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SUMMARY:Nia King - - Queer and Trans Artists of Color Vol III ft. Anthony James Williams\, Luna Merbruja\, Paradise Khanmalek\, and co-editor Maliha Ahmed
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is so excited to welcome back Nia King to discuss her new anthology Queer and Trans Artists of Color Volume Three. She will be joined by several contributors including\, Anthony James Williams\, Luna Merbruja\, Paradise Khanmalek\, and co-editor Maliha Ahmed. \nFor the last year\, Nia King and co-editor Maliha Ahmed have been hard at work on Queer & Trans Artists of Color\, Volume 3\, featuring interviews with Anthony J. Williams\, Osa Atoe\, Venus Di’Khadijah Selenite\, Ah Mer Ah Su\, Gabby Rivera\, Joamette Gil\, Mey Rude\, Kai Cheng Thom\, Jia qing wilson-yang\, Sarah Burke\, Sam Levin\, Arielle Twist\, Paradise Khanmalek\, Qwo-Li Driskill\, and Kamal Al-Solaylee! The launch party will be a talk show-style event where Nia interviews queer and trans artists of color live before an audience. \nThis event will be free and open to the public. There will also be free food for all in attendance! \n  \nAbout the Contributors: \nNia King is a queer Black/Lebanese/Hungarian Jewish author and podcaster from Canton\, MA who lived in Oakland\, CA from 2008-2019. She has been hosting and producing We Want the Airwaves podcast (available in iTunes) since 2013. She self-published her first book\, Queer & Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives\, with co-editors Jessica Glennon-Zukoff and Terra Mikalson in 2014\, and her second book\, Queer & Trans Artists of Color\, Volume 2\, edited by Elena Rose\, in 2016. Nia’s writing and comics have been published at Colorlines.com\, East Bay Express\, and Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory. She received a Best of the East Bay Award in 2016 and was featured in KQED’s Bay Brilliant series (formerly Women to Watch) in 2018. She loves and misses Oakland dearly. You can find more of her work at niaking.com. \nAnthony James Williams (they/them pronouns) is a Black queer non-binary writer\, sociology PhD student\, and facilitator. They’re responsible for popularizing the hashtag #MasculinitySoFragile and their published writing (Hazlitt\, The Outline\, Electric Lit) focuses on race\, sexuality\, and mental health. Their prior Black student organizing led the University of California system to divest $25 million from private prisons. Find them on twitter @anthoknees or antjwilliams.com. \nLuna Merbruja is a Mexican-Athabaskan writer and artist. They are the author of the Lambda Literary Award-nominated poetry book\, Heal Your Love. They have published short stories and essays in The Resilience Anthology\, Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic\, and the second edition of Colonize This! Feel free to follow their work at luna.merbruja.com\, IG: @LunaMerbruja\, or contact by email: lunamerbruja@gmail.com. \nParadise Khanmalek is an Iranian American artist\, poet\, and graphic designer from Los Angeles. She creates illustrated books of poetry\, takes photographs\, and most recently self-published a book of semi-academic poetic text about entropy\, gender\, and the semiotics of the visual world. Find her work online at Pardislili.com and @Humanchandelier on Instagram. \n  \nIf you are interested and able to help contirbute to the fund to pay for artists travel expenses\, ASL interpretation at the event and a caterer please check out https://www.gofundme.com/f/queer-amp-trans-artists-of-color-volume-3-launch?member=2377338 \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSaturday\, October 19\, 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/nia-king-queer-and-trans-artists-of-color-vol-iii-ft-anthony-james-williams-luna-merbruja-paradise-khanmalek-and-co-editor-maliha-ahmed/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mark Mallman: The Happiness Playlist
DESCRIPTION:Mark Mallman discusses his new book\, The Happiness Playlist: The True Story of Healing My Heart With Feel-Good Music. \nPraise for The Happiness Playlist \n”Mark Mallman is legitimately original\, exclusively motivated by a desire to conquer the strange obstructions he builds inside his mind.” –Chuck Klosterman (Foreword by)\, author of Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota \n”This brave and masterfully written book is a testament to the power of love and art. Read it and become obsessed.” —Diablo Cody\, Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Juno and creator of United States of Tara \n”The Happiness Playlist is funny\, thought-provoking\, and just plain helpful. It’s the best book on grief that I’ve ever picked up. The examination of music-listening as a method to combat heartbreak is a joy to read. You need it.” —-Craig Finn\, frontman of the critically acclaimed band The Hold Steady \nAbout The Happiness Playlist \nMinneapolis rock legend Mark Mallman woke at 3 a.m. with a crushing panic attack that wouldn’t end. He responded by pouring songs into a happiness playlist and leaning on the wisdom of friends. This is the true story of a man beset by grief\, healed by music\, and learning to laugh through it all.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mark-mallman-the-happiness-playlist/
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:Birds of Paradise at LitQuake Lit Crawl
DESCRIPTION:Birds of Paradise at LitQuake Lit Crawl\n\n\nSaturday October 19th\, 2019\, from 8-9pm\nat Lone Palm\, 3394 22nd Street\, San Francisco CA 94110 \nPresented by Feather Press and hosted by Ingrid Keir\nFeaturing: Jennifer Barone\, Cassandra Dallett\, EK Keith\, and Lauren Ito 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/birds-of-paradise-at-litquake-lit-crawl/
LOCATION:Lone Palm\, 3394 22nd Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191020T160000
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SUMMARY:Zeitgeist Press Presents: Julia Vinograd Release Party – Selected Works and Tribute Anthology
DESCRIPTION:Zeitgeist Press is very excited to present two new Julia Vinograd books with a celebration at Himalayan Flavors. Publisher Bruce Isaacson has put together A Symphony for Broken Instruments\, a seminal collection of selected works along with a big section of previously unpublished poems. Never before has such a tour de force of Vinograd’s work been together in one volume\, which is 384 pages in total\, including art by Deborah Vinograd and Chris Trian. At the same event\, editor Deborah Fruchey presents Our Lady of Telegraph Avenue\, the new tribute anthology of poems to\, for\, and about Julia Vinograd by a slew of friends and local writers. \nPlease join us for a festive afternoon celebrating the life and work of this remarkable woman who energized and shaped the poetry of the SF Bay Area for over fifty years. \nZeitgeist Press Presents: \nJulia Vinograd Release Party –  Selected Works and Tribute Anthology \n  \nwith \nBruce Isaacson presenting A Symphony for Broken Instruments: Selected and New Works by Julia Vinograd \nand \nDeborah Fruchey presenting the Julia Vinograd tribute anthology Our Lady of Telegraph Avenue \n  \nwith readings from both volumes \nHosted by Bruce Isaacson & Deborah Fruchey \nSunday\, October 20\, 2019 \n2-4 pm \n  \nevent is free of charge and books for sale at a one-time discount \n  \nABOUT JULIA VINOGRAD \n  \nJulia Vinograd\, the popular poet identified with the streets of Berkeley\, California\, published 70 books during her life (1943-2018).  She was raised in Pasadena and Berkeley\, where her mother was a poet and English Professor.  Her father was announced to win a Nobel Prize in Biochemistry but passed away before the award. Julia earned a B.A. at U.C. Berkeley and an M.F.A. at the famed Iowa Writer’s Workshop at the University of Iowa.  She won an American Book award from the Before Columbus Foundation\, a Pushcart Prize\, and a “Lifetime Achievement Award as Berkeley’s unofficial Poet Laureate.” She was also famed as the Bubble Lady for her love of blowing soap bubbles for children on Telegraph Avenue. This book represents a life’s work of Street Poems that are accessible\, charming\, and deeply human.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zeitgeist-press-presents-julia-vinograd-release-party-selected-works-and-tribute-anthology/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Avenue\, Berkeley\, 94703
