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SUMMARY:Calder G. Lorenz
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith is excited to host Calder G. Lorenz for the launch of his debut novel\, One Way Down (Or Another)\, just out from Civil Coping Mechanisms. Calder will be in conversation withMicah Ballard – please join us! \nHell\, if I stay in San Francisco\, I’ll end up worse than dead\, I’ll end up working just so that I can afford to be broke. I’ll end up like the men who stood in line to build the Golden Gate Bridge\, only to fall from the heavens\, replaced by the next man in line\, just another asshole caught in a net\, suspended there\, broken back and all\, dangling\, hung out halfway to hell. \nThe voice above belongs to a young man who will cross every barrier he’d promised himself was un-crossable. He will have fistfights\, soul fights. He will relapse. He will try to go home. He will try his best to ruin his life and the question is this: will he succeed?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/calder-g-lorenz/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170224T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170224T140000
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SUMMARY:Bryan Stevenson
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with the SJSU Campus Reading Committee\, the CLA presents Bryan Stevenson discussing the #1 New York Times bestseller Just Mercy\, a powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us\, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice–from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time. Mr. Stevenson’s work fighting poverty and challenging racial discrimination in the criminal justice system has won him numerous awards including the ABA Wisdom Award for Public Service\, a MacArthur Fellowship\, the Olaf Palme International Prize\, the ACLU National Medal Of Liberty\, the National Public Interest Lawyer of the Year Award\, the Gruber Prize for International Justice\, and the Ford Foundation Visionaries Award. In 2015\, he was named to TIME‘s 100 Most Influential People list. Recently\, he was named in Fortune’s 2016 World’s Greatest Leaders list. He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and the Harvard School of Government\, has been awarded 26 honorary doctorate degrees and is also a Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law. \nCo-sponsored by NAACP.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bryan-stevenson/
LOCATION:Hammer Theater Center\, 101 Paseo De San Antonio Walk\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170224T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170224T200000
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SUMMARY:Tim Dorsey
DESCRIPTION:A (Serge A.) Storm is brewing for a cabal of bad guys gaming the Florida state lottery in Clownfish Blues\, an insanely funny novel from the maestro of mayhem\, Tim Dorsey. \nIf you’re loud and proud Floridian Serge A. Storms\, how do you follow up your very own remake of Easy Rider? You shoot your own “episodes” of your favorite classic television show\, Route 66! \nWith Coleman riding shotgun\, Serge is rolling down the highway of his dreams in a vintage silver convertible Corvette just like the snazzy car Martin Milner drove. It doesn’t matter that the actual Route 66 didn’t pass through Florida\, for Serge discovers that a dozen episodes near the series’ end were filmed (really!) in his beloved home state. So for Serge and the always toked and stoked Coleman\, the Sunshine State is all the road you need to get your kicks. \nBut their adventure traveling the byways of the Sunshine State’s underbelly is about to take a detour. Someone is trying to tilt the odds in the state lottery amidst a conga line of huge jackpots spinning off more chaos than any hurricane season. With this much at stake\, of course every shady character wants in. Crooked bodega owners\, drug cartels laundering money through the lottery\, and venture capitalists are all trying to game the system—and lining up to get their cut. They’re also gambling with their lives\, because when Serge and Coleman get hip to this timely (and very lucrative) trip\, there’s no telling whose number is up next. \nThrow in Brooke Campanella\, Serge’s old flame\, as well as the perpetually star-crossed Reevis\, and it’s a sure bet that the ever lucky Serge will hit it big. Winning has never been this deadly—or this much fun! \nTim Dorsey was a reporter and editor for the Tampa Tribune from 1987 to 1999\, and is the author of nineteen novels: Coconut Cowboy\, Shark Skin Suite\, Tiger Shrimp Tango\, The Riptide Ultra-Glide\, When Elves Attack\, Pineapple Grenade\, Electric Barracuda\, Gator A-Go-Go\, Nuclear Jellyfish\, Atomic Lobster\, Hurricane Punch\, The Big Bamboo\, Torpedo Juice\, Cadillac Beach\, The Stingray Shuffle\, Triggerfish Twist\, Orange Crush\, Hammerhead Ranch Motel\, and Florida Roadkill. He lives in Tampa\, Florida.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tim-dorsey/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170224T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170224T210000
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SUMMARY:Daniel Handler
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Handler discusses Three Masquerades\, a collection of novellas by Rachel Ingalls. Daniel Handler assembled this collection for Pharos Editions\, a press that is dedicated to bringing to light out-of-print\, lost or rare books of distinction. \n\nPraise for Rachel Ingalls \n\nSo deft and austere in its prose\, so drolly casual in its fantasy… – John Updike  \n\nShortly after beginning each of the novellas in this remarkable collection\, I was seized with a haunting conviction that I was reading works I would not easily forget. – Joseph Heller \n\nRachel Ingalls ‘ elegantly written tales mix reality and fantasy in surprising ways\, casting a dark light on the conventions of our lives\, our ideas about marriage\, youth and age… she deserves to be as well-known in America as she is in England.”  —Alison Laurie \n\nAbout Three Masquerades \n“I See a Long Journey” and “On Ice\,” novellas that Mr. Handler considers basically perfect\, originally appeared with a third\, “Blessed Art Though\,” a story that he considers to be in an entirely different tone. He felt that “Friends in the Country” from Ms. Ingalls later collection\, “The End of a Tragedy\,” was a more natural companion to the two earlier works. The author happily agreed. \n  \n“I See a Long Journey” introduces us to Flora who is induced by her husband\, James\, to take a vacation only because his chauffeur Michael\, custodian of their persons and their purse\, will accompany them. Things\, as they so often do in Ingalls world\, will go appalling awry.  “Friends in the Country” wherein a young couple drive outside of London for a Friday dinner and find themselves trapped for the weekend in a manner that surpasses Stephen King\, if not in outright horror then certainly in subtlety and suggestiveness. “On Ice” finds Beverley with her fiance at an elegant hotel where she is introduced to a grande dame whose funeral Beverley’s convinced she had witnessed 10 years before. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-handler/
