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SUMMARY:Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival 2016
DESCRIPTION:21st Annual Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival “Stands Up for the Earth” with dynamic readings over thirty poets and writers\, including Jane Hirshfield\, “The Beauty”; Alison Hawthorne Deming\, “Stairway to Heaven” and “Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit”; Juliana Spahr\, “That Winter the Wolf Came”; Pireeni Sundaralingam; Wes “Scoop” Nisker\, “You Are Not Your Fault and Other Revelations”; more to be announced; California Poets in the Schools K-12 students read led by poet-teachers John Oliver Simon and Maureen Hurley; Creek Poets reading features Nevada City poet/eco-educator Chris Olander\, poet/biologist Maya Khosla\, “Keel Bone”; Judy Halebsky\, “Tree Line”; Katherine Hastings\, “Nighthawks”; Bill Vartnaw; emcees Richard Silberg and Kirk Lumpkin. Music by The Barry Finnerty Trio; We are Nature Open Mic (to read\, enter lottery on site at noon); River Village tents\, tables\, and exhibits by literary organizations\, presses\, magazines\, and environmental organizations; readers books for signing and sale at the Pegasus Downtown tent. Bring your lunch or get it at the Farmers’ Market; one block west from Berkeley BART; A 100 Thousand Poets for Change event. Presented by Poetry Flash\, co-sponsored by the Ecology Center/Berkeley Farmers’ Market\, Moe’s Books; wheelchair accessible.To exhibit or table\, for more information\, visit Poetryflash.org\, call (510) 525-5476\, or e-mail: info@poetryflash.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/watershed-environmental-poetry-festival-2016/
LOCATION:Martin Luther King Jr\, Civic Center Park\, 2151 M.L.K. Jr Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161001T170000
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition First Saturday
DESCRIPTION:Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot) \nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden) \nAll Ages Welcome \nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-first-saturday-6/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161001T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161001T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T225423
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press Fall 2016 Chapbook Collection
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a very special evening as we launch five new chapbooks in our Fall 2016 Chapbook Collection into the universe: Wallflower by Peter Thomas Bullen\, Evolutionary Heart by Nazelah Jamison\, Score and Bone by Maw Shein Win\, Profeta Without Refuge by Raina Leon\, and Low Village by Daniel Riddle Rodriguez. \nReadings by all authors and all books will be available for purchase and signing at the event ($10 each). Music by TBD. \nYou can also pre-order any of the titles here: www.nomadicpress.org/store \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-fall-2016-chapbook-collection/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161002T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161002T200000
DTSTAMP:20260425T225423
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Bazaar Writers Salon\nReadings by Ari Banias\, James J. Siegel\, Meryl Natchez\, and Noah Warren\nHosted by Peter Kline\nSunday\, October 2nd\, 2016\, 6:00 p.m.\nBazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St.\, San Francisco
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161003T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161003T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T225423
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SUMMARY:Wulf Losee
DESCRIPTION:Wulf Losee lives and works in the Bay Area. His poems and short stories have appeared in journals such as Crack the Spine\, Forge\, FRiGG\, Full Moon\, The New Guard\, The North Coast Literary Review\, Oak Square\, OxMag\, Pennsylvania English\, Poetalk Magazine\, Westview\, Rio Grande Review\, and SLAB.\nWulf believes that language is humanity’s oldest art\, and should be honored for what it is—whether it be a child’s first nonsense rhyme or songs sung by hunter-gatherers around camp fires—whether it be the verse of Milton or Big Daddy Kane. For Wulf\, open mics are the camp fires where the hunter-gatherers of language celebrate their hunt. Most of our words disappear into nothing\, but sometimes they stay with us forever.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wulf-losee/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161003T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161003T210000
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Returns!
