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SUMMARY:Literary Luncheon: Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
DESCRIPTION:The Nest is a warm\, funny and acutely perceptive debut novel about four adult siblings and the fate of the shared inheritance that has shaped their choices and their lives \nEvery family has its problems. But even among the most troubled\, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonably cold afternoon in New York City as Melody\, Beatrice\, and Jack Plumb gather to confront their charismatic and reckless older brother\, Leo\, freshly released from rehab. Months earlier\, an inebriated Leo got behind the wheel of a car with a nineteen-year-old waitress as his passenger. The ensuing accident has endangered the Plumbs’ joint trust fund\, “The Nest\,” which they are months away from finally receiving. Meant by their deceased father to be a modest mid-life supplement\, the Plumb siblings have watched The Nest’s value soar along with the stock market and have been counting on the money to solve a number of self-inflicted problems. \nMelody\, a wife and mother in an upscale suburb\, has an unwieldy mortgage and looming college tuition for her twin teenage daughters. Jack\, an antiques dealer\, has secretly borrowed against the beach cottage he shares with his husband\, Walker\, to keep his store open. And Bea\, a once-promising short-story writer\, just can’t seem to finish her overdue novel. Can Leo rescue his siblings and\, by extension\, the people they love? Or will everyone need to reimagine the futures they’ve envisioned? Brought together as never before\, Leo\, Melody\, Jack\, and Beatrice must grapple with old resentments\, present-day truths\, and the significant emotional and financial toll of the accident\, as well as finally acknowledge the choices they have made in their own lives. \nThis is a story about the power of family\, the possibilities of friendship\, the ways we depend upon one another and the ways we let one another down. In this tender\, entertaining\, and deftly written debut\, Sweeney brings a remarkable cast of characters to life to illuminate what money does to relationships\, what happens to our ambitions over the course of time\, and the fraught yet unbreakable ties we share with those we love. \nCynthia D’Aprix Sweeney lives in Los Angeles with her husband and children. She has an MFA from Bennington.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-lincheon-cynthia-daprix-sweeney/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Khaled Hosseini + Ellen Grace
DESCRIPTION:The times we live in require us to develop a literacy of the heart – a deeper quality of listening\, discerning\, and connecting heart to heart and soul to soul. Literature itself\, both poetry and prose\, plays a timeless role in awakening our hearts to deeper truths we may otherwise miss. \nAuthor Khaled Hosseini and Poet Ellen Grace O’Brian will talk about the ways reading\, writing\, and listening can bring forth profound questions\, surprising graces\, and the palpable presence of radical hope. Khaled will read selections from “And the Mountains Echoed\,” and Ellen will read from her recently released award-winning book of poems\, “The Moon Reminded Me.” \nPlease join us for this special evening as one of our favorite novelists introduces us to one of his favorite poets! \nYogacharya Rev. Ellen Grace O’Brian is a poet\, teacher\, writer\, and spiritual director of the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment in San Jose\, California. Khaled Hosseini is the award winning author of “Kite Runner”\, “And the Mountains Echoed” and “A Thousand Splendid Suns.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/khaled-hosseini-ellen-grace/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Hand to Mouth/WORDS Spoken OUT #85
DESCRIPTION:Calling all geeks! We have sci fi/fantasy writers in the house again! Join us in welcoming Loren Rhoads and S.G. Browne. \nLoren Rhoads is the author of The Dangerous Type\, Kill By Numbers\, and No More Heroes: the In the Wake of the Templars trilogy. She’s the co-author of the As Above\, So Below series with Brian Thomas. In her secret life\, she’s a cemetery aficionado. Her book 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die will be out in October. You can keep an eye on her atlorenrhoads.com. \nS.G. Browne is the author of Less Than Hero\, Big Egos\, Lucky Bastard\, Fated\, and Breathers\, as well as the short story collection Shooting Monkeys in a Barrel and the heartwarming holiday novella I Saw Zombies Eating Santa Claus. He lives in San Francisco. You can learn more about his writing at www.sgbrowne.com. \nWe will have light refreshments\, and our popular open mic after our features read. Also\, our partnership with neighborhood restaurants continue with a discount on the evening of the reading. Come in early if you want to grab a bite before the reading! \nParticipating restaurants are: \nWhipper Snapper– $3.00 Glass of Sangria\, or $3.00 off a pitcher. \nCafe Arrivederci– 10% off dinner. \nLotus Chaat and Spices– 10% off dinner. \nThe Mayflower Pub– 25% off dinner.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hand-to-mouthwords-spoken-out-85/
LOCATION:Rebound Bookstore\, 1611 4th Street\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170327T190000
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SUMMARY:Terry Tarnoff
DESCRIPTION:It was a different time in a different world. Terry Tarnoff spent eight years during the 1970s traveling throughout Europe\, Africa and Asia. It was the early days of exploring what were to become legendary spots on the traveler’s trail. Whether playing the clubs of Amsterdam\, skirting the Yakuza in Japan\, surviving the winters of Kathmandu\, or forming a band in Goa\, India\, Terry’s adventures are alternately engrossing\, hilarious and deeply moving. The Reflectionist is Tarnoff’s long-awaited follow-up to The Bone Man of Benares\, a highly acclaimed book and play that told the first half of the story. This new work continues the tale\, adding new meaning as it looks back from the perspective of modern times upon a period that continues to fascinate people of all generations across the globe. \nTerry Tarnoff was born in Rice Lake\, Wisconsin\, a small town in the northern United States. His family later moved to Milwaukee where\, at the age of twelve\, he became a cub reporter for The Northwest Reporter. He was paid a penny a word to write phony letters to the editor to help fill out a half-empty newspaper. He attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison during the political upheaval of the 1960s\, worked at the East Side Bookstore in New York’s East Village during the Summer of Love\, lived for several years in Berkeley\, then headed for Europe\, where he supported himself as a blues musician\, playing harmonica in bands from London to Amsterdam to Stockholm. \nSoon after\, he hooked up with an international brigade of travelers–a new generation of expatriates who took their cues from Henry Miller\, Paul Bowles and Jack Kerouac as they pushed further down the road. That road led to the coast of Kenya and the plains of Tanzania\, to the deserts of India and the mountains of Nepal\, to the war-torn villages of Laos and the islands of Indonesia. Along the way\, Terry explored the mysteries of Hinduism and Buddhism\, played with an African band in Mombasa\, performed as a singer-guitarist in the Far East\, and was a founding member of a rock band in Goa\, India. After eight years on the road\, he returned to San Francisco in 1978\, where he continued his musical career for several years before turning to writing. He has since worked as a screenwriter\, taught two film courses\, driven a taxi\, managed an African art gallery\, and written for an internet film site. \nTerry’s first book\, The Bone Man of Benares\, was published in the U.S. by St. Martin’s Press in 2004. It was subsequently published by Bantam Books in the U.K.