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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/
LOCATION:CA
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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SUMMARY:Marissa Moss
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street Wednesday\, May 3rd at 7:00pm as we welcome Author Marissa Moss\, reading from and discussing her graphic memoir Last Things. \n  \nLast Things is the true and intensely personal story of how one woman coped with the devastating effects of a catastrophic illness in her family. \n  \nUsing her trademark mix of words and pictures to sharp effect\, Marissa Moss presents the story of how she\, her husband\, and her three young sons struggled to maintain their sense of selves and wholeness as a family and how they continued on with everyday life when the earth shifted beneath their feet. \n  \nAfter returning home from a year abroad\, Marissa’s husband\, Harvey\, was diagnosed with ALS. The disease progressed quickly\, and Marissa was soon consumed with caring for Harvey while trying to keep life as normal as possible for her young children. ALS stole the man who was her husband\, the father of her children\, and her best friend in less than 7 months. \n  \nThis is not a story about the redemptive power of a terminal illness. It is a story of resilience―of how a family managed to survive a terrible loss and grow in spite of it. Although it’s a sad story\, it’s powerfully told and ultimately uplifting as a guide to strength and perseverance\, to staying connected to those who matter most in the midst of a bleak upheaval. If you’ve ever wondered how you would cope with a dire diagnosis\, this book can provide a powerful example of what it feels like and how to come through the darkness into the light. \n  \nMarissa Moss has written more than seventy books\, from picture books to middle-grade and young adult novels. Best known for the Amelia’s Notebook series (over 5 million sold)\, her books are popular with teachers and children alike. Her picture book\, Barbed Wire Baseball\, won the California Book Award\, Gold medal. Marissa is also the founder of Creston Books\, an independent children’s publishing house.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marissa-moss/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:NYMBC: The Love Panel at Opera Plaza
DESCRIPTION:Not Your Mother’s Book Club is excited to present a star studded\, award-winning panel with Rachel Cohn\, author of Kill All Happies\, and Jennifer E. Smith\, author of Windfall. Rachel and Jennifer will be in conversation with Nina LaCour\, author of We Are Okay; Stacey Lee\, author of The Secret Heart of a Note; and Elizabeth Eulberg\, author of Just Another Girl! Join us at Opera Plaza for a night focusing on love\, in all its\, ridiculous\, tragic\, wonderful forms. \nThis event will be moderated by Christy\, YA blogger for Tales of the Ravenous Reader. Christy is the resident sci-fi reader and also enjoys contemporary\, thrillers/mystery\, romance\, paranormal\, and YA non-fiction. In addition to contributing to Ravenous Readers\, she blogs for talks about superheroes on Sunday for Forever Young Adult. You can find her at Bay Area author events and on Twitter\, Instagram\, and Goodreads as diamondxgirl. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, May 3\, 2017 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n601 Van Ness Avenue\n\nSan Francisco\, CA\n\n\n\n\nEvent Terms:\n\nNot Your Mother’s Book Club\nSan Francisco Events
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nymbc-the-love-panel-at-opera-plaza/
LOCATION:Books Inc. In the Castro\, 2275 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Winifred M. Reilly
DESCRIPTION:With writing appearing on Huffington Post\, The Good Men Project\, XOJane\, and on her blog\, Speaking of Marriage\, psychotherapist Winifred M. Reilly\, M.A.\, MFT celebrates the launch of her refreshing and witty book\, It Takes One to Tango: How I Rescued My Marriage with (Almost) No Help from My Spouse and How You Can\, Too. \nIt Takes One to Tango is a groundbreaking guide that shows how one determined partner acting alone can spark lasting\, significant change in a marriage\, often accomplishing change that cannot be made any other way. It doesn t matter how short-fused\, argumentative\, or seemingly impossible your partner can be or how long you ve been stuck.\nMarriage and family therapist Winifred Reilly has this message for struggling partners: Take the lead. Doing so is effective and powerful. Through Reilly’s own story of reclaiming her now nearly forty-year marriage\, along with anecdotes from many clients she’s worked with\, you’ll learn how to: \n\nFocus on your own behaviors and change them in ways that make you feel good about yourself and your marriage\nTake a firm stand for what truly matters to you without arguing\, cajoling\, or resorting to threats\nIdentify the big picture issues at the basis of your repetitive fights and learn how to unhook from them\nBe less reactive\, especially in the face of your spouse’s provocations\nDevelop the strength and stamina to be the sole agent of change\n\nCombining psychological theory\, practical advice\, and personal narrative\, It Takes One to Tango is a fresh and engaging guide that will empower those who choose to take a bold\, proactive approach to creating a loving and lasting marriage. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, May 3\, 2017 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n2251 Chestnut St\n\nSan Francisco\, CA\n\n\n\n\nEvent Terms:\n\nSan Francisco Events
