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SUMMARY:Jon Raymond
DESCRIPTION:Jon Raymond discusses his new novel\, Freebird\, with Zoetrope’s Michael Ray. \n\nPrasie for Freebird \n\n“Freebird is such a timely book\, considering the current deep divisions between right and left. A new classic for the collapsing political landscape of America.”—Kim Gordon \n\n“Jon Raymond has an impressive ability to recognize the tales that we all tell ourselves\, and then quietly lead us back to reality—excruciatingly familiar and unusually rainy.”—Miranda July \n\n“Freebird is an intelligent and absorbing multi-generational story of an American family\, written withgreat sensitivity\, insight\, and verve.”—Patrick deWitt \n\nAbout Freebird \n\nThe Singers are an all-American family\, and they’re about to lose everything. Anne\, who works in the Los Angeles Office of Sustainability\, finds herself caught in a shady business deal for recycling wastewater. Her teenage son\, Aaron\, can’t decide between college and a road trip to Mexico\, but his plans are derailed by Singer patriarch Grandpa Sam\, whose untold experience of the Holocaust is revealed when he enlists Aaron’s help in retrieving some gold coins from a safe-deposit box in Oakland. Anne’s brother\, Ben\, a former Navy SEAL\, returns from Afghanistan disillusioned and struggling with PTSD\, and starts down a path toward a radical act of violence—one that changes the family’s course forever. In Freebird\, the narratives converge and expand as Oregon Book Award-winner Jon Raymond explores political\, environmental\, and ethical dilemmas particular to our contemporary moment and reveals how the fates of our families are irrevocably tied to the currents of history.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jon-raymond/
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:Emerging Writers Festival: Charleston + Park
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the first night of the MFA in Writing Program‘s Emerging Writers Festival. Each spring\, five emerging writers are invited to campus to participate in the festival\, which includes two nights of readings and a Q&A Panel. Night one will feature Cortney Lamar Charleston and Patricia Park. \nCortney Lamar Charleston is the author of Telepathologies\, selected by D.A. Powell for the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. He has received fellowships from Cave Canem and The Conversation Literary Festival and his poems have appeared in POETRY\, New England Review\, Gulf Coast\, TriQuarterly\, and The Iowa Review. Charleston is from Chicago and lives in Jersey City\, NJ. \nPatricia Park is the author of the novel Re Jane (Viking\, 2015)\, inspired by Brontë’s Jane Eyre. She has received fellowships from Fulbright\, The Center for Fiction\, Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Jerome Foundation\, and has written for The New York Times Book Review\, Guardian\, Salon\, and Slice. Park is a Queens native and lives in Brooklyn\, NY. \nReception to follow. Free and open to the public. \nThe Emerging Writers Festival is co-sponsored by the USF MFA in Writing Program and the English Department.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emerging-writers-festival-charleston-park/
LOCATION:USF Fromm Hall – FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sarah Anderson
DESCRIPTION:Swimsuit season is coming up! Better get beach-body ready! Work on those abs! Lift those butts! \n…Um\, or how about never mind to all that and just be a lump. Big Mushy Happy Lump!  \n  \n  \n  \nSarah Andersen‘s hugely popular\, world-famous Sarah’s Scribbles comics are for those of us who boast bookstore-ready bodies and Netflix-ready hair\, who are always down for all-night reading-in-bed parties and extremely exclusive after-hour one-person music festivals. \n  \nIn addition to the most recent Sarah’s Scribbles fan favorites and dozens of all-new comics\, this volume contains illustrated personal essays on Sarah’s real-life experiences with anxiety\, career\, relationships and other adulthood challenges that will remind readers of Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half and Jenny Lawson’s Let’s Pretend This Never Happened. The same uniquely frank\, real\, yet humorous and uplifting tone that makes Sarah’s Scribbles so relatable blooms beautifully in this new longer form. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-anderson/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Writing Life Panel
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the Emerging Writers Festival: Writing Life Panel. Each spring\, five emerging writers are invited to campus to participate in the festival\, which includes two nights of readings and a panel. Writers Cortney Lamar Charleston\, Vanessa Hua\, Patricia Park\, Sam Sax\, and Mike Scalise will discuss their experiences in the writing industry and participate in a Q&A session. \nFree and open to the public. \nThe Emerging Writers Festival is co-sponsored by the USF MFA in Writing Programand the English Department.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-writing-life-panel/
LOCATION:USF McClaren Complex\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Beat Poetry w/ Larry Beckett
DESCRIPTION:This is the poetry of the San Francisco Renaissance of the 50s\, reconsidered as literature: Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s lyrical cityscapes\, Jack Kerouac’s blues and haikus\, Allen Ginsberg’s saxophone prophecies\, Gregory Corso’s obsessive odes\, John Wieners’ true confessions\, Michael McClure’s physical hymns\, Philip Lamantia’s surreal passions\, Gary Snyder’s work songs\, Philip Whalen’s loose sutras\, Lew Welch’s hermit visions\, David Meltzer’s improvisations and discoveries\, and Bob Kaufman’s jazz meditations.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beat-poetry-w-larry-beckett/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hand to Mouth/WORDS Spoken OUT #85
