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SUMMARY:Mapping the Bay: with Kim Shuck and friends
DESCRIPTION:poetry and discussion exploring the pathways language takes through land\, water\, and air. \nPoetry is all around us. Hidden in the trauma and joys of a life lived in full witness of the events of the last few centuries on a penisula haunted by languages lost but reclaimed\, hidden\, yet in plain sight. \nLocal poets read from new and old works. What does it mean to stand as witness to lost histories? How does one heal great traumas and offer new pathways to loving each other in nature?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mapping-the-bay-with-kim-shuck-and-friends/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Miranda Popkey: Topics of Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Miranda Popkey discusses her debut novel Topics of Conversation with Rachel Khong. \nPraise for Topics of Conversation \n“An intimate evisceration of our narrow imaginings of female sexuality\, a brilliantly structured character study\, and a book that repeatedly asks how women can fully trust their own desires when they’ve grown up steeped in the wrong stories. Its narrator is as skeptical of her own self-delusive fictions as she is of the stifling cliches and shallow fantasies about women’s interior lives perpetuated by the wider culture.”-–Karen Russell\, author of Orange World \n“A pleasingly unsentimental novel about attraction and repulsion and the fluid line between the two.  Popkey writes about these emotional eddies with such thrilling detachment you’ll wonder why you ever worried about love at all.”–Jenny Offill\, author of Dept. of Speculation \n“Penetrating\, brutal\, a brilliant new voice in contemporary fiction.”–Ben Marcus\, author of Notes from the Fog \nAbout Topics of Conversation \nMiranda Popkey’s first novel is about desire\, disgust\, motherhood\, loneliness\, art\, pain\, feminism\, anger\, envy\, guilt–written in language that sizzles with intelligence and eroticism. The novel is composed almost exclusively of conversations between women–the stories they tell each other\, and the stories they tell themselves\, about shame and love\, infidelity and self-sabotage–and careens through twenty years in the life of an unnamed narrator hungry for experience and bent on upending her life. Edgy\, wry\, shot through with rage and despair\, Topics of Conversation introduces an audacious and immensely gifted new novelist.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/miranda-popkey-topics-of-conversation/
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:Bina Venkataraman: Long-Term Thinking in a Distracted World
DESCRIPTION:What does practical long-term thinking look like? Bina Venkataraman’s new book\, The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age\, brings this abstract question to life. Through a series of anecdotes and case studies that draw from her background in public policy\, climate change strategy\, and journalism\, Venkataraman explores pragmatic tactics that can help us think more clearly about our long-term future. \nBina Venkataraman is the editorial page editor of The Boston Globe. Before joining the Globe\, she served as a senior adviser for climate change innovation in the Obama White House\, was the director of Global Policy Initiatives at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard\, and taught in the Program on Science\, Technology\, and Society at MIT. \n— \nBina Venkataraman is the editorial page editor of The Boston Globe. Before joining the Globe\, she served as a senior adviser for climate change innovation in the Obama White House\, was the director of Global Policy Initiatives at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard\, and taught in the Program on Science\, Technology\, and Society at MIT. Her book\, The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age was published in September 02019. \n\nBina Venkataraman’s Homepage\nMore about Bina Venkataraman\n\n— \nLong Now’s two lecture series\, the Seminars and Conversations at The Interval\, keep you connected to a whole world of long-term thinking. \nYou can follow the ideas by subscribing to the podcasts\, sharing the highlights and connecting with Long Now on Social Media. \nLong Now Members support the series and can reserve free tickets to the Seminars and tune into Long Now Live where we broadcast a live video stream of these talks.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bina-venkataraman-long-term-thinking-in-a-distracted-world/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Claire Rudy Foster / Shine of the Ever
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Claire Rudy Foster (I’ve Never Done This Before) for their new book\, Shine of the Ever. Please join us! \nShine of the Ever is a literary mix tape of queer voices out of 1990s Portland. By turns tender and punk-tough\, fierce and loving\, this collection of short stories explores what binds a community of queer and trans people as they negotiate love\, screwing up and learning to forgive themselves for being young and sometimes foolish. \n\n“The characters in Foster’s fiction are all achingly lonely and the victims of human error\, yes—but they’re also miracles of endurance whose devastations\, large and small\, illuminate the better parts of ourselves.” – Benjamin Percy\, author of The Dead Lands \n“Shine of the Ever is a compassionate ode to a Pixies-infused era. With its mix of fear and fearlessness\, it deftly portrays love on the fringes.” – Foreword Reviews \n\nClaire Rudy Foster is a queer\, trans writer from Portland\, Oregon. Their work on sex\, identity\, relationships\, and recovery appears in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, and McSweeney’s\, among others. Foster is the author of I’ve Never Done This Before (978-0998072708\, Sept. 2016). Their essays and fiction have been recognized for excellence\, including four nominations for the Pushcart Prize. Foster holds an MFA in creative writing and teaches writing workshops in Portland. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Shine of the Ever\, email events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/claire-rudy-foster-shine-of-the-ever/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Christopher Bernard