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:20170225T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170225T150000
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SUMMARY:Sigrid Carter
DESCRIPTION:Sigrid Carter’s life story\, contained in Amazing Women: 4 German Girls\, 25\,000+ of Miles\, 18 Months 0 Money\, is worthy of becoming a movie. This was true before she even turned thirty. As an adventurous girl in her twenties\, she and two girlfriends from Germany hitchhiked from Colorado to the Pacific coast of Mexico\, where the trio took a canoe into the ocean\, got lost\, and found themselves surrounded by sharks just as bad weather set in. Somehow\, they survived. The tide carried them to the shores of Peru\, where they spent time living with Indians in the Amazon and working for biologists researching the rainforests\, one of whom later became Carter’s husband. \nA Peruvian filmmaker did\, in fact\, turn the ordeal into a television movie\, but Carter professes not to know the title or release date. She has no time for such things—she’s too busy continuing to live a life most of us can only imagine. \nIt was her adventurous spirit that led Carter to set up her agency\, Envoyé Travel\, in 1971 in Lubbock\, Texas\, where her husband has established himself as an associate dean at Texas Tech University. Lest you think married life and operating a thirty-six-year-old business has tamed her\, Carter kayaks every morning\, and a few days after we spoke\, she was on her way to a polar bear expedition in Churchill\, Canada. \n“Whatever you do in life is a big commitment\, so it needs to be fun\,” says Carter\, who’s been to all seven continents. “I love this business. There is nothing more fun in life than talking about destinations.” \nAnd Carter has a lot of stories to tell—so much so that she landed the cover of Travel Agent in 1992 and in 1995 self-published a book\, Travel Like a Millionaire Without Being One\, which is being updated for a second printing. \nHer zest for life is infectious. She personally runs select small group trips\, leading people on a pilgrimage to Santiago\, Spain\, and taking others to the Arctic Circle to stay with Eskimos. Many of the local operators she uses have been discovered – and vetted – through her own travels. \n“Wherever I go\, I make friends\,” Carter says\, who also works with such suppliers as Abercrombie & Kent\, Butterfield & Robinson\, and Clipper Adventures. “I went to India\, and my goal was to experience yoga with the best teacher there. I checked the prices\, and it was $850 a night! I thought\, ‘I’m not going to spend that kind of money.'” \nShe left for India and\, on the way\, met a yoga teacher who invited her to dinner. “It turned out that the family is the number-one yoga family in India—even the Clintons have studied with them\,” Carter shares. “They live very\, very basic\, but the simplicity of their lifestyle.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sigrid-carter/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170225T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170225T153000
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SUMMARY:Mariana Ruybalid
DESCRIPTION:Mariana Ruybalid reads her poems\, followed by an interview and discussion at Claremont Branch as part of our guest poet series\, Clearly Meant. \nMariana Ruybalid has published two novels\, A Pattern of Silent Tears and Coyote Healer\, Coyote Curandero\, as well as a book of poems\, Daring to Write. Her first novel\, A Pattern of Silent Tears\, is based on the years Ruybalid spent in Costa Rica working as a psychologist with disabled women and children. She has two bachelors and three master’s degrees. “I’ve never let cerebral palsy stop me from doing much\,” Mariana Ruybalid says. She has lived in Berkeley since 1976. All of her books are owned by the Berkeley Public Library. Be sure to check them out.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mariana-ruybalid/
LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170225T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170225T180000
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SUMMARY:Alex George
DESCRIPTION:From the author of the “lyrical and compelling” (USA Today) novel A Good American comes Setting Free the Kites\, the powerful story of the unintended consequences that friendship\, hope\, and obsession impose on two families in crisis. \nHaverford\, Maine\, is a town that’s easily overlooked. So is Robert Carter\, an eighth-grader in 1976 who’s a ready target for the class bully. That is\, until the first day of school and a new kid appears: Nathan Tilly. Nathan is fearless\, impetuous\, and obsessed with kites and flying. As Robert and Nathan become friends\, they’re drawn into each other’s families\, where they witness unexpected tragedy and learn that all families can harbor secrets. When summer arrives\, both boys work at the local amusement park owned by Robert’s family\, and it’s there that Robert and Nathan begin to learn some harsh truths about family\, desire and revenge. Honest and heartfelt\, with echoes of novels by Wally Lamb and John Irving\, Setting Free the Kites is both a poignant coming-of-age story and a moving family drama that explores the terrible costs of misplaced hope. \nAlex George is an Englishman who lives\, works\, and writes in the middle of America. He studied law at Oxford University and worked for eight years as a corporate lawyer in London and Paris before moving to the United States. He lives in Missouri with his family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alex-george/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170225T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170225T200000
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CREATED:20170117T035821Z
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SUMMARY:Deborah Crombie
DESCRIPTION:In Garden of Lamentations\, Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James are drawn into separate investigations that hold disturbing and deadly complications for their own lives in this powerful mystery in the bestselling series. \nOn a beautiful morning in mid-May\, the body of a young woman is found in one of Notting Hill’s private gardens. To passersby\, the pretty girl in the white dress looks as if she’s sleeping. But Reagan Keating has been murdered\, and the lead detective\, DI Kerry Boatman\, turns to Gemma James for help. She and Gemma worked together on a previous investigation\, and Gemma has a personal connection to the case: Reagan was the nanny of a child who attends the same dance studio as Toby\, Gemma and Kincaid’s son. \nGemma soon discovers that Reagan’s death is the second tragedy in this exclusive London park; a few months before\, a young boy died in a tragic accident. But when still another of the garden residents meets a violent end\, it becomes clear that there are more sinister forces at play. Boatman and Gemma must stop the killer before another innocent life is taken. \nWhile his wife is consumed with her new case\, Kincaid finds himself plagued by disturbing questions about several previous and seemingly unrelated cases involving members of the force. If his suspicions are correct and the crimes are linked\, are his family and friends in mortal danger as well? Kincaid’s hunch turns to certainty when a Metropolitan Police officer close to him is brutally attacked. There’s a traitor in the ranks\, and now Kincaid wonders if he can trust anyone. \nAs Gemma begins to see a solution to her case\, she realizes she holds a child’s fate in her hands. Can she do the right thing? And can Kincaid rely on his friends\, both inside and outside the Scotland Yard force\, to stand beside him as he faces the deadliest challenge of his career? \nDeborah Crombie’s fifth novel\, Dreaming of the Bones\, was a New York Times Notable Book in 1997\, was named by the Independent Mystery Booksellers as one of the 100 Best Crime Novels of the Century\, was an Edgar nominee for Best Novel\, and won the Macavity award for Best Novel. Subsequent novels have been published to critical acclaim and in a dozen languages.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deborah-crombie/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Bawdy's 'Decadent' 10 Year Anniversary Show
