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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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SUMMARY:Norman Ohler
DESCRIPTION:Norman Ohler in conversation about his new book\, Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich \n\nPraise for Norman Ohler \n\n“A huge contribution … Remarkable.” —Antony Beevor\, BBC 4 Today \n\n“Ohler’s astonishing account of methamphetamine addiction in the Third Reich changes what we know about the Second World War … Blitzed looks set to reframe the way certain aspects of the Third Reich will be viewed in the future.” — Guardian \n  \n“Blitzed tells the remarkable story of how Nazi Germany slid towards junkie-state status. It is an energetic … account of an accelerating\, modernizing society\, an ambitious pharmaceuticals industry\, a military machine that was looking for ways to create an unbeatable soldier\, and a dictator who couldn’t function without fixes from his quack … It has an uncanny ability to disturb.” — Times (UK) \n\nAbout Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich \n\nThe Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical\, mental\, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history\, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs. On the eve of World War II\, Germany was a pharmaceutical powerhouse\, and companies such as Merck and Bayer cooked up cocaine\, opiates\, and\, most of all\, methamphetamines\, to be consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives to millions of German soldiers. In fact\, troops regularly took rations of a form of crystal meth—the elevated energy and feelings of invincibility associated with the high even help to explain certain German military victories. \n  \nDrugs seeped all the way up to the Nazi high command and\, especially\, to Hitler himself. Over the course of the war\, Hitler became increasingly dependent on injections of a cocktail of drugs—including a form of heroin—administered by his personal doctor. While drugs alone cannot explain the Nazis’ toxic racial theories or the events of World War II\, Ohler’s investigation makes an overwhelming case that\, if drugs are not taken into account\, our understanding of the Third Reich is fundamentally incomplete.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/norman-ohler/
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:Dan Chaon
DESCRIPTION:Two sensational unsolved crimes one in the past\, another in the present are linked by one man’s memory and self-deception in this chilling novel of literary suspense from National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon. \nWe are always telling a story to ourselves\, about ourselves. This is one of the little mantras Dustin Tillman likes to share with his patients\, and it’s meant to be reassuring. But what if that story is a lie? \nA psychologist in suburban Cleveland\, Dustin is drifting through his forties when he hears the news: His adopted brother\, Rusty\, is being released from prison. Thirty years ago\, Rusty received a life sentence for the massacre of Dustin’s parents\, aunt\, and uncle. The trial came to epitomize the 1980s hysteria over Satanic cults; despite the lack of physical evidence\, the jury believed the outlandish accusations Dustin and his cousin made against Rusty. Now\, after DNA analysis hasoverturned the conviction\, Dustin braces for a reckoning. \nMeanwhile\, one of Dustin’s patients has been plying him with stories of the drowning deaths of a string of drunk college boys. At first Dustin dismisses his patient’s suggestions that a serial killer is at work as paranoid thinking\, but as the two embark on an amateur investigation\, Dustin starts to believe that there’s more to the deaths than coincidence. Soon he becomes obsessed\, crossing all professional boundaries and putting his own family in harm’s way. \nFrom one of today’s most renowned practitioners of literary suspense\, Ill Will is an intimate thriller about the failures of memory and the perils of self-deception. In Dan Chaon’s nimble\, chilling prose\, the past looms over the present\, turning each into a haunted place. \nDan Chaon is the acclaimed author of Among the Missing\, which was a finalist for the National Book Award; You Remind Me of Me\, which was named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post\, San Francisco Chronicle\, and Entertainment Weekly\, among other publications; Await Your Reply\, which was a New York Times Notable Book and appeared on more than a dozen best-of-the-year lists; and Stay Awake. Chaon’s fiction has been published in many journals and anthologies\, including The Best American Short Stories\, Pushcart Prize\, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. He has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction\, and he was the recipient of the 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Chaon lives in Cleveland\, Ohio\, and teaches at Oberlin College\, where he is the Pauline M. Delaney Professor of Creative Writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dan-chaon/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Damion Searls
DESCRIPTION:The Inkblot: Hermann Rorschach\, His Iconic Test\, and the Power of Seeing \nfrom Crown Books \nThe captivating untold story of Hermann Rorschach and his famous inkblot test\, which has shaped our view of human personality and become a fixture in popular culture \nIn 1917\, working alone in a remote Swiss asylum\, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach devised an experiment to probe the human mind. For years he had grappled with the theories of Freud and Jung while also absorbing the aesthetic of a new generation of modern artists. He had come to believe that who we are is less a matter of what we say\, as Freud thought\, than what we see. \nRorschach himself was a visual artist\, and his test\, a set of ten carefully designed inkblots\, quickly made its way to America\, where it took on a life of its own. Co-opted by the military after Pearl Harbor\, it was a fixture at the Nuremberg trials and in the jungles of Vietnam. It became an advertising staple\, a cliché in Hollywood and journalism\, and an inspiration to everyone from Andy Warhol to Jay Z. The test was also given to millions of defendants\, job applicants\, parents in custody battles\, workers applying for jobs\, and people suffering from mental illness—or simply trying to understand themselves better. And it is still used today. \nDamion Searls draws on unpublished letters and diaries as well as a cache of previously unknown interviews with Rorschach’s family\, friends\, and colleagues to tell the unlikely story of the test’s creation\, its controversial reinvention\, and its remarkable endurance—and what it all reveals about the power of perception. Elegant and original\, The Inkblots shines a light on the twentieth century’s most visionary synthesis of art and science. \n\nDamion Searls has written for Harper’s\, n+1\, and The Paris Review\, and has translated the work of authors including Rilke\, Proust\, and five Nobel Prize winners. He has been the recipient of Guggenheim\, NEA\, and Cullman Center fellowships.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/damion-searls/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Christina Baker Kline
