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SUMMARY:Molly Wizenberg: The Fixed Stars
DESCRIPTION:Molly Wizenberg discusses her new memoir\, The Fixed Stars\, with Esmé Weijun Wang. \nPraise for The Fixed Stars \n“In The Fixed Stars\, Molly Wizenberg tackles the ever-shifting issues of marriage\, motherhood\, and sexual orientation with the same compassion and unflinching honesty that have become the hallmarks of her writing. She makes the everyday extraordinary and brings depth and complexity to the bigger questions in life. A beautiful read.”— Erica Bauermeister \n“The Fixed Stars\, like its protagonist\, is both brave and sexy\, both heady and bodily\, and I ripped through this memoir like it was the most erudite romance novel in the world. This is a truly compelling look at sexuality\, marriage\, and parenthood in this century.” — Emma Straub \n“The Fixed Stars is that rare thing\, a groundbreaking\, essential book about sexuality. Wizenberg’s incisive\, generous laying-bare of her own experience will make many readers feel seen\, understood\, and not alone. This book is a triumph.”— Kate Christensen \nAbout The Fixed Stars \nFrom a bestselling memoirist\, a thoughtful and provocative story of changing identity\, complex sexuality\, and enduring family relationships \nAt age 36\, while serving on a jury\, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler\, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it\, but something inside her had changed irrevocably. Instead\, she would discover that the trajectory of our lives is rarely as smooth or as logical as we’d like to believe. \nLike many of us\, Wizenberg had long understood sexual orientation as a stable part of ourselves: we’re “born this way.” Suddenly she realized that her story was more complicated. Who was she\, she wondered\, if something at her very core could change so radically? The Fixed Stars is a taut\, electrifying memoir exploring timely and timeless questions about desire\, identity\, and the limits and possibilities of family. In honest and searing prose\, Wizenberg forges a new path: through the murk of separation and divorce\, coming out to family and friends\, learning to co-parent a young child\, and realizing a new vision of love. The result is a frank and moving story about letting go of rigid definitions and ideals that no longer fit\, and learning instead who we really are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/molly-wizenberg-the-fixed-stars/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T120000
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SUMMARY:Lunch Visit and Discussion with Molly Wizenberg\, author of THE FIXED STARS
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion and Q&A with Molly Wizenberg\, author of The Fixed Stars. Molly will be in conversation with Ruby member Sana Javeri Kadri. Thanks to the publisher\, we have 3 copies of the book available to the first three people who sign up! Books will also be on sale the day of! \nThis is a potluck lunch so stay tuned on what to bring! \nAbout The Fixed Stars \nAt age 36\, while serving on a jury\, Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler\, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it\, but something inside her had changed irredeemably. Instead\, she would discover that the trajectory of our lives is rarely as smooth or as logical as we’d like to believe. \nLike many of us\, Wizenberg had long understood sexual orientation as a stable part of ourselves: we’re “born this way.” Suddenly she realized that her story was more complicated. Who was she\, she wondered\, if something at her very core could change so radically? \nTHE FIXED STARS (Abrams Press; May 12\, 2020; U.S. $25.00; Hardcover) by New York Times bestselling and James Beard Award–winning author Molly Wizenberg is a taut\, electrifying memoir exploring timely and timeless questions about desire\, identity\, and the limits and possibilities of family. In honest and searing prose\, Wizenberg forges a new path: through the murk of separation and divorce\, coming out to family and friends\, learning to co-parent a young child\, and realizing a new vision of love. \nTHE FIXED STARS is a frank and moving story about letting go of rigid definitions and ideals that no longer fit\, and learning instead who we really are. \nAbout the Author \nMolly Wizenberg is the author of two bestselling books\, A Homemade Life and Delancey\, and the James Beard Award–winning blog Orangette. She has written for the Washington Post\, the Guardian\, Saveur\, and Bon Appétit\, and she also cohosts the podcast Spilled Milk. With chef Brandon Pettit\, Wizenberg cofounded the award-winning Seattle restaurants Delancey and Essex. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lunch-visit-and-discussion-with-molly-wizenberg-author-of-the-fixed-stars-tickets-93595559839
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunch-visit-and-discussion-with-molly-wizenberg-author-of-the-fixed-stars/
LOCATION:The Ruby\, 23rd and bryant street\, san francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T210000
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SUMMARY:Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody on Paul Valéry
DESCRIPTION:Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody discusses his translation of The Idea of Perfection: The Poetry and Prose of Paul Valéry. \nAbout The Idea of Perfection \nA fresh look into the monumental work of Paul Valéry\, one of the major French literary figures of the twentieth century. \nHeir to Mallarmé and the symbolists\, godfather to the modernists\, Paul Valéry was a poet with thousands of readers and few followers\, great resonance and little echo. Along with Rilke and Eliot\, he stands as a bridge between the tradition of the nineteenth century and the novelty of the twentieth. His reputation as a poet rests on three slim volumes published in a span of only ten years. Yet these poems\, it turns out\, are inseparable from another\, much vaster intellectual and artistic enterprise: the Notebooks. \nBehind the published works\, behind the uneventful life of the almost forgotten and then exceedingly famous poet\, there hides another story\, a private life of the mind\, that has its record in 28\,000 pages of notes revealed in their entirety only after his death. Their existence had been hinted at\, evoked in rumors and literary asides; but once made public it took years for their significance to be fully appreciated. It turned out that the prose fragments published in Valéry’s lifetime were not the after-the-fact musings of an accomplished poet\, nor his occasional sketchbook\, nor excerpts from his private journal. They were a disfigured glimpse of a vast and fragmentary “exercise of thought\,” a restless intellectual quest as unguided and yet as persistent\, as rigorous\, and as uncontainable as the sea that is so often their subject. \nThe Idea of Perfection shows both sides of Valéry: the craftsman of sublimely refined verse\, and the fervent investigator of the limits of human intellect and expression. It intersperses his three essential poetic works—Album of Early Verse\, The Young Fate\, and Charms—with incisive selections from the Notebooks and finishes with the prose poem “The Angel.” Masterfully translated by Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody\, with careful attention to form and a natural yet metrical contemporary poetic voice\, The Idea of Perfection breathes new life into poems that are among the most beautiful in the French language and the most influential of the twentieth century. \nAbout the Author \nPaul Valéry is one of the major figures of twentieth-century French literature. After a promising debut as a young symbolist in Mallarmé’s circle\, Valéry withdrew from public view for almost twenty years\, and was almost forgotten by 1917 when the publication of the long poem La Jeune Parque made him an instant celebrity. He was best known in his day for his small output of highly polished lyric poetry\, and posthumously for the 28\,000 pages of his Notebooks. He died in 1945. \nNathaniel Rudavsky-Brody was born in Columbus\, Ohio. He has translated the work of French and Belgian poets\, including Benjamin Fondane\, for which he was awarded the Susan Sontag Prize for Translation. He is the author of two volumes of poetry in French and one in English\, and has worked as a typesetter\, a programmer\, and a private tutor in Greece.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nathaniel-rudavsky-brody-on-paul-valery/
