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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180611T190000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180521T221906Z
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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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SUMMARY:Janet Mock
DESCRIPTION:Date of event changed to June 11\, 2018 \nJanet Mock is a writer\, TV host\, and advocate tackling stigma through storytelling. With a Master’s in journalism from New York University\, the Honolulu native began her career as an editor at People.com and went on to write cover stories for Marie Claire\, Interview\, and The Advocate as well as essays for The New Yorker\, TheNew York Times\, and Lenny. She produced HBO’s The Trans List\, hosts the podcast Never Before\, and serves as a columnist for Allure. Called a “fearless new voice” and “trailblazing leader” who “changed my way of thinking” by Oprah Winfrey\, Janet was a featured speaker at the historic Women’s March on Washington. She is the author of Surpassing Certainty and the New York Times bestseller Redefining Realness. \nMia Birdsong is an activist\, writer\, and orator. She is a Family Centered Social Policy Fellow at New America and a Senior Fellow at the Economic Security Project. She is working on her first book\, How We Show Up. \nThis program is a benefit for the Transgender\, Gender Variant\, Intersex Justice Project
URL:https://litseen.com/event/janet-mock/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Porchlight Open Door
DESCRIPTION:Porchlight Open Door is a small stage open mic event launched by Porchlight in September \n2009. Storytellers add their names to a sign-up sheet\, receive a free drink\, and then have \nfive minutes to spiel on the monthly theme. The evening’s top storyteller\, as chosen by a \nrandom audience member\, receives $50 in cold\, hard\, United States greenbacks\, a bag of \nhot nuts\, and a pound of coffee from local roaster\nNomadic Ground\n  \nStorytelling has never been this potentially lucrative or fun!* \n\nOpen Door is back!\nHosted by Arline Klatte and Michael O’Brien \nThe second Tuesday of the month at The Hemlock Tavern \n\n  \n*Except on various occasions
URL:https://litseen.com/event/porchlight-open-door/
LOCATION:Hemlock Tavern\, 1131 Polk Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival Presents Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake
DESCRIPTION:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents Poetic Tuesdays guest curated by Litquake\, Poetic Tuesdays features an array of poets and music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yerba-buena-gardens-festival-presents-poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Turk & Divis / Quiet Lightning album release party
DESCRIPTION:Turk & Divis (Evan and Miles Karp) launch the Quiet Lightning album\, featuring 11 tracks of original music scored to excerpts of 50 Bay Area writers performing live in last year’s QL shows. \nCome celebrate! Activities include: \n> A listening/screening party \n> Performances by a stout list of the album’s contributors: Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, Margaret McCarthy\, Matt Leibel\, Miah Jeffra\, AshleyRose Sanchez\, Matt Carney\, Roberto F. Santiago\, Rayan Mustafa\, Kristina Ten\, Linette Escobar\, Riss Rosado\, John Panzer\, Danielle Bero\, Abe Becker\, Cassandra Dallett\, and Paul Corman-Roberts: performer links and bios can be found here. \n> An open mic: sign up to read/perform during an improv set by Turk & Divis (more info soon) \nLimited edition lathe cut vinyl and cassettes will be available! \n> more info + to pre-order < \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis event is free and all ages. Doors at 6:30\, show at 7pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/turk-divis-quiet-lightning-album-release-party/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: Pride Zine Fest
DESCRIPTION:Guest curator Anand Vedawala presents four Bay Area queer Zine artists: Tyler Cohen\, Ajuan Mance\, Lee Marrs\, and Joshua Trujillo
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-pride-zine-fest/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alexandra Mattraw with Tiff Dressen and Norman Fischer
