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SUMMARY:William Gibson / Agency
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW AT THIS LINK \nBooksmith presents visionary novelist William Gibson reading from the sharply imagined sequel to his New York Times bestselling novel The Peripheral. He will also be in conversation with Mother Jones editor-in-chief\, Clara Jeffery. \nPlease note: This event will be at Public Works\, 161 Erie St.\, San Francisco. \nUnless noted here\, tickets will be available at the door. \n\nVerity Jane\, gifted app-whisperer\, has been out of work since her exit from a brief but problematic relationship with a Silicon Valley billionaire. Then she signs the wordy NDA of a dodgy San Francisco start-up\, becoming the beta tester for their latest product: a digital assistant\, accessed through a pair of ordinary-looking glasses. “Eunice\,” the disarmingly human AI in the glasses\, soon manifests a face\, a fragmentary past\, and an unnervingly canny grasp of combat strategy. Verity\, realizing that her cryptic new employers don’t yet know this\, instinctively decides that it’s best they don’t. \nMeanwhile\, a century ahead\, in London\, in a different timeline entirely\, Wilf Netherton works amid plutocrats and plunderers\, survivors of the slow and steady apocalypse known as the jackpot. His employer\, the enigmatic Ainsley Lowbeer\, can look into alternate pasts and nudge their ultimate directions. Verity and Eunice have become her current project. \nWilf can see what Verity and Eunice can’t: their own version of the jackpot\, just around the corner. And something else too: the roles they both may play in it. \n  \nTICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW AT THIS LINK \n  \n\nWilliam Gibson\, debuting with the powerfully influential Neuromancer\, both coined the term cyberspace and introduced it to fiction. Neuromancer was the first novel to receive the Hugo\, Nebula\, and Philip K. Dick awards in one year. Gibson continued his career with numerous acclaimed and New York Times bestselling books including Count Zero\, Burning Chrome\, Mona Lisa Overdrive\, Virtual Light\, Idoru\, All Tomorrows Parties\, Pattern Recognition\, Spook Country\, Zero History\, and Distrust That Particular Flavor. Gibson lives in Vancouver\, British Columbia with his wife. You can find more information about William Gibson and his novels online at williamgibsonbooks.com. \nClara Jeffery is the editor-in-chief of Mother Jones\, which was named “Magazine of the Year” by the American Society of Magazine Editors in February 2017. During her tenure\, Mother Jones has won other National Magazine Awards\, including for general excellence\, reporting\, and video; redesigned its magazine and website; established bureaus in Washington and New York; and become a social-media powerhouse. Clara has edited stories that have been included in pretty much every “Best American” anthology. Along the way\, she also won a PEN award for editing\, became a mom\, and forgot what it’s like to sleep. It probably doesn’t help she’s on Twitter so much: @clarajeffery. \n\nPlease note:\n>> Doors open at 6:00 — come early and have a drink or two!\n>> The duration of this event is up to the speakers.\n>> This event is 21+. No exceptions.\n>> Signing details to be announced soon.\n>> Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. \nFacebook RSVP not required\, but always appreciated. \n\n  \nTICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW AT THIS LINK \n(If you cannot attend the event\, but would like a signed copy of Agency and/or any of his books\, place your order here and include your request in the comments section. Please note: a book purchase is not a ticket purchase.)
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LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:D.S. Marriott reading from selected poetry
DESCRIPTION:DS Marriot is a poet and critic\, and Professor in the Department of History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and in the Department of Philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University\, University Park. His areas of interest and expertise include literature and literary theory; psychoanalysis; Black cultural theory and philosophies of race; African American/Black Studies; African Diaspora; Critical Race and Ethnic Studies; and Critical Theory. Marriott is the author of On Black Men (Edinburgh University Press\, Columbia University Press\, 2000) and Haunted Life (forthcoming from Rutgers University Press); he is currently working on Two Freedoms\, a critical study of C.L.R. James and Jules Marcel Monnerot. His volumes of poetry include Incognegro (Salt Publications\, 2006)\, The Bloods (Shearsman Books\, 2011)\, and Duppies (Commune Editions\, 2019).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/d-s-marriott-reading-from-selected-poetry/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Dani Shapiro & Abraham Verghese
DESCRIPTION:What makes us who we are? What combination of memory\, history\, biology\, experience and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us? In 2016\, celebrated writer and memoirist Dani Shapiro took a genetic test on a whim\, believing that she knew her history well – the daughter of Orthodox Ashkenazi Jews\, raised on her father’s stories of their family and ancestors. But her DNA revealed that the man she’d known as her father for her whole life was not biologically related to her. With this news\, her history – and the entire life she had lived – suddenly crumbled beneath her. \nShapiro’s instant New York Times bestselling memoir\, Inheritance\, published to wide acclaim earlier this year\, is about secrets – secrets within families\, kept out of shame or self-protectiveness; secrets we keep from one another in the name of love. Hear how Dani Shapiro lost and found herself via DNA testing\, and how her life has changed since publishing Inheritance. \nShe is joined by Dr. Abraham Verghese\, Professor and Vice Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine\, for this fascinating exploration of genealogy\, paternity and love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dani-shapiro-abraham-verghese/
LOCATION:JCCSF\, 3200 California St \, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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