BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Litseen - ECPv6.15.11//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Litseen X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://litseen.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Litseen REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191028T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191028T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164458 CREATED:20191016T034309Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191016T034309Z UID:53293-1572289200-1572294600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Reclaiming Judaism From Zionism - Reading With Several Contributors DESCRIPTION:In this powerful collection of personal narratives\, forty Jews of diverse backgrounds tell a wide range of stories about the roads they have traveled from a Zionist world view to activism in solidarity with Palestinians and Israelis striving to build an inclusive society founded on justice\, equality\, and peaceful coexistence. \nReclaiming Judaism from Zionism will be controversial.  Its contributors welcome the long overdue public debate.  They want to demolish stereotypes of dissenting Jews as ‘self-hating\,’ traitorous\, and anti-Semitic.  They want to introduce readers to the large and growing community of Jewish activists who have created organizations such as Jewish Voice for Peace\, If Not Now\, and Open Hillel. They want to strengthen alliances with progressives of all faiths. Above all\, they want to nurture models of Jewish identity that replace ethnic exclusiveness with solidarity\, Zionism with a Judaism once again nourished by a transcendent ethical vision. \nLinda Hess is senior lecturer emerita in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University.\n\nSydney Levy\, a queer Latinx\, is a co-coordinator of the caucus of Jews of Color\, Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews in solidarity with Palestine\, and a steering committee member of both the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights and the Global Jewish Network in Solidarity with Palestine.\n\nHilton Obenzinger is a recipient of the American Book Award. His books include This Passover and the Next I Will Never Be in Jerusalem (1980)\, American Palestine: Melville\, Twain\, and the Holy Land Mania (1999)\, and Treyf Pesach (2017). He is currently Associate Director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford University.\n\nHenri Picciotto served on the JVP Board of Directors from 2002 to 2009 and chaired it for much of that period.   He has authored or co-authored many books and articles on math education.\n\nCecilie Surasky has worked as a professional communicator in a variety of social justice movements\, and her film work and political analysis has been featured in film festivals and news outlets all over the world.\n\nJordan Wilson-Dalzell is a queer poet writing about intersections of disability\, feminism\, Judaism\, survivorhood and social justice; her next poetry book\, Baptism by Flame\, will be about finding a home in Judaism that reflects her values. URL:https://litseen.com/event/reclaiming-judaism-from-zionism-reading-with-several-contributors/ LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Judaism.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191028T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191028T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164458 CREATED:20190824T211907Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190824T211907Z UID:52739-1572289200-1572296400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism With contributors Linda Hess\, Hilton Obenzinger\, Henri Picciotto\, Cecilie Surasky and Jordan Wilson-Daizell DESCRIPTION:In this powerful collection of personal narratives\, forty Jews of diverse backgrounds tell a wide range of stories about the roads they have traveled from a Zionist world view to activism in solidarity with Palestinians and Israelis striving to build an inclusive society founded on justice\, equality\, and peaceful coexistence. \nReclaiming Judaism from Zionism will be controversial.  Its contributors welcome the long overdue public debate.  They want to demolish stereotypes of dissenting Jews as ‘self-hating\,’ traitorous\, and anti-Semitic.  They want to introduce readers to the large and growing community of Jewish activists who have created organizations such as Jewish Voice for Peace\, If Not Now\, and Open Hillel. They want to strengthen alliances with progressives of all faiths. Above all\, they want to nurture models of Jewish identity that replace ethnic exclusiveness with solidarity\, Zionism with a Judaism once again nourished by a transcendent ethical vision. \nLinda Hess is senior lecturer emerita in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University.\n\nSydney Levy\, a queer Latinx\, is a co-coordinator of the caucus of Jews of Color\, Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews in solidarity with Palestine\, and a steering committee member of both the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights and the Global Jewish Network in Solidarity with Palestine.\n\nHilton Obenzinger is a recipient of the American Book Award. His books include This Passover and the Next I Will Never Be in Jerusalem (1980)\, American Palestine: Melville\, Twain\, and the Holy Land Mania (1999)\, and Treyf Pesach (2017). He is currently Associate Director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford University.\n\nHenri Picciotto served on the JVP Board of Directors from 2002 to 2009 and chaired it for much of that period.   He has authored or co-authored many books and articles on math education.\n\nCecilie Surasky has worked as a professional communicator in a variety of social justice movements\, and her film work and political analysis has been featured in film festivals and news outlets all over the world.\n\nJordan Wilson-Dalzell graduated from Pitzer College with a degree in creative writing. Her work has been published in the magazines Passwords\, Abramelin\, Eskimpi\, andCadaverine. URL:https://litseen.com/event/reclaiming-judaism-from-zionism-with-contributors-linda-hess-hilton-obenzinger-henri-picciotto-cecilie-surasky-and-jordan-wilson-daizell/ LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Reclaiming-Judaism.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164458 CREATED:20190824T194806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190824T194806Z UID:52680-1572375600-1572382800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Jarett Kobek DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of his new novel \nOnly Americans Burn in Hell \npublished by We’ve Heard You Like Books \n\n‘Brilliantly funny … the best satire of our contemporary nightmare that you will ever see\, and very possibly the last’ Alan Moore \nIt’s 2019 and America is ruled over by a billionaire reality TV star. Its media is owned by a transnational class of the shameless and the depraved. And its people have been silently robbed of their wealth\, their dignity and their democracy. \nIn this brave new world\, going to see a superhero movie counts as activism\, and arguing with the other serfs on social media is political engagement. BUT EVERYTHING’S FINE – as long as you never\, ever ask yourself who makes money from the ticket sales and the ratings\, or who owns Twitter. \nIt’s 2019 and Jarett Kobek has done the only thing a dissident American novelist can do in those circumstances: he’s joined the party and written fantasy novel about an immortal fairy queen and a shadowy billionaire philanthropist sheikh called Dennis. \nHilarious\, provocative and unmissable\, Only Americans Burn in Hell is the only novel for our certifiably insane times. \nJarett Kobek is a Turkish-American writer living in California. His novel I HATE THE INTERNET was an international bestseller\, translated into nine languages\, and published in twelve countries. URL:https://litseen.com/event/jarett-kobek-2/ LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Jarett.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164458 CREATED:20190930T192339Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190930T192339Z UID:53001-1572377400-1572382800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Gary Janetti: Do You Mind If I Cancel? DESCRIPTION:Gary Janetti discusses his new book\, Do You Mind If I Cancel? (Things That Still Annoy Me). \nPraise for Do You Mind If I Cancel? \n“Gary Janetti’s book is so rolling-on-the-floor funny\, so brilliantly observant\, and so full of heart\, I’m sure a jealous Prince George will decree that Gary be locked up in the Tower of London.”— Kevin Kwan\, New York Times bestselling author of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy \n“The writing of Gary Janetti\, whether televised or tweeted\, is famously incisive and sharp-tongued. What a revelation it was\, therefore\, to discover in these revealing personal essays an artist of great tenderness and vulnerability. And he’s still funny as hell.”— Armistead Maupin\, New York Times bestselling author of The Tales of the City \n“Almost as soon as I began to read Gary Janetti’s Do You Mind If I Cancel?\, I found myself feeling the way I felt when I first encountered Fran Lebowitz and David Rakoff: laughing and wanting to shout out the best bits to whoever else was in the room\, even if no one else was there. This crazy quilt of memoir\, cultural history\, one-liners aplenty\, and periodic arias of hopefulness\, frustration\, and brashly rude rage\, is a work of intertwined great humor and great feeling. I’ve already lost my copy\, snatched up by its next eager reader.”— Benjamin Dreyer\, New York Times bestselling author of Dreyer’s English \nAbout Do You Mind If I Cancel? \nGary Janetti\, the writer and producer for some of the most popular television comedies of all time\, and creator of one of the most wickedly funny Instagram accounts there is\, now turns his skills to the page in a hilarious\, and poignant book chronicling the pains and indignities of everyday life. \nGary spends his twenties in New York\, dreaming of starring on soap operas while in reality working at a hotel where he lusts after an unattainable colleague and battles a bellman who despises it when people actually use a bell to call him. He chronicles the torture of finding a job before the internet when you had to talk on the phone all the time\, and fantasizes\, as we all do\, about who to tell off when he finally wins an Oscar. As Gary himself says\, “These are essays from my childhood and young adulthood about things that still annoy me.” \nOriginal\, brazen\, and laugh out loud funny\, Do You Mind if I Cancel? is something not to be missed. \n  URL:https://litseen.com/event/gary-janetti-do-you-mind-if-i-cancel/ LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Janetti.