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SUMMARY:Booksmith is Turning 40
DESCRIPTION:Who’s invited: \nFriends\, neighbors\, customers\, writers\, book club members\, Bookswappers\, Shipwreckers\, celebrities\, Aileen\, Olympians of Literature\, employees past\, present\, and future\, and everyone else who makes our store great. \nWhat will we do: \nYou’re invited to contribute a story. It can be about the Haight Ashbury\, or about Booksmith in any of its iterations. From starting at 4\, local writer and editor Anisse Gross will be on hand to help you capture your story and add it to our already storied (sorry) history. We’ll provide everything you need; just bring your memories. (Bonus points for vintage Booksmith ephemera! Break out your old bookmarks\, totes\, newsletters\, and author trading cards. We know you kept them.) \nIf you love the Booksmith’s art\, we’re going to have Design Like Whoa set-up to print t-shirts and totes of our favorite designs. We’ll be selling shirts for a special birthday only price of $9 and totes for $5 to be printed with a Booksmith design of your choice\, or you can bring your own item to be printed for free! (100% cotton and white or light grey only\, no tie-die here folks). \nAt 5:30 pm we’ll have an Official 40th Birthday Toast with cake. Then on to eating\, drinking\, mingling\, and\, dare we suggest: dancing. \nWhen: 4:00pm-7:00pm \nWhy: \nOwners Christin Evans and Praveen Madan\, former owner Gary Frank\, and all the Booksmith staff are excited to share this moment with our unique\, vibrant community. As the Haight Ashbury’s premiere independent bookstore since 1976\, we’re more ambitious than ever to launch fearlessly into the future of bookselling. We’re experimenting with new business models\, leading the #Fightfor15 charge\, and building on our four-decade legacy of fostering communities around books\, writers\, and readers. \nJoin us to raise a glass\, tell your stories\, and hang out with the Booksmith gang.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-is-turning-40/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Beast Crawl: Red Light Lit
DESCRIPTION:Red Light Lit is honored to be part of Beast Crawl’s Leg 1. Please join us for this FREE event at 5pm (sharp!) as Fisayo Adeyeye\, Lara Coley\, Allyson Darling\, Loria Mendoza\, Andrew Paul Nelson\, Kar A. Johnson\, Chad Koch\, Tara Rose and David Williams explore The Beast Within. \nRed Light Lit is a collective of writers\, musicians and artists who explore love relationships and sexuality through poetry\, prose\, art and song.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beast-crawl-red-light-lit/
LOCATION:Venue Oakland\, 420 14th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Beast Crawl: Night Sounds
DESCRIPTION:Creatures of the night creep slowly into the shadows as the Beast Crawls.  Poets\, long in the game\, sway to the beat\, tap and snap to the night sounds.  The pops\, wails\, screeches move inward.  We stand still and listen.  We are alive.  Glorious. \nEvent Readers:\nGeorge Korolog is a Bay Area poet whose work has been published in over fifty journals. His first book\, Collapsing Outside the Box\, was published in 2012.  His second book\, Raw String was published in 2013. \nLucille Lang Day\, publisher of Scarlet Tanager Books\, is co-editor of Red Indian Road West. She has also authored ten poetry collections and an award-winning memoir\, Married at Fourteen. \nJohn Oliver Simon is a poet\, translator and teacher. He is President of California Poets in the Schools and was given a Lifetime Achivement Award by the Berkeley Poetry Festival in 2016.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beast-crawl-night-sounds/
LOCATION:Spice Monkey\, 1628 Webster St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Beast Crawl Literary Festival
DESCRIPTION:What Is Beast Crawl?\nOn Saturday\, July 16th 2016\, Uptown Oakland’s Beast Crawl will hold its fifth annual free literary festival featuring more than a hundred writers in a single night\, spread out over three hours and numerous local galleries\, bars\, restaurants\, cafés\, and storefronts. Past venues have included Telegraph Beer Garden\, Awaken Café\, Farley’s East\, Era Art Bar & Lounge\, The Legionnaire Saloon\, and many more. \nEach leg of the Beast lasts one hour\, and offers as many as a dozen readings to chose from. There’s a half hour break between literary legs for socializing and relocating to a new venue before the next reading begins. We recommend choosing one reading per leg. You can even plan your route in advance. Crawl maps listing all the venues\, curators\, legs\, and after-party locations will be available online and at all the Leg 1 events. \nTo curate these literary events for Beast Crawl\, we invite a diverse collection of local reading series producers and literary rock stars including the Oakland Youth Poet Laureate Awards\, Tourettes Without Regrets\, Nomadic Press\, Kundiman West\, Quiet Lightning\, Small Press Distribution\, Lip Service West and many more. \nThe name “Beast Crawl” derives from the Pig Latin for Beast\, which is East Bay\, symbolized by the classic Oakland image of the giant cranes that stalk our shore. We think every city should have its own unique literary identity\, and Beast Crawl is the beating literary heart of Oakland. \n1st leg: 5pm to 6pm\n2nd leg: 6:30pm to 7:30pm\n3rd leg: 8pm to 9pm\n4th leg: 9pm to 2am (After Party) \nTo plan your crawl\, check out our festival map\,\nsponsored by East Bay Express!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beast-crawl-literary-festival/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Rolling Writers: Crossing Over
DESCRIPTION:Rolling Writers escape their skin to visit other realms of mind\, spirit\, body.\n\n\n\n\nReaders\nJacqueline Doyle\nLynn Mundell\nCandy Shue\nJon Sindell\nKara Vernor\nJames Warner\nSandra Wassilie
