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SUMMARY:Norman Ohler
DESCRIPTION:Norman Ohler in conversation about his new book\, Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich \n\nPraise for Norman Ohler \n\n“A huge contribution … Remarkable.” —Antony Beevor\, BBC 4 Today \n\n“Ohler’s astonishing account of methamphetamine addiction in the Third Reich changes what we know about the Second World War … Blitzed looks set to reframe the way certain aspects of the Third Reich will be viewed in the future.” — Guardian \n  \n“Blitzed tells the remarkable story of how Nazi Germany slid towards junkie-state status. It is an energetic … account of an accelerating\, modernizing society\, an ambitious pharmaceuticals industry\, a military machine that was looking for ways to create an unbeatable soldier\, and a dictator who couldn’t function without fixes from his quack … It has an uncanny ability to disturb.” — Times (UK) \n\nAbout Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich \n\nThe Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical\, mental\, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history\, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs. On the eve of World War II\, Germany was a pharmaceutical powerhouse\, and companies such as Merck and Bayer cooked up cocaine\, opiates\, and\, most of all\, methamphetamines\, to be consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives to millions of German soldiers. In fact\, troops regularly took rations of a form of crystal meth—the elevated energy and feelings of invincibility associated with the high even help to explain certain German military victories. \n  \nDrugs seeped all the way up to the Nazi high command and\, especially\, to Hitler himself. Over the course of the war\, Hitler became increasingly dependent on injections of a cocktail of drugs—including a form of heroin—administered by his personal doctor. While drugs alone cannot explain the Nazis’ toxic racial theories or the events of World War II\, Ohler’s investigation makes an overwhelming case that\, if drugs are not taken into account\, our understanding of the Third Reich is fundamentally incomplete.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/norman-ohler/
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:Damion Searls
DESCRIPTION:The Inkblot: Hermann Rorschach\, His Iconic Test\, and the Power of Seeing \nfrom Crown Books \nThe captivating untold story of Hermann Rorschach and his famous inkblot test\, which has shaped our view of human personality and become a fixture in popular culture \nIn 1917\, working alone in a remote Swiss asylum\, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach devised an experiment to probe the human mind. For years he had grappled with the theories of Freud and Jung while also absorbing the aesthetic of a new generation of modern artists. He had come to believe that who we are is less a matter of what we say\, as Freud thought\, than what we see. \nRorschach himself was a visual artist\, and his test\, a set of ten carefully designed inkblots\, quickly made its way to America\, where it took on a life of its own. Co-opted by the military after Pearl Harbor\, it was a fixture at the Nuremberg trials and in the jungles of Vietnam. It became an advertising staple\, a cliché in Hollywood and journalism\, and an inspiration to everyone from Andy Warhol to Jay Z. The test was also given to millions of defendants\, job applicants\, parents in custody battles\, workers applying for jobs\, and people suffering from mental illness—or simply trying to understand themselves better. And it is still used today. \nDamion Searls draws on unpublished letters and diaries as well as a cache of previously unknown interviews with Rorschach’s family\, friends\, and colleagues to tell the unlikely story of the test’s creation\, its controversial reinvention\, and its remarkable endurance—and what it all reveals about the power of perception. Elegant and original\, The Inkblots shines a light on the twentieth century’s most visionary synthesis of art and science. \n\nDamion Searls has written for Harper’s\, n+1\, and The Paris Review\, and has translated the work of authors including Rilke\, Proust\, and five Nobel Prize winners. He has been the recipient of Guggenheim\, NEA\, and Cullman Center fellowships.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/damion-searls/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Wendy Garling
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street Tuesday\, March 14h at 7:00pm as we welcome Author Wendy Garling\, reading from and discussing her book Stars at Dawn. \n  \nIn this retelling of the ancient legends of the women in the Buddha’s intimate circle\, lesser-known stories from Sanskrit and Pali sources are for the first time woven into an illuminating\, coherent narrative that follows his life from his birth to his parinirvana or death. Interspersed with original insights\, fresh interpretations\, and bold challenges to the status quo\, the stories are both entertaining and thought-provoking—some may even appear controversial. \n  \nFocusing first on laywomen from the time before the Buddha’s enlightenment—his birth mother and stepmother\, his co-wives\, and members of his harem when he was known as Prince Siddhartha—then moving on to the Buddha’s first female disciples\, early nuns\, and to female patrons\, Wendy Garling invites us to open our minds to a new understanding of their roles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wendy-garling/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ron Currie
DESCRIPTION:Ron Currie’s three previous works of fiction have dazzled readers and critics alike with their originality\, audacity\, and psychological insight. A writer of unique vision and huge imagination\, Currie excels at creating complex\, troubled\, yet endearing characters\, and his work has won comparison to everyone from Kurt Vonnegut to George Saunders. \nK.\, the intriguing narrator of Currie’s new novel\, The One-Eyed Man\, joins the ranks of other great American literary creations who show us something new about ourselves. Like Jack Gladney from White Noise\, K. is possessed of a hyper-articulate exasperation with the world\, and like Ignatius J. Reilly in A Confederacy of Dunces\, he is a doomed truth teller whom everyone misunderstands. After his wife Sarah dies\, K. loses his metaphorical capacity\, becoming so wedded to the notion of clarity that he infuriates everyone\, friends and strangers alike. When he intervenes in an armed robbery\, K. finds himself both an inadvertent hero and the star of a new reality television program. Together with Claire\, a grocery store clerk with a sharp tongue and a yen for celebrity\, he travels the country\, ruffling feathers and gaining fame at the intersection of American politics and entertainment. But soon\, through a conflagration of biblical proportions\, he discovers that the world will fight viciously to preserve its delusions about itself. \nK.’s quixotic effort to fully understand the world he lives in makes for a singular and entertaining novel\, one which further establishes Ron Currie’s position as one of today’s rising stars in fiction. \nRon Currie is the author of the novels Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles and Everything Matters! and the short story collection God is Dead\, which was the winner of the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award. In 2009\, he received the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His books have been translated into fifteen languages. He lives in Portland\, Maine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ron-currie/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Logic Magazine
