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SUMMARY:Clearly Meant presents Lucille Lang Day
DESCRIPTION:Lucille Lang Day reads her poems\, followed by an interview and discussion. \nLucille Lang Day was born in Oakland\, where she still lives. Day has several books of poetry\, including The Curvature of Blue\, Infinities\, and Becoming an Ancestor. She has also written children’s books and a memoir\, and has edited anthologies\, most lately Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California. \nA free chapbook of Day’s poems is available from all the BPL branches. Please pick one up!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clearly-meant-presents-lucille-lang-day/
LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:BAY AREA POETS COALITION
DESCRIPTION:October 5\, November 2\, December 7\n\n3:00 – 5:00 PM\n\n\n\n \n \nSTRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n \nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)\n\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n \nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-7/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:SPD Presents: Small Press Distribution’s 50th Anniversary Reading & Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Established in 1969\, Small Press Distribution (SPD) of Berkeley celebrates 50 years as the nation’s only literary nonprofit book distributor. SPD is honored to distribute and advocate for over 400 independent publishers\, bridging connections between underserved readers and a broad coalition of essential but underrepresented authors. In conjunction with our community partners at the Berkeley Art Center\, it is our great pleasure to celebrate our 50th anniversary by honoring the vibrant Bay Area literary community\, as well as the advocates\, readers\, and writers who have sustained and inspired SPD for decades. \n  \nSPD will honor three local literary luminaries who we believe have made significant\, invaluable contributions to Bay Area literary culture over the last decade. Samantha Giles\, winner of the 2019 California Book Award Gold Medal in Poetry\, served as the executive director of Small Press Traffic\, stewarding innovation in San Francisco literature through events\, workshops\, and community advocacy. Owen Hill is a novelist\, editor\, and the co-curator of events at radical\, independent store Moe’s Books in Berkeley\, which celebrates its 60th Anniversary this year. J.K. Fowler is a writer and the founder and executive director of Nomadic Press\, a community-focused literary and arts non-profit with operations in Oakland\, CA\, Des Moines\, IA\, and Brooklyn\, NY. We are proud to have worked in such close proximity to these wonderful writers and organizers over the years.  \n  \nOn Saturday\, October 5th\, we invite you to join us for SPD Presents: Small Press Distribution’s 50th Anniversary Reading & Celebration! The event will be held at the Berkeley Art Center and will feature readings from our honored guests\, followed by a community reception and celebration. Doors open at 3pm.  The BAC is located at 1275 Walnut Street in North Berkeley; the event is free and open to the public. For more information\, visit: bit.ly/SPDPresents.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spd-presents-small-press-distributions-50th-anniversary-reading-celebration/
LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center\, 1275 Walnut Street\, Berkeley\, 94709
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191005T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191005T210000
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SUMMARY:Book Release: this is my body
DESCRIPTION:We are so excited to announce the release of this is my body\, an anthology of written works by women of color exploring their relationship with their bodies in the world they exist in. Each piece is accompanied by a powerful stage performance bringing the words from the page to life. \nJoin us at Nomadic Press for the release on Saturday\, October 5\, from 7–9 PM and help us celebrate these fierce women and their stories. \nBooks will be sold at the event. Wine and gnosh will be provided. Free and open to anyone to attend. Donations will be called for during the event\, but of course\, no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-this-is-my-body/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press/Fairmount\, 111 Fairmount Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191005T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191005T210000
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SUMMARY:John James and Julia Guez
DESCRIPTION:John James and Julia Guez read from their new poetry collections\, The Milk Hours and In an Invisible Glass Case Which is Also a Frame. \nAbout The Milk Hours \nWinner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize\, The Milk Hours is an elegant debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist in a state of loss. \n“We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery.” So begins the title poem of this collection\, whose recursive temporality is filled with living\, grieving things\, punctuated by an unseen world of roots\, bodies\, and concealed histories. Like a cemetery\, too\, The Milk Hours sets unlikely neighbors alongside each other: Hegel and Murakami\, Melville and the Persian astronomer al-Sufi\, enacting a transhistorical poetics even as it brims with intimacy. These are poems of frequent swerves and transformations\, which never stray far from an engagement with science\, geography\, art\, and aesthetics\, nor from the dream logic that motivates their incessant investigations. \nIndeed\, while John James begins with the biographical–the haunting loss of a father in childhood\, the exhausted hours of early fatherhood–the questions that emerge from his poetic synthesis are both timely and universal: what is it to be human in an era where nature and culture have fused? To live in a time of political and environmental upheaval\, of both personal and public loss? How do we make meaning\, and to whom–or what–do we turn\, when such boundaries so radically collapse? \nAbout John James \nJohn James is the author of Chthonic\, winner of the 2014 CutBank Chapbook Award. His poems appear in Boston Review\, Kenyon Review\, Gulf Coast\, Poetry Northwest\, Best American Poetry 2017\, and elsewhere. Also a digital collagist\, his visual art is forthcoming in the Adroit Journal\, Quarterly West\, and LIT. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where he is pursuing a PhD in English at the University of California\, Berkeley. \nAbout In an Invisible Glass Case Which is Also a Frame \nA close look at the rigors of our current cultural moment\, In an Invisible Glass Case Which Is Also a Frame offers readers a way to navigate vital questions: what does it mean to be “secure”? How do we make art amid complexity? In Guez’s debut\, readers will witness realities of income inequality\, climate change\, and the opioid epidemic alongside a series of reliable antidotes: art\, music\, humor\, and love. “Have we made it across the vast plain of night?” asks one poem. No\, not quite. There is more night\, but there is singing\, too. Rich in its sophisticated engagement of a “still life” series\, dilemmas large and small\, political and personal\, are treated with generosity\, curiosity\, and a precise investigation of the heart. \nAbout Julia Guez \nJulia Guez’s poetry\, essays\, interviews and translations have appeared in Poetry\, the Guardian\, PEN Poetry Series\, the Kenyon Review\, BOMB and the Brooklyn Rail. She has been awarded the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize\, a Fulbright Fellowship and the John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize in Translation. Guez holds degrees from Rice and Columbia. For the last decade\, she has worked with Teach For America; she’s currently a managing director of programming there. She also teaches creative writing at Rutgers and writes poetry reviews for Publishers Weekly. Guez lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-james-and-julia-guez/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191006T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191006T180000
