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SUMMARY:Tommy Orange
DESCRIPTION:Tommy Orange reading from\n\nThere There \npublished by Alfred Knopf \nNot since Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange’s There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career.Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame in Oakland. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle’s memory. Edwin Black has come to find his true father. Thomas Frank has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather; Orvil has taught himself Indian dance through YouTube videos\, and he has come to the Big Oakland Powwow to dance in public for the very first time. Tony Loneman is a young Native American boy whose future seems destined to be as bleak as his past\, and he has come to the Powwow with darker intentions–intentions that will destroy the lives of everyone in his path.\nFierce\, angry\, funny\, groundbreaking–Tommy Orange’s first novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. There There is a multi-generational\, relentlessly paced story about violence and recovery\, hope and loss\, identity and power\, dislocation and communion\, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. A glorious\, unforgettable debut. \nTommy Orange is a recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a 2014 MacDowell Fellow\, and a 2016 Writing by Writers Fellow. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland\, California\, and currently lives in Angels Camp\, California. \nPraise for the work of Tommy Orange: \n“When Tommy Orange first sent me a chapter of his novel\, There There\, I read it and marveled. I then read it aloud to my wife. And then I emailed and called my closest writer friends. I said\, ‘It’s here. That book I’ve been waiting for. It has arrived.’ Tommy Orange has indeed arrived. And his debut novel is a beautiful\, dangerous\, sad\, poetic\, and hilarious revelation. Set in Oakland\, California\, There There is truly the first book to capture what it means to be an urban Indian—perhaps the first novel ever to celebrate and honor and elevate the joys and losses of urban Indians. You might think I’m exaggerating but this book is so revolutionary—evolutionary—that Native American literature will never be the same.”\n—Sherman Alexie \n“There\, There is an urgent\, invigorating\, absolutely vital book by a novelist with more raw virtuosic talent than any young writer I’ve come across in a long\, long time. Maybe ever. Tommy Orange is a stylist with substance\, a showboater with a deeply moral compass. I want to call him heir to Gertrude Stein by way of George Saunders\, but he is even more original than that. This book will make your heart swell.”\n—Claire Vaye Watkins \n“This is Tommy Orange. Remember his name. His book’s gonna blow the roof off.”\n—Pam Houston
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tommy-orange/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash presents Gillian Conoley and Paul Hoover
DESCRIPTION:Gillian Conoley’s most recent book of poems is Peace. A. Anupama\, in Numéro Cinq\, wrote\, “White space percolates this lyric\, while the current lull in American military actions forms the occasion of this book\, Gillian Conoley’s seventh poetry collection. With poems  titled “late democracy\,’ “[Peace] contrary to history\,” and “Trying to Write a Poem about Gandhi\,” the work pulls one way and then pushes back another\, testing the inner ground for breath.” Others of her collections include The Plot Genie\, Profane Halo\, and Lovers in the Used World. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry\, American Hybrid\, and Postmodern American Poetry. Her translations include Thousand Times Broken\, Three Books\, three previously untranslated books of the French poet Henri Michaux. Founder and editor of the literary journal VOLT\, she has\, among her honors\, four Pushcart Prizes\, the Jerome J. Shestack Prize from APR\, an NEA fellowship\, and a Fund for Poetry Award. \nPaul Hoover’s new book of poems is The Book of Unnamed Things. Mary Jo Bang says\, “Hoover’s concern with language’s representational inadequacy is shared by the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets he’s championed for years….However\, his own poems are more direct\, more lyrical\, and sometimes seethingly and seductively  melancholic. Central to all of them (regardless of language’s irrefutable limitations) is his keen intelligence and laconic wit.” Author of fourteen previous poetry collections\, he co-edited with Maxine Chernoff the literary magazine New American Writing and co-translated with her The Selected Poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin\, which won a PEN-USA Translation Award. Editor\, as well\, of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology\, his honors include an NEA Fellowship\, the Frederick Bock Award of Poetry\, and the Jerome J. Shestack Prize of American Poetry Review.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-presents-gillian-conoley-and-paul-hoover/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:This is Now with Angie Coiro presents: Ken Auletta on media and advertising
DESCRIPTION:We’re saturated in advertising. Online\, on billboards\, flashing on sidewalks – iSpace in Japan plans to project ads on the moon by 2020. \nBut advertising is no longer a robust industry. Consumer distrust and ad-killing technology have frayed it into hostile camps with uncertain futures. Still: if you’re not in the business\, why should you care? \nBecause\, Ken Auletta says: no advertising means no media. \nAuletta adds to his long career as a savvy observer of American business and communication with Frenemies: The Epic Destruction of the Advertising Industry (And Why This Matters). Auletta is uniquely positioned to probe this latest turn in a key industry. He’s penned the “Annals of Communications” column for The New Yorker since 1992; he’s profiled the greatest influencers of media both traditional and digital\, including Bill Gates\, Rupert Murdoch\, and Ted Turner. \nKen Auletta joins KLF’s journalist in residence Angie Coiro for her This Is Now series\, for an evening of wide-ranging conversation about media\, advertising\, and its role in the life of us all.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-with-angie-coiro-presents-ken-auletta-on-media-and-advertising/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Maria Hummel and Sara Houghteling
DESCRIPTION:Maria Hummel discusses her new novel\, Still Lives with  Sara Houghteling. \nPraise for Still Lives \n“Still Lives offers its readers that delicious combination of entertainment and brilliance. It’s at once profound and suspenseful\, and while the plot kept me up nights (the ending had me gasping in surprise!)\, the book as a whole asks important questions about art and representation and how we\, as a culture\, objectify and endanger and victimize women. Maria Hummel has written a remarkable\, relevant\, and necessary novel.” —Edan Lepucki\, Woman No. 17 and California \n“There’s nothing I like better than a well-written page-turner about the art world\, and Maria Hummel has delivered this and more with her new literary thriller\, Still Lives. Flawed characters abound as do clever plots and subplots along with irresistible peeks into hidden chambers of the LA art scene. Riveting.” —B.A. Shapiro\, author of The Art Forger and The Muralist \n“As gritty and glittering as the L.A. art world it depicts\, Maria Hummel’s latest novel soars into the sun-swept heights of fame and beauty\, then plunges us into violence. In Still Lives\, Hummel does what she does best: delving with sensitivity and wit into complex\, intertwined lives\, lives that strain the frames that enclose them. Intelligent\, vivid\, and impeccably paced\, this thrilling novel forces us to confront how dangerous art can be.” —Kirstin Valdez Quade\, author of Night at the Fiestas \nAbout Still Lives \nKim Lord is an avant-garde figure\, feminist icon\, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Livesis comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous\, murdered women–the Black Dahlia\, Chandra Levy\, Nicole Brown Simpson\, among many others–and the works are as compelling as they are disturbing\, implicating a culture that is too accustomed to violence against women. \n  \nAs the city’s richest art patrons pour into the Rocque Museum’s opening night\, all the staff\, including editor Maggie Richter\, hope the event will be enough to save the historic institution’s flailing finances. \n  \nExcept Kim Lord never shows up to her own gala. \n  \nFear mounts as the hours and days drag on and Lord remains missing. Suspicion falls on the up-and-coming gallerist Greg Shaw Ferguson\, who happens to be Maggie’s ex. A rogue’s gallery of eccentric art world figures could also have motive for the act\, and as Maggie gets drawn into her own investigation of Lord’s disappearance\, she’ll come to suspect all of those closest to her. \n  \nSet against a culture that often fetishizes violence\, Still Lives is a page-turning exodus into the art world’s hall of mirrors\, and one woman’s journey into the belly of an industry flooded with money and secrets. \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSTILL LIVES (HARDCOVER)\n\nBy Maria Hummel\n$26.00\nISBN: 9781619021112\nAvailability: Coming Soon. Available for Pre-Order Now!