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SUMMARY:Between Love and Obsession: Behind the Scenes of Israeli Mythology
DESCRIPTION:Israeli novelist Ayelet Gundar-Goshen\, author of Waking Lions\, talks about her debut novel\, One Night\, Markovitch. \nAyelet Gundar-Goshen is the author of Waking Lions\, a bestselling novel in Europe and Israel and released in 2017 in the United States to outstanding reviews. The book was included in The New York Times List of 100 Notable Books in 2017. Gundar-Goshen won the prestigious Sapir Prize for Debut Fiction in 2012 for One Night\, Markovitch\, winner of Adei Vizo Prize in both France and Italy and translated to 15 languages. Her film and TV screenplays have also won international recognition. She is teaching this semester at the University of California\, San Francisco\, as part of the national Schusterman Visiting Israeli Artist Program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/between-love-and-obsession-behind-the-scenes-of-israeli-mythology/
LOCATION:Contemporary Jewish Museum\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:William Middleton
DESCRIPTION:William Middleton\n\ndiscussing the subject of his new book \nDouble Vision: The Unerring Eye of Art World Avatars Dominique and John de Menil \npublished by Alfred Knopf \nCity Lights celebrates the first and definitive biography of the celebrated collectors Dominique and John de Menil\, who became one of the greatest cultural forces of the twentieth century through groundbreaking exhibits of art\, artistic scholarship\, the creation of innovative galleries and museums\, and work with civil rights. \nDominique and John de Menil created an oasis of culture in their Philip Johnson-designed house with everyone from Marlene Dietrich and René Magritte to Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns. In Houston\, they built the Menil Collection\, the Rothko Chapel\, the Byzantine Fresco Chapel\, the Cy Twombly Gallery\, and underwrote the Contemporary Arts Museum.\nNow\, with unprecedented access to family archives\, William Middleton has written a sweeping biography of this unique couple. From their ancestors in Normandy and Alsace\, to their own early years in France\, and their travels in South America before settling in Houston. We see them introduced to the artists in Europe and America whose works they would collect\, and we see how\, by the 1960s\, their collection had grown to include 17\,000 paintings\, sculptures\, drawings\, photographs\, rare books\, and decorative objects.\nAnd here is\, as well\, a vivid behind-the-scenes look at the art world of the twentieth century and the enormous influence the de Menils wielded through what they collected and built and through the causes they believed in. \nWilliam Middleton is a journalist and editor who has worked in New York and Paris. He has been the Fashion Features Director for Harper’s Bazaar and the Paris Bureau Chief for Fairchild Publications\, overseeing W Magazine and Women’s Wear Daily. He has written for The New York Times\, The New York Times Magazine\, Vogue\, House & Garden\, Esquire\, Texas Monthly\, Travel & Leisure\, Departures\, and the International Herald Tribune. \nPraise for Double Vision: \n“Middleton spares no details in this history of the French couple who made Houston their home and converted it to a center of the arts… A well-written\, highly informative book for devotees of the modern art world.”\n—Kirkus Reviews \n“An authoritative account of the lives and patronage of 20th-century art-world power-couple Dominique and John de Menil…As Middleton dutifully shows\, the couple’s commitment to art and philanthropy defined their lives…. This exhaustively researched\, satisfying slab of a book offers a thorough look into the lives and influence of an extraordinary couple.”\n—Publisher’s Weekly \nIn “Double Vision\,” William Middleston gives visionary art collectors Dominique and John de Menil the joint biography they richly deserve–a sweeping\, superbly researched\, behind-the-scenes account of a family deeply involved in the story of 20th-century American art.”\n—Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan\, authors of de Kooning: An American Master
URL:https://litseen.com/event/william-middleton/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tao Lin / Trip: Psychedelics\, Alienation\, and Change
