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SUMMARY:Aysegül Savas
DESCRIPTION:Aysegül Savas discusses her new novel\, Walking on the Ceiling. \nPraise for Walking on the Ceiling \n“Ayşegül Savaş is an enormous new talent who writes with the rigor of Didion and the tenderness of Sebald. Walking on the Ceiling holds the immediacy of youth and the depth of long-earned wisdom at once. Its elegant voice is sure to summon old memories and longings from each reader\, relighting them anew.”\n—Catherine Lacey\, author of The Answers \n“In Walking on the Ceiling\, Aysegul Savas investigates the inability of any story to accurately evoke lived experience—yet her unconventional narrative succeeds in doing just that. Savas’s celebration of the minutest details of Paris and Istanbul is juxtaposed\, to devastating effect\, against rising political tensions. This quietly intense debut is the product of a wise and probing mind.”\n—Helen Phillips\, author of The Beautiful Bureaucrat \n“Walking on the Ceiling is an elegant meditation on grief\, identity\, memory and homecoming. Moving between Paris and Istanbul\, the novel captures the tangle of narrative around history\, both personal and collective. I fell in love with this book.”\n—Katie Kitamura\, author of A Separation \n“Sensual\, fragile\, scented with hope and loss\, Walking on the Ceiling is a powerful debut and Ayşegül Savaş is an extremely talented rising star.” —Dorthe Nors\, author of Mirror\, Shoulder\, Signal \nAbout Walking on the Ceiling \nA mesmerizing novel set in Paris and a changing Istanbul\, about a young Turkish woman grappling with her past – her country’s and her own – and her complicated relationship with the famous British writer who longs for her memories. \nAfter her mother’s death\, Nunu moves from Istanbul to a small apartment in Paris. One day outside of a bookstore\, she meets M.\, an older British writer whose novels about Istanbul Nunu has always admired. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris and talking late into the night. What follows is an unusual friendship of eccentric correspondence and long walks around the city. \nM. is working on a new novel set in Turkey and Nunu tells him about her family\, hoping to impress and inspire him. She recounts the idyllic landscapes of her past\, mythical family meals\, and her elaborate childhood games. As she does so\, she also begins to confront her mother’s silence and anger\, her father’s death\, and the growing unrest in Istanbul. Their intimacy deepens\, so does Nunu’s fear of revealing too much to M. and of giving too much of herself and her Istanbul away. Most of all\, she fears that she will have to face her own guilt about her mother and the narratives she’s told to protect herself from her memories. \nA wise and unguarded glimpse into a young woman’s coming into her own\, Walking on the Ceiling is about memory\, the pleasure of invention\, and those places\, real and imagined\, we can’t escape.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aysegul-savas/
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:Namwali Serpell
DESCRIPTION:Litquake and MoAD present… \nNamwali Serpell’s electrifying debut\, THE OLD DRIFT\, is the first novel ever to tell the story of Zambia from its very beginnings to the present day—and beyond. \nCrossing centuries\, borders\, and genres\, THE OLD DRIFT tells a sweeping tale of a small African country as it comes into being\, and the trials and tribulations of its people. Their stories\, told by a mysterious swarm-like chorus that calls itself man’s greatest nemesis\, form an epic meditation on what it means to be human. \nWith playful language\, Serpell masterfully blends historical fiction\, fairy-tale fables\, romance\, and science fiction. On each page\, she turns stereotypes and tropes on their heads\, unsettling the stories we think we know about Africa\, from colonialism to migration\, gender to race\, poverty to politics\, and nationhood to technology. Through THE OLD DRIFT’s cast of vivid characters—including Zambia\, which proves to be a character itself—Serpell shows that\, if to err is human\, then even the slightest error can still be a powerful force for transformation. Incisive\, expansive\, and subversive\, THE OLD DRIFT announces Namwali Serpell as a major new literary talent. \n\n\nAuthors \n\n \nNamwali Serpell\nNamwali Serpell was born in Lusaka and lives in San Francisco. Her first novel\, The Old Drift\, is forthcoming with Hogarth (Penguin Random House) in 2019.She won the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing for her story\, “The Sack.” In 2014\, she was chosen as one of the Africa 39… Read More →\n\n\n\n \n\nWednesday May 15\, 2019 6:30pm – 8:00pm\nMuseum of African Diaspora 685 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94105\n  Featured Event
URL:https://litseen.com/event/namwali-serpell/
LOCATION:MoAD\, 685 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Saskia Vogel
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of her new novel \nPermission \npublished by Coach House Books \n\nA grieving young woman learns something new about love from a dominatrix in this haunting and erotic debut. When Echo’s father gets swept away by a freak current off the Los Angeles coast\, she enters a state of paralysis. The failed young actress seeks solace in the best way she knows: by losing herself in the lives of others. This time it’s with her new neighbor\, a dominatrix named Orly who works out of her suburban home\, and who introduces Echo to a whole new world of desire. But Orly’s fifty-something houseboy won’t quite let Echo slip into sweet oblivion? Set among the bright colors of L. A.\, Permission is a kind of love story about three people sick with dreams and expectations who turn to the erotic for comfort and cure. As they stumble through the landscape of desire\, they ask themselves: how do I want to be loved? \n“Saskia Vogel’s provocative debut novel\, Permission\, is like a trick box full of sliding panels. Her protagonist\, jarred loose from her life by the accidental death of her father\, finds that the boundaries she’s always taken as given begin to slide open\, revealing secret zones of power and sexuality within the world and within herself. Beautifully written\, mysterious and compelling. ” – Janet Fitch \nSaskia Vogel grew up in Los Angeles and currently lives in Berlin\, where she works as a writer and Swedish-to-English literary translator. She has written on the themes of gender\, power\, and sexuality for publications such as The White Review\, The Offing\, and The Quietus . Previously\, she worked as Granta magazine’s global publicist and as an editor at the AVN Media Network\, where she reported on pornography and adult pleasure products. \nvisit:  saskiavogel.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saskia-vogel/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:David Randall
