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SUMMARY:Susannah Carlson and Peter Bradbury\, editors of Sanctuary
DESCRIPTION: Editors Susannah Carlson and Peter Bradbury discuss Sanctuary: A Collection of Poetry and Prose. \n\nAbout Sanctuary \n\nWhen we started this project eight months ago\, we had no way of knowing how bad things would get or how timely the final product would be. The idea of sanctuary has become a flashpoint. Empathy and kindness seem\, on the surface\, to have taken a backseat to hatred\, nationalism\, and fear. Yet\, while some spew hatred\, still more speak out on behalf of kindness. Such scenarios are playing out around the world\, as war and economic and environmental pressures have driv- en people from their homes\, seeking sanctuary and too often being turned away or worse. \n  \nThe fifty pieces you find here were gleaned from over 700 sub- missions. They explore the concept of sanctuary from angles direct and oblique\, political and comical\, religious and secular. \n  \nSome approach the sanctuary itself\, the structure or the institu- tion. Nancy Cook’s two stories\, Illuminations and Illusions and The After- life\, were written during a residency in a 19th century insane asylum\, the stories pulled from old newspapers and brought to life in her deft prose. Several pieces deal with shelters\, both animal and human. Leslie Muzingo’s story\, Heroes on the Ceiling\, and Joyce Kryzak’s essay\, In the Whispering Breezes\, explore the experience of adults and children at bat- tered women’s shelters\, while Jennifer Stuart’s story\, House for Girls\, in- troduces us to youthful victims of human trafficking\, and Gayla Mills’s essay\, Becoming Human\, brings us inside an animal shelter and the heart of one who works there. \n  \nOther authors approached sanctuary from the point of view of those who seek it: refugees and escapees of both the innocent and the criminal kind\, sometimes blurring the lines between. Michelle S. Myers’s essay\, Communion on the Road\, relates her experience escorting “barely documented” Central American asylum seekers to submit their applications\, and Jennifer Stuart’s story\, The Other Side\, gives us a mo- ment in the life of one such refugee on the first steps of her journey to America. Caroline Taylor’s story Creature of Habit\, Charlotte Platt’s\, Claim Sanctuary\, and John M. Floyd’s\, The Blue Delta\, tell the stories of fugitives whose quest for sanctuary have very different ends\, while Jesse Falzoi’s story\, With Every Thought\, tells of a bittersweet experience housing a Syrian family before they move on to their new lives. \n  \nSeveral pieces are harder to pin down\, but the concept is still there. Gina Grande’s flash piece\, Drag\, explores the safety to be found in physical self-transformation\, while Scott Archer Jones’s story\, Con- tentment\, introduces us to an aging hedonist who seeks comfort in the hand of a friend\, and Sage Kalmus’s story\, The First Lo’ihian\, places one young man’s sanctuary 50\,000 years in his future\, on an island that today is just beginning to be born. Ed McCourt’s essay\, What We Leave on the Curb\, finds solace in the face of death\, in the rebirth of a bicycle\, while a physician-priest seeks sanctuary in the bottle in Nick Bouch- ard’s story\, Father Pearson’s Last Day. \n  \nIt’s a cold and disquieting world out there. I hope you find some comfort in these pages and will offer the same to any strangers who show up at your checkpoints or wash up on your shore. \n  \n–S.C.\, June 2018 \nSunnyvale\, California
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susannah-carlson-and-peter-bradbury-editors-of-sanctuary/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Idra Novey with Marie Mockett and Bernice Yeung
DESCRIPTION:Idra Novey discusses her new novel Those Who Knew with Marie Mockett and Bernice Yeung. \n\nPraise for Those Who Knew \n\n“There’s an urgent timeliness to this story of the crimes committed by a powerful man\, but Idra Novey’s riveting\, formally brilliant novel transcends any particular moment. Those Who Knew is a devastating inquiry into the way lofty ideals can serve as cover for brutal impulses\, the way struggles for control of the body politic wreak havoc on actual bodies. Most of all\, it’s an indictment\, at once fierce and compassionate\, of the collective silence that implicates us all in irrevocable wrongs.” —Garth Greenwell\, author of What Belongs to You \n“Genius. That’s what I kept thinking as I read this novel that somehow combines an invented island\, a political bookstore\, fragments of a stage production\, and a story that’s at once a damning critique of craven self-interest and a tale about our inescapable connectedness. Idra Novey has written an irreverent\, magical\, perfect puzzle of a book.”—Cristina Henriquez\, author of The Book of Unknown Americans \n“Those Who Knew is a beautiful novel about that which we cannot deny\, in ourselves or others\, and the price we are too often willing to pay for what we think is like freedom.”—Alexander Chee\, author of Queen of the Night \n\nAbout Those Who Knew \n\nOn an unnamed island country ten years after the collapse of a U.S.-supported regime\, Lena suspects the powerful senator she was involved with back in her student activist days is taking advantage of a young woman who’s been introducing him at rallies. When the young woman ends up dead\, Lena revisits her own fraught history with the senator and the violent incident that ended their relationship. \nWhy didn’t Lena speak up then\, and will her family’s support of the former regime still impact her credibility? What if her hunch about this young woman’s death is wrong? \nWhat follows is a riveting exploration of the cost of staying silent and the mixed rewards of speaking up in a profoundly divided country. Those Who Knew confirms Novey’s place as an essential new voice in American fiction. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/idra-novey-with-marie-mockett-and-bernice-yeung/
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:BOOKSMITH: Timothy Denevi / Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a special evening with Timothy Denevi(Hyper: A Personal History of ADHD) for his new book Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson’s Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism. Please join us! \n  \nHunter S. Thompson is often misremembered as a wise-cracking\, drug-addled cartoon character. This book reclaims him for what he truly was: a fearless opponent of corruption and fascism\, one who sacrificed his future well-being to fight against it\, rewriting the rules of journalism and political satire in the process. This skillfully told and dramatic story shows how Thompson saw the danger of Richard Nixon early and embarked on a life-defining campaign to stop it. In his fevered effort to expose institutional injustice\, Thompson pushed himself far beyond his natural limits\, sustained by drugs\, mania\, and little else. For ten years\, he cast aside his old ambitions\, troubled his family\, and likely hastened his own decline\, along the way producing some of the best political writing in our history. \nThis timely biography recalls a period of anger and derangement in American politics\, and one writer with the guts to tell the truth. \n  \n\n  \n  \nTimothy Denevi is an assistant professor in the MFA program at George Mason University\, and the nonfiction editor of Literary Hub. His first book\, Hyper: A Personal History of ADHD was published in 2014. He received his MFA in nonfiction from the University of Iowa and his work has appeared in The Atlantic\, Time\, The Paris Review\, andNew York Magazine\, among others. He has been awarded fellowships by the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Tim lives near Washington\, DC with his wife and children. \n  \n\n  \n  \nThis event is free and all ages. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \n  \nIf you’d like a signed copy of Freak Kingdom and/or Hyper\, order below and be sure to include your request in the special field. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-timothy-denevi-freak-kingdom-hunter-s-thompsons-manic-ten-year-crusade-against-american-fascism/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nicole Chung and Daniel Mallory Ortberg
