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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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SUMMARY:Mitali Perkins
DESCRIPTION:Get up close and personal with Mitali Perkins\, author of ten novels for young readers.  Her latest book\, You Bring the Distant Near\, is an unforgettable story that spans decades and continents as it moves among three generations of Indian women\, some new immigrants to the U.S.\, all struggling to bridge cultures.  Come and discover why Mitali has been honored by independent booksellers across the country as a “Most Engaging Author.”  A book-signing session will follow the presentation.  Join us! \nFor more information about the author\, visit www.mitaliperkins.com. \nThis is a Reading\, Writing & Poetry program from SFPL. We love reading/sharing/creating words.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mitali-perkins/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bikes to Books Five-Year Anniversary Spring Ride
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate five years of Bikes to Books with our annual spring ride! Combining 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\, all from the comfort of your own bicycle seat! \n  \nBring bikes with gears\, snacks\, and enthusiasm.  \n  \nThis is an urban ride of moderate difficulty\, recommended for riders 16 years of age and older.  \n  \nMeet at 12:45 p.m. at Jack London Alley \n(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 \n(outside City Lights Books)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bikes-to-books-five-year-anniversary-spring-ride/
LOCATION:Jack London Street\, Jack London Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Caroline Paul / You Are Mighty: A Guide to Changing the World
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a launch party for Caroline Paul‘s new book\, You Are Mighty: A Guide to Changing the World. Bring the family and join us for fun\, food\, and books! \nKids all over the world are making a difference. With protests\, marches\, town halls\, and speeches\, kids have proven that they are paying attention. They’re not going to let their age be a reason to stay quiet. \nIt’s time for the youngest generation to show what they can do. \nTo guide them\, New York Times bestselling author of The Gutsy Girl Caroline Paul has written an inspiring\, instructional\, and fun guide for kid activists: The Gutsy Girl\, You Are Mighty: A Guide to Changing the World. \nThis guide features change-maker tips as well as anecdotes of young activists around the globe and throughout history. The suggested activist tactics covered range from tweaking everyday habits—like the sisters who call themselves the Plastic Patrol and convinced their family to stop using grocery bags and straws—to stretching to achieve something extraordinary—like the teen who used food waste to invent a water purification system. \nTold in Caroline’s trademark breezy voice and including delightful illustrations from Lauren Tamaki\, as well as tons of DIY activities\, this is the ultimate practical—and fun!—manual for anyone looking to change the world. \n  \n\n  \nCaroline Paul is the author of the New York Times bestselling The Gutsy Girl: Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure as well as the adult titles Lost Cat: A True Story of Love\, Desperation\, and GPS Technology; East Wind\, Rain; and Fighting Fire. She lives in San Francisco\, California. \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens at 4\, event begins at 4:30pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/caroline-paul-you-are-mighty-a-guide-to-changing-the-world/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Express Yourself: Celebrating Gender Diversity
DESCRIPTION:When living in a world that is still learning about the gender spectrum\, forms of expression become survival tools helping trans and nonbinary people live authentically and tell their stories. This event celebrates all forms of expression we use to affirm who we are and ensure our voice is heard. Music\, writing\, art\, makeup\, style\, or dance are examples that will be discussed as strategies for survival\, building resilience\, and finding community. \nJoin us for this event celebrating gender diversity that is sure to be informative and inspiring. Lead by Mere Abrams\, MSW\, ASW\, Gender Specialist\, educator\, consultant and advocate\, and Janna Barkin\, author\, advocate\, and parent of a transgender son\, the event will feature a diverse panel of transgender\, gender expansive\, and non-binary people who will share their stories of self discovery and the many creative ways they have found to express themselves along the way. \nThere will be time for questions and discussion. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: This event will be at the Bindery\, 1727 Haight. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nBar opens at 3:30\, event begins at 4pm. \n  \nEvent image created by April Adelman