DESCRIPTION:Calling all geeks! We have sci fi/fantasy writers in the house again! Join us in welcoming Loren Rhoads and S.G. Browne. \nLoren Rhoads is the author of The Dangerous Type\, Kill By Numbers\, and No More Heroes: the In the Wake of the Templars trilogy. She’s the co-author of the As Above\, So Below series with Brian Thomas. In her secret life\, she’s a cemetery aficionado. Her book 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die will be out in October. You can keep an eye on her atlorenrhoads.com. \nS.G. Browne is the author of Less Than Hero\, Big Egos\, Lucky Bastard\, Fated\, and Breathers\, as well as the short story collection Shooting Monkeys in a Barrel and the heartwarming holiday novella I Saw Zombies Eating Santa Claus. He lives in San Francisco. You can learn more about his writing at www.sgbrowne.com. \nWe will have light refreshments\, and our popular open mic after our features read. Also\, our partnership with neighborhood restaurants continue with a discount on the evening of the reading. Come in early if you want to grab a bite before the reading! \nParticipating restaurants are: \nWhipper Snapper– $3.00 Glass of Sangria\, or $3.00 off a pitcher. \nCafe Arrivederci– 10% off dinner. \nLotus Chaat and Spices– 10% off dinner. \nThe Mayflower Pub– 25% off dinner.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hand-to-mouthwords-spoken-out-85/
LOCATION:Rebound Bookstore\, 1611 4th Street\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Emerging Writers Festival: Hua\, Sax\, and Scalise
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the second night of the MFA in Writing Program‘s Emerging Writers Festival. Each spring\, five emerging writers are invited to campus to participate in the festival\, which includes two nights of readings and a Q&A Panel. Night two will feature Vanessa Hua\, Sam Sax\, and Mike Scalise. \nVanessa Hua is the author of the story collection Deceit and Other Possibilities\, which received the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award\, as well as honors from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Asian American Journalists’ Association. Her work has appeared in the New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Washington Post\, and ZYZZYVA. \nSam Sax is the author of Madness (Penguin\, 2017)\, winner of The National Poetry Series. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Lambda Literary\, and The Michener Center where he served as the Editor-in-chief of Bat City Review. He’s a two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion and his poems are forthcoming in American Poetry Review\, Gulf Coast\, Ploughshares\, and POETRY. \nMike Scalise is the author of the memoir The Brand New Catastrophe (Sarabande Books\, 2017)\, which received the Christopher Doheny Award from the Center for Fiction. He has received fellowships Bread Loaf\, Yaddo\, the Ucross Foundation\, and was the Philip Roth Writer in Residence at Bucknell University. His work has appeared in The New York Times\, the Paris Review Daily\, and Wall Street Journal. He lives in New York. \nReception to follow. Free and open to the public. \nThe Emerging Writers Festival is co-sponsored by the USF MFA in Writing Programand the English Department.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emerging-writers-festival-charleston-park-2/
LOCATION:USF Fromm Hall – FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Victor Lodato
DESCRIPTION:Eight-year-old Edgar Fini remembers nothing of the accident people still whisper about. He only knows that his father is gone\, his mother has a limp\, and his grandmother believes in ghosts. When Edgar meets a man with his own tragic story\, the boy begins a journey into a secret wilderness where nothing is clear—not even the line between the living and the dead. In order to save her son\, Lucy has no choice but to confront the demons of her past. \nProfound\, shocking\, and beautiful\, Edgar and Lucy is a thrilling adventure and the unlikeliest of love stories. \nVictor Lodato is a playwright and the author of the novel Mathilda Savitch\, winner of the PEN Center USA Award for fiction. His stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, Granta\, and Best American Short Stories. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Victor was born and raised in New Jersey and currently divides his time between Ashland\, Oregon\, and Tucson\, Arizona.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/victor-lodato/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Margaret Randall
DESCRIPTION:Margaret Randall returns to The Poetry Center after a hiatus of fifty years — she appeared here\, reading her poetry\, in December 1966\, sharing the stage with Mexican poet Sergio Mondragon\, with whom she was at the time co-editing and producing the truly singular\, internationally renowned literary journal El Corno Emplumado\, out of Mexico City. This visit\, she will be presenting the most substantial anthology of modern and contemporary Cuban poetry ever to appear for English language readers\, and conversing with her audience. This event is free and open to the public. \nFeaturing the work of more than fifty poets writing across the last eight decades\, Only the Road / Solo el Camino (Duke University Press\, 2016) is the most complete bilingual anthology of Cuban poetry available to an English readership. It is distinguished by its stylistic breadth and the diversity of its contributors\, who come from throughout Cuba and its diaspora and include luminaries\, lesser-known voices\, and several Afro-Cuban and LGBTQ poets. Nearly half of the poets in the collection are