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SUMMARY:The Five Senses of Community
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a transmedia exploration of what makes & breaks community in the year 2021.  \nHow has a year of involuntary isolation for some (and involuntary\, dangerous proximity for others) reshaped how we think of community? What makes\, breaks\, and fakes our connections to one another in the year 2021? Ten artists will respond to these questions in a series of collaborative performances spanning the five senses and multiple media—from sculpture to music\, words to candles\, painting to edible ferments\, drawing to performance art. \nFeaturing writing and art by Tyler Atura Bushnell\, Chelsea Davis\, Brad Detjen\, Antony Fangary\, Chris Guichet\, Christine No\, Kate De Palma\, Alejandro Schuler\, Sean Skwerer\, & Amin Younes. \nProof of vaccination & masks required. \n$10 suggested donation to help the artists cover event costs; NOTAFLOF. Tickets are limited; please buy youirs in advance. \nLocation: Little Raven Gallery\, 1015 Howard St.\, SF
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-five-senses-of-community/
LOCATION:Little Raven Gallery\, 1015 Howard St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:9th Ave: Lilly Dancyger and Nina Renata Aron
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, October 8th at 6pm PT when Lilly Dancyger reads from and discusses her memoir\, Negative Space\, with Nina Renata Aron at 9th Ave! \nMasks Required for In-Person Attendance \nJoin us virtually by registering at the link below \nZoom Registration \nPraise for Negative Space \n“Negative Space is a lovely and heartbreaking book; navigating pain\, inheritance\, and loss. Dancyger’s father emerges from these pages as vividly as if I’d known him…” —Carmen Maria Machado\, In the Dream House \n“This book is so many things: a daughter’s heartrending tribute\, a love story riddled by addiction\, a mystery whose solution lies at the intersection of art and memory. Together\, they form a chorus that I could not turn away from.” —Melissa Febos\, Award-winning author of Whip Smart and Abandon Me \n“Candid\, thrilling\, wickedly smart\, Negative Space is one of the greatest memoirs of this\, or any\, time.” —T Kira Madden\, award-winning author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls \n“Practically hot to the touch.” —BookPage (Most Anticipated Fall Nonfiction) \nAbout Negative Space \nA memoir from the editor of Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger\, Negative Space explores Dancyger’s own anger\, grief\, and artistic inheritance as she sets out to illuminate the darkness her father hid from her\, as well as her own. \nDespite her parents’ struggles with addiction\, Lilly Dancyger always thought of her childhood as a happy one. But what happens when a journalist interrogates her own rosy memories to reveal the instability around the edges? Dancyger’s father\, Joe Schactman\, was part of the iconic 1980s East Village art scene. He created provocative sculptures out of found materials like animal bones\, human hair\, and broken glass\, and brought his young daughter into his gritty\, iconoclastic world. She idolized him—despite the escalating heroin addiction that sometimes overshadowed his creative passion. When Schactman died suddenly\, just as Dancyger was entering adolescence\, she went into her own self-destructive spiral\, raging against a world that had taken her father away. As an adult\, Dancyger began to question the mythology she’d created about her father—the brilliant artist\, struck down in his prime. Using his sculptures\, paintings\, and prints as a guide\, Dancyger sought out the characters from his world who could help her decode the language of her father’s work to find the truth of who he really was. \nAbout Lilly Dancyger \nLilly Dancyger is the author of Negative Space\, a reported and illustrated memoir selected by Carmen Maria Machado as a winner of the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards; and the editor of Burn it Down\, an anthology of essays on women’s anger. Her writing has been published by Longreads\, BOMB\, Guernica\, The Washington Post\, Glamour\, Playboy\, Rolling Stone\, and more. She lives in New York City\, and you can find her on Twitter at @lillydancyger.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-ave-lilly-dancyger-and-nina-renata-aron/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:9th Ave: Sandra Lim\, Natalie Shapero and Noah Warren
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, October 5th at 6pm PT when Sandra Lim\, Natalie Shapero\, and Noah Warren join us for an evening celebrating their latest poetry collections at 9th Ave! \nMasks Required for In-Person Attendance \nJoin us virtually by registering at the link below \nZoom Registration \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_vHSYhcpURdaNKQ_wr42E1g \nAbout The Curious Thing \nIn this gorgeous third collection\, Sandra Lim investigates desire\, sexuality\, and dream with sinewy intelligence and a startling freshness. \nTruthful\, sensuous\, and intellectually relentless\, the poems in The Curious Thing are compelling meditations on love\, art making\, solitude\, female fate\, and both the mundane and serious principles of life. Sandra Lim’s poetry displays stinging wit and a tough-minded approach to her own experiences: She speaks with Jean Rhys about beauty\, encounters the dark loneliness that can exist inside a relationship\, and discovers a coiled anger on a hot summer day. An extended poem sequence slyly revolves the meanings of finding oneself astray in midlife. A steely strength courses through the volume’s myriad discoveries—Lim’s lucidity and tenderness form a striking complement to her remarkable metaphors and the emotional clamor of her material. \nAnimated by a sense of reckoning and a piercing inwardness\, these anti-sentimental poems nevertheless celebrate the passionate and empathetic subjective life. \nAbout Popular Longing \nWith her sharp\, punchy\, sardonic wit\, Natalie Shapero’s Popular Longing explores sadnesses and subordinations in their myriad forms. \nThe poems of Natalie Shapero’s third collection\, Popular Longing\, highlight the ever-increasing absurdity of our contemporary life. With her sharp\, sardonic wit\, Shapero deftly captures human meekness in all its forms: our senseless wars\, our inflated egos\, our constant deference to presumed higher powers—be they romantic partners\, employers\, institutions\, or gods. “Why even / look up\, when all we’ll see is people / looking down?” In a world where everyone has to answer to someone\, it seems no one is equipped to disrupt the status quo\, and how the most urgent topics of conversation can only be approached through refraction. By scrutinizing the mundane and all that is taken for granted\, these poems arrive at much wider vistas\, commenting on human sadness\, memory\, and mortality. Punchy\, fearlessly ironic\, and wickedly funny\, Popular Longing articulates what it means to share a planet\, for better or more often for worse\, with other people. \nAbout The Complete Stories \nThe Complete Stories announces its desire and its lie in the title; this is a book of shatter and loss. In his second collection\, Noah Warren—previously selected by Carl Phillips for the Yale Series of Younger Poets—unravels histories both personal and public\, picking apart their ugliness\, beauty\, and irreducible singularity. Clothed in broken forms\, these poems of grieving and tentative joy ask finally how we can go forward with our own mottled pasts\, into the futures we can’t predict but for which we must bear responsibility.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-ave-sandra-lim-natalie-shapero-and-noah-warren/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Bikes to Books 8-Year Anniversary Ride
DESCRIPTION:It’s a party and you’re all invited! Our signature 7.1 mile bicycle tour of literary San Francisco combines San Francisco history\, art\, literature\, cycling\, and urban exploration—a diverting and unique way to celebrate the literary and adventurous spirit of San Francisco. In 2013 we created Bikes to Books as an homage to the 1988 street-naming project spearheaded by City Lights Books founder and former San Francisco Poet Laureate\, Lawrence Ferlinghetti\, in which 12 San Francisco streets were renamed for famous artists and authors who’d once made San Francisco their home. Celebrate eight years of Bike to Books\, 33 years of street names\, and 150+ years of San Francisco literary history from South Park to North Beach\, Jack London to Jack Kerouac. \nMeet us on the north side of Jack London Alley in South Park\, SF at 12:45.  \nTour ends in North Beach outside City Lights Books. \nBring bikes with gears\, snacks\, and enthusiasm. This is an urban ride of moderate difficulty\, recommended for riders 16 years of age and older. Masks and appropriate distancing required. Proof of vaccination is not required\, but vaccination is highly encouraged. \nEvent is Free\, with maps and posters available for purchase. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bikes-to-books-8-year-anniversary-ride/