DESCRIPTION:Nicole Chung discusses her new memoir All You Can Ever Know with Daniel Mallory Ortberg. \n\nPraise for All You Can Ever Know \n\n“This book moved me to my very core. As in all her writing\, Nicole Chung speaks eloquently and honestly about her own personal story\, then widens her aperture to illuminate all of us. All You Can Ever Know is full of insights on race\, motherhood\, and family of all kinds\, but what sets it apart is the compassion Chung brings to every facet of her search for identity and every person portrayed in these pages. This book should be required reading for anyone who has ever had\, wanted\, or found a family―which is to say\, everyone.” ―Celeste Ng\, author of Little Fires Everywhere \n\n“Adoption is neither an incident nor a process―it is an evergreen story of lives growing and resisting simple definitions. Chung’s All You Can Ever Know takes the grammar of adoption―nouns\, verbs\, and direct object―and with extraordinary integrity remakes them into a narrative about what it means to be a subject. A primary document of witness\, Chung writes her memoir as a transracial adoptee with honesty\, wisdom\, and love. Her search and what she discovers offer us life’s meaning and purpose of the very highest order.” ―Min Jin Lee\, author of Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko \n\n“This book will break your heart in all the best ways. Nicole Chung’s intimate exploration of motherhood\, race\, and identity is a beautiful personal story that also reveals something profound about our culture and country. I didn’t want it to end.” ―Jessica Valenti\, author of Sex Object \n\n“I’ve been waiting for this writer\, and this book―and everything else she’ll write―and now it is here.” ―Alexander Chee\,author of The Queen of the Night \n\nAbout All You Can Ever Know \n\nWhat does it mean to lose your roots―within your culture\, within your family―and what happens when you find them? \nNicole Chung was born severely premature\, placed for adoption by her Korean parents\, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood\, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting\, prepackaged myth. She believed that her biological parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hope of giving her a better life\, that forever feeling slightly out of place was her fate as a transracial adoptee. But as Nicole grew up―facing prejudice her adoptive family couldn’t see\, finding her identity as an Asian American and as a writer\, becoming ever more curious about where she came from―she wondered if the story she’d been told was the whole truth. \nWith the same warmth\, candor\, and startling insight that has made her a beloved voice\, Chung tells of her search for the people who gave her up\, which coincided with the birth of her own child. All You Can Ever Know is a profound\, moving chronicle of surprising connections and the repercussions of unearthing painful family secrets―vital reading for anyone who has ever struggled to figure out where they belong.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nicole-chung-and-daniel-mallory-ortberg/
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:BINDERY: Brian Posehn / Forever Nerdy: Living My Dorky Dreams and Staying Metal
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening with comedian\, actor\, and forever nerd Brian Posehn for his new memoir Forever Nerdy: Living My Dorky Dreams and Staying Metal. Please join us! \n  \n“I’m a full-blown nerd\,” Posehn writes in the preface. “And by full-blown nerd\, I mean I’m obsessed with a bunch of cool stuff that dumb people think is uncool\, like comics\, Dungeons & Dragons\, action and horror movies\, and HEAVY FUCKING METAL.” \n  \nForever Nerdy is a collection of stories from his life that amount to a celebration of growing up nerdy and different. Brian\, now middle-aged with a wife\, child\, and thriving career\, still feels like an outsider and is as big a nerd as ever. But that’s okay\, because in his five decades of nerdom he’s discovered that the key to happiness is not growing up. You can be a nerd forever and still become a beloved comedian\, writer\, and actor. Or\, as Brian introduces himself\, “a mildly successful\, not-so-widely known stand-up comic\, writer\, and actor mostly known for playing weirdos and half-wits in sitcoms.” \n  \nWe learn of his retreats to the Dunbar Elementary school library which\, of all places\, is where his obsession with KISS began; his watching Jaws repeatedly at his local movie theatre in the summer of ’75; the lethal combo of being super tall and super skinny with dorky black framed glasses\, pimples\, and braces; reading The Exorcist for the first time; getting kicked out of the house by his mother at 19; and that he inherited the dark side of his humor from Grandpa and the crass side from Nana. \n  \n\n  \n“Everyone has an origin story. For comedians\, they’re usually pretty sad\, tortured\, and depressing. Brian Posehn’s is no different\, and yet he’s so different. Forever Nerdy is a memoir about being brave enough to take your torture and find a way to make it your bliss\, and is so fun to read you’re gonna wish you took even longer poops.”  – Sarah Silverman\, author of The Bedwetter  \n  \n“Forever Nerdy is the only book on Brian Posehn and his curious\, eventful\, sad\, sometimes tragic\, defiant\, fun\, loopy life that you will ever need to read. Throw away all the others on this subject matter and get this one! Joyce had his Ulysses\, now Posehn has his Forever Nerdy to engage your eyeballs and wile away your hours\, whether you’re stuck in Omaha\, or in an airport\, or on the toilet\, or perhaps in a toilet on an airplane over Omaha (a trifecta). Buy it\, read it\, commit it to memory\, and you can be on my team on trivia night!” – Bob Odenkirk of Better Call Saul\, Breaking Bad\, and Mr. Show  \n  \n\n  \nBrian Posehn has appeared on Lady Dynamite\, The Big Bang Theory\, New Girl\, The Sarah Silverman Program\, and was a writer and performer on HBO’s Mr. Show. He co-produced Netflix’s With Bob and David and starred in the dark indie comedy Uncle Nick. He hosts and produces the Nerd Pokerpodcast and co-wrote a run of Marvel’s Deadpool. His next project is a comedy metal album titled Offenders of the Fake\, featuring members of Anthrax\, Dethklok\, Slayer\, and Soundgarden. \n  \n\n  \n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of Forever Nerdy\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-brian-posehn-forever-nerdy-living-my-dorky-dreams-and-staying-metal/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Karen Finley
DESCRIPTION:Karen Finley \n\n\n\nOpening statement by Amy Scholder \ncelebrating the release of \nGrabbing Pussy \nBy Karen Finley \npublished by OR Books \nIn a breathless cascade of poetry and prose\, celebrated performance artist Karen Finley here lays bare the psychosexual obsessions that have burst to the surface of today’s American politics. \nBased on her widely praised performance piece Unicorn Gratitude Mystery (“Wickedly funny”—The New York Times)\, Finley explores the Shakespearean dynamics that surface when libidos and loyalties clash in the public and private personas of Donald Trump\, Hillary and Bill Clinton\, Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner\, and latterly Harvey Weinstein. \nStanding in the tradition of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl\, Finley’s words jolt the reader into new insights about the ways the darkly private can drive the public realm in dizzying twists and turns. The aggression of intimacy\, the disparity of gender\, and the vital importance of hair are all encompassed in Finley’s exhilarating canter. \nKaren Finley is a performance artist whose work has long provoked controversy and debate. She has performed at the Lincoln Center (NYC)\, the ICA (London)\, the Steppenwolf (Chicago)\, and the Bobino (Paris). Her art is in the collection of the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles\, among other places. She has received numerous awards\, including a Guggenheim Fellowship\, two Obies\, two Bessies\, and a Ms. magazine Woman of the Year Award. Her previous books include Shock Treatment\, Enough is Enough\, Living It Up\, A Different Kind Of Intimacy\, George and Martha\, and The Reality Shows. Finley is a professor in the department of Art and Public Policy at Tisch School of the Arts\, New York University. \nAmy Scholder has been editing and publishing progressive and literary books for over twenty-five years. Her visionary style has brought high visibility to her authors\, and has been praised for its contribution to contemporary literature and popular culture. She has served as editorial director of the Feminist Press\, editor-in-chief of Seven Stories Press\, US publisher of Verso\, founding co-editor of HIGH RISK Books/Serpent’s Tail\, and editor at City Lights Books. Over the years\, she has published the work of Sapphire\, Karen Finley\, June Jordan\, Kate Bornstein\, Kathy Acker\, David Wojnarowicz\, Dorothy Allison\, Mary Gaitskill\, Joni Mitchell\, Kate Millett\, Elfriede Jelinek\, Muriel Rukeyser\, Laurie Weeks\, Justin Vivian Bond\, Virginie Despentes\, Ana Castillo\, and many other award-winning authors. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-finley/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kat Gardiner (Little Wonder) with Sea of Bees and Rose Droll