women. Only the Road paints a full and dynamic picture of modern Cuban life and poetry\, highlighting their unique features and idiosyncrasies\, the changes across generations\, and the ebbs and flows between repression and freedom following the Revolution. Randall\, who translated each poem\, contributes extensive biographical notes for each poet and a historical introduction to twentieth-century Cuban poetry. \nMargaret Randall (New York\, 1936) is a poet\, essayist\, oral historian\, translator\, photographer and social activist. She lived in Latin America for 23 years (in Mexico\, Cuba\, and Nicaragua). From 1962 to 1969 she and Mexican poet Sergio Mondragón co-edited El Corno Emplumado/The Plumed Horn\, a bilingual literary quarterly that published some of the best new work of the sixties. When she came home in 1984\, the government ordered her deported because it found some of her writing to be “against the good order and happiness of the United States.” With the support of many writers and others\, she won her case in 1989. Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s\, she taught at several universities\, most often Trinity College in Hartford\, Connecticut. Randall’s most recent poetry titles include As If the Empty Chair / Como si la silla vacia\, The Rhizome As a Field of Broken Bones\, About Little Charlie Lindbergh\, and She Becomes Time (all from Wings Press). Che On My Mind\, a feminist poet’s reminiscence of Che Guevara (Duke University Press)\, and More Than Things (essays\, University of Nebraska Press) are other recent titles. Haydee Santamaria\, Cuban Revolutionary: She Led by Transgression was released by Duke in 2015. Exporting Revolution: Cuba’s Global Solidarity will be published by Duke in Spring 2017. Randall has also devoted herself to translation\, producing When Rains Become Floods by Lurgio Galván Sánchez as well as Only the Road/Solo el Camino. Red Mountain Press in Santa Fe will publish her translations of two individual collections by Cuban poets\, and The Operating System will do two more. Randall lives in New Mexico with her partner (now wife) of almost 30 years\, the painter Barbara Byers\, and travels extensively to read\, lecture and teach. \nBecause We Come from Everywhere: Poetry and Migration\nMarch 2017 Poetry Center programming appears under the sign of this line by Juan Felipe Herrera\, in conjunction with 20+ member organizations from across the country constituting the newly formed Poetry Coalition \nAlso please note: Margaret Randall will be reading from Only the Road ⁄ Solo el Camino on Friday MAR 31\, 4:30pm @ Writers Studio\, California College of the Arts\, 195 De Haro (at 15th Street)\, San Francisco\, free admission.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/margaret-randall-2/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lauren Grodstein
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street Thursday\, March 30th at 7:00pm as we welcome Author Lauren Grodstein\, reading from and discussing her book Our Short History. \nKaren Neulander\, a successful New York political consultant\, has always been fiercely protective of her son\, Jacob\, now six. She’s had to be: when Jacob’s father\, Dave\, found out Karen was pregnant and made it clear that fatherhood wasn’t in his plans\, Karen walked out of the relationship\, never telling Dave her intention was to raise their child alone. \nBut now Jake is asking to meet his dad\, and with good reason: Karen is dying. When she finally calls her ex\, she’s shocked to find Dave ecstatic about the son he never knew he had. First\, he can’t meet Jake fast enough\, and then\, he can’t seem to leave him alone. \nWith just a few more months to live\, Karen resists allowing Dave to insinuate himself into Jake’s life. As she tries to play out her last days in the “right” way\, Karen wrestles with the truth that the only thing she cannot bring herself to do for her son–let his father become a permanent part of his life–is the thing he needs from her the most. With heart-wrenching poignancy\, unexpected wit\, and mordant humor\, Lauren Grodstein has created an unforgettable story about parenthood\, sacrifice\, and life itself. \n“In Our Short History\, Lauren grodstein breaks your heart\, then miraculously pieces it back together so it’s bigger–and stronger–than before. This novel will leave you appreciating both the messiness of life and the immense depths of love.” —Celeste Ng\, author of Everything I Never Told You.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lauren-grodstein-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Subterranean SF Reading Series: Bradley Spinelli
DESCRIPTION:The Subterranean SF Reading Series celebrates the release of \nThe Painted Gun \nBy Bradley Spinelli \nfrom Akashic Books \n(taking place at numerous undisclosed locations. Scroll down to learn more about venues and invitation availability) \nA washed-up ex-journalist looking for a missing girl in San Francisco is framed by a Guatemalan hit man for a series of murders. \nIt’s 1997 at the dawn of the digital age in San Francisco. Ex-journalist and struggling alcoholic David “Itchy” Crane’s fledgling “information consultancy” business is getting slowly buried by bad luck\, bad decisions\, and the growing presence of the Internet. Before Itchy can completely self-destruct\, a crooked private investigator offers him fifty grand to find a missing girl named Ashley. Crane takes the job because the money’s right and because the only clue to her disappearance is a dead-on oil portrait of Crane himself painted by the mysterious missing girl—whom he has never met. \nAs Crane’s search for Ashley rapidly becomes an obsession\, he stumbles upon a series of murders\, gets slapped around by thugs and intimidated by cops\, and begins to suspect he’s being framed