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SUMMARY:Tom Lutz: Born Slippy
DESCRIPTION:Tom Lutz discusses his new novel\, Born Slippy. \nPraise for Born Slippy \n“A highly literary and always engaging 21st century noir… Born Slippy confronts contemporary questions about the relativity of evil that no one can dodge.”— Chris Kraus\, author of I Love Dick and After Kathy Acker. \n“Lutz has the seven deadly sins nailed and rethought for our 2020 world. You’ve got to dig this book!” — James Ellroy \n“What a pleasure\, to sink under the comedic spell of Tom Lutz’s debut novel! The perfect book for a dreary day– a gleeful\, twisty tale of an unlikely friendship. Its antagonist young bloviating Dmitry Heald\, with his wild schemes and hair-raising tales\, is the guy you can’t trust to go to the market\, while the older Frank\, his boss\, is a man who should know better\, and yet can’t resist. Infinitely entertaining. I’d put it on the shelf between Tom Robbins and Martin Amis\, if a place can be cleared there.” — Janet Fitch\, author of The Revolution of Marina M. and Chimes of a Lost Cathedral \nAbout Born Slippy \nA globetrotting novel about the seductions of and resistance to toxic masculinity. \n“Frank knew as well as anyone how stories start and how they end. This fiery mess\, or something like it\, was bound to happen. He had been expecting it for years.” \nFrank Baltimore is a bit of a loser\, struggling by as a carpenter and handyman in rural New England when he gets his big break\, building a mansion in the executive suburbs of Hartford. One of his workers is a charismatic eighteen-year-old kid from Liverpool\, Dmitry\, in the US in the summer before university. Dmitry is a charming sociopath\, who develops a fascination with his autodidactic philosopher boss\, perhaps thinking that\, if he could figure out what made Frank tick\, he could be less of a pig. Dmitry heads to Asia and makes a neo-imperialist fortune\, with a trail of corpses in his wake. When Dmitry’s office building in Taipei explodes in an enormous fireball\, Frank heads to Asia\, falls in love with Dmitry’s wife\, and things go from bad to worse. \nCombining the best elements of literary thriller\, noir and political satire\, Born Slippy is a darkly comic and honest meditation on modern life under global capitalism. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tom-lutz-born-slippy/
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:Our Voices Our Stories SF presents Ingrid Rojas Contreras
DESCRIPTION:Ingrid Rojas Contreras will join OVOSSF founder Lisa D. Gray in a conversation about her novel Conteras’ novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree. About OVOSsf Our Voices\, Our Stories SF began in 2014 with 16 amazing writers and four engaging book chats one of which featured Natalie Bazile of Queen Sugar Fame and the legendary Eunetta Boone\, the first black woman showrunner on the Disney Channel. We bring you high-quality authors eager to share and discuss their work. \nThe evening culminates in a book chat between Lisa D. Gray (the Founder and Curator of this landmark series)\, and one or more of the authors. The authors write across genres\, so when you come\, you hear everything from fiction to travel writing and poetry to memoir. These women’s stories paint vivid pictures of what it’s like to live in the world as a woman of color. They explore themes and topics everyone can relate to and understand. \nAbout Ingrid Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Doubleday) is an Indie Next selection\, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection\, and a New York Times editor’s choice. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, Buzzfeed\, Nylon\, and Guernica\, among others. Rojas Contreras has received numerous awards and fellowships from Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, VONA\, Hedgebrook\, The Camargo Foundation\, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture. She is the book columnist for KQED\, the Bay Area’s NPR affiliate. She teaches writing at the University of San Francisco\, and works with immigrant high school students as part of a San Francisco Arts Commission initiative bringing writers into public schools. She is working on a family memoir about her grandfather\, a curandero from Colombia who it was said had the power to move clouds. \nFruit of the Drunken Tree Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister Cassandra enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogotá\, but the threat of kidnappings\, car bombs\, and assassinations hover just outside the neighborhood walls\, where the godlike drug lord Pablo Escobar continues to elude authorities and capture the attention of the nation. \nInspired by the author’s own life\, and told through the alternating perspectives of the willful Chula and the achingly hopeful Petrona\, Fruit of the Drunken Tree contrasts two very different\, but inextricable coming-of-age stories. In lush prose\, Rojas Contreras sheds light on the impossible choices women are often forced to make in the face of violence and the unexpected connections that can blossom out of desperation. \nAbout Lisa Lisa D. Gray is a writer\, curator\, and social justice warrior who loves to cook and sees possibilities waiting to burst free in bubbles blown into air. Her interests range from dancing (her first career goal: Rockette) to star gazing\, and if an animal lived with her\, it’d be a turtle. She writes about the things that intrigue and perplex her and does it with humor and insight. She earned an MFA from Mills College and completed a residency at the Vermont Studio Center and a fellowship at The Fine Arts Works Center. Her work appears in the As Us Literary Journal. Mission at Tenth and the anthology New Haven Noir for which she won an Edgar Award in 2018. She’s a member of the San Francisco Writers Grotto and a Fellow at The Ruby in San Francisco. She is completing her first novel. \nWe encourage you to purchase the book using the PURCHASE BOOKS link on our website. Books sales will also occur on site.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/our-voices-our-stories-sf-presents-ingrid-rojas-contreras/
LOCATION:African American Art & Culture Complex\, 762 Fulton St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Amber Tamblyn discusses her latest book with Saru Jayaraman
DESCRIPTION:Emmy-winning actress\, writer\, and Time’s Up founder AMBER TAMBLYN discussing her latest book\, Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution with Saru Jayaraman\, President of One Fair Wage and “San Francisco Chronicle Visionary of the Year 2019” at the McRoskey Mattress Company in San Francisco. \nAMBER TAMBLYN is known for saying the unsayable with wit and passion. Her new book\, Era of Ignition is no exception\, taking on gender inequality\, reproductive rights\, sexual assault\, and pay parity—all through the lens of her own experiences of growing up in Hollywood. It’s a feminist manifesto for our times\, lauded required reading for anyone who wants to help change the world for the better.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amber-tamblyn-discusses-her-latest-book-with-saru-jayaraman/
LOCATION:McRoskey Mattress Company\, Inc\, 1687 Market St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bad Seeds: A Live Storytelling Event
DESCRIPTION:Bad Seeds–Presented by Back Pocket \nA storytelling event about: \noutliers\, social pariahs\, failures\, and good people doing bad things. \nFeaturing strangers\, journalists\, artists\, and the cousin you avoid at family reunions. \nFeaturing: \n5 hand-picked storytellers \nRare vinyl and deep soul music by Sam G \nDrinks by Fort Point Beer