DESCRIPTION:Born in Oklahoma\, raised in the Pacific Northwest\, and currently based in Detroit\, author Kat Gardiner carries a restlessness through her writing that’s been honed by a lifelong search for roots. Her debut collection of short fiction\, Little Wonder\, fictionalizes the experience of opening and closing a music venue and café with her husband in the small Pacific Northwest town of Anacortes\, Washington in 2008. An adult coming-of-age story told in fragments\, Little Wonder explores the bittersweet love affair that takes place between despair and hope whenever you try with all your heart to do something you believe in\, and fail. \nKat Gardiner reads excerpts from Little Wonder along with acoustic performances by Sea of Bees & Rose Droll.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kat-gardiner-little-wonder-with-sea-of-bees-and-rose-droll/
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:Kat Gardiner\, Sea of Bees and Rose Droll
DESCRIPTION:Kat Gardiner discusses her new book from Father/Daughter Records\, Little Wonder: A Micro-Fictionalized Account of Honest Failure. With musical performances by Sea of Bees and Rose Droll. \n\nAbout Little Wonder \n\nKat Gardiner’s debut collection of microfiction\, Little Wonder\, springs from the year she spent in Anacortes\, Washington. Young and idealistic\, she and her husband moved to town to open a café and music venue in the hopes of finding a home there. \n  \nThe experiment lasted exactly one year. \n  \nIn interconnected fragments\, Little Wonder reads like a series of love notes to a former self. Characters navigate frustration\, loss\, heartbreak\, but they also come into new versions of themselves. Little Wonder sheds light on the idea that joy and pain are often two sides of the same coin — and that being alive in this world can necessitate embracing both. \n  \n“Is it because spring is nature’s rebirth that our emotions get so attached to it? All of the descriptions of the town and the feelings there are so accurate and truthful and achy… I can see the sun sinking down over Anacortes at the end of every page. Little Wonder has the ache of Raymond Carver\, the honesty\, the vulnerability. It’s so melancholic and honest and beautiful.” – Kyle Field (Little Wings) \n  \nAbout Kat Gardiner \n\nBorn in Oklahoma\, raised in the Pacific Northwest\, and currently based in Detroit\, Kat Gardiner carries a restlessness through her writing that’s been honed by a lifelong search for roots. Her debut collection of short fiction\, Little Wonder\, springs from the year Gardiner spent in Anacortes\, Washington\, during her early twenties. Young and idealistic\, she opened a coffee shop and music venue with her husband in the hopes of finding a home in the city’s artistic community. The experiment lasted exactly one year. Gardiner closed the coffee shop and moved away from Anacortes\, ending a stressful and dreamlike chapter in her life. \n\nGardiner studied creative writing at Bennington College in Vermont\, and later took workshops with Tom Spanbauer\, the creator of the technique known as Dangerous Writing\, in Portland\, Oregon. In developing her craft\, she found herself drawn to microfiction\, citing Lydia Davis as a touchstone. “There’s something powerful in succinct details\,” Gardiner says. Writing in short\, interconnected fragments enabled her to revisit the year spent in Anacortes with a new sense of perspective. Little Wonder reads like a series of love notes to a former self\, or a collection of Polaroids made golden with age. Gardiner’s characters navigate frustration\, loss\, and heartbreak\, but they also come into new versions of themselves\, a transformation they may not recognize in the moment. Through poignant vignettes furnished generously with detail\, Gardiner looks into what it means to enter the world and realize that the world is not nearly as amenable to change as an optimistic young person might think. “It’s been liberating to make art out of both the painful and the joyous parts of that experience\,” she says. With Little Wonder\, she’s shed light on the idea that joy and pain are often two sides of the same coin — and that being alive in this world can necessitate embracing both. \n  \nAbout Sea of Bees \n\nSea of Bees is the musical project of Julie Ann Bee\, or Jules as everyone calls her. She sings\, writes the songs\, and plays lots of musical instruments. \n\n“If I had to sum her up in a sentence\, she’s sort of a female Sparklehorse. Her music is rooted very much in folk and rock but wildly experimental; some crazy\, beautiful\, wonderful sounds on her new album “Songs for the Ravens.” On my top 10 for the year.” -Robin Hilton\, NPR radio host \n\n“An unrelenting sense of wide-eyed beauty. The album ends up sounding like some sort of collision between Elliot Smith and The Mamas and the Papas. A talent for elegant\, cathartic songwriting. Build a Boat to the Sun is completely endearing.” The 405 \n\n“I’m not entirely sure why I love this album so much… …That which I cannot put my finger on\, is the mysterious\, wonderful\, and addictive qualities of this album as a whole. Bravo to Jules and her Sea of Bees.” -Jason Lytle (Grandaddy) \n\nAbout Rose Droll \n\nI’m a songwriter based in San Francisco. I’ve been playing piano since I was 7\, and now I play a few other instruments as well. I write and record solo\, and occasionally have a few friends sing on my songs. My music has been called haunting by a few different people\, so maybe that’s accurate. My favorite color is pink and my favorite animal is the cat.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kat-gardiner-sea-of-bees-and-rose-droll/
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:Kim Stanley Robinson
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in celebrating the publication of Red Moon. Red Moon is a magnificent novel of space exploration and political revolution from New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-stanley-robinson/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Celebrating the life and work of Lucia Berlin
DESCRIPTION:with David Berlin\, Lydia Kiesling\, Rachel Khong\, Jim Nisbet\, and Robin Sloan \ncelebrating the release of two new books: \nWelcome Home: A Memoir with Selected Photographs and Letters \nand \nEvening in Paradise: More Stories \nboth published by Farrar\, Straus and Giroux \nabout Welcome Home: \n\n\n\nA compilation of sketches\, photographs\, and letters\, Welcome Home is an essential nonfiction companion to the stories by Lucia Berlin \nBefore Lucia Berlin died\, she was working on a book of previously unpublished autobiographical sketches called Welcome Home. The work consisted of more than twenty chapters that started in 1936 in Alaska and ended (prematurely) in 1966 in southern Mexico. In our publication of Welcome Home\, her son Jeff Berlin is filling in the gaps with photos and letters from her eventful\, romantic\, and tragic life. \nFrom Alaska to Argentina\, Kentucky to Mexico\, New York City to Chile\, Berlin’s world was wide. And the writing here is\, as we’ve come to expect\, dazzling. She describes the places she lived and the people she knew with all the style and wit and heart and humor that readers fell in love with in her stories. Combined with letters from and photos of friends and lovers\, Welcome Home is an essential nonfiction companion to A Manual for Cleaning Women and Evening in Paradise. \nabout Evening in Paradise: \n\n\n\nA collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin \nIn 2015\, FSG published A Manual for Cleaning Women\, a posthumous story collection by a relatively unknown writer\, to wild\, widespread acclaim. It was a New York Times bestseller; the paper’s Book Review named it one of the Ten Best Books of 2015; and NPR\, Time\, Entertainment Weekly\, The Guardian\, The Washington Post\, the Chicago Tribune\, and other outlets gave the book rave reviews. \nEvening in Paradise is a careful selection from the remaining Berlin stories—a jewel box follow-up for Lucia Berlin’s hungry fans. \nLucia Berlin (1936–2004) worked brilliantly but sporadically throughout the 1960s\, 1970s\, and 1980s. Her stories are inspired by her early childhood in various Western mining towns; her glamorous teenage years in Santiago\, Chile; three failed marriages; a lifelong problem with alcoholism; her years spent in Berkeley\, New Mexico\, and Mexico City; and the various jobs she held to support her writing and her four sons. Sober and writing steadily by the 1990s\, she took a visiting writer’s post at the University of Colorado in Boulder in 1994 and was soon promoted to associate professor. In 2001\, in failing health\, she moved to Southern California to be near her sons. She died in 2004 in Marina del Rey. \nvisit: http://luciaberlin.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/celebrating-the-life-and-work-of-lucia-berlin/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime will be at Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster Street\, Oakland\, Thursday November 15th\, 7-9pm. \ndetails TBA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Daniel Levin Becker on the Oulipo
