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SUMMARY:Sarah Ladipo Manyika
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is proud to host the launch for Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s second novel\, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun. Sarah will be in conversation with Daniel Handler. Please join us! \n‘Morayo Da Silva\, a cosmopolitan Nigerian woman\, lives in Cole Valley\, San Francisco. On the cusp of seventy-five\, she is in good health and makes the most of it\, enjoying road trips in her vintage Porsche\, chatting to strangers\, and recollecting characters from her favorite novels. Then she has a fall and her independence crumbles. Without the support of family\, she relies on friends and chance encounters. As Morayo recounts her story\, moving seamlessly between past and present\, we meet Dawud\, a charming Palestinian shopkeeper\, Sage\, a feisty\, homeless Grateful Dead devotee\, and Antonio\, the poet whom Morayo desired more than her ambassador husband. Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun is a subtle and mesmerizing meditation on aging\, friendship\, and loss. It is also a nuanced portrait of the erotic yearnings of an older woman. \n————————–————————–————– \nLike the dusty spines on Morayo’s bookshelves\, every character in this novel hides a vibrant\, teeming inner world behind an unspectacular façade. […] Ladipo Manyika’s book reminds us of the value of indulgence and delight – in sex\, in food\, in company\, and in reading. – The New Statesmen \nSarah Manyika’s Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun is the rare sort of book that\, from the instant you pick it up\, you know that you will privy to the most intimate secrets. It is as if Dr. Morayo Da Silva is speaking directly into your ear. A real life-force of a character whose honesty\, warmth\, energy\, and bravery in the face of inevitable loss springs forth on the page. Chekhov once said that the ‘Russian loves to recall living\, but he does not love living.” Da Silva manages\, in her unique way\, to love both\, the remembering and life in the present tense. A beautiful\, important new novel\, and one that will continue to echo in a reader’s mind for a long time after. – Peter Orner \nDr. Morayo Da Silva is one of the most memorable characters you are likely to encounter on the page – intelligent\, indomitable\, author and survivor of a large life. In dreamlike prose\, Manyika dips in and out of her present\, her past\, in a story that argues always for generosity\, for connection\, for a vigorous and joyful endurance. – Karen Joy Fowler \n————————–————————–————– \nSarah Ladipo Manyika was raised in Nigeria and has lived in Kenya\, France\, and England. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and for several years taught literature at San Francisco State University. Sarah currently serves on the boards of Hedgebrook and the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco. Sarah is a Patron of the Etisalat Prize for Literature and host to OZY’s video series “Write.” Her second novel Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun was shortlisted for the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-ladipo-manyika-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Edie Meidav w/ Larry Bensky
DESCRIPTION:Edie Meidav in Conversation with Larry Bensky\n\n\n\n\ndiscussing Meidav’s story collection\, Kingdom of the Young. \n“Ambitious\, original\, deliciously philosophical. Kingdom of the Young invites comparison to the cronicas of Clarice Lispector and the fabulas of Italo Calvino.”–Carolyn Cooke\, author of Daughters of the Revolution \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, April 18\, 2017 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThe dynamic characters in Kingdom of the Young are searching: for adventure\, work\, love\, absolution\, better chances elsewhere. In a symphonic stream of consciousness\, a fanatical child army loses faith in its commander as he ages unforgivably into his thirties. A woman possessed with wanderlust and a small inheritance seeks love among the cave-dwelling Roma in Granada. Traumatized war veterans run local rackets; smarmy bureaucrats rise through the ranks of repressive regimes; civilians attempt to escape the stranglehold of life under dictatorships. From the honeycombed caves outside the Alhambra to the streets of Havana\, from hospital wards to quinceanera parties\, these stories–along with the collection’s illuminating nonfiction coda–testify to Meidav’s vast imaginative range. \nEdie Meidav is the author of three novels–The Far Field\, Crawl Space\, and Lola\, California. Her honors include a Lannan Literary Award\, the Kafka Award for Best Novel by an American Woman\, the Bard Fiction Prize\, a Whiting Award\, and a Howard Fellowship. She teaches at the UMass MFA program and lives in Amherst. \nLarry Bensky is a Berkeley journalist\, radio host\, political activist\, educator\, and Proust scholar. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/edie-meidav-w-larry-bensky/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Eveline Kanes + MaryLee McNeal
DESCRIPTION:Poets Eveline Kanes (A Coin Worn Thin) and MaryLee McNeal (The Way We Fall) will read from their latest collections.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eveline-kanes-marylee-mcneal/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Morgan Parker
DESCRIPTION:The Holloway Series of Poetry presents a reading with Morgan Parker.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/morgan-parker/
LOCATION:Hearst Field Annex\, Hearst Field Annex\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Joyce Maynard
DESCRIPTION:Joyce Maynard is the author of sixteen books including the novels To Die For and Labor Day (both adapted for film) and the best-selling memoir\, At Home in the World. A fellow of the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo\, she founded the Lake Atitlan Writers’ Workshop in 2001. Maynard makes her home in Lafayette\, CA\, where she is currently at work on the screenplay for her novel\, Under the Influence. A memoir about finding her husband at age 58\, marrying him at 59\, and losing him to cancer three years later\, will be published in Fall\, 2017.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-maynard/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Zachary Mason