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bad-seeds-a-live-storytelling-event/
LOCATION:Minnesota Street Project\, 1275 Minnesota Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Silent Book Club SF
DESCRIPTION:Bring a book\, bring a friend\, and join Silent Book Club for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club\, there’s no assigned reading. All books and all ages are welcome. \nWe’ll kick off introvert happy hour at 4pm with some light chatter and informal book recommendations before settling in to read quietly\, but if you’d rather just pull up a chair and read\, by all means do so. No one will be shushed or shamed. The bar will be open for late afternoon libations. \nHappy reading and hope to see you there! \n\nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nPhoto by Cody Pickens for O Magazine
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silent-book-club-sf-4/
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 Susan Browne\, Peter Kline\, Emily Pinkerton\, and Marco Rafalà\nHosted by Brittany Perham \nSusan Browne’s poetry has appeared in Ploughshares\, The Sun\, Subtropics\, The Southern Review\, Superstition Review\, Rattle\, New Ohio Review\, B O D Y\, American Life in Poetry\, The American Journal of Poetry\, Love’s Executive Order\, and 180 More\, Extraordinary Poems for Every Day. She has published two books of poetry\, Buddha’s Dogs and Zephyr. Awards include prizes from Four Way Books\, the Los Angeles Poetry Festival\, the River Styx International Poetry Contest\, and The Fischer Poetry Prize. She received a fellowship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center\, and her work has been nominated for three Pushcart Awards. She has also collaborated to create a word/music CD. Her third collection\, Just Living\, recently won the Catamaran Poetry Prize. She lives in Oakland\, California. www.susanbrownepoems.com \nPeter Kline teaches writing at the University of San Francisco and Stanford University. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow\, he has also received residency fellowships from the Amy Clampitt House\, James Merrill House\, and Kimmel Harding Nelson Foundation. His poetry has appeared in Ploughshares\, Poetry\, Tin House\, and many other journals\, as well as the Best New Poets series\, the Verse Daily website\, and the Random House anthology of metrical poetry\, Measure for Measure. Since 2012 he has directed the San Francisco literary reading series Bazaar Writers Salon. He is the author of two poetry collections\, Deviants (Stephen F. Austin State University Press\, 2013)\, and Mirrorforms\, published by Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions in November 2019. www.peterklinepoetry.com \nEmily Pinkerton holds an MFA from San Francisco State University\, and her writing has previously appeared in ZYZZYVA\, Juked\, BlazeVOX\, and Berkeley Poetry Review\, among others. Emily is the author of three chapbooks: Natural Disasters (Hermeneutic Chaos Press\, 2016)\, Bloom (Alley Cat Press\, 2018) and Adaptations (Nomadic Press\, 2018). She was a 2017-2018 Writer in Residence at Alley Cat Books in San Francisco and is a 2020 Fellow at The Writers Grotto. More of Emily’s publications can be found at thisisemilypinkerton.tumblr.com\, and she tweets as @neongolden. \nMarco Rafalà is a first-generation Sicilian American novelist\, musician\, and writer for award-winning tabletop role-playing games. He earned his MFA in Fiction from The New School and is a cocurator of the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series in New York City. Born in Middletown\, Connecticut\, he now lives in Brooklyn\, New York. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review and LitHub. How Fires End is his debut novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-15/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Anna Wiener: Uncanny Valley
DESCRIPTION:Anna Wiener discusses her new memoir Uncanny Valley. \nPraise for Uncanny Valley \n“I’ve never read anything like Uncanny Valley\, which is both a searching bird’s-eye study of an industry and a generation\, as well as an intimate\, microscopic portrait of ambition and hope and dread. Anna Wiener writes about the promise and the decay of Silicon Valley with the impossibly pleasurable combination of a precise\, razored intellect and a soft\, incandescent heart. Her memoir is diagnostic and exhilarating\, a definitive document of a world in transition: I won’t be alone in returning to it for clarity and consolation for many years to come.”  —Jia Tolentino\, author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion \n“Uncanny Valley is a generation-defining account of the amoral late-capitalist tech landscape we are fatally enmeshed in. With grace and humor\, Anna Wiener shows us the misogyny\, avarice\, and optimistic self-delusion of our cultural moment\, wrapped up in the gripping story of a young woman navigating the blurred boundaries of a seductive world. Insightful\, compelling and urgent.” —Stephanie Danler\, author of Sweetbitter: A Novel \n“Like Joan Didion at a startup.”—Rebecca Solnit\, author of Call Them By Their True Names \n“A rare mix of acute\, funny\, up-to-the-minute social observation\, dead-serious contemplation of the tech industry’s annexation of our lives\, and a sincere first-person search for meaningful work and connection. How does an unworn pair of plain sneakers ‘become a monument to the end of sensuousness’? Read on.”—William Finnegan\, author of Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life \nAbout Uncanny Valley \nThe prescient\, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital age \nIn her mid-twenties\, at the height of tech industry idealism\, Anna Wiener—stuck\, broke\, and looking for meaning in her work\, like any good millennial–left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco\, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance\, dubious success\, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination\, glory\, and\, of course\, progress. \nAnna arrived amidst a massive cultural shift\, as the tech industry rapidly transformed into a locus of wealth and power rivaling Wall Street. But amid the company ski vacations and in-office speakeasies\, boyish camaraderie and ride-or-die corporate fealty\, a new Silicon Valley began to emerge: one in far over its head\, one that enriched itself at the expense of the idyllic future it claimed to be building. \nPart coming-age-story\, part portrait of an already-bygone era\, Anna Wiener’s memoir is a rare first-person glimpse into high-flying\, reckless startup culture at a time of unchecked ambition\, unregulated surveillance\, wild fortune\, and accelerating political power. With wit\, candor\, and heart\, Anna deftly charts the tech industry’s shift from self-appointed world savior to democracy-endangering liability\, alongside a personal narrative of aspiration\, ambivalence\, and disillusionment. \nUnsparing and incisive\, Uncanny Valley is a cautionary tale\, and a revelatory interrogation of a world reckoning with consequences its unwitting designers are only beginning to understand.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anna-wiener-uncanny-valley/
