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SUMMARY:44th Annual Solano Stroll
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 9\, 10:00am – 5:00pm\nSolano Ave\, Berkeley \nSOLANO STROLL \nSince 1974 Solano Avenue and the twin-cities of Albany and Berkeley CA\, have hosted the Solano Avenue Stroll\, the East Bay’s largest street festival! The Solano Avenue Association invites you to see what makes Solano Avenue a wonderful place. We feature over five hundred vendors including 50 entertainers\, 50 food booths\, 150 government and non-profit agencies\, 150 juried hand-crafters\, a 75 entry parade\, state of the art mechanical rides and much more! (Parade begins at 10am.) \nMore information here. \nFEATURING Storytime on Solano: Imagination Flannel Boards at 10:30am \nBring your little ones to Pegasus on Solano for a fun\, interactive\, and educational morning. Imagination Flannel Boards will be on hand to celebrate the Solano Stoll with 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! \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSunday\, September 9\, 2018 – 10:00am to 5:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nSolano Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nOffsite Location\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNot all titles are in our stores currently. Please call us. We are happy to check 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/44th-annual-solano-stroll/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Laborfest Writers Anthology 2005-2017
DESCRIPTION:Writer-contributors read to celebrate the publication of “Giving Voice: Laborfest Writers Anthology\, 2005-2017”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laborfest-writers-anthology-2005-2017/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Event: GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets\, artists\, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. \nTo participate in the open mic sessions\, please arrive by 4 and plan to listen to all of the featured poets. Seating/space is limited.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-event-gears-turning-w-kim-shuck-6/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Just Because Our Eyes Are Open Doesn’t Mean We’re Awake - New Book From Gary Gach
DESCRIPTION:Author Gary Gach points out that just because our eyes are open doesn’t mean we’re awake. He invites us to shift from our “auto-pilot” approach to life\, to a manner of living fully\, moment-to-moment. Drawing upon his 50 plus years’ practice and his experience teaching in the tradition of beloved Vietnamese Zenmaster Thich Nhat Hanh\, his is a candid\, caring\, down-to-earth voice\, a guide through the many profound\, holistic benefits of pausing … breathing … smiling. \nGary Gach is a writer\, mystic\, and lifelong meditator who has engaged in many roles: actor\, bookshop clerk\, dishwasher\, hospital admin\, office temp\, stevedore\, teacher\, and typographer. Lay-ordained by Thich Nhat Hanh in 2008\, he has authored eight previous books including The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Buddhism (Alpha\, 2001). Gary lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/just-because-our-eyes-are-open-doesnt-mean-were-awake-new-book-from-gary-gach/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alexandra and David Brown
DESCRIPTION:Alexandra and David Brown discuss their new book\, A Year Off: A Story About Traveling the World-and How to Make it Happen for You. \n\nAbout A Year Off \n\nWait for me… Who knew the power three little words could have in starting an international travel adventure? \nA Year Off is one part memoir\, one part travel essays and one part travel guide\, documenting the story of Alexandra and David Brown\, a couple who decided to take a year off from their jobs and ‘regular lives’ to travel the world together after only knowing each other for four months. Each chapter tackles a different part of the journey\, including: \n– Practical takeaways for how to take the same leap and travel\, including tips on budgeting\, planning\, pacing and adjusting to culture shock \n– A look into David and Alexandra’s story as they traveled the world together and got to know one another \n– Colorful memories of their travels\, including a dramatic kayak ride in Milford Sound\, New Zealand\, an emotional evening in India\, a life-changing meal in the Loire Valley\, France\, a hilarious makeover in Romania… and many more\nThis inspiring book is for all the dreamers\, would-be adventurers and endearingly practical professionals looking to scratch the travel itch. With many gorgeous photographs and actionable travel advice\, A Year Off captures all the beauty and magic of the wanderlust spirit\, guiding readers on how to take the same leap and showing them just how doable a journey this type of round-the-world travel is.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexandra-and-david-brown/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:A Year Off: A Story About Traveling the World—and How to Make It Happen for You\, by Alexandra and David Brown
DESCRIPTION:On their first date\, David started describing to Alexandra his plan to quit his job and travel around the world for a year. Without hesitation (and surprising them both) Alexandra blurted out “Wait for me.” He did. Three months after that first date they quit their jobs and embarked on a round-the world adventure together that would take them to Costa Rica\, New Zealand\, Thailand\, India\, Romania\, France\, Ireland\, and more. They traveled together for a full year—and one year after they returned to San Francisco\, they got married. \nA Year Off is the story of their journey and their romance. It combines their personal story with inspiration and practical advice for would-be travelers looking to make their own tour. It includes real-world tips on putting your career on pause\, planning your route\, setting a budget\, adjusting to life on the road\, finding your “travel rhythm\,” discovering the “traveler’s code” of  generosity and hospitality\, and finally making a soft landing when you return home. It shows that it is possible to step out of a high-achieving lifestyle for an extended\, and transformative\, adventure. Alexandra and David are now happily married and live in San Francisco with their daughter. They still travel frequently.\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlexandra Brown\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Brown
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-year-off-a-story-about-traveling-the-world-and-how-to-make-it-happen-for-you-by-alexandra-and-david-brown/
LOCATION:Mechanics Institute\, 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival Presents Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake
DESCRIPTION:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents Poetic Tuesdays guest curated by Litquake\, Poetic Tuesdays features an array of poets and music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yerba-buena-gardens-festival-presents-poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-3/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:R.O. Kwon celebrating the release of  The Incendiaries
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nThe Incendiaries  \nfrom Riverhead Books \nNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2018 by the New York Times\, Entertainment Weekly\, Elle\, Time\, Parade\, Vanity Fair\, Cosmopolitan\, Esquire\, PBS\, Vulture\,Buzzfeed\, BookRiot\, PopSugar\, Refinery29\, Bustle\, The Rumpus\, Paste\, BBC. \nA shocking novel of violence\, love\, faith\, and loss\, as a young woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult tied to North Korea. \nPhoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn’t tell anyone she blames herself for her mother’s recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers to Edwards from Bible college\, waiting tables to get by. What he knows for sure is that he loves Phoebe. \nGrieving and guilt-ridden\, Phoebe is increasingly drawn into a religious group–a secretive extremist cult–founded by a charismatic former student\, John Leal. He has an enigmatic past that involves North Korea and Phoebe’s Korean American family. Meanwhile\, Will struggles to confront the fundamentalism he’s tried to escape\, and the obsession consuming the one he loves. When the group bombs several buildings in the name of faith\, killing five people\, Phoebe disappears. Will devotes himself to finding her\, tilting into obsession himself\, seeking answers to what happened to Phoebe and if she could have been responsible for this violent act. \nThe Incendiaries is a fractured love story and a brilliant examination of the minds of extremist terrorists\, and of what can happen to people who lose what they love most. \nR. O. Kwon is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her writing is published or forthcoming in The Guardian\, Vice\, Buzzfeed\, Time\, Noon\, Electric Literature\, Playboy\, and elsewhere. She has received awards from Yaddo\, MacDowell\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, Omi International\, the Steinbeck Center\, and the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony. Born in South Korea\, she has lived most of her life in the United States. \nWhaty has been said about the work of R.O. Kwon: \nRemarkable… Every page blooms with sensuous language and the book’s mood is otherworldly\, even if its setting\, a wealthy college in the Northeast\, isn’t… These are characters in quiet crisis\, burning\, above all\, to know themselves\, and Kwon leads them\, confidently\, to an enthralling end.” —Paris Review  \n“If you only read one book this summer\, make it this complex and searing debut novel by R.O. Kwon.” —Southern Living \n“One of those slim novels that contains multitudes\, R.O. Kwon’s debut novel shows how unreliable we are as narrators when we’re trying to invent — and reinvent — ourselves.” —Vulture \n“Kwon’s prose is artfully crafted. It is spare and accessible\, then\, delightfully explosive in its literary tendencies\, the music and the flourish. Kwon has a knack for setting stunning scenes that immerse us in a world familiar yet fractured: a watery memory that we want to stay and explore\, understand. This is fantastic fiction\, dripping with detail and nostalgia—experience translated poignantly\, accessibly—scenes in this book are a dead-on dream… Images come alive\, light burns through silver halide\, and what we see on screen\, on the page\, in our minds\, is as tangible and fleeting as a film frame…. Written with sparsity and flourish\, a well-constructed narrative fractured and woven into cinematic scenes\, populated with complex characters that demand our attention in exchange for access\, The Incendiaries is at times reminiscent of a Haruki Murakami novel. Alongside Kwon’s persistent\, driven prose is a narrative of personal and interpersonal unraveling. Kwon cultivates a palpable emptiness\, a space to feel the growing sense of loss that progressively saturates these pages.” —The Rumpus \n“This lyrical\, haunting novel is a remarkable debut from Kwon\, in which she shows with real lucidity the tangled ways in which passion slips into fanaticism\, love into desperation\, and faith into folly.”—Nylon \n“Mesmerizing.” —Bustle\n \n“R.O. Kwon’s brilliant debut novel dives into the world of domestic terrorism\, and the results prove that she’s a writer to watch.” —Paste Magazine \n“Deeply engrossing.” —PBS Books \n“R.O. Kwon’s debut novel is the rare marriage of sparkling\, poetic prose and propulsive narrative…. Big ideas of God and faith are explored\, but it’s all grounded in the story of the relationship between two people\, and how loss and vulnerability can be exploited by a persuasive religion.” —Jezebel \n“If there is a novel that goes to unexpected places\, it’s The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon… Phenomenal.” —Mashable \n“The Incendiaries will make you dizzy with its powerful prose… its heartbreaking and gut-wrenching meditations on the extremes human beings will push themselves to when they lose the thing they love most will stick with you long after you finish.” —PopSugar \n“A powerful\, darkly glittering novel… The Incendiaries is a fractured love story and a brilliant examination of the minds of extremist terrorists\, and of what can happen to people who lose what they love most.” —The Rumpus \n“The Incendiaries is a God-haunted\, willful\, strange book written with a kind of savage elegance. I’ve said it before\, but now I’ll shout it from the rooftops: R. O. Kwon is the real deal.”\n—Lauren Groff\, author of Fates and Furies and Florida \n“Every explosive requires a fuse. That’s R. O. Kwon’s novel\, a straight\, slow-burning fuse. To read her novel is to follow an inexorable flame coming closer and closer to the object it will detonate—the characters\, the crime\, the story\, and\, ultimately\, the reader.”\n—Viet Thanh Nguyen\, author of The Sympathizer and The Refugees \n“The Incendiaries probes the seductive and dangerous places to which we drift when loss unmoors us. In dazzlingly acrobatic prose\, R. O. Kwon explores the lines between faith and fanaticism\, passion and violence\, the rational and the unknowable.”\n—Celeste Ng\, author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You \n“A swift\, sensual novel about the unraveling of a collegiate relationship and its aftermath. Kwon writes gracefully about the spiritual insecurities of millennials.”\n—Karan Mahajan\, author of The Association of Small Bombs \n“This debut novel is absolutely electric\, something new in the firmament. Everyone should read this book.”\n—Garth Greenwell\, author of What Belongs to You \n“A classic love triangle between two tormented college students and God. The Incendiaries brings us\, page by page\, from quiet reckonings with shame and intimacy to a violent\, grand tragedy. In a conflagration of lyrical prose\, R. O. Kwon skillfully evokes the inherent extremism of young love.”