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SUMMARY:You're Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose\, & Everything Goes
DESCRIPTION:$10 now or at the door.\nTickets available now: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1183879\nProceeds go to the future of YG2D.\n[If you’re unable to pay the entry fee\, please contact me.] \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes\nis a total open mic event\, with no set or featured performers\,\nbut only the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-2/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Writers Grotto: 3 Minute Reads
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fast-paced and irreverent evening as we showcase new work from the students of the famed San Francisco Grotto Writing Program. On consecutive Friday evenings fiction and nonfiction writers from Grotto classes will read their work—but only for 3 minutes each. Their instructors (Writers Grotto authors) will be enforcing the time limit! Join us for some wine\, fun\, and a lot of fresh new writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-writers-grotto-3-minute-reads/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cathy Arellano Book Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Join Cathy Arellano\, Korima Press and Galería de la Raza for a book release party and reading for Cathy’s new book published by Korima Press “Salvation on Mission Street.” \nBook description:\nThe poetry and prose in the collection explore the deep love instilled in a people for themselves and their homeland even as they battle loss in San Francisco’s Mission District. \nAuthor Bio:\nJust another Mexican lesbian writer from San Francisco’s Mission District\, Cathy Arellano grew up here in the late 1960s to early 80s surrounded by cousins\, aunts\, uncles\, and grandparents on her mother’s side. In 1983\, new owners evicted her mother from the flat they were renting\, and she passed away less than a year later. Arellano returned and taught youth in the neighborhood. “Salvation’s” poems and stories are her creative offering to a people and place she loves. \nReader Bios:\nEstela de la Cruz is a poet who lives in San Francisco. She has a BA in English from UC Berkeley. She has read at Galeria de la Raza’s Lunada\, Voz Sin Tinta\, Pan Dulce Poets\, Flor y Canto (2015)\, and other Bay Area venues. She was published in Konch Magazine\, and she self-published a small chapbook called For the Hell of it. Her primary objective is to create art. That’s it. \nIngrid Aleja García is a Guatemalan jack of all trades and participant of many sf carnavals\, a Loco Bloco alumni and lover of all arts. Ingrid grew up in SF´s mission district (when taxis wouldn´t dare to enter the neighborhood). She immigrated back to the homeland and worked as a social justice activist & artist. Now she is a proud Visual Designer graduate of CCSF and has taught youth to express themselves through the arts in Guatemala and in San Francisco. \nLeticia Hernández-Linares is a poet\, interdisciplinary artist\, educator\, and author of Mucha Muchacha\, Too Much Girl (Tía Chucha Press\, 2015). A three-time San Francisco Arts Commission grantee\, she lives\, works\, and writes in the Mission District. There was a time when she did not know Norman Zelaya. \nAndrea Rodriguez: Born and raised in SF\, received her B.A. from UCLA and M.F.A. from USC. Intersecting her worlds of dance\, fitness\, design\, production and technology\, she is a Game Producer for the Zumba Fitness Video Game Franchise\, Music Video Director for the Loco Bloco “From the Bay to Bahia\,” video\, and Theatrical Director for the LA Cumbia Festival. Andrea’s mission is to inspire you to move using dance\, art\, music\, technology and cultura! \nLito Sandoval is President of the Latino Democratic Club. He was a member of the queer Latino comedy troupe Latin Hustle and appeared in the production Full Frontal Rudity. His work has also been seen in the anthology Virgins\, Guerrillas y Locas: Gay Latinos Writing About Love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cathy-arellano-book-release-party/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Summer Reading: Eteraz\, Shreve\, Khong\, Bernard + Mouton
DESCRIPTION:featuring\nAli Eteraz\ncritically acclaimed memoirist\n(Children of Dust)\,\nand author of the novel Native Believer\n“Merciless\, intellectually lacerating\, and brutally funny\, Native Believer is not merely a Gonzo panorama of Muslim America–it’s one of the most incisive novels I’ve ever read on America itself. Here\, sex\, money\, and violence all stake their claims on treacherously shifting identities–and neither love nor god is an escape.”\n–Molly Crabapple\, author of Drawing Blood \nPorter Shreve\nNew York Times notable\nauthor\, teacher\, and essayist\n(The End of the Book\, When The White House Was Ours)\n“Porter Shreve’s The End of the Book is audacious\, affecting and elegiac\, a terrific novel about a century of American letters that hums with the artist’s deep desire to last.” — Jess Walter\, author of Beautiful Ruins \nRachel Khong\n(California Sunday\, The Believer)\nExecutive Editor of Lucky Peach\nand author of the forthcoming novel\nGoodbye\, Vitamin\n“Rachel Khong’s first novel sneaks up on you — just like life\, illness and heartbreak. And love. A million small\, human and often deeply funny details gather force to tell a tale that is ultimately incredibly poignant.”\n—Miranda July\, author of The First Bad Man \nSean Bernard\nauthor of Studies in the Hereafter\nand\nDesert Sonorous\,\nwinner of the 2014 Juniper Prize\n“This collection works by stealth\, like alien lights sweeping over a desert plain. All the wreckage of American life\, Tucson style\, is here on display: the margaritas and air-conditioning\, the lost believers caught in a life most theirs the moment before it slips from their palms. What Sean Bernard does so well\, with his versatile rhythmic style\, is to get you to care about such overheated characters\, all of them aliens.”―Edie Meidav\, Juniper Prize for Fiction judge and author of Lola\, California \nTommy Mouton\npoet\, fiction writer\n& Steinbeck Fellow\nauthor of What We Do Cherish \nFree Admission\nCash Bar Exotica\nDoors at 5.30\,\nReading at 6.00