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191030T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191030T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164458 CREATED:20190822T231805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190822T231805Z UID:52441-1572463800-1572469200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow DESCRIPTION:Hannu Rajaniemi\, Meg Elison\, Annalee Newitz discuss their contributions to Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrowwith editor Torie Bosch. \nAbout Future Tense Fiction \nFuture Tense Fiction is a collection of electrifying original stories from a veritable who’s-who of the most interesting authors working on the margins of speculative literature and science fiction. \nFeaturing Carmen Maria Machado\, Emily St. John Mandel\, Charlie Jane Anders\, Paolo Bacigalupi\, Madeline Ashby\, Mark Oshiro\, Meg Elison\, Maureen McHugh\, Deji Bryce Olukotun\, Hannu Rajaniemi\, Annalee Newitz\, Lee Konstantinou\, and Mark Stasenko–Future Tense Fiction points the way forward to the fiction of tomorrow. \nA disease surveillance robot whose social programming gets put to the test. A future in which everyone receives universal basic income–but it’s still not enough. A futuristic sport\, in which all the athletes have been chemically and physically enhanced. An A.I. company that manufactures a neural bridge allowing ordinary people to share their memories. Brimming with excitement and exploring new ideas\, the stories collected by the editors of Slate’s Future Tense are philosophically ambitious and haunting in their creativity. At times terrifying and heartwrenching\, hilarious and optimistic\, this is a collection that ushers in a new age for our world and for the short story. \nAnnalee Newitz writes science fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of the novel Autonomous\, nominated for the Nebula and Locus Awards\, and winner of the Lambda Literary Award. As a science journalist\, she’s written for the Washington Post\, Slate\, Ars Technica\, the New Yorker\, and The Atlantic\, among others. Her book Scatter\, Adapt\, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinctionwas a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in science. She was the founder of io9\, and served as the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo and the tech culture editor at Ars Technica. She has published short stories in Lightspeed\, Shimmer\, Apex\, and Technology Review’s Twelve Tomorrows. She was the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT\, worked as a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation\, and has a Ph.D. in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley. Her new novel\, The Future of Another Timeline\, comes out September 2019. \nMeg Elison is a science fiction author and feminist essayist. Herdebut novel\, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife\, won the 2014 Philip K.Dick award. Her second novel was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick\,and both were longlisted for the James A. Tiptree award. She has been published in McSweeney’s\, Fantasy & Science Fiction\, Catapult\, and many other places. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of the University of California\, Berkeley. Find her online\, where she writes like she’s running out of time. \nHannu Rajaniemi is the author of four novels including The Quantum Thief(winner of 2012 Tähtivaeltaja Award for the best science fiction novel published in Finland and translated into more than 20 languages)\, and Invisible Planets\, a short story collection. His most recent book is Summerland\, an alternate history spy thriller in a world where the afterlife is real. His short fiction has been featured in Slate\, MIT Technology Review and the New York Times. Hannu lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a co-founder and CEO of HelixNano\, a venture- and Y Combinator–backed biotech startup. \nTorie Bosch is the editor of Future Tense\, a partnership of Slate\, New America\, and Arizona State University. She was also the co-editor of the 2017 edition of What Future: The Year’s Best Ideas to Reclaim\, Reanimate & Reinvent the Future (The Unnamed Press). URL:https://litseen.com/event/future-tense-fiction-stories-of-tomorrow/ LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Future-Tense.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191030T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191030T213000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164458 CREATED:20190726T154353Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190726T154353Z UID:52224-1572463800-1572471000@litseen.com SUMMARY:JOHN LITHGOW In Conversation with Calvin Trillin DESCRIPTION:JOHN LITHGOW\nIn Conversation with Calvin Trillin\nWednesday\, October 30\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nJohn Lithgow is an award-winning actor with two Tonys\, six Emmys\, and two Golden Globes to his name. His forthcoming book of poetry\, Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse\, features his own never-before-seen drawings\, and chronicles the last few years in politics with Lithgow’s characteristic sharp wit and propulsive lyricism. \nJournalist\, humorist\, and devoted eater\, Calvin Trillin is a most beloved chronicler of culture. His long association with The New Yorker Magazine began in 1963 with his U.S. Journal articles\, compiled as he traveled the country\, searching for obscure stories and developing a taste for regional delicacies. Though his writing about food began as comic relief from his more serious pieces\, it has earned him a dedicated readership and has been collected in multiple books. Calvin Trillin is also a board member of City Arts & Lectures. URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-lithgow-in-conversation-with-calvin-trillin/ LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/lithgow.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191031T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191031T133000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164458 CREATED:20191031T155702Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191031T155702Z UID:53549-1572521400-1572528600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Impromptu writing online via Zoom! DESCRIPTION:Come join us to write together from the comfort of home! This chance to meet via computer or mobile device (or by phone) is surprisingly akin to being together in “real life” (!!) and offers the added bonus of seeing each participant as though we are sitting across from each other. \nWe do short\, timed writings together from writing prompts (or from words drawn from the magic word pouch!). We read our impromptu work out loud and receive good\, specific feedback from the group\, words or phrases that strike people\, images\, feelings the work evokes. (There is no critique\, no advice for strengthening the writing\, because this is spontaneous writing\, not polished work.) This is a great chance to encourage agile writer’s minds\, to stretch\, to bypass our critic and censor\, practice sharing our impromptu work\, grow larger in ourselves. I think you’ll find these online sessions can be surprisingly warm and filled with lovely connections. 🙂 \nRegister here on Meetup:\nhttps://www.meetup.com/Desert-People-Writing-Together/events/265241826/ \nAbout the leader of this session\, Riba Taylor\nI’m in my 18th year of teaching community college English and have been leading on-the-ground spontaneous writing groups for the past 2-1/2 years at the Cathedral City library (near Palm Springs). For more details about me and writing\, please scroll down on this page to “About the retreat leader”:\nhttps://499words.org/retreat/ \n(All times are Pacific time.) URL:https://litseen.com/event/impromptu-writing-online-via-zoom/ LOCATION:online CATEGORIES:East Bay,North Bay,San Francisco,South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CatOnLaptop.png ORGANIZER;CN="Riba Taylor":MAILTO:riba11@earthlink.net END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191101T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191107T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164458 CREATED:20191002T141726Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191002T141804Z UID:53243-1572634800-1573160400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Word for Word Presents: “EXACTLY!” THEY SAID… A Festival of Short Stories by California Writers Brought Straight to the Stage DESCRIPTION:Word for Word Presents:\n“EXACTLY!” THEY SAID…\nA Festival of Short Stories by California Writers Brought Straight to the Stage \nSUBMISSIONS NOW CLOSED\nNovember 1-7 \nHaving transformed short stories verbatim to the stage for the past 25 years\, Word for Word now wants to extend this singular experience to writers throughout California. The selected short stories reflect many points of view\, from a rich diversity of California’s writers. Festival activities will include a writers salon featuring Greg Sarris (Grand Avenue\, Watermelon Nights\, How A Mountain was Made) and Amy Tan (“The Bonesetter’s Daughter”\, “The Joy Luck Club”) and other activities. The festival will culminate in staged readings of five jury selected short stories by adults and six jury selected stories by teens\, performed in Word for Word’s signature Off the Page style. \nClick Here to see a full list of winners\, including picture and bios. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFESTIVAL SCHEDULE\nLaunch of the Festival Of Short Stories\nwith Greg Sarris and Amy Tan\nFriday November 1\, 7 PM\nJewish Community High School of the Bay\, 1835 Ellis St.\, San Francisco 94115 \nKick of the festival with a writer’s Salon with two of Word for Word’s favorite authors\, Greg Sarris and Amy Tan! These two luminaries will speak about the nature of the short story and their experiences with having Word for Word bring their works to the stage. \nWord for Word will revisit snippets the companies past productions of “Citizen” (Sarris) and “Immortal Heart” (Tan). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“I am so in love with Word for Word and what they do. I come from a community who generally does not read. After my American Indian community had seen Slaughterhouse\, they were inspired to read.”  \n–Greg Sarris \nGreg Sarris is a Native American author whose books include Grand Avenue and Watermelon Nights. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Word for Word is a marvel. While respecting the author’s every word\, the company also manages to create something completely new\, going well beyond the page into an art that has no words. I was completely bowled over by the acting\, the stage\, the costumes\, the choreography—the sheer power of the experience of watching words come to life.” \n–Amy Tan \nAmy Tan is the celebrated author of The Joy Luck Club\, The Bonesetter’s Daughter\, Saving Fish from Drowning\, and other novels. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGET TICKETS TO FESTIVAL LAUNCH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdult Winners – Program #1\nFeaturing “Arithmetic” by Michael Alenyikov\, “The 14 Mission” by Anita Cabrera”\, “The Ruins” by Lindsey Crittenden \nSaturday\, November 2\, 8 PM – Z Below\, 470 Florida St\, San Francisco 94110 \nThis program features staged readings of our jury selected winners. \n\n\n\n\nGET TICKETS TO ADULT PROGRAM #1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdult Winners – Program #2\nFeaturing “Blue Ruin” by Katherine Lieban\, “Cancer Poems” by Kim Addonizio \nSunday\, November 3\, 5 PM – Z Below\, 470 Florida St\, San Francisco 94110 \nThis program features staged readings of our jury selected winners. \n\n\n\n\nGET TICKETS TO ADULT PROGRAM #2\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTeen Winners\nFeaturing”Middle School Advice” by Kenzo Fukuda\, “Atop the Saltback Mountain” by Tess Horton\, “Here’s a Theory Darling” by Sofi Orkin\, “The Magnolia Man” by Stella Pfahler\, “Matter of the Heart and Mind” by Charlotte Pocock and “Cancer” by Maya Reihanian \nThursday\, November 7\, 7:30 PM – Children’s Creativity Museum at Yerba Buena Gardens \nThis program features staged readings from our teen category. Come out and revel at our next generation of writers! \n\n\n\n\nGET TICKETS TO TEEN WINNERS\n\n\n\n\nStand with the bear! Be a literary champion and support California writers by sponsoring or partnering with “Exactly!” They Said…\nSponsorship / Partner benefits available.\nContact Vanessa Flores at vflores@zspace.org or at 415. 659.8134 to learn more. URL:https://litseen.com/event/word-for-word-presents-exactly-they-said-a-festival-of-short-stories-by-california-writers-brought-straight-to-the-stage/ LOCATION:various venues\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191101T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191101T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164458 CREATED:20190930T192021Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190930T192021Z UID:52906-1572636600-1572642000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Mikhal Dekel: Tehran Children DESCRIPTION:Mikhal Dekel discusses her new book\, Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey. \nPraise for Tehran Children \n“A revelatory history\, a saga of flight and welcome\, of death and head-down survival\, a powerful narrative built for this moment. Dekel’s sweeping storytelling is marked by heartbreaking restraint and historical sensitivity.”—Charles King\, Georgetown University\, author of Odessa and Midnight at the Pera Palace \n“Though their story is seldom told\, most Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust did so by taking the road east\, into the Soviet Union. In tracing the harrowing journey of her father’s escape\, Mikhal Dekel provides a multi-layered and nuanced account. . . . Her exploration of the peculiar refugee world in 1940s Tehran — especially the tense relations between Jewish and Catholic Polish refugees in that city – makes the book an important and timely addition to the literature of the Holocaust and modern refugee history.” — Tom Reiss\, author of The Orientalist and The Black Count \n“In this brilliantly conceived narrative\, Mikhal Dekel reconstructs her father’s and grandmother’s circuitous journeys by land and sea through Iran on the way from Poland to Palestine in the years of the Holocaust. Retracing their lives as she lives her own\, in turn she illuminates a series of unexpected places absent from many maps of the refugee experience of the era. A striking book.”—Samuel Moyn\, Yale University\, author of Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World \nAbout Tehran Children \nAuthor Mikhal Dekel’s father\, Hannan Teitel\, and her aunt Regina were two of these refugees. After they fled the town in eastern Poland where their family had been successful brewers for centuries\, they endured extreme suffering in the Soviet forced labor camps known as “special settlements.” Then came a journey during which tens of thousands died of starvation and disease en route to the Soviet Central Asian Republics of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. While American organizations negotiated to deliver aid to the hundreds of thousands of Polish Jews who remained there\, Dekel’s father and aunt were two of nearly one thousand refugee children who were evacuated via Polish military transport to Iran\, where they were embraced by an ancient Persian-Jewish community celebrating familiar rituals in unfamiliar ways. Months later\, their Zionist caregivers escorted them via India to Mandatory Palestine\, where\, at the endpoint of their 13\,000 mile journey\, they joined hundreds of thousands of refugees (including over one hundred thousand Polish Catholics). The arrival of the “Tehran Children” was far from straightforward\, as religious and secular parties vied over their futures in what would soon be Israel. \nBeginning with the death of the inscrutable Tehran Child who was her father\, Dekel fuses memoir with extensive archival research to recover this astonishing story\, with the help of travel companions and interlocutors including an Iranian colleague\, a Polish PiS politician\, a Russian oligarch\, and an Uzbek descendent of Korean deportees. The history she uncovers is one of the worst and the best of humanity\, of fate and destiny\, of hospitality and of cruelty\, of love and hate. The experiences her father and aunt endured\, along with so many others\, ultimately reshaped and redefined their lives and identities and those of other refugees and rescuers\, profoundly and permanently\, during and after the war. \nWith literary grace\, Tehran Children presents a unique narrative of the Holocaust\, whose governing symbol is not the concentration camp\, but the refugee\, and whose center is not Europe\, but Central Asia and the Middle East. \n  URL:https://litseen.com/event/mikhal-dekel-tehran-children/ LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Dekel.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191102T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191102T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164458 CREATED:20190930T192350Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191002T022930Z UID:53003-1572723000-1572728400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne: Holding on to Nothing DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne discusses her new novel\, Holding on to Nothing. \nPraise for Holding on to Nothing \n“Holding On To Nothing is a resonant song of the South\, all whiskey\, bluegrass\, Dolly Parton\, tobacco fields\, and women who know better but still fall for the lowdown men whom they know will disappoint them. Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne writes with extraordinary love and compassion of the lives of her flawed characters; she shines a clear\, calm light on their tragedies\, their joys\, and their hard-won redemptions.”—Lauren Groff\, Florida and Fates and Furies \n“Forget Hillbilly Elegy and read this gorgeous novel instead. Every detail is exactly right. Contemporary themes of work and no work\, drinking\, sex\, guns\, music\, community\, and no future—along with in-depth character development and a hard-driving plot—make this a book you literally cannot put down.”—Lee Smith\, Dimestore and The Last Girls \n“With her immense empathy for her characters\, Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne refuses to give the reader a simple\, and stereotypical\, tale of Appalachian dysfunction. Instead\, we get a story of a seemingly star-crossed couple striving to create a better life in the most trying of circumstances. Holding On To Nothing is a gem.”—Ron Rash\, Serena \nAbout Holding on to Nothing \nLucy Kilgore has her bags packed for her escape from her rural Tennessee upbringing\, but a drunken mistake forever tethers her to the town and one of its least-admired residents\, Jeptha Taylor\, who becomes the father of her child. Together\, these two young people work to form a family\, though neither has any idea how to accomplish that\, and the odds are against them in a place with little to offer other than bluegrass music\, tobacco fields\, and a Walmart full of beer and firearms for the hunting season. Their path is harrowing\, but Lucy and Jeptha are characters to love\, and readers will root for their success in a novel so riveting that no one will want to turn out the light until they know whether this family will survive. \nIn luminous prose\, debut novelist Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne brings us a present-day Appalachian story in the tradition of Lee Smith\, Silas House\, and Ron Rash\, cast without sentiment or clich \, but with a genuine and profound understanding of the place and its people. URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-chiles-shelburne-holding-on-to-nothing/ LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Shelburne.