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SUMMARY:Tommy Pico and Brontez Purnell\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:We’re looking forward to a terrific evening\, with friends and fellow Whiting Award 2018 recipients (respectively\, for poetry and fiction) Tommy Pico and Brontez Purnell\, reading and in conversation with one another and the audience. Please join us. This event\, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts\, is free and open to the public. \nTommy “Teebs” Pico is author of the books IRL (Birds LLC\, 2016)\, Nature Poem (Tin House Books\, 2017)\, and Junk (Tin House Books\, 2018). He was a Queer/Art/Mentors inaugural Fellow\, Lambda Literary Fellow in poetry\, and NYSCA/NYFA Fellow in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, and he’s the winner of a 2018 Whiting Award and the Brooklyn Public Library’s Literature Prize. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation\, he now lives in Brooklyn where he co-curates the reading series Poets With Attitude (PWA) with Morgan Parker\, co-hosts the podcast Food 4 Thot\, and is a contributing editor at Literary Hub. \nBrontez Purnell\, whose “explorations of blackness\, queerness\, maleness\, and Southernness take sharp\, confident turns between raunch and rhapsody\,” has been publishing\, performing\, and curating in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than ten years as founder of cult zine Fag School\, frontman for the band the Younger Lovers\, and the founder and choreographer of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company. He has performed at venues such as New York Live Arts Festival\, YBCA\, SFMOMA\, Counterpulse\, and The Lab. His most recent book\, Since I Laid My Burden Down (The Feminist Press at CUNY\, 2017) won a 2018 Whiting Award for fiction. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAUDIO: Junk\, The Podcast\, with Tommy Pico\nVIDEO: Tommy Pico\, How Not to Be One With Nature\nVIDEO: Free Jazz\, Brontez Purnell Dance Company\nVIDEO: Coming Out with Brontez Purnell \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
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LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Todd Stadtman
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at Green Apple Books on Clement street Thursday\, September 13th at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Todd Stadtman as he reads from his newest novel\, So Good it’s Bad\, which is the second book of the trilogy he’s entitled\, SF Punk Trio.  \n\nAbout \nIn Please Don’t be Waiting for Me\, author Todd Stadtman introduced Scott\, Bridge\, Micah\, and Benny\, a tightknit band of teenage punk rockers whose loyalty is tested when one of their number is falsely charged with murder. In that book’s sequel\, So Good it’s Bad\, he picks up with those characters for another adventure that is every bit as terrifying\, suspenseful and unexpectedly hilarious as the first. \nSo Good it’s Bad catches up with Scott and Micah as they are wrapping up a zero-budget DIY tour with their band Fist Music. At their last show\, Scott becomes violently ill and awakes to find himself a virtual prisoner of a deranged super fan and her equally unbalanced mom. It is up to Bridge\, Benny\, Micah and Scott’s father to find and rescue him. Their efforts will be complicated by the exploits of a narcissistic serial killer called The Jackpot Killer. \n  \nPraise for So Good it’s Bad \n“Captures the unique\, bitter pathos—and dark comedy—of a vanished world: Bay Area youth culture at the dawn of the Reagan era.” \n-Andrew O’Hehir\, Executive Editor\, Salon.com \n“A slamming séance summoning early Eighties San Francisco\, a never-never land of mosh pits\, thrift shopping\, divorced dads\, police raids\, and white punks on dope.” \n– Grady Hendrix\, Author of My Best Friend’s Exorcism \n“Gritty and engaging.” \n– Nancy Davis Kho\, Midlife Mixtape \n“Captures the fun\, desperation\, grime\, confusion\, and joy of being a teen punk weirdo.” \n– Keith Allison\, Teleport City \n  \nTodd Stadtman is a musician-turned-author whose books include Funky Bollywood: The Wild World of 1970s Indian Action Cinema and the novel Please Don’t Be Waiting For Me. He is also the author of the blog Die\, Danger\, Die\, Die\, Kill! and a regular contributor to the perennial cult cinema website Teleport City. He has also contributed to Famous Monsters\, The Times of India\, and The World Directory of Cinema\, as well as the websites io9\, Mondo Macabro\, The Cultural Gutter\, and Monster Island Resort. He currently lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/todd-stadtman/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Susan Froderberg
DESCRIPTION:Susan Froderberg discusses her new novel Mysterium. \n\nPraise for Mysterium \n\nPraise for Mysterium \n“Mysterium is a beautifully rendered exploration of the essential role that landscape plays in the long and difficult journey from grief to understanding and acceptance. Susan Froderberg’s feeling-driven narrative is filled with both suspense and tenderness. A life-enhancing experience.” —Jane Urquhart\, author of The Night Stages \n\n“An adventure at the top of the world; a narrative of reflection\, insight\, and survival.” —Paulette Jiles\, author of News of the World \n\n“First there is the superbly drawn cast of complex and compelling characters\, none more beguiling than Sarasvati ‘Sara’ Troy\, the young woman who\, with a vision of climbing the mountain that is her namesake\, puts the plot in motion. Then there is the masterfully executed suspense and drama of the climb. Finally there is the lovely and lyric writing about the mountain herself—as monolith and metaphor. These three pleasures combine to make Mysterium impossible to put down.” —Pam Houston\, author of Contents May Have Shifted \n\nAbout Mysterium \n\nMysterium\, known as Mount Sarasvati\, looms over the Indian Himalayas as the range’s tallest peak in the dazzling fictional world Susan Froderberg has created. \n  \nSarasvati “Sara” Troy is determined to reach the peak for which she was christened\, and to climb it in honor of her mother\, who perished in a mountaineering accident when Sara was just a child. She asks her father\, a celebrated mountaineer and philosophy professor\, to organize and lead the expedition.The six climbers he recruits are an uneasy mix. They include his longtime friend Dr. Arun Reddy\, a recent widower\, and Reddy’s son\, who often challenges his father; Wilder Carson\, the acclaimed climber who is tormented by the death of his brother; Wilder’s wife\, Vida\, a former lover of Dr. Reddy; and the distinguished scholar of climbing Virgil Adams and his wife\, Hillary. Porters and Sherpas are recruited in India to assist and be part of the team. \n  \nThe party’s journey is harrowing\, taking them from the mountain’s gorge\, into its sanctuary\, and finally onto the summit\, a path that evokes the hell\, purgatory\, and heaven of Dante’s Inferno. As the air thins and this unforgettable journey unfolds\, Sara emerges as a Beatrice-like figure\, buoying her companions up the mountain through the sheer strength and beauty of her being. Both monumental quest and dreamlike odyssey\, Mysterium is infused with the language of climbing and profound existential insight.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-froderberg/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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