DESCRIPTION:From the author of the smash bestseller Orphan Train\, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship\, passion\, and art\, inspired by Andrew Wyeth’s mysterious and iconic painting “Christina’s World” \n“Later he told me that he’d been afraid to show me the painting. He thought I wouldn’t like the way he portrayed me: dragging myself across the field\, fingers clutching dirt\, my legs twisted behind. The arid moonscape of wheatgrass and timothy. That dilapidated house in the distance\, looming up like a secret that won’t stay hidden.” \nTo Christina Olson\, the entire world was her family’s remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing\, Maine. Born in the home her family had lived in for generations\, and increasingly incapacitated by illness\, Christina seemed destined for a small life. Instead\, for more than twenty years\, she was host and inspiration for the artist Andrew Wyeth\, and became the subject of one of the best-known American paintings of the twentieth century. \nAs she did in her beloved smash bestseller Orphan Train\, Christina Baker Kline interweaves fact and fiction in a powerful novel that illuminates a little-known part of America’s history. Bringing into focus the flesh-and-blood woman behind the portrait\, she vividly imagines the life of a woman with a complicated relationship to her family and her past\, and a special bond with one of our greatest modern artists. \nTold in evocative and lucid prose\, A Piece of the World is a story about the burdens and blessings of family history\, and how artist and muse can come together to forge a new and timeless legacy. \nChristina Baker Kline is the author of five novels\, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Orphan Train. Her other novels include Bird in Hand\, The Way Life Should Be\, Desire Lines\, and Sweet Water.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christina-baker-kline/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Wendy Garling
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street Tuesday\, March 14h at 7:00pm as we welcome Author Wendy Garling\, reading from and discussing her book Stars at Dawn. \n  \nIn this retelling of the ancient legends of the women in the Buddha’s intimate circle\, lesser-known stories from Sanskrit and Pali sources are for the first time woven into an illuminating\, coherent narrative that follows his life from his birth to his parinirvana or death. Interspersed with original insights\, fresh interpretations\, and bold challenges to the status quo\, the stories are both entertaining and thought-provoking—some may even appear controversial. \n  \nFocusing first on laywomen from the time before the Buddha’s enlightenment—his birth mother and stepmother\, his co-wives\, and members of his harem when he was known as Prince Siddhartha—then moving on to the Buddha’s first female disciples\, early nuns\, and to female patrons\, Wendy Garling invites us to open our minds to a new understanding of their roles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wendy-garling/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ron Currie
DESCRIPTION:Ron Currie’s three previous works of fiction have dazzled readers and critics alike with their originality\, audacity\, and psychological insight. A writer of unique vision and huge imagination\, Currie excels at creating complex\, troubled\, yet endearing characters\, and his work has won comparison to everyone from Kurt Vonnegut to George Saunders. \nK.\, the intriguing narrator of Currie’s new novel\, The One-Eyed Man\, joins the ranks of other great American literary creations who show us something new about ourselves. Like Jack Gladney from White Noise\, K. is possessed of a hyper-articulate exasperation with the world\, and like Ignatius J. Reilly in A Confederacy of Dunces\, he is a doomed truth teller whom everyone misunderstands. After his wife Sarah dies\, K. loses his metaphorical capacity\, becoming so wedded to the notion of clarity that he infuriates everyone\, friends and strangers alike. When he intervenes in an armed robbery\, K. finds himself both an inadvertent hero and the star of a new reality television program. Together with Claire\, a grocery store clerk with a sharp tongue and a yen for celebrity\, he travels the country\, ruffling feathers and gaining fame at the intersection of American politics and entertainment. But soon\, through a conflagration of biblical proportions\, he discovers that the world will fight viciously to preserve its delusions about itself. \nK.’s quixotic effort to fully understand the world he lives in makes for a singular and entertaining novel\, one which further establishes Ron Currie’s position as one of today’s rising stars in fiction. \nRon Currie is the author of the novels Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles and Everything Matters! and the short story collection God is Dead\, which was the winner of the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award. In 2009\, he received the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His books have been translated into fifteen languages. He lives in Portland\, Maine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ron-currie/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Melissa Febos