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:Andre Perry / Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new book \nSome of Us Are Very Hungry Now: a collection of essays \npublished by 2 Dollar Radio \nWith luminous insight and fervent prose\, Andre Perry’s debut collection of personal essays\, Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now\, travels from Washington DC to Iowa City to Hong Kong in search of both individual and national identity. While displaying tenderness and a disarming honesty\, Perry catalogs racial degradations committed on the campuses of elite universities and liberal bastions like San Francisco while coming of age in America. \nThe essays in Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now take the form of personal reflection\, multiple choice questions\, screenplays\, and imagined talk-show conversations\, while traversing the daily minefields of childhood schoolyards and Midwestern dive-bars. The impression of Perry’s personal journey is arresting and beguiling\, while announcing the author’s arrival as a formidable American voice. \nWhat has been said about Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now: \n*A “Most Anticipated Book of 2019” —LitReactor\, The A.V. Club\, Big Other \n“Beautiful\, brilliant\, bold… Tantamount to a slice from the Americana songbook. These essays are ballads\, images from the self\, isolated and marginalized in other countries and in his own land. These are songs of identity and sexuality and expectations the world has of African American males from those perspectives. Here’s hoping this book will mark the start of a long and varied journey for Perry. If the goal of a literary traveler is to show how connected we are to one another\, his debut collection is an assured indication of deeper glories yet to come.”\n—Christopher John Stephens\, PopMatters \nAndre Perry is an essayist and arts advocate. He received his MFA from the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program and his work has appeared in The Believer\, Catapult\, Granta and other journals. He co-founded Iowa City’s Mission Creek Festival\, a celebration of music and literature\, as well as the multidisciplinary festival of creative process\, Witching Hour. He continues to live and work in Iowa City. This is his first book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andre-perry-some-of-us-are-very-hungry-now/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Crissy Van Meter: Creatures
DESCRIPTION:Crissy Van Meter discusses her new novel\, Creatures. \nPraise for Creatures \n“Creatures is the kind of beautiful book that makes you want to lick the salt from its pages. It’s so physically present you can feel the waves hit your body\, smell the sea life\, hear the roar of the ocean as your hair whips around your face in the breeze. Crissy Van Meter has written a book about the complexities of love and families\, yes\, but it’s also a careful look at intimacy through the lens of a person learning and relearning how to love the people who continually let us down. It’s inventive and surprising. The text is tactile; a punch to the heart. It’s one of the best novels I’ve read this year.”—Kristen Arnett\, New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things \n“Crissy Van Meter pulls us into depths of loneliness\, sweetness\, pain\, history\, and pulsing vulnerability in prose swift and clear as an ocean current\, in Creatures. On Winter Island\, time and landscape ache with memory; need spills over in subtle moments of intense connection\, fracture\, deprivation\, and wound; unconditional love may be a concept as unreachable as the mainland\, and as isolating. Like water\, loss and longing fill the space between each prism of a word in this gorgeous\, jewel-tone debut.” —Sarah Gerard\, author of Sunshine State \n“At the intersection of the natural world and the human heart\, Van Meter explores alcoholism\, absence\, daughterly loyalties and longing in this slim and beautiful tale that contains a whole aqueous universe in its depths.”—Melissa Broder\, author of The Pisces \nAbout Creatures \nOn the eve of Evangeline’s wedding\, a dead whale is trapped in the harbor of Winter Island\, the groom may be lost at sea\, and Evie’s mostly absent mother has shown up out of the blue. From there\, in this mesmerizing\, provocative debut\, Evie remembers and reckons with her complicated upbringing in this lush\, wild land off the coast of Southern California. \nEvie grew up with her well-meaning but negligent father\, surviving on the money he made dealing the island’s world-famous strain of marijuana\, Winter Wonderland. Although he raised her with a deep respect for the elements\, the sea\, and the creatures living within it\, he also left her to parent herself. With wit\, love\, and bracing ashes of anger\, Creatures probes the complexities of love and abandonment\, guilt and forgiveness\, betrayal and grief—and the ways in which our ability to love can be threatened if we are not brave enough to conquer the past. \nLyrical\, darkly funny\, and ultimately cathartic\, Creatures exerts a pull as strong as the tides. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/crissy-van-meter-creatures/
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:Author Talk: Lincoln Mitchell
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco native Lincoln Mitchell will discuss his new book with Penelope Houston\, the singer for the seminal San Francisco punk band The Avengers and accomplished solo artist.\nIn San Francisco Year Zero: Political Upheaval\, Punk Rock and a Third Place Baseball Team\, Mitchell deftly weaves together the personal and the political\, tracing the city’s current state back to three key events that all occurred in 1978: the assassination of George Moscone and Harvey Milk (occurring fewer than two weeks after the massacre of Peoples Temple members in Jonestown\, Guyana); the explosion of the city’s punk rock scene; and a breakthrough season for the San Francisco Giants.\nSponsored by the San Francisco History Center\nA book sale follows the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-talk-lincoln-mitchell/
LOCATION:Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room\, SF Main Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Samuel C. Woolley / The Reality Game
DESCRIPTION:discussing his new book \nThe Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth \npublished by Public Affairs \n\nFake news posts and Twitter trolls were just the beginning. What will happen when misinformation moves from our social media feeds into our everyday lives? \nDespite Samuel Woolley’s warnings as early as 2013\, the problem of online disinformation stormed our political process in 2016 and has only worsened since. Yet as Woolley shows in this urgent book\, it may pale in comparison to what’s to come: human-like automated voice systems\, machine learning\, “deepfake” AI-edited videos and images\, interactive memes\, virtual reality\, and more. In stories both deeply researched and compellingly written\, Woolley describes this future and imagines its profound impact on our politics. \nInformation literacy is an essential ingredient in a healthy democracy\, and The Reality Game shows how the breakneck rate of technological change is making it nearly impossible. Woolley argues for a new culture of invention\, one built around accountability and especially transparency. We cannot afford to continue re-litigating the past. Instead\, we must follow signals to prevent manipulation in the future–and use our new tools not to control people but to empower them. \nDr. Samuel Woolley is a writer and researcher specializing in the study of automation/AI\, emergent technology\, politics\, persuasion\, and social media. He is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and program director for computational propaganda research at the Center for Media Engagement\, both at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining UT\, Woolley founded and directed the Digital Intelligence Lab at the Institute for the Future\, a 50-year-old think tank based in the heart of Silicon Valley. He also cofounded and directed the research team at the Computational Propaganda Project at the Oxford Internet Institute\, University of Oxford. He has written on political manipulation of technology for a variety of publications including Wired\, the Atlantic Monthly\, Motherboard/VICE\, TechCrunch\, theGuardian\, Quartz and Slate. His research has been featured in publications such as the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, and the Wall Street Journal and on The Today Show\, 60 Minutes\, and Frontline. His work has been presented to members of NATO\, the US Congress\, the UK Parliament\, and to numerous private entities and civil society organizations. His PhD is from the University of Washington. He tweets from @samuelwoolley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/samuel-c-woolley-the-reality-game/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poet Danez Smith: Homie