for the murders by a psychotic Guatemalan hit man. Left with no avenue but survival\, Crane goes on the offensive\, fighting to clear his name\, solve the murders\, and find the beguiling portrait artist Ashley\, who may have a few surprises of her own. \nThis event shall take place at numerous undisclosed locations. \nAdmission is free\, but only on a first come\, first serve basis. \nAttendance is limited and by invitation only. \nNo reservations shall be accepted. \nInvitiations become available on Monday\, March 20\, 2017 and may be picked up in-person at the front counter of City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA. Ask for the black envelope at the front counter. It will contain a map and navigation instructions. Each invite admits one. Two invite maximum per person. \nCall City Lights to determine ticket availability (tel. 415-362-8193 x24) \nBRADLEY SPINELLI is the author of the novel Killing Williamsburg\, and the writer/director of the film #AnnieHall\, which the Village Voice called “fascinating.” He contributes regularly to Bedford + Bowery and lives in Brooklyn. The Painted Gun is his latest novel. Visit his website at 13spinelli.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/subterranean-sf-reading-series-bradley-spinelli/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Loria Mendoza
DESCRIPTION:Fourteen Hills is happy to announce that the winner of the 2016 Michael Rubin Book Award is recent graduate Loria Mendoza for her story collection Life’s Too Short. The winner was chosen by judge Iris Smyles\, author of Dating Tips for the Unemployed and Iris Has Free Time. \nSmyles on her selection: “Loria Mendoza writes with fire and guts. There is an urgent and searching quality to the stories in Life’s Too Short\, and her prose imparts that urgency to her reader. Her words are alive and remind us with each syllable\, so are we.” \nBOOK Release:\nMarch 30th\, 7:00pm\nAlley Cat Books\n3036 24th St.\nSan Francisco\, CA 94110 \nLight refreshments provided
URL:https://litseen.com/event/loria-mendoza/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hannah Lillith Assadi
DESCRIPTION:Hannah Lillith Assadi in conversation with Shawn Wen about her debut novel\, Sonora. \nPraise for Sonora \n“Sonora is the most eerie and unusual coming of age story I’ve ever encountered—not a tale of innocence lost\, but of innocence never had. In a story steeped in sorcery and curses\, Assadi looks to the heavens\, wild-eyed and bewildered.”—Catherine Lacey\, author of Nobody is Ever Missing \n“With penetrating grace\, Hannah Lillith Assadi details the intoxicating precarity of being young and alive and desperate to change. Sonora is unforgettable and deeply felt\, the type of book that brings you close\, infiltrates you\, and leaves you with the sense that you’ve just lived an entire life.”—Alexandra Kleeman\, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine \n“In Sonora\, Hannah Lillith Assadi documents\, with lyric ferocity\, the agony\, love\, and bafflement of belonging to a family. A scorching story of youth and the losses and sorrows of growing up estranged.”—Ben Marcus. author of The Flame Alphabet \nAbout Sonora \nAhlam\, the daughter of a Palestinian refugee and his Israeli wife\, grows up in the arid lands of desert suburbia outside of Phoenix. In a stark landscape where coyotes prowl and mysterious lights occasionally pass through the nighttime sky\, Ahlam’s imagination reigns. She battles chronic fever dreams and isolation. When she meets her tempestuous counterpart Laura\, the two fall into infatuated partnership\, experimenting with drugs and sex\, and watching helplessly as a series of mysterious deaths claim high school classmates. \nThe girls flee their pasts for New York City\, but as their emotional bond heightens\, the intensity of their lives becomes unbearable. In search of love\, ecstasy\, oblivion\, and belonging\, Ahlam and Laura’s drive to outrun the ghosts of home threatens to undo them altogether.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hannah-lillith-assadi/
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:Poetry Flash: Katherine Hastings + G.P. Kratz
DESCRIPTION:Katherine Hastings’s new book of poems is Shakespeare & Stein Walk Into a Bar. Annie Finch says\, “Katherine Hastings’ poems play with consciousness on many levels. Nature\, literature\, and human experience catch memorably within the threads of their dense and startling webs.” Her two previous full-length collections are Nighthawks and Cloud Fire. A former poet laureate of Sonoma County\, she is the curator of WordTemple Poetry Series and host of WordTemple on NPR affiliate KRCB FM. \nG. P. Skratz’s new book of poems is Sundae Missile: the Mass of the Church of the Center that will not Hold\, a homophonic translation of the “pre-Vatican Council Latin version” of the Roman Catholic Mass. Andrei Codrescu says\, “Until they ever improve the wine and put some jam in the wafers\, Catholics will have to be content with GP Skratz’ sound translation of the Mass. It doesn’t beat Bach but it would work for Sinatra.” His previous publications are The Gates of Disappearance and Fun\, and Everything Else\, co-authored with the late poet Darrell Gray\, with drawings by Dave Morice and photographs by Shelly Vogel. With a long history as a poet-performer\, he is probably most noted for his production of “The Actualist Conventions” with Darrell Gray\, Jim Nisbet\, and David Schein. He currently performs poetry and music with Arundo and “twisted roots” music with Smooth Toad.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-katherine-hastings-g-p-kratz/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lauren Grodstein
