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SUMMARY:Booksmith is Turning 40
DESCRIPTION:Who’s invited: \nFriends\, neighbors\, customers\, writers\, book club members\, Bookswappers\, Shipwreckers\, celebrities\, Aileen\, Olympians of Literature\, employees past\, present\, and future\, and everyone else who makes our store great. \nWhat will we do: \nYou’re invited to contribute a story. It can be about the Haight Ashbury\, or about Booksmith in any of its iterations. From starting at 4\, local writer and editor Anisse Gross will be on hand to help you capture your story and add it to our already storied (sorry) history. We’ll provide everything you need; just bring your memories. (Bonus points for vintage Booksmith ephemera! Break out your old bookmarks\, totes\, newsletters\, and author trading cards. We know you kept them.) \nIf you love the Booksmith’s art\, we’re going to have Design Like Whoa set-up to print t-shirts and totes of our favorite designs. We’ll be selling shirts for a special birthday only price of $9 and totes for $5 to be printed with a Booksmith design of your choice\, or you can bring your own item to be printed for free! (100% cotton and white or light grey only\, no tie-die here folks). \nAt 5:30 pm we’ll have an Official 40th Birthday Toast with cake. Then on to eating\, drinking\, mingling\, and\, dare we suggest: dancing. \nWhen: 4:00pm-7:00pm \nWhy: \nOwners Christin Evans and Praveen Madan\, former owner Gary Frank\, and all the Booksmith staff are excited to share this moment with our unique\, vibrant community. As the Haight Ashbury’s premiere independent bookstore since 1976\, we’re more ambitious than ever to launch fearlessly into the future of bookselling. We’re experimenting with new business models\, leading the #Fightfor15 charge\, and building on our four-decade legacy of fostering communities around books\, writers\, and readers. \nJoin us to raise a glass\, tell your stories\, and hang out with the Booksmith gang.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-is-turning-40/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Laurel Taylor + Richard Michael Levine
DESCRIPTION:On remote Spanish island near the African coast\, a Mexican American entomologist\, Epiphany Jerome\, is looking for a rare beetle. Instead she finds a body on an empty beach with a knife sticking out from its back. “Said the Fly” is a forensic murder mystery that Kirkus Review called “dazzling” and “smartly written” in their *starred* review. It was selected as one of their May “Kirkus Indie Books of the Month.” Writer and biologist Laurie Taylor moved to Glen Park in 2014\, after more than a decade of living in Europe and the Middle East. \nRichard Michael Levine’s short story collection\, The Man Who Gave Away His Organs: Tales of Love and Obsession at Midlife\, was published by Capra Press in 2015. He was a magazine writer and editor for many years\, publishing feature articles and columns in Harper’s\, Esquire\, The New York Times Magazine\, Rolling Stone\, Playboy\, and many others. He has taught at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and is the author of a bestselling non-fiction book\, Bad Blood: A Family Murder in Marin County\, published by Random House and New American Library. His poems\, which have appeared widely in literary magazines\, have been collected in Catch and Other Poems.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laurel-taylor-richard-michael-levine/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit: Long Slow Dance
DESCRIPTION:Red Light Lit returns to PianoFight with another new show: Long Slow Dance. Featuring writers: Fisayo Adeyeye\, Lara Coley\, Kathy Duby\, Loria Mendoza\, Kim Pierce\, and SB Stokes. With special musical guest: Tim Cohen from the The Fresh & Onlys and Magic Trick and comedian Luna Malbroux. \nHOSTED BY: Jenn Stokes of Moonlighting SF\nMUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT: Sarah Dineen and David Williams \n$12 in advance\, $15 at the door.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-long-slow-dance/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Foglifter Journal’s San Francisco Launch
DESCRIPTION:We aim to uplift and support the voices of the marginalized\, the many\, the queer. Join us for a glorious and joyous evening to celebrate the official San Francisco introduction to Foglifter\, a truly unique literary journal and press. \nThe Lineup: \nMK Chavez is the author of Mothermorphosis. Dear Animal will be released Fall 2016\, both from Nomadic Press. She is co-curator of Lyrics & Dirges and co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival. \nArisa White received her MFA from UMass\, Amherst. She’s a Cave Canem fellow and the author of Post Pardon\, Hurrah’s Nest\, and A Penny Saved. A 2013-14 recipient of an Investing in Artist Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation and a regional representative for Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color\, Arisa is a BFA faculty advisor at Goddard College. Forthcoming from Augury Books in October 2016 is her third full-length collection\, you’re the most beautiful thing that happened. arisawhite.com \nKevin Killian lives in San Francisco. He has published three books of poetry\, three books of stories\, and three novels. In each category a fourth is imminent. In addition there will be a third volume of his Selected Amazon Reviews\, and a second volume of Tagged\, Killian’s intimate color photographs of poets\, artists\, musicians\, filmmakers–the whole creative class. \nShideh Etaat is a writer and teacher at Mission High School in San Francisco. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. She is a 2015 James D. Phelan Award recipient and her short story “Take Us to Our Love” was published in The Delmarva Review’s Volume 6. An excerpt from her novel can be found in “Tremors\, New Fiction by Iranian Americans”. Her first novel is about a love triangle\, Jews in Iran\, and other strange and wonderful things. For more information about Shideh’s work\, please go to: http://www.thebolditalic.com/users/shidehe. \nRoberto Santiago received his MFA from Rutgers University\, and BA from Sarah Lawrence College. He is a 2016 Community of Writers Fellow\, 2015 Sarah Lawrence Fellow\, 2014 Lambda Literary Fellow\, the recipient of the Alfred C. Carey Poetry Prize\, and his debut book of poetry was a finalist for the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Poetry. Roberto writes and produces his own music\, and likens himself to Tennessee Williams in a poodle skirt\, Gloria Anzaldúa in culottes\, and/or James Merrill in short-shorts. Currently\, he works as an educator in San Francisco and lives in Oakland with a fiction writer and 15 year old cat that edits most of his poetry…whether he asks her to\, or not. \nNona Caspers is the author of four books including Heavier Than Air\, which received the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction and was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. She has received a NEA Fellowship and an Iowa Review Fiction Award\, among others. Stories have appeared in Kenyon Review\, Glimmer Train\, Cimarron Review\, The Sun. She co-edited with Joell Hallowell a nonfiction book Lawfully Wedded Wives: Rethinking Marriage in the 21st Century. She teaches Creative Writing at San Francisco State University. www.nonacaspers.com \nJuliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer/educator/oral-historian based in San Francisco. The recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary award\, and a finalist for the Clark-Gross Novel award\, she’s the author of ¡Cuéntamelo! an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latin@ immigrants awarded the Regen Ginaa Grant from Galería de la Raza and a 2014 National Queer Arts Festival Grant from the Queer Cultural Center. She’s the executive director of RADAR Productions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/foglifter-journals-san-francisco-launch/
LOCATION:Strut\, 470 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Heather Havrilesky\, Mallory Ortberg\, + Leah Reich
DESCRIPTION:Join Heather Havrilesky for “Ask Polly Live.” \nMeet Polly in-person and pick up a signed copy of How to Be a Person in the World. Heather will read favorite passages from her book\, and will be joined on-stage by Mallory Ortberg\, Leah Reich\, and Tracy Clark-Flory for a live advice session. \nPraise for Heather Havrilesky: \n“What I love so much about Heather Havrilesky and her new book is that\, beside being her usual brilliant\, hilarious\, equally kick-ass and compassionate self\, ‎she actually gives great advice. How to be a Person in the World will change your life\, for the way better.”  —Anne Lamott\, New York Times bestselling author of Small Victories \n\n“Heather Havrilesky is that rare writer who can dish out tangy snark but never fails to aim the knife back at her own damaged\, hilarious heart. She’s dealing\, brilliantly\, with the curse of having too much insight—into herself and the world around her. Required reading.”  —Patton Oswalt\, New York Times bestselling author of Silver Screen Fiend \n\n“Sometimes I think Heather Havrilesky’s Ask Polly column is the only true thing on the Internet. Week after week\, while everyone else parrots and postures\, she addresses the foibles and ennui of strangers\, bucking up someone here\, giving a kick in the pants there. Along the way\, she offers up a slyly powerful critique of the ways in which culture shapes the individual. How To Be a Person In the World distills her salty\, expansive wisdom into a guide for better living that’s both pragmatic and philosophical\, a large-hearted reminder that all of us are struggling\, and none of us are alone.” —Kate Bolick\, author of the national bestseller Spinster \n\nAbout How to Be a Person in the World: \nA collection of original\, impassioned\, and inspiring letters by the author of the popular advice column Ask Polly\nShould you quit your day job to follow your dreams? How do you rein in an overbearing mother? Will you ever stop dating wishy-washy\, noncommittal guys? Should you put off having a baby for your career?\nHeather Havrilesky\, the author of the weekly advice column ASK POLLY\, featured on New York Magazine’s The Cut\, is here to guide you through the what if’s and I don t knows of modern life with the signature wisdom and tough love her readers have come to expect.\nHow to Be a Person in the World is a collection of never-before-published material along with a few fan favorites. Whether she’s responding to cheaters or loners\, lovers or haters\, the depressed or the down-and-out\, Havrilesky writes with equal parts grace\, humor\, and compassion to remind you that even in your darkest moments you’re not alone.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/heather-havrilesky-mallory-ortberg-leah-reich/
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:Jessi Klein: You'll Grow Out of It
DESCRIPTION:A Nora Ephron for a new generation\, Jessi Klein shares her hilarious and moving stories of growing up awkward\, the lengths she’s gone to in the pursuit of womanhood and emulation of Oprah\, and how wedding websites are going to be the end of all of us. \nYou’ll Grow Out of It hilariously\, and candidly\, explores the journey of the twenty-first century woman. \nAs both a tomboy and a late bloomer\, comedian Jessi Klein grew up feeling more like an outsider than a participant in the rites of modern femininity. \nIn You’ll Grow Out of It\, Klein offers through an incisive collection of real life stories a relentlessly funny yet poignant take on a variety of topics she has experienced along her strange journey to womanhood and beyond. These include her “transformation from Pippi Longstocking-esque tomboy to are-you-a-lesbian-or-what tom man\,” attempting to find watchable porn\, and identifying the difference between being called “ma’am” and “miss” (“Miss sounds like you weigh ninety-nine pounds”). \nRaw\, relatable\, and consistently hilarious\, You’ll Grow Out of It is a one-of-a-kind book by a singular and irresistible comic voice.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessi-klein-youll-grow-out-of-it/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Everybody's Protest Poem 2
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Freddy Gutierrez\, Jasmine Gibson and Derek Fenner.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/everybodys-protest-poem-2/
LOCATION:Modern Times Bookstore Collective\, 2919 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joy Williams: Ninety-Nine Stories of God