DESCRIPTION:Not far in the future the seas have risen and the central latitudes are emptying\, but it’s still a good time to be rich in San Francisco\, where weapons drones patrol the skies to keep out the multitudinous poor. Irina isn’t rich\, not quite\, but she does have an artificial memory that gives her perfect recall and lets her act as a medium between her various employers and their AIs\, which are complex to the point of opacity. It’s a good gig\, paying enough for the annual visits to the Mayo Clinic that keep her from aging. \n  \nKern has no such access; he’s one of the many refugees in the sprawling drone-built favelas on the city’s periphery\, where he lives like a monk\, training relentlessly in martial arts\, scraping by as a thief and an enforcer. Thales is from a different world entirely—the mathematically inclined scion of a Brazilian political clan\, he’s fled to L.A. after the attack that left him crippled and his father dead. \n  \nA ragged stranger accosts Thales and demands to know how much he can remember. Kern flees for his life after robbing the wrong mark. Irina finds a secret in the reflection of a laptop’s screen in her employer’s eyeglasses. None are safe as they’re pushed together by subtle forces that stay just out of sight. \n  \nVivid\, tumultuous\, and propulsive\, Void Star is Zachary Mason’s mind-bending follow-up to his bestselling debut\, The Lost Books of the Odyssey.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zachary-mason/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joan Frank
DESCRIPTION:Joan Frank\n\n\n\n\nreads from her new novel\, All the News I Need\, winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction admiistered by UMass Press.\n“A deep dive into the heart of friendship\, of memory and regret\, of aging and loss… redemptive and wholly satisfying surprises…Joan Frank has gifted us with two unforgettable characters in a novel filled to bursting with hard truths and shimmering beauty.”—Bob Wake\, Cambridge Review \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, April 19\, 2017 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nA story of love and sex and friendship\, of art and travel—and of those small changes\, within our reach\, that may help us save ourselves—somewhere toward the end. \n“This wholly original novel asks and answers the most urgent of all questions: how are we to live? In precise\, pointillist prose\, Joan Frank humbly delivers an unforgettable and unconventional love story with characters who both define and defy the rules of aging. Beneath the surface of these deceptively quiet pages lies a barely containable exuberance\, a life-force I found moving and inspiring.”—Christopher Castellani \nJoan Frank is also the award-winning author of Because You Have To: A Writing Life\, and Make It Stay\, among other novels and story collections. A reviewer of literary fiction for the San Francisco Chronicle\, she lives in Northern California. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joan-frank-2/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 19\, 7:30pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series \nLyrics and Dirges is a monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. \nHosted and curated by Mk Chavez and Sharon Coleman. Every third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, April 19\, 2017 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nShattuck Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Marcy Dermansky w/ Daniel Hadler
DESCRIPTION:Praise for The Red Car \n“I’ve been waiting and waiting for a new book from Marcy Dermansky and finally that new book is here. The Red Car is taut and smart and strange and sweet and perfect. I want to eat this book or sew it to my skin or something.” Roxane Gay\, author Bad Feminist \n“A new book by the inimitable Marcy Dermansky is worth cheering for. The Red Car is droll\, unflinching\, and mysterious\, a feat of efficient storytelling. I could not put it down. This novel mesmerized me.” Edan Lepucki\, author of California \n“There are few writers who can do what Marcy Dermansky does so effortlessly in The Red Car\, the way she pushes this story in such surprising and thrilling directions\, never losing control\, taking your breath away line by beautiful line. Dermansky writes with such unnerving clarity about grief\, not just for the loss of a loved one\, but for our own unexpected lives. A strange\, unflinching\, utterly amazing novel.” Kevin Wilson\, author of The Family Fang \n\nAbout the Red Car \nLeah is living in Queens with a possessive husband she doesn’t love and a long list of unfulfilled ambitions\, when she’s jolted from a thick ennui by a call from the past. Her beloved former boss and friend\, Judy\, has died in a car accident and left Leah her most prized possession and\, as it turns out\, the instrument of Judy’s death: a red sports car. \nJudy was the mentor Leah never expected. She encouraged Leah’s dreams\, analyzed her love life\, and eased her into adulthood over long lunches away from the office. Facing the jarring disconnect between the life she expected and the one she is now actually living\, Leah takes off for San Francisco to claim Judy’s car. In sprawling days defined by sex\, sorrow\, and unexpected delight\, Leah revisits past lives and loves in search of a self she abandoned long ago. Piercing through Leah’s surreal haze is the enigmatic voice of Judy\, as sharp as ever\, providing wry commentary on Leah’s every move. \nFollowing her “irresistible” (Time) and “wicked” (Slate) novel Bad Marie\, Dermansky evokes yet another edgy\, capricious\, and beautifully haunting heroine one whose search for realization is as wonderfully unpredictable and hypnotic as the twists and turns of the Pacific Coast Highway. Tautly wound\, transgressive\, and mordantly funny\, The Red Car is an incisive exploration of one woman’s unusual route to self-discovery.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcy-dermansky-w-daniel-hadler/
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:Spring in Translation: Poets on Translation
DESCRIPTION:Lighting one candle\nWith another candle;\nAn evening of spring.\n–Yosa Buson \nA reading by five poet/translators. A reading of translation\, of translating and of not translating. \nNorma Cole\nJavier O. Huerta\nAlex Cigale\nAraceli\nTerry Taplin
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spring-in-translation-poets-on-translation/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Cleve Jones - When We Rise
