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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-24/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - Michael Koch + Robert Anbian followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:A Night Horn Press celebration…  On April 1st\, poet and Night Horn Press publisher Robert Anbian joins poet Michael Koch to recite verse and celebrate Night Horn’s most recent release\, Koch’s poetry collection Street Theology  The featured readers will be followed by the usual Monday open mic.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-michael-koch-robert-anbian-followed-by-an-open-mic/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:LAUNCH for Meredith May / The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss\, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to host longtime San Francisco Chronicle columnist Meredith May for the launch of her book\, The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss\, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees. More information to be announce\, but please save the date and join us! \nMeredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old\, her parents had recently split and suddenly she found herself in the care of her grandfather\, an eccentric beekeeper who made honey in a rusty old military bus in the yard. That first close encounter was at once terrifying and exhilarating for May\, and in that moment she discovered that everything she needed to know about life and family was right before her eyes\, in the secret world of bees. \nMay turned to her grandfather and the art of beekeeping as an escape from her troubled reality. Her mother had receded into a volatile cycle of neurosis and despair and spent most days locked away in the bedroom. It was during this pivotal time in May’s childhood that she learned to take care of herself\, forged an unbreakable bond with her grandfather and opened her eyes to the magic and wisdom of nature. \nThe bees became a guiding force in May’s life\, teaching her about family and community\, loyalty and survival\, and the unequivocal relationship between a mother and her child. Part memoir\, part beekeeping odyssey\, The Honey Bus is an unforgettable story about finding home in the most unusual of places and how a tiny\, little-understood insect could save a life. \n  \n\n  \nMeredith May spent sixteen years at the San Francisco Chronicle\, where her narrative reporting won the PEN USA Literary Award for Journalism and was short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize. She is coauthor of I\, Who Did Not Die and is a fifth-generation beekeeper. She lives in San Francisco\, where she keeps several hives in a community garden. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \n  \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of The Honey Bus\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-meredith-may-the-honey-bus-a-memoir-of-loss-courage-and-a-girl-saved-by-bees/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:K Chess
DESCRIPTION:This event will be held at our 9th Ave. location. \nK Chess discusses her new novel\, Famous Men Who Never Lived. \n\nPraise for Famous Men Who Never Lived \n“With an eerie and ingenious premise\, K Chess explores in a fresh way the most universal of human experiences: loss\, regret\, and the longing for what might have been. With its refugees from a parallel universe\, this inventive book does what only fiction can do: describes an impossible world in order to more clearly show us our own.”—Karen Thompson Walker\, author of The Age of Miracles \n“Famous Men Who Never Lived is a fascinating novel: complex\, uncanny\, powerful. K Chess adroitly enacts Joyce’s  ‘cracked looking glass’ and gives us an off-kilter reflection that allows us to really see who we are. The wit\, elaboration\, and detail of her invention are spectacular.”—Dana Spiotta\, author of Innocents and Others \n“The novel jumps off from a fascinating premise into strange and fertile territory. K Chess constructs not just one universe\, but two\, and delicately entangles them to create a rich\, engrossing exploration of displacement\, history\, memory\, of the past and the present. Conceptually adventurous yet full of feeling\, Famous Men Who Never Lived is a smart\, thought-provoking and thoroughly enjoyable debut.”—Charles Yu\, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe \n  \nAbout Famous Men Who Never Lived \nFor readers of Station Eleven and Exit West\, Famous Men Who Never Lived explores the effects of displacement on our identities\, the communities that come together through circumstance\, and the power of art to save us. \nWherever Hel looks\, New York City is both reassuringly familiar and terribly wrong. As one of the thousands who fled the outbreak of nuclear war in an alternate United States―an alternate timeline―she finds herself living as a refugee in our own not-so-parallel New York. The slang and technology are foreign to her\, the politics and art unrecognizable. While others\, like her partner Vikram\, attempt to assimilate\, Hel refuses to reclaim her former career or create a new life. Instead\, she obsessively rereads Vikram’s copy of The Pyronauts―a science fiction masterwork in her world that now only exists as a single flimsy paperback―and becomes determined to create a museum dedicated to preserving the remaining artifacts and memories of her vanished culture. \nBut the refugees are unwelcome and Hel’s efforts are met with either indifference or hostility. And when the only copy of The Pyronauts goes missing\, Hel must decide how far she is willing to go to recover it and finally face her own anger\, guilt\, and grief over what she has truly lost.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/k-chess/
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:Unnamed Press @ City Lights with Rheea Mukherjee & Adam Nemett
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nRheea Mukherjee reads from The Body Myth \nAdam Nemett reads from We Can Save Us All \nAbout The Body Myth: \nA moving exploration of loss\, Mukherjee delivers an intense and unexpected modern love story as Mira reconciles reality with desire. \nMira is a teacher living in the heart of Suryam\, a modern bustling city in India\, and the only place in the world the fickle Rasagura fruit grows. Mira lives alone\, and with only the French existentialists as companions\, until the day she witnesses a beautiful woman having a seizure in the park. Mira runs to help her but is cautious\, for she could have sworn the woman looked around to see if anyone was watching right before the seizure began. \nMira is quickly drawn into the lives of this mysterious woman Sara\, who suffers a myriad of unexplained illnesses\, and her kind\, intensely supportive husband Rahil\, striking up intimate\, volatile and fragile friendships with each of them that quickly become something more. \nPraise for The Body Myth \n“Witty\, melancholic\, and dramatic by turns\, Rheea Mukherjee’s THE BODY MYTH is a touching love story about misfits searching for togetherness\, even if that togetherness might not be healthy for all concerned… THE BODY MYTH is a compelling tale\, rich in emotional undercurrents and empathy for its unconventional characters.”\n—Foreword Reviews\, \n“Rheea Mukherjee has written a thought provoking and memorable meditation on the meaning of life. In seductive prose\, THE BODY MYTH\, explores the depths and boundaries of relationships\, conventional and unconventional\, and the meaning of intimacy in sickness and health. A fine novel.”