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SUMMARY:The Heart of the Goddess: Art\, Myth and Meditations on the World’s Sacred Feminine
DESCRIPTION:The Sacred Feminine is rising all over the planet\, and with it\, the values of compassion\, peacemaking\,\nnurturance and love of the Earth. There is renewed awareness of feminine expressions that have been revered for millenia. Hallie Iglehart Austen shares a wide-reaching selection of art\, meditations\, poetry\, prayers\, values\, and living lessons of Goddess culture. Respect for the Earth\, restoration of community\, and regaining the long-lost power of women are inseparable. Immerse yourself in a rich\, multi-media experience of Goddesses from around the world and throughout time\, for a transmission of healing\, teaching\, and the Sacred Feminine in all of us. Hallie Iglehart Austen began studying ancient Greek language and mythology in her youth. She has been teaching spirituality and the wisdom of the divine feminine since 1974\, and is author of Womanspirit Meditations and The Heart of the Goddess.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-heart-of-the-goddess-art-myth-and-meditations-on-the-worlds-sacred-feminine-4/
LOCATION:Copperfield’s Books\, 138 North Main Street\, Sebastopol\, CA
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190126T120000
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SUMMARY:YANovCon at the Millbrae Library
DESCRIPTION:The Young Adult Novelist Convention (YANovCon) is your exclusive connection to some of today’s top authors of books for middle and high school youth (and everyone else who appreciates these amazing talents). This free half-day celebration will include panel discussions\, author hangouts\, and book signings with at least twenty award-winning\, notable\, and new YA novelists including: \n2018 Printz Medal winner Nina LaCour\, 2018 Newbery Medal winner Erin Entrada Kelly\, Kristin Elizabeth Clark\, J.H Diehl\, Heidi Kling\, Mitali Perkins\, Hugo-nominated Mark Oshiro\, 2018 Beatty and Stonewall Book Award winner Dashka Slater\, Robin Benway\, William C. Morris Award Finalist Akemi Dawn Bowman\, Kayla Cagan\, Brandy Colbert\, William C. Morris Award Finalist Kelly Loy Gilbert\, C.G. Watson\, E. E Charlton-Trujillo\, Adib Khorram\, Pura Belpré Award-winner Meg Medina\, Randy Ribay\, Lisa Super\, and unexpected guests! \nBooks will be available to purchase on site thanks to our wonderful partnership with Books Inc.! \nNot only will you get to connect with your favorite authors about their writing and publishing process\, we are also working with local organizations to help shine a light on the issues teens face inside the home and how they demonstrate their resilience. We’re constantly impressed with the strength our teens show and want to highlight their courage. \nWhile we don’t require an RSVP to attend\, we are giving out random free prizes randomly to those who attend and RSVP in advance. \nAnticipated schedule: \n\n12-1 Early arrivals\, book sale\, and community fair (the first 200 to arrive will get a free totebag)\n1-2 Opening session\n2:25-3:05 1st breakout sessions\n3:15-3:55 2nd breakout sessions\n4:05-5:05 Author one-on-ones\n5:05-5:45 All author book signing\n\nThere is ample parking at Millbrae Library\, but we highly recommend carpooling and using public transit to reduce your impact on the environment. Millbrae Library is easily accessible via samTrans\, Bart\, and Caltrain. \nTo encourage literacy and writing for students in 6th-12th grades\, YANovCon is also sponsoring a Teen Short Story Contest. Visit your local library for information and enter here (coming soon). \nCheck out #YANovCon on Instagram\, Twitter\, and Facebook! \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSaturday\, January 26\, 2019 – 12:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nMillbrae Library\n1 Library Avenue\n\nMillbrae\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yanovcon-at-the-millbrae-library/
LOCATION:Millbrae Library\, 1 Library Avenue\, Millbrae\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190126T210000
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SUMMARY:Rolling Writers 'Rolling this Way'
DESCRIPTION:Submissions are OPEN for our first 2019 reading: \nBeginnings\nSaturday\, January 26\, 2019\, 6 pm\nRolling Out\n1722 Taraval St.\nSan Francisco \nTo submit work for consideration\, please write the host\, Jon Sindell\, at jsind [at] sbcglobal [net]\, pasting your work into the body of the email\, and marking the subject line as follows: RW Beginnings\, [Writer’s Name]. You must submit personally: no submissions by representatives will be considered. Limit prose submissions to 1\,200 words. This series primarily features complete works of fiction and memoir\, but poetry and reasonably self-contained novel excerpts are presented to a limited extent. Submissions are rolling—we generally consider submissions until a lineup is filled. \nLet the fun begin! \n  \nAbout Rolling Writers \nLike the baker Rageneau in Cyrano\, master baker Bruno Tsé supports the arts. And our pastry-preparing patron of poetry and prose shows love for the muse by giving his Taraval Street café up for lit readings\, with themed musical and gustatory accoutrements. \nRolling–Out: 1722 Taraval\, between 27th and 28th Avenues\, \nSan Francisco. The L-Taraval streetcar line stops at 26th Avenue. \nTo submit work for an upcoming theme\, please write the host\, Jon Sindell\, at jsind [at] sbcglobal [net]\, pasting your work into the body of the email\, and marking the subject line as follows: RW [Name Of Show]\, [Writer’s Name]. You must submit personally—no submissions by representatives will be considered. Unless otherwise indicated on the Upcoming Events page\, limit prose submissions to 1\,200 words; shorter submissions are preferred. This series primarily features complete works of fiction and memoir\, but poetry and reasonably self-contained novel excerpts are presented to a limited extent. Submissions are rolling—we generally consider submissions until a lineup is filled. \nWon’t you join us?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rolling-writers-rolling-this-way/
LOCATION:Rolling Out Cafe\, 1722 Taraval St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190127T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190127T170000
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SUMMARY:Sarah Stone in Conversation with Sylvia Brownrigg
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Stone in Conversation with Sylvia Brownrigg\n\n\n\n\ndiscussing Stone’s new novel\, Hungry Ghost Theater\, “a thrilling hybrid of a novel about the intricacies of family life and the inevitable handing down from one generation to the next of our deepest passions and pathologies. . . . both marvelously inventive and deeply humane.”–Ann Packer \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Hungry Ghost Theater by speaking to a bookseller. \n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, January 27\, 2019 – 3:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn inventive\, funny\, sometimes heart-breaking exploration of the connections between hunger and art\, duty and desire\, and\nloss and survival. Brother and sister Robert and Julia Zamarin are trying to awaken the world to its peril with their tiny political theater company\, while their sister Eva\, a neuroscientist\, searches for the biological roots of empathy. As Julia attempts to break free of Robert’s influence\, Robert\, as lost without her as she is without him\, takes on dark material and drives away members\nof their company. Meanwhile\, the whole family contends with the ongoing troubles of Eva’s youngest daughter\, Arielle\, as she struggles with addiction. The adventures of the eccentric\, memorable Zamarin family take the reader from San Francisco to Seoul\, from theater spaces to psychiatric hospitals\, from Zanzibar to the Santa Cruz mountains\, and into and through a series of Sumerian and Tibetan hells. \nSarah Stone’s is the author of The True Sources of the Nile. Her stories\, essays\, and reviews have appeared in Ploughshares\,\nStoryQuarterly\, The Believer\, The Millions\, and The Writer’s Chronicle\, among other places. She teaches creative writing for Stanford Continuing Studies and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Visit her online at www.sarahstoneauthor.com. \nSylvia Brownrigg is the author of Pages for You and Pages for Her. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-stone-in-conversation-with-sylvia-brownrigg/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:The wait is over! Please join us for the relaunch of Bazaar Writers Salon in the newly remodeled Bazaar Café with this fantastic lineup of writers. \nReadings by Kate Folk\, J.P. Grasser\, Sarah McColl\, and sam sax\nHosted by Peter Kline \nKate Folk is a fiction writer whose work has appeared most recently in Zyzzyva\, The New York Times Magazine\, Tupelo Quarterly\, and One Story\, and is forthcoming in McSweeney’s Quarterly. She’s an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts\, and is writing a novel about a clandestine service that allows people to outsource their emotional and intellectual labor. \nA current Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, J.P. Grasser is a PhD candidate in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Utah\, where he serves as Editor-in-Chief for Quarterly West. Find him online at www.jpgrasser.com. \nSarah McColl is the author of the memoir Joy Enough. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review\, McSweeney’s\, and StoryQuarterly\, which nominated her essay on singer-songwriter Connie Converse for a Pushcart Prize. She has received fellowships from Ucross\, the Millay Colony\, and the MacDowell Colony\, where she was named the 2017 Mary Carswell Fellow. She’s based in Los Angeles. \nsam sax is a queer\, Jewish writer and educator\, the author of Madness\, winner of The National Poetry Series\, and Bury It\, winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. He’s the two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion\, with poems in BuzzFeed\, The Nation\, The New York Times\, and other journals. In 2018\, he was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-11/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190128T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190128T200000
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SUMMARY:Spanish Book Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:El Impostor – Javier Cercas\n¿Quién es Enric Marco? Un nonagenario barcelonés que se hizo pasar por superviviente de los campos nazis y que fue desenmascarado en mayo de 2005\, después de presidir durante tres años la asociación española de los supervivientes\, pronunciar centenares de conferencias\, conceder decenas de entrevistas\, recibir importantes distinciones y conmover en algún caso hasta las lágrimas a los parlamentarios españoles reunidos para rendir homenaje por vez primera a los republicanos deportados por el III Reich. El caso dio la vuelta al mundo y convirtió a Marco en el gran impostor y el gran maldito. Ahora\, casi una década más tarde\, \nJavier Cercas asedia\, en este thriller hipnótico que es también un banquete con muchos platos -narración\, crónica\, ensayo\, biografía y autobiografía-\, el enigma del personaje\, su verdad y sus falsedades y\, a través de esa indagación que recorre casi un siglo de historia de España\, bucea con una pasión de kamikaze y una honestidad desgarradora en lo más profundo de nosotros mismos: en nuestra infinita capacidad de autoengaño\, en nuestro conformismo y nuestras mentiras\, en nuestra sed insaciable de afecto\, en nuestras necesidades contrapuestas de ficción y de realidad\, en las zonas más dolorosas de nuestro pasado reciente. El resultado es un libro que no habla de Enric Marco sino de usted\, lector; también el libro más insumiso y radical de Javier Cercas: un libro asombroso que\, con una audacia inédita\, ensancha los límites del género novelesco y explora las últimas fronteras de nuestra humanidad.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spanish-book-discussion-group-2/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190129T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190129T210000
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SUMMARY:Douglas Rushkoff
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nTeam Human \npublished by W.W. Norton \nThough created by humans\, our technologies\, markets\, and institutions often contain an antihuman agenda. Douglas Rushkoff\, digital theorist and host of the NPR-One podcast Team Human\, reveals the dynamics of this antihuman machinery and invites us to remake these aspects of society in ways that foster our humanity. \nIn 100 aphoristic statements\, his manifesto exposes how forces for human connection have turned into ones of isolation and repression: money\, for example\, has transformed from a means of exchange to a means of exploitation\, and education has become an extension of occupational training. Digital-age technologies have only amplified these trends\, presenting the greatest challenges yet to our collective autonomy: robots taking our jobs\, algorithms directing our attention\, and social media undermining our democracy. But all is not lost. It’s time for Team Human to take a stand\, regenerate the social bonds that define us and\, together\, make a positive impact on this earth. \nAbout Douglas Rushkoff: \n\nNamed one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT\, Douglas Rushkoff is an author\, media theorist\, professor\, and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. His twenty books include the upcoming Team Human\, based on his podcast\, as well as the bestsellers Present Shock\, Throwing Rocks and the Google Bus\, Program or Be Programmed\, Life Inc\, and Media Virus. He also made the PBS Frontline documentaries Generation Like\, The Persuaders\, and Merchants of Cool. His book Coercion won the Marshall McLuhan Award\, and the Media Ecology Association honored him with the first Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity. Rushkoff’s work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative\, money\, power\, and one another. He coined such concepts as “viral media\,” “screenagers\,” and “social currency\,” and has been a leading voice for applying digital media toward social and economic justice. He is a research fellow of the Institute for the Future\, and founder of the Laboratory for Digital Humanism at CUNY/Queens\, where he is a Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics. His novels and comics\, Ecstasy Club\, A.D.D\, and Aleister & Adolf\, are all being developed for the screen. \n\nPraise for the work of Douglas Rushkoff \n“Original and uplifting. Just the book America needs right now. In his unique and engaging style\, Rushkoff reminds us of our human essence: we are social creatures\, and if we trust this truth about ourselves we can accomplish the seemingly impossible.” — Frances Moore Lappé\, author of Diet for a Small Planet and Daring Democracy \n“Rushkoff is the gold standard. He always knows what tech is up to—and he’s usually prophetic. Now he’s here to tell us how our Silicon masters are attempting to pit us against one another for their own gain. Go Team Human.” — Walter Kirn\, author of Blood Will Out and Up in the Air \n“A vivid thinker\, Rushkoff is an insightful and acerbic antidote to Facebook\, cultural hegemony\, and the corporatization of everything.” — Seth Godin\, bestselling author of The Dip\, Linchpin\, and What to Do When It’s Your Turn (and It’s Always Your Turn) \n“Can the revolution start already? This book will help us. Thank God for Douglas Rushkoff.” — Parker Posey \n“Technology can be a force for good or amplify our self-destructive capacities. In Team Human\, the always-brilliant Douglas Rushkoff reminds us that the tools we design design us in turn\, and offers a vision to invert our tools and make them better.” — Jason Silva\, host of National Geographic’s Brain Games \n“An astonishing\, paradigm-shifting must-read for all inhabitants of the twenty-first century. Precisely and cogently written. Rushkoff’s best work so far.” — Grant Morrison \n“A searing critique…Visionary\, original\, and inspirational. If you’re not already a member of Team Human\, you will be once you’ve finished reading it.” — Jeremy Lent\, author of The Patterning Instinct \n“[A] catalyst for conversations on what it means to be human.” — Booklist \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/douglas-rushkoff/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: Sketchtasy