\n—Tony Tulathimutte\, author of Private Citizens \n“An impressive\, assured debut about the hope for personal and political revolution and all the unexpected ways it flickers out. Kwon has vital things to say about the fraught times we live in.”\n—Jenny Offill\, author of Dept. of Speculation \n“A profound\, intricate exploration of how grief and lost faith and the vulnerable storm of youth can drive people to irrevocable extremes\, told with a taut intensity that kept me up all night. R.O. Kwon is a thrilling writer\, and her splendid debut is unsettled\, irresistible company.”\n—Laura van den Berg\, author of The Isle of Youth and Find Me \n“Written in dazzling\, spare prose… Kwon’s novel expertly addresses questions of faith and identity while managing to be formally inventive in its construction… In this intriguing cult story\, Kwon thoroughly explores her characters’ motivations\, making for an urgent and disarming debut.” —Publishers Weekly \n“Kwon successfully defines her characters’ depth while maintaining an air of intrigue and suspense. Throughout\, she looks at the imperfections in all our lives and how our interactions may lead us down paths unbeknownst to ourselves. With a breezy yet intense style\, newcomer Kwon is a writer to watch.” —Library Journal
URL:https://litseen.com/event/r-o-kwon-celebrating-the-release-of-the-incendiaries/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer SF "Ancestors: Real\, Imagined\, & Literary"
DESCRIPTION:Our ancestors can be the real people who came before us or the imagined people of literature or the real people who imagined that literature. Perfectly Queer wants to explore these different types of ancestors with the help of authors Wayne Goodman\, Andrew Lam\, and Anand Vedawala. Join us Tuesday\, September 11\, 7pm at Dog Eared Books Castro for ancestors in stories\, children’s books\, personal essays\, and the first Gay novels in England\, Russia\, and the U.S. Free admission\, free refreshments. Door prizes awarded promptly at 7pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-sf-ancestors-real-imagined-literary/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Claudia Dey / Heartbreaker
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Claudia Dey for her American debut\, Heartbreaker! Please join us. \n  \nAn isolated town.\nThe remains of a mysterious cult.\nAnd a woman who disappears. \n  \nIt’s 1985. Pony Darlene Fontaine has lived all her fifteen years in “the territory\,” a settlement founded decades ago by a charismatic cult leader. In this strange town run on a sinister economic resource\, the women crimp their hair and wear shoulder pads\, and the teenagers listen to Nazareth and Whitesnake on their Walkmans. Pony’s family lives in the bungalow at the farthest edge of town\, where the territory borders the rest of the wider world–a place none of the townspeople have ever been. \n  \nExcept for Billie Jean Fontaine\, Pony’s mother. When Billie Jean arrived in the territory seventeen years prior–falling from the open door of a stolen car–the residents took her in and made her one of their own. She was the first outsider they had ever laid eyes on. Pony adores and idolizes her mother\, but like everyone else in the territory she is mystified by her. Billie Jean refuses to describe the world she came from. \n  \nOne night\, Billie Jean grabs her truck keys\, bolts barefoot into the cold October darkness–and vanishes. Beautiful\, beloved\, and secretive\, Billie Jean was the first person to be welcomed into the territory. Now\, with a frantic search under way for her missing mother\, Pony fears: Will she be the first person to leave it too? \n  \nTold from the three unforgettable perspectives of a daughter\, a killer dog\, and a teenage boy named Supernatural\, this novel is startling in its humor and wrenching in its wisdom about the powers\, limits\, and dangers of love. Heartbreaker is an electrifying page-turner about a woman reinventing herself in order to survive–and a daughter who must race against the clock to untangle the mysteries left in her mother’s wake. \n  \n\n  \n“A dark star of a book\, glittering with mordant humor and astonishing\, seductive strangeness and grace. I am a giant fan of Claudia Dey’s wild brain.” –Lauren Groff\, author of Fates and Furies \n  \n“Heartbreaker gave me chills all the way through. It is deeply original — in its wildness\, its structure\, its wisdom\, and its world. It convinced me that the deepest of human (and animal) urges is the pull to find one’s true home — which lies in the hearts of just a few others. I floated in the perfection of its ending. I loved this novel’s shining sensitivity. I loved its every page.” –Sheila Heti\, author of Motherhood and How Should a Person Be? \n  \n“Devoted as I am to the oddities of remote northern lands\, I could not put this book down. By turns hilarious and harrowing\, Heartbreaker‘s icy exactitude is direct\, disturbed\, and entirely splendid.” – Samantha Hunt\, author of The Dark Dark \n  \n“I want Van Halen to write the soundtrack and the Coen brothers to make the movie. Heartbreaker plays out as a vivid\, tender\, complex magic\, a totally compulsive\, singular\, and wild read. The people in this book are so alive\, and the book itself feels unthinkably new.” – Leslie Feist\, musician \n  \n“I was kidnapped by this novel. Original\, alluring\, and memorable\, Claudia Dey’s Heartbreaker–an electrifying story about buried pasts\, dark secrets\, and dangerous love that shimmers and sparks–will get under your skin.” – Iain Reid\, author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things \n  \n“Heartbreaker makes high and hilarious art from the emotional Pop Rocks and glittery junk of a certain way of being young. And vulnerable. Also\, it has one of the most awesome dogs in literature. . . . A thrillingly original\, wholly spellbinding\, and luminous novel.” – Rivka Galchen\, author of Atmospheric Disturbances \n  \n\n  \n  \nClaudia Dey is the author of Stunt\, a Globe and Mail and Quill & Quire Book of the Year. Her plays have been produced internationally and nominated for the Governor General’s Award and Trillium Book Award. Dey’s writing has appeared in many publications\, including The Paris Review and The Believer. She has also worked as a horror film actress and a cook in lumber camps across northern Canada\, and is co-designer of Horses Atelier. Claudia Dey lives in Toronto. Heartbreaker is her American debut. \n  \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/claudia-dey-heartbreaker/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Elaine Mokhtefi
