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SUMMARY:Cole Swensen
DESCRIPTION:Nightboat books presents legendary poet Cole Swensen reading from her new book “Walking On.” Additional readers include Susan Gevirtz and more TBA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cole-swensen/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170522T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170522T213000
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Generations #45
DESCRIPTION:May 22 in San Francisco\, California at Hotel Rex\n\nGuest Curator: Teri Lee Kline\nBay Area Generations Curators: Sandra Wassilie + Amos White\nREADERS\nTBA\n\nMUSICAL GUEST\nTBA\n\nBAY AREA GENERATIONS\, EDITION #45\nMonday\, May 22\, 2017\nat Hotel Rex\, 562 Sutter St.\, San Francisco\, CA\n* Free On-street After 6pm * Full bar and menu *  Walkable from BART\n6:30 p.m. –  Writers Mixer at the bar\n7:00 p.m.  – Doors open to Public\n7:30 p.m.  – Show Starts\nSuggested donation $7.00 (admission)\, $10.00 with a souvenir chapbook\nDirections  Hotel Rex is located in San Francisco at 562 Sutter Street\, SF\, CA\, near Union Square\, and walkable from BART. Hotel Rex is a full service hotel offering a full bar and kitchen.. Map\, Event Page.\nBay Area Generations: a literary reading series features notable authors\, poets\, writers\, playwrights and musicians in a paired reading show\, monthly. \nWeb:  www.bayareagenerations.com\nFB Page:  www.facebook.com/bayareagenerations\nTwitter:  www.twitter.com/bayareagenerati \nBAG Events: www.facebook.com/events\nLiterary and Poetry Submissions: www.bayareagenerations.com/how-to-submit/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-45/
LOCATION:Hotel Rex\, 562 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170522T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170522T213000
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SUMMARY:Amber Flame w/ Arisa White
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is excited to host Amber Flame for the San Francisco launch of her debut poetry collection\,Ordinary Cruelty! With Amber will be the poet Arisa White—please join us! \nIn Ordinary Cruelty\, Flame spells out rituals in everyday decisions to hold on or let go. While questioning the role of elder\, mentor\, mother in the face of losing those figures\, Flame details the unrelenting nature of parenthood through the cycles of grief. Her poems rejoice in the brown skin of the female body\, while soberly acknowledging the societal dangers of claiming such skin as home. Flame takes the reader through a visceral examination of the body’s processes of both dying and continuing to live and the joy to be found while we do. \nAn award-winning writer\, composer and performer\, Amber Flame is also a professional singer\, Hedgebrook alum\, and member of The Watering Hole tribe. Flame’s original work has been published and recorded in diverse arenas\, including Def Jam Poetry\, Winter Tangerine\, The Dialogist\, Split This Rock\, Black Heart Magazine\, Sundress Publications\, Redivider Journal and more. A Jack Straw Writer and recipient of the CityArtist grant from Seattle’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs\, Flame’s first full-length collection\, Ordinary Cruelty is just out with Write Bloody Press. Flame works with a Black independent media company\, This Week in Blackness\, co-produces the Oakland Slam\, and teaches workshops for all ages. Amber Flame is a queer Black single mama just one magic trick away from growing her unicorn horn. \nArisa White is a Cave Canem fellow\, a graduate from the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst\, and author of the books Disposition for Shininess\,dear Gerald\, and Black Pearl. Her most recent book is the full length poetry collection You’re The Most Beautiful Thing That Happened (Augury Books\, 2016.)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amber-flame-w-arisa-white/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170522T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170522T213000
DTSTAMP:20260512T052027
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SUMMARY:Peter Cole w/ Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Peter Cole: \n“A matchless translator and one of the handful of authentic poets in his own American generation. Hymns & Qualms is a majestic work\, a chronicle of the imaginative life of a profoundly spiritual consciousness.” — Harold Bloom \n“His vivid\, sonorous English translations of secular and mystical Hebrew verse that was previously ­neglected or regarded as esoteric\, parochial\, or simply too difficult have remade the American Jewish canon.” — Joshua Cohen\, The Paris Review
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-cole-w-matthew-zapruder/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170523T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170523T200000
DTSTAMP:20260512T052027
CREATED:20170509T001028Z
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SUMMARY:6 Years in Gay Conversion Therapy
DESCRIPTION:Peter Gajdics is the author of The Inheritance of Shame\, just published by Brown Paper Press\, which tells the harrowingly true story of his six years in Gay conversion therapy. \nGarrard Conley\, author of Boy Erased\, says the Gajdics memoir is “a necessary\, incredibly nuanced portrait of a survivor. The Inheritance of Shame will change lives.” Gajdics\, from Canada\, appears with Bay Area author Anne Raeff Tuesday\, May 23\, 7-8 p.m. at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. in San Francisco. Raeff will interview Gajdics\, and both authors will read from their work. Raeff’s short-story collection The Jungle Around Us is a finalist for the California Book Award and won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. \nFree admission and free refreshments. A book signing follows the discussion.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/6-years-in-gay-conversion-therapy-2/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170523T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170523T210000
DTSTAMP:20260512T052027
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SUMMARY:China Miéville