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191103T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191103T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164458 CREATED:20191001T200914Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191001T200928Z UID:53151-1572800400-1572807600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Ramesh Srinivasan DESCRIPTION:discussing his new book \nBeyond the Valley: How Innovators around the World are Overcoming Inequality and Creating the Technologies of Tomorrow \nPublished by The MIT Press \n\nHow to repair the disconnect between designers and users\, producers and consumers\, and tech elites and the rest of us: toward a more democratic internet. \nIn this provocative book\, Ramesh Srinivasan describes the internet as both an enabler of frictionless efficiency and a dirty tangle of politics\, economics\, and other inefficient\, inharmonious human activities. We may love the immediacy of Google search results\, the convenience of buying from Amazon\, and the elegance and power of our Apple devices\, but it’s a one-way\, top-down process. We’re not asked for our input\, or our opinions—only for our data. The internet is brought to us by wealthy technologists in Silicon Valley and China. It’s time\, Srinivasan argues\, that we think in terms beyond the Valley. \nSrinivasan focuses on the disconnection he sees between designers and users\, producers and consumers\, and tech elites and the rest of us. The recent Cambridge Analytica and Russian misinformation scandals exemplify the imbalance of a digital world that puts profits before inclusivity and democracy. In search of a more democratic internet\, Srinivasan takes us to the mountains of Oaxaca\, East and West Africa\, China\, Scandinavia\, North America\, and elsewhere\, visiting the “design labs” of rural\, low-income\, and indigenous people around the world. He talks to a range of high-profile public figures—including Elizabeth Warren\, David Axelrod\, Eric Holder\, Noam Chomsky\, Lawrence Lessig\, and the founders of Reddit\, as well as community organizers\, labor leaders\, and human rights activists.. To make a better internet\, Srinivasan says\, we need a new ethic of diversity\, openness\, and inclusivity\, empowering those now excluded from decisions about how technologies are designed\, who profits from them\, and who are surveilled and exploited by them. \nRamesh Srinivasan is Professor of Information Studies and Design Media Arts at UCLA. He makes regular appearances on NPR\, The Young Turks\, MSNBC\, and Public Radio International\, and his writings have been published in the Washington Post\, Quartz\, Huffington Post\, CNN\, and elsewhere. \nvisit: http://rameshsrinivasan.org/ URL:https://litseen.com/event/ramesh-srinivasan/ LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/123.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191104T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191104T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164458 CREATED:20191029T172608Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191029T172608Z UID:53517-1572894000-1572901200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning in the Doolan-Larson Building DESCRIPTION:Monday\, November 4 in the Doolan-Larson Building\n\n\n\n\na literary mixtape\, featuring: \nA.A. Vincent\nNoah Sanders\nAnna Allen\nChelsea Davis\nKelly Alsup\nAbe Becker\nEmilie Osborn\nGenie Cartier\nDiana Donovan\nFernando Meisenhalter\nSerena Chan\nLauren Ito\nJC Walker\nRichelle Lee Slota \nand the artwork of Zoltron \n\nCurated by Hadas Goshen & Kevin Madrigal and featuring all kinds of writing\, this one-night-only show is $15 to attend and includes a copy of sPARKLE & bLINK 102 featuring all of the selected writing and covers by Zoltron. \nDue to space constraints\, only 50 guests are allowed. Tickets are for sale here\, with all proceeds going toward our 10th anniversary fundraiser. Door tickets are not guaranteed\, so we recommend you get your tickets now! Unless otherwise noted here\, tickets are still available. \nAbout the Doolan Larson Building\nRecently named the 100th National Treasure by the National Register of Historic Places\, the building is at the corner of Haight & Ashbury streets\, where the store Mnasidika opened in 1965 by an openly bisexual woman named Peggy Caserta. Caserta convinced Levi Strauss to make bell bottoms\, and was Janis Joplin’s ‘primary female love interest’ from ’66 until Joplin’s death in 1970. You can read more about it here (and in a biography Caserta has recently published). This is sure to be an intimate event – take a virtual tour if you’d like! \nUpstairs @ the Doolan-Larson Building\, photo by Evan Karp\nTaking a tour of the building\nSF Heritage will be conducting a tour of the building for up to 12 people at 6:45pm\, before the show\, and another tour of the same size following the show. Tickets for the tour must be purchased in advance. \n\nGet tickets! \nStatistics\nThanks to everyone who sent in writing. We received 60 submissions and accepted 14 (23%). Of those selected\, only 4 have read or performed with us before (29%). 10 (71%) of the selected authors will be reading for Quiet Lightning for the first time. \n\n\n\nSubmissions are open for the first show of our second decade! Curated by Disruptor Sophia Passin and her co-curator of choice\, Kathleen Torrez\, this show will be on January 6\, 2020 at a special location to be announced soon. Submissions are open through Wednesday\, December 11 @ 11:59pm. \n\nfeatured image: Norm Larson in the Doolan-Larson Building\, by Christopher Michel URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-in-the-doolan-larson-building/ LOCATION:Doolan-Larson Building\, 557 Ashbury St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Doolan-Larson-Building-by-Christopher-Michel-web.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191105T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191105T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164458 CREATED:20191030T210555Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191030T210555Z UID:53525-1572980400-1572987600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Release Party for New great weather for MEDIA Anthology DESCRIPTION:Bird & Beckett and great weather for MEDIA present an inspiring evening of cutting edge poets and prose writers from across the Bay Area and the U.S.  They come together to celebrate the release of great weather’s new anthology\, Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea\, which features work by intense wordsmiths – including those you’ll hear tonight – along with an interview with musician and artist Walter Steding. Come prepared for revelations\, epiphanies\, and a few broad smiles. \nThis evening features writers from across the US and beyond\, including Neeli Cherkovski (SF)\, Joan Gelfand (SF)\, Matthew Hupert (NYC)\, Deborah Kennedy (San Jose)\, Mira Martin-Parker (SF)\, Richard Loranger (Oakland)\, and SB Stokes (Oakland). \nHosted by great weather editor Jane Ormerod (from NY and UK). \nBased in New York City\, great weather for MEDIA publishes established and emerging writers from across the United States and beyond. \nPlease stop by\, get yourself dangerously verbiaged up\, and pick up a copy of Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea to call your very own. \n  \nRelease party for new great weather for MEDIA Anthology \nBirds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea \n  \na reading by \nNeeli Cherkovski\nJoan Gelfand\nMatthew Hupert\nDeborah Kennedy\nMira Martin-Parker\nRichard Loranger\nand SB Stokes \nplus a brief open mic \nhosted by Jane Ormerod \n  \nPERFORMER BIOS \nNeeli Cherkovski was born in Los Angeles. He is the author of numerous books of poetry\, including Animal (1996)\, Leaning Against Time (2005)\, From the Canyon Outward (2009)\, and The Crow and I (2015). He is the co-editor of Anthology of L.A. Poets (with Charles Bukowski) and Cross-Strokes: Poetry between Los Angeles and San Francisco (with Bill Mohr). In addition\, Neeli has written biographies of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Charles Bukowski\, as well as the critical memoir Whitman’s Wild Children. His papers are held at the Bancroft Library\, University of California\, Berkeley. Neeli received the 2017 Jack Mueller Poetry Prize awarded at the Jack Mueller Festival in Fruita\, Colorado. He has lived in San Francisco since 1974. \nJoan Gelfand is the author of You Can Be a Winning Writer: The 4 C’s of Successful Authors (Mango Press)\, three volumes of poetry\, and an award-winning chapbook of short fiction. Joan’s novel set in a Silicon Valley startup is forthcoming from Mastodon  /  C&R Press. Recipient of numerous awards and honors\, Joan’s work appears in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Prairie Schooner\, Toronto Review\, Marsh Hawk Review\, Kalliope\, Rattle\, Levure littéraire\, and many other journals. \nMatthew Hupert is a writer and multi-media artist. He is the founder of the NeuroNautic Institute and its associated poetry workshop and of NeuroNautic Press which just released his latest collection\, Secular Pantheism. He is the author of Ism is a Retrovirus (Three Rooms Press) and several chapbooks\, and his writing has appeared in numerous publications including Midstream Magazine\, Maintenant\, and Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets. When not writing\, Matthew can be found cooking for his family. He lives in New York City. \nDeborah Kennedy is an author and artist whose recent book\, Nature Speaks: Art and Poetry for the Earth\, combines illustrations and poetry focusing on the ecological themes of our time. The book’s honors include the 2016 Eric Hoffer Poetry Book Award and a 2017 Silver Nautilus Poetry Book Award. Her writing has appeared in First Literary Review-East and Canary: A Literary Journal of the Environmental Crisis. Deborah lives in San Jose and teaches college classes and poetry workshops. She often hikes in an urban riparian corridor where she spots osprey\, hawks\, and herons. In the evening she watches for moonbows\, earthshine\, and other modern miracles. \n Mira Martin-Parker earned an MFA in creative writing at San Francisco State University. Her work has appeared in various publications\, including Istanbul Literary Review\, North Dakota Quarterly\, Mythium\, and Zyzzyva. \nRichard Loranger is a multi-genre writer\, performer\, musician\, visual artist\, and all-around squeaky wheel\, currently residing in Oakland\, CA. He is the founder of Poetea\, a monthly literary conversation group. His publications include the books Sudden Windows\, Poems for Teeth\, The Orange Book\, nine chapbooks\, and work in over 100 magazines and journals. He curates the reading series Babar in Exile\, and the queer talk and reading series #we. You can find more about his work and scandals at www.richardloranger.com. \nS B Stokes writes\, draws\, designs\, and produces in the hills behind a lake in Oakland\, California. His publications include a full-length poetry collection called A History of Broken Love Things (Punk Hostage Press\, 2014)\, a chapbook entitled DARK ENTRIES (Gorilla Press  / The Pedestrian Press\, 2014)\, and a self-published chapbook called Let’s Call This Nothing (2018). S  B is one of the founding producers of Beast Crawl\, an annual literary festival in Oakland which features over thirty readings and is 100% free. \nJane Ormerod is the author of the full-length poetry collections Welcome to the Museum of Cattle and Recreational Vehicles on Fire (both from Three Rooms Press)\, and the chapbook 11 Films (Modern Metrics/EXOT Books). Her work also appears in publications including Maintenant\, Flapperhouse\, Marsh Hawk Press Review\, Post (BLANK)\, Sensitive Skin\, and Paris Lit Up. Born on the south coast of England\, Jane now lives in New York City and performs extensively across the United States and beyond. She is a founding editor of great weather for MEDIA. URL:https://litseen.com/event/release-party-for-new-great-weather-for-media-anthology/ LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Front-cover-Birds-Fall-Silent-in-the-Mechanical-Sea.