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SUMMARY:A Year Off: A Story About Traveling the World—and How to Make It Happen for You\, by Alexandra and David Brown
DESCRIPTION:On their first date\, David started describing to Alexandra his plan to quit his job and travel around the world for a year. Without hesitation (and surprising them both) Alexandra blurted out “Wait for me.” He did. Three months after that first date they quit their jobs and embarked on a round-the world adventure together that would take them to Costa Rica\, New Zealand\, Thailand\, India\, Romania\, France\, Ireland\, and more. They traveled together for a full year—and one year after they returned to San Francisco\, they got married. \nA Year Off is the story of their journey and their romance. It combines their personal story with inspiration and practical advice for would-be travelers looking to make their own tour. It includes real-world tips on putting your career on pause\, planning your route\, setting a budget\, adjusting to life on the road\, finding your “travel rhythm\,” discovering the “traveler’s code” of  generosity and hospitality\, and finally making a soft landing when you return home. It shows that it is possible to step out of a high-achieving lifestyle for an extended\, and transformative\, adventure. Alexandra and David are now happily married and live in San Francisco with their daughter. They still travel frequently.\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlexandra Brown\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Brown
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-year-off-a-story-about-traveling-the-world-and-how-to-make-it-happen-for-you-by-alexandra-and-david-brown/
LOCATION:Mechanics Institute\, 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival Presents Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake
DESCRIPTION:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents Poetic Tuesdays guest curated by Litquake\, Poetic Tuesdays features an array of poets and music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yerba-buena-gardens-festival-presents-poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-3/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:R.O. Kwon celebrating the release of  The Incendiaries
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nThe Incendiaries  \nfrom Riverhead Books \nNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2018 by the New York Times\, Entertainment Weekly\, Elle\, Time\, Parade\, Vanity Fair\, Cosmopolitan\, Esquire\, PBS\, Vulture\,Buzzfeed\, BookRiot\, PopSugar\, Refinery29\, Bustle\, The Rumpus\, Paste\, BBC. \nA shocking novel of violence\, love\, faith\, and loss\, as a young woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult tied to North Korea. \nPhoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn’t tell anyone she blames herself for her mother’s recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers to Edwards from Bible college\, waiting tables to get by. What he knows for sure is that he loves Phoebe. \nGrieving and guilt-ridden\, Phoebe is increasingly drawn into a religious group–a secretive extremist cult–founded by a charismatic former student\, John Leal. He has an enigmatic past that involves North Korea and Phoebe’s Korean American family. Meanwhile\, Will struggles to confront the fundamentalism he’s tried to escape\, and the obsession consuming the one he loves. When the group bombs several buildings in the name of faith\, killing five people\, Phoebe disappears. Will devotes himself to finding her\, tilting into obsession himself\, seeking answers to what happened to Phoebe and if she could have been responsible for this violent act. \nThe Incendiaries is a fractured love story and a brilliant examination of the minds of extremist terrorists\, and of what can happen to people who lose what they love most. \nR. O. Kwon is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her writing is published or forthcoming in The Guardian\, Vice\, Buzzfeed\, Time\, Noon\, Electric Literature\, Playboy\, and elsewhere. She has received awards from Yaddo\, MacDowell\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, Omi International\, the Steinbeck Center\, and the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony. Born in South Korea\, she has lived most of her life in the United States. \nWhaty has been said about the work of R.O. Kwon: \nRemarkable… Every page blooms with sensuous language and the book’s mood is otherworldly\, even if its setting\, a wealthy college in the Northeast\, isn’t… These are