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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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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
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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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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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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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SUMMARY:Uche Nduka at City Lights Books
DESCRIPTION:Facing You (City Lights Spotlight Series No. 19 \npublished by City Lights Books \n\nFrom acclaimed Nigeria-born\, Brooklyn-based poet Uche Nduka\, a book of love poems written with compact elegance and vivid eroticism. \n“The real in Nduka’s work carries the resonance not only of his Nigerian identity and experience of political violence but also the dislocation of the émigré and the frightening power relations of intimacy as mapped onto the lyric.”—Joyelle McSweeney\, Boston Review \nFacing You is a collection of love lyrics\, as well as an exploration of what goes into making the public and private self\, from acclaimed Nigerian American poet Uche Nduka. Passionate and erotic\, Facing You nonetheless resists being hermetically sealed within the relationship\, and is subject to the intrusions of “the dubious world”: war\, exile\, protest\, and police violence intrude but cannot defeat Nduka’s expressions of desire\, where reality and surreality are one. “These poems were written openly and freely about my vision and experience\,” he writes\, “crossing the wires of sex and prophecy.” \n\nUche Nduka is an itinerant poet and professor living in Brooklyn. He was born in Nigeria\, was raised bilingual in Igbo and English\, and earned his BA from the University of Nigeria. He left Nigeria in 1994 and settled in Germany after winning a fellowship from the Goethe Institute. In 2007\, he immigrated to the United States\, where he would earn his MFA from Long Island University\, Brooklyn. Nduka is the author of numerous collections of poetry and prose\, including the U.S.-published books Living in Public (2018)\, Nine East (2013)\, Ijele (2012)\, and eel on reef (2007). His work has been translated into German\, Finnish\, Italian\, Dutch\, and Romanian.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/uche-nduka-at-city-lights-books/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bawdy's Post-Pride Parade Phenom!
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, June 28th\, 2020 \nat the Verdi Club \n2424 Mariposa\, San Francisco\, CA \nRemember: Bang-O at 7:00 PM\, Stories at 8:00 PM \nWant a sample of Bawdy? \nListen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at \nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis Evening of Stories\, Songs & Sex Toys features: \n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour \n❤ Legendary Author/Speaker/Kinkster Race Bannon \n❤ Songs by Bawdy’s brilliant cohort\, Jefferson Bergey \n❤ Pitch your story to Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com \n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for making new friends \n❤ Bang-O Grand Prizes from Good Vibrations \n❤ Bawdy’s new merchandise\, FINALLY #BawdyGotMeLaid \n❤ Reserved Seating puts you right up front \n❤ Custom Bawdy Cocktails to help you get your flirt on #CBT #UnicornsButthole #EthicalSlut \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nFor Millions of Years\, Sexual Folklorist & Podcast host Dixie De La Tour has brought the Nation’s Perverrati together & onto the Bawdy Storytelling stage to tell their own infamously true tales of lust\, love\, kinky collisions\, gender redefinition\, sexual identity\, life-changing hook-ups\, educational one-night stands & everything in between. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThe Original Sex + Storytelling series\, featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits\, Live Onstage \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nAnd we know you’re on FetLife\, ya pervert. Join the Bawdy Storytelling group there! \nhttps://fetlife.com/groups/46341 \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nPerformer Bios: \n❤ Dixie De La Tour is a sexual folklorist\, professional storyteller\, podcaster\, teacher\, coach\, community builder and most of all\, a facilitator. She is also the Founder\, Curator & Host of the Award-winning and NSFW storytelling series\, Bawdy Storytelling (“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly\, “The Original Sex and Storytelling series” – Playgirl) that’s been lauded for its transformational\, relatable\, empowering performances. This live stage series is currently headed into its 13th year\, the groundbreaking Bawdy Storytelling podcast has had over 1.5 million downloads\, plus it’s been acknowledged as a ‘Best Of’ Sex podcast from Forbes\, GQ Magazine\, Marie Claire\, Uproxx\, Daily Mail UK\, Bustle and (twice!) by Esquire Magazine. \nDixie has been Sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (“Saint Kiss & Make You Tell”) for her work to reduce stigma and eliminate shame\, and she recently became a Muppet. Discover more about Dixie De La Tour and Bawdy Storytelling at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling\, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/bawdystorytelling on Twitter at @Bawdy and always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com \nIn addition to story and public speaking coaching for her own series\, Dixie coaches for TEDx\, Women in Technology\, offers custom Brand Storytelling coaching\, has led storytelling events in Libraries\, teaches Storytelling for the Classroom and has been a featured teller for the National Storytelling Conference. Ultimately\, this story-loving southerner is passionate about storytelling’s ability to keep people safe\, reduce social anxiety and connect us with strangers. Stories help you find your people! \n❤ Kinky sex has been one of Race Bannon’s passions as a practitioner\, organizer\, writer\, educator\, commentator\, activist and leader since his first explorations of the leather world starting in 1973. Race’s accomplishments include co-founder of the Kink Aware Professionals referral service; leader of The DSM Project that began to change how psychotherapy professionals view kink; author of the bestselling Learning The Ropes: A Basic Guide to Safe and Fun BDSM Lovemaking; founder of Daedalus Publishing Company\, the first company dedicated to publishing nonfiction leather/SM/fetish books; prolific writer; former sex advice columnist; former producer and host of the first kink internet talk show Bound To Talk; past Board member of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom\, Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities\, NLA International and Avatar Club Los Angeles; co-founder of NLA Los Angeles; and member of Chicago Hellfire Club\, The 15 Association\, and Society of Janus. Race is currently on the Board of the Leather Hall of Fame. Recently Race was inducted into the Society of Janus Hall of Fame. He is featured in the documentaries Vice and Consent\, Out of the Darkness: The Reality of S&M and Folsom Forever\, was a BDSM consultant for the movie Exit to Eden\, and is currently an Executive Producer for Divine Deviance\, an upcoming documentary about the global kink/BDSM/fetish scene. Race is also a popular speaker who has delivered the keynote address for a number of events. He has been awarded the 2006 National Leather Association International’s Lifetime Achievement Award\, 2010 Mister Marcus Hernandez Lifetime Achievement Award (Man) Pantheon of Leather Community Service Award\, the 2011 Philip M. Turner Lifetime Achievement Award\, the 2013 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change Leather Leadership Award\, 2014 San Francisco Bay Area Leather Alliance Co-Man of the Year (tie)\, and the 2016 NorCal/Northwest Regional Pantheon of Leather Award. You can read some of Race’s writings at www.bannon.com or www.racebannon.com or in the Bay Area Reporter (ebar.com) where he is the leather/kink columnist. \n❤ Straddling the line between sentimental and sleazy\, Jefferson Bergey blends gritty\, soulful pop with elements of folk\, blues\, and country with a penchant for the ridiculous in his original compositions. \nThe Oakland based singer-songwriter performs his family-unfriendly music all over the Bay Area. He’s a frequent contributor\, writing custom songs for the award-winning\, San Francisco based\, Bawdy Storytelling. As a solo acoustic act\, Bergey’s sound is akin to folky musical theater in a coffee shop…if the coffee shop also sold sex toys and sativa gummy bears. His polite vulgarity may not be for the very young and impressionable or the very old and conservative but he won’t tell you how to raise your kids or upset your grandparents. \nHe can be seen and heckled every Monday night at his Risqué residency at Scopo Divino in San Francisco. For well over two years straight\, he’s put on a unique and interactive show where he plays original music and cover songs suggested by those in attendance who haven’t already left in disgust. \nBergey’s music can be heard on the RISK! and Bawdy Storytelling podcasts. He has performed at The Independent\, Sweetwater\, Great American Music Hall\, Jewish Community Center in SF\, John Steinbeck Association\, Special Olympics in Long Beach\, Punchline SF\, and SF Sketchfest. \nHis newest EP titled ‘Always Up (To Go Down)’ was originally written for Bawdy Storytelling and is flanked by a few of his ‘inter-lewds’\, now fleshed out with piano\, bass\, and pedal steel. It also features the talents of Natalie Smith (Cape Weather) on vocals. \nwww.jeffersonbergey.com \nhttps://www.patreon.com/jeffersonbergey \nhttps://www.facebook.com/jefferson.bergey \nhttps://www.instagram.com/jeffersonbergey \n• No Refunds or Exchanges \n• Lineup Subject to Change \n• ASL Interpretation available with prior written notice. Contact BawdyStorytelling@gmail.com for more information \n• General Admission seating is first come\, first served. We recommend you arrive when doors open for best seating (Reserved Seating guarantees you a seat right up front) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & the LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com \nTwitter: @Bawdy \n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdys-post-pride-parade-phenom/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's 'Packs a Wallop' Livestream - 8/1