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SUMMARY:Contributing editor Diane Noomin and contributors / Drawing Power: Women's Stories of Sexual Violence\, Harassment\, and Survival
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special event for the new comics anthology Drawing Power: Women’s Stories of Sexual Violence\, Harassment\, and Survival\, with contributing editor Diane Noomin and contributors Tyler Cohen\, Marian Henley\, Carol Lay\, Ajuan Mance\, Lee Marrs\, Liz Mayorga\, Minnie Phan\, Ariel Schrag\, and M. Louise Stanley. Please join us! \nInspired by the global #MeToo Movement\, Drawing Power: Women’s Stories of Sexual Violence\, Harassment\, and Survival is a collection of original\, nonfiction comics drawn by more than 60 female cartoonists from around the world. Featuring such noted creators as Emil Ferris\, Aline Kominsky-Crumb\, MariNaomi\, Liana Finck\, and Ebony Flowers\, the anthology’s contributors comprise a diverse group of many ages\, sexual orientations\, and races – and their personal stories convey the wide spectrum of sexual harassment and abuse that is still all too commonplace. With a percentage of profits going to RAINN\, Drawing Power is an anthology that stokes the fires of progressive social upheaval\, in the fight for a better\, safer world. \n\nDiane Noomin is the creator of the comics character DiDi Glitz\, editor of both Twisted Sisters anthologies\, and was one of the early contributors toWimmen’s Comix. She has been nominated for Harvey and Eisner Awards and received an Inkpot Award. Glitz-2-Go\, a collection of Noomin’s art throughout her career\, was published in 2013. Her work is included in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs collection. Her most recent work is Drawing Power\, which she both edited and contributed to. \nTyler Cohen is a cartoonist who uses autobiography and surrealism to explore gender\, parenthood\, race\, and female experience. Her bookPrimahood: Magenta won the 2017 Bisexual Book Award for Graphic Memoir. Her work has appeared online in Illustrated PEN and Mutha Magazine and in print in numerous anthologies. See primazonia.com for more. \n  \nMarian Henley is a cartoonist and author of the graphic novel Maxine and the graphic memoir The Shiniest Jewel\, which Publishers Weekly described as “a near- perfect book” (“near” being better than “far from”). She lives in Austin\, Texas. \n  \nCarol Lay has created comics\, short stories\, and illustrations for many publications including Ahoy Comics\, Bongo\, LA Weekly\, the Wall Street Journal\, and the New Yorker. Her current comic strip\, Lay Lines\, can be seen on GoComics.com and carollay.com. \n  \nAjuan Mance is a professor of African American literature at Mills College and a lifelong artist and writer. Ajuan’s work has appeared in a number of online and print publications. Her art and comics use humor and color to explore the complexities of race and gender in the United States. \n  \nLee Marrs is the first woman to work for DC Comics and Marvel simultaneously. She was also one of the founders of Wimmen’s Comix. An Emmy and Inkpot Award winner and 2016 Eisner Award nominee\, Lee is best known for her Pudge\, Girl Blimp series\, now a book. Her other work includes Batman\, Wonder Woman\, Indiana Jones\, and Gay Comics. Lee is the retired multimedia arts chair of Berkeley City College. \n  \nLiz Mayorga is a cartoonist from California. Her work combines folklore and popular culture with feminist theory. When she’s not teaching or creating something new\, she enjoys playing with animals and riding her bike. Liz is a DIY artist who is also proud of being a working-class Xicana. \n  \nMinnie Phan is an illustrator and cartoonist living in Oakland\, California. She focuses on themes of cultural heritage\, diversity\, personal stories\, and the invisible things that shape who we are. Clients include NPR\, Live Nation\, Starbucks\, and Colorlines. See more of her work at minniephan.com. \n  \nAriel Schrag is the author of the graphic memoirs Part of It\, Likewise\,Potential\, Definition\, and Awkward\, and the novel Adam. She has written for television series on HBO and Showtime. She lives in Brooklyn\, New York. \n  \nM. Louise Stanley makes paintings that juxtapose myth and allegory in order to poke fun at contemporary politics and mores with a deadly serious brush. Stanley teaches painting and drawing at Berkeley City College and resides in Emeryville\, California. She is a recent recipient of both the Pollock- Krasner Foundation and John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens with the store at 2pm; event starts at 4pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Drawing Power\, order below and include your request in the comments field. If you’d like to request a signed copy of any of the contributors’ books\, email events@booksmith.com. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n\n\n\n\nBooks:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/contributing-editor-diane-noomin-and-contributors-drawing-power-womens-stories-of-sexual-violence-harassment-and-survival/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mongreltude and From Nature - Poetry With Bernheimer and Brolaski
DESCRIPTION:Alan Bernheimer’s latest collection of poetry is From Nature (Cuneiform Press\, 2019). Recent work has appeared at Across the Margin and at SFMOMA’s Open Space and in The Equalizer\, The Delineator\, and Hambone. The Spoonlight Institute was published by Adventures in Poetry in 2009. Born and raised in Manhattan\, he has lived in the Bay Area since the 1970s. He produces a portrait gallery of poets reading on flickr. His translation of Philippe Soupault’s memoir\, Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism\, Dada\, and Surrealism\, was published by City Lights in 2016. \nJulian Talamantez Brolaski is the author of Of Mongrelitude (Wave Books\, 2017)\, Advice for Lovers (City Lights\, 2012)\, gowanus atropolis (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2011)\, and coeditor of NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life & Work of kari edwards (Litmus Press/Belladonna Books\, 2009). Its pronoun is it. It is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist in the country bands Juan & the Pines (NYC) and The Western Skyline (Oakland). Brolaski is currently researching and editing The Apache Pollen Path (University of New Mexico Press\, 2020)\, a book on Mescalero Apache ceremony\, with its grandmother\, Inés Talamantez.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mongreltude-and-from-nature-poetry-with-bernheimer-and-brolaski/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry with Alan Bernheimer and Julian Talamantez Brolaski
