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SUMMARY:Joanna Scutts
DESCRIPTION:Joanna Scutts discusses her new book\, The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hills Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It. \n\nPraise for The Extra Woman \n\n“The fascinating and formidable Marjorie Hillis has at last found her rightful biographer\, champion\, and exegete in Joanna Scutts. This is a beautifully written\, insightful\, and wise account of the life and work of an important but heretofore largely unremembered writer\, wit\, and proto-feminist.” — Rosie Schaap\, author of Drinking with Men \n\n“Long before Girls\, Carrie Bradshaw\, and Mary Tyler Moore\, Marjorie Hillis inspired women to live more independently as ‘Live-Aloners\,’ and she deserves more recognition than she gets. Joanna Scutts’ account of Hillis and the cultural transformations she made possible is as witty\, forthright\, and elegant as its subject.” — Lauren Elkin\, author of Flâneuse \n\n“Scutts should feel proud that she did what she set out to do: return Hillis to her rightful place in the pantheon of women who made it possible for the rest of us to enjoy that freedom. ‘Recovering the spirit of daring that defined the Live-Alone heyday can remind us that a different story is always possible\,’ Scutts writes\, ‘and might just inspire us anew\, to resist and rebel against convention\, and to fight to create the life we really want.’ Here’s hoping every reader has the chance to do just that.” — Ellen McCarthy\, Washington Post \n\nAbout The Extra Woman \n\nFrom the flapper to The Feminine Mystique\, a cultural history of single women in the city through the reclaimed life of glamorous guru Marjorie Hillis. \n  \nYou’ve met the extra woman: she’s sophisticated\, she lives comfortably alone\, she pursues her passions unabashedly\, and—contrary to society’s suspicions—she really is happy. Despite multiple waves of feminist revolution\, today’s single woman is still mired in judgment or\, worse\, pity. But for a brief\, exclamatory period in the late 1930s\, she was all the rage. A delicious cocktail of cultural history and literary biography\, The Extra Woman transports us to the turbulent and transformative years between suffrage and the sixties\, when\, thanks to the glamorous grit of one Marjorie Hillis\, single women boldly claimed and enjoyed their independence. \n  \nMarjorie Hillis\, pragmatic daughter of a Brooklyn preacher\, was poised for reinvention when she moved to the big city to start a life of her own. Gone were the days of the flirty flapper; ladies of Depression-era New York embraced a new icon: the independent working woman. Hillis was already a success at Vogue when she published a radical self-help book in 1936: Live Alone and Like It: A Guide for the Extra Woman. With Dorothy Parker–esque wit\, she urged spinsters\, divorcées\, and “old maids” to shed derogatory labels and take control of their lives\, and her philosophy became a phenomenon. From the importance of a peignoir to the joy of breakfast in bed (alone)\, Hillis’s tips made single life desirable and chic. \n  \nIn a style as irresistible as Hillis’s own\, Joanna Scutts\, a leading cultural critic\, explores the revolutionary years following the Live-Alone movement\, when the status of these “brazen ladies” peaked and then collapsed. Other innovative lifestyle gurus set similar trends that celebrated guiltless female independence and pleasure: Dorothy Draper’s interior design smash\, Decorating Is Fun!transformed apartments; Irma Rombauer’s warm and welcoming recipe book\, The Joy of Cooking\, reassured the nervous home chef that she\, too\, was capable of decadent culinary feats. By painting the wider picture\, Scutts reveals just how influential Hillis’s career was\, spanning decades and numerous best sellers. As she refashioned her message with every life experience\, Hillis proved that guts\, grace\, and perseverance would always be in vogue. \n  \nWith this vibrant examination of a remarkable life and profound feminist philosophy\, Joanna Scutts at last reclaims Marjorie Hillis as the original queen of a maligned sisterhood. Channeling Hillis’s charm\, The Extra Woman is both a brilliant exposé of women who forged their independent paths before the domestic backlash of the 1950s trapped them behind picket fences\, and an illuminating excursion into the joys of fashion\, mixology\, decorating\, and other manifestations of shameless self-love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joanna-scutts/
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:Åsne Seierstad / Two Sisters
DESCRIPTION:Two Sisters\, by the international bestselling author Åsne Seierstad\, tells the unforgettable story of a family divided by faith. Sadiq and Sara\, Somali immigrants raising a family in Norway\, one day discover that their teenage daughters Leila and Ayan have vanished—and are en route to Syria to aid the Islamic State. Seierstad’s riveting account traces the sisters’ journey from secular\, social democratic Norway to the front lines of the war in Syria\, and follows Sadiq’s harrowing attempt to find them. \nEmploying the same mastery of narrative suspense she brought toThe Bookseller of Kabul and One of Us\, Seierstad puts the problem of radicalization into painfully human terms\, using instant messages and other primary sources to reconstruct a family’s crisis from the inside. Eventually\, she takes us into the hellscape of the Syrian civil war\, as Sadiq risks his life in pursuit of his daughters\, refusing to let them disappear into the maelstrom—even after they marry ISIS fighters. Two Sisters is a relentless thriller and a feat of reporting with profound lessons about belief\, extremism\, and the meaning of devotion. \n— \nPraise for Åsne Seierstad’s One of Us (2015)\, a New York Times Book Review ‘10 Best Books of 2015’ selection: \n“Like Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song and Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood\, [One of Us] has an omniscient narrator who tells the story of brutal murders and\, by implication\, sheds light on the society partly responsible for them. Although those two books are beautifully written\, I found One of Us to be more powerful and compelling . . . The book attains an almost unbearable weight . . . One of Us must have been difficult to write\, and yet from the opening pages it has an irresistible force.” —Eric Schlosser\, The New York Times Book Review \n“‘Utøya’ and ‘July 22nd’ assume new meaning for me when I read [One of Us]. Once again\, that day becomes something concrete\, not a phenomenon\, not an affair\, not an argument in a political discussion but a dead body bent over a stone at the water’s edge.”—Karl Ove Knausgaard\, The New Yorker \n“One of Us reads like a true crime novel\, but it has the journalistic chops to back it up . . . [It] is the story of Norway\, its people\, and the lengths one will go to feel like they belong. Not only a stunning achievement in journalism\, it’s a touchstone on how to write about tragedy with detail\, honesty\, and compassion.”—Samantha Edwards\, The A.V. Club\n— \nÅsne Seierstad is an award-winning Norwegian journalist and writer known for her work as a war correspondent. She is the author of One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway—and Its Aftermath\, The Bookseller of Kabul\, One Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal\,Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War\, and With Their Backs to the World: Portraits of Serbia. She lives in Oslo\, Norway.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/asne-seierstad-two-sisters/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's 'The Naughty Bits'
DESCRIPTION:••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nNamed 1 of Uproxx’s 10 Best Sex Podcasts to listen to right now: \nhttps://uproxx.com/life/best-sex-podcasts-right-now/ \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nVoted 1 of Esquire’s 10 Best Sex Podcasts\, no matter your taste: \nhttps://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/sex/a46389/best-sex-podcasts \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••SHOW DETAILS \nThursday\, April 19th\, 2018 \nat the Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa Street\, San Francisco CA \nRemember: Bang-O & Games at 7 PM\, Stories at 8 PM \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis Evening of Scandalous Stories\, Songs & Games includes: \n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist & Storyteller Dixie De La Tour \n❤ Pansexual Food Anthropologist Hannah Hoffman \n❤ Kinky & Blind storyteller Marco Salsiccia \n❤ Custom Bawdy Songs by the brilliant Rachel Lark \n❤ Pitch your Naughty Bits true story to Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com by March 30th \n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for talking to sexy strangers \n❤ WIN Toyrific Pervy Grand Prizes from We-Vibe & B-Vibe \n❤ Lube Giveaways from UberLube & Good Clean Love \n❤ Condom Giveaways from Lucky Bloke \n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #SchlongIslandIcedTea \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\nAbout Bawdy Storytelling: \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. \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! \nA REVIEW of Bawdy Storytelling : “Stories are powerful. No other medium has the ability to move\, inspire\, or change us quite like a well-crafted narrative. Never has this been more true than the world of sex\, where fear\, shame\, and misinformation abound. This is all a high-minded and roundabout way of telling you to check out Thursday’s edition of Bawdy Storytelling\, a rousing and arousing night of true sex stories that promises to make you laugh\, make you think\, and make you hard … pressed to find a more interesting thing to do on a Thursday night.” – SF Weekly \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nPerformer Bios: \n❤ Dixie De La Tour is a Sexual Folklorist\, Storyteller\, entrepreneur\, teacher\, catalyst\, coach\, community builder\, facilitator\, & instigator (& that’s just for starters). She is the founder\, curator & host of the award-winning sex and storytelling series\, Bawdy Storytelling (“The nation’s original sex and storytelling series” – Playgirl\, “The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly) \nCalled “a stiff shot of courage in a push-up bra”\, Dixie is passionate about storytelling’s power to connect strangers. A former sex party producer & adult dating site community manager\, she founded Bawdy Storytelling\, a multi-city brand of sex-positive self advocacy that’s changing the world and making our relationships more authentic and accessible. Dixie has presented and hosted at Yale Sex Week\, Kink.com’s Bondage Awards\, the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco’s series ‘Uninhibited: About Sex’\, CatalystCon Sexuality Conference\, Dark Odyssey kink conferences\, FetFest kink events\, and more\, as well as her home turf of the Bawdy Mainstage\, Bona Fide Storytelling and BawdySlam shows. \nAs a storyteller\, Dixie’s stories can been heard on the Risk! podcast and her own Bawdy Storytelling podcast (which was selected by both Esquire.com & Uproxx as a top 5 ‘Best Sex Podcast’) Ping her (she likes that) at @Bawdy\, facebook.com/DixieDeLaTour & at www.BawdyStorytelling.com \n❤ Marco Salsiccia is a non-monogamous\, kinky\, geeky\, and silly Bay Area native who also happens to be fully blind. A San Francisco resident since 2002\, he was an accomplished animator and VFX artist before suddenly losing his vision in 2014. He now works as an accessibility specialist\, consulting and making apps and sites functional for the blind/visually impaired and other disabled people. Some of his interests include food\, playing and making board games accessible\, accessibility advocacy\, the San Jose Sharks\, the symphony\, checking out munches and parties with his partner\, fun dates\, and annoying his cat. FL: Magrittetf \n❤ Hannah Hoffman is a pansexual\, polyamorous food anthropologist who hosts her own quarterly vagina celebrations (no\, you can’t come :)) She’s still glowing from the success of her academic paper on Gay Men (specifically Bears) and Food\, which was the hit of the Association of Food Historians and Anthropologists conference\, and believes that you should know that food geeks are some of the sexiest\, most hedonistic people in existence. Born and raised in Berkeley but determined to see the world\, Hannah gleefully left for grad school in New York City and later LA\, but she kept returning to the Bay Area because it’s the most sex-positive city on Earth. She makes a mean donut. \n❤ Rachel Lark is a San Francisco based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Her music has been featured on The Savage Lovecast and Salon.com and she tours regularly throughout the U.S. and Europe. In March 2017 she released her third album\, They’ve Done Studies\, and produced a multi-media rock opera to accompany the album\, which she brought on tour with her band\, The Damaged Goods. She is currently producing a concert film of the event and working on her next album. Find out more at rachellark.com. \nNo refunds or exchanges. Lineup subject to change. \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThe Original Sex + Storytelling series\, featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits\, Live Onstage \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & 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••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com \nTwitter: @Bawdy \n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-the-naughty-bits/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Dodie Bellamy: "Hoarding as Écriture"
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Lecture Series]\nDodie Bellamy: “Hoarding as Écriture” \nThroughout her career\, Dodie Bellamy has undermined the fantasy of the autonomous subject. Her work compulsively explores the permeable boundaries between self and other\, the conflicting desires to merge with the outside and to protect oneself from invasion. Bellamy will discuss her use of appropriation to trouble the ever-wavering relation between self and culture. For her\, cut-ups\, collage\, citations\, and rewritings are more than literary techniques; they betray a libidinal urge to devour and spit up the world. \nDodie Bellamy writes genre-bending works that focus on sexuality\, politics\, and narrative experimentation\, challenging the distinctions between fiction\, essay\, and poetry. Her most recent collection is When the Sick Rule the World. Her chapbook\, The Beating of Our Hearts\, was published in conjunction with the 2014 Whitney Biennial. With Kevin Killian she edited Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977-1997 (2017). Also with Killian she curated the 2018 exhibit There’s a Dark Secret in Me: Precarity\, Exposure\, Camouflage for di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art. \n—\nImage: Tariq Alvi\, “Two Hankies: Pony\, The Bandaged Lady\,” 2005; Linen hanky. Courtesy the artist.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dodie-bellamy-hoarding-as-ecriture/
LOCATION:San Francisco Art Institute\, 800 Chestnut St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Muni Diaries Live 10th Anniversary Show
DESCRIPTION:Muni Diaries is celebrating 10 years of documenting life in our fair city\, as viewed through the eyes of everyday commuters like you. For the last decade\, more than 4\,000 San Franciscans submitted stories about the hilarity\, and the humanity\, that happens on our journeys between Point A and Point B. There were so many slices of life that needed to be told\, we expanded to include stories that happen all over the 7×7: on Muni and off. We couldn’t have done this without you\, so join us in lighting all 10 birthday candles\, listening to great stories\, and\, as always\, cheering our poets in the Muni Haiku Battle. \nA sneak peek of our birthday lineup: \n– Alexandria Love\, Muni Haiku Battle reigning champion \n– Gwen Carmen\, storyteller extraordinaire \n– Parker Gibbs\, “scene champion and loudmouth about town\,” who you may also know as “DJ Foodcourt” \nFull lineup coming soon! \nGrab a ticket\, and we’ll see you at the Elbo Room on April 21! \nMuni Diaries Live 10th Anniversary Show \nSaturday\, Apr 21\, 2018 \nDoors: 6 p.m.\nShow: 7 p.m. \nElbo Room\n647 Valencia Street\, San Francisco \nTake Muni there: J-Church\, 12\, 14\, 22\, 33\, 49\, or BART: 16th or 24th St. Stations
URL:https://litseen.com/event/muni-diaries-live-10th-anniversary-show/
LOCATION:Elbo Room\, 647 Valencia Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:You're Going to Die presents Death is Real with Mount Eerie
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die Presents…\nDeath is Real with Mount Eerie\n+\nspecial appearances by\nScott Ferreter\n& words from\nDr. Michael Fratkin\n@\nThe Swedish American Hall\nDoors at 7pm\nShow at 8pm\nTickets here: http://bit.ly/2tO3zBB \nAs a part of Reimagine End of Life . April 16-22\, You’re Going to Die offers another curated entertainment experience proudly presenting great artists as they deserve to be presented: in the concert context of acknowledging their brilliant beaming mortal magic. YG2D Presents curated shows steeped in the context of mortality\, showcasing inspiringly enlivening musical acts with movingly entertaining spoken word. \nYG2D presents Mount Eerie… \nIn 2015 Phil Elverum’s wife\, the French Canadian cartoonist & musician Geneviève Castrée\, was diagnosed with cancer just after giving birth to their first child. She died a year later. Elverum wrote & recorded his Mount Eerie album “A Crow Looked At Me” throughout the fall of 2016 in the same room where Geneviève died\, using mostly her instruments; her guitar\, her bass\, her pick\, her amp\, her old family accordion\, writing the words on her paper. \nThe songs are about the brutal details of that experience\, from the hospitalizations to the grieving\, the specific domestic banalities that become existential in the context of such huge & abrupt loss. These songs are devastating in their straightforward vulnerability. They are pretty & they are deep\, & they find a love that prevails beneath the overwhelming & real sorrow. It is unlike anything else in the Mount Eerie catalog in its unvarnished expressions of personal grief\, metaphor-free. \nYG2D presents Dr. Michael Fratkin… \nFather\, husband\, brother\, son\, and physician\, Dr. Fratkin is dedicated to the well being of his community. Since completing his training\, he has made his home and built his family in rural Northern California. He has served his community in primary care in a community clinic system\, as a medical director of our local hospice\, as a leader in the community hospital medical staff\, and a transformative voice for improving the experience of people facing the end of life. \nThis event is a part of ReImagine End of Life [https://www.letsreimagine.org/]\, co-created by a loose network of artists\, storytellers\, healthcare professionals\, innovators\, designers\, organizations & individuals\, banding together to amplify the end-of-life conversation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-presents-death-is-real-with-mount-eerie/
LOCATION:Swedish American Hall\, 2174 Market Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Kauffman
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Kauffman discusses her new novel\, The Gunners. \n\nPraise for The Gunners \n\n“I recommend you read every single thing Rebecca Kauffman writes―start with this beautiful novel\, and start now.” ―Julie Buntin\, author of Marlena \n\n“Kauffman’s prose is restrained in a way that causes it to actually vibrate in places\, and her details are so richly observed they feel like gems\, impossible things mined from deep under the earth. Funny\, raw\, and deeply elegant\, The Gunners is ultimately a meditation on friendship\, that least examined\, most mysterious form of love\, perhaps more sacred for its incompleteness\, for the ways we can never fool ourselves completely into believing we truly know one another.” ―Rufi Thorpe\, author of Dear Fang\, with Love and The Girls from Corona del Mar \n\n“The Gunners explores what it means to have people crawl into your heart and settle in for a lifetime. In this lovely\, truthful novel of six people who have been friends since childhood\, Rebecca Kauffman strips enduring love of all its usual romantic costumery\, and shows us how it actually works.” ―Martha Woodroof\, author of Small Blessings \n\nAbout The Gunners \n\nFollowing her wonderfully received first novel\, Another Place You’ve Never Been\, called “mesmerizing\,” “powerful\,” and “gorgeous\,” by critics all over the country\, Rebecca Kauffman returns with Mikey Callahan\, a thirty-year-old who is suffering from the clouded vision of macular degeneration. He struggles to establish human connections―even his emotional life is a blur. \n  \nAs the novel begins\, he is reconnecting with “The Gunners\,” his group of childhood friends\, after one of their members has committed suicide. Sally had distanced herself from all of them before ending her life\, and she died harboring secrets about the group and its individuals. Mikey especially needs to confront dark secrets about his own past and his father. How much of this darkness accounts for the emotional stupor Mikey is suffering from as he reaches his maturity? And can The Gunners\, prompted by Sally’s death\, find their way to a new day? The core of this adventure\, made by Mikey\, Alice\, Lynn\, Jimmy\, and Sam\, becomes a search for the core of truth\, friendship\, and forgiveness. \n  \nA quietly startling\, beautiful book\, The Gunners engages us with vividly unforgettable characters\, and advances Rebecca Kauffman’s place as one of the most important young writers of her generation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-kauffman/
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:Beth Pickens with Brontez Purnell
DESCRIPTION:Beth Pickens with Brontez Purnell\n\n  \ndiscussing \nYour Art Will Save Your Life \nA candid guidebook about art-making in the midst of oppression \nfrom Feminist Press \n\n\nAs a teenager visiting the Andy Warhol Museum\, Beth Pickens realized the importance of making art. As an adult\, she has dedicated her life to empowering working artists. Intimate yet practical\, Your Art Will Save Your Life helps artists build a sustainable practice while navigating the world of MFAs\, residencies\, and institutional funding. \nBeth Pickens is a Los Angeles-based consultant for artists and arts organizations. She provides career consultation\, grant writing\, fundraising\, and financial\, project\, and strategic planning services for clients across the US. Before relocating to Los Angeles in 2014\, Pickens was based in San Francisco and served as Senior Program Manager at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Managing Director of both RADAR Productions and the Queer Cultural Center. \nBrontez Purnell has been publishing\, performing\, and curating in the Bay Area for over ten years. He is author of the cult zine Fag School\, frontman for his band The Younger Lovers\, and founder and choreographer of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company. Formerly a dancer with Gravy Train!!!\, a queer electro indie band that gained national prominence in the mid-2000s\, Purnell’s other prominent artistic collaborations include his supporting role in the queer independent feature film\, “I Want Your Love” (dir. Travis Mathews\, 2012). He was a guest curator for the Berkeley Art Museum’s L@TE program in 2012\, awarded an invitation to the 2012 Radar Lab queer arts summer residency\, honored by OutMagazine’s 2012 Hot 100 List and 2013 Most Eligible Bachelors List\, and most recently won the 2014 SF Bay Guardian‘s Goldie for Performance/Music. \nWhat has been said about Your Art Will Save Your Life: \n“Offers modest and straightforward suggestions for surviving and thriving in creative endeavors.” —Publishers Weekly \n“I’ve already recommended Your Art Will Save Your Life to all my students and friends. I myself consult it regularly\, for discipline\, inspiration\, and wisdom. This book is crucial\, and Beth Pickens is exactly the person to write it—tough\, friendly\, experienced\, politically incisive\, spiritually wise. A slim\, necessary revelation.” —Maggie Nelson\, author of The Argonauts \n“A survival guide for the creatives among us.” —Nicole Georges\, author of Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home \n“I’m so grateful for this book! I’m buying it for every single creative person in my life.” —Ann Friedman\, host of Call Your Girlfriend \n“If you are a person who needs to make art in order to function\, this book is from your best\, smartest\, coolest\, most insightful\, wise\, learned\, practical\, savvy\, no-bullshit friend who knows you and loves you anyway.” —Lucy Corin\, author of One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses \n“An electrically inspiring\, politically fresh\, and class-conscious guide for artists who wish to engage more deeply with their process\, their careers\, and their lives.” —Michelle Tea\, author of Modern Tarot \n  \n“The self-help book every artist needs! Wish I’d had this book my entire life.” —Ali Liebegott\, author of Cha-Ching!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beth-pickens-with-brontez-purnell/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Laurie Anderson
DESCRIPTION:Laurie Anderson is one of America’s most renowned and daring creative pioneers. Her work\, encompassing music\, visual art\, poetry\, film and photography\, has challenged and delighted audiences around the world for 40 years. Join Anderson at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco for a special performance of her new work\, “All the Things I Lost in the Flood”\, which includes visual images and performances\, along with commentary on some of her iconic work with voice\, electronics\, codes\, narrative styles and digital language.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laurie-anderson/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center of San Francisco\, 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Dana Levin and Dean Rader
DESCRIPTION:Dana Levin and Dean Rader read from their latest poetry collections\, Banana Palace and Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry. \n\nAbout Dana Levin \n\nDana Levin’s fourth book is Banana Palace (Copper Canyon Press\, 2016). Previous collections include In the Surgical Theatre and Sky Burial\, which The New Yorker called “utterly her own and utterly riveting.” Recent poetry and essays have appeared in Best American Poetry 2015\, Poem-a-day\, Boston Review\, and Poetry. Levin is a grateful recipient of honors from the National Endowment for the Arts\, PEN\, the Witter Bynner Foundation and the Library of Congress\, as well as the Rona Jaffe\, Whiting and Guggenheim Foundations. She serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis. \n\nAbout Dean Rader \n\nDean Rader published three books in 2017: Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry (Copper Canyon Press); Suture\, a collection of collaborative sonnets written with Simone Muench (Black Lawrence) and the anthology Bullets Into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence\, with Brian Clements & Alexandra Teague (Beacon Press). He writes regularly for The San Francisco Chronicle\, Ploughshares\, The Kenyon Review\, and The Huffington Post and is a professor at The University of San Francisco. In their review of Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry\, Publishers Weekly wrote: “few poets capture the contradictions of our national life with as much sensitivity or keenness.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dana-levin-and-dean-rader/
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 Others: A Dramatic Reading by Matthew Rohrer & Special Guests
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a performance of Matthew Rohrer’s novel in verse\, The Others\, featuring guest readers including Daniel Handler and Arisa White. Please join us! \nA gripping\, eerie\, and hilarious novel-in-verse from poet Matthew Rohrer. In a Russian-doll of fictional episodes\, we follow an entry-level publishing assistant over the course of a day as he encounters ghost stories\, science fiction adventures\, Victorian hashish eating\, and robot bigfoots. Rohrer mesmerizes with wildly imaginative tales and resonant verse in this compelling love letter to storytelling. \n— \nMatthew Rohrer is the author of Surrounded by Friends (Wave Books\, 2015)\, Destroyer and Preserver (Wave Books\, 2011)\, A Plate of Chicken (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2009)\, Rise Up (Wave Books\, 2007) and A Green Light (Verse Press\, 2004)\, which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize. He is also the author of Satellite (Verse Press\, 2001)\, and co-author\, with Joshua Beckman\, of Nice Hat. Thanks. (Verse Press\, 2002)\, and the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered and The Next Big Thing. His first book\, A Hummock in the Malookas was selected for the National Poetry Series by Mary Oliver in 1994. He lives in Brooklyn\, New York\, and teaches at NYU. \n  \nDaniel Handler is the author of the novels We Are Pirates\, The Basic Eight\, Watch Your Mouth\, Adverbs\, and Why We Broke Up\, a 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book. He is responsible for many books for children\, including the thirteen-volume sequence A Series of Unfortunate Events and the four-book series All the Wrong Questions. He is married to the illustrator Lisa Brown\, and lives with her and their son in San Francisco. \n  \nArisa White is a Cave Canem fellow\, a graduate from the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst\, and author of the books Disposition for Shininess\, dear Gerald\, and Black Pearl. Her most recent book is the full length poetry collectionYou’re The Most Beautiful Thing That Happened (Augury Books\, 2016).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-others-a-dramatic-reading-by-matthew-rohrer-special-guests/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Black Aesthetic\, in performance and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:“Our intention is to offer constructive speculation; our earnest hope to take up the love labor of the Black canons that laid these foundations in the past and provide guidance for the future.”\n— Zoé Samudzi\, Introduction to The Black Aesthetic Season II \nJoin us for an evening of readings\, performances\, and conversations with The Black Aesthetic. This group of writers and artists started their work together around a series of film screenings\, in the space at E. M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore in downtown Oakland. Their first publication\, The Black Aesthetic Season One: Black Women in Film\, emerged out of the dialogue that started to happen around their viewing of undeniable classics of independent Black cinema\, works that were met with acclaim when released\, and then became hard-to-find rareties. That publication struck a nerve\, and quickly sold out. Their follow-up\, The Black Aesthetic Season II\, just appeared this Spring 2018\, and it’s an even more extensive assembly of original writings and photo-works in response to a new series of films (100 Boyfriends Mixtape by Brontez Purnell\, Breathless by Anaiis Cisco\, Day by Day and Man Who Feared by Jehnovah Carlisle\, I gave myself space to go back by Yetunde Olagbaju\, Good White People by Jarrod Willing-Cann & Erick Stoll\, Short Films by Summer Mason\, Lucid Noon\, Sunset Blush by Alli Logout).  We’re devoting an evening to the artists who initiated these crucial conversations. \nJamal Batts is a doctoral student in the Department of African American Studies at UC Berkeley\, with a Designated Emphasis in Gender\, Women\, and Sexuality Studies. His work considers representations of morbidity\, death\, and disease in black and queer performance and visual culture. \nRyanaustin Dennis Founding member of The Black Aesthetic\, Ryanaustin Dennis is an Oakland based curator/artist/writer. His practice is concerned with how 20th and 21st century experimental performance\, film\, and writing histories are shaped by the metaphysics of blackness. He has done curatorial work for E.M. Wolfman Bookstore and is a Southern Exposure Curatorial Council Fellow. He is currently working on a manuscript How to Bend a Nigger. \nMalika “Ra” Imhotep is a black feminist writer/root worker from Atlanta\, GA currently pursuing a doctoral degree in African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley.  Her thinking engages black femme performance aesthetics and cultural production throughout the Black Diaspora. Her creative praxis is invested in a textual and performative enjoyment of undisciplined movement\, the historical present\, black obscenities\, black spiritual practices and other blackityblk happenings. \nZoé Samudzi is a writer whose work has appeared in a number of spaces including The New Inquiry\, Warscapes\, Truthout\, ROAR Magazine\, Teen Vogue\, and Bitch Media\, among others. She is presently a Sociology PhD student at the University of California\, San Francisco in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Her academic work includes biomedicalization theory\, structural productions of race and gender\, and transgender health. www.zoesamudzi.com \nLeila Weefur lives and works in Oakland\, CA. Weefur received her MFA from Mills College in 2016. She uses video and printmaking to investigate the phenomenology of Blackness. With materials and visual gestures that access the tactile memory she explores the abject\, the sensual and the nuance found in the social interactions and language with which our bodies have to negotiate space. She is a recipient of the Hung Liu award\, the Murphy & Cadogan award\, and recently completed an artist fellowship at Kala Art Institute. Weefur has exhibited her work in local and national galleries including Southern Exposure and SOMArts Gallery in San Francisco\, Betti Ono in Oakland\, and Smack Mellon in Brooklyn\, New York. She is the Audio and Video Editor in Chief at Art Practical. www.leilaweefur.com \nFrom their website: “The Black Aesthetic is a creative organization\, whose mission is to curate and assemble both a collective and distinct understanding of Black visual culture. We pose the question: What is the Black aesthetic sensibility and what does it look like to you? \n“By working with artists\, writers\, filmmakers\, and designers. We cultivate work that asks our audience to consider their relationship to Black art. Based in Oakland\, we are invested in developing a community who will participate and engage with our mission. When you support The Black Aesthetic\, you are actively supporting a network of Black Artists. Through film screenings\, publications\, and product development we want to add to a growing collection of artistic visions that are grounded in place\, body\, lived-experience\, and are responsive to its respective environment.” More here. \nPhoto: Lance Yamamoto\, East Bay Express.\nFront\, left-right: Zoé Samudzi\, Leila Weefur\, Malika “Ra” Imhotep. Back\, left-right: Jamal Batts\, Ryanaustin Dennis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n• The Black Aesthetic \n• Oakland’s Black Artists Make Space for Themselves | East Bay Express \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/the-black-aesthetic-in-performance-and-in-conversation/
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:Dalachinsky\, Otomo\, Lazzara + Swindell at Alley Cat
DESCRIPTION:Readings by:\n\nSteve Dalachinsky\n\n\nYuko Otomo\nMarina Lazzara\n\n\nTate Swindell
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dalachinsky-otomo-lazzara-swindell-at-alley-cat/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Richard Power
DESCRIPTION:Richard Powers discusses his new novel\, The Overstory. \n\nPraise for Richard Powers \n\n“This book is beyond special. Richard Powers manages to turn trees into vivid and engaging characters\, something that indigenous people have done for eons but that modern literature has rarely if ever even attempted. It’s not just a completely absorbing\, even overwhelming book; it’s a kind of breakthrough in the ways we think about and understand the world around us\, at a moment when that is desperately needed.” — Bill McKibben \n\n“Powers is prodigiously talented\, he writes lyrical prose\, has a seductive sense of wonder and is an acute observer of social life.” — Jim Holt\, The New York Times Book Review \n\n“Part of the fun of reading [Powers] is to see how he wriggles out of his own snares. But a greater thrill is to join with him in untangling the most urgent and confounding puzzles of our age.” — Nathaniel Rich\, The New York Review of Books \n\nAbout The Overstory \n\n\nAn Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky\, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits\, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself\, dies\, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four\, and five other strangers—each summoned in different ways by trees—are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent’s few remaining acres of virgin forest. \n  \nIn his twelfth novel\, National Book Award winner Richard Powers delivers a sweeping\, impassioned novel of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds\, The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond\, exploring the essential conflict on this planet: the one taking place between humans and nonhumans. There is a world alongside ours—vast\, slow\, interconnected\, resourceful\, magnificently inventive\, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe. \n  \nThe Overstory is a book for all readers who despair of humanity’s self-imposed separation from the rest of creation and who hope for the transformative\, regenerating possibility of a homecoming. If the trees of this earth could speak\, what would they tell us? “Listen. There’s something you need to hear.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/richard-power/
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:Kai Carlson-Wee / Rail
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a launch for Kai Carlson-Wee‘s first full-length poetry collection\, Rail. More info to come soon — save the date\, and join us! \nSet against a landscape of rail yards and skate parks\, Kai Carlson-Wee’s debut collection captures a spiritual journey of wanderlust\, depression\, brotherhood\, and survival. These poems–a “verse novella” in documentary form–build momentum as they travel across the stark landscapes of the American West: hopping trains through dusty prairie towns\, swapping stories with mystics and outlaws\, skirting the edges of mountains and ridges\, heading ever westward to find meaning in the remnants of a ruined Romantic ideal. Part cowboy poet\, part prophet\, Carlson-Wee finds beauty in the grit and kinship among strangers along the road. \n  \n— \nKai Carlson-Wee is the author of Rail (BOA\, 2018). He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, and his work has appeared in Ploughshares\, Best New Poets\, TriQuarterly\, Gulf Coast\, and The Missouri Review\, which awarded him the 2013 Editor’s Prize. His photography has been featured in Narrative Magazine and his poetry film\, Riding the Highline\, received jury awards at the 2015 Napa Valley Film Festival and the 2016 Arizona International Film Festival. With his brother Anders\, he has co-authored two chapbooks\, Mercy Songs (Diode Editions) and Two-Headed Boy (Organic Weapon Arts)\, winner of the 2015 Blair Prize. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow\, he lives in San Francisco and is a lecturer at Stanford University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kai-carlson-wee-rail/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Playing Hamlet Roulette: EXIT Press spotlight and Mark Jackson book release party
DESCRIPTION:Join EXIT Theatre’s publishing arm EXIT Press to celebrate our eighth year\, and the recent publication of our 24th book\, Mark Jackson’s Playing Hamlet Roulette: Failure\, Expectation\, Possibility & Democracy! \nJust over two years ago\, Shotgun Players company member and EXIT Theatre alumnus\, Mark Jackson\, undertook one of the biggest challenges of his career: staging a production of Hamlet\, at the Shotgun Players’ Ashby Stage\, in which every performer drew their role from Yorick’s skull five minutes before showtime\, their lines and character for that evening’s performance determined by chance—and months of rigorous rehearsal preceding the run. At the end of 2017\, Jackson\, a four-time author with EXIT Press\, published an investigation and summary of the project\, and the themes that emerged from its creation: failure\, expectation\, possibility\, and democracy. \nWe’ll be celebrating with a reading by Jackson\, and a panel discussion/open conversation with performers from Jackson’s hit experiment\, Hamlet Roulette\, as they discuss the creative roles that failure\, expectation\, possibility\, and democracy played in relation to creating the work that brought them together\, the willingness to embrace them as part of the creative process\, and the implications of artistic risk. \nThis event is free and open to the public\, no reservations required. Jackson’s books\, and our other EXIT Press titles\, will be available for purchase.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/playing-hamlet-roulette-exit-press-spotlight-and-mark-jackson-book-release-party/
LOCATION:EXIT Theatre\, 156 Eddy Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Almost Butterflies Reading by Sarah C. Jimenez
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night of bringing characters to life! Sarah C. Jiménez’s young adult novel\, Almost Butterflies\, follows the lives of three teenage cousins on the precipice of adulthood when they unexpectedly find themselves pregnant. \n  \nArtist bio: Sarah C. Jiménez is a queer Latinx writer obsessed with the glory and growing pains of adolescence. Originally from Chula Vista\, San Diego’s border-town to Tijuana\, Jiménez’s work is deeply embedded with her bicultural identity\, like the accent from her pocha tongue. Jiménez received her MFA in Fiction & Creative Writing from Mills College in 2015\, and is a Lambda Literary alumna and returning writer-in-residence. She has been a featured writer at several events across the Bay Area\, and performed at countless open mics\, but credits her start with Galería de la Raza’s Lunada series. Currently\, she is a community college English instructor where her core values as a teacher and writer intersect; representation matters.\nReaders TBA.\nWe hope to see you there!\n  \nStigmatized by their family and community\, each opt for a different option—abortion\, adoption\, and motherhood—all while learning the most invaluable lesson of all: the importance of love and family. Join us for an intimate glimpse of this works-in-progress as three readers bring the characters to life with direct scenes and excerpts from the novel. This project is made possible through an Individual Artist Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission. \nArtist bio: Sarah C. Jiménez is a queer Latinx writer obsessed with the glory and growing pains of adolescence. Originally from Chula Vista\, San Diego’s border-town to Tijuana\, Jiménez’s work is deeply embedded with her bicultural identity\, like the accent from her pocha tongue. Jiménez received her MFA in Fiction & Creative Writing from Mills College in 2015\, and is a Lambda Literary alumna and returning writer-in-residence. She has been a featured writer at several events across the Bay Area\, and performed at countless open mics\, but credits her start with Galería de la Raza’s Lunada series. Currently\, she is a community college English instructor where her core values as a teacher and writer intersect; representation matters. \nReaders TBA. \nWe hope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/almost-butterflies-reading-by-sarah-c-jimenez/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Second Inning
DESCRIPTION:More Baseball Poetry from San Francisco Poets \nJoin San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck and others for a poetry jam! \nWhen \nMonday\, 4/30/2018\, 4:00 – 5:30 \nWhere \nLatino/Hispanic Rms A & B \nMain Library \n100 Larkin St.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/second-inning/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nikki McClure / The Great Chicken Escape
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to host an evening with Nikki McClure. Please join us for a discussion and special presentation of The Great Chicken Escape! \nA wordless picture book in which chickens flee their coop at an Alaskan monastery and four\, eluding the nuns\, enjoy a day in the forest before returning home to roost. Features cut-paper artwork and a die-cut cover. \n— \nNikki McClure is a well-known cut-paper artist and the author of several children’s books\, including Abrams’s Waiting for High Tide\, In\, Collect Raindrops\, and May the Stars Drip Down. She lives in Olympia\, Washington\, with her husband and son.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nikki-mcclure-the-great-chicken-escape/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Janet Mock with Mia Birdsong
DESCRIPTION:Janet Mock is a writer\, TV host\, and advocate tackling stigma through storytelling. With a Master’s in journalism from New York University\, the Honolulu native began her career as an editor at People.com and went on to write cover stories for Marie Claire\, Interview\, and The Advocate as well as essays for The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, and Lenny. She produced HBO’s The Trans List\, hosts the podcast Never Before\, and serves as a columnist for Allure. Called a “fearless new voice” and “trailblazing leader” who “changed my way of thinking” by Oprah Winfrey\, Janet was a featured speaker at the historic Women’s March on Washington. She is the author of Surpassing Certainty and the New York Times bestseller Redefining Realness.\nThis program is a benefit for the Transgender\, Gender Variant\, Intersex Justice Project
URL:https://litseen.com/event/janet-mock-with-mia-birdsong/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rodrigo Fresán
DESCRIPTION:Rodrigo Fresán discusses his new novel\, The Bottom of the Sky. \n\nPraise for Rodrigo Fresán \n\n“It’s the book of the future\, the book that begins to write itself when everything has ended: the story of two young people in love with planets\, and of a disturbingly beautiful girl. Between Bioy Casares and Philip K. Dick\, but with a voice all its own\, it is both powerful and artistic.”—Enrique Vila-Matas \n\n“I’ve read few novels this exciting in recent years. Mantra is the novel I’ve laughed with the most\, the one that has seemed the most virtuosic and at the same time the most disruptive.”—Roberto Bolaño \n\n“A kaleidoscopic\, open-hearted\, shamelessly polymathic storyteller\, the kind who brings a blast of oxygen into the room.”—Jonathan Lethem \n\n“Rodrigo Fresán is a marvelous writer\, a direct descendent of Adolfo Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges\, but with his own voice and of his own time\, with a fertile imagination\, daring and gifted with a vision as entertaining as it is profound.”—John Banville \n\nAbout The Bottom of the Sky \n\nAt its core\, The Bottom of the Sky is a novel about two young boys in love with other planets and a disturbingly beautiful girl. An homage to the history of American science fiction\, it’s also about the Gulf War\, 9/11\, and a mysterious “incident.” It’s like a Kurt Vonnegut novel told by David Lynch through the lens of Philip K. Dick.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rodrigo-fresan/
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:ZYZZYVA 2018 Spring Issue Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Come join ZYZZYVA for a celebration of their newest issue\, “the Spring Issue” featuring readings by contributors Natalie Serber\, Christopher Adamson\, Greg Sarris\, Mackenzie Evan Smith\, and Tom Barbash. Emceed by Managing Editor Oscar Villalon. \nZYZZYVA is San Francisco’s acclaimed literary journal that’s been publishing since 1985. Featuring a dazzling array of past and current contributors\, it has been a vital publication in supporting the work of Bay Area and West Coast writers for decades.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zyzzyva-2018-spring-issue-celebration/
LOCATION:Mechanics Institute\, 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:James Kass and Paul S. Flores: a reading & performance celebrating 21 years by two founders of Youth Speaks
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the final event of The Poetry Center’s Spring 2018 season: an evening of reading and performance in celebration of San Francisco-based and nationally renowned organization Youth Speaks\, with two of its founders — James Kass and Paul S. Flores\, both SF State alumni and graduates of the MFA in Creative Writing program. (Rumor has it members of the Youth Speaks artists will also be in the house.) This event is free and open to the public. \nJames Kass is an award-winning writer\, educator\, producer and media maker. He is also the Founding Executive Director of Youth Speaks\, a position he held for 21 years (1996-early 2018)\, and is widely credited with helping to launch the global youth spoken word movement\, working with tens of thousands of young people from across the country — and helping launch close to 100 programs nationwide — to help them find\, develop\, publicly present\, and apply their voices as creators of change. \nCreator and Co-Executive Producer of the 7-part HBO series Brave New Voices and the Peabody-nominated HBO’s Brave New Voices 2010\, James also created the concept and served as the Artistic Director of the PBS series Poetic License and the independent documentary 2nd Verse\, as well as the NPR Series\, The Drop In. James created the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival\, serves as Executive Editor of First Word Press\, and was\, among many other things\, a founding member of the San Francisco Poet Laureate Selection Committee\, and helped launch the National\, SF and Oakland Youth Laureate Programs. He has also edited a number of books\, and has had much of his own fiction and poetry published\, while producing a number of nationally touring theater pieces and collaborating with choreographers Robert Moses and Sara Shelton Mann to stage his own writing through dance. He’s lectured and taught at numerous colleges\, including San Francisco State University\, Stanford\, and University of San Francisco\, and presented at NCORE (National Conference on Race and Ethnicity). Kass has received several awards for his writing\, his work in the nonprofit sector\, and his work as an educator. Having produced the first poetry slam for youth in the country\, he helped to develop a national network of nonprofits that believe the passion\, intelligence\, creativity and courage of young people can change the world. \nPaul S. Flores is a poet\, performance artist\, playwright\, and well known spoken word artist. He was raised in Chula Vista\, CA and spent much of his youth in Tijuana\, Mexico. Flores’ PEN Award-winning novel Along the Border Lies reflects this experience. Flores’ work explores the intersection of urban culture\, Hip-Hop and transnational identity. His spoken word poem “Brown Dreams” from Def Poetry on HBO has been viewed on YouTube 100\,000 times\, and continues to inform and influence young people all over the United States. \nAfter playing professional baseball for the Chicago Cubs\, Paul received his degree from University of California\, San Diego and then moved to San Francisco in 1995 to complete the MFA Creative Writing Program at San Francisco State University. In 1996\, he co-founded the Latino poetry performance group Los Delicados with Norman Zelaya and Darren de Leon and recorded a CD titled Word Descarga (Calaca Press\, 2000). Flores’ performance projects have taken him from HBO’s Def Poetry to Cuba\, Mexico\, and El Salvador. \nFlores was named The San Francisco Weekly’s 2011 Best Politically Active Hip-Hop Performance Artist for his solo show You’re Gonna Cry\, which documents the demographic shift of The Mission District after the “dot-com” boom. Flores’ play Representa! features Cuban rapper Julio Cardenas\, directed by Danny Hoch\, and originally produced by La Peña Cultural Center and the San Francisco International Arts Festival at the Hip-Hop Theater Festival in 2007 and later toured to 17 cities. His newest play PLACAS: The Most Dangerous Tattoo (2012) was directed by Michael John Garcés\, and starred Ric Salinas of Culture Clash. PLACAS premiered at the Lorraine Hansberry Theater in Union Square\, San Francisco as a co-production of SFIAF and Central American Resource Center\, and later toured to The Los Angeles Theater Center\, and Off Broadway at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in New York City. \nA highly respected youth arts educator\, as co-founder of Youth Speaks Inc.\, he introduced spoken word to hundreds of thousands of youth all over the country\, and helped develop the national platform for young people to build peer relationships and strategize toward a better future through the Brave New Voices: National Teen Poetry Slam\, now seen on HBO. Flores currently manages the Latino Men & Boys Program\, funded by The California Endowment\, at The Unity Council in East Oakland. He is also adjunct faculty of Theater at the University of San Francisco. He lives in San Francisco with his children. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYouth Speaks\nPaul S. Flores\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/james-kass-and-paul-s-flores-a-reading-performance-celebrating-21-years-by-two-founders-of-youth-speaks/
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:The Apartment in Bab El-Louk: Elisabeth Jaquette
DESCRIPTION:Translator Elisabeth Jaquette discusses her translation of Donia Maher’s graphic novel\, The Apartment in Bab El-Louk. This “fabulous noir poem” has been simply described as “the reflections of an old recluse in busy downtown Cairo neighbourhood of Bab El-Louk” by Egyptian artist\, Ganzeer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nElisabeth Jaquette is a translator from Arabic\, instructor at Hunter College\, and Executive Director of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-apartment-in-bab-el-louk-elisabeth-jaquette/
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:Mairghread Scott / The City on the Other Side
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Mairghread Scott for her new graphic novel illustrated by Robin Robinson\, The City on the Other Side\, which is set in early 20th century San Francisco. Please join us! \nIn The City on the Other Side\, a young girl stumbles into a pitched war between two fairy kingdoms\, and the fate of San Francisco itself hangs in the balance! \nSheltered within her high-society world\, Isabel plays the part of a perfectly proper little girl—she’s quiet\, well-behaved\, and she keeps her dresses spotlessly clean. She’s certainly not the kind of girl who goes on adventures. \nBut that all changes when Isabel breaches an invisible barrier and steps into another world. She discovers a city not unlike her own\, but magical and dangerous. Here\, war rages between the fairies of the Seelie and Unseelie Courts. Only Isabel\, with the help of a magical necklace and a few new friends\, stands a chance of ending the war before it destroys the fairy world\, and her own. \n  \n\n  \nMairghread Scott is an animation and comicbook writer specializing in action-comedy. Her animation work spans such titles as Guardians of the Galaxy\, Ultimate Spider-Man\, Transformers: Robots in Disguise\, and more. You can also read her work in comic book series such as: Marvel Universe Guardians of the Galaxy\, Transformers: Till All Are One\, Wonder Woman 75th Anniversary Special\, and her creator-owned work Toil and Trouble. She is the author of the graphic novel Science Comics: Robots & Drones\, also from First Second. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marighread-scott/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Chuck Palahniuk (signing only)
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books on Clement on Friday\, May 4th at 12:00 p.m. as we welcome Chuck Palahniuk for a signing of his most recent book Adjustment Day. \n \nPlease note that Chuck will not be reading at this event\, and that admission to this event will be the cost of a book on or before day of the signing. Chuck will happily sign two additional items for fans of his\, which may include memorabilia or an additional book. For any and all other questions concerning this event please give us a call at 415-387-2272. \n \nAbout Adjustment Day \nIn this ingeniously comic work\, the author’s first novel in four years\, Chuck Palahniuk does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. Smug\, geriatric politicians hatch a nasty fate for the burgeoning population of young males; working-class men dream of burying the elites; and professors propound theories that offer students only the bleakest future. When it arrives\, Adjustment Day inaugurates the new\, disunited states. In this mind-blowing novel\, Palahniuk—an equal-opportunity offender—fearlessly makes real the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy\, alternative fact\, and conspiracy theory lurking in the American psyche. \n  \nChuck Palahniuk is the best-selling author of more than seventeen fictional works\, including Fight Club\, Invisible Monsters\, Survivor\, Choke\, Lullaby\, Diary\, Haunted\, Rant\, Pygmy\, Tell-All\, Damned\, Doomed\, Beautiful You\, and\, most recently\, Make Something Up. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chuck-palahniuk-signing-only/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Aline Kominsky-Crumb
DESCRIPTION:Legendary cartoonist Aline Kominsky-Crumb discusses Love That Bunch. \n\nPraise for Aline Kominsky-Crumb \n\n“For over 40 years\, Kominsky-Crumb has chronicled agony and ecstasy through brutally honest portraits . . . She changed the game for women comics—not to mention women comedians\, authors and artists.”—The Huffington Post \n\n“Kominsky-Crumb’s line has a freshness and energy that make her strips feel more honest and closer to autobiography than self-mythologizing.”—The New Republic \n\nAbout Love That Bunch \n\nAline Kominsky-Crumb redefined the Bay Area’s underground comix scene with unabashedly raw\, dirty\, unfiltered comics chronicling the thoughts and desires of a woman coming of age in the 1960s. Kominsky-Crumb didn’t worry about self-flattery: her darkest secrets and deepest insecurities were the fodder for groundbreaking stories. Her exaggerated comix alter ego\, Bunch\, is self-destructive and grotesque but crackles with the self-deprecating humor and honesty of a cartoonist confident in the story she wants to tell. \n  \nCollecting comics from the 1970s through today\, Love That Bunch is shockingly prescient while still being an authentic story of its era. Kominsky-Crumb was ahead of her time in juxtaposing the contradictory nature of female sexuality with a proud\, complicated feminism. Most important\, she does so without apology. \n  \nOne of the most famous and idiosyncratic cartoonists of our time\, Kominsky-Crumb traces her steps as a Beatles-loving fangirl\, an East Village groupie\, an adult grappling with her childhood\, and a 1980s housewife and mother. A new thirty-page story\, “Dream House\,” looks back on her childhood forty years later. Love That Bunch will be Kominsky-Crumb’s only solo-authored book in print. Originally published in 1990\, this new expanded edition follows her to the present\, including a foreword penned by the noted comics scholar Hillary Chute.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aline-kominsky-crumb/
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:Tessa Fontaine with Shawn Wen
