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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer-East Bay: Queer Speculative Fiction
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-queer-speculative-fiction/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Arisa White
DESCRIPTION:Arisa White is a Cave Canem fellow and a faculty advisor in the low-residency BFA Creative Writing Program at Goddard College. White’s debut collection\, Hurrah’s Nest\, was a finalist for the 2013 Wheatley Book Awards\, the 82nd California Book Awards\, and nominated for the 44th NAACP Image Award. A Penny Saved\, inspired by the true-life story of Polly Mitchell\, was published in 2012. Forthcoming is the full-length collection You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/arisa-white/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170322T213000
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SUMMARY:Jami Attenberg
DESCRIPTION:I’m alone. I’m a drinker. I’m a former artist. I’m a shrieker in bed. I’m the captain of the sinking ship that is my flesh.\nAndrea Bern is a whip-smart woman in NYC “who is doing what she wants with her life\, right or wrong\, and not apologizing for it… at times she is a wise sage\, and at other times\, a selfish mess. It makes her so achingly human” (Liberty Hardy\, Book Riot). Andrea’s single\, she’s childfree\, she’s successful and yet not entirely devoted to her career. Everyone around her seems to have an entirely different idea of what it means to be an adult: marriage\, babies\, ambition. But what if those things aren’t what you want? What does it actually mean to be a woman and a grown up\, in this day and age?\nAndrea’s brother seems unscathed by their shared tumultuous childhood\, but when he and her sister-in-law have a baby born with a heartbreaking ailment\, Andrea and her family have to confront everything they haven’t wanted to face\, and reexamine what really matters. In a world that still expects women to gravitate toward partnership and motherhood\, Jami Attenberg gives us a pithy and sharp novel of living life on your own terms\, and a character who is witty\, winning\, sexy and complicated. \n“Jami Attenberg’s sharply drawn protagonist\, Andrea\, has such a riveting\, propulsive voice that All Grown Up is hard to put down\, but I urge you to resist reading it in one sitting. Both the prose and the author’s knowing excavation of one woman’s desires\, compromises\, strengths\, and fears deserve closer attention. Like Andrea herself\, this novel is beautiful and brutal\, intelligent and funny\, frank and sexy.” — Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney\, New York Times best-selling author of The Nest
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jami-attenberg/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Radar Productions: March Queer Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Reading followed by artist Q&A\nDid we mention there will be cookies? \nFEATURING…\nMarisa Crawford\nMarisa Crawford is the author of the poetry collections Reversible (2017) and The Haunted House (2010) from Switchback Books\, as well as two chapbooks. Her poems\, essays\, and articles have appeared in publications including Hyperallergic\, BUST\, Bitch\, The Hairpin\, and Fanzine\, and are forthcoming in Electric Gurlesque (Saturnalia Books\, 2017). Marisa is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the feminist literary/pop culture website Weird Sister. She lives in Brooklyn\, NY. \nZulfikar Ali Bhutto\nAs an artist of mixed Pakistani and Lebanese descent and having grown up in Pakistan\, Bhutto sees his body caught in the middle of complex identity politics formed by centuries of colonialism and exacerbated by contemporary international politics. In his work he explores the politics of queerness\, its intersections with Islam and how it exists in a constant liminal and non-aligned space. Bhutto is also interested in issues of state violence and how that violence resonates in our collective memory\, how it forms and shapes communities and by extension how it affects the individual. \nYuska Lutfi Tuanakotta\nYuska Lutfi Tuanakotta graduated from Saint Mary’s College of California with double MFA degrees in Creative Fiction Writing and Creative Nonfiction Writing and was a Lambda Literary Fellow in Nonfiction. His debut nonfiction\, Gentlemen Prefer Asians: Tales of Gay Indonesians and Green Card Marriages was on LitHub’s 2016 list of Books to Read on Pride Month. OUT Magazine puts Gentlemen Prefer Asians on its must-read list and describes it as “Graceful and sensitive\, yet pleasingly acerbic when necessary.” \nYuska lives in Los Angeles and works as a photographer. He recently launched Faglandia.com\, a website dedicated to bringing unabashedly gay news\, entertainment\, and propaganda. \nTrinidad Escobar\nTrinidad Escobar is an artist\, mother\, bruha\, and educator from the Bay Area\, California. Her writing and visual art have been featured in various publications such as Rust & Moth\, The Brooklyn Review\, The Womanist\, Red Wheelbarrow\, Solo Cafe\, Mythium\, Tayo\, the anthologies Walang Hiya\, Over the Line\, Kuwento\, and more. Trinidad has been a guest artist and speaker at the San Jose Museum of Art\, Pilipino Komix Expo\, LitQuake\, and The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco. Her graphic memoir CRUSHED\, published by Rosarium Publishing\, is available on Amazon\, Comixology\, Barnes and Noble. Trinidad teaches Comics & Race at California College of the Arts in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radar-productions-march-queer-reading-series/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Michael Finkel
