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SUMMARY:Marc Anthony Richardson and Carolina de Robertis
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY\, AUGUST 25 AT 6PM PT WHEN MARC ANTHONY RICHARDSON JOINS US TO DISCUSS HIS NOVEL\, MESSIAHS\, WITH CAROLINA DE ROBERTIS AT 9TH AVE! \nMasks Required While In-Store\nYou can join this event virtually by registering at the link below. \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cqwbFFuBQIS0qvGhukkbow \nPraise for Messiahs\n“Messiahs is a fever dream of storytelling. It explores racism and interracial conflict\, the deadly prison industrial complex\, climate emergency\, social death\, and more in prose that unfurls like waves of sound. Bleak\, though not without hope\, challenging\, though with numerous rewards along the way\, innovative from start to finish\, Messiahs is a marvel.”\n—John Keene\, MacArthur Fellow and author of Annotations and Counternarratives \n“In Messiahs\, Marc Anthony Richardson gives us an innovative\, intelligent\, and insightful take on several American obsessions\, including punishment\, incarceration\, and the death penalty. As much as this layered narrative presents a warning about things to come\, it also offers a profound examination of rebirth\, redemption\, second-acts. All in all an unnerving\, uncanny\, and challenging read on many levels\, but well worth the effort.”\n—Jeffery Renard Allen\, Guggenheim Fellow and author of Rails Under My Back and Song of the Shank \nAbout Messiahs\nA fiercely ecstatic tale of betrayal and self-sacrifice. \nMessiahs centers on two nameless lovers\, a woman of east Asian descent and a former state prisoner\, a black man who volunteered incarceration on behalf of his falsely convicted nephew\, yet was “exonerated” after more than two years on death row. In this dystopian America\, one can assume a relative’s capital sentence as an act of holy reform-“the proxy initiative\,” patterned after the Passion. The lovers begin their affair by exchanging letters\, and after his release\, they withdraw to a remote cabin during a torrential winter\, haunted by their respective past tragedies. Savagely ostracized by her family for years\, the woman is asked by her mother to take the proxy initiative for her brother-creating a conflict she cannot bear to share with her lover. Comprised of ten poetic paragraphs\, Messiahs‘ rigorous style and sustained intensity equals agony and ecstasy.\nAbout Marc Anthony Richardson\nMarc Anthony Richardson is author of Year of the Rat\, winner of an American Book Award\, and is the recipient of a Creative Capital Award\, a PEN America grant\, and a Hurston/Wright fellowship. He teaches creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marc-anthony-richardson-and-carolina-de-robertis/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:On the Practice of Presence for Healing Personal and Collective Grief
DESCRIPTION:In unsettling and uncertain times\, the individual and collective heartbreak that lives in both our bodies and our communities can feel insurmountable. Many of us have been conditioned by the dominant culture to not name\, focus on\, or wade through the difficulties in our lives. But in order to heal\, we must make space for grief\, prioritizing our wholeness\, humanity\, and inherent divinity. \nSocial justice activist\, social worker\, and yoga teacher Michelle Cassandra Johnson offers to those who feel brokenhearted\, helpless\, confused\, powerless\, and desperate the tools they need to be present and openhearted with their grief. In her latest book\, Finding Refuge\, Michelle uses personal narrative\, meditation\, and journaling practices to explore being present with our hearts\, empowering us to see that we each have a role to play in taking intentional action to build momentum toward a shifting what is unsettled and unjust in the world. Through her work and writing\, Michelle invites us to pick up the shattered parts of ourselves and remember our strength\, wholeness\, and sacredness through the practice of presence and attending to our grief. \nJoin program innovation leader in mindfulness\, trauma\, and racial healing Jenee Johnson in a conversation with Michelle about her latest book\, her life and her work\, and learn how to process your own grief\, as well as family\, community\, and global grief. \nFree\, suggested donation of $10. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/event-calendar/johnson-cassandra-michelle-august-4-2021 publicprograms@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-the-practice-of-presence-for-healing-personal-and-collective-grief/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:9th Ave: Kaveh Akbar
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, August 5 at 6pm PT when Kaveh Akbar reads from his latest poetry collection\, Pilgrim Bell\, in-person at 9th Ave! MASKS REQUIRED  \nYou can watch the livestream of this event online by registering at the link below: \nZoom Registration \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_LkAVIbOeRpqn-rACAEZ62g \nPraise for Pilgrim Bell \n“Kaveh Akbar exquisitely and tenaciously braids astonishment and atonement into a singular lyric voice . . . intensely inventive and original.” —Frank Bidart \n“[Akbar’s] poems have as much audacity as humility\, a rare mix of openness in a time of flinching anxiety.” —francine j. harris \n“Akbar’s poems offer readers\, religious or not\, a way to cultivate faith in times of deepest fear.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) \nAbout Pilgrim Bell \nKaveh Akbar’s exquisite\, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf \nWith formal virtuosity and ruthless precision\, Kaveh Akbar’s second collection takes its readers on a spiritual journey of disavowal\, fiercely attendant to the presence of divinity where artifacts of self and belonging have been shed. How does one recover from addiction without destroying the self-as-addict? And if living justly in a nation that would see them erased is\, too\, a kind of self-destruction\, what does one do with the body’s question\, “what now shall I repair?” Here\, Akbar responds with prayer as an act of devotion to dissonance—the infinite void of a loved one’s absence\, the indulgence of austerity\, making a life as a Muslim in an Islamophobic nation—teasing the sacred out of silence and stillness. \nRichly crafted and generous\, Pilgrim Bell’s linguistic rigor is tuned to the register of this moment and any moment. As the swinging soul crashes into its limits\, against the atrocities of the American empire\, and through a profoundly human capacity for cruelty and grace\, these brilliant poems dare to exist in the empty space where song lives—resonant\, revelatory\, and holy. \nAbout Kaveh Akbar \nKaveh Akbar is the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf and has received honors such as a Levis Reading Prize and multiple Pushcart Prizes. Born in Tehran\, Iran\, he teaches at Purdue University and in low-residency programs at Warren Wilson and Randolph Colleges.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-ave-kaveh-akbar/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Monkey Around by Jadie Jang
DESCRIPTION:We are proud to host the book launch for Monkey Around! The debut novel from Claire Light (writing as Jadie Jang)\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nMonkey Around is an action-packed urban fantasy delivering a bold new take on the Monkey King in San Francisco – complete with murder and mayhem! \nClaire Light is such an important part of KSW’s history and we’re immensely proud to help her celebrate this debut novel (written under the pen name\, Jadie Jang). Join us for a live reading and discussion with Claire and some of her special guests. \nWe’ll be having a limited live in-person audience and a simulcast on Zoom. Books will be available at the event thanks to Eastwind Books. If you’re joining us online\, we encourage you to order the book directly from their site: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/ \nAbout Monkey Around \nBarista\, activist\, and were-monkey Maya McQueen was well on her way to figuring herself out. Well\, part of the way. 25% of the way. If you squint. But now the Bay Area is being shaken up. Occupy Wall Street has come home to roost; and on the supernatural side there’s disappearances\, shapeshifter murders\, and the city’s spirit trying to find its guardian. Maya doesn’t have a lot of time before chaos turns up at her door\, and she needs to solve all of her problems. Well\, most of them. The urgent ones\, anyhow. But who says the solutions have to be neat? Because Monkey is always out for mischief. \nAbout the Author \nClaire Light (writing as Jadie Jang) is almost as organizy as her characters. She started a magazine (Hyphen) and an arts festival (APAture) with a cast of Asian Pacific Americans even more magical\, if less supernatural\, than the ones she writes about. She also got an MFA\, went to Clarion West\, and compromised between the two by publishing a collection of “literary” sci-fi short stories (Slightly Behind and to the Left) that maybe 100 people read. After wrangling arts and social justice nonprofits for 17 years\, her already autoimmune-disease-addled body threw a seven-year-long tantrum\, leading our then-house-bound heroine into an urban fantasy addiction. A few years\, and a dozen Euro-centric-mythology-dominated urban fantasy series later\, Claire sat up and said “I can do this!” and Jadie Jang\, the part of her brain that writes snarky-fun genre romps\, was born. She posts about monkeys every Monday under @seelight on Twitter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-monkey-around-by-jadie-jang/
LOCATION:Arc Studios & Gallery\, 1246 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, California\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Monkey Around by Jadie Jang
