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SUMMARY:Unholy Trinity: A Lovecraft Triptych
DESCRIPTION:Thursday – Saturday @ 8PM\, until November 2 \nInspired by the supernatural fiction of HP Lovecraft\, an early 20th century writer known for creating his own mythos\, Unholy Trinity is San Francisco writer/director Stuart Bousel’s adaptation and staging of “The Dunwich Horror\,” “Nyarlathotep\,” and “The Dreams in the Witch House.” Celebrate the Halloween season with these unholy works of classic horror. \nFeaturing Adrian Deane\, Ellen Dunphy\, Kyle Goldman\, Tirumari Jothi\, Brian Martin\, Kyle McReddie\, Sarah Negron\, & Ron Talbot. \n  \n this event repeats Thurs-Sat\, 8pm\, until November 2
URL:https://litseen.com/event/unholy-trinity-a-lovecraft-triptych/
LOCATION:EXIT Theatre\, 156 Eddy Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow
DESCRIPTION:Hannu Rajaniemi\, Meg Elison\, Annalee Newitz discuss their contributions to Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrowwith editor Torie Bosch. \nAbout Future Tense Fiction \nFuture Tense Fiction is a collection of electrifying original stories from a veritable who’s-who of the most interesting authors working on the margins of speculative literature and science fiction. \nFeaturing Carmen Maria Machado\, Emily St. John Mandel\, Charlie Jane Anders\, Paolo Bacigalupi\, Madeline Ashby\, Mark Oshiro\, Meg Elison\, Maureen McHugh\, Deji Bryce Olukotun\, Hannu Rajaniemi\, Annalee Newitz\, Lee Konstantinou\, and Mark Stasenko–Future Tense Fiction points the way forward to the fiction of tomorrow. \nA disease surveillance robot whose social programming gets put to the test. A future in which everyone receives universal basic income–but it’s still not enough. A futuristic sport\, in which all the athletes have been chemically and physically enhanced. An A.I. company that manufactures a neural bridge allowing ordinary people to share their memories. Brimming with excitement and exploring new ideas\, the stories collected by the editors of Slate’s Future Tense are philosophically ambitious and haunting in their creativity. At times terrifying and heartwrenching\, hilarious and optimistic\, this is a collection that ushers in a new age for our world and for the short story. \nAnnalee Newitz writes science fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of the novel Autonomous\, nominated for the Nebula and Locus Awards\, and winner of the Lambda Literary Award. As a science journalist\, she’s written for the Washington Post\, Slate\, Ars Technica\, the New Yorker\, and The Atlantic\, among others. Her book Scatter\, Adapt\, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinctionwas a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in science. She was the founder of io9\, and served as the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo and the tech culture editor at Ars Technica. She has published short stories in Lightspeed\, Shimmer\, Apex\, and Technology Review’s Twelve Tomorrows. She was the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT\, worked as a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation\, and has a Ph.D. in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley. Her new novel\, The Future of Another Timeline\, comes out September 2019. \nMeg Elison is a science fiction author and feminist essayist. Herdebut novel\, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife\, won the 2014 Philip K.Dick award. Her second novel was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick\,and both were longlisted for the James A. Tiptree award. She has been published in McSweeney’s\, Fantasy & Science Fiction\, Catapult\, and many other places. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of the University of California\, Berkeley. Find her online\, where she writes like she’s running out of time. \nHannu Rajaniemi is the author of four novels including The Quantum Thief(winner of 2012 Tähtivaeltaja Award for the best science fiction novel published in Finland and translated into more than 20 languages)\, and Invisible Planets\, a short story collection. His most recent book is Summerland\, an alternate history spy thriller in a world where the afterlife is real. His short fiction has been featured in Slate\, MIT Technology Review and the New York Times. Hannu lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a co-founder and CEO of HelixNano\, a venture- and Y Combinator–backed biotech startup. \nTorie Bosch is the editor of Future Tense\, a partnership of Slate\, New America\, and Arizona State University. She was also the co-editor of the 2017 edition of What Future: The Year’s Best Ideas to Reclaim\, Reanimate & Reinvent the Future (The Unnamed Press).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/future-tense-fiction-stories-of-tomorrow/
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:JOHN LITHGOW In Conversation with Calvin Trillin
DESCRIPTION:JOHN LITHGOW\nIn Conversation with Calvin Trillin\nWednesday\, October 30\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nJohn Lithgow is an award-winning actor with two Tonys\, six Emmys\, and two Golden Globes to his name. His forthcoming book of poetry\, Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse\, features his own never-before-seen drawings\, and chronicles the last few years in politics with Lithgow’s characteristic sharp wit and propulsive lyricism. \nJournalist\, humorist\, and devoted eater\, Calvin Trillin is a most beloved chronicler of culture. His long association with The New Yorker Magazine began in 1963 with his U.S. Journal articles\, compiled as he traveled the country\, searching for obscure stories and developing a taste for regional delicacies. Though his writing about food began as comic relief from his more serious pieces\, it has earned him a dedicated readership and has been collected in multiple books. Calvin Trillin is also a board member of City Arts & Lectures.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-lithgow-in-conversation-with-calvin-trillin/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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