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SUMMARY:Alan Bern w/ Lucinda Weaver
DESCRIPTION:“PACES: dance & poetry fit to the space performance” based on Alan Bern’s greater distance and other poems; Bern reads from the book as he and dancer/choreographer Lucinda Weaver perform a dance/poetry collaboration based on a poem from the book\, “Dialogue\,” a dramatic dialogue between Hildegard of Bingen and St. Francis of Assisi.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-bern-w-lucinda-weaver/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160908T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160908T213000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Night w/ Taylor\, Richardson\, Warren\, + Banias
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to belong to the increasingly slippery present? Come celebrate harvest season with four acclaimed new California poets as they take on technology\, rootedness\, longing\, apocalypse\, and the complex cartographies of desire. \nTess Taylor\, WORK & DAYS \nTess Taylor is the author of The Forage House\, finalist for the Believer Poetry Award\, and Work & Days. Her poems and essays have appeared widely in publications including The New Yorker\, The Academy of American Poets\, and The New York Times. She is currently the on air poetry reviewer for NPRs All Things Considered\, and was most recently visiting professor of English and creative writing at Whittier College. She lives in El Cerrito. \nRachel Richardson\, HUNDRED-YEAR WAVE \nRachel Richardson has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the arts and the Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford. Her poetry collection Hundred-Year Wave juxtaposes the grand quests of Ahab and Melville with the quotidian journeys of contemporary motherhood. The San Francisco Chronicle says of the book that “ancestry\, history and the whaling industry unite in a lived present\, and the poem becomes a visceral experience…. Over and over Hundred-Year Wave locates the tender self in a wide expanse of sea.” \nNoah Warren\, THE DESTROYER IN THE GLASS \nNoah Warren is the author of The Destroyer in the Glass\, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. His poems have appeared in The Southern Review\, The Yale Review\, Poetry\, Agni\, The Missouri Review\, Poetry Daily\, and elsewhere. A Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford\, he lives in Palo Alto. \nAri Banias\, ANYBODY\nAri Banias is the author of Anybody. His poems appear or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review\, Boston Review\, Poetry\, A Public Space\, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics\, and elsewhere. He lives in Berkeley
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-night-w-taylor-richardson-warren-banias/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:John Jodzio w/ Folk\, Madden\, + Vernor
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith presents John Jodzio\, celebrating the release of Knockout with a night of readings from local writers Kate Folk\, Dave Madden\, author of If You Need Me I’ll Be Over There\, and Kara Vernor\, author of Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song. \nKnockout is the unified collection of stories that create flawless portraits of deeply flawed figures on the edge of the American Dream. \nJohn Jodzio‘s work has been featured in This American Life\, McSweeney’s\, and One Story\, among others. He’s the author of three short story collections — Knockout\, Get In If You Want To Live and If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home. He lives in Minneapolis. \nKate Folk’s stories have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Colorado Review\,Puerto del Sol\, Joyland\, and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco. Visit her on Twitter @katefolk. \nDave Madden is the author of If You Need Me I’ll Be Over There and The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy. His shorter work has appeared in Harper’s\, Prairie Schooner\, The Rumpus\, DIAGRAM\, Rappahannock Review\, The Normal School\, Denver Quarterly\, and elsewhere. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco. \nKara Vernor’s fiction has appeared in Wigleaf\, No Tokens\, PANK\, The Los Angeles Review\, and elsewhere. She is an Elizabeth George Foundation Scholar at the Northwest Institute for Literary Arts and was a Best Small Fictions 2015 finalist. Her chapbook\, Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song\, is available from Split Lip Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-jodzio-w-folk-madden-vernor/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160909T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160909T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T180450
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SUMMARY:Anuradha Roy: Sleeping on Jupiter