\nPublished: Counterpoint LLC – June 12th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Still Lives offers its readers that delicious combination of entertainment and brilliance. It’s at once profound and suspenseful\, and while the plot kept me up nights (the ending had me gasping in surprise )\, the book as a whole asks important questions about art and representation and how we\, as a culture\, objectify and endanger and victimize women. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMOTHERLAND (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Maria Hummel\n$15.95\nISBN: 9781619024663\nAvailability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships 1-10 business days from warehouse. ETA will be updated with email order confirmation.\nPublished: Counterpoint LLC – January 13th\, 2015\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMotherland is inspired by stories from author Maria Hummel’s father and his German childhood\, and letters between her grandparents that were hidden in an attic wall for fifty years. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Sara Houghteling\n$16.50\nISBN: 9780307386304\nAvailability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships 1-10 business days from warehouse. ETA will be updated with email order confirmation.\nPublished: Vintage – February 9th\, 2010\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA sweeping and sensuous novel of a son’s quest to recover his family’s lost masterpieces\, looted by the Nazis during the occupation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maria-hummel-and-sara-houghteling/
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:Leslie Jonath
DESCRIPTION:Presents Foraged Art: Creating Projects Using Blooms\, Branches\, Leaves\, Stones\, and Other Elements Discovered in Nature. \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Foraged Art by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, June 14\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the spirit of land artists like Andy Goldsworthy\, the book is as much about discovery as it is about creation. Leaves shaped like lips might inspire a face; an array of rocks might be become an eclectic mosaic; winter’s first snow might be carved into glowing luminaria.Whether you love to look for heart-shaped flowers or want to make a peacock made with flower petals\, you will find great inspiration and joy in Foraged Art. \nArt\, meditation\, and nature meet in this adult focused activity book\, with projects that take inspiration from the natural environment\, using blooms\, pods\, branches\, stones\, and other natural elements. Divided into chapters by natural elements–flowers\, leaves\, rocks and pods\, and more\, the book encourages readers to forage and play outside using nature’s seasonal art box. With quotes by artists on nature and creativity\, Foraged Art is about making art from what you find and finding art in what you see. \nLeslie Jonath is an author\, book packager\, and producer specializing in content for food\, art\, design\, and children’s projects. She is the author of many books including Snowmen\, Everyone Loves Paris\, Give Yourself A Gold Star and Love Found. She lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/leslie-jonath/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Art\, Readings\, & Reactions with Quiet Lightning and Modern Eden
DESCRIPTION:Join ArtSpan and Quiet Lightning at Modern Eden Gallery for the fourth annual Art\, Readings\, & Reactions event! \nART: Curated by Modern Eden\nREADINGS: Curated by Quiet Lighning\nREACTIONS: Empowered by ArtSpan \nThis Artist Mixer showcases writers from Quiet Lightning as they share literary creations inspired by the artwork at Modern Eden. The audience will be equiped with sketch books and drawing materials from ArtSpan to react with drawings.\n\nPLUS MUSIC: A performance by Turk & Divis (Evan and Miles Karp)\, who on June 12 launch the Quiet Lightning album: featuring 50 Bay Area writers performing live at last year’s QL shows\, a rough version of each track was scored and released each month last year. Now mixed\, mastered\, and cut to vinyl\, the album is a mixtape of mixtapes. For music\, visuals\, and pre-orders: turkanddivis.com. \nDon’t forget snacks\, beverages\, and mingling with fellow artists! \nON DISAPLY ART MODERN EDEN GALLERY: \nBaby Mama: Portrait Invitational VI\, June 8–July 6\, 2018 \nModern Eden Gallery proudly presents the 6th edition of our portrait show. Baby Mama\, is inspired by medieval and renaissance religious depictions of the Madonna and Child. A hand-selected lineup of top contemporary figurative artists will bring this archetype into a modern context\, using present-day imagery and iconography to put a new twist on the classical icon\, and interpreting Madonna and Child through the modern lens. \nQUIET LIGHTNING READERS/WRITERS:\n> for author links: http://quietlightning.org/baby-mama/\n \n  \nLinda Norton: Linda is the author of a chapbook\, Hesitation Kit (EtherDome\, 2007) and The Public Gardens: Poems and History (Pressed Wafer\, 2011; introduction by Fanny Howe)\, a hybrid work of poetry and non-fiction and a finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her second book\, Wite-Out (Love and Work)\, is scheduled for 2018-2019 publication. In 2014 Norton received a Creative Work Fund award and a Dickey Fellowship at SF State. She is also a visual artist. Her collages have appeared on the covers of books by Claudia Rankine\, Julie Carr\, and other poets\, and have been exhibited at the Dock Arts Centre in Ireland.\n \n  \n \n\nThea Matthews: Born and raised in San Francisco\, CA\, Thea Matthews is a queer Black and Mexican American awarded poet\, spoken word artist\, activist\, curator\, bruja\, revolutionary\, collaborator\, and researcher. She writes on the complexities of trauma\, grief\, resiliency\, and ultimately\, the triumph over trauma. Her work can be found in For Harriet’s Soar\, Rag Queen Periodical\, as well as SoundCloud\, YouTube\, and Ello. As a seasoned performer\, Thea frequents the San Francisco Bay Area literary scene; and has featured at literary festivals such as Beast Crawl Oakland\, Lit Crawl San Francisco; and reading series such as Paseo Artístico\, Lyrics & Dirges\, Nomadic Press’s First Fridays and Get Lit\, as well as performances hosted by Still Here San Francisco. Currently\, Thea is working on her first volume of poetry–– a thematic collection incorporating flower medicine and city life. She will be at the Berkeley Poetry Festival this upcoming September. \n  \n \nCarla Trujillo: Carla is the editor of two anthologies published by Third Woman Press\, Living Chicana Theory and Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About\, winner of a Lambda Book Award & the Out/Write Vanguard Award. Her novel\, What Night Brings (Curbstone Press 2003)\, won the Marmol prize focusing on human rights\, along with the Paterson Fiction Prize\, the Latino Literary Foundation Book Award\, Bronze Medal from Foreword Magazine\, Honorable Mention for the Gustavus Meyers Books Award\, and was a LAMBDA Book Award finalist. Her latest novel\, Faith and Fat Chances (Curbstone Books/Northwestern University Press 2015)\, was a finalist for the PEN-Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nChristine No: is a first-generation Korean American writer and filmmaker. She believes in the power of Radical Vulnerability and that Magic exists in all strange places. Christine is an advocate for ridding the stigma surrounding mental health; and creating education and dialogue in its place. She is a Sundance Alum\, VONA Fellow\, two-time Pushcart Prize nominee [2015 & 2017] and Best of the Net 2017 nominee. Her work can be found in The Rumpus\, sPARKLE+bLINK\, Columbia Journal\, Story Online\, Apogee\, Atlas and Alice\, Vagabond Lit\, The Brooklyn Quarterly\, and various anthologies. She is a cohort of the Winter Tangerine Workshop\, the Kearny Street Workshop Interdisciplinary Writer’s Lab\, and sits on the board of Quiet Lightning\, a literary non-profit based in San Francisco. Christine is an Assistant Features Editor at The Rumpus. \n  \n  \n  \n \nNatasha Dennerstein: Natasha was born in Melbourne\, Australia\, to a family originating in Belarus. She worked as a psychiatric nurse for many years\, which gave her an interesting perspective on the human condition. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University. Natasha has had poetry published in many journals including Landfall\, Shenandoah\, Bloom\, Red Light Lit\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, Foglifter and North American Review. Her collections Anatomize (2015)\, Triptych Caliform (2016) and her novella-in-verse About a Girl (2017) were published by Norfolk Press in San Francisco. Her chapbook Seahorse (2017) was published by Nomadic Press in Oakland. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nKim Shuck: Kim is the current Poet Laureate of San Francisco; her books include the poetry collections Smuggling Cherokee and Sidewalk NDN and the book of poetic fiction Rabbit Stories; her heritage is Tsulagi\, Sauk\, Fox\, and Polish. She is the first Native American poet laureate of a major American city. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nWith a musical performance by Turk & Divis (Evan and Miles Karp)\, who on June 12 and June 16 launch the Quiet Lightning album: featuring 50 Bay Area writers performing live at last year’s QL shows\, a rough version of each track was scored and released each month last year. Now mixed\, mastered\, and cut to vinyl\, the album — their second — is a mixtape of mixtapes. \n————————–—- \n  \n  \n  \nAbout Modern Eden Gallery: Modern Eden is located in San Francisco’s historic North Beach Neighborhood since June of 2010. The gallery features monthly exhibitions of established and emerging artists. The gallery’s contemporary aesthetic ranges from realism to surrealism with a strong focus on illustrative painting and representational sculpture. \nAbout Quiet Lightning: A literary nonprofit based in San Francisco\, QL created the literary mixtape and since December 2009 has produced 120 events featuring 1200 readings by 800 authors in 80 venues\, from dive bars and art galleries to state parks and national landmarks. \nAbout ArtSpan Artist Mixers: ArtSpan produces Artist Mixer events throughout the year to give San Francisco artists a chance to meet\, mingle\, and make art with each other. Past events have included mixers at artist studios\, a Crochet Jam at a cafe\, a literary reading and sketchfest at a gallery\, a figure drawing session in the Dogpatch\, and much much more! All events are free and open to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/art-readings-reactions-with-quiet-lightning-and-modern-eden/
LOCATION:Modern Eden Gallery\, 801 Greenwich St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tommy Orange presents his debut novel\, THERE THERE (w/ R.O. Kwon)
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is very excited to welcome Tommy Orange to discuss his jaw-droppingly good debut novel\,There There on Friday\, June 15th at 7pm. Tommy will be in conversation with R. O. Kwon. \n“We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy\, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid–tied to the back of everything we’d been doing all along to get us here. There will be death and playing dead\, there will be screams and unbearable silences\, forever-silences\, and a kind of time-travel\, at the moment the gunshots start\, when we look around and see ourselves as we are\, in our regalia\, and something in our blood will recoil then boil hot enough to burn through time and place and memory. We’ll go back to where we came from\, when we were people running from bullets at the end of that old world. The tragedy of it all will be unspeakable\, that we’ve been fighting for decades to be recognized as a present-tense people\, modern and relevant\, only to die in the grass wearing feathers.” \nJacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame in Oakland. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle’s memory. Edwin Black has come to find his true father. Thomas Frank has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather; Orvil has taught himself Indian dance through YouTube videos\, and he has come to the Big Oakland Powwow to dance in public for the very first time. Tony Loneman is a young Native American boy whose future seems destined to be as bleak as his past\, and he has come to the Powwow with darker intentions–intentions that will destroy the lives of everyone in his path. \nFierce\, angry\, funny\, groundbreaking–Tommy Orange’s first novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. There There is a multi-generational\, relentlessly paced story about violence and recovery\, hope and loss\, identity and power\, dislocation and communion\, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. A glorious\, unforgettable debut. \n* * * \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nTommy Orange is a recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a 2014 MacDowell Fellow\, and a 2016 Writing by Writers Fellow. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland\, California\, and currently lives in Angels Camp\, California. \nR. O. Kwon is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. She has received awards from Yaddo\, MacDowell\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, Omi International\, the Steinbeck Center\, and the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony. Born in South Korea\, she has lived most of her life in the United States. Her debut novel\, The Incendiaries\, is forthcoming this summer from Riverhead. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nFriday\, June 15\, 2018 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThere There (Hardcover)\n\nBy Tommy Orange\n$25.95\nISBN: 9780525520375\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: Knopf Publishing Group – June 5th\, 2018
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tommy-orange-presents-his-debut-novel-there-there-w-r-o-kwon/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta Presents: Poetry Comes Out of My Mouth
DESCRIPTION:Come to Alley Cat Books on 24th Street in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District\, June 15 at 7 pm to hear the poetry of Mario Santiago Papasquiaro–Mexican literary outsider to the extreme. Anti-establishment with a punk rocker attitude\, Mario Santiago has gone virtually untranslated into English until now with the publication of Poetry Comes Out of My Mouth. \nArturo Mantecón will read the translations contained in the new book (to be for sale at the bookstore).\nMaceo Montoya\, Chicano master artist\, and novelist will give a brief presentation on the 10 original paintings he created to serve as illustrations for the book.\nArturo Balderrama\, multi-talented musician\, will provide musical backup for the reading. \nAn open mic follows this once in a lifetime presentation and performance! Bring a poem and friend! \nCurated by René Vazquez and Marguerite Muñoz!\nJune 15\, 7 pm\nAlley Cat Books\n3036 24th Street\nSan Francisco
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-presents-poetry-comes-out-of-my-mouth/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Reading
