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SUMMARY:Lucy Jane Bledsoe / The Evolution of Love
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Lucy Jane Bledsoe in conversation with Rabih Alameddine about her new novel\, The Evolution of Love. Please join us! \n“She’d told herself\, and her husband Tom\, that she was coming to rescue Vicky. And she was. She would. She’d been rescuing her sister her entire life. But she’d never done anything remotely this extreme. She knew the region had been evacuated\, and yet somehow hadn’t pictured everyone literally gone. . .The stark\, devastated landscape heightened all her senses\, as if her fear made the colors deeper\, the smells headier\, the sounds crisper. She couldn’t give in to the terror; if she did\, it might never end. She had no choice but to finish what she’d begun.” \nA devastating earthquake has just hit the San Francisco Bay Area\, cutting off the outside world completely. When Lily decides to fly from Nebraska to California and make the treacherous journey into the Bay Area to find her sister\, she knows she’s headed for a disaster zone\, but nothing prepares her for what she finds. \nThose who survived and didn’t evacuate are making shelters\, running meals programs\, rigging their own technologies — and redefining the very meaning of community. Lily bands together with a couple of feral kids\, a steadfast activist\, and a bonobo researcher\, among others\, to forge a new life. \nA story of hope in the face of crisis\, The Evolution of Love asks what it takes for people to come together\, what dangers must they fend off in their bid for survival\, and what lengths will they go to rebuild home. \n— \n“Given our current seemingly endless string of natural disasters\, this is a timely story and a compelling one. In the context of a twisting plot\, in the company of appealing characters\, Bledsoe asks us to think about the resilience of love and hate; what our responsibility to each other is; and who we really are\, right down to our DNA. Highly recommended.”  — Karen Joy Fowler\, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves and The Jane Austen Book Club \n— \nLucy Jane Bledsoe is the author of five previous novels\, including A Thin Bright Line. Her fiction has won a California Arts Council Fellowship in Literature\, an American Library Association Stonewall Award\, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize\, a Pushcart nomination\, a Yaddo Fellowship\, and two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships. She’s been a six-time Lambda Literary Award finalist and a two-time Ferro-Grumley Award Finalist. Bledsoe lives in the Bay Area where she spends as much time as possible kayaking in the bay\, as well as hiking and cycling in the hills. \n  \nRabih Alameddine is the author of the novels Koolaids\, and I\, the Divine\, The Hakawati\, An Unnecessary Woman (finalist for the National Book Critics Award)\, the story collection\, The Perv\, and most recently\, The Angel of History (winner of the Arab American Book Award and Lambda Literary Award). He divides his time between San Francisco and Beirut.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lucy-jane-bledsoe-the-evolution-of-love/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer East Bay Reading "Contrasts: Poetry & Prose"
DESCRIPTION:Poetry and prose: apples and oranges? Decide for yourself at Perfectly Queer East Bay “Contrasts: Poetry & Prose” Wednesday\, May 23\, 7pm at Laurel Bookstore in Oakland. Poets Vernon Keeve III & Luiza Flynn-Goodlett and novelists Dale Chase & Hilary Zaid all read new work. Author signing follows. Free\, tasty refreshments! Thematic door prizes at 7pm. \nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\nVernon Keeve III is a Virginia-born writer that California molded into an educator. He lives and teaches in Oakland. His purpose is to teach the next generation the importance of relaying their personal narratives\, sharing their experiences\, and taking control of their destinies. He holds a MFA from California College of the Arts\, and a Masters in Teaching Literature from Bard College. \nLuiza Flynn-Goodlett is the author of the chapbooks Unseasonable Weather (dancing girl press\, 2018) and Congress of Mud (Finishing Line Press\, 2015). Her work can be found in Third Coast\, Granta\, Quarterly West\, DIAGRAM\, The Rumpus\, and elsewhere. She serves as poetry editor for Foglifter Press and lives in sunny Oakland\, California. \nDale Chase has been writing gay men’s erotica for 20 years. To date nearly 200 of her stories have been published in magazines\, anthologies\, and collections. The Great Man is her third novel. Her first\, Wyatt: Doc Holliday’s Account of an Intimate Friendship\, was published in 2012\, her second Takedown: Taming John Wesley Hardin\, in 2013. Hot Copy: Classic Gay Erotica from the Magazine Era\, a collection of Dale’s stories written for the magazines over a decade ago\, was published in 2015. More at www.dalechase.com \nHilary Zaid is a 2017 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and an alumna of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and the Tin House Writers’ Workshop. Her short fiction has appeared in print and online\, including Lilith Magazine\, The Southwest Review\, The Utne Reader\, CALYX\, The Santa Monica Review\, and The Tahoma Literary Review and has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. An alumna of Harvard and Radcliffe\, she holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and works as a freelance editor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-reading-contrasts-poetry-prose/
LOCATION:Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Daegan Miller
DESCRIPTION:Daegan Miller\n\n  \ndiscussing the subject of his new book \nThis Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent \nfrom University of Chicago Press \n“The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness\, draining swamps\, straightening rivers\, peopling the solitude\, and subduing nature\,” wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. That’s largely how we still think of nineteenth-century America today: a country expanding unstoppably\, bending the continent’s natural bounty to the national will\, heedless of consequence. A country of slavery and of Indian wars. There’s much truth in that vision. \nBut if you know where to look\, you can uncover a different history\, one of vibrant resistance\, one that’s been mostly forgotten. This Radical Land recovers that story. Daegan Miller is our guide on a beautifully written\, revelatory trip across the continent during which we encounter radical thinkers\, settlers\, and artists who grounded their ideas of freedom\, justice\, and progress in the very landscapes around them\, even as the runaway engine of capitalism sought to steamroll everything in its path. Here we meet Thoreau\, the expert surveyor\, drawing anticapitalist property maps. We visit a black antislavery community in the Adirondack wilderness of upstate New York. We discover how seemingly commercial photographs of the transcontinental railroad secretly sent subversive messages\, and how a band of utopian anarchists among California’s sequoias imagined a greener\, freer future. At every turn\, everyday radicals looked to landscape for the language of their dissent—drawing crucial early links between the environment and social justice\, links we’re still struggling to strengthen today. \nDaegan Miller has taught at Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, and his writing has appeared in a variety of venues\, from academic journals to literary magazines. He is on Twitter at @daeganmiller. \nCritical praise for This Radical Land: \n\n\n\n“A debut book that ranges across disciplines and decades to connect the natural environment–especially long-lived trees–to a scathing critique of American-style capitalism. Alternating abstract theory with impressive research\, both bolstered by extensive sources . . . the author builds his case about understanding American history by examining destruction of the environment through essays grounded in the 19th century. . . . He offers an eclectic education often marked by soaring prose.” – Kirkus Reviews \n\n\n\n\n“Inventive. . . . A creative linking of landscape and radicalism.” -Publishers Weekly \n\n\n\n\n“Drawing on superb scholarly detective work\, This Radical Land tells fascinating stories about the history of our ties to the land that give us an alternative to viewing natural spaces as either a resource to exploit or a wilderness museum for the privileged. Miller peels back the history to reveal that\, however ignored\, Americans have always resisted the exploitation of nature. Perhaps his more nuanced environmental history will inspire those today who\, continuing the mute protest of the witness tree\, would pull the planet back from the brink of death.” Richard Higgins\, author of Thoreau and the Language of Trees \n\n\n\n\n“Daegan Miller rekindles a legacy of environmental dissent. The ideas and landscapes of nineteenth-century ‘countermoderns’ are signposts\, still legible\, to alternative futures. This book bears witness like a burning bush.” -Jared Farmer\, author of Trees in Paradise: A California History \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daegan-miller/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Andrew Sean Greer / Less