DESCRIPTION:On a train bound for the seaside town of Jarmuli\, known for its temples\, three elderly women meet a young documentary filmmaker named Nomi\, whose braided hair\, tattoos\, and foreign air set her apart. At a brief stop en route\, the women are unprepared to witness a sudden assault on Nomi that leaves her stranded as the train pulls away. \nLater in Jarmuli\, among pilgrims\, priests\, and ashrams\, the women disembark only to find that Nomi has managed to arrive on her own. What is someone like her\, clearly not a worshipper\, doing in this remote place? Over the next five days\, the women live out their long-planned dream of a holiday together; their temple guide pursues a forbidden love; and Nomi is joined by a photographer to scout locations for a documentary. As their lives overlap and collide\, Nomi’s past comes into focus\, and the serene surface of the town is punctured by violence and abuse as Jarmuli is revealed as a place with a long\, dark history that transforms all who encounter it. A haunting\, vibrant novel\, Sleeping on Jupiter is a brilliantly told story of contemporary India from an internationally acclaimed writer. \nAnuradha Roy is the author of The Folded Earth\, which won the Economist Crossword Prize\, An Atlas of Impossible Longing\, which was named a best book of the year by the Washington Post and the Seattle Times\, and Sleeping on Jupiter\, which won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. She lives in Ranikhet\, India.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anuradha-roy-sleeping-on-jupiter/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160909T213000
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SUMMARY:A collaboration w/ Commune Editions
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, September 9th @ 7:30 pm for\na collaboration with Commune Editions\, featuring David Lau\, Wendy Trevino\, Cheena Marie Lo and Jasper Bernes!\n\nEvent is FREE. \n\nSnacks\, Lagunitas beer and wine will be served.\n\nDavid Lau‘s poetry and essays have appeared widely (in Boston Review\, The American Reader\, Armed Cell\, New Orleans Review\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, and New Left Review). His first book of poetry\,Virgil and the Mountain Cat\, was described by the Believer as “simultaneously creative and destructive … grounded in—or rather\, trapped by—the present.” Commune Editionswill publish his second book this August; Still Dirty finds its bearings in the political struggles after the economic crisis. In 2009\, he was chosen as a Poetry Society of America New American Poet. Lau is also the author of the chapbook Bad Opposites (speCt!\, 2012). With Cal Bedient\, he edits the journal Lana Turner. A graduate of UCLA and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he is a lecturer at UC Santa Cruz\, where he first began teaching in 2005. He has also taught poetry at UC Berkeley and in the MFA program at Saint Mary’s College.\n\nWendy Trevino was born & raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She now lives and works in San Francisco. Her chapbook 128-131 was published by Perfect Lovers Press in 2013. Her chapbook BRAZILIAN IS NOT A RACE was just recently published by Commune Editions\, and Krupskaya Books will publish her chapbookCruel Work later in 2016. Her poems have appeared in various print and online journals\, including Abraham Lincoln\, Armed Cell\, the Capilano Review\, LIES\, Macaroni Necklace\, Mondo Bummer\, ELDERLY and Open House.\n\nCheena Marie Lo is the author of the full length title A Series of Un/Natural/Disasters (Commune Editions\, 2016). They currently coordinate a youth art program at California College of the Arts\, and co-edit the literary journal\, HOLD.\n\nJasper Bernes is author of two books of poetry\,Starsdown (2007) and We Are Nothing and So Can You (2015). He has recently completed a scholarly book\, The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization(Stanford University Press\, forthcoming)\, about the role poetry plays in the postindustrial restructuring of labor. Poems\, essays\, and other writings can be found in Modern Language Quarterly\, Radical Philosophy\, Endnotes\, Lana Turner\, The American Reader\, Critical Inquiry and elsewhere. Together with Juliana Spahr and Joshua Clover\, he edits Commune Editions. He lives in Berkeley with his family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-collaboration-w-commune-editions/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160910T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160910T200000
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon Fall Reading
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday September 10\, Babylon Salon’s Fall Reading features PEN America and VCU Cabell First Novelist Award-winner Ramona Ausubel(Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty); New York Times bestselling novelist J Ryan Stradal (Kitchens of the Great Midwest); poet\, critic & NPR All Things Considered commentator Tess Taylor (Work & Days); artist & memoirist Frances Stroh (Beer Money); short story writer John Jodzio(Knockout). \nOUR NEW LOCATION: The Armory Club [downtown performance space]\, 1799 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, 94103. FREE admission – Cash bar exotica. Doors open at 5:30 PM\, reading at 6:00 PM. More details:www.babylonsalon.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-fall-reading/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160910T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160910T203000