\, by Allen & Unwin Publishers in Australia\, and has been translated into Italian\, Japanese\, and Chinese. The book was reprinted in the U.S. by Avian Press in 2013. A one-man show adapted from The Bone Man of Benares was produced shortly after its initial publication by the Encore Theatre Company in San Francisco\, where it had a very successful six-week run. The book and play were soon thereafter optioned for a feature film in Hollywood. Terry’s last three books\, The Thousand Year Journey of Tobias Parker\, The Chronicle of Stolen Dreams\, and The Reflectionist\, have been published by Avian Press. Terry lives in San Francisco with his wife\, artist Tina Tarnoff.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/terry-tarnoff/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Michael Finkel
DESCRIPTION:For readers of Jon Krakauer and The Lost City of Z\, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit is a remarkable tale of survival and solitude—the true story of a man who lived alone in a tent in the Maine woods\, never talking to another person and surviving by stealing supplies from nearby cabins for twenty-seven years. \nIn 1986\, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts\, drove to Maine\, and disappeared into the woods. He would not have a conversation with another human being until nearly three decades later when he was arrested for stealing food. Living in a tent even in winter\, he had survived by his wits and courage\, developing ingenious ways to store food and water\, to avoid freezing to death. He broke into nearby cottages for food\, clothes\, reading material\, and other provisions\, taking only what he needed\, but terrifying a community never able to solve the mysterious burglaries. Based on extensive interviews with Knight himself\, this is a vividly detailed account of the why and how of his secluded life—as well as the challenges he has faced returning to the world. A riveting story of survival that asks fundamental questions about solitude\, community\, and what makes a good life\, and a deeply moving portrait of a man who was determined to live his own way\, and succeeded. \nMichael Finkel is the author of True Story: Murder\, Memoir\, Mea Culpa\, which was adapted into a 2015 major motion picture. He has written for National Geographic\, GQ\, Rolling Stone\, Esquire\, Vanity Fair\, The Atlantic\, and The New York Times Magazine. He lives in western Montana.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-finkel/
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:20170322T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170322T213000
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SUMMARY:Arisa White
DESCRIPTION:Arisa White is a Cave Canem fellow and a faculty advisor in the low-residency BFA Creative Writing Program at Goddard College. White’s debut collection\, Hurrah’s Nest\, was a finalist for the 2013 Wheatley Book Awards\, the 82nd California Book Awards\, and nominated for the 44th NAACP Image Award. A Penny Saved\, inspired by the true-life story of Polly Mitchell\, was published in 2012. Forthcoming is the full-length collection You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/arisa-white/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170316T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170316T213000
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SUMMARY:John Murillo + Javier Zamora
DESCRIPTION:John Murillo is the author of the poetry collection\, Up Jump the Boogie\, finalist for both the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Pen Open Book Award. His honors include a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference\, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, Cave Canem Foundation\, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. He teaches at Hampshire College and New York University. \nJavier Jose 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 the 2016 Barnes and Noble Writer for Writer’s Award\, his poems appear or are forthcoming in APR\, Ploughshares\, Poetry\, The Kenyon Review\, The New Republic\, and elsewhere. His first poetry collection is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press Fall 2017.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-murillo-javier-zamora/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170313T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170313T200000
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SUMMARY:Dan Chaon
DESCRIPTION:Two sensational unsolved crimes one in the past\, another in the present are linked by one man’s memory and self-deception in this chilling novel of literary suspense from National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon. \nWe are always telling a story to ourselves\, about ourselves. This is one of the little mantras Dustin Tillman likes to share with his patients\, and it’s meant to be reassuring. But what if that story is a lie? \nA psychologist in suburban Cleveland\, Dustin is drifting through his forties when he hears the news: His adopted brother\, Rusty\, is being released from prison. Thirty years ago\, Rusty received a life sentence for the massacre of Dustin’s parents\, aunt\, and uncle. The trial came to epitomize the 1980s hysteria over Satanic cults; despite the lack of physical evidence\, the jury believed the outlandish accusations Dustin and his cousin made against Rusty. Now\, after DNA analysis hasoverturned the conviction\, Dustin braces for a reckoning. \nMeanwhile\, one of Dustin’s patients has been plying him with stories of the drowning deaths of a string of drunk college boys. At first Dustin dismisses his patient’s suggestions that a serial killer is at work as paranoid thinking\, but as the two embark on an amateur investigation\, Dustin starts to believe that there’s more to the deaths than coincidence. Soon he becomes obsessed\, crossing all professional boundaries and putting his own family in harm’s way. \nFrom one of today’s most renowned practitioners of literary suspense\, Ill Will is an intimate thriller about the failures of memory and the perils of self-deception. In Dan Chaon’s nimble\, chilling prose\, the past looms over the present\, turning each into a haunted place. \nDan Chaon is the acclaimed author of Among the Missing\, which was a finalist for the National Book Award; You Remind Me of Me\, which was named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post\, San Francisco Chronicle\, and Entertainment Weekly\, among other publications; Await Your Reply\, which was a New York Times Notable Book and appeared on more than a dozen best-of-the-year lists; and Stay Awake. Chaon’s fiction has been published in many journals and anthologies\, including The Best American Short Stories\, Pushcart Prize\, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. He has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction\, and he was the recipient of the 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Chaon lives in Cleveland\, Ohio\, and teaches at Oberlin College\, where he is the Pauline M. Delaney Professor of Creative Writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dan-chaon/