DESCRIPTION:Alexandra Mattraw with Tiff Dressen and Norman Fischer\nTuesday\, June 12\, 2018\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\n \nAlexandra Mattraw launches her new book small siren with Tiff Dressen and Norman Fischer  \n \nAbout small siren: \nsmall siren believes the inanimate is alive. Here\, a speaker navigates music rendered from a terrain of fracture\, where emergency and becoming intertwine.  A family’s narrative threads and unthreads through the book\, as do the ethics of projection. What confrontations arise where people and objects are involuntarily constructed through a mutual process of projection? Truth is slippery but so is the ground. Here\, she listens for appendages of herself in nature and in the cities she encounters\, where she ritualistically attempts to distinguish between beauty and disaster. \nAlexandra Mattraw is a Berkeley poet and fourth generation native of Northern California. Her debut full-length book\, small siren\, emerges this spring from Brooklyn’s Cultural Society. Alexandra is also the author of four chapbooks\, including flood psalm (2017)\, published with Dancing Girl Press. Her poems and reviews have appeared in American Letters and Commentary\, Denver Quarterly\, Eleven Eleven\, Fourteen Hills\, The Poetry Project\, VOLT\, The Volta\, and elsewhere. In Oakland\, she curates an art centric writing and performance series called Lone Glen\, now in its seventh year. \nTiff Dressen was born and raised in St. Paul\, Minnesota. SONGS FROM THE ASTRAL BESTIARY (lyric& Press\, 2014) is their first full-length collection of poetry. They recently migrated from Oakland to the Portola neighborhood of San Francisco and work in the Office of Research at UC Berkeley. They are the author of Keeper (Woodland Editions\, 2005)\, Because Icarus-children (WinteRed Press\, December 2010) and for Aeolus: variations on the element (co-published by the g.e. collective and Poetry Flash\, 2011). Their work has appeared in many journals including New American Writing\, VOLT and 26: A journal of poetry and poetics\, and YewJournal. They enjoy spending time at the SF Center for the Book honing their typesetting and letterpress printing skills. \nNorman Fischer is a poet\, essayist\, and Zen Buddhist priest. The latest of his more than twenty-five prose and poetry titles are (poetry) any would be if (Chax\, 2017) and Magnolias All At Once (Singing Horse\, 2015). Forthcoming in 2018  from PURH in France is his serial poem On a Train at Night. And from Talisman the poem Untitled Series: Life As It is.  His latest prose works are What Is Zen? Plain Talk for a Beginner’s Mind\, and Experience: Thinking\, Writing\, Language and Religion. He is the founder of the Everyday Zen Foundation (www.everydayzen.org)\, a network of Zen meditation groups and other projects. His books are distributed by Small Press Distribution in Berkeley\, CA. \nNorman Fischer’s new book\, On a Train at Night\, was published in March 2018 by Presse Universite de Rouen et Havre\, in France. This book-length serial poem explores consciousness\, meaning\, and what can’t be said or written of. June 1 is also the scheduled publication date of Untitled Series:Life As It Is (Talisman Press)\, also a serial poem in short fragments that describes the hidden\, underlying\, linguistic shape of ordinary daily events. \nAlexandra Mattraw is a Berkeley poet and fourth generation native of Northern California. Her debut full-length book\, small siren\, emerges this spring from Brooklyn’s Cultural Society. Alexandra is also the author of four chapbooks\, including flood psalm (2017)\, published with Dancing Girl Press. Her poems and reviews have appeared in American Letters and Commentary\, Denver Quarterly\, Eleven Eleven\, Fourteen Hills\, The Poetry Project\, VOLT\, The Volta\, and elsewhere. In Oakland\, she curates an art centric writing and performance series called Lone Glen\, now in its seventh year. \nWhat has been said about small siren: \n“When good poetry hits\, it animates the actual\, it becomes the actual. That’s small siren: a serious romp of constructive music that is what it says. Science and nature unlock their mysteries by being precise; in small siren the words — cut\, spliced\, compressed — form units of attention enacting the physical world so precisely that even the sun and the moon ride their arcs untroubled. Across cities and seas\, Alexandra Mattraw’s language isn’t attached to images; it comes out of them\, like a birthright. The authenticity is declarative and unmistakable: ‘A sign is a block\, an island\, a cloud\, a clock.’  She makes it real.” \n—Aaron Shurin \n“Though cradled by earth\, Mattraw’s poems wander through a new human condition. Or are the songs of spirits who won’t tiptoe around their biographers. Through the unregistered versions of ourselves\, we can read these poems and worry about having regular bodies later. Here is a beautiful lesson or wager that on a page you can risk your dreams.” \n—Tongo Eisen-Martin \n“In Alexandra Mattraw’s much-awaited first book\, small siren\, we encounter a poet of extraordinary observation and inquiry. An enchantment and engagement with the world commences: “when is a voice a piano\,’ “repetition needs to believe\,’ “what grew before you could speak’ build a kind of groundswell where Mattraw puts her ear to the hardscape of 21st century America and its global environs: Sao Paolo\, Iceland\, New Zealand. Ultimately\, notions of country and categories break down. What we find is heresy\, hearsay\, and yes\, wishes. Throughout\, what survives is a relationship of love and courage\, of errors and triumph. A human relationship of lovers\, of family. This is a book of wonder and awe and strength. When the world goes down\, I want to be in Alexandra Mattraw’s boat.” \n-Gillian Conoley
