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SUMMARY:Launch Party w/ Anne Nesbet
DESCRIPTION:Join Books Inc. in Berkeley for a Launch Party celebration with local author Anne Nesbet and her brand new book Cloud and Wallfish! Slip behind the Iron Curtain into a world of smoke\, secrets\, and lies in this stunning novel where someone is always listening and nothing is as it seems.\nNoah Keller has a pretty normal life\, until one wild afternoon when his parents pick him up from school and head straight for the airport\, telling him on the ride that his name isn’t really Noah and he didn’t really just turn eleven in March. And he can’t even ask them why not because of his Astonishing Stutter\, but because asking questions is against the newly instated rules. (Rule Number Two: Don’t talk about serious things indoors\, because Rule Number One: They will always be listening). As Noah now “Jonah Brown” and his parents head behind the Iron Curtain into East Berlin\, the rules and secrets begin to pile up so quickly that he can hardly keep track of the questions bubbling up inside him: Who\, exactly\, is listening and why? When did his mother become fluent in so many languages? And what really happened to the parents of his only friend\, Cloud-Claudia\, the lonely girl who lives downstairs? In an intricately plotted novel full of espionage and intrigue\, friendship and family\, Anne Nesbet cracks history wide open and gets right to the heart of what it feels like to be an outsider in a world that s impossible to understand.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-party-w-anne-nesbet/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160929T200000
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SUMMARY:Affinity Konar: Mischling
DESCRIPTION:Co-Sponsored by Emanu-El \nIt’s 1944 when a pair of twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world\, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures\, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele’s Zoo\, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others\, and they find themselves changed\, stripped of the personalities they once shared\, their identities altered by the burdens of guilt and pain. \nThat winter\, at a concert orchestrated by Mengele\, Pearl disappears. Stasha grieves for her twin\, but clings to the possibility that Pearl remains alive. When the camp is liberated by the Red Army\, she and her companion Feliks–a boy bent on vengeance for his own lost twin–travel through Poland’s devastation. Undeterred by injury\, starvation\, or the chaos around them\, motivated by equal parts danger and hope\, they encounter hostile villagers\, Jewish resistance fighters\, and fellow refugees\, their quest enabled by the notion that Mengele may be captured and brought to justice within the ruins of the Warsaw Zoo. As the young survivors discover what has become of the world\, they must try to imagine a future within it. \nA superbly crafted story\, told in a voice as exquisite as it is boundlessly original\, Mischling defies every expectation\, traversing one of the darkest moments in human history to show us the way toward ethereal beauty\, moral reckoning\, and soaring hope. \nAffinity Konar was raised in California. She has an MFA in fiction from Columbia University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/affinity-konar-mischling/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160929T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160929T193000
DTSTAMP:20260412T205033
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SUMMARY:4 Poets on the Plaza
DESCRIPTION:Kick off the last weekend of September by coming to see four outstanding poets at Laurel Bookstore on the Ogawa/Grant Plaza: Jan Steckel\, Tracey Knapp\, Opal Palmer Adisa and Ann Tweedy. Hosted by Paul Corman-Roberts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/4-poets-on-the-plaza/
LOCATION:Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160929T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160929T203000
DTSTAMP:20260412T205033
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SUMMARY:George Stanley
DESCRIPTION:Featured reader: George Stanley  \nREADINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC \nReadings begin at 6:30pm \nUnless otherwise noted\, 2016-2017 Holloway events will be held in theHEARST FIELD ANNEX room D37\, UC BERKELEY
URL:https://litseen.com/event/george-stanley/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160929T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160929T210000
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SUMMARY:Zach Wyner
DESCRIPTION:Friends\, \nPlease join us for an evening of literary-laced bonhomie to celebrate Zach Wyner and his debut novel\, What We Never Had\, Rare Bird Books. \nThe Where: The Booksmith on September\, 29th at 7:30PM. \nThe What: Join us for a rolling conversation and reading by two Bay Area debut novelists. \nZach Wyner and Calder G. Lorenz\, One Way Down (Or Another)\, Civil Coping Mechanisms\, 2017\, will share stories of why they write and what they hope to find at the end of this long road we call publication. \nWe hope to see you there. And to perhaps share a drink at The Zam Zam after the event. \nCheck out Zach Wyner’s debut novel\, What We Never Had\, either at your local independent bookstore\, or on Indiebound or Amazon. Your support really makes a difference.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zach-wyner-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160929T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160929T213000
DTSTAMP:20260412T205033
CREATED:20160907T235447Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160907T235447Z
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SUMMARY:Celebration of New Books by MPC Members
DESCRIPTION:NEW EVENT!!! Join us as we raise a glass to our amazing members who have new books out! We’ll have cake and bubbly! Poems will be read! Books will be for sale! Come help us toast the satisfaction and sweetness of making it through the long slog that leads to publication.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/celebration-of-new-books-by-mpc-members/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160930T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160930T200000
DTSTAMP:20260412T205033
CREATED:20160920T235837Z
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SUMMARY:Incidents of Travel in Poetry: The Poems of Frank Lima
DESCRIPTION:Join City Lights’ Poetry Editor Garrett Caples\, and Berkeley-based poet\, Julien Poirier\, for a presentation from their co-edited\, posthumous Frank Lima anthology\, Incidents of Travel in Poetry. A classically trained chef\, born in Spanish Harlem in 1939\, Lima’s poems are steeped in the pain and playfulness of the urban milieu in which they were created. Caples and Poirier will also read from their own works\, including Caples’ new collection Power Ballads\, published this month by Wave Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/incidents-of-travel-in-poetry-the-poems-of-frank-lima/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160930T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160930T203000
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SUMMARY:Tanya Holtland\, Jennifer S. Cheng\, + Maxwell Shanley