characters in quiet crisis\, burning\, above all\, to know themselves\, and Kwon leads them\, confidently\, to an enthralling end.” —Paris Review  \n“If you only read one book this summer\, make it this complex and searing debut novel by R.O. Kwon.” —Southern Living \n“One of those slim novels that contains multitudes\, R.O. Kwon’s debut novel shows how unreliable we are as narrators when we’re trying to invent — and reinvent — ourselves.” —Vulture \n“Kwon’s prose is artfully crafted. It is spare and accessible\, then\, delightfully explosive in its literary tendencies\, the music and the flourish. Kwon has a knack for setting stunning scenes that immerse us in a world familiar yet fractured: a watery memory that we want to stay and explore\, understand. This is fantastic fiction\, dripping with detail and nostalgia—experience translated poignantly\, accessibly—scenes in this book are a dead-on dream… Images come alive\, light burns through silver halide\, and what we see on screen\, on the page\, in our minds\, is as tangible and fleeting as a film frame…. Written with sparsity and flourish\, a well-constructed narrative fractured and woven into cinematic scenes\, populated with complex characters that demand our attention in exchange for access\, The Incendiaries is at times reminiscent of a Haruki Murakami novel. Alongside Kwon’s persistent\, driven prose is a narrative of personal and interpersonal unraveling. Kwon cultivates a palpable emptiness\, a space to feel the growing sense of loss that progressively saturates these pages.” —The Rumpus \n“This lyrical\, haunting novel is a remarkable debut from Kwon\, in which she shows with real lucidity the tangled ways in which passion slips into fanaticism\, love into desperation\, and faith into folly.”—Nylon \n“Mesmerizing.” —Bustle\n \n“R.O. Kwon’s brilliant debut novel dives into the world of domestic terrorism\, and the results prove that she’s a writer to watch.” —Paste Magazine \n“Deeply engrossing.” —PBS Books \n“R.O. Kwon’s debut novel is the rare marriage of sparkling\, poetic prose and propulsive narrative…. Big ideas of God and faith are explored\, but it’s all grounded in the story of the relationship between two people\, and how loss and vulnerability can be exploited by a persuasive religion.” —Jezebel \n“If there is a novel that goes to unexpected places\, it’s The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon… Phenomenal.” —Mashable \n“The Incendiaries will make you dizzy with its powerful prose… its heartbreaking and gut-wrenching meditations on the extremes human beings will push themselves to when they lose the thing they love most will stick with you long after you finish.” —PopSugar \n“A powerful\, darkly glittering novel… The Incendiaries is a fractured love story and a brilliant examination of the minds of extremist terrorists\, and of what can happen to people who lose what they love most.” —The Rumpus \n“The Incendiaries is a God-haunted\, willful\, strange book written with a kind of savage elegance. I’ve said it before\, but now I’ll shout it from the rooftops: R. O. Kwon is the real deal.”\n—Lauren Groff\, author of Fates and Furies and Florida \n“Every explosive requires a fuse. That’s R. O. Kwon’s novel\, a straight\, slow-burning fuse. To read her novel is to follow an inexorable flame coming closer and closer to the object it will detonate—the characters\, the crime\, the story\, and\, ultimately\, the reader.”\n—Viet Thanh Nguyen\, author of The Sympathizer and The Refugees \n“The Incendiaries probes the seductive and dangerous places to which we drift when loss unmoors us. In dazzlingly acrobatic prose\, R. O. Kwon explores the lines between faith and fanaticism\, passion and violence\, the rational and the unknowable.”\n—Celeste Ng\, author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You \n“A swift\, sensual novel about the unraveling of a collegiate relationship and its aftermath. Kwon writes gracefully about the spiritual insecurities of millennials.”\n—Karan Mahajan\, author of The Association of Small Bombs \n“This debut novel is absolutely electric\, something new in the firmament. Everyone should read this book.”\n—Garth Greenwell\, author of What Belongs to You \n“A classic love triangle between two tormented college students and God. The Incendiaries brings us\, page by page\, from quiet reckonings with shame and intimacy to a violent\, grand tragedy. In a conflagration of lyrical prose\, R. O. Kwon skillfully evokes the inherent extremism of young love.”