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SUMMARY:2017 Library Laureates: Library Love Stories
DESCRIPTION:Nion McEvoy and Camilla Smith are Co-Chairs of the 2017 Library Laureates Benefit Gala\, Library Love Stories\, which will take place on April 7\, 2017. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love and following the 2016 sold-out event\, we will again gather under the nautilus at the Main Library. Join us as we celebrate and honor author\, publisher\, and Library championPeter Booth Wiley; poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti (our first Honorary Library Laureate); and 35 other luminaries of the literary world. \nFeaturing specialty cocktails\, fine wine and a spectacular dinner in intimate salons\, the highlight of this one-of-a-kind evening is mixing\, mingling and dining with an author at each table. \nPlease join host and supporters Sarah & Jason Jones\, Ruth & William Isenberg\, Barbro & Bernard Osher\, Roselyne Chroman Swig\, Peter Wiley\, Donna Miller Casey\, Helen & Allan Ridley\, Diane Wilsey and other philanthropists\, community leaders\, authors and corporate partners in support of the partnership of Friends and the San Francisco Public Library that makes the exceptional difference for our community by offering a premier library system in San Francisco. \nSponsorship Opportunities/Table Sales available now (please note the February 15 print deadline.) \nPlease contact Laurie Berk at laurie.berk@friendssfpl.org for more information \n– See more at: http://www.friendssfpl.org/events/librarylaureates/overview.html#sthash.rRR9YDcH.dpuf
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2017-library-laureates-library-love-stories/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,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/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marcelo Hernandez Castillo & Javier Zamora: Undocupoets Resist
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the spring MFA in Writing Pop-Up Reading: \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo & Javier Zamora: Undocupoets Resist \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo was born in Zacatecas\, Mexico. He is a CantoMundo fellow and the first undocumented student to graduate from the University of Michigan’s MFA program. He was a finalist for the New England Review Emerging Writer Award and his full-length manuscript\, Origin of Drowning\, was a finalist for the Alice James Book Prize and the National Poetry Series. He co-founded the Undocupoets campaign which successfully eliminated citizenship requirements from all major first poetry book prizes in the country and was recognized with the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers” award from Poets and Writers Magazine. \nJavier Zamora was born in El Salvador and migrated to the US when he was nine. He is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow and holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, Colgate University\, MacDowell\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and Yaddo. His first book\, Unaccompanied\, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press\, Fall 2017. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Migration Studies. \nFree and open to the public. \nFor more information on the MFA in Writing Program visit: https://www.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/graduate-programs/writing213
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcelo-hernandez-castillo-javier-zamora-undocupoets-resist/
LOCATION:USF Lone Mountain Main – LM 100 – Handlery Room\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Gabriel Thompson
DESCRIPTION:Editor Gabriel Thompson discusses the latest Voice of Witness book\, Chasing the Harvest: Migrant Workers in California Agriculture. \nPrasie for Voice of Witness \n“To read a Voice of Witness book is to feel one’s habitual sense of disconnection begin to fall away.”—George Saunders\, author of The Tenth of December \n“[Voice of Witness] books are amazing… beautifully produced\, with incredible editing and literary sensibility. Voice of Witness has done a better job than I’ve seen anybody do with having people tell their stories in a way that really engages you.”—Rachel Maddow\, MSNBC \n“The Voice of Witness series is a megaphone for our country’s most marginalized voices.”—Van Jones\, former special advisor to the Obama White House\, author of Rebuilding the Dream \nAbout Chasing the Harvest \nMore than a million men\, women\, and children work in American agriculture\, and yet their stories are rarely told\, their low-wage jobs are not included in minimum-wage ordinances or campaigns\, and their work remains unorganized by labor unions. This book of oral histories restores to visibility these workers\, by telling stories of hardship but also bravery\, solidarity\, and improvization in California’s farm fields. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gabriel-thompson/
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:Edie Meidav
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith welcomes Edie Meidav for her new story collection\, Kingdom of the Young. She’ll be in conversation with Zyzzyva’s managing editor Oscar Villalon. Join us! \nThe dynamic characters in Kingdom of the Young are searching: for adventure\, work\, love\, absolution\, better chances elsewhere. From the honeycombed caves outside the Alhambra to the streets of Havana\, from hospital wards to quinceañera parties\, these stories—along with the collection’s illuminating nonfiction coda—testify to Meidav’s vast imaginative range. \n————————–————————–————————–—– \n“Ambitious\, original\, deliciously philosophical. Kingdom of the Young invites comparison to the crônicas of Clarice Lispector and the fabulas of Italo Calvino.” – Carolyn Cooke\, author of Daughters of the Revolution \n“These stories are dazzling\, full of knowledge of the world and of the heart\, and written with the pluck and thrum of a flamenco guitarist. Meidav draws you into world after world; she makes you want to sit by your window and listen all night.” – Paul La Farge\, author of Luminous Airplanes \n“Edie Meidav’s writing is a cascade of fireworks. Her ideas are little bombs—and these stories\, fast-spinning sparklers. Her hallucinatory prose flares with color and heart.” – Leela Corman\, author of Unterzakhn \n————————–————————–————————–—– \nEdie Meidav is the author of three novels: The Far Field\, Crawl Space\, and Lola\, California. Her honors include a Lannan Literary Award\, the Kafka Award for Best Novel by an American Woman\, the Bard Fiction Prize\, a Whiting Award\, and a Howard Fellowship. Work from Kingdom of the Young appeared in Conjunctions and American Literary Review\, among other places. She teaches in the University of Massachusetts MFA program and lives in Amherst. \nOscar Villalon\, managing editor of ZYZZVA\, former books editor at the San Francisco Chronicle\, and a member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle. His writing has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review and The Believer. \n>>> More Info Here:\nhttp://www.booksmith.com/event/edie-meidav-kingdom-young