DESCRIPTION:Elaine Mokhtefi discusses her new book\, Algiers\, Third World Capital: Freedom Fighters\, Revolutionaries\, Black Panthers. \n\nPraise for Algiers\, Third World Capital \n\n“Algiers\, Third World Capital is a return to a time when Algiers was Mecca and the Vatican for revolutionaries. Indeed\, at the time Amilcar Cabral said: ‘Muslims go on pilgrimage to Mecca\, Christians in the Vatican and national liberation movements in Algiers.’”– Kader Bakou\, Le Soir d’Algerie (French) \n\n“Elaine Mokhtefi has written a fascinating insider’s account of the Black Panthers’ exile in Algiers in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Legendary figures take to the stage in the world capital of the national liberation movements: Ahmed Ben Bella\, Frantz Fanon\, Eldridge Cleaver. Mokhtefi was a key intermediary between the Panthers and the FLN during her own time in Algiers\, and a militant anti-imperialist. This is a clear-eyed\, first-hand recollection of the way things fall apart.”– Jeremy Harding\, author of Border Vigils \n\nAbout Algiers\, Third World Capital \n\nA fascinating portrait of life with the Black Panthers in Algiers: a story of liberation and radical politics \n  \nFollowing the Algerian war for independence and the defeat of France in 1962\, Algiers became the liberation capital of the Third World. Here\, Elaine Mokhtefi\, who as a young American woman had become involved in the struggle and worked with leaders of the Algerian Revolution\, including Frantz Fanon\, found a home. As a journalist and translator\, she lived among guerrillas\, revolutionaries\, exiles and visionaries and was even present in the making of the groundbreaking film The Battle of Algiers. \nMokhtefi crossed paths with some of the era’s brightest stars: Stokely Carmichael\, Timothy Leary\, Ahmed Ben Bella\, Jomo Kenyatta and Eldridge Cleaver. She was instrumental in the establishment of the International Section of the Black Panther Party in Algiers and was close at hand as the group became involved in intrigue\, murder and international hijackings. She traveled for and with the Panthers and organised Cleaver’s clandestine departure for France.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elaine-mokhtefi/
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:Poets Maw Shein Win\, Melissa Stein\, Margaret Stawowy & Miriam Bird Greenberg
DESCRIPTION:Poets Maw Shein Win\, Melissa Stein\, Margaret Stawowy & Miriam Bird Greenberg
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-maw-shein-win-melissa-stein-margaret-stawowy-miriam-bird-greenberg/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ingrid Rojas Contreras celebrating the release of her debut novel  Fruit of the Drunken Tree
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of her debut novel \nFruit of the Drunken Tree  \nfrom Random House \nA mesmerizing debut set in Colombia at the height Pablo Escobar’s violent reign about a sheltered young girl and a teenage maid who strike an unlikely friendship that threatens to undo them bothSeven-year-old Chula and her older sister Cassandra enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogotá\, but the threat of kidnappings\, car bombs\, and assassinations hover just outside the neighborhood walls\, where the godlike drug lord Pablo Escobar continues to elude authorities and capture the attention of the nation.\nWhen their mother hires Petrona\, a live-in-maid from the city’s guerrilla-occupied slum\, Chula makes it her mission to understand Petrona’s mysterious ways. But Petrona’s unusual behavior belies more than shyness. She is a young woman crumbling under the burden of providing for her family as the rip tide of first love pulls her in the opposite direction. As both girls’ families scramble to maintain stability amidst the rapidly escalating conflict\, Petrona and Chula find themselves entangled in a web of secrecy that will force them both to choose between sacrifice and betrayal.\nInspired by the author’s own life\, and told through the alternating perspectives of the willful Chula and the achingly hopeful Petrona\, Fruit of the Drunken Treecontrasts two very different\, but inextricable coming-of-age stories. In lush prose\, Rojas Contreras sheds light on the impossible choices women are often forced to make in the face of violence and the unexpected connections that can blossom out of desperation. \nIngrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Electric Literature\, Guernica\, and Huffington Post\, among others. She has received fellowships and awards from The Missouri Review\, Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, VONA\, Hedgebrook\, The Camargo Foundation\, Djerassi Resident Artists Program\, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures. She is the book columnist for KQED Arts\, the Bay Area’s NPR affiliate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ingrid-rojas-contreras-celebrating-the-release-of-her-debut-novel-fruit-of-the-drunken-tree/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Marilyn Berlin Snell / Unlikely Ally
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the launch party for Marilyn Berlin Snellfor her new book Unlikely Ally: How the Military Fights Climate Change and Protects the Environment. Please join us! \n  \nWhat do national security and defense mean in the ecologically destabilizing age of climate change? In California\, the US military has begun to redefine these concepts by taking on a largely unrecognized yet crucial role in renewable-energy innovation and in preserving cultural and natural treasures. Environmental stewardship is law on installations throughout the United States\, but a few bases in Southern California have taken a more comprehensive approach—one in which energy security and protection of threatened and endangered species are embedded in the practice of national defense. Unlikely Ally takes us through these bases to examine what twenty-first-century sustainable-energy infrastructure looks like; whether combat readiness and species protection can successfully coexist; how cutting-edge technology and water-conservation practices could transform life in a resource-constrained world; and how the Department of Defense’s scientific research into the metabolic secrets of the endangered desert tortoise could speed human travel to Mars. With investigative journalist Marilyn Berlin Snell as our guide\, we explore a martial culture in California informed by science\, strategic imperative\, state and federal law\, and visionary leadership. \n  \n\n  \n“Marilyn Berlin Snell brings the paradox of military sustainability into full view in this lively account from California’s desert and coastal training grounds\, showing how national security and natural security can manage to work together.” – David Havlick\, author of Bombs Away: Militarization\, Conservation\, and Ecological Restoration \n  \n“Uncovers a surprising bright spot on our fraught horizon.” – Mary Ellen Hannibal\, author of Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction \n  \n\n  \nMarilyn Berlin Snell is an independent journalist whose work focuses on the environment and politics. She was staff writer for Sierra\, the magazine of the Sierra Club\, from 2000 to 2008 and founding director of the magazine’s Investigative Journalism Project. Her freelance work has appeared in publications including the New York Times\, Mother Jones\, The Nation\, and Discover. Visit her website at www.marilynberlinsnell.com. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery at 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is a free and all-ages event\, with mature themes. The bar opens with doors at 7pm; event begins at 7:30. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Unlikely Ally\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-marilyn-berlin-snell-unlikely-ally/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 7 pm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-club-2/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jane Mount / Bibliophile
