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SUMMARY:POETS! - David Holper + 1 followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:David Holper is a performing poet and Professor of English at College of the Redwoods in Eureka\, California. He recently published his second book of poems\, The Bridge\, with (Sequoia Song Publishing). Many of the poems in that collection have already been published\, and a number of have won prizes. Times Standard article\, April 5\, 2019
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-david-holper-1-followed-by-an-open-mic/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jasmine Guillory - - The Wedding Party
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome our friend Jasmine Guillory to celebrate the publication of her third novel\, The Wedding Party\, on Monday\, July 15th at 7pm. \nThe new exhilarating romance from The New York Times bestselling author of The Proposal\, a Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick! \nMaddie and Theo have two things in common: \n1. Alexa is their best friend\n2. They hate each other \nAfter an “oops\, we made a mistake” night together\, neither one can stop thinking about the other. With Alexa’s wedding rapidly approaching\, Maddie and Theo both share bridal party responsibilities that require more interaction with each other than they’re comfortable with. Underneath the sharp barbs they toss at each other is a simmering attraction that won’t fade. It builds until they find themselves sneaking off together to release some tension when Alexa isn’t looking\, agreeing they would end it once the wedding is over. When it’s suddenly pushed up and they only have a few months left of secret rendezvouses\, they find themselves regretting that the end is near. Two people this different can’t possibly have a connection other than the purely physical\, right? \nBut as with any engagement with a nemesis\, there are unspoken rules that must be abided by. First and foremost\, don’t fall in love. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nJasmine Guillory is a lawyer\, a graduate of Wellesley College and Stanford Law School\, and a Bay Area native who lives in Oakland\, California. She has been published in The Toast and The Hairpin\, has towering stacks of books in her living room\, a cake for every occasion\, and upwards of fifty lipsticks. She is The New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Date and The Proposal. Visit her online at jasmineguillory.com and twitter.com/thebestjasmine. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nMonday\, July 15\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jasmine-guillory-the-wedding-party/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Helen Phillips with Sarah Rich / The Need
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Helen Phillips for her new novel The Need. She’ll be in conversation with Sarah Rich. Please join us! \nWhen Molly\, home alone with her two young children\, hears footsteps in the living room\, she tries to convince herself it’s the sleep deprivation. She’s been hearing things these days. Startling at loud noises. Imagining the worst-case scenario. It’s what mothers do\, she knows. \nBut then the footsteps come again\, and she catches a glimpse of movement. \nSuddenly Molly finds herself face-to-face with an intruder who knows far too much about her and her family. As she attempts to protect those she loves most\, Molly must also acknowledge her own frailty. Molly slips down an existential rabbit hole where she must confront the dualities of motherhood: the ecstasy and the dread; the languor and the ferocity; the banality and the transcendence as the book hurtles toward a mind-bending conclusion. \nIn The Need\, Helen Phillips has created a subversive\, speculative thriller that comes to life through blazing\, arresting prose and gorgeous\, haunting imagery. Anointed as one of the most exciting fiction writers working today\, The Need is a glorious celebration of the bizarre and beautiful nature of our everyday lives. \n\nHelen Phillips is the author of\, most recently\, the novel The Need. Her collection Some Possible Solutions received the 2017 John Gardner Fiction Book Award. Her novel The Beautiful Bureaucrat\, a New York Times Notable Book of 2015\, was a finalist for the Los Angeles TimesBook Prize and the NYPL Young Lions Award. Her collection And Yet They Were Happy was named a notable collection by The Story Prize. She is also the author of the middle-grade novel Here Where the Sunbeams Are Green. Helen has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award and the Italo Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction\, and her work has appeared in The Atlantic\, The New York Times\, and Tin House\, and on Selected Shorts. She is an associate professor at Brooklyn College and lives in Brooklyn with her husband\, artist Adam Douglas Thompson\, and their children. Visit HelenCPhillips.com. Author photo by David Barry. \nSarah Rich is the Global Editorial Director at IDEO. She co-edited the book Leave Me Alone With the Recipes: The Life\, Art and Cookbook of Cipe Pineles (Bloomsbury\, 2017)\, which tells the life story of the legendary yet unsung designer Cipe Pineles\, alongside her original paintings and recipes. Sarah was formerly a senior editor at Dwell and managing editor of Worldchanging\, where she co-authored the bestselling book\, Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century (Abrams\, 2006)\, a celebrated book about sustainability and social change. She is also the founding managing editor of Inhabitat; co-founder of the Knight-Batten Award-winning Longshot Magazine and the Foodprint Project; and created and edited Medium’s design criticism publication\, re:form. Sarah received her BA from Stanford University in Cultural and Social Anthropology and began her career in the world of food. She worked as a food justice community advocate\, a television production assistant for the Food Network\, and a chef at the Berkeley Art Museum café. She is a founding editor of James Beard Award-winning Civil Eats\, and author of the book Urban Farms(Abrams\, 2011). Sarah’s work has been published in Wired\, The Atlantic\, AFAR\, Gourmet\, BusinessWeek\, Details\, the Globe & Mail\, Huffington Post\, Creative Review and elsewhere. She has lectured in Brazil\, India\, the United Arab Emirates\, and throughout North America\, and has been a new media and sustainability expert commentator on NPR\, BBC World Service\, and Current TV. She serves on the board of directors for Project H and Girls Garage\, a non-profit design/build program for girls ages 9-13. She lives with her husband\, son\, and daughter in Oakland\, California. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of The Need\, order below and put your request in the comments field; to order a signed copy of any of Helen’s other books\, order here and be sure to include your request in the comments field; for Sarah’s book\, here. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/helen-phillips-with-sarah-rich-the-need/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Karl Marlantes
