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SUMMARY:Colson Whitehead
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Colson Whitehead: \n“It’s a book you want to read rather than one you should read…while still providing the chilling\, fleshy pleasures of zombies who lurch\, pursue\, hunger. . . . One of the best books of the year.” — Esquire on Zone One \n\n“The freshest racial allegory since Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.” — Walter Kirn\, Time on The Intuitionist \n\n“[Whitehead] takes on a multitude of issues with a rich and probing imagination. His reputation is likely to soar.” — Ishmael Reed\, The Washington Post Book World on John Henry Days \n\nAbout The Underground Railroad: \nFrom prize-winning\, bestselling author Colson Whitehead\, a magnificent\, wrenching\, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. \n  \nCora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all the slaves\, but Cora is an outcast even among her fellow Africans\, and she is coming into womanhood; even greater pain awaits. Caesar\, a recent arrival from Virginia\, tells her about the Underground Railroad\, and they plot their escape. Matters do not go as planned — Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her — but they manage to find a station and head north. \n  \nIn Whitehead’s ingenious conception\, the Underground Railroad is not a metaphor — a secret network of tracks and tunnels has been built beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar’s first stop is South Carolina\, where both find work in a city that at first seems like a haven. But the city’s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens — and Ridgeway\, the relentless slave-catcher sent to find her\, arrives in town. Forced to flee again\, Cora embarks on a harrowing journey\, state-by-state\, seeking true freedom. \n  \nLike Gulliver\, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey — Whitehead brilliantly recreates the unique terrors for black people in states in the pre-Civil War era. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman’s ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage\, and a shattering\, powerful meditation on the history we all share.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/colson-whitehead/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160915T193000
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SUMMARY:2016 Marin Poetry Center Anthology Launch
DESCRIPTION:Come out and eat cake and hear our anthology contributors read their poems. The public is very welcome to attend this always lively and lovely event!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2016-marin-poetry-center-anthology-launch/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160917T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160917T180000
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SUMMARY:George Omi: American Yellow
DESCRIPTION:The day Japan bombed Pearl Harbor\, Minoru Omi’s whole life was turned upside down. \nRacial tensions ran high — his father\, a Japanese immigrant\, is questioned by the FBI\, and eventually his family is uprooted from their lives in San Francisco\, and forcibly relocated to desolate Rohwer\, Arkansas. He and his little sister leave behind their school and friends\, while their immigrant parents give up their hard-won dry cleaning business. Still\, though\, their family resolve persists — and even while facing tough times thousands of miles from the city he was born in\, Minoru manages to get into trouble with snakes\, bullies\, and out-of-bounds candy shops\, just like any other young boy. Interned or not\, he finds a way to thrive. \nFollow the Omi family as they make their way through World War II — from San Francisco to the internment camp in Arkansas and back again in American Yellow. \nGeorge Omi lives in Mill Valley\, California. He has won awards for his writing\, which he only took up after retiring from a successful career as a landscape architect.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/george-omi-american-yellow/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160918T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160918T180000
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SUMMARY:Amor Towles
DESCRIPTION:With his breakout debut novel Rules of Civility\, Amor Towles established himself as a master of absorbing\, sophisticated fiction\, bringing late 1930s Manhattan to life with splendid atmosphere and a flawless command of style. Readers and critics were enchanted; as NPR commented\, “Towles writes with grace and verve about the mores and manners of a society on the cusp of radical change.” \nA Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When\, in 1922\, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal\, the Count is sentenced to house arrest in The Metropol\, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov\, an indomitable man of erudition and wit\, has never worked a day in his life\, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly\, his reduced circumstances provide him a doorway into a much larger world of emotional discovery. \nBrimming with humor\, a glittering cast of characters\, and one beautifully rendered scene after another\, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the Count’s endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose. \nAmor Towles was born and raised just