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SUMMARY:Lit Crawl SF
DESCRIPTION:FREE! \nOne of the most anticipated literary nights of the year\, San Francisco’s Lit Crawl began in 2004\, and has grown to attract nearly 10\,000 people. Today\, it is the world’s largest such event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lit-crawl-sf/
LOCATION:The Mission\, the mission\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181020T170000
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SUMMARY:LITQUAKE! LIT-Crawl
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a great night of literary fun along 24th Street! \nPhase 1:  FLOR Y CANTO 2018 \nhttps://www.facebook.com/SFFloryCanto/ \nPhase 2:  FORUM Magazine \nhttps://www.facebook.com/ForumMagazine/ \nPhase 3:  THE RACKET \nhttps://www.facebook.com/theracketseries/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-lit-crawl/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181020T180000
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SUMMARY:14th Annual Lit Crawl SF: Hazel Reading Series / The Escapery
DESCRIPTION:Date: Saturday\, October 20\, 2018\nTime: 6pm doors\, 6:30pm event\nAdmission: Free \nHazel Reading Series features an all-star lineup of readers. After the intermission\, The Escapery readers explore life’s peaks and craters\, the ways that the moonshine reaches all of us\, the glint and glare of love and death\, and the waning gleam of the moon as we move through our lives. \nOne of the most anticipated literary nights of the year\, Lit Crawl San Francisco is a massive\, one-night literary pub crawl throughout the city’s Mission District. Lit Crawl SF brings together 500+ authors and close to 10\,000 fans for the world’s largest free pop-up literary event. Started in 2004\, Lit Crawl cultivates a unique\, resonant brand: smart and silly\, worldly and wacky events presented in venues usual (bars\, cafes\, galleries\, and bookstores) and unusual (police stations\, tattoo parlors\, barbershops\, and laundromats). \nHazel Reading Series\nFeaturing:\nCiera-Jevae Gordon\nMeilan Carter-Gilkey\nNatasha Dennerstein\nSara Marinelli\nThea Matthews\nYang Huang \nThe Escapery: Your Writing Unschool\nNancy Au\nCarson Beker\nHaldane C. King\nKathryn Kruse\nPloi Pirapokin \nABOUT HAZEL READING SERIES:\nHazel Reading Series is a San Francisco-based monthly reading series and an ever-evolving community. Each month\, emerging and established women writers share their work and go on to choose next month’s readers. Hazel is a place for experimentation\, for support and community\, for writers and literature lovers of all kinds to bump into new work and new ideas. Hazel Reading Series is also invested in creating a space that represents and celebrates the diverse ethnicity\, sexuality\, ability\, age\, and form of the Bay Area’s artists. \nABOUT THE ESCAPERY:\nThe Escapery is your Writing and Other Arts Unschool. We use themed classes\, field trips\, day-long intensives\, craft intensives\, five/ten week adventures\, and more to create spaces for artists to play\, learn\, find community\, create\, and share. Playful\, community-oriented\, queer\, re-centering women/NB\, queer/trans artists\, and artists of color. No famous white men\, no tear-down workshops\, zero-tolerance for micro or macro aggressions. We are always all/no levels\, always genre-queer\, anti-competition and pro-tearing down the walls. SF/Oakland originated\, extending our kraken tentacles all over the map and in your virtual spaces. \nABOUT THE READERS:\nNancy Au is co-founder of The Escapery. Her writing appears in Tahoma Literary Review\, Lunch Ticket\, The Pinch\, Foglifter\, and elsewhere. Au’s flash fiction is included in the forthcoming Best Small Fictions 2018 anthology\, and her full-length collection\, Spider Love Song & Other Stories\, is forthcoming from Acre Books in March 2019. \nCarson Beker is co-founder of The Escapery. They are a writer\, playwright\, and storyteller. His stories have appeared in Foglifter (Pushcart Nomination 2016)\, Gigantic Sequins\, and Radar Literary Series. They were a 2016 Lambda Fellow and Tin House Workshop scholar. \nHaldane C. King is the founder of Terra Incognita Literary Reading Series and an instructor and board member of The Escapery. He earned his MFA degree in writing and consciousness from the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2012. He is an editor of WTAW Press\, a data analyst\, and helps bring literature to the people with the Why There Are Words Literary organization. \nKathryn Kruse received her MFA from the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas and holds a BA in English with a certificate in creative writing from University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was an instructor with The Escapery from 2016-2017. She founded and curated the NeonLit reading series. Her work is published\, among other places\, in Indiana Review\, The Manchester Review\, The Adirondack Review\, I Hope You’re Feeling Better Collaborative Exhibition. \nPloi Pirapokin has work featured in Tor.com\, Apogee Journal\, the Bellingham Review\, Fiction International\, Cleaver Magazine\, and more. She has received grants and fellowships from the San Francisco Arts Commission\, the Creative Capacity Fund\, the Headlands Center for the Arts\, the Ragdale Foundation\, Kundiman\, and others. Pirapokin holds an MFA in fiction from San Francisco State University. \nLEARN MORE:\nwww.litquake.org/lit-crawl-sf\nwww.facebook.com/hazelreadingseries\nwww.theescapery.org\nhttp://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/lit-crawl-sf-20181020/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/14th-annual-lit-crawl-sf-hazel-reading-series-the-escapery/
LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181020T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181020T193000
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime SHADOW
DESCRIPTION:part of phase 2 of the 2018 San Francisco Lit Crawl\, will take place at Incline Gallery\, 766 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, Saturday October 20th\, 6.30-7.30 pm\, featuring Emer Martin (The Cruelty Men)\, Colin Winnette (The Job of the Wasp)\, Anca Szil�gyi (Daughters of the Air)\, Cyrus Armajani (Benefits of Doubt)\, and Simi Singh Juneja.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-shadow/
LOCATION:Incline Gallery\, 766 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181020T183000
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SUMMARY:Lit Crawl: Babar in Exile
DESCRIPTION:Poets associated with and influenced by the Babarians of the Cafe Babar in the 1980s\, the Punks of Poetry\, hosted by Richard Loranger in Phase 2 of Lit Crawl. Featuring Bruce Isaacson\, Jan Steckel\, Tarin Towers\, Margery Snyder\, Kathleen Wood\, Julia Vinograd\, David Gollub\, and Paul Corman-Roberts. Intentionally Blank\, 1360 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lit-crawl-babar-in-exile/
LOCATION:Intentionally Blank\, 1360 Valencia\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181021T170000
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SUMMARY:Book Arts Showcase | APAture 2018 - RE:place
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy your Sunday afternoon with us at our Book Arts Showcase for APAture 2018 at SFPL! Featuring Jess Wu-O. Showcase artists: TBA. \n*Supporter level and Festival Passes (with reserved seats) can be acquired by donating to our Indiegogo campaign! \nWe’ve asked artists to explore ‘place\,’ including but not limited to: displacement\, reclaiming space\, relationship or orientation to place\, movement and migration\, the loss or lack of place\, or the various dimensions of place (spatial-emotional\, past-present\, individual-communal\, etc.). How does ‘place’ resonate with you? \nAPAture is Kearny Street Workshop’s annual multidisciplinary arts festival celebrating emerging Asian and Pacific American (APA) artists of the San Francisco Bay Area. For 16 years\, APAture has been a site of dialogue\, collaboration\, and political action between artists and community members around contemporary issues affecting the Asian and Pacific Islander community. \nAPAture 2018: RE:place will showcase over 60 artists in book arts\, film\, literary arts\, music\, performing arts\, and visual arts\, and will present their work to approximately 1\,000 festival-goers across multiple dates and venues in the South of Market neighborhood. \nCome join us and help us celebrate our local emerging APA artists for the 17th year! You don’t want to miss this! \nFree \nPresented by Kearny Street Workshop.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-arts-showcase-apature-2018-replace/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181021T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181021T154500