DESCRIPTION:Karl Marlantes discusses his new novel\, Deep River. \nPraise for Deep River \n“Marlantes poignantly depicts the intimacies of personal dramas that echo the twentieth century’s unprecedented political storms and yet in surprising ways reprise Finland’s oldest mythologies…An unforgettable novel.”—Booklist (starred review) \n“Inspired by family history\, Marlantes offers a sprawling\, painstakingly realistic novel about Finnish immigrants in the Pacific Northwest during the first half of the 20th century… Marlantes’s epic is packed with intriguing detail about Finnish culture\, Northwest landscapes\, and 20th-century American history\, making for a vivid immigrant family chronicle.”—Publishers Weekly \nAbout Deep River \nKarl Marlantes’s debut novel Matterhorn has been hailed as a modern classic of war literature. In his new novel\, Deep River\, Marlantes turns to another mode of storytelling–the family epic–to craft a stunningly expansive narrative of human suffering\, courage\, and reinvention. \nIn the early 1900s\, as the oppression of Russia’s imperial rule takes its toll on Finland\, the three Koski siblings–Ilmari\, Matti\, and the politicized young Aino–are forced to flee to the United States. Not far from the majestic Columbia River\, the siblings settle among other Finns in a logging community in southern Washington\, where the first harvesting of the colossal old-growth forests begets rapid development\, and radical labor movements begin to catch fire. The brothers face the excitement and danger of pioneering this frontier wilderness–climbing and felling trees one-hundred meters high–while Aino\, foremost of the books many strong\, independent women\, devotes herself to organizing the industry’s first unions. As the Koski siblings strive to rebuild lives and families in an America in flux\, they also try to hold fast to the traditions of a home they left behind. \nLayered with fascinating historical detail\, this is a novel that breathes deeply of the sun-dappled forest and bears witness to the stump-ridden fields the loggers\, and the first waves of modernity\, leave behind. At its heart\, Deep River is an ambitious and timely exploration of the place of the individual\, and of the immigrant\, in an America still in the process of defining its \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karl-marlantes/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The B Stands for Bi\, a Perfectly Queer Reading
DESCRIPTION:There are many ways to be Queer\, being Bi\, for instance. Does being Bi influence an author’s writing–what they write about\, who their characters are\, what genre they choose\, how they write about sex? Come hear three authors who are Bi read from their latest work Tuesday\, July 16\, 7pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. in (you guessed it) The Castro. Free refreshments\, free admission. Door prizes for the prompt at 7pm! \nMeg Elison is a science fiction author and feminist essayist. Her series\, The Road to Nowhere\, won the 2014 Philip K. Dick award. She was a James A. Tiptree Award Honoree in 2018. She has been published in McSweeney’s\, Fantasy & Science Fiction\, Catapult\, and many other places. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. Find her online\, where she writes like she’s running out of time. megelison.com @megelison \nMichele Harris received the 2011 David A. Kennedy prize and was selected as a finalist for the 2018 New Millennium Award in poetry. Her debut book Blackdamp was published by David Robert Books this year. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Tishman Review\, New Millennium Writings\, The Prose-Poem Project\, Anderbo\, Cicada\, Dirtflask\, Sheepshead Review\, The Columbia College Literary Review\, Stirring\, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts Boston\, where she teaches Literature for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. She works at MIT and lives in Cambridge\, MA. \nJan Steckel is a former pediatrician who stopped practicing medicine because of chronic pain. Her latest book Like Flesh Covers Bone (Zeitgeist Press\, December 2018) was a finalist for the poetry category of the Bi Book Awards. Her poetry collection The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press\, 2011) won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press\, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press\, 2006) were also award winners. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Scholastic Magazine\, Bellevue Literary Review\, Yale Medicine\, and elsewhere. She works as a medical editor and lives in Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-b-stands-for-bi-a-perfectly-queer-reading/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Litquake 20th Anniversary Party
DESCRIPTION:Help the Bay Area literary community celebrate two decades (to the day) of the world-famous festival known as Litquake. Founded in a dive bar 20 years ago\, Litquake returns to its roots to host this action-packed literary bash. Hear highlights for the upcoming 20th anniversary festival. Mingle with the word nerds. Hear readings and stories from LQ veterans. Slake your thirst on discounted specials from Fort Point Beer Company. Watch in amazement as five author bands take the stage in a Battle Royale to the death. \nLitquake Veterans:\nTamim Ansary\nDevorah Major\nMerle Kessler\nAlan Black\nApril Sinclair \nAuthor Bands:\nVata & the Vine (Evan Karp and Maw Shein Win)\nHeather Bourbeau & Raman Osman\nTongo Eisen-Martin & Steven Gray\nDelco (A Delaware Corporation)\nThe Deadliners \nMore info: https://sched.co/QnC6
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-20th-anniversary-party/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Peg Alford Pursell with Caille Millner / Launch for A Girl Goes into the Forest
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the launch for Peg Alford Pursell‘s new book\, A Girl Goes into the Forest. She’ll be in conversation with Caille Millner\, and there will be live music bySugartown! More information to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nFollowing her acclaimed debut\, Show Her a Flower\, A Bird\, A Shadow\, award-winning author Peg Alford Pursell explores and illuminates love and loss in 78 hybrid stories and fables. A Girl Goes into the Forest immerses readers in the complex desires\, contradictions\, and sorrows of daughters\, wives\, and husbands\, artists\, siblings\, and mothers. \nIn forests literal and metaphorical\, the characters try\, fail\, and try again to see the world\, to hear each other\, and to speak the truth of their longings. Powerful\, lyrical\, and precise\, Pursell’s stories call up a world at once mysterious and recognizable. \n\n\n \nPeg Alford Pursell is the author of A Girl Goes into the Forest and of Show Her a Flower\, A Bird\, A Shadow\, the 2017 Indies Book of the Year for Literary Fiction. Her work has appeared in Permafrost\, the Los Angeles Review\, Joyland Magazine\, and other journals and anthologies. She is the founder and director of the national reading series Why There Are Words and of WTAW Press. \nCaille Millner is the author of a memoir\, The Golden Road: Notes on my Gentrification. Her fiction has appeared in Zyzzyva\, the Cimarron Review\, and Best American Short Stories 2016. Her nonfiction has appeared in the Paris Review Daily\, Longreads\, and many other publications. She is also a cultural columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle. \nSugartown bio coming soon. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 6:30pm; event starts at 7pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of A Girl Goes into the Forest\, order below and put your request in the comments field; to order a signed copy of any of Peg’s other books\, order here and be sure to include your request in the comments field; for Caille’s book\, here. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peg-alford-pursell-with-caille-millner-launch-for-a-girl-goes-into-the-forest/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bruce Conforth on Robert Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Bruce Conforth discusses his new book\, Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson. \nPraise for Up Jumped the Devil \n“This is the book the blues world has been waiting for. Authored by two uniquely qualified scholars following years of extensive interviews and exhaustive research\, the result is fascinating\, important\, and factual\, without agenda or embellished narrative. . . . It is in my view a far more moving account than many others that have been obscured by so much fantasy. It’s a can’t-put-it-down kind of book—an exciting\, great read.” —Rory Block\, celebrated acoustic blues guitarist/singer and five-time Blues Music Award winner \n“Finally an in-depth biography of one of the greatest blues musicians ever. The clearing up of the myths and mysteries is a relief. The work of the authors is meticulous. They detail Robert Johnson’s journey with facts\, creating a full view of his life and times\, his friends and influences\, so the reader has a comprehensive understanding of how he came to be the greatest of the Delta bluesmen. I am blown away!” —John Hammond\, Jr. \n“Some people will tell you that blues legend Robert Johnson lived under a curse\, but it’s actually research into Johnson’s life that’s been bedeviled. Three of my friends died before publishing their