outside Boston\, Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale University and received an MA in English from Stanford University. For many years a principal at an investment firm in Manhattan\, he now devotes himself full time to writing. His first novel\, Rules of Civility\, published in 2011\, was a New York Times bestseller in both hardcover and paperback. Towles lives in Manhattan with his wife and two children. \nMr. Towles is an ardent fan of early 20th century painting\, 1950’s jazz\, 1970’s cop shows\, rock & roll on vinyl\, manifestoes\, breakfast pastries\, pasta\, liquor\, snow-days\, Tuscany\, Provence\, Disneyland\, Hollywood\, the cast of Casablanca\, 007\, Captain Kirk\, Bob Dylan (early\, mid\, and late phases)\, the wee hours\, card games\, cafés\, and the cookies made by both of his grandmothers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amor-towles/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160919T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160919T203000
DTSTAMP:20260409T025724
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Barone + CaraVida
DESCRIPTION:Come hear Jennifer Barone & Cara Vida feature their latest poetry and more. Music and cabaret stylings will ensue with Daniel Heffez on sax and Wendy Loomis on piano. Open mic hosted by Jerry Ferraz. Bring your poems to this wonderfully\, warm\, local book store.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-barone-caravida/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160919T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160919T210000
DTSTAMP:20260409T025724
CREATED:20160720T005626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160720T005626Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Express: James Cagney
DESCRIPTION:Cave Canem fellow James Cagney is a poet and writer from Oakland.  He has appeared as a featured poet and artist in San Francisco\, Vancouver\, Chicago and Mumbai.  His poems have appeared in Print Oriented Bastards\, Tandem\, Eleven Eleven\, and Ambush Review.  His current chapbook is entitled Dirty Thunderstorm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-express-james-cagney/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160919T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160919T213000
DTSTAMP:20260409T025724
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LAST-MODIFIED:20160920T001923Z
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SUMMARY:Lee Marrs
DESCRIPTION:Lee Marrs \nAs the first woman to work for DC Comics AND Marvel simultaneously\, LEE MARRS could have been a footnote in a Swedish graphics history book. But a cantankerous mouth and sense of humor led her to the undergrounds\, where she was one of the founding mommies of the Wimmen’s Comix Collective. Lee’s a 1982 Inkpot Award winner and has been reprinted in nine countries. Best known for her Pudge\, Girl Blimp series\, some of her other work includes Batman\, Wonder Woman and Indiana Jones. Her Emmy Award-winning secret identity was that of Prez of Lee Marrs Artwork\, an art/digital animation company\, for such clients as Apple Computer\, IBM\, Electronic Arts\, and MTV. After 14 years\, Lee is retired from Berkeley City College where she was Multimedia Arts Chair\, passing on sneaky\, effective techniques to new generations of animation students.\nThe Further Fattening Adventures of Pudge\, Girl Blimp \nTeenage runaway plumpie Pudge hitchhikes to San Francisco in the early 1970s with a dread secret: she is still a virgin. Desperate to solve her dilemma\, she launches into the vibrant circus of urban life – street protests\, self-help clinics\, burglary\, job hunting and midnight pizzas. Assisted by her guardian Martians and backed by her commune\, she may have found her potential beau\, a clueless police detective. Or maybe the delivery boy? There’s that chakra-spouting political activist with rampant pimples? But what about her fellow consciousness-raising group member Jane\, she with such warm knowledgeable hands…? A feminist journey fraught with angst and anchovies. \n• • • • • • • • • • • • \nFrom the Foreword: \nAt last\, a funny\, funky\, durable complex heroine who is constantly taking a fresh and satirical look at an aspect of life that is sacred to someone. Lee Marrs has given us something that usually comes only in the best novels: a funny\, tragic\, personal\, universal\, fantasized\, minutely realistic view of life that sends us on our way with a much bigger and better understanding of our own lives and the possibilities around us. \n – GLORIA STEINEM\, feminist icon\, co-founder of Ms. Magazine\, co-founder of the Women’s Media Center and former sticky sweet bun addict. \n• • • • • • • • • • • • \nWhen I opened this collection I was prepared for a herstory lesson\, or a trip down memory lane. But instead I encountered a radiant and utterly contemporary character—a disheveled yet sensual young woman\, outwardly confused but inwardly poised\, an instinctive feminist out hustling for a job\, experimenting with drugs\, but mainly just trying to get laid. Step aside\, Lena Dunham\, Amy Schumer\, and Broad City. Pudge\, Girl Blimp paved the way for all of you. \n– ALISON BECHDEL\, author of Fun Home and Dykes To Watch Out For\, recipient of the Eisner Award and the 2014 MacArthur “Genius” Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lee-marrs/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160920T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160920T200000