DESCRIPTION:Discussing the subject of his new book: October: The Story of the Russian Revolution. \nAward-winning author China Miéville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside down \nChina Miéville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution and here\, on the centenary of the revolution\, he provides his own distinctive take on its history. \nIn February 1917\, in the midst of bloody war\, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months later\, it became the first socialist state in world history. How did this unimaginable transformation take place? How was a ravaged and backward country\, swept up in a desperately unpopular war\, rocked by not one but two revolutions? \nThis is the story of the extraordinary months between those upheavals\, in February and October\, of the forces and individuals who made 1917 so epochal a year\, of their intrigues\, negotiations\, conflicts and catastrophes. From familiar names like Lenin and Trotsky to their opponents Kornilov and Kerensky; from the byzantine squabbles of urban activists to the remotest villages of a sprawling empire; from the revolutionary railroad Sublime to the ciphers and static of coup by telegram; from grand sweep to forgotten detail. \nHistorians have debated the revolution for a hundred years\, its portents and possibilities: the mass of literature can be daunting. But here is a book for those new to the events\, told not only in their historical import but in all their passion and drama and strangeness. Because as well as a political event of profound and ongoing consequence\, Miéville reveals the Russian Revolution as a breathtaking story. \nChina Miéville is the multi-award-winning author of many works of fiction and non-fiction. His fiction includes The City and the City\, Embassytown and This Census-Taker\, and has won the Hugo\, World Fantasy and Arthur C. Clarke awards; his non-fiction includes the photo-illustrated essay London’s Overthrow and Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law. He has written for various publications\, including the New York Times\, Guardian\, Conjunctions and Granta and he is a founding editor of the quarterly Salvage.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/china-mieville/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170523T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170523T213000
DTSTAMP:20260512T052027
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SUMMARY:Mat Callahan
DESCRIPTION:As the fiftieth anniversary of the Summer of Love floods the media with debates and celebrations of music\, political movements\, “flower power\,” “acid rock\,” and “hippies”; The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco\, 1965-1975 offers a critical re-examination of the interwoven political and musical happenings in San Francisco in the Sixties. Author\, musician\, and native San Franciscan Mat Callahan explores the dynamic links between the Black Panthers and Sly and the Family Stone\, the United Farm Workers and Santana\, the Indian Occupation of Alcatraz and the San Francisco Mime Troupe\, and the New Left and the counterculture. \nCallahan’s meticulous\, impassioned arguments both expose and reframe the political and social context for the San Francisco Sound and the vibrant subcultural uprisings with which it is associated. Using dozens of original interviews\, primary sources\, and personal experiences\, the author shows how the intense interplay of artistic and political movements put San Francisco\, briefly\, in the forefront of a worldwide revolutionary upsurge. \nA must-read for any musician\, historian\, or person who “was there” (or longed to have been)\, The Explosion of Deferred Dreams is substantive and provocative\, inviting us to reinvigorate our historical sense-making of an era that assumes a mythic role in the contemporary American zeitgeist. \nMat Callahan is a musician and author originally from San Francisco\, where he founded Komotion International. He is the author of three books\, Sex\, Death & the Angry Young Man\, Testimony\, and The Trouble with Music as well as the editor of Songs of Freedom: The James Connolly Songbook. He currently resides in Bern\, Switzerland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mat-callahan/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170524T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170524T200000
DTSTAMP:20260512T052027
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SUMMARY:Magazine Launch Party: Forum (CCSF)
DESCRIPTION:Established in 1937\, Forum Magazine is a student-run literary journal that serves the City College of San Francisco community. Dedicated to providing a platform for the contemporary\, urban voices of our institution\, Forum collects\, edits and publishes quality works of literature and the visual arts as produced by the CCSF family. Publication is open to any who have ever been involved with the school\, whether as student\, educator or employee. Forum is published twice each year\, once in both the Fall and Spring semesters. \nForum Magazine is a student-produced publication of the City College of San Francisco and the stories\, artwork and views expressed within its pages are not necessarily those of\, or shared by\, the college as a whole or its administration. \nFor those who wish to view or purchase copies of Forum\, you can find them for purchase at the Ocean Campus bookstore\, at the English department on the 5th floor of Batmale Hall\, or you can request a copy via email through editor@forumccsf.org. \nQuestions or comments concerning Forum? Interested in sharing a short piece regarding literary matters? You can also email us at editor@forumccsf.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/magazine-launch-party-forum-ccsf/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170524T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170524T200000
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SUMMARY:David Brazil w/ Julien Poirier
DESCRIPTION:David Brazil celebrates the release of \nHoly Ghost  \npublished by City Lights Books \nThe third full-length collection from poet-scholar-activist David Brazil\, Holy Ghost is a hymnal with secular burdens\, poured from the mold of our actual life in common\, sung against its limits. It seeks a way to find and build a soul together\, and records the seekers’ findings along the way\, proposing love as our common human denominator. A record of the author’s struggle to forge a relationship between two distinct vocations—one historical\, as an activist (with Occupy Oakland\, among other projects)\, and one spiritual\, as he explores the path of radical Christian discipleship (in his life as a pastor)—Holy Ghost attempts to articulate an understanding of where class struggle meets the will of God. \nDavid Brazil is a poet\, translator\, and novelist. His books include The Ordinary and Antisocial Patience. With Kevin Killian\, he edited the Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater 1945-1985. From 2008 to 2011 he published over sixty issues of the seminal TRY! magazine with Sara Larsen. David co-pastors a house church in Oakland and works for social justice with the Faith Alliance for a Moral Economy. He’s a Scorpio. \nJulien Poirier is a co-founder of Ugly Duckling Presse. He has taught poetry in New York City and San Francisco public schools and at San Quentin State Prison. Previous books include Way Too West (2015) and El Golpe Chileño (2010). City Lights Books recently published his poetry collection titled OUT OF PRINT\, as volume 14 in the Spotlight Poetry Series.