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SUMMARY:Borderlands // an Aunt Lute Open Mic feat. Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:“… every step forward is a travesía\, a crossing. I am again an alien in a new territory. And again\, and again.”\n–Gloria Anzaldúa\, Borderlands/La Frontera \nJoin us for a poetry open mic the last Thursday of May. We want to hear about your new growth\, your crossings\, what territory you’ve uncovered with the shifting of the seasons. Poets of any level welcome: share with us your undone and your in-process! 15 available open slots\, one poem per poet\, sign-up upon arrival.\n\nMC and Featured Poet:\nKim Shuck is the current Poet Laureate of San Francisco. She has two full length collections of poetry\, one chapbook and one collection of prose poems to her name. Her recent works include Sidewalk NDN (Foothills Publishing\, 2014) and Clouds Running In (Taurean Press\, 2014). Kim serves on the board of directors for the San Francisco American Indian Cultural Center in planning\, is involved with the Cherokee Society of the Greater Bay Area and is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. In addition\, she is a former Indian Studies instructor and a visual artist who works with traditional textiles. \nThis event is free and open to the public! Beverages will be provided.\nThis event is funded in part by the CAC and the NEA. Questions? Email marketing@auntlute.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/borderlands-an-aunt-lute-open-mic-feat-kim-shuck/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Vincent Pizzuto
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, May 31st at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Vincent Pizzuto as he reads from his new book Contemplating Christ. \nThe incarnation has made mystics of us all. What if we read the gospels as if that were true? In his book Contemplating Christ\, Vincent Pizzuto offers an exploration of the interior life for modern contemplatives that is as beautiful as it is compelling. With an emphasis on the gospels and Christian mystical tradition\, his book explores ancient themes in new and surprising ways. Drawing on his rich experience as an academic and priest\, Pizzuto gradually unfolds the Christian mystery of deification to which the whole of biblical revelation and the Christian contemplative life are ordered: through the incarnation\, we have all been made “other Christs” in the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vincent-pizzuto/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Michelle Markowitz and Caroline Moss / Hey Ladies!: The Story of 8 Best Friends\, 1 Year\, and Way\, Way Too Many Emails
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Michelle Markowitz and Caroline Moss\, in town to present Hey Ladies: The Story of 8 Best Friends\, 1 Year\, and Way\, Way Too Many Emails. Join us! \n  \nBased on the column of the same name that appeared in The Toast\, Hey Ladies! is a laugh-out-loud read that follows a fictitious group of eight 20-and-30-something female friends for one year of holidays\, summer house rentals\, dates\, brunches\, breakups\, and\, of course\, the planning of a disastrous wedding. This instantly relatable story is told entirely through emails\, texts\, DMs\, and every other form of communication known to man. \n  \nThe women in the book are stand-ins for annoying friends we all have. There’s Nicole\, who’s always broke and tries to pay for things in Forever21 gift cards. There’s Katie\, the self-important budding journalist\, who thinks a retweet and a byline are the same thing. And there’s Jen\, the DIY suburban bride-to-be. With a perfectly pitched sardonic tone\, Hey Ladies! will have you cringing and laughing as you recognize your own friends … and even yourself. \n  \n\n  \n“Hey Ladies! is fresh and seductive. The surface energy is irresistible but like any memorable book it’s the deeper emotion that will stay with you. A must-read for the Millennials and a true joy for the rest of us.” – Elin Hilderbrand\, author of The Perfect Couple \n  \n“DAMNNNNN!!!! This book is so funny and it feels like you’re reading emails on your phone\, so it goes down nice and easy! I devoured this book\, just like I devoured that half-handful of almonds I laid out as my entire lunch.” – Megan Amram\, NBC’s The Good Place and author of Science…For Her! \n  \n“[Buy this book to] remind your newly-engaged friend you were around before the fiancé.” – Vogue \n  \n“This is the ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’ of our time. By the way\, ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’ is a total masterpiece. The book\, not the movie. The movie is just ok. Anyway\, this book is a masterpiece. Share it with your bffs!!”— Emily Gould\, author of Friendship \n  \n“There’s a level of detail here that can only come from years of paying attention to one’s worst impulses\, and there’s something magical about watching those impulses be given free rein here. It’s as petty and profound as Samuel Pepys\, and it haunts my dreams.” — Daniel Mallory Ortberg and Nicole Cliffe\, co-founders of The Toast \n  \n  \n\n  \nMichelle Markowitz is a writer and director. She recently wrote and directed the pilot “Sidepiece” for Virgin Produced. Her work has been featured in the New York Times\, The Hairpin\, Fast Company\, Jezebel\, and New York\, and on The Today Show\, Good Morning America\, MTV\, and more. She lives in New York. \n  \nCaroline Moss is a writer and editor with bylines in The New York Times\, New York Magazine\, Racked\, Cosmopolitan\, and more. She is a contributing editor of The Wing’s No Man’s Land magazine and a producer at BuzzFeed’s morning show\, AM2DM. This is her first book. \n  \n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michelle-markowitz-and-caroline-moss-hey-ladies-the-story-of-8-best-friends-1-year-and-way-way-too-many-emails/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:soirée rosé: the art of happy hour
DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to “soirée rosé: the art of happy hour” presented by Author L.B. Lewis to celebrate the pre-release of her third book\, One Way Home. \nThis happy hour is the sixth in a series of events to build community and support in San Francisco for L.B. Lewis’s writing. She’ll be offering a short update and books will be available for purchase. \nComplimentary glass of rosé and bites for the first 25 attendees.  Pink and white dress strongly encouraged. \nDrawing a diverse global crowd\, last happy hour sold out. RSVP now to add your name to the guest list at www.LBLewis.com.  \nAbout L.B. Lewis: \nHot\, indie author nominee writing about loans\, life and love\, L.B. Lewis’s debut novel\, THE RIGHT OF WAY (MODERN TRILOGY BOOK 1)\, reached #283 in the Kindle Store and has received five-star reviews from The Manhattan Book Review and Readers’ Favorite. Her second book in the series\, A MINOR DETOUR (MODERN TRILOGY BOOK 2) was chosen by The Wishing Self Book Awards and ZYZZVA for respective programs. ONE WAY HOME (MODERN TRILOGY BOOK 3) will be published early 2018.  She has spoken about her writing at Capital One\, Institute of the Future\, Mechanics’ Institute\, Wayra UK\, TechHub London and TravelTech Lab London.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/soiree-rose-the-art-of-happy-hour/
LOCATION:Pause Wine Bar\, 1666 Market St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon\, featuring R.O. Kwon & Michael David Lukas
DESCRIPTION:Come join us Saturday\, June 2\, when Babylon Salon welcomes novelist and NEA Literature Fellow R.O. Kwon (The Incendiaries); novelist and Fulbright Scholar Michael David Lukas (The Last Watchman of Old Cairo); freelance journalist and EATER restaurant critic Rachel Levin (Look Big: and Other Tips for Surviving Animal Encounters of all Kinds); short story writer and Steinbeck Fellow Katie Flynn; and spoken word poet Jarvis Subia reading from their work. @ The Armory Club: 1799 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, 94103. FREE. Doors at 5:30 PM\, reading at 6:00 PM. www.babylonsalon.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-featuring-r-o-kwon-michael-david-lukas/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-14/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nikole Hannah-Jones
DESCRIPTION:City Arts & Lectures presents Nikole Hannah-Jones in conversation with Alexis Madrigal. \nNikole Hannah-Jones is an award-winning investigative reporter who covers civil rights and racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine. In 2016\, she helped found the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting\, a news trade organization dedicated to increasing the ranks of investigative reporters of color. Prior to joining The New York Times\, Nikole worked as an investigative reporter at ProPublica in New York City\, where she spent three years chronicling the way official policy created and maintains segregation in housing and schools. Before that\, she reported for the largest daily newspaper in the Pacific Northwest\, The Oregonian in Portland\,  where she covered numerous beats\, including demographics\, the census and county government. She is writing a book on  school segregation called\, The Problem We All Live With.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nikole-hannah-jones/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SIN
DESCRIPTION:SIN\nTales of vice and veniality\, peccadillos\, trespasses\, and indiscretions from the faux pas to the unforgivable \nFeaturing:\nNadya Lev ~ Eating Ortolans & Other Violent Delights \nSeth Rosenblatt ~ Getting Biblical: Cannibalism\, Literature & the Wrath of God \nMichael Gene Sullivan ~ Battle of the Bard \nKathleen Antonia ~ Greed Has A Name: Robert Newsom \nCasey Selden ~ Green with Envy in the Great White North \nMeghan Dahl ~ James Joyce is NSFW \nCurated by Christian Cagigal \nArtwork by Imogen Speer\nTuesday\, June 5\nPublic Works SF: 161 Erie St\, San Francisco \nDoors at 6:30 for pre-salon cocktails and conversation; talks begin at 7:30\nGeneral Admission $15\nLimited Reserved tickets $25\nAges 21+
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sin/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Chasing Mercury: A Novel by September Williams
DESCRIPTION:An epileptic Black ballerina and a Powwow dancer meet in the Montreal Airport. They are both scheduled to perform in 1973 Cold War Berlin. During the transatlantic crossing their love evolves. On a long layover in Zurich\, he stuns her by depositing many hundreds of thousands of dollars into his Swiss bank account\, to which he adds her name with no true explanation. Is she an accomplice to something\, or is this just love in the time of mercury poisoning? \nSeptember Williams’ debut novel is a romance-suspense-memoir that connects human rights\, environmental justice and romance. Williams is also a Bay Area physician\, bioethicist\, and filmmaker. \n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSeptember Williams
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chasing-mercury-a-novel-by-september-williams/
LOCATION:Mechanics Institute\, 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Silent Reading Party