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Andrew Sean Greer for the paperback launch of Less\, one of our favorite novels of 2017 and winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Joining Andy in conversation isR. O. Kwon. Come celebrate with us! \n  \nPlease note: This event — which is now rescheduled for May 23 at 7pm — will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. If you would like to reserve a seat for the event\, please pre-purchase a copy of Less via the form below and specify that you would like to reserve a seat in the comments field. \n  \nWho says you can’t run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can’t say yes—it would be too awkward—and you can’t say no—it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world. \n  \nQuestion: How do you arrange to skip town? \n  \nAnswer: You accept them all. \n  \nWhat would possibly go wrong? Arthur Less will almost fall in love in Paris\, almost fall to his death in Berlin\, barely escape to a Moroccan ski chalet from a Saharan sandstorm\, accidentally book himself as the (only) writer-in-residence at a Christian Retreat Center in Southern India\, and encounter\, on a desert island in the Arabian Sea\, the last person on Earth he wants to face. Somewhere in there: he will turn fifty. Through it all\, there is his first love. And there is his last. \n  \nBecause\, despite all these mishaps\, missteps\, misunderstandings and mistakes\, Less is\, above all\, a love story. \n  \nA scintillating satire of the American abroad\, a rumination on time and the human heart\, a bittersweet romance of chances lost\, by an author The New York Times has hailed as “inspired\, lyrical\,” “elegiac\,” “ingenious\,” as well as “too sappy by half\,” Less shows a writer at the peak of his talents raising the curtain on our shared human comedy. \n  \n— \n” Less is the funniest\, smartest and most humane novel I’ve read since Tom Rachman’s 2010 debut\, The Imperfectionists….Greer writes sentences of arresting lyricism and beauty. His metaphors come at you like fireflies….Like Arthur\, Andrew Sean Greer’s Less is excellent company. It’s no less than bedazzling\, bewitching and be-wonderful.” —New York Times Book Review \n  \n“Greer’s novel is philosophical\, poignant\, funny and wise\, filled with unexpected turns….Although Greer is gifted and subtle in comic moments\, he’s just as adept at ruminating on the deeper stuff. His protagonist grapples with aging\, loneliness\, creativity\, grief\, self-pity and more.”—San Francisco Chronicle \n  \n“I recommend it with my whole heart.” —Ann Patchett \n— \nAndrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of five works of fiction\, including The Confessions of Max Tivoli\, which was named a best book of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune. He is the recipient of the Northern California Book Award\, the California Book Award\, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award\, the O Henry award for short fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Public Library. Greer lives in San Francisco. He has traveled to all of the locations in this novel\, but he is only big in Italy. \n  \nR. O. Kwon’s first novel\, The Incendiaries\, is forthcoming from Riverhead in July of 2018. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian\, Vice\, BuzzFeed\, Noon\, Time\, Electric Literature\, Playboy\, San Francisco Chronicle\, and elsewhere. She has received awards and fellowships from Yaddo\, MacDowell\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, Omi International\, and the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony. Born in South Korea\, she’s mostly lived in the United States. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like a request a signed copy of Less and/or any of Andrew’s other books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nBar opens at 6:30\, event begins at 7pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrew-sean-greer-less-2/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Release / Bad Luck of the Draw Club
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-bad-luck-of-the-draw-club/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Aja Gabel and Vanessa Hua
DESCRIPTION:Aja Gabel discusses her new novel\, The Ensemble. \nPraise for The Ensemble \n“Aja Gabel’s powerful debut offers a sensitive portrait of four young musicians forging their paths through life: sometimes at odds with each other\, sometimes in harmony\, but always inextricably linked by their shared pasts.” —Celeste Ng  \n“With uncommon clarity and empathy\, Aja Gabel brings us inside the passionate\, complex\, and sometimes cutthroat intimacy that exists among the four members of a string quartet. A wise and powerful novel about love\, life\, and music. I didn’t want it to end.” —Maggie Shipstead  \nAja Gabel is a brilliant young writer with the rare gift of an old soul.”—Mat Johnson \nAbout The Ensemble \nThe addictive novel about four young friends navigating a cutthroat world and their complex relationships with each other\, as ambition\, passion\, and love intertwine over the course of their lives. \n  \nJana. Brit. Daniel. Henry. They would never have been friends if they hadn’t needed each other. They would never have found each other except for the art which drew them together. They would never have become family without their love for the music\, for each other. \n  \nBrit is the second violinist\, a beautiful and quiet orphan; on the viola is Henry\, a prodigy who’s always had it easy; the cellist is Daniel\, the oldest and an angry skeptic who sleeps around; and on first violin is Jana\, their flinty\, resilient leader. Together\, they are the Van Ness Quartet. After the group’s youthful\, rocky start\, they experience devastating failure and wild success\, heartbreak and marriage\, triumph and loss\, betrayal and enduring loyalty. They are always tied to each other – by career\, by the intensity of their art\, by the secrets they carry\, by choosing each other over and over again. \n  \nFollowing these four unforgettable characters\, Aja Gabel’s debut novel gives a riveting look into the high-stakes\, cutthroat world of musicians\, and of lives made in concert. The story of Brit and Henry and Daniel and Jana\, The Ensemble is a heart-skipping portrait of ambition\, friendship\, and the tenderness of youth.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aja-gabel/
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:Geoffrey G. O'Brien\, Jane Gregory\, and Wendy Trevino
DESCRIPTION:Wendy Trevino was born & raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She is a Grant Writer in San Francisco\, where she shares an apartment with her boyfriend\, friend & 2 senior cats. She has published chapbooks with Perfect Lovers Press\, Commune Editions & Krupskaya Books. Her chapbook #YourHarveyWeinstein was published by Spoilsport Editions – an online press she started with the writer Oki Sogumi – in 2017. Cruel Fiction (Commune Editions\, Fall 2018) is her first full-length book of poetry. Wendy is not an experimental writer. \nJane Gregory is from Tucson and lives in Oakland. She is the author of My Enemies (Song Cave\, 2013) and Yeah No (Song Cave\, 2018)\, and co-co-editor of Nion Editions\, a chapbook press. \nGeoffrey G. O’Brien’s next book\, Experience in Groups\, will be out from Wave Books in April 2018. He is the author most recently of People on Sunday (Wave\, 2013) and the coauthor (with John Ashbery and Timothy Donnelly) of Three Poets(Minus A Press\, 2012). O’Brien is an Associate Professor in the English Department at UC Berkeley and also teaches for the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/geoffrey-g-obrien-jane-gregory-and-wendy-trevino/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poem Jam