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Bernard joins us to discuss his novel\, Meditations on Love & Catastrophe at The Liars’ Cafe. \nAbout Meditations on Love & Catastrophe at The Liars’ Cafe \nA challenging and innovative exploration of narrative\, emotion\, and the possibilities of language\, part dream vision\, part prose poem\, part series of dialogues about love\, nature\, politics\, the nature of good and evil\, and the meaning of human life. \nAbout the Author \nChristopher Bernard is a writer living in San Francisco. He is the founder\, a principal and co-editor (with Ho Lin) of the literary and arts webzine Caveat Lector and contributes regularly to the monthly online magazine Synchronized Chaos. His books include the novels A Spy in the Ruins and Voyage to a Phantom City; two books of stories\, In the American Night and Dangerous Stories for Boys; The Rose Shipwreck: Poems and Photographs; Chien Lunatique (poems); and numerous plays\, including most recently The Beast and Mr. James. His work has appeared in several anthologies and many periodicals\, including cultural and arts journalism in the New York Times\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Chicago Tribune\, San Francisco Bay Guardian\, Philadelphia Inquirer and elsewhere\, and poetry and fiction in literary reviews in the U.S. and U.K. He has also written plays that have been produced and radio broadcast\, in part or complete\, in the San Francisco Bay Area. His poetry films have been screened in San Francisco and his poetry and fiction have been nominated for the Puschcart Prize and Best of the Web. His diaries and journals are being compiled under the title “Voyage Around My Life.” His autobiographical essay appeared in Contemporary Authors\, Volume 180 (Gale Group). In 2019\, he received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. He is also a photographer and composer; an excerpt from his opera “Nachtstück: An Opera on the Death of Anton Webern\,” has been radio broadcast (KPFA).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christopher-bernard/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Confessions of a Psychedelic Journalist
DESCRIPTION:For more than four decades\, Don Lattin has written about the social\, spiritual\, and political aspects of the psychedelic drug movement as a newspaper reporter\, freelance journalist\, and the author of four books of narrative non-fiction. \nIn the 1970s\, as a young reporter working in the East Bay\, Don broke one of the first investigative stories about the US Army’s past efforts to use LSD as a hostile interrogation tool. He also covered the first local campaign to legalize marijuana in the United States—a political movement that continues today in ongoing efforts to decriminalize the use of magic mushrooms\, peyote\, and ayahuasca in cities and states across the nation. \nIn the 1980s and 1990s\, as a staff writer and columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle\, Don wrote extensively about various cults\, sects\, and new religious movements including a generation of spiritual seekers inspired by psychedelic drug experiences in the 1960s and 1970s. \nJoin KQED Science senior editor Kat Snow for a conversation with Don as they look back on the long\, strange trip of his career as an award-winning reporter and best-selling author. \nThis is conversation does not promote\, facilitate\, or require the use of entheogens. This event and the views expressed by the presenter(s) are not a reflection of the views of California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)\, its Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research\, or the individuals employed by CIIS.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/confessions-of-a-psychedelic-journalist/
LOCATION:CIIS Public Programs\, 1453 Mission St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The War That Used Up Words? Literature in Paris 1910-1940
DESCRIPTION:For decades\, works like Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast and Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris have captivated our imaginations with their images of lively cafés that were a refuge from cold and poverty\, of smoky clubs full of gin and jazz\, and above all\, of a city surging with creative energy. And rightly so—the decade after World War I was a time of radical experimentation in novels\, poetry\, painting\, dance and more.\nBut it is only part of the story. Writers on both sides of the Atlantic were tapping into forces that had long made Paris a beacon of innovation. In this talk we’ll explore the wider panoply of prewar and postwar writers and discuss how the war intensi ed the already-present quest for new modes of expression. Immerse yourself in this unforgettable period and leave with a deeper understanding of literature in Paris\, 1910–1940. \nJoin Melanie Blake of Classical Pursuits\nfor an evening of stories\, history and discussion. \nThursday\, January 16 at 7:00 PM \nAlliance Française San Francisco\n1345 Bush Street | San Francisco\, CA \nAlliance members $10\, non-members $15
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-war-that-used-up-words-literature-in-paris-1910-1940/
LOCATION:Alliance Française de San Francisco\, 1345 Bush St.\, San Francisco\, California\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit & The Los Angeles Press
DESCRIPTION:Red Light Lit and The Los Angeles Press doubleheader with a live musical score by AJ Bahnken🎈The performers explore love relationships\, sexuality\, and gender. Featured readers include Miah Jeffra\, Thea Matthews\, Bernadette McComish\, Mackenzie Studebaker\, and Linda Ravenswood. With a SURPRISE MUSICAL GUEST🔥 \nTickets $10. No one is turned away for lack of funds. Please email Jennifer@redlightlit.com for volunteer opportunities✨
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-the-los-angeles-press/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Nocturnists: Transitions
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of medical storytelling on the theme of “Transitions\,” featuring stories by David Elkin\, Tobin Greensweig\, Catherine Humikowski\, Shaili Jain\, Christina Lee\, Ashley McMullen\, and Natasha Spottiswoode.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-nocturnists-transitions/
LOCATION:Blue Shield of California Theater at YBCA San Francisco\, CA\, 700 Howard St\, San Francisco\, 94103