URL:https://litseen.com/event/express-yourself-celebrating-gender-diversity/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:KASSIDAT: Spoken word and music
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers – \nJames Zealous \nChristine No \nTifa Love \nClara Hsu \nSarita de la Madrid \nMusical guests: \nBrother Spellbinder \nEd Dang \nWith your host Bloodflower
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kassidat-spoken-word-and-music-2/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:An Opportunity to Meet London Breed
DESCRIPTION:As part of a series for meet and greet opportunities with San Francisco’s mayoral candidates\, we are pleased to host London Breed on Sunday\, May 20 starting at 6:30pm at The Bindery at 1727 Haight street. \nNew to the city? First time voter? Have a pressing issue on your mind? The Bindery has extended an invitation to all mayoral candidates to come meet our community. The format will be of a typical “house party” and include a short speech by the candidate\, followed by time for mingling and Q&A. \n  \nTimeline: \n6pm Doors open\n6:30pm – 7:30pm London speaks & fields questions\n8pm Event ends \n  \n\nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nThis event is free and all ages event. Doors open at 6\, event begins at 6:30pm. The bar will be open.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-opportunity-to-meet-london-breed/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Simulation featuring Justine Musk
DESCRIPTION:What do courage and confidence have to do with maximizing human potential? How can we humanize others rather than villainize them? How can we best move forward into this technology-driven globalized world? \nJoin us on May 20th as we host author Justine Musk for powerful conversation at the Swedish American Hall in San Francisco. \nSCHEDULE\n6:30 PM Doors Open\n7:30 – 9:00 PM Fireside Chat\n9:00 – 9:30 PM Q & A\n9:30 – 10:00 PM VIP Meet & Greet\n11:00 PM Doors Close \nSimulation inspires YOU to build the future. \nTwitter: https://twitter.com/simulationshow\nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/simulationseries\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/simulationseries/ \n******\nHere’s our full list of thought-provoking questions: www.simulationseries.com/the-list \nReach out to us! We’d love to hear from you and we’re always looking for people to join our team\, please email: simulationseries@gmail.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/simulation-featuring-justine-musk/
LOCATION:Swedish American Hall\, 2174 Market Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:THE RACKET! #19
DESCRIPTION:It feels like The Racket has skewed dark as of late – obsession\, grief\, ghosts – so we thought\, let’s try something a little more positive oomph\, something with a little sensuality. Thus\, The Racket #19: PLEASURE. As well know\, writers are dark\, morbid folks\, and we expect this to be as probing of the seedier side of what pleasure is as any other event we’ve thrown. \nBut hey\, we can try. \nMore info to come.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-19/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170324T014127Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180503T000013Z
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-14/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rachel Kushner
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Kushner discusses her new novel\, The Mars Room. \nPrasie for Rachel Kushner \n“Kushner is a young master. I honestly don’t know how she is able to know so much and convey all of this in such a completely entertaining and mesmerizing way.” —George Saunders \n“Kushner is going to be one we turn to for our serious pleasures and for the insight and wisdom we’ll be needing in hard times to come. She is a novelist of the very first order.” —Robert Stone \n“Ms. Kushner can really write. Her prose has a poise and wariness and moral graininess that puts you in mind of….Robert Stone and Joan Didion…[Kushner has] a sensibility that’s on constant alert for crazy\, sensual\, often ravaged beauty…persuasive and moving…provocative.”–Dwight Garner\, The New York Times \nAbout The Mars Room \nFrom twice National Book Award–nominated Rachel Kushner\, whose Flamethrowers was called “the best\, most brazen\, most interesting book of the year” (Kathryn Schulz\, New York magazine)\, comes a spectacularly compelling\, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. \nIt’s 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility\, deep in California’s Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San Francisco of her youth and her young son\, Jackson. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living\, which Kushner evokes with great humor and precision. \nStunning and unsentimental\, The Mars Room demonstrates new levels of mastery and depth in Kushner’s work. It is audacious and tragic\, propulsive and yet beautifully refined. As James Wood said in The New Yorker\, her fiction “succeeds because it is so full of vibrantly different stories and histories\, all of them particular\, all of them brilliantly alive.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-kushner/