DESCRIPTION:Join San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck and others for a poetry jam. \nThis is a Reading\, Writing & Poetry program from SFPL. We love reading/sharing/creating words.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poem-jam/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Chuck Klosterman / X: A Highly Specific\, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith welcomes Chuck Klosterman back to the store for the paperback release of X: A Highly Specific\, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century. Please join us! \nPlease note: this event begins at 7pm. Seating is limited\, and is first come\, first served. If you would like to reserve a seat\, please purchase a copy of X below and put your request in the notes field. Remember\, 1 seat = 1 book \nChuck Klosterman has created an incomparable body of work in books\, magazines\, newspapers\, and on the Web. His writing spans the realms of culture and sports\, while also addressing interpersonal issues\, social quandaries\, and ethical boundaries. Klosterman has written nine previous books\, helped found and establish Grantland\, served as the New York Times Magazine Ethicist\, worked on film and television productions\, and contributed profiles and essays to outlets such as GQ\, Esquire\, Billboard\, The A.V. Club\, and The Guardian. \nChuck Klosterman’s tenth book (aka Chuck Klosterman X) collects his most intriguing of those pieces\, accompanied by fresh introductions and new footnotes throughout. Klosterman presents many of the articles in their original form\, featuring previously unpublished passages and digressions. Subjects include Breaking Bad\, Lou Reed\, zombies\, KISS\, Jimmy Page\, Stephen Malkmus\, steroids\, Mountain Dew\, Chinese Democracy\, The Beatles\, Jonathan Franzen\, Taylor Swift\, Tim Tebow\, Kobe Bryant\, Usain Bolt\, Eddie Van Halen\, Charlie Brown\, the Cleveland Browns\, and many more cultural figures and pop phenomena. This is a tour of the past decade from one of the sharpest and most prolific observers of our unusual times. \n  \n\n  \n“Often imitated and rarely replicated\, the writing style of Chuck Klosterman has proven rather influential in all manner of 21st century writing. From news stories to critical reviews to artist profiles\, Klosterman’s often irreverent\, self-deprecating\, footnote happy smart/funny observations make for highly entertaining reading.” — John Paul\, Popmatters \n  \n“Infectious…. Though Klosterman may be pigeonholed as a guy who thinks too much about Kiss\, his 10th book shows he’s something else: a philosopher.” — Justin Wm. Moyer\, The Washington Post \n  \n“Klosterman is a master of the high-low…He injects a level of intellectual rigor into subjects that receive precious little…With X\, Klosterman wallows in the trivial…but he’s not trivializing…proving that culture essays can teach us something about ourselves and the people around us…Each of his essays is a love letter to a moment.” — B. David Zarley\, Paste \n  \n\n  \nChuck Klosterman is the bestselling author of eight books of nonfiction (including Sex\, Drugs\, and Cocoa Puffs and But What If We’re Wrong?) and two novels (Downtown Owl and The Visible Man). He has written for The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, GQ\, Esquire\, Spin\, The Guardian\, The Believer\, Billboard\, The A.V. Club\, and ESPN. Klosterman served as the Ethicist for The New York Times Magazine for three years\, appeared as himself in the LCD Soundsystem documentary Shut Up and Play the Hits\, and was an original founder of the website Grantland with Bill Simmons. Author photo by Jason Booher. \n  \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you are unable to attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of X and/or any of Klosterman’s other books\, order below and put your notes in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chuck-klosterman-x-a-highly-specific-defiantly-incomplete-history-of-the-early-21st-century/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kim Malcolm presents A COUNTRY WITHIN
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Kim Malcolm to the store to discuss her book\, A Country Within: A Journey of Love and Hope During the Refugee Crisis in Greece\, on Thursday\, May 24th at 7pm.  \nA Country Within shares a professional woman’s life-changing journey to Greece to work with refugees arriving from the Middle East and Asia. The story begins on the island of Lesvos where overloaded boats of refugees landed on local beaches\, and moves to Athens where the author unexpectedly becomes a member of a family of refugees from four countries. \nThis timely portrayal describes the effects of geopolitics on people escaping war\, the generosity of the people of Lesvos and how love transcends culture\, religion and experience.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-malcolm-presents-a-country-within/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Weimar Mirror: Revisiting Alfred Döblin
DESCRIPTION:Weimar Mirror: Revisiting Alfred Döblin\n\nIntroduction by Peter Maravelis (City Lights Booksellers)\nOpening Statement and moderation by William T Vollmann (National Book Award winner\, EUROPE CENTRAL)\nPresentations and roundtable participation by Adrian Daub\, Thomas O. Haakenson\, Deniz Göktürk\, and Mel Gordon. \nThe Goethe Institut San Francisco in conjunction with City Lights Booksellers and New York Review Books present an evening re-exploring the classic work of German writer Alfred Döblin\, Berlin Alexanderplatz\, on the eve of the release of a new translation by Michael Hoffmann published by New York Review Books. The evening is unique as it utilizes a joint examination of the novel juxtaposed against Werner Fassbinder‘s epic 15 hour film treatment of the book. Local scholars in German literature and history will read from the novel\, discuss elements of the story\, show film clips from Fassbinder’s film\, and participate in a roundtable discussion. Film and novel are reflected against each other to explore the Weimar period and its significance in modern times. Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz is considered one of the most innovative works of Weimar Germany. It’s collage-like form and stream of consciousness narrative drive the reader into the metropolis of Berlin in the 1920’s exploring all its complexity. In 1983 Werner Rainer Fassbinder released his film adaptation of Berlin Alexanderplatz which gained a cult following. Susan Sontag penned an appreciation of the film\, and Michael Mann and Francis Ford Coppola have cited it as one of their greatest influences. This evening utilizes both novel and film to bring us closer to the life and work of Alfred Döblin and the Weimar Period. The issues explored will include: \n-How Doblin’s work speaks to us today.\n-The rise of fascism in Germany in the 20th century\n-Sexual freedom in the Weimar Period\n-Crime in Berlin\n-Jewish Assimilation and Separatism\n-The critical reception of Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz adaptation after its release \nAlfred Döblin (1878–1957) was born in German Stettin (now the Polish city of Szczecin) to Jewish parents. When he was ten his father\, a master tailor\, eloped with a seamstress\, abandoning the family. Subsequently his mother relocated the rest of the family to Berlin. Döblin studied medicine at Friedrich Wilhelm University\, specializing in neurology and psychiatry. While working at a psychiatric clinic in Berlin\, he became romantically entangled with two women: Friede Kunke\, with whom he had a son\, Bodo\, in 1911\, and Erna Reiss\, to whom he had become engaged before learning of Kunke’s pregnancy. He married Erna the next year\, and they remained together for the rest of his life. His novel The Three Leaps of Wang Lun was published in 1915 while Döblin was serving as a military doctor; it went on to win the Fontane Prize. In 1920 he published Wallenstein\, a novel set during the Thirty Years’ War\, which was an oblique comment on the First World War. He became president of the Association of German Writers in 1924\, and published his best-known novel\, Berlin Alexanderplatz\, in 1929\, achieving modest mainstream fame while solidifying his position at the center of an intellectual group that included Bertolt Brecht\, Robert Musil\, and Joseph Roth\, among others. He fled Germany with his family soon after Hitler’s rise\, moving first to Zurich\, then to Paris\, and\, after the Nazi invasion of France\, to Los Angeles\, where he converted to Catholicism and briefly worked as a screenwriter for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. After the war he returned to Germany and worked as an editor with the aim of rehabilitating literature that had been banned under Hitler\, but he found himself at odds with conservative postwar cultural trends. He suffered from Parkinson’s disease in later years and died in Emmendingen in 1957. Erna committed suicide two months after his death and was interred along with him. \nWhat has been said of the work of Alfred Döblin: \nThe story of Franz Biberkopf is the Éducation sentimentale of the petty thief. The most extreme\, dizzying\, last\, and most advanced embodiment of the old bourgeoisbildungsroman.