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SUMMARY:Adam Hochschild
DESCRIPTION:Adam Hochschild is the author of eight books; the latest\, Spain in Our Hearts: Americans and the Spanish Civil War\, 1936-1939\, appeared in 2016. Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, the PEN USA Literary Award\, the Gold Medal of the California Book Awards\, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has twice been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adam-hochschild/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170209T190000
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SUMMARY:Women of Color Author Panel at Books Inc. Alameda
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of African American History Month Books Inc. in Alameda proudly presents the Women of Color Author Panel featuring CaT Bobino\, author of In the Know: Setting Up Your Child for the Stem World; Brittney Shipp\, Emmy-nominated TV meteorologist and author of the picture book The Meteorologist in Me; Yvetta Franklin\, author of the middle grade kids book The Code Switch; Marietta Harris\, author of Thou Shalt Not Kill\, an Emily Jenkins mystery; and Tina Maria Scott\, author of the inspiring memoir One Breast to Love and Living Life Victoriously.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/women-of-color-author-panel-at-books-inc-alameda/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Alameda\, 1344 Park Street\, Alameda\, CA\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170210T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170210T210000
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SUMMARY:Digging for Pony Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Come help Justine TenZeldam celebrate my first book of poetry\, prose and photographs with some of my favorite people – Gina and the group at LIMINAL! Copies of the book will be on the sale at the event and are also on sale now onAmazon.com with a 25% off DISCOUNT CODE available for pre-orders now: X6XUPBW9 \nMore: Self-published\, the book covers a period in the writer’s life when she was breaking loose from old ideas\, patterns and from a long career in advertising sales. tenZeldam also has a background in publishing and events promotion/sponsorship. \nMost of the work is adult oriented\, with the disclaimer of NSFW applicable. Her nickname is “Badd Gramma” after all. (She is a grandmother\, actually\, and a good one according to said children.) \nIn the spirit of DIY there will be an open mic for poets and singers and open floor for dancers (must sign up 30 minutes prior. Space limited and be cleared by organizers.) \nGina Goldblatt\, Founder and Creative Director of LIMINAL\, will be serving tasty beverages to support the community programs they offer. There will also be a raffle\, and donations of prizes are currently being sought. \nPre-sale copies of the book are on sale now with a discount code of X6XUPBW9 offering 25% off. Order now and get your copy signed by the author (moi) that night! \nFor more information contact me directly via facebook or email eastbayjustine@ gmail \n(18 and over. Donation optional)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/digging-for-pony-release-party/
LOCATION:The Liminal Center\, 3037 38th Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94619\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="The Liminal Center":MAILTO:gina@theliminalcenter.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170210T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170210T210000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20170120T034557Z
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SUMMARY:Elan Mastai
DESCRIPTION:Screenwriter Elan Mastai shares his critically-acclaimed debut novel\, All Our Wrong Todays. You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we’d have? Well\, it happened. In Tom Barren’s 2016\, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars\, moving sidewalks\, and moon bases\, where avocados never go bad and punk rock never existed . . . because it wasn’t necessary.\nExcept Tom just can’t seem to find his place in this dazzling\, idealistic world\, and that’s before his life gets turned upside down. Utterly blindsided by an accident of fate\, Tom makes a rash decision that drastically changes not only his own life but the very fabric of the universe itself. In a time-travel mishap\, Tom finds himself stranded in our 2016\, what we think of as the real world. For Tom\, our normal reality seems like a dystopian wasteland.\nBut when he discovers wonderfully unexpected versions of his family\, his career\, and maybe\, just maybe his soul mate\, Tom has a decision to make. Does he fix the flow of history\, bringing his utopian universe back into existence\, or does he try to forge a new life in our messy\, unpredictable reality? Tom’s search for the answer takes him across countries\, continents\, and timelines in a quest to figure out\, finally\, who he really is and what his future our future is supposed to be.\nAll Our Wrong Todays is about the versions of ourselves that we shed and grow into over time. It is a story of friendship and family\, of unexpected journeys and alternate paths\, and of love in its multitude of forms. Filled with humor and heart\, and saturated with insight and intelligence and a mind-bending talent for invention\, this novel signals the arrival of a major talent.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elan-mastai/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Alameda\, 1344 Park Street\, Alameda\, CA\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170210T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170210T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T052929
CREATED:20170131T050013Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T050013Z
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SUMMARY:Lunada Spring Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Featured artists ASHA\, Joseph Jason Santiago LaCour\, and Raphael Cohen. \nOpen Mic sign-up 7:15pm\, hosted by Sandra García Rivera. \nThe Lunada 2017 Spring season opener features spoken word at it’s finest\, with the passion and power of three poets whose work challenges the pueblo to Recognize\, Rise\, and Resist. We will amplify the poems of South Bay poet ASHA\, righteous evolutionary Joseph Jason Santiago LaCour\, and an excerpt from the solo performance of Raphael Cohen called Rebel Elegant\, about the life of former NBA star Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf. The Lunada OPEN MIC invites poets\, lyricists\, emcees\, musicians\, storytellers\, laureates and first-timers to share their inspiration under the lunar spotlight.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunada-spring-reading-series/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170211T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170211T160000
DTSTAMP:20260406T052929
CREATED:20170114T080939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170120T034646Z
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SUMMARY:Daphne Evans