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:Kari Byron / Crash Test Girl: An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life's Toughest Questions
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery presents former Mythbusters‘ host Kari Byron for her new book Crash Test Girl: An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life’s Toughest Questions. \nCrash test your way through life\, no lab coat required. \nKari Byron’s story hasn’t been a straight line. She started out as a broke artist living in San Francisco\, writing poems on a crowded bus on the way to one of her three jobs. Many curve balls\, unexpected twists\, and yes\, literal and figurative explosions later\, and she’s one of the world’s most respected women in science entertainment\, blowing stuff up on national television and getting paid for it! In Crash Test Girl\, Kari reveals her fascinating life story on the set of MythBusters and beyond. With her signature gusto and roll-up-your-sleeves enthusiasm\, she invites readers behind the duct tape and the dynamite\, to the unlikely friendships and low-budget sets that turned a crazy idea into a famously inventive show with a rabid fanbase. \nThe truth is\, Mythbusters was never meant to be a science show. But attaching a rocket to a car\, riding a motorcycle on water\, or lighting 500 pounds of coffee creamer on fire requires a decent understanding of chemistry\, physics\, and engineering. Thus\, the cast and crew brought in the scientific method to work through each problem: Question. Hypothesize. Analyze. Experiment. Conclude. And as Kari came to learn in her own life\, not only is the scientific method the best approach for busting myths\, it’s also the perfect tool for solving everyday issues\, including: \nCareer – Love – Creativity – Setbacks – Money – Sexuality – Depression – Bravery \nCrash Test Girl reminds us that science is for everyone\, as long as you’re willing to strap in\, put on your safety goggles\, hit a few walls\, and learn from the results. Using a combination of methodical experimentation and unconventional creativity\, you’ll come to the most important conclusion of all: In life\, sometimes you crash and burn\, but you can always crash and learn. \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend this event but would like to request a signed copy of Crash Test Girl\, 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/kari-byron-crash-test-girl-an-unlikely-experiment-in-using-the-scientific-method-to-answer-lifes-toughest-questions/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Heather Gautney / Crashing the Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Bernie Sanders campaign advisor Heather Gautney for her new book Crashing the Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement. Please join us! \nSenator Bernie Sanders shocked the political establishment by winning 13 million votes and a majority of young voters in the 2016 Democratic primary. He emerged from the contest against Hillary Clinton as the most popular politician in the US\, despite being a 75-year-old self-professed “democratic socialist.” What lessons can be drawn from this surprising but—in the end—losing campaign? \nVermont resident Heather Gautney was a legislative fellow in Sanders’ Washington office and researcher and organizer for his presidential campaign. The author and editor of several books on social movements and American politics\, she brings her academic expertise and left politics to bear on the scenes and conflicts she witnessed during the campaign. In reviewing what enabled Sanders to reach out to an unprecedented number of people with a socialist message—and what stalled his progress and radical punch—she draws lessons about the prospects and perils of building a leftist movement in the United States. Gautney’s reflections on the role that race and class played in this election cycle and analysis of where Democrats stand following Trump’s victory will serve as a useful starting point for many newly aware of the limitations of the Democratic party and the challenges ahead. \n  \n\n  \nHeather Gautney was a policy fellow in Bernie Sanders’s Washington DC office and a volunteer researcher and organizer on his presidential campaign. She is an associate professor of sociology and Fordham University\, and the author of Protest and Organization in the Alternative Globalization Era. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Crashing the Party\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/heather-gautney-crashing-the-party-from-the-bernie-sanders-campaign-to-a-progressive-movement/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Keith Gessen / A Terrible Country