LOCATION:Jack London Street\, Jack London Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mary Roach
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, September 29\, 2021\n7:30pm Pacific Time\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nTICKETS \n\n\nMary Roach is the author of the books STIFF\, SPOOK\, BONK\, GULP\, GRUNT\, and PACKING FOR MARS\, all of which bring her distinctly funny voice to popular science subjects. Her new book FUZZ: When Nature Breaks the Law\, combines little-known forensic science and conservation genetics with a motley cast of laser scarecrows\, trespassing squirrels\, and more of “nature’s lawbreakers\,” offering hope for compassionate coexistence in our ever-expanding human habitat. Roach has written for National Geographic\, Wired\, and The New York Times Magazine\, among others\, and her TED talk made the TED 20 Most Watched list. She has been a guest editor for Best American Science and Nature Writing\, a finalist for the Royal Society’s Winton Prize\, and a winner of the American Engineering Societies’ journalism award. \nYou and your guests must be fully vaccinated to attend this event; proof of vaccination is required upon arrival. Full vaccination is defined as completion of the two-dose regimen of Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or one dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine administered two weeks or more in advance of the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-roach/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading Series with Chris Feliciano Arnold
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, September 29\, 2021 – 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\nChris Feliciano Arnold has written essays and journalism for The Atlantic\, Harper’s\, Outside\, Vice News\, The New York Times and more. His fiction has been published in Playboy\, The Kenyon Review\, Ecotone and other magazines. His work has been noted in The Best American Sports Writing and The Best American Short Stories. He has received fellowships and scholarships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, and the Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon. His first book\, The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First Century Amazon\, is a work of narrative nonfiction published by Picador in June 2018. \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nADD TO CALENDAR
URL:https://litseen.com/event/creative-writing-reading-series-with-chris-feliciano-arnold-2/
LOCATION:De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,In-person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210923T180000
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SUMMARY:Katie Crouch and Rachel Levin
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON THURSDAY\, SEPTEMBER 23 AT 6PM PT WHEN KATIE CROUCH DISCUSSES HER LATEST NOVEL\, THE EMBASSY WIFE\, WITH RACHEL LEVIN AT 9TH AVE! \nMasks Required for In-Person Event\nJoin us online by registering at the link below \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_o3CKo2AqQ1GQEyWEmWdivA \nPraise for Embassy Wife\n“One of the novel’s greatest strengths is the omniscient third-person narration that oscillates focus between main and minor characters. The structure helps heighten the tension between characters\, the past and the present\, and Namibians and Americans. In addition to sketching complex characters with rich backstories\, Crouch excels at moving the plot forward while not missing any opportunity to observe the human condition. With wit and tenderness\, the novel explores the complicated nature of race\, power\, marriage\, colonization\, diplomacy\, and community. A sharp\, funny\, page-turning romp.” – Kirkus Reviews \n“Crouch’s…knowledge of expat life adds realism to this observant\, funny satire. Unpredictable twists lead to an ending where everyone may not get what they want\, but they get what they need. Suggest this one to fans of Meg Wolitzer and Maria Semple.” – Booklist  \n“Katie Crouch is an incredible writer – deft\, fearless\, super-smart and compassionate – and EMBASSYWIFE is one of the funniest\, sharpest\, most insightful novels I’ve read in a long time. It’s also a flat-out page-turner: I read it in a single\, feverish sitting; then again\, a second time\, trying to figure out how she pulled off such an intricately constructed narrative that manages to read so effortlessly. A tremendous novel by a writer who surprises and moves us with each new book. I can’t recommend this novel highly enough.”—Molly Antopol\, author of The UnAmericans \n“Keenly observed and expertly crafted\, Katie Crouch’s EMBASSY WIFE is a wickedly irresistible novel.”—Natalie Baszile\, author of Queen Sugar \nAbout Embassy Wife\nAmanda Evans is a trailing spouse: she has just arrived in Namibia\, mere weeks after giving up her lucrative Silicon Valley job\, as her husband\, Mark\, has accepted a Fulbright. Their marriage\, which seemed solid in the safety of home\, feels tenuous in the glaring heat of the Kalahari\, and when their daughter becomes involved an international conflict\, lines are drawn in the sand. \nMeanwhile\, Persephone Wilder is the wife of an American diplomat already stationed in Namibia. She takes her job as an Embassy Wife seriously\, and employs an intricate set of rules to navigate such problems as: how to dress in hundred-degree weather without showing too much skin\, how not to look drunk at embassy functions\, and how to eat roasted oryx with grace. However\, she suspects her husband may not actually the ambassador’s general counsel\, but in fact\, a secret agent in the CIA. Despite Persephone’s personal issues\, she is ever the embassy wife\, and graciously takes the new trailing spouse\, Amanda under her wing. \nBut once Amanda\, Mark and their daughter settle into the sub-Saharan desert\, it becomes clear that Mark\, who lived in Namibia two decades earlier\, had other reasons for returning to African soil. Mark\, it seems\, has unfinished business from twenty years prior\, and this journey is actually a quest to find a woman he left behind. \nPropulsive and provocative\, subversive\, smart and funny\, EMBASSY WIFE compellingly explores the limits of human resiliency and loyalty\, asking: How far will Amanda go to keep her family intact? How much corruptness can Persephone purposefully ignore? \nAnd what\, exactly\, does it mean to be an American abroad when you don’t like your country anymore? \nAbout Katie Crouch\nKatie Crouch is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Girls in Trucks. She is also the author of Men and Dogs\, Abroad and the YA series The Magnolia League. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Guardian\, McSweeney’s\, Tin House\, Slate\, and Salon. A MacDowell Fellow\, she teaches at Dartmouth College and lives in Vermont.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katie-crouch-and-rachel-levin/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Remember Who You Are with Friends of Pedro Gomez
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON THURSDAY\, SEPTEMBER 2 AT 6PM PT WHEN WE CELEBRATE THE BOOK REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE: WHAT PEDRO GOMEZ SHOWED US ABOUT BASEBALL AND LIFE IN-PERSON AT 9TH AVE \nFEATURING ROBIN CARR\, BRAD MANGIN\, BRIAN MURPHY\, MICHAEL ZAGARIS\, AND EDITOR STEVE KETTMANN \nMasks Requried for In-Person Attendance\nJoin us virtually by registering at the link below \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MTufp2aVSZOfDE3ZYCYkww \nAbout Remember Who You Are\nPedro Gomez of ESPN was a beloved figure in baseball. His death from sudden cardiac arrest on Feb. 7\, 2021\, unleashed an outpouring of heartfelt tributes. He was 58\, both a hard-nosed reporter and a smiling ambassador of the sport. These 62 personal essays soar beyond sports to delve into life lessons. \nPedro\, a proud Cuban American\, was known for his dramatic reporting from Havana. Fully and fluidly bilingual\, he did as much as anyone to bridge the wide gap that had existed between U.S.