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SUMMARY:Rolling Writers: R-Dub Doubles Three
DESCRIPTION:R–Dub Doubles Three\nWriters will pair up to read each other’s work\,\nSongwriters will cover each other’s songs\n\n\nReaders\nHeather Bourbeau/Maw Shein Win\nRebecca Foust/Terry Lucas\n\nmore to be announced\n\nThis special program is not submissions–based.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rolling-writers-r-dub-doubles-three/
LOCATION:Rolling Out Cafe\, 1722 Taraval St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160910T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160910T210000
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SUMMARY:Ronnie Burk: A Man of Letters
DESCRIPTION:Unrequited Records is thrilled to announce an event in San Francisco for the latest tribute album…Ronnie Burk: A Man of Letters. \nTo celebrate this release there will a Poetry reading and party on September 10 at 7PM at Alley Cat Books in San Francisco. The San Francisco readers include: \nLorna Dee Cervantes\nDiane Di Prima\nInés Hernández-Ávila\nElaine Katzenberger\nMonica Sanchez\nMia Kirsi Stageberg\nTodd Swindell\n\nThe first half of this album contains various rare recordings of Ronnie including radio interviews & call-ins\, specially taped segments for the ACTUP pirate radio show\, as well as a visit to local San Francisco Lowell High School. \nHear Ronnie read Arthur Rimbaud\, his own poetry including a brilliant collage letter to Andrei Codrescu\, on confronting internal homophobia\, the Aquarian love revolution\, the rainbow credit card\, rage as healing & how love is our greatest weapon. \nThe second half features more than two dozen friends & admirers reading Ronnie’s poems or sharing their remembrances & tribute poems. \nAvailable on 12-inch vinyl\, digipak CD or digital download\, each version is unique and contains material that the others do not.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ronnie-burk-a-man-of-letters/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160911T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160911T153000
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SUMMARY:Chana Bloch + Susan Cohen
DESCRIPTION:Susan Cohen’s new book of poems is “A Different Wakeful Animal.” A journalist\, she has taken up poetry seriously over the past decade\, publishing two chapbooks and one book of poems prior to the current book. \nChana Bloch is the author of five books of poems (her latest is “Swimming in the Rain: New and Collected Poems\, 1985-2015”) as well as six books of translation from Hebrew poetry\, ancient and contemporary\, and a critical study of George Herbert. Bloch is Professor Emerita of English Literature and Creative Writing at Mills College\, where she taught for many years and directed the Creative Writing Program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chana-bloch-susan-cohen/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160911T160000
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SUMMARY:Susanne Dyckman + Elizabeth Robinson
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday\, September 11th at 3pm. The featured guest poets will be Susanne Dyckman and Elizabeth Robinson. \nPoetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible. ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.org for more events and reviews! \nSusanne Dyckman’s new book of poems is A Dark Ordinary. George Albon says\, “A Dark Ordinary is concerned with a double struggle\, that of imagining the words of the early twentieth century immigrants denied civil voices\, through the always mute barriers of the photographic record…Dyckman’s poems are courageous attempts to puncture this hard double membrane.” She is also the author of the collection Equilibrium’s Form and three chapbooks\, as well as being the co-editor of Instance Press. \nElizabeth Robinson’s most recent book of poems is On Ghosts. Andrew Joron says\, “On Ghosts returns us to the haunted aura around words. Here\, a crossing of genres—poetry\, prose meditation\, and personal testimony—shows that language itself amounts to a gathering of ghosts. Robinson’s oblique lyricism beckons us toward a twilight zone where we become ‘witness to the unverifiable.’ This is writing as the highest form of bewitching.” Robinson’s previous books include Counterpart\, Blue Heron\, Three Novels: Poems\, House Made of Silver\, Also Know As\, Inaudible Trumpeters\, Under That Silky Roof\, and Apprehend\, winner of the 2003 Fence Modern Poets Prize. She has received grants from the Fund for Poetry\, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts\, and the Boomerang Foundation\, and recently served as the Hugo Fellow at the University of Montana
