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SUMMARY:Book Party!
DESCRIPTION:Please join Couch Press (Portland)\, Big Lucks (Austin)\, and Atelos (Berkeley) in celebrating three new books: <<(())>> by Lindsey Boldt\, The Good Life by Brandon Brown\, and Merry Hell by Sara Larsen at Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th Street in the Mission\, on Saturday October 8th at 7:00 p.m. We’ll have some wine\, all the books will be there for sale\, and all three writers will give short readings.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-party/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Parks 2016
DESCRIPTION:Quiet Lightning\, California State Parks\, and Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy present Poetry in Parks 2016\, a free\, daylong festival in the historic Cushing Memorial-Mountain Theater in Mt. Tamalpais State Park celebrating Quiet Lightning’s 100th show\, the centennial of the National Parks\, and the connection between the wilderness experience and the inspiration parks provide to everyone. \nFeatured readers include Dana Gioia\, Kay Ryan\, Jane Hirshfield\, Alejandro Murguía\, Kim Stanley Robinson\, and Matthew Zapruder\, with Barbara Jane Reyes\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Brynn Saito\, Arisa White\, Charlie Getter\, and Andrew Paul Nelson; a submission-based literary mixtape; youth poetry readings curated by Marin County Poet Laureate Prartho Sereno\, and performances by San Francisco’s Classical Revolution and postmodern dance pioneer Anna Halprin. Includes children’s activities\, local food and beverage booths. For full lineup\, free shuttle service\, directions\, and more info: quietlightning.org/tam.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-in-parks-2016/
LOCATION:Cushing Memorial-Mountain Theater\, Mount Tamalpais State Park\, East Ridgecrest Blvd\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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SUMMARY:Martha Collins + Rosa Lane
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday\, October 9th at 3pm. The featured guest poets will be Martha Collins and Rosa Lane. \nPoetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible; ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.org for more events and reviews! \nMartha Collins’s new book of poems is Admit One: An American Scrapbook. Booklist calls it “An unflinching look at the underpinnings of racism in the U.S.…Her poems are lists\, definitions\, newspaper pages\, historic time lines\, and biographical facts. These diverse poetic forms highlight the beauty of diversity itself. But Collins never lets up on the driving themes of unethical treatment and collective culpability.” Among her previous collections are Day Unto Day\, White Papers\, andBlue Front. The last two both won Ohioana awards\, and Blue Front also won an Ansfield-Wolf Book Award and was chosen one of 25 Books to Remember by the New York Public Library. Among her other publications are three books of co-translation from the Vietnamese. \nRosa Lane’s first full-length book of poems is Tiller North. Jeffrey Levine says\, “Rosa Lane’s poetry reminds us why\, at a certain time in our lives\, we’ve had enough of innocence. Here is a compendium of those so crucial\, chronology-defying self-revelations that we only know through our skin. Every line carries with it a resonant sense of what matters and why.” Widely published in literary journals like Ploughsharesand Crab Orchard Review\, she is the author of the chapbook Roots and Reckonings. She works as an architect\, with a Ph.D. in sustainable architecture\, and she divides her time between Maine and the San Francisco Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/martha-collins-rosa-lane/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Gears Turning Poetry: Brady\, Cohen\, + Raphael w/ Dang
DESCRIPTION:Dan Brady has been featured in the Poet’s Eleven Series and S.F. Peace and Hope’s anthology. He has ties with the Bay Area Poet’s Coalition and the Haiku Poets of Northern California. He’s led workshops and hosts the Wednesday series at Sacred Grounds ”Good food and fine poetry since 1972.” His books are Orphan City\, (i)n((s(i)gh)t) to;(r(io)t) and Haiku: Infolded Meaning. \nSusan Cohen is an award-winning journalist and poet who lives in Berkeley. Her poems have appeared in Harpur Palate\, Poetry International\, River Styx\, Salamander\, Southern Humanities Review\, Verse Daily\, and the Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry among many other publications. Her second full-length collection\, A Different Wakeful Animal\, won the 2015 David Martinson-Meadowhawk Prize from Red Dragonfly Press which issued it in June. \nA long-time Portland resident\, Dan Raphael’s been active in the Northwest as poet\, performer\, publisher and reading host. Everyone in This Movie Gets Paid\, his 19th book\, came out this June from Last Word Press; previous books include The State I’m In (nine muses press) and Impulse & Warp: The Selected 20th Century Poems (Wordcraft of Oregon). His poems have appeared in over 300 magazines\, websites and anthologies including Caliban\, Big Bridge\, Otoliths\, Rattapllax\, Make it True\, Cordite\, Unlikely Stories and Pacific Northwestern Spiritual Poetry. He has given over 200 readings\, in places like Bumbershoot\, Wordstock\, Powell’s Books\, Reed College\, Ellliot Bay Books\, Penofin Jazz Festival and 80 different places in Portland. For 13 years he ran a monthly reading series at a downtown books store\, then curated Poetland—80 poets at 8 different venues over an 8 hour stretch.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gears-turning-poetry-brady-cohen-raphael-w-dang/