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191020T170000
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SUMMARY:Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films with Arthur Dong
DESCRIPTION:Oscar-nominated and triple Sundance award-winning filmmaker Arthur Dong presents a slide show and talk from his newest book Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hollywood-chinese-the-chinese-in-american-feature-films-with-arthur-dong/
LOCATION:Koret Auditorium\, San Francisco Main Library\, 100 Larkin Avenune\, SAN FRANCISCO\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mazza Writer in Residence Peter Nachtrieb + Guests\, reading of a new play-in-progress
DESCRIPTION:Supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation \nFree and open to the public \nDetails soon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mazza-writer-in-residence-peter-nachtrieb-guests-reading-of-a-new-play-in-progress/
LOCATION:Z Space\, 450 Florida Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191022T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191022T203000
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SUMMARY:The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation
DESCRIPTION:Seth Donnelly’s new book The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neolilberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation deconstructs the assumption that global poverty has fallen dramatically\, and lays bare the spurious methods of poverty measurement and data on which the dominant prosperity narrative depends. Donnelly analyzes just how global poverty\, rather than being reduced\, is reproduced by the imperatives of capital accumulation on a global scale. Just as global environmental catastrophes cannot be resolved within capitalism\, rooted as it is in mechanisms of exploitation and plunder\, neither can human poverty be effectively eliminated by neoliberal “advances.” \nSeth Donnelly is a public school teacher and long-time radical activist. He will be speaking about The Lie of Global Prosperity and discussing the current situation in Haiti (a primary focus of his book) with Pierre Labossiere of the Bay Area-based Haiti Action.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-lie-of-global-prosperity-how-neoliberals-distort-data-to-mask-poverty-and-exploitation/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191022T190000
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SUMMARY:Gillian Conoley and Donna de la Perrière
DESCRIPTION:Gillian Conoley and Donna de la Perrière\nTuesday\, October 22\, 2019\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\nreading from new poetry \nA Little More Red Sun On The Human: New and Selected Poems \nby Gillian Conoley \npublished by Nightboat Books \nand \nWorks of Love & Terror \nby Donna de la Perrière \npublished by Talisman House \nAbout A Little More Red Sun On The Human: New and Selected Poems: \nGillian Conoley’s selected poems assemble a shockingly varied body of work\, comprising narrative\, lyric\, and fragmented forms. Her coruscating vibrant poems are informed by visual art and film\, political engagement and playful linguistic constructions. \nA Little More Red Sun on the Human: New and Selected Poems forms a completely new trajectory through decades of poetic work\, including three collections previously out of print. In a career that began by chronicling the idiosyncrasies of Texas girlhood\, Conoley’s work spirals outward toward an inquiry into spirit and matter\, the relation between the individual and the state. Throughout\, one can trace Conoley’s obsessions and concerns: democracy\, metaphysics\, motherhood\, gender and race\, futurity and history. Conoley’s new work posits an inquiry into the coming shifts of human consciousness and perception as she imagines the next world––flush with artificial intelligence\, an ever-arriving\, shape-shifting technology––and the possible communities we may yet forge between human life and a compromised planet. \nPraise for Gillian Conoley \n“Conoley’s poems have a singular energy like an organ solo or a shotgun resorting to storytelling. She adds tool handles to our histories; a set list for our waking souls. And an instrument of self-reflection that a landscape might ponder itself with. On her page\, our natures get away with nothing. All cradled by a ruthlessly loving dance of language; in her poems we meet our twins.” ––Tongo Eisen-Martin \n“Nimble\, inquisitive and intelligently elegant\, the poems in this much anticipated volume reorient phenomena to make meaning with it: personal\, inviting\, knowing\, and necessary. The range of Gillian Conoley’s attention is a marvel.”––Hoa Nguyen \n“Here we find the peculiarly American matter-of-factness of the small town exotic coming face-to-face with intellectual high-brow energy. Carson McCullers meets Gertrude Stein. Perhaps Jane Bowles is an appropriate comparison.”––The Antioch Review \n“Masterfully composed in the hot spaces and so rhythmic sounds Americans have put to their times. ‘Like gold into scar/ a twister in the skull.’”––Alice Notley \nAbout Donna de la Perrière \nDonna de la Perrière is the author of SAINT ERASURE (2010) and TRUE CRIME (2009)\, both from Talisman House. The recipient of a 2009 Fund for Poetry award\, she teaches in the MFA and undergraduate creative writing programs at California College of the Arts and San Francisco State University and curates the Bay Area Poetry Marathon reading series.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gillian-conoley-and-donna-de-la-perriere/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Amanda Yates Garcia: Initiated
DESCRIPTION:Amanda Yates Garcia discusses her new memoir\, Initiated: Memoir of a Witch. \nPraise for Initiated \n“Mythic journeys to the underworld\, goddesses\, ecstasies\, fairy tales\, ghosts\, love\, sex\, female empowerment\, challenging the patriarchy: Initiated is full of my favorite things\, told with savage grace by my favorite oracle\, the powerful and devastatingly enchanting Amanda Yates Garcia. This book will change your life.”—Francesca Lisa Block \n“I see Amanda Yates Garcia realizing a kind of magic choreography here: reaching back through millennia\, dragging forth darkness by the handful\, recalling ancient women misremembered\, denied\, hounded and destroyed\, holding the pain of misogyny and changing it with intention\, into light.”—Grace Krilanovich\, author of The Orange Eats Creeps \n“Yates Garcia takes us on a sweeping\, expansive\, generous\, and beautifully intuitive journey into feminine power in Initiated. She leads us fearlessly into the dark underworld of patriarchal oppression\, intergenerational trauma\, loss and grief\, where\, she says\, every witch must go to find her magic. This book is a powerful political protest and a call to return to first principles as a nation\, a society\, and a people. Come to it seeking your own artistic and intellectual path\, and leave trusting yourself\, trusting others\, and trusting in the unconditional love you will find in the collective soul of the world.”—Sarah Gerard\, author of Binary Star \nAbout Initiated \nSmoke Gets in Your Eyes meets Women Who Run With The Wolves in this haunting\, mystical memoir about finding meaning\, beauty\, and power through a life in witchcraft. \nAn initiation signals a beginning: a door opens and you step through. Traditional Wiccan initiates are usually brought into the craft through a ceremony with a High Priestess. But even though Amanda Yates Garcia’s mother\, a practicing witch herself\, initiated her into the earth-centered practice of witchcraft when she was 13 years old\, Amanda’s real life as a witch only began when she underwent a series of spontaneous initiations of her own. \nDescending into the underworlds of poverty\, sex work\, and misogyny\, Initiated describes Amanda’s journey to return to her body\, harness her power\, and create the magical world she longed for through witchcraft. Hailed by crows\, seduced by magicians\, and haunted by ancestors broken beneath the wheels of patriarchy\, Amanda’s quest for self-discovery and empowerment is a deep exploration of a modern witch’s trials – healing ancient wounds\, chafing against cultural expectations\, creating intimacy – all while on a mission to re-enchant the world. Peppered with mythology\, tales of the goddesses and magical women throughout history\, Initiated stands squarely at the intersection of witchcraft and feminism. With generosity and heart\, this book speaks to the question: is it possible to live a life of beauty and integrity in a world that feels like it’s dying? \nDeclaring oneself a witch and practicing magic has everything to do with claiming authority and power for oneself\, of taking back our planet in the name of Love. Initiated is both memoir and manifesto calling the magical people of the world to take up their wands: stand up\, be brave\, describe the world they want\, then create it like a witch.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amanda-yates-garcia-initiated/
