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SUMMARY:Queer Words: In Conversation with Rob Rosen
DESCRIPTION:Wayne Goodman will sit in conversation with the author of “Sparkle: The Queerest Book You’ll Ever Love\,” “Fierce\,” “Hot Lava\,” “Queens of the Apocalypse\,” “Creature Comfort\,” “Southern Fried\,” “Midlife Crisis\,” and his most recent work\, “And God Belched.” He is also the editor of the “Best Gay Erotica” series.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queer-words-in-conversation-with-rob-rosen/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:David Stephen Calonne on Bukowski and writing
DESCRIPTION:David Stephen Calonne on Bukowski and writing\ncelebrating the release of\n\nThe Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: On Writers and Writing \nby Charles Bukowski \npublished by City Lights Books \n\nThe method behind the madness\, revealing the critical acumen of everyone’s favorite Dirty Old Man. \n“Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way\, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.”—Charles Bukowski \nIn The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way\, Charles Bukowski considers the art of writing\, and the art of living as writer. Bringing together a variety of previously uncollected stories\, columns\, reviews\, introductions\, and interviews\, Mathematics finds him approaching the dynamics of his chosen profession with cynical aplomb\, deflating pretentions and tearing down idols armed with only a typewriter and a bottle of beer. Beginning with the title piece—a serious manifesto disguised as off-handed remarks en route to the racetrack—Mathematics runs through numerous tales following the author’s adventures at poetry readings\, parties\, film sets\, and bars\, and also features an unprecedented gathering of Bukowski’s singular literary criticism. From classic authors like Hemingway to underground legends like d.a. levy to his own stable of obscure favorites\, Bukowski uses each occasion to expound on the larger issues around literary production. The book closes with a handful of interviews in which he discusses his writing practices and his influences\, making Mathematics a perfect guide to the man behind the myth and the disciplined artist behind the boozing brawler. \nDavid Stephen Calonne has edited four previous books of uncollected prose by Charles Bukowski for City Lights: Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays\, 1944-1990 (2008)\, Absence of the Hero: Uncollected Stories and Essays\, Vol. 2: 1946-1992 (2010)\, More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns (2011)\, and The Bell Tolls for No One (2015). He is the author of several books\, including the critical study Charles Bukowski\, and the editor of Charles Bukowski: Sunlight Here I Am/Interviews and Encounters 1963-1993. \n\nCharles Bukowski was born in Andernach\, Germany on August 16\, 1920\, the only child of an American soldier and a German mother. At the age of three\, he came with his family to the United States and grew up in Los Angeles. He attended Los Angeles City College from 1939 to 1941\, then left school and moved to New York City to become a writer. His lack of publishing success at this time caused him to give up writing in 1946 and spurred a ten-year stint of heavy drinking. After he developed a bleeding ulcer\, he decided to take up writing again. He worked a wide range of jobs to support his writing\, including dishwasher\, truck driver and loader\, mail carrier\, guard\, gas station attendant\, stock boy\, warehouse worker\, shipping clerk\, post office clerk\, parking lot attendant\, Red Cross orderly\, and elevator operator. He also worked in a dog biscuit factory\, a slaughterhouse\, a cake and cookie factory\, and he hung posters in New York City subways. \nBukowski published his first story when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. His first book of poetry was published in 1959; he went on to publish more than forty-five books of poetry and prose\, including Pulp (Black Sparrow\, 1994)\, Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960-1970 (1993)\, and The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992)\, and the following books with City Lights Publishers: Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1981)\, The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories (1983)\, Tales of Ordinary Madness (1984)\, Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays\, 1944-1990 (2008)\, Absence of the Hero: Uncollected Stories and Essays\, Vol. 2: 1946-1992 (2010)\, More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns (2011)\, and The Bell Tolls for No One (2015). He died of leukemia in San Pedro on March 9\, 1994.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-stephen-calonne-on-bukowski-and-writing/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Richard Rhodes
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nENERGY: A Human History \npublished by Simon and Schuster \n\n\nPulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time—wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond. \n\n\n\nPeople have lived and died\, businesses have prospered and failed\, and nations have risen to world power and declined\, all over energy challenges. Ultimately\, the history of these challenges tells the story of humanity itself. \nThrough an unforgettable cast of characters\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes explains how wood gave way to coal and coal made room for oil\, as we now turn to natural gas\, nuclear power\, and renewable energy. Rhodes looks back on five centuries of progress\, through such influential figures as Queen Elizabeth I\, King James I\, Benjamin Franklin\, Herman Melville\, John D. Rockefeller\, and Henry Ford. \nIn Energy\, Rhodes highlights the successes and failures that led to each breakthrough in energy production; from animal and waterpower to the steam engine\, from internal-combustion to the electric motor. He addresses how we learned from such challenges\, mastered their transitions\, and capitalized on their opportunities. Rhodes also looks at the current energy landscape\, with a focus on how wind energy is competing for dominance with cast supplies of coal and natural gas. He also addresses the specter of global warming\, and a population hurtling towards ten billion by 2100. \nHuman beings have confronted the problem of how to draw life from raw material since the beginning of time. Each invention\, each discovery\, each adaptation brought further challenges\, and through such transformations\, we arrived at where we are today. In Rhodes’s singular style\, Energy details how this knowledge of our history can inform our way tomorrow.\n\nRichard Rhodes is the author of numerous books and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize\, the National Book Award\, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He graduated from Yale University and has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation\, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Appearing as host and correspondent for documentaries on public television’s Frontline and American Experience series\, he has also been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT and is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Visit his website: RichardRhodes.com\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/richard-rhodes/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Omerta Publications Presents: KRA! & War in America  Genny Lim & William Cross reading from their new chapbooks
