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SUMMARY:Story is the Thing
DESCRIPTION:The fifth installment of the Story Is the Thing Quarterly Reading Series is only a month away! Join us on November 16th at 7:30 PM for an evening of storytelling with seven local literary stars\, reading on the theme “The Unsent Letter.” We’ll start with light refreshments at 7:00 PM. \nReaders this time will be David Denny\, Joyce Kiefer\, Michael David Lukas\, Chiseche Salome Mibenge\, Marian Palaia\, Austin Smith\, and Rebecca Winterer. \nDavid Denny’s fiction has recently appeared in Narrative\, Catamaran\, and New Ohio Review. His short story collection\, The Gill Man in Purgatory\, is now available from Shanti Arts. He is also the author of three poetry collections: Man Overboard\, Fool in the Attic\, and Plebeian on the Front Porch. More information at daviddenny.net. \nJoyce Kiefer is a lifelong Bay Area resident.  She majored in English and Journalism at San Jose State. She has had poetry published in several award winning collections including Cradle Songs: An Anthology of Poems on Motherhood\, and Lavanderia: A Mixed Load of Women\, Wash and Word. Joyce has also had feature pieces published in the San Jose Mercury News and was a regular contributor to The Columnists. She contributes travel pieces to Bay Area Family Travel and has had memoir pieces appeared in By the Bay and Cooking Up Stories.” Joyce enjoys writing memoir\, travel experience\, and wry commentary on the small things in life that turn out to be bigger than we think. Read her blog: http://lifeinthepursuit.blogspot.com. \nMichael David Lukas is the author of the international bestselling novel The Oracle of Stamboul\, which was a finalist for the California Book Award\, the NCIBA Book of the Year Award\, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize\, and has been published in fifteen languages. His second novel\, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo\, is forthcoming from Spiegel & Grau in March 2018. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey\, a student at the American University of Cairo\, and a night-shift proofreader in Tel Aviv. A graduate of Brown University\, he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Bread Loaf Writers Conference\, and the Santa Maddalena Foundation\, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, Slate\, and VQR. He lives in Oakland\, California. \nMichael David Lukas is the author of the international bestselling novel The Oracle of Stamboul\, which was a finalist for the California Book Award\, the NCIBA Book of the Year Award\, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize\, and has been published in fifteen languages. His second novel\, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo\, is forthcoming from Spiegel & Grau in March 2018. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey\, a student at the American University of Cairo\, and a night-shift proofreader in Tel Aviv. A graduate of Brown University\, he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Bread Loaf Writers Conference\, and the Santa Maddalena Foundation\, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, Slate\, and VQR. He lives in Oakland\, California. \nChiseche Salome Mibenge is the author of Sex and International Tribunals: The Erasure of Gender From The War Narrative (UPenn Press\, 2013). She studied Law in Zambia\, her country of birth and received her PhD in International Human Rights Law from Utrecht University in 2010. She is a human rights educator\, writer\, and editor and blogs at chisechemibenge.com. Chiseche is an awardee of the Columbia Journal of Literature and Art winter 2017 contest for her short story\, The Protected Party. \nMarian Palaia’s first novel\, The Given World\, (Simon and Schuster\, 2015) was shortlisted for the Saroyan International Prize for Fiction\, longlisted for The PEN/Bingham First Novel Prize\, a finalist for the VCU/Cabell Award\, and recognized by Kirkus as a Best Novel of 2015. She lives in San Francisco\, California and in Missoula\, Montana with her Mongolian Barking Shepherd\, Tupelo. \nAustin Smith grew up on a family dairy farm in northwestern Illinois. His poems and stories have appeared in The New Yorker\, Harpers\, Poetry Magazine\, Narrative Magazine\, Threepenny Review\, ZYZZYVA\, Yale Review\, Sewanee Review\, Ploughshares and New England Review\, amongst others. His first collection of poems\, Almanac\, was chosen for the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets and published in 2013. A second collection\, Flyover Country\, will be published by Princeton in the fall of 2018. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in fiction\, Smith teaches poetry\, fiction\, documentary journalism and environmental literature classes at Stanford University. \nRebecca Winterer is the author of The Singing Ship\, awarded the Del Sol Press 2016 First Novel Prize and selected as a finalist for the Black Lawrence Press 2016 Big Moose Prize. Shes received fellowships at the Millay Colony\, the Vermont Studio Center\, Virginia Center for Creative Arts\, and Yaddo; and has had a story published by Puerto del Sol.  She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Raised in Queensland\, Australia\, she now lives in San Francisco\, California with her husband.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/story-is-the-thing/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:A Poetic Exploratory w/ Dick Brown
DESCRIPTION:What is a poem?\nOur time together will be an exploratory of the poem: its origins and evolution\, its purposes\, its forms and surprises\, and\, above all\, its great powers and pleasures. \nWe will explore how a poem is constructed to gain its specific reason for being. \nSince poems are often questions more than answers\, open discussion will be highly valued. \n(Handouts will be made available) \nBring a favorite poem to share. \nDick Brown is a long-time explorer of poetry. The first poetry group he attended was in 1965 in Brooklyn Heights\, NY\, around the corner from where Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass. \nDick attended the Squaw Valley Writers’ Conference and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference several times.  He a founder of the Marin Poet Laureate Program and the monthly poetry reading for the Marin Board of Supervisors. \nHe is the organizer of the biannual Real Men Write Poetry event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-poetic-exploratory-w-dick-brown/
LOCATION:O’Hanlon Center for the Arts\, 616 Throckmorton Avenue\, Mill Valley\, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171109T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171109T210000
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words: Adventure