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexandra-mattraw-with-tiff-dressen-and-norman-fischer/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Weekday Wanderlust
DESCRIPTION:Hello Wanderlusters! It’s coming that time again…the most wanderlust time of the year. Weekday DONderlust. Mark your calendar for Tuesday JUNE 12. It’s our LAST event before our summer hiatus. We will celebrate great travel writing\, readings\, summer\, our fantastic community\, and of course the birthday of our own Don George. Champagne toasts and funny Don stories are welcome. Don has invited three of his besties\, who happen to be extraordinary writers\, too. Please come to welcome Larry Habegger\, Amanda Jones\, and Jeff Greenwald. There will be stories. There will be laughter. There will be giveaways. This is is Donderlust. Readings start at 7pm but we will be at the bar by 6 pm at the Mystic Hotel (417 Stockton). See you then.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/weekday-wanderlust-4/
LOCATION:mystic hotel\, 417 Stockton St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jennifer S. Cheng and Vi Khi Nao
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, June 12\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will be held at our 9th Ave. location. \n\n\n\nJennifer S. Cheng and Vi Khi Nao join us on Tuesday June 12th to celebrate the release of their new collections\, Moon: Letters\, Poems\, Maps and Sheep Machine. \n\nPraise for Moon: Letters\, Maps\, Poems \n  \n“What are the secret aspects of a book\, which cannot be spoken of and that unfold in ways that nobody can describe to us in advance? In a world where ‘boundaries are slipping\,’ what modes of metamorphosis now become possible? Can radical change be read as a ‘map of the body in motion’? I am interested in Cheng’s idea of story as the place where we come to ‘forget something\, as much as remember.’ This is a formulation that precipitates the artifacts and deities of the book: ‘the logic of dust cloud\, spiral.’ Everything that’s left behind. If reading is a form of pilgrimage\, then Cheng gives us its charnel ground events\, animal conversions\, guiding figures and elemental life. ‘I want to mark a new map for a body opening\,’ she writes\, and then she does.” —Bhanu Kapil \n  \n“…What distinguishes this study of the Self in proximity to Other and to the World is the way Cheng refuses to tell stories and instead\, insists on asking them. With curiosity and attention\, MOON shines its light on inquiry as art\, asking as making. In the tradition of Fanny Howe’s poetics of bewilderment\, Cheng gives us a poetics of possibility.” —Jennifer Tseng \n\nAbout Moon: selected by Bhanu Kapil as winner of the Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards:  \n  \nMixing fable and fact\, extraordinary and ordinary\, Jennifer S. Cheng’s hybrid collection\, MOON: Letters\, Maps\, Poems\, explores the feminine monstrous as it draws on various Chinese mythologies about women\, particularly that of Chang’E (the Lady in the Moon)\, uncovering the shadow stories of our myths — with the belief that there is always an underbelly. MOON explores bewilderment and shelter\, destruction and construction\, unthreading as it rethreads\, shedding as it collects. \n\nPraise for Sheep Machine \n\n“The unglamorous labor of ‘logging’ footage is\, like childbirth\, often seen as a necessary torment best forgotten once its productive work is done . . . Vi Khi Nao empowers this deceptively objective art of time-coded naming with a wild heart\, a deep ethics\, and the slant-philosophical poetics that returns me continuously to her gorgeous\, necessary (and frankly addictive) work.” —Anna Moschovakis \n  \n“Vi Khi Nao’s poetic ekphrasis of Leslie Thornton’s Sheep Machine is a visceral companion to an optical theatre of ordinary and extraordinary images that rub off the burning edge of consciousness . . . This is hallucinatingly generative work.” —Dong Li \n  \nAbout Sheep Machine \n  \nSHEEP MACHINE is a textual inscape\, a poetically painted nonfictional pasture where mechanical violence and visceral fear coalesce into a kind of science prosody\, a post-human panorama whose beauty liesr in the ruins of reality it depicts. Influenced by Leslie Thornton’s film of sheep feeding in a field as a conveyor belt of cable cars ascend and return from a mountain in the Swiss Alps\, Vi Khi Nao takes perception into tumultuous terrains\, into a pastoral-celestial void in which temporality is transcended\, progress is a bourgeois invention\, and god is a liability for our life spent in hunger and grazing. Vi