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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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CREATED:20170201T030553Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170323T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170323T200000
DTSTAMP:20260502T134645
CREATED:20170320T030209Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170323T210000
DTSTAMP:20260502T134645
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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170323T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170323T210000
DTSTAMP:20260502T134645
CREATED:20170201T030832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170201T030832Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170323T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170323T213000
DTSTAMP:20260502T134645
CREATED:20170320T031441Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T031441Z
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SUMMARY:Peg Alford Pursell
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is proud to host Peg Alford Pursell as she celebrates the publication of her debut book\,Show Her a Flower\, A Bird\, A Shadow. She’ll read and be in conversation with Grant Faulkner. Join us!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peg-alford-pursell/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170324T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170324T170000
DTSTAMP:20260502T134645
CREATED:20161201T024736Z
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SUMMARY:Jim Shepard
DESCRIPTION:Alfred Knopf in conjunction with City Lights Booksellers and Zoetrope Magazine present \nJim Shepard \ncelebrating the release of his new collection of stories \nThe World to Come \npublished by Knopf \nIntroduced by Michael Ray\, Managing Editor of Zoetrope Magazine \n“Without a doubt the most ambitious story writer in America\,” according to The Daily Beast\, Jim Shepard now delivers a new collection that spans borders and centuries with unrivaled mastery. \nThese ten stories ring with voices belonging to–among others–English Arctic explorers in one of history’s most nightmarish expeditions\, a young contemporary American negotiating the shockingly underreported hazards of our crude-oil trains\, eighteenth-century French balloonists inventing manned flight\, and two mid-nineteenth-century housewives trying to forge a connection despite their isolation on the frontier of settlement. In each case the personal is the political as these characters face everything from the emotional pitfalls of everyday life to historic catastrophes on a global scale. In his fifth collection\, Shepard makes each of these wildly various worlds his own\, and never before has he delineated anything like them so powerfully. \nJim Shepard is the author of seven novels and four previous story collections. He lives in Williamstown\, Massachusetts\, with his wife\, three children\, and three beagles. He teaches at Williams College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jim-shepard/
LOCATION:Zoetrope Cafe\, 916 Kearny Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170324T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170324T200000
DTSTAMP:20260502T134645
CREATED:20170320T032039Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T032039Z
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SUMMARY:Night of the Graphic Novelists
DESCRIPTION:For all you graphic novel fans\, Noe Valley Word Week and Folio Books are sponsoring an amazing panel of ultra-talented\, nationally-famous graphic novelists. Imagine having Paige Braddock author-illustrator of the Stinky Cecil series\, together with Beowolf series author-illustrator Alexis Fajardo and Judd Winick\, author-illustrator of the Hilo series. So much talent in the same room! Join us as they share insight as to what inspires their characters and storylines. It will be an action-packed presentation\, with plenty of time for you to ask your favorite novelist some questions. A book signing will follow. Free admission and free refreshments. A Word Week 2017 event www.facebook.com/Word-Week-314929538630095 \nBiographies:\nPaige Braddock is the creator of the long running\, Eisner-nominated series\, Jane’s World\, and co-creator of The Martian Confederacy. Recently\, she released a new graphic novel for kids titled Stinky Cecil. She has illustrated several “Peanuts” children’s books and the Snoopy U.S. postage stamp issued in 2001. More about her work can be found here:www.PB9.com. \nAlexis E. Fajardo is a student of the classics – whether Daffy Duck or Damocles – and has created a unique blend of the two in Kid Beowulf. When he’s not drawing comics\, Lex is working for them as senior editor at Charles M. Schulz Studio in Santa Rosa. His website iswww.kidbeowulf.com. \nJudd Winick has scripted bestselling characters\, including Batman\, Green Lantern\, Green Arrow\, and characters for Justice League and Star Wars. Judd also appeared as a cast member of MTV’s “The Real World: San Francisco” and is the author of the highly acclaimed graphic novel Pedro and Me about his Real World roommate and friend\, AIDS activist Pedro Zamora. Visit Judd and Hilo online at juddwinick.com and follow @JuddWinick on Twitter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/night-of-the-graphic-novelists/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170325T123000
DTSTAMP:20260502T134645
CREATED:20170320T033224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T033224Z
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SUMMARY:Pitch-O-Rama