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:LAUNCH for Mimi Lok / Last of Her Name\, w/Rita Bullwinkel
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to host the launch party for Mimi Lok‘s debut story collection\, Last of Her Name. She’ll be in conversation with Rita Bullwinkel (Belly Up). Please save the date and join us! \nLast of Her Name is an eye-opening novella and story collection about the intimate\, interconnected lives of diasporic women and the histories they are born into. Set in a wide range of time periods and locales\, including 80s UK suburbia\, WWII Hong Kong and urban California\, Mimi Lok’s debut features an eclectic cast of outsiders: among them\, an elderly housebreaker\, wounded lovers\, and kung-fu fighting teenage girls. \nThe title story follows the parallel\, interweaving journeys of a mother and daughter as they grapple with their respective foes\, taking us from the suburbs of England to a Chinese village on the eve of World War II\, and exploring the hidden lives and secret histories within an immigrant family. Collectively\, Lok artfully presents unique exploration of love\, longing\, and endurance. \n\nMimi Lok is the recipient of a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award and an Ylvisaker Award for Fiction\, a finalist for the 2018 Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize\, and a finalist for the Susan Atefat Arts and Letters Prize for nonfiction. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in McSweeney’s\, Electric Literature\, Nimrod\, Lucky Peach\, Hyphen\, the South China Morning Post\, and elsewhere. Mimi is also the executive director and editor of Voice of Witness\, a human rights/oral history nonprofit she co-founded that amplifies marginalized voices through a book series and a national education program. Mimi currently lives in San Francisco\, CA. Find her online at mimilok.com. \nRita Bullwinkel is the author of the story collection Belly Up. Her writing has been published in Tin House\, Conjunctions\, BOMB\, Vice\, NOON\, and Guernica. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony\, Brown University\, Vanderbilt University\, Hawthornden Castle\, and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction and her translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an Editor at Large for McSweeney’s. She lives in San Francisco. \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. \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 Last of Her Name\, order below and put your request in the comments field. To request signed copies of Rita’s book\, follow the same instructions here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-mimi-lok-last-of-her-name-w-rita-bullwinkel/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T210000
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SUMMARY:John Hodgman / Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-hodgman-medallion-status-true-stories-from-secret-rooms/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tui Sutherland\, Wings of Fire
DESCRIPTION:Tui T. Sutherland—bestselling author of the Wings of Fire series\, the Menagerie trilogy\, and the Pet Troubleseries—will join us to read and sign copies of her enthralling new books\, Hidden Kingdom (Wings of Fire Graphic\, Book 3) and The Poison Jungle (Wings of Fire\, Book 13). \nThe Poison Jungle (Wings of Fire\, Book 13) \nThe New York Times bestselling series continues with a thrilling revelation—brand-new tribes of dragons! There are dark secrets in the jungle\, though—some that Sundew is keeping\, and some that she’s only just beginning to discover. And now that a new war is upon them\, Sundew and her friends must unearth the oldest secret in the jungle—even if what they find has the power to destroy them all. \nHidden Kingdom (Wings of Fire Graphic\, Book 3) \nThe #1 New York Times bestselling Wings of Fire series soars to new heights in the third graphic novel adaptation! Glory knows that the dragon world is wrong about her being “a lazy RainWing.” Maybe she wasn’t meant to be one of the dragonets of destiny\, but Glory is sharp and her venom is deadly…even if that’s still a secret. \nTui T. Sutherland is the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Wings of Fire series\, the Menagerie trilogy\, and the Pet Trouble series\, as well as a contributing author to the bestselling Spirit Animals and Seekers series (as part of the Erin Hunter team). In 2009\, she was a two-day champion on Jeopardy! She lives in Massachusetts with her wonderful husband\, two awesome sons\, and two very patient dogs. To learn more about Tui’s books\, visit her online at tuibooks.com. \n  \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail us at info@bookshopsantacruz.com by October 22nd\, 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tui-sutherland-wings-of-fire/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Jake Brennan: Disgraceland
DESCRIPTION:Jake Brennan discusses his new book\, Disgraceland: Musicians Getting Away With Murder and Behaving Very Badly. \nPraise for Disgraceland \n“Through his gritty and powerful stories\, Brennan breathes new life into the music and musicians we’ve known all our lives.”—Aaron Mahnke\, author and creator of Lore \n“Jake Brennan is writing from a crossroads- the junction of music and crime. One road leads to the Elysian Fields\, the other\, to the Underworld. Some of these magicians have been down both.”—T Bone Burnett\, Oscar and Grammy winning musician and producer \n“Mix the true crime mythology of rock ‘n’ roll with a dash of transgressive fiction\, then add 10 cc of adrenaline and twice that in anabolic steroids. Employing due caution\, enter Jake Brennan’s brain as translated in Disgraceland to observe the dark results–Elvis locked in unholy union with the parasitic Colonel Tom Parker\, why Jerry Lee Lewis was called the Killer\, Altamont. Axl Rose. Chuck Berry. And\, of course\, the truly twisted Phil Spector. It all works brilliantly because Jake genuinely loves rock ‘n’ roll just as much as he enjoys indulging his imagination and wickedly stylish sense of humor.”