Khi Nao’s SHEEP MACHINE is grace said at the ontological last supper. \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFISH IN EXILE (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy VI Khi Nao\n$16.95\nISBN: 9781566894494\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Coffee House Press – November 1st\, 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPraise for Vi Khi Nao: \n“Here I was allowed to forget for a while that that is what books aspire to tell\, so taken was I by more enthralling and mysterious pleasures.” –Carole Maso \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHOUSE A (OMNIDAWN 1ST/2ND BOOK CONTEST) (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer S. Cheng\n$17.95\nISBN: 9781632430236\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Omnidawn – October 4th\, 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHouse A investigates the tones and textures of immigrant home-building by asking: How is the body inscribed with a cosmology of home\, and vice versa?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-s-cheng-and-vi-khi-nao/
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:Poetic Observations of a Black\, Queer Young Man
DESCRIPTION:Southern Migrant Mixtape relays the experiences and observations of a black\, queer man from Virginia who thought he was leaving racism and sexual intolerance behind in the regions where he initially experienced them. Plunge heart first into this emotive journey of growth\, transformation of pain into armor\, and the lessons that can be learned when one is true to themselves.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetic-observations-of-a-black-queer-young-man/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 7 pm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-club/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bookswap! Pride Edition
DESCRIPTION:June is for Pride! So this month\, we’re asking you to bring\, like\, the queerest book you love. Maybe you love a lesbian road trip mystery\, or a peachy bisexual love story set somewhere in Northern Italy\, or a memoir from your favorite trans rockstar: bring on all the gay books! All of them. \nAnd if that isn’t your cup of tea\, bring any book you love and want other people to love. Mostly\, Bookswap is a social event\, so bring a book and a friend\, enjoy a premium cocktail\, and relax in our cozy space.\n— \n$15 admission includes a drink ticket\, swag\, and 20% off book purchases at The Bindery and Booksmith for the evening. \nSpace is limited\, and tickets do sell out\, so we encourage you to buy early. Bar opens at 6:30\, the fun starts at 7. \n  \nTickets on sale now!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bookswap-pride-edition/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Gender Creative Child with Diane Ehrensaft
DESCRIPTION:City Arts & Lectures presents Diane Ehrensaft in conversation with Carvell Wallace. \n  \n\nDiane Ehrensaft\, Ph.D. is a developmental and clinical psychologist in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Director of Mental Health and founding member of the Child and Adolescent Gender Center\, a partnership between the University of California San Francisco and community agencies to provide comprehensive interdisciplinary services and advocacy to gender nonconforming/ transgender children and youth and their families.”  Her most recent book\, The Gender Creative Child acts as a guide for parents who are raising children in a time of progressive change in cultural\, medical and legal ideas of gender and identity.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-gender-creative-child-with-diane-ehrensaft/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Roman Muradov
DESCRIPTION:Roman Muradov discusses his new book\, On Doing Nothing: Finding Inspiration in Idleness. \n\nPraise for On Doing Nothing \n\n“Roman Muradov’s whimsical\, clever\, and companionable book On Doing Nothing provides a much-needed correction to our distracted\, anxiety-ridden\, and increasingly disembodied culture. Muradov has written and illustrated a kind of Situationist\, Oulipian Ways of Seeing—a manual for clarity and presence\, a book which issues a call to attention; a call to pay attention. The smart yet approachable philosophical reflections unfold like a leisurely stroll through a beautiful and unfamiliar city\, provoking thoughtfulness and eliciting in the reader a spirit of discovery.” —Peter Mendelsund\, author of What We See When We Read \n\nAbout On Doing Nothing \n\nIn an age of obsessive productivity and stress\, this illustrated ode to idleness invites readers to explore the pleasures and possibilities of slowing down. Beloved author and illustrator Roman Muradov weaves together the words and stories of artists\, writers\, philosophers\, and eccentrics who have pursued inspiration by doing less. He reveals that doing