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SUMMARY:An Evening with Carolina de Robertis
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading and discussion of Cantoras\, the newly acclaimed novel by Uruguayan American author Carolina de Robertis. \nA Bay Area resident\, De Robertis is the author of the The Gods of Tango\, Perla\, and the international bestseller The Invisible Mountain. Her books have been translated into seventeen languages\, and have been named Best Books of the Year in venues including the San Francisco Chronicle\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\, BookList\, and NBC. \nShe is the recipient of a Stonewall Book Award\, Italy’s Rhegium Julii Prize\, and a 2012 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-carolina-de-robertis/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, Main Branch\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:I Will Destroy You: Poetry With Nick Flynn and Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:Nick Flynn’s latest book is I Will Destroy You\, poetry that interrogates the potential of art to be redemptive\, to remake and reform. But first the maker of art must claim responsibility for his past\, his actions\, his propensity to destroy others and himself. The poems delve into the deepest\, most defeating parts of the self: addiction\, temptation\, infidelity\, and repressed memory. These are poems of profound self-scrutiny and lyric intensity\, jagged and probing. \nSpecial guest Matthew Zapruder’s new book is Father’s Day. He’s also the author of four collections of poetry\, most recently Come On All You Ghosts\, and Sun Bear as well as Why Poetry\, a book of prose. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/i-will-destroy-you-poetry-with-nick-flynn-and-matthew-zapruder/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ian Haney López in conversation with Eva Paterson
DESCRIPTION:Ian Haney López in conversation with Eva Paterson\nWednesday\, October 9\, 2019\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\nPresented by City Lights in conjunction with The Equal Justice Society and The New Press \n \ndiscussing the subject of his new book \nMerge Left: Fusing Race and Class\, Winning Elections\, and Saving America \npublished by The New Press \n\n\n\nFrom the acclaimed author of Dog Whistle Politics\, an essential road map to neutralizing the role of racism as a divide-and-conquer political weapon and to building a broad multiracial progressive future \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Ian Haney López has broken the code on the racial politics of the last fifty years.” —Bill Moyers \n\n\n\n\n\n\nToday more than ever\, warnings to fear immigrants and people of color bombard us incessantly. Quite simply\, the Right’s fundamental strategy has been to divide and distract while rigging the rules to benefit the superrich. No more. It’s time to reject this kind of purposeful division and to join together to demand that government work for all of us\, whether we’re white\, Black\, or brown. \nIan Haney López has spent the last two years collaborating with a team of union activists\, racial justice leaders\, communications specialists\, and pollsters. Based on conversations and interviews with people all over the country\, the team discovered that a large majority of the population (people of color included) fall into “the persuadable middle”—they hold both progressive and racist views and can be shifted in one direction or another based on different stories about America. \nFor decades\, while the Right has exploited racial fear-mongering\, the Left has splintered. Some have wanted to tackle racism head-on; others have insisted that a race-silent focus on class avoids alienating white voters. Merge Left distills the heartening results of cutting-edge new research: naming racism as a weapon of the rich and calling for cross-racial solidarity builds unity across the base and enlists the broad middle in supporting progressive dreams. \nA work of deep research\, nuanced argument\, and urgent insight\, Merge Left is an indispensable tool for the upcoming political season and in the larger fight to build racial justice and shared economic prosperity. \nIan Haney López is the Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at University of California\, Berkeley\, and the author of Dog Whistle Politics and White by Law\, as well as Merge Left (The New Press). He lives in Richmond\, California. \nEva Jefferson Paterson has campaigned for civil rights with passion\, courage and tenacity for more than three decades. Paterson is the President and a co-founder of the Equal Justice Society\, a legal organization transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law\, social science\, and the arts. \nThe Equal Justice Society is transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law\, social science\, and the arts. Led by President Eva Paterson\, our legal strategy aims to broaden conceptions of present-day discrimination to include unconscious and structural bias by using social science\, structural analysis\, and real-life experience.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ian-haney-lopez-in-conversation-with-eva-paterson/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:San Francisco in Queer Fiction\, by the Decade
