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SUMMARY:SF Art Book Fair Day 2
DESCRIPTION:The 2018 SF Art Book Fair is an annual multi-day festival of artists’ publications. This event is FREE and OPEN to the public and will feature artists’ books\, art catalogs\, monographs\, periodicals\, zines\, printed ephemera\, and artists’ multiples. These works will be presented by over 100 independent publishers\, antiquarian dealers\, artists\, collectors\, and enthusiasts. Over the course of the weekend\, the fair will be complemented by a diverse range of talks\, discussions\, book launches\, on and off-site special projects\, exhibitions and signings. \nThe mission of the fair is to foster the unique art publishing community of the Bay Area while providing a platform for national and international publishers to exhibit their work to a new audience. \nLast year we welcomed 110 exhibitors and over 10\,000 visitors. We aim to reach an even larger audience this year and create an event that continues to showcase some of the most interesting publishers and booksellers in the world. \nThe SF Art Book Fair will be held at Minnesota Street Project. The project’s landmark location\, 1275 Minnesota Street\, houses 10 galleries\, a not-for-profit\, temporary exhibitions spaces\, media room\, and a recently opened restaurant. \nThe San Francisco Art Book Fair is organized by: \nMinnesota Street Project is in San Francisco’s historic Dogpatch district\, Minnesota Street Project offers affordable and economically sustainable spaces for art galleries\, artists and related nonprofits. Inhabiting three warehouses\, the Project seeks to retain and strengthen San Francisco’s contemporary art community in the short term\, while developing an internationally recognized arts destination in the long term. \nColpa is the collaborative practice of Luca Antonucci and David Kasprzak. They work together as a publisher\, designer\, printer and curator. They publish art books\, limited edition prints and art objects\, often working with artists on unique projects. \nPark Life is an independent retail store and art gallery established by Jamie Alexander and Derek Song based in San Francisco. Park Life features art and design products culled together from all over the world and includes books\, editions\, prints\, design objects\, paper goods\, original art and apparel. Park Life specializes in limited edition artist collaborations\, having worked with dozens of artist over the last 10 years to produce products ranging from books\, zines and prints to tees\, skate decks\, and objects.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sf-art-book-fair-day-2/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Paul Park & Terry Bisson\, with guest moderator Cliff Winnig
DESCRIPTION:Doors open: 6:00pm\nEvent starts: 6:30pm \nThe American Bookbinders Museum\n355 Clementina\nSan Francisco\, CA \nBooks for sale via Borderlands Books \nThe SF in SF podcast is provided by SOMA FM
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-park-terry-bisson-with-guest-moderator-cliff-winnig/
LOCATION:The American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:LaborFest 2018 Dying to Work: Death and Injury in the American Workplace
DESCRIPTION:Writer and labor lawyer Jonathan Karmel has written Dying to Work: Death and Injury in the American Workplace\, about the cost to workers and their families of the lack of health and safety protection on the job. He visits workers and gets their stories on the deaths and permanent injuries that have destroyed their lives. He also looks at the complete failure of the workers compensation system\, which has been taken over by the employers and insurance industry. This means that seriously injured workers are being left out in the cold\, ending up permanently disabled by the obstacles and roadblocks placed by insurance companies and a worker comp system now run by profiteers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laborfest-2018-dying-to-work-death-and-injury-in-the-american-workplace/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Owen Hill\, Pamela Jackson\, and Anthony Rizzuto\, editors of the Annotated Big Sleep
DESCRIPTION:The new edition of Raymond Chandler’s Big Sleep\, edited\, annotated and prefaced by past and present Moe’s staffers. \nWe’ve asked a few friends to read their favorite passage from this noir classic. A list of our readers is coming soon. \n“Nothing\, even a book as singular and archetypal as The Big Sleep\, comes from nowhere. What a gift\, to see in part how Chandler made it. Under just three names\, these annotators number among them two poets\, an archivist and literary scholar\, a gifted crime novelist\, and three sleuths; reading it conveys the vicarious thrill of their innumerable discoveries. Chandler lucked out.”–Jonathan Lethem\, from the forward. \nA masterpiece of noir\, Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep helped to define a genre and remains one of the most celebrated and stylish novels of the twentieth century. Now\, this comprehensive\, annotated edition offers a fascinating look behind the scenes of the novel\, bringing the gritty and seductive world of Chandler’s iconic private eye Philip Marlowe into full color. Notes on the historical context of Chandler’s Los Angeles; excerpts from the author’s personal letters and source texts; explorations of the issues of gender\, sexuality\, race\, and ethnicity that permeate the story; and important interpretations and clarifications enrich the reader’s understanding and situate the novel within the tradition of crime fiction that Chandler both built upon and made new. \nRaymond Chandler (1888-1959) turned to writing fiction at the age of forty-five\, after a career as an oil executive. He published his first story in Black Mask in 1933\, and his first novel\, The Big Sleep\, in 1939. Over his lifetime\, Chandler wrote seven novels\, several screenplays\, and numerous short stories\, and became the master practitioner of American hard-boiled crime fiction. \nOwen Hill is the author of two mystery novels\, a book of short fiction\, and several books of poetry. He has reviewed crime novels for the Los Angeles Times and the East Bay Express. He was awarded the Howard Moss residency at Yaddo in 2005. \nPamela Jackson is an editor\, scholar\, and librarian specializing in California literary and cultural history. She holds a PhD from UC Berkeley and an MLIS from UCLA\, and was coeditor\, with Jonathan Lethem\, of The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick. \nAnthony Rizzuto is a bookseller\, professor of literature\, and researcher. He currently teaches British and American literature and history at Sonoma State University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/owen-hill-pamela-jackson-and-anthony-rizzuto-editors-of-the-annotated-big-sleep/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:THE RACKET! #21 Nature