books on him\, and for a long time I’ve feared we might never get a reliable account of this artist’s life and times. Finally the curse has been lifted. Bruce Conforth and Gayle Dean Wardlow started researching Robert Johnson and the Delta blues tradition more than a half-century ago\, and they are now sharing their hard-won insights into the most mysterious man in the annals of American music. If you want the straight story on Robert Johnson\, this is where you start.” —Ted Gioia\, author of Delta Blues and The History of Jazz \nAbout Up Jumped the Devil \nRobert Johnson’s recordings\, made in 1936 and 1937\, have profoundly influenced generations of singers\, guitarists\, and songwriters. Yet until now\, his short life—he was murdered at the age of 27—has been poorly documented. Gayle Dean Wardlow has been interviewing people who knew Johnson since the early 1960s\, and he was the person who discovered Johnson’s death certificate in 1967. Bruce Conforth began his study of Johnson’s life and music in 1970 and made it his mission to fill in what was still unknown about him. In this definitive biography\, the two authors relied on every interview\, resource\, and document\, much of it material no one has seen before. This is the first book about Johnson that documents his lifelong relationship with family and friends in Memphis\, details his trip to New York\, uncovers where and when his wife Virginia died and the impact this had on him\, fully portrays the other women Johnson was involved with\, and tells exactly how and why he died and who gave him the poison that killed him. Up Jumped the Devil will astonish blues fans worldwide by painting a living\, breathing portrait of a man who was heretofore little more than a legend.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bruce-conforth-on-robert-johnson-2/
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:Brandon Brown presents The Apollo Chronicles: Engineering America's First Moon Missions
DESCRIPTION:Brandon Brown\n\n\n\n\npresents The Apollo Chronicles: Engineering America’s First Moon Missions\, a uniquely earthbound story of space travel that follows a handful of surviving engineers from the time through their longest days\, tightest deadlines\, and most confounding challenges. \n[Brown] has captured the soul of what was arguably the most challenging and significant engineering accomplishment of the 20th century…a great read for all audiences…I learned things about ‘my era’ that I never knew!”–Gerry Griffin\, Former Director of the Johnson Space Center\, and former flight director for the Apollo Program \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of The Apollo Chronicles by speaking to a bookseller or ordering through our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, July 17\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThe moon landing of 1969 stands as an iconic moment for both the United States and humankind. The familiar story focuses on the journey of the brave astronauts\, who brought home Moon rocks and startling photographs. But Apollo’s full account includes the earthbound engineers\, mounds of their crumpled paper\, and smoldering metal shards of exploded engines. How exactly did the nation\, step by difficult step\, take men to the Moon and back? \nIn The Apollo Chronicles\, fifty years after the moon landing\, author Brandon R. Brown\, himself the son of an Apollo engineer\, revisits the men and women who toiled behind the lights. He relays the defining twentieth-century project from its roots\, bringing the engineers’ work and personalities to bright life on the page. Set against the backdrop of a turbulent American decade\, the narrative whisks audiences through tense deadlines and technical miracles\, from President John F. Kennedy’s 1961 challenge to NASA’s 1969 lunar triumph\, as engineers confronted wave after wave of previously unthinkable challenges. \nBrown immerses readers in key physical hurdles–from building the world’s most powerful rockets to keeping humans alive in the hostile void of space–using language free of acronyms and technical jargon. The book also pulls back from the detailed tasks and asks larger questions. What did we learn about the Moon? And what can this uniquely innovative project teach us today? \nBrandon R. Brown is a Professor of Physics at USF. His research includes work on superconductivity and sensory biophysics. He enjoys writing about science for general audiences\, including articles and essays in New Scientist\, SEED\, and the Huffington Post\, as well as a biography\, Planck\, that won the 2016 Housatonic Award for Nonfiction. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brandon-brown-presents-the-apollo-chronicles-engineering-americas-first-moon-missions/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bruce Conforth on Robert Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Bruce Conforth discusses his new book\, Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Rovert Johnson. \nPraise for Up Jumped the Devil \n“This is the book the blues world has been waiting for. Authored by two uniquely qualified scholars following years of extensive interviews and exhaustive research\, the result is fascinating\, important\, and factual\, without agenda or embellished narrative. . . . It is in my view a far more moving account than many others that have been obscured by so much fantasy. It’s a can’t-put-it-down kind of book—an exciting\, great read.” —Rory Block\, celebrated acoustic blues guitarist/singer and five-time Blues Music Award winner \n“Finally an in-depth biography of one of the greatest blues musicians ever. The clearing up of the myths and mysteries is a relief. The work of the authors is meticulous. They detail Robert Johnson’s journey with facts\, creating a full view of his life and times\, his friends and influences\, so the reader has a comprehensive understanding of how he came to be the greatest of the Delta bluesmen. I am blown away!” —John Hammond\, Jr. \n“Some people will tell you that blues legend Robert Johnson lived under a curse\, but it’s actually research into Johnson’s life that’s been bedeviled. Three of my friends died before publishing their books on him\, and for a long time I’ve feared we might never get a reliable account of this artist’s life and times. Finally the curse has been lifted. Bruce Conforth and Gayle Dean Wardlow started researching Robert Johnson and the Delta blues tradition more than a half-century ago\, and they are now sharing their hard-won insights into the most mysterious man in the annals of American music. If you want the straight story on Robert Johnson\, this is where you start.” —Ted Gioia\, author of Delta Blues and The History of Jazz \nAbout Up Jumped the Devil \nRobert Johnson’s recordings\, made in 1936 and 1937\, have profoundly influenced generations of singers\, guitarists\, and songwriters. Yet until now\, his short life—he was murdered at the age of 27—has been poorly documented. Gayle Dean Wardlow has been interviewing people who knew Johnson since the early 1960s\, and he was the person who discovered Johnson’s death certificate in 1967. Bruce Conforth began his study of Johnson’s life and music in 1970 and made it his mission to fill in what was still unknown about him. In this definitive biography\, the two authors relied on every interview\, resource\, and document\, much of it material no one has seen before. This is the first book about Johnson that documents his lifelong relationship with family and friends in Memphis\, details his trip to New York\, uncovers where and when his wife Virginia died and the impact this had on him\, fully portrays the other women Johnson was involved with\, and tells exactly how and why he died and who gave him the poison that killed him. Up Jumped the Devil will astonish blues fans worldwide by painting a living\, breathing portrait of a man who was heretofore little more than a legend.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bruce-conforth-on-robert-johnson/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190718T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T123526
CREATED:20190606T023433Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190606T023433Z
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SUMMARY:THE RACKET!
