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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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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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SUMMARY:Between Love and Obsession: Behind the Scenes of Israeli Mythology
DESCRIPTION:Israeli novelist Ayelet Gundar-Goshen\, author of Waking Lions\, talks about her debut novel\, One Night\, Markovitch. \nAyelet Gundar-Goshen is the author of Waking Lions\, a bestselling novel in Europe and Israel and released in 2017 in the United States to outstanding reviews. The book was included in The New York Times List of 100 Notable Books in 2017. Gundar-Goshen won the prestigious Sapir Prize for Debut Fiction in 2012 for One Night\, Markovitch\, winner of Adei Vizo Prize in both France and Italy and translated to 15 languages. Her film and TV screenplays have also won international recognition. She is teaching this semester at the University of California\, San Francisco\, as part of the national Schusterman Visiting Israeli Artist Program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/between-love-and-obsession-behind-the-scenes-of-israeli-mythology/
LOCATION:Contemporary Jewish Museum\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:William Middleton
DESCRIPTION:William Middleton\n\ndiscussing the subject of his new book \nDouble Vision: The Unerring Eye of Art World Avatars Dominique and John de Menil \npublished by Alfred Knopf \nCity Lights celebrates the first and definitive biography of the celebrated collectors Dominique and John de Menil\, who became one of the greatest cultural forces of the twentieth century through groundbreaking exhibits of art\, artistic scholarship\, the creation of innovative galleries and museums\, and work with civil rights. \nDominique and John de Menil created an oasis of culture in their Philip Johnson-designed house with everyone from Marlene Dietrich and René Magritte to Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns. In Houston\, they built the Menil Collection\, the Rothko Chapel\, the Byzantine Fresco Chapel\, the Cy Twombly Gallery\, and underwrote the Contemporary Arts Museum.\nNow\, with unprecedented access to family archives\, William Middleton has written a sweeping biography of this unique couple. From their ancestors in Normandy and Alsace\, to their own early years in France\, and their travels in South America before settling in Houston. We see them introduced to the artists in Europe and America whose works they would collect\, and we see how\, by the 1960s\, their collection had grown to include 17\,000 paintings\, sculptures\, drawings\, photographs\, rare books\, and decorative objects.\nAnd here is\, as well\, a vivid behind-the-scenes look at the art world of the twentieth century and the enormous influence the de Menils wielded through what they collected and built and through the causes they believed in. \nWilliam Middleton is a journalist and editor who has worked in New York and Paris. He has been the Fashion Features Director for Harper’s Bazaar and the Paris Bureau Chief for Fairchild Publications\, overseeing W Magazine and Women’s Wear Daily. He has written for The New York Times\, The New York Times Magazine\, Vogue\, House & Garden\, Esquire\, Texas Monthly\, Travel & Leisure\, Departures\, and the International Herald Tribune. \nPraise for Double Vision: \n“Middleton spares no details in this history of the French couple who made Houston their home and converted it to a center of the arts… A well-written\, highly informative book for devotees of the modern art world.”\n—Kirkus Reviews \n“An authoritative account of the lives and patronage of 20th-century art-world power-couple Dominique and John de Menil…As Middleton dutifully shows\, the couple’s commitment to art and philanthropy defined their lives…. This exhaustively researched\, satisfying slab of a book offers a thorough look into the lives and influence of an extraordinary couple.”\n—Publisher’s Weekly \nIn “Double Vision\,” William Middleston gives visionary art collectors Dominique and John de Menil the joint biography they richly deserve–a sweeping\, superbly researched\, behind-the-scenes account of a family deeply involved in the story of 20th-century American art.”\n—Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan\, authors of de Kooning: An American Master
URL:https://litseen.com/event/william-middleton/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tao Lin / Trip: Psychedelics\, Alienation\, and Change
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Tao Lin for his new book Trip: Psychedelics\, Alienation\, and Change. With Tao in conversation is The Believer‘s Ross Simonini — please join us! \nPlease note: this event begins at 7pm. Seating is limited\, and is first come\, first served. If you would like to reserve a seat\, please purchase a copy of Trip below and put your request in the notes field. Remember\, 1 seat = 1 book \nPart memoir\, part history\, part journalistic exposé\, Trip is a look at psychedelic drugs\, literature\, and alienation from one of the twenty-first century’s most innovative novelists — The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test for a new generation. \nWhile reeling from one of the most creative — but at times self-destructive — outpourings of his life\, Tao Lin discovered the strange and exciting work of Terence McKenna. McKenna\, the leading advocate of psychedelic drugs since Timothy Leary\, became for Lin both an obsession and a revitalizing force. In Trip\, Lin’s first book-length work of nonfiction\, he charts his recovery from pharmaceutical drugs\, his surprising and positive change in worldview\, and his four-year engagement with some of the hardest questions: Why do we make art? Is the world made of language? What happens when we die? And is the imagination more real than the universe? \nIn exploring these ideas and detailing his experiences with psilocybin\, DMT\, salvia\, and cannabis\, Lin takes readers on a trip through nature\, his own past\, psychedelic culture\, and the unknown. \n  \n\n  \n“Trip is not only a book about drugs–it’s about the condition of humans at this point in history\, troublingly divorced from our natural capacity for awe by our chemically depleted bodies and minds. This book has changed how I understand myself on a cellular level. It’s a superbly researched\, moving\, and formally inventive quest for re-enchantment\, and Tao Lin’s most compelling and profound book yet.” — Sheila Heti\, author of How Should a Person Be?\n“Similar to the psychedelic drugs Tao Lin writes about here\, this book introduces new ways to consider language\, perception\, and recovery. It’s a joy to watch Lin interrogate his obsessions so earnestly and thoroughly in an attempt to understand more about the world as he knows it. Trip is a book for anyone interested in learning about what the human mind is capable of seeing and believing.” — Chelsea Hodson\, author of Tonight I’m Someone Else \n“Tao Lin took all the drugs so that we wouldn’t have to\, and the result is astonishing\, mind-expanding\, beautiful\, and profound. The whole of humanity seems contained in this one book.”— Kristen Iskandrian\, author of Motherest \n“Tao Lin’s writing reliably restores my sense of the inexhaustible strangeness of even one minute of human thought and feeling.” — Michael W. Clune\, author of White Out \n  \n\n  \nTao Lin is the author of the novels Taipei\, Richard Yates\, and Eeeee Eee Eeee\, the novella Shoplifting from American Apparel\, the story collection Bed\, and the poetry collections cognitive-behavioral therapy and you are a little bit happier than i am. He is the founder and editor of the literary press Muumuu House. His work has been translated into twelve languages and he lives in Manhattan. Author photo by Noah Kalina. \n  \nRoss Simonini is writer\, artist\, and musician. He lives in Northern California and New York. His debut novel\, The Book of Formation\, was released by Melville House in late 2017. He is the interviews editor at The Believer magazine and teaches experimental seminars at Columbia University. \n  \n  \nRSVP is appreciated\, but not required. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Trip\, and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tao-lin-trip-psychedelics-alienation-and-change/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Glori Simmons and Dickson Lam
DESCRIPTION:Glori Simmons and Dickson Lam read from their latest works from Autumn House Press \nAbout Carry You \n \n  \nIn Carry You\, a Sunni museum official accidentally hits a Shiite child with her car. A group of young GIs sneak into the women’s quarters wearing night vision goggles. A father makes a daily ritual of searching the streets of war-torn Baghdad for his missing daughter. An injured vet finally mails a letter he found in a dying woman’s pocket. Moving between the Khalil family in Iraq and Clark\, an American soldier from Deer Park\, Washington\, the eleven stories in Carry You reveal the redeeming powers of love and family in a time of war. \n  \nAbout Glori Simmons \nGlori Simmons is an award-winning writer whose books include Graft: poems (Truman State University Press\, 2002)\, Suffering Fools: stories (Spokane Prize\, Willow Springs Books\, 2017)\, and Carry You: stories (Fiction Prize\, Autumn House Press\, 2018). She lives in Oakland and directs the Thacher Gallery at the University of San Francisco. \n  \nAbout Paper Sons \n \nSet in a public housing project in San Francisco\, Lam’s memoir explores his transformation from a teenage graffiti writer to a high school teacher working with troubled youth while navigating the secret violence in his immigrant’s family’s past. \n  \nAbout Dickson Lam \n  \nDickson Lam’s work has appeared in StoryQuarterly The Kenyon Review Online\, Hyphen Magazine\, The Normal School\, PANK\, The Good Men Project\, The Rumpus\, and Kartika Review. He is a VONA alum and has been a resident fellow at the Millay Colony for the Arts and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. He holds MFA degrees in creative writing from the University of Houston and Rutgers-Newark. Lam is an Assistant Professor of English at Contra Costa College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/glori-simmons-and-dickson-lam/
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:Ellen Forney / Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Ellen Forney for Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life\, the anticipated companion volume to her bestselling graphic memoir Marbles: Mania\, Depression\, Michelangelo\, and Me\, which she presented at Booksmith. Please join us in welcoming Ellen back to San Francisco! \nWhereas Marbles was a memoir about her bipolar disorder\, Rock Steady turns the focus outward\, offering a self-help guide of tips\, tricks\, and tools by someone who has been through it all and come through stronger for it. \nWith Marbles\, Forney helped de-stigmatize mood disorders with her candid presentation of her struggle to find mental stability while retaining her passion and creativity. This is the jumping off point for her new book\, Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life. Personal stories and solid advice from Forney on how to overcome the hassle of meds\, recognize red flags\, and other tools from her own experience of 14 years of stability — all in comics form. Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life invites readers into Ellen’s home\, head\, and Peanuts pill box. \n  \n\n  \n“Ellen Forney is an inspiration to me as an artist and as a human being! Let her drawings springboard you into self-acceptance!” — Maria Bamford\, Lady Dynamite \n  \nEllen Forney lives in Seattle\, WA\, with her partner. She was the 2012 recipient of The Stranger Genius Award for Literature as well as the winner of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis 2013 Gradiva Award. \n  \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Rock Steady and/or Marbles order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ellen-forney-rock-steady-brilliant-advice-from-my-bipolar-life/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY\, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES
DESCRIPTION:YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\,\na communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\,\nto embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-12/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's 'F*CK BUDDIES'
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 17th\, 2018 \nat the Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa Street\, San Francisco CA \nRemember: Bang-O & Games at 7 PM\, Stories at 8 PM \nWant a sample? Listen to our podcast at \nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThe Bawdy Storytelling is a live Storytelling series – and yeah\, WE GO THERE. \nThe evening of Stories\, Songs & Sex Toys includes: \n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist & Storyteller Dixie De La Tour \n❤ ‘Watt the Safeword’s host Amp the (Human) Pup \n❤ Pitch your story to Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com by 5/6 \n❤ Custom Bawdy Songs by the brilliant Rachel Lark \n❤ Play Bang-O\, Bawdy’s beloved icebreaker \n❤ Take home goodies\, just for talking to sexy strangers \n❤ You could walk off with the gift bag from Kink Store \n❤ WIN the Grand Prize from Good Vibrations \n❤ Lube Giveaways from UberLube & Good Clean Love \n❤ Condom Giveaways from Lucky Bloke \n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #SchlongIslandIcedTea \nAbout Bawdy Storytelling: \nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure. \nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & hand-picked Rockstars as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal! \nA REVIEW of Bawdy Storytelling : “Stories are powerful. No other medium has the ability to move\, inspire\, or change us quite like a well-crafted narrative. Never has this been more true than the world of sex\, where fear\, shame\, and misinformation abound. This is all a high-minded and roundabout way of telling you to check out Thursday’s edition of Bawdy Storytelling\, a rousing and arousing night of true sex stories that promises to make you laugh\, make you think\, and make you hard … pressed to find a more interesting thing to do on a Thursday night.” – SF Weekly
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-fck-buddies/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bookworks :: An Artist's Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:About the Bookworks :: An Artist’s Book Fair \nBookworks at San Francisco Center for the Book is a great place to start your artist’s book collection\, to meet fantastic book artists\, and spend time with friends over cocktails and light hors d’oeuvres. The vision of Bookworks is to encourage the beginning artist’s book collector\, support local book artists (especially in the early stages of their career)\, and provide a social event for the community.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bookworks-an-artists-book-fair/
LOCATION:San Francisco Center for the Book\, 375 Rhode Island St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:‘NEARING THE EXIT’: POEMS BY HERBERT GOLD
DESCRIPTION:Novelist\, memoirist\, essayist\, Herbert Gold returns to his earliest form of literary expression\, poetry—here in a publishing first\, Nearing the Exit. In these poems 94-year-old Gold visits his past and future\, with a tip of the hat to the theme of his recent book Still Alive: A Temporary Condition(2008\, republished as Not Dead Yet\, 2011). \nIncludes an interview with Herb by publisher Les Gottesman at Omèrta Press. \n\nHerbert Gold began writing poetry in high school in Cleveland in the 1930s. Writing propelled him to New York City after several of his poems had been accepted by New York literary magazines. He studied philosophy at Columbia University (interrupted by 3 years in “downtown World War II\,” as he calls it) and became involved with the burgeoning Beat Generation\, which resulted in a lifelong friendship with Allen Ginsberg. He won a Fulbright to Paris\, where he joined a literary scene around Saul Bellow. Gold recalls\, “Somehow I got to writing prose\, confining my poetry to folders which will in due course be excavated by my children. Along the way\, I’ve published approximately 20 novels and collections of stories (who’s counting?) and maybe 6 or 8 nonfiction books (I’m not a mathematician). I’ve temporarily taught at Harvard\, Cornell\, Stanford\, UC-Berkeley\, and UC-Davis\, but didn’t want to depart San Francisco. I’ve had 2 wives and 5 children Isn’t that enough bio? There could be more…” At age 94\, Gold returns to poetry in these new poems\, lyrical but tough reflections on his loves\, joys\, and losses.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nearing-the-exit-poems-by-herbert-gold/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Laura Catherine Brown
DESCRIPTION:Laura Catherine Brown dicusses her new novel\, Made By Mary. \n\nAbout Made By Mary \n\nWhen Mary and Ann agree to a surrogacy partnership everything goes awry. Ann\, a pre-school teacher\, is desperate for the children she physically can’t have. Mary\, a 50-year-old pagan jeweler\, hopes to make amends for years of maternal neglect. Together\, they plunge into the expensive\, morally complex world of reproductive technology and an intimacy neither they\, nor Ann’s husband\, Joel\, is prepared for. Financially hard-pressed\, Joel goes behind Ann’s back and agrees to help Mary grow a marijuana crop in her attic. Ann struggles with the rigors and enforced togetherness of the reproductive regime. And Mary’s delight in being a “bountiful earth mother” is offset by the physical ordeal of bearing multiple fetuses. The stakes escalate as the police start sniffing around the grow house\, a pagan ritual goes tragically awry\, and the pregnancy becomes more perilous\, forcing Ann\, Joel\, and Mary to confront the potentially calamitous consequences of pursuing their deepest desires. Sharp and audacious\, Made by Mary is a black comedy using magic realism to blow up myths about women\, mothers\, and motherhood\, where even the most extreme situations are rendered with candor\, intelligence\, and empathy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laura-catherine-brown/
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:Molly Crabapple / Brothers of the Gun
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Molly Crabapple for Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War\, which she illustrated and co-authored with Marwan Hisham. Please join us! \nA bracingly immediate memoir by a young man coming of age during the Syrian war\, Brothers of the Gun is an intimate lens on the century’s bloodiest conflict and a profound meditation on kinship\, home\, and freedom. \nIn 2011\, Marwan Hisham and his two friends — fellow working-class college students Nael and Tareq — joined the first protests of the Arab Spring in Syria\, in response to a recent massacre. Arm-in-arm they marched\, poured Coca-Cola into one another’s eyes to blunt the effects of tear gas\, ran from the security forces\, and cursed the country’s president\, Bashar al-Assad. It was ecstasy. A long-bottled revolution was finally erupting\, and freedom from a brutal dictator seemed\, at last\, imminent. Five years later\, the three young friends were scattered: one now an Islamist revolutionary\, another dead at the hands of government soldiers\, and the last\, Marwan\, now a journalist in Turkish exile\, trying to find a way back to a homeland reduced to rubble. \nBrothers of the Gun is the story of a young man coming of age during the Syrian war\, from its inception to the present. Marwan watched from the rooftops as regime warplanes bombed soldiers; as revolutionary activist groups\, for a few dreamy days\, spray-painted hope on Raqqa; as his friends died or threw in their lot with Islamist fighters. He became a journalist by courageously tweeting out news from a city under siege by ISIS\, the Russians\, and the Americans all at once. He watched the country that ran through his veins — the country that held his hopes\, dreams\, and fears — be destroyed in front of him\, and eventually joined the relentless stream of refugees risking their lives to escape. \nIllustrated with more than eighty ink drawings by Molly Crabapple that bring to life the beauty and chaos\, Brothers of the Gun offers a ground-level reflection on the Syrian revolution—and how it bled into international catastrophe and global war. This is a story of pragmatism and idealism\, impossible violence and repression\, and\, even in the midst of war\, profound acts of courage\, creativity\, and hope. \n\n  \n“This powerful memoir\, illuminated with Molly Crabapple’s extraordinary art\, provides a rare lens through which we can see a region in deadly conflict\, a struggle for peace\, and a human tragedy in desperate need of attention. It is a compelling\, sobering\, and necessary book.”— Bryan Stevenson\, author of Just Mercy \n“From the anarchy\, torment\, and despair of the Syrian war\, Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple have drawn a book of startling emotional power and intellectual depth. Many books will be written on the war’s exhaustive devastation of bodies and souls\, and the defiant resistance of many trapped men and women\, but the Mahabharata of the Levant has already found its wisest chroniclers.”— Pankaj Mishra\, author of Age of Anger and From the Ruins of Empire\n \n“A revelatory and necessary read on one of the most destructive wars of our time . . . In great personal detail\, Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple poignantly capture the tumultuous life in Syria before\, after\, and during the war—from inside one young man’s consciousness.”— Angela Davis \n“Marwan Hisham took part in the uprising against Bashar al-Assad and then did the unthinkable—wrote journalism from inside ISIS territory\, risking his life so that the world might know the truth. He gives us an unforgettable portrait of what it feels like to resist a tyrannical dictator\, live under ISIS occupation\, brave bombs falling from the sky\, and somehow survive with your humanity intact. Punctuated by Molly Crabapple’s beautiful\, haunting art\, this heart-rending memoir is essential reading to understand one of the greatest catastrophes of our time.”— Anand Gopal\, author of No Good Men Among the Living \n  \n\n  \nMolly Crabapple is an artist and writer in New York. Her memoir\, Drawing Blood\, was published by HarperCollins in 2015. Brothers of the Gun\, her illustrated collaboration with Syrian war journalist Marwan Hisham\, will be published by One World/Penguin Random House in May 2018. Her reportage has been published in the New York Times\, New York Review of Books\, The Paris Review\, Vanity Fair\, The Guardian\, VICE\, and elsewhere. She has been the recipient of a Yale Poynter Fellowship\, a Front Page Award\, and a Gold Rush Award\, and shortlisted for a Frontline Print Journalism Award. She is often asked to discuss her work chronicling the conflicts of the 21st Century\, and has appeared on All In with Chris Hayes\, Amanpour\, NPR\, BBC News\, PRI\, and more. The New Yorker described her 2017 mural “The Bore of Babylon” as “a terrifying amalgam of Hieronymus Bosch\, Honoré Daumier\, and Monty Python’s Flying Circus.” Her art is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art\, the Rubin Museum of Art and the New York Historical Society. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend this event but would like to request a signed copy of Brothers of the Gun\, 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\, at 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/molly-crabapple-brothers-of-the-gun/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Laura Catherine Brown and Maw Shein Win
DESCRIPTION:  \nLaura Catherine Brown and Maw Shein Win read from their latest works\, Made By Mary and Invisible Gifts. \nAbout Made By Mary \n \n  \nWhen Mary and Ann agree to a surrogacy partnership everything goes awry. Ann\, a pre-school teacher\, is desperate for the children she physically can’t have. Mary\, a 50-year-old pagan jeweler\, hopes to make amends for years of maternal neglect. Together\, they plunge into the expensive\, morally complex world of reproductive technology and an intimacy neither they\, nor Ann’s husband\, Joel\, is prepared for. Financially hard-pressed\, Joel goes behind Ann’s back and agrees to help Mary grow a marijuana crop in her attic. Ann struggles with the rigors and enforced togetherness of the reproductive regime. And Mary’s delight in being a “bountiful earth mother” is offset by the physical ordeal of bearing multiple fetuses. The stakes escalate as the police start sniffing around the grow house\, a pagan ritual goes tragically awry\, and the pregnancy becomes more perilous\, forcing Ann\, Joel\, and Mary to confront the potentially calamitous consequences of pursuing their deepest desires. Sharp and audacious\, Made by Mary is a black comedy using magic realism to blow up myths about women\, mothers\, and motherhood\, where even the most extreme situations are rendered with candor\, intelligence\, and empathy. \n  \nAbout Invisible Gifts \n \n  \nIn her first full-length collection of poems\, Win depicts a colorful world imbued with unexpected paradoxes: nature is both comforting and savagely unnerving; love is permanent and fleeting; the accuracy and flaws of memory abound. Her experiences with illness and recovery intertwine with her identity as a Burmese American daughter of immigrant doctors\, flowing in poems like “Hands” My father’s hands\, frail birds\, shaking wings. / In Burmese\, “win” means bright. / Hands that stitched skin together and brought back life. Win’s unique perspective and artful language offer readers insight into how the heart can bend and mend without breaking.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laura-catherine-brown-and-maw-shein-win/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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