\nPraise for Holy Ghost: \n“All singing is contemporaneous in the heart\, & thus I’d call Holy Ghost heart-felt. It keeps time with the forms of its devotion\, touching various eras of diction\, prayer & song & verse & hymn. In the mind then\, all at once\, it does becomes a work of love; for the reader\, for paths of grace & liberation\, & for the singing that refuses to abide our time but takes its measure\, day by day\, in wounded\, contemplative poems. Everywhere it must be poor it is. It comes to us in penury because the search for company & love is the struggle of students & poets who seeks out such wealth in an era when they’re ever more in peril. So it arrives rich\, by which I mean empty handed\, & so doing makes the book into a little ball of light\, a trove of mercy’s tone\, & my heart’s treasure.” ––Dana Ward\n“Musings on Holy Ghost . . . remarkable loveliness . . . a Soul singing praises to souls\, free of general rancor . . . One of the special books of this decade and should be read by Souls or Ghosts or Geists in search of assurance and aware of Ecclesiastes’ Preacher who says that the souls of men fly up\, up\, up\, and that the undersoul of beasts dives down\, down into the earth. A key to Holy Ghost is that it’s all going at once in all directions. Each time Brazil’s extended poem folds\, or curls\, or shifts\, the point of concentration or consideration is experienced as if under a loupe of the spirit. It is clear that the Holy Ghost is everywhere at all times at once. The poem is not held to historical imaginings of time-space. Resembling the speech of Dogen in his visionary 13th-century fascicles\, or the Cloud of Unknowing\, or Saint Francis’ lamb in the furnace\, Holy Ghost does not speak about itself—it is itself. There is not wisdom to speak of because the field for wisdom does not exist except in a convention that is elsewhere. Brazil’s Holy Ghost is as Romantic as a long poem by Percy Shelley. An act of beauty—breath-taking. As unexpected as A.N. Whitehead’s Function of Reason and Christian Morgenstern’s nonsense poetry. Brazil brings to mind the tenseless\, non-subjective (not centered on the ‘I’ figure)\, and numberless of some Asian languages. I free-float in the presence of this wholly Kindness-Ghost as I would float in a Navajo world—like that world\, the surrounding is strange and natural. Bask in it . . . Slip in or out of it . . . Any muscular ring or reflection in\, on\, or part of the Holy Ghost\, is the Ghost. The Holy Ghost shimmers with Jack Kerouac’s Blues\, and on the page (typographically) can be as precise as Diane di Prima’s poetry and Leslie Scalapino’s . . . It’s not impossible to hear Kurt Cobain humming in the background.”––Michael McClure \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-brazil-w-julien-poirier/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170524T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170524T213000
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SUMMARY:Claire Dederer w/ Peggy Orenstein
DESCRIPTION:From the New York Times best-selling author of Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses\, a ferocious\, sexy\, hilarious memoir about going off the rails at midlife and trying to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become. \nJoin us as we welcome Claire Dederer to celebrate Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning. She’ll be reading and in conversation with Peggy Orenstein! \nClaire Dederer is a happily married mother of two\, ages nine and twelve\, when she suddenly finds herself totally despondent and\, simultaneously\, suffering through a kind of erotic reawakening. This exuberant memoir shifts between her present experience as a middle-aged mom in the grip of mysterious new hungers and herself as a teenager – when she last experienced life with such heightened sensitivity and longing. From her hilarious chapter titles (“How to Have Sex with Your Husband of Seventeen Years”) to her subjects – from the boyfriend she dumped at fourteen the moment she learned how to give herself an orgasm\, to the girls who ruled her elite private school (“when I left Oberlin I thought I had done with them forever\, but it turned out …they also edited all the newspapers and magazines\, and wrote all the books”)\, to raising a teenage daughter herself – Dederer writes with an electrifying blend of wry wit and raw honesty. She exposes herself utterly\, and in doing so captures something universal about the experience of being a woman\, a daughter\, a wife. \nClaire Dederer is the author of the New York Times best-selling memoir Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses\, which has been translated into twelve languages\, and which Elizabeth Gilbert called “the book we all need.” A book critic\, essayist\, and reporter\, Dederer is a longtime contributor to The New York Timesand has also written for The Atlantic\, Vogue\, Slate\, The Nation\, and New York magazine\, among other publications. She lives on an island near Seattle with her family. \n Peggy Orenstein is the author of The New York Times best-sellers Girls & Sex\, Cinderella Ate My Daughter and Waiting for Daisy as well asFlux: Women on Sex\, Work\, Kids\, Love and Life in a Half-Changed World and the classic SchoolGirls: Young Women\, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap. A contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine\, Peggy has also written for such publications as The Los Angeles Times\, Vogue\, Elle\, Time\, Mother Jones\, Slate\, O: The Oprah Magazine\, and The New Yorker\, and has contributed commentaries to NPR’s All Things Considered and the PBS Newshour. Her articles have been anthologized multiple times\, including in The Best American Science Writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/claire-dederer-w-peggy-orenstein/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170525T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170525T200000
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SUMMARY:Joel Selvin + John Hell
DESCRIPTION:If 1967’s Summer of Love heralded a sea change in San Francisco\, the disastrous events at Altamont in late 1969 heralded quite another. In Altamont: The Rolling Stones\, The Hells Angels\, And The Inside Story Of Rock’s Darkest Day\, Joel Selvin\, longtime music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle\, details every way in which the presumptive “Woodstock West” dissolved into chaos and bloodshed\, a bracing reminder that some of the “good old days” were not as nostalgia would paint them. Joining Selvin onstage will be local radio luminary John Hell (Radio Free Burning Man\, Radio Valencia)\, for an in-depth Q & A about one of rock music’s most notorious moments.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joel-selvin-and-john-hell/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170525T210000
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CREATED:20170425T014945Z
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SUMMARY:Jeffrey Tambor