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Melissa Febos to the store to discuss and sign her memoir Abandon Me\, on Wednesday\, March 15th at 7:00 pm. \nIn this dazzling new work\, Melissa Febos captures the intense bonds of love and the need for connection — with family\, lovers\, and oneself. First\, her birth father\, who left her with only an inheritance of addiction and Native American blood\, its meaning a mystery. As Febos tentatively reconnects\, she sees how both these lineages manifest in her own life\, marked by compulsion and an instinct for self-erasure. Meanwhile\, she remains closely tied to the sea captain who raised her\, his parenting ardent but intermittent as his work took him away for months at a time. Woven throughout is the hypnotic story of an all-consuming\, long-distance love affair with a woman\, marked equally by worship and withdrawal. In visceral\, erotic prose\, Febos captures their mutual abandonment to passion and obsession — and the terror and exhilaration of losing herself in another.\nAt once a fearlessly vulnerable memoir and an incisive investigation of art\, love\, and identity\, Abandon Me draws on childhood stories\, religion\, psychology\, mythology\, popular culture\, and the intimacies of one writer’s life to reveal intellectual and emotional truths that feel startlingly universal. \nMelissa Febos is the author of the memoir Whip Smart. Portions from Abandon Me have won prizes from Prairie Schooner\, Story Quarterly\, and the Center for Women Writers\, and twice earned notice in the 2015 Best American Essays anthology. Febos serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts\, and is an assistant professor of creative writing at Monmouth University and on the M.F.A. faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/melissa-febos/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Logic Magazine
DESCRIPTION:Logic Magazine wants to tell the story of technology with its founding editors: Ben Tarnoff\, Moira Weigel\, Jim Fingal\, Christa Hartsock and Logic contributors Tim Hwang\, Miriam Posner\, and Conrad Amenta. \nLogic is a new magazine devoted to technology and society. Please join us for a celebration of their debut issue\, “Intelligence\,” which explores how technology works—and whom it works for. Hear thier editors read from our founding manifesto\, and listen to contributors tackle topics as varied as: coding’s gender crisis\, the failure of collective intelligence in the Age of Trump\, and the industrialization of medicine through software. \nLearn more about the magazine\, and read their manifesto\, at logicmag.io. \nBen Tarnoff writes about technology and politics for The Guardian and Jacobin. His most recent book is The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature. \nMoira Weigel writes about gender and technology for The New York Times\, The Guardian\, and The New Republic. She is the author of Labor Love: The Invention of Dating. \nJim Fingal is a software developer and the Head of Product Engineering at Amino. He is the co-author\, with John D’Agata\, of The Lifespan of a Fact. \nChrista Hartsock is a software developer and a 2017 Code for America Fellow. \nTim Hwang is a Fellow at Data & Society and has worked with the Berkman Center\, Creative Commons\, the Electronic Frontier Foundation\, and the Institute for the Future. \nMiriam Posner teaches in the Digital Humanities program at the University of California\, Los Angeles. \nConrad Amenta writes about video games and culture for Kill Screen and works as a healthcare researcher in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/logic-magazine/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joan Frank
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith is excited to host the San Francisco launch party for Joan Frank‘s fourth novel and winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction\, All The News I Need. Joan will be in conversation with Peg Alford Pursell. Join us! \n  \nFrances Ferguson is a lonely\, sharp-tongued widow who lives in the wine country. Oliver Gaffney is a painfully shy gay man who guards a secret and lives out equally lonely days in San Francisco. Friends by default\, Fran and Ollie nurse the deep anomie of loss and the creeping\, animal betrayal of aging. Each loves routine but is anxious that life might be passing by. To crack open this stalemate\, Fran insists the two travel together to Paris. The aftermath of their funny\, bittersweet journey suggests those small changes\, within our reach\, that may help us save ourselves—somewhere toward the end. \n  \n“I was in thrall to these sentences\, their music\, their compassion and truth and disarming humility.” — Sam Michel\, Juniper Prize for Fiction judge and author of Strange Cowboy\n“Joan Frank is a human insight machine.” — Carolyn Cooke\, author of Amor and Psycho: Stories\n“Joan Frank is a writer of sublime power who reveals the lives of her characters with such care\, insight\, and elegance\, that deeply buried feelings of victory and loss become inextricably bound up with our own.” — Simon Van Booy\, author ofFather’s Day
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joan-frank/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Paul La Farge w/ Daniel Handler
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Handler talks with Paul La Farge about his latest novel\, The Night Ocean. \nPraise for The Night Ocean: \n“Magnificent. The Night Ocean is an impossible\, irresistible novel\, a love letter to the unloveable that speaks the unspeakable.” – Lev Grossman\, author of the Magicians trilogy \n“A whole damned hustling heart-broken double-talking meaning-haunted world it is a privilege to enter.” – Peter Straub \n“Paul La Farge has crafted the perfect novel – a work that constantly twists into unexpected realms\, that illuminates the nature of love and deception\, and that is as funny as it is profound. The Night Ocean is a gift to readers.” – David Grann\, author of The Lost City of Z \n\n“The Night Ocean is straight up brilliant. That’s no surprise since it’s written by Paul La Farge\, one of the smartest\, wildest literary talents in the game today….A sly\, witty\, but still loving send-up of H.P. Lovecraft and some of the grand anxieties of the American 20th century.” — Victor LaValle\, author of The Ballad of Black Tom \n\n“It has been years since I read a novel with so much joy\, impatience and awe. The Night Ocean overflows with difficult love\, not least of all that of our narrator\, Marina\, who indirectly reminds us of how we are pushed around by dreams\, ghosts\, chance\, and history. I have long been a tremendous admirer of all of La Farge’s work; this novel is my favorite.” – Rivka Galchen\, author of Atmospheric Disturbances \n\nAbout The Night Ocean: \nFrom the award-winning author and New Yorker contributor\, a riveting novel about secrets and scandals\, psychiatry and pulp fiction\, inspired by the lives of H.P. Lovecraft and his circle.