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SUMMARY:Joshua Furst / Revolutionaries
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith welcomes Joshua Furst (The Sabotage Café) to the store for his second novel\, Revolutionaries\, a long\, strange trip through the heart of the sixties and beyond as seen through the eyes of the revolution’s poster child. Please join us! \n> Review in The New York Times \n> Review in The New Yorker \nFred is the sole offspring of Lenny Snyder\, the famous (or notorious) pied piper of the counterculture\, and in middle age he hates being reminded of it. But neither can he ignore any longer his psychedelically bizarre childhood. From infancy\, for instance\, he was called Freedom (in fact his given name) not only by those who should have known him but also by members of the burgeoning movement led by his father\, who happily exploited having his wife and his toddling\, then walking and talking\, and finally observant son in tow. Thanks to Fred\, this charismatic\, brilliant\, volatile ringmaster is as captivating in these pages as he was to his devoted disciples back then. We watch Lenny organize hippies and intellectuals\, stage magnificent stunts\, and gradually lose his magnetic confidence and leading role as the sixties start slipping away. He demands loyalty but gives none back in return\, a man who preaches love but treats his family with almost reflexive cruelty. And Fred remembers all of it–the chaos\, the spite\, the affection. A kaleidoscopic saga\, this novel is at once a profound allegory for America–where we’ve been and where we’re going–and a deeply intimate portrait of a father and son who define our times. \n\nJoshua Furst is the author of Short People and The Sabotage Café\, as well as several plays that have been produced in New York\, where for a number of years wrote and directed plays in the downtown theater scene. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he’s the recipient of a Michener Fellowship\, the Chicago Tribune‘s Nelson Algren Award\, and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Ledig House. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University. Author photo by Michael Lionstar. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Revolutionaries\, order below and put your request in the comments field; to request a signed copy of any of Joshua’s other books\, do the same via this link.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joshua-furst-revolutionaries/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake at Jessie Square
DESCRIPTION:The monthly collaboration between Litquake: San Francisco’s Literary Festival and the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival features an array of Bay Area poets and musicians.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-at-jessie-square-4/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Beth Macy\, Dopesick
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author and journalist Beth Macy for a discussion and signing of her important book\, Dopesick—the only book to fully chart the devastating opiod crisis in America. An instant New York Times and indie bestseller\, Dopesick is “a harrowing\, deeply compassionate dispatch from the heart of a national emergency.” (New York Times). This event is part of our year-long effort\, 2020 Vision. \nIn this masterful work\, Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America’s twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction. From distressed small communities in Central Appalachia to wealthy suburbs; from disparate cities to once-idyllic farm towns; it’s a heartbreaking trajectory that illustrates how this national crisis has persisted for so long and become so firmly entrenched. \nBeginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics\, Macy endeavors to answer a grieving mother’s question-why her only son died-and comes away with a harrowing story of greed and need. From the introduction of OxyContin in 1996\, Macy parses how America embraced a medical culture where overtreatment with painkillers became the norm. In some of the same distressed communities featured in her bestselling book Factory Man\, the unemployed use painkillers both to numb the pain of joblessness and pay their bills\, while privileged teens trade pills in cul-de-sacs\, and even high school standouts fall prey to prostitution\, jail\, and death. \nThrough unsparing\, yet deeply human portraits of the families and first responders struggling to ameliorate this epidemic\, each facet of the crisis comes into focus. In these politically fragmented times\, Beth Macy shows\, astonishingly\, that the only thing that unites Americans across geographic and class lines is opioid drug abuse. But in a country unable to provide basic healthcare for all\, Macy still finds reason to hope-and signs of the spirit and tenacity necessary in those facing addiction to build a better future for themselves and their families. \nBeth Macy is the author of the widely acclaimed and bestselling books Truevine and Factory Man. Based in Roanoke\, Virginia for three decades\, her reporting has won more than a dozen national awards\, including a Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard. \n“Heartbreaking\, exhaustively researched…a fierce indictment of racism\, corporate greed and wily dealers…a terrifying\, essential read.” —People \n“Macy is a terrific reporter\, scrupulous in detailing the significance of her findings…Dopesick‘s second section–filled with gut-wrenchingly candid interviews with addicts and their families–is the most essential\, placing broken faces onto horrifying data sets.” —Entertainment Weekly \n“Macy reports on the human carnage with respect and quiet compassion.” —The San Francisco Chronicle \n“Beth Macy writes about our opioid epidemic but Dopesick is not about the drugs. It’s a book about kids and moms and neighbors and the people who try to save them. It’s about shame and stigma and desperation. It’s about bad policy\, greed and corruption. It’s a Greek tragedy with a chorus of teenage ghosts who know how to text but can’t express how they feel.” —Senator Tim Kaine \n\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 accommodation requests\, please e-mail us at info@bookshopsantacruz.com by August 12th\, 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beth-macy-dopesick/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Kelechi Ubozoh and L.D. Green / We've Been Too Patient: Voices From Radical Mental Health
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Kelechi Ubozoh and L.D. Green\, editors of the new anthology We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices From Radical Mental Health\, along with contributors Jeneé Darden\, Ramon(a) Rio\, Sascha Altman DuBrul\, andShizue Seigel for an evening of readings and conversation. Please join us! \nOvermedication\, police brutality\, electroconvulsive therapy\, involuntary hospitalization\, traumas that lead to intense altered states and suicidal thoughts: these are the struggles of those labeled “mentally ill.” While much has been written about the systemic problems of our mental-health care system\, this book gives voice to those with personal experience of psychiatric miscare often excluded from the discussion\, like people of color and LGBTQ+ communities. It is dedicated to finding working alternatives to the “Mental Health Industrial Complex” and shifting the conversation from mental illness to mental health. \n\n“Justice is not possible unless we make space for the stories of the margins. What more powerful elucidation can there be than to cast light on the margins of the mind? We’ve Been Too Patient shreds stigma and replaces it with dignity\, autonomy\, and power. This anthology heralds the necessity of our messy radical neurodivergent brains\, so that we might call forth a world where we are never again forced to be ‘too patient.’” – Sonya Renee Taylor\, activist and author of The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love \n\nL. D. Green is a genderqueer