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SUMMARY:Local Leaders Series: SF Parks and Recreation General Manager Phil Ginsburg
DESCRIPTION:Each month at Manny’s we’ll be featuring one local leader for the community to meet\, engage with\, ask questions\, and learn about who they are\, their story\, and what drives them and their work. \nGet excited because for January we’ll be bringing in our awesome General Manager of the San Francisco Parks and Recreation Department\, Phil Ginsburg\, to Manny’s. This is your chance to meet the person most involved in the day to day life of our Parks! \nAbout Phil: \nBefore becoming the General Manager of San Francisco Parks and Recreation Phil was the Deputy City Attorney and Chief of Staff to Mayor Gavin Newsom. He’s been in this job for 9 years and 6 months!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/local-leaders-series-sf-parks-and-recreation-general-manager-phil-ginsburg/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:A NIGHT OF POETRY WITH THE TELEGRAPH HILL DWELLERS
DESCRIPTION:TUES. JAN. 15TH\, 6:30PM \nJoin us as we kick off the new year with our friends and neighbors reading their latest poems and works in progress. \nFeatured readers include: \n\nChristopher Bernard (with Mark Weiman)\nMark Bittner\nKate Greene\nLucy Johns\nRichard Slota\nDylan Tweney
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-night-of-poetry-with-the-telegraph-hill-dwellers/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Incantatory Prophet: Raúl Zurita / Norma Cole and Forrest Gander in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Norma Cole and Forrest Gander discuss and read from the work of one of Latin America’s most celebrated and controversial poets\, Raúl Zurita \ncelebrating the release of \nINRI \nby Raúl Zurita\, translated by William Rowe\, forward by Norma Cole \npublished by New York Review Books \nIn 2001\, the president of Chile publicly acknowledged that many of the bodies of the people who had disappeared under the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet would never be recovered. The victims had been flown up in planes and\, after having their eyes gouged out\, were ejected over the mountains and deserts of Chile or the Pacific Ocean. Raúl Zurita’s INRI (these are of course the letters nailed to the cross on which Jesus was crucified\, identifying him as Jesus Christ\, King of the Jews) is a visionary\, prescient response to this atrocity\, an agonized and deeply moving elegy for the dead in which the whole of Chile\, with its snow-covered cordilleras\, fields of wild flowers\, empty spaces\, and the sparkling sea beyond\, is simultaneously transformed into the grave of its lost children and their living and risen body. This incantatory\, prophetic work—prophetic in the same way that Jeremiah and Isaiah are prophetic\, which is to say unapologetically political— is one of the great poems of our new century. \nRaúl Zurita is one of Latin America’s most celebrated and controversial poets. After Augusto Pinochet’s 1973 military coup\, Zurita’s poetry sought to register the violence and atrocities committed against the Chilean people and the corruption of the Spanish language. During Pinochet’s dictatorship\, Zurita published a trilogy of books (Purgatory\, Anteparadise\, and The New Life)\, and helped to form the Colectivo de Accion de Art. \nNorma Cole is a poet\, translator\, and visual artist. Her books of poetry include Actualities\, Where Shadows Will\, and Win These Poster and Other Unrelated Prizes Inside. To Be At Music: Essays & Talks appeared in 2010. Her visual work has been shown at 2nd floor projects in San Francisco and the Berkeley Art Museum. Born in Toronto\, Canada\, Cole lives in the sanctuary city of San Francisco. \nForrest Gander was born in the Mojave Desert and grew up\, for the most part\, in Virginia. Trenchant periods of his life were spent in San Francisco\, Dolores Hidalgo (Mexico)\, and Eureka Springs\, Arkansas. With degrees in both geology and English literature\, Gander is the author of numerous books of poetry\, translation\, fiction\, and essays. He’s the A.K. Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literature at Brown University. A U.S. Artists Rockefeller fellow\, Gander has been recipient of grants from the NEA\, the Guggenheim\, Howard\, Witter Bynner and Whiting foundations. His 2011 collection Core Samples from the World was an NBCC and Pulitzer Prize finalist for poetry. \nPraise for the work of Raúl Zurita \nBecause redemption is not possible in this world as it is\, the murderers unconsciously betray themselves: in brutal opposition to the pouring of libations into the earth for future good harvests\, Pinochet’s regime harvests humans and dumps them into the holes of the earth: the oceans & volcanoes. These deaths cannot be understood and this poem is not for understanding. Zurita’s INRI asks without asking: what forms may avenge our avalanche of unjust deaths.\n—Helen Dimos
URL:https://litseen.com/event/incantatory-prophet-raul-zurita-norma-cole-and-forrest-gander-in-conversation/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Brittany Ackerman and Francesca Bell
DESCRIPTION:Brittany Ackerman discusses her new memoir\, The Perpetual Motion Machine\, with Francesca Bell. \n\nAbout The Perpetual Motion Machine \n\nInspired by a brother’s high school science project–a perpetual motion machine that could save the world–the Perpetual Motion Machine is a memoir in essays that attempts to save a sibling by depicting the visceral pain that accompanies longing for some past impossibility. The collection has been a science project in its study of memory\, in the calculation and plotting of the moments that make up a childhood. The preparation has been “in the field” in that it is built upon the gathering of lived experience; the evidence is photo albums\, family interviews\, and anecdotes from friends. The project has been one giant experiment–to see if they can all make it out alive.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brittany-ackerman-and-francesca-bell/
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:ANA ARANDA at Books Inc. Opera Plaza
DESCRIPTION:Join internationally exhibited artist Ana Aranda in celebration of her delightful new bilingual picture book\, ¡Our Celebración!: ¡la Celebracion! (Ages 5+) \nIt’s a sunny summer day. Come join the crowd headed for the parade! Marvel at the people riding motorcycles\, bicycles\, tricycles\, and unicycles. Duck out of the way as firefighters spray water on hot spectators. Clap to the music as bands of musicians playing clarinetes\, saxophones\, flautas\, trumpets\, and drums march by. Feast on lemonade\, watermelon\, tacos\, and ice cream. Wave to the corn princess as her float passes by. Then take cover when a quick rain shower comes\, followed by a bright rainbow. Back in the town plaza as night falls\, marvel at the sparkling fireworks that end the day’s festivities. Pop\, pop\, pop! ¡Bón\, bón\, bón! With engaging text and imaginative\, whimsical illustrations\, this story is the perfect way to enjoy a summer day–and learn some Spanish too. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, January 16\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n601 Van Ness Avenue\n\nSan Francisco\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ana-aranda-at-books-inc-opera-plaza/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The State of the LGBT Rights Movement in the US - What are we fighting for?