DESCRIPTION:David Randall discusses his new book\, Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague. \n\nPraise for Black Death at the Golden Gate \n“David K. Randall has created a meticulously researched history that unfolds like a thriller. I raced through this book in two days (horribly\, the span of time it took bubonic plague to fell a victim). The unlikely heroes—bacteriologists and public health officers with long\, flowing beards—battle villains most vile: racism\, rotten politics\, disregard for science\, and Yersinia pestis. Black Death at the Golden Gate is both a page-turner and a cautionary tale: those villains still lurk.” —Mary Roach\, New York Timesbest-selling author of Grunt \n“A haunting detective tale packed with villains and heroes\, Black Death at the Golden Gate shows how bigotry and greed almost brought a major U.S. city to ruin—and how science and courage saved it. The events in this book may be a hundred years old\, but its message is as urgent as ever.” — Jason Fagone\, author of the national bestseller The Woman Who Smashed Codes \n“David K. Randall is a spellbinding writer. He has turned a critical chapter of medical history into a riveting tale that reads like a detective novel\, chock-full of scandals and intrigue…Read Black Death at the Golden Gatebecause it’s a page-turner\, but more important\, read this book because the issues Randall spotlights resonate today.” — Randi Epstein\, author of Aroused \n\nAbout Black Death at the Golden Gate \nFor Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King\, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His passing on March 6\, 1900\, would have been unremarkable if a city health officer hadn’t noticed a swollen black lymph node on his groin–a sign of bubonic plague. Empowered by racist pseudoscience\, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown while doctors examined Wong’s tissue for telltale bacteria. If the devastating disease was not contained\, San Francisco would become the American epicenter of an outbreak that had already claimed ten million lives worldwide. \nTo local press\, railroad barons\, and elected officials\, such a possibility was inconceivable–or inconvenient. As they mounted a cover-up to obscure the threat\, ending the career of one of the most brilliant scientists in the nation in the process\, it fell to federal health officer Rupert Blue to save a city that refused to be rescued. Spearheading a relentless crusade for sanitation\, Blue and his men patrolled the squalid streets of fast-growing San Francisco\, examined gory black buboes\, and dissected diseased rats that put the fate of the entire country at risk. \nIn the tradition of Erik Larson and Steven Johnson\, Randall spins a spellbinding account of Blue’s race to understand the disease and contain its spread–the only hope of saving San Francisco\, and the nation\, from a gruesome fate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-randall/
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:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 15\, 7:30pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series \nLyrics & Dirges features 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. Hosted and curated by Sharon Coleman and Mk Chavez. \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, May 15\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-10/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Meet Journalist and Anti-Death Penalty Activist\, Michael Kroll
DESCRIPTION:Michael Kroll is a prolific writer; he has published numerous magazine and newspaper pieces\, some award-winning\, most of which focus on our own criminal justice system and\, in particular\, the death penalty. Hear him read from his works and discuss his varied interests and memoir-writing experiences.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meet-journalist-and-anti-death-penalty-activist-michael-kroll/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library – Main Branch\, 125 - 14th Street\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Mike Boughn + Sunnylyn Thibodeaux - poets!
DESCRIPTION:Mike Boughn + Sunnylyn Thibodeaux – poets!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mike-boughn-sunnylyn-thibodeaux-poets/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Namwali Serpell in conversation with Ismail Muhammad
DESCRIPTION:reading from and discussing her new novel \nThe Old Drift \nfrom Hogarth Books \nOn the banks of the Zambezi River\, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls\, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. Here begins the epic story of a small African nation\, told by a mysterious swarm-like chorus that calls itself man’s greatest nemesis. The tale? A playful panorama of history\, fairytale\, romance and science fiction. The moral? To err is human. \nIn 1904\, in a smoky room at the hotel across the river\, an Old Drifter named Percy M. Clark\, foggy with fever\, makes a mistake that entangles the fates of an Italian hotelier and an African busboy. This sets off a cycle of unwitting retribution between three Zambian families (black\, white\, brown) as they collide and converge over the course of the century\, into the present and beyond. As the generations pass\, their lives – their triumphs\, errors\, losses and hopes – form a symphony about what it means to be human. \nFrom a woman covered with hair and another plagued with endless tears\, to forbidden love affairs and fiery political ones\, to homegrown technological marvels like Afronauts\, microdrones and viral vaccines – this gripping\, unforgettable novel sweeps over the years and the globe\, subverting expectations along the way. Exploding with color and energy\, The Old Drift is a testament to our yearning to create and cross borders\, and a meditation on the slow\, grand passage of time. \n\nNamwali Serpell was born in Lusaka and lives in San Francisco. Her first novel\, The Old Drift\, is forthcoming with Hogarth (Penguin Random House) in 2019. She won the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing for her story\, “The Sack.” In 2014\, she was chosen as one of the Africa 39\, a Hay Festival project to identify the most promising African writers under 40. In 2011\, she received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. Her first published story\, “Muzungu\,” was selected for The Best American Short Stories 2009\, shortlisted for the 2010 Caine Prize\, and anthologized in The Uncanny Reader. You can read her writing in The New Yorker\, The New York Review of Books\, Tin House\, Triple Canopy\, The Believer\, n+1\, McSweeney’s\, Bidoun\, Cabinet\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, The L.A.Review of Books\, Public Books\, The Guardian\, and in these six short story anthologies.  She is associate professor of English at UC Berkeley. Her first book of literary criticism\, Seven Modes of Uncertainty\, was published in 2014 by Harvard UP. Visit: www.namwaliserpell.com \nIsmail Muhammad is a writer and critic living in Oakland\, California\, where he works as the reviews editor of The Believer. His work has appeared in Bookforum\, The Nation\, and Slate. \nAdvance praise for THE OLD DRIFT: \n“Recalling the work of Toni Morrison and Gabriel García Márquez as a sometimes magical\, sometimes horrifically real portrait of a place\, Serpell’s novel goes into the future of the 2020s\, when the various plot threads come together in a startling conclusion. Intricately imagined\, brilliantly constructed\, and staggering in its scope\, this is an astonishing novel.”\n—Publishers Weekly (starred) \n“In this smartly composed epic\, magical realism and science fiction interweave with authentic history\, and the ‘colour bar\,’ the importance of female education\, and the consequences of technological change figure strongly. It’s also a unique immigration story showing how people from elsewhere are enfolded into the country’s fabric… Serpell’s novel is absorbing\, occasionally strange\, and entrenched in Zambian culture—in all\, an unforgettable original.”\n—Booklist (starred) \n“Comparisons with Gabriel García Márquez are inevitable and likely warranted. But this novel’s generous spirit\, sensory richness\, and visionary heft make it almost unique among magical realist epics.”\n—Kirkus (starred) \n“It’s hard to believe this is a debut\, so assured is its language\, so ambitious its reach\, and yet The Old Drift is indeed Namwali Serpell’s first novel\, and it signifies a great new voice in fiction. Feeling at once ancient and futuristic\, The Old Drift is a genre-defying riotous work that spins a startling new creation myth for the African nation of Zambia…Serpell’s voice is lucid and brilliant\, and it’s one we can’t wait to read more of in years to come.”