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SUMMARY:Jasmine Guillory - - Royal Holiday
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome our friend Jasmine Guillory to celebrate the publication of her fourth novel\, Royal Holiday\, on Tuesday\, October 1st at 7pm. \nFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Proposal and a “rising star in the romance genre” (Entertainment Weekly) comes a dazzling new novel about a spontaneous holiday vacation that turns into an unforgettable romance. \nVivian Forest has been out of the country a grand total of one time\, so when she gets the chance to tag along on her daughter Maddie’s work trip to England to style a royal family member\, she can’t refuse. She’s excited to spend the holidays taking in the magnificent British sights\, but what she doesn’t expect is to become instantly attracted to a certain private secretary\, his charming accent\, and unyielding formality. \nMalcolm Hudson has worked for the Queen for years and has never given a personal\, private tour—until now. He is intrigued by Vivian the moment he meets her and finds himself making excuses just to spend time with her. When flirtatious banter turns into a kiss under the mistletoe\, things snowball into a full-on fling. \nDespite a ticking timer on their holiday romance\, they are completely fine with ending their short\, steamy affair come New Year’s Day. . .or are they? \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nJasmine Guillory is a lawyer\, a graduate of Wellesley College and Stanford Law School\, and a Bay Area native who lives in Oakland\, California. She has been published in The Toast and The Hairpin\, has towering stacks of books in her living room\, a cake for every occasion\, and upwards of fifty lipsticks. She is The New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Date\, The Proposal\, and The Wedding Party. Visit her online at jasmineguillory.com and twitter.com/thebestjasmine. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, October 1\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jasmine-guillory-royal-holiday/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Shortest Month Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Beyond The Shortest Month is a book club dedicated to reading and celebrating authors of color year round. \nGreen Apple Books and Music\n506 Clement Street\, Upstairs in our Granny Smith Room \nThe Beyond The Shortest Month September title is Gullah Days: Hilton Head Islanders Before the Bridge 1861-1956\nMeeting and discussion will be on Wednesday\, October 2\nSee you there! \nCan’t make this month? Stay tuned for the Beyond The Shortest Month pick for October 2019! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Gullah culture\, though borne of isolation and slavery\, thrived on the US East Coast sea islands from pre-Civil War times until today\, and nowhere more prominently than on Hilton Head Island\, SC. On this small barrier island descendants of the first generations of Gullah people continue to preserve Gullah language\, customs\, arts\, and cuisine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beyond-the-shortest-month-book-club-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Maxim Osipov
DESCRIPTION:Reading excerpts from the new translation of his short fiction collection \nRock\, Paper\, Scissors and other stories \nby Maxim Osipov \nPreface by Svetlana Alexievitch\, edited by Boris Dralyuk\, translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk\, Alex Fleming\, and Anne Marie Jackson \npublished by NYRB Classic Originals \nApril 2019 selection of the NYRB Classics Book Club. \nMaxim Osipov\, who lives and practices medicine in a town ninety miles outside Moscow\, is one of Russia’s best contemporary writers. In the tradition of Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams\, he draws on his experiences in medicine to write stories of great subtlety and striking insight. Osipov’s fiction presents a nuanced\, collage-like portrait of life in provincial Russia—its tragedies\, frustrations\, and moments of humble beauty and inspiration. The twelve stories in this volume depict doctors\, actors\, screenwriters\, teachers\, entrepreneurs\, local political bosses\, and common criminals whose paths intersect in unpredictable yet entirely natural ways: in sickrooms\, classrooms\, administrative offices and on trains and in planes. Their encounters lead to disasters\, major and minor epiphanies\, and—on occasion—the promise of redemption. \nMaxim Osipov (b. 1963) is a Russian writer and cardiologist. In the early 1990s he was a research fellow at the University of California\, San Francisco\, before returning to Moscow\, where he continued to practice medicine and also founded a publishing house that specialized in medical\, musical\, and theological texts. In 2005\, while working at a local hospital in Tarusa\, a small town ninety miles from Moscow\, Osipov established a charitable foundation to ensure the hospital’s survival. Since 2007\, he has published short stories\, novellas\, essays\, and plays\, and has won a number of literary prizes for his fiction. He has published five collections of prose\, and his plays have been staged all across Russia. Osipov’s writings have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He lives in Tarusa. \nWhat has been said of the work of Maxim Osipov \nOsipov makes his English-language debut with this masterful and sublime collection\, largely set in rural Russian villages….This collection showcases Osipov’s talent in creating subtle\, sophisticated character portraits that carry a good dose of suspense.\n—Publishers Weekly\, starred review \nMasterful and often startling stories\, suffused with an irony that is as merciless as it is tender.\n—Daniel Medin \nMaxim Osipov’s stories cut me to the quick\, because he does what true writers do: he tries to make sense of life with his own mind\, puts his soul into the effort\, and\, most importantly\, presents everything in his own words.\n—Sergey Gandlevsky \nOsipov’s prose — remarkable\, transparent\, Russian\, painful and tough\, timely and timeless — is imbued with compassion. It may not always console\, but it always gratifies.\n—Lev Dodin \nOsipov writes not only laconically\, but simply\, plainly\, without going into excessive details but ‘going into’ the essence of contemporary Russian life. … Irony\, Robert Musil once noted in his diaries\, combines enmity with compassion. And this is what we find in the work of Maxim Osipov.\n—Alexander Livergrant\, Novy Mir \nMaxim Osipov’s stories are kaleidoscopic. [He] is continuing Russian literature’s great love story with medicine\, a flame lit by writer-physicians Mikhail Bulgakov and Anton Chekhov.\n—Matthew Janney\, The Calvert Journal
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maxim-osipov/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:LAUNCH for Jon Roemer / Five Windows
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the launch party for Jon Roemer‘s debut novel Five Windows. More to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nAt a busy intersection on a crammed city hillside\, an overworked book editor looks up long enough to watch a trio of houses go up in flames. Once the smoke clears\, he becomes increasingly concerned by what he sees out his windows and starts asking questions he never bothered with before: Is the encampment in the park responsible for the fires — or are his new upscale neighbors somehow to blame? Has the man upstairs even bothered to notice\, or is his time better spent battling with his boyfriend? What’s his own ex-wife doing\, resurfacing now just when things are getting tense? Is everyone safer with more fire trucks around? And\, just a block down the hill\, is the new mixed-use project the perfect urban remedy\, or will it do even more damage? \nBy the time the duplex across the street catches fire\, he has to face a few questions about himself\, too\, including his own role in the neighborhood’s upheaval. Inspired by Rear Window and set in San Francisco\, Jon Roemer’s debut novel explores a fabled American city divided by rapid and aggressive change. \n\n“A disquieting take on Rear Window set in contemporary San Francisco… Like Hitchcock\, Roemer excels at establishing and then deepening the reader/viewer’s unease — but his interest is less in the plot complications that fuel Hitchcock’s film than in the psychological drama unfolding within the apartment as the publisher’s life implodes. Roemer’s achievement here is to discomfit the reader without sacrificing the story’s fundamental realism. This book reads\, often\, like a dystopian novel\, but — disturbingly — it’s one set in a dystopia we already live in. A frightening fable about the watcher and the watched.” – Kirkus Reviews \n“Jon Roemer knows his way around a sentence. From the first line through the last\, readers feel they’re in the hands of an accomplished craftsman. Roemer’s writing is nuanced\, controlled\, and full of surprises. Five Windows follows a reclusive editor\, obsessed with his neighbors and the turmoil of San Francisco in the throes of gentrification\, but trapped inside a fishbowl of his own design. Roemer writes with an intimacy that becomes almost claustrophobic as our protagonist flirts with madness and the plot spirals toward its apocalyptic climax. An impressive\, engrossing debut from a bold new voice.” – Alia Volz\, author of Home Baked: My Mother\, Marijuana and the Stoning of San Francisco \n“Darkly funny and surreal\, Five Windows is a timely\, page-turning debut about alienation and breakdowns communal and individual.” – Vanessa Hua\, author of A River of Stars \n“Jon Roemer channels Hitchcock in this noirish stunner. An indie publisher watches with increasing horror as his San Francisco neighborhood is rattled by small explosions\, fires\, domestic disputes\, demolition\, gunshots\, broken windows — a sinister series of skin-prickling accidents coming ever closer to home. In Roemer’s hands\, the online “world of whispers” and the outside timeline of strange occurrances merge into an uncanny approximation of our times.” – Jane Ciabattari\, author of Stealing the Fire \n\nJon Roemer is a writer and editor based in San Francisco. He is founder and senior editor of Outpost19\, an award-winning book publisher. He is queer\, a San Francisco resident since 1991 and an explorer of urban change. Roemer studied literature and fiction writing at Northwestern. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Five Windows\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-jon-roemer-five-windows/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ivan Orkin and Chris Ying
DESCRIPTION:Ivan Orkin and Chris Ying dicuss their new cookcbook\, The Gaijin Cookbook: Japanese Recipes from a Chef\, Father\, Eater\, and Lifelong Outsider. \nAbout The Gaijin Cookbook \nIvan Orkin is a self-described gaijin (guy-jin)\, a Japanese term that means “outsider.” He has been hopelessly in love with the food of Japan since he was a teenager on Long Island. Even after living in Tokyo for decades and running two ramen shops that earned him international renown\, he remained a gaijin. \nFortunately\, being a lifelong outsider has made Orkin a more curious\, open\, and studious chef. In The Gaijin Cookbook\, he condenses his experiences into approachable recipes for every occasion\, including weeknights with picky kids\, boozy weekends\, and celebrations. Everyday dishes like Pork and Miso-Ginger Stew\, Stir-Fried Udon\, and Japanese Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce are what keep the Orkin family connected to Japan. For more festive dinners\, he suggests a Temaki Party\, where guests assemble their own sushi from cooked and fresh fillings. And recipes for Bagels with Shiso Gravlax and Tofu Coney Island (fried tofu with mushroom chili) reveal the eclectic spirit of Ivan’s cooking. \nIVAN ORKIN is the author of Ivan Ramen and a star of Chef’s Table and Mind of a Chef. He owns Ivan Ramen and Ivan Ramen Slurp Shop in NYC\, where the food is “so good it makes your eyes explode” (Eater). \nCHRIS YING is the co-founder of Lucky Peach\, the former publisher of McSweeney’s\, and the author and editor of numerous titles including Ivan Ramen\, the Mission Chinese Food Cookbook\, and You and I Eat the Same. He lives in San Francisco\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ivan-orkin-and-chris-ying/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SONTAG: HER LIFE AND WORK In Conversation with Benjamin Moser and Rebecca Solnit
DESCRIPTION:SONTAG: HER LIFE AND WORK\nIn Conversation with Benjamin Moser and Rebecca Solnit\nWednesday\, October 2\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Cultural Studies \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nNovelist\, activist\, essayist\, playwright\, filmmaker\, and critic\, Susan Sontag was one of the most emblematic writers of the American 20th century\, one whose name conjures an immediate image\, one so well-known that 15 years after her death\, a day rarely goes by without her somehow\, somewhere\, being mentioned. Ben Moser (Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector) offers the definitive portrait of Sontag\, and a single-volume introduction to the American twentieth century\, refracted through the life of one of its most extraordinary figures. He is joined by writer\, historian and activiist Rebecca Solnit (Hope in the Dark\, The Mother of All Things\, Men Explain Things to Me).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sontag-her-life-and-work-in-conversation-with-benjamin-moser-and-rebecca-solnit/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ian Brennan in conversation with David Harrington
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of Ian Brennan’s new book \nSilenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth \npublished by PM Press \nPopular culture has woven itself into the social fabric of our lives\, penetrating people’s homes and haunting their psyches through images and earworm hooks. Justice\, at most levels\, is something the average citizen may have little influence upon\, leaving us feeling helpless and complacent. But pop music is a neglected arena where concrete change can occur—by exercising active and thoughtful choices to reject the low-hanging\, omnipresent corporate fruit\, we begin to rebalance the world\, one engaged listener at a time. \nSilenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth is a powerful exploration of the challenges facing art\, music\, and media in the digital era. With his fifth book\, producer\, activist\, and author Ian Brennan delves deep into his personal story to address the inequity of distribution in the arts globally. Brennan challenges music industry tycoons by skillfully demonstrating that there are millions of talented people around the world far more gifted than the superstars for whom billions of dollars are spent to promote the delusion that they have been blessed with unique genius. \nWe are invited to accompany the author on his travels\, finding and recording music from some of the world’s most marginalized peoples. In the breathtaking range of this book\, our preconceived notions of art are challenged by musicians from South Sudan to Kosovo\, as Brennan lucidly details his experiences recording music by the Tanzania Albinism Collective\, the Zomba Prison Project\, a “witch camp” in Ghana\, the Vietnamese war veterans of Hanoi Masters\, the Malawi Mouse Boys\, the Canary Island whistlers\, genocide survivors in both Cambodia and Rwanda\, and more. \nSilenced by Sound is defined by muscular\, terse\, and poetic verse\, and a nonlinear format rife with how-to tips and anecdotes. The narrative is driven and made corporeal via the author’s ongoing field-recording chronicles\, his memoir-like reveries\, and the striking photographs that accompany these projects. \nAfter reading it\, you’ll never hear quite the same again. \nIan Brennan is a Grammy-winning music producer who has produced three other Grammy-nominated albums. He is the author of four books and has worked with the likes of filmmaker John Waters\, Merle Haggard\, and Green Day\, among others. His work with international artists such as the Zomba Prison Project\, Tanzania Albinism Collective\, and Khmer Rouge Survivors\, has been featured on the front page of the New York Times and on an Emmy-winning 60 Minutes segment with Anderson Cooper reporting. Since 1993 he has taught violence prevention and conflict resolution around the world for such prestigious organizations as the Smithsonian\, New York’s New School\, Berklee College of Music\, the University of London\, the University of California–Berkeley\, and the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze (Rome). \nDavid Harrington is the lead violinist and founder of the Kronos Quartet. For over 40 years he has collaborated with composers and musicians from every continent\, performed work nearly spanning the history of notated music\, and redefined the role of a contemporary string quartet. \nPraise:\n“An interesting and important project.”\n—Noam Chomsky \n“There is hope. Thanks to Ian Brennan for shining a light.”\n—Bill Frisell \n“Every page of Silenced by Sound is like listening to a fresh\, bracing\, previously unknown kind of music for the very first time.”\n—David Harrington\, Kronos Quartet \n“Brennan presents a hefty\, bracing tome . . .”\n—Booklist \n“. . . full of wisdom from someone who cares deeply about the power of real music.”\n—MOJO
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ian-brennan-in-conversation-with-david-harrington/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:LAUNCH for Taneum Bambrick / Vantage and Graham Barnhart / The War Makes Everyone Lonely\, with Rita Chang-Eppig & Claire Meuschke
DESCRIPTION:BINDERY: LAUNCH for Taneum Bambrick / Vantage and Graham Barnhart / The War Makes Everyone Lonely\, with Rita Chang-Eppig & Claire Meuschke\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, October 3\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nBody:\n\n\nThe Bindery hosts a double launch for Taneum Bambrick (Vantage) and Graham Barnhart (The War Makes Everyone Lonely)\, each celebrating their debut full-length collection of poetry. Reading with them are fiction writer Rita Chang-Eppig and poet Claire Meuschke. Please join us! \n\nAbout Vantage \nVantage is a fictionalized account of the poet’s real experiences working as the only woman on a six-person garbage crew around the reservoirs of two massive dams. Bambrick began writing poems in order to document the forms of violence she witnessed towards the people and the environment of the Columbia River. While working there she found that reservoirs foster a uniquely complex community – from fish biologists to the owners of luxury summer homes – and became interested in the issues and tensions between the people of that place. The idea of power\, literal and metaphorical\, was present in every action and encounter with bosses and the people using the river. The presence of a young woman on the crew irritated her older\, male co-workers who’d logged\, built houses\, and had to suffer various forms of class discrimination their entire lives. She found throughout this experience that their issues\, while not the same\, were inherently connected to the suffering of the lands they worked. Introduction by Sharon Olds. \nTaneum Bambrick is the author of Vantage\, which was selected by Sharon Olds for the 2019 American Poetry Review/Honickman first book award (Copper Canyon Press). Her chapbook\, Reservoir\, was selected by Ocean Vuong for the 2017 Yemassee Chapbook Prize. She is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry. \n\nAbout The War Makes Everyone Lonely \nIn his first collection of poems\, many of which were written during his years as a US Army Special Forces medic\, Graham Barnhart explores themes of memory\, trauma\, and isolation. Ranging from conventional lyrics and narrative verse to prose poems and expressionist forms\, the poems here display a strange\, quiet power as Barnhart engages in the pursuit and recognition of wonder\, even while concerned with whether it is right to do so in the fraught space of the war zone. We follow the speaker as he treads the line between duty and the horrors of war\, honor and compassion for the victims of violence\, and the struggle to return to the daily life of family and society after years of trauma. \nEvoking the landscapes and surroundings of war\, as well as its effects on both US military service members and civilians in war-stricken countries\, The War Makes Everyone Lonely is a challenging\, nuanced look at the ways American violence is exported\, enacted\, and obscured by a writer poised to take his place in the long tradition of warrior-poets. \nA US Army veteran and former Wallace Stegner fellow\, Graham Barnhartis the author of The War Makes Everyone Lonely.  He is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize and The Blackwell Prize\, as well as fellowships from The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, Sewanee Writer’s Conference\, and Writing Workshops in Greece. He holds an MFA in poetry from The Ohio State University and a BA in English from Allegheny College. His work has recently appeared in\, or is forthcoming from 32 Poems\, The Gettysburg Review\, Gulf Coast\, Pleiades\, and others. Currently he is a PhD candidate at The University of North Texas. \n\nRita Chang-Eppig received her MFA in fiction from New York University and her PhD in psychology from the University of Michigan. Her stories have appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern\, Calyx\, Kenyon Review Online\, and Conjunctions. She was recently a VSC/Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellow at the Vermont Studio Center. \nClaire Meuschke is from the Bay Area and has lived in New York City\, New Mexico\, and Arizona. Upend\, her debut book of poems\, is forthcoming March 2020 by Noemi Press. She is a Wallace Stegner Fellow. \n  \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Vantage\, order below and put your request in the comments field. If you’d like to request a signed copy of Graham’s book\, order here and do the same. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-taneum-bambrick-vantage-and-graham-barnhart-the-war-makes-everyone-lonely-with-rita-chang-eppig-claire-meuschke/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Max Tomlinson
DESCRIPTION:Max Tomlinson joins us to discuss his novel\, Vanishing in the Haight.\n \nAbout Vanishing in the Haight \nBetween fending off a lecherous parole officer and trying to get by in 1978 San Francisco\, private investigator Colleen Hayes struggles to put her life back together so she can reconnect with her runaway teenage daughter. Then her life changes dramatically. She accepts a case from wealthy\, retired industrialist Edward Copeland. The old man is desperate to solve the brutal murder of his daughter\, a murder that took place in Golden Gate Park eleven years earlier—during the Summer of Love. The case has since gone cold\, her murderer never found. Now\, in his final days\, Copeland hires Colleen to find his daughter’s killer in hopes he might die in peace. \nColleen understands what it means to take a life—she spent a decade in prison for killing her ex. Battling her own demons\, she immerses herself in San Francisco’s underbelly\, where police corruption is rampant. Her investigation turns deadly as she pries for information\, yet there is little to go on. However\, a song on the radio makes her wonder—did the murdered girl leave any clues that others may have missed? \nAbout the Author  \nBorn in San Francisco\, with its rich literary history and a public transport system teeming with characters suitable for crime novels\, the stage was set for Max Tomlinson to become a mystery writer. However\, his time abroad has also inspired a variety of flavors in his writing. His published work includes a crime series set in South America\, an international espionage series\, and now Vanishing in the Haight\, the first of the Colleen Hayes mystery series\, set in his hometown.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/max-tomlinson/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Future of Translation with Çedilla & Co.
DESCRIPTION:Sean Gasper Bye\, Elisabeth Jaquette\, Julia Sanches\, Jeremy Tiang and Jeffrey Zuckerman\, members of Çedilla & Co.\, a collective of literary translators representing a wide range of writers\, languages\, and presses\, join us to talk about the future of translation and share a little about their current projects. Sponsored by The Center for the Art of Translation. \nSean Gasper Bye is a translator of Polish\, French\, and Russian literature and head of humanities programming for the Polish Cultural Institute in New York. He has translated work by some of Poland’s leading nonfiction writers\, including Małgorzata Szejnert\, Paweł Smoleński\, and Lidia Ostałowska. His translations have been published in Words Without Borders\, Continents\, and In Other Words. An excerpt of his translation of Filip Springer’s History of a Disappearance (Restless Books) won the Asymptote Close Approximations Prize in 2016. \nElisabeth Jaquette is a translator from Arabic\, instructor at Hunter College\, and executive director of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA). Among her book-length translations are The Apartment in Bab el-Louk by Donia Maher\, illustrated by Ganzeer and Ahmed Nady\, and The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz. Elisabeth is the recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Grant and an English PEN Translates Award. Her work has been shortlisted for the TA First Translation Prize\, and longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award. \nJulia Sanches is a translator of Portuguese\, Spanish\, French\, and Catalan. Her book-length translations are Now and at the Hour of Our Death by Susana Moreira Marques (And Other Stories\, 2015) and What are the Blind Men Dreaming? by Noemi Jaffe (Deep Vellum\, 2016). Her shorter translations have appeared in Suelta\, The Washington Review\, Asymptote\, Two Lines\, Granta\, Tin House\, Words Without Borders\, and Revista Machado\, among others. Having spent several years as a literary agent\, Julia has decided to focus her energies on translation and advocating for the authors she most loves from foreign languages. \nJeremy Tiang has translated novels by Yeng Pway Ngon\, Li Er\, Zhang Yueran\, Su Wei-Chen\, and Chan Ho-Kei; and non-fiction by Yu Qiuyu and Jackie Chan. He also writes and translates plays\, and is the author of It Never Rains on National Day and State of Emergency\, which won the Singapore Literature Prize. Jeremy is the Managing Editor of Pathlight magazine and a member of the translation collective Cedilla & Co. He lives in Brooklyn. \nJeffrey Zuckerman is a translator of French and the Digital Coordinator at Music & Literature Magazine. His translations include Ananda Devi’s Eve Out of Her Ruins\, the diaries of the Dardenne brothers\, and Jean Genet’s The Criminal Child. He has also contributed shorter pieces to Frieze\, The New Republic\, The NYRDaily\, The Paris Review Daily\, The White Review\, and VICE. Jeffrey studied English literature and literary translation at Yale University\, and has served as a judge for the PEN Translation Prize and the National Translation Award. He is a recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant for his ongoing work on the complete stories of Hervé Guibert.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-future-of-translation-with-cedilla-co/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: Fay Victor and Myra Melford\, in performance and conversation
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series\, supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, re-commences this Fall 2019 with a double-program featuring outstanding composer-improvisers Fay Victor\, visiting from her home in Brooklyn\, New York\, and Myra Melford\, with us from across the Bay\, in Berkeley. At 1:00 pm Thursday October 3\, they’ll present a workshop performance at The Poetry Center\, performing in duo then conversing with one another and the audience. At 7:30 pm we move to the Center for New Music in downtown San Francisco\, for a duo performance followed by an open conversation with the audience. Both events are free and open to the public; for the Center for New Music performance please reserve a free ticket with C4NM here. \n“She’s essentially invented her own hybrid of song and spoken word\, a scat style for today’s avant-garde.”\n—Giovanni Russonello\, The New York Times\, on Fay Victor \nBrooklyn\, NY based sound artist/composer Fay Victor hones a unique vision for the vocalist’s role in jazz and improvised music\, pushing the vocal envelope forward regarding repertoire\, improvisation\, and composition. Victor encompasses a distinctive vocalizing\, language\, and performing approach with the foundation of the jazz vocal idiom\, invoking an “everything is everything” aesthetic that brings in references that span the globe. Victor sees the vocal instrument in itself as full of possibilities of sound exploration\, the voice a direct and powerful conduit for language and messages in an improvising context. All of these ideas aim to push the vocal envelope to forge greater expressive possibilities. In Victor’s nine critically acclaimed albums as a leader one can hear the through line of expansive expression leading up to her most recent release\, Wet Robots (ESP Disk\, 2018) with her SoundNoiseFUNK project. \nVictor’s performed with luminaries such as Dr. Randy Weston\, Gary Bartz\, Misha Mengelberg\, Archie Shepp\, Nicole Mitchell\, Myra Melford\, Jamaaladeen Tacuma\, Billy Martin and Tyshawn Sorey. Performance highlights include The Museum of Modern Art (NYC)\, The Hammer Museum (LA)\, The Kolner Philharmonie (Germany)\, De Young Museum (SF)\, Symphony Space (NY)\, The Apollo Theatre (NY) the Bimhuis (Netherlands)\, Vision Festival (NYC)\, Earshot Jazz Festival (Seattle) & the Winter JazzFest (NY\, NY). Victor was the 2017 Herb Albert/Yaddo Fellow in Music Composition where she composed Faith\, The Gift — a 12 movement tribute to the life of her mother\, Faith E.S.Victor. In addition to Wet Robots\, Victor also appears on William Parker’s Voices Fall From the Sky (AUM Fidelity\, 2018)\, Nicole Mitchell’s Maroon Cloud (FPE Records\, 2018) recording and Marc Ribot’s Songs of Resistance 1942-2018 (ANTI-records\, 2018)\, the latter featuring Victor as well as guest vocalists Tom Waits\, Steve Earle and Meshell Ndegeocello amongst others. Victor is a music educator and vocal specialist of the highest order and currently on the faculty of the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. She continues to give clinics and workshops at home in New York City and around the world. More at fayvictor.com; follow Fay Victor on social media\, Twitter & IG: @freesongsinger \n“Pianist-composer Myra Melford has often placed her music at the fulcrum between gleaming beauty and turbulent unrest. This is music with an endless capacity for elasticity and surprise\, along with an affirming spirit of coherence.” —NPR Best 50 Albums of 2018\, on Myra Melford’s Snowy Egret\, The Other Side of Air \nThe pianist\, composer\, bandleader and educator Myra Melford—whom The New Yorker called “a stalwart of the new-jazz movement”—has spent the last three decades making brilliant original music that is equally challenging and engaging. Culling inspiration from a wide range of sources including Cecil Taylor\, the blues and boogie-woogie of her native Chicago\, the poetry of Rumi\, the AACM\, and yoga\, she’s explored an array of formats\, among them ruminative solo-piano recitals\, deeply interactive combos and ambitious multidisciplinary programs. Melford’s most recent release\, The Other Side of Air (Firehouse 12)\, by her quintet Snowy Egret\, is an extraordinary document of her unique creative language—a seamless\, shifting blend of composition and improvisation\, and a probing of the space shared between dynamic small-group jazz and contemporary chamber music. Since debuting on record as a bandleader in 1990\, she’s built a discography of more than 20 albums as a leader or co-leader\, and has collaborated with such luminaries as Dave Douglas\, Marty Ehrlich\, Liberty Ellman\, Erik Friedlander\, Ben Goldberg\, Joseph Jarman\, Leroy Jenkins\, Ron Miles\, Nicole Mitchell\, Tyshawn Sorey\, Chris Speed\, Stomu Takeishi\, Cuong Vu\, and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. \nMelford’s teachers and mentors include Butch Morris\, Henry Threadgill\, Jaki Byard\, Don Pullen and other icons of jazz postmodernism\, and she has received some of the most prestigious honors available to an improvising musician: numerous DownBeat poll placings\, a 2000 Fulbright scholarship\, a 2012 Alpert Award in the Arts for Music and\, in 2013\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award and the Doris Duke Residency to Build Demand for the Arts. \nAfter having been an influential presence in New York since the mid-’80s\, Melford relocated to the Bay Area in 2004\, to join the music department at the University of California\, Berkeley\, as a Professor of Composition and Improvisational Practices. She continues to bring cutting-edge jazz and new music to the campus community via her teaching and as a guest curator for the Cal Performances organization. More at myramelford.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-fay-victor-and-myra-melford-in-performance-and-conversation/
LOCATION:Center for New Music\, 55 Taylor Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:MFA in Writing Reading Series - Patricia Smith
DESCRIPTION:  \nTHURSDAY\, OCTOBER 3 7:45 – 9:30 p.m.\nFromm Hall – FR 125 – Maraschi Room\nPatricia Smith is the author of eight books of poetry\, including Incendiary Art\, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award\, the 2018 NAACP Image Award\, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah\,winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; Blood Dazzler\, a National Book Award finalist; and Africans in America\, a companion book to the award-winning PBS series. Her work has appeared in Poetry\, The Paris Review\, The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, Best American Poetry\, Best American Essay\, and Best American Mystery Stories. She co-edited The Golden Shovel Anthology—New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks and edited the crime fiction anthology Staten Island Noi.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mfa-in-writing-reading-series-patricia-smith/
LOCATION:FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, USF\, 2130 Fulton St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John James and Julia Guez
DESCRIPTION:John James and Julia Guez read from their new poetry collections\, The Milk Hours and In an Invisible Glass Case Which is Also a Frame. \nAbout The Milk Hours \nWinner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize\, The Milk Hours is an elegant debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist in a state of loss. \n“We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery.” So begins the title poem of this collection\, whose recursive temporality is filled with living\, grieving things\, punctuated by an unseen world of roots\, bodies\, and concealed histories. Like a cemetery\, too\, The Milk Hours sets unlikely neighbors alongside each other: Hegel and Murakami\, Melville and the Persian astronomer al-Sufi\, enacting a transhistorical poetics even as it brims with intimacy. These are poems of frequent swerves and transformations\, which never stray far from an engagement with science\, geography\, art\, and aesthetics\, nor from the dream logic that motivates their incessant investigations. \nIndeed\, while John James begins with the biographical–the haunting loss of a father in childhood\, the exhausted hours of early fatherhood–the questions that emerge from his poetic synthesis are both timely and universal: what is it to be human in an era where nature and culture have fused? To live in a time of political and environmental upheaval\, of both personal and public loss? How do we make meaning\, and to whom–or what–do we turn\, when such boundaries so radically collapse? \nAbout John James \nJohn James is the author of Chthonic\, winner of the 2014 CutBank Chapbook Award. His poems appear in Boston Review\, Kenyon Review\, Gulf Coast\, Poetry Northwest\, Best American Poetry 2017\, and elsewhere. Also a digital collagist\, his visual art is forthcoming in the Adroit Journal\, Quarterly West\, and LIT. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where he is pursuing a PhD in English at the University of California\, Berkeley. \nAbout In an Invisible Glass Case Which is Also a Frame \nA close look at the rigors of our current cultural moment\, In an Invisible Glass Case Which Is Also a Frame offers readers a way to navigate vital questions: what does it mean to be “secure”? How do we make art amid complexity? In Guez’s debut\, readers will witness realities of income inequality\, climate change\, and the opioid epidemic alongside a series of reliable antidotes: art\, music\, humor\, and love. “Have we made it across the vast plain of night?” asks one poem. No\, not quite. There is more night\, but there is singing\, too. Rich in its sophisticated engagement of a “still life” series\, dilemmas large and small\, political and personal\, are treated with generosity\, curiosity\, and a precise investigation of the heart. \nAbout Julia Guez \nJulia Guez’s poetry\, essays\, interviews and translations have appeared in Poetry\, the Guardian\, PEN Poetry Series\, the Kenyon Review\, BOMB and the Brooklyn Rail. She has been awarded the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize\, a Fulbright Fellowship and the John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize in Translation. Guez holds degrees from Rice and Columbia. For the last decade\, she has worked with Teach For America; she’s currently a managing director of programming there. She also teaches creative writing at Rutgers and writes poetry reviews for Publishers Weekly. Guez lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-james-and-julia-guez/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Contributing editor Diane Noomin and contributors / Drawing Power: Women's Stories of Sexual Violence\, Harassment\, and Survival
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special event for the new comics anthology Drawing Power: Women’s Stories of Sexual Violence\, Harassment\, and Survival\, with contributing editor Diane Noomin and contributors Tyler Cohen\, Marian Henley\, Carol Lay\, Ajuan Mance\, Lee Marrs\, Liz Mayorga\, Minnie Phan\, Ariel Schrag\, and M. Louise Stanley. Please join us! \nInspired by the global #MeToo Movement\, Drawing Power: Women’s Stories of Sexual Violence\, Harassment\, and Survival is a collection of original\, nonfiction comics drawn by more than 60 female cartoonists from around the world. Featuring such noted creators as Emil Ferris\, Aline Kominsky-Crumb\, MariNaomi\, Liana Finck\, and Ebony Flowers\, the anthology’s contributors comprise a diverse group of many ages\, sexual orientations\, and races – and their personal stories convey the wide spectrum of sexual harassment and abuse that is still all too commonplace. With a percentage of profits going to RAINN\, Drawing Power is an anthology that stokes the fires of progressive social upheaval\, in the fight for a better\, safer world. \n\nDiane Noomin is the creator of the comics character DiDi Glitz\, editor of both Twisted Sisters anthologies\, and was one of the early contributors toWimmen’s Comix. She has been nominated for Harvey and Eisner Awards and received an Inkpot Award. Glitz-2-Go\, a collection of Noomin’s art throughout her career\, was published in 2013. Her work is included in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs collection. Her most recent work is Drawing Power\, which she both edited and contributed to. \nTyler Cohen is a cartoonist who uses autobiography and surrealism to explore gender\, parenthood\, race\, and female experience. Her bookPrimahood: Magenta won the 2017 Bisexual Book Award for Graphic Memoir. Her work has appeared online in Illustrated PEN and Mutha Magazine and in print in numerous anthologies. See primazonia.com for more. \n  \nMarian Henley is a cartoonist and author of the graphic novel Maxine and the graphic memoir The Shiniest Jewel\, which Publishers Weekly described as “a near- perfect book” (“near” being better than “far from”). She lives in Austin\, Texas. \n  \nCarol Lay has created comics\, short stories\, and illustrations for many publications including Ahoy Comics\, Bongo\, LA Weekly\, the Wall Street Journal\, and the New Yorker. Her current comic strip\, Lay Lines\, can be seen on GoComics.com and carollay.com. \n  \nAjuan Mance is a professor of African American literature at Mills College and a lifelong artist and writer. Ajuan’s work has appeared in a number of online and print publications. Her art and comics use humor and color to explore the complexities of race and gender in the United States. \n  \nLee Marrs is the first woman to work for DC Comics and Marvel simultaneously. She was also one of the founders of Wimmen’s Comix. An Emmy and Inkpot Award winner and 2016 Eisner Award nominee\, Lee is best known for her Pudge\, Girl Blimp series\, now a book. Her other work includes Batman\, Wonder Woman\, Indiana Jones\, and Gay Comics. Lee is the retired multimedia arts chair of Berkeley City College. \n  \nLiz Mayorga is a cartoonist from California. Her work combines folklore and popular culture with feminist theory. When she’s not teaching or creating something new\, she enjoys playing with animals and riding her bike. Liz is a DIY artist who is also proud of being a working-class Xicana. \n  \nMinnie Phan is an illustrator and cartoonist living in Oakland\, California. She focuses on themes of cultural heritage\, diversity\, personal stories\, and the invisible things that shape who we are. Clients include NPR\, Live Nation\, Starbucks\, and Colorlines. See more of her work at minniephan.com. \n  \nAriel Schrag is the author of the graphic memoirs Part of It\, Likewise\,Potential\, Definition\, and Awkward\, and the novel Adam. She has written for television series on HBO and Showtime. She lives in Brooklyn\, New York. \n  \nM. Louise Stanley makes paintings that juxtapose myth and allegory in order to poke fun at contemporary politics and mores with a deadly serious brush. Stanley teaches painting and drawing at Berkeley City College and resides in Emeryville\, California. She is a recent recipient of both the Pollock- Krasner Foundation and John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens with the store at 2pm; event starts at 4pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Drawing Power\, order below and include your request in the comments field. If you’d like to request a signed copy of any of the contributors’ books\, email events@booksmith.com. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n\n\n\n\nBooks:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/contributing-editor-diane-noomin-and-contributors-drawing-power-womens-stories-of-sexual-violence-harassment-and-survival/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mongreltude and From Nature - Poetry With Bernheimer and Brolaski
DESCRIPTION:Alan Bernheimer’s latest collection of poetry is From Nature (Cuneiform Press\, 2019). Recent work has appeared at Across the Margin and at SFMOMA’s Open Space and in The Equalizer\, The Delineator\, and Hambone. The Spoonlight Institute was published by Adventures in Poetry in 2009. Born and raised in Manhattan\, he has lived in the Bay Area since the 1970s. He produces a portrait gallery of poets reading on flickr. His translation of Philippe Soupault’s memoir\, Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism\, Dada\, and Surrealism\, was published by City Lights in 2016. \nJulian Talamantez Brolaski is the author of Of Mongrelitude (Wave Books\, 2017)\, Advice for Lovers (City Lights\, 2012)\, gowanus atropolis (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2011)\, and coeditor of NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life & Work of kari edwards (Litmus Press/Belladonna Books\, 2009). Its pronoun is it. It is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist in the country bands Juan & the Pines (NYC) and The Western Skyline (Oakland). Brolaski is currently researching and editing The Apache Pollen Path (University of New Mexico Press\, 2020)\, a book on Mescalero Apache ceremony\, with its grandmother\, Inés Talamantez.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mongreltude-and-from-nature-poetry-with-bernheimer-and-brolaski/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry with Alan Bernheimer and Julian Talamantez Brolaski
DESCRIPTION:Alan Bernheimer’s latest collection of poetry is From Nature (Cuneiform Press\, 2019). Recent work has appeared at Across the Margin and at SFMOMA’s Open Space and in The Equalizer\, The Delineator\, and Hambone. The Spoonlight Institute was published by Adventures in Poetry in 2009. Born and raised in Manhattan\, he has lived in the Bay Area since the 1970s. He produces a portrait gallery of poets reading on flickr. His translation of Philippe Soupault’s memoir\, Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism\, Dada\, and Surrealism\,was published by City Lights in 2016. \nJulian Talamantez Brolaski is the author of Of Mongrelitude (Wave Books\, 2017)\, Advice for Lovers (City Lights\, 2012)\, gowanus atropolis (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2011)\, and coeditor of NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life & Work of kari edwards (Litmus Press/Belladonna Books\, 2009). Its pronoun is it. It is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist in the country bands Juan & the Pines (NYC) and The Western Skyline (Oakland). Brolaski is currently researching and editing The Apache Pollen Path (University of New Mexico Press\, 2020)\, a book on Mescalero Apache ceremony\, with its grandmother\, Inés Talamantez.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-with-alan-bernheimer-and-julian-talamantez-brolaski/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:RACHEL MADDOW
DESCRIPTION:RACHEL MADDOW\nSunday\, October 6\, 2019\, 7:00 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \nTickets Sold Out! \n\n\nNOTE: 7PM start time. \nRachel Maddow is host of the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC and the author of Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power. Her new book\, Blowout: Corrupted Democracy\, Rogue State Russia\, and the Richest\, Most Destructive Industry on Earth reveals the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas\, drawing a surprising conclusion about how and why the Russian government hacked the 2016 U.S. election. Blowout is a call to stop subsidizing the wealthiest businesses on earth\, to fight for transparency\, and to check the influence of the world’s most destructive industry and its enablers. Maddow received a bachelor’s degree in public policy from Stanford University and earned her doctorate in political science at Oxford University. She lives in New York City and Massachusetts. \nAll tickets include a copy of Blowout: Corrupted Democracy\, Rogue State Russia\, and the Richest\, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-maddow/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays Fall Fiction: A Poet\, Novelist\, & Short Story Author Walk Into a Bookstore...
DESCRIPTION:Poet Jeanne Powell\, novelist C O R E Y M. P.\, and short story author Olga Zilberbourg will walk into Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley\, Monday\, October 7 to read for you from 6:30pm to 7:30pm. Books will be available for sales and signing after the readings. Admission is free and so are the drinks! \nThe poems in Jeanne Powell’s collection TWO SEASONS are\, according to Dennis Dalton\, Professor Emeritus\, Barnard College\, “inspiring and inspired because of their uncanny ability to transmit genuine feelings of rage and love\, justice and injustice\, with an eloquence and power that few contemporary American writers can match. Her gifted word dancing comes across forcefully yet gracefully in both oral recitations and on the written page. When I heard Jeanne deliver in public one of the exquisite poems from TWO SEASONS\, I was stunned at the impact it had on the audience.” \nIn Corey M.P.’s novel HEARTS AND ERRORS\, Valentine’s Day is fast approaching–a harsh reminder of when New York newspaper columnist Lana Levine was dumped by her boyfriend without an explanation and how\, three years later\, she still hasn’t moved on. When she discovers a magazine article about an old man who matches strangers in a small café in Paris\, Lana thinks this is definitely a sign. Desperate for change\, she flees to The City of Light. Armed with nothing but hope and a broken heart\, she begins her quest to find the mysterious café. \nOlga Zilberbourg’s first book in English is already a bestseller! LIKE WATER AND OTHER STORIES is a unique portrayal of motherhood\, of immigration and adaptation\, and an inside account of life in the Soviet Union and its dissolution. It looks at family and child rearing in ways both unsettling and tender\, with characters who grapple with complicated legacies—of state\, parentage\, displacement\, and identity. Anthony Marra calls it “a book of succinct abundance\, dazzling in its particulars\, expansive in its scope.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-fall-fiction-a-poet-novelist-short-story-author-walk-into-a-bookstore/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BERKELEY ARTS & LETTERS: Stephen Mitchell with Paul Hawken / Joseph and the Way of Forgiveness
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Arts & Letters presents Stephen Mitchell in conversation with Paul Hawken about his new book\, Joseph and the Way of Forgiveness. \nPlease note: This event is ticketed\, and will take place at First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Street\, Berkeley. Tickets\, including discounted book bundles\, are available in advance here. Advance sales are highly recommended. Unless otherwise noted here\, general admission tickets will be available at the door. \nStephen Mitchell’s gift is to breathe new life into ancient classics. In Joseph and the Way of Forgiveness\, he offers us his riveting novelistic version of the Biblical tale in which Jacobs favorite son is sold into slavery and eventually becomes viceroy of Egypt. Tolstoy called it the most beautiful story in the world. Whats new here is the lyrical\, witty\, vivid prose\, informed by a wisdom that brings fresh insight to this foundational legend of betrayal and all-embracing forgiveness. Mitchell’s retelling\, which reads like a postmodern novel\, interweaves the narrative with brief meditations that\, with their Zen surprises\, expand the narrative and illuminate its main themes. By stepping inside the minds of Joseph and the other characters\, Mitchell reanimates one of the central stories of Western culture. The engrossing tale that he has created will capture the hearts and minds of modern readers and show them that this ancient story can still challenge\, delight\, and astonish. \n\nStephen Mitchell was born in Brooklyn\, educated at Amherst\, the Sorbonne\, and Yale\, and de-educated through intensive Zen training. His many books include the bestselling Tao Te Ching\, Gilgamesh\, The Gospel According to Jesus\, The Book of Job\, The Second Book of the Tao\, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke\, Bhagavad Gita\, The Iliad\, The Odyssey\, and Beowulf. He is also the co-author of three of his wife Byron Katie’s bestselling books. \nPaul Hawken is an environmentalist\, entrepreneur\, journalist\, and author. Starting at age 20\, he dedicated his life to sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. His practice has included starting and running ecological businesses\, writing and teaching about the impact of commerce on living systems\, and consulting with governments and corporations on economic development\, industrial ecology\, and environmental policy. Paul authors articles\, op-eds\, and peer-reviewed papers\, and has written eight books including five national bestsellers: The Next Economy (Ballantine 1983)\, Growing a Business (Simon & Schuster 1987)\, and The Ecology of Commerce (HarperCollins 1993) Blessed Unrest (Viking\, 2007)\, and Drawdown\, The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (Penguin). \n\n*** ​Please note *** \n– Doors at 6pm. Program at 7pm.\n– Duration of event is subject to author’s preference.\n– Signing details TBA soon.\n– Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final.\n– If you can’t attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Joseph and the Way of Forgiveness\, order below and put your request in the special field. If you’d like to request signed copies of any of Stephen’s other books\, order here and be sure to add your request in the special field; for signed copies of Paul’s books\, do the same here.\n– This event is all ages. Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you.\n– Facebook RSVP not required\, but always appreciated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-arts-letters-stephen-mitchell-with-paul-hawken-joseph-and-the-way-of-forgiveness/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:PATTI SMITH In Conversation with Dan Stone
DESCRIPTION:PATTI SMITH\nIn Conversation with Dan Stone\nMonday\, October 7\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nEach ticket to include a copy of Smith’s new memoir Year of the Monkey \nPatti Smith is a writer\, performer\, and visual artist who gained recognition in the 1970s for her revolutionary merging of poetry and rock. She has released numerous albums and many books including Just Kids\, M Train\, and Devotion. In The Year of the Monkey\, Smith is about to embark on a year of solitary wandering\, following a run of concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore. Taking us from California\, to the Arizona desert\, to a Kentucky farm\, to the hospital room of a valued mentor\, and by turns to remembered and imagined places\, this haunting memoir blends fact and fiction\, punctuated by Smith’s signature polaroid photographs\, which both document and complicate our understanding of events.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patti-smith-in-conversation-with-dan-stone/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Suyi Davies Okungbowa: David Mogo\, Godhunter
DESCRIPTION:Suyi Davies Okungbowa discusses his new novel\, David Mogo\, Godhunter. \nPraise for David Mogo\, Godhunter \n“A number of books have been termed ‘godpunk\,’ but Suyi Davies Okungbowa’s novel may be the subgenre’s platonic deific ideal\, from its title to its plot to its terse but vivid prose… Assured and arch\, unsettling and thoroughly enjoyable—an auspicious debut from one of the most promising new voices in the growing coterie of African SFF writers.” ~ WIRED \n“Vivid\, visceral and with a strength of the voice that  just pulls me right in. The god-littered world of  David Mogo’s Lagos just won’t let go.” ~ Jeannette Ng\, author of Under the Pendulum Sun \n“A fantastic adventure of gods and mortals—highly recommended.” ~ Tasha Suri\, author of Empire of Sand \n“A Nigerian Harry Dresden. Okungbowa’s voice is great\, and makes Lagos feel familiar.” ~ Jacey Bedford\, author of Winterwood \nAbout David Mogo\, Godhunter \nNigerian God-Punk – a powerful and atmospheric urban fantasy set in Lagos. \nLAGOS WILL NOT BE DESTROYED \nThe gods have fallen to earth in their thousands\, and chaos reigns. \nThough broken and leaderless\, the city endures. \nDavid Mogo\, demigod and godhunter\, has one task: capture two of the most powerful gods in the city and deliver them to the wizard gangster Lukmon Ajala. \nNo problem\, right?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/suyi-davies-okungbowa-david-mogo-godhunter/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191008T213000
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SUMMARY:Happy Endings: Spooooky Theme TBD
DESCRIPTION:HAPPY ENDINGS is a monthly reading series that showcases new writing and wants to shine a little sun on your soul.\nWhat’s gonna happen? Five writers will come with a piece they’ve prepared in response to a monthly prompt. A panel of judges will be selected from the audience\, and that panel will honor their favorites.\nCover is $10/Pay what you can and all the endings are happy(ish)!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-endings-spooooky-theme-tbd/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T193000
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Carolina de Robertis
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading and discussion of Cantoras\, the newly acclaimed novel by Uruguayan American author Carolina de Robertis. \nA Bay Area resident\, De Robertis is the author of the The Gods of Tango\, Perla\, and the international bestseller The Invisible Mountain. Her books have been translated into seventeen languages\, and have been named Best Books of the Year in venues including the San Francisco Chronicle\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\, BookList\, and NBC. \nShe is the recipient of a Stonewall Book Award\, Italy’s Rhegium Julii Prize\, and a 2012 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-carolina-de-robertis/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, Main Branch\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T203000
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SUMMARY:I Will Destroy You: Poetry With Nick Flynn and Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:Nick Flynn’s latest book is I Will Destroy You\, poetry that interrogates the potential of art to be redemptive\, to remake and reform. But first the maker of art must claim responsibility for his past\, his actions\, his propensity to destroy others and himself. The poems delve into the deepest\, most defeating parts of the self: addiction\, temptation\, infidelity\, and repressed memory. These are poems of profound self-scrutiny and lyric intensity\, jagged and probing. \nSpecial guest Matthew Zapruder’s new book is Father’s Day. He’s also the author of four collections of poetry\, most recently Come On All You Ghosts\, and Sun Bear as well as Why Poetry\, a book of prose. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/i-will-destroy-you-poetry-with-nick-flynn-and-matthew-zapruder/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T210000
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SUMMARY:Ian Haney López in conversation with Eva Paterson
DESCRIPTION:Ian Haney López in conversation with Eva Paterson\nWednesday\, October 9\, 2019\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\nPresented by City Lights in conjunction with The Equal Justice Society and The New Press \n \ndiscussing the subject of his new book \nMerge Left: Fusing Race and Class\, Winning Elections\, and Saving America \npublished by The New Press \n\n\n\nFrom the acclaimed author of Dog Whistle Politics\, an essential road map to neutralizing the role of racism as a divide-and-conquer political weapon and to building a broad multiracial progressive future \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Ian Haney López has broken the code on the racial politics of the last fifty years.” —Bill Moyers \n\n\n\n\n\n\nToday more than ever\, warnings to fear immigrants and people of color bombard us incessantly. Quite simply\, the Right’s fundamental strategy has been to divide and distract while rigging the rules to benefit the superrich. No more. It’s time to reject this kind of purposeful division and to join together to demand that government work for all of us\, whether we’re white\, Black\, or brown. \nIan Haney López has spent the last two years collaborating with a team of union activists\, racial justice leaders\, communications specialists\, and pollsters. Based on conversations and interviews with people all over the country\, the team discovered that a large majority of the population (people of color included) fall into “the persuadable middle”—they hold both progressive and racist views and can be shifted in one direction or another based on different stories about America. \nFor decades\, while the Right has exploited racial fear-mongering\, the Left has splintered. Some have wanted to tackle racism head-on; others have insisted that a race-silent focus on class avoids alienating white voters. Merge Left distills the heartening results of cutting-edge new research: naming racism as a weapon of the rich and calling for cross-racial solidarity builds unity across the base and enlists the broad middle in supporting progressive dreams. \nA work of deep research\, nuanced argument\, and urgent insight\, Merge Left is an indispensable tool for the upcoming political season and in the larger fight to build racial justice and shared economic prosperity. \nIan Haney López is the Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at University of California\, Berkeley\, and the author of Dog Whistle Politics and White by Law\, as well as Merge Left (The New Press). He lives in Richmond\, California. \nEva Jefferson Paterson has campaigned for civil rights with passion\, courage and tenacity for more than three decades. Paterson is the President and a co-founder of the Equal Justice Society\, a legal organization transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law\, social science\, and the arts. \nThe Equal Justice Society is transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law\, social science\, and the arts. Led by President Eva Paterson\, our legal strategy aims to broaden conceptions of present-day discrimination to include unconscious and structural bias by using social science\, structural analysis\, and real-life experience.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ian-haney-lopez-in-conversation-with-eva-paterson/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T210000
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SUMMARY:San Francisco in Queer Fiction\, by the Decade
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith welcomes Perfectly Queer Reading Series back as they present a night of readings: San Francisco in Queer Fiction\, by the Decade. Please join us! \nSan Francisco has been the location for many works of fiction\, from McTeague by Frank Norris to Less by Andrew Sean Greer. Join us Tuesday\, October 8\, 7pm at The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight (in San Francisco\, of course) to hear readings from four novels with San Francisco as their setting\, written by LGBTQ authors: Blackmail\, My Love by Katie Gilmartin\, Eat Sleep Love by Chuck Forester\, Steam by the late Jay B. Laws (as read byRichard May)\, and Five Windows by Jon Roemer. These books span life in San Francisco from the 1950s to the 70s and 80s to the contemporary city. Free admission and free refreshments. Book signing after the readings. \n\nChuck Forester was raised in northern Wisconsin. He attended Dartmouth and Penn and holds an MCP in city planning and an MFA in poetry. Chuck worked on staff for three San Francisco mayors. His philanthropic work includes leading the successful campaign to establish the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center at the San Francisco Main Library\, which raised $3.5 million. Michael A. Schoch\, his partner of 18 years\, succumbed to AIDS in 1994. Chuck has been an HIV-survivor since 1987. Eat Sleep Love is his latest novel. \nKatie Gilmartin’s checkered past includes stints as a buoyant union organizer\, bona fide sex researcher\, and deeply engaged college professor.  She teaches linocut and monotype classes at Chrysalis Studio in SOMArts and runs the Queer Ancestors Project\, devoted to forging sturdy relationships between young Queer and Trans artists and their ancestors.  Her illustrated noir mystery\, Blackmail My Love\, explores real and imagined Queer ancestors in early 1950s San Francisco.  Katie’s next novel\, Thrill Spot\, will be a fictional account of an actual 1954 raid on a lesbian bar called Tommy’s Place\, in North Beach. \nJon Roemer is a writer and editor based in San Francisco. He is founder and senior editor of Outpost19\, an award-winning book publisher. He is Queer\, a San Francisco resident since 1991\, and an explorer of urban change. Jon studied literature and fiction writing at Northwestern University. Five Windows is Jon’s first novel. \nJay B. Laws was a San Francisco playwright and writer. His first novel\, Steam\, was published by Alyson Books in 1991 and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. Jay died from AIDS in 1992\, a week after completing changes on the manuscript for his second novel\, The Unfinished\, which was published posthumously in 1993. This re-issue of Steamis from ReQueered Tales\, a new publisher specializing in republishing out of print Gay and Lesbian works. \n  \nAbout ReQueered Tales: \nPerhaps forty years of gay fiction – and notably gay and lesbian mystery\, detective and suspense fiction – has been teetering on the brink of obscurity. Orphaned works\, orphaned authors\, many living and some having passed away – with no one to make the case for their creations to be returned to print (and e-print!). Until now. That is the mission of ReQueered Tales. We are honored…to be custodians shepherding back into circulation some of the best Gay and Lesbian fiction writing. See their list of current and upcoming re-publications at requeeredtales.com. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of any of the authors’ books\, send your request to events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-in-queer-fiction-by-the-decade/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nick Flynn: a Reading\, a Conversation
DESCRIPTION:The Reading: Nick Flynn’s latest book is I Will Destroy You\, poetry that interrogates the potential of art to be redemptive\, to remake and reform. But first the maker of art must claim responsibility for his past\, his actions\, his propensity to destroy others and himself. The poems delve into the deepest\, most defeating parts of the self: addiction\, temptation\, infidelity\, and repressed memory. These are poems of profound self-scrutiny and lyric intensity\, jagged and probing. \nThe Conversation: Nick will be in conversation with Ben Terrall\, publisher of Namaste Motherfu**er.   The Reading: Nick Flynn’s latest book is I Will Destroy You\, poetry that interrogates the potential of art to be redemptive\, to remake and reform. But first the maker of art must claim responsibility for his past\, his actions\, his propensity to destroy others and himself. The poems delve into the deepest\, most defeating parts of the self: addiction\, temptation\, infidelity\, and repressed memory. These are poems of profound self-scrutiny and lyric intensity\, jagged and probing. \nThe Conversation: Nick will be in conversation with Ben Terrall\, publisher of Namaste Motherfu**er.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nick-flynn-a-reading-a-conversation/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Augusten Burroughs / Toil & Trouble: A Memoir
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a special evening with Augusten Burroughs for his new book\, Toil & Trouble: A Memoir. This will be his only SF/Bay Area appearance. Please join us! \nPlease note: this is a ticketed event\, to be held at Booksmith (1644 Haight St.) in San Francisco. The price of admission is equal to the cost of Toil & Trouble\, which is included with each ticket. Tickets can be purchased here. \n\n“Here’s a partial list of things I don’t believe in: God. The Devil. Heaven. Hell. Bigfoot. Ancient Aliens. Past lives. Life after death. Vampires. Zombies. Reiki. Homeopathy. Rolfing. Reflexology. Note that ‘witches’ and ‘witchcraft’ are absent from this list. The thing is\, I wouldn’t believe in them\, and I would privately ridicule any idiot who did\, except for one thing: I am a witch.” \nFor as long as Augusten Burroughs could remember\, he knew things he shouldn’t have known. He manifested things that shouldn’t have come to pass. And he told exactly no one about this\, save one person: his mother. His mother reassured him that it was all perfectly normal\, that he was descended from a long line of witches\, going back to the days of the early American colonies. And that this family tree was filled with witches. It was a bond that he and his mother shared — until the day she left him in the care of her psychiatrist to be raised in his family (but that’s a whole other story). After that\, Augusten was on his own. On his own to navigate the world of this tricky power; on his own to either use or misuse this gift. \nFrom the hilarious to the terrifying\, Toil & Trouble is a chronicle of one man’s journey to understand himself\, to reconcile the powers he can wield with things with which he is helpless. There are very few things that are coincidences\, as you will learn. Ghosts are real\, trees can want to kill you\, beavers are the spawn of Satan\, houses are alive\, and in the end\, love is the most powerful magic of all. \n\nAugusten Burroughs is the author of Running with Scissors\, Dry\, Magical Thinking: True Stories\, Possible Side Effects\, A Wolf at the Table and You Better Not Cry. He is also the author of the novel Sellevision\, which has been optioned for film. The film version of Running with Scissors\, directed by Ryan Murphy and produced by Brad Pitt\, was released in October 2006 and starred Joseph Cross\, Brian Cox\, Annette Bening (nominated for a Golden Globe for her role)\, Alec Baldwin and Evan Rachel Wood. Augusten’s writing has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers around the world including The New York Times and New York Magazine. In 2005 Entertainment Weekly named him one of “The 25 Funniest People in America.” \n\n** Please note ** \n– This is an all-ages event. \n– The duration of this event is up to the author. \n– Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. \n– 1 ticket = 1 book\, no exceptions. The book must be purchased from Booksmith. If you already have a copy of Toil & Trouble\, remember that books make great gifts! If you’ve already gifted Toil & Trouble to all of your friends\, it’s ok to buy a different book from Booksmith instead — in that case\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com. \n– If you can’t attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Toil & Trouble\, order below and be sure to put your request in the special field. \n– Signing\, photo\, and Q&A details to come. \n– Facebook RSVP not required\, but always appreciated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/augusten-burroughs-toil-trouble-a-memoir/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191010T210000
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SUMMARY:Kim Magowan: The Light Source
DESCRIPTION:Kim Magowan discusses her new novel\, The Light Source. \nAbout The Light Source \nThe relationship between Heather Katchadourian and Julie Howe is complicated. Over the past two decades\, they’ve been just about everything to each other: boarding school roommates\, best friends\, lovers\, rivals\, even co-parents–both together and estranged. Will they find their way back to each other\, or have they inflicted too much damage along the way? Reminiscent of the work of Meg Wolitzer\, and narrated by Heather\, Julie\, their lifelong friends\, partners\, and children\, The Light Source is a prismatic portrayal of what everlasting modern love truly looks like and reminds us that what’s meant-to-be becomes harder to define with age.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-magowan-the-light-source/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:PICO IYER In Conversation with Dan Stone
DESCRIPTION:PICO IYER\nIn Conversation with Dan Stone\nThursday\, October 10\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: “On Arts” Benefiting 826 Valencia Scholarship Program \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\n“As a guide to far-flung places\, Pico Iyer can hardly be surpassed.” – The New Yorker \nPico Iyer is a travel writer\, essayist\, and novelist\, whose many books include Video Night in Kathmandu\, The Lady and the Monk\, The Man Within My Head\, and The Art of Stillness\, a beautiful and thoughtful investigation of the benefits of quiet contemplation and travel to “nowhere.” With his two newest books\, Iyer turns his attention to Japan\, his adopted home of thirty-two years. Autumn Light is a moving personal account of grief and family. When his father-in-law dies suddenly\, Iyer begins to grapple with the question we all have to live with: how to hold on to the things we love. In A Beginner’s Guide to Japan\, Iyer draws on readings\, reflections\, and conversations with Japanese friends in order to illuminate an unknown place for newcomers and to give longtime residents a look at their home through fresh eyes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pico-iyer-in-conversation-with-dan-stone/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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