DESCRIPTION:Details soon! \nhttps://www.facebook.com/theracketseries/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-7/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190718T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190718T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T123526
CREATED:20190726T145406Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190726T145406Z
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SUMMARY:Jan Steckel at Third Thursdays at Willow Glen Library
DESCRIPTION:Featured reader: Jan Steckel!\nOpen mic to follow.\nFree and open to the public. \nJan Steckel is a former pediatrician who stopped practicing medicine because of chronic pain. Her latest poetry book is Like Flesh Covers Bone (Zeitgeist Press\, December 2018). Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press\, 2011) won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press\, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press\, 2006) also won awards. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Scholastic Magazine\, Bellevue Literary Review\, New Verse News\, November 3 Club\, Assaracus and elsewhere. Her work was nominated three times each for the Pushcart and Sundress Best of the Net anthologies\, won the Goodreads Poetry Contest three times\, and won various other awards. She lives in Oakland\, California. \nIf you wish to be included in the Willow Glen Poetry Project\, please email it to willowglenpoetry@gmail.com. If you cannot email your poem see Dennis Richardson. It’s still okay to just read your poem and not blog it.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jan-steckel-at-third-thursdays-at-willow-glen-library/
LOCATION:Willow Glen Library\, 1157 Minnesota Ave\, San Jose \, CA\, 95125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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ORGANIZER;CN="Pushpa Macfarlane":MAILTO:graphique05@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190718T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190718T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T123526
CREATED:20190707T191609Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190707T191609Z
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SUMMARY:Lily Bernheimer: The Shaping of Us
DESCRIPTION:Lily Bernheimer discusses her new book\, The Shaping of Us: How Everyday Spaces Structure Our Lives\, Behavior\, and Well-Being. \nAbout The Shaping of Us \nSpaces we live in define our identity and sense of community. Using international examples of environmental architecture and design\, The Shaping of Us reveals the often imperceptible ways that our surroundings influence our behavior and quality of life. Lily Bernheimer explores productivity in work environments\, biophilia\, and pop culture phenomena such as “the IKEA effect\,” NIMBYism\, and “ruin porn.” \nFrom woonerfs and roundabouts to the ubiquity of traffic lights\, Le Corbusier’s unrealized plan for Paris\, and innovations in affordable housing\, Bernheimer demonstrates that the environments we inhabit define us\, from the earliest moments of our evolution to today. In understanding this\, we can better plan and build environments that promote improved productivity\, sustainable economies\, and increased happiness and well-being.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lily-bernheimer-the-shaping-of-us/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190719T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190719T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T123526
CREATED:20190603T143554Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190603T143554Z
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SUMMARY:After Hours - Eric Kleinenberg: Palaces for the People
DESCRIPTION:After Hours – Eric Kleinenberg: Palaces for the People\nFriday\, July 19th | 7:00pm \nWine reception at 6:30pm for registered guests. \nEric Klinenberg (Heat Wave\, Fighting for Air\, Going Solo) makes the case for how social infrastructure can help fight inequality\, polarization and the decline of civic life\, the subject of his latest book. He is a Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU. \nAdults and high school students only. \nRegistration recommended. Registration opens July 1st. \nAdd to my:iCal/Outlook \nWhen:Friday\, July 19\, 2019 \nTime:7:00 PM – 9:00 PM \nWhere:Mill Valley Public Library – Main Reading Room\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley\, California\, 94941 \nEvent Type:Library\, Adult \nContact:(415) 389-4292
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-eric-kleinenberg-palaces-for-the-people/
LOCATION:Main Reading Room\, Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mill Valley Public Library":MAILTO:abrenner@cityofmillvalley.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190719T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190719T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T123526
CREATED:20190707T191744Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190707T191744Z
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SUMMARY:Susannah Rodríguez Drissi discusses & signs "The Latin Poet's Guide to the Cosmos"
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning Cuban poet\, playwright\, translator\, and scholar\, Susannah Rodríguez Drissi discusses and signs “The Latin Poet’s Guide to the Cosmos.” A delightfully choreographed and ultimately scintillating hoodwink\, this extraordinary collection of poetry constitutes a cross-linguistic poetic event in which the correspondence between Romance languages is as close as to approach the condition of a new vernacular; and where the very issue of movement between languages is somehow central\, and sound and rhythm are the fundamental characteristics of poetry. Written at the intersection of several romance languages\, and most closely related to Spanish and Italian\, the collection wears its Latinity on its sleeve; in other words\, this is a collection fueled by the many convergences and divergences possible between Latin and its vernaculars\, ultimately proposing that true Latinity is always first and foremost expressed through language. And\, sometimes\, also humor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susannah-rodriguez-drissi-discusses-signs-the-latin-poets-guide-to-the-cosmos/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190719T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190719T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T123526
CREATED:20190707T191545Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190707T191545Z
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SUMMARY:Larry Bloom on Sol LeWitt
