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SUMMARY:Zachary Lazar with special guests The Kitchen Sisters
DESCRIPTION:Zachary Lazar with special guests The Kitchen Sisters\n\n  \ncelebrating the release of Zachary Lazar’s new novel \nVENGEANCE \nfrom Catapult Books \nZachary Lazar’s powerful and important novel was inspired by a passion play\, The Life of Jesus Christ\, he witnessed at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. As someone who writes “fiction\, nonfiction\, sometimes a hybrid of both\,” the narrator of Vengeance\, a character much like Lazar himself\, tries to accurately view a world he knows is “beyond the limits of my small understanding.” In particular\, he tries to unravel the truth behind the supposed crime of an inmate he meets and befriends\, Kendrick King\, who is serving a life sentence at Angola for murder. \nAs the narrator attempts to sort out what happened in King’s life—paying visits to his devoted mother\, his estranged young daughter and her mother\, his girlfriend\, his brother\, and his cousin—the writer’s own sense of identity begins to feel more and more like a fiction. He is one of the “free people” while Kendrick\, who studies theology and philosophy\, will never get his only wish\, expressed plainly as “I just need to get out of here.” The dichotomy between their lives forces the narrator to confront the violence in his own past\, and also to reexamine American notions of guilt and penance\, racial bias\, and the inherent perversity of punitive justice. \nIt is common knowledge that we have an incarceration crisis in our country. Vengeance\, by way of vivid storytelling\, helps us to understand the failure of empathy and imagination that causes it. \nZachary Lazar is the author of three previous books\, including the novel Sway\, chosen as a Best Book of 2008 by the Los Angeles Times\, Rolling Stone\, Publishers Weekly\, and Newsday\, and the memoir Evening’s Empire: The Story of My Father’s Murder\, a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2009. Lazar is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University\, and\, most recently\, the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for “a writer in mid-career whose work has demonstrated consistent excellence.” He lives in New Orleans. \nThe Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva) are Peabody Award winning independent producers who create stories for NPR and other public media. \nAdvance praise for Zachary Lazar’s VENGEANCE \n“I am stunned by the daring\, meticulous\, and unsentimental intelligence of this riveting book . . . Vengeance is a masterwork\, the most important American book I’ve read this year\, and the most moving and mesmerizing. —Francisco Goldman\, author of Say Her Name \n“More than any book I’ve read in the twenty-first century\, Zachary Lazar’s Vengeance makes the reader reckon with the questions of what’s real\, what’s imagined\, and why those questions matter more in 2017 than at any other time in our nation. . . . Vengeance reminds me of what is possible through deft\, imaginative\, ‘real’ storytelling.” —Kiese Laymon\, author of Long Division \n“A tale so true and raw\, that you’ll swear that it is non-fiction… rich in detail\, elegant in its telling\, the story that unfolds will have you reminding yourself ‘This is fiction’ on repeat. One of the most daring and important true-to-life tales to be imagined.” —Shannon Alden\, Literari Bookstore (Ann Arbor\, MI)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zachary-lazar-with-special-guests-the-kitchen-sisters-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The End of the End of the World Word Cabaret - Three Local Authors Read From New Books
DESCRIPTION:Join the End of the End of the World Word Cabaret & The Green Arcade in a reading from three Bay Area authors reading from their books (two of them first novels). \nAnanda Esteva‘s novel The Wanderings of Chela Coatlicue is the first installment of a trilogy of coming-of-age adventures that follows a young brazen musical prodigy in search of a sacred bass once owned by legendary blues musician Sugar Rivera. Filled with breathtaking action\, border perils\, magic and passion\, this fantasy novel takes readers through numerous plot developments and twists that lead them to a variety of choices and outcomes\, as Chela travels from the punk rock slums of Mexico City to the suburbs of Los Angeles. Unfolding in the present tense from the second-person point of view\, events\, actions and consequences hit the reader with immediacy\, making this novel the ultimate exploration of border politics\, indie music culture\, and one young woman’s self-discovery in the mystery surrounding Rivera.\n\nAdam Smyer‘s debut novel Knucklehead introduces the reader to Marcus Hayes\, a black lawyer who regulates everyday bad behavior with short\, sharp bursts of retribution\, and “struggles to keep his cool in the personally and politically turbulent ’90s.” Like Smyer\, the book has a wicked sense of humor\, even as it gives the reader a tour of the dystopian Clinton years. Comparisons to James Baldwin\, Richard Wright\, and Zora Neale Hurston are well earned.