DESCRIPTION:Logic Magazine wants to tell the story of technology with its founding editors: Ben Tarnoff\, Moira Weigel\, Jim Fingal\, Christa Hartsock and Logic contributors Tim Hwang\, Miriam Posner\, and Conrad Amenta. \nLogic is a new magazine devoted to technology and society. Please join us for a celebration of their debut issue\, “Intelligence\,” which explores how technology works—and whom it works for. Hear thier editors read from our founding manifesto\, and listen to contributors tackle topics as varied as: coding’s gender crisis\, the failure of collective intelligence in the Age of Trump\, and the industrialization of medicine through software. \nLearn more about the magazine\, and read their manifesto\, at logicmag.io. \nBen Tarnoff writes about technology and politics for The Guardian and Jacobin. His most recent book is The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature. \nMoira Weigel writes about gender and technology for The New York Times\, The Guardian\, and The New Republic. She is the author of Labor Love: The Invention of Dating. \nJim Fingal is a software developer and the Head of Product Engineering at Amino. He is the co-author\, with John D’Agata\, of The Lifespan of a Fact. \nChrista Hartsock is a software developer and a 2017 Code for America Fellow. \nTim Hwang is a Fellow at Data & Society and has worked with the Berkman Center\, Creative Commons\, the Electronic Frontier Foundation\, and the Institute for the Future. \nMiriam Posner teaches in the Digital Humanities program at the University of California\, Los Angeles. \nConrad Amenta writes about video games and culture for Kill Screen and works as a healthcare researcher in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/logic-magazine/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joan Frank
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith is excited to host the San Francisco launch party for Joan Frank‘s fourth novel and winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction\, All The News I Need. Joan will be in conversation with Peg Alford Pursell. Join us! \n  \nFrances Ferguson is a lonely\, sharp-tongued widow who lives in the wine country. Oliver Gaffney is a painfully shy gay man who guards a secret and lives out equally lonely days in San Francisco. Friends by default\, Fran and Ollie nurse the deep anomie of loss and the creeping\, animal betrayal of aging. Each loves routine but is anxious that life might be passing by. To crack open this stalemate\, Fran insists the two travel together to Paris. The aftermath of their funny\, bittersweet journey suggests those small changes\, within our reach\, that may help us save ourselves—somewhere toward the end. \n  \n“I was in thrall to these sentences\, their music\, their compassion and truth and disarming humility.” — Sam Michel\, Juniper Prize for Fiction judge and author of Strange Cowboy\n“Joan Frank is a human insight machine.” — Carolyn Cooke\, author of Amor and Psycho: Stories\n“Joan Frank is a writer of sublime power who reveals the lives of her characters with such care\, insight\, and elegance\, that deeply buried feelings of victory and loss become inextricably bound up with our own.” — Simon Van Booy\, author ofFather’s Day
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joan-frank/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Paul La Farge w/ Daniel Handler
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Handler talks with Paul La Farge about his latest novel\, The Night Ocean. \nPraise for The Night Ocean: \n“Magnificent. The Night Ocean is an impossible\, irresistible novel\, a love letter to the unloveable that speaks the unspeakable.” – Lev Grossman\, author of the Magicians trilogy \n“A whole damned hustling heart-broken double-talking meaning-haunted world it is a privilege to enter.” – Peter Straub \n“Paul La Farge has crafted the perfect novel – a work that constantly twists into unexpected realms\, that illuminates the nature of love and deception\, and that is as funny as it is profound. The Night Ocean is a gift to readers.” – David Grann\, author of The Lost City of Z \n\n“The Night Ocean is straight up brilliant. That’s no surprise since it’s written by Paul La Farge\, one of the smartest\, wildest literary talents in the game today….A sly\, witty\, but still loving send-up of H.P. Lovecraft and some of the grand anxieties of the American 20th century.” — Victor LaValle\, author of The Ballad of Black Tom \n\n“It has been years since I read a novel with so much joy\, impatience and awe. The Night Ocean overflows with difficult love\, not least of all that of our narrator\, Marina\, who indirectly reminds us of how we are pushed around by dreams\, ghosts\, chance\, and history. I have long been a tremendous admirer of all of La Farge’s work; this novel is my favorite.” – Rivka Galchen\, author of Atmospheric Disturbances \n\nAbout The Night Ocean: \nFrom the award-winning author and New Yorker contributor\, a riveting novel about secrets and scandals\, psychiatry and pulp fiction\, inspired by the lives of H.P. Lovecraft and his circle.\nMarina Willett\, M.D.\, has a problem. Her husband\, Charlie\, has become obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft\, in particular with one episode in the legendary horror writer’s life: In the summer of 1934\, the “old gent” lived for two months with a gay teenage fan named Robert Barlow\, at Barlow’s family home in central Florida. What were the two of them up to? Were they friends–or something more? Just when Charlie thinks he’s solved the puzzle\, a new scandal erupts\, and he disappears. The police say it’s suicide. Marina is a psychiatrist\, and she doesn’t believe them.\nA tour-de-force of storytelling\, The Night Ocean follows the lives of some extraordinary people: Lovecraft\, the most influential American horror writer of the 20th century\, whose stories continue to win new acolytes\, even as his racist views provoke new critics; Barlow\, a seminal scholar of Mexican culture who killed himself after being blackmailed for his homosexuality (and who collaborated with Lovecraft on the beautiful story “The Night Ocean”); his student\, future Beat writer William S. Burroughs; and L.C. Spinks\, a kindly Canadian appliance salesman and science-fiction fan — the only person who knows the origins of The Erotonomicon\, purported to be the intimate diary of Lovecraft himself.\nAs a heartbroken Marina follows her missing husband’s trail in an attempt to learn the truth\, the novel moves across the decades and along the length of the continent\, from a remote Ontario town\, through New York and Florida to Mexico City. The Night Ocean is about love and deception — about the way that stories earn our trust\, and betray it.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-la-farge-w-daniel-handler/