DESCRIPTION:(UPDATE: We are canceling the live in-person reading and will shift to online only\, please RSVP to receive the link to Zoom room or join us on Youtube or Facebook)\n\nWe are proud to host the book launch for Monkey Around! The debut novel from Claire Light (writing as Jadie Jang)\n\nMonkey Around is an action-packed urban fantasy delivering a bold new take on the Monkey King in San Francisco – complete with murder and mayhem!\n\nClaire Light is such an important part of KSW and we’re immensely proud to help her celebrate this debut novel (written under the pen name\, Jadie Jang). Join us for a live reading and discussion with Claire and some of her special guests.\n\nWe encourage you to order your copy of Monkey Around from Eastwind Books: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/\n\nAbout Monkey Around\nBarista\, activist\, and were-monkey Maya McQueen was well on her way to figuring herself out. Well\, part of the way. 25% of the way. If you squint. But now the Bay Area is being shaken up. Occupy Wall Street has come home to roost; and on the supernatural side there’s disappearances\, shapeshifter murders\, and the city’s spirit trying to find its guardian. Maya doesn’t have a lot of time before chaos turns up at her door\, and she needs to solve all of her problems. Well\, most of them. The urgent ones\, anyhow. But who says the solutions have to be neat? Because Monkey is always out for mischief.\n\nAbout the Author\nClaire Light (writing as Jadie Jang) is almost as organizy as her characters. She started a magazine (Hyphen) and an arts festival (APAture) with a cast of Asian Pacific Americans even more magical\, if less supernatural\, than the ones she writes about. She also got an MFA\, went to Clarion West\, and compromised between the two by publishing a collection of “literary” sci-fi short stories (Slightly Behind and to the Left) that maybe 100 people read. After wrangling arts and social justice nonprofits for 17 years\, her already autoimmune-disease-addled body threw a seven-year-long tantrum\, leading our then-house-bound heroine into an urban fantasy addiction. A few years\, and a dozen Euro-centric-mythology-dominated urban fantasy series later\, Claire sat up and said “I can do this!” and Jadie Jang\, the part of her brain that writes snarky-fun genre romps\, was born. She posts about monkeys every Monday under @seelight on Twitter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-monkey-around-by-jadie-jang-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Words out Loud Spoken Word Series - Opposites Attract Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Words out Loud is a monthly first Friday spoken word series. Months alternate between featured readers and an Opposites Attract thematic open mic focusing on opposites. For August\, bring one poem each on the topics of high(s) and low(s)\, interpreted as you choose. Time allotted will depend on the number of participants but will likely be 2-3 minutes each.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/words-out-loud-spoken-word-series-opposites-attract-open-mic-2/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Kat Zhang
DESCRIPTION:Register \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeet Kat Zhang\, children’s book author of Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao in an interactive food-themed read-aloud certain to delight. Learn how the mixture of culture and perseverance through cooking and food\, results in perfection through practice. For kids and their families. \nWatch this on YouTube. \nAbout Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao: Amy loves to make bao with her family. But it takes skill to make the bao taste and look delicious. And her bao keep coming out all wrong. Then she has an idea that may give her a second chance. Will Amy ever make the perfect bao? \nKat Zhang has been an avid reader for as long as she can remember. After a childhood spent living in books\, she now builds stories for other people to visit. In addition to her Young Adult trilogy\, The Hybrid Chronicles\, she has also published two Middle Grade novels\, The Emperor’s Riddle and The Memory of Forgotten Things\, as well as two picture books\, Amy Wu & the Perfect Bao and Amy Wu & the Patchwork Dragon. The third in the series\, Amy Wu & the Warm Welcome\, will release in Summer 2022. \nConnect: Kat Zhang – Facebook | Kat Zhang – Instagram | Kat Zhang – Twitter \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2021 Summer Stride\n\n\nSummer Stride is the Library’s annual summer learning\, reading and exploration program for all ages and abilities. Read and learn with the Library all summer long. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nATTENDING PROGRAMS\nQuestions about the program or problems registering? Contact sfplcpp@sfpl.org. For accommodations (such as ASL interpretation or captioning)\, call (415) 557-4557 or contact accessibility@sfpl.org. Requesting at least 72 hours in advance will help ensure availability. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPUBLIC NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER\nThis program uses a third-party website link. By clicking on the third-party website link\, you will leave SFPL’s website and enter a website not operated by SFPL. This service may collect personally identifying information about you\, such as name\, username\, email address\, and password. This service will treat the information it collects about you pursuant to its own privacy policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of each third-party website or service that you visit or use\, including those third parties with whom you interact through our Library services. For more information about these third-party links\, please see the section of SFPL’s Privacy Policy describing Links to Other Sites. \nThe views and opinions expressed in programs presented by groups unaffiliated with SFPL do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of SFPL or the City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kat-zhang/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210807T120000
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SUMMARY:Marc Ribot in conversation with Elliott Sharp
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info.         \n\ncelebrating the launch of Mark Ribot’s new book \nUnstrung: Rants and Stories of a Noise Guitarist \npublished by Akashic Books \n\nIconoclastic guitar player Marc Ribot offers up essays and stories in this darkly funny and subversive debut collection. \n—– \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \nThroughout his genre-defying career as one of the most innovative musicians of our time\, iconoclastic guitar player Marc Ribot has consistently defied expectation at every turn. Here\, in his first collection of writing\, we see that same uncompromising sensibility at work as he playfully interrogates our assumptions about music\, life\, and death. Through essays\, short stories\, and the occasional unfilmable film “mistreatment” that showcase the sheer range of his voice\, Unstrung captures an artist whose versatility on the page rivals his dexterity onstage. \nIn the first section of the book\, “Lies and Distortion\,” Ribot turns his attention to his instrument—”my relation to the guitar is one of struggle; I’m constantly forcing it to be something else”—and reflects on his influences (and friends) like Robert Quine (The Voidoids) and producer Hal Willner (Saturday Night Live)\, while delivering an impassioned plea on behalf of artists’ rights. Elsewhere\, we glimpse fragments of Ribot’s life as a traveling musician—he captures both the monotony of touring as well as small moments of beauty and despair on the road. In the heart of the collection\, “Sorry\, We’re Experiencing Technical Difficulties\,” Ribot offers wickedly humorous short stories that synthesize the best elements of the Russian absurdist tradition with the imaginative heft of George Saunders. Taken together\, these stories and essays cement Ribot’s position as one of the most dynamic and creative voices of our time. \nListen to an interview with Marc Ribot at The Quarantine Tapes (Literary Hub). \nMARC RIBOT has released twenty-five albums under his own name over a forty-year career\, exploring everything from the pioneering jazz of Albert Ayler to the Cuban son of Arsenio Rodríguez. Rolling Stone points out that “Ribot helped Tom Waits refine a new\, weird Americana on 1985’s Rain Dogs\, and since then he’s become the go-to guitar guy for all kinds of roots-music adventurers: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss\, Elvis Costello\, John Mellencamp.” Additional recording credits include Neko Case\, Diana Krall\, Elton John/Leon Russell’s The Union\, Solomon Burke\, John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards\, Marianne Faithfull\, Joe Henry\, Allen Toussaint\, Medeski\, Martin & Wood\, Caetano Veloso\, Allen Ginsberg\, Madeleine Peyroux\, Norah Jones\, the Black Keys\, and many others. Ribot works regularly with GRAMMY Award–winning producer T Bone Burnett and New York composer John Zorn. He has also composed and performed on numerous film scores such as Walk the Line\, The Kids Are All Right\, and The Departed. Unstrung is his latest work. \nELLIOTT SHARP is a contemporary classical composer\, multi-instrumentalist\, and performer. A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City since the late 1970s\, Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from contemporary classical\, avant-garde\, free improvisation\, jazz\, experimental\, and orchestral music to noise\, no wave\, and electronic music. He is the author of the book IrRational Music published by Terra Nova Press. \nWhat is being said about UNSTRUNG \n“Unstrung has all the honesty\, original angles\, beauty\, and clangor found in Marc Ribot’s playing. His compassionate writing about Frantz Casseus gives a human face to his calls for artists’ rights. Like life itself\, this book is bloody\, funny\, and bloody funny.”\n—Elvis Costello\, musician \n“An insightful tour through the razor-sharp mind of one of the world’s most original and influential guitar masters. Ribot’s acerbic wit\, self-deprecating humor\, and profoundly vexing love-hate relationship with all things guitar make for a fun and stimulating read.”\n—John Zorn\, musician \n“Ribot writes with great care for words\, for sounds . . . A good writer\, like a good musician\, and Ribot is both\, needs to know what they’re composing to be able to understand it\, maybe even do it better the next time. His stories are moving and compassionate . . . revelatory\, honest\, and insightful . . .”\n—Lynne Tillman\, from the Introduction \n“In the beginning\, we may have thought Marc Ribot was a full-time Lower East Side tenants rights activist who moonlit as an ubiquitous downtown noise guitarist. Now we come to find out he’s a phenomenal essay writer who has the nerve to be one of our loudest and most beloved electric jazz improvisers . . . [Ribot] composes essays about music and life of sublime wit\, probity\, and severe self-reckoning . . .”\n—Greg Tate\, author of Everything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture \n“Don’t let the fact that I am calling Marc Ribot a thinking musician distract from the raw and the righteous aspects of his playing and of this book. You have to love something completely to want to look for a way out. Here is more proof of Marc’s love and understanding of music\, of those who make it and of all the imaginings that it might jar loose!”\n—Arto Lindsay\, musician \n“Marc Ribot\, the thinking person’s roving guitar wrangler\, always has something on his mind. It’s great to drift around in the woods and fields (and airports) behind the forehead of this man one’s known before mostly by the music he’s made. Take a ramble with Marc.”\nRichard Hell\, author of I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp
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LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Offsite: Authors on the Street @ Inner Sunset Flea