\n—Soniah Kamal\, award winning author of ‘Unmarriageable: Pride and Prejudice in Pakistan’ \n“Like the Rasagura fruit Rheea Mukherjee so eloquently writes about\, THE BODY MYTH is a tender love story at its core: sweet\, sour\, and bursting with wisdom. An intoxicating read.”\n—Neel Patel\, author of IF YOU SEE ME\, DON’T SAY HI \nAbout We Can Save Us All: \nWelcome to The Egg\, an off-campus geodesic dome where David Fuffman and his crew of alienated Princeton students train for what might be the end of days: America is in a perpetual state of war\, climate disasters create a global state of emergency\, and scientists believe time itself may be collapsing. \nFunded by the charismatic Mathias Blue and fueled by performance enhancers and psychedelic drugs\, a student revolution incubates at The Egg\, inspired by the superheroes that dominate American culture. The arrival of Haley Roth—an impassioned heroine with a dark secret—propels David and Mathias to expand their movement across college campuses nationwide\, inspiring a cult-like following. As the final superstorm arrives\, they toe the line between good and evil\, deliverance and demagogues\, the damned and the saved. \nIn this sprawling\, ambitious debut\, Adam Nemett delves into contemporary life in all of its chaos and unknowing.  We Can Save Us All is a brave\, ribald\, and multi-layered examination of what may be the fundamental question of our time: just who is responsible for fixing all of this? \nPraise for We Can Save Us All \n“Adam Nemett is the kind of smart and the kind of funny we need right now. WE CAN SAVE US ALL has the savvy\, dangerous feel of early Don DeLillo.”\n—Sam Lipsyte\, author of ‘THE ASK’ and ‘THE SUBJECT STEVE’ \n“Adam Nemett has done something superheroic here. WE CAN SAVE US ALL is a wild and uproarious debut that is also wise and deeply felt. Come for the costumes\, comedy\, and psychedelics; stay for the searching questions about what it means to live an honorable life—to try to be one of the Good Guys—at the (maybe) end of time.”\n—Justin Taylor\, author of ‘THE GOSPEL OF ANARCHY’\, ‘FLINGS’\, and ‘EVERYTHING HERE IS THE BEST THING EVER’ \n“Adam Nemett is a terrific new writer\, and in WE CAN SAVE US ALL he has crafted a wildly entertaining and often moving book about what it’s like to be young and rebellious in a dangerous world.”\n—Tom Barbash\, bestselling author of ‘ON TOP OF THE WORLD’\, ‘STAY UP WITH ME’\, and ‘THE LAST GOOD CHANCE’ \nabout the authors: \nRheea Mukherjee’s fiction and non-fiction has been published in several publications including Scroll.in\, Southern Humanities Review\, Out of Print\, QLRS and Bengal Lights\, among others. Her previous stories have been Pushcart nominees\, Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Finalists\, and semi-finalists for the Black Lawrence Press Award. She co-founded Bangalore Writers Workshop in 2012 and currently co-runs Write Leela Write\, a Design and Content Laboratory in Bangalore. You can learn more about Rheea at www.rheeamukherjee.com. \nAdam Nemett serves as creative director and author for The History Factory\, where he’s written award-winning nonfiction books for Lockheed Martin\, Brooks Brothers\, City of Hope Medical Center\, and Huntington Bank\, and directed campaigns for 21st Century Fox\, Adobe Systems\, HarperCollins\, National Renewable Energy Laboratory\, New Balance\, Pfizer and Whirlpool. An excerpt of his debut novel\, WE CAN SAVE US ALL\, was anthologized in The Apocalypse Reader. He is the writer/director of the feature film\, The Instrument (2005). Adam’s work has been published\, reviewed and featured in Variety\, LA Weekly\, The New Yorker\, Washington Post\, The Brooklyn Rail\, as well as many others. \nabout the publisher: \nUnnamed Press is an independent publisher based in Los Angeles\, California. Unnamed Press publishes literary fiction and non-fiction\, with an emphasis on debuts by women\, underrepresented voices and people of color\, as well as internationally focused speculative and fantasy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/unnamed-press-city-lights-with-rheea-mukherjee-adam-nemett/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:T Kira Madden and Pam Zhang
DESCRIPTION:T Kira Madden discusses her new memoir\, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls\, with Pam Zhang. \n\nPraise for Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls \n“Harrowing and beautiful. What seems most miraculous about Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls is the way T Kira Madden forges out of such achingly difficult material a memoir as frank and funny and powerful and surprising as this\, her utterly gorgeous debut.” —Lauren Groff\, author of FLORIDA and FATES AND FURIES \n“Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls is sad\, funny\, juicy and prickly with deep and secret thoughtful places. It is raucous and poignant at once and I recommend it highly.” —Mary Gaitskill\, author of THE MARE and SOMEBODY WITH A LITTLE HAMMER \n“I’ve never read such a gorgeous and raw depiction of girlhood\, the terrible vulnerability of adolescence\, and the humiliation that often goes hand in hand with desire. Madden is fearless about diving deep into the darkest aspects of herself and her past\, and that’s what makes her work riveting and urgent. An absolutely necessary book.” —Julie Buntin\,author of MARLENA \n“This open\, defiant memoir is the long-awaited daughter of Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina. Madden captures the dangers and longings of a perilous girlhood with prose so vivid and sensuous we feel her past in our bodies. A mesmerizing piece of art I won’t soon forget.” —Claire Vaye Watkins\, author of GOLD FAME CITRUS AND BATTLEBORN \n\nAbout Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls \nAcclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden’s raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age and reckoning with desire as a queer\, biracial teenager amidst the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton\, Florida\, a place where she found cult-like privilege\, shocking racial disparities\, rampant white-collar crime\, and powerfully destructive standards of beauty hiding in plain sight. \nAs a child\, Madden lived a life of extravagance\, from her exclusive private school to her equestrian trophies and designer shoe-brand name. But under the surface was a wild instability. The only child of parents continually battling drug and alcohol addictions\, Madden confronted her environment alone. Facing a culture of assault and objectification\, she found lifelines in the desperately loving friendships of fatherless girls. \nWith unflinching honesty and lyrical prose\, spanning from 1960s Hawai’i to the present-day struggle of a young woman mourning the loss of a father while unearthing truths that reframe her reality\, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls is equal parts eulogy and love letter. It’s a story about trauma and forgiveness\, about families of blood and affinity\, both lost and found\, unmade and rebuilt\, crooked and beautiful. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/t-kira-madden-and-pam-zhang/
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:Lynn Breedlove