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rolling-writers-crossing-over/
LOCATION:Farley’s East\, 33 Grand Avenue\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Beast Crawl: Saturday Night Special
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Night Special is an open mic literary reading series held at Nick’s Lounge in Berkeley on the last Saturday of every month\, with a huge following and a reputation for being diverse\, loud\, gritty\, sexy\, inclusive\, and loaded with local talent. \nFor Beast Crawl 2016 we’re bringing together some of our favorite writers to rock the festival: \nPeter Bullen\, Dennis Cruz\, Hollie Hardy\, Tomas Moniz\, Karen Penley\, and April Sinclair \nHosted by Hollie Hardy & Tomas Moniz \nLEG 2 of the Beast (6:30pm – 7:30pm)\nTelegraph Beer Garden\n2318 Telegraph Ave (between 24th & 25th)\n\nLike our FB page to find more details about upcoming events and photos from past events \nhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic/112174188880786 \nBios: \nIncreasing ambivalence in regard to conversation led PETER BULLEN in quiet and lonely solitude\, to take up something he optimistically refers to as writing. He hopes you see it that way. \nDENNIS CRUZ has been writing and performing poetry for over 30 years. His latest collection of poems: Moth Wing Tea is available atpunkhostagepress.com \nHOLLIE HARDY is the author of How to Take a Bullet and Other Survival Poems\, co-host of Saturday Night Special: An East Bay Open Mic\, and a core producer of the Beast Crawl Literary Festival. www.holliehardy.com \nTOMAS MONIZ is the founder\, editor\, and writer for Rad Dad\, author of Bellies and Buffalos\, and co-host of Saturday Night Special in Berkeley. Write him a postcard: PO Box 3555\, Berkeley CA 94703. He promises to write back. \nKAREN PENLEY sort of plays guitar\, accordion. cartoon dogs. old black men. shitty little feelings in a really pretty voice. She also makes tee shirts\, Shit Howdy Shirts on Facebook. karenpenley.com \nAPRIL SINCLAIR is the author of three novels\, including the best seller\, Coffee Will Make You Black. Sinclair received the Carl Sandburg Award in Literature from the Friends of the Chicago Public Library. Sinclair is a Chicago native and a longtime Bay Area resident.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beast-crawl-saturday-night-special/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Headlands Center for the Arts: Open House
DESCRIPTION:Come roam the various buildings of our campus\, engage with artists in their studios\, experience new work and works in progress\, see performances\, hear readings\, and stay for a housemade lunch in the Mess Hall. \nParking is limited! If you can\, we encourage you to carpool\, bike\, or take the bus. More info on transportation and directions here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/headlands-center-for-the-arts-open-house/
LOCATION:Headlands Center for the Arts\, 944 Simmonds Road\, Sausalito\, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160717T153000
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SUMMARY:Laurel Taylor + Richard Michael Levine
DESCRIPTION:On remote Spanish island near the African coast\, a Mexican American entomologist\, Epiphany Jerome\, is looking for a rare beetle. Instead she finds a body on an empty beach with a knife sticking out from its back. “Said the Fly” is a forensic murder mystery that Kirkus Review called “dazzling” and “smartly written” in their *starred* review. It was selected as one of their May “Kirkus Indie Books of the Month.” Writer and biologist Laurie Taylor moved to Glen Park in 2014\, after more than a decade of living in Europe and the Middle East. \nRichard Michael Levine’s short story collection\, The Man Who Gave Away His Organs: Tales of Love and Obsession at Midlife\, was published by Capra Press in 2015. He was a magazine writer and editor for many years\, publishing feature articles and columns in Harper’s\, Esquire\, The New York Times Magazine\, Rolling Stone\, Playboy\, and many others. He has taught at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and is the author of a bestselling non-fiction book\, Bad Blood: A Family Murder in Marin County\, published by Random House and New American Library. His poems\, which have appeared widely in literary magazines\, have been collected in Catch and Other Poems.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laurel-taylor-richard-michael-levine/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Foglifter Journal’s San Francisco Launch
DESCRIPTION:We aim to uplift and support the voices of the marginalized\, the many\, the queer. Join us for a glorious and joyous evening to celebrate the official San Francisco introduction to Foglifter\, a truly unique literary journal and press. \nThe Lineup: \nMK Chavez is the author of Mothermorphosis. Dear Animal will be released Fall 2016\, both from Nomadic Press. She is co-curator of Lyrics & Dirges and co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival. \nArisa White received her MFA from UMass\, Amherst. She’s a Cave Canem fellow and the author of Post Pardon\, Hurrah’s Nest\, and A Penny Saved. A 2013-14 recipient of an Investing in Artist Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation and a regional representative for Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color\, Arisa is a BFA faculty advisor at Goddard College. Forthcoming from Augury Books in October 2016 is her third full-length collection\, you’re the most beautiful thing that happened. arisawhite.com \nKevin Killian lives in San Francisco. He has published three books of poetry\, three books of stories\, and three novels. In each category a fourth is imminent. In addition there will be a third volume of his Selected Amazon Reviews\, and a second volume of Tagged\, Killian’s intimate color photographs of poets\, artists\, musicians\, filmmakers–the whole creative class. \nShideh Etaat is a writer and teacher at Mission High School in San Francisco. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. She is a 2015 James D. Phelan Award recipient and her short story “Take Us to Our Love” was published in The Delmarva Review’s Volume 6. An excerpt from her novel can be found in “Tremors\, New Fiction by Iranian Americans”. Her first novel is about a love triangle\, Jews in Iran\, and other strange and wonderful things. For more information about Shideh’s work\, please go to: http://www.thebolditalic.com/users/shidehe. \nRoberto Santiago received his MFA from Rutgers University\, and BA from Sarah Lawrence College. He is a 2016 Community of Writers Fellow\, 2015 Sarah Lawrence Fellow\, 2014 Lambda Literary Fellow\, the recipient of the Alfred C. Carey Poetry Prize\, and his debut book of poetry was a finalist for the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Poetry. Roberto writes and produces his own music\, and likens himself to Tennessee Williams in a poodle skirt\, Gloria Anzaldúa in culottes\, and/or James Merrill in short-shorts. Currently\, he works as an educator in San Francisco and lives in Oakland with a fiction writer and 15 year old cat that edits most of his poetry…whether he asks her to\, or not. \nNona Caspers is the author of four books including Heavier Than Air\, which received the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction and was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. She has received a NEA Fellowship and an Iowa Review Fiction Award\, among others. Stories have appeared in Kenyon Review\, Glimmer Train\, Cimarron Review\, The Sun. She co-edited with Joell Hallowell a nonfiction book Lawfully Wedded Wives: Rethinking Marriage in the 21st Century. She teaches Creative Writing at San Francisco State University. www.nonacaspers.com \nJuliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer/educator/oral-historian based in San Francisco. The recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary award\, and a finalist for the Clark-Gross Novel award\, she’s the author of ¡Cuéntamelo! an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latin@ immigrants awarded the Regen Ginaa Grant from Galería de la Raza and a 2014 National Queer Arts Festival Grant from the Queer Cultural Center. She’s the executive director of RADAR Productions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/foglifter-journals-san-francisco-launch/
LOCATION:Strut\, 470 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Heather Havrilesky\, Mallory Ortberg\, + Leah Reich
DESCRIPTION:Join Heather Havrilesky for “Ask Polly Live.” \nMeet Polly in-person and pick up a signed copy of How to Be a Person in the World. Heather will read favorite passages from her book\, and will be joined on-stage by Mallory Ortberg\, Leah Reich\, and Tracy Clark-Flory for a live advice session. \nPraise for Heather Havrilesky: \n“What I love so much about Heather Havrilesky and her new book is that\, beside being her usual brilliant\, hilarious\, equally kick-ass and compassionate self\, ‎she actually gives great advice. How to be a Person in the World will change your life\, for the way better.”  —Anne Lamott\, New York Times bestselling author of Small Victories \n\n“Heather Havrilesky is that rare writer who can dish out tangy snark but never fails to aim the knife back at her own damaged\, hilarious heart. She’s dealing\, brilliantly\, with the curse of having too much insight—into herself and the world around her. Required reading.”  —Patton Oswalt\, New York Times bestselling author of Silver Screen Fiend \n\n“Sometimes I think Heather Havrilesky’s Ask Polly column is the only true thing on the Internet. Week after week\, while everyone else parrots and postures\, she addresses the foibles and ennui of strangers\, bucking up someone here\, giving a kick in the pants there. Along the way\, she offers up a slyly powerful critique of the ways in which culture shapes the individual. How To Be a Person In the World distills her salty\, expansive wisdom into a guide for better living that’s both pragmatic and philosophical\, a large-hearted reminder that all of us are struggling\, and none of us are alone.” —Kate Bolick\, author of the national bestseller Spinster \n\nAbout How to Be a Person in the World: \nA collection of original\, impassioned\, and inspiring letters by the author of the popular advice column Ask Polly\nShould you quit your day job to follow your dreams? How do you rein in an overbearing mother? Will you ever stop dating wishy-washy\, noncommittal guys? Should you put off having a baby for your career?\nHeather Havrilesky\, the author of the weekly advice column ASK POLLY\, featured on New York Magazine’s The Cut\, is here to guide you through the what if’s and I don t knows of modern life with the signature wisdom and tough love her readers have come to expect.\nHow to Be a Person in the World is a collection of never-before-published material along with a few fan favorites. Whether she’s responding to cheaters or loners\, lovers or haters\, the depressed or the down-and-out\, Havrilesky writes with equal parts grace\, humor\, and compassion to remind you that even in your darkest moments you’re not alone.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/heather-havrilesky-mallory-ortberg-leah-reich/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mary Meijer