DESCRIPTION:Beyond Beauty: A Warrior’s Story is a book of triumph\, love\, tears and laughter – with a shot of “Divatude”. \nDaphne Evans is Founder and CEO of Heaven’s Door Cancer Foundation\, starting in 2005 after coming home from a double mastectomy. She has also been diagnosed and has survived ovarian cancer in 1998 and metastatic spinal carcinoma in 2009; she has been cancer free since 2010. Daphne has visited hospitals to be with her sisters and has placed cancer patients from the hospital in national magazine photo shoots and fashion runways in the San Francisco Bay Area. Sending thousands of women to spas across the country since 2005 and having girls come with stiletto shoes to take selfies before being wheeled into surgery\, her mantra is “We will NOT be defined by our diagnosis.” \nDaphne is still a Firm Administrator and Controller Consultant to law firms and eCommerce corporations and has been for nearly 20 years. She is also a fundraiser\, public speaker and philanthropist. Nominated for Woman of the Year by Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Member of Ovarian Cancer Research Fund\, Ovarian Cancer National Alliance\, The Canary Foundation\, Italian Make A Wish Foundation and Society for Oncology Massage. Board of Directors Member of Springfield Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Founder of Evans Relief Foundation. Daphne is also an ordained minister\, feeling it necessary to be with “her girls” from before surgery and in recovery. \nDaphne’s parents\, Reverend Donald and Mrs. Ida Evans have been her inspiration. Her parents taught her that to help others was a ministry that was not passé. With this shining example and encouragement\, Daphne began to volunteer at an early age to care for cancer patients\, sometimes staying for weekends to relieve the overtaxed caregivers. She visited Nicaragua after the Sandinista regime and had trucks bring clothing over the bombed out roads for the villagers while she flew in by a Russian parachute plane. She started Evans Relief Foundation and has hosted clothing drives in San Francisco during the tsunami; finding pilots of private planes to fly the supplies to the victims there. She also found jobs for young professionals stranded by Katrina and paid out of pocket to fly them to their new job locations; opening her vacant home to stranded Joplin\, MO tornado refugees. Daphne became a member of the Italian Make-A-Wish Foundation and would visit Genoa and speak directly to the children\, encouraging hotels to offer free accommodation for the children and their parents. In 2008\, she was nominated as San Francisco’s Woman of the year by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society; devoting 3 months in marathon fundraising. She could never have had the courage or the tenacity to do any of this without her parents showing her that “it is\nmore blessed to give than to receive.” \nAll proceeds from this book go towards the purchase Heaven’s Door’s Vacation Home located in Tarpon Springs\, FL for women with cancer to have a time away with a loved one. This home will be replete with spa therapy\, organic catering restaurants and “Diva counseling” staff\, Daphne has promised to make this happen at the request of a number of the cancer divas who have benefited from this charity. She is working toward making this a dream come true. Donations toward this home can be made to: Heaven’s Door Cancer Foundation\, 727 Via Casitas\, Greenbrae\, CA 94904. Heaven’s Door is a 501 (c) 3 charity.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daphne-evans/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170211T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170211T220000
DTSTAMP:20260406T052929
CREATED:20170109T103336Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T103336Z
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SUMMARY:28 Kisses Chapbook Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Kimberly Kim’s first chapbook\, 28 Kisses\, will be published by be about it press in February 2017. To celebrate\, Kimberly Kim is bringing some friends together for a special evening of poetry and fun. 28 Kisses is the perfect Valentine’s day gift for your person to kiss this holiday. \nWe will have copies of the chapbook for sale at the event\, as well as refreshments. Please stay tuned for more information. \nWe have two confirmed readers for the night so far: \nAdriane Tillman\nand\nIvy Johnson \nMore to be announced soon!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/28-kisses-chapbook-release-party/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170211T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170211T210000
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SUMMARY:Bad Book Party
DESCRIPTION:Join us on February 11th for a Bad Book Party\, hosted by I Don’t Even Own a Television and Friends\n– come together and celebrate all things related to Bad Books with America’s Favorite Bad Books Podcast(TM)\, I Don’t Even Own a Television!\n– your hosts\, J. W. Friedman and Chris Collision will be bringing a selection of their favorite (and least favorite!) bad books to read from and introducing a fun selection of very special guests (that we’re currently working on and will finalize as soon as we can)\n– want to join in the fun?  Bring your own favorite bad book to the event and we’ll read from it! \n\nAbout I Don’t Even Own a Television \n\nI Don’t Even Own a Television is a podcast about bad books. Every two weeks\, hosts J. W. Friedman and Chris Collision get together to talk about a book you almost certainly should not read.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bad-book-party/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170211T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170211T213000
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SUMMARY:Writers with Drinks
DESCRIPTION:About the readers/performers: \nTom Tomorrow is the creator of the weekly political cartoon\, This Modern World\, which appears in approximately 80 newspapers across the U.S.\, and on websites such as Daily Kos\, Truthout and Credo. His work has appeared in publications including The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, Spin\, Mother Jones\, Esquire\, The Economist\, The Nation\, U.S. News and World Report\, and The American Prospect\, and has been featured on Countdown with Keith Olbermann. In 2011\, he ended a 16 year run at Salon to create and edit a new comics section at Daily Kos. He has published nine anthologies of his work: Greetings From This Modern World\, Tune in Tomorrow\, The Wrath of Sparky\, Penguin Soup for the Soul\, When Penguins Attack\, The Great Big Book of Tomorrow\, Hell in a Handbasket\, The Future’s So Bright I Can’t Bear to Look\, and Too Much Crazy. He is also the author of a book for children\, The Very Silly Mayor. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2015. He was also the winner of the 2013 Herblock award\, a 2015 Society of Illustrators Silver Medal; the first place AAN award for cartooning in 2015\, and the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism in 1998 and in 2003. \nSarah Schulman’s latest book is Conflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm\, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair. Her recent novel The Cosmopolitans was picked as one of the “Best Books of 2016” by Publishers’ Weekly. Her other non-fiction publications include Israel/Palestine and the Queer International\, The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination\, Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences\, Stagestruck: Theater\, AIDS and the Marketing of Gay America\, and My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush Years. Her novels include The Mere Future\, The Child\, Shimmer\, Empathy\, Rat Bohemia\, People In Trouble\, After Delores\, Girls Visions and Everything\, and The Sophie Horowitz Story. Her plays include Carson McCullers\, Manic Flight Reaction\, and the theatrical adaptation of Isaac Singer’s Enemies: A Love Story. Her screenplays include The Owls (co-written with director Cheryl Dunye)\, Mommy is Coming (co-written with director Cheryl Dunye)\, and Jason and Shirley. She’s a co-producer of the documentary United in Anger: A History of ACT UP. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times\, The Nation\, and Interview. She has won a Guggenheim Fellowship in Playwrighting\, a Fullbright in Judaic Studies\, two American Library Association Book Awards\, and is the 2009 recipient of the Kessler Prize for sustained contribution to LGBT studies. Sarah is Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York\, College of State Island\, and a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University. \nSean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology. He’s the author of the books The Particle at the End of the Universe\, From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time\, and Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity. He has been awarded prizes and fellowships by the National Science Foundation\, NASA\, the Sloan Foundation\, the Packard Foundation\, the American Physical Society\, the American Institute of Physics\, and the Royal Society of London. Carroll has appeared on TV shows such as The Colbert Report\, PBS’s NOVA\, and Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman\, and frequently serves as a science consultant for film and television. \nJennifer Ouellette is the author of four popular science books for the general public: Me\, Myself and Why: Searching for the Science of Self\, The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight\, Win in Vegas\, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse\, The Physics of the Buffyverse\, and Black Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales from the Annals of Physics. She’s formerly the science editor at Gizmodo\, and also edited The Best Online Science Writing 2012. Jennifer’s work has appeared in the Washington Post\, Los Angeles Times\, New York Times Book Review\, Slate\, Smithsonian\, Mental Floss\, Pacific Standard\, Discover\, Salon\, Nature\, BOOM\, Physics Today\, Symmetry\, Physics World\, and New Scientist\, among other venues. She maintains a personal science-and-culture blog called Cocktail Party Physics\, and has also written for Quanta\, Discovery News (2008-2012)\, NOVA’s Nature of Reality blog\, and Nautilus’ Facts So Romantic blog. Jennifer was the founding director of the Science & Entertainment Exchange. She was also a Journalist in Residence at the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. She’s also been an instructor at the Santa Fe Science Writing Workshop\, and was a journalist in residence at the University of Wisconsin\, Madison’s journalism school. \nAlia Volz hosted and produced the landmark reading series Literary Death Match – SF\, from 2010-12. She is also an LDM champion; her story “Near Unison” brought home the crown from Episode 42. She has been profiled in Dark Sky Magazine\, and SF Weekly\, and has been a guest on the television show Lady Brain. San Francisco’s Litquake Festival has recruited her to curate and/or host several high-profile events—sometimes in disguise; for the good of literature\, she’s taken the stage as Anaïs Nin\, Louise Brooks\, and even WWF World Champion Slick Ric Flair. In 2014\, Alia placed second at The MOTH’s San Francisco GrandSLAM Championship. She also received a 2014 award from SF Weekly for “Best San Francisco Writer Without a Book.” To rectify that situation\, she has recently completed her first novel\, HOOF\, a contemporary western set in urban San Francisco. Alia’s stories and essays are found in Tin House\, The New York Times\, Threepenny Review (forthcoming)\, New England Review (forthcoming)\, Utne Reader\, ZYZZYVA\, Huizache\, The Rumpus\, Narratively\, Nerve\, Literary Orphans\, The Normal School\, Covered w/ Fur\, Dark Sky Magazine\, Defenestration\, The Writing Disorder’s “Best Nonfiction of 2012” anthology\, and elsewhere.\nAbout Writers With Drinks: \nWriters With Drinks has won numerous “Best ofs” from local newspapers\, and has been mentioned in 7×7\, Spin Magazine and one of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City novels. The spoken word “variety show” mixes genres to raise money for local causes. The award-winning show includes poetry\, stand-up comedy\, science fiction\, fantasy\, romance\, mystery\, literary fiction\, erotica\, memoir\, zines and blogs in a freewheeling format.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-2/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Raphael Block
DESCRIPTION:In his poetry\, Raphael Block pulls the seen and the unseen together. Strings of Shining Silence reflects empathy for all life — this luminous collection is a love song to the Holy. Here are words that nourish the soul with the ancient music of creation\, the songs that are all around us but so easily unnoticed. The poems are simple\, unadorned and deeply felt — they will take you back to where you belong.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/raphael-block/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170212T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170212T180000
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SUMMARY:Joyce Carol Oates
DESCRIPTION:In this striking\, enormously affecting novel\, Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of two very different and yet intimately linked American families. Luther Dunphy is an ardent Evangelical who envisions himself as acting out God’s will when he assassinates an abortion provider in his small Ohio town while Augustus Voorhees\, the idealistic doctor who is killed\, leaves behind a wife and children scarred and embittered by grief. \nIn her moving\, insightful portrait\, Joyce Carol Oates fully inhabits the perspectives of two interwoven families whose destinies are defined by their warring convictions and squarely-but with great empathy-confronts an intractable\, abiding rift in American society. \nA Book of American Martyrs is a stunning\, timely depiction of an issue hotly debated on a national stage but which makes itself felt most lastingly in communities torn apart by violence and hatred. \nJoyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities\, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award\, the National Book Award\, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-carol-oates/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170213T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170213T210000
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SUMMARY:Jason Rekulak
DESCRIPTION:Jason Rekulak\, publisher of Quirk Books\, where he has acquired a dozen New York Times-bestsellers\, shares his dazzling debut novel\, The Impossible Fortress. The Impossible Fortress begins with a magazine The year is 1987 and Playboy has just published scandalous photographs of Vanna White\, from the popular TV game show Wheel of Fortune. For three teenage boys Billy\, Alf\, and Clark who are desperately uneducated in the ways of women\, the magazine is somewhat of a Holy Grail: priceless beyond measure and impossible to attain. So\, they hatch a plan to steal it.\nThe heist will be fraught with peril: a locked building\, intrepid police officers\, rusty fire escapes\, leaps across rooftops\, electronic alarm systems\, and a hyperactive Shih Tzu named Arnold Schwarzenegger. Failed attempt after failed attempt leads them to a genius master plan: they’ll swipe the security code to Zelinsky’s convenience store by seducing the owner’s daughter\, Mary Zelinsky. It becomes Billy’s mission to befriend her and get the information by any means necessary. But Mary isn’t your average teenage girl. She’s a computer loving\, expert coder\, already strides ahead of Billy in ability\, with a wry sense of humor and a hidden\, big heart. But what starts as a game to win Mary’s affection leaves Billy with a gut-wrenching choice: deceive the girl who may well be his first love or break a promise to his best friends.\nAt its heart\, The Impossible Fortress is a tender exploration of young love\, true friends\, and the confusing realities of male adolescence with a dash of old school computer programming.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jason-rekulak/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Palo Alto\, 74 Town & Country Village\, Palo Alto\, CA\, 94301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170213T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T052929