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SUMMARY:Short Nonfiction
DESCRIPTION:Queer essay authors Julia Serano (Whipping Girl)\, Aaron Shurin (The Skin of Meaning)\, and Yuska Lutfi Tuanakotta (Gentlemen Prefer Asians) will read from their essay collections Tuesday\, September 20\, 2016 from 7pm to 8pm at Folio Books\, 3957 24th Street in the Noe Valley neighborhood of San Francisco. A panel discussion on the art of essay writing and author book signings will follow the readings. Free refreshments. No admission charge.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/short-nonfiction/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160920T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160920T210000
DTSTAMP:20260409T025724
CREATED:20160825T010731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160825T010731Z
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SUMMARY:phren-Z Online Literary Magazine Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join Santa Cruz’s online literary magazine phren-Z who will host local writers as they read their new and recent work. Reading authors will be announced soon. Refreshments will be served! \nphren-Z is a quarterly online literary magazine dedicated to showcasing Santa Cruz writers. phren-Z is a publication of Santa Cruz Writes\, a grass roots organization dedicated to promoting the local literary community. Santa Cruz Writes is a sponsored project of the William James Association\, a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation. Visit www.phren-z.org for more information.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/phren-z-online-literary-magazine-reading-2/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160920T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160920T210000
DTSTAMP:20260409T025724
CREATED:20160920T232228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160920T232228Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry into the Beyond
DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Art of Translation welcomes Japanese poet and performance artist Yoshimasu Gozo and poet Forrest Gander to San Francisco for a performance and discussion of Gozo’s work\, including upcoming poetry collection Alice Iris Red Horse (New Directions). Edited by Gander\, Alice Iris Red Horse gathers translations of Gozo’s major works that span his entire career. Also included are illuminating interviews and reproductions of Gozo’s artwork and performances. \nYoshimasu Gozo\, born in Tokyo\, has performed worldwide. His work has been described as “so unorthodox that it defies the print medium and can be delivered only as performance.” He has received many literary and cultural awards\, including the Takami Jun Prize\, the Rekitei Prize\, the Purple Ribbon\, and the 50th Mainichi Art Award for Poetry. \nForrest Gander is the author of numerous books of poetry\, fiction\, translation\, and essays. He has won the Whiting Writers’ Award\, a Howard Foundation Award\, the Jessica Nobel Maxwell Memorial Prize\, two Gertrude Stein Awards for innovative North American writing\, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, and United States Artists. His 2011 collection Core Samples from the World was an NBCC and Pulitzer Prize finalist for poetry. He has taught at Harvard and Brown. \nAlice Iris Red Horse\, edited by Forrest Gander with introduction and notes by Derek Gromadski\, features translations from the Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu\, Hiroaki Sato\, Eric Selland\, Jeffrey Angles\, Richard Arno\, Derek Gromadzki\, Forrest Gander\, Sayuri Okamoto\, Auston Stewart\, and Kyoko Yoshida.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-into-the-beyond/
LOCATION:SF Camerawork\, 1011 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160920T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160920T213000
DTSTAMP:20260409T025724
CREATED:20160920T231909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160920T231909Z
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SUMMARY:Lee Marrs
DESCRIPTION:Lee Marrs \nAs the first woman to work for DC Comics AND Marvel simultaneously\, LEE MARRS could have been a footnote in a Swedish graphics history book. But a cantankerous mouth and sense of humor led her to the undergrounds\, where she was one of the founding mommies of the Wimmen’s Comix Collective. Lee’s a 1982 Inkpot Award winner and has been reprinted in nine countries. Best known for her Pudge\, Girl Blimp series\, some of her other work includes Batman\, Wonder Woman and Indiana Jones. Her Emmy Award-winning secret identity was that of Prez of Lee Marrs Artwork\, an art/digital animation company\, for such clients as Apple Computer\, IBM\, Electronic Arts\, and MTV. After 14 years\, Lee is retired from Berkeley City College where she was Multimedia Arts Chair\, passing on sneaky\, effective techniques to new generations of animation students.