\n—Walter Benjamin\nI found myself reading Berlin Alexanderplatz in a way that you could hardly call reading—more like devouring\, gobbling\, gulping down. And these expressions still don’t do justice to that way of reading\, which dangerously often wasn’t reading at all\, but more life\, suffering\, despair\, and fear.\n—Rainer Werner Fassbinder\nA classic German novel of the criminal demimonde of the Weimar era…Hofmann’s version is vigorous and fresh\, bringing Döblin to a new generation of readers. A welcome refurbishing of a masterpiece of literary modernism\, one of the most significant German novels of the 20th century.\n—Kirkus starred review\n[A] major writer who grappled with the roots of darkness in our time….\n—Ernst Pawel\, The New York Times\nHis was an extraordinary mind.\n—Philip Ardagh\, The Guardian\nWithout the futurist elements of Döblin’s work from Wang Lun to Berlin Alexanderplatz\, my prose is inconceivable…. He’ll discomfort you\, give you bad dreams. If you’re satisfied with yourself\, beware of Döblin.\n—Günter Grass\nI learned more about the essence of the epic from Döblin than from anyone else. His epic writing and even his theory about the epic strongly influenced my own dramatic art.\n—Bertolt Brecht\nAs we look back over the rich literary output of this great writer\, as we look back over the long and fruitful life of this fighter and this friend of man\, this perennial spring of spiritual life\, we venture to ask: When will the gentlemen of the Nobel Prize jury discover him?\n—Ludwig Marcuse\, Books Abroad
URL:https://litseen.com/event/weimar-mirror-revisiting-alfred-doblin/
LOCATION:Goethe Institut\, 530 Bush St #204\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Written Within the Body: A Salon with Lone Mørch\, Sarah Kornfeld\, September Williams and Kristin Kaye
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts an evening salon exploring the body in fiction and nonfiction with Lone Mørch\, Sarah Kornfeld\, September Williams and Kristin Kaye\, all reading from their new books. Please join us for readings\, Q&A\, and signings! \n  \nEmbody by Lone Mørch \nEmbody is a tribute to the sensual body. In photos & prose\, Mørch examines and illuminates the light and shadows in women’s bodies\, minds and psyches. With a loving gaze\, artistic nerve\, and poetry\, the book reveals how women today work hard to discover and get in touch with their own bodies\, on their own terms. For the past fourteen years nearly a thousand women of all ages have found the courage and freedom before Lone’s camera to explore the many expressions of beauty\, sensuality and eroticism in themselves – on their own terms. The male gaze has dominated the representation of women for the past 150 years. Embody reveals what happens when women choose to be photographed by women\, and decide how they want to be seen. \n  \nLone Mørch is an award-winning author\, photographer and speaker whose work lives at the intersection of art\, body\, identity\, culture and life’s journey. A Danish native\, she has for the past 25+ years traveled\, lived\, loved and worked in Asia\, Europe and USA. She’s the founder of Lolo’s Boudoir and has helped a thousand women find healing\, transformation\, adventure and celebration through her photography. Her previous work included the award-winning memoir Seeing Red: A Woman’s Quest for Truth\, Power and the Sacred about her own path towards liberation. Her photos and essays have been featured in Danish and American magazines\, newspapers and blogs such as InStyle\, Cosmopolitan\, People\, SF Chronicle\, Huffington Post\, Light Journal\, East Bay Express and 7×7.  She splits her time between Denmark and USA. \n  \n\n  \nWhat Stella Sees by Sarah Kornfeld \nNo one saw it coming that Moise and Stella would fall in love because everyone assumed they were too sick to do so. Though\, why shouldn’t a guy with Cerebral Palsy and a young woman with seizures be sexy? In a story that reaches from Israel to San Francisco\, Bucharest to Paris\, this story of two people\, defined as “disabled” explores what being “broken” truly is in society – particularly in the arts. \n  \nSarah E. Kornfeld‘s debut novel\, What Stella Sees\, will be published by Cove International Publishers in the summer of 2018. Sarah was born and raised in the experimental theater of New York City\, and received her B.A. at Sarah Lawrence College where she focused on writing and choreography. Her master teacher in poetry/writing was Kate Knapp Johnson. Her master teacher in choreography was Merce Cunningham’s lead dancer\, Viola Farber. Sarah is a proud member of the National Writers Union and has read twice at the San Francisco LitQuake/LitCrawl festival (2016 and 2017). She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of San Francisco\, School of Education\, International + Multicultural Studies Department where she teaches Cultural Curation to Masters and Ph.D students. She lives in the Bay Area by the sea with her Son. \n  \n\nChasing Mercury by September Williams \nAn epileptic black ballerina and a Powwow dancer\, whistleblower journalist meet in the Montreal airport. They are both performing at an international youth festival in Berlin\, 1973 Cold War Berlin. During a long layover in Zürich\, he takes the ballerina to a Swiss Bank. Speaking French\, the Powwow dancer deposits many thousands of dollars into his numbered account to which he adds her name\, providing no true explanation. Is she an accomplice–or is this just love in the time of mercury poisoning? \n  \nChasing Mercury is a romance-suspense-memoir inspired by the events leading to the Minamata World Convention on Mercury\, ratified and entered into force August 16\, 2017.  Spanning three continents\, the story covers decades and the world’s waters. The novel connects human rights\, environmental justice and romance. Chasing Mercury is the first in a series of three books in the Chasing Mercury Toxic Trilogy. \n  \nSeptember Williams is an American physician-writer\, bioethicist and filmmaker. All of her work seeks a better understanding of and between ourselves.  She focuses on promoting resilience for people who are ill\, aging\, dying\, or stressed by environmental and humanitarian violation. Yet\, her writing is fired by the humor which allows people and characters to make it through hard times. September’s nonfiction writing covers health disparities\, bioethics and film. She is a member of the National Writers Union (AFLCIO/UAW 1981)\, an affiliate of the International Federation of Journalists\, and the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. She lives in Marin. \n  \n\n  \nTree Dreams by Kristin Kaye \nWhen seventeen-year-old Jade Reynolds witnesses a violent clash between a protesting tree sitter and a local logger\, she runs as far as she can from the battles that plague her home and from the mysteries of the redwood forest. But the ancient redwoods are embedded in her psyche—she feels their call even in the dark and forgotten back alleys of Portland\, Oregon where she’s hiding out. She soon becomes entangled with a lovable misfit and a band of radical slackers\, environmentalists\, and anarchists\, and finds herself living 100 feet high in the canopy of a redwood grove\, trying to decide whose side she’s on: the logging community she’s known her entire life or the environmentalists who are risking their lives for the future of the forest. To find a way beyond the division between Us and Them\, Jade turns to the ancient trees themselves—and the thread-thin web that connects us all. \n  \nKristin Kaye is an author\, ghostwriter and teacher whose work sits at the intersection of nature\, narrative and spirituality. Tree Dreams: A Novel is forthcoming in April\, 2018 from Spark Press. The novel gave rise to a global tree tagging campaign that celebrates the myriad ways we are connected to each other\, to nature and to our future. Tree Dreams tags now hang in over 20 states and 12 countries around the world. Kristin’s previous work includes Iron Maidens: The Celebration of the Most Awesome Female Muscle in the World\, which details her experience directing twenty-five of the world’s strongest and most muscular women in an off-Broadway show. The book was a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards\, and described by Utne Reader as “one of 5 new titles for women who resist easy definition. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you are unable to attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of any of the authors’ books\, send an email to events AT booksmith DOT com to put in your requuest.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/written-within-the-body-a-salon-with-lone-morch-sarah-kornfeld-september-williams-and-kristin-kaye/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Barbara Berman