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Joy Williams: \n“Joy Williams has been enlightening us for a very long time about the short story but now in her collected stories we see the breadth and power of her vision. This is an important moment for American writing.” — Thomas McGuane \n“Joy Williams has produced a hard\, sharp\, comic novel about the off-kilter genius of adolescence–a work of maverick insight and rash and beautiful bursts of language.” – Don DeLillo on The Quick and the Dead \n“Beautiful. . . . Unsettling. . . . [Contains] among the best American short stories of the past two decades.”  – The Atlantic Monthly \n“A brilliant spawn of Raymond Carver and Flannery O’Connor\, Joy Williams blends mordant wit\, uncanny characters\, and weirdly familiar landscapes and locales. . . . By turns these narratives soothe\, then surprise\, then shock with jolts of recognition\, recoil\, and naked redemption.”  – Elle \n\nAbout Ninety-Nine Stories of God: \nFrom “quite possibly America’s best living writer of short stories” (NPR)\, Ninety-Nine Stories of God finds Joy Williams reeling between the sublime and the surreal\, knocking down the barriers between the workaday and the divine. \n  \nPulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williams has a one-of-a-kind gift for capturing both the absurdity and the darkness of everyday life. In Ninety-Nine Stories of God\, she takes on one of mankind’s most confounding preoccupations: the Supreme Being. \n  \nThis series of short\, fictional vignettes explores our day-to-day interactions with an ever-elusive and arbitrary God. It’s the Book of Common Prayer as seen through a looking glass―a powerfully vivid collection of seemingly random life moments. The figures that haunt these stories range from Kafka (talking to a fish) to the Aztecs\, Tolstoy to Abraham and Sarah\, O. J. Simpson to a pack of wolves. Most of Williams’s characters\, however\, are like the rest of us: anonymous strivers and bumblers who brush up against God in the least expected places or go searching for Him when He’s standing right there. The Lord shows up at a hot-dog-eating contest\, a demolition derby\, a formal gala\, and a drugstore\, where he’s in line to get a shingles vaccination. At turns comic and yearning\, lyric and aphoristic\, Ninety-Nine Stories of God serves as a pure distillation of one of our great artists.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joy-williams-ninety-nine-stories-of-god/
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:Lynne Barnes + Steven Gray
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in our Readers Bookstore Fort Mason for our weekly FREE poetry series! \nBrowse books while listening to internationally acclaimed poets and artists such as Jonathan Richman\, David Meltzer\, Diane di Prima and California Poet Laureate Al Young. The series is curated by Friends’ Resident Poet Jack Hirschman. (For a list of the scheduled readers\, please see the line up below.) \nProceeds from our bookstores benefit the San Francisco Public Library.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lynne-barnes-steven-gray/
LOCATION:Readers Bookstore\, Fort Mason Center\, Building C\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan: Sarong Party Girls
DESCRIPTION:Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan presents Sarong Party Girls\, a brilliant and engaging novel—Emma set in modern Asia—about a young woman’s rise in the glitzy city of Singapore\, where old traditions clash with modern materialism. Jazzy is a bombastic yet tenderly vulnerable gold-digger who reveals the contentious gender politics and class tensions thrumming beneath the shiny exterior of Singapore’s glamorous nightclubs and busy streets. Moving through Jazzy’s colorful\, stratified world\, she realizes she cannot ignore the troubling incongruity of new money and old-world attitudes which threaten to crush her dreams.Vividly told in Singlish— Singaporean English with its distinctive cadence and slang—Sarong Party Girls brilliantly captures the unique voice of this young\, striving woman caught between worlds. With remarkable vibrancy and empathy\, Cheryl Tan brings not only Jazzy\, but the city of Singapore\, to dazzling\, dizzying life. \n\n\nBorn and raised in Singapore\, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan is a New York–based journalist and author of A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family\, and edited the fiction anthology Singapore Noir. She has been a staff writer at the Wall StreetJournal\, InStyle magazine\, and the Baltimore Sun.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cheryl-lu-lien-tan-sarong-party-girls/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SF Art Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce the inaugural San Francisco Art Book Fair. The list of 2016 participants is now online! \nScroll down to PARTICIPANTS to see the 70+ publishers\, artists and booksellers joining us this year. \nRegistration for 2016 is closed at this time\, but we will be taking applications for 2017 very soon. \nFollow us on instagram @sfartbookfair for fair updates\, previews of featured publishers and more.\nThe 2016 San Francisco Art Book Fair \nSaturday\, July 23rd: 11am – 6pm  Sunday\, July 24th: 11am – 5pm \nPreview on Friday\, July 22nd:  6pm – 10pm \nThe 2016 San Francisco Art Book Fair is the inaugural event of an annual multi-day festival of artists’ publications. The fair includes artists’ books\, art catalogs\, monographs\, periodicals\, zines\, printed ephemera\, and artists’ multiples presented by independent publishers\, antiquarian dealers\, artists\, collectors\, and enthusiasts\, as well as a diverse range of programs and live performances. \nThe mission of the fair is to foster the unique art publishing community of the Bay Area while providing a platform for national and international publishers to exhibit their work to a new audience. \n1275 Minnesota Street is a 35\,000 square-foot building in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood that houses 11 galleries\, temporary exhibitions spaces\, a media room\, and a cafe.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sf-art-book-fair/
LOCATION:Minnesota Street Project\, 1275 Minnesota Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poetry Marathon
DESCRIPTION:Guest curator: Chloe Veylit \nReaders: Brandon Brown\nKazumi Chin\nVanessa Flores\nNick Johnson\nJoseph Lease\nMichelle Lin\nCarrie Murphy\nDenise Newman