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words – Sausalito on November 9\, 2017\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito (333 Caledonia Street) for readings on the theme of “Adventures” with the following acclaimed authors. Doors open at 7; readings begin at 7:15. $10 at the door. Cash bar. \nErin Byrne is the author of Wings: Gifts of Art\, Life\, and Travel in France\, winner of the Paris Book Festival Award\, editor of Vignettes & Postcards from Paris and Vignettes & Postcards from Morocco\, and writer of The Storykeeper film. Her travel essays\, poetry\, fiction\, and screenplays have won numerous awards\, including three Grand Prize Solas Awards for Travel Story of the Year\, the Reader’s Favorite Award\, Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Finalist\, and an Accolade Award for film. She is occasional guest instructor at Shakespeare and Company Bookstore in Paris and teaches on Deep Travel trips. Her screenplay\, Siesta\, is in pre-production in Spain\, and she is working on a novel set in the Paris Ritz during the occupation\, Illuminations. \nMarcia DeSanctis is the New York Times bestselling author of 100 Places in France Every Woman Should Go(Travelers’ Tales\, 2014). She is a former television news producer who has worked for Barbara Walters\, ABC\, CBS\, and NBC News. Her work has appeared in Vogue\, Marie Claire\, Town & Country\, O the Oprah Magazine\, National Geographic Traveler\, More\, Tin House\, and The New York Times\, and other publications. She is the recipient of four Lowell Thomas Awards for excellence in travel journalism\, including one for Travel Journalist of the Year for her essays from Rwanda\, Haiti\, France\, and Russia. \nIris Jamahl Dunkle is the 2016-2017 Poet Laureate of Sonoma County\, CA. Her debut poetry collection\, Gold Passage\, was selected by Ross Gay to win the 2012 Trio Award and was published by Trio House Press in 2013. Her second collection\, There’s a Ghost in this Machine of Air\, was published in 2015. Her chapbooks Inheritance and The Flying Trolley were published by Finishing Line Press in 2010 and 2013. Her poetry\, essays\, and creative non-fiction have been published widely in numerous publications including Fence\, Calyx\, Catamaran\, Poet’s Market 2013\, JMWW\, and Chicago Quarterly Review. She is currently writing a new biography of Jack London’s wife\, Charmian Kittredge London. Dunkle teaches writing and literature at Napa Valley College and is on the staff of the Napa Valley Writers conference. \nJeff Greenwald is the author of six books\, including The Size of the World(for which he created the first internet travel blog)\, Scratching the Surface and Snake Lake\, a memoir set in Nepal during the 1990 democracy revolution. The 25th anniversary edition of his Shopping for Buddhas was released in 2014. He also serves as Executive Director of EthicalTraveler.org\, a global alliance of travelers dedicated to human rights and environmental protection. \nDaniel Handler is the author of the novels The Basic Eight\, Watch Your Mouth\, Adverbs\, Why We Broke Up\, We Are Pirates and All The Dirty Parts. As Lemony Snicket\, he is the author of far too many books for children\, including All The Wrong Questions and A Series of Unfortunate Events\, which has been adapted for film and television. He lives in San Francisco with the illustrator Lisa Brown\, to whom he is married\, and their kid. \nKimberley Lovato is a freelance writer and Francophile with articles and essays published in magazines\, newspapers\, websites\, and anthologies\, including National Geographic Traveler\, Virtuoso Life\, American Way\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, BBC.com\, travelandleisure.com\, The Best Women’s Travel Writing\, Vignettes and Postcards from Morocco\, and many more. She is the author of Walnut Wine & Truffle Groves\, the Society of American Travel Writers’ Gold Medal book in 2012\, and her latest edible read is called Unique Eats & Eateries: San Francisco (Reedy Press\, 2017). \nDavid Rocklin is the author of The Night Language (Rare Bird Books\, November 2017) and The Luminist (US/Hawthorne; Italy/Neri Pozza; Israel/Kinneret)\, and is the founder/curator of Roar Shack\, a monthly reading series in Los Angeles. He was born and raised in Chicago and now lives in LA with his wife\, daughters\, and a 150 lb. Great Dane who seriously needs to stay on his own bed. He’s currently at work on his next novel\, The Electric Love Song of Fleischl Berger.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-adventure/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Women's National Book Association panel
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a celebrations of 100 years of women in the world of books with writer of the San Francisco Chapter of the WNBA.  Before women had the right to vote\, the Women’s National Book Association was advocating for women writers\, booksellers\, editors and “women in the world of books\,” starting in 1917.  This vital part of the Northern California publishing community includes New York Times bestselling authors\, writing coaches\, award-winning editors\, literary agents\, National Book Critics\, book to film creatives\, librarians\,  and an Indiefab Publisher of the Year\, offering insider secrets to getting your book published   In this Centennial Showcase\, the authors from the WNBA-SF will read from their books and join in a panel discussion of how women’s voices and those of diversity are more important than ever before. Signing and Q&A to follow. \nFeaturing WNBA-SF writers: \n\nPatricia Davis\, Cooking for Ghosts\nJanis Couvreux\, Sail Cowabunga!\nB. Lynn Goodwin\, Talent\nBrenda Knight\, Grateful Table\nMary Rodman\, Bloom Where You’re Planted\nSusan Pace Koch\, The Mermaid & the Moon\nKJ Landis\, Happy Healthy You\nSheri McGuinn\, Alice\nLousie Nayer\, Poised for Retirement\nDr. Jeanne Powell\, Carousel\nBarbara Falconer Newhall\, Wrestling with God\nBev Scott\, Sarah’s Secret\nRichard Robbins\, Overtaken by the Night\nJan Schmuckler\, Role Montage\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/womens-national-book-association-panel/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Poetry as Sanctuary w/ Rebecca Foust + Javier Zamora
DESCRIPTION:Marin Poet Laureate Rebecca Foust and fellow poet Javier Zamora are offering an evening of their poetry reading poems that touch on the theme of Sanctuary. They will also share poems from their most recent books: Foust’s Paradise Drive\, winner of the 2015 Press 53 Poetry Prize for Poetry and Zamora’s\, Unaccompanied\, out in October from Copper Canyon Press. \nREBECCA FOUST  has published five books of poetry\, most recently Paradise Drive (Press 53 2015)\, sonnets featuring a modern-day Pilgrim living in Marin County\, reviewed in the Marin Independent Journal\, San Francisco Chronicle\, and Rumpus in the Bay Area and in national venues including the Harvard review\, Huffington Post\, Philadelphia Inquirer\, and Washington Review of Books. Recent recognitions include the James Hearst Poetry Prize judged by Jane Hirshfield\, the American Literary Review Fiction Award\, and fellowships from the Frost Place\, MacDowell\, Sewanee\, and West Chester Poetry Conference. Foust is the new Marin County Poet Laureate\, the Poetry Editor for Women’s Voices for Change and has been a board member at Marin Poetry Center since 2008. \nFoust’s Marin County Poet Laureate project\, “Poetry as Sanctuary\,” ties in with California’s status as a Sanctuary State\, and of it Foust says “poetry is a sacred space—church\, a hospital\, a hospice bed—offering a safe place for our most private\, urgent\, and otherwise ineffable expressions. Reading and writing it opens an escape from technology\, stress\, life-overload\, grief\, and other emotional pain. Perhaps the most important service poetry can provide now is respite from or way to respond to current political events. Poetry can build community\, and I’d like to use it to raise the awareness and empathy for what is at stake under the new Administration for our undocumented immigrant population here in Marin.” Foust hopes to plan community read-arounds on political themes and readings featuring immigrant poets in the County libraries.” \nJAVIER ZAMORA was born in El Salvador and migrated to the US when he was nine. He is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow and holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, Colgate University\, MacDowell\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and Yaddo. The recipient of a 2016 Ruth Lilly/Dorothy Sargent Fellowship and the 2016 Barnes and Noble Writer for Writer’s Award\, his first poetry collection Unaccompanied is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press September 2017.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-as-sanctuary-w-rebecca-foust-javier-zamora/
LOCATION:O’Hanlon Center for the Arts\, 616 Throckmorton Avenue\, Mill Valley\, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:After Hours: Poetry Society of America Event