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:Moshin Hamid
DESCRIPTION:Named one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by Time Magazine\, the New York Times\, Washington Post and the Huffington Post \nFrom the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist\, a love story that unfolds across the rapidly changing face of a volatile world. \nIn a country teetering on the brink of civil war\, two young people meet sensual\, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle\, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair\, and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes\, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts\, they begin to hear whispers about doors doors that can whisk people far away\, if perilously and for a price. As the violence escalates\, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind\, they find a door and step through. . . . \nExit West follows these remarkable characters as they emerge into an alien and uncertain future\, struggling to hold on to each other\, to their past\, to the very sense of who they are. Profoundly intimate and powerfully inventive\, it tells an unforgettable story of love\, loyalty\, and courage that is both completely of our time and for all time. \nMohsin Hamidis the internationally bestselling author of Moth Smoke\, The Reluctant Fundamentalist\, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia\, and Discontent and its Civilizations. His award-winning novels have been adapted for the cinema\, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize\, and translated into more than thirty languages. His essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, and the New Yorker\, among many other publications. Hamid now resides in Lahore\, his birthplace\, after living for a number of years in New York and London.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/moshin-hamid/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Deepak Unnikrishnan
DESCRIPTION:Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing \nIn the United Arab Emirates\, foreign nationals constitute over 80% of the population. Brought in to construct the towering monuments to wealth that bristle the skylines of Abu Dhabi and Dubai\, this labor force works without the rights of citizenship\, endures miserable living conditions\, and is eventually required to leave the country. Until now\, the humanitarian crisis of the so-called “guest workers” of the Gulf has barely been addressed in fiction. With his stunning\, mind-altering book Temporary People\, debut author Deepak Unnikrishnan delves into their histories\, myths\, struggles\, and triumphs\, and illuminates the ways in which temporary status affects psyches\, families\, memories\, stories\, and languages. \nCombining the irrepressible linguistic invention of Salman Rushdie and the darkly funny satirical vision of George Saunders\, Deepak Unnikrishnan presents twenty-eight linked stories that careen from construction workers who shapeshift into luggage and escape a labor camp\, to a woman who stitches back together the bodies of those who’ve fallen from buildings in progress\, to a man who grows ideal workers designed to live twelve years and then perish—until they don’t\, and found a rebel community in the desert. In this polyphony of voices\, Unnikrishnan brilliantly maps a new\, unruly global English\, and in giving substance and identity to the anonymous workers of the Gulf\, he highlights the disturbing ways in which “progress” on a global scale is bound up with dehumanization. \nDeepak Unnikrishnan is a writer and taleteller from Abu Dhabi (and now\, Chicago). He has lived on the East Coast and in the Midwest\, reciting and mining his myths in Teaneck\, New Jersey\, Brooklyn\, New York\, and Chicago’s North and South sides. He has studied and taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and presently teaches at New York University Abu Dhabi. Temporary People\, his first book\, was the inaugural winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deepak-unnikrishnan/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:AMERARCANA: A Bird & Beckett Review
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a concert and reading in celebration of the Shuffle Boil Special Issue of AMERARCANA: A Bird & Beckett Review\, guest edited by David Meltzer and Steve Dickison. The evening will feature live music by outstanding Bay Area musicians David Boyce\, Hafez Modirzadeh\, and Marshall R. Trammell — all of whom\, as writers\, are contributors to the current issue of the journal. Participating poets and writers tba. This event is free and open to the public. \nDavid Boyce is a tenor saxophonist\, music educator\, and founding member of the renowned postmodern jazz trio Broun Fellinis. He’s toured Japan and Europe and performs regularly in the Bay Area with a variety of musical ensembles playing everything from straight ahead jazz to RnB/Soul to experimental improv. Much more at brounsoun \nHafez Modirzadeh has performed internationally over the last 20 years with such musicians as Ornette Coleman\, Don Cherry\, Zakir Hussein\, Steve Lacy\, Oliver Lake\, George Lewis\, Peter Apfelbaum\, William Lowe\, James Newton\, Wadada Leo Smith\, Omar Sosa\, Royal Hartigan\, and many Asian and Asian American musical artists such as Fred Ho\, Miya Masaoka\, Liu Chi Chao\, Danongan Kalanduyan\, Mark Izu\, Anthony Brown\, Akira Tana\, and Kenny Endo. His recorded output as a leader includes three recent recordings on Pi Records: In Convergence Liberation\, Post-Chromodal Out!\, and\, with trumpeter Amir ElSaffar\, Radif Suite. He is currently professor of World Culture in Music at San Francisco State University where he directs the World Music and Dance Program. \nMarshall Trammell is the Chief Investigator at Music Research Strategies\, his platform for creative inquiry and social engagement. He is a Bay Area-based percussionist who has collaborated with Pauline Oliveros\, Marco Eneidi\, Suzanne Thorpe\, Dohee Lee\, Hong-Kai Wang (Taiwan)\, Genny Lim\, Saul Williams\, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten\, Leon Sun\, Francis Wong\, Jon Jang\, Chris Cogburn\, Donald Robinson\, William Winant\, India Cooke.  Mr. Trammell performs in the electro-acoustic duo Black Spirituals\, who tour extensively in Europe and the USA\, and have performed in special locations like Issue Project Room (NYC)\, the Exploratorium Resonance Series (SF) and Heritage Hall in Guelph\, Canada. \nBecause We Come from Everywhere: Poetry and Migration\nMarch 2017 Poetry Center programming appears under the sign of this line by Juan Felipe Herrera\, in conjunction with 20+ member organizations from across the country constituting the newly formed Poetry Coalition