LOCATION:Modern Times Bookstore Collective\, 2919 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer Fall Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Novelists Laura J. Merrell\, Kate Jessica Raphael\, and Hilary A. Zaid read from new fiction at Perfectly Queer Fall Fiction Monday\, October 10\, 7pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. in San Francisco. Free admission\, door prizes\, and refreshments. A book signing will follow the readings. \nLaura J. Merrell grew up in southeast Indiana during the sad-sack seventies and anal eighties. During her senior year\, she was voted “girl most likely to be locked in the attic by her relatives.” About her writing\, Laura says\, “I’ve written ever since I knew how to because I’m a pathological storyteller.” Her blog is blackwhitepress.wordpress.com. In her novel The Hedge Tree\, the year is 1972\, Tricky Dick is in the White House\, and four-year-old Charity has managed to offend the better part of Roosevelt County\, Indiana\, by not crying at her mother’s funeral. Charity grows into a random weed that can’t find a squat in the garden. But\, if the entire world is outside the garden\, maybe it’s not all bad. \nKate Jessica Raphael is a feminist\, queer activist\, writer\, and radio journalist\, who makes her living as a law firm word processor. She lived in Palestine for eighteen months as a member of the International Women’s Peace Service and spent five weeks in an Israeli prison for her activism. In 2011\, she won a residency at Hedgebrook writer’s colony. She has contributed footage to several films about Palestine and was featured in the film “Shutdown: The Rise and Fall of Direct Action to Stop the War.” Her debut novel Murder Under The Bridge: A Palestine Mystery won the Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) silver medal for mystery. It is the first in a series. Visit her website: www.kateraphael.com. \nHilary A. Zaid is an alumna of the Tin House and Squaw Valley writers workshops. Her short fiction has appeared in Lilith Magazine\, The Southwest Review\, The UTNE Reader and CALYX\, among other periodicals. Her story “My Triple X Valentine’s at the Far Point Senior Villas” will be the feature story in the October 19 issue of Amazon’s Day One\, and her fiction is also forthcoming in the winter issue of The Tahoma Literary Review. Her prose chapbook The Dark Between the Stars was selected as the BLOOM Literary Magazine chapbook winner by judge Lucy Jane Bledsoe. See author website at www.hilaryzaid.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-fall-fiction/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lines & Lyrics: Cheng\, Rock\, + Shiferraw w/ Miss Erma
DESCRIPTION:Lines and lyrics from Litquake Nation! Enjoy line breaks during your lunch break\, as some of the Bay Area’s best poets and musicians share their work in the great outdoors. \nScott Brownlee is the author of Requiem for Used Ignition Cap\, which won the 2015 Orison Poetry Prize and the 2016 Bob Bush Memorial Award from the Texas Institute of Letters\, as well as three prize-winning chapbooks. \nJennifer S. Cheng is the author of HOUSE A\, selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Prize. Her poems and essays appear in Tin House\, AGNI\, Mid-American Review\, and elsewhere. She is a founding editor of Drop Leaf Press. \nMartin Rock is the author of Residuum\, winner of the 2015 Editor’s Choice Award for CSU Poetry Center’s first book prize. He is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing and Literature at University of Houston and lives in Oakland. \nMahtem Shiferraw is a poet and visual artist who grew up in Ethiopia and Eritrea. Her work has been published in various literary journals. She was the recipient of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets for her collection\, FUCHSIA. She received her MFA from Vermont College. \nMusical guest Miss Erma blends ancestry and tradition into a confident\, distinct musical voice of her own. She carries herself with a precocious self-possession reminiscent of an early Fiona Apple (if that young talent had heeded Tom Robbins’ advice to “Lighten up!”). \nPart of YBG Festival’s Poetic Tuesdays series. For our full summer schedule visit www.ybgfestival.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lines-lyrics-cheng-rock-shiferraw-w-miss-erma/
LOCATION:Jessie Square; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, 220 Stevenson St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:An evening w/ Masande Ntshanga
DESCRIPTION:reading from his acclaimed new novel \nThe Reactive \nfrom Two Dollar Radio \nHeralded in the author’s native South Africa as “the hottest novel of the year\,” The Reactive is a clear-eyed and compassionate depiction of a young HIV+ man grappling with the sudden death of his younger brother\, for which he feels unduly responsible. \nLindanathi and his friends—Cecelia and Ruan—make their living working low-paying jobs and selling anti-retroviral drugs (during the period in South Africa before ARVs became broadly distributed). In between\, they huff glue\, drift in and out of parties\, and traverse the streets of Cape Town\, where they observe the grave material disparities of their country. A mysterious masked man appears seeking to buy their surplus of ARVs\, an offer that would present the three with the opportunity to escape their environs\, while at the same time forcing Lindanathi to confront his path\, and finally\, his past. \nWith brilliant\, shimmering prose\, Ntshanga has delivered a redemptive\, ambitious\, and unforgettable first novel. \nMasande Ntshanga is the winner of the inaugural PEN International New Voices Award in 2013\, and a finalist for the Caine Prize in 2015. He was born in East London in 1986 and graduated with a degree in Film and Media and an Honours degree in English Studies from UCT\, where he became a creative writing fellow\, completing his Masters in Creative Writing under the Mellon Mays Foundation. He received a Fulbright Award\, an NRF Freestanding Masters scholarship\, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship and a Bundanon Trust Award. His work has appeared in The White Review\, Chimurenga\, VICE and n + 1. He has also written for Rolling Stone magazine. \nCritical Praise for the work of Masande Ntshanga: \n*Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize Finalist \n*Etisalat Prize for Literature Longlist \n*One of the Best Books of the Year —City Press\, The Sunday Times\, The Star\, This is Africa\, Africa’s a Country\, Sunday World \n“[The Reactive is] a searing\, gorgeously written account of life\, love\, illness\, and death in South Africa. With exquisite prose\, formal innovation\, and a masterful command of storytelling\, Ntshanga illustrates how some young people navigated the dusk that followed the dawn of freedom in South Africa and humanizes the casualties of the Mbeki government’s fatal policies on HIV & AIDS.”\n—Naomi Jackson\, Poets & Writers \n“Woozy\, touching… a novel that delivers an unexpected love letter to Cape Town\, painting it as a place of frustrated glory. The Reactive often teems with a beauty that seems to carry on in front of its glue-huffing wasters despite themselves.”\n—Marian Ryan\, Slate