\nThe Further Fattening Adventures of Pudge\, Girl Blimp \nTeenage runaway plumpie Pudge hitchhikes to San Francisco in the early 1970s with a dread secret: she is still a virgin. Desperate to solve her dilemma\, she launches into the vibrant circus of urban life – street protests\, self-help clinics\, burglary\, job hunting and midnight pizzas. Assisted by her guardian Martians and backed by her commune\, she may have found her potential beau\, a clueless police detective. Or maybe the delivery boy? There’s that chakra-spouting political activist with rampant pimples? But what about her fellow consciousness-raising group member Jane\, she with such warm knowledgeable hands…? A feminist journey fraught with angst and anchovies. \nFrom the Foreword: \nAt last\, a funny\, funky\, durable complex heroine who is constantly taking a fresh and satirical look at an aspect of life that is sacred to someone. Lee Marrs has given us something that usually comes only in the best novels: a funny\, tragic\, personal\, universal\, fantasized\, minutely realistic view of life that sends us on our way with a much bigger and better understanding of our own lives and the possibilities around us. \n – GLORIA STEINEM\, feminist icon\, co-founder of Ms. Magazine\, co-founder of the Women’s Media Center and former sticky sweet bun addict. \nWhen I opened this collection I was prepared for a herstory lesson\, or a trip down memory lane. But instead I encountered a radiant and utterly contemporary character—a disheveled yet sensual young woman\, outwardly confused but inwardly poised\, an instinctive feminist out hustling for a job\, experimenting with drugs\, but mainly just trying to get laid. Step aside\, Lena Dunham\, Amy Schumer\, and Broad City. Pudge\, Girl Blimp paved the way for all of you. \n– ALISON BECHDEL\, author of Fun Home and Dykes To Watch Out For\, recipient of the Eisner Award and the 2014 MacArthur “Genius” Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lee-marrs-2/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160921T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160925T180000
DTSTAMP:20260409T025724
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LAST-MODIFIED:20160811T003830Z
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SUMMARY:52nd Annual Fall Big Book Sale
DESCRIPTION:It’s the 52nd Annual Fall Big Book Sale! \nWHEN: September 21-25\, 2016 // 10 AM – 6 PM\n(Members Preview Sale & Reception: September 20\, 4-8 PM)\nWHERE: Fort Mason Center\, Festival Pavillion (pier 3)\nWHAT: Half a million books & media for only $3 or less!\nWHY?: Proceeds support the San Francisco Public Library \nMEMBER RECEPTION:\nWe serve wine & snacks while you shop! Become a member of Friends and attend the Member Preview Sale & Reception on Tuesday\, September 21st. Members are given 1st access to the sale the eve before it goes public. Join online today (www.friendssfpl.org/membership) or in our Readers Bookstores. \nWANT FREE BOOKS? VOLUNTEER!\nIt takes a village to put on a Big Book Sale! We need volunteers from September 19 – 26. Each volunteer receives a complimentary ticket to our Preview Reception\, first look at the books as they come in\, and a $5 coupon for every shift. Sign up today at www.friendssfpl.org/volunteer or call (415) 626-7500 for more information. \nSUNDAY: THE SALE GOES ON SALE\nPsst… on Sunday\, September 25 (the last day of our sale) all items are only $1! \nPlease visit www.friendssfpl.org/bigbooksale or call (415) 626-7500 for more information.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/52nd-annual-fall-big-book-sale/
LOCATION:Festival Pavillion at Fort Mason\, 2 Marina Blvd\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160921T200000
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SUMMARY:Affinity Konar
DESCRIPTION:Co-Sponsored by Emanu-El \nIt’s 1944 when a pair of twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world\, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures\, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele’s Zoo\, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others\, and they find themselves changed\, stripped of the personalities they once shared\, their identities altered by the burdens of guilt and pain. \nThat winter\, at a concert orchestrated by Mengele\, Pearl disappears. Stasha grieves for her twin\, but clings to the possibility that Pearl remains alive. When the camp is liberated by the Red Army\, she and her companion Feliks–a boy bent on vengeance for his own lost twin–travel through Poland’s devastation. Undeterred by injury\, starvation\, or the chaos around them\, motivated by equal parts danger and hope\, they encounter hostile villagers\, Jewish resistance fighters\, and fellow refugees\, their quest enabled by the notion that Mengele may be captured and brought to justice within the ruins of the Warsaw Zoo. As the young survivors discover what has become of the world\, they must try to imagine a future within it. \nA superbly crafted story\, told in a voice as exquisite as it is boundlessly original\, Mischling defies every expectation\, traversing one of the darkest moments in human history to show us the way toward ethereal beauty\, moral reckoning\, and soaring hope. \nAffinity Konar was raised in California. She has an MFA in fiction from Columbia University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/affinity-konar/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160922T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160922T203000
DTSTAMP:20260409T025724
CREATED:20160825T011601Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160825T011601Z
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SUMMARY:Mary Szybist
DESCRIPTION:Mary Szybist (Holloway Lecturer in Poetry and Poetics) \nREADINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC \nReadings begin at 6:30pm \nUnless otherwise noted\, 2016-2017 Holloway events will be held in theHEARST FIELD ANNEX room D37\, UC BERKELEY