DESCRIPTION:In the last two years many of the gains the LGBT rights movement fought so hard for have either wiped away or are in serious danger. What’s the prognosis for the movement? How worried should we be? What are we fighting for in this time of uncertainty? Are we a unified voice? Who might we be leaving behind? \nIn a time of close to full legal equality what is the full picture of LGBT life in America and our equal status and treatment in everyday life? \nComing to Manny’s to go deep on this topic is the Executive Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights Kate Kendall\, Cecilia Chung\, Senior Director of Strategic Projects for Transgender Law Center\, and Strategist for the #BornPerfect Project and 2018 #Out100 awardee Mathew Shurka. \nMore about our speakers below: \nKate Kendall: \nKate Kendell leads the National Center for Lesbian Rights\, a national legal organization advancing the civil and human rights of LGBTQ people and their families. NCLR’s legal\, policy\, and legislative victories set important precedents that improve the lives of all LGBTQ people and their families across the country. Kate will be stepping down from her position at the end of 2018. \nKate grew up Mormon in Utah and received her J.D. degree from the University of Utah College of Law in 1988. After a few years as a corporate attorney she was named the first staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah. \nIn 1994 she accepted the position as Legal Director with the National Center for Lesbian Rights and made the move to San Francisco. In 1996 Kate was named as NCLR’s Executive Director. Under Kate’s leadership\, NCLR won custody and family law cases\, achieved victories on behalf of LGBT athletes\, won protections for LGBTQ students and elders and secured asylum for over 300 clients. NCLR was lead on the California marriage equality case in 2008 and was later part of the team of attorneys to secure national marriage equality in the 2015 US Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges. Together with GLAD\, NCLR filed a federal lawsuit challenging Trump’s transgender military ban in August 2017\, which secured a nationwide preliminary injunction stopping the ban from moving forward. \nDuring Kate’s 24-year career\, NCLR’s budget has grown from $500\,000 to more than $5 million; the number of staff members has increased by 25; and the organization now has both West Coast and East Coast offices in San Francisco and Washington\, D.C. \nKate acts as the primary spokesperson on behalf of NCLR to the media. She has appeared in hundreds of media outlets including the New York Times\, Washington Post\, BBC\, NPR\, Fox News\, MSNBC\, CNN\, and dozens of on-line blogs. Kate is also a visible and vibrant social media voice. \nKate lives in San Francisco with her wife Sandy. They have two children Julian\, 22 and Ariana\, 16. \nCecilia Chung:\nCecilia Chung\, Senior Director of Strategic Projects for Transgender Law Center\, is nationally recognized as an advocate for human rights\, social justice\, health equity\, and LGBT equality. She was the former Chair of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission and is currently serving on the Health Commission. Cecilia has been working tirelessly on the local\, national and international levels to improve access to treatment for transgender people and people living with HIV\, and to erase stigma and discrimination through education\, policy\, advocacy\, and visibility. \nBorn Perfect: \nIn June 2014\, NCLR launched Born Perfect: The Campaign to End Conversion Therapy by passing laws across the country to protect LGBT children and young people\, fighting in courtrooms to ensure their safety\, and raising awareness about the serious harms caused by these dangerous practices. \nFew practices hurt LGBT youth more than attempts to change their sexual orientation or gender identity through conversion therapy\, which can cause depression\, substance abuse\, and even suicide. \nBut some mental health providers continue to subject young LGBT people to these practices—also known as “reparative therapy\,” “ex-gay therapy\,” or “sexual orientation change efforts”—even though they have been condemned by every major medical and mental health organization in the country. \nNCLR has been working to protect LGBT youth from these practices for more than 20 years\, securing legislation protecting youth from these dangerous practices in California in 2012\, New Jersey in 2013\, Washington\, D.C. in 2014\, Oregon and Illinois in 2015\, Vermont in 2016\, and Connecticut\, Nevada\, New Mexico\, Rhode Island in 2017\, and Washington state\, Maryland\, Hawaii\, New Hampshire\, and Delaware in 2018. Today\, we are working with legislators and LGBT leaders in dozens of other states and helping bring similar protections to the rest of the country. We believe that every LGBT child is born perfect and that any young person’s identity as lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, or transgender should be honored\, celebrated\, and supported. \nWe are committed to ending these dangerous and stigmatizing practices across the country once and for all—relegating them to the dustbin of history\, and ensuring every child knows they were #BornPerfect \nMathew Shurka is a survivor of conversion therapyand full-time advocate in the fight to end these dangerous and discredited practices. Born and raised in Great Neck\, New York\, he was 16 years old when he came out to his father about being gay. From that time until he was 21\, he endured seeing four conversion therapists in four different states. Today\, the 27-year-old is out and proud\, a dedicated LGBTQ advocate\, and a member of the #BornPerfect Advisory Committee.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-state-of-the-lgbt-rights-movement-in-the-us-what-are-we-fighting-for/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jessica Trounstine
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nSegregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities \nfrom Cambridge University Press \nSegregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation. Starting in the early twentieth century\, cities have used their power of land use control to determine the location and availability of housing\, amenities (such as parks)\, and negative land uses (such as garbage dumps). The result has been segregation – first within cities and more recently between them. Documenting changing patterns of segregation and their political mechanisms\, Trounstine argues that city governments have pursued these policies to enhance the wealth and resources of white property owners at the expense of people of color and the poor. Contrary to leading theories of urban politics\, local democracy has not functioned to represent all residents. The result is unequal access to fundamental local services – from schools\, to safe neighborhoods\, to clean water. \nJessica Trounstine teaches in the School of Social Sciences\, Humanities\, and Arts\, University of California\, Merced \nAdvance praise: \n‘This is a terrific and timely book. Trounstine analyzes one of the pillars of structural racism and how it was built cumulatively to become something that on the surface looks like the workings of a color-free market. While big outcomes seldom derive solely from a single factor\, Trounstine does a superb job of placing the political dominance of white homeownership in a long and consequential directory.’ Clarence Stone\, Research Professor of Political Science and Public Policy\, The George Washington University \n‘Segregation by Design is one of the best books on urban politics in years. Trounstine takes on fundamental issues of segregation and inequality across cities and shows how policies meant to guarantee equal access to public services have often had perverse consequences. The book is beautifully written\, erudite\, and interesting on virtually every page. We need more books like this.’ Christopher Berry\, William J. and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor\, University of Chicago \n‘Trounstine’s effective use of primary and secondary historical evidence and a wide range of quantitative data and methods results in a convincing argument about the role of local government actors in generating residential segregation. This book is a compelling and important contribution to the large literature on the causes and consequences of geographic segregation in the US.’ Elisabeth R. Gerber\, Jack L. Walker\, Jr Professor of Public Policy\, Associate Dean\, Ford School of Public Policy\, University of Michigan \n‘Trounstine fills an enormous hole in our understanding of how segregation evolved in the United States.’ J. Eric Oliver\, University of Chicago
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessica-trounstine/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Jeremy N. Smith / Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien"