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Levin Becker on the Oulipo \n\n\n\ncelebrating the release of \nAll That is Evident is Suspect \nedited by Ian Monk and Daniel Levin Becker \npublished by McSweeney’s \n\n\n\nSince its inception in Paris in 1960\, the OuLiPo—ouvroir de littérature potentielle\, or workshop for potential literature—has continually expanded our sense of what writing can do. It’s produced\, among many other marvels\, a detective novel without the letter e (and a sequel of sorts without a\, i\, o\, u\, or y); an epic poem structured by the Parisian métro system; a story in the form of a tarot reading; a poetry book in the form of a game of go; and a suite of sonnets that would take almost 200 million years to read completely. \nLovers of literature are likely familiar with the novels of the best-known Oulipians—Italo Calvino\, Georges Perec\, Harry Mathews\, Raymond Queneau—and perhaps even the small number of texts available in English on the group\, including Warren Motte’s Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature and Daniel Levin Becker’s Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature. But the actual work of the group in its full\, radiant collectivity has never before been showcased in English. (“The State of Constraint\,” a dossier in issue 22 of McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern\, comes closest.) \nEnter All That is Evident is Suspect: the first collection in English to offer a life-size picture of the group in its historical and contemporary incarnations\, and the first in any language to represent all of its members (numbering 41 as of April 2018 ). Combining fiction\, poetry\, essays and lectures\, and never-published internal correspondence—along with the acrobatically constrained writing and complexly structured narratives that have become synonymous with oulipian practice—this volume shows a unique group of thinkers and artists at work and at play\, meditating on and subverting the facts of life\, love\, and the group itself. It’s an unprecedentedly intimate and comprehensive glimpse at the breadth and diversity of one of world literature’s most vital\, adventurous presences. \nTopics to be discussed: Sharks as poets and vice versa\, the Brisbane pitch drop experiment\, novel classifications for real or imaginary libraries\, the monumental sadness of difficult loves\, the obsolescence of the novel\, the symbolic significance of the cup-and-ball game\, holiday closures across the Francophone world\, what happens at Fahrenheit 452\, Warren G. Harding’s dark night of the soul\, Marcel Duchamp’s imperviousness to conventional spacetime laws\, bilingual palindromes\, cartoon eodermdromes\, oscillating poems\, métro poems\, metric poems\, literary madness\, straw cultivation. \nDaniel Levin Becker is reviews editor for the Believer and has been a member of the Oulipo since 2009. He is the author of Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature published by Harvard University Press. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-levin-becker-on-the-oulipo/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:INVASIONS: Calvin Gimpelevich
DESCRIPTION:Author Calvin Gimpelevich is touring the West Coast in support of INVASIONS: the debut short fiction collection\, just out from Instar Books! Come out to Wolfman Books at 7 p.m. on Thursday\, November 15\, for an evening of rad new trans fiction by Calvin\, as well as work from other local LGBT writers! \nMore on Invasions: http://www.instarbooks.com/books/invasions.html \n“Invasions blew my mind. Flipping between speculative worlds deeply rooted in realness and emotion and more familiar landscapes that tip on the edges of personal apocalypses\, Gimpelevich’s writing is strong and sure\, taking us places we really haven’t been. I’m hooked.”–Michelle Tea \nAbout Calvin: Calvin Gimpelevich was born in San Francisco and has lived around the West Coast. A recipient of awards from Artist Trust\, Jack Straw Cultural Center\, the Speculative Literature Foundation\, 4Culture\, CODEX/Writer’s Block\, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center\, his work has appeared in Electric Literature\, Plentitude\, cream city\, THEM\, and other publications. He has cats. \nLocal featured readers TBA!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/invasions-calvin-gimpelevich/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Gina Arnold / Half A Million Strong: Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Gina Arnold for the launch of her new book\, Half a Million Strong: Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella. Please join us! \n  \n  \nFrom baby boomers to millennials\, attending a big music festival has basically become a cultural rite of passage in America. In Half a Million Strong\, music writer and scholar Gina Arnold explores the history of large music festivals in America and examines their impact on American culture. Studying literature\, films\, journalism\, and other archival detritus of the countercultural era\, Arnold looks closely at a number of large and well-known festivals\, including the Newport Folk Festival\, Woodstock\, Altamont\, Wattstax\, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival\, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass\, and others to map their cultural significance in the American experience. She finds that–far from being the utopian and communal spaces of spiritual regeneration that they claim for themselves– these large music festivals serve mostly to display the free market to consumers in its very best light. \n  \n\n  \n“At a moment when music festivals proliferate as both music and marketing phenomena\, Gina Arnold deftly explores their fascinating history in this compulsively readable book. Arnold\, as always\, writes conversationally\, as if she’s actively thinking on the page—generating fresh ideas as they occur to her and following them in previously unexplored directions. That excites the reader’s own thinking—and makes this book inspiring and a great\, welcome pleasure.” –Anthony DeCurtis\, author\, Lou Reed: A Life  \n  \n“Half a Million Strong tracks the rapid rise of the festivalization of music\, and outlines what it means to truly love and live through music and to be in community with other people who do too. With this book\, Arnold offers a very necessary examination of just how we got here\, as well as a rich\, accessible history that is mandatory reading for anyone who has ever spent a day in a muddy field screaming along with their favorite band.” – Jessica Hopper\, author\, The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic  \n  \n“From audience reactions to Dylan going electric at Newport in 1965 to Wattstax in Los Angeles in 1972 to the lost U.S. Festival in the 1980s and beyond\, Gina Arnold’s wonderful individual take on what being at a rock festival means offers new insights by focusing not on the stage\, but on us\, the festival-going crowd.” – George McKay\, University of East Anglia \n  \n“A much-needed\, well-observed reevaluation of rock-and-roll audiences from a writer with decades in the trenches. An illuminating\, historically informed conversation-starter for anyone with a stake in a live music community.” – Jesse Jarnow\, author\, Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-gina-arnold-half-a-million-strong-crowds-and-power-from-woodstock-to-coachella/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: ‘VEXATION\, AMPLITUDE’ BY TOM STOLMAR
DESCRIPTION:FRI. NOV. 16TH\, 7PM \n  \nJoin Tom Stolmar and friends in celebrating the release of his new poetry collection\, Vexation\, Amplitude. \nLong overdue\, this collection of Tom Stolmar’s poems bottles his impulse-driven barely containable talent for stringing words together that convey unexpected emotional truths laced with comedy of the highest and lowest orders. In some poems\, Stolmar appears to have channeled Wallace Stevens by way of a mad Hungarian street performer on the San Francisco waterfront. His antics attract a crowd. Stick around and he will bring you gales of much-needed laughter and just before the rain starts\, move you to tears. \nklipschutz\n\nTom Stolmar’s Vexation\, Amplitude is one of the more aptly named poetry collections that I’ve read this year because\, again and again\, it describes perplexing human oscillations at apex. The work is that of a writer puzzling his way through transitions – of language\, of art\, of meanings\, of eras\, of aging\, of bonds and breaking bonds. The poems flip tones\, and topics\, and approaches\, and directions\, but Stolmar remains on edge\, or on the edge\, throughout. This is a book from the edge\, a familiar human edge of passion and self-doubt and plunging forward. The pieces vacillate from complex examinations of mind and self\, “We draw inspiration/ from those who truly look/ at such a cost; time being infinite/ and your eyes the gesture of a clock…” to pure joyous wordplay. This is the work of a fella who’s been dedicated to writing for decades and it shows\, and who has been known to do backflips in the middle of a reading\, and that shows too. \nrichard loranger