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts All the Sad Young Literary Men author Keith Gessen for his new novel A Terrible Country. Please join us! \n  \nWhen Andrei Kaplan’s older brother Dima insists that Andrei return to Moscow to care for their ailing grandmother\, Andrei must take stock of his life in New York. His girlfriend has stopped returning his text messages. His dissertation adviser is dubious about his job prospects. It’s the summer of 2008\, and his bank account is running dangerously low. Perhaps a few months in Moscow are just what he needs. So Andrei sublets his room in Brooklyn\, packs up his hockey stuff\, and moves into the apartment that Stalin himself had given his grandmother\, a woman who has outlived her husband and most of her friends. She survived the dark days of communism and witnessed Russia’s violent capitalist transformation\, during which she lost her beloved dacha. She welcomes Andrei into her home\, even if she can’t always remember who he is. \n  \nAndrei learns to navigate Putin’s Moscow\, still the city of his birth\, but with more expensive coffee. He looks after his elderly–but surprisingly sharp!–grandmother\, finds a place to play hockey\, a café to send emails\, and eventually some friends\, including a beautiful young activist named Yulia. Over the course of the year\, his grandmother’s health declines and his feelings of dislocation from both Russia and America deepen. Andrei knows he must reckon with his future and make choices that will determine his life and fate. When he becomes entangled with a group of leftists\, Andrei’s politics and his allegiances are tested\, and he is forced to come to terms with the Russian society he was born into and the American one he has enjoyed since he was a kid. \n  \nA wise\, sensitive novel about Russia\, exile\, family\, love\, history and fate\, A Terrible County asks what you owe the place you were born\, and what it owes you. Writing with grace and humor\, Keith Gessen gives us a brilliant and mature novel that is sure to mark him as one of the most talented novelists of his generation. \n  \n\n  \n“A cause for celebration: big-hearted\, witty\, warm\, compulsively readable\, earnest\, funny\, full of that kind of joyful sadness I associate with Russia and its writers.” – George Saunders\, Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo \n  \n“Keith Gessen is one of my favorite writers and A Terrible Country is even better than I hoped. By turns sad\, funny\, bewildering\, revelatory\, and then sad again\, it recreates the historical-psychological experience of returning\, for twenty-first-century reasons\, to a country one’s parents left in the twentieth century. It’s at once an old-fashioned novel about the interplay between generational roles\, family fates\, and political ideology\, and a kind of global detective mystery about neoliberalism (plus a secret map of Moscow in terms of pickup hockey). Gessen is a master journalist and essayist\, as well as a storyteller with a scary grasp on the human heartstrings\, and A Terrible Country unites the personal and political as only the best novels do.” – Elif Batuman\, author of The Idiot and The Possessed \n  \n“A Terrible Country is an engaging and entertaining novel\, full of humor and humility\, and always after one thing–the truth of contemporary life. Gessen gives us the people of Moscow–businessmen\, anarchists\, grandmothers\, dissidents\, baristas\, hockey goalies\, prostitutes\, and FSB agents–not as fanciful characters but with the full force of the real. His affectionate\, clear-eyed portrait of one terrible country has plenty to teach us about our own.” – Chad Harbach\, author of The Art of Fielding \n  \n\n  \nKeith Gessen is the author of All the Sad Young Literary Men and a founding editor of n+1. He is the editor of three nonfiction books and the translator or co-translator\, from Russian\, of a collection of short stories\, a book of poems\, and a work of oral history\, Nobel Prize-winner Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices from Chernobyl. A contributor to The New Yorker and The London Review of Books\, Gessen teaches journalism at Columbia and lives in New York with his wife and son. \n  \n  \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of A Terrible Country and/or any of Keith’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-keith-gessen-a-terrible-country/
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:Doors at 7:30pm\nShow at 8pm\n$10 online & at the door…\nTICKETSSSSSS: https://ticketf.ly/2k4yp1g \nYOU’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-14/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:THEORY