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SUMMARY:Poets Chernoff & Chernovski
DESCRIPTION:Poets Chernoff & Chernovski
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-chernoff-chernovski/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181023T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181023T210000
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SUMMARY:SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB MEETING
DESCRIPTION:Details soon! \nTo join the book group please contact iranyi@me.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spanish-language-book-club-meeting-5/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181023T210000
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SUMMARY:Preserving Fire: A meditation on the prose of Philip Lamantia
DESCRIPTION:with Garrett Caples and Friends \nCelebrating the release of \nPreserving Fire: Selected Prose \nBy Philip Lamantia \nEdited by Garrett Caples \npublished by Wave Books \nPreserving Fire recounts the life and thought of Surrealist\, Beat Generation\, and San Francisco Renaissance poet Philip Lamantia through his fugitive prose works. Ranging from poetry to politics to mythology to dance\, from manifestos to travelogues to wartime declarations of conscientious objection\, these writings—expertly collected by Garrett Caples—offer a dynamic picture of Lamantia’s multifaceted intellectual life and the artistic movements he helped shape. \nPhilip Lamantia (1927–2005) was an influential Surrealist\, Beat\, and San Francisco Renaissance poet. He is the author of many books\, including Erotic Poems\, Touch of the Marvelous\, Meadowlark West\, Tau and Journey to the End\, and The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia. \nGarrett Caples is the editor of Philip Lamantia’s Preserving Fire: Selected Prose (Wave Books\, forthcoming 2018)\, as well as the author of Power Ballads (Wave Books\, 2016)\, Retrievals (2014)\, The Garrett Caples Reader (1999)\, Complications (2007)\, and Quintessence of the Minor (2010). He is also the co-editor of The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia (2013)\, Particulars of Place (2015) by Richard O. Moore\, and Incidents of Travel in Poetry: New and Selected Poems (2016) by Frank Lima. He is an editor at City Lights Books and curates the Spotlight Poetry Series there. He was also a contributing writer to the San Francisco Bay Guardian. He has written articles and blogged for the Poetry Foundation and occasionally blogs for blogcitylights.com. He has a Ph.D. in English from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and lives in San Francisco. \nPhilip was a visionary like Blake\, and he really saw the whole world in a grain of sand.\n—Lawrence Ferlinghetti \nPhilip Lamantia’s Collected Poems is beyond scale\, weight\, or measure. There is no proportion in this intertwining of soul-buildings. These are the inexorable and ineffable projects of an inspired consciousness set at full tilt in raging protest\, kisses\, prayers\, blessings and outraged demands. All from the deepest silence and farthest travel. The reader’s excitement is carried by Lamantia’s spiritual and physical beat. This surreal and mantic project drives farther than anything before or after. Breathtaking! These works are of synesthetic beauty to the eye\, the ear\, and the open interior of the heart. They come from the peaks and herbs and forests where the meadowlark speaks.\n—Michael McClure
URL:https://litseen.com/event/preserving-fire-a-meditation-on-the-prose-of-philip-lamantia/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181023T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181023T213000
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Yeah Yeah Yeah's Nick Zinner\, Zachary Lipez & Stacy Wakefield / 131 Different Things
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening with the Yeah Yeah Yeah’sNick Zinner\, Zachary Lipez\, and Stacy Wakefield for their new book\, 131 Different Things. Please join us! \n  \nWhen Sam\, a bartender in New York\, hears that his ex\, Vicki\, his one true love\, has quit AA and is out drinking again\, he embarks on a quest to find her. Sam and his sidekick Francis trek from dive bars to gay bars to rocker bars—encountering skinheads\, party promoters\, underage drug dealers\, and dominatrixes—but they are always one step behind Vicki. It begins to seem like 131 different things are keeping the lovers apart. Before the night is over\, Sam will have to wrestle with what he is really looking for. \nNick Zinner—who plays guitar in the three-time Grammy-nominated band Yeah Yeah Yeahs—provides the visual framework for this inventive novella with his intimate photography. Known for his essays and music writing for Noisey\, Vice\, and Penthouse\, Zachary Lipez brings his pithy\, multilayered\, and self-deprecating voice to this debut work of fiction. The prose and photography are tied together in a playful taxonomic scheme by editor and art director Stacy Wakefield\, the author of the novel The Sunshine Crust Baking Factory. The three artists have collaborated on four previous books\, most recently Please Take Me Off the Guest List. \n  \n\n  \nZachary Lipez lives in New York City\, where he has tended bar for the last twenty years. He is a regular contributor to Noisey\, and his music and culture writing have also appeared in Vice\, Hazlitt\, Pitchfork\, Bandcamp Daily\, Talkhouse\, Inc.\, and Penthouse. \nNick Zinner plays guitar in the three-time Grammy-nominated band Yeah Yeah Yeahs and hardcore group Head Wound City. His photos have been published in four previous books\, as well as in the New York Times\, Vice\, and Rolling Stone. He has exhibited in solo shows in Tokyo\, Berlin\, New York\, London\, Los Angeles\, and Mexico City. \nStacy Wakefield’s artist books\, published for many years under the imprint Evil Twin\, have been collected by institutions including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and London’s Tate Modern. She runs a studio dedicated solely to book design and production. Her first novel\, The Sunshine Crust Baking Factory\, was published by Akashic in 2015. She lives in the Catskills and Brooklyn. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery at 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is a free\, all-ages event\, with mature themes. The bar opens with doors at 7pm; event begins at 7:30. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-yeah-yeah-yeahs-nick-zinner-zachary-lipez-stacy-wakefield-131-different-things/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181023T213000
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SUMMARY:Chaya Bhuvaneswar discusses her new story collection\, White Dancing Elephants with Lydia Kiesling
DESCRIPTION:Chaya Bhuvaneswar discusses her new story collection\, White Dancing Elephants with Lydia Kiesling. \n\nPraise for White Dancing Elephants \n\n“Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s debut collection maps with great assurance the intricate outer reaches of the human heart. What a bold\, smart\, exciting new voice\, well worth listening to; what an elegant story collection to read and savor.” Lauren Groff \n\n“A bold\, honest\, often provocative first collection from a fresh new voice.” Jeff VanderMeer \n\n“Reading Chaya Bhuvaneswar is like receiving Lasik via literature—the world you return to is a little clearer and sharper for the time you’ve spent in her pages. She is a formidable talent\, formally accomplished and intellectually alive.”  Anthony Marra \n\nAbout White Dancing Elephants \n\nA woman grieves a miscarriage\, haunted by the Buddha’s birth. An artist with schizophrenia tries to survive hatred and indifference in small-town India by turning to the beauty of sculpture and dance. Orphans in India get pulled into a strange “rescue” mission aimed at stripping their mysterious powers. A brief but intense affair between two women culminates in regret and betrayal. A boy seeks memories of his sister in the legend of a woman who weds death. And fragments of history\, from child brickmakers to slaves in Renaissance Portugal\, are held up in brief fictions\, burnished\, made dazzling and unforgettable. \nIn sixteen remarkable stories\, Chaya Bhuvaneswar spotlights diverse women of color–cunning\, bold\, and resolute–facing sexual harassment and racial violence\, and occasionally inflicting that violence on each other. Winner of the 2017 Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize\, White Dancing Elephants marks the emergence of a new and original voice in fiction and explores feminist\, queer\, religious\, and immigrant stories with precision\, drama\, and compassion. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chaya-bhuvaneswar-discusses-her-new-story-collection-white-dancing-elephants-with-lydia-kiesling/
