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SUMMARY:Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake at Jessie Square
DESCRIPTION:The monthly collaboration between Litquake: San Francisco’s Literary Festival and the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival features an array of Bay Area poets and musicians.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-at-jessie-square-5/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190910T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190910T210000
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SUMMARY:Susan Steinberg
DESCRIPTION:reading from her debut novel \nMachine \npublished by Graywolf Press \nSusan Steinberg’s first novel\, Machine\, is a dazzling and innovative leap forward for a writer whose most recent book\, Spectacle\, gained her a rapturous following. Machine revolves around a group of teenagers—both locals and wealthy out-of-towners—during a single summer at the shore. Steinberg captures the pressures and demands of this world in a voice that effortlessly slides from collective to singular\, as one girl recounts a night on which another girl drowned. Hoping to assuage her guilt and evade a similar fate\, she pieces together the details of this tragedy\, as well as the breakdown of her own family\, and learns that no one\, not even she\, is blameless. \nA daring stylist\, Steinberg contrasts semicolon-studded sentences with short lines that race down the page. This restless approach gains focus and power through a sharply drawn narrative that ferociously interrogates gender\, class\, privilege\, and the disintegration of identity in the shadow of trauma. Machine is the kind of novel—relentless and bold—that only Susan Steinberg could have written. \n\n\nSusan Steinberg is the author of Spectacle\, Hydroplane\, and The End of Free Love. She is the recipient of a United States Artists Fellowship\, a National Magazine Award\, and a Pushcart Prize. She teaches at the University of San Francisco. \nWhat has been said about MACHINE \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“With simple\, lyrical language\, Steinberg presents a mystery of privilege and youth that deftly captures the unadulterated gear quaking deep behind a teenagers invincible front.”—Booklist\n\n\n\n“What makes [Machine] so thrilling is Steinberg’s artistry with form; she fractures narrative into its fundamental parts. Steinberg writes prose with a poet’s sense of meter and line\, and a velocity recalling the novels of Joan Didion. The result is a dizzying work that perfectly evokes the feeling of spinning out of control.”—Publishers Weekly\, starred review\n\n\n\n“Steinberg writes in small\, interconnected\, and poetic fragments. . . . Heartbreaking\, eerie\, and acutely observant.”—Kirkus\, starred review\n\n\n\n“Susan Steinberg takes everything you loved about her short story collections (Spectacle\, anyone?) and brings them to this new tragedy: a hazy summer night in which one girl drowned. The voice of the story—sometimes singular\, sometimes with other echoes—will guide and haunt you as it tries to make sense of what happened.”—Literary Hub\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-steinberg/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190911T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190911T210000
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SUMMARY:Jairus Grove in conversation with David Goldberg
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of \nSavage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World \nby Jairus Grove \nfrom Duke University Press \nJairus Victor Grove contends that we live in a world made by war. In Savage Ecology he offers an ecological theory of geopolitics that argues that contemporary global crises are better understood when considered within the larger history of international politics. Infusing international relations with the theoretical interventions of fields ranging from new materialism to political theory\, Grove shows how political violence is the principal force behind climate change\, mass extinction\, slavery\, genocide\, extractive capitalism\, and other catastrophes. Grove analyzes a variety of subjects—from improvised explosive devices and drones to artificial intelligence and brain science—to outline how geopolitics is the violent pursuit of a way of living that comes at the expense of others. Pointing out that much of the damage being done to the earth and its inhabitants stems from colonialism\, Grove suggests that the Anthropocene may be better described by the term Eurocene. The key to changing the planet’s trajectory\, Grove proposes\, begins by acknowledging both the earth-shaping force of geopolitical violence and the demands apocalypses make for fashioning new ways of living. \nJairus Victor Grove is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Hawai’i Research Center for Future Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. \nVisit: http://jairusgrove.com/ \nWhat has been said about the work of Jairus Grove: \n\n\n“In Savage Ecology Jairus Victor Grove gives us a weirdly hopeful eco-pessimism. ‘We broke the planet\,’ he writes\, and ‘now it is our planet.’ Agree or not\, the breadth of his archive (neuro-torture\, algorithmic warfare\, drone strikes\, and cybernetic nation-building) and audacity of his thinking (biopolitics is now ‘almost quaint\,’ he says\, given the geopolitics of the Anthropocene) are simply exhilarating. Your thinking cannot survive this book unchanged. Fortunately\, Grove says\, ‘the end of the world is never the end of everything’ (though it may well be the end of us).” — Bonnie Honig\, author of Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair \n“What Beck did for risk society\, Hardt and Negri for empire\, and Barad for technoscience\, Jairus Victor Grove does brilliantly for global violence\, delivering an ecology of warfare that is not only a corrosive critique of the three horsemen of our now daily apocalypse—geopolitics\, biopolitics\, and cybernetics—but a creative strategy for sustaining life now and thereafter. Grove is a philosopher with a hammer\, writer with a stiletto\, and artist with a spray can.” — James Der Derian\, Michael Hintze Chair of International Security Studies\, the University of Sydney
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jairus-grove-in-conversation-with-david-goldberg/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T200000
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SUMMARY:QTPOC at Strut presents Noche de Poetas
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night of queer latino poetry! Free\, part of QTPOC at Strut \nMore info to come! \nQTPOC at Strut is every Thursday\ntesting and services from 5pm to 6:30pm\nPoetry show from 7pm to 8pm\nalways free! \nquestions about the show email Baruch at bporrashernandez@sfaf.org \nThis event is being held at Strut (470 Castro St) at the third floor lobby.\nText QTPOC to 474747 if you have any questions about our Thursday nights! \nAccessibility: There are no stairs to enter the lobby level at Strut from the street level. The building has three floors\, and there is a stairwell with handrails and a wheelchair accessible elevator. There are 26 steps from the lobby to the 2nd floor and 48 steps from the lobby to the 3rd floor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/qtpoc-at-strut-presents-noche-de-poetas/
LOCATION:Strut\, 470 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T180000
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SUMMARY:Poem Jam
DESCRIPTION:Join Join San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck and special guests for a poem jam. The Main Library’s monthly Poem Jam poetry reading series takes place on the second Thursday of each month at 6 p.m. Join us! \nThis is a Reading\, Writing & Poetry program from SFPL. We love reading/sharing/creating words.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poem-jam-4/
LOCATION:Koret Auditorium\, San Francisco Main Library\, 100 Larkin Avenune\, SAN FRANCISCO\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T220000
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SUMMARY:Hauntings: Celebrating Two Lines 31 & 25 Years of Two Lines