DESCRIPTION:A Broadway star\, a television legend\, an accomplished screen actor whose singular wit and heartrending performances have been entertaining audiences for more than four decades\, but the question remains: who the hell is Jeffrey Tambor? \nIn his illuminating\, often hilarious\, and always unflinchingly honest memoir\, Are You Anybody?\, Tambor looks back at the key moments in his life that taught him about creativity and play and pain and fear. The son of what you might call eccentric Russian and Hungarian Jewish parents\, Tambor grew up in San Francisco a husky kid with a lisp who suffered in his otherness\, and found salvation in the theater. \nWhile he learned his art from the best of the best—Al Pacino\, George C. Scott\, Garry Shandling\, Jill Soloway—he also introduces his many unexpected teachers\, from the nameless man in a Detroit bookstore who gave him the love of reading\, to his young children who (at this ridiculously late stage in his life) have re-introduced him to play\, bravery\, and the simple joy of not giving a shit. \nTambor shares the triumph of landing his first Broadway role\, but not before experiencing the humbling that is commercial work (and how even saying my socks don’t cling can prove a challenge). He invites you behind the scenes of his wildly successful television shows\, but he doesn’t leave out the pit stops he made at addiction\, Scientology\, and what it feels like to get fourth billing after Sylvia the Seal on The Love Boat. \nAt last\, Tambor answers the question ARE YOU ANYBODY? with a promise that success doesn’t mean perfection and failure most definitely is an option.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeffrey-tambor/
LOCATION:Roxie Theatre\, 3117 16th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170525T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170525T210000
DTSTAMP:20260512T052027
CREATED:20170516T001648Z
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SUMMARY:Alan Lessik
DESCRIPTION:With non-fiction works include news articles published in the Advocate\, San Francisco Bay Guardian\, and Frontiers\, local author Alan Lessik shares his debut work of fiction\, The Troubleseekers. \nThe Troubleseeker tells the contemporary odyssey of Antinio\, a native-born Cuban who confronts his gay identity in post-revolution Cuba and as a refugee in America. Narrated by the ancient Roman Emperor and demigod Hadrian\, The Troubleseeker weaves Cuban Santería traditions with classical Greek mythology to depict Antinio’s quest to achieve both freedom and love. \n\n“Lessik’s prose is always sympathetic and eloquent.” —Kirkus Reviews \n“An exceedingly rich novel\, reminiscent of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.” —ALA GLBT Reviews \n“This stunningly creative novel combines history and mythology from several cultures to tell the story of Antinio\, a gay Cuban man\, as he searches for freedom and love in the face of oppression and disease.” —Charles Green\, The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-lessik/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170525T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170525T213000
DTSTAMP:20260512T052027
CREATED:20170516T002915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170516T002915Z
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SUMMARY:Kerry Egan: On Living
DESCRIPTION:erry Egan discusses her new book\, On Living with Victoria Sweet. \n\nPraise for On Living \n\nThere’s nothing preachy about this book\, nor is it at all depressing — although it is terribly moving. This is a poetic and philosophical and brave and uplifting meditation on how important it is to make peace and meaning of our lives while we still have them.—Elizabeth Gilbert\, author of Eat\, Pray\, Love \n\n“It’s a brave thing to walk into the rooms of the dying with no props–to sit down\, open your heart and your mind\, and be present to whatever comes up. But that’s exactly what chaplain Kerry Egan does\, and in On Living\, she reveals some of what she has learned. What does come up? Anger\, love\, regret\, secrets\, stories\, and insights\, well-told and well-felt.” —Victoria Sweet\, author of God’s Hotel \n\n“When I forget the importance of kindness\, when I forget to listen\, when I no longer recognize the comfort of a quiet presence\, when no words will help\, when I lose sight of what is most important\, I will want On Living within arm’s reach\, always. I love this book.” —Abigail Thomas\, author of A Three Dog Life and What Comes Next and How to Like It
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kerry-egan-on-living/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170527T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170527T170000
DTSTAMP:20260512T052027
CREATED:20170430T032159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170430T032159Z
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SUMMARY:Kevin Killian Book Release
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/kevin-killian-book-release/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170527T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170527T160000
DTSTAMP:20260512T052027
CREATED:20170523T014536Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170523T014536Z
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SUMMARY:Bikes to Books Springtime Ride
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, May 27\, 1:00-4:00 pm: Bikes to Books Annual Springtime Ride! \nMeet at 12:45 p.m. at Jack London Alley\, Northside of South Park in San Francisco \nRide will commence at 1:00 p.m. sharp \nRide will end at approximately 4:00 p.m. in North Beach\, outside City Lights Books \nCombining San Francisco history\, art\, literature\, cycling\, and urban exploration\, “Bikes to Books” began as an homage to the 1988 street-naming project spearheaded by City Lights founder and former San Francisco Poet Laureate\, Lawrence Ferlinghetti\, in which 12 San Francisco streets were renamed for famous artists and authors who had once made San Francisco their home. The resulting 7.1-mile tour is a diverting and unique way to celebrate both the literary and the adventurous spirit of San Francisco. Learn about the authors and neighborhoods that made San Francisco a known literary hub\, from South Park to North Beach\, Jack London to Jack Kerouac. \nBring bikes with gears\, snacks\, and enthusiasm. This is an urban ride of moderate difficulty\, recommended for riders 16 years of age and older.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bikes-to-books-springtime-ride/
LOCATION:Jack London Street\, Jack London Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Bikes to Books":MAILTO:bikes2books@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170527T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170527T220000
DTSTAMP:20260512T052027
CREATED:20170504T001807Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170504T001807Z
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SUMMARY:Literary Pop!