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poetry-marathon/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Night Light Multimedia Garden Party
DESCRIPTION:One-night-only\, Saturday\, July 23\, 2016\, Night Light: Multimedia Garden Party blankets SOMArts in luminous art installations\, including audiovisual performances and performative interventions by 22 artists\, and digital and cinematic projections and multimedia installations by 44 artists. The galleries open at 8:30pm and performances begin at 9pm and last until the event ends at midnight. \nTickets will be sold online for $12 or $15 at the door. Get your tickets in advance and save money! \nNight Light is presented in conjunction with The Black Woman is God: Reprogramming that God Code\, on view in SOMArts’ Main Gallery July 7-August 17\, 2016. The Black Woman is God and Night Light will present a combined total of over 100 Bay Area visual and performing artists from a variety of cultural backgrounds exploding expectations for identity-based work. \nNIGHT LIGHT EXHIBITING ARTISTS:\nAAU Architecture/Agglab\nBushmama Africa\nbárbara alexandra\nOnyinye Alheri\nStar Amerasu\nBay Area Light Brigade\nAna Bedolla\nLorraine Bonner\nAndrea Castillo\nChristy Chan\nToshia Christal\nIrina Contreras\nIan Davis & Sotheara Yem in collaboration with Dom Jones\nBronwyn Dexter\nCarmina Eliason\nWill Erokan\nBalitronica Gomez\nShylah Pacheco Hamilton\nJazz Monique Hudson\nRipley Jene\nMelissa Koziebrocki\nPeter Max Lawrence\nzàira lee\, Aidan Bosanko\, and SPELLING\nJulz Hale Mary\nKristine Mays\nKathleen McDonald and Jay Ruland\nGabby Miller\nYetunde Olagbaju\nAnnah Anti Palindrome\, Ariel Springfield and Malic Amalya\nYuri Pop\nFrida Precariat\nRenee Rodriguez\nSophia Ronen\nMalik Seneferu\nTosha Stimage\nSunshine Velasco & Sulty Lapel\nBlue Wade\nFlorida Waters & Dezi Soléy\nCharlie Watts\nLelia Weefur\nRené Yañez\nKit Young\nMinoosh Zomorodinia \nNIGHT LIGHT PERFORMING ARTISTS:\nSharmi Basu and Alexander Brown\nBlue:Bawl (zàira lee\, SPELLLING and Gabriel Christian)\nLeland Bronson and Alexander Brown\nDROUGHT SPA\nLisa Evans and Sabaa Zareena\nGlobal Street Dance Masquerade\nZakiya Harris and Elephantine\nMonica Hastings–Smith and Yafeu Tyhimba\nSea Heikes\, Michael Gendreau and Chris Musgrave\nJazz Monique Hudson\nDom Jones\nImpuritan and Maso Tachibana\nRipley Jene\nLeVICE\nKolmel W. Love\nMelYel\nRayla Meshawn\nOsunfemi Wanbi Njeri\nNuance the Vicarious\nQuiet Lightning\nSadusssa\nDJ Sake One \nNight Light was curated by Melorra Green and Carolina Quintanilla with support from Karen Seneferu. The Black Woman is God was curated by Karen Seneferu and Melorra Green.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/night-light-multimedia-garden-party/
LOCATION:SOMArts\, 934 Brannan Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Christopher Bernard + Clara Hsu
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Bernard’s new novel\, “Voyage to a Phantom City\,” is a spine-tingling adventure across the Sahara and a heart-breaking romance\, provoking haunting memories of war and a long-lost America after the tragedy of September 11th. It is a spiritual quest into the heart of darkness that discovers the supremely redemptive power of love. Bernard’s previous books include the novel “A Spy in the Ruins\,” the short-story collections “Dangerous Stories for Boys” and “In the American Night\,” and “The Rose Shipwreck: Poems and Photographs.” He is co-editor of “Caveat Lector” and a regular contributor to “Synchronized Chaos.” Bernard writes fiction\, poetry\, essays\, plays\, and criticism. His poetry can be found online at “The Bog of St. Philinte.” He lives in San Francisco. \nClara Hsu is a poet and a traveller. She caught the travel bug some years ago and it has been feeding her ever since. When she is home she teaches piano and stays glued to the computer. When she travels she brings only a note book and pen. Between writing and cooking\, her mind wanders like a nomad.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christopher-bernard-clara-hsu/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bill Berkson Memorial
DESCRIPTION:Dear Friends\, \nPlease join San Francisco Art Institute in remembering and honoring the life of poet\, art critic\, and much-loved SFAI professor emeritus Bill Berkson. \nMemorial Service\nSunday\, July 24\, 2016 | 2pm\nLecture Hall | 800 Chestnut Street\nReception to follow \nQuestions?\nContact Sarah Morrison by email or call 415.749.4516. \nThe memorial is open to the public and we anticipate high attendance. Seating in the Lecture Hall is limited; overflow seating with a simulcast of the program will be available in the SFAI Café.\nBill Berkson moved through life with compassion\, grace\, and humor. His generous spirit nourished and inspired those around him. He is remembered with special fondness and admiration by the students\, faculty\, and staff at SFAI\, where he taught from 1984 to 2008.\nAll words are prophetic\nBare the thread\, swallow the cloud\nReflected glory drives off\nLeaving the original in demand \nRepeat after me \n– Bill Berkson\, from his poem Lady Air\nA luminary of our time\, Bill’s eloquence with language was surpassed only by the depth of his kindness. He will be greatly missed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bill-berkson-memorial/
LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, SF Art Institute\, 800 Chestnut Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160725T210000
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SUMMARY:Porchlight Open Door: Identity Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Who are you? No\, I mean today. Not the you with the asymmetrical bob and overalls. Not the you so obsessed with Stanley Kubrick people stopped inviting you to dinner. Definitely not the you sporting the black Neo trench coat and goatee. We’ll forget about those you’s. At this month’s Open Door we celebrate identities in crisis. Bring your five-minute story about “finding yourself” and you could win a slot on Porchlight’s 14th Anniversary Romp alongside Writer Mary Roach\, Mythbuster Adam Savage and performer Moon Zappa! \nPorchlight Open Door is a small stage open mic event launched by Porchlight in September 2009. Storytellers add their names to a sign-up sheet\, receive a free drink\, and then have five minutes to spiel on the monthly theme. The evening’s top storyteller\, will win a slot on Porchlight’s 14th Anniversary Romp and a pound of coffee from local roaster Nomadic Ground. And this month\, a slot on Porchlight’s 14-year Anniversary show at the Verdi on August 11th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/porchlight-open-door-identity-crisis/