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amerarcana-a-bird-beckett-review/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Melissa Febos
DESCRIPTION:Melissa Febos talks about Abandon Me\, her new memoir\, with Mallory Ortberg. \n\nPraise for Abandon Me: \n\n“A powerful\, poignant meditation on not only the pain of loss but also the maddening\, intoxicating\, confusing and exhilarating effects of true human closeness.” –  Meghan Daum\, author of THE UNSPEAKABLE \n\n“Abandon Me is a voluptuous book about the relationship between sex and surrender\, desire and addiction\, vulnerability and power. Febos unfolds her dark romance with erotic charge and sensuous poetry.” –  Sarah Hepola\, author of BLACKOUT \n\n“It’s rare to read a book as generous as it is genius. Febos intimately explores addiction\, pain\, pleasure\, the uncontrollable character and the strangely joyful and terrifying nuances of abandonment. I don’t know that I’ve ever felt more thankful to read a book. Abandon Me found me when I most needed it.” –  Kiese Laymon\, author of HOW TO SLOWLY KILL YOURSELF AND OTHERS IN AMERICA \n\n“An intricately constructed and emotionally devastating book about the appearance and disappearance of love. Febos is a strikingly talented writer who pushes at the boundaries of her form and shows us just how amazing and expansive it can be.” –  Jenny Offill\, author of DEPT. OF SPECULATION \n\nAbout Abandon Me: \n\nIn her critically acclaimed memoir\, Whip Smart\, Melissa Febos laid bare the intimate world of the professional dominatrix\, turning an honest examination of her life into a lyrical study of power\, desire\, and fulfillment.\nIn her dazzling Abandon Me\, Febos captures the intense bonds of love and the need for connection — with family\, lovers\, and oneself. First\, her birth father\, who left her with only an inheritance of addiction and Native American blood\, its meaning a mystery. As Febos tentatively reconnects\, she sees how both these lineages manifest in her own life\, marked by compulsion and an instinct for self-erasure. Meanwhile\, she remains closely tied to the sea captain who raised her\, his parenting ardent but intermittent as his work took him away for months at a time. Woven throughout is the hypnotic story of an all-consuming\, long-distance love affair with a woman\, marked equally by worship and withdrawal. In visceral\, erotic prose\, Febos captures their mutual abandonment to passion and obsession — and the terror and exhilaration of losing herself in another.\nAt once a fearlessly vulnerable memoir and an incisive investigation of art\, love\, and identity\, Abandon Me draws on childhood stories\, religion\, psychology\, mythology\, popular culture\, and the intimacies of one writer’s life to reveal intellectual and emotional truths that feel startlingly universal.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/melissa-febos-2/
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:Patty Yumi Cottrell
DESCRIPTION:Patty Yumi Cottrell in conversation about her new novel\, Sorry to Disrupt the Peace. \nPraise for Patty Yumi Cottrell \n\n“Patty Yumi Cottrell’s prose does so many of my favorite things–some too subtle to talk about without spoiling\, but one thing I have to mention is the way in which her heroine’s investigation of a suicide draws the reader right into the heart of this wonderfully spiky hedgehog of a book and then elbows us yet further along into what is ultimately a tremendously moving act of imagination.” —Helen Oyeyemi\, author of What Is Not Yours Is \n\n“In this completely absorbing novel of devastation and estrangement\, Patty Yumi Cottrell introduces herself as a modern Robert Walser. Her voice is unflinching\, unforgettable\, and animated with a restless sense of humor.” —Catherine Lacey\, author of Nobody Is Ever Missing \n\n“Patty Yumi Cottrell’s adoption of the rambling and specific absurd will and must delight. This is a graceful claim not just about writing but about a way of being in the world\, an always new and necessary way to contend with this garbage that surrounds us\, these false portraits of our hearts and minds. This book is not a diversion–it’s a lifeline.” —Jesse Ball\, author of How to Set a Fire and Why \n\nAbout Sorry to Disrupt the Peace \n\nHelen Moran is thirty-two years old\, single\, childless\, college-educated\, and partially employed as a guardian of troubled young people in New York. She’s accepting a delivery from IKEA in her shared studio apartment when her uncle calls to break the news: Helen’s adoptive brother is dead. According to the internet\, there are six possible reasons why her brother might have killed himself. But Helen knows better: she knows that six reasons is only shorthand for the abyss. Helen also knows that she alone is qualified to launch a serious investigation into his death\, so she purchases a one-way ticket to Milwaukee. There\, as she searches her childhood home and attempts to uncover why someone would choose to die\, she will face her estranged family\, her brother’s few friends\, and the overzealous grief counselor\, Chad Lambo; she may also discover what it truly means to be alive.\nA bleakly comic tour de force that’s by turns poignant\, uproariously funny\, and viscerally unsettling\, this debut novel has shades of Bernhard\, Beckett and Bowlesand it announces the singular voice of Patty Yumi Cottrell.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patty-yumi-cottrell/
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:A Celebration of Jane Austen
DESCRIPTION:Jane Austen lived and wrote 200 years ago\, but her books are still avidly read and her plain life studied today. What is it about her novels and Jane herself that continue to fascinate readers? Danine Cozzens\, co-chair of the Jane Austen Society\, Northern California Region\, will speak to this point at Word Week’s A Celebration of Jane Austen. In addition\, four local authors will read from some of Jane’s finished work. New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors Cara Black and Mary McNear will read from Northanger Abbey and Pride and Prejudice\, poet and novelist Marylee McNeal from Mansfield Park\, and short story author Richard May from Persuasion. The event is free. Jane Austen inspired door prizes will beawarded\, and Netherfield punch will be served. A free Word Week 2017 event www.facebook.com/Word-Week-314929538630095