DESCRIPTION:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz series returns from hiatus to a new venue! Come on down to PianoFight\, in the front room and join us for dinner\, drinks and read your poem live with the Nova Jazz band. \nHosted by Jennifer Barone and Ingrid Keir with special guests.\nFree admission\, all ages\, full menu and bar.\nOpen Mic open to poets and poetry only – 3min time limit\, one really good poem to read with live jazz accompaniment. \nRegister for the event on Eventbrite here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-wordparty-tickets-27296319025?aff=pfcal&_eboga=2068039441.1472079537
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-returns/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161004T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161004T200000
DTSTAMP:20260425T225423
CREATED:20160921T233356Z
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SUMMARY:Eowyn Ivey
DESCRIPTION:In the winter of 1885\, decorated war hero Colonel Allen Forrester leads a small band of men on an expedition that has been deemed impossible: to venture up the Wolverine River and pierce the vast\, untamed Alaska Territory. Leaving behind Sophie\, his newly pregnant wife\, Colonel Forrester records his extraordinary experiences in hopes that his journal will reach her if he doesn’t return–once he passes beyond the edge of the known world\, there’s no telling what awaits him. \nThe Wolverine River Valley is not only breathtaking and forbidding but also terrifying in ways that the colonel and his men never could have imagined. As they map the territory and gather information on the native tribes\, whose understanding of the natural world is unlike anything they have ever encountered\, Forrester and his men discover the blurred lines between human and wild animal\, the living and the dead. And while the men knew they would face starvation and danger\, they cannot escape the sense that some greater\, mysterious force threatens their lives. \nMeanwhile\, on her own at Vancouver Barracks\, Sophie chafes under the social restrictions and yearns to travel alongside her husband. She does not know that the winter will require as much of her as it does her husband\, that both her courage and faith will be tested to the breaking point. Can her exploration of nature through the new art of photography help her to rediscover her sense of beauty and wonder? \nIn To the Bright Edge of the World\, the truths that Allen and Sophie discover over the course of that fateful year change both of their lives — and the lives of those who hear their stories long after they’re gone — forever. \nEowyn LeMay Ivey was raised in Alaska and continues to live there with her husband and two daughters. She received her BA in journalism and minor in creative writing through the honors program at Western Washington University\, studied creative nonfiction at the University of Alaska Anchorage graduate program\, and worked for nearly 10 years as an award-winning reporter at the Frontiersman newspaper. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Snow Child.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eowyn-ivey/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161004T210000
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SUMMARY:Micah Perks
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate the launch of this wonderfully consuming new novel from local author\, professor\, and co-director of UCSC’s creative writing program Micah Perks. Following a near-fatal accident\, Evie\, a mild-mannered\, pregnant school teacher\, abandons her controlling husband and flees California for the wilds of western New York. She rents a farm house on a dead end road in a close-knit community that is divided by local colonial history\, a story that goes deep to the roots of the American conscience—and when she begins teaching at the local high school\, Evie herself becomes obsessed with The Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson\, the first book written by a woman in the Americas that details Rowlandson’s captivity during King Philip’s War in the seventeenth century. As Mary Rowlandson’s insatiable hunger begins to fill Evie’s dreams\, Evie wonders if she may actually be haunted. At the same time\, Evie’s connections to her new community begin to simmer\, and as she grows more pregnant\, her desires and hunger grow out of control\, threatening to destroy her new world. Ten years in the making\,What Becomes Us will hold you to the last page with its unforgettable cast and story. \n\n“Micah Perks’ book has everything a reader could hope for — her language is lively\, her characters appealing. Set in a storied landscape\, with themes of independence and community. Romance! History! Food! Plus a tale to tell and some surprising people to tell it. There is real magic here. Micah magic! Completely original\, completely delightful.”  –Karen Joy Fowler\, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves \n“I’ve been obsessed with Mary Rowlandson for 20 years\, and was delighted to find that Micah Perks writes about her with fireworks. This is a warm\, wild\, hilarious\, eccentric and moving book.”  –Lauren Groff\, author of Fates and Furies and Arcadia \n\nMicah Perks grew up in a log cabin on a commune in the Adirondack wilderness. She is the author of a novel\, We Are Gathered Here\, a memoir\, Pagan Time\, and a long personal essay\, Alone In The Woods: Cheryl Strayed\, My Daughter and Me. Her short stories and essays have won five Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in Epoch\, Zyzzyva\, Tin House\, The Toast\, OZY and The Rumpus\, amongst many journals and anthologies. Excerpts of What Becomes Us won a National Endowment for the Arts grant and The New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. More info and work at micahperks.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/micah-perks/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161004T213000
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SUMMARY:Josefine Klougart