\n\n\nAsked why he chose to set his book in the 1990’s\, Smyer says\, “I think that the ’90s have been overlooked in a way. I think that on some level the prevailing narrative has become that everything was fine before 9/11. But everything was definitely not fine. We had militias and the Unabomber and Tim McVeigh and Columbine. The amount of hate and hysteria that we normalized back then laid the groundwork for what is happening today. It was fertile ground for storytelling.”\n\nKate Jessica Raphael is the author of Murder Under the Bridge and Murder Under the Fig Tree (She Write Press). In the latter book\, Hamas has taken power in Palestine\, and the Israeli government is rounding up people considered threats. Palestinian policewoman Rania Bakara finds herself thrown in prison\, though she has never been part of Hamas. Chloe flies in from San Francisco to free her friend – and rekindle her romance with Tina\, a beautiful Palestinian Australian. The only way Rania can get out of jail is by agreeing to investigate the death of a young gay Palestinian in a village near her home.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-end-of-the-end-of-the-world-word-cabaret-three-local-authors-read-from-new-books/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hazel Reading Series - March 2018
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Women’s History Month at Hazel Reading with our fantastic line-up of women writers. Don’t miss it! \nFeaturing\nDinika Amaral nominated by Sara Marinelli\nKirin Khan nominated by Kate Folk\nMaya Kosover nominated by A’aron Heard\nOlga Zilberbourg nominated by Tanya Rey\nSimi Singh Juneja nominated by Zhayra Palma\nAurielle Lucier nominated by Lark Omura \nSimi Singh Juneja was born in India and raised in the American South. She graduated from NYU in Paris with an MFA in Creative Writing. She is the keeper of stories in her family and the resident poet. Her debut short story\, “How Doc Met Lady J\,” was published by the Smithsonian Indian-American Heritage blog. She is currently co-authoring and translating a memoir with a Bollywood actress to be published by Penguin India. Additionally\, her own novel set in Bombay is currently in the works. She is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and was Executive Producer on the feature film Miss India America. The film premiered in theaters in 2015\, and went on to win best film at the Bentonville Film Festival and many others. It can now be seen on Netflix. She is a Voices of Our Nation alumna. She currently resides in Los Angeles\, CA. \nDinika Amaral was born and raised in Bombay\, India. A former banker with JP Morgan Chase\, she has an M.A. and M.F.A. from New York University. Her work has appeared in Guernica\, The Times of India\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Golden Handcuffs Review\, Denver Quarterly\, the Massachusetts Review\, and in the Iowa Review (winner of the Tim McGinnis award). Presently\, a Steinbeck Fellow\, she is working on a gloriously unlinked short story collection and a novel about birds and Indian gangsters. She lives with her husband in the Silicon Valley\, but her secret dream is to be a better mob wife to Michael Corleone than Kay. \nKirin Khan is a writer living in Oakland\, CA who calls Albuquerque\, New Mexico her hometown\, and Peshawar\, Pakistan her homeland. A 2016 VONA/Voices alum\, 2017 PEN Emerging Voices Fellow\, and 2017 SF Writers Grotto Fellow\, her work has appeared in Your Impossible Voice\, Uproot\, sPARKLE & bLINK\, and 7×7.LA. Kirin is working on her first novel. \nOlga Zilberbourg is a bilingual author who grew up in Russia and moved to the United States at the age of seventeen. Her English-language fiction has appeared in Confrontation\, World Literature Today\, Narrative\, Outpost 19’s Golden State 2017 anthology\, and others. She co-hosts the weekly San Francisco Writers Workshop. \nAurielle Marie is a Black\, Atlanta-born\, Queer hip-hop scholar and a cultural worker. Through her work as a poet and an activist\, she explores the uses of intimacy and ritual in the practice of Black resistance. Aurielle is a Roddenberry Fellow Finalist\, a Voices of Our Nation Fellow-Alum\, and a current Queer Emerging Artist-In-Residence at Destiny Art Center. Both her activism and artistry ground themselves in the afro-indigenous legacy of storytelling in the Deep South. She was a 2016 Kopkind Fellow and has been featured as a social-political pundit on CNN. Her essays and poems have been published in Selfish Magazine\, in Scalawag\, on For Harriett\, ESSENCE Mag\, Allure\, NBC Blk\, and Huffington Post. Her inaugural collection\, Gumbo Ya Ya\, is forthcoming from Write Bloody Press. Her work has been featured on a global host of stages\, most importantly in her grandmother’s kitchen.\nFollow her on Twitter & Instagram: @ElleOfTwoCities. \nMaya Kosover is a high school educator in Richmond\, teaching English and Multimedia Journalism. When she’s not obsessing over students\, she is learning in community\, singing and dancing\, playing with magic\, crafting letters to pen pals\, nesting as a homebody\, and writing about what it means to be a queer\, Jewish woman. \n(5$ Suggested Donation)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hazel-reading-series-march-2018/