DESCRIPTION:Born in San Francisco\, Genny Lim\, San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate\, earned a BA and an MA from San Francisco State University.  The poems in KRA! invoke history\, myth\, biography\, political confrontations\, and personal experience. Lim writes about fellow writers\, musicians\, and radical cultural activists Francisco X. Alarcon\, James Baldwin\, Amiri Baraka\, Fred Ho\, and Alfonso Texidor. “Odes” are dedicated to the people of Black Lives Matter\, Standing Rock\, and Flint\, Michigan. In their lyric fiber\, the poems themselves struggle for the survival of cultures of mutual respect and solidarity in the face of rapacious capitalism. \nWhen War in America was printed by Arroyo-Sheldon Publishers in 1993\, its battle-cry poems became an instant “hit” radical pamphlet—sold at human rights rallies and marches—and quickly disappeared as all copies of the small press run were snapped up. This 25th anniversary edition has those poems\, some revised\, and newer poems\, and an excerpt from the libretto of John Brown’s Truth\, William Crossman’s musical of récitatif\, improvised music\, and dance.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/omerta-publications-presents-kra-war-in-america-genny-lim-william-cross-reading-from-their-new-chapbooks/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night
DESCRIPTION:NEXT up: Tuesday June 19th\, 2018\nOur featured artist is: James Zealous (Ellis)\n\nat PianoFight: 144 Taylor Street (between Turk & Eddy)\,\nSan Francisco\, CA 94102 – Powell Street BART \nHosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir\, live jazz with Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends.\nOpen Mic sign-up for poetry only starts at 6:45pm – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment\, a few open slots to read without music mid-set. FREE admission. Full menu and bar available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night-7/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: Yrsa Daley-Ward / The Terrible
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Yrsa Daley-Ward for her remarkable new book The Terrible: A Storyteller’s Memoir. Please join us! \n  \nFrom the celebrated poet behind bone\, a lyrical memoir — part prose\, part verse — about coming-of-age\, uncovering the cruelty and beauty of the wider world\, and redemption through self-discovery and the bonds of family \n“You may not run away from the thing that you are\nbecause it comes and comes and comes as sure as you breathe.” \n  \nThis is the story of Yrsa Daley-Ward\, and all the things that happened–“even the terrible things. And God\, there were terrible things.” It’s about her childhood in the northwest of England with her beautiful\, careworn mother Marcia; the man formerly known as Dad (half fun\, half frightening); and her little brother Roo\, who sees things written in the stars. \n  \nIt’s also about the surreal magic of adolescence\, about growing up and discovering the power and fear of sexuality\, about pitch-gray days of pills and powder and connection. It’s about damage and pain\, but also joy. Told with raw intensity and shocking honesty\, The Terrible is a memoir of going under\, losing yourself\, and finding your voice. \n  \n\n  \nYrsa Daley-Ward is a writer and poet of mixed West Indian and West African heritage. Born to a Jamaican mother and a Nigerian father\, Yrsa was raised by her devout Seventh Day Adventist grandparents in the small town of Chorley in the North of England. She splits her time between London and New York. \n  \n  \nThis event is free and all ages. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you. \n\n\n\n\nBooks:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Terrible: A Storyteller’s Memoir (Paperback)\n\nBy Yrsa Daley-Ward\n$16.00\nISBN: 9780143132622\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: Penguin Books – June 5th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBone (Paperback)\n\nBy Yrsa Daley-Ward\, Kiese Laymon (Foreword by)\n$15.00\nISBN: 9780143132615\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: Penguin Books – September 26th\, 2017
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-yrsa-daley-ward-the-terrible/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Chris Feliciano Arnold
DESCRIPTION:Chris Feliciano Arnold discusses his new book\, The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First Century Amazon. \nAbout The Third Bank of the River \nA sweeping look at the war over the Amazon―as activists\,locals\, and indigenous tribes struggle to save it from the threat of loggers\, drug lords\, and corrupt cops and politicians \nFollowing doctors and detectives\, environmental activists and indigenous tribes\, The Third Bank of the River traces the history of the Amazon from the arrival of the first Spanish flotilla to the drones that are now mapping unexplored parts of the forest. Grounded in rigorous firsthand reporting and in-depth research\, Chris Feliciano Arnold reveals a portrait of Brazil and the Amazon that is complex\, bloody\, and often tragic. \n  \nDuring the 2014 world cup\, an isolated Amazon tribe emerged from the rain forest on the misty border of Peru and Brazil\, escaping massacre at the hands of loggers who wanted their land. A year later\, in the jungle capital of Manaus\, a bloody weekend of reprisal killings inflame a drug war that has blurred the line between cops and kingpins. Both events reveal the dual struggles of those living in and around the world’s largest river. As indigenous tribes lose their ancestral culture and territory to the lure and threat of the outside world\, the question arises of how best to save isolated tribes: Keep them away from the modern world or make contact in an effort to save them from extinction? As Brazil looks to be a world leader in the twenty-first century\, this magnificent and vast region is mired in chaos and violence that echoes the atrocities that have haunted the rain forest since Europeans first traveled its waters. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chris-feliciano-arnold/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ana Raquel Minian