DESCRIPTION:For readers of Jon Krakauer and The Lost City of Z\, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit is a remarkable tale of survival and solitude—the true story of a man who lived alone in a tent in the Maine woods\, never talking to another person and surviving by stealing supplies from nearby cabins for twenty-seven years. \nIn 1986\, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts\, drove to Maine\, and disappeared into the woods. He would not have a conversation with another human being until nearly three decades later when he was arrested for stealing food. Living in a tent even in winter\, he had survived by his wits and courage\, developing ingenious ways to store food and water\, to avoid freezing to death. He broke into nearby cottages for food\, clothes\, reading material\, and other provisions\, taking only what he needed\, but terrifying a community never able to solve the mysterious burglaries. Based on extensive interviews with Knight himself\, this is a vividly detailed account of the why and how of his secluded life—as well as the challenges he has faced returning to the world. A riveting story of survival that asks fundamental questions about solitude\, community\, and what makes a good life\, and a deeply moving portrait of a man who was determined to live his own way\, and succeeded. \nMichael Finkel is the author of True Story: Murder\, Memoir\, Mea Culpa\, which was adapted into a 2015 major motion picture. He has written for National Geographic\, GQ\, Rolling Stone\, Esquire\, Vanity Fair\, The Atlantic\, and The New York Times Magazine. He lives in western Montana.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-finkel/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Kendra Tanacea
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street Thursday\, March 23rd at 7:00pm as we welcome Author Kendra Tanacea\, reading from and discussing her book of poetry A Filament Burns in Blue. \nA Filament Burns in Blue Degrees explores life’s strains and joys and the human compulsion to create something lasting despite certain entropy. Teardowns\, remodels\, sex\, longing\, joy; sometimes tender\, sometimes humorous\, these poems explore interpersonal relationships of all kinds and embrace the competing impulses of working hard at changing life’s course and fatalistic acceptance. Kendra’s poems keep the light on in the darkest of places: “Come after midnight\, your hand / on the door\, and me\, lit\, humming.” \nKENDRA TANACEA\, an attorney in San Francisco\, holds a BA in English from Wellesley College and an MFA in writing and literature from Bennington College. A Filament Burns in Blue Degrees was a semifinalist for the Washington Prize and a finalist for the Idaho Prize for Poetry. Kendra’s poems have appeared in 5AM\, Rattle\, Moon City Review\, The Coachella Review\, Stickman Review\, and Juked\, among others. Visit Kendra Tanacea online here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kendra-tanacea/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Summer of Love
DESCRIPTION:50 years ago\, young men and women put flowers in their hair and headed to San Francisco for the Summer of Love. San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury (Arcadia Press) by local author Katherine Powell Cohen\, Ph.D.\, chronicles this and other events in the history of San Francisco’s grooviest neighborhood. Cohen compiled vintage images and stories from individual sources\, public collections\, and from interviews she has conducted as a columnist for the Haight Ashbury Beat newspaper. The author will appear at our event and read from and discuss her book. A book signing follows. Free admission and free refreshments. A Word Week 2017 eventfacebook.com/events/376833466034270 \nKatherine Powell Cohen\, Ph.D.\, is an English professor at San Francisco State and Golden Gate Universities and has lived in the Haight-Ashbury for over 20 years. She is the author of several other books of local history.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/summer-of-love/
LOCATION:Cliché Noe Gifts + Home\, 4175 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kirsty Murray
DESCRIPTION:Not Your Mother’s Book Club proudly presents award-winning author Kirsty Murray in celebration of the story collection\, Eat the Sky\, Drink the Ocean. \nBe transported into dystopian cities and alternate universes. Hang out with unicorns\, cyborgs and pixies.  Learn how to waltz in outer space. Be amazed and beguiled by a fairy tale with an unexpected twist\, a futuristic take on a TV cooking show\, and a playscript with tentacles. In other words\, get ready for a wild ride! \nThis anthology is a groundbreaking collection of speculative fiction by twenty of India and Australia’s most talented writers and illustrators. I co-edited the book along with Indian authors Anita Roy and Payal Dhar and the collaborative process was both intense and richly rewarding. The collection includes 73 pages of graphically illustrated short stories\, ten prose stories and a playscript that I co-wrote with Manjula Padmanabhan. \nContributors include: Samhita Arni\, Kuzhali Manickavel\, Manjula Padmanabhan\, Vandana Singh\, Payal Dhar\, Anita Roy\, Annie Zaidi\, Penni Russon\, Kate Constable\, Isobelle Carmody\, Justine Larbalestier\, Alyssa Brugman\, Kirsty Murray\, Margo Lanagan\, Priya Kuriyan\, Prabha Mallya\, Amruta Pail\, Lily Mae Martin\, Nicki Greenberg and Mandy Ord.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kirsty-murray/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Because We come From Everything: The Poetics of Migration