writer\, performer\, educator\, and mental health advocate. They co-edited and contributed to We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health and have published and performed in many other venues\, including The Body is Not an Apology and Foglifter. They write poetry\, non-fiction and speculative fiction and are a Lambda Literary Fellow. They are an English professor at Los Medanos College. \nKelechi Ubozoh is a nationally recognized Nigerian-American writer and mental health advocate featured in The S Word documentary and O\, The Oprah Magazine. Her first book\, We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health\, will be released from North Atlantic Books and Penguin Random House in Summer of 2019. \nJeneé Darden is an award-winning journalist\, public speaker and mental health advocate from Oakland. She’s also a host and reporter for NPR station KALW. Jeneé blogs at Cocoa Fly and is pitching a book about Black sexuality. Her first book\, When a Purple Rose Blooms\, is a collection of essays and poetry about Black womanhood. Jeneé is an alum of UC San Diego and the University of Southern California. \nRamon(a) Rio is a Xicanx non-binary queer trans-femme radical Licensed Clinical Social Worker and community organizer.  Ramon(a) was a former writer for The Body is Not an Apology.  Ramon(a) is also a trainer with Bloom\, a Transgender Healing Collective\, and is a leader with the Hayward Collective. \nSascha Altman DuBrul is cofounder of The Icarus Project\, a network of peer based mental health support groups and media project.  He has a Masters from Silberman School of Social Work\, worked as a Recovery Specialist/Trainer at Columbia’s Center for Practice Innovations and is currently Training Director for the Institute for the Development of Human Arts. \nShizue Seigel is a Japanese American writer/editor whose six books include Civil Liberties United\, Endangered Species\, Enduring Values\, and In Good Conscience. Over 50 years ago\, she had to kill the person her parents raised her to be to make space to find herself. She hopes freedom comes more easily to women and girls today. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kelechi-ubozoh-and-l-d-green-weve-been-too-patient-voices-from-radical-mental-health/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Neil Shister in Conversation with Harley Dubois
DESCRIPTION:discussing Radical Ritual: How Burning Man Changed the World. \n“An all-in history of\, and love letter to\, this one-of-a-kind event. If you’ve been there\, or want to go\, you couldn’t possibly find better companions than Neil Shister and his engaging book.”–Daniel Okrent\, author of Last Call and The Guarded Gate \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Radical Ritual in advance by speaking to a bookseller or by clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, August 14\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThrough interviews with fabled Burning Man personages\, Radical Ritual traces the festival’s evolution from the first scrap wood bonfire on a San Francisco beach to the week-long extravaganza in Black Rock City. Written from Neil Shister’s perspective as a five-time participant\, journalist\, and student of American culture\, Radical Ritual presents Burning Man as vitally\, historically important\, a significant player in the avant-garde\, forging new social paradigms as liberal democracy unravels. Burning Man’s contribution to this new order is post-post modern\, a fusion of sixties humanism with state-of-the-art Silicon Valley wizardry. Shister is not alone in his opinion. Led by conservative activist Grover Norquist\, the Cato Institute recently held an event on what libertarians can learn from Burning Man. The festival intertwines conservative and progressive ideas. On one hand it is a celebration of self-reliance\, personal accountability\, and individual freedom; on the other hand it is based on strong values of inclusion\, consensual decision-making\, and centered\, collaborative endeavor. \nNeil Shister has been a correspondent with Time\, television critic for the Miami Herald\, and editor of Atlanta magazine. He’s taught at Hampshire College\, Boston University\, and The George Washington University. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Côte d’Ivoire (1968-1970). He lives in Washington\, D.C. \nHarley Dubois is a founding board member and chief transition officer\, Burning Man Project. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/neil-shister-in-conversation-with-harley-dubois/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Edna in a Bottle (tastes funny)
DESCRIPTION:Edna in a Bottle (tastes funny) is a new San Francisco comedy hour at The Bindery in the Haight district. Edna and her friends are trapped in a bottle and dying to perform! A colorful splash of sketch scenes\, story-telling\, circus talent and wacked-out adult comedy. And there’s nothing wrong with an eating contest here and there. Mark your calendars and come let us out of the bottle! \nTickets are $12-25\, sliding. Seating is limited\, and this show often sells out — there’s no guarantee tickets will be available at the door\, so arrive early. Online sales close at 4pm the day of the show. \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis event is 18+. \nDoors open at 7:30pm. Show starts at 8pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nMore details coming soon — save the date and join us!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/edna-in-a-bottle-tastes-funny-6/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190818T180000
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SUMMARY:Silent Book Club SF
DESCRIPTION:Bring a book\, bring a friend\, and join Silent Book Club for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club\, there’s no assigned reading. All books and all ages are welcome. \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. \nHappy reading and hope to see you there! \n\nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nPhoto by Cody Pickens for O Magazine
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silent-book-club-sf-3/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190819T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190819T200000
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SUMMARY:Spanish Book Discussion Group La Forma de Las Ruinas - Juan Gabriel Vasquez
DESCRIPTION:En el año 2014\, Carlos Carballo es arrestado por intentar robar de un museo el traje de paño de Jorge Eliécer Gaitán\, líder político asesinado en Bogotá en 1948. Carballo es un hombre atormentado que busca señales para desentrañar los misterios de un pasado que lo obsesiona. Pero nadie\, ni siquiera sus amigos más cercanos\, sospecha las razones profundas de su obsesión. \n¿Qué conecta los asesinatos de Jorge Eliécer Gaitán\, cuya muerte partió en dos la historia de Colombia\, y de John F. Kennedy?¿De qué forma puede un crimen ocurrido en 1914\, el del senador liberal colombiano Rafael Uribe Uribe\, marcar la vida de un hombre en el siglo XXI? Para Carballo todo está conectado\, y las coincidencias no existen. Tras un encuentro fortuito con este hombre misterioso\, el escritor Juan Gabriel Vásquez se ve obligado a internarse en los secretos de una vida ajena\, al tiempo que se enfrenta a los momentos más oscuros del pasado colombiano. \nUna lectura compulsiva\, tan bella y honda como apasionante\, y una indagación magistral en las verdades inciertas de un país que no acaba de conocerse.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/la-forma-de-las-ruinas-juan-gabriel-vasquez/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190820T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190820T213000
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SUMMARY:LAUNCH for R.H. Herron w/Sophie Littlefield / Stolen Things