URL:https://litseen.com/event/edie-meidav/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Not Funny! Sad! Cartoonists Respond to Trump
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/not-funny-sad-cartoonists-respond-to-trump/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170418T213000
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night
DESCRIPTION:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night: Every 3rd Tuesday of the Month from 7:00-9:30pm\nNEXT: Tuesday April 18th\, 2017\nFeatured Poet: EK Keith for Nat’l Poetry & Jazz Month! \nat PianoFight: 144 Taylor Street (between Turk & Eddy)\, San Francisco\, CA 94102 – Powell Street BART \nHosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir. Live jazz with Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. FREE admission\, all ages\, full menu and bar in the front room. Open Mic for poetry only – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sarah Ladipo Manyika
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is proud to host the launch for Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s second novel\, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun. Sarah will be in conversation with Daniel Handler. Please join us! \n‘Morayo Da Silva\, a cosmopolitan Nigerian woman\, lives in Cole Valley\, San Francisco. On the cusp of seventy-five\, she is in good health and makes the most of it\, enjoying road trips in her vintage Porsche\, chatting to strangers\, and recollecting characters from her favorite novels. Then she has a fall and her independence crumbles. Without the support of family\, she relies on friends and chance encounters. As Morayo recounts her story\, moving seamlessly between past and present\, we meet Dawud\, a charming Palestinian shopkeeper\, Sage\, a feisty\, homeless Grateful Dead devotee\, and Antonio\, the poet whom Morayo desired more than her ambassador husband. Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun is a subtle and mesmerizing meditation on aging\, friendship\, and loss. It is also a nuanced portrait of the erotic yearnings of an older woman. \n————————–————————–————– \nLike the dusty spines on Morayo’s bookshelves\, every character in this novel hides a vibrant\, teeming inner world behind an unspectacular façade. […] Ladipo Manyika’s book reminds us of the value of indulgence and delight – in sex\, in food\, in company\, and in reading. – The New Statesmen \nSarah Manyika’s Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun is the rare sort of book that\, from the instant you pick it up\, you know that you will privy to the most intimate secrets. It is as if Dr. Morayo Da Silva is speaking directly into your ear. A real life-force of a character whose honesty\, warmth\, energy\, and bravery in the face of inevitable loss springs forth on the page. Chekhov once said that the ‘Russian loves to recall living\, but he does not love living.” Da Silva manages\, in her unique way\, to love both\, the remembering and life in the present tense. A beautiful\, important new novel\, and one that will continue to echo in a reader’s mind for a long time after. – Peter Orner \nDr. Morayo Da Silva is one of the most memorable characters you are likely to encounter on the page – intelligent\, indomitable\, author and survivor of a large life. In dreamlike prose\, Manyika dips in and out of her present\, her past\, in a story that argues always for generosity\, for connection\, for a vigorous and joyful endurance. – Karen Joy Fowler \n————————–————————–————– \nSarah Ladipo Manyika was raised in Nigeria and has lived in Kenya\, France\, and England. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and for several years taught literature at San Francisco State University. Sarah currently serves on the boards of Hedgebrook and the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco. Sarah is a Patron of the Etisalat Prize for Literature and host to OZY’s video series “Write.” Her second novel Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun was shortlisted for the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-ladipo-manyika-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Eveline Kanes + MaryLee McNeal
DESCRIPTION:Poets Eveline Kanes (A Coin Worn Thin) and MaryLee McNeal (The Way We Fall) will read from their latest collections.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eveline-kanes-marylee-mcneal/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Zachary Mason
DESCRIPTION:Not far in the future the seas have risen and the central latitudes are emptying\, but it’s still a good time to be rich in San Francisco\, where weapons drones patrol the skies to keep out the multitudinous poor. Irina isn’t rich\, not quite\, but she does have an artificial memory that gives her perfect recall and lets her act as a medium between her various employers and their AIs\, which are complex to the point of opacity. It’s a good gig\, paying enough for the annual visits to the Mayo Clinic that keep her from aging. \n  \nKern has no such access; he’s one of the many refugees in the sprawling drone-built favelas on the city’s periphery\, where he lives like a monk\, training relentlessly in martial arts\, scraping by as a thief and an enforcer. Thales is from a different world entirely—the mathematically inclined scion of a Brazilian political clan\, he’s fled to L.A. after the attack that left him crippled and his father dead. \n  \nA ragged stranger accosts Thales and demands to know how much he can remember. Kern flees for his life after robbing the wrong mark. Irina finds a secret in the reflection of a laptop’s screen in her employer’s eyeglasses. None are safe as they’re pushed together by subtle forces that stay just out of sight. \n  \nVivid\, tumultuous\, and propulsive\, Void Star is Zachary Mason’s mind-bending follow-up to his bestselling debut\, The Lost Books of the Odyssey.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zachary-mason/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marcy Dermansky w/ Daniel Hadler