\nMarina Willett\, M.D.\, has a problem. Her husband\, Charlie\, has become obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft\, in particular with one episode in the legendary horror writer’s life: In the summer of 1934\, the “old gent” lived for two months with a gay teenage fan named Robert Barlow\, at Barlow’s family home in central Florida. What were the two of them up to? Were they friends–or something more? Just when Charlie thinks he’s solved the puzzle\, a new scandal erupts\, and he disappears. The police say it’s suicide. Marina is a psychiatrist\, and she doesn’t believe them.\nA tour-de-force of storytelling\, The Night Ocean follows the lives of some extraordinary people: Lovecraft\, the most influential American horror writer of the 20th century\, whose stories continue to win new acolytes\, even as his racist views provoke new critics; Barlow\, a seminal scholar of Mexican culture who killed himself after being blackmailed for his homosexuality (and who collaborated with Lovecraft on the beautiful story “The Night Ocean”); his student\, future Beat writer William S. Burroughs; and L.C. Spinks\, a kindly Canadian appliance salesman and science-fiction fan — the only person who knows the origins of The Erotonomicon\, purported to be the intimate diary of Lovecraft himself.\nAs a heartbroken Marina follows her missing husband’s trail in an attempt to learn the truth\, the novel moves across the decades and along the length of the continent\, from a remote Ontario town\, through New York and Florida to Mexico City. The Night Ocean is about love and deception — about the way that stories earn our trust\, and betray it.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-la-farge-w-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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SUMMARY:Moshin Hamid
DESCRIPTION:Named one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by Time Magazine\, the New York Times\, Washington Post and the Huffington Post \nFrom the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist\, a love story that unfolds across the rapidly changing face of a volatile world. \nIn a country teetering on the brink of civil war\, two young people meet sensual\, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle\, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair\, and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes\, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts\, they begin to hear whispers about doors doors that can whisk people far away\, if perilously and for a price. As the violence escalates\, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind\, they find a door and step through. . . . \nExit West follows these remarkable characters as they emerge into an alien and uncertain future\, struggling to hold on to each other\, to their past\, to the very sense of who they are. Profoundly intimate and powerfully inventive\, it tells an unforgettable story of love\, loyalty\, and courage that is both completely of our time and for all time. \nMohsin Hamidis the internationally bestselling author of Moth Smoke\, The Reluctant Fundamentalist\, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia\, and Discontent and its Civilizations. His award-winning novels have been adapted for the cinema\, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize\, and translated into more than thirty languages. His essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, and the New Yorker\, among many other publications. Hamid now resides in Lahore\, his birthplace\, after living for a number of years in New York and London.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/moshin-hamid/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170316T190000
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SUMMARY:Deepak Unnikrishnan
DESCRIPTION:Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing \nIn the United Arab Emirates\, foreign nationals constitute over 80% of the population. Brought in to construct the towering monuments to wealth that bristle the skylines of Abu Dhabi and Dubai\, this labor force works without the rights of citizenship\, endures miserable living conditions\, and is eventually required to leave the country. Until now\, the humanitarian crisis of the so-called “guest workers” of the Gulf has barely been addressed in fiction. With his stunning\, mind-altering book Temporary People\, debut author Deepak Unnikrishnan delves into their histories\, myths\, struggles\, and triumphs\, and illuminates the ways in which temporary status affects psyches\, families\, memories\, stories\, and languages. \nCombining the irrepressible linguistic invention of Salman Rushdie and the darkly funny satirical vision of George Saunders\, Deepak Unnikrishnan presents twenty-eight linked stories that careen from construction workers who shapeshift into luggage and escape a labor camp\, to a woman who stitches back together the bodies of those who’ve fallen from buildings in progress\, to a man who grows ideal workers designed to live twelve years and then perish—until they don’t\, and found a rebel community in the desert. In this polyphony of voices\, Unnikrishnan brilliantly maps a new\, unruly global English\, and in giving substance and identity to the anonymous workers of the Gulf\, he highlights the disturbing ways in which “progress” on a global scale is bound up with dehumanization. \nDeepak Unnikrishnan is a writer and taleteller from Abu Dhabi (and now\, Chicago). He has lived on the East Coast and in the Midwest\, reciting and mining his myths in Teaneck\, New Jersey\, Brooklyn\, New York\, and Chicago’s North and South sides. He has studied and taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and presently teaches at New York University Abu Dhabi. Temporary People\, his first book\, was the inaugural winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deepak-unnikrishnan/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:AMERARCANA: A Bird & Beckett Review