DESCRIPTION:Ana Raquel Minian\nWednesday\, June 20\, 2018\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\n \ndiscussing the subject of her new book \nUndocumented Lives The Untold Story of Mexican Migration \nfrom Harvard University Press \n\nIn the 1970s the Mexican government acted to alleviate rural unemployment by supporting the migration of able-bodied men. Millions crossed into the United States to find work that would help them survive as well as sustain their families in Mexico. They took low-level positions that few Americans wanted and sent money back to communities that depended on their support. But as U.S. authorities pursued more aggressive anti-immigrant measures\, migrants found themselves caught between the economic interests of competing governments. The fruits of their labor were needed in both places\, and yet neither country made them feel welcome. \nAna Raquel Minian explores this unique chapter in the history of Mexican migration. Undocumented Lives draws on private letters\, songs\, and oral testimony to recreate the experience of circular migration\, which reshaped communities in the United States and Mexico. While migrants could earn for themselves and their families in the U.S.\, they needed to return to Mexico to reconnect with their homes periodically. Despite crossing the border many times\, they managed to belong to communities on both sides of it. Ironically\, the U.S. immigration crackdown of the mid-1980s disrupted these flows\, forcing many migrants to remain north of the border permanently for fear of not being able to return to work. For them\, the United States became known as the jaula de oro—the cage of gold. \nUndocumented Lives tells the story of Mexicans who have been used and abused by the broader economic and political policies of Mexico and the United States. \nAna Raquel Minian is Assistant Professor of History and of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. \n\nRelated Links: \n\nRead Ana Raquel Minian’s essay in the Washington Post on the ways in which Mexico itself has served as a “wall” keeping Central American migrants from reaching the United States\nRead Minian’s Los Angeles Times essay arguing that tying DACA to border security ignores the process of “circular migration”: increased border security is whythere are so many Dreamers\nRead a Vox interview with Minian on how Donald Trump’s “sh*thole” comment should be considered in relation to America’s problematic history with eugenics\nWatch Minian discuss DACA on Univision\nAt the Atlantic\, read Minian’s argument that a U.S.–Mexico border wall could have the unintended effect of discouraging Mexicans from leaving the U.S.\nAt Univision\, read about the oral histories that Minian collected while researching Undocumented Lives\nWatch a C-SPAN interview with Minian about 20th century Mexican migration to the United States
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ana-raquel-minian/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jana Casale
DESCRIPTION:Jana Casale discusses her new novel\, The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky. \nPraise for The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky \n“Casale writes with both energy and humor.  She is an exquisite storyteller.  In creating Leda and her story\, Casale magically weaves together the tiny moments in life\, allowing them to gain momentum and build off each other\, until they culminate into an extraordinary tale that has spunk and charm.” —Weike Wang\, author of Chemistry \n“As the perfect title suggests\, the books we don’t read can shape us just as much as the ones we do. However\, unlike our titular heroine and her copy of Problems of Knowledge and Freedom\, I guarantee you’ll fly through this one. It’s a rare gem of a debut–funny\, heartbreaking\, and genuinely profound.”--Ed Park\, author of Personal Days \n“How do you account for a life? In Jana Casale’s poignant debut\, the answer has as much to do with the things her protagonist\, Leda – college student\, wife\, writer\, temporary Orca expert\, mother – wanted to do and didn’t\, as what she actually lives. A funny\, tender and touching illumination of the extraordinary beauty contained in a seemingly everyday life. I can’t stop thinking about this book.”  —Julie Buntin\, author of Marlena \nAbout The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky \nWe first meet Leda in a coffee shop on an average afternoon\, notable only for the fact that it’s the single occasion in her life when she will eat two scones in one day. And for the cute boy reading American Power and the New Mandarins.  Leda hopes that\, by engaging him\, their banter will lead to romance. Their fleeting\, awkward exchange stalls before flirtation blooms. But Leda’s left with one imperative thought: she decides she wants to read Noam Chomsky. So she promptly buys a book and never—ever—reads it. \nAs the days\, years\, and decades of the rest of her life unfold\, we see all of the things Leda does instead\, from eating leftover spaghetti in her college apartment\, to fumbling through the first days home with her newborn daughter\, to attempting (and nearly failing) to garden in her old age. In a collage of these small moments\, we see the work—both visible and invisible—of a woman trying to carve out a life of meaning. Over the course of her experiences Leda comes to the universal revelation that the best-laid-plans are not always the path to utter fulfillment and contentment\, and in reality there might be no such thing. Lively and disarmingly honest\, The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky is a remarkable literary feat—bracingly funny\, sometimes heartbreaking\, and truly feminist in its insistence that the story it tells is an essential one.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jana-casale/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Edna in a Bottle (tastes funny)
DESCRIPTION:Edna in a Bottle (tastes funny) is a new San Francisco comedy hour at The Bindery in the Haight district. Edna and her friends are trapped in a bottle and dying to perform! A colorful splash of sketch scenes\, story-telling\, circus talent and wacked-out adult comedy. And there’s nothing wrong with an eating contest here and there. Mark your calendars and come let us out of the bottle! \n  \nTickets can be purchased in advance for $12. If available\, tickets at the door will be $15. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. Doors open at 7:30pm. Show starts at 8pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/edna-in-a-bottle-tastes-funny/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Zoé Samudzi
DESCRIPTION:Zoé Samudzi discussing the subject of her new book\n\nAs Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation \nby William C. Anderson and Zoé Samudzi with a foreword by Mariame Kaba \npublished by AK Press \n\nOver the course of United States history\, resistance against oppression and the gains made from various struggles for everyone’s equality have often been Black led. However\, liberal politics and the lack of strong leftist political power are two problems impeding the continued progress of Black America. Expanding on their original essay The Anarchism Of Blackness\, Samudzi and Anderson make the case for a new program of transformative politics for Black Americans\, one rooted in an anarchistic framework likened to the Black experience itself. This is not a compromising book that negotiates with intolerance. As Black as Resistance is a declaration for everyone who is ready to continue progressing towards liberation for all people. \nZoé Samudzi Zoé Samudzi is a writer and doctoral student in Medical Sociology at the University of California\, San Francisco. Her research focuses on the scientific logics that produce race and gender\, particularly focusing on transgender health and the ways Blackness is constructed. Her writing has appeared in The New Inquiry\, Warscapes\, Truthout\, ROAR Magazine\, Teen Vogue\, BGD\, Bitch Media\, and Verso\, among others. She is also a member of the 2017/18 Public Imagination cohort of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) Fellows Program\, and she is a member of the Black Aesthetic\, an Oakland-based collective and film series exploring the multitudes and diversities of Black artistic production & literary-visual culture. \nVisit http://www.zoesamudzi.com \nWilliam C. Anderson is a freelance writer. His work has been published by the Guardian\, MTV\, and Pitchfork\, among others. You can read many of his writings at Truthout or at the Praxis Center for Kalamazoo College\, where he’s a contributing editor covering race\, class\, and immigration. \nMariame Kaba is an organizer\, educator and the founder and director of Project NIA\, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoe-samudzi/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: an evening with Kim Addonizio\, Donna Masini\, and Brittany Perham