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Josefine Klougart: \n“Scandinavia now has its own Virginia Woolf. Few get as close to the human mind as Klougart.” —VG \n  \nAbout One of Us is Sleeping: \nThe English-language debut from one of Denmark’s most exciting\, celebrated young writers\, “One of Us Is Sleeping “is a haunting novel about loss in all its forms.\nWorking in the vein of Anne Carson\, Josefine Klougart’s novel is both true-to-life and incredibly poetic in its relating of a brief\, intense love affair and the grief and disillusionment that follow its end. While she recounts the time with her lover\, the narrator is also heading back home\, where her mother is dying of cancer. This contrast between recollection and the belief that certain things will always be present in your life your parents\, your childhood home\, your love and the fact that life is a continual series of endings runs throughout the book\, underpinning the striking imagery and magnificent prose.\nA powerful novel that earned Klougart numerous accolades and several award nominations including the Readers Book Award “One of Us Is Sleeping “marks the launch of a major new voice in world literature.\nJosefine Klougart has been hailed as one of Denmark’s greatest contemporary writers. She is the first Danish author ever to have two of her first three books nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. She’s been compared to a range of authors\, including Joan Didion\, Anne Carson\, and Virginia Woolf.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/josefine-klougart/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161005T210000
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SUMMARY:William Kent Kreuger
DESCRIPTION:In the extraordinary new Cork O’Connor thriller from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author William Kent Krueger\, the lives of hundreds of innocent people are at stake when Cork vanishes just days before his daughter’s wedding. \nSince the violent deaths of his wife\, father\, and best friend all occurred in previous Novembers\, Cork O’Connor has always considered it to be the cruelest of months. Yet\, his daughter has chosen this dismal time of year in which to marry\, and Cork is understandably uneasy. \nHis concern comes to a head when a man camping in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness goes missing. As the official search ends with no recovery in sight\, Cork is asked by the man’s family to stay on the case. Although the wedding is fast approaching and the weather looks threatening\, he accepts and returns to that vast wilderness on his own. \nAs the sky darkens and the days pass\, Cork’s family anxiously awaits his return. Finally certain that something has gone terribly wrong\, they fly by floatplane to the lake where the missing man was last seen. Locating Cork’s campsite\, they find no sign of their father. They do find blood\, however. A lot of it. \nWith an early winter storm on the horizon\, it’s a race against time as Cork’s family struggles to uncover the mystery behind these disappearances. Little do they know\, not only is Cork’s life on the line\, but so are the lives of hundreds of others. \nA taut\, suspenseful thriller\, Manitou Canyon features everything readers love in a Cork O’Connor novel: a dramatic Northwoods setting\, an intriguing view of the Objibwe culture\, an enigmatic crime\, masterful storytelling\, and more than a few surprises. \nWilliam Kent Krueger is the award-winning author of fourteen previous Cork O’Connor novels\, including Tamarack Countyand Windigo Island\, as well as the novel Ordinary Grace\, winner of the 2014 Edgar Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/william-kent-kreuger/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161005T213000
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SUMMARY:Anne Raeff + Anthony Marra
DESCRIPTION:Praise for The Jungle Around Us \n“This masterful collection records the long psychic toll of the twentieth century’s traumas\, offering portraits of people in various kinds of exile: displaced from their countries\, or uneasy in their hometowns\, or somehow alien in their own bodies and minds. Anne Raeff’s exquisite stories are remarkable for their combination of intimacy and reverence for the mysteries and private griefs her characters fold their lives around. Seldom have I read work so confident in the power of what’s left unspoken and in the deep eloquence of gesture. The Jungle Around Us is a haunting and breathtakingly beautiful book.” —Garth Greenwell\, author of What Belongs to You \n  \n“The stories in The Jungle Around Us do not try to make sense of the world–they are the world. A world of uncanny sharpness that is as bold as it is striking in its uncompromising\, haunting depictions of longing and uncertainty and grief and bliss. The jungle Anne Raeff proposes us to enter is\, in reality\, not around us\, in the intricated destinations of displacement where this book takes place–from Bolivia to Austria\, from Leningrad to Albuquerque\, from Harlem to El Tambor–but within ourselves. The protagonists in these stories are commanded by loss and desire and uprootedness and the scalding need for human connection\, but unlike those from any other work of fiction that might be too self-conscious of its own ambitions\, they struggle handling these emotions. Raeff’s characters are too complex\, too fully fleshed out\, too human to know what step to take next\, and this is\, perhaps\, the biggest feat of many she has achieved with this ravishing collection. Her talent is rare and transfixing\, and this book marks the arrival of a marvelous new voice.” —Antonio Ruiz-Camacho\, author of Barefoot Dogs \n  \nWhile struggling with fear\, danger\, and displacement\, the characters of “The Jungle around Us” form strange and powerful bonds in distant and unlikely places. A family that has escaped Vienna ends up on the edge of the Amazon\, where the parents fight yellow fever and the daughter falls in love with a village boy. Two sisters learn lessons about race and war during the Columbia University riots of1968. A young girl confronts death when her former babysitter is mysteriously murdered. In Paraguay\, two adult sisters confront their loneliness while their precocious young charge faces off with a monkey. Raeff’s stories are about embracing the world though the world contains everything we fear. \n  \nAnne Raeff is a high school teacher at East Palo Alto Academy\, where she teaches English and history. Her stories and essays have appeared in the New England Review\, ZYZZYVA\, and Guernica\, among others. Her first novel is Clara Mondschein’s Melancholia. \n  \nAnthony Marra is the New York Times-bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena\, longlisted for the National Book Award and winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize\, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction\, and the Barnes and Noble Discover Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-raeff-anthony-marra/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161005T213000