DESCRIPTION:“In Our Short History\, Lauren Grodstein breaks your heart\, then miraculously pieces it back together so it’s bigger–and stronger–than before. This novel will leave you appreciating both the messiness of life and the immense depths of love.” —Celeste Ng\, author of Everything I Never Told You \nIn Our Short History\, Karen Neulander\, a successful New York political consultant\, has always been fiercely protective of her son\, Jacob\, now six. She’s had to be: when Jacob’s father\, Dave\, found out Karen was pregnant and made it clear that fatherhood wasn’t in his plans\, Karen walked out of the relationship\, never telling Dave her intention was to raise their child alone. \nBut now Jake is asking to meet his dad\, and with good reason: Karen is dying. When she finally calls her ex\, she’s shocked to find Dave ecstatic about the son he never knew he had. First\, he can’t meet Jake fast enough\, and then\, he can’t seem to leave him alone. \nWith just a few more months to live\, Karen resists allowing Dave to insinuate himself into Jake’s life. As she tries to play out her last days in the “right” way\, Karen wrestles with the truth that the only thing she cannot bring herself to do for her son–let his father become a permanent part of his life–is the thing he needs from her the most. With heart-wrenching poignancy\, unexpected wit\, and mordant humor\, Lauren Grodstein has created an unforgettable story about parenthood\, sacrifice\, and life itself. \nLauren Grodstein is the author of four previous works of fiction\, including the New York Times bestselling novel A Friend of the Family\, which was a Washington Post Best Book Pick\, a New York Times Editor’s Pick\, a BookPage Best Book\, and an Indie Next Pick. She teaches creative writing at Rutgers University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lauren-grodstein/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170331T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170331T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202254
CREATED:20170320T055402Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T055402Z
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SUMMARY:Margaret Randall
DESCRIPTION:Writers’ Studio\, San Francisco Campus\n\n\n\n\n\n195 De Haro Street\nFree and open to the public\nReception to follow (Writers’ Studio)\nMore info: Naomi Washer\, nwasher@cca.edu or 415.551.9237 \nMargaret Randall is a poet\, essayist\, oral historian\, translator\, photographer\, and social activist. She lived in Latin America for 23 years (Mexico\, Cuba\, and Nicaragua). \nFrom 1962 to 1969\, she and Mexican poet Sergio Mondragón coedited El Corno Emplumado (The Plumed Horn)\, a bilingual literary quarterly that published some of the best new work of the sixties. \nWhen she came home in 1984\, the government ordered her deported because it found some of her writing to be “against the good order and happiness of the United States.” With the support of many writers and others\, she won her case in 1989. \nThroughout the late 1980s and early 1990s\, she taught at several universities\, most often Trinity College in Hartford\, Connecticut. \nRandall’s most recent works of poetry include She Becomes Time\, About Little Charlie Lindbergh\, My Town\, Como si la Silla Vacia (As if the Empty Chair)\, The Rhizome as a Field of Broken Bones\, and Daughter of Lady Jaguar Shark (Wings Press). \nSolo El Camino (Only the Road)\, a large bilingual anthology of Cuban poetry\, is forthcoming this year. \nRandall lives in New Mexico with her partner (now wife) of almost 30 years\, the painter Barbara Byers\, and travels extensively to read\, lecture\, and teach. \nAbout the Writers Series\nCCA’s MFA Program in Writing proudly offers the Writers Series\, a year-round literary series that features a continuum of talented\, successful\, and\, in many cases\, world-renowned writers and poets. \nThe series is both a curricular requirement (Friday Seminar) for our first-year graduate students and an integral part of the college’s celebrated public programs schedule.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/margaret-randall/
LOCATION:Writers’ Studio\, SF Campus\, 195 De Haro Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170401T020000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170401T153000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202254
CREATED:20170320T060005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T060005Z
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SUMMARY:Santa Fe Voices: Poems of New Mexico
DESCRIPTION:In observance of National Poetry Month\, Charles Sullivan\, author and editor of America in Poetry and other volumes\, reads and discusses selections of poems from his book\, Santa Fe Voices: Poems of New Mexico.  An “Easterner\,” Sullivan wrote the poems during visits to “The Land of Enchantment\,” where he spoke with its people and listened to and imagined their stories.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/santa-fe-voices-poems-of-new-mexico/
LOCATION:Merced General Floor Area\, 155 Winston Drive\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170401T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170401T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202254
CREATED:20161223T022856Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T022856Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition First Saturday
DESCRIPTION:Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot) \nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden) \nAll Ages Welcome \nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-first-saturday-11/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170401T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170401T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202254
CREATED:20170320T060311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T060311Z