URL:https://litseen.com/event/winifred-m-reilly/
LOCATION:Books Inc. in The Marina\, 2251 Chestnut St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Paul Madonna
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to welcome Paul Madonna back to the store for the release of his new book\, On to the Next Dream. Join us! \nPaul’s popular comic\, “All Over Coffee” had been running for twelve years in the San Francisco Chronicle when he was evicted from his longtime home and studio in the Mission District\, ground-zero in the “tech wars” transforming the city. Suddenly finding himself yet another victim of San Francisco’s overheated boomtown housing market\, with its soaring prices and rampant evictions\, Madonna decided to use his comic as a cathartic public platform to explore the experience\, and to capture the complex\, highly charged atmosphere of a city—and a life—being forced through a painful transition. \nIn a series of drawings and stories\, Madonna evokes the sense of vertigo induced by being forced from his home\, and the roil of emotions that ensue as he enters into the city’s brutal competition for a place to live. The line between reality and surreality begins to blur almost immediately\, in real life and in his comic. Absurd\, maddening\, and all-too-poignant\, these drawings and stories capture the spirit of not just San Francisco\, but a cultural epidemic that has now spread to cities around the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-madonna-3/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Humble Pie Volume 14 Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the launch of everyone’s favorite pie — Humble Pie\, that is! We’re throwing a party in honor of the launch of Volume 14! \nLight refreshments provided. \nWhat Is Humble Pie?\nHumble Pie is the undergraduate literary journal written and published by students enrolled in CCA’s Literature and Writing Program. \nThe popular publication features fiction\, nonfiction\, poetry\, and visual art. \nFaculty editor Caroline Goodwin works with the student staff to compile selected writings and choose which artworks to feature.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/humble-pie-volume-14-launch-party/
LOCATION:A2 Cafe\, 5212 Broadway St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Charlotte Cotton Reading of 'Pictures From Home'
DESCRIPTION:Join SFMOMA at 6 p.m. in the Roberts Family Gallery on Floor 1 (by the Richard Serra Sculpture) for a reading by independent curator Charlotte Cotton from Larry Sultan’s Pictures from Home to celebrate the republication of this acclaimed work. This is a pre-event reading. Free and open to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charlotte-cotton-reading-of-pictures-from-home/
LOCATION:SFMOMA\, 151 Third Street \, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kevin Allardice
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street\, Thursday May 4th at 7:00pm as we welcome Author Kevin Allardice\, reading from and discussing his book Family\, Genus\, Species. \n  \nAt a sprawling urban farm in the hills above Berkeley\, a woman’s attempt to give a birthday present to her four-year-old nephew erupts into an epic quest\, increasingly nightmarish and violent\, to survive our deepest cultural chasms. A wickedly funny satire of parenting and privilege\, sex and politics\, set in the shadow of civil unrest. \n  \n“Kevin Allardice harnesses his great powers of description and ingenious sense of narrative for this viciously funny satire\, Family Genus Species. Laurence Sterne would have been proud to call Mr. Allardice a descendent.” – Michael Kimball\, author of Big Ray\, Us and Dear Everybody. \n  \n“With poignant wit\, Kevin Allardice draws us into this backyard fairytale and social satire. Vee is a memorable protagonist\, quirky and brave and tender. Fast-paced and suspenseful\, FAMILY\, GENUS\, SPECIES is compelling and utterly original.” – Vanessa Hua\, author of Deceit and Other Possibilities. \n  \nKevin Allardice is the author of the novel Any Resemblance to Actual Persons (Counterpoint\, 2014) . He was born in Oakland\, California\, and was a Henry Hoyns fellow in fiction at the University of Virginia\, where he received his MFA in 2010. His short stories\, winner of the of the Donald Barthelme Prize and twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, have appeared in The Santa Monica Review\, The Florida Review\, Gulf Coast\, The North American Review\, and elsewhere. He currently lives in Berkeley\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kevin-allardice/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hazel Reading Series - May Edition