DESCRIPTION:Alan Bernheimer’s latest collection of poetry is From Nature (Cuneiform Press\, 2019). Recent work has appeared at Across the Margin and at SFMOMA’s Open Space and in The Equalizer\, The Delineator\, and Hambone. The Spoonlight Institute was published by Adventures in Poetry in 2009. Born and raised in Manhattan\, he has lived in the Bay Area since the 1970s. He produces a portrait gallery of poets reading on flickr. His translation of Philippe Soupault’s memoir\, Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism\, Dada\, and Surrealism\,was published by City Lights in 2016. \nJulian Talamantez Brolaski is the author of Of Mongrelitude (Wave Books\, 2017)\, Advice for Lovers (City Lights\, 2012)\, gowanus atropolis (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2011)\, and coeditor of NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life & Work of kari edwards (Litmus Press/Belladonna Books\, 2009). Its pronoun is it. It is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist in the country bands Juan & the Pines (NYC) and The Western Skyline (Oakland). Brolaski is currently researching and editing The Apache Pollen Path (University of New Mexico Press\, 2020)\, a book on Mescalero Apache ceremony\, with its grandmother\, Inés Talamantez.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-with-alan-bernheimer-and-julian-talamantez-brolaski/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191007T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191007T193000
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays Fall Fiction: A Poet\, Novelist\, & Short Story Author Walk Into a Bookstore...
DESCRIPTION:Poet Jeanne Powell\, novelist C O R E Y M. P.\, and short story author Olga Zilberbourg will walk into Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley\, Monday\, October 7 to read for you from 6:30pm to 7:30pm. Books will be available for sales and signing after the readings. Admission is free and so are the drinks! \nThe poems in Jeanne Powell’s collection TWO SEASONS are\, according to Dennis Dalton\, Professor Emeritus\, Barnard College\, “inspiring and inspired because of their uncanny ability to transmit genuine feelings of rage and love\, justice and injustice\, with an eloquence and power that few contemporary American writers can match. Her gifted word dancing comes across forcefully yet gracefully in both oral recitations and on the written page. When I heard Jeanne deliver in public one of the exquisite poems from TWO SEASONS\, I was stunned at the impact it had on the audience.” \nIn Corey M.P.’s novel HEARTS AND ERRORS\, Valentine’s Day is fast approaching–a harsh reminder of when New York newspaper columnist Lana Levine was dumped by her boyfriend without an explanation and how\, three years later\, she still hasn’t moved on. When she discovers a magazine article about an old man who matches strangers in a small café in Paris\, Lana thinks this is definitely a sign. Desperate for change\, she flees to The City of Light. Armed with nothing but hope and a broken heart\, she begins her quest to find the mysterious café. \nOlga Zilberbourg’s first book in English is already a bestseller! LIKE WATER AND OTHER STORIES is a unique portrayal of motherhood\, of immigration and adaptation\, and an inside account of life in the Soviet Union and its dissolution. It looks at family and child rearing in ways both unsettling and tender\, with characters who grapple with complicated legacies—of state\, parentage\, displacement\, and identity. Anthony Marra calls it “a book of succinct abundance\, dazzling in its particulars\, expansive in its scope.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-fall-fiction-a-poet-novelist-short-story-author-walk-into-a-bookstore/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191008T210000
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SUMMARY:Suyi Davies Okungbowa: David Mogo\, Godhunter
DESCRIPTION:Suyi Davies Okungbowa discusses his new novel\, David Mogo\, Godhunter. \nPraise for David Mogo\, Godhunter \n“A number of books have been termed ‘godpunk\,’ but Suyi Davies Okungbowa’s novel may be the subgenre’s platonic deific ideal\, from its title to its plot to its terse but vivid prose… Assured and arch\, unsettling and thoroughly enjoyable—an auspicious debut from one of the most promising new voices in the growing coterie of African SFF writers.” ~ WIRED \n“Vivid\, visceral and with a strength of the voice that  just pulls me right in. The god-littered world of  David Mogo’s Lagos just won’t let go.” ~ Jeannette Ng\, author of Under the Pendulum Sun \n“A fantastic adventure of gods and mortals—highly recommended.” ~ Tasha Suri\, author of Empire of Sand \n“A Nigerian Harry Dresden. Okungbowa’s voice is great\, and makes Lagos feel familiar.” ~ Jacey Bedford\, author of Winterwood \nAbout David Mogo\, Godhunter \nNigerian God-Punk – a powerful and atmospheric urban fantasy set in Lagos. \nLAGOS WILL NOT BE DESTROYED \nThe gods have fallen to earth in their thousands\, and chaos reigns. \nThough broken and leaderless\, the city endures. \nDavid Mogo\, demigod and godhunter\, has one task: capture two of the most powerful gods in the city and deliver them to the wizard gangster Lukmon Ajala. \nNo problem\, right?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/suyi-davies-okungbowa-david-mogo-godhunter/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T193000
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Carolina de Robertis
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading and discussion of Cantoras\, the newly acclaimed novel by Uruguayan American author Carolina de Robertis. \nA Bay Area resident\, De Robertis is the author of the The Gods of Tango\, Perla\, and the international bestseller The Invisible Mountain. Her books have been translated into seventeen languages\, and have been named Best Books of the Year in venues including the San Francisco Chronicle\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\, BookList\, and NBC. \nShe is the recipient of a Stonewall Book Award\, Italy’s Rhegium Julii Prize\, and a 2012 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-carolina-de-robertis/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, Main Branch\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T203000