-born players and the Latin Americans now so important to the game’s vitality and future growth. He was also a family man who loved to talk about his three children\, Sierra\, Dante and Rio\, a Boston Red Sox prospect. Pedro was universally known as a smiling presence who brought out the best in people. His humanity and generosity of spirit shaped countless lives\, including one of his ESPN bosses\, Rob King\, who was so moved by Pedro’s advice to him—“Remember who you are”—that he printed up the words and posted them on the wall of his office in Bristol. King is one of a diverse collection of contributors whose personal essays turn Pedro’s shocking death into an occasion to reflect on the deeper truths of life we too often overlook. Part The Pride of Havana and part Tuesdays With Morrie\, part The Tender Bar and part Ball Four\, this is the rare essay collection that reads like a novel\, full of achingly honest emotion and painful insights\, a book about friendship\, a book about standing for something\, a book about joy and love. \nFormer New York Times writer Jack Curry writes about Pedro’s passion for live music\, and former Sports Illustrated writer Tim Kurkjian brings alive spring-training basketball games with executives like Sandy Anderson and Billy Beane and Pedro right in the mix. Detroit manager AJ Hinch and formers Texas manager Ron Washington both reveal that in their darkest hours Pedro gave them some of the best advice of their lives. \nHall of Famers Dennis Eckersley\, Tony La Russa\, Peter Gammons\, Ross Newhan\, Tracy Ringolsby and Dan Shaughnessy are among the contributors. So are likely future Hall of Famers Max Scherzer and Dusty Baker. Pulitzer-Prize-winning Washington Post war correspondent Steve Fainaru\, award-winning writers from Howard Bryant and Mike Barnicle to Tim Keown\, Ken Rosenthal and Dave Sheinin also contribute. Rounding out the mix are current and former ESPN stars including Rachel Nichols\, Shelley M. Smith\, Peter Gammons\, Bob Ley and Keith Olbermann. \nThis is a book to rekindle in any lapsed fan a love of going to the ballpark\, but it’s also a wakeup call that transcends sports. To any journalist\, worn down by the demands of a punishing job\, to anyone anywhere\, pummeled by pandemic times and the dark mood of the country in recent years\, these essays will light a spark to seize every opportunity to make a difference\, in your work and in the lives of people who matter to you.\nPraise for Remember Who You Are\n“Pedro Gomez was as kind as he was talented. I can think of no one else in the industry who would have inspired this many heartfelt essays by this diverse a group of writers\, ballplayers\, coaches\, and front office executives. Everyone loved and respected him. And while he left this earth way too soon\, his legacy will live on through his children and in the pages of this book.” —Molly Knight\, Author\, The Best Team Money Can Buy \n“The words in this collection share a common source—while they were crafted with the head\, they originated from the heart. The Gomez Rules are the Commandments for those who cover the game. All who have lived the baseball life should have followed all at some point. They should be etched in tablet.”—Broadcaster Ted Robinson \n“Reading Remember Who You Are took me on a journey from the day I met Pedro\, a smiling young scribe who was my new coworker\, who grew into a legend. These tributes not only reveal a man who was beloved by virtually all who knew him\, but also paint a vivid picture of our sports media tribe—the laughs\, the camaraderie\, the adventure\, the challenges. At the center of so much of it\, smiling and including all of us\, was Pedro. We will miss him so.” —Ann Killion\, Award-winning San Francisco Chronicle columnist
URL:https://litseen.com/event/remember-who-you-are-with-friends-of-pedro-gomez/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Joel Selvin - Hollywood Eden
DESCRIPTION:Book Passage Presents \nSun.\, Sept. 19\, 2021 • 4:00pm PT • Corte Madera Store \nBUY THE BOOK\nThis event will be hosted in-person at Book Passage’s Corte Madera location\nFrom the Beach Boys and Jan & Dean to the Byrds and the Mamas & the Papas\, acclaimed music journalist Joel Selvin tells the story of a group of young artists and musicians who came together at the dawn of the 1960s to create the lasting myth of the California dream. \nFrom surf music to hot-rod records to the sunny pop of the Beach Boys and the Mamas & the Papas\, Hollywood Eden captures the fresh blossom of a young generation who came together in the epic spring of the 1960s to invent the myth of the California Paradise. Central to the story is a group of sun-kissed teens from the University High School class of 1959—a class that included Jan & Dean\, Nancy Sinatra\, and future members of the Beach Boys—who came of age in Los Angeles at the dawn of a new golden era when anything seemed possible. These were the people who created the idea of modern California for the rest of the world. From the Beach Boys’ “California Girls” to the Mamas & the Papas’ “California Dreamin’\,” they crafted an image of the West Coast as the promised land—a sun-dappled vision of an idyllic life in the sand and surf. \nBut their own private struggles belied the paradise portrayed in their music. What began as a light-hearted frolic under sunny skies ended up crashing down to earth just a few short but action-packed years later\, as\, one by one\, each met their destinies head-on. Compelling\, evocative\, and ultimately tragic\, Hollywood Eden travels far beyond the music into the desires of the human heart and the price of living out a dream. A rock ‘n’ roll opera loaded with violence\, deceit\, intrigue\, low comedy\, and high drama\, it tells the story of a group of young artists and musicians who bumped heads\, crashed cars\, and ultimately flew too close to the sun.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joel-selvin-hollywood-eden/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Colson Whitehead
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, September 17\, 2021\n7:30pm Pacific Time\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nTICKETS \n\n\nColson Whitehead is the author of ten works of fiction and nonfiction\, and is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction\, for Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad\, which also won the National Book Award. His new novel\, Harlem Shuffle\, is a gloriously entertaining novel of heists\, shakedowns\, and rip-offs set in Harlem in 1960s. \nA limited number of tickets include a copy of Harlem Shuffle. \nYou and your guests must be fully vaccinated to attend this event; proof of vaccination is required upon arrival. Full vaccination is defined as completion of the two-dose regimen of Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or one dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine administered two weeks or more in advance of the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/colson-whitehead-2/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Grant Faulkner and Melanie Abrams
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON FRIDAY\, SEPTEMBER 17 AT 6PM PT WHEN GRANT FAULKNER DISCUSSES HIS BOOK ALL THE COMFORT SIN CAN PROVIDE WITH MELANIE ABRAMS AT 9TH AVE! \nMasks Required for In-Person\nJoin us online by registering at the link below \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GyfaQ2hGRuifzatEVoJfeg \nPraise for All the Comfort Sin Can Provide\n“Somewhere between sinister and gleeful the characters in Grant Faulkner’s story collection All the Comfort Sin Can Provide blow open pleasure—guilty pleasure\, unapologetic pleasure\, accidental pleasure\, repressed pleasure. Really\, at the heart of all identity is the reach for pleasure\, and then what actually comes\, all those moments of slippage where we do the wrong thing\, take a ridiculous risk\, double down on failure\, land in a forsaken place\, slip the mainstream of things enough to change and become. These characters exude beauty from their flaws. These stories are lit.”–Lidia Yuknavitch \n“Full of bad behavior and a ferocious desire for escape\, All the Comfort Sin Can Provide is a catalog of longing. Faulkner’s arresting characters broadcast their worst decisions from grimy motel rooms\, greasy kitchens\, and sprawling American highways\, each of them hellbent on the promise of something better.”–Kimberly King Parsons \n“All the Comfort Sin Can Provide delivers on the promise of Grant Faulkner’s daring debut with a follow-up collection of stories that excavates possibility\, salvation\, and the deceptive comforts one finds in so many pleasures.”–Adam Johnson \nAbout All the Comfort Sin Can Provide\nWith raw\, lyrical ferocity\, All the Comfort Sin Can Provide delves into the beguiling salve that sin can promise—tracing those hidden places most of us are afraid to acknowledge. In this collection of brutally unsentimental short stories\, Grant Faulkner chronicles dreamers\, addicts\, and lost souls who have trusted too much in wayward love\, the perilous balm of substances\, or the unchecked hungers of others\, but who are determined to find salvation in their odd definitions of transcendence. \nTaking us from hot Arizona highways to cold Iowa hotel rooms\, from the freedoms of the backwoods of New Mexico to the damnations of slick New York City law firms\, Faulkner creates a shard-sharp mosaic of desire that careens off the page—honest\, cutting\, and wise. \nAbout Grant Faulkner\nGrant Faulkner is the Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and the co-founder of 100 Word Story. He recently published the short story collection All the Comfort Sin Can Provide\, and he’s also the author of Fissures\, a collection of 100-word stories.  His essays on creativity have been published in The New York Times\, Poets & Writers\, LitHub\, Writer’s Digest\, and The Writer\, and his book\, The Art of Brevity\, is forthcoming in 2022. He also co-hosts Write-minded\, a weekly podcast on writing and publishing. \nAbout Melanie Abrams\nMelanie Abrams is the author of the novels Playing and Meadowlark and the forthcoming The Joy of Cannabis: 75 Ways to Amplify Your Life through the Science and Magic of Cannabis. She is a developmental editor and photographer and teaches writing at the University of California\, Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/grant-faulkner-and-melanie-abrams/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210911T140000