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts an evening with poets Kim Addonizio\, Donna Masini\, and Brittany Perham all reading from new work. Please join us! \n  \nMortal Trash by Kim Addonizio \n  \nPassionate and irreverent\, Mortal Trash transports the readers into a world of wit\, lament\, and desire. In a section called “Over the Bright and Darkened Lands\,” canonical poems are torqued into new shapes. “Except Thou Ravish Me\,” reimagines John Donne’s famous “Batter my heart\, Three-person’d God” as told from the perspective of a victim of domestic violence. Like Pablo Neruda\, Addonizio hears “a swarm of objects that call without being answered”: hospital crash carts\, lawn gnomes\, Evian bottles\, wind-up Christmas creches\, edible panties\, cracked mirrors. Whether comic\, elegiac\, or ironic\, the poems in Mortal Trash remind us of the beauty and absurdity of our time on earth. \n  \n  \n  \nKim Addonizio has been called “one of our nation’s most provocative and edgy poets.” She is the author of six poetry collections\, two novels\, two story collections\, and two books on writing poetry.  Her latest are Mortal Trash: Poems (W. W. Norton) and  Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life (Penguin). She has received fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundations\, two Pushcart Prizes\, and other honors.  Her writing has appeared in New York Times\, Poetry\, The Sun\, and numerous literary journals and anthologies. She offers poetry workshops privately in Oakland and online \n. \n  \n\n  \n4:30 Movie by Donna Masini \n  \nIn poems that are by turns intimate and wild\, provocative and tender\, award-winning poet Donna Masini explores personal loss\, global violence\, and the consolations of art. She brings her wit\, grief\, fury\, and propulsive energy to bear on the preoccupations of our daily lives and our attempts to bargain with endings of every kind. Equal parts lament and praise\, 4:30 Movie is fueled by despair and humor\, governed by the ways in which movies enter our imaginations and frame our experiences. The movie theater becomes a presiding metaphor: part waiting room\, part childhood\, part underground depths where the self is a bit player\, riding the subway with “its engine of extras.” Masini’s exquisite word play shows the mind wrestling ferociously to forestall grief\, as if finding the right words might somehow allow us to extend our beautiful foreshortened run. \n  \n  \nDonna Masini is the author of two previous collections of poetry and one novel. She was awarded the Barnard Women’s Poetry Prize\, a Pushcart Prize\, and New York Foundation of the Arts grant and a grant from the National Endowment for the arts. She teaches at Hunter College and lives in New York City. \n  \n\n  \nDouble Portrait by Brittany Perham \n  \nEach poem in Brittany Perham’s prize-winning collection links two portraits: lover and beloved\, child and parent\, citizen and country\, spirit and body\, living and dead. Each speaker investigates what it means to be in relationship to another: what does it mean to see and be seen\, to reflect and be reflected\, to address and be addressed? With musicality\, grit\, and humor\, these poems challenge our conceptions of identity and language. By questioning the ways we think and speak\, the ways we rehash and reshape our experience\, they formalize obsession. Emotionally stirring and unapologetic\, Double Portrait contemplates the nature of devotion. \n  \n  \nBrittany Perham is the author of Double Portrait (W.W. Norton\, 2017)\, which was selected by Claudia Rankine for the Barnard Women Poets Prize; The Curiosities (Free Verse Editions\, 2012); and\, with Kim Addonizio\, the collaborative chapbook The Night Could Go in Either Direction (SHP\, 2016). She is a Jones Lecturer in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University\, where she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. She lives in San Francisco. \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of any of the authors’ books\, order below and be sure to put your request in the special field. \n\n\n\n\nBooks:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMortal Trash: Poems (Paperback)\n\nBy Kim Addonizio\n$15.95\nISBN: 9780393354348\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – August 1st\, 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life (Paperback)\n\nBy Kim Addonizio\n$16.00\nISBN: 9780143128465\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: Penguin Books – June 21st\, 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrdinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within (Paperback)\n\nBy Kim Addonizio\n$16.95\nISBN: 9780393334166\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – February 1st\, 2009\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLucifer at the Starlite: Poems (Paperback)\n\nBy Kim Addonizio\n$15.95\nISBN: 9780393335255\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – January 1st\, 2011\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Palace of Illusions: Stories (Paperback)\n\nBy Kim Addonizio\n$15.95\nISBN: 9781593766252\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: Soft Skull Press – September 15th\, 2015\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4:30 Movie: Poems (Hardcover)\n\nBy Donna Masini\n$25.95\nISBN: 9780393635508\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – May 29th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTurning to Fiction: Poems (Paperback)\n\nBy Donna Masini\n$15.95\nISBN: 9780393328448\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – April 1st\, 2006\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDouble Portrait (Hardcover)\n\nBy Brittany Perham\n$26.95\nISBN: 9780393354010\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – August 8th\, 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Curiosities (Free Verse Editions) (Paperback)\n\nBy Brittany Perham\n$14.00\nISBN: 9781602352391\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: Parlor Press – November 3rd\, 2011
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-an-evening-with-kim-addonizio-donna-masini-and-brittany-perham/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling 'JACKPOT!'