DESCRIPTION:Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore presents Sketchtasy. Sketchtasy brings 1990s gay culture startlingly back to life\, as Alexa and her friends grapple with the impact of growing up at a time when desire and death are intertwined. With an intoxicating voice and unruly cadence\, this is a shattering\, incandescent novel that conjures the pain and pageantry of struggling to imagine a future. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers \n\n5433 College Avenue\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mattilda-bernstein-sycamore-sketchtasy-2/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190129T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190129T203000
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SUMMARY:Joel Simon: This is Now with Angie Coiro
DESCRIPTION:“America does not negotiate with terrorists.” But are we sure we should keep it that way? Last year there were nearly nine thousand international terrorist abductions. The US refuses to pay ransoms\, holding that it would only fuel more kidnappings. Other countries pay-up to free their citizens taken hostage. Statistics tell the grim result: according to New America\, “since 2001\, American hostages taken captive by terrorist\, militant\, and pirate groups have been more than twice as likely to remain in captivity\, die in captivity\, or be murdered by their captors as the average Western hostage.” \nJoel Simon has spent nearly two decades with the Committee to Protect Journalists\, working on dozens of hostage cases. His new book We Want to Negotiate is an exploration of the ethical\, legal\, and strategic considerations of a bedeviling question: should governments pay ransom to terrorists? \nJoin KLF’s journalist in residence Angie Coiro as she hosts Joel Simon for this important conversation\, in another installment of our This Is Now news and culture conversation series.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joel-simon-this-is-now-with-angie-coiro/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190129T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190129T213000
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Sam Lipsyte / Hark
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Sam Lipsyte for his brilliant new novel Hark. Please join us! \n  \nIn an America convulsed by political upheaval\, cultural discord\, environmental collapse\, and spiritual confusion\, many folks are searching for peace\, salvation\, and — perhaps most immediately — just a little damn focus. Enter Hark Morner\, an unwitting guru whose technique of “Mental Archery” — a combination of mindfulness\, mythology\, fake history\, yoga\, and\, well\, archery — is set to captivate the masses and raise him to near-messiah status. It’s a role he never asked for\, and one he is woefully underprepared to take on. But his inner-circle of modern pilgrims have other plans\, as do some suddenly powerful fringe players\, including a renegade Ivy League ethicist\, a gentle Swedish kidnapper\, a crossbow-hunting veteran of jungle drug wars\, a social media tycoon with an empire on the skids\, and a mysteriously influential (but undeniably slimy) catfish. \nIn this social satire of the highest order\, Sam Lipsyte\, the New York Times bestseller and master of the form\, reaches new peaks of daring in a novel that revels in contemporary absurdity and the wild poetry of everyday language while exploring the emotional truths of his characters.Hark is a smart\, incisive look at men\, women\, and children seeking meaning and dignity in a chaotic\, ridiculous\, and often dangerous world. \n  \n\n  \n“Madcap and full of love\, laughter and unexpected beauty (not to mention the world’s greatest bone marrow smuggling scheme)\, if Hark doesn’t make you stalk Sam Lipsyte and try to break up his marriage\, then you are not human.” – Gary Shteyngart\, author of Super Sad True Love Story \n  \n“Wonderfully moving and beautifully musical\, Lipsyte has penned a dastardly hysterical take on modern day rhetoric and the eternal ridiculousness of it all. More than a ‘must read\, ‘ Hark is a ‘must believe!'” – Paul Beatty\, author of The Sellout \n  \n\n  \nSam Lipsyte is the author of the story collections Venus Drive (named one of the top twenty-five books of its year by the Voice Literary Supplement) and The Fun Parts and four novels: Hark\, The Ask\, The Subject Steve\, and Home Land\, which was a New York Times Notable Book and received the first annual Believer Book Award. He is also the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nAs with all of our events\, seating is limited and may be reserved by purchasing a book in advance. To reserve a seat\, order with the link below and be sure to include your request in the comments field. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of Hark\, and/or any of Sam’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-sam-lipsyte-hark/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190130T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190130T210000
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SUMMARY:MIKE CHEN at Books Inc. Palo Alto
DESCRIPTION:With pieces featured in The Mary Sue\, The Portalist\, and Tor\, local writer Mike Chen shares his debut novel\, Here and Now and Then. \nTo save his daughter\, he’ll go anywhere–and any-when… Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working in IT\, trying to keep the spark in his marriage\, struggling to connect with his teenage daughter\, Miranda. But his current life is a far cry from his previous career…as a time-traveling secret agent from 2142.Stranded in suburban San Francisco since the 1990s after a botched mission\, Kin has kept his past hidden from everyone around him\, despite the increasing blackouts and memory loss affecting his time-traveler’s brain. Until one afternoon\, his “rescue” team arrives–eighteen years too late.Their mission: return Kin to 2142\, where he’s only been gone weeks\, not years\, and where another family is waiting for him. A family he can’t remember.Torn between two lives\, Kin is desperate for a way to stay connected to both. But when his best efforts threaten to destroy the agency and even history itself\, his daughter’s very existence is at risk. It’ll take one final trip across time to save Miranda–even if it means breaking all the rules of time travel in the process.A uniquely emotional genre-bending debut\, Here and Now and Then captures the perfect balance of heart\, playfulness\, and imagination\, offering an intimate glimpse into the crevices of a father’s heart and its capacity to stretch across both space and time to protect the people that mean the most. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, January 30\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n74 Town & Country Village\n\nPalo Alto\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mike-chen-at-books-inc-palo-alto/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Palo Alto\, 74 Town & Country Village\, Palo Alto\, CA\, 94301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190130T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190130T210000
