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SUMMARY:Sunnylyn Thibodeaux + Lauren Levin
DESCRIPTION:Sunnylyn Thibodeaux will read to celebrate the release of her new chapbook\, What’s Going On\, along with Lauren Levin\, whose book\, The Braid\, is fresh out from Krupskaya\, at 2pm on Sunday\, February 19th at Bird & Beckett Books: 653 Chenery Street at Diamond\, in San Francisco — two blocks from Glen Park BART\, MUNI lines J\, 23\, 35\, 36\, 44\, 52\, and Interstate 280. Please join us! \nSunnylyn Thibodeaux is the author of AS WATER SOUNDS (Bootstrap Press\, 2014) and PALM TO PINE (2011) and the forthcoming Universal Fall Precautions (Spuyten Duyvil\, 2017). Small books include 20/20 Yielding (Blue Press\, 2005)\, Hidden Driveways Ahead\, Room Service Calls (Lew Gallery\, 2009)\, United Untied (Private Edition\, 2008) and What’s Going On (Bird & Beckett. She co-edits Auguste Press and Lew Gallery Editions. \nLauren Levin is the author of THE BRAID (Krupskaya\, 2016) and the forthcoming TWO ESSAYS (Timeless\, Infinite Light\, 2018) as well as several chapbooks\, including The Lens (Little Red Leaves\, 2014) and Working (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs\, 2012). From 2011-2014\, she co–edited the Poetic Labor Project. She grew up in New Orleans and lives in Richmond\, CA with her family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sunnylyn-thibodeaux-lauren-levin/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash w/ Michael McLaughlin + Raina J. Léon
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday\, February 19th at 3pm featuring Michael McLaughlin and Raina J. León. \nPoetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible; ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.org for more events and reviews! \nMichael McLaughlin’s debut book of poems is Countless Cinemas. Connie Post says\, “These poems are honest and hard-hitting\, sensual and erotic…Find a quiet seat in the theatre of your mind and absorb the carefully created cinematography of each script.” He is also the author of two novels and two poetry chapbooks and the artist-in-residence at Atascadero State Hospital\, a maximum security forensic facility\, and San Luis Obispo County Coordinator for California Poets in the Schools. A former Poet Laureate of San Luis Obispo County\, he runs the Central Coast’s Live from the Core poetry/performance series and is the founding editor of USC’s The Southern California Poetry Anthology. \nRaina J. León’s new book of poems is sombra: (dis)locate. Tara Betts says\, “…León’s new collection…hints at the shadows within history\, languages\, sexuality\, loss\, grief\, and violence unveiled in poems that span countries\, the enigmatic specter of Josephine Baker flouting conventions of respectability and race\, and the brutalities that split peoples’ emotional cares like simple apples.” Her previous collections include Canticle of Idols and Boogeyman Dawn. She also has a 2016 chapbook\, Profeta without Refuge. She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow\, CantoMundo fellow\, and a member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective. She is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly promoting and publishing LatinX arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-w-michael-mclaughlin-raina-j-leon/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:KASSIDAT Poetry Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Blood Flower \nAn afternoon of local poets reading from their latest publications
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kassidat-poetry-reading-series/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Pals 'N' Gals
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special round of paired readers in this post-Valentines Day Bazaar Cafe series of flash prose and poetry. Readers include:\nIngrid Keir & MK Chavez\nChristine No & Josey Rose Duncan\nGrant Faulkner & Andy Dugas\nPaul Corman-Roberts & Peter Thomas Bullen.\nOur special guest musician is Azuah\n\n\nRecent Posts
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pals-n-gals/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170219T190000
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SUMMARY:Emily Fridlund
DESCRIPTION:A BEA Buzz Book Selection and one of the most daring literary debuts of the season\, History of Wolves is a profound and propulsive novel from an urgent\, new voice in American fiction \n“So delicately calibrated and precisely beautiful that one might not immediately sense the sledgehammer of pain building inside this book. And I mean that in the best way. What powerful tension and depth this provides!”—Aimee Bender \nFourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in the beautiful\, austere woods of northern Minnesota\, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as a last vestige of a lost counter-culture world. Isolated at home and an outlander at school\, Linda is drawn to the enigmatic\, attractive Lily and new history teacher Mr. Grierson. When Mr. Grierson is charged with possessing child pornography\, the implications of his arrest deeply affect Linda as she wrestles with her own fledgling desires and craving to belong. \nAnd then the young Gardner family moves in across the lake and Linda finds herself welcomed into their home as a babysitter for their little boy\, Paul. It seems that her life finally has purpose but with this new sense of belonging she is also drawn into secrets she doesn’t understand. Over the course of a few days\, Linda makes a set of choices that reverberate throughout her life. As she struggles to find a way out of the sequestered world into which she was born\, Linda confronts the life-and-death consequences of the things people do—and fail to do—for the people they love. \nWinner of the McGinnis-Ritchie award for its first chapter\, Emily Fridlund’s propulsive and gorgeously written History of Wolves introduces a new writer of enormous range and talent. \nEmily Fridlund grew up in Minnesota and currently resides in the Finger Lakes region of New York. Her fiction has appeared in a variety of journals\, including Boston Review\, Zyzzyva\, Five Chapters\, New Orleans Review\, Sou’wester\, New Delta Review\, Chariton Review\, The Portland Review\, and Painted Bride Quarterly. She holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. Fridlund’s collection of stories\, Catapult\, was a finalist for the Noemi Book Award for Fiction and the Tartts First Fiction Award. It won the Mary McCarthy Prize and will be published by Sarabande in 2017. The opening chapter of History of Wolves was published in Southwest Review and won the 2013 McGinnis-Ritchie Award for Fiction.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emily-fridlund/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Petra Kuppers + Stephanie Heit