DESCRIPTION:Pitch-O-Rama delivers the 4 Ps that lead to publication: \nPOLISH. You’ve polished your manuscript. Now polish your pitch with our pre-pitch coaches. \nPITCH. We’ve assembled top agents\, editors\, and publishers to hear your pitch.\n\nClick here for the current list! \nPROMOTE. Power up with social media secrets in the Author’s Guide to Success\, an ongoing session led by a bestselling author and an award-winning publisher. \nPARTICIPATE. From Page to Screen: Turn your book into a movie with authors who did it\, screenwriters and a Hollywood director. \n= PUBLICATION \nProgram\nClick here for Pitching Tips and Transportation Info\n8 to 9 am Continental Breakfast \n8 to 9 Pre-Pitch Practice Sessions  \n9 to 11:30 Pitch to agents & editors (2 one-hour sessions) \n11:45 to 12 pm Author’s Guide to Social Media Success \n12 to 12:30 From Page to Screen \nPre-registration required\, space limited to the first 60 ticketed attendees.\n \nHelp us promote this event\, our annual fundraiser\, by downloading the Pitch-O-Rama 2017 flyer \nCancellation Policy: Accepted through midnight March 11\, 2017. NO refunds after March 11\, 2017. Register in advance and pay by credit card (Paypal). Registration open until full. \n \n\n\nWNBA-SF Pitch-O-Rama: Meet the Agents & Editors\, Saturday\, March 25\, 2017\nYou will be sent a copy of this form. This will be your ticket to the event. Please print it and bring it with you. Thank you!\n\n\nPlease use calendar to select today’s date.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pitch-o-rama/
LOCATION:Women’s Building Auditorium\, 3543 18th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170325T170000
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CREATED:20170320T040201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T040201Z
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SUMMARY:Noe Valley Authors Festival
DESCRIPTION:20 neighborhood and nearby authors will present their books to the public at the 2017 Noe Valley Authors Festival Saturday\, March 25\, 2017. The time and place are 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Noe Valley Ministry\, 1021 Sanchez Street. Admission is free\, and everyone is welcome. There will be child-friendly events. Books will be available for sale and signing by the authors. \nAll genres will be represented–novels\, memoir\, biography\, nonfiction\, children’s books\, poetry\, short-story collections\, graphic novels\, self-help books\, illustrated books\, and more! \n10 of the authors will read from their work at free readings at 2:15\, 3:10\, and 4:15. Readers include Erika Atkinson\, Keven Bellows\, Laurie Barkin\, David Hathwell\, Eveline Kanes\, Judith Levy-Sender\, Dr. Bill McBride\, Marylee McNeal\, Louise Nayer\, and Ramon Sender. \nSeveral exhibitors will have giveaways and treats to offer attendees\, and some have activities planned for visitors to the free book exhibit. Chef Gigi Mon Ami will help you make some simple recipes at her table. Her memoir Moon on a Platter will be available\, as well as some edible goodies for sale. Children’s book author Corey M.P. will supervise a kid’s coloring area near her table. She’s supplying coloring sheets and crayons. \nThe Noe Valley Authors Festival is the final event of Word Week 2017 (March 19-26)\, the neighborhood’s annual literary festival. For a complete listing of Word Week 2017 events go to facebook.com/Word-Week-314929538630095 and click on Events. Word Week is sponsored by the neighborhood association Friends of Noe Valley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/noe-valley-authors-festival/
LOCATION:Noe Valley Ministry\, 1021 Sanchez St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170326T160000
DTSTAMP:20260502T134645
CREATED:20170320T043939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T043939Z
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SUMMARY:Bird & Beckett: Walker Talks
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bird-beckett-walker-talks/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170327T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170327T210000
DTSTAMP:20260502T134645
CREATED:20170201T031826Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170201T031826Z
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SUMMARY:Jim Shephard
DESCRIPTION:“Without a doubt the most ambitious story writer in America\,” (The Daily Beast)\, Jim Shepard delivers a new collection. The World to Come spans borders and centuries\, with voices belonging to — among others — English Arctic explorers in one of history’s most nightmarish expeditions\, a young contemporary American negotiating the shockingly underreported hazards of our crude-oil trains\, eighteenth-century French balloonists inventing manned flight\, and two mid-nineteenth-century housewives trying to forge a connection despite their isolation on the frontier of settlement. In each case the personal is the political as these characters face everything from the emotional pitfalls of everyday life to historic catastrophes on a global scale. In his fifth collection\, Shepard makes each of these wildly various worlds his own\, and never before has he delineated anything like them so powerfully. \n“One of the most perceptive\, intelligent\, and fearless writers of fiction in America today.” — NPR \n“His genius resides in his omnivorous curiosity and imaginative inventiveness [and his] stories have the strangeness and bell-like clarity of truth…a vision of literature that is\, in its sideways fashion\, legitimately unique.” — The Washington Post \nJim Shepard is the author of seven novels and four previous story collections. He lives in Williamstown\, Massachusetts\, with his wife\, three children\, and three beagles. He teaches at Williams College. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend the event\, but would like to request a signed copy of The World to Come\, please order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jim-shephard/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170328T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170328T200000
DTSTAMP:20260502T134645
CREATED:20170320T044914Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T044914Z
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SUMMARY:Folio Night\, Live!