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT BAWDY STORYTELLING\nStorytelling is about building a connection. So is sex. \nFor the past 11 years\, Bawdy has featured true stories of sex\, kink\, body image\, gender and more to build community and bring people together. We do regular live storytelling events in two cities\, but that’s just one way to enjoy Bawdy. Our podcast and YouTube channel are great ways to get your Bawdy fix\, too. \nOur live events feature an eclectic mix of authors\, poets\, comedians and actors – along with real people just like you – sharing their adventures in ten minutes or less\, with no notes. This is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Storytellers submit their material online and are chosen for their panache and sense of (mis)adventure. Dixie curates submitted stories\, then works with experienced and first-time storytellers to create a one-of-a-kind evening for each and every Bawdy. Her coaching superpowers tease out surprisingly powerful stories of sex\, kink or gender. Then at showtime\, Dixie coaches the audience\, too – creating an emotionally supportive\, unintimidating\, and sex-positive atmosphere that’s unique\, engaging and fun. Add connecting games (like the ever-popular Bang-O) and you have a show that’ll be your new favorite social event EVER. \nCome see what LA Weekly calls “The Moth for pervs” and meet new\, open-minded people. Before you know it\, you’ll be wanting to share your stories\, too. \nABOUT DIXIE DE LA TOUR \nDixie has earned the title of America’s premier sexual folklorist. Once called “a stiff shot of courage in a push-up bra”\, she is passionate about storytelling’s power to connect strangers. In addition to being the founder\, curator\, and host of the long-running Bawdy Storytelling series\, Dixie is also an accomplished storytelling coach and offers workshops for anyone who wants to communicate better and inspire others\, no matter what the subject matter. As a storyteller\, Dixie’s own stories can been heard on the Risk! podcast and her own Bawdy Storytelling podcast. She is based in San Francisco and hosts live shows across the United States. \nAWARDS \n\nBest Storytelling Show (SFist)\nBest of San Francisco (SF Weekly)\nBest of Los Angeles (LA Weekly)\nBest Literary Event (SF Bay Guardian)\nTop Ten Sex Podcast (Esquire Magazine)\n\nCONNECT \nHave questions about Bawdy Storytelling? Let us know! Or check us out on social media: \n\nBawdy Storytelling’s official website\n/r/bawdy for you Redditors\nInstagram\nThe Facebooks
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytelling-jackpot/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:CATHY CASSADY: TRAVEL TIPS FOR THE TIMID
DESCRIPTION:SAT. JUNE 23RD\, 4-6PM \n\n\nTRAVEL TIPS FOR THE TIMID BY CAROLYN CASSADY\n\nJoin us for an afternoon with Cathy Cassady\, eldest daughter of Neal and Carolyn Cassady\, and editor of the newly published Travel Tips for the Timid\, written and richly illustrated by Carolyn. \nFor many years\, and somewhat unbeknownst to her children until after her passing\, Carolyn Cassady remained hard at work writing and painting\, and this book is part of the trove of art and writing she left behind. Travel Tips for the Timid follows Carolyn’s journeys abroad with her children\, dispelling the kind of surprises that often catch travelers—particularly first-time travelers—by surprise. \nThis event will include readings from the book\, as well as a discussion and Q&A with Cathy about Carolyn’s exceptional life and work. \n\nCarolyn Cassady (April 28\, 1923–September 20\, 2013)\, immortalized as “Camille” in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road\, graduated from Bennington College with a degree in Drama. She moved to Denver to pursue her Masters in Theater Arts; while there\, she met and married Neal Cassady\, who became known as the inspiration for Jack Kerouac\, Allen Ginsberg\, and Ken Kesey. But Carolyn was a prolific artist in her own right. Aside from enjoying painting\, sculpting\, drafting\, block printing\, embroidery\, upholstering\, and theater arts\, she also published two memoirs\, Heart Beatand Off the Road. She was fortunate enough to be able to pursue her passion for the theater as the Artistic Director for both the San Jose Light Opera Company and the Santa Clara University Drama Department. For many years\, she designed stage sets\, costumes\, and hairstyles for the local dance school. When her three kids were grown and gone\, Carolyn moved to England\, where she lived her remaining thirty years.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cathy-cassady-travel-tips-for-the-timid/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Rodney Koeneke\,  Dodie Bellamy\, and Ross Simonini \nHosted by Kevin Killian
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Wolff Translator’s Prize Winner Isabel Fargo Cole: Unearthing Wolfgang Hilbig
DESCRIPTION:Goethe-Institut San Francisco | ART-Lounge | 530 Bush Street (entrance street level) | San Francisco\, California \n\n\n\nJoin us for a double celebration at the Goethe-Institut San Francisco! We will toast Berlin-based translator Isabel Fargo Cole\, winner of this year’s Helen & Kurt Wolff Prize for her translation of Wolfgang Hilbig’s Old Rendering Plant\, and the recent publication of The Tidings of the Trees. Cole will discuss the translator as discoverer\, the challenges of recreating the experience of language\, and the artistic intimacy one cultivates by translating multiple works by the same writer with editor and critic Joseph Schreiber.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wolff-translators-prize-winner-isabel-fargo-cole-unearthing-wolfgang-hilbig/
LOCATION:Goethe Institut\, 530 Bush St #204\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Joel Selvin / Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead's Long\, Strange Trip