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Society of America (PSA) returns with their current national series\, Air This Pain & Alter It: What Can Poetry Do? Brenda Hillman\, Atsuro Riley\, and Brian Turner will read their own poems and others’\, showing the unique power of writing to effect change and speak to the moment. PSA Executive Director Alice Quinn moderates Q&A. \nMain Reading Room – 7:00pm\nWine reception at 6:30pm for pre-registered guests. \nRegistration recommended. Click here to register.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-poetry-society-of-america-event/
LOCATION:Main Reading Room\, Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171031T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171031T140000
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SUMMARY:Literary Luncheon: Isabel Allende
DESCRIPTION:In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident—which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster—a 60-year-old human rights scholar—hits the car of Evelyn Ortega—a young\, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala—in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen and far more serious turn when Evelyn turns up at the professor’s house seeking help. At a loss\, the professor asks his tenant Lucia Maraz—a 62-year-old lecturer from Chile—for her advice. These three very different people are brought together in a mesmerizing story that moves from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil\, sparking the beginning of a long overdue love story between Richard and Lucia. \nExploring the timely issues of human rights and the plight of immigrants and refugees\, the book recalls Isabel Allende’s landmark novel The House of the Spirits in the way it embraces the cause of “humanity\, and it does so with passion\, humor\, and wisdom that transcend politics” (Jonathan Yardley\, The Washington Post). \nBorn in Peru and raised in Chile\, Isabel Allende is the author of a number of bestselling and critically acclaimed books\, including The House of the Spirits\, Eva Luna\, Stories of Eva Luna\, Of Love and Shadows\, and Paula. Her latest novel is The Japanese Lover. Her books have been translated into more than thirty-five languages and have sold more than 65 million copies worldwide. She lives in California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-luncheon-isabel-allende/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171025T190000
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SUMMARY:Hand To Mouth/WORDS Spoken OUT # 89
DESCRIPTION:Our first Hand To Mouth of the Fall season features writer Peg Alford Pursell\, along with writer Jacqueline Doyle. \nPeg Alford Pursell is the author of Show Her a Flower\, A Bird\, A Shadow (First edition: ELJ Editions\, March 2017). Her work has appeared in Permafrost\, the Los Angeles Review\, Joyland Magazine\, and many other journals and anthologies. She is Founder and Director of the national reading series Why There Are Words and of WTAW Press. \nJacqueline Doyle’s flash chapbook The Missing Girl has just been published by Black Lawrence Press. She has recent flash writing in matchbook\, Monkeybicycle\, Quarter After Eight\, and The Pinch\, fiction in Phoebe and PANK\, and creative nonfiction in The Gettysburg Review\, Electric Literature\, and Superstition Review. She lives in the East Bay. \nOur open mic will follow our featured writers. We will have light refreshments. Also\, we have a partnership with neighborhood restaurants\, with a discount on the evening of the reading. Come in early and grab a flyer if you want to get a bite before the reading!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hand-to-mouthwords-spoken-out-89/
LOCATION:Rebound Bookstore\, 1611 4th Street\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171022T130000
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SUMMARY:David St. John + Susan Terris
DESCRIPTION:In The Last Troubadour\, David St. John has given us a collection of new and selected poems of astonishing beauty\, precise and keenly observed but also touched with sensuality and deep feeling. Nothing is too small to escape notice (in “Guitar” St. John reflects on the beauty of that word) or too large to be explored-the suicide of a friend\, the illness of a lover\, or the texture of longing and desire. A sharp observer of landscapes within and without\, St. John directs his empathetic gaze and vivid\, inventive voice to investigating both the darkest and the most inspiring parts of being human\, the small moments between friends and lovers as well as the groundswells that alter lives. \nAt times lyrical\, sometimes conversational\, occasionally wry and playful\, St. John’s poetry reveals an expansive vision animated by “intimacy and subtlety\, and by a disturbing force\, the work of an urgent sensibility and a true ear.” (W.S. Merwin) The beauty\, music\, and artistry of David St. John’s widely admired work is fully on display in this masterful collection. \nDavid St. John is the author of eleven collections of poetry (including Study for the World’s Body\, nominated for The National Book Award in Poetry) as well as a volume of essays\, interviews and reviews entitled Where the Angels Come Toward Us. He is University Professor and Chair of English at The University of Southern California\, and lives in Venice Beach\, California. \nSusan Terris’s Take Two: Film Studies is a series of dazzling poems about pairs who are heading in one way or another for trouble\, disaster\, or death. Each poem is a kind of filmic scene\, which has a few movie terms embedded as parenthetical script directives. \nThe text spins back and forth in time from the era of Beowulf to that of Jacqueline Kennedy. There are traditional couples like Abélard & Héloïse or Bonnie & Clyde. But many of the pairs are unexpected: Sancho Panza & his donkey Dapple\, Mary Shelley & her monster\, Picasso & a portrait of Dora Maar\, or Lady Macbeth & King Duncan. Expect the unexpected in this volume. No matter what you think you know about a pair\, you may be in for a dark surprise. \nSusan Terris’s most recent books are Memos and Ghost of Yesterday: New & Selected Poems. She is the author of six books of poetry\, sixteen chapbooks\, three artist’s books\, and one play. Journal publications include The Southern Review\,Colorado Review\, and Ploughshares. A poem of hers from FIELD appeared in Pushcart Prize XXXI. A poem from Memos\, first published in the Denver Quarterly\, was selected for Best American Poetry 2015. She is the editor of Spillway Magazine and a poetry editor for Pedestal Magazine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-st-john-susan-terris/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Marin Poetry Center: Thomas Centolella + Diana Goetsch
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Centolella is the author of four collections of poetry. The most recent\, Almost Human\, won the Dorset Prize from Tupelo Press\, selected by Edward Hirsch. His honors include the American Book Award\, the Lannan Literary Award\, the California Book Award\, the Northern California Book Award\, and publication in the National Poetry Series. He is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University where he studied poetry with Denise Levertov and fiction with Grace Paley. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies and on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac. He has taught creative writing for many years in the Bay Area. \nDiana Goetsch is the author of eight collections of poems—most recently Nameless Boy (2015\, Orchises) and In America (forthcoming from Rattle)—and the recipient of numerous honors and awards. Her work has appeared in many leading magazines and anthologies including The New Yorker\, Poetry\, The Gettysburg Review\, The Iowa Review\, Ploughshares\, The Southern Review and Best American Poetry. Known as a generous and innovative teacher\, Diana has taught writing in colleges\, MFA programs\, art centers\, jails and living rooms for 30 years. Currently she is the Grace Paley Teaching Fellow in writing at The New School.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marin-poetry-center-thomas-centolella-diana-goetsch/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words: Reckoning
