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SUMMARY:Virtual event: Angela Chen and Sherronda J. Brown on Asexuality Possibilities
DESCRIPTION:Register for the Zoom event https://bit.ly/Asexuality09-01-21 or watch on live on YouTube.\n \nPresented by the San Francisco Public Library and The Booksmith: Angela Chen\, author of Ace\, and Sherronda J. Brown discuss asexuality\, the little-known sexual orientation\, and what all of us can learn–about desire\, identity\, culture\, and relationships–when we use an asexual lens to see the world.  \nAngela Chen is the author of Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire\, Society\, and the Meaning of Sex\, which was selected as one of the Best Books of 2020 by NPR. Her reporting and essays have also appeared in publications like The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Atlantic\, The Guardian\, Paris Review\, Lapham’s Quarterly\, and more.   \nSherronda J. Brown (she/they) is a Southern-grown essayist\, editor\, and storyteller with a focus on media analysis and cultural critique\, currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief of Wear Your Voice Magazine. In addition to writing and thinking about asexuality\, their special interests include Blackness and queerness in horror narratives.  \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-angela-chen-and-sherronda-j-brown-on-asexuality-possibilities/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library – Virtual Library
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:9th Ave: Shruti Swamy with Meng Jin
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, September 7th at 6pm PT when Shruti Swamy joins us to discuss her debut novel\, The Archer\, with Meng Jin at 9th Ave!\n\n\nMasks Required for In-Person Attendance\nRegister at the link below to join us online\nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_yBzAFdhjR2aJms0xtt-VkQ\n\n\nCan’t join us in person but want a personalized copy?\nOrder your copy of The Archer here by September 7\, write who you would like the book made out to in your order comment\, and we will handle the rest!\nYour order will ship after the event date.\n\n\nPraise for The Archer\n“This novel swallowed me whole. The Archer is the kind of book you always hope for: lush and sensual\, tasted and felt\, with striking images that play out like film behind the eyes. Swamy evokes an India that resists flat stereotype and teems with exuberance\, beauty\, and life. The Archer is timeless yet utterly modern as it asks what it means for a woman to make a life of art.” \n—C Pam Zhang\, author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold \n“Shruti Swamy is a writer to celebrate. Her fiction is provocative\, precise\, and gorgeously inventive.” \n—Megha Majumdar\, author of A Burning \n“This is a singular work\, a story of a dancer\, and of a hungry self seated at the table of womanness and desire and art\, told with unparalleled originality and elegance. Swamy writes with a thrilling clarity of vision that wakes the sleepwalker right into joyful consciousness. Every word is intimate\, honest\, ecstatic—utterly alive.” \n—Meng Jin\, author of Little Gods \nAbout The Archer\nKiese Laymon called Shruti Swamy’s debut book of stories\, A House Is a Body\, “one of the greatest short story collections of the 2020s.” Now\, Swamy brings us an accomplished and immersive coming-of-age novel set in the Bombay of the 1960s and 1970s.\n\nAs a child\, Vidya exists to serve her family\, watch over her younger brother\, and make sense of a motherless world. One day she catches sight of a class where the students are learning Kathak\, a precise\, dazzling form of dance that requires the utmost discipline and focus. Kathak quickly becomes the organizing principle of Vidya’s life\, even as she leaves home for college\, falls in love with her best friend\, and battles demands on her time\, her future\, and her body. Can Vidya give herself over to her art and also be a wife in Bombay’s carefully delineated society? Can she shed the legacy of her own imperfect\, unknowable mother? Must she\, herself\, also become a mother?\n\nIntensely lyrical and deeply sensual\, with writing as rhythmically mesmerizing as Kathak itself\, The Archer is about the transformative power of art and the possibilities that love can open when we’re ready.\n\nAbout Shruti Swamy\nShruti Swamy is the author of the story collection\, A House Is a Body\, which was a finalist for the Pen/Robert Bingham Prize\, the L.A. Times Book Prize for First Fiction\, and longlisted for the Story Prize. Her work has been published by the Paris Review\, McSweeney’s\, and anthologized in the O. Henry Prize Stories. Her debut novel\, The Archer\, will be published by Algonquin Books in September 2021. She lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-ave-shruti-swamy-with-meng-jin/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Reimagine Candlelight Vigil with Poet Victoria Chang