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new book \n45 Thought Crimes \nfrom Manic D Press \n45 Thought Crimes conveys a lineage of resistance and places the reader squarely in the driver’s seat of their own destiny. During the Reagan and Bush years\, author Lynn Breedlove tried to ignore the political climate to focus on his own self destruction. When that didn’t work\, he got sober and committed his life to art. After publishing his first two books and spending a career on tour\, life took an unexpected turn. Breedlove spent the next decade caring and grieving for his mother\, and founding / running a nonprofit to serve his LGBT community. But when the world threatens to end\, the only moment that matters becomes now. Breedlove began writing this book the morning after the 2016 election\, at the dawn of the coup. Newly in love and acutely aware of what was at stake\, he questioned and confirmed life lessons learned\, with Prince\, Bowie\, Leonard Cohen\, and his ancestors as muses. \nLynn “Lynnee” Breedlove is the author of the novel Godspeed\, was the singer for the band Tribe 8\, and was the writer/performer of Lynnee Breedlove’s One Freak Show\, a comic solo show on gender and the ensuing book\, which won the 2010 Lambda Literary Award in the transgender category. He is the entrepreneurial founder of Homobiles\, the indie non-profit startup that’s a ride service for the LGBTIQQ community and its allies\, which\, along with his creative work\, won him the 2012 Harvey Milk LGBT Club Award for Activism. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lynn-breedlove/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marina Lazzara\, Ava Koober & Patrick James Dunagan - poetry reading
DESCRIPTION:Marina Lazzara\, Ava Koober & Patrick James Dunagan – poetry reading
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marina-lazzara-ava-koober-patrick-james-dunagan-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival: American Dream States
DESCRIPTION:Curated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Marc Bamuthi Joseph \nSFJAZZ Center’s Joe Henderson Lab \nThursday\, April 4 – Saturday\, April 6\, 7pm & 8:30pm \nSunday\, April 7\, 6pm & 7:30pm \nSFJAZZ.org \nAmerican Dream States challenges writers of different genres to respond to a key piece of writing on the American Dream and perform these new creative responses in collaboration with an all star band. \nWith \nMarc Bamuthi Joseph \nMino Yanci \nAmbrose Akinmusire \nAdam Mansbach \nZoé Samudzi \nJanae Johnson \nMona Webb \nJeff Chang \nRyan Peters \nLauren Whitehead \nTongo Eisen-Martin \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfjazz-poetry-festival-american-dream-states/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival: American Dream States Curated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Marc Bamuthi Joseph
DESCRIPTION:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival: American Dream States \nCurated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Marc Bamuthi Joseph \nSFJAZZ Center’s Joe Henderson Lab \n  \nThursday\, April 4 – Saturday\, April 6\, 7pm & 8:30pm \nSunday\, April 7\, 6pm & 7:30pm \nSFJAZZ.org \n  \nAmerican Dream States challenges writers of different genres to respond to a key piece of writing on the American Dream and perform these new creative responses in collaboration with an all star band. \n  \nWith \nMarc Bamuthi Joseph\nMino Yanci\nAmbrose Akinmusire\nAdam Mansbach\nZoé Samudzi\nJanae Johnson\nMona Webb\nJeff Chang\nRyan Peters\nLauren Whitehead\nTongo Eisen-Martin \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfjazz-poetry-festival-american-dream-states-curated-by-sfjazz-poet-laureate-marc-bamuthi-joseph/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival: American Dream States Curated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Marc Bamuthi Joseph
DESCRIPTION:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival: American Dream States \nCurated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Marc Bamuthi Joseph \nSFJAZZ Center’s Joe Henderson Lab \nThursday\, April 4 – Saturday\, April 6\, 7pm & 8:30pm \nSunday\, April 7\, 6pm & 7:30pm \nSFJAZZ.org \nAmerican Dream States challenges writers of different genres to respond to a key piece of writing on the American Dream and perform these new creative responses in collaboration with an all star band. \nWith \nMarc Bamuthi Joseph\nMino Yanci\nAmbrose Akinmusire\nAdam Mansbach\nZoé Samudzi\nJanae Johnson\nMona Webb\nJeff Chang\nRyan Peters\nLauren Whitehead\nTongo Eisen-Martin \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfjazz-poetry-festival-american-dream-states-curated-by-sfjazz-poet-laureate-marc-bamuthi-joseph-2/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Managing California: Governor Newsom's Chief of Staff Ann O'Leary
DESCRIPTION:Ann O’Leary is Governor Gavin Newsom’s Chief of Staff. In that role\, she is charged with helping to manage the 5th largest economy in the world. She is one of most important political figures in California and she is the one is the room. How is she thinking about her role? How will she help the Governor prioritize and strategize? What are her goals? Who is this incredible woman? \nCome join the discussion and meet Ann! \nMore about Ann below: \nAnn O’Leary is Chief of Staff to the Governor of California\, Gavin Newsom. Prior to joining the Governor’s office\, O’Leary was a law partner at Boies Schiller Flexner LLP where she focused her practice on representing tech companies\, philanthropies and non-profit organizations\, and led numerous pro bono efforts. O’Leary brings decades of experience in government\, politics\, social policy\, and non-profit leadership. She served as Senior Policy Advisor to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and Co-Executive Director of the Clinton-Kaine Transition Project. She co-founded the national non-profit organization\, the Opportunity Institute\, as a continuation of her work as Senior Vice President of Next Generation– where she launched a national early childhood education initiative “Too Small to Fail” in collaboration with the Clinton Foundation. \nEarlier in her career\, she was a Deputy City Attorney in San Francisco; Executive Director of UC Berkeley Law’s Center on Health\, Economic and Family Security; the legislative director for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton; and a policy advisor with the White House Domestic Policy Council under President William Jefferson Clinton. O’Leary has served on numerous non-profit boards\, including KQED\, the San Francisco Bay Area’s NPR and PBS affiliate; the Center for Educational Excellence in Alternative Settings\, which works in key communities across the South to equip incarcerated young people with the academic\, workforce and social emotional skills they need to be successful; and\, the East Bay Community Law Center\, which provides free legal services to low-income community members. She holds a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College\, a M.A. in Education Policy from Stanford University\, and a J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law. Ann is the proud mother of a 6th grader and 3rd grader\, and is the first Chief of Staff to a California Governor to hold the job while parenting school age children (and she is a very grateful co-equal coparent with Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court Goodwin Liu).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/managing-california-governor-newsoms-chief-of-staff-ann-oleary/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Random Poetics