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words – Sausalito on October 12\, 2017\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito (333 Caledonia Street) for “Reckonings” with the following six acclaimed authors. Doors open at 7; readings begin at 7:15. $10 at the door. Cash bar. \nWilliam Brewer is the author of I Know Your Kind (Milkweed Editions\, 2017)\, winner of the National Poetry Series\, and Oxyana\, selected for the Poetry Society of America’s 30 and Under Chapbook Fellowship. His poetry has appeared in Boston Review\, The Iowa Review\, Kenyon Review Online\, Narrative (where it was awarded the 30 Below Prize)\, The Nation\, A Public Space\, and other journals. Currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, he was born and raised in West Virginia. \nJacqueline Doyle’s flash chapbook The Missing Girl has just been published by Black Lawrence Press. She has recent flash in matchbook\, Monkeybicycle\, Quarter After Eight\, and The Pinch\, fiction in Phoebe and PANK\, and creative nonfiction in The Gettysburg Review\, Electric Literature\, and Superstition Review. She lives in the East Bay. \nErika Mailman is the author of historical novels Woman of Ill Fameand The Witch’s Trinity\, which was a Bram Stoker finalist and a San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book. Her latest\, The Murderer’s Maid\, looks at the Lizzie Borden murder case from the point of view of the maid\, the only other person in the house that day. Under the pen name Lynn Carthage\, she writes Y.A. fiction. Mailman holds a poetry MFA from the University of Arizona and has been a Yaddo fellow. \nBrittany Perham is the author of Double Portrait (W.W. Norton\, 2017)\, which received the Barnard Women Poets Prize; The Curiosities (Free Verse Editions\, 2012); and\, with Kim Addonizio\, the collaborative chapbook The Night Could Go in Either Direction(Slapering Hol Press\, 2016). She is a Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University\, where she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. In 2016 she received the Elizabeth Matchett Stover Memorial Award given by Southwest Review; she has also received awards and fellowships from the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity\, the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fund\, and the James Merrill House Foundation. She lives in San Francisco. \nElizabeth Rosner is a bestselling novelist\, poet\, and essayist living in Berkeley\, California. Her first book of non-fiction\, Survivor Cafe: the Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory\, publishes in September 2017. Her third novel\, Electric City\, published in 2014\, was named among the best books of the year by National Public Radio. The Speed of Light\, Rosner’s acclaimed debut novel in 2001\, was translated into nine languages. Short-listed for the Prix Femina\, the book won several literary prizes in both the US and Europe\, including the Prix France Bleu Gironde; the Great Lakes Colleges Award for New Fiction; and Hadassah Magazine’s Ribalow Prize\, judged by Elie Wiesel. Blue Nude\, her second novel\, was selected as one of the best books of 2006 by the San Francisco Chronicle. Her acclaimed poetry collection\, Gravity\, was also published in 2014. Rosner’s essays have appeared in the NY Times Magazine\, Elle\, the Forward\, Hadassah Magazine\, and several anthologies; her poems have been published by Poetry Magazine\, Catamaran\, Poetry East\, Southern Poetry Review\, and many other journals. Her book reviews appear frequently in the San Francisco Chronicle. \nMary Volmer is the author of two novels: Crown of Dust (HarperCollins UK\, 2006; Soho Press US\, 2010) and Reliance\, Illinois (Soho Press\, 2016). Her short fiction and essays have appeared in various publications\, including Mutha Magazine\, Women’s Basketball Magazine\, Fiction Writers Review\, Historical Novel Society Review\, and Ploughshares. She has been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and Hedgebrook and was the spring 2015 Distinguished Visiting Writer in Residence at Saint Mary’s College (CA) where she now teaches. \nWhy There Are Words is an award-winning reading series founded in Sausalito by Peg Alford Pursell. Over its seven years of presenting quality author readings\, the series draws a full house of Bay Area residents every second Thursday to Studio 333\, located at 333 Caledonia Street in Sausalito\, and as of 2017\, has expanded to become a national neighborhood of readings in five major locations across the nation\, with more planned in 2018. WTAW Press\, a 501(c)3 non-profit\, is the new publishing arm of Why There Are Words.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-reckoning/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Get Lit! October 2017
DESCRIPTION:Come join us October 12 for a fun night of literary storytelling with featured readers Amy Bess Cook\, Cameron Kelly and Alex Simand (and YOU on the open mic)! \n~~~~~~ \n* Amy Bess Cook has been a writer and editor for more than 15 years. She has left her mark on everything from travel guides to children’s manuscripts to gardening books. Her personal essays have appeared in Vela\, Entropy\, and Fiction Southeast. \nWith a background in book publishing\, Amy Bess also spent eight years helping to operate a boutique winery. Armed with a broad skill set that includes wordsmithing and oenology\, she recently launched a new experiment in art\, wine\, and giving. The project is called Sirsee\, which means “gift” in the Southern parlance. With a handcrafted wine and a literary journal–both created by Amy Bess–Sirsee raises funds for social justice organizations. In a few short months\, the project has raised $4\,000 for Southern Poverty Law Center and $1\,000 for other groups. \nAmy Bess will share poetry by contributors to the inaugural issue of Sirsee journal\, with the theme: “Ripe for the Picking”. \n* Cameron Kelly’s articles and interviews have appeared in <proximity> magazine. She’s an Elizabeth George Foundation Scholar\, awarded in 2014. She’s working on a collection of essays\, and will graduate from Antioch University LA in 2017. \n* Alex Simand does not believe in the left brain / right brain dichotomy. He lives and works in San Francisco\, having arrived via the two socialist countries of Canada and Russia before that. His short story\, Election Cycle\, was a winner of the 2017 Best Small Fictions award. \n~~~~~ \nGet Lit is a free quarterly literary event hosted by Dani Burlison and Kara Vernor at Aqus Café in Petaluma. All ages are welcome but DISCLAIMER: our readers may share adult content and we don’t provide ear muffs.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-october-2017/
LOCATION:Aqus Petaluma\, 101 H St\, Petaluma\, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Brit Bennett