DESCRIPTION:May is approaching\, and Hazel Reading Series is blooming with its wonderful line-up of writers. Join us at The Mission Cultural Center for our May edition. \nFeaturing:\nGuest Reader: Natasha Dennerstein \nNatasha Dennerstein was born in Melbourne\, Australia\, to a family originating in Belarus. She worked as a psychiatric nurse for many years\, which gave her an interesting perspective on the human condition. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University. Natasha has had poetry published in many journals including Landfall\, Snorkel\, Shenandoah\, Bloom\, Transfer\, Red Light Lit\, Spoon River Poetry Review and Foglifter. Her collections Anatomize (2015) and Triptych Caliform (2016) were published by Norfolk Press in San Francisco. Her recent chapbook Seahorse (2017) was published by Nomadic Press in Oakland. \nJennifer Barone nominated by Ingrid Keir \nJennifer Barone is an Italian-American poet and artist. She is the author of three books of poetry\, her most recent: “Saporoso – Poems of Italian Food & Love.” She is known to collaborate with artists and musicians as founder and co-host of the WordParty Poetry & Jazz Series and as Creative Director for FeatherPress. She has been a featured poet at the SFJazz Poetry & Jazz Festival\, The SF Public Library\, The Red Poppy Art House\, SF MoMa\, DeYoung\, and The Beat Museum. She was a winner of the 2007 and 2012 SF Public Library’s Poets Eleven contest for North Beach where she resides and has been published in literary journals such as The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal\, and Quiet Lightning’s sPARKLE & bLINK. She is currently working on a new collection of poetry. Visit thewordparty.comfor more. \nAlexandra Mattraw nominated by Sarah Rosenthal \nAlexandra Mattraw is a poet and educator whose Celtic maternal great grandparents settled in Oakland and its vicinity in the early 1900s. Her full length book\, small siren\, emerges from Brooklyn’s Cultural Society in 2018. Alexandra’s various collections have previously been named finalists at 1913 Press\, Colorado Review\, Nightboat Books\, and elsewhere. She is also the author of four chapbooks\, including flood psalm\, which is forthcoming in mid May from Dancing Girl Press. You can find her poems and criticism in places including 1913 Journal of Forms\, American Letters & Commentary\, Denver Quarterly\, Eleven Eleven\, Fourteen Hills\, The Poetry Project\, The Volta\, and VOLT. A Bay Area Correspondent School member and co-founder of Artists for Sustained & United Resistance (ASUR)\, Alexandra also curates an art-centric writing and performance series called Lone Glen\, now in its sixth year: http://loneglen.wordpress.com/. She hopes you will join her and several other poets at Octopus Salon on May 16th to celebrate “A Poetry of Ritual.” \nJenny irizary nominated by Lisa Gray \nJenny Irizary is currently working on a memoir about growing up along the Russian River. Her work has been published in Sick Lit\, Squalorly\, District Lit\, Communion\, Lavender Review\, and other journals. Her poem\, “If You Want Any More Proof She’s Not Puerto Rican\,” was the winner of Green Briar Review’s 2016 poetry contest. \nThe Poetician nominated by Thea Matthews\n(Bio to follow soon) \nStacy Carlson nominated by LJ Moore\n(Bio to follow soon) \nNo one turned away for lack of funds\, but donations are very much appreciated ♥
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hazel-reading-series-may-edition/
LOCATION:Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts\, 2868 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Liana Steinmetz
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/liana-steinmetz/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170501T122225Z
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck Presents: Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion
DESCRIPTION:Spring is the season for transformations\, so it’s about time Shipwreck made a lady of itself. Join us forPygmalion\, George Bernard Shaw’s musings on class\, gender\, and why the English language makes no goddamn sense. Maybe we can make some rain fall in the plains (if you know what we’re saying [we don’t]). \n  \nFeatured writers: Ivan Hernandez\, Jennie Kendrick\,Alan Leggitt\, Na’amen Tilahun\, April winner India Sabater\, and more TBA. \n  \n  \nSeating is limited and seats do sell out. Tickets on sale now. \n  \n— \n  \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event. \nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on the first Thursday of every month at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco. \nFics are blind-read by our Thespian-in-Residence\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and you choose the best ship before the writers are unmasked. The winner is cast off from polite society\, and invited back the next month to defend their title. \nCritics are saying:\n“… the most despicable literary event possible.”