\n—Tony Tulathimutte\, author of Private Citizens \n“An impressive\, assured debut about the hope for personal and political revolution and all the unexpected ways it flickers out. Kwon has vital things to say about the fraught times we live in.”\n—Jenny Offill\, author of Dept. of Speculation \n“A profound\, intricate exploration of how grief and lost faith and the vulnerable storm of youth can drive people to irrevocable extremes\, told with a taut intensity that kept me up all night. R.O. Kwon is a thrilling writer\, and her splendid debut is unsettled\, irresistible company.”\n—Laura van den Berg\, author of The Isle of Youth and Find Me \n“Written in dazzling\, spare prose… Kwon’s novel expertly addresses questions of faith and identity while managing to be formally inventive in its construction… In this intriguing cult story\, Kwon thoroughly explores her characters’ motivations\, making for an urgent and disarming debut.” —Publishers Weekly \n“Kwon successfully defines her characters’ depth while maintaining an air of intrigue and suspense. Throughout\, she looks at the imperfections in all our lives and how our interactions may lead us down paths unbeknownst to ourselves. With a breezy yet intense style\, newcomer Kwon is a writer to watch.” —Library Journal
URL:https://litseen.com/event/r-o-kwon-celebrating-the-release-of-the-incendiaries/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer SF "Ancestors: Real\, Imagined\, & Literary"
DESCRIPTION:Our ancestors can be the real people who came before us or the imagined people of literature or the real people who imagined that literature. Perfectly Queer wants to explore these different types of ancestors with the help of authors Wayne Goodman\, Andrew Lam\, and Anand Vedawala. Join us Tuesday\, September 11\, 7pm at Dog Eared Books Castro for ancestors in stories\, children’s books\, personal essays\, and the first Gay novels in England\, Russia\, and the U.S. Free admission\, free refreshments. Door prizes awarded promptly at 7pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-sf-ancestors-real-imagined-literary/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Claudia Dey / Heartbreaker
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Claudia Dey for her American debut\, Heartbreaker! Please join us. \n  \nAn isolated town.\nThe remains of a mysterious cult.\nAnd a woman who disappears. \n  \nIt’s 1985. Pony Darlene Fontaine has lived all her fifteen years in “the territory\,” a settlement founded decades ago by a charismatic cult leader. In this strange town run on a sinister economic resource\, the women crimp their hair and wear shoulder pads\, and the teenagers listen to Nazareth and Whitesnake on their Walkmans. Pony’s family lives in the bungalow at the farthest edge of town\, where the territory borders the rest of the wider world–a place none of the townspeople have ever been. \n  \nExcept for Billie Jean Fontaine\, Pony’s mother. When Billie Jean arrived in the territory seventeen years prior–falling from the open door of a stolen car–the residents took her in and made her one of their own. She was the first outsider they had ever laid eyes on. Pony adores and idolizes her mother\, but like everyone else in the territory she is mystified by her. Billie Jean refuses to describe the world she came from. \n  \nOne night\, Billie Jean grabs her truck keys\, bolts barefoot into the cold October darkness–and vanishes. Beautiful\, beloved\, and secretive\, Billie Jean was the first person to be welcomed into the territory. Now\, with a frantic search under way for her missing mother\, Pony fears: Will she be the first person to leave it too? \n  \nTold from the three unforgettable perspectives of a daughter\, a killer dog\, and a teenage boy named Supernatural\, this novel is startling in its humor and wrenching in its wisdom about the powers\, limits\, and dangers of love. Heartbreaker is an electrifying page-turner about a woman reinventing herself in order to survive–and a daughter who must race against the clock to untangle the mysteries left in her mother’s wake. \n  \n\n  \n“A dark star of a book\, glittering with mordant humor and astonishing\, seductive strangeness and grace. I am a giant fan of Claudia Dey’s wild brain.” –Lauren Groff\, author of Fates and Furies \n  \n“Heartbreaker gave me chills all the way through. It is deeply original — in its wildness\, its structure\, its wisdom\, and its world. It convinced me that the deepest of human (and animal) urges is the pull to find one’s true home — which lies in the hearts of just a few others. I floated in the perfection of its ending. I loved this novel’s shining sensitivity. I loved its every page.” –Sheila