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is delighted to host Joel Selvin and Pamela Turley for Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead’s Long\, Strange Trip. Please join us! \nThe Grateful Dead rose to greatness under the inspired leadership of guitarist Jerry Garcia\, but the band very nearly died along with him. When Garcia passed away suddenly in August of 1995\, the remaining band members experienced full crises of confidence and identity. So long defined by Garcia’s vision for the group\, the surviving “Core Four\,” as they came to be called\, were reduced to conflicting agendas\, strained relationships\, and catastrophic business decisions that would leave the iconic band in shambles. Wrestling with how best to define their living legacy\, the band made many attempts at restructuring\, but it would take twenty years before relationships were mended enough for the Grateful Dead as fans remembered them to once again take the stage. \nAcclaimed music journalist and New York Times bestselling author Joel Selvin was there for much of the turmoil following Garcia’s death\, and he’ll offer a behind-the-scenes account of the ebbs and flows that occurred during the ensuing two decades. Plenty of books have been written about the rise of the Grateful Dead\, but this final chapter of the band’s history has never before been explored in detail. Culminating in the landmark tour bearing the same name\, Fare Thee Well charts the arduous journey from Garcia’s passing all the way up to the uneasy agreement between the Core Four that led to the series of shows celebrating the band’s fiftieth anniversary and finally allowing for a proper\, and joyous\, sendoff of the group revered by so many. \n  \n\n  \nJoel Selvin is an award-winning journalist who has covered pop music for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1970. Selvin is the author of the bestselling Summer of Love and coauthor\, with Sammy Hagar\, of the #1 New York Times bestseller Red. He has written twelve other books about pop music. Selvin lives in San Francisco\, California. \n  \n  \nAtlanta-based freelance writer Pamela Turley was the founder and executive director of Square Globe Theater\, an award-winning educator and pioneer in the home schooling field\, producer-writer of “Blind Alley Radio Show” for Atlanta NPR outlet\, and author of a dating manual. Her articles on health\, beauty and science have appeared in a variety of newspapers\, magazines and Web sites. She attended more than 150 concerts by various editions of the post-Garcia Grateful Dead bands. \n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery at 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-joel-selvin-fare-thee-well-the-final-chapter-of-the-grateful-deads-long-strange-trip/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Glen David Gold in conversation with Oscar Villalon
DESCRIPTION:Glen David Gold in conversation with Oscar Villalon\nTuesday\, June 26\, 2018\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\ndiscussing Glen David Gold’s new memoir \nI Will Be Complete \nfrom Alfred Knopf \nThis event is co-sponsored by Zyzzyva \nFrom the best-selling author of Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside\, a big-hearted memoir told in three parts: about growing up in the wake of the destructive choices of an extremely unconventional mother. \nGlen David Gold was raised rich\, briefly\, in southern California at the end of the go-go 1960s. But his father’s fortune disappears\, his parents divorce\, and Glen falls out of his well-curated life and into San Francisco at the epicenter of the Me Decade: the inimitable ’70s. Gold grows up with his mother\, among con men and get-rich schemes. Then\, one afternoon when he’s twelve\, she moves to New York without telling him\, leaving him to fend for himself. I Will Be Complete is the story of how Gold copes\, honing a keen wit and learning how to fill in the emotional gaps: “I feel love and then it’s like I’m driving on black ice with no contact against the road.” He leads us though his early salvation at boarding school; his dream job at an independent bookstore in Los Angeles in 1983; a punk rock riot; a romance with a femme fatale to the soundtrack of R.E.M.; and his attempts to forge a career as a writer. Along the way\, Gold becomes increasingly fascinated with his father’s self-described “cheerful amorality” and estranged from his mother\, who lives with her soulmate\, a man who threatens to kill her. Clear-eyed and heartbreaking\, Gold’s story ultimately speaks to everyone who has struggled with the complexity of parental bonds by searching for–and finding–autonomy. \nGlen David Gold’s first novel\, Carter Beats the Devil\, has been translated into fourteen languages.  His short stories and essays have appeared in McSweeney’s\, Playboy\, and The New York Times Magazine.  He lives in Los Angeles. \nAdvance praise for I Will Be Complete: \n“I Will Be Complete is the best memoir I’ve read in years. It’s likely the best memoir published in years. Gold’s a novelist and this book reads like the best fiction. It’s exciting\, beautiful\, and clear-eyed in a way most memoirs aren’t. Oh\, and you’ll never forget this charming\, intelligent\, unique narrator.” —Darin Strauss\, author of National Book Critics Circle Award winner Half a Life and Chang and Eng \n“We expect the story of a boy and his mother ought to go a certain way. I Will Be Complete goes in ways you’d never expect. The people shatter\, reassemble themselves\, and shatter all over again. The prose is crystalline\, hard as real diamonds\, flashing\, revealing. The story is simple\, just a boy and his mother’s long disintegration\, but the journey is darkly complicated\, heartbreaking\, beautiful as hell.”  —Mark Childress\, author of Crazy in Alabama \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/glen-david-gold-in-conversation-with-oscar-villalon/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, June 26th at 7:00 p.m. when we welcome editor Margot Kahn and award-winning author Pam Houston as they celebrate their new book This is the Place. \n\nPraise for This is the Place: \n\n“…an honest portrait of the U.S.\, pieced together like an imperfect American quilt. We need more books like this.” — BUST \n\n“This collection\, encompassing a spectrum of races\, ethnicities\, religions\, sexualities\, political beliefs and classes\, could not be timelier….open this book\, hear its chorus of voices and remember that we are a nation of individuals\, bound to each other by our humanity.” — The New York Times Book Review
URL:https://litseen.com/event/margot-kahn-and-kelly-mcmasters/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB MEETING
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lively discussion about \n“Milena o el femur mas bello del Mundo” by Jorge Cepeda Patterson \nTo join the book group please contact iranyi@me.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spanish-language-book-club-meeting/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:A Poetry Reading with Neeli Cherkovski & Clark Coolidge