DESCRIPTION:Literature and Pop Culture collide as the bay area’s finest storytellers\, comedians and writers gather to share work about and inspired by the pop culture that has influenced their lives.\nDoors at 7:30 show at 8pm\nTickets will be sold ONLINE Only! \nSave money now with $5.99 Early bird tickets on event brite!\nLimited quantity available! \nThis epidoe will feature:\nMarc Abrigo on the Backstreet Boys\nJason LeRoy on actress Julianne Moore\nNa’amen Tilahun on Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore\n\nalso featuring Aviva Siegel! \nHosted by Wonder Dave! \nFaultline Studios is located on Howard St. In San Francisco. This venue is on the second floor and is not handicap accessible. Literary Pop is currently looking for an affordable handicap accessible space to do our show in again in the future so please stay tuned for future events!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-pop-4/
LOCATION:Faultline Studios\, 1139 Howard St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170527T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170527T220000
DTSTAMP:20260512T052027
CREATED:20170523T014752Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170523T014752Z
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SUMMARY:unsolicited release
DESCRIPTION:foreignfire: unsolicited new poetry bookart and chant release concert saturday twenty seventh may eight oclock iama ten twenty five market street san francisco fifteen to twenty dollars admission books for purchase at event and in independent bookstores preorder david@foreignfire.com\n \nhttps://www.facebook.com/foreignfirepage/\n http://www.foreignfire.com/unsolicited.html\n https://www.instagram.com/foreignfire/\n \n\ndavid katz voice movement poetry solo ensemble composition improvisation jewish liturgical singing institutions ciis (ba interdisciplinary studies) mills college (ma composition mfa improvistation)sam genovese video installation sound art institutions mills college (mfa electronic music) margaret lyon music student prize film screenings worldfest houston usa film festival johns hopkins film festival recent works entanglementing  (one man opera 2017) hive crush (album 2016) \ntim silva voice performance composition conducting music education collaborations volti throckappella iron henry institutions ucla boston conservatory holy names university \nben zucker composition improvisation voice trumpet piano collaborations mivos quartet apartment house ny virtuoso singers distractfold ensemble rinde eckert awards new composer talent international audio branding academy la percussion quartet c4 collective sf choral artists sf contemporary music players album confluere institutions wesleyan university (ba music and critical theory) leavell memorial prize brunel university london (postgraduate)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/unsolicited-release/
LOCATION:International Art Museum of America\, 1025 Market Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170530T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170530T200000
DTSTAMP:20260512T052027
CREATED:20170425T010444Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T010444Z
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SUMMARY:Folio Night\, LIVE!: Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Our third community open mic night with featured reader\, Bay Area poet Tongo Eisen-Martin\, and host Wayne Goodman. Contact us a week in advance if you’re planning to read and you have a book to consign\, or bring a few extra copies to sell if we already have your book in stock. Max eight readers\, first come first signed up. Five minute time limit per reader (strictly enforced).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/folio-night-live-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170530T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170530T203000
DTSTAMP:20260512T052027
CREATED:20170425T015641Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T015641Z
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SUMMARY:Alexandra Teague
DESCRIPTION:Alexandra Teague reads from her new novel\, The Principles Behind Flotation. \nThe Principles Behind Flotation (Skyhorse Press\, 2017) is the first novel from Alexandra Teague\, a former NEA Fellow\, Stegner Fellow\, and City College of San Francisco instructor\, currently an associate professor at University of Idaho. \nShe has previously published two poetry books—The Wise and Foolish Builders (Persea 2015) and Mortal Geography (Persea 2010)\, winner of the 2010 California Book Award. \nEchoing novels like Karen Russell’s Swamplandia! and Carol Rifka Brunt’s Tell the Wolves I’m Home\, Alexandra Teague’s lighthearted coming-of-age debut is perfect for anyone who’s navigated the strange seas of adolescence—and lived to tell the tale. \nA.Z. McKinney is on the shores of greatness. Now all she needs is a boat. \nWhen the Sea of Santiago appeared overnight in a cow pasture in Arkansas\, it seemed\, to some\, a religious miracle. But to high school sophomore A.Z. McKinney\, it’s marked her chance to make history—as its first oceanographer. All she needs is to get out on the water. \nHer plan is easier said than done\, considering the Sea’s eccentric owner is only interested in its use as a tourist destination for beachgoers and devout pilgrims. Still\, A.Z. is determined to uncover the secrets of the Sea—even if it means smuggling saline samples in her bathing suit. \nYet when a cute\, conceptual artist named Kristoff moves to town\, A.Z. realizes she may have found a first mate. Together\, they make a plan to build a boat and study the Sea in secret. But from fighting with her best friend to searching for a tourist-terrorizing alligator (that may or may not be a crocodile)\, distractions are everywhere. Soon\, A.Z.’s dreams are in danger of being dashed upon the shore of Mud Beach. \nWith her self-determined oceanic destiny on the line\, A.Z. finds herself at odds with everything she thought she knew about life\, love\, and the Sea. To get what she wants\, she’ll have to decide whether to sink or float . . . But which one comes first?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexandra-teague/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170530T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170530T213000
DTSTAMP:20260512T052027
CREATED:20170504T234403Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170504T234403Z
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SUMMARY:Martha Grover
DESCRIPTION:In her new memoir\, Martha Grover goes undercover. Whether cleaning houses or looking for love\, she peels back the surfaces of ordinary moments and reveals a life both hilarious and traumatic. The End of My Career sees Grover living with her parents again as she enters her late thirties\, reconciling the pleasures and perils of being female\, chronically ill\, and subsisting on menial labor at the edge of an increasingly unaffordable city. Desperate for stable work\, she gets hired as a state-sanctioned private investigator looking into shady workers’ comp claims—even while she herself fights in court for her own disability settlement. Angry and heartbroken\, brimming with the outrageous contradictions of the modern world\, The End of My Career embodies the comic nightmare of our times. \nMartha Grover is a 2017 Oregon Book Award finalist in creative nonfiction. She is also the author of One More for the People(Perfect Day\, 2011). She has been publishing her zine Somnambulistsince 2003\, and lives in Portland\, Oregon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/martha-grover/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170531T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170531T200000