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, September 9 \n8:00pm–9:30pm EDT \n\n\nThis is a digital event. You should receive information in your ticket or from the host about how to join online. \n\nFree\nRSVP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAt this month’s Reimagine Candlelight Vigil\, our special guest is award-winning poet Victoria Chang. Let’s honor our loved ones and celebrate the transformation of loss into creativity.\n\nReimagine has been hosting candlelight vigils throughout the pandemic in order to break down taboos and hold space for all that we’ve lost. At this special gathering\, poet and writer Victoria Chang will read her work\, revisit themes explored in Reimagine’s Asian American Table Talk series\, and discuss the power of writing to discover meaning amidst grief and trauma. \nVictoria Chang \nVictoria Chang is the author of the forthcoming Dear Memory (Milkweed Editions\, 2021)\, a collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations. Her poetry books include OBIT\, Barbie Chang\, The Boss\, Salvinia Molesta\, and Circle. OBIT received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award\, and the PEN Voeckler Award; it was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Prize and the Griffin Poetry Prize\, and was long-listed for the National Book Award. She is also the author of a children’s picture book\, Is Mommy?\, illustrated by Marla Frazee and named a New York Times Notable Book\, and a middle grade novel\, Love\, Love. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Fellowship\, the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award\, a Pushcart Prize\, a Lannan Residency Fellowship\, and a Katherine Min MacDowell Colony Fellowship. She lives in Los Angeles and is the program chair of Antioch University’s low-residency MFA program. \n\n\n\nTYPE:\nRITUAL & CEREMONYTALK\, PANEL\, & CONVERSATIONWRITING & LITERATURECOMMUNITY GATHERINGCELEBRATION & REMEMBRANCE\n\nTRACK:\nARTS & ENTERTAINMENTCOVID-19GRIEF
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reimagine-candlelight-vigil-with-poet-victoria-chang/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Offsite: Tinder Live! with Lane Moore at Rickshaw Stop
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, September 9 at 8pm PT when author and comedian Lane Moore brings her hilarious Tinder Live! show to San Francisco’s beloved Rickshaw Stop!\nBook sales provided by Green Apple Books \n$20 standing adv / $25 limited seated adv (SOLD OUT) / $30 doors\nThis is an All Ages show\nAll attendees must be fully vaccinated and be able to show proof (card\, phone\, or QR code). Let’s keep everyone safe and sound during this return to live shows!* \nAbout Tinder Live!\nTinder Live has been named one of the best comedy shows in NYC for good reason. Produced and hosted by NYC based comedian\, Lane Moore (The Onion\, Brooklyn Magazine’s “50 Funniest People In Brooklyn\,” former Cosmopolitan Magazine sex & relationships editor\, and author of #1 bestseller\, How To Be Alone: If You Want To And Even If You Don’t\, praised as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times\, New York Magazine\, NPR\, Fast Company\, Marie Claire\, and many others)\, Tinder Live is a totally improvised\, anything-can-happen interactive comedy showstopper with helpful and oftentimes ridiculous Tinder tips\, tricks\, real-time swiping\, and messaging (and sometimes even real-time phone calls with Tinder matches)! You’ll relate to Moore’s live-swiping and laugh at her reactions and find inspiration in her ridiculous\, random emoji-filled messages (and sometimes even phone calls!) to would-be suitors. It’s also a great show to attend with a date\, Tinder or otherwise. \nBut don’t expect cheap shots…this show has a huge heart. In between laughs\, Lane reminds us how challenging it can be to find a match in the digital age. Even if you’ve never been on an online dating site\, you will love this show. \n“Tinder LIVE! is truly addictive entertainment…[it’s] ingenious. Moore transforms the banter on a dating app into compelling long-form improvisation. Ms. Moore\, a cagey and humane performer\, has developed an instinct for turning the raw materials of sexually charged chat with ordinary strangers into honed and generous jokes. “TinderLive” has a comic momentum and energy that is unusual. The way she manipulates tone and pace reveals an artist supremely confident in her form\, not to mention a flirt par excellence.” –The New York Times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/offsite-tinder-live-with-lane-moore-at-rickshaw-stop/
LOCATION:Rickshaw Stop\, 155 Fell St.\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon presents Anna North\, Vince Granata\, Tonya M. Foster\, Mia P. Manansala and Zoe FitzGerald Carter