CREATED:20170114T082907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T143523Z
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SUMMARY:Norman Fischer + Kit Robinson
DESCRIPTION:Norman Fischer is a poet\, essayist\, and Zen Buddhist priest. A graduate of the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop\, his latest poetry collections are Magnolias All At Once (Singing Horse\, 2015) Escape This Crazy Life of Tears: Japan 2010 (Tinfish\, 2014)\, and The Strugglers (Singing Horse\, 2013).  Just out from Chax a collection of tanka (very brief poems): any would be if. In 2015 Universiity of Alabama Press brought out a collection of essays\, Experience: Thinking\, Writing\, Language and Religion. Fischer lives with his wife Kathie on a cliff overlooking the Pacific at Muir Beach. \nKit Robinson was born in Evanston\, Illinois\, grew up in Cincinnati\, went to Yale\, and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area ever since. He is the author of Marine Layer (BlazeVOX)\, Catalan Passages (Streets and Roads)\, Determination (Cuneiform)\, The Messianic Trees: Selected Poems\, 1976-2003 (Adventures in Poetry)\, and many other books of poetry\, including collaborations with Ted Greenwald\, A Mammal of Style (Roof) and Takeaway (c_L Books).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/norman-fischer-and-kit-robinson/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170213T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170213T210000
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SUMMARY:Paul Auster
DESCRIPTION:Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Sunset Park\, Invisible\, The Book of Illusions\, and The New York Trilogy\, among many other works. In 2006\, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. Inventive and dexterously constructed\, Auster’s new book 4 3 2 1 tells the story of Archibald Isaac Ferguson in four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Auster is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in Brooklyn\, New York. \nTeju Cole is a writer\, art historian\, and photographer. He is the Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College and photography critic of the New York Times Magazine. Cole is the author of three books\, a novella\, Every Day is for the Thief; a novel\, Open City; and an essay collection\, Known and Strange Things. This year\, Cole became the first writer ever to be named finalist for two PEN America literary awards (for Known and Strange Things).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-auster/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170215T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170215T203000
DTSTAMP:20260406T052929
CREATED:20170114T083929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170204T041606Z
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SUMMARY:Simone White
DESCRIPTION:Readings begin at 6:30pm\, are free & open to the public\, and will take place in the Hearst Field Annex\, room D37\, at UC Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/simone-white/
LOCATION:Hearst Field Annex\, Hearst Field Annex\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170215T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170215T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T052929
CREATED:20170114T084749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170114T084749Z
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SUMMARY:David Hartsough w/ Norman Solomon
DESCRIPTION:An evening of discussion between lifleong activists and authors David Hartsough and Norman Solomon \ncelebrating David Hartsough’s recently released book \nWaging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist \nfrom PM Press \nAn evening to discuss the current political climate and how we can move forward constructively and powerfully. We will hear stories of courageous nonviolent responses to racism\, war and violence during sixty years of organizing actions and movements for peace and justice in the US and around the world. What has worked and what are some of the lessons learned as we build campaigns and movements to challenge Trump’s extremist policies? Where do we find hope in the gloom of the Trump presidency? The American people may be more motivated and ready to get actively involved than any time since the 1960’s. We do have the power if we mobilize it to completely change the future course of our country. \nAbout Waging Peace: \nDavid Hartsough knows how to get in the way. He has used his body to block Navy ships headed for Vietnam and trains loaded with munitions on their way to El Salvador and Nicaragua. He has crossed borders to meet “the enemy” in East Berlin\, Castro’s Cuba\, and present-day Iran. He has marched with mothers confronting a violent regime in Guatemala and stood with refugees threatened by death squads in the Philippines. \nWaging Peace is a testament to the difference one person can make. Hartsough’s stories inspire\, educate\, and encourage readers to find ways to work for a more just and peaceful world. Inspired by the examples of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.\, Hartsough has spent his life experimenting with the power of active nonviolence. It is the story of one man’s effort to live as though we were all brothers and sisters. \nEngaging stories on every page provide a peace activist’s eyewitness account of many of the major historical events of the past sixty years\, including the Civil Rights and anti–Vietnam War movements in the United States and the little-known but equally significant nonviolent efforts in the Soviet Union\, Kosovo\, Palestine\, Sri Lanka\, and the Philippines. \nHartsough’s story demonstrates the power and effectiveness of organized nonviolent action. But Waging Peace is more than one man’s memoir. Hartsough shows how this struggle is waged all over the world by ordinary people committed to ending the spiral of violence and war. \nPraise: \n“Peace will only come when all of us become the change we wish to see in this world. David Hartsough became that change and has spent the best part of sixty years working to bring peace to our troubled world. His book is one that every peace-loving person must read and learn from.” —Arun Gandhi\, president\, Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute (grandson of Mahatma Gandhi) \n“It has been my privilege to work with David Hartsough over the years and to be arrested and jailed with him for nonviolent civil disobedience. I highly recommend Waging Peace to every American who wishes to live in a world with peace and justice and wants to feel empowered to help create that world.” —Daniel Ellsberg\, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers \n“When great events happen\, such as the falling of the Berlin Wall\, we must never forget that people like David Hartsough and many others have worked hard to prepare the ground for such ‘miracles.’ David’s belief in the goodness of people\, the power of love\, truth\, and forgiveness and his utter commitment to making peace and ending war will inspire all those who read this book.” —Mairead Maguire\, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate\, Peace People\, Northern Ireland \n“David Hartsough has lived an exemplary nonviolent life. Waging Peace highlights the numerous ways he has done this in many troubled parts of the world as well as in the United States.” —Martin Sheen\, actor \n“If you want to know what it means to live a ‘life well lived\,’ read David Hartsough’s masterful book. It is not only a page turner\, but it will probably transform the way you look at your own life—your priorities\, your lifestyle\, your future.” —Medea Benjamin\, cofounder of Code Pink and Global Exchange \n“Over thirty years ago with great trepidation I went through nonviolence training in order to join the blockade at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant.   David Hartsough was my trainer\, and his personal stories inspired me to put myself on the line for what I believed in.   Later I went on to become a trainer myself\, and for some years Hartsough and I were in a training collective together.   Now he’s compiled his tales of moments of crisis and his life story into this wonderful book.   Waging Peace will inspire anyone who is concerned with social and environmental justice\, and will help you formulate your own approach to the activism so crucial now for the world!”\n—Starhawk\, Author\,The Fifth Sacred Thing\, San Francisco \n“Waging Peace is a collection of powerful and moving stories about how one remarkable person has acted on his belief that peace is possible. It’s a must-read for anyone who wants to help create the world we all hope and pray for. Be prepared to be empowered!”\n—Parker J. Palmer author of Healing the Heart of Democracy\, Let Your Life Speak\, and The Courage to Teach
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-hartsough-w-norman-solomon/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lyrics + Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics and 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. \nHosted and curated by Mk Chavez and Sharon Coleman. Every third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170215T213000
DTSTAMP:20260406T052929
CREATED:20161129T055920Z
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SUMMARY:Natalie Bazsile
DESCRIPTION:Natalie Baszile is the author of the novel\, Queen Sugar\, adapated for TV by writer/director Ava DuVernay of Selma and co-produced by Oprah Winfrey for the OWN network. Queen Sugar was named one of the San Francisco Chronicles’ Best Books of 2014\, was long-listed for the Crooks Corner Southern Book Prize\, and nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Baszile has a MA in Afro-American Studies from UCLA\, and an MFA from Warren Wilson College’s Program for Writers. She lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/natalie-bazsile/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170215T213000
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CREATED:20161201T023315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170114T083440Z
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SUMMARY:Min Jin Lee
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading\, talk\, and signing of Min Jin Lee‘s new novel\, Pachinko; a tour de force following one Korean family through the generations. The story begins in early 1900s Korea with Sunja\, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family\, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame and ruin them. Deserted by her lover\, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan. So begins a sweeping saga of an exceptional family in exile from its homeland and caught in the indifferent arc of history. Through desperate struggles and hard-won triumphs\, its members are bound together by deep roots as they face enduring questions of faith\, family\, and identity. \n  \nThere is a long and troubled history of legal and social discrimination against Koreans living in Japan\, even those who have partial ethnic Korean background. Some never disclose their heritage\, although it can follow them in their identification papers and government records. While writing Pachinko\, Min Jin (who herself was born in Korea before moving to the United States) lived in Japan with her husband and son and interviewed dozens of ethnic Koreans about their family histories. Min Jin wanted to acknowledge their stories when so much of their lives had been denied\, erased and despised. \n  \nPachinko is a popular type of adult pinball game\, which originated in Japan in the first half of the twentieth-century. Those who run and operate pachinko parlors\, many of them of Korean ethnicity\, are looked down upon socially\, but some parlors can generate immense fortunes. Many Korean-Japanese families today have some original ties to the pachinko industry. Struggling to find their place in Japanese society\, Sunja’s family finds work in the pachinko business and attempts to build their lives in a new land. \nMin Jin Lee’s debut novel\, Free Food for Millionaires\, was one of the “Top 10 Novels of the Year” for the Times (London)\, NPR’s Fresh Air\, and USA Today. Her short fiction has been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts. Her writings have appeared in Conde Nast Traveler\, Times (London)\, Vogue\, Travel + Leisure\, Wall Street Journal\, New York Times Magazine\, and Food & Wine. Her essays and literary criticism have been anthologized widely. She served as a columnist for Chosun Ilbo\, the leading paper of South Korea. She lives in New York City with her family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/min-jin-lee/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170216T200000
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CREATED:20170117T013133Z
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SUMMARY:Ellen Klages
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco in 1940 is a haven for the unconventional. Tourists flock to the cities within the city: the Magic City of the World’s Fair on an island created of artifice and illusion; the forbidden city of Chinatown\, a separate\, alien world of exotic food and nightclubs that offer authentic experiences\, straight from the pages of the pulps; and the twilight world of forbidden love\, where outcasts from conventional society can meet. \nSix women find their lives as tangled with each other’s as they are with the city they call home. They discover love and danger on the borders where magic\, science\, and art intersect. \nInspired by the pulps\, film noir\, and screwball comedy\, Passing Strange is a story as unusual and complex as San Francisco itself from World Fantasy Award winning author Ellen Klages. \nEllen Klages is the author of two acclaimed historical novels: The Green Glass Sea\, which won the Scott O Dell Award\, and the New Mexico Book Award; and White Sands\, Red Menace\, which won the California and New Mexico Book awards. Her story\, “Basement Magic”\, won a Nebula Award and Wakulla Springs\, co-authored with Andy Duncan\, was nominated for the Nebula\, Hugo\, and Locus awards\, and won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella. She lives in San Francisco\, in a small house full of strange and wondrous things.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ellen-klages/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170216T200000
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CREATED:20170114T084519Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170204T122857Z
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SUMMARY:Min Jin Lee w/ Elaine Petrocelli