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SUMMARY:Sally Wen Mao
DESCRIPTION:reading and in conversation with Jennifer S. Cheng \ncelebrating the release of \nOculus: Poems \npublished by Graywolf Press \nIn Oculus\, Sally Wen Mao explores exile not just as a matter of distance and displacement\, but as a migration through time and a reckoning with technology. The title poem follows a girl in Shanghai who uploaded her suicide onto Instagram. Other poems cross into animated worlds\, examine robot culture\, and haunt a necropolis for electronic waste. A fascinating sequence speaks in the voice of international icon and first Chinese American movie star Anna May Wong\, who travels through the history of cinema with a time machine\, even past her death and into the future of film\, where she finds she has no progeny. With a speculative imagination and a sharpened wit\, Mao powerfully confronts the paradoxes of seeing and being seen\, the intimacies made possible and ruined by the screen\, and the many roles and representations that women of color are made to endure in order to survive a culture that seeks to consume them. \nSally Wen Mao is the author of a previous poetry collection\, Mad Honey Symposium. She has received fellowships from the New York Public Library Cullman Center\, the George Washington University\, and Kundiman. Visit: http://www.sallywenmao.com/ \nJennifer S. Cheng is the author of MOON: Letters\, Maps\, Poems\, selected by Bhanu Kapil as winner of the Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize and named one of the Best Books of 2018 by Publishers Weekly; HOUSE A\, selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize; and Invocation: An Essay (New Michigan Press)\, A U.S. Fulbright scholar\, Kundiman fellow\, and Bread Loaf work-study scholar\, she is the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Harold Taylor Award\, the Ann Fields Poetry Award\, the Mid-American Review Fineline Prize\, and multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her poetry\, lyric essays\, and image-text work appear in Tin House\, AGNI\, Conjunctions\, Black Warrior Review\, The Normal School\, DIAGRAM\, The Volta\, Sonora Review\, Seneca Review\, Hong Kong 20/20 (a PEN HK anthology)\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sally-wen-mao/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: On the Cusp
DESCRIPTION:The events that define us aren’t always immediately apparent. That’s the idea behind On the Cusp\, a quarterly reading series that seeks to explore the meaning of life’s smaller moments … and their lasting significance. \nAuthors TBA soon — stay tuned\, save the date\, and join us! \n  \n  \n\nAdmission for this event is $5 in advance or $10 at the door. Advance tickets are available at this link. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. This is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7pm\, and event begins at 7:30pm. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-on-the-cusp/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World by Tosh Berman
DESCRIPTION:We are looking forward to celebrating TOSH\, published by City Lights! Tosh Berman will be in conversation with Natalia Mount\, Executive Director\, Pro Arts Gallery\, Oakland \n  \nThe triumphs and tragedies of growing up as the son of a famous Beat artist. \nTOSH is a memoir of growing up as the son of an enigmatic\, much-admired\, hermetic\, and ruthlessly bohemian artist during the waning years of the Beat Generation and the heyday of hippie counterculture. A critical figure in the history of postwar American culture\, Tosh Berman’s father\, Wallace Berman\, was known as the “father of assemblage art\,” and was the creator of the legendary mail-art publication Semina. Wallace Berman and his wife\, famed beauty and artist’s muse Shirley Berman\, raised Tosh between Los Angeles and San Francisco\, and their home life was a heady atmosphere of art\, music\, and literature\, with local and international luminaries regularly passing through. \nTosh’s unconventional childhood and peculiar journey to adulthood features an array of famous characters\, from George Herms and Marcel Duchamp\, to Michael McClure and William S. Burroughs\, to Dennis Hopper and Dean Stockwell\, to the Rolling Stones\, Neil Young\, and Toni Basil. \nTOSH takes an unflinching look at the triumphs and tragedies of his unusual upbringing by an artistic genius with all-too-human frailties\, against a backdrop that includes The T.A.M.I. Show\, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band\, Easy Rider\,and more. With a preface by actress/writer Amber Tamblyn (daughter of Wallace’s friend\, actor Russ Tamblyn)\, TOSH is a self-portrait taken at the crossroads of popular culture and the avant-garde. The index of names included represents a who’s who of midcentury American—and international—culture. \nPraise for Tosh: \n“Tosh Berman’s sweet and affecting memoir provides an intimate glimpse of his father\, Wallace\, and the exciting\, seat-of-the-pants LA art scene of the 1960s\, and it also speaks to the hearts of current and former lonely teenagers everywhere.”—Luc Sante\, author of The Other Paris \n“This book is like a fascinating series of autobiographical post-cards that could be subtitled\, Growing Up Semina. As the son of artist Wallace Berman\, Tosh presents fly on the wall impressions of his parents coterie in the 60s and 70s—a grouping that included such luminaries as Dennis Hopper\, Brian Jones\, Toni Basil\, and Andy Warhol. His memoir give us a glimpse into the ‘other’ Los Angeles—a bohemia that thrived in the 60s and 70s in numerous enclaves such as Topanga Canyon\, Venice Beach\, and West Hollywood. This is the story of a kid growing up inside of art world history\, retelling his upbringing warts and all. A well-written\, fast-moving book that is candid\, funny\, often disturbing\, and never dull.”—Gillian McCain\, co-author of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk \n“As the son of artist Wallace Berman\, Tosh Berman had a front row seat for the beat parade of the ’50s\, and the hippie extravaganza of the ’60s. It was an exotic\, star-studded childhood\, but having groovy parents doesn’t insulate one from the challenge of forging one’s own identity in the world. Berman’s successful effort to do that provides the heart and soul of this movingly candid chronicle of growing up bohemian.”—Kristine McKenna\, co-author of Room to Dream by David Lynch \n“Through the prism of Tosh Berman\, only child\, born 1954 to Wallace and Shirley\, who personified the wild heart of 20th century West Coast art\, we are offered a truly intimate invitation into a magic world of outliers\, visionaries and shooting stars.TOSH recounts a life ‘lived like a good book on a bookshelf\,’ a memoir resonant with discovery\, passion\, music\, art\, sex\, celebrity\, ego\, desire\, and dignity. All told with a son’s love for his father\, a continuing light into the creative life.”—Thurston Moore\, musician & writer \n“This book is sublime: vertiginous\, melancholy\, highly amusing!”—Johan Kugelberg\, Boo-Hooray \n“One could not wish for a better guide into the subterranean and bohemian worlds of the California art/Beat scene than Tosh Berman\, only scion of the great Wallace. Tosh has a sly wit and an informed eye\, he is both erudite and neurotic\, and often hilarious. TOSH\, the book\, is packed with keen observations and unique anecdotal factoids that could only come from a true insider. It’s a must for anyone who cares about California counter-culture and the raggedy-ass drumbeat of the Beat Generation.”