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SUMMARY:Paul Madonna
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the release of my third book! Join me for a party\, gallery show\, and book signing at the fabulous 3 Fish Studios on April 1st (no joke!)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-madonna-2/
LOCATION:3 Fish Studios\, 4541 Irving Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170402T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170402T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202254
CREATED:20170320T061303Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T061303Z
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SUMMARY:Beast Crawl 2017 Hat Party Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:This is a fundraiser for Beast Crawl 2017. \nWear your most amazing hat! Bowler\, princess\, fez\, sailor\, sexy-30’s-feather\, baseball\, cowboy\, pork pie\, witch\, church lady\, viking\, ten gallon\, beer can\, Beach Blanket Babylon\, Burning-Man-extra-furry-glow-stick-fun-time. Yes. Do it. \nSunday\nApril 2\, 2017\n5:00 PM \nTelegraph Beer Garden\n2318 Telegraph\, Oakland\n(between 23rd & 24th St)\n\nAll ages! \nWin fabulous raffle prizes donated by local businesses! \nHat Party sponsored by Telegraph Beer Garden\nSuggested donation $5 \n10% of sales at Telegraph are donated to the Beast! \nBEAST CRAWL is Uptown Oakland’s free annual literary festival\, featuring over 150 poets\, writers and performance artists in a single night\, spread out over three hours and 40 local galleries\, bars\, restaurants\, cafés\, and storefronts. \nBeast Crawl 2017 is Saturday\, September 2\, in Uptown Oakland!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beast-crawl-2017-hat-party-fundraiser/
LOCATION:Telegraph Beer Garden\, 2318 Telegraph\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170402T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170402T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202254
CREATED:20170324T011350Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170324T011350Z
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lovely night of writing and music at the Bazaar Writers Salon\, coming up on Sunday\, April 2nd in San Francisco at the Bazaar Café. \nBazaar Writers Salon\nReadings by R. O. Kwon\, Margaret Ross\, and Essy Stone\nMusic by Armando Alcaraz\nHosted by Peter Kline \nSunday\, April 2nd\, 6:00 p.m.\nBazaar Café\, 5927 California St.\, SF \nArmando Alcaraz’s original songs are in English and his native Spanish and have influences from both Latin American\, traditional Mexican and American folk. Armando uses his songs and music to facilitate transformation\, integration\, and healing in contemplative contexts and as a tool for his leadership consulting practice. \nR. O. Kwon’s first novel\, Heroics\, is forthcoming from Riverhead. She is a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her writing has appeared in Noon\, The Guardian\, VICE\, Electric Literature\, Time\, The Believer\, and elsewhere. Named one of Narrative’s “30 Below 30” writers\, she has received fellowships from Yaddo\, Omi International\, the Norman Mailer Writers Colony\, the Steinbeck Fellows Program\, and the Elizabeth George Foundation\, as well as scholarships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences. Born in South Korea\, she’s mostly lived in the United States. \nMargaret Ross is the author of A Timeshare (Omnidawn\, 2015). Her poems have appeared in Boston Review\, Fence\, jubilat\, The New Republic and The New Yorker. She is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford. \nEssy Stone has recently published her first collection of poetry\, What It Done to Us\, with Lost Horse Press. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University\, Essy spent most of her life as a waitress in East Tennessee before receiving her MFA in Poetry from the University of Miami. Her poetry has been published in Prairie Schooner\, 32 Poems\, and the New Yorker. She will be pursuing a PhD in the fall.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-4/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170403T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170403T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202254
CREATED:20170329T092346Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170329T092346Z
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning
DESCRIPTION: April 3 @ Elbo Room\nAdam Moskowitz\nKatie Wheeler-Dubin\n Kazumi Chin\nPeter Bullen\nJeff Bostic\nHugh Behm-Steinberg\nGoldie Negelev\nLinette Escobar \nw/music by\nKristina Dutton + Holly Muñoz \n+ \nrelease party for vitriol 3 \nFREE SHOW • 21+ • 7pm doors \ncurated by Evan Karp\, Brianna Nelsun + Hannah Rubin \nRSVP \n^ sPARKLE & bLINK 84 for the first 100 people\nw/art by Peter Max Lawrence
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning/
LOCATION:Elbo Room\, 647 Valencia Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170403T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170403T213000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202254
CREATED:20161223T034229Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T034229Z
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SUMMARY:Safiya Sinclair