DESCRIPTION:At this unique event\, Stephanie Heit and Petra Kuppers will hold open spaces of healing by sharing scores and insights from Tendings\, small everyday collaborative practices that combine experiential anatomy\, eco-specific investigations\, somatic exercises\, and writing. They will follow these practical explorations with sample writings from Stephanie’s The Color She Gave Gravity\, and Petra’s PearlStitch\, feminist poetics in queer/crip/mad space.\nStephanie Heit is a poet\, dancer\, and teacher of somatic writing\, Contemplative Dance Practice\, and Kundalini Yoga. She lives with bipolar disorder and is a member of the Olimpias\, an international disability performance collective. Her debut poetry collection\, The Color She Gave Gravity (The Operating System 2017)\, was a Nightboat Poetry Prize finalist. Her work most recently appeared in Midwestern Gothic\, Typo\, Streetnotes\, Nerve Lantern\, QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology\, Spoon Knife Anthology\, Theatre Topics\, and Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance.\nstephanieheitpoetry.wordpress.com\nPetra Kuppers is a disability culture activist\, a community performance artist\, and a Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan\, teaching in performance studies. She also teaches on the low-residency MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College. Her most recent poetry collection\, PearlStitch\, appeared with Spuyten Duyvil Press (2016). She is the Artistic Director of The Olimpias\, an international disability culture collective\, and in 2016/7 she was engaged in the Asylum Project\, co-led with her partner Stephanie Heit.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/petra-kuppers-stephanie-heit/
LOCATION:California College of Arts\, 1111 8th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rise and Resist!
DESCRIPTION:Observe President’s Day and join the resistance. Say NO to Trump’s agenda of hate and division. Love and Solidarity. Amor y Solidaridad. Bring signs and banners. Castro Street and Market\, San Francisco. Regardless of weather. \nSpeakers will include some of the real activists portrayed in the ABC mini-series\, “When We Rise.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rise-and-resist/
LOCATION:Harvey Milk Plaza\, 2401 Market Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ian Rankin
DESCRIPTION:It’s the 30th anniversary of Ian Rankin’s Detective Inspector John Rebus! In his latest outing he may have stopped smoking and drinking\, but he hasn’t stopped flouting the rules. 2017 marks the thirtieth anniversary of one of crime fiction’s greatest characters\, John Rebus\, created by one of the world’s leading crime writers\, Ian Rankin. Rebus’s anniversary coincides with the release of the much-anticipated Rather Be the Devil\, Rankin’s 21st Rebus novel.\nRather Be the Devil finds John Rebus\, as incapable of settling into his retirement as he is of playing by the rules\, investigating a cold case from the 1970s involving a gorgeous and wealthy female socialite who was found dead in a bedroom at one of Edinburgh’s most luxurious hotels. No one was ever found guilty\, but the scandalous circumstances of the murder have kept the town talking for over forty years. Now\, Rebus has his own reasons to investigate\, but his inquiries—along with those of Malcolm Fox and Siobhan Clarke—quickly make him some very dangerous and powerful enemies who will stop at nothing to ensure that the case remains unsolved and the gossip falls on deaf ears.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ian-rankin-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joyce Carol Oates
DESCRIPTION:A BOOK OF AMERICAN MARTYRS \nfrom Ecco Press \nA BOOK OF AMERICAN MARTYRS intimately links the stories of two very different families. Luther Dunphy is an ardent Evangelical who envisions himself as acting out God’s will when he assassinates an abortion provider in his small Ohio town. Augustus Voorhees\, the idealistic doctor who is killed\, leaves behind a wife and children scarred and embittered by grief. As the story moves forward\, the daughters of these men—one a boxer\, the other a journalist—continue to be inextricably tied by the dramatic connection they share. As she alone can\, Oates renders whole these two very different families—with very different values and views. Epic and intimate\, the narrative explores their warring convictions with dazzling equanimity. A story as immediate as today’s headlines\, it also offers a larger perspective on the ways that issues tear us apart as individuals and as a nation. \nJoyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal\, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award\, the National Book Award\, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time\, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys\, Blonde (a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize)\, and the New York Times bestsellers The Falls (winner of the 2005 Prix Femina Etranger) and The Gravedigger’s Daughter. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. In 2003 she received the Common Wealth Award for Distinguished Service in Literature\, and in 2006 she received the Chicago Tribune Lifetime Achievement Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-carol-oates-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shannon Leone Fowler
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Shannon Leone Fowler Tuesday\, February 21st for the launch of her new memoir\, Traveling With Ghosts. \nGrowing up in California\, Shannon Leone Fowler always felt a deep connection to the ocean and declared\, at eight years old\, that she wanted to study marine biology. In that pivotal moment\, there was no way for her to know that one day\, her beloved ocean would betray her. In 2002\, Fowler—then a twenty-eight-year-old marine biologist—went backpacking through Asia with her fiancé\, Sean. Avid travelers\, the two decided on a quick trip to Thailand to celebrate their recent engagement. During an afternoon swim on the island of Ko Pha Ngan\, a box jellyfish—the most venomous animal in the world—wrapped around Sean’s legs\, stinging and killing him as Fowler helplessly watched. \nWith her future forever changed\, Fowler abandoned her professional commitments to travel the world\, lost and stumbling and in search of healing. Unable to understand how the ocean—the very thing she had dedicated her life to before she had dedicated it to Sean—could betray her\, she first sought solace in landlocked countries marked by tragedy: war-torn Israel; shelled-out Bosnia; poverty-stricken Romania; and Oświęcim\, Poland\, the site of Auschwitz. Despite Eastern Europe’s deep wounds\, Fowler remembers the kindness of those she encountered\, fellow travelers and countrymen alike\, and the comfort and perspective they offered. \nA moving tribute to those we have lost and the unexpected ways their memories find us afterward\, Fowler “turn[s] her devastating\, beautiful\, honest\, and personal story into something universal” (Booklist\, starred review) as she remembers the shocking death of her fiancé and wrestles with life before and after tragedy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shannon-leone-fowler/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Valeria Luiselli