\n—Nylon\, “50 Books You’ll Want to Read in 2019” \n“In turns charming\, heartbreaking\, and breathtaking\, The Old Drift is a staggeringly ambitious\, genre-busting multigenerational saga with moxie for days. . . . I wanted it to go on forever. A worthy heir to Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude.”\n—CARMEN MARIA MACHADO\, author of Her Body and Other Parties\n\n“From the poetry and subtle humor constantly alive in its language\, to the cast of fulsome characters that defy simple categorization\, The Old Drift is a novel that satisfies on all levels. Namwali Serpell excels in creating portraits of resilience—each unique and often heartbreaking. In The Old Drift the individual struggle is cast against a world of shifting principles and politics\, and Serpell captures the quicksand nature of a nation’s roiling change with exacting precision. My only regret is that once begun\, I reached the end all too soon.”\n—ALICE SEBOLD\, author of The Lovely Bones\n\n“An astonishing novel\, a riot for the senses\, filled with the music and scents and sensations of Zambia. Namwali Serpell writes about people\, land\, and longing with such compassionate humor and precision there’s an old wisdom in these pages. In short\, make room on your shelf next to a few of your other favorites: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\, Tsitsi Dangarembga\, and Edwidge Danticat jump to mind. It’s brilliant. This woman was born to write!”\n—ALEXANDRA FULLER\, author of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight\n\n“It’s difficult to think of another novel that is at once so sweepingly ambitious and so intricately patterned\, delivering the pleasures of saga and poetry in equal measure. The Old Drift is an endlessly innovative\, voraciously brilliant book\, and Namwali Serpell is among the most distinctive and exciting writers to emerge in years.”\n—GARTH GREENWELL\, author of What Belongs to You \n“The Old Drift is a dazzling genre-bender of a novel\, an astonishing historical and futuristic feat\, a page-turner with a plot that consistently and cleverly upends itself. Playfully poetic and outright serious at once\, it is one of the most intelligent debuts I’ve read this year. No matter your reading preference\, there’s something in it for you.”\n—CHINELO OKPARANTA\, author of Under the Udala Trees\n\n“If\, as she writes\, ‘history is the annals of the bully on the playground\,’ then in The Old Drift\, Namwali Serpell wreaks havoc on the Zambian annals by rewriting the past\, creating a new present\, and conjuring an alternative future. In refusing to be bound by genre\, Serpell is audacious and shrewd. This is a Zambian history of pain and exploitation\, trial and error\, and hope and triumph.”\n—JENNIFER MAKUMBI\, author of Kintu\n\n“The Old Drift is an extraordinary meditation on identity\, the history of a nation\, love\, politics\, family\, friendship\, and life. Serpell’s prose is dazzling. Darting back and forth through the decades and mixing different genres\, Serpell has delivered an original\, remarkable\, magical work that both delights and challenges.”\n—CHIKA UNIGWE\, author of On Black Sisters Street
URL:https://litseen.com/event/namwali-serpell-in-conversation-with-ismail-muhammad/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:All the Sweeter
DESCRIPTION:Jean Minton joins us to discuss her book All the Sweeter: Families Share Their Stories of Adopting from Foster Care. \n\nAbout All The Sweeter \nAll the Sweeter tells the stories of families who have adopted one or more children from the US foster care system. Each of the twelve families interviewed has a dedicated chapter in which at least one representative tells their family’s adoption story. Woven through these stories are topical chapters that explore the common challenges these families face\, including the complications that accompany transracial adoptions\, helping children understand adoption\, relationships with birth parents\, and raising a traumatized child. Each year\, over 50\,000 children are adopted from the US Foster Care System. \n  \nInformative and diverse in scope\, All the Sweeter provides a resource to families considering adoption\, families in the process of adoption\, and families who have already adopted children from foster care–with the ultimate goal of facilitating a better life for the children they bring into their lives.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/all-the-sweeter/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime QUIDDITIES
DESCRIPTION:    \nInsideStorytime QUIDDITIES\, featuring Sarah Stone (Hungry Ghost Theater)\, Lynn Breedlove (Forty-Five Thought Crimes)\, Vincent Chu (Like A Champion)\, Cheryl Ossola (The Wild Impossibility)\, and others\, will occur at Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster Street\, Oakland\, Thursday May 16th\, 7-9 pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-quiddities/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Happy Endings: Lights\, Camera\, Fashun
DESCRIPTION:HAPPY ENDINGS is a monthly reading series that showcases new writing and wants to shine a little sun on your soul. \nWhat’s gonna happen? Five writers will come with a piece they’ve prepared in response to a monthly prompt. A panel of judges will be selected from the audience\, and that panel will pick a winner! \n$10/Pay what you can \nThis month’s prompt: Lights\, Camera\, FASHUN \nThis month’s participating writers: Liz Owuor\, Kar Johnson\, and more!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-endings-lights-camera-fashun/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Heather Hansman
DESCRIPTION:Heather Hansman discusses her new book\, Down River: Into the Future of Water in the West. \nPraise for Down River \n“Heather Hansman’s account of her 730-mile solo raft trip down the Green River is more than a terrific adventure story. She ably explains why water in the West doesn’t concern only the West and why simple answers to water questions are never as simple as they seem.” David Owen\, author of Where the Water Goes\n“History\, politics\, science\, reportage\, and adventure all whirl together in Downriver\, a deeply researched and intimate exploration of water’s uncertain fate in the American West. In this narrative journey along the Green River\, Heather Hansman navigates turbulent waters and diverse worldviews with compassion\, grit\, and an overriding respect for complexity. This book is graced with insights that can only be won with a paddle in hand and a sense of our collective future at stake.” Kate Harris\, author of Lands of Lost Borders\n“In her journey down the Green River\, Heather Hansman brilliantly captures the complexity of the Colorado River through the lens of its largest tributary.  Her balanced and thoughtful investigation into the river’s many uses\, the colorful characters that depend on it\,and those who have dedicated careers to it will leave readers questioning their own biases and wanting to learn more about the landscape\, its people\, and its future. Downriver is a must read for those interested in the Colorado River and the future of the West.” Matt Rice\, Director\, Colorado River Basin Program \nAbout Down River \n\nThe Green River\, the most significant tributary of the Colorado River\, runs 730 miles from the glaciers of Wyoming to the desert canyons of Utah. Over its course it meanders through ranches\, cities\, national parks\, endangered fish habitats\, and some of the most significant natural gas fields in the country\, as it provides water for 33 million people. Stopped up by dams\, slaked off by irrigation\, and dried up by cities\, the Green is crucial\, overused\, and at risk\, now more than ever. \nFights over the river’s water\, and what’s going to happen to it in the future\, are longstanding\, intractable\, and only getting worse as the West gets hotter and drier and more people depend on the river with each passing year. As a former raft guide and an environmental reporter\, Heather Hansman knew these fights were happening\, but she felt driven to see them from a different perspective—from the river itself. So she set out on a journey\, in a one-person inflatable pack raft\, to paddle the river from source to confluence and see what the experience might teach her. Mixing lyrical accounts of quiet paddling through breathtaking beauty with nights spent camping solo and lively discussions with farmers\, city officials\, and other people met along the way\, Downriver is the story of that journey\, a foray into the present—and future—of water in the West.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/heather-hansman/