DESCRIPTION:Profoundly moving and gracefully told\, Pachinko follows one Korean family through the generations\, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja\, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family\, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them. Betrayed by her wealthy lover\, Sunja finds unexpected salvation when a young tubercular minister offers to marry her and bring her to Japan to start a new life. \nSo begins a sweeping saga of exceptional people in exile from a homeland they never knew and caught in the indifferent arc of history. In Japan\, Sunja’s family members endure harsh discrimination\, catastrophes\, and poverty\, yet they also encounter great joy as they pursue their passions and rise to meet the challenges this new home presents. Through desperate struggles and hard-won triumphs\, they are bound together by deep roots as their family faces enduring questions of faith\, family\, and identity. \nMin Jin Lee’s debut novel\, Free Food for Millionaires\, was one of the “Top 10 Novels of the Year” for The Times (London)\, NPR’s Fresh Air\, and USA Today. Her short fiction has been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts. Her writings have appeared in Conde Nast Traveler\, The Times (London)\, Vogue\, Travel+Leisure\, Wall Street Journal\, New York Times Magazine\, and Food & Wine. Her essays and literary criticism have been anthologized widely. She served as a columnist for the Chosun Ilbo\, the leading paper of South Korea. She lives in New York with her family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/min-jin-lee-w-elaine-petrocelli/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170216T200000
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CREATED:20170131T054758Z
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SUMMARY:Nina LaCour
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Nina LaCour back to the store to discuss and sign her new young adult novel\, We Are Okay\, on Thursday\, February 16th at 7:00 pm. This will be Nina’s publication party and all are welcome and encouraged to attend. \nYou go through life thinking there’s so much you need. . . . Until you leave with only your phone\, your wallet\, and a picture of your mother.\nMarin hasn’t spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks\, not even her best friend Mabel\, but even thousands of miles away from the California coast\, at college in New York\, Marin still feels the pull of the life and tragedy she’s tried to outrun. Now\, months later\, alone in an emptied dorm for winter break\, Marin waits. Mabel is coming to visit and Marin will be forced to face everything that’s been left unsaid and finally confront the loneliness that has made a home in her heart.\nAn intimate whisper that packs an indelible punch\, We Are Okay is Nina LaCour at her finest. This gorgeously crafted and achingly honest portrayal of grief will leave you urgent to reach across any distance to reconnect with the people you\nlove. \nNina LaCour is the author of the award-winning Hold Still and the widely acclaimed The Disenchantments. Formerly a bookseller and high school English teacher\, she now writes and parents full time. A San Francisco Bay Area native\, Nina lives with her family in Richmond\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nina-lacour/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170216T210000
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CREATED:20170117T013502Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170120T035145Z
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SUMMARY:To Live + Write in Alameda Story Slam
DESCRIPTION:To Live & Write in Alameda and Books Inc. proudly present Alameda Story Slam! February’s theme will be “Unrequited.” Join us for an evening full of original stories and fun!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/to-live-write-in-alameda-story-slam/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Alameda\, 1344 Park Street\, Alameda\, CA\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170216T210000
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CREATED:20170131T054536Z
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SUMMARY:Oki Sogumi + Wendy Trevino
DESCRIPTION:Poets Oki Sogumi and Wendy Trevino read from new work\, and engage in conversation with one another and their audience. This event is free and open to the public. \nOki Sogumi first surfaced in Seoul\, Korea c. 1988 and resides in Philadelphia\, USA. Her chapbooks include Underglazy (Portable Press at Yo-Yo labs) and Smear Jelly Dreaming A goo daughter & Time Travel and Friendship (Museum of Expensive Things). She is currently writing a sci-fi novella (forthcoming from Publication Studio Oakland) that chronicles the end of the world.\n\nWendy Trevino was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She now lives and works in San Francisco. Her chapbook 128-131 was published by Perfect Lovers Press in 2013. Her chapbook Brazilian Is Not a Race was published by Commune Editions in 2016. Her poems have appeared in various print and online journals\, including Abraham Lincoln\, Armed Cell\, the Capilano Review\, LIES\, Macaroni Necklace\, Mondo Bummer\, ELDERLY\, and Open House. Wendy is not an experimental writer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oki-sogumi-wendy-trevino/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170216T203000
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CREATED:20161223T035333Z
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SUMMARY:Story Is the Thing: Kepler’s Quarterly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the second installment of the Story Is the Thing\, Kepler’s quarterly reading series on the theme That Electrifying Moment. \nJeanne Althouse‘s  flash fiction and longer stories have appeared in various literary journals and anthologies\, including Matter Press\, Shenandoah\, Pif Magazine\, Pindeldyboz \, Madison Review\, Hawaii Review\, the MacGuffin\, Red Rock Review\, Referential\, and Jewel\, a publication of Gray Sparrow Press. Her story\, “Goran Holds his Breath” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. An early draft of her first novel was finalist in the Augury Books Editor’s Prize. \nAngela Pneuman is the author of the novel Lay It on My Heart and the short story collection Home Remedies. She is a former Stegner fellow at Stanford\, where she has taught creative writing since 2001. Her fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories\, New England Review\, Ploughshares\, Iowa Review\, and many other literary journals. Recently she joined the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference as its executive director. \nShobha Rao is the author of the collection of short stories\, An Unrestored Woman\, published in March 2016. Kirkus Reviews called An Unrestored Woman “stunning and relentless.” She is the winner of the 2014 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction. She has been a resident at Hedgebrook and is the recipient of the Elizabeth George Foundation fellowship. Her story “Kavitha and Mustafa” was chosen by T.C. Boyle for inclusion in the Best American Short Stories 2015. She lives in San Francisco. \nTanya Rey‘s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Granta\, The Nervous Breakdown\, McSweeney’s\, Catapult and others. She holds an MFA degree in fiction from New York University and has received fellowships from the San Francisco Writers Grotto\, Hambidge Center for the Arts\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, the Rona Jaffe Foundation\, UCross Foundation and Blue Mountain Center. She lives and writes in Oakland\, CA. \nRick Trushel tutors recent immigrants from Mexico and Guatemala\, helping them improve their spoken and written language skills. Recently he’s had short pieces published at 101 Words and The SUN magazine. He likes to procrastinate\, as he erroneously believes his writing improves when he does this. \nGenanne Walsh is the author of Twister\, awarded the Big Moose Prize for the Novel from Black Lawrence Press. Twister was also a finalist for the 2016 Housatonic Book Award in Fiction. Excerpts appeared in Puerto del Sol\, Blackbird\, and Red Earth Review. She lives in San Francisco with her wife and dogs. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nJames Warner‘s short stories have appeared in ZYZZYVA\, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine\, Santa Monica Review\, Mid-American Review\, Narrative\, and many other literary magazines. He is also the author of All Her Father’s Guns\, a novel from Numina Press which satirized U.S. politics back in the days when that was even possible.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/story-is-the-thing-keplers-quarterly-reading-series/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170216T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T052929