DESCRIPTION:Praise for The Red Car \n“I’ve been waiting and waiting for a new book from Marcy Dermansky and finally that new book is here. The Red Car is taut and smart and strange and sweet and perfect. I want to eat this book or sew it to my skin or something.” Roxane Gay\, author Bad Feminist \n“A new book by the inimitable Marcy Dermansky is worth cheering for. The Red Car is droll\, unflinching\, and mysterious\, a feat of efficient storytelling. I could not put it down. This novel mesmerized me.” Edan Lepucki\, author of California \n“There are few writers who can do what Marcy Dermansky does so effortlessly in The Red Car\, the way she pushes this story in such surprising and thrilling directions\, never losing control\, taking your breath away line by beautiful line. Dermansky writes with such unnerving clarity about grief\, not just for the loss of a loved one\, but for our own unexpected lives. A strange\, unflinching\, utterly amazing novel.” Kevin Wilson\, author of The Family Fang \n\nAbout the Red Car \nLeah is living in Queens with a possessive husband she doesn’t love and a long list of unfulfilled ambitions\, when she’s jolted from a thick ennui by a call from the past. Her beloved former boss and friend\, Judy\, has died in a car accident and left Leah her most prized possession and\, as it turns out\, the instrument of Judy’s death: a red sports car. \nJudy was the mentor Leah never expected. She encouraged Leah’s dreams\, analyzed her love life\, and eased her into adulthood over long lunches away from the office. Facing the jarring disconnect between the life she expected and the one she is now actually living\, Leah takes off for San Francisco to claim Judy’s car. In sprawling days defined by sex\, sorrow\, and unexpected delight\, Leah revisits past lives and loves in search of a self she abandoned long ago. Piercing through Leah’s surreal haze is the enigmatic voice of Judy\, as sharp as ever\, providing wry commentary on Leah’s every move. \nFollowing her “irresistible” (Time) and “wicked” (Slate) novel Bad Marie\, Dermansky evokes yet another edgy\, capricious\, and beautifully haunting heroine one whose search for realization is as wonderfully unpredictable and hypnotic as the twists and turns of the Pacific Coast Highway. Tautly wound\, transgressive\, and mordantly funny\, The Red Car is an incisive exploration of one woman’s unusual route to self-discovery.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcy-dermansky-w-daniel-hadler/
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:Cleve Jones - When We Rise
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to announce our second What We Do Now event featuring the amazing Cleve Jones in conversation with David Talbot to discuss activism and dissent In Trump’s America. \nCleve Jones’ career as an activist began in San Francisco in 1970s. He co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and conceived the idea of the AIDS Memorial Quilt\, which memorializes over 85\,000 Americans who have died from AIDS. He lives in San Francisco and works as a labor activist. \nHis new book\, When We Rise: My Life in the Movement provided inspiration for the ABC television mini-series of the same name. \nBorn in 1954\, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were. Like thousands of other young people\, Jones\, nearly penniless\, was drawn in the early 1970s to San Francisco\, a city electrified by progressive politics and sexual freedom. \nJones found community–in the hotel rooms and ramshackle apartments shared by other young adventurers\, in the city’s bathhouses and gay bars like The Stud\, and in the burgeoning gay district\, the Castro\, where a New York transplant named Harvey Milk set up a camera shop\, began shouting through his bullhorn\, and soon became the nation’s most outspoken gay elected official. \nWith Milk’s encouragement\, Jones dove into politics and found his calling in “the movement.” When Milk was killed by an assassin’s bullet in 1978\, Jones took up his mentor’s progressive mantle–only to see the arrival of AIDS transform his life once again. By turns tender and uproarious\, When We Rise is Jones’ account of his remarkable life. When We Rise is not only the story of a hero to the LQBTQ community\, but the vibrantly voice memoir of a full and transformative American life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cleve-jones-when-we-rise/
LOCATION:Bookshop West Portal\, 80 W Portal Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94127\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hope in the Dark: Activist Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Not just any book club. An intentional\, socially engaged book club with an activist agenda. It all started with a pervasive sense of dread and overwhelm…do you know the feeling? \nIf you are ready to ameliorate this sense of dread and overwhelm by grounding yourself in community\, to listen to and feel empathy for perspectives different from your own\, if you believe in story\, please join us. If you are ready to do the work of facing challenging topics and checking our privileges and assumptions in a supportive\, safe environment; if you want some mutual accountability to keep each other moving forward; if you want to organize action but don’t know how\, join us. We don’t have the answers\, but we are armed to the teeth with questions! \nWe can’t really say it better than the folks at Finding steady ground: “The goal is to become a student of history so that you can take inspiration and deepen your understanding of how to struggle and thrive.” \nOur first book is Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit! It’s a quick read but full of important stories and\, well\, hope. \nThe Deets:\nActivist Book Club\nevery 3rd Thursday\n6 p.m.\nMission Pie (near 24th and Mission)\nco-hosted by Ava Rosen and Hannah Smith\nFree \n*Please let us know if you’d like to participate but the time or location doesn’t work for you! \n**You are welcome no matter how you identify\, when you were born\, or where you come from. All we ask is that you are open to discomfort\, and act from a place of kindness.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hope-in-the-dark-activist-book-club/