DESCRIPTION:It’s summer time and instead of throwing on a banana hammock and crisping our flesh to a chestnut glow\, we’re going to get a bunch of writers together in a small\, dark\, musty room and talk about NATURE. It’s the same thing right? \nhttps://www.facebook.com/theracketseries/ \nHosted by Noah B. Sanders
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-21-nature/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl\, Rad Girls Can
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz presents Kate Schatz for a book talk and signing of Rad Girls Can\, a bold and brave collection of stories and art about inspiring and accomplished girls who have made positive impacts on the world before the age of 20. Ms. Shchatz joins the New York Times best-selling authors of Rad Women Worldwide and Rad American Women A-Z. \nYou might know the stories of Malala Yousafzai\, Anne Frank\, Jazz Jennings\, and Joan of Arc. But have you heard about Yusra Mardini\, a Syrian refugee who swam a sinking boat to shore\, saved twenty lives\, then went on to compete as an Olympic swimmer? Or Trisha Prabhu\, who invented an anti-cyberbullying app at age 13? Or Barbara Rose Johns\, whose high school protest helped spark the civil rights movement? \nIn Rad Girls Can\, you’ll learn about a diverse group of young women who are living rad lives\, whether excelling in male-dominated sports like boxing\, rock climbing\, or skateboarding; speaking out against injustice and discrimination; expressing themselves through dance\, writing\, and music; or advocating for girls around the world. Each profile is paired with the dynamic paper-cut art that made the authors’ first two books New York Times best sellers. \nKATE SCHATZ is a feminist writer\, activist\, and educator. She is the author of the New York Times best sellers Rad American Women A-Z and Rad Women Worldwide\, and the accompanying journal\, My Rad Life. Kate is the co-founder of Solidarity Sundays\, a nationwide network of feminist activist groups\, and she speaks often about politics\, resistance\, feminism\, race\, parenting\, and more. Visit radgirlscan.com. \nMIRIAM KLEIN STAHL is an artist\, educator\, and activist and the illustrator of Rad American Women A-Z and Rad Women Worldwide\, and My Rad Life. In addition to her work in printmaking\, drawing\, sculpture\, and paper-cut and public art\, she is also the cofounder of the Arts and Humanities Academy at Berkeley High School\, where she has taught since 1995. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave.\, Santa Cruz\, CA. Chairs for open seating are usually set up an hour before the event begins.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kate-schatz-and-miriam-klein-stahl-rad-girls-can/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Rachel Heng and Ingrid Rojas Contreras
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Heng discusses her new novel\, Suicide Club with Ingrid Rojas Contreras. \n\nPraise for Suicide Club \n\n“How can such a young writer know all these things? Rachel Heng’s first novel is as keen as a sharpened blade. SUICIDE CLUB is on the money about where our current obsessions are leading us and yet she makes us care about her characters in deep and old-fashioned ways. It reminded me again and again of Orwell and Huxley. I have the feeling that this is the beginning of a long and illustrious career.”―James Magnuson \n\n“I happily lost a whole weekend to SUICIDE CLUB. This life-affirming book about death lingers long after the last page. ‘Be careful what you wish for’ has never been so chilling\, or so gripping.” ―Erin Kelly\, author of He Said/She Said \n  \n“SUICIDE CLUB bends genre with grace and artistry\, delivering us to the outermost reaches of what’s familiar and affirming what dares to still exist there: family\, friendship\, and forgiveness. With superb writing\, Rachel Heng has crafted a world inside of a world gone mad\, one where love faces its most difficult test. This is an exciting\, bold\, inventive novel.” ―Kristen Iskandrian\, author of Motherest \n\n“The future is here. Let’s welcome one of its stars. Talented and ferociously intelligent\, Heng has produced a glittering debut.” ―Joanna Briscoe\, author of You \n\nAbout Suicide Club \n\nIn Rachel Heng’s debut set in near future New York City―where lives last three hundred years and the pursuit of immortality is all-consuming―Lea must choose between her estranged father and her chance to live forever. \nLea Kirino is a “Lifer\,” which means that a roll of the genetic dice has given her the potential to live forever―if she does everything right. And Lea is an overachiever. She’s a successful trader on the New York exchange―where instead of stocks\, human organs are now bought and sold―she has a beautiful apartment\, and a fiancé who rivals her in genetic perfection. And with the right balance of HealthTech™\, rigorous juicing\, and low-impact exercise\, she might never die. \n  \nBut Lea’s perfect life is turned upside down when she spots her estranged father on a crowded sidewalk. His return marks the beginning of her downfall as she is drawn into his mysterious world of the Suicide Club\, a network of powerful individuals and rebels who reject society’s pursuit of immortality\, and instead choose to live―and die―on their own terms. In this future world\, death is not only taboo; it’s also highly illegal. Soon Lea is forced to choose between a sanitized immortal existence and a short\, bittersweet time with a man she has never really known\, but who is the only family she has left in the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-heng-and-ingrid-rojas-contreras/