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-celebration-of-jane-austen/
LOCATION:Umpqua Bank\, 3938 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Judith Ayn Bernhard + Aung Taik
DESCRIPTION:Judith Ayn Bernhard & Aung Taik – POETS! – featured readers followed by an open mic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/judith-ayn-bernhard-aung-taik/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170320T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T210931
CREATED:20170201T025839Z
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SUMMARY:Meredith Maran
DESCRIPTION:After the death of her best friend\, the loss of her life’s savings\, and the collapse of her once-happy marriage\, Meredith Maran—whom Anne Lamott calls “insightful\, funny\, and human”—leaves her San Francisco freelance writer’s life for a 9-to-5 job in Los Angeles. Determined to rebuild not only her savings but herself while relishing the joys of life in La-La land\, Maran writes The New Old Me\, “a poignant story\, a funny story\, a moving story\, and above all an American story of what it means to be a woman of a certain age in our time” (Christina Baker Kline\, number-one New York Times–bestselling author of Orphan Train). \n“High time we had a book that celebrates becoming an elder! Meredith Maran writes of the difficulties of loss and change and aging\, but makes it clear that getting on can be more interesting\, more fun\, and a lot more exciting than youth.” — Abigail Thomas\, author of the New York Times bestseller What Comes Next and How to Like It\n“The New Old Me is a book I don’t just want to read – I need to read it. So does everyone else who’s getting older and wants to live fully\, with immediacy and enjoyment\, which is to say\, everyone.” — Anne Lamott\, author of the New York Times bestsellers Bird by Bird and Some Assembly Required\n“Meredith Maran is my new role model for getting older without getting old.” — Kate Christensen\, author of the PEN/Faulkner award winner The Great Man \nMeredith Maran is the author of fourteen books\, including The New Old Me\, Why We Write About Ourselves\, Why We Write\, My Lie\, and A Theory of Small Earthquakes. She’s a book critic and essayist for newspapers and magazines including the Los Angeles Times\, the Boston Globe\, the Chicago Tribune\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, and Salon.com. The recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo\, and a member of the National Book Critics Circle\, Meredith lives in a restored historic bungalow in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meredith-maran-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170320T013406Z
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SUMMARY:Zoey Leigh Peterson
DESCRIPTION:In this moving and enormously entertaining debut novel\, longtime romantic partners Kathryn and Chris experiment with an open relationship and reconsider everything they thought they knew about love. \nAfter nine years together\, Kathryn and Chris have the sort of relationship most would envy. They speak in the shorthand they have invented\, complete one another’s sentences\, and help each other through every daily and existential dilemma. When Chris tells Kathryn about his feelings for Emily\, a vivacious young woman he sees often at the Laundromat\, Kathryn encourages her boyfriend to pursue this other woman—certain that her bond with Chris is strong enough to weather a little side dalliance. \nAs Kathryn and Chris stumble into polyamory\, Next Year\, For Sure tracks the tumultuous\, revelatory\, and often very funny year that follows. When Chris’s romance with Emily grows beyond what anyone anticipated\, both Chris and Kathryn are invited into Emily’s communal home\, where Kathryn will discover new romantic possibilities of her own. In the confusions\, passions\, and upheavals of their new lives\, both Kathryn and Chris will be forced to reconsider their past and what they thought they knew about love. \nOffering a luminous portrait of a relationship from two perspectives\, Zoey L. Paterson has written an empathic\, beautiful\, and tremendously honest novel about a great love pushed to the edge. Deeply poignant and hugely entertaining\, this story shows us what lies at the mysterious heart of relationships\, and what true openness and transformation require. \nZoey Leigh Peterson was born in England\, grew up all over the United States\, and now lives in Canada. Her fiction has appeared in The Walrus\, Grain\, PRISM international\, and has been anthologized in The Journey Prize Stories and Best Canadian Stories. She is the recipient of the Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction (The Malahat Review) and the Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award (The New Quarterly).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoey-leigh-peterson/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170321T203000
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CREATED:20170320T012945Z
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SUMMARY:Tuesdays at North Beach
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Tuesday evening in the historic literary epicenter of San Francisco to hear poets from near and far read their work! \nTuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, David Meltzer\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact friend’s Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tuesdays-at-north-beach/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170321T200000
DTSTAMP:20260426T210931
CREATED:20170320T014147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T014147Z
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SUMMARY:Weekday Wanderlust: Hua\, Salum + Rohan
DESCRIPTION:Hello Wanderlusters and Happy March! We can’t wait until this month’s reading because we have a POWERHOUSE lineup on deck. Join us as we welcome three outstanding San Francisco writers: Vanessa Hua\, Jeremy Saum\, and Ethel Rohan. Bios will be posted soon to our FB page. Readings\, as usual\, are at the Hotel Rex (562 Sutter Street) and start promptly at 7pm\, but you know you can always find us in the Library Bar at 6pm. Drop in\, say Hi\, and celebrate the great writers of the San Francisco Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/weekday-wanderlust-hua-salum-rohan/
LOCATION:Hotel Rex\, 562 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170321T200000
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CREATED:20170320T015734Z
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SUMMARY:Cleve Jones w/ Wayne Goodman