DESCRIPTION:Live. Virtual. Now\, Bawdy is available wherever *you* are! \nHappening on Zoom on Saturday\, August 1st at 7 PM PST/9 PM CST/10 PM EST \nWanna know what time that is for You? \nhttps://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/ \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Best Erotic Podcast for 2020” – Oprah Magazine \nhttps://bit.ly/BawdyOprahBestOf2020 \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis evening of Stories\, Songs & B*ttplugs includes: \n• Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour \n• ‘Edge Play’ author Jane Boon \n• Erotic Activist Victor Warring \n• Second Gen Sex-Positive Revolutionary Jessica Cohen \n• FemDom audio dramatist Ms Natasha Strange \n• Clever songs by musical genius Shirley Gnome \n• Join the #ButtplugClub – our EXHIBITIONIST ticket sales end Monday\, July 27th (because shipping) \n• Try our new VOYEUR ticket for behind the scenes access\, enhanced chat & more (available till showtime) \n• Sponsored by the best lube out there: Uberlube! \n• Prizes include Quarantine Fashion from Dirty Masks \n• Sexy Bath Prizes from Hip Modern Soap Co. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nForbes Magazine calls Bawdy Storytelling the Best: \nhttp://bit.ly/BawdyForbes \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nSPECIAL: \nExhibitionists\, Join the #ButtplugClub by this Sunday night (July 27th) & you’ll receive: a hefty custom Bawdy buttplug\, black velvet Buttplug cozy\, Bawdy button\, our new sticker\, a FULL SIZE bottle of Uberlube – and you’ll be part of the show as a Panelist! #Exhibitionist \nor \nBuy the Voyeur ticket at get behind-the-scenes access & enhanced chat capabilities (to slide into those DMs) Every Exhibitionist needs a Voyeur! \nHave you always wished that you could be there for a live Bawdy Storytelling? Well\, now you can. Announcing the new Bawdy 2.0! The Online version of our Bawdy Storytelling live show. Finally\, an upside to this whole Global Pandemic thing: you can be part of Bawdy Storytelling LIVE\, as it happens\, and since a Livestream participant can be anywhere\, we’ll feature storytellers from all over the world telling their story. Maybe one of ‘em will be You! \nHow it works: Dixie will host 4 Infamous Adventurers as they share their true tales of Sex\, Kink or Gender – plus\, this time we’ll have original – & Bawdy! – music by the talented Shirley Gnome. \nWe’re hosting this show via Zoom.us and the webinar room has a limited capacity. Our first Livestream’ed Bawdy Storytelling Sold Out really fast\, so make sure you grab your tickets right away – cause we want you there! Finally\, where you live is irrelevant! I’ve often dreamed that every city could have a Bawdy\, and now the whole WORLD can tell their story (and you can hear it\, too). \nWe’re offering tiered ticket pricing for this online event: \n• The Pandemic Price Ticket \n• The General/Solo Ticket \n• The Household/Group Ticket \n• The Voyeur Ticket \n• The Exhibitionist Ticket \nPlease spread the word to all your friends around the world who might want to come\, and tell em Bawdy is now a Livestream! It’s virtual\, which means that you can be part of Bawdy\, no matter where you are! Post the info on social media\, & email this link to friends. We need your help to get the word out about this new version of Bawdy! \nPerformer Bios: \n• Dixie De La Tour is a sexual folklorist\, professional storyteller\, podcaster\, teacher\, coach\, community builder and most of all\, a facilitator. She is also the Founder\, Curator & Host of the Award-winning storytelling series\, Bawdy Storytelling (“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly\, “The Original Sex and Storytelling series” – Playgirl) that’s been lauded for its transformational\, relatable\, empowering performances. Dixie has recently been a featured storyteller for the National Storytelling Conference\, and in addition to story and public speaking coaching for her own series\, she coaches individuals for events such as TEDx\, Women in Technology\, and hosts and coaches events for Classrooms\, Kink Conferences and Public Libraries. \nThis Bawdy Storytelling live stage series is 13 years strong\, the Bawdy Storytelling podcast has over 450 5 star reviews – plus it’s been labeled a ‘Best Of’ Sex podcast from Forbes\, GQ Magazine\, Marie Claire\, Uproxx\, Daily Mail UK\, Women’s Health\, Bustle\, Cosmo and (twice!) by Esquire Magazine. \nUltimately\, this story-loving southerner is passionate about storytelling’s ability to keep people safe\, reduce social anxiety and connect us with strangers. Dixie has also been Sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (“Saint Kiss & Make You Tell”) for her work to reduce stigma and eliminate shame\, and she recently became a Muppet. Discover more about Dixie De La Tour and Bawdy Storytelling at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling\, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/bawdystorytelling/ on Twitter at @Bawdy and always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com Remember\, Stories help you find your people! \n• Jane Boon lives in New York City and Los Angeles with her husband\, Norm Pearlstine. She studied technology and policy at MIT and later received a Ph.D. in industrial engineering. Jane has written for publications like The Wall Street Journal\, Bloomberg Businessweek\, Time.com\, McSweeneys.net\, and TravelandLeisure.com. Jane enjoys improv and playing dress up\, including the time she wore a corset\, garters and thigh-high stockings as a dominatrix in the Fox TV series\, Gotham. EDGE PLAY is her first novel. \nLinks to where EDGE PLAY is sold: \nhttps://www.amazon.com/Edge-Play-Jane-Boon-ebook/dp/B088FY7YRB/. & \nhttps://bookshop.org/books/edge-play/9781682451328 \n• Natasha Strange has been a professional dominatrix for 25 years\, specializing in creative sadistic escapism. Offering sessions in a wide variety of disciplines\, she has cultivated a deep understanding of what draws people to kink. She believes that most people who indulge in kink and BDSM are searching to fulfill emotional needs. As a dominant she uses those emotional goals as a guide when addressing physical desires. \nWhen not tormenting her adoring submissives\, she is a BDSM coach and kink educator helping destigmatize non-standard sexual desires. She is the author of a BDSM primer for adults who are curious about kink called Kinky Sex Tips for Curious Girls: A BDSM Activity Book for Beginners. It’s full of color pages\, geeky puns\, fun activities\, puzzles and solid information about kink\, consent and communication. \nShe is also the co-owner of Sub Rosa\, a boutique BDSM play and education space located in Portland Oregon. \n• Victor Warring is a Somatic Sexuality Educator\, a Sexuality & Relationship Coach and an Erotic Activist. He is also an antiracism/racial equity community educator. He has a background in somatic psychotherapy\, cultural anthropology\, theatre and movement improvisation including Playback Theatre\, improvisational storytelling. \nVictor values the power of storytelling as a leveler of human experience. It is our primary form of community gathering and ritual connection since the days of our hunter gatherer forebears sitting around yellow fire light deep into the night. \nVictor currently lives and practices in Ashland\, OR. \n• Jessica Cohen says: Growing up in the Bay Area\, I’ve had plenty of opportunity to hear and tell some stories. Along the way I got a BA in Art. I’ve had a wide range of jobs in my time\, Nanny\, Salesperson\, Barista\, Fortuneteller\, Comic Con Celebrity Wrangler\, currently I am working as a Freelance Illustrator. I’m an avid reader\, gamer and a frequent writer. I am a collector of stories and a weaver of lore for my Wasteland and D&D communities. I have performed for Bawdy Storytelling 3 times and I once had the honor of being nominated for Best of Bawdy. \nArt: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BurningGroundGraphix \nTarot: http://www.tarotofthewaste.com/ \nWebsite: http://www.jessicatcohen.com/ \n• From the west coast of Canada comes the multi-award winning cabaret musician\, Shirley Gnome\, whose all-original\, uncensored music about human nature is hilarious\, honest\, subversive\, smart\, empowering\, taboo and not for the faint of heart. Her cleverly carnal lyrics go down smooth with her inappropriately gorgeous vocals\, and her charm will disarm you through even the most provocative topics. Her outlandish cover songs transform top 40 hits into dark social satire. \nAfter a surprise win of Patrick Maliha’s The People’s Champ of Comedy in 2012\, Gnome began working her charms in comedy clubs\, music venues\, and burlesque festivals across Canada. Gnome’s underground cult status got an international upgrade when she hit the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2013\, receiving rave reviews. She continued this success by touring internationally\, wowing audiences and critics alike with sell out shows across Canada\, the US\, Australia\, and New Zealand. She closed out the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s all-woman showcase UpFront in 2017. Her party anthem The Glitter Song went viral that same year\, stacking up over half a million views. \nShe signed with 604 Records\, and her 4th album Taking It Up The Notch debuted at #1 on the iTunes comedy charts in Canada when it debuted in 2017. In 2020\, her follow up release with 604 Records (Comedy Here Often?)