DESCRIPTION:Our theme: ‘Decadent!’\nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – celebrates TEN YEARS – a decade of Sex and Storytelling – in San Francisco! We feature Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as an award-winning One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their true stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure. \nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & sex-positive Locals as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. \nHey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal! \n* Line-up subject to change\n* No refunds or exchanges\n* General Admission seating is limited. Doors open at 6:30 PM; we recommend you arrive by 7:00 for good seating
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdys-decadent-10-year-anniversary-show/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170225T220000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170225T235500
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SUMMARY:Bawdy's 'Best of Bawdy' 10 Year Anniversary Show
DESCRIPTION:Bawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – celebrates TEN YEARS in San Francisco – Yes\, a Decade of Sex and Storytelling! We feature Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as an award-winning One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their true stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure. \nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & sex-positive Locals as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal! \n* Line-up subject to change\n* No refunds or exchanges\n* General Admission seating is limited. Doors open at 9:30 PM; we recommend you arrive early for good seating. Stories start at 10:00 PM
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdys-best-of-bawdy-10-year-anniversary-show/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170226T150000
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SUMMARY:Vanessa Hua\, Shanthi Sekaran + Ali Eteraz
DESCRIPTION:Join three local authors as they read from their latest work and discuss issues of immigration and identity. \nAli Eteraz is the author of the memoir Children of Dust and the recent novel Native Believer\, which was a New York Times Editors Choice selection. His work has appeared in the New York Times\, NPR and the Guardian. \nVanessa Hua is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and author of Deceit and Other Possibilities. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award\, and a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in the New York Times\, The Atlantic\, FRONTLINE/World\, Washington Post\, ZYZZYVA\, and elsewhere. \nShanthi Sekaran’s newest novel is Lucky Boy\, an Indie Next Pick for January. She teaches creative writing at California College of the Arts\, and her work has appeared in Best New American Voices and Canteen\, and online at Zyzzyva and Mutha Magazine. \nBooks will be available for purchase from Laurel Book Store.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vanessa-hua-shanthi-sekaran-ali-eteraz/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library\, 125 14th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170226T190000
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SUMMARY:Juan Pablo Villalobos
DESCRIPTION:Mexican writer Juan Pablo Villalobos dicusses his new novel\, I’ll Sell You a Dog\, with Mauro Javier Cardenas. \nPraise for I’ll Sell You a Dog \n“I’ll Sell You A Dog is a reminder of how effortless literature should be to love. This unexpected ride through a character’s second childhood\, his building\, neighbourhood and history is so magically twisted that it could be real. As ever Villalobos writes a peephole through politics and time\, to simply watch us dance in all our lurid whimsy.”—DBC Pierre \n“Short\, dark\, comic\, ribald and surreal . . . manic-impressive.”—Dwight Garner\, New York Times \n‘One of the wittiest\, most whimsical\, most enjoyable novels to have been published in Spanish for a long time.’ Alberto Manguel\, The Guardian \nAbout I’ll Sell You a Dog \nLong before he was the taco seller whose ‘Gringo Dog’ recipe made him famous throughout Mexico City\, our hero was an aspiring artist: an artist\, that is\, till his would-be girlfriend was stolen by Diego Rivera\, and his dreams snuffed out by his hypochondriac mother. Now our hero is resident in a retirement home\, where fending off boredom is far more gruelling than making tacos. Plagued by the literary salon that bumps about his building’s lobby and haunted by the self-pitying ghost of a neglected artist\, Villalobos’s old man can’t help but misbehave. \n  \nHe antagonises his neighbours\, tortures American missionaries with passages from Adorno\, flirts with the revolutionary greengrocer\, and in short does everything that can be done to fend off the boredom of retirement and old age . . . while still holding a beer. \n  \nA delicious take-down of pretensions to cultural posterity\, I’ll Sell You a Dog is a comic novel whose absurd inventions\, scurrilous antics and oddball characters are vintage Villalobos.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/juan-pablo-villalobos/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170228T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T122131
CREATED:20170117T042250Z
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SUMMARY:Ari Banias\, Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano + Cintia Santana