\n“… an affront to literature.”\n“It used to be we had to sit in dark\, sticky booths to get these kinds of sleazy thrills.”\n“Come if you are high on marijuana cigarettes and have done sex before.”\n“… a vile\, disgusting event.””Shipwreck will bring you to madness\, and you may never return.”\n“…wonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting.”\n“…punny sodomy and gross indecency.” \n— \nPLEASE NOTE: No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. We’re not dicks\, we just like dick jokes. \nShipwreck tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable for any reason. Tickets on sale now. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-presents-bernard-shaws-pygmalion/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Yaa Gyasi w/ Jeff Chang
DESCRIPTION:“Homegoing is an inspiration.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates \nYaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville\, Alabama. She holds a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where she held a Dean’s Graduate Research Fellowship. Gyasi’s highly acclaimed debut novel\,  Homegoing\, begins with the story of two half-sisters\, separated by forces beyond their control: one sold into slavery\, the other married to a British slaver. Written with tremendous sweep and power\, Homegoing traces the generations of family who follow\, as their destinies lead them through two continents and three hundred years of history\, each life indelibly drawn\, as the legacy of slavery is fully revealed in light of the present day. Homegoing was named ‘Debut Novel of the Year’ by NPR and ‘2016 Notable Book’ by The New York Times. \nJeff Chang is a journalist\, a music critic\, Executive Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University\, and the author of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yaa-gyasi-w-jeff-chang/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Drop Leaf Press: Taitano + Shanley
DESCRIPTION:We’re back! Drop Leaf Press returns with a reading at Alley CatBooks to celebrate the release of two poetry chapbooks: Lehua Taitano’s SONOMA and Maxwell Shanley’s forthcoming chapbook (TBA). Each book is hand-bound and includes cover art and lettering by illustrator and designer Mary Lundquist. They’ll be joined by two readers: Clarissa Mendiola and a special guest. Please gather with us for an evening of libations\, snacks\, and poetry. Books are $9; cash or card accepted. \nGet it early: Buy SONOMA at Alley Cat Books (SF)\, Diesel\, A Bookstore (Oakland)\, or purchase our titles from the Drop Leaf Press online store:http://dropleafpress.com/store \nNote: Maxwell Shanley’s chapbook (TBA) is headed to the printers. We’ll announce when it’s available in our shop/in stores. Pics to come! \nABOUT THE READERS: \nLEHUA M. TAITANO\, a native Chamoru from Yigo\, Guåhan (Guam)\, is a queer poet\, writer\, and artist. She is the author of A Bell Made of Stones (TinFish Press\, 2013) and a chapbook of short fiction\, appalachiapacific\, which won the 2010 Merriam-Frontier Award. Her poetry\, essays\, and Pushcart Prize- nominated fiction have appeared in Poetry\, Narrative Witness\, Oxalis\, Witness\, Storyboard\, and The Yellow Medicine Review\, among many others. She has served as an APAture Featured Literary Artist (Kearny Street Workshop) and as a contributing Kuwentuhan poet (The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University). Taitano currently serves as the Community Outreach Coordinator on the Executive Board of the Thinking Its Presence: Race\, Literary\, and Interdisciplinary Studies Conference. \nMAXWELL SHANLEY lives in San Francisco where he works as a bookseller. He is currently completing an MFA at San Francisco State University. His work from his forthcoming chapbook (TBA\, Drop Leaf Press\, 2017) has previously appeared in New American Writing and Slipstream. \nCLARISSA MENDIOLA: As a Chamoru woman raised on the mainland\, home is straddling the International Date Line\, where it is today and tomorrow simultaneously. Clarissa’s work attempts to describe that place\, however disorienting. Her work can be found in As Us\, Literary Hub\, Omniverse\, and The Offending Adam. Clarissa has an MFA in Writing from California College of Arts\, was a 2011 Hedgebrook Writer in Residence\, and teaches creative writing summer camps for junior high school students. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two sons. \nDANIEL SUÁREZ is the son of Cuban immigrants. He currently lives in Chicago\, Illinois and is a Substitute Teacher. His poems can be found in the Columbia Poetry Review\, RHINO\, Eleven Eleven\, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review\, and other print and online journals.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/drop-leaf-press-taitano-shanley/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Drop Leaf Press":MAILTO:dropleafpress@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:National Endowment for the Arts Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:Join us on May 5th for a fundraiser and postcard writing party to benefit The National Endowment for the Arts. A portion of our profits will be donated to the NEA and postcards will be provided to write to your representatives! We will also have readings by NEA fellows R.O. Kwon\, Maxine Chernoff\, Javier Zamora and Monica Sok as well as music by Rachel Fannan and Evan Lanam. Complimentary beverages will be provided by Boulevard Brewing Company!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/national-endowment-for-the-arts-fundraiser/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mariko Tamaki