DESCRIPTION:Barbara Berman reads from her new poetry collection\, Currents. \nPraise for Currents \nThe reach of these graceful\, ambitious poems ranges across stars\, cities\, storms. Their music is both political and deeply private\, braiding the two undersongs together in challenging and sometimes wrenching poetry. These are poems to be savored and remembered\, touchstones of a felt world. —Eavan Boland\, Director of the Creative Writing Program\, Stanford University. \n Barbara Berman offers up a book of psalms to praise the mysterious and divine. Part Miriam Sagan\, part Gretel Ehrlich\, this is a true faith quest with cameos by Thomas Merton\, Sojourner Truth and Bruce Chatwin. —Richard Peabody\, Editor of Gargoyle Magazine
URL:https://litseen.com/event/barbara-berman/
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:Poetry Flash presents Jane Mead and Carol Muske-Dukes
DESCRIPTION:Jane Mead’s new book of poems is World of Made and Unmade. C.D. Wright said\, “As the laundry room floods and the grape harvest gets done; as Michoacán waits for another time\, her beautiful\, practical mother is dying. Ashes are scattered in the pecan groves of her own Rincon\, her own corner of the world\, and the poet\, in elementary script\, draws a sustaining record of the only feeling worth the struggle.…” She’s authored four previous collections\, most recently Money\, Money\, Money | Water\, Water\, Water\, and her honors include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship\, a Whiting Writers Award\, and a Lannan Foundation Completion Grant. \nCarol Muske-Dukes’s new book of poems is Blue Rose. Linda Gregerson says\, “Scathing intelligence and an open heart: the most difficult combination in the world\, and bountifully manifest on every page. In the birth room\, at the death bed\, beneath the falling ash of a California wildfire\, before the whole\, hurt spectacle of an imperiled and beloved world\, these poems remind us what it’s truly like to see and feel.” Author of eight poetry collections\, including Sparrow\, a finalist for the National Book Award\, she’s also published four novels\, two collections of essays\, and co-edited Crossing State Lines: An American Renga with Bob Holman. She was California Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2011.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-presents-jane-mead-and-carol-muske-dukes/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Ted Scheinman
DESCRIPTION:reads from Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan\, a raucous tour through the world of Mr. Darcy imitations\, tailored gowns\, and tipsy ballroom dancing. \n“A treat for any Jane Austen fan . . . a fascinating window into a man’s experience in a largely female world. Scheinman is a wonderful guide to the world of Austen\, and this honest and thoughtful discussion of the role Austen’s works have played in his family will delight any Janeite.” —Booklist \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Camp Austen by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, May 24\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThe son of a devoted Jane Austen scholar\, Ted Scheinman spent his childhood eating Yorkshire pudding\, singing in an Anglican choir\, and watching Laurence Olivier as Mr. Darcy. Determined to leave his mother’s world behind\, he nonetheless found himself in grad school organizing the first ever UNC-Chapel Hill Jane Austen Summer Camp\, a weekend-long event that sits somewhere between an academic conference and superfan extravaganza. \nWhile the long tradition of Austen devotees includes the likes of Henry James and E. M. Forster\, it is at the conferences and reenactments where Janeism truly lives. In Camp Austen\, Scheinman tells the story of his indoctrination into this enthusiastic world and his struggle to shake his mother’s influence while navigating hasty theatrical adaptations\, undaunted scholars in cravats\, and unseemly petticoat fittings. \nIn a haze of morning crumpets and restrictive tights\, Scheinman delivers a hilarious and poignant survey of one of the most enduring and passionate literary coteries in history. Combining clandestine journalism with frank memoir\, academic savvy with insider knowledge\, Camp Austen is perhaps the most comprehensive study of Austen that can also be read in a single sitting. Brimming with stockings\, culinary etiquette\, and scandalous dance partners\, this is summer camp as you’ve never seen it before. \nTed Scheinman is a writer and scholar based in Southern California\, where he works as a senior editor at Pacific Standard magazine. He has taught courses on journalism\, satire\, and poetry at the University of North Carolina and has written for The New York Times\, the Oxford American\, Playboy\, Slate\, and many other publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ted-scheinman/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Eli Jaxon-Bear
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, May 25rd at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Eli Jaxon-Bear for a reading and signing of his latest book An Outlaw Makes It Home! \n\nEli Jaxon-Bear\, was a 30 year Marin County author\, teacher and farmer starting in 1976. His new book is being released this spring. We are currently planning our book tour and hoping we can schedule Eli for a reading and book signing  at your bookstore. \n  \nPraise for An Outlaw Makes It Home: \n\n“An Outlaw Makes It Home bares it all in this machine-gun like compilation of adventures. A serious\, playing-for-keeps quest for spiritual wisdom and enlightenment with a startling turn in the heartwarming discovery after an eighteen year search. Jaxon-Bear does not spare himself or try to polish his flaws and mistakes: in that regard\, he is a warrior. I consumed this book in huge gulps and would do it again. I urge others to read it.” ~ Peter Coyote\, actor\, author\, ordained Zen Buddhist priest \n  \n“Outlaw rocks!. . .brutally honest yet deeply loving. This takes great courage. Bravo!” ~ Ed and Deb Shapiro\, authors\, meditation teachers \n  \n“An Outlaw Makes It Home\, can be seen as a coming of age story\, a modern journey of self-discovery but it is a classic hero’s journey\, an odyssey\, a journey out and a return home. What a journey\, and what a home! Eli takes us from a shattering moment in a Brooklyn childhood through radical and sometimes terrifying times in the 60’s\, being literally outside the law\, escape to Peru\, lots of drugs and women\, Japan\, Morocco\, India\, learning to be a farmer of sorts back home in the US…. all the way to waking up and discovering what home truly is. His honesty about fear and failure are very moving\, but what really shines forth from these pages is a fierce love and commitment to the truth. I absolutely loved An Outlaw Makes it Home!” ~ Nancy Baker\, Professor of Philosophy Emerita\, Sarah Lawrence College and Zen Roshi in NYC
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eli-jaxon-bear/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Queer Zine Fest Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:The 2nd annual Bay Area Queer Zine Fest is coming back September 9! What better way to get people pumped about zines than to have a reading. We’re partnering with our dear friends at E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore to bring you a night of zine magic. \nInterested in reading? Email baqzfest@gmail.com \n** ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION FORTHCOMING ** \n#BAQZF2018 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.facebook.com/events/450401675397832/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-queer-zine-fest-fundraiser/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Daniel Gumbiner