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to announce our second What We Do Now event featuring the amazing Cleve Jones in conversation with David Talbot to discuss activism and dissent In Trump’s America. \nCleve Jones’ career as an activist began in San Francisco in 1970s. He co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and conceived the idea of the AIDS Memorial Quilt\, which memorializes over 85\,000 Americans who have died from AIDS. He lives in San Francisco and works as a labor activist. \nHis new book\, When We Rise: My Life in the Movement provided inspiration for the ABC television mini-series of the same name. \nBorn in 1954\, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were. Like thousands of other young people\, Jones\, nearly penniless\, was drawn in the early 1970s to San Francisco\, a city electrified by progressive politics and sexual freedom. \nJones found community–in the hotel rooms and ramshackle apartments shared by other young adventurers\, in the city’s bathhouses and gay bars like The Stud\, and in the burgeoning gay district\, the Castro\, where a New York transplant named Harvey Milk set up a camera shop\, began shouting through his bullhorn\, and soon became the nation’s most outspoken gay elected official. \nWith Milk’s encouragement\, Jones dove into politics and found his calling in “the movement.” When Milk was killed by an assassin’s bullet in 1978\, Jones took up his mentor’s progressive mantle–only to see the arrival of AIDS transform his life once again. By turns tender and uproarious\, When We Rise is Jones’ account of his remarkable life. When We Rise is not only the story of a hero to the LQBTQ community\, but the vibrantly voice memoir of a full and transformative American life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cleve-jones-when-we-rise/
LOCATION:Bookshop West Portal\, 80 W Portal Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94127\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hope in the Dark: Activist Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Not just any book club. An intentional\, socially engaged book club with an activist agenda. It all started with a pervasive sense of dread and overwhelm…do you know the feeling? \nIf you are ready to ameliorate this sense of dread and overwhelm by grounding yourself in community\, to listen to and feel empathy for perspectives different from your own\, if you believe in story\, please join us. If you are ready to do the work of facing challenging topics and checking our privileges and assumptions in a supportive\, safe environment; if you want some mutual accountability to keep each other moving forward; if you want to organize action but don’t know how\, join us. We don’t have the answers\, but we are armed to the teeth with questions! \nWe can’t really say it better than the folks at Finding steady ground: “The goal is to become a student of history so that you can take inspiration and deepen your understanding of how to struggle and thrive.” \nOur first book is Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit! It’s a quick read but full of important stories and\, well\, hope. \nThe Deets:\nActivist Book Club\nevery 3rd Thursday\n6 p.m.\nMission Pie (near 24th and Mission)\nco-hosted by Ava Rosen and Hannah Smith\nFree \n*Please let us know if you’d like to participate but the time or location doesn’t work for you! \n**You are welcome no matter how you identify\, when you were born\, or where you come from. All we ask is that you are open to discomfort\, and act from a place of kindness.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hope-in-the-dark-activist-book-club/
LOCATION:Mission Pie\, 2901 Mission St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bahiyyih Nakhjavani: Coming from Nowhere
DESCRIPTION:Coming from Nowhere: Breaking Free of Cultural Branding and Identity Politics \nBahiyyih Nakhjavani was born in Iran\, raised in Uganda\, and educated in the UK and the States. She has taught literature and creative writing in many countries\, is the author of non-fiction as well as novels\, and has adapted Persian poetry into English during her career as a teacher and a writer. Her latest work\, “Us & Them\,” is a satire about the Iranian diaspora all over the world. She currently lives in Strasburg\, France. \nFree and open to the public\, no RSVP required. Lecture is in English. \nCopies of Ms. Nakhjavani’s newest book will be available for sale at the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bahiyyih-nakhjavani-coming-from-nowhere/
LOCATION:Bishop Auditorium\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Mystical Poetry and the Awakened Heart
DESCRIPTION:An Evening with Acharya Shunya and Yogacharya Ellen Grace O’Brianfeaturing heartfelt conversations on Bhakti and the Hidden Sweetness\, and poetry reading by Yogacharya from her latest award-winning poetry collection\, “The Moon Reminded Me”. \nPoetry says what the mind can only glimpse but the heart knows full well. It is the ancient language of the soul spoken by all mystic bards of Bhakti\, the yoga of devotion calling us to awaken to divine Love. Through the ages\, poetry persists as the soul insists on revealing itself again and again. Yogacharya Ellen O’Brian’s reading from her collection of poems invites the mind to sink into the heart of divine remembrance. \nCome—listen\, meditate\, remember what matters most\, who you really are. \nApril 20\, 2017 | 6:30 – 8:30 pm\, 8:30 – 9:00 pm – Book signing by Yogacharya\nVedika Global Emeryville\, CA\nThis event is open to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mystical-poetry-and-the-awakened-heart/
LOCATION:Vedika Global\, 5950 Doyle St.\, Emeryville\, CA\, 94608\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Dana Goia Reading
DESCRIPTION:Please join California poet laureate\, Dana Gioia\, El Cerrito poet laureate\, Maw Shein Win\, and Kiara Chatman and Camila Morales-Jimenez\, Poetry Out Loud Student Champions of Contra Costa County for a poetry reading and conversation. The event will take place on Thursday\, April 20th at 6:30pm at the El Cerrito Public Library located at 6510 Stockton Avenue. \nWe look forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dana-goia-reading/
