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SUMMARY:I Will Destroy You: Poetry With Nick Flynn and Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:Nick Flynn’s latest book is I Will Destroy You\, poetry that interrogates the potential of art to be redemptive\, to remake and reform. But first the maker of art must claim responsibility for his past\, his actions\, his propensity to destroy others and himself. The poems delve into the deepest\, most defeating parts of the self: addiction\, temptation\, infidelity\, and repressed memory. These are poems of profound self-scrutiny and lyric intensity\, jagged and probing. \nSpecial guest Matthew Zapruder’s new book is Father’s Day. He’s also the author of four collections of poetry\, most recently Come On All You Ghosts\, and Sun Bear as well as Why Poetry\, a book of prose. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/i-will-destroy-you-poetry-with-nick-flynn-and-matthew-zapruder/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ian Haney López in conversation with Eva Paterson
DESCRIPTION:Ian Haney López in conversation with Eva Paterson\nWednesday\, October 9\, 2019\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\nPresented by City Lights in conjunction with The Equal Justice Society and The New Press \n \ndiscussing the subject of his new book \nMerge Left: Fusing Race and Class\, Winning Elections\, and Saving America \npublished by The New Press \n\n\n\nFrom the acclaimed author of Dog Whistle Politics\, an essential road map to neutralizing the role of racism as a divide-and-conquer political weapon and to building a broad multiracial progressive future \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Ian Haney López has broken the code on the racial politics of the last fifty years.” —Bill Moyers \n\n\n\n\n\n\nToday more than ever\, warnings to fear immigrants and people of color bombard us incessantly. Quite simply\, the Right’s fundamental strategy has been to divide and distract while rigging the rules to benefit the superrich. No more. It’s time to reject this kind of purposeful division and to join together to demand that government work for all of us\, whether we’re white\, Black\, or brown. \nIan Haney López has spent the last two years collaborating with a team of union activists\, racial justice leaders\, communications specialists\, and pollsters. Based on conversations and interviews with people all over the country\, the team discovered that a large majority of the population (people of color included) fall into “the persuadable middle”—they hold both progressive and racist views and can be shifted in one direction or another based on different stories about America. \nFor decades\, while the Right has exploited racial fear-mongering\, the Left has splintered. Some have wanted to tackle racism head-on; others have insisted that a race-silent focus on class avoids alienating white voters. Merge Left distills the heartening results of cutting-edge new research: naming racism as a weapon of the rich and calling for cross-racial solidarity builds unity across the base and enlists the broad middle in supporting progressive dreams. \nA work of deep research\, nuanced argument\, and urgent insight\, Merge Left is an indispensable tool for the upcoming political season and in the larger fight to build racial justice and shared economic prosperity. \nIan Haney López is the Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at University of California\, Berkeley\, and the author of Dog Whistle Politics and White by Law\, as well as Merge Left (The New Press). He lives in Richmond\, California. \nEva Jefferson Paterson has campaigned for civil rights with passion\, courage and tenacity for more than three decades. Paterson is the President and a co-founder of the Equal Justice Society\, a legal organization transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law\, social science\, and the arts. \nThe Equal Justice Society is transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law\, social science\, and the arts. Led by President Eva Paterson\, our legal strategy aims to broaden conceptions of present-day discrimination to include unconscious and structural bias by using social science\, structural analysis\, and real-life experience.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ian-haney-lopez-in-conversation-with-eva-paterson/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:San Francisco in Queer Fiction\, by the Decade
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith welcomes Perfectly Queer Reading Series back as they present a night of readings: San Francisco in Queer Fiction\, by the Decade. Please join us! \nSan Francisco has been the location for many works of fiction\, from McTeague by Frank Norris to Less by Andrew Sean Greer. Join us Tuesday\, October 8\, 7pm at The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight (in San Francisco\, of course) to hear readings from four novels with San Francisco as their setting\, written by LGBTQ authors: Blackmail\, My Love by Katie Gilmartin\, Eat Sleep Love by Chuck Forester\, Steam by the late Jay B. Laws (as read byRichard May)\, and Five Windows by Jon Roemer. These books span life in San Francisco from the 1950s to the 70s and 80s to the contemporary city. Free admission and free refreshments. Book signing after the readings. \n\nChuck Forester was raised in northern Wisconsin. He attended Dartmouth and Penn and holds an MCP in city planning and an MFA in poetry. Chuck worked on staff for three San Francisco mayors. His philanthropic work includes leading the successful campaign to establish the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center at the San Francisco Main Library\, which raised $3.5 million. Michael A. Schoch\, his partner of 18 years\, succumbed to AIDS in 1994. Chuck has been an HIV-survivor since 1987. Eat Sleep Love is his latest novel. \nKatie Gilmartin’s checkered past includes stints as a buoyant union organizer\, bona fide sex researcher\, and deeply engaged college professor.  She teaches linocut and monotype classes at Chrysalis Studio in SOMArts and runs the Queer Ancestors Project\, devoted to forging sturdy relationships between young Queer and Trans artists and their ancestors.  Her illustrated noir mystery\, Blackmail My Love\, explores real and imagined Queer ancestors in early 1950s San Francisco.  Katie’s next novel\, Thrill Spot\, will be a fictional account of an actual 1954 raid on a lesbian bar called Tommy’s Place\, in North Beach. \nJon Roemer is a writer and editor based in San Francisco. He is founder and senior editor of Outpost19\, an award-winning book publisher. He is Queer\, a San Francisco resident since 1991\, and an explorer of urban change. Jon studied literature and fiction writing at Northwestern University. Five Windows is Jon’s first novel. \nJay B. Laws was a San Francisco playwright and writer. His first novel\, Steam\, was published by Alyson Books in 1991 and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. Jay died from AIDS in 1992\, a week after completing changes on the manuscript for his second novel\, The Unfinished\, which was published posthumously in 1993. This re-issue of Steamis from ReQueered Tales\, a new publisher specializing in republishing out of print Gay and Lesbian works. \n  \nAbout ReQueered Tales: \nPerhaps forty years of gay fiction – and notably gay and lesbian mystery\, detective and suspense fiction – has been teetering on the brink of obscurity. Orphaned works\, orphaned authors\, many living and some having passed away – with no one to make the case for their creations to be returned to print (and e-print!). Until now. That is the mission of ReQueered Tales. We are honored…to be custodians shepherding back into circulation some of the best Gay and Lesbian fiction writing. See their list of current and upcoming re-publications at requeeredtales.com. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of any of the authors’ books\, send your request to events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-in-queer-fiction-by-the-decade/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nick Flynn: a Reading\, a Conversation