DESCRIPTION:SEPTEMBER 12\, 2019\nHauntings: Celebrating Two Lines 31 & 25 Years of Two Lines\n\nTBD \n\n\n\nCelebrate 25 years of Two Lines and the latest issue with us! \nMore details coming soon. \n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hauntings-celebrating-two-lines-31-25-years-of-two-lines/
LOCATION:Center for the Art of Translation office\, 582 Market St #700\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T203000
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic. \nThu\, September 12\, 6:30pm – 9:00pm\nDescriptionSponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. This month’s readers TBD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-our-monthly-bilingual-poetry-series-and-open-mic-30/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T210000
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SUMMARY:Marika Lindholm - - We Got This
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Marika Lindholm and more (tba) to celebrate the publication of We Got This: Solo Mom Stories of Grit\, Heart\, and Humor\, on Thursday\, September 12th at 7pm. \nWe Got This celebrates the 15 million solo moms who parent on their own in the United States. A compelling\, moving\, and humorous compilation of essays\, poems\, and inspirational quotes by moms raising kids on their own\, this book gives voice to women who–despite their differences in age\, race\, culture\, sexual orientation\, economic circumstance\, and route to single motherhood–are bound together in a conscious coalition that is strong\, proud\, and dedicated to their children. We Got This reminds solo moms that they are powerful and important–and that there’s a whole community of women out there who understand what they are going through.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marika-lindholm-we-got-this/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T210000
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SUMMARY:Dobby Gibson & Matthew Zapruder reading new poetry
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nFather’s Day – by Matthew Zapruder \nfrom Copper Canyon Press \nand \nLittle Glass Planet – by Dobby Gibson \nfrom Graywolf Press \nabout Father’s Day: \nThe poems in Matthew Zapruder’s fifth collection ask\, how can one be a good father\, partner\, and citizen in the early twenty-first century? Zapruder deftly improvises upon language and lyricism as he passionately engages with these questions during turbulent\, uncertain times. Whether interrogating the personalities of the Supreme Court\, watching a child grow off into a distance\, or tweaking poetry critics and hipsters alike\, Zapruder maintains a deeply generous sense of humor alongside a rich vein of love and moral urgency. The poems in Father’s Day harbor a radical belief in the power of wonder and awe to sustain the human project while guiding it forward. \nabout Little Glass Planet: \nLittle Glass Planet exults in the strangeness of the known and unknowable world. In poems set as far afield as Mumbai and Marfa\, Texas\, Gibson maps disparate landscapes\, both terrestrial and subliminal\, to reveal the drama of the quotidian. Aphoristic\, allusive\, and collaged\, these poems mine our various human languages to help us understand what we might mean when we speak to each other—as lovers\, as family\, as strangers. Little Glass Planet uses lyric broadcast to foreshorten the perceived distances between us\, opening borders and pointing toward a sense of collectivity. “This is my love letter to the world\,” Gibson writes\, “someone call us a sitter. / We’re going to be here a while.” \nElegiac\, funny\, and candid\, Little Glass Planet is a kind of manual for paying attention to a world that is increasingly engineered to distract us from our own humanity. It’s a book that points toward hope\, offering the possibilities of a “we” that only the open frequency of poetry can create\, possibilities that are indistinguishable from love. \nMatthew Zapruder is the author of four collections of poetry\, most recently Come On All You Ghosts\, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year\, and Sun Bear\, 2014\, as well as Why Poetry\, a book of prose\, from Ecco Press/Harper Collins in August 2017. He cotranslated\, with historian Radu Ioanid\, Romanian poet Eugen Jebeleanu’s final collection\, Secret Weapon: Selected Late Poems (Coffee House\, 2008). He has received numerous honors for his work\, including a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a William Carlos Williams Award\, and others. In 2000\, he co-founded Verse Press\, and is now editor at large at Wave Book\, where he edits contemporary poetry\, prose\, and translations. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where he is an Associate Professor at Saint Mary’s College of California. \nDobby Gibson is the author of Little Glass Planet; Polar\, which won the Alice James Award; Skirmish; and It Becomes You. His poetry has appeared in Fence\, New England Review\, and Ploughshares\, among others. He lives in St. Paul.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dobby-gibson-matthew-zapruder-reading-new-poetry/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sharon Marcus and David Henkin
DESCRIPTION:Sharon Marcus discusses her new book\, The Drama of Celebrity\, with David Henkin. \nAbout The Drama of Celebrity \nA bold new account of how celebrity works \nWhy do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? What are the privileges and pleasures of fandom? Do celebrities ever deserve the outsized attention they receive? \nIn this fascinating and deeply researched book\, Sharon Marcus challenges everything you thought you knew about our obsession with fame. Icons are not merely famous for being famous; the media alone cannot make or break stars; fans are not simply passive dupes. Instead\, journalists\, the public\, and celebrities themselves all compete\, passionately and expertly\, to shape the stories we tell about celebrities and fans. The result: a high-stakes drama as endless as it is unpredictable. \nDrawing on scrapbooks\, personal diaries\, and vintage fan mail\, Marcus traces celebrity culture back to its nineteenth-century roots\, when people the world over found themselves captivated by celebrity chefs\, bad-boy poets\, and actors such as the “divine” Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923)\, as famous in her day as the Beatles in theirs. Known in her youth for sleeping in a coffin\, hailed in maturity as a woman of genius\, Bernhardt became a global superstar thanks to savvy engagement with her era’s most innovative media and technologies: the popular press\, commercial photography\, and speedy new forms of travel. \nWhether you love celebrity culture or hate it\, The Drama of Celebrity will change how you think about one of the most important phenomena of modern times. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sharon-marcus-and-david-henkin/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190913T210000