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Lemony Snicket and Radio Silence. Bring a book to read to yourself in silence. Drinks and light snacks will be available. There is no admission cost and no reservations necessary. Proceeds from drink sales will benefit the library of Visitacion Valley Middle School\, a public school in San Francisco. \nSign up to receive emails about upcoming Silent Reading Parties here. \nMore information at this link. See you there\, readers!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silent-reading-party/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:A SENDOFF FOR ARISA WHITE AND THE TAPROOT CHAPBOOK RELEASE OF Perfect on Accident
DESCRIPTION:Readings by \nTONYA M. FOSTER \nLINNEA OGDEN \nARISA WHITE \nTuesday\, June 5\, 2018 \nDoors: 6:30 p.m. \nProgram: 7:00 p.m. \nFree Entry \nI.O.U. \nInstitute Of advanced Uncertainty \n296 Ivy Street\, San Francisco \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-sendoff-for-arisa-white-and-the-taproot-chapbook-release-of-perfect-on-accident/
LOCATION:Institute Of advanced Uncertainty [I.O.U.]\, 296 Ivy Street\, btwn. Gough and Franklin\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Charlie LeDuff / Sh*tshow!: The Country's Collapsing . . . and the Ratings Are Great
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff (Detroit: An American Autopsy)\, reading from and discussing his new book Sh*tshow!: The Country’s Collapsing . . . and the Ratings Are Great. \n  \nPlease join us! \n  \nA daring\, firsthand\, and utterly-unscripted account of crisis in America\, from Ferguson to Flint to Cliven Bundy’s ranch to Donald Trump’s unstoppable campaign for President — at every turn\, Charlie LeDuff was there. \n  \nIn the Fall of 2013\, long before any sane person had seriously considered the possibility of a Trump presidency\, Charlie LeDuff sat in the office of then-Fox News CEO Roger Ailes\, and made a simple but prophetic claim: The American people were at a breaking point. The country was going broke and on high boil. No one in the bubbles of Washington\, DC.\, New York\, or Los Angles was talking about it — least of all the media. LeDuff wanted to go to the heart of the country to report what was really going on. Ailes baulked. Could the hard-living and straight-shooting LeDuff be controlled? But\, then\, perhaps on a whim\, he agreed. And so LeDuff set out to record a TV series called “The Americans”\, and\, along the way\, ended up bearing witness to the ever-quickening unraveling of The American Dream. \n  \nFor three years\, LeDuff travelled the width and breadth of the country with his team of production irregulars\, ending up on the Mexican border crossing the Rio Grande on a yellow rubber kayak alongside undocumented immigrants; in the middle of Ferguson as the city burned; and watching the children of Flint get sick from undrinkable water. Racial\, political\, social\, and economic tensions were escalating by the day. The inexorable effects of technological change and globalization were being felt more and more acutely\, at the same time as wages stagnated and the price of housing\, education\, and healthcare went through the roof. The American people felt defeated and abandoned by their politicians\, and those politicians seemed incapable of rising to the occasion. The old way of life was slipping away\, replaced only by social media\, part-time work\, and opioid addiction. \n  \nSh*tshow is that true\, tragic\, and distinctively American story\, told from the parts of the country hurting the most. A soul-baring\, irreverent\, and iconoclastic writer\, LeDuff speaks the language of everyday Americans\, and is unafraid of getting his hands dirty. He scrambles the tired-old political\, social\, and racial categories\, taking no sides — or prisoners. Old-school\, gonzo-style reporting\, this is both a necessary confrontation with the darkest parts of the American psyche and a desperately-needed reminder of the country’s best instincts. \n  \n\n  \nCharlie LeDuff is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist\, formerly at the New York Time sand the Detroit News\, and Detroit’s Fox 2 News. LeDuff has covered the war in Iraq\, crossed the border with Mexican migrants\, and chronicled a Brooklyn fire house in the aftermath of 9/11. The author of Detroit\, US Guys\,and Work and Other Sins\, he lives near Detroit. \n  \nPlease note: This event will be at the Bindery\, 1727 Haight. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nBar opens at 6 for Silent Reading Party (which ends at 7:30pm). This event begins at 8pm. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Sh*tshow!\, and/or any of Charlie’s books\, order below and be sure to put your request in the special field. \n\n\n\n\nBooks:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSh*tshow!: The Country’s Collapsing . . . and the Ratings Are Great (Hardcover)\n\nBy Charlie LeDuff\n$27.00\nISBN: 9780525522027\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: Penguin Press – May 22nd\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDetroit: An American Autopsy (Paperback)\n\nBy Charlie LeDuff\n$18.00\nISBN: 9780143124467\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: Penguin Books – January 28th\, 2014\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUS Guys: The True and Twisted Mind of the American Man (Paperback)\n\nBy Charlie LeDuff\n$16.00\nISBN: 9780143113065\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: Penguin Books – April 1st\, 2008
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-charlie-leduff-shtshow-the-countrys-collapsing-and-the-ratings-are-great/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Vigilance is No Orchard - Poets Hazel White\, Denise Newman and Jennifer S. Cheng