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Tao Lin for his new book Trip: Psychedelics\, Alienation\, and Change. With Tao in conversation is The Believer‘s Ross Simonini — please join us! \nPlease note: this event begins at 7pm. Seating is limited\, and is first come\, first served. If you would like to reserve a seat\, please purchase a copy of Trip below and put your request in the notes field. Remember\, 1 seat = 1 book \nPart memoir\, part history\, part journalistic exposé\, Trip is a look at psychedelic drugs\, literature\, and alienation from one of the twenty-first century’s most innovative novelists — The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test for a new generation. \nWhile reeling from one of the most creative — but at times self-destructive — outpourings of his life\, Tao Lin discovered the strange and exciting work of Terence McKenna. McKenna\, the leading advocate of psychedelic drugs since Timothy Leary\, became for Lin both an obsession and a revitalizing force. In Trip\, Lin’s first book-length work of nonfiction\, he charts his recovery from pharmaceutical drugs\, his surprising and positive change in worldview\, and his four-year engagement with some of the hardest questions: Why do we make art? Is the world made of language? What happens when we die? And is the imagination more real than the universe? \nIn exploring these ideas and detailing his experiences with psilocybin\, DMT\, salvia\, and cannabis\, Lin takes readers on a trip through nature\, his own past\, psychedelic culture\, and the unknown. \n  \n\n  \n“Trip is not only a book about drugs–it’s about the condition of humans at this point in history\, troublingly divorced from our natural capacity for awe by our chemically depleted bodies and minds. This book has changed how I understand myself on a cellular level. It’s a superbly researched\, moving\, and formally inventive quest for re-enchantment\, and Tao Lin’s most compelling and profound book yet.” — Sheila Heti\, author of How Should a Person Be?\n“Similar to the psychedelic drugs Tao Lin writes about here\, this book introduces new ways to consider language\, perception\, and recovery. It’s a joy to watch Lin interrogate his obsessions so earnestly and thoroughly in an attempt to understand more about the world as he knows it. Trip is a book for anyone interested in learning about what the human mind is capable of seeing and believing.” — Chelsea Hodson\, author of Tonight I’m Someone Else \n“Tao Lin took all the drugs so that we wouldn’t have to\, and the result is astonishing\, mind-expanding\, beautiful\, and profound. The whole of humanity seems contained in this one book.”— Kristen Iskandrian\, author of Motherest \n“Tao Lin’s writing reliably restores my sense of the inexhaustible strangeness of even one minute of human thought and feeling.” — Michael W. Clune\, author of White Out \n  \n\n  \nTao Lin is the author of the novels Taipei\, Richard Yates\, and Eeeee Eee Eeee\, the novella Shoplifting from American Apparel\, the story collection Bed\, and the poetry collections cognitive-behavioral therapy and you are a little bit happier than i am. He is the founder and editor of the literary press Muumuu House. His work has been translated into twelve languages and he lives in Manhattan. Author photo by Noah Kalina. \n  \nRoss Simonini is writer\, artist\, and musician. He lives in Northern California and New York. His debut novel\, The Book of Formation\, was released by Melville House in late 2017. He is the interviews editor at The Believer magazine and teaches experimental seminars at Columbia University. \n  \n  \nRSVP is appreciated\, but not required. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Trip\, and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tao-lin-trip-psychedelics-alienation-and-change/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Glori Simmons and Dickson Lam
DESCRIPTION:Glori Simmons and Dickson Lam read from their latest works from Autumn House Press \nAbout Carry You \n \n  \nIn Carry You\, a Sunni museum official accidentally hits a Shiite child with her car. A group of young GIs sneak into the women’s quarters wearing night vision goggles. A father makes a daily ritual of searching the streets of war-torn Baghdad for his missing daughter. An injured vet finally mails a letter he found in a dying woman’s pocket. Moving between the Khalil family in Iraq and Clark\, an American soldier from Deer Park\, Washington\, the eleven stories in Carry You reveal the redeeming powers of love and family in a time of war. \n  \nAbout Glori Simmons \nGlori Simmons is an award-winning writer whose books include Graft: poems (Truman State University Press\, 2002)\, Suffering Fools: stories (Spokane Prize\, Willow Springs Books\, 2017)\, and Carry You: stories (Fiction Prize\, Autumn House Press\, 2018). She lives in Oakland and directs the Thacher Gallery at the University of San Francisco. \n  \nAbout Paper Sons \n \nSet in a public housing project in San Francisco\, Lam’s memoir explores his transformation from a teenage graffiti writer to a high school teacher working with troubled youth while navigating the secret violence in his immigrant’s family’s past. \n  \nAbout Dickson Lam \n  \nDickson Lam’s work has appeared in StoryQuarterly The Kenyon Review Online\, Hyphen Magazine\, The Normal School\, PANK\, The Good Men Project\, The Rumpus\, and Kartika Review. He is a VONA alum and has been a resident fellow at the Millay Colony for the Arts and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. He holds MFA degrees in creative writing from the University of Houston and Rutgers-Newark. Lam is an Assistant Professor of English at Contra Costa College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/glori-simmons-and-dickson-lam/