CREATED:20170131T055927Z
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SUMMARY:Ethel Rohan
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith is delighted to host the launch party for Ethel Rohan’s debut novel\, The Weight of Him. Ethel will read from the book and be in conversation with Edan Lepucki\, followed by a Q&A and book signing. Join us! \nThe Weight of Him tells the story of Billy Brennan. At four hundred pounds\, Billy can always count on food. From his earliest memories\, he has loved food’s colors\, textures and tastes. The way flavors go off in his mouth. How food keeps his mind still and his bad feelings quiet. Food has always made everything better\, until the day Billy’s beloved son Michael takes his own life. \nBilly determines to make a difference in Michael’s memory and undertakes a public weight-loss campaign\, to raise money for suicide prevention—his first step in an ambitious plan to save himself\, and to save others. However\, Billy’s dramatic crusade appalls his family\, who want to simply try to go on. \nDespite his crushing detractors\, Billy gains welcome allies: his community-at-large; a co-worker who lost his father to suicide; a filmmaker with his own dubious agenda; and a secret\, miniature kingdom that Billy populates with the sub-quality dolls and soldiers he saves from disposal at the toy factory where he works. But it is only if Billy can confront the truth of the suffering and brokenness within and around him that he and others will realize the recovery they need. \nSet in rural\, contemporary Ireland\, The Weight of Him is an unforgettable\, big-hearted novel about loss and reliance that moves from tragedy to recrimination to what can be achieved when we take the stand of our lives. \n————————–————————–———\n“The Weight of Him is an achingly sad\, achingly lovely novel that speaks to the essential core of our shared human experience. I will not soon forget it. Ethel Rohan\, a prodigiously skilled short story writer\, has proved herself\, in this debut novel\, to be a master of the long form as well.” — Robert Olen Butler\, author of Perfume River \n“In The Weight of Him Ethel Rohan shows herself to be one of those rare\, courageous writers who dare to take on the ‘ordinary’ and show just how extraordinary it really is. A brave and moving book.” — John Banville\, author of The Blue Guitar \n“Ethel Rohan is a writer of great courage and emotional intelligence. She can also tell a damn good story. The Weight of Him is about loss and about life. It is involving\, terrifying and ultimately quite beautiful.” — Tom Barbash\, author of Stay Up With Me\n————————–————————–——— \nEthel Rohan’s debut novel\, The Weight of Him\, won the inaugural Plumeri Fellowship. She is the author of two story collections\, Goodnight Nobody and Cut Through the Bone\, the former longlisted for The Edge Hill Prize and the latter longlisted for The Story Prize. An award-winning short story writer\, her work has appeared in The New York Times\, World Literature Today\, Tin House Online\, GUERNICA Magazine\, The Stinging Fly\, and many others. Raised in Dublin\, Ireland\, she lives in San Francisco and received her MFA in fiction from Mills College\, CA. She is a member of San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. \nEdan Lepucki is the author of the novella If You’re Not Yet Like Me and the New York Times bestselling novel\, California. Her next novel\, Woman No. 17\, will be published in May. She’s a contributing editor at The Millions and the founder of Writing Workshops Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ethel-rohan-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Katie Kitamura
DESCRIPTION:Katie Kitamura reads from and discusses her novel\, A Separation. \nPraise for Katie Kitamura: \n“A slow burn of a novel that gathers its great force and intensity through careful observation and a refusal to accept old\, shopworn narratives of love and loss.” —Jenny Offill\, author of Dept. of Speculation \n“The burnt landscape\, the disappearance of a man\, the brilliantly cold\, precise\, and yet threatening\, churning tone of the narrator—make A Separation an absolutely mesmerizing work of art.” —Rachel Kushner\, author of The Flamethrowers \n“Profound and gripping. I had that rare sense of feeling like I was in a creation specifically made out of words\, that couldn’t have been made out of any other substance. Kitamura combines the calm complexity of Joseph Conrad with the pacing and reveal of Patricia Highsmith. This novel is a wonder and a pleasure.” —Rivka Galchen\, author of Atmospheric Disturbances and Little Labors \n“Hemingway’s returned to life—and this time\, he’s a woman.” —Tom McCarthy\, author of Satin Island \n\nAbout A Separation: \nA mesmerizing\, psychologically taut novel about a marriage’s end and the secrets we all carry. \n\nA young woman has agreed with her faithless husband: it’s time for them to separate. For the moment it’s a private matter\, a secret between the two of them. As she begins her new life\, she gets word that Christopher has gone missing in a remote region in the rugged south of Greece; she reluctantly agrees to go and search for him\, still keeping their split to herself. In her heart\, she’s not even sure if she wants to find him. Adrift in the wild landscape\, she traces the disintegration of their relationship\, and discovers she understands less than she thought about the man she used to love. \n\nA story of intimacy and infidelity\, A Separation is about the gulf that divides us from the lives of others and the narratives we create for ourselves. As the narrator reflects upon her love for a man who may never have been what he appeared\, Kitamura propels us into the experience of a woman on the brink of catastrophe. A Separation is a riveting stylistic masterpiece of absence and presence that will leave the reader astonished\, and transfixed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katie-kitamura/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Five-Fingered Mitten: A Michigan-ish Reading