LOCATION:Mission Pie\, 2901 Mission St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Morgan Parker + Arisa White in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼\nThursday\, April 20\, 2017\nAlley Cat Books\n3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\n6:30 PM\n==FREE==\n▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼\n\nAbout the Writers: \nArisa White\nCave Canem fellow Arisa White received her MFA from UMass\, Amherst\, and is the author of Black Pearl\, Post Pardon\, Hurrah’s Nest\, and A Penny Saved. She teaches in the low-residency BFA program at Goddard College and is a lecturer at San Francisco State University. She is the distinguished visiting writer in residence at Saint Mary’s College of California. You’re the Most Beautiful Thing that Happened is her newest collection from Augury Books. \nFind out more at http://www.arisawhite.com \nMorgan Parker\nParker is the author of Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night (Switchback Books 2015) and There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce (Tin House 2017). Her work has been published in the The Paris Review\, Poetry\, The New York Times\, The Nation\, Buzzfeed\, and elsewhere. Her poetry has been anthologized in Why I Am Not A Painter\, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop\, and Best American Poetry 2016. Parker is the recipient of a 2017 National Endowment of the Arts Literature Fellowship\, winner of a 2016 Pushcart Prize\, and a Cave Canem graduate fellow. She lives with her dog Braeburn in Brooklyn\, NY. With Tommy Pico\, she co-curates the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading series\, and with Angel Nafis\, she is The Other Black Girl Collective. \nFind out more at http://www.morgan-parker.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/morgan-parker-arisa-white-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Omar El Akkad
DESCRIPTION:American War \npublished by Knopf \nAn audacious and powerful debut novel. a second American Civil War\, a devastating plague\, and one family caught deep in the middle—a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself. \nOMAR EL AKKAD\, formerly of the Globe and Mail\, is an award-winning journalist and author who has travelled around the world to cover many of the most important news stories of the last decade. His reporting includes dispatches from the NATO-led war in Egypt and the Black Lives Matter movement in Ferguson\, Missouri. He is a recipient of the National Newspaper Award for investigative reporting for his coverage on the “Toronto 18” terrorism arrests. He has also received the Goff Penny Memorial Prize for Young Journalists\, as well as three National Magazine Award honourable mentions. He is a graduate of Queen’s University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/omar-el-akkad/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jacob Weisman on Jews in Science Fiction: It’s Not a Fantasy
DESCRIPTION:Jewish writers\, including many from the Bay Area\, are responsible for some of the most entertaining and mind-bending stories\, books\, and scripts written in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. Who are these local writers\, and how do they apply Jewish ideas and themes to their work? Jacob Weisman\, editor and publisher at Tachyon Publications\, a San Francisco-based publisher of science fiction\, fantasy\, and literary fiction\, will speak about writers including Peter S. Beagle\, Avram Davidson\, Lisa Goldstein\, Robert Silverberg\, and Richard A. Lupoff. He’ll also answer questions about publishing. \nJacob Weisman founded Tachyon Publications in 1995. He has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award three times and is the series editor of Tachyon’s multi-award-winning novella line. His writing has appeared in The Nation\, Realms of Fantasy\, the Louisville Courier-Journal\, The Seattle Weekly\, and The Cooper Point Journal. He is the editor of “The Treasury of the Fantastic” (with David Sandner)\, “The Sword & Sorcery Anthology” (with David G. Hartwell)\, and “Invaders: 22 Stories from the Outer Limits of Literature.” His latest anthology\, “The New Voices in Fantasy\,” co-edited with Peter S. Beagle\, will be published this year.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jacob-weisman-on-jews-in-science-fiction-its-not-a-fantasy/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Library\, 1835 Ellis St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94115\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Tachyon Publications":MAILTO://tachyon@tachyonpublications.com
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SUMMARY:Janice A. Lowe\, Yohann Potico + Kevin Carnes
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special evening of poetry and song in The Poetry Center\, featuring New York-based poet\, musician\, and Dark Room Collective co-founder Janice A. Lowe (text\, voice\, and piano) performing works from her debut book\, Leaving Cle (Miami University Press\, 2016)\, with Yohann Potico (bass) and Kevin Carnes (drums). \nCheck out their work in advance here: Edge-acation and Boy Flower Tamir. This event is free and open to the public. \nFred Moten writes: “Leaving Cle is a beautiful document of eccentric return. A collection of unforecast surprise\, it keeps giving home away\, disbursing and dispersing hard\, pleasurable weather like a new kind of lake effect. Cleveland is Brooklyn is Chicago and elsewhere\, everywhere in a set of absolute specificities\, upSouth\, back east\, out and out. There’s a black cosmology of ‘difference without separation’ of which Denise Ferreira da Silva\, sociologist\, speaks. Janice A. Lowe\, poet\, sings it so hard\, makes her air such an irreducible element of the general air\, that you couldn’t get away from it if you tried\, which is fine\, because that’s the last thing you’ll want. Her sound\, her time\, is everything you do.” \nJanice A. Lowe is a composer and poet. She is the author of Leaving Cle: poems of nomadic dispersal (Miami University Press) and the chapbook SWAM (Belladonna Series.) Her poems have been published in Callaloo\, Best American Experimental Writing 2016\, The Poetry Project Online\, Pre) Conceivable Bridges\, American Poetry Review\, Radiant Re-Sisters\, The Hat and on a digital album with Drew Gardner’s Poetics Orchestra. She composed the musicals Lil Budda\, (Text by Stephanie L. Jones\,) Sit-In at the Five & Dime\, (Words by Marjorie Duffield) and Somewhere in Texas\, (Book and Lyrics by Charles E. Drew\, Jr.). Her works for musical theater have been performed extensively in New York City and regionally and have received developmental residencies from the Eugene O’Neill Musical Theater Conference and the National Alliance for Musical Theater. She has composed for the plays 12th and Clairmont by Jenni Lamb\, The Super Starlet Shero Show by The Jones Twins\, and Door of No Return by Nehassaiu deGannes. She is the composer of Make Some Learned Noise\, text by Randall Horton\, an interactive poem with music\, performed with the incoming freshman class\, University of New Haven\, 2015. Recently\, she was commissioned to compose a song cycle based on the “Millie-Christine” poems\, from the