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:On Doing Nothing by Roman Muradov
DESCRIPTION:On Doing Nothing by Roman Muradov \nIn an age of obsessive productivity and stress\, this illustrated ode to idleness invites readers to explore the pleasures and possibilities of slowing down. Beloved author and illustrator Roman Muradovweaves together the words and stories of artists\, writers\, philosophers\, and eccentrics who have pursued inspiration by doing less. He reveals that doing nothing is both easily achievable and absolutely essential to leading an enjoyable and creative life. Cultivating idleness can be as simple as taking a long walk without a destination or embracing chance in the creative process. Peppered with playful illustrations\, this handsome volume is a refreshing and thought-provoking read. \nRoman Muradov is an award-winning author and illustrator\, originally from Russia\, now living in San Francisco\, where he is a professor at California College of the Arts. His work has appeared in numerous publications including the New Yorker\, the New York Times\, The Paris Review\, Vogue\, and Lucky Peach\, and he is the recipient of the prestigious Art Directors Club Young Guns award and two medals from the Society of Illustrators. His previous books include the graphic novels (In a Sense) Lost & Found\, Jacob Bladders and the State of the Art\, The End of a Fence\, and Aujourd’hui Demain Hier. He also designed the Penguin Classics Centennial Editions of James Joyce’s Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. He has a penchant for long\, aimless walks and an imaginary dog named Barchibald. \n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRoman Muradov
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-doing-nothing-by-roman-muradov/
LOCATION:Mechanics Institute\, 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Matthew Zapruder: My Favorite Book
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nTuesday\, July 24\, 2018 – 6 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nMain Library\, 100 Larkin St. San Francisco\, CA 94102\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nSMC professor Matthew Zapruder will read in the Koret Auditorium at the San Francisco Public Library as part of SF Grotto’s live podcast series.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matthew-zapruder-my-favorite-book/
LOCATION:Koret Auditorium\, San Francisco Main Library\, 100 Larkin Avenune\, SAN FRANCISCO\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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SUMMARY:Open Books: Cara Black
DESCRIPTION:Join us when Cara Black reads from her new Aimée Leduc novel Murder on the Left Bank.  In this novel a confession fifty years in the making puts Aimée on a collision course with the Black Hand\, a cabal of corrupt Parisian cops.  When a friend’s child is kidnapped while wearing her daughter’s hoodie\, Aimée realizes that the case has crossed into the realm of the personal in more ways than one. \nA book sale by the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library follows the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/open-books-cara-black/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, Main Branch\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer Plus Reading "Nick White & Friends"
DESCRIPTION:Mississippi-born author Nick White is visiting San Francisco on his book tour. He’ll be reading with friends Lucy Jane Bledsoe\, Dave Madden\, and Hilary Zaid at a Perfectly Queer Plus reading at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. on Tuesday\, July 24\, from 7pm to 8pm. Nick will read from his short story collection\, Sweet & Low. Free admission\, free refreshments\, and sweet door prizes. Book signing follows the readings. \nHere’s more about the authors:\nLucy Jane Bledsoe will read from her new novel\, The Evolution of Love. She is the author of six novels\, including The Evolution of Love and A Thin Bright Line. Her fiction has won a California Arts Council Fellowship in Literature\, an American Library Association Stonewall Award\, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize\, a Pushcart nomination\, a Yaddo Fellowship\, and two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships. Her story collection\, Lava Falls\, is forthcoming this fall. Bledsoe lives in the Bay Area\, where she spends as much time as possible kayaking in the bay\, as well as hiking and cycling in the hills. \nDave Madden is the author of the story collection\, If You Need Me I’ll Be Over There\, and a nonfiction book on taxidermy. He’ll read from the story collection. Dave has been a fellow at the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences\, as well as the MacDowell Colony. He currently directs the MFA program at the University of San Francisco. \nNick White is the author of the novel How to Survive a Summer and the just-released short-story collection Sweet and Low. He is an Assistant Professor of English at The Ohio State University’s MFA Program in Creative Writing. His stories\, poems\, and essays have appeared in a variety of places\, including The Kenyon Review\, Guernica\, The Hopkins Review\, Indiana Review\,The Literary Review\, and Lit Hub. \nHilary Zaid will read from her recent novel Paper Is White\, about which Alexander Chee\, author of Queen of the Night and How to Write an Autobiographical Novel\, has said: “Written across histories as seemingly varied as Lithuania’s Jewish Kovno Ghetto and Queer Nation San Francisco\, Paper Is White connects them in a very different sort of adventure novel\, where remembering someone you love becomes one of the most radical things you can do.” Hilary was 2017 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and is an alumna of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and the Tin House Writers’ Workshop.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-plus-reading-nick-white-friends/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Inside Raymond Chandler's Creation of The Big Sleep - Reading