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SUMMARY:Children of Grass: A Portrait of American Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Photographer B.A. Van Sise discusses his new book\, Children of Grass: A Portrait of American Poetry. Also featuring readings by poets Jane Hirshfield and Dorianne Laux. \nPraise for Children of Grass \n“In Children of Grass\, books fly around Alicia Ostriker like birds\, Vijay Seshadri stands on a ladder propped against the air itself\, and Mark Doty is growing from the forest floor. B.A. Van Sise’s photographs of contemporary poets\, paired with their poems\, are inspired\, playful\, and absolutely gorgeous. The word for what this book is\, what this book gives me\, is pleasure.” —Maggie Smith\, author of Good Bones \n“Van Sise’s imaginative\, creative\, and humorous eye reveals the ‘person’ of the poet and deeper meanings of their poems in ways that sometimes startle\, but always feel truthful. That is the purpose of photography and poetry.” —David Hume Kennerly\, Pulitzer Prize winner and former chief White House photographer \n“Why do we desperately need books like this? At least for me\, it’s because we occasionally need to be reminded that there are still mysteries out there\, questions that have no answers. It is nice to be re-introduced to wonder.” —Arun Venugopal\, WNYC \nAbout Children of Grass \nWith this fascinating synthesis of word and image\, internationally renowned photographer B.A. Van Sise offers a visually stimulating anthology that will enchant lovers of both poetry and photography. At times whimsical\, surreal\, challenging\, enigmatic\, joyful and sobering\, these portraits— running adjacent to poems by each of their subjects—highlight some of the most influential poets of our time and celebrate creativity as only these poets in collaboration with Van Sise could convey. Children of Grass is also a timely homage to Walt Whitman—of whom Van Sise is a relative—and his masterpiece\, “Leaves of Grass\,” during this\, the 200th anniversary of his birth. Children of Grass\, will\, like the work of its literary grandfather\, stand as a lasting tribute to the vitality and creativity that flourishes in our country.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/children-of-grass-a-portrait-of-american-poetry/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190914T143000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch Celebration: Maestrapeace
DESCRIPTION:This event is in celebration of the seven amazing female muralists who created San Francisco’s iconic Women’s Building- and the launch of their new book\, Maestrapeace: San Francisco’s Monumental Feminist Mural\, published by Heyday Books\, featuring Juana Alicia\, Miranda Bergman\, Edythe Boone\, Susan Kelk Cervantes\, Meera Desai\, Yvonne Littleton\, and Irene Pérez Foreword by Angela Davis. \n2019 marks the 25th anniversary of Maestrapeace\, the monumental and fabulously detailed mural that adorns two sides of the The Women’s Building in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood. Weaving in myriad female figures\, historical and sacred\, this public artwork highlights women’s accomplishments across time and coSisters in Paintntinents\, and envisions a world healed of injustices. Maestrapeace: San Francisco’s Monumental Feminist Mural\, is a beautiful book allowing readers to take an extended tour of the mural\, revealing intricacies and nuances that may go unnoticed from a street-level view. Angela Davis’s foreword provides a rich history of the mural and the seven artists who collaboratively executed the work—a collective of women\, itself a rarity in muralist tradition. Maestrapeace\, the book\, enriches readers’ appreciation for the groundbreaking mural\, and it makes this deep sense of place accessible to viewers across the globe. \nBooks will be available at the event! Published by Heyday Books. \nPart of ¡VIVA!\, our Annual Celebration of Latino Hispanic Heritage. SFPL.ORG/VIVA \nThe Library is wheelchair accessible. To request other accommodations\, call 415-557-4557 or contact marti.goddard@sfpl.org. Requesting 72 hours in advance will help ensure availability. \nLOCATION\nKoret Auditorium – Lower Level\nSan Francisco Public Library\n100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco \nADMISSION\nFree \nhttps://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1038640301
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-celebration-maestrapeace/
LOCATION:Koret Auditorium\, San Francisco Main Library\, 100 Larkin Avenune\, SAN FRANCISCO\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190914T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190914T160000
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SUMMARY:VIVA! Still Here SF: Queer and Trans Latinx Writers in This City
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of #StillHereSF QTPOC Latinx Voices! \nFeaturing:\nCathy Arellano\nTina Valentin Aguirre\nPrado Gomez\nMason J.\nCristina Mitra\nAmanda Vigil\nAmelia Vigil\nNatalia M. Vigil\nChloe X. \nThis non-fiction reading from Queer and Trans Latinx raised in San Francisco. They will share their love for the Mission and their pieces from Still Here San Francisco’s new anthology edited by Mason J. & Natalia Vigil presented by Foglifter Press. (Books available for purchase following the program) \nFounded in 2012 Still Here San Francisco builds creative space for\nLGBTQI2S+ artists born and raised in San Francisco to tell our stories of survival\, resilience\, and joy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/viva-still-here-sf-queer-and-trans-latinx-writers-in-this-city/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library Mission Branch\, 300 Bartlett St.\, San Francisco\, California\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190914T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190914T193000
DTSTAMP:20260414T184408
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon: Daniel Handler\, Jenny Odell\, Namwali Serpell\, Nancy Au\, Jason Sheeler: Fall
DESCRIPTION:Babylon Salon \n\npresents our Fall Reading \nSaturday\, Sept 14\, 2019\, 6.00 pm \nat The Armory Club\n1799 Mission Street \n(downstairs performance space)   \nfeaturing\n—\nDaniel Handler\n(Bottle Grove; A Series of Unfortunate Events)\n“Set in San Francisco during the Big Bang of tech\, Bottle Grove sees two marriages form and mutate under the influence of greed\, secrets\, and income inequality. With this dark\, timely comedy\, Handler continues to prove himself a writer of prodigious gifts.” –  Esquire\, “Most Anticipated Books of the Year”\n\n“Oh lucky you to have Bottle Grove in your hands! What a funny\, riveting\, heartbreaking\, wise and joyous read you have ahead of you! A masterpiece by Daniel Handler\, one of our greatest storytellers. How I envy you.” –  Andrew Sean Greer\, author of LESS\, Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize\n\nDaniel Handler is the author of seven novels\, including Bottle Grove\, which is forthcoming in August 2019. As Lemony Snicket\, he is responsible for numerous books for children\, including Swarm of Bees\, illustrated by Rilla Alexander. His books have sold more than 70 million copies and have been translated into 40 languages\, and have been adapted for screen and stage. The first season of Netflix“s adaptation ofA Series of Unfortunate Events\, for which he served as Executive Producer and Writer\, won a 2018 Peabody Award for its “lively excellence\, strange silliness\, and compelling storytelling\,” and the teleplay won a 2019 Writers Guild Award. He lives in San Francisco with the illustrator Lisa Brown\, to whom he is married and with whom he has collaborated on several books\, and one son.\n—\nJenny Odell\n(How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy)\n“Odell struck a hopeful nerve of possibility that I hadn’t felt in a long time.”—Jia Tolentino\, THE NEW YORKER\n\n“How to Do Nothing is a complex\, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual\, then blossoms into a wide-ranging political manifesto.”—Jonah Engel Bromwich\, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\n\n“Your chaotic\, fraught internal weather isn’t an accident\, it’s a business-model\, and while ‘thoughtful resistance’ isn’t ‘productive\,’ Odell proves that it is utterly necessary.”—Cory Doctorow\, author of Radicalized and Walkaway\n\nJenny Odell is an artist and writer who teaches at Stanford\, has been an artist-in-residence at places like the San Francisco dump\, Facebook\, the Internet Archive\, and the San Francisco Planning Department\, and has exhibited her art all over the world. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times\, SFMOMA’s Open Space\, McSweeney’s\, The Creative Independent\, Sierra Magazine\, Topic\, and Real Future. Her book\, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy\, was recently published by Melville House. She lives in Oakland.