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SUMMARY:Tyehimba Jess
DESCRIPTION:Tyehimba Jess is the author of two books of poetry\, Leadbelly and Olio which won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize\, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award\, The Midland Society Author’s Award in Poetry\, and received an Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.  It was also nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the PEN Jean Stein Book Award\, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.  Leadbelly was a winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series and named one of the “Best Poetry Books of 2005” by both The Library Journal and Black Issues Book Review.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tyehimba-jess/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:great weather for MEDIA Book Party & Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the publication of great weather for MEDIA’s latest anthology\, Suitcase of Chrysanthemums and meet an indie press looking for new voices. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing contributors and special guests Cathyann Cusimano\, Cassandra Dallett\, Carol Dorf\, Heikki Huotari\, Kit Kennedy\, and Richard Loranger\, plus editors David Lawton and Jane Ormerod. \nWe start with a short open mic. Please arrive early to sign up. \nSuitcase of Chrysanthemums is an exhilarating collection of contemporary poetry and fiction from established and emerging writers across the United States and beyond. Submissions for our next anthology are open until January 15th 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/great-weather-for-media-book-party-open-mic/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Adam Hochschild
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nLessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays \npublished by University of California Press \nIn this rich collection\, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all is his concern for social justice and the people who have fought for it. The articles here range from a California gun show to a Finnish prison\, from a Congolese center for rape victims to the ruins of gulag camps in the Soviet Arctic\, from a stroll through construction sites with an ecologically pioneering architect in India to a day on the campaign trail with Nelson Mandela. Hochschild also talks about the writers he loves\, from Mark Twain to John McPhee\, and explores such far-reaching topics as why so much history is badly written\, what bookshelves tell us about their owners\, and his front-row seat for the shocking revelation in the 1960s that the CIA had been secretly controlling dozens of supposedly independent organizations. \nWith the skills of a journalist\, the knowledge of a historian\, and the heart of an activist\, Hochschild shares the stories of people who took a stand against despotism\, spoke out against unjust wars and government surveillance\, and dared to dream of a better and more just world. \nAdam Hochschild is a journalist and author who has written on issues of human rights and social justice. His books include the bestselling King Leopold’s Ghost. He has been a finalist twice for the National Book Critics Circle Award and once for the National Book Award. He has been awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and is a two-time recipient of the Gold Medal of the California Book Awards. \nWhat has been said about the work of Adam Hochschild: \n“Adam Hochschild’s brilliant and sprawling books on inhumanity and injustice have made him an international treasure. Now\, with Lessons from a Dark Time\, we have Hochschild in more bite-sized (well\, meal-sized) form. His journalism ranges widely\, literally around the world\, but it’s always written with the same careful craft and indignant eloquence that we’ve come to admire so much.”—Jeffrey Toobin\, author of American Heiress; staff writer\, New Yorker;and chief legal analyst\, CNN \n“This book reveals Adam Hochschild’s journalism in all its glory. His facts are like jewels\, luminous in their importance. As a reporter and historian\, he turns facts into stories so dynamic and vivid that I couldn’t put the book down. This is important work by a gifted writer at the top of his game.”—Elizabeth Farnsworth\, author\, filmmaker\, former chief correspondent\, PBS NewsHour \n“Lessons From a Dark Time is an elegant collection that showcases all of Adam Hochschild’s singular talents as a master essayist\, historian\, literary critic\, and narrative writer. In search of a fair and humane world\, he tackles big issues of social injustice by focusing on particular people\, giving us their lives and travails with the grace and nuance of a wise storyteller. These pieces are special and enduring—a chronicle of our time\, past and present\, told always on an intimate human scale.”—Barry Siegel\, Pulitzer Prize winner; Director\, Literary Journalism Program\, University of California\, Irvine \n“Lessons from a Dark Time offers us an inspiring but clear-eyed perspective on what has been—and what can be—accomplished through resistance\, persistence\, and vision. A wonderful book for our time.”—Eric Stover\, Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center at the University of California\, Berkeley and coauthor of Hiding in Plain Sight: The Pursuit of War Criminals from Nuremberg to the War on Terror \n“One wanders through this collection like the proverbial kid in a candy store. All the essential issues of our time are here\, from colonialism to surveillance to development to McCarthyism to the life of the revolutionary\, all shaped brilliantly into unforgettable stories\, all brightly illuminated by Hochschild’s bracing intelligence and sparkling prose. Start at Kerala or the Congo and finish in Catalonia or Berkeley. Dip in here and there\, or read straight from first page to last. Whatever path you take\, Lessons from a Dark Time is a delightful\, vital book.”—Mark Danner\, author of Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War \n“These timely\, trenchant essays offer a concentrated sample of Adam Hochschild’s unique gift for illuminating the history of present-day moral conflicts. Their range is amazing\, from the Congo to Siberia to Berkeley\, but they are united by Hochschild’s wry\, compassionate sensibility and voice.”—Robert Worth\, author of A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil\, from Tahrir Square to ISIS \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adam-hochschild-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sally McGrane
DESCRIPTION:Sally McGrane\n\n\nClement: Sally McGrane\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, November 1\, 2018 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will be held at our Clement St. location. \nSally McGrane discusses her new novel\, Moscow at Midnight. \n\nPraise for Moscow at Midnight \n\n“Everyone’s talking about Russia but this is a book that really takes you there\, a crime thriller with a truly documentary eye\, full of insights about Russian people\, politics and culture- while never failing to intrigue and excite.” —Peter Pomerantsev\, author of Nothing is True and Everything is Possible \n\n“A worthy successor to John le Carré . . . A fast-paced spy thriller\, full of unexpected twists and turns.” —Buchbord  \n\n“Great! Tense right up to the final page . . . A multi-layered\, thrilling novel that is difficult to resist and hard to put down\, even at the end.” —Süddeutsche Zeitung \n\nAbout Moscow at Midnight \n\nDownsized by the CIA\, Max Rushmore is re-hired by a private contractor—operating on a tightened budget in a world of ratcheting tensions—to return to Moscow and investigate the death of a beautiful nuclear waste disposal expert. But Max\, whose non-transferable skills include never having met a Russian he couldn’t drink under the table\, soon uncovers all sorts of inconsistencies: could it be that she is not dead at all? So begins a game of cat-and-mouse that takes the agent across Russia as he follows his only clue: a rare Siberian diamond. With all the breathless tension of classic espionage novels\, Moscow at Midnight is both humorous and utterly enthralling—a fast-paced page-turner of the old school. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sally-mcgrane/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:9th Ave: Anita Felicelli and Peg Alford Pursell
DESCRIPTION:Anita Felicelli discusses her debut story collection\, Love Songs for a Lost Continent with Peg Alford Pursell. \n\nPraise for Love Songs for a Lost Continent \n\n“Love Songs for a Lost Continent is an expansive\, inventive meditation on the shifting landscape of identity\, on how people can be shaped and reshaped by violence and power and love. Anita Felicelli has a singular eye for the moments that transfigure lives\, and this tremendous debut collection announces the arrival of a stunning new voice.”– Laura van den Berg\, author of The Third Hotel \n  \n“Love Songs for a Lost Continent is the kind of work that we all need to be reading right now. Filled with heart and heat\, these beautiful stories pursue and reinvent ideas of home and self in ways that push our national conversation on identity.”- Bich Minh Nguyen\, author of Pioneer Girl and Stealing Buddha’s Dinner \n  \n“[This is] the book we needed to read yesterday… a book we will still be reading tomorrow.”- Porochista Khakpour\, author of Sick and Sons and Other Flammable Objects \n\nAbout Love Songs for a Lost Continent \n\nAnita Felicelli’s debut collection delivers a dazzling array of precisely drawn characters searching for identity in the seemingly narrow spaces of their everyday lives. \n  \nFrom the glittering heat of India to the palm-lined streets of Silicon Valley\, the backwoods of Kentucky to the vanilla-bean fields of Madagascar\, immigrants\, daughters\, and lovers explore what it means to lose and to love\, to continually reinvent oneself while honoring the personal histories and lost continents that shape us all.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-ave-anita-felicelli-and-peg-alford-pursell/
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:great weather for MEDIA Book Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the publication of great sweather for MEDIA’s latest anthology\, Suitcase of Chrysanthemums and meet an indie press looking for new voices. \nFeaturing contributors and special guests Zoë Christopher\, Kit Kennedy\, Calder G. Lorenz\, Richard Loranger\, Mary Mackey\, and William Taylor Jr.\, plus editors David Lawton and Jane Ormerod. \nSuitcase of Chrysanthemums is an exhilarating collection of contemporary poetry and fiction from established and emerging writers across the United States and beyond. Submissions for our next anthology are open until January 15 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/great-weather-for-media-book-release-party/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING
DESCRIPTION:Upcoming First Saturday Readings in 2018:\n \nOctober 6\, November 3\, December 1\n\n3:00 – 5:00 PM\n\n\n\n \n \nSTRAWBERRY 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 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bapc-open-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poets Cody-Rose Clevidence\, Margaret Ross\, and Rohan DaCosta
DESCRIPTION:Hey! Poets! Friends of poets! People dragged to poetry readings for various personal and professional reasons! You know what time it is! It’s time for an amazing reading\, courtesy of Cody-Rose Clevidence\, Margaret Ross\, and Rohan DaCosta. \nCody-Rose Clevidence lives in the Arkansas Ozarks with their dog\, pearl. Their most recent book is FLUNG THRONE from Ahsahta (2018). Their first book\, Beast Feast\, also from Ahsahta\, was a finalist for the 2016 CLMP Firecracker award in poetry and their little chapbook\, Perverse\, All Monstrous\, is out from Nion Editions. \nMargaret Ross was born in New York City. She holds degrees from Harvard and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has received fellowships from the Fulbright Program\, the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference\, Vermont Studio Center and Yaddo. She is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She has taught creative writing at the University of Iowa\, the International Writing Program and Yale. Her first book\, A Timeshare\, was selected by Timothy Donnelly for the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Prize. \nRohan DaCosta is a multi-disciplinary artist from the city of Chicago\, working primarily through photography\, writing\, and song. Often approaching his work with great emotional sensitivity\, Rohan explores complex dilemmas\, and frequencies found in lovers\, in families\, in ecosystems\, and in places. In his candid street photography and in his poetry\, Rohan keenly examines intimacy and relativity\, often finding the personal angle to political problems. In verse\, he expresses the profound joy and quandary of black life in America. He is the founder of and curator for GRACEGOD The Collective\, which celebrates the unique work of artists\, craftsmen\, and activists from all over the world. His work in graphic design and clothing has been featured as limited edition merchandise at The Koppel Project in London. His photography has been featured at The Flight Deck Gallery as a solo exhibition titled Ordinary People (2018). His photography has also been featured at Root Division Gallery as part of a group exhibition titled Let Me Be a Witness (2018). His book of photography\, poetry\, and song\, The Edge of Fruitvale\, was published by Nomadic Press on April 28\, 2018. He was recently awarded the Individual Artist Funding Grant by the City of Oakland for his upcoming show\, Trap : Trauma : Transformation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-cody-rose-clevidence-margaret-ross-and-rohan-dacosta/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The Heart of the Goddess: Art\, Myth and Meditations on the World’s Sacred Feminine
DESCRIPTION:The Sacred Feminine is rising all over the planet\, and with it\, the values of compassion\, peacemaking\, nurturance and love of the Earth. There is renewed awareness of feminine expressions that have been revered for millenia. \nHallie 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. \nAusten 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-2/
LOCATION:East West Bookstore\, 324 Castro Street\, Mountain View\, 94041
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Silent Book Club SF
DESCRIPTION:Bring a book\, bring a friend\, and join us at the Bindery for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club\, there’s no assigned reading. All books and all ages are welcome. \n  \nWe’ll kick off introvert happy hour at 4pm with some light chatter and informal book recommendations before settling in to read quietly\, but if you’d rather just pull up a chair and read\, by all means do so. No one will be shushed or shamed. The bar will be open for late afternoon libations. \n  \nHappy reading and hope to see you there! \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-silent-book-club-sf/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: "Five Fingered Being" by Grace Rosario Perkins
DESCRIPTION:Join us at The Growlery in San Francisco to celebrate Grace Rosario Perkins’ new book of paintings\, “Five Fingered Being”. The book is 52 pages\, 8×11″ and includes a short essay by Grace at the end. This book turned out so rad\, and we’re really excited to share it with you! We’ll have some drinks and snacks to share\, and Grace will be hanging some new work for the occasion. \nThe gallery at The Growlery itself will be open from 1 pm onward with the actual book launch 6-9 pm! \nCome hang out!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-five-fingered-being-by-grace-rosario-perkins/
LOCATION:The Growlery\, 235 Broderick\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Clark Coolidge
DESCRIPTION:Clark Coolidge reads from Poet (Pressed Wafer) and other works. \nAuthor of more than twenty books of poetry\, Clark Coolidge has occupied a singular place in American letters since the mid-1960s. An unparalleled influence on the wider avant- garde—the Language Poets\, the second and third generation New York School\, and whole movements of visual artists\, musicians\, and linguists\, Coolidge is from Providence\, Rhode Island. Since 1997 he has lived in Petaluma\, California. \n“When I was a Poet / I had no doubt / knew the Ins & Outs of / All & Everything”–so wrote David Meltzer in the title poem of his 2011 collection\, When I Was a Poet. Clark Coolidge heard this poem many times\, in different versions\, over the years\, often as a result of giving readings with Meltzer. He began to ask himself\, What is a poet? Pressed Wafer is proud to present the fruits of Coolidge’s ruminations: a 310-page serial poem\, the bulk of which was written between 2014 and 2016\, titled POET and dedicated to Meltzer. “I give instructions in my poems / you must follow them to the ends of / tura lura independence platform / forget any leaden attempts along the way / this is fortissimo serious / there’ll be no popcorn.” Luckily for us\, “fortissimo serious” means altogether too exuberant to pay bashful court to the muse. These delightful–and frequently hilarious–meditations on the ontologically precarious condition of poethood could only have been written by someone who has spent a lifetime productively writing and reading poems–someone\, moreover\, who is as uninterested in self-regard as they are in penning a lifeless line. Coolidge follows the direction of the music\, keeping his poems just beyond him but within reach. “The poet steps to the beat of his own length.” And his pearls of advice are beyond price: “won’t get far with a title like / Heaven’s Penis.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clark-coolidge-3/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays "Talking About Theatre with Lily Janiak & Joel Mullennix"
DESCRIPTION:Theatre lovers everywhere! Come by Folio Books\, 3957 24th St.\, Monday\, November 5 at 7pm for a special treat. Maxine Einhorn will be speaking with critic Lily Janiak and director/actor Joel Mullennix about their individual perspectives on theatre at Odd Mondays’ “Talking About Theatre.” Janiak is the theatre critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. Mullennix is a director and performer at the Word for Word Performing Arts Company in San Francisco. How does a professional reviewer/critic watch and evaluate a production? How and why does the director choose to work with a particular play? How does the performer get into character? Bring questions and hear about upcoming Bay Area productions. Free admission. Free refreshments. \nABOUT THE PANELISTS:\nLily Janiak joined the San Francisco Chronicle as theater critic in May 2016. Previously\, her writing appeared in Theatre Bay Area\, American Theatre\, SF Weekly\, the Village Voice\, and HowlRound. She holds a B.A. in theater studies from Yale and an M.A. in drama from San Francisco State University. \nJoel Mullennix is a performer and director with numerous performance credits\, especially with Word for Word Performing Arts Company\, both at the Magic Theater and Z Space in San Francisco. He won the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for directing Olive Kitteridge and has directed numerous Word for Word productions\, such as Stories by Alice Munro\, Which is More Than I Can Say About Some People\, and most recently Deep Kiss by Tobias Wolff at Word for Word’s 25-Year Anniversary Performance at Z Space. \nMaxine Einhorn is a Londoner\, an educator\, having lectured and managed a department in colleges in inner London for over 25 years before coming to San Francisco and joining the Education Department at KQED Public Media. She has a B.A. in History from the University of Sussex and an M.A. in Film and TV from the University of London and has taught film studies\, communications\, and media literacy. She has researched and written education guides for independent film productions in London and San Francisco and\, now retired\, is a senior programmer with the Mostly British Film Festival.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-talking-about-theatre-with-lily-janiak-joel-mullennix/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tim Mohr in conversation with Penelope Houston
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by Rock ‘n Roll Book Club in conjunction with City Lights and Algonquin Books \ncelebrating the release of \n\nBurning Down the Haus: Punk Rock\, Revolution\, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall \nby Tim Mohr \nPublished by Algonquin Books \n\nIt began with a handful of East Berlin teens who heard the Sex Pistols on a British military radio broadcast to troops in West Berlin in 1980\, and it ended with the collapse of the East German dictatorship. Punk rock was a life-changing discovery. The buzz-saw guitars\, the messed-up clothing and hair\, the rejection of society and the DIY approach to building a new one: In their gray surroundings\, where everyone’s future was preordained by some communist apparatchik\, punk represented a revolutionary philosophy—quite literally\, as it turned out. \nBut as the East German punks became more numerous\, more visible\, and more rebellious\, security forces—including the dreaded secret police\, the Stasi—targeted them. They were spied on by friends and even members of their own families; they were expelled from schools and jobs; they were beaten by police and imprisoned. Instead of backing down\, the punks fought back\, playing an indispensable role in the underground movements that helped bring down the Berlin Wall. \nThe story of East German punk rock is about much more than music; it is a story of extraordinary bravery in the face of one of the most oppressive regimes in history. Rollicking\, cinematic\, deeply researched\, highly readable\, and thrillingly topical\, Burning Down the Haus brings to life the young men and women who successfully fought authoritarianism three chords at a time—and is a fiery testament to the irrepressible spirit of resistance. \nTim Mohr is an award-winning literary translator of authors such as Alina Bronsky\, Wolfgang Herrndorf\, and Charlotte Roche. He has also collaborated on memoirs by musicians Gil Scott-Heron\, Duff McKagan of Guns n’ Roses\, and Paul Stanley of KISS. His own writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review\, New York Magazine\, and Inked\, among other publications\, and he spent several years as a staff editor at Playboy magazine\, where he edited Hunter S. Thompson\, John Dean\, and Harvey Pekar\, among others. Prior to starting his writing career he earned his living as a club DJ in Berlin. \nPenelope Houston is one of the pioneering women of American punk music. As the lead singer and songwriter for the seminal San Francisco Punk band The Avengers\, she trailblazed the first wave of American punk influencing many future musicians. Music critic Greil Marcus described The Avengers as “San Francisco’s best punk band – in their moments\, they were\, you knew\, better than any other band playing that night anywhere in the world.” Penelope’s later solo forays into acoustic and electric music blended the influences of punk\, folk\, rock\, blues and americana leading to the release of over 11 albums. She makes her home in San Francisco. \nAbout the Rock ‘n Roll Book Club \nAdvance praise for Burning Down the Haus: \n“The Best Punk Book since Please Kill Me.”\n—Legs McNeil\, author of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk \n“Burning Down the Haus is not just an immersion into the punk rock scene of East Berlin\, it’s the story of the cultural and political battles that have shaped the world we live in today.  Tim Mohr delivers the soundtrack for the revolution that we’ve all been waiting for.”\n—DW Gibson\, author of The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the Twenty-First Century \n“In East Germany\, where non-conformity meant jail time\, punks’ ripped clothes and spiked hair were a show of courage and defiance. Squatting in derelict apartments and burning their lyrics before the secret police could get ahold of them\, these teenagers wrote the soundtrack for a rebellion that helped bring down the Berlin Wall. Tim Mohr tells the story of their DIY revolution with the thoroughness of a historian and the panache of a cultural insider. Burning Down the Haus is a riveting cultural history that also serves as a rallying call against authoritarianism everywhere.”\n—Ruth Franklin\, author of the NBCC Award-winning Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life \n“The true story of how teenage kicks turned into political opposition. With meticulous research and impassioned prose\, Tim Mohr brings to life the saga of a bunch of East German punk rock kids who broke the state that wanted to break them. A book to warm an old punk’s heart.”\n—Claire Dederer\, author of Love and Trouble \n“Equal parts terrifying and exhilarating\, Burning Down the House is a fabulously alive history of punk rock behind the Iron Curtain\, where simply dressing like a punk could get you hauled in by Stasi\, the dreaded East German secret police. Mohr ties the fearless music-driven resistance to authoritarianism and mass surveillance in the 1980s to our current fraught times\, showing how even the most formidable forms of oppression can be shaken by highly motivated\, creative kids with riotous rage and a driving beat. A thrilling\, inspiring read.”\n—Rob Spillman\, editor of Tin House and author of All Tomorrow’s Parties \n“An appealing\, lively cultural history worth reading in an era of corporate punk nostalgia.”\n—Kirkus Reviews \n“You say you want a revolution? Tim Mohr’s spellbinding Burning Down the Haus reveals how a bunch of young East German punks in the 1980s made their wild music into a clarion loud enough to topple the Berlin Wall. With a sharp eye for the prosaic brutality of the repressive state and an ear locked on the furies in the music\, Mohr has crafted an unforgettable story that is part cultural history\, part political thriller and entirely true.”\n—Peter Ames Carlin\, author of Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon \n“Berlin has always been a crazy city\, and a dramatic stage for the epic struggle between powerful ideological forces and the individual desire to be free. In case you weren’t sure just how political music\, fashion\, and a certain attitude can be: read this book. Burning Down the Haus is wonderful.”\n—Norman Ohler\, author of Blitzed \n“This is a crazily inspiring\, strange\, beautiful story that deserves to be remembered\, and Mohr is a wonderfully compassionate writer. What a combination!”\n—Johann Hari\, NYT bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections \n“Tim Mohr’s book details a fascinating period of time in the history of punk music. I am so glad he documented that moment in history for punk rock and for the world.”\n—Greg Gaffin\, singer/songwriter for Bad Religion and author of Population Wars and Anarchy Evolution
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tim-mohr-in-conversation-with-penelope-houston/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning
DESCRIPTION:On November 5\, Quiet Lightning returns for a series of 9 surprises: \nPeter Bullen\nShirley Huey\nFernando Meisenhalter\nMaia Bull\nCassandra Dallett\nSarah Henry\nSean Taylor\nPaolo Bicchieri\nBrian Kirven \n  \nThis is a FREE\, all-ages show! WHERE IS IT? Ok ok: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou get it: Cupid’s Span in Rincon Park!!! \nMonday\, November 5\, 2018\nReadings begin at 7:30pm \nBut come early\, bring some dinner or a drink if you want\, it’s turn back the clock the night before so sunset will be *just after 5pm* … let’s do this together\, taking in the Bay Lights with a monster mixtape! \nThe first 100 people will receive a book featuring all of the selected writing and photography by Evan Karp. \nRSVP / invite a friend
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-5/
LOCATION:RIncon Rark\, The Embarcadero & Folsom St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:election Night with ZYZZYVA
DESCRIPTION:Election Night with Zyzzyva\nHosted by Oscar Villalon\, ZYZZYVA Managing Editor \nwith Nestor Gomez\, Matthew Zapruder\, Caille Millner\, Dean Rader\, Ismail Muhammad\, Vanessa Hua\, and D.A. Powell \nCome join a roster of ZYZZYVA contributors and friends of the journal as we follow the returns on the various congressional elections around the country and in our state. Featuring short readings spread out through the night. \nIssue No 13 – Of & About the Environment (the fall 2018 installement of Zyzzyva) will be on hand for sale that evening. \nThe issue includes work by: \nHéctor Tobar on living in Los Angeles\, before and after air quality regulations; Lauret Edith Savoy traces “the geology of us”; Juli Berwald on “the blob\,” the mysterious oceanic phenomenon that left destruction in its wake; Obi Kaufmann on the importance of reframing the language of conservation. \nArundhati Roy discusses with John Freeman her work as an activist and a writer\, and examines the great danger before us all. \nPoems by Jane Hirshfield\, John Sibley Williams\, Rebecca Foust\, Daniel Neff\, Maggie Millner\, Sophie Klahr\, and Emily Pinkerton. \nFiction by Ben Lasman (ceding the field of work to the robots)\, Manuel Muñoz (the vulnerability of those who work our fields)\, and Louis B. Jones (the tea compost isn’t the only rancidness found living off the grid). \nAnd More Fiction and Poetry: \nStories by Emma Copley Eisenberg\, Elena Graceffa\, and\, marking his First-Time-in-Print\, David Paul; poetry by Ruth Madievsky\, Jennie Malboeuf\, and Paul Wilner. \nArt: Featuring Obi Kaufmann’s watercolors of California’s fauna and flora. \n \nZYZZYVA’s first issue was published in 1985\, under founding editor Howard Junker. In 2011\, Laura Cogan became ZYZZYVA’s first new editor in more than 25 years. She and Managing Editor Oscar Villalon make up ZYZZYVA’s editorial team. Every issue is a vibrant mix of established talents and new voices\, providing an elegantly curated overview of contemporary arts and letters with a distinctly San Francisco perspective. \nTheir publishing history is as illustrious as it is groundbreaking. This is the journal that first published Jim Gavin and Jill Soloway\, F.X. Toole and Po Bronson—and introduced American readers to Haruki Murakami (in issue No. 13). Their list of contributors includes\, among many others\, Peter Orner\, Kay Ryan\, David Guterson\, Tom Bissell\, Tatjana Soli\, Ron Carlson\, Luis Alberto Urrea\, Amy Hempel\, D.A. Powell\, Matthew Dickman\, Herbert Gold\, Daniel Sada\, Adam Johnson\, Karl Taro Greenfeld\, Sandow Birk\, Richard Misrach\, Aimee Bender\, Diego Enrique Osorno\, Sherman Alexie\, Daniel Handler\, Adrienne Rich\, Robert Hass\, Czeslaw Milosz\, Wanda Coleman\, Raymond Carver\, Tom Barbash\, William T. Vollmann\, Dagoberto Gilb\, Lawrence Ferlinghetti\, Ed Ruscha\, Richard Diebenkorn\, Ursula K. Le Guin\, Robert Creeley\, and M.F.K. Fisher. \nVisit: www.zyzzyva.org \nto learn more
URL:https://litseen.com/event/election-night-with-zyzzyva/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Caroline J Thibeaux
DESCRIPTION:Caroline J Thibeaux discusses her new book The Dragonglass Bowl: The Dream Walker’s Path. \n\nAbout The Dragonglass Bowl \n\nIs a dream a thing of Shadow or Light? \n\nIf you knew the truth would you dare to dream again? \n\nFor a thousand years the Light of Ashar has protected the land of Ellaria because the people of Ellaria have protected the secret\, forgotten through time\, of Dragonglass. \n\nAs an apprentice scribe\, all Bhryen ever wanted was to prove that his blood was true and that he served his land and his people with honor\, hoping to one day become a Defender of the Light. When he is drawn into the mystery of a strange artifact\, the safe world he knows starts to fall apart. His sleep becomes threatened by dreams\, dreams that are surely touched by a dark and forbidden magic. \n\nWhile the threat of war draws closer\, Bhryen is pulled into the center of this vortex of chaos\, all the while struggling to keep a dangerous knowledge he shares with only a fey\, young boy. The lives of those he loves depends on safeguarding the secret. \n\nA darkness stirs and\, despite the advice of well-meaning friends\, only Bhryen alone has the ability to find and stop it though it might risk discovery of what he has become. The price of becoming a hero is the risk of a fall from grace.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/caroline-j-thibeaux/
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:BOOKSMITH: Jesse Jarnow / Wasn't That a Time: The Weavers\, the Blacklist\, and the Battle for the Soul of America
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Jesse Jarnow (Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America) for his new book Wasn’t That a Time: The Weavers\, the Blacklist\, and the Battle for the Soul of America. Please join us! \n  \nFollowing a series of top 10 hits that became instant American standards\, the Weavers dissolved at the height of their fame. Wasn’t That a Time: The Weavers\, the Blacklist\, and the Battle for the Soul of America details the remarkable rise of Pete Seeger’s unlikely band of folk heroes\, from basement hootenannies to the top of the charts\, before a coordinated harassment campaign at the hands of Congress’s House Un-American Activities Committee and the emergent right-wing media saw them unable to find work and dropped by their label while their songs still hovered on Billboard’s lists. \nTurning the black-and-white 1950s into vivid color\, Wasn’t That a Time uses the Weavers to illuminate a dark and complex period of American history. Emerging while a highly divided populace was bombarded and further divided by fake news — and progressive organizations and individuals found themselves repressed under the pretenses of national security — the Weavers would rise\, fall\, and rise again. With origins in the radical folk collective the Almanac Singers and the ambitious People’s Songs\, both pioneering the use of music as a transformative political organizing tool\, the singing activists in the Weavers set out to change the world with songs as their weapons. \nUsing previously unseen journals and letters\, unreleased recordings\, once-secret government documents\, and other archival research\, veteran music journalist and WFMU DJ Jesse Jarnow uncovers the immense hopes\, incredible pressures\, and daily struggles of the four distinct and often unharmonious personalities at the heart of the Weavers. With a class and race-conscious global vision of music that now make them seem like time travelers from the 21st century\, the Weavers would transform material from American blues singer Lead Belly (“Goodnight Irene”)\, the Bahamas (“Wreck of the John B”)\, and South Africa (“Wimoweh”) into songs that remain ubiquitous from rock clubs to Broadway shows. \nFeaturing quotes about the Weavers’ influence from David Crosby\, the Beach Boys’ Al Jardine\, and the Byrds’ Roger McGuinn\, Wasn’t That a Time explores how the group’s innocent-sounding harmonies might be heard as a threat worthy of decades of investigation by the FBI — and how the band’s late ’50s reformation engendered a new generation of musicians to take up the Weavers’ non-violent weaponry: eclectic songs\, joyous harmonies\, and the power of music. \n  \n\n  \nJesse Jarnow is the author of Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock and Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America. His writing on music\, technology\, and culture has appeared in the New York Times\, Rolling Stone\, Pitchfork\, Relix\, Wired.com\, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn\, New York and hosts the Frow Showon the independent Jersey City radio station\, WFMU. \n\n\n  \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. \nRSVP is appreciated\, but not required.  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Wasn’t That a Time\, and/or any of Jesse’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-jesse-jarnow-wasnt-that-a-time-the-weavers-the-blacklist-and-the-battle-for-the-soul-of-america/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Claire Grossman\, Terry Taplin\, Jacq Greyja
DESCRIPTION:Claire Grossman studies English literature at Stanford and is co-curator of Cantíl\, an Oakland-based reading series. \nTerry Taplin is an MFA in Creative Writing Candidate at Saint Mary’s College of California where he serves as an assistant poetry editor at MARY: A Journal for New Writing and is the inaugural Lambda Literary Fellow. He holds a Bachelor’s in Classical Languages: Greek and Latin. He is a former slam champion and is the recipient of the Ina Coolbrith Prize for Undergraduate Poetry (academic year 14-15). Terry lives in Berkeley\, is an instructional assistant in the English Dept. at Berkeley City College\, and is interning as a marketing assistant at Omnidawn Publishing. He is the author of fragmenta (Marigold 2016). \nJacq Greyja is a nonbinary writer from California. They are a graduate student in the Creative Writing MFA program at San Francisco State University\, where they are a William Dickey Poetry Fellow. Jacq’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Hold: A Journal\, BAMPFA\, Bushel Collective\, Bettering American Poetry Vol. II\, Columbia Poetry Review\, Apogee\, Peach Mag\, Berkeley Poetry Review\, and elsewhere. Their first chapbook\,
URL:https://litseen.com/event/claire-grossman-terry-taplin-jacq-greyja/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Día de los muertos / Day of the Dead
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Rafael Jesús Gonzáez\, Jess Medina\, Jan Steckel\, Andrena Zawinski. Open Mic Night follows the featured readers. Sign-up now for Ist Annual Open Mic Award’s Contest. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dia-de-los-muertos-day-of-the-dead/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:George Albon in conversation with Maxwell Shanley
DESCRIPTION:George Albon in conversation with Maxwell Shanley \ncelebrating the release of Lyric Multiples: Aspiration\, Practice\, Immanence\, Migration \n\n\n\nfrom Nightboat Press \nA poet’s capacious and visionary sequence of essays exploring language and aesthetics in contemporary society \nLyric Multiples comprises four essays written over the last decade. The subject is poetry but the essays range over such topics as the evolution of the human call\, ascensional modes of thinking\, pop songs\, the built environment and its discontents\, the post-punk moment\, its fruitful aftermath\, and much else. Throughout this book\, Albon explores unencountered varieties of aesthetic experience and the contributions they make to an ideal of social interconnectivity. \nGeorge Albon’s most recent books are Fire Break\, winner of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Award for Poetry in 2014\, and Aspiration. He lives in San Francisco. \nMaxwell Shanley\, author of There Are Trees (Drop Leaf Press)\, is the Sales & Marketing Assistant at Stanford University Press and a former used book buyer at Green Apple Books & Music. He is currently completing an MFA at San Francisco State University\, where he formerly served as the Managing Editor of Fourteen Hills. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in New American Writing\, Berkeley Poetry Review\, DIAGRAM\, CutBank\, MIDTERM\, Border Crossing\, Camas: The Nature of the West\, Slipstream\, Transfer Magazine\, The Burden of Light: Poems on Illness and Loss\, Four Ties Lit Review\, and has been performed by Theatrikos Theatre Company. He lives in San Francisco. \nWhat has been said about the work of George Albon: \n“Lyric Multiples is a triumph from beginning to end—a miracle of sustained argument and elaboration. In a process of continuous vision and revision\, words and images appear\, return\, slip around the corners\, only to return again to form multivalent entrances to truth.” —Kevin Killian \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/george-albon-in-conversation-with-maxwell-shanley/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Samina Ali
DESCRIPTION:Samina Ali is an award-winning author\, activist and cultural commentator. Her debut novel\, Madras on Rainy Days\, won France’s prestigious Prix du Premier Roman Etranger Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award in Fiction. Ali’s work is driven by her belief in personal narrative as a force for achieving women’s individual and political freedom and in harnessing the power of media for social transformation. She is the curator of the groundbreaking\, critically acclaimed virtual exhibition\, Muslima: Muslim Women’s Art & Voices. Her current project\, a memoir of her near-death experience delivering her firstborn\, takes an unsparing look at gender bias and the crisis of preventable maternal deaths in the U.S. Ali is a former cultural ambassador for the U.S. State Department and a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and Daily Beast. Her work has been featured in The New York Times\, The Economist\, The Guardian\, Vogue\, National Public Radio (NPR) and elsewhere.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/samina-ali/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Micah Perks with Kate Schatz and Lucy Jane Bledsoe / True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening with Micah Perks for her linked story collection True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape. Joining here are Kate Schatz (Rad Girls Can) and Lucy Jane Bledsoe (Lava Falls). Save the date! \n  \n  \nMagical and funny\, profound and seductive\, the linked stories inTrue Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape explore the life-bending power of love. In these interwoven lives\, ardent desire meets a keen sense of reality deep in the heart of progressive California. When Sadie opens a funky bookstore in Santa Cruz\, she is swept off her feet by Daniel\, a true-blue romantic — athletic\, bookish\, from Santiago\, Chile. Their connection is heady and erotic\, and it echoes through the love lives around them: from Harry Houdini’s first encounter with the widow Winchester to the threatening intimacy between a wife and her brother to a grumpy teenager who inspires her divorced parents. Years later\, when Sadie and Daniel take an overdue trip to Paris\, their blended family doesn’t blend so well\, sending them back to rediscover their roots. In these interconnected lives\, the desire for passion is as strong as the desire to escape\, and the terror of claustrophobic connection competes with the deepest human yearning. An intoxicating look at the complexity and simplicity of embracing and running from love. By the award-winning author of What Becomes Us. \n  \n\n  \n“What an enticing cast of characters readers get to meet here! Micah Perks writes so well of love in many of its forms and stages\, and she populates her book with such a memorable crew. No one is exempt from struggle and disappointment\, and yet there is always a chance for transcendence\, too.” – Aimee Bender\, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake andThe Color Master \n  \n“A writer whose stories are endearingly hard headed and tender hearted\, and whose characters are so very alive that they practically escape off the page when you encounter them. This collection will cure what ails you.” – Kelly Link\, author of Get In Trouble and Pretty Monsters \n  \n“The stories in True Love connect in the most satisfying way. You begin with a journalist who interviewed Harry Houdini about his night with lost souls in the Winchester House\, a light story that gains weight from the six million Jews who did not escape. Then you have the chance to follow his granddaughter in her sad affair with a lover from Chile\, a legacy. The stories are about escape in the deepest ways\, from marriage and family and self and even from time and place\, and the writing is beautiful\, believable\, disorienting. Sit down and watch the show\, because I guarantee you don’t know what’s coming. . .” – David Vann\, author of Bright Air Black and Aquarium \n  \nMicah Perks grew up in a log cabin on a commune in the Adirondack wilderness. She is the author of two other novels\, What Becomes Us and We Are Gathered Here\, and a memoir\, Pagan Time. 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. 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. \n  \nKate Schatz is the New York Times-bestselling author of Rad American Women A-Z\, Rad Women Worldwide\, Rad Girls Can\, and the illustrated journal My Rad Life. She’s a writer\, activist\, public speaker\, and educator\, who’s been passionate about both writing and politics since she was a kid. She’s a co-founder of Solidarity Sundays\, a nationwide network of feminist activist groups\, and she lives with her kids\, cats\, and partner on the island of Alameda. More at radgirlscan.com. \n  \nLucy Jane Bledsoe‘s most recent novel\, The Evolution of Love\, came out in May 2018\, and her collection of short fiction—a novella and stories at the intersection of wilderness\, family\, and survival—will be released in September 2018. Her work has won many awards\, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Literature\, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize\, the American Library Association Stonewall Award\, and two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships. \n  \n  \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  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of True Love and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-micah-perks-with-kate-schatz-and-lucy-jane-bledsoe-true-love-and-other-dreams-of-miraculous-escape/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:What Future 2018
DESCRIPTION:Co-editor Rose Eveleth\, and contributors Lauren Smiley\, and Annalee Newitz discuss What Future: The Year’s Best Ideas To Reclaim\, Reanimate And Reinvent Our Future. \n  \nRose Eveleth is a producer\, designer\, writer and animator. She’s dabbled in everything from research on pelagic invertebrates to animations about beer to podcasts about fake tumbleweed farms. These days\, she explores how humans tangle with science and technology. She’s been a columnist for BBC Future and Motherboard\, the producer of the Story Collider\, the special media manager at Nautilus\, a new digital magazine about science\, culture and philosophy and the managing editor for LadyBits\, a place where women are smart about science. She also edited the Smart News blog at Smithsonian Magazine\, and founded Science Studio\, a home for all the best science multimedia on the web. Even before that she was an editor of all things animated at TED Education\, and a contributing editor at Smart Planet. Most recently she helped ESPN’s award winning documentary series 30 for 30 launch their podcast and is currently the producer and host of Flash Forward\, a podcast about the future. \n  \nLauren Smiley is based in San Francisco and writes about humans in the tech age for WIRED\, San Francisco Mag\, California Sunday Magazine\, and New York Magazine. \n  \nAnnalee Newitz is the author of the Science Fiction novel\, Autonomous\, the non-fiction books Scatter\, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction and Pretend We’re Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture\, and is an editor-at-large for Ars Technica\, a freelance science journalist for magazines and newspapers as well as the co-host\, with Charlie Jane Anders\, of the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. Newitz is the founder of io9\, and was the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo. Newitz’s writing has appeared in Slate\, The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Wired\, The Smithsonian Magazine\, The Washington Post\, 2600\, New Scientist\, Technology Review\, Popular Science\, Discover and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. \n\nAbout What Future \n\nThe future is here and\, frankly\, it sucks. Without doubt\, our culture is at a crossroads. Political strife and economic crises are byproducts of a larger looming challenge\, one in which we will have to ask ourselves what constitutes a meaningful life. We must do the hard work of imagining a different kind of reality for ourselves. It’s work that anticipates the worst but sees hope on the other side of catastrophe\, or at least possibility; that presumes disaster and says\, now what? A best-of-the-year anthology\, What Future is a collection of long-form journalism and essays published in 2016 that address a wide range of topics crucial to our future\, from the environmental and political\, to human health and animal rights\, to technology and the economy. What Future includes writing from authors Elizabeth Kolbert\, Jeff Vandermeer\, Bill McKibben\, Kim Stanley Robinson\, as well as the scientists\, journalists\, and philosophers who are proposing the options that lay not just ahead\, but beyond\, in prestigious magazines and journals such as The Atlantic and The New Yorker.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/what-future-2018/
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:The Heart of the Goddess: Art\, Myth and Meditations on the World’s Sacred Feminine
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at Green Apple Books on Clement street on Thursday\, November 8th at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Hallie Iglehart Austen to discuss her newest book (from Monkfish Publishing) The Heart Of The Goddess: Art\, Myth and Meditations of the World’s Sacred Feminine.  \nPraise for The Heart of the Goddess. \nThis extraordinary compilation of the art\, values and living lessons of Goddess culture dating from 30\,000 years ago to the present\, from Africa to Hawaii\, Siberia to North America\, is a multicultural tapestry of artwork\, historical background\, and meditations organized by the themes of creation\, transformation and celebration\, bringing focus and expression to the myth and spirituality of the feminine. \n“A collection of more than 70 Goddess figures from cultures throughout the world. Each is a treasure…inspiring us to embody the Goddess’s virtues in our lives.”–Yoga Journal \n  \n“A beautiful book…an excellent resource for information and inspiration from many cultures.”–Starhawk\, author of The Spiritual Dance and \n  \n“…a mythical journey to every corner of the Earth…a delightful book of life-affirming legends\, rituals\, and images that help us envision a more balanced and creative world.”–Riane Eisler\, author of The Chalice and the Blade \n  \n“What a treasure! Decades of scholarship and oceans of love have been poured into gathering this exquisite collection of goddesses from all the world’s wisdom traditions. By gazing at the images and contemplating their stories\, I felt myself joyously reclaiming the feminine face of the Holy One…. I love love love this book.”–Mirabai Starr\, author of God of Love: A Guide to the Heart of Judaism\, Christianity & Islam \n  \n  \nHallie Iglehart Austen grew up on a farm and has lived close to the earth most of her life. After graduating from Brown University\, she drove from England to Nepal and back again over the course of a year. This journey\, described in her first book “Womanspirit” led to a synthesis of spirituality and feminism\, which she began teaching in the 1970s. Since then\, she has led workshops\, rituals and conferences at universities\, the United Nations\, and theological schools among other places. Hallie Iglehart Austen is cofounder of Seaflow: Protect Our Living Oceans\, which educates the public about the dangers of active sonars and other ocean noise to whales\, dolphins\, and all sea life. She also initiated All One Oceans\, establishing over fifty beach cleanup stations in California\, Hawai’i\, Iowa\, and Alabama and is starting a pilot project for grade school students on ocean plastic pollution. Hallie lives in the San Francisco Bay Area\, and gives classes and private consultations on dream work\, life transition rituals\, and Wisdom Healing Qigong.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-heart-of-the-goddess-art-myth-and-meditations-on-the-worlds-sacred-feminine-3/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:L.A. Kauffman
DESCRIPTION:L.A. Kauffman \n\n\n\ndiscussing the subject of her new book \nHow to Read a Protest: The Art of Organizing and Resistance \npublished by University of California Press \nWhen millions of people took to the streets for the 2017 women’s marches\, there was an unmistakable air of uprising\, a sense that these marches were launching a movement. But the enduring work that protests do often can’t be seen in the moment. It feels powerful to march\, but when and how does marching matter? \nIn this original and richly illustrated account\, activist and organizer L.A. Kauffman delves into the history of America’s major demonstrations\, beginning with the legendary 1963 March on Washington\, to reveal what protests accomplish and how their character has shifted over time. Using the signs that demonstrators carry as clues to how protests are organized\, Kauffman explores the nuanced relationship between the way movements are made and the impact they have. How to Read a Protest sheds new light on the catalytic power of collective action and the bottom-up\, women-led model for organizing that’s transforming what movements look like and what they can win. \nL.A. Kauffman has been a grassroots organizer for more than thirty years and was the mobilizing coordinator for the massive Iraq antiwar protests of 2003–2004. She has covered social movement history and activism for The Guardian\, n+1\, and numerous other publications and is the author of Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism. \nCritical praise for the work of L.A. Kauffman: \nffman is one of the people I look to most for the big picture about American activism—where it’s been\, where it’s going\, what works\, who’s doing the work\, and why. For How to Read a Protest\, you could paraphrase George Orwell to say that those who remember the past understand the present\, and those who understand the present (sometimes) shape the future. This swift-moving book equips us all to do exactly that\, as it revises and deepens and corrects what we know about past social movements in America and appraises what has made the women-led\, grassroots resistance to Trump unlike any movement that came before. The next chapter is something we will all write together if and when we rise to the promise and the legacy of the radical past that Kauffman so ably describes.”—Rebecca Solnit\, author of Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories\, Wild Possibilities \n“Kauffman’s new book offers critical historical analysis and strategic insights\, raising provocative and complex questions about the relationship between protests and movement building. Every organizer and social movement historian should read it.”—Barbara Ransby\, author of Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century \n“How to Read a Protest is an incredible tool for understanding collective action: who is involved\, how it unfolds\, and what makes it successful\, with special emphasis on the often-overlooked role of women in making movements and how ideas of organization and leadership have shifted. L.A. Kauffman helps us understand and interpret the reasons behind\, and meanings of\, protest in our time\, giving us a valuable gift of insight and research.”—Marina Sitrin\, coauthor of They Can’t Represent Us! Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy \n“L.A. Kauffman is a marvelous combination of mobilization-insider and historical commentator. No one else could bring so much fruitful commentary to bear on mass protests. The illustrations here are fascinating in themselves\, wonderful to observe and ponder. This is a splendid and much-needed book.”—Paul Buhle\, coeditor of the Encyclopedia of the American Left \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/l-a-kauffman/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: The Fight for a Free Press: Book Launch and Panel
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Alison Littman for the launch of her debut novel\, Radio Underground. Littman will join New York Times journalist Sheera Frenkel\, cybersecurity expert Bill Marczak (Larry King\, Washington Post\, Vanity Fair) and Camille Fischer from the Electronic Frontier Foundation to discuss the fight for a free press. \n  \nFrom combating fake news and censorship on social media to protecting journalists and activists abroad\, panelists will discuss the threats to our freedom online and in the press in a high-stakes political environment. Schmooze and booze with panelists and the author after the discussion. \n  \nRadio Underground follows a journalist in Budapest during the Cold War who manipulates news on Radio Free Europe to spark the 1956 Hungarian Revolution against the Soviets. In Cold War Hungary\, journalism was used to ignite uprisings\, help people escape the country and persuade the masses to take action. The launch event will also include a short reading and Q&A with the author and panelists. \n  \n\n  \nAbout Radio Underground \n  \nEszter Turján is a mother and a fanatical underground journalist living in Budapest at the height of the Cold War. After years of suffering under the communist regime\, she’d sacrifice anything\, and anyone\, to see the government fall. When she manipulates news broadcasts on Radio Free Europe\, she ignites the vicious revolution\, commits a calamitous murder\, and is dragged away screaming to a secret underground prison as her teenage daughter Dora watches in horror. \n  \nHaunted and hurt\, Dora vows to work against everything Eszter believes in. But\, it’s not that simple. After nine years\, Dora is unwittingly drawn back into Eszter’s circle when she falls hopelessly in love with a fan of The Beatles – and Radio Free Europe. At the same time\, she discovers Eszter\, driven mad by years of torture\, is headed toward a death sentence. To save her mother\, Dora will have to defy a vindictive and lethal regime\, and confront family ties she’s spent years denying. On the brink of losing Eszter again\, Dora must make a choice: to risk her life for the mother who discarded her—or leave it all to fate. \n  \nRadio Underground is a beautiful\, relevant novel that explores the lengths and limits of love\, family\, and the power of expression. \n  \n\n  \nAbout the Panelists \n  \nSheera Frenkel is a cybersecurity reporter at the New York Times. She spent over a decade in the Middle East as a foreign correspondent\, reporting for BuzzFeed\, NPR\, The Times of London and McClatchy Newspapers. \n  \nBill Marczak has appeared on Politicking with Larry King and in the Washington Post\, New York Times\, Vanity Fair and other major outlets for his work rooting out spyware used to stifle activists\, dissidents\, journalists and others speaking out against dictatorial regimes. A Senior Research Fellow at Citizen Lab\, a co-founder of Bahrain Watch\, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Berkeley\, Bill focuses on novel technological threats to Internet freedom\, including new censorship and surveillance tools. \n  \nCamille Fischer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation works on the organization’s free speech and government transparency projects. Previously\, Camille worked in the Obama White House and in the Department of Commerce advocating for civil\, human rights\, and due process protections in national security and law enforcement policies. \n  \n\n  \nAlison Littman is an author by day and stand up comedian by night. A former journalist\, she covered politics and education while also contributing articles on John F. Kennedy and The Beatles to various specialty magazines. Her feature stories focus on listening to rock ‘n’ roll behind the Iron Curtain and Cold War politics. Radio Undergroundis her first novel. \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  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of Radio Underground and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-the-fight-for-a-free-press-book-launch-and-panel/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: Jonathan Lethem / The Feral Detective
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Jonathan Lethem for The Feral Detective\, his first detective novel since Motherless Brooklyn. With him in conversation is Michael Chabon. Please join us! \n  \nPhoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She’s looking for her friend’s missing daughter\, Arabella\, and hires Heist to help. A laconic loner who keeps his pet opossum in a desk drawer\, Heist intrigues the sarcastic and garrulous Phoebe. Reluctantly\, he agrees to help. The unlikely pair navigate the enclaves of desert-dwelling vagabonds and find that Arabella is in serious trouble—caught in the middle of a violent standoff that only Heist\, mysteriously\, can end. Phoebe’s trip to the desert was always going to be strange\, but it was never supposed to be dangerous… \n  \n\n  \nJonathan Lethem is the New York Times bestselling author of ten novels\, including The Fortress of Solitude\, Dissident Gardens\, Chronic City\, andMotherless Brooklyn\, winner of National Book Critics Circle Award.  A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship\, Lethem has been published in The New Yorker\, Harper’s Magazine\, Rolling Stone\, Esquire\, and The New York Times\, among others. He currently teaches creative writing at Pomona College in California. Author photo by Amy Maloof. \n  \nMichael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh\, A Model World\, Wonder Boys\, Werewolves in their Youth\, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay\, Summerland\, The Final Solution\, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union\, Maps & Legends\, Gentlemen of the Road\, Manhood for Amateurs\, Telegraph Avenue\, Moonglow\, and the picture book The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man. He lives in Berkeley\, California with his wife\, novelist Ayelet Waldman\, and their children. Author photo by Sarah Lee. \n  \n\n  \nThis event is free and all ages\, with mature themes. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you’d like a signed copy of The Feral Detectives\, and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and be sure to include your request in the special field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-jonathan-lethem-the-feral-detective/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Endangered Species\, Enduring Values: An Anthology Of San Francisco Area Writers & Artists of Color
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night of readings from Endangered Species\, Enduring Values: An Anthology of San Francisco Area Writers and Artists of Color with contributors Shizue Seigel\, Francee Covington\, Jennifer Hasegawa\, Gail Mitchell\, Tony Robles\, and Dr. Sriram Shamasunder. \n\nAbout Endangered Species\, Enduring Values \n\nAn Anthology of prose\, poetry and artwork by San Francisco Area Writers & Artists of Color ENDANGERED SPECIES\, ENDURING VALUES is a guide to the real San Francisco-the seldom-heard 58% of the population that brings color and diversity to the city in every sense of the word. Includes than 150 pieces by more than 70 creatives of color with roots in Native America\, Africa\, Asia\, Latin America\, the Caribbean\, the Middle East\, and Europe. Contributors include current SF Poet Laureate Kim Shuck\, and artists\, curators\, physicians\, educators\, poets\, performers\, and activists for unions\, LGBT\, mental health\, housing and more. \n\nAbout The Contributors \n\nShizue Seigel\, editor of Enduring Species; Enduring Values\, is a Japanese American writer and visual artist. Her five books include Standing Strong! Fillmore & Japantown and In Good Conscience: Supporting Japanese Americans during the Internment. Her prose and poetry have been published in All the Women in My Family Sing\, Your Golden Sun Still Shines\, Cheers to Muses\, InVasian and other anthologies\, and in Eleven Eleven\, Away Journal\, Persimmon Tree\, Whirlwind Magazine\, among others. She leads monthly Write Now! Writing workshops at the San Francisco Public Library\, and  is a two-time recipient of the San Francisco Art Commission Individual Artist Commission and a VONA Fellow\, Her artwork has been exhibited at SOMArts Cultural Center\, Arts at CIIS\, the Thoreau Center\, UC Santa Barbara\, the Kinsey Institute and other venues. \nFrancee Covington. During a successful TV career as a producer\, director and writer of news\, documentaries\, public affairs and magazine shows\, Francee Covington worked at television stations WCBS in New York\, WBZ Boston and in San Francisco at KGO\, KPIX\, and KQED.  She later formed her own video production company and led it for more than twenty years.  Her clients included numerous Fortune 500 companies\, The Oprah Show\, and city and state agencies.  Active in the community\, she currently serves on the San Francisco Fire Commission.  She’s retired\, lives in San Francisco and is working on a collection of short stories. \nJennifer Hasegawa is a poet and information architect. She grew up in Hilo HI and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for 25 years. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in Tule Review\, Standing Strong! Fillmore & Japantown: An Anthology\, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Her poetry manuscript\, La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living\, was awarded the San Francisco Foundation’s Joseph Henry Jackson literary award in 2014. She is currently engaged in the study of several paranormal phenomena\, including alien encounters\, Marian apparitions\, Sinéad O’Connor\, and Bitcoin. \n  \nGail Mitchell\, author of Bone Songs\, received her MFA from San Francisco State University. She is a native San Franciscan who draws from her Black and Muskogee\, Creole and Italian heritage. In the beginning was the word and I’ve drawn on it\, to map the internal terrain and make sense of the external world\, to investigate life and death\, traversing a language that leaves me spellbound.  I pick words like gems to make the right necklace to go out into the world. I think of jewelry as amulets to protect and of course as adornment to help one shine. I am a jeweler and a poet. I am a maker. It is a must a desire that runs as deep as breath. \nTony Robles was born and raised in San Francisco of Filipino and African American heritage. His books  Cool Don’t Live Here No More—A Letter to San Francisco (2015) and Fingerprints of a Hunger Strike (2017) were published by Ithuriel’s Spear Press.  He is the author of 2 children’s books\, Lakas and the Manilatown Fish and Lakas and the Makibaka Hotel\, published by Children’s Book Press. In 2017\, he was awarded a San Francisco Art Commission Individual Artist Commission and short-listed for poet laureate of San Francisco. He carries on the legacy of his late uncles\, Al Robles\, activist poet and scholar\, and Russell Robles\, co-founder of SOMArts Cultural Center\, by serving as board president of the Manilatown Heritage Foundation and working for housing and senior rights. \nDr. Sriram Shamasunder\, a poet and doctor at UCSF\, has spent the better part of the last 10 years working in Burundi\, Haiti\, Rwanda and India. He is interested in health equity and narrative equity\, working towards a world where lives are of equal value both the health care we deliver and the stories we highlight.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/endangered-species-enduring-values-an-anthology-of-san-francisco-area-writers-artists-of-color/
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:‘KEROUAC ON RECORD’ WITH MICHAEL GOLDBERG & JOHNNY HARPER
DESCRIPTION:Michael Goldberg is the author of “Bob Dylan’s Beat Visions (Sonic Poetry)\,” and interviewed Richard Meltzer for the recently released collection Kerouac on Record\, edited by Simon Warner and Jim Sampas. He will be joined by musician Johnny Harper\, performing covers of 1960s-era Bob Dylan songs.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kerouac-on-record-with-michael-goldberg-johnny-harper/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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