LOCATION:Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts\, 2868 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Zachary Lazar with special guests The Kitchen Sisters
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of Zachary Lazar’s new novel \nVENGEANCE \nfrom Catapult Books \nZachary Lazar’s powerful and important novel was inspired by a passion play\, The Life of Jesus Christ\, he witnessed at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. As someone who writes “fiction\, nonfiction\, sometimes a hybrid of both\,” the narrator of Vengeance\, a character much like Lazar himself\, tries to accurately view a world he knows is “beyond the limits of my small understanding.” In particular\, he tries to unravel the truth behind the supposed crime of an inmate he meets and befriends\, Kendrick King\, who is serving a life sentence at Angola for murder. \nAs the narrator attempts to sort out what happened in King’s life—paying visits to his devoted mother\, his estranged young daughter and her mother\, his girlfriend\, his brother\, and his cousin—the writer’s own sense of identity begins to feel more and more like a fiction. He is one of the “free people” while Kendrick\, who studies theology and philosophy\, will never get his only wish\, expressed plainly as “I just need to get out of here.” The dichotomy between their lives forces the narrator to confront the violence in his own past\, and also to reexamine American notions of guilt and penance\, racial bias\, and the inherent perversity of punitive justice. \nIt is common knowledge that we have an incarceration crisis in our country. Vengeance\, by way of vivid storytelling\, helps us to understand the failure of empathy and imagination that causes it. \nZachary Lazar is the author of three previous books\, including the novel Sway\, chosen as a Best Book of 2008 by the Los Angeles Times\, Rolling Stone\, Publishers Weekly\, and Newsday\, and the memoir Evening’s Empire: The Story of My Father’s Murder\, a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2009. Lazar is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University\, and\, most recently\, the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for “a writer in mid-career whose work has demonstrated consistent excellence.” He lives in New Orleans. \nThe Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva) are Peabody Award winning independent producers who create stories for NPR and other public media. \nAdvance praise for Zachary Lazar’s VENGEANCE \n“I am stunned by the daring\, meticulous\, and unsentimental intelligence of this riveting book . . . Vengeance is a masterwork\, the most important American book I’ve read this year\, and the most moving and mesmerizing. —Francisco Goldman\, author of Say Her Name \n“More than any book I’ve read in the twenty-first century\, Zachary Lazar’s Vengeance makes the reader reckon with the questions of what’s real\, what’s imagined\, and why those questions matter more in 2017 than at any other time in our nation. . . . Vengeance reminds me of what is possible through deft\, imaginative\, ‘real’ storytelling.” —Kiese Laymon\, author of Long Division \n“A tale so true and raw\, that you’ll swear that it is non-fiction… rich in detail\, elegant in its telling\, the story that unfolds will have you reminding yourself ‘This is fiction’ on repeat. One of the most daring and important true-to-life tales to be imagined.” —Shannon Alden\, Literari Bookstore (Ann Arbor\, MI)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zachary-lazar-with-special-guests-the-kitchen-sisters/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Harry Mathews Tribute
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special night of stories and memories to celebrate the life of Harry Mathews and the publication of his last novel\, The Solitary Twin. With readings by Daniel Levin Becker\, Roman Muradov\, Brandon Bussolini\, and Gordon Faylor. \n\nAbout Harry Mathews \n\nExperimental poet and prose writer Harry Mathews grew up on Manhattan’s Upper East Side and was educated at Princeton University and Harvard University\, where he earned a BA. Between stints at school\, he served briefly in the Navy. After graduation\, he moved to Paris and turned his attention to poetry. In Paris\, Mathews met John Ashbery\, who shared with him the work of avant-garde writer Raymond Roussel. In an interview with the Paris Review\, Mathews stated\, “In Roussel I discovered you could write prose the way you do poetry. You don’t approach it from the idea that what you have to say is inside you. It’s a materialist approach\, for want of a better