URL:https://litseen.com/event/summer-reading-eteraz-shreve-khong-bernard-mouton/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:León\, Peters\, Gelman\, + White
DESCRIPTION:Raina J. León\, PhD is a CantoMundo fellow\, a Cave Canem graduate fellow\, and a member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective. She is the author of three collections of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, Boogeyman Dawn\, and sombra: (dis)locate (2016). She has received numerous fellowships and residencies including the Macdowell Colony\, the Vermont Studio Center\, the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Annamaghkerrig\, Ireland and Ragdale. She is a founding editor of The Acentos Review and an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California.\nhttp://www.rainaleon.com/poems.html \nAnnelyse Gelman is a California Arts Scholar\, the inaugural poet-in-residence at UCSD’s Brain Observatory\, and recipient of the 2013 Mary Barnard Academy of American Poets Prize. Her work has appeared in Indiana Review\, the PEN Poetry Series\, and elsewhere\, and she is the author of the poetry collection Everyone I Love is a Stranger to Someone (2014)\, shortlisted for the Believer Poetry Award.\nwww.annelysegelman.com. \nArisa White received her MFA from UMass\, Amherst. She’s a Cave Canem fellow and the author of Black Pearl\, Post Pardon\, Hurrah’s Nest\, and A Penny Saved. A 2013-14 recipient of an Investing in Artist Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation and the northwest regional representative for Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color\, Arisa is a BFA faculty advisor at Goddard College. Forthcoming from Augury Books in October 2016 is her third full-length collection\, You’re the Most Beautiful Thing that Happened.\narisawhite.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/leon-peters-gelman-white/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160606T213000
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SUMMARY:Jensen Beach + Colin Winnette
DESCRIPTION:Colin Winnette talks with Jensen Beach about his short story collection\, Swallowed by the Cold (Graywolf Press). \n\nPraise for Jensen Beach: \n\n“The shocking accident in the first story of Swallowed by the Cold centers this collection like a knife. Jensen Beach understands the deep uneasiness of men and women\, and in his stories lie surprises—mortal surprises\, among others—that are revealed in vivid episodes of quiet harm. This book held me fast.”—Ron Carlson \n\n“Jensen Beach is a master of linguistic restraint\, a writer whose precision\, empathy\, and relentless honesty form the spine of this extraordinary work of fiction. Taken individually\, these stories are works of art. It’s when the collection is viewed as a whole\, however\, that an intricate fictional latticework emerges. Each story here is the progenitor of the next\, each life therein a quiet catastrophe\, each character both victim and witness\, bound to every other character in those unknowable ways that bind us all together. This is not just a book\, but a world.”—Jack Livings\, author of The Dog \n\n“Swallowed by the Cold moved me enormously. Jensen Beach renders his characters in a way that is both unsettling and deeply complex\, and he imbues the Swedish landscape that surrounds them with a layered personality. This is a wonderful book—graceful and assured\, spare and compassionate—and Jensen Beach is a fiercely talented writer.”—Molly Antopol \n\n\nAbout Swallowed by the Cold: \n\nThe intricate\, interlocking stories of Jensen Beach’s extraordinarily poised story collection are set in a Swedish village on the Baltic Sea as well as in Stockholm over the course of two eventful years.\nIn “Swallowed by the Cold\,” people are besieged and haunted by disasters both personal and national: a fatal cycling accident\, a drowned mother\, a fire on a ferry\, a mysterious arson\, the assassination of the Swedish foreign minister\, and\, decades earlier\, the Soviet bombing of Stockholm. In these stories\, a drunken\, lonely woman is convinced that her new neighbor is the daughter of her dead lover; a one-armed tennis player and a motherless girl reckon with death amid a rainstorm; and happening upon a car crash\, a young woman is unaccountably drawn to the victim\, even as he slides into a coma and her marriage falls into jeopardy.\nAgain and again\, Beach’s protagonists find themselves unable to express their innermost feelings to those they are closest to\, but at the same time they are drawn to confide in strangers. In its confidence and subtle precision\, Beach’s prose evokes their reticence but is supple enough to reveal deeper passions and intense longing. Shot through with loss and the regret of missed opportunities\, “Swallowed by the Cold” is a searching and crystalline book by a startlingly talented young writer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jensen-beach-colin-winnette/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Russ Franklin w/ Adam Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Cosmic Hotel is Russ Franklin’s quirky yet touching novel that follows Sandeep Sanghavi\, the son of an Indian businesswoman and a famous eccentric astronomer named Van Ray. Sandeep lives a nomadic life staying at different hotels across America with his mother and her hotel consulting firm. After not seeing them for many years\, Van Ray shows up broke with his pregnant astronaut ex-wife in tow\, claiming to have discovered a big secret that will change their lives. Sandeep must juggle his father’s scientific search\, his mother’s failing business\, and the tension of having family all together for the first time in decades. \nRuss Franklin has degrees in math\, physics\, and literature\, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University\, as well as a Kingsbury Fellow at Florida State University. His work has appeared in Oxford American\, Alaska Quarterly Review\,Greensboro Review and other publications. He currently teaches writing at Florida State University in Tallahassee. \nAdam Johnson is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Orphan Master’s Son