from My Family of Cooks\, on Sunday\, May 20th at 3pm. This collection of narratives and recipes tells a non-traditional coming of age story. Christopher’s is the story of a man on a journey\, which ultimately leads him to see himself as part of a large and growing family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christopher-delorenzo-discusses-his-celebration-of-cooking-kitchen-inheritance/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180520T170000
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SUMMARY:Jason Dewees
DESCRIPTION:Join Mrs. Dalloway’s and the Mediterranean Garden Society for a talk and signing by Jason Dewee’s on his just released book\, Designing with Palms (photography by Caitlin Atkinson). \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Designing with Palms by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, May 20\, 2018 – 3:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this comprehensive guide\, Dewees shares the many ways palms can transform courtyards\, gardens and landscapes. Detailing the most important species and highlighted by striking photography\, Designing with Palms imparts vital advice on making the most of these statement-making plants. \n“Contains virtually everything you need to know about these plants and their usage in gardens. This is the go-to book.”– Raymond Jungles\, landscape architect \nJason Dewees is the staff horticulturist at Flora Grubb Gardens and East West Trees in San Francisco. Responsible for the Tree Canopy Succession Plan for the San Francisco Botanical Garden\, he serves on the Horticultural Advisory Committee for the San Francisco Botanical Garden\, and on The San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers Advisory Council.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jason-dewees/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180520T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180520T173000
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SUMMARY:Express Yourself: Celebrating Gender Diversity
DESCRIPTION:When living in a world that is still learning about the gender spectrum\, forms of expression become survival tools helping trans and nonbinary people live authentically and tell their stories. This event celebrates all forms of expression we use to affirm who we are and ensure our voice is heard. Music\, writing\, art\, makeup\, style\, or dance are examples that will be discussed as strategies for survival\, building resilience\, and finding community. \nJoin us for this event celebrating gender diversity that is sure to be informative and inspiring. Lead by Mere Abrams\, MSW\, ASW\, Gender Specialist\, educator\, consultant and advocate\, and Janna Barkin\, author\, advocate\, and parent of a transgender son\, the event will feature a diverse panel of transgender\, gender expansive\, and non-binary people who will share their stories of self discovery and the many creative ways they have found to express themselves along the way. \nThere will be time for questions and discussion. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: This event will be at the Bindery\, 1727 Haight. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nBar opens at 3:30\, event begins at 4pm. \n  \nEvent image created by April Adelman
URL:https://litseen.com/event/express-yourself-celebrating-gender-diversity/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180520T180000
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SUMMARY:KASSIDAT: Spoken word and music
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers – \nJames Zealous \nChristine No \nTifa Love \nClara Hsu \nSarita de la Madrid \nMusical guests: \nBrother Spellbinder \nEd Dang \nWith your host Bloodflower
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kassidat-spoken-word-and-music-2/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180520T200000
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SUMMARY:An Opportunity to Meet London Breed
DESCRIPTION:As part of a series for meet and greet opportunities with San Francisco’s mayoral candidates\, we are pleased to host London Breed on Sunday\, May 20 starting at 6:30pm at The Bindery at 1727 Haight street. \nNew to the city? First time voter? Have a pressing issue on your mind? The Bindery has extended an invitation to all mayoral candidates to come meet our community. The format will be of a typical “house party” and include a short speech by the candidate\, followed by time for mingling and Q&A. \n  \nTimeline: \n6pm Doors open\n6:30pm – 7:30pm London speaks & fields questions\n8pm Event ends \n  \n\nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nThis event is free and all ages event. Doors open at 6\, event begins at 6:30pm. The bar will be open.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-opportunity-to-meet-london-breed/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180521T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180521T203000
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SUMMARY:THE RACKET! #19
DESCRIPTION:It feels like The Racket has skewed dark as of late – obsession\, grief\, ghosts – so we thought\, let’s try something a little more positive oomph\, something with a little sensuality. Thus\, The Racket #19: PLEASURE. As well know\, writers are dark\, morbid folks\, and we expect this to be as probing of the seedier side of what pleasure is as any other event we’ve thrown. \nBut hey\, we can try. \nMore info to come.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-19/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rachel Kushner