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to host R. H. Herron for the launch of her first suspense novel\, Stolen Things. Joining her in conversation is the one and only Sophie Littlefield\, whose new novel That’s What Frenemies Are For is out in July. Please join us!\n“Mama? Help me.” \nLaurie Ahmadi has worked as a 911 police dispatcher in her quiet Northern California town for almost two decades\, but nothing in her nearly twenty years of experience could prepare her for the worst call of her career—her teenage daughter\, Jojo\, is on the other end of the line. She is drugged\, disoriented\, and in pain\, and even though the whole police department springs into action\, there is nothing Laurie can do to help. \nJojo\, who has been sexually assaulted\, doesn’t remember how she ended up at the home of Kevin Leeds\, a pro football player famous for his work with the Citizens Against Police Brutality movement\, though she insists he would never hurt her. And she has no idea where her best friend\, Harper\, who was with her earlier in the evening\, could be. \nAs Jojo and Laurie begin digging into Harper’s private messages on social media to look for clues to her whereabouts\, they uncover a conspiracy far bigger than they ever could have imagined. With Kevin’s freedom on the line and the chances of finding Harper unharmed slipping away\, Laurie and Jojo begin to realize that they can’t trust anyone to find Harper except themselves\, not even the police department they’ve long considered family . . . and time is running out. \n\nR.H. Herron is the pseudonym of an author who lives and teaches writing in California. For seventeen years she worked as a 911 fire/medical dispatcher\, and this book is loosely inspired by actual events. Author photo by Tawnie Ashley. \n  \nSophie Littlefield is the author of more than twenty bestselling adult and YA novels. She is the recipient of an Anthony Award and an RT Book Reviews Reviewers’ Choice Award\, and she has been shortlisted for Edgar\, Macavity\, Barry\, and Crimespree awards. The New York Times has called her “a regular writing machine.” Author photo by Thomas Zielinski. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of any of Sophie’s books\, order here and include your request in the comments field. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-r-h-herron-w-sophie-littlefield-stolen-things/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190821T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190821T213000
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, August 21\, 7:30 pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. It’s aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. Hosted and curated by Sharon Coleman and Mk Chavez. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, August 21\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nShattuck Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-11/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190822T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190822T203000
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SUMMARY:THE RACKET! #33
DESCRIPTION:The Racket #33 : FRIENDSHIP w/ Tomas Moniz\nThursday\, August 29th\, Alley Cat Books\, 7PM\nft. Kate Folk\, Jane McDermott\, Carvell Wallace\, Michelle Schlachta\, Michelle Gonzalez\n\n\nOne of our very favorites\, Tomas Moniz\, has a brand new novella out – All Friends Are Necessary (Mason Jar Press). To celebrate this brand new novella we’re gathering a few of Tomas writerly friends and a few of our writerly friends to talk about a little thing called FRIENDSHIP. We imagine that even though the theme bubbles with images of long conversations and tear-jerking laughter that\, because it is The Racket\, it’ll get pretty weird.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-33/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190822T193000
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SUMMARY:LAUNCH for Susan Steinberg w/Ryan Van Meter / Machine
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to host the launch for Susan Steinberg‘s first novel\, Machine. She’ll be joined in conversation by Ryan Van Meter. Please join us! \nSusan Steinberg’s first novel\, Machine\, is a dazzling and innovative leap forward for a writer whose most recent book\,Spectacle\, gained her a rapturous following. Machinerevolves around a group of teenagers—both locals and wealthy out-of-towners—during a single summer at the shore. Steinberg captures the pressures and demands of this world in a voice that effortlessly slides from collective to singular\, as one girl recounts a night on which another girl drowned. Hoping to assuage her guilt and evade a similar fate\, she pieces together the details of this tragedy\, as well as the breakdown of her own family\, and learns that no one\, not even she\, is blameless. \nA daring stylist\, Steinberg contrasts semicolon-studded sentences with short lines that race down the page. This restless approach gains focus and power through a sharply drawn narrative that ferociously interrogates gender\, class\, privilege\, and the disintegration of identity in the shadow of trauma. Machine is the kind of novel—relentless and bold—that only Susan Steinberg could have written. \n\nSusan Steinberg is the author of Spectacle\, Hydroplane\, and The End of Free Love. She is the recipient of a United States Artists Fellowship\, a National Magazine Award\, and a Pushcart Prize. She teaches at the University of San Francisco. Author photo by Noah Doely. \n  \n\n \nRyan Van Meter is the author of If You Knew Then What I Know Now\, as well as other essays published in magazines and selected for anthologies including The Best American Essays. He is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of San Francisco. Author photo by Bennett Honson. \n\n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of any of Susan’s other books\, order here; to request signed copies of Ryan’s book\, order here and do the same. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-susan-steinberg-w-ryan-van-meter-machine/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jan Dederick & John Rowe
DESCRIPTION:August 23: Jan Dederick & John Rowe\nJan Dederick has published two chapbooks\, including Ear to the Rail and Between a Rock and a Soft Place\, and a full length collection\, Hammer it into Horseshoes\, a Memory in Poetry.  She was for several years a co-host of the long-running\, weekly Berkeley poetry series\, Poetry Express\, and currently serves on the editorial board of Poetalk\, the journal of the Bay Area Poets Coalition.  Accolades include honors from the Soul Making Keats literary competition and the Dancing Poetry Festival. She is a practitioner of homeopathic medicine and Kairos therapy. \nJohn Rowe  is the author of Beyond Perspective(Finishing Line Press\, 2015)\, Winsome Losesome(Eventuality Press\, 2010)\, and At My Wit’s Beginning(Eventuality Press\, 2003/2007). His poems have appeared in various small press journals and anthologies. Honors include numerous prize-winning poems from the Artists Embassy International’s Annual Dancing Poetry Festival Contests\, and Grand Prize in the Bay Area Poets Seasonal Review Contest 2010. He is a co-host of the monthly Last Word Poetry Reading Series in Berkeley\, a co-editor of Poetalk\, and the long-time President of the Bay Area Poets Coalition. http://www.rowepoet.com  \nThe reading will begin at 7:00 p.m. and end at 9:00 p.m. A limited open reading\, and a short interview with the featured readers will be included. This is a free event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jan-dederick-john-rowe/
LOCATION:St. Alban’s Episcopal Church\, 1501 Washington Avenue\, Albany\, CA\, 94706
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190823T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190823T213000
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SUMMARY:Téa Obreht\, Inland