DESCRIPTION:Stories of compelling arguments and spurious speculations\, quandaries\, questions\, and scientific revelation\n  \nCurated by Lilia Gutnik \nArtwork by Imogen Speer\nTuesday\, May 22\nPublic Works SF: 161 Erie St\, San Francisco \nDoors at 6:30 for pre-salon cocktails\, conversation and gallery show; talks begin at 7:30\nGeneral Admission $15\nLimited Reserved tickets $25\nAges 21+
URL:https://litseen.com/event/theory/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jenny Xie
DESCRIPTION:Jenny Xie\n\n  \nreading from her award winning poetry collection \nEye Level \npublished by Graywolf Press \nWinner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets\, selected by Juan Felipe Herrera \nJenny Xie’s award-winning debut\, Eye Level\, takes us far and near\, to Phnom Penh\, Corfu\, Hanoi\, New York\, and elsewhere\, as we travel closer and closer to the acutely felt solitude that centers this searching\, moving collection. Animated by a restless inner questioning\, these poems meditate on the forces that moor the self and set it in motion\, from immigration to travel to estranging losses and departures. The sensual worlds here—colors\, smells\, tastes\, and changing landscapes—bring to life questions about the self as seer and the self as seen. As Xie writes\, “Me? I’m just here in my traveler’s clothes\, trying on each passing town for size.” Her taut\, elusive poems exult in a life simultaneously crowded and quiet\, caught in between things and places\, and never quite entirely at home. Xie is a poet of extraordinary perception—both to the tangible world and to “All that is untouchable as far as the eye can reach.” \nJenny Xie was born in Hefei\, China\, and raised in New Jersey. She holds degrees from Princeton University and New York University\, and has received fellowships and support from Kundiman\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Elizabeth George Foundation\, and Poets & Writers. She is the recipient of the 2017 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets for Eye Level and the 2016 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Prize for Nowhere to Arrive. Her poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review\, Harvard Review\, the New Republic\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. She teaches at New York University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jenny-xie/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lucy Jane Bledsoe / The Evolution of Love
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Lucy Jane Bledsoe in conversation with Rabih Alameddine about her new novel\, The Evolution of Love. Please join us! \n“She’d told herself\, and her husband Tom\, that she was coming to rescue Vicky. And she was. She would. She’d been rescuing her sister her entire life. But she’d never done anything remotely this extreme. She knew the region had been evacuated\, and yet somehow hadn’t pictured everyone literally gone. . .The stark\, devastated landscape heightened all her senses\, as if her fear made the colors deeper\, the smells headier\, the sounds crisper. She couldn’t give in to the terror; if she did\, it might never end. She had no choice but to finish what she’d begun.” \nA devastating earthquake has just hit the San Francisco Bay Area\, cutting off the outside world completely. When Lily decides to fly from Nebraska to California and make the treacherous journey into the Bay Area to find her sister\, she knows she’s headed for a disaster zone\, but nothing prepares her for what she finds. \nThose who survived and didn’t evacuate are making shelters\, running meals programs\, rigging their own technologies — and redefining the very meaning of community. Lily bands together with a couple of feral kids\, a steadfast activist\, and a bonobo researcher\, among others\, to forge a new life. \nA story of hope in the face of crisis\, The Evolution of Love asks what it takes for people to come together\, what dangers must they fend off in their bid for survival\, and what lengths will they go to rebuild home. \n— \n“Given our current seemingly endless string of natural disasters\, this is a timely story and a compelling one. In the context of a twisting plot\, in the company of appealing characters\, Bledsoe asks us to think about the resilience of love and hate; what our responsibility to each other is; and who we really are\, right down to our DNA. Highly recommended.”  — Karen Joy Fowler\, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves and The Jane Austen Book Club \n— \nLucy Jane Bledsoe is the author of five previous novels\, including A Thin Bright Line. Her fiction has won a California Arts Council Fellowship in Literature\, an American Library Association Stonewall Award\, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize\, a Pushcart nomination\, a Yaddo Fellowship\, and two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships. She’s been a six-time Lambda Literary Award finalist and a two-time Ferro-Grumley Award Finalist. Bledsoe lives in the Bay Area where she spends as much time as possible kayaking in the bay\, as well as hiking and cycling in the hills. \n  \nRabih Alameddine is the author of the novels Koolaids\, and I\, the Divine\, The Hakawati\, An Unnecessary Woman (finalist for the National Book Critics Award)\, the story collection\, The Perv\, and most recently\, The Angel of History (winner of the Arab American Book Award and Lambda Literary Award). He divides his time between San Francisco and Beirut.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lucy-jane-bledsoe-the-evolution-of-love/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Daegan Miller