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:20170308T190000
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SUMMARY:Peter Heller
DESCRIPTION:From Peter Heller\, the bestselling author of The Dog Stars and The Painter\, comes Celine\, a luminous\, masterful novel of suspense and the story of an elegant\, aristocratic private eye who specializes in reuniting families\, trying to make amends for a loss in her own past. \nWorking out of her jewel box of an apartment at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge\, Celine has made a career of tracking down missing persons\, and she has a better record at it than the FBI. But when a young woman\, Gabriela\, asks for her help\, a world of mystery and sorrow opens up. Gabriela’s father was a photographer who went missing on the border of Montana and Wyoming. He was assumed to have died from a grizzly mauling\, but his body was never found. Now\, as Celine and her partner head to Yellowstone National Park\, investigating a trail gone cold\, it becomes clear that they are being followed—that this is a case someone desperately wants to keep closed. Combining the exquisite plotting and gorgeous evocation of nature that have become his hallmark\, with a wildly engrossing story of family\, privilege\, and childhood loss\, Peter Heller gives us his finest work to date. \nPeter Heller is the bestselling author of The Painter and The Dog Stars. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in both fiction and poetry. An award-winning adventure writer and a longtime contributor to NPR\, Heller is a contributing editor at Outside magazine\, Men’s Journal\, and National Geographic Adventure\, and a regular contributor to Bloomberg Businessweek. He is also the author of several nonfiction books\, including Kook\, The Whale Warriors\, and Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet’s Tsangpo River. He lives in Denver\, Colorado.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-heller/
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:20170219T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170219T200000
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SUMMARY:Emily Fridlund
DESCRIPTION:A BEA Buzz Book Selection and one of the most daring literary debuts of the season\, History of Wolves is a profound and propulsive novel from an urgent\, new voice in American fiction \n“So delicately calibrated and precisely beautiful that one might not immediately sense the sledgehammer of pain building inside this book. And I mean that in the best way. What powerful tension and depth this provides!”—Aimee Bender \nFourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in the beautiful\, austere woods of northern Minnesota\, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as a last vestige of a lost counter-culture world. Isolated at home and an outlander at school\, Linda is drawn to the enigmatic\, attractive Lily and new history teacher Mr. Grierson. When Mr. Grierson is charged with possessing child pornography\, the implications of his arrest deeply affect Linda as she wrestles with her own fledgling desires and craving to belong. \nAnd then the young Gardner family moves in across the lake and Linda finds herself welcomed into their home as a babysitter for their little boy\, Paul. It seems that her life finally has purpose but with this new sense of belonging she is also drawn into secrets she doesn’t understand. Over the course of a few days\, Linda makes a set of choices that reverberate throughout her life. As she struggles to find a way out of the sequestered world into which she was born\, Linda confronts the life-and-death consequences of the things people do—and fail to do—for the people they love. \nWinner of the McGinnis-Ritchie award for its first chapter\, Emily Fridlund’s propulsive and gorgeously written History of Wolves introduces a new writer of enormous range and talent. \nEmily Fridlund grew up in Minnesota and currently resides in the Finger Lakes region of New York. Her fiction has appeared in a variety of journals\, including Boston Review\, Zyzzyva\, Five Chapters\, New Orleans Review\, Sou’wester\, New Delta Review\, Chariton Review\, The Portland Review\, and Painted Bride Quarterly. She holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. Fridlund’s collection of stories\, Catapult\, was a finalist for the Noemi Book Award for Fiction and the Tartts First Fiction Award. It won the Mary McCarthy Prize and will be published by Sarabande in 2017. The opening chapter of History of Wolves was published in Southwest Review and won the 2013 McGinnis-Ritchie Award for Fiction.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emily-fridlund/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Gerald Fleming + Lynne Knight
DESCRIPTION:Gerald Fleming’s new book\, One\, will appear in fall from Hanging Loose Press in New York. His other books are The Choreographer\, longer prose poems (Sixteen Rivers Press\, San Francisco)\, Night of Pure Breathing\, prose poems (Hanging Loose)\, and Swimmer Climbing onto Shore (Sixteen Rivers). He’s also written three books for teachers\, including Rain\, Steam\, and Speed (Jossey-Bass/Wiley). His work has appeared in many magazines over the decades\, including New Letters\, Western Humanities Review\, Carolina Quarterly\, New World Writing\, Hanging Loose\, and many others. Between 1995 and 2000 he edited and published the literary magazine Barnabe Mountain Review\, and currently edits the limited-edition vitreous magazine One (More) Glass. Fleming taught in the San Francisco Public Schools for thirty-seven years\, and lives most of the year in Northern California\, part of the year in Paris. \nLynne Knight is the award-winning author of four full-length collections\, the most recent of which is Again\, published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2009. Her work has appeared in a number of journals\, including Beloit Poetry Journal\, Kenyon Review\, New England Review\, Ontario Review\, Poetry\, and Southern Review. Her awards and honors include publication in Best American Poetry\, the Prix de l’Alliance Française 2006\, a PSA Lucille Medwick Memorial Award\, the 2009 RATTLE Prize\, and an NEA grant. I Know (Je sais)\, her translation with the author Ito Naga of his Je sais\, appeared in 2013.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gerald-fleming-lynne-knight/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170216T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170216T203000