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:Afternoon Craft Conversation and Panel with Irish Poets
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\n\nWednesday\, October 24\, 2018 –  \n1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nSaint Mary’s College Museum of Art\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nOne of the most politically charged acts a people can do is read and write for themselves. Visiting Irish writers\, including Leanne O’Sullivan\, will share one poem and their ruminations on a panel that explores the displays of power and violence in myth and beyond it.  In this conversation\, O’Sullivan will explicitly respond to selections from Hannah Arendt’s essay “On Violence” in her work and in her reading of the contemporary moment.  Conversation facilitated by Rosemary Graham. \n  \nLeanne O’Sullivan was born in 1983\, and comes from the Beara peninsula in West Cork. She received an MA in English in 2006 from University College\, Cork\, where she now teaches. The winner of several of Ireland’s poetry competitions in her early 20s (including the Seacat\, Davoren Hanna and RTE Rattlebag Poetry Slam)\, she has published four collections\, all from Bloodaxe\, Waiting for My Clothes (2004)\, Cailleach: The Hag of Beara (2009)\, winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2010\, The Mining Road (2013) and A Quarter of an Hour (2018). She was given the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award in 2009 and the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry in 2011\, and received a UCC Alumni Award in 2012. Her work has been included in various anthologies\, including Selina Guinness’s The New Irish Poets(Bloodaxe Books\, 2004) and Billy Collins’s Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry(Random House\, 2003). Residencies and festival readings have taken her to France\, India\, China and America\, amongst other locations. \n  \nSponsored by: Collegiate Seminar and the Informal Seminar Seminar Curriculum\, January Term\, the College Committee on Inclusive Excellence\, Ó Bhéal (Cork\, Ireland)\, the Cork Arts Council\, the Kalmanovitz School of Education\, The English Department\, the MFA in Creative Writing\, and the Los Gatos Irish Writers Festival
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-craft-conversation-and-panel-with-irish-poets/
LOCATION:Saint Mary’s College of California\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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SUMMARY:William E. Glassley presents "A Wilder Time"
DESCRIPTION:Bill Glassley returns to Bird & Beckett to present his newly published book\, A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice (Bellevue Literary Press\, 2018). \nIn A Wilder Time\, Glassley\, a surfer turned geologist at the University of California at Davis and an emeritus researcher at Aarhus University\, Denmark\, retraces his several expeditions to Greenland alongside Danish colleagues Kai Sorensen and John Korstgard in this thoughtful volume about how his scientific work shifted his perspective on notions of wilderness. The men spent weeks camped out and “isolated from the rest of humanity” to sample\, photograph\, and measure ancient bedrock. Though their scientific interests were purely academic\, Glassley says\, their experiences were “almost mystical.” Glassley divides his narrative into three primary sections\, each featuring observations that helped to change his perception of Greenland’s vast terrain. The first part\, “Fractionation\,” deals with ways in which Glassley’s expectations had been altered. In the second\, “Consolidation\,” he comes to terms with the reality that “ignorance is an integral part of being aware.” The third\, “Emergence\,” contains “small epiphanies about our place in existence.” Glassley documents his observations\, spending considerable time and effort among “rolling outcrops\, tundra plains and pockets\, massive rock walls and glaciated peaks.” Evincing humility in the midst of the great “unshaped wild\,” Glassley exudes a palpable and infectious sense of wonder that is bound to draw contemplative readers. \nBill’s first presentation of material from this book to the public took place in a reading at Bird & Beckett in the summer of 2016\, in the company of artist and poet Elsa Marley. Bill and Elsa began collaborating on a parallel project in 1999\, looking at Greenland for evidence of the effects of climate change demonstrated in Bill’s scientific data and Elsa’s paintings and poems.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/william-e-glassley-presents-a-wilder-time/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:In Situ: Guy Debord\, Raoul Vaneigem\, and the Situationist Moment
DESCRIPTION:with Donald Nicholson Smith with Anselm Jappe \non the occasion of the release by PM Press of \nGuy Debord – by Anselm Jappe \nTranslated by Donald Nicholson-Smith • Foreword by T.J. Clark \n& \nLetters to My Children and the Children of the World to Come – by Raoul Vaneigem \nTranslated by Donald Nicholson-Smith \nabout Guy Debord: \nThis is the first and best intellectual biography of Guy Debord\, prime mover of the Situationist International (1957–1972) and author of The Society of the Spectacle \, perhaps the seminal book of the May 1968 uprising in France. Anselm Jappe offers a powerful corrective to the continual attempts to incorporate Debord’s theoretical work into “French theory.” Jappe’s focuses\, to the contrary\, on Debord’s debt to the Hegelian-Marxist tradition\, to Karl Korsch and Georg Lukács\, and more generally to left-Marxist currents of council communism. His close reading of Debord’s magnum opus supplies a superb gloss that has never been rivaled despite the great flood of writing on the Situationists in recent decades. \nAt the same time\, Debord is placed squarely in context among the Letterist and Situationist anti-artists who\, in the aftermath of World War II\, sought to criticize and transcend the legacy of Dada and Surrealism. Jappe’s book offers a lively account of the Situationists’ theory and practice as this “last avant-garde” made its way from radical bohemianism to revolutionary agitprop. \nGuy Debord has been translated into many languages. This PM reprint edition benefits from a new author’s preface and a bibliographical update. \nPraise: \n“A clear-headed account . . . far and away the best we have so far.”\n—Times Literary Supplement \n“The only book on Debord in either French or English that can be unreservedly recommended . . . particularly useful for its extensive treatment of the Marxian connection that is usually ignored in culture-oriented accounts of the Situationists.”\n—Ken Knabb\, editor of Situationist International Anthology \n“Jappe successfully gets to grips with the content of Debord’s and the SI’s activity in a way that is accessible and doesn’t require a vast amount of prior knowledge or an extensive vocabulary of obscure jargon in order to understand it. Debord has got a somewhat undeserved reputation for having an impenetrable and complex writing style—a myth which Jappe goes a long way towards refuting by examining the major concepts in Society of the Spectacle and other works\, and putting them in the context of a wider historical basis and in terms of the SI as a whole.”\n—Do or Die \n“Political writing is always instrumental as well as utopian. Debord’s is no exception. Only sometimes writing has to reconcile itself to the idea that its time of instrumentality—its time as a weapon—lies a little in the future. Jappe’s book is true to its subject\, above all\, because it reads Debord\, and helps us read him\, with that future in mind.”