DESCRIPTION:Tessa Fontaine discusses her new memoir The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts with Shawn Wen. \nPraise for The Electric Woman \nIn a word: wow. I read The Electric Woman in a hallucinatory fever filled with hospital beds and carnival rides\, gray eyes and biting boa constrictors\, brain bleeds and headless bodies\, fire eaters and electrified women. Tessa Fontaine is a real-life snake charmer—her writing hooked and hypnotized me from page one. I had to read just one more chapter\, just one more until I reached the end of her extraordinary memoir\, dismayed that it was over but so grateful for the unforgettable ride.” —Susannah Cahalan\, author of Brain on Fire \n“Somewhere between knives and fire beats the heart of a young woman daring herself to live. In her memoir\, The Electric Woman\, Tessa Fontaine weaves her way through a mother-death story and a daughter-coming-alive story against the backdrop of America’s last traveling sideshow. There are so many ways to bring ourselves back to life. So many people along the way who become our secular guardian angels. This story is a breathtaking\, fire-eating\, heart-stopping\, death-defying thrill.” —Lidia Yuknavitch\, author of The Book of Joan \nA beautiful and ferocious book\, The Electric Woman comes packed with magnificent stories of carnival tricks\, transcending the limits of the body\, and the bravery of survivors and caretakers. Yet\, somehow no marvel is more wondrous than the writing itself. Fontaine’s memoir is a brilliant testament to family\, grief\, love\, and the astonishing trick of being—and feeling—alive.” —Annie Hartnett\, author of Rabbit Cake \nAbout The Electric Woman \nFor three years Tessa Fontaine lived in a constant state of emergency as her mother battled stroke after stroke. But hospitals\, wheelchairs\, and loss of language couldn’t hold back such a woman; she and her husband would see Italy together\, come what may. Thus Fontaine became free to follow her own piper\, a literal giant inviting her to “come play” in the World of Wonders\, America’s last traveling sideshow. How could she resist? \n  \nTransformed into an escape artist\, a snake charmer\, and a high-voltage Electra\, Fontaine witnessed the marvels of carnival life: intense camaraderie and heartbreak\, the guilty thrill of hard-earned cash exchanged for a peek into the impossible\, and\, most marvelous of all\, the stories carnival folks tell about themselves. Through these\, Fontaine trained her body to ignore fear and learned how to keep her heart open in the face of loss. \n  \nA story for anyone who has ever imagined running away with the circus\, wanted to be someone else\, or wanted a loved one to live forever\, The Electric Woman is ultimately about death-defying acts of all kinds\, especially that ever constant: good old-fashioned unconditional love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tessa-fontaine-with-shawn-wen/
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:Alicia Mountain / High Ground Coward
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Alicia Mountain reading from High Ground Coward\, winner of the 2017 Iowa Poetry Prize. Joining her for a reading and conversation is Brittany Perham (Double Portrait)—join us! \nAlicia Mountain’s urgent and astonishing debut collection maps a new queer landscape through terrain alive and sensual\, defiant and inviting. With a voice that beckons while it howls\, Mountain nimbly traverses lyric\, confessional\, and narrative modes\, leaving groundbreaking tracks for us to follow. High Ground Coward offers fists full of soil\, leftovers for breakfast\, road trip as ritual\, twins of lovers and twins of ourselves. This world blooms with hunger-inducing detail\, its speakers asking us to consider what it will take to satisfy our own appetites while simultaneously trying to nourish one another. “Ferocious\, even the softest part\,” Mountain shows us “a way to fall in love with wanting\,” leaving us “ravenous\, but gradually.” \nBearing witness to identity formation in solitude and communion\, High Ground Coward is an almanac of emotional and relational seasons. Mountain’s speakers question the meaning of inheritance\, illness\, violence\, mythology\, and family architecture. Whether Mountain is at work revealing the divinity of doubt\, the entanglement of devotion\, or the dominion that place holds over us\, High Ground Coward heralds a thrilling poetic debut. \n  \nfrom “Scavenger”  \nWe three eat food and are in love. This is the easy way to say \nthere are stores beneath the floor. \nPotatoes and shallots\, \nhard-necked garlic streaked purple\, \njars beside jars\, themselves \neach staving globes of suction. \nPreservation\, a guardian hunger. \n  \nIn the evening I whisper to the boiled beet\, \nlike a naked organ in my flushed hand: \nYou are ground blood\, \nyou are new born\, \nyou have never been nothing— \nthawfruit seedflower greenstart rootbulb \nhandpull shedscrub mouthsweet \nand again. \n  \n— \n“Alicia Mountain looks at every tiny thing very closely\, and in doing that conveys the big picture of a vast inner life with marvelous clarity and depth. Her voice is intimate\, brash\, always precise\, heartbreaking in both its vulnerability and its authority. These poems are carried away by both lust and intelligence. This poet understands desire: its expression lets loose while giving form. This book doesn’t detour\, it goes right to and through the overpowered\, relentless heart of its speaker and the reader is struck through too\, and good. High Ground Coward is a dazzling debut by a rare\, true talent.” – Brenda Shaughnessy\, judge\, Iowa Poetry Prize \n“High Ground Coward is raw and intimate. Alicia Mountain looks at what she loves and that foreground blurs into a backdrop of practical constraints and injustices. The poems press at those boundaries where desire starts to interfere with the opportunities of others and cast an unsparing eye on the cost. This is a book of hard\, shifting\, dreamlike gems.” – Joanna Klink\, author\, Excerpts from a Secret Prophecy 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alicia-mountain-high-ground-coward/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Readings by J. Bruce Fuller\, Jason Labbe\, Raina J. León\, and Matt W. Miller\nMusic by Armando Alcaraz\nHosted by Peter Kline \nArmando Alcaraz’s original songs are in English and his native Spanish and have influences from both Latin American\, traditional Mexican and American folk. Armando uses his songs and music to facilitate transformation\, integration\, and healing in contemplative contexts. \nJ. Bruce Fuller is a Louisiana native\, and is currently a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. His chapbooks include The Dissenter’s Ground\, Notes to a Husband\, Lancelot\, and Flood which won the 2013 Swan Scythe Chapbook Contest. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming at The Southern Review\, Crab Orchard Review\, Harpur Palate\, Pembroke Magazine\, Birmingham Poetry Review\, and Louisiana Literature\, among others. He is the editor and publisher of Yellow Flag Press. He received a MFA from McNeese and a PhD from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. \nBorn in New Britain\, Connecticut and raised by a machinist and a waitress\, Jason Labbe is the author of a full-length collection\, Spleen Elegy (BlazeVOX\, 2017)\, and a handful of chapbooks\, including Blackwash Canal (2011) and Dear Photographer (Phylum Press\, 2009). His poems\, reviews\, and nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry\, Boston Review\, A Public Space\, Conjunctions\, DIAGRAM\, American Book Review\, Washington Square\, Gulf Coast\, and The Brooklyn Rail. He has taught writing at the University of Virginia\, the University of Connecticut\, and Southern Connecticut State University. Also a drummer and recording engineer\, he has worked with many artists in New England and New York City. He splits his time between Bethany\, Connecticut and Brooklyn\, New York. \nRaina J. León\, PhD\, CantoMundo fellow\, Cave Canem graduate fellow (2006) and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective\, has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry\, fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of three collections of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, Boogeyman Dawn\, sombra: (dis)locate (2016) and the chapbook\, profeta without refuge (2016). She has received fellowships and residencies with Macondo\, Cave Canem\, CantoMundo\, Montana Artists Refuge\, the Macdowell Colony\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, Vermont Studio Center\, among others. She is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly\, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latinx arts. She is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California. \nMatt W. Miller is the author of the collections The Wounded for the Water (Salomon Poetry)\, Club Icarus\, selected by Major Jackson as the winner of the 2012 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize and Cameo Diner: Poems. He has published poems and essays in The Adroit Journal\, Harvard Review\, Narrative Magazine\, Notre Dame Review\, Southwest Review\, 32 Poems\, Memorious\, and crazyhorse\, among other journals. He was winner of the River Styx Microbrew/Microfiction Prize and Iron Horse Review’s Trifecta Poetry Prize. He is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University and a Walter E. Dakin Fellow in Poetry at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He teaches English at Phillips Exeter Academy and lives with his family in coastal New Hampshire.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-10/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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