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SUMMARY:A Memorial Reading for Ted Greenwald
DESCRIPTION:Ted Greenwald (1942-2016) was born in Brooklyn\, raised in Queens\, and lived in New York City his entire life. He wrote daily for over 50 years and published more than 30 books. A central figure in the second-generation of the New York school and a major influence on language writing\, as a poet he is sui generis\, they broke the mold. His work combines rigorous formal invention\, a keen ear for plain talk\, and a finger on the pulse of the life of the times. Three books of work from the 1970s are newly published\, The Age of Reasons (Wesleyan)\, Common Sense (Wesleyan)\, and Own Church (Spuyten Duyvil). Other recent books includeComma Fork / Moving Parts and In Your Dreams(BlazeVOX)\, as well as the memoir of his childhood and youth\, Clearview/LIE (United Artists). \n“No one is writing poems that blend both the vernacular and the abstract with such virtuosity\, no one is writing poems with structure and syntax that serves to recover authenticity under the conditions of late capitalism\, and no one is writing poems that sound better.”\nStacy Szymaszek \nReaders Include: \nAlan Bernheimer\nNathaniel Dorsky\nNorman Fischer\nCorinne Fitzpatrick\nLyn Hejinian\nJerome Hiler\nLaura Moriarty\nJulien Poirier\nRenny Pritikin\nTom Raworth (from England)\nKit Robinson
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-memorial-reading-for-ted-greenwald/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:iO Tillett Wright
DESCRIPTION:iO Tillett Wright presents Darling Days\, an extraordinary coming of age memoir set in the urban bohemia of 1980s New York’s Lower East Side\, where punk\, poverty\, heroin\, and art ruled the roost. Raised by single mother Rhona\, a mercurial Glamazon showgirl\, iO was encouraged from an early age to break boundaries. When a group of boys refuse to let six-year-old iO play ball\, iO instantly adopts a new persona\, becoming a boy\, a choice Rhona celebrates. It is the start of a profound exploration of gender and identity through the tenderest years\, and the beginning of a life invented and reinvented at every step. Harrowing and hilarious\, Darling Days is a provocative examination of culture and identity\, and of the courage and resilience of each child’s unique expression. \niO Tillett Wright is an artist\, activist\, actor\, speaker\, TV host and writer. iO’s work deals with identity\, be it through photography and the Self Evident Truths Project/We Are You campaign or on television as the co-host of MTV’s Suspect. iO has exhibited artwork in New York and Tokyo and was a featured contributor on Underground Culture to T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Her photography has been featured in GQ\, Elle\, New York Magazine\, and The New York Times Magazine. iO is a regular speaker at universities\, discussing expanding one’s circle of normalcy and embracing those that are different than you. A native New Yorker\, iO is now based in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/io-tillett-wright/
LOCATION:Second Act\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161005T213000
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SUMMARY:Vanessa Hua Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Vanessa Hua presents her debut collection\, Deceit and Other Possibilities\, in conversation withZYZZYVA editor Oscar Villalon. The characters in these stories vividly illustrate the conflict between self and society\, tradition and change: a Hong Kong movie idol flees a sex scandal; an obedient daughter lies about attending Stanford; a Chinatown elder is summoned to his ancestral village\, and a Korean-American pastor hides a secret agenda. Hua explores the clash of cultures and the complex\, shifting allegiances we carry with us as we make our way forward in a new land. Deceit and Other Possibilities marks the emergence of a remarkable new writer. \nVanessa Hua has appeared in The Atlantic\, New York Times\, FRONTLINE/World\,Washington Post\, and elsewhere.  Previously\, she was a staff writer at the San Francisco Chronicle\, and has filed stories from China\, South Korea\, Panama\, Burma and Ecuador. She received a 2015 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, the San Francisco Foundation’s Phelan Award for Fiction\, and is a former Steinbeck Fellow in Fiction at San Jose State University. Her novel\, A River of Stars\, is forthcoming from Ballantine. \nOscar Villalon is the managing editor of ZYZZVA\, the former books editor at the San Francisco Chronicle and a member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle. His writing has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review and The Believer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vanessa-hua-book-launch/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161006T125000
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SUMMARY:Michael Palmer
DESCRIPTION:Michael Palmer is a poet and translator who for over forty years has worked with the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company and has collaborated with many composers and visual artists. Among his numerous awards is the Arts and Letters Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into over thirty languages and he himself has translated poems and prose from French\, Brazilian Portuguese\, and Russian. He has taught at universities in the United States\, Europe and Asia. His most recent publications are Active Boundaries: Selected Essays and Talks\, Madman With Broom (selected poems with Chinese translations by Yunte Huang)\, and Thread. Palmer’s new book of poems\, The Laughter of the Sphinx\, was published in 2016 by New Directions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-palmer/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161006T180000
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CREATED:20160901T002545Z
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SUMMARY:Karen Joy Fowler
DESCRIPTION:Karen Joy Fowler\, author of both novels and short story collections\, has been described as “a captivating and good-hearted satirist.” Her six warmly-received novels include the bestselling The Jane Austen Book Club and most recently\, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. Fowler’s books have received many awards including the Commonwealth Medal\, Winner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award\, and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Fowler and her husband live in Santa Cruz\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-joy-fowler/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161006T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161006T200000