LOCATION:El Cerrito Public Library\, 6510 Stockton Ave\, El Cerrito\, CA\, 94530\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Morgan Parker + Arisa White in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼\nThursday\, April 20\, 2017\nAlley Cat Books\n3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\n6:30 PM\n==FREE==\n▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼\n\nAbout the Writers: \nArisa White\nCave Canem fellow Arisa White received her MFA from UMass\, Amherst\, and is the author of Black Pearl\, Post Pardon\, Hurrah’s Nest\, and A Penny Saved. She teaches in the low-residency BFA program at Goddard College and is a lecturer at San Francisco State University. She is the distinguished visiting writer in residence at Saint Mary’s College of California. You’re the Most Beautiful Thing that Happened is her newest collection from Augury Books. \nFind out more at http://www.arisawhite.com \nMorgan Parker\nParker is the author of Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night (Switchback Books 2015) and There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce (Tin House 2017). Her work has been published in the The Paris Review\, Poetry\, The New York Times\, The Nation\, Buzzfeed\, and elsewhere. Her poetry has been anthologized in Why I Am Not A Painter\, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop\, and Best American Poetry 2016. Parker is the recipient of a 2017 National Endowment of the Arts Literature Fellowship\, winner of a 2016 Pushcart Prize\, and a Cave Canem graduate fellow. She lives with her dog Braeburn in Brooklyn\, NY. With Tommy Pico\, she co-curates the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading series\, and with Angel Nafis\, she is The Other Black Girl Collective. \nFind out more at http://www.morgan-parker.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/morgan-parker-arisa-white-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Omar El Akkad
DESCRIPTION:American War \npublished by Knopf \nAn audacious and powerful debut novel. a second American Civil War\, a devastating plague\, and one family caught deep in the middle—a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself. \nOMAR EL AKKAD\, formerly of the Globe and Mail\, is an award-winning journalist and author who has travelled around the world to cover many of the most important news stories of the last decade. His reporting includes dispatches from the NATO-led war in Egypt and the Black Lives Matter movement in Ferguson\, Missouri. He is a recipient of the National Newspaper Award for investigative reporting for his coverage on the “Toronto 18” terrorism arrests. He has also received the Goff Penny Memorial Prize for Young Journalists\, as well as three National Magazine Award honourable mentions. He is a graduate of Queen’s University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/omar-el-akkad/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jacob Weisman on Jews in Science Fiction: It’s Not a Fantasy
DESCRIPTION:Jewish writers\, including many from the Bay Area\, are responsible for some of the most entertaining and mind-bending stories\, books\, and scripts written in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. Who are these local writers\, and how do they apply Jewish ideas and themes to their work? Jacob Weisman\, editor and publisher at Tachyon Publications\, a San Francisco-based publisher of science fiction\, fantasy\, and literary fiction\, will speak about writers including Peter S. Beagle\, Avram Davidson\, Lisa Goldstein\, Robert Silverberg\, and Richard A. Lupoff. He’ll also answer questions about publishing. \nJacob Weisman founded Tachyon Publications in 1995. He has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award three times and is the series editor of Tachyon’s multi-award-winning novella line. His writing has appeared in The Nation\, Realms of Fantasy\, the Louisville Courier-Journal\, The Seattle Weekly\, and The Cooper Point Journal. He is the editor of “The Treasury of the Fantastic” (with David Sandner)\, “The Sword & Sorcery Anthology” (with David G. Hartwell)\, and “Invaders: 22 Stories from the Outer Limits of Literature.” His latest anthology\, “The New Voices in Fantasy\,” co-edited with Peter S. Beagle\, will be published this year.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jacob-weisman-on-jews-in-science-fiction-its-not-a-fantasy/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Library\, 1835 Ellis St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94115\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Tachyon Publications":MAILTO://tachyon@tachyonpublications.com
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SUMMARY:Small Press Celebration: Editorial Argonáutica
DESCRIPTION:IESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Mark Haber\, Scott Esposito and Editorial Argonáutica to the store to celebrate their latest bilingual books on Thursday\, April 20th at 7pm. \nArgonáutica is a Mexican press based in Monterrey\, Mexico\, an industrial city torn between the “Texas Way of Life” and one of the richest cultures in the world. Their mission is to bring world literature together\, to reflect on the translation process and to promote authors that would otherwise not cross their borders. In addition to its artistic value\, literature tells the story of culture and its individuals\, as well as the way they interact with each other. Argonáutica’s goal is to help create a dialogue between the voices in each culture. \n[El proyecto editorial de Argonáutica arrancó con el objetivo de acercar las literaturas del mundo\, profundizar en el acto de la traducción y destacar la figura del traductor.  Un aspecto distintivo de la editorial es la intención de publicar ediciones bilingües en las que sea posible cotejar las particularidades\, giros y modos de cada lengua. Este enfoque permite abordar el fenómeno de la traducción como arte y como intercambio cultural. \nEn Argonáutica vemos la literatura como un elemento de contacto entre culturas y\, por lo tanto\, buscamos colaborar con instituciones culturales de diferentes países para establecer alianzas y proyectos editoriales en conjunto. Además de su valor estético\, la literatura da cuenta de la diversidad de individuos y comunidades que interactúan en el contexto global de la contemporaneidad. \nArgonáutica\, además de proyecto editorial\, pretende ser una plataforma para el diálogo intercultural de voces literarias provenientes de distintas latitudes.] \n* * * \nMark Haber‘s Melville´s Beard [Las barbas de Melville] is a collection of nine absurd stories varying in structure and tone. Each examines the human condition and the dilemmas we face in the tempest of our own self-induced problems. These are obscure\, weird and\, in many cases\, disturbing stories. Mark’s stories are ageless because they speak to us\, demanding we question our own natures\, regardless of time and space. \n[Es un libro de nueve relatos absurdos\, con diferentes estructuras y tonos. Mark escribe sobre la condición humana\, sobre los problemas a los que nos enfrentamos y que nosotros mismos creamos. Las suyas son historias oscuras\, extrañas y perturbadoras. Son atemporales porque cuestionan la naturaleza del hombre sin importar tiempo o espacio.] \nMark was born in Washington D.C. and grew up in Clearwater\, Florida. He is the store manager of Brazos Bookstore in Houston\, Texas. He