word. You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.” \nMathews’s poetry and prose often use overarching formal constraints to examine the relationship between sound and meaning or pattern and lyric. Times Literary Supplement critic Barry Schwabsky noted that Mathews’s “writing is imbued with a childlike sense of wonder at both language and the world it can conjure\, though always tinged with poignancy\, with the transience of both words and things.” Mathews’s collections of poetry include Armenian Papers: Poems 1954–1984 (1987) and The New Tourism (2010). His short stories are collected in The Human Country (2002) and his essays in The Case of the Persevering Maltese (2002). Mathews is the author of several novels\, including The Conversions (1962)\, Tlooth (1966)\, Cigarettes (1987)\, and My Life in CIA (2005). With Alastair Brotchie\, he edited the anthology Oulipo Compendium (1998\, revised edition 2005). \nMathews was the only American member of the French avant-garde literary society Oulipo\, and he has also been associated with the New York School of Poets. With John Ashbery\, Kenneth Koch\, and James Schuyler\, he started the literary magazine Locus Solus in 1960. His honors included a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and an award for his fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. \nWith his wife\, novelist Marie Chaix\, Mathews divided his time between New York City; Key West\, Florida; and Paris. He died in 2017.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/harry-mathews-tribute/
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:Courtney Peppernell / Pillow Thoughts
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening with Australian sensationCourtney Peppernell as part of her first US tour. She’ll be reading from her books Pillow Thoughts I and The Road Between. Please join us! \nPeppernell’s Pillow Thoughts — originally self-published and recently re-issued by Andrews McMeel — is in its fifth print run and beloved by young women around the world. Her poetry validates her readers and encourages them to find joy in the smallest moments. Her striking vignettes speak to the love she has shared with other women and the love she’s come to find for herself. \nPillow Thoughts is a collection of poetry and prose about heartbreak\, love\, and raw emotions. It is divided into sections to read when you feel you need them most. Make yourself a cup of tea and let yourself feel. \n— \nCourtney Peppernell is an LGBT author from Sydney\, Australia. In October 2016 she released the best-selling poetry collection Pillow Thoughts. Courtney has been writing her whole life and currently writes Young Adult novels and poetry collections. In February 2017 she released her second novel\, Keeping Long Island. In August 2017 she published Pillow Thoughts and The Road Between via US publisher Andrews McMeel Publishing. Pillow Thoughts II: Healing The Heart\, is forthcoming in August 2018.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/courtney-peppernell-pillow-thoughts/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:An Honors College Reading with Craig Santos Perez
DESCRIPTION:In fall 2018\, the University of San Francisco will launch an Honors Collegethat helps top students become global citizens equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st Century. \nPlease join us for this pre-launch event featuring a reading from USF alumnus Craig Santos Perez ’06\, MFA in Writing. \nCraig Santos Perez is the author of four collections of poetry\, including from unincorporated territory [lukao] (2017)\, from unincorporated territory [hacha] (2008)\, from unincorporated territory [saina] (2010)\, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry and winner of the PEN Center USA/Poetry Society of America Literary Award\, and from unincorporated territory [guma’] (2014)\, winner of the 2015 American Book Award. He is the co-founder of Ala Press and co-editor of two anthologies: Chamoru Childhood (2009) and Home Islands (2015). A native Chamorro from the Pacific Island of Guam\, Perez lives in Hawaii\, where he is an Associate Professor of English and affiliated with the Center for Pacific Islands Studies and the Indigenous Politics Program at the University of Hawaii\, Mānoa. Perez is an alumnus of the MFA in Writing Program at the University of San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-honors-college-reading-with-craig-santos-perez/
LOCATION:USF Fromm Hall – FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:An Honors College Reading with Craig Santos Perez
DESCRIPTION:WEDNESDAY\, MARCH 28 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.\nFromm Hall – FR 115 – Berman Room\n\n\nFree and open to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-honors-college-reading-with-craig-santos-perez-2/
LOCATION:Fromm Hall – FR115 – Berman Room\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117-1080\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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