\n\n\nNamwali Serpell\n(The Old Drift) \n“Extraordinary\, ambitious\, evocative…. A dazzling debut\, establishing Namwali Serpell as a writer on the world stage.” Salman Rushdie\, The New York Times Book Review (cover) \n“This is a dazzling book\, as ambitious as any first novel published this decade. It made the skin on the back of my neck prickle….” Dwight Garner\, The New York Times \nNamwali Serpell is a Zambian writer who teaches at the University of California\, Berkeley. She won the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award for women writers in 2011 and was selected for the Africa39\, a 2014 Hay Festival project to identify the best African writers under 40. The Old Drift is her first novel and has been long listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the Historical Writers’ Association Debut Crown. \nNancy Au \n(Spider Love Song and Other Stories) \n“These stories sparkle with life and secrets\, joy and power\, pain and hilarity and sharp insights into the human heart. Nancy Au is a rare and blazing talent\, and this debut collection is a house of wonders\, thrilling and unforgettable.” Carolina De Robertis\, author of Cantoras \n“An original and delightfully off-kilter debut collection about searching for a sense of belonging. . . . Only a writer who knows how closely bound are heartbreak and resilience could write stories as emotionally stirring as these.” *starred review*\, Kirkus Review \nNancy Au‘s essays and stories appear in many journals\, including Redivider\, Gulf Coast\, Lunch Ticket\, and Michigan Quarterly Review. She teaches creative writing (to biology majors!) at California State University Stanislaus\, and in the Fall will begin teaching at San Francisco State University. She is co-founder of The Escapery\, a writing and art unschool. Her flash fiction is included in the Best Small Fictions 2018 anthology\, and in The Vestal Review as the winner of their 2018 VERA Flash Fiction Prize. Her flash also won Redivider‘s 2018 Blurred Genre Contest. Her debut full-length collection is Spider Love Song & Other Stories. \n\nJason Sheeler\nJason Sheeler is a writer newly based in San Francisco. Formerly the style director for Departures magazine\, editor-at-large at Entertainment Weekly\, senior editor at Glamour\, and contributing writer at Texas Monthly\, he has done recent work for The Hollywood Reporter\,Bloomberg Businessweek\, Travel + Leisure\, and Condé Nast Traveler. \n____________________ \n\n \nCheck out our partner Podcast: www.grottopod.com \n____________________ \nFree Admission \nCash Bar Exotica \nDoors at 5.30\, \nReading at 6.00 \n@ the Armory Club\, \n1799 Mission St.\, San Francisco\nacross from the San Francisco Armory
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-daniel-handler-jenny-odell-namwali-serpell-nancy-au-jason-sheeler-fall/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Daniel Handler: Fall 2019  Babylon Salon
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Handler: Fall 2019\n\n\n\nBabylon Salon\n\npresents our Fall Reading\nSaturday\, Sept 14\, 2019\, 6.00 pm \nat The Armory Club\n1799 Mission Street\n(downstairs performance space) \n\n\nfeaturing\n\nDaniel Handler\n(Bottle Grove; A Series of Unfortunate Events)\n\n“Set in San Francisco during the Big Bang of tech\, Bottle Grove sees two marriages form and mutate under the influence of greed\, secrets\, and income inequality. With this dark\, timely comedy\, Handler continues to prove himself a writer of prodigious gifts.” –  Esquire\, “Most Anticipated Books of the Year”\n\n“Oh lucky you to have Bottle Grove in your hands! What a funny\, riveting\, heartbreaking\, wise and joyous read you have ahead of you! A masterpiece by Daniel Handler\, one of our greatest storytellers. How I envy you.” –  Andrew Sean Greer\, author of LESS\, Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize\n\nDaniel Handler is the author of seven novels\, including Bottle Grove\, which is forthcoming in August 2019. As Lemony Snicket\, he is responsible for numerous books for children\, including Swarm of Bees\, illustrated by Rilla Alexander. His books have sold more than 70 million copies and have been translated into 40 languages\, and have been adapted for screen and stage. The first season of Netflix“s adaptation ofA Series of Unfortunate Events\, for which he served as Executive Producer and Writer\, won a 2018 Peabody Award for its “lively excellence\, strange silliness\, and compelling storytelling\,” and the teleplay won a 2019 Writers Guild Award. He lives in San Francisco with the illustrator Lisa Brown\, to whom he is married and with whom he has collaborated on several books\, and one son.\n\nand many more\, soon to be announced!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-handler-fall-2019-babylon-salon/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Parks 2019
DESCRIPTION:The 5th Annual Poetry in Parks / Ayala Cove on Angel Island\n\nSunday\, Sept 15\, 2019\, 11a – 4pm\nYouth readings\nA literary mixtape curated by Katie Tandy and July Westhale\nNeighborhood Heroes curated by Kearny Street Workshop\nMusic + Dance curated by Kearny Street Workshop\nLive painting by ArtSpan\nBeer courtesy Lagunitas\nRSVP / SUBMIT\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Quiet Lightning \nNow in its 10th year\, Quiet Lightning is a San Francisco-based literary nonprofit with the mission to foster community based on literary expression and to provide a safe and supportive arena for said expression. Its flagship is the literary mixtape\, a submission-based series with a completely blind selection process and different curators for every show\, for which there are no introductions or banter. The shows are published as books\, handed out free to the first 100 people at each show. All participating artists are paid and the shows are free to attend. We’ve now produced 126 shows\, featuring 1\,200+ readings by 900+ different authors in 80+ venues and 100+ books. Quiet Lightning also maintains Litseen.com\, a daily calendar of literary events. \nAbout California State Parks \nThe mission of CA State Parks is to provide for the health\, inspiration and education of the people of California by helping to preserve the state’s extraordinary biological diversity\, protecting its most valued natural and cultural resources\, and creating opportunities for high-quality outdoor recreation. \nAbout Kearny Street Workshop \nFounded in 1972\, during the height of the Asian American cultural movement\, Kearny Street Workshop (KSW) is the oldest Asian Pacific American multidisciplinary arts organization in the country. We offer classes and workshops\, salons\, and student presentations\, as well as professionally curated and produced exhibitions\, performances\, readings\, and screenings. KSW makes artists out of community members and community members out of artists. For the past 45 years\, KSW has nurtured the creative spirit\, offered an important platform for new voices to be heard\, and connected artists with community. \nAbout ArtSpan \nArtSpan believes in the power of art to enrich lives. For 20-plus years we’ve championed an inclusive art experience and provided diverse audiences with an authentic connection to local art and artists. We support emerging and established artists who contribute to San Francisco’s inimitable creative energy\, while bolstering the next generation of artists and encouraging the public to engage in preserving and furthering our vibrant art community. \nWith crucial support from SOMArts Cultural Center \nSOMArts leverages the power of art as a tool for social change through multi-disciplinary events and exhibitions. Equipping artists with the space\, mentorship and support they need to shift perspectives and innovate solutions\, SOMArts fosters access to arts and culture for collective liberation and self-determination. \n\nimage: Angel Island by Evan Karp
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-in-parks-2019/
LOCATION:Ayala Cove\, Angel Island\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,North Bay,San Francisco,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190915T160000
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SUMMARY:Chuck Poling's "Growing Up Bernal"
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/chuck-polings-growing-up-bernal/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Anna Merlan