collection OLIO\, by Tyehimba Jess. She is a co-founder of The Dark Room Collective and a founding member of absolute theater co. She has performed with the experimental bands w/o a net\, HAGL\, and Digital Diaspora. She teaches songwriting workshops at White Bird Productions and has taught Poetry and Performance at Purchase College and at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics She holds an MFA in Musical Theater Writing from New York University-Tisch School of the Arts. More at janicelowe.com Photo: Eric Perl. \nYohann Potico grew up in a West Indian family in France. He brings a distinctive perspective to his bass playing\, producing and composing by blending an eclectic mix of influences—ranging from soul and jazz to funk and trip hop—with a unique melodic approach. He performed and recorded with Brooklyn-based independent rock trio California King from 2007 to 2014. With California King\, he recorded and co-wrote tracks on three albums—Adoration of the Boogie Bear\, 2008\, La Belle Epoque 2010\, and Sankofa\, 2015. He has performed and recorded as a session musician with numerous bands including Sierra Leone-based hip-hop group Dry Eye\, soul vocalist Annakei house/techno producer Michele Papa. For three years\, Yohann has been in residence as bass player for the Eastern European and North African influenced group Balkan Stomp. As a producer and sound engineer\, Yohann has worked with a wide range of artist including folk songwriter and performer Megan Palmer\, jazz pianist and composer Jesse Elder\, jazz vocalist Zack Foley and singer/artist Sabrina Iyadede. \n\nKevin Carnes is a drummer\, composer and producer based in the Bay Area since 1984. He founded the Afro-Punk-Industrial band Beatnigs and is celebrating 25 years as a founding member of Broun Fellinis. Carnes has served as musical director/composer for City Circus and the Marin Theater’s production of August Wilson’s “Gem of the Ocean.”\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/janice-a-lowe-yohann-potico-kevin-carnes/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lidia Yuknavitch
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Lidia Yuknavitch for her much-anticipated novel The Book of Joan! \nA raucous celebration\, a searing condemnation\, and a fiercely imaginative retelling of Joan of Arc’s transcendent life. — Roxane Gay\, New York Times-bestselling author of Bad Feminist \nIn the near future\, world wars have transformed the earth into a battleground\, a place to hide in caves and horde ammunition. Fleeing the unending violence and the planet’s now-radioactive surface\, humans have regrouped to a mysterious platform known as CIEL\, hovering over their erstwhile home. The changed world has turned evolution on its head\, the surviving humans becoming sexless\, hairless pale-white creatures floating in isolation\, inscribing stories upon their skin. \nOut of the ranks of the endless wars rises Jean de Men\, a charismatic cult leader who appoints himself to rule over CIEL as a kind of corporate police state. To combat de Men’s vicious acts and thirst for blood\, a group of rebels unite to dismantle his iron rule – galvanized by the heroic song of Joan\, a child-warrior who possesses an unnatural talent\, a force that lives within her and communes with the earth. When de Men and his armies fashion Joan into a martyr\, instead of the living\, breathing force of nature she is\, the consequences are astonishing. And no one – not the rebels\, Jean de Men\, nor even Joan herself – can foresee the ways her life story will\, in a brilliant instant\, forge the destiny of an entire world for generations. \nThe Book of Joan is a riveting tale of destruction and the beauty found in unlikely places—even at the extreme end of post-human experience. A book suffused with dirt\, sweat\, and blood\, it raises questions about what it means to be human\, the meaning of sex and gender\, and the role of art as means for survival. \n“It’s unfair to compare Yuknavitch to only female authors. With her verve and bold imagination\, she’s earned the throne left empty since the death of David Foster Wallace.” — Chuck Palahniuk \n“Reading The Book of Joan is a meditation on art and sex and war. My brain is full-bloomed. Get ready\, it’s glorious.” — Amber Tamblyn\, author of Dark Sparkler \nLidia Yuknavitch is the author of the National Bestselling novel The Small Backs of Children\, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award’s Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the Reader’s Choice Award\, the novel Dora: A Headcase\, and three books of short stories. Her widely acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader’s Choice. She founded the workshop series Corporeal Writing in Portland\, OR\, where she also teaches Women’s Studies\, Film Studies\, Writing\, and Literature. She received her doctorate in Literature from the University of Oregon. Her novel The Book of Joan is forthcoming from Harper\, as well as a book based on her recent TED Talk\, “The Misfit’s Manifesto.” She lives in Oregon with her husband Andy Mingo and their Renaissance man son\, Miles. She is a very good swimmer. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend the event\, but would like to request a signed copy of The Book of Joan\, please order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lidia-yuknavitch/
LOCATION:Tenderloin Museum\, 398 Eddy St\, San Francisco \, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rise: An Anthology of Power and Unity
DESCRIPTION:VAGABOND is very happy to announce the launch of our new publication\,\nRise (an anthology of Power and Unity) \nFeatured readers include: \n\nJack Hirschman\nDorothy “Dottie” Payne\nNina Serrano\nMahnaz Badihian\nKaren Melander-Magoon\nFred Dodsworth\nDee Allen\nTim Kahl\nIsaac J Torres\n\nHosts: Mark Lipman and Antonieta Villamil. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rise-an-anthology-of-power-and-unity/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="VAGABOND":MAILTO:editor@vagabondbooks.net
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170421T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170421T213000
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CREATED:20170323T002034Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170323T002034Z
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SUMMARY:Deb Olin Unferth