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to partner with Babylon Salon for their Fall event\, featuring readings by Anna North\, Vince Granata\, Tonya M. Foster and Mia P. Manansala\, with music by Zoe Fitzgerald Carter! \nPlease note: this is a free\, virtual event. Zoom information will soon be announced here. \n\nAbout the authors \nAnna North is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the author of two previous novels\, America Pacifica and The Life and Death of Sophie Stark\, which received a Lambda Literary Award in 2016. She has been a writer and editor at Jezebel\, BuzzFeed\, Salon\, and the New York Times\, and she is now a senior reporter at Vox. She grew up in Los Angeles and lives in Brooklyn. Order her books: Outlawed and The Life and Death of Sophie Stark. \nVince Granata received his BA in history from Yale University and his MFA in creative writing from American University. He has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts\, the I-Park Foundation\, and the Ucross Foundation\, and residencies from PLAYA and the MacDowell Colony. His work has appeared in The Massachusetts Review\, The Chattahoochee Review\, and Fourth Genre\, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and listed as Notable in Best American Essays 2018. Order his book: Everything is Fine. \nTonya M. Foster is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court\, and the bilingual chapbook La Grammaire des Os; and coeditor of Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art. Her writing and research focus on ideas of place and emplacement\, and on intersections between the visual and the written. She is an editor at Fence Magazine\, and at The African-American Review. Her poetry\, prose\, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Callaloo\, Tripwire\, boundary2\, MiPOESIAS\, NYFA Arts Quarterly\, the Poetry Project Newsletter\, and elsewhere. Tonya is a recipient of awards and fellowships from the Ford and the Mellon Foundations\, from NYFA; and has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts and at the Macdowell colony. Her next collections are a cross-genre collection on New Orleans—A Mathematics of Chaos::Thingification (forthcoming from Ugly Presse 2021)\, and Monkey Talk\, a cross-genre series about race\, paranoia\, aesthestics\, and surveillance. She is an Assistant Professor at California College of the Arts. Order her book\, A Swarm of Bees in High Court \nMia P. Manansala (MAH-nahn-sah-lah) (she/her) is a writer and book coach from Chicago who loves books\, baking\, and bad-ass women. She uses humor (and murder) to explore aspects of the Filipino diaspora\, queerness\, and her millennial love for pop culture. She is the winner of the 2018 Hugh Holton Award\, the 2018 Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award\, the 2017 William F. Deeck – Malice Domestic Grant for Unpublished Writers\, and the 2016 Mystery Writers of America/Helen McCloy Scholarship. She’s also a 2017 Pitch Wars alum and 2018-2020 mentor. A lover of all things geeky\, Mia spends her days procrastibaking\, playing JRPGs and dating sims\, reading cozy mysteries\, and cuddling her dogs Gumiho\, Max Power\, and Bayley Banks (bonus points if you get all the references). Her debut novel\, Arsenic and Adobo\, came out May 4\, 2021 with Berkley/Penguin Random House and is the first in the Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery series. Order her book\, Arsenic and Adobo. \nZoe FitzGerald Carter is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School and has written for numerous publications including The New York Times\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, Salon and Vogue. Imperfect Endings won first place in the Pacific Northwest Writer’s Association’s literary contest\, was excerpted in O magazine and chosen as a finalist for the National MS Society’s Books for a Better Life Awards in the “Inspirational Memoir” category. It was also a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. Zoe is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto\, where she teaches memoir. She has also taught (and run) writing workshops from Hawaii to Vermont\, and currently teaches memoir and songwriting at Left Margin Lit in Berkeley\, CA. In the last couple of years\, she’s been focusing on her career as a musician. Her first CD\, Waiting for the Earthquake came out in 2017 and can be found on all the streaming platforms. Her new album\, Waterlines\, was released in 2021. Order her book\, Imperfect Endings. \n\nPlease note: this is a free\, virtual event. Zoom information will soon be announced here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-presents-anna-north-vince-granata-tonya-m-foster-mia-p-manansala-and-zoe-fitzgerald-carter/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual: Susan Nguyen\, Felicia Zamora\, Mai Der Vang