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susanne-dyckman-elizabeth-robinson/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160912T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160912T200000
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: Two (2) Generations
DESCRIPTION:Authors from two generations present their latest works. Edmund Zagorin reads from “The Face of Our Town\,” the life of a Millennial Techie\, and Daniel Curzon presents “How To Cyberbully Your Teacher\,” based on his own experiences.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-two-2-generations/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Liane Moriarty
DESCRIPTION:The new novel from Liane Moriarty\, the #1 New York Times bestselling author\, about how sometimes we don’t appreciate how extraordinary our ordinary lives are until it’s too late—it’s just a normal weekend. Six responsible adults. Three cute kids. One small dog. What could possibly go wrong? In Truly Madly Guilty\, Liane Moriarty turns her unique\, razor-sharp eye towards three seemingly happy families. Sam and Clementine have a wonderful\, albeit\, busy life; if there’s anything they can count on\, it’s each other. Clementine and Erika are each other’s oldest friends; a single look between them can convey an entire conversation\, but theirs is a complicated relationship. When Erika mentions a last-minute invitation to a barbecue with her neighbors\, Tiffany and Vid\, Clementine and Sam don’t hesitate—being around Tiffany and Vid’s larger than life personalities will be a welcome respite. Two months later\, it won’t stop raining\, and Clementine and Sam can’t stop asking themselves the question: What if we hadn’t gone? In Truly Madly Guilty\, Moriarty takes on the foundations of our lives: marriage\, sex\, parenthood\, and friendship. She shows how guilt can expose the fault lines in the most seemingly strong relationships\, how what we don’t say can be more powerful than what we do\, and how sometimes it is the most innocent of moments that can do the greatest harm. \n“Moriarty’s fans will rejoice at her latest title as she tackles marriage\, parenthood\, friendship\, and sex\, in this provocative and gripping read… This novel sheds light on the truths that we all fear as parents\, spouses\, and friends. It s perfect for those long summer days\, but readers will have to pace themselves to not devour it in one sitting.” —Library Journal (starred review) \n“What a wonderful writer—smart\, wise\, funny.” Anne Lamott \nLiane Moriarty is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Big Little Lies and The Husband’s Secret\, as well as the New York Times bestseller What Alice Forgot and The Hypnotists Love Story. She lives in Sydney\, Australia\, with her husband and two children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/liane-moriarty/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Julia Claiborne Johnson
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Julia Claiborne Johnson to the store to discuss and sign\, Be Frank with Me. \nReclusive literary legend M. M. Mimi Banning has been holed up in her Bel Air mansion for years\, but after falling prey to a Bernie Madoff-style ponzi scheme\, she’s flat broke. Now Mimi must write a new book for the first time in decades\, and to ensure the timely delivery of her manuscript\, her New York publisher sends an assistant to monitor her progress. The prickly Mimi reluctantly complies with a few stipulations: No Ivy-Leaguers or English majors. Must drive\, cook\, tidy. Computer whiz. Good with kids. Quiet\, discreet\, sane.\nWhen Alice Whitley arrives at the Banning mansion\, she’s put to work right away as a full-time companion to Frank\, the writer’s eccentric nine-year-old\, a boy with the wit of Noel Coward\, the wardrobe of a 1930s movie star\, and very little in common with his fellow fourth-graders. As she slowly gets to know Frank\, Alice becomes consumed with finding out who Frank’s father is\, how his gorgeous piano teacher and itinerant male role model Xander fits into the Banning family equation and whether Mimi will ever finish that book.\nFull of heart and countless only-in-Hollywood moments\, Be Frank with Me is a captivating and unconventional story of an unusual mother and son\, and the intrepid young woman who finds herself irresistibly pulled into their unforgettable world. \nJulia Claiborne Johnson worked at Mademoiselle and Glamour magazines before marrying and moving to Los Angeles\, where she lives with her comedy-writer husband and their two children. Be Frank with Me is her fiction debut.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julia-claiborne-johnson/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160913T210000
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SUMMARY:Pan Dulce Poets: Summer Series!