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:Sixteen Rivers Anthology Celebration
DESCRIPTION:America\, We Call Your Name: Poems of  Resistance and Resilience\, was conceived in response to the 2016 presidential election\, combines the voices of poets from across America—from red states and blue states\, high schools and nursing homes\, big cities and small towns—with the voices of poets from other countries and other times. From Virgil and Dante to Claudia Rankine and Mai Der Vang\, from Milton to Merwin\, from Po Chü-i to Robin Coste Lewis\, these voices—now raucous\, now muted\, now lyric\, now plain—join together here in dissent and in praise\, in grief and alarm\, in vision and hope. Local poets will read selections from this inspiring volume.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sixteen-rivers-anthology-celebration/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Emma Bland Smith
DESCRIPTION:Emma Bland Smith discusses her new children’s book To Live on an Island. \n\nAbout To Live on an Island \nWhen you live on an island\, things are different. Sometimes harder. Sometimes sweeter. Sometimes quieter. Experience a day in the life of a child growing up on a Pacific Northwest island in this beautifully written and illustrated picture book. \nOff the coast of Washington State rise hundreds of small islands. Some are lush and green. Others are rugged and rocky. And each has its own personality. \nMany islands are home mostly to deer\, but quite a few have farms and fields\, schools and stores\, and people.  \nWhat is it like to live on an island?  \nAward-winning author Emma Bland Smith explores what it’s like to grow up on an island in the Pacific Northwest from the perspective of a young boy\, who wakes up to the sound of a ferry horn\, hikes through the woods to get to his bus stop\, drops crab pots for dinner\, and falls asleep counting orcas instead of sheep. \nThis book celebrates what’s special about island culture and includes a brief nonfiction element on each spread that relates to the narrative. \n  \nAbout the Author \nEMMA BLAND SMITH is a librarian and writer living with her family in San Francisco. Her children’s book debut\, Journey: Based on the True Story of OR7\, the Most Famous Wolf in the West\, won the 2017 Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award for children’s literature\, and the 2017 Cook Prize\, which honors the best STEM picture book published for children aged eight to ten. She has written a nonfiction book for adults\, San Francisco’s Glen Park and Diamond Heights (Arcadia)\, and has contributed to Sunset and other magazines.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emma-bland-smith/
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:An Evening with Tony Horwitz: Spying on the South
DESCRIPTION:The best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America’s greatest landscape architect\, Frederick Law Olmsted. Pegasus Books Downtown welcomes Tony Horwitz for a discussion and book signing of his long-awaited new release\, Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide. \nFree to attend. \n \nAbout Spying on the South \nIn the 1850s\, the young Frederick Law Olmsted was adrift\, a restless farmer and dreamer in search of a mission. He found it during an extraordinary journey\, as an undercover correspondent in the South for the up-and-coming New York Times. \nFor the Connecticut Yankee\, pen name “Yeoman\,” the South was alien\, often hostile territory. Yet Olmsted traveled for 14 months\, by horseback\, steamboat\, and stagecoach\, seeking dialogue and common ground. His vivid dispatches about the lives and beliefs of Southerners–white and black\, free and enslaved\, rich and poor–were revelatory for readers of his day and have endured as classic texts for the study of America on the brink of cataclysmic break-up. \nYeoman’s remarkable trek also reshaped the American landscape. As a rebuke to the caste-bound ideology of the South’s master class\, Olmsted sought to reform his own society by creating democratic spaces for the uplift of all. The result: Central Park and Olmsted’s path-breaking career as America’s foremost landscape architect. \nTony Horwitz rediscovers Yeoman Olmsted amidst the angry discord and polarization of our own time. Is America still one country? In search of answers\, and his own adventures\, Horwitz follows Olmsted’s tracks and often his mode of transport: through Appalachia\, down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers\, into bayou Louisiana\, and across Texas to the contested Mexican borderland. \nVenturing\, as Olmsted did\, far off beaten paths\, Horwitz uncovers bracing vestiges of the Cotton Kingdom and strange new mutations that have sprung from its roots. Spying on the South is also a penetrating and poignant study of Olmsted\, whose destiny was forged by his Southern odyssey. Horwitz’s wise\, intrepid\, and often hilarious journey\, through an outsized American landscape\, is a masterpiece in the tradition of Great Plains\, Bad Land\, and the author’s own classic\, Confederates in the Attic. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nFriday\, May 17\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-tony-horwitz-spying-on-the-south/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon : Rachel Howard\, Kristen Cosby\, Cheryl Ossola: Summer 2019
DESCRIPTION:Babylon Salon \n\npresents our Summer Reading \nSaturday\, May 18\, 2019\, 6.00 pm \nat The Armory Club\n1799 Mission Street \n(downstairs performance space)   \nfeaturing \n—\nRachel Howard \n(The Risk of Us; The Long Night)\n\nKristen Cosby\n(Atlas Obscura; The Moment; The Spirit of Disruption) \nCheryl Ossola\n(The Wild Impossibility)\n\nand many more! \n____________________\n\n \nCheck out our partner Podcast: www.grottopod.com \n____________________ \nFree Admission \nCash Bar Exotica \nDoors at 5.30\, \nReading at 6.00 \n@ the Armory Club\, \n1799 Mission St.\, San Francisco\nacross from the San Francisco Armory