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SUMMARY:Erin Gordon with Michael Krasny - Peeps
DESCRIPTION:Book Passage Presents \nSat.\, September 11\, 2021 • 1:00pm PT • Corte Madera Store \nIn conversation with Michael Krasny \nBUY THE BOOK\n\nThis event will be hosted in-person at Book Passage’s Corte Madera location\n\nA coming-of-middle-age novel\, Peeps tells the story of Meg\, a 51-year-old podcaster who has spent her life afraid of “what ifs.” After an unexpected divorce\, Meg might finally have the chance to obtain what she calls a Big Life\, but isn’t sure she can pull it off. After her mother’s death\, Meg gathers the courage to seek answers from her uncle about her disinterested and cruel mother. To get to him\, she moves out of her Santa Monica home and drives across the country in a new RV she nicknames Irv.\nAlong her journey\, Meg conducts interviews for her podcast called Peeps\, in which she asks everyday people the same seven questions to “peep” into their lives and uncover shared humanity. Meg’s narrative is peppered with lively transcripts of her interviews with the ordinary yet fascinating people she meets. The podcast enables Meg to process the complicated grief and relief related to her mother’s death\, her divorce\, and her only child leaving home for college. \nPeeps is evocative of The Wizard of Oz and Wild; like Dorothy and Cheryl—and many middle-aged women—Meg seeks to find her place in the world. Discerning readers will enjoy spotting the subtle references and symbols from both iconic stories. \nThe author of smart and moving book club fiction\, Erin Gordon is a former lawyer and legal affairs journalist. A Bay Area native with degrees from both UC Berkeley and Stanford\, Gordon’s novels explore themes of friendship\, parenthood and self-discovery. \nMichael Krasny is the former host of the award winning KQED Forum\, a program discussing news and public affairs\, current events\, culture\, health\, business and technology.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/erin-gordon-with-michael-krasny-peeps/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210909T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210909T220000
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SUMMARY:Offsite: Tinder Live! with Lane Moore at Rickshaw Stop
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, September 9 at 8pm PT when author and comedian Lane Moore brings her hilarious Tinder Live! show to San Francisco’s beloved Rickshaw Stop!\nBook sales provided by Green Apple Books \n$20 standing adv / $25 limited seated adv (SOLD OUT) / $30 doors\nThis is an All Ages show\nAll attendees must be fully vaccinated and be able to show proof (card\, phone\, or QR code). Let’s keep everyone safe and sound during this return to live shows!* \nAbout Tinder Live!\nTinder Live has been named one of the best comedy shows in NYC for good reason. Produced and hosted by NYC based comedian\, Lane Moore (The Onion\, Brooklyn Magazine’s “50 Funniest People In Brooklyn\,” former Cosmopolitan Magazine sex & relationships editor\, and author of #1 bestseller\, How To Be Alone: If You Want To And Even If You Don’t\, praised as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times\, New York Magazine\, NPR\, Fast Company\, Marie Claire\, and many others)\, Tinder Live is a totally improvised\, anything-can-happen interactive comedy showstopper with helpful and oftentimes ridiculous Tinder tips\, tricks\, real-time swiping\, and messaging (and sometimes even real-time phone calls with Tinder matches)! You’ll relate to Moore’s live-swiping and laugh at her reactions and find inspiration in her ridiculous\, random emoji-filled messages (and sometimes even phone calls!) to would-be suitors. It’s also a great show to attend with a date\, Tinder or otherwise. \nBut don’t expect cheap shots…this show has a huge heart. In between laughs\, Lane reminds us how challenging it can be to find a match in the digital age. Even if you’ve never been on an online dating site\, you will love this show. \n“Tinder LIVE! is truly addictive entertainment…[it’s] ingenious. Moore transforms the banter on a dating app into compelling long-form improvisation. Ms. Moore\, a cagey and humane performer\, has developed an instinct for turning the raw materials of sexually charged chat with ordinary strangers into honed and generous jokes. “TinderLive” has a comic momentum and energy that is unusual. The way she manipulates tone and pace reveals an artist supremely confident in her form\, not to mention a flirt par excellence.” –The New York Times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/offsite-tinder-live-with-lane-moore-at-rickshaw-stop/
LOCATION:Rickshaw Stop\, 155 Fell St.\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210907T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210907T190000
DTSTAMP:20260615T231302
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SUMMARY:9th Ave: Shruti Swamy with Meng Jin
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, September 7th at 6pm PT when Shruti Swamy joins us to discuss her debut novel\, The Archer\, with Meng Jin at 9th Ave!\n\n\nMasks Required for In-Person Attendance\nRegister at the link below to join us online\nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_yBzAFdhjR2aJms0xtt-VkQ\n\n\nCan’t join us in person but want a personalized copy?\nOrder your copy of The Archer here by September 7\, write who you would like the book made out to in your order comment\, and we will handle the rest!\nYour order will ship after the event date.\n\n\nPraise for The Archer\n“This novel swallowed me whole. The Archer is the kind of book you always hope for: lush and sensual\, tasted and felt\, with striking images that play out like film behind the eyes. Swamy evokes an India that resists flat stereotype and teems with exuberance\, beauty\, and life. The Archer is timeless yet utterly modern as it asks what it means for a woman to make a life of art.” \n—C Pam Zhang\, author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold \n“Shruti Swamy is a writer to celebrate. Her fiction is provocative\, precise\, and gorgeously inventive.” \n—Megha Majumdar\, author of A Burning \n“This is a singular work\, a story of a dancer\, and of a hungry self seated at the table of womanness and desire and art\, told with unparalleled originality and elegance. Swamy writes with a thrilling clarity of vision that wakes the sleepwalker right into joyful consciousness. Every word is intimate\, honest\, ecstatic—utterly alive.” \n—Meng Jin\, author of Little Gods \nAbout The Archer\nKiese Laymon called Shruti Swamy’s debut book of stories\, A House Is a Body\, “one of the greatest short story collections of the 2020s.” Now\, Swamy brings us an accomplished and immersive coming-of-age novel set in the Bombay of the 1960s and 1970s.\n\nAs a child\, Vidya exists to serve her family\, watch over her younger brother\, and make sense of a motherless world. One day she catches sight of a class where the students are learning Kathak\, a precise\, dazzling form of dance that requires the utmost discipline and focus. Kathak quickly becomes the organizing principle of Vidya’s life\, even as she leaves home for college\, falls in love with her best friend\, and battles demands on her time\, her future\, and her body. Can Vidya give herself over to her art and also be a wife in Bombay’s carefully delineated society? Can she shed the legacy of her own imperfect\, unknowable mother? Must she\, herself\, also become a mother?\n\nIntensely lyrical and deeply sensual\, with writing as rhythmically mesmerizing as Kathak itself\, The Archer is about the transformative power of art and the possibilities that love can open when we’re ready.\n\nAbout Shruti Swamy\nShruti Swamy is the author of the story collection\, A House Is a Body\, which was a finalist for the Pen/Robert Bingham Prize\, the L.A. Times Book Prize for First Fiction\, and longlisted for the Story Prize. Her work has been published by the Paris Review\, McSweeney’s\, and anthologized in the O. Henry Prize Stories. Her debut novel\, The Archer\, will be published by Algonquin Books in September 2021. She lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-ave-shruti-swamy-with-meng-jin/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210830T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210830T190000
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SUMMARY:Pussypedia: Zoe Mendelson and Maria Conejo with Carol Queen