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-w-masande-ntshanga/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nell Zink
DESCRIPTION:Nell Zink exquisitely captures the clash between Baby-Boomer idealism and Millennial pragmatism\, between the have-nots and want-mores\, in a riotous yet tender novel that brilliantly encapsulates our time. \nRecent business school graduate Penny Baker has rebelled against her family her whole life… by being the conventional one. Her mother\, Amalia\, was a member of a South American tribe called the Kogi and her much older father\, Norm\, long ago attained cult-like deity status among a certain cohort of aging hippies while operating a psychedelic “healing center.” She’s never felt particularly close to her much older half-brothers from Norm’s previous marriage; one\, wickedly charming and obscenely rich (but mostly just wicked)\, and one a photographer on a distant tropical island. \nAll that changes when her father dies and Penny inherits his childhood home in New Jersey. She goes to investigate the property and finds it not overgrown and abandoned\, but rather occupied by a group of friendly anarchist squatters whom she finds unexpectedly charming\, and who have renamed the property “Nicotine.” The Nicotine residents (united in defense of smokers’ rights’) possess the type of passion and fervor Penny feels she’s desperately lacking\, and the other squatter houses in the neighborhood provide a sense of community she has never felt before. She soon moves into a nearby residence\, becoming enmeshed in the political fervor and commitment of her fellow squatters. \nAs the Baker familys’ lives begin to converge around the fate of the house now called Nicotine\, Penny grows ever bolder and more desperate to protect it and its residents until a fateful night when a reckless confrontation between her old family and her new one changes everything. \nNell Zink grew up in rural Virginia. She has worked in a variety of trades\, including masonry and technical writing. In the early 1990s\, she edited an indie rock fanzine. Her writing has also appeared in n+1. Her debut novel\, The Wallcreeper\, was published in 2014. She lives near Berlin\, Germany.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nell-zink/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Liza Monroy w/ Elizabeth McKenzie
DESCRIPTION:Liza Monroy’s new book is a collection of deeply personal essays that tackle the universal themes of romantic and familial love\, fate and chance\, all told in a humorous and intelligent manner that keeps the reader yearning for more. Created in the wake of Liza’s popular essays — including her piece for the Modern Love column in the New York Times — Seeing as Your Shoes Are Soon to Be on Fire chronicles Liza’s many misadventures in her quest for love. These misadventures span a variety of countries and a variety of men\, all bound together under the watchful eye of her eccentric\, single mother\, a profiler for the U.S. State Department\, who is soon using her professional aptitude to weed out the men in her daughter’s path. \nFilled with quirky details and archetypal characters from our everyday lives\, with stories that are both wildly hilarious and deeply heartfelt\, Seeing as Your Shoes Are Soon to Be on Fire is both a vulnerably open testament to Liza’s personal experiences and an intriguing work that confronts the odds of finding love and intimacy in the increasingly depersonalized world of technology. \nLIZA MONROY is the author of The Marriage Act: The Risk I Took to Keep My Best Friend in America… and What It Taught Us About Love and Mexican High. Her essays and articles have appeared in the New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, Psychology Today\, and Poets & Writers. Her work has also been featured in various anthologies\, including Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York and One Big Family. Liza has taught writing at Columbia University\, UCLA Extension\, and UC Santa Cruz. She currently lives in Santa Cruz\, California. \nELIZABETH MCKENZIE is the author of The Portable Veblen and Stop That Girl. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic Monthly\, Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and the Pushcart Prize anthology\, and has been recorded for NPR’s Selected Shorts. She received her MA from Stanford\, was an assistant fiction editor at The Atlantic\, and currently teaches creative writing at Stanford’s school of continuing studies. She lives in Santa Cruz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/liza-monroy-w-elizabeth-mckenzie/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Litquake Presents a Julio Cortázar Celebration
DESCRIPTION:City Lights and the Center for the Art of Translation join us for a celebration of the legendary Argentine writer Julio Cortázar. \nWith readings by: \nMauro Javier Cardenas \nSilvia Oviedo \nKatherine Silver \nand more \n\nPraise for Julio Cortázar: \n“Anyone who doesn’t read Cortazar is doomed. Not to read him is a serious invisible disease which in time can have terrible consequences. Something similar to a man who has never tasted peaches. He would quietly become sadder . . . and\, probably\, little by little\, he would lose his hair.” —Pablo Neruda \n“Some people run the world\, others are the world. Cortázar’s poems are the world; they have a special consideration for the unknown.” ––Enrique Vila-Matas on Save Twilight \n“The most magnificent novel I have ever read\, and one to which I shall return again and again.” —C.D.B. Bryan\, The New York Times Book Review on Hopscotch \n\nAbout Julio Cortázar: \nJulio Cortázar was an Argentine novelist\, short story writer\, and essayist. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom\, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in the Americas and Europe. He has been called both a “modern master of the short story” and\, by Carlos Fuentes\, “the Simón Bolívar of the novel.” \nRead Cortázar’s Art of Fiction interview in the Paris Review. \n\nAbout Stephen Kessler’s translation of Save Twilight: \nThe power of Eros\, the enduring beauty of art\, a love-hate nostalgia for his Argentine homeland\, the bonds of friendship and the tragic folly of politics are some of the themes of Save Twilight. Informed by his immersion in world literature\, music\, art\, and history\, and most of his own emotional geography\, Cortázar’s poetry traces his paradoxical evolution from provincial Argentinean sophisticate to cosmopolitan Parisian Romantic\, always maintaining the sense of astonishment of an artist surprised by life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-presents-a-julio-cortazar-celebration/