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SUMMARY:Story Is the Thing: Kepler’s Quarterly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the second installment of the Story Is the Thing\, Kepler’s quarterly reading series on the theme That Electrifying Moment. \nJeanne Althouse‘s  flash fiction and longer stories have appeared in various literary journals and anthologies\, including Matter Press\, Shenandoah\, Pif Magazine\, Pindeldyboz \, Madison Review\, Hawaii Review\, the MacGuffin\, Red Rock Review\, Referential\, and Jewel\, a publication of Gray Sparrow Press. Her story\, “Goran Holds his Breath” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. An early draft of her first novel was finalist in the Augury Books Editor’s Prize. \nAngela Pneuman is the author of the novel Lay It on My Heart and the short story collection Home Remedies. She is a former Stegner fellow at Stanford\, where she has taught creative writing since 2001. Her fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories\, New England Review\, Ploughshares\, Iowa Review\, and many other literary journals. Recently she joined the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference as its executive director. \nShobha Rao is the author of the collection of short stories\, An Unrestored Woman\, published in March 2016. Kirkus Reviews called An Unrestored Woman “stunning and relentless.” She is the winner of the 2014 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction. She has been a resident at Hedgebrook and is the recipient of the Elizabeth George Foundation fellowship. Her story “Kavitha and Mustafa” was chosen by T.C. Boyle for inclusion in the Best American Short Stories 2015. She lives in San Francisco. \nTanya Rey‘s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Granta\, The Nervous Breakdown\, McSweeney’s\, Catapult and others. She holds an MFA degree in fiction from New York University and has received fellowships from the San Francisco Writers Grotto\, Hambidge Center for the Arts\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, the Rona Jaffe Foundation\, UCross Foundation and Blue Mountain Center. She lives and writes in Oakland\, CA. \nRick Trushel tutors recent immigrants from Mexico and Guatemala\, helping them improve their spoken and written language skills. Recently he’s had short pieces published at 101 Words and The SUN magazine. He likes to procrastinate\, as he erroneously believes his writing improves when he does this. \nGenanne Walsh is the author of Twister\, awarded the Big Moose Prize for the Novel from Black Lawrence Press. Twister was also a finalist for the 2016 Housatonic Book Award in Fiction. Excerpts appeared in Puerto del Sol\, Blackbird\, and Red Earth Review. She lives in San Francisco with her wife and dogs. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nJames Warner‘s short stories have appeared in ZYZZYVA\, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine\, Santa Monica Review\, Mid-American Review\, Narrative\, and many other literary magazines. He is also the author of All Her Father’s Guns\, a novel from Numina Press which satirized U.S. politics back in the days when that was even possible.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/story-is-the-thing-keplers-quarterly-reading-series/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170215T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170215T213000
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SUMMARY:Natalie Bazsile
DESCRIPTION:Natalie Baszile is the author of the novel\, Queen Sugar\, adapated for TV by writer/director Ava DuVernay of Selma and co-produced by Oprah Winfrey for the OWN network. Queen Sugar was named one of the San Francisco Chronicles’ Best Books of 2014\, was long-listed for the Crooks Corner Southern Book Prize\, and nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Baszile has a MA in Afro-American Studies from UCLA\, and an MFA from Warren Wilson College’s Program for Writers. She lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/natalie-bazsile/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170210T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170210T220000
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CREATED:20170131T050727Z
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit
DESCRIPTION:Red Light Lit is back at the fabulous h2hotel in Healdsburg\, CA for a pre-Valentine’s Day celebration. The show will feature writers Dani Burlison\,Scott Keneally\, Sarah Kobrinsky alongside live musical scoring by David Williams and musical guests Jeremi Rebecca Hush and Kristopher Taylor Hush from Kinda Hush. \nMake a night of it. Dine at h2hotel’s acclaimed Contemporary American restaurant Spoonbar before the show for a special 3-course tasting menu from Co-Executive Chefs Casey and Patrick Van Voorhis for $36. \nRed Light Lit’s a collective of writers and musicians who explore love relationships and sexuality through spoken word and song.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit/
LOCATION:h2hotel\, 219 Healdsburg\, Healdsburg\, CA\, 95448\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170206T190000
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CREATED:20170114T062647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170120T033013Z
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SUMMARY:Left Coast Writers: Andy Ross
DESCRIPTION:Left Coast Writers® Salon featuring Andy Ross\, literary agent and founder of the Andy Ross Literary Agency.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/left-coast-writers-andy-ross/
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:20170125T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170125T210000
DTSTAMP:20260412T191958
CREATED:20170113T132101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T132101Z
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SUMMARY:Get Lit Reading Series: New Year Edition
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-reading-series-new-year-edition/
LOCATION:Corkscrew Wine Bar\, 100 Petaluma Blvd N #103\, Petaluma\, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170120T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170120T120000
DTSTAMP:20260412T191958
CREATED:20170113T080730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T060644Z
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SUMMARY:A Day of Affirmation
DESCRIPTION:The Rebound Bookstore invites one and all\, to come together\non Friday\, January 20th\, 2017\nat 1611 4th Street\, San Rafael \nFrom 10 in the Morning until 12:00 Noon\nto a communal reading of the Constitution of the United States. \n(Copies available in the store) \nAnd a positive discussion thereafter on means of defending the Republic. \nAll who want to read may choose a section. \nRSVP to reboundbookstore@aol.com\nOr select a paragraph when you arrive. \nThere will be coffee\, and doughnuts\, courtesy of Johnny Doughnuts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-day-of-affirmation/