has been a juror on the Best Translated Book Award for 2016 and 2017. His criticism has appeared in The Rumpus\, Music & Literature\, LitHub. and The Quarterly Conversation. His debut collection of short stories\, Deathbed Conversions\, was published in 2009. \n* * * \nScott Esposito‘s Latin American Mixtape [Mixtape Latinoamericano] is not just a collection of literary essays on Latin American writers\, it’s also about the insight that comes from a magnificent reader from abroad reading the great writers of a foreign continent. It includes three never-before-published pieces\, exclusive interviews and a sharp point of view on literature. \n[La serie de ensayos «lados b»\, como los llama el autor\, no hablan solo del trabajo de autores latinoamericanos\, sino también de la perspectiva de un extradordinario lector extranjero a partir de la lectura de grandes escritores. Incluye tres textos inéditos\, entrevistas y una agudísima visión de la literatura en general.] \nScott is the author of The Surrender (2016\, Anomalous Press)\, The Doubles (forthcoming\, Civil Coping Mechanisms) and co-author of The End of Oulipo? (written with Lauren Elkin\, Zero Books\, 2013). Some of his texts have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement\, La Tempestad (Mexican magazine)\, Granta en español\, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times\, among others. He is a senior editor of Two Lines Press\, contributing editor of BOMB magazine\, and founder of The Quarterly Conversation. \n  \nBoth books will be available for purchase at the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/small-press-celebration-editorial-argonautica/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:JP Voyer
DESCRIPTION:Join Pro Arts and Little Black Cart on April 20th\, 7:00 – 9:00 at Pro Arts Gallery for a book launch and reception for the English language version of “Inquiry Into the Causes and Nature of the Misery of People” by JP Voyer. \nThis statement from the co-translator of Voyer’s book\, Isaac Cronin\, explains briefly why he believes The Inquiry is the most important work of social criticism written since World War II. \n“In the early 70s as the Situationist International imploded Voyer’s timely call for a detailed critique of Marx and the materialist economists fell on deaf ears in Paris. There was no public response by Debord or anyone else in his camp who had been directly challenged to take up this task. In the following years Voyer proceeded to make a series of bold discoveries. An Inquiry Into The Causes And Nature of The Misery of People takes on\, among other classic economists\, Adam Smith\, whose masterpiece is alluded to in Voyer’s title. For the first time\, and in a systematic fashion\, Voyer shows: 1) that the economy doesn’t exist except as a false idea and practice on the part of our enemies; 2) that in our world communication\, the most human of human acts\, is what commodities\, not people\, do and 3) that there is no such thing as exchange value vs. use value\, that there is only value which is the language of abstraction commodities speak to each other without slaves who transport these commodities participating in the discussion.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jp-voyer/
LOCATION:Pro Arts Gallery\, 150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Janice A. Lowe\, Yohann Potico + Kevin Carnes
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special evening of poetry and song in The Poetry Center\, featuring New York-based poet\, musician\, and Dark Room Collective co-founder Janice A. Lowe (text\, voice\, and piano) performing works from her debut book\, Leaving Cle (Miami University Press\, 2016)\, with Yohann Potico (bass) and Kevin Carnes (drums). \nCheck out their work in advance here: Edge-acation and Boy Flower Tamir. This event is free and open to the public. \nFred Moten writes: “Leaving Cle is a beautiful document of eccentric return. A collection of unforecast surprise\, it keeps giving home away\, disbursing and dispersing hard\, pleasurable weather like a new kind of lake effect. Cleveland is Brooklyn is Chicago and elsewhere\, everywhere in a set of absolute specificities\, upSouth\, back east\, out and out. There’s a black cosmology of ‘difference without separation’ of which Denise Ferreira da Silva\, sociologist\, speaks. Janice A. Lowe\, poet\, sings it so hard\, makes her air such an irreducible element of the general air\, that you couldn’t get away from it if you tried\, which is fine\, because that’s the last thing you’ll want. Her sound\, her time\, is everything you do.” \nJanice A. Lowe is a composer and poet. She is the author of Leaving Cle: poems of nomadic dispersal (Miami University Press) and the chapbook SWAM (Belladonna Series.) Her poems have been published in Callaloo\, Best American Experimental Writing 2016\, The Poetry Project Online\, Pre) Conceivable Bridges\, American Poetry Review\, Radiant Re-Sisters\, The Hat and on a digital album with Drew Gardner’s Poetics Orchestra. She composed the musicals Lil Budda\, (Text by Stephanie L. Jones\,) Sit-In at the Five & Dime\, (Words by Marjorie Duffield) and Somewhere in Texas\, (Book and Lyrics by Charles E. Drew\, Jr.). Her works for musical theater have been performed extensively in New York City and regionally and have received developmental residencies from the Eugene O’Neill Musical Theater Conference and the National Alliance for Musical Theater. She has composed for the plays 12th and Clairmont by Jenni Lamb\, The Super Starlet Shero Show by The Jones Twins\, and Door of No Return by Nehassaiu deGannes. She is the composer of Make Some Learned Noise\, text by Randall Horton\, an interactive poem with music\, performed with the incoming freshman class\, University of New Haven\, 2015. Recently\, she was commissioned to compose a song cycle based on the “Millie-Christine” poems\, from the collection OLIO\, by Tyehimba Jess. She is a co-founder of The Dark Room Collective and a founding member of absolute theater co. She has performed with the experimental bands w/o a net\, HAGL\, and Digital Diaspora. She teaches songwriting workshops at White Bird Productions and has taught Poetry and Performance at Purchase College and at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics She holds an MFA in Musical Theater Writing from New York University-Tisch School of the Arts. More at janicelowe.com Photo: Eric Perl. \nYohann Potico grew up in a West Indian family in France. He brings a distinctive perspective to his bass playing\, producing and composing by blending an eclectic mix of influences—ranging from soul and jazz to funk and trip hop—with