nothing is both easily achievable and absolutely essential to leading an enjoyable and creative life. Cultivating idleness can be as simple as taking a long walk without a destination or embracing chance in the creative process. Peppered with playful illustrations\, this handsome volume is a refreshing and thought-provoking read. \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nON DOING NOTHING: FINDING INSPIRATION IN IDLENESS (HARDCOVER)\n\nBy Roman Muradov\nEmail or call for price\nISBN: 9781452164267\nAvailability: Backordered\nPublished: Chronicle Books – April 3rd\, 2018\n\n\nIn an age of obsessive productivity and stress\, this illustrated ode to idleness invites readers to explore the pleasures and possibilities of slowing down. Beloved author and illustrator Roman Muradov weaves together the words and stories of artists\, writers\, philosophers\, and eccentrics who have pursued inspiration by doing less. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n(IN A SENSE) LOST AND FOUND (HARDCOVER)\n\nBy Roman Muradov\n$19.95\nISBN: 9781907704956\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Nobrow – September 16th\, 2014\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe first graphic novel by rising star Roman Muradov explores the theme of innocence by treating it as a tangible object–something that can be used\, lost\, mistreated. Roman Muradov’s crisp delicate style conjures a world of strange bookstores and absurd conspiracies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJACOB BLADDERS AND THE STATE OF THE ART (HARDCOVER)\n\nBy Roman Muradov\n$16.99\nISBN: 9781941250105\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Uncivilized Books – December 13th\, 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJacob Bladders: illustrator\, braggart\, and victim of assault by thugs sent by the mysterious Charlie. Part satire of commercial art\, part noirish detective story\, part puzzle to be solved or left in pieces. Roman Muradov’s latest is an ink-smeared Blakean vision of 1940s New York where Twitter exists as a network of pneumatic tubes\, but artwork is still delivered by hand.
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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:Tommy Orange
DESCRIPTION:Tommy Orange reading from\n\nThere There \npublished by Alfred Knopf \nNot since Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange’s There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career.Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame in Oakland. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle’s memory. Edwin Black has come to find his true father. Thomas Frank has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather; Orvil has taught himself Indian dance through YouTube videos\, and he has come to the Big Oakland Powwow to dance in public for the very first time. Tony Loneman is a young Native American boy whose future seems destined to be as bleak as his past\, and he has come to the Powwow with darker intentions–intentions that will destroy the lives of everyone in his path.\nFierce\, angry\, funny\, groundbreaking–Tommy Orange’s first novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. There There is a multi-generational\, relentlessly paced story about violence and recovery\, hope and loss\, identity and power\, dislocation and communion\, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. A glorious\, unforgettable debut. \nTommy Orange is a recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a 2014 MacDowell Fellow\, and a 2016 Writing by Writers Fellow. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland\, California\, and currently lives in Angels Camp\, California. \nPraise for the work of Tommy Orange: \n“When Tommy Orange first sent me a chapter of his novel\, There There\, I read it and marveled. I then read it aloud to my wife. And then I emailed and called my closest writer friends. I said\, ‘It’s here. That book I’ve been waiting for. It has arrived.’ Tommy Orange has indeed arrived. And his debut novel is a beautiful\, dangerous\, sad\, poetic\, and hilarious revelation. Set in Oakland\, California\, There There is truly the first book to capture what it means to be an urban Indian—perhaps the first novel ever to celebrate and honor and elevate the joys and losses of urban Indians. You might think I’m exaggerating but this book is so revolutionary—evolutionary—that Native American literature will never be the same.”\n—Sherman Alexie \n“There\, There is an urgent\, invigorating\, absolutely vital book by a novelist with more raw virtuosic talent than any young writer I’ve come across in a long\, long time. Maybe ever. Tommy Orange is a stylist with substance\, a showboater with a deeply moral compass. I want to call him heir to Gertrude Stein by way of George Saunders\, but he is even more original than that. This book will make your heart swell.”\n—Claire Vaye Watkins \n“This is Tommy Orange. Remember his name. His book’s gonna blow the roof off.”\n—Pam Houston