\, Decoxification\, also went to number #1. She has released five full-length albums since her debut in 2009\, which you can hear frequently on SiriusXM stations all over North America. You may have also heard her on Dan Savage’s chart topping podcast The Savage Lovecast. \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com \nListen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at http://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \nOn Twitter: @Bawdy \nOn Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bawdystorytelling/ \nOn Facebook at www.Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling \nSupport us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/Bawdy \nWatch us on YouTube at http://bit.ly/BawdyTV \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Original Sex + Storytelling series\, featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits\, Live Onstage” – Playgirl \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Best Erotic Podcast for 2020” – Oprah Magazine \nhttps://bit.ly/BawdyOprahBestOf2020 \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nForbes Magazine calls Bawdy Storytelling the Best: \nhttp://bit.ly/BawdyForbes \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n1 of Esquire’s 10 Best Sex Podcasts\, no matter your taste: \nhttp://bit.ly/BawdyBestOfEsquire (for 2018\, 2019 – & 2020!) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n1 of GQ Magazine’s Best Sex Podcasts (to make you Better in Bed): \nhttps://www.gq.com/story/best-sex-podcasts \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n#1 on Marie Claire’s 14 Best Sex Podcasts: \nhttps://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/news/a21284/best-sex-podcasts/ \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n1 of Uproxx’s 10 Best Sex Podcasts to listen to right now: \nhttps://uproxx.com/life/best-sex-podcasts-right-now/ \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nBuzzfeed says Bawdy Storytelling is a Sex & Relationship podcast you should be listening to: \nhttp://bit.ly/BawdyBuzzfeed \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nHustler Magazine says “Dixie De La Tour is elevating \ndirty talk to an art form…” ow.ly/Laab50wC0KH \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nBustle says Bawdy Storytelling is a “Sexy Date Idea for a Long Term Relationship” \nhttps://www.bustle.com/p/9-sexy-date-ideas-for-long-term-relationships-8624566 \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of Best Storytelling Show (SFist.com)\, Best Storytelling Show (SF Weekly)\, Best Storytelling Show (LA Weekly) & 2-Time Best Literary Event (SF Bay Guardian) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-packs-a-wallop-livestream-8-1/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200813T133000
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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-2/
LOCATION:The Ruby\, 23rd and bryant street\, san francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200901T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200901T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Eula Biss
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tueday\, September 1 at 6pm for the launch of bestselling author Eula Biss’ new book\, Having and Being Had on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84064965260 \nWebinar ID: 840 6496 5260 \nPraise for Having and Being Had \n“A major achievement. Having and Being Had\, rather than leading through narrative\, turns individual words and phrases\, like capitalism\, consumers\, great America\, husbandry\, art\, and work\, into fields of inquiry in order to frame a life. With astute consideration\, this expansive and intimate accumulation asks the questions that touch all our lives.” —Claudia Rankine \n“Eula Biss’s prescient new book gave me new language for things I didn’t know I felt about money\, capitalism\, and my place inside of an economy that always requires so much of me and gives back so little. A brilliant\, lacerating re-examination of our relationship to what we own and why\, and who in turn might own us in ways we didn’t know we consented to—what could be more necessary now?” —Alexander Chee \nAbout Having and Being Had \nA timely and arresting new look at affluence by the New York Times bestselling author of On Immunity and Notes from No Man’s Land \n“My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts\,” Eula Biss writes\, “the time before I owned a washing machine and the time after.” Having just purchased her first home\, the poet and essayist now embarks on a provocative exploration of the value system she has bought into. Through a series of engaging exchanges—in libraries and laundromats\, over barstools and backyard fences—Having and Being Had examines our assumptions about class and property and the ways we internalize the demands of capitalism. Described by The New York Times as a writer who “advances from all sides\, like a chess player\,” Biss offers an uncommonly immersive and deeply revealing new portrait of work and luxury\, of accumulation and consumption\, of the value of time and how we spend it. Ranging from IKEA to Beyoncé to Pokemon\, Biss asks\, of both herself and her class\, “In what have we invested?”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-eula-biss-2/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200903T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200903T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Carole Stivers and John Markoff
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, September 3 at 6:00pm PST when Carole Stivers discusses her debut novel\, The Mother Code\, with John Markoff on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81537772295 \nWebinar ID: 815 3777 2295 \nPraise for The Mother Code \n“Carole Stivers is far from the first to wonder if motherhood can be scientifically replicated\, but this is a thoughtful and thought-provoking addition to that meditation. An end-of-times tale that focuses less on what has been lost and more on what and who might be saved (and how). Stivers’ wonderful story settles right on the line between human and machine\, as blame and threat and rescue and love shift from character to character in surprising and powerful ways.”—Karen Joy Fowler\, New York Times bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves \nAbout The Mother Code \nIn this mind-bending debut novel\, Carole Stivers explores what it means to be a mother in a world that is more chilling and precarious than ever. \nIt is 2049. When a U.S. attempt at stealth biowarfare goes awry\, a team of scientists is engaged to ensure human survival on earth. Their best efforts fail\, and they must turn to their last resort: a plan to place genetically engineered children inside the cocoons of large-scale robots—to be incubated\, birthed\, and raised by these machines\, which have been programmed with the latest advances in artificial intelligence: the Mother Code. \nKai is born in America’s desert Southwest\, his only companion his robotic Mother\, Rho-Z. Equipped with the knowledge and intuition of a human mother\, Rho-Z raises Kai and teaches him how to survive. As children like him come of age\, their Mothers transform too—in ways that were never predicted. When government survivors decide that the machines who raised the children must be destroyed\, Kai must fight to save the only parent he has ever known.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-carole-stivers-and-john-markoff-2/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200904T180000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Henri Cole and Forrest Gander
