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SUMMARY:Bookworks :: An Artist's Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:About the Bookworks :: An Artist’s Book Fair \nBookworks at San Francisco Center for the Book is a great place to start your artist’s book collection\, to meet fantastic book artists\, and spend time with friends over cocktails and light hors d’oeuvres. The vision of Bookworks is to encourage the beginning artist’s book collector\, support local book artists (especially in the early stages of their career)\, and provide a social event for the community.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bookworks-an-artists-book-fair/
LOCATION:San Francisco Center for the Book\, 375 Rhode Island St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:‘NEARING THE EXIT’: POEMS BY HERBERT GOLD
DESCRIPTION:Novelist\, memoirist\, essayist\, Herbert Gold returns to his earliest form of literary expression\, poetry—here in a publishing first\, Nearing the Exit. In these poems 94-year-old Gold visits his past and future\, with a tip of the hat to the theme of his recent book Still Alive: A Temporary Condition(2008\, republished as Not Dead Yet\, 2011). \nIncludes an interview with Herb by publisher Les Gottesman at Omèrta Press. \n\nHerbert Gold began writing poetry in high school in Cleveland in the 1930s. Writing propelled him to New York City after several of his poems had been accepted by New York literary magazines. He studied philosophy at Columbia University (interrupted by 3 years in “downtown World War II\,” as he calls it) and became involved with the burgeoning Beat Generation\, which resulted in a lifelong friendship with Allen Ginsberg. He won a Fulbright to Paris\, where he joined a literary scene around Saul Bellow. Gold recalls\, “Somehow I got to writing prose\, confining my poetry to folders which will in due course be excavated by my children. Along the way\, I’ve published approximately 20 novels and collections of stories (who’s counting?) and maybe 6 or 8 nonfiction books (I’m not a mathematician). I’ve temporarily taught at Harvard\, Cornell\, Stanford\, UC-Berkeley\, and UC-Davis\, but didn’t want to depart San Francisco. I’ve had 2 wives and 5 children Isn’t that enough bio? There could be more…” At age 94\, Gold returns to poetry in these new poems\, lyrical but tough reflections on his loves\, joys\, and losses.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nearing-the-exit-poems-by-herbert-gold/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Laura Catherine Brown
DESCRIPTION:Laura Catherine Brown dicusses her new novel\, Made By Mary. \n\nAbout Made By Mary \n\nWhen Mary and Ann agree to a surrogacy partnership everything goes awry. Ann\, a pre-school teacher\, is desperate for the children she physically can’t have. Mary\, a 50-year-old pagan jeweler\, hopes to make amends for years of maternal neglect. Together\, they plunge into the expensive\, morally complex world of reproductive technology and an intimacy neither they\, nor Ann’s husband\, Joel\, is prepared for. Financially hard-pressed\, Joel goes behind Ann’s back and agrees to help Mary grow a marijuana crop in her attic. Ann struggles with the rigors and enforced togetherness of the reproductive regime. And Mary’s delight in being a “bountiful earth mother” is offset by the physical ordeal of bearing multiple fetuses. The stakes escalate as the police start sniffing around the grow house\, a pagan ritual goes tragically awry\, and the pregnancy becomes more perilous\, forcing Ann\, Joel\, and Mary to confront the potentially calamitous consequences of pursuing their deepest desires. Sharp and audacious\, Made by Mary is a black comedy using magic realism to blow up myths about women\, mothers\, and motherhood\, where even the most extreme situations are rendered with candor\, intelligence\, and empathy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laura-catherine-brown/
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:Molly Crabapple / Brothers of the Gun
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Molly Crabapple for Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War\, which she illustrated and co-authored with Marwan Hisham. Please join us! \nA bracingly immediate memoir by a young man coming of age during the Syrian war\, Brothers of the Gun is an intimate lens on the century’s bloodiest conflict and a profound meditation on kinship\, home\, and freedom. \nIn 2011\, Marwan Hisham and his two friends — fellow working-class college students Nael and Tareq — joined the first protests of the Arab Spring in Syria\, in response to a recent massacre. Arm-in-arm they marched\, poured Coca-Cola into one another’s eyes to blunt the effects of tear gas\, ran from the security forces\, and cursed the country’s president\, Bashar al-Assad. It was ecstasy. A long-bottled revolution was finally erupting\, and freedom from a brutal dictator seemed\, at last\, imminent. Five years later\, the three young friends were scattered: one now an Islamist revolutionary\, another dead at the hands of government soldiers\, and the last\, Marwan\, now a journalist in Turkish exile\, trying to find a way back to a homeland reduced to rubble. \nBrothers of the Gun is the story of a young man coming of age during the Syrian war\, from its inception to the present. Marwan watched from the rooftops as regime warplanes bombed soldiers; as revolutionary activist groups\, for a few dreamy days\, spray-painted hope on Raqqa; as his friends died or threw in their lot with Islamist fighters. He became a journalist by courageously tweeting out news from a city under siege by ISIS\, the Russians\, and the Americans all at once. He watched the country that ran through his veins — the country that held his hopes\, dreams\, and fears — be destroyed in front of him\, and eventually joined the relentless stream of refugees risking their lives to escape. \nIllustrated with more than eighty ink drawings by Molly Crabapple that bring to life the beauty and chaos\, Brothers of the Gun offers a ground-level reflection on the Syrian revolution—and how it bled into international catastrophe and global war. This is a story of pragmatism and idealism\, impossible violence and repression\, and\, even in the midst of war\, profound acts of courage\, creativity\, and hope. \n\n  \n“This powerful memoir\, illuminated with Molly Crabapple’s extraordinary art\, provides a rare lens through which we can see a region in deadly conflict\, a struggle for peace\, and a human tragedy in desperate need of attention. It is a compelling\, sobering\, and necessary book.”