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:Good Girls Marry Doctors
DESCRIPTION:Featuring:\nAyesha Mattu · Piyali Bhattacharya · Nayomi Munaweera\nNeelanjana Banjerjee · Tanzila Ahmed · Tara Dorabji \nModerated by:\nBarnali Ghosh \nJoin editor Piyali Bhattacharya and several contributors to the new anthology Good Girls Marry Doctors as they read and discuss the cultural\, political\, and social burdens (along with the assorted hilarious moments) that come with being a South Asian American daughter. \nRefreshments will be provided. Books will be available for purchase. You can also purchase a copy from our website. Southern Exposure is ADA accessible. This event is free and open to the public. \nStreet parking is limited at this venue. We suggest taking Muni (nearby lines: 9\, 12\, 27\, 33)\, BART (16th street or 24th street)\, or taxi. \nDoors open at 6:30 pm. Event begins at 7 pm. \nStay tuned for more information about this event! \nQuestions? Please email us at marketing@auntlute.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/good-girls-marry-doctors/
LOCATION:Southern Exposure\, 3030 20th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cantíl: Andrea Abi-Karam + Trisha Low
DESCRIPTION:CANTÍL reading featuring Trisha Low + Andrea Abi-Karam\nThursday 10/13 at 7pm\nat Qilombo // 2313 San Pablo Ave\, Oakland\, CA 94612\nEntry is FREE and open to the public. Donations welcome. Qilombo is wheelchair accessible. \nAndrea Abi-Karam is a mixed race genderqueer punk poet writing on the art of killing bros\, the intricacies of cyborg bodies\, trauma & delayed healing. They recently completed the manuscript EXTRATRANSMISSION a book length piece against how patriarchy and US militarism produce the hypergendered subject. Andrea is both a writer\, printer\, & publisher whose founding small press project Mess Editions seeks to publish emerging writing from queers\, people of color\, and those involved in social movements yet uninvolved in poetry & art scenes. \nTrisha Low is the author of The Compleat Purge (Kenning Editions\, 2013). She lives in Oakland. \nCANTÍL is a venomous snake // a reading series that exclusively features poets of color. Read more about the series here: http://tinyurl.com/z4buglh +http://tinyurl.com/hdmtz4e
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cantil-andrea-abi-karam-trisha-low/
LOCATION:Qilombo\, 2313 San Pablo Ave\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Variny Yim
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street Thursday\, October 13th at 7:00 p.m.\, as we welcome Author Variny Yim as she reads from and discusses her book The Immigrant Princess. \n  \nBook Description: When three generations of women from the Cambodian royal family live as immigrants in the U.S.\, they struggle to find meaning and relevance in a new country that challenges their traditions and forces them to build a new life. Career-driven Sophea Lim\, the oldest granddaughter\, is saddled with the cultural responsibility of taking care of her mother and grandmother. However\, when she loses both a promotion and her American boyfriend\, she blames it on her traditional Cambodian upbringing and starts a war in her close-knit family. Although Sophea has an ally in her younger sister Ravy\, her mother and grandmother find her first-world complaints trivial compared to the real-world suffering of two-million Cambodians who perished at the hands of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge including her father. Turmoil erupts when Ravy encourages Sophea to move out of the house she shares with her mother and grandmother. Will Sophea shirk her responsibility to take care of her elders? Is her quest for independence worth hurting the two people she loves most? \n  \nAs always\, this in store event is free and open to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/variny-yim/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Therése Halsheid + Lenore Weiss
DESCRIPTION:Therése Halscheid’s new book of poems is Frozen Latitudes. Paul Lisicky says\, “The wrenching attempt to comprehend a father’s dementia fires Therése Halscheid’s Frozen Latitudes. Past starvation\, past an encounter with a demanding landscape\, the poet emerges tougher\, wiser\, her compassion intact.” Her previous collections include Powertalk\, Without Home\, and Uncommon Geography\, which was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize. A photographer as well as a poet\, she’s traveled widely through cultural exchange programs\, teaching in England and Russia\, and through the Alaskan Arts Council with an Inupiaq Eskimo tribe on White Mountain; her photography has chronicled her journeys and been in juried shows. She’s received fellowships from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and the New Jersey Council for the Arts. \nLenore Weiss’s new book of poems is Mortal. Sharon Doubiago says\, “Lenore Weiss’s psychic linguistic engagement borders on the surreal\, on the transcendent\, the mystical\, the magical\, and on the mundane and familiar.” She’s published two earlier books of poems\, Cutting Down the Last Tree on Easter Island and Two Places. She’s blogged for the Jewish Book Council and Basmati\, and she works as copy editor for the Blue Lyra Review.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-therese-halsheid-lenore-weiss/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Rae Armantrout w/ Stephanie Young