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Wile & Wing Poetry Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:A poetry reading hosted by author and songwriter Kimi Sugioka.\n\nAuthor and songwriter Kimi Sugioka is a mesmerizing—and folkloric—figure in the Bay Area literary community. She is described as maternal\, witchy\, and passionate by Anne Waldman\, author of Trickster Feminism. For decades\, Sugioka has been involved in the Bay Area’s literary community\, and was a former curator of the legendary Café Babar poetry series of the 1990s. Now\, Sugioka says\, poetry readings are more significant than ever in a shifting San Francisco: “the [literary] community subsists on artistic freedom—and it is still free. There are multiple poetry readings every night and they don’t cost anything. They cut across class\, race and culture\, and engender the expression of diverse voices that share the paradoxical wit\, wisdom\, terror and joy of our times.” \nOn December 17\, the Tenderloin Museum will have the privilege of hosting the book launch for Wile & Wing\, Sugioka’s latest series of poems which explore themes of Invisible borders\, personal boundaries\, and social justice. In classic “Babarian” fashion\, Sugioka will also be joined by authors Natasha Dennerstein and Susan Dambroff\, where they will each read book excerpts and original poems. \nAbout the poets: \nKimi Sugioka \nBorn in Chapel Hill\, North Carolina and raised in Berkeley\, California\, Kimi Sugioka is a poet\, songwriter\, and educator. She performs her work frequently throughout the Bay Area. She has worked in public education for decades\, and earned her BA from San Francisco State University and MFA from the Naropa Institute in Boulder\, Colorado. \nNatasha Dennerstein \nNatasha Dennerstein was born in Melbourne\, Australia. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University. Natasha has had poetry published in many journals internationally. Her collections Anatomize (2015)\, Triptych Caliform (2016) and her novella-in-verse About a Girl (2017) were published by Norfolk Press in San Francisco. Her trans chapbook Seahorse (2017) was published by Nomadic Press in Oakland. She lives in Oakland\, California\, where she is an editor at Nomadic Press and works at St James Infirmary\, a clinic for sex-workers in San Francisco. She was a 2018 Fellow of the Lambda Literary Writers’ Retreat. \nSusan Dambroff \nSusan Dambroff is a poet\, performer\, and teacher drawn to the detailed placement of words and the alchemy of timing and sequence. She has published the chapbook\,“Conversations with Trees.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wile-wing-poetry-book-launch/
LOCATION:Tenderloin Museum\, 398 Eddy St\, San Francisco \, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal Vo. 35
DESCRIPTION:featuring \nK.R. MORRISON \nMore details and readers to be announced…
URL:https://litseen.com/event/haight-ashbury-literary-journal-vo-35/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:"SoMa Lurk" Book Release
DESCRIPTION:a reading in support of “SoMa Lurk” a collection of poems and photos by José Vadi\, published by Project Kalahati. Readings by Sarah O’Neal\, Tongo Eisen-Martin and José Vadi
URL:https://litseen.com/event/soma-lurk-book-release/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SFJAZZ Presents The Just and the Blind with Marc Bamuthi Joseph & More
DESCRIPTION:Longtime collaborators composer-violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain and spoken-word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph are joined by street dance pioneer Drew Dollaz and electrifying vocalist Lalin St. Juste in The Just and the Blind\, commissioned by Carnegie Hall. \nFramed by visually striking photography and animation projections\, the multimedia work explores racial profiling and the prison-industrial complex in a series of short vignettes that include music\, dance\, and spoken word. \nConceived and written by Marc Bamuthi Joseph\nOriginal musical score by Daniel Bernard Roumain\nDirected by Michael John Garcés \nArtists:\nMarc Bamuthi Joseph\, Spoken Word\nDaniel Bernard Roumain\, Violin/Piano/Electronics\nDrew Dollaz\, Choreographer/Dancer\nLalin St. Juste\, Vocalist \nDavid Szlasa\, Projection Designer\nXia Gordon\, Animator\nBrittsense\, Photographer\nLisa Armstrong\, Journalist \nRika Iino\, Producer\nMelissa Higgins\, Producer \nThe Just and the Blind was commissioned by Carnegie Hall and presented as part of the 2019 Create Justice Forum.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfjazz-presents-the-just-and-the-blind-with-marc-bamuthi-joseph-more/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:You're Going to Die presents: A 10 Year Anniversary Event
DESCRIPTION:Sat\, Jan 18\, 20208:30 PM  Sun\, Jan 19\, 20201:00 AM\nThe Indepedent (map)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou’re Going to Die Presents:\na YG2D 10th ANNIVERSARY EVENT!!!!\nfeaturing\nWhiskerman\n& more TBA soooooon…. \nDoors at 8:30pm\nShow at 9pm\nEnds after midnight\n@\nThe Independent\n628 Divisadero St.\nSan Francisco\, CA 94117\n21 & over\n$18 ADV – $20 DOOR\nTICKETS ONSALE 10/11 @ 10am: http://bit.ly/2LJflnF \nFor its 10 Year Anniversary Celebration\, You’re Going to Die offers a mortally conscious & enliveningly entertaining experience\, proudly presenting great artists as they deserve to be presented: in the concert context of acknowledging their musical mortal magic… & in one of our favorite venues in San Francisco! \nWhiskerman is preparing to release their fourth studio album\, Kingdom Illusion–a rock & roll vision quest that ushers the band’s elegiac psychedelia towards a louder\, pushier\, more colorful sound. Their past albums have been described as “ecstatic psychedelia\, sturdily constructed pop-rock\, pick-and-grin folk all together as a single picture.”\n“High-energy roots rock set with notes of soul\, psychedelic and folk.” – KQED\n“Ecstatic psychedelia\, sturdily constructed pop-rock\, pick-and-grin folk. ” – FLOOD Magazine\nCheck out more @ https://www.whiskerman.com/ \n& MORE TBA soooooon!!!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-presents-a-10-year-anniversary-event/
LOCATION:The Independent\, 628 Divisadero St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Gibby Haynes / Me and Mr. Cigar