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, September 13th at 6pm PT when Susan Nguyen is joined by Mai Der Vang and Felicia Zamora for a reading celebrating her debut collection\, Dear Diaspora\, on Zoom! \nZoom Registration \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_QylrXyjITH2FjW2LW5ZmHg \nPraise for Dear Diaspora \n“Dear Diaspora is a capacious and wholly felt account of a speaker’s contending with place and memory. Susan Nguyen’s gorgeous book maps out the longing of a particular Vietnamese immigrant experience—in its main character\, the adolescent Suzi—and also captures\, through its documentary research\, a collection of voices of Vietnam War refugees in the aftermath. Against a backdrop of love and desire is the search to knit together a place of belonging and origin\, rooted both in the sensual world and in the realm of the imagination. Dear Diaspora is a heartbreaking and breathtaking debut.”—Cathy Linh Che\, author of Split \n“Susan Nguyen\, in Dear Diaspora\, asks: ‘At the center of your calamity\, what grows?’ Nguyen’s gorgeously rendered poems answer that question with language and imagination. There’s devastation in this book—an absent father figure\, displacement of the speaker\, a fragmented Vietnamese diaspora\, but out of this devastation emerges beauty. The speaker in this book collects broken things such as cicada wings that become whole in her rich internal world. Nguyen’s talent is palpable from the first line\, and what a gift this book is. In her poem ‘Grief as a Question\,’ Nguyen writes: ‘no one told me grief could be so ordinary.’ But out of grief and woundedness emerges a voice that is anything but ordinary.”—Victoria Chang\, author of Obit \n“‘Last night I had the American dream\,’ Nguyen writes\, puncturing the dream bubble in which ‘America’ exists as the only and inevitable state of success and belonging. In this collection\, diaspora\, specifically Vietnamese diaspora\, is verdant and lush—suffused with green light\, mustard greens\, grass and trees—blooming through the drought of American love for Nguyen’s speakers. The poems in Dear Diaspora offer us a lexicon we’ve needed to imagine how we might arrive at and receive one another better in land and language\, in memory and touch.”—Natalie Diaz\, author of Postcolonial Love Poem \nAbout Dear Diaspora \nDear Diaspora is an unapologetic reckoning with history\, memory\, and grief. Parting the weeds on a small American town\, this collection sheds light on the intersections of girlhood and diaspora. The poems introduce us to Suzi: ripping her leg hairs out with duct tape\, praying for ecstasy during Sunday mass\, dreaming up a language for buried familial trauma and discovering that such a language may not exist. Through a collage of lyric\, documentary\, and epistolary poems\, we follow Suzi as she untangles intergenerational grief and her father’s disappearance while climbing trees to stare at the color green and wishing that she wore Lucy Liu’s freckles. \nWinner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry\, Dear Diaspora scrutinizes our turning away from the trauma of our past and our complicity in its erasure. Suzi\, caught between enjoying a rundown American adolescence and living with the inheritances of war\, attempts to unravel her own inherited grief as she explores the multiplicities of identity and selfhood against the backdrop of the Vietnamese diaspora. In its deliberate interweaving of voices\, Dear Diaspora explores Suzi’s journey while bringing to light other incarnations of the refugee experience. \nAbout Susan Nguyen \nSusan Nguyen hails from Virginia but currently lives and writes in the desert. She earned her MFA in Poetry from Arizona State University\, where she won the Aleida Rodriguez Memorial Prize and fellowships from the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing. In 2018\, PBS NewsHour named her one of “three women poets to watch.” Her work appears in diagram\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. Her debut collection\, Dear Diaspora\, won the 2020 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Visit her at www.susanpoet.com. \nAbout Felicia Zamora \nFelicia Zamora is a poet\, educator\, and editor currently living in OH. She is the author of six books of poetry including: I Always Carry My Bones\, winner of the 2020 Iowa Poetry Prize released from the University of Iowa Press in April 2021\, Quotient forthcoming from Tinderbox Editions in 2021\, Body of Render\, winner of the 2018 Benjamin Saltman Award from Red Hen Press (2020)\, Instrument of Gaps (Slope Editions\, 2018)\, & in Open\, Marvel (Parlor Press\, 2018)\, and Of Form & Gather\, winner of the 2016 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize (University of Notre Dame Press). She’s received fellowships and residencies from CantoMundo\, Ragdale Foundation\, PLAYA\, Moth Magazine\, and Noepe Center at Martha’s Vineyard\, authored two chapbooks\, won the 2019 Wabash Prize for Poetry and the 2015 Tomaž Šalamun Prize\, and was the 2017 Poet Laureate of Fort Collins\, CO. Her poems and essays are found