DTSTAMP:20260512T052027
CREATED:20170427T025717Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170427T025717Z
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SUMMARY:Such a Nasty Woman: Female Writers Respond to Trump
DESCRIPTION:Many women woke up on November 9\, 2016 and wondered if clocks had been set back 100 years. A man who bragged about his sexual assaults\, referred to women as pigs and bimbos\, and in a televised debate\, called Hillary Clinton “a nasty woman\,” had just been elected president. \nThis man has threatened to defund Planned Parenthood\, and implied that military rape is to be expected. His vice president boasts of consigning Roe v. Wade “to the ash heap of history where it belongs.” It’s enough to make a female pacifist take up arms. \nThis panel of brave\, outspoken\, and articulate authors will ask some tough questions. How can women hold their ground in such a cultural recession? And what kind of vital role can female writers play during this age of ignorance and fear? Moderated by author/journalist Vanessa Hua.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/such-a-nasty-woman-female-writers-respond-to-trump/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170601T000000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170604T233000
DTSTAMP:20260512T052027
CREATED:20170430T015807Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170502T010649Z
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SUMMARY:2017 San Francisco Silent Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:JUNE 1\, 2017 – JUNE 4\, 2017 \n2017 San Francisco Silent Film Festival \nCastro Theatre | San Francisco\, CA \nJoin the Center for the Art of Translation at the 2017 San Francisco Silent Film Festival! Each year the Center sponsors new translations of silent film intertitles. Stay tuned for more information. \nSFSFF recently announced the rediscovery of a lost Cecil B. DeMille production—Silence—which is being restored by the Cinémathèque Française and the San Francisco Silent Film Festival as we speak. Silence will have its world premiere at SFSFF 2017. \nAlso\, the cat is out of the bag: Alloy Orchestra will premiere its new score for one of the most intriguing films of the silent era\, Teinosuke Kinugasa’s A Page of Madness\, in a new restoration. \nThe complete schedule will be revealed in late March 2017. \n\nCONTACT: \n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter \nlwoofter@catranslation.org \n(415) 512-8812
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2017-san-francisco-silent-film-festival/
LOCATION:Castro Theater\, 429 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170601T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170601T193000
DTSTAMP:20260512T052027
CREATED:20170504T005143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170504T005143Z
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SUMMARY:*RADAR SuperStars
DESCRIPTION:Join RADAR for its annual birthday and SuperStar Pride Program. On stage tonight are Ana María Montenegro\, Clement Goldberg and MariNaomi. Hosted by Juliana Delgado Lopera and sponsored by the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center of San Francisco Public Library. \nSee Queerest.Library.Ever. sfpl.org/hormelat20 for related online exhibits\, archives\, and resources.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radar-superstars/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170601T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170601T193000
DTSTAMP:20260512T052027
CREATED:20170527T012621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170527T012621Z
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SUMMARY:Radar Superstar: A Queer AF Variety Show
DESCRIPTION:Join Radar Productions for our annual celebration showcase. We choose 4 incredible queer artists and welcome you to the gorgeous Koret Auditorium for a free show! \nThursday\, June 1\nShow begins at 6pm\nSan Francisco Main Library\n100 Larkin Street\nKoret Auditorium (lower level)\nHosted by Juliana Delgado Lopera \nFEATURING…\nClement Hil Goldberg\nVanessa Rochelle Lewis\nAna María Montenegro Jaramillo\nMari Naomi\nLydia Greer + Shauna Fallihee \nClement Hil Goldberg is a multidisciplinary artist primarily working in film\, sculpture\, and animation to create a fabulous extinction aesthetic. Goldberg created the stop motion animated web series The Deer Inbetween and joined Michelle Tea to produce the 20-filmmaker collaborative feature film Valencia. Valencia won Jury Awards for Best Experimental Feature at the Polari Film Festival and Best Narrative Feature at Chicago Reeling in 2013. In 2016 Clement received their MFA in Art Practice and New Media certificate from UC Berkeley. Their current project Our Future Ends was awarded a 2016 visual arts Creative Work Fund grant in collaboration with CounterPulse. Goldberg’s work has been exhibited at the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive and the Worth Ryder Art Gallery; Yerba Buena Center For The Arts\, SOMArts\, Luggage Store Gallery\, Artists Television Access\, all in San Francisco; and over 50 international film and arts festivals including Frameline\, Outfest\, MIX NYC\, Hamburg International Queer Film Festival and Cleveland International Film Festival. \nVanessa Lewis\, formerly known as Jezebel Delilah X\, is a queer\, lush-bodied\, Black\, femme performance artist\, writer\, actress\, filmmaker\, educator\, facilitator\, orator and Faerie Queen Mermaid Gangsta for The Revolution. She loves to flirt\, laugh\, perform\, crack corny jokes\, and insert Octavia Butler references into every conversation. She is a Co-Managing Editor for Everyday Feminism and Director of queer\, Black\, multi-disciplinary performance troupe\, Congregation of Liberation. She has performed in a wide variety of Queer theatre projects and cabarets\, and has been a featured reader at literary events all over the Bay Area. She uses a combination of memoir\, poetry\, theatre\, and feminist storytelling to advance her politix of radical love\, socioeconomic justice\, anti-racism\, community accountability\, critical reflection\, love\, healing\, and liberation. She loves romantic songs\, romantic films\, romantic books\, romantic conversations\, romantic friendships\, and writing long\, vulnerable\, passionate facebook statuses about romance. \nAna María Montenegro (1986) is a Colombian artist based in San Francisco\, CA. Her work is a series of conceptual experiments that deal with the structural rules that govern image composition\, the protocols of narrative genres and the cultural codes that affect them. She uses media that allows her to play with time\, text\, movement and randomness. \nMariNaomi is the award-winning author and illustrator of Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume\, Ages 0 to 22 (Harper Perennial\, 2011)\, Dragon’s Breath and Other True Stories (2dcloud/Uncivilized Books\, 2014)\, Turning Japanese (2dcloud\, 2016)\, and I Thought YOU Hated ME (Retrofit Comics\, 2016). Her work has appeared in over sixty print publications and has been featured on numerous websites\, such