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SUMMARY:Two Voices Salon: Slaymaker on Furukawa
DESCRIPTION:Hideo Furukawa has built a name for himself as one of the titans of contemporary Japanese literature. His book Horses\, Horses\, in the End the Light Remains Pure is a groundbreaking work of creative nonfiction that deeply entwines his own life and the disaster in Fukushima\, Japan\, as it was devastated by an earthquake\, tsunami\, and nuclear meltdown. \nTo better understand this powerful\, moving story\, we’ll talk with Doug Slaymaker\, who brought it from Japanese into English for Columbia University Press. We’ll talk about how he dealt with the various strands of fiction\, history\, and memoir in this book\, as well as touching on some authors whose work this book resembles\, including W.G. Sebald. We’ll also discuss the unique aspects of the Japanese language and culture that make this such and interesting book to translate. \nThis will be our last Salon until the fall\, so please do join us for a wonderful night of literature\, friends\, snacks\, and drinks.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/slaymaker-on-furukawa/
LOCATION:Center for the Art of Translation office\, 582 Market St #700\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Barbara Paschke + Jorge Argueta
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in our Readers Bookstore Fort Mason for our weekly FREE poetry series! \nBrowse books and enjoy a glass of wine while listening to internationally acclaimed poets and artists such as Jonathan Richman\, David Meltzer\, Diane di Prima and California Poet Laureate Al Young. The series is curated by Friends’ Resident Poet Jack Hirschman. \nProceeds from our bookstores benefit the San Francisco Public Library. \nFeatured poet(s): Barbara Paschke & Jorge Argueta
URL:https://litseen.com/event/barbara-paschke-jorge-argueta/
LOCATION:Readers Bookstore\, Fort Mason Center\, Building C\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck Presents: Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland
DESCRIPTION:The question is\, said Alice\, whether you can make words mean different things. \nFinally and at long last\, the Shipwreck crew heads down the rabbit hole. Featured writers: 3-Time Champ Vivenne Pustell\, Amanda Rosenberg\, Damian Ledbetter\, George Chen\, Eden Temple\, and Sarah Stanton. \n$10 advance tickets / $12 at the door. Ticket includes open bar for 21+. \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event. \nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on the first Thursday of every month at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco. \nFics are blind-read by our Thespian-in-Residence\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and you choose the best ship before the writers are unmasked. The winner is cast off from polite society\, and invited back the next month to defend their title.\nCritics are saying:\n“… the most despicable literary event possible.”\n“… an affront to literature.”\n“It used to be we had to sit in dark\, sticky booths to get these kinds of sleazy thrills.”\n“Come if you are high on marijuana cigarettes and have done sex before.”\n“… a vile\, disgusting event.””Shipwreck will bring you to madness\, and you may never return.”\n“…wonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting.”\n“…punny sodomy and gross indecency.” \nPLEASE NOTE: No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. We’re not dicks\, we just like dick jokes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-presents-lewis-carrolls-alice-in-wonderland/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Brendan Jones: The Alaskan Laundry
DESCRIPTION:Brendan Jones reads from his debut novel\, The Alaskan Laundry. \nPraise for The Alaskan Laundry: \n\n“This is a truly towering debut novel. Brendan Jones charts new novelistic territory and sends back moving dispatches from the frontiers of the human heart.” — Adam Johnson\, author of The Orphan Master’s Son\n\n\n“The Alaskan Laundry is a gorgeous and powerful novel that succeeds both as a page-turning adventure story and an evocative exploration of the meaning of home. With acute psychological precision and a naturalist’s attention to detail\, Brendan Jones has created a hauntingly beautiful novel that will stay with me for a long time.” – Molly Antopol\, author of The Unamericans\n\n\n\n“The Alaskan Laundry is a novel of bracing air that gets deep into your lungs. As Tara Marconi reinvents herself in Alaska\, we see all facets of the American dream of self-reliance and boundless possibility play out on the stage of the Last Frontier. A strong\, singular person grows in these pages. Like a protagonist in a Daniel Woodrell novel\, she is stubborn\, heroic\, and capable of anything.” — Will Chancellor\, author of A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall\n\nAbout the Alaskan Laundry: \nA fresh debut novel about a lost\, fierce young woman who finds her way to Alaska and finds herself through the hard work of fishing\, as far as the icy Bering Sea.\nTara Marconi has made her way to The Rock\, a remote island in Alaska governed by the seasons and the demands of the world of commercial fishing. She hasn t felt at home in a long while her mother’s death left her unmoored and created a seemingly insurmountable rift between her and her father. But in the majestic\, mysterious\, and tough boundary-lands of Alaska she begins to work her way up the fishing ladder from hatchery assistant all the way to King crabber. She learned discipline from years as a young boxer in Philly\, but here she learns anew what it means to work\, to connect\, and in buying and fixing up an old tugboat how to make a home she knows is her own. A beautiful evocation of a place that can’t help but change us and a testament to the unshakable lure of home\, The Alaskan Laundry also offers an unforgettable story of one woman’s journey from isolation back to the possibility of love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brendan-jones-the-alaskan-laundry/
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:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes
DESCRIPTION:$10 now or at the door.\nTickets available now: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1167669\nProceeds go to the future of YG2D.\n[If you’re unable to pay the entry fee\, please contact me.] \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes\nis a total open mic event\, with no set or featured performers\,\nbut only the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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