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SUMMARY:Lambda Literary Awards Finalists Reading
DESCRIPTION:Annual Lambda Literary Awards Finalists Reading. Cosponsored by the Lambda Literary Foundation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lambda-literary-awards-finalists-reading/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:RADAR: Black Queer Artists in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:As part of our QUEERING THE CASTRO program we’re bringing a conversation with three Bay Area artists about the intersections of blackness\, queerness and art. \nFacilitated by Beatrice Thomas\n(Donations accepted!) \nFeaturing:\nAlicia Bell\nAlicia Bell is a Southern-Born\, Black\, Queer\, Femme. Her work\, mostly in the realm of performance art\, incorporates a multiplicity of realities and futures building freedom and liberation. In community\, Alicia works mostly with black.seed\, Critical Resistance’s Oakland Power Projects\, and Abundant Beginnings. \nReek bell\nReek bell is a black militant femme artist & organizer from South Jersey. Her work\, mostly in the realm of literary art\, reflects intersections of intimacy\, friendship\, and resistance within blackness. In community\, Reek works mostly with black.seed & Oakland SOL (Sustaining Ourselves Locally). \nMustafah Greene\nMustafah Greene is a stunning handsome collection of atoms from Brooklyn\, NY. His work\, mostly in the realm of visual art\, is built upon connecting the classic and the contemporary to synthesize art that speaks truth to the times. In community\, Mustafah works mostly with black.seed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radar-black-queer-artists-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The GLBT Historical Society\, 4127 18th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ken Kalfus w/ Rachel Monroe
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Headlands Center for the Artspresent Ken Kalfus in-conversation with Rachel Monroe \nKen Kalfus’ Coup de Foudre is a collection of short stories that includes the full text of the title novella that first appeared in Harper’s Magazine. Recalling news events with irony and compassion\, Kalfus writes the ultimately tragic story about the president of an international lending institution accused of sexually assaulting a housekeeper in a New York hotel. The fifteen stories that follow vary boldly in theme\, setting\, and tone but all share the distinctive humor and intellect found throughout Kalfus’ award-winning work. \nKen Kalfus and Rachel Monroe are current Writers in Residence at Headlands Center for the Arts. \nKen Kalfus is the author of three novels\,Equilateral\, A Disorder Peculiar to the Country\, which was a finalist for the National Book Award\, and The Commissariat of Enlightenment. He has also published the story collections Thirst and Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies\, the latter a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the basis for the HBO film Pu-239. Kalfus recently received a Pew Fellowships in the Arts award and a Guggenheim fellowship. He lives in Philadelphia. \nRachel Monroe has previously written for Oxford American\, the New York Times\, theLos Angeles Review of Books\, and The Awl.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ken-kalfus-w-rachel-monroe/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Louise Erdrich
DESCRIPTION:Louise Erdrich is one of the most gifted\, prolific\, and challenging of contemporary Native American novelists. Born in 1954 in Little Falls\, Minnesota\, she grew up mostly in Wahpeton\, North Dakota\, where her parents taught at Bureau of Indian Affairs schools. Her fiction reflects aspects of her mixed heritage: German through her father\, and French and Ojibwa through her mother. She is the author of the many novels including Love Medicine; The Beet Queen\, and The Bingo Palace\, and The Round House\, two poetry collections and numerous short stories. Her newest book LaRose is her first novel since the publication of The Round House (winner of the 2012 National Book Award). She lives in Minnesota where she runs independent bookstore called The Birchbark.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/louise-erdrich/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mark Binelli
DESCRIPTION:Mark Binelli\, author of Green Apple staff favorite Detroit City is the Place to Be\, reads from his new novel\, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ All-Time Greatest Hits. \n\nPraise for Mark Binelli: \n“At once hilarious and sharp\, sweeping and intimate\, Detroit City Is the Place to Be is an oddly delighted warning from the recent future. Mark Binelli writes with the tender scrutiny of a returning exile\, in a style that manages to infuse Rolling Stone vigor with Spy wit\, Baffler skepticism\, and n+1 intelligence. This is a nonfiction novel about our American experiment—grand and grandiose\, unprecedented and absurd—and it’s the most entertaining and persuasive book about this country I’ve read in a very long time.” —Gideon Lewis-Kraus on Detroit City is the Place to Be \n\n“A sweeping narrative encompassing everything from the struggles of Italian-American immigrants to the social dynamics of pie fights. . . [with] joyful nostalgia\, pinpoint characterizations and postmodern brio.” –New York Times Book Review on Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die! \nAbout Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ All-Time Greatest Hits: \nMark Binelli turns his sharp\, forceful prose to fiction\, in an inventive retelling of the outrageous life of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins\, a bluesman with one hit and a string of inflammatory guises. \n  \nHe came on stage in a coffin\, carried by pallbearers\, drunk enough to climb into his casket every night. Onstage he wore a cape\, clamped a bone to his nose\, and carried a staff topped with a human skull. Offstage\, he insisted he’d been raised by a tribe of Blackfoot Indians\, that he’d joined the army at fourteen\, that he’d defeated the middleweight boxing champion of Alaska\, that he’d fathered seventy-five illegitimate children. \n  \nThe R&B wildman Screamin’ Jay Hawkins only had a single hit\, the classic “I Put a Spell On You\,” and was often written off as a clownish novelty act — or worse\, an offense to his race — but his myth-making was legendary. In his second novel\, Mark Binelli embraces the man and the legend to create a hilarious\, tragic\, fantastical portrait of this unlikeliest of protagonists. Hawkins saw his life story as a wild picaresque\, and Binelli’s novel follows suit\, tackling the subject in a dazzling collage-like style. \n  \nAt Rolling Stone\, Binelli has profiled some of the greatest musicians of our time\, and this novel deftly plays with the inordinate focus on “authenticity” in so much music writing about African-Americans. An entire novel built around a musician as deliberately inauthentic as Screamin’ Jay Hawkins thus becomes a sort of subversive act\, as well as an extremely funny and surprisingly moving one.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mark-binelli/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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