DESCRIPTION:Ari Banias\, Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano\, and Cintia Santana read at Alley Cat Books\, Saturday\, January 28\, 2017 at 7:00 pm\, in support of Ari Banias’s new book\, Anybody (W.W. Norton). This event is organized by San Francisco poet and novelist Kevin Killian. \nAri Banias is the author of the book Anybody (W.W. Norton\, 2016)\, and the chapbook What’s Personal is Being Here With All of You (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs). His poems have appeared in Boston Review\, Poetry\, A Public Space\, and the anthology Troubling the Line: Trans & Genderqueer Poetry & Poetics. The recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown & Stanford University\, he lives in Berkeley & works at Small Press Distribution.Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano is the author of the poetry collections\, Amorcito Maricón; Santo de la Pata Alzada; and\, Tragic Bitches\, which he co-wrote with Adelina Anthony and Dino Foxx. Lorenzo is the editor of Queer Codex: Chile Love; Queer Codex: Rooted; and\, the forthcoming Joto: An Anthology of Queer Chicano Poetry. A member of the Macondo Writers community and former writer for Change.org’s “Race in America” and “Gay Rights” blogs\, his work appears in Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry; For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough; Queer in Aztlán; as well as the journals\, ZYZZYVA; and\, Yellow Medicine Review. Lorenzo is the founder of Kórima Press\, a queer Chicana/o Press; and\, Publisher and Executive Director of Justice Matters Press\, a multiracial social and racial justice press. \nCintia Santana’s poems\, fiction\, and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, Narrative\, Pleiades\, RHINO\, Spillway\, The Threepenny Review\, and other journals. Santana received her MFA in Fiction from Sarah Lawrence College\, and her MA and PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University. She is the recipient of a CantoMundo Fellowship and a Djerassi Resident Artist Program Fellowship. Mary Szybist selected Santana’s poetry for inclusion in the Best New Poets 2016 anthology. Currently\, Santana teaches poetry and fiction workshops in Spanish\, as well as literary translation courses at Stanford University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ari-banias-lorenzo-herrera-y-lozano-cintia-santana/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170228T210000
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SUMMARY:Bill Hayes
DESCRIPTION:Bill Hayes presents Insomniac City: New York\, Oliver\, and Me. \n\n\n\n“A love story to New York and the people we cherish\, for Bill Hayes\, the late Oliver Sacks. With prescience and tenderness\, written with a sharp eye and a camera attuned to life on the streets\, Hayes has composed a gorgeous memoir on why place matters to the soul of our humanity. I loved every single sentence in this quiet night-book\, erotic and evocative\, at once.”–Terry Tempest Williams \n\n\n\nTuesday\, February 28\, 2017 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\nBill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by. But\, at forty-eight years old\, having spent decades in San Francisco\, he craved change. Grieving over the unexpected death of his partner\, he quickly discovered the profound consolations of the city’s incessant rhythms\, the sight of the Empire State Building against the night sky\, and New Yorkers themselves\, kindred souls that Hayes\, a lifelong insomniac\, encountered on late-night strolls with his camera. \nAnd he unexpectedly fell in love again\, with his friend and neighbor\, the writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks\, whose exuberance–“I don’t so much fear death as I do wasting life\,” he tells Hayes early on–is captured in funny and touching vignettes throughout. What emerges is a portrait of Sacks at his most personal and endearing\, from falling in love for the first time at age seventy-five to facing illness and death (Sacks died of cancer in August 2015). Insomniac City is both a meditation on grief and a celebration of life. Filled with Hayes’s distinctive street photos of everyday New Yorkers\, the book is a love song to the city and to all who have felt the particular magic and solace it offers. \nBill Hayes is the author of The Anatomist\, Five Quarts\, and Sleep Demons. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction and was a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times\, and his writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books and Salon\, among other publications. His photographs have been featured in Vanity Fair\, the New York Times\, and the New Yorker. He lives in New York. Visit his website at billhayes.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bill-hayes-2/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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CREATED:20170117T090933Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170117T090933Z
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SUMMARY:L.A. Kaufman
DESCRIPTION:Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism \nfrom Verso Press \nA vibrant\, groundbreaking history of American radicalism since the Sixties \n\nWhat happened to the American left after the Sixties? This engrossing account traces the evolution of disruptive protest over the last 40 years to tell a larger story about the reshaping of American radicalism\, showing how the direct-action blockades\, occupations\, and campaigns of recent activist movements have functioned as laboratories for political experimentation and renewal. \nPropelled by more than 100 candid interviews conducted over a span of decades\, this elegant and lively history showcases the voices of key players in an array of movements – environmentalist\, anti-nuclear\, anti-apartheid\, feminist\, LGBTQ\, anti-globalization\, racial-justice\, anti-war\, and more – across an era when American politics shifted to the right\, and issue- and identity-based organizing eclipsed the traditional ideologies of the left.  \nAs Kauffman\, a longtime movement insider\, examines how groups from ACT UP to Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter have used direct action to catalyze change against long odds\, she details the profound influence of feminism and queerness on radical political practice and how enduring divisions of race have shaped the landscape of activism. Written with nuance and humor\, and revealing deep connections between movements usually viewed in isolation\, Direct Action is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how protest movements erupt — and how they can succeed. \nL.A. Kauffman has spent more than 30 years immersed in radical movements\, as an organizer\, strategist\, journalist\, and observer. Her writings on grassroots activism and social movement history have been published in The Nation\, Mother Jones\, n+1\, The Baffler\, and many other outlets. Kauffman was the mobilizing coordinator for the massive anti-war marches of 2003-2004; she has been called a “virtuoso organizer” by journalist Scott Sherman for her role in saving community gardens and public libraries in New York City from developers. Visit L.A. Kauffman’s twitter-feed \nWhat has been said of L.A. Kauffman’s work: \n“It is impossible to overstate the importance of this book. Chances are that even if you know something about the recent history of the left in America\, you probably only know a few isolated parts. L.A. Kauffman has connected a vast field of dots to create an overview\, and she has done with dispatch\, clarity\, and elegance. Her book is essential reading for today\, and will be for tomorrow.” \n– Luc Sante \n“You could not ask for a better guide through recent social movement history than L. A. Kauffman. A champion of radical causes with decades of experience on the frontlines of civil disobedience\, she chronicles the fascinating evolution of a set of protest tactics today’s activists take for granted. Kauffman has done a tremendous public service: by helping us better understand the past\, in all its glory and folly\, we can be more effective dissidents and rabble rousers tomorrow. This startling\, inspiring book is for anyone who has ever felt the urge to put their body on the line and shut things down for something they believe in.” \n– Astra Taylor\, author of The People’s Platform and co-founder of the Debt Collective