DESCRIPTION:Hazel White is the author of Vigilance Is No Orchard\, just published by Nightboat Books. And also of Peril as Architectural Enrichment\, from Kelsey Street Press. In 2016\, she completed with poet Denise Newman a two-year public poetry project\, Biotic Portal at Strawberry Creek\, bioticportal.com\, a collaboration with the UC Botanical Garden\, at Berkeley\, supported by a Creative Work Fund grant. Her poetry has appeared in New American Writing\, Denver Quarterly\, Elderly\, and Fence. She grew up on farms in England\, and works in the Agriculture and Natural Resources Department of UC Davis. \nIn Vigilance Is No Orchard\, Hazel White records her haunting romance with the Valentine Garden\, a famous garden\, now a ruin\, in Montecito\, California\, designed by landscape architect Isabelle Greene. White is jealous of Greene’s power to affect a dynamic experience of space\, tries to make language play faithfully in the game coursing between the body and Greene’s fiercely stirring landscape. Her poems dwell in shelter and view\, and time passing. They chase animation and survival\, forage and repair\, the act of making\, accumulation\, authority of form\, and realize a dream of overflow\, which gives way to loss\, as in flowering. \nDenise Newman’s poetry collections are Future People\, The New Make Believe\, Wild Goods\, and Human Forest. She is the translator of Azorno and The Painted Room\, both by the late Danish poet\, Inger Christensen\, and Baboon by Naja Marie Aidt\, which won the 2015 PEN Translation Award and an NEA Fellowship. She teaches at the California College of the Arts. \nJennifer S. Cheng writes at the intersection of essay and poetry. Her debut book\, House A \, was selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize\, and she is the author of the new collection MOON: Letters\, Maps\, Poems\, selected by Bhanu Kapil as winner of the Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize.Her writing appears in Tin House\, Conjunctions\, AGNI\, The Literary Hub\, Black Warrior Review\, DIAGRAM\, The Normal School\, Guernica\, Hong Kong 20/20 (a PEN HK anthology)\, and elsewhere. Having grown up in Texas\, Connecticut\, and Hong Kong\, she is a longtime resident of the Outer Sunset neighborhood in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vigilance-is-no-orchard-poets-hazel-white-denise-newman-and-jennifer-s-cheng/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Viet Thanh Nguyen\, Thi Bui and Meron Hadero
DESCRIPTION:The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives \nEdited by Viet Thanh Nguyen \nfrom Abrams Image \n \nPulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Sympathizer)\, and contributors Thi Bui (The Best We Could Do) and Meron Hadero discuss their new anthology The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives. Edited by Nguyen\, himself a refugee\, The Displaced brings together a host of prominent refugee writers from around the world to explore and illuminate their experiences. The Displaced is an indictment of closing our doors and a powerful look at what it means to be forced to leave home and find a place of asylum. The publisher will donate 10 percent of the cover price of this book\, a minimum of $25\,000 annually\, to The International Rescue Committee (IRC)\, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing humanitarian aid\, relief\, and resettlement to refugees and other victims of oppression or violent conflict. \nViet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam in 1971. After the fall of Saigon in 1975\, he and his family fled to the United States. The author of three books including The Sympathizer\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a recently published story collection\, The Refugees\, Nguyen is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles. \nMeron Hadero was born in Addis Ababa\, Ethiopia and lived in Germany before arriving in the United States as a refugee. She has been published in Best American Short Stories\, Selected Shorts on NPR/PRI\, the Missouri Review\, Boulevard\, e O ng\, Indiana Review\, e Normal School\, and Addis Ababa Noir. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times Book Review and O Assignment. She lives in Oakland and is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. \nThi Bui was born in Vietnam and immigrated to the United States as a child. She studied art and law and thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer\, but became a public school teacher instead. Bui lives in Berkeley\, California\, with her son\, her husband\, and her mother. A Different Pond by Bao Phi\, illustrated by Thi Bui\, was named a 2018 Caldecott Honor Book. The Best We Could Do is her debut graphic novel. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/viet-thanh-nguyen-thi-bui-and-meron-hadero/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Mariko Tamaki / Supergirl: Being Super