DESCRIPTION:Arturo Mantecon will be reading from his new translation of Mario Santiago Papasquiaro’s poetry. \nFeaturing artwork by Maceo Montoya.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-3/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bloomsday! Thomas Lynch reads from James Joyce's Ulysses
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Irish soda bread as Thomas Lynch continues reading the whole of Ulysses. Chapter Nine up next.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bloomsday-thomas-lynch-reads-from-james-joyces-ulysses/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180616T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180616T220000
DTSTAMP:20260406T211607
CREATED:20180522T014609Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180522T015401Z
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SUMMARY:Turk & Divis / Quiet Lightning album release party
DESCRIPTION:Turk & Divis (Evan and Miles Karp) launch the Quiet Lightning album\, featuring 11 tracks of original music scored to excerpts of 50 Bay Area writers performing live in last year’s QL shows.\nCome celebrate! Activities include:\n> A listening/screening party\n> Performances by a stout list of the album’s contributors:\nJack Foley\, Lorraine Lupo\, Tara Dorabji\, Eric Kurhi\, Claire Calderon\, Zephir O’Meara\, Hugh Behm-Steinberg\, Rohan DaCosta\, Charles Kruger\, Peter Bullen\, Adam Moskowitz\, and Wildredhawk\nLimited edition lathe cut vinyl and cassettes will be available!\nMore info + to pre-order: http://www.turkanddivis.com/quiet-lightning-vinyl/\nThis event is free and all ages. Doors at 7\, performances at 8pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-album-release-party-oak/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180616T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180616T213000
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SUMMARY:Lauren Groff discusses and signs FLORIDA
DESCRIPTION:Lauren Groff discusses and signs FLORIDA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, June 16\, 7:30 pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nCelebrated New York Times bestselling author Lauren Groff presents her highly anticipated new collection of short stories\, Florida. \n \nABOUT FLORIDA \nIn her vigorous and moving new book\, Lauren Groff brings her electric storytelling and intelligence to a world in which storms\, snakes\, and sinkholes lurk at the edge of everyday life\, but the greater threats and mysteries are of a human\, emotional\, and psychological nature. Among those navigating it all are a resourceful pair of abandoned sisters; a lonely boy\, grown up; a restless\, childless couple\, a searching\, homeless woman; and an unforgettable\, recurring character – a steely and conflicted wife and mother. \nThe stories in this collection span characters\, towns\, decades\, even centuries\, but Florida — its landscape\, climate\, history\, and state of mind — becomes its gravitational center: an energy\, a mood\, as much as a place of residence. Groff transports the reader\, then jolts us alert with a crackle of wit\, a wave of sadness\, a flash of cruelty\, as she writes about loneliness\, rage\, family\, and the passage of time. With shocking accuracy and effect\, she pinpoints the moments and decisions and connections behind human pleasure and pain\, hope and despair\, love and fury — the moments that make us alive. Startling\, precise\, and affecting\, Florida is a magnificent achievement. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nLauren Groff is the New York Times bestselling author of three novels\, The Monsters of Templeton\, Arcadia\, and Fates and Furies\, and the celebrated short story collection Delicate Edible Birds. Her work has been featured in the New Yorker\, Harper’s\, the Atlantic\, and several Best American Short Stories anthologies. She has won the Paul Bowles Prize for Fiction\, the PEN/O. Henry Award\, and the Pushcart Prize; and has been a finalist for the National Book Award\, the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Orange Award for New Writers\, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSaturday\, June 16\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFlorida (Hardcover)\n\nBy Lauren Groff\n$27.00\nISBN: 9781594634512\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: Riverhead Books – June 5th\, 2018
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lauren-groff-discusses-and-signs-florida/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180618T070000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180618T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T211607
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SUMMARY:Fiction Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Autumn by Ali Smith\nAutumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Two old friends–Daniel\, a centenarian\, and Elisabeth\, born in 1984–look to both the future and the past as the United Kingdom stands divided by a historic\, once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won\, love is lost. Hope is hand-in-hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round\, as ever. \n  \nA luminous meditation on the meaning of richness and harvest and worth\, Autumn is the first installment of Ali Smith’s Seasonal quartet\, and it casts an eye over our own time: Who are we? What are we made of? Shakespearean jeu d’esprit\, Keatsian melancholy\, the sheer bright energy of 1960s pop art. Wide-ranging in time-scale and light-footed through histories\, Autumn is an unforgettable story about aging and time and love–and stories themselves.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fiction-discussion-group/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180618T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180618T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T211607
CREATED:20180425T211829Z
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SUMMARY:Tommy Orange\, There There
DESCRIPTION:Tommy Orange\, There There\nMonday\, June 18\, 2018 – 7:00pm \nBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Tommy Orange for a reading and signing of his highly-anticipated debut novel\, There There. \nFierce\, angry\, funny\, groundbreaking—Tommy Orange’s first novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. Not since Sherman Alexie and Louise Erdrich has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. \nJacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame in Oakland. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle’s memory. Edwin Black has come to find his true father. Thomas Frank has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather; Orvil has taught himself Indian dance through YouTube videos\, and he has come to the Big Oakland Powwow to dance in public for the very first time. Tony Loneman is a young Native American boy whose future seems destined to be as bleak as his past\, and he has come to the Powwow with darker intentions–intentions that will destroy the lives of everyone in his path. Fierce\, angry\, funny\, groundbreaking–Tommy Orange’s first novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. There There is a multigenerational\, relentlessly paced story about violence and recovery\, hope and loss\, identity and power\, dislocation and communion\, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. A glorious\, unforgettable debut. \n“This is Tommy Orange. Remember his name. His book’s gonna blow the roof off.” —Pam Houston \n“Tommy Orange\, a young Native American from Oakland\, California\, has more raw talent than any young writer I’ve come across in a long\, long time. Maybe ever.” —Claire Vaye Watkins \nAUTHOR:  Born and raised in Oakland\, California\, Tommy Orange is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes\, as well as a graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts and a 2014 MacDowell Colony Fellow. \n  \nThis free event will be held at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up an hour before the event begins. \nThere There (Hardcover)\nBy Tommy Orange \n$25.95 \nISBN: 9780525520375 \nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now \nPublished: Knopf Publishing Group – June 5th\, 2018 \nThere There—GET IT SIGNED!\n$25.95 \nSKU: S9780525520375 \nName (optional) \nIf you cannot attend this event\, you can still have a copy of There Theresigned at the event. Books must be paid for in advance and can either be shipped or held for pick-up in the store. Internet orders must be placed by Sunday\, June 17th. After that\, please call the store to inquire about signed editions. \nMost authors will be happy to add a name to their signature\, but this service is at their discretion and isn’t guaranteed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tommy-orange-there-there/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Express presents a reading with Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Heavan Is All Goodbyes\, Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Avenue\, Berkeley\, free\, 7:00-9:00