URL:https://litseen.com/event/l-a-kaufman/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170301T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T122131
CREATED:20170131T072408Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T072408Z
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SUMMARY:Liz Cunningham
DESCRIPTION:“My mission is to be a voice for the life the seas and the people who are working to save it\, to inspire and empower others to join the effort to save our seas and forge a sustainable future. I write and speak about ocean conservation and the traits we need to be effective stewards of our seas and our planet—among others\, courage\, an engaged hope\, and our capacity to work together to implement solutions.” – Liz Cunningham
URL:https://litseen.com/event/liz-cunningham/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170301T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170301T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T122131
CREATED:20170202T050525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170202T050525Z
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SUMMARY:Pola Oloixarac
DESCRIPTION:Argentinian writer Pola Oloixarac in conversation about her first novel translated into English\, Savage Theories. \n\nPraise for Savage Theories \n“A stunning vibrant maximalist whirlwind of a novel. Oloixarac’s wit and ambition are evident on every page. By comparison\, most other contemporary fiction seems a little dull and simple-minded.” — Hari Kunzru\, author of “Gods Without Men” \n\n“Monstrously clever and terribly funny. More than a debut\, this book is one many of us would spend our lives trying to write.” — Javier Calvo \n\n“Pola Oloixarac’s prose is the great event of the new Argentinian narrative. Her novel is unforgettable\, philosophical and very serene.” — Ricardo Piglia \n\nAbout Savage Theories \nA novel of seduction and madness\, hate and love\, set in the world of Argentinean academia and animated by the spirits of Wittgenstein\, Rousseau\, Nabokov and Bolano. \nRosa Ostreech\, a pseudonym for the novel’s beautiful but self-conscious narrator\, carries around a trilingual edition of Aristotle’s Metaphysics\, struggles with her thesis on violence and culture\, sleeps with a bourgeois former guerrilla\, and pursues her elderly professor with a highly charged blend of eroticism and desperation. Elsewhere on campus\, Pabst and Kamtchowsky tour the underground scene of Buenos Aires\, dabbling in ketamine\, sex\, video games\, and hacking. And in Africa in 1917\, a Dutch anthropologist named Johan van Vliet begins work on a theory that explains human consciousness and civilization by reference to our early primate ancestors animals\, who\, in the process of becominghuman\, spent thousands of years as prey. \n“Savage Theories” wryly explores fear and violence\, war and sex\, eroticism and philosophy. Its complex and flawed characters grapple with a mess of impossible\, visionary theories\, searching for their place in our fragmented digital world. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pola-oloixarac-3/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170302T121000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170302T125000
DTSTAMP:20260403T122131
CREATED:20161018T002856Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T002856Z
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Clarvoe
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Clarvoe is the author of Invisible Tender and Counter-Amores. She has received the Poets Out Loud Prize\, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award\, and the Rome Prize in Literature\, as well as a Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers Conference and a residency from the James Merrill House. She has taught at Kenyon College for twenty-five years.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-clarvoe/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170302T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170302T200000
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CREATED:20161223T030600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T030600Z
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SUMMARY:Bill Hayes
DESCRIPTION:A moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls “the evanescent\, the eavesdropped\, the unexpected” of life in New York City\, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks. \n“If you are lonely or bone-tired or blue\, you need only come down from your perch and step outside. New York—which is to say\, New Yorkers—will take care of you.” \nBill Hayes came to New York City in 2008 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by. But\, at forty-eight years old\, having spent decades in San Francisco\, he craved change. Grieving over the death of his partner\, he quickly discovered the profound consolations of the city’s incessant rhythms\, the sight of the Empire State Building against the night sky\, and New Yorkers themselves\, kindred souls that Hayes\, a lifelong insomniac\, encountered on late-night strolls with his camera. \nAnd he unexpectedly fell in love again\, with his friend and neighbor\, the writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks\, whose exuberance—“I don’t so much fear death as I do wasting life\,” he tells Hayes early on—is captured in funny and touching vignettes throughout. What emerges is a portrait of Sacks at his most personal and endearing\, from falling in love for the first time at age seventy-five to facing illness and death (Sacks died of cancer in August 2015). Insomniac City is both a meditation on grief and a celebration of life. Filled with Hayes’s distinctive street photos of everyday New Yorkers\, the book is a love song to the city and to all who have felt the particular magic and solace it offers. \nBill Hayes is the author of The Anatomist\, Five Quarts\, and Sleep Demons. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction and was a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times\, and his writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books and Salon\, among other publications. His photographs have been featured in Vanity Fair\, the New York Times\, and the New Yorker.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bill-hayes/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170302T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T122131
CREATED:20170131T073031Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T073031Z
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SUMMARY:Layli Long Soldier + Truong Tran