or forthcoming in AGNI\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day\, American Poetry Review\, Boston Review online\, Georgia Review\, Guernica\, Literary Hub\, Missouri Review Poem-of-the-Week\, Orion\, POETRY\, Poetry Daily\, Poetry International\, Prairie Schooner\, The Nation\, and others. She is an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Cincinnati and is the associate poetry editor for the Colorado Review. \nAbout Mai Der Vang \nMai Der Vang is the author of Yellow Rain (Graywolf Press\, 2021)\, and Afterland (Graywolf Press\, 2017)\, winner of the 2016 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets\, longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award in Poetry\, and a finalist for the 2018 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship\, she served as a Visiting Writer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her poetry has appeared in Poetry\, Tin House\, the American Poetry Review\, among other journals and anthologies. Her essays have been published in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, espnW\, and elsewhere. Mai Der also co-edited How Do I Begin: A Hmong American Literary Anthology with the Hmong American Writers’ Circle. A Kundiman fellow\, Mai Der has completed residencies at Civitella Ranieri and Hedgebrook. Born and raised in Fresno\, California\, she earned degrees from the University of California\, Berkeley and Columbia University. She teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Fresno State.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-susan-nguyen-felicia-zamora-mai-der-vang/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:On Radical Friendship
DESCRIPTION:The divides we experience within us and between us are not only a threat to our physical and emotional health-they are also the weapons and the outcomes of structural oppression. Meditation teacher and author Kate Johnson believes that through wise relationships it is possible to transform the barriers created by societal injustice. Drawing on her experiences as a leading meditation teacher and personal stories of growing up multiracial in a racist world\, Kate brings a fresh take on time-honored wisdom to help us connect more authentically with ourselves\, with our friends and family\, and within our communities. \nIn Kate’s latest book\, Radical Friendship\, she illuminates seven strategies to help us embody our deepest values in our relationships. Kate shares meditation and reflection practices to help everyone cultivate vibrant\, harmonious\, revolutionary friendships. Grounded in the Buddha’s teachings on spiritual friendship\, Kate offers us a path of depth and hope and shows us the importance of working toward collective wellbeing\, one relationship at a time. \nJoin licensed psychologist and CIIS faculty Elizabeth Markle for a conversation with Kate as they lead us on a journey to becoming better friends by offering ways to show up for each other’s liberation at every stage of a relationship. \nFree\, suggested donation of $10. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/event-calendar/johnson-kate-september-15-2021 publicprograms@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
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CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Grant Faulkner and Melanie Abrams
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON FRIDAY\, SEPTEMBER 17 AT 6PM PT WHEN GRANT FAULKNER DISCUSSES HIS BOOK ALL THE COMFORT SIN CAN PROVIDE WITH MELANIE ABRAMS AT 9TH AVE! \nMasks Required for In-Person\nJoin us online by registering at the link below \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GyfaQ2hGRuifzatEVoJfeg \nPraise for All the Comfort Sin Can Provide\n“Somewhere between sinister and gleeful the characters in Grant Faulkner’s story collection All the Comfort Sin Can Provide blow open pleasure—guilty pleasure\, unapologetic pleasure\, accidental pleasure\, repressed pleasure. Really\, at the heart of all identity is the reach for pleasure\, and then what actually comes\, all those moments of slippage where we do the wrong thing\, take a ridiculous risk\, double down on failure\, land in a forsaken place\, slip the mainstream of things enough to change and become. These characters exude beauty from their flaws. These stories are lit.”–Lidia Yuknavitch \n“Full of bad behavior and a ferocious desire for escape\, All the Comfort Sin Can Provide is a catalog of longing. Faulkner’s arresting characters broadcast their worst decisions from grimy motel rooms\, greasy kitchens\, and sprawling American highways\, each of them hellbent on the promise of something better.”–Kimberly King Parsons \n“All the Comfort Sin Can Provide delivers on the promise of Grant Faulkner’s daring debut with a follow-up collection of stories that excavates possibility\, salvation\, and the deceptive comforts one finds in so many pleasures.”