DESCRIPTION:The Reading: Nick Flynn’s latest book is I Will Destroy You\, poetry that interrogates the potential of art to be redemptive\, to remake and reform. But first the maker of art must claim responsibility for his past\, his actions\, his propensity to destroy others and himself. The poems delve into the deepest\, most defeating parts of the self: addiction\, temptation\, infidelity\, and repressed memory. These are poems of profound self-scrutiny and lyric intensity\, jagged and probing. \nThe Conversation: Nick will be in conversation with Ben Terrall\, publisher of Namaste Motherfu**er.   The Reading: Nick Flynn’s latest book is I Will Destroy You\, poetry that interrogates the potential of art to be redemptive\, to remake and reform. But first the maker of art must claim responsibility for his past\, his actions\, his propensity to destroy others and himself. The poems delve into the deepest\, most defeating parts of the self: addiction\, temptation\, infidelity\, and repressed memory. These are poems of profound self-scrutiny and lyric intensity\, jagged and probing. \nThe Conversation: Nick will be in conversation with Ben Terrall\, publisher of Namaste Motherfu**er.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nick-flynn-a-reading-a-conversation/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T210000
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading Series with Ingrid Rojas Contreras
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\n\nWednesday\, October 9\, 2019 –  \n7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nIngrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree won the Silver Medal in First Fiction from the California Book Awards. Fruit of the Drunken Tree was an Indie Next selection\, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection\, and a New York Times editor’s choice. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, The Paris Review\, Buzzfeed\, The Believer\, Nylon\, Guernica\, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, the Camargo Foundation\, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures. She is working on a family memoir about her grandfather\, a curandero from Colombia who it was said had the power to move clouds.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/creative-writing-reading-series-with-ingrid-rojas-contreras/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T193000
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SUMMARY:How to Cure a Ghost: Poems with Fariha Róisín
DESCRIPTION:How to Cure a Ghost: Poems with Fariha Róisín\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, October 9\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nFahira Róisín shares poems from her new collection\, How to Cure a Ghost. \nFollowing in the footsteps of such category killers as Milk and Honey and Whiskey Words & a Shovel I\, Fariha Róisín’s poetry book is a collection of her thoughts as a young\, queer\, Muslim femme navigating the difficulties of her intersectionality. Simultaneously\, this compilation unpacks the contentious relationship that exists between Róisín and her mother\, her platonic and romantic heartbreaks\, and the cognitive dissonance felt as a result of being so divided among her broad spectrum of identities.\n \nPRAISE\n “When I first encountered Fariha’s writing\, I let out a sigh of relief. Was it refreshing? Yes. But there was something more. Her words allow us to feel visible. Fariha’s writing has the power to heal and transform. She pulls you into her stories until you’re at the edge of your seat\, emphatically rooting for her subjects.” \n— Rupi Kuar \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nFariha Róisín is an Australian-Canadian writer\, editor\, and podcaster based in Brooklyn. Her writing often explores Muslim identity\, race\, pop culture\, and film. It also examines the intersection of queerness and being a femme of color while navigating a white world. She has written for The New York Times\, Al Jazeera\, The Guardian\, Vice\, Fusion\, Village Voice and others. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, October 9\, 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/how-to-cure-a-ghost-poems-with-fariha-roisin/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191010T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191010T210000
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SUMMARY:2019 Marin Poetry Center Anthology Launch
DESCRIPTION:This event celebrates local poets reading their work from the anthology. The theme is “The Wild.” There will be many different voices and a lively reading.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2019-marin-poetry-center-anthology-launch/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191010T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191010T210000
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SUMMARY:Kim Magowan: The Light Source
DESCRIPTION:Kim Magowan discusses her new novel\, The Light Source. \nAbout The Light Source \nThe relationship between Heather Katchadourian and Julie Howe is complicated. Over the past two decades\, they’ve been just about everything to each other: boarding school roommates\, best friends\, lovers\, rivals\, even co-parents–both together and estranged. Will they find their way back to each other\, or have they inflicted too much damage along the way? Reminiscent of the work of Meg Wolitzer\, and narrated by Heather\, Julie\, their lifelong friends\, partners\, and children\, The Light Source is a prismatic portrayal of what everlasting modern love truly looks like and reminds us that what’s meant-to-be becomes harder to define with age.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-magowan-the-light-source/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191012T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191012T143000
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SUMMARY:Filipino American HOTP Literary Readings
DESCRIPTION:Hot Off the Press Literary Reading showcases Filipino American authors with new books. HOTP Literary Reading is part of the 5th Filipino American International Book Festival which will be held at the San Francisco Main Library. The HOTP Literary Reading will be on Saturday\, October 12\, 2019 at 1 p.m. at the Koret Auditorium of the Main Library.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/filipino-american-hotp-literary-readings/
LOCATION:Koret Auditorium\, San Francisco Main Library\, 100 Larkin Avenune\, SAN FRANCISCO\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191012T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191012T160000