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Sunday\, August 8th at 12pm PT for the latest Authors on the Street event at Inner Sunset Flea! \nFeaturing writers Jazmin Darznik\, Michael Warr\, Emily Willingham\, Jadie Jang\, and Barbara Jane Reyes \nHosted by Charlie Jane Anders \nLocated at the San Franpsycho Stage of the Inner Sunset Flea Market \nat 9th Ave and Irving St \nAbout this Event \nAn in-person\, outdoor literary event featuring poetry\, science\, literary fiction\, fantasy and MORE! \nYES\, in-person book events are *back*! The Inner Sunset Flea has graciously allowed us to feature some authors with new and recent books. Just to be clear: this is an in-person\, outdoor reading\, with no zoom screens or webcams or headphones involved. (We love virtual events\, but we’ve missed seeing people’s faces in person.) \nOnce again\, this event is hosted by Charlie Jane Anders\, with book sales by Green Apple Books on the Park. This time around\, Authors on the Street features: \nJasmin Darznik \nMichael Warr \nEmily Willingham \nJadie Jang \nBarbara Jane Reyes \nAbout the Authors \nJasmin Darznik is the New York Times bestselling author of The Bohemians\, a novel that imagines the friendship between photographer Dorothea Lange and her Chinese American assistant in 1920s San Francisco. The novel was chosen by the New York Times and Oprah Daily as one of the best books of historical fiction in 2021. Her debut novel\, Song of a Captive Bird\, was a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice” book and a Los Angeles Times bestseller. Darznik is also the author of The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life. Her books have been published in seventeen countries and she has written for the New York Times\, Washington Post\, and Los Angeles Times\, among others. She is a professor of English and creative writing at California College of the Arts. You can learn more about her at www.jasmindarznik.com. \nSan Francisco poet Michael Warr is a 2021 San Francisco Artist Grantee and 2020 Berkeley Lifetime Achievement Awardee. His books include Of Poetry & Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin (W.W. Norton)\, and The Armageddon of Funk and We Are All The Black Boy from Tia Chucha Press. He is a San Francisco Library Laureate\, recipient of a Creative Work Fund award for his multimedia project Tracing Poetic Memory\, PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature\, Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award\, Gwendolyn Brooks Significant Illinois Poets Award\, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. His poetry is translated into Chinese by poet Chun Yu as part of the “Two Languages / One Community” project. Michael is a board member of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. \nEmily Willingham is the author of Phallacy: Life Lessons From the Animal Penis. Willingham is a journalist and science writer who earned a PhD in biology and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in urology\, both after taking a bachelor’s degree in English literature. She is coauthor of The Informed Parent: A Science-Based Resource for Your Child’s First Four Years\, and her writing has appeared in the Washington Post\, The Wall Street Journal\, Aeon\, Undark\, San Francisco Chronicle\, and many other outlets. She is a regular contributor to Scientific American. \nClaire Light (writing as Jadie Jang) is the author of Monkey Around. She started a magazine (Hyphen) and an arts festival (APAture) with a cast of Asian Pacific Americans even more magical\, if less supernatural\, than the ones she writes about. She also got an MFA\, went to Clarion West\, and compromised between the two by publishing a collection of “literary” sci-fi short stories (Slightly Behind and to the Left) that maybe 100 people read. After wrangling arts and social justice nonprofits for 17 years\, her already autoimmune-disease-addled body threw a seven-year-long tantrum\, leading our then-house-bound heroine into an urban fantasy addiction. A few years\, and a dozen Euro-centric-mythology-dominated urban fantasy series later\, Claire sat up and said “I can do this!” and Jadie Jang\, the part of her brain that writes snarky-fun genre romps\, was born. She posts about monkeys every Monday under @seelight on Twitter. \nBarbara Jane Reyes was born in 1971 in Manila\, Philippines\, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her undergraduate education at the University of California Berkeley and her MFA in creative writing (poetry) at San Francisco State University. Reyes’s poetry collections include Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Books\, 2017)\, a finalist for the California Book Award\, and Diwata (BOA Editions\, 2010). Her first book\, Gravities of Center\, was published by Arkipelago Books in 2003\, and her second book\, Poeta en San francisco (Tinfish Press\, 2005) received the 2005 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. She has taught at Mills College and the University of San Francisco. She is an adjunct professor in the Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program at University of San Francisco. She lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/offsite-authors-on-the-street-inner-sunset-flea/
LOCATION:Inner Sunset Flea Market\, 800 Irving Street\, San Francisco\, 94122
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Reimagine Candlelight Vigil with Author Armistead Maupin
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, August 9 \n12:00pm-1:30pm PDT \n\nAt this month’s Reimagine Candlelight Vigil\, our special guest is “Tales of the City” author Armistead Maupin. Let’s honor our loved ones and celebrate the transformation of loss into creativity.\nReimagine has been hosting candlelight vigils throughout the pandemic in order to break down taboos and hold space for all that we’ve lost. At this special gathering\, “Tales of the City” author Armistead Maupin will discuss living through two pandemics (AIDS in the 1980s and COVID-19 today)\, LGBTQ+ aging\, legacy\, and the power of writing and creativity. Our additional guest is Wilfred Labiosa\, the CEO of Waves Ahead Corp\, a non-profit organization in Puerto Rico focusing on the elder and LGBT+ community. \nArmistead Maupin \nLaunched in 1976 as a groundbreaking serial in the San Francisco Chronicle\, Armistead Maupin’s iconic Tales of the City series has since blazed its own trail through popular culture – from a sequence of globally best-selling novels\, to a Peabody Award-winning television miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney\, to an ambitious new musical that had its world premiere at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater in 2011. The series now encompasses nine hugely popular novels: Tales of the City\, More Tales of the City\, Further Tales of the City\, Babycakes\, Significant Others\, Sure of You\, Michael Tolliver Lives\, and Mary Ann in Autumn. The final Tales novel\, The Days of Anna Madrigal\, was released in January 2014. It premiered at #3 on the Independent Bestseller list and #7 on the New York Times Bestseller list. In 2019 Netflix will be airing a new series based on the novels titled Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City. \nMaupin’s 1992 novel\, Maybe the Moon\, which followed the serio-comic adventures of a dwarf actress working in Hollywood\, was named one of the ten best books of the year by Entertainment Weekly. The Night Listener (2000)\, a psychological suspense novel inspired by an eerie episode in Maupin’s own life\, became a 2006 feature film starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette. In 2017 he wrote a memoir titled Logical Family which grew out of his critically acclaimed one-man show of the same name. Neil Gaiman said this about Logical Family; “Maupin is one of America’s finest storytellers\, and the story of his life is a story as fascinating\, as delightful and as compulsive as any of the tales he has made up for us.” \nIn 1997 Maupin received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Publishing Triangle of New York. In 2002 he was honored with the Trevor Project’s Life Award “for his efforts in saving young lives.” Maupin was the first recipient of Litquake’s Barbary Coast Award for his literary contribution to San Francisco. In 2012 he was awarded Lambda’s Pioneer Award which is bestowed on individuals who have broken new ground in the field of LGBT literature and publishing. In 2014 he received an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He also received the Visionary Award from the 2014 Outfest Legacy Awards for his collected novels and their “…diverse\, interconnected community of San Francisco bohemians — which shaped our collective fantasy of what LGBT life is and could be….” Maupin is the subject of a new documentary titled Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin. He lives in London with his husband Christopher Turner\, a photographer. \nWilfred Labiosa \nWilfred Labiosa\, PhD\, (he/him/él) has been a community leader for more than thirty years. He has been working in the public health field for more than 25 years with marginalized communities such as the Latino and LGBT communities in the United States and Puerto Rico. He has published extensively his research with the dually-diagnosed Latino community\, mental health and a substance abuse diagnosis; works as a consultant and/ or supervisor on state\, national and international projects that focus on mental health\, HIV/AIDS prevention\, homeless\, youth\, Latinos\, LGBTQ+\, people with dual diagnosis or evidence-based treatment modalities. He has worked with LGBT and HIV organizations locally\, nationally and internationally for many years\, as a mentor\, mental health provider or evaluator. Born and raised in Puerto Rico; He graduated with a doctorate degree from Simmons University\, School of Social Work\, and Master’s Degree from Northeastern University’s Department of Counseling Psychology\, and a graduate certificate from Suffolk University’s management of non-profits. His Bachelor’s degree is from Boston University. He is currently the CEO of Waves Ahead Corp\, a non-profit organization in Puerto Rico focusing on the elder and LGBT+ community. \nSAGE \nSAGE is the country’s largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of LGBT older people. Founded in 1978 and headquartered in New York City\, SAGE is a national organization that offers supportive services and consumer resources to LGBT older people and their caregivers. \nTYPE:\nRITUAL & CEREMONYTALK\, PANEL\, & CONVERSATIONWRITING & LITERATURECOMMUNITY GATHERINGCELEBRATION & REMEMBRANCE\nTRACK:\nARTS & ENTERTAINMENTCOVID-19 \n\nThis is a digital event. You should receive information in your ticket or from the host about how to join online. \n\nFree\nRSVP
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reimagine-candlelight-vigil-with-author-armistead-maupin/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Claire Luchette and Helen Ellis