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Society of America and City Lights Bookstore present SYRIA — Because We Come From Everything: The Poetics of Migration\, a poetry reading and discussion as part of the Poetry Coalition’s 2017 programming. Twenty-two nonprofit poetry organizations from across the United States have formed a historic coalition dedicated to working together to promote the value poets bring to our culture and communities\, and the important contribution poetry makes in the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds. As its first public offering\, throughout the month of March 2017\, Poetry Coalition members will present multiple programs on the theme: Because We Come From Everything: Poetry & Migration\, which borrows a line from U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera’s poem\,  “Borderbus.” The Poetry Society in conjunction with City Lights prsent an evening that focusses on the Syrian refugee crisis. Poets Jack Hirschman and Jack Marshall\, will read poems of theirs and others. Journalist Jonathan Curiel will join them in conversation. \nJonathan Curiel is a San Francisco-based writer and journalist who has written widely about the Middle East\, and has reported from Syria\, Lebanon\, Jordan\, and Egypt. His 2008 book\, Al’ America: Travels Through America’s Arab and Islamic Roots won an American Book Award. He has been a USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program fellow\, a Thomson Reuters Foundation fellow at Oxford University\, and a Fulbright Scholar at Punjab University in Lahore\, Pakistan. A former staff writer with the San Francisco Chronicle\, he has written about the arts for SF Weekly since 2010. \nJack Hirschman is the former Poet Laureate of the City of San Francisco\, a poet’s poet\, translator\, and editor. His powerfully eloquent voice set the tone for political poetry in this country many years ago. Since leaving a teaching career in the ’60s\, Hirschman has taken the free exchange of poetry and politics into the streets where he is\, in the words of poet Luke Breit\, “America’s most important living poet.” He is the author of numerous books of poetry\, plus some 45 translations from a half a dozen languages\, as well as the editor of anthologies and journals. Among his many volumes of poetry are Endless Threshold\, The Xibalba Arcane\, and Lyripol (City Lights\, 1976). \nBorn in Brooklyn to Jewish parents who emigrated from Iraq and Syria\, Jack Marshall now lives in California. He is the author of the memoir From Baghdad to Brooklyn and several poetry collections that have received the PEN Center USA Award\, two Northern California Book Awards\, and a nomination from the National Book Critics Circle. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/because-we-come-from-everything-the-poetics-of-migration/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Just Breathe: Kala Storytelling Night
DESCRIPTION:ACTION: JOIN THIS STORY CIRCLE FOR A NIGHT OF HUMOR AND POLITICS \nAre you politically burned out? Do you spend too many evenings scrolling on your phone and feel overwhelmed by the onslaught of political news? Join us for a night of music and live storytelling where you can sit\, relax and just breathe. Kala’s amazing line-up of Bay Area storytellers will have the floor to share humor\, compassion and connection in their experiences dealing with the changes in our country right now. \nStorytellers include comedian Dhaya Lakshminarayanan\, comedian and Second City veteran Rachel Hamilton\, Moth performer Daniel Ari\, NPR storyteller Scott Sanders\, and author Emily Meg Weinstein! Music by: Lexa Welsh Emcees: Artists Christy Chan & Maria Finn. \nRSVP here. This is a benefit for the ACLU. $10 suggested donation taken at the door\, no one turned away for lack of funds.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/just-breathe-kala-storytelling-night/
LOCATION:Kala Art Institute\, 2990 San Pablo Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lisa See
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is thrilled to welcome New York Times bestselling author Lisa See as she presents her new novel\, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane. See’s previous books\, including China Dolls\, Dreams of Joy\, and Snow Flower and the Secret Fan\, have been celebrated for their authentic\, deeply researched\, lyrical stories about Chinese characters and cultures. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane explores the bonds between a Chinese woman from the Akha ethnic minority and the daughter she gives up for adoption. \nLi-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea in their remote Yunnan village. There is ritual and routine\, as there has been for generations. When Li-Yan has a baby outside of wedlock\, rather than stand by tradition and kill her daughter (which Akha custom deems “a human reject”)\, she wraps the baby girl in a blanket\, with a tea cake hidden in her swaddling\, and takes a perilous journey to the nearest city. There\, although devastated\, she abandons the infant\, hoping someone else can care for her. \nLi-yan slowly emerges from her grief and begins to look beyond the security and insularity of her village. As she encounters modern life\, her daughter Haley grows up a privileged and well-loved California girl. Despite Haley’s happy home life\, she wonders about her origins\, and Li-yan longs for her lost daughter. They both search for and find answers in the tea that has shaped their family’s destiny for generations. \nSee\, who grew up in a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles\, incorporates impressive research on international adoption; the history of the Akha people in China; and Pu’er tea farming and customs to tell a powerful story about a family separated by circumstances\, culture\, and distance. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane paints an unforgettable portrait of a little known region and its people and celebrates the bond that connects mothers and daughters. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-see/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Ivy Anderson + Devon Angus