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Gumbiner discusses his debut novel from McSweeney’s The Boatbuilder. \n\nPraise for The Boatbuilder \n\n“The Boatbuilder is a gorgeous debut about addiction\, aspiration\, and art on the California coast. It’s radiantly imagined\, often moving\, always funny\, and teeming with life. Daniel Gumbiner isn’t a writer to watch—he’s one to read.” —Anthony Marra  \n\n“Daniel Gumbiner brings coastal California into sparkling focus in this moving story of a young man’s transition into adulthood. Told with wit and heart\, The Boatbuilder is a meditation on love\, loyalty\, and the shared experiences that turn strangers into family.” —Tayari Jones \n\n“This book’s alive. The Boatbuilder is a surprising and soulful first novel and it deserves many\, many readers.” —Peter Orner \n\nAbout The Boatbuilder \n\nAt twenty-eight years old\, Eli “Berg” Koenigsberg has never encountered a challenge he couldn’t push through – until a concussion leaves him with a lingering headache and a weakness for opiates. Berg moves to a remote Northern California town to seek space and time to recover\, but soon finds himself breaking into homes in search of pills. \nAddled by addiction and chronic pain\, Berg meets Alejandro\, a reclusive master boatbuilder\, and begins to see a path forward. Alejandro offers Berg honest labor\, but more important a new approach to his suffering\, a template for survival amidst intense pain. Nurtured by his friendship with Alejandro and aided by the comradeship of many of Talinas’s colorful residents\, Berg begins to return to himself. \nWritten in gleaming prose\, this is a story about resilience\, community\, and what it takes to win back your soul.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-gumbiner/
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:Rolling Writers - Rolling In The Aisles
DESCRIPTION:Guidelines. This is a night for literary humor\, not stand-up comedy. To be considered\, send sharp\, funny\, insightful humor\, broad or subtle\, that would work well before a live audience. Political humor is discouraged—we get way more than enough of that these days\, and most of it is lazy\, obvious\, and witless. Featured readers will get up to eight minutes at the mic (about 1\,200 words). Funny stories\, essays\, memoirs\, and poetry will be eagerly considered\, and we’d love love to feature funny original songs and performances of public-domain songs or theatrical pieces. Paste your material\, or performance proposal\, into the body of an email with the subject line RW Humor: [Your Name] addressed to the host\, Jon Sindell\, at jsind@sbcglobal.net. You must submit personally—no submissions by representatives will be considered. \n  \n“Dying is easy; comedy’s hard.” ~ attributed to many (naturally enough\, for comedy is hard\, and comedians steal). \n  \nAbout Rolling Writers \nLike the baker Rageneau in Cyrano\, master baker Bruno Tsé supports the arts. And our pastry-preparing patron of poetry and prose shows love for the muse by giving his Taraval Street café up for lit readings\, with themed musical and gustatory accoutrements. \nRolling–Out: 1722 Taraval\, between 27th and 28th Avenues\, \nSan Francisco. The L-Taraval streetcar line stops at 26th Avenue. \nTo submit work for an upcoming theme\, please write the host\, Jon Sindell\, at jsind [at] sbcglobal [net]\, pasting your work into the body of the email\, and marking the subject line as follows: RW [Name Of Show]\, [Writer’s Name]. You must submit personally—no submissions by representatives will be considered. Unless otherwise indicated on the Upcoming Events page\, limit prose submissions to 1\,200 words; shorter submissions are preferred. This series primarily features complete works of fiction and memoir\, but poetry and reasonably self-contained novel excerpts are presented to a limited extent. Submissions are rolling—we generally consider submissions until a lineup is filled. \nWon’t you join us?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rolling-writers-rolling-in-the-aisles/
LOCATION:Rolling Out Cafe\, 1722 Taraval St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:MARY Journal Release Reading
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, May 26th\, MARY: A Journal of New Writing will be holding a release party for the latest print edition of MARY Journal! Join us from 7pm – 9pm at Octopus Literary Salon in Oakland for a night of celebration and literary readings.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-journal-release-reading/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Book Release: Cotton Candy by Jeremy Fernando
DESCRIPTION:Join us at our Uptown\, Oakland\, location for the much-anticipated release of Jeremy Fernando’s full-length poetry collection\, Cotton Candy! \nIt’s going to be an amazing evening of readings\, live music\, gnosh / refreshments\, and friends of Nomadic Press as we launch this treasure of a book into the universe. \nReadings by TBA\, pop-up surprise Nomadic Press readers\, and of course\, the star of the evening\, Jeremy Fernando. Books will be available for purchase and there will be a signing following the event ($12 each). Music by TBA! \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-cotton-candy-by-jeremy-fernando/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special\, A "Salty" Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Is it summer yet? At SNS we’re feeling SALTY and we’re ready to sweat\, so bring us your sexiest\, SALTIEST\, summer stories\, poems\, songs\, stand-up\, (whatever) on our theme: \nSALT·Y\nof language or humor: down-to-earth; coarse. \nsynonyms: earthy\, colorful\, spicy\, racy\, risqué\, naughty\, vulgar\, rude;\ninformal: tough; aggressive. \nUrban Dictionary: The act of being upset\, angry\, or bitter as result of being made fun of or embarrassed. \nAs always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our optional theme (or any topic).\n\nOur featured readers for May are Christine No & Melissa Stein\n— \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself! \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, May 26\, 2018\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by Hollie Hardy \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/ \nBIOS \nChristine No is a Korean American writer\, filmmaker and native Los Angelino. She is a Sundance Alum\, VONA Fellow\, two time Pushcart Prize Nominee and Best of the Net 2017 Nominee. You can find her work in: The Rumpus\, sPARKLE+bLINK\, Columbia Journal\, Story Online\, Apogee\, Atlas And Alice\, and various anthologies. Christine is the Assistant Features Editor at The Rumpus and a contributing writer at Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel. She also sits on the Board of Quiet Lightning\, a Bay Area based literary organization. She looks good on paper; but\, she spills a lot. Like a baby. She lives in Oakland with a pit bull named Brandy. Say hi\, here: christineno.com​ \nMelissa Stein is the author of the poetry collections Terrible blooms (Copper Canyon Press\, 2018) and Rough Honey\, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares\, Tin House\, Harvard Review\, New England Review\, American Poetry Review\, Best New Poets\, and others\, and she’s received fellowships from the NEA\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, Yaddo\, and the MacDowell Colony. She’s a freelance editor in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-a-salty-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Alanna Okun / The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts an evening with Alanna Okun\, in conversation with Joe Wadlington about her new book The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater: Essays on Crafting. Please join us! \n  \nEvery knitter knows that as soon as you start making your boyfriend a sweater\, he will be out the door before you’re done. But as Alanna Okun has learned\, these life lessons are not limited to the curse of the boyfriend sweater. \nLike millions of women\, Okun finds joy and solace in crafting. And she has also found some essential truths. Starting from when her grandmother first taught her to knit\, crafting has been a part of her life\, and her family’s. Some people like to fish. Some like to play music. Or run. Okun likes to make things; knitting\, crocheting\, sewing\, decoupage—you name it\, Okun has tried it\, and even if she turned out to be not very good at it\, she found it was good for her. \nIn a world that shows