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Wait Till You See Me Dance \n“Deb Olin Unferth’s stories are so smart\, fast\, full of heart\, and distinctive in voice—each an intense little thought-system going out earnestly in search of strange new truths. What anmportant and exciting talent.”—George Saunders \n“Deb Olin Unferth’s stories are wild\, funny\, and wonderful.”—Geoff Dyer \n“This book is an astonishment—strange\, brainy\, and loaded with feeling. Deb Olin Unferth shows\, with brilliant force\, the startling vitality of the short story. She is a master.”—Ben Marcus \n\nAbout Wait Till You See Me Dance \nWait Till You See Me Dance consists of several extraordinary longer stories as well as a selection of intoxicating very short stories. In the chilling The First Full Thought of Her Life\, a shooter gets in position while a young girl climbs a sand dune. In Voltaire Night\, students compete to tell a story about the worst thing that ever happened to them. In Stay Where You Are\, two oblivious travelers in Central America are kidnapped by a gunman they assume to be an insurgent but the gunman has his own problems. \nAn Unferth story lures you in with a voice that seems amiable and lighthearted\, but it swerves in sudden and surprising ways that reveal\, in terrifying clarity\, the rage\, despair\, and profound mournfulness that have taken up residence at the heart of the American dream. These stories often take place in an exaggerated or heightened reality\, a quality that is reminiscent of the work of Donald Barthelme\, Lorrie Moore\, and George Saunders\, but in Unferth’s unforgettable collection she carves out territory that is entirely her own.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deb-olin-unferth/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170422T213000
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CREATED:20170425T012527Z
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry + Jazz Night
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir. Live jazz with Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. FREE admission\, all ages\, full menu and bar in the front room. Open Mic for poetry only – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night-2/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170422T143000
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CREATED:20170414T222404Z
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SUMMARY:Karen Kao: The Dancing Girl & The Turtle
DESCRIPTION:A rape. A war. A society where women are bought and sold but no one can speak of shame. Shanghai 1937. Violence throbs at the heart of this powerful new novel. \nThis elegant novel breaks barriers with its brutally honest account of the courtesan culture in 1930s Shanghai. In a searing portrayal of women as commodities\, Song Anyi\, a rebellious young woman\, is thwarted by her conventional family\, the social mores of the day and the war with the Japanese that is about to engulf China. \nThe Dancing Girl and the Turtle is one of four interlocking novels set in Shanghai from 1929 to 1954\, collectively entitled The Shanghai Quartet. \n*Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event \nWHAT: Book Talk and Signing with Author Karen Kao on The Dancing Girl & the Turtle\nWHEN: Saturday\, April 22\, 2017 from 1:00pm-2:30pm\nWHERE: The Chinese Historical Society of America\, 965 Clay St.\n*Light Refreshments will be provided. \nRSVP: On Eventbrite– tickets purchased for the event also include admission to the museum exhibit: Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion \n*$3 parking is available at the Golden Gateway Parking Garage (250 Clay Street) from 9am-10pm on weekends with validation stamp provided at the front desk of CHSA \nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nKaren Kao was born in Los Angeles\, California\, USA on 21 September 1959 to Chinese immigrants who settled in the United States in the 1950s. She attended Catholic primary school in Montebello and an all-girls secondary school\, Ramona Convent.\nKaren obtained her undergraduate degree in English from the University of California Irvine in 1981\, graduating with honors. This was the phase in her life when Karen crossed paths with Charles Wright (U.S. Poet Laureate 2014-2015)\, her teacher\, and Yusef Komunyakaa (Pulitzer Prize winning poet)\, her friend. \nRather than pursue her dream of writing\, Karen followed her father’s advice and enrolled at Georgetown University Law Center. She graduated in 1984\, again with honors\, and immediately began practicing law in the Washington\, DC office of a Boston-based law firm. She fell in love with a Dutchman and abandoned her career as a fledging US lawyer to move with him to Amsterdam in 1989.\nUnfazed by the new language\, culture and legal system\, Karen launched a second career. She returned to school to obtain her Dutch law degree from the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden\, while training on the job at a firm in Utrecht. Karen eventually became a partner and head of the corporate law department at an Amsterdam-based law firm. Her métier was cross-border mergers and acquisitions\, a field of law that requires hard-nosed negotiating skills and an ability to survive on very little sleep. \nIn 2011\, she abandoned the law\, embarking on a third career: a return to her love of writing and the stories she heard as a child of Old Shanghai. She has since taken fiction workshops from Lan Samantha Chang at the Paris Writers Workshop (2014) and Yiyun Li at the Napa Valley Writers Conference (2016).\nKaren holds dual citizenship in the United States and the Netherlands. She is married with two children and lives in Amsterdam.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-kao-the-dancing-girl-the-turtle/
LOCATION:Chinese Historical Society of America\, 965 Clay St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Chinese Historical Society of America":MAILTO:info@chsa.org
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CREATED:20170324T012152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T010858Z
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SUMMARY:Ellen Sussman: Creativity + Writing
DESCRIPTION:You’ve stalled out on your writing. Or perhaps everything you’ve written feels like a retelling of the same story. Maybe you’re tired of your literary voice. How do you find the kind of creative energy that will take your writing in a new direction? Guided by New York Times bestselling novelist Ellen Sussman (French Lessons)\, in this three-hour seminar the focus will be on pushing your writing in new directions. A stronger voice? Braver characters? More exciting drama? It may be time to break the rules in your writing. We’ll grapple with structure\, character\, style\, and plot. We’ll blast through the boundaries of how we usually do things and explore new paths.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ellen-sussman-creativity-and-writing/