DESCRIPTION:Please join Ivy Anderson and Devon Angus as they discuss Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute\, winner of the 2015 California Historical Society Book Award. \n\nPraise for Alice: \n\n“With its unflinching honesty\, the political relevance of Alice’s story and analysis resonates today. By speaking out from ‘the underground\,’ Alice’s narrative predicts contemporary San Francisco sex worker discourse\, motivating political action against all odds. An important book.”—Carol Leigh\, artist\, author\, filmmaker\, and sex workers’ rights advocate \n\n“Not only for Bay Area history buffs\, Alice will enlighten all readers to early shifts in gender roles and societal correlations today.”—Cassie Duggan\, Literary Hub \n\nIvy Anderson is a San Francisco–based writer who focuses on issues of ecology and radical history. Her reportage on water management issues was published in Water Efficiency Magazine and and her poetry in Poecology. \n  \nDevon Angus is an artist\, activist\, and historian based in San Francisco. He composed and performed a conceptual folk operetta based on San Francisco history\, The Ghosts of Barbary\, throughout the Bay Area\, Switzerland\, and Italy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ivy-anderson-devon-angus/
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:Elif Batuman + Yiyun Li
DESCRIPTION:Ever since her bestselling collection of essays\, The Possessed\, was published in 2010\, her quirky but highly literary vision of life\, literature and language has made readers take notice. A staff writer now for The New Yorker\, she has developed a cult-like following\, and with the publication of The Idiot\, her career reaches an irrepressible crescendo. \nThe Idiot takes a kind of story that we all think we know well\, and turns it completely on its head. Batuman’s novel reminds us that to be American means to be from elsewhere. Our heroine\, Selin\, is the daughter of Turkish immigrants who have made deep sacrifices so that their daughter may be able to experience all the privileges of the American way of life\, in particular\, when it comes to her education at Harvard. But the weight of that expectation does not sit lightly. “This book is a bold\, unforgettable\, un-put- downable read by a new master stylist\,” Mary Karr wrote\, “Not since Don Quixote has a quest for love gone so hilariously and poignantly awry.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elif-batuman-yiyun-li/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Peg Alford Pursell
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is proud to host Peg Alford Pursell as she celebrates the publication of her debut book\,Show Her a Flower\, A Bird\, A Shadow. She’ll read and be in conversation with Grant Faulkner. Join us!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peg-alford-pursell/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jim Shepard
DESCRIPTION:Alfred Knopf in conjunction with City Lights Booksellers and Zoetrope Magazine present \nJim Shepard \ncelebrating the release of his new collection of stories \nThe World to Come \npublished by Knopf \nIntroduced by Michael Ray\, Managing Editor of Zoetrope Magazine \n“Without a doubt the most ambitious story writer in America\,” according to The Daily Beast\, Jim Shepard now delivers a new collection that spans borders and centuries with unrivaled mastery. \nThese ten stories ring with voices belonging to–among others–English Arctic explorers in one of history’s most nightmarish expeditions\, a young contemporary American negotiating the shockingly underreported hazards of our crude-oil trains\, eighteenth-century French balloonists inventing manned flight\, and two mid-nineteenth-century housewives trying to forge a connection despite their isolation on the frontier of settlement. In each case the personal is the political as these characters face everything from the emotional pitfalls of everyday life to historic catastrophes on a global scale. In his fifth collection\, Shepard makes each of these wildly various worlds his own\, and never before has he delineated anything like them so powerfully. \nJim Shepard is the author of seven novels and four previous story collections. He lives in Williamstown\, Massachusetts\, with his wife\, three children\, and three beagles. He teaches at Williams College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jim-shepard/
LOCATION:Zoetrope Cafe\, 916 Kearny Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Night of the Graphic Novelists
DESCRIPTION:For all you graphic novel fans\, Noe Valley Word Week and Folio Books are sponsoring an amazing panel of ultra-talented\, nationally-famous graphic novelists. Imagine having Paige Braddock author-illustrator of the Stinky Cecil series\, together with Beowolf series author-illustrator Alexis Fajardo and Judd Winick\, author-illustrator of the Hilo series. So much talent in the same room! Join us as they share insight as to what inspires their characters and storylines. It will be an action-packed presentation\, with plenty of time for you to ask your favorite novelist some questions. A book signing will follow. Free admission and free refreshments. A Word Week 2017 event www.facebook.com/Word-Week-314929538630095 \nBiographies:\nPaige Braddock is the creator of the long running\, Eisner-nominated series\, Jane’s World\, and co-creator of The Martian Confederacy. Recently\, she released a new graphic novel for kids titled Stinky Cecil. She has illustrated several “Peanuts” children’s books and the Snoopy U.S. postage stamp issued in 2001. More about her work can be found here:www.PB9.com. \nAlexis E. Fajardo is a student of the classics – whether Daffy Duck or Damocles – and has created a unique blend of the two in Kid Beowulf. When he’s not drawing comics\, Lex is working for them as senior editor at Charles M. Schulz Studio in Santa Rosa. His website iswww.kidbeowulf.com. \nJudd Winick has scripted bestselling characters\, including Batman\, Green Lantern\, Green Arrow\, and characters for Justice League and Star Wars. Judd also appeared as a cast member of MTV’s “The Real World: San Francisco” and is the author of the highly acclaimed graphic novel Pedro and Me about his Real World roommate and friend\, AIDS activist Pedro Zamora. Visit Judd and Hilo online at juddwinick.com and follow @JuddWinick on Twitter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/night-of-the-graphic-novelists/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Uptown Fridays: Emji Spero + Shelley Wong