DESCRIPTION:Neeli Cherkovski is the author of many books of poetry\, including his most recent collection\, Elegy for My Beat Generation (Lithic Press). He was the coeditor of Anthology of L.A. Poets (with Charles Bukowski) and Cross-Strokes: Poetry between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Cherkovski also wrote biographies of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Charles Bukowski\, as well as the critical memoir Whitman’s Wild Children (1988). He has lived in San Francisco since 1974. \nBorn and raised in Providence\, Rhode Island\, experimental poet and jazz musician Clark Coolidge has been connected to both the Language movement and the New York School. His poetry utilizes syntactical and sonic patterns to engage\, and generate\, meaning. In a 1968 poetics statement\, he noted\, “Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness\, Density\, Sound-Shape\, Vector-Force\, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity.” Coolidge’s numerous collections of poetry include his Selected Poems 1962-1985.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-poetry-reading-with-neeli-cherkovski-clark-coolidge/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:DAN PFEIFFER
DESCRIPTION: Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nDan Pfeiffer is Obama’s former communications director and current co-host of the popular political podcast Pod Save America. In his forthcoming book\, Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama\, Twitter\, and Trump\, Pfeiffer tells never-before-told stories from Obama’s presidential campaigns to his time in the White House\, providing readers with an in-depth\, behind the-scenes look at life on the front lines of politics. In it\, Pfeiffer details how the “Decade of Obama” was one of massive change that rewrote the rules of politics in ways we are only now beginning to understand. \nMarisa Lagos reports for KQED’s California Politics and Government Desk and co-hosts a weekly show and podcast\, Political Breakdown.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dan-pfeiffer/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Who Will Speak For America?
DESCRIPTION:Who Will Speak For America?\nWednesday\, June 27\, 2018\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\nwith Veronica Scott Esposito\, Charlie Jane Anders\, and Craig Santos Perez \nDrawing on the success of Writers Resist\, a national day of literary protest\, Who Will Speak for America? presents the best contemporary writing on American identity\, justice\, and dissent\, and asserts a constructive vision of American society. Coedited by Stephanie Feldman and Nathaniel Popkin. \nIncluding essays\, poetry\, stories\, photography\, speeches\, and cartoons from: Samira Ahmed\, Charlie Jane Anders\, Cynthia Arrieu-King\, Cynthia Atkins\, Linh Dinh\, Veronica Scott Esposito\, Ken Kalfus\, Eileen Myles\, Marc Anthony Richardson\, Craig Santos Perez\, and many others. \nAll royalties benefit the Southern Poverty Law Center\, which is dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry\, and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of our society.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/who-will-speak-for-america/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Porochista Khakpour / Sick
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts an evening with the author of Sons and Other Flammable Objects and The Last Illusion\, Porochista Khakpour for her new book Sick: A Memoir. Porochista will be in conversation with Esmé Weijun Wang (The Border of Paradise). Please join us! \n  \nFor as long as writer Porochista Khakpour can remember\, she has been sick. For most of that time\, she didn’t know why. All of her trips to the ER and her daily pain and lethargy only ever resulted in one question: How could any one person be this sick? Several drug addictions\, three major hospitalizations\, and over $100\,000 later\, she finally had a diagnosis: late-stage Lyme disease. In the tradition of Brain on Fire and Darkness Visible\, an honest\, beautifully rendered memoir of chronic illness\, misdiagnosis\, addiction\, and the myth of full recovery. Sick is a candid\, illuminating narrative of hope and uncertainty\, boldly examining the deep impact of illness on one woman’s life. \n  \n\nPorochista Khakpour’s debut novel Sons and Other Flammable Objects was a New York Times Editor’s Choice\, one of the Chicago Tribune’s Fall’s Best\, and the 2007 California Book Award winner in the “First Fiction” category. Her second novel The Last Illusion was a 2014 “Best Book of the Year” according to NPR\, Kirkus\, Buzzfeed\, Popmatters\, Electric Literature\, and many more.  Among her many fellowships is a National Endowment for the Arts award. Her nonfiction has appeared in many sections of The New York Times\, the Los Angeles Times\, Elle\, Slate\, Salon\, and Bookforum\, among many others. Currently\, she is guest faculty at VCFA and Stonecoast’s MFA programs as well as Contributing Editor at The Evergreen Review. Born in Tehran and raised in the Los Angeles area\, she lives in New York City’s Harlem. Her author photo was taken by Sylvie Roskoff. \n  \nEsmé Weijun Wang is a novelist and essayist. Her debut novel\, The Border of Paradise\, was called a Best Book of 2016 by NPR and one of the 25 Best Novels of 2016 by Electric Literature. She was named by Granta as one of the “Best of Young American Novelists” in 2017\, and is the recipient of the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize for her forthcoming essay collection\, The Collected Schizophrenias. Born in the Midwest to Taiwanese parents\, she lives in San Francisco\, and can be found at esmewang.com and on Twitter @esmewang. \n  \n\nPlease note: This event is free and all ages\, and will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nDoors and bar open at 7. Event starts at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you. \n\n\n\n\nBooks:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSick: A Memoir (Paperback)\n\nBy Porochista Khakpour\n$15.99\nISBN: 9780062428738\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: Harper Perennial – June 5th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSons and Other Flammable Objects (Paperback)\n\nBy Porochista Khakpour\n$14.00\nISBN: 9780802143860\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: Grove Press – September 1st\, 2008\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Border of Paradise (Paperback)\n\nBy Esme Weijun Wang\n$16.00\nISBN: 9781939419699\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: Unnamed Press – April 12th\, 2016