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-szybist/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160922T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160922T200000
DTSTAMP:20260409T025724
CREATED:20160920T232659Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160920T232659Z
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SUMMARY:Swan Huntley
DESCRIPTION:Join California author and Columbia University alum\, Swan Huntley\, to celebrate the publication of her suspenseful debut novel. Tracing the relationship between socialite Catharine West and her mysterious lover\, William\, who has unexpected ties to her family past\, We Could Be Beautiful explores the dark psychological layers beneath a superficially glittering society.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/swan-huntley/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160922T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160922T210000
DTSTAMP:20260409T025724
CREATED:20160920T232819Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160920T232819Z
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SUMMARY:Snack Bar Collective #2 Release: GROSS
DESCRIPTION:Snack Bar Collective presents its second issue: GROSS! Featured readers include Amy Berkowitz\, Tom Comitta\, Carrie Hunter\, George Pfau\, and more!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/snack-bar-collective-2-release-gross/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160922T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160922T213000
DTSTAMP:20260409T025724
CREATED:20160720T010422Z
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SUMMARY:Alexander Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Alexander Weinstein: \n“A darkly mesmerizing\, fearless\, and exquisitely written work. Stunning\, harrowing\, and brilliantly imagined.” ―Emily St. John Mandel\, author of Station Eleven \n\n“[Weinstein’s] stories look like SF―consider the childless couple living in a virtual-reality community whose child there is wiped out by a computer virus―but read like literary fiction. Calling all fans of Margaret Atwood and Emily St. John Mandel.” ―Barbara Hoffert\, Library Journal Prepub Alert \n\nAbout Children of the New World: \nAN EXTRAORDINARILY RESONANT AND PROPHETIC COLLECTION OF SPECULATIVE SHORT FICTION FOR OUR TECH-SAVVY ERA BY DEBUT AUTHOR ALEXANDER WEINSTEIN \n  \nChildren of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants\, memory manufacturers\, dangerously immersive virtual reality games\, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human distance\, while others inhabit a post-collapse landscape made primitive by disaster\, which they must work to rebuild as we once did millennia ago. \n  \nIn “The Cartographers\,” the main character works for a company that creates and sells virtual memories\, while struggling to maintain a real-world relationship sabotaged by an addiction to his own creations. In Saying Goodbye to Yang\, the robotic brother of an adopted Chinese child malfunctions\, and only in his absence does the family realize how real a son he has become. \n  \nChildren of the New World grapples with our unease in this modern world and how our ever-growing dependence on new technologies has changed the shape of our society. Alexander Weinstein is a visionary new voice in speculative fiction for all of us who are fascinated by and terrified of what we might find on the horizon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexander-weinstein/
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=UTC:20160922T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160922T213000
DTSTAMP:20260409T025724
CREATED:20160811T004208Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160811T004208Z
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SUMMARY:Apogee Press: McCarthy\, Newman\, + Walker
DESCRIPTION:Pattie McCarthy’s new book of poems is Quiet Book. Julie Carr says\, “Quiet Book keeps its steady gaze on the mother/child unitfrom the inside out and back in again. In gorgeous poems of formal range and daring\, McCarthy gives us birth and motherhood like no other writer she is unafraid\, she is wry and at times she is deeply tender.” Among her previous collections areMarybones\, Table Alphabetical of Hard Words\,Verso\, and bk of (h)rs. She was awarded a Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 2011\, and was an artist resident at the Elizabeth Bishop House in Great Village\, Nova Scotia in 2013. \nDenise Newman is a poet and a translator. Her books of poetry include The New Make Believe\, Wild Goods\, and Human Forest. She’s translated Azorno  and The Painted Room\, both by the late Danish poet Inger Christensen\, and Baboon by Naja Marie Aidt\, which won the PEN Translation Award. In 2014 she received a Creative Work Fund grant and an NEA fellowship in translation. \nLaura Walker’s new book of poems is story. Maxine Chernoff says\, “Walker’s rich and delicate story of natural forces\, human forces\, master narratives\, and secret moments whispered on deathbeds is as whole and fragile as any fine sequence of poems.It is the story of herself and the story of the story. It is a dance of life and death and a music to live by.” Her previous collections are Follow-Haswed\, bird book\, rimertown/an atlas\, and swarm lure. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/apogee-press-mccarthy-newman-walker/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Birthright: The Book Party