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SUMMARY:Bikes to Books Six-Year Anniversary Ride
DESCRIPTION:Combining San Francisco history\, art\, literature\, cycling\, and urban exploration\, Bikes to Books began as an homage to the 1988 street-naming project spearheaded by City Lights Books founder and former San Francisco Poet Laureate\, Lawrence Ferlinghetti\, in which 12 San Francisco streets were renamed for famous artists and authors who had once made San Francisco their home. Since 2013\, we’ve been leading our signature 7.1 mile tour of literary San Francisco from South Park to North Beach\, Jack London to Jack Kerouac\, and we’re excited to celebrate our six-year anniversary with you! Bring anecdotes or snippets of work of the featured authors to share\, or just come learn their stories as we ride through the city. \nMeet us on the north side of Jack London in South Park at 12:45. Bring bikes with gears\, snacks\, and enthusiasm. This is an urban ride of moderate difficulty\, recommended for riders 16 years of age and older. \nSaturday\, October 12\, 12:45-4:00 p.m.\nNorth side of Jack London Alley\, in South Park\, SF \nTour ends in North Beach outside City Lights Books \nEvent is Free\, with maps and posters available for purchase.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bikes-to-books-six-year-anniversary-ride/
LOCATION:Jack London Street\, Jack London Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191012T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191012T200000
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SUMMARY:The Pugilist Poets of Venice book launch
DESCRIPTION:A Boomer\, an Xer\, and a Millennial walk into a book… \nJoin us for the launch of Jon Sindell’s new novel\, The Pugilist Poets of Venice\, from Big Table Publishing. \nMusic from The Book of Jones\, John Blatchford of Wax Moon\, Steven Kacsmar of Phantom City\, and Michael Crabtree will be followed by a reading from the book and an author signing. \nSee the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNsCrxzUUs0&feature=youtu.be \nFine authors say: \n“This is a rollicking\, big-hearted tale\, full of laughter\, bravery and unflinching humanity. The touch is light\, but the questions are big: family\, loyalty\, art\, and love are the rightful subjects of Sindell’s troupe of misfits and raconteurs\, each of them a poet and each of them a pugilist too in this deeply funny and deeply felt novel.” \n~ Emily Kiernan\, author of The Great Divide \n“The Pugilist Poets of Venice is author Jon Sindell’s big fat juicy love letter to literature\, Los Angeles and\, most of all\, love. Disguised as a novel about free-spirited parenting\, boys becoming men and men becoming\, well\, grown-ups\, The Pugilist pulls no punches. With prose that zings\, swings and frequently sings\, Sindell tells a tough yet tender tale of brazen heartbreak amid ’90s bohemian hipsters.” \n~  Tracy DeBrincat\, author of Hollywood Buckaroo and Troglodyte \n  \n“Funny\, sad\, relatable\, and engrossing” \n~ Stephen D. Gutierrez\, American Book Award Winner \n  \n“With unflinching honesty\, humor and a keen eye for detail\, Sindell brings unforgettable characters to life in all their flaws and virtues. Page after page\, they kept surprising me; I couldn’t put the book down.” \n~ Martin McCaw\, The Low Road\, finalist in the International Book Awards \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-pugilist-poets-of-venice-book-launch/
LOCATION:Rolling Out Cafe\, 1722 Taraval St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191012T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191012T210000
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SUMMARY:Giacomo Sartori: I Am God
DESCRIPTION:Italian writer Giacomo Sartori discusses his new novel\, I Am God. \nPraise for I Am God \n“Who better to reflect on the state of the planet  than its creator? I Am God is by turns funny\, sad\, outrageous\, and tender—a cosmic romp.”— Elizabeth Kolbert\, Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction \n“I am God is like a mirthful dream made real by the ingenuity of Sartori’s prose and Randall’s splendidly pointed and sly translation.”— Elizabeth McKenzie\, author of The Portable Veblen \n“A playful\, exciting\, mockingly modern voice\, translated\, what’s more\, by one of the few translators who can really make the Italian vernacular sing truly and fluently in English.”— Tim Parks\, author of Italian Ways and Italian Neighbors \nAbout I Am God \nDiabolically funny and subversively philosophical\, Italian novelist Giacomo Sartori’s I am God is the diary of the Almighty’s existential crisis that ensues when he falls in love with a human. \nI am God. Have been forever\, will be forever. Forever\, mind you\, with the razor-sharp glint of a diamond\, and without any counterpart in the languages of men. So begins God’s diary of the existential crisis that ensues when\, inexplicably\, he falls in love with a human. And not just any human\, but a geneticist and fanatical atheist who’s certain she can improve upon the magnificent creation she doesn’t even give him the credit for. It’s frustrating\, for a god. \nGod has infinitely bigger things to occupy his celestial attentions. Yet he can’t tear his eyes (so to speak) from the geneticist who’s unsettlingly avid when it comes to science\, sex\, and Sicilian cannoli. Whatever happens\, he must safeguard his transcendental dignity. So he watches—disinterestedly\, of course—as the handsome climatologist who has his sights set on her keeps having strange accidents. And as the lanky geneticist becomes hell-bent on infiltrating the Vatican’s secret files\, for reasons of her own…. \nA sly critique of the hypocrisy and hubris that underlie faith in religion\, science\, and macho careerism\, I Am God takes us on a hilarious and provocative romp through the Big Questions with the universe’s supreme storyteller. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/giacomo-sartori-i-am-god/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191013T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191013T180000
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SUMMARY:Mike and Anne Howard / Comfortably Wild: The Best Glamping Destinations in North America
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery welcomes Mike and Anne Howard back for their second book\, Comfortably Wild: The Best Glamping Destinations in North America. Join us! \nRiver rafting between luxury camps\, harvesting vegetables for a farm-to-table dinner\, and ziplining to your treehouse suite\, this is experiential travel at its finest. Breaking the mold of big-box hotels and transforming camping into a glamorous affair\, this revolutionary travel style needed its story told. Traveling over 73\,000 miles from Canada to Costa Rica\, authors Mike & Anne Howard of the acclaimed blog HoneyTrek.com sought out the best glamping destinations in North America and the deeper meaning of this trending term. In the first guide of its kind\, the Howards dive into the origins of glamping and this 21st-century craving for unconventional experiences that effortlessly connect us with nature\, our loved ones\, and ourselves. Rather than being organized by style of lodging\, each chapter of Comfortably Wild offers a unique way to vacation\, like the boutique farmstays in “Cultivate\,” wellness retreats in “Rejuvenate\,” and the action-packed journeys of “In Motion.” Seventy-plus destinations