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, September 4th at 6pm PST when Henri Cole is joined by Forrest Gander to read from and discuss his latest collection of poetry\, Blizzard\, on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82199696731 \nWebinar ID: 821 9969 6731 \nAbout Blizzard \nA powerful new collection by an award-winning poet. \nDaring\, tender\, truthful\, the poems in Blizzard\, Henri Cole’s tenth book\, build on a reputation for quiet mastery. Whether he is wrestling with the mundane\, history and its disasters\, or sexual love\, he can sound both classical and contemporary\, with the modern austerity of Constantine Cavafy and Elizabeth Bishop. Often exploring the darker places of the heart\, his sonnets do not lie down obediently but spark with an honest self-awareness. \nCole’s lucid\, empathetic poems—with lyrical beauty and ethical depth—seem to transmute the anxious perplexities of our time. \nAbout Henri Cole \nHenri Cole was born in Fukuoka\, Japan\, in 1956. He has published nine previous collections of poetry and received many awards for his work\, including the Jackson Poetry Prize\, the Kingsley Tufts Award\, the Rome Prize\, the Berlin Prize\, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize\, and the Award of Merit Medal in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent book is Orphic Paris\, a memoir. He teaches at Claremont McKenna College \nAbout Forrest Gander \nForrest Gander was born in the Mojave Desert and grew up in Virginia. In addition to writing poetry\, he has translated works by Coral Bracho\, Alfonso D’Aquino\, Pura Lopez-Colome\, Pablo Neruda\, and Jaime Saenz. The recipient of grants from the Library of Congress\, the Guggenheim\, Howard\, Whiting\, and United States Artists Foundations\, he taught for many years as the AK Seaver Professor of Literary Arts & Comparative Literature at Brown University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-henri-cole-and-forrest-gander-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Greg Mania and Sam Lansky
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, September 8 at 6pm PST when Greg Mania discusses his new memoir\, Born to Be Public\, with Sam Lansky on Zoom. \nZoom Login Info \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86579834543 \nWebinar ID: 865 7983 4543 \nAbout Born to Be Public \nPraise for Born to Be Public \n“Comedic gold.” – O\, The Oprah Magazine \n“Greg Mania is the Cheesecake Factory of writers\, and I say that with the utmost reverence: extravagant\, unapologetic\, hilarious\, and fucking good.” – Lindy West\, author of Shrill and The Witches Are Coming \n“This book is a hilarious wonder. Not only does it prove that Greg Mania was\, indeed\, born to be a public (and beloved) icon\, but also that he was born to be a celebrated writer. It’s sheer delight.” – Alissa Nutting\, author of Tampa and Made for Love \nAbout Born to Be Public \nIn this unique and hilarious debut memoir\, writer and comedian Greg Mania chronicles life as a “pariah prodigy.” From inadvertently coming out to his Polish immigrant parents\, to immersing himself in the world of New York City nightlife\, and finding himself and his voice in comedy. Born to Be Public is a vulnerable and poignant exploration of identity (and the rediscovery of it)\, mental health\, sex and relationships\, all while pursuing a passion with victories and tragicomic blunders. At once raw and relatable\, Mania’s one-of-a-kind voice will make you shed tears from laughter and find its way into your heart. \nAbout the Author \nGreg Mania is a writer\, comedian\, and award-winning screenwriter based in New York City. His words have been published in Vanity Fair\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\, PAPER\, Out\, BOMB\, The Millions\, Electric Literature\, The Rumpus\, HuffPost\, among other international online and print platforms. His debut memoir\, Born to Be Public\, will be published by CLASH Books this summer. \nIn film and TV\, he has recently co-wrote and co-produced his first feature-length film\, Deadman’s Barstool\, which is currently available to stream on Amazon Prime Video. His pilot script\, MANIA\, has just won the Grand Prize of the Fourth Annual Stage 32 Comedy Writing Contest. He has also been named the Overall Winner of the Third Annual Filmmatic Screenplay Awards and Second Place Winner at WILLiFEST\, was nominated for Best Script at the Ninth Annual New Media Film Festival in Los Angeles and the Palm Springs International Comedy Festival\, and\, as of writing this\, has also been named an official selection in comedy festivals and competitions in Austin\, Portland\, and Atlanta. \nPlease don’t let all these fancy awards and nominations fool you\, he’s still on a family plan.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-greg-mania-and-sam-lansky-2/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200910T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200910T180000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Sophie Yanow and Suzy Exposito
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, September 10 at 5pm PDT when Sophie Yanow launches her new graphic novel\, The Contradictions\, with Suzy Exposito on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82968999585 \nWebinar ID: 829 6899 9585 \nPraise for The Contradictions \n“Yanow is an author/illustrator to watch.” —Publishers Weekly \n“With deft sketches and minimal text\, [Yanow] shows how the streets of a city can simultaneously foster and crush social change\, and how urban humans cling to personal freedom in an increasingly monitored world.” —The Atlantic \nAbout The Contradictions \nThe Eisner Award–winning story about a student figuring out radical politics in a messy world \nSophie is young and queer and into feminist theory. She decides to study abroad\, choosing Paris for no firm reason beyond liking French comics. Feeling a bit lonely and out of place\, she’s desperate for community and a sense of belonging. She stumbles into what/who she’s looking for when she meets Zena. An anarchist student-activist committed to veganism and shoplifting\, Zena offers Sophie a whole new political ideology that feels electric. Enamored—of Zena\, of the idea of living more righteously—Sophie finds herself swept up in a whirlwind friendship that blows her even further from her rural California roots as they embark on a disastrous hitchhiking trip to Amsterdam and Berlin\, full of couch surfing\, drug tripping\, and radical book fairs. \nCapturing that time in your life where you’re meeting new people and learning about the world—when everything feels vital and urgent—The Contradictions is Sophie Yanow’s fictionalized coming-of-age story. Sophie’s attempts at ideological purity are challenged time and again\, putting into question the plausibility of a life of dogma in a world filled with contradictions. Keenly observed\, frank\, and very funny\, The Contradictions speaks to a specific reality while also being incredibly relatable\, reminding us that we are all imperfect people in an imperfect world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-sophie-yanow-and-suzy-exposito/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200915T190000
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #64 (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-64-music-by-tba/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Carl Phillips and Kimberly Reyes
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, September 17th at 6pm PDT when Carl Phillips discusses his latest poetry collection\, Pale Colors in a Tall Field\, with Kimberly Reyes on Zoom.\n\nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link to join the webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83365473355 \nWebinar ID: 833 6547 3355 \nAbout Pale Colors in a Tall Field \nA powerful\, inventive collection from one of America’s most critically admired poets. \nCarl Phillips’s new poetry collection\, Pale Colors in a Tall Field\, is a meditation on the intimacies of thought and body as forms of resistance. The poems are both timeless and timely\, asking how we can ever truly know ourselves in the face of our own remembering and inevitable forgetting. Here\, the poems metaphorically argue that memory is made up of various colors\, with those most prominent moments in a life seeming more vivid\, though the paler colors are never truly forgotten. The poems in Pale Colors in a Tall Field approach their points of view kaleidoscopically\, enacting the self’s multiplicity and the difficult shifts required as our lives\, in turn\, shift. This is one of Phillips’s most tender\, dynamic\, and startling books yet. \nAbout the Author \nCarl Phillips teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. His recent books include Wild Is the Wind and the prose collection The Art of Daring: Risk\, Restlessness\, Imagination.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-carl-phillips-and-kimberly-reyes-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200924T180000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Rowan Ricardo Phillips and Marcelo Hernadez Castillo