DESCRIPTION:What is poetry? What is the poet’s role? Is there a future for this ancient art? Does poetry constitute An ideology Poet Neeli Cherkovski will talk on these and other issues\, In a provocative evening in Glen Park
URL:https://litseen.com/event/random-poetics/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival: American Dream States Curated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Marc Bamuthi Joseph
DESCRIPTION:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival: American Dream States \nCurated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Marc Bamuthi Joseph \nSFJAZZ Center’s Joe Henderson Lab \nThursday\, April 4 – Saturday\, April 6\, 7pm & 8:30pm \nSunday\, April 7\, 6pm & 7:30pm \nSFJAZZ.org \nAmerican Dream States challenges writers of different genres to respond to a key piece of writing on the American Dream and perform these new creative responses in collaboration with an all star band. \nWith \nMarc Bamuthi Joseph\nMino Yanci\nAmbrose Akinmusire\nAdam Mansbach\nZoé Samudzi\nJanae Johnson\nMona Webb\nJeff Chang\nRyan Peters\nLauren Whitehead\nTongo Eisen-Martin
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfjazz-poetry-festival-american-dream-states-curated-by-sfjazz-poet-laureate-marc-bamuthi-joseph-3/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:RACHEL CUSK In Conversation with Steven Winn
DESCRIPTION:RACHEL CUSK\nIn Conversation with Steven Winn\nMonday\, April 8\, 2019\, 9:00 am\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nRachel Cusk is a writer of considerable range and depth. She is the author of nine novels including David Agnes\, The Lucky Ones\, and The Bradshaw Variations\, three nonfiction books including A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother and the memoir The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy\, a play\, and numerous essays. Her most recent trilogy —  Outline\, Transit\, and Kudos — embodies a new\, and distinctive style for Cusk. The books take the form of a succession of monologues delivered not by the protagonist\, but by the people she encounters. Little is revealed about a central character who serves principally as a conduit for others’ experiences and reflections\, but the themes and questions that arise from those stories are weighty\, as is Cusk’s choice to subvert traditional positions and form. Cusk’s new collection\, Coventry\, encompasses memoir\, cultural criticism\, and writing about literature\, with pieces on family life\, gender\, and politics\, and on D. H. Lawrence\, and Elena Ferrante.       \nPlease note: this event is at 9AM
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-cusk-in-conversation-with-steven-winn/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Gallery Chat and Book Signing: Eddy Portnoy
DESCRIPTION:Eddy Portnoy\, best-selling author of “Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press\,” returns with more stories about Jews behaving badly in early twentieth-century New York. Book sales and signing to follow. \nPresented in conjunction with Lew the “Jew and His Circle: Origins of American Tattoo\,” an exhibition that examines the work of “Lew the Jew” Alberts (born Albert Morton Kurzman\, 1880-1954)\, one of America’s most influential tattoo artists at the beginning of the twentieth century. \nAn expert on Jewish popular culture\, Eddy Portnoy has an MA in Yiddish from Columbia and a PhD in Jewish history from the Jewish Theological Seminary. He currently serves as Academic Advisor for the Max Weinreich Center and Exhibition Curator at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. \nFREE with regular admission as follows: General Admission\, $14; Students with a valid ID and Seniors\, $12; Members and Youth 18 and under\, free. \nPresented by Contemporary Jewish Museum.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gallery-chat-and-book-signing-eddy-portnoy/
LOCATION:Contemporary Jewish Museum\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
DESCRIPTION:discussing \nLoaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment \npublished by City Lights Books \n\n“Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s Loaded is like a blast of fresh air. She is no fan of guns or of our absurdly permissive laws surrounding them. But she does not merely take the liberal side of the familiar debate.”—Adam Hochschild\, The New York Review of Books \n“If . . . anyone at all really wants to ‘get to the root causes of gun violence in America\,’ they will need to start by coming to terms with even a fraction of what Loaded proposes.”—Los Angeles Review of Books \n“Her analysis\, erudite and unrelenting\, exposes blind spots not just among conservatives\, but\, crucially\, among liberals as well. . . . As a portrait of the deepest structures of American violence\, Loaded is an indispensable book.”—The New Republic \nWith President Trump suggesting that teachers arm themselves\, with the NRA portrayed as a group of “patriots” helping to Make America Great Again\, with high school students across the country demanding a solution to the crisis\, everyone in America needs to engage in the discussion about our future with an informed\, historical perspective on the role of guns in our society. America is at a critical turning point. What is the future for our children? \nLoaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment\, is a deeply researched—and deeply disturbing—history of guns and gun laws in the United States\, from the original colonization of the country to the present. As historian and educator Dunbar-Ortiz explains\, in order to understand the current obstacles to gun control\, we must understand the history of U.S. guns\, from their role in the “settling of America” and the early formation of the new nation\, and continuing up to the present. \nPraise for Loaded: \n“Dunbar-Ortiz’s argument will be disturbing and unfamiliar to most readers\, but her evidence is significant and should not be ignored.”—Publishers Weekly \n” . . . gun love is as American as apple pie—and that those guns have often been in the hands of a powerful white majority to subjugate minority natives\, slaves\, or others who might stand in the way of the broadest definition of Manifest Destiny.”—Kirkus Reviews \n“Trigger warning! This is a superb and subtle book\, not an intellectual safe space for confirming your preconceptions—whatever those might be—but rather a deeply necessary provocation.”—Christian Parenti\, author of Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis \n“Loaded recognizes the central truth about our ‘gun culture’: that the privileged place of guns in American law and society is the by-product of the racial and class violence that has marked our history from its beginnings.”—Richard Slotkin\, author of Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America \n“From an eminent scholar comes this timely and urgent intervention on U.S. gun culture. Loaded is a high-impact assault on the idea that Second Amendment rights were ever intended for all Americans. A timely antidote to our national amnesia about the white supremacist and settler colonialist roots of the Second Amendment.”