–Adam Johnson \nAbout All the Comfort Sin Can Provide\nWith raw\, lyrical ferocity\, All the Comfort Sin Can Provide delves into the beguiling salve that sin can promise—tracing those hidden places most of us are afraid to acknowledge. In this collection of brutally unsentimental short stories\, Grant Faulkner chronicles dreamers\, addicts\, and lost souls who have trusted too much in wayward love\, the perilous balm of substances\, or the unchecked hungers of others\, but who are determined to find salvation in their odd definitions of transcendence. \nTaking us from hot Arizona highways to cold Iowa hotel rooms\, from the freedoms of the backwoods of New Mexico to the damnations of slick New York City law firms\, Faulkner creates a shard-sharp mosaic of desire that careens off the page—honest\, cutting\, and wise. \nAbout Grant Faulkner\nGrant Faulkner is the Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and the co-founder of 100 Word Story. He recently published the short story collection All the Comfort Sin Can Provide\, and he’s also the author of Fissures\, a collection of 100-word stories.  His essays on creativity have been published in The New York Times\, Poets & Writers\, LitHub\, Writer’s Digest\, and The Writer\, and his book\, The Art of Brevity\, is forthcoming in 2022. He also co-hosts Write-minded\, a weekly podcast on writing and publishing. \nAbout Melanie Abrams\nMelanie Abrams is the author of the novels Playing and Meadowlark and the forthcoming The Joy of Cannabis: 75 Ways to Amplify Your Life through the Science and Magic of Cannabis. She is a developmental editor and photographer and teaches writing at the University of California\, Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/grant-faulkner-and-melanie-abrams/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Colson Whitehead
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, September 17\, 2021\n7:30pm Pacific Time\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nTICKETS \n\n\nColson Whitehead is the author of ten works of fiction and nonfiction\, and is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction\, for Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad\, which also won the National Book Award. His new novel\, Harlem Shuffle\, is a gloriously entertaining novel of heists\, shakedowns\, and rip-offs set in Harlem in 1960s. \nA limited number of tickets include a copy of Harlem Shuffle. \nYou and your guests must be fully vaccinated to attend this event; proof of vaccination is required upon arrival. Full vaccination is defined as completion of the two-dose regimen of Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or one dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine administered two weeks or more in advance of the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/colson-whitehead-2/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210922T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210922T190000
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SUMMARY:Remember Who You Are with Friends of Pedro Gomez
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON THURSDAY\, SEPTEMBER 2 AT 6PM PT WHEN WE CELEBRATE THE BOOK REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE: WHAT PEDRO GOMEZ SHOWED US ABOUT BASEBALL AND LIFE IN-PERSON AT 9TH AVE \nFEATURING ROBIN CARR\, BRAD MANGIN\, BRIAN MURPHY\, MICHAEL ZAGARIS\, AND EDITOR STEVE KETTMANN \nMasks Requried for In-Person Attendance\nJoin us virtually by registering at the link below \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MTufp2aVSZOfDE3ZYCYkww \nAbout Remember Who You Are\nPedro Gomez of ESPN was a beloved figure in baseball. His death from sudden cardiac arrest on Feb. 7\, 2021\, unleashed an outpouring of heartfelt tributes. He was 58\, both a hard-nosed reporter and a smiling ambassador of the sport. These 62 personal essays soar beyond sports to delve into life lessons. \nPedro\, a proud Cuban American\, was known for his dramatic reporting from Havana. Fully and fluidly bilingual\, he did as much as anyone to bridge the wide gap that had existed between U.S.-born players and the Latin Americans now so important to the game’s vitality and future growth. He was also a family man who loved to talk about his three children\, Sierra\, Dante and Rio\, a Boston Red Sox prospect. Pedro was universally known as a smiling presence who brought out the best in people. His humanity and generosity of spirit shaped countless lives\, including one of his ESPN bosses\, Rob King\, who was so moved by Pedro’s advice to him—“Remember who you are”—that he printed up the words and posted them on the wall of his office in Bristol. King is one of a diverse collection of contributors whose personal essays turn Pedro’s shocking death into an occasion to reflect on the deeper truths of life we too often overlook. Part The Pride of Havana and part Tuesdays With Morrie\, part The Tender Bar and part Ball