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop is delighted to welcome Téa Obreht\, National Book Award finalist and bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife\, back to the store for a reading and signing of her new novel\, INLAND—an epic journey across an unforgettable landscape\, a stunning tale of perseverance and family\, and a love letter to the complicated and glorious American West. This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nIn the lawless\, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893\, two extraordinary lives collide. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life—her husband\, a newspaperman who has gone in search of water for the parched household\, and her elder sons\, who have vanished after an explosive argument. Nora is biding her time (and enduring her thirst) with her youngest son\, who is convinced that a mysterious beast is stalking the land around their home\, and her husband’s seventeen-year-old cousin\, who communes with spirits. \nLurie is an immigrant—a man born under Ottoman rule who comes to America as a child—and a former outlaw who is haunted by ghosts. He sees lost souls who want something from him\, and he finds reprieve from their longing in an unexpected companion who inspires a momentous expedition across the West. The way in which Nora’s and Lurie’s stories intertwine is the surprise and suspense of this brilliant novel. \nTéa Obreht is the author of The Tiger’s Wife\, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction. An international bestseller\, it has sold over a million copies worldwide\, with rights sold in 37 countries. Obreht was a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and was named by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best American fiction writers under forty. She was the 2013 Rona Jaffe Foundation fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers and was a recipient of the 2016 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. She was born in Belgrade\, in the former Yugoslavia\, in 1985 and has lived in the United States since the age of twelve. She currently lives in New York City and teaches at Hunter College. \n\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 accommodation requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by August 21st.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tea-obreht-inland/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190823T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190823T213000
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SUMMARY:BEAT UP & BEAT DOWN
DESCRIPTION:FRI. AUGUST 23RD\, 7:30PM \nWe’re super happy to announce our cross-country collaboration with NYC Beat poet George Wallace of POETRYBAY\, Great Weather for Media\, and poet in residence at Walt Whitman Birthplace; Mahnaz Badihian\, Iranian-San Franciscan passion poet and translator for Jack Hirschman; and Youssef Alaoui\, Moroccan-American roaming\, raving bard of the central California coast.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beat-up-beat-down/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190824T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190824T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T122630
CREATED:20190824T201828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190824T201828Z
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SUMMARY:NaNoWriMo presents Brave the Page
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts NaNoWriMo as they present Brave the Page: A Young Writer’s Guide to Telling Epic Stories\, their new handbook to inspire young people to tackle audacious goals and complete their creative projects. This event is part of the Litquake festival. More information to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nNational Novel Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo) has generated one of the most effective approaches to writing the novel of your dreams. But it’s not just for adults. Its Young Writers Program encourages kids in grades K-12 to pick up their pens (or pencils\, or keyboards) and tackle this enormous feat head-on. Come to celebrate the publication of NaNoWriMo’s teen writing guide\, Brave the Page\, which promotes NaNoWriMo’s belief that everyone’s stories deserve to be told. It’s a fun guide that introduces young people to NaNoWriMo’s signature “deadline plus goal” approach and includes craft information\, pep talks from popular authors\, advice on how to commit to your goals\, a detailed roadmap for writing a novel in a month\, and more! \n\nGrant Faulkner is the Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and the co-founder of 100 Word Story. He’s published two books on writing: Brave the Page and Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo. He’s also published Fissures\, a collection of 100-word stories and Nothing Short of 100: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story. His stories have appeared in dozens of literary magazines\, including Tin House\, The Southwest Review\, and The Gettysburg Review\, as well as in anthologies such as Best Small Fictions and Norton’s New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction. His essays on creativity have been published in The New York Times\, Poets & Writers\, Writer’s Digest\, and The Writer. He also co-hosts Write-minded\, a weekly podcast on writing and publishing. \nRebecca Stern has experienced NaNoWriMo from every angle: she had her students participate in the Young Writers Program when she was a teacher\, did a victory dance in the 50K winner’s circle\, served on the organization’s Associate Board\, and then was Director of Programs. Rebecca is now their Development Manager. Prior to working for NaNoWriMo\, Rebecca was a teacher for a decade and a Senior Digital Editor at Pearson Education. She also co-edited an anthology of essays for kids called Breakfast on Mars and 37 Other Delectable Essays. She lives in San Francisco with her husband\, son\, and their geriatric dog. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens with the store at 2pm; event starts at 4pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Brave the Page\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nanowrimo-presents-brave-the-page/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190824T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190824T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T122630
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SUMMARY:Socialist Realism | Trisha Low\, Jane Gregory & Brandon Brown
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the launch of SOCIALIST REALISM (Emily Books/Coffee House\, 2019)! \nTRISHA LOW will read\, with special guests JANE GREGORY & BRANDON BROWN. \nThere will be cake.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/socialist-realism-trisha-low-jane-gregory-brandon-brown/
LOCATION:moe’s books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Moe's Books":MAILTO:owenmoes@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190826T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190826T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T122630
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SUMMARY:Rick Moody: The Long Accomplishment
DESCRIPTION:Rick Moody discusses his new memoir\, The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Hope and Struggle in Matrimony. \nPraise for The Long Accomplishment \n“Touching. . . . In heart-wrenching detail\, Moody . . . weaves in [tales] of hardship. . . . A revealing\, intimate memoir—and a moving love letter.” —Publishers Weekly \n“In unflinching\, diary style . . . Moody balances emotional adversity with poignant digressions. . . . And his clever turns of phrase hint at a sense of wonder . . . recognizing that good fortune seems preordained while transcending tragedy requires something magical\, namely\, the power of love.” —Booklist \nAbout The Long Accomplishment \nRick Moody\, the award-winning author of The Ice Storm\, shares the harrowing true story of the first year of his second marriage—an eventful month-by-month account—in The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Struggle and Hope in Matrimony \nAt this story’s start\, Moody\, a recovering alcoholic and sexual compulsive with a history of depression\, is also the divorced father of a beloved little girl and a man in love; his answer to the question “Would you like to be in a committed relationship?” is\, fully and for the first time in his life\, “Yes.” \nAnd so his second marriage begins as he emerges\, humbly and with tender hopes\, from the wreckage of his past\, only to be battered by a stormy sea of external troubles—miscarriages\, the deaths of friends\, and robberies\, just for starters. As Moody has put it\, “this is a story in which a lot of bad luck is the daily fare of the protagonists\, but in which they are also in love.” To Moody’s astonishment\, matrimony turns out to be the site of strength in hard times\, a vessel infinitely tougher and more durable than any boat these two participants would have traveled by alone. Love buoys the couple\, lifting them above their hardships\, and the reader is buoyed along with them.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rick-moody-the-long-accomplishment/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190827T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190827T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T122630