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the celebration of my new book of poems\, Birthright. Special guests to include Maurisa Thompson and Kim Shuck.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/birthright-the-book-party/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Pattie McCarthy + Denise Newman
DESCRIPTION:Pattie McCarthy is author of five full length books of poetry with Apogee Press. The most recent\, “Quiet Book”\, came out this year. Pattie has also published many chapbooks and has been the recipient of a Pew Foundation grant\, among other awards. Pattie is a Phililadelphia poet\, and her first readings from “Quiet Book” will be this September on her West Coast tour. \nDenise Newman is a poet and translator living in San Francisco. Her translation of The Painted Room by the Danish poet Inger Christensen will was published by the Harvill Press\, U.K. She is the author of two chapbooks\, Why Pear? (Em Press) and Of Later Things Yet to Happen (Meow Press). Her poems have appeared in Volt\, apex of the M\, Chain\, and Five Fingers Review\, where she is a staff editor. She has been a Djerassi Resident Artist\, and she teaches creative writing at the California College of Arts and Crafts and at Mills College. Her most recent books are The New Make Believe\, published by the Post Apollo Press in 2010\, and her translation of Inger Christenen’s novel Azorno.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pattie-mccarthy-denise-newman/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Juan Gabriel Vásquez
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Juan Gabriel Vasquez: \n“The narrative escalates\, the mystery deepens\, and the scope of the story widens with each page. This terrific novel draws on Colombia’s tragic history and cycles of violence to tell the story of a troubled man trying to come to grips with the distant forces and events that have shaped his life.” —Khaled Hosseini \n\n“A fine and frightening study of how the past preys upon the present…” —John Banville \n\n“I felt myself under the spell of a masterful writer. Juan Gabriel Vásquez has many gifts–intelligence\, wit\, energy\, a deep vein of feeling–but he uses them so naturally that soon enough one forgets one’s amazement at his talents\, and then the strange\, beautiful sorcery of his tale takes hold.”  —Nicole Krauss \n\n“Juan Gabriel Vásquez is one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature.”  —Mario Vargas Llosa \n\n“For anyone who has read the entire works of Gabriel García Márquez and is in search of a new Colombian novelist… a thrilling new discovery.” —Colm Tóibín \n\nAbout Reputations: \nFrom the brilliant mind of the author of “The Sound of Things Falling\,” a powerful novel about a legendary political cartoonist.\nJavier Mallarino is a living legend. He is his country’s most influential political cartoonist\, the consciousness of a nation. A man capable of repealing laws\, overturning judges’ decisions\, destroying politicians’ careers with his art. His weapons are pen and ink. Those in power fear him and pay him homage.\nAt sixty-five\, after four decades of a brilliant career\, he’s at the height of his powers. But this all changes when he’s paid an unexpected visit from a young woman who upends his sense of personal history and forces him to re-evaluate his life and work\, questioning his position in the world.\nIn “Reputations\,” Juan Gabriel Vasquez examines the weight of the past\, how a public persona intersects with private histories\, and the burdens and surprises of memory. In this intimate novel\, Vasquez plumbs universal experiences to create a masterful story\, one that reverberates long after you turn the final page.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/juan-gabriel-vasquez/
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:100 Thousand Poets For Change
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Bob Booker and Philip Hackett \nOPEN MIC\n(signup begins at 10am)\nFEATURED POETS\nCharles Curtis Blackwell\nDiego DeLeo\nJessica Loos\nLucho (saxophone)\nCharles Marion\nRichard Voorhees\nPeter Sherburn-Zimmer\nStormin’ Norman (saxophone)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/100-thousand-poets-for-change/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marisa Silver w/ Peter Orner
DESCRIPTION:In an unnamed country at the beginning of the last century\, a child called Pavla is born to peasant parents. \nHer arrival\, fervently anticipated and conceived in part by gypsy tonics and archaic prescriptions\, stuns her parents and brings outrage and disgust from her community. Pavla has been born a dwarf\, beautiful in face\, but as the years pass\, she grows no further than the edge of her crib. When her parents turn to the treatments of a local doctor and freak sideshow proprietor\, his terrifying cure opens the floodgates persecution for Pavla. Little Nothing unfolds across a lifetime of unimaginable\, magical transformation in and out of human form\, as this outcast woman is hunted down and incarcerated for her desires\, her body broken and her identity stripped away until her soul is strong enough to transcend all physical bounds. \nWoven throughout is the journey of Danilo\, the young man entranced by Pavla\, obsessed only with protecting her. Part