LOCATION:Hemlock Tavern\, 1131 Polk Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160728T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160728T203000
DTSTAMP:20260504T214125
CREATED:20160714T003818Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160714T003818Z
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SUMMARY:Alina Smiotanko + James Tracy
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in our Readers Bookstore Fort Mason for our weekly FREE poetry series! \nBrowse books while listening to internationally acclaimed poets and artists such as Jonathan Richman\, David Meltzer\, Diane di Prima and California Poet Laureate Al Young. The series is curated by Friends’ Resident Poet Jack Hirschman. (For a list of the scheduled readers\, please see the line up below.) \nProceeds from our bookstores benefit the San Francisco Public Library.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alina-smiotanko-james-tracy/
LOCATION:Readers Bookstore\, Fort Mason Center\, Building C\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160728T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160728T203000
DTSTAMP:20260504T214125
CREATED:20160714T004227Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160714T004227Z
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SUMMARY:Martinis & Writers - Literary Speakeasy!
DESCRIPTION:It’s time to refill those martini glasses — Literary Speakeasy returns to Martuni’s on July 28. Come order up one of the best drinks in town as we bring you some of the best literary talent in the Bay Area. This month’s featured guests include Tusiata Avia\, Jason Bayani\, Natasha Dennerstein\, Bill Dupp\, and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier. Your host and curator is James J. Siegel \nAs always\, Literary Speakeasy is a FREE event with NO drink minimum. All attendees will receive a FREE raffle ticket for a chance to win the night’s secret Speakeasy prize. It’s our way of saying “thanks for coming out!” \nCome like our page at www.facebook.com/literaryspeakeasy. \nTusiata Avia is a Samoan-New Zealand poet\, performer\, and writer. She has published three books of poetry: Wild Dogs Under My Skirt\, Bloodclot\, Fale Aitu/ Spirit House and two\nchildren’s books\, Mele and the Massage and The Song. Her one-woman theatre show (also called Wild Dogs Under My Skirt) toured internationally from 2002 to 2008 and shows again in 2016 as a play for six actors. Tusiata has held a number of writers’ residencies and awards\, including a Fulbright Pacific Artist Fellowship at the University of Hawai’i and the Janet Frame Literary Trust Award. She lives in Auckland\, New Zealand\, with her daughter\, Sepela and teaches Creative Writing and Performing Arts at Manukau Institute of Technology. \nJason Bayani is the author of Amulet from Write Bloody Press. He’s an MFA graduate from Saint Mary’s College\, a Kundiman fellow\, and is currently the Program Manager for Kearny Street Workshop.http://jasonbayani.com/ \nNatasha Dennerstein was born in Melbourne\, Australia\, to a family originating in Belarus. She worked as a psychiatric nurse for 20 years\, which gave her an interesting perspective on the human condition. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University and has had poetry published in Fourth Floor\, Landfall\, Snorkel\, JAAM\, Takahe\, Shenandoah\, Bloom\, Transfer\, Red Light Lit\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, Foglifter and sPARLKE + bLINK. Her collection “Anatomize” was published by Norfolk Press in San Francisco in October 2015 and her new collection “Triptych Caliform” will be launched in September this year. \nBill Dupp lives and works in the heart of The Castro as a VJ at Midnight Sun. A lover of fiction and storytelling he has been writing\, producing\, and acting in theater and film his entire life. As a graduate of UCSB Film\, and having worked at both Discovery and Warner Brothers\, he left Los Angeles behind and is now celebrating his sixth year in San Francisco! He can be found performing at Oasis and DJing all over town when not manning the VJ booth. \nSoma Mei Sheng Frazier is an East Coast native living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her two fiction chapbooks\, Salve (Nomadic Press) and Collateral Damage: A Triptych (RopeWalk Press)\, earned praise from Nikki Giovanni\, Daniel Handler\, Antonya Nelson\, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum\, Molly Giles\, Michelle Tea\, and others. You can find her work online at Eclectica Magazine\, Carve Magazine\, Eleven Eleven\, and Kore Press. New work is available in the current issues of Glimmer Train and ZYZZYVA\, and forthcoming in Eclectica’s anthology. Soma is at work on a novel and a screenplay. \nJames J. Siegel is the monthly curator and host of Literary Speakeasy. His first poetry collection\, How Ghosts Travel\, was published earlier this year by Spuyten Duvyil Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/martinis-writers-literary-speakeasy/
LOCATION:Martuni’s\, 4 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160728T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160728T210000
DTSTAMP:20260504T214125
CREATED:20160701T005842Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160701T005842Z
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SUMMARY:Bookswap 2.0 w/ Val Brelinski