DESCRIPTION:The first fully annotated edition of Raymond Chandler’s 1939 classic The Big Sleep features hundreds of illuminating notes and images alongside the full text of the novel and is an essential addition to any crime fiction fan’s library.\n\n“Nothing\, even a book as singular and archetypal as The Big Sleep\, comes from nowhere. What a gift\, to see in part how Chandler made it. Under just three names\, these annotators number among them two poets\, an archivist and literary scholar\, a gifted crime novelist\, and three sleuths; reading it conveys the vicarious thrill of their innumerable discoveries. Chandler lucked out.”  Jonathan Lethem\, from the forward \nThe three annotators will talk and read: \nOWEN HILL is the author of two mystery novels\, a book of short fiction\, and several books of poetry. He has reviewed crime novels for the Los Angeles Times and the East Bay Express. In 2005 he was awarded the Howard Moss residency for poetry at Yaddo. He is currently coediting the Berkeley Noir anthology\, forthcoming in 2020. \nPAMELA JACKSON is an editor\, scholar\, and librarian specializing in California literary and cultural history. She holds a PhD from UC Berkeley and an MLIS from UCLA and was coeditor\, with Jonathan Lethem\, of The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick. \nANTHONY DEAN RIZZUTO is a professor of English at Sonoma State University\, where he teaches (among other things) California ethnic literature and hard-boiled fiction. He is also a bookseller at Moe’s Books in Berkeley. He received his PhD from the University of Virginia.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/inside-raymond-chandlers-creation-of-the-big-sleep-reading/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB MEETING
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lively discussion about \n“Hasta no verte Jesus Mio” by Elena Poniatowska \nTo join the book group please contact iranyi@me.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spanish-language-book-club-meeting-2/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Annotated Big Sleep
DESCRIPTION:The first fully annotated edition of Raymond Chandler’s 1939 classic The Big Sleepfeatures hundreds of illuminating notes and images alongside the full text of the novel and is an essential addition to any crime fiction fan’s library.\n\n“Nothing\, even a book as singular and archetypal as The Big Sleep\, comes from nowhere. What a gift\, to see in part how Chandler made it. Under just three names\, these annotators number among them two poets\, an archivist and literary scholar\, a gifted crime novelist\, and three sleuths; reading it conveys the vicarious thrill of their innumerable discoveries. Chandler lucked out.”  Jonathan Lethem\, from the forward \nThe three annotators will talk and read: \nOWEN HILL is the author of two mystery novels\, a book of short fiction\, and several books of poetry. He has reviewed crime novels for the Los Angeles Times and the East Bay Express. In 2005 he was awarded the Howard Moss residency for poetry at Yaddo. He is currently coediting the Berkeley Noir anthology\, forthcoming in 2020. \nPAMELA JACKSON is an editor\, scholar\, and librarian specializing in California literary and cultural history. She holds a PhD from UC Berkeley and an MLIS from UCLA and was coeditor\, with Jonathan Lethem\, of The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick. \nANTHONY DEAN RIZZUTO is a professor of English at Sonoma State University\, where he teaches (among other things) California ethnic literature and hard-boiled fiction. He is also a bookseller at Moe’s Books in Berkeley. He received his PhD from the University of Virginia.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-annotated-big-sleep/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Storytime on Solano: Imagination Flannel Boards
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, July 25\, 10:30 – 11:00 am\nPegasus Books Solano\n1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley \nStorytime on Solano: Imagination Flannel Boards \nBring your little ones to Pegasus on Solano for a fun\, interactive\, and educational morning. Imagination Flannel Boards will be on hand to share stories and songs that spark your children’s imagination. They will engage with the storyteller through singing\, repetition\, and movement. They will cheer when the ducklings find their mother and laugh when the Old Lady swallows a cow! \nEvery 4th Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Solano. \n \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, July 25\, 2018 – 10:30am\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Solano\n1855 Solano Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/storytime-on-solano-imagination-flannel-boards/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer East Bay Reading "Summer Reading List"