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Jeremy N. Smith for Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called “Alien”. Please join us! \n  \nWhen she arrived at MIT in the 1990s\, Alien was quickly drawn to the school’s tradition of high-risk physical trespassing: the original “hacking.” Within a year\, one of her hallmates was dead and two others were arraigned. Alien’s adventures were only just beginning. \n  \nAfter a stint at the storied\, secretive Los Alamos National Laboratory\, Alien was recruited by a top cybersecurity firm where she deployed her cache of virtual weapons—and the trespassing and social engineering talents she had developed while “hacking” at MIT. The company tested its clients’ security by every means possible—not just coding\, but donning disguises and sneaking past guards and secretaries into the C-suite. \n  \nAlien now runs a boutique hacking outfit that caters to some of the world’s biggest and most vulnerable institutions—banks\, retailers\, government agencies. Her work combines devilish charm\, old-school deception\, and next generation spycraft. In Breaking and Entering\, cybersecurity finally gets the rich\, character-driven\, fast-paced treatment it deserves. \n  \n\n  \nJeremy N. Smith writes regularly for the New York Times\, the Atlantic\, and Discover\, and he and his work have been featured by CNN\, NPR News\, and Wired\, among other outlets. Born and raised in Evanston\, Illinois\, he is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Montana. \n  \n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \n  \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Breaking and Entering\, and/or any of Jeremy’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-jeremy-n-smith-breaking-and-entering-the-extraordinary-story-of-a-hacker-called-alien/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Stevan Allred and Renee Macalino Rutledge
DESCRIPTION:Stevan Allred discusses his new novel\, The Alehouse at the End of the World with Renee Macalino Rutledge. \n\nAbout The Alehouse at the End of the World \n\nWhen a fisherman receives a mysterious letter about his beloved’s demise\, he sets off in his skiff to find her on the Isle of the Dead. The Alehouse at the End of the World is an epic comedy set in the sixteenth century\, where bawdy Shakespearean love triangles play out with shapeshifting avian demigods and a fertility goddess\, drunken revelry\, bio-dynamic gardening\, and a narcissistic\, bullying crow\, who may have colluded with a foreign power. A raucous\, aw-aw-aw-awe-inspiring romp\, Stevan Allred’s second book is a juicy fable for adults\, and a hopeful tale for out troubled times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stevan-allred-and-renee-macalino-rutledge/
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:Rachel Roy & Ava Dash: 96 Words for Love
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Roy & Ava Dash: 96 Words for Love\n\n\n\n\n\n01/17/2019 – 6:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFiction\n\n\n\n\nReading/Talk\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEver since her acceptance to UCLA\, 17-year-old Raya Liston has been quietly freaking out. She feels simultaneously lost and trapped by a future already mapped out for her. Then her beloved grandmother dies\, and Raya jumps at the chance to spend her last free summer at the ashram in India where her grandmother met and fell in love with her grandfather. Raya hopes to find her center and her true path. A modern retelling of the classic Indian legend of Shakuntala and Dushyanta\, 96 Words for Love is a coming-of-age story about finding yourself in unexpected places. \nRachel Roy is the daughter of an Indian immigrant father and Dutch mother. Rachel is the founder and creative director of her eponymous brand and a tireless activist for using your voice to cultivate change in the world and to design the life you wish to live. Ava Dash is the daughter of fashion designer Rachel Roy. Ava works with young adults that have aged out of the foster care system as well as former sex trafficked girls in India. Inspired from her travels with her mother\, Ava hopes to start a give back business that provides critical resources to educate and empower the girls she has met on her travels to India. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBook Passage \n\n1 Ferry Building\nSan Francisco\, CA 94111
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-roy-ava-dash-96-words-for-love/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Edna in a Bottle (tastes funny)
DESCRIPTION:Edna in a Bottle (tastes funny) is a new San Francisco comedy hour at The Bindery in the Haight district. Edna and her friends are trapped in a bottle and dying to perform! A colorful splash of sketch scenes\, story-telling\, circus talent and wacked-out adult comedy. And there’s nothing wrong with an eating contest here and there. Mark your calendars and come let us out of the bottle! \n  \nTickets can be purchased in advance for $12. If available\, tickets at the door will be $15. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis event is for mature audiences only. If you have any questions about the content\, don’t hesitate to reach out to events AT booksmith DOT com. Generally speaking\, we’d suggest the show is suitable for ages 18+. \n  \nDoors open at 7:30pm. Show starts at 8pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nMore details coming soon — save the date and join us!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-edna-in-a-bottle-tastes-funny/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190118T183000
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SUMMARY:Conversation with Congresswoman Jackie Speier: Undaunted
DESCRIPTION:When was the last time you got to spend your Friday night with a Member of Congress? Now’s your chance! Any not just any member but the fierce advocate and fighter Congresswoman Jackie Speier! Come meet Congresswoman Speier and hear about her new book\, Undaunted\, after her experience surviving Jonestown. She will be signing the book as well. \nMore info below! \nCongresswoman Jackie Speier is the U.S. Representative for California’s Fourteenth Congressional District\, which includes southwestern San Francisco\, most of San Mateo County including Burlingame\, Daly City\, Colma\, Foster City\, Half Moon Bay\, Pacifica\, Redwood City\, San Bruno\, San Carlos\, San Mateo\, and South San Francisco. \nShe’s been in Congress since 2008 and an elected official in California since 1986! \nShe is a recognized champion of women’s rights\, personal privacy\, and consumer safety—as well as an avowed opponent of government inefficiency and waste. In November 2017\, Congresswoman Speier coauthored the #MeTooCongress Act to overhaul how sexual harassment and assault are reported and mediated on Capitol Hill\, and in 2018 she was named one of “Politico’s 50” for these efforts. She is co-author of This Is Not the Life I Ordered. Speier received a BA in political science from the University of California at Davis and a JD from UC Hastings College of the Law. For more information\, visit www.speier.house.gov/about. \nAbout Undaunted: \nForty years after the Jonestown massacre changed her life\, U.S. Congresswoman Jackie Speier tells her extraordinary story in UNDAUNTED: Surviving Jonestown\, Summoning Courage\, and Fighting Back (Little A/Amazon; November 6\, 2018; Hardcover: $24.95; Trade Paperback Original: $14.95; Kindle Ebook: $4.99). UNDAUNTED shares the personal struggles—as a widow\, a mother\, and an outspoken victim of gun violence—that have shaped Congresswoman Speier’s unwavering dedication to her constituents and to fighting for what’s right\, and fighting against waste\, fraud\, abuse\, and corruption. \nIn November 1978\, 28-year-old Jackie Speier\, a congressional legal adviser\, was part of the fateful delegation to investigate cult leader Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple in Jonestown\, Guyana. While helping victims to escape\, the delegation was ambushed on the tarmac and Speier was shot five times at point-blank range. Her injuries were near-fatal\, and after 22 hours in a cargo hold\, she was miraculously rescued and brought home to the United States to embark on a long and harrowing recovery. \nHer experiences inspired her work in public service\, and in 2008 she was elected to Congress\, filling the seat of longtime mentor Leo Ryan\, who was killed in Jonestown. But her path was not without significant challenges\, as Speier recounts in UNDAUNTED. Despite ongoing health struggles stemming from the shooting\, and personal tragedies including the loss of her husband while she was pregnant with her second child\, Speier continued to blaze an unparalleled path in regional and national politics. \nShe writes\, “With the hindsight of forty years\, I see that my baptism by gunfire guided me into the life I was meant to live: one of public service\, one that would ignite the courage to make my voice heard\, and one that would carry with it a visceral appreciation for each new day.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversation-with-congresswoman-jackie-speier-undaunted/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-22/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190122T213000