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new novel \nMe and Mr. Cigar \npublished by Soho Press \nFrom the wild and wonderful mind of Gibby Haynes—world famous Butthole Surfers front man/lyricist and self-proclaimed eternal Texan adolescent—comes the surreal tale of seventeen-year-old Oscar Lester and his trusted dog\, Mr. Cigar. \nOscar and his dog have made a pretty good life for themselves\, despite the fact that Oscar’s family has all but vanished—his father is dead; his mother has a new boyfriend. His older sister\, Rachel\, fled five years ago…right after Mr. Cigar bit off her hand. \nDespite the freak accident\, Oscar knows his dog is no menace. Mr. Cigar is a loyal protector: a supernatural creature that can exact revenge\, communicate telepathically\, and manipulate car doors and windows with ease. So\, when Rachel—now twenty-two and an artist living in New York—calls out of the blue and claims she’s being held hostage\, Oscar sees an opportunity to make things right between them. \nHe races north\, intent on both saving Rachel and fleeing the mysterious evil forces targeting his dog. And it’s only by embarking on this dual quest that Oscar starts to untangle his own life and understand the bizarre reality of Mr. Cigar. \n*Features original artwork by Gibby Haynes as full color endpapers and illustrations throughout the book. \nGibby Haynes is a musician\, visual artist\, writer\, and filmmaker best known as a founding member of the Butthole Surfers\, whose outrageous concerts spawned a global cult following and whose albums have sold millions worldwide. He lives in Brooklyn with his family. Me & Mr. Cigar is his first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gibby-haynes-me-and-mr-cigar/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Black Love Night of Poetry and Poetry Workshop!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first Black Love of 2020! Join us for a chill night of poetry from Queer Black Artists part of QTPOC at Strut!\nAnd a free poetry workshop lead by Tanea Lunsford Lynx! \nThis show is free. Free drinks and non alcoholic beverages will be provided! \nPOETRY WORKSHOP from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM\nBLACK LOVE POETRY SHOW from 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM! \nPoetry show Hosted by SevanKelee Boult!\nWith Literary Performances from\nLauren Wheeler!\nLisa Evans!\nand Tanea Lunsford Lynx! \nPLUS A SPECIAL APPEARANCE BY Freddie!! \nmore info coming soon! \nQTPOC at Strut is every Thursday at Strut on the third floor we focus our programming\, testing\, and services to the queer and trans people of color communities.\nSexual Health Services and PrEP Enrollments from 5pm-6:30pm.\nPoetry Workshop at 6:30 PM\nBlack Love poetry performances at 7:30 PM \nPOETRY WORKSHOP\nHave you ever wanted to write poetry? Want to take a shot at it\, join us for this beginners poetry workshop lead by Tanea Lunsford Lynx! \nQuestions please email our Community Events Manager Baruch Porras Hernandez\, baruch@sfaf.org or Text QTPOC to 474747 \nACCESSIBILITY\nThere are no stairs to enter the lobby level at Strut from the street level. The building has three floors\, and there is a stairwell with handrails and a wheelchair accessible elevator. There are 26 steps from the lobby to the 2nd floor and 48 steps from the lobby to the 3rd floor. \nPlease note\, this event will be photographed and possibly filmed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/black-love-night-of-poetry-and-poetry-workshop/
LOCATION:Strut\, 470 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200122T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200122T210000
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SUMMARY:Bikes to Books Winter Beer Social
DESCRIPTION:Join Nicole Gluckstern and Burrito Justice\, the creators of literary bicycle tour “Bikes to Books\,” for an evening of socializing\, beer drinking\, and map chat—the first of a series of “Bikes to Books” events and meetups planned for 2020. Bicyclists\, book-ists\, beer-ists\, urbanists\, history buffs\, transit nerds\, and (honestly) anyone else are welcome! \nBegun as an homage to the 1988 naming of 12 streets for artists and authors who’d once called San Francisco their home\, this collaboration between arts journalist and event organizer\, Nicole Gluckstern\, and amateur historian and professional map-maker\, Burrito Justice\, has grown into a beloved community organization with a whole season of free events. Help us kick off our seventh season with this lo-key beer social at one of our fave neighborhood bars. No bikes required! \n21+ only (sorry kiddos).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bikes-to-books-winter-beer-social/
LOCATION:Bender’s Bar and Grill\, 806 So. Van Ness Avenue\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200122T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200122T203000
DTSTAMP:20260430T225833
CREATED:20191124T193133Z
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SUMMARY:David Talbot / Between Heaven and Hell
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed writer\, bestselling author\, and founder of Salon magazine\, David Talbot has brought us masterful and explosive headline-breaking stories for over 25 years with books like the New York Times bestsellers Brothers\, The Devil’s Chessboard\, and nationally recognized Season of the Witch. Now for the first time\, journalist and historian David Talbot turns inward in this intimate journey through the life-changing year following his stroke\, a year that turned his life upside down\, and ultimately\, saved him. \nIn his signature voice and with powerful storytelling\, Talbot examines the physical\, emotional\, and psychological impact his stroke has had on his identity. Along the way Talbot offers readers insider stories on the wild early days of Internet journalism\, insights into the new tech culture\, the down and dirty of Hollywood\, and much more. This is an illuminating\, often humorous\, portrait of how a health crisis can truly shift one’s perspective on life and purpose.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-talbot-between-heaven-and-hell/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200123T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200123T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T225833
CREATED:20191124T215628Z
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SUMMARY:On Ecology and Spirituality
