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SUMMARY:Launch for Nothing Short Of: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the launch for Nothing Short Of: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story\, with editors Grant Faulkner\,Lynn Mundell\, and Beret Olsen. Please join us! \nGems\, shards\, bon bons\, quickies … nuggets\, tickles\, or even pinpricks. Each 100 Word Story is its own kind of special. \nNothing Short Of presents the best of 100WordStory.org\, the leader in short-short fiction and a popular go-to for great reading. In these very short stories\, every word\, every detail\, every moment matters. And the things left out\, the spaces around the stories\, are just as intense. \nWhat can a hundred words do? They can send chills\, they can bring you to tears\, they can take your breath away. In charged\, sometimes racy encounters — from wild\, messy breakups to a disgruntled clown dinner to quiet revelations over folded laundry — these 100-word stories take us to lightning moments when everything is at stake. \n\n  \nGrant Faulkner is the Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month and the co-founder of 100 Word Story. His stories have appeared in dozens of literary magazines\, including Tin House\, The Southwest Review\, and The Gettysburg Review. His essays on creativity have been published in The New York Times\, Poets & Writers\, Writer’s Digest\, and The Writer. He has published a collection of one hundred 100-word stories\, Fissures\, and his book of essays on creativity\, Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Prompts to Boost Your Creative Mojo\, was published last fall by Chronicle Books. \n  \nLynn Mundell is co-founder and co-editor of 100 Word Story\, as well as a managing editor at a large health care organization. Her short-short stories and creative nonfiction have appeared in many U.S. and U.K. literary journals\, including Tin House online\, Booth\, Superstition Review\, Portland Review\, Permafrost\, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine\, The Sun\, and Five Points\, as well as in anthologies including The Lobsters Run Free (Bath Flash Fiction)\, Short on Sugar\, High on Honey (Flash International)\, and New Micros: Exceptionally Short Stories (W.W. Norton & Company\, August 2018). Lynn earned her MFA in Creative Writing from American University and is an advisory board member of the U.C. Berkeley Extension Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program in Writing. \n  \nBeret Olsen is a writer\, photographer\, and the photo editor for 100 Word Story. Her art\, essays\, and fictions have been published in a variety of places including: First Class Lit\, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine\, and her blog\, Bad Parenting 101. A longtime educator\, Beret has also written grants to help low-income\, first-generation college students get into\, through\, and beyond college. \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Nothing Short Of\, and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-nothing-short-of-selected-tales-from-100-word-story/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Matt Miller
DESCRIPTION:Matt Miller reads from his new poetry collection\, The Wounded for the Water. Also featuring readings by Mario Chard and Peter LaBerge. \n\nPraise for The Wounded for the Water \n\n“Matt W. Miller’s The Wounded for the Water is a horrific\, undulating\, beautiful\, sublime lesson on the art of drowning\, the wonder of living\, and the scars that act as memory.  You will have no choice but to dive into this meditation\, and you will have no choice but to go deep. Miller’s portrait of masculinity is a lyrical homage to the survived and resilient\, to the learned and unlearned\, a prayer for the departed. Like so many hurricanes\, Miller teaches us that sometimes you’re left with nothing\, and that is the moment when you can choose to be reborn or continue holding your breath.”—Willie Perdomo author The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon\, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award \n  \n“The reality of drowning\, and the powerful metaphor of it\, inform Matt Miller’s lyrical muscular new collection. Although water\, violent or not\, is often the book’s setting\, these relentless poems explore the pain and perils of tenderness \, of friendship\, our physical and moral vulnerability\, the challenges of loving and being loved. As Miller puts himself at risk again and again\, his poetry grabs me by the throat\, breaks my heart\, even makes me laugh—and\, oddly\, gives me hope.”—Gail Mazur\, author of Forbidden City \n  \n“One needs read only a poem or two in Matt Miller’s The Wounded for the Water to sense we’re in the hands of a poet with tremendous control. There are musical moments so lush I hear echoes of Hopkins\, coupled with a tender directness and images of clinical grit. Whether he’s offering the straight dope on the different suits boys try on as they audition for manhood\, or meditating on what the rain can and can’t wash away\, Miller takes us time and again to the moment\, as children\, when the force of the world struck us\, and we were left to examine the mark.” —Michael Bazzet\, author of Our Lands Are Not So Different
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matt-miller/
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:Ashley Dawson
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nExtreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change \nfrom Verso Books \n\nA cutting exploration of how cities drive climate change while being on the frontlines of the coming climate crisis \n\n\nNamed One of the Top 10 Books of the Year by Publishers Weekly and Planetizen \nHow will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from the coming chaos? In Extreme Cities\, Ashley Dawson argues that cities are ground zero for climate change\, contributing the lion’s share of carbon to the atmosphere\, while also lying on the frontlines of rising sea levels. Today\, the majority of the world’s megacities are located in coastal zones\, yet few of them are adequately prepared for the floods that will increasingly menace their shores. Instead\, most continue to develop luxury waterfront condos for the elite and industrial facilities for corporations. These not only intensify carbon emissions\, but also place coastal residents at greater risk when water levels rise. \nIn Extreme Cities\, Dawson offers an alarming portrait of the future of our cities\, describing the efforts of Staten Island\, New York\, and Shishmareff\, Alaska residents to relocate; Holland’s models for defending against the seas; and the development of New York City before and after Hurricane Sandy. Our best hope lies not with fortified sea walls\, he argues. Rather\, it lies with urban movements already fighting to remake our cities in a more just and equitable way. \nAs much a harrowing study as a call to arms Extreme Cities is a necessary read for anyone concerned with the threat of global warming\, and of the cities of the world. \nAshley Dawson is a professor of English at the City University of New York\, and the author of Extinction: A Radical History. \n\n\n\nWhat has been said about