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=America/Los_Angeles:20200520T180000
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Ishmael Beah and Little Family
DESCRIPTION:From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the Sierra Leone child-soldier memoir\, A LONG WAY HOME\, comes this powerful new novel about young people living at the margins of society. LITTLE FAMILY portrays the lives of five youth who have improvised a household in an abandoned airplane\, struggling to replace the homes they have lost with the one they have created together. Join us to celebrate release of this remarkable debut work of fiction from Ishmael Beah\, whom Vanity Fair has called “arguably the most-read African writer in contemporary literature.” FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live on Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nIshmael Beah\nIshmael Beah\, born in Sierra Leone\, West Africa\, is the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier\, and the novel Radiance of Tomorrow. His newest novel\, Little Family\, is a profound and tender portrayal of the connections we forge to survive the… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-ishmael-beah-and-little-family/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200520T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200520T210000
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SUMMARY:Mary Karr & Kaveh Akbar
DESCRIPTION:TICKETSTo purchase over the phone: 415-392-4400 \nThis event appears in the series\nSocial Studies \n\n\nKnown for her bestselling memoirs\, Mary Karr is also a celebrated poet\, essayist\, and songwriter from East Texas. Her latest book of poetry\, Tropic of Squalor\, is in turns hilarious\, horrific\, tragic\, and soothing\, and infused with her characteristically deft brandishment of language. Karr’s other books include The Liar’s Club\, Cherry\, Lit\, and The Art of Memoir. She is also a regular contributor to The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, and Poetry magazine. Karr is the Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University. \nKaveh Akbar is a poet\, and the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf and Portrait of the Alcoholic. He is the founder of Divedapper\, a home for dialogues with the most vital voices in American poetry. Akbar also writes a weekly column for the Paris Review called “Poetry RX.” Previously\, he ran The Quirk\, a for-charity print literary journal. He has also served as Poetry Editor for BOOTH and Book Reviews Editor for the Southeast Review. \n  \nPhotograph credit: Marlon James (right)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-karr-kaveh-akbar/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T210000
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SUMMARY:Karolina Waclawiak: Life Events
DESCRIPTION:Karolina Waclawiak discusses her new novel Life Events. \nPraise for Life Events \n“Waclawiak writes with emotional precision and explores the tragedy of existence by masterfully walking the line between suffering and hope.” —Arianna Rebolini\, BuzzFeed \n“Life Events is a hypnotic novel that beautifully grapples with fundamental questions about how to die and how to live. Karolina Waclawiak transports the reader into the streets of Los Angeles\, the deserts of the southwest\, the apartments of the dying\, and a woman’s life at a moment of profound change. Filled with compelling\, provocative details about the work of “exit guides” for terminally ill people\, Life Events is both a mid-life bildungsroman and a meditation on self-determination. I can’t stop thinking about this novel.” —Lydia Kiesling\, author of The Golden State \n“In this exquisite novel\, Karolina Waclawiak rightfully recasts the American West as the territory of wandering dreams and dreamers and the land where this life and the improbable afterlife most often collide. Life Events is a deeply moving meditation on death and the dying\, the fierce weight of marriage and family\, and the unrelenting absurdity of being alive.” —Hannah Lillith Assadi\, author of Sonora \nAbout Life Events \nA woman at a crossroads learns the only way to reclaim her life is to help others die \nKarolina Waclawiak’s breakout novel\, Life Events\, follows Evelyn\, who\, at thirty-seven\, is on the verge of divorce and anxiously dreading the death of everyone she loves. She combats her existential crisis by avoiding her husband and aimlessly driving along the freeways of California looking for an escape—one that eventually comes when she discovers a collective of “exit guides.” Evelyn enrolls in their training course\, where she learns to provide companionship and a final exit for terminally ill patients seeking a conscious departure. \nShe meets Daphne\, a dying woman still full of life; Lawrence\, an aging porn king; and Daniel\, who seems too young to die and whom Evelyn falls for\, despite knowing better\, not to mention the exit guide code. Each client opens something new in Evelyn\, allowing her a chance to access her own grief and confront the self-destructive ways she suppresses her pain. When Evelyn travels through the Southwest to an afterlife convention to further her death education\, she must finally face her complicated relationship with her alcoholic father and reconcile her life choices. \nSensitively observed and darkly funny\, Life Events is a moving\, enlivening story of the human condition: the doldrums of loneliness\, the consuming regret of past mistakes\, and the thrill\, finally\, of finding meaning—and love—where you least expect it. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karolina-waclawiak-life-events/
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=America/Los_Angeles:20200523T180000
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SUMMARY:Youth Spirit Artworks Open Mic Poetry\, Asé
DESCRIPTION:Our monthly Open Mic Poetry event\, Asé\, is happening this Saturday from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Zoom! We are featuring poets Kathy Dana and J.J Rush! We invite you to join. To register\, click on the link below. We’ll see you there.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youth-spirit-artworks-open-mic-poetry-ase/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200526T180000
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Nerd Novels -- A Different Kind of Escape
DESCRIPTION:As society grinds to a halt around us\, many readers find themselves at home with time on their hands\, yearning to think about something—anything—beyond the daily drama of the pandemic. In this conversation\, authors Jean Hegland & Susan M. Gaines discuss “nerd novels\,” those books whose characters\, plots\, and themes depend on some specialized body of knowledge. Examples include Barbara Kingsolver’s “Flight Behavior” (2012)\, Karen Joy Fowler’s “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves” (2013)\, Marilynne Robinson’s “Gilead\,” and most of A.S. Byatt’s and Richard Powers’ novels. Tonight’s conversation covers the concept of the nerd novel\, as well as the special challenges and rewards of reading and writing them\, and invites questions and discussion from the virtual audience. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live on Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nJean Hegland\nJean Hegland is the author of three novels and a book of creative nonfiction. Her first novel\, “Into the Forest\,” has been translated into 17 languages\, adapted as a film starring Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood\, and a French graphic novel. Set in a near future that bears an eerie… Read More →\n\n \nSusan M. Gaines\nSusan M. Gaines is the author of the nerd novels “Accidentals” and “Carbon Dreams\,” as well as the science narrative “Echoes of Life: What Fossil Molecules Reveal About Earth History.” Her stories have appeared in the “North American Review\,” “Missouri Review\,” “Best of the West… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-nerd-novels-a-different-kind-of-escape/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200526T180000