—Dennis McNally\, author of A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead \nAbout Disgraceland \nFrom the creator of the popular rock ‘n’ roll true crime podcast\, DISGRACELAND comes an off-kilter\, hysterical\, at times macabre book of stories from the highly entertaining underbelly of music history. \nYou may know Jerry Lee Lewis married his thirteen-year-old cousin but did you know he shot his bass player in the chest with a shotgun or that a couple of his wives died under extremely mysterious circumstances? Or that Sam Cooke was shot dead in a seedy motel after barging into the manager’s office naked to attack her? Maybe not. Would it change your view of him if you knew that\, or would your love for his music triumph? \nReal rock stars do truly insane thing and invite truly insane things to happen to them; murder\, drug trafficking\, rape\, cannibalism and the occult. We allow this behavior. We are complicit because a rock star behaving badly is what’s expected. It’s baked into the cake. Deep down\, way down\, past all of our self-righteous notions of justice and right and wrong\, when it comes down to it\, we want our rock stars to be bad. We know the music industry is full of demons\, ones that drove Elvis Presley\, Phil Spector\, Sid Vicious and that consumed the Norwegian Black Metal scene. We want to believe in the myths because they’re so damn entertaining. \nDISGRACELAND is a collection of the best of these stories about some of the music world’s most beloved stars and their crimes. It will mix all-new\, untold stories with expanded stories from the first two seasons of the Disgraceland podcast. Using figures we already recognize\, DISGRACELAND shines a light into the dark corners of their fame revealing the fine line that separates heroes and villains as well as the danger Americans seek out in their news cycles\, tabloids\, reality shows and soap operas. At the center of this collection of stories is the ever-fascinating music industry–a glittery stage populated by gangsters\, drug dealers\, pimps\, groupies with violence\, scandal and pure unadulterated rock ‘n’ roll entertainment.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jake-brennan-disgraceland/
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:Lawrence Weschler
DESCRIPTION:Lawrence Weschler\n\n\n\n\npresents And How Are You\, Dr. Sacks? A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks\, the untold story of the famous neurologist\, his own most singular patient. \n“The story of Lawrence Weschler’s faithful four-decade friendship with the amazing Oliver Sacks offers pleasures and amazements on every page. This loving but unblinking portrait will delight fans of Dr. Sacks as well as devotees of Weschler’s always-pathfinding nonfiction.”–Ian Frazier \nTo reserve your seat in advance please purchase a copy of And How Are You\, Dr. Sacks? by speaking with a bookseller or clicking on the cover image below. \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, October 23\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nLawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s\, when he set out to profile the neurologist for The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier\, Dr. Sacks had published his masterpiece Awakenings–the account of his long-dormant patients’ miraculous but troubling return to life in a Bronx hospital ward. But the book had hardly been an immediate success\, and the rumpled clinician was still largely unknown. Over the ensuing four years\, the two men worked closely together until\, for wracking personal reasons\, Sacks asked Weschler to abandon the profile\, a request to which Weschler acceded. The two remained close friends\, however\, across the next thirty years and then\, just as Sacks was dying\, he urged Weschler to take up the project once again. This book is the result of that entreaty. \nWeschler sets Sacks’s brilliant table talk and extravagant personality in vivid relief\, casting himself as a beanpole Sancho to Sacks’s capacious Quixote. We see Sacks rowing and ranting and caring deeply; composing the essays that would form The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat; recalling his turbulent drug-fueled younger days; helping his patients and exhausting his friends; and waging intellectual war against a medical and scientific establishment that failed to address his greatest concern: the spontaneous specificity of the individual human soul. And all the while he is pouring out a stream of glorious\, ribald\, hilarious\, and often profound conversation that establishes him as one of the great talkers of the age. Here is the definitive portrait of Sacks as our preeminent romantic scientist\, a self-described “clinical ontologist” whose entire practice revolved around the single fundamental question he effectively asked each of his patients: How are you? Which is to say\, How do you be? \nA question which Weschler\, with this book\, turns back on the good doctor himself. \nLawrence Weschler\, a longtime veteran of The New Yorker and a regular contributor to NPR\, is the director emeritus of the New York Institute of the Humanities at NYU and the author of nearly twenty books\, including Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees\, Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder\, Everything That Rises\, and Vermeer in Bosnia. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lawrence-weschler/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:John James with Henri Cole
DESCRIPTION:John James with Henri Cole\nThursday\, December 5\, 2019\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\n    \ncelebrating the release of John James’ new collection of poetry \nThe Milk Hours \npublished by Milkweed Editions \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWinner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize\, The Milk Hours is an elegant debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist in a state of loss. \n“We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery.” So begins the title poem of this collection\, whose recursive temporality is filled with living\, grieving things\, punctuated by an unseen world of roots\, bodies\, and concealed histories. Like a cemetery\, too\, The Milk Hours sets unlikely neighbors alongside each other: Hegel and Murakami\, Melville and the Persian astronomer al-Sufi\, enacting a transhistorical poetics even as it brims with intimacy. These are poems of frequent swerves and transformations\, which never stray far from an engagement with science\, geography\, art\, and aesthetics\, nor from the dream logic that motivates their incessant investigations. \nIndeed\, while John James begins with the biographical—the haunting loss of a father in childhood\, the exhausted hours of early fatherhood—the questions that emerge from his poetic synthesis are both timely and universal: what is it to be human in an era where nature and culture have fused? To live in a time of political and environmental upheaval\, of both personal and public loss? How do we make meaning\, and to whom—or what—do we turn\, when such boundaries so radically collapse? \nJohn James is the author of The Milk Hours\, selected by Henri Cole as winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where he is pursuing a PhD in English at the University of California\, Berkeley. \nHenri Cole was born in Fukuoka\, Japan\, to a French mother and an American father. He has published nine collections of poetry\, including Middle Earth\, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer.  He has received many awards for his work\, including the Jackson Prize\, the Kingsley Tufts Award\, the Rome Prize\, the Berlin Prize\, the Lenore Marshall Award\, and the Medal in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent collection of poetry is Nothing to Declare. New York Review Books recently published a collection of prose title Orphic Paris. He teaches at Claremont McKenna College and lives in Boston. \nAbout Milkweed Editions \nJust as the common milkweed plant is the site of metamorphosis for monarch butterflies\, Milkweed Editions seeks to be a site of metamorphosis in the literary ecosystem. We take risks on debut and experimental writers\, we invest significant time and care in the editorial process\, and we enable dynamic engagement between authors and readers. We operate as a nonprofit to pursue these ends without overbearing financial pressure. And yet\, though profits aren’t our primary focus\, helping our authors succeed certainly is. Just so\, since our founding in 1980\, we’ve published over 350 books of literary fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry and now have over four million copies in circulation. We believe that literature has the potential to change the way we see the world\, and that bringing new voices to essential conversations is the clearest path to ensuring a vibrant\, diverse\, and empowered future.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-james-with-henri-cole/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Michael Nava: Carved in Bone