DESCRIPTION:Noted LGBTQ activist Cleve Jones will discuss his memoir When We Rise and his life in “The Movement” (as he calls it) with local author and event host Wayne Goodman. This will be Jones’s first public appearance following the broadcast of the ABC televsion mini-series based on his work. Books will be available for purchase and signing. A free Word Week 2017 event www.facebook.com/Word-Week-314929538630095 \nbiographies:\nBorn in 1954\, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were. Like thousands of other young people\, Jones\, nearly penniless\, was drawn in the early 1970s to San Francisco\, a city electrified by progressive politics and sexual freedom. His career as an activist began in San Francisco when he befriended pioneer gay rights leader Harvey Milk. After Milk’s death\, Jones co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and conceived the idea of the AIDS Memorial Quilt\, which memorializes over 85\,000 Americans who have died from AIDS. He lives in San Francisco and works as a labor activist. \nWayne Goodman is a local author of four novels\, including most recently Vanya Says “Go!\, and host and curator of several local reading series. He has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for 50 years (with too many cats). When not writing or working on events\, he enjoys playing Gilded Age piano music by Women\, Gay\, and Black composers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cleve-jones-w-wayne-goodman/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170320T015944Z
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SUMMARY:WordParty Poetry + Jazz Night featuring Genny Lim
DESCRIPTION:The WordParty poetry & jazz night returns to PianoFight every Third Tuesday of the Month in 2017! \nOur special guest for March (National Women’s History Month) will be Genny Lim – the current SF Jazz Poet Laureate! Genny is known to frequently collaborate with musicians including the late Max Roach\, Herbie Lewis and Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra. She has performed at World Poetry Festivals in Venezuela\, Italy and Bosnia and on recordings on Asian Improv Records with Francis Wong and Jon Jang. Genny has four poetry collections\, “Paper Gods and Rebels\,” “Child of War\,” “Winter Place” and her most recent “KRA!” She is the author of multiple children’s books and the award-winning play\, “Paper Angels\,” featured on PBS and the Seattle Fringe Festival in 2016. \nCome on down to PianoFight\, in the front room and join us for dinner\, drinks and some live poetry and jazz with the Nova Jazz band. Hosted by Jennifer Barone and Ingrid Keir. \nFree admission\, all ages\, full menu and bar. Sign-up at 6:45pm. Open Mic is open to poets and poetry ONLY – 3min time limit\, one really good poem to read with live jazz accompaniment. It’s on!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wordparty-poetry-jazz-night-featuring-genny-lim/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170320T020954Z
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SUMMARY:Immigrant Writers on Embodying 2 Cultures at Once
DESCRIPTION:Moderated and co-hosted by Kirstin Chen. \nHow do immigrant writers navigate multiple cultural and geographical perspectives? In this reading and panel discussion\, Kirstin Chen\, Ingrid Rojas Contreras\, Andrew Lam\, and Juliana Delgado Lopera will share how they encapsulate two—or more—sometimes radically different cultural identities in their work and the complications and opportunities that arise when those identities intermingle on the page. \nCopies of the authors’ books will be available for sale and signing. Free refreshments! This event is in the Library Meeting Room on the ground floor of the Noe Valley Library. A free Word Week 2017 eventwww.facebook.com/Word-Week-314929538630095 \nBiographies:\nKIRSTIN CHEN is the author of the novels Bury What We Cannot Take\, forthcoming in 2018\, and Soy Sauce for Beginners. A former Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing\, her short stories have appeared in Zyzzyva\, Hobart\, Pank\, and others. Born and raised in Singapore\, she currently lives in San Francisco. \nINGRID ROJAS CONTRERAS was born in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Electric Literature\, and Guernica\, among others. She has a column called Book Spine at KQED. Her debut novel\, The Fruit of the Drunken Tree\, is forthcoming from Doubleday in 2018. \nANDREW LAM is the author of two books of literary essays\, “Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora\,” “East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres\,” and a collection of short stories\, “Birds of Paradise Lost.” He is also an editor at New America Media and has a column with the Shanghai Daily and is widely published in many newspapers and magazines. \nJULIANA DELGADO LOPERA is an award-winning Colombian writer\, oral-historian\, literary-drag-queen based in San Francisco. The author of ¡Cuéntamelo! an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latin@ immigrants\, Juliana is the executive director of RADAR Productions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/immigrant-writers-on-embodying-2-cultures-at-once/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20161201T024441Z
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SUMMARY:Elif Batuman
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of her new novel \nThe Idiot \npublished by Penguin Press \nA portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. \nThe year is 1995\, and email is new. Selin\, the daughter of Turkish immigrants\, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of\, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate\, Svetlana\, and\, almost by accident\, begins corresponding with Ivan\, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan\, but with each email they exchange\, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings. \nAt the end of the school year\, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer\, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside\, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan’s friends. On the way\, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin’s summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students\, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin\, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love\, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer. \nWith superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity\, mordant wit\, and pitch-perfect style\, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman’s fiction is unguarded against both life’s affronts and its beauty–and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail. \nElif Batuman has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010. She is the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them. The recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award\, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, and a Paris Review Terry Southern Prize for Humor\, she also holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elif-batuman/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170322T213000