DESCRIPTION:The Main Children’s Center celebrates Children’s Book Week!\nRegister HERE \nJoin us for a special event: Graphic novel author Mariko Tamaki will discuss her book This One Summer\, acclaimed by reviewers as a powerful coming-of-age story. \nSaturday\, May 6\, at 4 p.m.\, in the Main Children’s Center \nMariko Tamaki is a Canadian writer. Her works include the graphic novels This One Summer  and Skim\, both with Jillian Tamaki\, and Emiko Superstar\, with Steve Rolston. Her first YA novel (You) Set Me on Fire  was published by Penguin Canada. She lives in Oakland\, California. Visit her website at marikotamaki.blogspot.com/. \nChildren’s Book Week is the annual celebration of children’s books and reading. Established in 1919\, it is the longest-running national literacy initiative in the country. The program is administered by Every Child a Reader and the Children’s Book Council (CBC) is the anchor sponsor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mariko-tamaki/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:James Meetze\, Claire Marie Stancek\, + Andrew Wessels
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-meetze-claire-marie-stancek-andrew-wessels/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Embodied Writing Workshop: Movement\, Writing + Tea
DESCRIPTION:with Jennifer Barone (innerlotusyoga.com) and Ingrid Keir (featherpress.org) \nDid you know the body has a story to tell? Using breath\, movement and meditation techniques from Yoga\, Kundalini\, Qi Gong and more\, we will bring awareness to our body and practice writing from a place of deep listening\, allowing our stories to rise through a series of writing exercises and movement. For writers and yogis of all levels. Stay after to mingle and enjoy The Center SF’s beautiful tea room and a variety of herbal teas. \nPlease bring:\n• Stretchy yoga / workout clothing to wear for comfort\n• Mats and props are available\, but feel free to bring your own mat\n• a notebook and pen to write with \nDesigned for: writers who want to move more and yogis who want to try creative writing\, all levels welcome.\nNot reccommended for: those with serious injuries\, or who may find it hard to sit on the floor. \n$35. Early Bird Rate if registered by April 26th\n$45. after April 26th and at the door \nRegister on EventBrite\, see link below. Or visit http://www.thecentersf.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/embodied-writing-workshop-movement-writing-tea/
LOCATION:The Center SF\, 548 Fillmore Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Truth to Power: Writers Respond to the Rhetoric of Hate and Fear
DESCRIPTION:Cutthroat\, A Journal of the Arts has assembled and published this collection of works\, as powerful\, compelling and incisive as they are timely. Individually and collectively\, the pieces in this anthology trumpet a stirring call to action on today’s most crucial issues.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/truth-to-power-writers-respond-to-the-rhetoric-of-hate-and-fear/
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:20170507T200000
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Adam Giannelli\, Ben Hoffman\, and Edgar Kunz\nMusic by Dana Kletter\nHosted by Peter Kline \nAdam Giannelli is the author of Tremulous Hinge (University of Iowa Press\, 2017)\, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize\, and the translator of a selection of prose poems by Marosa di Giorgio\, Diadem (BOA Editions\, 2012). His poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review\, New England Review\, Ploughshares\, Yale Review\, FIELD\, and elsewhere. \nBen Hoffman’s fiction has received the Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Award and been published by American Short Fiction\, Granta\, The Missouri Review\, Zoetrope\, and others. He lives in Oakland and is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. \nDana Kletter is a writer and musician\, the only Wallace Stegner fellow/Jones Lecturer in Fiction (to date) with a gold record. Her work has appeared in The Sun\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Boston Phoenix\, and Independent\, and on Mammoth\, Hannibal\, Interscope\, and Rykodisc Records. \nEdgar Kunz is a poet from Massachusetts. His work has been supported by fellowships and awards from the Academy of American Poets\, the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences\, Vanderbilt University\, Stanford University\, and\, most recently\, the National Endowment for the Arts. His poems appear in AGNI\, Narrative\, New England Review\, Best New Poets\, and other places. He lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-5/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ellen Klages\, David D. Levine + Robyn Bennis