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an Uptown Fridays reading you won’t forget\, featuring readings by Emji Speero and Shelley Wong\, with music by Blowdryer Punk Soul (with Jennifer Blowdryer & Michelle Gonazales). \nSuggested donations of $5-25 collected at the door\, but no one turned away for lack of funds. \nRed wine and Red Bay coffee will be available. \nInformation about performers: \nEmji Spero is a performance artist and writer living in Oakland\, California. They are an editor at Timeless\, Infinite Light and the author of almost any shit will do. They are currently working on Exhaustion: A Retching\, a dry lyric essay that documents the affective weight of the accumulated\, subthreshold violences\, which daily permeate a body in transition. Code-switching between poetry and essay\, Spero explores Jose Muñoz’s notion that “utopia exists in the quotidian.” \nShelley Wong is the author of RARE BIRDS\, a poetry chapbook recently published by Diode Editions. She is a Kundiman fellow and lives in Oakland. (https://californiawong.wordpress.com/)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/uptown-fridays-emji-spero-shelley-wong/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170324T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T135830
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SUMMARY:Omnidawn Reading
DESCRIPTION:More info coming soon!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/omnidawn-reading/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170325T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170325T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T135830
CREATED:20170320T040624Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T040624Z
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SUMMARY:Jim Shephard + Ron Hansen
DESCRIPTION:Join one of the most ambitious voices in fiction today. \nJim Shepard is the author of seven novels and four short story collections. For decades\, Shepard’s fiction has chronicled American lives and helped shape our national literature. In his most recent work\, Shepard has launched into outer reaches of Western cultures\, fusing the personal and political and covering lives from Arctic explorers\, workers on a crude-oil trains\, and mid-nineteenth century frontier women. \nShepard will be in conversation with Ron Hansen. Hansen is the author of stories\, essays\, and novels such as Mariette in Ecstasy\, Atticus\, and A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion.  With Jim Shepard he edited You’ve Got to Read This:  Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories That Held Them in Awe.  Ron teaches fiction writing and film at Santa Clara University.  His most recent novel is The Kid\, about the outlaw William H. Bonney. \nThis will be an unforgettable afternoon with one of the great voices of American literature.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jim-shephard-ron-hansen/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170325T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T135830
CREATED:20170320T040201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T040201Z
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SUMMARY:Noe Valley Authors Festival
DESCRIPTION:20 neighborhood and nearby authors will present their books to the public at the 2017 Noe Valley Authors Festival Saturday\, March 25\, 2017. The time and place are 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Noe Valley Ministry\, 1021 Sanchez Street. Admission is free\, and everyone is welcome. There will be child-friendly events. Books will be available for sale and signing by the authors. \nAll genres will be represented–novels\, memoir\, biography\, nonfiction\, children’s books\, poetry\, short-story collections\, graphic novels\, self-help books\, illustrated books\, and more! \n10 of the authors will read from their work at free readings at 2:15\, 3:10\, and 4:15. Readers include Erika Atkinson\, Keven Bellows\, Laurie Barkin\, David Hathwell\, Eveline Kanes\, Judith Levy-Sender\, Dr. Bill McBride\, Marylee McNeal\, Louise Nayer\, and Ramon Sender. \nSeveral exhibitors will have giveaways and treats to offer attendees\, and some have activities planned for visitors to the free book exhibit. Chef Gigi Mon Ami will help you make some simple recipes at her table. Her memoir Moon on a Platter will be available\, as well as some edible goodies for sale. Children’s book author Corey M.P. will supervise a kid’s coloring area near her table. She’s supplying coloring sheets and crayons. \nThe Noe Valley Authors Festival is the final event of Word Week 2017 (March 19-26)\, the neighborhood’s annual literary festival. For a complete listing of Word Week 2017 events go to facebook.com/Word-Week-314929538630095 and click on Events. Word Week is sponsored by the neighborhood association Friends of Noe Valley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/noe-valley-authors-festival/
LOCATION:Noe Valley Ministry\, 1021 Sanchez St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170325T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T135830
CREATED:20170320T043359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T043359Z
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SUMMARY:Poets at Wolfman: Garnett\, Poppick\, Crawford\, + Ross