DESCRIPTION:Poets Layli Long Soldier and Truong Tran read from new work\, then engage with one another and their audience in conversation. Free and open to the public. \nLayli Long Soldier earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA with honors from Bard College. She is the author of the chapbook Chromosomory (2010) and\, new this March\, the book Whereas (Graywolf Press\, 2017)\, recipient of the prestigious Whiting Award for 2016. She has been a contributing editor to Drunken Boat and is poetry editor at Kore Press. In 2012 her participatory installation\, Whereas We Respond\, was featured on the Pine Ridge Reservation. In 2015\, Long Soldier was awarded a National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation and a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry. “I am\,” she writes\, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe\, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation ― and in this dual citizenship I must work\, I must eat\, I must art\, I must mother\, I must friend\, I must listen\, I must observe\, constantly I must live.” \nTruong Tran is an artist and writer living in San Francisco. His books include Placing the Accents\, Dust and Conscience\, The Book of Perceptions\, Within The Margins\, Four Letter Words\, I Meant To Say Please Pass The Sugar and the children’s book Going Home Coming Home. His works have been translated into Dutch\, French\, Spanish and Vietnamese. He has been twelve years a lecturer at SFSU and is currently The Visiting Assistant Professor at Mills College where he teaches writing workshops at the intersection of poetry and the visual arts. His latest body of exploration\, entitled “The PreEmptive Works\,” will be forthcoming in 2018. \nBecause We Come from Everywhere: Poetry and Migration\nMarch 2017 Poetry Center programming appears under the sign of this line by Juan Felipe Herrera\, in conjunction with 20+ member organizations from across the country constituting the newly formed Poetry Coalition
URL:https://litseen.com/event/layli-long-soldier-truong-tran/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170302T213000
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CREATED:20161201T025906Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T025906Z
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SUMMARY:Eric Puchner
DESCRIPTION:Eric Puchner will read from his newest collection of short stories Last Day on Earth. \nPraise for Eric Puchner: \n“Eric Puchner is an alchemist who captures the joy and danger in everyday life and\, with precision\, humor\, and empathy\, turns these moments into gold. These stories allow us to look at our own lives more closely and with more courage and understanding–a poignant and unforgettable collection from a great storyteller.” – Yiyun Li\, author of Dear Friend\, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life \n\nAbout Last Day on Earth: \nFrom the award-winning author of Music Through the Floor and Model Home\, a riveting and profoundly moving story collection by a writer uncannily in tune with the heartbreak and absurdity of domestic life (Los Angeles Times). \nA boy on the edge of adolescence fears his mother might be a robot; a psychotically depressed woman is entrusted with taking her niece and nephew trick-or-treating; a reluctant dad brings his baby to a coke-fueled party; a teenage boy tries to prevent his mother from putting his estranged father’s dogs to sleep. Ranging from a youth arts camp to an aging punk band’s reunion tour\, from a dystopian future where parents no longer exist to a ferociously independent bookstore\, Last Day on Earth revolves around the endlessly complex\, frequently surreal system that is family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eric-puchner/
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:20170304T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170304T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T122131
CREATED:20161223T022701Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T022701Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition First Saturday
DESCRIPTION:Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot) \nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden) \nAll Ages Welcome \nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-first-saturday-10/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170304T200000
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CREATED:20170117T091816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T020402Z
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon Spring Reading
DESCRIPTION:Babylon Solan Spring Reading presents National Book Award-nominated author of seven novels Cristina García\, and Best-selling author and editor Josh Mohr.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-solan-spring-reading/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170307T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170307T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T122131
CREATED:20170131T074007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T074007Z
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SUMMARY:Kirill Medvedev
DESCRIPTION:Kirill Medvedev is one of the most exciting\, unpredictable voices on the Russian literary scene today. Widely published and acclaimed as a poet\, Medvedev is also an activist for labor and a member of the Russian Socialist movement “Vepered” [Forward]. His small press\, The Free Marxist Publishing House [SMI] has recently released his translations of Pasolini\, Eagleton\, and Goddard\, as well as numerous books at the intersection of literature\, art and politics. It’s No Good\, Medvedev’s first collection of work in English translation\, was released in spring 2016 by Ugly Duckling Presse
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kirill-medvedev/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170307T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T122131
CREATED:20170117T093212Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170117T093212Z
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SUMMARY:Megan Marshall
DESCRIPTION:From a Pulitzer Prize-winning author comes Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast\, a brilliantly rendered life of one of our most admired American poets \nSince her death in 1979\, Elizabeth Bishop\, who published only one hundred poems in her lifetime\, has become one of America’s most revered poets. And yet—painfully shy and living out of public view in far-flung locations like Key West and Brazil—she has never been seen so fully as a woman and artist. Megan Marshall makes incisive and moving use of a newly discovered cache of Bishop’s letters—to her psychiatrist and to three of her lovers—to reveal a much darker childhood than has been known\, a secret affair\, and the last chapter of her passionate romance with Brazilian modernist designer Lota de Macedo Soares. \nThese elements of Bishop’s life\, along with her friendships with fellow poets Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell\, both important champions of her work\, are brought to life with novelistic intensity. And by alternating the narrative line of biography with brief passages of memoir\, Megan Marshall\, who studied with Bishop in her storied 1970s poetry workshop at Harvard\, offers the reader an original and compelling glimpse of the ways poetry and biography\, subject and biographer\, are entwined. \nMegan Marshall is the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for Margaret Fuller\, and the author of The Peabody Sisters\, which won the Francis Parkman Prize\, the Mark Lynton History Prize\, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2006. She is the Charles Wesley Emerson College Professor and teaches narrative nonfiction and the art of archival research in the MFA program at Emerson College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/megan-marshall/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170307T200000