DESCRIPTION:Daegan Miller\n\n  \ndiscussing the subject of his new book \nThis Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent \nfrom University of Chicago Press \n“The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness\, draining swamps\, straightening rivers\, peopling the solitude\, and subduing nature\,” wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. That’s largely how we still think of nineteenth-century America today: a country expanding unstoppably\, bending the continent’s natural bounty to the national will\, heedless of consequence. A country of slavery and of Indian wars. There’s much truth in that vision. \nBut if you know where to look\, you can uncover a different history\, one of vibrant resistance\, one that’s been mostly forgotten. This Radical Land recovers that story. Daegan Miller is our guide on a beautifully written\, revelatory trip across the continent during which we encounter radical thinkers\, settlers\, and artists who grounded their ideas of freedom\, justice\, and progress in the very landscapes around them\, even as the runaway engine of capitalism sought to steamroll everything in its path. Here we meet Thoreau\, the expert surveyor\, drawing anticapitalist property maps. We visit a black antislavery community in the Adirondack wilderness of upstate New York. We discover how seemingly commercial photographs of the transcontinental railroad secretly sent subversive messages\, and how a band of utopian anarchists among California’s sequoias imagined a greener\, freer future. At every turn\, everyday radicals looked to landscape for the language of their dissent—drawing crucial early links between the environment and social justice\, links we’re still struggling to strengthen today. \nDaegan Miller has taught at Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, and his writing has appeared in a variety of venues\, from academic journals to literary magazines. He is on Twitter at @daeganmiller. \nCritical praise for This Radical Land: \n\n\n\n“A debut book that ranges across disciplines and decades to connect the natural environment–especially long-lived trees–to a scathing critique of American-style capitalism. Alternating abstract theory with impressive research\, both bolstered by extensive sources . . . the author builds his case about understanding American history by examining destruction of the environment through essays grounded in the 19th century. . . . He offers an eclectic education often marked by soaring prose.” – Kirkus Reviews \n\n\n\n\n“Inventive. . . . A creative linking of landscape and radicalism.” -Publishers Weekly \n\n\n\n\n“Drawing on superb scholarly detective work\, This Radical Land tells fascinating stories about the history of our ties to the land that give us an alternative to viewing natural spaces as either a resource to exploit or a wilderness museum for the privileged. Miller peels back the history to reveal that\, however ignored\, Americans have always resisted the exploitation of nature. Perhaps his more nuanced environmental history will inspire those today who\, continuing the mute protest of the witness tree\, would pull the planet back from the brink of death.” Richard Higgins\, author of Thoreau and the Language of Trees \n\n\n\n\n“Daegan Miller rekindles a legacy of environmental dissent. The ideas and landscapes of nineteenth-century ‘countermoderns’ are signposts\, still legible\, to alternative futures. This book bears witness like a burning bush.” -Jared Farmer\, author of Trees in Paradise: A California History \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daegan-miller/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Andrew Sean Greer / Less