—Caroline Light\, author of Stand Your Ground: A History of America’s Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense \n“Loaded unleashes a sweeping and unsettling history of gun laws in the United States\, beginning with anti-Native militias and anti-Black slave patrols. From the roots of white men armed to forge the settler state\, the Second Amendment evolved as a tool for protecting white\, male property owners. It’s a must read for anyone who wants to uncover the long fetch of contemporary Second Amendment battles.”—Kelly Lytle Hernandez\, City of Inmates: Conquest\, Rebellion\, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles\, 1771-1965 \n“Now\, in Loaded\, she widens her lens to propose that the addiction to violence characteristic of American domestic institutions also derives from the frontiersman’s belief in solving problems by killing. Whether expressed in individual cruelty like the collection of scalps or group barbarism by settler colonialists calling themselves ‘militias\,’ violence has become an ever-widening theme of life in the United States.”—Staughton Lynd\, author of Class Conflict\, Slavery\, and the United States Constitution \n“For anyone who believes we need more than ‘thoughts and prayers’ to address our national gun crisis\, Loaded is required reading. Beyond the Second Amendment\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz presents essential arguments missing from public debate. She forces readers to confront hard truths about the history of gun ownership\, linking it to ongoing structures of settler colonialism\, white supremacy\, and racial capitalism. These are the open secrets of North American history. It is our anxious denial as much as our public policies that perpetrate violence. Only by coming to peace with our history can we ever be at peace with ourselves. This\, for me\, is the great lesson of Loaded.”—Christina Heatherton\, co-editor of Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter \n“Roxanne Dunbar-Oritz’s Loaded argues U.S. history is quintessential gun history\, and gun history is a history of racial terror and genocide. In other words\, gun culture has never been about hunting. From crushing slave rebellions to Indigenous resistance\, arming individual white settler men has always been the strategy for maintaining racial and class rule and for taking Indigenous land from the founding of the settler nation to the present. With clarity and urgency\, Dunbar-Ortiz asks us not to think of our current moment as an exceptional era of mass-shootings. Instead\, the very essence of the Second Amendment and the very project of U.S. ‘settler democracy’ has required immense violence that began with Indigenous genocide and has expanded to endless war-making across the globe. This is a must read for any student of U.S. history.”—Nick Estes\, author of the forthcoming book Our History is the Future: Mni Wiconi and Native Liberation \n“With her usual unassailable rigor for detail and deep perspective\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has potentially changed the debate about gun control in the United States. She meticulously and convincingly argues that U.S. gun culture—and the domestic and global massacres that have flowed from it—must be linked to an understanding of the ideological\, historical\, and practical role of guns in seizing Native American lands\, black enslavement\, and global imperialism. This is an essential work for policy-makers\, street activists\, and educators who are concerned with Second Amendment debates\, #blacklivematters campaigns\, global peace\, and community-based security.”—Clarence Lusane\, Chairman and Professor of Political Science at Howard University and author of The Black History of the White House \n“Just what did the founding fathers intend the Second Amendment to do? Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s answer to that question will unsettle liberal gun control advocates and open-carry aficionados alike. She follows the bloodstains of today’s mass shootings back to the slave patrols and Indian Wars. There are no easy answers here\, just the tough reckoning with history needed to navigate ourselves away from a future filled with more tragedies.“—James Tracy\, co-author of Hillbilly Nationalists\, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times \n“Gun violence\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz compellingly shows\, is as U.S. American as apple pie. This important book peels back the painful and bloody layers of gun culture in the United States\, and exposes their deep roots in the killing and dispossession of Native peoples\, slavery and its aftermath\, and U.S. empire-making. They are roots with which all who are concerned with matters of justice\, basic decency\, and the enduring tragedy of the U.S. love affair with guns must grapple.”—Joseph Nevins\, author of Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid \n“Loaded is a masterful synthesis of the historical origins of violence and militarism in the US. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reminds us of what we’ve chosen to forget at our own peril: that from mass shootings to the routine deployment of violence against civilians by the US military\, American violence flows from the normalization of racialized violence in our country’s founding history.”—Johanna Fernández\, Assistant Professor of History at Baruch College of the City University\, and author of the forthcoming book\, When the World Was Their Stage: A History of the Young Lords Party\, 1968–1976 \n“More than a history of the Second Amendment\, this is a powerful history of the forging of white nationalism and empire through racist and naked violence. Explosively\, it also shows how even liberal—and some leftist—pop culture icons have been complicit in the myth-making that has shrouded this potent historical truth.”—Gerarld Horne\, author of The Counter Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the USA \n“Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has done an outstanding job of resituating the so-called gun debate into the context of race and settler colonialism. The result is that the discussion about individual gun ownership is no longer viewed as an abstract moral question and instead understood as standing at the very foundation of U.S. capitalism. My attention was captured from the first page.”—Bill Fletcher\, Jr.\, former president of TransAfrica Forum and syndicated writer \n“Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz provides a brilliant decolonization of the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution. She describes how the ‘savage wars’ against Indigenous Peoples\, slave patrols (which policing in the U.S. originates from)\, today’s mass shootings\, and the rise in white Nationalism are connected to the Second Amendment. This is a critically important work for all social science disciplines.”—Michael Yellow Bird\, professor and director of Tribal and Indigenous Peoples Studies at North Dakota State University \n“This explosive\, ground-breaking book dispels the confusion and shatters the sanctimony that surrounds the Second Amendment\, revealing the colonial\, racist core of the right to bear arms. You simply cannot understand the United States and its disastrous gun-mania without the brilliant Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz as a guide.”—Astra Taylor\, author of The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age \n“There is no more interesting historian of the United States than Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. And with Loaded she has done it again\, taking a topic about which so much has already been written\, distilling it down\, turning it inside out\, and allowing us to see American history anew.”