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SUMMARY:BJ MILLER
DESCRIPTION:BJ MILLER\nIn Conversation with Pico Iyer\nTuesday\, January 22\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Nourse Theater\nSeries: Cultural Studies \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\n Through his writing\, teaching\, and work with the San Francisco Zen Center and University of California\, San Francisco\, BJ Miller has spearheaded a nationwide effort to change the way we think about and approach death and dying. Rather than hospitalization and endless attempts at sustaining life\, Miller advocates a mindful\, human-centered model of care that embraces dying not as a medical event\, but rather as a universally shared life experience. Miller is a longtime hospice and palliative care physician and educator. He has been on faculty at The University of California\, San Francisco since 2007\, where he has worked in all settings of care: hospital\, clinic\, residential facility\, and home. He now sees patients and families at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. \nPico Iyer is the author of many books including Video Night in Kathmandu\, The Lady and the Monk\, The Man Within My Head\, The Art of Stillness\, and Autumn Light (April 2019). An essayist for Time since 1986\, he also publishes regularly in Harper’s\, The New York Review of Books\, and The New York Times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bj-miller/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BJ MILLER In Conversation with Pico Iyer
DESCRIPTION: Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\n Through his writing\, teaching\, and work with the San Francisco Zen Center and University of California\, San Francisco\, BJ Miller has spearheaded a nationwide effort to change the way we think about and approach death and dying. Rather than hospitalization and endless attempts at sustaining life\, Miller advocates a mindful\, human-centered model of care that embraces dying not as a medical event\, but rather as a universally shared life experience. Miller is a longtime hospice and palliative care physician and educator. He has been on faculty at The University of California\, San Francisco since 2007\, where he has worked in all settings of care: hospital\, clinic\, residential facility\, and home. He now sees patients and families at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. \nPico Iyer is the author of many books including Video Night in Kathmandu\, The Lady and the Monk\, The Man Within My Head\, The Art of Stillness\, and Autumn Light (April 2019). An essayist for Time since 1986\, he also publishes regularly in Harper’s\, The New York Review of Books\, and The New York Times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bj-miller-in-conversation-with-pico-iyer/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
DESCRIPTION:reading from her new novel \nSketchtasy \nfrom Arsenal Pulp Press \nSketchtasy takes place in that late-night moment when everything comes together\, and everything falls apart: it’s an urgent\, glittering\, devastating novel about the perils of queer world-making in the mid-’90s. \nThis is Boston in 1995\, a city defined by a rabid fear of difference. Alexa\, an incisive twenty-one-year-old queen\, faces everyday brutality with determined nonchalance. Rejecting middle-class pretensions\, she negotiates past and present traumas with a scathing critique of the world. Drawn to the ecstasy of drugged-out escapades\, Alexa searches for nourishment in a gay culture bonded by clubs and conformity\, willful apathy\, and the spectre of AIDS. Is there any hope for communal care? \nSketchtasy brings 1990s gay culture startlingly back to life\, as Alexa and her friends grapple with the impact of growing up at a time when desire and death are intertwined. With an intoxicating voice and unruly cadence\, this is a shattering\, incandescent novel that conjures the pain and pageantry of struggling to imagine a future. \nMattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the award-winning author of a memoir and three novels\, and the editor of five non-fiction anthologies. Her memoir The End of San Francisco won a Lambda Literary Award\, and Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? was an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. Her latest book is the novel Sketchtasy. Mattilda lives in Seattle. \nPraise for Sketchtasy \nIf Sketchtasy doesn’t become a classic\, we are doomed. Mattilda has such complete command of craft here that she is able to evoke experience rather than simply describe it. Whether or not we identify with her characters\, she lets us into their hearts and perceptions through sheer talent\, raw honesty\, and the sophisticated ability to handle word order\, duration\, pacing\, and soul. The form of this novel is determined organically from the emotions at their core. A lesson in how to write\, how to remember\, how to grapple with history. -Sarah Schulman\, author of Conflict Is Not Abuse \nI thought it was impossible that Sycamore could get any better\, but Sketchtasy is a vivid masterpiece that rivals the likes of Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr. It’s dangerous\, hilarious\, scary\, and transcendentally beautiful. Sycamore’s prose is so searing\, you might want to read it with sunglasses. -Jake Shears\, singer; author of Boys Keep Swinging \nEvery sentence in Sketchtasy is a living thing\, fierce and funny and a little bit dangerous — a voice made of coke dust and club lights\, cut with crackling insight. I was completely addicted to the story of Alexa’s search for connection\, set in the gritty Boston nightclub scene in the 90s. Nobody writes like Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore — most writers wouldn’t dare try. -Julie Buntin\, author of Marlena \nReading Sketchtasy is like a night of stealing other people’s drinks\, or a much-needed slap to the face\, or a little of both. Bold\, glittering\, wise\, fun\, the novel as found poem alive in the mouth of this truth-telling queen\, making her way through a wasteland of other people’s lies (and a few of her own)\, and looking for something near paradise. Follow her and live. -Alexander Chee\, author of The Queen of the Night \nSketchtasy is a breakneck spree through a cultural moment\, scratching off the patina of nostalgia to show how urgently relevant it still is. If you’ve heard her read\, you know Sycamore’s voice is one in a zillion. She’s at her very best here. –Shelf Awareness
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mattilda-bernstein-sycamore/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: Ian S. Port / The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender\, Les Paul\, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith hosts former SF Weekly music editor Ian S. Port for the Bay Area launch of his first book\, The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender\, Les Paul\, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock ‘n’ Roll. Please join us! \n  \nIn the years after World War II\, music was evolving from big-band jazz into the primordial elements of rock ‘n’ roll — and these louder styles demanded revolutionary instruments. When Leo Fender’s tiny firm marketed the first solid-body electric guitar\, the Esquire\, musicians immediately saw its appeal. Not to be out-maneuvered\, Gibson\, the largest guitar manufacturer\, raced to build a competitive product. The company designed an “axe” that would make Fender’s Esquire look cheap and convinced Les Paul — whose endorsement Leo Fender had sought — to put his name on it. Thus was born the guitar world’s most heated rivalry: Gibson versus Fender\, Les versus Leo. \n  \nWhile Fender was a quiet\, half-blind\, self-taught radio repairman from rural Orange County\, Paul was a brilliant but egomaniacal pop star and guitarist who spent years toying with new musical technologies. Their contest turned into an arms race as the most inventive musicians of the 1950s and 1960s–including bluesman Muddy Waters\, rocker Buddy Holly\, the Beatles\, Bob Dylan\, and Eric Clapton–adopted one maker’s guitar or another. By the time Jimi Hendrix played “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Woodstock in 1969 on his Fender Stratocaster\, it was clear that electric instruments–Fender or Gibson–had launched music into a radical new age\, empowering artists with a vibrancy and volume never before attainable. \n  \n\n  \n“More than an essential\, colorful\, and gripping history of the electric guitar\, The Birth of Loud introduces Ian Port\, the best new non-fiction writer of the past twenty years.” — Daniel J. Levitin\, author of This Is Your Brain on Music \n  \n“Ian Port’s found a way to tell the story of the birth of rock ‘n’ roll–for some of us\, among the postwar American stories\, those that help define who we feel ourselves to be–in beautifully-evoked dual portraits of the men who made the instruments. In doing so\, he re-situates this story in its context so neatly it is as if it had never been told before at all.” — Jonathan Lethem\, author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude \n  \n\n  \nIan S. Port is an award-winning writer and music critic whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone\, Village Voice\, The Threepenny Review\, and The Believer\, among others. He is also the former music editor of the San Francisco Weekly. A California native and lifelong guitar player\, he now lives in New York with his wife\, Lindsay. The Birth of Loud is his first book. \n  \n\n  \nThis event is free and all ages. RSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-ian-s-port-the-birth-of-loud-leo-fender-les-paul-and-the-guitar-pioneering-rivalry-that-shaped-rock-n-roll/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190124T210000