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Bookswap 2.0 with Val Brelinski on July 28th at 7PM! \nVal Brelinski‘s strange and wonderful debut\, The Girl Who Slept with God\, tells the story of Grace\, 17\, who returns from a service mission in Mexico believing that she has been impregnated by God. Her deeply Evangelical Christian family moves Grace and her younger sister to an isolated home at the edge of town. Once on her own\, Grace has to learn to deal with life the way we all do: the hard way. \nMeet Val\, celebrate the paperback release of this brave and moving novel\, and join us for a new iteration of an old favorite event. \nBring a book about an exile. \nBOOKSWAP 2.0: A Note about Format: \nBooksmith’s Bookswap is back with a few tweaks. In order to make Bookswap more affordable\, more accessible\, and more social\, we’ve changed a few things: \nFirst\, we dropped the price to $10. That gets you admission\, an open bar\, snacks\, galleys to take home\, 20% off whatever you buy that night\, and a whole mess of new titles on your To-Read List. \nSecond\, the time. Going forward\, we’ll start at 7 and wrap about 9 (round times will be reduced by a few minutes each)\, since some people had trouble getting here by 6:30 (the old start time). \nFinally\, Bookswap will now happen more often\, on the Third Thursday of every month.  \nEverything else will be just how you left it. Bring a book you love that loosely fits the theme (or doesn’t! no pressure)\, we’ll sit you in small groups\, you’ll chat about books\, and at the end\, we have a big\, rowdy\, white elephant swap. It’s a No Homework Bookclub. \nTickets: $10\, includes open bar for 21+. \nVal Brelinski was born and raised in Nampa\, Idaho\, the daughter of devout evangelical Christians. From 2003 to 2005\, she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, where she was also a Jones Lecturer in fiction writing. She received an MFA from the University of Virginia\, and her recent writing has been featured inVogue\, MORE\, Salon\, VQR and The Rumpus. She received prizes for her fiction from the San Francisco Chronicle\, The CharlottesvilleWeekly\, and The Boise Weekly\, and was also a finalist for the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. Val lives in Northern California and teaches creative writing in Stanford’s Continuing Studies Program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bookswap-2-0-w-val-brelinski/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160728T210000
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SUMMARY:Evan Ratliff w/ Jennifer Kahn
DESCRIPTION:Litquake is proud to host the San Francisco launch of LOVE AND RUIN: TALES OF OBSESSION\, DANGER\, AND HEARTBREAK\, the new nonfiction collection edited by Evan Ratliff of The Atavist. Evan will be in conversation with journalist Jennifer Kahn\, with book sales and signing to follow. \nSince its founding in 2011\, The Atavist has garnered an unprecedented eight National Magazine Award nominations and was the first all-digital publication to win in feature writing. This collection presents the finest examples of a new kind of nonfiction storytelling as practiced by a young generation of longform experts. These extraordinary stories of crime\, passion\, and adventure include Leslie Jamison’s landmark portrait of a lonely whale named “52 Blue\,” Matthew Shaer’s harrowing account of a shipwreck during Hurricane Sandy\, and James Verini’s prize-winning tale of romance and courage in Afghanistan. \nThe fascinating and original writing in LOVE AND RUIN demonstrates why The Atavist has become the leader in publishing “remarkable…can’t look away pieces of multimedia journalism” (The New York Times). \nEVAN RATLIFF is the editor of The Atavist magazine. His writing has appeared in Wired\, where he is a contributing editor; The New Yorker; National Geographic; and other publications. He is also the story editor of Pop-Up Magazine. \nJENNIFER KAHN is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine\, and has been a regular feature writer for The New Yorker\, National Geographic\, Wired\, and Outside\, among others. Since 2009\, she has taught in the Magazine Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/evan-ratliff-w-jennifer-kahn/
LOCATION:Alamo Drafthouse Cinema\, 2550 Mission Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160729T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160729T210000
DTSTAMP:20260504T214125
CREATED:20160720T000708Z
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SUMMARY:Anything But Rock 'n' Roll's Fine: An Evening of Words & Music
DESCRIPTION:Writer in residence Denise Sullivan will be joined by Victor Krummenacher and Peter Case to read from their respective works in progress! \nArts and culture reporter and author of five books of music\nhistory and biography\, “Denise Sullivan represents the insider intellectual stamina of rock ‘n’ roll journalism without the pomp and pretense. She is the past and future of the form\, rolled into one uncanny style\,”–Pop Matters \nPeter Case is a founding member of the Nerves\, leader of the Plimsouls\, and first troubadour of the post-punk era. He is a Grammy-nominated songwriter\, performer and producer (his 13th solo album is titled HWY 62) and the author of several books including a memoir\, As Far As You Can Get Without A Passport (Everthemore Books). \nVictor Krummenacher is a musician and founding member of the alternative rock band Camper Van Beethoven. He helped form the bands Monks of Doom\, Camper Van Chadbourne\, McCabe & Mrs. Miller and has pursued a solo career as a singer-songwriter. He also played bass with Cracker for several years. Krummenacher was Art Director of the San Francisco Bay Guardian for six years and is currently the Managing Art Director for Wired.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anything-but-rock-n-rolls-fine-an-evening-of-words-music/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160730T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160730T203000
DTSTAMP:20260504T214125
CREATED:20160701T010051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160701T010051Z
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SUMMARY:Rolling Writers: R-Dub Love
DESCRIPTION:“Even or odd\, of all days in the year\,\nCome Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen.”\n\nIn honor of Juliet’s birthday\, Rolling Writers express and reflect on romantic love the evening before Lammas Eve (not wishing to compete with the myriad celebrations of Juliet’s birthday that will undoubtedly take over the city on Lammas Eve itself\, July 31; besides which\, we don’t show on Sundays). \nReaders\nLucille Lang Day\nRichard Levine\nRoy Mash\nKathleen McClung\nColleen McKee\nSarah Paris\nLaura Zink \nMusic\nEllisa Sun with Michael Crabtree
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rolling-writers-r-dub-love/
LOCATION:Rolling Out Cafe\, 1722 Taraval St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160730T210000
DTSTAMP:20260504T214125
CREATED:20160722T222332Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160722T222349Z
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SUMMARY:Summer Sparks: flash fiction\, poetry\, and flash nonfiction
DESCRIPTION:Come join us at the Bazaar Cafe for a round of Summer Sparks: an eclectic mix of flash fiction\, poetry & flash non-fiction. The line-up of readers includes Hugh Behm-Steinberg\, Jacqueline Doyle\, Andrew Dugas\, Jamey Genna\, Jose Luis Gutierrez\, Fernando Meisenhalter\, Alia Volz\, and Amos White.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/summer-sparks-073016/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160731T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160731T150000
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CREATED:20160701T010245Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160701T010245Z
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SUMMARY:Entwined: Sisters and Secrets
DESCRIPTION:The remarkable story of outsider artist Judith Scott\, who was institutionalized for more than thirty years before being rescued by her sister. From birth\, fraternal twins Judith and Joyce Scott lived as if they were one person in two bodies\, understanding instinctively what the other wanted and felt\, despite the fact that Judy had Down syndrome\, profound deafness\, and never learned to speak or sign. But this idyllic childhood of color\, texture\, and feeling ended abruptly when\, at age seven\, Judy was taken from their shared bed while Joyce slept\, not knowing that the wholeness they had known was being shattered. \nFor the next three decades\, Joyce is left without her other half and must grieve unexpected loss while navigating her relationship with an emotionally distant mother alone. Even so\, her life parallels her twin’s in surprising ways. While in college\, Joyce too is sent away\, pressured to relinquish the secret daughter she bore in hiding to adoption. \nDecades later\, Joyce resolves to reunite with her sister and fill their remaining years with joy. After winning the struggle to become Judy s legal guardian\, she enrolls her in an art center for adults with disabilities in Oakland\, California. Judy is hesitant at first\, but after two years of uninterested painting and drawing\, her untapped creativity suddenly ignites when she is introduced to fiber art\, and she begins carefully and intentionally winding yarn and other materials around found objects. With unflagging intensity\, Judy works five days a week for the next eighteen years\, producing more than two-hundred astoundingly diverse fiber sculptures. Unconcerned with her growing fame\, she remains fully immersed in her artistic vision until her death in 2005. Today\, Judith Scott s work is displayed in museums and galleries around the world\, in some of the most prestigious collections of contemporary art. \n“Entwined” is a penetrating personal narrative that explores a complex world of disability\, loss\, reunion\, and the resiliency of the human spirit. Part memoir\, part biography\, it s a poignant and astonishing story about the art of embracing life.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/entwined-sisters-and-secrets/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160801T213000
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CREATED:20160713T003608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160713T003608Z
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SUMMARY:Aaron Burch\, Colin Winnette + Uzodinma Okehi
DESCRIPTION:Aaron Burch\, Uzodinma Okehi\, and Colin Winnette read from their latest books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aaron-burch-colin-winnette-uzodinma-okehi/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160802T210000
DTSTAMP:20260504T214125
CREATED:20160721T003720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160721T003720Z
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SUMMARY:Baruch Porras Hernandez hosts The News
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, August 2\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez hosts a night of queer/punk culture-fucking liberation w/sonic beats\, 6-inch heels & colorful explosions. Drawing from personal stories and experiences\, the artists writhe all over the map with Bollywood inspired dance\, machismo resistance\, comedic storytelling\, sonic mantras\, femme fierceness\, and kink infused poetry. Live performances by: \n• Fiera!\n• Kohinoorgasm\n• SNJV\n• Baruch Porras Hernandez\n• Wonder Dave \nTickets\nAdmission is FREE! SOMArts is offering free admission in hopes that if you can afford to donate\, you will support the artists onstage when the hat passes. We recommend reserving tickets on Eventbrite to guarantee your seat: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-newsan-evening-of-fresh-queer-performance-tickets-25214461132! \nPerformer biographies and links: http://www.somarts.org/thenewsaugust2016 \nAbout The News\nOn the first Tuesday of each month The News\, presented by SOMArts Cultural Center\, features new\, queer work by Bay Area artists. The News is a monthly cabaret style evening that spotlights 10-minute or less performance pieces\, experiments\, and works in progress by pre-selected solo artists\, groups\, or troupes. \nIn addition to artists selected by a guest curator\, a “wild card” performer or two appears in each line-up at The News. “Wild cards” are artists who may not have been selected by the guest curators\, but join in the evening to share new work. Artists interested in performing as a “wild card” at The News can find more information here: http://www.somarts.org/programs/thenews/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/baruch-porras-hernandez-hosts-the-news/
LOCATION:SOMArts\, 934 Brannan Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160802T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160802T213000
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SUMMARY:Dave Madden\, Theodore Wheeler\, + Amina Gautier