across nine countries come alive with colorful descriptions and hundreds of gorgeous photographs. In addition to inspiring stories\, they offer practical tips to finding the right destinations for you and mobilizing a lifetime of unforgettable adventures. \n\nMike and Anne Howard left on their honeymoon in January 2012 and never came home. They created HoneyTrek.com to chronicle their journey across all seven continents and to help people mobilize their travel dreams. Their story as the “World’s Longest Honeymooners\,” savvy tips\, and blog have been acclaimed by the AP\, Lonely Planet\, USA Today\, Condé Nast Traveler\, CBS\, and more. Having scouted hotels around the world for Honeymoons.com\, blogged for Glamping.com\, and authored National Geographic’s best-selling book on couples adventure travel (Ultimate Journeys for Two)\, the Howards were poised to write the first-ever book on glamping in North America. Through their writing\, photography\, public speaking\, trip coaching\, travel advising\, and social media\, the Howards hope to inspire more people to explore outside their comfort zone. Follow their adventures @HoneyTrek. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens with the store at 2pm; event starts at 4pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Comfortably Wild\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mike-and-anne-howard-comfortably-wild-the-best-glamping-destinations-in-north-america/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society - Litquake 2019
DESCRIPTION:Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society – Litquake 2019\nSunday\, October 13\, 2019\, 5:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\nCity Lights in conjunction with Litquake present \nTales of the San Francisco Cacaphony Society \nwith John Law and friends \ncelebrating the release of the revised edition of the counter culture classic \n  \nTales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society \nproduced by Kevin Evans\, John Law\, and Carrie Galbraith \npublished by Last Gasp Books \nA template for pranksters\, artists\, adventurers and anyone interested in rampant creativity\, for years to come. \nTales Of The San Francisco Cacophony Society tells the history of the most influential underground cabal that you have never heard of. \nRising from the ashes of the mysterious and legendary Suicide Club\, The Cacophony Society\, at its zenith\, hosted chapters in over a dozen major cities\, and influenced much of what was once called the underground. \nFlash Mobs\, Urban Exploration\, and Culture Jamming are a few of the pop culture trends that Cacophony helped kick off. \nChuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club\, Burning Man and Internet social networking powerhouse Laughing Squid were informed and inspired by Cacophony. The Burning Man Festival actually began as a Cacophony event as did the annual\, and now world-wide SantaCon. \nCacophony events could range from something as simple as climbing the Golden Gate Bridge or having a discussion over drinks about a movie seen together\, to something as elaborate as The Atomic Café — an event involving a hundred bedraggled “nuclear holocaust Survivors” mounting elaborate costumed rituals throughout the bowels of a massive abandoned tooth paste factory. \nYes…. Cacophony was that strange. \nCacophony’s heyday was concurrent with the rise of the internet. The story of this group is of historical significance for this reason. Information about upcoming pranks\, street theater and other events hosted by Cacophony was spread by paper flyers posted on telephone poles and left in coffee shops\, by the Societies mailer “Rough Draft” and by word of mouth. Then\, with the genesis of personal computing and social networking\, the jokers\, artists and troublemakers of Cacophony were among some of the first non-geeks to explore the power of this new and world changing way of communicating. \nBurning Man\, Urban Exploration\, flash mobs and the like were avenues of creativity with their roots in Cacophony\, that spread like wildfire through the mechanism of these new communication technologies. \nWhat has been said about the Cacaphony Society: \n“Find out what you are afraid of and go live there” — Chuck Palahniuk\, Fight Club \n“A book every lover of eccentricity and enemy of the status quo should enjoy.” — Margaret Cho
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tales-of-the-san-francisco-cacophony-society-litquake-2019/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191014T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191014T210000
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SUMMARY:Daniel Poppick: Fear of Description
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Poppick reads from his new poetry collection\, Fear of Description. \nPraise for Fear of Description: \n“No matter where a reader begins in Fear of Description\, the end is near and a beginning closer.  As far as this book travels\, it’s always there to meet itself\, though its trajectory is never predictable.  There is also the ancient lament of the worker/writer\, trying to sing a timeless song in an age of ring tones. Poppick’s stop-motion ability to convey multitude in moments is genius—Merwin-like in its sensorial clarity\, and\, where the poet chooses formal restriction\, Keatsian in density and bloom.” —Brenda Shaughnessy\, author of Our Andromeda \n“In Fear of Description\, Daniel Poppick\, like many of the most interesting writers of our time\, folds the labor of writing into the content of his poetry\, stirs it around\, and comes up with something genuinely free. The wildness of his lines had me amazed and grateful.” —Lucy Ives\, author of Impossible Views of the World  \n“Fear of Description is a bold book. Through Poppick’s memories we relive that brief window of youth when friendship is the magic audience that grounds us. In a world that seems stingy and random\, Poppick and his friends glean meaning from seances\, road trips\, shared economic anxiety\, houses\, and shaving rituals. Tears\, like the dead\, sneak up on them.” —Jennifer Moxley\, author of The Open Secret  \nAbout Fear of Description \nFrom Midwestern bars to Brooklyn apartments\, narrative poems that find millennials adrift–in political upheaval and personal crisis–and trying to find their way back to one another \nWinner of the 2018 National Poetry Series competition\, selected by Brenda Shaughnessy \nThese poems tell the story of a generation in crisis: at odds with its own ideals\, precariously (or just un-) employed\, and absolutely terrified of seeing itself in the planet’s future. Is our contemporary moment pure tragedy\, or a dark joke? Can it be both? Cutting back and forth in time and ranging between elegiac lyrics and autobiographical accounts of a group of poets moving from Iowa to Brooklyn in the years just before and after the 2016 election\, Fear of Description reinvigorates the prose poem\, exploring the slippery terrain between grief and friendship\, artifice and technology\, writing and ritual\, hauntings and obsessions–searching for joy in art but instead finding it in pitch darkness.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-poppick-fear-of-description/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191015T133000
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SUMMARY:Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake at Jessie Square