—Walter Johnson\, author of River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Mississippi Valley’s Cotton Kingdom \n“Not only does it rank as one of the most insightful and brilliant books on the layered and deeply textured analysis of the second amendment\, gun culture\, racism\, and white supremacy\, among other issues\, that I have read in years\, but the writing is just lyrical and poetic. A model for combining social commitment\, theoretical rigorousness\, and accessibility. Certainly will be using in my classes.”—Henry Giroux\, author of American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism \nRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma\, the daughter of a tenant farmer and part-Indian mother. She is the author of many books\, including Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment\, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States\, Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie\, Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico\, and Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War. She is the recipient of the Cultural Freedom Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the Lannan Foundation\, and she lives in San Francisco\, CA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:DESTINY BEYOND EARTH: INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL & IMMORTALITY WITH DR. MICHIO KAKU In Conversation with Alexis Madrigal
DESCRIPTION:DESTINY BEYOND EARTH: INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL & IMMORTALITY WITH DR. MICHIO KAKU\nIn Conversation with Alexis Madrigal\nMonday\, April 8\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Conversations on Science \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nDr. Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist and futurist\, and the co-founder of string field theory\, a branch of the theoretical framework of string theory. His work follows the directive of Einstein\, attempting to develop a Theory of Everything that unites the four fundamental forces of the universe. His books include The Future of the Mind\, Physics of the Future\, Physics of the Impossible\, and Parallel Worlds. His most recent\, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars\, Interstellar Travel\, Immortality\, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth considers the concrete\, scientific possibility of moving human civilization to outer space\, drawing upon astrophysics\, artificial intelligence\, and cutting-edge developments in robotics\, nanotechnology\, and biotechnology to make a case for the potentials of sustainable human life as it intersects with new technology. Dr. Kaku is also the science correspondent for CBS: This Morning\, host of two weekly science radio programs\, Science Fantastic and Explorations in Science and a Professor in Theoretical Physics at the City University of New York.\n\n\nAlexis Madrigal is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology. He created and hosted Containers\, a podcast about the machinery of global capitalism and the city of Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/destiny-beyond-earth-interstellar-travel-immortality-with-dr-michio-kaku-in-conversation-with-alexis-madrigal-2/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:DESTINY BEYOND EARTH: INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL & IMMORTALITY WITH DR. MICHIO KAKU
DESCRIPTION:DESTINY BEYOND EARTH: INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL & IMMORTALITY WITH DR. MICHIO KAKU\nIn Conversation with Alexis Madrigal\nMonday\, April 8\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Conversations on Science \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nDr. Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist and futurist\, and the co-founder of string field theory\, a branch of the theoretical framework of string theory. His work follows the directive of Einstein\, attempting to develop a Theory of Everything that unites the four fundamental forces of the universe. His books include The Future of the Mind\, Physics of the Future\, Physics of the Impossible\, and Parallel Worlds. His most recent\, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars\, Interstellar Travel\, Immortality\, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth considers the concrete\, scientific possibility of moving human civilization to outer space\, drawing upon astrophysics\, artificial intelligence\, and cutting-edge developments in robotics\, nanotechnology\, and biotechnology to make a case for the potentials of sustainable human life as it intersects with new technology. Dr. Kaku is also the science correspondent for CBS: This Morning\, host of two weekly science radio programs\, Science Fantastic and Explorations in Science and a Professor in Theoretical Physics at the City University of New York.\n\n\nAlexis Madrigal is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology. He created and hosted Containers\, a podcast about the machinery of global capitalism and the city of Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/destiny-beyond-earth-interstellar-travel-immortality-with-dr-michio-kaku/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:DISCOVERY
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Public Works SF for six stories of rigorous inquiry and accidental revelations\, seeking the unfamiliar and encountering the unknown\, and uncovering the uncharted\nODD SALON: DISCOVERY\n  \nTuesday\, April 9th 2019 \nDoors open for pre-salon cocktail hour at 6:30\, Talks begin at 7:30 \nReserved Seats available. General Admission seats are first come\, first served. \n*Discounted Early Bird Tickets are available only up to Midnight\, Monday Feb18.* \n  \nJoin our growing membership for ticket discounts and Members-only opportunities. Find out more: Odd Salon Membership \nGET TICKETS>
URL:https://litseen.com/event/discovery/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Happy Endings
DESCRIPTION:Because everyone deserves a Happy Ending!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-endings/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:RUTH REICHL In Conversation with Steven Winn
DESCRIPTION:RUTH REICHL\nIn Conversation with Steven Winn\nTuesday\, April 9\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nRuth Reichl is the bestselling author of the memoirs Tender at the Bone\, Comfort Me With Apples\, Garlic and Sapphires\, andFor You\, Mom\, Finally; the novel Delicious!. She was editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine for ten years. Previously she was the restaurant critic for The New York Times and served as the food editor and restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Times. She has been honored with six James Beard Awards for her journalism\, magazine feature writing\, and criticism. Her forthcoming memoir\, Save Me the Plums\, will be published in April 2019. \n  \nSteven Winn is a fiction writer and award-winning arts journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times\, Good Housekeeping\, Southern Poetry Review\, and Sports Illustrated. Winn spent 28 years at the San Francisco Chronicle\, the last six as the Arts and Culture Critic. He is the author of Come Back\, Como.