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Andrew Sean Greer for the paperback launch of Less\, one of our favorite novels of 2017 and winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Joining Andy in conversation isR. O. Kwon. Come celebrate with us! \n  \nPlease note: This event — which is now rescheduled for May 23 at 7pm — will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. If you would like to reserve a seat for the event\, please pre-purchase a copy of Less via the form below and specify that you would like to reserve a seat in the comments field. \n  \nWho says you can’t run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can’t say yes—it would be too awkward—and you can’t say no—it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world. \n  \nQuestion: How do you arrange to skip town? \n  \nAnswer: You accept them all. \n  \nWhat would possibly go wrong? Arthur Less will almost fall in love in Paris\, almost fall to his death in Berlin\, barely escape to a Moroccan ski chalet from a Saharan sandstorm\, accidentally book himself as the (only) writer-in-residence at a Christian Retreat Center in Southern India\, and encounter\, on a desert island in the Arabian Sea\, the last person on Earth he wants to face. Somewhere in there: he will turn fifty. Through it all\, there is his first love. And there is his last. \n  \nBecause\, despite all these mishaps\, missteps\, misunderstandings and mistakes\, Less is\, above all\, a love story. \n  \nA scintillating satire of the American abroad\, a rumination on time and the human heart\, a bittersweet romance of chances lost\, by an author The New York Times has hailed as “inspired\, lyrical\,” “elegiac\,” “ingenious\,” as well as “too sappy by half\,” Less shows a writer at the peak of his talents raising the curtain on our shared human comedy. \n  \n— \n” Less is the funniest\, smartest and most humane novel I’ve read since Tom Rachman’s 2010 debut\, The Imperfectionists….Greer writes sentences of arresting lyricism and beauty. His metaphors come at you like fireflies….Like Arthur\, Andrew Sean Greer’s Less is excellent company. It’s no less than bedazzling\, bewitching and be-wonderful.” —New York Times Book Review \n  \n“Greer’s novel is philosophical\, poignant\, funny and wise\, filled with unexpected turns….Although Greer is gifted and subtle in comic moments\, he’s just as adept at ruminating on the deeper stuff. His protagonist grapples with aging\, loneliness\, creativity\, grief\, self-pity and more.”—San Francisco Chronicle \n  \n“I recommend it with my whole heart.” —Ann Patchett \n— \nAndrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of five works of fiction\, including The Confessions of Max Tivoli\, which was named a best book of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune. He is the recipient of the Northern California Book Award\, the California Book Award\, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award\, the O Henry award for short fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Public Library. Greer lives in San Francisco. He has traveled to all of the locations in this novel\, but he is only big in Italy. \n  \nR. O. Kwon’s first novel\, The Incendiaries\, is forthcoming from Riverhead in July of 2018. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian\, Vice\, BuzzFeed\, Noon\, Time\, Electric Literature\, Playboy\, San Francisco Chronicle\, and elsewhere. She has received awards and fellowships from Yaddo\, MacDowell\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, Omi International\, and the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony. Born in South Korea\, she’s mostly lived in the United States. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like a request a signed copy of Less and/or any of Andrew’s other books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nBar opens at 6:30\, event begins at 7pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrew-sean-greer-less-2/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Aja Gabel and Vanessa Hua
DESCRIPTION:Aja Gabel discusses her new novel\, The Ensemble. \nPraise for The Ensemble \n“Aja Gabel’s powerful debut offers a sensitive portrait of four young musicians forging their paths through life: sometimes at odds with each other\, sometimes in harmony\, but always inextricably linked by their shared pasts.” —Celeste Ng  \n“With uncommon clarity and empathy\, Aja Gabel brings us inside the passionate\, complex\, and sometimes cutthroat intimacy that exists among the four members of a string quartet. A wise and powerful novel about love\, life\, and music. I didn’t want it to end.” —Maggie Shipstead  \nAja Gabel is a brilliant young writer with the rare gift of an old soul.”