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a concert and reading in celebration of the Shuffle Boil Special Issue of AMERARCANA: A Bird & Beckett Review\, guest edited by David Meltzer and Steve Dickison. The evening will feature live music by outstanding Bay Area musicians David Boyce\, Hafez Modirzadeh\, and Marshall R. Trammell — all of whom\, as writers\, are contributors to the current issue of the journal. Participating poets and writers tba. This event is free and open to the public. \nDavid Boyce is a tenor saxophonist\, music educator\, and founding member of the renowned postmodern jazz trio Broun Fellinis. He’s toured Japan and Europe and performs regularly in the Bay Area with a variety of musical ensembles playing everything from straight ahead jazz to RnB/Soul to experimental improv. Much more at brounsoun \nHafez Modirzadeh has performed internationally over the last 20 years with such musicians as Ornette Coleman\, Don Cherry\, Zakir Hussein\, Steve Lacy\, Oliver Lake\, George Lewis\, Peter Apfelbaum\, William Lowe\, James Newton\, Wadada Leo Smith\, Omar Sosa\, Royal Hartigan\, and many Asian and Asian American musical artists such as Fred Ho\, Miya Masaoka\, Liu Chi Chao\, Danongan Kalanduyan\, Mark Izu\, Anthony Brown\, Akira Tana\, and Kenny Endo. His recorded output as a leader includes three recent recordings on Pi Records: In Convergence Liberation\, Post-Chromodal Out!\, and\, with trumpeter Amir ElSaffar\, Radif Suite. He is currently professor of World Culture in Music at San Francisco State University where he directs the World Music and Dance Program. \nMarshall Trammell is the Chief Investigator at Music Research Strategies\, his platform for creative inquiry and social engagement. He is a Bay Area-based percussionist who has collaborated with Pauline Oliveros\, Marco Eneidi\, Suzanne Thorpe\, Dohee Lee\, Hong-Kai Wang (Taiwan)\, Genny Lim\, Saul Williams\, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten\, Leon Sun\, Francis Wong\, Jon Jang\, Chris Cogburn\, Donald Robinson\, William Winant\, India Cooke.  Mr. Trammell performs in the electro-acoustic duo Black Spirituals\, who tour extensively in Europe and the USA\, and have performed in special locations like Issue Project Room (NYC)\, the Exploratorium Resonance Series (SF) and Heritage Hall in Guelph\, Canada. \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/amerarcana-a-bird-beckett-review/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Melissa Febos
DESCRIPTION:Melissa Febos talks about Abandon Me\, her new memoir\, with Mallory Ortberg. \n\nPraise for Abandon Me: \n\n“A powerful\, poignant meditation on not only the pain of loss but also the maddening\, intoxicating\, confusing and exhilarating effects of true human closeness.” –  Meghan Daum\, author of THE UNSPEAKABLE \n\n“Abandon Me is a voluptuous book about the relationship between sex and surrender\, desire and addiction\, vulnerability and power. Febos unfolds her dark romance with erotic charge and sensuous poetry.” –  Sarah Hepola\, author of BLACKOUT \n\n“It’s rare to read a book as generous as it is genius. Febos intimately explores addiction\, pain\, pleasure\, the uncontrollable character and the strangely joyful and terrifying nuances of abandonment. I don’t know that I’ve ever felt more thankful to read a book. Abandon Me found me when I most needed it.” –  Kiese Laymon\, author of HOW TO SLOWLY KILL YOURSELF AND OTHERS IN AMERICA \n\n“An intricately constructed and emotionally devastating book about the appearance and disappearance of love. Febos is a strikingly talented writer who pushes at the boundaries of her form and shows us just how amazing and expansive it can be.” –  Jenny Offill\, author of DEPT. OF SPECULATION \n\nAbout Abandon Me: \n\nIn her critically acclaimed memoir\, Whip Smart\, Melissa Febos laid bare the intimate world of the professional dominatrix\, turning an honest examination of her life into a lyrical study of power\, desire\, and fulfillment.\nIn her dazzling Abandon Me\, Febos captures the intense bonds of love and the need for connection — with family\, lovers\, and oneself. First\, her birth father\, who left her with only an inheritance of addiction and Native American blood\, its meaning a mystery. As Febos tentatively reconnects\, she sees how both these lineages manifest in her own life\, marked by compulsion and an instinct for self-erasure. Meanwhile\, she remains closely tied to the sea captain who raised her\, his parenting ardent but intermittent as his work took him away for months at a time. Woven throughout is the hypnotic story of an all-consuming\, long-distance love affair with a woman\, marked equally by worship and withdrawal. In visceral\, erotic prose\, Febos captures their mutual abandonment to passion and obsession — and the terror and exhilaration of losing herself in another.\nAt once a fearlessly vulnerable memoir and an incisive investigation of art\, love\, and identity\, Abandon Me draws on childhood stories\, religion\, psychology\, mythology\, popular culture\, and the intimacies of one writer’s life to reveal intellectual and emotional truths that feel startlingly universal.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/melissa-febos-2/
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:20170318T200000
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CREATED:20170117T102905Z
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SUMMARY:Patty Yumi Cottrell