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to welcome Bookshop alumna Maryse Meijer back to the store to celebrate the release of her debut collection\, Heartbreaker. \nIn Heartbreaker\, Maryse peels back the crust of normalcy and convention\, unmasking the fury and violence we are willing to inflict in the name of love and loneliness. Her characters are a strange ensemble―a feral child\, a girl raised from the dead\, a possible pedophile―who share in vulnerability and heartache\, but maintain an unremitting will to survive. Meijer deals in desire and sex\, femininity and masculinity\, family and girlhood\, crafting a landscape of appetites threatening to self-destruct. In beautifully restrained and exacting prose\, she sets the marginalized free to roam her pages and burn our assumptions to the ground. \n“The edgy stories in Meijer’s debut collection cut like so many wild teeth: sharp\, deep\, and unforgiving . . . Meijer breaks open taboos about sex\, disability\, melancholy\, and violence with the careful precision of a teenager egging the house of her mortal enemy. Here is all the raw anger\, fear\, malice\, lust\, and confusion of women used to threats\, stalking\, and ceaseless observation\, who live with their lives hanging every day in the balance. In fiction\, Meijer seems to say\, they have a shot at making their own rules—and the results are strange\, unsettling\, and addictive . . . In deft\, clear prose\, Meijer takes everyday moments of loss and loneliness and threads them through with elements of the gothic\, fantasy\, and fairy tale . . . Taut and ruthless\, Meijer’s tales somehow manage to be both believable in their strangeness and recognizable in their pointed cruelties. Here are the misfits\, the overweight\, and the lonely. The obsessives and the broken. Here are the monsters—and they look an awful lot like you. A dark and surprising new voice in short fiction.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n[Meijer] reaches into the darkest parts of the human psyche where sexuality\, vulnerability\, and violence commingle and simmer . . . Beneath these incendiary premises\, the characters’ relationships engender genuine empathy; Meijer is extraordinarily adept at tapping into a well of existential loneliness brought on by civilization’s tendency and shame.” —Publishers Weekly
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-meijer/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Jessi Klein: You'll Grow Out of It
DESCRIPTION:A Nora Ephron for a new generation\, Jessi Klein shares her hilarious and moving stories of growing up awkward\, the lengths she’s gone to in the pursuit of womanhood and emulation of Oprah\, and how wedding websites are going to be the end of all of us. \nYou’ll Grow Out of It hilariously\, and candidly\, explores the journey of the twenty-first century woman. \nAs both a tomboy and a late bloomer\, comedian Jessi Klein grew up feeling more like an outsider than a participant in the rites of modern femininity. \nIn You’ll Grow Out of It\, Klein offers through an incisive collection of real life stories a relentlessly funny yet poignant take on a variety of topics she has experienced along her strange journey to womanhood and beyond. These include her “transformation from Pippi Longstocking-esque tomboy to are-you-a-lesbian-or-what tom man\,” attempting to find watchable porn\, and identifying the difference between being called “ma’am” and “miss” (“Miss sounds like you weigh ninety-nine pounds”). \nRaw\, relatable\, and consistently hilarious\, You’ll Grow Out of It is a one-of-a-kind book by a singular and irresistible comic voice.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessi-klein-youll-grow-out-of-it/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Everybody's Protest Poem 2
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Freddy Gutierrez\, Jasmine Gibson and Derek Fenner.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/everybodys-protest-poem-2/
LOCATION:Modern Times Bookstore Collective\, 2919 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lyrics and Dirges
DESCRIPTION:Pegasus Books presents Lyrics and Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series \nLyrics & Dirges is a monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area.  \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-and-dirges-3/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Joy Williams: Ninety-Nine Stories of God
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Joy Williams: \n“Joy Williams has been enlightening us for a very long time about the short story but now in her collected stories we see the breadth and power of her vision. This is an important moment for American writing.” — Thomas McGuane \n“Joy Williams has produced a hard\, sharp\, comic novel about the off-kilter genius of adolescence–a work of maverick insight and rash and beautiful bursts of language.” – Don DeLillo on The Quick and the Dead \n“Beautiful. . . . Unsettling. . . . [Contains] among the best American short stories of the past two decades.”  – The Atlantic Monthly \n“A brilliant spawn of Raymond Carver and Flannery O’Connor\, Joy Williams blends mordant wit\, uncanny characters\, and weirdly familiar landscapes and locales. . . . By turns these narratives soothe\, then surprise\, then shock with jolts of recognition\, recoil\, and naked redemption.”  – Elle \n\nAbout Ninety-Nine Stories of God: \nFrom “quite possibly America’s best living writer of short stories” (NPR)\, Ninety-Nine Stories of God finds Joy Williams reeling between the sublime and the surreal\, knocking down the barriers between the workaday and the divine. \n  \nPulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williams has a one-of-a-kind gift for capturing both the absurdity and the darkness of everyday life. In Ninety-Nine Stories of God\, she takes on one of mankind’s most confounding preoccupations: the Supreme Being. \n  \nThis series of short\, fictional vignettes explores our day-to-day interactions with an ever-elusive and arbitrary God. It’s the Book of Common Prayer as seen through a looking glass―a powerfully vivid collection of seemingly random life moments. The figures that haunt these stories range from Kafka (talking to a fish) to the Aztecs\, Tolstoy to Abraham and Sarah\, O. J. Simpson to a pack of wolves. Most of Williams’s characters\, however\, are like the rest of us: anonymous strivers and bumblers who brush up against God in the least expected places or go searching for Him when He’s standing right there. The Lord shows up at a hot-dog-eating contest\, a demolition derby\, a formal gala\, and a drugstore\, where he’s in line to get a shingles vaccination. At turns comic and yearning\, lyric and aphoristic\, Ninety-Nine Stories of God serves as a pure distillation of one of our great artists.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joy-williams-ninety-nine-stories-of-god/