LOCATION:San Francisco Mechanics’ Institute\, 57 Post Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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CREATED:20170414T222707Z
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SUMMARY:Gala celebrating 35 years of SF Shakespeare Festival
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the Crystal Ballroom of the Marines’ Memorial Club on April 22 to celebrate 35 years of the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival! Festivities inlcude passed hors d’oeuvres\, Freemark Abbey wine tasting\, 3-course dinner\, live and silent auction and more. Black tie optional\, dramatic accessories encouraged. \nEvery dollar raised will support San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of ‘Hamlet’ and its vital arts-education programs.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gala-celebrating-35-years-of-sf-shakespeare-festival/
LOCATION:Marines’ Memorial Club\, 609 Sutter St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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CREATED:20170414T222005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170422T011716Z
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SUMMARY:Kanishk Tharoor w/ Aaron Bady)
DESCRIPTION:Kanishk Tharoor discusses his new story collection\, Swimmer Among the Stars\, with Aaron Bady. \nPraise for Swimmer Among the Stars \n“Like the storytellers of old\, as well as the art’s 20th century masters\, Kanishk Tharoor brings together times past and our present day in his dazzling fables where the exotic and the mundane\, the lost and the hoped for\, are woven into images that remind the reader that it is through sharing stories\, and maybe stories alone\, that civilizations and their subjects come together in surviving whatever tasks history sets for them.” —Sjón \n“These stories gleam with the light of an authentic and wholly original imagination\, beautifully crafted and in possession of an untamed\, almost feral sense of creativity. With Borgesian intelligence and great tenderness of heart\, Tharoor reminds us how vital it is to tell stories\, and how urgently we need to consume them.” —Alexandra Kleeman\, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine \n“It’s been years since I’ve encountered a collection as beguiling as Swimmer Among the Stars. Kanishk Tharoor seems to have sprung onto the scene fully formed\, possessed of his own mischievous and erudite voice\, already at the full height of his powers. Literary debuts are often described as ‘promising’; here are stories that read like promises fulfilled.” —John Wray\, author of The Lost Time Accidents \nAbout Swimmer Among the Stars \nIn one of the singularly imaginative stories from Kanishk Tharoor’s Swimmer Among the Stars\, despondent diplomats entertain themselves by playing table tennis in zero gravity—for after rising seas destroy Manhattan\, the United Nations moves to an orbiting space hotel. In other tales\, a team of anthropologists treks to a remote village to record a language’s last surviving speaker intoning her native tongue; an elephant and his driver cross the ocean to meet the whims of a Moroccan princess; and Genghis Khan’s marauding army steadily approaches an unnamed city’s walls. \nWith exuberant originality and startling vision\, Tharoor cuts against the grain of literary convention\, drawing equally from ancient history and current events. His world-spanning stories speak to contemporary challenges of environmental collapse and cultural appropriation\, but also to the workings of legend and their timeless human truths. Whether refashioning the romances of Alexander the Great or confronting the plight of today’s refugees\, Tharoor writes with distinctive insight and remarkable assurance. Swimmer Among the Stars announces the arrival of a vital\, enchanting talent. \nMore info on our site: http://www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-kanishk-tharoor-and-aaron-bady
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kanishk-tharoor-swimmer-among-the-stars-waaron-bady/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170424T200000
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CREATED:20170414T221609Z
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SUMMARY:The Racket #6: Drugz
DESCRIPTION:The Racket #6: DRUGZ is coming to Adobe Books\, on Monday\, April 24th at 7:00PM. \nWe’re gathering some fantastic writers to share their thoughts on\, well\, drugs. Be it psychedelic horseback riding or deep dives into the world of illicit pharmies\, we’re going to hear it. \nOur readers: \nPhilip Harris\nKar A. Johnson\nJoe Wadlington\nMatt Carney\nIngrid Rojas Contreras \nAnd more to come. \nJust write\, “Drugz” on your oversized wall-calendar for the 24th of April. \nWe’ll see you there.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-6-drugz/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170201T043341Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170201T043341Z
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SUMMARY:Kristen Radtke
DESCRIPTION:Susan Steinberg talks with Kristen Radtke about her debut graphic novel\, Imagine Wanting Only This. \n\nPraise for Kristen Radtke: \n\n“Kristen Radtke’s Imagine Wanting Only This doesn’t tell a single story but a chorus of histories\, personal and familial and historical\, and invents its own marvelous language for their telling—a language forged from interior thought and visual imagination\, bringing together words and illustration in continually surprising and moving ways. The voice in these pages is eloquent in so many ways at once\, like a shape that exists in three dimensions rather than two\, and it’s utterly singular: visually alive\, attentive to details\, self-questioning and tender as it surveys variously haunted terrains of heart and landscape. Radtke’s world is so immersive\, and so sensitively conjured\, that once I entered the sketched chamber of her pages\, I didn’t want to leave again—or even pause for breath—until I reached the end.”\n—Leslie Jamison\, author of The Empathy Exams \n\n“Riveting and glorious. A book of sorrow filtered through intellect. In Kristen Radtke’s hands\, nonfiction becomes poetry. A tremendous achievement.”\n—Tom Hart\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rosalie Lightning \n\n“Cities\, ambitions\, romances\, and bodies come to ruin before our eyes\, as Kristen Radtke invites us\, in her beautifully understated way\, to be disturbed\, fascinated\, and yes\, even attracted to that ruin. A remarkable bildungsroman!”\n—Eula Biss\, author of On Immunity \n\n“Kristen Radtke leads us through a bleak and beautifully crafted story of heart and heartbreak—creation\, connection\, decay\, and loss. Imagine Wanting Only This is challenging and inspiring.”