Extreme Cities: \n“Extreme Cities is a ground-breaking investigation of the vulnerability of our cities in an age of climate chaos. We feel safe and protected in the middle of our great urban areas\, but as Sandy and Katrina made clear\, and as this fine book reveals anew\, the massive shifts on our earth increasingly lay bare the social inequalities that fracture our civilization.” \n– Bill McKibben\, author and founder of 350.org \n\n\n\n“A substantive contribution to the growing dialogue about our response—or lack thereof—to climate change.” \n– Kirkus Reviews \n\n\n“The way we design and live in cities will determine humanity’s ability to avoid an anthropogenic mass extinction event in the coming century. Dawson makes this vividly clear in Extreme Cities\, laying out in detail the nature of the problem and some possible positive actions we can take. Crucial to his argument is the fact that technological solutions will not be enough\, so that we need to drastically reform the capitalist economic system to properly price and value the biosphere and human lives. His point that social justice is now a necessary survival strategy makes this not just a meticulous history and analysis of our situation\, but also an exciting call to action.” \n– Kim Stanley Robinson\, author of The Red Mars Trilogy and New York 2140 \n\n\n“Dawson makes a convincing case that\, unless urban dwellers and civic leaders engage in a fundamental reconceptualization of the city and whom it serves\, the future of urban life is dim.” \n– Publishers Weekly (★ Starred Review) \n\n\n“Cities both in the North and the South are already suffering the effects of climate change. Government and business fitfully recognize and respond\, but in ways that reinforce existing injustices and as often as not make things worse. Dawson shows how social movements have combined action on disaster relief with forms of equitable common life to produce models for radical adaptation from which we can all learn. This is a brillant summation of what we know and what we can do build a new kind of city in the ruins of the old.” \n– McKenzie Wark\, author of Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene \n\n\n“Many books have elucidated the ever-increasing dangers of climate change\, particularly the disastrous impact that rising sea levels will have on coastal regions\, but Dawson goes further as he outlines some potential solutions to this crisis. Massive technological projects may not be what’s needed\, he finds; instead\, the solution may already exist in radical movements to forge a more just and equitable society.” \n– Publishers Weekly \n\n\n“A powerful argument in a dire situation: that we revise our cities to the new game changer\, or climate change will revise urban existences as we know it.” \n– Kazi Khaleed Ashraf\, director-general of Bengal Institute of Architecture\, Landscapes and Settlements \n\n\n“A sophisticated and provocative exploration of the unfolding impact of climate change on urban environments.” \n– Christoph Lindner\, Professor of Urban Theory and Visual Culture\, University of Oregon \n\n\n“A revelatory confrontation between two forms of ‘surplus liquidity’: the rent-seeking excess of circulating global capital and the more literal liquidity of the rising tides of climate change. The setting is the city and this meticulously researched and argued book probes the nexus of myopia\, greed\, environmental disaster – and hope – that has placed the urban habitat of billions of us in extremis.” \n– Michael Sorkin\, author of All Over the Map: Writing on Buildings and Cities \n\n\n“A must-read for everyone who wants to understand the politics of climate change in an increasingly urban planet\, and to explore the possibilities for radical change beyond all technological fixes and governmental adjustments that only reproduce the system as it is.” \n– Marco Armiero\, director of the Environmental Humanities Laboratory\, KTH Royal Institute of Technology\, Sweden \n\n\n“An ultimate call to action.” \n– Joep Janssen\, author of Living with the Mekong: Climate Change and Urban Development in Ho Chi Minh City and the Mekong Delta \n\n\n“A superb essay of political ecology\, Extreme Cities demonstrates that there is nothing more depending on nature than the city\, offering both a diagnosis and a possible therapy for one of the greatest challenges of our time.” \n– Serenella Iovino\, editor of Material Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities: Voices from the Anthropocene \n\n\n“Extreme Cities takes the critical long view to challenge city decision-makers to deal seriously with the clash of business-as-usual development\, threats from climate change\, and persistent social inequality to develop real transformations to drive cities toward sustainability and resilience.” \n– Timon McPhearson\, Director\, Urban Systems Lab at The New School\, New York City \n\n\n“With the majority of humanity located in cities\, it behooves us to consider urban ecologies as recent and future sites of non-natural disasters as well as inspiring places of collective resilience and struggles for justice. Dawson’s book is a guiding light.” \n– T.J. Demos\, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at UC Santa Cruz\, Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies \n\n\n“The definitive study of an urban – and planetary – system pushed to the breaking point. Extreme Cities paints a terrifying\, but also hopeful\, picture\, weaving together accounts of iron-fisted states\, greedy real estate developers\, and the communities that challenge their rule.” \n– Jason W. Moore\, author of Capitalism in the Web of Life \n\n\n“A profoundly sobering picture of climate change’s uneven urban toll\, both across global expanses and within particular neighborhoods\, while also spotlighting instances of radical\, on-the-ground resistance to such trends.” \n– Emily Scott\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture\, ETH Zuric and co-editor of Critical Landscapes: Art\, Space\, Politics \n\n\n“[Ashley Dawson] is well attuned to the ways that upheavals and disasters disproportionately affect the socioeconomically disadvantaged. As Donald Trump continues to roll back protection measures and disavow the U.S.’s role in global cooperation to mitigate the effects of climate change\, this book is a clear-eyed reminder of who\, and what\, will be left most vulnerable as a result.” \n– Fast Company \n\n\n“Dawson’s book destroys the comforting global discourse of climate change\, resilience and adaptation and introduces the key words of our time: the dramatic ‘climate apartheid’ currently unfolding in front of us. A shrewd analysis of the prodigious contradiction of capitalism at the time of the anthropocene: what happens when coastal cities\, the great capital sinks of capital\, literally sink.” \n– Jean-Baptiste Fressoz\, coauthor of The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth\, History and Us \n\n\n“Books on climate change are a dime a dozen now\, but few\, if any\, truly reckon with the potential scale of the disasters that await. Dawson reveals the inadequacies of current plans to deal with the problems that cities around the world will face. Forget such buzzwords as ‘green cities\,’ ‘resilience\,’ and ‘sustainable development’ — the age of ‘disaster communism’ is here.” \n– Publishers Weekly \n\n\n“Extreme Cities is a sobering account of how planetary urbanization has put us on a collision course with the natural world.” \n– Sierra Club \n\n\n“Extreme Cities is an angry book—as it should be. ….Ashley Dawson outlines the existential dilemma facing coastal cities\, and the refusal of various powerbrokers to acknowledge that reality\, in bold and frequently horrifying terms.” \n– Chris Barsanti\, Rain Taxi