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LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Maria Hummel and Sara Houghteling
DESCRIPTION:Maria Hummel discusses her new novel\, Still Lives with  Sara Houghteling. \nPraise for Still Lives \n“Still Lives offers its readers that delicious combination of entertainment and brilliance. It’s at once profound and suspenseful\, and while the plot kept me up nights (the ending had me gasping in surprise!)\, the book as a whole asks important questions about art and representation and how we\, as a culture\, objectify and endanger and victimize women. Maria Hummel has written a remarkable\, relevant\, and necessary novel.” —Edan Lepucki\, Woman No. 17 and California \n“There’s nothing I like better than a well-written page-turner about the art world\, and Maria Hummel has delivered this and more with her new literary thriller\, Still Lives. Flawed characters abound as do clever plots and subplots along with irresistible peeks into hidden chambers of the LA art scene. Riveting.” —B.A. Shapiro\, author of The Art Forger and The Muralist \n“As gritty and glittering as the L.A. art world it depicts\, Maria Hummel’s latest novel soars into the sun-swept heights of fame and beauty\, then plunges us into violence. In Still Lives\, Hummel does what she does best: delving with sensitivity and wit into complex\, intertwined lives\, lives that strain the frames that enclose them. Intelligent\, vivid\, and impeccably paced\, this thrilling novel forces us to confront how dangerous art can be.” —Kirstin Valdez Quade\, author of Night at the Fiestas \nAbout Still Lives \nKim Lord is an avant-garde figure\, feminist icon\, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Livesis comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous\, murdered women–the Black Dahlia\, Chandra Levy\, Nicole Brown Simpson\, among many others–and the works are as compelling as they are disturbing\, implicating a culture that is too accustomed to violence against women. \n  \nAs the city’s richest art patrons pour into the Rocque Museum’s opening night\, all the staff\, including editor Maggie Richter\, hope the event will be enough to save the historic institution’s flailing finances. \n  \nExcept Kim Lord never shows up to her own gala. \n  \nFear mounts as the hours and days drag on and Lord remains missing. Suspicion falls on the up-and-coming gallerist Greg Shaw Ferguson\, who happens to be Maggie’s ex. A rogue’s gallery of eccentric art world figures could also have motive for the act\, and as Maggie gets drawn into her own investigation of Lord’s disappearance\, she’ll come to suspect all of those closest to her. \n  \nSet against a culture that often fetishizes violence\, Still Lives is a page-turning exodus into the art world’s hall of mirrors\, and one woman’s journey into the belly of an industry flooded with money and secrets. \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSTILL LIVES (HARDCOVER)\n\nBy Maria Hummel\n$26.00\nISBN: 9781619021112\nAvailability: Coming Soon. Available for Pre-Order Now!\nPublished: Counterpoint LLC – June 12th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Still Lives offers its readers that delicious combination of entertainment and brilliance. It’s at once profound and suspenseful\, and while the plot kept me up nights (the ending had me gasping in surprise )\, the book as a whole asks important questions about art and representation and how we\, as a culture\, objectify and endanger and victimize women. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMOTHERLAND (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Maria Hummel\n$15.95\nISBN: 9781619024663\nAvailability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships 1-10 business days from warehouse. ETA will be updated with email order confirmation.\nPublished: Counterpoint LLC – January 13th\, 2015\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMotherland is inspired by stories from author Maria Hummel’s father and his German childhood\, and letters between her grandparents that were hidden in an attic wall for fifty years. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Sara Houghteling\n$16.50\nISBN: 9780307386304\nAvailability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships 1-10 business days from warehouse. ETA will be updated with email order confirmation.\nPublished: Vintage – February 9th\, 2010\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA sweeping and sensuous novel of a son’s quest to recover his family’s lost masterpieces\, looted by the Nazis during the occupation.
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LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
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