\n—Ellen Forney\, New York Times bestselling author of Marbles \n\n\nAbout Imagine Wanting Only This: \n\nA gorgeous graphic memoir about loss\, love\, and confronting grief.\nWhen Kristen Radtke was in college\, the sudden death of a beloved uncle and the sight of an abandoned mining town after his funeral marked the beginning moments of a lifelong fascination with ruins and with people and places left behind. Over time\, this fascination deepened until it triggered a journey around the world in search of ruined places. Now\, in this genre-smashing graphic memoir\, she leads us through deserted cities in the American Midwest\, an Icelandic town buried in volcanic ash\, islands in the Philippines\, New York City\, and the delicate passageways of the human heart. Along the way\, we learn about her family and a rare genetic heart disease that has been passed down through generations\, and revisit tragic events in America’s past. A narrative that is at once narrative and factual\, historical and personal\, Radtke’s stunning illustrations and piercing text never shy away from the big questions: Why are we here\, and what will we leave behind?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kristen-radtke/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170118T061950Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170118T061950Z
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SUMMARY:Oakland Noir
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Eddie Muller & Jerry Thompson \nwith Kim Addonizio\, Nick Petrulakis\, Jamie DeWolf\, Joe Loya \nA celebration of a new crime fiction anthology from Akashic Books \nOakland Noir \n\n\nCalifornia’s noir quotient continues to rise with Oakland Noir\, which reveals all the dark complexities of this prominent city. Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies\, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. \nBrand-new stories by: Nick Petrulakis\, Kim Addonizio\, Keenan Norris\, Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder\, Katie Gilmartin\, Dorothy Lazard\, Harry Louis Williams II\, Carolyn Alexander\, Phil Canalin\, Judy Juanita\, Jamie DeWolf\, Nayomi Munaweera\, Mahmud Rahman\, Tom McElravey\, Joe Loya\, and Eddie Muller. \nIn the wake of San Francisco Noir\, Los Angeles Noir\, and Orange County Noir—all popular volumes in the Akashic Noir Series—comes the latest California installment\, Oakland Noir. Masterfully curated by Jerry Thompson and Eddie Muller (the “Czar of Noir”)\, this volume will shock\, titillate\, provoke\, and entertain. The diverse cast of talented contributors will not disappoint. \nJERRY THOMPSON is an accomplished violinist\, playwright\, and poet. He is the coauthor of Black Artists in Oakland\, and owned Black Spring Books\, an independent bookstore. \nEDDIE MULLER\, a.k.a. the “Czar of Noir\,” has been nominated for several Edgar and Anthony awards\, and his novel The Distance won a Shamus Award. He produces the San Francisco Noir City Film Festival\, the largest annual film noir retrospective in the world\, and is a frequent host on Turner Classic Movies.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-noir/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170425T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170425T200000
DTSTAMP:20260510T142344
CREATED:20170118T062208Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170118T062208Z
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SUMMARY:Andres Barba + Yiyun Li
DESCRIPTION:Andres Barba discusses his new novel\, Such Small Hands\, with Yiyun Li\, followed by a party sponsored by Transit Books. \n\nPraise for Andres Barba \n\nEvery once in a while a novel does not record reality but creates a whole new reality\, one that casts a light on our darkest feelings. Kafka did that. Bruno Schulz did that. Now the Spanish writer Andrés Barba has done it with the terrifying Such Small Hands.—Edmund White \n\nBarba explores what the dynamics of an orphanage reveal about any insular community and the trials of its inevitable outcast.—Idra Novey\, author of Ways to Disappear \n\nAndrés Barba needs no advice. He has already created a world that is perfectly realized and has a craft that is inappropriate for a writer of his age.—Mario Vargas Llosa \n\nAbout Such Small Hands \n\nShirley Jackson meets The Virgin Suicides\, set at an all-girls orphanage. It was once a happy city; we were once happy girls. . . . Life changes at the orphanage the day Marina shows up. As she tries to find her place\, she creates a game whose rules are dictated by a haunting violence. In hypnotic\, lyrical prose\, Andrés Barba evokes the pain of loss and the hunger for acceptance—a masterwork from the Spanish writer at the peak of his powers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andres-barba-yiyun-li/
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:Anselm Berrigan + Hoa Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is delighted to host local literary nonprofit Small Press Traffic as they present two superb visiting poets\, Anselm Berrigan and Hoa Nguyen. Please join us! \nSmall  Press Traffic hosts poets Anselm Berrigan and Hoa Nguyen as part of its longtime reading series. Since 1974 Small Press Traffic (SPT) has been at the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area innovative writing scene\, bringing together authors\, readers\, educators\, small presses\, and community members through talks\, readings\, workshops\, and performances. Its mission is to provide a local and national platform for experimental writing\, foregrounding underserved writers and those who identify as women\, people of color\, and/or from the LGBTQI community. \nHoa Nguyen is the author of eight poetry books and chapbooks. She lives in Toronto\, Ontario where she teaches poetics at Ryerson University and curates a reading series. \nAnselm Berrigan‘s recent books of poetry include Come In Alone (Wave\, 2016) and Primitive State (Edge\, 2015). A chapbook\, Degrets\, is forthcoming from Couch Press. He is the poetry editor for The Brooklyn Rail\, and also editor of the just-about-released What Is Poetry? (Just kidding\, I know you know): Selected Interviews from the Poetry Project Newsletter\, 1983-2009. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend the event\, but would like to request a signed copy of any of our featured authors’ works\, please order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anselm-berrigan-hoa-nguyen/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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