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her recently released book \nRepublic of Lies:American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power \nfrom Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Co. \nA riveting tour through the landscape and meaning of modern conspiracy theories\, exploring the causes and tenacity of this American malady\, from Birthers to Pizzagate and beyond. \nAmerican society has always been fertile ground for conspiracy theories\, but with the election of Donald Trump\, previously outlandish ideas suddenly attained legitimacy. Trump himself is a conspiracy enthusiast: from his claim that global warming is a Chinese hoax to the accusations of “fake news\,” he has fanned the flames of suspicion. \nBut it was not by the power of one man alone that these ideas gained new power. Republic of Lies looks beyond the caricatures of conspiracy theorists to explain their tenacity. Without lending the theories validity\, Anna Merlan gives a nuanced\, sympathetic account of the people behind them\, across the political spectrum\, and the circumstances that helped them take hold. The lack of a social safety net\, inadequate education\, bitter culture wars\, and years of economic insecurity have created large groups of people who feel forgotten by their government and even besieged by it. Our contemporary conditions are a perfect petri dish for conspiracy movements: a durable\, permanent\, elastic climate of alienation and resentment. All the while\, an army of politicians and conspiracy-peddlers has fanned the flames of suspicion to serve their own ends. \nBringing together penetrating historical analysis and gripping on-the-ground reporting\, Republic of Lies transforms our understanding of American paranoia. \nAnna Merlan is a journalist specializing in politics\, crime\, religion\, subcultures\, and women’s lives. Merlan is a reporter at the Special Projects Desk\, the investigative division of Gizmodo Media Group. She was previously a senior reporter at Jezebel and staff writer at the Village Voice and the Dallas Observer. Republic of Lies is her first book. She lives in New York. \nVisit: https://annamerlan.net/ \nWhat has ben said about the work of Ana Merlan: \n\n\n“A captivating book that illuminates the landscape of conspiracy theories and what they might say about society as a whole.” —New York Magazine \n“Meticulously researched.” —Mother Jones \n“A frequently jaw-dropping\, yet deeply sensitive and curious\, journey through some of the most pervasive conspiracy theories in America today.” —Huffington Post \n“Merlan approaches conspiracy theories and the people who believe them as a thoughtful\, thorough journalist\, looking at how those in power wield them at the expense of those who are destabilized and looking for answers. An amazing read.” —Literary Hub \n“A fascinating perspective on the current political era.” —Refinery29 \n“[Merlan] is one of the sharpest reporter/commentators in the game.” —Flavorwire \n“Engrossing assessment of the profitable mainstreaming of conspiracymongering in civic and political life … A lucid look at a slippery topic.” —Kirkus
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anna-merlan/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! 1st and 3rd Monday of each month\, 7-9 pm Featured poets + open mic hosted by Jerry Ferraz
DESCRIPTION:POETS!\n1st and 3rd Monday of each month\, 7-9 pm\nFeatured poets + open mic\nhosted by Jerry Ferraz \nOn the first and third Monday of each month\, Jerry Ferraz hosts a poetry reading that showcases local legends\, poets passing through and folks from around the Bay — typically two featured poets followed by an open mic. We can count on a warm group of poets and poetry fans eager to hear the features and the potpourri of poets of every stripe who come out to read and keep the open mic scene alive. Drawing on the generosity of our neighbors and patrons\, we’re able to pay a small honorarium to the featured poets\, a rarity in reading series off the college campuses… your additional dollar or two tossed in the bucket at the readings makes it that much sweeter. 2018-19 SF Poet Laureate Kim Shuck has graciously taken on some booking chores since assuming her laurels\, and much fun\, and some magnificent poetry\, is to be had as a result!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-1st-and-3rd-monday-of-each-month-7-9-pm-featured-poets-open-mic-hosted-by-jerry-ferraz-2/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190916T210000
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SUMMARY:The Diesel Readers Book Group - - Future Home of the Living God
DESCRIPTION:East Bay Booksellers invites you to The Diesel Readers Book Group’s discussion of Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich\, on Monday September 16th at 7pm. \nLouise Erdrich\, the New York Times bestselling\, National Book Award-winning author of LaRose and The Round House\, paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic event. \nThe world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself\, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop the world from running backwards\, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. Twenty-six-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker\, adopted daughter of a pair of big-hearted\, open-minded Minneapolis liberals\, is as disturbed and uncertain as the rest of America around her. But for Cedar\, this change is profound and deeply personal. She is four months pregnant. \nThough she wants to tell the adoptive parents who raised her from infancy\, Cedar first feels compelled to find her birth mother\, Mary Potts\, an Ojibwe living on the reservation\, to understand both her and her baby’s origins. As Cedar goes back to her own biological beginnings\, society around her begins to disintegrate\, fueled by a swelling panic about the end of humanity. \nThere are rumors of martial law\, of Congress confining pregnant women. Of a registry\, and rewards for those who turn these wanted women in. Flickering through the chaos are signs of increasing repression: a shaken Cedar witnesses a family wrenched apart when police violently drag a mother from her husband and child in a parking lot. The streets of her neighborhood have been renamed with Bible verses. A stranger answers the phone when she calls her adoptive parents\, who have vanished without a trace. It will take all Cedar has to avoid the prying eyes of potential informants and keep her baby safe. \nA chilling dystopian novel both provocative and prescient\, Future Home of the Living God is a startlingly original work from one of our most acclaimed writers: a moving meditation on female agency\, self-determination\, biology\, and natural rights that speaks to the troubling changes of our time. \n  \n\n** The Diesel Readers is an ongoing group\, and is open to all. ** \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nMonday\, September 16\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-diesel-readers-book-group-future-home-of-the-living-god/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Janaka Stucky
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of his new book \nAscend Ascend \nfrom Third Man Books \nWritten over the course of twenty days\, coming in and out of trance states brought on by intermittent fasting and somatic rituals while secluded in the tower of a 100-year-old church\, Ascend Ascend is Janaka Stucky’s most powerful book to date. \nRooted in the Jewish mystical tradition of Hekhalot literature\, which chronicles an ascent up the Kabbalistic Tree of Life to witness the Merkabah\, or “chariot of God\,” this book-length poem drafts a surreal\, mythological landscape in which maximalist language shreds the natural world. Light becomes rainbowed sex. Intestines tangle into an aria. The sky is gallowed. At the center of this apocalyptic devastation stands the speaker of these poems\, asserting: I explode. I shall love. I ascend. Stucky’s verse reminds us that even as we sink deeper and deeper into unknown darkness\, we become our own flashlight beaming outward. \nEqual parts Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” and Funkadelic’s “Maggot Brain\,” Ascend Ascend makes us both passenger and witness as we participate in the ecstatic destruction of the self through its union with the divine. \nJanaka Stucky is a poet\, performer\, independent-press publisher\, and impresario\, based in Boston\, Massachusetts. The founder of Black Ocean\, an independent press\, and publisher of its journal Handsome\, he is also the author of three collections of his poetry: Your Name Is The Only Freedom\, The World Will Deny It For You\, and The Truth Is We Are Perfect. \nVisit: http://www.blackocean.org/ \nWhat has been said about the work of Janaka Stucky: \n\n\n“Janaka Stucky is extraordinary\, and his work riveting.”