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CREATED:20170117T092956Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170117T092956Z
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SUMMARY:Yiyun Li
DESCRIPTION:Dear Friend\, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life \npublished by Random House \nIn her first nonfiction book\, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li explores a question we ask ourselves: How does one make life livable? \nStartlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom\, this is a luminous account of a life lived with books. Written over two years while the author battled suicidal depression\, Dear Friend\, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life is a painful and yet richly affirming examination of what makes life worth living. \nYiyun Li grew up in China and has spent her adult life as an immigrant in a country not her own. She has been a scientist\, an author\, a mother\, a daughter—and through it all she has been sustained by a profound connection with the writers and books she loves. From William Trevor and Katherine Mansfield to Søren Kierkegaard and Philip Larkin\, Dear Friend is a journey through the deepest themes that bind these writers together. \nInterweaving personal experiences with a wide-ranging homage to her most cherished literary influences\, Yiyun Li confronts the two most essential questions of her identity: Why write? And why live? Dear Friend is a beautiful\, interior exploration of selfhood and a journey of recovery through literature: a long letter from a writer to like-minded readers. \nYiyun Li grew up in Beijing and came to the United States in 1996. She has received fellowships and awards from Lannan Foundation and Whiting Foundation. Her debut collection\, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers\, won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award\, PEN/Hemingway Award\, Guardian First Book Award\, and California Book Award for first fiction. Her novel\, The Vagrants\, won the gold medal of California Book Award for fiction\, and was shortlisted for Dublin IMPAC Award. Gold Boy\, Emerald Girl\, her second collection\, was a finalist of Story Prize and shortlisted for Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages. She was selected by Granta as one of the 21 Best Young American Novelists under 35\, and was named by The New Yorker as one of the top 20 writers under 40. MacArthur Foundation named her a 2010 fellow. She is a contributing editor to the Brooklyn-based literary magazine\, \nAdvance praise for Dear Friend\, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life \n“In this exquisite\, intimate\, lyrical memoir\, Yiyun Li reveals her life in flashes appended to an arrestingly coherent philosophy of time\, self\, and place. Uniting the discipline of a scientist with the empathy of a novelist\, she scatters profound and often difficult truths through these generous\, wise\, challenging pages.”—Andrew Solomon\, author of Far from the Tree \n“Yiyun Li has written a remarkable account of her literary life\, begun in her youth in China with the books that first engaged her in the great conversations of literature. In her own emergence as an important and gifted writer in English she has brought a new voice to that great world. She has also been\, in the deepest sense\, sustained by it. Her new book is a meditation on the fact that literature itself lives and gives life.”—Marilynne Robinson\, author of Gilead \n“Literature\, national identity versus the individual self\, the clash of public and private\, the mysterious nature of relationship\, indeed\, human nature itself—these subjects and more are explored with remarkable subtlety and rare\, limpid mental beauty. A must-read for anyone trying to stay sane in a world that might be perceived as insane.”—Mary Gaitskill\, author of The Mare \n“This extraordinary book is the story of a writer being made and making herself. It is the story of depression coming in waves and being beaten back through love and stubbornness. And also it is one of our finest writers scrutinizing the books that have mattered most to her.”—Akhil Sharma\, author of Family Life \n“Reading Yiyun Li feels like being inside a mind—a quietly forceful\, unrelenting mind. Within the limits of language\, which she all but touches\, she unfolds an argument with the self. She is suspicious of the very concept of the self\, but she does not\, ultimately\, refuse its possibilities. ‘What a long way it is from one life to another\,’ she writes\, while closing that space.”—Eula Biss\, author of On Immunity
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yiyun-li-3/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170308T200000
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CREATED:20170131T074942Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T074942Z
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SUMMARY:Peter Heller
DESCRIPTION:From Peter Heller\, the bestselling author of The Dog Stars and The Painter\, comes Celine\, a luminous\, masterful novel of suspense and the story of an elegant\, aristocratic private eye who specializes in reuniting families\, trying to make amends for a loss in her own past. \nWorking out of her jewel box of an apartment at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge\, Celine has made a career of tracking down missing persons\, and she has a better record at it than the FBI. But when a young woman\, Gabriela\, asks for her help\, a world of mystery and sorrow opens up. Gabriela’s father was a photographer who went missing on the border of Montana and Wyoming. He was assumed to have died from a grizzly mauling\, but his body was never found. Now\, as Celine and her partner head to Yellowstone National Park\, investigating a trail gone cold\, it becomes clear that they are being followed—that this is a case someone desperately wants to keep closed. Combining the exquisite plotting and gorgeous evocation of nature that have become his hallmark\, with a wildly engrossing story of family\, privilege\, and childhood loss\, Peter Heller gives us his finest work to date. \nPeter Heller is the bestselling author of The Painter and The Dog Stars. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in both fiction and poetry. An award-winning adventure writer and a longtime contributor to NPR\, Heller is a contributing editor at Outside magazine\, Men’s Journal\, and National Geographic Adventure\, and a regular contributor to Bloomberg Businessweek. He is also the author of several nonfiction books\, including Kook\, The Whale Warriors\, and Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet’s Tsangpo River. He lives in Denver\, Colorado.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-heller/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170308T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T122131