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SUMMARY:I Will Destroy You: Poetry With Nick Flynn and Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:Nick Flynn’s latest book is I Will Destroy You\, poetry that interrogates the potential of art to be redemptive\, to remake and reform. But first the maker of art must claim responsibility for his past\, his actions\, his propensity to destroy others and himself. The poems delve into the deepest\, most defeating parts of the self: addiction\, temptation\, infidelity\, and repressed memory. These are poems of profound self-scrutiny and lyric intensity\, jagged and probing. \nSpecial guest Matthew Zapruder’s new book is Father’s Day. He’s also the author of four collections of poetry\, most recently Come On All You Ghosts\, and Sun Bear as well as Why Poetry\, a book of prose. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/i-will-destroy-you-poetry-with-nick-flynn-and-matthew-zapruder/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T190000
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SUMMARY:Ian Haney López in conversation with Eva Paterson
DESCRIPTION:Ian Haney López in conversation with Eva Paterson\nWednesday\, October 9\, 2019\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\nPresented by City Lights in conjunction with The Equal Justice Society and The New Press \n \ndiscussing the subject of his new book \nMerge Left: Fusing Race and Class\, Winning Elections\, and Saving America \npublished by The New Press \n\n\n\nFrom the acclaimed author of Dog Whistle Politics\, an essential road map to neutralizing the role of racism as a divide-and-conquer political weapon and to building a broad multiracial progressive future \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Ian Haney López has broken the code on the racial politics of the last fifty years.” —Bill Moyers \n\n\n\n\n\n\nToday more than ever\, warnings to fear immigrants and people of color bombard us incessantly. Quite simply\, the Right’s fundamental strategy has been to divide and distract while rigging the rules to benefit the superrich. No more. It’s time to reject this kind of purposeful division and to join together to demand that government work for all of us\, whether we’re white\, Black\, or brown. \nIan Haney López has spent the last two years collaborating with a team of union activists\, racial justice leaders\, communications specialists\, and pollsters. Based on conversations and interviews with people all over the country\, the team discovered that a large majority of the population (people of color included) fall into “the persuadable middle”—they hold both progressive and racist views and can be shifted in one direction or another based on different stories about America. \nFor decades\, while the Right has exploited racial fear-mongering\, the Left has splintered. Some have wanted to tackle racism head-on; others have insisted that a race-silent focus on class avoids alienating white voters. Merge Left distills the heartening results of cutting-edge new research: naming racism as a weapon of the rich and calling for cross-racial solidarity builds unity across the base and enlists the broad middle in supporting progressive dreams. \nA work of deep research\, nuanced argument\, and urgent insight\, Merge Left is an indispensable tool for the upcoming political season and in the larger fight to build racial justice and shared economic prosperity. \nIan Haney López is the Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at University of California\, Berkeley\, and the author of Dog Whistle Politics and White by Law\, as well as Merge Left (The New Press). He lives in Richmond\, California. \nEva Jefferson Paterson has campaigned for civil rights with passion\, courage and tenacity for more than three decades. Paterson is the President and a co-founder of the Equal Justice Society\, a legal organization transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law\, social science\, and the arts. \nThe Equal Justice Society is transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law\, social science\, and the arts. Led by President Eva Paterson\, our legal strategy aims to broaden conceptions of present-day discrimination to include unconscious and structural bias by using social science\, structural analysis\, and real-life experience.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ian-haney-lopez-in-conversation-with-eva-paterson/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T210000
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SUMMARY:San Francisco in Queer Fiction\, by the Decade
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith welcomes Perfectly Queer Reading Series back as they present a night of readings: San Francisco in Queer Fiction\, by the Decade. Please join us! \nSan Francisco has been the location for many works of fiction\, from McTeague by Frank Norris to Less by Andrew Sean Greer. Join us Tuesday\, October 8\, 7pm at The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight (in San Francisco\, of course) to hear readings from four novels with San Francisco as their setting\, written by LGBTQ authors: Blackmail\, My Love by Katie Gilmartin\, Eat Sleep Love by Chuck Forester\, Steam by the late Jay B. Laws (as read byRichard May)\, and Five Windows by Jon Roemer. These books span life in San Francisco from the 1950s to the 70s and 80s to the contemporary city. Free admission and free refreshments. Book signing after the readings. \n\nChuck Forester was raised in northern Wisconsin. He attended Dartmouth and Penn and holds an MCP in city planning and an MFA in poetry. Chuck worked on staff for three San Francisco mayors. His philanthropic work includes leading the successful campaign to establish the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center at the San Francisco Main Library\, which raised $3.5 million. Michael A. Schoch\, his partner of 18 years\, succumbed to AIDS in 1994. Chuck has been an HIV-survivor since 1987. Eat Sleep Love is his latest novel. \nKatie Gilmartin’s checkered past includes stints as a buoyant union organizer\, bona fide sex researcher\, and deeply engaged college professor.  She teaches linocut and monotype classes at Chrysalis Studio in SOMArts and runs the Queer Ancestors Project\, devoted to forging sturdy relationships between young Queer and Trans artists and their ancestors.  Her illustrated noir mystery\, Blackmail My Love\, explores real and imagined Queer ancestors in early 1950s San Francisco.  Katie’s next novel\, Thrill Spot\, will be a fictional account of an actual 1954 raid on a lesbian bar called Tommy’s Place\, in North Beach. \nJon Roemer is a writer and editor based in San Francisco. He is founder and senior editor of Outpost19\, an award-winning book publisher. He is Queer\, a San Francisco resident since 1991\, and an explorer of urban change. Jon studied literature and fiction writing at Northwestern University. Five Windows is Jon’s first novel. \nJay B. Laws was a San Francisco playwright and writer. His first novel\, Steam\, was published by Alyson Books in 1991 and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. Jay died from AIDS in 1992\, a week after completing changes on the manuscript for his second novel\, The Unfinished\, which was published posthumously in 1993. This re-issue of Steamis from ReQueered Tales\, a new publisher specializing in republishing out of print Gay and Lesbian works. \n  \nAbout ReQueered Tales: \nPerhaps forty years of gay fiction – and notably gay and lesbian mystery\, detective and suspense fiction – has been teetering on the brink of obscurity. Orphaned works\, orphaned authors\, many living and some having passed away – with no one to make the case for their creations to be returned to print (and e-print!). Until now. That is the mission of ReQueered Tales. We are honored…to be custodians shepherding back into circulation some of the best Gay and Lesbian fiction writing. See their list of current and upcoming re-publications at requeeredtales.com. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of any of the authors’ books\, send your request to events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-in-queer-fiction-by-the-decade/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T210000