—John Taylor\, Duran Duran \n“Tosh Berman is one of the most valuable writers\, much less people\, the earth has upon it. This book is exquisite. I can’t think of another word. What it says\, how it says it\, what it is.”—Dennis Cooper\, author of The Marbled Swarm \n“I first met Tosh Berman when he was assigned to sit next to me in 5th grade. We rode the Topanga school bus together for many years and even drove with each other to our high school graduation. But the overlap doesn’t end there. Our parents frequented many of the same movie theaters\, clubs\, and galleries. Neither of our mother’s drove\, either. Both of our families had the celebrities of the day passing through our houses. I witnessed much of what Tosh saw and writes about\, and I can say that TOSH: Growing up in Wallace Berman’s World captures the times\, places\, and people with accuracy\, sensitivity\, humor\, and\, at times\, great sadness. This is a beautifully written memoir\, and I highly recommend it to those who are interested in the Sixties\, Topanga Canyon\, the Southern California art scene\, and for those who wonder what it might mean to grow up as the son of one of our most acclaimed artists.”—Lisa See\, author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane \n“Reading TOSH\, I felt like I was lying on a couch\, completely relaxed and engrossed\, while Tosh Berman sat in a chair beside me and told me his amazing life story. And at the end\, I was very moved and wanted to cry. The affect that TOSH—the book and the man—had on me was that feeling I get when exposed to great art: a mix of sadness and wonder\, which seem to be the two faces of the human heart. Wonderment at the beauty around us—the world\, its people—and the sadness that nothing lasts\, that all must perish. But this is our journey on planet earth: to be brave and feel both things at once\, and it’s great art\, like this book\, that reminds us to do so.”—Jonathan Ames\, author of You Were Never Really Here \n“If you are interested in California bohemian art-scene culture\, eccentric and fascinating family and friend dynamics between unique individuals\, and celebrated yet oddly little-known artists with uncompromising personalities\, then read this book!”—Roman Coppola\, filmmaker\, screenwriter \n“This book is perfection. I wish it went on forever. Maybe\, somehow\, it does.TOSH is almost like a giant map of small city . . . Each sentence is a street. Each chapter is an era. Each memory revealing a secret passage from one place to the next . . . TO READ IT is to WALK IT with Tosh Berman.” —Jason Schwartzman\, actor \n“Tosh Berman paints an intimate and heartfelt portrait of growing up within the quirky West Coast counterculture of the 1950-70s. At the center of the tale is his dedicated and passionate artist father\, Wallace Berman\, who introduces his son to a bizarre collection of artists\, crooks\, cowboys\, beatniks\, hippies\, freaks\, filmmakers\, musicians\, mystics\, and assorted weirdos. Including hilarious personal stories about Dean Stockwell\, Dennis Hopper\, Allen Ginsberg\, Cameron\, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott\, Michael McClure\, Robert Duncan\, George Herms\, Leslie Caron\, William Burroughs\, Andy Warhol\, Russ Tamblyn\, Lenny Bruce\, Phil Spector\, Brian Jones\, Alexander Trocchi\, John Cage\, and many many more\, TOSH\, is a delightfully entertaining memoir filled with sly wit and a profound personal perspective.”—John Zorn\, composer \n“There’s the life—and then there’s the life. With TOSH you can have both. My life\, and that of many who sailed with me\, was formed by the 40’s & 50’s. TOSH takes you there. Feel the fabric\, touch the canvas of all that informed us. Embrace it and move forward.”—Andrew Loog Oldham\, producer/manager\, The Rolling Stones \n“This double narrative of Tosh Berman and his father\, Wallace\, will tell you more about the creative process than a hundred how-to books purporting to do the same. Joyous and unselfconsciously readable\, it celebrates the delights of surprise and observation on every page\, as well as\, yes—the confidence that things will somehow land upright.”—Jim Krusoe\, author of The Sleep Garden \n“What compels about Tosh Berman’s gorgeously written memoir is the proximity of the quotidian and the familiar to the extraordinary\, the shocking even\, and the enviably glamorous. He recounts a coming of age in which the unexpected laces the ordinary as surely at it does in Alice In Wonderland—only for Tosh\, growing up\, a cast of artists\, nutcases\, iconoclasts\, stars\, and extremists of all kinds provide the distraction and disruption once supplied by the White Rabbit or Cheshire Cat. Add to this his exemplary taste in\, and understanding of\, a particular pop sensibility—TV\, music\, Warhol\, and comic books. That then heady and head-spinning world\, soundtrack to a sentimental education\, that was for the young romantics of the mid-twentieth century what clouds and peaks were to those of mid-nineteenth. Brava\, Tosh Berman!”—Michael Bracewell\, writer \n“If the first movie your father takes you to as a child is . . . And God Created Woman\, you can be sure of two things. First\, that your father is an extraordinary person. Second\, that you are destined to lead an extraordinarily interesting life. Both of these suppositions are made evident in Tosh Berman’s vivid and loving memoir\, TOSH: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World. What a world!”—Ron Mael\, Sparks \n“Reading TOSH is like meeting your idols\, one at a time\, for a quiet chat. Everyone is disarmed\, and it feels like you’ve been in the same room with them for about ten hours\, or so. Dennis Hopper is unconstrained and friendly\, Toni Basil is bubbly\, and Brian Jones has just stopped by to say hello. Topanga\, as a place is remote—filled with pockets of escapism\, winding landscapes of tumult and ennui. Tosh’s world is both expansive and crystalline\, he traces the edges of his world\, and Wallace’s world. We get to come and go with Tosh as he navigates his place in and around the tangle of the time.”—Soo Kim\, artist\, Professor at Otis College of Art and Design \n“Sexually giddy\, clairvoyant\, messianic—Wallace Berman’s socially astute photo-collages were vital bread and butter for several generations of artists. The Wallace B bloodline\, from which Tosh sprouted\, is a verdant gene pool. For artists-readers\, TOSH\, the memoir\, is a luscious document of Los Angeles in the last four decades of the 20th century. Every page is filled with juicy history. Such surprises include a teenaged Sammy Davis Jr. sleepover\, a pet alligator\, Mae West\, Allen Ginsberg\, and dozens of remarkable side characters. Bask in Tosh Berman’s honesty and gentle style. He is a one-of-a-kind gem.”—Benjamin Weissman\, artist & writer
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tosh-growing-up-in-wallace-bermans-world-by-tosh-berman/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:MFA Reading: Wendy C. Ortiz
DESCRIPTION:Wendy C. Ortiz is the author of Excavation: A Memoir\, Hollywood Notebook\, and the dreamoir\, Bruja. In 2016\, Bustle named her one of “9 Women Writers Who Are Breaking New Nonfiction Territory.” Her work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times\, The Rumpus\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, the New York Times\, Fence\, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. Oritz is a psychotherapist in private practice in Los Angeles. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n« BACK TO PREVIOUS\n\n\nBACK TO CALENDAR
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mfa-reading-wendy-c-ortiz/
LOCATION:USF Fromm Hall – FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190131T203000
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SUMMARY:The Racket!