DESCRIPTION:Buy Tickets\nCo-presented with JCCSF \nAward-winning poet Danez Smith (Don’t Call Us Dead) is a groundbreaking force\, celebrated for deft lyrics\, urgent subjects and performative power. A poet\, performer and multidisciplinary artist\, Smith has galvanized diverse communities nationwide with their profound contemplations on race and gender\, desire and mortality. Join Smith as they read from and share their new collection\, Homie\, a magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship at a time when our country is overrun by violence\, xenophobia and disparity\, speaking from within a body defined by race\, queerness and diagnosis. Part friendship diary\, part bright elegy\, part war cry\, Homie is the exuberant new book written for Danez and Danez’s friends\, and for you and for yours.  $20 \n“These poems can’t make history vanish\, but they can contend against it with the force of a restorative imagination. Smith’s work is about that imagination – its role in repairing and sustaining communities\, and in making the world more bearable.”\n–New Yorker\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nDanez Smith\nDanez Smith is a black\, queer\, poz writer and performer from St. Paul\, Minnesota. Danez is the author of Don’t Call Us Dead\, winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the Midwest Booksellers Choice Award\, and a finalist for the National Book Award\, and [insert] boy… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poet-danez-smith-homie/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center of San Francisco\, 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lizzie O'Shea: Future Histories
DESCRIPTION:Lizzie O’Shea discusses her new book Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace\, Tom Paine\, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology. \nPraise for Future Histories \n“Before we became big data bundles for the lackeys of Dorsey\, Jobs\, Zuckerberg\, and Bezos\, to exploit\, the digital revolution seemed to promise a democratic utopia\, a commons in cyberspace not governed by neoliberal norms. Can we realize that revolutionary dream and stop desiring our own domination? Incredibly\, yet thrillingly and plausibly\, Lizzie O’Shea argues that\, if only we can mobilize history to serve rather than enervate us\, the answer is yes.”—Stuart Jeffries \n“There has never been a better time to pull the politics of platform capitalism into the foreground where it belongs. Lizzie O’Shea brings a hacker’s curiosity\, a historian’s reach and a lawyer’s precision to bear on our digitally saturated present\, emerging with a compelling argument that a better world is there for the taking.”—Scott Ludlam \n“A potent\, timely\, and unrepentantly radical reminder of history’s creative potential. Lizzie O’Shea’s Future Histories should be required reading for anyone planning on surviving—and even repairing—our grim technological moment.”—Claire L. Evans \nAbout Future Histories \nWhen we talk about technology we always talk about tomorrow and the future — which makes it hard to figure out how to even get there. In Future Histories\, public interest lawyer and digital specialist Lizzie O’Shea argues that we need to stop looking forward and start looking backwards. Weaving together histories of computing and progressive social movements with modern theories of the mind\, society\, and self\, O’Shea constructs a “usable past” that can help us determine our digital future. \nWhat\, she asks\, can the Paris Commune tell us about earlier experiments in sharing resources–like the Internet–in common? How can Frantz Fanon’s theories of anti colonial self-determination help us build digital world in which everyone can participate equally? Can debates over equal digital access be helped by American revolutionary Tom Paine’s theories of democratic\, economic redistribution? What can indigenous land struggles teach us about stewarding our digital climate? And\, how is Elon Musk not a future visionary but a steampunk throwback to Victorian-era technological utopians? \nIn engaging\, sparkling prose\, O’Shea shows us how very human our understanding of technology is\, and how when we draw on the resources of the past\, we can see the potential for struggle\, for liberation\, for art and poetry in our technological present. Future Histories is for all of us–makers\, coders\, hacktivists\, Facebook-users\, self-styled Luddites–who find ourselves in a brave new world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lizzie-oshea-future-histories/
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:Author Mary Ladd in conversation with Author Leticia Hernandez
DESCRIPTION:Mary Ladd\, author of The Wig Diaries\, will be in conversation with Leticia Hernandez\, author of Mucha Muchacha\, Too Much Girl. \nThe Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd’s debut disrespectful cancer book. Delivered with bold gallows humor\, it intimately address the gravity of cancer and invites the reader to bear witness to both the horror and the joke(s). Armed with creative sensibility\, Ladd robs her diagnosis of its dour weightiness. Refusing to tiptoe around the gnarlier elements of treatment and recovery\, the narrative is powerful in its unvarnished honesty and contagious lust for life exemplified by hilarious anecdotes. \nA uniquely fresh modern and black comedy take on cancer\nCovers and pokes fun at everything from diagnosis to treatment to medical bills\nIllustrated by San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist Don Asmussen\, who has cancer for the second time \n“I love this book.”—Mary Roach\, author of the books Grunt\, Stiff\, Spook\, and Bonk \n“This looks like a hoot and a half. I want more.”—Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket)\, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events \n“Clear-eyed\, fun\, and reassuring\, it’s the perfect guide!”—Vanessa Hua\, author of A River of Stars and Deceit and Other Possibilities \nMary Ladd’s writing has appeared in Playboy\, Time Magazine\, the San Francisco Chronicle and in five anthologies. She is a Writers Grotto member who collaborated with Anthony Bourdain on his Bay Area episodes of No Reservations. Illustrator Don Asmussen is the creator of Bad Reporter\, a twice-weekly political comic strip in the San Francisco Chronicle that is syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-mary-ladd-in-conversation-with-author-leticia-hernandez/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Carmen Maria Machado with Esmé Weijun Wang
