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SUMMARY:Alina Smiotanko + James Tracy
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in our Readers Bookstore Fort Mason for our weekly FREE poetry series! \nBrowse books 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. (For a list of the scheduled readers\, please see the line up below.) \nProceeds from our bookstores benefit the San Francisco Public Library.
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LOCATION:Readers Bookstore\, Fort Mason Center\, Building C\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Martinis & Writers - Literary Speakeasy!
DESCRIPTION:It’s time to refill those martini glasses — Literary Speakeasy returns to Martuni’s on July 28. Come order up one of the best drinks in town as we bring you some of the best literary talent in the Bay Area. This month’s featured guests include Tusiata Avia\, Jason Bayani\, Natasha Dennerstein\, Bill Dupp\, and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier. Your host and curator is James J. Siegel \nAs always\, Literary Speakeasy is a FREE event with NO drink minimum. All attendees will receive a FREE raffle ticket for a chance to win the night’s secret Speakeasy prize. It’s our way of saying “thanks for coming out!” \nCome like our page at www.facebook.com/literaryspeakeasy. \nTusiata Avia is a Samoan-New Zealand poet\, performer\, and writer. She has published three books of poetry: Wild Dogs Under My Skirt\, Bloodclot\, Fale Aitu/ Spirit House and two\nchildren’s books\, Mele and the Massage and The Song. Her one-woman theatre show (also called Wild Dogs Under My Skirt) toured internationally from 2002 to 2008 and shows again in 2016 as a play for six actors. Tusiata has held a number of writers’ residencies and awards\, including a Fulbright Pacific Artist Fellowship at the University of Hawai’i and the Janet Frame Literary Trust Award. She lives in Auckland\, New Zealand\, with her daughter\, Sepela and teaches Creative Writing and Performing Arts at Manukau Institute of Technology. \nJason Bayani is the author of Amulet from Write Bloody Press. He’s an MFA graduate from Saint Mary’s College\, a Kundiman fellow\, and is currently the Program Manager for Kearny Street Workshop.http://jasonbayani.com/ \nNatasha Dennerstein was born in Melbourne\, Australia\, to a family originating in Belarus. She worked as a psychiatric nurse for 20 years\, which gave her an interesting perspective on the human condition. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University and has had poetry published in Fourth Floor\, Landfall\, Snorkel\, JAAM\, Takahe\, Shenandoah\, Bloom\, Transfer\, Red Light Lit\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, Foglifter and sPARLKE + bLINK. Her collection “Anatomize” was published by Norfolk Press in San Francisco in October 2015 and her new collection “Triptych Caliform” will be launched in September this year. \nBill Dupp lives and works in the heart of The Castro as a VJ at Midnight Sun. A lover of fiction and storytelling he has been writing\, producing\, and acting in theater and film his entire life. As a graduate of UCSB Film\, and having worked at both Discovery and Warner Brothers\, he left Los Angeles behind and is now celebrating his sixth year in San Francisco! He can be found performing at Oasis and DJing all over town when not manning the VJ booth. \nSoma Mei Sheng Frazier is an East Coast native living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her two fiction chapbooks\, Salve (Nomadic Press) and Collateral Damage: A Triptych (RopeWalk Press)\, earned praise from Nikki Giovanni\, Daniel Handler\, Antonya Nelson\, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum\, Molly Giles\, Michelle Tea\, and others. You can find her work online at Eclectica Magazine\, Carve Magazine\, Eleven Eleven\, and Kore Press. New work is available in the current issues of Glimmer Train and ZYZZYVA\, and forthcoming in Eclectica’s anthology. Soma is at work on a novel and a screenplay. \nJames J. Siegel is the monthly curator and host of Literary Speakeasy. His first poetry collection\, How Ghosts Travel\, was published earlier this year by Spuyten Duvyil Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/martinis-writers-literary-speakeasy/
LOCATION:Martuni’s\, 4 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bookswap 2.0 w/ Val Brelinski