DESCRIPTION:Join Seattle-based poet Tanya Holtland and featured poets Jennifer S. Cheng (HOUSE A\, forthcoming from Omnidawn) and Maxwell Shanley (THERE ARE TREES I SEE MY DEATH IN\, forthcoming from Drop Leaf Press) to celebrate the release of Holtland’s chapbook\, INNER RIVER\, available now from Drop Leaf Press. \nDrop Leaf Press’ first chapbook series launches with Tanya Holtland’s INNER RIVER\, whose unusual format carries us across the breadth of the page and into the depths of our darkest and saturated currents of being. In verse both formal and experimental\, Holtland interposes the geographies and geometries of natural landscapes with the metaphysical processes of memory and the building (and re-building) of a self. \nAbout Our Readers: \nTANYA HOLTLAND is a poet with roots in California and many other places. Her poetry and nonfiction appear in The Collagist\, Statement Magazine\, Mary: A Journal of New Writing\, OXALIS\, and elsewhere. She holds English and Creative Writing degrees from San Francisco State University. Currently she makes a home in Seattle\, where there is so much water. \nJENNIFER S. CHENG is the author of HOUSE A\, selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize\, forthcoming this October. A Fulbright scholar\, Kundiman fellow\, and Pushcart Prize nominee\, she has an image-text chapbook\, Invocation: An Essay (New Michigan Press)\, and her work appears in Tin House\, AGNI\, DIAGRAM\, The Normal School\, The Volta\, and elsewhere. Having grown up in Texas\, Hong Kong\, and Connecticut\, she currently lives in San Francisco\, where she is a founding editor of Drop Leaf Press. www.jenniferscheng.com \nMAXWELL SHANLEY lives in San Francisco\, where he works as a bookseller. He is currently completing an MFA at San Francisco State University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tanya-holtland-jennifer-s-cheng-maxwell-shanley/
LOCATION:Modern Times Bookstore Collective\, 2919 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160930T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160930T203000
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SUMMARY:Mark Thompson Memorial Reading
DESCRIPTION:Mark Thompson lived until August 9\, 2016 as a gay man\, author\, activist\, proud leatherman\, and lover. He wrote or edited several landmark Queer books\, including the trilogy Gay Spirit\, Gay Soul\, and Gay Body as well as the books The Fire in the Moonlight: Stories from the Radical Faeries; Leatherfolk: Radical Sex\, People\, Politics\, and Practice; and Long Road to Freedom: The Advocate History of the Gay and Lesbian Movement. \nCome together Friday\, September 30 at 7pm to celebrate Mark’s words and life at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. in San Francisco. Free admission and free refreshments. Copies of a selection of Mark’s books will be available for purchase. \nReaders include Joey Cain\, Brendan Cook\, Ganymede\, Trebor Healey\, Rick May\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, Carol Queen\, Andrew Ramer\, Will Roscoe\, Sister Merry Peter\, Karen Sundheim\, Justin Tanis\, Jim Van Buskirk\, and Ken White. Trebor Healey and Rick May will mc.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mark-thompson-memorial-reading/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160930T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160930T210000
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SUMMARY:Terry McDonell w/ Will Hearst
DESCRIPTION:You might not know Terry McDonell\, but you certainly know his work. Among the magazines he has top-edited: Outside\,Rolling Stone\, Esquire\, and Sports Illustrated. In his revealing memoir The Accidental Life: An Editor’s Notes on Writing and Writers\,  McDonell talks about what really happens when editors and writers work with deadlines ticking (or drinks on the bar). His stories about the people and personalities he’s known are both heartbreaking and bitingly funny—playing “acid golf” with Hunter S. Thompson\, practicing brinksmanship with David Carr and Steve Jobs\, working the European fashion scene with Liz Tilberis\, pitching TV pilots with Richard Price. \nHere\, too\, is an expert’s practical advice on how to recruit—and keep—high-profile talent; what makes a compelling lede; how to grow online traffic that translates into dollars; and how\, in whatever format\, on whatever platform\, a good editor really works\, and what it takes to write well. \nTaking us from the raucous days of New Journalism to today’s digital landscape\, McDonell argues that the need for clear storytelling from trustworthy news sources has never been stronger. Says Jeffrey Eugenides: “Every time I run into Terry\, I think how great it would be to have dinner with him. Hear about the writers he’s known and edited over the years\, what the magazine business was like back then\, how it’s changed and where it’s going\, inside info about Edward Abbey\, Jim Harrison\, Annie Proulx\, old New York\, and the Swimsuit issue. That dinner is this book.” \nTerry McDonell has won numerous awards for his editorial work at various magazines and websites. He is also a novelist and poet\, and has written and produced for film and television. In 2012 he was inducted into the American Society of Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame. He is the president of the board of the Paris Review Foundation and serves on the Board of Overseers of the Columbia Journalism Review. He lives in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/terry-mcdonell-w-will-hearst/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161001T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161001T163000
DTSTAMP:20260412T205033
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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:20260412T205033
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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:20260412T205033
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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:20260412T205033
CREATED:20160831T235300Z
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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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161003T210000
DTSTAMP:20260412T205033
CREATED:20160831T235616Z
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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:20260412T205033
CREATED:20160921T233356Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161004T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161004T210000
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CREATED:20160921T233206Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161004T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161004T213000
DTSTAMP:20260412T205033
CREATED:20160901T000157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160901T000157Z
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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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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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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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CREATED:20160901T001006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160901T001006Z
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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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161005T213000
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CREATED:20160921T233647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160921T233647Z
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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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CREATED:20160921T233855Z
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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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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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161006T200000
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CREATED: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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161006T213000
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CREATED:20160929T010334Z
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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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CREATED:20160929T011255Z
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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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