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Pulitzer Prize winner Rae Armantrout to the store to discuss and sign\, Partly: New and Selected Poems\, 2001-2015\, on Friday\, October 14th at 7:00pm. Joining her in conversation will be local poet and teacher Stephanie Young. \nRae Armantrout’s poetry comprises one of the most refined and visionary bodies of work written over the last forty years. These potent\, compact meditations on our complicated times reveal her observant sensibility\, lively intellect\, and emotional complexity. This generous volume charts the evolution of Armantrout’s mature\, stylistically distinct work. In addition to 25 new poems\, there are selections from her books Up To Speed\, Next Life\, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award winning volume Versed\, Money Shot\, Just Saying\, and Itself. Including some of her most brilliant pieces\,Partly affirms Armantrout’s reputation as one of our sharpest and most innovative writers. An online reader’s companion is available at raearmantrout.site.wesleyan.edu. \nRae Armantrout is a professor of writing in the literature department at the University of California at San Diego. She has taught at the California College of Arts and Crafts\, Bard College\, Naropa University\, San Diego State University\, and San Francisco State University. Armantrout’s latest book is Partly: 2001–2015\, an anthology spanning some of her most salient works and containing never-before published poems. Her 2009 collection\, Versed\, received the Pulitzer Prize\, the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Armantrout earned her MA at San Francisco State University in 1975. She lives in San Diego\, CA. \nStephanie Young’s collections of poetry include Telling the Future Off\, Picture Palace\,and Ursula or University. She edited the anthology Bay Poetics and is a founding editor of the online anthology/“museum” of Oakland\, Deep Oakland. Young’s own work engages communities of all kinds\, as well as cross-genre and hybrid writing\, performance\, and new media. Young teaches at Mills College\, where she is also the Graduate Programs director and she lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rae-armantrout-w-stephanie-young/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:October at Cleave: Bay Area Women Writers
DESCRIPTION:October 14 \nSharon Coleman\nChristina Springer\nMK Chavez\nJoanne Furio
URL:https://litseen.com/event/october-at-cleave-bay-area-women-writers/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jade Chang w/ Chloe Veltman
DESCRIPTION:Journalist and editor Jade Chang discusses her much-buzzed debut novel\, The Wangs vs. the World. Charles Wang is mad at America. A brash\, lovable immigrant businessman who built a cosmetics empire and made a fortune\, he’s just been ruined by the financial crisis. Now all Charles wants is to get his kids safely stowed away so that he can go to China and attempt to reclaim his family’s ancestral lands and his pride.Charles pulls Andrew\, his aspiring comedian son\, and Grace\, his style-obsessed daughter\, out of schools he can no longer afford. Together with their stepmother\, Barbra\, they embark on a cross-country road trip from their foreclosed Bel-Air home to the upstate New York hideout of the eldest daughter\, disgraced art world it-girl Saina. But with his son waylaid by a temptress in New Orleans\, his wife ready to defect for a set of 1\,000-thread-count sheets\, and an epic smash-up in North Carolina\, Charles may have to choose between the old world and the new\, between keeping his family intact and finally fulfilling his dream of starting anew in China.Outrageously funny and full of charm\, The Wangs vs. the World is an entirely fresh look at what it means to belong in America and how going from glorious riches to (still name-brand) rags brings one family together in a way money never could.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jade-chang-with-chloe-veltman/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161015T210000
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CREATED:20160921T235128Z
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SUMMARY:North Beach Stories w/ Ray Hanna
DESCRIPTION:A COMICAL & MUSICAL JOURNEY\nTHROUGH SAN FRANCISCO’S GOLDEN AGE \nNorth Beach Stories is Ray Hanna’s searing comical and musical journey through the nightlife of the West Coast. Master storyteller\, musician\, and shameless name-dropper\, Ray Hanna has seen it all\, on the streets of North Beach and beyond—all the sleaze\, drugs\, trailblazing strippers\, and punks acting out\, Timothy Leary performing at a Broadway nightclub\, sheer rock-and-roll madness at the Mabuhay—all in a night’s work in Hanna’s world. He was also in San Francisco to encounter Lenny Bruce’s legacy\, and shares the real story behind Lenny’s most outrageous moment\, purported to have occurred right above the Beat Museum. It’s all here—all true\, all first-person and verified accounts of real showbiz Babylon tales compiled over the past 45 years by musician/comedian/actor Ray Hanna. He remembers\, “I was so lucky to be here at a golden age and time. It was a wild\, wide-open\, rip-roaring kind of town. This city was luring people with ideas\, a cosmopolitan place filled with performers and bon vivants from all over the world who had seen a lot. All these comics\, musicians\, and actors relocating here to develop and do the work\, artists re-inventing ourselves in front of your eyes.” \nDrawing on his current one-man show 50 Songs; his play The Devil and Lenny Bruce\, co-written with Lou Gottlieb; and his book Screams from the Road\, Hanna fills the evening with his own oddly detailed perspective on a lifetime in and around San Francisco\, including his encounters with the famous and the near-famous. Based in the city\, Ray headlined comedy\, cabaret\, and theatre venues all over the world\, logging some 6000 appearances over 24 years. North Beach Stories marks Hanna’s first Bay Area appearance of any kind in over 20 years. During the last two decades\, Ray has upped his commitment to the music\, and has appeared regularly with a number of working rock bands in Oregon; for the past 11 years leading the Reckless Rockhounds. Ray remembers\, “In the comedy clubs\, I was known as the ‘piano guy’. Since then\, I have worked very hard at the humbling process of removing the quotation marks from piano guy.” \nAn awe-struck seeker\, a father\, and a worldly-wise\, but not-yet-jaded troubadour with a lifetime of experiences\, Ray Hanna delivers the emotional truth behind a remarkable era in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/north-beach-stories-w-ray-hanna/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Debra Spark