DESCRIPTION:The monthly collaboration between Litquake: San Francisco’s Literary Festival and the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival features an array of Bay Area poets and musicians.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-at-jessie-square-6/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T193000
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SUMMARY:Laleh Khadivi
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, October 15\, 2019 | 5:30 pm | Mills Hall Living Room\n\nLaleh Khadivi was born in Esfahan\, Iran. She is the author of three novels that form an interconnected trilogy about nationalism\, belonging\, and migration. Khadivi is the recipient of the Whiting Award for Fiction\, the Barnes and Noble Discover New Writers Award\, a National Endowment for the Arts grant\, and a Pushcart Prize. Her debut documentary film 900 WOMEN aired on A&E and premiered at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in the Los Angeles Times\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, The Sun\, and other publications. She is an alumni of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Mills College and a professor at the University of San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laleh-khadivi-2/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mills College":MAILTO:syoung@mills.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T200000
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CREATED:20190826T135412Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190826T135534Z
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SUMMARY:Pints & Prose
DESCRIPTION:Fairfax joins the Litquake Literary Festival with a revival of the popular Pints & Prose reading series from the Tuesday Night Writers! Featuring readings from special guests Molly Giles\, Holly Payne and Nina Schuyler and of course\, the Tuesday Night Writers: Cyn Cady\, Chris Cole\, Amanda Conran\, Josh Gibson\, Tanya Egan Gibson and Tom Joyce. NO COVER! Full cocktail bar and appetizers available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pints-prose/
LOCATION:Bootleggers Lodge\, 367 Bolinas Road\, Fairfax\, CA\, 94930
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T041529
CREATED:20190825T145439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190825T145439Z
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SUMMARY:Litquake Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:TUESDAY\, OCTOBER 15\, 2019 – 7:00PM \n  \nFunny & Peculiar: Santa Cruz Writers on Keeping it Weird \nIt’s 2019 and it seems like things couldn’t get any stranger. What better time to mine the oddities of life with noted writers Elizabeth  McKenzie\, Micah Perks\, Peggy Townsend\, Liza Monroy and Wallace Baine? Moderated by Dan White and Amy Ettinger. This event is co-presented by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nRead more about Litquake\, celebrating it’s 20th Anniversary\, here. \nAbout the writers: \nElizabeth McKenzie’s novel The Portable Veblen was longlisted for the National Book Award for fiction and received the California Book Award for fiction. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Tin House\, Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and others. \nMicah Perks is the author of four books\, most recently a book of linked short stories\, True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape and the novel What Becomes Us\, winner of an Independent Publisher’s Book Award and named one of the Top Ten Books about the Apocalypse by The Guardian. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Epoch\, Zyzzyva\, Tin House\, and The Rumpus\, amongst many journals and anthologies. She has won an NEA\, five Pushcart Prize nominations\, residencies at MacDowell and Blue Mountain Center\, and the New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. \nWallace Baine is an award-winning journalist and arts writer who regularly contributes to Santa Cruz Good Times\, Metro Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Chronicle.  His work has been syndicated in newspapers nationwide and his fiction has appeared in the Catamaran Literary Reader\, the Chicago Quarterly Review\, and as part of the Santa Cruz Noir collection of short stories. His most recent book is a history of Bookshop Santa Cruz called A Light in the Midst of Darkness. \nPeggy Townsend is an award-winning newspaper journalist and author of the bestselling 2018 mystery novel\, See Her Run and its follow-up\, The Thin Edge\, both published by Thomas &  Mercer. As a reporter\, she has covered serial killers\, murder trials and once chased an escaped murderer through a graveyard at midnight. When she isn’t outdoors\, she’s either writing magazine profiles for UC Santa Cruz or working on her third novel. She divides her time between Santa Cruz and Lake Tahoe. \nLiza Monroy is the author of three books: the novel Mexican High\, the memoir The Marriage Act: The Risk I Took To Keep My Best Friend in America and What It Taught Us About Love\, and the essay collection Seeing As Your Shoes Are Soon To Be On Fire. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, the LA Times\, The Washington Post\, O\, Marie Claire\, Jezebel\, Catamaran\, and other publications. One of her columns for the New York Times‘ “Modern Love” will appear in this fall’s anthology of the “most popular and unforgettable essays” of the series. She teaches writing at UC Santa Cruz and lives downtown with her husband\, two tiny humans\, a pug and unruly potbellied pig Señor Bacon. Currently\, she is writing her second novel\, a dark comedy of technology and obsession.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T210000
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Tommy Orange
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an incredible evening celebrating literature with the Pulitzer Prize finalist author of There\, There. \nTommy Orange is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts\, where he now teaches. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma\, he was born and raised in Oakland\, California. His first novel There There won the PEN/Hemingway Award\, was 2019 Pulitzer Fiction finalist\, was longlisted for a National Book Award\, and was named one of the Best Books of 2018 by many publications. \nPlease keep an eye on this event page for forthcoming ticketing information.https://www.sfsu.edu/~sfsumap/southeast.htm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-tommy-orange/
LOCATION:Knuth Hall\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco\, California\, 94132
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T041529
CREATED:20190827T020254Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190827T020254Z
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SUMMARY:Hexing the Patriarchy with Ariel Gore
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a magical evening with Ariel Gore\, Michelle Gonzales (The Spitboy Rule)\, MK Chavez (Dear Animal)\, Dani Burlison (All of Me)\, Michelle Threadgould\, and Four Elements Fitness (Oakland).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hexing-the-patriarchy-with-ariel-gore/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T210000
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CREATED:20190822T231241Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190822T231241Z