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON MONDAY\, AUGUST 30 AT 6PM PT WHEN ZOE MENDELSON AND MARIA CONEJO JOIN US TO DISCUSS THEIR BOOK\, PUSSYPEDIA: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE\, ON ZOOM! \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4hyhD6DYRHiEfUP_YY3ogw \nPraise for Pussypedia\n“Not since the 1973 publication of Our Bodies\, Ourselves has there been a book about our sexual selves that is so incisive\, so inclusive\, so frank—and so funny. Pussypedia is more than just a book about pussies\, it is a brilliant manifesto about living with one. Zoe Mendelson and Maria Conejo have created a multi-faceted masterpiece that should be read—and memorized—by every body.”—Debbie Millman\, author of Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits \n“Pussypedia is a hilarious\, ridiculously informative and absolutely necessary atlas for people with pussies. From pussy anatomy to sex and masturbation and all things in between\, Mendelson takes an inclusive and intersectional approach to demystifying all things pussy. This book is a joyful\, frank\, and comprehensive corrective to the cultural ignorance surrounding people with pussies. If pussy is the promised land\,\nthis book is the compass that will guide you there.”—Roxane Gay\, bestselling author of Bad Feminist and Hunger \n“A thorough and empowering guide to women’s health…. [Mendelson] kicks body shame to the curb and\, in delightfully sassy prose\, keeps things realistic….Conejo’s bright illustrations\, peppered throughout\, add flair. [Those] looking to ditch the shame will find this smart\, inclusive\, and practical guide the perfect resource.”—Publishers Weekly (starred) \nAbout Pussypedia\nWritten by the creators of the popular website\, this rigorously fact-checked\, accessible\, and fully illustrated guide is essential for anyone with a pussy. \nIf the clitoris and penis are the same size on average\, why is the word “small” in the definition of clitoris but strangely missing from the definition of penis? Sex probably doesn’t cause yeast infections? But racism probably does cause BV? Why is masturbating so awesome? How hairy are butt cracks . . . generally? Why is labiaplasty on a global astronomical rise? Does egg freezing really work? Should I stick an egg-shaped rock up there or nah? \nThere is still a shocking lack of accurate\, accessible information about pussies and many esteemed medical sources seem to contradict each other. Pussypedia solves that with extensive reviews of peer-reviewed science that address old myths\, confusing inconsistencies\, and the influence of gender narratives on scientific research––always in simple\, joyful language. \nThrough over 30 chapters\, Pussypedia not only gives the reader information\, but teaches them how to read science\, how to consider information in its context\, and how to accept what we don’t know rather than search for conclusions. It also weaves in personal anecdotes from the authors and their friends––sometimes funny\, sometimes sad\, often cringe-worthy\, and always extremely personal––to do away with shame and encourage curiosity\, exploration\, and agency. \nA gift for your shy niece\, your angsty teenager\, your confused boyfriend\, or yourself. Our generation’s Our Bodies\, Ourselves\, with a healthy dose of fun. \nAbout the Authors\nZoe Mendelson: Journalist\, information designer\, content strategist. Her writing has appeared in Fast Company\, WIRED\, Hyperallergic\, Slate\, Next City\, the LA Times. Her projects have been covered by The New York Times en Espanol\, New York Magazine\, CityLab\, PBS\, Univision\, and Buzzfeed. Previous projects include official emojis for Mexico City\, a data narrative about drones\, and a civic-engagement platform for nihilist millennials. Mendelson studied at Barnard College in New York City. \nMaria Conejo: Visual Artist from Fine Arts School in Mexico. Her main media is drawing\, her work revolves around female bodies representation. She has been awarded with the national grant FONCA twice in the program JOVENES CREADORES. She was finalist in the first Biennial of Illustration in Mexico\, organized by Pictoline and The New York Times. Her work has been shown at SWAB Art Fair Barcelona\, De Kooning Studio in NYC in 2019\, at Juxtapoz Club House in Art Basel Miami and Salon Acme 6 Art Fair in Mexico City in 2018.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pussypedia-zoe-mendelson-and-maria-conejo-with-carol-queen/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210825T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210825T203000
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Judith Ayn Bernhard and silvi alcivar
DESCRIPTION:Judith Ayn Bernhard will read selections from her new book of stories\, Marriages (Andover Street Archives Press\, 2021)\, followed by an interview with poet silvi alcivar.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-judith-ayn-bernhard-and-silvi-alcivar/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210819T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210819T180000
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SUMMARY:Fiction Seminar with Lysley Tenorio and Anthony Doerr: SCENE-STEALING: Scenes by Contemporary Masters and What To Take From Them
DESCRIPTION:Register for a cocktail hour literary seminar with SMC MFA fiction Professor Lysley Tenorio with guest author Anthony Doerr\nYou know the saying: good artists borrow\, great artists steal. In this class\, we’ll aim for greatness\, examining the ways contemporary fiction writers render scenes in their work. How do they use this building block of narrative to generate drama and suspense\, and to develop both external and internal conflict in their fiction? How do they use dialogue\, internal monologue\, and action to develop character\, in order to give readers an immersive emotional experience? By studying the strategies used by these celebrated authors\, we’ll learn to use their techniques for our own work. \nOne of the writers we’ll read is Anthony Doerr\, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the New York Times bestseller\, All The Light We Cannot See. Doerr will make a special virtual visit to our class to offer advice on writing scenes. To celebrate this incredible opportunity\, the class will include a signature cocktail\, which you can prepare during the class break and enjoy during his visit.  The cocktail recipe (with a non-alcoholic\, mocktail option) will be sent to students in advance. \nThis three-hour class includes close readings and discussion\, in-class writing and sharing\, and an author visit.  Recommended (but not required) readings will be sent to students one week before the class. \nLysley Tenorio is the author of the novel The Son of Good Fortune\, and the story collection Monstress. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship\, a Whiting Award\, the New American Voices Award\, a Stegner fellowship\, and the Rome Prize.  His stories have appeared in  the Atlantic\, Zoetrope: All-Story\, and Ploughshares\, and have been adapted for the stage in San Francisco and New York City.  A finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize\, he will be a 2021-22 Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University.  He is a professor at Saint Mary’s College of California. \nAnthony Doerr is the author of All the Light We Cannot See\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize\, the Carnegie Medal\, the Alex Award\, and a #1 New York Times bestseller. He is also the author of the story collections Memory Wall and The Shell Collector\, the novel About Grace\, and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has won five O. Henry Prizes\, the Rome Prize\, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award\, the National Magazine Award for fiction\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and the Story Prize. Born and raised in Cleveland\, Ohio\, Doerr lives in Boise\, Idaho\, with his wife and two sons.  His new novel\, Cloud Cuckoo Land\, will be published in the fall of 2021. \nFunds raised from this seminar will go to support scholarships for BIPOC/Global Majority students and LGBTQ!+ students in the MFA in Creative Writing program
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fiction-seminar-with-lysley-tenorio-and-anthony-doerr-scene-stealing-scenes-by-contemporary-masters-and-what-to-take-from-them/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,In-person
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SUMMARY:Charlie Jane Anders and Maggie Tokuda-Hall
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON TUESDAY\, AUGUST 17 AT 6PM PT WHEN CHARLIE JANE ANDERS JOINS US TO DISCUSS HER BOOK\, NEVER SAY YOU CAN’T SURVIVE: HOW TO GET THROUGH HARD TIMES BY MAKING UP STORIES\, WITH MAGGIE TOKUDA-HALL AT 9TH AVE! \nMasks required for in-store attendance.\nJoin us virtually by registering at the link below \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FlNv8KVLRaOaR5TQrw_R8w\n \nAbout Never Say You Can’t Survive\nFrom the internationally bestselling and critically-acclaimed writer Charlie Jane Anders comes a nonfiction manual about writing and life. \nCharlie Jane Anders is writing Never Say You Can’t Survive\, a nonfiction how-to book about the craft of storytelling. Full of memoir\, personal anecdote\, and insight about how to flourish during the present emergency\, Never Say You Can’t Survive is the perfect manual for fostering creativity in unprecedented times. \nAbout Charlie Jane Anders\nCHARLIE JANE ANDERS is the former editor-in-chief of io9.com\, the popular Gawker Media site devoted to science fiction and fantasy. She is the author of the highly acclaimed science fiction novel\, City in the Middle of the Night. Her debut novel\, All the Birds in the Sky\, won the Nebula Award for Best Novel and was a Hugo Award finalist. Her story\, “Six Months\, Three Days\,” won a Hugo Award. Her YA debut novel\, Victories Greater Than Death\, was published with Tor Teen in April 2021. She has also had fiction published by McSweeney’s\, Lightspeed\, and ZYZZYVA. Her journalism has appeared in Salon\, The Wall Street Journal\, Mother Jones\, and many other outlets.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charlie-jane-anders-and-maggie-tokuda-hall/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210812T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210812T190000