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts beloved artist and founder of Ideal Bookshelf Jane Mount for Bibliophile. Please join us! \nBook lovers\, rejoice! In this love letter to all things bookish\, Jane Mount brings literary people\, places\, and things to life through her signature and vibrant illustrations. Readers will: \n•  Tour the world’s most beautiful bookstores\n•  Test their knowledge of the written word with quizzes\n•  Find their next great read in lovingly curated stacks of books\n•  Sample the most famous fictional meals\n•  Peek inside the workspaces of their favorite authors \nA source of endless inspiration\, literary facts and recommendations\, and pure bookish joy\, Bibliophile is sure to enchant book clubbers\, English majors\, poetry devotees\, inspiring writers\, and any and all who identify as bookworms. \n  \nBonus: check out the profile of Booksmith\, and the accompanying illustration of Christin and Praveen\, to be found in the section Beloved Bookstores! \n  \n\n  \nJane Mount is an illustrator\, designer\, and founder of Ideal Bookshelf\, a company that makes things for people who love books. She lives on Maui\, in Hawaii. \n  \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nThis event is free and all ages.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jane-mount-bibliophile/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Julie Bruck
DESCRIPTION:Julie Bruck reads from her new poetry collection\, How to Avoid Huge Ships. \n\nPraise for Jule Bruck \n\n“She is the poet laureate of aftermath\, of what we do in the wake of things. She picks up the broken pieces of what’s left\, and these she patches together\, as she can\, into beautifully-wrought poems that bear eloquent witness to what remains.” Seán Kennedy \n\n“Alert and precise\, perceptive and measured\, Julie Bruck’s poems calibrate situations both grave and brave\, serious and hilarious\, whilst avoiding the ‘large ships’ of heavy-handed conclusion. Here are genuine smarts\, mature talent\, and a wide-angle vision.” —Sharon Thesen \n\nAbout How to Avoid Huge Ships \n\nHow to Avoid Huge Ships\, Julie Bruck’s fourth collection of poetry\, is a book of arguments and spells against the ambushes of age. This is\, of course\, a pointless exercise with a rich history. Bruck’s new poems excavate a middle zone?as old parents wither and regress\, while the young declare their independence. Parents grow down\, children up\, and it’s from the uncomfortable in-between that these poems peer into what Philip Larkin describes as “the long slide.” But what if we haven’t reached the end of the infinite adolescence we thought we’d been promised? We’re still here in this world of flying ottomans\, alongside a middle-schooler named Dow Jones\, and the prehistoric miracle of a blue heron’s foot. We may be afraid\, but we’re still amused–sometimes\, even awed. \n  \nLooking squarely at the way things are\, glossing over none of the absurdities and injustices of contemporary life\, Julie Bruck pays ardent attention to it all. This is a subtle art\, restrained. Its power often lies in what is not said right out but which fires up in a reader. The touch is light\, even when the subject is heavy. One has a steady sense of being trusted to catch and feel the intangible muchness housed in deceptively plain poems.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julie-bruck/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Situationists and May 1968: An Evening with Ken Knabb
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nKen Knabb\, leading translator of Guy Debord and the Situationist International\, will discuss the situationists’ key influence on the nationwide May 1968 revolt in France\, and how that astonishing social eruption remains relevant to our present-day world. \n \nKen Knabb is a writer\, translator\, and radical theorist\, known for his translations of Guy Debord and the Situationist International. His own English-language writings\, many of which were anthologized in Public Secrets (1997)\, have been translated into over a dozen additional languages. He is also a respected authority on the political significance of the anarchist poet and essayist Kenneth Rexroth. His other translations include Guy Debord’s film scripts (Complete Cinematic Works)\, Debord’s Society of the Spectacle\, and Ngo Van’s In the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary. Knabb’s own writings include leaflets\, comics\, pamphlets and articles on Wilhelm Reich\, George Brassens\, and Gary Snyder. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-situationists-and-may-1968-an-evening-with-ken-knabb/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Tommy Pico and Brontez Purnell\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:We’re looking forward to a terrific evening\, with friends and fellow Whiting Award 2018 recipients (respectively\, for poetry and fiction) Tommy Pico and Brontez Purnell\, reading and in conversation with one another and the audience. Please join us. This event\, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts\, is free and open to the public. \nTommy “Teebs” Pico is author of the books IRL (Birds LLC\, 2016)\, Nature Poem (Tin House Books\, 2017)\, and Junk (Tin House Books\, 2018). He was a Queer/Art/Mentors inaugural Fellow\, Lambda Literary Fellow in poetry\, and NYSCA/NYFA Fellow in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, and he’s the winner of a 2018 Whiting Award and the Brooklyn Public Library’s Literature Prize. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation\, he now lives in Brooklyn where he co-curates the reading series Poets With Attitude (PWA) with Morgan Parker\, co-hosts the podcast Food 4 Thot\, and is a contributing editor at Literary Hub. \nBrontez Purnell\, whose “explorations of blackness\, queerness\, maleness\, and Southernness take sharp\, confident turns between raunch and rhapsody\,” has been publishing\, performing\, and curating in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than ten years as founder of cult zine Fag School\, frontman for the band the Younger Lovers\, and the founder and choreographer of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company. He has performed at venues such as New York Live Arts Festival\, YBCA\, SFMOMA\, Counterpulse\, and The Lab. His most recent book\, Since I Laid My Burden Down (The Feminist Press at CUNY\, 2017) won a 2018 Whiting Award for fiction. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAUDIO: Junk\, The Podcast\, with Tommy Pico\nVIDEO: Tommy Pico\, How Not to Be One With Nature\nVIDEO: Free Jazz\, Brontez Purnell Dance Company\nVIDEO: Coming Out with Brontez Purnell \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tommy-pico-and-brontez-purnell-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Todd Stadtman