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SUMMARY:Dr. M Jackson: The Secret Lives of Glaciers
DESCRIPTION:Dr. M Jackson discusses her new book\, The Secret Lives of Glaciers. \nPraise for The Secret Lives of Glaciers \n“This outrageous book\, rich with revelation and stewardship\, is\, at its deepest level\, an icy blue love story to make us reconsider what it means to be fully alive – and open to wonder – in our ever-changing world.” Kim Heacox\, Author\, John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire \n“M Jackson brings a powerful combination of skills to bear in her ambitious task of complicating our understanding of the rapidly dwindling masses of ice with which we share this planet. Blending hands-on science\, vivid descriptive writing\, affecting personal anecdote\, and insightful cultural observation\, The Secret Lives of Glaciers is a hypnotic and inspiring book–essential reading for anyone who loves nature and is concerned about the human species’ continued existence within it.” Tim Weed\, Author\, A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing \n“M Jackson is a master storyteller\, weaving evocative anecdotes and historical and scientific narratives into an intricate dance of the relationship between man and ice. Jackson writes eloquently\, her stories of the real\, concrete effects of climate change on the people of Iceland both informative and heart-wrenching. ” Dr. Michele Koppes\, Glaciologist & Geographer \nAbout The Secret Lives of Glaciers \nGeographer\, adventurer\, environmental educator\, 2018 TED Fellow and National Geographic Society Emerging Explorer Dr. M Jackson studies and writes about glaciers and climate change worldwide. \nSeeking to understand the wild diversity and complexity that exists between people and ice\, Jackson lived for a year on the south-eastern coast of Iceland\, chronicling in The Secret Lives of Glaciers the cultural and societal impacts of glacier change on local communities. Jackson interviewed hundreds of Icelanders living in close proximity to ice\, seeking to understand just what was at stake as the island’s ice disappeared. \nPainstakingly detailed\, Jackson recounts stories of glaciers told by people throughout the region\, stories exploring the often conflicting and controversial plasticity of glaciers\, the power glaciers enact in society\, the possible sentience of glaciers\, and the range of intertwined positive and negative consequences glacier change produces throughout Iceland. The Secret Lives of Glaciers reaches beyond Iceland and touches on changing glaciers everywhere\, revealing oft-overlooked interactions between people and ice throughout human history. \nThe Secret Lives of Glaciers delivers a critical message: understanding glaciers and people together teaches us about how human society worldwide experiences being in the world today amidst increasing climatic changes and anthropogenic transformation of all of Earth’s systems. Instead of creating another catalogue of all the ice the world is losing\, The Secret Lives of Glaciers explores what we may yet find with glaciers: hope for humanity\, and the possibility of saving this world’s glaciers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dr-m-jackson-the-secret-lives-of-glaciers/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T213000
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SUMMARY:LAUNCH for Rachel Swaby and Kit Fox / Mighty Moe: The True Story of a Thirteen-Year-Old Women's Running Revolutionary
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith celebrates the launch of the new book by Rachel Swaby and Kit Fox\, Mighty Moe: The True Story of a Thirteen-Year-Old Women’s Running Revolutionary. please join us! \n“A story lost to history illuminates the unique way sports supports feminism . . . A story about what running really is: competing with other runners and not against them.” – Kirkus Reviews \nFifty-two years ago\, a girl known as Mighty Moe broke the women’s world marathon record at a small race in Toronto. This was an era when girls and women were discouraged from the sport and the longest track event at the Olympics for women was 25.6 miles shorter than a marathon. Thirteen-year-old Moe’s world-beating victory was greeted with chauvinistic disapproval and accusations of cheating—as were many of her achievements in the sport she had excelled at from the age of ten. Within less than two years\, the controversy took its toll and Maureen quit running. \nHere is the untold story of Mighty Moe’s tenacity and triumph in the face of adversity as a young athlete—and of a grown-up Maureen finding her way back to the sport decades later. This inspiring biography for readers and racers of all ages showcases the truly groundbreaking achievements of an unassuming\, amazing young athlete. \nMighty Moe includes an introduction by Kathrine Switzer\, the first woman to officially register and run in the Boston Marathon (and Maureen’s only fellow female competitor at the 1967 record-setting race)\, and an afterword by Des Linden\, the first-place finisher of the 11\,628 women who raced the 2018 Boston Marathon. \n\nRachel Swaby and Kit Fox produced the Runner’s World podcast “Human Race\,” where Mighty Moe’s story was first told. Rachel is the author of Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science—and the World (a Random House adult title) as well as its MG version\, Trailblazers: 33 Women in Science Who Changed the World\, and Kit is a magazine editor at Hearst. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Might Moe\, order below and put your request in the comments field; to request signed copies of Rachel’s other books\, order here and do the same.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-rachel-swaby-and-kit-fox-mighty-moe-the-true-story-of-a-thirteen-year-old-womens-running-revolutionary/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Michelle Ruiz Keil presents All of Us with Wings
DESCRIPTION:Michelle Ruiz Keil presents All of Us with Wings\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, October 15\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nMichelle Ruiz Keil reads from and signs copies of All of Us with Wings\, a YA magical realism novel about love\, found family\, and healing from trauma. An ode to post-punk San Francisco through the eyes of a Mexican-American girl. \n   \n“A spellbinding tale about finding magic in the mundane and hope in the unknown. Filled with dizzying danger and electrifying music\, All of Us with Wings left me breathless.”