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-porochista-khakpour-sick/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Jam
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-jam-2/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180629T190000
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SUMMARY:LONG SHOT & WORKS BY DANNY SHOT
DESCRIPTION:appearing with Jack Hirschman and Jessica Loos \nWorks honors the longtime Long Shot magazine\, credo of “Writing from the Real World.” This collection of poems traverses a course from the swamps of New Jersey to the endless possibilities of the open road\, with rest stops along the way to visit with family ghosts\, highlight striking moments encountered during a 30-plus year career as a New York City public high school teacher\, and report upon the twilight years of the Beat Generation. Shot’s engaging poetry is raw\, from the gut\, deceptively rich\, and humane in the face of an increasingly post-humanistic world. \n\nDanny Shot was a longtime publisher and editor of Long Shot arts and literary magazine\, which he founded along with Eliot Katz in 1982 in New Brunswick\, New Jersey. Born in the Bronx and raised in Dumont\, New Jersey\, by German Jewish refugees\, Danny graduated Rutgers College in 1980 with a B.A. in English. Shot’s poetry has appeared in bum rush the page (Def Poetry Jam)\, Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe (Henry Holt)\, and The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Thunder’s Mouth) among other anthologies and numerous journals. Shot has read his poetry throughout the United States and appeared on television (WNBC\, New York) as part of Felipe Luciano’s Wordchestra. He has spent over 30 years as a NYC public high school teacher\, serving in the South Bronx\, Harlem\, and Brooklyn. Mr. Shot lives in Hoboken (home of Frank Sinatra and baseball) where he is the poet-in-residence of the Hoboken Historical Museum.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/long-shot-works-by-danny-shot/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:My Old Faithful: Book Talk and Signing with Author Yang Huang
DESCRIPTION:Local author Yang Huang’s new novel My Old Faithful\, a Juniper Prize winner\, depict the lives of one family over thirty years in China and the United States. Richly textured narratives from the mother\, the father\, the son\, and the daughters paint a nuanced portrait of family life\, full of pain\, surprises\, and subtle acts of courage. \nJoin us to hear about the inspirations for My Old Faithful as a family navigates the children’s adolescent years amidst vast social and economic change. \nThe Mercury News says: My Old Faithful is “a rich contemporary narrative of family dynamics and social upheaval.”\n\nSan Francisco Chronicle says\, “My Old Faithful zooms readers straight into the minds and hearts of each member of a middle-class family in a struggling\, censored\, restricted China….we feel ourselves becoming each protagonist in the course of each story.”\n\nYang Huang previously spoke at San Francisco Main Library about her debut novel Living Treasures\, a Nautilus Book Award winner. Books will be available for purchase. The program is to be conducted in English and Chinese.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-old-faithful-book-talk-and-signing-with-author-yang-huang/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, Main Branch\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Dive Deep into Roxane Gay’s Hunger
DESCRIPTION:Roxane Gay’s Hunger has been called “Luminous. . . . intellectually rigorous and deeply moving” by The New York Times Book Review. And Entertainment Weekly wrote\, “on nearly every page\, Gay’s raw\, powerful prose plants a flag\, facing down decades of shame and self-loathing by reclaiming the body she never should have had to lose.” It was also treasured by readers who devoured it in one sitting\, sometimes crying all the way through. \nDid Hunger rock your world? Want to talk about it with other fans? Join devorah major\, activist and former S.F. poet laureate\, in a a Deep Dive Discussion group on June 30 in Litquake’s office. \nLike a book club on steroids\, Deep Dive Discussions offer a small group of zealots the opportunity to dig deeply into their favorite works in a discussion group facilitated by an expert. Kick back in Litquake’s comfortable downtown living room\, sip coffee (or something stronger) and enjoy hearty snacks while dissecting the finer points of your literary loves! \n  \nFeaturing\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndevorah major
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dive-deep-into-roxane-gays-hunger/
LOCATION:Mechanics Institute\, 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poetry Marathon
DESCRIPTION:Readers TBA!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poetry-marathon-4/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180702T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180702T210000
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SUMMARY:POETS! - James Cagney & Cassandra Dallet followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:James Cagney\nCassandra Dallet\nplus open mic \nJerry Ferraz & SF Poet Laureate Kim Shuck co-host \nJames Cagney is a poet from Oakland\, and has featured at many venues in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. His work has been published online and in print. His first collection\, Black Steel Magnolias\, will be published by Nomadic Press this August. Visit his blog at https://thedirtyrat.blog/ \nCassandra Dallett lives in Oakland\, and is a two-time Pushcart nominee and Literary Death Match winner. She has published online and in many print magazines\, including Slip Stream\, Sparkle & Blink\, Chiron Review\, Stone Boat Review\, and Great Weather For Media. A full-length book of poetry\, Wet Reckless\, was released on Manic D. Press in May 2014. Since then\, she’s produced the collections Bad Sandy (Lucky Bastard Press)\, Pearl Tongue (Be About It Press)\, The Water Wars (Pedestrian Poets Series)\, On Sunday\, A Finch (Nomadic Press)\, which was nominated for a California Book Award\, and most recently Armadillo Heart (Paper Press) with MK Chavez.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-15/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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