DESCRIPTION:in conversation and celebrating the release of \nCarmen Maria Machado’s \nIn The Dream House \npublished by Graywolf Press \nIn the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad\, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman\, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. \nAnd it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope—the haunted house\, erotica\, the bildungsroman—through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence\, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian\, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. \nMachado’s dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit\, playfulness\, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings\, fairy tales\, Star Trek\, and Disney villains\, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching\, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be. \nCarmen Maria Machado is the author of Her Body and Other Parties\, a finalist for the National Book Award. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, she is the writer in residence at the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Philadelphia with her wife. Visit: https://carmenmariamachado.com/ \nEsmé Weijun Wang is the author of The Collected Schizophrenias and The Border of Paradise. She received the Whiting Award in 2018 and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists of 2017. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan and lives in San Francisco. Visit: https://esmewang.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carmen-maria-machado-with-esme-weijun-wang/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Literary Speakeasy's toast to 2020
DESCRIPTION:It’s time for the first Literary Speakeasy of 2020! We are celebrating with five amazing writers – Heather Bourbeau\, Vincent Chu\, Kevin Dublin\, Lauren Ito\, and Sarah Kobrinsky. It’s going to be an amazing night of poetry and prose. Come raise a glass to Bay Area authors! \nLiterary Speakeasy is always FREE and there is NO drink minimum. Arrive early for a FREE raffle ticket for your chance to win the evening’s secret Speakeasy prize. \nPerformer bios:\nHeather Bourbeau’s fiction and poetry have been published in Alaska Quarterly Review\, Cleaver\, Eleven Eleven\, Francis Ford Coppola Winery’s Chalkboard\, The Stockholm Review of Literature\, and the anthologies Nothing Short Of 100: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story and America\, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience (Sixteen Rivers Press). She has worked with various UN agencies\, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia and UNICEF Somalia. \nVincent Chu is a Bay Area writer and author of the debut story collection Like a Champion. His fiction has appeared in STILL Magazine\, Fjords Review\, Pithead Chapel\, PANK Magazine\, East Bay Review\, The Collapsar\, Stockholm Review and elsewhere. He is a 2019 Hambidge Center Fellow and member of The Writers Grotto. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from UCLA. Vincent lives in San Francisco and can be found online at @herrchu. He is working on his first novel. \nKevin Dublin is editor of Etched Press and author of the chapbook How to Fall in Love in San Diego. He has been the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing\, North Carolina Poetry Society\, and more. His words have appeared in North Carolina Literary Review\, Menacing Hedge\, Poetry International\, The Rumpus\, and more. He holds an MFA from San Diego State University and enjoys developing web apps for writers. Kevin also leads workshops as a part of Litquake’s Elder Writing Project\, at Syzygy Academy SF\, and all over the Bay Area. Follow him on Twitter @PartEverything. \nLauren Ito is a Seattle-born Gosei (fifth generation Japanese American) poet\, designer\, and community craftswoman committed to advancing equity through art and design. As a poet\, Lauren delves into the tensions inherited within diasporic experiences\, including explorations of American concentration camps\, identity\, and home. Lauren’s art been featured by The Seattle Times\, Japanese American National Museum\, Nomadic Press\, The City is Already Speaking Anthology\, and various performance venues\, such as the Mission Arts Performance Project\, Lit Crawl San Francisco\, and Gears Turning. She is a 2019 Grotto Rooted & Written Fellow\, 2019 Novalia Collective Fellow\, and Asian American Women Arts Association Emerging Curators Fellow. She is currently working on her first manuscript. Lauren lives in San Francisco and can almost always be found by the sea. \nSarah Kobrinsky was the 2013-2015 Poet Laureate of Emeryville\, CA. Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything (New Rivers Press) is her first collection of poetry. Her poems and stories have appeared in Magma Poetry\, Eleven Eleven\, Monkeybicycle\, *82 Review\, 100 Word Story\, Fjords Review\, among many others. She was long-listed for the 2019 University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize. She was born in Canada\, raised in North Dakota\, seasoned in England\, and tempered in California. Sarah and her husband have a handmade dinnerware company called Jered’s Pottery.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-speakeasys-toast-to-2020/
LOCATION:Martuni’s\, 4 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Racket 38 : Flight
DESCRIPTION:It’s 2020! The future is here! We’ve got flying cars and robot butlers and harmless lasers that come out of our fingers because it’s the future! Oh wait\, no\, no we don’t. We have ignorance and we have\, oh my\, we have a general regression in terms of social views and\, well\, yeah. Doesn’t matter though\, ’cause it’s 2020 and it’s a new year and even if everything feels like a broken septic tank\, come hang out and celebrate the ticking forward of the biggest hand of all. \nFree beer until the free beer has been consumed. \nThe Readers (So Far): \nNick O’Brien\nChelsea Davis\nAnna Allen\nPeter Thomas\nClaire Calderon\nSpencer Tierney\nCandy Shue
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-38-flight/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Map to Wholeness: A Conversation with Suzy Ross
DESCRIPTION:?      ?        ? The seemingly random events that comprise our lives can be understood as serving a higher purpose when examined through the proper lens; they are in fact the critical steps that comprise our hero’s journey. Those who choose to travel this path will emerge completely transformed—healthier\, happier\, and in touch with their life’s purpose. \nAuthor and professor Dr. Suzy Ross draws on her extensive research to create a map for those ready to embark on their most important adventure. By understanding the larger meaning of our circumstances from a bird’s eye perspective\, we learn to rest in faith and confidence\, freed from crippling judgment and self-blame. We will live more deliberately\, consciously\, and joyfully\, while simultaneously heightening our experiences of change. In her first book\,    \, Dr. Ross identifies the thirteen phases of personal transformation and illuminates the personal journeys of three ordinary individuals who have descended into the darkness of their psyches\, integrating a personal life-changing event\, and emerging transformed. \nJoin Dr. Ross for a conversation about how to identify our unique location on the journey\, deepen our experiences\, and avoid the common pitfalls that block progress. \nCopies of Dr. Ross’ book\,    : –   \, \,  —    13    will be available for sale at this event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-map-to-wholeness-a-conversation-with-suzy-ross/