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tongo-eisen-martin-2/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180618T213000
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SUMMARY:Lauren Groff
DESCRIPTION:Lauren Groff reads from her new story collection\, Florida. \n\nAbout Florida \n\nThe bold new book from the celebrated New York Times-bestselling author of Fates and Furies. \n“Lauren Groff is a writer of rare gifts.” –The New York Times Book Review \nIn her vigorous and moving new book\, Lauren Groff brings her electric storytelling and intelligence to a world in which storms\, snakes\, and sinkholes lurk at the edge of everyday life\, but the greater threats and mysteries are of a human\, emotional\, and psychological nature. Among those navigating it all are a resourceful pair of abandoned sisters; a lonely boy\, grown up; a restless\, childless couple\, a searching\, homeless woman; and an unforgettable\, recurring character — a steely and conflicted wife and mother. \nThe stories in this collection span characters\, towns\, decades\, even centuries\, but Florida — its landscape\, climate\, history\, and state of mind — becomes its gravitational center: an energy\, a mood\, as much as a place of residence. Groff transports the reader\, then jolts us alert with a crackle of wit\, a wave of sadness\, a flash of cruelty\, as she writes about loneliness\, rage\, family\, and the passage of time. With shocking accuracy and effect\, she pinpoints the moments and decisions and connections behind human pleasure and pain\, hope and despair\, love and fury — the moments that make us alive. Startling\, precise\, and affecting\, Florida is a magnificent achievement. \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFLORIDA (HARDCOVER)\n\nBy Lauren Groff\n$27.00\nISBN: 9781594634512\nAvailability: Coming Soon. Available for Pre-Order Now!\nPublished: Riverhead Books – June 5th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe bold new book from the celebrated New York Times-bestselling author of Fates and Furies. \n“Lauren Groff is a writer of rare gifts.” —The New York Times Book Review \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFATES AND FURIES (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Lauren Groff\n$16.00\nISBN: 9781594634482\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Riverhead Books – September 13th\, 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\nA FINALIST FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD\nNPR MORNING EDITION BOOK CLUB PICK\nNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: THE WASHINGTON POST\, NPR\, TIME\, THE SEATTLE TIMES\, MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE\, SLATE\, LIBRARY JOURNAL\, KIRKUS\, AND MANY MORE \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nARCADIA (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Lauren Groff\n$16.00\nISBN: 9780316434706\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Hachette Books – July 13th\, 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\n“Timeless and vast… The raw beauty of Ms. Groff’s prose is one of the best things about Arcadia. But it is by no means this book’s only kind of splendor.”—Janet Maslin\, The New York Times \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE MONSTERS OF TEMPLETON (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Lauren Groff\n$16.00\nISBN: 9780316434713\nAvailability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships 1-10 business days from warehouse. ETA will be updated with email order confirmation.\nPublished: Hachette Books – July 13th\, 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER — the debut novel by the acclaimed author of Fates and Furies.\n“The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace\, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDELICATE EDIBLE BIRDS: AND OTHER STORIES (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Lauren Groff\n$16.00\nISBN: 9780316317771\nAvailability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships 1-10 business days from warehouse. ETA will be updated with email order confirmation.\nPublished: Hachette Books – August 30th\, 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom Lauren Groff\, author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling novel Fates and Furies\, comes Delicate Edible Birds\, one of the most striking short fiction debuts in years. Here are nine stories of astonishing insight and variety\, each revealing a resonant drama within the life of a twentieth-century American woman.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lauren-groff/
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:20180619T193000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Jam
DESCRIPTION:Join us when San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck reads poetry with Ukiah Poet Laureate Linda Noel and Thea Matthews.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-jam/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180619T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T211607
CREATED:20180521T025302Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180521T025302Z
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SUMMARY:Queer Words: In Conversation with Rob Rosen
DESCRIPTION:Wayne Goodman will sit in conversation with the author of “Sparkle: The Queerest Book You’ll Ever Love\,” “Fierce\,” “Hot Lava\,” “Queens of the Apocalypse\,” “Creature Comfort\,” “Southern Fried\,” “Midlife Crisis\,” and his most recent work\, “And God Belched.” He is also the editor of the “Best Gay Erotica” series.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queer-words-in-conversation-with-rob-rosen/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180619T203000
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CREATED:20180219T021208Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180424T234716Z
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SUMMARY:David Stephen Calonne on Bukowski and writing
DESCRIPTION:David Stephen Calonne on Bukowski and writing\ncelebrating the release of\n\nThe Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: On Writers and Writing \nby Charles Bukowski \npublished by City Lights Books \n\nThe method behind the madness\, revealing the critical acumen of everyone’s favorite Dirty Old Man. \n“Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way\, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.”