— Jimmy Page\, Led Zeppelin \n\n\n\n\n\n“It is steeped in soil\, rot\, stardust\, moonlight\, the dissolution of the self\, and ‘heartblood pouring from a ram horn/ On the pubic shadow of the earth.’ Part prayer\, part yowl\, part spell\, it’s grounded in the ancient and the occult.”— The Boston Globe \n\n\n\n\n\n“Ascend Ascend is a passionate trance poem of praise\, incantation and divination … One is grateful\, in these imperiled times\, for such forceful ritual and invocation: ‘Every word along the way / Lit like a flame upon / The wick of its origin.’— Anne Waldman\, author of Trickster Feminism \n\n\n\n\n\n“Stucky’s writing is a miracle\, not only in its genius\, but in its generosity. This is a love poem that shocks with secret links and revelations. It will lift you out of whoever you think you are.”— Pam Grossman\, host of The Witch Wave podcast \n\n\n\n\n\n“A genuine return to a poetry of extasis\, both in experience & in language. Breathtaking and wonderful\, I’m truly delighted to add Ascend Ascend to my repertory of contemporary works.”— Jerome Rothenberg\, editor of Technicians of the Sacred \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/janaka-stucky/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Launch for Anniqua Rana / Wild Boar in the Cane Field
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the launch for Anniqua Rana‘s debut novel\, Wild Boar in the Cane Field. More information to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nOne day\, a baby girl\, Tara\, is found\, abandoned and covered in flies. She is raised by two mothers in a community rife with rituals and superstition. As she grows\, Tara pursues acceptance at all costs. Saffiya\, her adoptive mother\, and Bhaggan\, Saffiya’s maidservant\, are victims of the men in their community\, and the two women\, in turn\, struggle and live short but complicated lives. The only way for the villagers to find solace is through the rituals of ancient belief systems. Tara lives in a village that could be any village in South Asia\, and she dies\, like many young women in the area\, during childbirth. Her short life is dedicated to her efforts to find happiness\, despite the fact that she has no hope of going to school or making any life choices in the feudal\, patriarchal world in which she finds herself. Poignant and compelling\, Wild Boar in the Cane Field depicts the tragedy that often characterizes the lives of those who live in South Asia — and demonstrates the heroism we are all capable of even in the face of traumatic realities. \n\nAnniqua Rana lives in California with her husband and two sons. When she’s not working as an educator in the community college system\, she visits her family in Pakistan and England. The rest of the time\, she reads\, cooks\, travels\, and enjoys mystical music and poetry and does whatever it takes to keep her grounded and happy. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-anniqua-rana-wild-boar-in-the-cane-field/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement
DESCRIPTION:Editor Shelly Oria discusses the new collection Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement  with Rita Bullwinkel\, Thea Matthews and Yalitza Ferreras. \nPraise for Indelible in the Hippocampus \n“This book is a proper danger to patriarchal silencing.” —Ashley Judd  \n“This anthology does so much to humanize\, again\, the stories that have emerged from the #MeToo Movement\, already much dismissed and pushed off to the margins. And while that would be enough\, it is more than that. There are many beloved writers here\, in discussions of the movements that led to this moment\, the ways in which too many of us have struggled alone with what happened to us\, the legacy of the culture that created these assaults\, and inspiration for taking action on restorative justice. This is a book for those losing heart\, those already fighting\, and those just finding their voice. Which means give it to everyone.” — Alexander Chee  \n“Indelible in the Hippocampus is a vital act of witnessing\, a fortification for the body and the sprit\, a reckoning with violences that belong to both the present and the past. ‘Speaking lights a candle in a room inside us\,” Gabrielle Bellot writes. This is a book that is going to light so many candles\, in so many rooms.” — Laura van den Berg  \nAbout Indelible in the Hippocampus \n“Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter\,” said Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford when she testified to congress in September 2018 about the men who victimized her. A year earlier\, in October 2017\, the hashtag #MeToo shone a light on the internalized\, normalized sexual harassment and abuse that’d been ubiquitous for women for generations. \nAmong the first books to emerge from the #MeToo movement\, Indelible in the Hippocampus is a truly intersectional collection of essays\, fiction\, and poetry. These original texts sound the voices of black\, Latinx\, Asian\, queer\, and trans writers\, to name but a few\, and says “me too” 22 times. Whether reflecting on their teenage selves or their modern-day workplaces\, each contributor approaches the subject with unforgettable authenticity and strength. \nTogether these pieces create a portrait of cultural sea-change\, offering the reader a deeper understanding of this complex\, galvanizing pivot in contemporary consciousness. \nFeaturing Kaitlyn Greenidge\, Melissa Febos\, Syreeta McFadden\, Rebecca Schiff\, Diana Spechler\, Hossannah Asuncion\, Nelly Reifler\, Courtney Zoffness\, Quito Ziegler\, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan\, Jolie Holland\, Lynn Melnick\, Caitlin Delohery\, Caitlin Donohue\, Gabrielle Bellot\, Karissa Chen\, Elissa Schappell\, Samantha Hunt\, Honor Moore\, Donika Kelly\, Paisley Rekdal\, and Hafizah Geter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/indelible-in-the-hippocampus-writings-from-the-me-too-movement/
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:Sarah M. Broom -- The Yellow House
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Sarah Broom to discuss her expansive yet probing biography The Yellow House on Wednesday\, September 18th at 7pm. \nIn 1961\, Sarah M. Broom’s mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant–the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed\, Ivory Mae remarried Sarah’s father Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually number twelve children. But after Simon died\, six months after Sarah’s birth\, the Yellow House would become Ivory Mae’s thirteenth and most unruly child. \nA book of great ambition\, Sarah M. Broom’s The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America’s most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother’s struggle against a house’s entropy\, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts\, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina. The Yellow House expands the map of New Orleans to include the stories of its lesser known natives\, guided deftly by one of its native daughters\, to demonstrate how enduring drives of clan\, pride\, and familial love resist and defy erasure. Located in the gap between the “Big Easy” of tourist guides and the New Orleans in which Broom was raised\, The Yellow Houseis a brilliant memoir of place\, class\, race\, the seeping rot of inequality\, and the internalized shame that often follows. It is a transformative\, deeply moving story from an unparalleled new voice of startling clarity\, authority\, and power. \nAbout the Author \nSarah M. Broom is a writer whose work has appeared in the New Yorker\, The New York Times Magazine\, The Oxford American\, and O\, The Oprah Magazine among others. A native New Orleanian\, she received her Masters in Journalism from the University of California\, Berkeley in 2004. She was awarded a Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant in 2016 and was a finalist for the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction in 2011. She has also been awarded fellowships at Djerassi Resident Artists Program and The MacDowell Colony. She lives in New York state. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, September 18\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-m-broom-the-yellow-house/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Catherine Flynn