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, September 24 at 6pm PDT when Rowan Ricardo Phillips reads from his latest collection\, Living Weapon\, with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83770739482\nWebinar ID: 837 7073 9482\n\nPraise for Living Weapon\n“Over and again\, Phillips strives—within his own poems—to chip away at an explicit definition of what exactly we mean when we say ‘poetry’ . . . Throughout the collection\, Rowan Ricardo Phillips refuses to abandon the past; instead\, he interrogates its ghosts—in all their terrible admixture of violence and beauty—and\, despite every reason not to\, he sings.” —Will Brewbaker\, Los Angeles Review of Books\n“In his dazzling third collection\, Phillips (Heaven) explores social ills while celebrating poetry’s ability to provide solace and sense during times of upheaval . . . Phillips’s latest is lyrical\, imaginative\, and steeped in a keen understanding of current events.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n“The truths of Phillips’s book are plain and perceptive\, harsh and oddly soothing.” —Nick Ripatrazone\, The Millions\n\nAbout the Author\nRowan Ricardo Phillips is the author of the books of poems Heaven (FSG\, 2015) and The Ground (FSG\, 2012)\, as well as the essay collections The Circuit and When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness. His many awards include a Whiting Writers’ Award\, the PEN/Osterweil Award\, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award\, the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing\, and the Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award. He lives in New York City and Barcelona.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-rowan-ricardo-phillips-and-marcelo-hernadez-castillo-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200925T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200925T130000
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SUMMARY:Presentation: Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Pepin Silva and Lewis Watts will present an illuminating slide show and talk about the new edition of Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era. \nThrough dozens of archival photographs and oral accounts from the neighborhood residents and musicians who experienced it at its height\, the Harlem of the West SF Project celebrates this unique and rediscovered chapter in jazz history and the African-American experience on the West Coast. The Project is a platform for the Fillmore’s musicians\, nightclub owners and residents of the 1940s and 1950s to tell the neighborhood’s history in their own words\, as well as feature rarely seen photographs and memorabilia. The new edition of Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era book has been recently republished by Heyday Books. The edition features newly discovered photographs and memorabilia\, as well as additional interviews with those who lived and played in the Fillmore at the height of its glory \nElizabeth Pepin Silva is an award-winning documentary filmmaker\, photographer\, writer and former day manager of the historic Fillmore Auditorium. She holds a degree in journalism from San Francisco State University. Instagram \nLewis Watts is a photographer\, archivist and professor emeritus of art at UC Santa Cruz with a longstanding interest in the cultural landscape of the African diaspora in the Bay Area and internationally. Instagram  \nCo-sponsored by Heyday Books and the Museum of the African Diaspora. \nConnect with Heyday Books – Twitter | Instagram \nWe encourage everyone to purchase a copy of the book through the Museum of African Diaspora bookstore website. \nRegistration: https://bit.ly/HarlemWest9-25-20 \nSFPL YouTube Live: https://youtu.be/wIdScOqs20A \n– \n–
URL:https://litseen.com/event/presentation-harlem-of-the-west-the-san-francisco-fillmore-jazz-era/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library – Virtual Library
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200927T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200927T190000
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SUMMARY:BAWDY STORYTELLING: THE OFFICIAL AFTERPARTY OF FOLSOM STREET FAIR
DESCRIPTION:We need Kink Community\, now more than ever. \nAnd Bawdy Storytelling is the perfect way to come together this year – right after Folsom Street Fair\, hosted by Margaret Cho! \nDate: Sunday\, September 27th\, 2020  \nTime:  7 PM PST/9 PM CST/10 PM EST. \nTickets are available in Tiered Pricing (starting at $10 for Pandemic Pricing\, all the way up to our Exhibitionist Panel – where you’re a part of the show\, and join our performers on the screen!) The Best Deal? Become a member of Bawdy’s Patreon (at the Sexy Sidekick – $10/month level and higher) and you’ll get FREE tickets to our Livestreams – plus the Replays\, too. Please get your tickets right away to make sure you can be part of each night of one-of-a-kind stories\, weird antics\, and open-minded community. \nThis evening of Stories\, Songs & S*x Toys includes: \n• Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour \n• Storytellers to come – Stay Tuned! \n• Music by the brilliant Jefferson Bergey \n• Buy the Exhibitionist/Panelist Ticket & get a Cool GIFT #ButtPlugClub \n• Try our new Voyeur ticket for behind the scenes access\, enhanced chat & more \n• Sponsored by the best lube out there: Uberlube! \n• Prizes include Quarantine Fashion from Dirty Masks \n• Sexy Bath Prizes from Hip Modern Soap Co. \nWant Free Tickets to this show? Become a Member of our Patreon and get free tickets\, free livestream replays & much. more! \nNot a member of Bawdy’s Patreon yet? Become a member NOW and in addition to ad-free podcast episodes and our new behind-the-scenes story coaching series\, you’ll get free tickets and free replays for Bawdy’s Livestreams!erf
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytelling-the-official-afterparty-of-folsom-street-fair/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200930T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: francine j. harris
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wenesday\, September 30 at 6pm PDT when francine j. harris joins us to read from her new collection\, Here is the Sweet Hand on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83537126052\nWebinar ID: 835 3712 6052 \nPraise for Here is the Sweet Hand \n“Entering mid-career with her extraordinary third book\, harris . . . fully emerges as one of the best and most relevant contemporary poets. She writes with a historical and linguistic reach . . . She is also in league with some of the great practitioners of poetry that makes no distinction between the personal and the political\, such as Gwendolyn Brooks\, Robert Hayden\, and Adrienne Rich. Yes\, I believe she’s that good\, writing with a timeless rhetorical force and a finely tuned ear for contemporary speech\, about race\, queerness\, love\, and grief.” —Craig Morgan Teicher\, NPR \n“harris reveals one of the roles of the contemporary poet: to expose unpleasant truths of the past and present\, to call out the aspects of our worst selves . . . harris is an expert practitioner and guide; we are always in her orbit\, captivated as she manipulates language\, un-doing worn traditions\, engaging the reader intimately\, and unforgettably.” —Mandana Chaffa\, Chicago Review of Books \n“This is a book full of ‘heat\,’ of being beneath and being above\, of desire\, neighbors\, the news\, the horrors of systemic racism played out in a 19th-century orphanage and a shooting on a train — all presented without the censoring influence of traditional continuity . . . there is no point in questioning Here Is the Sweet Hand. It is better to let her voice be the center and take pleasure in change.” —Lynn McGee\, Lambda Literary \nAbout the Here is the Sweet Hand \nThe poems in Here is the Sweet Hand explore solitude as a way of seeing. In particular\, the speakers in francine j. harris’ third collection explore the mystique\, and myth\, of female loneliness as it relates to blackness\, aging\, landscape and artistic tradition. \nThe speakers in these poems are often protagonists. Against the backdrop of numerous American cities and towns\, and in a time of political uncertainty\, they are heroines in their quest to find logic through their own sense of the world. \nThe poems here are interested in the power of observation. But if there is authority in the individual versus the collective\, Here is the Sweet Hand also poses questions about the source of that power\, or where it may lead. \nAs in her acclaimed previous collections\, harris’ skillful use of imagery and experimentation with the boundaries of language set the stage for unorthodox election commemoration\, subway panic\, zoomorphism\, and linguistic battlefields. From poems in dialogue with the artistry of Toni Morrison and Charles Burnett to poems that wrestle with the moods of Frank Stanford and Ty Dolla $ign\, the speakers in this book signal a turn at once inward and opening.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-francine-j-harris-2/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SFPL Live - Benjamin Bac Sierra in convo with Luis Rodriguez