—Charles Bukowski \nIn The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way\, Charles Bukowski considers the art of writing\, and the art of living as writer. Bringing together a variety of previously uncollected stories\, columns\, reviews\, introductions\, and interviews\, Mathematics finds him approaching the dynamics of his chosen profession with cynical aplomb\, deflating pretentions and tearing down idols armed with only a typewriter and a bottle of beer. Beginning with the title piece—a serious manifesto disguised as off-handed remarks en route to the racetrack—Mathematics runs through numerous tales following the author’s adventures at poetry readings\, parties\, film sets\, and bars\, and also features an unprecedented gathering of Bukowski’s singular literary criticism. From classic authors like Hemingway to underground legends like d.a. levy to his own stable of obscure favorites\, Bukowski uses each occasion to expound on the larger issues around literary production. The book closes with a handful of interviews in which he discusses his writing practices and his influences\, making Mathematics a perfect guide to the man behind the myth and the disciplined artist behind the boozing brawler. \nDavid Stephen Calonne has edited four previous books of uncollected prose by Charles Bukowski for City Lights: Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays\, 1944-1990 (2008)\, Absence of the Hero: Uncollected Stories and Essays\, Vol. 2: 1946-1992 (2010)\, More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns (2011)\, and The Bell Tolls for No One (2015). He is the author of several books\, including the critical study Charles Bukowski\, and the editor of Charles Bukowski: Sunlight Here I Am/Interviews and Encounters 1963-1993. \n\nCharles Bukowski was born in Andernach\, Germany on August 16\, 1920\, the only child of an American soldier and a German mother. At the age of three\, he came with his family to the United States and grew up in Los Angeles. He attended Los Angeles City College from 1939 to 1941\, then left school and moved to New York City to become a writer. His lack of publishing success at this time caused him to give up writing in 1946 and spurred a ten-year stint of heavy drinking. After he developed a bleeding ulcer\, he decided to take up writing again. He worked a wide range of jobs to support his writing\, including dishwasher\, truck driver and loader\, mail carrier\, guard\, gas station attendant\, stock boy\, warehouse worker\, shipping clerk\, post office clerk\, parking lot attendant\, Red Cross orderly\, and elevator operator. He also worked in a dog biscuit factory\, a slaughterhouse\, a cake and cookie factory\, and he hung posters in New York City subways. \nBukowski published his first story when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. His first book of poetry was published in 1959; he went on to publish more than forty-five books of poetry and prose\, including Pulp (Black Sparrow\, 1994)\, Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960-1970 (1993)\, and The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992)\, and the following books with City Lights Publishers: Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1981)\, The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories (1983)\, Tales of Ordinary Madness (1984)\, Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays\, 1944-1990 (2008)\, Absence of the Hero: Uncollected Stories and Essays\, Vol. 2: 1946-1992 (2010)\, More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns (2011)\, and The Bell Tolls for No One (2015). He died of leukemia in San Pedro on March 9\, 1994.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-stephen-calonne-on-bukowski-and-writing/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Susie Bright\, Santa Cruz Noir
DESCRIPTION:Susie Bright\, Santa Cruz Noir\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, June 19\, 2018 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocal writer and editor Susie Bright will discuss and sign copies of her highly-anticipated new book\, Santa Cruz Noir. Bright will be joined by contributing authors to the anthology at this free event. \nAkashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies\, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories\, each one set in a distinct location within the geographic area of the book. Following in the footsteps of Los Angeles Noir\, San Francisco Noir\, San Diego Noir\, Orange County Noir\, and Oakland Noir\, this new volume further reveals the seedy underbelly of the left coast. \nFeaturing brand-new stories by: Tommy Moore\, Jessica Breheny\, Naomi Hirahara\, Calvin McMillin\, Liza Monroy\, Elizabeth McKenzie\, Jill Wolfson\, Ariel Gore\, Jon Bailiff\, Maceo Montoya\, Micah Perks\, Seana Graham\, Vinnie Hansen\, Peggy Townsend\, Margaret Elysia Garcia\, Lou Mathews\, Lee Quarnstrom\, Dillon Kaiser\, Beth Lisick\, and Wallace Baine. \nFrom the introduction by Susie Bright: \nEvery town has its noir-ville. It’s easy to find in Santa Cruz. We live in what’s called “paradise\,” where you can wake up in a pool of blood with the first pink rays of the sunrise peeking out over our mountain range. The dewy mist lifts from the bay. Don’t hate us because we’re beautiful–we were made that way\, like Venus rising off the foam with a brick in her hand. We can’t help it if you fall for it every time… \n“If I lived in a place like this\,” visitors often say\, “I’d wake up with a smile every day.” \nOh\, we do\, thank you for that. There’s no beauty like a merciless beauty–and like every crepuscular predator\, it thrives at dawn and dusk. You’re just the innocent we’ve been waiting for\, with your big paper cone of sugar-shark cotton\, whipped out of pure nothing. We have just the ride for you\, the longest tunnel ever. Santa Cruz is everything you ever dreamed\, and everything you ever screamed\, in one long drop you’ll never forget. \nEditor Susie Bright is a best-selling author and editor who landed in Santa Cruz in 1979. Her previous short story collections include The Best American Erotica\, Herotica\, Bitten\, and X. She is the host of the podcast In Bed with Susie Bright\, author of the memoir Big Sex Little Death\, and cowrote and choreographed the noir film Bound. \n  \nThis free event will take place in Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up an hour before the event begins. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSanta Cruz Noir (Akashic Noir) (Paperback)\n\nBy Susie Bright (Editor)\n$15.95\nISBN: 9781617756221\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: Akashic Books – June 5th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSanta Cruz Noir—GET IT SIGNED!\n\n$15.95\nSKU: S9781617756221\n\n\n\n\n\n\nName (optional)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you cannot attend this event\, you can still have a copy of Santa Cruz Noir signed at the event. Books must be paid for in advance and can either be shipped or held for pick-up in the store. Internet orders must be placed by Monday\, June 18th . After that\, please call the store to inquire about signed editions. \nMost authors will be happy to add a name to their signature\, but this service is at their discretion and isn’t guaranteed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susie-bright-santa-cruz-noir/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Richard Rhodes
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nENERGY: A Human History \npublished by Simon and Schuster \n\n\nPulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time—wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond. \n\n\n\nPeople have lived and died\, businesses have prospered and failed\, and nations have risen to world power and declined\, all over energy challenges. Ultimately\, the history of these challenges tells the story of humanity itself. \nThrough an unforgettable cast of characters\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes explains how wood gave way to coal and coal made room for oil\, as we now turn to natural gas\, nuclear power\, and renewable energy. Rhodes looks back on five centuries of progress\, through such influential figures as Queen Elizabeth I\, King James I\, Benjamin Franklin\, Herman Melville\, John D. Rockefeller\, and Henry Ford. \nIn Energy\, Rhodes highlights the successes and failures that led to each breakthrough in energy production; from animal and waterpower to the steam engine\, from internal-combustion to the electric motor. He addresses how we learned from such challenges\, mastered their transitions\, and capitalized on their opportunities. Rhodes also looks at the current energy landscape\, with a focus on how wind energy is competing for dominance with cast supplies of coal and natural gas. He also addresses the specter of global warming\, and a population hurtling towards ten billion by 2100. \nHuman beings have confronted the problem of how to draw life from raw material since the beginning of time. Each invention\, each discovery\, each adaptation brought further challenges\, and through such transformations\, we arrived at where we are today. In Rhodes’s singular style\, Energy details how this knowledge of our history can inform our way tomorrow.\n\nRichard Rhodes is the author of numerous books and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize\, the National Book Award\, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He graduated from Yale University and has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation\, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Appearing as host and correspondent for documentaries on public television’s Frontline and American Experience series\, he has also been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT and is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Visit his website: RichardRhodes.com\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/richard-rhodes/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Omerta Publications Presents: KRA! & War in America  Genny Lim & William Cross reading from their new chapbooks