DESCRIPTION:Mariko Tamaki\, author of the Caldecott Honor and Eisner Award-winning This One Summer\, and Eisner Award-nominated artist Joëlle Jones (Lady Killer) combine forces for Supergirl: Being Super​​​​​​! This is the Girl of Steel as you’ve never seen her before. A truly innovative origin story\, a coming-of-age tale of “Being Super\,” full of heart with added teenage irony. \n  \nWelcome to Midvale\, home to Liberty High School and an unusual girl named Kara Danvers. While it may seem like your ordinary town\, girls like Kara make it extraordinary. She’s super-strong\, she can fly and she crash-landed on Earth in a rocket ship. But for Kara Danvers\, winning the next track meet\, celebrating her 16th birthday and surviving her latest mega-zit are her top concerns. \n  \nNow Kara’s incredible powers are kicking into high gear–and people she trusted are revealing creepy ulterior motives. The time has come for her to choose between the world where she was born and the only world she’s ever known. \n  \n\n  \n  \n“A gateway for new readers.” – Hollywood Reporter \n  \n“This is the most grounded\, authentic Supergirl I’ve ever read.” – The Mary Sue \n“A comic book that was long overdue. ”  – SYFYWIRE \n  \n\n  \n \nMariko Tamaki is an award-winning Canadian writer living in Oakland\, California. She is the author of Saving Montgomery Sole and the co-creator\, with Jillian Tamaki\, of This One Summer\, which received the prestigious Eisner and Ignatz awards as well as Caldecott and Printz honors. Her growing slate of critically acclaimed comics and graphic novels includes Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\, Tomb Raider\, Adventure Time\, She-Hulk\, Lumberjanes\, Supergirl: Being Super and New Super-Man. \n  \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nPlease note: This event will be at the Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Supergirl\, and/or any of Mariko’s books\, order below and be sure to put your request in the special field. \n\n\n\n\nBooks:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSupergirl: Being Super (Paperback)\n\nBy Mariko Tamaki\, Joelle Jones (Illustrator)\n$16.99\nISBN: 9781401268947\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: DC Comics – June 5th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLumberjanes: The Moon Is Up (Hardcover)\n\nBy Mariko Tamaki\, Brooklyn Allen (Illustrator)\, Boom! Studios\n$14.99\nISBN: 9781419728686\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: Amulet Books – May 8th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLumberjanes: Unicorn Power! (Lumberjanes #1) (Hardcover)\n\nBy Mariko Tamaki\, Brooklyn Allen (Illustrator)\n$14.99\nISBN: 9781419727252\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: Amulet Books – October 10th\, 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTomb Raider Volume 2 (2017) (Paperback)\n\nBy Mariko Tamaki\, Phillip Sevy (Illustrator)\, Tula Lotay (Illustrator)\n$19.99\nISBN: 9781506701622\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: Dark Horse Books – May 23rd\, 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShe-Hulk Vol. 2: Let Them Eat Cake (Paperback)\n\nBy Mariko Tamaki (Text by (Art/Photo Books))\, Georges Duarte (Illustrator)\n$17.99\nISBN: 9781302905682\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: Marvel Comics – January 23rd\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShe Hulk\, Volume 1: Deconstructed (Paperback)\n\nBy Mariko Tamaki (Text by (Art/Photo Books))\, Nico Leon (Illustrator)\n$17.99\nISBN: 9781302905675\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: Marvel Comics – July 25th\, 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaving Montgomery Sole (Paperback)\n\nBy Mariko Tamaki\n$9.99\nISBN: 9781250104403\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: Square Fish – April 18th\, 2017
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-mariko-tamaki-supergirl-being-super/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Third Man Books @ City Lights : Destruction of Man by Abraham Smith and The Terraformers by Dan Hoy
DESCRIPTION:Third Man Books @ City Lights\n\ncelebrating new books by Dan Hoy and Abraham Smith\n\n  \nDestruction of Man \nby Abraham Smith \n& \nThe Terraformers \nby Dan Hoy \n  \nabout Abraham Smith: \nAbraham Smith is the author of four poetry collections: Ashagalomancy (Action Books\, 2015); Only Jesus Could Icefish in Summer (Action Books\, 2014); Hank (Action Books\, 2010); and Whim Man Mammon (Action Books\, 2007). In 2015\, he released Hick Poetics (Lost Roads Press)\, a co-edited anthology of contemporary rural American poetry and related essays. His creative work has been recognized with fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center\, Provincetown\, MA\, and the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Presently\, he is at work upon a poetry manuscript about cranes–birds whose song and stature electrify him. Destruction of Man\, his book-length poem about farming\, is forthcoming in 2018 from Third Man Books. \n  \nabout The Terraformers: \nThe second title in Third Man Books “C” chapbook series\, Dan Hoy’s latest collection of poetry chronicles the last days of an expedition stranded on a desolate planet and beset by depression\, sabotage and failing equipment. In The Terraformers\, human life is mediated by domes and pressure suits\, and the history of human beings is buried in ecocide\, oppression and longing for the infinite\, even if (or because) “the infinite / is death for us.” \n  \nThird Man Books and Records: Where your turntable’s not dead\, and your page still turns. Visit http://thirdmanbooks.com/.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/third-man-books-city-lights/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStoryTime: Resoundings
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime RESOUNDINGS at Edinburgh Castle\, 950 Geary Street\, San Francisco\, on Thursday June 7th\, 7-9 pm\, will feature readings accompanied by the music of Makram Abu-Shakra. Readers will be Karen Bjorneby (Hurricane Season)\, Marianne Villanueva (Jenalyn)\, Nick Johnson (Music for Mussolini)\,                judy b (Stories For Airports)\, Edmund Zagorin (Craquelure)\, and others. With guest MC Lael Gold.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-resoundings/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Castle Pub\, 950 Geary St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck Presents: Call Me By Your Name