DESCRIPTION:September’s edition of Pan Dulce Poets presents the ecstaic poetry of Kari Riesgo Bañuelos\, Natalie Enright and Naomi Quiñonez. \nOpen Mic sign up starts at 7pm and coffee & canela are free during readings.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pan-dulce-poets-summer-series/
LOCATION:La Reyna Bakery\, 3114 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160913T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160913T213000
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SUMMARY:Mauro Javier Cardenas w/ Oscar Villalon
DESCRIPTION:Mauro Javier Cardenas discusses his debut novel\, The Revolutionaries Try Again\, with Zyzzyva magazine’s Oscar Villalon. \nFeaturing a performance by the Word for Word Theatrical Company! \nPraise for The Revolutionaries Try Again: \n“Exuberant\, cacophonous . . . Cardenas dizzyingly leaps from character to character\, from street protests to swanky soirees\, and from lengthy uninterrupted interior monologues to rapid-fire dialogues and freewheeling satirical radio programs\, resulting in extended passages of brilliance.” —Publishers Weekly\, review *starred* \n“An unhinged novel about three childhood friends contemplating a presidential run against the crooked Ecuadorian president Abdalá “El Loco” Bucaram. This is double-black-diamond high modernism\, so do some warm-up stretches before you crack this baby.” —Shelf Awareness \n“In The Revolutionaries Try Again\, Mauro Javier Cardenas has taken the edifice of arch modernism and suffused it with tender details of a boyhood in Ecuador. The long\, unraveling sentences reveal an extraordinarily musical ear. This is a debut that will last.” —Karan Mahajan \n“Beware of this writer! The book you’re holding bites. If the reader dares enter after this warning\, he’ll never forget it\, and the memory will stay just as sharp as the humor and velocity in the stories themselves. Incisive\, forceful\, and written in an English that’s fiercely subversive\, The Revolutionaries Try Again evokes a pair of great Latin American novels: Bolaño’sThe Savage Detectives and Cortázar’s Hopscotch. But this book goes even further: it’s the novel we’ve been waiting for\, witness to the most recent wave of immigration from Latin America to the US\, told through the eyes of a privileged class that forces their conationals out of their countries. It’s been ten years since a book this alive\, this incandescent\, has fallen into my hands.” —Carmen Boullosa \nAbout The Revolutionaries Try Again: \nThree former members of an idealistic Jesuit volunteer group attempt to transform Ecuador in the lost decade of austerity packages and the populist demagogy of El Loco Bucaram. Antonio\, an expat and artist in San Francisco\, wants to believe he’s left his country’s extreme poverty behind for good\, but his childhood friend Leopoldo\, now a political bureaucrat\, persuades him to return to make a run for office. Meanwhile\, Rolando suspects his girlfriend Eva will leave him if he acts on his violent revolutionary impulses\, so he agrees to stage political plays with her instead. Their relationship is strained by the struggles they’ve hidden from each other: her brother’s disappearance by paramilitary squadrons\, his sister’s misfortunes crossing the border to the United States.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mauro-javier-cardenas-w-oscar-villalon/
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:Alex Dolan Book Launch in San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Please help me launch my new book\, THE EMPRESS OF TEMPERA\, at the Bookshop in West Portal. This will be the only event I’m doing in San Francisco\, and I’d really appreciate the support. I hope you can make it!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alex-dolan-book-launch-in-san-francisco/
LOCATION:Bookshop West Portal\, 80 W Portal Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94127\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160914T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160914T213000
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SUMMARY:MFA Core Faculty Reading
DESCRIPTION:Marilyn Abildskov\, Brenda Hillman\, Wesley Gibson\, Rosemary Graham\, Christopher Sindt\, Lysley Tenorio\, and Matthew Zapruder. Introduction by Brenna McNab. \nA part of the Graduate Student Reading Series.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mfa-core-faculty-reading/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Third Thursday Has a Birthday Party
DESCRIPTION:Please join the American Bookbinders Museum on Thursday\, September 15\, as we celebrate the museum’s first year in our new home. There will be refreshments\, cake\, good conversation\, and perhaps even a few surprises. We hope to see old friends and new\, to honor the people who have brought the museum so far\, and to thank our volunteers\, staff\, donors\, and friends. \nPlease come!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/third-thursday-has-a-birthday-party/
LOCATION:American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Zach Wyner
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Zach Wyner\, to the store to discuss and sign his new novel\, What We Never Had. \nMeet Josh\, a paragon for the modern postcollegiate. He has a job with no upward path and a dysfunctional relationship with his ex. Through his work with teenagers\, he begins to find definition through the haze\, gradually discovering purpose and a measure of self-respect. After two shiftless friends take up residence in his apartment\, using his couch as a podium to rail against the world\, he takes stock of who he is versus who he wants to be\, and when his troubled ex finds herself in real danger\, Josh can’t resist the allure of playing the savior\, but now he may have a little wisdom on his side. \nZach Wyner is a writer and teacher who works with incarcerated youth in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a contributor to Curly Red Stories. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco and lives in Oakland with his wife and stepdaughter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zach-wyner/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160915T203000