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ashley-dawson/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mae Boeve of 350.org and Rebecca Solnit - Rivers of Change and SF Global
DESCRIPTION:This September in San Francisco\, the Global Climate Action Summit will bring together leaders from state\, tribal\, and local governments\, business\, and citizens from around the world\, to demonstrate how the tide has turned in the race against climate change\, showcase climate action taking place around the world\, and inspire deeper commitments from each other and from national governments—in support of the Paris Agreement. \n2018 is a turning point: countries and all of us must step up the commitments that were made in Paris and do more. The momentum we generate this year must lead to a climate turning point by 2020 in order to prevent the worst effects of climate change. It must be the beginning of a new phase of action and ambition on climate change.\n\n\n\n350.org executive director May Boeve talks about the near future of climate activism\, including September’s Climate Summit. \n\nIn 1963 the waters began rising behind Glen Canyon Dam and 170 miles of the Colorado River slowly disappeared as the riverbed and surrounding canyons filled with water. Those who supported and those who opposed the dam considered it a longterm transformation; environmentalists mourned Glen Canyon as dead and gone forever. But it’s coming back\, in a victory that is also the pervasive disaster of climate change. \n\n\n\n\n“Lake Powell and the wreckage of where it used to be and will never be again was the right place to think about the madness of the past and the terror of the future\, even amidst the epiphanies of beautiful light and majestic space\,” writes Rebecca Solnit in Drowned River:  The Death and Rebirth of Glen Canyon on the Colorado (Radius Books)\, her collaboration with photographers Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe. \n\n\nDoors at 6:30pm. Admission $5.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mae-boeve-of-350-org-and-rebecca-solnit-rivers-of-change-and-sf-global/
LOCATION:McRoskey Mattress Company\, Inc\, 1687 Market St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Roman Muradov
DESCRIPTION:Roman Muradov discusses his new book\, On Doing Nothing: Finding Inspiration in Idleness. \n\nPraise for On Doing Nothing \n\n“Roman Muradov’s whimsical\, clever\, and companionable book On Doing Nothing provides a much-needed correction to our distracted\, anxiety-ridden\, and increasingly disembodied culture. Muradov has written and illustrated a kind of Situationist\, Oulipian Ways of Seeing—a manual for clarity and presence\, a book which issues a call to attention; a call to pay attention. The smart yet approachable philosophical reflections unfold like a leisurely stroll through a beautiful and unfamiliar city\, provoking thoughtfulness and eliciting in the reader a spirit of discovery.” —Peter Mendelsund\, author of What We See When We Read \n\nAbout On Doing Nothing \n\nIn an age of obsessive productivity and stress\, this illustrated ode to idleness invites readers to explore the pleasures and possibilities of slowing down. Beloved author and illustrator Roman Muradov weaves together the words and stories of artists\, writers\, philosophers\, and eccentrics who have pursued inspiration by doing less. He reveals that doing nothing is both easily achievable and absolutely essential to leading an enjoyable and creative life. Cultivating idleness can be as simple as taking a long walk without a destination or embracing chance in the creative process. Peppered with playful illustrations\, this handsome volume is a refreshing and thought-provoking read.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roman-muradov/
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:Melissa Broder / The Pisces
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts an evening with So Sad Today author Melissa Broder reading from her anticipated debut novel\, The Pisces. With her in conversation is The Millions editor\, Lydia Kiesling — please join us! \nLucy has been writing her dissertation on Sappho for nine years when she and her boyfriend break up in a dramatic flameout. After she bottoms out in Phoenix\, her sister in Los Angeles insists Lucy dog-sit for the summer. Annika’s home is a gorgeous glass cube on Venice Beach\, but Lucy can find little relief from her anxiety — not in the Greek chorus of women in her love addiction therapy group\, not in her frequent Tinder excursions\, not even in Dominic the foxhound’s easy affection. \nEverything changes when Lucy becomes entranced by an eerily attractive swimmer while sitting alone on the beach rocks one night. But when Lucy learns the truth about his identity\, their relationship\, and Lucy’s understanding of what love should look like\, take a very unexpected turn. A masterful blend of vivid realism and giddy fantasy\, pairing hilarious frankness with pulse-racing eroticism\, THE PISCES is a story about falling in obsessive love with a merman: a figure of Sirenic fantasy whose very existence pushes Lucy to question everything she thought she knew about love\, lust\, and meaning in the one life we have. \n— \nMelissa Broder is the author of the essay collection So Sad Today and four poetry collections\, including Last Sext. Her poetry has appeared in POETRY\, The Iowa Review\, Tin House\, Guernica\, and she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize. She writes the “So Sad Today” column at Vice\, the astrology column for Lenny Letter\, and the “Beauty and Death” column on Elle.com. She lives in Los Angeles. Author photo by Lord Byron. \nLydia Kiesling is the editor of The Millions and the author of The Golden State\, a novel publishing September from FSG/MCD. Her essays and criticism have appeared at outlets including The New York Times Magazine\, The Guardian\, Slate\, and The New Yorker online\, and have been recognized in Best American Essays 2016. She lives in San Francisco with her family. Author photo by Andria Lo.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/melissa-broder-the-pisces/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:StageWrite presents: Drama\, Trauma\, Dance-O-Rama - Short Plays by Short People
DESCRIPTION:Come see original plays written by fifth graders from SFUSD\, inspired by works of visual art at the de Young Museum\, and performed as staged readings by professional actors with music by The Write-Ons. \nEnter a world where… \nSuperheroes speak secret languages \nFlowers fight nukes \nSilly string is not a plaything \nChimps are chumps \nBedtime meltdowns explode  \n& Old guys take a dirt nap. \nWine reception before and after the show on Saturday to celebrate StageWrite’s 15th anniversary