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, August 9th at 6pm PT when Claire Luchette joins us to discuss her debut novel\, Agatha of Little Neon\, with Helen Ellis on Zoom! \nZoom Registration \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_a1ZP3ZfGTBO12osWiJnR7Q \nPraise for Agatha of Little Neon \n“Full of small devotions\, pith and vigor\, and a bounty of tender feeling for a world that is not quite as full of grace as it could be\, this bold debut shines with a light all its own.” —Alexandra Kleeman \n“Claire Luchette is so wildly talented that I would follow her anywhere . . . A novel that’s blazingly original\, wry\, and perfectly attuned to the oddness—and the profundity—of life.” —Cristina Henriquez \nAbout Agatha of Little Neon \nClaire Luchette’s debut\, Agatha of Little Neon\, is a novel about yearning and sisterhood\, figuring out how you fit in (or don’t)\, and the unexpected friends who help you find your truest self. \nAgatha has lived every day of the last nine years with her sisters: they work together\, laugh together\, pray together. Their world is contained within the little house they share. The four of them are devoted to Mother Roberta and to their quiet\, purposeful life. \nBut when the parish goes broke\, the sisters are forced to move. They land in Woonsocket\, a former mill town now dotted with wind turbines. They take over the care of a halfway house\, where they live alongside their charges\, such as the jawless Tim Gary and the headstrong Lawnmower Jill. Agatha is forced to venture out into the world alone to teach math at a local all-girls high school\, where for the first time in years she has to reckon all on her own with what she sees and feels. Who will she be if she isn’t with her sisters? These women\, the church\, have been her home. Or has she just been hiding? \nDisarming\, delightfully deadpan\, and full of searching\, Claire Luchette’s Agatha of Little Neon offers a view into the lives of women and the choices they make. It is a novel about sisterhood\, friendship\, and devotion\, about figuring out how we fit in (or don’t)\, and about the unexpected friends who help us find our truest selves. \nAbout Claire Luchette \nClaire Luchette has published work in the Virginia Quarterly Review\, the Kenyon Review\, Ploughshares\, and Granta. A 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow\, Luchette graduated from the University of Oregon MFA program and has received grants and scholarships from MacDowell\, Yaddo\, the Millay Colony for the Arts\, Lighthouse Works\, the Elizabeth George Foundation\, and the James Merrill House. Agatha of Little Neon is Luchette’s first novel. \nAbout Helen Ellis \nHelen Ellis is the author of Bring Your Baggage and Don’t Pack Light\,Southern Lady Code\, American Housewife and Eating the Cheshire Cat. Raised in Alabama\, she lives with her husband in New York City. You can find her on Twitter @WhatIDoAllDay and Instagram @HelenEllisAuthor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-claire-luchette-and-helen-ellis/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays Reading "Poetry & Poetic Prose"
DESCRIPTION:August 9 at 7pm Pacific\, the Odd Mondays reading series brings you an hour of poetry and poetic prose on Zoom. Paul Corman-Roberts reads from his new poetry collection BONE MOON PALACE\, Penny Mickelbury from her historical novel TWO WINGS TO FLY AWAY\, and Tamsin Spencer Smith from her political thriller XISLE. Get the Zoom link from oddmondaysnoevalley@gmail.com. Buy all three books at www.foliosf.com/odd-mondays.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-reading-poetry-poetic-prose/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210810T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210810T200000
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SUMMARY:Tao Lin with Tommy Orange / Leave Society
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host Tao Lin again for his new novel\, Leave Society. He’ll be in conversation with Tommy Orange. Join us! \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order Leave Society here and we’ll ship it directly to you (or hold for pickup at our San Francisco shop). \nWe are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the book\nIn 2014\, a novelist named Li leaves Manhattan to visit his parents in Taipei for ten weeks. He doesn’t know it yet\, but his life will begin to deepen and complexify on this trip. As he flies between these two worlds–year by year\, over four years–he will flit in and out of optimism\, despair\, loneliness\, sanity\, bouts of chronic pain\, and drafts of a new book. He will incite and temper arguments\, uncover secrets about nature and history\, and try to understand how to live a meaningful life as an artist and a son. But how to fit these pieces of his life together? Where to begin? Or should he leave society altogether? \nExploring everyday events and scenes–waiting rooms\, dog walks\, family meals–while investigatively venturing to the edges of society\, where culture dissolves into mystery\, Lin shows what it is to write a novel in real time. Illuminating and deeply felt\, as it builds toward a stunning\, if unexpected\, romance\, Leave Society is a masterly story about life and art at the end of history. \nAbout the authors\nTao Lin is the author of the memoir Trip\, the novels Taipei and Richard Yates and Eeeee Eee Eeee\, the novella Shoplifting from American Apparel\, the story collection Bed\, and the poetry collections Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and you are a little bit happier than i am. He was born in Virginia\, has taught in Sarah Lawrence College’s MFA program\, and is the founder and editor of Muumuu House. \nTommy Orange is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma\, he was born and raised in Oakland\, California. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tao-lin-with-tommy-orange-leave-society/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Alta Live: The Future of Quarantine
DESCRIPTION:Many years before “quarantine” entered quotidian language during the COVID-19 pandemic\, Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley were at work on a book about it\, researching centuries of medical isolation. Released in July 2021\, Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine covers the black death\, Ebola\, and coronaviruses as well as agricultural diseases\, nuclear contamination\, and technology that could alter the practice of isolation. The authors join Alta Journal books editor David L. Ulin for a conversation on their eerily predictive research and what quarantine might look like in our future. \nREGISTER \nABOUT THE GUESTS:\nGeoff Manaugh is the author of A Burglar’s Guide to the City and the creator of the architecture and technology website BLDGBLOG. He regularly writes for the New York Times Magazine\, the Atlantic\, the New Yorker\, Wired\, and many other publications. \nNicola Twilley is the cohost of the award-winning podcast Gastropod\, which looks at food through the lenses of science and history\, and is a frequent contributor to the New Yorker. \nManaugh and Twilley live in Los Angeles. \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nQuarantine is our most powerful response to uncertainty: it means waiting to see whether something hidden inside us will be revealed. It is also one of our most dangerous\, operating through an assumption of guilt. In quarantine\, we are considered infectious until proven safe. \nUntil Proven Safe tracks the history and future of quarantine around the globe\, chasing the story of emergency isolation through time and space—from crumbling Mediterranean lazzarettos built to contain the black death to an experimental Ebola unit in London\, from the hallways of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to closed-door simulations where pharmaceutical execs and epidemiologists prepare for pandemics yet to come. \nBut the story of quarantine ranges far beyond the history of medical isolation. The authors tour a nuclear waste isolation facility beneath the New Mexican desert\, see plants stricken with a disease that threatens the world’s wheat supply\, and meet NASA’s planetary protection officer\, tasked with saving Earth from extraterrestrial infections. \nWith Until Proven Safe\, Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley bring us a book as compelling as it is definitive\, an up-to-the-minute investigation of the interplay of forces—biological\, political\, technological—that shape our modern world. It is a thrillingly reported\, thought-provoking exploration of the meaning of freedom\, governance\, and mutual responsibility.• \n\n\n\n\n\nUntil Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine by Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley\nMCDbookshop.org \n$25.76\n\n\nBUY THE BOOK
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alta-live-the-future-of-quarantine/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Da'Shaun L. Harrison and Kiese Laymon
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, August 11th at 6pm PT when Da’Shaun L. Harrison discusses their book\, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness\, with Kiese Laymon on Zoom! \nASL Interpretation Provided \nZoom Registration \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_IcplvrusQYe6T-3p_3sq9Q \nPraise for Belly of the Beast \n“Belly of the Beast is written with poise and lucidity. It pushes us to think past the pablum of telling fat folx all they gotta do is love themselves to enacting a movement that addresses the source and ramifications of societal anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Harrison forces us not to look away\, reminding us that all too often ‘health’ and ‘desire’ are used to annul Blackness. In a ‘post bo-po’ world\, desire and the sheer right to life can be rooted in something other than all the things named non-Black.” —Sabrina Strings\, author of Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia \n“Da’Shaun Harrison is an insightful visionary\, world-builder\, and ingenious writer who brings us into deeper understandings and frameworks of the intersections of anti-Blackness and anti-fatness. Belly of the Beast brings us closer to ourselves because it brings us closer to the truth—that anti-Blackness is the foundation to how violence shapes our relationships to our bodies and each other. Harrison not only intervenes in the terror of white supremacist paradigms but develops the tools to imagine and build a new world. Belly of the Beast eats\, and it leaves no crumbs.”