DESCRIPTION:Born in San Francisco\, Genny Lim\, San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate\, earned a BA and an MA from San Francisco State University.  The poems in KRA! invoke history\, myth\, biography\, political confrontations\, and personal experience. Lim writes about fellow writers\, musicians\, and radical cultural activists Francisco X. Alarcon\, James Baldwin\, Amiri Baraka\, Fred Ho\, and Alfonso Texidor. “Odes” are dedicated to the people of Black Lives Matter\, Standing Rock\, and Flint\, Michigan. In their lyric fiber\, the poems themselves struggle for the survival of cultures of mutual respect and solidarity in the face of rapacious capitalism. \nWhen War in America was printed by Arroyo-Sheldon Publishers in 1993\, its battle-cry poems became an instant “hit” radical pamphlet—sold at human rights rallies and marches—and quickly disappeared as all copies of the small press run were snapped up. This 25th anniversary edition has those poems\, some revised\, and newer poems\, and an excerpt from the libretto of John Brown’s Truth\, William Crossman’s musical of récitatif\, improvised music\, and dance.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/omerta-publications-presents-kra-war-in-america-genny-lim-william-cross-reading-from-their-new-chapbooks/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night
DESCRIPTION:NEXT up: Tuesday June 19th\, 2018\nOur featured artist is: James Zealous (Ellis)\n\nat PianoFight: 144 Taylor Street (between Turk & Eddy)\,\nSan Francisco\, CA 94102 – Powell Street BART \nHosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir\, live jazz with Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends.\nOpen Mic sign-up for poetry only starts at 6:45pm – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment\, a few open slots to read without music mid-set. FREE admission. Full menu and bar available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night-7/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: Yrsa Daley-Ward / The Terrible
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Yrsa Daley-Ward for her remarkable new book The Terrible: A Storyteller’s Memoir. Please join us! \n  \nFrom the celebrated poet behind bone\, a lyrical memoir — part prose\, part verse — about coming-of-age\, uncovering the cruelty and beauty of the wider world\, and redemption through self-discovery and the bonds of family \n“You may not run away from the thing that you are\nbecause it comes and comes and comes as sure as you breathe.” \n  \nThis is the story of Yrsa Daley-Ward\, and all the things that happened–“even the terrible things. And God\, there were terrible things.” It’s about her childhood in the northwest of England with her beautiful\, careworn mother Marcia; the man formerly known as Dad (half fun\, half frightening); and her little brother Roo\, who sees things written in the stars. \n  \nIt’s also about the surreal magic of adolescence\, about growing up and discovering the power and fear of sexuality\, about pitch-gray days of pills and powder and connection. It’s about damage and pain\, but also joy. Told with raw intensity and shocking honesty\, The Terrible is a memoir of going under\, losing yourself\, and finding your voice. \n  \n\n  \nYrsa Daley-Ward is a writer and poet of mixed West Indian and West African heritage. Born to a Jamaican mother and a Nigerian father\, Yrsa was raised by her devout Seventh Day Adventist grandparents in the small town of Chorley in the North of England. She splits her time between London and New York. \n  \n  \nThis event is free and all ages. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you. \n\n\n\n\nBooks:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Terrible: A Storyteller’s Memoir (Paperback)\n\nBy Yrsa Daley-Ward\n$16.00\nISBN: 9780143132622\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: Penguin Books – June 5th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBone (Paperback)\n\nBy Yrsa Daley-Ward\, Kiese Laymon (Foreword by)\n$15.00\nISBN: 9780143132615\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: Penguin Books – September 26th\, 2017
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-yrsa-daley-ward-the-terrible/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Chris Feliciano Arnold
DESCRIPTION:Chris Feliciano Arnold discusses his new book\, The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First Century Amazon. \nAbout The Third Bank of the River \nA sweeping look at the war over the Amazon―as activists\,locals\, and indigenous tribes struggle to save it from the threat of loggers\, drug lords\, and corrupt cops and politicians \nFollowing doctors and detectives\, environmental activists and indigenous tribes\, The Third Bank of the River traces the history of the Amazon from the arrival of the first Spanish flotilla to the drones that are now mapping unexplored parts of the forest. Grounded in rigorous firsthand reporting and in-depth research\, Chris Feliciano Arnold reveals a portrait of Brazil and the Amazon that is complex\, bloody\, and often tragic. \n  \nDuring the 2014 world cup\, an isolated Amazon tribe emerged from the rain forest on the misty border of Peru and Brazil\, escaping massacre at the hands of loggers who wanted their land. A year later\, in the jungle capital of Manaus\, a bloody weekend of reprisal killings inflame a drug war that has blurred the line between cops and kingpins. Both events reveal the dual struggles of those living in and around the world’s largest river. As indigenous tribes lose their ancestral culture and territory to the lure and threat of the outside world\, the question arises of how best to save isolated tribes: Keep them away from the modern world or make contact in an effort to save them from extinction? As Brazil looks to be a world leader in the twenty-first century\, this magnificent and vast region is mired in chaos and violence that echoes the atrocities that have haunted the rain forest since Europeans first traveled its waters. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chris-feliciano-arnold/
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:Katharine Dion
DESCRIPTION:Launch celebration for her debut novel\, The Dependents\, a wise and lyrical debut novel about a new widower confronting the truth about his long marriage. \n“A marvel of a novel. With great subtlety and tact\, it evokes the love\, devotion\, and sadness that bind a grieving father to his troubled daughter. Its cumulative power comes from the depth of Dion’s entry into her characters and the vividness of her prose that brings them to life. The Dependents is one of the best debut novels I’ve read in years\, and a very auspicious one.”–Adam Haslett \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, June 19\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter the sudden death of his wife\, Maida\, Gene is haunted by the fear that their marriage was not all it appeared to be. Alongside Ed and Gayle Donnelly\, friends since college days\, he tries to resurrect happy memories of the times the two couples shared\, raising their children in a small New Hampshire town and vacationing together at a lake house every summer. Meanwhile\, his daughter\, Dary\, challenges not only his happy version of the past but also his view of Maida. As a long-standing rift between them deepens\, Gene starts to understand how unknown his daughter is to him–and how enigmatic his wife was as well. And a lingering suspicion seizes his mind that could upend everything he thought he knew. \nKatharine Dion’s assured debut moves seamlessly between Gene’s present-day journey and the long history of a marriage and friendship. Rich and wonderfully alive\, The Dependents is the most moving kind of drama\, an intimate glance into the expanse of family life and the way we must all eventually bridge the chasm between what we want to believe and what we know to be true. \nKatharine Dion is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where she was awarded the Iowa Arts Fellowship. She has also been a MacDowell Fellow and the recipient of a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation. She lives in Berkeley. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Dependents (Hardcover)\n\nBy Katharine Dion\n$26.00\nISBN: 9780316473873\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: Little Brown and Company – June 19th\, 2018