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stagewrite-presents-drama-trauma-dance-o-rama-short-plays-by-short-people/
LOCATION:Brava Theater Center\, 2781 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. \nJoin Voz Sin Tinta for our May reading! \n3 FEATURES as always and an open mic to follow!\nBring a friend\, a poem\, some snacks and some wine! \nOpen Mic list goes live at 6:30\, please keep pieces to only 1 and under 4 minutes. \nFeatured Writers this month are:\nAmanda Muniz\nDaniel Ari\nDiana Torres
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-our-monthly-bilingual-poetry-series-and-open-mic-14/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:MARX NOW: Karl Marx @ 200 - A Reading & Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Opening Statement by Jale Yoldas (Goethe Institut San Francisco) with guest appearances by  Alan Black\, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz\, and Richard Walker. Moderator Frederick Young \nOn the occasion of the 200th Anniversary of Karl Marx’ birthday Goethe-Institut San Francisco and City Lights Booksellers and Publishers will pick up on the tradition of small group study focused on specific texts like Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto. We will concentrate on a few brief passages\, interpret and critically analyze them together with guest speakers well versed in the work of Karl Marx and the audience. The event will begin with readings followed by a moderated round table discussion and open up to the audience after. \nKarl Marx would have celebrated his 200th birthday in 2018. His criticism of capitalism appears even more pertinent today amidst climate crisis\, chronical unemployment and global inequality. A reason to look back and re-read. Marx’s idea that tools and the mode of production of a society determine its political and social structure\, and that human thought is formed by the use of tools and moral positions by interests – insights which Marx and Engels encapsulated in the concept of “historical materialism” – have found their way into many individual sciences\, into sociology\, educational theory\, psychology\, the study of religion\, law\, literary theory\, engineering and the cognitive sciences\, to name only a few. Join us in an evening of discussion examining where we stand in relation to marx and his ideas in contemporary times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marx-now-karl-marx-200-a-reading-discussion/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Clemantine Wamariya / The Girl Who Smiled Beads
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Clemantine Wamariya for her extraordinary debut\, The Girl Who Smiled Beads\, and her coauthor Elizabeth Weil\, who collaborated intimately with Clemantine to write this luminescent book. Clemantine and Elizabeth will be in conversation — please join us! \nClemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers\, when neighbors began to disappear\, and when she heard the loud\, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder. In 1994\, she and her fifteen-year-old sister\, Claire\, fled the Rwandan massacre and spent the next six years migrating through seven African countries\, searching for safety — perpetually hungry\, imprisoned and abused\, enduring and escaping refugee camps\, finding unexpected kindness\, witnessing inhuman cruelty. They did not know whether their parents were dead or alive. \nWhen Clemantine was twelve\, she and her sister were granted refugee status in the United States; there\, in Chicago\, their lives diverged. Though their bond remained unbreakable\, Claire\, who had for so long protected and provided for Clemantine\, was a single mother struggling to make ends meet\, while Clemantine was taken in by a family who raised her as their own. She seemed to live the American dream: attending private school\, taking up cheerleading\, and\, ultimately\, graduating from Yale. Yet the years of being treated as less than human\, of going hungry and seeing death\, could not be erased. She felt at the same time six years old and one hundred years old. \nIn The Girl Who Smiled Beads\, Clemantine provokes us to look beyond the label of “victim” and recognize the power of the imagination to transcend even the most profound injuries and aftershocks. Devastating yet beautiful\, and bracingly original\, it is a powerful testament to her commitment to constructing a life on her own terms. \n— \n“Extraordinary and heartrending. Clemantine Wamariya is as fiercely talented as she is courageous.”  — Junot Díaz\, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao \n  \n“Clemantine Wamariya has written a defining\, luminescent memoir that shines a sharp light on the dark forces that roil our age. If you read this book—and once you read the first page\, you will not put it down—you will never think about political violence\, displacement\, or the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship the same way again. Clemantine summons us to follow her fierce and unrelenting example to try to help build the world we wish to see.” —Samantha Power\, author of A Problem from Hell \n— \nClemantine Wamariya is a storyteller and human rights advocate. Born in Kigali\, Rwanda\, displaced by conflict\, Clemantine migrated throughout seven African countries as a child. At age twelve\, she was granted refugee status in the United States and went on to receive a BA in Comparative Literature from Yale University. She lives in San Francisco. Author photo by Julia Zave. \nElizabeth Weil is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine\, a contributing editor to Outside magazine\, and writes frequently for Vogue and other publications. She is the recipient of a New York Press Club Award for her feature reporting\, a Lowell Thomas Award for her travel writing\, and a GLAAD Award for her coverage of LGBT issues. In addition\, her work has been a finalist for a National Magazine Award\, a James Beard Award\, and a Dart Award for coverage of trauma. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two daughters. Author photo by Ana Homonnay.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clemantine-wamariya-the-girl-who-smiled-beads/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kent Harrington