LOCATION:CIIS Public Programs\, 1453 Mission St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime: Convergence
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime CONVERGENCE\, featuring Mimi Lok (Last of Her Name)\, Nancy Au (Spider Love Song And Other Stories)\, Jeffrey Kingman (On A Road)\, Ari Moskowitz\, and Munashe Kaseke\, will take place at Laundry Gallery\, 3359 26th Street San Francisco\, in the downstairs room at the back with the Soviet piano\, on Thursday January 30th 2000 7-9 pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-convergence/
LOCATION:THE LAUNDRY\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Dani Shapiro & Abraham Verghese
DESCRIPTION:What makes us who we are? What combination of memory\, history\, biology\, experience and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us? In 2016\, celebrated writer and memoirist Dani Shapiro took a genetic test on a whim\, believing that she knew her history well – the daughter of Orthodox Ashkenazi Jews\, raised on her father’s stories of their family and ancestors. But her DNA revealed that the man she’d known as her father for her whole life was not biologically related to her. With this news\, her history – and the entire life she had lived – suddenly crumbled beneath her. \nShapiro’s instant New York Times bestselling memoir\, Inheritance\, published to wide acclaim earlier this year\, is about secrets – secrets within families\, kept out of shame or self-protectiveness; secrets we keep from one another in the name of love. Hear how Dani Shapiro lost and found herself via DNA testing\, and how her life has changed since publishing Inheritance. \nShe is joined by Dr. Abraham Verghese\, Professor and Vice Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine\, for this fascinating exploration of genealogy\, paternity and love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dani-shapiro-abraham-verghese-2/
LOCATION:JCCSF\, 3200 California St \, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sarah Kay & Phil Kaye Live in San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Project VOICE is proud to present a special evening of live performance with two world-renowned spoken word poets: Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye. \nShowtime : February 1st 2pm\, Doors Open 1:30pm\nProject VOICE is proud to present a special evening of live performance with two world-renowned spoken word poets: Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye. The duo have collectively performed in thirty countries on stages from TED Talks to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)\, and garnered over twenty million views online. Their most recent poetry books have both been Amazon bestsellers: “All Our Wild Wonder” by Sarah Kay and “Date & Time” by Phil Kaye. Their work was featured in Uniqlo’s “Poetry Beyond the Page” artist series\, and sold in stores around the world. They are co-directors of Project VOICE – an organization that partners with schools and uses spoken word poetry to entertain\, educate\, and inspire.\nPhil and Sarah will be available after the show to sign and sell their books
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-kay-phil-kaye-live-in-san-francisco/
LOCATION:Brava Theater Center\, 2781 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry with Gregory Pond and Silvi Alcivar
DESCRIPTION:Gregory Pond was born in Brooklyn\, NY to Panamanian parents and moved to San Francisco in the late 1970’s. Author and publisher of four books of poetry\, aftermoon and Blackened Blue\, 4:00 a.m. (DARK) and 4:00 a.m. (LIGHT). He has been featured in the Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal and Overthrowing Capitalism anthologies and has read all over the Bay Area\, including events sponsored by SF Public Library\, Howard Zinn Book Fair and Queer Rebels. He is currently a member of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade and as The Visiting Poet\, he offers readings to hospitals and assisted-living facilities\, as well as volunteering as facilitator of Poetically Speaking\, a weekly conference-call program for seniors featuring classic and contemporary poetry.\n~\nSilvi Alcivar’s poetry lives in the moment two strangers meet over her red royal typewriter–the anonymity an invitation to speak\, the typewriter keys a willing listener. As poet and owner of The Poetry Store since 2008\, Silvi’s written and sold an estimated 75K poems that live in wallets\, on refrigerators\, and an army bunker in antarctica. She’s worked events as small as a stranger’s living room\, intimate as a funeral\, big as a 5000 person party\, appeared on The California Report Magazine\, the TEDx stage\, published in anthologies\, and exhibited art in galleries through the bay area. She holds degrees in writing and art from Cornell University and Penn State. Follow her @thepoetrystore.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-with-gregory-pond-and-silvi-alcivar/
LOCATION:Black & Brown for Justice\, Peace and Equality\, 474 Valencia St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Obi Kaufmann and T.J. Stiles at Night of Ideas
DESCRIPTION:Litquake is proud to again partner with San Francisco’s annual edition of the global marathon event Night of Ideas (Nuit des Idées)\, at the city’s Main Library. Presented in collaboration with the French Consulate in San Francisco\, San Francisco Public Library (SFPL)\, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)\, and KQED\, this free seven-hour marathon of philosophical debate\, talks\, performances\, and music features top thinkers from San Francisco and beyond\, in a format designed to spur dialogue on the theme “Living on the Edge.” \nEvents run from 7 pm to 2 am throughout the evening. Multiple stages throughout the Main Library will host concurrent programming\, music and dance performances\, yoga\, breakout sessions and opportunities for engagement and debate amongst attendees. Litquake’s portion of the evening begins at 7:30 pm on the second floor of the Library\, which will be themed “Wonder & Worry.” We are honored to present a lecture by Bay Area naturalist\, painter\, poet\, and writer Obi Kaufmann\, author of several books including the award-winning California Field Atlas\, which blends science and art to illuminate the multifaceted array of the natural world. FREE\, advanced registration TBA \nLitquake’s second portion of the evening begins at 9:30 pm on the fourth floor of the Library at the information desk\, which will be themed “Telling Heroes from Villains”. Americans have changed their minds about whether certain icons are villains or heroes—but T.J. Stiles argues that we’re still not asking the right questions about them\, or about us. \nAbout Night of Ideas\nCo-produced in the United States by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy\, the Institut Français and local partners\, Night of Ideas/Nuit des Idées has been mounted in New York City since 2015 and in Los Angeles since 2017. Last year\, more than 6\,000 guests attended Night of Ideas at the San Francisco Public Library. The event begins in Paris on January 30\, 2020 and is held annually in more than 120 cities around the world. \n\n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n \nObi Kaufmann\nObi Kaufmann is a Bay Area author\, poet\, painter\, and naturalist. He grew up in the East Bay as the son of an astrophysicist and a psychologist\, and spent most of high school practicing calculus and breaking away in the evenings to scramble around Mount Diablo and map its creeks… Read More →\n \nT.J. Stiles\nTwo-time Pulitzer Prize recipient T.J. Stiles won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in History for Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America\, and the 2010 Pulitzer for Biography and the 2009 National Book Award for Nonfiction for The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/obi-kaufmann-at-night-of-ideas/