DESCRIPTION:For as long Daniella has been married to Joel\, they’ve received phone calls at odd hours\, and late at night. Daniella knows the caller as Liesel\, Joel’s first wife\, a woman whose sudden departure devastated her husband. After years of disruptive\, long-distance phone calls\, Liesel rings to tell Joel she’s letting Idzia\, the seventeen-year-old daughter he has never met\, visit for the summer. Daniella and Joel prepare for Idzia’s arrival\, but when Joel goes to pick her up from the airport\, Idzia isn’t there. Back at home\, the phone calls suddenly stop\, and Joel and Daniella become haunted by the absence of someone who was never part of their life to begin with. \nDebra Spark’s fourth novel\, Unknown Caller\, tells the story of a brief\, failed marriage and its complicated aftermath. Leaping effortlessly across decades and continents\, it works to uncover the reasons for Idzia and Liesel’s disappearance and the deeper puzzle of Liesel’s identity. \nSpark’s candid\, intricate novel highlights the near-impossibility of truly knowing another person\, the pain in failing relationships\, and the joy in successful ones. \nDebra Spark is author of Coconuts for the Saint\, The Ghost of Bridgetown\, Good for the Jews\, The Pretty Girl\, and Curious Attractions: Essays on Fiction Writing. She is a professor at Colby College and teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She lives with her husband and son in North Yarmouth\, Maine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/debra-spark/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:The Racket Reading Series #1
DESCRIPTION:Hello! \nAdobe Books has been kind enough to give me the reins to a monthly reading series. \nI’m calling it The Racket – like people making noise\, people pulling one over on you – typical reading series stuff. \nFor our opening salvo into the wide world of reading series\, I’m bringing together some fantastic writers (to be announced shortly) and hoping that you\, friends and lovers of reading alike\, will come and celebrate great writing and maybe buy some books or just stand there awkwardly sipping a Tecate. \nReaders will include: \nTravis Peterson\nChad Koch\nNancy Davis Kho \nAll are welcome. \nMore information to come.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-reading-series-1/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shilpi Somaya Gowda w/ Shobha Rao
DESCRIPTION:You may know Shilpi from her New York Times bestselling debut\, Secret Daughter\, which has sold more than a million copies worldwide in over 30 countries and languages and is based on her time volunteering in an Indian orphanage. An advisor on the Childrens Defense Fund and a patron of Childhaven International\, Shilpi holds an MBA from Stanford University. \nHer second novel\, The Golden Son\, is about Anil Patel\, the first of his family to go to college.  It is a story of family\, responsibility\, love\, honor\, tradition\, and identity\, in which two childhood friendsa young doctor and a newly married bridemust balance the expectations of their culture and their families with the desires of their own hearts. \nShobha Rao is the author of the debut story collection “An Unrestored Woman.” Shobha moved to the US from India at the age of seven. She is the winner of the 2014 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction\, and her story Kavitha and Mustafa was chosen by TC Boyle for inclusion in the Best American Short Stories 2015. \nThis event is presented in partnership with India Currents.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shilpi-somaya-gowda-w-shobha-rao/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:David Szalay w/ Ethan Nosowsky
DESCRIPTION:Long-listed for the 2016 Man Booker Prize\, David Szalay presents All That Man Is. This ambitious\, form-busting novel interrogates the state of modern manhood through the stories of nine different characters\, each at a different stage of life\, away from home\, and striving—in the suburbs of Prague\, an overdeveloped Alpine village\, beside a Belgian motorway\, in a dingy Cyprus hotel—to understand what it means to be alive\, here and now. Szalay uses the ostensibly separate narratives to craft a picture of the shared existence and predicament of the twenty-first-century man. All That Man Is masters a new kind of psychological realism that vibrates with detail\, intelligence\, relevance\, and devastating pathos. \nDavid Szalay is the author of London and the South-East\, which won the Betty Trask Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; The Innocent; and Spring. In 2013\, he was named one of Granta‘s Best of Young British Novelists. He lives in Budapest. \nEthan Nosowsky is Editorial Director at Graywolf Press. He began his career at Farrar\, Straus and Giroux and has also been Editorial Director at McSweeney’s. He has edited books by Jeffery Renard Allen\, Hilton Als\, Kevin Barry\, David Byrne\, Vikram Chandra\, Geoff Dyer\, Dave Eggers\, Sarah Manguso\, Maggie Nelson\, and Jenny Offill among many others. He has taught in the Creative Writing program at Columbia University and has contributed to The Believer\, Bookforum\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, and Threepenny Review. He lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-szalay-w-ethan-nosowsky-2/
LOCATION:Second Act\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161017T220000
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SUMMARY:The SHOUT re-launch
DESCRIPTION:featuring\nJosh Cereghino\nMandy Hu\nYodassa Williams\nKirstin Doyle\n…and maybe you! \nThe SHOUT is a monthly event featuring invited storytellers telling amazing but true 10-minute stories from their lives. Interspersed with these raconteurs\, audience members have the opportunity to put their name in the hat in hopes of being picked for one of our 6-minute wild-card slots. It’s like a great party in your living room\, only there is a microphone and someone else cleans up!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-shout-re-launch/