DESCRIPTION:Green Apple Books and 826 Valencia present Valeria Luiselli and student writers for a special event for Tell Me How it Ends\, Luiselli’s new book-length essay about her work with undocumented Latin-American children facing deportation. \n\nPraise for Valeria Luiselli \n\n“Luiselli follows in the imaginative tradition of writers like Borges and Márquez\, but her style and concerns are unmistakably her own… Luiselli has become a writer to watch\, in part because it’s truly hard to know (but exciting to wonder about) where she will go next.” —The New York Times \n\n“Although buoyant\, Luiselli’s work never seems flippant\, perhaps because of her precise prose style . . . Linear at first glance\, it soon opens out into a world of stories\, like a mouth with one tooth from every artist in the world.” —Chicago Tribune \n\n“Valeria Luiselli is one of the most exciting new writers working today.” —Los Angeles Times \n\nAbout Tell Me How it Ends \n\nStructured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American children facing deportation\, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman’s essay of the same name) humanizes these young migrants and highlights the contradiction of the idea of America as a fiction for immigrants with the reality of racism and fear—both here and back home. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/valeria-luiselli/
LOCATION:826 Valencia\, 826 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Word Party
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir\, Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. FREE admission\, all ages\, full menu and bar in the front room. Open Mic for poetry only – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-word-party/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marc Bojanowski
DESCRIPTION:From the author of The Dog Fighter\, hailed by Geoff Dyer as “the most exciting debut…by an American writer since Eugenides’s The Virgin Suicides\,” comes Journeyman\, a tightly wound novel by Marc Bojanowski about dwelling\, building\, belonging\, love\, and the value of a place to call home. \nNolan Jackson is a journeyman carpenter by trade and a wanderer by nature. Set in 2007\, while fellow Americans fight in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars\, Nolan builds tract homes across California\, traveling between jobs. Following a shocking workplace accident in his temporary home of Las Vegas\, he uproots himself from the tentative relationships he has made and heads west towards the ocean. On his way he passes through his brother’s town\, where circumstances force him to stay put. Bereft of his trailer and his tools\, Nolan turns to the task of building the foundations of a meaningful life. The specter of war and questions of the Western-film notions of masculinity are woven throughout the novel; from the damage to Nolan’s family by the Vietnam War in which his father fought\, to the ubiquity and consequence of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan\, to slow unraveling of his brother’s marriage and mental state\, to the mysterious series of arsons being set around their small town. \nOne of “31 Brilliant Books That You Really Must Read This Spring.” — Buzzfeed\n“A rich but unrefined seam of allegorical meaningfulness [runs] through this pleasing tale.” — The Irish Times\n“Bojanowski keeps it simple … his direct\, unassuming style keeps the reader engaged in the ultimately optimistic story of Nolan’s attempt to overcome the contradictions in his life.” — Herald Scotland \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marc-bojanowski/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Elinor Lipman
DESCRIPTION:At thirty-two\, Faith Frankel has returned to her claustro-suburban hometown\, where she writes institutional thank-you notes for her alma mater. It’s a peaceful life\, really\, and surely with her recent purchase of a sweet bungalow on Turpentine Lane her life is finally on track. Never mind that her fiance is off on a crowdfunded cross-country walk\, too busy to return her texts (but not too busy to post photos of himself with a different woman in every state). And never mind her witless boss\, or a mother who lives too close\, or a philandering father who thinks he’s Chagall.When she finds some mysterious artifacts in the attic of her new home\, she wonders whether anything in her life is as it seems. What good fortune\, then\, that Faith has found a friend in affable\, collegial Nick Franconi\, officemate par excellence . . .Elinor Lipmanmay well have invented the screwball romantic comedy for our era\, and here she is at her sharpest and best. On Turpentine Lane is funny\, poignant\, and a little bit outrageous. \nElinor Lipman is the author of ten novels\, including The View from Penthouse B and The Inn at Lake Devine;one essay collection\, I Can’t Complain; and Tweet Land of Liberty: Irreverent Rhymes from the Political Circus. She lives in Massachusetts and New York City. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elinor-lipman/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Yiyun Li