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CREATED:20160825T005106Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160825T005106Z
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SUMMARY:Mary Mackey: The Village of Bones
DESCRIPTION:“Mary Mackey’s The Village of Bones gives us the vivid adventures of The Clan of the Cave Bear\, the magic of The Mists of Avalon and Lord of the Rings\, and the beauty of Avatar. Filled with the belief that love drives out fear\, it contains stunning twists that will leave you wanting more.” —Dorothy Hearst\, author of the Wolf Chronicles \nIn 4386 B.C.\, a young priestess named Sabalah conceives a magical child with a mysterious stranger named Arash. Sabalah names the child Marrah. This child will save the Goddess-worshiping people of Europe from nomad invaders called eastmen\, but only if her mother can keep her alive long enough to grow up. Warned in a vision of the coming invasion\, Sabalah flees west with Arash to save her baby daughter\, only to discover that she is running into the arms of her worst enemies. In the dark forests of northern Europe\, other humanlike species left over from the Ice Age still exist. \nMary Mackey is the author of fourteen novels including The Village of Bones: Sabalah’s Tale\,The Year the Horses Came\, The Horses at the Gate\, and The Fires of Spring\, all of which tell the story of Sabalah and Marrah’s struggle to save the Goddess-worshiping cultures of Neolithic Europe from nomad invaders. Her novels have appeared on The New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle bestseller lists\, been translated into twelve languages\, and longlisted for the James Tiptree\, Jr Literary Award. She has also written seven volumes of poetry includingSugar Zone\, winner of the 2012 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence. A screenwriter as well as a novelist and poet\, Mary has sold feature-length scripts to Warner Brothers as well as to independent film companies. She sometimes writes comedy under her pen name Kate Clemens. At present\, she lives in Northern California with her husband Angus Wright. Her literary papers are archived in the Sophia Smith Special Collections Library\, Smith College\, Northampton\, MA. You can learn more about her\, read her blog interview series People Who Make Books Happen\, and sample her work at www.marymackey.com. \n“Grand adventure and a grand reading experience … sexy\, explosive.” —Pat Conroy\, author ofThe Prince of Tides \n“A fascinating evocation of a prehistoric world…” —Marion Zimmer Bradley\, author of The Mists of Avalon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-mackey-the-village-of-bones/
LOCATION:Modern Times Bookstore Collective\, 2919 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160915T213000
DTSTAMP:20260425T180450
CREATED:20160720T005104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160720T005104Z
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SUMMARY:Colson Whitehead
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Colson Whitehead: \n“It’s a book you want to read rather than one you should read…while still providing the chilling\, fleshy pleasures of zombies who lurch\, pursue\, hunger. . . . One of the best books of the year.” — Esquire on Zone One \n\n“The freshest racial allegory since Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.” — Walter Kirn\, Time on The Intuitionist \n\n“[Whitehead] takes on a multitude of issues with a rich and probing imagination. His reputation is likely to soar.” — Ishmael Reed\, The Washington Post Book World on John Henry Days \n\nAbout The Underground Railroad: \nFrom prize-winning\, bestselling author Colson Whitehead\, a magnificent\, wrenching\, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. \n  \nCora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all the slaves\, but Cora is an outcast even among her fellow Africans\, and she is coming into womanhood; even greater pain awaits. Caesar\, a recent arrival from Virginia\, tells her about the Underground Railroad\, and they plot their escape. Matters do not go as planned — Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her — but they manage to find a station and head north. \n  \nIn Whitehead’s ingenious conception\, the Underground Railroad is not a metaphor — a secret network of tracks and tunnels has been built beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar’s first stop is South Carolina\, where both find work in a city that at first seems like a haven. But the city’s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens — and Ridgeway\, the relentless slave-catcher sent to find her\, arrives in town. Forced to flee again\, Cora embarks on a harrowing journey\, state-by-state\, seeking true freedom. \n  \nLike Gulliver\, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey — Whitehead brilliantly recreates the unique terrors for black people in states in the pre-Civil War era. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman’s ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage\, and a shattering\, powerful meditation on the history we all share.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/colson-whitehead/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160915T213000
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SUMMARY:2016 Marin Poetry Center Anthology Launch