DESCRIPTION:Callie Garnett! Daniel Poppick! Marisa Crawford! So exciting! Poets at Wolfman! Saturday night! All three poets have new books! All three are from Brooklyn! And their first names all have six letters in them! What?! It’s fate! Come down to the bookstore and say what up to your destiny! Who knows\, we might even add a local poet to the mix! And stop using exclamation marks! Maybe! Eventually! \nOh wait! We did add a local poet! It’s Margaret Ross! She’s the author of A TIMESHARE\, selected by Timothy Donnelly for the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in Boston Review\, Fence\, jubilat\, The New Republic and The New Yorker. She lives in Berkeley and is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford. \nCallie Garnett is the author of the chapbook Hallelujah\, I’m a Bum (Ugly Duckling Presse)\, a collaboration with illustrator Tallulah Pomeroy. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Prelude\, Public Books\, Jubilat\, and The Literateur. She lives in Brooklyn and works as an Assistant Editor at Bloomsbury Publishing. \nDaniel Poppick’s first book of poetry\, The Police\, is out this year from Omnidawn. His work has recently appeared in BOMB\, Granta\, the New Republic\, Hyperallergic\, and Fence. He lives in Brooklyn\, where he co-edits the Catenary Press with Rob Schlegel and Rawaan Alkhatib. \nMarisa Crawford is the author of the poetry collections Reversible (Switchback\, forthcoming 2017) and The Haunted House (Switchback\, 2010)\, and the chapbooks 8th Grade Hippie Chic (Immaculate Disciples\, 2013) and Big Brown Bag (Gazing Grain\, 2015). Her writing has appeared in Hyperallergic\, Bitch\, The Hairpin\, and other publications\, and is forthcoming in Electric Gurlesque (Saturnalia\, 2016). Marisa is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the feminist literary/pop culture website WEIRD SISTER. She lives in Brooklyn\, NY.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-at-wolfman-garnett-poppick-crawford-ross/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170325T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T135830
CREATED:20170320T041747Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T041747Z
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special: Get Off My Lawn
DESCRIPTION:This month at Saturday Night Special\, we invite you to explore our theme: “Get off my lawn.” Because kids today\, am I right? And none of us is getting any younger. But also because tresspassing and guns and violence. Or childhood summers and sprinklers. And those pesky garden gnomes. You decide. \nAs always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances on our optional theme (or any topic). \nOur March features are: QR Hand & Paul Corman-Roberts\n— \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself. Dance! \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, March 25th\, 2017\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by Hollie Hardy \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-get-off-my-lawn/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170325T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T135830
CREATED:20170320T042107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T042107Z
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SUMMARY:Swan Day Feminist Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Bi-Monthly LIMINAL Showcase of 10-15 readers and performers falls on SWAN day! Support Women Artists Now! Wear anything with swans on it!!! \nFeaturing:\nGinger Cuervas\nEmily Butterfly\nAqueila M. Lewis\nSteffi Drewes\nLeslie Absher\nNana K. Twumasi\nNatalie Devora\nSara McAulay\nKathryn Kruse\nAi Ebashi\nTatiana Luboviski-Acosta\nMarguerite Munoz \nGinger Cuervas \nArt3mis//\nMother\, Emcee\, Painter\nAfro Borinquen\, carrying on the spirit of my grandmothers\nHija del sol y la agua\nThe Projects raised me\nHeart full of Brooklyn\nFeet planted in Oakland \nEmily Butterfly is an interstellar story teller who lives to delight children with her magically unique form of puppetry\, storytelling and song. She has had the honor of creating shows and performing for thousands and thousands of preschoolers and elementary school students and feels blessed to have the abilities to create her own puppet friends\, write and perform inspirational tales. Her voice has dazzled ears through her voice over career with Free Range Graphics and Cartoon Network and a three year stint as the producer and hostess of a children’s radio program.Her wide vocal range\, uniquely magical ideas and intuitive approach to entertaining young children has bloomed her into a very successful edutainer.\nShe loves the stage and aspires to delight and inspire millions with her magic.\nwww.emilybutterfly.com \nNana K. Twumasi lives and writes in Oakland\, CA. An alum of California College of the Arts MFA Program in Writing\, her work has appeared in Zyzzyva\, Sou’Wester Journal\, Ballyhoo Stories\, and Eleven Eleven. She is the co-editor of Monday Night\, a journal of new literature. \nSara McAulay grew up in Virginia and did time in New Jersey\, but has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for most of her adult life. She is the author of three novels and numerous works of short fiction and nonfiction. Her work has appeared in Arroyo Literary Review\, Black Warrior Review\, California Quarterly\, The Literary Review\, Lodestar Quarterly\, North American Review\, Third Coast and ZYZZYVA\, among others. She edited the online journal Tattoo Highway from 1998 – 2013. Sara has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts for her prose. From 1984 to 2008 she taught creative writing and literature at CSU East Bay. She is now retired\, a state that suits her very\, very well. Ten years ago she took up the sport of dog agility. Weekends often find her pretending to be much younger and much less politically engaged than she really is\, chasing after her two fast Australian Shepherd dogs. Sara has two grandchildren in Portland OR\, and a step-granddaughter in college in Hawaii. In 2014\, after 21 years together\, she and her partner made honest women of each other at last. \nAi Ebashi is a writer-translator-illustrator who is currently pursuing her MFA in playwriting at San Francisco State University. Originally from Japan\, she has spent the majority of her adult-life living in various parts of the United States as well as in Istanbul\, Turkey\, where she received her MA in English Literature and worked as a journalist\, translator/interpreter\, children’s book author\, yoga instructor and olive cracker (volunteer.) In 2015\, she decided to settle down in the Bay Area and became a naturalized U.S. citizen. She is currently a member of the PlayGround writers’ pool. Her playwriting credits include One Day(Breach Once More\, Fringe\,) Puppet Show (GreenHouse Festival\, SFSU Fringe-Goes-Long\,) The Pursuit of Happiness (SFSU Fringe) Reversi and Reincarnation (Berkeley Rep School of Theater\,) and her publications include Öykü Denizi (National Geographic) and Colors\, translations of Shuntaro Tanikawa’s poetry (New American Writing.) \nTatiana Luboviski-Acosta is an artist and doula. Their first book\, The Easy Body\, is due to be published this spring by Oakland press Timeless Infinite Light. They live in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/swan-day-feminist-showcase/