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SUMMARY:ODD SALON ONLINE: RESILIENT
DESCRIPTION:Stories of triumph and perseverance\, hope\, support\, and love from times of plague and pandemic\nODD SALON ONLINE: RESILIENT\nTuesday\, May 26\, 6pm PT/9pm/ET \nWe’re taking the salon online! Join speakers from both the San Francisco and New York City chapters for an evening of stories of strength\, silver linings\, and kicking ass during some of history’s darkest chapters. \nUnfettered from our usual theaters on opposite coasts\, we are excited to bring a first ever line up of Odd Salon Fellows from both cities together for this\, our first online salon. \nEven during the worst of days of history – then as now – individuals have stepped up to make a difference\, communities have rallied together\, unlikely heroes have emerged\, and resilient art forms have flowered\, inspired and informed by the shared experience endured. \nFeaturing Odd Salon Fellows Christopher Reeves\, JR Pepper\, Matt Codner\, Kate O’Donnell\, Alexander Razo Myers\, and San Francisco Producing Curator Isolde Honore. \n~Story specifics to be announced.~ \nCurated and hosted by Odd Salon Co-founders Annetta Black and Tre Balchowsky \nThis event will livestream for free. Paid tickets go to support Odd Salon during this unexpected hiatus from live salons\, and all paid levels come with extra perks\, including both limited-edition print and digital access to our first edition of the Odd Salon Journal\, featuring related reading and art\, resources\, and supplemental material from our speakers\, related to the talks featured in our RESILIENT salon and related stories. \nTickets: \nFREE: Save the date with a free RSVP\, and we’ll remind you when the show is coming up\n$15: RSVP + Digital access to the first edition of the Odd Salon Journal\n$25: RSVP + Print copy of our limited first edition of the Odd Salon Journal\n$50: RSVP + Receive both digital access and the print journal\, plus something strange (but nice) in the mail from Odd Salon\nDonation tickets in any amount are also available. \nDiscounts on all tiers available to 2020 Members of Odd Salon with membership access code. \nGET TICKETS / FREE RSVP
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-salon-online-resilient/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200526T210000
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SUMMARY:Phuc Tran: Sigh\, Gone
DESCRIPTION:Phuc Tran discusses his new memoir Sigh\, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books\, Punk Rock\, and the Fight to Fit In. \nPraise for Sigh\, Gone \n“The United States was already a better country because Phuc Tran refused to change his name. Then he went even further in changing this country by giving us this bold\, funny\, and profane memoir: a portrait of a young punk refugee and of heartland America itself\, each of them as defiant and compelling as the other.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen\, author of Pulitzer-Prize winning The Sympathizer and The Refugees \n“I like to think that had I been born a much cooler\, male\, Vietnamese version of myself\, Sigh\, Gone is the book I would have written. This glorious memoir is a reminder of the transformative power of literature and a tribute to friendships\, music\, and the unique kindness of Americans. I loved it!” —Firoozeh Dumas\, New York Times bestselling author of Funny in Farsi and Laughing Without An Accent \n“I started reading this book and couldn’t stop. Phuc Tran has written the Great American Nerd-Punk Boyhood Memoir\, a story that’s rollicking and laugh-out-loud funny while also offering a piercingly profound look at race\, the challenges of assimilation\, and the inherently defiant act of growing up. Earnest\, observant\, and diamond-sharp\, this is a new voice of unmistakable talent. I’ll follow this writer anywhere.” —Sara Corbett\, coauthor of New York Times best-selling A House in the Sky \nAbout Sigh\, Gone \nFor anyone who has ever felt like they don’t belong\, Sigh\, Gone shares an irreverent\, funny\, and moving tale of displacement and assimilation woven together with poignant themes from beloved works of classic literature. \nIn 1975\, during the fall of Saigon\, Phuc Tran immigrates to America along with his family. By sheer chance they land in Carlisle\, Pennsylvania\, a small town where the Trans struggle to assimilate into their new life. In this coming-of-age memoir told through the themes of great books such as The Metamorphosis\, The Scarlet Letter\, The Iliad\, and more\, Tran navigates the push and pull of finding and accepting himself despite the challenges of immigration\, feelings of isolation\, and teenage rebellion\, all while attempting to meet the rigid expectations set by his immigrant parents. \nAppealing to fans of coming-of-age memoirs such as Fresh Off the Boat\, Running with Scissors\, or tales of assimilation like Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Displaced and The Refugees\, Sigh\, Gone explores one man’s bewildering experiences of abuse\, racism\, and tragedy and reveals redemption and connection in books and punk rock. Against the hairspray-and-synthesizer backdrop of the ‘80s\, he finds solace and kinship in the wisdom of classic literature\, and in the subculture of punk rock\, he finds affirmation and echoes of his disaffection. In his journey for self-discovery Tran ultimately finds refuge and inspiration in the art that shapes—and ultimately saves—him.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/phuc-tran-sigh-gone/
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=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T080000
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SUMMARY:Joanna Hershon & Phyllis Grant
DESCRIPTION:Joanna Hershon and Phyllis Grant discuss their new books\, St. Ivo and Everything is Under Control: A Memoir with Recipes. \nPraise for St. Ivo \n“From the very first sentences of St. Ivo\, I felt certain I was in good hands. What happens when we can no longer communicate with the people we know best? What happens when what was once fluent between two people becomes indecipherable? Not a tender novel\, exactly\, though there is tenderness in these pages. In St. Ivo Joanna Hershon paints a portrait of grief\, of survival\, but also of hope. Anyone who has ever loved fiercely\, desperately\, will devour this story\, as I did. The effect here is cumulative and I found myself reading the final pages with the book gripped in both hands.”—Mary Beth Keane\, author of Ask Again\, Yes \n“St. Ivo is a wise and revealing book\, full of elegant menace—a novel whose tensions threaten to break its surface on every page. But Hershon is a master of control\, showing us patiently\, and with rich verisimilitude\, how a parent’s love for an estranged child persists despite separation and silence; how longtime friendships hurt and heal; and how loss compels us to know ourselves\, much as we might wish to look away.”—Julie Orringer\, author of The Flight Portfolio \n“An elegant\, suspenseful gem of a novel. I admired the crisp writing and intelligent depictions of people\, but more than that I needed to know what was going to happen next—I devoured it in a weekend.”