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CREATED:20161223T032619Z
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SUMMARY:Jami Attenberg
DESCRIPTION:I’m alone. I’m a drinker. I’m a former artist. I’m a shrieker in bed. I’m the captain of the sinking ship that is my flesh.\nAndrea Bern is a whip-smart woman in NYC “who is doing what she wants with her life\, right or wrong\, and not apologizing for it… at times she is a wise sage\, and at other times\, a selfish mess. It makes her so achingly human” (Liberty Hardy\, Book Riot). Andrea’s single\, she’s childfree\, she’s successful and yet not entirely devoted to her career. Everyone around her seems to have an entirely different idea of what it means to be an adult: marriage\, babies\, ambition. But what if those things aren’t what you want? What does it actually mean to be a woman and a grown up\, in this day and age?\nAndrea’s brother seems unscathed by their shared tumultuous childhood\, but when he and her sister-in-law have a baby born with a heartbreaking ailment\, Andrea and her family have to confront everything they haven’t wanted to face\, and reexamine what really matters. In a world that still expects women to gravitate toward partnership and motherhood\, Jami Attenberg gives us a pithy and sharp novel of living life on your own terms\, and a character who is witty\, winning\, sexy and complicated. \n“Jami Attenberg’s sharply drawn protagonist\, Andrea\, has such a riveting\, propulsive voice that All Grown Up is hard to put down\, but I urge you to resist reading it in one sitting. Both the prose and the author’s knowing excavation of one woman’s desires\, compromises\, strengths\, and fears deserve closer attention. Like Andrea herself\, this novel is beautiful and brutal\, intelligent and funny\, frank and sexy.” — Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney\, New York Times best-selling author of The Nest
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jami-attenberg/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Radar Productions: March Queer Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Reading followed by artist Q&A\nDid we mention there will be cookies? \nFEATURING…\nMarisa Crawford\nMarisa Crawford is the author of the poetry collections Reversible (2017) and The Haunted House (2010) from Switchback Books\, as well as two chapbooks. Her poems\, essays\, and articles have appeared in publications including Hyperallergic\, BUST\, Bitch\, The Hairpin\, and Fanzine\, and are forthcoming in Electric Gurlesque (Saturnalia Books\, 2017). Marisa is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the feminist literary/pop culture website Weird Sister. She lives in Brooklyn\, NY. \nZulfikar Ali Bhutto\nAs an artist of mixed Pakistani and Lebanese descent and having grown up in Pakistan\, Bhutto sees his body caught in the middle of complex identity politics formed by centuries of colonialism and exacerbated by contemporary international politics. In his work he explores the politics of queerness\, its intersections with Islam and how it exists in a constant liminal and non-aligned space. Bhutto is also interested in issues of state violence and how that violence resonates in our collective memory\, how it forms and shapes communities and by extension how it affects the individual. \nYuska Lutfi Tuanakotta\nYuska Lutfi Tuanakotta graduated from Saint Mary’s College of California with double MFA degrees in Creative Fiction Writing and Creative Nonfiction Writing and was a Lambda Literary Fellow in Nonfiction. His debut nonfiction\, Gentlemen Prefer Asians: Tales of Gay Indonesians and Green Card Marriages was on LitHub’s 2016 list of Books to Read on Pride Month. OUT Magazine puts Gentlemen Prefer Asians on its must-read list and describes it as “Graceful and sensitive\, yet pleasingly acerbic when necessary.” \nYuska lives in Los Angeles and works as a photographer. He recently launched Faglandia.com\, a website dedicated to bringing unabashedly gay news\, entertainment\, and propaganda. \nTrinidad Escobar\nTrinidad Escobar is an artist\, mother\, bruha\, and educator from the Bay Area\, California. Her writing and visual art have been featured in various publications such as Rust & Moth\, The Brooklyn Review\, The Womanist\, Red Wheelbarrow\, Solo Cafe\, Mythium\, Tayo\, the anthologies Walang Hiya\, Over the Line\, Kuwento\, and more. Trinidad has been a guest artist and speaker at the San Jose Museum of Art\, Pilipino Komix Expo\, LitQuake\, and The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco. Her graphic memoir CRUSHED\, published by Rosarium Publishing\, is available on Amazon\, Comixology\, Barnes and Noble. Trinidad teaches Comics & Race at California College of the Arts in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radar-productions-march-queer-reading-series/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170201T030250Z
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SUMMARY:W. Kamau Bell
DESCRIPTION:Live Broadcast of Kamau Right Now! featuring political comedy\, cultural conversation and special guests.  Hosted by W. Kamau Bell \nCo-presented with KALW\n\nW. Kamau Bell is a socio-political comedian and host of KALW’s Kamau Right Now!\, a live radio show that transforms the political and cultural conversation of the moment into what Kamau calls “a three-ring circus of relevance.” Bell is also the host of CNN’s The United Shades of America\, a documentary series in which Bell travels around the country exploring subjects and locations out of his comfort zone and digging into the complexities of race and culture in America. Before hosting for CNN and KALW\, Bell was best known for his critically acclaimed FX comedy series\, Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. In its brief time\, Totally Biased was nominated for both an NAACP Image Award and GLAAD Award.\n\n\n* Early start time: 6:45PM (doors open at 6PM)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/w-kamau-bell/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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CREATED:20170201T030104Z
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SUMMARY:Two Voices Salon: Chad Post
DESCRIPTION:A Night of Literature in Translation with Two Lines \nJoin us for an evening of literature at Amado’s\, in the Mission District in San Francisco! \nThe night will include music\, conversation\, and live readings from Issues 25 and 26. We’ll provide snacks and a cash bar. You’ll also get a chance to meet Two Lines staff and hear more about upcoming issues of the journal\, and grab a sneak peek at our forthcoming book. \nAll proceeds support Two Lines Press. Your $10/$15 ticket includes a free issue of the journal. Check back for ticket purchase details.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-voices-salon-chad-post/
LOCATION:Amado’s\, 998 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kendra Tanacea
