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SUMMARY:Fireside Storytelling: Brushes with Fame
DESCRIPTION:Fame is such an odd thing. Everybody wants a piece of it\, though many who get it\, ultimately regret it. This month\, Fireside brings to the stage six storytellers to tell true tales about their brushes with fame: whether it’s encounters with famous people\, or finding themselves in the middle of their 15 minutes of fame — or infamy. Join us!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fireside-storytelling-brushes-with-fame/
LOCATION:The Institute of Possibility\, 3359 Cesar Chavez St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's 'Paramour'
DESCRIPTION:•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\n\n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nWednesday\, April 12th\, 2017\n\n\n\nat the Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa\, San Francisco\, CA)\n\n\nRemember: Bang-O at 7:00 PM\, Stories at 8:00 PM\n\n\nListen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at\n\n\nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast\n\n\nWe don’t limit you. Why are you limiting yourself? #storytelling #Unedited #TheRealDeal\n\n\n\nThis Evening of “Love stories includes:\n\n\n❤ Online Dating Prankster Dixie De La Tour\n\n\n❤ YOU! Pitch your story to Dixie!\n\n\n\n❤ Musical act to come (do songs about sex? Email Dixie!)\n\n\n\n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for talking to sexy strangers\n\n\n❤ Reserved Seating puts you right up front\, in the action\n\n\n\n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #ItsOK#PublicLibationIsLegal\n\n\n❤ Hosted by Carnal Curator Dixie De La Tour\n\n\n\n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\nSexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour brings her true dirty storytelling show back to the Verdi Club’s stage and this month\, we intertwine Love and Sex. : stories of wild abandon that left to true love\, tales of the search for more than orgasm or finding that you\, on your own\, are what you’ve been looking for all along. Hey… isn’t that your story?! Let’s find out: email Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com and pitch her your story to be part of this show. Bawdy Storytelling promises you a Wednesday night of true\, funny\, poignant\, shocking tales – each told without notes by the sexual adventurer who lived to tell the tale. \n\n\n\nAbout Bawdy Storytelling:\n\n\nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure.\n\n\n \n\n\nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & hand-picked Rockstars as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal!\n\n\n\n• No Refunds or Exchanges\n\n\n• Lineup Subject to Change\n\n\n• General Admission seating is first come\, first served. We recommend you arrive by 7:15 for best seating (Reserved Seating guarantees you a seat right up front)\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nPerformer Bios:\n\n\n\n❤ Marga Gomez is a GLAAD Award winner and was named “Best Bay Area Comedian” by the SF Weekly\, Bay Area Reporter and The SF Bay Guardian. Robin Williams called her “Amazing..a lesbian Lenny Bruce.” Gomez’s comedy has been featured on HBO\, LOGO\, Showtime\, Comedy Central and PBS. She is also the author/performer of twelve solo plays which have been presented Off-Broadway\, nationally and internationally. Gomez can be seen in season two of the Netflix series “Sense8” She has been a guest on leading comedy podcasts Marc Maron’s “WTF\,” “The Keith and The Girl Show” and Kevin Allison’s “Risk.” Her website is margagomez.com\n\n\n \n\n\n❤ Ash Fisher is a comedian\, actor and writer. She is not a comedienne\, an actress or a writeress. She co-hosts the popular Oakland comedy show “Man Haters\,” named 2016 Best Comedy Show by East Bay Express. She was the 2012 Newcomer Runner-Up in Ladies of Laughter at Gotham Comedy Club NYC\, won the Oakland Storytelling Showdown\, won the Shipwreck Erotic Fan Fiction Competition\, and performed in San Francisco Sketchfest 2016 and 2017. She writes for Wear Your Voice Mag and has been published in The Huffington Post and The Advocate. She does illustration and voiceovers whenever someone lets her. Ash holds a B.F.A. in Theatre from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts\, and Sallie Mae will never let her forget it. Find her at ashfisherhaha.com & on twitter & instagram: @ashfisherhaha\n\n\n\n❤ Online dating prankster & Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour founded Bawdy Storytelling with one idea: To bring people together to tell\, share\, and delight in each other’s stories of sex\, kink\, gender\, love\, and lust in a live setting. The nation’s premiere sex and storytelling series\, Bawdy is lauded for its inclusivity (LGBTQIA\, kink\, polyamory\, swingers\, vanilla\, and more) as much as it’s celebratory attitude\, Bawdy Storytelling is driven to bring acceptance through live autobiographical storytelling to new communities\, cities\, and countries. Dixie and Bawdy Storytelling have been praised by press both big and small; She has been recognized as a “masterful emcee\, and her show is everything that works for storytelling—she creates a warm\, safe space in which stories can bloom with dark hilarity\, salacious textures\, and moments of deep connection.” (Master Storyteller Mike Daisey).\n\n\nDixie has hosted and curated Bawdy Storytelling events at Yale Sex Week\, the Bondage Awards\, the Jewish Community Center of San Francicso\, CatalystCon Sexuality Conference\, Dark Odyssey\, FetFest\, and more\, as well as her home turf of the Bawdy Mainstage and BawdySlam shows. She can be found at @Bawdy on Twitter\, Bawdy Storytelling on Facebook and always\, always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show of 2016\, 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\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nWant more Bawdy?\n\n\nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com\n\n\nTwitter: @Bawdy\n\n\n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-paramour/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Party Like A Parisian! Impressions of Paris; An Artist's Sketchbook book launch party