DESCRIPTION:Reading and Q&A with the six-time Lambda Literary Award-winning mystery writer\, Michael Nava. \nMichael Nava is the author of an acclaimed series of eight novels featuring gay\, Latino criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios\, who The New Yorker called “a detective unlike any previous protagonist in American noir.” The New York Times Book Review has called Nava “one of our best” writers. He is also the author of an award-winning historical novel\, The City of Palaces\, set at the beginning of the 1910 Mexican revolution. His first new Rios novel in 20 years\, Carved in Bone\, was released by Persigo Press on October 1\, 2019. Set in San Francisco in 1984\, Kirkus praised the book for its “refreshing emotional depth and a gay narrative seldom seen in thrillers.” Publisher’s Weekly said of the novel: “An authentic portrait of [San Francisco] in the early days of the AIDS crisis complements a satisfying mystery.” \nIn addition\, he is the writer/producer of the Henry Rios Mysteries Podcast which adapted the first Rios novel\, Lay Your Sleeping Head into an 18-episode audio drama available on I-tunes\, Spotify and other podcast platforms. In 2019\, he founded Persigo Press\, through which he hopes to publish LGBTQ writers and writers of color who write genre fiction that combines fidelity to the conventions of their genre with exceptional literary merit.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-nava-carved-in-bone/
LOCATION:James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center of San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St. San Francisco\,\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T210000
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SUMMARY:Mazza Writer in Residence Peter Nachtrieb\, a playwriting workshop and conversation
DESCRIPTION:Supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation \nFree and open to the public \nDetails soon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mazza-writer-in-residence-peter-nachtrieb-a-playwriting-workshop-and-conversation/
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:Benedicte Maurseth in conversation with David Rothenberg
DESCRIPTION:discussiing the subject of \nTo Be Nothing: Conversations with Knut Hamre\, Hardanger Fiddle Master \nby Benedicte Maurseth \npublished by Terra Nova Press/The MIT Press \n\nDialogues between student and master about music\, learning\, teaching\, the healing power of art\, and the art of life itself. \nKnut Hamre has devoted his life to playing the Hardanger fiddle—a unique folk violin with resonating strings beneath\, like a sitar’s—and to teaching new generations the secrets of this ancient music\, rooted in a stark and beautiful land. Benedicte Maurseth is one of his most accomplished students\, an internationally known artist who has recorded for the ECM label. In a book that brings to mind such classics as Zen and the Art of Archery and Wabi Sabi\, the student and her master together explore the quest for excellence and originality in the heart of a living tradition. \nAt once mystical and practical\, To Be Nothing is a series of dialogues about music\, learning\, teaching\, the healing power of art\, and the art of life itself. With photographs evoking the rugged landscapes and people from which this music springs and the exquisite beauty of the fiddles themselves\, this is a work as serene as a fjord\, and as deep. \nBenedicte Maurseth is a Norwegian folk musician\, composer\, and writer. She began her study of the Hardanger fiddle with Knut Hamre at the age of eight. She has toured in Norway and internationally\, and has made several recordings on Grappa and ECM. In 2017 she was awarded the NOPA Music Prize for her outstanding contribution to the Norwegian music scene. \nvisit: https://www.maurseth.net/ \nDavid Rothenberg is the Series Editor of Terra Nova Books and is distinguished professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is the author of many books investigating music in nature\, including Why Birds Sing\, Survival of the Beautiful\, and Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise. His writings have been translated into more than eleven languages and among his twenty one music CDs is One Dark Night I Left My Silent House\, on ECM. \nTerra Nova Books aim to show how environmental issues have cultural and artistic components\, in addition to the scientific and political. Combining essays\, reportage\, fiction\, art\, and poetry\, Terra Nova Books reveal the complex and paradoxical ways the natural and the human are continually redefining each other. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/benedicte-maurseth-in-conversation-with-david-rothenberg/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Adam Rippon / Beautiful on the Outside
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a special event with Adam Rippon\, the first openly gay U.S. male athlete to win a medal in a Winter Olympics\, for his memoir Beautiful on the Outside. More to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nPlease note: this is a ticketed event\, to be held at Booksmith (1644 Haight St.) in San Francisco. Each ticket includes a presigned copy of Beautiful on the Outside. Tickets are available here. \nYour mom probably told you it’s what on the inside that counts. Well\, then she was never a competitive figure skater. Olympic medalist Adam Rippon has been making it pretty for the judges even when\, just below the surface\, everything was an absolute mess. From traveling to practices on the Greyhound bus next to ex convicts to being so poor he could only afford to eat the free apples at his gym\, Rippon got through the toughest times with a smile on his face\, a glint in his eye\, and quip ready for anyone listening. Beautiful on the Outside looks at his journey from a homeschooled kid in Scranton\, Pennsylvania\, to a self-professed American sweetheart on the world stage and all the disasters and self-delusions it took to get him there. Yeah\, it may be what’s on the inside that counts\, but life is so much better when it’s beautiful on the outside. \n\nAdam Rippon is an Olympic athlete and medal-winning figure skater. He won the 2010 Four Continents Championships and the 2016 U.S. National Championships and was selected to represent the United States at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang\, South Korea. He came out as gay in October 2015 and\, at the 2018 Winter Olympics\, won a bronze medal as part of the figure skating team event\, thus becoming the first openly gay U.S. male athlete to win a medal in a Winter Olympics. Later that year\, he won season 26 of Dancing with the Stars with professional dancer Jenna Johnson. Hilarious and inspirational\, Adam is absolutely beloved by his thousands of fans. \n\n– This is an all-ages\, ticketed event. Each ticket admits one person and includes a pre-signed copy of Beautiful on the Outside. No exceptions. \n– The duration of this event is up to the author. \n– Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. \n– If you can’t attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Beautiful on the Outside\, order below and be sure to put your request in the special field. \n– Adam cannot sign memorabilia. Photos will be allowed from attendees’ phones. \n– Accessibility is important to us! If you have any special needs\, please write to events@booksmith.com and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you. \n– Facebook RSVP appreciated but not required. \n\n\n\n\nBooks:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adam-rippon-beautiful-on-the-outside/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jodie Hollander: My Dark Horses