DESCRIPTION:Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California\, Brit Bennett’s mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community\, love\, and ambition. It begins with a secret. \n“All good secrets have a taste before you tell them\, and if we’d taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths\, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret\, plucked too soon\, stolen and passed around before its season.” \nIt is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner\, a rebellious\, grief-stricken\, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother’s recent suicide\, she takes up with the local pastor’s son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one\, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it’s not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance—and the subsequent cover-up—will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth. As Nadia hides her secret from everyone\, including Aubrey\, her God-fearing best friend\, the years move quickly. Soon\, Nadia\, Luke\, and Aubrey are full-fledged adults and still living in debt to the choices they made that one seaside summer\, caught in a love triangle they must carefully maneuver\, and dogged by the constant\, nagging question: What if they had chosen differently? The possibilities of the road not taken are a relentless haunt. \nIn entrancing\, lyrical prose\, The Mothers asks whether a “what if” can be more powerful than an experience itself. If\, as time passes\, we must always live in servitude to the decisions of our younger selves\, to the communities that have parented us\, and to the decisions we make that shape our lives forever. \nBrit Bennett graduated from Stanford University and later earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan\, where she won a Hopwood Award in Graduate Short Fiction as well as the 2014 Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers. Her work is featured in The New Yorker\, The New York Times Magazine\, The Paris Review\, and Jezebel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brit-bennett/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171010T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171010T210000
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SUMMARY:Maggie Stiefvater
DESCRIPTION:Maggie Stiefvater has been called “a master storyteller” by USA Today and “wildly imaginative” by Entertainment Weekly. We fell for her writing in Lament and Ballad. Swooned over the New York Times bestselling Wolves of Mercy series. Loved The Scorpio Races\, which was named a Michael L Printz Honor Book by the ALA. Obsessed over the highly praised Raven Cycle series. And are wildly excited to welcome her back to launch All the Crooked Saints\, the extraordinary story of an extraordinary family\, a masterful tale of love\, fear\, darkness\, and redemption. \nMaggie Steifvater has been a wedding musician\, a technical editor\, a portrait artist\, a calligraphy instructor\, and\, for several fraught weeks\, a waitress. She is now a full time writer who plays several musical instruments and still makes art. \nMaggie will be in conversation with Chris Taylor of Mashable.com. Chris is a veteran journalist hailing from the U.K. He was San Francisco bureau chief for Time magazine and in the past five years has served as senior editor for Business 2.0\, West Coast editor for Fortune Small Business and West Coast web editor for Fast Company. \nDon’t miss this opportunity to meet #1 New York Times bestselling author and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year-winner Maggie Stiefvater to launch All the Crooked Saints\, which follows the Soria family\, who can perform unusual miracles. And at the heart of this family are three cousins longing to change its future. They are all looking for a miracle. But the miracles of Bicho Raro are never quite what you expect.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maggie-stiefvater/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171001T173000
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CREATED:20170817T114704Z
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SUMMARY:Julie Lythcott-Haims
DESCRIPTION:Are we who we are through what we’ve accomplished or what we’ve endured? \nNew York Times bestselling author Julie Lythcott-Haims is one of Kepler’s Literary Foundation’s favorite speakers. Known across the country for her probing\, no-nonsense insights into parenting today\, Lythcott-Haims has served as the dean of freshmen and undergraduate advising at Stanford and raised her family\, right here in the Bay Area. \nBut there’s more to her story. In stirring\, poetic detail\, Lythcott-Haims reveals the aggressions small and large of growing up Black and biracial in America. From the thousands of small slights to the blunt force insults\, from schools in white\, rural Wisconsin to the grand lawns of Stanford and Ivy League campuses to the backyards of Palo Alto race has followed her everywhere. In a stunning new memoir\, Real American\, Lythcott-Haims shares the events that made her the brave and strong-willed voice she is today.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julie-lythcott-haims/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171001T153000
DTSTAMP:20260414T081017
CREATED:20170926T011113Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T013601Z
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SUMMARY:Kevin Craft + Troy Jollimore: an Afternoon of Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Craft Talk: “A Red Hot Half-Brick in an Old Sock: Tradition\, Subversion\, and the Sonnet” (1:00-2:00) \nWhy would anyone today choose to write a sonnet? In fact\, some of our best contemporary poets have taken a stab at the venerable form\, in order to explore (and\, at times\, explode) the limits of the form\, and to place the sonnet in the service of surprising\, at times radical ends. In this joint talk\, poets Kevin Craft and Troy Jollimore discuss the sonnet form\, its history\, its poetic nature\, its particular capabilities and possibilities\, and talk about their own experiences reading and writing sonnets. (The craft talk will be followed by a break with wine and savory treats.) \nReading: “Burn After Reading: The Poetry of Kevin Craft and Troy Jollimore.” (2:30 pm) Come for one or both events! This is a unique chance to hear and learn from two illustrious out-of-town poets. \nThis event is a collaboration of the Mill Valley Library and Marin Poetry Center. \nMILL VALLEY LIBRARY\n375 Throckmorton Avenue\nMill Valley\, CA \n\n\n\nKevin Craft directs the Written Arts Program at Everett Community College. His first book\, Solar Prominence\, won the Gorsline Prize. His new collection is Vagrants & Accidentals. His work has appeared in Poetry\, The Kenyon Review\, New England Review\, and The Stranger. He has received fellowships and awards from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference\, MacDowell Colony\, the Bogliasco Foundation (Italy)\,the Camargo Foundation and many others. He is executive editor of Poetry NW Editions\, and a director of the UW Writers in Rome program. \n\n\n\n\nTroy Jollimore is the author of three books of poetry and three of philosophy\, as well as numerous articles. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and Fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Stanford Humanities Center. Tom Thomson in Purgatory won the National Book Critics Circle award in poetry. Syllabus of Errors\, appeared on the New York Times‘ list of the best books of poetry in 2015. His reviews appear in the Chicago Tribune\, and the Washington Post. He is currently a Professor in the Philosophy Department at California State University\, Chico.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kevin-craft-troy-jollimore-an-afternoon-of-poetry/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170928T213000
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SUMMARY:Marin Poetry Center Anthology Launch Party & Read-Around
DESCRIPTION:Come out and eat cake and hear our anthology contributors read their poems. The public is very welcome to attend this always lively and lovely event!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marin-poetry-center-anthology-launch-party-read-around/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170928T213000
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CREATED:20170815T113725Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170815T113725Z
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SUMMARY:MPC Anthology Launch Party & Read-Around
DESCRIPTION:Come out and eat cake and hear our anthology contributors read their poems. The public is very welcome to attend this always lively and lovely event!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mpc-anthology-launch-party-read-around/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170926T140000