DESCRIPTION:Details soon! \nHosted by Noah B. Sanders
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-2/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190201T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190201T190000
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CREATED:20190129T001623Z
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SUMMARY:Oakland First Friday Storyteller Series
DESCRIPTION:CHILDREN’S STORYTELLER SERIES (6-7pm) \nBring your young ones out for an early evening of storytelling\, hands on arts activities\, tiny bookmaking projects\, food\, music and more! \nFeaturing: \nAida Ndiaye (CH510 Young Author) – born in Oakland with parents from Senegal\, West Africa\, Aida is a 4th grader who loves writing and telling stories. She wrote her first book when she was 9 years old about her allergies. \nmore young authors TBA soon! \nPlus: \nKids open mic! \nTiny bookmaking and arts activities for families \nCostume box \nFresh tunes spun by DJ XCAIROCITOSX
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-first-friday-storyteller-series/
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:Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World
DESCRIPTION:TOSH is a memoir of growing up as the son of an enigmatic\, much-admired\, hermetic\, and ruthlessly bohemian artist during the waning years of the Beat Generation and the heyday of hippie counterculture. A critical figure in the history of postwar American culture\, Tosh Berman’s father\, Wallace Berman\, was known as the “father of assemblage art\,” and was the creator of the legendary mail-art publication Semina. Wallace Berman and his wife\, famed beauty and artist’s muse Shirley Berman\, raised Tosh between Los Angeles and San Francisco\, and their home life was a heady atmosphere of art\, music\, and literature\, with local and international luminaries regularly passing through. \nTosh Berman is a writer\, poet\, and publisher of TamTam Books. As a publisher\, he focused on post-war French figures such as Boris Vian\, Guy Debord\, Serge Gainsbourg and French gangster Jacques Mesrine\, as well as publishing Sparks (Ron Mael & Russell Mael) and Lun*na Menoh. His previous book Sparks-Tastic (2013) is a combination of travel journal and thoughts on the band Sparks. His book of poems The Plum in Mr. Blum’s Pudding (2014) came out through Penny-Ante Editions. He authored the introduction to Wallace Berman: American Aleph from the Michael Kohn Gallery in 2016.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tosh-growing-up-in-wallace-bermans-world/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Oakland First Friday Teen Poetry Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:TEEN POETRY OPEN MIC (7-9pm) \nBring your poems\, verses\, spoken word pieces and prose to share at our Teen Open Mic\, hosted by Vice Oakland Youth Poet Laureate Samuel Getachew! \nFeaturing special guest performance by: \nRISE Next Gen Voices – an Oakland-based a cappella group for young singers (ages 14-18) led by Lisa Forkish\, renowned a cappella arranger and director of Vocal Rush. \nOpen mic sign up begins at 7pm. First seven poets who sign up are guaranteed a spot in the open mic. Open mic begins at 7:30pm. Must be 19 years or younger. \nIN THE SPACE ALL NIGHT \nMusic spun by DJ XCAIROCITOSX \nTiny bookmaking activities for all!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-first-friday-teen-poetry-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:Elena Schneider & Caitlin Rosenthal - - The Occupation of Havana & Accounting for Slavery
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Elena Schneider and Caitlin Rosenthal to discuss their new new books The Occupation of Havana and Accounting for Slavery\, on Friday\, February 1st at 7pm. \nThe Occupation of Havana offers a nuanced and poignantly human account of the British capture and Spanish recovery of this coveted Caribbean city. The book explores both the interconnected histories of the British and Spanish empires and the crucial role played by free people of color and the enslaved in the creation and defense of Havana. Tragically\, these men and women would watch their promise of freedom and greater rights vanish in the face of massive slave importation and increased sugar production upon Cuba’s return to Spanish rule. By linking imperial negotiations with events in Cuba and their consequences\, Elena Schneider sheds new light on the relationship between slavery and empire at the dawn of the Age of Revolutions. \nAccounting for Slavery is a unique contribution to the decades-long effort to understand New World slavery’s complex relationship with capitalism. Through careful analysis of plantation records\, Caitlin Rosenthal explores the development of quantitative management practices on West Indian and Southern plantations. She shows how planter-capitalists built sophisticated organizational structures and even practiced an early form of scientific management. They subjected enslaved people to experiments\, such as allocating and reallocating labor from crop to crop\, planning meals and lodging\, and carefully recording daily productivity. The incentive strategies they crafted offered rewards but also threatened brutal punishment. \n  \n* * * \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHORS \nElena Schneider is a historian of Latin America and the Atlantic World. Her teaching focuses on Cuba and the Caribbean\, comparative colonialism and slavery\, and the Black Atlantic. Professor Schneider’s research explores the ways that war\, trade\, and slavery integrated the Atlantic world across regional and what would later become national boundaries. \nCaitlin Rosenthal is a historian of 18th and 19th century U.S. history. Her research focuses on the development of management practices\, especially those based on data analysis. She seeks to blend qualitative and quantitative methods and to combine insights from business history\, economic history\, and labor history. Before coming to Berkeley\, she was the Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Business School\, and before that she worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Company. Her work is motivated by the hope that more complete histories of management can help us to explore deep political and ethical questions\, many of which continue to face modern businesspeople. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nFriday\, February 1\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elena-schneider-caitlin-rosenthal-the-occupation-of-havana-accounting-for-slavery/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Kristen Tracy with Daniel Handler / Half-Hazard
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is pleased to host Kristen Tracy for her first book of poems\, Half-Hazard\, winner of the Emily Dickinson First Book Award from the Poetry Foundation. Joining Kristen in conversation is Daniel Handler. Please join us! \n  \nHalf-Hazard is a book of near misses\, would-be tragedies\, and luck. As Kristen Tracy writes in the title poem\, “Dangers here. Perils there. It’ll go how it goes.” The collection follows Tracy’s wide curiosity\, from her growing up in a small Mormon farming community to her exodus out into the forbidden world\, where she finds snakes\, car accidents\, adulterers\, meteors\, and death-marked mice. These wry\, observant narratives are accompanied by a ringing lyricism and Tracy’s own knack at noticing what’s so funny about trouble and her natural impulse to want to put all the broken things back together. Full of wrong turns\, false loves\, quashed beliefs\, and a menagerie of animals\, Half-Hazardintroduces a vibrant new voice in American poetry\, one of resilience\, faith\, and joy. \n  \n\n  \nKristen Tracy is a poet and acclaimed author of more than a dozen novels for young readers. Her poems have been published in Poetry\, Prairie Schooner\, and the Threepenny Review\, among other magazines. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son. \n  \n  \nDaniel Handler is the author of the novels We Are Pirates\, The Basic Eight\,Watch Your Mouth\, Adverbs\, and Why We Broke Up\, a 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book. He is responsible for many books for children\, including the thirteen-volume sequence A Series of Unfortunate Events and the four-book series All the Wrong Questions. He is married to the illustrator Lisa Brown\, and lives with her and their son in San Francisco. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event\, with mature themes. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of Half-Hazard\, and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kristen-tracy-with-daniel-handler-half-hazard/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING
DESCRIPTION:STRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n \nAddison 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)\n\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n \nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂\n \n \n\n\n\n\nAfter the reading\, join us for dinner if you’d like at a nearby restaurant\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n(PAST) SPECIAL POETALK READING EVENT:\n\nSaturday\, November 11\, 2017\, 3:00-5:00 PM\n\nat the TAREA HALL PITTMAN SOUTH BRANCH\, BERKELEY PUBLIC LIBRARY\,\n1901 Russell St.\, Berkeley (a short walk from Ashby BART station).\n\nThe event featured readings from POETALK contributors (2016-Summer2017 Edition)\, including:\nELIZABETH ALFORD\, AL AVERBACH\, JAN DEDERICK\, STEPHEN KOPEL\,\nJEANNE LUPTON\, BRITT PETER\, LISA SMALL\, GARY TURCHIN.\n\nThere was also an OPEN MIC.\n\nThis FREE event was open to the public and not sponsored by the Berkeley Public Library.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bapc-open-poetry-reading-3/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190103T082110Z
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SUMMARY:Fourteen Hills Presents Kimberly Reyes
DESCRIPTION:Kimberly Reyes reads from her new collection Life During Wartime\, winner of the 2018 Michael Rubin Book Award. With additional readings from Kar Johnson\, Truong Tran\, Max Shanley and Alanna Rae. Sponsored by Fourteen Hills. \nKimberly Reyes is a poet and essayist who has received fellowships from the Poetry Foundation\, Columbia University\, Callaloo\, and San Francisco State University. Her nonfiction has appeared or is upcoming in The Associated Press\, The Atlantic\, Entertainment Weekly\, Time.com\, The New York Post\, The Village Voice\, Alternative Press\, ESPN the Magazine\, NY1 News\, Entropy\, Medium\, and The Best American Poetry blog\, among other places. Her poetry appears widely online and in journals\, including poets.org\, The Feminist Wire\, The Acentos Review\, RHINO\, Columbia Journal\, Yemassee\, Eleven Eleven\, and New American Writing. Her full-length poetry book Running to Stand Still is forthcoming from Omnidawn.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fourteen-hills-presents-kimberly-reyes/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190202T200000
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SUMMARY:City Lights presents "The Poetic City" at the Night of Ideas.
DESCRIPTION:City Lights presents “The Poetic City” at the Night of Ideas.\nSaturday\, February 2nd\, 8:00-9:00pm\, San Francisco\, CA: SF Library\, Main Branch\nhttps://www.nightofideassf.com/\n  \nWhat is the “Poetic City” of San Francisco? The City at our feet\, the City behind us\, the one in our heads\, the one breathing down our necks? Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going? \nPoems\, songs\, anti-poems\, and more from an inspired crew of local artists and writers including: Julien Poirier\, Ash Tré Philips\, Kim Shuck\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Robert Andrew Perez\, Ava Koohbor\, Lisa Gray-Garcia\, Josiah Luís Alderete\, Thea Matthews\, Jack Hirschman\, and Flavia Mora. \nJoin us on February 2nd\, 2019 when the San Francisco Public Library\, SFMOMA\, and the French Consulate in SF unite to present a seven-hour marathon of debate\, performance\, readings\, screenings\, and music featuring big thinkers from SF and beyond as we envision the “city of the future.”  This event is free and open to all!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/city-lights-presents-the-poetic-city-at-the-night-of-ideas/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, Main Branch\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190202T200000
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DTSTAMP:20260405T190055
CREATED:20190112T050452Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190112T050452Z
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SUMMARY:What If: The Fiction of the Future
DESCRIPTION:GET TICKETS\nFantasy and science fiction stories have long embraced the darker themes of a dystopian future\, and our fascination continues unabated in recent films and TV shows such as Children of Men\, Blade Runner 2049\, Black Mirror\, and The Handmaid’s Tale. Do these narratives speak to our fears of what the future will bring\, or do they reflect the current reality in which the authors live and write? Is futuristic fiction pure escapism\, or can it alter our destiny? Discussing these questions and more will be Bay Area authors Charlie Jane Anders (All the Birds in the Sky; The City in the Middle of the Night)\, and Meg Elison (The Book of the Unnamed Midwife)\, in conversation with Nilgun Bayraktar\, a writer and professor at California College of the Arts. \n\n\n\nModerators \n\n \nNilgun Bayraktar\nNilgun Bayraktar is an assistant professor of film in the Visual Studies Program at California College of the Arts. She received her Ph.D. in Performance Studies with a designated emphasis in Film & Media Studies from the University of California\, Berkeley. Her work focuses on migrant… Read More →\n\n\nAuthors \n\n \nCharlie Jane Anders\nCharlie Jane Anders is the former editor-in-chief of io9.com\, the extraordinarily popular Gawker Media site devoted to science fiction and fantasy. Her SF and fantasy debut novel\, All the Birds in the Sky\, won the 2017 Nebula Awards for Best Novel and was a finalist for the 2017 Hugo… Read More →\n\n \nMeg Elison\nMeg Elison is a science fiction author and feminist essayist. Her debut novel\, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife\, won the 2014 Philip K. Dick award. Her second novel\, The Book of Etta\, was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick\, and both were longlisted for the James A. Tiptree award. She… Read More →\n\n\n\n \n\nSaturday February 2\, 2019 8:00pm – 9:00pm\nSan Francisco Public Library\, main branch\, 1st Floor Deaf Services Center 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/what-if-the-fiction-of-the-future/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, Main Branch\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:David Thomson / Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon with David Thomson\, the celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film\, for his new book Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire. Please join us! \nFilm can make us want things we can not have. But\, while sometimes rapturous\, the interaction of onscreen beauty and private desire speaks to a crisis in American culture\, one that pits delusions of male supremacy against feminist awakening and the spirit of gay resistance. Combining criticism\, his encyclopedic knowledge of film history\, and memoir\, David Thomson examines how film has found the fault lines in traditional masculinity and helped to point the way past it toward a more nuanced understanding of what it means to be a person desiring others. Ranging from advertising to pornography\, Rudolph Valentino to Moonlight\, Rock Hudson to Call Me By Your Name\, Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant to Phantom Thread\, Thomson shows us the art and the artists we love under a new light. He illuminates the way in which film as art\, entertainment\, and business has been a polite cover for a kind of erotic séance. And he makes us see how the way we watch our movies is a kind of training for how we try to live. \n  \n\n  \nDavid Thomson is the author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film\, Moments That Made the Movies\, and the pioneering novel Suspects\, which was peopled with characters from film. Author photo by Lucy Gray. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens with doors at 2pm; event starts at 4pm. \n  \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Sleeping with Strangers\, and/or any of David’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-thomson-sleeping-with-strangers-how-the-movies-shaped-desire/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poet Laureate of San Francisco\, Kim Shuck reading new poetry with E.K. Keith
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \ncelebrating their recent books of poetry \nClouds Running In – by Kim Shuck – from Taurean Horn Press \n“‘You will know the poets by the dirt under our nails\,’ writes Kim Shuck in CLOUDS RUNNING IN\, a spirited\, witty\, moving book of poetry that sings the mystical connections in everyday life. Shuck’s vivid imagery balances dark moods and self-deprecating humor. Drawing on her Cherokee and Polish roots\, Shuck offers us the bittersweet music of lyrically expressed memory and the generational trauma of the Native American holocaust\, lived in nerve and bone.”— Linda Rodriguez \nOrdinary Villains – by EK Keith – from Nomadic Press \nThe world is full of good people who do bad things—drunk drivers\, dumpster divers\, absent lovers\, astronauts\, waitstaff\, aunts and uncles\, and people who have cell phones. Is that you? If you’ve ever secretly enjoyed the effects of climate change or thrown away your recycling—even though you worry about the future—you might find a funhouse mirror in Ordinary Villains. \nKim Shuck is a silly protein. She has been writing  since before she could write and arting longer than that. Raised in and by San Francisco\, Shuck takes each sidewalk square personally. She is the poet of two full length collections of poems\, soon to be three\, maybe four. She is also author of  one narrative in prose vignettes. In June of 2017 Kim was named the 7th poet laureate of San Francisco. \nE. K. Keith is a Latinx poet who calls San Francisco home\, but her hometown is Houston where she learned to write in the sprawl. She performs her poems on the street corner and takes the mic at coffee shops\, bars\, and radio stations. Her work appears online and in magazines on all three coasts and places beyond\, and ORDINARY VILLAINS is her first book of poetry. E.K. organizes Poems Under the Dome\, San Francisco’s annual open mic celebration of Poetry Month inside City Hall. Her work as a public school librarian creates opportunities for her to make the world a better place every day. \nPraise for Ordinary Villains: \n“Against a dystopic nationalism come early\, E. K. Keith’s poetry is a tyrant’s headquarters on fire. She seems to know all of the hidden tunnels of language. With incredible musical beauty to her poems\, she reveals the mind behind a blues chord’s anger\, and the omniscience of those who know its progression. A muralist in canyons of love and family\, an elder playing with matches in the company lobby; Keith’s poetry has unfathomable grace. She is your big sister’s insight and true rebel guidance. Keith knows the circuit breakers in the jungle and will lead you out.” \n– Tongo Eisen-Martin\, author of Heaven is All Goodbyes \n“Keith has that rare and precious combination of a loving heart\, a scalpel sharp grasp of politics and a trickster’s sense of humor. E. K. is a first draft pick for the list of people you’d want with you come the zombie apocalypse. Read the book and find out why.” \n– Kim Shuck\, 7th Poet Laureate of San Francisco \n“Ordinary Villains is the stunning debut collection by E. K. Keith. Welcome to E. K.’s America: you might recognize it. It is an America that is poisoning itself; an America that is forcing young girls to hate their bodies; an America at war with itself and others; an America that believes in a dream that has become a nightmare for most. Many of these poems are rough in their language but sound vaguely familiar. Why? Because they have the ring of truth about them\, a sound that is recognizable anywhere and by anyone. In the world of I\, a married man curses at his date at the bar\, another man kills himself with heroin and tortures his family\, a girl tortures herself to be attractive and everyone follows the American dream—drunk—burning fossil fuel up and down the highways. These are musical but plain-speaking poems that concern themselves with ordinary lives as they are being lived in the 21st century and are peopled with ordinary\, flawed sinners: people like you and me. These pieces are chanted like spells and they weave their magic on the reader: once you read them you will never forget them.” \n– Natasha Dennerstein\, author of Seahorse and About a Girl
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poet-laureate-of-san-francisco-kim-shuck-reading-new-poetry-with-e-k-keith/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20190130T000120Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190130T000120Z
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SUMMARY:The Poetry Center presents Vincent Katz & Jane Gregory
DESCRIPTION:4:30pm at The Poetry Center\nSan Francisco State University\n1600 Holloway Avenue\nSan Francisco\nfree
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-poetry-center-presents-vincent-katz-jane-gregory/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Shampoo Poetry":MAILTO:delraycross@gmail.com.
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CREATED:20190130T000258Z
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SUMMARY:Paul Hoover & Joseph Lease
DESCRIPTION:7:00pm\nPaul Hoover & Joseph Lease read\nat Alley Cat Books\n3036 24th Street\nSan Francisco
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-hoover-joseph-lease/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Shampoo Poetry":MAILTO:delraycross@gmail.com.
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190204T190000
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CREATED:20190130T232607Z
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SUMMARY:Tess Brown-Lavoie\, Leena Joshi\, Victoria Ruiz and others!
DESCRIPTION:Come out for a night of poetry! \nTess Brown-Lavoie writes and farms in Providence\, RI. Lite Year\, winner of the Fence Modern Poets Series\, is her first book. Tess cofounded Sidewalk Ends Farm in 2011\, and is President of the National Young Farmers Coalition. \nLeena Joshi’s writing and art practice explore the relationship between the changing self and its environment through negotiations of genre and medium\, with a focus on feminist\, anti-colonial\, and immigrant ideation. Her written work has appeared in The Felt\, Monday\, Tagvverk\, La Norda Specialo\, Poor Claudia\, and bluestockings magazine\, among others. She is an MFA candidate in Art Practice at the University of California\, Berkeley. www.leenajoshi.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tess-brown-lavoie-leena-joshi-victoria-ruiz-and-others/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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