—Hunter Shackelford\, author of You Might Die for This \n“I am continually blown away by Da’Shaun’s ability as a writer to wrestle so deeply and expertly with questions many of us would never even think to ask—whether they be about our world\, our politics\, our selves\, or our bodies. Every page challenges us to expand our imagination and reconstruct the ways we think\, talk\, and theorize about fatness\, Blackness\, gender\, health\, desire\, abolition\, and more. Belly of the Beast is a gift and a groundbreaker.” —Sherronda J. Brown\, editor-in-chief of Wear Your Voice magazine \nAbout Belly of the Beast \nExploring the intersections of Blackness\, gender\, fatness\, health\, and the violence of policing. \nTo live in a body both fat and Black is to exist at the margins of a society that creates the conditions for anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Hyper-policed by state and society\, passed over for housing and jobs\, and derided and misdiagnosed by medical professionals\, fat Black people in the United States are subject to sociopolitically sanctioned discrimination\, abuse\, condescension\, and trauma. \nIn Belly of the Beast\, Da’Shaun Harrison—a fat\, Black\, disabled\, and nonbinary trans writer—offers an incisive\, fresh\, and precise exploration of anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. They foreground the state-sanctioned murders of fat Black men and trans and nonbinary masculine people in historical analysis. Policing\, disenfranchisement\, and invisibilizing of fat Black men and trans and nonbinary masculine people are pervasive\, insidious ways that anti-fat anti-Blackness shows up in everyday life. Fat people can be legally fired in 49 states for being fat; they’re more likely to be houseless. Fat people die at higher rates from misdiagnosis or nontreatment; fat women are more likely to be sexually assaulted. And at the intersections of fatness\, Blackness\, disability\, and gender\, these abuses are exacerbated. \nTaking on desirability politics\, the limitations of gender\, the connection between anti-fatness and carcerality\, and the incongruity of “health” and “healthiness” for the Black fat\, Harrison viscerally and vividly illustrates the myriad harms of anti-fat anti-Blackness. They offer strategies for dismantling denial\, unlearning the cultural programming that tells us “fat is bad\,” and destroying the world as we know it\, so the Black fat can inhabit a place not built on their subjugation. \nAbout Da’Shaun L. Harrison \nDa’Shaun L. Harrison is a nonbinary abolitionist and community organizer based out of Atlanta\, GA. They once served as the Communications Director of #ATLisReady and Editor-in-Chief of Queer Black Millennial. Harrison now holds the honor of being the Associate Editor of Wear Your Voice Magazine and Lead Organizer of Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative (SNaPCo). Harrison has traveled throughout the United States and abroad to lecture at conferences and colleges and to lead workshops focused on race\, sexuality\, gender\, class\, religion\, (dis)abilities\, fatness\, and the intersection at which they all meet. You can find them on Twitter and Instagram @DaShaunLH\, or through their website\, dashaunharrison.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-dashaun-l-harrison-and-kiese-laymon/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Nawaaz Ahmed and Nina McConigley
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, August 12th at 6pm PT when Nawaaz Ahmed discusses his debut\, Radiant Fugitives\, with Nina McConigley on Zoom! \nZoom Registration \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_bvWs1Xb1R5KoaIVf1tstCg \nPraise for Radiant Fugitives \n“Radiant Fugitives indeed glows. This is such a beautiful novel\, full of light and luminous sentences. Reading it felt like basking in a generous and lucid intelligence. Ahmed writes his characters and their worlds with honesty and compassion. This is a writer to watch\, a voice we need.” —Matthew Salesses\, author of Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear \n“I’ve never read a novel like Nawaaz Ahmed’s Radiant Fugitives\, and\, I kid you not\, I’ve been waiting for this tremendous\, complex\, moving novel for years\, but never expected to receive it…There is so much of life in this book.” —Anita Felicelli\, Electric Literature \n“Lyrical and deeply moving\, Nawaaz Ahmed’s Radiant Fugitives is about the search for love\, acceptance\, and family\, both chosen and received. The novel is big-hearted and clear-eyed\, a stellar debut.” —Vanessa Hua\, author of A River of Stars \nAbout Radiant Fugitives \nA dazzling\, operatic debut novel following three generations of a Muslim Indian family confronted with a nation on the brink of change. \nWorking as a consultant for Kamala Harris’s attorney general campaign in Obama-era San Francisco\, Seema has constructed a successful life for herself in the West\, despite still struggling with her father’s long-ago decision to exile her from the family after she came out as lesbian. Now\, nine months pregnant and estranged from the Black father of her unborn son\, Seema seeks solace in the company of those she once thought lost to her: her ailing mother\, Nafeesa\, traveling alone to California from Chennai\, and her devoutly religious sister\, Tahera\, a doctor living in Texas with her husband and children. \nBut instead of a joyful reconciliation anticipating the birth of a child\, the events of this fateful week unearth years of betrayal\, misunderstanding\, and complicated layers of love—a tapestry of emotions as riveting and disparate as the era itself. \nTold from the point of view of Seema’s child at the moment of his birth\, and infused with the poetry of Wordsworth and Keats and verses from the Quran\, Radiant Fugitives is a moving tale of a family and a country grappling with acceptance\, forgiveness\, and enduring love. \nAbout Nawaaz Ahmed \nNawaaz Ahmed was born in Tamil Nadu\, India. Before turning to writing\, he was a computer scientist\, researching search algorithms for Yahoo. He holds an MFA from University of Michigan–Ann Arbor and is the winner of several Hopwood Awards. He is the recipient of residencies at MacDowell\, Yaddo\, Djerassi\, and VCCA. He’s also a Kundiman and Lambda Literary Fellow. He currently lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-nawaaz-ahmed-and-nina-mcconigley/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Alia Volz
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with Vesuvio Cafe present \nA celebration of the paperback edition of \nHome Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco \nby Alia Volz \npublished by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt \nModerated by Alexis Madrigal with Alia Volz\, Doug Volz\, Meridy Volz\n(This is a live event to take place in Kerouac Alley. Seating on a first-come\, first-serve basis) \n\n\nSure\, it’s unusual to throw a book launch 18 months after publication\, but that’s the way the brownie crumbles during a pandemic…\nCo-presented safely outdoors by City Lights Books and Vesuvio Café\, this will be the first opportunity to celebrate the bestselling memoir\, Home Baked\, in person. Alexis Madrigal from NPR’s Forum will interview Alia alongside her parents Doug and Meridy Volz (co-owners of Sticky Fingers Brownies and stars of the book). We’ll have a short reading and book signing\, plus more surprises and special guests TBD.\nHome Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020) was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award\, winner of the 2020 Golden Poppy Nonfiction Book Award\, and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. It was the inaugural pick for the citywide Total SF Book Club\, and an SFPL “On the Same Page” selection. This unique story has been featured of Snap Judgement\, Criminal\, and NPR’s Fresh Air.\nJoin us in Jack Kerouac Alley to meet the people behind the wild stories.\n********\nAbout Home Baked:\nA blazingly funny\, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky Fingers Brownies\, an underground bakery that distributed thousands of marijuana brownies per month and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco.\nDuring the ’70s in San Francisco\, Alia’s mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies\, delivering upwards of 10\,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia’s future father\, and thereafter had a partner in business and life.\nDecades before cannabusiness went mainstream\, when marijuana was as illicit as heroin\, they ingeniously hid themselves in plain sight\, parading through town—and through the scenes and upheavals of the day\, from Gay Liberation to the tragedy of the Peoples Temple—in bright and elaborate outfits\, the goods wrapped in hand-designed packaging and tucked into Alia’s stroller. But the stars were not aligned forever and\, after leaving the city and a shoulda-seen-it-coming divorce\, Alia and her mom returned to San Francisco in the mid-80s\, this time using Sticky Fingers’ distribution channels to provide medical marijuana to friends and former customers now suffering the depredations of AIDS.\nExhilarating\, laugh-out-loud funny\, and heartbreaking\, Home Baked celebrates an eccentric and remarkable extended family\, taking us through love\, loss\, and finding home.\n\n\nAlexis Madrigal is the co-host of KQED’s Forum and a contributing writer at The Atlantic.\n\nAlia Volz is a homegrown San Franciscan. Her bestselling memoir Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the 2020 Golden Poppy Nonfiction Book Award. It was chosen as the inaugural pick for the San Francisco Chronicle’s citywide Total SF Book Club and was an SFPL “On the Same Page” selection. This unique San Francisco story has been featured on Snap Judgement\, Criminal\, Forum\, and NPR’s Fresh Air. \n\nDoug Volz is a professional Visionary Realist oil painter\, living in Lake County\, California. At 67\, as a retired nurse\, he devotes his time to producing works of art that inspire and elevate\, assisting the viewer to leave behind the dark encumbrances of the physical\, and to focus instead on a personal spirituality\, and a Light which frees the Spirit and heals the Heart and Mind. \n\nMeridy Volz is a working fine artist and art activist. She resides in Desert Hot Springs\, CA\, where she runs her art program\, Art with Heart\, mentoring incarcerated and at-risk teens. Her award-winning artwork is figurative\, colorful\, and Expressionistic.\n\n\n\nReviews:\nWinner of the California Bookseller Association’s Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction\nFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography\nOne of Entertainment Weekly’s “Books to Read in April”\nOne of Lambda Literary’s “Most Anticipated LGBTQ Books of April 2020”\n\n“The subtitle\, ‘My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco’ tells you much of what you need to know in terms of content. But as a portrait of a heroics\, innovation\, grit\, and pot-baking in an epidemic (in this case\, the AIDS crisis)\, it’s also strikingly relevant. And beautifully written\, too.”\n—Entertainment Weekly\, “Books to Read in April”\n\n“A beautiful evocation of the Bay Area in the years before tech bros and big money changed the city…Like Stefan Zweig’s The World of Yesterday\, this is a narrative about a time that is now gone: San Francisco as circus\, where pot was both ubiquitous and as illegal as heroin. Under Volz’s careful attention\, all of it—the era\, the place\, and her own parents—is rendered clear\, bright\, and beautiful.”