DESCRIPTION:June is Pride\, so let’s do that one mainstream queer book that doesn’t end in tragedy! BYO Peach. \n  \nFeatured writers TBA. \n$12 advance\, $15 door\, ticket includes *open bar* for 21+\, and admission to the afterparty at The Bindery (1727 Haight). Seats tend to sell out fast; we encourage you to buy early. \nPlease remember: Shipwreck tickets are non-transferable and non-refundable. \n  \nTickets on sale now! \n  \n— \n  \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event. \nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on the first Thursday of every month at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco. \nFics are blind-read by our Thespian-in-Residence\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and you choose the best ship before the writers are unmasked. The winner is cast off from polite society\, and invited back the next month to defend their title. \nCritics are saying:\n“… the most despicable literary event possible.”\n“… an affront to literature.”\n“It used to be we had to sit in dark\, sticky booths to get these kinds of sleazy thrills.”\n“Come if you are high on marijuana cigarettes and have done sex before.”\n“… a vile\, disgusting event.””Shipwreck will bring you to madness\, and you may never return.”\n“…wonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting.”\n“…punny sodomy and gross indecency.” \n— \nPLEASE NOTE: No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. We’re not dicks\, we just like dick jokes. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\nBooks:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCall Me by Your Name (Paperback)\n\nBy Andre Aciman\n$17.00\nISBN: 9780312426781\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: Picador USA – January 22nd\, 2008\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLoose Lips: Fanfiction Parodies of Great (and Terrible) Literature from the Smutty Stage of Shipwreck (Paperback)\n\nBy Casey A. Childers\, Amy Stephenson\n$15.99\nISBN: 9781455566426\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: Grand Central Publishing – September 27th\, 2016
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-presents-call-me-by-your-name/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Reading
DESCRIPTION:Headlands Center for the Arts presents their writers in residence
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kai Carlson-Wee
DESCRIPTION:This event will be held at our 9th Ave. location. \n\n\n\nKai Carlson-Wee reads from his new poetry collection\, Rail. \n\nPraise for Rail \n\n“Rail is a lovely book\, strong and inspired.” ―Robert Bly \n“This is a wholly unique and powerful collection of poems. The sense of purpose puts one in mind of Whitman’s ‘Song of the Open Road.’ Encounters with fellow vagabonds recalls the tramp-poetry of Vachel Lindsay. But the darker need to search for meaning in the American plains and points farther west―a vastness forlorn and almost unknowable―belongs to the particular vision of this poet. His journey through our national ambiguity discovers a flicker in our roots\, a spark popping from obscurity that rises into the heavens. The lived experience behind these deft and subtle poems seems necessary\, and reiterates the fact that resilience is not only a feature of the American character\, it is a recurring tenet of American art.” ―Maurice Manning  \n“Brotherly love\, a sense of displacement and lost time\, and the deep care that reminds us of our humanity\, form the heart of this book. These poems are a scavengers guide\, a survivalist manifesto\, a reminder of the way our daily experiences can fuel and forge our faith. A hauntingly beautiful and unusual debut.” ―Dorianne Laux \n“Equal parts dithyramb and lament\, the great American bardic tradition celebrates lonesome wandering even as it hungers for enduring communion. Kai Carlson-Wee is a worthy inheritor of its dusty mantle\, worn by Whitman and Kerouac before him\, and Rail is a moving testament to the territories of freight trains\, Minnesota roads\, dumpster diving\, and brotherhood. ‘The road goes on. With or without us.’ Yes\, but how much better to have this unforgettable music to guide the way.” ―Campbell McGrath \n\nAbout Rail \n\nSet against a landscape of rail yards and skate parks\, Kai Carlson-Wee’s debut collection captures a spiritual journey of wanderlust\, depression\, brotherhood\, and survival. These poems―a “verse novella” in documentary form―build momentum as they travel across the stark landscapes of the American West: hopping trains through dusty prairie towns\, swapping stories with mystics and outlaws\, skirting the edges of mountains and ridges\, heading ever westward to find meaning in the remnants of a ruined Romantic ideal. Part cowboy poet\, part prophet\, Carlson-Wee finds beauty in the grit and kinship among strangers along the road. \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRAIL (POULIN #41) (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Kai Carlson-Wee\n$16.00\nISBN: 9781942683582\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: BOA Editions – April 24th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSet against a landscape of rail yards and skate parks\, Kai Carlson-Wee’s debut collection captures a spiritual journey of wanderlust\, depression\, brotherhood\, and survival.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kai-carlson-wee/
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:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY\, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES...