DESCRIPTION:Jodie Hollander reads from her new poetry collection\, My Dark Horses. With readings by poets Francesca Bell and Amanda Moore. \nAbout My Dark Horses \nSet against the charms and vicissitudes of growing up in a family of musicians\, Jodie Hollander’s beautifully-structured and compelling debut follows the story of a daughter’s maturing relationship with her mother. Interspersed with versions of Rimbaud\, and always alert to the surreal comedy of the human condition\, these powerful and immediate poems chart with huge passion\, musicality and insight a complex journey towards familial understanding and reconciliation. \nJodie Hollander was raised in a family of classical musicians. Her work has appeared in publications such as The Poetry Review\, The Dark Horse\, The Rialto\, Verse Daily\, The Warwick Review\, The Manchester Review\, Australia’s Best Poems\, 2011\, and Australia’s Best Poems of 2015. Her debut pamphlet\, The Humane Society\, was released with Tall-Lighthouse in 2012. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in South Africa\, and was awarded a MacDowell Colony fellowship in 2015. \nFrancesca Bell’s poems appear in many journals\, including ELLE\, New Ohio Review\, North American Review\, Prairie Schooner\, and Rattle. Her translations from Arabic and German appear in Arc\, B O D Y\, Circumference\, Mid-American Review\, and The Massachusetts Review. She is the co-translator of Palestinian poet Shatha Abu Hnaish’s collection\, A Love That Hovers Like a Bedeviling Mosquito (Dar Fadaat\, 2017)\, and the author of Bright Stain (Red Hen Press\, 2019). She is the former poetry editor of River Styx and lives with her family in California. \nAmanda Moore’s poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies including ZZYZVA\, Cream City Review\, Best New Poets\, and Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting. Her craft and lyric essays have appeared in theBaltimore Review\, Hippocampus\, on the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center Blog\, and Women’s Voices for Change\, where she is a contributing editor for Poetry Sunday. She is the recipient of awards from The Writing Salon\, Brush Creek Arts Foundation\, and The Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. She received her MFA in poetry from Cornell University\, where she served as Managing Editor for EPOCH magazine. Currently a Board member for the Marin Poetry Center and 2019 Fellow at The Writers Grotto\, Amanda is a high school teacher and lives by the beach in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco with her husband and daughter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jodie-hollander-my-dark-horses/
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:Rosalind Brackenbury returns to read from her exquisite new novel\, Without Her.
DESCRIPTION:To reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Without Her in advance by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, October 24\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen her old friend Hannah doesn’t show up at her house in the south of France\, everyone assumes that Claudia\, who has known Hannah since their shared years at boarding school\, will know where she is\, and what has happened. But as Claudia travels from the USA to France to help Hannah’s husband and children conduct their search\, she is forced to deal with her old jealousy of Hannah\, as well as her own relationship in the present with her French lover\, Alexandre. As events unfold\, Claudia begins to wonder if Hannah and Alexandre may have had an affair and if that has had something to do with Hannah’s mysterious disappearance. In this exquisitely written\, Ferrante-esque novel\, the question of whether or not Hannah will come back becomes urgent and bewildering. And if she doesn’t come back\, what will the lives of her friends and family be without her? \nPoet and novelist Rosalind Brackenbury is the author of Becoming George Sand\, Paris Still Life\, The Third Swimmer\, and The Lost Love Letters of Henri Fournier. A former writer-in-residence at the College of William and Mary\, she has also served as poet laureate of Key West\, teaching poetry workshops. Born in London\, Rosalind lived in Scotland and France before moving to the United States. She now lives in Key West. Her latest poetry collection\, Invisible Horses\, was published in May. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rosalind-brackenbury-returns-to-read-from-her-exquisite-new-novel-without-her/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Open Call for Poets
DESCRIPTION:Mangalam Center’s Mindful Art Gallery presents:\nThe Joy of Being a Poet – Mindful Expression Through Poetry \nWe are looking for poems that explore the theme of mindful expression.\nSubmissions should be no more than 3 minutes when read.\nSelected poets will be given a time slot to read their work around the gallery. \nClick the link below for detailed information and access to the submission form\nhttps://forms.gle/dMjjRu4kzCe6zV27A\nDeadline: September 24th\, 2019
URL:https://litseen.com/event/open-call-for-poets/
LOCATION:Mangalam Center\, 2018 Allston Way\, Berkeley\, CA 94704
CATEGORIES:Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mangalam Center":MAILTO:marionf@mangalamresearch.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191025T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191025T210000
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SUMMARY:Haiku with Bruce Feingold\, Renée Owen\, & Chuck Brickley
DESCRIPTION:October 25\, 2019: Haiku with Bruce Feingold\, Renée Owen\, & Chuck Brickley\nBruce Feingold has been a psychologist for forty years in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Bruce’s haiku have been published world-wide and have won numerous awards including the Haiku Poets of Northern California Chime Award (2012)\, First Place in the HPNC International Senryu Contest (2012)\, First Prize in the Haiku Canada Betty Drevnoik Award (2018)\, Third Place in the International Kusamakura Haiku Competition (2011)\, First Place in the Hawaii Education Association Twenty-Eighth Annual International Haiku Contest\, Hawaii Word (2005)\, and the Individual Poem Haiku Foundation Touchstone Shortlist (2011).  His haiku have been chosen four times for the Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku. Old Enough(2016)\, Sunrise on the Lodge (2010) and\, A New Moon (2004) were published by Red Moon Press.  Bruce is on the Board of Directors of The Haiku Foundation\, chairs The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Awards\, and is the Vice-President of the Haiku Poets of Northern California. \nRenée Owen‘s reading will feature haiku & haibun\, accompanied by her musician husband\, Brian Foster\, on shakuhachi. Her full-length collection\, Alone on a Wild Coast\, jointly received first prize in the Snapshot Press Book Awards and Honourable Mention in the 2014 Touchstone Distinguished Book Awards. She edited Scent of the Past…Imperfect (Two Autumns Press)\, receiving Honorable Mention in the Haiku Society of America’s 2017 Merit Book Awards. Renée’s handsewn chapbook Blossoms was commended in Modern Haiku\, and her poetry\, widely published internationally\, has won numerous awards\, including Haiku Society of America contests\, CVHC’s Kilbride Haibun Contests\, and the San Francisco International Haiku and Rengay Competitions. Renée serves on The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Awards’ Individual Haiku juror panel\, has judged numerous contests\, and has selections of her work featured in Haiku 21 and New Resonance 7:Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku. Her poetry is also featured in her award-winning mixed-media book & fiber artwork. A practicing psychotherapist\, she enjoys hiking the wilds near her North Bay home. \nA native San Franciscan\, Chuck Brickley lived in rural British Columbia for thirty-five years. He was Associate Editor of Modern Haiku under the editorship of Bob Spiess from 1980-1985. In addition to haiku magazines\, his work has appeared in numerous anthologies\, including Canadian Haiku Anthology (edited by George Swede)\, Haiku: Anthologie Canadienne/Canadian Anthology (edited by Dorothy Howard\, André Duhaime)\, The Haiku Anthology (edited Cor Van Den Heuvel)\, and the Norton Anthology Haiku In English: The First Hundred Years (edited by Jim Kacian\, Phillip Rowland\, Allan Burns). His book of haiku\, earthshine(Snapshot Press\, 2017) won a Touchstone Award for Distinguished Books from The Haiku Foundation (2017)\, and a Haiku Society of America Merit Book Award Honorable Mention (2017). His haibun Is Where The Car Is was nominated last year for a Pushcart Prize. \nThe reading will begin at 7:00 p.m. and end at 9:00 p.m. A limited open reading\, and a short interview with the featured readers will be included. This is a free event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/haiku-with-bruce-feingold-renee-owen-chuck-brickley/