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SUMMARY:The Fiction of Amparo Dávila
DESCRIPTION:Audrey Harris and Matt Gleeson in conversation \ncelebrating the release of \nThe Houseguest: Fiction by Amparo Dávila \nby Amparo Dávila \ntranslated by Audrey Harris and Matt Gleeson \npublished by New Directions Publishing \nLike those of Kafka\, Poe\, Leonora Carrington\, or Shirley Jackson\, Amparo Dávila’s stories are terrifying\, mesmerizing\, and expertly crafted—you’ll finish each one gasping for air. \nWith acute psychological insight\, Dávila follows her characters to the limits of desire\, paranoia\, insomnia\, and fear. She is a writer obsessed with obsession\, who makes nightmares come to life through the everyday: loneliness sinks in easily like a razor-sharp knife\, some sort of evil lurks in every shadow\, delusion takes the form of strange and very real creatures. After reading The Houseguest—Dávila’s debut collection in English—you’ll wonder how this secret was kept for so long. \nAmparo Dávila was born in Mexico in 1928. She has published several collections of short stories and for a time worked as Alfonso Reyes’s secretary. In recent years a massive resurgence of interest has acknowledged her as one of Mexico’s finest masters of the short story. Awarded the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize in 1977\, she was honored with the Medalla Bellas Artes in 2015. \nA former Mellon Public Scholar\, Audrey Harris holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic languages and literatures from the University of California\, Los Angeles. \nMatthew Gleeson is a writer\, translator\, and co-editor of Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960-2010 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-fiction-of-amparo-davila/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190124T213000
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Kristen Roupenian / You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts “Cat Person” author Kristen Roupenian for her debut story collection\, You Know You Want This. Please join us! \n  \nYou Know You Want This brilliantly explores the ways in which women are horrifying as much as it captures the horrors that are done to them. Among its pages are a couple who becomes obsessed with their friend hearing them have sex\, then seeing them have sex… until they can’t have sex without him; a ten-year-old whose birthday party takes a sinister turn when she wishes for “something mean”; a woman who finds a book of spells half hidden at the library and summons her heart’s desire: a nameless\, naked man; and a self-proclaimed “biter” who dreams of sneaking up behind and sinking her teeth into a green-eyed\, long-haired\, pink-cheeked coworker. \n  \nSpanning a range of genres and topics — from the mundane to the murderous and supernatural — these are stories about sex and punishment\, guilt and anger\, the pleasure and terror of inflicting and experiencing pain. These stories fascinate and repel\, revolt and arouse\, scare and delight in equal measure. And\, as a collection\, they point a finger at you\, daring you to feel uncomfortable–or worse\, understood–as if to say\, “You want this\, right? You know you want this.” \n  \n\n  \nKristen Roupenian graduated from Barnard College and holds a PhD in English from Harvard\, as well as an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. She’s the author of the short story “Cat Person”\, published in The New Yorker and selected by Sheila Heti for The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018. She is currently at work on a novel. Photo by Elisa Roupenian Toha. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \n  \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of You Know You Want This\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-kristen-roupenian-you-know-you-want-this-cat-person-and-other-stories/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190124T213000
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SUMMARY:MEG WOLITZER
DESCRIPTION:MEG WOLITZER\nIn Conversation with Adam Gopnik\nThursday\, January 24\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Nourse Theater\nSeries: “On Arts” Benefiting 826 Valencia Scholarship Program \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nIn her many novels\, such as The Interestings\, The Uncoupling\, The Ten-Year Nap\, The Position\, and The Wife\, Meg Wolitzer brings readers deep into the lives of others. A feminist thread runs through Wolitzer’s work\, particularly her groundbreaking essay\, “The Second Shelf\,” an examination of the underrepresentation of women writers. But nowhere is the subject of power more deeply investigated than in her newest novel\, The Female Persuasion. Campus assault\, intergenerational feminist debate\, mentorship\, friendship\, and ambition make for a timely story\, enriched by Wolitzer’s subtle mastery of character. The book confirms Wolitzer’s position as one of the most accomplished writers of our time\, and “an infinitely capable creator of human identities that are as real as the type on this page” (Lena Dunham). \nAdam Gopnik has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986. His books include Paris to the Moon\, Through the Children’s Gate\, The Table Comes First\, and most recently\, At the Strangers’ Gate. He has received three National Magazine Awards and the George Polk Award for magazine writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meg-wolitzer/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:MEG WOLITZER In Conversation with Adam Gopnik
DESCRIPTION: Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nIn her many novels\, such as The Interestings\, The Uncoupling\, The Ten-Year Nap\, The Position\, and The Wife\, Meg Wolitzer brings readers deep into the lives of others. A feminist thread runs through Wolitzer’s work\, particularly her groundbreaking essay\, “The Second Shelf\,” an examination of the underrepresentation of women writers. But nowhere is the subject of power more deeply investigated than in her newest novel\, The Female Persuasion. Campus assault\, intergenerational feminist debate\, mentorship\, friendship\, and ambition make for a timely story\, enriched by Wolitzer’s subtle mastery of character. The book confirms Wolitzer’s position as one of the most accomplished writers of our time\, and “an infinitely capable creator of human identities that are as real as the type on this page” (Lena Dunham). \nAdam Gopnik has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986. His books include Paris to the Moon\, Through the Children’s Gate\, The Table Comes First\, and most recently\, At the Strangers’ Gate. He has received three National Magazine Awards and the George Polk Award for magazine writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meg-wolitzer-in-conversation-with-adam-gopnik/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190126T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190126T210000
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SUMMARY:Rolling Writers 'Rolling this Way'
DESCRIPTION:Submissions are OPEN for our first 2019 reading: \nBeginnings\nSaturday\, January 26\, 2019\, 6 pm\nRolling Out\n1722 Taraval St.\nSan Francisco \nTo submit work for consideration\, please write the host\, Jon Sindell\, at jsind [at] sbcglobal [net]\, pasting your work into the body of the email\, and marking the subject line as follows: RW Beginnings\, [Writer’s Name]. You must submit personally: no submissions by representatives will be considered. Limit prose submissions to 1\,200 words. This series primarily features complete works of fiction and memoir\, but poetry and reasonably self-contained novel excerpts are presented to a limited extent. Submissions are rolling—we generally consider submissions until a lineup is filled. \nLet the fun begin! \n  \nAbout Rolling Writers \nLike the baker Rageneau in Cyrano\, master baker Bruno Tsé supports the arts. And our pastry-preparing patron of poetry and prose shows love for the muse by giving his Taraval Street café up for lit readings\, with themed musical and gustatory accoutrements. \nRolling–Out: 1722 Taraval\, between 27th and 28th Avenues\, \nSan Francisco. The L-Taraval streetcar line stops at 26th Avenue. \nTo submit work for an upcoming theme\, please write the host\, Jon Sindell\, at jsind [at] sbcglobal [net]\, pasting your work into the body of the email\, and marking the subject line as follows: RW [Name Of Show]\, [Writer’s Name]. You must submit personally—no submissions by representatives will be considered. Unless otherwise indicated on the Upcoming Events page\, limit prose submissions to 1\,200 words; shorter submissions are preferred. This series primarily features complete works of fiction and memoir\, but poetry and reasonably self-contained novel excerpts are presented to a limited extent. Submissions are rolling—we generally consider submissions until a lineup is filled. \nWon’t you join us?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rolling-writers-rolling-this-way/