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 7:30pm\nShow at 8pm\n$10 online & at the door…\nTICKETSSSSSS: https://ticketf.ly/2rOcW0A \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\,\na communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\,\nto embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-13/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poe Ballantine
DESCRIPTION:Poe Ballantine discusses his new novel\, Whirlaway. \nPraise for Poe Ballantine \nPoe Ballantine is the most soulful\, insightful\, funny\, and altogether luminous “under-known” writer in America. He knocks my socks off\, even when I’m barefoot. —TOM ROBBINS\, Tibetan\nPeach Pie \nPoe Ballantine is brilliant. —CHERYL STRAYED\, Wild \nWhirlaway is a fever dream of my favorite things: horse racing\, records\, booze\, insanity\, and women. What a strange and crazed comedic ride. Ballantine’s writing is like no other. —WILLY\nVLAUTIN\, The Free \nAbout Whirlaway \nEddie Plum\, who insists he’s been unjustifiably committed to a California psychiatric hospital\, manages to finally escape after fourteen years of incarceration to start his life anew. On the run\, he holes up in a sheltered barrio on a bluff above the Pacific Ocean owned by his wealthy but unsympathetic father. Here he meets Sweets\, the telepathic dog\, laments the loss of Sofia\, his madhouse lover\, and plays the horses at the Del Mar Racetrack. Eventually he meets up with an old friend\, Shelly Hubbard\, a fellow horseplayer\, record collector/dealer\, and hardcore loner\, who tells him about his brother\, Donny\, dead at the age of eighteen from a tragic dive off a thirty-foot La Jolla sea cliff known as the Clam. Eddie discovers a family secret and wants to help\, but by then he’s already embroiled in the psychotic incident with the Tijuana prostitutes\, the madhouse lover\, and the police\, who are hot on his tail. Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride has nothing on Whirlaway\, a hilarious novel of escaped mental patients\, horseplayers\, and record collectors.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poe-ballantine/
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:Reading
DESCRIPTION:Beloved poet Tinker Greene is being forced to leave San Francisco! Join us for a celebration of his work and contribution to the poetry community . Also featuring Carrie Hunter
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-2/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Adam Smyer (Knucklehead)\nChandler Klang Smith (The Sky Is Yours)\nNitasha Tiku (Wired)\nAdam Becker (What Is Real?) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM.\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-12/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Egan
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 9\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will be held at our 9th Ave. location. \n\n\n\n\nJennifer Egan joins us on Saturday\, June 9th to celebrate the paperback release of Manhattan Beach. \n\nPraise for Manhattan Beach \n\n“A bounteous miracle that makes you feel that past time\, and our time\, differently; everything becomes freshly energized\, infused with humanity\, vital\, sad\, and full of importance. To see the world through Egan’s eyes is to be moved\, through language\, to new adoration of the world. I don’t know a better writer working today. There is a generosity in her prose that is vastly enlivening to its reader and brings about that beautiful effect fiction sometimes causes: more\, and better-grounded\, fondness for reality\, just as it is.”—George Saunders \n\n“Manhattan Beach is so rich in detail and atmosphere; such an exploration of underworlds of all kinds\, filled with lessons on lifelines and buoyancy and how to bear life’s weight by diving deep into it. Jennifer Egan has masterfully conjured an era we are on the cusp of losing. Her novel is an absorbing story\, beautifully written. Its strands of subtle intrigue and quiet heroism make you reluctant to leave each page while eager to get to the next.”—M.L. Stedman \n\n“An unusually well written\, well researched\, emotionally satisfying page-turner . . . Manhattan Beach is the kind of book you can immerse yourself in happily.” –Heller McAlpin\, San Francisco Chronicle \n\nAbout Manhattan Beach \n\nThe daring and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad. \nAnna Kerrigan\, nearly twelve years old\, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles\, a man who\, she gleans\, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men. \n‎Years later\, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard\, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men\, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver\, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations\, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub\, she meets Dexter Styles again\, and begins to understand the complexity of her father’s life\, the reasons he might have vanished. \nWith the atmosphere of a noir thriller\, Egan’s first historical novel follows Anna and Styles into a world populated by gangsters\, sailors\, divers\, bankers\, and union men. Manhattan Beach is a deft\, dazzling\, propulsive exploration of a transformative moment in the lives and identities of women and men\, of America and the world. It is a magnificent novel by the author of A Visit from the Goon Squad\, one of the great writers of our time. \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMANHATTAN BEACH (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer Egan\n$17.00\nISBN: 9781476716749\nAvailability: Coming Soon. Available for Pre-Order Now!