and the National Book Award winning short story collection Fortune Smiles . He teaches creative writing at Stanford University. His fiction has appeared in Esquire\, The Paris Review\, Harper’s\, Tin House\, Granta\, and Playboy\, as well as The Best American Short Stories. His other works include Emporium\, a short-story collection\, and the novel Parasites Like Us. He lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/russ-franklin-w-adam-johnson/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Yaa Gyasi Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Yaa Gyasi reads from her highly touted debut novel\, Homegoing\, at this book launch party. \n\nPraise for Homegoing: \n\n“A marvelous novel.” — Publishers Weekly *starred review* \n\n“Gyasi’s characters are so fully realized\, so elegantly carved—very often I found myself longing to hear more. Craft is essential given the task Gyasi sets for herself—drawing not just a lineage of two sisters\, but two related peoples. Gyasi is deeply concerned with the sin of selling humans on Africans\, not Europeans. But she does not scold. She does not excuse. And she does not romanticize. The black Americans she follows are not overly virtuous victims.  Sin comes in all forms\, from selling people to abandoning children.  I think I needed to read a book like this to remember what is possible.  I think I needed to remember what happens when you pair a gifted literary mind to an epic task. Homegoing is an inspiration.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates\, National Book Award winning author of Between the World and Me \n\n“Homegoing is a remarkable feat—a novel at once epic and intimate\, capturing the moral weight of history as it bears down on individual struggles\, hopes\, and fears. A tremendous debut.” —Phil Klay\, National Book Award winning author of Redeployment \n\n\nAbout Homegoing: \n\nA riveting\, kaleidoscopic debut novel and the beginning of a major career: a novel about race\, history\, ancestry\, love\, and time that traces the descendants of two sisters torn apart in eighteenth-century Africa across three hundred years in Ghana and America. \n  \nTwo half sisters\, Effia and Esi\, unknown to each other\, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and will live in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle\, raising children who will be sent abroad to be educated before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the empire. Esi\, imprisoned beneath Effia in the Castle’s women’s dungeon and then shipped off on a boat bound for America\, will be sold into slavery. Stretching from the wars of Ghana to slavery and the Civil War in America\, from the coal mines in the American South to the Great Migration to twentieth-century Harlem\, Yaa Gyasi’s novel moves through histories and geographies and captures–with outstanding economy and force– the troubled spirit of our own nation. She has written a modern masterpiece.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yaa-gyasi-book-launch/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Fireside Storytelling: NAKED
DESCRIPTION:We’ve all had that nightmare of finding ourselves naked at school. Being naked can be as powerful as it is vulnerable. How do you react when you’re laid bare for all to see? Embrace it\, shirk from it\, or own it? At this month’s Fireside\, six storytellers will explore being — literally or figuratively — naked. (Note: our event is not clothing optional\, thank you.) \nSTORYTELLERS: \nRon Jones\nMore TBD \n********** \nFireside is a monthly storytelling series\, taking place the second Wednesday of the month in San Francisco. Come watch six storytellers tell 10-minute true stories on a particular theme\, without the aid of notes or a script\, keeping the art of storytelling alive.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fireside-storytelling-naked/
LOCATION:The Institute of Possibility\, 3359 Cesar Chavez St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Witching Hour: An Intimate Benefit for Radar Productions
DESCRIPTION:Purchase tickets:\nhttp://witchinghour.brownpapertickets.com/\n8pm – This event immediately follows Radar Superstar (to be held at 6pm in the Koret Auditorium)\nPerformances by: Maya Songbird and vainhein. Tarot by: Miss Ben McCoy. There WILL BE PUPUSAS. \nThe Witching Hour is an intimate benefit held at the Luggage Store Gallery immediately following ▽▽ RADAR Superstar ▽▽. \nJOIN US!\nHave your tarot read by the talented MISS BEN MCCOY\, sip wine and mingle with superstar artists – GUILLERMO GOMEZ-PENA and JESS BALITRONICA from La Pocha Nostra\, XANDRA IBARRA (La Chica Boom)\, AYA DE LEON\, CHINAKA HODGE and special guest vainhein – while being enchanted by the sounds of Oakland-based chanteuse Maya Songbird. \nAll proceeds go to the continued efforts of RADAR Productions to offer free and low cost literary events of substance that center the lived experiences of queers in the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/witching-hour-an-intimate-benefit-for-radar-productions/
LOCATION:The Luggage Store\, 1007 Market Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks: Dhompa\, Gross\, Valdivia\, + Morton
DESCRIPTION:Tsering Wangmo Dhompa (In the Absent Everyday)\nAnne Gross (The Conjured Woman)\nJuan Alvarado Valdivia (¡Cancerlandia!)\nJim Morton (Re/Search #10: Incredibly Strange Films)\nGUEST HOST: Bucky Sinister (Black Hole) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-dhompa-gross-valdivia-morton/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sixteen Rivers Press: Rosa Lane + Nina Lindsay