Heti\, author of Motherhood and How Should a Person Be? \n  \n“Devoted as I am to the oddities of remote northern lands\, I could not put this book down. By turns hilarious and harrowing\, Heartbreaker‘s icy exactitude is direct\, disturbed\, and entirely splendid.” – Samantha Hunt\, author of The Dark Dark \n  \n“I want Van Halen to write the soundtrack and the Coen brothers to make the movie. Heartbreaker plays out as a vivid\, tender\, complex magic\, a totally compulsive\, singular\, and wild read. The people in this book are so alive\, and the book itself feels unthinkably new.” – Leslie Feist\, musician \n  \n“I was kidnapped by this novel. Original\, alluring\, and memorable\, Claudia Dey’s Heartbreaker–an electrifying story about buried pasts\, dark secrets\, and dangerous love that shimmers and sparks–will get under your skin.” – Iain Reid\, author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things \n  \n“Heartbreaker makes high and hilarious art from the emotional Pop Rocks and glittery junk of a certain way of being young. And vulnerable. Also\, it has one of the most awesome dogs in literature. . . . A thrillingly original\, wholly spellbinding\, and luminous novel.” – Rivka Galchen\, author of Atmospheric Disturbances \n  \n\n  \n  \nClaudia Dey is the author of Stunt\, a Globe and Mail and Quill & Quire Book of the Year. Her plays have been produced internationally and nominated for the Governor General’s Award and Trillium Book Award. Dey’s writing has appeared in many publications\, including The Paris Review and The Believer. She has also worked as a horror film actress and a cook in lumber camps across northern Canada\, and is co-designer of Horses Atelier. Claudia Dey lives in Toronto. Heartbreaker is her American debut. \n  \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/claudia-dey-heartbreaker/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Elaine Mokhtefi
DESCRIPTION:Elaine Mokhtefi discusses her new book\, Algiers\, Third World Capital: Freedom Fighters\, Revolutionaries\, Black Panthers. \n\nPraise for Algiers\, Third World Capital \n\n“Algiers\, Third World Capital is a return to a time when Algiers was Mecca and the Vatican for revolutionaries. Indeed\, at the time Amilcar Cabral said: ‘Muslims go on pilgrimage to Mecca\, Christians in the Vatican and national liberation movements in Algiers.’”– Kader Bakou\, Le Soir d’Algerie (French) \n\n“Elaine Mokhtefi has written a fascinating insider’s account of the Black Panthers’ exile in Algiers in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Legendary figures take to the stage in the world capital of the national liberation movements: Ahmed Ben Bella\, Frantz Fanon\, Eldridge Cleaver. Mokhtefi was a key intermediary between the Panthers and the FLN during her own time in Algiers\, and a militant anti-imperialist. This is a clear-eyed\, first-hand recollection of the way things fall apart.”– Jeremy Harding\, author of Border Vigils \n\nAbout Algiers\, Third World Capital \n\nA fascinating portrait of life with the Black Panthers in Algiers: a story of liberation and radical politics \n  \nFollowing the Algerian war for independence and the defeat of France in 1962\, Algiers became the liberation capital of the Third World. Here\, Elaine Mokhtefi\, who as a young American woman had become involved in the struggle and worked with leaders of the Algerian Revolution\, including Frantz Fanon\, found a home. As a journalist and translator\, she lived among guerrillas\, revolutionaries\, exiles and visionaries and was even present in the making of the groundbreaking film The Battle of Algiers. \nMokhtefi crossed paths with some of the era’s brightest stars: Stokely Carmichael\, Timothy Leary\, Ahmed Ben Bella\, Jomo Kenyatta and Eldridge Cleaver. She was instrumental in the establishment of the International Section of the Black Panther Party in Algiers and was close at hand as the group became involved in intrigue\, murder and international hijackings. She traveled for and with the Panthers and organised Cleaver’s clandestine departure for France.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elaine-mokhtefi/
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:Poets Maw Shein Win\, Melissa Stein\, Margaret Stawowy & Miriam Bird Greenberg
DESCRIPTION:Poets Maw Shein Win\, Melissa Stein\, Margaret Stawowy & Miriam Bird Greenberg
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-maw-shein-win-melissa-stein-margaret-stawowy-miriam-bird-greenberg/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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