\nPublished: Scribner Book Company – June 5th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction\n* Winner of the New York City Book Award\n* New York Times Bestseller \n* A San Francisco Chronicle Top 10 Book of the Year\n* A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2017 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer Egan\n$16.00\nISBN: 9780307477477\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Anchor Books – March 22nd\, 2011\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNATIONAL BESTSELLER\nNational Book Critics Circle Award Winner\nPEN/Faulkner Award Finalist\nA New York Times Book Review Best Book \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE KEEP (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer Egan\n$15.95\nISBN: 9781400079742\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Anchor Books – July 10th\, 2007\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAward-winning author Jennifer Egan brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep -the tower\, the last stand -is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOOK AT ME (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer Egan\n$16.95\nISBN: 9780385721356\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Anchor Books – October 8th\, 2002\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA National Book Award Finalist \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE INVISIBLE CIRCUS (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer Egan\n$16.95\nISBN: 9780307387523\nAvailability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships 1-10 business days from warehouse. ETA will be updated with email order confirmation.\nPublished: Anchor Books – October 9th\, 2007\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn Jennifer Egan’s highly acclaimed first novel\, set in 1978\, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of Phoebe O Connor\, age eighteen. Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith\, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEMERALD CITY (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer Egan\n$15.95\nISBN: 9780307387530\nAvailability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships 1-10 business days from warehouse. ETA will be updated with email order confirmation.\nPublished: Anchor Books – October 9th\, 2007\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThese eleven masterful stories – the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan – deal with loneliness and longing\, regret and desire. Egan’s characters – models and housewives\, bankers and schoolgirls – are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-egan-4/
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:Follow the Money!  The Dennis J. Bernstein KPFA Interviews
DESCRIPTION:Riva Enteen\, editor of KPFA radio commentator Dennis J. Bernstein’s new book “Follow the Money: Radio Voices for Peace and Justice\,” will host guests who have appeared on Bernstein’s influential and long-running program. “Follow the Money” compiles 66 of Bernstein’s incisive\, insightful interviews\, all conducted during the Obama era\, that provide the writing on the wall for how we got to Trump today. Taken together\, these interviews paint a vivid picture of the state of things in present day America.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/follow-the-money-the-dennis-j-bernstein-kpfa-interviews/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Event: GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:Details soon! \nSunday\, June 10\, 2018 \n4:00 PM  6:00 PM
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-event-gears-turning-w-kim-shuck-2/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lucy Jane Bledsoe\, Meg Elison & Ellen Klages
DESCRIPTION:There will be no SF in SF events in May due to convention travel. However\, we will be back on June 10th with Lucy Jane Bledsoe\, Meg Elison & Ellen Klages. More details to follow once we have our feet back on the ground. \nDoors open 6:00PM\nEvent begins 7:00 PM \nThe American Bookbinders Museum\n355 Clementina\nSan Francisco\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lucy-jane-bledsoe-meg-elison-ellen-klages/
LOCATION:The American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:THE RACKET! #20
DESCRIPTION:Details soon! \nhttps://www.facebook.com/theracketseries/ \nHosted by Noah B. Sanders
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-20/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:David Graeber
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nBullshit Jobs \nfrom Simon and Schuster \nFrom bestselling writer David Graeber\, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless\, unfulfilling jobs\, and their consequences. \nDoes your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013\, David Graeber asked this question in a playful\, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.” It went viral. After a million online views in seventeen different languages\, people all over the world are still debating the answer. \nThere are millions of people—HR consultants\, communication coordinators\, telemarketing researchers\, corporate lawyers—whose jobs are useless\, and\, tragically\, they know it. These people are caught in bullshit jobs. \nGraeber explores one of society’s most vexing and deeply felt concerns\, indicting among other villains a particular strain of finance capitalism that betrays ideals shared by thinkers ranging from Keynes to Lincoln. Bullshit Jobs gives individuals\, corporations\, and societies permission to undergo a shift in values\, placing creative and caring work at the center of our culture. This book is for everyone who wants to turn their vocation back into an avocation. \nDavid Graeber is a Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. He is the author of the bestseller DEBT: The First 5\,000 Years\, and a contributor to Harper’s\, The Guardian\, and The Baffler. He was a leading figure in the OCCUPY Wall Street movement\, He lives in London.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-graeber/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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