DESCRIPTION:Rosa Lane is a native of coastal Maine\, with familial and ancestral roots in lobster fishing. She earned her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and is the author of the poetry chapbook Roots and Reckonings (Granite Press\, East\, 1980). Her work has won several awards and appeared in numerous journals\, including The Briar Cliff Review\, Crab Orchard Review\, New South\, and Ploughshares. After earning her second master’s and a PhD in sustainable architecture from UC Berkeley\, Lane works as an architect and divides her time between coastal Maine and the San Francisco Bay Area\, where she lives with her partner. \n“Rosa Lane’s poetry reminds us why\, at a certain time in our lives\, we’ve had enough of innocence. Here is a compendium of those so crucial\, chronology-defying self-revelations that we only know through our skin. Every line carries with it a resonant sense of what matters\, and why. Her voice is soft and sure\, mature and intimate\, the boldness of insight always subsumed by an extraordinary empathy for her demons. Each poem is a skiff sculling through sounds almost Hopkinsesque\, each measure of music anchored by the ground base we feel more than hear.” —Jeffrey Levine \nNina Lindsay’s first collection of poetry\, Today’s Special Dish\, was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2007. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and has been awarded the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize. Lindsay also writes children’s literary criticism and reviews for Kirkus\, The Horn Book Magazine\, School Library Journal\, and other publications. She lives in Oakland\, California\, where she works for the Oakland Public Library. \n“Nina Lindsay’s Because is beautiful work. The poems pick through the things of the world\, her world\, exposing the unseen and intensifying the seen. They question what she calls ‘our multifrond uncertainties and errors’ and ‘hesitant happiness.’ She negotiates with great poise the push-pull of darkness and light\, presence and absence\, waking consciousness and the dream life. The familiar becomes\, in her telling\, unfamiliar and fraught. ‘February’s dust is rapturous\,’ she says. The poems\, too\, even in their melancholies\, are rapturous.” —W. S. Di Piero
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sixteen-rivers-press-rosa-lane-nina-lindsay/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:California Book Awards
DESCRIPTION:Winners of the 85th Annual California Book Awards \nFICTION\nGold: Lucia Berlin\, A Manual for Cleaning Women\, Farrar\, Straus and Giroux\nSilver: Ernest J. Finney\, Elevation 6040\, Texas Review Press\n\nNONFICTION\nGold: Jill Leovy\, Ghettoside\, Spiegel & Grau\nSilver: Steve Silberman\, Neurotribes\, Avery Publishing\n\nYOUNG ADULT\nGold: Neal Shusterman\, Challenger Deep\, Harper Teen\nSilver: Andrew Smith\, The Alex Crow\, Dutton Books for Young Readers\n\nFIRST FICTION\nGold: Viet Thanh Nguyen\, The Sympathizer\, Grove Press; First Edition\n\nJUVENILE\nGold: Alex Gino\, George\, Scholastic Press\n\nPOETRY\nGold: Beth Murray\, Cancer Angel\, Belladonna Publishing\n\nCALIFORNIANA\nGold: Tom Killion\, California’s Wild Edge\, Heyday\n\nCONTRIBUTION TO PUBLISHING\nGold: The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers\, Edited by James Karman\, Stanford University Press\n\nImportant Upcoming Dates \n#CBA85: 85th Annual California Book Awards Competition\nAwards Ceremony: June 13\, 2016 \n#CBA86 Submission Deadline: Submissions for The Commonwealth Club of California’s 86th Annual California Book Awards will be accepted starting in July 2016. Authors and publishers are invited to submit entries online for books published in 2016 to the 86th California Book Awards. Deadline is December 23\, 2016. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/california-book-awards/
LOCATION:Inforum at the Commonwealth Club\, 555 Post Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Pride Poetry Panel
DESCRIPTION:Annual Pride Poetry Panel features MK Chavez\, Natasha Dennerstein\, Nico Peck and James J. Siegel Monday\, June 13\, 7-8pm at Books Inc. Castro. Celebrate Queer pride\, these fabulous poets\, and 20-years of Books Inc. Castro! Door prizes at 7pm. Champagne and chocolates. A free event open to all.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pride-poetry-panel/
LOCATION:Books Inc. In the Castro\, 2275 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160614T200000
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SUMMARY:Return to Butternut Lake with local author Mary McNear!
DESCRIPTION:Local author and New York Times bestseller Mary McNear returns to Butternut Lake with the fourth novel of her popular series. Space Between Sisters uncovers the complicated bond between two sisters during one memorable summer season. 10% of all store book sales from 6 pm to close will go to benefit The Women’s Building\, a community space for women in San Francisco\, http://womensbuilding.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/return-to-butternut-lake-with-local-author-mary-mcnear/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Grady Hendrix w/ Katie Crouch
DESCRIPTION:Grady Hendrix celebrates the release of his new book My Best Friend’s Exorcism with his best friend from high school and local SF author Katie Crouch (Girls in Trucks\,Abroad). These two embarrassment experts are going to exorcise their high school humiliation demons and take the plunge into pure insanity. See! Grady and Katie talk about the bizarre alternate universe that was high school in the deep South in the 1980s. Hear! Katie and Grady read the most cringe-inducing passages from their teenage diaries. Weep! As Grady reads horrifying fan letters he wrote celebrities. Wonder! At how Katie manages to dress herself in the morning after listening to the poetry she submitted to the high school literary journal. Thank God! It’s not you up there revealing what a complete and total teenager you were. \nGrady Hendrix is a novelist and screenwriter based in New York City. His previous novel\,Horrorstör\, was named one of the best books of 2014 by National Public Radio. \n  \nKatie Crouch is the New York Times bestselling author of Girls in Trucks and Abroad\, among other novels. She has written for The Guardian\, McSweeney’s\, Tin House\,Slate\, Salon\, and has a regular column on the Rumpus called “Missed.” A MacDowell Fellow\, Crouch teaches at San Francisco State University and lives in Bolinas\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/grady-hendrix-w-katie-crouch/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:ArtSpan Mixer: Art\, Readings\, & Reactions with Quiet Lightning + Modern Eden