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ruth-reichl-in-conversation-with-steven-winn/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rachel Howard Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Howard joins us to launch her new novel\, The Risk of Us. \n\nPraise for The Risk of Us \n“An emotionally complex and amazingly suspenseful novel about love and fear.”—Jenny Offill\, author of Dept. of Speculation \n“I’ve never read anything so beautiful about the intricacies of adoption—the process itself\, and the seldom-talked-about aftermath. The prose is elegant and compressed; I often had to stop reading to catch my breath. Anyone who has ever loved a child\, in any capacity\, should read this book.”— Jamie Quatro\, author of I Want to Show You More and Fire Sermon \n“Rachel Howard’s The Risk of Us (so accurately titled) is a novel of deep pain yet also laughs—lots of them. Nothing is easy in this book\, and that’s as it should be. With risk comes a kind of awesome grace. A wonderfully written and candid examination of what it means to be a family.”— Peter Orner\, author of Last Car over the Sagamore Bridge and Love and Shame and Love \n\nAbout The Risk of Us \nA poignant\, dazzling debut novel about a woman who longs to be a mother and the captivating yet troubled child she and her husband take in. \nWhat is the cost of motherhood? When The Risk of Us opens\, we meet a forty-something woman who deeply wants to become a mother. The path that opens up to her and her husband takes them through the foster care system\, with the goal of adoption. And when seven-year-old Maresa—with inch-deep dimples and a voice that can beam to the moon–comes into their lives\, their hearts fill with love. But her rages and troubles threaten to crack open their marriage. Over the course of a year\, as Maresa approaches the age at which children become nearly impossible to place\, the couple must decide if they can be the parents this child needs\, and finalize the adoption—or\, almost unthinkably\, give her up. \nFor fans of Jenny Offill and Rachel Cusk\, The Risk of Us deftly explores the inevitable tests children bring to a marriage\, the uncertainties of family life\, and the ways true empathy obliterates our defenses.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-howard-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:Freud's Bar - - details to come!
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday April 10\n6:30pm\nAd Event \nEAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is pleased to host another installment of Freud’s Bar on Wednesday\, April 10th at 6:30pm. Presenter tbd. \nAre you interested in the world of psychology but afraid you may not understand all of the terms and jargon? Join us for monthly talks given by local Bay Area psychoanalysts. You don’t need to be a psychologist to check out Freud’s Bar. Just bring your interest and a friend! \n  \n  \n  \nABOUT THE PRESENTER \nmore to come! \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, April 10\, 2019 – 6:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/freuds-bar-details-to-come/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 7 pm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-club-3/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
DESCRIPTION:reading from \nMinutes of Glory and Other Stories \npublished by The New Press \nA dazzling short story collection from the person Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls “one of the greatest writers of our time” \n\n\n\nNgũgĩ wa Thiong’o\, although renowned for his novels\, memoirs\, and plays\, honed his craft as a short story writer. From “The Fig Tree” (“Mugumo” in this collection)\, written in 1960\, his first year as an undergraduate at Makerere University College in Uganda\, to the playful “The Ghost of Michael Jackson\,” written as a professor at the University of California\, Irvine\, these collected stories reveal a master of the short form. \nCovering the period of British colonial rule and resistance in Kenya to the bittersweet experience of independence—and including two stories that have never before been published in the United States— Ngũgĩ’s collection features women fighting for their space in a patriarchal society; big men in their Bentleys who have inherited power from the British; and rebels who still embody the fighting spirit of the downtrodden. One of Ngũgĩ’s most beloved stories\, “Minutes of Glory\,” tells of Beatrice\, a sad but ambitious waitress who fantasizes about being feted and lauded over by the middle-class clientele in the city’s beer halls. Her dream leads her on a witty and heartbreaking adventure. \nPublished for the first time in America\, Minutes of Glory and Other Stories is a major literary event that celebrates the storytelling might of one of Africa’s best-loved writers. \nOne of the leading writers and scholars at work today\, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was born in Limuru\, Kenya\, in 1938. He is the author of A Grain of Wheat; Weep Not\, Child; and Petals of Blood\, as well as Birth of a Dream Weaver\, Wrestling with the Devil\, and Minutes of Glory (all from The New Press).\nCurrently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California\, Irvine\, Ngũgĩ is recipient of twelve honorary doctorates\, among other awards. \nWhat has been said about the work of \n\n\n\nThis thrilling testament to the human spirit had\, for me\, a fierce resonance. . . . I could not help feeling that his luminous words were meant for those victims and many others being persecuted across the world\, a way of urging humanity to never surrender to the demons of fear and silence. (Ariel Dorfman\, The New York Times Book Review) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Engrossing … At once exhilarating and defiant\, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s memoir is a thought-provoking document of a grim time in Kenyan history.” (Publishers Weekly) \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Washington Post reviews Birth of a Dream Weaver\, saying “every page ripples with a contagious faith in education and in the power of literature to shape the imagination and scour the conscience.” (The Washington Post) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ngugi-wa-thiongo-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:STILL PROCESSING with Jenna Wortham & Wesley Morris
DESCRIPTION:STILL PROCESSING\nwith Jenna Wortham & Wesley Morris\nWednesday\, April 10\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\n\nCo-presented with The New York Times \n\nJenna Wortham is the co-host of The New York Times arts and culture podcast Still Processing\, and a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. Wortham was previously a tech writer for The New York Times\, and now writes on a multitude of subjects ranging between arts and culture\, technology\, and social media\, with a focus on the contributions of black\, queer women. Wortham writes a semi-regular newsletter\, Fermentation and Formation\, and collaborates on Bloop\, a twist on Gwyneth Paltrow’s newsletter Goop\, targeted toward black women. \nCo-host of Still Processing\, Wesley Morris is also a critic-at-large for The New York Times\, regularly reviewing film\, television\, and other popular culture events through a socially conscious lens. Morris received the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism “for his smart\, inventive film criticism\, distinguished by pinpoint prose and an easy traverse between the art house and the big-screen box office.”  He was previously a film critic at The Boston Globe\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, and The San Francisco Examiner\, and a staff writer and Sportstorialist columnist at Grantland. He was also the co-host of Grantland’s film and pop culture podcast\, “Do You Like Prince Movies?” \nThis event is produced in collaboration with