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SUMMARY:Literary Luncheon: Nicole Krauss
DESCRIPTION:Jules Epstein\, a man whose drive\, avidity\, and outsized personality have\, for sixty-eight years\, been a force to be reckoned with\, is undergoing a metamorphosis. In the wake of his parents’ deaths\, his divorce from his wife of more than thirty years\, and his retirement from the New York legal firm where he was a partner\, he’s felt an irresistible need to give away his possessions\, alarming his children and perplexing the executor of his estate. With the last of his wealth\, he travels to Israel\, with a nebulous plan to do something to honor his parents. In Tel Aviv\, he is sidetracked by a charismatic American rabbi planning a reunion for the descendants of King David who insists that Epstein is part of that storied dynastic line. He also meets the rabbi’s beautiful daughter who convinces Epstein to become involved in her own project—a film about the life of David being shot in the desert—with life-changing consequences. \nBut Epstein isn’t the only seeker embarking on a metaphysical journey that dissolves his sense of self\, place\, and history. Leaving her family in Brooklyn\, a young\, well-known novelist arrives at the Tel Aviv Hilton where she has stayed every year since birth. Troubled by writer’s block and a failing marriage\, she hopes that the hotel can unlock a dimension of reality—and her own perception of life—that has been closed off to her. But when she meets a retired literature professor who proposes a project she can’t turn down\, she’s drawn into a mystery that alters her life in ways she could never have imagined. \nBursting with life and humor\, Forest Dark is a profound\, mesmerizing novel of metamorphosis and self-realization—of looking beyond all that is visible towards the infinite. \nNicole Krauss is the author of Great House\, a finalist for the National Book Award; the New York Times bestseller The History of Love; and Man Walks into a Room. She was selected as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists in 2007 and named to The New Yorker’s “Twenty Under Forty” list in 2010. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker\, Harper’s\, Esquire\, and Best American Short Stories\, and her books have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. She lives in Brooklyn\, New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-luncheon-nicole-krauss/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170925T203000
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SUMMARY:Narrative Grace: Elizabeth Rosner w/ Nicole Krauss
DESCRIPTION:Goodbye\, Portnoy. \nNicole Krauss has been called many things over her career. A “New Yiddishist\,” dubbed by Vanity Fair in 2009\, might be the most peculiar. No matter what she is labeled\, though\, her work continues to project an unmistakable grace and a profound ability to capture the human experience. \nOne thing we do know is that Krauss will not be mistaken for the Roths and Malamuds of your father’s bookcase. In her most recent work\, Forest Dark\, Krauss takes us from the cozy streets of Brooklyn and the Upper East Side to the bustling sidewalks of Tel Aviv\, all in an effort to stare down the question of what it truly means to be Jewish-American. The startling result of her journey back to the homeland\, which never quite feels like home\, turns the traditional novel inside out and stands alone as one of Krauss’s best novels yet. \nJoin her live on-stage at Kepler’s as she sits down with one of the Bay Area’s brightest Jewish-American voices\, Elizabeth Rosner\, for a conversation on the contemporary Jewish novel\, the importance of literature\, and how the past informs the present. \nRosner’s first work of nonfiction\, Survivor Cafe: the Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory\, also forthcoming this September describes the traumas of war and dislocation. Rosner\, who is the acclaimed author of three previous novels\, uses her new work as springboard to speak to the immense weight of history that Forest Dark and Krauss herself write toward. \nBe a part of the conversation!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/narrative-grace/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170920T210000
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SUMMARY:Joyce Maynard
DESCRIPTION:In 2011\, when she was in her late fifties\, beloved author and journalist Joyce Maynard met the first true partner she had ever known. Jim wore a rakish hat over a good head of hair; he asked real questions and gave real answers; he loved to see Joyce shine\, both in and out of the spotlight; and he didn’t mind the mess she made in the kitchen. He was not the husband Joyce imagined\, but he quickly became the partner she had always dreamed of. \nBefore they met\, both had believed they were done with marriage\, and even after they married\, Joyce resolved that no one could alter her course of determined independence. Then\, just after their one year wedding anniversary\, her new husband was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. During the nineteen months that followed\, as they battled his illness together\, she discovered for the first time what it really meant to be a couple—to be a true partner and to have one. \nThis is their story. Charting the course through their whirlwind romance\, a marriage cut short by tragedy\, and Joyce’s return to singleness on new terms\, The Best of Us is a heart-wrenching\, ultimately life-affirming reflection on coming to understand true love through the experience of great loss. \nJoyce Maynard is the author of sixteen books including the novels To Die For and Labor Day (both adapted for film) and the bestselling memoir At Home in the World. Her essays and columns have appeared in dozens of publications and numerous collections. She is a frequent performer with The Moth\, a fellow of the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo\, and founder of the Lake Atitlan Writers’ Workshop. She is the mother of three grown children\, and makes her home in Lafayette\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-maynard-2/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170914T213000
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SUMMARY:MPC Members' New Books Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we raise a glass to our amazing members who have new books out! We’ll have cake and bubbly! Poems will be read! Books will be for sale! Come help us toast the satisfaction and sweetness of making it through the long slog that leads to publication. If you have a new book or chapbook you’d like to share\, published from September 2016 – September 2017\, email Francesca Bell at events@marinpoetrycenter.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mpc-members-new-books-celebration/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170909T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170909T200000
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CREATED:20170902T052805Z
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SUMMARY:Christine Evelyn Volker Book Talk: Venetian Blood
DESCRIPTION:Kirkus Reviews calls Venetian Blood: Murder in a Sensuous City\, “A riveting whodunit that makes full use of its dramatic setting.” \nLeft Coast Writers presents Christine Evelyn Volker’s book launch. Come hear her discuss this international mystery and the city which inspired it. \nStruggling to forget a crumbling marriage\, Anna Lucia Lottol travels to Venice to visit an old friend. But instead of finding solace\, she is dragged into the police station and accused of murdering a money-laundering count with whom she had a brief affair.  A US Treasury officer with brains and athleticism\, Anna fights to clear her name in a city of illusions\, with recalcitrant characters denying what she sees and hears.  Her mission stirs up a powerful foe bent on destroying her. Will she overcome her adversaries\, including her deepest fears? \nThis multi-layered work is a mystery\, a personal\, psychological journey\, and a dark love poem to the city of Venice. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christine-evelyn-volker-book-talk-venetian-blood/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