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SUMMARY:Alia Volz
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with Vesuvio Cafe present \nA celebration of the paperback edition of \nHome Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco \nby Alia Volz \npublished by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt \nModerated by Alexis Madrigal with Alia Volz\, Doug Volz\, Meridy Volz\n(This is a live event to take place in Kerouac Alley. Seating on a first-come\, first-serve basis) \n\n\nSure\, it’s unusual to throw a book launch 18 months after publication\, but that’s the way the brownie crumbles during a pandemic…\nCo-presented safely outdoors by City Lights Books and Vesuvio Café\, this will be the first opportunity to celebrate the bestselling memoir\, Home Baked\, in person. Alexis Madrigal from NPR’s Forum will interview Alia alongside her parents Doug and Meridy Volz (co-owners of Sticky Fingers Brownies and stars of the book). We’ll have a short reading and book signing\, plus more surprises and special guests TBD.\nHome Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020) was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award\, winner of the 2020 Golden Poppy Nonfiction Book Award\, and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. It was the inaugural pick for the citywide Total SF Book Club\, and an SFPL “On the Same Page” selection. This unique story has been featured of Snap Judgement\, Criminal\, and NPR’s Fresh Air.\nJoin us in Jack Kerouac Alley to meet the people behind the wild stories.\n********\nAbout Home Baked:\nA blazingly funny\, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky Fingers Brownies\, an underground bakery that distributed thousands of marijuana brownies per month and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco.\nDuring the ’70s in San Francisco\, Alia’s mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies\, delivering upwards of 10\,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia’s future father\, and thereafter had a partner in business and life.\nDecades before cannabusiness went mainstream\, when marijuana was as illicit as heroin\, they ingeniously hid themselves in plain sight\, parading through town—and through the scenes and upheavals of the day\, from Gay Liberation to the tragedy of the Peoples Temple—in bright and elaborate outfits\, the goods wrapped in hand-designed packaging and tucked into Alia’s stroller. But the stars were not aligned forever and\, after leaving the city and a shoulda-seen-it-coming divorce\, Alia and her mom returned to San Francisco in the mid-80s\, this time using Sticky Fingers’ distribution channels to provide medical marijuana to friends and former customers now suffering the depredations of AIDS.\nExhilarating\, laugh-out-loud funny\, and heartbreaking\, Home Baked celebrates an eccentric and remarkable extended family\, taking us through love\, loss\, and finding home.\n\n\nAlexis Madrigal is the co-host of KQED’s Forum and a contributing writer at The Atlantic.\n\nAlia Volz is a homegrown San Franciscan. Her bestselling memoir Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the 2020 Golden Poppy Nonfiction Book Award. It was chosen as the inaugural pick for the San Francisco Chronicle’s citywide Total SF Book Club and was an SFPL “On the Same Page” selection. This unique San Francisco story has been featured on Snap Judgement\, Criminal\, Forum\, and NPR’s Fresh Air. \n\nDoug Volz is a professional Visionary Realist oil painter\, living in Lake County\, California. At 67\, as a retired nurse\, he devotes his time to producing works of art that inspire and elevate\, assisting the viewer to leave behind the dark encumbrances of the physical\, and to focus instead on a personal spirituality\, and a Light which frees the Spirit and heals the Heart and Mind. \n\nMeridy Volz is a working fine artist and art activist. She resides in Desert Hot Springs\, CA\, where she runs her art program\, Art with Heart\, mentoring incarcerated and at-risk teens. Her award-winning artwork is figurative\, colorful\, and Expressionistic.\n\n\n\nReviews:\nWinner of the California Bookseller Association’s Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction\nFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography\nOne of Entertainment Weekly’s “Books to Read in April”\nOne of Lambda Literary’s “Most Anticipated LGBTQ Books of April 2020”\n\n“The subtitle\, ‘My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco’ tells you much of what you need to know in terms of content. But as a portrait of a heroics\, innovation\, grit\, and pot-baking in an epidemic (in this case\, the AIDS crisis)\, it’s also strikingly relevant. And beautifully written\, too.”\n—Entertainment Weekly\, “Books to Read in April”\n\n“A beautiful evocation of the Bay Area in the years before tech bros and big money changed the city…Like Stefan Zweig’s The World of Yesterday\, this is a narrative about a time that is now gone: San Francisco as circus\, where pot was both ubiquitous and as illegal as heroin. Under Volz’s careful attention\, all of it—the era\, the place\, and her own parents—is rendered clear\, bright\, and beautiful.”\n—Paris Review\, Staff Pick\n\n“An earnest yet comic memoir by the daughter of the owner of the Sticky Fingers bakery\, purveyor of pot brownies and crusader for legalization.”\n—New York Times\, “New and Noteworthy Audiobooks”\n\n“A raunchy and rollicking account of a vanished era told by someone who paid very close attention to her larger-than-life parents. I gobbled it up like an edible.”\n—Armistead Maupin\n\n“I devoured this book! Sex\, drugs\, rock-n-roll\, a savvy business woman\, a social and medicinal revolution: What’s not to love? This is a story Alia Volz was born to tell.”\n—Rebecca Skloot\, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n\n“[A] nostalgic\, thoroughly entertaining new romp of a memoir…[An] intensely personal portrait of an unconventional childhood\, as well as a rigorously reported account of a kaleidoscopic time in San Francisco history\, an era of exuberant highs and pitch-black lows.”\n—San Francisco Chronicle\n\n“While a memoir\, Home Baked is also an intensively researched book on San Francisco and the burgeoning cannabis culture surrounding Sticky Fingers Brownies\, based on archival research and hundreds of hours of interviews with LGBT activists\, cannabis advocates and\, of course\, Volz’s parents. Home Baked also provides a timely contrast with both modern San Francisco and the blossoming cannabis industry\, which can now offer safe and legal access to the drug\, although significant reforms to the war on drugs have not materialized.”\n—Newsweek\n\n“Ample\, skillfully researched\, and cleanly narrated\, Volz’s debut is really five books in one . . . Alia in tow\, Mer and her peers travel among San Francisco\, Humboldt County and Marin\, connecting an essentially agricultural project to an urban counterculture; they also weave together less and more responsible ways to raise a kid\, almost as Volz herself weaves together her archives of the post-hippie-era Bay Area with her own vivid memories.”\n—Literary Hub
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alia-volz/
LOCATION:Kerouac Alley\, 255 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA 94133\, San Francisco\, California\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Offsite: Authors on the Street @ Inner Sunset Flea