allegory about the shifting nature of being\, part subversive fairy tale of love in all its uncanny guises\, Marisa Silver’s new novel spans the beginning of a new century\, the disintegration of ancient superstitions and the adoption of industry and invention. With a cast of remarkable characters\, a wholly shocking and original story\, and extraordinary\, page-turning prose\, it is a work of sheer electricity. \nMarisa Silver is the author of the novel Mary Coin\, a New York Times bestseller. She is also the author of The God of War(a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist)\, No Direction Home\, and two story collections\, Alone With You and Babe in Paradise (a New York Times Notable Book and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year). Her first short story appeared in The New Yorker when she was featured in the magazine’s first “Debut Fiction” issue. Winner of the O. Henry Prize\, Silver’s fiction has been included in The Best American Short Stories\, The O. Henry Prize Stories\, and other anthologies. She lives in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marisa-silver-w-peter-orner-2/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Tamer Mostafa\, Zack Haber\, + Genie Gratto
DESCRIPTION:Special event for MONDAY NIGHT journal\ncelebrating online issue 15 \nTAMER MOSTAFA\nZACK HABER\nGENIE GRATTO\n+\nAggregate Space Gallery presents a scientific light installation by SEEC Photography \nTAMER MOSTAFA is a Stockton\, California native whose work has appeared in various journals and magazines such as Confrontation\, Triggerfish Critical Review\, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change\, Extract(s)\, and Phantom Kangaroo. \nZACK HABER is a poet who lives in West Oakland. He is the author of if you want to be one of them playing in the streets… (quiet lightning 2014). Some of his recent work has appeared in Elderly\, 580 Split\, Sierra Nevada Review\, Banqueted\, and Eleven Eleven. He has curated The Other Fabulous Reading Series in Berkeley since 2012. \nGENIE GRATTO lives and writes in Oakland. Her work has appeared in Smokelong Quarterly and Night Train\, and she once lost a Literary Death Match to a valiant opponent who bested her at beer pong in the final battle. You can find her very short fiction and nonfiction at 100ProofStories.com. \nhttp://mondaynightlit.com/\nhttps://featherboard.wordpress.com/\nhttp://aggregatespacegallery.org/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tamer-mostafa-zack-haber-genie-gratto/
LOCATION:Aggregate Space Gallery\, 801 W Grand Ave\, Oakland \, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poetry Marathon’s 100TPC
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 24 is 2016’s global\n100  THOUSAND  POETS  FOR  CHANGE  DAY \nCome to the Bay Area Poetry Marathon’s 100TPC event\,\nand join other poets\, musicians\, artists\, dancers\, photographers\, & performing artists\,\naround the USA & across the planet\, \nin a demonstration & celebration of poetry\nto promote serious social\, environmental\, & political change. \nThis year’s event\, curated by \nBAPM series curator Donna de la Perrière\, includes:\n \nXochiquetzal Candelaria  *  Aja Couchois Duncan\nEdward Foster  *  Tonya Foster  *  Kit Schluter\nAlicia Franco  *  Arisa White  *  Al Young\n \nDoors open at 6:30pm.\nReading begins at 7:00pm *sharp*
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poetry-marathons-100tpc/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Charlie Getter
DESCRIPTION:Bio in his own words:\n“I am a poet and performer from the street corner  of 16th and Mission in San Francisco… have a birthmark on my belly the shape of the Island of Jamaica and that has grown as I’ve advanced in age and girth….have performed in ten different states and on the interweb….belong to the Collaborative Arts Insurgency that founded the 16th and Mission reading series and am a founding (and current) editor of the 16th and Mission Review… hold an MFA in poetics from the New College of California (may it rest in peace) and have been published just about everywhere I have cared to and also write plays\, four of which have been produced. I have a yellow dog named Tugboat that weighs over a hundred pounds.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charlie-getter/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:LeAnne Howe + Marc Anthony Richardson
DESCRIPTION:Choctalking on Other Realities is the most recent book by novelist\, poet\, playwright and scholar LeAnne Howe (Choctaw). Her novels include Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story and Shell Shaker\, which won the Before Columbus Foundation’s American Book Award. She is currently at work on a documentary film with Ojibwe filmmaker James M. Fortier about the life of Sequoyah\, a Cherokee leader and creator of the first written indigenous language in Native North American. Howe is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia and was awarded the inaugural 2014 MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures. \nIn her advance praise of Marc Anthony Richardson’s award-winning debut novel\, Year of the Rat\, Cristina García writes\, “…you must stop everything you’re doing right now and make time for it. Gorgeous\, unsparing\, heartbreaking\, the book is a prose poem of a testament to motherhood\, to manhood\, to lost generations\, to hope itself. ” Richardson is an artist and writer from Philadelphia and alum of the MFA program at Mills College. His awards include those from the Vermont Studio Center and Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/leanne-howe-marc-anthony-richardson/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Riad Sattouf