\n—T.J. Clark\, from the Foreword \nabout Letters to My Children and the Children of the World to Come: \nReaders of Vaneigem’s now-classic work The Revolution of Everyday Life\, which as one of the main contributions of the Situationist International was a herald of the May 1968 uprisings in France\, will find much to challenge them in these pages written in the highest idiom of subversive utopianism. \nSome thirty-five years after the May “events\,” this short book poses the question of what kind of world we are going to leave to our children. “How could I address my daughters\, my sons\, my grandchildren and great-grandchildren\,” wonders Vaneigem\, “without including all the others who\, once precipitated into the sordid universe of money and power\, are in danger\, even tomorrow\, of being deprived of the promise of a life that is undeniably offered at birth as a gift with nothing expected in return?” \nLetters to My Children provides a clear-eyed survey of the critical predicament into which the capitalist system has now plunged the world\, but at the same time\, in true dialectical fashion\, and “far from the media whose job it is to ignore them\,” Vaneigem discerns all the signs of “a new burgeoning of life forces among the younger generations\, a new drive to reinstate true human values\, to proceed with the clandestine construction of a living society beneath the barbarity of the present and the ruins of the Old World.” \nPraise: \n“In this fine book\, the Situationist author\, whose writings fueled the fires of May 1968\, sets out to pass down the foundational ideals of his struggle against the seemingly all-powerful fetishism of the commodity and in favor of the force of human desire and the sovereignty of life.”\n—Jean Birnbaum\, Le Monde \n“A startling and invigorating restatement for the present ghastly era of humanity’s choice: socialism or barbarism.”\n—Dave Barbu\, Le Nouveau Père Duchesne \nAnselm Jappe was born in Bonn in 1962. He is an independent scholar currently teaching art history and political and economic theory at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris and at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Sassari in Sardinia. He is the author of several works of critical theory. A collection of his essays translated by Alastair Hemmens is The Writing on the Wall: On the Decomposition of Capitalism and Its Critics (London: Zero\, 2017). \nBorn in Manchester\, England\, Donald Nicholson-Smith is a longtime resident of New York City. A sometime Situationist  (1965-67)\, he has translated Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle (Zone) and Henri Lefebvre’s The Production of Space (Blackwell)\, as well as works by Guillaume Apollinaire\, Antonin Artaud\, Jean-Patrick Manchette\, Thierry Jonquet\, Paco Ignacio Taibo II\, etc. His film work includes the English-language version of René Viénet’s anti-Maoist classic Peking Duck Soup(1977).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-situ-guy-debord-raoul-vaneigem-and-the-situationist-moment/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marc Dollinger: Black Power\, Jewish Politics
DESCRIPTION:The Osher Marin JCC is pleased to host an evening in celebration of Marc Dollinger’s new book Black Power\, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s. He will be joined in discussion by Ilana Kaufman\, the Director of the Jews of Color Field Building Initiative. \nAn audience Q&A and book signing will follow the program. \nABOUT THE BOOK\nMarc Dollinger charts the transformation of American Jewish political culture from the Cold War liberal consensus of the early postwar years to the rise and influence of Black Power-inspired ethnic nationalism. He shows how\, in a period best known for the rise of black antisemitism and the breakdown of the black-Jewish alliance\, black nationalists enabled Jewish activists to devise a new Judeo-centered political agenda-including the emancipation of Soviet Jews\, the rise of Jewish day schools\, the revitalization of worship services with gender-inclusive liturgy\, and the birth of a new form of American Zionism. \nUndermining widely held beliefs about the black-Jewish alliance\, Dollinger describes a new political consensus\, based on identity politics\, which drew blacks and Jews together and altered the course of American liberalism. \n“Dollinger’s illuminating book illustrates that many American Jewish leaders were not only sympathetic to Black Power but were supportive of it. Dollinger shows that the American Jewish turn toward issues of Jewish continuity owes a great debt to the Black Power movement and that Jewish leaders understood that early on. This book will significantly change how we view the American Jewish 1960s and their aftermath.”\n-Shaul Magid\, Indiana University\, Bloomington and Shalom Hartman Institute of North America \nFree\, RSVP by emailing rsvp_cjp@marinjcc.org. \nPresented by Osher Marin JCC.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marc-dollinger-black-power-jewish-politics/
LOCATION:Osher Marin JCC\, 200 North San Pedro Road\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94903\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading Series Welcomes Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, October 24\, 2018 –  \n7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet\, educator\, and movement worker. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His poetry has been published in Harper’s and the New York Times magazines.  His book titled\, Someone’s Dead Already was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book Heaven Is All Goodbyes was published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series\, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize\, won a California Book Award\, and won an American Book Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/creative-writing-reading-series-welcomes-tongo-eisen-martin/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Kiese Laymon / Heavy: An American Memoir
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Kiese Laymon for his new book Heavy: An American Memoir. More details coming soon\, but save the date and join us! \n  \nIn this powerful and provocative memoir\, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets\, lies\, and deception does to a black body\, a black family\, and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse. \n  \nKiese Laymon is a fearless writer. In his essays\, personal stories combine with piercing intellect to reflect both on the state of American society and on his experiences with abuse\, which conjure conflicted feelings of shame\, joy\, confusion and humiliation. Laymon invites us to consider the consequences of growing up in a nation wholly obsessed with progress yet wholly disinterested in the messy work of reckoning with where we’ve been. \n  \nIn Heavy\, Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about growing up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in Jackson\, Mississippi. From his early experiences of sexual violence\, to his suspension from college\, to his trek to New York as a young college professor\, Laymon charts his complex relationship with his mother\, grandmother\, anorexia\, obesity\, sex\, writing\, and ultimately gambling. By attempting to name secrets and lies he and his mother spent a lifetime avoiding\, Laymon asks himself\, his mother\, his nation\, and us to confront the terrifying possibility that few in this nation actually know how to responsibly love\, and even fewer want to live under the weight of actually becoming free. \n  \nA personal narrative that illuminates national failures\, Heavy is defiant yet vulnerable\, an insightful\, often comical exploration of weight\, identity\, art\, friendship\, and family that begins with a confusing childhood–and continues through twenty-five years of haunting implosions and long reverberations. \n  \n\n  \n“A challenging memoir about black-white relations\, income inequality\, mother-son dynamics\, Mississippi byways\, lack of personal self-control\, education from kindergarten through graduate school\, and so much more. Laymon skillfully couches his provocative subject matter in language that is pyrotechnic and unmistakably his own … Far more than just the physical aspect\, the weight he carries also derives from the burdens placed on him by a racist society\, by his mother and his loving grandmother\, and even by himself. At times\, the author examines his complicated romantic and sexual relationships\, and he also delves insightfully into politics\, literature\, feminism\, and injustice\, among other topics. A dynamic memoir that is unsettling in all the best ways.” – Kirkus Reviews\, starred \n  \n“How do you carry the weight of being a black man in America? In electrifying\, deliberate prose\, Kiese Laymon tries to answer that question from the first page of Heavy: An American Memoir to the last. He writes about what it means to live in a heavy body\, in all senses of that word. He writes of family\, love\, place\, trauma\, race\, desire\, grief\, rage\, addiction\, and human weakness\, and he does so relentlessly\, without apology. To call the way Laymon lays himself bare an act of courageous grace is beside the point but what and how he writes in this exceptional book are\, indeed\, acts of courageous grace.” – Roxane Gay \n  \n“Kiese’s heart and humor shine through\, and we are blessed to have such raw humanity rendered in prose that begs for repeat readings. We do not deserve Heavy. We do not deserve Kiese. That he is generous enough to share is a testament to his commitment to helping us all heal.”  – Mychal Denzel Smith\, New York Times bestselling author of Invisible Man\, Got the Whole World Watching \n  \n“The abundance of Heavy is going to be a gift for many hurting hearts\, in our time and beyond.” – Eve Ewing\, author of Electric Arches \n  \n\n  \nKiese Laymon is a black southern writer\, born and raised in Jackson\, Mississippi. Laymon attended Millsaps College and Jackson State University before graduating from Oberlin College. He earned an MFA in Fiction from Indiana University. Laymon is currently a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of the award-winning novel\, Long Division\, a collection of essays\, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America\, and the forthcoming memoir\, Heavy. Laymon has written for numerous publications including New York Times\, NPR\, Los Angeles Times\, Esquire\, The Guardian\, McSweeneys\, Colorlines\, The Best American Series\, Ebony and many others. He is a contributing editor of Oxford American. \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated by not required. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-kiese-laymon-heavy-an-american-memoir/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: Kiese Laymon and Tongo Eisen-Martin\, reading their work
DESCRIPTION:Thanks to a generous grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, The Poetry Center is thrilled to launch our new In Common Writers Series. We’ll present six double-programs (twelve events in all) during 2018–19\, featuring a series of remarkable writers from across the US\, paired in conversation and performance with (for the most part) local area writers with whom they share strong affinities. Each featured guest writer appears at The Poetry Center—we’re doing outreach in particular to students and faculty in SF State’s College of Ethnic Studies—reading here and in conversation with their paired writer\, and then off-campus with both writers reading their work at one of the Bay Area’s local bookstores. We want to recognize our local bookstores as crucial cultural centers and\, paradoxically maybe\, among the most long-lived and durable cultural sites in this violently gentrified greater community. Both events are free and open to the public. Note: Marcus Books Oakland event\, 6:30 pm door; readings at 7pm sharp! \nKiese Laymon will be presenting his powerful new book Heavy: An American Memoir (Scribner\, 2018)\, and coming to San Francisco from his hometown of Jackson\, Mississippi. After reading\, then joining Tongo Eisen-Martin in conversation at The Poetry Center during the afternoon\, Thursday October 25\, the two of them will each present their own work that same evening at Oakland’s landmark Marcus Books\, “the oldest African American-themed bookstore in the country.” \n“Oh my god. I just finished Heavy by Kiese Laymon. It is. Astonishing. Difficult. Intense. Layered…. Wow. Just wow.” —Roxane Gay \nKiese Laymon is a black southern writer\, born and raised in Jackson\, Mississippi. Laymon attended Millsaps College and Jackson State University before graduating from Oberlin College. He earned an MFA in Fiction from Indiana University. Laymon is currently a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of the award-winning novel\, Long Division\, a collection of essays\, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America\, and Heavy: An American Memoir\, brand new from Scribner in October 2018. Laymon has written for numerous publications including New York Times\, NPR\, Los Angeles Times\, Esquire\, The Guardian\, McSweeneys\, Colorlines\, The Best American Series\, Ebony and many others. He is a contributing editor of Oxford American. \nBorn in San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is the author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015) and Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights Books\, Pocket Poets Series\, 2017). He is a movement worker\, educator\, and poet who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. Subscribing to the Freirian model of education\, he designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, MS. Eisen-Martin was The Poetry Center’s premier Mazza Writer in Residence in 2017\, and has recently taught writing at Mills College and the St. Mary’s College in the Bay Area. Heaven Is All Goodbyes was recognized with a California Book Award\, an American Book Award\, and was short-listed for Canada’s prestigious Griffin International Poetry Prize for 2018. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nKiese Laymon\nreading and in conversation with Tongo Eisen-Martin\nThursday OCT 25\n*1:00pm @ The Poetry Center\nHUM 512\, SFSU\, free and open to the public\nsupported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nFEATURE: Kiese Laymon\, What Bill Cosby Taught Me About Sexual Violence and Flying\nVIDEO: Kiese Laymon with Mark Anthony Neal\, on Heavy: An American Memoir \n\n\n\nFEATURE: Rules Are Meant to Be Broken\, an interview with Tongo Eisen Martin\, by Erica Lewis\nVIDEO: Mazza Writer in Residence\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, in performance and in conversation\nVIDEO: Tongo Eisen-Martin with Marshall Trammell\, in performance \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and Marcus Books Oakland
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-kiese-laymon-and-tongo-eisen-martin-reading-their-work/
LOCATION:Marcus Books\, 3900 Martin Luther King Jr Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Betsy Mason presents All Over the Map
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 25\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nBetsy Masons presents All Over the Map: A Cartographic Oddysey.  \nCreated for map lovers by map lovers\, this rich book explores the intriguing stories behind maps across history and illuminates how the art of cartography thrives today. \n\n\nABOUT ALL OVER THE MAP \nIn this visually stunning book\, award-winning journalists Betsy Mason and Greg Miller–authors of the National Geographic cartography blog “All Over the Map”–explore the intriguing stories behind maps from a wide variety of cultures\, civilizations\, and time periods. Based on interviews with scores of leading cartographers\, curators\, historians\, and scholars\, this is a remarkable selection of fascinating and unusual maps. \nThis diverse compendium includes ancient maps of dragon-filled seas\, elaborate graphics picturing unseen concepts and forces from inside Earth to outer space\, devious maps created by spies\, and maps from pop culture such as the schematics to the Death Star and a map of Westeros from Game of Thrones. If your brain craves maps–and Mason and Miller would say it does\, whether you know it or not–this eye-opening visual feast will inspire and delight.\nBetsy Mason is a freelance science journalist and former geologist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT for 2015-16. Before that Mason was the online science editor for Wired\, where she founded the Wired Science Blogs Network and co-authored the Map Lab blog with Greg Miller. She and Miller also co-author the National Geographic blog All Over the Map (see older posts here and follow the blog on Twitter here). \nWhen she’s not writing about maps\, Mason covers science and makes excuses to write about beer. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, October 25\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/betsy-mason-presents-all-over-the-map/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:M. NourbeSe Philip: the Leslie Scalapino 21st Century Innovative Writers Series