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="great weather for MEDIA":MAILTO:editors@greatweatherformedia.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191105T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191105T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164458 CREATED:20190822T231840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190822T231840Z UID:52443-1572982200-1572987600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Shannon Pufahl: On Swift Horses DESCRIPTION:Shannon Pufahl discusses hew new novel\, On Swift Horses. \nPraise for On Swift Horses \n“Once in a rare while you come across a novel of such transfixing beauty that it enlarges your faith in the medium itself. On Swift Horses is\, for me\, one of those books. As an exploration of life lived in the outer distances of plain sight\, it is suffused with hazard and touched by grace\, furnished with the longevity of a postwar classic and the immediacy of the present tense. It is\, simply put\, a masterpiece.”—Anthony Marra\, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena   \n“On Swift Horses is about both risk and the risqué\, about daring to know\, name\, and act on our own desires. Read this book for the adventure\, for the keening lyricism of the lost and searching\, but mostly read this book because no one writes like Shannon Pufahl. Her voice is muscular\, awesome\, and pure. This book knocked me flat on my back.” —Justin Torres\, author of We the Animals \n“On Swift Horses is a marvel\, a beautifully written novel that traces its raw\, guarded characters from California to Las Vegas to Mexico with grace and inevitability. Shannon Pufahl’s mid-century West is dead-on right\, as recognizable as a box of old photos and yet completely original in voice and scope.” —Jess Walter\, author of Beautiful Ruins \nAbout On Swift Horses \nA lonely newlywed and her wayward brother-in-law follow divergent and dangerous paths through the postwar American West. \nMuriel is newly married and restless\, transplanted from her rural Kansas hometown to life in a dusty bungalow in San Diego. The air is rich with the tang of salt and citrus\, but the limits of her new life seem to be closing in: She misses her freethinking mother\, dead before Muriel’s nineteenth birthday\, and her sly\, itinerant brother-in-law\, Julius\, who made the world feel bigger than she had imagined. And so she begins slipping off to the Del Mar racetrack to bet and eavesdrop\, learning the language of horses and risk. Meanwhile\, Julius is testing his fate in Las Vegas\, working at a local casino where tourists watch atomic tests from the roof\, and falling in love with Henry\, a young card cheat. When Henry is eventually discovered and run out of town\, Julius takes off to search for him in the plazas and dives of Tijuana\, trading one city of dangerous illusions and indiscretions for another. \nOn Swift Horses is a debut of astonishing power: a story of love and luck\, of two people trying to find their place in a country that is coming apart even as it promises them everything. URL:https://litseen.com/event/shannon-pufahl-on-swift-horses/ LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Pufahl.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191106T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191106T213000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164458 CREATED:20190930T215733Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190930T215733Z UID:53135-1573068600-1573075800@litseen.com SUMMARY:ANDRÉ ACIMAN & ANDREW SEAN GREER In Conversation with Steven Winn DESCRIPTION:Andre Aciman is a memoirist\, essayist\, novelist\, and scholar of seventeenth-century literature. Call Me By Your Name\, Aciman’s best-known novel\, was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film. The sequel\, Find Me\, catches up with beloved characters Elio and Oliver in adulthood. Aciman is the editor of The Proust Project and teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. \nNovelist Andrew Sean Greer is the author of six books including The Confessions of Max Tivoli (“enchanting\, in the perfumed\, dandified style of disenchantment brought to grandeur by Proust and Nabokov”  – John Updike) and the Pulitzer Prize winning Less\, a comedy about a man fleeing the humiliations of love\, middle-age\, and failure by accepting invitations that lead to a trip around the world and back. \nSteven Winn is a fiction writer and award-winning arts journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times\, Southern Poetry Review\, and Sports Illustrated. Winn spent 28 years at the San Francisco Chronicle\, and the last six as the Arts and Culture Critic. His past City Arts & Lectures interviews include Sally Mann\, Zadie Smith\, Michael Chabon\, and Edward St. Aubyn. URL:https://litseen.com/event/andre-aciman-andrew-sean-greer-in-conversation-with-steven-winn/ LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/123.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191107T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191107T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164458 CREATED:20191002T034100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191002T034100Z UID:53227-1573153200-1573160400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series: Cardboard House Press/Cartonera Collective: Giancarlo Huapaya\, Omar Pimienta\, José Antonio Villarán DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series continues in its second year\, as welcome Giancarlo Huapaya\, Omar Pimienta\, and José Antonio Villarán—all three poets involved in the outstanding literary small publisher Cardboard House Press\, dedicated to work in translation from Latin America and Spain\, and its offshoot\, Cartonera Collective\, “a team of book makers devoted to the production of bilingual book art from Latin American authors.” This event at The Poetry Center is co-sponsored with Latina/Latino Studies\, SF State. The following evening the poets will be reading and conversing at The Green Arcade\, on Market at Gough\, in San Francisco. Both events are free and open to the public. Please come! \n• For this occasion\, Tripwire journal will be producing a new Cardboard House/Cartonera Collective volume in its Tripwire Pamphlet Series! \nGiancarlo Huapaya (Lima\, Peru) has published three collections of poetry\, the most recently\, Taller Sub Verso (Sub Verse Workshop) (2011\, 2013). His poems and translations have appeared in the anthologies 4M3R1C4 (Chile)\, Aguas Móviles (Peru)\, Cholos (Guatemala)\, OOMPH! (US)\, and in the journals Erizo (Mexico-EEUU)\, Buenos Aires Poetry (Argentina)\, Poesía (Venezuela)\, Zunái (Brazil)\, Jacket2 (US)\, Anomaly (US)\, Periódico de Poesía de la UNAM (México)\, among others. He is Founder and Editor of Cardboard House Press\, a nonprofit publishing house for Latin American and Spanish literature in translation. As a curator of visual poetry\, he has presented exhibitions at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco and the University of Arizona Poetry Center in Tucson. In 2016\, he edited the anthology Pulenta Pool: Peruvian Poets in the United States for Hostos Review. As literary translator\, he has translated into Spanish work by C.D Wright\, Susan Briante\, Ross Gay\, Carmen Giménez Smith and Alli Warren. Currently\, he is MFA candidate in Creative Writing at The University of Texas at El Paso. \nOmar Pimienta is a writer/artist who lives and works in the San Diego / Tijuana border region. His artistic practice examines questions of identity\, trans-nationality\, emergency poetics\, sociopolitical landscape and memory. He has published four books of poetry in U.S\, México and Spain. Album of Fences\, translated by José Antonio Villarán\, was published by Cardboard House Press in 2018. He won the Emilio Prado 10th International Publication prize from the Centro Cultural Generación del 27 Malaga Spain. His work as a visual artist has been recently shown\, at the 3ème Biennale Internationale de l’Art Contemporain de Casablanca Maroc\, and was part of the Getty Foundation\, Pacific Standard Time LA/LA. In 2017-18 he was awarded an Art Matters Grant. More here. \nJose Antonio Villarán (parent/writer/teacher) is the author of two books of poetry: la distancia es siempre la misma (Matalamanga\, 2006) & el cerrajero (Album del Universo Bakterial\, 2012); one book of translation\, Album of Fences\, by Omar Pimienta (Cardboard House Press\, 2018); and creator of the AMLT project\, an exploration of hypertext literature and collective authorship\, which was sponsored by Puma from 2011-2014. His third book\, titled open pit\, is forthcoming from AUB in 2019. He holds an MFA in Writing from the University of California San Diego\, and is currently a PhD Candidate in Literature at the University of California Santa Cruz. URL:https://litseen.com/event/tripwire-cross-cultural-poetics-series-cardboard-house-press-cartonera-collective-giancarlo-huapaya-omar-pimienta-jose-antonio-villaran/ LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/GiancarloOmarJosé-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191107T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191107T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164458 CREATED:20191107T082145Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191107T082145Z UID:53613-1573153200-1573160400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Give Us The Word DESCRIPTION:Give Us The Word\, Queer Rebels present an evening of words of wisdom\, words of resistance\, words to inspire\, words that heal. Words that help QTPoC folks get to the other side. We need US. QTPOC writers\, readers\, singers\, talkers\, storytellers and thought makers speak to our lives\, loves and desires in this world and in this crazy moment. Our very Special Guest: Blackberri Singer\, Chibueze Crouch\, Mason Jairo\, Carolyn Wysinger and Dazie Grego-Sykes. This is A Free Event \nQueer Rebels is supported by The California Arts Council\, SFAC\, The Zellerbach Foundation Grants for The Arts and Intersection For The Arts URL:https://litseen.com/event/give-us-the-word/ LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Give-Us-the-World.