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SUMMARY:Gala celebrating 35 years of SF Shakespeare Festival
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the Crystal Ballroom of the Marines’ Memorial Club on April 22 to celebrate 35 years of the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival! Festivities inlcude passed hors d’oeuvres\, Freemark Abbey wine tasting\, 3-course dinner\, live and silent auction and more. Black tie optional\, dramatic accessories encouraged. \nEvery dollar raised will support San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of ‘Hamlet’ and its vital arts-education programs.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gala-celebrating-35-years-of-sf-shakespeare-festival/
LOCATION:Marines’ Memorial Club\, 609 Sutter St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kanishk Tharoor w/ Aaron Bady)
DESCRIPTION:Kanishk Tharoor discusses his new story collection\, Swimmer Among the Stars\, with Aaron Bady. \nPraise for Swimmer Among the Stars \n“Like the storytellers of old\, as well as the art’s 20th century masters\, Kanishk Tharoor brings together times past and our present day in his dazzling fables where the exotic and the mundane\, the lost and the hoped for\, are woven into images that remind the reader that it is through sharing stories\, and maybe stories alone\, that civilizations and their subjects come together in surviving whatever tasks history sets for them.” —Sjón \n“These stories gleam with the light of an authentic and wholly original imagination\, beautifully crafted and in possession of an untamed\, almost feral sense of creativity. With Borgesian intelligence and great tenderness of heart\, Tharoor reminds us how vital it is to tell stories\, and how urgently we need to consume them.” —Alexandra Kleeman\, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine \n“It’s been years since I’ve encountered a collection as beguiling as Swimmer Among the Stars. Kanishk Tharoor seems to have sprung onto the scene fully formed\, possessed of his own mischievous and erudite voice\, already at the full height of his powers. Literary debuts are often described as ‘promising’; here are stories that read like promises fulfilled.” —John Wray\, author of The Lost Time Accidents \nAbout Swimmer Among the Stars \nIn one of the singularly imaginative stories from Kanishk Tharoor’s Swimmer Among the Stars\, despondent diplomats entertain themselves by playing table tennis in zero gravity—for after rising seas destroy Manhattan\, the United Nations moves to an orbiting space hotel. In other tales\, a team of anthropologists treks to a remote village to record a language’s last surviving speaker intoning her native tongue; an elephant and his driver cross the ocean to meet the whims of a Moroccan princess; and Genghis Khan’s marauding army steadily approaches an unnamed city’s walls. \nWith exuberant originality and startling vision\, Tharoor cuts against the grain of literary convention\, drawing equally from ancient history and current events. His world-spanning stories speak to contemporary challenges of environmental collapse and cultural appropriation\, but also to the workings of legend and their timeless human truths. Whether refashioning the romances of Alexander the Great or confronting the plight of today’s refugees\, Tharoor writes with distinctive insight and remarkable assurance. Swimmer Among the Stars announces the arrival of a vital\, enchanting talent. \nMore info on our site: http://www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-kanishk-tharoor-and-aaron-bady
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kanishk-tharoor-swimmer-among-the-stars-waaron-bady/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170424T200000
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SUMMARY:The Racket #6: Drugz
DESCRIPTION:The Racket #6: DRUGZ is coming to Adobe Books\, on Monday\, April 24th at 7:00PM. \nWe’re gathering some fantastic writers to share their thoughts on\, well\, drugs. Be it psychedelic horseback riding or deep dives into the world of illicit pharmies\, we’re going to hear it. \nOur readers: \nPhilip Harris\nKar A. Johnson\nJoe Wadlington\nMatt Carney\nIngrid Rojas Contreras \nAnd more to come. \nJust write\, “Drugz” on your oversized wall-calendar for the 24th of April. \nWe’ll see you there.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-6-drugz/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170424T210000
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SUMMARY:Kristen Radtke
DESCRIPTION:Susan Steinberg talks with Kristen Radtke about her debut graphic novel\, Imagine Wanting Only This. \n\nPraise for Kristen Radtke: \n\n“Kristen Radtke’s Imagine Wanting Only This doesn’t tell a single story but a chorus of histories\, personal and familial and historical\, and invents its own marvelous language for their telling—a language forged from interior thought and visual imagination\, bringing together words and illustration in continually surprising and moving ways. The voice in these pages is eloquent in so many ways at once\, like a shape that exists in three dimensions rather than two\, and it’s utterly singular: visually alive\, attentive to details\, self-questioning and tender as it surveys variously haunted terrains of heart and landscape. Radtke’s world is so immersive\, and so sensitively conjured\, that once I entered the sketched chamber of her pages\, I didn’t want to leave again—or even pause for breath—until I reached the end.”\n—Leslie Jamison\, author of The Empathy Exams \n\n“Riveting and glorious. A book of sorrow filtered through intellect. In Kristen Radtke’s hands\, nonfiction becomes poetry. A tremendous achievement.”\n—Tom Hart\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rosalie Lightning \n\n“Cities\, ambitions\, romances\, and bodies come to ruin before our eyes\, as Kristen Radtke invites us\, in her beautifully understated way\, to be disturbed\, fascinated\, and yes\, even attracted to that ruin. A remarkable bildungsroman!”\n—Eula Biss\, author of On Immunity \n\n“Kristen Radtke leads us through a bleak and beautifully crafted story of heart and heartbreak—creation\, connection\, decay\, and loss. Imagine Wanting Only This is challenging and inspiring.”\n—Ellen Forney\, New York Times bestselling author of Marbles \n\n\nAbout Imagine Wanting Only This: \n\nA gorgeous graphic memoir about loss\, love\, and confronting grief.\nWhen Kristen Radtke was in college\, the sudden death of a beloved uncle and the sight of an abandoned mining town after his funeral marked the beginning moments of a lifelong fascination with ruins and with people and places left behind. Over time\, this fascination deepened until it triggered a journey around the world in search of ruined places. Now\, in this genre-smashing graphic memoir\, she leads us through deserted cities in the American Midwest\, an Icelandic town buried in volcanic ash\, islands in the Philippines\, New York City\, and the delicate passageways of the human heart. Along the way\, we learn about her family and a rare genetic heart disease that has been passed down through generations\, and revisit tragic events in America’s past. A narrative that is at once narrative and factual\, historical and personal\, Radtke’s stunning illustrations and piercing text never shy away from the big questions: Why are we here\, and what will we leave behind?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kristen-radtke/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Oakland Noir
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Eddie Muller & Jerry Thompson \nwith Kim Addonizio\, Nick Petrulakis\, Jamie DeWolf\, Joe Loya \nA celebration of a new crime fiction anthology from Akashic Books \nOakland Noir \n\n\nCalifornia’s noir quotient continues to rise with Oakland Noir\, which reveals all the dark complexities of this prominent city. Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies\, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. \nBrand-new stories by: Nick Petrulakis\, Kim Addonizio\, Keenan Norris\, Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder\, Katie Gilmartin\, Dorothy Lazard\, Harry Louis Williams II\, Carolyn Alexander\, Phil Canalin\, Judy Juanita\, Jamie DeWolf\, Nayomi Munaweera\, Mahmud Rahman\, Tom McElravey\, Joe Loya\, and Eddie Muller. \nIn the wake of San Francisco Noir\, Los Angeles Noir\, and Orange County Noir—all popular volumes in the Akashic Noir Series—comes the latest California installment\, Oakland Noir. Masterfully curated by Jerry Thompson and Eddie Muller (the “Czar of Noir”)\, this volume will shock\, titillate\, provoke\, and entertain. The diverse cast of talented contributors will not disappoint. \nJERRY THOMPSON is an accomplished violinist\, playwright\, and poet. He is the coauthor of Black Artists in Oakland\, and owned Black Spring Books\, an independent bookstore. \nEDDIE MULLER\, a.k.a. the “Czar of Noir\,” has been nominated for several Edgar and Anthony awards\, and his novel The Distance won a Shamus Award. He produces the San Francisco Noir City Film Festival\, the largest annual film noir retrospective in the world\, and is a frequent host on Turner Classic Movies.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-noir/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Andres Barba + Yiyun Li
DESCRIPTION:Andres Barba discusses his new novel\, Such Small Hands\, with Yiyun Li\, followed by a party sponsored by Transit Books. \n\nPraise for Andres Barba \n\nEvery once in a while a novel does not record reality but creates a whole new reality\, one that casts a light on our darkest feelings. Kafka did that. Bruno Schulz did that. Now the Spanish writer Andrés Barba has done it with the terrifying Such Small Hands.—Edmund White \n\nBarba explores what the dynamics of an orphanage reveal about any insular community and the trials of its inevitable outcast.—Idra Novey\, author of Ways to Disappear \n\nAndrés Barba needs no advice. He has already created a world that is perfectly realized and has a craft that is inappropriate for a writer of his age.—Mario Vargas Llosa \n\nAbout Such Small Hands \n\nShirley Jackson meets The Virgin Suicides\, set at an all-girls orphanage. It was once a happy city; we were once happy girls. . . . Life changes at the orphanage the day Marina shows up. As she tries to find her place\, she creates a game whose rules are dictated by a haunting violence. In hypnotic\, lyrical prose\, Andrés Barba evokes the pain of loss and the hunger for acceptance—a masterwork from the Spanish writer at the peak of his powers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andres-barba-yiyun-li/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Anselm Berrigan + Hoa Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is delighted to host local literary nonprofit Small Press Traffic as they present two superb visiting poets\, Anselm Berrigan and Hoa Nguyen. Please join us! \nSmall  Press Traffic hosts poets Anselm Berrigan and Hoa Nguyen as part of its longtime reading series. Since 1974 Small Press Traffic (SPT) has been at the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area innovative writing scene\, bringing together authors\, readers\, educators\, small presses\, and community members through talks\, readings\, workshops\, and performances. Its mission is to provide a local and national platform for experimental writing\, foregrounding underserved writers and those who identify as women\, people of color\, and/or from the LGBTQI community. \nHoa Nguyen is the author of eight poetry books and chapbooks. She lives in Toronto\, Ontario where she teaches poetics at Ryerson University and curates a reading series. \nAnselm Berrigan‘s recent books of poetry include Come In Alone (Wave\, 2016) and Primitive State (Edge\, 2015). A chapbook\, Degrets\, is forthcoming from Couch Press. He is the poetry editor for The Brooklyn Rail\, and also editor of the just-about-released What Is Poetry? (Just kidding\, I know you know): Selected Interviews from the Poetry Project Newsletter\, 1983-2009. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend the event\, but would like to request a signed copy of any of our featured authors’ works\, please order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anselm-berrigan-hoa-nguyen/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Matthew Isaac Sobin
DESCRIPTION:In The Last Machine in the Solar System\, life on Earth ended billions of years ago\, but the last machine carries on. \nNearly three billion years into the future\, the solar system is a very different place. Earth is long gone\, and the sun is a gray\, shrunken dwarf. All that remains of humanity and conscious thought is Jonathan—the last machine. \nCreated to survive Earth’s destruction by our ever-expanding sun\, Jonathan witnessed the end of life on Earth. This is his story and that of his creator\, Nikolai. It is also the story of the human race\, which failed to disentangle its destiny from the star that gave rise to all life-forms on Earth. \nMatthew Isaac Sobin grew up in Huntington\, New York\, and graduated from Tufts University with a bachelor’s degree in history\, with studies in astronomy and geology. He currently lives in Hayward\, California\, with his partner\, sculptor Patricia Gonzalez\, and works with the Peter Beren Literary Agency. This is his first published work.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matthew-isaac-sobin/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit: Happy Hour
DESCRIPTION:In honor of national poetry month\, Red Light Lit is having a FREE Happy Hour show at PianoFight. \nFeatured readers include: Peter Thomas Bullen\, Allyson Darling\, Fred Dodsworth\, Nick Jaina\, Ari Moskowitz\, Xan Roberti and more. \nRed Light Lit is a collective of writers\, musicians and artists who explore love relationships and sexuality through poetry\, prose\, art and song.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-happy-hour/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Skloot
DESCRIPTION:Her name was Henrietta Lacks\, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine\, vital for developing the polio vaccine\, cloning\, gene mapping\, in vitro fertilization\, and more. Henrietta’s cells have been bought and sold by the billions\, yet she remains virtually unknown\, and her family cannot afford health insurance. Rebecca Skloot’s best-selling book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\, soon to be an HBO movie\, tells the riveting story of that collision between ethics\, race\, and medicine in a story inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans and the birth of bioethics.  Skloot specializes in narrative science writing and has explored a wide range of topics\, including tissue ownership rights\, race and medicine\, and food politics in The New York Times Magazine\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\, Discover\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-skloot/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Waters
DESCRIPTION:John Waters reads from his new book\, Make Trouble\, and delivers advice for artists\, graduates and anyone trying to make a living as a creative person. \n\nNote: This event will be ticketed. Tickets include a copy of Make Trouble and a beverage. Tickets available here \n\nAbout Make Trouble \n\nWhen John Waters delivered his gleefully subversive advice to the graduates of the Rhode Island School of Design\, the speech went viral\, in part because it was so brilliantly on point about making a living as a creative person. Now we all can enjoy his sly wisdom in a manifesto that reminds us\, no matter what eld we choose\, to embrace chaos\, be nosy\, and outrage outdated critics. \nWaters notes with irony that he is eminently qualified to be a commencement speaker because he was suspended from high school\, then kicked out of college—yet he is a success doing what he loves best. Anyone embarking on a creative path\, he tells us\, would do well to realize that pragmatism and discipline are as important as talent\, and that rejection is nothing to fear. Waters advises young people to eavesdrop\, listen to their enemies\, and horrify us with new ideas. In other words\, make trouble. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-waters/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170427T200000
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SUMMARY:Cory Doctorow + John Scalzi
DESCRIPTION:CORY DOCTOROW:\nFascinating\, moving\, and darkly humorous\, Walkaway is a multi-generation SF thriller about the wrenching changes of the next hundred years…and the very human people who will live their consequences. From New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow\, an epic tale of revolution\, love\, post-scarcity\, and the end of death. \n“Walkaway is now the best contemporary example I know of\, its utopia glimpsed after fascinatingly-extrapolated revolutionary struggle.” ―William Gibson \nJOHN SCALZI:\nOur universe is ruled by physics. Faster than light travel is impossible―until the discovery of The Flow\, an extradimensional field available at certain points in space-time\, which can take us to other planets around other stars. Riding The Flow\, humanity spreads to innumerable other worlds. Earth is forgotten. A new empire arises\, the Interdependency\, based on the doctrine that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It’s a hedge against interstellar war―and\, for the empire’s rulers\, a system of control. \n“John Scalzi is the most entertaining\, accessible writer working in SF today.” ―Joe Hill\, author of The Fireman
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cory-doctorow-and-john-scalzi/
LOCATION:Borderlands Books\, 866 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Impossible Fairy Tale: Korean Author Han Yujoo in Conversati
DESCRIPTION:Long known as a vital\, innovative author in her native Korea (as well as the publisher of Oulipopress)\, Han Yujoo here presents her first full-length book to be translated into English\, The Impossible Fairy Tale (tr. Janet Hong). Called a “stunning debut” by Kirkus in a starred review\, and praised as “a new kind of literary horror\, as intellectual as it is transfixing” by Sarah Gerard\, The Impossible Fairy Tale is a remarkable book. Come meet this exciting Korean author as she is introduced to the United States in conversation with Two Lines Press Senior Editor Scott Esposito. \nIt all takes place at The Lab\, long known as a home for excellent cultural events in San Francisco. Snacks and alcoholic beverages will be served. \nCopies of The Impossible Fairy Tale will be sold\, and Han will sign books after the event. \nMore information: https://www.catranslation.org/event/the-impossible-fairy-tale-korean-author-han-yujoo-in-conversation-with-scott-esposito/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-impossible-fairy-tale-korean-author-han-yujoo-in-conversati/
LOCATION:The Lab\, 2948 16th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:David Shapiro
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of his new poetry collection \nIn Memory of an Angel \nfrom City Lights Books \nNamed after Alban Berg’s famed violin concerto\, In Memory of an Angel is the first full-length collection in fifteen years from New York School maestro David Shapiro. Packed with erudition\, pursuing themes of art history\, architecture\, literature\, and Jewish identity\, the poems of In Memory of an Angel achieve a rare combination of lyrical abstraction and postmodern self-referentiality\, rendered with Shapiro’s understated virtuosity. Yet there’s a strong current of love poetry flowing through these avant-garde ruminations\, as well as reminiscences of childhood and reflections on fatherhood. A surrealistic violation of the boundary between the real and the dream pervades In Memory of an Angel. Shapiro’s poems take a bewildering variety of forms\, many of his own invention\, even as he is equally at home in the quotidian and anecdotal. Andy Warhol\, Allen Ginsberg\, Jasper Johns\, Frank O’Hara—these are only some of the characters peopling Shapiro’s New York\, a landscape both sophisticated and haunted by memory. \nThe author of 10 previous books of poems\, as well as monographs on John Ashbery\, Jim Dine\, Jasper Johns\, and Mondrian\, David Shapiro is a member of the second generation of New York School poets. A child prodigy on the violin\, he went on to become a literary and art critic and teaches at Patterson College and Cooper Union. He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and has received awards from the Merrill Foundation\, the NEA\, the NEH\, and the Graham Foundation. He lives in Riverdale\, the Bronx\, NYC. \nPraise for David Shapiro: \n“An erudite and relentlessly modernizing mind . . . [Shapiro’s] aleatory\, portent-free sophistication seems confident enough to accommodate primitive\, endearing\, and frankly tender tropes and situations . . . The effect is of unforeseen intimacy at the heart of abstraction.”—The New Yorker \n“David Shapiro has an incredible mastery of the language and an ear sensitive to every nuance of idiom and rhythm.”—Poetry \nPraise for In Memory of an Angel: \n“A Taoist\, a Kabbalist\, and a Dadaist walk into a bar. They discover that the bar is really David Shapiro’s new book of poems\, where they can drink ‘tears from sleeping birds’ and relax ‘in/ the soft hands/ of the gods.’ In Memory of an Angel literally drenches the reader in moments of wonder. Shapiro’s gift is unique. He possesses a childlike\, not innocence\, but sophistication. His playful erudition draws in everyone from Andy Warhol\, to Kenneth Koch\, to John Dewey – and it welcomes you as well\, in its democratic embrace.”––Elaine Equi \n“David Shapiro published his first book\, January: A Book of Poems\, while still a teenager. Since then\, now for over fifty years\, he has remained one of our very finest American poets. His mind is illuminated and his poems luminous. In Memory of an Angel is a strikingly beautiful and invaluable selection of his work!”––Jim Jarmusch \n“It’s always a deep pleasure when David Shapiro has a new book\, he never ceases to astonish\, he has built a singular\, hyper-lyrical\, always brilliant poetry. In Memory of an Angel is filled with spells and charms and spinning language\, elegy\, and wild proclamations; as he writes: “I invented the new movement / without photographs like / the affair of the whole being / as it was said ferocious and / intimate and I invent it / to last.” And so it will.”––Peter Gizzi \n“In Memory of an Angel mesmerizes with virtuosic greatness; a deft masterwork by a poet’s poet whose sui generis genius has for five decades defied and invigorated the New York School label. Shapiro upends language not for less meaning\, but more—and for a multilayered storytelling sufficiently unfettered to get at life’s labyrinthine mix of ‘cardboard and gold’ promise and peril. Pervaded by wide erudition and a skilled violinist’s musical acuity\, these wise\, many-angled poems reward rumination\, with their dream-drenched mystery\, verbal excitement and open-ended\, sometimes near-mystical profundity; always with Shapiro’s pluralistic heart on his metaphysical sleeve.”––Kate Farrell
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-shapiro/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Orlando White + Patrick James Dunagan
DESCRIPTION:Orlando White receives the Poetry Center Book Award for LETTERRS (Nightboat Books) and reads with award judge Patrick James Dunagan. This event is free and open to the public. \n‘San Francisco poet Robert Duncan remarked: “There is no end to the task of bringing the sounds into our conscious art.” (“Notes on the Structure of Rime”) As a critical reader I am always looking out for those poets whose work answers Duncan’s oracular call for unabashed attention to how the language of the poem is presented so as to be thereby sounded; a poet who sets the poems upon the page as though the realization of a musical score\, readied for the eye to hear as the ear sees. Over in New Mexico\, native born Diné (Navajo) poet Orlando White churns out just such work\, attuned to “a lilt of sound: curve murmurs” (“EMIT”). White’s LETTERRS presents forward-learning contemplative action towards what constitutes an avant-garde poetics of today: a bracing engagement of/with advancing a spatial “open space\,” page-as-field\, poem-writing. White describes how “The white space is just as important as the text in a poem\, whether it’s the counter that shapes an O or S\, a line break after a word or a caesura within a line.” (“Functional White: Crafting Space & Silence”) His use of caesura and spacing within the individual line of the poem designates breath\, measure\, and the fragility of even individual letters. While with a quick glance through LETTERRS “the blank” white space of the page may be deemed deceptively sparse in appearance\, upon sustained reading White’s employment of the practice proves to be truly nothing less than masterfully accomplished. \n‘White sees “white space as a place of liberation\, dissolving boundaries between what is authoritative and what is not.” (LETTERRS interview\, Taos Journal) In this same conversation\, he also speaks of “the page” as a “type of energy\,” stating that “as an Indigenous person too\, I see it as a type of resistance against English colonialism.” Without necessarily overt expression of a political stance\, White nevertheless remains committed against colonialist tendencies latent in his experience using English as a poet. “One can argue language is always connected to race and vice versa; this may be why my poems ultimately reflect an intersection of Diné thought and English fluency. But I find my sensibilities are attuned to how a poet builds her or his poems rather than focusing on content\, which may overwhelm a poem.” (“To Find the Subject by Leaving the Subject: Expectations of Race & Content”) For my own needs\, LETTERRS reignites the exciting potentiality for working with the open space of the page\, ever aware of the specific attentive care that’s required. White serves up his own colossal ambitions and tops them with admirable verve. I’m thrilled by the promise of his work and am very much interested in seeing what’s next; the as yet unwritten exploration towards which White is undoubtedly headed. “Write\, means to / place life / into book.” (“n”) It’s nothing other than a pleasure to recognize White’s substantial contribution to the larger ongoing endeavor of Poetics which is achieved here. May many future readers realize in this work the necessary life-sustaining freshness which the Imagination requires to carry the work of “the poems” forward: “Letter hypnotizes to stay / alive after meaning fades.” (“O”)- \n—judge’s statement\, Patrick James Dunagan\nPoet Orlando White is from Tółikan\, Arizona. He is Diné of the Naaneesht’ézhi Tábaahí and born for the Naakai Diné’e. White earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Brown University. He is the author of LETTERRS (Nightboat Books\, 2015) and Bone Light (Red Hen Press\, 2009)\, a collection of poems Kazim Ali described as a “careful excavation on language and letters and the physical body.” White’s work has appeared in such journals as Ploughshares\, the Kenyon Review\, Salt Hill\, and elsewhere. The recipient of a residency from the Lannan Foundation\, White teaches at Diné College in Tsaile\, Arizona. \nPatrick James Dunagan lives in San Francisco and works at Gleeson Library for the University of San Francisco. He is a graduate of the Poetics program from the now-defunct New College of California\, where he studied under Tom Clark\, Adam Cornford\, Gloria Frym\, Joanne Kyger\, George Mattingly\, and David Meltzer. Alongside poets Marina Lazzara and Nicholas Whittington\, he’s currently at work editing together an anthology of critical writings by Poetics program alumni and faculty. His critical reviews and other writings have appeared in a number of online and print publications. His books include: GUSTONBOOK (Post Apollo\, 2011)\, Das Gedichtete (Ugly Duckling\, 2013)\, Book of Kings (Bird and Beckett Books\, 2015)\, Drops of Rain / Drops of Wine (Spuyten Duyvil\, 2016)\, and THE DUNCAN ERA: One Reader’s Cosmology (Spuyten Duyvil\, 2016). \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/orlando-white-patrick-james-dunagan/
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:Jackie Townsend
DESCRIPTION:Jackie Townsend shares her compelling new novel\, The Absence of Evelyn. Newly divorced Rhonda\, haunted by her sister Evelyn’s ghost\, travels to an old palazzo in Rome to confront Marco\, the man who stole her sister’s heart–only to find out he’s vanished in the wake of Evelyn’s death. Meanwhile\, Rhonda’s nineteen-year-old daughter Olivia\, adopted by Rhonda at birth\, travels to the mysterious and lush waters of northern Vietnam\, where she’s been summoned by the missing Marco–a man she only knows from her parents’ whispers\, a man she has never met or seen. Soon\, truths are exposed and lives unraveled\, and the real journey begins. Four lives in all\, spanning three continents\, are now bound together in an unfathomable way–and they tell a powerful story about love in all its incarnations\, filial and amorous\, healing and destructive.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jackie-townsend/
LOCATION:Books Inc. in The Marina\, 2251 Chestnut St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Trane to Africa
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating National Poetry Month featuring Charles Curtis Blackwell Jazz Poet Extraordinaire\,Victor Mavedzenge Spoken Word Artist from Zimbabwe\, Greer Rockett on Trumpet and special guests. More details coming soon…
URL:https://litseen.com/event/trane-to-africa/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shanghai Faithful: Jennifer Lin
DESCRIPTION:Former China correspondent Jennifer Lin dramatizes 150 years of her family history in her new book\, Shanghai Faithful: Betrayal and Forgiveness in a Chinese Christian Family\, (Rowman & Littlefield\, March 2017). A reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer for 31 years\, Lin used her skills as a reporter to weave oral history and archival resources into a narrative spanning five generations. Shanghai Faithful presents a poignant portrait of a family as well as a vivid history of Christianity in China\, stretching from the 19-century mission outposts of South China to the cathedrals of war-torn Shanghai and today’s thriving house churches at the heart of China’s unprecedented religious revival.  The program will be conducted in English.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shanghai-faithful-jennifer-lin/
LOCATION:Chinatown Meeting Room\, 1135 Powell Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Call & Response: Readings by 100 Days Action Poets
DESCRIPTION:Action by: 100 Days Action \nDate/Time\nDate(s) – 04/29/2017\n2:00 pm – 3:30 pm \nLocation\nClarion Alley\nClarion Alley\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110 \n\nACTION: ON THE 99TH DAY THERE WAS POETRY\n100 Days Action comes to Clarion Alley\n\n\nIn these turbulent months\, its the poets who have carried our thoughts. 100 Days Action has published poems by more than a dozen poets since the Inauguration. For our closing\, we bring these unique voices to the historic Clarion Alley reading series for an afternoon of solidarity\, joy\, grim resilience\, and a way forward. In addition to the poetry\, CAMP’s community partner\, The San Francisco Poster Syndicate\, will be live silk screening posters of resistance. \nFeatured Poets:\nHeather Bourbeau\nJosh Wilson\nAndy Sano\nMk Chavez\nYvonne Campbell\nCyrus Armajani\nMaw Shein Win\nJason Wyman\nRaina J. León\nAmos White\nCaitlin Myer\nChristine No\nBonnie Kwong \n“Call & Response” is curated by Maw Shein Win and Ingrid Rojas Contreras. More information about can be found on our Facebook page\, or by contacting Maw Shein Win at maw@redbridgepress.com. \n\nWant to hear about more events and updates? Sign up for our newsletter below!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/call-response-readings-by-100-days-action-poets/
LOCATION:Clarion Alley\, Clarion Alley\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="100 Days Action":MAILTO:info@100daysaction.net
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SUMMARY:Poetry Workshop: Writing Home
DESCRIPTION:RAWI is excited to launch it’s second In Solidarity: RAWI Creative Writing Workshops in San Francisco! \nPlease join us for a poetry workshop\, “Writing Home” led by Deema K Shehabi at the Presidio Branch Library Community Room. \nWorkshop: Writing Home \nHaving lost our way home through dystopia\, exile\, and creeping environmental degradation\, how is it possible to reconstruct and/or recreate the idea of home through writing? By reading and studying a mix of contemporary poets who write about this theme\, this workshop will seek to place participants in a space where they can negotiate their identities through language and explore the relationship between the cultures\, histories\, and geographical locations of their original national and ethnic group. \nThe workshop includes a discussion and featured readings by Nathalie Khankan\, Lena Khalif Tuffah\, and Priscilla Wathington. \nRegister for free here.\n(Note: this program is not sponsored by San Francisco Public Library) \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-workshop-writing-home/
LOCATION:Presidio Branch Library\, 3150 Sacramento St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94115\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Michael Chabon
DESCRIPTION:Michael Chabon joins us on Independent Bookstore Day to read from his new novel\, Moonglow. The classic arcade game Moon Patrol will also be available to play! \n\nPraise for Moonglow \n\n“Elegiac and deeply poignant … Chabon weaves these knotted-together tales together into a tapestry that’s as complicated\, beautiful and flawed as an antique carpet…. Chabon is one of contemporary literature’s most gifted prose stylists…. In Moonglow\, he writes with both lovely lyricism and highly caffeinated fervor.” — Michiko Kakutani \n\n“Mix[es] in generous dollops of meaning\, a sprinkling of fancy metaphors and an abundance of beautiful sentences so that it becomes a rich and exotic confection. Too strict a recipe would have spoiled the charm of this layer cake of nested memories and family legends.… This book is beautiful.” — A.O. Scott \n\nA flamboyantly imaganitive work of fiction dressed in the sheep’s clothing of autobiography….His most confident and complex performance….Moonglow is a movingly bittersweet novel that balances wonder with lamentation.” — Sam Sacks\, The Wall Street Journal \n\nAbout Moonglow \n\nMoonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession of a man the narrator refers to only as “my grandfather.” It is a tale of madness\, of war and adventure\, of sex and marriage and desire\, of existential doubt and model rocketry\, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at midcentury\, and\, above all\, of the destructive impact—and the creative power—of keeping secrets and telling lies. It is a portrait of the difficult but passionate love between the narrator’s grandfather and his grandmother\, an enigmatic woman broken by her experience growing up in war-torn France. It is also a tour de force of speculative autobiography in which Chabon devises and reveals a secret history of his own imagination. \nFrom the Jewish slums of prewar South Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany\, from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia of New York’s Wallkill prison\, from the heyday of the space program to the twilight of the “American Century\,” the novel revisits an entire era through a single life and collapses a lifetime into a single week. A lie that tells the truth\, a work of fictional nonfiction\, an autobiography wrapped in a novel disguised as a memoir\, Moonglow is Chabon at his most moving and inventive. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-chabon-2/
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:Donna Levin
DESCRIPTION:Local author\, editor\, and writing teacher Donna Levin celebrates the launch of her captivating new work of fiction\, There’s More Than One Way Home. Refreshments will be served. \nAnna Kagen seems to have it all: She’s young\, beautiful\, and married to a wealthy\, prominent man. \nBut within the walls of her San Francisco mansion\, she spends her time dodging her husband’s barbs and hunting down potential friends for her son\, Jack\, a 10-year-old on the autistic spectrum. \nThat old life suddenly seems idyllic when\, on a school field trip\, she makes the small error in judgment that sets in motion a chain of events that leads to another boy’s death. Suddenly Jack is a suspect\, her husband’s career is in jeopardy\, and Anna has to choose between loyalty to her son … and what may be her one chance at happiness.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/donna-levin/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Stranger Than Fiction reading series
DESCRIPTION:Please join co-hosts Alan Black and Frances Stroh for this not-to-be-missed event on April 30\, 3-5 pm–check out our stellar line-up: \nEthel Rohan is the author of The Weight of Him\, a debut novel published by St. Martin’s Press\, February 2017. She is also the author of two story collections\, Goodnight Nobody and Cut Through the Bone. An award-winning short story writer\, her work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, World Literature Today\, Tin House Online\, Guernica Magazine\, and many others. Raised in Ireland\, she lives in San Francisco. \nRachel Howard is the author of The Lost Night\, a memoir about her father’s unsolved murder. Her essays and short stories have appeared in ZYZZYVA\, Gulf Coast\, the Arroyo Literary Review\, the Hudson Review\, Waxwing\, and OZY\, among other publications. Her essay for Oprah Magazine\, “The Love Fast\,” was recently collected in O’s Little Guide to Starting Over. She teaches memoir and personal essay writing at Stanford Continuing Studies and the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. She has also served as Interim Director of Undergraduate Creative Writing at Warren Wilson College\, and as Distinguished Visiting Writer for the Saint Mary’s College MFA program. She lives in Nevada City\, where she produces a popular reading series\, YubaLit. www.rachelhoward.com \nJason Bayani is the author of Amulet from Write Bloody Press. He’s an MFA graduate from Saint Mary’s College\, a Kundiman fellow\, and works as the Artistic Director for Kearny Street Workshop. Jason performs regularly around the country and recently debuted his solo show\, “Locus of Control” in 2016. http://jasonbayani.com/ \nAlan Black works on “Notes From a Dive Bar” like a bartender tossing a drunk into the alleyway. Reckless\, messy and all over the place\, it never ends. The Penguin Corporation published his two books. Made in Glasgow\, unmade in California. \nPeg Alford Pursell is the author of Show Her a Flower\, A Bird\, A Shadow (ELJ Editions\, March 2017)\, a collection of hybrid prose and micro-fictions with praise from Peter Orner\, Joan Silber\, Margot Livesey and others. Her stories and poems have appeared in Permafrost\, the Los Angeles Review\, Forklift Ohio\, Joyland Magazine\, 100 Word Story\, and many other journals and anthologies. She is the founder and director of the national reading series Why There Are Words and founder and director of WTAW Press. Visit her at www.pegalfordpursell.com \nJon Boilard is the author of the debut short story collection\, Setright Road (Dzanc Books/2017) and two novels\, The Castaway Lounge (Dzanc Books/2015) and A River Closely Watched (MacAdam Cage/2012)\, which was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. His award-winning short stories have appeared in some of the finest literary journals in the United States\, Canada\, Europe\, and Asia. Jon has participated in the Cork International Short Story Festival in Cork\, Ireland\, the Wroclaw Short Story Festival in Wroclaw\, Poland\, as well as LitQuake. He lives in the San Francisco Sunset district with his wife and two daughters.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stranger-than-fiction-reading-series/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Castle Pub\, 950 Geary St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Donna Levin
DESCRIPTION:Local author\, editor\, and writing teacher Donna Levin celebrates the launch of her captivating new work of fiction\, There’s More Than One Way Home. Refreshments will be served. \nAnna Kagen seems to have it all: She’s young\, beautiful\, and married to a wealthy\, prominent man. \nBut within the walls of her San Francisco mansion\, she spends her time dodging her husband’s barbs and hunting down potential friends for her son\, Jack\, a 10-year-old on the autistic spectrum. \nThat old life suddenly seems idyllic when\, on a school field trip\, she makes the small error in judgment that sets in motion a chain of events that leads to another boy’s death. Suddenly Jack is a suspect\, her husband’s career is in jeopardy\, and Anna has to choose between loyalty to her son … and what may be her one chance at happiness.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/donna-levin-2/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-2/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tony Robles + Tommi Avicolli-Mecca
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, May 1 – 7-9 pm\nPOETS!\nTony Robles & Tommi Avicolli-Mecca\, followed by an open mic\nevery 1st & 3rd Monday\nApril 12\, 2017 By Eric\n\nTony Robles\, born and raised in San Francisco\, is co-editor and a revolutionary worker scholar of Poor magazine\, and recently published Cool Don’t Live Here No More: A Letter to San Francisco. In 2010 he was nominated for the Pushcart Prize by Mythium Literary Journal for his short story\, “In My Country.” Robles is also a housing rights advocate and board member of the Manilatown Heritage Foundation\, and has written two children’s books\, Lakas and the Manilatown Fish and Lakas and the Makibaka Hotel.\nTommi Avicolli-Mecca\, born and raised in the infamous South Philly\, is a former member of Gay Liberation Front who has never stopped being an activist for queer and social justice causes. He is editor of Smash the Church\, Smash the State: The Early Years of Gay Liberation (City Lights Books)\, and co-editor of Avanti Popolo: Italians Sail Past Colum\nbus (Manic D Press). Avicolli-Mecca’s writings have appeared in various anthologies over the years\, most recently\, That’s Revolting (Soft Skull). He is a contributor to the Philadelphia Inquirer\, SF Examiner\, and SF Bay Guardian\, among other newspapers. In addition\, he has published scores of poems since the late 60s\, including a recent work about the San Francisco housing crisis (in Philadelphia Poets\, edited by Rosemary Cappello). He was featured in St. Martin Press’ Gay and Lesbian Poets in our Time.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tony-robles-tommi-avicolli-mecca/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20170501T210000
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning at Galería de la Raza!