DESCRIPTION:Owing to a generous gift from the Leslie Scalapino-O Books Fund\, The Poetry Center very happily presents renowned poet\, essayist\, novelist and dramatist M. NourbeSe Philip\, appearing as the first featured writer in our newly-launched Leslie Scalapino 21st Century Innovative Writers Series. Ms. Philip will read from her work\, in the 3rd Floor loft space at McRoskey Mattress Co.\, on Market Street (at Gough)\, and respond to questions from the audience. This event is co-sponsored by The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade\, and is free and open to the public. \nM. NourbeSe Philip\, Tobago-born Afro-Canadian poet\, writer\, and lawyer—author of the extended poetry cycle Zong!(Wesleyan\, 2011)\, and Blank: Essays & Interviews (Bookthug\, 2018)\, among numerous other works—is recognized as a crucial poet of our collective history and our shared present time. She visits San Francisco from her home in Toronto\, Ontario. \nAfter earning a BSc from the University of the West Indies and an MA and LLB from the University of Western Ontario\, Philip was a practicing lawyer for seven years before turning full-time to writing. She is the author of works of poetry\, fiction\, and nonfiction. Her collections of poetry include Thorns (1980); Salmon Courage (1983); She Tries Her Tongue (1989); Her Silence Softly Breaks (1988)\, which won a Casa de las Américas Prize for Literature; and Zong! (2008)\, a polyvocal\, book-length poem concerning slavery and the legal system. Fred Wah has noted that Zong! “is legal poetry. This is\, legally\, poetry. … The poetry displays the agonizing tension of an exploration through the minute particulars and silences locked within the legal text\, the precise and cautious movement that tries to not tell the story that must be told.” Like much of Philip’s work\, the book asks readers to actively engage the text at the level of syllable\, fragment\, sound\, and space. \nIn addition to poetry\, Philip has published two novels: the young adult novel Harriet’s Daughter (1988)\, a runner-up for both a Canadian Library Association Prize for children’s literature and a Max and Greta Abel Award for Multicultural Literature\, and Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence (1991). Philip’s short story “Stop Frame” received a Lawrence Foundation Award in 1994. Her play Coups and Calypsos (1999) has been produced in both Toronto and London. \nPhilip’s essay collections include Frontiers: Essays and Writings on Racism and Culture (1992)\, Showing Grit: Showboating North of the 44th Parallel (1993)\, CARIBANA: African roots and continuities—Race\, Space and the Poetics of Moving (1996)\, Genealogy of Resistance and Other Essays (1997)\, and Blank: Essays and Interviews (2018). \nPhilip’s numerous honors and awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, Rockefeller Foundation\, and MacDowell Colony. She is the recipient of awards from the Canada Council for the Arts\, Ontario Arts Council\, and Toronto Arts Council. In 2001\, she was recognized by the Elizabeth Fry Society with its Rebels for a Cause Award\, and the YWCA awarded her its Women of Distinction in the Arts Award. Philip has received a Chalmers Fellowship in Poetry and has been writer-in-residence at Toronto Women’s Bookstore and McMaster University. In 2012\, she received a NALIS Lifetime Literary Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore info at nourbese.com \nOn M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! \nVIDEO: Fred Moten and M. NourbeSe Philip. A story that cannot be told\, yet must be told. Zong! and its context \nVIDEO: M. NourbeSe Philip reads “Discourse on the Logic of Language” from She Tries Her Tongue\, Her Silence Softly Breaks \nVIDEO: M. NourbeSe Philip on Belonging\, Race\, Politics\, and Art \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and The Green Arcade
URL:https://litseen.com/event/m-nourbese-philip-the-leslie-scalapino-21st-century-innovative-writers-series/
LOCATION:McRoskey Mattress Company\, Inc\, 1687 Market St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Renowned Afro-Canadian Poet\, Writer\, Lawyer M. NourbeSe Philip Appears at McRoskey Mattress Company
DESCRIPTION:Owing to a generous gift from the Leslie Scalapino-O Books Fund\, The Poetry Center very happily presents renowned poet\, essayist\, novelist and dramatist M. NourbeSe Philip\, appearing as the first featured writer in the newly-launched Leslie Scalapino 21st Century Innovative Writers Series. Ms. Philip will read from her work and will respond to questions from the audience. This event is co-sponsored by The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade\, and is hosted by the McRoskey Mattress Co. \nM. NourbeSe Philip\, Tobago-born Afro-Canadian poet\, writer\, and lawyer—author of the extended poetry cycle Zong! (Wesleyan\, 2011)\, and Blank: Essays & Interviews (Bookthug\, 2018)\, among numerous other works—is recognized as a crucial poet of our collective history and our shared present time. She visits San Francisco from her home in Toronto\, Ontario. \nDoors at 6:30pm\, event begins at 7:00pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/renowned-afro-canadian-poet-writer-lawyer-m-nourbese-philip-appears-at-mcroskey-mattress-company/
LOCATION:McRoskey Mattress Company\, Inc\, 1687 Market St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash
DESCRIPTION:More Info To Come \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSunday\, October 28\, 2018 – 3:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The Heart of the Goddess: Art\, Myth and Meditations on the World’s Sacred Feminine
DESCRIPTION:From the Ice Age to the present\, from Nigeria to Hawaii\, images of the Goddess are reemerging\, bringing renewed attention and expression to mythical and spiritual inner and outer guides. The Heart of the Goddess presents a worldwide selection of the art\, values\, and living lessons of Goddess culture. To author Hallie Iglehart Austen\, respect for the Earth\, restoration of community\, and regaining the long lost power of Woman are inseparable. Through the presence of the Goddess in daily life\, the reader finds wisdom\, serenity\, and guidance. The Heart of the Goddess is an invaluable addition to the literature of feminist spirituality. \nHallie Iglehart Austen grew up on a farm and has lived close to the earth most of her life. After graduating from Brown University\, she drove from England to Nepal and back over the course of a year. is journey\, described in her book Womanspirit: A Guide to Women’s Wisdom (HarperCollins\, 1983)\, led to her synthesis of spirituality and feminism\, which she has been teaching since 1974. She has led workshops\, rituals\, and conferences at the University of California\, United Nations Conferences on Women\, the Graduate Theological Union\, and other venues.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-heart-of-the-goddess-art-myth-and-meditations-on-the-worlds-sacred-feminine/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Toward a Calculus of Transgression: Appreciating Jean Patrick-Manchette
DESCRIPTION:Presented by City Lights Booksellers in conjunction with New York Review Books \nDonald Nicholson-Smith and James Brook discuss the life and work of the seminal genre-bending writer \ncelebrating the recent release of \nIvory Pearl \nby Jean-Patrick Manchette \npublished by New York Review Books \nJean-Patrick Manchette (1942–1995) was a genre-redefining French crime novelist\, screenwriter\, critic\, and translator. Born in Marseille to a family of relatively modest means\, Manchette grew up in a southwestern suburb of Paris\, where he wrote from an early age. While a student of English literature at the Sorbonne\, he contributed articles to the newspaper La Voie communiste and became active in the national students’ union. In 1961 he married\, and with his wife Mélissa began translating American crime fiction—he would go on to translate the works of such writers as Donald Westlake\, Ross Thomas\, and Margaret Millar\, often for Gallimard’s Série noire. Throughout the 1960s Manchette supported himself with various jobs writing television scripts\, screenplays\, young-adult books\, and film novelizations. In 1971 he published his first novel\, a collaboration with Jean-Pierre Bastid\, and embarked on his literary career in earnest\, producing ten subsequent works over the course of the next two decades and establishing a new genre of French novel\, the néo-polar (distinguished from traditional detective novel\, or polar\, by its political engagement and social radicalism). Manchette had been as equally influenced by the work of Guy Debord and the Situationists as he had by Dashiel Hammett. During the 1980s\, Manchette published celebrated translations of Alan Moore’s Watchmen graphic novels for a bande-dessinée publishing house co-founded by his son\, Doug Headline. In addition to Fatale\, Ivory Pearl\, and The Mad and the Bad\, Manchette’s novels Three to Kill and The Prone Gunman\, as well as