—Mat Johnson \nAbout The Ensemble \nThe addictive novel about four young friends navigating a cutthroat world and their complex relationships with each other\, as ambition\, passion\, and love intertwine over the course of their lives. \n  \nJana. Brit. Daniel. Henry. They would never have been friends if they hadn’t needed each other. They would never have found each other except for the art which drew them together. They would never have become family without their love for the music\, for each other. \n  \nBrit is the second violinist\, a beautiful and quiet orphan; on the viola is Henry\, a prodigy who’s always had it easy; the cellist is Daniel\, the oldest and an angry skeptic who sleeps around; and on first violin is Jana\, their flinty\, resilient leader. Together\, they are the Van Ness Quartet. After the group’s youthful\, rocky start\, they experience devastating failure and wild success\, heartbreak and marriage\, triumph and loss\, betrayal and enduring loyalty. They are always tied to each other – by career\, by the intensity of their art\, by the secrets they carry\, by choosing each other over and over again. \n  \nFollowing these four unforgettable characters\, Aja Gabel’s debut novel gives a riveting look into the high-stakes\, cutthroat world of musicians\, and of lives made in concert. The story of Brit and Henry and Daniel and Jana\, The Ensemble is a heart-skipping portrait of ambition\, friendship\, and the tenderness of youth.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aja-gabel/
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:Poem Jam
DESCRIPTION:Join San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck and others for a poetry jam. \nThis is a Reading\, Writing & Poetry program from SFPL. We love reading/sharing/creating words.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poem-jam/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Chuck Klosterman / X: A Highly Specific\, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith welcomes Chuck Klosterman back to the store for the paperback release of X: A Highly Specific\, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century. 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 X below and put your request in the notes field. Remember\, 1 seat = 1 book \nChuck Klosterman has created an incomparable body of work in books\, magazines\, newspapers\, and on the Web. His writing spans the realms of culture and sports\, while also addressing interpersonal issues\, social quandaries\, and ethical boundaries. Klosterman has written nine previous books\, helped found and establish Grantland\, served as the New York Times Magazine Ethicist\, worked on film and television productions\, and contributed profiles and essays to outlets such as GQ\, Esquire\, Billboard\, The A.V. Club\, and The Guardian. \nChuck Klosterman’s tenth book (aka Chuck Klosterman X) collects his most intriguing of those pieces\, accompanied by fresh introductions and new footnotes throughout. Klosterman presents many of the articles in their original form\, featuring previously unpublished passages and digressions. Subjects include Breaking Bad\, Lou Reed\, zombies\, KISS\, Jimmy Page\, Stephen Malkmus\, steroids\, Mountain Dew\, Chinese Democracy\, The Beatles\, Jonathan Franzen\, Taylor Swift\, Tim Tebow\, Kobe Bryant\, Usain Bolt\, Eddie Van Halen\, Charlie Brown\, the Cleveland Browns\, and many more cultural figures and pop phenomena. This is a tour of the past decade from one of the sharpest and most prolific observers of our unusual times. \n  \n\n  \n“Often imitated and rarely replicated\, the writing style of Chuck Klosterman has proven rather influential in all manner of 21st century writing. From news stories to critical reviews to artist profiles\, Klosterman’s often irreverent\, self-deprecating\, footnote happy smart/funny observations make for highly entertaining reading.” — John Paul\, Popmatters \n  \n“Infectious…. Though Klosterman may be pigeonholed as a guy who thinks too much about Kiss\, his 10th book shows he’s something else: a philosopher.” — Justin Wm. Moyer\, The Washington Post \n  \n“Klosterman is a master of the high-low…He injects a level of intellectual rigor into subjects that receive precious little…With X\, Klosterman wallows in the trivial…but he’s not trivializing…proving that culture essays can teach us something about ourselves and the people around us…Each of his essays is a love letter to a moment.” — B. David Zarley\, Paste \n  \n\n  \nChuck Klosterman is the bestselling author of eight books of nonfiction (including Sex\, Drugs\, and Cocoa Puffs and But What If We’re Wrong?) and two novels (Downtown Owl and The Visible Man). He has written for The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, GQ\, Esquire\, Spin\, The Guardian\, The Believer\, Billboard\, The A.V. Club\, and ESPN. Klosterman served as the Ethicist for The New York Times Magazine for three years\, appeared as himself in the LCD Soundsystem documentary Shut Up and Play the Hits\, and was an original founder of the website Grantland with Bill Simmons. Author photo by Jason Booher. \n  \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you are unable to attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of X and/or any of Klosterman’s other books\, order below and put your notes in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chuck-klosterman-x-a-highly-specific-defiantly-incomplete-history-of-the-early-21st-century/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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