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SUMMARY:E.R. Ramzipoor:The Ventriloquists
DESCRIPTION:E.R. Ramzipoor is a writer based in California. She also works as a content marketer\, writing about cybercrime and online fraud. She studied political science at UC Berkeley\, where she researched underground literature in resistance movements and discovered the forgotten story of Faux Soir. Her writing has been featured in McSweeney’s and The Ventriloquists is her first novel. She lives with her partner and a terrier mix named Lada.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/e-r-ramzipoorthe-ventriloquists/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, Bekeley\, 94 704
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190827T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190827T210000
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SUMMARY:Scott Hylbert: Task Lyst
DESCRIPTION:Scott Hylbert joins us to discuss his new novel\, Task Lyst. \nAbout Task Lyst \nDo you need to have someone walk your dog? How about to deliver your groceries? Or your drugs? How about carry out a hit? Are you looking for a side hustle to pay the rent\, but want to hide your influx of cash in bitcoin? Then the new on-demand services app\, Task Lyst is all you need. \nElliott is a struggling musician who is trying to piece together enough cash every month to keep his dream of performing alive while also paying his rent. That’s when he discovered the new app TASK LYST. As a service provider\, he sets his own hours\, his funds are delivered covertly in bitcoin and the rates continue to grow…but so does his suspicion over the type of tasks that he is being asked to complete. Is the anonymous nature of app-based freelance work enough to abate Elliott’s suspicions…and conscience? \nMeanwhile\, the glossy new Task Lyst corporation is looking for start-up capital and perhaps an extra way to make the app profitable\, by assisting the government in spying on users. Alice Seeger is a smart and beautiful executive who once had a promising future in Silicon Valley\, but a few bad investments have put her on the edge of being fired and saddled with a lifestyle that she can no longer afford. At first glance\, Task Lyst seemed like an app to pass on…until she discovers it’s dark underbelly which makes it more appealing financially while also being an enormous legal liability. She must test her own professional judgment against her morals in determining at what price she finds her own success. \nThis gig-economy thriller takes a look at the on-demand service industry\, and it’s shady possibilities. Apps have become all-encompassing in our fast-paced modern lives and their utility is undeniable. In this gripping thriller\, we follow the many sides\, shades and shadows of the app economy and test the question: how far is too far? \nAbout the Author \nScott Hylbert spent most of his youth surfing in San Diego before attending Denison University in Ohio to play soccer. Amidst a stalled-career as a rock-n-roller in San Francisco\, he packaged spring break tours and ski trips for students before finding a niche in the alternative newsweekly business. There\, he sold advertising to concert promoters and record companies for over a decade before enrolling in a masters program at Vanderbilt University while continuing to work and raise two kids. With a focus on creative writing\, he pursued a career-long goal to pivot from the marketing side of the media business to the editorial. Recently\, with his photographer wife Ashley\, he opened a rental photography studio and boutique event space in Nashville called White Avenue Studio.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/scott-hylbert-task-lyst/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190828T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190828T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T122630
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SUMMARY:Folkland Book Club: THE COMPLETE STORIES OF LEONORA CARRINGTON
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a monthly book club featuring titles from Small Press Distribution. Pick up a free copy of our August book at the July Book Club meeting on 7/31\, or at the Main Library Reference desk starting on 8/1 while supplies last. \nOur August Book Club Pick:\nTHE COMPLETE STORIES OF LEONORA CARRINGTON \nFiction. Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a master of the macabre\, of gorgeous tableaus\, biting satire\, roguish comedy\, and brilliant\, effortless flights of the imagination. Nowhere are these qualities more ingeniously brought together than in the works of short fiction she wrote throughout her life. \nWith a startling range of styles\, subjects\, and even languages (several of the stories are translated from French or Spanish)\, THE COMPLETE STORIES captures the genius and irrepressible spirit of an amazing artist’s life. \n“This definitive collection of Carrington’s short fiction is a treasure and a gift to the world. A stunning achievement.”—Jeff VanderMeer \n“Leonora Carrington has unswervingly followed the intensity of her own particular vision and way of being…Her work bristles with a fierce\, unconventional brand of feminism; anger gives it its final edge of irony and power.”—Angela Carter \n“Her delirious fantasy reveals to us a little of the secret magic of her paintings.”—Luis Buñuel \n“Carrington’s stories are optimistic and nihilistic\, beautiful and grotesque\, tender and cruel. She never contented herself with something simple or trite\, a philosophy of life that can be shortened and simplified and put in a fortune cookie.”—Sheila Heti \n“Her stories are vivid\, funny and surprisingly fresh…[combining] satire with surrealist situations to deftly mock the pomposity of organized religion\, sexual repression or the endless forms of bureaucratic hypocrisy and ineptitude.”—The New York Times
URL:https://litseen.com/event/folkland-book-club-the-complete-stories-of-leonora-carrington/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library – Main Branch\, 125 - 14th Street\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190828T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190828T213000
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SUMMARY:Kimberly King Parsons / Black Light: Stories