—Adelle Waldman\, author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. \nAbout St. Ivo \nIt’s the end of summer when we meet Sarah\, the end of summer and the middle of her life\, the middle of her career (she hopes it’s not the end)\, the middle of her marriage (recently repaired). And despite the years that have passed since she last saw her daughter\, she is still very much in the middle of figuring out what happened to Leda\, what role she played\, and how she will let that loss affect the rest of her life. \nEnter a mysterious stranger on a train\, an older man taking the subway to Brooklyn who sees right into her.Then a mugging\, her phone stolen\, and with it any last connection to Leda. And then an invitation\, friends from the past and a weekend in the country with their new\, unexpected baby. \nOver the course of three hot September days\, the two couples try to reconnect. Events that have been set in motion\, circumstances and feelings kept hidden\, rise to the surface\, forcing each to ask not just how they ended up where they are\, but how they ended up who they are. \nUnwinding like a suspense novel\, Joanna Hershon’s St. Ivo is a powerful investigation into the meaning of choice and family\, whether we ever know the people closest to us\, and how\, when someone goes missing from our lives\, we can ever let them go. \nPraise for Everything is Under Control \n“What a beautiful\, rich\, and poetic memoir this is. Phyllis Grant writes of longing\, suffering\, celebration\, family\, and food with such delicate power. Like the best chefs\, she knows how to make a masterpiece from a few simple ingredients: truth\, taste\, poignancy\, and love. This is a wonderful book.” —Elizabeth Gilbert\, author of City of Girls and Eat\, Pray\, Love \n“Phyllis Grant has the voice of a poet and the sensuality of a cook. This very brave book makes you want to experience the world with equal intensity. As for the recipes … completely irresistible.” —Ruth Reichl\, author of Save Me the Plums \n“How do we locate ourselves in time? In our families? Within the intricacies of our own appetites? With raw candor and discipline\, Phyllis Grant peels back the layers of her innermost experience and gives us a memoir as rich and nuanced\, as delicate as life itself.” —Dani Shapiro\, author of Inheritance \nAbout Everything is Under Control \nPhyllis Grant’s Everything Is Under Control is a memoir about appetite as it comes\, goes\, and refocuses its object of desire. Grant’s story follows the sometimes smooth\, sometimes jagged\, always revealing contours of her life: from her days as a dancer struggling to find her place at Julliard\, to her experiences in and out of four-star kitchens in New York City\, to falling in love with her future husband and leaving the city after 9/11 for California\, where her children are born. All the while\, a sense of longing pulses in each stage as she moves through the headspace of a young woman longing to be sustained by a city into that of a mother now sustaining a family herself. \nWritten with the transparency of a diarist\, Everything Is Under Control is an unputdownable series of vignettes followed by tried-and-true recipes from Grant’s table—a heartrending yet unsentimental portrait of the highs and lows of young adulthood\, motherhood\, and a life in the kitchen.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joanna-hershon-phyllis-grant/
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:Litquake on Lockdown: Sarah Ray and A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety
DESCRIPTION:A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The “climate generation”—late millennials and iGen\, or Generation Z—is demanding that policy makers and government leaders take immediate action to address the dire outcomes predicted by climate science. Those inheriting our planet’s environmental problems expect to encounter challenges\, but they may not have the skills to grapple with the feelings of powerlessness and despair that may arise. Author and professor Sarah Jaquette Ray releases her new book A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety (UC Press)\, an “existential tool kit” for the climate generation. Combining insights from psychology\, sociology\, social movements\, mindfulness\, and the environmental humanities\, Ray explains why and how we need to let go of eco-guilt\, resist burnout\, and cultivate resilience while advocating for climate justice. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live on Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nSarah Jaquette Ray\nSarah Jaquette Ray teaches environmental studies at Humboldt State University in Arcata\, California\, and is also the author of The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-sarah-ray-and-a-field-guide-to-climate-anxiety/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T183000
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE PRESENTS: I'VE GOT A SONG FOR THAT
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 27\, 2020\n6:30 PM 9:00 PM\nGLOBALLY (map)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou’re Going to Die Presents: I’ve Got a Song for That\nwith Scott Ferreter\, The Singer and The Songwriter\, Chelsea Coleman & just 10 uniquely precious participants. \nI’ve Got A Song For That is You’re Going to Die‘s way of bringing songs right to the doorsteps of your heart. \nWe invite you to this intimate gathering with our most powerful songwriters in which songs are offered directly to your places of pain\, your longings\, & your aching humanity. In this unique space\, songs & stories are offered in service of an even deeper togetherness. This will be an intentionally small\, closed group in order to offer a safe & contained space that wouldn’t be possible in a larger gathering. \nIGASFT is an explicitly interactive offering\, which relies on everyone arriving with a willingness to share. While the space will be supportive & gentle\, the content might span the human experience—expect realness\, connection\, & feeling. \nDATE: Wednesday\, May 27th\nTIME: 6:30pm – 9pm\nLOCATION: Zoom\nPRICE: Sliding Scale $40 – $100 \nTO REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT\, PLEASE SEND AN E-MAIL WITH THE SUBJECT LINE “I’ve Got a Song For That” TO thu@yg2d.com.\nYou’ll receive a confirmation email with payment instructions.\nIn order to preserve the uniquely intimate & personalized nature of this offering\, space for this event will be limited\, & registration is required to attend. \n***Two (2) full scholarships are available with one (1) of those scholarships reserved specifically for QTBIPOC. For more information e-mail thu@yg2d.com*** \nMortally Yours\,\nthe You’re Going to Die Team\nwww.yg2d.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-presents-ive-got-a-song-for-that/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T193000
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CREATED:20200312T213347Z
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SUMMARY:SUSAN CHOI
DESCRIPTION:“A natural—a writer whose intelligence and historical awareness effortlessly serve a breathtaking narrative ability.”  — Joan Didion \nSusan Choi is the award-winning author of five novels. Her fifth novel\, Trust Exercise\, which won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction\, tells the story of a group of teenagers at a competitive arts school in1980s American suburbia. The boundaries of fiction and reality are pushed in a tale that is itself a trust exercise for readers. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation\, Choi teaches fiction writing at Yale and lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-choi/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200601T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200601T180000
DTSTAMP:20260426T065554
CREATED:20200506T192802Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200506T192802Z
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SUMMARY:AUTHORS OF COLOR BOOK CLUB: The Revisioners