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-vexation-amplitude-by-tom-stolmar/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Peter LaBerge & Rebecca Foust Falkirk Center
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Foust\, the Marin County Poet Laureate\, is the author of four books of poetry: Paradise Drive (2015)\, which won a Poetry Society of Virginia Book Award\, a National Indie Excellence Award for Poetry\, a San Francisco Book Festival Award for Poetry\, and a Royal Dragonfly Award for Poetry; All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song (2010)\, winner of a Many Mountains Moving Press Book Prize; and God\, Seed: Poetry & Art About the Natural World (2010)\, a collaboration with artist Lorna Stevens that won a Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Award for Poetry. Foust’s chapbooks include Mom’s Canoe (2009) and Dark Card (2008). Foust has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Frost Place\, where she was the 2014 Dartmouth poet-in-residence. She is on the board of the Marin Poetry Center\, a reader for the Northern California Book Award\, and assistant editor of fiction for Narrative magazine. She is an autism activist and a grassroots organizer. \nPeter LaBerge is the author of the chapbooks Makeshift Cathedral (YesYes Books\, 2017) and Hook (Sibling Rivalry Press\, 2015). His recent work appears in Best New Poets\, Crazyhorse\, Harvard Review\, Iowa Review\, Pleiades\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Adroit Journal\, and is the recipient of a fellowship from the Bucknell University Stadler Center for Poetry. He lives in Redwood City\, California\, where he works as a content marketer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-laberge-rebecca-foust-falkirk-center/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Kristen Tracy with Daniel Handler / Half-Hazard
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Kristen Tracy for her first book of poems\,Half-Hazard\, winner of the Emily Dickinson First Book Award from the Poetry Foundation. Joining Kristen in conversation isDaniel Handler. Please join us! \n  \nHalf-Hazard is a book of near misses\, would-be tragedies\, and luck. As Kristen Tracy writes in the title poem\, “Dangers here. Perils there. It’ll go how it goes.” The collection follows Tracy’s wide curiosity\, from her growing up in a small Mormon farming community to her exodus out into the forbidden world\, where she finds snakes\, car accidents\, adulterers\, meteors\, and death-marked mice. These wry\, observant narratives are accompanied by a ringing lyricism and Tracy’s own knack at noticing what’s so funny about trouble and her natural impulse to want to put all the broken things back together. Full of wrong turns\, false loves\, quashed beliefs\, and a menagerie of animals\, Half-Hazardintroduces a vibrant new voice in American poetry\, one of resilience\, faith\, and joy. \n  \n\n  \nKristen Tracy is a poet and acclaimed author of more than a dozen novels for young readers. Her poems have been published in Poetry\, Prairie Schooner\, and the Threepenny Review\, among other magazines. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son. \n  \n  \nDaniel Handler is the author of the novels We Are Pirates\, The Basic Eight\,Watch Your Mouth\, Adverbs\, and Why We Broke Up\, a 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book. He is responsible for many books for children\, including the thirteen-volume sequence A Series of Unfortunate Events and the four-book series All the Wrong Questions. He is married to the illustrator Lisa Brown\, and lives with her and their son in San Francisco. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event\, with mature themes. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of Half-Hazard\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-kristen-tracy-with-daniel-handler-half-hazard/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Chaya Bhuvaneswar / White Dancing Elephants
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon with Chaya Bhuvaneswar for her debut story collection\, White Dancing Elephants\, winner of both the Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize and Narrative Magazine’s Top Five Stories of the Week for 2017. Please join us! \n  \nA woman grieves a miscarriage\, haunted by the Buddha’s birth. An artist with schizophrenia tries to survive hatred and indifference in small-town India by turning to the beauty of sculpture and dance. Orphans in India get pulled into a strange “rescue” mission aimed at stripping their mysterious powers. A brief but intense affair between two women culminates in regret and betrayal. A boy seeks memories of his sister in the legend of a woman who weds death. And fragments of history\, from child brickmakers to slaves in Renaissance Portugal\, are held up in brief fictions\, burnished\, made dazzling and unforgettable. \nIn sixteen remarkable stories\, Chaya Bhuvaneswar spotlights diverse women of color–cunning\, bold\, and resolute–facing sexual harassment and racial violence\, and occasionally inflicting that violence on each other. Winner of the 2017 Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize\, White Dancing Elephants marks the emergence of a new and original voice in fiction and explores feminist\, queer\, religious\, and immigrant stories with precision\, drama\, and compassion. \n  \n\n  \n“A magnificent collection of stories that defy conventions\, stereotypes\, and reveal the universal complexity we all share as humans–gifted and flawed individuals\, who struggle to reconcile the mixed signals of our own hearts.” – Jamie Ford\, New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet \n  \n“Reading Chaya Bhuvaneswar is like receiving Lasik via literature–the world you return to is a little clearer and sharper for the time you’ve spent in her pages. She is a formidable talent\, formally accomplished and intellectually alive.” – Anthony Marra\, Whiting-award winning author of The Constellation of Vital Phenomena \n  \n“A bold\, honest\, often provocative first collection from a fresh new voice.” – Jeff VanderMeer\, author of Annihilation \n  \n“Bhuvaneswar’s daring mix of ancient\, contemporary\, and dystopic stories carries us to the heart of rarely exposed longing\, loss\, and the politics of violence and endurance in remarkable\, elegant\, heart-stopping prose.” – Jimin Han\, author of A Small Revolution \n  \n“White Dancing Elephants is a searing and complex collection\, wholly realized\, each piece curled around its own beating heart. Tender and incisive\, Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a surgeon on the page; unflinching in her aim\, unwavering in her gaze\, and absolutely devastating in her prose. This is an astonishing debut.” – Amelia Gray\, author of Isadora \n“Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s debut collection maps with great assurance the intricate outer reaches of the human heart. What a bold\, smart\, exciting new voice\, well worth listening to; what an elegant story collection to read and savor.” – Lauren Groff\, author of Florida\n“White Dancing Elephants is a timely stunner\, a wild collection that touches on everything from motherhood\, race\, and privilege\, to Rachael Ray and Jay Z. This book unsettles as much as it entertains. Bhuvaneswar shows an impressive range and deep emotional intelligence–this is one of those rare books that refuses to look away.” – Kelly Luce\, Electric Lit \n  \n\n  \nChaya Bhuvaneswar is a practicing physician and writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Narrative Magazine\, Tin House\, Electric Lit\, The Rumpus\, The Millions\, Joyland\, Large Hearted Boy\, Chattahoochee Review\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Awl\, jellyfish review\, aaduna and elsewhere\, with poetry in Cutthroat\, sidereal\, Natural Bridge\, apt magazine\, Hobart\, Ithaca Lit\, Quiddity and elsewhere. Her poetry and prose juxtapose Hindu epics\, other myths and histories\, and the survival of sexual harassment and racialized sexual violence by diverse women of color. In addition to the Dzanc Books Short Story Collection prize under which her debut collection White Dancing Elephants will be released on Oct 9 2018\, she recently received a MacDowell Colony Fellowship and a Henfield award for her writing. Her work received several Pushcart Prize anthology nominations this year as well as a Joy Harjo Poetry Contest prize. Follow her on Twitter at @chayab77 including for upcoming readings and events. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The Bindery’s bar opens with the store at 2pm; event starts at 4pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-chaya-bhuvaneswar-white-dancing-elephants/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nick Mamatas & Michael Marshall Smith