DESCRIPTION:Lary Bloom discusses his new biography\, Sol LeWitt: A Life of Ideas. \nAbout Sol LeWitt \nSol LeWitt (1928-2007)\, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century\, upended traditional practices of how art is made and marketed. A key figure in minimalism and conceptualism\, he proclaimed that the work of the mind is much more important than that of the hand. For his site-specific work–wall drawings and sculpture in dozens of countries–he created the idea and basic plan and then hired young artists to install the pieces. Though typically enormous and intricate\, the physical works held no value. The worth was in the pieces of paper that certified and described them. LeWitt championed and financially supported colleagues\, including women artists brushed aside by the bullies of a male-dominated profession. Yet the man himself has remained an enigma\, as he refused to participate in the culture of celebrity. Lary Bloom’s book draws on personal recollections of LeWitt\, whom he knew in the last years of the artist’s life\, as well as LeWitt’s letters and papers and over one hundred original interviews with his friends and colleagues\, including Chuck Close\, Ingrid Sischy\, Philip Glass\, Adrian Piper\, Jan Dibbets\, and Carl Andre. This absorbing chronicle brings new information to our understanding of this important artist\, linking the extraordinary arc of his life to his iconic work. Includes 28 illustrations. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/larry-bloom-on-sol-lewitt/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190719T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190719T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T123526
CREATED:20190606T034718Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190606T034718Z
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SUMMARY:Lary Bloom on Sol LeWitt
DESCRIPTION:Lary Bloom discusses his new biography\, Sol LeWitt: A Life of Ideas. \nAbout Sol LeWitt \nSol LeWitt (1928-2007)\, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century\, upended traditional practices of how art is made and marketed. A key figure in minimalism and conceptualism\, he proclaimed that the work of the mind is much more important than that of the hand. For his site-specific work–wall drawings and sculpture in dozens of countries–he created the idea and basic plan and then hired young artists to install the pieces. Though typically enormous and intricate\, the physical works held no value. The worth was in the pieces of paper that certified and described them. LeWitt championed and financially supported colleagues\, including women artists brushed aside by the bullies of a male-dominated profession. Yet the man himself has remained an enigma\, as he refused to participate in the culture of celebrity. Lary Bloom’s book draws on personal recollections of LeWitt\, whom he knew in the last years of the artist’s life\, as well as LeWitt’s letters and papers and over one hundred original interviews with his friends and colleagues\, including Chuck Close\, Ingrid Sischy\, Philip Glass\, Adrian Piper\, Jan Dibbets\, and Carl Andre. This absorbing chronicle brings new information to our understanding of this important artist\, linking the extraordinary arc of his life to his iconic work. Includes 28 illustrations. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lary-bloom-on-sol-lewitt/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190720T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190720T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T123526
CREATED:20190606T023654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190606T023654Z
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SUMMARY:Charlie Getter & Tom Stolmar
DESCRIPTION:Charlie Getter & Tom Stolmar\nNot to be missed!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charlie-getter-tom-stolmar/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190720T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190720T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T123526
CREATED:20190603T142632Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190603T142632Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poetry Marathon
DESCRIPTION:* Saturday\, July 20\n____ Curator: Tongo Eisen-Martin ____\nReaders:  TBA \n  \n       * Saturday\, September 28\n100 Thousand Poets For Change / Bay Area Poetry Marathon joint event\n____ Curator: Donna de la Perrière ____\nReaders:  TBA\n\n_____________________________________________________ \nAll events will be held at ALLEY CAT BOOKS\,\n3036 24th Street (in the Mission\, between Harrison & Treat)\n\nDoors open at 7:00pm.  Readings begin at 7:30pm sharp. \n+ + + + + + +\nFor more information\, email Donna de la Perrière at baypoma@zoho.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poetry-marathon-6/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190721T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190721T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T123526
CREATED:20190606T025644Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190606T025644Z
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SUMMARY:Silent Book Club SF
DESCRIPTION:Bring a book\, bring a friend\, and join Silent Book Club for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club\, there’s no assigned reading. All books and all ages are welcome. \nWe’ll kick off introvert happy hour at 4pm with some light chatter and informal book recommendations before settling in to read quietly\, but if you’d rather just pull up a chair and read\, by all means do so. No one will be shushed or shamed. The bar will be open for late afternoon libations. \nHappy reading and hope to see you there! \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nPhoto by Cody Pickens for O Magazine
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silent-book-club-sf-2/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190722T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190722T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T123526
CREATED:20190606T025832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190606T025832Z
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SUMMARY:Chuck Klosterman / Raised in Captivity
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith welcomes Chuck Klosterman back to the store for his new story collection\, Raised in Captivity. More information to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nMicrodoses of the straight dope\, stories so true they had to be wrapped in fiction for our own protection\, from the best-selling author of But What if We’re Wrong? \nA man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs an offense comprised of only one\, very special\, play. A man explains to the police why he told the employee of his local bodega that his colleague looked like the lead singer of Depeche Mode\, a statement that may or may not have led in some way to a violent crime. A college professor discusses with his friend his difficulties with the new generation of students. An obscure power pop band wrestles with its new-found fame when its song “Blizzard of Summer” becomes an anthem for white supremacists. A couple considers getting a medical procedure that will transfer the pain of childbirth from the woman to her husband. A woman interviews a hit man about killing her husband but is shocked by the method he proposes. A man is recruited to join a secret government research team investigating why coin flips are no longer exactly 50/50. A man sees a whale struck by lightning\, and knows that everything about his life has to change. A lawyer grapples with the unintended side effects of a veterinarian’s rabies vaccination. \nFair warning: Raised in Captivity does not slot into a smooth preexisting groove. If Saul Steinberg and Italo Calvino had adopted a child from a Romanian orphanage and raised him on Gary Larsen and Thomas Bernhard\, he would still be nothing like Chuck Klosterman. They might be good company\, though. Funny\, wise