itself impervious to our need for order and logic\, crafting allows Okun to feel a sense of control—even if it’s simply by making a piece of felt do what she wants it to. Crafting has helped keep her severe anxiety at bay\, made a scary first apartment more hospitable\, and helped her heal from a broken heart. When Okun has two good friends die within a year of each other\, it is crafting that helps her find hope again. The art and physicality of making things\, whether it’s nerdy embroidery or warm mittens\, has helped her cope with life’s internal trauma. \nIn beautiful prose that belies her youth\, Okun’s essays about art\, crafts\, and mental health will resonate with creative people no matter their medium\, and no matter the troubles in their hearts. We can all relate to the need to fix what’s inside by keeping our hands busy. \n  \n\n  \nAlanna Okun is a writer\, editor\, and crafter. She’s currently a senior editor at Racked\, and has written for publications including BuzzFeed\, Brooklyn Magazine\, and The Hairpin\, and appeared on the Today Show\, Good Morning America\, NPR\, and many other local and national television and radio programs. Alanna lives in Brooklyn with her pet snail and a lot of yarn. \n  \n  \nJoe Wadlington has been published in the New Yorker\, The Rumpus\, Racked.com\, and Food & Wine Magazine. He writes essays and satire about dating\, casual dining\, and how to be polite during both of them. Joe is a crafter and former camp counselor who has educated hundreds of kids on how to felt\, bead\, and tye-dye. You can follow him on Twitter and subscribe to his weekly writing prompts. \n  \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater\, order below and be sure to put your request in the special field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alanna-okun-the-curse-of-the-boyfriend-sweater/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Martha K. Davis
DESCRIPTION:Martha K. Davis reads from her new novel\, Scissors\, Paper\, Stone. \n\nPraise for Scissors\, Paper\, Stone \n\n“With Scissors\, Paper\, Stone\, Martha K. Davis has given us an ambitious coming of (lesbian) age story that is a movingly honest inquiry into the messy\, yet still beautiful\, transmogrification of what it means to be a family in a post-WWII America ruptured by racism\, homophobia\, . . and the generational divide. The character of Cathy\, the idealistic and unsuspecting . . . mother of an adopted Korean child\, is one for the ages: a vessel for all the good intentions and fumbling contradictions of her time.”—Celeste Gainey\, author of the GAFFER\, final judge for the 2016 Quill Award \n\n“Martha K. Davis writes with rare insight and compassion about the evolving American family and the struggle to belong. Scissors\, Paper\, Stone is a wise and affecting novel.”—Hilma Wolitzer\, author of The Doctor’s Daughter and An Available Man \n\nAbout Scissors\, Paper\, Stone \n\nWhat is considered a family\, and who gets to define it? In 1964\, despite the racial tension occurring in a post-WWII America\, Catherine and Jonathan adopt a baby girl from Korea. This unconventional choice brings disapproval from Catherine’s family\, which creates an even closer bond between her and her daughter. Narrated in alternating chapters by Catherine\, her adopted daughter Min\, and Min’s best friend Laura\, Scissors\, Paper\, Stone spans twenty years of love\, loss\, and the complex reality of female relationships. By 1985 Catherine is living a risk-free life on her own accord\, Laura is dating her way through college\, and Min is a massage therapist who has come out as a lesbian and is learning to embrace her Korean heritage. After Min and Laura take a summer road trip together\, the shifts in their friendship force all three women to examine the assumptions they’ve been living by and to make choices about the roles they want to play in each other’s lives.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/martha-k-davis/
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:LUNADA Literary Lounge
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 29\, 2018 | 7:30 pm \nFeaturing Roberto Lovato\, Fernando Martí\, and Jacqueline Scott Ramos. Open Mic sign-up at 7pm. \nDe bajo la luna llena\, hecha de leche y maiz\, de las flores de primavera… At the height of Spring\, Lunada hosts three fiery writer activists engaged in social change: Border-smashing writer and journalist Roberto Lovato; Poet\, scholar\, and Mission native Jacqueline Scott Ramos; and Fernando Martí poet\, storywriter and architect\, que hace un poquito de todo.\nOPEN MIC: Sign-up at 7pm\, 8 spots on the list\, 5 min. ea. Poets\, slammers\, storytellers\, emcees\, musicians\, laureates\, veteranos\, and first-timers invited to share their voices under our bilingual lunar spotlight. \nHosted by Sandra García Rivera \nDOORS OPEN AT 7:00pm\n$5.00 Admission\n \nGALERÍA DE LA RAZA\n2857 24th Street\, at Bryant\nSF\, CA 94110\nLUNADA is the Bay Area’s only full moon bilingual literary ritual & performance gathering devoted to spoken word\, música\, song\, and story. Located in the heart of the Mission District at Galería de la Raza\, and guest curated by some of the Bay Area’s most dynamic word slingers and artists\, each LUNADA features community poets\, local legends\, visiting mystics\, and other mero meros of the stage. Voted Best Literary Night two years in a row by the SF Bay Guardian\, 2016 & 2017. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nRoberto Lovato is a San Francisco-based journalist and writer based out of the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto. Prior to joining the Grotto\, he was a Visiting Scholar at U.C. Berkeley’s Center for Latino Policy Research. Roberto is also the recipient of a crisis reporting grant from the Pulitzer Center. His journalistic work spans the entire hemisphere and centers on border-smashing issues of our time: immigration\, the drug war\, national security and climate change. Roberto is a frequent contributor to The Nation magazine and his work has appeared in the Guardian\, Guernica\, Foreign Policy\, the Boston Globe\, the Associated Press\, the Los Angeles Times\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, Der Spiegel\, Al Jazeera\, the American Prospect\, Mother Jones\, Salon Magazine\, La Opinion\, and other national and international media outlets. He has appeared as a source or commentator in the New York Times\, the Wall Street Journal\, Time magazine\, the Washington Post\, the Economist and Le Monde Diplomatique. He has also appeared on the network news shows of MSNBC\, Univision\, the BBC\, CNN\, CNN en Español\, NPR\, Radio Bilingue\, Democracy Now and Al-Jazeera. He will read from his non-fiction book\, a reported memoir about the intimate and political roots of extreme violence among children and youth —and the violent countries that make them so. The most interesting parts of his bio are not yet written… \nFernando Martí es un todero: hace un poquito de todo.He is a poet\, story-writer\, printmaker\, architect\, and housing activist. Originally from Ecuador\, he has been deeply involved in San Francisco’s struggles for affordable housing\, community land trusts and climate justice since the mid-90s. His work reflects his formal training in urbanism\, his roots in rural Ecuador\, and his current residence in the heart of Empire. His poetry and prints inhabit the space between ancestral traditions of place and utopian construction. His artwork can be seen regularly on justseeds.org\,and his writing has appeared in publications as varied as El Tecolote\,Left Turnand Shelterforce\, as well as a ‘zine called Amor y Lucha. \nJacqueline Scott Ramos is a poet\, actress\, public health activist\, and scholar\, who is native to San Francisco’s Mission district. With roots birthed in the Philippines\, Mississippi\, the Chickasaw Nation\, and Spain—she carries the fiery heart of her ancestral warriors. She is the personification of advocacy and champion of cultural equity—building bridges of justice for social change. For over 10 years\, she has worked alongside healthcare professionals at the University of California\, San Francisco and Stanford on programs that promote positive health and biopsychosocial outcomes for in-risk populations affected by poverty\, incarceration\, gentrification\, substance use\, and mental illness. Jacqueline recognizes the profound vitality of communities that have been disenfranchised\, and has committed her life to be a beacon of educated hope and a disruptor to pathways of harm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunada-literary-lounge-5/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jesse Berrett