DESCRIPTION:A literary mixtape selected through a blind submission-based process\, performed live by the authors\, and published as sPARKLE & bLINK 85\, handed out free to the first 100 people. Thanks to a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission\, all selected authors will be paid. Free show. All ages. \nSubmissions are open through end of day 4/12—do iiiit!\nhttps://quietlightning.submittable.com/submit/81135/quiet-lightning-galeria-de-la-raza \nCurated by Christine No + Abe Becker! \nart by Darlene Alvarez\, cover artist for sPARKLE & bLINK 85 \nquietlightning.org for links + more info
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-at-galeria-de-la-raza/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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SUMMARY:Kill the Ampaya!
DESCRIPTION:A rich variety of baseball fiction exists south of the border but almost none of it is available in English. These inventive and entertaining stories reveal the place of baseball in Latin America. \nJoin us when editor Dick Cluster reads from Kill the Ámpaya! and discusses Latin American baseball fiction. He is joined by Norman Antonio Zelaya who will read in Spanish. \n“A welcome reminder that inspired writing about the sport isn’t limited to the United States. Dick Cluster has done a masterful job of curating and translating this collection of short stories. Each story reflects a passion for baseball and a recognition that the sport and its lessons are omnipresent\, reflecting and informing and mimicking real life. Most of these stories also tend to be infused with a wonderful mysticism that both reflects and then slyly tweaks its gringo counterpart.”\n— Paul Hagen\, mlb.com \nA book sale by the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library follows the event.  Co-sponsored by SABR\, Lefty O’Doul chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kill-the-ampaya/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press at Dog-Eared Books
DESCRIPTION:NOMADIC PRESS AT DOG-EARED BOOKS (CASTRO)\n\nTuesday\, May 2\, 2017\n7:00pm 9:00pm\n\n\nDog-Eared Books (Castro)489 Castro StreetSan Francisco\, CA\, 94114United States\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore information soon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-at-dog-eared-books/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:James Nolan
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nFlight Risk: Memoirs of a New Orleans Bad Boy \nfrom University Press of Mississippi \nFlight Risk takes off as a page-turning narrative with deep roots and a wide wingspan. James Nolan\, a fifth-generation New Orleans native\, offers up an intimate portrait both of his insular hometown and his generation’s counterculture. Flight runs as a theme throughout the book\, which begins with Nolan’s escape from the gothic mental hospital to which his parents committed the teenaged poet during the tumult of 1968. This breakout is followed by the self-styled revolutionary’s hair-raising flight from a Guatemalan jail\, and years later\, by the author’s bolt from China\, where he ditched his teaching position and collectivist ideals. These Houdini-like feats foreshadow a more recent one\, how he dodged biblical floods in a stolen school bus three days after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. \nNolan traces these flight patterns to those of his French ancestors who fled to New Orleans in the mid-nineteenth century\, established a tobacco business in the French Quarter\, and kept the old country alive in their Creole demimonde. The writer describes the eccentric Seventh Ward menagerie of the extended family in which he grew up\, his early flirtation with extremist politics\, and a strong bond with his freewheeling grandfather\, a gentleman from the Gilded Age. Nolan’s quest for his own freedom takes him to the flower-powered\, gender-bending San Francisco of the sixties and seventies\, as well as to an expatriate life in Spain during the heady years of that nation’s transition to democracy. Like the prodigal son\, he eventually returns home to live in the French Quarter\, around the corner from where his grandmother grew up\, only to struggle through the aftermath of Katrina and the city’s resurrection. \nMany of these stories are entwined with the commentaries of a wry flâneur\, addressing such subjects as the nuances of race in New Orleans\, the Disneyfication of the French Quarter\, the numbing anomie of digital technology and globalization\, the challenges of caring for aging parents\, Creole funeral traditions\, how to make a soul-searing gumbo\, and what it really means to belong. \nJames Nolan is a fiction writer\, poet\, essayist\, and translator. His eleven books include the recent You Don’t Know Me: New and Selected Stories (winner of the 2015 Independent Publishers Gold Medal in Southern Fiction) and the novel Higher Ground (awarded a William Faulkner/Wisdom Gold Medal in the Novel). He has taught at universities in San Francisco\, Florida\, Barcelona\, Madrid\, and Beijing\, as well as in his native New Orleans. \nWhat has been said about Flight Risk: \n“James Nolan looks back unsparingly on a time few writers have faced with such clarity and compassion. There’s suspense and beauty on every page . . .”―Andrei Codrescu \n  \n“Hail James Nolan. He sure can tell a story and build it up to a climax.” \n―Lawrence Ferlinghetti\, poet and publisher of City Lights Books \n  \n“A wryly eloquent memoir of world travel and the joys\, and difficulties\, of returning home.” \n–Kirkus Reviews\n“James Nolan’s memoir is vivid\, entertaining\, and utterly memorable\, one of the most enjoyable reads that has come my way for a very long time. The picture he paints of the city he inhabits is unforgettable. New Orleans is fortunate indeed to have such a magnificent writer to record its fragile and extraordinary culture.” ―Alexander McCall Smith\, author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency novels
URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-nolan/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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