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with iVIVA!: Latino Heritage Month SFPL is honored to host Benjamin Bac Sierra as our On the Same Page author. We will celebrate this local author\, educator\, poet\, activist and Mission District native. Bac Sierra’s new book Pura Neta\, the long awaited sequel to Barrio Bushido is due out in mid September Pochino Press. Benjamin Bac Sierra will be interviewed by  Luis Rodriguez\, author of Always Running: La Vida Loca and most recently From Our Land to Our Land Essays\, Journeys\, and Imaginings From A Native Xicanx Writer. \nSet in the San Francisco Mission varrio from 2012 to 2014\, Pura Neta explores the creative struggle of Homeboys and Homegirls fighting against gentrification\, police brutality\, racism and economic and educational injustice.  \nBenjamin Bac Sierra  was raised by a widowed mother and the streets of San Francisco’s Mission District. After serving as a grunt in the Marine Corps\, where he participated in front-line combat during the first Gulf War\, Ben completed his B.A. in English at U.C. Berkeley\, earned a teaching credential and a Master’s in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and merited a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California\, Hastings College of the Law. Currently\, he is a professor at City College of San Francisco and a community innovator and keynote speaker throughout the Bay Area. Ben’s essays and stories have been published in newspapers and literary magazines His first novel Barrio Bushido was presented a Best of the Bay Award and an International Latino Book Award.  \nLuis Rodriguez is a former Los Angeles Poet Laureate. He has 16 books\, is founding editor of Tia Chucha Press and co-founder Tia Chucha’s Cultural Center & Bookstore. Rodriguez has two autobiographical accounts of his experiences with gang violence and addiction\, It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love\, Addiction\, Revolutions\, and Healing (Touchstone\, 2012)\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography\, and a mandatory read\,  Always Running: La Vida Loca\, Gang Days in L.A. (Curbstone Books\, 1993)\, winner of the Carl Sandburg Award of the Friends of the Chicago Public Library. His latest book\, From Our Land to Our Land Essays\, Journeys\, and Imaginings From A Native Xicanx Writer\, explores race\, culture\, identity and belonging and what these all mean and should mean (but often fail to) in the volatile climate of our nation.  \nConnect with Ben Bac Sierra: Website \nConnect with Luis Rodrigues: Website | Twitter \nReservation: https://bit.ly/PuraNeta9-30-20 \nSFPL YouTube Live:  https://youtu.be/gzha5aCxQhY \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfpl-live-benjamin-bac-sierra-in-convo-with-luis-rodriguez/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library – Virtual Library
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Yamile Saied Méndez
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, October 2nd at 6pm PDT\, when Yamile Saied Méndez dicusses her YA debut novel\, Furia\, on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82109506823 \nWebinar ID: 821 0950 6823 \nAbout Furia \nA powerful\, #ownvoices contemporary YA for fans of The Poet X and I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter set in Argentina\, about a rising soccer star who must put everything on the line—even her blooming love story—to follow her dreams. \nIn Rosario\, Argentina\, Camila Hassan lives a double life. \nAt home\, she is a careful daughter\, living within her mother’s narrow expectations\, in her rising-soccer-star brother’s shadow\, and under the abusive rule of her short-tempered father. \nOn the field\, she is La Furia\, a powerhouse of skill and talent. When her team qualifies for the South American tournament\, Camila gets the chance to see just how far those talents can take her. In her wildest dreams\, she’d get an athletic scholarship to a North American university. \nBut the path ahead isn’t easy. Her parents don’t know about her passion. They wouldn’t allow a girl to play fútbol—and she needs their permission to go any farther. And the boy she once loved is back in town. Since he left\, Diego has become an international star\, playing in Italy for the renowned team Juventus. Camila doesn’t have time to be distracted by her feelings for him. Things aren’t the same as when he left: she has her own passions and ambitions now\, and La Furia cannot be denied. As her life becomes more complicated\, Camila is forced to face her secrets and make her way in a world with no place for the dreams and ambition of a girl like her. \nFilled with authentic details and the textures of day-to-day life in Argentina\, heart-soaring romance\, and breathless action on the pitch\, Furia is the story of a girl’s journey to make her life her own. \nAbout Yamile Saied Méndez \nYamile (sha-MEE-lay) Saied Méndez is a fútbol-obsessed Argentine American who loves meteor showers\, summer\, astrology\, and pizza. She lives in Utah with her Puerto Rican husband and their five kids\, two adorable dogs\, and one majestic cat. An inaugural Walter Dean Myers Grant recipient\, she’s a graduate of Voices of Our Nations (VONA) and the MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Méndez is also part of Las Musas\, the first collective of women and nonbinary Latinx middle grade and young adult authors. Furia is her first novel for young adult readers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-yamile-saied-mendez/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201005T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Aarti Namdev Shahani
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, October 5th at 7pm PST when Aarti Namdev Shahani discusses her memoir\, Here We Are\, on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81346922046\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,81346922046#  or +12532158782\,\,81346922046#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 813 4692 2046\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/ktyp7X41Q \nPraise for Here We Are \n“Aarti Shahani’s book is destined to take its place among the finest memoirs written in recent decades—a heartbreaking\, hilarious and tender love letter to the millions of people who have made their way across lands and oceans to try and find a new life in America. This book will take you on a vivid\, almost cinematic journey that is both beautiful and unforgettable.”\n—Guy Raz\, co-creator of How I Built This\, Wow in the World and TED Radio Hour \nIncluded in Library Journal‘s list of Best Books 2019. \n“This timely\, bittersweet immigration story will resonate powerfully with readers.”\n—Publishers Weekly \n“As it chronicles immigrant tragedy and triumph\, this provocative book also reveals the dark underside of the American judicial system and the many pitfalls for people of color within a landscape of white privilege. A candid and moving memoir.”\n—Kirkus \n“A worthy addition to immigration discourse\, this book is a raw and engaging glimpse into the challenges immigrant families face that are either too traumatic or mundane to land on the news.”\n—BookPage \nAbout Here We Are \nHere We Are is a heart-wrenching memoir about an immigrant family’s American Dream\, the justice system that took it away\, and the daughter who fought to get it back\, from NPR correspondent Aarti Namdev Shahani. \nThe Shahanis came to Queens—from India\, by way of Casablanca—in the 1980s. They were undocumented for a few unsteady years and then\, with the arrival of their green cards\, they thought they’d made it. This is the story of how they did\, and didn’t; the unforeseen obstacles that propelled them into years of disillusionment and heartbreak; and the strength of a family determined to stay together. \nHere We Are: American Dreams\, American Nightmares follows the lives of Aarti\, the precocious scholarship kid at one of Manhattan’s most elite prep schools\, and her dad\, the shopkeeper who mistakenly sells watches and calculators to the notorious Cali drug cartel. Together\, the two represent the extremes that coexist in our country\, even within a single family\, and a truth about immigrants that gets lost in the headlines. It isn’t a matter of good or evil; it’s complicated. \nUltimately\, Here We Are is a coming-of-age story\, a love letter from an outspoken modern daughter to her soft-spoken Old World father. She never expected they’d become best friends.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-aarti-namdev-shahani/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Robert Duncan and Gary Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Three Rooms Press and Green Apple Books present…\nThe Official West Coast Launch for LOUDMOUTH\, a novel\, featuring reading\, discussion\, and music by author Robert Duncan\, former editor of Creem magazine\, plus special guest Gary Wilson\, experimental musician and performance artist.\nThe event will be held via livestream to YouTube and Facebook on Tuesday\, October 6\, 7 pm Pacific.\nThe event will be hosted by Three Rooms Press co-director Peter Carlaftes.\nTune in at the link below\nhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H3XQ-hOXqR8 \nAbout Loudmouth \nIn 1970s New York City\, Thomas Ransom dreams that rock ’n’ roll will be his ticket out of the life his conservative family planned for him\, and he takes it to the extreme: burning bridges and houses on the way to discovering his true destiny.