— Bryan Stevenson\, author of Just Mercy \n“From the anarchy\, torment\, and despair of the Syrian war\, Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple have drawn a book of startling emotional power and intellectual depth. Many books will be written on the war’s exhaustive devastation of bodies and souls\, and the defiant resistance of many trapped men and women\, but the Mahabharata of the Levant has already found its wisest chroniclers.”— Pankaj Mishra\, author of Age of Anger and From the Ruins of Empire\n \n“A revelatory and necessary read on one of the most destructive wars of our time . . . In great personal detail\, Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple poignantly capture the tumultuous life in Syria before\, after\, and during the war—from inside one young man’s consciousness.”— Angela Davis \n“Marwan Hisham took part in the uprising against Bashar al-Assad and then did the unthinkable—wrote journalism from inside ISIS territory\, risking his life so that the world might know the truth. He gives us an unforgettable portrait of what it feels like to resist a tyrannical dictator\, live under ISIS occupation\, brave bombs falling from the sky\, and somehow survive with your humanity intact. Punctuated by Molly Crabapple’s beautiful\, haunting art\, this heart-rending memoir is essential reading to understand one of the greatest catastrophes of our time.”— Anand Gopal\, author of No Good Men Among the Living \n  \n\n  \nMolly Crabapple is an artist and writer in New York. Her memoir\, Drawing Blood\, was published by HarperCollins in 2015. Brothers of the Gun\, her illustrated collaboration with Syrian war journalist Marwan Hisham\, will be published by One World/Penguin Random House in May 2018. Her reportage has been published in the New York Times\, New York Review of Books\, The Paris Review\, Vanity Fair\, The Guardian\, VICE\, and elsewhere. She has been the recipient of a Yale Poynter Fellowship\, a Front Page Award\, and a Gold Rush Award\, and shortlisted for a Frontline Print Journalism Award. She is often asked to discuss her work chronicling the conflicts of the 21st Century\, and has appeared on All In with Chris Hayes\, Amanpour\, NPR\, BBC News\, PRI\, and more. The New Yorker described her 2017 mural “The Bore of Babylon” as “a terrifying amalgam of Hieronymus Bosch\, Honoré Daumier\, and Monty Python’s Flying Circus.” Her art is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art\, the Rubin Museum of Art and the New York Historical Society. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend this event but would like to request a signed copy of Brothers of the Gun\, and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, at 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/molly-crabapple-brothers-of-the-gun/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Laura Catherine Brown and Maw Shein Win
DESCRIPTION:  \nLaura Catherine Brown and Maw Shein Win read from their latest works\, Made By Mary and Invisible Gifts. \nAbout Made By Mary \n \n  \nWhen Mary and Ann agree to a surrogacy partnership everything goes awry. Ann\, a pre-school teacher\, is desperate for the children she physically can’t have. Mary\, a 50-year-old pagan jeweler\, hopes to make amends for years of maternal neglect. Together\, they plunge into the expensive\, morally complex world of reproductive technology and an intimacy neither they\, nor Ann’s husband\, Joel\, is prepared for. Financially hard-pressed\, Joel goes behind Ann’s back and agrees to help Mary grow a marijuana crop in her attic. Ann struggles with the rigors and enforced togetherness of the reproductive regime. And Mary’s delight in being a “bountiful earth mother” is offset by the physical ordeal of bearing multiple fetuses. The stakes escalate as the police start sniffing around the grow house\, a pagan ritual goes tragically awry\, and the pregnancy becomes more perilous\, forcing Ann\, Joel\, and Mary to confront the potentially calamitous consequences of pursuing their deepest desires. Sharp and audacious\, Made by Mary is a black comedy using magic realism to blow up myths about women\, mothers\, and motherhood\, where even the most extreme situations are rendered with candor\, intelligence\, and empathy. \n  \nAbout Invisible Gifts \n \n  \nIn her first full-length collection of poems\, Win depicts a colorful world imbued with unexpected paradoxes: nature is both comforting and savagely unnerving; love is permanent and fleeting; the accuracy and flaws of memory abound. Her experiences with illness and recovery intertwine with her identity as a Burmese American daughter of immigrant doctors\, flowing in poems like “Hands” My father’s hands\, frail birds\, shaking wings. / In Burmese\, “win” means bright. / Hands that stitched skin together and brought back life. Win’s unique perspective and artful language offer readers insight into how the heart can bend and mend without breaking.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laura-catherine-brown-and-maw-shein-win/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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