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-rachel-howard-kristen-cosby-cheryl-ossola-summer-2019/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ages 7 up! Jane Solomon and Tyler Schnoebelen in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Ages 7 up! Jane Solomon and Tyler Schnoebelen in Conversation\n\n\n\n\nlaunching The Dictionary of Difficult Words: With More Than 400 Perplexing Words to Test Your Wits!  \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of The Dictionary of Difficult Words by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, May 19\, 2019 – 3:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is a bumbershoot? Or a moonbow? And what does it mean when someone absquatulates? Find out all this and more in the Dictionary of Difficult Words. Test your knowledge with more than 400 words to amaze\, confuse\, and inspire budding wordsmiths (and adults). All of the words featured in this book are difficult to spell\, hard to say\, and their meanings are obscure to most children (and most adults)! Written with simple\, easy-to-understand definitions by lexicographer Jane Solomon\, this dictionary celebrates the beauty of the English language for family trivia time spent around the printed page. \nJane Solomon spends her days writing definitions and working on various projects for Dictionary.com. She’s a member of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee\, the group that decides what new emoji pop up on our devices. You can find her online at lexicalitems.com and at the Twitter handle @janesolomon. She is based in Oakland. \nTyler Schnoebelen (@TSchnoebelen) is principal product manager at integrate.ai. Prior to joining integrate\, Tyler ran product management at Machine Zone and before that\, founded an NLP company\, Idibon. He holds a PhD in linguistics from Stanford and a BA in English from Yale. Tyler’s insights on language have been featured in places like the New York Times\, the Boston Globe\, Time\, The Atlantic\, NPR\, and CNN. He’s also a tiny character in a movie about emoji and a novel about fairies. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ages-7-up-jane-solomon-and-tyler-schnoebelen-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Second Sunday Poetry series presents a reading by Amanda Moore\, Ken Haas\, Janey Jennings\, and Barb Reynolds\, curated by Barb Reynolds
DESCRIPTION:Second Sunday Poetry series presents a reading by Amanda Moore\, Ken Haas\, Janey Jennings\, and Barb Reynolds\, curated by Barb Reynolds\, Britt-Marie’s Restaurant\, 1369 Solano Avenue\, Albany\, free\, 3:30-5:00 (510/527-1314\, brittmariesolano.com)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/second-sunday-poetry-series-presents-a-reading-by-amanda-moore-ken-haas-janey-jennings-and-barb-reynolds-curated-by-barb-reynolds/
LOCATION:Brit-Marie’s Restaraunt\, 1369 Solano Avenu\, Albany\, CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:READING Anna Moschovakis and Tonya Foster
DESCRIPTION:READING\nAnna Moschovakis and Tonya Foster\nMay 19\, 2019 7:00 PM\nArtists’ Television Access\n992 valencia street\, san francisco\, ca\nFREE\nFree for members
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-anna-moschovakis-and-tonya-foster/
LOCATION:Artists’ Television Access\, 992 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Express presents a reading by Carla Williams-Namboodiri\, open mic\, hosted by Bruce Bagnell
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Express presents a reading by Carla Williams-Namboodiri\, open mic\, hosted by Bruce Bagnell\, Himalayan Flavors Restaurant\, 1585 University Avenue\, Berkeley\, free\, 7:00-9:00
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-express-presents-a-reading-by-carla-williams-namboodiri-open-mic-hosted-by-bruce-bagnell/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:POETS! YOU BET! - featured readers followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:POETS! YOU BET! – featured readers followed by an open mic \n\nWhenMon\, May 20\, 7pm – 9pm\nDescriptionNick\, Micah\, many more!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-you-bet-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190521T190000
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SUMMARY:Max Porter
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nLanny: a novel \nfrom Graywolf Press \n“An exhilarating\, disquieting\, joyous read. It will reach into your chest and take hold of your heart. . . . It’s a novel to press into the hands of everyone you know and say\, read this.”—Maggie O’Farrell \nThere’s a village an hour from London. It’s no different from many others today: one pub\, one church\, redbrick cottages\, some public housing\, and a few larger houses dotted about. Voices rise up\, as they might anywhere\, speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and walking the dogs. This village belongs to the people who live in it\, to the land and to the land’s past. \nIt also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort\, a mythical figure local schoolchildren used to draw as green and leafy\, choked by tendrils growing out of his mouth\, who awakens after a glorious nap. He is listening to this twenty-first-century village\, to its symphony of talk: drunken confessions\, gossip traded on the street corner\, fretful conversations in living rooms. He is listening\, intently\, for a mischievous\, ethereal boy whose parents have recently made the village their home. Lanny. \nWith Lanny\, Max Porter extends the potent and magical space he created in Grief Is the Thing with Feathers. This brilliant novel will ensorcell readers with its anarchic energy\, with its bewitching tapestry of fabulism and domestic drama. Lanny is a ringing defense of creativity\, spirit\, and the generative forces that often seem under assault in the contemporary world\, and it solidifies Porter’s reputation as one of the most daring and sensitive writers of his generation. \nMax Porter is the author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers\, which won the International Dylan Thomas Prize and the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award\, and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Goldsmiths Prize. \nvisit: www.maxporter.co.uk \nCritical praise for the work of Max Porter: \n‘Amazing and unforgettable.’ The Times \n‘Dazzlingly good.’ Robert MacFarlane \n‘I picked up Grief Is The Thing With Feathers in my local bookshop\, and thought\, Really? A prose-poem novel about grief and Ted Hughes? Isn’t it going to be precious and pretentious? Anyway: I think it’s brilliant. The opposite of precious\, it reads as though this were the only way it could have been done. It’s solid\, muscular\, moving\, funny and clever. I can’t wait to see what Max Porter does next. And by the way\, it takes about an hour to get through. I will read it again soon.’ Nick Hornby \n‘A luminous reading experience.’ TLS \n‘Utterly astonishing. Truly\, truly remarkable.’ Nathan Filer \n‘Compact and splendid.’ Adam Mars-Jones\, London Review of Books \n‘Heartrending\, blackly funny\, deeply resonant.’ Guardian \n‘Porter has an excellent ear for the flexibility of language and tone\, juxtaposing colloquialisms against poetic images and metaphors. The result is a book that has the living\, breathing quality of the title’s ‘thing with feathers.’. . . One of the things this luminous novel insists upon is that loss endures\, even as grief departs. Our recoveries are always partial\, and this sense of having been splintered is what finally defines us.’ New York Times  \n‘I’m not sure I’ve read anything like Max Porter’s book before. It stunned me\, full of beauty\, hilarity\, and thick black darkness. It will stay with me for a very long time.’ Evie Wyld \n‘Unlike anything I’ve read before; part memoir\, part novel\, part experimental sound-poem\, the book is a physical\, living thing that shifts between humour and sadness with a deft beat of its wing.’ Andrew McMillan \n‘Heartrending\, blackly funny\, deeply resonant\, a perfect summation of what it means to lose someone but still to love the world – and if it reminds publishers that the best books aren’t always the ones that can be pigeonholed or precis-ed or neatly packaged\, so much the better.’ Sarah Crown\, Guardian \n‘Grief Is the Thing with Feathers argues that books\, literature and poetry can help save us. This book is a sublime and painful conjuring of a family’s grief and the misfit creature with the power to both haunt and help them. It is a complex story\, not simply-told or sparse: Nothing is missing. Let it be a call for more great books of this length to be recognized for what they are — whole. Extraordinary is a book with feathers.’ Los Angeles Times \n‘An intense and startling reflection on sudden bereavement\, dark animism\, childhood and literary form.’ Brian Dillon \n‘orter’s poetic prose has infinite readings\, and demands you turn back to the beginning after each short sitting.’ Big Issue \n‘Shows us another way of thinking about the novel and its capabilities\, taking us through a dark and emotionally fraught subject\, one airy page after another\, as through transported by wings.’ Kirsty Gunn\, Guardian \n“Max Porter has written one of the only accurate representations of grief I have ever found in literature. He combines verse\, narrative\, essay\, myth\, drama\, jokes\, bad dreams\, and the language of therapy in a way that seems magical\, permanent\, utterly integrated\, as impossible to distill to its components as it would be impossible to remove or isolate grief from love\, or from life itself. Says Crow of grief\, ‘It is everything. It is the fabric of selfhood.’ Sarah Manguso \n‘In this slyly funny and thrillingly original work\, Max Porter somehow pulls a brand new story out of the darkest despair.’ Jenny Offill \n‘Less a novel than a totally new and feathered thing—hilarious\, poetic\, cheeky\, postmodern\, I guess\, but in the most earnest and emotionally forthright way. I was as gripped as I was stunned by Porter’s linguistic daredevilry\, his intelligence\, his emotional go-for-the-gut-ness. I loved this book.’ Heidi Julavits \n‘Grief is the Thing with Feathers . . . is a book to cherish. It has the perfect balance of being very sad and very funny\, full of darkness and full of light.’ Cecelia Ahern \n‘A small masterpiece.’ Listener \n‘I loved Max Porter’s Grief is the Thing with Feathers . . . Part prose\, part poetry\, the book is a lyrical exploration of grief and healing; exquisite passages of brilliance and beauty abound throughout.’ Thomas Morris \n‘It seems appropriate that the publishing firm for which T.S. Eliot once worked and wrote should put out this extraordinary book\, haunted as it is by two poets. This book is partly poetry\, partly drama\, partly fable\, and partly essay on grief. With its verbal inventiveness\, vivid imagery and profound but never swamping emotion\, this is as wild and gripping and original a book as Wuthering Heights.’ Sydney Morning Herald \n‘Art—in Porter’s witty\, sensitive\, outlandish expression of it—does not so much transport us to another world as alert us to the extraordinary beauty of our own.’ Music and Literature \nAnd here’s Jesse Ball: https://vimeo.com/167790359
URL:https://litseen.com/event/max-porter/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:You're Doing What? Older Women's Tales
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 21\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation: \nIn the basement\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nYOU’RE DOING WHAT? Older Women’s Tales of Achievement and Adventure\, Compiled and Edited by Marjorie Penn Lasky. \n“You’re Doing What? is an inspirational and insightful call to action to its readers. These stories are certain to encourage women – and men – of all ages to view aging as an opportunity to act on long deferred or never before-imagined dreams.” – Congresswoman Barbara Lee \nIn my mid-70s\, I asked myself what was I\, Marjorie Lasky\, doing scrambling off-trail in Sedona\, Arizona\, traversing slick steep slopes\, climbing to intimidating heights\, and choosing between the narrow ledge and the prickly pear. Yet each day when the scrambling ended and I was (essentially) intact\, I was amazed at what I had accomplished. Eventually I called it “My Trip of Unintended Consequences” because it inspired new challenges. One endeavor birthed this project – my collecting stories by older women\, describing their achievements and adventures. \nThe book\, YOU’RE DOING WHAT? Older Women’s Tales of Achievement and Adventure is a compilation of 62 of these memorable first-person tales and photos. In the book\, you’ll read about and view photos of daring older women of different races\, classes\, sexual orientations\, and disabilities facing challenges and choices as they age. All are embracing new adventures and changing what it means to be an “older woman.” Celebrate them! And let them inspire you despite those voices that still might challenge\, “You’re Doing What!” \nPARTICIPANTS: \nCompiler\, Marjorie Lasky \nA professor in the Contra Costa Community College District from 1973-2008\, Marjorie Lasky taught Women’s\, United States\, and Latin American History. As an older woman\, she finished a PhD dissertation\, “Off Camera: A History of the Screen Actors Guild” and a degree in Labor History at UC Davis\, served as chief negotiator and president of her faculty union\, founded Grandmother’s Against War (Bay Area)\, and\, upon retiring\, took up the saxophone. \nThere will be readings by four contributors: \nEffie Dilworth \nEffie Hall Dilworth graduated from UC Berkeley in English literature. She worked for the university for 30 years with the campus’ natural history collections as a computer programer and the administrator of a database system. In June 2013\, the Chinese Historical Society of American published a booklet her cousin\, Connie Young Yu\, and she wrote about the family soy sauce enterprise\, “Wing Nien Brand\, A Story of Longevity.” \nLydia Gans \nLydia Gans was born in Berlin\, Germany\, in 1931. Her parents were fortunate to find a sponsor who made it possible to get visas and emigrate to America. They arrived in New York in January 1938. Lydia grew up in Manhattan\, went to Hunter High School\, graduated at 17 at took the train to Berkeley. \nRose Glickman \nRose Glickman’s first book\, Russian Factory Women: Workplace and Society\, 1880-1914\, was published in 1984. She has translated a historical biography\, Agnessa: From Paradise to Purgatory\, A Voice from Stalin’s Russia\, published in 2012. \nHelen Isaacson \nHelen Isaacson was born and brought up in Brooklyn\, New York. She met her husband when they were both reporters for the student newspaper at Brooklyn College. They have lived in Washington D.C.\, London\, England\, Oberlin\, Ohio\, Ann Arbor\, Michigan and Berkeley where they moved after both retired from teaching at the University of Michigan. \nLinda Slavin Kirby \nLinda Slavin Kirby continues to hike (although she’s not climbing any more mountains)\, took her daughters on a three-week African safari to celebrate their “significant” birthdays\, and recently returned to the world of tap dancing\, which she had previously left. \nKathy Labriola \nKathy Labriola is a nurse\, counselor\, and hypnotherapist in private practice in Berkeley\, providing affordable mental health services to alternative communities. She has been a card-carrying bisexual and polyamorist for more than 40 years. She has written and published Love in Abundance: A Counselor’s Advice on Open Relationships and The Jealousy Workbook. \nSherry Lou Macgregor \nAmerican Indian and Scottish\, Sherry Lou Macgregor is an elder in the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe. Each summer she is a “puller” in the tribe’s canoe on the Tribal Canoe Journeys. Her experiences and observations on these Canoe Journeys have inspired her to document the history of Pacific Northwest Coast Indian Canoe Culture. She is currently writing a book on this subject. In 2012 she published Beyond Hearth and Home: Women in the Public Sphere in Neo-Assyrian Society. \nE. Kay Trimberger \nE. Kay Trimberger\, a sociologist\, is professor emerita at Sonoma State University. She is writing a book tentatively titled Creole Son: An Adoptive Mother’s Story of Nurture and Nature. She blogs occasionally on the Huffington Post and Psychology Today.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-doing-what-older-womens-tales/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Memorial Tribute to Linda Gregg