DESCRIPTION:Please join us as we welcome Jesse Berrett for a reading of his newest book Pigskin Nation on Wednesday\, May 30th at 6:30 p.m. in our Granny Smith Room! \nHistorian Berrett debuts with a superb cultural history of the period between 1966 and 1974\, when “football\, politics and culture entwined themselves in ever more complex ways.” Berrett concisely looks at how NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle used his newly acquired production company\, NFL Films\, to transform the violent image of the sport by producing films and TV programming that extolled football’s “meaning\, glory\, excitement\, and passion.” The book’s second half explores how politicians tried to capitalize on pro football’s cultural relevance\, particularly Richard Nixon’s use of the sport—and his endorsement of conservative coaches such as Vince Lombardi—as part of a “public strategy of rallying mainstream America against the dissent\, abnormality\, and un-American behavior” that could be linked to groups he sought to marginalize. An epilogue looks at how the battle over football’s meaning continued in the 1980s; Berrett observes that Ronald Reagan’s repeated use of “the Gipper” was used to embody the entire Reagan ethos of America as “still the shining city on a hill.” This thought-provoking sports history nicely looks at the significance professional football has had on American politics and culture. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jesse-berrett/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jessica Weisberg
DESCRIPTION:Jessica Weisberg discusses her new book\, Asking for a Friend: Three Centuries of Life\, Love\, Money and Other Burning Questions from a Nation Obsessed. \n\nPraise for Asking for a Friend \n\n“Rich with insight and surprising facts\, Jessica Weisberg’s ingenious appraisal of America’s guidance-givers doubles as a wholly unexpected history of our national psyche. At long last\, the lowly advice column gets its due!”―Kate Bolick\, author of Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own \n\n“An oddly soothing antidote to the millenarian terrors of today\, Jessica Weisberg’s history of ordinary American anxiety is as warm\, funny\, entertaining\, and chattily insightful as the advice-dispensers she portrays. In the centuries before the internet\, these were the ones we turned to with questions so obscure\, embarrassing\, weird\, or mortifyingly personal that only a stranger would do.”―Larissa MacFarquhar\, author of Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism\, Drastic Choices\, and the Urge to Help \n\n“Jessica Weisberg’s hilarious\, enlightening odyssey through the history of advice columns chronicles the evolution of our anxieties over how to act. However weird or offensive some of our questions have been\, it’s heartening to know that at least we’ve always been trying. A surprising and delightful read.”―Mac McClelland\, author of Irritable Hearts: A PTSD Love Story \n\nAbout Asking for a Friend \n\nA delightful history of Americans’ obsession with advice–from Poor Richard to Dr. Spock to Miss Manners \n  \nAmericans\, for all our talk of pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps\, obsessively seek advice on matters large and small. Perhaps precisely because we believe in bettering ourselves and our circumstances in life\, we ask for guidance constantly. And this has been true since our nation’s earliest days: from the colonial era on\, there have always been people eager to step up and offer advice\, some of it lousy\, some of it thoughtful\, but all of it read and debated by generations of Americans. \n  \nJessica Weisberg takes readers on a tour of the advice-givers who have made their names\, and sometimes their fortunes\, by telling Americans what to do. You probably don’t want to follow all the advice they proffered. Eating graham crackers will not make you a better person\, and wearing blue to work won’t guarantee a promotion. But for all that has changed in American life\, it’s a comfort to know that our hang-ups\, fears\, and hopes have not. We’ve always loved seeking advice–so long as it’s anonymous\, and as long as it’s clear that we’re not asking for ourselves; we’re just asking for a friend.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessica-weisberg/
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:Borderlands // an Aunt Lute Open Mic feat. Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:“… every step forward is a travesía\, a crossing. I am again an alien in a new territory. And again\, and again.”\n–Gloria Anzaldúa\, Borderlands/La Frontera \nJoin us for a poetry open mic the last Thursday of May. We want to hear about your new growth\, your crossings\, what territory you’ve uncovered with the shifting of the seasons. Poets of any level welcome: share with us your undone and your in-process! 15 available open slots\, one poem per poet\, sign-up upon arrival.\n\nMC and Featured Poet:\nKim Shuck is the current Poet Laureate of San Francisco. She has two full length collections of poetry\, one chapbook and one collection of prose poems to her name. Her recent works include Sidewalk NDN (Foothills Publishing\, 2014) and Clouds Running In (Taurean Press\, 2014). Kim serves on the board of directors for the San Francisco American Indian Cultural Center in planning\, is involved with the Cherokee Society of the Greater Bay Area and is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. In addition\, she is a former Indian Studies instructor and a visual artist who works with traditional textiles. \nThis event is free and open to the public! Beverages will be provided.\nThis event is funded in part by the CAC and the NEA. Questions? Email marketing@auntlute.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/borderlands-an-aunt-lute-open-mic-feat-kim-shuck/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:William Brewer reads poems about addiction Mill Valley Library Cosponsored by Marin Poetry Center
DESCRIPTION:These moving and dramatic poems tackle the pain of the opioid addiction in West Virginia\, how it affects family\, addicts and the community. Brewer manages to infuse the poems with beauty and hope as well as speaking in the many voices of the epidemic \nRooted in the physical and spiritual landscape of West Virginia\, the poems focus on the small town of Oceana (nicknamed Oxyana for the record number of overdoses there)\, Oceana acts as a stand-in for West Virginia as a whole\, which has the highest OD rate in the country. \nThe poems are at once dreamlike and visceral\, and the images in it draw on the beauty and pain of a West Virginia that is\, in Brewer’s words “last on every list\,” a state that people in the nation’s capital\, only a few hours away\, barely acknowledge and clearly don’t care much about. \nWilliam Brewer’s book\, I Know Your Kind (Milkweed Editions\, 2017) was the winner of the National Poetry Series. His work has appeared in Boston Review\, The Iowa Review\, Narrative (where it was awarded the 30 Below Prize)\, ZYZZYVA\, New England Review\, The New Yorker\, and other journals. Currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, he was born and raised in West Virginia. For more about William Brewer\, see the PBS segment or the ZYZZYVA interview.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/william-brewer-reads-poems-about-addiction-mill-valley-library-cosponsored-by-marin-poetry-center/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Vincent Pizzuto
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, May 31st at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Vincent Pizzuto as he reads from his new book Contemplating Christ. \nThe incarnation has made mystics of us all. What if we read the gospels as if that were true? In his book Contemplating Christ\, Vincent Pizzuto offers an exploration of the interior life for modern contemplatives that is as beautiful as it is compelling. With an emphasis on the gospels and Christian mystical tradition\, his book explores ancient themes in new and surprising ways. Drawing on his rich experience as an academic and priest\, Pizzuto gradually unfolds the Christian mystery of deification to which the whole of biblical revelation and the Christian contemplative life are ordered: through the incarnation\, we have all been made “other Christs” in the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vincent-pizzuto/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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