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street Thursday\, March 23rd at 7:00pm as we welcome Author Kendra Tanacea\, reading from and discussing her book of poetry A Filament Burns in Blue. \nA Filament Burns in Blue Degrees explores life’s strains and joys and the human compulsion to create something lasting despite certain entropy. Teardowns\, remodels\, sex\, longing\, joy; sometimes tender\, sometimes humorous\, these poems explore interpersonal relationships of all kinds and embrace the competing impulses of working hard at changing life’s course and fatalistic acceptance. Kendra’s poems keep the light on in the darkest of places: “Come after midnight\, your hand / on the door\, and me\, lit\, humming.” \nKENDRA TANACEA\, an attorney in San Francisco\, holds a BA in English from Wellesley College and an MFA in writing and literature from Bennington College. A Filament Burns in Blue Degrees was a semifinalist for the Washington Prize and a finalist for the Idaho Prize for Poetry. Kendra’s poems have appeared in 5AM\, Rattle\, Moon City Review\, The Coachella Review\, Stickman Review\, and Juked\, among others. Visit Kendra Tanacea online here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kendra-tanacea/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170320T030209Z
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SUMMARY:Summer of Love
DESCRIPTION:50 years ago\, young men and women put flowers in their hair and headed to San Francisco for the Summer of Love. San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury (Arcadia Press) by local author Katherine Powell Cohen\, Ph.D.\, chronicles this and other events in the history of San Francisco’s grooviest neighborhood. Cohen compiled vintage images and stories from individual sources\, public collections\, and from interviews she has conducted as a columnist for the Haight Ashbury Beat newspaper. The author will appear at our event and read from and discuss her book. A book signing follows. Free admission and free refreshments. A Word Week 2017 eventfacebook.com/events/376833466034270 \nKatherine Powell Cohen\, Ph.D.\, is an English professor at San Francisco State and Golden Gate Universities and has lived in the Haight-Ashbury for over 20 years. She is the author of several other books of local history.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/summer-of-love/
LOCATION:Cliché Noe Gifts + Home\, 4175 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170320T031130Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T031130Z
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SUMMARY:Because We come From Everything: The Poetics of Migration
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Society of America and City Lights Bookstore present SYRIA — Because We Come From Everything: The Poetics of Migration\, a poetry reading and discussion as part of the Poetry Coalition’s 2017 programming. Twenty-two nonprofit poetry organizations from across the United States have formed a historic coalition dedicated to working together to promote the value poets bring to our culture and communities\, and the important contribution poetry makes in the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds. As its first public offering\, throughout the month of March 2017\, Poetry Coalition members will present multiple programs on the theme: Because We Come From Everything: Poetry & Migration\, which borrows a line from U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera’s poem\,  “Borderbus.” The Poetry Society in conjunction with City Lights prsent an evening that focusses on the Syrian refugee crisis. Poets Jack Hirschman and Jack Marshall\, will read poems of theirs and others. Journalist Jonathan Curiel will join them in conversation. \nJonathan Curiel is a San Francisco-based writer and journalist who has written widely about the Middle East\, and has reported from Syria\, Lebanon\, Jordan\, and Egypt. His 2008 book\, Al’ America: Travels Through America’s Arab and Islamic Roots won an American Book Award. He has been a USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program fellow\, a Thomson Reuters Foundation fellow at Oxford University\, and a Fulbright Scholar at Punjab University in Lahore\, Pakistan. A former staff writer with the San Francisco Chronicle\, he has written about the arts for SF Weekly since 2010. \nJack Hirschman is the former Poet Laureate of the City of San Francisco\, a poet’s poet\, translator\, and editor. His powerfully eloquent voice set the tone for political poetry in this country many years ago. Since leaving a teaching career in the ’60s\, Hirschman has taken the free exchange of poetry and politics into the streets where he is\, in the words of poet Luke Breit\, “America’s most important living poet.” He is the author of numerous books of poetry\, plus some 45 translations from a half a dozen languages\, as well as the editor of anthologies and journals. Among his many volumes of poetry are Endless Threshold\, The Xibalba Arcane\, and Lyripol (City Lights\, 1976). \nBorn in Brooklyn to Jewish parents who emigrated from Iraq and Syria\, Jack Marshall now lives in California. He is the author of the memoir From Baghdad to Brooklyn and several poetry collections that have received the PEN Center USA Award\, two Northern California Book Awards\, and a nomination from the National Book Critics Circle. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/because-we-come-from-everything-the-poetics-of-migration/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ivy Anderson + Devon Angus
DESCRIPTION:Please join Ivy Anderson and Devon Angus as they discuss Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute\, winner of the 2015 California Historical Society Book Award. \n\nPraise for Alice: \n\n“With its unflinching honesty\, the political relevance of Alice’s story and analysis resonates today. By speaking out from ‘the underground\,’ Alice’s narrative predicts contemporary San Francisco sex worker discourse\, motivating political action against all odds. An important book.”—Carol Leigh\, artist\, author\, filmmaker\, and sex workers’ rights advocate \n\n“Not only for Bay Area history buffs\, Alice will enlighten all readers to early shifts in gender roles and societal correlations today.”—Cassie Duggan\, Literary Hub \n\nIvy Anderson is a San Francisco–based writer who focuses on issues of ecology and radical history. Her reportage on water management issues was published in Water Efficiency Magazine and and her poetry in Poecology. \n  \nDevon Angus is an artist\, activist\, and historian based in San Francisco. He composed and performed a conceptual folk operetta based on San Francisco history\, The Ghosts of Barbary\, throughout the Bay Area\, Switzerland\, and Italy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ivy-anderson-devon-angus/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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