DESCRIPTION:Whether it’s a staycation at Lake Merritt or a trip to the Mediterranean\, you’ll need a good book–or four. Come hear visiting author Nick White and local writers Cathy Arellano\, Wilfredo Pascual\, and Kate Raphael read from their newest books at Perfectly Queer East Bay’s “Summer Reading List” Wednesday\, July 25\, 7pm at Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway in Oakland. Free admission\, free refreshments\, and Queerly summer door prizes. \nABOUT THE AUTHORS & THEIR BOOKS:\nThe broken-hearted lesbian love poems in Cathy Arellano’s I LOVE MY WOMEN\, SOMETIMES THEY LOVE ME are suitable for anyone who has loved\, been loved\, or been left. MY WOMEN was released in Fall 2017 from Kórima Press. In 2016\, Kórima also published SALVATION ON MISSION STREET\, Arellano’s family memoir in poems and stories set in San Francisco from the 1960s to the 2000s. SALVATION won the 2017 Golden Crown Literary Society’s Debut Author Award. Arellano teaches in the English Department at American River College where she will teach the college’s first Latina/o/x Literature course in Fall 2018. Sign up! \nWilfredo Pascual is a Pushcart-nominated essayist who grew up in the Philippines where his essays have won several national awards and state recognition from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. He lived in Thailand before moving to the Bay Area in 2005. He is the author of KILOMETER ZERO\, a collection of personal essays about finding your rightful place. Winner of the 2015 Curt Johnson Prize for Nonfiction and runner-up for the 2016 Steinberg Essay Prize\, his work has been listed as Notable in the 2016 Best American Essays. He lives in the Mission with his husband Jack. \nKate Raphael is a radical queer feminist activist and writer. She’s the author of two published mysteries\, both set in Palestine and featuring a Palestinian policewoman and a Jewish-American dyke. The second in the series\, MURDER UNDER THE FIG TREE\, was a Lambda Literary Award finalist and won a Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award for multicultural fiction. She produces and hosts Women’s Magazine on KPFA radio and makes her living as a law firm word processor. \nA native of Mississippi\, Nick White is the author of the novel HOW TO SURVIVE A SUMMER (2017) and the short-story collection SWEET AND LOW (2018). He’ll be reading from SWEET AND LOW. He is an Assistant Professor of English at The Ohio State University’s MFA Program in Creative Writing. His short stories\, poems\, and essays have appeared in a variety of places\, including The Kenyon Review\, Guernica\, The Hopkins Review\, Indiana Review\, The Literary Review\, and Lit Hub.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-reading-summer-reading-list/
LOCATION:Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTAMP:20260406T121859
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180628T220419Z
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SUMMARY:LABORFEST: REVOLUTIONARY POETS BRIGADE
DESCRIPTION:The dystopian world we live in will be challenged by words and music that will bring solidarity and unity of all working people. \n\nPOETS:\n\n\nMahnaz Badihian\nLisbit Bailey\nKristina Brown\nPauline Craig\nJohn Curl\nDiego De Leo\nAgneta Falk\nMaria Cristina Herrera\nMartin Hickel\nJack Hirschman\nKaren M. Magoon\nRosemary Manno\nSarah Menefee\nBarbara Paschke\nGregory Pond\n\n\n\n\nMUSIC & SONG:\n\n\nFrancisco Herrera (Guitar)\nGeorge Long (Saxophone)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laborfest-revolutionary-poets-brigade/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180726T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180726T203000
DTSTAMP:20260406T121859
CREATED:20180719T054114Z
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SUMMARY:Book Club: Killers of The Flower Moon
DESCRIPTION:by david grann
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-club-killers-of-the-flower-moon/
LOCATION:Florey’s Book Co.\, 2120 Palmetto Ave.\, Pacifica\, CA\, 94044\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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ORGANIZER;CN="Florey's Book Co.":MAILTO:FloreysBookCo@yahoo.com
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180726T210000
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SUMMARY:Jason Morris Book Release w/ Evan Kennedy
DESCRIPTION:Everybody! Hey! Jason Morris has a brand new book of poetry out! It’s called Levon Helm and we want to celebrate. The poet Evan Kennedy will be reading too. And we will be able to say I was there when… \nJason Morris grew up in Vermont. He is the author of six books of poetry and other writing\, including\, most recently\, Levon Helm (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2018) and Late to Practice (Dirty Swan Projects\, 2017). His essays\, including essays on Clark Coolidge’s Crystal Text and Bernadette Mayer’s interest in Hawthorne\, have appeared in Jacket2\, Eleven Eleven\, and elsewhere. He lives in San Francisco. \nEvan Kennedy is a poet and bicyclist who lives in San Francisco. He is the author of Jerusalem Notebook (O’clock Press)\, The Sissies (Futurepoem)\, and Terra Firmament (Krupskaya).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jason-morris-book-release-w-evan-kennedy/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Cooperman and Thomas Walton
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Clement street on Thursday\, July 26th at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Elizabeth Cooperman & Thomas Walton to celebrate the release of their new book (from Sagging Meniscus Press) The Last Mosaic! \n\n“Most current discussion in American literary culture regarding fragmentation\, collage\, bricolage\, braided narrative\, etc. is blinkered by the illusion that these are uniquely contemporary gestures\, but they go back to at least Heraclitus and probably to the first human who etched a list of words on stone and\, for poetic effect\, forgot to complete the list. To be human is to be broken. The Last Mosaic not only explains these ideas; it embodies them. It’s also extremely vivid\, precise\, smart\, and galvanizing. ‘With great art there’s nothing that can prepare you for the thing you’re about to see.’ “ \n—David Shields\, author of Other People: Takes and Mistakes \n\n“In this tessellated text we encounter a fractal poetics: juxtaposing witticisms and vignettes that illuminate Roman art and culture\, the authors reveal\, ‘when you look close enough\, there’s nothing that isn’t a cracked assemblage.’ Whether we’re peering at the strokes on a Caravaggio\, excavating cobblestones\, or looking more broadly at cities\, travel\, partnership\, and time\, we see that life is a series of shards that come together. A fragmented travelogue\, The Last Mosaic musters art history\, mythology\, etymology\, poetry\, and humor\, summoning the ghosts of Shelley\, Keats\, Giotto\, Nero\, and their kindred to a museum whose vivid lines resonate like the cicada’s song.” \n—Amaranth Borsuk\, author of Pomegranate Eater