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at Green Apple Books on Clement street Thursday\, September 13th at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Todd Stadtman as he reads from his newest novel\, So Good it’s Bad\, which is the second book of the trilogy he’s entitled\, SF Punk Trio.  \n\nAbout \nIn Please Don’t be Waiting for Me\, author Todd Stadtman introduced Scott\, Bridge\, Micah\, and Benny\, a tightknit band of teenage punk rockers whose loyalty is tested when one of their number is falsely charged with murder. In that book’s sequel\, So Good it’s Bad\, he picks up with those characters for another adventure that is every bit as terrifying\, suspenseful and unexpectedly hilarious as the first. \nSo Good it’s Bad catches up with Scott and Micah as they are wrapping up a zero-budget DIY tour with their band Fist Music. At their last show\, Scott becomes violently ill and awakes to find himself a virtual prisoner of a deranged super fan and her equally unbalanced mom. It is up to Bridge\, Benny\, Micah and Scott’s father to find and rescue him. Their efforts will be complicated by the exploits of a narcissistic serial killer called The Jackpot Killer. \n  \nPraise for So Good it’s Bad \n“Captures the unique\, bitter pathos—and dark comedy—of a vanished world: Bay Area youth culture at the dawn of the Reagan era.” \n-Andrew O’Hehir\, Executive Editor\, Salon.com \n“A slamming séance summoning early Eighties San Francisco\, a never-never land of mosh pits\, thrift shopping\, divorced dads\, police raids\, and white punks on dope.” \n– Grady Hendrix\, Author of My Best Friend’s Exorcism \n“Gritty and engaging.” \n– Nancy Davis Kho\, Midlife Mixtape \n“Captures the fun\, desperation\, grime\, confusion\, and joy of being a teen punk weirdo.” \n– Keith Allison\, Teleport City \n  \nTodd Stadtman is a musician-turned-author whose books include Funky Bollywood: The Wild World of 1970s Indian Action Cinema and the novel Please Don’t Be Waiting For Me. He is also the author of the blog Die\, Danger\, Die\, Die\, Kill! and a regular contributor to the perennial cult cinema website Teleport City. He has also contributed to Famous Monsters\, The Times of India\, and The World Directory of Cinema\, as well as the websites io9\, Mondo Macabro\, The Cultural Gutter\, and Monster Island Resort. He currently lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/todd-stadtman/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Susan Froderberg
DESCRIPTION:Susan Froderberg discusses her new novel Mysterium. \n\nPraise for Mysterium \n\nPraise for Mysterium \n“Mysterium is a beautifully rendered exploration of the essential role that landscape plays in the long and difficult journey from grief to understanding and acceptance. Susan Froderberg’s feeling-driven narrative is filled with both suspense and tenderness. A life-enhancing experience.” —Jane Urquhart\, author of The Night Stages \n\n“An adventure at the top of the world; a narrative of reflection\, insight\, and survival.” —Paulette Jiles\, author of News of the World \n\n“First there is the superbly drawn cast of complex and compelling characters\, none more beguiling than Sarasvati ‘Sara’ Troy\, the young woman who\, with a vision of climbing the mountain that is her namesake\, puts the plot in motion. Then there is the masterfully executed suspense and drama of the climb. Finally there is the lovely and lyric writing about the mountain herself—as monolith and metaphor. These three pleasures combine to make Mysterium impossible to put down.” —Pam Houston\, author of Contents May Have Shifted \n\nAbout Mysterium \n\nMysterium\, known as Mount Sarasvati\, looms over the Indian Himalayas as the range’s tallest peak in the dazzling fictional world Susan Froderberg has created. \n  \nSarasvati “Sara” Troy is determined to reach the peak for which she was christened\, and to climb it in honor of her mother\, who perished in a mountaineering accident when Sara was just a child. She asks her father\, a celebrated mountaineer and philosophy professor\, to organize and lead the expedition.The six climbers he recruits are an uneasy mix. They include his longtime friend Dr. Arun Reddy\, a recent widower\, and Reddy’s son\, who often challenges his father; Wilder Carson\, the acclaimed climber who is tormented by the death of his brother; Wilder’s wife\, Vida\, a former lover of Dr. Reddy; and the distinguished scholar of climbing Virgil Adams and his wife\, Hillary. Porters and Sherpas are recruited in India to assist and be part of the team. \n  \nThe party’s journey is harrowing\, taking them from the mountain’s gorge\, into its sanctuary\, and finally onto the summit\, a path that evokes the hell\, purgatory\, and heaven of Dante’s Inferno. As the air thins and this unforgettable journey unfolds\, Sara emerges as a Beatrice-like figure\, buoying her companions up the mountain through the sheer strength and beauty of her being. Both monumental quest and dreamlike odyssey\, Mysterium is infused with the language of climbing and profound existential insight.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-froderberg/
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:Pride Poetry Palooza\, Take 2
DESCRIPTION:Pride Poetry Palooza usually comes but once a year but everyone had so much fun in July we decided to do it all over again! Take 2 is Saturday\, September 15\, 7pm to 8:30pm at Strut\, 470 Castro St. in San Francisco. 8 poets will read 8 minutes each: Susan Dambroff\, Natasha Dennerstein\, Europa Grace\, Michael Tod Edgerton\, Philip Harris\, David Hathwell\, Vernon Keeve III\, and Randall Mann. Free admission. Better yet\, free fruit pies and cold glasses of milk will be served. (Nothing goes better with Queer poetry than fruit pie.) Eight–count em\, 8–door prizes awarded at 7pm to reward promptness. Book signing follow the readings. Come on out for Pride Poetry Palooza–and pie!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pride-poetry-palooza-take-2/
LOCATION:Strut\, 470 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Perfectly Queer SF":MAILTO:perfectlyqueersf@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:poetry in parks 2018 @ samuel p. taylor state park