LOCATION:Rebound Bookstore\, 1611 4th Street\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170119T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170119T213000
DTSTAMP:20260412T191958
CREATED:20160908T000328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160908T000356Z
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SUMMARY:Julia Levine + C. Dale Young
DESCRIPTION:Julia Levine has won numerous awards for her work\, including the 2015 Northern California Book Award in Poetry for her latest collection\, Small Disasters Seen in Sunlight\, (LSU press 2014) as well as the 2003 Tampa Review Prize for her collection\, Ask; the 1998 Anhinga Poetry Prize and bronze medal from Foreword magazine for her first collection\, Practicing for Heaven\, as well as a Neruda Award from Nimrod\, and a Discovery/The Nation award. Widely published\, her work has been anthologized in The Places That Inhabit Us\, The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry\, and The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry. She received a PhD in clinical psychology from UC Berkeley\, and lives and works in Davis\, California. \nC. Dale Young practices medicine full-time and teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. He is the author of four collections of poetry\, the most recent being Torn (Four Way Books 2011) and The Halo (Four Way Books\, 2016). His linked collection of short stories\,The Affliction\, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in early 2018. He is a recipient of fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation\, and the Rockefeller Foundation.\nHis poetry and short fiction have appeared in many anthologies and magazines\, including The Best American Poetry\, Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation\, American Poetry Review\,The Atlantic Monthly\, The Nation\, The New Republic\, The Paris Review\, and POETRY. He lives in San Francisco with his spouse the biologist and composer\, Jacob Bertrand.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julia-levine-c-dale-young/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170112T191500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170112T211500
DTSTAMP:20260412T191958
CREATED:20161223T025115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T025115Z
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words: 7th Anniversary
DESCRIPTION:Why There Are Words will celebrate its 7th anniversary Jan. 12\, 2017! “Lucky Seven + One to Grow On” will feature the following eight acclaimed authors who’ve appeared at WTAW over the past seven years. Additionally\, the publishing arm\, WTAW Press will announce the selection of the first two titles it will publish in 2017. AND\, we’ll toast the launch of WTAW’s national neighborhood of readings in New York City\, Los Angeles\, Pittsburgh\, Portland and Austin\, set to begin in February. Join us at Studio 333 in Sausalito. Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10 (cash or check). \nAfghan-American author Tamim Ansary wrote West of Kabul\, East of New York\, San Francisco’s  “One City One Book” selection for 2008\, as well as the best-selling Destiny Disrupted\, A history of the world through Islamic Eyes. His latest book\, Road Trips\, is about dropping out of a society he wasn’t even a part of.  He lives with his wife Deborah and his cat Raoul in San Francisco\, where he teaches memoir writing workshops dedicated to the proposition that if no one remembers it\, it didn’t happen. His work-in-progress is a meta-history of the world: Ripple Effects\, How we all came to be so interconnected and why we’re still fighting. He hopes that if writing it doesn’t kill him\, it will make him stronger. \nRebecca Foust’s most recent book\, Paradise Drive\, won the Press 53 Poetry Award and is nominated for the 2016 Poets’ Prize. It was widely reviewed\, in the Georgia Review\, Harvard Review\, Hudson Review\, Philadelphia Inquirer\, San Francisco Chronicle and elsewhere. Recognitions include the American Literary Review Fiction Award\, the James Hearst Poetry Prize\, and fellowships from the Frost Place\, MacDowell\, and Sewanee. \nJoan Frank is the author of six books of fiction\, and a book of collected essays. Her new novel\, All the News I Need\, won the 2016 Juniper Prize for Fiction\, and will be published next month (February 2017) by the University of Massachusetts Press. (Yes\, it is possible to pre-order\, and Joan will be thrilled and wildly grateful if you do.) Her last novel\, Make It Stay\, won the Dana Portfolio Award; her last story collection\, In Envy Country\, won the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction\, the ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award\, and was named a finalist for the California Book Award. Her last book of collected essays\, Because You Have To: A Writing Life\, also won the ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award. Joan holds an MFA in Fiction from Warren Wilson College in Asheville\, NC. Recipient of many grants\, fellowships and literary honors\, Joan is also a frequent reviewer of literary fiction for the San Francisco Chronicle. She lives in the North Bay Area of California. \nEvan and Miles Karp are Turk & Divis\, an intersection where chance\, rhythm\, and processed repetition collide with modified fragments of language to form serendipitous anthems and intimate\, often polyvocal meditations inside of those anthems. Old school samples and some of tomorrow’s most unusual hits @ turkanddivis.bandcamp.com. Evan is also the mastermind behind Quiet Lightning and Litseen. \nKate Milliken’s debut collection of stories\, If I’d Known You Were Coming\, won the John Simmons Award for Short Fiction\, judged by Julie Orringer\, and was published by the University of Iowa Press. The recipient of fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center\, Tin House\, Yaddo\, and several pushcart nominations\, Kate’s stories have appeared in Zyzzyva\, Fiction\, and the Santa Monica Review\, among others. In 2009\, Kate and her family moved from Los Angeles to the suburban wilds of Mill Valley\, where they knew almost no one. Soon after\, in search of a writing community\, Kate wrote to an instructor she found online. That instructor was Peg Alford Pursell. \nJoshua Mohr is the author of five novels\, including Damascus\, which The New York Times called “Beat-poet cool.”  He’s also written Fight Song and Some Things that Meant the World to Me\, one of O Magazine’s Top 10 reads of 2009 and a San Francisco Chronicle best-seller\, as well as Termite Parade\, an Editors’ Choice in The New York Times. His novel All This Life won the Northern California Book Award. His first book of nonfiction\, a memoir called Sirens\, is out this January 2017. \nNaomi J. Williams is the author of Landfalls (FSG 2015)\, long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award. Her short fiction has appeared in journals such as Zoetrope: All-Story\, A Public Space\, One Story\, The Southern Review\, and The Gettysburg Review. A five-time Pushcart Prize nominee and one-time winner\, Naomi has an MA in Creative Writing from UC Davis. Naomi was born in Japan and spoke no English until she was six years old. Today she lives in Davis\, California\, where she teaches creative writing and serves as co-director of the literary series Stories on Stage Davis. She’s hard at work on new writing projects\, including a novel about the early 20th-century Japanese poet Yosano Akiko. \nOlga Zilberbourg was born in St. Petersburg\, Russia and moved to the United States at the age of seventeen. In 2016\, her third book of fiction in Russian was published in Moscow-based Vremya Press. Olga’s English-language fiction has appeared in and is forthcoming from Alaska Quarterly Review\, World Literature Today\, Feminist Studies\, California Prose Directory\, Narrative Magazine\, Santa Monica Review\, and other print and online publications. Olga serves as a consulting editor at Narrative Magazine and is a co-moderator of the San Francisco Writers Workshop.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-7th-anniversary/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170110T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170110T203000
DTSTAMP:20260412T191958
CREATED:20161223T035102Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T035102Z
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SUMMARY:Janie Chang
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the launch of award-winning author Janie Chang’s new novel\, Dragon Springs Road. Set in 20th Century Shanghai\, Dragon Springs Road is the heartbreaking story of Jialing\, a seven-year-old girl abandoned at the doorstep of a once-lavish estate. Growing-up an orphan and an outsider amidst a fallen family’s crumbling wealth\, Jialing is consumed by a friendship both toxic and essential to her survival. \nJanie grew up listening to stories about ancestors who encountered dragons\, ghosts\, and  immortals\, and about life in a small Chinese town in the years before the Second World War. She is a graduate of The Writers Studio at Simon Fraser University. Her first novel\, Three Souls\, was short-listed for the BC Book Prizes Fiction award and nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. \nBorn in Taiwan\, Janie has lived in the Philippines\, Iran\, Thailand\, and New Zealand.  She now lives in beautiful Vancouver\, Canada.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/janie-chang/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161207T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161207T213000
DTSTAMP:20260412T191958
CREATED:20161101T015306Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161101T015306Z
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SUMMARY:West Side Stories Petaluma: The GrandSlam
DESCRIPTION:Tell everyone you know…\nSo what is the GrandSlam???\n13 Real People\, Telling Extraordinary (True) Stories\, About Their Real Life.\nOne walks away with this year’s title.\nJoin us for our 4th Annual GrandSlam\nDecember 7th\nShow starts at 7:30pm (doors open @ 6:30pm). Last year it was standing room only at The Mystic Theater.\nSo get your tickets now.\nHalf this year’s tickets will be sold on Brown Paper Tickets and the other half on The Mystic’s website http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=6961645&pl=mystic\nBut you can get them here til they’re gone http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2641812\nSo go ahead tell your family\, your friends\, ah what the heck tell people you don’t even like\, (the room is big enough you won’t have to sit near them) and you’re gonna want to say you were there to crown this champion.\nAnd the audience will choose this year’s champ…\nThe audience votes to decide the winner!\nWho knows next year it could be you\nBecause everybody’s got a story.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/west-side-stories-petaluma-the-grandslam/
LOCATION:Mystic Theatre\, 23 Petaluma Blvd N\, Petaluma \, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161206T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161206T213000
DTSTAMP:20260412T191958
CREATED:20160922T005006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160922T005006Z
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SUMMARY:Warren Ellis w/ Robin Sloan
DESCRIPTION:A Drop of Whiskey with Warren Ellis \nCome join us for a drink with the award-winning writer Warren Ellis to celebrate the publication of his thrilling new book\, Normal. After futurist Adam Dearden has a nervous breakdown in Rotterdam\, hes brought to a secluded recovery center in rural Oregon. As someone who stares into the abyss for a living\, Adam sees things that other cannot. As he finds himself caught between factions at Normal Head Research Station\, strange events start to overtake even the people who job is to predict the future. This crackling horror story was originally published as four digital originals and is collected in print here for the first time. Come join us for a very rare\, very limited event with one of the genres rarest talents. \nEach ticket includes one seat at the event\, one copy of Normal\, one beverage\, and a place in the signing line. The author will sign his prose novels\, but no graphic novels or memorabilia. \nRobin Sloan is the author of the best-selling novel “Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore.” He splits his time between San Francisco and the internet. \nWarren Ellis is the award-winning writer of the new novella Normal\, as well as the bestselling novels “Gun Machine” and “Crooked Little Vein” and the short story Dead Pig Collector\, which was read by Wil Wheaton for the audiobook. He publishes two very weird newsletters\, Morning Computer and Orbital Operations\, which give fans insight into his working process. Readers also know him from  graphic novels like “Transmetropolitan\,” “Fell\,” “Global Frequency” and “Planetary\,” as well as the movies Red and Iron Man 3\, which were adapted from his works. He is currently working on a non-fiction book about the future of cities. A documentary about his work\, “Captured Ghosts\,” was released in 2012. He lives on the southeast coast of England\, way out on the Thames Delta. \nTicket Information: \n$25.00 — This includes one hardcover copy of “Normal” \nThe book will be available for pickup\, and for sale\, at the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/warren-ellis-w-robin-sloan/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161130T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161130T210000
DTSTAMP:20260412T191958
CREATED:20161129T055241Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T055241Z
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SUMMARY:Hand To Mouth/WORDS SPOKEN OUT #84
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our last reading of the year as we welcome writers Angelika Quirk\, who reads from her just released book\, Unspooling\, and Melanie Maier. \nAngelika Quirk was born and raised in Hamburg\, Germany. She immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 18 and received a degree in German literature from UC Berkeley. Her poems have appeared in various literary magazines and anthologies. She has published three books: After Sirens\, Of Ruins and Rumors\, and Unspooling which was published this year. Two of her books have been accepted for the library of the German American Heritage Museum\, in Washington DC. \nMelanie Maier’s poetry has been published in the Southern California Review\, and South Carolina Review. Her first chapbook\, The Land of Us\, was published by Pudding House Press. She is the author of two other chap books\, Scattering Wind\, and Night Boats\, from Conflux Press. \nWe will have light refreshments\, including hot apple cider to keep out the chill\, and our popular open mic after our features read. Tell your friends to come by\, and share the magic of words and friends in our welcoming salon. Also\, our partnership with neighborhood restaurants continue with a discount on the evening of the reading. Come in early if you want to grab a bite before hand! \nParticipating restaurants are: \nWhipper Snapper– $3.00 Glass of Sangria\, or $3.00 off a pitcher. \nCafe Arrivederci– 10% off dinner. \nLotus Chaat and Spices– 10% off dinner. \nThe Mayflower Pub– 25% off dinner.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hand-to-mouthwords-spoken-out-84/
LOCATION:Rebound Bookstore\, 1611 4th Street\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161117T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161117T213000
DTSTAMP:20260412T191958
CREATED:20160908T000031Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160908T000031Z
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SUMMARY:Panel on Diversity in Literature: Inviting the Quieted Voices to Speak
DESCRIPTION:Come\, join Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong\, Danusha Lameris\, Susan Terris\, Amos White\, and Javier Zamora for a conversation about inclusiveness and humanity\, about diversity in its many forms\, about boundaries and fairness and political correctness. We want to discuss how we decide what to read\, who decides what gets published\, opinions about quotas\, appropriation\, identification\, and nepotism. We want to explore how we\, as literary citizens\, can read and edit and write toward learning something new\, how we can reach out to instead of away from those who are different from us.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/panel-on-diversity-in-literature-inviting-the-quieted-voices-to-speak/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161109T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161109T213000
DTSTAMP:20260412T191958
CREATED:20160922T002740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160922T002740Z
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SUMMARY:Juliana Spahr
DESCRIPTION:Juliana Spahr edits the book series Chain Links with Jena Osman and the collectively funded Subpress with nineteen other people and Commune Editions with Joshua Clover and Jasper Bernes. With David Buuck she wrote Army of Lovers. She has edited with Stephanie Young A Megaphone: Some Enactments\, Some Numbers\, and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulness of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism (Chain Links\, 2011)\, with Joan Retallack Poetry & Pedagogy: the Challenge of the Contemporary(Palgrave\, 2006)\, and with Claudia Rankine American Women Poets in the 21st Century(Wesleyan U P\, 2002). Her most recent book is That Winter the Wolf Came from Commune Editions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/juliana-spahr/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161101T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161101T213000
DTSTAMP:20260412T191958
CREATED:20160922T001813Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160922T001813Z
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SUMMARY:Lawrence Levy w/ Michal Lev-Ram
DESCRIPTION:The never-before-told story of Pixar’s improbable success. \n“Hi\, Lawrence?” the caller asked. “This is Steve Jobs. I saw your picture in a magazine a few years ago and thought we’d work together someday.” \nAfter Steve Jobs was unceremoniously dismissed from Apple\, he turned his attention to a little-known graphics art company that he owned called Pixar. Out of the blue\, he tracked down Harvard-trained Silicon Valley attorney\, Lawrence Levy\, to help him get Pixar on the right track. Working closely with Jobs and the entire Pixar team\, Levy helped produce a highly improbable roadmap that transformed the sleepy graphic art studio into one of Hollywood’s greatest success stories and one of the most prolific and profitable entertainment studios in modern history. \nAfter giving a talk about his experiences at Harvard\, Levy was encouraged by Lisa Brennan-Jobs (Steve Jobs’ daughter) to write this book. Come hear the inside scoop on how a tiny animation studio was transformed into an Academy Award-winning\, multibillion dollar empire from a leader who witnessed the events with his own eyes. \nLawrence Levy later left corporate life to study Eastern philosophy and meditation and their relevance to modern life. He lives in Palo Alto. \nMichal Lev-Ram\, based in Silicon Valley\, covers the technology and entertainment sectors for Fortune. She is also co-chair of MPW Next Gen\, an extension of the Most Powerful Women community convening the preeminent rising-star women leaders in business\, government\, philanthropy\, education\, and the arts\, and of Brainstorm TECH\, Fortune’s annual technology conference. Before joining Fortune\, Lev-Ram wrote for CNNMoney\, Fast Company\, Popular Science\, and was a staff writer at Business 2.0. She holds a degree in journalism from San Francisco State University\, and lives in Palo Alto.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lawrence-levy-w-michal-lev-ram/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161027T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161027T210000
DTSTAMP:20260412T191958
CREATED:20161018T001854Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T001854Z
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SUMMARY:Get Lit! October 2016 Edition
DESCRIPTION:Get Lit celebrates our last event of 2016 with special guest readers Dani Burlison\, Jacqueline Doyle and Megan Turner! Come cozy up with a glass of wine and listen to these storytellers! \nFollowing our guest readers\, we’ll have time for schmoozing\, buying books and drinks and then YOU can read on the open mic (3-5 minute limit). \n—–\n+ Dani Burlison is the author of “Dendrophilia and Other Social Taboos: True Stories\,” a collection of essays which first appeared in her McSweeney’s Internet Tendency column of the same name and “Lady Parts\,” which will be available soon from Pioneers Press. She has been a staff writer at a Bay Area alt-weekly\, a book reviewer for Los Angeles Review and a regular contributor at Chicago Tribune\, KQED Arts and The Rumpus. Her writing can also be found at WIRED\, Vice\, Utne\, Ploughshares\, Hip Mama Magazine\, Spirituality & Health Magazine\, Shareable\, Prick of the Spindle and more. She is an alumna of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers\, Lit Camp and the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference and has upcoming work in various online and print publications. Dani is currently finishing a collection of short stories and is working on her first novel. \n+ Jacqueline Doyle’s flash collection The Missing Girl (winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition) is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press. She has published flash in Quarter After Eight\, [PANK]\, Monkeybicycle\, Sweet\, Café Irreal\, The Pinch\, Nothing to Declare: A Guide to the Flash Sequence (White Pine Press\, 2016)\, and many online journals. She lives in the East Bay with her husband\, the writer Stephen D. Gutierrez\, and their son. \n+ Megan Turner graduated from the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2009. Her work has appeared in Rio Grande Review\, Spark\, Witness\, Grasslimb\, Atticus Review\, and others. Originally from Baltimore\, she grew up in Columbia\, Maryland and Harrogate\, England. She now lives and works in the Bay Area. For more information\, please visit: www.MeganRTurner.com. \n—–\n*NEW FOR 2016: Join hosts Dani Burlison and Kara Vernor the 4th Wednesday of January\, April\, July and October for the Get Lit reading series at Corkscrew Wine Bar in Petaluma! \nEach event features three guest readers with a short open mic immediately following. Authors will have books and other materials available to purchase. Corkscrew will have fantastic wine\, beer\, non-alcoholic beverages\, appetizers and desserts for sale at the bar\, as well. \nGet Lit is a free\, 21+ event
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-october-2016-edition/
LOCATION:Corkscrew Wine Bar\, 100 Petaluma Blvd N #103\, Petaluma\, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161020T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161020T213000
DTSTAMP:20260412T191958
CREATED:20160907T235702Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160907T235757Z
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SUMMARY:Michelle Bitting + Ewa Chrusciel
DESCRIPTION:Michelle Bitting’s first collection\, Good Friday Kiss (2008\, C&R Press) was chosen by Thomas Lux as the winner of the DeNovo First Book Award. Her second collection\, Notes to the Beloved (2012\, SPC Press)\, won the Sacramento Poetry Center Book Award and received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews. A third collection\, The Couple Who Fell to Earth (2016\, C&R Press)\, received a starred and featured review from Kirkus. She has won the Beyond Baroque Foundation\, Virginia Brendemuehl\, and Glimmer Train poetry contests and been a finalist for the Poet’s & Writer’s Magazine California Exchange\, the Rona Jaffe Foundation\, the Julia Peterkin\, among others – and most recently\, The Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize (2016). Michelle’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review\, Prairie Schooner\, The Paris-American\, Narrative\, River Styx\, The L.A. Weekly\, Crab Orchard Review\, Rattle\, diode\, Linebreak\, among many others. Individual poems have been featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily and have been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net prizes. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University\, Oregon. Michelle is currently pursuing a Ph.D in Mythological Studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute. \nEwa Chruscielhas three books in Polish: Furkot \, Sopilki\, and Tobolek\, and two books in English: Strata\, which won the 2009 international book contest and was published with Emergency Press in 2011\, and Contraband of Hoopoe (Omnidawn\, 2014). Her poems have appeared in many books and magazines in Poland\, England\, Italy\, and the United States\, including Jubilat\, Boston Review\, Colorado Review\, Lana Turner\, Spoon River Review\, Aufgabe. She has translated Jack London\, Joseph Conrad\, I.B. Singer as well as some contemporary American poets into Polish. She is an associate professor of humanities at Colby-Sawyer College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michelle-bitting-ewa-chrusciel/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161017T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161017T213000
DTSTAMP:20260412T191958
CREATED:20160901T013147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160901T013147Z
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SUMMARY:Shilpi Somaya Gowda w/ Shobha Rao
DESCRIPTION:You may know Shilpi from her New York Times bestselling debut\, Secret Daughter\, which has sold more than a million copies worldwide in over 30 countries and languages and is based on her time volunteering in an Indian orphanage. An advisor on the Childrens Defense Fund and a patron of Childhaven International\, Shilpi holds an MBA from Stanford University. \nHer second novel\, The Golden Son\, is about Anil Patel\, the first of his family to go to college.  It is a story of family\, responsibility\, love\, honor\, tradition\, and identity\, in which two childhood friendsa young doctor and a newly married bridemust balance the expectations of their culture and their families with the desires of their own hearts. \nShobha Rao is the author of the debut story collection “An Unrestored Woman.” Shobha moved to the US from India at the age of seven. She is the winner of the 2014 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction\, and her story Kavitha and Mustafa was chosen by TC Boyle for inclusion in the Best American Short Stories 2015. \nThis event is presented in partnership with India Currents.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shilpi-somaya-gowda-w-shobha-rao/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161009T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161009T170000
DTSTAMP:20260412T191958
CREATED:20160901T005157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160901T005157Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Parks 2016
DESCRIPTION:Quiet Lightning\, California State Parks\, and Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy present Poetry in Parks 2016\, a free\, daylong festival in the historic Cushing Memorial-Mountain Theater in Mt. Tamalpais State Park celebrating Quiet Lightning’s 100th show\, the centennial of the National Parks\, and the connection between the wilderness experience and the inspiration parks provide to everyone. \nFeatured readers include Dana Gioia\, Kay Ryan\, Jane Hirshfield\, Alejandro Murguía\, Kim Stanley Robinson\, and Matthew Zapruder\, with Barbara Jane Reyes\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Brynn Saito\, Arisa White\, Charlie Getter\, and Andrew Paul Nelson; a submission-based literary mixtape; youth poetry readings curated by Marin County Poet Laureate Prartho Sereno\, and performances by San Francisco’s Classical Revolution and postmodern dance pioneer Anna Halprin. Includes children’s activities\, local food and beverage booths. For full lineup\, free shuttle service\, directions\, and more info: quietlightning.org/tam.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-in-parks-2016/
LOCATION:Cushing Memorial-Mountain Theater\, Mount Tamalpais State Park\, East Ridgecrest Blvd\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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