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Kushner discusses her new novel\, The Mars Room. \nPrasie for Rachel Kushner \n“Kushner is a young master. I honestly don’t know how she is able to know so much and convey all of this in such a completely entertaining and mesmerizing way.” —George Saunders \n“Kushner is going to be one we turn to for our serious pleasures and for the insight and wisdom we’ll be needing in hard times to come. She is a novelist of the very first order.” —Robert Stone \n“Ms. Kushner can really write. Her prose has a poise and wariness and moral graininess that puts you in mind of….Robert Stone and Joan Didion…[Kushner has] a sensibility that’s on constant alert for crazy\, sensual\, often ravaged beauty…persuasive and moving…provocative.”–Dwight Garner\, The New York Times \nAbout The Mars Room \nFrom twice National Book Award–nominated Rachel Kushner\, whose Flamethrowers was called “the best\, most brazen\, most interesting book of the year” (Kathryn Schulz\, New York magazine)\, comes a spectacularly compelling\, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. \nIt’s 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility\, deep in California’s Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San Francisco of her youth and her young son\, Jackson. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living\, which Kushner evokes with great humor and precision. \nStunning and unsentimental\, The Mars Room demonstrates new levels of mastery and depth in Kushner’s work. It is audacious and tragic\, propulsive and yet beautifully refined. As James Wood said in The New Yorker\, her fiction “succeeds because it is so full of vibrantly different stories and histories\, all of them particular\, all of them brilliantly alive.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-kushner/
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:Kari Byron / Crash Test Girl: An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life's Toughest Questions
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery presents former Mythbusters‘ host Kari Byron for her new book Crash Test Girl: An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life’s Toughest Questions. \nCrash test your way through life\, no lab coat required. \nKari Byron’s story hasn’t been a straight line. She started out as a broke artist living in San Francisco\, writing poems on a crowded bus on the way to one of her three jobs. Many curve balls\, unexpected twists\, and yes\, literal and figurative explosions later\, and she’s one of the world’s most respected women in science entertainment\, blowing stuff up on national television and getting paid for it! In Crash Test Girl\, Kari reveals her fascinating life story on the set of MythBusters and beyond. With her signature gusto and roll-up-your-sleeves enthusiasm\, she invites readers behind the duct tape and the dynamite\, to the unlikely friendships and low-budget sets that turned a crazy idea into a famously inventive show with a rabid fanbase. \nThe truth is\, Mythbusters was never meant to be a science show. But attaching a rocket to a car\, riding a motorcycle on water\, or lighting 500 pounds of coffee creamer on fire requires a decent understanding of chemistry\, physics\, and engineering. Thus\, the cast and crew brought in the scientific method to work through each problem: Question. Hypothesize. Analyze. Experiment. Conclude. And as Kari came to learn in her own life\, not only is the scientific method the best approach for busting myths\, it’s also the perfect tool for solving everyday issues\, including: \nCareer – Love – Creativity – Setbacks – Money – Sexuality – Depression – Bravery \nCrash Test Girl reminds us that science is for everyone\, as long as you’re willing to strap in\, put on your safety goggles\, hit a few walls\, and learn from the results. Using a combination of methodical experimentation and unconventional creativity\, you’ll come to the most important conclusion of all: In life\, sometimes you crash and burn\, but you can always crash and learn. \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend this event but would like to request a signed copy of Crash Test Girl\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, at 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kari-byron-crash-test-girl-an-unlikely-experiment-in-using-the-scientific-method-to-answer-lifes-toughest-questions/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Heather Gautney / Crashing the Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Bernie Sanders campaign advisor Heather Gautney for her new book Crashing the Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement. Please join us! \nSenator Bernie Sanders shocked the political establishment by winning 13 million votes and a majority of young voters in the 2016 Democratic primary. He emerged from the contest against Hillary Clinton as the most popular politician in the US\, despite being a 75-year-old self-professed “democratic socialist.” What lessons can be drawn from this surprising but—in the end—losing campaign? \nVermont resident Heather Gautney was a legislative fellow in Sanders’ Washington office and researcher and organizer for his presidential campaign. The author and editor of several books on social movements and American politics\, she brings her academic expertise and left politics to bear on the scenes and conflicts she witnessed during the campaign. In reviewing what enabled Sanders to reach out to an unprecedented number of people with a socialist message—and what stalled his progress and radical punch—she draws lessons about the prospects and perils of building a leftist movement in the United States. Gautney’s reflections on the role that race and class played in this election cycle and analysis of where Democrats stand following Trump’s victory will serve as a useful starting point for many newly aware of the limitations of the Democratic party and the challenges ahead. \n  \n\n  \nHeather Gautney was a policy fellow in Bernie Sanders’s Washington DC office and a volunteer researcher and organizer on his presidential campaign. She is an associate professor of sociology and Fordham University\, and the author of Protest and Organization in the Alternative Globalization Era. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Crashing the Party\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/heather-gautney-crashing-the-party-from-the-bernie-sanders-campaign-to-a-progressive-movement/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Keith Gessen / A Terrible Country
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts All the Sad Young Literary Men author Keith Gessen for his new novel A Terrible Country. Please join us! \n  \nWhen Andrei Kaplan’s older brother Dima insists that Andrei return to Moscow to care for their ailing grandmother\, Andrei must take stock of his life in New York. His girlfriend has stopped returning his text messages. His dissertation adviser is dubious about his job prospects. It’s the summer of 2008\, and his bank account is running dangerously low. Perhaps a few months in Moscow are just what he needs. So Andrei sublets his room in Brooklyn\, packs up his hockey stuff\, and moves into the apartment that Stalin himself had given his grandmother\, a woman who has outlived her husband and most of her friends. She survived the dark days of communism and witnessed Russia’s violent capitalist transformation\, during which she lost her beloved dacha. She welcomes Andrei into her home\, even if she can’t always remember who he is. \n  \nAndrei learns to navigate Putin’s Moscow\, still the city of his birth\, but with more expensive coffee. He looks after his elderly–but surprisingly sharp!–grandmother\, finds a place to play hockey\, a café to send emails\, and eventually some friends\, including a beautiful young activist named Yulia. Over the course of the year\, his grandmother’s health declines and his feelings of dislocation from both Russia and America deepen. Andrei knows he must reckon with his future and make choices that will determine his life and fate. When he becomes entangled with a group of leftists\, Andrei’s politics and his allegiances are tested\, and he is forced to come to terms with the Russian society he was born into and the American one he has enjoyed since he was a kid. \n  \nA wise\, sensitive novel about Russia\, exile\, family\, love\, history and fate\, A Terrible County asks what you owe the place you were born\, and what it owes you. Writing with grace and humor\, Keith Gessen gives us a brilliant and mature novel that is sure to mark him as one of the most talented novelists of his generation. \n  \n\n  \n“A cause for celebration: big-hearted\, witty\, warm\, compulsively readable\, earnest\, funny\, full of that kind of joyful sadness I associate with Russia and its writers.” – George Saunders\, Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo \n  \n“Keith Gessen is one of my favorite writers and A Terrible Country is even better than I hoped. By turns sad\, funny\, bewildering\, revelatory\, and then sad again\, it recreates the historical-psychological experience of returning\, for twenty-first-century reasons\, to a country one’s parents left in the twentieth century. It’s at once an old-fashioned novel about the interplay between generational roles\, family fates\, and political ideology\, and a kind of global detective mystery about neoliberalism (plus a secret map of Moscow in terms of pickup hockey). Gessen is a master journalist and essayist\, as well as a storyteller with a scary grasp on the human heartstrings\, and A Terrible Country unites the personal and political as only the best novels do.” – Elif Batuman\, author of The Idiot and The Possessed \n  \n“A Terrible Country is an engaging and entertaining novel\, full of humor and humility\, and always after one thing–the truth of contemporary life. Gessen gives us the people of Moscow–businessmen\, anarchists\, grandmothers\, dissidents\, baristas\, hockey goalies\, prostitutes\, and FSB agents–not as fanciful characters but with the full force of the real. His affectionate\, clear-eyed portrait of one terrible country has plenty to teach us about our own.” – Chad Harbach\, author of The Art of Fielding \n  \n\n  \nKeith Gessen is the author of All the Sad Young Literary Men and a founding editor of n+1. He is the editor of three nonfiction books and the translator or co-translator\, from Russian\, of a collection of short stories\, a book of poems\, and a work of oral history\, Nobel Prize-winner Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices from Chernobyl. A contributor to The New Yorker and The London Review of Books\, Gessen teaches journalism at Columbia and lives in New York with his wife and son. \n  \n  \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of A Terrible Country and/or any of Keith’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-keith-gessen-a-terrible-country/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY\, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES...