and weird in equal measure\, Raised in Captivity bids fair to be one of the most original and exciting story collections in recent memory\, a fever graph of our deepest unvoiced hopes\, fears and preoccupations. Ceaselessly inventive\, hostile to corniness in all its forms\, and mean only to the things that really deserve it\, it marks a cosmic leap forward for one of our most consistently interesting writers. \n\n\nChuck Klosterman is the bestselling author of eight nonfiction books (including Sex\, Drugs\, and Cocoa Puffs; I Wear the Black Hat; But What If We’re Wrong?; and Killing Yourself to Live) and two novels (Downtown Owl and The Visible Man). He has written for The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, GQ\, Esquire\, Spin\, The Guardian\, The Believer\, Billboard\, The A.V. Club\, and ESPN. Klosterman served as the Ethicist for The New York Times Magazine for three years\, appeared as himself in the LCD Soundsystem documentary Shut Up and Play the Hits\, and was an original founder of the website Grantland with Bill Simmons. \n\nThis is a free\, all-ages event\, but seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Raised in Captivity\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \nIf you’d like to request a signed copy of any of Chuck’s other books\, order here and be sure to include your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chuck-klosterman-raised-in-captivity/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190723T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190723T200000
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CREATED:20190707T191802Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190707T191802Z
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SUMMARY:Erik Davis: High Weirdness
DESCRIPTION:A study of the spiritual provocations to be found in the work of Philip K. Dick\, Terence McKenna\, and Robert Anton Wilson\, High Weirdness charts the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality that arose from the American counterculture of the 1970s. These three authors changed the way millions of readers thought\, dreamed\, and experienced reality—but how did their writings reflect\, as well as shape\, the seismic cultural shifts taking place in America? \nIn High Weirdness\, Erik Davis—America’s leading scholar of high strangeness—examines the published and unpublished writings of these vital\, iconoclastic thinkers\, as well as their own life-changing mystical experiences. Davis explores the complex lattice of the strange that flowed through America’s West Coast at a time of radical technological\, political\, and social upheaval to present a new theory of the weird as a viable mode for a renewed engagement with reality. \nErik Davis is an author\, podcaster\, award-winning journalist\, and independent scholar based in San Francisco. His wide-ranging work focuses on the intersection of alternative religion\, media\, and the popular imagination. In addition to High Weirdness\, he is also the author of Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica (2010)\, The Visionary State: A Journey through California’s Spiritual Landscape (2006)\, a short critical volume on Led Zeppelin (2005)\, and the celebrated TechGnosis: Myth\, Magic\, and Mysticism in the Age of Information (1998). Erik’s scholarly and popular essays on music\, technoculture\, drugs\, and spirituality have appeared in scores of books\, magazines\, and journals\, and his writing has been translated into a dozen languages. Davis has spoken widely at conferences\, retreat centers\, and festivals\, and has been interviewed by CNN\, the BBC\, public radio\, and the New York Times. He explores the “cultures of consciousness” on his long-running weekly podcast Expanding Mind.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/erik-davis-high-weirdness/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, Berkeley\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Moe's Books":MAILTO:owenmoes@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190723T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190723T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T123526
CREATED:20190707T191552Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190707T191552Z
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SUMMARY:John Corbett: Pick Up the Pieces
DESCRIPTION:John Corbett discusses his new book\, Pick up the Pieces: Excursions in Seventies Music. \nPraise for Pick up the Pieces \n“[A] thoroughly enjoyable—and gorgeously written—joy ride down his version of 1970s memory lane. . . . music lovers are sure to enjoy Corbett’s delightful book about a fascinating\, often misunderstood time of musical innovation.”— Booklist \n“Just as a rich gumbo benefits from the perfect combination of diverse ingredients\, so does Corbett’s analysis and so do the 1970s songs and performances he examines. . . . Corbett is in the upper echelon of music criticism.”— Library Journal \n“Corbett is the Carl Sagan of vinyl. Funny and irreverent\, he’s voyaged across the stars and the human imagination to bring us music both ‘pathetic and sublime’ from that most misunderstood of decades\, the 1970s.”— Rainn Wilson \nAbout Pick up the Pieces \nUnless you lived through the 1970s\, it seems impossible to understand it at all. Drug delirium\, groovy fashion\, religious cults\, mega corporations\, glitzy glam\, hard rock\, global unrest—from our 2018 perspective\, the seventies are often remembered as a bizarre blur of bohemianism and disco. With Pick Up the Pieces\, John Corbett transports us back in time to this thrillingly tumultuous era through a playful exploration of its music. Song by song\, album by album\, he draws our imaginations back into one of the wildest decades in history. \nRock. Disco. Pop. Soul. Jazz. Folk. Funk. The music scene of the 1970s was as varied as it was exhilarating\, but the decade’s diversity of sound has never been captured in one book before now. Pick Up the Pieces gives a panoramic view of the era’s music and culture through seventy-eight essays that allow readers to dip in and out of the decade at random or immerse themselves completely in Corbett’s chronological journey. \nAn inviting mix of skilled music criticism and cultural observation\, Pick Up the Pieces is also a coming-of-age story\, tracking the author’s absorption in music as he grows from age seven to seventeen. Along with entertaining personal observations and stories\, Corbett includes little-known insights into musicians from Pink Floyd\, Joni Mitchell\, James Brown\, and Fleetwood Mac to the Residents\, Devo\, Gal Costa\, and Julius Hemphill. \nA master DJ on the page\, Corbett takes us through the curated playlist that is Pick Up the Pieces with captivating melody of language and powerful enthusiasm for the era. This funny\, energetic book will have readers longing nostalgically for a decade long past.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-corbett-pick-up-the-pieces/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190723T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190723T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T123526
CREATED:20190707T192001Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190707T192001Z
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SUMMARY:Dirty Old Women Read Erotica