\n—Paris Review\, Staff Pick\n\n“An earnest yet comic memoir by the daughter of the owner of the Sticky Fingers bakery\, purveyor of pot brownies and crusader for legalization.”\n—New York Times\, “New and Noteworthy Audiobooks”\n\n“A raunchy and rollicking account of a vanished era told by someone who paid very close attention to her larger-than-life parents. I gobbled it up like an edible.”\n—Armistead Maupin\n\n“I devoured this book! Sex\, drugs\, rock-n-roll\, a savvy business woman\, a social and medicinal revolution: What’s not to love? This is a story Alia Volz was born to tell.”\n—Rebecca Skloot\, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n\n“[A] nostalgic\, thoroughly entertaining new romp of a memoir…[An] intensely personal portrait of an unconventional childhood\, as well as a rigorously reported account of a kaleidoscopic time in San Francisco history\, an era of exuberant highs and pitch-black lows.”\n—San Francisco Chronicle\n\n“While a memoir\, Home Baked is also an intensively researched book on San Francisco and the burgeoning cannabis culture surrounding Sticky Fingers Brownies\, based on archival research and hundreds of hours of interviews with LGBT activists\, cannabis advocates and\, of course\, Volz’s parents. Home Baked also provides a timely contrast with both modern San Francisco and the blossoming cannabis industry\, which can now offer safe and legal access to the drug\, although significant reforms to the war on drugs have not materialized.”\n—Newsweek\n\n“Ample\, skillfully researched\, and cleanly narrated\, Volz’s debut is really five books in one . . . Alia in tow\, Mer and her peers travel among San Francisco\, Humboldt County and Marin\, connecting an essentially agricultural project to an urban counterculture; they also weave together less and more responsible ways to raise a kid\, almost as Volz herself weaves together her archives of the post-hippie-era Bay Area with her own vivid memories.”\n—Literary Hub
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alia-volz/
LOCATION:Kerouac Alley\, 255 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA 94133\, San Francisco\, California\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210812T200000
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta
DESCRIPTION:Every 2nd Thursday of the month at Alley Cat Books in the heart of the Mission!Hosted and curated by Marguerite Munoz and René Vaz.Each reading we bring you three writers\, an open mic\, witty and thought provoking banter and a space that is accepting.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-3/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210817T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210817T190000
DTSTAMP:20260426T071921
CREATED:20210528T153738Z
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SUMMARY:Jaime Cortez in conversation with Rebecca Solnit
DESCRIPTION:celebrating Jaime Cortez’s debut short fiction collection \nGordo \npublished by Grove Atlantic \nShedding profound natural light on the inner lives of migrant workers\, Jaime Cortez’s debut collection ushers in a new era of American literature that gives voice to a marginalized generation of migrant workers in the West. \n—– \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———– \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \nThe first ever collection of short stories by Jaime Cortez\, Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville\, California in the 1970s. A young\, probably gay\, boy named Gordo puts on a wrestler’s mask and throws fists with a boy in the neighborhood\, fighting his own tears as he tries to grow into the idea of manhood so imposed on him by his father. As he comes of age\, Gordo learns about sex\, watches his father’s drunken fights\, and discovers even his own documented Mexican-American parents are wary of illegal migrants. Fat Cookie\, high schooler and resident artist\, uses tiny library pencils to draw huge murals of graffiti flowers along the camp’s blank walls\, the words “CHICANO POWER” boldly lettered across\, until she runs away from home one day with her mother’s boyfriend\, Manny\, and steals her mother’s Panasonic radio for a final dance competition among the camp kids before she disappears. And then there are Los Tigres\, the perfect pair of twins so dark they look like indios\, Pepito and Manuel\, who show up at Gyrich Farms every season without fail. Los Tigres\, champion drinkers\, end up assaulting each other in a drunken brawl\, until one of them is rushed to the emergency room still slumped in an upholstered chair tied to the back of a pick-up truck. \nThese scenes from Steinbeck Country seen so intimately from within are full of humor\, family drama\, and a sweet frankness about serious matters – who belongs to America and how are they treated? How does one learn decency\, when laborers\, grown adults\, must fear for their lives and livelihoods as they try to do everything to bring home a paycheck? Written with balance and poise\, Cortez braids together elegant and inviting stories about life on a California camp\, in essence redefining what all-American means. \nJaime Cortez is a graphic novelist\, visual artist\, writer\, teacher\, and occasional performer. Cortez has historically used art and humor to explore sexuality\, social justice\, HIV/AIDS\, and Chicano identity. \nRebecca Solnit is a writer\, historian\, activist\, and the author of more than twenty books on feminism\, western and indigenous history\, popular power\, social change and insurrection\, wandering and walking\, hope and disaster\, these include Cinderella Liberator\, Men Explain Things to Me\, Hope in the Dark\, River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West\,  Wanderlust: A History of Walking\, the Atlas Trilogy\, and much much more. She received numerous honors for her work. These include a Guggenheim award\, the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction\, and the Lannan Literary Award. Her memoir\, Recollections of My Nonexistence\, was released in March\, 2020. \n  \n  \nThis event is sponsored by the City Lights Foundation
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jaime-cortez-in-conversation-with-rebecca-solnit/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210817T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210817T190000
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SUMMARY:Charlie Jane Anders and Maggie Tokuda-Hall
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON TUESDAY\, AUGUST 17 AT 6PM PT WHEN CHARLIE JANE ANDERS JOINS US TO DISCUSS HER BOOK\, NEVER SAY YOU CAN’T SURVIVE: HOW TO GET THROUGH HARD TIMES BY MAKING UP STORIES\, WITH MAGGIE TOKUDA-HALL AT 9TH AVE! \nMasks required for in-store attendance.\nJoin us virtually by registering at the link below \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FlNv8KVLRaOaR5TQrw_R8w\n \nAbout Never Say You Can’t Survive\nFrom the internationally bestselling and critically-acclaimed writer Charlie Jane Anders comes a nonfiction manual about writing and life. \nCharlie Jane Anders is writing Never Say You Can’t Survive\, a nonfiction how-to book about the craft of storytelling. Full of memoir\, personal anecdote\, and insight about how to flourish during the present emergency\, Never Say You Can’t Survive is the perfect manual for fostering creativity in unprecedented times. \nAbout Charlie Jane Anders\nCHARLIE JANE ANDERS is the former editor-in-chief of io9.com\, the popular Gawker Media site devoted to science fiction and fantasy. She is the author of the highly acclaimed science fiction novel\, City in the Middle of the Night. Her debut novel\, All the Birds in the Sky\, won the Nebula Award for Best Novel and was a Hugo Award finalist. Her story\, “Six Months\, Three Days\,” won a Hugo Award. Her YA debut novel\, Victories Greater Than Death\, was published with Tor Teen in April 2021. She has also had fiction published by McSweeney’s\, Lightspeed\, and ZYZZYVA. Her journalism has appeared in Salon\, The Wall Street Journal\, Mother Jones\, and many other outlets.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charlie-jane-anders-and-maggie-tokuda-hall/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210818T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210818T190000
DTSTAMP:20260426T071921
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SUMMARY:Kyle Beachy and José Vadi
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY\, AUGUST 18 AT 6PM PT WHEN KYLE BEACHY JOINS US TO DISCUSS HIS BOOK\, THE MOST FUN THING: DISPATCHES FROM A SKATEBOARD LIFE\, WITH JOSÉ VADI ON ZOOM! \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ReuRjV4pQ6qwvwlDyWpHxA \nPraise for The Most Fun Thing\n“A candid\, funny\, and sometimes damning rumination on why we skateboard. The most thought-provoking writing on skateboarding I’ve ever read.”—Bing Liu\, director of the Oscar-nominated documentary Minding the Gap \n“As readable as a skate mag and as complex as the best fiction\, THE MOST FUN THING imbricates themes of meaning\, community\, and the soul\, and will leave you marveling at skateboarding’s mystery and hopeful for its future. A book as much for the skateboarder as the artist and the writer\, the thinker\, the feeler.”—Mark Suciu\, professional skateboarder \n“In THE MOST FUN THING\, Kyle Beachy assembles critique\, philosophy\, anecdote\, personal history and imagination\, while being shrewd\, witty\, provocative and—above all—hugely engaging. This is my new favorite book on skateboarding.”—Iain Borden\, author of Skateboarding and the City: A Complete History \nAbout The Most Fun Thing\nPerfect for fans of Barbarian Days\, this memoir in essays follows one man’s decade-long quest to uncover the hidden meaning of skateboarding\, and explores how this search led unexpectedly to insights on marriage\, love\, loss\, American invention\, and growing old. \nIn January 2012\, creative writing professor and novelist Kyle Beachy published one of his first essays on skate culture\, an exploration of how Nike’s corporate strategy successfully gutted the once-mighty independent skate shoe market. Beachy has since established himself as skate culture’s freshest\, most illuminating\, at times most controversial voice\, writing candidly about the increasingly popular and fast-changing pastime he first picked up as a young boy and has continued to practice well into adulthood. \nWhat is skateboarding? What does it mean to continue skateboarding after the age of forty\, four decades after the kickflip was invented? How does one live authentically as an adult while staying true to a passion cemented in childhood? How does skateboarding shape one’s understanding of contemporary American life? Of growing old and getting married? \nContemplating these questions and more\, Beachy offers a deep exploration of a pastime—often overlooked\, regularly maligned—whose seeming simplicity conceals universal truths. THE MOST FUN THING is both a rich account of a hobby and a collection of the lessons skateboarding has taught Beachy—and what it continues to teach him as he strugglesto find space for it as an adult\, a professor\, and a husband. \nAbout Kyle Beachy\nKyle Beachy’s first novel\, The Slide (Dial Press\, 2009)\, won The Chicago Reader’s Best Book by a Chicago Author reader’s choice award for the year. His short fiction has appeared in journals including Fanzine\, Pank\, Hobart\, Juked\, The Collagist\, 5 Chapters\, and others.His writing on skateboarding has appeared in The Point\, The American Reader\, The Chicagoan\, Free Skateboard Magazine (UK & Europe)\, The Skateboard Mag (US)\, Jenkem\, Deadspin\, and The Classical. He teaches at Roosevelt University in Chicago and is a co-host on the skateboarding podcast Vent City with pro skater Ryan Lay and others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kyle-beachy-and-jose-vadi/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:On the Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