DESCRIPTION:Yiyun Li reads from her memoir\, Dear Friend\, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. \n\n\n\n\n“In this exquisite\, intimate\, lyrical memoir\, Yiyun Li reveals her life in flashes appended to an arrestingly coherent philosophy of time\, self\, and place. Uniting the discipline of a scientist with the empathy of a novelist\, she scatters profound and often difficult truths through these generous\, wise\, challenging pages.”– Andrew Solomon\, author of The Noonday Demon and Far from the Tree \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, February 22\, 2017 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nIn her first nonfiction book\, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li explores the questions we ask ourselves as readers and writers\, as citizens and solitary travelers\, as parents and children: How does one make life livable? How do writing and reading bring us solace\, and help us embrace the conflicts of our daily reality? Tracing the course of her life from China to America\, and from biologist to writer\, Li reflects with startling generosity and humanity on the writers who have shaped her—William Trevor\, Katherine Mansfield\, Marianne Moore\, Ivan Turgenev\, Stefan Zweig\, and more. \nYiyun Li is the author of four works of fiction: Kinder Than Solitude\, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers\, The Vagrants\, and Gold Boy\, Emerald Girl. A native of Beijing and a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, she is the recipient of many awards. In 2007\, Granta named her one of the best American novelists under thirty-five. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, A Public Space\, The Best American Short Stories\, and The O. Henry Prize Stories\, among others. She teaches writing at the UC\, Davis\, and lives in Oakland with her husband and their two sons.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yiyun-li-2/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Roof Books
DESCRIPTION:David Buuck lives in Oakland\, CA. He is the co-founder and editor of Tripwire\, a journal of poetics\, and founder of BARGE\, the Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics. Recent publications include SITE CITE CITY (2015) An Army of Lovers\, co-written with Juliana Spahr (2013) and Noise In The Face Of (Roof Books\, 2017) \nJean Day’s new books are The Triumph of Life\, soon to appear from Insurance Editions\, and Daydream\, forthcoming from Litmus Press in June. Her various but not exactly checkered career has included bookselling\, marketing\, fundraising\, union activism\, and for the last two decades\, working as a scholarly editor. One of her first books\, A Young Recruit\, was published by Roof in 1988. \nLaura Moriarty is the author of numerous collections of poetry\, including Rondeaux (1990)\, A Semblance: Selected and New Poems\, 1975–2007 (2007)\, A Tonalist (2010)\, and Who That Divines (2014). She is also the author of the short novel Cunning (2000) and the science fiction novel Ultravioleta (2006). \nIn her work\, Moriarty engages language and feminism; the poems buckle and fold against the constraints of hybrid\, projectivist\, and received forms. \nMoriarty has served as archive director for the Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives at San Francisco State University and as deputy director of Small Press Distribution. She has taught at Naropa University\, the Otis Art Institute\, and Mills College. Her honors include a Poetry Center Book Award\, a Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Award in Poetry\, a New Langton Arts Award\, and a Fund for Poetry grant.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roof-books/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:James Sherry
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes James Sherry to the store to discuss and sign his latest poetry collection\, Entangled Bank on Thursday\, February 23rd at 7:00 pm. Joining him in conversation will be local poet Sara Larsen.\n“Entangled Bank opens with a set of five line poems dedicated to the ‘beauty’ of various poets\, a nuanced and generous version of Joseph Kaplan’s infamous Kill List\, and concludes with a wrenchingly honest prose piece on Sherry’s correspondence with the late poet Stacy Doris on the limits of empathy. Between these gestures toward a troubled yet significant human connection\, Sherry places poems in a variety of styles\, as if styles were species in an ecosystem\, a veritable ‘entangled bank’. Often he writes with scathing wit on the degradation of the environment and the fraudulence of the financial system. One line admonishes\, ‘Wake up\, this is about you.’ And it is. You’re going to want it.” — Rae Armantrout \nJames Sherry is the author of eleven previous books of poetry and prose\, including Oops! Environmental Poetics. He is publisher of Roof Books and started the Segue Foundation\, Inc.\, a multi arts producer\, in 1977 in New York City. \nSara Larsen is a poet living in Oakland\, CA. Her previous book is All Revolutions Will Be Fabulous\, and her chapbooks include Riot Cops en Route to Troy\, Merry Hell\, and The Hallucinated\, among others. Sara has performed her work widely\, including at The Berkeley Art Museum\, Grace Cathedral\, LitQuake\, and at Multifarious Array in NYC. Over the course of two years\, she and David Brazil published more than 60 issues of the seminal literary zine Try Magazine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-sherry/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Kevin Smokler
DESCRIPTION:From the fictional towns of Hill Valley\, CA\, and Shermer\, IL\, to the beautiful landscapes of the Goondocks in Astoria and the time of your life dirty dancing resort still alive and well in Lake Lure\, NC\, ’80s teen movies left their mark not just on movie screen and in the hearts of fans\, but on the landscape of America itself. Like few other eras in movie history\, the ’80s teen movies has endured and gotten better with time. In Brat Pack America\, Kevin Smokler gives virtual tours of your favorite movies while also picking apart why these locations are so important to these movies. \nIncluding interviews with actors\, writers\, and directors of the era\, and chock full of interesting facts about your favorite ’80s movies\, this book is a must for any fan. Smokler went to Goonies Day in Astoria\, OR\, took a Lost Boys tour of Santa Cruz\, CA\, and deeply explored every nook and cranny of the movies we all know and love\, and it shows. \nKevin Smokler is the author of the essay collection Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books You Haven’t Touched Since High School\, which the Atlantic Wire called “truly enjoyable\,” and the editor of Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times\, a San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book of 2005. His writing on pop culture has appeared in the LA Times\, Salon\, BuzzFeed\, Vulture\, the San Francisco Chronicle and on NPR. In 2013\, he was BookRiot’s first ever Writer-in-Residence. He can be found on twitter at @weegee. He lives in San Francisco with his wife\, cat\, and most of MTV’s first year on vinyl.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kevin-smokler-2/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Rachel Aspen