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Sunday\, August 8th at 12pm PT for the latest Authors on the Street event at Inner Sunset Flea! \nFeaturing writers Jazmin Darznik\, Michael Warr\, Emily Willingham\, Jadie Jang\, and Barbara Jane Reyes \nHosted by Charlie Jane Anders \nLocated at the San Franpsycho Stage of the Inner Sunset Flea Market \nat 9th Ave and Irving St \nAbout this Event \nAn in-person\, outdoor literary event featuring poetry\, science\, literary fiction\, fantasy and MORE! \nYES\, in-person book events are *back*! The Inner Sunset Flea has graciously allowed us to feature some authors with new and recent books. Just to be clear: this is an in-person\, outdoor reading\, with no zoom screens or webcams or headphones involved. (We love virtual events\, but we’ve missed seeing people’s faces in person.) \nOnce again\, this event is hosted by Charlie Jane Anders\, with book sales by Green Apple Books on the Park. This time around\, Authors on the Street features: \nJasmin Darznik \nMichael Warr \nEmily Willingham \nJadie Jang \nBarbara Jane Reyes \nAbout the Authors \nJasmin Darznik is the New York Times bestselling author of The Bohemians\, a novel that imagines the friendship between photographer Dorothea Lange and her Chinese American assistant in 1920s San Francisco. The novel was chosen by the New York Times and Oprah Daily as one of the best books of historical fiction in 2021. Her debut novel\, Song of a Captive Bird\, was a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice” book and a Los Angeles Times bestseller. Darznik is also the author of The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life. Her books have been published in seventeen countries and she has written for the New York Times\, Washington Post\, and Los Angeles Times\, among others. She is a professor of English and creative writing at California College of the Arts. You can learn more about her at www.jasmindarznik.com. \nSan Francisco poet Michael Warr is a 2021 San Francisco Artist Grantee and 2020 Berkeley Lifetime Achievement Awardee. His books include Of Poetry & Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin (W.W. Norton)\, and The Armageddon of Funk and We Are All The Black Boy from Tia Chucha Press. He is a San Francisco Library Laureate\, recipient of a Creative Work Fund award for his multimedia project Tracing Poetic Memory\, PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature\, Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award\, Gwendolyn Brooks Significant Illinois Poets Award\, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. His poetry is translated into Chinese by poet Chun Yu as part of the “Two Languages / One Community” project. Michael is a board member of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. \nEmily Willingham is the author of Phallacy: Life Lessons From the Animal Penis. Willingham is a journalist and science writer who earned a PhD in biology and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in urology\, both after taking a bachelor’s degree in English literature. She is coauthor of The Informed Parent: A Science-Based Resource for Your Child’s First Four Years\, and her writing has appeared in the Washington Post\, The Wall Street Journal\, Aeon\, Undark\, San Francisco Chronicle\, and many other outlets. She is a regular contributor to Scientific American. \nClaire Light (writing as Jadie Jang) is the author of Monkey Around. She started a magazine (Hyphen) and an arts festival (APAture) with a cast of Asian Pacific Americans even more magical\, if less supernatural\, than the ones she writes about. She also got an MFA\, went to Clarion West\, and compromised between the two by publishing a collection of “literary” sci-fi short stories (Slightly Behind and to the Left) that maybe 100 people read. After wrangling arts and social justice nonprofits for 17 years\, her already autoimmune-disease-addled body threw a seven-year-long tantrum\, leading our then-house-bound heroine into an urban fantasy addiction. A few years\, and a dozen Euro-centric-mythology-dominated urban fantasy series later\, Claire sat up and said “I can do this!” and Jadie Jang\, the part of her brain that writes snarky-fun genre romps\, was born. She posts about monkeys every Monday under @seelight on Twitter. \nBarbara Jane Reyes was born in 1971 in Manila\, Philippines\, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her undergraduate education at the University of California Berkeley and her MFA in creative writing (poetry) at San Francisco State University. Reyes’s poetry collections include Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Books\, 2017)\, a finalist for the California Book Award\, and Diwata (BOA Editions\, 2010). Her first book\, Gravities of Center\, was published by Arkipelago Books in 2003\, and her second book\, Poeta en San francisco (Tinfish Press\, 2005) received the 2005 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. She has taught at Mills College and the University of San Francisco. She is an adjunct professor in the Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program at University of San Francisco. She lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/offsite-authors-on-the-street-inner-sunset-flea/
LOCATION:Inner Sunset Flea Market\, 800 Irving Street\, San Francisco\, 94122
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Monkey Around by Jadie Jang
DESCRIPTION:We are proud to host the book launch for Monkey Around! The debut novel from Claire Light (writing as Jadie Jang)\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nMonkey Around is an action-packed urban fantasy delivering a bold new take on the Monkey King in San Francisco – complete with murder and mayhem! \nClaire Light is such an important part of KSW’s history and we’re immensely proud to help her celebrate this debut novel (written under the pen name\, Jadie Jang). Join us for a live reading and discussion with Claire and some of her special guests. \nWe’ll be having a limited live in-person audience and a simulcast on Zoom. Books will be available at the event thanks to Eastwind Books. If you’re joining us online\, we encourage you to order the book directly from their site: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/ \nAbout Monkey Around \nBarista\, activist\, and were-monkey Maya McQueen was well on her way to figuring herself out. Well\, part of the way. 25% of the way. If you squint. But now the Bay Area is being shaken up. Occupy Wall Street has come home to roost; and on the supernatural side there’s disappearances\, shapeshifter murders\, and the city’s spirit trying to find its guardian. Maya doesn’t have a lot of time before chaos turns up at her door\, and she needs to solve all of her problems. Well\, most of them. The urgent ones\, anyhow. But who says the solutions have to be neat? Because Monkey is always out for mischief. \nAbout the Author \nClaire Light (writing as Jadie Jang) is almost as organizy as her characters. She started a magazine (Hyphen) and an arts festival (APAture) with a cast of Asian Pacific Americans even more magical\, if less supernatural\, than the ones she writes about. She also got an MFA\, went to Clarion West\, and compromised between the two by publishing a collection of “literary” sci-fi short stories (Slightly Behind and to the Left) that maybe 100 people read. After wrangling arts and social justice nonprofits for 17 years\, her already autoimmune-disease-addled body threw a seven-year-long tantrum\, leading our then-house-bound heroine into an urban fantasy addiction. A few years\, and a dozen Euro-centric-mythology-dominated urban fantasy series later\, Claire sat up and said “I can do this!” and Jadie Jang\, the part of her brain that writes snarky-fun genre romps\, was born. She posts about monkeys every Monday under @seelight on Twitter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-monkey-around-by-jadie-jang/
LOCATION:Arc Studios & Gallery\, 1246 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, California\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:9th Ave: Kaveh Akbar
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, August 5 at 6pm PT when Kaveh Akbar reads from his latest poetry collection\, Pilgrim Bell\, in-person at 9th Ave! MASKS REQUIRED  \nYou can watch the livestream of this event online by registering at the link below: \nZoom Registration \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_LkAVIbOeRpqn-rACAEZ62g \nPraise for Pilgrim Bell \n“Kaveh Akbar exquisitely and tenaciously braids astonishment and atonement into a singular lyric voice . . . intensely inventive and original.” —Frank Bidart \n“[Akbar’s] poems have as much audacity as humility\, a rare mix of openness in a time of flinching anxiety.” —francine j. harris \n“Akbar’s poems offer readers\, religious or not\, a way to cultivate faith in times of deepest fear.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) \nAbout Pilgrim Bell \nKaveh Akbar’s exquisite\, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf \nWith formal virtuosity and ruthless precision\, Kaveh Akbar’s second collection takes its readers on a spiritual journey of disavowal\, fiercely attendant to the presence of divinity where artifacts of self and belonging have been shed. How does one recover from addiction without destroying the self-as-addict? And if living justly in a nation that would see them erased is\, too\, a kind of self-destruction\, what does one do with the body’s question\, “what now shall I repair?” Here\, Akbar responds with prayer as an act of devotion to dissonance—the infinite void of a loved one’s absence\, the indulgence of austerity\, making a life as a Muslim in an Islamophobic nation—teasing the sacred out of silence and stillness. \nRichly crafted and generous\, Pilgrim Bell’s linguistic rigor is tuned to the register of this moment and any moment. As the swinging soul crashes into its limits\, against the atrocities of the American empire\, and through a profoundly human capacity for cruelty and grace\, these brilliant poems dare to exist in the empty space where song lives—resonant\, revelatory\, and holy. \nAbout Kaveh Akbar \nKaveh Akbar is the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf and has received honors such as a Levis Reading Prize and multiple Pushcart Prizes. Born in Tehran\, Iran\, he teaches at Purdue University and in low-residency programs at Warren Wilson and Randolph Colleges.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-ave-kaveh-akbar/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Marc Anthony Richardson and Carolina de Robertis
