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SUMMARY:Hari Kunzru
DESCRIPTION:Hari Kunzru reads from his new novel\, White Tears. \nPraise for White Tears \n“A compulsively readable ghost story that features masterly—tour de force—writing about early American blues.”—Rachel Kushner\, author of The Flamethrowers \n“White Tears is a masterful ghost story about a blues song which may or may not exist\, but is definitely alive. Sound\, in Kunzru’s hands\, is both force and material\, carrying fear\, power\, and revenge from body to body. When someone cries “Rewind\,” proceed with caution. History is audible.”—Sasha Frere-Jones \n“White Tears is a hallucinatory and eerily accurate journey into America’s racial unconscious—like an updated version of The Crying of Lot 49\, in which race itself is the secret and arcane system that controls all of us in ways we never fully understand. In an era when the past seems to be collapsing into the present on a daily basis\, you couldn’t find a more urgently necessary\, compulsively readable book.”—Jess Row\, author of Your Face in Mine \nAbout White Tears \nTwo twenty-something New Yorkers. Seth is awkward and shy. Carter is the glamorous heir to one of America’s great fortunes. They have one thing in common: an obsession with music. Seth is desperate to reach for the future. Carter is slipping back into the past. When Seth accidentally records an unknown singer in a park\, Carter sends it out over the Internet\, claiming it’s a long lost 1920s blues recording by a musician called Charlie Shaw. When an old collector contacts them to say that their fake record and their fake bluesman are actually real\, the two young white men\, accompanied by Carter’s troubled sister Leonie\, spiral down into the heart of the nation’s darkness\, encountering a suppressed history of greed\, envy\, revenge\, and exploitation. White Tears is a ghost story\, a terrifying murder mystery\, a timely meditation on race\, and a love letter to all the forgotten geniuses of American music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hari-kunzru/
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:Asturo Riley + Kay Ryan
DESCRIPTION:Atsuro Riley is known for his unparalleled ability to blend lyric and narrative modes. His stunning and highly original book Romey’s Order is a sequence of poems set in his childhood ‘blood-home\,’ the South Carolina lowcountry—and is the winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award\, The Believer Poetry Award\, the Whiting Writers’ Award\, and the Witter Bynner Award from the Library of Congress.  Riley’s work has also been honored with the Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship\, the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, the Pushcart Prize\, and the Wood Prize given by Poetry magazine.  Riley lives in San Francisco. \nKay Ryan was born in California in 1945 and grew up in the small towns of the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert.  She has lived in Marin County in Northern California since 1971. Ryan’s collections of poetry include most recently Erratic Facts\, the 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning The Best of It\, New and Selected Poems; Say Uncle\, Elephant Rocks\, and Flamingo Watching among others. About her work\, J.D. McClatchy has said: “Her poems are compact\, exhilarating\, strange affairs\, like Erik Satie miniatures or Joseph Cornell boxes. She is an anomaly in today’s literary culture: as intense and elliptical as Dickinson\, as buoyant and rueful as Frost.” Ryan’s awards include a MacArthur “Genius” Award; The National Humanities Medal awarded by President Obama in 2012; the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry\, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and an Ingram Merrill Award. Ryan was elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 2006. In 2008\, she was appointed the Library of Congress’s sixteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/asturo-riley-kay-ryan/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kevin Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Isabelle Poole is pregnant and on her own\, the baby’s father—her high school art teacher—out of the picture. Not sure where to turn\, Izzy joins The Infinite Family Project\, an experiment in child and family development led by the awkwardly charming child psychiatrist Preston Grind. Funded by an eccentric billionaire\, the project is an attempt to create a “perfect little world\,” bringing together ten different families as a single family unit in order to raise exceptional children. All starts well\, with Izzy and her son thriving in their new surroundings\, but soon the equilibrium among the families begins to disintegrate and things fall apart. As her growing feelings for Dr. Grind further complicate the adventure in experimental living\, Izzy ultimately must decide what truly matters when it comes to family. \nKevin Wilson’s New York Times bestselling debut novel The Family Fang was enthusiastically embraced by readers and critics\, who called it “irresistible” (Time)\, “breathtakingly wonderful” (Miami Herald)\, “inventive and hilarious” (Wall Street Journal)\, and “a minty fresh delight” (NPR). Perfect Little World is Wilson’s much-anticipated new novel—another offbeat look at the meaning of family\, and a strange utopian experiment that could redefine what family means.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kevin-wilson/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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