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Kimberly King Parsons for her new story collection\, Black Light. More to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \n“The stories in Black Light are grimy and weird\, surprising\, utterly lush… I loved every moment of this book.” – Carmen Maria Machado\, author of Her Body and Other Parties \nWith raw\, poetic ferocity\, Kimberly King Parsons exposes desire’s darkest hollows—those hidden places where most of us are afraid to look. In this debut collection of enormously perceptive and brutally unsentimental short stories\, Parsons illuminates the ache of first love\, the banality of self-loathing\, the scourge of addiction\, the myth of marriage\, and the magic and inevitable disillusionment of childhood. \nTaking us from hot Texas highways to cold family kitchens\, from the freedom of pay-by-the-hour motels to the claustrophobia of private school dorms\, these stories erupt off the page with a primal howl — sharp-voiced\, acerbic\, and wise. \n\n“The bad-ass gals in these terrific stories are all attitude\, and as funny and appealing in their imperfection and thwarted desire as you’ll find in any fiction out there. Parsons opens and ends stories brilliantly. I just finished this book\, and I’m going to read it again right away.” – Amy Hempel\, author of Sing to It \n“Kimberly King Parsons’s Black Light is savage\, celestial\, and gorgeous. Texas\, dusty and sprawling\, houses Parsons’s pining\, broken\, twangy\, and unforgettable characters. The prose shimmers into incantation. In this collection\, Parsons dissects the guts of the soul\, to show us how awful we all are and how crushingly beautiful.”  – Hannah Lillith Assadi\, author of Sonora \n“The very fact that Black Light exists in the world makes everything feel a little less bleak. These stories are funny and poignant and searching\, full of taut poetry\, not to mention the long pain and sharp joys of living and loving and lusting. In her debut collection\, Kimberly King Parsons has put it all on the line\, with a hell of a payoff.” – Sam Lipsyte\, author of Hark \n\nBorn in Lubbock\, Texas\, Kimberly King Parsons received her MFA from Columbia University. Her fiction has been published inBest Small Fictions 2017\, New South\, Black Warrior Review\, No Tokens\, Joyland\, Ninth Letter\, and The Kenyon Review\, among others. Author photo by Heather Hawksford. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kimberly-king-parsons-black-light-stories/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190829T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190829T170000
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SUMMARY:Catamaran Literary Reader\, Fall 2019 Issue Launch
DESCRIPTION:Contributors to the Fall 2019 Issue of Catamaran Literary Reader will join us for a live reading in celebration of the issue launch. Readers featured at this issue launch event will be announced at a later date. \nCatamaran was founded in 2012 in the Tannery Arts Center Studios in Santa Cruz\, California. Their mission is to capture the vibrant creative spirit in fiction\, poetry\, and creative nonfiction and to publish the best writing they can find in a narrative\, together with fine art. The magazine is full size on high quality paper for your reading pleasure\, and it is a full color experience\, like walking into an art gallery. They seek to present diverse national and international voices around the themes of the natural world and the environment\, the arts and artistic spirit\, and the personal journey and freedom. \nFor more on Catamaran Literary Reader visit their website or Facebook page. \n  \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 accommodation requests\, please e-mail us at info@bookshopsantacruz.com by August 27th\, 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/catamaran-literary-reader-fall-2019-issue-launch/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190829T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190829T213000
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SUMMARY:P. E. Moskowitz / The Case Against Free Speech: The First Amendment\, Fascism\, and the Future of Dissent
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts P. E. Moskowitz for their new book\, The Case Against Free Speech: The First Amendment\, Fascism\, and the Future of Dissent. Please join us for what promises to be a stimulating conversation! \nThere’s a critical debate taking place over one of our most treasured rights: free speech. We argue about whether it’s at risk\, whether college students fear it\, whether neo-Nazis deserve it\, and whether the government is adequately upholding it. \nBut as P. E. Moskowitz provocatively shows in The Case Against Free Speech\, the term has been defined and redefined to suit those in power\, and in recent years\, it has been captured by the right to push their agenda. What’s more\, our investment in the First Amendment obscures an uncomfortable truth: free speech is impossible in an unequal society where a few corporations and the ultra-wealthy bankroll political movements\, millions of voters are disenfranchised\, and our government routinely silences critics of racism and capitalism. \nWeaving together history and reporting from Charlottesville\, Skokie\, Standing Rock\, and the college campuses where student protests made national headlines\, Moskowitz argues that these flashpoints reveal more about the state of our democracy than they do about who is allowed to say what. \nOur current definition of free speech replicates power while dissuading dissent\, but a new ideal is emerging. In this forcefully argued\, necessary corrective\, Moskowitz makes the case for speech as a tool-for exposing the truth\, demanding equality\, and fighting for all our civil liberties. \nP. E. Moskowitz is the author of How to Kill a City. A former staff writer for Al Jazeera America\, they have written for publications including theGuardian\, New York Times\, NewYorker.com\, New Republic\, Wired\, Slate\,Buzzfeed\, Splinter\, and Vice. A graduate of Hampshire College and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism\, they live in New Orleans. \n\nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of The Case Against Free Speech\, order below and put your request in the comments field. If you’d like to request a signed copy of any of P. E.’s other books\, order here and be sure to include your request in the comments field. \nRSVP is appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/p-e-moskowitz-the-case-against-free-speech-the-first-amendment-fascism-and-the-future-of-dissent/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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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 will benefit a public school in San Francisco\, TBD. \nDirectly following Silent Reading Party we will celebrate the launch of Bottle Grove\, the new novel by Lemony Snicket’s alter ego\, Daniel Handler. More information coming soon. \nSign up to receive emails about upcoming Silent Reading Parties here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silent-reading-party-3/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! 1st and 3rd Monday of each month\, 7-9 pm Featured poets + open mic hosted by Jerry Ferraz
DESCRIPTION:POETS!\n1st and 3rd Monday of each month\, 7-9 pm\nFeatured poets + open mic\nhosted by Jerry Ferraz \n  \nOn the first and third Monday of each month\, Jerry Ferraz hosts a poetry reading that showcases local legends\, poets passing through and folks from around the Bay — typically two featured poets followed by an open mic. We can count on a warm group of poets and poetry fans eager to hear the features and the potpourri of poets of every stripe who come out to read and keep the open mic scene alive. Drawing on the generosity of our neighbors and patrons\, we’re able to pay a small honorarium to the featured poets\, a rarity in reading series off the college campuses… your additional dollar or two tossed in the bucket at the readings makes it that much sweeter. 2018-19 SF Poet Laureate Kim Shuck has graciously taken on some booking chores since assuming her laurels\, and much fun\, and some magnificent poetry\, is to be had as a result!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-1st-and-3rd-monday-of-each-month-7-9-pm-featured-poets-open-mic-hosted-by-jerry-ferraz/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SF LAUNCH for Daniel Handler w/Dan Stone / Bottle Grove