DESCRIPTION:It’s the second edition of our local author open mic with sign-up sheet! Prepare to read for 5 minutes in this informal community reading series. Featured readers will be Patrick Cahill and Bob Booker of Ambush Review\, and Wayne Goodman as MC.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/folio-night-live/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170328T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170328T210000
DTSTAMP:20260502T134645
CREATED:20170201T032309Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170201T032309Z
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SUMMARY:Jon Raymond
DESCRIPTION:Jon Raymond discusses his new novel\, Freebird\, with Zoetrope’s Michael Ray. \n\nPrasie for Freebird \n\n“Freebird is such a timely book\, considering the current deep divisions between right and left. A new classic for the collapsing political landscape of America.”—Kim Gordon \n\n“Jon Raymond has an impressive ability to recognize the tales that we all tell ourselves\, and then quietly lead us back to reality—excruciatingly familiar and unusually rainy.”—Miranda July \n\n“Freebird is an intelligent and absorbing multi-generational story of an American family\, written withgreat sensitivity\, insight\, and verve.”—Patrick deWitt \n\nAbout Freebird \n\nThe Singers are an all-American family\, and they’re about to lose everything. Anne\, who works in the Los Angeles Office of Sustainability\, finds herself caught in a shady business deal for recycling wastewater. Her teenage son\, Aaron\, can’t decide between college and a road trip to Mexico\, but his plans are derailed by Singer patriarch Grandpa Sam\, whose untold experience of the Holocaust is revealed when he enlists Aaron’s help in retrieving some gold coins from a safe-deposit box in Oakland. Anne’s brother\, Ben\, a former Navy SEAL\, returns from Afghanistan disillusioned and struggling with PTSD\, and starts down a path toward a radical act of violence—one that changes the family’s course forever. In Freebird\, the narratives converge and expand as Oregon Book Award-winner Jon Raymond explores political\, environmental\, and ethical dilemmas particular to our contemporary moment and reveals how the fates of our families are irrevocably tied to the currents of history.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jon-raymond/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170328T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170328T213000
DTSTAMP:20260502T134645
CREATED:20170320T045500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T045500Z
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SUMMARY:Emerging Writers Festival: Charleston + Park
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the first night of the MFA in Writing Program‘s Emerging Writers Festival. Each spring\, five emerging writers are invited to campus to participate in the festival\, which includes two nights of readings and a Q&A Panel. Night one will feature Cortney Lamar Charleston and Patricia Park. \nCortney Lamar Charleston is the author of Telepathologies\, selected by D.A. Powell for the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. He has received fellowships from Cave Canem and The Conversation Literary Festival and his poems have appeared in POETRY\, New England Review\, Gulf Coast\, TriQuarterly\, and The Iowa Review. Charleston is from Chicago and lives in Jersey City\, NJ. \nPatricia Park is the author of the novel Re Jane (Viking\, 2015)\, inspired by Brontë’s Jane Eyre. She has received fellowships from Fulbright\, The Center for Fiction\, Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Jerome Foundation\, and has written for The New York Times Book Review\, Guardian\, Salon\, and Slice. Park is a Queens native and lives in Brooklyn\, NY. \nReception to follow. Free and open to the public. \nThe Emerging Writers Festival is co-sponsored by the USF MFA in Writing Program and the English Department.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emerging-writers-festival-charleston-park/
LOCATION:USF Fromm Hall – FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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