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:Lynne Barnes + Steven Gray
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in our Readers Bookstore Fort Mason for our weekly FREE poetry series! \nBrowse books while listening to internationally acclaimed poets and artists such as Jonathan Richman\, David Meltzer\, Diane di Prima and California Poet Laureate Al Young. The series is curated by Friends’ Resident Poet Jack Hirschman. (For a list of the scheduled readers\, please see the line up below.) \nProceeds from our bookstores benefit the San Francisco Public Library.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lynne-barnes-steven-gray/
LOCATION:Readers Bookstore\, Fort Mason Center\, Building C\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160721T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160721T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T152707
CREATED:20160714T002640Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160714T002640Z
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SUMMARY:Loretta Diane Walker + Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Loretta Diane Walker\, a two-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize for poetry\, has published two collections of her work. Her poetry can also be found in the new anthology of 60 Texas women poets entitled Her Texas and within her manuscript In This House\, soon to be published by Bluelight Press\, 1st World Publishing. Her manuscript Word Ghetto won the 2011 Bluelight Press Book Award. Her work has been honored many times and has appeared in numerous publications. A very dear fried asked Loretta\, “When are you going to write a novel and make some real money? You have some great ideas.” Her answer for now is this: “There is great joy in what I do.” One day she hopes to write a novel\, but today she is a poet and music teacher at Reagan Elementary in Odessa\, Texas. She graduated from Ector High School. received a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Texas Tech University and earned a Master’s of elementary Education from the University of Texas at the Permian Basin. For more information\, check her website at lorettadianewalker.weebly.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/loretta-diane-walker-open-mic/
LOCATION:Willow Glen Library\, 1157 Minnesota Ave\, San Jose \, CA\, 95125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160721T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160721T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T152707
CREATED:20160630T101511Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160630T101511Z
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SUMMARY:Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan: Sarong Party Girls
DESCRIPTION:Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan presents Sarong Party Girls\, a brilliant and engaging novel—Emma set in modern Asia—about a young woman’s rise in the glitzy city of Singapore\, where old traditions clash with modern materialism. Jazzy is a bombastic yet tenderly vulnerable gold-digger who reveals the contentious gender politics and class tensions thrumming beneath the shiny exterior of Singapore’s glamorous nightclubs and busy streets. Moving through Jazzy’s colorful\, stratified world\, she realizes she cannot ignore the troubling incongruity of new money and old-world attitudes which threaten to crush her dreams.Vividly told in Singlish— Singaporean English with its distinctive cadence and slang—Sarong Party Girls brilliantly captures the unique voice of this young\, striving woman caught between worlds. With remarkable vibrancy and empathy\, Cheryl Tan brings not only Jazzy\, but the city of Singapore\, to dazzling\, dizzying life. \n\n\nBorn and raised in Singapore\, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan is a New York–based journalist and author of A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family\, and edited the fiction anthology Singapore Noir. She has been a staff writer at the Wall StreetJournal\, InStyle magazine\, and the Baltimore Sun.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cheryl-lu-lien-tan-sarong-party-girls/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160721T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160721T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T152707
CREATED:20160714T002229Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160714T002229Z
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SUMMARY:Laurel Ann Bogen + Mk Chavez