CREATED:20170131T074623Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T074623Z
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SUMMARY:Asya Abdrahman\, Faith Adiele + Tonya M. Foster
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of International Women’s Day and in collaboration with the Museum of the African Diaspora\, memoirist and travel writer Faith Adiele\, poet and essayist Tonya Foster\, and visual artist Asya Abdrahman will discuss the ways they make place and navigate the literary\, artistic and academic worlds in which they live and work. The event will include readings by the authors and offer opportunities for visual and literary artists to respond to each other’s work. The event takes place within in the context of the current MoAD exhibition\, Where Is Here\, curated by Jacqueline Francis and Kathy Zarur. Admission: $10 General | $5 Student/Senior | Free for MoAD Members and SFSU Students \nAsya Abdrahman is a San Francisco-based mixed media and installation artist who considers the intersection of cultural identity\, human rights and the environment in her work. Of Somali\, Eritrean\, and Ethiopian heritages\, she fled her East African homeland during a time of regional wars. Abdrahman’s work promotes cultural and ecological survival\, advanced through her use of human\, natural\, found\, and recycled resources. In addition to exhibiting her art throughout the Bay Area\, Abdrahman is the founder of Pay It Forward (PIF) Gallery in Oakland. She regularly produces and curates exhibitions at the historic Red Vic and contributes art and writing to Women Eco Artists Dialog. Her work is featured at MoAD in the current exhibition Where Is Here. \nFaith Adiele was raised in the Pacific Northwest\, and earned two MFAs from writing programs at the University of Iowa. She is the author of the travel memoir Meeting Faith\, which won the PEN Open Book Award\, and co-editor of Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology. She’s completing a mixed-media family history inspired by My Journey Home\, her PBS documentary about finding her Nigerian family\, and her ebook/audiobook\, The Nigerian-Nordic Girl’s Guide to Lady Problems. She is an Associate Professor at California College of the Arts and teaches at The Writers’ Grotto and VONA/Voices\, where she launched the nation’s first writing workshop for travelers of color. Adiele lives in Oakland and runs a monthly African Book Club. Visit her at adiele.com and @meetingfaith. \nTonya M. Foster was born in Bloomington\, Illinois and raised in New Orleans.  She holds an MFA from the University of Houston. She is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court (Belladonna*\, 2015) and co-editor of Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art. Her work has appeared in Callaloo\, MiPoiesis\, NYFA Arts Quarterly\, The Poetry Project Newsletter\, and elsewhere. A recipient of fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Macdowell Colony\, the Ford Foundation\, the Mellon Foundation\, and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York\, Foster is an Assistant Professor of Writing & Literature and Graduate Writing at California College of the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/asya-abdrahman-faith-adiele-tonya-m-foster/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Thi Bui
DESCRIPTION:Debut author Thi Bui discusses her intimate and poignant graphic memoir portraying one family’s journey from war-torn Vietnam. Join us at Pegasus Books Downtown for the book launch of one of 2017’s most anticipated graphic novel releases. \nAbout the Book \nThis beautifully illustrated and emotional story is an evocative memoir about the search for a better future and a longing for the past. Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family\, Bui documents the story of her family’s daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s\, and the difficulties they faced building new lives for themselves. \nAt the heart of Bui’s story is a universal struggle: While adjusting to life as a first-time mother\, she ultimately discovers what it means to be a parent—the endless sacrifices\, the unnoticed gestures\, and the depths of unspoken love. Despite how impossible it seems to take on the simultaneous roles of both parent and child\, Bui pushes through. With haunting\, poetic writing and breathtaking art\, she examines the strength of family\, the importance of identity\, and the meaning of home. \nIn what Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen calls “a book to break your heart and heal it\,” The Best We Could Do brings to life Thi Bui’s journey of understanding\, and provides inspiration to all of those who search for a better future while longing for a simpler past. \nPRAISE \n“A powerful and intimate look at the modern immigrant experience in America.”\n— ICv2 \nThi Bui’s stark\, compelling memoir is about an ordinary family\, but her story delivers the painful truth that most Vietnamese of the 20th century know in an utterly personal fashion—that history is found in the marrow of one’s bones\, ready to be passed on through blood\, through generations\, through feelings. A book to break your heart and heal it.\n— Viet Thanh Nguyen\, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-thi-bui/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Martha Hall Kelly
DESCRIPTION:Lilac Girls is an arresting\, powerful debut novel inspired by the life of debutante turned unlikely WWII hero Caroline Ferriday. \nOn a September day in Manhattan in 1939\, twenty-something Caroline Ferriday is consumed by her efforts to secure the perfect boutonniere for an important French diplomat and resisting the romantic advances of a married actor. Meanwhile across the Atlantic\, Kasia Kuzmerick\, a Polish Catholic teenager\, is nervously anticipating the changes that are sure to come since Germany has declared war on Poland. As tensions rise abroad – and in her personal life – Caroline’s interest in aiding the war effort in France grows and she eventually learns about the dire situation at the Ravensbruck all-female concentration camp. At the same time\, Kasia’s carefree youth is quickly slipping away\, only to be replaced by a fervor for the Polish resistance movement. Through Ravensbruck – and the horrific atrocities taking place there told in part by an infamous German surgeon\, Herta Oberheuser – the two women’s lives will converge in unprecedented ways and a novel of redemption and hope emerges that is breathtaking in scope and depth. \nFrom New York to Paris\, and Furstenberg to Lublin\, Martha Hall Kelly captures the powerful pull of human compassion\, strong enough to stretch across continents and capable of triumphing over the grim evils of war. This is a striking story of an unsung heroine and her resolute will to right what is wrong. \nMartha Hall Kelly is a native New Englander\, now transplanted in Atlanta\, Georgia\, where she spends her days filling legal pads with stories and reading WWII books. This is her first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/martha-hall-kelly/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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