DESCRIPTION:Patty Yumi Cottrell in conversation about her new novel\, Sorry to Disrupt the Peace. \nPraise for Patty Yumi Cottrell \n\n“Patty Yumi Cottrell’s prose does so many of my favorite things–some too subtle to talk about without spoiling\, but one thing I have to mention is the way in which her heroine’s investigation of a suicide draws the reader right into the heart of this wonderfully spiky hedgehog of a book and then elbows us yet further along into what is ultimately a tremendously moving act of imagination.” —Helen Oyeyemi\, author of What Is Not Yours Is \n\n“In this completely absorbing novel of devastation and estrangement\, Patty Yumi Cottrell introduces herself as a modern Robert Walser. Her voice is unflinching\, unforgettable\, and animated with a restless sense of humor.” —Catherine Lacey\, author of Nobody Is Ever Missing \n\n“Patty Yumi Cottrell’s adoption of the rambling and specific absurd will and must delight. This is a graceful claim not just about writing but about a way of being in the world\, an always new and necessary way to contend with this garbage that surrounds us\, these false portraits of our hearts and minds. This book is not a diversion–it’s a lifeline.” —Jesse Ball\, author of How to Set a Fire and Why \n\nAbout Sorry to Disrupt the Peace \n\nHelen Moran is thirty-two years old\, single\, childless\, college-educated\, and partially employed as a guardian of troubled young people in New York. She’s accepting a delivery from IKEA in her shared studio apartment when her uncle calls to break the news: Helen’s adoptive brother is dead. According to the internet\, there are six possible reasons why her brother might have killed himself. But Helen knows better: she knows that six reasons is only shorthand for the abyss. Helen also knows that she alone is qualified to launch a serious investigation into his death\, so she purchases a one-way ticket to Milwaukee. There\, as she searches her childhood home and attempts to uncover why someone would choose to die\, she will face her estranged family\, her brother’s few friends\, and the overzealous grief counselor\, Chad Lambo; she may also discover what it truly means to be alive.\nA bleakly comic tour de force that’s by turns poignant\, uproariously funny\, and viscerally unsettling\, this debut novel has shades of Bernhard\, Beckett and Bowlesand it announces the singular voice of Patty Yumi Cottrell.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patty-yumi-cottrell/
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:Nomadic Press: Spring Equinox 2017 Fundraiser
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-spring-equinox-2017-fundraiser/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170320T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170320T203000
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CREATED:20170320T011733Z
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SUMMARY:A Celebration of Jane Austen
DESCRIPTION:Jane Austen lived and wrote 200 years ago\, but her books are still avidly read and her plain life studied today. What is it about her novels and Jane herself that continue to fascinate readers? Danine Cozzens\, co-chair of the Jane Austen Society\, Northern California Region\, will speak to this point at Word Week’s A Celebration of Jane Austen. In addition\, four local authors will read from some of Jane’s finished work. New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors Cara Black and Mary McNear will read from Northanger Abbey and Pride and Prejudice\, poet and novelist Marylee McNeal from Mansfield Park\, and short story author Richard May from Persuasion. The event is free. Jane Austen inspired door prizes will beawarded\, and Netherfield punch will be served. A free Word Week 2017 event www.facebook.com/Word-Week-314929538630095
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-celebration-of-jane-austen/
LOCATION:Umpqua Bank\, 3938 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170320T210000
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CREATED:20170320T012321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T012321Z
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SUMMARY:Judith Ayn Bernhard + Aung Taik
DESCRIPTION:Judith Ayn Bernhard & Aung Taik – POETS! – featured readers followed by an open mic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/judith-ayn-bernhard-aung-taik/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170320T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170320T203000
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CREATED:20170117T103128Z
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SUMMARY:Sam Bercholz
DESCRIPTION:We’ve all heard the stories of someone who has had a near-death experience. They’ve gone toward that white light\, seen a vision of heaven\, and have lived to tell the tale. But what about someone who took a journey in the opposite direction\, not to the heavenly realms\, but to the terrifying depths of hell? \nHere\, Sam Bercholz\, the visionary founder of Shambhala Publications and influential figure in disseminating Buddhist teachings and Eastern wisdom in the West\, tells his story. After a sextuple coronary bypass surgery\, Bercholz experienced a vision of the underworld\, a place of unending suffering where human souls go to meet their karmic retribution. We see tyrants and mass-murderers\, the selfish and careless\, the abusive and power-hungry—all who once thought they were getting ahead on earth now faced with the hard truths of the consequences of their actions in this fiery realm. \nBercholz relayed his story to the renowned Tibetan artist Pema Namdol Thaye\, and the result—as you’ll see in the pages here—is truly astounding. Part Dante’s Inferno\, part Tibetan Book of the Dead\, part Hellboy\, the images graphically transport the reader and viewer into the horrifying world Bercholz describes. These paintings are complex\, unforgettable\, and truly unique\, and several prestigious art institutions have already signed for special exhibitions of this work. \nThe book has already been optioned for film by Stuart MacDonald of Emerald Entertainment\, and tickets for a New York City event at The Rubin Museum\, featuring the author in conversation with the actor Steve Buscemi\, sold out within weeks of going on sale. Praise has been received from writer George Saunders (“A dark thrill to read.”)\, author and activist Matthieu Ricard (“A fascinating and deeply thought-provoking testimony\, powerfully illustrated.”) and Tibetan art expert Robert Beer (“A courageous and subjective account.”).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sam-bercholz/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170320T210000
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CREATED:20170201T025839Z
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SUMMARY:Meredith Maran