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of her new book \nJames Joyce and the Matter of Paris \npublished by Cambridge University Press \nIn James Joyce and the Matter of Paris\, Catherine Flynn recovers the paradigmatic city of European urban modernity as the foundational context of Joyce’s imaginative consciousness. Beginning with Joyce’s underexamined first exile in 1902–03\, she shows the significance for his writing of the time he spent in Paris and of a range of French authors whose works inflected his experience of that city. In response to the pressures of Parisian consumer capitalism\, Joyce drew on French literature to conceive a somatic aesthetic\, in which the philosophically disparaged senses of taste\, touch\, and smell as well as the porous\, digestive body resist capitalism’s efforts to manage and instrumentalize desire. This book resituates the most canonical of Irish modernists in a European avant-garde context while revealing important links between Anglophone modernism and critical theory. \n\nCatherine Flynn works on British and Irish modernist literature in a European avant-garde context. Her book\, James Joyce and the Matter of Paris\, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press (2019). She is currently at work on Flann O’Brien/Myles na gCopaleen/Brian O’Nolan’s comic\, ployglot Irish Times column\, Cruiskeen Lawn. Profess Flynn joined the Department of English at the University of California at Berkeley in 2012. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University’s Introduction to the Humanities Program from 2009 to 2012. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University in 2009 and her B.A. in English and Philosophy from University College Cork in 2000. Previously\, she practiced as an architect in Ireland and in Vienna\, Austria; she has a B.Arch from University College Dublin. She is an Affiliate of the Program in Critical Theory and currently also serves as Director of Berkeley Connect in English and as Associate Director of Irish Studies. \n\nWhat has been said about James Joyce and the Matter of Paris: \n\n\n‘This strikingly original book advances several interrelated arguments about the importance of Paris for understanding Joyce’s work. Flynn shows that for Joyce\, Paris embodied the spectacle\, and the challenges\, of the modern city and its burgeoning consumer capitalism.  She argues that Joyce responded to Paris by imagining new ways of thinking through the senses\, the body\, and materiality generally. This ‘sentient thinking’\, as Flynn articulates it\, is both an innovative model of subjectivity and the formulation of an embodied aesthetic. James Joyce and the Matter of Paris departs from the dominant scholarly trends of the last two decades and promises to reshape scholarship on Joyce\, modernism\, and aesthetics decisively.’ \nMarjorie Howes – Boston College \n‘James Joyce and the Matter of Paris changes our sense of Joyce’s entire trajectory. Flynn’s eloquent and original book demonstrates that Paris was for Joyce more than a place to publish and flourish\, more than a theme in his texts\, it was a style\, a way of writing\, of thinking and of feeling. Thanks to this compelling study of the impact of a French poetic sensibility on Joyce\, we discover a more capacious and politicized author immersed in a modernité conceptualized by Walter Benjamin.’ \nJean-Michel Rabaté – University of Pennsylvania \n‘Catherine Flynn gives us the first comprehensive guide not to Joyce’s Paris\, but rather to Paris’s Joyce: how the city\, and the artistic\, economic\, and cultural landscape he encountered there fundamentally shaped the writer’s vision. This book\, for the first time\, shows us how Paris is the second city of the Joycean imagination.’ \nBarry McCrea – University of Notre Dame\, Indiana \n‘This book presents evidence of Joyce’s development that has the authority of a documentary chronicle. With intellectual and critical intelligence of exceptional discernment\, Catherine Flynn has given us a field-altering account of Joyce’s literary career and its establishing circumstances.  James Joyce and the Matter of Paris will be indispensable for Joyce studies as well as for scholars of modernism.’ \nVincent Sherry – Washington University\, St Louis
URL:https://litseen.com/event/catherine-flynn/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Avan Jogia / Mixed Feelings
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a special evening with actor Avan Jogia for his debut book\, Mixed Feelings: Poems and Stories. This will be his only SF/Bay Area appearance. Please join us! \nPlease note: this is a ticketed event\, to be held at Booksmith (1644 Haight St.) in San Francisco. The price of admission is equal to the cost of Mixed Feelings\, which is included with each ticket. Tickets can be purchased here. \nIn a raw and moving collection of poetry\, stories\, and art about living as a mixed-race person\, Avan Jogia explores his complicated emotions around race\, identity\, religion\, and family. Drawing on the author’s own life story as well as interviews he’s conducted with friends and strangers\, Mixed Feelings serves as a dialogue starter for difficult topics that now\, more than ever\, need to be discussed. \n\nAvan Jogia is an artist whose work spans film\, writing\, and music. He was raised in Canada\, the son of an Indian-British father and English-Irish mother. This is his first book. \n\n** Please note ** \n– This is an all-ages event. \n– The duration of this event is up to the author. \n– Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. \n– 1 ticket = 1 book\, no exceptions. The book must be purchased from Booksmith. If you already have a copy of Mixed Feelings\, remember that books make great gifts! If you’ve already gifted Mixed Feelings to all of your friends\, it’s ok to buy a different book from Booksmith instead — in that case\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com. \n– If you can’t attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Mixed Feelings\, order below and be sure to put your request in the special field. \n– Signing\, photo\, and Q&A details to come.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/avan-jogia-mixed-feelings/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bathsheba Demuth: Floating Coast
DESCRIPTION:Bathsheba Demuth discusses her new book\, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait. \nPraise for Floating Coast \n“In Floating Coast\, Bathsheba Demouth has written a brilliant hybrid book about one of the most fragile and forgotten of Anthropocene front-line territories\, the Bering Strait. Uniting ecology\, anthropology\, reportage and more\, this is a superb work of environmental history\, often reminiscent to me of Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams in its combination of rigorous research\, intense looking and listening\, and its clear ethical vision.” — Robert Macfarlane \n“… Demuth has now herself written the history she calls for. Floating Coast is a historian’s Moby Dick\, a great white whale of a book that spans centuries and links landscapes\, living beings\, and the flux of time\, into a marvelously readable narrative.”    — Amitav Ghosh \nAbout Floating Coast \nWhales and walruses\, caribou and fox\, gold and oil: through the stories of these animals and resources\, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 years. \nThe first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia\, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada\, Floating Coast breaks away from familiar narratives to provide a fresh and fascinating perspective on an overlooked landscape. The unforgiving territory along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans–the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska\, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia–before Americans and Europeans arrived with revolutionary ideas for progress. Rapidly\, these frigid lands and waters became the site of an ongoing experiment: How\, under conditions of extreme scarcity\, would the great modern ideologies of capitalism and communism control and manage the resources they craved? \nDrawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people in the region\, as well as from archival sources\, Demuth shows how the social\, the political\, and the environmental clashed in this liminal space. Through the lens of the natural world\, she views human life and economics as fundamentally about cycles of energy\, bringing a fresh and visionary spin to the writing of human history. \nFloating Coast is a profoundly resonant tale of the dynamic changes and unforeseen consequences that immense human needs and ambitions have brought\, and will continue to bring\, to a finite planet. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bathsheba-demuth-floating-coast/
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:John James w/Jay Deshpande & Noah Warren / The Milk Hours
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Bay Area poet John James for his debut book of poems\, The Milk Hours. Reading with him are local poets Jay Deshpande (The Destroyer in the Glass) & Noah Warren (Love the Stranger). Please join us! \nWinner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize\, The Milk Hours is an elegant debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist in a state of loss. \n“We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery.” So begins the title poem of this collection\, whose recursive temporality is filled with living\, grieving things\, punctuated by an unseen world of roots\, bodies\, and concealed histories. Like a cemetery\, too\, The Milk Hours sets unlikely neighbors alongside each other: Hegel and Murakami\, Melville and the Persian astronomer al-Sufi\, enacting a transhistorical poetics even as it brims with intimacy. These are poems of frequent swerves and transformations\, which never stray far from an engagement with science\, geography\, art\, and aesthetics\, nor from the dream logic that motivates their incessant investigations. \nIndeed\, while John James begins with the biographical — the haunting loss of a father in childhood\, the exhausted hours of early fatherhood — the questions that emerge from his poetic synthesis are both timely and universal: what is it to be human in an era where nature and culture have fused? To live in a time of political and environmental upheaval\, of both personal and public loss? How do we make meaning\, and to whom — or what — do we turn\, when such boundaries so radically collapse? \n\nJohn James is the author of Chthonic\, winner of the 2014 CutBank Chapbook Award. His poems appear in Boston Review\, Kenyon Review\, Gulf Coast\, Poetry Northwest\, Best American Poetry 2017\, and elsewhere. Also a digital collagist\, his visual art is forthcoming in the Adroit Journal\, Quarterly West\, and LIT. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where he is pursuing a PhD in English at the University of California\, Berkeley. \nJay Deshpande is the author of Love the Stranger\, named a top debut of 2015 by Poets & Writers\, and of the chapbook The Rest of the Body (both from YesYes Books). His poems have appeared inBoston Review\, Denver Quarterly\, Narrative\, and elsewhere. A graduate of Harvard University and Columbia University’s School of the Arts\, he has received fellowships or support from Kundiman\, Civitella Ranieri\, Saltonstall Arts Colony\, and the Key West Literary Seminar. Currently\, he is a 2018-2010 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. He is at work on a collection of poems and on a book of translations of Egyptian surrealist Georges Henein. \nNoah Warren is the author of The Destroyer in the Glass (2016)\, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford\, he is currently a PhD student in English at UC Berkeley. His poems appear in The Paris Review\, ZYZZYVA\,Poetry\, PEN America\, The New England Review\, Narrative\, The Iowa Review\, The Sewanee Review\, poets.org\, and elsewhere. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of The Milk Hours\, order below and put your request in the comments field; if you’d like to order Jay’s book\, do the same here; for Noah’s book\, here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-james-w-jay-deshpande-noah-warren-the-milk-hours/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Deborah Fruchey and Jan Steckel at Expressions Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Reading featuring Zeitgeist Press poets Jan Steckel and Deborah Fruchey at Expressions Gallery\, 2035 Ashby Ave. in Berkeley – Open Mic to follow! \nJan Steckel is a former pediatrician who stopped practicing medicine because of chronic pain. Her latest book Like Flesh Covers Bone (Zeitgeist Press\, December 2018) was a finalist for the poetry category of the Bi Book Awards. Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press\, 2011) won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press\, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press\, 2006) also won awards. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Scholastic Magazine\, Bellevue Literary Review\, Yale Medicine\, and elsewhere. She works as a medical editor and lives in Oakland\, California. \nDeborah Fruchey tried to write her first book at the age of 8. Her first novel was chosen as a Best Book by the American Bookseller’s Association. Her poetry book Armadillo was released by Cyborg Productions in 2014. Her latest is a volume of flash fiction called Priestess of Secrets. She is the editor of an upcoming anthology in tribute to Julia Vinograd\, from Zeitgeist Press\, and also editor of a volume of Vampyre Mike Kassel’s unpublished work\, due in November 2019 from Last Laugh Productions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deborah-fruchey-and-jan-steckel-at-expressions-gallery/
LOCATION:Expressions Gallery\, 2035 Ashby Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Oakland Peace Festival: Peace
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the inaugural Oakland Peace Festival organized by Nomadic Press and hosted at the Oakland Peace Center. It’ll be a daytime celebration of all that is Oakland and peaceful through music\, art\, writing\, food\, guest speakers\, and community building. All are welcome\, and this is a kid-friendly event. \nThe festival will take place on three Saturdays: July 27 (theme: Justice)\, August 24 (theme: Equity)\, and will culminate on September 21 (theme: Peace)\, which is International Day of Peace. \nOutside in the parking lot (free) just off of Fairmount Avenue\, there will be food and arts/crafts vendors\, a Poet’s Corner with a 5-hour open mic\, a new mural by Gremlin1114\, beer by Ale Industries\, and iced coffee by Nomadic Coffee. \nInside in the sanctuary ($10 GA / $20 VIP): \n11:30–12:30 PM: DJ XCairocitosX\n12:30–1:15 PM: Poetry by Gondola Perpetua (Terry Taplin)\, Jevohn Tyler Newsome\, Madi Dangerously\, Joyce E. Young\, Asantewaa Bee Boykin\n1:15–2:30 PM: Guest speakers\, Sandhya Jha and Yvette Felarca\n2:45–3:15 PM: Music by Azuah\n3:30–4:30 PM: Music by Imerald Brown Music \nLanterns will be hung throughout the sanctuary as part of a three-month celebration of lights and peace and separate lanterns will be available for folks to hang with individually written messages of peace on them for a small donation of $10. \nThis event is organized by Nomadic Press with support from a large and loving community\, both old and new. All proceeds will go toward the production of this\, and future\, festivals.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-peace-festival-peace/
LOCATION:Oakland Peace Center\, 111 Fairmount Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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