LOCATION:Live Oak Theater\, 1301 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Martin Cruz Smith
DESCRIPTION:The highly anticipated new standalone novel from Martin Cruz Smith\, whom The Washington Post has declared “that uncommon phenomenon: a popular and well-regarded crime novelist who is also a writer of real distinction\,” The Girl from Venice is a suspenseful World War II love story set against the beauty\, mystery\, and danger of occupied Venice. \nVenice\, 1945. The war may be waning\, but the city known as La Serenissima is still occupied and the people of Italy fear the power of the Third Reich. One night\, under a canopy of stars\, a fisherman named Cenzo comes across a young woman’s body floating in the lagoon and soon discovers that she is still alive and in trouble. \nBorn to a wealthy Jewish family\, Giulia is on the run from the Wehrmacht SS. Cenzo chooses to protect Giulia rather than hand her over to the Nazis. This act of kindness leads them into the world of Partisans\, random executions\, the arts of forgery and high explosives\, Mussolini’s broken promises\, the black market and gold\, and\, everywhere\, the enigmatic maze of the Venice Lagoon. \nSmith’s latest work is a thriller\, a mystery\, and a retelling of Italian history that will take your breath away. Most of all it is a love story. \nMartin Cruz Smith’s novels include Gorky Park\, Stallion Gate\, Polar Star\, Stalin’s Ghost\, Rose\, December 6\, and Tatiana. He is a two-time winner of the Hammett Prize\, a recipient of Britain’s Golden Dagger Award\, and a winner of the Premio Piemonte Giallo Internazionale. He lives in California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/martin-cruz-smith/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161018T213000
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SUMMARY:Kevin Smokler
DESCRIPTION:The inimitable and always entertaining Kevin Smokler returns to Booksmith for the launch of his new book\, Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to 80s Teen Movies and the Places They Happened. The Breakfast Club! The Goonies! Back to the Future! Ferris Bueller’s Day Off! Pretty in Pink! Dead Poets Society! These movies left an indelible mark on America\, and\, probably\, your psyche. \nKevin Smokler attended Goonies Day in Astoria\, Oregon\, took a Lost Boys tour of Santa Cruz\, California\, and visited retro arcades\, movie theaters\, record stores\, and the Dirty Dancing resort in Lake Lure\, NC. He interviewed actors\, writers\, and directors. Mostly\, he did what he does best\, which is to add his keen and witty commentary to the conversation about American Culture and the things that bring us together. \nKevin Smokler is the author of the essay collection Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books you Haven’t Touched Since High School (2013) which the Atlantic Wire called “truly enjoyable” and the editor of Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times\, A San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book of 2005. His writing on pop culture has appeared in the LA Times\, Salon\, BuzzFeed\, Vulture\, the San Francisco Chronicle and on NPR. In 2013\, he was BookRiot’s first ever Writer in Residence. \nHe can be found on twitter at @weegee. He lives in San Francisco with his wife\, cat and most of MTV’s first year on vinyl.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kevin-smokler/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Margot Livesey
DESCRIPTION:Donald believes he knows all there is to know about seeing. An optometrist in suburban Boston\, he is sure that he and his wife\, Viv\, who runs the local stables\, are both devoted to their two children and to each other. Then Mercury—a gorgeous young thoroughbred with a murky past—arrives at Windy Hill and everything changes. \nMercury’s owner\, Hilary\, is a newcomer to town who has enrolled her daughter in riding lessons. When she brings Mercury to board at Windy Hill\, everyone is struck by his beauty and prowess\, particularly Viv. As she rides him\, Viv begins to dream of competing again\, embracing the ambitions that she had harbored\, and relinquished\, as a young woman. Her daydreams soon morph into consuming desire\, and her infatuation with the thoroughbred escalates to obsession. \nDonald may have 20/20 vision but he is slow to notice how profoundly Viv has changed and how these changes threaten their quiet\, secure world. By the time he does\, it is too late to stop the catastrophic collision of Viv’s ambitions and his own myopia. \nMargot Livesey is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Flight of Gemma Hardy\, The House on Fortune Street\, Banishing Verona\, Eva Moves the Furniture\, The Missing World\, Criminals\, and Homework. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker\, Vogue\, and the Atlantic\, and she is the recipient of grants from both the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.  Born in Scotland\, Livesey currently lives in the Boston area and is a professor of fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/margot-livesey/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Tonya Foster
DESCRIPTION:Tonya M. Foster was born in Bloomington\, Illinois\, and raised in New Orleans. She earned a BA from Newcomb College\, Tulane University\, and an MFA from the University of Houston. Foster is the author of the poetry collection A Swarm of Bees in High Court (Belladonna*\, 2015) and coedited the book Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art (2002). Her work has appeared in Callaloo\, MiPoesias\, Western Humanities Review\, the Hat\, and elsewhere. In a review\, Patricia Spears Jones says\, “Foster’ s imaginative work glories in language’s ambiguities\, discords\, emotions and logic—she allows that imaginative thrall to explore race and gender and political dysfunction.” \nFoster has received fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Macdowell Colony\, the Ford Foundation\, the Mellon Foundation\, and the Graduate Center\, CUNY\, where she is a PhD candidate. She has taught at Bard College\, Queens College CUNY\, Baruch College CUNY\, and she currently is an assistant professor at California College of the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tonya-foster/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Luis Valdez