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-cooperman-and-thomas-walton/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180726T210000
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CREATED:20180721T023639Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180721T023639Z
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SUMMARY:Books & Brews: Cara Black\, Murder on the Left Bank
DESCRIPTION:Book talk & signing with Cara Black for Murder on the Left Bank \nAt Discretion Brewing \n2703 41st Avenue\, Capitola \nEvent #2 of Bookshop’s 2018 Books & Brews Passport Series \n\nMystery-lovers\, do not miss this author visit at Discretion Brewing’s picture perfect beer garden! Join bestselling author Cara Black for a talk on the latest book in her Parisian mystery series about detective Aimée Leduc. A dying man leaves his confession – and the evidence of Parisian police corruption – with Éric Besson\, who’s assistant is promptly murdered trying to get the evidence to Paris’s chief prosecuting attorney. Aimée Leduc is reluctantly pulled into a mystery that chases across Paris\, and may implcate her late father\, while threatening her living family. \nJoin us for a night of lovingly crafted beer\, intrigue with a French theme\, and get your copy of Murder on the Left Bank signed! \n_____________________________________________________________________________ \nSpecial Offer: Our friends at Discretion are generously offering 50% off one beer with a book purchase at the event for Books & Brews attendees. Thanks\, Discretion! \nThis event is free and open to attend to anyone over the age of 21. \n_____________________________________________________________________________ \nAbout the Book: \nA dying man drags his oxygen machine into the office of Éric Besson\, a lawyer in Paris’s 13th arrondissement. The old man\, an accountant\, is carrying a dilapidated notebook full of meticulous investment records. For decades\, he has been helping a cadre of dirty cops launder stolen money. The notebook contains his full confession—he’s waited 50 years to make it\, and now it can’t wait another day. He is adamant that Besson get the notebook into the hands of La Proc\, Paris’s chief prosecuting attorney\, so the corruption can finally be brought to light. But en route to La Proc\, Besson’s courier—his assistant and nephew—is murdered\, and the notebook disappears. \nGrief-stricken Éric Besson tries to hire private investigator Aimée Leduc to find the notebook\, but she is reluctant to get involved. Her father was a cop and was murdered by the same dirty syndicate the notebook implicates. She’s not sure which she’s more afraid of\, the dangerous men who would kill for the notebook or the idea that her father’s name might be among the dirty cops listed within it. Ultimately that’s the reason she must take the case\, which leads her across the Left Bank\, from the Cambodian enclave of Khmer Rouge refugees to the ancient royal tapestry factories to the modern art galleries. \nAbout Aimée Leduc: \nAimée Leduc\, Parisian private investigator\, is a chic\, no-nonsense computer hacker turned criminal investigator. Her adventures\, written by award-winning mystery novelist Cara Black\, often dive into the past and present of the unique neighborhoods of Paris. They are written to be read independently\, or in sequence. Murder on the Left Bank is the latest of this popular Parisian mystery series. \nAbout the Books and Brews series… \nBookshop’s popular summer event series returns! Books & Brews combines our love of literature and our love of craft beer. Five book-focused events will be held at some of our favorite beer houses this summer. Enjoy special offers and discounts at each beer house on the night of their event. \nBONUS: Pick up a Books & Brews Passport in the store (or print one here). Get it stamped at three or more events in the series and you’ll be entered to win a $150 Bookshop gift card.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/books-brews-cara-black-murder-on-the-left-bank/
LOCATION:Discretion Brewing\, 2703 41st Avenue\, Soquel\, CA\, 95073\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash presents William O’Daly and Peter Weltner
DESCRIPTION:Famed Spanish translator William O’Daly’s new book of translation is Book of Twilight\, by Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda\, which is Neruda’s debut book\, never before published in its entirety in the United States. The bilingual collection has just been nominated for the 2018 Northern California Book Award in Translation. His translations include eight other books of poetry by Pablo Neruda. He published a full-length collection of his own poetry\, Water Ways\, in 2017\, with prose and photography by J.S. Graustein. A second collection\, Yarrow and Smoke\, will appear in 2018. He is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow\, and his poems\, essays\, and translations have been widely published in literary journals and anthologies. He was profiled by Mike Leonard for The Today Show. \nPeter Weltner’s latest book is The Return of What’s Been Lost\, fourteen stories and fourteen ‘choral’ poems\, which\, David Morris says\, “meditate on loss\, personal and cultural\, and how mourning embodies in the self\, incarnate and haunting\, the hugeness of what is missing.” He’s published five previous books of fiction and six full-length collections of poetry\, most recently The Light of the Sun Become Sea. His work has also appeared in some national anthologies\, including Prize Stories: the O. Henry Awards\, 1993 and 1998\, as well as in many literary journals and magazines.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-presents-william-odaly-and-peter-weltne/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180726T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180726T213000