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191107T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191107T213000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164458 CREATED:20190930T215857Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190930T215857Z UID:53138-1573155000-1573162200@litseen.com SUMMARY:CHRIS HUGHES In Conversation with Courtney E. Martin DESCRIPTION:In 2002\, Chris Hughes met Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard\, in his freshman year\, and the two co-founded what would become Facebook. In 2007\, Hughes left Facebook to volunteer for Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign\, and went on to found his own non-profit social network organization\, Jumo. He later purchased a majority stake in The New Republic and became editor-in-chief of the magazine. In May of 2019\, Hughes published an Op-Ed in the New York Times\, entitled “It’s Time to Break Up Facebook\,” calling for government regulation of the platform\, and reflecting on the troubling directions that he believed Facebook to have moved since his departure. Hughes is also the author of Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality\, an exhortative book arguing for a guaranteed income for working people\, to be paid for by one percenters like himself. \nCourtney E. Martin is the author of five books\, including Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists and The New Better Off: Reinventing the American Dream. She is the co-founder of the Solutions Journalism Network and has collaborated with a wide range of organizations\, including TED\, The Aspen Institute\, and the Obama Foundation. She won the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics and holds an honorary doctorate from ArtCenter College of Design. URL:https://litseen.com/event/chris-hughes-in-conversation-with-courtney-e-martin/ LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/123-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191107T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191107T213000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164458 CREATED:20191107T080752Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191107T080752Z UID:53607-1573155000-1573162200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Eves at the Beat: Womxn Reading at The Beat Museum DESCRIPTION:During Women’s History month a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into something powerful and a new monthly reading series concept was born\, “Eves at the Beat”. \nThis months Eves at the Beat is curated by the fabulous Thea Matthews And MC’d Shelley Wong \nReaders for this event: \nAudrey T. Williams is a Poet|Writer|Activist. In 2018\, she earned her MFA in Writing from CCA. She writes through a lens of Black\, multi-cultural ancestry infused with flights of fantasy. Current projects: Of Chutneys and Chitlins: Stories from a Multi-cultural American Girl and Liberation Spells: What to Say to Center Yourself. \nMarguerite Munoz writes mostly in East Bay and from her sickbed when she has a cold. Her work speaks to interconnectedness sensed through spirit\, blurred boundaries between inner and outer worlds\, and the nameless desires she holds as a woman surviving in today’s modern world. Under the sponsorship of Alley Cat Books and Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguia\, she co-curates the six-year-old multilingual reading series Voz sin Tinta\, which is committed to showcasing writers whose voices may otherwise go unheard. \n@Katie Aliferis is the Poet Laureate of feta cheese and Greek seas. She has been a featured performer at Greek Writers Night\, the SFSU Center for Modern Greek Studies\, VelRo’s Global Voices: A Celebration of Translation and International Creative Writing\, and other events. Find Katie (in person) to commune over Greek coffee or (online\, if that’s your thing) at KatieAliferis.com and @Katie_Aliferis (Twitter and Instagram). \nConnie Zheng is a project-based artist\, writer and filmmaker who was born in China\, grew up in the Northeastern United States\, and is currently based out of Berkeley\, California. Her work is interested in developing new language around the apocalypse\, the difference between “disaster porn” and “disaster erotica”\, diasporic place-making\, and the political potentials enabled by fantasy as a means of community- building amidst climate change. She received an MFA in Art Practice from UC Berkeley\, as well as a BA in Economics and English (Creative Nonfiction) from Brown University. Currently\, she is a Graduate Fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts. \nLisa Galloway is a queer San Francisco-based poet\, Litquake’s Elder Project Director\, and Foglifter Press’ Development Director. She is a graduate of Pacific University’s MFA program in Poetry and was a 2014 Lambda Literary Fellow. She is the author of Liminal: A Life of Cleavage from Lost Horse Press. In her free time\, she enjoys riveting conversations with her best editor\, a wily\, orange\, polydactyl cat named Snacks. \nAmanda Moore‘s poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies including ZZYZVA\, Cream City Review\, and Best New Poets\, and her essays have appeared in The Baltimore Review\, Hippocampus Magazine\, and on the University of Arizona Poetry Center’s blog. She is a Contributing Poetry Editor at Women’s Voices for Change\, a Board member for the Marin Poetry Center\, a 2019 Fellow at The Writers Grotto\, and a new recipient of the Brown-Handler Writer’s Residency through the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. Amanda is a high school teacher and lives by the beach in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco with her husband and daughter. More at http://amandapmoore.com \n@Yeva Johnson\, a Black American Jewish queer Lesbian feminist mother and musician\, is an emerging poet whose day job is in the health professions. \n“Eves at the Beat” is a monthly first Thursday reading series at The Beat Museum with occasional readings in Kerouac Alley featuring womxn and non-binary people. Each first Thursday there will be a new curator and MC invited from the previous month. This will give many people the opportunity to step into these roles and make the culture of the readings more equitable and circular\, rather than hierarchal. \nThis is a donation based event. We will pass a hat so bring a contribution for the readers. \nWe will also be accepting packages of dry goods\, new socks\, and sanitary items for the local homeless community. URL:https://litseen.com/event/eves-at-the-beat-womxn-reading-at-the-beat-museum-2/ LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Eves-at-the-Beat.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191108T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191108T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164458 CREATED:20191002T034233Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191002T034233Z UID:53230-1573239600-1573246800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series: Cardboard House Press/Cartonera Collective: Giancarlo Huapaya\, Omar Pimienta\, José Antonio Villarán DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series welcomes Giancarlo Huapaya\, Omar Pimienta\, and José Antonio Villarán—all three poets involved in the outstanding literary small publisher Cardboard House Press\, dedicated to work in translation from Latin America and Spain\, and its offshoot\, Cartonera Collective\, “a team of book makers devoted to the production of bilingual book art from Latin American authors.” Thursday November 7 they present their work at The Poetry Center\, co-sponsored with Latina/Latino Studies\, SF State. Then Friday evening we’ll all be at The Green Arcade\, on Market at Gough\, in San Francisco. Both events are free and open to the public. Please join us! \n• For this occasion\, Tripwire journal will be producing a new Cardboard House/Cartonera Collective volume in its Tripwire Pamphlet Series! \nGiancarlo Huapaya (Lima\, Peru) has published three collections of poetry\, the most recently\, Taller Sub Verso (Sub Verse Workshop) (2011\, 2013). His poems and translations have appeared in the anthologies 4M3R1C4 (Chile)\, Aguas Móviles (Peru)\, Cholos (Guatemala)\, OOMPH! (US)\, and in the journals Erizo (Mexico-EEUU)\, Buenos Aires Poetry (Argentina)\, Poesía (Venezuela)\, Zunái (Brazil)\, Jacket2 (US)\, Anomaly (US)\, Periódico de Poesía de la UNAM (México)\, among others. He is Founder and Editor of Cardboard House Press\, a nonprofit publishing house for Latin American and Spanish literature in translation. As a curator of visual poetry\, he has presented exhibitions at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco and the University of Arizona Poetry Center in Tucson. In 2016\, he edited the anthology Pulenta Pool: Peruvian Poets in the United States for Hostos Review. As literary translator\, he has translated into Spanish work by C.D Wright\, Susan Briante\, Ross Gay\, Carmen Giménez Smith and Alli Warren. Currently\, he is MFA candidate in Creative Writing at The University of Texas at El Paso. \nOmar Pimienta is a writer/artist who lives and works in the San Diego / Tijuana border region. His artistic practice examines questions of identity\, trans-nationality\, emergency poetics\, sociopolitical landscape and memory. He has published four books of poetry in U.S\, México and Spain. Album of Fences\, translated by José Antonio Villarán\, was published by Cardboard House Press in 2018. He won the Emilio Prado 10th International Publication prize from the Centro Cultural Generación del 27 Malaga Spain. His work as a visual artist has been recently shown\, at the 3ème Biennale Internationale de l’Art Contemporain de Casablanca Maroc\, and was part of the Getty Foundation\, Pacific Standard Time LA/LA. In 2017-18 he was awarded an Art Matters Grant. More here. \nJose Antonio Villarán (parent/writer/teacher) is the author of two books of poetry: la distancia es siempre la misma (Matalamanga\, 2006) & el cerrajero (Album del Universo Bakterial\, 2012); one book of translation\, Album of Fences\, by Omar Pimienta (Cardboard House Press\, 2018); and creator of the AMLT project\, an exploration of hypertext literature and collective authorship\, which was sponsored by Puma from 2011-2014. His third book\, titled open pit\, is forthcoming from AUB in 2019. He holds an MFA in Writing from the University of California San Diego\, and is currently a PhD Candidate in Literature at the University of California Santa Cruz. URL:https://litseen.com/event/tripwire-cross-cultural-poetics-series-cardboard-house-press-cartonera-collective-giancarlo-huapaya-omar-pimienta-jose-antonio-villaran-2/ LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/GiancarloJoséOmar-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191108T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191108T223000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164458 CREATED:20191107T082527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191107T082527Z UID:53616-1573243200-1573252200@litseen.com SUMMARY:SFCohenFest: A Night of Cohen Poetry\, Literature\, and Music DESCRIPTION:The San Francisco Leonard Cohen Festival – A Celebration of Leonard’s Music\, Poetry\, Insight & Humor – Night #1 \nReadings\, recitations\, and reflections on Leonard’s body of work\, as well as a few musical interludes.