Jacques Tardi’s graphic-novel adaptations of them (titled West Coast Blues and Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot\, respectively)\, are available in English. \nBorn in Manchester\, England\, Donald Nicholson-Smith is a longtime resident of New York City. A sometime Situationist  (1965-67)\, he has translated Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle (Zone) and Henri Lefebvre’s The Production of Space (Blackwell)\, as well as works by Guillaume Apollinaire\, Antonin Artaud\, Jean-Patrick Manchette\, Thierry Jonquet\, Paco Ignacio Taibo II\, etc. His film work includes the English-language version of René Viénet’s anti-Maoist classic Peking Duck Soup(1977). \nJames Brook is a poet and the principal editor of Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information (City Lights) and the translator of many works\, including My Tired Father by Gellu Naum and Panegyric by Guy Debord. He translated Jean Patrick Manchette’s The Prone Gunman for City Lights Books. \nPraise for Ivory Pearl and the work of Jean-Patrick Manchette: \nIvory Pearl is the kind of bold female that Virginia of Black Wings Has My Angel or my own Perdita Durango might have become had their lives taken a different turn. Manchette sets Ivory Pearl loose in perilous 1950s Cuba and smartly allows her to survive\, a master stroke by a daring\, innovative writer.\n—Barry Gifford \nThe opening chapter in particular is as sharp and brutal as anything Manchette wrote\, including his masterpiece\, The Prone Gunman. The obsessive details…might make even Ian Fleming feel uninformed…Noir fans won’t want to miss this one.\n—Publishers Weekly \nIn his final\, unfinished novel\, available for the first time in English\, Manchette departs from crime fiction—but not extreme violence—to deliver a saga of high adventure…Thanks to New York Review Books’ translations\, the English-speaking world has a generous sampling of [Manchette’s] unique fiction to enjoy. Idiosyncratic French novelist Manchette…went out in style. Short but sprawling\, the novel packs a mean punch.\n—Kirkus Reviews \n[Manchette’s] writing is lean and relentless.\n—David L. Ulin\, Los Angeles Times \nIn France\, which long ago embraced American crime fiction\, thrillers are referred to as polars. And in France the godfather and wizard of polars is Jean-Patrick Manchette…. [H]e’s a massive figure…. There is gristle here\, there is bone.\n—The Boston Globe \nManchette is legend among all of the crime writers I know\, and with good reason: His novels never fail to stun and thrill from page one.\n—Duane Swierczynski\, author of Expiration Date \nManchette called crime novels ‘the great moral literature of our time.’ Manchette pushes the Situationist strategy of derive and détournement to the point of comic absurdity\, throwing a wrench into the workings of his main characters’ lives and gleefully recording the anarchy that results.\n—Jennifer Howard\, Boston Review \nNew York Review Books also publishes: \nFatale – by Jean Patrick Manchette\, afterward by Jean Echenoz\, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith \nThe Mad and the Bad – by Jean Patrick Manchette – introduction by James Sallis\, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Sm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/toward-a-calculus-of-transgression-appreciating-jean-patrick-manchette/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays "Central America: Why the Surge in Asylum Seekers?"
DESCRIPTION:We have all seen the horrific recent images of children separated from parents at the U.S.-Mexico border and heard stories of people from Central American countries seeking asylum in the U.S. because of dangerous conditions back home. But what are those conditions and why have so many asylum seekers been coming of late? \nActivist Trebor Healey\, Professor Susanne Jonas\, and journalist Mary Jo McConahay will discuss this topic and read a bit of their writing on the issue Monday\, October 29\, 7pm at Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. Admission and refreshments are free. A book signing will follow the event. \nHere is more about the panelists:\nTrebor Healey is the recipient of a Lambda Literary award\, two Publishing Triangle awards and a Violet Quill award. He is the author of three novels\, a book of poetry and three collections of stories. He co-edited the anthologies Beyond Definition and Queer & Catholic. www.treborhealey.com. \nTrebor works for Scalabrinianas Mision Con Migrantes Y Refugiados\, which houses about 50 Central American refugees at a time for a period of 3 months and helps them gain asylum from the Mexican Government. https://www.facebook.com/Scalabrinianas-Misi%C3%B3n-con-Migrantes-y-Refugiados-1709823382589599/ \nSusanne Jonas has been an internationally recognized writer/expert on Latin America\, particularly Guatemala/ Central America\, for five decades. She has taught Latin American & Latino Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz for 24 years and received a Distinguished Teaching Award. Since 1967\, she has written and co-edited 22 books and over 100 articles and OpEds — many translated into Spanish. Her book Of Centaurs and Doves: Guatemala’s Peace Process was designated a Choice “Outstanding” book. Since the 1990s\, she is also a specialist on Central American migration and broader Latino immigration issues\, and co-authored Guatemala-U.S. Migration: Transforming Regions (2014). She collaborates with Latin American colleagues and U.S.-based Latino community rights organizations. Her colleagues have honored her long writing/advocacy career at conferences in Latin America and the U.S. \nMary Jo McConahay is an award-winning reporter who covered the wars in Central America and economics in the Middle East. As a journalist\, her work has appeared in Time\, Newsweek\, Vogue\, Rolling Stone\, Ms.\, Salon\, Sierra\, Los Angeles Times Magazine\, Parenting\, The Progressive\, National Catholic Reporter\, and more than two dozen other magazines and periodicals. Most recently\, she has written on emotional border issues for The Texas Observer. Her books include Maya Roads: One Woman’s Journey among the People of the Rainforest\, Ricochet: Two Women War Reporters and a Friendship under Fire\, and the just-released The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts\, Minds and Riches of Latin America during World War II. Maya Roads received the Northern California Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. She covers Latin America as an independent journalist.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-central-america-why-the-surge-in-asylum-seekers/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: Anne-Marie Kinney / Coldwater Canyon
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Los Angeles-based Anne-Marie Kinney (Radio Iris) for her new novel Colwater Canyon. More details to be announced — please save the date and join us! \n  \nShep has been dealt a bad hand in life. Halfheartedly raised by a cold grandmother and chronically ill following his deployment in Desert Storm\, he self-medicates with alcohol and daydreams of salvation at the hands of women—ultimately landing on one woman in particular: Lila\, the young actress he believes is his daughter despite all evidence to the contrary. As Shep navigates the mystically rendered streets and strip malls of the San Fernando Valley with his only companion\, his dog Lionel\, he takes increasingly desperate measures to insinuate himself into her life. Kinney’s precise and considered prose examines the insistence on reshaping the past through the lens of one’s own trauma and conceived desires as a means of moving forward. Why do we so often look for solace and redemption through others\, pushing ourselves to do anything for them\, even when it harms everyone involved? \n  \n\n  \n“Hot\, gritty\, swirling\, hypnotic and sensual… an unhinged\, sweetly sinister sun-baked noir; all danger\, doomed love\, and compassion.” – Ben Loory\, author of Tales of Falling and Flying \n  \n“A stunning journey through the hard-beating heart of a California everyone needs to see and know\, and now they can through Anne-Marie Kinney’s evocative\, heartbreaking\, hopeful and hilarious novel. Her landscape is singular\, and her voice a welcome new addition to American fiction. I loved this book – and the people\, and dog\, in it.” – Susan Straight\, author of Highwire Moon and Between Heaven and Here \n  \n“Kinney’s beautiful writing propels this story of a traumatized Nebraska man navigating the diffuse loneliness of Los Angeles. Coldwater Canyon is haunting.” – J. Ryan Stradal\, author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest \n  \n\n  \nAnne-Marie Kinney is the author of two novels\, Radio Iris (2012\, Two Dollar Radio) and Coldwater Canyon (forthcoming from CCM in 2018). A New York Times Editor’s Choice pick\, Radio Iris was called “a spiky debut” and “‘The Office’ as scripted by Kafka” by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Her shorter work has been published in journals including Joyland\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, The Rattling Wall\, The Collagist\, Fanzine and Black Clock\, for which she also served as Production Editor from 2011-2016. She lives in Los Angeles. \n  \n  \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. \nRSVP is appreciated\, but not required. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-anne-marie-kinney-coldwater-canyon/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poets Wendy Trevino and Melissa Merin