\nThomas Ransom\, born to a severely dysfunctional southern family transplanted to New York City\, is left to his own devices by neglectful parents\, and spends his childhood shadowing his criminally-inclined half-brother and roaming the city with hard-drinking teenage pals. He eventually finds an outlet as the flamboyant singer of a downtown rock band\, and later as the young editor of the Detroit-based magazine that invented punk\, only to return to New York\, at the height of the 1970s bacchanal\, and crash. But it isn’t music that saves him. It’s a soft-spoken painter\, who turns out to be the most outrageous character of all. With echoes of Almost Famous and Just Kids\, LOUDMOUTH tracks an impassioned musician and writer out among the punks\, hippies\, and wild geniuses of rock when music was the center of the world. \nAbout Robert Duncan \nRobert Duncan is author of The Noise: Notes from a Rock ‘n’ Roll Era\, an exploration of pop and society in the Seventies\, Kiss\, a satirical biography of the band\, and Only the Good Die Young\, profiles of dead rock stars. He was a writer for Creem\, before becoming\, at 22\, managing editor of the magazine\, working alongside his friend Lester Bangs\, and he has contributed to Rolling Stone\, Circus\, Life\, and dozens of other publications. He is anthologized in the book Springsteen on Springsteen and archived in rocksbackpages.com. He was story consultant\, as well as interview subject and voiceover\, for the 2019 documentary\, Boy Howdy: The Creem Magazine Story and appears in public TV’s Ticket to Write\, a documentary about the “Golden Age of Rock Music Journalism.” He has worked as a singer\, songwriter and producer\, and is founder of the 29-year-old ad agency Duncan Channon\, with offices in San Francisco\, LA and Brooklyn. He was born in Sheboygan\, Wisconsin\, but comes from a Southern family\, and grew up mostly in New York. His great-grandfather\, as editor of the Memphis Commercial-Appeal\, won the Pulitzer Prize for editorials against the Klan. He currently lives with his wife\, the artist and rock photographer Roni Hoffman\, in Fairfax\, California. Loudmouth is Duncan’s first novel. \nAbout Gary Wilson \nGary Wilson emerged from New York’s DIY movement with 1977’s proto-New Wave masterpiece You Think You Really Know Me\, an extraordinary record which has been known to suck unprepared new listeners in like a drug and never let go. Shortly after its limited release its creator simply vanished. In the 25-year wake before he was found again\, Gary’s small-town opus had spread by word-of-mouth and indie radio to inspire a whole new generation of musicians and producers with his bizarre songs and personal musical vision. His cult following includes Beck\, who shouts him out in “Where It’s At (Two Turntables And A Microphone)”\, The Roots’ ?uestlove\, Simpsons creator Matt Groening\, and of course\, Stones Throw’s Peanut Butter Wolf. The re-release You Think You Really Know Me in 2002 won him accolades in The New York Times and culminated in sold-out shows in New York and Los Angeles. Gary Wilson has continued making music in the years following his “disappearance.” His re-emergence in the world coincided with his 2004 release on Stones Throw titled Mary Had Brown Hair.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-robert-duncan-and-gary-wilson-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Kazim Ali\, Gillian Conoley\, and Brian Teare
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, October 7th at 7pm PST when Kazim Ali is joined by poets Gillian Conoley and Brian Teare to celebrate his new collection\, The Voice of Sheila Chandra!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84685235176Or iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,84685235176# or +12532158782\,\,84685235176#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 646 558 8656 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 312 626 6799\nWebinar ID: 846 8523 5176\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kc6CqHx1gM\n\nAbout The Voice of Sheila Chandra\nTitled for the influential singer left almost voiceless by a terrible syndrome\, the poems bring sweet melodies and rhythms as the voices blend and become multitudinous. There’s an honoring of not only survival\, but of persistence\, as this part research-based\, pensive collection contemplates what it takes to move forward when the unimaginable holds you back.\n\nAbout the Author\nKazim Aliwas born in the United Kingdom and has lived transnationally in the United States\, Canada\, India\, France\, and the Middle East. His books encompass multiple genres\, includingthe volumes of poetry Inquisition\, Sky Ward\, winner of the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry; The Far Mosque\, winner of Alice James Books’ New England/New York Award; The Fortieth Day; All One’s Blue; and the cross-genre texts Bright Felon and Wind Instrument. His novels include the recently published The Secret Room: A String Quartet and among his books of essays are the hybrid memoir Silver Road: Essays\, Maps & Calligraphies and Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice. He is also an accomplished translator (of Marguerite Duras\, Sohrab Sepehri\, Ananda Devi\, Mahmoud Chokrollahi and others) and an editor of several anthologies and books of criticism. After a career in public policy and organizing\, Ali taught at various colleges and universities\, including Oberlin College\, Davidson College\, St. Mary’s College of California\, and Naropa University. He is currently a Professor of Literature at the University of California\, San Diego. His newest books are a volume of three long poems entitled The Voice of Sheila Chandra and a memoir of his Canadian childhood\, Northern Light.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-kazim-ali-gillian-conoley-and-brian-teare/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck's Poem Jam
DESCRIPTION:featuring  special guests\, themes and writing groups. In October we honor Latinx Heritage month with poets Josiah Luis Alderete\, Lourdes Figuroa and more. \nJosiah Luis Alderete is a full blooded Pocho spanglish speaking poet from La Area Bahia who learned to write poetry in the kitchen of his Mama’s Mexican restaurant. He was a founding member of San Francisco’s outspoken word troupe The Molotov Mouths and is also a radio insurgente whose stories have appeared on KALW’s “Crosscurrents” and whose show “The Spanglish Power Hour” aired on KPFA. He curates  and hosts the Latinx reading series SPEAKING AXOLOTL in Oakland which happens every third Thursday of the month at Nomadic Press Studios. Josiah Luis Alderete’s  book of poems is forthcoming from Black Freighter Press. \nLourdes Figuroa is a proud 2009 and 2011 VONA alum. Her work has been published in the SF Poet’s 11 2008 & 2010\, Generations Literary Magazine\, Eleven Eleven\, Something Worth Revisin. Spooky Actions Books published her first chapbook\, yolotl\, and Backwords Press recently published her poem\, “War America War.” She received her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of San Francisco. Lourdes is a native of limbo nation and believes in your lung\, your throat. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-poet-laureate-kim-shucks-poem-jam/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Zach Norris\,  We Keep Us Safe: Building Secure\, Just\, and Inclusive Communities
DESCRIPTION:Zach Norris is the Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights\, author of We Keep Us Safe: Building Secure\, Just\, and Inclusive Communities\, and co-founder of Restore Oakland\, a community advocacy and training center that will empower Bay Area community members to transform local economic and justice systems and make a safe and secure future possible for themselves and for their families. Zach is also a co-founder of Justice for Families\, a national alliance of family-driven organizations working to end our nation’s youth incarceration epidemic. \nZach helped build California’s first statewide network for families of incarcerated youth which led the effort to close five youth prisons in the state\, passed legislation to enable families to stay in contact with their loved ones and defeated Prop 6—a destructive and ineffective criminal justice ballot measure. \nWe Keep Us Safe\, released in 2020\, has been praised by Forbes\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Boston Globe and Kirkus Reviews. To purchase Zach’s book we recommend Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore Literary & Garden Arts. #WeLoveBookstores \nIn addition to being a Harvard graduate and NYU-educated attorney\, Zach is also a graduate of the Labor Community Strategy Center’s National School for Strategic Organizing in Los Angeles\, California and was a 2011 Soros Justice Fellow. He is a former board member at Witness for Peace\, Just Cause Oakland and Justice for Families. Zach was a recipient of the American Constitution Society’s David Carliner Public Interest Award in 2015\, and is a member of the 2016 class of the Levi Strauss Foundation’s Pioneers of Justice. \nZach is a loving husband and dedicated father of two bright daughters\, whom he is raising in his hometown of Oakland\, California. \nThe Ella Baker Center works locally\, statewide and nationally to shift resources away from prisons and punishment and towards opportunities that make our communities safe\, healthy and strong. We believe that what you water grows. That’s why we mobilize everyday people to build power and prosperity in our communities. Our work includes the Decarcerate Alameda County campaign\, policy work abolishing abusive practices in prisons\, Night Out for Safety and Liberation and more. \nConnect with Zach Norris – Website | Twitter | Facebook \nConnect with The Ella Baker Center – Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook \nRegistration: https://bit.ly/ZachNorris10-9-20 \nSFPL YouTube Live: https://youtu.be/DI–fPefE04 \n–
