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SUMMARY:Author Mary Ladd in conversation with Author Leticia Hernandez
DESCRIPTION:Mary Ladd\, author of The Wig Diaries\, will be in conversation with Leticia Hernandez\, author of Mucha Muchacha\, Too Much Girl. \nThe Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd’s debut disrespectful cancer book. Delivered with bold gallows humor\, it intimately address the gravity of cancer and invites the reader to bear witness to both the horror and the joke(s). Armed with creative sensibility\, Ladd robs her diagnosis of its dour weightiness. Refusing to tiptoe around the gnarlier elements of treatment and recovery\, the narrative is powerful in its unvarnished honesty and contagious lust for life exemplified by hilarious anecdotes. \nA uniquely fresh modern and black comedy take on cancer\nCovers and pokes fun at everything from diagnosis to treatment to medical bills\nIllustrated by San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist Don Asmussen\, who has cancer for the second time \n“I love this book.”—Mary Roach\, author of the books Grunt\, Stiff\, Spook\, and Bonk \n“This looks like a hoot and a half. I want more.”—Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket)\, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events \n“Clear-eyed\, fun\, and reassuring\, it’s the perfect guide!”—Vanessa Hua\, author of A River of Stars and Deceit and Other Possibilities \nMary Ladd’s writing has appeared in Playboy\, Time Magazine\, the San Francisco Chronicle and in five anthologies. She is a Writers Grotto member who collaborated with Anthony Bourdain on his Bay Area episodes of No Reservations. Illustrator Don Asmussen is the creator of Bad Reporter\, a twice-weekly political comic strip in the San Francisco Chronicle that is syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-mary-ladd-in-conversation-with-author-leticia-hernandez/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Carmen Maria Machado with Esmé Weijun Wang
DESCRIPTION:in conversation and celebrating the release of \nCarmen Maria Machado’s \nIn The Dream House \npublished by Graywolf Press \nIn the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad\, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman\, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. \nAnd it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope—the haunted house\, erotica\, the bildungsroman—through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence\, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian\, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. \nMachado’s dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit\, playfulness\, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings\, fairy tales\, Star Trek\, and Disney villains\, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching\, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be. \nCarmen Maria Machado is the author of Her Body and Other Parties\, a finalist for the National Book Award. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, she is the writer in residence at the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Philadelphia with her wife. Visit: https://carmenmariamachado.com/ \nEsmé Weijun Wang is the author of The Collected Schizophrenias and The Border of Paradise. She received the Whiting Award in 2018 and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists of 2017. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan and lives in San Francisco. Visit: https://esmewang.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carmen-maria-machado-with-esme-weijun-wang/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Literary Speakeasy's toast to 2020
DESCRIPTION:It’s time for the first Literary Speakeasy of 2020! We are celebrating with five amazing writers – Heather Bourbeau\, Vincent Chu\, Kevin Dublin\, Lauren Ito\, and Sarah Kobrinsky. It’s going to be an amazing night of poetry and prose. Come raise a glass to Bay Area authors! \nLiterary Speakeasy is always FREE and there is NO drink minimum. Arrive early for a FREE raffle ticket for your chance to win the evening’s secret Speakeasy prize. \nPerformer bios:\nHeather Bourbeau’s fiction and poetry have been published in Alaska Quarterly Review\, Cleaver\, Eleven Eleven\, Francis Ford Coppola Winery’s Chalkboard\, The Stockholm Review of Literature\, and the anthologies Nothing Short Of 100: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story and America\, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience (Sixteen Rivers Press). She has worked with various UN agencies\, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia and UNICEF Somalia. \nVincent Chu is a Bay Area writer and author of the debut story collection Like a Champion. His fiction has appeared in STILL Magazine\, Fjords Review\, Pithead Chapel\, PANK Magazine\, East Bay Review\, The Collapsar\, Stockholm Review and elsewhere. He is a 2019 Hambidge Center Fellow and member of The Writers Grotto. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from UCLA. Vincent lives in San Francisco and can be found online at @herrchu. He is working on his first novel. \nKevin Dublin is editor of Etched Press and author of the chapbook How to Fall in Love in San Diego. He has been the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing\, North Carolina Poetry Society\, and more. His words have appeared in North Carolina Literary Review\, Menacing Hedge\, Poetry International\, The Rumpus\, and more. He holds an MFA from San Diego State University and enjoys developing web apps for writers. Kevin also leads workshops as a part of Litquake’s Elder Writing Project\, at Syzygy Academy SF\, and all over the Bay Area. Follow him on Twitter @PartEverything. \nLauren Ito is a Seattle-born Gosei (fifth generation Japanese American) poet\, designer\, and community craftswoman committed to advancing equity through art and design. As a poet\, Lauren delves into the tensions inherited within diasporic experiences\, including explorations of American concentration camps\, identity\, and home. Lauren’s art been featured by The Seattle Times\, Japanese American National Museum\, Nomadic Press\, The City is Already Speaking Anthology\, and various performance venues\, such as the Mission Arts Performance Project\, Lit Crawl San Francisco\, and Gears Turning. She is a 2019 Grotto Rooted & Written Fellow\, 2019 Novalia Collective Fellow\, and Asian American Women Arts Association Emerging Curators Fellow. She is currently working on her first manuscript. Lauren lives in San Francisco and can almost always be found by the sea. \nSarah Kobrinsky was the 2013-2015 Poet Laureate of Emeryville\, CA. Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything (New Rivers Press) is her first collection of poetry. Her poems and stories have appeared in Magma Poetry\, Eleven Eleven\, Monkeybicycle\, *82 Review\, 100 Word Story\, Fjords Review\, among many others. She was long-listed for the 2019 University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize. She was born in Canada\, raised in North Dakota\, seasoned in England\, and tempered in California. Sarah and her husband have a handmade dinnerware company called Jered’s Pottery.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-speakeasys-toast-to-2020/
LOCATION:Martuni’s\, 4 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Racket 38 : Flight
DESCRIPTION:It’s 2020! The future is here! We’ve got flying cars and robot butlers and harmless lasers that come out of our fingers because it’s the future! Oh wait\, no\, no we don’t. We have ignorance and we have\, oh my\, we have a general regression in terms of social views and\, well\, yeah. Doesn’t matter though\, ’cause it’s 2020 and it’s a new year and even if everything feels like a broken septic tank\, come hang out and celebrate the ticking forward of the biggest hand of all. \nFree beer until the free beer has been consumed. \nThe Readers (So Far): \nNick O’Brien\nChelsea Davis\nAnna Allen\nPeter Thomas\nClaire Calderon\nSpencer Tierney\nCandy Shue
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-38-flight/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Map to Wholeness: A Conversation with Suzy Ross
DESCRIPTION:?      ?        ? The seemingly random events that comprise our lives can be understood as serving a higher purpose when examined through the proper lens; they are in fact the critical steps that comprise our hero’s journey. Those who choose to travel this path will emerge completely transformed—healthier\, happier\, and in touch with their life’s purpose. \nAuthor and professor Dr. Suzy Ross draws on her extensive research to create a map for those ready to embark on their most important adventure. By understanding the larger meaning of our circumstances from a bird’s eye perspective\, we learn to rest in faith and confidence\, freed from crippling judgment and self-blame. We will live more deliberately\, consciously\, and joyfully\, while simultaneously heightening our experiences of change. In her first book\,    \, Dr. Ross identifies the thirteen phases of personal transformation and illuminates the personal journeys of three ordinary individuals who have descended into the darkness of their psyches\, integrating a personal life-changing event\, and emerging transformed. \nJoin Dr. Ross for a conversation about how to identify our unique location on the journey\, deepen our experiences\, and avoid the common pitfalls that block progress. \nCopies of Dr. Ross’ book\,    : –   \, \,  —    13    will be available for sale at this event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-map-to-wholeness-a-conversation-with-suzy-ross/
LOCATION:CIIS Public Programs\, 1453 Mission St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime: Convergence
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime CONVERGENCE\, featuring Mimi Lok (Last of Her Name)\, Nancy Au (Spider Love Song And Other Stories)\, Jeffrey Kingman (On A Road)\, Ari Moskowitz\, and Munashe Kaseke\, will take place at Laundry Gallery\, 3359 26th Street San Francisco\, in the downstairs room at the back with the Soviet piano\, on Thursday January 30th 2000 7-9 pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-convergence/
LOCATION:THE LAUNDRY\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES: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-2/
LOCATION:JCCSF\, 3200 California St \, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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