DESCRIPTION:Laurel Ann Bogen’s new book is Psychosis in the Produce Department: New and Selected Poems\, 1975-2015. Steve Kowit said\, “Laurel Ann Bogen’s poems are lethal and smoking…an exuberant mix of human passions\, a collection of poems that are at once mad with voltage and utterly sane.” Her collections include Washing a Language and The Last Girl in the Land of Butterflies. Ranging in themes as diverse as horrific beauty and exquisite madness\, dysfunctional families\, love and anti-love\, life in Los Angeles and Hollywood\, and growing up as a Baby Boomer\, these poems offer sly\, humorous\, surreal\, and genre-busting work that can only be called Vintage Bogen. She was also a founding member of the celebrated performance group Nearly Fatal Women. \nMk Chavez’s new book is Mothermorphosis. Blas Falconer says\, “The extraordinary poems in Mothermorphosis place readers in the particular life of a daughter and her schizophrenic mother; however\, a larger world\, full of war and tenderness\, misunderstanding and clarity\, vulnerability and empowerment…is present\, too\, so the book speaks with great urgency for all and to all of us.” She is author of Virgin Eyes and several other chapbooks; a new full-length collection\, Dear Animal\, is forthcoming this fall. Co-founder and co-curator of Lyrics & Dirges\, the Berkeley-based monthly reading series\, she is also co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival and a proud member of the Association of Black & Black Writers
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laurel-ann-bogen-mk-chavez/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160723T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160723T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T152707
CREATED:20160701T002951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160701T002951Z
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SUMMARY:SF Art Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce the inaugural San Francisco Art Book Fair. The list of 2016 participants is now online! \nScroll down to PARTICIPANTS to see the 70+ publishers\, artists and booksellers joining us this year. \nRegistration for 2016 is closed at this time\, but we will be taking applications for 2017 very soon. \nFollow us on instagram @sfartbookfair for fair updates\, previews of featured publishers and more.\nThe 2016 San Francisco Art Book Fair \nSaturday\, July 23rd: 11am – 6pm  Sunday\, July 24th: 11am – 5pm \nPreview on Friday\, July 22nd:  6pm – 10pm \nThe 2016 San Francisco Art Book Fair is the inaugural event of an annual multi-day festival of artists’ publications. The fair includes artists’ books\, art catalogs\, monographs\, periodicals\, zines\, printed ephemera\, and artists’ multiples presented by independent publishers\, antiquarian dealers\, artists\, collectors\, and enthusiasts\, as well as a diverse range of programs and live performances. \nThe mission of the fair is to foster the unique art publishing community of the Bay Area while providing a platform for national and international publishers to exhibit their work to a new audience. \n1275 Minnesota Street is a 35\,000 square-foot building in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood that houses 11 galleries\, temporary exhibitions spaces\, a media room\, and a cafe.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sf-art-book-fair/
LOCATION:Minnesota Street Project\, 1275 Minnesota Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160723T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160723T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T152707
CREATED:20160701T003156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160701T003156Z
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SUMMARY:Conditional Love w/ Doan\, Okyomon + Young
DESCRIPTION:SPD PRESENTS is a monthly reading series with the aim of fostering relationships between emerging writers and readers in our national small press community. \nMAI DOAN is the author of the chapbook\, transgression: “things i have learned from my body”. Her work is grounded in the imaginative\, intuitive\, ancestral\, and the felt and works towards resisting state-sponsored narratives around history\, identity\, healing\, and trauma. mai has poetry in the upcoming issue of HOLD: a journal and is a performing artist in this year’s National Queer Arts Festival. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Mills College where she attended as a Community Engagement Fellow and is based on Oakland\, CA. \nPRECIOUS OKOYOMON is the author of “Ajebota” (Bottlecap Press. 2016) Her work has been featured in Metatron\, Fanzine\, Reality Beach and other places online and in print. She’s just a lil lamb leaking milk. \nSTEPHANIE YOUNG’s most recent book is “Ursula or University” (Krupskaya\, 2013). She edited the anthology Bay Poetics and is a founding editor of Deep Oakland. With Juliana Spahr she coedited A Megaphone: Some Enactments\, Some Numbers\, and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulness of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conditional-love-w-doan-okyomon-young/
LOCATION:Small Press Distribution\, 1341 7th Street\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160723T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160723T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T152707
CREATED:20160701T003556Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160701T003556Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poetry Marathon
DESCRIPTION:Guest curator: Chloe Veylit \nReaders: Brandon Brown\nKazumi Chin\nVanessa Flores\nNick Johnson\nJoseph Lease\nMichelle Lin\nCarrie Murphy\nDenise Newman
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poetry-marathon/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160724T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160724T153000
DTSTAMP:20260403T152707
CREATED:20160701T005244Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160701T005244Z
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SUMMARY:Christopher Bernard + Clara Hsu