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nGeneration Revolution:  On the Front Line\nBetween Tradition and Change in the Middle East \nfrom Other Press \nIn 2011 during the Arab Spring\, the government of Egypt transformed\nfrom a dictatorship to a democratic presidency. The chaos that\nresulted during this time erupted from a decade of social and\npolitical unrest among the Egyptian people. GENERATION REVOLUTION is\nthe story of the millennial generation in Egypt during the Arab\nSpring\, from the perspective of several different young men and women\nwhose different views explore the way Egypt has been shaped before\,\nduring\, and after the 2011 end of Hosni Mubarak’s presidency. \nAspden spent years in Egypt during the beginning of unrest in 2003 and\nmoved back again during the years following post-revolution in 2011.\nAspden offers a window into the world of the Middle East during the\nArab Spring\, before\, during\, and after Egypt’s chaotic overthrow of\ntheir President Mubarak and his successor\, the democratically elected\nMuslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi.\nThrough Aspden’s curious and unbiased gaze\, readers hear the Egyptian\nvoices of Amr\, an atheist university-educated software engineer\, Amal\,\na fiercely independent young woman who lives on her own in Cairo which\nis practically unheard of\, Ayman\, a devout Muslim teenager who chooses\nto follow ultraconservative Salafi Islam to the surprise of his\nmiddle-class parents\, and Mazen\, a fan of TV preacher Amr Khaled who\nfinds himself on the front lines during the revolution. With these\nperspectives along with others’\, readers learn that from atheists to\nultra-religious\, from conservative young men to liberal young women\,\nthe growing generation of Egypt is vastly different\, struggling to\nfind a place for various voices during chaotic government upheaval.\nAspden writes from the front lines of this new generation\, sharing\ntheir stories and harbouring their own doubts\, resentments\, and hope\nfor what is to come. \nRachel Aspden became literary editor of the New Statesman in 2006\, at\nthe age of 26. She now works at the Guardian\, and also writes on a\nfreelance basis for the New Statesman\, Observer\, Prospect and Think\nmagazine (Qatar). She lived in Cairo in 2003-4 and worked as an editor\nand reporter on the English-language Cairo Times. Since then\, from her\nUK base\, she has travelled to and reported from across the region and\nthe wider Muslim world: Yemen\, the UAE\, Turkey\, Lebanon\, Syria\,\nJordan\, the Palestinian territories\, Egypt\, Morocco\, Sudan\, Pakistan\nand north India. In 2010\, she was awarded a year-long travelling\nfellowship by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust to research\nactivists working to fight extremism within Islam.Following the Arab\nspring uprisings in 2011\, she moved back to Egypt to research this book.\nShe is currently based in London and reports for the Guardian. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-aspen/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Literary Speakeasy: A Toast to Sylvia Plath
DESCRIPTION:This month Literary Speakeasy pays tribute to one of the greatest poets of the 20th Century –Sylvia Plath. Please join us as we raise a glass and celebrate the words of this iconic poet. Five Bay Area powerhouses will be on hand to read the poems of Sylvia Plath as well as their own original work. Our poets for the evening include Annah Anti-Palindrome\, Christian Gullette\, Robert Andrew Perez\, July Westhale\, and Maw Shein Win. Your host and curator each month is James J. Siegel \nAs always\, Literary Speakeasy is absolutely FREE with NO drink minimum. Also\, everyone in attendance will get a FREE raffle ticket for their chance to win the secret Speakeasy prize at the conclusion of the show. Please come out and celebrate Sylvia Plath with an evening of beautiful words and fantastic martinis! \nAnnah Anti-Palindrome is a queer/working-class/hard- femme/JewWitch sound-artist & writer currently living in the SF bay area. She is a Lambda Literary Fellow\, a staff writer for Everyday Feminism\, and a member of Oakland’s Deviant Type Press collective. Annah’s first book\, DNA Hymn\, is a collection of poems about rural\, working-class\, queer-femme survivor identity. Annah’s poems are performed through live\, musical soundscapes made w/ a loop pedal\, kitchen utensils\, gas-masks\, raw eggs\, blood pressure cuffs\, found objects\, her body (mostly my throat)\, and more! For more info about her\, see www.annahantipalindrome. com. \nChristian Gullette’s poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as New England Review\, Smartish Pace\, Meridian\, Colorado Review\, and Cimarron Review. He was recently a finalist for the Iowa Review Poetry Prize. Currently Christian is a doctoral candidate in Swedish literature and language at the University of California\, Berkeley. He is a poetry editor for the Cortland Review. \nRobert Andrew Perez lives in Berkeley and is an associate editor and book designer for speCt! in Oakland\, where he also curates readings. He is an alum of the Lambda Literary fellowship and a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for poetry. His poetry has appeared in print and online in publications such as DIAGRAM\, The Awl\, The Laurel Review\, Vinyl and The Cortland Review. His First collection\, the field\, was published with Omnidawn. He is currently writing a movie about a divorce and wine tasting; it’s a comedy. \nJuly Westhale is a poet and essayist living in Oakland\, CA. She is the author of the chapbook The Cavalcade\, (Finishing Line Press)\, and the children’s book\, Occasionally Accurate Science (Nomadic Press\, 2017). She has poems in Cimarron\, burntdistrict\, and Quarterly West\, among others. Her essays have appeared in the Huffington Post\, Autostraddle\, The Establistment\, and have been nominated for Best American Essays. She has been awarded grants and residencies from the Vermont Studio Center\, Sewanee\, Dickinson House\, Tin House and Bread Loaf. www.julywesthale.com. \nMaw Shein Win is a poet\, editor\, and educator who lives and works in the Bay Area. Her writing has appeared in various journals\, including Cimarron Review\, Fanzine\, Eleven Eleven\, the Fabulist\, and the anthology Cross-Strokes: Poetry Between Los Angeles and San Francisco (Otis Books/Seismicity Editions). She is a poetry editor for Rivet: The Journal of Writing that Risks and a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Her most recent poetry chapbook Score and Bone (Nomadic Press) was nominated for a CLMP Firecracker Award. She is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito. http://www.el-cerrito.org/poets \nJames J. Siegel is the author of the poetry collection “How Ghosts Travel” published year by Spuyten Duyvil Press. He is also the host and curator of Literary Speakeasy at Martuni’s Piano Bar in San Francisco\, which brings together poets\, writers\, and musicians for a night of performance and martinis. His work has appeared in several journals and anthologies\, including Assaracus\, The Cortland Review\, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review\, and Divining Divas: 100 Gay Men On Their Muses.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-speakeasy-a-toast-to-sylvia-plath/