DESCRIPTION:The highly anticipated continuation of Riad Sattouf’s internationally acclaimed\, #1 French bestseller\, which was hailed by The New York Times as a disquieting yet essential read. \nIn The Arab of the Future: Volume 1\, cartoonist Riad Sattouf tells of the first years of his childhood as his family shuttles back and forth between France and the Middle East. In Libya and Syria\, young Riad is exposed to the dismal reality of a life where food is scarce\, children kill dogs for sport\, and his cousins\, virulently anti-Semitic and convinced he is Jewish because of his blond hair\, lurk around every corner waiting to beat him up. \nIn Volume 2\, Riad\, now settled in his father’s hometown of Homs\, gets to go to school\, where he dedicates himself to becoming a true Syrian in the country of the dictator Hafez Al-Assad. Told simply yet with devastating effect\, Riad’s story takes in the sweep of politics\, religion\, and poverty\, but is steered by acutely observed small moments: the daily sadism of his schoolteacher\, the lure of the black market\, with its menu of shame and subsistence\, and the obsequiousness of his father in the company of those close to the regime. As his family strains to fit in\, one chilling\, barbaric act drives the Sattoufs to make the most dramatic of changes. \nDarkly funny and piercingly direct\, The Arab of the Future\, Volume 2 once again reveals the inner workings of a tormented country and family\, delivered through Riad Sattouf’s dazzlingly original talent. \nRiad Sattouf is a best-selling cartoonist and filmmaker who grew up in Syria and Libya and now lives in Paris. The author of four comics series in France and a former contributor to the satirical publicationCharlie Hebdo\, Sattouf is now a weekly columnist for l Obs. He also directed the films The French Kissers and Jacky in the Women’s Kingdom.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/riad-sattouf/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Susan Faludi w/ Peggy Orenstein
DESCRIPTION:Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Susan Faludi discusses her transcendent and thought provoking memoir\, In the Darkroom. Susan Faludi’s father Steven abandoned her and her family when Susan was a teen. After 25 years of little to no contact Susan received an email from her father revealing that he had undergone sex reassignment surgery and that Steven was now Stephanie. So begins Susan Faludi’s extraordinary inquiry into the meaning of identity in the modern world and in her own haunted family saga. Faludi’s struggle to come to grips with her father’s metamorphosis self takes her across borders historical\, political\, religious\, sexual–to bring her face to face with the question of the age: Is identity something you choose\, or is it the very thing you can’t escape? \nSusan will be in conversation with Peggy Orenstein\, New York Times-bestselling author of Cinderalla Ate My Daughter and Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-faludi-w-peggy-orenstein/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Tessa Hadley
DESCRIPTION:Reads from her marvelous novel\, The Past\, in which three sisters\, a brother\, and their children assemble at their country house. These three weeks may be their last time there; the upkeep is prohibitive\, and they may be forced to sell this beloved house filled with memories of their shared past (their mother took them there to live when she left their father). Yet beneath the idyllic pastoral surface\, hidden passions\, devastating secrets\, and dangerous hostilities threaten to consume them. \n“Exquisite…. For anyone who cherishes Anne Tyler and Alice Munro\, the book offers similar deep pleasures. Like those North American masters of the domestic realm\, Hadley crystallizes the atmosphere of ordinary life in prose somehow miraculous and natural…. Extraordinary.”—Ron Charles\, Washington Post \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, September 27\, 2016 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nOver the course of this summer holiday\, the family’s stories and silences intertwine\, small disturbances build into familial crises\, and a way of life—bourgeois\, literate\, ritualized\, Anglican—winds down to its inevitable end. \nWith subtle precision and deep compassion\, Hadley brilliantly evokes a brewing storm of lust and envy\, the indelible connections of memory and affection\, the fierce\, nostalgic beauty of the natural world\, and the shifting currents of history running beneath the surface of these seemingly steady lives. The result is a novel of breathtaking skill and scope that showcases this major writer’s extraordinary talents. \nTessa Hadley is the author of five highly praised novels: Accidents in the Home\,Everything Will Be All Right\, The Master Bedroom\,The London Train\, and Clever Girl. She is also the author of two short story collections\, Sunstroke and Married Love. Her stories appear regularly in The New Yorker. She lives in London.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tessa-hadley/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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