DESCRIPTION:Jean Rhys said that “reading makes immigrants of us all\,” that “it takes us away from home\, but more important\, it finds homes for us everywhere.” Now more than ever\, it’s vital—and heartening—to read\, and read widely. We’ll read thrilling\, mind-blowing\, intriguing\, heartbreaking\, comic\, strange\, and/or provocative books by women of color—and\, each month\, we’ll gather to talk about what we’ve read! When possible\, we’ll also have the writer join us. \nLocal author and friend of The Ruby\, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton\, will be joining us for the discussion. \nPLEASE NOTE: Thanks to Counterpoint\, we have FIFTEEN copies of THE REVISIONERS available for the first fifteen people who sign up for book club! You will be notified if you are one of the lucky fifteen! \nAbout THE REVISIONERS \n“Sexton takes on [Toni Morrison’s artful invocation of the ghost] in her new novel The Revisioners. . . She writes with such a clear sense of place and time that each of these intermingled stories feels essential and dramatic in its own way.” —Ron Charles\, The Washington Post \n“A powerful tale of racial tensions across generations.” —People \nIn 1924\, Josephine is the proud owner of a thriving farm. As a child\, she channeled otherworldly power to free herself from slavery. Now her new neighbor\, a white woman named Charlotte\, seeks her company\, and an uneasy friendship grows between them. But Charlotte has also sought solace in the Ku Klux Klan\, a relationship that jeopardizes Josephine’s family. \nNearly one hundred years later\, Josephine’s descendant\, Ava\, is a single mother who has just lost her job. She moves in with her white grandmother\, Martha\, a wealthy but lonely woman who pays Ava to be her companion. But Martha’s behavior soon becomes erratic\, then threatening\, and Ava must escape before her story and Josephine’s converge. \nThe Revisioners explores the depths of women’s relationships—powerful women and marginalized women\, healers and survivors. It is a novel about the bonds between mothers and their children\, the dangers that upend those bonds. At its core\, The Revisioners ponders generational legacies\, the endurance of hope\, and the undying promise of freedom. \nABOUT MARGARET WILKERSON SEXTON\nMARGARET WILKERSON SEXTON\, born and raised in New Orleans\, studied creative writing at Dartmouth College and law at UC Berkeley. Her debut novel\, A Kind of Freedom\, was long-listed for the National Book Award and the Northern California Book Award\, won the Crook’s Corner Book Prize\, and was the recipient of the First Novelist Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/authors-of-color-book-club-the-revisioners/
LOCATION:The Ruby\, 23rd and bryant street\, san francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200602T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200602T180000
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CREATED:20200514T013839Z
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Ode to Our 13-Year-Old Selves
DESCRIPTION:Prompted by a fireside moment at a writing conference\, these poets with varying childhood experiences of race\, gender\, sexuality\, migration\, culture and religion\, will share work that honors their 13-year-old selves — and the surprise\, disbelief\, pride\, love\, and even derision those 13-year-old selves might have for the grown and poetry folx they have become. Participants will each open their readings by addressing themselves as their younger selves might experience them now. An unforgettable evening of vulnerable intimacy\, physical distancing\, and social connection. With Hari Alluri\, Nico Amador\, Faisal Mohyuddin\, Cynthia Dewi Oka\, and Seema Reza. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live at Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nNico Amador\nNico Amador is a poet\, community organizer and facilitator based in Vermont by way of San Diego and Philadelphia. His poems have appeared in Bettering American Poetry\, Vol 3\, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series\, Hypertext Review\, Poets Reading the News\, Poet Lore\, Bedfellows… Read More →\n\n \nCynthia Dewi Oka\nCynthia Dewi Oka is the author of Salvage (Northwestern University Press) and Nomad of Salt and Hard Water (Thread Makes Blanket). Her work has appeared widely in print and online\, including in ESPNW\, Hyperallergic\, Guernica\, Scoundrel Time\, Academy of American Poets\, American Poetry… Read More →\n\n \nSeema Reza\nSeema Reza is the author of A Constellation of Half-Lives and When the World Breaks Open. Her writing has appeared in print and online in McSweeney’s\, The Feminist Wire\, Bellevue Literary Review\, The Offing\, Full Grown People\, and The Nervous Breakdown\, among others. She has performed… Read More →\n\n \nFaisal Mohyuddin\nFaisal Mohyuddin is a writer\, artist\, and educator. He is the author of The Displaced Children of Displaced Children\, winner of the 2017 Sexton Prize in Poetry and a 2018 Summer Recommendation of the Poetry Book Society. His other awards include the Prairie Schooner’s Edward Stanley… Read More →\n\n \nHari Alluri\nHari Alluri is the author of The Flayed City (Kaya)\, Carving Ashes (CiCAC/Thompson Rivers)\, and the chapbook The Promise of Rust (Mouthfeel Press\, 2016). Winner of the 2020 Leonard A. Slade\, Jr. Poetry Fellowship for Poets of Color\, his current projects are supported by grants from… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-ode-to-our-13-year-old-selves/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200602T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200602T200000
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CREATED:20200523T024231Z
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SUMMARY:Sasha Abramsky - Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod\, the World's First Female Sports Superstar
DESCRIPTION:Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod\, the World’s First Female Sports Superstar is a biography of a truly extraordinary sports figure who blazed trails of glory in the last decades of the nineteenth and first decade of the twentieth centuries. Dod was the third woman to win the Ladies’ Championships at the Wimbledon tennis tournament. She did so for the first time in 1887\, at the ludicrously young age of fifteen. She remains today the youngest person ever to have won a singles trophy in what would come to be known as the big-four Grand Slam tennis tournaments. \nDod won Wimbledon five times\, grew bored with competitive tennis\, and moved on to myriad other sports. She became the world’s leading female ice skater and tobogganist\, perfecting her talents in St. Moritz\, Switzerland; befriended Elizabeth Main\, the most skilled female mountaineer of the age\, and joined her in summiting many of Switzerland’s and Norway’s most difficult mountains; became an endurance bicyclist; played hockey for England; won the British ladies’ golf championship in 1904; and finally\, in 1908\, took the Olympic silver medal in archery in the London Olympics. \nIn her time\, she had a huge following\, with fans coming out by the thousands to cheer her on. She was feted by the media\, and repeatedly profiled by the top sports journals of the day. Had Dod lived in a different age\, this fame would have followed her throughout her life. But Dod’s years of glory occurred just before the rise of cinema\, radio\, and other electronic media. By the outset of World War I\, she was largely a forgotten figure; she died alone and without fanfare in 1960. \nLittle Wonder brings this remarkable woman’s story to life\, contextualizing it against a backdrop of rapid social change and tectonic shifts in the status of women in society. Dod was born into a world in which even upper-class women such as herself could not vote\, were restricted in owning property\, and were assumed to be fragile and delicate. True\, the monarch was a queen\, Victoria; but Victoria’s reign was hardly a bastion of feminist progress. Women of Lottie Dod’s class were expected not to work and to definitely get married. Dod turned that equation on its head; she never married and never had children\, instead putting heart and soul into training to be the best athlete she could possibly be. \nDod was one of the pioneers who paved the way for the likes of Billie Jean King\, Serena Williams\, and the top female athletes of today. She accepted no limits\, no glass ceilings\, believed she could compete with the top men in whatever sport she set her sights on\, and always refused to compromise. \nSasha Abramsky is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared over the past twenty-five years in major newspapers and magazines in the United States and United Kingdom. These include the Nation\, the Atlantic\, the New Yorker online\, Rolling Stone\, Mother Jones\, the New York Times\, the Guardian\, the Independent\, the Observer\, and the New Statesman. He has written widely about poverty and inequality; hunger; mass incarceration; the treatment of immigrants\, refugees\, and asylum seekers; along with book reviews\, cultural essays\, and travel writing. Little Wonder is Abramsky’s ninth book. He teaches writing part-time at the University of California\, Davis\, and lives in Sacramento with his wife and two children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sasha-abramsky-little-wonder-the-fabulous-story-of-lottie-dod-the-worlds-first-female-sports-superstar/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200602T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200602T210000