Four\, this is the rare essay collection that reads like a novel\, full of achingly honest emotion and painful insights\, a book about friendship\, a book about standing for something\, a book about joy and love. \nFormer New York Times writer Jack Curry writes about Pedro’s passion for live music\, and former Sports Illustrated writer Tim Kurkjian brings alive spring-training basketball games with executives like Sandy Anderson and Billy Beane and Pedro right in the mix. Detroit manager AJ Hinch and formers Texas manager Ron Washington both reveal that in their darkest hours Pedro gave them some of the best advice of their lives. \nHall of Famers Dennis Eckersley\, Tony La Russa\, Peter Gammons\, Ross Newhan\, Tracy Ringolsby and Dan Shaughnessy are among the contributors. So are likely future Hall of Famers Max Scherzer and Dusty Baker. Pulitzer-Prize-winning Washington Post war correspondent Steve Fainaru\, award-winning writers from Howard Bryant and Mike Barnicle to Tim Keown\, Ken Rosenthal and Dave Sheinin also contribute. Rounding out the mix are current and former ESPN stars including Rachel Nichols\, Shelley M. Smith\, Peter Gammons\, Bob Ley and Keith Olbermann. \nThis is a book to rekindle in any lapsed fan a love of going to the ballpark\, but it’s also a wakeup call that transcends sports. To any journalist\, worn down by the demands of a punishing job\, to anyone anywhere\, pummeled by pandemic times and the dark mood of the country in recent years\, these essays will light a spark to seize every opportunity to make a difference\, in your work and in the lives of people who matter to you.\nPraise for Remember Who You Are\n“Pedro Gomez was as kind as he was talented. I can think of no one else in the industry who would have inspired this many heartfelt essays by this diverse a group of writers\, ballplayers\, coaches\, and front office executives. Everyone loved and respected him. And while he left this earth way too soon\, his legacy will live on through his children and in the pages of this book.” —Molly Knight\, Author\, The Best Team Money Can Buy \n“The words in this collection share a common source—while they were crafted with the head\, they originated from the heart. The Gomez Rules are the Commandments for those who cover the game. All who have lived the baseball life should have followed all at some point. They should be etched in tablet.”—Broadcaster Ted Robinson \n“Reading Remember Who You Are took me on a journey from the day I met Pedro\, a smiling young scribe who was my new coworker\, who grew into a legend. These tributes not only reveal a man who was beloved by virtually all who knew him\, but also paint a vivid picture of our sports media tribe—the laughs\, the camaraderie\, the adventure\, the challenges. At the center of so much of it\, smiling and including all of us\, was Pedro. We will miss him so.” —Ann Killion\, Award-winning San Francisco Chronicle columnist
URL:https://litseen.com/event/remember-who-you-are-with-friends-of-pedro-gomez/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Katie Crouch and Rachel Levin
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON THURSDAY\, SEPTEMBER 23 AT 6PM PT WHEN KATIE CROUCH DISCUSSES HER LATEST NOVEL\, THE EMBASSY WIFE\, WITH RACHEL LEVIN AT 9TH AVE! \nMasks Required for In-Person Event\nJoin us online by registering at the link below \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_o3CKo2AqQ1GQEyWEmWdivA \nPraise for Embassy Wife\n“One of the novel’s greatest strengths is the omniscient third-person narration that oscillates focus between main and minor characters. The structure helps heighten the tension between characters\, the past and the present\, and Namibians and Americans. In addition to sketching complex characters with rich backstories\, Crouch excels at moving the plot forward while not missing any opportunity to observe the human condition. With wit and tenderness\, the novel explores the complicated nature of race\, power\, marriage\, colonization\, diplomacy\, and community. A sharp\, funny\, page-turning romp.” – Kirkus Reviews \n“Crouch’s…knowledge of expat life adds realism to this observant\, funny satire. Unpredictable twists lead to an ending where everyone may not get what they want\, but they get what they need. Suggest this one to fans of Meg Wolitzer and Maria Semple.” – Booklist  \n“Katie Crouch is an incredible writer – deft\, fearless\, super-smart and compassionate – and EMBASSYWIFE is one of the funniest\, sharpest\, most insightful novels I’ve read in a long time. It’s also a flat-out page-turner: I read it in a single\, feverish sitting; then again\, a second time\, trying to figure out how she pulled off such an intricately constructed narrative that manages to read so effortlessly. A tremendous novel by a writer who surprises and moves us with each new book. I can’t recommend this novel highly enough.”