DESCRIPTION:** It’s Debut Novel Drink Night!** \nHelp us raise funds for the American Bookbinders Museum by sampling a cocktail concocted just for this event! \nDoors and bar open at 5:30PM\nEvent begins at 6:30PM \n$10 at the door benefits the American Bookbinders Museum\nno one turned away for lack of funds / cash or Square\nAll proceeds benefit the American Bookbinders Museum \nEach author will read a selection of their work\, followed by Q&A with the audience moderated by author Terry Bisson. Books for sale courtesy of Borderlands Books – please feel free to bring your own books from home. \nAll proceeds from the event benefit the American Bookbinders Museum \nEllen Klages: Her short fiction has appeared in science fiction and fantasy anthologies and magazines\, both online and in print\, including The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction\, Black Gate\, Eclipse\, and Firebirds Rising. Her story\, “Basement Magic\,” won the Best Novelette Nebula Award in 2005. A finalist for the John W. Campbell Award\, she is a graduate of the Clarion South writing workshop. Her first novel\, The Green Glass Sea\, about two misfit eleven-year-old girls living in Los Alamos during WWII\, while their parents are creating the atomic bomb\, came out in October 2006. Her second novel\, White Sands\, Red Menace\, was published in 2008\, also from Viking. A collection of her short fiction\, Portable Childhoods\, came out from Tachyon Publications in 2007. \nHer brand-new new collection\, Wicked Wonders\, also from Tachyon\, will be available for sale at this event. \nIn addition to her writing\, she serves on the Motherboard of the James Tiptree\, Jr. Award\, and was somewhat notorious as the past auctioneer/entertainment for the Tiptree auctions at Wiscon. When she’s not writing fiction\, she sells old toys and magazines on eBay\, and collects lead civilians. \nDavid D. Levine: Levine’s debut novel\, a Regency interplanetary airship adventure novel titled Arabella of Mars\, will be available at this event. His “Tk’Tk’Tk” won the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Short Story\, his story “Nucleon” won the James White Award\, and he has been shortlisted for awards including the Hugo\, Nebula\, Campbell\, Sturgeon\, and Locus. His stories have appeared in Asimov’s\, Analog\, F&SF\, Realms of Fantasy\, Tor.com\, numerous anthologies and websites\, and multiple Year’s Best anthologies\, as well as his collection Space Magic from Wheatland Press\, which won the Endeavour Award for the best SF or Fantasy book by a Pacific Northwest writer. A contributor to George R. R. Martin’s bestselling shared-world series Wild Cards\, Levine is also a member of Book View Cafe\, a writer-owned publishing cooperative\, and Oregon Science Fiction Conventions Inc.\, a nonprofit organization which produces OryCon. He has narrated podcasts for Escape Pod\, PodCastle\, and StarShipSofa and the audiobook of Space Magic\, and his video production “Dr. Talon’s Letter to the Editor” was a finalist for the Parsec Award. In 2010 he spent two weeks at the Mars Desert Research Station\, a simulated Mars base in the Utah desert. \nRobyn Bennis: Bennis is a scientist living in Mountain View\, California\, where she works in biotech but dreams of airships. She has done research and development involving human gene expression\, neural connectomics\, cancer diagnostics\, rapid flu testing\, gene synthesis\, genome sequencing\, being so preoccupied with whether she could that she never stopped to think if she should\, and systems integration. Her apartment is within sight of Hangar One at Moffett Airfield\, which was once the West Coast home to one of America’s largest airships\, the USS Macon. Her debut novel\, The Guns Above\, will be available at this event. \nFor over a decade SF in SF has offered readings\, films\, and special events in the Bay Area for readers of science fiction\, fantasy\, and speculative fiction. Moderated by Terry Bisson\, past guests have included Patrick Rothfuss\, Gail Carriger\, Jeffrey Ford\, Lev Grossman\, Brian & Wendy Froud\, Samuel R. Delaney\, Cory Doctorow\, Karen Joy Fowler\, and Nalo Hopkinson. We hope you will join us! \nThe American Bookbinders Museum’s entrance is located at 366 Clementina Alley\, off 5th Street\, between Howard and Folsom. Street parking is free; garages are located at 5th & Mission\, and 3rd & Folsom. The closest BART station is Powell Street — just turn down 5th Street\, cross Mission and Howard\, and turn left onto Clementina. NOTE: there is NO access to Clementina from 4th Street due to construction.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ellen-klages-david-d-levine-robyn-bennis/
LOCATION:American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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