LOCATION:Rolling Out Cafe\, 1722 Taraval St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190127T180000
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:The wait is over! Please join us for the relaunch of Bazaar Writers Salon in the newly remodeled Bazaar Café with this fantastic lineup of writers. \nReadings by Kate Folk\, J.P. Grasser\, Sarah McColl\, and sam sax\nHosted by Peter Kline \nKate Folk is a fiction writer whose work has appeared most recently in Zyzzyva\, The New York Times Magazine\, Tupelo Quarterly\, and One Story\, and is forthcoming in McSweeney’s Quarterly. She’s an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts\, and is writing a novel about a clandestine service that allows people to outsource their emotional and intellectual labor. \nA current Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, J.P. Grasser is a PhD candidate in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Utah\, where he serves as Editor-in-Chief for Quarterly West. Find him online at www.jpgrasser.com. \nSarah McColl is the author of the memoir Joy Enough. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review\, McSweeney’s\, and StoryQuarterly\, which nominated her essay on singer-songwriter Connie Converse for a Pushcart Prize. She has received fellowships from Ucross\, the Millay Colony\, and the MacDowell Colony\, where she was named the 2017 Mary Carswell Fellow. She’s based in Los Angeles. \nsam sax is a queer\, Jewish writer and educator\, the author of Madness\, winner of The National Poetry Series\, and Bury It\, winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. He’s the two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion\, with poems in BuzzFeed\, The Nation\, The New York Times\, and other journals. In 2018\, he was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-11/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Seating #2: The History of Prisons in California
DESCRIPTION:—SOLD OUT!!— \n  \nCalifornia’s prison system started as a privately-run barge anchored in the Bay\, and was embroiled in corruption\, political scandal\, and violence. Since then\, our system has grown to incarcerate more people than the population of Berkeley. Prisons represent the power of the state in its most raw and basic form\, and 167 years later Californians are still confronting the same fundamental questions: Why do we incarcerate people\, what happens when they leave\, and can we do better? \nJared Rudolph is an attorney at the San Francisco Office of the Public Defender and the founder of Prisoner Reentry Network (prisonerreentrynetwork.org)\, a non-profit that supports successful transitions from incarceration to the community.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/seating-2-the-history-of-prisons-in-california/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Douglas Rushkoff
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nTeam Human \npublished by W.W. Norton \nThough created by humans\, our technologies\, markets\, and institutions often contain an antihuman agenda. Douglas Rushkoff\, digital theorist and host of the NPR-One podcast Team Human\, reveals the dynamics of this antihuman machinery and invites us to remake these aspects of society in ways that foster our humanity. \nIn 100 aphoristic statements\, his manifesto exposes how forces for human connection have turned into ones of isolation and repression: money\, for example\, has transformed from a means of exchange to a means of exploitation\, and education has become an extension of occupational training. Digital-age technologies have only amplified these trends\, presenting the greatest challenges yet to our collective autonomy: robots taking our jobs\, algorithms directing our attention\, and social media undermining our democracy. But all is not lost. It’s time for Team Human to take a stand\, regenerate the social bonds that define us and\, together\, make a positive impact on this earth. \nAbout Douglas Rushkoff: \n\nNamed one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT\, Douglas Rushkoff is an author\, media theorist\, professor\, and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. His twenty books include the upcoming Team Human\, based on his podcast\, as well as the bestsellers Present Shock\, Throwing Rocks and the Google Bus\, Program or Be Programmed\, Life Inc\, and Media Virus. He also made the PBS Frontline documentaries Generation Like\, The Persuaders\, and Merchants of Cool. His book Coercion won the Marshall McLuhan Award\, and the Media Ecology Association honored him with the first Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity. Rushkoff’s work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative\, money\, power\, and one another. He coined such concepts as “viral media\,” “screenagers\,” and “social currency\,” and has been a leading voice for applying digital media toward social and economic justice. He is a research fellow of the Institute for the Future\, and founder of the Laboratory for Digital Humanism at CUNY/Queens\, where he is a Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics. His novels and comics\, Ecstasy Club\, A.D.D\, and Aleister & Adolf\, are all being developed for the screen. \n\nPraise for the work of Douglas Rushkoff \n“Original and uplifting. Just the book America needs right now. In his unique and engaging style\, Rushkoff reminds us of our human essence: we are social creatures\, and if we trust this truth about ourselves we can accomplish the seemingly impossible.” — Frances Moore Lappé\, author of Diet for a Small Planet and Daring Democracy \n“Rushkoff is the gold standard. He always knows what tech is up to—and he’s usually prophetic. Now he’s here to tell us how our Silicon masters are attempting to pit us against one another for their own gain. Go Team Human.” — Walter Kirn\, author of Blood Will Out and Up in the Air \n“A vivid thinker\, Rushkoff is an insightful and acerbic antidote to Facebook\, cultural hegemony\, and the corporatization of everything.” — Seth Godin\, bestselling author of The Dip\, Linchpin\, and What to Do When It’s Your Turn (and It’s Always Your Turn) \n“Can the revolution start already? This book will help us. Thank God for Douglas Rushkoff.” — Parker Posey \n“Technology can be a force for good or amplify our self-destructive capacities. In Team Human\, the always-brilliant Douglas Rushkoff reminds us that the tools we design design us in turn\, and offers a vision to invert our tools and make them better.” — Jason Silva\, host of National Geographic’s Brain Games \n“An astonishing\, paradigm-shifting must-read for all inhabitants of the twenty-first century. Precisely and cogently written. Rushkoff’s best work so far.” — Grant Morrison \n“A searing critique…Visionary\, original\, and inspirational. If you’re not already a member of Team Human\, you will be once you’ve finished reading it.” — Jeremy Lent\, author of The Patterning Instinct \n“[A] catalyst for conversations on what it means to be human.” — Booklist \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/douglas-rushkoff/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Sam Lipsyte / Hark