LOCATION:Koret Auditorium\, San Francisco Main Library\, 100 Larkin Avenune\, SAN FRANCISCO\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Tommy Orange: Author of There\, There
DESCRIPTION:Tommy Orange\, author of one of the best books of 2019\, There\, There\, is coming to Manny’s!! \nOne of the 10 best books fo the year by the NYT Book Review. \nNew York Times best seller. \nPulitzer Prize Finalist. \nOne of the Best Books of the Year according to The Washington Post\, NPR\, Time\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Entertainment Weekly\, The Boston Globe\, GQ\, The Dallas Morning News\, Buzzfeed\, BookPage\, Publishers Weekly\, Library Journal\, and Kirkus Reviews. \nThere\, There\, is one of the best books of 2019 and it’s (local) author\, Tommy Orange\, is coming to Manny’s to chat about his story\, the book\, sign copies\, and discuss what it’s like being hailed as one of the greatest authors of now. \nAbout There\, There:\nTommy Orange’s shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow\, all connected to each other in ways they may not yet realize. There is Jacquie Red Feather\, newly sober and working to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene\, who is pulling his life back together after his uncle’s death\, has come to work at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil has come to perform traditional dance for the very first time. Together\, this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American—grappling with a complex and painful history\, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality\, with communion and sacrifice and heroism. Hailed as an instant classic\, There There is at once poignant and laugh-out-loud funny\, utterly contemporary and always unforgettable. \nAbout Tommy Orange:\nTommy Orange is a recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a 2014 MacDowell Fellow\, and a 2016 Writing by Writers Fellow. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland\, California\, and currently lives in Angels Camp\, California. \nThe New York Times Review of the Book:\nYes\, Tommy Orange’s New Novel Really Is That Good
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-conversation-with-tommy-orange-author-of-there-there/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200202T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200202T190000
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SUMMARY:Smack Dab Queer Open Mic feat. Fureigh!
DESCRIPTION:Smack Dab Queer Open Mic is a free LGBTQIA community Our slogan? slogan “All ages\, all genders\, all the time.” We’re the longest running QT Open mic in the bay and we welcome YOU to join us to share: stories\, poems\, a song\, dance\, your visual art or your latest manifesto. Want to simply join us as friends\, family and supportive allies in Queer and Trans community? Come on in!\nAbout our February feature:\nFureigh (they/them) picks up a guitar and “shreds melodically\,” according to Rolling Stone. After five years in the critically acclaimed Brooklyn-based queer rock band the Shondes (“the next Sleater-Kinney?” –VH1)\, Fureigh co-founded the The Homobiles (“the Bay’s mainstay queer party punk supergroup” –East Bay Express; “songs about cars and babes” — plus bathhouses\, street harassment and San Francisco glory days)\, featured in Mx. Justin Vivian Bond’s curation of the New York Live Arts Festival. Fureigh has shared the stage with Margaret Cho\, Jody Bleyle of Team Dresch\, and more\, and played guitar in the trans superhero rock opera the Red Shades. They’re currently working on their debut solo album. \nIf you’d like to perform at the open mic\, please come sign up at 4:30pm and bring five minutes of whatever you want to share {we do pay attention to time.} \n*Accessibility* Manny’s is accessible from sidewalk level with double doors. All areas are wheelchair accessible. The bathrooms are gender neutral and have wheelchair accessibility. The room our event is in has a variety of seating for a variety of body sizes including straight backed chairs\, armchairs and some comfy sofas. Sound is comfortably amplified. Manny’s is not fragrance free. \n*About free EventBrite tickets: You don’t have to sign up for a ticket BUT this helps us with exposure/promo and in estimating attendance. ♥ \n*How to get to us:* Manny’s\, 3092 16th Street at Valencia\, is a block from 16th and Mission Bart\, and near the 22\, 14\, 49\, and 33 Muni lines.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/smack-dab-queer-open-mic-feat-fureigh/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200203T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200203T193000
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays in February: Au\, Felicelli\, & Flynn-Goodlett
DESCRIPTION:Nancy Au (Spider Love Song)\, Anita Felicelli (Chimerica)\, and Luiza Flynn-Goodlett (Harm’s Way and Twice Shy) will read at Odd Mondays February 3\, 6:30pm Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St in Noe Valley. Free admission & free refreshments. \nSPIDER LOVE SONG by Nancy Au is set mostly in Chinese American communities in California. “Only a writer who knows how closely bound are heartbreak and resilience could write stories as emotionally stirring as these”[Kirkus] In CHIMERICA\, Anita Felicelli gives us down-and-out Tamil American trial lawyer Maya Ramesh. “Felicelli creates a novel that showcases not only the violence of the courtroom\, but the true centrality of art and nature in our lives.”[Electric Literature] TWICE SHY by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett is “full of sharp-toothed love and quick-witted fury; not for the faint of heart.”[author Frederick Speers] “When the other world spread arms to/embrace\, I chose this\, opened my eyes.”[from HARM’S WAY]
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-in-february-au-felicelli-flynn-goodlett/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200203T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200203T203000
DTSTAMP:20260413T114255
CREATED:20191227T070024Z
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SUMMARY:Joshua Yaffa in conversation with Amanda Silverman
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Joshua Yaffa for his new book Between Two Fires: Truth\, Ambition\, and Compromise in Putins Russia. He’ll be in conversation with Mother Jones editorial director Amanda Silverman. Please join us! \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event\, to be held at The Bindery (1727 Haight St.). The price of admission may be applied\, at the event\, toward the purchase of Between Two Fires\, or to a beverage at The Bindery’s bar. Advance tickets are highly encouraged — tickets are not guaranteed to be available at the door. \n\n“Unforgettable . . . This is a book about Putin’s Russia that is unlike any other.” – Patrick Radden Keefe\, author of Say Nothing \nIn this rich and novelistic tour of contemporary Russia\, Joshua Yaffa introduces readers to some of the country’s most remarkable figures — from politicians and entrepreneurs to artists and historians — who have built their careers and constructed their identities in the shadow of the Putin system. Torn between their own ambitions and the omnipresent demands of the state\, each walks an individual path of compromise. Some