DESCRIPTION:Doors open 6:00pm\nEvent begins 6:30pm \nAt the American Bookbinders Museum \n  \nPlease join us for an evening with author Nick Mamatas reading and in conversation with Bay Area writer\, editor\, and raconteur Terry Bisson. \nNick Mamatas is the author of six and a half novels\, including The Last Weekend (PS Publishing)\, Love is the Law (Dark Horse)\, The Damned Highway with Brian Keene (Dark Horse)\, Bullettime (CZP)\, Sensation (PM Press)\, Under My Roof (Counterpoint/Soft Skull)\, and Move Under Ground (Night Shade/Prime). His latest collection is The Nickronomicon\, from Innsmouth Free Press. His novels have been translated into German\, Italian\, and Greek. Nick is also an anthologist and editor of short fiction: with Masumi Washington he co-edited the Locus Award-nominated The Future Is Japanese (Haikasoru)\, and with Ellen Datlow he co-edited the Bram Stoker Award-winning Haunted Legends (Tor Books). Nick’s own short fiction has appeared in genre publications such as Asimov’s Science Fiction and Tor.com\, lit journals including New Haven Review and subTERRAIN\, and anthologies such as Hint Fiction and Best American Mystery Stories 2013. His fiction and editorial work has been nominated for the Bram Stoker award five times\, the Hugo Award twice\, the World Fantasy Award twice\, and the Shirley Jackson\, International Horror Guild\, and Locus Awards. \nDoors and cash bar open at 5:30 – Program begins at 6:30. \n$10 donation at the door (no one is turned away for lack of funds). As always Borderlands Books will be on hand with copies of the authors’ work. \nWe hope to see you here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nick-mamatas-michael-marshall-smith/
LOCATION:The American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:May-Lee Chai and Jamel Brinkley
DESCRIPTION:May-Lee Chai discusses her new story collection Useful Phrases for Immigrants with Jamel Brinkley. \n\nPraise for Useful Phrases For Immigrants \n\n“May-lee Chai’s Useful Phrases for Immigrants holds multitudes\, taking us into a dazzling range of lives. With exquisite prose and unforgettable characters\, the collection is a must-read.”–Vanessa Hua\, A River of Stars\n \nThe eight stories in this collection contain multitudes. Chai interrogates heavy subjects with a light touch. She grants each character with the gift of a gleaming voice\, rendering them to be shaped by circumstances\, while also transcending them. Useful Phrases for Immigrants is more than merely “useful\,” this is essential reading and I’m honored to choose this book for the Bakwin Award.–Tayari Jones\, author of An American Marriage\, Silver Sparrow\, The Untelling\, and Leaving Atlanta\, judge of the 2017 Bakwin Award for Writing by a Woman.\n \n“With insight\, compassion\, and clarity\, May-lee Chai vividly illustrates the reverberations of migration―both physical and psychological; between countries\, cities\, and generations; and within families and individuals. You won’t forget these characters.”–Lisa Ko\, author of The Leavers\, finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction\n \n“May-lee Chai presents us with a splendid gem of a story collection . . . Complementing the vivid characters\, the reader has the gift of language―’a wind so treacherous it had its own name\,’ ‘summer days stretched taffy slow’….Chai’s work is a grand event.” –Edward P. Jones\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World\, All Aunt Hagar’s Children\, and Lost in the City. \n  \nAbout Useful Phrases For Immigrants \n\nIn the title story of this timely and innovative collection\, a young woman wearing a Prada coat attempts to redeem a coupon for plastic storage bins while her in-laws are at home watching the Chinese news and taking her private phone calls. It is the lively and wise juxtaposition of cultures\, generations\, and emotions that characterize May-lee Chai’s amazing stories. Within them\, readers will find a complex blend of cultures spanning China\, the Chinese diaspora in America\, and finally\, the world at large. \n  \nWith luminous prose and sharp-eyed observations\, Chai reveals her characters’ hopes and fears\, and our own: a grieving historian seeking solace from an old lover in Beijing\, a young girl discovering her immigrant mother’s infidelity\, workers constructing a shopping mall in central China who make a shocking discovery. Families struggle with long-held grudges\, reinvent traditions\, and make mysterious visits to shadowy strangers from their past―all rendered with economy and beauty. \n  \nWith hearts that break and sometimes mend\, with families who fight and sometimes forgive\, the timely stories in Useful Phrases for Immigrants illuminate complicated lives with empathy and passion. Chai’s stories are essential reading for an increasingly globalized world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/may-lee-chai-and-jamel-brinkley/
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:The Racket #24: AFTER LIFE w/ Nona Caspers
DESCRIPTION:We’re celebrating our two year anniversary with cake\, beer\, champagne and the absolutely amazing Nona Caspers reading from her debut novel The Fifth Woman. \nNona’s picked 5 readers – some new to The Racket\, some old hands – that we are very excited to welcome. \nThe Readers: \nChance Kroll\nChad Koch\nCarson Beker\nJuliana Delgado Lopera\nJane McDermott \nAlso\, it’s our two year anniversary so … cake and champagne? \nSee you there.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-24-after-life-w-nona-caspers/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bill Berkson Tribute
DESCRIPTION:Bill Berkson Tribute \n\n\n\nwith appearances by \nConstance Lewallen \nChou Chou \nGordon Knos \nJonathan Lewallen \nSiobhan Mora-Lopez \nAmanda Eicher \nMac McGinnes \ncelebrating the release of \nSince When: A Memoir In Pieces \nBy Bill Berkson \npublished by Coffee House Press \nFrank O’Hara\, Marilyn Monroe\, John Cage\, Allen Ginsberg—champagne-soaked postwar Manhattan and bohemian 1960s San Francisco come alive in Berkson’s memoirs. \nBill Berkson was a poet\, art critic\, bon vivant\, and joyful participant in the best of postwar and bohemian American culture. Since When gathers the ephemera of a life well lived\, a collage of bold-face names\, parties\, exhibitions\, and literary history from a man who could write “of [Truman Capote’s Black and White] ball\, which I attended as my mother’s escort\, I have little recollection” and reminisce about imagining himself as a character from Tolstoy while tripping on acid at Woodstock. Gentle\, witty\, and eternally generous\, this is Bill Berkson\, and a particular moment in American history\, at its best. \nBill Berkson was a poet\, critic\, teacher\, and curator. He collaborated with many artists and writers\, including Alex Katz\, Philip Guston\, and Frank O’Hara\, and his criticism appeared in ARTnews\, Art in America\, and elsewhere. Formerly a professor of liberal arts at the San Francisco Art Institute\, he was born in New York in 1939. He died in June 2016. \nCritical praise for Since When: \n“Imagine an ideal friend\, someone of good character\, honorable\, congenial\, smart\, well-read\, judicious\, articulate\, self-aware\, open-minded\, and socially graceful\, a gifted writer at the center of New York’s and the Bay Area’s artistic communities for sixty years. That ideal friend is Bill Berkson\, and in this marvelous book he tells the true and fascinating story of his life and times.” —Ron Padgett \n“Since When captures the throbbing zeitgeist of a NYC/California experimental poetry/art rhizome and brims with dazzling encounters and glamorous portraiture of some of the best\, most talented minds\, including the author’s own parents and their coterie. Enthralling conversation\, quotation\, and astute commentary: Judy Garland! Ezra Pound! Greta Garbo! Frank O’Hara! Joan Mitchell! Amiri Baraka! Poet and art critic Bill Berkson spanned high and low: uptown/downtown zones of radical art mind. The Bohemian\, dandyish\, psychedelic\, and the troubling hegemonic follies of a USA growing old because it ‘entered the twentieth century first’ (G. Stein) all romp in here. Bill had a shining boyish inquisitiveness\, phenomenal memory\, and a panoramic intelligence. Read this and eat your heart out for the belletristic\, wild\, and intimate days of the New York School. Entertaining—you feel you are in a very glamorous movie—but never shallow\, this is serious history\, required reading.” —Anne Waldman \n“It’s tough to write a blurb about one of the most effortlessly cool and genuinely wise people you’ve ever met\, especially when they already said it best with their high school yearbook quote: ‘Plato or comic books\, I’m versatile.’ That was Bill\, all the way. As his student\, the main theme was\, ‘Be kind\, be clear\, and a little humor goes a long way\,’ a message that impacted our class deeply and continues to do so to this very day. This memoir is a celebration of his life and friends as told by Bill Himself\, in that gentle and knowing voice\, tales of getting karate chopped at by Norman Mailer\, drinking with Joan Mitchell\, long nights with Frank O’Hara\, Elaine de Kooning\, and Amiri Baraka\, to name a few. Essential reading for any and all!” —Devendra Banhart \n“Bill was a still point in a turning world. He made grace and kindness\, careful intelligence and everyday happiness\, seem properties of a social commons—where you found yourself\, when around him\, and missed\, when not. This beautiful book immortalizes that spell.” —Peter Schjeldahl \nAbout the San Francisco Art Institute: \nSince 1871\, SFAI has attracted individuals who push beyond boundaries to discover uncharted artistic terrain. With an ever-expanding roster of esteemed faculty and alumni\, robust exhibitions and public programs\, and a mission dedicated to the intrinsic value of art\, SFAI is poised to expand upon the West Coast legacy of radical innovation that grounds SFAI’s philosophy for another century.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bill-berkson-tribute/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jeffrey Yang
DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Yang \n\n\n\nreading from new poetry and a new book: \nHey Marfa: poems \npublished by Graywolf Press \nSituated in the outreaches of southwest Texas\, the town of Marfa has long been an oasis for artists\, immigrants looking for work\, and ranchers\, while the ghosts of the indigenous and the borders between languages and nations are apparent everywhere. The poet and translator Jeffrey Yang experienced the vastness of desert\, township\, sky\, and time itself as a profound clash of dislocation and familiarity. What does it mean to survive in a physical and metaphorical desert? How does a habitat long associated with wilderness and death become a center for nourishment and art? \nYang has fashioned a fascinating\, multifaceted work—an anti-travel guide\, an anti-western\, a book of last words—that is a lyrical\, anthropological investigation into history\, culture\, and extremity of place. Paintings and drawings of Marfa’s landscapes and substations by the artist Rackstraw Downes intertwine with Yang’s texts as mutual nodes and lines of energy. Hey\, Marfa is a desert diary scaled to music that aspires to emit particles of light. \n\n\nJeffrey Yang is the author of Hey\, Marfa; Vanishing-Line; and An Aquarium\, winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award. He is the translator of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Liu Xiaobo’s June Fourth Elegies. Yang lives in Beacon\, New York. \n\n\n\nGraywolf Press is a leading independent publisher committed to the discovery and energetic publication of contemporary American and international literature. We champion outstanding writers at all stages of their careers to ensure that diverse voices can be heard in a crowded marketplace. Graywolf believes books that nourish the individual spirit and enrich the broader culture must be supported by attentive editing\, superior design\, and creative promotion.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeffrey-yang/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kevin Killian
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Killian \ncelebrating the release of \nFascination: Memoirs \nfrom Semiotexte \n\nA memoir of gay life in 1970s Long Island by one of the leading proponents of the New Narrative movement. \nFascination brings together an early memoir\, Bedrooms Have Windows (1989) and a previously unpublished prose work\, Bachelors Get Lonely\, by the poet and novelist Kevin Killian\, one of the founding members of the New Narrative movement. The two together depict the author’s early years struggling to become a writer in the sexed-up\, boozy\, drug-ridden world of Long Island’s North Shore in the 1970s. Fascination offers a moving and often funny view of the loneliness and desire that defined gay life of that era—a time in which Richard Nixon’s resignation intersected with David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs—from one of the leading voices in experimental gay writing of the past thirty years. “Move along the velvet rope\,” Killian writes in Bedrooms Have Windows\, “run your shaky fingers past the lacquered Keith Haring graffito: ‘You did not live in our time! Be Sorry!'” \nKevin Killian\, a founder and former director of Small Press Traffic\, is a San Francisco-based poet\, novelist\, playwright\, and art writer. His recent books include the poetry collections Tony Greene Era and Tweaky Village. He is the coauthor of Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance. With Dodie Bellamy\, he coedited Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative Writing\, 1977–1997. City Lights published his short story collection Impossible Princess.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kevin-killian/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: Sketchtasy
DESCRIPTION:Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore presents Sketchtasy. Sketchtasy brings 1990s gay culture startlingly back to life\, as Alexa and her friends grapple with the impact of growing up at a time when desire and death are intertwined. With an intoxicating voice and unruly cadence\, this is a shattering\, incandescent novel that conjures the pain and pageantry of struggling to imagine a future. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers \n\n5433 College Avenue\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mattilda-bernstein-sycamore-sketchtasy/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Eric Karpeles on Józef Czapski
DESCRIPTION:Eric Karpeles on Józef Czapski \n\n\n\nin conversation with Cynthia Haven \ncelebrating the release of three new books \nfrom New York Review Books: \nInhuman Land: A Wartime Journey through the USSR \nby Józef Czapski\, translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones\, with an introduction by Timothy Snyder \nAlmost Nothing: The 20th Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski \nby Eric Karpeles \nand \nLost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp \nby Józef Czapski\, introduction and translated from French by Eric Karpeles \nJózef Czapski (1896–1993) was a writer and artist\, as well as an officer in the Polish army. In 1918\, he enrolled in the Warsaw School of Fine Arts\, but shortly thereafter he suspended his studies in order to travel to Russia at the request of military authorities to search for officers in his division who had disappeared in action. At the end of the Russian Civil War\, he went back to his studies\, this time at Kraków’s Academy of Fine Arts\, and soon relocated to Paris with some fellow students\, thus founding the Komitet Paryski (Paris Committee)\, later known as the Kapist movement. Czapski was drafted into the army at the beginning of World War II\, soon after landing in a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp. Once free\, he was assigned to investigate another disappearance of officers\, who he would discover were victims of the Katyn Massacre\, the subject of Inhuman Land. Czapski spent the rest of his years painting and writing. \nEric Karpeles is a painter\, writer\, and translator. His comprehensive guide\, Paintings in Proust\, considers the intersection of literary and visual aesthetics in the work of the great French novelist. He has written about the paintings of the poet Elizabeth Bishop and about the end of life as seen through the works of Emily Dickinson\, Gustav Mahler\, and Mark Rothko. The painter of The Sanctuary and of the Mary and Laurance Rockefeller Chapel\, he is the also the translator of Józef Czapski’s Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp and Lorenza Foschini’s Proust’s Overcoat. He lives in Northern California. \nCynthia Haven is a 2018 National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar. She writes regularly for The Times Literary Supplement\, and has also contributed to The New York Times Book Review\, The Nation\, The Virginia Quarterly Review\, The Washington Post\, The Los Angeles Times\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, and World Literature Today. Her work has also appeared in Le Monde\, La Repubblica\, Die Welt\, Zvezda\, Colta\, Zeszyty Literackie\, The Kenyon Review\, Quarterly Conversation\, The Georgia Review\, and Civilization. She has been a Milena Jesenská Journalism Fellow with the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna\, as well as a visiting writer and scholar at Stanford’s Division of Literatures\, Languages\, and Cultures and a Voegelin Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. Peter Dale in Conversation with Cynthia Haven was published in London\, 2005. Her Czeslaw Milosz: Conversations was published in 2006; Joseph Brodsky: Conversations in 2003; An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czeslaw Milosz was published in 2011 with Ohio University Press / Swallow Press. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eric-karpeles-on-jozef-czapski/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sarah Stone