LOCATION:LIMINAL\, 3037 38th Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94619\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bird & Beckett: Walker Talks
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/bird-beckett-walker-talks/
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:20170326T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T135830
CREATED:20170320T044241Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T044241Z
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SUMMARY:Stories of Stranded Deportees
DESCRIPTION:Lives and Voices Not Heard—Stories of Stranded Deportees: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders’ Experiences Facing Deportation\nFeaturing Readings by Nghiep Lam and Eddy Zheng\nPanel to follow with lawyer and social justice advocate.\nOrganized with Bonnie Kwong\nSunday March 26th\n4pm \nListen to excerpts from journals kept while incarcerated and through the deportation process\, as well as a panel discussion about the reality of the prison to deportation pipeline in Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities in Oakland. \nEddy Zheng is the Co-Director for the Oakland based Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC.) APSC provides support to Asians and Pacific Islander prisoners and educates the broader community about the growing number of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States being imprisoned\, detained\, and deported. Eddy spent 21 year of his life in prison for crimes he had committed at the age of 16. Since his return to the free world\, Eddy has dedicated his life to serving the youth and communities of the greater Bay Area. Eddy is the subject of the award winning documentary\, “Breathin’ The Eddy Zheng Story.” \nNghiep “Ke” Lam is the Reentry Coordinator of Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC)\, based in Oakland\, California. Ke and his parents fled Vietnam in 1978 and was rescued to Hong Kong Refugee Camp. Two years later he and his brother and parents were issued visas to enter America. At the age of 17\, Ke committed a crime that lead to his imprisonment for 23 years. Ke was active in social justice work on the inside and continues to do so upon returning home.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stories-of-stranded-deportees/
LOCATION:LIMINAL\, 3037 38th Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94619\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170327T200000
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SUMMARY:Fresh & Best: Farid Matuk & Tonya Foster
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore welcomes Farid Matuk and Tonya Foster to the store on Monday\, March 27th at 7pm as part of a Special Edition FRESH AND BEST poetry reading series. \nFarid Matuk is the author of This Isa Nice Neighborhood (Letter Machine) and\, most recently\, of the chapbook My Daughter La Chola (Ahsahta). He serves on the editorial team at Fence\, on the board of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race & Creative Writing\, and on the MFA faculty at the University of Arizona. With the support of a New Works Grant from the Headlands Center for the Arts\, Matuk is currently at work on two books of poems that in their distinct ways consider the question with which Orlando Patterson’s ended 1982’s Slavery and Social Death: “must we challenge our conception of freedom and the value we place upon it?” \nTonya Foster was born in Bloomington\, Illinois\, and raised in New Orleans. She is the author of the poetry collection A Swarm of Bees in High Court (Belladonna*\, 2015) and coedited the book Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art (2002). Her work has appeared in Callaloo\, MiPoesias\, Western Humanities Review\, the Hat\, and elsewhere. Foster has received fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Macdowell Colony\, the Ford Foundation\, the Mellon Foundation\, and the Graduate Center\, CUNY. She has taught at Bard College\, Queens College CUNY\, Baruch College CUNY\, and she currently is an assistant professor at California College of the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fresh-best-farid-matuk-tonya-foster/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170327T210000
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CREATED:20170201T031615Z
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SUMMARY:Terry Tarnoff