DESCRIPTION:To live in a body that is fat and Black is to exist at the margins of a society that creates the conditions for anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Hyper-policed by state and society\, passed over for housing and jobs\, and derided and misdiagnosed by medical professionals\, fat Black people in the United States are subject to socio-politically sanctioned discrimination\, abuse\, condescension\, and trauma. \nDa’Shaun Harrison-a fat\, Black\, disabled\, and nonbinary trans writer-offers an incisive\, fresh\, and precise exploration of anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. They foreground the state-sanctioned murders of fat Black men and trans and nonbinary masculine people in historical analysis. From policing\, disenfranchisement\, to making invisible fat Black men\, trans\, and nonbinary masculine people\, these are some of the most pervasive and insidious ways that anti-fat anti-Blackness shows up in everyday life. \nIn Da-Shaun’s writing and work they take on desirability politics\, the limitations of gender\, the connection between anti-fatness and the carceral system\, as well as the incongruity of “health” and “healthiness” for the Black fat\, illustrating the myriad harms of anti-fat anti-Blackness. They offer strategies for dismantling denial\, unlearning the cultural programming that tells us “bad\,” and destroying the world as we know it\, so Black fat people can inhabit a place not built on their subjugation. \nJoin Da’Shaun as they have a conversation about their latest book\, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness\, their life and work\, and learn how we can all work to dismantle our cultural programming and create real change. \nFree\, suggested donation of $10. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/event-calendar/harrison-dashaun-august-19-2021 publicprograms@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-the-politics-of-anti-fatness-as-anti-blackness/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210819T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210819T200000
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SUMMARY:Maurice Carlos Ruffin in conversation with Zakiya Dalila Harris
DESCRIPTION:reading from \nThe Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You: Stories \npublished by One World \nA collection of raucous stories that offer a panoramic view of New Orleans from the author of the “stunning and audacious” (NPR) debut novel We Cast a Shadow \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Link coming soon! \n———– \nMaurice Carlos Ruffin has an uncanny ability to reveal the hidden corners of a place we thought we knew. These perspectival\, character-driven stories center on the margins and are deeply rooted in New Orleanian culture.In “Beg Borrow Steal\,” a boy relishes time spent helping his father find work after coming home from prison; in “Ghetto University\,” a couple struggling financially turns to crime after hitting rock bottom; in “Before I Let Go\,” a woman who’s been in NOLA for generations fights to keep her home; in “Fast Hands\, Fast Feet\,” an army vet and a runaway teen find companionship while sleeping under a bridge; in “Mercury Forges\,” a flash fiction piece among several in the collection\, a group of men hurriedly make their way to an elderly gentleman’s home\, trying to reach him before the water from Hurricane Katrina does; and in the title story\, a young man works the street corners of the French Quarter\, trying to achieve a freedom not meant for him. \nThese stories are intimate invitations to hear\, witness\, and imagine lives at once regional but largely universal\, and undeniably New Orleanian\, written by a lifelong resident of New Orleans and one of our finest new writers. \n\nMaurice Carlos Ruffin is the author of We Cast a Shadow\, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award\, the PEN/Open Book Award\, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and International Dublin Literary Award. A recipient of an Iowa Review Award in fiction\, he has been published in the Virginia Quarterly Review\, AGNI\, the Kenyon Review\, The Massachusetts Review\, and Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas. A native of New Orleans\, he is a graduate of the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop and a member of the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance. \n\nPraise for the work of Maurice Carlos Ruffin \n“The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You is an ode to all that makes us human. With an acute eye for beauty in seemingly hidden places\, Maurice Carlos Ruffin shows us that having true empathy for others is not only transformative but necessary for our evolution as a people. Each story grabs your heart\, squeezes the hell out of it\, and then\, somehow\, makes it fuller. I couldn’t stop feeling. Ruffin is a writer whose work will make you a better person without your knowing it.”—Mateo Askaripour\, author of Black Buck \n“These short stories ring out like the bells of St. Louis Cathedral over Jackson Square. One of our great writers of place\, Ruffin dazzles with this sonorous collection of deeply moving New Orleanian tales. Told with humor\, insight\, and radical empathy\, these stories will linger in your heart and mind like the fading song of a brass band\, vibrant and beautiful.”—Kali Fajardo-Anstine\, author of Sabrina & Corina  \n“Some are funny\, some poetic\, others near heartbreaking\, but the true hallmark Ruffin’s stories is an interest in what language can do. This is the work of a playful and exuberant writer who is always a joy to read.”—Rumaan Alam\, author of National Book Award finalist Leave the World Behind  \n“Ruffin\, more than any of the greats I read\, searches for that idea\, that style\, that genre we think is impossible to do well\, and he makes it look easy. What he is doing in these short stories is breathtaking. They are so singular and so reliant on each other for wholeness. This is wonder writing.”—Kiese Laymon\, author of Heavy
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maurice-carlos-ruffin/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210821T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210821T160000
DTSTAMP:20260426T071921
CREATED:20210731T212738Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210731T212738Z
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SUMMARY:Jingletown Reading & Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Jingletown Reading & Open Mic is a monthly event that celebrates writers & artists committed to social justice and determined to make a positive change in our communities.\n\n\n3rd Saturday of the Month\n2-4 pm\nCurators/Hosts: Adela Najarro & harold terezon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jingletown-reading-open-mic-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210823T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210823T190000
DTSTAMP:20260426T071921
CREATED:20210804T232013Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210804T232013Z
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SUMMARY:Beth Morgan and Jean Kyoung Frazier
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON MONDAY\, AUGUST 23 AT 6PM PT WHEN BETH MORGAN JOINS US TO DISCUSS HER DEBUT NOVEL\, A TOUCH OF JEN\, WITH JEAN KYOUNG FRAZIER ON ZOOM! \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tG9Brd46Qsm15Z_rda5AKQ \nPraise for A Touch of Jen\n“A Touch of Jen is bananas good. Funny and sharp and surprising and bittersweet. Just [three chef’s kiss emojis].”\n—Carmen Maria Machado \n“Morgan has created a fabulous monster here\, legitimately Frankensteined herself a wicked\, unflinching\, dynamite novel out of razor-sharp dialogue\, toxic social media culture\, and the nonsense notion that the self is just another brand to be endlessly plumbed for content. Wildly hilarious and absolutely terrifying\, A Touch of Jen is truly a touch of genius. I loved every minute of it.”\n—Kristen Arnett\, New York Times bestselling author of WITH TEETH and MOSTLY DEAD THINGS \n“Morgan’s got swagger. A Touch of Jen will draw you in with its electric rhythm and razor-sharp wit\, but it will make you stay with its wild\, beating heart. I came for the blood-thirsty monsters\, I left moved by Morgan’s deep understanding of the day-to-day absurdity and pain of 21st century existence. A banger of a debut and the arrival of a bold new voice in fiction.”\n—Jean Kyoung Frazier\, author of PIZZA GIRL \nAbout A Touch of Jen\nA young couple’s toxic Instagram crush spins out of control and unleashes a sinister creature in this twisted\, viciously funny\, “bananas good” debut. (Carmen Maria Machado) \n“Um\, holy shit…This novel will be the most fun you’ll have this summer.” —Emily Temple\, Literary Hub \nRemy and Alicia\, a couple of insecure service workers\, are not particularly happy together. But they are bound by a shared obsession with Jen\, a beautiful former co-worker of Remy’s who now seems to be following her bliss as a globe-trotting jewelry designer. In and outside the bedroom\, Remy and Alicia’s entire relationship revolves around fantasies of Jen\, whose every Instagram caption\, outfit\, and new age mantra they know by heart. \nImagine their confused excitement when they run into Jen\, in the flesh\, and she invites them on a surfing trip to the Hamptons with her wealthy boyfriend and their group. Once there\, Remy and Alicia try (a little too hard) to fit into Jen’s exalted social circle\, but violent desire and class resentment bubble beneath the surface of this beachside paradise\, threatening to erupt. As small disturbances escalate into outright horror\, we find ourselves tumbling with Remy and Alicia into an uncanny alternate reality\, one shaped by their most unspeakable\, deviant\, and intoxicating fantasies. Is this what “self-actualization” looks like? \nPart millennial social comedy\, part psychedelic horror\, and all wildly entertaining\, A Touch of Jen is a sly\, unflinching examination of the hidden drives that lurk just outside the frame of our carefully curated selves. \nAbout Beth Morgan\nBeth Morgan grew up outside Sherman\, Texas and studied writing as an undergraduate at Sarah Lawrence College. She is currently completing an MFA at Brooklyn College. Her work has been published in The Iowa Review and The Kenyon Review Online.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beth-morgan-and-jean-kyoung-frazier/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Jaime Lowe and Kim Kelly