\n—Ruth Ozeki\, author of A Tale for the Time Being  \n  \nAbout All of Us With Wings: \nSeventeen-year-old Xochi is alone in San Francisco\, running from her painful past: the mother who abandoned her\, the man who betrayed her. Then one day\, she meets Pallas\, a precocious twelve-year-old who lives with her rockstar family in one of the city’s storybook Victorians. Xochi accepts a position as Pallas’s live-in governess and quickly finds her place in the girl’s tight-knit household\, which operates on a free-love philosophy and easy warmth despite the band’s growing fame. \nBut on the night of the Vernal Equinox\, as a concert afterparty rages in the house below\, Xochi and Pallas perform a riot-grrrl ritual in good fun\, accidentally summoning a pair of ancient beings bound to avenge the wrongs of Xochi’s past. She would do anything to preserve her new life\, but with the creatures determined to exact vengeance on those who’ve hurt her\, no one is safe—not the family Xochi’s chosen\, nor the one she left behind. \n\nAbout the Author:\nMichelle Ruiz Keil is a Latinx novelist and playwright with an eye for the enchanted and a way with animals. She teaches writing with a focus on fairytale\, divination\, and archetype and curates All Kinds of Fur: A Fairytale Reading Series and Salon in Portland\, Oregon. She has been a fellow at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and Lit Camp and is a member of Las Musas\, a collective of Latinx kidlit authors. Her published short fiction can be found in Cosmonauts Avenue and the forthcoming anthology Color Outside The Lines. You can follow her on Twitter @MichelleRKeil and on Instagram @MichelleRuizKeil. ALL OF US WITH WINGS is her first novel. \n\nPRAISE\nA Barnes & Noble Most Anticipated #OwnVoices YA Book of 2019\nA Paste Best Young Adult Book of June 2019\nA Book Riot Most Anticipated LGBTQ Read of 2019\nA Book Riot Must-Read Debut Book of 2019 \n“Keil’s ambitious debut is jam-packed with twists and depth and froth and function . . . [this is] a book about embracing everything—people\, lifestyles\, beliefs\, experiences—and\, in so doing\, finding your own distinct power.”\n—The New York Times Book Review \n“In her debut novel\, Michelle Ruiz Keil crafts a fantastical ode to the Golden City’s postpunk era.”\n—Entertainment Weekly  \n“A spellbinding tale about finding magic in the mundane and hope in the unknown. Filled with dizzying danger and electrifying music\, All of Us with Wings left me breathless.”\n—Ruth Ozeki\, Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author of A Tale for the Time Being \n“Michelle Ruiz Keil creates a vivid and original novel full of music\, rage\, and characters that sing with purpose. Keil is a new voice to keep an eye on.”\n—Zoraida Córdova\, award-winning author of Labyrinth Lost   \n“A love letter to live music\, a poem to a city in novel form\, and a poignantly nuanced examination of the ways in which performance impacts life on and off stage. In equal parts realistic detail and surreal vision\, All of Us with Wings bursts off the page and goes with you into real life.”\n—Anna-Marie McLemore\, author of Stonewall Honor Book When the Moon Was Ours and Blanca & Roja \n“All of Us with Wings is a decadent slice of post-punk rockstardom that will have you begging to stay at the party till sunrise. This gorgeous debut looks unflinchingly into often unexplored experiences of adolescence—abuse and addiction\, lust and desire\, found families and chosen homes—finding beauty and redemption even in the darkest places.”\n—Tehlor Kay Mejia\, author of We Set the Dark on Fire \n“I’m convinced that Michelle Ruiz Keil has woven a magic spell into these pages. All of Us with Wings is gorgeous\, gritty\, and utterly transfixing.”\n—Sara Holland\, New York Times bestselling author of Everless \n“Michelle Ruiz Keil puts exquisite language and wild imagination to the fierce onslaught of sensation and doubt that is adolescence. This is a story for young adults\, but perhaps it is also a deeply poetic tale of what is lost in the transition to adulthood.”\n—Joanna Rose\, author of Little Miss Strange \n“An irresistible punk rock spirit . . . sets it apart from standard fantasy fare.”\n—Popsugar \n“[An] atmospheric debut . . . Keil plays with prose and imagery\, interweaving the dreamlike language of Francesca Lia Block with a Latin-American sensibility. The frank inclusion of sexual exploration and drug use adds an extra level of maturity to this thoughtful story about trauma and vengeance\, adult decision making\, and recovery.”\n—Publishers Weekly  \n“This intricately constructed urban fantasy is complex and beautiful\, blending folklore\, San Franciscan history\, the music scene\, vampires\, magic\, and the intertwined lives of characters\, including a cat named Peasblossom who sees and understands more than the humans . . . Fantasy fans will find this book appealing\, fun\, and hard to put down.”\n—School Library Journal \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, October 15\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michelle-ruiz-keil-presents-all-of-us-with-wings/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Margaret Gibson & Lisa Rappoport
DESCRIPTION:Margaret Gibson is the poet laureate of Connecticut and has been short-listed for the National Book Award. Her lyrical and meditative poems celebrate the “sometimes painful\, sometimes joyful experience of unfolding Consciousness.” Her books include Signs\, Long Walks in the Afternoon (which was a Lamont Poetry Selection)\, The Vigil\, Earth Elegy: New and Selected Poems\, One Body\, Second Nature\, Broken Cup\, and the most recently\, Not Hearing the Wood Thrush. \nGibson’s honors include a National Endowment for the Arts grant\, Connecticut Commission on the Arts grants\, a Lila Wallace/Reader’s Digest Teaching Fellowship\, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship\, and residencies at Yaddo. She is the recipient of a Melville Kane Award from the Poetry Society of America\, a James Boatwright III Prize for Poetry\, and two Pushcart Prizes. Gibson has taught and held writer-in-residence positions at many universities and colleges\, including American University\, Elon College\, Trinity College\, and Reed University. She is professor emerita at the University of Connecticut and lives in Connecticut. \nLisa Rappoport is a poet and fine letterpress printer based in the Bay Area. Her witty\, playful\, acerbic poems often explore the complex and conflicting emotions of contemporary life. Her newest book\, Penumbra\, was recently published by Longship Press. Photo credit: Bobbe Besold.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/margaret-gibson-lisa-rappoport/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:LOGIC MAGAZINE: print/ops - Litquake 2019
DESCRIPTION:LOGIC MAGAZINE: print/ops – Litquake 2019\nWednesday\, October 16\, 2019\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\nprint/ops : a roundtable about technology \nwith Jim Fingal and friends \nWhen developing software systems\, engineers typically seek to automate repetitive tasks to reduce toil — defined as tasks that are manual\, repetitive\, tactical\, devoid of enduring value\, and that scale linearly as a system grows. That works great in the electronic world software systems — but how does this idea apply to the world of small magazines and publishers where we have physical objects to produce and somehow get to people? \nLogic Magazine hosts a round-table of small publishers who get into the nitty-gritty details of the hacks\, kludges\, and workarounds we’ve put into place in our digital systems to enable small groups of people to produce and distribute physical print objects AT SCALE. (Or not so much.)\nLearn more about the magazine\, and read their manifesto\, at logicmag.io.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/logic-magazine-print-ops-litquake-2019/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mesha Maren and M. Randal O'Wain