DESCRIPTION:Throughout history\, seekers\, shamans\, and mystics have found spiritual inspiration in the natural world – in wild places at the margins of human culture. Indigenous\, Native\, and Aboriginal groups that have long identified immanent\, animate power in plants\, animals\, and abiotic features of the landscape such as rivers\, rocks\, and cliffs. \nIn the 21st century\, it is essential to reweave and reinvigorate spiritual connections with the landscape. Spiritual ecology encompasses the internal\, subjective\, emotional\, mystical or religious connections between humans and the rest of planetary life. Through experiences in nature\, people reconnect with that which is most essential\, most alive\, and most sustaining in their intimate connections with other beings\, Earth\, and the cosmos. This reconnection is as essential for sustaining life on an increasingly degraded planet\, as it is for full human flourishing. \nJoin CIIS Associate Professor of Ecology and Religion\, Elizabeth Allison for an exploration into spiritual ecology. Discover how deepening our relationship with the natural world helps us thrive.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-ecology-and-spirituality/
LOCATION:CIIS Public Programs\, 1453 Mission St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200123T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200123T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T225833
CREATED:20191205T154420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191205T154420Z
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SUMMARY:Tom Lutz: Born Slippy
DESCRIPTION:Tom Lutz discusses his new novel\, Born Slippy. \nPraise for Born Slippy \n“A highly literary and always engaging 21st century noir… Born Slippy confronts contemporary questions about the relativity of evil that no one can dodge.”— Chris Kraus\, author of I Love Dick and After Kathy Acker. \n“Lutz has the seven deadly sins nailed and rethought for our 2020 world. You’ve got to dig this book!” — James Ellroy \n“What a pleasure\, to sink under the comedic spell of Tom Lutz’s debut novel! The perfect book for a dreary day– a gleeful\, twisty tale of an unlikely friendship. Its antagonist young bloviating Dmitry Heald\, with his wild schemes and hair-raising tales\, is the guy you can’t trust to go to the market\, while the older Frank\, his boss\, is a man who should know better\, and yet can’t resist. Infinitely entertaining. I’d put it on the shelf between Tom Robbins and Martin Amis\, if a place can be cleared there.” — Janet Fitch\, author of The Revolution of Marina M. and Chimes of a Lost Cathedral \nAbout Born Slippy \nA globetrotting novel about the seductions of and resistance to toxic masculinity. \n“Frank knew as well as anyone how stories start and how they end. This fiery mess\, or something like it\, was bound to happen. He had been expecting it for years.” \nFrank Baltimore is a bit of a loser\, struggling by as a carpenter and handyman in rural New England when he gets his big break\, building a mansion in the executive suburbs of Hartford. One of his workers is a charismatic eighteen-year-old kid from Liverpool\, Dmitry\, in the US in the summer before university. Dmitry is a charming sociopath\, who develops a fascination with his autodidactic philosopher boss\, perhaps thinking that\, if he could figure out what made Frank tick\, he could be less of a pig. Dmitry heads to Asia and makes a neo-imperialist fortune\, with a trail of corpses in his wake. When Dmitry’s office building in Taipei explodes in an enormous fireball\, Frank heads to Asia\, falls in love with Dmitry’s wife\, and things go from bad to worse. \nCombining the best elements of literary thriller\, noir and political satire\, Born Slippy is a darkly comic and honest meditation on modern life under global capitalism. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tom-lutz-born-slippy/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200124T200000
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SUMMARY:Our Voices Our Stories SF presents Ingrid Rojas Contreras
DESCRIPTION:Ingrid Rojas Contreras will join OVOSSF founder Lisa D. Gray in a conversation about her novel Conteras’ novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree. About OVOSsf Our Voices\, Our Stories SF began in 2014 with 16 amazing writers and four engaging book chats one of which featured Natalie Bazile of Queen Sugar Fame and the legendary Eunetta Boone\, the first black woman showrunner on the Disney Channel. We bring you high-quality authors eager to share and discuss their work. \nThe evening culminates in a book chat between Lisa D. Gray (the Founder and Curator of this landmark series)\, and one or more of the authors. The authors write across genres\, so when you come\, you hear everything from fiction to travel writing and poetry to memoir. These women’s stories paint vivid pictures of what it’s like to live in the world as a woman of color. They explore themes and topics everyone can relate to and understand. \nAbout Ingrid Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Doubleday) is an Indie Next selection\, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection\, and a New York Times editor’s choice. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, Buzzfeed\, Nylon\, and Guernica\, among others. Rojas Contreras has received numerous awards and fellowships from Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, VONA\, Hedgebrook\, The Camargo Foundation\, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture. She is the book columnist for KQED\, the Bay Area’s NPR affiliate. She teaches writing at the University of San Francisco\, and works with immigrant high school students as part of a San Francisco Arts Commission initiative bringing writers into public schools. She is working on a family memoir about her grandfather\, a curandero from Colombia who it was said had the power to move clouds. \nFruit of the Drunken Tree Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister Cassandra enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogotá\, but the threat of kidnappings\, car bombs\, and assassinations hover just outside the neighborhood walls\, where the godlike drug lord Pablo Escobar continues to elude authorities and capture the attention of the nation. \nInspired by the author’s own life\, and told through the alternating perspectives of the willful Chula and the achingly hopeful Petrona\, Fruit of the Drunken Tree contrasts two very different\, but inextricable coming-of-age stories. In lush prose\, Rojas Contreras sheds light on the impossible choices women are often forced to make in the face of violence and the unexpected connections that can blossom out of desperation. \nAbout Lisa Lisa D. Gray is a writer\, curator\, and social justice warrior who loves to cook and sees possibilities waiting to burst free in bubbles blown into air. Her interests range from dancing (her first career goal: Rockette) to star gazing\, and if an animal lived with her\, it’d be a turtle. She writes about the things that intrigue and perplex her and does it with humor and insight. She earned an MFA from Mills College and completed a residency at the Vermont Studio Center and a fellowship at The Fine Arts Works Center. Her work appears in the As Us Literary Journal. Mission at Tenth and the anthology New Haven Noir for which she won an Edgar Award in 2018. She’s a member of the San Francisco Writers Grotto and a Fellow at The Ruby in San Francisco. She is completing her first novel. \nWe encourage you to purchase the book using the PURCHASE BOOKS link on our website. Books sales will also occur on site.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/our-voices-our-stories-sf-presents-ingrid-rojas-contreras/
LOCATION:African American Art & Culture Complex\, 762 Fulton St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200124T210000
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SUMMARY:Amber Tamblyn discusses her latest book with Saru Jayaraman
DESCRIPTION:Emmy-winning actress\, writer\, and Time’s Up founder AMBER TAMBLYN discussing her latest book\, Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution with Saru Jayaraman\, President of One Fair Wage and “San Francisco Chronicle Visionary of the Year 2019” at the McRoskey Mattress Company in San Francisco. \nAMBER TAMBLYN is known for saying the unsayable with wit and passion. Her new book\, Era of Ignition is no exception\, taking on gender inequality\, reproductive rights\, sexual assault\, and pay parity—all through the lens of her own experiences of growing up in Hollywood. It’s a feminist manifesto for our times\, lauded required reading for anyone who wants to help change the world for the better.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amber-tamblyn-discusses-her-latest-book-with-saru-jayaraman/
LOCATION:McRoskey Mattress Company\, Inc\, 1687 Market St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200124T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200124T220000
DTSTAMP:20260430T225833
CREATED:20200123T080316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200123T080316Z
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SUMMARY:Bad Seeds: A Live Storytelling Event
DESCRIPTION:Bad Seeds–Presented by Back Pocket \nA storytelling event about: \noutliers\, social pariahs\, failures\, and good people doing bad things. \nFeaturing strangers\, journalists\, artists\, and the cousin you avoid at family reunions. \nFeaturing: \n5 hand-picked storytellers \nRare vinyl and deep soul music by Sam G \nDrinks by Fort Point Beer
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bad-seeds-a-live-storytelling-event/
LOCATION:Minnesota Street Project\, 1275 Minnesota Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200126T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200126T180000
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CREATED:20191124T191647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T191647Z
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SUMMARY:Silent Book Club SF
DESCRIPTION:Bring a book\, bring a friend\, and join Silent Book Club for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club\, there’s no assigned reading. All books and all ages are welcome. \nWe’ll kick off introvert happy hour at 4pm with some light chatter and informal book recommendations before settling in to read quietly\, but if you’d rather just pull up a chair and read\, by all means do so. No one will be shushed or shamed. The bar will be open for late afternoon libations. \nHappy reading and hope to see you there! \n\nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nPhoto by Cody Pickens for O Magazine
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silent-book-club-sf-4/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200126T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200126T200000
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Susan Browne\, Peter Kline\, Emily Pinkerton\, and Marco Rafalà\nHosted by Brittany Perham \nSusan Browne’s poetry has appeared in Ploughshares\, The Sun\, Subtropics\, The Southern Review\, Superstition Review\, Rattle\, New Ohio Review\, B O D Y\, American Life in Poetry\, The American Journal of Poetry\, Love’s Executive Order\, and 180 More\, Extraordinary Poems for Every Day. She has published two books of poetry\, Buddha’s Dogs and Zephyr. Awards include prizes from Four Way Books\, the Los Angeles Poetry Festival\, the River Styx International Poetry Contest\, and The Fischer Poetry Prize. She received a fellowship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center\, and her work has been nominated for three Pushcart Awards. She has also collaborated to create a word/music CD. Her third collection\, Just Living\, recently won the Catamaran Poetry Prize. She lives in Oakland\, California. www.susanbrownepoems.com \nPeter Kline teaches writing at the University of San Francisco and Stanford University. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow\, he has also received residency fellowships from the Amy Clampitt House\, James Merrill House\, and Kimmel Harding Nelson Foundation. His poetry has appeared in Ploughshares\, Poetry\, Tin House\, and many other journals\, as well as the Best New Poets series\, the Verse Daily website\, and the Random House anthology of metrical poetry\, Measure for Measure. Since 2012 he has directed the San Francisco literary reading series Bazaar Writers Salon. He is the author of two poetry collections\, Deviants (Stephen F. Austin State University Press\, 2013)\, and Mirrorforms\, published by Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions in November 2019. www.peterklinepoetry.com \nEmily Pinkerton holds an MFA from San Francisco State University\, and her writing has previously appeared in ZYZZYVA\, Juked\, BlazeVOX\, and Berkeley Poetry Review\, among others. Emily is the author of three chapbooks: Natural Disasters (Hermeneutic Chaos Press\, 2016)\, Bloom (Alley Cat Press\, 2018) and Adaptations (Nomadic Press\, 2018). She was a 2017-2018 Writer in Residence at Alley Cat Books in San Francisco and is a 2020 Fellow at The Writers Grotto. More of Emily’s publications can be found at thisisemilypinkerton.tumblr.com\, and she tweets as @neongolden. \nMarco Rafalà is a first-generation Sicilian American novelist\, musician\, and writer for award-winning tabletop role-playing games. He earned his MFA in Fiction from The New School and is a cocurator of the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series in New York City. Born in Middletown\, Connecticut\, he now lives in Brooklyn\, New York. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review and LitHub. How Fires End is his debut novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-15/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200127T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200127T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T225833