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening to celebrate Daniel Handler‘s new novel Bottle Grove. With him in conversation is Dan Stone\, and we’ll have specialty cocktails created by Alembic\, inspired by the book. Please join us! \nPlease note: \n>  This is a free event\, but seating is limited and advance tickets are recommended. Tickets are available here\, with the option of ordering a discounted cocktail and/or book. \n>  Directly preceding this event\, The Bindery will be hostingSilent Reading Party\, presented by Misters Handler & Stone. \nThis is a story about two marriages. Or is it? It begins with a wedding\, held in the small San Francisco forest of Bottle Grove — bestowed by a wealthy patron for the public good\, back when people did such things. Here is a cross section of lives\, a stretch of urban green where ritzy guests\, lustful teenagers\, drunken revelers\, and forest creatures all wait for the sun to go down. The girl in the corner slugging vodka from a cough-syrup bottle is Padgett — she’s keeping something secreted in the woods. The couple at the altar are the Nickels — the bride is emphatic about changing her name\, as there is plenty about her old life she is ready to forget. \nSet in San Francisco as the tech-boom is exploding\, Bottle Grove is a sexy\, skewering dark comedy about two unions — one forged of love and the other of greed — and about the forces that can drive couples together\, into dependence\, and then into sinister\, even supernatural realms. Add one ominous shape-shifter to the mix\, and you get a delightful and strange spectacle: a story of scheming and yearning and foibles and love and what we end up doing for it — and everyone has a secret. Looming over it all is the income disparity between San Francisco’s tech community and . . . everyone else. \n\nDaniel Handler is the author of the novels We Are Pirates\, The Basic Eight\,Watch Your Mouth\, Adverbs\, and Why We Broke Up\, a 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book. He is responsible for many books for children\, including the thirteen-volume sequence A Series of Unfortunate Events and the four-book series All the Wrong Questions. He is married to the illustrator Lisa Brown\, and lives with her and their son in San Francisco. \nDan Stone first met Mr. Handler while working as a program manager and documentary producer at the National Endowment for the Arts\, during which time he produced 25 radio shows on classic American novels\, interviewing more than 200 prominent writers\, actors\, artists\, musicians\, and public figures. Stone and Handler later reconnected across the bar at the Alembic\, where Stone worked with legendary barman Daniel Hyatt.How Money Became Dangerous\, Stone’s forthcoming book\, is about how the world of modern money became so complicated and contentious. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Radio Silence\, a magazine of literature and rock & roll\, and cohosts the Silent Reading Party with Handler\, a monthly event at the Bindery. Stone owns North Light in Oakland\, a hybrid of a bar\, book shop\, and record store. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 6:00pm for Silent Reading Party; event starts at 7:45pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Bottle Grove\, order below and put your request in the comments field; to order a signed copy of any of Daniel’s other books\, order here and be sure to include your request in the comments field. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sf-launch-for-daniel-handler-w-dan-stone-bottle-grove/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Chuck Forester: Eat\, Sleep\, Love
DESCRIPTION:Eat\, Sleep\, Love\, by Chuck Forester\, is a fond look back on a brief time when life opened up for gay men only to collapse with the deadly arrival of AIDS that marked the end of an era. It’s 1971 and Charlie McKey\, a young gay man from Point Reyes Station\, California\, arrives in San Francisco\, where free love and gay liberation abound. Newly out but open to experiencing the new wonders that suddenly surround him\, Charlie jumps in headfirst\, immersing himself in a no-holds-barred world of men\, drugs\, and endless sexual pleasure he’d never dreamed possible. \nChuck Forester came out in San Francisco in 1972 and participated in gay history as his generation created the Castro. Chuck worked for three San Francisco mayors and several non-profits\, and he has been writing for the past six years. His work includes the memoir\, Do You Live Around Here?\, and the novel Our Time: San Francisco in the 70s. His second novel\, Eat\, Sleep\, Love was released earlier this year.  Join us as Chuck reads from his new book\, and takes questions from the audience.  Eat\, Sleep\, Love will be available for purchase at the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chuck-forester-eat-sleep-love/
LOCATION:James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center of San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St. San Francisco\,\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mark Arax
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nTHE DREAMT LAND:\nChasing Water and Dust Across California \npublished by Alfred Knopf \nA vivid\, searching journey into California’s capture of water and soil–the epic story of a people’s defiance of nature and the wonders\, and ruin\, it has wrought \nMark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers\, a writer with deep ties to the land who has watched the battles over water intensify even as California lurches from drought to flood and back again. In The Dreamt Land\, he travels the state to explore the one-of-a-kind distribution system\, built in the 1940s\, ’50s and ’60s\, that is straining to keep up with California’s relentless growth. \nThis is a heartfelt\, beautifully written book about the land and the people who have worked it–from gold miners to wheat ranchers to small fruit farmers and today’s Big Ag. Since the beginning\, Californians have redirected rivers\, drilled ever-deeper wells and built higher dams\, pushing the water supply past its limit. \nThe Dreamt Land weaves reportage\, history and memoir to confront the “Golden State” myth in riveting fashion. No other chronicler of the West has so deeply delved into the empires of agriculture that drink so much of the water. The nation’s biggest farmers–the nut king\, grape king and citrus queen–tell their story here for the first time.\nThis is a tale of politics and hubris in the arid West\, of imported workers left behind in the sun and the fatigued earth that is made to give more even while it keeps sinking. But when drought turns to flood once again\, all is forgotten as the farmers plant more nuts and the developers build more houses. \nArax\, the native son\, is persistent and tough as he treks from desert to delta\, mountain to valley. What he finds is hard earned\, awe-inspiring\, tragic and revelatory. In the end\, his compassion for the land becomes an elegy to the dream that created California and now threatens to undo it. \nMark Arax is an author and journalist whose writings on California and the West have received numerous awards for literary nonfiction. A former staffer at the Los Angeles Times\, his work has appeared in The New York Times and the California Sunday Magazine. His books include a memoir of his father’s murder\, a collection of essays about the West\, and the best-selling The King of California\, which won a California Book Award\, the William Saroyan Prize from Stanford University\, and was named a top book of 2004 by the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. He lives in Fresno\, California. \n\nWhat has been said about the work of Mark Arax: \n“[An] exhaustive\, deeply reported account… Few other journalists could have written a book as personal and authoritative… As Arax makes plain in this important book\, it’s been the same story in California for almost two centuries now: When it comes to water\, ‘the resource is finite. The greed isn’t.'”–Gary Krist\, The New York Times Book Review \n“In his sprawling\, provocative book The Dreamt Land\, journalist Mark Arax examines California’s long-building water crisis with the keen\, loving\, troubled eye of a native son… The Dreamt Land assumes an urgent\, personal tone and incorporates history\, memoir and the lives of larger-than-life personalities. Taken together\, it is a story biblical in scope and cautionary in tenor.”