LOCATION:St. Alban’s Episcopal Church\, 1501 Washington Avenue\, Albany\, CA\, 94706
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Su Hwang: Bodega
DESCRIPTION:Su Hwang reads from her new poetry collection\, Bodega. \nPraise for Bodega \n“If we are not in denial\, to name one life\, one narrative\, we must name many. This is a responsibility that Su Hwang steps into with elegant care. Her poems in Bodegaare observant and cinematic\, tracing the ways our many-languaged lives come up against each other in these united states. I’ve been waiting for a collection like this\, difficult and prismatic as it is.”―Solmaz Sharif \n“If\, as Wittgenstein posited\, words are probes capable of reaching great depths\, then Su Hwang’s Bodega is a quarry―mining directly into the immigrant heart\, the daughter’s heart\, the American heart. A Barbie is burned and buried ‘without pomp or ballyhoo\,’ the earth ‘slackens\,’ to then reveal a ‘map of storied constellations\,’ and a mother cleans her daughter’s ear with a wood pen: ‘a / series of tiny / digs.’ Real excavation always rends and breaks and works to bring something new into the light. I am grateful for this book\, for all of Hwang’s illuminations.”―Kaveh Akbar \n“Through the poetry of family and community\, the collective and the self\, Su Hwang’s Bodega delivers an unflinching lyric missive to\, and for\, the complicated hearts that power a city––those whose voices and lives\, beautifully and resolutely rendered\, defy dismissal.”―Khadijah Queen \nAbout Bodega \nAgainst the backdrop of the war on drugs and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots\, a Korean girl comes of age in her parents’ bodega in the Queensbridge projects\, offering a singular perspective on our nation of immigrants and the tensions pulsing in the margins where they live and work. \nIn Su Hwang’s rich lyrical and narrative poetics\, the bodega and its surrounding neighborhoods are cast not as mere setting\, but as an ecosystem of human interactions where a dollar passed from one stranger to another is an act of peaceful revolution\, and desperate acts of violence are “the price / of doing business in the projects where we / were trapped inside human cages–binding us / in a strange circus where atoms of haves / and have-nots always forcefully collide.” These poems also reveal stark contrasts in the domestic lives of immigrants\, as the speaker’s own family must navigate the many personal\, cultural\, and generational chasms that arise from having to assume a hyphenated identity–lending a voice to the traumatic toll invisibility\, assimilation\, and sacrifice take on so many pursuing the American Dream. \n“We each suffer alone in / tandem\,” Hwang declares\, but in Bodega\, she has written an antidote to this solitary hurt–an incisive poetic debut that acknowledges and gives shape to anguish as much as it cherishes human life\, suggesting frameworks for how we might collectively move forward with awareness and compassion.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/su-hwang-bodega/
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:20191026T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191026T180000
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SUMMARY:Deborah Landau and Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:Tara Hall Pittman South Branch Berkeley Library\n1901 Russell St. Berkeley CA \nDeborah Landau is director of the Creative Writing Program at New York University. She is the author of Soft Targets; The Uses of the Body and The Last Usable Hour\, both Lannan Literary Selections from Copper Canyon Press; and Orchidelirium\, which was selected by Naomi Shihab Nye for the Robert Dana Anhinga Prize for Poetry. \nLandau studied at Stanford University\, Columbia University\, and Brown University\, where she was a Jacob K. Javits Fellow and earned a PhD in English and American xd. For many years she co-directed the KGB Bar Monday Night Poetry Series and co-hosted the video interview program Open Book on Slate.com. In 2016\, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. \nMatthew Zapruder is an associate professor in the Saint Mary’s College of California MFA Program in Creative Writing\, as well as editor at large for Wave Books. He is the author of several collections of poetry\, including Sun Bear\, Come On All You Ghosts\, The Pajamaist\, and American Linden\, in addition to his collaborations and translations. His most recent book is Why Poetry\, a book of prose about reading poetry for a general audience.  \nZapruder’s honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship\, the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America\, and the May Sarton Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has taught at New York University\, the New School\, the University of California Riverside – Palm Desert Low Residency MFA Program\, the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst’s Juniper Summer Writing Institute\, and at the University of California at Berkeley as the Holloway Fellow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deborah-landau-and-matthew-zapruder/
LOCATION:Tara Hall Pittman South Branch Berkeley Library\, 1901 Russell St\, Berkeley\, CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191027T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191027T170000
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SUMMARY:Thoughts on How to Write an Autobiographical Novel with Alex Chee
DESCRIPTION:Explore the entangling issues of life\, literature\, and politics in Alexander Chee’s Thoughts on How to Write an Autobiographic Novel.  Learn how we form our identities in life and art – and how to fight when our dearest truths are under attack.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/thoughts-on-how-to-write-an-autobiographical-novel-with-alex-chee/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191028T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191028T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T152706
CREATED:20191016T034309Z
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SUMMARY:Reclaiming Judaism From Zionism - Reading With Several Contributors
DESCRIPTION:In this powerful collection of personal narratives\, forty Jews of diverse backgrounds tell a wide range of stories about the roads they have traveled from a Zionist world view to activism in solidarity with Palestinians and Israelis striving to build an inclusive society founded on justice\, equality\, and peaceful coexistence. \nReclaiming Judaism from Zionism will be controversial.  Its contributors welcome the long overdue public debate.  They want to demolish stereotypes of dissenting Jews as ‘self-hating\,’ traitorous\, and anti-Semitic.  They want to introduce readers to the large and growing community of Jewish activists who have created organizations such as Jewish Voice for Peace\, If Not Now\, and Open Hillel. They want to strengthen alliances with progressives of all faiths. Above all\, they want to nurture models of Jewish identity that replace ethnic exclusiveness with solidarity\, Zionism with a Judaism once again nourished by a transcendent ethical vision. \nLinda Hess is senior lecturer emerita in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University.\n\nSydney Levy\, a queer Latinx\, is a co-coordinator of the caucus of Jews of Color\, Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews in solidarity with Palestine\, and a steering committee member of both the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights and the Global Jewish Network in Solidarity with Palestine.\n\nHilton Obenzinger is a recipient of the American Book Award. His books include This Passover and the Next I Will Never Be in Jerusalem (1980)\, American Palestine: Melville\, Twain\, and the Holy Land Mania (1999)\, and Treyf Pesach (2017). He is currently Associate Director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford University.\n\nHenri Picciotto served on the JVP Board of Directors from 2002 to 2009 and chaired it for much of that period.   He has authored or co-authored many books and articles on math education.\n\nCecilie Surasky has worked as a professional communicator in a variety of social justice movements\, and her film work and political analysis has been featured in film festivals and news outlets all over the world.\n\nJordan Wilson-Dalzell is a queer poet writing about intersections of disability\, feminism\, Judaism\, survivorhood and social justice; her next poetry book\, Baptism by Flame\, will be about finding a home in Judaism that reflects her values.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reclaiming-judaism-from-zionism-reading-with-several-contributors/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191028T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191028T210000