LOCATION:Martuni’s\, 4 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hank Lazer + Andrew Maxwell
DESCRIPTION:Poets Hank Lazer and Andrew Maxwell present recent work\, then engage in conversation with one another and their audience. This event is free and open to the public. \nHank Lazer has published twenty-four books of poetry\, including Poems Hidden in Plain View (2016\, in English and in French)\, Brush Mind: At Hand (2016)\, N24 (2014) and N18 (2012)\, Portions (2009)\, The New Spirit (2005)\, Elegies & Vacations (2004)\, and Days (2002). Selected Poems and Essays of Hank Lazer\, completed by a group of translators\, was published by Central China Normal University Press in 2015. Lazer’s Selected Poems have also been published in Italy and will be appearing shortly in Cuba (including 11 tracks for jazz-poetry improvisations with soprano saxophonist Andrew Raffo Dewar). Readings and interviews can be accessed through PennSound\, as well as in special issues of Plume #34 and Talisman #42. In 2015\, Lazer was selected to receive Alabama’s most prestigious literary prize\, the Harper Lee Award\, for lifetime achievement in literature. His books of criticism include Opposing Poetries (two volumes\, 1996) and Lyric & Spirit: Selected Essays 1996-2008 (2008). With Charles Bernstein\, he edits the Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series for the University of Alabama Press. Lazer retired from the University of Alabama in January 2014 from his positions as Associate Provost for Academic Affairs\, Executive Director of Creative Campus\, and Professor of English. \nAndrew Maxwell‘s recent collections include Candor is the Brightest Shield (Ugly Duckling\, 2015)\, Peeping Mot (Apogee\, 2013) and the ongoing Beggars of Life\, a collaboration with artist Nathan Gelgud. Increasingly interested in short-form literature\, much of Maxwell’s current work is epigrammatic in nature. A selection of his aphorisms is currently on display as an LED scroll in the installation THIS KNOWN WORLD at MOCA Los Angeles\, and Conversion Table\, a collection of small remarks without propositional attitudes\, was issued in September on Mindmade Books. He runs the Poetic Research Bureau with Joseph Mosconi in Los Angeles\, where he also hosts a weekly radio show of international roots music on KXLU 88.9FM\, “The Dream of Harry Lime.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hank-lazer-andrew-maxwell/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Daphne Merkin
DESCRIPTION:Daphne Merkin reads from This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression. \n\n\n\n“Belongs on the shelf with William Styron’s Darkness\, Visible and Andrew Solomon’sThe Noonday Demon. It brings a stunningly perceptive voice to the forefront of the conversation about depression\, one that is both reassuring and revelatory.”–Carol Gilligan\, author of In a Different Voice \n“D. W. Winnicott wrote that depression is the fog over the battlefield. In this extraordinarily lucid and moving book\, Daphne Merkin illuminates the dark and desperate battle that depression can be. This is a book for all those who know nothing about depression and for those who know too much. “–Adam Phillips \n\n\n\nA gifted and audacious writer confronts her lifelong battle with depression and her search for release. This Close to Happy is the rare\, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression\, written from a woman’s perspective and informed by an acute understanding of the implications of this disease over a lifetime. Taking off from essays on depression she has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine\,  Merkin casts her eye back to her beginnings to try to sort out the root causes of her affliction. She recounts the travails of growing up in a large\, affluent family where there was a paucity of love and of basics such as food and clothing despite the presence of a chauffeur and a cook. She goes on to recount her early hospitalization for depression in poignant detail\, as well as her complex relationship with her mercurial\, withholding mother. Along the way Merkin also discusses her early\, redemptive love of reading and gradual emergence as a writer. She eventually marries\, has a child\, and suffers severe postpartum depression\, for which she is again hospitalized. Merkin also discusses her visits to various therapists and psychopharmocologists\, which enables her to probe the causes of depression and its various treatments. The book ends in the present\, where the writer has learned how to navigate her depression\, if not “cure” it\, after a third hospitalization in the wake of her mother’s death.\n\n\n\n\nDaphne Merkin\, a former staff writer for The New Yorker\, is a regular contributor to Elle. Her writing frequently appears in The New York Times\, Bookforum\, Departures\, Travel + Leisure\, W\, Vogue\, Tablet\, and other publications. Merkin has taught writing at the 92nd Street Y\, Marymount\, and Hunter College. Her previous books include Enchantment\, a novel\, which won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for best novel on a Jewish theme\, and two essay collections\, Dreaming of Hitler and The Fame Lunches; the latter was one of The New York Times Book Review s Hundred Notable Books of the Year. She lives in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daphne-merkin/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Meg Elison