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CREATED:20160929T011032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160929T011032Z
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SUMMARY:California Dreamin': A night of poetry celebrating the golden state w/ Gioia\, Ahmed\, + Lindenberg
DESCRIPTION:A reading with California Poet Laureate Dana Gioia and McSweeney’s poets Zubair Ahmed and Rebecca Lindenberg. \nThree poets coming together to read their work and share their favorite poems capturing the California ethos. There will be a wine reception and book signing. Readings to commence at 6:30.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/california-dreamin-a-night-of-poetry-celebrating-the-golden-state-w-gioia-ahmed-lindenberg/
LOCATION:a.Muse art gallery & meeting place\, 614 Alabama Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Best American Non-Required Reading 2016
DESCRIPTION:Anthony Marra\, Kyle Boelte\, and student contributors Isaac Schott-Rosenfield\, Sian Ee\, and Emma Hardison join us to celebrate the 12th annual installment of the annual Best American Nonrequired Reading anthology. \n\nAbout The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016 \nIf you need to fall in love with reading again or just want a reminder that high school students deserve a lot more than their reading lists give them then this is the book for you. “Best” Guest editor Rachel Kushner\, author of “The Flamethrowers\, ” works with a group of high school students out of 826 Valencia to select “The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016.” The BANR Committee gathers weekly in the basement of a small publishing house in San Francisco to read literary magazines\, chapbooks\, graphic novels\, blogs\, transcripts\, and anything else that strikes their fancy. They are assisted by a group of 826 students that meet in the basement of a robot shop in Ann Arbor\, Michigan.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/best-american-non-required-reading-2016/
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:First Friday deshret Celebration + Youth Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:It’s A Celebration Y’all! \nCome out to celebrate Writer in Residence Brooke Doak’s project\, deshret\, take part in our youth open mic\, and paint a self portrait as part of our upcoming project with mocha | museum of children’s art. \ndeshret is a labor of love: a three-fold literary project whose beginnings Brooke nurtured and cultivated in the writing sanctuary of Chapter 510. Her time at Chapter 510 is coming to a close and we are so excited to share her project. \nJoin us this coming First Friday as we say goodbye to Goddessflow Presents and welcome deshret. You’ll also have a chance to pre-order a copy of the deshret: A Personal Narrative Workbook and/or contribute to its production (designed by Justin Carder) \nFor kids and youth\, we’re hosting a youth open mic and self-potrait-making-project in partnership with Museum of Children’s Art for NEA’s 2016 Big Read. \nAnd as always\, there will be refreshments\, and Two Mamacitas Pop-Up Kitchen will be popping up in the house. \nLooking forward to celebrating love\, self\, and expression with you!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/first-friday-deshret-celebration-youth-open-mic/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:JT Leroy/Laura Albert
DESCRIPTION:JT Leroy/Laura Albert shares the reissues of her national bestselling works The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things: Stories and Sarah. Published to coincide with the new Jeff Feuerzeig documentary: Author: The JT LeRoy Story\, which will have a theatrical release in July 2016\, This special edition of The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things includes an additional seven stories\, previously uncollected\, by JT LeRoy\, the literary persona of Laura Albert. JT/Sarah will be in conversation with Justin Desmangles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jt-leroylaura-albert/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161007T213000
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SUMMARY:Bae Suah + Deborah Smith
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Bae Suah: \n“A compact\, personal account of anomie and withdrawal in a time of rapid social and economic change…an easily digested short book that nevertheless feels much very substantial—a very full story. Impressive\, and well worthwhile.” —The Complete Review on Nowhere to be Found \n\nAbout A Greater Music: \nNear the beginning of “A Greater Music\,” the narrator\, a young Korean writer\, falls into an icy river in the Berlin suburbs\, where she’s been housesitting for her on-off boyfriend Joachim. This sets into motion a series of memories that move between the hazily defined present and the period three years ago when she first lived in Berlin. Throughout\, the narrator’s relationship with Joachim\, a rough-and-ready metalworker\, is contrasted with her friendship with a woman called M\, an ultra-refined music-loving German teacher who was once her lover.\nA novel of memories and wandering\, “A Greater Music” “blends riffs on music\, language\, and literature with a gut-punch of an emotional ending\, establishing Bae Suah as one of the most exciting novelists working today. \n  \nAbout Bae Suah: \nBae Suah\, one of the most highly acclaimed contemporary Korean authors\, has published more than a dozen works and won several prestigious awards. She has also translated several books from the German\, including works by W. G. Sebald\, Franz Kafka\, and Jenny Erpenbeck. Her first book to appear in English\, “Nowhere to be Found\,” was longlisted for a PEN Translation Prize. \nAbout Deborah Smith: \nDeborah Smith’s literary translations from the Korean include two novels by the Man Booker International Prize winner Han Kang (“The Vegetarian “and “Human Acts”)\, and two by Bae Suah\, (“A Greater Music “and “Recitation”).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bae-suah-deborah-smith/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161008T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161008T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T225423
CREATED:20160921T234641Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160921T234641Z
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SUMMARY:Book Party!
DESCRIPTION:Please join Couch Press (Portland)\, Big Lucks (Austin)\, and Atelos (Berkeley) in celebrating three new books: <<(())>> by Lindsey Boldt\, The Good Life by Brandon Brown\, and Merry Hell by Sara Larsen at Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th Street in the Mission\, on Saturday October 8th at 7:00 p.m. We’ll have some wine\, all the books will be there for sale\, and all three writers will give short readings.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-party/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161009T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161009T170000
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CREATED:20160901T005157Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Parks 2016
DESCRIPTION:Quiet Lightning\, California State Parks\, and Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy present Poetry in Parks 2016\, a free\, daylong festival in the historic Cushing Memorial-Mountain Theater in Mt. Tamalpais State Park celebrating Quiet Lightning’s 100th show\, the centennial of the National Parks\, and the connection between the wilderness experience and the inspiration parks provide to everyone. \nFeatured readers include Dana Gioia\, Kay Ryan\, Jane Hirshfield\, Alejandro Murguía\, Kim Stanley Robinson\, and Matthew Zapruder\, with Barbara Jane Reyes\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Brynn Saito\, Arisa White\, Charlie Getter\, and Andrew Paul Nelson; a submission-based literary mixtape; youth poetry readings curated by Marin County Poet Laureate Prartho Sereno\, and performances by San Francisco’s Classical Revolution and postmodern dance pioneer Anna Halprin. Includes children’s activities\, local food and beverage booths. For full lineup\, free shuttle service\, directions\, and more info: quietlightning.org/tam.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-in-parks-2016/
LOCATION:Cushing Memorial-Mountain Theater\, Mount Tamalpais State Park\, East Ridgecrest Blvd\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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SUMMARY:Martha Collins + Rosa Lane
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday\, October 9th at 3pm. The featured guest poets will be Martha Collins and Rosa Lane. \nPoetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible; ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.org for more events and reviews! \nMartha Collins’s new book of poems is Admit One: An American Scrapbook. Booklist calls it “An unflinching look at the underpinnings of racism in the U.S.…Her poems are lists\, definitions\, newspaper pages\, historic time lines\, and biographical facts. These diverse poetic forms highlight the beauty of diversity itself. But Collins never lets up on the driving themes of unethical treatment and collective culpability.” Among her previous collections are Day Unto Day\, White Papers\, andBlue Front. The last two both won Ohioana awards\, and Blue Front also won an Ansfield-Wolf Book Award and was chosen one of 25 Books to Remember by the New York Public Library. Among her other publications are three books of co-translation from the Vietnamese. \nRosa Lane’s first full-length book of poems is Tiller North. Jeffrey Levine says\, “Rosa Lane’s poetry reminds us why\, at a certain time in our lives\, we’ve had enough of innocence. Here is a compendium of those so crucial\, chronology-defying self-revelations that we only know through our skin. Every line carries with it a resonant sense of what matters and why.” Widely published in literary journals like Ploughsharesand Crab Orchard Review\, she is the author of the chapbook Roots and Reckonings. She works as an architect\, with a Ph.D. in sustainable architecture\, and she divides her time between Maine and the San Francisco Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/martha-collins-rosa-lane/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161009T180000
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SUMMARY:Gears Turning Poetry: Brady\, Cohen\, + Raphael w/ Dang
DESCRIPTION:Dan Brady has been featured in the Poet’s Eleven Series and S.F. Peace and Hope’s anthology. He has ties with the Bay Area Poet’s Coalition and the Haiku Poets of Northern California. He’s led workshops and hosts the Wednesday series at Sacred Grounds ”Good food and fine poetry since 1972.” His books are Orphan City\, (i)n((s(i)gh)t) to;(r(io)t) and Haiku: Infolded Meaning. \nSusan Cohen is an award-winning journalist and poet who lives in Berkeley. Her poems have appeared in Harpur Palate\, Poetry International\, River Styx\, Salamander\, Southern Humanities Review\, Verse Daily\, and the Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry among many other publications. Her second full-length collection\, A Different Wakeful Animal\, won the 2015 David Martinson-Meadowhawk Prize from Red Dragonfly Press which issued it in June. \nA long-time Portland resident\, Dan Raphael’s been active in the Northwest as poet\, performer\, publisher and reading host. Everyone in This Movie Gets Paid\, his 19th book\, came out this June from Last Word Press; previous books include The State I’m In (nine muses press) and Impulse & Warp: The Selected 20th Century Poems (Wordcraft of Oregon). His poems have appeared in over 300 magazines\, websites and anthologies including Caliban\, Big Bridge\, Otoliths\, Rattapllax\, Make it True\, Cordite\, Unlikely Stories and Pacific Northwestern Spiritual Poetry. He has given over 200 readings\, in places like Bumbershoot\, Wordstock\, Powell’s Books\, Reed College\, Ellliot Bay Books\, Penofin Jazz Festival and 80 different places in Portland. For 13 years he ran a monthly reading series at a downtown books store\, then curated Poetland—80 poets at 8 different venues over an 8 hour stretch.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gears-turning-poetry-brady-cohen-raphael-w-dang/