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SUMMARY:Victoria Patterson
DESCRIPTION:Victoria Patterson discusses her new story collection\, The Secret Habit of Sorrow. \n\nPraise for The Secret Habit of Sorrow \n\n“Patterson is on a mission to bring our ghosts out of the shadows. These stories shine with empathy and find the humanness in all our struggles.” —Joshua Mohr\, author of All This Life \n  \n“A darkly entertaining collection of stories all about the little sins we commit in the name of our desires and their myriad repercussions. Armed with sharp emotional insight and vision that penetrates and illuminates the modern condition\, Patterson’s newest offering is seductively sly and peculiarly carnal.” —Wesley Minter\, Third Place Books\, Lake Forest Park\, WA \n\nAbout The Secret Habit of Sorrow \n\nVictoria Patterson\, whose writing Vanity Fair has called “brutal\, deeply empathetic\, and emotionally wrenching\,” returns with a new collection of stories that contains echoes of Denis Johnson and Raymond Carver\, along with the emotional depth and density of Elena Ferrante. \n  \nThere’s a pitch-perfect blend of linguistic dexterity\, emotional wisdom\, and wry observation in The Secret Habit of Sorrow. The characters in these stories feel like people you know\, their struggles real. Patterson’s prose has a Denis Johnson re-filtered through Raymond Carver-vibe\, along with the emotional depth and density of Elena Ferrante. Whether it be the ties between women and their own and each other’s infants\, the struggles of parenthood\, or the trials that come with excessive drinking and drug abuse\, Patterson has an amazing ability to convey relationships\, and how our bonds can both save and destroy us.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/victoria-patterson/
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:20180728T143000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180728T163000
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SUMMARY:Boris Rozenfeld Russian Bibliophiles Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our monthly Russian book club\, literary discussion\, and/or poetry recital. \n  \nKoret Auditorium \nMain Library
URL:https://litseen.com/event/boris-rozenfeld-russian-bibliophiles-club/
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=UTC:20180728T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180728T200000
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CREATED:20180329T024700Z
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SUMMARY:R-Dub Love
DESCRIPTION:~ an evening of love-themed music and lit ~ \n  \nWe are OPEN for literary submissions. \nGuidelines. This is an evening for music and literature on the theme of romantic love. Featured readers will get up to eight minutes at the mic (about 1\,200 words). This series primarily features complete works of fiction and memoir\, but poetry and reasonably self-contained novel excerpts are presented to a limited extent. Submissions are rolling—we generally consider submissions until a lineup is filled. You must submit personally—no submissions by representatives will be considered. Please paste your material into the body of an email with the subject line RW Love: [Your Name] addressed to the host\, Jon Sindell\, at jsind@sbcglobal.net \n  \nAbout Rolling Writers \nLike the baker Rageneau in Cyrano\, master baker Bruno Tsé supports the arts. And our pastry-preparing patron of poetry and prose shows love for the muse by giving his Taraval Street café up for lit readings\, with themed musical and gustatory accoutrements. \nRolling–Out: 1722 Taraval\, between 27th and 28th Avenues\, \nSan Francisco. The L-Taraval streetcar line stops at 26th Avenue. \nTo submit work for an upcoming theme\, please write the host\, Jon Sindell\, at jsind [at] sbcglobal [net]\, pasting your work into the body of the email\, and marking the subject line as follows: RW [Name Of Show]\, [Writer’s Name]. You must submit personally—no submissions by representatives will be considered. Unless otherwise indicated on the Upcoming Events page\, limit prose submissions to 1\,200 words; shorter submissions are preferred. This series primarily features complete works of fiction and memoir\, but poetry and reasonably self-contained novel excerpts are presented to a limited extent. Submissions are rolling—we generally consider submissions until a lineup is filled. \nWon’t you join us? \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/r-dub-love/
LOCATION:Rolling Out Cafe\, 1722 Taraval St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180728T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180728T213000
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SUMMARY:Poetry at Floreys
DESCRIPTION:Poetry at Floreys
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-at-floreys/
LOCATION:Florey’s Book Co.\, 2120 Palmetto Ave.\, Pacifica\, CA\, 94044\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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ORGANIZER;CN="Florey's Book Co.":MAILTO:FloreysBookCo@yahoo.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180729T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180729T170000
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CREATED:20180705T002059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180705T002059Z
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SUMMARY:Young Adults 12 & up! James Parks & Ben Costa