ORGANIZER;CN="Christine Evelyn Volker":MAILTO:christine@christinevolkerauthor.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170901T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170901T160000
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CREATED:20170817T121121Z
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SUMMARY:Louise Penny: Glass Houses
DESCRIPTION:When a mysterious figure appears on the village green on a cold November day in Three Pines\, Armand Gamache\, now Chief Superintendent of the Sûreté du Québec\, knows something is seriously wrong. Yet he does nothing. Legally\, what can he do? Only watch and wait. And hope his mounting fears are not realized. \nFrom the moment its shadow falls over Three Pines\, Gamache suspects the creature has deep roots and a dark purpose. When it suddenly vanishes and a body is discovered\, it falls to Gamache to discover if a debt has been paid or levied. \nIn the early days of the investigation into the murder\, and months later\, as the trial for the accused begins in a Montreal courtroom on a steamy day in July\, the Chief Superintendent continues to struggle with actions he’s set in motion\, from which there is no going back. “This case began in a higher court\,” he tells the judge\, “and it’s going to end there.” \nAnd regardless of the trial’s outcome\, he must face his own conscience. \nIn Glass Houses — her latest utterly gripping book — #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny shatters the conventions of the crime novel to explore what Gandhi called the court of conscience. A court that supersedes all others. \nLouise Penny  is the author of the #1 New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling series of Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels. She has won numerous awards\, including a CWA Dagger and the Agatha Award (six times)\, and was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. In 2017\, she received the Order of Canada for her contributions to Canadian culture. Louise lives in a small village south of Montréal.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/louise-penny-glass-houses/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170828T210000
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CREATED:20170822T225546Z
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SUMMARY:Robert Currier - Marin Shakespeare Company
DESCRIPTION:“A Labour of Love” \nJoin Marin Shakespeare Company Artistic Director Robert Currier and Marin Shakespeare actors as they discuss the complex wordplay and sly wit of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost\, playing through September 24 at Dominican University’s Forest Meadows Amphitheater. \nClick here to purchase tickets
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-currier-marin-shakespeare-company/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170826T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170826T210000
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CREATED:20170817T121229Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170817T121229Z
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SUMMARY:Gabrielle Zevin: Young Jane Young
DESCRIPTION:Aviva Grossman\, an ambitious congressional intern in Florida\, makes the mistake of having an affair with her boss–and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light\, the beloved congressman doesn’t take the fall. But Aviva does\, and her life is over before it hardly begins: slut-shamed\, she becomes a late-night talk show punch line\, anathema to politics. \nShe sees no way out but to change her name and move to a remote town in Maine. This time\, she tries to be smarter about her life and strives to raise her daughter\, Ruby\, to be strong and confident. But when\, at the urging of others\, Aviva decides to run for public office herself\, that long-ago mistake trails her via the Internet and catches up–an inescapable scarlet A. In the digital age\, the past is never\, ever\, truly past. And it’s only a matter of time until Ruby finds out who her mother was and is forced to reconcile that person with the one she knows. \nYoung Jane Young is a smart\, funny\, and moving novel about what it means to be a woman of any age\, and captures not just the mood of our recent highly charged political season\, but also the double standards alive and well in every aspect of life for women. \nGabrielle Zevin is a New York Times bestselling author whose books have been translated into more than thirty languages. Her eighth novel\, The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry\, spent more than four months on the New York Times Bestseller list\, reached #1 on the National Indie Bestseller list\, and has been a bestseller all around the world. She has also written books for children and young adults\, including the award-winning Elsewhere.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gabrielle-zevin-young-jane-young/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Grant Jarrett: The Half-Life of Remorse
DESCRIPTION:In The Half-Life of Remorse\, three life-scarred people are brought together to confront each other thirty years after the brutal crime that shattered their lives. \nWhen two vagrants meet on the streets of Muncie\, Indiana\, they are both unaware that their paths crossed years before. Chic\, crude and uneducated\, is convinced that Sam is nothing more than a harmless lunatic\, and Sam\, emotionally scarred and psychologically traumatized by events long past\, regards Chic as just another denizen of the street. But Chic has spent his adult life trying to purge his soul of the brutal crime he committed as a teenager?the same botched burglary that resulted in the deaths of Sam’s wife and son. Meanwhile\, Sam’s daughter Claire is still unable to give up hope that her father might someday reappear. When these three lives converge\, the puzzle of the past gradually falls together\, but redemption commands a high price\, and what is revealed will test the limits of love and challenge the human capacity for forgiveness. \nGrant Jarrett lived in Manhattan for twenty years before moving to Marin County\, CA\, where he now works as a writer\, ghostwriter\, editor\, musician\, and occasional songwriter. His publishing credits include numerous magazine articles\, essays\, short stories\, and More Towels\, his coming-of-age memoir about life on the road. His debut novel\, Ways of Leaving\, won the Best New Fiction category in the 2014 International Book Awards. The House That Made Me\, his 2016 anthology about the meaning of home\, was chosen as an Elle “Trust Us” book. Jarrett is an avid cyclist\, skier\, and surf skier.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/grant-jarrett-the-half-life-of-remorse/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Doreen Stock + Kate Peper