DESCRIPTION:sunday\, sept 16\n \n12pm potluck\, 2pm readings\n  \nJoin us for an afternoon of readings in the redwoods! \ncurated by Chris Cole\, Evan Karp\, and Scott Green \nfree\, all-ages show \nall the authors are paid \nthe first 100 people receive a copy of sPARKLE & bLINK 95 \n  \nThanks so much to everyone who sent in writing!!! \n  \nWe received 71 submissions and will announce the selected authors by Wed\, 8/22. \n  \nCheck out those trees!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/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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SUMMARY:Patricia Polacco Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 16\, 1:00pm – 4:00pm\nPegasus Books Oakland \nBeloved author and illustrator Patricia Polacco will be signing her best-selling children’s books\, including the newly released Holes in the Sky. \nThe book signing will take place in the Pegasus Books tent (outside and adjacent to Pegasus Books Oakland) as part of the annual Rockridge Out & About Street Festival. \n \nABOUT HOLES IN THE SKY \nMiss Eula is back! In this heartwarming companion to Chicken Sunday\, young Trisha is devastated when her grandmother passes away\, but finds joy in bonds with a new friend\, her new California neighborhood–and the invincible Miss Eula. \nThere will never be anyone like her grandmother\, Patricia Polacco thinks\, when her grandmother passes away. But when she and her family move to California–in the middle of a drought–she meets a new friend\, the irrepressible Stewart\, and his amazing grandmother\, Miss Eula\, who not only takes Trisha under her wing\, but\, with Trisha and Stewart\, steps up to lead their entire extraordinarily diverse neighborhood to help a hurting neighbor–and her once lush garden–survive the drought. \nTrisha’s grandmother’s old saying about the stars being Holes in the Sky turns out to be Miss Eula’s\, too\, convincing Trisha that she has miraculously discovered another unforgettable grandmother.\nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nStudying in the United States and Australia\, Patricia Polacco has earned an MFA and a PhD in art history\, specializing in Russian and Greek painting\, and iconographic history. She is a museum consultant on the restoration of icons. As a participant in many citizen-exchange programs for writers and illustrators\, Ms. Polacco has traveled extensively in Russia as well as other former Soviet republics. She continues to support programs that encourage Russo-American friendships and understanding. She is also deeply involved in inner-city projects in the United States that promote the peaceful resolution of conflict and encourage art and literacy programs. The mother of a grown son and a daughter\, she currently resides in Michigan\, where she has a glorious old farm that was built during the time of Lincoln. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSunday\, September 16\, 2018 – 1:00pm to 4:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Oakland\n5560 College Ave\n\nOakland\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patricia-polacco-book-signing/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jerry Ferraz's Trump Poem
DESCRIPTION:Jerry Ferraz’s Trump Poem
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jerry-ferrazs-trump-poem/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - Sharon Doubiago + Bill Bradd\, followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:POETS! – Sharon Doubiago + Bill Bradd\, followed by an open mic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-sharon-doubiago-bill-bradd-followed-by-an-open-mic/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Margaret Randall celebrating the release of  Time's Language: Collected Poems
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nTime’s Language: Collected Poems \nfrom Wings Press \nUltimately\, there are two kinds of poets: those who have a long vitae and those who have an amazing life. Just glancing at Margaret Randall’s list of works is enough to show us we are before a distinguished and prolific writer. Beginning with Giant of Tears in 1959\, she has published over forty poetry collections. To this we can add dozens more—works of oral history\, essays\, photography\, translations\, and anthologies—for a total of approximately one hundred books\, many of which have been translated into Bengali\, Bulgarian\, Dutch\, French\, German\, Italian\, Japanese\, Portuguese\, Slovenian\, Turkish\, and for over four decades\, Spanish. Yet this impressive catalog of publications pales in comparison to her life.(from prologue by Hedeen and Rodríguez Núñez) \nMargaret Randall is a feminist poet\, writer\, photographer and social activist. Born in New York City in 1936\, she has lived for extended periods in Albuquerque\, New York\, Seville\, Mexico City\, Havana\, and Managua. Shorter stays in Peru and North Vietnam were also formative. In the turbulent 1960s she co-founded and co-edited EL CORNO EMPLUMADO / THE PLUMED HORN\, a bilingual literary journal which for eight years published some of the most dynamic and meaningful writing of an era. From 1984 through 1994 she taught at a number of U.S. universities. She was privileged to live among New York’s abstract expressionists in the 1950s and early ’60s\, share the rebellion of the Beats\, participate in the Mexican student movement of 1968\, live in Cuba during the second decade of that country’s revolution (1969-1980)\, reside in Nicaragua during the first four years of the Sandinista project (1980-1984)\, and visit North Vietnam during the heroic last months of the U.S. American war in that country (1974).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/margaret-randall-celebrating-the-release-of-times-language-collected-poems/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Roni Ben Hur - Harvie S - Sylvia Cuenca
DESCRIPTION:Roni Ben Hur – Harvie S – Sylvia Cuenca
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roni-ben-hur-harvie-s-sylvia-cuenca/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lisa Hanawalt: Coyote Doggirl
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, September 18\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nLisa Hanawalt presents and signs Coyote Doggirl \nBoJack Horseman producer / production designer and award-winning cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt presents Coyote Doggirl. The graphic novel is a playful homage to and send-up of classic Westerns\, presenting the story of the goofy\, dramatic\, and fiercely independent Coyote as she journeys through the desert on horseback. With Coyote Doggirl\, Hanawalt documents the harsh realities of sexism\, her insatiable admiration of horses\, and the indispensability of a good crop top. \n“Lisa’s work is a reminder of the limitless boundaries of one’s imagination. She somehow creates fantastical worlds within our own\, commenting on some of our most timely issues while exploring our most minute absurdities. I could spend all day inside this heartfelt\, beautiful\, twisted take on a classic Western.”