DESCRIPTION:Come out and eat cake and hear our anthology contributors read their poems. The public is very welcome to attend this always lively and lovely event!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2016-marin-poetry-center-anthology-launch/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160917T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160917T180000
DTSTAMP:20260425T180450
CREATED:20160825T005910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160825T005910Z
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SUMMARY:George Omi: American Yellow
DESCRIPTION:The day Japan bombed Pearl Harbor\, Minoru Omi’s whole life was turned upside down. \nRacial tensions ran high — his father\, a Japanese immigrant\, is questioned by the FBI\, and eventually his family is uprooted from their lives in San Francisco\, and forcibly relocated to desolate Rohwer\, Arkansas. He and his little sister leave behind their school and friends\, while their immigrant parents give up their hard-won dry cleaning business. Still\, though\, their family resolve persists — and even while facing tough times thousands of miles from the city he was born in\, Minoru manages to get into trouble with snakes\, bullies\, and out-of-bounds candy shops\, just like any other young boy. Interned or not\, he finds a way to thrive. \nFollow the Omi family as they make their way through World War II — from San Francisco to the internment camp in Arkansas and back again in American Yellow. \nGeorge Omi lives in Mill Valley\, California. He has won awards for his writing\, which he only took up after retiring from a successful career as a landscape architect.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/george-omi-american-yellow/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160918T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160918T180000
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CREATED:20160825T010121Z
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SUMMARY:Amor Towles
DESCRIPTION:With his breakout debut novel Rules of Civility\, Amor Towles established himself as a master of absorbing\, sophisticated fiction\, bringing late 1930s Manhattan to life with splendid atmosphere and a flawless command of style. Readers and critics were enchanted; as NPR commented\, “Towles writes with grace and verve about the mores and manners of a society on the cusp of radical change.” \nA Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When\, in 1922\, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal\, the Count is sentenced to house arrest in The Metropol\, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov\, an indomitable man of erudition and wit\, has never worked a day in his life\, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly\, his reduced circumstances provide him a doorway into a much larger world of emotional discovery. \nBrimming with humor\, a glittering cast of characters\, and one beautifully rendered scene after another\, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the Count’s endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose. \nAmor Towles was born and raised just outside Boston\, Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale University and received an MA in English from Stanford University. For many years a principal at an investment firm in Manhattan\, he now devotes himself full time to writing. His first novel\, Rules of Civility\, published in 2011\, was a New York Times bestseller in both hardcover and paperback. Towles lives in Manhattan with his wife and two children. \nMr. Towles is an ardent fan of early 20th century painting\, 1950’s jazz\, 1970’s cop shows\, rock & roll on vinyl\, manifestoes\, breakfast pastries\, pasta\, liquor\, snow-days\, Tuscany\, Provence\, Disneyland\, Hollywood\, the cast of Casablanca\, 007\, Captain Kirk\, Bob Dylan (early\, mid\, and late phases)\, the wee hours\, card games\, cafés\, and the cookies made by both of his grandmothers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amor-towles/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160919T203000
DTSTAMP:20260425T180450
CREATED:20160919T230846Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160919T230846Z
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Barone + CaraVida
DESCRIPTION:Come hear Jennifer Barone & Cara Vida feature their latest poetry and more. Music and cabaret stylings will ensue with Daniel Heffez on sax and Wendy Loomis on piano. Open mic hosted by Jerry Ferraz. Bring your poems to this wonderfully\, warm\, local book store.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-barone-caravida/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160919T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T180450
CREATED:20160720T005626Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Express: James Cagney
DESCRIPTION:Cave Canem fellow James Cagney is a poet and writer from Oakland.  He has appeared as a featured poet and artist in San Francisco\, Vancouver\, Chicago and Mumbai.  His poems have appeared in Print Oriented Bastards\, Tandem\, Eleven Eleven\, and Ambush Review.  His current chapbook is entitled Dirty Thunderstorm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-express-james-cagney/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lee Marrs