muster cunning and cynicism to extract all manner of benefits and privileges from those in power. Others\, finding themselves to be less adept\, are left broken and demoralized. What binds them together is the tangled web of dilemmas and contradictions they face. \nBetween Two Fires chronicles the lives of a number of strivers who understand that their dreams are best — or only — realized through varying degrees of cooperation with the Russian government. With sensitivity and depth\, Yaffa profiles the director of the country’s main television channel\, an Orthodox priest at war with the church hierarchy\, a Chechen humanitarian who turns a blind eye to persecutions\, and many others. The result is an intimate and probing portrait of a nation that is much discussed yet little understood. By showing how citizens shape their lives around the demands of a capricious and frequently repressive state — as often by choice as under threat of force — Yaffa offers urgent lessons about the true nature of modern authoritarianism. \n\nJoshua Yaffa is a correspondent for The New Yorker in Moscow. For his work in Russia\, he has been named a fellow at New America\, a recipient of the American Academy’s Berlin Prize\, and a finalist for the Livingston Award. Author photo by Max Avdeev. \nAmanda Silverman is the editorial director (newsroom) based in Mother Jones San Francisco office. Before joining Mother Jones\, Amanda worked as a story editor for Foreign Policy’s print magazine. Prior to that\, she was the deputy editor of The New Republic. \n— \n** Please note ** \n– This event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n– This is an all-ages event. \n– The duration of this event is up to the author. \n– Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. \n– Should you decide to purchase Between Two Fires at the event\, you can apply the cost of your ticket toward the price of the book. You may instead choose to apply the cost of your ticket toward a drink at The Bindery’s bar. \n– Accessibility is important to us! Please let us know in advance if you have any special needs and we will do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com. \n– Facebook RSVP is appreciated\, but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joshua-yaffa-in-conversation-with-amanda-silverman/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jennifer S. Hirsch / Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex\, Power\, and Assault on Campus
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Jennifer S. Hirsch\, co-author with Shamus Khan of the new book Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex\, Power\, and Assault on Campus. Please join us! \nSexual Citizens is a groundbreaking study that transforms how we see and address the most misunderstood problem on college campuses: widespread sexual assault. \nThe fear of campus sexual assault has become an inextricable part of the college experience. And for far too many students\, that fear is realized. Research has shown that by the time they graduate\, as many as one in three women and almost one in six men will have been sexually assaulted. But why is sexual assault such a common feature of college life? And what can be done to prevent it? Sexual Citizens provides answers. Drawing on the Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation (SHIFT) at Columbia University\, the most comprehensive study of sexual assault on a campus to date\, Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan present an entirely new framework that emphasizes sexual assault’s social roots\, transcending current debates about consent\, predators in a “hunting ground\,” and the dangers of hooking up. \nSexual Citizens is based on years of research interviewing and observing college life—with students of different races\, genders\, sexual orientations\, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Hirsch and Khan’s landmark study reveals the social ecosystem that makes sexual assault so predictable\, explaining how physical spaces\, alcohol\, peer groups\, and cultural norms influence young people’s experiences and interpretations of both sex and sexual assault. Through the powerful concepts of “sexual projects\,” “sexual citizenship\,” and “sexual geographies\,” the authors offer a new and widely-accessible language for understanding the forces that shape young people’s sexual relationships. Empathetic\, insightful\, and far-ranging\, Sexual Citizens transforms our understanding of sexual assault and offers a roadmap for how to address it. \n\nJennifer S. Hirsch is a professor of sociomedical sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University\, and codirects SHIFT\, the Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation\, at Columbia University. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Sexual Citizens\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-s-hirsch-sexual-citizens-a-landmark-study-of-sex-power-and-assault-on-campus/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200203T220000
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SUMMARY:Beau Beausoleil reads from two new collections of his work - open mic follows
DESCRIPTION:Bird & Beckett is proud to present a San Francisco poet of exquisite talents and profound dedication to humanity. Beau Beausoleil’s long history as a bookseller and his many years leading the Al-Mutanabbi Street Project speak to his dedication to to the word\, to the world and to the heart. \nTonight\, Beau will read from his recent volume of poems\, Harness of Bone\, and from his just-released book of new and selected poems from 1976 to present\, A Glyphic House. \nLearn more about Beau at this link:\nwww.narratively.com/resurrecting-the-book-market-of-baghdad
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beau-beausoleil-reads-from-two-new-collections-of-his-work-open-mic-follows/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200203T193000
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CREATED:20191124T172242Z
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SUMMARY:Ocean Vuong with Tommy Orange
DESCRIPTION:Showered with critical acclaim\, Ocean Vuong’s 2016 poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds cemented his status as a young new voice. His equally beloved debut novel\, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous\, is a stunning portrait of family\, love\, and the power of storytelling. Written as a letter from a son to a mother\, the book asks perennial and pressing questions about race\, class\, masculinity\, addiction\, and trauma\, all with the characteristic care and love that Vuong lends the page. Born in Vietnam and raised in Connecticut\, Vuong is an Assistant Professor in the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at Umass-Amherst. His writing has been featured in The Atlantic\, Harpers\, The Nation\, The New Yorker\, and the American Poetry Review. \n“[On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous] is one of the best novels I’ve ever read…Ocean Vuong is a master. This book a masterpiece.” — Tommy Orange \nTommy Orange’s stunning debut novel\, There There\, grapples with the complex and painful history of a multigenerational Native American family living in Oakland\, at once celebrating their rich spiritual heritage and illuminating the profound consequences of systematic discrimination. A recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts\, Orange is a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ocean-vuong-with-tommy-orange/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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