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Killian hosts a special historic reading featuring five writers with ties to Washtenaw County\, Michigan. \nVisiting writers and current Michiganders David Kuhnlein and Addy Malinowski will be joined by local writers and ex-Michigan residents Kellie Nadler\, Yalitza Ferraras\, and Amy Berkowitz. \nAbout our writers: \nAccording to his friends David Kuhnlein’s work is “disgusting”. He coaxes unconscious material to the surface by dangling his body like a worm above the page. His recent collection of essays titled Anything but Surgery explores the relationship between sexuality\, disease\, chronic pain\, and surrender. David Kuhnlein is a writer\, filmmaker and farmer living and working in Ypsilanti\, Michigan. Some of his work can be found on his blog: cryoutinanimals.tumblr.com \nAddy Malinowski is a noise musician and poet from the Detroit area. Addy would like to think he’s investigating intersecting affective realities of addiction\, social-disease\, and memory in his work and would like to thank his friends and fellow creatures the trees\, birds\, and land-mammals for their sustained generosity & love. \nAmy Berkowitz is the author of Tender Points\, the co-organizer of Sick Fest\, and the host of the Amy’s Kitchen Organics reading series. In 2014\, she was the inaugural Writer in Residence at Alley Cat Bookstore & Gallery. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan where she won a Hopwood Writing Award; this is likely the first time she’s mentioned her MFA in a bio. She moved from Ann Arbor to San Francisco almost seven years ago and has no regrets. \nYalitza Ferreras was recently a Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University. Her writing appears in Best American Short Stories\, Colorado Review\, and the anthologies: Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education and Daring to Write: Contemporary Narratives by Dominican Women. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan where she won the Delbanco Thesis Prize\, and is the recipient of fellowships from Djerassi Resident Artists\, the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto\, and Voices of Our Nation. She was raised in New York and the Dominican Republic\, and currently lives in San Francisco where she is working on a novel and a collection of short stories. \nKellie Nadler is a somatic writer and artist whose work can be found in the Oaken Transformations Art and Sculpture Walk\, Oxford Magazine\, Dressing Room Poetry Journal\, and the Rukeyser Living Archive. She’s a non-traditional educator\, working to bring students’ social and emotional needs into classroom learning. She’s taught incarcerated women\, college students\, at-risk teens\, and illiterate adults. She was teaching creative writing at Eastern Michigan University before she decided to uproot and move to the East Bay\, where she’s been living for the past couple of months.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-five-fingered-mitten-a-michigan-ish-reading/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:From All Points But the Center Brunch Reading
DESCRIPTION:Monthly Reading Series featuring 4-6 readers & performers\nfree mini writing workshop at 11am\nreadings begin at noon\nPotluck- Bring a dish to share! \nSuggested donation of $10 NOTAFLOF \nFeaturing Terrilynn Cantlon\, Jessica Hahn\, Shara DeShara and Nicia De’Lovely \nMini Writing Workshop with Mg Roberts! \nBios:\nDeShara Darshell is a MFA Candidate at California College of the Arts where she she studies Writing and a co-founder of the Daughter’s Tongue Coalition. DeShara is a Callaloo fellow and has released two poetry video on her Youtube channel\, Supershardom. She is also published in the latest edition of the Oakland Review\, and Art Cult Zine. You can find more of her work via her Instagram under the #butimcrazy hashtag.\nIG: Supershara\nFB Page: DeShara Darshell\nYoutube Supershardom \nJessica Erica Hahn was born on a renovated WWII ship off the coast of Florida to globetrotting parents\, but spent much of her life in San Francisco\, where she lives to this day. She’s a special education teacher by trade\, a mother of three\, a spontaneous traveler\, and an avid reader. She self published a couple of books in the 1990s\, and has had shorter\, more recent pieces in Peripheral Surveys\, Prime Number\, The Tonopah Review\, Prime Mincer\, Ontologica\, Wordrunner E-Chapbooks\, Holy Cow! Press\, and more! \nCheck out our community membership option at www.oaklandliminal.com/shop/ to attend more community events at LIMINAL!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/from-all-points-but-the-center-brunch-reading/
LOCATION:LIMINAL\, 3037 38th Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94619\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Lescroart w/ K.J. Howe
DESCRIPTION:There are twenty-five elite kidnap and ransom (K&R) specialists in the world. Only one is a woman: Thea Paris. And she’s the best in the business. \nIn The Freedom Broker\, twenty years ago\, a terrified young boy was abducted in the middle of the night by masked intruders while his sister watched\, paralyzed with fear. Returned after a harrowing nine months with his captors\, Thea’s brother has never been the same. \nThis life-shattering experience drove Thea to become what she is today: a world-class freedom broker. Most hostage-recovery work is done at the negotiation table\, but when diplomacy fails\, Thea leads Quantum Security International’s black-ops team on highly sensitive rescue missions to political hot spots around the globe. \nHer childhood nightmare resurfaces when her oil magnate father\, Christos Paris\, is snatched from his yacht off Santorini on his sixtieth birthday\, days away from the biggest deal of his career. The brutal kidnappers left the entire crew slaughtered in their wake\, but strangely\, there are no ransom demands\, no political appeals\, no prisoner release requests-just obscure and foreboding texts written in Latin sent from burner phones. \nKnowing the survival window for kidnap victims is small\, Thea throws herself into the most urgent and challenging rescue mission of her life-but will she be able to prevent this kidnapping from destroying her family for good? \nK.J. Howe is the executive director of ThrillerFest\, the annual conference of International Thriller Writers. A three-time Daphne du Maurier Award winner\, she completed her MA in Writing Popular Fiction at Seton Hill University. She is an avid traveler who has raced camels in Jordan\, surfed in Hawaii\, and dove with the great whites in South Africa. She became fascinated by the kidnap and ransom (K&R) world after meeting Peter Moore\, a British computer consultant who became the longest-held hostage in Iraq and the only person to survive of the five men who were taken that day. This is her debut novel. \n………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. \nFrom New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart\, a riveting standalone novel about the unexpected\, shattering\, and lethal consequences of a one-night stand on a seemingly happily married couple. \nKate loves her life. At forty-four\, she’s happily married to her kind husband\, Ron\, blessed with two wonderful children\, and has a beautiful home in San Francisco. Everything changes\, however\, when she and Ron attend a dinner party and meet another couple\, Peter and Jill. Kate and Peter only exchange a few pleasant words but that night\, in bed with her husband\, Kate is suddenly overcome with a burning desire for Peter. \nWhat begins as an innocent crush soon develops into a dangerous obsession and Kate’s fixation on Peter results in one intense\, passionate encounter between the two. Confident that her life can now go back to normal\, Kate never considers that Peter may not be so willing to move on. \nNot long after their affair\, a masked man barges into the café Kate is sitting in with her best friend\, firing an assault weapon indiscriminately into the crowd. This tragedy is the first in a series of horrifying events that will show Kate just how grave the consequences of one mistake can be. \nAn explosive story of infidelity\, danger\, and moral ambiguity\, John Lescroart’s latest thriller Fatal will excite and satisfy both his current and new fans. \nJohn Lescroart is the author of twenty-five previous novels\, including the New York Times bestsellers The Ophelia Cut\, The Keeper\, and The Fall. He lives in Northern California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-lescroart-w-k-j-howe/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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