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SUMMARY:Silent Reading Party
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Lemony Snicket and Radio Silence. Bring a book to read to yourself in silence. Drinks and light snacks will be available. There is no admission cost and no reservations necessary. Proceeds from drink sales this month will benefit the library of Thurgood Marshall High School\, a public school in San Francisco. \nSign up to receive emails about upcoming Silent Reading Parties here. \nMore information at this link. See you there\, readers!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silent-reading-party-2/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Treadwell\, Charles Alexander\, and Karen Randall
DESCRIPTION:Elzabeth Treadwell’s Penny Marvel & the book of the city of selfys is just out from Dusie. Her other books include LILYFOIL + 3 (O Books\, 2004)\, Wardolly (Chax\, 2008)\, and Virginia or the mud-flap girl (Dusie\, 2012). A selection from her earlier collections of poetry is included in Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America & the UK (Reality Street\, 2015). Materials from her current projects sometimes appear at instagram.com/vivian_rialto and Penny exists in another iteration at pennymarvel.tumblr.com. \nCharles Alexander is an artist\, poet\, bookmaker\, and the founder/director of Chax Press. He is the author of six full-length books of poetry and thirteen chapbooks\, editor of one critical work on the state of the book arts in America\, and author of multiple essays\, articles\, and reviews. Alexander’s most recent book of poetry is AT the Edge OF the Sea (Singing Horse Press 2018). Two Pushing Waters is his most recent chapbook\, from Little Red Leaves. He gave lectures and readings for US Poets in Mexico in 2016. In 2019 he will be a featured participant at the American Poetry Conference at The 7th International Conference of Chinese/American Poetry and Poetics in Wuhan\, China. He has taught literature and writing at Naropa University\, the University of Arizona\, the University of Houston-Victoria\, and elsewhere. Currently at work on Collected Essays and a new book of poetry\, he lives in Tucson\, Arizona\, with his partner\, the painter Cynthia Miller. \n  \nKaren Pava Randall is the proprietrix of Propolis Press and resides in Northampton\, Massachusetts. She is in San Francisco to participate in the Codex Book Fair <http://www.codexfoundation.org> where she is showcasing two interactive book sculptures: The Leyden Jar Project <http://propolispress.com/theleydenjarproject/home> with poems by Cole Swensen and The Apothecary of Amulets with poems by Laynie Browne.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-treadwell-charles-alexander-and-karen-randall/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:A William S Burroughs Birthday Celebration
DESCRIPTION:with Steven Taylor\, Peter Hale\, Peter Carlaftes\, and V Vale \ncelebrating the release of \nDon’t Hide the Madness: William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg \nEdited by Stephen Taylor \nPublished by Three Rooms Press \nIn DON’T HIDE THE MADNESS\, the fathers of the Beat movement converse about deeply intimate and personal history while gathered at Burroughs’ house in Lawrence\, Kansas. The conversation includes discussion of: \n\nDavid Cronenberg’s film adaptation of Burroughs’ classic novel Naked Lunch\nShamanism\, including a detailed description of the shamanic exorcism of the demon Burroughs believes forced him to kill his common-law wife in 1951\nLiterary associates\, influences\, techniques\, and insights\nPunk rock’s contributions to counterculture lore\n\nWith the current political landscape mirroring many aspects of the early Beat period\, DON’T HIDE THE MADNESS is particularly timely. Interest in both authors’ work is on the rise. Many consider these legendary icons’ perspectives to particularly prophetic. \nDON’T HIDE THE MADNESS features a newly-commissioned illustration of Burroughs and Ginsberg by celebrated artist R. Crumb on the cover\, as well as 17 rare photos by Ginsberg\, many taken during the session. \nWilliam S. Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author whose influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas\, including Naked Lunch\, Junky\, and Queer\, as well as six collections of short stories and four collections of essays. In 1991\, director David Cronenberg adapted Naked Lunch for the screen in a film starring Peter Weller\, Judy Davis\, Roy Scheider\, and Ian Holm. Burroughs also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians\, and made many appearances as himself in films. \nAmerican poet\, philosopher\, and photographer Allen Ginsberg is considered to be one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation during the 1950s and the counterculture that soon followed. He vigorously opposed militarism\, economic materialism and sexual repression and was known as embodying various aspects of this counterculture\, such as his views on drugs\, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions. He was one of many influential American writers of his time known as the Beat Generation\, which included famous writers such as Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. Among his many published poetry collections\, he is best known for Howl and Other Poems\, Kaddish and Other Poems\, and Collected Poems\, 1947-1997. \nSteven Taylor is a poet\, musician\, songwriter\, and ethnomusicologist. He has published two books of poems and a musical ethnography\, False Prophet: Field Notes from the Punk Underground . He has composed music for the theater\, film\, radio drama\, and installations and made more than a dozen records with various artists His articles\, reviews\, essays\, and poems have appeared in various anthologies and zines. From 1976-1996 he collaborated on music and poetry works with Allen Ginsberg\, and has been a member of the seminal underground rock band The Fugs since 1984. He has also toured and recorded with Anne Waldman\, Kenward Elmslie\, and the New York hardcore band False Prophets. From 1990-2008 he was on the faculty at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. He is senior editor at Reality Sandwich. He lives in Brooklyn. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-william-s-burroughs-birthday-celebration/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Poetry Center presents Tom Clark & Vincent Katz
DESCRIPTION:7:00pm\nThe Poetry Center presents\nTom Clark & Vincent Katz\nat The Green Arcade\n1680 Market Street\nSan Francisco
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-poetry-center-presents-tom-clark-vincent-katz/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Shampoo Poetry":MAILTO:delraycross@gmail.com.
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SUMMARY:a YesYes Books Tour reading featuring Aricka Foreman\, Jay Deshpande\, Taryn Schwilling & Phillip B. Williams
DESCRIPTION:7:30pm\na YesYes Books Tour reading\nfeaturing Aricka Foreman\, Jay Deshpande\, Taryn Schwilling & Phillip B. Williams\nat Studio One Arts Center\n365 45th Street\nOakland\nfree
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-yesyes-books-tour-reading-featuring-aricka-foreman-jay-deshpande-taryn-schwilling-phillip-b-williams/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Shampoo Poetry":MAILTO:delraycross@gmail.com.
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190206T180000
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SUMMARY:Featherboard Reading Series presents Sara Larsen\, Danny Thanh Nguyen & Ju lian Talamantez Brolaski
DESCRIPTION:5:45pm doors; 6:15pm reading\nFeatherboard Reading Series presents\nSara Larsen\, Danny Thanh Nguyen & Ju lian Talamantez Brolaski\nat Aggregate Space Gallery\n801 West Grand Avenue (enter on West Street)\nOakland
URL:https://litseen.com/event/featherboard-reading-series-presents-sara-larsen-danny-thanh-nguyen-ju-lian-talamantez-brolaski/
LOCATION:Aggregate Space Gallery\, 801 W Grand Ave\, Oakland \, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Shampoo Poetry":MAILTO:delraycross@gmail.com.
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SUMMARY:H O L L O W A Y : R E A D I N G : S E R I E S presents Cedar Sigo / with Noah Warren
DESCRIPTION:Cedar Sigo / with Noah Warren \nREADINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC\nReadings begin at 6:30pm unless otherwise noted. 2018-2019 Holloway events will be held in the MAUDE FIFE ROOM (315 Wheeler Hall)\nFor updates and event announcements\, join the Holloway Facebook group
URL:https://litseen.com/event/h-o-l-l-o-w-a-y-r-e-a-d-i-n-g-s-e-r-i-e-s-presents-cedar-sigo-with-noah-warren/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Left Margin LIT Reading at Novel Brewing in Oakland
DESCRIPTION:We’re partnering with Novel Brewing Company\, the most literary brewery in the East Bay\, to celebrate the sublime tandem of books and beer! \nLeft Margin instructors and friends Shanthi Sekaran\, Porter Shreve\, Faith Adiele\, David Roderick\, and Melanie Abrams will read from their work. We’ll also have a table there so you can learn more about our programs\, events\, classes\, and work space for writers. \nWe’ve already sampled Novel’s winter lineup of beers\, including BOOK THIEF IPA\, DUST JACKET IPA\, and THE POET\, which is super-sour (of course). Delicious doesn’t even begin to describe what happens on your palate when you order a whole flight. \nThere’s also a BOOK SWAP! You can bring in as many books as you like\, and the ones that don’t find a new home will go into Novel’s book stash earmarked for their Little Lending Library. The swap begins at 7:00 pm and the rules are: (1) add your book(s) to the cart with an index card that has your name\, and a bit of why the book is a great read. (2) What’s the best part? If someone takes your book home to read\, you get $1 off your next pint! \nCome one\, come all. It’s going to be an epic event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/left-margin-lit-reading-at-novel-brewing-in-oakland/
LOCATION:Novel Brewing Company\, 6510 San Pablo Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94608
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Esmé Weijun Wang Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Esmé Weijun Wang discusses her new essay collection\, The Collected Schizophrenias\, with R.O. Kwon. \n\nPraise for The Collected Schizophrenias \n\n“This mesmerizing collection of essays has achieved the rarest of rarities—a meaningful and expansive language for a subject that has been long bound by both deep revulsion and intense fascination.”—Jenny Zhang \n\n“A brilliant guide to the complexities of thinking about illness\, and mental illness\, in particular. It will bring hope to others searching to understand their own diagnoses.”—Meghan O’Rourke \n\n“A masterful braiding of the achingly personal and the incisively researched. . . . This book is a vital\, illuminating window onto the world we all already live in\, but find all too easy to ignore.”—Alexandra Kleeman \n\n“You won’t find any pity-baiting\, sensationalism\, or false positivity here; Wang is so candidly aware that I’d trust her over my own diary.”—Tony Tulathimutte \n\n“Esmé Weijun Wang offers us an all-access pass to her beautiful\, unquiet mind. . . Rarely has a book about living with mental illness felt so immediate\, raw\, and powerful.”—Dani Shapiro \n\nAbout The Collected Schizophrenias \n\nPowerful\, affecting essays on mental illness\, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award \n  \nAn intimate\, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness\, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis\, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the “collected schizophrenias” but to those who wish to understand it as well. Opening with the journey toward her diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder\, Wang discusses the medical community’s own disagreement about labels and procedures for diagnosing those with mental illness\, and then follows an arc that examines the manifestations of schizophrenia in her life. In essays that range from using fashion to present as high-functioning to the depths of a rare form of psychosis\, and from the failures of the higher education system and the dangers of institutionalization to the complexity of compounding factors such as PTSD and Lyme disease\, Wang’s analytical eye\, honed as a former lab researcher at Stanford\, allows her to balance research with personal narrative. An essay collection of undeniable power\, The Collected Schizophrenias dispels misconceptions and provides insight into a condition long misunderstood.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/esme-weijun-wang-book-launch/
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:Ari Banias
DESCRIPTION:Ari Banias is the author of Anybody (W.W. Norton\, 2016)\, which was named a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Center USA Literary Award. His poems have appeared in various journals\, in Troubling The Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics\, and as part of the MOTHA exhibitionTransgender Hirstory in 99 Objects. He is the recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing\, and Stanford University’s Wallace Stegner program. Ari lives in Berkeley\, teaches poetry\, and works with small press books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ari-banias/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:New Life Issue 4 Launch Party & Postcard Making Party
DESCRIPTION:Oakland-based bookstore and downtown community arts hub\, Wolfman Books is pleased to announce the release of the latest issue of their art and culture magazine\, New Life Quarterly and the first-ever “New Life Postcard Drive” on February 7\, 2019\, from 4:00-7:00 pm at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive! \nPRE-ORDER YOUR COPY OF ISSUE 4 FOR HALF-OFF NOW AND PICK IT UP AT THE RELEASE! https://squ.re/2CiKl7Y \nOr get it full price at BAMPFA! \nNew Life Quarterly is a literary\, arts and culture magazine focused on the intersections of art and community—especially the exuberant\, overlooked\, and experimental margins—in the Bay Area and beyond. This issue is a special project dedicated to artist correspondence. Through emails\, WhatsApp messages\, Google Docs comments\, voice memos\, and actual letters\, artists (including BAMPFA’s very own Art Lab Archive) engage in conversation across mediums and across the globe. \nTo highlight the print collaboration between BAMPFA’s Art Lab and New Life Quarterly\, Wolfman Books invites museum-goers to take part in the first-ever “New Life Postcard Drive” in the Art Lab. The organizers’ intention is to gather the community to make 1\,200 one-of-a-kind postcards to be included with every copy of “Issue 4: Correspondence.” Attendees will be invited to create one\, or two\, or a dozen postcards\, with ready-made postcard templates and materials provided. By joining in the “Postcard Drive\,” participants will not only experience the intimate and generative spirit of artistic connection that animates New Life Quarterly\, but actively help create and amplify it. All are encouraged to join this conversation\, bring their community and create with the help of New Life editors\, contributors\, and Art Lab staff! \nBesides the “New Life Postcard Drive\,” the release party will feature onsite correspondence readings and performances featuring contributors and related artists. Attendees can grab copies of the magazine in the BAMPFA Bookstore and become a New Life contributor! \nTHIS EVENT IS FREE! And BAMPFA admission is also free every first Thursday! \nNew Life Quarterly “Issue 4: Correspondence” features new writing and art from: \nBarbara Browning • Avery Trufelman • MI Leggett • Jasmine Gibson • Heather Dewey-Hagborg • Emerson Whitney • Brandon Shimoda • Dot Devota • Dongyi Wu • Kwame Boafo • Mitsuko Brooks • Paul Mpagi Sepuya • Ra Malika Imhotep • Nicole Lavelle • Mary Welcome • Dorothy Santos • Jeannine Ventura • Thanh Hằng Phạm • Andrea Abi-Karam • Davey Davis • Claire Boyle • j.j. Mull • Sophia Dahlin • Julio Linares • Leora Fridman • Yosefa Raz • Vreni Michelini Castillo • Ana Karen • Hannah Kingsley-Ma • Claire Buss • Kate Robinson Beckwith • Amanda Davis • Chelsea A. Flowers • Philip Košćak • Jamie Townsend • Oki Sogumi • Margaret McCarthy • Till Krause • BAMPFA Art Lab \nThis project is supported by the Oakland City Council and funded by the City of Oakland’s Cultural Funding Program. “Issue 4: Correspondence” is supported in part by BAMPFA\, The Exploratorium\, Mills College\, AWP 2019\, Jenny Lemons\, Mirro Editions\, The Key Print & Bindery\, Alley Cat Books\, PLAY Press\, and Fish Publishing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-life-issue-4-launch-party-postcard-making-party/
LOCATION:UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ArchiveUC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive\, 2155 Center St\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Tell Your Story\, Speak Your Truth: Make a Zine
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, make a one-page zine of your own with staff and volunteers from SF Zinefest. Everyone is invited to write\, draw\, cut\, paste\, staple and copy their way to self-expression. \nWould you like to have your work in the library? You’ll have the option to donate a copy to our new circulating collection of Zines. Some people will also be able to have their work exhibited at the Oakland Library table at this year’s SF Zinefest! \nAll supplies provided. \nRSVP optional but appreciated. Tell your story\, speak your truth. Let’s make some zines together! \nFounded in 2001\, San Francisco Zine Fest seeks to advance the do-it-yourself ethos by fostering community throughout the Bay Area. In our annual festival and its accompanying panels and workshops\, we celebrate and support independent writers\, artists and creators\, allowing them to share their work with an ever-growing audience in exhibitions and public events.   \nZines are self-published booklets which are easy to make and inexpensive to reproduce. There are no rules about form\, function or purpose. Due to their accessibility and alternative nature\, zines have been a medium of choice for folks who are otherwise underrepresented or marginalized.  \nAdditional Workshops: \nFor teens: January 8th\, 4:30PM Lakeview branch library \nFor families: March 12th\, 6:30PM Rockridge branch library
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tell-your-story-speak-your-truth-make-a-zine/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library – Main Branch\, 125 - 14th Street\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Pam Houston\, Deep Creek
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome award-winning author Pam Houston (Cowboys Are My Weakness) for a reading and signing of her new memoir\, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country\, which tells the remarkable story of “that girl who dared herself to buy a ranch\, dared herself to dig in and care for it\, to work hard enough to pay for it\, to figure out what other people meant when they used the world ‘home.”’ \nAt 31 years old\, fresh off a tour promoting her first collection\, Cowboys Are My Weakness\, Pam Houston had “no job\, no place to live except my North Face VE 24 tent.” On an impulse and a good instinct\, she spent her royalties on a 120-acre ranch near Creede\, Colorado. It was more than she could afford\, and required more maintenance than she could manage. And yet\, twenty-five years later\, it’s the piece of land that’s defined the largest part of her life. \nIn its chapters\, Houston spends her days walking along the fences on her property\, watching leaves on the aspens ignite into an eruption of fall colors\, and caring for the animals on her ranch: the horses\, sheep\, chickens\, Irish wolfhounds\, and a pair of miniature donkeys with outsized attitudes. Houston’s audacity and generosity are on full display as she cares for an elk calf abandoned by its herd and sleeps outside to comfort her old hound. Deep Creek raises concern about the many ways we endanger the natural world’s delicate balance\, and nature’s enigmatic powers to survive and to save. It’s also a chronicle of recovery. \nEncompassing Houston’s childhood\, her adventures\, and her details of everyday life at the ranch\, Deep Creek is\, above all\, a testament. In holding on to her ranch\, Houston carved a life to support her spirit and her talents\, and discovered that she could be the cowboy of her own story. “I know\,” she explains\, “that when I claimed these 120 acres they also claimed me. We are each other’s mutual saviors.” \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accessibility requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.comby February 5th. \nPam Houston is the author of the novels Contents May Have Shifted and Sight Hound\, the short story collections Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat\, and A Little More About Me\, a collection of essays. Her stories have been selected for volumes such as The Best American Short Stories\, The O. Henry Awards\, The 2013 Pushcart Prize\, and The Best American Short Stories of the Century. She is the winner of the Western States Book Award\, the WILLA Literary Award for contemporary fiction\, the Evil Companions Literary Award\, and multiple teaching awards. She cofounded the literary nonprofit Writing By Writers\, is a professor of English at UC–Davis\, and teaches in the Institute of American Indian Arts’ low-residency MFA program and at writer’s conferences around the country and the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pam-houston-deep-creek/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:A PEOPLE'S FUTURE OF THE UNITED STATES:Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nAn evening of reading and discussion with contributors Charlie Jane Anders and Gabby Rivera \ncelebrating the release of \nA PEOPLE’S FUTURE OF THE UNITED STATES: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers \nedited by Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams \nPublished by One World \nA glittering landscape of twenty-five speculative stories that challenge oppression and imagine new futures for America—from N. K. Jemisin\, Charles Yu\, Jamie Ford\, G. Willow Wilson\, Charlie Jane Anders\, Hugh Howey\, and more. \nIn the words of N.K. Jemisin: “Imagination is where revolutions begin.” Knowing that imagining a brighter tomorrow has always been an act of resistance\, editors Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams invited an extraordinarily talented group of writers to share stories that explore new forms of freedom\, love\, and justice. They asked for narratives that would challenge oppressive American myths\, release us from the chokehold of our history\, and give us new futures to believe in. \nThey also asked that the stories be badass. \nThe result is this extraordinary collection of twenty-five tales that blend the dark and the light\, the dystopian and the utopian. These tales are vivid with struggle and hardship—whether it’s the othered and the oppressed\, or dragonriders and covert commandos—but these characters don’t flee\, they fight. \nFeaturing stories by Violet Allen • Charlie Jane Anders • Lesley Nneka Arimah • Ashok K. Banker • Tobias S. Buckell • Tananarive Due • Omar El Akkad • Jamie Ford • Maria Dahvana Headley • Hugh Howey • Lizz Huerta• Justina Ireland • N. K. Jemisin • Alice Sola Kim • Seanan McGuire • Sam J. Miller • Daniel José Older • Malka Older • Gabby Rivera • A. Merc Rustad • Kai Cheng Thom • Catherynne M. Valente • Daniel H. Wilson • G. Willow Wilson • Charles Yu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-peoples-future-of-the-united-statesspeculative-fiction-from-25-extraordinary-writers/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime SUBLIMATION
DESCRIPTION:featuring Tongo Eisen-Martin (Heaven Is All Goodbyes)\, Anita Felicelli (Love Songs for a Lost Continent)\, Thea Matthews\, Ant Fraser Fujinaga\, and Albert Alexander\, will be at Laundry Gallery and Cafe\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, Thursday February 7th\, 7-9 pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-sublimation/
LOCATION:THE LAUNDRY\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Analicia Sotelo
DESCRIPTION:Analicia Sotelo: Reading and Conversation with Vanessa Fernandez – February 7\, 2019 // 7pm // San José Museum of Art \nTHURSDAY\nFebruary 7\, 2019\n7PM \nSan José\, Museum of Art\n110 S. Market Street\nSan José\, CA \nReading followed by an on-stage interview – conducted by SJSU Assistant Professor of Spanish Vanessa Fernandez – plus a book sale and signing. \nAnalicia Sotelo’s debut poetry collection Virgin is a vivid portrait of the artist as a young woman. At every step\, these poems seduce with history\, folklore\, and sensory detail—grilled meat\, golden habañeros\, and burnt sugar—before delivering clear-eyed and eviscerating insights into power\, deceit\, relationships\, and ourselves.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/analicia-sotelo/
LOCATION:San Jose Museum of Art\, 110 Market St\, San José\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Esmé Weijun Wang - - The Collected Schizophrenias w/ Caille Millner
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Esmé Weijun Wang to discuss her new new book The Collected Schizophrenias\, on Thursday\, February 7th at 7pm. She will be joined by Caille Milner \nPowerful\, affecting essays on mental illness\, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award \nAn intimate\, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness\, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis\, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the “collected schizophrenias” but to those who wish to understand it as well. Opening with the journey toward her diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder\, Wang discusses the medical community’s own disagreement about labels and procedures for diagnosing those with mental illness\, and then follows an arc that examines the manifestations of schizophrenia in her life. In essays that range from using fashion to present as high-functioning to the depths of a rare form of psychosis\, and from the failures of the higher education system and the dangers of institutionalization to the complexity of compounding factors such as PTSD and Lyme disease\, Wang’s analytical eye\, honed as a former lab researcher at Stanford\, allows her to balance research with personal narrative. An essay collection of undeniable power\, The Collected Schizophrenias dispels misconceptions and provides insight into a condition long misunderstood. \n* * * \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nEsmé Weijun Wang is the author of The Border of Paradise. She received the Whiting Award in 2018 and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists of 2017. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan and lives in San Francisco. \nCaille Millner is the author of The Golden Road: Notes on my Gentrification(Penguin Press). Her short fiction has appeared in Zyzzyva and Joyland\, and Best American Short Stories 2016. Her essays have been in Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, and listed in Best American Essays 2017. Her awards include the Barnes and Noble Emerging Writers Award. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, February 7\, 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/esme-weijun-wang-the-collected-schizophrenias-w-caille-millner/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Johannes Lichtman
DESCRIPTION:Johannes Lichtman discusses his new novel\, Such Good Work. \n\nPraise for Such Good Work \n\n“I honestly can’t think of a novel I would more want to be reading in the very particular now of our world. Lichtman’s narrator is an everyman (albeit a singular one) who just wants to be good—that slipperiest of ambitions—and yet his efforts pretty much always go wrong. But also they don’t. Wisely comic and tremendously moving\, Such Good Work thinks in detail about immigration\, addiction\, privilege\, power and loneliness; but it does so by mining the seemingly inconsequential for its true profundity. Lichtman never falls for the siren song of self-seriousness\, and that is part of what makes his novel feel so accurate\, and so important. In being open to complexity\, and sensitive to absurdity\, Such Good Work gets at the wholeness and difficulty and beauty of lives both ordinary and extraordinary.”—RIVKA GALCHEN\, author of Atmospheric Disturbances \n“Johannes Lichtman has given us a powerful\, unsparingly honest portrayal of a soul in torment\, trying to find his way to a decent life.  How to love\, how to work–how to live\, however modestly\, with meaning and purpose inside a self that for too long has used booze and drugs to avoid the hard work of being human.  Building a genuine self\, that’s an inside job\, and in Such Good Work Lichtman delivers a deeply affecting novel of one young man’s struggle to be whole.”—BEN FOUNTAIN\, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk \n\nAbout Such Good Work \n\nA timely and provocative debut novel that Rivka Galchen calls “wisely comic and tremendously moving\,” about a creative writing teacher whose efforts to stay sober land him in Malmö\, Sweden\, where drugs are scarce but the refugee crisis forces a very different kind of reckoning. \nJonas Anderson might be an excellent teacher if he weren’t addicted to drugs. Instead\, at age twenty-eight\, he’s been fired from yet another creative writing position after assigning homework like\, visit a stranger’s funeral and write about it. \nJonas needs to do something drastic and\, as a dual American-Swedish citizen\, he knows Sweden is an easy place to be a graduate student and a difficult place to be a drug addict. The year is 2015 when he arrives in Malmö\, a city trying to cope with the arrival of tens of thousands of Middle Eastern refugees. Driven by an existential need to “do good\,” Jonas volunteers with an organization that teaches Swedish to the desperate and idling young refugees. But one young man\, Aziz\, will force Jonas to question whether “doing good” can actually help another person. \nSuch Good Work is a darkly funny work of autofiction that asks us to consider how one should go about being a good person in our modern world. In his striking debut novel\, Johannes Lichtman’s uses pathos and humor to grapple with simple yet necessary questions—Such Good Work begs you to consider the person you are\, as well as the person you hope to be.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/johannes-lichtman/
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:Alexandra Bracken and Tamara Ireland Stone
DESCRIPTION:Alexandra Bracken is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Darkest Minds series\, (the movie was released in August of this year and starred Amandla Stenberg)\, Passenger\, and Wayfarer. Her middle grade Prosper Redding series balances magic\, humor\, and heart and is about a modern New England boy who must rid himself of the ancient demon inhabiting his body and break his family’s curse. She sold her first book\, Brightly Woven\, as a senior in college\, worked in children’s book publishing as an editorial assistant and then in marketing\, and now writes full time. \nTamara Ireland Stone is the author of Time and Time Again\, a collection of her two novels Time Between Us and Time After Time\, as well as the New York Times bestseller Every Last Word. Her middle grade Click’d series features Allie Navarro’s explorations in computer programming and weaves together middle school friendship\, first crushes\, and serious coding skills that will have readers cheering Allie on from the first page to the last. She is a Silicon Valley native and has worked in the technology industry all her life\, first testing Atari game boards in her parents’ garage\, and later\, co-founding a woman-owned marketing strategy firm where she worked with some of the world’s largest software companies. She’s passionate about promoting STEM education for girls. \nDon’t miss this chance to hear two amazing authors showcase their wonderful middle grade sequels.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexandra-bracken-and-tamara-ireland-stone/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy
DESCRIPTION:Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy discuss their new book\, No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Your Emotions At Work. \n\nPraise for No Hard Feelings \n“A must-read that topples the idea that emotions don’t belong in the workplace\, No Hard Feelings offers a path towards a future I want to work in: an emotionally expressive\, yet respectful (and high-performing!) workplace.”—Susan Cain\, author of Quiet and Chief Revolutionary at Quiet Revolution \n“No Hard Feelings is both a charming\, sparkling read and a clear-eyed roadmap to harnessing the things that make us most human into tools that will make you more productive\, effective\, and happier at work. A must read for every leader and every aspiring leader.”  —Laszlo Bock\, CEO of Humu and author of Work Rules! \n“No Hard Feelings dispels the myth that there’s no place for emotions at work. You can’t communicate clearly unless you’re aware of your own emotions\, and the emotions you’re sparking in others. You can’t build productive relationships at work if you’re showing up like a robot. This book will help you build the emotional discipline you need to succeed.”--Kim Scott\,author of Radical Candor \n“If you’ve ever thought it’s best to check your emotions at the office door\, this book will change your mind. It’s full of lively illustrations and practical examples to show how you can harness emotions to become more creative\, collaborative\, and productive.”–Adam Grant\, New York Times bestselling author of Originals\, Give and Take\, and Option B with Sheryl Sandberg \n\nAbout No Hard Feelings \nA visual exploration of how to embrace emotion at work and become more authentic and fulfilled while staying professional. \nHow do you stop the office grouch from ruining your day? How do you enjoy a vacation without obsessing about the unanswered emails in your inbox? If you’re a boss\, what should you do when your new\, eager hire wants to follow you on Instagram? \nThe modern workplace can be an emotional minefield\, filled with confusing power structures and unwritten rules. We’re expected to be authentic\, but not too authentic. Professional\, but not stiff. Friendly\, but not an oversharer. Easier said than done! \nAs both organizational consultants and regular people\, we know what it’s like to experience uncomfortable emotions at work – everything from mild jealousy and insecurity to panic and rage. Ignoring or suppressing what you feel hurts your health and productivity — but so does letting your emotions run wild. \nOur goal in this book is to teach you how to figure out which emotions to toss\, which to keep to yourself\, and which to express in order to be both happier and more effective. We’ll share some surprising new strategies\, such as:\n*   Be selectively vulnerable: Be honest about how you feel\, but don’t burden others with your deepest problems.\n*   Remember that your feelings aren’t facts: What we say isn’t always what we mean. In times of conflict and miscommunication\, try to talk about your emotions without getting emotional.\n*   Be less passionate about your job: Taking a chill pill can actually make you healthier and more focused. \nDrawing on what we’ve learned from behavioral economics\, psychology\, and our own experiences at countless organizations\, we’ll show you how to bring your best self (and your whole self) to work every day.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/liz-fosslien-and-mollie-west-duffy/
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:Poetry Flash - - Kelsay Books/Aldritch Press w/ Rachel Dacus\, Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas\, Eileen Malone\, Kathleen McClung\, Lenore Weiss\, Andrena Zawinski
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome back our friends from Poetry Flash on Sunday\, February 10th at 3pm. This month we will be joined by poets from Kelsay Books/Aldritch press: Rachel Dacus\, Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas\, Eileen Malone\, Kathleen McClung\, Lenore Weiss\, Andrena Zawinski. \nPoet and novelist Rachel Dacus’s collection\, Gods of Water and Air\, is deliciously diverse. Poems and tales of horseback riding\, ballet class\, a bipolar rocket scientist parent\, a commercial fishing immigrant community abound. She is also author of The Renaissance Club\, a time travel novel\, and the poetry collections Femme au Chapeau and Earth Lessons. Her writing has appeared in Atlanta Review\, Boulevard\, Prairie Schooner\, The Pedestal\, and Valparaiso Poetry Review\, as well as in anthologies. \nCarol Lynn Stevenson Grellas’s new book of poetry is On the Edge of the Ethereal. Sam Rasnake\, editor of Blue Fifth Review\, calls it\, “a dark and beautiful book filled marvelously with the nature of loss\, pain and its evasion\, leaving\, things left unsaid\, ‘inhaling a world gone wrong’…Grellas is a remarkable poet with an unflinching eye and ear for details. The writing is a powerful\, rewarding journey\, not to be missed.” She is an eight-time Pushcart nominee and a four-time Best of the Net nominee. A Red Ochre Press Chapbook contest-winner\, her work has appeared in many magazines including The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine. She has published other collections\, including her chapbook\, Things I Can’t Remember to Forget. \nEileen Malone has published her poetry in over 500 literary journals and anthologies\, some of which have earned significant awards\, including four Pushcart nominations. Her newest book is It Could Be Me\, Although Unsure. Her previous books include Letters with Taloned Claws and I Should Have Given Them Water. She founded and now directs the Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition and its Awards Event at San Francisco Main Library. She has taught for California Poets in the Schools and at Bay Area community colleges\, and hosted an online interview show for Cable Access TV San Francisco. \nKathleen McClung’s new book is The Typists Play Monopoly. Almost the Rowboat is her previous collection. Her poems appear widely in journals and anthologies including Southwest Review\, Naugatuck River Review\, Ekphrasis\, Atlanta Review\, California Quarterly\, and Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California. Winner of the Rita Dove\, Morton Marr\, Shirley McClure\, and Maria W. Faust national poetry prizes\, she is a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee\, and associate director and sonnet sponsor/judge for the Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition. She teaches at Skyline College\, where she directs Women on Writing: WOW! Voices Now\, on campus. She is a 2018-2019 writer-in-residence for Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. \nLenore Weiss received an MFA in fiction from San Francisco State University where she won the Clark-Gross Award (judged by Paul La Farge) and the Robert Browning Dramatic Monologue Contest. She recently won first prize in the Alexandria Quarterly Press small stories series for her flash fiction chapbook\, Holding on to the Fringes of Love. Her three poetry collections form a trilogy about being mortal: Cutting Down the Last Tree on Easter Island\, Two Places\, and The Golem. In reviewing Two Places\, Nina Serrano wrote\, “Weiss’ mind travels like the speed of light from the real\, to the symbolic and the surreal.” \nAndrena Zawinski’s poetry has received accolades for free verse\, form\, lyricism\, spirituality\, and social concern. Landings is her recent Kelsay Books collection. In Landings\, she presents poems that embrace the worldwide condition of women\, immigrants\, and the working class alongside reverence for the natural world. Rebecca Foust lauds the collection “as a book that offers wisdom and solace and one you will take comfort in reading again and again.” Her other books include Something About\, a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award winner\, and Traveling in Reflected Light\, a Kenneth Patchen Prize in Poetry winner. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSunday\, February 10\, 2019 – 3:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-kelsay-books-aldritch-press-w-rachel-dacus-carol-lynn-stevenson-grellas-eileen-malone-kathleen-mcclung-lenore-weiss-andrena-zawinski/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets\, artists\, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. \nTo participate in the open mic sessions\, please arrive by 4 and plan to listen to all of the featured poets. Seating/space is limited.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gears-turning-w-kim-shuck-3/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poverty Scholarship 101
DESCRIPTION:with Lisa Tiny Gray-Garcia and friends \nPoverty Scholarship – Poor People-led Theory\, Art \, Words and Tears Across Mama Earth is a revolutionary poor people-led theory and solutions based text book that also comes with a downloadable curriculum is finally released by poet\, author and poverty skola Lisa Tiny Gray-Garcia and other POOR Magazine family in tandem with the six following POOR press publications: \nDear\, Godd By: Queennandi Xsheba\nDear\, Godd is a selection of intimate prayers between a uncrowned Queen enduring the Amerikkkan struggle and her relationship with the divine. \nThe Making of Aunti Vol II By: Aunti Frances Moore \nThe Making of Aunti Vol 2 is a compelling chronicle of a young black girl’s bitter sweet journey growing up in the 60s and 70s after the death of her mother. In her 2nd book\, the author recaps her pilgrimage thru racism\, self hatred & revolution in the 60s and 70s. \nIshy-Me’s Stranger Danger Saga  By: Ziair Cornish Hughes \nIllustrations by: Amir Hughes Cornish\nHey Fellow LoveLife Culture\, LoveOlutionary’s and LoveOloper’s join me and my brothers on my stranger danger quest. It’s an Anti-Bullying Campaign to keep us kids SAFE. IshyME wants to help you HAVE a voice… \nMass Driver: Disabled Detective’s Murder on the Moon – By Bruce Allison\nThis book is about two genres put together: Science Fiction and Hardboiled Detective. The main character is Bruce Allison\, a dyslexic private detective\, as he solves a murder case on the moon. \nSKELETAL BLACK – By Dee Allen\nPoverty. Arson. Gentrification. Combined with the unwritten law of American class society–in order for one to move up and win\,  Oakland performance poet Dee Allen returns with his 4th POOR Press book \nKrip Hop Komics: Graphic Novel Series #1 – By Leroy Moore\n1980’s Little Leroy has a physical disability and walks with a walker. He is always coming to a cypher in the Bronx\, NY from Hartford\, CT by Greyhound\, Flash-forward to 2018 Krip-Hop’s Superhero\,a Black teenage disabled girl named Roxanne… \nTiny (aka Lisa Gray-Garcia) is a formerly unhoused\, incarcerated poverty scholar\, revolutionary journalist\, lecturer\, poet\, visionary\, teacher and single mama of Tiburcio\, daughter of a houseless\, disabled mama Dee\, and the co–founder of POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE/PoorNewsNetwork. She has authored over 200 stories and blogs on poverty\, racism\, incaceration and displacement. With her Mama Dee- she co-founded Escuela de la gente/PeopleSkool- a poor and indigenous people-led skool\, as well as several cultural projects such as the Po Poets Project/Poetas POBREs Proyecto\, welfareQUEENs\, the Theatre of the POOR/Teatro de los pobres\, Hotel Voices( to name a few. She is also the author of Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America\, co-editor of A Decolonizers Guide to A Humble Revolution\, Born & Raised in Frisco and her second book- Poverty ScholarShip -Poor People Theory\, Arts\, words and Tears Across Mama Earth A PeoplesTeXt will be released in 2018-19. In 2011 she co-launched The Homefulness Project – a landless peoples\, self-determined land liberation movement in the Ohlone/Lisjan/Huchuin territory known as Deep East Oakland\, \,and co-founded a liberation school for children\, Deecolonize Academy
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poverty-scholarship-101/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:A MOVEABLE FEAST
DESCRIPTION:Come join us for our first poetry event of 2019! We’ll have 3 local poets telling tales of lands far away and the one you dearly love. \nhosted by Aakash Tayagi \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.facebook.com/events/1381967425268268/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-moveable-feast/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Diesel Readers Book Group - - Radio Free Vermont
DESCRIPTION:East Bay Booksellers invites you to The Diesel Readers Book Group’s discussion of Radio Free Vermont by Bill McKibben\, on Monday February 11th at 7pm. \nAs the host of Radio Free Vermont–“underground\, underpowered\, and underfoot”–seventy-two-year-old Vern Barclay is currently broadcasting from an “undisclosed and double-secret location.” With the help of a young computer prodigy named Perry Alterson\, Vern uses his radio show to advocate for a simple yet radical idea: an independent Vermont\, one where the state secedes from the United States and operates under a free local economy. But for now\, he and his radio show must remain untraceable\, because in addition to being a lifelong Vermonter and concerned citizen\, Vern Barclay is also a fugitive from the law. \nIn Radio Free Vermont\, Bill McKibben entertains and expands upon an idea that’s become more popular than ever–seceding from the United States. Along with Vern and Perry\, McKibben imagines an eccentric group of activists who carry out their own version of guerilla warfare\, which includes dismissing local middle school children early in honor of ‘Ethan Allen Day’ and hijacking a Coors Light truck and replacing the stock with local brew. Witty\, biting\, and terrifyingly timely\, Radio Free Vermont is Bill McKibben’s fictional response to the burgeoning resistance movement. \n  \n\n\n\n\n** The Diesel Readers is an ongoing group\, and is open to all. ** \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nMonday\, February 11\, 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/the-diesel-readers-book-group-radio-free-vermont/
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:Kim Hyesoon\, Don Mee Choi\, Forrest Gander\, and Brenda Hillman
DESCRIPTION:Kim Hyesoon and Don Mee Choi join us to talk about reenacting trauma and narrating death in Kim Hyesoon’s powerful new book\, Autobiography of  Death\, translated by Don Mee Choi. Special guests Forrest Gander and Brenda Hillman will also treat us to a reading of their poems and translations. Sponsored by The Center for the Art of Translation. \n\nAbout Autobiography of Death \nThe title section of Kim Hyesoon’s powerful new book\, Autobiography of Death (New Directions)\, consists of forty-nine poems\, each poem representing a single day during which the spirit roams after death before it enters the cycle of reincarnation. The poems not only give voice to those who met unjust deaths during Korea’s violent contemporary history\, but also unveil what Kim calls “the structure of death\, that we remain living in.” Autobiography of Death\, Kim’s most compelling work to date\, at once reenacts trauma and narrates death—how we die and how we survive within this cyclical structure. In this sea of mirrors\, the plural “you” speaks as a body of multitudes that has been beaten\, bombed\, and buried many times over by history. The volume concludes on the other side of the mirror with “Face of Rhythm\,” a poem about individual pain\, illness\, and meditation. \n\nAbout Kim Hyesoon \nKim Hyesoon is one of the most prominent poets of South Korea. Along with several female poets of the 1980s and 1990s\, Kim has developed a new terrain of poetry that has been described as “combative\, visceral\, subversive\, innovative\, and ontologically feminine\,” and which continues to flourish. \nAbout Don Mee Choi \nDon Mee Choi is the author of Hardly War(Wave Books\, 2016) and The Morning News Is Exciting (Action Books\, 2010) and has translated the work of several contemporary Korean women poets\, such as Ch’oe Sŭng-ja\, Kim Hyesoon\, and Yi Yŏn-ju. Her translations include Anxiety of Words (Zephyr Press\, 2008)\, Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers(Action Books\, 2008)\, All the Garbage of the World\, Unite! (Action Books\, 2011)\, Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream (Action Books\, 2014)\, and I’m OK\, I’m Pig (Bloodaxe Books\, 2014). \nAbout Forrest Gander \nForrest Gander is the author of numerous books of poetry\, translation\, fiction\, and essays. He is the A.K. Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literature at Brown University. His 2011 collection Core Samples from the World was a NBCC and Pulitzer Prize finalist for poetry. \nAbout Brenda Hillman \nBrenda Hillman is the author of eight collections of poetry\, all published by Wesleyan University Press\, the most recent of which is Practical Water (2009). With Patricia Dienstfrey\, she edited The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood(Wesleyan\, 2003). Hillman teaches at St. Mary’s College\, where she is the Olivia Filippi Professor of Poetry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-hyesoon-don-mee-choi-forrest-gander-and-brenda-hillman/
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:Lesbian Love Stories at Perfectly Queer
DESCRIPTION:MB Austin\, Giovanna Capone\, Kathy Knowles\, and Cass Sellars read love stories from their work at Perfectly Queer San Francisco\, Tuesday\, February 12\, 7pm-8:30pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. Free admission. Free red wine and chocolate\, too! Door prizes awarded to the prompt at 7pm. A collection for voluntary donations to Emily’s List will be taken at the end of the program. \nMB reads from Strictly Need to Know\, Giovanna from unpublished love stories\, Kathleen from Taking Sides\, and Cass from her brand-new novel\, Unexpected Lightning. \nHere’s more about the authors:\nMB Austin\, a mild-mannered civil servant by day\, spends her discretionary time playing with imaginary friends on the computer and real ones in the dojo. She writes the about women in love and danger — because saving the world is sexy.\nThe Maji Rios novels are inspired by real people\, in and out of uniform\, who work to make their communities and the world safer. MB lives with her fabulous wife in Seattle\, an excellent town for coffee-fueled writers who don’t need too much sun. Learn more at http://www.mbaustin.me \nGiovanna Capone is a poet\, fiction writer\, and playwright. She has been published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies. Her most recent books include DISPATCHES FROM LESBIAN AMERICA: 42 short stories and memoir by lesbian authors\, and IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD: Poetry & Prose from an Italian American. Her first play\, “Her Kiss\,” was produced and performed to sold-out audiences in San Francisco by Luna Sea Women’s Performance Project. She is working on two documentary films\, one about lesbian life and the other about the Colombo Club\, an Italian social club in Oakland\, soon to be celebrating 100 years. She’s a librarian and lives in Oakland\, CA. More at http://giovannacapone.com. \nKathleen Knowles grew up in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, but has lived in San Francisco for more than thirty years. She finds the city’s combination of history\, natural beauty\, and multicultural diversity inspiring and endlessly fascinating. Her first novel\, Awake Unto Me\, won the Golden Crown Literary Society award for best historical romance novel of 2012. She lives with her spouse and their pets atop one of San Francisco’s many hills. She recently retired after twenty years as a health and safety specialist at the University of California\, San Francisco. \nCass Sellars is a certified fraud examiner living near San Francisco. She considers knowing the best people\, having great experiences\, and drinking fabulous wine to be tickets to a magnificent life. Her goal is to create dynamic characters with the same zest for the human experience with whom women identify. Formerly an editor of a small magazine\, a creative journalist\, and a public speaker\, she’s always been a writer at heart. The Lightning Series has allowed her to explore the world of romantic suspense fiction. Sellars grew up in the Midwest and in Great Britain\, but spent much of her adult life on the East Coast. She dabbles in home renovation and design\, event planning\, singing\, and travel. https://casssellarsauthor.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lesbian-love-stories-at-perfectly-queer/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joyce Carol Oates