DESCRIPTION:Falkirk Cultural Center\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis tribute celebrates Linda Gregg’s life and work\, with poems and stories from poets and friends. Robert Hass\, Brenda Hillman\, Forrest Gander\, Jane Hirshfield and other poets and friends will gather to read and speak about Linda. Refreshments will be served. \nIf you plan to attend and/or read\, please RSVP to events@marinpoetrycenter.org so we can plan appropriately. \nDoors open at 6:30\, event starts at 7. Parking is in the lot below Falkirk Center. Please allow time to park and walk up the hill to the event. \n\n\n\nLinda was raised in Marin County\, went to Francis Drake high school and earned her BA and an MA from San Francisco State University. Her books include In the Middle Distance (2006); All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems (2008)\, a Los Angeles TimesFavorite Book of 2008 and winner of the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award; The Poets & Writers’ Jackson Prize; Things and Flesh (1999)\, finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry; Chosen by the Lion (1995); Sacraments of Desire (1992); Alma (1985); and Too Bright to See(1981).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/memorial-tribute-to-linda-gregg/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Megan Griswold discusses The Book of Help
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 21\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nMegan Griswold discusses and signs copies of The Book of Help: A Memoir in Remedies. \n“In a world full of spiritual seekers\, Megan Griswold is an undisputed All-Star. She has spent her life examining her existence in patient\, courageous\, and microscopic detail\, and now she has written about her search with tender and comic honesty. What a delightful journey!”\n–Elizabeth Gilbert\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Magic and Eat\, Pray\, Love \n \n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK OF HELP \nThe Book of Help traces one woman’s life-long quest for love\, connection\, and peace of mind. A heartbreakingly vulnerable and tragically funny memoir-in-remedies\, Megan Griswold’s narrative spans four decades and six continents –– from the glaciers of Patagonia and the psycho-tropics of Brazil\, to academia\, the Ivy League\, and the study of Eastern medicine. \nMegan was born into a family who enthusiastically embraced the offerings of New Age California culture ––  at seven she asked Santa for her first mantra and by twelve she was taking weekend workshops on personal growth. But later\, when her newly-wedded husband calls in the middle of the night to say he’s landed in jail\, Megan must accept that her many certificates\, degrees and licenses had not been the finish line she’d once imagined them to be\, but instead the preliminary training for what would prove to be the wildest\, most growth-insisting journey of her life. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nMegan Griswold went to Barnard College\, received an MA from Yale\, and went on to earn a licentiate degree from the Institute of Taoist Education and Acupuncture. She has trained and received certifications as a doula\, shiatsu practitioner\, yoga instructor\, personal trainer\, and in wilderness medicine\, among others. She has worked as a mountain instructor\, a Classical Five Element acupuncturist\, a freelance reporter\, an NPR All Things Considered commentator and an off-the grid interior designer. She resides (mostly) in a yurt in Kelly\, Wyoming. \n  \nPRAISE\nGriswold’s debut…provides an exhaustive look at alternative treatments\, but wrapped up in that narrative is a personal tale about her own quest to find comfort and healing from the scars of her youth and the tragedy of her divorce….As remedies\, the results were decidedly mixed\, but vicariously living them through her telling makes for a fascinating book. Soul-searching has never been more comprehensive.\n–Kirkus  \nWhen Griswold discovers that her husband has an addiction to phone sex and prostitutes\, her mother tells her this is all good material. Given this\, readers won’t likely blame the author for seeking her own answers….This [book] will appeal to like-minded seekers.\n–Booklist \nGriswold’s vulnerability and deeply honest writing will captivate and bolster readers in their own search for improvement.\n–Publishers Weekly \n“In a world full of spiritual seekers\, Megan Griswold is an undisputed All-Star. She has spent her life examining her existence in patient\, courageous\, and microscopic detail\, and now she has written about her search with tender and comic honesty. What a delightful journey!”\n–Elizabeth Gilbert\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Magic and Eat\, Pray\, Love \n“Megan Griswold’s fantastic memoir is part-medicine for our time\, part-balm for our collective wounds\, part-instruction manual. Unexpectedly hilarious\, self-deprecating\, moving\, and a story for all women in this time\, I couldn’t put it down. I read it aloud to my fiancé\, to our daughter\, to my friends. It’s the book that makes you jog the elbow of the person sitting next to you and say\, ‘You’ve GOT to read this.’ You’ve got to read this. Megan is in touch with where the rest of us may have limped off course.”\n–Alexandra Fuller\, New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Before the Rains Come \n“The Book of Help is a homecoming of healing. If you think you know what a memoir is\, this book subverts everything you know. In her honest\, openhearted prose\, Griswold examines her life through remedies\, from the simple to the wild. This book is a tender\, and at times\, a heartbreaking account of what it means to have relationships\, from your parents to your spouse. The Book of Helpwill split you open\, wrench your heart\, and offer a kind of redemption. Griswold’s compassion and humor is on every page\, as she logs her various endeavors to be a loving human in the world. This book is not about being lost and found\, it’s about the voyage our lives take. You are her fellow pilgrim on her journey of grace. A brave and insightful debut.”\n–Nina McConigley\, author of Cowboys and East Indians\, winner of the PEN Open Book Award \n“An inventive\, deeply original plummet into self-exploration that is part emotional repair manual\, part memoir and entirely wonderful. You’ll be wiser for having read it\, feel less alone in the world when you’re done\, and endlessly grateful to Megan Griswold for creating her one-of-a-kind life that lead to this one-of-a-kind book.”\n–Amanda Stern\, author of Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life. \n“The Book of Help is a bright\, self-effacing\, celebratory\, gut-wrenching and hilarious chronicle of one woman’s attempt to heal both herself and the parts of the world she intersects. It reminds us\, in these dizzyingly corrupted times\, of the redemption to be found in good friends\, good dogs\, and good therapy\, and urges us to make the world we want to live in. This book is an all-night sleepover ouija board/tarot card/magic eight ball session of delight.\n–Pam Houston\, author of Deep Creek  \n“By turns funny and aching\, The Book of Help is Eat\, Pray\, Love on speed. Not even the Buddha was as determined as Griswold to find inner peace.”\n–Patricia Marx\, author of Let’s Be Less Stupid \n“Megan Griswold’s intimate\, chatty\, marvelous voice scooped me up on the first page of The Book Of Help and she never left my side until the last. This open hearted\, soul searching\, intensely readable memoir reminds us that we are far from alone on our journey and how ever much we might want them – there are no finish lines\, just resting stops where we can heal\, learn\, gather strength and\, most importantly\, keep going.”\n–Isabel Gillies\, New York Times bestselling author of Happens Every Day  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, May 21\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/megan-griswold-discusses-the-book-of-help/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Susie Linfield discusses The Lions' Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky
DESCRIPTION:Cultural critic Susie Linfield presents her lively intellectual history of the political left\, The Lions’ Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky. In conversation wtih Steve Wasserman\, publisher and executive director of Heyday. \n  \n\n\n\nAbout The Lions’ Den: \nIn this lively intellectual history of the political Left\, cultural critic Susie Linfield investigates how eight prominent twentieth-century intellectuals struggled with the philosophy of Zionism\, and then with Israel and its conflicts with the Arab world. Constructed as a series of interrelated portraits that combine the personal and the political\, the book includes philosophers\, historians\, journalists\, and activists such as Hannah Arendt\, Arthur Koestler\, I. F. Stone\, and Noam Chomsky. In their engagement with Zionism\, these influential thinkers also wrestled with the twentieth century’s most crucial political dilemmas: socialism\, nationalism\, democracy\, colonialism\, terrorism\, and anti-Semitism. In other words\, in probing Zionism\, they confronted the very nature of modernity and the often catastrophic histories of our time. By examining these leftist intellectuals\, Linfield also seeks to understand how the contemporary Left has become focused on anti-Zionism and how Israel itself has moved rightward. \nSusie Linfield teaches cultural journalism at New York University. A former editor at the Washington Post and the Village Voice\, she has written for a wide variety of publications\, including the New York Times\, the Nation\, Dissent\, and the New Republic. Her previous book\, The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence\, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. \nSteve Wasserman\, raised in Berkeley and a graduate of Cal\, is Heyday’s publisher and executive director. He is a former editor-at-large for Yale University Press and editorial director of Times Books/Random House and publisher of Hill & Wang and The Noonday Press at Farrar\, Straus & Giroux. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, May 22\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susie-linfield-discusses-the-lions-den-zionism-and-the-left-from-hannah-arendt-to-noam-chomsky/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190523T183000
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SUMMARY:GALILEO HIGH SCHOOL & 826 VALENCIA: ‘WE BELONG HERE’ BOOK RELEASE
DESCRIPTION:REFLECTIONS ABOUT BORDERS FROM THE STUDENTS OF GALILEO HIGH SCHOOL\nTHURS. MAY 23RD\, 6:30PM \n \nJoin us for readings\, book signings\, and a celebration of our student authors. \n\n826 Valencia is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting under-resourced students ages six to eighteen with their creative and expository writing skills and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Our services are structured around the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/galileo-high-school-826-valencia-we-belong-here-book-release/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:THE RACKET!
DESCRIPTION:Details soon! \nHosted by Noah B. Sanders
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-6/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Edgar Kunz
DESCRIPTION:Edgar Kunz joins us to discuss his debut poetry collection\, Tap Out . \nPraise for Tap Out \n“A whirlwind debut.Stories of sclerotic lives told in wrought images\, Kunz arrives with real poetic talent…[he] pulls us into his poems and keeps us there through crisp detail…(A hint: trust poets who show back to you the images you’ve seen in glimpses and tucked in the back of your mind.)…Tap Out lives in a bittersweet world\, and does so well\, but there’s also fine touches here: a mother who has had enough\, a son who sees beauty in loss…”—Nick Ripatrazone\, The Millions\, “Must Read Poetry” \n\n“There is no ground of existence that does not require (or fail to sustain) its poet. This proposition\, requiring continual re-proving\, has found again its confirmation in Edgar Kunz’s first book. In the lineage of Levine\, Jordan\, and Laux\, Tap Out presents the data of blows received and taken in fully. Yet these poems do not return blow for blow; they offer instead an unflinching\, continued allegiance to abiding connection. Without summation or comment\, they remind us that all alchemies of being are possible. Kunz’s precision-tool language of memory and witness enlarges\, pivots\, pieces together the broken into a world made new\, survivable\, holdable\, forgiven.” — Jane Hirshfield\, author of The Beauty and Come\, Thief \n\n“Tap Out is an ardent and gorgeous refusal to scorn the aches and wounds that bring us closer to mercy. Rippling with both sorrow and wonder\, Edgar Kunz’s narratives sift through the intricacies of masculinity\, working-class lives\, and abandonment. The telling isn’t singed with nostalgia that obscures pain: his muscular lines make visible the scars that tether the self to hurt\, to hope. The language is deftly scored on the page—the diction itself is revelatory. ShopRite. Larch. Chamber-throat. This book reminds us the heart has its own intelligence.” — Eduardo C. Corral\, author of Slow Lightning
URL:https://litseen.com/event/edgar-kunz/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Voice of Witness: Solito\, Solita: Crossing Borders with Youth Refugees from Central America
DESCRIPTION:Editors Steven Mayers and Jonathan Freedman discuss Solito\, Solita: Crossing Borders with Youth Refugees from Central America with Lauren Markham. \nAbout Solito\, Solita \nThey are a mass migration of thousands\, yet each one travels alone. Solito\, Solita (Alone\, Alone) is an urgent collection of oral histories that tells–in their own words–the story of young refugees fleeing countries in Central America and traveling for hundreds of miles to seek safety and protection in the United States. \nFifteen narrators describe why they fled their homes\, what happened on their dangerous journeys through Mexico\, how they crossed the borders\, and for some\, their ongoing struggles to survive in the United States. In an era of fear\, xenophobia\, and outright lies\, these stories amplify the compelling voices of migrant youth. What can they teach us about abuse and abandonment\, bravery and resilience\, hypocrisy and hope? They bring us into their hearts and onto streets filled with the lure of freedom and fraught with violence. From fending off kidnappers with knives and being locked in freezing holding cells to tearful reunions with parents\, Solito\, Solita‘s narrators bring to light the experiences of young people struggling for a better life across the border. \nThis collection includes the story of Adri n\, from Guatemala City\, whose mother was shot to death before his eyes. He refused to join a gang\, rode across Mexico atop cargo trains\, crossed the US border as a minor\, and was handcuffed and thrown into ICE detention on his eighteenth birthday. We hear the story of Rosa\, a Salvadoran mother fighting to save her life as well as her daughter’s after death squads threatened her family. Together they trekked through the jungles on the border between Guatemala and Mexico\, where masked men assaulted them. We also meet Gabriel\, who after surviving sexual abuse starting at the age of eight fled to the United States\, and through study\, legal support and work\, is now attending UC Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voice-of-witness-solito-solita-crossing-borders-with-youth-refugees-from-central-america/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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