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SUMMARY:Nick Flynn: a Reading\, a Conversation
DESCRIPTION:The Reading: Nick Flynn’s latest book is I Will Destroy You\, poetry that interrogates the potential of art to be redemptive\, to remake and reform. But first the maker of art must claim responsibility for his past\, his actions\, his propensity to destroy others and himself. The poems delve into the deepest\, most defeating parts of the self: addiction\, temptation\, infidelity\, and repressed memory. These are poems of profound self-scrutiny and lyric intensity\, jagged and probing. \nThe Conversation: Nick will be in conversation with Ben Terrall\, publisher of Namaste Motherfu**er.   The Reading: Nick Flynn’s latest book is I Will Destroy You\, poetry that interrogates the potential of art to be redemptive\, to remake and reform. But first the maker of art must claim responsibility for his past\, his actions\, his propensity to destroy others and himself. The poems delve into the deepest\, most defeating parts of the self: addiction\, temptation\, infidelity\, and repressed memory. These are poems of profound self-scrutiny and lyric intensity\, jagged and probing. \nThe Conversation: Nick will be in conversation with Ben Terrall\, publisher of Namaste Motherfu**er.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nick-flynn-a-reading-a-conversation/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T053215
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading Series with Ingrid Rojas Contreras
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\n\nWednesday\, October 9\, 2019 –  \n7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nIngrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree won the Silver Medal in First Fiction from the California Book Awards. Fruit of the Drunken Tree was an Indie Next selection\, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection\, and a New York Times editor’s choice. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, The Paris Review\, Buzzfeed\, The Believer\, Nylon\, Guernica\, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, the Camargo Foundation\, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures. She is working on a family memoir about her grandfather\, a curandero from Colombia who it was said had the power to move clouds.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/creative-writing-reading-series-with-ingrid-rojas-contreras/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T213000
DTSTAMP:20260406T053215
CREATED:20190825T191351Z
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SUMMARY:How to Cure a Ghost: Poems with Fariha Róisín
DESCRIPTION:How to Cure a Ghost: Poems with Fariha Róisín\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, October 9\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nFahira Róisín shares poems from her new collection\, How to Cure a Ghost. \nFollowing in the footsteps of such category killers as Milk and Honey and Whiskey Words & a Shovel I\, Fariha Róisín’s poetry book is a collection of her thoughts as a young\, queer\, Muslim femme navigating the difficulties of her intersectionality. Simultaneously\, this compilation unpacks the contentious relationship that exists between Róisín and her mother\, her platonic and romantic heartbreaks\, and the cognitive dissonance felt as a result of being so divided among her broad spectrum of identities.\n \nPRAISE\n “When I first encountered Fariha’s writing\, I let out a sigh of relief. Was it refreshing? Yes. But there was something more. Her words allow us to feel visible. Fariha’s writing has the power to heal and transform. She pulls you into her stories until you’re at the edge of your seat\, emphatically rooting for her subjects.” \n— Rupi Kuar \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nFariha Róisín is an Australian-Canadian writer\, editor\, and podcaster based in Brooklyn. Her writing often explores Muslim identity\, race\, pop culture\, and film. It also examines the intersection of queerness and being a femme of color while navigating a white world. She has written for The New York Times\, Al Jazeera\, The Guardian\, Vice\, Fusion\, Village Voice and others. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, October 9\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/how-to-cure-a-ghost-poems-with-fariha-roisin/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191010T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191010T210000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190823T190910Z
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SUMMARY:2019 Marin Poetry Center Anthology Launch
DESCRIPTION:This event celebrates local poets reading their work from the anthology. The theme is “The Wild.” There will be many different voices and a lively reading.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2019-marin-poetry-center-anthology-launch/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191010T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191010T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T053215
CREATED:20190822T231212Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190822T231212Z
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SUMMARY:Kim Magowan: The Light Source
DESCRIPTION:Kim Magowan discusses her new novel\, The Light Source. \nAbout The Light Source \nThe relationship between Heather Katchadourian and Julie Howe is complicated. Over the past two decades\, they’ve been just about everything to each other: boarding school roommates\, best friends\, lovers\, rivals\, even co-parents–both together and estranged. Will they find their way back to each other\, or have they inflicted too much damage along the way? Reminiscent of the work of Meg Wolitzer\, and narrated by Heather\, Julie\, their lifelong friends\, partners\, and children\, The Light Source is a prismatic portrayal of what everlasting modern love truly looks like and reminds us that what’s meant-to-be becomes harder to define with age.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-magowan-the-light-source/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191012T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191012T143000
DTSTAMP:20260406T053215
CREATED:20190930T192438Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190930T192438Z
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SUMMARY:Filipino American HOTP Literary Readings