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Sam Lipsyte for his brilliant new novel Hark. Please join us! \n  \nIn an America convulsed by political upheaval\, cultural discord\, environmental collapse\, and spiritual confusion\, many folks are searching for peace\, salvation\, and — perhaps most immediately — just a little damn focus. Enter Hark Morner\, an unwitting guru whose technique of “Mental Archery” — a combination of mindfulness\, mythology\, fake history\, yoga\, and\, well\, archery — is set to captivate the masses and raise him to near-messiah status. It’s a role he never asked for\, and one he is woefully underprepared to take on. But his inner-circle of modern pilgrims have other plans\, as do some suddenly powerful fringe players\, including a renegade Ivy League ethicist\, a gentle Swedish kidnapper\, a crossbow-hunting veteran of jungle drug wars\, a social media tycoon with an empire on the skids\, and a mysteriously influential (but undeniably slimy) catfish. \nIn this social satire of the highest order\, Sam Lipsyte\, the New York Times bestseller and master of the form\, reaches new peaks of daring in a novel that revels in contemporary absurdity and the wild poetry of everyday language while exploring the emotional truths of his characters.Hark is a smart\, incisive look at men\, women\, and children seeking meaning and dignity in a chaotic\, ridiculous\, and often dangerous world. \n  \n\n  \n“Madcap and full of love\, laughter and unexpected beauty (not to mention the world’s greatest bone marrow smuggling scheme)\, if Hark doesn’t make you stalk Sam Lipsyte and try to break up his marriage\, then you are not human.” – Gary Shteyngart\, author of Super Sad True Love Story \n  \n“Wonderfully moving and beautifully musical\, Lipsyte has penned a dastardly hysterical take on modern day rhetoric and the eternal ridiculousness of it all. More than a ‘must read\, ‘ Hark is a ‘must believe!'” – Paul Beatty\, author of The Sellout \n  \n\n  \nSam Lipsyte is the author of the story collections Venus Drive (named one of the top twenty-five books of its year by the Voice Literary Supplement) and The Fun Parts and four novels: Hark\, The Ask\, The Subject Steve\, and Home Land\, which was a New York Times Notable Book and received the first annual Believer Book Award. He is also the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nAs with all of our events\, seating is limited and may be reserved by purchasing a book in advance. To reserve a seat\, order with the link below and be sure to include your request in the comments field. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of Hark\, and/or any of Sam’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-sam-lipsyte-hark/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tracy K. Smith\, Poet Laureate of the United States
DESCRIPTION:GET TICKETS\nco-presented with the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco \nJoin us for a conversation with Tracy K. Smith\, the current Poet Laureate of the United States. In that role\, she has traveled the country on a quest to bring poetry to people living in rural America. Smith authored the critically-acclaimed memoir Ordinary Light and three books of poetry including her most recent\, Wade in the Water. Her collection Life on Mars won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and was selected as the New York Times Notable Book. Duende received the 2006 James Laughlin Award and The Body’s Question won the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Smith has also been a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writers Award and a Whiting Award\, and received a fellowship from the Academy of American Poets\, awarded to one poet annually for distinguished poetic achievement. She is the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University. \nEven the men in black armor\, the ones\nJangling handcuffs and keys\, what else \nAre they so buffered against\, if not love’s blade\nSizing up the heart’s familiar meat? \nWe watch and grieve. We sleep\, stir\, eat.\nLove: the heart sliced open\, gutted\, clean. \nLove: naked almost in the everlasting street\,\nSkirt lifted by a different kind of breeze. \n– from “Unrest in Baton Rouge\,” Wade in the Water\n\n\nAuthors \n\n \nTracy K. Smith\nTracy K. Smith is an American poet and educator. She is currently serving as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States\, an office she assumed in 2017. She has published four collections of poetry\, winning the Pulitzer Prize for her 2011 volume Life on Mars.\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 30\, 2019 7:00pm – 8:30pm\nJewish Community Center of San Francisco\, Kanbar Hall 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA 94118
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tracy-k-smith-poet-laureate-of-the-united-states/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center of San Francisco\, 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sally Wen Mao
DESCRIPTION:reading and in conversation with Jennifer S. Cheng \ncelebrating the release of \nOculus: Poems \npublished by Graywolf Press \nIn Oculus\, Sally Wen Mao explores exile not just as a matter of distance and displacement\, but as a migration through time and a reckoning with technology. The title poem follows a girl in Shanghai who uploaded her suicide onto Instagram. Other poems cross into animated worlds\, examine robot culture\, and haunt a necropolis for electronic waste. A fascinating sequence speaks in the voice of international icon and first Chinese American movie star Anna May Wong\, who travels through the history of cinema with a time machine\, even past her death and into the future of film\, where she finds she has no progeny. With a speculative imagination and a sharpened wit\, Mao powerfully confronts the paradoxes of seeing and being seen\, the intimacies made possible and ruined by the screen\, and the many roles and representations that women of color are made to endure in order to survive a culture that seeks to consume them. \nSally Wen Mao is the author of a previous poetry collection\, Mad Honey Symposium. She has received fellowships from the New York Public Library Cullman Center\, the George Washington University\, and Kundiman. Visit: http://www.sallywenmao.com/ \nJennifer S. Cheng is the author of MOON: Letters\, Maps\, Poems\, selected by Bhanu Kapil as winner of the Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize and named one of the Best Books of 2018 by Publishers Weekly; HOUSE A\, selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize; and Invocation: An Essay (New Michigan Press)\, A U.S. Fulbright scholar\, Kundiman fellow\, and Bread Loaf work-study scholar\, she is the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Harold Taylor Award\, the Ann Fields Poetry Award\, the Mid-American Review Fineline Prize\, and multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her poetry\, lyric essays\, and image-text work appear in Tin House\, AGNI\, Conjunctions\, Black Warrior Review\, The Normal School\, DIAGRAM\, The Volta\, Sonora Review\, Seneca Review\, Hong Kong 20/20 (a PEN HK anthology)\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sally-wen-mao/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: On the Cusp
DESCRIPTION:The events that define us aren’t always immediately apparent. That’s the idea behind On the Cusp\, a quarterly reading series that seeks to explore the meaning of life’s smaller moments … and their lasting significance. \nAuthors TBA soon — stay tuned\, save the date\, and join us! \n  \n  \n\nAdmission for this event is $5 in advance or $10 at the door. Advance tickets are available at this link. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. This is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7pm\, and event begins at 7:30pm. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-on-the-cusp/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World by Tosh Berman
DESCRIPTION:We are looking forward to celebrating TOSH\, published by City Lights! Tosh Berman will be in conversation with Natalia Mount\, Executive Director\, Pro Arts Gallery\, Oakland \n  \nThe triumphs and tragedies of growing up as the son of a famous Beat artist. \nTOSH is a memoir of growing up as the son of an enigmatic\, much-admired\, hermetic\, and ruthlessly bohemian artist during the waning years of the Beat Generation and the heyday of hippie counterculture. A critical figure in the history of postwar American culture\, Tosh Berman’s father\, Wallace Berman\, was known as the “father of assemblage art\,” and was the creator of the legendary mail-art publication Semina. Wallace Berman and his wife\, famed beauty and artist’s muse Shirley Berman\, raised Tosh between Los Angeles and San Francisco\, and their home life was a heady atmosphere of art\, music\, and literature\, with local and international luminaries regularly passing through. \nTosh’s unconventional childhood and peculiar journey to adulthood features an array of famous characters\, from George Herms and Marcel Duchamp\, to Michael McClure and William S. Burroughs\, to Dennis Hopper and Dean Stockwell\, to the Rolling Stones\, Neil Young\, and Toni Basil. \nTOSH takes an unflinching look at the triumphs and tragedies of his unusual upbringing by an artistic genius with all-too-human frailties\, against a backdrop that includes The T.A.M.I. Show\, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band\, Easy Rider\,and more. With a preface by actress/writer Amber Tamblyn (daughter of Wallace’s friend\, actor Russ Tamblyn)\, TOSH is a self-portrait taken at the crossroads of popular culture and the avant-garde. The index of names included represents a who’s who of midcentury American—and international—culture. \nPraise for Tosh: \n“Tosh Berman’s sweet and affecting memoir provides an intimate glimpse of his father\, Wallace\, and the exciting\, seat-of-the-pants LA art scene of the 1960s\, and it also speaks to the hearts of current and former lonely teenagers everywhere.”