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Bernard’s new novel\, “Voyage to a Phantom City\,” is a spine-tingling adventure across the Sahara and a heart-breaking romance\, provoking haunting memories of war and a long-lost America after the tragedy of September 11th. It is a spiritual quest into the heart of darkness that discovers the supremely redemptive power of love. Bernard’s previous books include the novel “A Spy in the Ruins\,” the short-story collections “Dangerous Stories for Boys” and “In the American Night\,” and “The Rose Shipwreck: Poems and Photographs.” He is co-editor of “Caveat Lector” and a regular contributor to “Synchronized Chaos.” Bernard writes fiction\, poetry\, essays\, plays\, and criticism. His poetry can be found online at “The Bog of St. Philinte.” He lives in San Francisco. \nClara Hsu is a poet and a traveller. She caught the travel bug some years ago and it has been feeding her ever since. When she is home she teaches piano and stays glued to the computer. When she travels she brings only a note book and pen. Between writing and cooking\, her mind wanders like a nomad.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christopher-bernard-clara-hsu/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160724T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160724T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T152707
CREATED:20160721T002449Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160721T002449Z
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SUMMARY:Bill Berkson Memorial
DESCRIPTION:Dear Friends\, \nPlease join San Francisco Art Institute in remembering and honoring the life of poet\, art critic\, and much-loved SFAI professor emeritus Bill Berkson. \nMemorial Service\nSunday\, July 24\, 2016 | 2pm\nLecture Hall | 800 Chestnut Street\nReception to follow \nQuestions?\nContact Sarah Morrison by email or call 415.749.4516. \nThe memorial is open to the public and we anticipate high attendance. Seating in the Lecture Hall is limited; overflow seating with a simulcast of the program will be available in the SFAI Café.\nBill Berkson moved through life with compassion\, grace\, and humor. His generous spirit nourished and inspired those around him. He is remembered with special fondness and admiration by the students\, faculty\, and staff at SFAI\, where he taught from 1984 to 2008.\nAll words are prophetic\nBare the thread\, swallow the cloud\nReflected glory drives off\nLeaving the original in demand \nRepeat after me \n– Bill Berkson\, from his poem Lady Air\nA luminary of our time\, Bill’s eloquence with language was surpassed only by the depth of his kindness. He will be greatly missed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bill-berkson-memorial/
LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, SF Art Institute\, 800 Chestnut Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160725T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160725T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T152707
CREATED:20160714T002947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160714T002947Z
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SUMMARY:Kim Stanley Robinson: Aurora
DESCRIPTION:Kim Stanley Robinson is a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Hugo\, Nebula\, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books\, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain\, The Years of Rice and Saltand 2312. In 2008\, he was named a “Hero of the Environment” by Time magazine\, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He lives in Davis\, California. \nAurora is a major new novel from one of science fiction’s most powerful voices that tells the incredible story of our first voyage beyond the solar system. \n“Aurora may well be Robinson’s best novel…breaks us out of our well-ingrained\, supremely well-rehearsed habits of apocalypse–and lets us see the option of a different future than permanent\, hopeless standoff.”—Los Angeles Review of Books on Aurora
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-stanley-robinson-aurora/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160725T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160725T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T152707
CREATED:20160721T002930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160721T002930Z
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SUMMARY:Porchlight Open Door: Identity Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Who are you? No\, I mean today. Not the you with the asymmetrical bob and overalls. Not the you so obsessed with Stanley Kubrick people stopped inviting you to dinner. Definitely not the you sporting the black Neo trench coat and goatee. We’ll forget about those you’s. At this month’s Open Door we celebrate identities in crisis. Bring your five-minute story about “finding yourself” and you could win a slot on Porchlight’s 14th Anniversary Romp alongside Writer Mary Roach\, Mythbuster Adam Savage and performer Moon Zappa! \nPorchlight Open Door is a small stage open mic event launched by Porchlight in September 2009. Storytellers add their names to a sign-up sheet\, receive a free drink\, and then have five minutes to spiel on the monthly theme. The evening’s top storyteller\, will win a slot on Porchlight’s 14th Anniversary Romp and a pound of coffee from local roaster Nomadic Ground. And this month\, a slot on Porchlight’s 14-year Anniversary show at the Verdi on August 11th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/porchlight-open-door-identity-crisis/
LOCATION:Hemlock Tavern\, 1131 Polk Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160726T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160726T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T152707
CREATED:20160714T003211Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160714T003211Z
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SUMMARY:Heather Young: The Lost Girls