a unique melodic approach. He performed and recorded with Brooklyn-based independent rock trio California King from 2007 to 2014. With California King\, he recorded and co-wrote tracks on three albums—Adoration of the Boogie Bear\, 2008\, La Belle Epoque 2010\, and Sankofa\, 2015. He has performed and recorded as a session musician with numerous bands including Sierra Leone-based hip-hop group Dry Eye\, soul vocalist Annakei house/techno producer Michele Papa. For three years\, Yohann has been in residence as bass player for the Eastern European and North African influenced group Balkan Stomp. As a producer and sound engineer\, Yohann has worked with a wide range of artist including folk songwriter and performer Megan Palmer\, jazz pianist and composer Jesse Elder\, jazz vocalist Zack Foley and singer/artist Sabrina Iyadede. \n\nKevin Carnes is a drummer\, composer and producer based in the Bay Area since 1984. He founded the Afro-Punk-Industrial band Beatnigs and is celebrating 25 years as a founding member of Broun Fellinis. Carnes has served as musical director/composer for City Circus and the Marin Theater’s production of August Wilson’s “Gem of the Ocean.”\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/janice-a-lowe-yohann-potico-kevin-carnes/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lidia Yuknavitch
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Lidia Yuknavitch for her much-anticipated novel The Book of Joan! \nA raucous celebration\, a searing condemnation\, and a fiercely imaginative retelling of Joan of Arc’s transcendent life. — Roxane Gay\, New York Times-bestselling author of Bad Feminist \nIn the near future\, world wars have transformed the earth into a battleground\, a place to hide in caves and horde ammunition. Fleeing the unending violence and the planet’s now-radioactive surface\, humans have regrouped to a mysterious platform known as CIEL\, hovering over their erstwhile home. The changed world has turned evolution on its head\, the surviving humans becoming sexless\, hairless pale-white creatures floating in isolation\, inscribing stories upon their skin. \nOut of the ranks of the endless wars rises Jean de Men\, a charismatic cult leader who appoints himself to rule over CIEL as a kind of corporate police state. To combat de Men’s vicious acts and thirst for blood\, a group of rebels unite to dismantle his iron rule – galvanized by the heroic song of Joan\, a child-warrior who possesses an unnatural talent\, a force that lives within her and communes with the earth. When de Men and his armies fashion Joan into a martyr\, instead of the living\, breathing force of nature she is\, the consequences are astonishing. And no one – not the rebels\, Jean de Men\, nor even Joan herself – can foresee the ways her life story will\, in a brilliant instant\, forge the destiny of an entire world for generations. \nThe Book of Joan is a riveting tale of destruction and the beauty found in unlikely places—even at the extreme end of post-human experience. A book suffused with dirt\, sweat\, and blood\, it raises questions about what it means to be human\, the meaning of sex and gender\, and the role of art as means for survival. \n“It’s unfair to compare Yuknavitch to only female authors. With her verve and bold imagination\, she’s earned the throne left empty since the death of David Foster Wallace.” — Chuck Palahniuk \n“Reading The Book of Joan is a meditation on art and sex and war. My brain is full-bloomed. Get ready\, it’s glorious.” — Amber Tamblyn\, author of Dark Sparkler \nLidia Yuknavitch is the author of the National Bestselling novel The Small Backs of Children\, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award’s Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the Reader’s Choice Award\, the novel Dora: A Headcase\, and three books of short stories. Her widely acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader’s Choice. She founded the workshop series Corporeal Writing in Portland\, OR\, where she also teaches Women’s Studies\, Film Studies\, Writing\, and Literature. She received her doctorate in Literature from the University of Oregon. Her novel The Book of Joan is forthcoming from Harper\, as well as a book based on her recent TED Talk\, “The Misfit’s Manifesto.” She lives in Oregon with her husband Andy Mingo and their Renaissance man son\, Miles. She is a very good swimmer. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend the event\, but would like to request a signed copy of The Book of Joan\, please order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lidia-yuknavitch/
LOCATION:Tenderloin Museum\, 398 Eddy St\, San Francisco \, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rise: An Anthology of Power and Unity
DESCRIPTION:VAGABOND is very happy to announce the launch of our new publication\,\nRise (an anthology of Power and Unity) \nFeatured readers include: \n\nJack Hirschman\nDorothy “Dottie” Payne\nNina Serrano\nMahnaz Badihian\nKaren Melander-Magoon\nFred Dodsworth\nDee Allen\nTim Kahl\nIsaac J Torres\n\nHosts: Mark Lipman and Antonieta Villamil. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rise-an-anthology-of-power-and-unity/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="VAGABOND":MAILTO:editor@vagabondbooks.net
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SUMMARY:Deb Olin Unferth
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Wait Till You See Me Dance \n“Deb Olin Unferth’s stories are so smart\, fast\, full of heart\, and distinctive in voice—each an intense little thought-system going out earnestly in search of strange new truths. What anmportant and exciting talent.”—George Saunders \n“Deb Olin Unferth’s stories are wild\, funny\, and wonderful.”—Geoff Dyer \n“This book is an astonishment—strange\, brainy\, and loaded with feeling. Deb Olin Unferth shows\, with brilliant force\, the startling vitality of the short story. She is a master.”—Ben Marcus \n\nAbout Wait Till You See Me Dance \nWait Till You See Me Dance consists of several extraordinary longer stories as well as a selection of intoxicating very short stories. In the chilling The First Full Thought of Her Life\, a shooter gets in position while a young girl climbs a sand dune. In Voltaire Night\, students compete to tell a story about the worst thing that ever happened to them. In Stay Where You Are\, two oblivious travelers in Central America are kidnapped by a gunman they assume to be an insurgent but the gunman has his own problems. \nAn Unferth story lures you in with a voice that seems amiable and lighthearted\, but it swerves in sudden and surprising ways that reveal\, in terrifying clarity\, the rage\, despair\, and profound mournfulness that have taken up residence at the heart of the American dream. These stories often take place in an exaggerated or heightened reality\, a quality that is reminiscent of the work of Donald Barthelme\, Lorrie Moore\, and George Saunders\, but in Unferth’s unforgettable collection she carves out territory that is entirely her own.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deb-olin-unferth/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry + Jazz Night