LOCATION:Modern Times Bookstore Collective\, 2919 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer Fall Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Novelists Laura J. Merrell\, Kate Jessica Raphael\, and Hilary A. Zaid read from new fiction at Perfectly Queer Fall Fiction Monday\, October 10\, 7pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. in San Francisco. Free admission\, door prizes\, and refreshments. A book signing will follow the readings. \nLaura J. Merrell grew up in southeast Indiana during the sad-sack seventies and anal eighties. During her senior year\, she was voted “girl most likely to be locked in the attic by her relatives.” About her writing\, Laura says\, “I’ve written ever since I knew how to because I’m a pathological storyteller.” Her blog is blackwhitepress.wordpress.com. In her novel The Hedge Tree\, the year is 1972\, Tricky Dick is in the White House\, and four-year-old Charity has managed to offend the better part of Roosevelt County\, Indiana\, by not crying at her mother’s funeral. Charity grows into a random weed that can’t find a squat in the garden. But\, if the entire world is outside the garden\, maybe it’s not all bad. \nKate Jessica Raphael is a feminist\, queer activist\, writer\, and radio journalist\, who makes her living as a law firm word processor. She lived in Palestine for eighteen months as a member of the International Women’s Peace Service and spent five weeks in an Israeli prison for her activism. In 2011\, she won a residency at Hedgebrook writer’s colony. She has contributed footage to several films about Palestine and was featured in the film “Shutdown: The Rise and Fall of Direct Action to Stop the War.” Her debut novel Murder Under The Bridge: A Palestine Mystery won the Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) silver medal for mystery. It is the first in a series. Visit her website: www.kateraphael.com. \nHilary A. Zaid is an alumna of the Tin House and Squaw Valley writers workshops. Her short fiction has appeared in Lilith Magazine\, The Southwest Review\, The UTNE Reader and CALYX\, among other periodicals. Her story “My Triple X Valentine’s at the Far Point Senior Villas” will be the feature story in the October 19 issue of Amazon’s Day One\, and her fiction is also forthcoming in the winter issue of The Tahoma Literary Review. Her prose chapbook The Dark Between the Stars was selected as the BLOOM Literary Magazine chapbook winner by judge Lucy Jane Bledsoe. See author website at www.hilaryzaid.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-fall-fiction/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lines & Lyrics: Cheng\, Rock\, + Shiferraw w/ Miss Erma
DESCRIPTION:Lines and lyrics from Litquake Nation! Enjoy line breaks during your lunch break\, as some of the Bay Area’s best poets and musicians share their work in the great outdoors. \nScott Brownlee is the author of Requiem for Used Ignition Cap\, which won the 2015 Orison Poetry Prize and the 2016 Bob Bush Memorial Award from the Texas Institute of Letters\, as well as three prize-winning chapbooks. \nJennifer S. Cheng is the author of HOUSE A\, selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Prize. Her poems and essays appear in Tin House\, AGNI\, Mid-American Review\, and elsewhere. She is a founding editor of Drop Leaf Press. \nMartin Rock is the author of Residuum\, winner of the 2015 Editor’s Choice Award for CSU Poetry Center’s first book prize. He is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing and Literature at University of Houston and lives in Oakland. \nMahtem Shiferraw is a poet and visual artist who grew up in Ethiopia and Eritrea. Her work has been published in various literary journals. She was the recipient of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets for her collection\, FUCHSIA. She received her MFA from Vermont College. \nMusical guest Miss Erma blends ancestry and tradition into a confident\, distinct musical voice of her own. She carries herself with a precocious self-possession reminiscent of an early Fiona Apple (if that young talent had heeded Tom Robbins’ advice to “Lighten up!”). \nPart of YBG Festival’s Poetic Tuesdays series. For our full summer schedule visit www.ybgfestival.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lines-lyrics-cheng-rock-shiferraw-w-miss-erma/
LOCATION:Jessie Square; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, 220 Stevenson St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:An evening w/ Masande Ntshanga
DESCRIPTION:reading from his acclaimed new novel \nThe Reactive \nfrom Two Dollar Radio \nHeralded in the author’s native South Africa as “the hottest novel of the year\,” The Reactive is a clear-eyed and compassionate depiction of a young HIV+ man grappling with the sudden death of his younger brother\, for which he feels unduly responsible. \nLindanathi and his friends—Cecelia and Ruan—make their living working low-paying jobs and selling anti-retroviral drugs (during the period in South Africa before ARVs became broadly distributed). In between\, they huff glue\, drift in and out of parties\, and traverse the streets of Cape Town\, where they observe the grave material disparities of their country. A mysterious masked man appears seeking to buy their surplus of ARVs\, an offer that would present the three with the opportunity to escape their environs\, while at the same time forcing Lindanathi to confront his path\, and finally\, his past. \nWith brilliant\, shimmering prose\, Ntshanga has delivered a redemptive\, ambitious\, and unforgettable first novel. \nMasande Ntshanga is the winner of the inaugural PEN International New Voices Award in 2013\, and a finalist for the Caine Prize in 2015. He was born in East London in 1986 and graduated with a degree in Film and Media and an Honours degree in English Studies from UCT\, where he became a creative writing fellow\, completing his Masters in Creative Writing under the Mellon Mays Foundation. He received a Fulbright Award\, an NRF Freestanding Masters scholarship\, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship and a Bundanon Trust Award. His work has appeared in The White Review\, Chimurenga\, VICE and n + 1. He has also written for Rolling Stone magazine. \nCritical Praise for the work of Masande Ntshanga: \n*Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize Finalist \n*Etisalat Prize for Literature Longlist \n*One of the Best Books of the Year —City Press\, The Sunday Times\, The Star\, This is Africa\, Africa’s a Country\, Sunday World \n“[The Reactive is] a searing\, gorgeously written account of life\, love\, illness\, and death in South Africa. With exquisite prose\, formal innovation\, and a masterful command of storytelling\, Ntshanga illustrates how some young people navigated the dusk that followed the dawn of freedom in South Africa and humanizes the casualties of the Mbeki government’s fatal policies on HIV & AIDS.”