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SUMMARY:Hanif Abdurraqib with Jeff Chang
DESCRIPTION:TICKETSTo purchase over the phone: 415-392-4400 \nThis event appears in the series\nSpecial Events \n\n\nHanif Abdurraqib is a poet\, essayist\, and cultural critic from Columbus\, Ohio. He is the author of the poetry collections The Crown Ain’t Worth Much and A Fortune for Your Disaster\, the essay collection They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us\, Go Ahead In The Rain\, an homage to A Tribe Called Quest\, and the forthcoming They Don’t Dance No Mo. His poetry has been published in Muzzle\, Vinyl\, PEN American\, and various other journals and his essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER\, Pitchfork\, The New Yorker\, and The New York Times. Adburraqib is a member of the poetry collective Echo Hotel with poet/essayist Eve L. Ewing. \n  \nPhotograph credit: Marcus Jackson
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hanif-abdurraqib-with-jeff-chang/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200603T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200603T210000
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SUMMARY:Eric Goodman: Cuppy and Stew
DESCRIPTION:Eric Goodman discusses his new novel Cuppy and Stew. \nPraise for Cuppy and Stew \n“CUPPY AND STEW is completely natural\, poignant\, and riveting from the first page to the last. An easy read in the best sense of that phrase\, and a major work of fiction.”—Ron Hansen \n“Eric Goodman’s CUPPY AND STEW: THE BOMBING OF FLIGHT 629\, A LOVE STORY reads like a fairy tale—until some pretty remarkable darkness sets in\, as the title tells us it will. Part novel\, part memoir (the author writes in the voice of his wife)\, part journalistic inquiry\, the dark forests of this tale lead down to the far more treacherous and psychological underworld of the hero’s journey—and a gritty\, hard-earned climb back to the light. A most compelling read.”—Sands Hall \n“The grim tragedy of the first US terrorist bombing in 1955 that killed the narrator’s parents hovers over this powerful story. Readers are given the complicated love story of the two who die on United Flight 629 and the moving struggle of the daughters who are orphaned by the tragedy: ‘It was me and my sissy against the world.’ CUPPY AND STEW brilliantly blends the known and the imagined and will stand as a model for new possibilities in historical fiction.”—Jim Heynen \nAbout Cuppy and Stew \nIn November\, 1955\, a young man in Denver\, Colorado\, hid twenty-five sticks of dynamite and a crude timer in his mother’s suitcase. In what the FBI would term the first example of American air piracy\, United Flight 629 blew up twelve minutes after taking off\, killing everyone aboard. Part historical novel\, part memoir\, CUPPY AND STEW tells one family’s story before and after the bomb went off. Narrated by a young girl whose parents died on Flight 629\, CUPPY AND STEW evokes the not-so-innocent 1950s\, and the struggles of Cuppy and Stew’s daughters to survive their parents’ deaths. Prize-winning novelist Eric Goodman’s sixth novel is not only his most moving but also his most personal. His wife’s parents perished on United 629.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eric-goodman-cuppy-and-stew/
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=America/Los_Angeles:20200604T180000
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CREATED:20200514T014022Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200514T014022Z
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Daniel Mallory Ortberg and Something That May Shock and Discredit You
DESCRIPTION:From the New York Times bestselling author of Texts From Jane Eyreand Merry Spinster\, writer of Slate’s “Dear Prudence” column\, and cofounder of The Toast comes this hilarious and stirring collection of essays and cultural observations spanning pop culture—from the endearingly popular to the staggeringly obscure. In Daniel Mallory Ortberg’s most personal work to date\, he offers vigorous and laugh-out-loud funny accounts of both popular and highbrow culture while mixing in meditations on gender transition\, family dynamics\, and the many meanings of faith. From a thoughtful analysis of the beauty of William Shatner to a sinister reimagining of HGTV’s House Hunters\, and featuring figures as varied as Anne of Green Gables\, Columbo\, Nora Ephron\, Apollo\, and the cast of Mean Girls\, Something That May Shock and Discredit You will make you see yourself and those around you entirely anew. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live at Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nDaniel Mallory Ortberg\nDaniel Mallory Ortberg is the “Dear Prudence” advice columnist at Slate\, the cofounder of The Toast\, and the New York Times bestselling author of Texts From Jane Eyre and The Merry Spinster.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-daniel-mallory-ortberg-and-something-that-may-shock-and-discredit-you/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200605T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200605T120000
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CREATED:20200531T232327Z
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SUMMARY:Bill McKibben\, Sy Montgomery\, Jennifer Ackerman\, Mary Ellen Hannibal For Books On B
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising Goal: $2000 \nIt’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business\, with a series of fundraisers. This event will feature Bill McKibben\, Sy Montgomery\, Jennifer Ackerman and Mary Ellen Hannibal. \nBill McKibben is an author and environmentalist who in 2014 was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize\, sometimes called the ‘alternative Nobel.’ \nSy Montgomery’s 28 books for both adults and children have garnered many honors. The Soul of an Octopus was a 2015 Finalist for the National Book Awards. The Good Good Pig\, her memoir of life with her pig\, Christopher Hogwood\, is an international bestseller. \nJennifer Ackerman has been writing about science and nature for three decades. She is the author of eight books\, including The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk\, Work\, Play\, Parent\, and Think\, just published by Penguin Press\, and the New York Times bestseller\, The Genius of Birds. \nMary Ellen Hannibal is a long-time journalist focused on natural history and literature. Her most recent book\, Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction\, was named one of 2016’s best non-fiction books by the San Francisco Chronicle. \nThis event is hosted by Charlie Jane Anders\, organizer of Writers With Drinks. \nAll proceeds benefit Books on B in Hayward. Shop online now! \n\nJune 5 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\n\nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bill-mckibben-sy-montgomery-jennifer-ackerman-mary-ellen-hannibal-for-books-on-b/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200606T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200606T170000
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon
DESCRIPTION:presents a special \nonline performance \nSaturday\, June 6\, 2020\n5pm PST / 8pm EST \n\n\nRegister for our Zoom gathering\n\n\npresents a special \nonline performance \nSaturday\, June 6\, 2020\n5pm PST / 8pm EST \n\n\nRegister for our Zoom gathering\nfeaturing\n\n\nBonnie Tsui\n(Why We Swim; American Chinatown; Writing Action)\n\n“An enthusiastic and thoughtful work mixing history\, journalism\, and elements of memoir… We’ll never be the fish\, Tsui reminds us. ‘But we get glimpses of what it’s like to be the fish. We get flashes of forgetting the water.’ How glorious.” — The New York Times Book Review\n\n \nA Boston Globe bestseller and Best Book of the Season: Amazon\, Buzzfeed\, Bustle\, The San Francisco Chronicle\n\nBonnie Tsui is a longtime contributor to The New York Times and California Sunday Magazine. She has been the recipient of the Jane Rainie Opel Young Alumna Award from Harvard University\, the Lowell Thomas Gold Award\, and a National Press Foundation Fellowship. American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods\, won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and Best of 2009 Notable Bay Area Books selection. Bonnie has also performed numerous times at Pop-Up Magazine and other live storytelling events. She helped to launch F&B: Voices from the Kitchen\, a storytelling project from La Cocina that shares stories from cooks and kitchens that are less often heard. She is also her first children’s book\, Sarah & the Big Wave\, about big-wave women surfers; it will be published by Henry Holt Books for Young Readers in spring 2021.\n\nMeng Jin\n(Little Gods)\n“Meng Jin’s beautiful debut novel is ambitious in the best ways: meticulously observed\, daringly imagined\, rich in character and history. Ranging across continents\, cultures and generations\, Jin poses profound questions: how might we know ourselves\, or the people we love? And what truths\, if any\, travel with us?” — Claire Messud\n \n“If the mark of a good novel is its ability to delicately rewire the reader’s brain\, then Meng Jin has given us a very good novel….Little Gods is a page-turner—but all the while it winks\, reminding us that possible explanations in our universe are as varied as the beings who populate it.” — The Paris Review\, Staff Pick\n\n\nMeng Jin was born in Shanghai and lives in San Francisco. A Kundiman Fellow\, she is a graduate of Harvard and Hunter College. Little Gods is her first novel.\nAlia Volz\n(Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco)\n“I devoured this book! Sex\, drugs\, rock-n-roll\, a savvy business woman\, a social and medicinal revolution: What’s not to love? This is a story Alia Volz was born to tell.” —Rebecca Skloot\, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n\nAlia Volz is the author of the new memoir Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, spring 2020). She’s a homegrown San Franciscan. Her work has been published in The Best American Essays 2017\, The New York Times\, Bon Appetit\, Threepenny Review\, Salon\, and many other places. Her unusual family story has been featured on Snap Judgement\, Criminal\, and NPR’s Fresh Air. Alia has received fellowships by the MacDowell Colony and the Ucross Foundation and has twice been awarded the Oakley Hall Memorial Scholarship from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. She was runner-up of The MOTH’s GrandSLAM Championship in 2014.\n\n\nTomas Moniz\n(Big Familia; Rad Dad; Collaboration/Colaboración)\n\n“A quiet\, thoughtful story about coming-of-age at middle age. . . . With his first novel\, poet Moniz tells a story that is simultaneously timeless and quite timely. . . . Characters deal with and talk about racism and homophobia\, gentrification and police brutality. These are some of the challenges they endure as they navigate universally human experiences like connection\, community\, birth\, and death. . . . Diverse characters and a deeply likable protagonist make this a standout debut.” — Starred Review\, Kirkus Reviews\n\n\n\nTomas Moniz edited Rad Dad\, Rad Families\, and the kids book Collaboration/Colaboración. He’s recently been published by Barrelhouse and Longleaf Review. In July 2019\, he released a chapbook\, All Friends Are Necessary\, with Mason Jar Press and his debut novel\, Big Familia\, on Acre Books (which received a STARRED Kirkus review)\, in November 2019. Big Familia was a Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Debut Novel 2020 Award\, a Finalist for a LAMBDA 2020 award for Bisexual Fiction and a Finalist for the Foreword Review Indies Award.\n\nwith music from\n  \nArt Elliot\n(Hello; Goodbye; Earth Abides)\nArt Elliot sings of apocalyptic futures\, lost loves\, ice ages and Depression-era folk art\, among other topics. Born the second son of a carpenter and a singer during the height of The Catastrophe™\, Elliot took to his iron horse and rode west at the age of 22. Art has collaborated with a few of the well-known troubadours of Sector 6 including Larry Gallagher\, The Dirty Snacks Ensemble\, Jack O’ the Clock\, and Eli Wise. He currently dwells deep underground in a bunker near what was once known as Oakland\, California.\n____________________ \nFree Admission!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-5/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200609T193000
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SUMMARY:Rachel Kushner in conversation with Heidi Julavits
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Kushner is the bestselling author of The Flamethrowers\, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top Ten Book of 2013; Telex from Cuba\, a finalist for the National Book Award; and\, most recently\, The Mars Room\, which was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Award\, winner of the Prix Médicis\, selected by the National Book Foundation for its “Literature for Justice” award\, and a winner of the California Book Award. She has received grants and prizes from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and her fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine.  \nHeidi Julavits is the founding editor of Believer magazine\, and the author of four novels\, including The Vanishers and The Uses of Enchantment. Her fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories\, McSweeney’s\, Zoetrope All-Story and elsewhere. She is a professor of creative writing at Columbia University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-kushner-in-conversation-with-heidi-julavits/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200610T120000
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SUMMARY:John Scalzi And Sarah Gailey For Dark Carnival
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising Goal: $2000 \nIt’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business\, with a series of fundraisers. This event will feature John Scalzi and Sarah Gailey\, reading and having a conversation. \nJohn Scalzi’s latest novel is The Last Emperox. Scalzi won the 2006 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer\, the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel for Redshirts\, and his debut novel Old Man’s War was a finalist for Hugo Award as well. \nHugo Award Winner and Bestselling author Sarah Gailey is an internationally published writer of fiction and nonfiction. Their nonfiction has been published by Mashable and the Boston Globe\, and they won a Hugo award for Best Fan Writer. Their most recent fiction credits include Vice and The Atlantic. \nThis event is hosted by Charlie Jane Anders\, organizer of Writers With Drinks. \nAll proceeds benefit Dark Carnival. Shop online now! \n\nJune 10 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\n\nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-scalzi-and-sarah-gailey-for-dark-carnival/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200611T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200611T180000
DTSTAMP:20260426T065554
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Alka Joshi and The Henna Artist