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir. Live jazz with Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. FREE admission\, all ages\, full menu and bar in the front room. Open Mic for poetry only – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night-2/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sixteen Rivers Press Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join Sixteen Rivers Press poets Erin Rodoni and Gillian Wegener for an evening of reading and discussion. \nThe first section of Body\, in Good Light opens with the words\, “Between any two points\, there is a love story”: points on a compass\, points in time\, between lovers and strangers\, mother and child. Throughout this debut collection\, Erin Rodoni distills experience for its essence\, rendered in language that is fierce\, tender\, penetrating in its precision\, and astonishing in its turns of phrase. Whether describing “turncoat cells” of cancer\, the half-smile scar of a caesarian\, or the alien landscape of childhood seared by wildfire\, Rodoni’s poems remind us how tenuous our lives are\, how each moment arrives as inescapably painful and miraculous as birth. \nErin Rodoni was born and raised in the small coastal community of Point Reyes\, California. Her work has appeared in Colorado Review\, Cimarron Review\, Drunken Boat\, Ninth Letter\, and Vinyl Poetry\, among others. Her poems have also been included in the Best New Poets anthology\, featured on Verse Daily\, and honored with an Intro Journals Award from the Association of Writers and Writing programs. Rodoni holds a BA from UC Berkeley and an MFA from San Diego State. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two young daughters. \nThe poems in This Sweet Haphazard are anything but haphazard in their designs or effects\, and while sweetness resides here\, it’s a sweetness hard-won by looking at life unflinchingly. Gillian Wegener’s gift is to show us that the ever-changing\, the temporal\, is as close as we’re apt to come to paradise. The second poem in the book\, “Chorus\,” establishes the multiple tensions that exist between person and place\, tensions that come under the scrutiny of a shrewd\, wry\, endlessly inventive eye. These are poems that no one will forget\, radiating as they do with Central Valley heat\, with the beauty of the ordinary\, and with the love of a woman for the “sweet haphazard of home\,” from which everything here so accurately and ingeniously arises. \nGillian Wegener is the author of two previous books of poetry: a chapbook\, Lifting One Foot\, Lifting the Other (In the Grove Press\, 2001)\, and a full-length collection\, The Opposite of Clairvoyance (Sixteen Rivers Press\, 2008). Widely published\, she has won several awards for her work\, including the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize in 2006 and 2007\, and the Zócalo Public Square Prize for Poetry of Place in 2015. Wegener\, a junior high teacher\, lives with her husband and daughter in Modesto\, where she coordinates and hosts the monthly Second Tuesday Reading Series. She is a cofounder of the Modesto- Stanislaus Poetry Center and has served as the poet laureate for the city of Modesto.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sixteen-rivers-press-reading/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Amy S. Peele
DESCRIPTION:In Cut\, a well-respected transplant nurse and her best friend meet the corrupt world of organ transplants in a wild roller coaster ride through lifestyles of the rich and famous. \nWhile the federal government is launching a national investigation on the “equity” of organ distribution\, a female tech CEO flies across the country to get a liver transplant. Soon\, well-respected transplant nurse Sarah Golden and her best friend\, Jackie\, find themselves tangled up in an intense plot to uncover the answer to the question on everyone’s mind: Can you buy your way up to the top of the waiting list? Their pursuit of justice brings them to Miami\, San Francisco\, and Chicago—a sometimes fun\, sometimes dangerous roller coaster ride from which they barely escape with their lives. \nAmy S. Peele was born and raised in the Chicago area\, where she graduated from South Chicago School of Nursing. She discovered her passion for organ donation and transplantation when she started as a transplant coordinator at University of Chicago\, and has since enjoyed a thirty-five-year career in transplantation in both Illinois and California. Peele has lived and worked in the San Francisco area since 1985 and has been writing creatively for over fifteen years. In addition to killing people in her murder mysteries\, she enjoys meditating\, yoga\, swimming\, and pursuing her spirituality by studying the teachings of Deepak Chopra.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amy-s-peele/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Kanishk Tharoor w/ Aaron Bady)
DESCRIPTION:Kanishk Tharoor discusses his new story collection\, Swimmer Among the Stars\, with Aaron Bady. \nPraise for Swimmer Among the Stars \n“Like the storytellers of old\, as well as the art’s 20th century masters\, Kanishk Tharoor brings together times past and our present day in his dazzling fables where the exotic and the mundane\, the lost and the hoped for\, are woven into images that remind the reader that it is through sharing stories\, and maybe stories alone\, that civilizations and their subjects come together in surviving whatever tasks history sets for them.” —Sjón \n“These stories gleam with the light of an authentic and wholly original imagination\, beautifully crafted and in possession of an untamed\, almost feral sense of creativity. With Borgesian intelligence and great tenderness of heart\, Tharoor reminds us how vital it is to tell stories\, and how urgently we need to consume them.” —Alexandra Kleeman\, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine \n“It’s been years since I’ve encountered a collection as beguiling as Swimmer Among the Stars. Kanishk Tharoor seems to have sprung onto the scene fully formed\, possessed of his own mischievous and erudite voice\, already at the