CREATED:20191205T154447Z
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SUMMARY:Anna Wiener: Uncanny Valley
DESCRIPTION:Anna Wiener discusses her new memoir Uncanny Valley. \nPraise for Uncanny Valley \n“I’ve never read anything like Uncanny Valley\, which is both a searching bird’s-eye study of an industry and a generation\, as well as an intimate\, microscopic portrait of ambition and hope and dread. Anna Wiener writes about the promise and the decay of Silicon Valley with the impossibly pleasurable combination of a precise\, razored intellect and a soft\, incandescent heart. Her memoir is diagnostic and exhilarating\, a definitive document of a world in transition: I won’t be alone in returning to it for clarity and consolation for many years to come.”  —Jia Tolentino\, author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion \n“Uncanny Valley is a generation-defining account of the amoral late-capitalist tech landscape we are fatally enmeshed in. With grace and humor\, Anna Wiener shows us the misogyny\, avarice\, and optimistic self-delusion of our cultural moment\, wrapped up in the gripping story of a young woman navigating the blurred boundaries of a seductive world. Insightful\, compelling and urgent.” —Stephanie Danler\, author of Sweetbitter: A Novel \n“Like Joan Didion at a startup.”—Rebecca Solnit\, author of Call Them By Their True Names \n“A rare mix of acute\, funny\, up-to-the-minute social observation\, dead-serious contemplation of the tech industry’s annexation of our lives\, and a sincere first-person search for meaningful work and connection. How does an unworn pair of plain sneakers ‘become a monument to the end of sensuousness’? Read on.”—William Finnegan\, author of Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life \nAbout Uncanny Valley \nThe prescient\, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital age \nIn her mid-twenties\, at the height of tech industry idealism\, Anna Wiener—stuck\, broke\, and looking for meaning in her work\, like any good millennial–left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco\, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance\, dubious success\, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination\, glory\, and\, of course\, progress. \nAnna arrived amidst a massive cultural shift\, as the tech industry rapidly transformed into a locus of wealth and power rivaling Wall Street. But amid the company ski vacations and in-office speakeasies\, boyish camaraderie and ride-or-die corporate fealty\, a new Silicon Valley began to emerge: one in far over its head\, one that enriched itself at the expense of the idyllic future it claimed to be building. \nPart coming-age-story\, part portrait of an already-bygone era\, Anna Wiener’s memoir is a rare first-person glimpse into high-flying\, reckless startup culture at a time of unchecked ambition\, unregulated surveillance\, wild fortune\, and accelerating political power. With wit\, candor\, and heart\, Anna deftly charts the tech industry’s shift from self-appointed world savior to democracy-endangering liability\, alongside a personal narrative of aspiration\, ambivalence\, and disillusionment. \nUnsparing and incisive\, Uncanny Valley is a cautionary tale\, and a revelatory interrogation of a world reckoning with consequences its unwitting designers are only beginning to understand.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anna-wiener-uncanny-valley/
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:Andre Perry / Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new book \nSome of Us Are Very Hungry Now: a collection of essays \npublished by 2 Dollar Radio \nWith luminous insight and fervent prose\, Andre Perry’s debut collection of personal essays\, Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now\, travels from Washington DC to Iowa City to Hong Kong in search of both individual and national identity. While displaying tenderness and a disarming honesty\, Perry catalogs racial degradations committed on the campuses of elite universities and liberal bastions like San Francisco while coming of age in America. \nThe essays in Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now take the form of personal reflection\, multiple choice questions\, screenplays\, and imagined talk-show conversations\, while traversing the daily minefields of childhood schoolyards and Midwestern dive-bars. The impression of Perry’s personal journey is arresting and beguiling\, while announcing the author’s arrival as a formidable American voice. \nWhat has been said about Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now: \n*A “Most Anticipated Book of 2019” —LitReactor\, The A.V. Club\, Big Other \n“Beautiful\, brilliant\, bold… Tantamount to a slice from the Americana songbook. These essays are ballads\, images from the self\, isolated and marginalized in other countries and in his own land. These are songs of identity and sexuality and expectations the world has of African American males from those perspectives. Here’s hoping this book will mark the start of a long and varied journey for Perry. If the goal of a literary traveler is to show how connected we are to one another\, his debut collection is an assured indication of deeper glories yet to come.”\n—Christopher John Stephens\, PopMatters \nAndre Perry is an essayist and arts advocate. He received his MFA from the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program and his work has appeared in The Believer\, Catapult\, Granta and other journals. He co-founded Iowa City’s Mission Creek Festival\, a celebration of music and literature\, as well as the multidisciplinary festival of creative process\, Witching Hour. He continues to live and work in Iowa City. This is his first book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andre-perry-some-of-us-are-very-hungry-now/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Crissy Van Meter: Creatures