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SUMMARY:Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism With contributors Linda Hess\, Hilton Obenzinger\,  Henri Picciotto\, Cecilie Surasky and Jordan Wilson-Daizell
DESCRIPTION:In this powerful collection of personal narratives\, forty Jews of diverse backgrounds tell a wide range of stories about the roads they have traveled from a Zionist world view to activism in solidarity with Palestinians and Israelis striving to build an inclusive society founded on justice\, equality\, and peaceful coexistence. \nReclaiming Judaism from Zionism will be controversial.  Its contributors welcome the long overdue public debate.  They want to demolish stereotypes of dissenting Jews as ‘self-hating\,’ traitorous\, and anti-Semitic.  They want to introduce readers to the large and growing community of Jewish activists who have created organizations such as Jewish Voice for Peace\, If Not Now\, and Open Hillel. They want to strengthen alliances with progressives of all faiths. Above all\, they want to nurture models of Jewish identity that replace ethnic exclusiveness with solidarity\, Zionism with a Judaism once again nourished by a transcendent ethical vision. \nLinda Hess is senior lecturer emerita in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University.\n\nSydney Levy\, a queer Latinx\, is a co-coordinator of the caucus of Jews of Color\, Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews in solidarity with Palestine\, and a steering committee member of both the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights and the Global Jewish Network in Solidarity with Palestine.\n\nHilton Obenzinger is a recipient of the American Book Award. His books include This Passover and the Next I Will Never Be in Jerusalem (1980)\, American Palestine: Melville\, Twain\, and the Holy Land Mania (1999)\, and Treyf Pesach (2017). He is currently Associate Director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford University.\n\nHenri Picciotto served on the JVP Board of Directors from 2002 to 2009 and chaired it for much of that period.   He has authored or co-authored many books and articles on math education.\n\nCecilie Surasky has worked as a professional communicator in a variety of social justice movements\, and her film work and political analysis has been featured in film festivals and news outlets all over the world.\n\nJordan Wilson-Dalzell graduated from Pitzer College with a degree in creative writing. Her work has been published in the magazines Passwords\, Abramelin\, Eskimpi\, andCadaverine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reclaiming-judaism-from-zionism-with-contributors-linda-hess-hilton-obenzinger-henri-picciotto-cecilie-surasky-and-jordan-wilson-daizell/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T210000
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SUMMARY:Jarett Kobek
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of his new novel \nOnly Americans Burn in Hell \npublished by We’ve Heard You Like Books \n\n‘Brilliantly funny … the best satire of our contemporary nightmare that you will ever see\, and very possibly the last’ Alan Moore \nIt’s 2019 and America is ruled over by a billionaire reality TV star. Its media is owned by a transnational class of the shameless and the depraved. And its people have been silently robbed of their wealth\, their dignity and their democracy. \nIn this brave new world\, going to see a superhero movie counts as activism\, and arguing with the other serfs on social media is political engagement. BUT EVERYTHING’S FINE – as long as you never\, ever ask yourself who makes money from the ticket sales and the ratings\, or who owns Twitter. \nIt’s 2019 and Jarett Kobek has done the only thing a dissident American novelist can do in those circumstances: he’s joined the party and written fantasy novel about an immortal fairy queen and a shadowy billionaire philanthropist sheikh called Dennis. \nHilarious\, provocative and unmissable\, Only Americans Burn in Hell is the only novel for our certifiably insane times. \nJarett Kobek is a Turkish-American writer living in California. His novel I HATE THE INTERNET was an international bestseller\, translated into nine languages\, and published in twelve countries.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jarett-kobek-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T210000
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SUMMARY:Gary Janetti: Do You Mind If I Cancel?
DESCRIPTION:Gary Janetti discusses his new book\, Do You Mind If I Cancel? (Things That Still Annoy Me). \nPraise for Do You Mind If I Cancel? \n“Gary Janetti’s book is so rolling-on-the-floor funny\, so brilliantly observant\, and so full of heart\, I’m sure a jealous Prince George will decree that Gary be locked up in the Tower of London.”— Kevin Kwan\, New York Times bestselling author of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy \n“The writing of Gary Janetti\, whether televised or tweeted\, is famously incisive and sharp-tongued. What a revelation it was\, therefore\, to discover in these revealing personal essays an artist of great tenderness and vulnerability. And he’s still funny as hell.”— Armistead Maupin\, New York Times bestselling author of The Tales of the City \n“Almost as soon as I began to read Gary Janetti’s Do You Mind If I Cancel?\, I found myself feeling the way I felt when I first encountered Fran Lebowitz and David Rakoff: laughing and wanting to shout out the best bits to whoever else was in the room\, even if no one else was there. This crazy quilt of memoir\, cultural history\, one-liners aplenty\, and periodic arias of hopefulness\, frustration\, and brashly rude rage\, is a work of intertwined great humor and great feeling. I’ve already lost my copy\, snatched up by its next eager reader.”— Benjamin Dreyer\, New York Times bestselling author of Dreyer’s English \nAbout Do You Mind If I Cancel? \nGary Janetti\, the writer and producer for some of the most popular television comedies of all time\, and creator of one of the most wickedly funny Instagram accounts there is\, now turns his skills to the page in a hilarious\, and poignant book chronicling the pains and indignities of everyday life. \nGary spends his twenties in New York\, dreaming of starring on soap operas while in reality working at a hotel where he lusts after an unattainable colleague and battles a bellman who despises it when people actually use a bell to call him. He chronicles the torture of finding a job before the internet when you had to talk on the phone all the time\, and fantasizes\, as we all do\, about who to tell off when he finally wins an Oscar. As Gary himself says\, “These are essays from my childhood and young adulthood about things that still annoy me.” \nOriginal\, brazen\, and laugh out loud funny\, Do You Mind if I Cancel? is something not to be missed. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gary-janetti-do-you-mind-if-i-cancel/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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