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Bookswap 2.0 with Val Brelinski on July 28th at 7PM! \nVal Brelinski‘s strange and wonderful debut\, The Girl Who Slept with God\, tells the story of Grace\, 17\, who returns from a service mission in Mexico believing that she has been impregnated by God. Her deeply Evangelical Christian family moves Grace and her younger sister to an isolated home at the edge of town. Once on her own\, Grace has to learn to deal with life the way we all do: the hard way. \nMeet Val\, celebrate the paperback release of this brave and moving novel\, and join us for a new iteration of an old favorite event. \nBring a book about an exile. \nBOOKSWAP 2.0: A Note about Format: \nBooksmith’s Bookswap is back with a few tweaks. In order to make Bookswap more affordable\, more accessible\, and more social\, we’ve changed a few things: \nFirst\, we dropped the price to $10. That gets you admission\, an open bar\, snacks\, galleys to take home\, 20% off whatever you buy that night\, and a whole mess of new titles on your To-Read List. \nSecond\, the time. Going forward\, we’ll start at 7 and wrap about 9 (round times will be reduced by a few minutes each)\, since some people had trouble getting here by 6:30 (the old start time). \nFinally\, Bookswap will now happen more often\, on the Third Thursday of every month.  \nEverything else will be just how you left it. Bring a book you love that loosely fits the theme (or doesn’t! no pressure)\, we’ll sit you in small groups\, you’ll chat about books\, and at the end\, we have a big\, rowdy\, white elephant swap. It’s a No Homework Bookclub. \nTickets: $10\, includes open bar for 21+. \nVal Brelinski was born and raised in Nampa\, Idaho\, the daughter of devout evangelical Christians. From 2003 to 2005\, she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, where she was also a Jones Lecturer in fiction writing. She received an MFA from the University of Virginia\, and her recent writing has been featured inVogue\, MORE\, Salon\, VQR and The Rumpus. She received prizes for her fiction from the San Francisco Chronicle\, The CharlottesvilleWeekly\, and The Boise Weekly\, and was also a finalist for the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. Val lives in Northern California and teaches creative writing in Stanford’s Continuing Studies Program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bookswap-2-0-w-val-brelinski/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Evan Ratliff w/ Jennifer Kahn
DESCRIPTION:Litquake is proud to host the San Francisco launch of LOVE AND RUIN: TALES OF OBSESSION\, DANGER\, AND HEARTBREAK\, the new nonfiction collection edited by Evan Ratliff of The Atavist. Evan will be in conversation with journalist Jennifer Kahn\, with book sales and signing to follow. \nSince its founding in 2011\, The Atavist has garnered an unprecedented eight National Magazine Award nominations and was the first all-digital publication to win in feature writing. This collection presents the finest examples of a new kind of nonfiction storytelling as practiced by a young generation of longform experts. These extraordinary stories of crime\, passion\, and adventure include Leslie Jamison’s landmark portrait of a lonely whale named “52 Blue\,” Matthew Shaer’s harrowing account of a shipwreck during Hurricane Sandy\, and James Verini’s prize-winning tale of romance and courage in Afghanistan. \nThe fascinating and original writing in LOVE AND RUIN demonstrates why The Atavist has become the leader in publishing “remarkable…can’t look away pieces of multimedia journalism” (The New York Times). \nEVAN RATLIFF is the editor of The Atavist magazine. His writing has appeared in Wired\, where he is a contributing editor; The New Yorker; National Geographic; and other publications. He is also the story editor of Pop-Up Magazine. \nJENNIFER KAHN is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine\, and has been a regular feature writer for The New Yorker\, National Geographic\, Wired\, and Outside\, among others. Since 2009\, she has taught in the Magazine Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/evan-ratliff-w-jennifer-kahn/
LOCATION:Alamo Drafthouse Cinema\, 2550 Mission Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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