DESCRIPTION:Older women: Wise enough to tell the truth about sex – what they want\, what they’ve done\, what makes them hot. Dirty Old Women celebrates erotic writing by self-identified older women of all flavors. On Tuesday\, July 23\, hear Beth Elliott and Christine Kammler. \nBeth Elliott is the author of four books\, two fiction and two non-fiction\, including her recently completed experimental erotic fiction collection The Smart Drug Masochists.  She is also a singer-songwriter who has released one album to date\, the “checkered career retrospective” Buried Treasure. Beth has written articles and reviews for Sisters\, Sapphire\, The Lesbian Tide\, and other women’s and lesbian publications.  She was the editor of Wavelength\, the newsletter for SapphSIG\, a Mensa lesbian special interest group\, and was a columnist for Telewoman and the weekly Bay Area Reporter newspaper. \nChris Kammler is a writer\, director\, performance artist and world traveler. Her work spans poetry\, fiction and drama. \nAs always\, we start with an open mic that’s open to all. Featured readings begin at 8 pm at Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster at 21st St.\, Oakland. This event is free\, inclusive and accessible!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dirty-old-women-read-erotica-2/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Susan Kuchinskas":MAILTO:susan@kuchinskas.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190723T213000
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SUMMARY:John Corbett
DESCRIPTION:John Corbett discusses his new book\, Pick up the Pieces: Excursions in Seventies Music. \nPraise for Pick up the Pieces \n“[A] thoroughly enjoyable—and gorgeously written—joy ride down his version of 1970s memory lane. . . . music lovers are sure to enjoy Corbett’s delightful book about a fascinating\, often misunderstood time of musical innovation.”— Booklist \n“Just as a rich gumbo benefits from the perfect combination of diverse ingredients\, so does Corbett’s analysis and so do the 1970s songs and performances he examines. . . . Corbett is in the upper echelon of music criticism.”— Library Journal \n“Corbett is the Carl Sagan of vinyl. Funny and irreverent\, he’s voyaged across the stars and the human imagination to bring us music both ‘pathetic and sublime’ from that most misunderstood of decades\, the 1970s.”— Rainn Wilson \nAbout Pick up the Pieces \nUnless you lived through the 1970s\, it seems impossible to understand it at all. Drug delirium\, groovy fashion\, religious cults\, mega corporations\, glitzy glam\, hard rock\, global unrest—from our 2018 perspective\, the seventies are often remembered as a bizarre blur of bohemianism and disco. With Pick Up the Pieces\, John Corbett transports us back in time to this thrillingly tumultuous era through a playful exploration of its music. Song by song\, album by album\, he draws our imaginations back into one of the wildest decades in history. \nRock. Disco. Pop. Soul. Jazz. Folk. Funk. The music scene of the 1970s was as varied as it was exhilarating\, but the decade’s diversity of sound has never been captured in one book before now. Pick Up the Pieces gives a panoramic view of the era’s music and culture through seventy-eight essays that allow readers to dip in and out of the decade at random or immerse themselves completely in Corbett’s chronological journey. \nAn inviting mix of skilled music criticism and cultural observation\, Pick Up the Pieces is also a coming-of-age story\, tracking the author’s absorption in music as he grows from age seven to seventeen. Along with entertaining personal observations and stories\, Corbett includes little-known insights into musicians from Pink Floyd\, Joni Mitchell\, James Brown\, and Fleetwood Mac to the Residents\, Devo\, Gal Costa\, and Julius Hemphill. \nA master DJ on the page\, Corbett takes us through the curated playlist that is Pick Up the Pieces with captivating melody of language and powerful enthusiasm for the era. This funny\, energetic book will have readers longing nostalgically for a decade long past.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-corbett/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190724T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190724T210000
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SUMMARY:This is Now: Richard A. Clarke on Cyber Threat
DESCRIPTION:Cyberwar”— or cyber-anything\, for that matter— has always carried a whiff of science fiction about it. But it’s not fiction\, it’s certainly not entertainment\, and – as terrorism expert Richard A. Clarke warns us— multiple cyberwars are underway already. The battlefronts range from simple identity theft to the disruption of nuclear programs and medical care. The Pentagon even has a word for this new front line: the fifth domain. That’s where ongoing skirmishes for our security as individuals and as citizens are being fought. \n\nRichard Clark has long experience in American security matters. He’s served as a key advisor on intelligence and counterterrorism to three US presidents. In 1998 President Bill Clinton appointed him as the National Coordinator for Security\, Infrastructure Protection\, and Counterterrorism for the U.S. National Security Council. His latest book\, The Fifth Domain: Defending our Country\, Companies\, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats\, calls on that long experience to tackle one of the most pivotal battlegrounds in modern security. \nJoin us at Kepler’s as he shares deep research from boardrooms\, government conference rooms\, and quantum computing labs—  all in pursuit of “cyber resilience”\, a position of strength against web hacking\, election interference\, and other boogeymen of the digital realm that are all too real.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-richard-a-clarke-on-cyber-threat/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190724T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190724T210000
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SUMMARY:Kristen Arnett: Mostly Dead Things
DESCRIPTION:Kristen Arnett discusses her new novel\, Mostly Dead Things with Esmé Weijun Wang. \nPraise for Mostly Dead Things \n“Mostly Dead Things is one of the strangest and funniest and most surprising first novels I’ve ever read. A love letter to Florida and to family\, to half-lit swamps and the 7/11\, and to the beasts that only pretend to hold their poses inside us. In Kristen Arnett’s expert hands\, taxidermy becomes a language to capture our species’ impossible and contradictory desire to be held and to be free.”- Karen Russell\, author of SWAMPLANDIA! \n“If Heather Lewis and Joy Williams had a child it might be this―I don’t think I’ve ever read a novel like it. There’s a gunslinger cool to every sentence\, like someone is telling you the last story they’ll ever tell you. Kristen Arnett is the queen of the Florida no one has ever told you about\, and on every page she brings it to a steely and vivid life.”