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katharine-dion/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Novelist Moriel Rothman-Zecher
DESCRIPTION:Moe’s welcomes Moriel Rothman-Zecher\, author of Sadness is a White Bird. \n“Ultimately\, “Sadness is a White Bird” is a nuanced examination of what it is like to be just one person at the front line of a century-old conflict. Rothman-Zecher delicately tells one deeply unique story without claiming to explain every individual’s experience or devaluing experiences unlike his own. Written in beautiful prose\, with sentences that will leave you tearing up on the bus ride to work\, Rothman-Zecher complicates our worldview and forces us to look internally\, examining how we hold ourselves and our world morally accountable.” The Daily Californian \nMoriel Rothman-Zecher is an American-Israeli writer\, poet\, and novelist. Born in Jerusalem\, he graduated from Middlebury College with a degree in Arabic and political science. A recipient of a 2017 MacDowell Colony Fellowship for Literature\, his work has been published in The New York Times\, Haaretz\, The Paris Review’s Daily\, and elsewhere. Moriel lives in Yellow Springs\, Ohio with his wife\, Kayla\, and their dog\, Silly Department. Read more at TheLefternWall.com and follow him on Twitter @Moriel_R
URL:https://litseen.com/event/novelist-moriel-rothman-zecher/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Ana Raquel Minian
DESCRIPTION:Ana Raquel Minian\nWednesday\, June 20\, 2018\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\n \ndiscussing the subject of her new book \nUndocumented Lives The Untold Story of Mexican Migration \nfrom Harvard University Press \n\nIn the 1970s the Mexican government acted to alleviate rural unemployment by supporting the migration of able-bodied men. Millions crossed into the United States to find work that would help them survive as well as sustain their families in Mexico. They took low-level positions that few Americans wanted and sent money back to communities that depended on their support. But as U.S. authorities pursued more aggressive anti-immigrant measures\, migrants found themselves caught between the economic interests of competing governments. The fruits of their labor were needed in both places\, and yet neither country made them feel welcome. \nAna Raquel Minian explores this unique chapter in the history of Mexican migration. Undocumented Lives draws on private letters\, songs\, and oral testimony to recreate the experience of circular migration\, which reshaped communities in the United States and Mexico. While migrants could earn for themselves and their families in the U.S.\, they needed to return to Mexico to reconnect with their homes periodically. Despite crossing the border many times\, they managed to belong to communities on both sides of it. Ironically\, the U.S. immigration crackdown of the mid-1980s disrupted these flows\, forcing many migrants to remain north of the border permanently for fear of not being able to return to work. For them\, the United States became known as the jaula de oro—the cage of gold. \nUndocumented Lives tells the story of Mexicans who have been used and abused by the broader economic and political policies of Mexico and the United States. \nAna Raquel Minian is Assistant Professor of History and of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. \n\nRelated Links: \n\nRead Ana Raquel Minian’s essay in the Washington Post on the ways in which Mexico itself has served as a “wall” keeping Central American migrants from reaching the United States\nRead Minian’s Los Angeles Times essay arguing that tying DACA to border security ignores the process of “circular migration”: increased border security is whythere are so many Dreamers\nRead a Vox interview with Minian on how Donald Trump’s “sh*thole” comment should be considered in relation to America’s problematic history with eugenics\nWatch Minian discuss DACA on Univision\nAt the Atlantic\, read Minian’s argument that a U.S.–Mexico border wall could have the unintended effect of discouraging Mexicans from leaving the U.S.\nAt Univision\, read about the oral histories that Minian collected while researching Undocumented Lives\nWatch a C-SPAN interview with Minian about 20th century Mexican migration to the United States
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ana-raquel-minian/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Moriel Rothman-Zecher\, author of Sadness is a White Bird
DESCRIPTION:Moe’s welcomes Moriel Rothman-Zecher\, author of Sadness is a White Bird. \n“Ultimately\, “Sadness is a White Bird” is a nuanced examination of what it is like to be just one person at the front line of a century-old conflict. Rothman-Zecher delicately tells one deeply unique story without claiming to explain every individual’s experience or devaluing experiences unlike his own. Written in beautiful prose\, with sentences that will leave you tearing up on the bus ride to work\, Rothman-Zecher complicates our worldview and forces us to look internally\, examining how we hold ourselves and our world morally accountable.” The Daily Californian
URL:https://litseen.com/event/moriel-rothman-zecher-author-of-sadness-is-a-white-bird/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Moriel Rothman-Zecher in conversation with Ayelet Waldman
DESCRIPTION:Moe’s welcomes Moriel Rothman-Zecher\, author of Sadness is a White Bird. \n“Ultimately\, “Sadness is a White Bird” is a nuanced examination of what it is like to be just one person at the front line of a century-old conflict. Rothman-Zecher delicately tells one deeply unique story without claiming to explain every individual’s experience or devaluing experiences unlike his own. Written in beautiful prose\, with sentences that will leave you tearing up on the bus ride to work\, Rothman-Zecher complicates our worldview and forces us to look internally\, examining how we hold ourselves and our world morally accountable.” The Daily Californian \nAyelet Waldman is the author of A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood\, My Marriage\, and My Life\, the novels Love and Treasure\, Red Hook Road\, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits\, and Daughter’s Keeper\, as well as of the essay collection Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes\, Minor Calamities\, and Occasional Moments of Grace and the Mommy-Track Mystery series. She is the editor of Inside This Place\, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons and of the forthcoming Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation. \nMoriel Rothman-Zecher is an American-Israeli writer\, poet\, and novelist. Born in Jerusalem\, he graduated from Middlebury College with a degree in Arabic and political science. A recipient of a 2017 MacDowell Colony Fellowship for Literature\, his work has been published in The New York Times\, Haaretz\, The Paris Review’s Daily\, and elsewhere. Moriel lives in Yellow Springs\, Ohio with his wife\, Kayla\, and their dog\, Silly Department.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/moriel-rothman-zecher-in-conversation-with-ayelet-waldman/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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