as The Rumpus\, LA Review of Books\, Midnight Breakfast and BuzzFeed. MariNaomi’s comics and paintings have been featured by such institutions as the Smithsonian\, the De Young Museum\, the Cartoon Art Museum\, the Asian Art Museum\, and the Japanese American Museum. In 2011\, Mari toured with the literary roadshow Sister Spit. She is the creator and curator of the Cartoonists of Color Database and the Queer Cartoonists Database. She has taught classes for the California College of the Arts Comics MFA program\, and is currently a guest editor at PEN America. \nLydia Greer is a visual artist and filmmaker whose work includes sculptural and video installation\, single channel video\, puppet theatre\, hand-made animation and works on paper. She works with themes of allegory and euphemism in narrative structures exploring the languages of psychology and theatre. Lydia is interested in the most elaborate forms of storytelling and time based art such as opera\, film and puppet theatre as well as the narrative charge of everyday objects and how communication ceremonies play out in the personal\, spiritual and historical/political arenas. Each narrative she works with is a misremembered\, taboo or unreliable story inviting audience engagement in narrative construction and play. From 2003-2007 she directed the LET’S DANCE SHADOW THEATRE\, a handmade\, ragtag puppet company in Portland\, OR. Since then her mixed media work has been shown at the Exploratorium Museum\, Artists’ Television Access\, Pacific Film Archive/Berkeley Art Museum\, Santa Clara University\, Portland Experimental Film Festival\, Berkeley Center for New Media\, Adobe Back Room Gallery\, Royal None Such Gallery and SomArts among other venues. She has also worked as a puppeteer and designer with ShadowLight Productions in San Francisco. Lydia is currently the Artistic Director of Facing West Shadow Opera: a collective of predominantly queer artists\, filmmakers\, and musicians hybridizing art forms including live opera\, animation\, shadow theatre and found film to create unique performances\, each akin to a live graphic novel with euphoria-inducing live chamber music. \nSoprano Shauna Fallihee has been featured with numerous Bay Area ensembles including San Francisco Choral Society\, Masterworks Chorale\, San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra\, Open Opera\, West Bay Opera and the Old St. Mary’s Cathedral Noontime Concert Series. Deeply dedicated to the performance of new music\, Shauna has performed world premieres and contemporary works with Facing West Shadow Theater\, NothingSet Ensemble\, San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra\, Opus Project\, Wild Rumpus\, Ensemble Mik Nawooj and enjoyed a decade with new music chamber choir Volti. An active educator\, Shauna is on the voice faculty at Holy Names University\, Chabot College\, City College San Francisco\, Acalanes High School and the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir. She is also a Master Teacher Trainer for The Dailey Method\, an alignment-based Barre and Cycle fitness program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radar-superstar-a-queer-af-variety-show/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170601T200000
DTSTAMP:20260512T052027
CREATED:20170522T131319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170525T001050Z
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SUMMARY:Scaachi Koul + Doree Shafrir
DESCRIPTION:A conversation between Saachi Koul and Doree Shafrir. \nA debut collection of fierce and funny essays about growing up the daughter of Indian immigrants\, addressing sexism\, cultural stereotypes and the universal miseries of life by rising star Scaachi Koul. \nIn One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter\, Koul deploys her razor sharp humor to share all the fears\, outrages\, and mortifying moments of her life. She learned from an early age what made her miserable\, and for Scaachi anything can be cause for despair. Whether it’s a shopping trip gone awry; enduring awkward conversations with her bikini waxer; overcoming her fear of flying while vacationing halfway around the world; dealing with internet trolls\, or navigating the fears and anxieties of her parents. Alongside these personal stories are pointed observations about life as a woman of color\, where every aspect of her appearance is open for critique\, derision\, or outright scorn. Where strict gender rules bind in both Western and Indian cultures\, leaving little room for a woman not solely focused on marriage and children to have a career (and a life) for herself. \nWith a sharp eye and biting wit\, Koul offers a hilarious\, scathing\, and honest look at modern life. \nScaachi Koul was born and raised in Calgary\, Alberta\, and is a culture writer for BuzzFeed. Her writing has also appeared in The New Yorker\, The Hairpin\, The Globe and Mail\, and Jezebel. She lives in Toronto. \n  \nMack McAllister has a $600 million dollar idea. His mindfulness app\, TakeOff\, is already the hottest thing in tech and he’s about to launch a new and improved version that promises to bring investors running and may turn his brainchild into a $1 billion dollar business–in startup parlance\, an elusive unicorn. \nKatya Pasternack is hungry for a scoop that will drive traffic. An ambitious young journalist at a gossipy tech blog\, Katya knows that she needs more than another PR friendly puff piece to make her the go-to byline for industry news.\nSabrina Choe Blum just wants to stay afloat. The exhausted mother of two and failed creative writer is trying to escape from her credit card debt and an inattentive husband-who also happens to be Katya’s boss-as she rejoins a work force that has gotten younger\, hipper\, and much more computer literate since she’s been away. \nBefore the ink on Mack’s latest round of funding is dry\, an errant text message hints that he may be working a bit too closely for comfort with a young social media manager in his office. When Mack’s bad behavior collides with Katya’s search for a salacious post\, Sabrina gets caught in the middle as TakeOff goes viral for all the wrong reasons. As the fallout from Mack’s scandal engulfs the lower Manhattan office building where all three work\, it’s up to Katya and Sabrina to write the story the men in their lives would prefer remain untold. \nAn assured\, observant debut from the veteran online journalist Doree Shafrir\, Startup is a sharp\, hugely entertaining story of youth\, ambition\, love\, money and technology’s inability to hack human nature. \nDoree Shafrir is a senior culture writer at BuzzFeed News and has written for New York Magazine\, Slate\, The Awl\, Rolling Stone\, Wired and other publications. A former resident of Brooklyn\, she now lives in Los Angeles with her husband Matt Mira\, a comedy writer and podcaster\, and their dog Beau.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/scaachi-koul-doree-shafrir/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170601T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170601T193000
DTSTAMP:20260512T052027
CREATED:20170528T203115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170531T002419Z
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi + Meron Hadero