DESCRIPTION:reading from here new novel \nHazards of Time Travel \npublished by Harper Collins \n\n\nAn ingenious\, dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society\, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates \n“Time travel” — and its hazards—are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (future) world and is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America — “Wainscotia\, Wisconsin”—that existed eighty years before.  Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town she is set upon a course of “rehabilitation”—but cannot resist falling in love with a fellow exile and questioning the constrains of the Wainscotia world with results that are both devastating and liberating. \nArresting and visionary\, Hazards of Time Travel  is both a novel of harrowing discovery and an exquisitely wrought love story that may be Joyce Carol Oates’s most unexpected novel so far. \nJoyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities\, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award\, the National Book Award\, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction\, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time\, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys\, Blonde\, which was nominated for the National Book Award\, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls\, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. Her most recent novel is A Book of American Martyrs. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-carol-oates-7/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jeffrey Leong on the Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island
DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Thomas Leong discusses his new book of translations Wild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island. \n\nPraise for Wild Geese Sorrow \n“Jeffrey Thomas Leong is a fine poet\, and his translations of 70 of the poems are nuanced\, affecting\, and informed by a haunting but astringent music. They do commendable justice to the Angel Island poets\, writers who were not welcomed to these shores—but who nevertheless made a crucial and indelible contribution to our national literary culture.”— David Wojahn\, author of Interrogation Palace \n“Jeffrey Leong’s Wild Geese Sorrow is a marvelous translation of the wall poems written by Chinese held at Angel Island\, California\, from 1910-1940\, during their immigration review. His keenly nuanced translations follow the lineation of the original poems and juxtapose images that show their classical poetic lineage. Most importantly\, he humanizes each speaker by articulating the emotional pressure behind each poem. In a time of antiimmigrant sentiment\, this book is important reading for all Americans.”—Arthur Sze\, author of The Red-Shifting Web \n“This beautiful book is haunted by the sad and angry presence of nameless men who carved their feelings into Angel Island walls. Leong’s translations and sequencing\, footnotes\, and historical contextualization gift us with a glimpse into a world we might otherwise never know. Why did these men leave home? What were their thoughts about families and villages they left behind? How did they view their detention\, jailers\, and interrogators? Leong unveils the diversity of their personalities and social backgrounds. These poems are at the foundation of Asian American literature and are an essential contribution to American literary history.” — Elaine H. Kim\, Professor of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies\, University of California\, Berkeley \n\nAbout Wild Geese Sorrow \nWild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island by Jeffrey Thomas Leong is the first new translation in almost 40 years and takes readers through the deep anger\, sorrow\, and loneliness felt by the Chinese immigrant detainees at the Angel Island Immigration Station between 1910-1940. Sequenced to narrate the detainee experience\, the poems tell of arrival\, long detentions\, medical exams\, political outrage\, and for some\, deportation. Readers will also learn the nuances of literary translation and about a critical period of American immigrant history\, so essential to our contemporary policy debates. \nWild Geese Sorrow presents Leong’s 20+ years of writing experience into a moving collection that offers readers: \n• 70 newly-translated Angel Island Chinese wall poems presented in the original Chinese characters and with their English translations on facing pages\n• Brief foreword by David Wojahn\, Pulitzer Prize-nominated poet\, tying Angel Island poetry to the great World traditions of protest literature\n• A robust introduction contextualizing these poems with Chinese immigrant history at Angel Island\, classical T’ang poetry\, literary expressions of personal and political outrage\, and the difficulties of translation for the 21st century American reader\n• Extensive endnotes which provide essential cultural\, historical and linguistic context for the work\n• A small glossary of places\, names and terms\n• A full bibliography of resources on Chinese American immigrant history\, T’ang era poetry\, and the practice of literary translation\n• A complete finding list for the mostly untitled and anonymously-written poems\n• Chapter heading photographs of wall poems in situ\, historical events\, and physical site \n“But what purpose did these wall poems serve to their original authors? Given the basic education received by these new immigrants\, their act of writing poetry was transformational; by taking hardship and expressing it artistically\, they elevated it to the archetypal\,” says Leong. “An expression of personal feeling may be therapeutic in a Western sense\, but for these immigrants it was also communal\, literally on the walls of the barracks in which they were detained and for all their compatriots to see.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeffrey-leong-on-the-chinese-wall-inscriptions-at-angel-island/
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:Discuss! The Contemporary Fiction Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a new book group at the Main Library. We meet every 2nd Wednesday of the month. Discuss! focuses on topical\, thought-provoking contemporary fiction. \nThe February selection is Sing\, Unburied\, Sing by Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones\, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner\, The Odyssey and the Old Testament\, Ward gives us an epochal story\, a journey through Mississippi’s past and present that is both an intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/discuss-the-contemporary-fiction-book-club/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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