—Luc Sante\, author of The Other Paris \n“This book is like a fascinating series of autobiographical post-cards that could be subtitled\, Growing Up Semina. As the son of artist Wallace Berman\, Tosh presents fly on the wall impressions of his parents coterie in the 60s and 70s—a grouping that included such luminaries as Dennis Hopper\, Brian Jones\, Toni Basil\, and Andy Warhol. His memoir give us a glimpse into the ‘other’ Los Angeles—a bohemia that thrived in the 60s and 70s in numerous enclaves such as Topanga Canyon\, Venice Beach\, and West Hollywood. This is the story of a kid growing up inside of art world history\, retelling his upbringing warts and all. A well-written\, fast-moving book that is candid\, funny\, often disturbing\, and never dull.”—Gillian McCain\, co-author of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk \n“As the son of artist Wallace Berman\, Tosh Berman had a front row seat for the beat parade of the ’50s\, and the hippie extravaganza of the ’60s. It was an exotic\, star-studded childhood\, but having groovy parents doesn’t insulate one from the challenge of forging one’s own identity in the world. Berman’s successful effort to do that provides the heart and soul of this movingly candid chronicle of growing up bohemian.”—Kristine McKenna\, co-author of Room to Dream by David Lynch \n“Through the prism of Tosh Berman\, only child\, born 1954 to Wallace and Shirley\, who personified the wild heart of 20th century West Coast art\, we are offered a truly intimate invitation into a magic world of outliers\, visionaries and shooting stars.TOSH recounts a life ‘lived like a good book on a bookshelf\,’ a memoir resonant with discovery\, passion\, music\, art\, sex\, celebrity\, ego\, desire\, and dignity. All told with a son’s love for his father\, a continuing light into the creative life.”—Thurston Moore\, musician & writer \n“This book is sublime: vertiginous\, melancholy\, highly amusing!”—Johan Kugelberg\, Boo-Hooray \n“One could not wish for a better guide into the subterranean and bohemian worlds of the California art/Beat scene than Tosh Berman\, only scion of the great Wallace. Tosh has a sly wit and an informed eye\, he is both erudite and neurotic\, and often hilarious. TOSH\, the book\, is packed with keen observations and unique anecdotal factoids that could only come from a true insider. It’s a must for anyone who cares about California counter-culture and the raggedy-ass drumbeat of the Beat Generation.”—John Taylor\, Duran Duran \n“Tosh Berman is one of the most valuable writers\, much less people\, the earth has upon it. This book is exquisite. I can’t think of another word. What it says\, how it says it\, what it is.”—Dennis Cooper\, author of The Marbled Swarm \n“I first met Tosh Berman when he was assigned to sit next to me in 5th grade. We rode the Topanga school bus together for many years and even drove with each other to our high school graduation. But the overlap doesn’t end there. Our parents frequented many of the same movie theaters\, clubs\, and galleries. Neither of our mother’s drove\, either. Both of our families had the celebrities of the day passing through our houses. I witnessed much of what Tosh saw and writes about\, and I can say that TOSH: Growing up in Wallace Berman’s World captures the times\, places\, and people with accuracy\, sensitivity\, humor\, and\, at times\, great sadness. This is a beautifully written memoir\, and I highly recommend it to those who are interested in the Sixties\, Topanga Canyon\, the Southern California art scene\, and for those who wonder what it might mean to grow up as the son of one of our most acclaimed artists.”—Lisa See\, author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane \n“Reading TOSH\, I felt like I was lying on a couch\, completely relaxed and engrossed\, while Tosh Berman sat in a chair beside me and told me his amazing life story. And at the end\, I was very moved and wanted to cry. The affect that TOSH—the book and the man—had on me was that feeling I get when exposed to great art: a mix of sadness and wonder\, which seem to be the two faces of the human heart. Wonderment at the beauty around us—the world\, its people—and the sadness that nothing lasts\, that all must perish. But this is our journey on planet earth: to be brave and feel both things at once\, and it’s great art\, like this book\, that reminds us to do so.”—Jonathan Ames\, author of You Were Never Really Here \n“If you are interested in California bohemian art-scene culture\, eccentric and fascinating family and friend dynamics between unique individuals\, and celebrated yet oddly little-known artists with uncompromising personalities\, then read this book!”—Roman Coppola\, filmmaker\, screenwriter \n“This book is perfection. I wish it went on forever. Maybe\, somehow\, it does.TOSH is almost like a giant map of small city . . . Each sentence is a street. Each chapter is an era. Each memory revealing a secret passage from one place to the next . . . TO READ IT is to WALK IT with Tosh Berman.” —Jason Schwartzman\, actor \n“Tosh Berman paints an intimate and heartfelt portrait of growing up within the quirky West Coast counterculture of the 1950-70s. At the center of the tale is his dedicated and passionate artist father\, Wallace Berman\, who introduces his son to a bizarre collection of artists\, crooks\, cowboys\, beatniks\, hippies\, freaks\, filmmakers\, musicians\, mystics\, and assorted weirdos. Including hilarious personal stories about Dean Stockwell\, Dennis Hopper\, Allen Ginsberg\, Cameron\, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott\, Michael McClure\, Robert Duncan\, George Herms\, Leslie Caron\, William Burroughs\, Andy Warhol\, Russ Tamblyn\, Lenny Bruce\, Phil Spector\, Brian Jones\, Alexander Trocchi\, John Cage\, and many many more\, TOSH\, is a delightfully entertaining memoir filled with sly wit and a profound personal perspective.”—John Zorn\, composer \n“There’s the life—and then there’s the life. With TOSH you can have both. My life\, and that of many who sailed with me\, was formed by the 40’s & 50’s. TOSH takes you there. Feel the fabric\, touch the canvas of all that informed us. Embrace it and move forward.”—Andrew Loog Oldham\, producer/manager\, The Rolling Stones \n“This double narrative of Tosh Berman and his father\, Wallace\, will tell you more about the creative process than a hundred how-to books purporting to do the same. Joyous and unselfconsciously readable\, it celebrates the delights of surprise and observation on every page\, as well as\, yes—the confidence that things will somehow land upright.”—Jim Krusoe\, author of The Sleep Garden \n“What compels about Tosh Berman’s gorgeously written memoir is the proximity of the quotidian and the familiar to the extraordinary\, the shocking even\, and the enviably glamorous. He recounts a coming of age in which the unexpected laces the ordinary as surely at it does in Alice In Wonderland—only for Tosh\, growing up\, a cast of artists\, nutcases\, iconoclasts\, stars\, and extremists of all kinds provide the distraction and disruption once supplied by the White Rabbit or Cheshire Cat. Add to this his exemplary taste in\, and understanding of\, a particular pop sensibility—TV\, music\, Warhol\, and comic books. That then heady and head-spinning world\, soundtrack to a sentimental education\, that was for the young romantics of the mid-twentieth century what clouds and peaks were to those of mid-nineteenth. Brava\, Tosh Berman!”—Michael Bracewell\, writer \n“If the first movie your father takes you to as a child is . . . And God Created Woman\, you can be sure of two things. First\, that your father is an extraordinary person. Second\, that you are destined to lead an extraordinarily interesting life. Both of these suppositions are made evident in Tosh Berman’s vivid and loving memoir\, TOSH: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World. What a world!”—Ron Mael\, Sparks \n“Reading TOSH is like meeting your idols\, one at a time\, for a quiet chat. Everyone is disarmed\, and it feels like you’ve been in the same room with them for about ten hours\, or so. Dennis Hopper is unconstrained and friendly\, Toni Basil is bubbly\, and Brian Jones has just stopped by to say hello. Topanga\, as a place is remote—filled with pockets of escapism\, winding landscapes of tumult and ennui. Tosh’s world is both expansive and crystalline\, he traces the edges of his world\, and Wallace’s world. We get to come and go with Tosh as he navigates his place in and around the tangle of the time.”—Soo Kim\, artist\, Professor at Otis College of Art and Design \n“Sexually giddy\, clairvoyant\, messianic—Wallace Berman’s socially astute photo-collages were vital bread and butter for several generations of artists. The Wallace B bloodline\, from which Tosh sprouted\, is a verdant gene pool. For artists-readers\, TOSH\, the memoir\, is a luscious document of Los Angeles in the last four decades of the 20th century. Every page is filled with juicy history. Such surprises include a teenaged Sammy Davis Jr. sleepover\, a pet alligator\, Mae West\, Allen Ginsberg\, and dozens of remarkable side characters. Bask in Tosh Berman’s honesty and gentle style. He is a one-of-a-kind gem.”—Benjamin Weissman\, artist & writer
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tosh-growing-up-in-wallace-bermans-world-by-tosh-berman/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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