DESCRIPTION:Join ArtSpan and Quiet Lightning at Modern Eden Gallery for the third annual Art\, Readings\, & Reactions event! This Artist Mixer invites writers from Quiet Lightning to view Modern Eden’s exhibition\, Portraits of Friends\, and to write from its inspiration. The writers then share their literary creations by reading to an audience equipped with sketch books to react with drawings…! \nAll are weclome to join! ArtSpan will provide sketch books and drawing materials. \nQuiet Lighting Guest Curator: Tess Taylor \nWriters/Readings: Keith Ekiss\, Katie Peterson\, Dean Rader\, Brynn Saito\, and Tess Taylor \nFeatured Modern Eden Art Exhibition: \nPortraits of Friends: The ever-popular annual portrait show – Nearly 50 top contemporary artists interpret this theme to create portraits of their friends\, fans\, and/or acquaintances. \nParticipant Biographies: \nKeith Ekiss is the author of Pima Road Notebook (New Issues Poetry & Prose\, 2010) and the translator of The Fire’s Journey\, an epic poem by the Costa Rican writer Eunice Odio forthcoming from Tavern Books in four volumes. Territory of Dawn: The Selected Poems of Eunice Odio is recently out from The Bitter Oleander Press. He is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and a Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University where he teaches courses on poetry\, poetry and film\, fiction\, and the essay. \nKatie Peterson is the author of three books of poetry\, This One Tree\, Permission\, and The Accounts\, the winner of the 2014 Rilke Prize from the University of North Texas. She is back in her native California after years in Boston and lives in El Cerrito with her husband\, the photographer and filmmaker Young Suh\, with whom she collaborates. She teaches at the University of California at Davis. \nDean Rader’s debut collection of poems\, Works & Days\, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize\, and Tess Taylor named his Landscape Portrait Figure Form one of the Best Books of Poetry of the year in The Barnes & Noble Review. He is also the editor of the 2014 anthology 99 Poems for the 99 Percent. Rader writes regularly for The Huffington Post and San Francisco Chronicle and is a professor of English at the University of San Francisco. Two collections of poetry are forthcoming\, including a book of collaborative sonnets written with Simone Muench\, entitled Suture (Black Lawrence Press) and Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry (Copper Canyon). \nBrynn Saito is the author of Power Made Us Swoon (Red Hen Press\, 2016) and The Palace of Contemplating Departure (Red Hen Press\, 2013)\, a finalist for the Northern California Book Award and winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award. Brynn is a recipient of the Kundiman Asian American Poetry Fellowship and winner of the Key West Literary Seminar’s Scotti Merrill Memorial Award. Originally from Fresno\, CA\, Brynn lives in Los Altos and teaches and works in San Francisco. \nTess Taylor is the author of The Forage House\, finalist for the Believer Poetry Award\, and Work & Days. An avid gardener and cook\, she dropped out of Amherst College in her twenties to become a translator and chef’s assistant at L’Ecole Ritz Escoffier in Paris. Her poems and essays have appeared widely in publications including The New Yorker\, The Academy of American Poets\, and The New York Times. She is currently the on air poetry reviewer for NPR’s “All Things Considered\,” and was most recently visiting professor of English and creative writing at Whittier College. She lives in El Cerrito\, CA. \nWith ice cold beer\, courtesy of Lagunitas! \nMore about the exhibition\, Portraits of Friends:http://www.moderneden.com/pages/portraits-of-friends \nPhotos + vids from previous ArtSpan + Quiet Lightning mixers:\n• 2015: litseen.com/quiet-lightning-superhero/\n• 2014: litseen.com/quiet-lightning-fairy-tales/ \nArtwork Image: Archer Dougherty\, Every Person Sees Themselves\, 2016\, Oil on wood\, 18 x 24 in.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/artspan-mixer-art-readings-reactions-with-quiet-lightning-modern-eden/
LOCATION:Modern Eden Gallery\, 801 Greenwich St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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SUMMARY:Flynn Berry: Under the Harrow
DESCRIPTION:When Nora takes the train from London to visit her sister in the countryside\, she expects to find her waiting at the station\, or at home cooking dinner. But when she walks into Rachel’s familiar house\, what she finds is entirely different: her sister has been the victim of a brutal murder. \nStunned and adrift\, Nora finds she can’t return to her former life. An unsolved assault in the past has shaken her faith in the police\, and she can’t trust them to find her sister’s killer. Haunted by the murder and the secrets she unravels\, she is under the harrow—distressed and in danger. As Nora’s fear turns to obsession\, she becomes as unrecognizable as the sister her investigation uncovers. \nA riveting psychological thriller and a haunting exploration of the fierce love between two sisters\, the distortions of grief\, and the terrifying power of the past\, Under the Harrow marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer. \nFlynn Berry is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers\, and has been awarded a Yaddo residency. This is her first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flynn-berry-under-the-harrow/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160617T210000
DTSTAMP:20260503T194450
CREATED:20160601T011020Z
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SUMMARY:The Bloom: Reading #50
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE EVENT\nMembers of MIXED WRITES\, a group of mixed race women writers\, will honor Father’s Day and the Summer Solstice—the most light-filled day of the year\, by reading work on the theme of fathers and inner light. \nWe will be celebrating the 50th Reading of The Bloom\, and the anniversary of Mixed Writes (Faith Adiele\, Maria T. Allocco\, Jackie Graves and Audrey T. Williams). \nABOUT THE WRITERS\nMARIA T. ALLOCCO is a South Korean and Italian Voices of Our Nation alum and was an Academy of American Poets Prize winner by age twenty. Her pieces have been featured on KPFA andMutiny Radio\, and performed for SOMArts\, LitQuake\, Kearny Street Workshop\, The Intersection For The Arts\, and The San Francisco International Arts Festival. Her work has been published inThe Lantern Review\, Fusion Magazine\, Monday Night\, Sparkle and Blink\, and in the new book Pariahs: Writing From Outside The Margins. She’s a co-founder of the bay area’s first mixed race meditation group\, and teaches yoga to ‘at-risk’ youth. Find her at: writetoheal.us \nJACKIE GRAVES believes in the transformative power of words. She is currently working on a memoir of healing that celebrates family\, spirituality\, and sisterhood. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including residencies at the Julia and David White Artist Colony\, Jentel Artist Residence Program\, Djerassi Resident Artist Program\, and Soapstone\, a Writing Retreat for Women. She received theCity of Oakland Spoken Word Fellowship\, the Ardella Mills Prize for Fiction\, and was a finalist in the Poets & Writers California Voices Contest. She teaches English at Laney College. \nAUDREY T. WILLIAMS is an Oakland-based writer. She is a VONA alum\, and working towards an MFA in Creative Nonfiction at CCA. Audrey is currently writing the manuscript for “Chutney and Chitlins\,” a mixed-race family memoir that makes use of hybrid creative nonfiction using narratives and images. The book begins with stories from her African-American father as he joined thenewly integrated US Marines in the late 1950’s (possibly the first African American US Marine sent to US embassy duty in Rangoon\, Burma). In Burma\, he mets Audrey’s mother\, whose heritage is a mixture of European and South Asian ancestry (Anglo-Indian-Burmese). Her website:audreyTwilliams.com. \nABOUT THE BLOOM\nThe Bloom is a literary series featuring Bay Area writers\, where a past reader curates five readers around a theme. It’s an entertaining evening of diverse voices and personal style\, bridging narratives and communities. It was founded by Margaret Bacon\, Tara Dorabji\, and Jason Wyman in the summer of 2012.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-bloom-reading-50/
LOCATION:Mercury Cafe\, 201 Octavia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160619T213000
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CREATED:20160601T011417Z
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SUMMARY:LUNADA Summer Solstice Season Closer
DESCRIPTION:featuring Denise Benavides and Trey Amos \nOpen Mic Sign up: 7:15pm / 8-10 spots on the list / 5 min. ea. \nLUNADA is the Bay Area’s only full moon bilingual literary ritual & performance gathering devoted to spoken word\, música\, song\, and story. Located in the heart of the Mission District at Galería de la Raza\, and guest curated by some of the Bay Area’s most dynamic word slingers and artists\, each LUNADA features community poets\, local legends\, visiting mystics\, and other mero meros of the stage. \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunada-summer-solstice-season-closer/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160620T210000
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CREATED:20160601T011846Z
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SUMMARY:Natashia Deón in Conversation w/ Kaitlin Solimine
DESCRIPTION:Litquake is proud to host the San Francisco launch of Natashia Deón’s debut novel\, Grace. She will be in conversation with Kaitlin Solimine\, with book sales and signing to follow. \nFor a runaway slave in the 1840s south\, life on the run can be just as dangerous as life under a sadistic Massa. That’s what fifteen-year-old Naomi learns after she escapes the brutal confines of life on an Alabama plantation. Striking out on her own\, she must leave behind her beloved Momma and sister Hazel and takes refuge in a Georgia brothel run by a freewheeling\, gun-toting Jewish madam named Cynthia. There\, amidst a revolving door of gamblers\, prostitutes\, and drunks\, Naomi falls into a star-crossed love affair with a smooth-talking white man named Jeremy who frequents the brothel’s dice tables all too often. \nThe product of Naomi and Jeremy’s union is Josey\, whose white skin and blonde hair mark her as different from the other slave children on the plantation. Having been taken in as an infant by a free slave named Charles\, Josey has never known her mother\, who was murdered at her birth. Josey soon becomes caught in the tide of history when news of the Emancipation Proclamation reaches the declining estate and a day of supposed freedom quickly turns into a day of unfathomable violence that will define Josey—and her lost mother—for years to come. \nDeftly weaving together the stories of Josey and Naomi—who narrates the entire novel unable to leave her daughter alone in the land of the living—Grace is a sweeping\, intergenerational saga featuring a group of outcast women during one of the most compelling eras in American history. It is a universal story of freedom\, love\, and motherhood\, told in a dazzling and original voice set against a rich and transporting historical backdrop.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/natashia-deon-in-conversation-w-kaitlin-solimine/
LOCATION:Alamo Drafthouse Cinema\, 2550 Mission Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160621T203000
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CREATED:20160601T013347Z
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SUMMARY:An Evening w/ Emma Cline
DESCRIPTION:Emma Cline\, Author\, The Girls \nClaire Bidwell Smith\, Grief Therapist\, mother and author of “The Rules of Inheritance” and “After This: When Life is Over\, Where Do We Go?”–Moderator \nThe Girls\, the forthcoming\, highly-anticipated debut novel by Emma Cline\, tells the story of Evie\, a young woman who gets drawn into the mysterious world of a gang of girls and quickly finds herself immersed in their world and in over her her head. \nEmma’s writing has been praised by everyone from Lena Dunham to Mark Haddon for her deeply insightful observations about girls and the women they become. Emma rose to prominence when she signed a three book deal in 2014\, at the age of 25. \nJoin INFORUM at The Commonwealth Club of California for a riveting evening with Emma. \nThis is a Good Lit event\, underwritten by the Bernard Osher Foundation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-w-emma-cline/
LOCATION:Inforum at the Commonwealth Club\, 555 Post Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160621T210000
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CREATED:20160601T012933Z
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SUMMARY:Moby: Porcelain
DESCRIPTION:From one of the most iconic DJs of our time\, Porcelain is a funny and harrowing account of the NYC club scene in the ’80s and ’90s. When Moby arrived in New York\, he was not only a poor\, skinny kid from Connecticut\, but also a Christian\, a vegan\, and a teetotaler. This was during the time when dance music was still largely underground in clubs like Palladium\, Mars\, and Limelight. By the end of the decade\, Moby contemplated the end in his career and put everything into one last project―the multimillion-selling album Play. Porcelain is both a chronicle of a city and a time and a deeply intimate exploration of finding one’s place. \n  \nTickets must be purchased in advance\, at this link. Prices: \n>> $30 one book / one ticket \n>> $45 one book / two tickets \n  \nPorcelain will be available on May 17th\, and you can pick up your book at the event during check-in. If you would like to coordinate in-store pick up ahead of time\, please contact events at booksmith dot com. \n  \nImportant caveats: \n>> This is a program based around Moby’s memoir Porcelain\, not a musical performance. Moby will only be signing copies of Porcelain. He will not sign any merchandise. \n>> Regarding photos: You can take photos of Moby in the signing line or during the program\, but NO posed photos or selfies with him will be allowed. \n>> Doors open at 6pm\, the program will begin at 7pm\, the signing will be held after the program. Wristbands for the signing line will be given on a first come\, first served basis upon arriving at the venue. However\, please note\, the signing could takeseveral hours to complete. Personalizations are not guaranteed. \n>> This is an 18+ show. Please bring photo ID. Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. Tickets are for standing room only. \n>> To inquire about a seat\, or for any other questions\, please email events at booksmith dot com before June 19th. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/moby-porcelain/
LOCATION:DNA Lounge\, 375 11th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Chinaka Hodge
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nDated Emcees \npublished by City Lights Books (Sister Spit Imprint). With Tongo Eisen-Martin & RyanNicole.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chinaka-hodge/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20160602T002909Z
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SUMMARY:InsideStoryTime INTERRUPTIONS
DESCRIPTION:Will feature Anne Germanacos (Tribute)\, Tony Robles (Cool Don’t Live Here No More)\, Makram Abu-Shakra (Interplay)\, Genine Lentine (Poses)\, and Luciano Aldana. With MC James Warner (All Her Father’s Guns).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-interruptions/
LOCATION:Second Act\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Word Performances: Private Parlor Show
DESCRIPTION:Word Performances with Arisa White\, Colleen McKee\, Pitta of the Mind\, Damien Alvarez\, Cybele Zufolo Siegel\, Todd Siegel\, Zarina Zabrisky\, Simon Roggue\, & Daniel Berkman – Private Parlor Show\nThursday Jun 23\, 2016\nDoors: 7:30 PM\nShow: 8:00 PM (ends at 10:30 PM) \n12 and over \n$10 in advance and $15 day of show online and at the door. \nPrivate Parlor Shows are open to all friends and fans of The Lost Church and the performers. \nSeating is first come\, first served. We recommend you buy in advance to ensure being a part of the event (parlor shows often sell out)\, but you can also try purchasing at the door on the night of the show.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/word-performances-private-parlor-show/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160624T200000
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CREATED:20160602T003505Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160602T003505Z
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SUMMARY:Elin Hilderbrand
DESCRIPTION:Here’s to Us is an emotional\, heartwarming story from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand about a grieving family that finds solace where they least expect it. \nCelebrity chef Deacon Thorpe has always been a force of nature with an insatiable appetite for life. But after that appetite contributes to Deacon’s shocking death in his favorite place on earth\, a ramshackle Nantucket summer cottage\, his (messy\, complicated) family is reeling. Now Deacon’s three wives\, his children\, and his best friend gather on the island he loved to say farewell. The three very different women have long been bitter rivals\, each wanting to claim the primary place in Deacon’s life and his heart. But as they slowly let go of the resentments they’ve held onto for years and remember the good times\, secrets are revealed\, confidences are shared\, and improbable bonds are formed as this unlikely family says goodbye to the man who brought them all together\, for better or worse–and the women he loved find new ways to love again. \nElin Hilderbrand does her best writing on the beaches of Nantucket and on the charming streets of Beacon Hill in Boston.Here’s to Us is her seventeenth novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elin-hilderbrand/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160628T143000
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SUMMARY:Finding Fontainbleau & My Brain on Fire
DESCRIPTION:Finding Fontainbleau: An American Boy in France & My Brain on Fire: Paris and Other Obsessions. Finding Fontainbleau This charming memoir recounts the adventures of Thad Carhart\, his parents and siblings\, in the provincial town of Fontainebleau\, France\, in the 1950s. My Brain on Fire: Paris and Other Obsessions. In 1962\, after a misguided foray towards a career in advertising\, Leonard Pitt took the ultimate cure– a trip to Paris. He stayed seven years. While performing and teaching\, he studied the origins of the ballet\, the history of early American popular music\, the pre-Socratic philosophers\, the European witch hunt\, the history of Paris\, and more.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/finding-fontainbleau-my-brain-on-fire/
LOCATION:San Francisco Mechanics’ Institute\, 57 Post Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160628T210000
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SUMMARY:Rikki Ducornet
DESCRIPTION:reading from her new novel \nBrightfellow \npublished by Coffee House Press \nA feral boy comes of age on a campus decadent with starched sheets\, sweating cocktails\, and homemade jams. Stub is the cause of that missing sweater\, the pie that disappeared off the cooling rack. Then Stub meets Billy\, who takes him in\, and Asthma\, who enchants him\, and all is found\, then lost. A fragrant\, voluptuous novel of imposture\, misplaced affection\, and emotional deformity. \nAn artist and writer\, Rikki Ducornet has illustrated books by Robert Coover\, Jorge Luis Borges\, Forrest Gander\, and Joanna Howard. Her paintings have been exhibited widely\, including\, most recently\, at the Pierre Menard Gallery in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, and the Salvador Allende Museum in Santiago\, Chile. \nCritical Praise for the work of Rikki Ducornet: \n“Linguistically explosive . . . one of the most interesting American writers around.”—The Nation \n“Rikki Ducornet\, in the effervescent and airy Brightfellow\, deftly executes a hefty lightness\, the lightest of a bright\, light touch that delights and spontaneously combusts right before our eyes. Like an unbounded baron in the trees\, like a goat boy on the loose in the groves of academe\, this book inscribes a lofty scaffolding of amazing mazes\, canopies of wonder. Ignited luminescence\, irresistible levitation\, iridescent images—the words skip like philosophic stones through a saturated and shimmering exhalation.” —Michael Martone\, author of Michael Martone and Winesburg\, Indiana \n“Ducornet—surrealist\, absurdist\, pure anarchist at times—is one of our most accomplished writers\, adept at seizing on the perfect details and writing with emotion and cool detachment simultaneously. I love her style because it is penetrating and precise but also sensual without being overwrought. You experience a Ducornet novel with all of your senses.”—Jeff VanderMeer
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rikki-ducornet/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Indy Press Night ft. Ig Publishing w/ Carswell + Tanner
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the release of two new novels \nMetaphysical Ukulele \nby Sean Carswell \n& \nMissile Paradise \nby Ron Tanner \nboth books published by Ig Press \nAbout Metaphysical Ukulele: \nMixing the flair of literary invention with real events in the lives of some of our most well-known writers—Herman Melville living with a tribe of cannibals; Raymond Chandler holding The Blue Dahlia screenplay hostage from Paramount Studios; Flannery O’Connor falling in love; Chester Himes threatening to decapitate his landlord\, a ukulele player who may or may not be Thomas Pynchon\, among others—Sean Carswell takes the nonfiction of the literary life and turns it into exquisite fiction\, with a ukulele thrown in to each story for good measure. At times heartbreaking\, at times absurd\, the stories in this truly one-of-a-kind collection delightfully blur the line between what is life\, and what is literature. \nSean Carswell is the author of the novels Drinks for the Little Guy\, Train Wreck Girl\, and Madhouse Fog\, and the short story collections Barney’s Crew and Glue and Ink Rebellion. He co-founded the independent book publisher Gorsky Press and the music magazine Razorcake. He currently teaches writing and literature at California State University\, Channel Islands. \nAbout Missle Paradise: \nIn the Marshall Islands\, an island-nation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that was once a testing ground for nuclear bombs\, American engineers and programmers are making and testing missiles while their “hosts\,” the indigenous Marshallese\, sweep their streets and clean their houses. It’s 2004\, the Iraq war is heating up\, and 9/11 is fresh in everyone’s minds. Following four interconnected story lines—the meltdown of a burned-out cultural liaison who has “gone native” and bitterly resents his role in keeping the Marshallese down; a young programmer who has lost his leg in a reckless solo sailing journey; the struggles of a young widow with two children whose husband drowned in a mysterious diving accident; and the destructive spiral of a Marshallese teenager whose American girlfriend rejects him when she returns to the States—Missile Paradise is an extraordinary novel that deals with the major social and political issues of our time\, including racism\, represented by the relationship between the Americans who enjoy life on Kwajalein and the subservience of the native Marshallese\, who live on the neglected and trash-strewn island of Ebeye; and climate change—the climax of the novel is a great storm and flood which forces the Marshallese on Ebeye to flee to Kwajalein. \nRon Tanner’s awards for writing include a Faulkner Society gold medal\, a Pushcart Prize\, a New Letters Award\, a Best of the Web Award\, a Maryland Arts Council grant\, and many others. He is the author of A Bed of Nails (stories)\, Kiss Me Stranger (illustrated novel)\, and From Animal House to Our House (memoir). He teaches writing at Loyola University-Maryland and directs the Marshall Islands Story Project. \nIg Publishing produces original literary fiction from writers who have been overlooked by the mainstream publishing establishment\, and political and cultural nonfiction. Their Young Adult imprint\, Lizzie Skurnick Books\, is devoted to bringing back the very best in young adult literature\, from the classics of the ’30s and ’40s to the thrillers and social issue novels of the ’70s and ’80s.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/indy-press-night-ft-ig-publishing-w-carswell-tanner/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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