\nDoors 7pm – Show 8pm \nFriday\, November 8 – Cafe Du Nord\nBobby Coleman – Host\nAgneta Falk Hirschman\nJack Hirschman\nKim Shuck\nPeter Dale Scott\nSilvi Alcivar\nSoheyl Dahi\nCharith Premawardhana\nTongo Eisen-Martin\nStuart Schuffman aka Broke-Ass Stuart\nJohn Avalos\nDaryl Henline\nElaine Ryan\nPeter Whitehead\nKarlyn DeSteno\nSmitty and Julija\nJosé Lobo \nMore info at https://www.sfleonardcohenfest.com\nAlso check out:\nSF Cohen Fest Night #2 – https://www.facebook.com/events/2346341708918616/\nSF Cohen Fest Night #3 – https://www.facebook.com/events/3296745007032231/ URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfcohenfest-a-night-of-cohen-poetry-literature-and-music/ LOCATION:Cafe du Nord\, 2174 Market St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Leonard-Cohen.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191109T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191109T153000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164458 CREATED:20190930T192404Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191018T181344Z UID:53005-1573308000-1573313400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Esti Skloot: Uprooted DESCRIPTION:Esti Skloot discusses her new book\, Uprooted: A Memoir of a Marriage. \nAbout Uprooted \nWhen pregnant Esther–a young\, adventurous\, British-born Israeli–follows her new husband\, Steve\, to America\, she has no idea what she’s getting herself into. Even before their baby is born\, Esther discovers the dark side of her charming film production manager husband\, and learns that she must cope with his moodiness and domineering personality. Left alone day after day in a high-rise apartment in Queens\, Esther struggles with culture shock\, homesickness\, and adapting her husband’s whims–like the baby goat he brings home to their eighth-floor apartment to keep as a pet. Ten years and two more children later\, thirty-four-year-old Steve is diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. Despite aggressive treatments\, he succumbs to the disease\, leaving Esther to care for their three children alone\, Esther at first feels lost and bewildered; as time goes on\, however\, she discovers that there is a freedom in her new situation–and that she has a greater inner strength than she ever before realized. \n  URL:https://litseen.com/event/esti-skloot-uprooted/ LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Skloot.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191109T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191109T173000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164458 CREATED:20191016T033919Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191016T033919Z UID:53259-1573315200-1573320600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Book Launch for Heidi Van Horn's Belated Poem\, with Sarah Heady and Nancy Au DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts San Francisco poet Heidi Van Horn for her debut collection\, Belated Poem. Reading with her are poet Sarah Heady and fiction writer Nancy Au. Please join us! \nBelated Poem (Drop Leaf Press\, 2019) is a book-length sequence of text + image diptychs distilling landscape\, color\, and language into a poetics of interiority. Van Horn’s spare lines and arresting photographs are narratively linked yet marked by rupture\, elusion\, and unsettledness. Deploying vocabularies of intimacy and ephemerality as deftly as those of abstraction\, physics\, and geologic time (volcanic island-building; fault-block mountains)\, Belated Poem ultimately speaks in human terms: perception and consciousness\, shadow states\, and severance at the seam of Self and Other. \nHeidi Van Horn is a poet who takes lots of photographs. Her multi-disciplinary practice explores the complexity of selfhood and the space of the encounter. Heidi recently joined the editorial staff at Drop Leaf Press\, where she will be focusing on artist + poet collaborative works. She is also co-authoring\, with David Makaaha Kwon\, “House of David\,” a poetic assemblage exploring the personal and political geography of mass incarceration. Heidi received her BA in Social Welfare from UC Berkeley and her MFA in Poetry from San Francisco State University. She has worked as the assistant director of the UC Berkeley Public Service Center and currently serves as a youth justice mentor. She lives in San Francisco with her children. More at hvanhorn.com. \nSarah Heady is a poet and essayist interested in place\, history\, and the built environment. She is the librettist of Unfinished: An Opera\, a new work about the death and life of a women’s college\, currently in development with composer Joshua Groffman and producer Vital Opera. Sarah is also the author of Niagara Transnational (Fourteen Hills)\, winner of the 2013 Michael Rubin Book Award\, and Tatted Insertion\, a letterpress collaboration with book artist Leah Virsik. Her manuscript “Comfort” was a finalist for the 2019 Ahsahta Press Sawtooth Poetry Prize and the 2017 National Poetry Series. Sarah is a co-editor of Drop Leaf Press\, a small women-run poetry collective. More at sarahheady.com. \nNancy Au is an Oakland-based writer and co-founder of The Escapery. She received her MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University. She teaches creative writing (to biology majors!) at California State University Stanislaus. Her writing appears in Redivider\, Gulf Coast\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, Jellyfish Review\, Lunch Ticket\, Pithead Chapel\, The Forge Literary Magazine\, SmokeLong Quarterly\, and elsewhere. She is the winner of Redivider’s 2018 Blurred Genres Contest and The Vestal Review’s 2018 VERA Flash Fiction Prize\, and her flash fiction is included in The Best Small Fictions 2018. Her debut full-length collection\, Spider Love Song and Other Stories\, published by University of Cincinnati’s Acre Books\, just launched this September. More at peascarrots.com. \n“Belated Poem speaks in a mesmerizing incantation of precision and haunting as it seeks to observe and record the vast geographies of the interstices between people. A poet with a barometer\, a scientist in a fugue state\, Van Horn converges photography\, text\, and space in order to trace the complicated textures of intimacy and distance\, attachment and rupture\, amid the debris of an altered relationship. From the subtle doubling in her photographs and the spatial undertow of her lines emerges a lyrical sequence that\, in its unearthing of “your body next to mine at the event horizon\,” also unearths the inconsolable beauty of the interior terrain and those places that are hardest to voice.”  – Jennifer S. Cheng \n“Belated Poem greets time after its becoming – exceeding a certain intensity – a relational experience or a lesson that befalls us in space. In the aftermath of “the jade- / blue slope of a line” or “the cusp of the caldera\,” we become offspring of the “event horizon.” Here are vital forces – landscape\, creative\, combinatorial – shifting\, intimate\, foreshadowing and spilling us into “catastrophic events” or “a nest / out of dark matter.” Image and poem in this beautiful sequence confirm the open-ended aliveness of traces and our distributed brave interface with the world.” – Hazel White URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-for-heidi-van-horns-belated-poem-with-sarah-heady-and-nancy-au/ LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Belated-cover-lightened-10-5-19.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Drop Leaf Press":MAILTO:dropleafpress@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191109T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191109T213000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164458 CREATED:20191002T142108Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191029T174424Z UID:53247-1573326000-1573335000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Writers with Drinks DESCRIPTION:Variety is more than just having sex dressed as Alien Greenspan every once in a while. It’s more than occasionally cosplaying as Yeoman Ayn Rand instead of Slave Leeloo. It’s also a Literary Imperative! Which is why Writers With Drinks combines erotica with literature\, stand-up comedy with science fiction\, and poetry with essays. Plus mystery\, romance\, memoir\, rants and “other.”\nAll proceeds benefit local non-profits. Charlie Jane Anders MCs and vamps.\nUpcoming events:\nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit a local nonprofit\, TBA.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 7 PM.\nSaturday\, Nov. 8\, 2019:\n \nAnnalee Newitz (The Future of Another Timeline)\nNathaniel Popkin (The Year of the Return)\nAubrey Hirsch (Why We Never Talk About Sugar)\nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit a local nonprofit\, TBA.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 7 PM. \nSaturday\, Dec. 14\, 2019:\n \nAlvin Orloff (Disasterama! Adventures in the Queer Underground)\nOlga Zilberbourg (Like Water and Other Stories)\nMegan E. O’Keefe (Velocity Weapon)\nFEATURING SPECIAL GUEST HOST Maggie Tokuda-Hall!\nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit a local nonprofit\, TBA.