URL:https://litseen.com/event/still-processing-with-jenna-wortham-wesley-morris/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Leslie Carol Roberts
DESCRIPTION:Leslie Carol Roberts discusses her new book\, Here Is Where I Walk. \n\nAbout Here is Where I Walk \nIt is in the Presidio of San Francisco\, California\, that Leslie Carol Roberts walks. The Presidio\, America’s only residential national park tucked wholly into an urban setting\, is a fading historic forest. Here is where Leslie’s memories of other places\, people\, and travels emerge. Here is where the author’s home has been for more than a decade and here is the place she raised her two children as a single mother. \nIn this thickly textured literary treasure\, Leslie turns her daily journeys\, rich with observation and recollection\, into revelations of deeper meaning. Through her daily walks into the Presidio\, Leslie accepts the invitation of the beckoning trees and finds herself colliding with the urban coyote\, the peculiar banana slug\, and the manzanita. She notes both ridiculous and poignant aspects of human ecosystems—parents bragging about Austrian ski vacations\, grocery stores packed with nannies—all in pursuit of what it means to live a life of creativity and creation. \nThe twelve episodes\, each connected to a month of the year and interwoven with field notebooks\, explore everything from Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone in the fields where he spoke with the birds to the work of Western botanist Alice Eastwood. Leslie reflects on the high school art teacher who first inspired her thinking about aesthetics\, the tragic accident that left her severely injured\, her subsequent work as a college professor teaching writing\, and the loss of a beloved student to cancer. In all this\, places of exquisite beauty and complexity provide her with exactly the scaffolding needed to survive\, with nature serving as a tonic. Here Is Where I Walk provides a vivid answer to how we can find our place\, not only in nature but within ourselves and the world we walk.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/leslie-carol-roberts/
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:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:Thu\, April 11\, 6:30pm – 9:00pm\nDescriptionSponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. This month’s readers TBD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-our-monthly-bilingual-poetry-series-and-open-mic-29/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Timothy Hampton
DESCRIPTION:Zone Books in conjunction with City Lights present \nan evening of discussion centering around the release of Timonthy Hampton’s new book \nBob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work \nfrom Zone Books \n\n\nBob Dylan’s reception of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature has elevated him beyond the world of popular music\, establishing him as a major modern artist. However\, until now\, no study of his career has focused on the details and nuances of the songs\, showing how they work as artistic statements designed to create meaning and elicit emotion. Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work is the first comprehensive book on both the poetics and politics of Dylan’s compositions. It studies Dylan\, not as a pop hero\, but as an artist\, as a maker of songs. Focusing on the interplay of music and lyric\, it traces Dylan’s innovative use of musical form\, his complex manipulation of poetic diction\, and his dialogues with other artists\, from Woody Guthrie to Arthur Rimbaud. Moving from Dylan’s earliest experiments with the blues\, through his mastery of rock and country\, up to his densely allusive recent recordings\, Timothy Hampton offers a detailed account of Dylan’s achievement. Locating Dylan in the long history of artistic modernism\, the book studies the relationship between form\, genre\, and the political and social themes that crisscross Dylan’s work. Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work offers both a nuanced engagement with the work of a major artist and a meditation on the contribution of song at times of political and social change. \nTimothy Hampton is a writer\, scholar\, teacher\, and translator based in Northern California. Raised in the Rockies\, educated in New Mexico\, Europe\, Canada\, and on the East Coast\, he is primarily a scholar of the Romance Languages\, and of the literature and culture of the Renaissance. His particular research interests include the relationship between literature and politics\, the philosophy of history\, and the transmission of culture. He has written widely on literature in its many forms (epic\, lyric\, dramatic\, novelistic) across several languages and national traditions. Recently\, he has been working on the history of emotion\, on multilingualism\, and on popular music. He is Professor of Comparative Literature and French at the University of California at Berkeley\, where he holds the Aldo Scaglione and Marie M. Burns Distinguished Professorship and directs the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities. \nwhat has been said about Timothy Hampton’s writing: \n“This is an essential Dylan book and unlike any other. Hampton left me with a deeper appreciation of Dylan’s uniqueness as both songwriter and singer; his methods\,his lyrical and poetic brilliance\, his many voices.” — Dean Wareham\, musician (Galaxie 500\, Luna) and author of Black Postcards \n“This is a truly powerful book written by one of the leading scholars of the history of poetry today. The writing is clear and intellectually most exciting: Dylan’s idiosyncratic genius is explained more compellingly than ever before. Hampton remains relevant\, exciting\, and persuasively accurate as he shows the genesis of the songs as musical and literary forms and assesses their originality. Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work will become a standard account\, destined to appear in class lists under ‘required reading’; it contains the searching close readings of songs that will both enable future study and require contestation for an alternative account: the study sets a gold standard.”–Nigel Smith\, William and Annie S. Paton Foundation Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature\, Princeton University \n“From classrooms to the Supreme Court to the street corner\, nobody doesn’t know Dylan songs. Yet there is surprising little writing that addresses exactly how the songs speak to us and weave themselves into the web of American language. Timothy Hampton’s Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work is a rigorous model for how this kind of critical analysis can be done. Hampton’s well-written book is the first one I would recommend to someone fascinated and mystified by Dylan’s half a century of ranging among the things that songs can articulate.”– Charles O. Hartman\, Poet in Residence at Connecticut College
URL:https://litseen.com/event/timothy-hampton/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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