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith welcomes Perfectly Queer Reading Series back as they present a night of readings: San Francisco in Queer Fiction\, by the Decade. Please join us! \nSan Francisco has been the location for many works of fiction\, from McTeague by Frank Norris to Less by Andrew Sean Greer. Join us Tuesday\, October 8\, 7pm at The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight (in San Francisco\, of course) to hear readings from four novels with San Francisco as their setting\, written by LGBTQ authors: Blackmail\, My Love by Katie Gilmartin\, Eat Sleep Love by Chuck Forester\, Steam by the late Jay B. Laws (as read byRichard May)\, and Five Windows by Jon Roemer. These books span life in San Francisco from the 1950s to the 70s and 80s to the contemporary city. Free admission and free refreshments. Book signing after the readings. \n\nChuck Forester was raised in northern Wisconsin. He attended Dartmouth and Penn and holds an MCP in city planning and an MFA in poetry. Chuck worked on staff for three San Francisco mayors. His philanthropic work includes leading the successful campaign to establish the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center at the San Francisco Main Library\, which raised $3.5 million. Michael A. Schoch\, his partner of 18 years\, succumbed to AIDS in 1994. Chuck has been an HIV-survivor since 1987. Eat Sleep Love is his latest novel. \nKatie Gilmartin’s checkered past includes stints as a buoyant union organizer\, bona fide sex researcher\, and deeply engaged college professor.  She teaches linocut and monotype classes at Chrysalis Studio in SOMArts and runs the Queer Ancestors Project\, devoted to forging sturdy relationships between young Queer and Trans artists and their ancestors.  Her illustrated noir mystery\, Blackmail My Love\, explores real and imagined Queer ancestors in early 1950s San Francisco.  Katie’s next novel\, Thrill Spot\, will be a fictional account of an actual 1954 raid on a lesbian bar called Tommy’s Place\, in North Beach. \nJon Roemer is a writer and editor based in San Francisco. He is founder and senior editor of Outpost19\, an award-winning book publisher. He is Queer\, a San Francisco resident since 1991\, and an explorer of urban change. Jon studied literature and fiction writing at Northwestern University. Five Windows is Jon’s first novel. \nJay B. Laws was a San Francisco playwright and writer. His first novel\, Steam\, was published by Alyson Books in 1991 and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. Jay died from AIDS in 1992\, a week after completing changes on the manuscript for his second novel\, The Unfinished\, which was published posthumously in 1993. This re-issue of Steamis from ReQueered Tales\, a new publisher specializing in republishing out of print Gay and Lesbian works. \n  \nAbout ReQueered Tales: \nPerhaps forty years of gay fiction – and notably gay and lesbian mystery\, detective and suspense fiction – has been teetering on the brink of obscurity. Orphaned works\, orphaned authors\, many living and some having passed away – with no one to make the case for their creations to be returned to print (and e-print!). Until now. That is the mission of ReQueered Tales. We are honored…to be custodians shepherding back into circulation some of the best Gay and Lesbian fiction writing. See their list of current and upcoming re-publications at requeeredtales.com. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of any of the authors’ books\, send your request to events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-in-queer-fiction-by-the-decade/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nick Flynn: a Reading\, a Conversation
DESCRIPTION:The Reading: Nick Flynn’s latest book is I Will Destroy You\, poetry that interrogates the potential of art to be redemptive\, to remake and reform. But first the maker of art must claim responsibility for his past\, his actions\, his propensity to destroy others and himself. The poems delve into the deepest\, most defeating parts of the self: addiction\, temptation\, infidelity\, and repressed memory. These are poems of profound self-scrutiny and lyric intensity\, jagged and probing. \nThe Conversation: Nick will be in conversation with Ben Terrall\, publisher of Namaste Motherfu**er.   The Reading: Nick Flynn’s latest book is I Will Destroy You\, poetry that interrogates the potential of art to be redemptive\, to remake and reform. But first the maker of art must claim responsibility for his past\, his actions\, his propensity to destroy others and himself. The poems delve into the deepest\, most defeating parts of the self: addiction\, temptation\, infidelity\, and repressed memory. These are poems of profound self-scrutiny and lyric intensity\, jagged and probing. \nThe Conversation: Nick will be in conversation with Ben Terrall\, publisher of Namaste Motherfu**er.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nick-flynn-a-reading-a-conversation/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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