DESCRIPTION:present Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo Book 2: The Middle-Route Run \nNimona meets Adventure Time in this full-color graphic novel as a singing skeleton continues to search for his origins alongside his gelatin monster sidekick! \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo Book 2 by speaking to a bookseller or ordering on our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, July 29\, 2018 – 3:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nRickety Stitch is a walking\, talking\, singing skeleton minstrel\, the only animated skeleton in the dungeon who seems to have retained his soul. He has no idea who he used to be when he was covered in a living\, breathing sack of meat and skin. His only clue to his former identity is a song he hears snippets of in his dreams\, an epic bard’s tale that could also explain the old fog covering the comical fantasy land of Eem…Oh\, and his sidekick and only friend is a cube of sentient goo. \nIn this pulse-pounding second volume\, Rickety runs afoul of reanimated beasts\, giant spiders\, and a caravan of rowdy raiders on his quest to uncover the secret of Epoli and learn his true origins. \nJames Parks is a speculative fiction writer and graphic novelist living in the Bay Area. He was weaned on monster flicks\, ghostbusting\, lightsaber duels\, samurai cinema\, and comics–with a sober dose of Victorian literature and ’80s cartoons. Parks is also the author of the southern gothic horror collection The Gospel of Bucky Dennis\,was a staff writer for Campfire Graphic Novels\, and is a member of the Horror Writers Association. \nBen Costa is a writer and artist living in the Bay Area. He self-published two volumes of the award-winning\, martial arts historical fiction comic Pang\, The Wandering Shaolin Monk. Ben has always been passionate about fantasy comics. \nBen maintains a steady diet of samurai comics\, kung fu movies\, spacefaring farm boys\, and tabletop RPGs. \n\n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/young-adults-12-up-james-parks-ben-costa/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180730T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180730T210000
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CREATED:20180704T030055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180704T030055Z
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SUMMARY:Reading & Chap Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the release of 3 special edition chapbooks by our current round of writers-in-residence! \nFeaturing readings by: \n  \nMK Chavez \nPhilip Harris \nEmily Pinkerton
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-chap-release-party/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20180719T042818Z
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SUMMARY:JoAnne Wetzel and Tim McCanna
DESCRIPTION:Ever wondered what it takes to write a children’s picture book? Seas the day and join us as we launch JoAnne Wetzel’s picture book Mermaid School and celebrate Tim McCanna’s Bitty Bot’s Big Beach Getaway   JoAnne and Tim will discuss how to write a picture book and how they both decided to give their latest books an undersea setting. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoAnne Stewart Wetzel is the author of two children’s books on theater\, Onstage/Backstage and Playing Juliet. Her first picture book\, The Christmas Box\, was named a Noteworthy Book for Children by the Bank Street College of Education. She has worked in public relations\, as a columnist for Gentry Magazine\, taught at the elementary\, high school and college levels\, was a children’s librarian\, and served as the Regional Advisor for SCBWI’s San Francisco/South chapter. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTim McCanna is the author of Bitty Bot\, Barnyard Boogie\, and Watersong\, which was a 2017 New York Public Library Best Book for Kids and National Council of Teachers of English Notable Poetry Book. His 2018 picture books include Jack B. Ninja\, Bitty Bot’s Big Beach Getaway\, So Many Sounds\, and Boing!  Tim served eight years as Assistant Regional Advisor for SCBWI’s San Francisco/South chapter\, and has been an actor\, musician\, musical theater writer\, and graphic designer before becoming a children’s book author.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joanne-wetzel-and-tim-mccanna/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180731T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180731T170000
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CREATED:20180801T002006Z
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning presents Poetry in Parks 2018 @ Samuel P. Taylor State Park
DESCRIPTION:Read/perform with Quiet Lightning on September 16th — all forms of writing are accepted\, and all selected writers are paid! This show is our annual collaboration with California State Parks\, Poetry in Parks\, and will take place at Samuel P. Taylor State Park! \nSubmissions are open through end of day Wednesday\, August 15. Curators TBA soon. \nEntry to this show is free. The first 100 people will receive a book featuring all of the selected writing and cover art by a local artist. Authors will read/perform as a literary mixtape\, with no introductions or banter. \n*** \nGUIDELINES: \n\nSend us any kind of writing. Any kind! Make up new kinds and send them to us.\nNo one gets more than 8 minutes of reading time. This varies of course but don’t send us more than 1\,500 words unless you’ve timed the piece(s) multiple times and your speedy performance of the text somehow enhances it. We sometimes make an exception to this rule\, but rarely.\nYou may submit more than one attachment\, but the word count of your entire submission should not exceed 1\,500.\nBy submitting\, you commit to be present for the date: Sunday Sept 16\, 2018.\nDo not put your name anywhere — neither in the submission itself nor in the subject/title/filename of your submission.\nWe publish the accepted submissions in sparkle + blink for every mixtape show. It’s OK to submit previously published writings\, but please let us know where they were published so we can give props.\nYou may submit audio\, but all submissions must include full text.\nWe welcome and encourage submissions in any and all languages\, but all submissions must also contain an English translation.\n\n—\nDon’t hesitate to contact us for any reason: evan@quietlightning.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-presents-poetry-in-parks-2018-samuel-p-taylor-state-park/
LOCATION:Samuel P. Taylor State Park\, 8889 Sir Francis Drake Blvd.\, Lagunitas\, CA\, 34938\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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