DESCRIPTION:Lee Marrs \nAs the first woman to work for DC Comics AND Marvel simultaneously\, LEE MARRS could have been a footnote in a Swedish graphics history book. But a cantankerous mouth and sense of humor led her to the undergrounds\, where she was one of the founding mommies of the Wimmen’s Comix Collective. Lee’s a 1982 Inkpot Award winner and has been reprinted in nine countries. Best known for her Pudge\, Girl Blimp series\, some of her other work includes Batman\, Wonder Woman and Indiana Jones. Her Emmy Award-winning secret identity was that of Prez of Lee Marrs Artwork\, an art/digital animation company\, for such clients as Apple Computer\, IBM\, Electronic Arts\, and MTV. After 14 years\, Lee is retired from Berkeley City College where she was Multimedia Arts Chair\, passing on sneaky\, effective techniques to new generations of animation students.\nThe Further Fattening Adventures of Pudge\, Girl Blimp \nTeenage runaway plumpie Pudge hitchhikes to San Francisco in the early 1970s with a dread secret: she is still a virgin. Desperate to solve her dilemma\, she launches into the vibrant circus of urban life – street protests\, self-help clinics\, burglary\, job hunting and midnight pizzas. Assisted by her guardian Martians and backed by her commune\, she may have found her potential beau\, a clueless police detective. Or maybe the delivery boy? There’s that chakra-spouting political activist with rampant pimples? But what about her fellow consciousness-raising group member Jane\, she with such warm knowledgeable hands…? A feminist journey fraught with angst and anchovies. \n• • • • • • • • • • • • \nFrom the Foreword: \nAt last\, a funny\, funky\, durable complex heroine who is constantly taking a fresh and satirical look at an aspect of life that is sacred to someone. Lee Marrs has given us something that usually comes only in the best novels: a funny\, tragic\, personal\, universal\, fantasized\, minutely realistic view of life that sends us on our way with a much bigger and better understanding of our own lives and the possibilities around us. \n – GLORIA STEINEM\, feminist icon\, co-founder of Ms. Magazine\, co-founder of the Women’s Media Center and former sticky sweet bun addict. \n• • • • • • • • • • • • \nWhen I opened this collection I was prepared for a herstory lesson\, or a trip down memory lane. But instead I encountered a radiant and utterly contemporary character—a disheveled yet sensual young woman\, outwardly confused but inwardly poised\, an instinctive feminist out hustling for a job\, experimenting with drugs\, but mainly just trying to get laid. Step aside\, Lena Dunham\, Amy Schumer\, and Broad City. Pudge\, Girl Blimp paved the way for all of you. \n– ALISON BECHDEL\, author of Fun Home and Dykes To Watch Out For\, recipient of the Eisner Award and the 2014 MacArthur “Genius” Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lee-marrs/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160920T200000
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SUMMARY:Short Nonfiction
DESCRIPTION:Queer essay authors Julia Serano (Whipping Girl)\, Aaron Shurin (The Skin of Meaning)\, and Yuska Lutfi Tuanakotta (Gentlemen Prefer Asians) will read from their essay collections Tuesday\, September 20\, 2016 from 7pm to 8pm at Folio Books\, 3957 24th Street in the Noe Valley neighborhood of San Francisco. A panel discussion on the art of essay writing and author book signings will follow the readings. Free refreshments. No admission charge.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/short-nonfiction/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160920T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T180450
CREATED:20160825T010731Z
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SUMMARY:phren-Z Online Literary Magazine Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join Santa Cruz’s online literary magazine phren-Z who will host local writers as they read their new and recent work. Reading authors will be announced soon. Refreshments will be served! \nphren-Z is a quarterly online literary magazine dedicated to showcasing Santa Cruz writers. phren-Z is a publication of Santa Cruz Writes\, a grass roots organization dedicated to promoting the local literary community. Santa Cruz Writes is a sponsored project of the William James Association\, a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation. Visit www.phren-z.org for more information.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/phren-z-online-literary-magazine-reading-2/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTAMP:20260425T180450
CREATED:20160920T232228Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry into the Beyond
DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Art of Translation welcomes Japanese poet and performance artist Yoshimasu Gozo and poet Forrest Gander to San Francisco for a performance and discussion of Gozo’s work\, including upcoming poetry collection Alice Iris Red Horse (New Directions). Edited by Gander\, Alice Iris Red Horse gathers translations of Gozo’s major works that span his entire career. Also included are illuminating interviews and reproductions of Gozo’s artwork and performances. \nYoshimasu Gozo\, born in Tokyo\, has performed worldwide. His work has been described as “so unorthodox that it defies the print medium and can be delivered only as performance.” He has received many literary and cultural awards\, including the Takami Jun Prize\, the Rekitei Prize\, the Purple Ribbon\, and the 50th Mainichi Art Award for Poetry. \nForrest Gander is the author of numerous books of poetry\, fiction\, translation\, and essays. He has won the Whiting Writers’ Award\, a Howard Foundation Award\, the Jessica Nobel Maxwell Memorial Prize\, two Gertrude Stein Awards for innovative North American writing\, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, and United States Artists. His 2011 collection Core Samples from the World was an NBCC and Pulitzer Prize finalist for poetry. He has taught at Harvard and Brown. \nAlice Iris Red Horse\, edited by Forrest Gander with introduction and notes by Derek Gromadski\, features translations from the Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu\, Hiroaki Sato\, Eric Selland\, Jeffrey Angles\, Richard Arno\, Derek Gromadzki\, Forrest Gander\, Sayuri Okamoto\, Auston Stewart\, and Kyoko Yoshida.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-into-the-beyond/
LOCATION:SF Camerawork\, 1011 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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