DESCRIPTION:Hot Off the Press Literary Reading showcases Filipino American authors with new books. HOTP Literary Reading is part of the 5th Filipino American International Book Festival which will be held at the San Francisco Main Library. The HOTP Literary Reading will be on Saturday\, October 12\, 2019 at 1 p.m. at the Koret Auditorium of the Main Library.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/filipino-american-hotp-literary-readings/
LOCATION:Koret Auditorium\, San Francisco Main Library\, 100 Larkin Avenune\, SAN FRANCISCO\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191012T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191012T160000
DTSTAMP:20260406T053215
CREATED:20190822T232154Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190822T232154Z
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SUMMARY:Bikes to Books Six-Year Anniversary Ride
DESCRIPTION:Combining San Francisco history\, art\, literature\, cycling\, and urban exploration\, Bikes to Books began as an homage to the 1988 street-naming project spearheaded by City Lights Books founder and former San Francisco Poet Laureate\, Lawrence Ferlinghetti\, in which 12 San Francisco streets were renamed for famous artists and authors who had once made San Francisco their home. Since 2013\, we’ve been leading our signature 7.1 mile tour of literary San Francisco from South Park to North Beach\, Jack London to Jack Kerouac\, and we’re excited to celebrate our six-year anniversary with you! Bring anecdotes or snippets of work of the featured authors to share\, or just come learn their stories as we ride through the city. \nMeet us on the north side of Jack London in South Park at 12:45. Bring bikes with gears\, snacks\, and enthusiasm. This is an urban ride of moderate difficulty\, recommended for riders 16 years of age and older. \nSaturday\, October 12\, 12:45-4:00 p.m.\nNorth side of Jack London Alley\, in South Park\, SF \nTour ends in North Beach outside City Lights Books \nEvent is Free\, with maps and posters available for purchase.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bikes-to-books-six-year-anniversary-ride/
LOCATION:Jack London Street\, Jack London Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Bikes to Books":MAILTO:bikes2books@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191012T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191012T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T053215
CREATED:20190930T192908Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190930T192908Z
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SUMMARY:The Pugilist Poets of Venice book launch
DESCRIPTION:A Boomer\, an Xer\, and a Millennial walk into a book… \nJoin us for the launch of Jon Sindell’s new novel\, The Pugilist Poets of Venice\, from Big Table Publishing. \nMusic from The Book of Jones\, John Blatchford of Wax Moon\, Steven Kacsmar of Phantom City\, and Michael Crabtree will be followed by a reading from the book and an author signing. \nSee the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNsCrxzUUs0&feature=youtu.be \nFine authors say: \n“This is a rollicking\, big-hearted tale\, full of laughter\, bravery and unflinching humanity. The touch is light\, but the questions are big: family\, loyalty\, art\, and love are the rightful subjects of Sindell’s troupe of misfits and raconteurs\, each of them a poet and each of them a pugilist too in this deeply funny and deeply felt novel.” \n~ Emily Kiernan\, author of The Great Divide \n“The Pugilist Poets of Venice is author Jon Sindell’s big fat juicy love letter to literature\, Los Angeles and\, most of all\, love. Disguised as a novel about free-spirited parenting\, boys becoming men and men becoming\, well\, grown-ups\, The Pugilist pulls no punches. With prose that zings\, swings and frequently sings\, Sindell tells a tough yet tender tale of brazen heartbreak amid ’90s bohemian hipsters.” \n~  Tracy DeBrincat\, author of Hollywood Buckaroo and Troglodyte \n  \n“Funny\, sad\, relatable\, and engrossing” \n~ Stephen D. Gutierrez\, American Book Award Winner \n  \n“With unflinching honesty\, humor and a keen eye for detail\, Sindell brings unforgettable characters to life in all their flaws and virtues. Page after page\, they kept surprising me; I couldn’t put the book down.” \n~ Martin McCaw\, The Low Road\, finalist in the International Book Awards \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-pugilist-poets-of-venice-book-launch/
LOCATION:Rolling Out Cafe\, 1722 Taraval St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jon Sindell":MAILTO:jsind@sbcglobal.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191012T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191012T210000
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CREATED:20190930T192235Z
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SUMMARY:Giacomo Sartori: I Am God
DESCRIPTION:Italian writer Giacomo Sartori discusses his new novel\, I Am God. \nPraise for I Am God \n“Who better to reflect on the state of the planet  than its creator? I Am God is by turns funny\, sad\, outrageous\, and tender—a cosmic romp.”— Elizabeth Kolbert\, Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction \n“I am God is like a mirthful dream made real by the ingenuity of Sartori’s prose and Randall’s splendidly pointed and sly translation.”— Elizabeth McKenzie\, author of The Portable Veblen \n“A playful\, exciting\, mockingly modern voice\, translated\, what’s more\, by one of the few translators who can really make the Italian vernacular sing truly and fluently in English.”— Tim Parks\, author of Italian Ways and Italian Neighbors \nAbout I Am God \nDiabolically funny and subversively philosophical\, Italian novelist Giacomo Sartori’s I am God is the diary of the Almighty’s existential crisis that ensues when he falls in love with a human. \nI am God. Have been forever\, will be forever. Forever\, mind you\, with the razor-sharp glint of a diamond\, and without any counterpart in the languages of men. So begins God’s diary of the existential crisis that ensues when\, inexplicably\, he falls in love with a human. And not just any human\, but a geneticist and fanatical atheist who’s certain she can improve upon the magnificent creation she doesn’t even give him the credit for. It’s frustrating\, for a god. \nGod has infinitely bigger things to occupy his celestial attentions. Yet he can’t tear his eyes (so to speak) from the geneticist who’s unsettlingly avid when it comes to science\, sex\, and Sicilian cannoli. Whatever happens\, he must safeguard his transcendental dignity. So he watches—disinterestedly\, of course—as the handsome climatologist who has his sights set on her keeps having strange accidents. And as the lanky geneticist becomes hell-bent on infiltrating the Vatican’s secret files\, for reasons of her own…. \nA sly critique of the hypocrisy and hubris that underlie faith in religion\, science\, and macho careerism\, I Am God takes us on a hilarious and provocative romp through the Big Questions with the universe’s supreme storyteller. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/giacomo-sartori-i-am-god/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191013T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191013T180000