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zach-norris-we-keep-us-safe-building-secure-just-and-inclusive-communities/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling: Choose Your Own Adventure
DESCRIPTION:Tickets at https://bawdylivestream_cyoa.eventbrite.com \nListen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at \nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Best Erotic Podcast for 2020” – Oprah Magazine \nhttps://bit.ly/BawdyOprahBestOf2020 \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis Kinktacular Evening of Stories\, Songs & B*ttplugs features: \n❤  Hosted by Award-winning Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Best sex\, erotica\, dating\, & relationship podcast” – Mashable \nhttp://bit.ly/BawdyMashable2020 \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis month\, Bawdy Storytelling – the water-based lube for the silicone toy that is your mind –  celebrates our annual High Holiday\, The Folsom Street Fair! Featuring true stories from Human Ponies\, Leather Daddys\, Sex-Positive Icons and more. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThe Original Sex + Storytelling series\, featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits\, Live Onstage \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nAnd we know you’re on FetLife\, ya pervert: \nhttps://fetlife.com/events/791886 \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n • No Refunds or Exchanges \n• Lineup Subject to Change \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & the LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com� \nListen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at  http://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \nOn Twitter: @Bawdy \nOn Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bawdystorytelling/ \nOn Facebook at  www.Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling \nSupport us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/Bawdy \nSubscribe to our YouTube Channel at http://bit.ly/BawdyTV
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytelling-choose-your-own-adventure/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Caroline Kim and Vanessa Hua
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, October 12 at 5pm PST when Caroline Kim and Vanessa Hua read from their work to celebrate Caroline’s new collection\, The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories\, on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87857330918\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,87857330918# or +12532158782\,\,87857330918#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 312 626 6799 or +1 646 558 8656 or +1 301 715 8592\nWebinar ID: 878 5733 0918\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdm7c20lW2 \nPraise for The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories\n“The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories is an extraordinary collection\, and the title story alone is an astonishing feat. . . . The collection takes us in stories across the Korean diaspora\, from ancient Korea to the Korean War to Korean Americans living in America in the recent past\, the present\, and even the future. [Caroline Kim] has a devastating sense of dramatic timing\, a keen ear for dialogue\, and experiments constantly\, with structure\, minimalism\, science fiction\, historical fiction\, returning always with insight\, intelligence\, and an expansive sense of their characters’ humanity\, which in turn points us to our own. These characters will live in my head a long time.”—Alexander Chee\, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel\, The Queen of the Night\, and Edinburgh\n“Caroline Kim’s captivating story collection gathers an entrancing variety of voices spread across time and place. These diverse viewpoints reveal cohesive threads that address clashes of culture\, of generations\, of relationships\, of history\, carrying us from 18th-century Korea to the Korean War and our own contemporary then future world\, and strikingly reflects us all in riveting microcosms of story. Deeply moving and affecting\, these stories and their heartfelt characters will linger long after the last page is turned.” –Eugenia Kim\, author of The Kinship of Secrets and The Calligrapher’s Daughter. \nAbout the Book\nWinner of the 2020 Drue Heinz Literature Prize\nExploring what it means to be human through the Korean diaspora\, Caroline Kim’s stories feature many voices. From a teenage girl in 1980’s America\, to a boy growing up in the middle of the Korean War\, to an immigrant father struggling to be closer to his adult daughter\, or to a suburban housewife whose equilibrium depends upon a therapy robot\, each character must face their less-than-ideal circumstances and find a way to overcome them without losing themselves. Language often acts as a barrier as characters try\, fail\, and momentarily succeed in connecting with each other. With humor\, insight\, and curiosity\, Kim’s wide-ranging stories explore themes of culture\, communication\, travel\, and family. Ultimately\, what unites these characters across time and distance is their longing for human connection and a search for the place—or people—that will feel like home. \nAbout the Author\nCaroline Kim was born in South Korea. She has an MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan where she won a Hopwood Award and an MA in Fiction from the University of Texas at Austin where she was a James A. Michener Fellow. She was nominated by Jellyfish Review for the 2019 Best of the Net. She is currently a graduate student in counseling at St. Mary’s College in Moraga\, CA. Kim lives with her husband and three children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-caroline-kim-and-vanessa-hua/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:San Francisco's Chinatown- Dick Evans and Kathy Chin Leong in conversation with Ben Fong Torres
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco’s Chinatown is the third in a series of contemporary documentary photography books by San Francisco resident and photographer Dick Evans – following his initial book in 2014 of Haight Ashbury and his 2017 award winning book on the The Mission. His approach in each case has been to develop an in-depth understanding of each neighborhood through close collaboration with leading non-profits\, community organizations\, artists and local businesses. In this book he collaborates with freelance writer Kathy Chin Leong\, who has conducted over 100 interviews in the course of writing the text\, captions and sidebar stories that provide context to the images. Dick Evans and Kathy Chin Leong will be in conversation with Ben Fong-Torres\, author and journalist.  \nAll revenue from book sales will be donated to collaborating non-profit organizations.  \nDick Evans is a San Francisco–based photographer with an interest in documenting the colorful and rapidly changing neighborhoods of the city. Born into a ranching family in Eugene\, Oregon\, he graduated as an engineer from Oregon State University and subsequently obtained a master’s in management from Stanford. He has spent his fifty-year career in the global metals sector\, living in five countries and multiple locations in Africa\, Europe\, and North America. It was during these travels that he developed an appreciation for the diversity and richness of different cultures—both global and local—and an interest in documentary photography. \nKathy Chin Leong is an award-winning journalist with articles published in the New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, National Geographic Books\, Sunset Magazine\, and many other newspapers and magazines.  As a second-generation ABC (American-born Chinese)\, she grew up in San Francisco’s Sunset district\, and spent nearly every weekend in Chinatown visiting her grandmother and helping her mother shop for groceries.  While she has travelled the globe to Lebanon\, France\, Thailand\, and Canada\, rediscovering her Chinatown roots through collaboration on this book has been a journey of a lifetime.  Kathy lives in Sunnyvale\, California with her devoted husband Frank Leong Jr. and is the proud mother of two grown children\, Gwendolyn and Aaron. \nBen Fong-Torres began contributing to Rolling Stone in spring 1968\, just months after it began. In over a decade there\, he became senior editor and wrote more than 30 cover stories. He was portrayed in Almost Famous. Ben also is a broadcaster\, from KSAN in the ‘70s to Moonalice Radio today and has won 5 Emmys for co-anchoring the Chinese New Year Parade on KTVU. He is the author of a dozen books\, including his best-selling memoir\, The Rice Room.  \nConnect \nSan Francisco’s Chinatown the book – Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook   \nHeyday Books – Website | Twitter | Instagram \nKathy Chin Leong – Instagram | Facebook  \nBen Fong-Torres – Website  \nZoom Reservation  \nSFPL YouTube Live \n–
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-franciscos-chinatown-dick-evans-and-kathy-chin-leong-in-conversation-with-ben-fong-torres/
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