DESCRIPTION:M. Randal O’Wain and Mesha Maren discuss their new works\, Meander Belt: Family\, Loss and Coming of Age in the Working Class South and Sugar Run. \nAbout Meander Belt \nIn Meander Belt M. Randal O’Wain offers a reflection on how a working-class boy from Memphis\, Tennessee\, came to fall in love with language\, reading\, writing\, and the larger world outside of the American South. This memoir examines what it means for the son of a carpenter to value mental rather than physical labor and what this does to his relationship with his family\, whose livelihood and sensibility are decidedly blue collar. Straining the father-son bond further\, O’Wain leaves home to find a life outside Memphis\, roaming from place to place\, finding odd jobs\, and touring with his band. From memory and observation\, O’Wain assembles a subtle and spare portrait of his roots\, family\, and ultimately discovers that his working-class upbringing is not so antithetical to the man he has become. \nAbout Sugar Run \n“A heady admixture of explosive plot and taut\, burnished prose . . . Mesha Maren writes like a force of nature.” —Lauren Groff\, author of Florida \nIn 1989\, Jodi McCarty is seventeen years old when she’s sentenced to life in prison. When she’s released eighteen years later\, she finds herself at a Greyhound bus stop\, reeling from the shock of unexpected freedom but determined to chart a better course for herself. Not yet able to return to her lost home in the Appalachian Mountains\, she heads south in search of someone she left behind\, as a way of finally making amends. There\, she meets and falls in love with Miranda\, a troubled young mother living in a motel room with her children. Together they head toward what they hope will be a fresh start. But what do you do with your past—and with a town and a family that refuses to forget\, or to change? \nSet within the charged insularity of rural West Virginia\, Mesha Maren’s Sugar Run is a searing and gritty debut about making a break for another life\, the use and treachery of makeshift families\, and how\, no matter the distance we think we’ve traveled from the mistakes we’ve made\, too often we find ourselves standing in precisely the place we began. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mesha-maren-and-m-randal-owain/
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:Caleb Woods / Harnessing Darkness: Expressing Mental Illness Through Poetry
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Caleb Woods for his first book\, Harnessing Darkness: Expressing Mental Illness Through Poetry. Please join us! \nHarnessing Darkness traces the struggle of living with mental illness. Through sections aptly titled Birth\, Life\, Death\, and Rebirth\, Caleb Woods gives readers the experience of what it’s like to live in the mind of someone who struggles with a roller coaster of emotions on a daily basis. Caleb chooses to open the doors of his mind\, allowing you to see not only the dark\, but the light. Caleb lets each nightmare\, depressed thought\, and abundance of anxieties come to the surface with harrowing and hopeful poems about the struggles of living with mental illness and growing up gay in the Bible Belt. Experience loss\, pain\, heartbreak\, and hope with Harnessing Darkness. \n\nCaleb Woods began writing at a young age\, first to cope with bullying at school and later to soothe his depressing thoughts. Growing up in the small town of Pisgah\, Alabama\, he was surrounded by religion and found it increasingly difficult to reconcile his faith with his sexual orientation. Caleb was told he would spend an eternity in hell for being gay – and he believed it. He was first officially diagnosed with PTSD in high school after his closest friend died unexpectedly. He moved away to college but ignored his symptoms and didn’t seek help for his mental illness. After years of suffering silently\, he began to accept his sexual orientation and eventually met his now husband\, Luke. Despite a happy marriage\, Caleb continued to suffer with symptoms of PTSD. At their peak\, the night terrors and panic attacks finally drove him to seek professional help. His doctor quickly confirmed that PTSD was the diagnosis and it wasn’t something to be taken lightly. Today\, Caleb receives treatment for PTSD\, panic disorder\, and depression by attending reoccurring therapy sessions. Throughout these years\, Caleb wrote poetry about his specific struggles surrounding mental illness and growing up gay in the Bible Belt. In his debut book\, Harnessing Darkness: Expressing Mental Illness Through Poetry\, he reveals his most personal thoughts – some dark\, some light\, some suffering\, some uplifting\, but all existential. Currently\, Caleb lives with his husband in Birmingham\, Alabama. He is a full-time writer\, author\, and poet who enjoys reading\, traveling\, playing board games\, and collecting pop culture memorabilia. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event. The Bindery bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Harnessing Darkness\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/caleb-woods-harnessing-darkness-expressing-mental-illness-through-poetry/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Prerna Lal
DESCRIPTION:Prerna Lal\n\n\n\n\nlaunching Unsung America: Immigrant Trailblazers and Our Fight for Freedom. Please join us for a most timely discussion. \n“Deeply insightful and intentionally detailed–Prerna Lal has conceived a text that breaks down the inner workings of the United States immigration system and the impact it has had on the lives of countless immigrants and families. Lal lays out a timeline both old and new\, that vividly chronicles the birth and impact of certain policies\, views\, and opinions within the realm of immigration policy.”–Juan Escalante \nTo reserve your seat please purchase a copy of Unsung America by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, October 16\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nFar too often\, immigrants are demonized and scapegoated\, when they should be celebrated as heroes and revolutionaries. This book strings together both triumphant and painful stories of immigrants who blazed trails and broke barriers in their fight for American citizenship and fundamental human rights. \nThese are ordinary people who have used their own stories on the fight for citizenship to illustrate their triumphs and trials as immigrants in a new land. Each uses a different strategy and tactics; what works for one does not work for another. They all have one thing in common\, however—a desire for racial and social justice. \n  \nPrerna Lal is a naturalized United States citizen\, born and raised in Fiji Islands with roots in the San Francisco Bay Area. Lal is an Indo-Fijian attorney\, based in the Bay Area\, and founder of DreamActivist\, an online advocacy network led by undocumented youth. Through the use of social media\, Lal has been credited for organising an online network to stop the deportations of undocumented youth and they are well known as one of the pivotal figures and leaders of the DREAM Act movement. A clinical law professor\, Lal is a frequent writer on immigration\, racial justice\, sexual orientation\, and how these forces intersect. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/prerna-lal/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, October 16\, 7:30 pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. It’s 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\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, October 16\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nShattuck Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-12/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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