–Abbi Jacobson\, Broad City\n \n  \n \nCOYOTE DOGGIRL (DRAWN & QUARTERLY\, 2018) \nCoyote is a dreamer and a drama queen\, brazen and brave\, faithful yet fiercely independent. She beats her own drum and sews her own crop tops. A gifted equestrian\, she’s half dog\, half coyote\, and all power. Together with her trusty steed Red\, there’s not much that’s too big for her to bite off\, chew up\, and spit out right into your face\, if you deserve it. But when Coyote and Red find themselves on the run from a trio of vengeful bad dogs\, get clobbered by arrows\, and are tragically separated\, our protagonist is left fighting for her life\, and longing for her displaced best friend. Taken in by a wolf clan\, Coyote may be wounded\, but it’s not long before she’s back on the open road to track down Red and tackle the dogs who wronged her. \nLisa Hanawalt’s homage to and lampoon of westerns like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid\, Coyote Doggirl is a self-aware\, playful subversion of tropes. As our fallible hero attempts to understand the culture of the wolves\, we see a journey in understanding and misunderstanding\, adopting and co-opting. Uncomfortable at times but nonetheless rewarding and empowering\, the story of these flawed\, anthropomorphized characters is nothing if not relentlessly hilarious and heartbreakingly human. Told in Hanawalt’s technicolor absurdist style\, Coyote Doggirl is not just a send-up of the western genre\, but a deeply personal story told by an enormously talented cartoonist. \nLisa Hanawalt is the creator of the upcoming Netflix original series Tuca & Bertie\, as well as the producer and production designer of the Netflix original series BoJack Horseman. Her quarterly food column for Lucky Peach won her a James Beard Award for humor. Hanawalt’s first collection with Drawn & Quarterly was the critically acclaimed My Dirty Dumb Eyes. She co-hosts the podcast Baby Geniuses with comedian Emily Heller. Her second book with D+Q\, Hot Dog Taste Test\, won her the Ignatz Award and appeared on best-of-the-year lists from The Washington Post\, The Guardian\, NPR\, and elsewhere. \nPraise for Coyote Doggirl \n“Coyote Doggirl is uppity\, cocky\, and occasionally profane\, but she is also smart\, clever\, and outrageously funny. Lisa Hanawalt’s comicbook tale of a half-coyote\, half-dog feminist and her trusty steed\, Red\, makes you think as well as laugh. You go\, Coyote Doggirl!”\nSandra Dallas\, New York Times best-selling author \n“A story of flight and vengeance\, sunsets and sagebrush\, love and leather underwear. Hanawalt’s blues could be set in the sky and belong there; her pinks are almost alive. These are the cave paintings I want them to find in 10\,000 years.”\nPatricia Lockwood\, author of Priestdaddy \n“Hanawalt is known for her ability to deliver genuinely hilarious visual gags and Coyote Doggirl is no exception. What’s especially interesting to me\, however\, is how Coyote’s tone refuses to stay put\, venturing from slapstick to poignant\, and finally into downright bleak territory\, appropriate for a Western. Her deftness with color is also worth study. I’m taken by how her characters contrast with the iconic and carefully studied features of the western landscape\, from mountain plateaus to bright and delicate wildflowers.”\nKelly Sue DeConnick\, author of Bitch Planet\, Captain Marvel \n“Lisa’s work is a reminder of the limitless boundaries of one’s imagination. She somehow creates fantastical worlds within our own\, commenting on some of our most timely issues while exploring our most minute absurdities. I could spend all day inside this heartfelt\, beautiful\, twisted take on a classic Western.” Abbi Jacobson\, co-creator of Broad City \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, September 18\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-hanawalt-coyote-doggirl/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Maxim Loskutoff (Come West and See) and Mikkel Rosengaard (The Invention of Ana)
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a special evening of readings by Maxim Loskutoff (Come West and See) and Mikkel Rosengaard (The Invention of Ana). Please join us! \n  \n  \nCome West and See\nby Maxim Loskutoff \n  \nThis searing debut reimagines the American West through linked stories describing a violent rural separatist movement. \n  \nIn an isolated region of Idaho\, Montana\, and eastern Oregon known as the Redoubt\, an armed occupation of a wildlife refuge is escalating into civil war. Against this backdrop\, twelve stories of ordinary lives explore the loneliness\, fragility\, and heartbreak inherent to love. Families feel the far-reaching shockwaves of displacement and division. A mother makes a hard choice for her sons when their father goes to lead a standoff with the federal government. An unemployed carpenter joins a militia after his wife leaves him and the first airstrikes raze the streets of his hometown. A former soldier raises the daughter of a dead comrade in a bunker beneath an abandoned farm. \nRanging from the cities to the small towns of the West\, and imbued with its own brand of radical empathy\, Loskutoff’s fiction is both timely and timeless. Come West and See surges with rage\, longing\, and fear\, and offers startling insights into the wounds of the American people. \n  \nA graduate of New York University’s MFA program\, Maxim Loskutoff has been honored with the Nelson Algren Literary Award\, a Global Writing Fellowship in Abu Dhabi\, and the M Literary Fellowship in Bangalore. He lives in western Montana. \n  \n  \n\n  \nThe Invention of Ana\nby Mikkel Rosengaard \n  \nThe Invention of Ana illuminates the profound power of stories to alter the world around us—and the lives of the ones we love. \n  \nOn a rooftop in Brooklyn on a spring night\, a young intern meets the intriguing Ana Ivan who lives her life like a prime number: wild and unbroken and only divisible with herself. Before long\, the intern finds himself seduced by Ana’s enthralling stories—of her unlucky countrymen; of her parents’ romance during the worst years of Nicolae Ceaucescu’s dictatorship; of a Daylight Savings switchover gone horribly wrong. Ana also introduces him to her latest artistic endeavor. Following the astronomical rather than the Gregorian calendar\, she is trying to alter her sense of time—an experiment that will lead her to live in complete darkness for one month. \n  \nDescending into the blackness with Ana\, the intern slowly loses touch with his own existence\, entangling himself in the stories of Ana\, her starry-eyed mother Maria\, her math-prodigy father Ciprian\, and  their journey from Bucharest to Morocco’s Atlas Mountains to New York City. \n  \nA three-time recipient of the Danish Arts Foundation’s Literary Fellowship\,Mikkel Rosengaard’s stories have appeared in the Architectural Review\, Bomb Magazine\, PBS’s Art21\, and many other publications. He grew up in Elsinore\, Denmark\, and lives in New York City. \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maxim-loskutoff-come-west-and-see-and-mikkel-rosengaard-the-invention-of-ana/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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