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY\, AUGUST 25 AT 6PM PT WHEN MARC ANTHONY RICHARDSON JOINS US TO DISCUSS HIS NOVEL\, MESSIAHS\, WITH CAROLINA DE ROBERTIS AT 9TH AVE! \nMasks Required While In-Store\nYou can join this event virtually by registering at the link below. \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cqwbFFuBQIS0qvGhukkbow \nPraise for Messiahs\n“Messiahs is a fever dream of storytelling. It explores racism and interracial conflict\, the deadly prison industrial complex\, climate emergency\, social death\, and more in prose that unfurls like waves of sound. Bleak\, though not without hope\, challenging\, though with numerous rewards along the way\, innovative from start to finish\, Messiahs is a marvel.”\n—John Keene\, MacArthur Fellow and author of Annotations and Counternarratives \n“In Messiahs\, Marc Anthony Richardson gives us an innovative\, intelligent\, and insightful take on several American obsessions\, including punishment\, incarceration\, and the death penalty. As much as this layered narrative presents a warning about things to come\, it also offers a profound examination of rebirth\, redemption\, second-acts. All in all an unnerving\, uncanny\, and challenging read on many levels\, but well worth the effort.”\n—Jeffery Renard Allen\, Guggenheim Fellow and author of Rails Under My Back and Song of the Shank \nAbout Messiahs\nA fiercely ecstatic tale of betrayal and self-sacrifice. \nMessiahs centers on two nameless lovers\, a woman of east Asian descent and a former state prisoner\, a black man who volunteered incarceration on behalf of his falsely convicted nephew\, yet was “exonerated” after more than two years on death row. In this dystopian America\, one can assume a relative’s capital sentence as an act of holy reform-“the proxy initiative\,” patterned after the Passion. The lovers begin their affair by exchanging letters\, and after his release\, they withdraw to a remote cabin during a torrential winter\, haunted by their respective past tragedies. Savagely ostracized by her family for years\, the woman is asked by her mother to take the proxy initiative for her brother-creating a conflict she cannot bear to share with her lover. Comprised of ten poetic paragraphs\, Messiahs‘ rigorous style and sustained intensity equals agony and ecstasy.\nAbout Marc Anthony Richardson\nMarc Anthony Richardson is author of Year of the Rat\, winner of an American Book Award\, and is the recipient of a Creative Capital Award\, a PEN America grant\, and a Hurston/Wright fellowship. He teaches creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marc-anthony-richardson-and-carolina-de-robertis/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Keith Boykin
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON MONDAY\, SEPTEMBER 27 AT 6PM PT WHEN KEITH BOYKIN DISCUSSES HIS BOOK\, RACE AGAINST TIME: THE POLITICS OF A DARKENING AMERICA\, AT 9TH AVE! \nMasks Required for In-Person Event\nJoin us online by registering at the link below \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_i2ifIaLzTJS28dSVTok04Q \nPraise for Race Against Time\n“With clear insights and provocative analysis\, Keith Boykin showcases why he is one of the country’s foremost experts on race and politics in America. This book is timely\, relevant\, and important.”—Leah Wright Rigueur\, associate research professor at Johns Hopkins University \n“Race Against Time is Keith Boykin’s best book yet in a long list of books and anthologies that have helped define what cultural criticism is. This book is also an account of what it means to be overlooked in a capitalist landscape that denies the existence and contribution of black queer citizens. What floors me is that Boykin’s genius—from all the political and racial history from Reconstruction onward\, to his well-wrought recounting of the antics of US presidents from Reagan to Trump—still allows him to remain a man of hope and a writer that affirms the spirit in essays that speak to us as a comforting brother would.”—Jericho Brown\, author of The Tadition \n“In evocative fashion\, and through the depth of his personal experiences at the highest levels of American politics\, Keith Boykin traces the parameters of America’s ‘never-ending civil war\,’ from the shock of Clinton’s Black-voter-driven presidency though Bush and Obama and the white nationalist nightmare of Donald Trump. Race Against Time is essential reading at a calamitous time.”—Joy Reid\, host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut \nAbout Race Against Time\nA Cold Civil War has engulfed the nation. \nAfter a deadly pandemic\, shocking incidents of police brutality\, a racial justice crisis\, and the fall of a dangerous demagogue\, America remains more divided than at any time in decades. At the heart of this national crisis is the fear of a darkening America—a country in which there is no longer a predominant white majority. \nAs the Republican Party has lost the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections\, its leaders have incited white Americans in a last-ditch race against time to stop the advance of a new\, multiracial emerging majority. Keith Boykin\, long time political commentator\, has watched this white resentment consume the GOP over the course of a life in politics\, activism\, and journalism. He has also observed the divisions among Democrats\, as white progressives have postponed demands for full racial equity\, while Black voters have often been too forgiving of party leaders who have failed to deliver. America can no longer avoid its long overdue reckoning with the past\, Boykin argues. With the familiarity of personal experience and the acuity of historical insight\, Boykin urges us to fight racism\, sexism\, xenophobia\, and homophobia\, and save the union\, not just by making Black lives matter\, but by making Black lives equal. \nAbout Keith Boykin\nKeith Boykin is a CNN political commentator\, New York Times best-selling author\, and a former White House aide to President Bill Clinton. Boykin teaches at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York and previously taught at American University in Washington\, D.C. He is a co-founder and first board president of the National Black Justice Coalition. He was a co-host of the BET Networks talk show “My Two Cents\,” starred on the Showtime reality television series “American Candidate\,” was an associate producer of the film “Dirty Laundry\,” and he has appeared on many other TV shows\, including BET’s “Being Mary Jane.” A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School\, Boykin is a Lambda Literary Award-winning author of four books. He lives in New York City.​​​​​​​
URL:https://litseen.com/event/keith-boykin/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poets@Play!
DESCRIPTION:After a long absence\, Poets@Play is returning! For those not familiar with it\, P@P is an informal writing group that meets at the Edwin Markham House at History Park\, which is operated by Poetry Center San José.\n\nWe plan to meet on the first Sunday afternoon of the month\, though there will be months when we do not meet\, or switch to another day. We take time to write and share whatever poetry we are working on. The option of coming to just listen is there also.\n\nWe are coming back with a cautious approach. We will be requiring masks for all attendees\, even those who have been fully vaccinated against SARS-Cov-2. Also we will be limiting this at first to only 7 attendees\, including the leader\, so that we can provide some level of social distancing. We will not be providing tea/coffee beverage service or snacks; you may bring your own if you wish.\n\nWe are making this by RSVP for now\, so that we can ensure the 7-person limit. The theme is open this time. You could choose to do some writing/revising about our pandemic experience of the past 16 months\, or select something else entirely.\n\nSunday\, August 1\, 2021\, 1 to 4 pm.\nPlease send a message to poetsatplay@pcsj.org if you would like to attend\, by Friday\, July 30.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetsplay/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading Series Jamil Jan Kochai
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, November 3\, 2021 – 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\nJamil Jan Kochai is the author of 99 Nights in Logar (Viking\, 2019)\, a finalist for the Pen/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. He was born in an Afghan refugee camp in Peshawar\, Pakistan\, but he originally hails from Logar\, Afghanistan. His short stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, Ploughshares\, and The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018. Currently\, he is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.\n\n\n\nADD TO CALENDAR
URL:https://litseen.com/event/creative-writing-reading-series-jamil-jan-kochai/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,In-person
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ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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