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Stone discusses her new novel\, Hungry Ghost Theater. \n\nPraise for Hungry Ghost Theater \n\n“Sarah Stone traces out the quirky\, fateful dramas of one family\, while having the visionary originality to take the longest possible view of human action. I found this an unforgettable book\, astute\, vivid\, and stubbornly ambitious in its scope.” —Joan Silber \n\n“With her laser intelligence and gorgeous prose style\, Sarah Stone has written a thrilling hybrid of a novel about the intricacies of family life and the inevitable handing down from one generation to the next of our deepest passions and pathologies. Set around the world–and in the next one–this book is both marvelously inventive and deeply humane. I loved it.”--Ann Packer. \n\nAbout Hungry Ghost Theater \n\nAn inventive\, funny\, sometimes heart-breaking exploration of the connections between art and hunger\, duty and desire\, and loss and survival. Brother and sister Robert and Julia Zamarin are trying to awaken the world to its peril with their tiny political theater company\, while their sister Eva\, a neuroscientist\, searches for the biological roots of empathy. As Julia attempts to break free of Robert’s influence\, Robert\, as lost without her as she is without him\, takes on dark material and drives away members of their company. Meanwhile\, the whole family contends with the ongoing troubles of Eva’s youngest daughter\, Arielle\, as she struggles with addiction. Finally\, after a family catastrophe\, Julia and Robert reunite to create a new piece in a possibly haunted theater institute. When Arielle shows up after her latest relapse\, they all have to find a new way of living in–and with–a world out of balance. \n  \nThe adventures of the eccentric\, memorable Zamarin family take the reader from San Francisco to Seoul\, from theater spaces to psychiatric hospitals\, from Zanzibar to the Santa Cruz Mountains\, and into and through a series of Sumerian and Tibetan hells. This imaginative\, provocative novel is a contemporary Inferno for fans of Margaret Atwood\, Ruth Ozeki\, and Lydia Millet.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-stone/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Amira Makansi / Literary Libations: What to Drink with What You Read
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Amira Makansi for the launch of her first book\, Literary Libations: What to Drink with What You Read. More information to come\, but please save the date and join us! \n  \nA bubbly\, boozy French 75 with The Great Gatsby. Trappist beer with Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose. Old vine California Zinfandel with The Grapes of Wrath. And don’t you dare open Bram Stoker’s Dracula on a Sunday morning without a Bloody Mary near at hand. Want to know what to pour when your book club meets to discuss the latest literary sensation? Then you need a copy of Literary Libations! \nPresented as a list and organized by genre\, Literary Libations offers pairing recommendations for nearly two hundred works of fiction across many genres. With background information on both the book and the beverage as well as an explanation of why the pairing works this is a fantastic gift for anyone who loves to read or drink. \nReaders will: \n\nLearn more about the world’s most iconic books.\nIncrease their knowledge of wine\, beer\, and spirits.\nIncrease their appreciation for famous authors.\nLearn to craft beautiful modern and classic cocktails.\nAnd gain a fun and unique way to revolutionize their book club.\n\n  \n\n  \nAmira K. Makansi is the author of Literary Libations: What to Drink With What You Read\, an informal guide to pairing great drinks with famous books. After graduating from the University of Chicago with a degree in history\, Amira quickly abandoned her quest to become a lawyer in favor of all things beverage-related. She spent her first few years out of college climbing around in stacks of wine barrels and hoeing weeds out of vineyards in France. She has served cocktails at a Michelin-starred restaurant in Chicago and cleaned hundred-year-old foudres at an Alsatian winery whose first vintage predates the French revolution. She got into writing accidentally\, when her mother had a crazy dream and wanted to turn it into a book. That book became The Sowing\, the first book in the young adult dystopian Seeds series\, which has been optioned for a Hollywood production. Now a full-time writer\, Amira is delighted to spend her days writing\, reading\, drinking\, cooking and exploring the great outdoors of her adopted state of Oregon. \n  \nRSVP appreciated by not required. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amira-makansi-literary-libations-what-to-drink-with-what-you-read/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING
DESCRIPTION:Upcoming First Saturday Readings in 2018:\n\n November 3\, December 1\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)\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 🙂\n\n\nRelated
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bapc-open-poetry-reading-2/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: Janice Lee and Brenda Iijima\, reading from their works
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series\, supported by a generous grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, continues with the second event in our premier program. Prolific essayist\, fiction writer\, and editor Janice Lee\, visiting from Portland\, Oregon\, will be joined by poet\, editor\, and publisher Brenda Iijima\, visiting from Brooklyn\, New York\, each reading from their own works. This event also marks The Poetry Center’s first-time collaboration with local landmark Alley Cat Books\, currently one of the very best bookstores and cultural centers — featuring its remarkable\, community-currated gallery and among the best-selected shelves of books — in the Bay Area. This event is free and open to the public. Please note our afternoon start-time! \nJanice Lee is a Korean-American writer\, artist\, and editor. She is the author of KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Press\, 2010)\, Daughter (Jaded Ibis\, 2011)\, Damnation (Penny-Ante Editions\, 2013)\, Reconsolidation (Penny-Ante Editions\, 2015)\, and The Sky Isn’t Blue (Civil Coping Mechanisms\, 2016). She writes about the filmic long take\, slowness\, interspecies communication\, the apocalypse\, and asks the question\, how do we hold space open while maintaining intimacy? She is Founder & Executive Editor of Entropy\, Co-Publisher at Civil Coping Mechanisms\, Contributing Editor at Fanzine\, and Co-Founder of The Accomplices LLC. She currently lives in Portland\, Oregon where she is an Assistant Professor of Fiction at Portland State University. \nBrenda Iijima’s involvements occur at the intersections and mutations of poetry\, research movement\, animal studies\, ecological sociology and submerged histories. She is the author of seven full-length collections of poetry and numerous chapbooks and artist’s books. Her most recent book\, Remembering Animals was published by Nightboat Books in 2016. She is also the editor of the eco language reader (Nightboat Books and PP@YYL). She is the editor of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs\, located in Brooklyn\, NY. Currently she is working on the collected works of Charley Shively that include his luminous and radical Fag Rag essays\, poems\, ephemera\, photos and letters. She is also researching the phenomena of extinction. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nJanice Lee\nreading and in conversation with Brenda Iijima\nThursday NOV 29\n7:00 pm @ The Poetry Center\nHUM 512\, SFSU\, free and open to the public\nsupported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-824-1761\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and Alley Cat Books
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-janice-lee-and-brenda-iijima-reading-from-their-works/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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