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 7:30pm\nShow at 8pm\n$10 online & at the door…\nTICKETSSSSSS: https://ticketf.ly/2k4yp1g \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\,\na communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\,\nto embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-14/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jenny Xie
DESCRIPTION:Jenny Xie\n\n  \nreading from her award winning poetry collection \nEye Level \npublished by Graywolf Press \nWinner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets\, selected by Juan Felipe Herrera \nJenny Xie’s award-winning debut\, Eye Level\, takes us far and near\, to Phnom Penh\, Corfu\, Hanoi\, New York\, and elsewhere\, as we travel closer and closer to the acutely felt solitude that centers this searching\, moving collection. Animated by a restless inner questioning\, these poems meditate on the forces that moor the self and set it in motion\, from immigration to travel to estranging losses and departures. The sensual worlds here—colors\, smells\, tastes\, and changing landscapes—bring to life questions about the self as seer and the self as seen. As Xie writes\, “Me? I’m just here in my traveler’s clothes\, trying on each passing town for size.” Her taut\, elusive poems exult in a life simultaneously crowded and quiet\, caught in between things and places\, and never quite entirely at home. Xie is a poet of extraordinary perception—both to the tangible world and to “All that is untouchable as far as the eye can reach.” \nJenny Xie was born in Hefei\, China\, and raised in New Jersey. She holds degrees from Princeton University and New York University\, and has received fellowships and support from Kundiman\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Elizabeth George Foundation\, and Poets & Writers. She is the recipient of the 2017 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets for Eye Level and the 2016 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Prize for Nowhere to Arrive. Her poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review\, Harvard Review\, the New Republic\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. She teaches at New York University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jenny-xie/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Daegan Miller discusses THIS RADICAL LAND
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Daegan Miller to the store to discuss his book\, This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent\, on Tuesday\, May 22nd at 7pm.  Joining him in conversation this evening is our very own Brad Johnson. \n“It’s hard to feel hopeful about the future of the United States\, given its ruinous past and present. But occasionally\, the present will surprise you (e.g.\, kids leading the contemporary struggle against gun violence). Sometimes\, too\, as explored in Daegan Miller’s spirited new book the past will too. His book will give you loads more to read about such past(s) … which might even lend room yet for some hope. — Brad Johnson \n“The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness\, draining swamps\, straightening rivers\, peopling the solitude\, and subduing nature\,” wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. That’s largely how we still think of nineteenth-century America today: a country expanding unstoppably\, bending the continent’s natural bounty to the national will\, heedless of consequence. A country of slavery and of Indian wars. There’s much truth in that vision. \nBut if you know where to look\, you can uncover a different history\, one of vibrant resistance\, one that’s been mostly forgotten. This Radical Land recovers that story. Daegan Miller is our guide on a beautifully written\, revelatory trip across the continent during which we encounter radical thinkers\, settlers\, and artists who grounded their ideas of freedom\, justice\, and progress in the very landscapes around them\, even as the runaway engine of capitalism sought to steamroll everything in its path. Here we meet Thoreau\, the expert surveyor\, drawing anticapitalist property maps. We visit a black antislavery community in the Adirondack wilderness of upstate New York. We discover how seemingly commercial photographs of the transcontinental railroad secretly sent subversive messages\, and how a band of utopian anarchists among California’s sequoias imagined a greener\, freer future. At every turn\, everyday radicals looked to landscape for the language of their dissent–drawing crucial early links between the environment and social justice\, links we’re still struggling to strengthen today. \nWorking in a tradition that stretches from Thoreau to Rebecca Solnit\, Miller offers nothing less than a new way of seeing the American past–and of understanding what it can offer us for the present . . . and the future. \nAbout the Author \nDaegan Miller has taught at Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, and his writing has appeared in a variety of venues\, from academic journals to literary magazines. His research has received funding from the A.W. Mellon Foundation\, the Social Science Research Council\, the American Antiquarian Society\,  the National Endowment for the Humanities (twice)\,  and Cornell University\, and I’ve won awards from Cornell\, the Southern American Studies Association\, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society\, and the Forest History Society. This Radical Land is his first book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daegan-miller-discusses-this-radical-land/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:This is Now with Angie Coiro presents James Hatch on Combat Recovery
DESCRIPTION:James Hatch served with the Navy SEALs\, where he rose to the rank of special ops Senior Chief. He fought in 150 missions\, including service in Iraq and Afghanistan. He earned four Bronze Stars with Valor. But it was when he broke into tears over the death of a service dog by enemy fire that he came to national attention. \nHatch was testifying in the trial of Bowe Bergdahl\, who abandoned his post in Afghanistan\, then was captured by the Taliban. As he joined the dragnet to find the missing soldier\, Hatch said later\, he knew Americans would be killed or hurt. He turned out to be one of them. Sprayed with the same AK-47 fire that took down the service dog at his side\, Hatch swirled into a maelstrom of pain\, surgeries\, amputation\, and alcoholism. He found his way back with hard work\, love of friends and family\, and – fittingly enough – by founding a charity to care for retired service dogs. \nJames Hatch tells his story of his struggle and recovery in Touching the Dragon\, And Other Techniques for Surviving Life’s Wars. Anderson Cooper says it “reveals with such honesty and openness\, the ‘second war’ that Jimmy and other special operators must fight when they come back to a society that seems so alien to them\, a society completely divorced from the purity of combat.” Join Angie Coiro for another This Is Now conversation with this very special guest.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-with-angie-coiro-presents-james-hatch-on-combat-recovery/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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