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 7 PM. \n  URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-25/ LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191109T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191109T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164458 CREATED:20190822T231849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191016T032859Z UID:52445-1573327800-1573333200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Heather Christle: The Crying Book DESCRIPTION:Heather Christle discusses her new book\, The Crying Book. \nPraise for The Crying Book  \n“In The Crying Book\, Heather Christle makes a poignant and piercing examination of the phenomenon of tears—exhaustive\, yes\, but also open-ended\, such that I was left clutching this book to my chest with wonder\, asking myself when the last time was that I cried\, and why. A deeply felt\, and genuinely touching\, book.” —Esmé Weijun Wang\, author of The Collected Schizophrenias \n“This is a wonderful and profound look at the act of crying–something human and yet hidden\, common and yet mysterious. I found myself reading with a thirst for the tears Heather Christle collects here–instances within literature\, film\, history\, and the author’s own life all add up to a greater understanding of what makes us human.” —Chelsea Hodson\, author of Tonight I’m Someone Else \nAbout The Crying Book \nWhy do we cry? How do we cry? And what does it mean? A scientific\, cultural\, artistic examination by a young poet on the cusp of motherhood. \nHeather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and now must reckon with her own depression and the birth of her first child. As she faces her grief and impending parenthood\, she decides to research the act of crying: what it is and why people do it\, even if they rarely talk about it. Along the way\, she discovers an artist who designed a frozen-tear-shooting gun and a moth that feeds on the tears of other animals. She researches tear-collecting devices (lachrymatories) and explores the role white women’s tears play in racist violence. \nHonest\, intelligent\, rapturous\, and surprising\, Christle’s investigations look through a mosaic of science\, history\, and her own lived experience to find new ways of understanding life\, loss\, and mental illness. The Crying Book is a deeply personal tribute to the fascinating strangeness of tears and the unexpected resilience of joy. URL:https://litseen.com/event/heather-christle-the-crying-book/ LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Christle.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191110T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191110T143000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164458 CREATED:20191107T170111Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191107T170111Z UID:53628-1573390800-1573396200@litseen.com SUMMARY:The Short Stories of Ethel Rohan DESCRIPTION:As well as being an accomplished novelist — her 2017 debut\, The Weight of Him was a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book — Ethel Rohan is also a master of that very Irish (and Russian\, and American) format\, the short story. She has two well-received short story collections to her credit (Goodnight Nobody and Cut Through the Bone). Ethel will in conversation with Hinterland director Tony Bucher. URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-short-stories-of-ethel-rohan/ LOCATION:Mechanics Institute\, 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Ethel-Rohan-@-Hinterland-West.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Hinterland West":MAILTO:hinterlandwest@hinterland.ie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191110T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191110T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164458 CREATED:20190930T192848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190930T192848Z UID:53046-1573401600-1573401600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Mary Ladd in conversation with SF Chronicle columnist Leah Garchik DESCRIPTION:Mary Ladd\, author of The Wig Diaries\, will be in conversation with SF Chronicle columnist Leah Garchik at The Bindery. URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-ladd-in-conversation-with-sf-chronicle-columnist-leah-garchik/ LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191110T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191110T200000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164458 CREATED:20191107T170254Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191107T170254Z UID:53633-1573408800-1573416000@litseen.com SUMMARY:SF in SF with Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of reading and conversation with authors Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz\, in conversation with Bay Area writer\, editor\, and raconteur Terry Bisson. \nCharlie Jane Anders is the author of The City in the Middle of the Night and the Nebula Award-winning All the Birds in the Sky. She’s the organizer of the Writers With Drinks reading series\, and she was a founding editor of io9\, a website about science fiction\, science and futurism. Her stories have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction\, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction\, Tor.com\, Lightspeed\, Tin House\, ZYZZYVA\, and several anthologies. Her novelette “Six Months\, Three Days” won a Hugo award. She has also won the Emperor Norton Award\, for “extraordinary invention and creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason.” \nAnnalee Newitz writes science fiction and nonfiction. They are the author of the novels The Future of Another Timeline\, and Autonomous\, which won the Lambda Literary Award. As a science journalist\, they are a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times\, and have a monthly column in New Scientist. They have published in The Washington Post\, Slate\, Popular Science\, Ars Technica\, The New Yorker\, and The Atlantic\, among others. They are also the co-host of the Hugo Award-winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. Previously\, they were the founder of io9\, and served as the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo. \nDoors open at 6:00 pm; event begins at 6:30 pm. As always\, Borderlands Books will be on hand with copies of the authors’ works for sale. \n$10 at the door; proceeds go to support the American Bookbinders Museum (no one turned away for lack of funds). URL:https://litseen.com/event/sf-in-sf-with-charlie-jane-anders-and-annalee-newitz/ LOCATION:The American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/SF-IN-SF.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191111T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191111T193000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164458 CREATED:20191030T210348Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191030T210348Z UID:53506-1573497000-1573500600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Odd Mondays Non-Fiction November: Three Histories DESCRIPTION:November is non-fiction month at Odd Mondays! November 11\, three authors read from their brand-new histories at Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St. Join us at 6:30 p.m. for this free event. Tamim Ansary reads from THE INVENTION OF YESTERDAY: A 50\,000-Year History of Human Culture\,  Brandon Brown from THE APOLLO CHRONICLES: Engineering America’s First Moon Missions\, and Julia Flynn Siler from THE WHITE DEVIL’S DAUGHTERS: Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown. A book signing follows the readings. \nHere’s information on the authors: \nTamim Ansary grew up in Afghanistan and grew old in America. His grandparents were Slavic\, Finnish\, Arab\, and Mongolian.  His books include West of Kabul\, East of New York\, San Francisco’s One City One Book for 2008\, and Destiny Disrupted\, A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes\, which won an NCBA Award in 2009. His new book\, The Invention of Yesterday\, explores how we humans got to be so interconnected and why we’re still fighting. \nBrandon R. Brown is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of San Francisco. He writes about science through such outlets as Smithsonian\, Slate\, and Scientific American. His books include a biography\, Planck\, winner of the 2016 Housatonic Award for non-fiction\, and The Apollo Chronicles\, an immersive engineering history. \nJulia Flynn Siler is a New York Times best-selling author and journalist. Her most recent book\, The White Devil’s Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown\, is a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Her other books are Lost Kingdom: Hawaii’s Last Queen\, the Sugar Kings\, and America’s First Imperial Adventure andThe House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty\, which was a finalist for a James Beard Award and a Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished reporting. A veteran journalist\, Siler is a longtime contributor and former staff writer for The Wall Street Journal and has been a guest commentator on the BBC\, CNBC\, and CNN. She lives in Northern California with her husband and their two sons. \n  URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-non-fiction-november-three-histories/ LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/OM-20191111.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191111T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191111T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164458 CREATED:20191030T210302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191030T210302Z UID:53504-1573498800-1573504200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Teaching Resistance: Radicals\, Revolutionaries and Cultural Subversives in the Classroom DESCRIPTION:Teaching Resistance is a collection of the voices of activist educators from around the world who engage inside and outside the classroom from pre-kindergarten to university and emphasize teaching radical practice from the field. Written in accessible language\, this book is for anyone who wants to explore new ways to subvert educational systems and institutions\, collectively transform educational spaces\, and empower students and teachers alike to fight for genuine change.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Mink is a social studies teacher who has worked at the high school and adult school levels and refuses to hide his political radicalism from his students. He has been a contributing writer and editor for underground publications and zines including Slingshot\, Absolutely Zippo\, and Collapse Board. Editor of the Maximum Rocknroll monthly column “Teaching Resistance” and a vocalist/bassist for several internationally recognized punk bands\, John lives in Berkeley\, California\, with his partner Megan March\, who is also his bandmate in the truewave/punk group Street Eaters. URL:https://litseen.com/event/teaching-resistance-radicals-revolutionaries-and-cultural-subversives-in-the-classroom/ LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Resistance-2.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR