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SUMMARY:James Nolan
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nFlight Risk: Memoirs of a New Orleans Bad Boy \nfrom University Press of Mississippi \nFlight Risk takes off as a page-turning narrative with deep roots and a wide wingspan. James Nolan\, a fifth-generation New Orleans native\, offers up an intimate portrait both of his insular hometown and his generation’s counterculture. Flight runs as a theme throughout the book\, which begins with Nolan’s escape from the gothic mental hospital to which his parents committed the teenaged poet during the tumult of 1968. This breakout is followed by the self-styled revolutionary’s hair-raising flight from a Guatemalan jail\, and years later\, by the author’s bolt from China\, where he ditched his teaching position and collectivist ideals. These Houdini-like feats foreshadow a more recent one\, how he dodged biblical floods in a stolen school bus three days after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. \nNolan traces these flight patterns to those of his French ancestors who fled to New Orleans in the mid-nineteenth century\, established a tobacco business in the French Quarter\, and kept the old country alive in their Creole demimonde. The writer describes the eccentric Seventh Ward menagerie of the extended family in which he grew up\, his early flirtation with extremist politics\, and a strong bond with his freewheeling grandfather\, a gentleman from the Gilded Age. Nolan’s quest for his own freedom takes him to the flower-powered\, gender-bending San Francisco of the sixties and seventies\, as well as to an expatriate life in Spain during the heady years of that nation’s transition to democracy. Like the prodigal son\, he eventually returns home to live in the French Quarter\, around the corner from where his grandmother grew up\, only to struggle through the aftermath of Katrina and the city’s resurrection. \nMany of these stories are entwined with the commentaries of a wry flâneur\, addressing such subjects as the nuances of race in New Orleans\, the Disneyfication of the French Quarter\, the numbing anomie of digital technology and globalization\, the challenges of caring for aging parents\, Creole funeral traditions\, how to make a soul-searing gumbo\, and what it really means to belong. \nJames Nolan is a fiction writer\, poet\, essayist\, and translator. His eleven books include the recent You Don’t Know Me: New and Selected Stories (winner of the 2015 Independent Publishers Gold Medal in Southern Fiction) and the novel Higher Ground (awarded a William Faulkner/Wisdom Gold Medal in the Novel). He has taught at universities in San Francisco\, Florida\, Barcelona\, Madrid\, and Beijing\, as well as in his native New Orleans. \nWhat has been said about Flight Risk: \n“James Nolan looks back unsparingly on a time few writers have faced with such clarity and compassion. There’s suspense and beauty on every page . . .”―Andrei Codrescu \n  \n“Hail James Nolan. He sure can tell a story and build it up to a climax.” \n―Lawrence Ferlinghetti\, poet and publisher of City Lights Books \n  \n“A wryly eloquent memoir of world travel and the joys\, and difficulties\, of returning home.” \n–Kirkus Reviews\n“James Nolan’s memoir is vivid\, entertaining\, and utterly memorable\, one of the most enjoyable reads that has come my way for a very long time. The picture he paints of the city he inhabits is unforgettable. New Orleans is fortunate indeed to have such a magnificent writer to record its fragile and extraordinary culture.” ―Alexander McCall Smith\, author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency novels
URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-nolan/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marissa Moss
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street Wednesday\, May 3rd at 7:00pm as we welcome Author Marissa Moss\, reading from and discussing her graphic memoir Last Things. \n  \nLast Things is the true and intensely personal story of how one woman coped with the devastating effects of a catastrophic illness in her family. \n  \nUsing her trademark mix of words and pictures to sharp effect\, Marissa Moss presents the story of how she\, her husband\, and her three young sons struggled to maintain their sense of selves and wholeness as a family and how they continued on with everyday life when the earth shifted beneath their feet. \n  \nAfter returning home from a year abroad\, Marissa’s husband\, Harvey\, was diagnosed with ALS. The disease progressed quickly\, and Marissa was soon consumed with caring for Harvey while trying to keep life as normal as possible for her young children. ALS stole the man who was her husband\, the father of her children\, and her best friend in less than 7 months. \n  \nThis is not a story about the redemptive power of a terminal illness. It is a story of resilience―of how a family managed to survive a terrible loss and grow in spite of it. Although it’s a sad story\, it’s powerfully told and ultimately uplifting as a guide to strength and perseverance\, to staying connected to those who matter most in the midst of a bleak upheaval. If you’ve ever wondered how you would cope with a dire diagnosis\, this book can provide a powerful example of what it feels like and how to come through the darkness into the light. \n  \nMarissa Moss has written more than seventy books\, from picture books to middle-grade and young adult novels. Best known for the Amelia’s Notebook series (over 5 million sold)\, her books are popular with teachers and children alike. Her picture book\, Barbed Wire Baseball\, won the California Book Award\, Gold medal. Marissa is also the founder of Creston Books\, an independent children’s publishing house.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marissa-moss/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:NYMBC: The Love Panel at Opera Plaza
DESCRIPTION:Not Your Mother’s Book Club is excited to present a star studded\, award-winning panel with Rachel Cohn\, author of Kill All Happies\, and Jennifer E. Smith\, author of Windfall. Rachel and Jennifer will be in conversation with Nina LaCour\, author of We Are Okay; Stacey Lee\, author of The Secret Heart of a Note; and Elizabeth Eulberg\, author of Just Another Girl! Join us at Opera Plaza for a night focusing on love\, in all its\, ridiculous\, tragic\, wonderful forms. \nThis event will be moderated by Christy\, YA blogger for Tales of the Ravenous Reader. Christy is the resident sci-fi reader and also enjoys contemporary\, thrillers/mystery\, romance\, paranormal\, and YA non-fiction. In addition to contributing to Ravenous Readers\, she blogs for talks about superheroes on Sunday for Forever Young Adult. You can find her at Bay Area author events and on Twitter\, Instagram\, and Goodreads as diamondxgirl. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, May 3\, 2017 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n601 Van Ness Avenue\n\nSan Francisco\, CA\n\n\n\n\nEvent Terms:\n\nNot Your Mother’s Book Club\nSan Francisco Events
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nymbc-the-love-panel-at-opera-plaza/
LOCATION:Books Inc. In the Castro\, 2275 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Winifred M. Reilly
DESCRIPTION:With writing appearing on Huffington Post\, The Good Men Project\, XOJane\, and on her blog\, Speaking of Marriage\, psychotherapist Winifred M. Reilly\, M.A.\, MFT celebrates the launch of her refreshing and witty book\, It Takes One to Tango: How I Rescued My Marriage with (Almost) No Help from My Spouse and How You Can\, Too. \nIt Takes One to Tango is a groundbreaking guide that shows how one determined partner acting alone can spark lasting\, significant change in a marriage\, often accomplishing change that cannot be made any other way. It doesn t matter how short-fused\, argumentative\, or seemingly impossible your partner can be or how long you ve been stuck.\nMarriage and family therapist Winifred Reilly has this message for struggling partners: Take the lead. Doing so is effective and powerful. Through Reilly’s own story of reclaiming her now nearly forty-year marriage\, along with anecdotes from many clients she’s worked with\, you’ll learn how to: \n\nFocus on your own behaviors and change them in ways that make you feel good about yourself and your marriage\nTake a firm stand for what truly matters to you without arguing\, cajoling\, or resorting to threats\nIdentify the big picture issues at the basis of your repetitive fights and learn how to unhook from them\nBe less reactive\, especially in the face of your spouse’s provocations\nDevelop the strength and stamina to be the sole agent of change\n\nCombining psychological theory\, practical advice\, and personal narrative\, It Takes One to Tango is a fresh and engaging guide that will empower those who choose to take a bold\, proactive approach to creating a loving and lasting marriage. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, May 3\, 2017 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n2251 Chestnut St\n\nSan Francisco\, CA\n\n\n\n\nEvent Terms:\n\nSan Francisco Events
URL:https://litseen.com/event/winifred-m-reilly/
LOCATION:Books Inc. in The Marina\, 2251 Chestnut St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Paul Madonna
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to welcome Paul Madonna back to the store for the release of his new book\, On to the Next Dream. Join us! \nPaul’s popular comic\, “All Over Coffee” had been running for twelve years in the San Francisco Chronicle when he was evicted from his longtime home and studio in the Mission District\, ground-zero in the “tech wars” transforming the city. Suddenly finding himself yet another victim of San Francisco’s overheated boomtown housing market\, with its soaring prices and rampant evictions\, Madonna decided to use his comic as a cathartic public platform to explore the experience\, and to capture the complex\, highly charged atmosphere of a city—and a life—being forced through a painful transition. \nIn a series of drawings and stories\, Madonna evokes the sense of vertigo induced by being forced from his home\, and the roil of emotions that ensue as he enters into the city’s brutal competition for a place to live. The line between reality and surreality begins to blur almost immediately\, in real life and in his comic. Absurd\, maddening\, and all-too-poignant\, these drawings and stories capture the spirit of not just San Francisco\, but a cultural epidemic that has now spread to cities around the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-madonna-3/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Humble Pie Volume 14 Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the launch of everyone’s favorite pie — Humble Pie\, that is! We’re throwing a party in honor of the launch of Volume 14! \nLight refreshments provided. \nWhat Is Humble Pie?\nHumble Pie is the undergraduate literary journal written and published by students enrolled in CCA’s Literature and Writing Program. \nThe popular publication features fiction\, nonfiction\, poetry\, and visual art. \nFaculty editor Caroline Goodwin works with the student staff to compile selected writings and choose which artworks to feature.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/humble-pie-volume-14-launch-party/
LOCATION:A2 Cafe\, 5212 Broadway St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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