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the newly refurbished Hammer Theatre for a gala evening celebrating the CLA’s 30 years of bringing top authors to San José. Our featured speaker will be none other than acclaimed author\, playwright\, actor\, and director\, Luis Valdez. A San José State alumnus\, Valdez founded the theatre El Teatro Campesino in 1965 on the Delano Grape Strike picket lines of Cesar Chavez’s United Farmworkers Union to dramatize the plight and cause of farmworkers. El Teatro Campesino was honored with an Obie Award for “demonstrating the politics of survival.” In 1979\, Valdez’s play Zoot Suit became the first Chicano work to debut on Broadway. His self-directed movie\, La Bamba\, was nominated for the 1988 Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture in the Drama category. Valdez has won the Hispanic Heritage award in Literature\, as well as the Presidential Medal of the Arts. He has also won three Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards and an Emmy Award.  Meet Luis at a private VIP reception and CLA fundraiser following the show.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/luis-valdez/
LOCATION:SJSU Hammer Theatre\, 101 Paseo de Antonio\, San Jose\, CA\, 95112\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:An evening with Lidija Dimkovska
DESCRIPTION:reading from her new novel \nA Spare Life \nTranslated by Christina Kramer \npublished by Two Lines Press \nHosted by Scott Esposito \nIt is 1984\, and 12-year-old twins Zlata and Srebra live in communist Yugoslavia. In many ways their lives are like that of young girls anywhere\, except for one immense difference: Zlata’s and Srebra’s bodies are conjoined at their heads. \nA Spare Life tells the story of their emergence from girls to young adults\, from their desperately poor\, provincial childhoods to their determination to become successful\, independent women. After years of discovery and friendship\, their lives are thrown into crisis when an incident threatens to destroy their bond as sisters. They fly to London\, determined to be surgically separated—but will this dangerous procedure free them\, or only more tightly ensnare them? \nIn A Spare Life master poet and award-winning novelist Lidija Dimkovska lovingly tells the lives of two astonishing girls caught up in Eastern Europe’s transition from communism to democracy. A saga about families\, sisterhood\, and being outcasts\, A Spare Life reveals an existence where even the simplest of actions is unlike any we’ve ever experienced. \nLidija Dimkovska is the recipient of numerous awards\, including the 2013 European Union Prize for Literature for A Spare Life. She is also the author of the poetry collection pH Neutral History (Copper Canyon Press\, 2012)\, which was a finalist for the 2013 Best Translated Book Award\, and Do Not Awaken Them With Hammers(Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2006). She lives in Ljubljana\, Slovenia. \nChristina E. Kramer is a professor of Slavic and Balkan languages and linguistics at the University of Toronto. She is the author of numerous books on the Macedonian language and the Balkans and is the translator of Freud’s Sister\, The Time of the Goats\, and My Father’s Books. She lives in Toronto. \nWhat has been said about A Spare Life: \n\n\n\n“Lidija Dimkovska enriches our contemporary museum of literary wonders with her powerful\, grotesque\, weird details and episodes told within the merry old novelistic tradition.”\n— Dubravka Ugrešić\, author of Baba Laid an Egg \n“A Spare Life uses the boldest of metaphors – the life of conjoined twins – to embody the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia. This strange and wonderful novel brings to mind Elena Ferrante and Magda Szabó in the acuity of its social observation and the depth of its mordant humor.”— Katie Kitamura\, author of The Longshotand A Separation \n“Dimkovska has an eye for detail befitting of a poet and the stark\, unrelenting prose of a master storyteller.A Spare Life is a weird and wonderful book\, capturing the quirk and complexity of both a declining Yugoslavia\, and the inseparable lives of two sisters with clarity\, wit\, and heart.”— Sara Nović\, author of Girl at War\, finalist for the\nLos Angeles Times Book Prize
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-lidija-dimkovska/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Geraldine Brooks
DESCRIPTION:Pulitzer Prize winning author Geraldine Brooks will join us to read and sign copies of her most recent novel\, The Secret Chord. Now out in paperback\, The Secret Chord traces the arc of King David’s journey from obscurity to fame\, from shepherd to soldier\, from hero to traitor\, from beloved king to murderous despot and into his remorseful and diminished dotage. \n“Deeply sympathetic. Brooks offers new perspectives on a character whose story has captured the Western imagination for millennial… she breaks from the biblical version by giving voice to the voiceless women in David’s life: wives and lovers\, a daughter\, a mother—the beloved and the scorned.” —The Boston Globe \n“A compelling read\, contemporary in its relevance… powerful storytelling\, its landscape and time evoked in lyrical prose.” —The Guardian \n“The best historical fiction… Brooks gives the whole king his due… It’s a tall order to breathe life into such a human being\, and she manages it admirably.” —NPR \nGeraldine Brooks is the author of four novels\, the Pulitzer Prize-winning March and the international bestsellers Caleb’s Crossing\, People of the Book\, and Year of Wonders. She has also written the acclaimed nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Born and raised in Australia\, she lives on Martha’s Vineyard with her husband\, the author Tony Horwitz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/geraldine-brooks/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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