DESCRIPTION:About The Book of Etta \nIn the gripping sequel to the Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel The Book of the Unnamed Midwife\, one woman undertakes a desperate journey to rescue the future. \nEtta comes from Nowhere\, a village of survivors of the great plague that wiped away the world that was. In the world that is\, women are scarce and childbearing is dangerous yet desperately necessary for humankind’s future. Mothers and midwives are sacred\, but Etta has a different calling. As a scavenger. Loyal to the village but living on her own terms\, Etta roams the desolate territory beyond: salvaging useful relics of the ruined past and braving the threat of brutal slave traders\, who are seeking women and girls to sell and subjugate. \nWhen slavers seize those she loves\, Etta vows to release and avenge them. But her mission will lead her to the stronghold of the Lion a tyrant who dominates the innocent with terror and violence. There\, with no allies and few weapons besides her wits and will\, she will risk both body and spirit not only to save lives but also to liberate a new world’s destiny. \nAbout the Author \nMeg Elison is the author of THE BOOK OF THE UNNAMED MIDWIFE\, a post-apocalyptic feminist speculative novel\, Tiptree recommendation\, and winner of the Philip K. Dick Award. Her sequel\, THE BOOK OF ETTA\, will be published in early 2017. She has also been published in McSweeney’s\, The Establishment\, The Mary Sue\, Tor.com\, Compelling Science Fiction\, Motherboard\, and many other places. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. Find her online\, where she writes like she’s running out of time.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meg-elison/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tom Zaniello
DESCRIPTION:Film and cultural studies professor Tom Zaniello discussses California’s Lamson Murder Mystery: The Depression Era Case That Divided Santa Clara County. On Memorial Day 1933\, Stanford executive David Lamson found his wife\, Allene\, dead in their Palo Alto home. The only suspect\, he became the face of California’s most sensational murder trial of the century. After a judge sentenced him to hang at San Quentin\, a team of Stanford colleagues stepped in to form the Lamson Defense Committee. The group included poets Yvor Winters and Janet Lewis\, as well as the Sherlock Holmes of Berkeley\, criminologist E.O. Heinrich. They managed to overturn the verdict and incite a series of heated retrials that gripped and divided the community. Was Lamson the victim of aggressive prosecutors\, or was he a master of deception whose connections helped him get away with murder? Author and Stanford alum Tom Zaniello meticulously examines the details of a notorious case with a lingering legacy
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tom-zaniello/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Palo Alto\, 74 Town & Country Village\, Palo Alto\, CA\, 94301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Calder G. Lorenz
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith is excited to host Calder G. Lorenz for the launch of his debut novel\, One Way Down (Or Another)\, just out from Civil Coping Mechanisms. Calder will be in conversation withMicah Ballard – please join us! \nHell\, if I stay in San Francisco\, I’ll end up worse than dead\, I’ll end up working just so that I can afford to be broke. I’ll end up like the men who stood in line to build the Golden Gate Bridge\, only to fall from the heavens\, replaced by the next man in line\, just another asshole caught in a net\, suspended there\, broken back and all\, dangling\, hung out halfway to hell. \nThe voice above belongs to a young man who will cross every barrier he’d promised himself was un-crossable. He will have fistfights\, soul fights. He will relapse. He will try to go home. He will try his best to ruin his life and the question is this: will he succeed?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/calder-g-lorenz/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bryan Stevenson
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with the SJSU Campus Reading Committee\, the CLA presents Bryan Stevenson discussing the #1 New York Times bestseller Just Mercy\, a powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us\, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice–from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time. Mr. Stevenson’s work fighting poverty and challenging racial discrimination in the criminal justice system has won him numerous awards including the ABA Wisdom Award for Public Service\, a MacArthur Fellowship\, the Olaf Palme International Prize\, the ACLU National Medal Of Liberty\, the National Public Interest Lawyer of the Year Award\, the Gruber Prize for International Justice\, and the Ford Foundation Visionaries Award. In 2015\, he was named to TIME‘s 100 Most Influential People list. Recently\, he was named in Fortune’s 2016 World’s Greatest Leaders list. He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and the Harvard School of Government\, has been awarded 26 honorary doctorate degrees and is also a Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law. \nCo-sponsored by NAACP.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bryan-stevenson/
LOCATION:Hammer Theater Center\, 101 Paseo De San Antonio Walk\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Tim Dorsey
DESCRIPTION:A (Serge A.) Storm is brewing for a cabal of bad guys gaming the Florida state lottery in Clownfish Blues\, an insanely funny novel from the maestro of mayhem\, Tim Dorsey. \nIf you’re loud and proud Floridian Serge A. Storms\, how do you follow up your very own remake of Easy Rider? You shoot your own “episodes” of your favorite classic television show\, Route 66! \nWith Coleman riding shotgun\, Serge is rolling down the highway of his dreams in a vintage silver convertible Corvette just like the snazzy car Martin Milner drove. It doesn’t matter that the actual Route 66 didn’t pass through Florida\, for Serge discovers that a dozen episodes near the series’ end were filmed (really!) in his beloved home state. So for Serge and the always toked and stoked Coleman\, the Sunshine State is all the road you need to get your kicks. \nBut their adventure traveling the byways of the Sunshine State’s underbelly is about to take a detour. Someone is trying to tilt the odds in the state lottery amidst a conga line of huge jackpots spinning off more chaos than any hurricane season. With this much at stake\, of course every shady character wants in. Crooked bodega owners\, drug cartels laundering money through the lottery\, and venture capitalists are all trying to game the system—and lining up to get their cut. They’re also gambling with their lives\, because when Serge and Coleman get hip to this timely (and very lucrative) trip\, there’s no telling whose number is up next. \nThrow in Brooke Campanella\, Serge’s old flame\, as well as the perpetually star-crossed Reevis\, and it’s a sure bet that the ever lucky Serge will hit it big. Winning has never been this deadly—or this much fun! \nTim Dorsey was a reporter and editor for the Tampa Tribune from 1987 to 1999\, and is the author of nineteen novels: Coconut Cowboy\, Shark Skin Suite\, Tiger Shrimp Tango\, The Riptide Ultra-Glide\, When Elves Attack\, Pineapple Grenade\, Electric Barracuda\, Gator A-Go-Go\, Nuclear Jellyfish\, Atomic Lobster\, Hurricane Punch\, The Big Bamboo\, Torpedo Juice\, Cadillac Beach\, The Stingray Shuffle\, Triggerfish Twist\, Orange Crush\, Hammerhead Ranch Motel\, and Florida Roadkill. He lives in Tampa\, Florida.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tim-dorsey/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Daniel Handler