—Molly Antopol\, author of The UnAmericans \n“Keenly observed and expertly crafted\, Katie Crouch’s EMBASSY WIFE is a wickedly irresistible novel.”—Natalie Baszile\, author of Queen Sugar \nAbout Embassy Wife\nAmanda Evans is a trailing spouse: she has just arrived in Namibia\, mere weeks after giving up her lucrative Silicon Valley job\, as her husband\, Mark\, has accepted a Fulbright. Their marriage\, which seemed solid in the safety of home\, feels tenuous in the glaring heat of the Kalahari\, and when their daughter becomes involved an international conflict\, lines are drawn in the sand. \nMeanwhile\, Persephone Wilder is the wife of an American diplomat already stationed in Namibia. She takes her job as an Embassy Wife seriously\, and employs an intricate set of rules to navigate such problems as: how to dress in hundred-degree weather without showing too much skin\, how not to look drunk at embassy functions\, and how to eat roasted oryx with grace. However\, she suspects her husband may not actually the ambassador’s general counsel\, but in fact\, a secret agent in the CIA. Despite Persephone’s personal issues\, she is ever the embassy wife\, and graciously takes the new trailing spouse\, Amanda under her wing. \nBut once Amanda\, Mark and their daughter settle into the sub-Saharan desert\, it becomes clear that Mark\, who lived in Namibia two decades earlier\, had other reasons for returning to African soil. Mark\, it seems\, has unfinished business from twenty years prior\, and this journey is actually a quest to find a woman he left behind. \nPropulsive and provocative\, subversive\, smart and funny\, EMBASSY WIFE compellingly explores the limits of human resiliency and loyalty\, asking: How far will Amanda go to keep her family intact? How much corruptness can Persephone purposefully ignore? \nAnd what\, exactly\, does it mean to be an American abroad when you don’t like your country anymore? \nAbout Katie Crouch\nKatie Crouch is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Girls in Trucks. She is also the author of Men and Dogs\, Abroad and the YA series The Magnolia League. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Guardian\, McSweeney’s\, Tin House\, Slate\, and Salon. A MacDowell Fellow\, she teaches at Dartmouth College and lives in Vermont.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katie-crouch-and-rachel-levin/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210928T200000
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SUMMARY:Carolina de Robertis in Conversation\, The President and the Frog
DESCRIPTION:Carolina de Robertis discusses her latest book and the craft of writing and translating. Featuring a former Latin American president reminiscing on his remarkable life\, The President and the Frog is a timeless and timely exploration of power\, revolution and survival. Carolina de Robertis is of Uruguayan origins; her work has been translated into seventeen languages and she has received multiple honors. Join online for the discussion. \nThis event is a partnership with Berkeley Public Library and San Mateo County Libraries. \nFree \nhttps://sfpl.org/events/2021/09/28/author-carolina-de-robertis-conversation-president-and-frog sfplcpp@sfpl.org 415-557-4400
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carolina-de-robertis-in-conversation-the-president-and-the-frog/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210929T203000
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SUMMARY:Mary Roach
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, September 29\, 2021\n7:30pm Pacific Time\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nTICKETS \n\n\nMary Roach is the author of the books STIFF\, SPOOK\, BONK\, GULP\, GRUNT\, and PACKING FOR MARS\, all of which bring her distinctly funny voice to popular science subjects. Her new book FUZZ: When Nature Breaks the Law\, combines little-known forensic science and conservation genetics with a motley cast of laser scarecrows\, trespassing squirrels\, and more of “nature’s lawbreakers\,” offering hope for compassionate coexistence in our ever-expanding human habitat. Roach has written for National Geographic\, Wired\, and The New York Times Magazine\, among others\, and her TED talk made the TED 20 Most Watched list. She has been a guest editor for Best American Science and Nature Writing\, a finalist for the Royal Society’s Winton Prize\, and a winner of the American Engineering Societies’ journalism award. \nYou and your guests must be fully vaccinated to attend this event; proof of vaccination is required upon arrival. Full vaccination is defined as completion of the two-dose regimen of Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or one dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine administered two weeks or more in advance of the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-roach/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco
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