DESCRIPTION:In The Lost Girls\, six-year-old Emily Evans vanishes from her family’s vacation home on a remote Minnesota lake. Her disappearance destroys the family—her father commits suicide\, and her mother and two older sisters spend the rest of their lives at the lake house\, keeping a decades-long vigil for the lost child. \nSixty years later Lucy\, the quiet and watchful middle sister\, lives in the lake house alone. Before her death\, she writes the story of that devastating summer in a notebook that she leaves\, along with the house\, to the only person who might care: her grandniece\, Justine. \nFor Justine\, the lake house offers freedom and stability—a way to escape her manipulative boyfriend and give her daughters the home she never had. But the long Minnesota winter is just beginning. The house is cold and dilapidated. The dark\, silent lake is isolated and eerie. Her only neighbor is a strange old man who seems to know more about the summer of 1935 than he’s telling. \nSoon Justine’s troubled oldest daughter becomes obsessed with Emily’s disappearance\, her mother arrives to steal her inheritance\, and the man she left launches a dangerous plan to get her back. In a house haunted by the sorrows of the women who came before her\, Justine must overcome their tragic legacy if she hopes to save herself and her children. \nHeather Young earned her law degree from the University of Virginia\, and practiced law in San Francisco before beginning her writing career. She received an MFA from the Bennington College Writing Seminars\, and has studied at the Tin House Writers’ Workshop and the Squaw Valley Writers’ Workshop. She lives in Mill Valley\, California\, with her husband and two children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/heather-young-the-lost-girls/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160726T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160726T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T152707
CREATED:20160701T005601Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160701T005601Z
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SUMMARY:Happy Hour Stories
DESCRIPTION:Created in 2014 by Pegasus on Solano’s Elizabeth Freeman and Manuela Aronofsky\, Happy Hour Stories is a special story time – for adults! \n\nEvery last Tuesday of the month\, short stories on a theme are read aloud by Pegasus employees and friends…. Served up with a refreshing drink\, and light snacks. \nPast Happy Hour Stories themes have included a celebration of Black History Month\, LGBTQ Pride\, California-inspired fiction\, and school stories; with special guests such as local authors Elizabeth Rosner\, Darryl Brock\, Nia King\, and Alex Gino\, as well as the Oakland-based band Halcyonaire\, and various professional actors.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-hour-stories/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160727T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160727T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T152707
CREATED:20160714T003638Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160714T003638Z
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SUMMARY:Get Lit! July 2016 Edition
DESCRIPTION:Get Lit celebrates HOT summer lit with special guest readers Michelle Cruz Gonzales\, Daniel Riddle Rodriguez and Hilary Zaid! We sure hope you’ll join us! \nFollowing our guest readers\, we’ll have time for schmoozing\, buying books and drinks and then YOU can read on the open mic (3-5 minute limit). \n* Michelle Cruz Gonzales is the author of the Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band\, a memoir about her days in the groundbreaking 1990s female hardcore band Spitboy. Michelle has been a regular contributor to Hip Mama Magazine\, published in anthologies\, and her story “Juan\, El Pájaro” one Honorable Mention in Riversedge Literary Journal contest. She teaches English and creative writing at Las Positas College and lives in Oakland with a jazz pianist\, a Mexican nationalist\, and three Mexican dogs. \n* Daniel Riddle Rodriguez’s real name is Daniel Riddle Rodriguez. A full-time student and father\, he is from San Lorenzo\, California\, where he lives with his son. He is the author of Low Village (CutBank 2016). Previous publications include Juked\, Prairie Schooner\, Gulf Stream Magazine\, Fourteen Hills\, and others. \n* Hilary Zaid is a writer who prefers candy to alcohol. She is a novelist whose short fiction has appeared in Lilith Magazine\, The Southwest Review\, CALYX\, The Utne Reader and other\, funkier venues. She is super stressed out about the possibility of being evicted from her home in Oakland and she is reading tonight from her story “Dark Between the Stars\,” the BLOOM Literary Chapbook Prize winner chosen by Judge Lucy Jane Bledsoe. \n—–\n*NEW FOR 2016: Join hosts Dani Burlison and Kara Vernor the 4th Wednesday of January\, April\, July and October for the Get Lit reading series at Corkscrew Wine Bar in Petaluma! \nEach event features three guest readers with a short open mic immediately following. Authors will have books and other materials available to purchase. Corkscrew will have fantastic wine\, beer\, non-alcoholic beverages\, appetizers and desserts for sale at the bar\, as well. \nGet Lit is a free\, 21+ event
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-july-2016-edition/
LOCATION:Corkscrew Wine Bar\, 100 Petaluma Blvd N #103\, Petaluma\, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160727T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160727T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T152707
CREATED:20160714T003431Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160714T003431Z
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SUMMARY:InsideStoryTime: THE UNWINDING
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime THE UNWINDING will feature Melissa Cistaro (Pieces of my Mother)\, Variny Yim (The Immigrant Princess)\, Genanne Walsh (Twister)\, Nick Johnson (Music for Mussolini)\, and Alex Moran.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-the-unwinding/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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