DESCRIPTION:It was a different time in a different world. Terry Tarnoff spent eight years during the 1970s traveling throughout Europe\, Africa and Asia. It was the early days of exploring what were to become legendary spots on the traveler’s trail. Whether playing the clubs of Amsterdam\, skirting the Yakuza in Japan\, surviving the winters of Kathmandu\, or forming a band in Goa\, India\, Terry’s adventures are alternately engrossing\, hilarious and deeply moving. The Reflectionist is Tarnoff’s long-awaited follow-up to The Bone Man of Benares\, a highly acclaimed book and play that told the first half of the story. This new work continues the tale\, adding new meaning as it looks back from the perspective of modern times upon a period that continues to fascinate people of all generations across the globe. \nTerry Tarnoff was born in Rice Lake\, Wisconsin\, a small town in the northern United States. His family later moved to Milwaukee where\, at the age of twelve\, he became a cub reporter for The Northwest Reporter. He was paid a penny a word to write phony letters to the editor to help fill out a half-empty newspaper. He attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison during the political upheaval of the 1960s\, worked at the East Side Bookstore in New York’s East Village during the Summer of Love\, lived for several years in Berkeley\, then headed for Europe\, where he supported himself as a blues musician\, playing harmonica in bands from London to Amsterdam to Stockholm. \nSoon after\, he hooked up with an international brigade of travelers–a new generation of expatriates who took their cues from Henry Miller\, Paul Bowles and Jack Kerouac as they pushed further down the road. That road led to the coast of Kenya and the plains of Tanzania\, to the deserts of India and the mountains of Nepal\, to the war-torn villages of Laos and the islands of Indonesia. Along the way\, Terry explored the mysteries of Hinduism and Buddhism\, played with an African band in Mombasa\, performed as a singer-guitarist in the Far East\, and was a founding member of a rock band in Goa\, India. After eight years on the road\, he returned to San Francisco in 1978\, where he continued his musical career for several years before turning to writing. He has since worked as a screenwriter\, taught two film courses\, driven a taxi\, managed an African art gallery\, and written for an internet film site. \nTerry’s first book\, The Bone Man of Benares\, was published in the U.S. by St. Martin’s Press in 2004. It was subsequently published by Bantam Books in the U.K.\, by Allen & Unwin Publishers in Australia\, and has been translated into Italian\, Japanese\, and Chinese. The book was reprinted in the U.S. by Avian Press in 2013. A one-man show adapted from The Bone Man of Benares was produced shortly after its initial publication by the Encore Theatre Company in San Francisco\, where it had a very successful six-week run. The book and play were soon thereafter optioned for a feature film in Hollywood. Terry’s last three books\, The Thousand Year Journey of Tobias Parker\, The Chronicle of Stolen Dreams\, and The Reflectionist\, have been published by Avian Press. Terry lives in San Francisco with his wife\, artist Tina Tarnoff.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/terry-tarnoff/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170327T210000
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CREATED:20170201T031826Z
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SUMMARY:Jim Shephard
DESCRIPTION:“Without a doubt the most ambitious story writer in America\,” (The Daily Beast)\, Jim Shepard delivers a new collection. The World to Come spans borders and centuries\, with voices belonging to — among others — English Arctic explorers in one of history’s most nightmarish expeditions\, a young contemporary American negotiating the shockingly underreported hazards of our crude-oil trains\, eighteenth-century French balloonists inventing manned flight\, and two mid-nineteenth-century housewives trying to forge a connection despite their isolation on the frontier of settlement. In each case the personal is the political as these characters face everything from the emotional pitfalls of everyday life to historic catastrophes on a global scale. In his fifth collection\, Shepard makes each of these wildly various worlds his own\, and never before has he delineated anything like them so powerfully. \n“One of the most perceptive\, intelligent\, and fearless writers of fiction in America today.” — NPR \n“His genius resides in his omnivorous curiosity and imaginative inventiveness [and his] stories have the strangeness and bell-like clarity of truth…a vision of literature that is\, in its sideways fashion\, legitimately unique.” — The Washington Post \nJim Shepard is the author of seven novels and four previous story collections. He lives in Williamstown\, Massachusetts\, with his wife\, three children\, and three beagles. He teaches at Williams College. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend the event\, but would like to request a signed copy of The World to Come\, please order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jim-shephard/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170328T200000
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SUMMARY:Farid Matuk
DESCRIPTION:Farid Matuk’s books of poetry include My Daughter La Chola and This Isa Nice Neighborhood\, recipient of an honorable mention in the 2011 Arab American Book Award\, finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award\, and chosen by Geoffrey G. O’Brien for recognition in the Poetry Society of America’s New American Poets series. His essays can be found in The Force of What’s Possible: Writers on Accessibility and the Avant-Garde\, The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind\, and others. His translations from Spanish have appeared widely\, and he serves as a poetry editor for FENCE. The recipient of Ford and Fulbright fellowships\, Matuk is an Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/farid-matuk/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170328T200000
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CREATED:20170320T044914Z
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SUMMARY:Folio Night\, Live!
DESCRIPTION:It’s the second edition of our local author open mic with sign-up sheet! Prepare to read for 5 minutes in this informal community reading series. Featured readers will be Patrick Cahill and Bob Booker of Ambush Review\, and Wayne Goodman as MC.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/folio-night-live/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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