DESCRIPTION:After the death of her best friend\, the loss of her life’s savings\, and the collapse of her once-happy marriage\, Meredith Maran—whom Anne Lamott calls “insightful\, funny\, and human”—leaves her San Francisco freelance writer’s life for a 9-to-5 job in Los Angeles. Determined to rebuild not only her savings but herself while relishing the joys of life in La-La land\, Maran writes The New Old Me\, “a poignant story\, a funny story\, a moving story\, and above all an American story of what it means to be a woman of a certain age in our time” (Christina Baker Kline\, number-one New York Times–bestselling author of Orphan Train). \n“High time we had a book that celebrates becoming an elder! Meredith Maran writes of the difficulties of loss and change and aging\, but makes it clear that getting on can be more interesting\, more fun\, and a lot more exciting than youth.” — Abigail Thomas\, author of the New York Times bestseller What Comes Next and How to Like It\n“The New Old Me is a book I don’t just want to read – I need to read it. So does everyone else who’s getting older and wants to live fully\, with immediacy and enjoyment\, which is to say\, everyone.” — Anne Lamott\, author of the New York Times bestsellers Bird by Bird and Some Assembly Required\n“Meredith Maran is my new role model for getting older without getting old.” — Kate Christensen\, author of the PEN/Faulkner award winner The Great Man \nMeredith Maran is the author of fourteen books\, including The New Old Me\, Why We Write About Ourselves\, Why We Write\, My Lie\, and A Theory of Small Earthquakes. She’s a book critic and essayist for newspapers and magazines including the Los Angeles Times\, the Boston Globe\, the Chicago Tribune\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, and Salon.com. The recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo\, and a member of the National Book Critics Circle\, Meredith lives in a restored historic bungalow in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meredith-maran-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170320T013406Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T013406Z
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SUMMARY:Zoey Leigh Peterson
DESCRIPTION:In this moving and enormously entertaining debut novel\, longtime romantic partners Kathryn and Chris experiment with an open relationship and reconsider everything they thought they knew about love. \nAfter nine years together\, Kathryn and Chris have the sort of relationship most would envy. They speak in the shorthand they have invented\, complete one another’s sentences\, and help each other through every daily and existential dilemma. When Chris tells Kathryn about his feelings for Emily\, a vivacious young woman he sees often at the Laundromat\, Kathryn encourages her boyfriend to pursue this other woman—certain that her bond with Chris is strong enough to weather a little side dalliance. \nAs Kathryn and Chris stumble into polyamory\, Next Year\, For Sure tracks the tumultuous\, revelatory\, and often very funny year that follows. When Chris’s romance with Emily grows beyond what anyone anticipated\, both Chris and Kathryn are invited into Emily’s communal home\, where Kathryn will discover new romantic possibilities of her own. In the confusions\, passions\, and upheavals of their new lives\, both Kathryn and Chris will be forced to reconsider their past and what they thought they knew about love. \nOffering a luminous portrait of a relationship from two perspectives\, Zoey L. Paterson has written an empathic\, beautiful\, and tremendously honest novel about a great love pushed to the edge. Deeply poignant and hugely entertaining\, this story shows us what lies at the mysterious heart of relationships\, and what true openness and transformation require. \nZoey Leigh Peterson was born in England\, grew up all over the United States\, and now lives in Canada. Her fiction has appeared in The Walrus\, Grain\, PRISM international\, and has been anthologized in The Journey Prize Stories and Best Canadian Stories. She is the recipient of the Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction (The Malahat Review) and the Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award (The New Quarterly).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoey-leigh-peterson/
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:20170321T203000
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CREATED:20170320T012945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T012945Z
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SUMMARY:Tuesdays at North Beach
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Tuesday evening in the historic literary epicenter of San Francisco to hear poets from near and far read their work! \nTuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, David Meltzer\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact friend’s Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tuesdays-at-north-beach/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170320T014147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T014147Z
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SUMMARY:Weekday Wanderlust: Hua\, Salum + Rohan
DESCRIPTION:Hello Wanderlusters and Happy March! We can’t wait until this month’s reading because we have a POWERHOUSE lineup on deck. Join us as we welcome three outstanding San Francisco writers: Vanessa Hua\, Jeremy Saum\, and Ethel Rohan. Bios will be posted soon to our FB page. Readings\, as usual\, are at the Hotel Rex (562 Sutter Street) and start promptly at 7pm\, but you know you can always find us in the Library Bar at 6pm. Drop in\, say Hi\, and celebrate the great writers of the San Francisco Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/weekday-wanderlust-hua-salum-rohan/
LOCATION:Hotel Rex\, 562 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170321T200000
DTSTAMP:20260414T151131
CREATED:20170320T015734Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T015734Z
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SUMMARY:Cleve Jones w/ Wayne Goodman
DESCRIPTION:Noted LGBTQ activist Cleve Jones will discuss his memoir When We Rise and his life in “The Movement” (as he calls it) with local author and event host Wayne Goodman. This will be Jones’s first public appearance following the broadcast of the ABC televsion mini-series based on his work. Books will be available for purchase and signing. A free Word Week 2017 event www.facebook.com/Word-Week-314929538630095 \nbiographies:\nBorn in 1954\, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were. Like thousands of other young people\, Jones\, nearly penniless\, was drawn in the early 1970s to San Francisco\, a city electrified by progressive politics and sexual freedom. His career as an activist began in San Francisco when he befriended pioneer gay rights leader Harvey Milk. After Milk’s death\, Jones co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and conceived the idea of the AIDS Memorial Quilt\, which memorializes over 85\,000 Americans who have died from AIDS. He lives in San Francisco and works as a labor activist. \nWayne Goodman is a local author of four novels\, including most recently Vanya Says “Go!\, and host and curator of several local reading series. He has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for 50 years (with too many cats). When not writing or working on events\, he enjoys playing Gilded Age piano music by Women\, Gay\, and Black composers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cleve-jones-w-wayne-goodman/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170321T210000
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CREATED:20170320T014813Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T014813Z
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #22
DESCRIPTION:An amazing gathering of writers will read NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts) within a three-minute time limit. \nThe emcee for the night will be the one and only  Christine No. \nFeatured lineup of writers include: Jamey Genna\, C. Anne Gardner\, Gina Goldblatt\, Tureeda Mikell\, Jason Ridler\, Ayo Kensu Ra\, Rene Vaz\, Jenee Darden\, Norma Smith\, Anna Davidson\, Jessica Mejia\, Brenda Usher-Carpino\, Jose Vadi  and more TBA! \nMusical Guest: Melissa Jones! \nBeer made by Ale Industries on site and coffee by our good friends next door\, Red Bay Coffee. \nDonations will be kindly requested\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds. All ages are welcome\, though profanity will be present.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-22/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170321T213000
DTSTAMP:20260414T151131
CREATED:20170320T015944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T022044Z
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SUMMARY:WordParty Poetry + Jazz Night featuring Genny Lim
DESCRIPTION:The WordParty poetry & jazz night returns to PianoFight every Third Tuesday of the Month in 2017! \nOur special guest for March (National Women’s History Month) will be Genny Lim – the current SF Jazz Poet Laureate! Genny is known to frequently collaborate with musicians including the late Max Roach\, Herbie Lewis and Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra. She has performed at World Poetry Festivals in Venezuela\, Italy and Bosnia and on recordings on Asian Improv Records with Francis Wong and Jon Jang. Genny has four poetry collections\, “Paper Gods and Rebels\,” “Child of War\,” “Winter Place” and her most recent “KRA!” She is the author of multiple children’s books and the award-winning play\, “Paper Angels\,” featured on PBS and the Seattle Fringe Festival in 2016. \nCome on down to PianoFight\, in the front room and join us for dinner\, drinks and some live poetry and jazz with the Nova Jazz band. Hosted by Jennifer Barone and Ingrid Keir. \nFree admission\, all ages\, full menu and bar. Sign-up at 6:45pm. Open Mic is open to poets and poetry ONLY – 3min time limit\, one really good poem to read with live jazz accompaniment. It’s on!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wordparty-poetry-jazz-night-featuring-genny-lim/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170322T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170322T200000
DTSTAMP:20260414T151131
CREATED:20170117T103725Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170117T104423Z
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SUMMARY:Graham Foust
DESCRIPTION:Holloway Series in Poetry presents a reading with Graham Foust.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/graham-foust/
LOCATION:Hearst Field Annex\, Hearst Field Annex\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170322T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170322T200000
DTSTAMP:20260414T151131
CREATED:20170320T020954Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T021621Z
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SUMMARY:Immigrant Writers on Embodying 2 Cultures at Once
DESCRIPTION:Moderated and co-hosted by Kirstin Chen. \nHow do immigrant writers navigate multiple cultural and geographical perspectives? In this reading and panel discussion\, Kirstin Chen\, Ingrid Rojas Contreras\, Andrew Lam\, and Juliana Delgado Lopera will share how they encapsulate two—or more—sometimes radically different cultural identities in their work and the complications and opportunities that arise when those identities intermingle on the page. \nCopies of the authors’ books will be available for sale and signing. Free refreshments! This event is in the Library Meeting Room on the ground floor of the Noe Valley Library. A free Word Week 2017 eventwww.facebook.com/Word-Week-314929538630095 \nBiographies:\nKIRSTIN CHEN is the author of the novels Bury What We Cannot Take\, forthcoming in 2018\, and Soy Sauce for Beginners. A former Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing\, her short stories have appeared in Zyzzyva\, Hobart\, Pank\, and others. Born and raised in Singapore\, she currently lives in San Francisco. \nINGRID ROJAS CONTRERAS was born in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Electric Literature\, and Guernica\, among others. She has a column called Book Spine at KQED. Her debut novel\, The Fruit of the Drunken Tree\, is forthcoming from Doubleday in 2018. \nANDREW LAM is the author of two books of literary essays\, “Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora\,” “East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres\,” and a collection of short stories\, “Birds of Paradise Lost.” He is also an editor at New America Media and has a column with the Shanghai Daily and is widely published in many newspapers and magazines. \nJULIANA DELGADO LOPERA is an award-winning Colombian writer\, oral-historian\, literary-drag-queen based in San Francisco. The author of ¡Cuéntamelo! an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latin@ immigrants\, Juliana is the executive director of RADAR Productions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/immigrant-writers-on-embodying-2-cultures-at-once/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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