DTSTAMP:20260406T053215
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SUMMARY:Mike and Anne Howard / Comfortably Wild: The Best Glamping Destinations in North America
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery welcomes Mike and Anne Howard back for their second book\, Comfortably Wild: The Best Glamping Destinations in North America. Join us! \nRiver rafting between luxury camps\, harvesting vegetables for a farm-to-table dinner\, and ziplining to your treehouse suite\, this is experiential travel at its finest. Breaking the mold of big-box hotels and transforming camping into a glamorous affair\, this revolutionary travel style needed its story told. Traveling over 73\,000 miles from Canada to Costa Rica\, authors Mike & Anne Howard of the acclaimed blog HoneyTrek.com sought out the best glamping destinations in North America and the deeper meaning of this trending term. In the first guide of its kind\, the Howards dive into the origins of glamping and this 21st-century craving for unconventional experiences that effortlessly connect us with nature\, our loved ones\, and ourselves. Rather than being organized by style of lodging\, each chapter of Comfortably Wild offers a unique way to vacation\, like the boutique farmstays in “Cultivate\,” wellness retreats in “Rejuvenate\,” and the action-packed journeys of “In Motion.” Seventy-plus destinations across nine countries come alive with colorful descriptions and hundreds of gorgeous photographs. In addition to inspiring stories\, they offer practical tips to finding the right destinations for you and mobilizing a lifetime of unforgettable adventures. \n\nMike and Anne Howard left on their honeymoon in January 2012 and never came home. They created HoneyTrek.com to chronicle their journey across all seven continents and to help people mobilize their travel dreams. Their story as the “World’s Longest Honeymooners\,” savvy tips\, and blog have been acclaimed by the AP\, Lonely Planet\, USA Today\, Condé Nast Traveler\, CBS\, and more. Having scouted hotels around the world for Honeymoons.com\, blogged for Glamping.com\, and authored National Geographic’s best-selling book on couples adventure travel (Ultimate Journeys for Two)\, the Howards were poised to write the first-ever book on glamping in North America. Through their writing\, photography\, public speaking\, trip coaching\, travel advising\, and social media\, the Howards hope to inspire more people to explore outside their comfort zone. Follow their adventures @HoneyTrek. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens with the store at 2pm; event starts at 4pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Comfortably Wild\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mike-and-anne-howard-comfortably-wild-the-best-glamping-destinations-in-north-america/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191013T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191013T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T053215
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SUMMARY:Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society - Litquake 2019
DESCRIPTION:Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society – Litquake 2019\nSunday\, October 13\, 2019\, 5:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\nCity Lights in conjunction with Litquake present \nTales of the San Francisco Cacaphony Society \nwith John Law and friends \ncelebrating the release of the revised edition of the counter culture classic \n  \nTales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society \nproduced by Kevin Evans\, John Law\, and Carrie Galbraith \npublished by Last Gasp Books \nA template for pranksters\, artists\, adventurers and anyone interested in rampant creativity\, for years to come. \nTales Of The San Francisco Cacophony Society tells the history of the most influential underground cabal that you have never heard of. \nRising from the ashes of the mysterious and legendary Suicide Club\, The Cacophony Society\, at its zenith\, hosted chapters in over a dozen major cities\, and influenced much of what was once called the underground. \nFlash Mobs\, Urban Exploration\, and Culture Jamming are a few of the pop culture trends that Cacophony helped kick off. \nChuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club\, Burning Man and Internet social networking powerhouse Laughing Squid were informed and inspired by Cacophony. The Burning Man Festival actually began as a Cacophony event as did the annual\, and now world-wide SantaCon. \nCacophony events could range from something as simple as climbing the Golden Gate Bridge or having a discussion over drinks about a movie seen together\, to something as elaborate as The Atomic Café — an event involving a hundred bedraggled “nuclear holocaust Survivors” mounting elaborate costumed rituals throughout the bowels of a massive abandoned tooth paste factory. \nYes…. Cacophony was that strange. \nCacophony’s heyday was concurrent with the rise of the internet. The story of this group is of historical significance for this reason. Information about upcoming pranks\, street theater and other events hosted by Cacophony was spread by paper flyers posted on telephone poles and left in coffee shops\, by the Societies mailer “Rough Draft” and by word of mouth. Then\, with the genesis of personal computing and social networking\, the jokers\, artists and troublemakers of Cacophony were among some of the first non-geeks to explore the power of this new and world changing way of communicating. \nBurning Man\, Urban Exploration\, flash mobs and the like were avenues of creativity with their roots in Cacophony\, that spread like wildfire through the mechanism of these new communication technologies. \nWhat has been said about the Cacaphony Society: \n“Find out what you are afraid of and go live there” — Chuck Palahniuk\, Fight Club \n“A book every lover of eccentricity and enemy of the status quo should enjoy.” — Margaret Cho
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tales-of-the-san-francisco-cacophony-society-litquake-2019/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Daniel Poppick: Fear of Description