DESCRIPTION:Wendy Trevino was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She lives in San Francisco\, where she shares an apartment with her boyfriend\, friend & two senior cats. She has published chapbooks with Perfect Lovers Press\, Commune Editions and Krupskaya Books. Brazilian no es una raza – a bilingual edition of the chapbook she published with Commune Editions – was published by the feminist Mexican press Enjambre Literario in July 2018. Her first book-length collection of poems will be published by Commune Editions in September 2018. Wendy is not an experimental writer. \nMelissa has been writing since she could hold a crayon. She is established as a parent\, a lover & partner\, a queer\, an anti-authoritarian and a consistently retiring punker. She is too Black to ever be considered a snowflake. Melissa believes in utilizing a diversity of tactics to build the world we need; one of her favorite tactics is writing. Melissa is a long-time educator and agitator and has never been able to get it together to “publish”\, though many zines and many blogs tell the story of trying. Melissa in no way identifies as butch and she recently bought a new impact drill and sawzall.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-wendy-trevino-and-melissa-merin/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Juliana Spahr
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nDu Bois’s Telegram : Literary Resistance and State Containment \npublished by Harvard U. Press \n\nIn 1956 W. E. B. Du Bois was denied a passport to attend the Présence Africaine Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Paris. So he sent the assembled a telegram. “Any Negro-American who travels abroad today must either not discuss race conditions in the United States or say the sort of thing which our State Department wishes the world to believe.” Taking seriously Du Bois’s allegation\, Juliana Spahr breathes new life into age-old questions as she explores how state interests have shaped U.S. literature. What is the relationship between literature and politics? Can writing be revolutionary? Can art be autonomous\, or is escape from nations and nationalisms impossible? \nDu Bois’s Telegram brings together a wide range of institutional forces implicated in literary production\, paying special attention to three eras of writing that sought to defy political orthodoxies by contesting linguistic conventions: avant-garde modernism of the early twentieth century; social-movement writing of the 1960s and 1970s; and\, in the twenty-first century\, the profusion of English-language works incorporating languages other than English. Spahr shows how these literatures attempted to assert their autonomy\, only to be shut down by FBI harassment or coopted by CIA and State Department propagandists. Liberal state allies such as the Ford and Rockefeller foundations made writers complicit by funding multiculturalist works that celebrated diversity and assimilation while starving radical anti-imperial\, anti-racist\, anti-capitalist efforts. \nSpahr does not deny the exhilarations of politically engaged art. But her study affirms a sobering reality: aesthetic resistance is easily domesticated. \nJuliana Spahr is Professor of English at Mills College. She is the author of eight volumes of poetry\, including The Winter the Wolf Came\, Well Then There Now\, and Response\, winner of the National Poetry Series Award. She is also the editor\, with Claudia Rankine\, of American Women Poets in the 21st Century and received the O. B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library. \n\nWhat has been said about Du Bois’s Telegram: \n“This book is thrilling. Spahr develops a truly original\, even clarion\, account of the relationship of social movements\, avant-garde and politically charged writing\, and the foreign policy arm of the U.S. A great deal of the power of Du Bois’s Telegram has to do with the way it makes totally unexpected connections among separate discourses\, and makes the connections seem necessary and obvious\, at a stroke. It is common to praise a book for being potentially field-changing; this book suggests the possibility of changing several fields.“—Christopher Nealon\, Johns Hopkins University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/juliana-spahr-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jasmine Guillory - THE PROPOSAL
DESCRIPTION:[more info to come] \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, October 30\, 2018 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jasmine-guillory-the-proposal/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Kim Adrian discusses her new memoir\, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet with Amy Wallen
DESCRIPTION:Kim Adrian discusses her new memoir\, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet with Amy Wallen. \n\nPraise for The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet \n\n“A stunning merger of form and content; a remarkable portrait-becomes-self-portrait; andsomething like a master class in complicity.”—David Shields\, author of Reality Hunger \n\n“The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet is a revelation. By structuring the book in the unconventional form of a glossary\, Adrian allows the reader into the very intimate mechanics of her memory. Each page I read pulled me deeper under the book’s peculiar spell. Through Adrian’s rigorous attention to detail I found myself involuntarily drawn into her perspective\, both as a child and a grown woman\, hungry to make sense of this troubled family and this vibrantly unstable mother.”—Alysia Abbott\, author of Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father \n\n“This is desperately serious work\, an exacting memoir that excavates\, with compassion for all involved\, the harrowingly repetitive patterns of abuse as well as moments of something like hope\, crushable and delicate\, thwarted\, and yet renewable. An agonized\, beautiful\, unflinching account.” —Lee Upton\, author of Visitations: Stories \n\nAbout The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet \n\nClear-sighted\, darkly comic\, and tender\, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet is about a daughter’s struggle to face the Medusa of generational trauma without turning to stone. Growing up in the New Jersey suburbs of the 1970s and 1980s in a family warped by mental illness\, addiction\, and violence\, Kim Adrian spent her childhood ducking for cover from an alcoholic father prone to terrifying acts of rage and trudging through a fog of confusion with her mother\, a suicidal incest survivor hooked on prescription drugs. Family memories were buried–even as they were formed–and truth was obscured by lies and fantasies. \nIn The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet Adrian tries to make peace with this troubled past by cataloguing memories\, anecdotes\, and bits of family lore in the form of a glossary. But within this strategic reckoning of the past\, the unruly present carves an unpredictable path as Adrian’s aging mother plunges into ever-deeper realms of drug-fueled paranoia. Ultimately\, the glossary’s imposed order serves less to organize emotional chaos than to expose difficult but necessary truths\, such as the fact that some problems simply can’t be solved\, and that loving someone doesn’t necessarily mean saving them. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-adrian-discusses-her-new-memoir-the-twenty-seventh-letter-of-the-alphabet-with-amy-wallen/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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