\n—Naomi Jackson\, Poets & Writers \n“Woozy\, touching… a novel that delivers an unexpected love letter to Cape Town\, painting it as a place of frustrated glory. The Reactive often teems with a beauty that seems to carry on in front of its glue-huffing wasters despite themselves.”\n—Marian Ryan\, Slate
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-w-masande-ntshanga/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nell Zink
DESCRIPTION:Nell Zink exquisitely captures the clash between Baby-Boomer idealism and Millennial pragmatism\, between the have-nots and want-mores\, in a riotous yet tender novel that brilliantly encapsulates our time. \nRecent business school graduate Penny Baker has rebelled against her family her whole life… by being the conventional one. Her mother\, Amalia\, was a member of a South American tribe called the Kogi and her much older father\, Norm\, long ago attained cult-like deity status among a certain cohort of aging hippies while operating a psychedelic “healing center.” She’s never felt particularly close to her much older half-brothers from Norm’s previous marriage; one\, wickedly charming and obscenely rich (but mostly just wicked)\, and one a photographer on a distant tropical island. \nAll that changes when her father dies and Penny inherits his childhood home in New Jersey. She goes to investigate the property and finds it not overgrown and abandoned\, but rather occupied by a group of friendly anarchist squatters whom she finds unexpectedly charming\, and who have renamed the property “Nicotine.” The Nicotine residents (united in defense of smokers’ rights’) possess the type of passion and fervor Penny feels she’s desperately lacking\, and the other squatter houses in the neighborhood provide a sense of community she has never felt before. She soon moves into a nearby residence\, becoming enmeshed in the political fervor and commitment of her fellow squatters. \nAs the Baker familys’ lives begin to converge around the fate of the house now called Nicotine\, Penny grows ever bolder and more desperate to protect it and its residents until a fateful night when a reckless confrontation between her old family and her new one changes everything. \nNell Zink grew up in rural Virginia. She has worked in a variety of trades\, including masonry and technical writing. In the early 1990s\, she edited an indie rock fanzine. Her writing has also appeared in n+1. Her debut novel\, The Wallcreeper\, was published in 2014. She lives near Berlin\, Germany.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nell-zink/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161012T210000
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SUMMARY:Liza Monroy w/ Elizabeth McKenzie
DESCRIPTION:Liza Monroy’s new book is a collection of deeply personal essays that tackle the universal themes of romantic and familial love\, fate and chance\, all told in a humorous and intelligent manner that keeps the reader yearning for more. Created in the wake of Liza’s popular essays — including her piece for the Modern Love column in the New York Times — Seeing as Your Shoes Are Soon to Be on Fire chronicles Liza’s many misadventures in her quest for love. These misadventures span a variety of countries and a variety of men\, all bound together under the watchful eye of her eccentric\, single mother\, a profiler for the U.S. State Department\, who is soon using her professional aptitude to weed out the men in her daughter’s path. \nFilled with quirky details and archetypal characters from our everyday lives\, with stories that are both wildly hilarious and deeply heartfelt\, Seeing as Your Shoes Are Soon to Be on Fire is both a vulnerably open testament to Liza’s personal experiences and an intriguing work that confronts the odds of finding love and intimacy in the increasingly depersonalized world of technology. \nLIZA MONROY is the author of The Marriage Act: The Risk I Took to Keep My Best Friend in America… and What It Taught Us About Love and Mexican High. Her essays and articles have appeared in the New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, Psychology Today\, and Poets & Writers. Her work has also been featured in various anthologies\, including Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York and One Big Family. Liza has taught writing at Columbia University\, UCLA Extension\, and UC Santa Cruz. She currently lives in Santa Cruz\, California. \nELIZABETH MCKENZIE is the author of The Portable Veblen and Stop That Girl. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic Monthly\, Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and the Pushcart Prize anthology\, and has been recorded for NPR’s Selected Shorts. She received her MA from Stanford\, was an assistant fiction editor at The Atlantic\, and currently teaches creative writing at Stanford’s school of continuing studies. She lives in Santa Cruz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/liza-monroy-w-elizabeth-mckenzie/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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