- Alexander Chee\, author of HOW TO WRITE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL \n“Mostly Dead Things packs messed-up families\, scandalous love affairs\, art\, life\, death and the great state of Florida into one delicious\, darkly funny package. Kristen Arnett is wickedly talented and a wholly original voice”- Jami Attenberg\, author of ALL GROWN UP \nAbout Mostly Dead Things \nOne morning\, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has committed suicide\, right there on one of the metal tables. Shocked and grieving\, Jessa steps up to manage the failing business\, while the rest of the Morton family crumbles. Her mother starts sneaking into the shop to make aggressively lewd art with the taxidermied animals. Her brother Milo withdraws\, struggling to function. And Brynn\, Milo’s wife―and the only person Jessa’s ever been in love with―walks out without a word. As Jessa seeks out less-than-legal ways of generating income\, her mother’s art escalates―picture a figure of her dead husband and a stuffed buffalo in an uncomfortably sexual pose―and the Mortons reach a tipping point. For the first time\, Jessa has no choice but to learn who these people truly are\, and ultimately how she fits alongside them. \nKristen Arnett’s debut novel is a darkly funny\, heart-wrenching\, and eccentric look at loss and love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kristen-arnett-mostly-dead-things/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190724T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190724T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T123526
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SUMMARY:Kristen Arnett and Esmé Weijun Wang
DESCRIPTION:Kristen Arnett discusses her new novel\, Mostly Dead Things with Esmé Weijun Wang. \nPraise for Mostly Dead Things \n“Mostly Dead Things is one of the strangest and funniest and most surprising first novels I’ve ever read. A love letter to Florida and to family\, to half-lit swamps and the 7/11\, and to the beasts that only pretend to hold their poses inside us. In Kristen Arnett’s expert hands\, taxidermy becomes a language to capture our species’ impossible and contradictory desire to be held and to be free.”- Karen Russell\, author of SWAMPLANDIA! \n“If Heather Lewis and Joy Williams had a child it might be this―I don’t think I’ve ever read a novel like it. There’s a gunslinger cool to every sentence\, like someone is telling you the last story they’ll ever tell you. Kristen Arnett is the queen of the Florida no one has ever told you about\, and on every page she brings it to a steely and vivid life.”- Alexander Chee\, author of HOW TO WRITE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL \n“Mostly Dead Things packs messed-up families\, scandalous love affairs\, art\, life\, death and the great state of Florida into one delicious\, darkly funny package. Kristen Arnett is wickedly talented and a wholly original voice”- Jami Attenberg\, author of ALL GROWN UP \nAbout Mostly Dead Things \nOne morning\, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has committed suicide\, right there on one of the metal tables. Shocked and grieving\, Jessa steps up to manage the failing business\, while the rest of the Morton family crumbles. Her mother starts sneaking into the shop to make aggressively lewd art with the taxidermied animals. Her brother Milo withdraws\, struggling to function. And Brynn\, Milo’s wife―and the only person Jessa’s ever been in love with―walks out without a word. As Jessa seeks out less-than-legal ways of generating income\, her mother’s art escalates―picture a figure of her dead husband and a stuffed buffalo in an uncomfortably sexual pose―and the Mortons reach a tipping point. For the first time\, Jessa has no choice but to learn who these people truly are\, and ultimately how she fits alongside them. \nKristen Arnett’s debut novel is a darkly funny\, heart-wrenching\, and eccentric look at loss and love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kristen-arnett-and-esme-weijun-wang/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190726T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190726T213000
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SUMMARY:LAUNCH for Sarah Rose Etter\, w/Trisha Low & Tommy Pico / The Book of X
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Sarah Rose Etter for the launch of her anticipated debut novel\, The Book of X. She’ll be joined byTrisha Low and Tommy Pico. \nA surreal exploration of one woman’s life and death against a landscape of meat\, office desks\, and bad men. \nThe Book of X tells the tale of Cassie\, a girl born with her stomach twisted in the shape of a knot. From childhood with her parents on the family meat farm\, to a desk job in the city\, to finally experiencing love\, she grapples with her body\, men\, and society\, all the while imagining a softer world than the one she is in. Twining the drama of the everyday—school-age crushes\, paying bills\, the sickness of parents—with the surreal—rivers of thighs\, men for sale and fields of throats—Cassie’s realities alternate to create a blurred\, fantastic world of haunting beauty. \n\n“Etter brilliantly\, viciously lays bare what it means to be a woman in the world\, what it means to hurt\, to need\, to want\, so much it consumes everything.” –Roxane Gay\, author of Bad Feminist \n“I loved every page of this gorgeous\, grotesque\, heartbreaking novel.” – Carmen Maria Machado\, author of Her Body and Other Parties \n\nSarah Rose Etter is the author of Tongue Party\, selected by Deb Olin Unferth as the winner of the Caketrain Press award\, and The Book of X\, her first novel\, which is available from Two Dollar Radio. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Cut\, Electric Literature\, Guernica\,VICE\, New York Tyrant\, Juked\, Night Block\, The Black Warrior Review\,Salt Hill Journal\, The Collagist\, and more. She has been awarded residences at Disquiet International program in Portugal and the Gullkistan Writing Residency in Iceland. Author photo by Natalie Graf. \nTrisha Low is a poet and performer living in the East Bay. She is the author of The Compleat Purge (Kenning Editions\, 2013) and Socialist Realism(Emily Books/Coffee House Press\, 2019). Author photo by Kari Orvik. \nTommy “Teebs” Pico is author of the books IRL\, Nature Poem\, Junk\, Feed\, and myriad keen tweets including “sittin on the cock of gay.” Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation\, he now splits his time between Los Angeles and Brooklyn. He co-curates the reading series Poets with Attitude\, co-hosts the podcast Food 4 Thot\, and is a contributing editor at Literary Hub. Author photo by Niqui Carter. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThe Bindery bar opens at 7pm. Event starts at 7:30pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of The Book of X\, order below and put your request in the comments field. To request signed copies of Trisha’s book\, do the same thing here; for Tommy’s\, here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-sarah-rose-etter-w-trisha-low-tommy-pico-the-book-of-x/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190727T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190727T160000
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SUMMARY:SF Creative Writing School Student Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Student Showcase readings “Write From The Gut” featuring our faculty\, alumni and current students reading works in progress. \nWith your host Paul Corman-Roberts
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sf-creative-writing-school-student-showcase/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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