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for this vivid and compelling evening with Alka Joshi\, author of The Henna Artist\, the May selection for Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine Book Club. Tune in at 6pm Pacific time and learn why Publishers Weekly calls this novel “eloquent and moving\,” while Christian Science Monitor highlights its “vibrant characters\, evocative imagery\, and sumptuous prose.” \nA portrait of one woman’s struggle for fulfillment in a society pivoting between the traditional and the modern\, The Henna Artist takes readers on a journey through 1950s Indian culture\, a world that is at once lush and fascinating\, stark and cruel. Escaping from an abusive marriage\, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the most highly requested henna artist—and confidante—to the wealthy women of the upper class. But trusted with the secrets of the wealthy\, she can never reveal her own. Alka Joshi reads from and discusses her book\, with bestselling author Tom Barbash. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live at Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\nModerators \n\n \nTom Barbash\nTom Barbash is the author of five books\, including Dakota Winters. His short story collection Stay Up With Me was nominated for the Folio Prize and picked as a Best Book of the Year by the Independent of London\, NPR\,  San Francisco Chronicle\, and San Jose Mercury News. His novel The… Read More →\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nAlka Joshi\nAlka Joshi was born in India and raised in the U.S. since the age of nine. She has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of Arts and runs an advertising and marketing agency. She has lived in France and Italy and currently lives in Pacific Grove\, California… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-alka-joshi-and-the-henna-artist/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200616T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200616T190000
DTSTAMP:20260426T065554
CREATED:20200521T172617Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200521T172617Z
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SUMMARY:Strange Hotel: Irish Literary Sensation Eimear McBride in conversation with Brooke Warner
DESCRIPTION:The trajectory of Eimear McBride’s career is an underdog’s dream: she spent six months writing her debut novel\, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing\, and nine years trying to sell it\, only to take the literary scene by storm when it was finally published in 2013 to an avalanche of acclaim\, awards (including the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction)\, and rapturous comparisons to James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. Now\, McBride is joining Women Lit in a live virtual conversation with Brooke Warner\, publisher of She Writes Press and SparkPress\, in celebration of her eagerly awaited new novel\, Strange Hotel\, which further cements her singular place in the contemporary canon. As unforgettable as her debut\, McBride’s latest book depicts a rootless woman’s exile as she hotel-hops across the globe\, seeking to quash her ghosts and escape the dangers that haunt her.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/strange-hotel-irish-literary-sensation-eimear-mcbride-in-conversation-with-brooke-warner/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200616T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200714T170000
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #61 (Music by: TBA)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nDoors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM sharp! Suggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Donate ahead of time via the Eventbrite ticket link on this event! \nGet beer. Get tacos. Get lit. \nThis month’s performers: TBA \nMusic by: TBA \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-61-music-by-tba/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200617T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200617T120000
DTSTAMP:20260426T065554
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SUMMARY:Armistead Maupin And Alia Volz For Rakestraw Books
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising Goal: $2000 \nIt’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business\, with a series of fundraisers. This event will feature Alia Volz and Armistead Maupin. \nAlia Volz is the author of Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, 2020). She is a MacDowell Colonist and a Ucross Foundation Fellow. Other writings appear in The Best American Essays\, The New York Times\, Golden State 2017: Best New Writing from California\, and Dig If You Will The Picture: Remembering Prince. She’s a homegrown San Franciscan from weedy hippie stock. \nArmistead Maupin’s iconic Tales of the City series has since blazed its own trail through popular culture – from a sequence of globally best-selling novels\, to a Peabody Award-winning television miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney\, to an ambitious new musical that had its world premiere at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater in 2011. In 2019 Netflix will be airing a new series based on the novels titled Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City. \nThis event is hosted by Charlie Jane Anders\, organizer of Writers With Drinks. \nAll proceeds benefit Rakestraw Books. Shop online now! \n\nJune 17 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\n\nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/armistead-maupin-and-alia-volz-for-rakestraw-books/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200618T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200618T200000
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SUMMARY:Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:The Speaking Axolotl community stands con our Black familias aqui en Aztlan and other occupied territories and is committed to providing a space for AfroLatinx voices to be celebrated and heard.\n!LAS VIDAS NEGRAS IMPORTAN! \nSpeaking Axolotl is a Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday of the month in el Zoom mundo and is hosted by Josiah Luis Alderete. This month Speaking Axolotl is being curated by Beat Decolonizer y MexicaAnarchista L7. Featured readers as well as the Zoom and sign up list for the open mic will be posted later this week. \nDonations will be kindly requested to help pay the features and cover the cost of the space. \n!AQUI ESTAMOS Y NO NOS VAMOS!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic-8/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200624T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200624T120000
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Skloot And Ed Yong For East Bay Booksellers
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising Goal: $2000 \nIt’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business\, with a series of fundraisers. This event will feature Rebecca Skloot and Ed Yong. \nRebecca Skloot is the author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller\, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\, which was made into an Emmy Nominated HBO film. Her award winning science writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine; O\, The Oprah Magazine\, and many other publications. She has worked as a correspondent for WNYC’s Radiolab and PBS’s Nova ScienceNOW. She and her father\, Floyd Skloot\, co-edited The Best American Science Writing 2011. \nEd Yong is a science journalist who reports for The Atlantic\, and is based in Washington DC. His work appears several times a week on The Atlantic’s website\, and has also featured in National Geographic\, the New Yorker\, Wired\, Nature\, New Scientist\, Scientific American\, and many more. He has won a variety of awards\, including the Michael E. DeBakey Journalism Award for biomedical reporting in 2016 and the National Academies Keck Science Communication Award in 2010 for his old blog Not Exactly Rocket Science. \nThis event is hosted by Annalee Newitz. \nAll proceeds benefit East Bay Booksellers. Shop online now! \n\nJune 24 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\n\nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.l
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-skloot-and-ed-yong-for-east-bay-booksellers/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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