DESCRIPTION:Kent Harrington discusses his new novel\, Last Ferry Home\, with Kevin Hunsanger. \n\nPraise  for Kent Harrington \n\n\n“Strong\, hard-edged stuff by a writer in complete control of the narrative. Respected noir veteran Harrington returns with a tough and thoughtful novel about grief and its consequences.” ―Kirkus Reviews \n\n“Delivers quite a punch. The alternating time lines keep readers on their toes and do a stellar job of creating a sense of impending doom. The author also fleshes out several minor characters and story lines with depth and color that add greatly to this noir tale.”―Library Journal \n“Dark Ride is a gripping tale that takes you into the dark and violent heart of obsession. It reads like Jim Thompson interpreted by Quentin Tarentino. This one puts a chilling finger down your spine.” –Michael Connelly \n\nAbout Last Ferry Home \n\nSince his wife’s death at sea\, San Francisco Police Detective Michael O’Higgins has been paralyzed by grief and shame – unable to care for their teenaged daughter\, who saw her mother swept away\, and unable to deal with the daily requirements of his job. Almost a year after his wife’s death\, O’Higgins takes a ferry ride as part of his therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder. On the boat\, he meets a charming Indian family: successful young husband\, two lovely daughters\, and a kind\, beautiful wife and mother. \nO’Higgins has no idea that he will meet this woman again on his first day back after bereavement leave\, when he and his partner are called to a Nob Hill mansion to investigate a homicide. The victim is the handsome man O’Higgins met on the ferry\, and his wife\, Asha Chaundhry\, is the obvious suspect. \nAsha Chaundhry becomes the center of O’Higgins’ investigation. The victim’s father\, a prominent Indian politician and business tycoon\, is anxious to keep his son’s death out of the public eye\, and to have the investigation resolved as quickly as possible. As O’Higgins digs into the Chaundhrys’ business and political dealings\, he becomes convinced of Asha’s innocence\, while her father-in-law seeks to isolate her from friends and defenders\, even sending her children back to extended family in India. Increasingly desperate\, Asha turns to O’Higgins for comfort\, in a way that threatens both his recovery and his career. \nLAST FERRY HOME is a riveting novel of grief\, obsession\, recovery and passion from acclaimed author Kent Harrington\, as well as a gripping portrait of a man torn apart by loss\, but looking for something\, anyone\, to believe in.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kent-harrington/
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:Reading - Eckes\, Seidenberg\, Spencer Smith
DESCRIPTION:  \nEckes\, Seidenberg\, and Spencer Smith
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-eckes-seidenberg-spencer-smith/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Release II: The Edge of Fruitvale by Rohan DaCosta
DESCRIPTION:Join us at The Rite Spot\, a cozy Mission District dive in San Francisco that has been around for 60 years\, as we celebrate the release of Rohan DaCosta‘s The Edge of Fruitvale. \nWith readings by Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Josiahluis Alderete\, Daniel Riddle Rodriguez\, TBD\, and the star of the evening\, Rohan DaCosta\, and music by Azuah\, it’ll be a night in the City to remember. Art work by TBD (for sale) will adorn the walls\, and the artist will speak to their work briefly at the outset of the event. \nDonations will be collected for the performers and the press (suggested $10-20 with no one turned away for lack of funds)\, and books will be available for sale and signature at the end of the event. \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-ii-the-edge-of-fruitvale-by-rohan-dacosta/
LOCATION:The Rite Spot Cafe\, 2099 Folsom Street\, San Francisco\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:StageWrite presents: Drama\, Trauma\, Dance-O-Rama - Short Plays by Short People
DESCRIPTION:Come see original plays written by fifth graders from SFUSD\, inspired by works of visual art at the de Young Museum\, and performed as staged readings by professional actors with music by The Write-Ons. \nEnter a world where… \nSuperheroes speak secret languages \nFlowers fight nukes \nSilly string is not a plaything \nChimps are chumps \nBedtime meltdowns explode  \n& Old guys take a dirt nap. \n  \nWine reception before and after the show on Saturday to celebrate StageWrite’s 15th anniversary
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stagewrite-presents-drama-trauma-dance-o-rama-short-plays-by-short-people-2/
LOCATION:Brava Theater Center\, 2781 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="StageWrite":MAILTO:elana@stagewrite.org
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich (The Fact of a Body)\nAllegra Huston (Say My Name)\nCyrus Farivar (Habeas Data)\nMaw Shein Win (Invisible Gifts: New and Selected Poems)\nC.B. Lee (Not Your Villain)\nIrene Tu (Man Haters comedy show)\nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-11/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Event: GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets\, artists\, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. \nTo participate in the open mic sessions\, please arrive by 4 and plan to listen to all of the featured poets. Seating/space is limited.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-event-gears-turning-w-kim-shuck-3/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Virginia Eubanks talks about her book: Automating Inequality:  How High-Tech Tools Profile\, Police\, and Punish the Poor
DESCRIPTION:Virginia Eubanks is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany\, SUNY. She is also the author of Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age. Her writing about technology and social justice has appeared in The American Prospect\, The Nation\, Harper’s and Wired. For two decades\, Eubanks has worked in community technology and economic justice movements.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virginia-eubanks-talks-about-her-book-automating-inequality-how-high-tech-tools-profile-police-and-punish-the-poor/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich / The Fact of a Body
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich for her murder-memoir ten years in the making\, The Fact of a Body. Please join us! \n  \nWhen she applied to Harvard Law School\, Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich wrote her admissions essay about her staunch opposition to the death penalty. The child of two lawyers\, her position had always been clear in her mind. So when she finds herself at her first summer internship at a New Orleans law firm that is working on the re-trial of death-row convicted murderer and child molester Ricky Langley\, she feels ready to begin her life’s work. \nBut when she watches the tape of Ricky’s confession\, she is overcome by one thought: she wants him to die. Shocked by her reaction\, Alexandria digs deeper and deeper into the case and realizes that something about this story\, so seemingly distant from her own suburban upbringing in New Jersey\, is uncannily familiar. As she pores over the details of the trial and the complicated narrative of Ricky’s childhood\, she is forced to face her own story\, to unearth long-buried family secrets\, and to reckon with how her own past colors her view of Ricky’s crime. \nThrough Alexandria’s meticulously researched and vividly reconstructed telling of Ricky’s story and her deeply personal investigation into her own past\, it becomes clear that she isn’t the only one using her own memories to understand the case. Everyone—from the judge to the jury foreman to the defense attorney to Ricky’s own mother—sees what happened through the lens of their own experience. \n\n\n  \n“The balancing act here performed between autobiography and journalism\, documentary and imagination\, witnessing and reckoning\, the tender and the terrible\, is shrewd and graceful…Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich has given us an exquisite and exquisitely difficult work of art that makes a fierce claim on our attention\, conscience\, and heart.” — Maggie Nelson\, NBCC award-winning author of The Argonauts \n  \n\n\n  \nAlexandria Marzano-Lesnevich was awarded numerous fellowships to write this book\, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, a Rona Jaffe Award\, and fellowships to the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in The New York Times\, Oxford American\, Salon\, and the anthology True Crime. She has a JD from Harvard\, an MFA from Emerson and a BA from Columbia University. Alexandria currently lives in Boston\, Massachusetts\, where she teaches memoir writing at Grub Street and graduate public policy students at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexandria-marzano-lesnevich-the-fact-of-a-body/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night Featuring Alan Harris
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir\, live jazz with Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends.\nOpen Mic sign-up for poetry only starts at 6:45pm – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment\, a few open slots to read without music mid-set. FREE admission. Full menu and bar available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night-featuring-alan-harris/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers\, Longhairs\, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat by Jonathan Kauffman
DESCRIPTION:This enlightening narrative history—an entertaining fusion of Tom Wolfe and Michael Pollan— traces the colorful origins of once unconventional foods and the diverse fringe movements\, charismatic gurus\, and counterculture elements that brought them to the mainstream and created a distinctly American cuisine. \n“An outstanding food and cultural history…In this informative\, briskly paced first book…Kauffman is equally thorough in tracing how these early innovators inspired the food co-ops and whole food stores that exist today.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hippie-food-how-back-to-the-landers-longhairs-and-revolutionaries-changed-the-way-we-eat-by-jonathan-kauffman/
LOCATION:Mechanics Institute\, 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer Plus Book Reading "Murderous Fiction: 3 Novels About Death"
DESCRIPTION:Visiting author James Han Mattson joins local authors Andrew Demcak and Tim Floreen at a Perfectly Queer Plus San Francisco book reading\, “Murderous Fiction: 3 Novels About Death\,” on Tuesday\, May 15 from 7pm to 8pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St.\, San Francisco. Author signing follows the readings. Free admission\, free refreshments. Door prizes at 7pm! \nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\nJames Han Mattson was born in Seoul\, Korea and raised in North Dakota. A Michener-Copernicus Fellowship recipient and graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he has taught at the University of Iowa\, the University of Cape Town\, the University of Maryland\, the George Washington University\, and the University of California – Berkeley. His first novel The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves was an Amazon Literature and Fiction Pick\, an Amazon Best Book of the Month\, a Publishers Lunch Bookseller Pick\, a Kindle First Pick\, a New York Post Required Reading\, and was featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition with Scott Simon. He currently lives in Maryland. \nAndrew Demcak is an American poet and novelist\, the author of four poetry collections and five young adult novels. His books have been featured by the American Library Association\, Verse Daily\, Lambda Literary Foundation\, The Best American Poetry\, and Poets & Writers. His new book Lazarus was a finalist for the prestigious 2018 Dorset Prize for Poetry. \nTim Floreen writes young adult science fiction. The New York Public Library named his first novel\, Willful Machines\, one of the best teen books of 2015 and\, in a starred review\, Kirkus described it as “gothic\, gadgety\, and gay\,” which is an accurate assessment. Booklist called his second novel\, Anatomy of a Murderer\, “incisive\, startling\, and intense.” Tim lives in San Francisco with his partner\, their two cat-obsessed daughters\, and two very patient cats. To find out more about Tim and his secret obsession with Wonder Woman\, visit him online at timfloreen.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-plus-book-reading-murderous-fiction-3-novels-about-death/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Carmen Giménez Smith
DESCRIPTION:Carmen Giménez Smith\nTuesday\, May 15\, 2018\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\n  \ncelebrating the release of \nCruel Futures \nCity Lights Spotlight Series No. 17 \n\nA Latina feminist State of the Union address at the intersection of pop culture and interiority. \nCruel Futures\, the fifth collection from Latinx feminista Carmen Giménez Smith\, is a witchy confessional and wildly imagistic volume that examines subjects as divergent as Alzheimers\, Medusa\, mumblecore\, and mental illness in sharp-witted\, taut poems dense with song. Chronicling life on an endangered planet\, in a country on the precipice of profound change compelled by a media machine that produces our realities\, the book is a high-energy analysis of popular culture\, as well as an exploration of the many social roles that women occupy as mother\, daughter\, lover\, and the resulting struggle to maintain personhood—all in a late capitalist America. Like Joanne Kyger\, Giménez Smith deploys humor while depicting the quotidian and its function as sacrament. \nPraise for Cruel Futures: \n“Carmen Giménez Smith’s beautiful book\, Cruel Futures is one of those rare books\, rare pieces of art\, that manages to be extremely intimate\, vulnerable and close while also doing a kind of searing cultural critique. The poems can be tender or ironic\, and sometimes a blending of the two\, which is not easy\, but occasionally yields lines like these\, from the amazing and amazingly titled poem ‘Ravers Having Babies’: ‘So much to do so little skin / left for transformation . . .’ Somehow those lines for me get at the remarkable humanity in this book\, the remarkable wisdom\, which is ravenous\, sorrowful\, and dreaming. Like\, probably\, you are. Like me.”––Ross Gay \n“In the body\, through the lyric\, and twitching with every sense of the word ‘nerve\,’ this book sings a mongrel nation into and across its cruel futures. Like Neruda in his Plenos Poderes/Full Powers\, Giménez Smith has all the mastery she needs to cast a cold eye on her positioning\, and ours. In this way Cruel Futures is an autobiography that won’t stay in its genre or premise\, caring less to author a self than to follow turns of magic in words that might soothe our ‘collisions with the living.’ Inheritor and conduit of an Latinx artistic tradition\, this primer on how to ‘feed the yearning’ Anzaldúa wrote of leaves us broken and stronger\, ‘Slick with lip gloss\, with legend.'”––Farid Matuk \n“Declamatory anthems to no nation\, these songs stride as they deal and wheel with skin and kin: history\, catastrophe\, the body\, love. ‘Upturned and defiant\, all types of shade\, no outskirt\, / vital like a saint\,’ the poems in Cruel Futures shimmer with Giménez Smith’s lyric attention: full of grit\, sharp and knowing.”––Hoa Nguyen
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carmen-gimenez-smith-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Genny Lim\, Kitty Tsui and Nellie Wong w/Bill Crossman on piano
DESCRIPTION:Nellie Wong was born and raised in Oakland. A long-time activist for radical social change and a retired office worker\, Nellie was honored by Oakland High School with a building in her name. She is the author of four poetry books: Dreams in Harrison Railroad Park\, The Death of Long Steam Lady\, Stolen Moments and Breakfast Lunch Dinner. She is co-featured in the documentary film\, “Mitsuye and Nellie Asian American Poets\,” by Allie Light and Irving Sarah. Genny Lim is San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate. She has been featured at Jazz Festivals and World Poetry Festivals in the U.S. and around the world. Her award-winning play “Paper Angels\,” was the first Asian American play to be aired on PBS’s American. Lim’s performance piece\, “Don’t Shoot! A Requiem in Black\,” dedicated to Black Lives Matter\, recently premiered at Safe House. She is author of five poetry collections and co-author of the seminal\, Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island. Kitty Tsui’s WORDS OF A WOMAN WHO BREATHES FIRE was the first book by a Chinese American lesbian; her second BREATHLESS – EROTICA won the Firecracker Alternative Book Award. WORDS OF A WOMAN WHO BREATHES FIRE will be out as a Sapphic Classic along with new poems from NICE CHINESE GIRLS DON’T in July\, 2019. Bill Crossman is a pianist\, composer\, human rights activist\, philosopher/educator\, poet\, playwright\, and author. As a pianist\, Crossman’s specialty is free jazz/free improvisation. His musically improvised “John Brown’s Truth” musical premiered at the 2009 International Society of Improvised Music Festival at UC Santa Cruz\, and has since been performed throughout northern California and in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/genny-lim-kitty-tsui-and-nellie-wong-w-bill-crossman-on-piano/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rahna Reiko Rizzuto / Shadow Child
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Rahna Reiko Rizzuto (Hiroshima in the Morning and Why She Left Us) for her new novel\, Shadow Child. Please join us! \nShadow Child is a gorgeous novel about three strong women\, the dangerous ties of family and identity\, and the long shadow our histories can cast. Twin sisters Hana and Kei grew up in a tiny Hawaiian town in the 1950s and ‘60s\, so close they shared the same nickname. Mixed-race and fatherless\, they were raised in dreamlike isolation by their loving yet unstable mother. But when their cherished threesome with Mama is broken\, and then further shattered by a violent betrayal that neither young woman can forgive\, it seems their bond may be severed forever—until\, six years later\, Kei arrives on Hana’s lonely New York City doorstep with a secret that will change everything. Flashing back to 1942\, readers meet Lillie\, a young Japanese woman orphaned as a baby on the steps of a rural church in California. After she falls in love with Donald\, the only other Japanese person Lillie has known\, the young couple weds and moves in with his parents in Los Angeles\, only to find that in that time of war\, Japanese Americans were viewed with distrust and hostility. From the internment camps in World War II America\, to the exotic beaches and caves of Hawaii\, to the bustling metropolis of New York City\, Shadow Child follows these extraordinary women as they search for acceptance\, family\, and a truer sense of identity and happiness than what they’d known. \nRahna Reiko Rizzuto is the author of the memoir Hiroshima in the Morning\, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle. Her debut novel\, Why She Left Us\, won an American Book Award. The first woman to graduate from Columbia College with a BA in Astrophysics\, she was raised in Hawaii and lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rahna-reiko-rizzuto-shadow-child/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Julia Dixon Evans
DESCRIPTION:Julia Dixon Evans discusses her new novel\, How to Set Yourself on Fire. \n\nPRAISE FOR HOW TO SET YOURSELF ON FIRE \n\n“How to Set Yourself on Fire is a family mystery that slowly reveals itself\, illuminating a poignant emptiness in its lovable but complicated main character. Sheila is funny\, depressed\, searching\, and unpredictable. Her story will move you long after its lovely final scene.”—Lindsay Hunter\, author of Eat Only When You’re Hungry \n\n“This book had me glued. I came for the intrigue buried in the treasure hunt of letters\, but I stayed for the unlikely friendship of thirty-five-year-old Sheila and twelve-year-old Torrey. I would read a whole series of these two having adventures together\, but I’ll have to relish this singularly heartbreaking and hilarious story of lost and found love\, in all its guises.”—Jac Jemc\, author of The Grip of It \n\n“This book features my favorite type of protagonist: the creepy\, socially awkward woman who you can’t help but fall in love with. It’s also the best kind of reading experience: a book that is funny and difficult to put down\, and builds to something that is disarmingly touching.”—Juliet Escoria\, author of Witch Hunt \n\nABOUT HOW TO SET YOURSELF ON FIRE \n\nSheila’s life is built of little thievings.  Adrift in her mid-thirties\, she sleeps in fragments\, ditches her temp jobs\, eavesdrops on her neighbor’s Skype calls\, and keeps a stolen letter in her nightstand\, penned by a UPS driver she barely knows.  Her mother is stifling and her father is a bad memory.  Her only friends are her mysterious\, slovenly neighbor Vinnie and his daughter Torrey\, a quirky twelve-year-old coping with a recent tragedy. \nWhen her grandmother Rosamond dies\, Sheila inherits a box of secret love letters from Harold C. Carr—a man who is not her grandfather. In spite of herself\, Sheila gets caught up in the legacy of the affair\, piecing together her grandmother’s past and forging bonds with Torrey and Vinnie as intense and fragile as the crumbling pages in Rosamond’s shoebox. \nAs they get closer to unraveling the truth\, Sheila grows almost as obsessed with the letters as the man who wrote them.  Somewhere\, there’s an answering stack of letters—written in Rosamond’s hand—and Sheila can’t stop until she uncovers the rest of the story.  Threaded with wry humor and the ache of love lost or left behind\, How to Set Yourself on Fire establishes Julia Dixon Evans as a rising talent in the vein of Shirley Jackson and Lindsay Hunter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julia-dixon-evans/
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:Wild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island
DESCRIPTION:Wild Geese Sorrow is based upon new translations of the mostly anonymous poems carved into the men’s barracks walls at the Angel Island Immigration Station. The first new translation of this wall poetry in 40 years takes readers through the deep anger\, sorrow\, and loneliness felt by Chinese immigrants detained at the Angel Island Immigration Station between 1910-1940. Sequenced to narrate their experiences\, these poems tell of arrival\, long detentions\, medical exams\, political outrage\, and for some\, eventual deportation.Readers will also learn the nuances of literary translation and about a critical period of American immigrant history\, information essential to our contemporary policy debates. These poems are a powerful testament to human resiliency and perseverance everywhere. \nJeffrey Thomas Leong is a poet and writer raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. While earning his MFA at the Vermont College of Fine Arts\, he began to translate anew the Chinese wall poems found at Angel Island. For over two decades\, he worked as a public health administrator and attorney for San Francisco. He earned his MFA in Writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. His writing has focused on the Asian American experience including adoption\, multiracial families\, and student activism during the 1960s. His poetry and prose have appeared in many publications including Bamboo Ridge\, Crab Orchard\, Hyphen\, Spillway\, and other publications. In past lives he has been a singer-songwriter\, disc jockey\, high school teacher\, and open mic host. He lives with his wife and daughter in the East Bay. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wild-geese-sorrow-the-chinese-wall-inscriptions-at-angel-island/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Fundraiser for STREET SHEET SF
DESCRIPTION:Street Sheet\, a local newspaper produced and distributed by homeless and/or low-income people. Adobe Bookstore is honored to host a fundraiser that will showcase the talents of the musicians\, poets\, and performers who contribute to the paper while bringing in funds for the project. Open mic session\, space is limited. \nMore details soon!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fundraiser-for-street-sheet-sf/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:radical  poesies: Steven Seidenberg + A’aron Heard + Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:radical poesies \nSteven Seidenberg + A’aron Heard + Tongo Eisen-Martin \nCurated by Tongo Eisen-Martin \nWednesday! May 16th \nDoors 6:30PM \nProgram7PM \nFREE \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radical-poesies-steven-seidenberg-aaron-heard-tongo-eisen-martin/
LOCATION:Institute Of advanced Uncertainty [I.O.U.]\, 296 Ivy Street\, btwn. Gough and Franklin\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Michelle Tea
DESCRIPTION:Michelle Tea celebrating the release of her new book\n\nAgainst Memoir: Complaints\, Confessions & Criticisms \nfrom Feminist Press \n\n\nThe razor-sharp but damaged Valerie Solanas\, a doomed lesbian biker gang\, recovering alcoholics\, and teenagers barely surviving at an ice creamery: these are some of the larger-than-life\,yet all-too-human figures\, populating America’s fringes. Rife with never-ending fights and failures\, theirs are the stories we too often try to forget. But in the process of excavating and documenting these lives\, Michelle Tea also reveals herself in unexpected and heartbreaking ways. \nDelivered with her signature honesty and dark humor\, Tea blurs the line between telling other people’s stories and her own. She turns an investigative eye to the genre that’s nurtured her entire career—memoir—and considers the extent to which art preys on life. \nMichelle Tea is the author of numerous books\, including Rent Girl\, Valencia\, and How to Grow Up. She is the creator of the Sister Spit all-girl open mic and 1997-1999 national tour. In 2003\, Michelle founded RADAR Productions\, a literary non-profit that oversees queer-centric projects. \nOn the work of Michelle Tea: \n“These essays blow my mind with their algebraic rhythms by which Michelle Tea manages pain and bliss. They take turns erupting in a pulpy and marvelous parade: landscape\, passion\, morality\, family\, cigarettes—each cited frankly and exquisitely like a smart kid with a dirty crayon explaining to us all how she sees god.” —Eileen Myles\, author of Chelsea Girls \n“I gobbled up these essays. Michelle Tea is riotously\, wickedly funny\, with an uncommon knack for naming the more hideous and complex parts of being human. Her particular genius makes the hardest truths and sorrows an irresistible joy to read.”—Melissa Febos\, author of Abandon Me
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michelle-tea/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Townsend Walker / 3 Women\, 4 Towns\, 5 Bodies
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Townsend Walker in conversation withMartha Conway about his new short story collection\, 3 Women\, 4 Towns\, 5 Bodies. Townsend will read a story from the collection and Martha will read a section from her recent novel\, The Underground River. Please join us! \nThe twelve stories are rooted in foreign places\, cemeteries\, violence and strong women. The worlds the characters construct are unforgiving. Their paths cross in twisted and sometimes deadly ways. In the title novella\, three women use seduction\, wit\, and weapons to master the men they meet. In Super Secrets two women are neighbors and lovers\, until one is betrayed and extracts revenge. The ribald reverend in The Second Coming meets his match in 19 year-old Charity. On a darker note\, a crazed horse and a storm at sea shatter a fragile love in Slashing at the Nets. Then\, in Storm Painter an artist moves in with a writer\, but their past destroys his third novel. Place is important. None other than an Italian detective would find a clue in a singular tortellini. The New York sniper would only be trained by the Israeli Defense Force. \n— \nTownsend Walker’s novella La Ronde was published in 2015. His short stories have appeared in over seventy-five literary journals. “A Little Love\, A Little Shove” and “Holding Tight” were nominated for PEN/O.Henry Awards. During a career in finance he wrote A Guide for Using the Foreign Exchange Market\, Managing Risk with Derivatives\, and Managing Lease Portfolios. Education: Stanford (economics and creative writing)\, New York University (economics and anthropology)\, Georgetown (political science).He lives in San Francisco and conducts a creative writing workshop at San Quentin Prison. His website is www.townsendwalker.com. \nMartha Conway‘s most recent novel\, The Underground River\, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice\, and her first novel was nominated for an Edgar Award. She has won numerous awards for her historical fiction\, including an Independent Publishers Award and the North American Book Award. Her short fiction has been published in the Iowa Review\, The Carolina Quarterly\, The Missouri Review\, The Quarterly\, and other journals\, and she received a California Arts Council fellowship for Creative Writing. Martha teaches creative writing for Stanford University’s Continuing Studies Program and UC Berkeley Extension. She lives in San Francisco with her family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/townsend-walker-3-women-4-towns-5-bodie/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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