DESCRIPTION:Talking With Marcelo is a bio-sketch of Argentine journalist Marcelo Holot\, a chapbook-length interview in which he answers six questions covering his early years\, his life as a student protester during the Dirty Wars\, and also his subsequent career as a journalist in Buenos Aires. Holot met and wrote about some of the most important people of his time\, including Juan Peron and the Argentine soccer hero\, Maradona. His interviewer\, the poet and memoir artist Doreen Stock\, first met him in Argentina in a tango palace\, Confiteria Ideal\, where the long conversation which was to become this interview\, began. Sixteen photographs complete the limited edition\, published by Mine Gallery\, Fairfax\, CA. \nDoreen Stock is a poet\, essayist\, and memoir practitioner who has been exploring creative nonfiction for thirty plus years from the feminine point of view as a wife\, mother of three\, single human\, and grandmother of eleven. Her first book of poems\, The Politics of Splendor\, was part of a New American Writers exhibit at the Frankfurt Book Fair that year. It combined poetry and prose poems with her translations from the work of Marina Tsvetaeva and Anna Akhmatova. A selection of Stock’s poetry and translations has been video-archived at Marin Poets\, Live! She was a founding member of the Marin Poetry Center and is currently living in Fairfax\, California. \nIn this collection of poems\, Dipped in Black Water\, Kate Peper explores the imperfect body\, the flawed spirit and the uneasy balance she strikes between the two. Horror and depression live side-by-side with humor and hope. These poems reveal how hidden losses do not so much define the person\, but once embraced\, lead to wholeness. \nKate Peper is a freelance designer and award-winning watercolor painter. She was a recipient of a Marin Arts Council Individual Artist Grant for poetry and her work has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize. Her poetry has appeared in many journals including The Baltimore Review\, Cimarron Review\, Gargoyle\, The Lindenwood Review\, Rattle\, Spillway\, Tar River Review and others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/doreen-stock-kate-peper/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words: "Singularities"
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words – Sausalito on August 10th\, 2017\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito as seven acclaimed authors explore the theme of Singularities. Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. Entry fee is $10 at the door\, though donations to WTAW\, a 501(c)3 nonprofit independent publishing press\, are always welcome. \nAmy Berkowitz is the author of Tender Points\, the host of the Amy’s Kitchen Organics reading series\, the founding editor of Mondo Bummer Books\, and the administrator of the Alley Cat Books residency program. This fall\, she’ll be a writer in residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City\, Nebraska. \nJessica Barksdale’s fourteenth novel\, The Burning Hour\, was published by Urban Farmhouse Press in April 2016.  Her novels include Her Daughter’s Eyes\, The Matter of Grace\, and When You Believe. Her chapbook It Was Would All Happen in Barcelona was published by ELJ Publications in 2014. She has been a nominee for the Pushcart Prize\, Million Writers Award\, and Best-of-the-Net\, and her short stories\, poems\, and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming in the Waccamaw Journal\, Salt Hill Journal\, Little Patuxent Review\, Carve Magazine\, Palaver\, and So to Speak. She is a Professor of English at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill\, CA\, and teaches novel writing online for UCLA Extension.  She holds an MA in English Literature from San Francisco State University and an MFA from the Rainier Writers Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. \nLynn Freed’s books include seven novels\, a collection of stories\, and two collections of essays. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Harper’s\, The New Yorker\, and The Atlantic Monthly\, among many numerous others. She is the recipient of the inaugural Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, two PEN/O. Henry Awards\, and has received fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Guggenheim Foundation\, among others. Having grown up in South Africa\, she came to the U.S. as a graduate student at Columbia University\, and now lives in Northern California. \nBen Jackson is the director of The Writing Salon\, a San Francisco Bay Area creative writing school for adults. He has taught at several colleges including\, most recently\, the University of San Francisco. His poems have appeared in Southern Review\, New England Review\, FIELD\, Hudson Review\, Poetry Daily\, The Collagist\, and elsewhere. His awards include the 2015 Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry as well as residencies from Vermont Studio Center\, Jentel Artist Residency Program\, and Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts. \nMichael Mohr is a Bay Area writer\, former literary agent’s assistant\, and freelance book editor. His fiction has been published in the following: Freedom Fiction Journal; Full of Crow; Fiction Magazines; Tincture; Flash: The International Short Short Story Magazine; Aaduna; MacGuffin; Gothic City Press; Alfie Dog Press; Milvia Street; and more. His blog pieces have been included in Writers’ Digest\, The Kimberley Cameron & Associates blog; the San Francisco Writers Conference Newsletter and MASH. \nDean Rader’s debut collection of poems\, Works & Days\, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize and Landscape Portrait Figure Form(2014) was named by The Barnes & Noble Review as a Best Poetry Book of the year. He was won numerous awards for his writing\, including the 2016 Common Good Books Prize\, judged by Garrison Keillor\, and the 2015 George Bogin Award from the Poetry Society of America\, judged by Stephen Burt. He has written or co-edited three scholarly books and was the editor of the 2014 anthology 99 Poems for the 99 Percent: An Anthology of Poetry\, which hit #1 on the Small Press Distribution Bestseller list. He writes and reviews regularly for The San Francisco Chronicle\, Kenyon Review\, Ploughshares\, and The Huffington Post. Two new collections of poetry appeared in 2017: A book of collaborative sonnets written with Simone Muench\, entitled Suture (Black Lawrence Press) and Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry (Copper Canyon)\, about which\, Publisher’s Weekly writes “few poets capture the contradictions of our national life with as much sensitivity or keenness.” \nRansom Stephens is a scientist and novelist. In describing Ransom’s new book\, The Lancet Neurology said\, “Imagine a book all about hard science\, which is littered with metaphors and stories\, jokes and quips\, ideas and assumptions\, and crammed with knowledge. Ransom Stephens delivers this medley and concoction in his latest book\, The Left Brain Speaks The Right Brain Laughs\,” from Viva Editions. He’s written hundreds of articles on subjects ranging from quantum physics to parenting teenagers and produces events for Litquake. His first novel\, The God Patent\, was “the first debut novel to emerge from the new paradigm of online publishing\,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle. His second novel\, The Sensory Deception\, puts readers in the points of view of endangered animals. His next two novels coming in 2018 are: The 99% Solution and Too Rich to Die. Dr. Stephens is a beer-drinking\, cussing\, Raider fan.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-singularities/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Janelle Brown
DESCRIPTION:Who do you want people to think you are? \nBay Area-native Janelle Brown celebrates the release of her propulsive new novel\, Watch Me Disappear. \nA year after Billie Flannigan a Berkeley mom with an enviable life goes missing on a hike\, the husband and daughter she leaves behind struggle to maintain the illusion of normal life. Meanwhile\, alcohol and depression\, and loose ends that just don’t make sense erode the foundations of the life they once had. \nBrown\, the bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted and This is Where We Live\, does it again with a heart-stopping new novel that will leave you breathless. \nWith by-lines in nationally syndicated magazines across the country including Vogue\, Elle\, Wired\, and Self\, Brown is an unstoppable force. Her work has been lauded by The San Francisco Chronicle\, the Los Angeles Times\, and more. Join us as we toast one of the Bay Area’s own on the release of her explosive new book!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/janelle-brown/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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