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON TUESDAY\, AUGUST 24 AT 6PM PT WHEN JAIME LOWE JOINS US TO DISCUSS HER LATEST BOOK\, BREATHING FIRE\, WITH KIM KELLY ON ZOOM! \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_s8BbIIRxTX6p–3bdGWVmA \nAbout Breathing Fire\nA dramatic\, revelatory account of the female inmate firefighters who battle California wildfires. \nShawna was overcome by the claustrophobia\, the heat\, the smoke\, the fire\, all just down the canyon and up the ravine. She was feeling the adrenaline\, but also the terror of doing something for the first time. She knew how to run with a backpack; they had trained her physically. But that’s not training for flames. That’s not live fire. \nCalifornia’s fire season gets hotter\, longer\, and more extreme every year — fire season is now year-round. Of the thousands of firefighters who battle California’s blazes every year\, roughly 30 percent of the on-the-ground wildland crews are inmates earning a dollar an hour. Approximately 200 of those firefighters are women serving on all-female crews. \nIn Breathing Fire\, Jaime Lowe expands on her revelatory work for The New York Times Magazine. She has spent years getting to know dozens of women who have participated in the fire camp program and spoken to captains\, family and friends\, correctional officers\, and camp commanders. The result is a rare\, illuminating look at how the fire camps actually operate — a story that encompasses California’s underlying catastrophes of climate change\, economic disparity\, and historical injustice\, but also draws on deeply personal histories\, relationships\, desires\, frustrations\, and the emotional and physical intensity of firefighting. \nLowe’s reporting is a groundbreaking investigation of the prison system\, and an intimate portrayal of the women of California’s Correctional Camps who put their lives on the line\, while imprisoned\, to save a state in peril. \nAbout Jaime Lowe\nJaime Lowe is a frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine and other national publications\, and has appeared regularly on This American Life\, RadioLab\, and NPR. She is the author of Mental and Digging for Dirt and has taught writing at Wallkill Correctional Facility. Born and raised in California\, she lives in New York City. \nAbout Kim Kelly\nKim Kelly is a regular labor columnist for Teen VOGUE and the author of Fight Like Hell\, a book of intersectional labor history\, which will be published next year. She’s written about labor\, class\, politics\, and culture for the New Republic\, the Washington Post\, the Baffler\, and Esquire\, among other publications. She’s a member of the Industrial Workers of the World’s Freelance Journalist Union as well as an elected councilperson for the Writers Guild of America\, East (WGAE). Kelly is based in Philadelphia.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jaime-lowe-and-kim-kelly/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Iván Argüelles and Solomon Rino
DESCRIPTION:Iván Argüelles and Solomon Rino celebrate their new book of poetry \nField Hollers \npublished by Luna Bisonte Prods \n————— \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required \n(Click Here) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon!) \n————— \nFIELD HOLLERS is the collaboration of pre-dawn poets Solomon Rino and Iván Argüelles. It represents the call-and-response of two disembodied voices from opposite sides of the Bay\, voices that demand a scrupulous account of the raison d’etre of existence. Though supposedly separate the twin/voices become seamless and one. \nInnovative Mexican-American poet  Iván Argüelles is the author of numerous works\, notably “That” Goddess\, Hapax Legomenon\, Madonna Septet\, and Comedy \, Divine \, The . Among recently published works are Fragments from a Gone World\, Tamazunchale\, and Diario di un ottogenario. The long arc of his life has taken him from Mexico DF to Minnesota Chicago Italy Brooklyn and finally Berkeley. A retired librarian\, he worked at the  New York Public Library and the Library UC Berkeley. Usually associated with the surrealists\, his work has deep roots in the classics as well as modernists such as Pound and Joyce. A bilingual edition of the translation of some of his poems is in preparation. \nSolomon Rino is a playwright\, poet\, book artist and publisher. His first book was an ethnography of Tibetan ritual tradition\, Deity Men\, Reb gong Tibetan Trance Mediums in Transition. He translated from the Hungarian Miklos Radnoti’s Bor Notebook as A Wiser\, More Beautiful Death. He edited and designed the book\, Like an eye in the hand of a beggar by Leopoldo Maria Panero\, translated by Arturo Mantecón. He edits the annual journal Second Stutter representing significant voices in contemporary poetry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ivan-arguelles-and-solomon-rino/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210825T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Marc Anthony Richardson and Carolina de Robertis
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, August 25th at 6pm PT when Marc Anthony Richardson joins us to discuss his novel\, Messiahs\, with Carolina de Robertis on Zoom! \nZoom Registration \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_cqwbFFuBQIS0qvGhukkbow \nPraise for Messiahs \n“Messiahs is a fever dream of storytelling. It explores racism and interracial conflict\, the deadly prison industrial complex\, climate emergency\, social death\, and more in prose that unfurls like waves of sound. Bleak\, though not without hope\, challenging\, though with numerous rewards along the way\, innovative from start to finish\, Messiahs is a marvel.” \n—John Keene\, MacArthur Fellow and author of Annotations and Counternarratives \n“In Messiahs\, Marc Anthony Richardson gives us an innovative\, intelligent\, and insightful take on several American obsessions\, including punishment\, incarceration\, and the death penalty. As much as this layered narrative presents a warning about things to come\, it also offers a profound examination of rebirth\, redemption\, second-acts. All in all an unnerving\, uncanny\, and challenging read on many levels\, but well worth the effort.” \n—Jeffery Renard Allen\, Guggenheim Fellow and author of Rails Under My Back and Song of the Shank \nAbout Messiahs \nA fiercely ecstatic tale of betrayal and self-sacrifice. \nMessiahs centers on two nameless lovers\, a woman of east Asian descent and a former state prisoner\, a black man who volunteered incarceration on behalf of his falsely convicted nephew\, yet was “exonerated” after more than two years on death row. In this dystopian America\, one can assume a relative’s capital sentence as an act of holy reform-“the proxy initiative\,” patterned after the Passion. The lovers begin their affair by exchanging letters\, and after his release\, they withdraw to a remote cabin during a torrential winter\, haunted by their respective past tragedies. Savagely ostracized by her family for years\, the woman is asked by her mother to take the proxy initiative for her brother-creating a conflict she cannot bear to share with her lover. Comprised of ten poetic paragraphs\, Messiahs’ rigorous style and sustained intensity equals agony and ecstasy. \nAbout Marc Anthony Richardson \nMarc Anthony Richardson is author of Year of the Rat\, winner of an American Book Award\, and is the recipient of a Creative Capital Award\, a PEN America grant\, and a Hurston/Wright fellowship. He teaches creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-marc-anthony-richardson-and-carolina-de-robertis/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210825T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210825T203000
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Judith Ayn Bernhard and silvi alcivar
DESCRIPTION:Judith Ayn Bernhard will read selections from her new book of stories\, Marriages (Andover Street Archives Press\, 2021)\, followed by an interview with poet silvi alcivar.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-judith-ayn-bernhard-and-silvi-alcivar/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Michelle Ruiz Keil / Summer in the City of Roses
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host Michelle Ruiz Keil again for her second novel\, Summer in the City of Roses. More to be announced soon\, but save the date and join us! \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order Summer in the City of Roses here and we’ll ship it directly to you (or hold for pickup at our San Francisco shop). \nWe are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the book\nInspired by the Greek myth of Iphigenia and the Grimm fairy tale “Brother and Sister\,” Michelle Ruiz Keil’s second novel follows two siblings torn apart and struggling to find each other in early ’90s Portland. \n All her life\, seventeen-year-old Iph has protected her sensitive younger brother\, Orr. But this summer\, with their mother gone at an artist residency\, their father decides it’s time for fifteen-year-old Orr to toughen up at a wilderness boot camp. When their father brings Iph to a work gala in downtown Portland and breaks the news\, Orr has already been sent away against his will. Furious at her father’s betrayal\, Iph storms off and gets lost in the maze of Old Town. Enter George\, a queer Robin Hood who swoops in on a bicycle\, bow and arrow at the ready\, offering Iph a place to hide out while she tracks down Orr. \nOrr\, in the meantime\, has escaped the camp and fallen in with The Furies\, an all-girl punk band\, and moves into the coat closet of their ramshackle pink house. In their first summer apart\, Iph and Orr must learn to navigate their respective new spaces of music\, romance\, and sex-work activism—and find each other before a fantastical transformation fractures their family forever. \nTold through a lens of magical realism and steeped in myth\, Summer in the City of Roses is a dazzling tale about the pain and beauty of growing up. \n\nAbout the author\nMichelle Ruiz Keil is a Latinx writer and tarot reader with an eye for the enchanted and a way with animals. Her critically acclaimed debut novel\, All of Us With Wings\, was called “a transcendent journey” by The New York Times. A San Francisco Bay Area native\, Michelle has lived in Portland\, Oregon\, for many years. She curates the fairytale reading series All Kinds of Fur and lives with her family in a cottage where the forest meets the city.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michelle-ruiz-keil-summer-in-the-city-of-roses/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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