DESCRIPTION:Crissy Van Meter discusses her new novel\, Creatures. \nPraise for Creatures \n“Creatures is the kind of beautiful book that makes you want to lick the salt from its pages. It’s so physically present you can feel the waves hit your body\, smell the sea life\, hear the roar of the ocean as your hair whips around your face in the breeze. Crissy Van Meter has written a book about the complexities of love and families\, yes\, but it’s also a careful look at intimacy through the lens of a person learning and relearning how to love the people who continually let us down. It’s inventive and surprising. The text is tactile; a punch to the heart. It’s one of the best novels I’ve read this year.”—Kristen Arnett\, New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things \n“Crissy Van Meter pulls us into depths of loneliness\, sweetness\, pain\, history\, and pulsing vulnerability in prose swift and clear as an ocean current\, in Creatures. On Winter Island\, time and landscape ache with memory; need spills over in subtle moments of intense connection\, fracture\, deprivation\, and wound; unconditional love may be a concept as unreachable as the mainland\, and as isolating. Like water\, loss and longing fill the space between each prism of a word in this gorgeous\, jewel-tone debut.” —Sarah Gerard\, author of Sunshine State \n“At the intersection of the natural world and the human heart\, Van Meter explores alcoholism\, absence\, daughterly loyalties and longing in this slim and beautiful tale that contains a whole aqueous universe in its depths.”—Melissa Broder\, author of The Pisces \nAbout Creatures \nOn the eve of Evangeline’s wedding\, a dead whale is trapped in the harbor of Winter Island\, the groom may be lost at sea\, and Evie’s mostly absent mother has shown up out of the blue. From there\, in this mesmerizing\, provocative debut\, Evie remembers and reckons with her complicated upbringing in this lush\, wild land off the coast of Southern California. \nEvie grew up with her well-meaning but negligent father\, surviving on the money he made dealing the island’s world-famous strain of marijuana\, Winter Wonderland. Although he raised her with a deep respect for the elements\, the sea\, and the creatures living within it\, he also left her to parent herself. With wit\, love\, and bracing ashes of anger\, Creatures probes the complexities of love and abandonment\, guilt and forgiveness\, betrayal and grief—and the ways in which our ability to love can be threatened if we are not brave enough to conquer the past. \nLyrical\, darkly funny\, and ultimately cathartic\, Creatures exerts a pull as strong as the tides. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/crissy-van-meter-creatures/
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:Author Talk: Lincoln Mitchell
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco native Lincoln Mitchell will discuss his new book with Penelope Houston\, the singer for the seminal San Francisco punk band The Avengers and accomplished solo artist.\nIn San Francisco Year Zero: Political Upheaval\, Punk Rock and a Third Place Baseball Team\, Mitchell deftly weaves together the personal and the political\, tracing the city’s current state back to three key events that all occurred in 1978: the assassination of George Moscone and Harvey Milk (occurring fewer than two weeks after the massacre of Peoples Temple members in Jonestown\, Guyana); the explosion of the city’s punk rock scene; and a breakthrough season for the San Francisco Giants.\nSponsored by the San Francisco History Center\nA book sale follows the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-talk-lincoln-mitchell/
LOCATION:Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room\, SF Main Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Samuel C. Woolley / The Reality Game
DESCRIPTION:discussing his new book \nThe Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth \npublished by Public Affairs \n\nFake news posts and Twitter trolls were just the beginning. What will happen when misinformation moves from our social media feeds into our everyday lives? \nDespite Samuel Woolley’s warnings as early as 2013\, the problem of online disinformation stormed our political process in 2016 and has only worsened since. Yet as Woolley shows in this urgent book\, it may pale in comparison to what’s to come: human-like automated voice systems\, machine learning\, “deepfake” AI-edited videos and images\, interactive memes\, virtual reality\, and more. In stories both deeply researched and compellingly written\, Woolley describes this future and imagines its profound impact on our politics. \nInformation literacy is an essential ingredient in a healthy democracy\, and The Reality Game shows how the breakneck rate of technological change is making it nearly impossible. Woolley argues for a new culture of invention\, one built around accountability and especially transparency. We cannot afford to continue re-litigating the past. Instead\, we must follow signals to prevent manipulation in the future–and use our new tools not to control people but to empower them. \nDr. Samuel Woolley is a writer and researcher specializing in the study of automation/AI\, emergent technology\, politics\, persuasion\, and social media. He is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and program director for computational propaganda research at the Center for Media Engagement\, both at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining UT\, Woolley founded and directed the Digital Intelligence Lab at the Institute for the Future\, a 50-year-old think tank based in the heart of Silicon Valley. He also cofounded and directed the research team at the Computational Propaganda Project at the Oxford Internet Institute\, University of Oxford. He has written on political manipulation of technology for a variety of publications including Wired\, the Atlantic Monthly\, Motherboard/VICE\, TechCrunch\, theGuardian\, Quartz and Slate. His research has been featured in publications such as the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, and the Wall Street Journal and on The Today Show\, 60 Minutes\, and Frontline. His work has been presented to members of NATO\, the US Congress\, the UK Parliament\, and to numerous private entities and civil society organizations. His PhD is from the University of Washington. He tweets from @samuelwoolley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/samuel-c-woolley-the-reality-game/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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