DESCRIPTION:Stop by and help us toast Cat’s new book\, Impressions of Paris; An Artist’s Sketchbook. Meet and mingle with the artist herself and have your copy signed!\nShop the studio and enter our raffle! Toast with free snacks & beverages and snap a Frenchie photo in our photo booth! \nThe book event is on the same day as Polk Street’s First Annual Spring Wine Walk. Tickets are available at www.sresproductions.com for $20 in advance or $25 day-of at 1475 Polk Street. \nHope to see you! Come party with us like a Parisian! \nNo rsvp required but we do appreciate it on our Facebook event page. The event is the same day and alongside the Polk Street Spring Wine Walk which is $20 advanced and $25 at the door. Entry to the book launch party and all activities are free.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/party-like-a-parisian-impressions-of-paris-an-artists-sketchbook-book-launch-party/
LOCATION:Ferme A Papier by Cat Seto\, 2406 Polk Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Clark Coolidge
DESCRIPTION:Reading from his poetry and celebrating the release of Selected Poems: 1962-1985 \nfrom Station Hill Press \nEdited by Larry Fagin \nClark Coolidge is a revered figure in the world of American and world experimental poetry. SELECTED POEMS: 1962-1985 will be how Coolidge’s revolutionary early works will be read for generations to come. Lyn Hejinian writes\, “Reading through the still incredible work collected in this exemplary SELECTED POEMS\, I marvel all over again at the force of even the ‘smallest’ of Clark Coolidge’s poems. Coolidge’s sonic expertise has often been noted\, and music—especially bebop and what has followed it—clearly has suggested to him ways to generate rhythmic clusters\, to ride accelerations\, to invent scales. No other poet ever has so exquisitely\, and sometimes also turbulently\, written sheer sonic wonder into poetry.” This volume includes an introduction by Bill Berkson\, entitled “The Spools of Clark Coolidge\,” recounting Coolidge’s coming up and influences as well as eloquently expressing the visionary nature of his poetic enterprise. \nClark Coolidge is the author of more than forty books\, including SELECTED POEMS: 1962-1985\, Space\, Solution Passage\, The Crystal Text\, At Egypt\, NOW IT’S JAZZ: WRITINGS ON KEROUAC & THE SOUNDS\, THE ACT OF PROVIDENCE\, and most recently 88 SONNETS and A BOOK BEGINNING WHAT AND ENDING AWAY. In 2011 he edited a collection of Philip Guston’s writings and talks for University of California Press. Initially a drummer\, he was a member of David Meltzer’s Serpent Power in 1967 and Mix group in 1993-94. Currently he has returned to active drumming with Thurston Moore and the free jazz band Ouroboros.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clark-coolidge/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SpeCt Poets\, Ambr33zy Ba!: Recapturing Memories of the Black Ark
DESCRIPTION:A diverse selection of Bay Area musicians activate Recapturing Memories of the Black Ark \nThursday\, April 13\, 2017\, 7:00 PM\n$10-$20 sliding scale at door \nStart off your evening with local poets Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel\, Peter Burghardt\, and Robert Andrew Perez. The three co-publish speCt!\, an artbook press that prints small-batch\, single-author chapbooks\, and each has been widely published in poetry journals. Perez\, whose first collection\, the field\, was published with Omnidawn Publishing\, is a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for poetry. \nThen get the dance party started with Oakland’s own Ambr33zy BA! making the dance floor a safe space for all creative freaks\, oddballs\, and disco grannies to be themselves and shake their ass! For this special night\, Ambr33zy BA! with friends Ka’ra Kersey and Simmi will come together on one stage to bring high energy world music that will sweat your wig off in the name of LOVE! \nSee the full schedule of Black Ark performers:\nhttp://soex.org/blackark \nIn addition to an artist stipend in accordance with WAGE standards\, the performers will receive 50% of the proceeds from admissions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spect-poets-ambr33zy-ba-recapturing-memories-of-the-black-ark/
LOCATION:Southern Exposure\, 3030 20th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alejandro Murguía: The Power of Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Starting with the word and advancing to a complete poem\, this workshop\, taught by San Francisco’s poet laureate Alejandro Murguía\, will focus on poetry for our times. Student poets will be encouraged to channel their rage\, anger\, politics\, doubts\, insecurities as well as love and compassion into their poetry—with a bit of irony and humor included. If time allows we will workshop the poems in class. Bring two pencils and paper to write with. For poets of all skill and experience levels.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alejandro-murguia-the-power-of-poetry/
LOCATION:San Francisco Mechanics’ Institute\, 57 Post Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rolling Writers: Let's Jew It!
DESCRIPTION:Let’s Jew It!\nSaturday\, April 15\, 6 to 8 pm\nAt Rolling Out\nSubmissions open. See guidelines below\, bubie. \nAlready On Board \nSusan Cohen\nRick May\nColleen McKee\n[Your Name Here?] Submissions are rolling … we’ll keep accepting subs until the lineup is full.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rolling-writers-lets-jew-it/
LOCATION:Rolling Out Cafe\, 1722 Taraval St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:2017 Library Laureates: Library Love Stories
DESCRIPTION:Nion McEvoy and Camilla Smith are Co-Chairs of the 2017 Library Laureates Benefit Gala\, Library Love Stories\, which will take place on April 7\, 2017. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love and following the 2016 sold-out event\, we will again gather under the nautilus at the Main Library. Join us as we celebrate and honor author\, publisher\, and Library championPeter Booth Wiley; poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti (our first Honorary Library Laureate); and 35 other luminaries of the literary world. \nFeaturing specialty cocktails\, fine wine and a spectacular dinner in intimate salons\, the highlight of this one-of-a-kind evening is mixing\, mingling and dining with an author at each table. \nPlease join host and supporters Sarah & Jason Jones\, Ruth & William Isenberg\, Barbro & Bernard Osher\, Roselyne Chroman Swig\, Peter Wiley\, Donna Miller Casey\, Helen & Allan Ridley\, Diane Wilsey and other philanthropists\, community leaders\, authors and corporate partners in support of the partnership of Friends and the San Francisco Public Library that makes the exceptional difference for our community by offering a premier library system in San Francisco. \nSponsorship Opportunities/Table Sales available now (please note the February 15 print deadline.) \nPlease contact Laurie Berk at laurie.berk@friendssfpl.org for more information \n– See more at: http://www.friendssfpl.org/events/librarylaureates/overview.html#sthash.rRR9YDcH.dpuf
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2017-library-laureates-library-love-stories/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marcelo Hernandez Castillo & Javier Zamora: Undocupoets Resist
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the spring MFA in Writing Pop-Up Reading: \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo & Javier Zamora: Undocupoets Resist \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo was born in Zacatecas\, Mexico. He is a CantoMundo fellow and the first undocumented student to graduate from the University of Michigan’s MFA program. He was a finalist for the New England Review Emerging Writer Award and his full-length manuscript\, Origin of Drowning\, was a finalist for the Alice James Book Prize and the National Poetry Series. He co-founded the Undocupoets campaign which successfully eliminated citizenship requirements from all major first poetry book prizes in the country and was recognized with the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers” award from Poets and Writers Magazine. \nJavier Zamora was born in El Salvador and migrated to the US when he was nine. He is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow and holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, Colgate University\, MacDowell\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and Yaddo. His first book\, Unaccompanied\, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press\, Fall 2017. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Migration Studies. \nFree and open to the public. \nFor more information on the MFA in Writing Program visit: https://www.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/graduate-programs/writing213
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcelo-hernandez-castillo-javier-zamora-undocupoets-resist/
LOCATION:USF Lone Mountain Main – LM 100 – Handlery Room\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Gabriel Thompson
DESCRIPTION:Editor Gabriel Thompson discusses the latest Voice of Witness book\, Chasing the Harvest: Migrant Workers in California Agriculture. \nPrasie for Voice of Witness \n“To read a Voice of Witness book is to feel one’s habitual sense of disconnection begin to fall away.”—George Saunders\, author of The Tenth of December \n“[Voice of Witness] books are amazing… beautifully produced\, with incredible editing and literary sensibility. Voice of Witness has done a better job than I’ve seen anybody do with having people tell their stories in a way that really engages you.”—Rachel Maddow\, MSNBC \n“The Voice of Witness series is a megaphone for our country’s most marginalized voices.”—Van Jones\, former special advisor to the Obama White House\, author of Rebuilding the Dream \nAbout Chasing the Harvest \nMore than a million men\, women\, and children work in American agriculture\, and yet their stories are rarely told\, their low-wage jobs are not included in minimum-wage ordinances or campaigns\, and their work remains unorganized by labor unions. This book of oral histories restores to visibility these workers\, by telling stories of hardship but also bravery\, solidarity\, and improvization in California’s farm fields. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gabriel-thompson/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Edie Meidav
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith welcomes Edie Meidav for her new story collection\, Kingdom of the Young. She’ll be in conversation with Zyzzyva’s managing editor Oscar Villalon. Join us! \nThe dynamic characters in Kingdom of the Young are searching: for adventure\, work\, love\, absolution\, better chances elsewhere. From the honeycombed caves outside the Alhambra to the streets of Havana\, from hospital wards to quinceañera parties\, these stories—along with the collection’s illuminating nonfiction coda—testify to Meidav’s vast imaginative range. \n————————–————————–————————–—– \n“Ambitious\, original\, deliciously philosophical. Kingdom of the Young invites comparison to the crônicas of Clarice Lispector and the fabulas of Italo Calvino.” – Carolyn Cooke\, author of Daughters of the Revolution \n“These stories are dazzling\, full of knowledge of the world and of the heart\, and written with the pluck and thrum of a flamenco guitarist. Meidav draws you into world after world; she makes you want to sit by your window and listen all night.” – Paul La Farge\, author of Luminous Airplanes \n“Edie Meidav’s writing is a cascade of fireworks. Her ideas are little bombs—and these stories\, fast-spinning sparklers. Her hallucinatory prose flares with color and heart.” – Leela Corman\, author of Unterzakhn \n————————–————————–————————–—– \nEdie Meidav is the author of three novels: The Far Field\, Crawl Space\, and Lola\, California. Her honors include a Lannan Literary Award\, the Kafka Award for Best Novel by an American Woman\, the Bard Fiction Prize\, a Whiting Award\, and a Howard Fellowship. Work from Kingdom of the Young appeared in Conjunctions and American Literary Review\, among other places. She teaches in the University of Massachusetts MFA program and lives in Amherst. \nOscar Villalon\, managing editor of ZYZZVA\, former books editor at the San Francisco Chronicle\, and a member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle. His writing has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review and The Believer. \n>>> More Info Here:\nhttp://www.booksmith.com/event/edie-meidav-kingdom-young
URL:https://litseen.com/event/edie-meidav/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Not Funny! Sad! Cartoonists Respond to Trump
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/not-funny-sad-cartoonists-respond-to-trump/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night
DESCRIPTION:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night: Every 3rd Tuesday of the Month from 7:00-9:30pm\nNEXT: Tuesday April 18th\, 2017\nFeatured Poet: EK Keith for Nat’l Poetry & Jazz Month! \nat PianoFight: 144 Taylor Street (between Turk & Eddy)\, San Francisco\, CA 94102 – Powell Street BART \nHosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir. Live jazz with Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. FREE admission\, all ages\, full menu and bar in the front room. Open Mic for poetry only – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sarah Ladipo Manyika
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is proud to host the launch for Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s second novel\, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun. Sarah will be in conversation with Daniel Handler. Please join us! \n‘Morayo Da Silva\, a cosmopolitan Nigerian woman\, lives in Cole Valley\, San Francisco. On the cusp of seventy-five\, she is in good health and makes the most of it\, enjoying road trips in her vintage Porsche\, chatting to strangers\, and recollecting characters from her favorite novels. Then she has a fall and her independence crumbles. Without the support of family\, she relies on friends and chance encounters. As Morayo recounts her story\, moving seamlessly between past and present\, we meet Dawud\, a charming Palestinian shopkeeper\, Sage\, a feisty\, homeless Grateful Dead devotee\, and Antonio\, the poet whom Morayo desired more than her ambassador husband. Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun is a subtle and mesmerizing meditation on aging\, friendship\, and loss. It is also a nuanced portrait of the erotic yearnings of an older woman. \n————————–————————–————– \nLike the dusty spines on Morayo’s bookshelves\, every character in this novel hides a vibrant\, teeming inner world behind an unspectacular façade. […] Ladipo Manyika’s book reminds us of the value of indulgence and delight – in sex\, in food\, in company\, and in reading. – The New Statesmen \nSarah Manyika’s Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun is the rare sort of book that\, from the instant you pick it up\, you know that you will privy to the most intimate secrets. It is as if Dr. Morayo Da Silva is speaking directly into your ear. A real life-force of a character whose honesty\, warmth\, energy\, and bravery in the face of inevitable loss springs forth on the page. Chekhov once said that the ‘Russian loves to recall living\, but he does not love living.” Da Silva manages\, in her unique way\, to love both\, the remembering and life in the present tense. A beautiful\, important new novel\, and one that will continue to echo in a reader’s mind for a long time after. – Peter Orner \nDr. Morayo Da Silva is one of the most memorable characters you are likely to encounter on the page – intelligent\, indomitable\, author and survivor of a large life. In dreamlike prose\, Manyika dips in and out of her present\, her past\, in a story that argues always for generosity\, for connection\, for a vigorous and joyful endurance. – Karen Joy Fowler \n————————–————————–————– \nSarah Ladipo Manyika was raised in Nigeria and has lived in Kenya\, France\, and England. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and for several years taught literature at San Francisco State University. Sarah currently serves on the boards of Hedgebrook and the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco. Sarah is a Patron of the Etisalat Prize for Literature and host to OZY’s video series “Write.” Her second novel Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun was shortlisted for the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-ladipo-manyika-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Eveline Kanes + MaryLee McNeal
DESCRIPTION:Poets Eveline Kanes (A Coin Worn Thin) and MaryLee McNeal (The Way We Fall) will read from their latest collections.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eveline-kanes-marylee-mcneal/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Zachary Mason
DESCRIPTION:Not far in the future the seas have risen and the central latitudes are emptying\, but it’s still a good time to be rich in San Francisco\, where weapons drones patrol the skies to keep out the multitudinous poor. Irina isn’t rich\, not quite\, but she does have an artificial memory that gives her perfect recall and lets her act as a medium between her various employers and their AIs\, which are complex to the point of opacity. It’s a good gig\, paying enough for the annual visits to the Mayo Clinic that keep her from aging. \n  \nKern has no such access; he’s one of the many refugees in the sprawling drone-built favelas on the city’s periphery\, where he lives like a monk\, training relentlessly in martial arts\, scraping by as a thief and an enforcer. Thales is from a different world entirely—the mathematically inclined scion of a Brazilian political clan\, he’s fled to L.A. after the attack that left him crippled and his father dead. \n  \nA ragged stranger accosts Thales and demands to know how much he can remember. Kern flees for his life after robbing the wrong mark. Irina finds a secret in the reflection of a laptop’s screen in her employer’s eyeglasses. None are safe as they’re pushed together by subtle forces that stay just out of sight. \n  \nVivid\, tumultuous\, and propulsive\, Void Star is Zachary Mason’s mind-bending follow-up to his bestselling debut\, The Lost Books of the Odyssey.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zachary-mason/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marcy Dermansky w/ Daniel Hadler
DESCRIPTION:Praise for The Red Car \n“I’ve been waiting and waiting for a new book from Marcy Dermansky and finally that new book is here. The Red Car is taut and smart and strange and sweet and perfect. I want to eat this book or sew it to my skin or something.” Roxane Gay\, author Bad Feminist \n“A new book by the inimitable Marcy Dermansky is worth cheering for. The Red Car is droll\, unflinching\, and mysterious\, a feat of efficient storytelling. I could not put it down. This novel mesmerized me.” Edan Lepucki\, author of California \n“There are few writers who can do what Marcy Dermansky does so effortlessly in The Red Car\, the way she pushes this story in such surprising and thrilling directions\, never losing control\, taking your breath away line by beautiful line. Dermansky writes with such unnerving clarity about grief\, not just for the loss of a loved one\, but for our own unexpected lives. A strange\, unflinching\, utterly amazing novel.” Kevin Wilson\, author of The Family Fang \n\nAbout the Red Car \nLeah is living in Queens with a possessive husband she doesn’t love and a long list of unfulfilled ambitions\, when she’s jolted from a thick ennui by a call from the past. Her beloved former boss and friend\, Judy\, has died in a car accident and left Leah her most prized possession and\, as it turns out\, the instrument of Judy’s death: a red sports car. \nJudy was the mentor Leah never expected. She encouraged Leah’s dreams\, analyzed her love life\, and eased her into adulthood over long lunches away from the office. Facing the jarring disconnect between the life she expected and the one she is now actually living\, Leah takes off for San Francisco to claim Judy’s car. In sprawling days defined by sex\, sorrow\, and unexpected delight\, Leah revisits past lives and loves in search of a self she abandoned long ago. Piercing through Leah’s surreal haze is the enigmatic voice of Judy\, as sharp as ever\, providing wry commentary on Leah’s every move. \nFollowing her “irresistible” (Time) and “wicked” (Slate) novel Bad Marie\, Dermansky evokes yet another edgy\, capricious\, and beautifully haunting heroine one whose search for realization is as wonderfully unpredictable and hypnotic as the twists and turns of the Pacific Coast Highway. Tautly wound\, transgressive\, and mordantly funny\, The Red Car is an incisive exploration of one woman’s unusual route to self-discovery.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcy-dermansky-w-daniel-hadler/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cleve Jones - When We Rise
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to announce our second What We Do Now event featuring the amazing Cleve Jones in conversation with David Talbot to discuss activism and dissent In Trump’s America. \nCleve Jones’ career as an activist began in San Francisco in 1970s. He co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and conceived the idea of the AIDS Memorial Quilt\, which memorializes over 85\,000 Americans who have died from AIDS. He lives in San Francisco and works as a labor activist. \nHis new book\, When We Rise: My Life in the Movement provided inspiration for the ABC television mini-series of the same name. \nBorn in 1954\, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were. Like thousands of other young people\, Jones\, nearly penniless\, was drawn in the early 1970s to San Francisco\, a city electrified by progressive politics and sexual freedom. \nJones found community–in the hotel rooms and ramshackle apartments shared by other young adventurers\, in the city’s bathhouses and gay bars like The Stud\, and in the burgeoning gay district\, the Castro\, where a New York transplant named Harvey Milk set up a camera shop\, began shouting through his bullhorn\, and soon became the nation’s most outspoken gay elected official. \nWith Milk’s encouragement\, Jones dove into politics and found his calling in “the movement.” When Milk was killed by an assassin’s bullet in 1978\, Jones took up his mentor’s progressive mantle–only to see the arrival of AIDS transform his life once again. By turns tender and uproarious\, When We Rise is Jones’ account of his remarkable life. When We Rise is not only the story of a hero to the LQBTQ community\, but the vibrantly voice memoir of a full and transformative American life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cleve-jones-when-we-rise/
LOCATION:Bookshop West Portal\, 80 W Portal Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94127\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Bookshop West Portal":MAILTO:info@bookshopwestportal.com
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SUMMARY:Hope in the Dark: Activist Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Not just any book club. An intentional\, socially engaged book club with an activist agenda. It all started with a pervasive sense of dread and overwhelm…do you know the feeling? \nIf you are ready to ameliorate this sense of dread and overwhelm by grounding yourself in community\, to listen to and feel empathy for perspectives different from your own\, if you believe in story\, please join us. If you are ready to do the work of facing challenging topics and checking our privileges and assumptions in a supportive\, safe environment; if you want some mutual accountability to keep each other moving forward; if you want to organize action but don’t know how\, join us. We don’t have the answers\, but we are armed to the teeth with questions! \nWe can’t really say it better than the folks at Finding steady ground: “The goal is to become a student of history so that you can take inspiration and deepen your understanding of how to struggle and thrive.” \nOur first book is Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit! It’s a quick read but full of important stories and\, well\, hope. \nThe Deets:\nActivist Book Club\nevery 3rd Thursday\n6 p.m.\nMission Pie (near 24th and Mission)\nco-hosted by Ava Rosen and Hannah Smith\nFree \n*Please let us know if you’d like to participate but the time or location doesn’t work for you! \n**You are welcome no matter how you identify\, when you were born\, or where you come from. All we ask is that you are open to discomfort\, and act from a place of kindness.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hope-in-the-dark-activist-book-club/
LOCATION:Mission Pie\, 2901 Mission St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Morgan Parker + Arisa White in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼\nThursday\, April 20\, 2017\nAlley Cat Books\n3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\n6:30 PM\n==FREE==\n▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼\n\nAbout the Writers: \nArisa White\nCave Canem fellow Arisa White received her MFA from UMass\, Amherst\, and is the author of Black Pearl\, Post Pardon\, Hurrah’s Nest\, and A Penny Saved. She teaches in the low-residency BFA program at Goddard College and is a lecturer at San Francisco State University. She is the distinguished visiting writer in residence at Saint Mary’s College of California. You’re the Most Beautiful Thing that Happened is her newest collection from Augury Books. \nFind out more at http://www.arisawhite.com \nMorgan Parker\nParker is the author of Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night (Switchback Books 2015) and There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce (Tin House 2017). Her work has been published in the The Paris Review\, Poetry\, The New York Times\, The Nation\, Buzzfeed\, and elsewhere. Her poetry has been anthologized in Why I Am Not A Painter\, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop\, and Best American Poetry 2016. Parker is the recipient of a 2017 National Endowment of the Arts Literature Fellowship\, winner of a 2016 Pushcart Prize\, and a Cave Canem graduate fellow. She lives with her dog Braeburn in Brooklyn\, NY. With Tommy Pico\, she co-curates the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading series\, and with Angel Nafis\, she is The Other Black Girl Collective. \nFind out more at http://www.morgan-parker.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/morgan-parker-arisa-white-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Omar El Akkad
DESCRIPTION:American War \npublished by Knopf \nAn audacious and powerful debut novel. a second American Civil War\, a devastating plague\, and one family caught deep in the middle—a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself. \nOMAR EL AKKAD\, formerly of the Globe and Mail\, is an award-winning journalist and author who has travelled around the world to cover many of the most important news stories of the last decade. His reporting includes dispatches from the NATO-led war in Egypt and the Black Lives Matter movement in Ferguson\, Missouri. He is a recipient of the National Newspaper Award for investigative reporting for his coverage on the “Toronto 18” terrorism arrests. He has also received the Goff Penny Memorial Prize for Young Journalists\, as well as three National Magazine Award honourable mentions. He is a graduate of Queen’s University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/omar-el-akkad/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jacob Weisman on Jews in Science Fiction: It’s Not a Fantasy
DESCRIPTION:Jewish writers\, including many from the Bay Area\, are responsible for some of the most entertaining and mind-bending stories\, books\, and scripts written in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. Who are these local writers\, and how do they apply Jewish ideas and themes to their work? Jacob Weisman\, editor and publisher at Tachyon Publications\, a San Francisco-based publisher of science fiction\, fantasy\, and literary fiction\, will speak about writers including Peter S. Beagle\, Avram Davidson\, Lisa Goldstein\, Robert Silverberg\, and Richard A. Lupoff. He’ll also answer questions about publishing. \nJacob Weisman founded Tachyon Publications in 1995. He has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award three times and is the series editor of Tachyon’s multi-award-winning novella line. His writing has appeared in The Nation\, Realms of Fantasy\, the Louisville Courier-Journal\, The Seattle Weekly\, and The Cooper Point Journal. He is the editor of “The Treasury of the Fantastic” (with David Sandner)\, “The Sword & Sorcery Anthology” (with David G. Hartwell)\, and “Invaders: 22 Stories from the Outer Limits of Literature.” His latest anthology\, “The New Voices in Fantasy\,” co-edited with Peter S. Beagle\, will be published this year.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jacob-weisman-on-jews-in-science-fiction-its-not-a-fantasy/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Library\, 1835 Ellis St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94115\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Tachyon Publications":MAILTO://tachyon@tachyonpublications.com
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SUMMARY:Janice A. Lowe\, Yohann Potico + Kevin Carnes
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special evening of poetry and song in The Poetry Center\, featuring New York-based poet\, musician\, and Dark Room Collective co-founder Janice A. Lowe (text\, voice\, and piano) performing works from her debut book\, Leaving Cle (Miami University Press\, 2016)\, with Yohann Potico (bass) and Kevin Carnes (drums). \nCheck out their work in advance here: Edge-acation and Boy Flower Tamir. This event is free and open to the public. \nFred Moten writes: “Leaving Cle is a beautiful document of eccentric return. A collection of unforecast surprise\, it keeps giving home away\, disbursing and dispersing hard\, pleasurable weather like a new kind of lake effect. Cleveland is Brooklyn is Chicago and elsewhere\, everywhere in a set of absolute specificities\, upSouth\, back east\, out and out. There’s a black cosmology of ‘difference without separation’ of which Denise Ferreira da Silva\, sociologist\, speaks. Janice A. Lowe\, poet\, sings it so hard\, makes her air such an irreducible element of the general air\, that you couldn’t get away from it if you tried\, which is fine\, because that’s the last thing you’ll want. Her sound\, her time\, is everything you do.” \nJanice A. Lowe is a composer and poet. She is the author of Leaving Cle: poems of nomadic dispersal (Miami University Press) and the chapbook SWAM (Belladonna Series.) Her poems have been published in Callaloo\, Best American Experimental Writing 2016\, The Poetry Project Online\, Pre) Conceivable Bridges\, American Poetry Review\, Radiant Re-Sisters\, The Hat and on a digital album with Drew Gardner’s Poetics Orchestra. She composed the musicals Lil Budda\, (Text by Stephanie L. Jones\,) Sit-In at the Five & Dime\, (Words by Marjorie Duffield) and Somewhere in Texas\, (Book and Lyrics by Charles E. Drew\, Jr.). Her works for musical theater have been performed extensively in New York City and regionally and have received developmental residencies from the Eugene O’Neill Musical Theater Conference and the National Alliance for Musical Theater. She has composed for the plays 12th and Clairmont by Jenni Lamb\, The Super Starlet Shero Show by The Jones Twins\, and Door of No Return by Nehassaiu deGannes. She is the composer of Make Some Learned Noise\, text by Randall Horton\, an interactive poem with music\, performed with the incoming freshman class\, University of New Haven\, 2015. Recently\, she was commissioned to compose a song cycle based on the “Millie-Christine” poems\, from the collection OLIO\, by Tyehimba Jess. She is a co-founder of The Dark Room Collective and a founding member of absolute theater co. She has performed with the experimental bands w/o a net\, HAGL\, and Digital Diaspora. She teaches songwriting workshops at White Bird Productions and has taught Poetry and Performance at Purchase College and at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics She holds an MFA in Musical Theater Writing from New York University-Tisch School of the Arts. More at janicelowe.com Photo: Eric Perl. \nYohann Potico grew up in a West Indian family in France. He brings a distinctive perspective to his bass playing\, producing and composing by blending an eclectic mix of influences—ranging from soul and jazz to funk and trip hop—with a unique melodic approach. He performed and recorded with Brooklyn-based independent rock trio California King from 2007 to 2014. With California King\, he recorded and co-wrote tracks on three albums—Adoration of the Boogie Bear\, 2008\, La Belle Epoque 2010\, and Sankofa\, 2015. He has performed and recorded as a session musician with numerous bands including Sierra Leone-based hip-hop group Dry Eye\, soul vocalist Annakei house/techno producer Michele Papa. For three years\, Yohann has been in residence as bass player for the Eastern European and North African influenced group Balkan Stomp. As a producer and sound engineer\, Yohann has worked with a wide range of artist including folk songwriter and performer Megan Palmer\, jazz pianist and composer Jesse Elder\, jazz vocalist Zack Foley and singer/artist Sabrina Iyadede. \n\nKevin Carnes is a drummer\, composer and producer based in the Bay Area since 1984. He founded the Afro-Punk-Industrial band Beatnigs and is celebrating 25 years as a founding member of Broun Fellinis. Carnes has served as musical director/composer for City Circus and the Marin Theater’s production of August Wilson’s “Gem of the Ocean.”\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/janice-a-lowe-yohann-potico-kevin-carnes/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lidia Yuknavitch
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Lidia Yuknavitch for her much-anticipated novel The Book of Joan! \nA raucous celebration\, a searing condemnation\, and a fiercely imaginative retelling of Joan of Arc’s transcendent life. — Roxane Gay\, New York Times-bestselling author of Bad Feminist \nIn the near future\, world wars have transformed the earth into a battleground\, a place to hide in caves and horde ammunition. Fleeing the unending violence and the planet’s now-radioactive surface\, humans have regrouped to a mysterious platform known as CIEL\, hovering over their erstwhile home. The changed world has turned evolution on its head\, the surviving humans becoming sexless\, hairless pale-white creatures floating in isolation\, inscribing stories upon their skin. \nOut of the ranks of the endless wars rises Jean de Men\, a charismatic cult leader who appoints himself to rule over CIEL as a kind of corporate police state. To combat de Men’s vicious acts and thirst for blood\, a group of rebels unite to dismantle his iron rule – galvanized by the heroic song of Joan\, a child-warrior who possesses an unnatural talent\, a force that lives within her and communes with the earth. When de Men and his armies fashion Joan into a martyr\, instead of the living\, breathing force of nature she is\, the consequences are astonishing. And no one – not the rebels\, Jean de Men\, nor even Joan herself – can foresee the ways her life story will\, in a brilliant instant\, forge the destiny of an entire world for generations. \nThe Book of Joan is a riveting tale of destruction and the beauty found in unlikely places—even at the extreme end of post-human experience. A book suffused with dirt\, sweat\, and blood\, it raises questions about what it means to be human\, the meaning of sex and gender\, and the role of art as means for survival. \n“It’s unfair to compare Yuknavitch to only female authors. With her verve and bold imagination\, she’s earned the throne left empty since the death of David Foster Wallace.” — Chuck Palahniuk \n“Reading The Book of Joan is a meditation on art and sex and war. My brain is full-bloomed. Get ready\, it’s glorious.” — Amber Tamblyn\, author of Dark Sparkler \nLidia Yuknavitch is the author of the National Bestselling novel The Small Backs of Children\, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award’s Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the Reader’s Choice Award\, the novel Dora: A Headcase\, and three books of short stories. Her widely acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader’s Choice. She founded the workshop series Corporeal Writing in Portland\, OR\, where she also teaches Women’s Studies\, Film Studies\, Writing\, and Literature. She received her doctorate in Literature from the University of Oregon. Her novel The Book of Joan is forthcoming from Harper\, as well as a book based on her recent TED Talk\, “The Misfit’s Manifesto.” She lives in Oregon with her husband Andy Mingo and their Renaissance man son\, Miles. She is a very good swimmer. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend the event\, but would like to request a signed copy of The Book of Joan\, please order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lidia-yuknavitch/
LOCATION:Tenderloin Museum\, 398 Eddy St\, San Francisco \, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rise: An Anthology of Power and Unity
DESCRIPTION:VAGABOND is very happy to announce the launch of our new publication\,\nRise (an anthology of Power and Unity) \nFeatured readers include: \n\nJack Hirschman\nDorothy “Dottie” Payne\nNina Serrano\nMahnaz Badihian\nKaren Melander-Magoon\nFred Dodsworth\nDee Allen\nTim Kahl\nIsaac J Torres\n\nHosts: Mark Lipman and Antonieta Villamil. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rise-an-anthology-of-power-and-unity/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="VAGABOND":MAILTO:editor@vagabondbooks.net
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SUMMARY:Deb Olin Unferth
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Wait Till You See Me Dance \n“Deb Olin Unferth’s stories are so smart\, fast\, full of heart\, and distinctive in voice—each an intense little thought-system going out earnestly in search of strange new truths. What anmportant and exciting talent.”—George Saunders \n“Deb Olin Unferth’s stories are wild\, funny\, and wonderful.”—Geoff Dyer \n“This book is an astonishment—strange\, brainy\, and loaded with feeling. Deb Olin Unferth shows\, with brilliant force\, the startling vitality of the short story. She is a master.”—Ben Marcus \n\nAbout Wait Till You See Me Dance \nWait Till You See Me Dance consists of several extraordinary longer stories as well as a selection of intoxicating very short stories. In the chilling The First Full Thought of Her Life\, a shooter gets in position while a young girl climbs a sand dune. In Voltaire Night\, students compete to tell a story about the worst thing that ever happened to them. In Stay Where You Are\, two oblivious travelers in Central America are kidnapped by a gunman they assume to be an insurgent but the gunman has his own problems. \nAn Unferth story lures you in with a voice that seems amiable and lighthearted\, but it swerves in sudden and surprising ways that reveal\, in terrifying clarity\, the rage\, despair\, and profound mournfulness that have taken up residence at the heart of the American dream. These stories often take place in an exaggerated or heightened reality\, a quality that is reminiscent of the work of Donald Barthelme\, Lorrie Moore\, and George Saunders\, but in Unferth’s unforgettable collection she carves out territory that is entirely her own.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deb-olin-unferth/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry + Jazz Night
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir. Live jazz with Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. FREE admission\, all ages\, full menu and bar in the front room. Open Mic for poetry only – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night-2/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Karen Kao: The Dancing Girl & The Turtle
DESCRIPTION:A rape. A war. A society where women are bought and sold but no one can speak of shame. Shanghai 1937. Violence throbs at the heart of this powerful new novel. \nThis elegant novel breaks barriers with its brutally honest account of the courtesan culture in 1930s Shanghai. In a searing portrayal of women as commodities\, Song Anyi\, a rebellious young woman\, is thwarted by her conventional family\, the social mores of the day and the war with the Japanese that is about to engulf China. \nThe Dancing Girl and the Turtle is one of four interlocking novels set in Shanghai from 1929 to 1954\, collectively entitled The Shanghai Quartet. \n*Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event \nWHAT: Book Talk and Signing with Author Karen Kao on The Dancing Girl & the Turtle\nWHEN: Saturday\, April 22\, 2017 from 1:00pm-2:30pm\nWHERE: The Chinese Historical Society of America\, 965 Clay St.\n*Light Refreshments will be provided. \nRSVP: On Eventbrite– tickets purchased for the event also include admission to the museum exhibit: Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion \n*$3 parking is available at the Golden Gateway Parking Garage (250 Clay Street) from 9am-10pm on weekends with validation stamp provided at the front desk of CHSA \nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nKaren Kao was born in Los Angeles\, California\, USA on 21 September 1959 to Chinese immigrants who settled in the United States in the 1950s. She attended Catholic primary school in Montebello and an all-girls secondary school\, Ramona Convent.\nKaren obtained her undergraduate degree in English from the University of California Irvine in 1981\, graduating with honors. This was the phase in her life when Karen crossed paths with Charles Wright (U.S. Poet Laureate 2014-2015)\, her teacher\, and Yusef Komunyakaa (Pulitzer Prize winning poet)\, her friend. \nRather than pursue her dream of writing\, Karen followed her father’s advice and enrolled at Georgetown University Law Center. She graduated in 1984\, again with honors\, and immediately began practicing law in the Washington\, DC office of a Boston-based law firm. She fell in love with a Dutchman and abandoned her career as a fledging US lawyer to move with him to Amsterdam in 1989.\nUnfazed by the new language\, culture and legal system\, Karen launched a second career. She returned to school to obtain her Dutch law degree from the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden\, while training on the job at a firm in Utrecht. Karen eventually became a partner and head of the corporate law department at an Amsterdam-based law firm. Her métier was cross-border mergers and acquisitions\, a field of law that requires hard-nosed negotiating skills and an ability to survive on very little sleep. \nIn 2011\, she abandoned the law\, embarking on a third career: a return to her love of writing and the stories she heard as a child of Old Shanghai. She has since taken fiction workshops from Lan Samantha Chang at the Paris Writers Workshop (2014) and Yiyun Li at the Napa Valley Writers Conference (2016).\nKaren holds dual citizenship in the United States and the Netherlands. She is married with two children and lives in Amsterdam.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-kao-the-dancing-girl-the-turtle/
LOCATION:Chinese Historical Society of America\, 965 Clay St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Chinese Historical Society of America":MAILTO:info@chsa.org
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SUMMARY:Ellen Sussman: Creativity + Writing
DESCRIPTION:You’ve stalled out on your writing. Or perhaps everything you’ve written feels like a retelling of the same story. Maybe you’re tired of your literary voice. How do you find the kind of creative energy that will take your writing in a new direction? Guided by New York Times bestselling novelist Ellen Sussman (French Lessons)\, in this three-hour seminar the focus will be on pushing your writing in new directions. A stronger voice? Braver characters? More exciting drama? It may be time to break the rules in your writing. We’ll grapple with structure\, character\, style\, and plot. We’ll blast through the boundaries of how we usually do things and explore new paths.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ellen-sussman-creativity-and-writing/
LOCATION:San Francisco Mechanics’ Institute\, 57 Post Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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