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Handler discusses Three Masquerades\, a collection of novellas by Rachel Ingalls. Daniel Handler assembled this collection for Pharos Editions\, a press that is dedicated to bringing to light out-of-print\, lost or rare books of distinction. \n\nPraise for Rachel Ingalls \n\nSo deft and austere in its prose\, so drolly casual in its fantasy… – John Updike  \n\nShortly after beginning each of the novellas in this remarkable collection\, I was seized with a haunting conviction that I was reading works I would not easily forget. – Joseph Heller \n\nRachel Ingalls ‘ elegantly written tales mix reality and fantasy in surprising ways\, casting a dark light on the conventions of our lives\, our ideas about marriage\, youth and age… she deserves to be as well-known in America as she is in England.”  —Alison Laurie \n\nAbout Three Masquerades \n“I See a Long Journey” and “On Ice\,” novellas that Mr. Handler considers basically perfect\, originally appeared with a third\, “Blessed Art Though\,” a story that he considers to be in an entirely different tone. He felt that “Friends in the Country” from Ms. Ingalls later collection\, “The End of a Tragedy\,” was a more natural companion to the two earlier works. The author happily agreed. \n  \n“I See a Long Journey” introduces us to Flora who is induced by her husband\, James\, to take a vacation only because his chauffeur Michael\, custodian of their persons and their purse\, will accompany them. Things\, as they so often do in Ingalls world\, will go appalling awry.  “Friends in the Country” wherein a young couple drive outside of London for a Friday dinner and find themselves trapped for the weekend in a manner that surpasses Stephen King\, if not in outright horror then certainly in subtlety and suggestiveness. “On Ice” finds Beverley with her fiance at an elegant hotel where she is introduced to a grande dame whose funeral Beverley’s convinced she had witnessed 10 years before. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-handler/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sigrid Carter
DESCRIPTION:Sigrid Carter’s life story\, contained in Amazing Women: 4 German Girls\, 25\,000+ of Miles\, 18 Months 0 Money\, is worthy of becoming a movie. This was true before she even turned thirty. As an adventurous girl in her twenties\, she and two girlfriends from Germany hitchhiked from Colorado to the Pacific coast of Mexico\, where the trio took a canoe into the ocean\, got lost\, and found themselves surrounded by sharks just as bad weather set in. Somehow\, they survived. The tide carried them to the shores of Peru\, where they spent time living with Indians in the Amazon and working for biologists researching the rainforests\, one of whom later became Carter’s husband. \nA Peruvian filmmaker did\, in fact\, turn the ordeal into a television movie\, but Carter professes not to know the title or release date. She has no time for such things—she’s too busy continuing to live a life most of us can only imagine. \nIt was her adventurous spirit that led Carter to set up her agency\, Envoyé Travel\, in 1971 in Lubbock\, Texas\, where her husband has established himself as an associate dean at Texas Tech University. Lest you think married life and operating a thirty-six-year-old business has tamed her\, Carter kayaks every morning\, and a few days after we spoke\, she was on her way to a polar bear expedition in Churchill\, Canada. \n“Whatever you do in life is a big commitment\, so it needs to be fun\,” says Carter\, who’s been to all seven continents. “I love this business. There is nothing more fun in life than talking about destinations.” \nAnd Carter has a lot of stories to tell—so much so that she landed the cover of Travel Agent in 1992 and in 1995 self-published a book\, Travel Like a Millionaire Without Being One\, which is being updated for a second printing. \nHer zest for life is infectious. She personally runs select small group trips\, leading people on a pilgrimage to Santiago\, Spain\, and taking others to the Arctic Circle to stay with Eskimos. Many of the local operators she uses have been discovered – and vetted – through her own travels. \n“Wherever I go\, I make friends\,” Carter says\, who also works with such suppliers as Abercrombie & Kent\, Butterfield & Robinson\, and Clipper Adventures. “I went to India\, and my goal was to experience yoga with the best teacher there. I checked the prices\, and it was $850 a night! I thought\, ‘I’m not going to spend that kind of money.'” \nShe left for India and\, on the way\, met a yoga teacher who invited her to dinner. “It turned out that the family is the number-one yoga family in India—even the Clintons have studied with them\,” Carter shares. “They live very\, very basic\, but the simplicity of their lifestyle.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sigrid-carter/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Mariana Ruybalid
DESCRIPTION:Mariana Ruybalid reads her poems\, followed by an interview and discussion at Claremont Branch as part of our guest poet series\, Clearly Meant. \nMariana Ruybalid has published two novels\, A Pattern of Silent Tears and Coyote Healer\, Coyote Curandero\, as well as a book of poems\, Daring to Write. Her first novel\, A Pattern of Silent Tears\, is based on the years Ruybalid spent in Costa Rica working as a psychologist with disabled women and children. She has two bachelors and three master’s degrees. “I’ve never let cerebral palsy stop me from doing much\,” Mariana Ruybalid says. She has lived in Berkeley since 1976. All of her books are owned by the Berkeley Public Library. Be sure to check them out.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mariana-ruybalid/
LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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