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Poppick reads from his new poetry collection\, Fear of Description. \nPraise for Fear of Description: \n“No matter where a reader begins in Fear of Description\, the end is near and a beginning closer.  As far as this book travels\, it’s always there to meet itself\, though its trajectory is never predictable.  There is also the ancient lament of the worker/writer\, trying to sing a timeless song in an age of ring tones. Poppick’s stop-motion ability to convey multitude in moments is genius—Merwin-like in its sensorial clarity\, and\, where the poet chooses formal restriction\, Keatsian in density and bloom.” —Brenda Shaughnessy\, author of Our Andromeda \n“In Fear of Description\, Daniel Poppick\, like many of the most interesting writers of our time\, folds the labor of writing into the content of his poetry\, stirs it around\, and comes up with something genuinely free. The wildness of his lines had me amazed and grateful.” —Lucy Ives\, author of Impossible Views of the World  \n“Fear of Description is a bold book. Through Poppick’s memories we relive that brief window of youth when friendship is the magic audience that grounds us. In a world that seems stingy and random\, Poppick and his friends glean meaning from seances\, road trips\, shared economic anxiety\, houses\, and shaving rituals. Tears\, like the dead\, sneak up on them.” —Jennifer Moxley\, author of The Open Secret  \nAbout Fear of Description \nFrom Midwestern bars to Brooklyn apartments\, narrative poems that find millennials adrift–in political upheaval and personal crisis–and trying to find their way back to one another \nWinner of the 2018 National Poetry Series competition\, selected by Brenda Shaughnessy \nThese poems tell the story of a generation in crisis: at odds with its own ideals\, precariously (or just un-) employed\, and absolutely terrified of seeing itself in the planet’s future. Is our contemporary moment pure tragedy\, or a dark joke? Can it be both? Cutting back and forth in time and ranging between elegiac lyrics and autobiographical accounts of a group of poets moving from Iowa to Brooklyn in the years just before and after the 2016 election\, Fear of Description reinvigorates the prose poem\, exploring the slippery terrain between grief and friendship\, artifice and technology\, writing and ritual\, hauntings and obsessions–searching for joy in art but instead finding it in pitch darkness.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-poppick-fear-of-description/
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:Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake at Jessie Square
DESCRIPTION:The monthly collaboration between Litquake: San Francisco’s Literary Festival and the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival features an array of Bay Area poets and musicians.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-at-jessie-square-6/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T193000
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SUMMARY:Laleh Khadivi
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, October 15\, 2019 | 5:30 pm | Mills Hall Living Room\n\nLaleh Khadivi was born in Esfahan\, Iran. She is the author of three novels that form an interconnected trilogy about nationalism\, belonging\, and migration. Khadivi is the recipient of the Whiting Award for Fiction\, the Barnes and Noble Discover New Writers Award\, a National Endowment for the Arts grant\, and a Pushcart Prize. Her debut documentary film 900 WOMEN aired on A&E and premiered at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in the Los Angeles Times\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, The Sun\, and other publications. She is an alumni of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Mills College and a professor at the University of San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laleh-khadivi-2/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mills College":MAILTO:syoung@mills.edu
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SUMMARY:Pints & Prose
DESCRIPTION:Fairfax joins the Litquake Literary Festival with a revival of the popular Pints & Prose reading series from the Tuesday Night Writers! Featuring readings from special guests Molly Giles\, Holly Payne and Nina Schuyler and of course\, the Tuesday Night Writers: Cyn Cady\, Chris Cole\, Amanda Conran\, Josh Gibson\, Tanya Egan Gibson and Tom Joyce. NO COVER! Full cocktail bar and appetizers available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pints-prose/
LOCATION:Bootleggers Lodge\, 367 Bolinas Road\, Fairfax\, CA\, 94930
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T210000
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SUMMARY:Litquake Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:TUESDAY\, OCTOBER 15\, 2019 – 7:00PM \n  \nFunny & Peculiar: Santa Cruz Writers on Keeping it Weird \nIt’s 2019 and it seems like things couldn’t get any stranger. What better time to mine the oddities of life with noted writers Elizabeth  McKenzie\, Micah Perks\, Peggy Townsend\, Liza Monroy and Wallace Baine? Moderated by Dan White and Amy Ettinger. This event is co-presented by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nRead more about Litquake\, celebrating it’s 20th Anniversary\, here. \nAbout the writers: \nElizabeth McKenzie’s novel The Portable Veblen was longlisted for the National Book Award for fiction and received the California Book Award for fiction. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Tin House\, Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and others. \nMicah Perks is the author of four books\, most recently a book of linked short stories\, True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape and the novel What Becomes Us\, winner of an Independent Publisher’s Book Award and named one of the Top Ten Books about the Apocalypse by The Guardian. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Epoch\, Zyzzyva\, Tin House\, and The Rumpus\, amongst many journals and anthologies. She has won an NEA\, five Pushcart Prize nominations\, residencies at MacDowell and Blue Mountain Center\, and the New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. \nWallace Baine is an award-winning journalist and arts writer who regularly contributes to Santa Cruz Good Times\, Metro Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Chronicle.  His work has been syndicated in newspapers nationwide and his fiction has appeared in the Catamaran Literary Reader\, the Chicago Quarterly Review\, and as part of the Santa Cruz Noir collection of short stories. His most recent book is a history of Bookshop Santa Cruz called A Light in the Midst of Darkness. \nPeggy Townsend is an award-winning newspaper journalist and author of the bestselling 2018 mystery novel\, See Her Run and its follow-up\, The Thin Edge\, both published by Thomas &  Mercer. As a reporter\, she has covered serial killers\, murder trials and once chased an escaped murderer through a graveyard at midnight. When she isn’t outdoors\, she’s either writing magazine profiles for UC Santa Cruz or working on her third novel. She divides her time between Santa Cruz and Lake Tahoe. \nLiza Monroy is the author of three books: the novel Mexican High\, the memoir The Marriage Act: The Risk I Took To Keep My Best Friend in America and What It Taught Us About Love\, and the essay collection Seeing As Your Shoes Are Soon To Be On Fire. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, the LA Times\, The Washington Post\, O\, Marie Claire\, Jezebel\, Catamaran\, and other publications. One of her columns for the New York Times‘ “Modern Love” will appear in this fall’s anthology of the “most popular and unforgettable essays” of the series. She teaches writing at UC Santa Cruz and lives downtown with her husband\, two tiny humans\, a pug and unruly potbellied pig Señor Bacon. Currently\, she is writing her second novel\, a dark comedy of technology and obsession.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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