full height of his powers. Literary debuts are often described as ‘promising’; here are stories that read like promises fulfilled.” —John Wray\, author of The Lost Time Accidents \nAbout Swimmer Among the Stars \nIn one of the singularly imaginative stories from Kanishk Tharoor’s Swimmer Among the Stars\, despondent diplomats entertain themselves by playing table tennis in zero gravity—for after rising seas destroy Manhattan\, the United Nations moves to an orbiting space hotel. In other tales\, a team of anthropologists treks to a remote village to record a language’s last surviving speaker intoning her native tongue; an elephant and his driver cross the ocean to meet the whims of a Moroccan princess; and Genghis Khan’s marauding army steadily approaches an unnamed city’s walls. \nWith exuberant originality and startling vision\, Tharoor cuts against the grain of literary convention\, drawing equally from ancient history and current events. His world-spanning stories speak to contemporary challenges of environmental collapse and cultural appropriation\, but also to the workings of legend and their timeless human truths. Whether refashioning the romances of Alexander the Great or confronting the plight of today’s refugees\, Tharoor writes with distinctive insight and remarkable assurance. Swimmer Among the Stars announces the arrival of a vital\, enchanting talent. \nMore info on our site: http://www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-kanishk-tharoor-and-aaron-bady
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kanishk-tharoor-swimmer-among-the-stars-waaron-bady/
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:West Marin Review VII Reading
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes contributors of the West Marin Review VII\, to the store on Sunday\, April 23rd at 3:00 pm. The reading participants include\, Claire Blotter\, Elaine Elinson\, Kathleen Goodwin\, Anuja Mendiratta\, Larry Ruth\, Vicki DeArmon\, and Gabriel Schillinger-Hyman. \n The West Marin Review is an award-winning literary and art journal published by Point Reyes Books and friends in the rural enclave of West Marin\, CA. It offers an intriguing variety of art\, poetry and prose from new\, as well as\, established contributors. The journal provides a blend of fiction and essays\, humor\, nature\, memoir\, poetry\, art\, and often\, music. Contributors hail from places near and far- from rural California to Paris and everywhere in between. This volume features prose by\, among others\, Rick Bass\, Stephanie E. Dickinson\, Elaine Elinson\, Blair Fuller and David Miller; poetry by Jody Farrell\, Roy Mash\, and others; and art by Mark Ropers\, Wendy Schwartz\, and others. This event will focus on local writers and artists with a list of participants to be named shortly. \nClaire Blotter teaches poetry writing to elementary and high school students as a Poet in the Schools. She has published three chapbooks and lives near Deer Island Preserve in Novato\, California. \nSan Francisco writer Elaine Elinson is coauthor of Wherever There’s a Fight: How Runaway Slaves\, Suffragists\, Immigrants\, Strikers and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California\, which won a Gold Medal in the California Book Awards in 2010. \nKathleen Goodwin is a painter\, photographer\, and publisher of fine art books. Born in South Africa\, she has lived in Inverness for twenty-five years drawn to the area’s open expanses and wildlife. \nAnuja Mendiratta is a poet\, a daughter of Indian immigrants\, an independent consultant\, and a walker of this beautiful earth. She resides in Berkeley\, California and loves being outdoors. \nAt fourteen\, Larry Ruth and a friend set out for Yosemite and hiked the John Muir Trail. They spent the last night on Mount Whitney in a snowstorm in July. \nVicki DeArmon is the Marketing & Events Director at Copperfield’s Books. She’s also the former publisher of Foghorn Press and a fiction writer. \nGabriel Schillinger-Hyman\, age seventeen\, attends Lick-Wilmerding High School in San Francisco. A classical and jazz pianist\, he also enjoys the visual arts\, including cartooning and landscape painting. He spends his free time in Point Reyes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/west-marin-review-vii-reading/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Be About It Presents: Julie Mannell + Friends
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fun afternoon in Oakland! After the reading\, we will meet at the Fairlyland sign at Lake Merritt for open mic readings and a low-rent afterparty. BYOB. \nJulie Mannell is a writer of poetry\, fiction and essays\, and an editor at Matrix Magazine. She is the recipient of the HarperCollins/Constance Rooke Scholarship\, the Mona Adilman Poetry Prize\, the Lionel Shapiro Award for Excellency in Creative Writing\, and The Vagenius Award (presented by Roseanne Barr). Her work has been featured in the National Post\, Toronto Star and Huffington Post\, among others. At the moment\, Mannell is an MFA candidate at the University of Guelph and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill University in English Literature and Philosophy. Originally from Fonthill\, Ontario\, she currently splits her time between Montreal and Toronto. She was recently named one of the Top 30 Poets Under 30. Twitter/insta/snap: @juliemannell. \nhttp://www.juliemannell.com/ \nKenta Maniwa is from Oakland\, California. His writing can be found in Hobart\, Metatron\, Spy Kids Review\, Cosmonauts Avenue\, Bottlecap Press\, and Be About It Press. His new chapbook\, Japanese Tim Duncan\, will be published this year. \nJesse Prado lives in Hayward and blogs at thegreatcratsby.tumblr.com and tweets from @prado_jesse \nMark Cronin recently requested all of his work be deleted from various websites such as Atticus Review and Volume 1 Brooklyn. All of his previous books are out of print. His first novel was going to be published in May of 2017 by a major publisher but it is not anymore. He holds no degrees and has never won an award. His favorite word is “erasure”. \nThe Open Minds are a rock n’ roll sister duo based out of the Bay Area. They have created a distinguished and distinctive sound that is both reminiscent and all their own. Their performances are high-drive\, electric and spontaneous\, creating a unique experience every time that will leave you wanting more. \nJoined by: Jesse Prado\, Ken Ta\, Mark Cronin\, and The Open Minds
URL:https://litseen.com/event/be-about-it-presents-julie-mannell-friends-at-wolfman-books/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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