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:Ellen Forney / Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Ellen Forney for Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life\, the anticipated companion volume to her bestselling graphic memoir Marbles: Mania\, Depression\, Michelangelo\, and Me\, which she presented at Booksmith. Please join us in welcoming Ellen back to San Francisco! \nWhereas Marbles was a memoir about her bipolar disorder\, Rock Steady turns the focus outward\, offering a self-help guide of tips\, tricks\, and tools by someone who has been through it all and come through stronger for it. \nWith Marbles\, Forney helped de-stigmatize mood disorders with her candid presentation of her struggle to find mental stability while retaining her passion and creativity. This is the jumping off point for her new book\, Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life. Personal stories and solid advice from Forney on how to overcome the hassle of meds\, recognize red flags\, and other tools from her own experience of 14 years of stability — all in comics form. Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life invites readers into Ellen’s home\, head\, and Peanuts pill box. \n  \n\n  \n“Ellen Forney is an inspiration to me as an artist and as a human being! Let her drawings springboard you into self-acceptance!” — Maria Bamford\, Lady Dynamite \n  \nEllen Forney lives in Seattle\, WA\, with her partner. She was the 2012 recipient of The Stranger Genius Award for Literature as well as the winner of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis 2013 Gradiva Award. \n  \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Rock Steady and/or Marbles order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ellen-forney-rock-steady-brilliant-advice-from-my-bipolar-life/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY\, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES
DESCRIPTION:YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\,\na communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\,\nto embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-12/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's 'F*CK BUDDIES'
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 17th\, 2018 \nat the Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa Street\, San Francisco CA \nRemember: Bang-O & Games at 7 PM\, Stories at 8 PM \nWant a sample? Listen to our podcast at \nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThe Bawdy Storytelling is a live Storytelling series – and yeah\, WE GO THERE. \nThe evening of Stories\, Songs & Sex Toys includes: \n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist & Storyteller Dixie De La Tour \n❤ ‘Watt the Safeword’s host Amp the (Human) Pup \n❤ Pitch your story to Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com by 5/6 \n❤ Custom Bawdy Songs by the brilliant Rachel Lark \n❤ Play Bang-O\, Bawdy’s beloved icebreaker \n❤ Take home goodies\, just for talking to sexy strangers \n❤ You could walk off with the gift bag from Kink Store \n❤ WIN the Grand Prize from Good Vibrations \n❤ Lube Giveaways from UberLube & Good Clean Love \n❤ Condom Giveaways from Lucky Bloke \n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #SchlongIslandIcedTea \nAbout Bawdy Storytelling: \nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure. \nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & hand-picked Rockstars as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal! \nA REVIEW of Bawdy Storytelling : “Stories are powerful. No other medium has the ability to move\, inspire\, or change us quite like a well-crafted narrative. Never has this been more true than the world of sex\, where fear\, shame\, and misinformation abound. This is all a high-minded and roundabout way of telling you to check out Thursday’s edition of Bawdy Storytelling\, a rousing and arousing night of true sex stories that promises to make you laugh\, make you think\, and make you hard … pressed to find a more interesting thing to do on a Thursday night.” – SF Weekly
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-fck-buddies/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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