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Cannibal: \n“Stunning debut collection”—Publishers Weekly starred review \n\n“Reading (and rereading) Sinclair is an urgently necessary\, absolutely unparalleled experience.”—Diego Báez\, Booklist starred review \n\n“Safiya Sinclair writes strange\, mythological\, gorgeously elaborate lyric poems\, with a diction that is both arcane and contemporary. . . . Her language is distinctive\, assured\, and a marvel to read.”—Cathy Park Hong\, from her introduction to Safiya Sinclair in the Boston Review\n \n“Cannibal is nothing less than an entrancing debut that reveals the teeming intellect and ravishing lucidity of a young poet in full possession of her literary powers. Here is a poetry that richly interrogates power and history while also eloquently and furtively asserting the possibilities of nature\, desire\, and the body as ceremonial and spiritual sources of resistance and affirmation.”—Major Jackson\, author of Roll Deep \n\n“With exquisite lyrical precision\, Safiya Sinclair is offering us a new muscular music that is as brutal as it is beautiful. Intelligent and elemental\, these poems mark the debut of a poet who is dangerously talented and desperately needed.”—Ada Limón\, author of Bright Dead Things \n\nAbout Cannibal: \nColliding with andconfrontingThe Tempestand postcolonial identity\, the poems in Safiya Sinclair’s Cannibal explore Jamaican childhood and history\, race relations in America\, womanhood\, otherness\, and exile. She evokes a home no longer accessible and a body at times uninhabitable\, often mirrored by a hybrid Eve/Caliban figure. Blooming with intense lyricism and fertile imagery\, these full-blooded poems are elegant\, mythic\, and intricately woven. Here the female body is a dark landscape; the female body is cannibal. Sinclair shocks and delights her readers with her willingness to disorient and provoke\, creating a multitextured collage of beautiful and explosive poems.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/safiya-sinclair/
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:20170404T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170404T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202254
CREATED:20170329T092824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170329T092824Z
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SUMMARY:When April Showers Come...
DESCRIPTION:Featured: Rafael Jesús González\, MK Chavez\, James Cagney\, and Rose Black. An Open Mic follows the featured readers. Everyone welcome. There is always room. It’s time to showcase your work. Free drawing for books\, broadside\, and Spice Monkey Gift Card. The series is on the first Tuesday of each month in The Loft at Spice Monkey\, 1628 Webster Street\, Oakland\, 6:30-9:00 pm. Free\, we pass the hat.\ninformation: pandemoniumpress@gmail.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/when-april-showers-come/
LOCATION:Spice Monkey\, 1628 Webster St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170404T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170404T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202254
CREATED:20161223T033459Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T033459Z
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SUMMARY:Dean Radar
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of his new collection of poetry \nSelf-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry  \nfrom Copper Canyon Press \nWikipedia articles are never finalized. In Dean Rader’s energized and inventive new book\, the poet considers identity of self and society as a Wikipedia page—sculpted and transformed by the ever-present push and pull of politics\, culture\, and unseen forces. And\, in the case of Rader\, how identity can be affected by the likes of Paul Klee’s paintings and the characters from the children’s stories about Frog and Toad. Rader’s cagey voice is full of humor and inquiry\, warmly inviting readers to fully participate in the creation. \nBorn in Oklahoma\, Dean Rader has published in the fields of poetry\, American Indian studies\, and popular culture. He is a professor of English at the University of San Francisco\, and writes regularly on literature and politics for The San Francisco Chronicle.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dean-radar/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170404T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170404T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202254
CREATED:20170201T040217Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170201T040217Z
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SUMMARY:Augusten Burroughs
DESCRIPTION:#1 New York Times-bestselling author Augusten Burroughs joins us at Opera Plaza to celebrate the release of the paperback edition of his newest memoir\, Lust & Wonder. With Augusten’s unique and singular observations and his own unabashed way of detailing both the horrific and the humorous\, Lust & Wonder is a hilariously frank memoir that his legions of fans have been waiting for. His story began in Running with Scissors\, endured through Dry\, and continues with this memoir\, the capstone to the life of Augusten Burroughs. \nFunny\, sweet\, alarming\, and ultimately\, moving and tender\, Lust & Wonder is an experience of a book that will resonate with anyone who has loved and lost and loved again.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/augusten-burroughs/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170404T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170404T203000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202254
CREATED:20170320T061537Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T061537Z
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SUMMARY:Michael DeForge
DESCRIPTION:Join Michael DeForge for a live reading and book signing as he introduces the world to Sticks Angelica\, Folk Hero. Sticks has escaped her heritage for the refuge of the woods and through her story\, DeForge delivers another deeply humane work\, one that subtly questions the integrity of the political state and contemporary journalism\, all while investigating our relationship to the natural world. He will be in conversation with Ryan Sands. \n* in Conjunction with Comix Experience’s Graphic-Novel-of-the-monthclub \n— \nMichael DeForge was born in 1987 and grew up in Ottawa\, Ontario. His one-person anthology series Lose has been nominated for\, or won\, every major comics award including the Ignatz and Eisner awards. His previous graphic novels with Drawn & Quarterly are Ant Colony\, Big Kids\, and First Year Healthy. This March he releases Sticks Angelica\, Folk Hero. \nRyan Sands is a writer and zinemaker living in San Francisco. Along with his wife\, Ryan runs the publishing house Youth in Decline\, which publishes the award-wining monograph quarterly Frontier\, as well as graphic novels by unique creators from around the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-deforge/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170405T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170405T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202254
CREATED:20170320T062240Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T062240Z
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime CHAGRIN
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime CHAGRIN\, on Wednesday April 5th\, 7-9 pm\, at the Make-out Room\, 3325 22nd Street\, San Francisco\, will feature Ethel Rohan (The Weight of Him)\, Jon Sindell (Family Happiness)\, Peg Alford Pursell (Show Her a Flower\, a Bird\, a Shadow)\, Amy Berkowitz (Tender Points)\, and Christine No. With MC James Warner (All Her Father’s Guns).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-chagrin/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170406T121000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170406T125000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202254
CREATED:20161018T003013Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T003013Z
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SUMMARY:devorah major
DESCRIPTION:devorah major served as San Francisco’s third Poet Laureate from 2002 to 2006. In addition to her four poetry books including where river meets ocean\, street smarts (winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Excellence Award)\, she has published four poetry chapbooks\, two novels including An Open Weave (winner of the ALA Black Caucus First Novel Award)\, and two biographies for young adults. In 2016\, City Lights Publishing will release her new poetry collection and then we became. major’s poetry has been recorded on four CDs and she performs nationally and internationally with and without musicians. She is Poet-in-Residence at San Francisco’s Fine Arts Museums and a Senior Adjunct Professor in Diversity Studies at California College for the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/devorah-major/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170406T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170406T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202254
CREATED:20170320T062525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T062525Z
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SUMMARY:Meredith May
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Meredith May to the store to discuss and sign I\, Who Would Not Die\, on Thursday\, April 6th at 7:00 pm. This will be her publication party and all are welcome to attend! As a special treat\, John Steven Morgan will be playing piano as part of the event. \nKhorramshahr\, Iran\, May 1982–It was the bloodiest battle of one of the most brutal wars of the twentieth century\, and Najah\, a twenty-nine-year-old wounded Iraqi conscript\, was face to face with a thirteen-year-old Iranian child soldier\, Zahed\, who was ordered to kill him. Instead\, the boy committed an astonishing act of mercy. It was an act that decades later would save his own life. \nThis is a remarkable story. It is gut-wrenching\, essential\, and astonishing. It’s a war story\, a love story\, and page-turner of vast moral dimensions. An eloquent and haunting act of witness to horrors beyond grimmest fiction\, and a thing of towering beauty. More importantly\, it is a story that must be told\, and a richly textured view into an overlooked conflict and misunderstood region. This is the great untold story of the children and young men whose lives were sacrificed at the whim of vicious dictators and pointless\, barbaric wars.\nLittle has been written of the Iran-Iraq war\, which was among the most brutal conflicts of the twentieth century\, one fought with chemical weapons\, ballistic missiles\, and cadres of child soldiers.\nThe numbers involved are staggering:\n-All told\, it claimed 700\,000 lives–200\,000 Iraqis\, and 500\,000 Iranians.\n-Young men of military service age–eighteen and above in Iraq\, fifteen and above in Iran–died in the greatest numbers.\n-80\,000 Iranian child soldiers were killed\, mostly between the ages of sixteen and seventeen.\n-The two countries spent a combined 1.1 trillion dollars fighting the war.\nRarely does this kind of reportage succeed so powerfully as literature. More rarely still does such searingly brilliant literature fit to stand beside Remarque\, Hemingway\, and O’Brien and emerge from behind “enemy” lines.\nZahed\, a child\, and Najah\, a young restaurateur\, are rare men\, not just survivors\, but masterful\, wondrously gifted storytellers. Written with award-winning journalist Meredith May\, this is literature of a very high order\, set down with passion\, urgency\, and consummate skill. This story is an affirmation that\, in the end\, it is our humanity that transcends politics and borders and saves us all. \nMeredith May spent sixteen years as a feature writer at The San Francisco Chronicle\, where her 2004 narrative series on a war-wounded Iraqi boy won the PEN USA Literary Award for Journalism and was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meredith-may/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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