\n—Gerard Helferich\, The Wall Street Journal \n“Former L.A. Times reporter Mark Arax makes a riveting case that this expanse — 450 miles lengthwise from Shasta to Tehachapi; 60 miles across from the Sierra Nevada to the Coastal Range — as much as the world cities on its coast\, holds the key to understanding California …  a deeply reported work keenly alive to local subcultures.”\n—Stephen Phillips\, Los Angeles Times \n“Mark Arax’s monumental new book on California’s water system underscores the madness that makes the Golden State an agricultural powerhouse. [The Dreamt Land] is a compelling and powerful history of how power and greed shape the land\, and Arax has achieved a masterful distillation of how California got here\, warts and all.”\n—Civil Eats \n“The Dreamt Land weaves reportage\, history and memoir to confront the “Golden State” myth in riveting fashion. No other chronicler of the West has so deeply delved into the empires of agriculture that drink so much of the water. The nation’s biggest farmers–the nut king\, grape king and citrus queen–tell their story here for the first time.”\n—Chicago Review of Books \n“You can’t understand California without understanding water\, and no one is better at doing that than Mark Arax\, whose depth of knowledge about the Central Valley is organic and unparalleled. Plus\, he writes like a dream.”\n—Mark Bittman\, author of Food Matters  \n“The Dreamt Land is the book Mark Arax was born to write. Nuanced\, deeply researched\, and profoundly personal\, it offers\, through its history of agriculture in California\, a deep dive into the soul of the state. Arax knows the territory; he has written about rural California for many years. This is his crowning achievement\, a work of reportage that is also a work of literature. It belongs on the short list of great books about the state.”—David L. Ulin\, author of Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles\, and editor of the Library of America’s Collected Didion \n“This is a stunning book. Biblical drama played against the harsh sun and earth of California’s Central Valley. Exodus\, diaspora\, parting the waters\, sowing and reaping\, Godlike dominion: it’s all in here.  The Dreamt Land calls up Steinbeck and Didion\, but it rests squarely on its own words\, memories\, and stories beyond mere comparison.”—William Francis Deverell\, Director of Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West \n“A sweeping\, engrossing history of his native California focused on the state’s use\, overuse\, and shocking mismanagement of water….Arax reveals the consequences to land and wildlife of generations of landowners who have defiantly dug\, dammed\, and diverted California’s waters.”–Kirkus Reviews (starred) \n“Arax brings a reporter’s precision of language\, a researcher’s depth of perception\, and a born storyteller’s voice to this empathetic but unsentimental look at the history\, present\, and uncertain future of a once-arid region restructured into one of the country’s most productive.”\n—Publishers Weekly
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mark-arax/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Carolina De Robertis w/R. O. Kwon / LAUNCH for Cantoras
DESCRIPTION:Carolina De Robertis w/R. O. Kwon / LAUNCH for Cantoras\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, September 4\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nBody:\n\n\nThe Bindery hosts a special evening to launch Carolina De Robertis‘ new novel\, Cantoras. She’ll be in conversation with R. O. Kwon. Please join us! \nFrom the highly acclaimed\, award-winning author of The Gods of Tango\, a revolutionary new novel about five wildly different women who\, in the midst of the Uruguayan dictatorship\, find one another as lovers\, friends\, and ultimately\, family. \nIn 1977 Uruguay\, a military government has crushed political dissent with ruthless force. In an environment where citizens are kidnapped\, raped\, and tortured\, homosexuality is a dangerous transgression. And yet Romina\, Flaca\, Anita “La Venus\,” Paz\, and Malena–five cantoras\, women who “sing”–somehow\, miraculously\, find on another and then\, together\, discover an isolated\, nearly uninhabited cape\, Cabo Polonio\, which they claim as their secret sanctuary. Over the next thirty-five years\, their lives move back and forth between Cabo Polonio and Montevideo\, the city they call home\, as they return\, sometimes together\, sometimes in pairs\, with lovers in tow\, or alone. And throughout\, again and again\, the women will be tested–by their families\, lovers\, society\, and one another–as they fight to live authentic lives. \nA genre-defining novel and De Robertis’s masterpiece\, Cantoras is a breathtaking portrait of queer love\, community\, forgotten history\, and the strength of the human spirit. At once timeless and groundbreaking\, Cantoras is a tale about the fire in all our souls and those who make it burn. \n\n“Carolina’s writing\, as always\, blew me away. Cantoras is a stunning lullaby to revolution — and each woman in this novel sings it with a deep ferocity. Again and again\, I was lifted\, then gently set down again — either through tears\, rage\, or laughter. Days later\, I am still inside this song of a story.” – Jacqueline Woodson\, National Book Award winner and author of Red at the Bone \n“Cantoras is a wise\, brilliantly compassionate\, wide-ranging novel about women in Uruguay\, and about the power and realities of love. Carolina De Robertis is a force: prepare to be astonished.” – R. O. Kwon\, author of The Incendiaries \n“A lyrical\, richly sensory novel about a group of renegade cantoras — slang for queer women — who claim a beach refuge during the worst years of the dictatorship in Uruguay\, and beyond. Together they steal time from oppression of all kinds\, unspooling the infinity of themselves. Pointedly relevant to our own dangerous age\, Carolina De Robertis has gifted us a majestic work of song and imagination\, a handbook to survival for us all.” – Cristina García\, author of Here in Berlin \n\nCarolina De Robertis is a writer of Uruguayan origins and the author of The Gods of Tango\, Perla\, and the international best seller The Invisible Mountain. Her novels have been translated into seventeen languages and have garnered a Stonewall Book Award\, Italy’s Rhegium Julii Prize\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, and numerous other honors. She is also a translator of Latin American and Spanish literature and editor of the anthology Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times. In 2017\, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts named De Robertis on its 100 List of “people\, organizations\, and movements that are shaping the future of culture.” She teaches at San Francisco State University and lives in Oakland\, California\, with her wife and two children. \nR. O. Kwon’s nationally bestselling first novel\, The Incendiaries\, is published by Riverhead (U.S.) and Virago/Little Brown (U.K.)\, and it is being translated into five languages. Named a best book of the year by over forty publications\, the novel is an American Booksellers Association Indie Next #1 Pick and an Indies Introduce selection.The Incendiaries was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award for Best First Book\, Los Angeles Times First Book Prize\, and Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Fiction Prize. Kwon’s next novel\, as well as an essay collection\, are forthcoming. \n  \n\n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of any of Carolina’s other books\, order here and include your request in the comments field; for R. O.’s book\, order here and do the same. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carolina-de-robertis-w-r-o-kwon-launch-for-cantoras/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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