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation about Kintu with author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and Meron Hadero. The program will include a wine reception and booksigning. Tickets are $10 for non-members\, free for members of MoAD. \nFirst published in Kenya in 2014 to critical and popular acclaim\, Kintu is a modern classic\, a multilayered narrative that reimagines the history of Uganda through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan. Divided into six sections\, the novel begins in 1750\, when Kintu Kidda sets out for the capital to pledge allegiance to the new leader of the kingdom of Buganda. Along the way\, he unleashes a curse that will plague his family for generations. In an ambitious tale of a clan and a nation\, Makumbi weavestogether the stories of Kintu’s descendants as they seek to break from the burden of their shared past and reconcile the inheritance of tradition and the modern world that is their future. \nJennifer Nansubuga Makumbi\, a Ugandan novelist and short story writer\, has a PhD from Lancaster University. Her first novel\, Kintu\, won the Kwani Manuscript Project in 2013 and was longlisted for the Etisalat Prize in 2014. Her story “Let’s Tell This Story Properly” won the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She is currently working on her second novel and a collection of short stories\, Travel is to See\, Return is to Tell. Jennifer lives in Manchester\, UK with her husband\, Damian\, and her son\, Jordan. \nMeron Hadero is an Ethiopian-American whose short stories appear or are forthcoming in Best American Short Stories\, Selected Shorts on NPR/PRI\, The Missouri Review\, Boulevard\, The Normal School Online\, Indiana Review\, among others. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan\, a JD from Yale Law School\, an AB from Princeton in history\, and is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto working on a novel and story collection.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-nansubuga-makumbi-and-meron-hadero/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170601T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170601T200000
DTSTAMP:20260512T052027
CREATED:20170514T022534Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170514T022534Z
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SUMMARY:Weekday DONderlust
DESCRIPTION:Hello Wanderlusters! We hope you are out wandering our wide world but land back in San Francisco on Thursday June 1. It’s our annual DONDERLUST celebration of Don George’s Birthday\, made extra special because we are also feting the new release of THE BEST WOMEN’S TRAVEL WRITING\, edited by our own Lavinia Spalding. Woot! This incredible collection will be hot of the presses and is full of fantastic tales from women writers. We are honored to introduce you to three of them that will take you to the Czech Republic\, France\, and Japan. No passport needed\, just bring your effervescent spirit of community as we welcome Jennifer Kelley\, Colette Hannahan\, and Yukari Iwatani Kane. It’s our last event before our summer hiatus so please come say hello. Bios will be posted on our FB page. Our readings are held at the always hospitible Hotel Rex and start prompty at 7 pm\, but you can find a group of thirsty travelers and writers in the Library Bar at 6 pm. See you there! ~WW
URL:https://litseen.com/event/weekday-donderlust/
LOCATION:Hotel Rex\, 562 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170601T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170601T210000
DTSTAMP:20260512T052027
CREATED:20170522T130224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170523T015238Z
UID:26999-1496343600-1496350800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Flash Fiction Collective
DESCRIPTION:The Flash Fiction Collective is thrilled to feature Jimin Han\, Julia Halprin Jackson\, and Gary Singh at our June reading! Join us at Alley Cat in the Mission for an evening of great stories and great conversations. \nJimin Han was born in Seoul\, Korea and grew up in New York\, Rhode Island\, and Ohio. Her writing can be found at NPR’s “Weekend America\,” Entropy\, The Rumpus\, HTMLGiant\, Hyphen Magazine\, Kartika Review\, KoreanAmericanStory.com. A Small Revolution (Little A Books) is her first novel. She teaches at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College. \nJulia Halprin Jackson’s work has appeared in West Branch Wired\, Oracle Fine Arts Review\, California Northern\, Fourteen Hills\, and elsewhere. She is the publicity director for Play On Words\, a literary series in San Jose. She has an MA in creative writing from UC Davis and currently contributes to Washington Square\, San Jose State University’s alumni magazine. \nGary Singh is currently a Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University. As a scribe\, he’s published over 1000 works including travel essays\, art and music criticism\, profiles\, business journalism\, lifestyle articles\, poetry and short fiction. For 600 straight weeks\, his newspaper columns have appeared in Metro\, the alternative weekly paper of San Jose and Silicon Valley. As a poet\, his works has appeared in The Pedestal Magazine\, Maudlin House and several more. He is the author of The San Jose Earthquakes: A Seismic Soccer Legacy (2015\, The History Press). http://www.garysingh.info/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flash-fiction-collective/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170601T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170601T213000
DTSTAMP:20260512T052027
CREATED:20170522T133742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170525T001220Z
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SUMMARY:Mark Lukach + Sachi Cunningham
DESCRIPTION:Join Mark Lukach and Sachi Cunningham in conversation about mental health\, family\, and creativity as Mark releases his new book\, My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward. \nAbout My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward \nA heart-wrenching\, yet hopeful\, memoir of a young marriage that is redefined by mental illness and affirms the power of love. \nMark and Giulia’s life together began as a storybook romance. They fell in love at eighteen\, married at twenty-four\, and were living their dream life in San Francisco. When Giulia was twenty-seven\, she suffered a terrifying and unexpected psychotic break that landed her in the psych ward for nearly a month. One day she was vibrant and well-adjusted; the next she was delusional and suicidal\, convinced that her loved ones were not safe. \nEventually\, Giulia fully recovered\, and the couple had a son. But\, soon after Jonas was born\, Giulia had another breakdown\, and then a third a few years after that. Pushed to the edge of the abyss\, everything the couple had once taken for granted was upended. \nA story of the fragility of the mind\, and the tenacity of the human spirit\, My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward is\, above all\, a love story that raises profound questions: How do we care for the people we love? What and who do we live for? Breathtaking in its candor\, radiant with compassion\, and written with dazzling lyricism\, Lukach’s is an intensely personal odyssey through the harrowing years of his wife’s mental illness\, anchored by an abiding devotion to family that will affirm readers’ faith in the power of love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mark-lukach-and-sachi-cunningham/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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