DESCRIPTION:Theodore Wheeler’s Bad Faith \nWith results both liberating and disastrous\, the characters of Bad Faith flee the trappings of contemporary domestic life. A young father visits a college friend in San Salvador rather than face the anticipated difficult birth of his third child. A boy comes to terms with his fractured family and the disabled father responsible for him after his soldier mother is stationed overseas. A biracial man journeys across Nebraska for the funeral of his white mother and strikes up an improbable if dishonest relationship with a centenarian Irish woman. And in the collection’s title story\, the running narrative of a pathetic yet oddly compelling ladies man culminates in an unexpected and deadly confrontation. In Theodore Wheeler’s collection of prizewinning stories\, the herd can’t always outpace the predator. \n“These stories turn the reader’s expectations on their head as Wheeler spins stunning arabesques\, scoring the surface of his characters’ reality to reveal the malice\, confusion\, and ultimate frailty of us all.” \n– Jonis Agee\, author of The Bones of Paradise \nDave Madden’s If You Need Me I’ll be Over There \nThis debut collection of short stories tells the tale of a different kind of difference—one not set in the glittering lights of New York or Los Angeles\, but in the grand and wide American Midwest. For these characters\, queerness is part of the environment\, like the soil\, the sky\, and the supermarket: an HIV-positive chemist uses football to connect with his brothers; a 17-year-old girl tussles with a cartoon cobra to avoid thinking about the mother who abandoned her; and a hotel concierge starts attending Mass even though his partner was molested by a priest. In seeking out the ordinary struggles of extraordinary people trying to figure out their place within families and communities\, I explore what it means to be an outsider always looking in. \n“Dave Madden has again given us a wonder of a book. These charismatic stories\, as funny as they are sad\, are attuned to the possibility of disorder beneath every human aspiration.”\n—Paul Lisicky \, author of The Narrow Door \nAmina Gautier’s The Loss of All Things Lost \nAmina Gautier’s The Loss of All Lost Thigns won the Elixir Press 2014 Fiction Award. It is a short story collection that illuminates the beauty that can be found in inconsolable loss. Gautier leads us through terrible reality but leaves us with the promise of hope and redemption. Contest judge\, Phong Nguyen had this to say about it: “Literary fiction that grips us and won’t let us go is notoriously rare. To offer us complex emotional experience and riveting narrative momentum\, and then to leave the reader in contemplation of its sophisticated themes and subtle weave of objective correlatives that is the stuff of literary greatness\, of art that demands to be read in conversation with the canon .Gautier’s stories have you by the throat\, and they surprise you with their mercy. \n“Quiet\, subtle\, observant–the stories of The Loss of All Lost Things are pictures of sadness that enrich an understanding of separation and despair. One after another they do what short fiction does so well: capture a character\, scene or place that together are much bigger than they seem.” —Shelf Awareness
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dave-madden-theodore-wheeler-amina-gautier/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160802T213000
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SUMMARY:Krys Lee w/ Adam Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Krys Lee presents How I Became a North Korean\, a debut novel that follows the lives of three characters as they struggle to survive in the complex and dangerous Chinese territory bordering North Korea. In order to escape their circumstances\, Yongju\, Jangmi and Danny cross borders—struggling against informants\, spouses\, thieves\, abductors\, and even missionaries in the process—and eventually cross paths with one another. Against a harsh and unforgiving backdrop\, they form a kind of adoptive family while they struggle to create better lives. How I became a North Korean is inspired by Lee’s personal experiences as a humanitarian helping North Korean refugees and it is a brilliant exploration of the persistence of humanity under dire circumstances. \nKrys Lee was born in Seoul\, South Korea\, raised in California and Washington\, and studied in the United States and England. Her debut story collection\, Drifting House\, was awarded the 2012 Story Prize Spotlight Award and was a finalist for the 2012 BBC International Story Prize. Her work has appeared in the Kenyon Review\, Narrative magazine\, Granta (New Voices)\, The Guardian\, Financial Times\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Conde Nast Traveller\, UK\, and other publications. She is a professor of creative writing at Yonsei University’s Underwood International College in Seoul. \nAdam Johnson is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Orphan Master’s Son and the National Book Award winning short story collection Fortune Smiles . He teaches creative writing at Stanford University. His fiction has appeared in Esquire\,The Paris Review\, Harper’s\, Tin House\, Granta\, and Playboy\, as well as The Best American Short Stories. His other works include Emporium\, a short-story collection\, and the novel Parasites Like Us. He lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/krys-lee-w-adam-johnson/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160804T203000
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime FORBIDDANCE
DESCRIPTION:Will feature S.G. Browne (Less Than Hero)\, Na’amen Tilahun (The Root)\, Rahul Kanakia (Enter Title Here)\, and others. \nProduced by James Warner with Ransom Stephens and Yanina Gotsulsky\, In our inaugural year\, InsideStoryTime was voted SF Weekly BEST NEW READING SERIES 2006. A fun\, cosy event where you can booze and schmooze with the San Francisco literati.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-forbiddance/
LOCATION:Martuni’s\, 4 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160804T203000
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CREATED:20160713T005307Z
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SUMMARY:Julie Rogers + Adrian Arias
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in our Readers Bookstore Fort Mason for our weekly FREE poetry series! \nBrowse books while listening to internationally acclaimed poets and artists such as Jonathan Richman\, David Meltzer\, Diane di Prima and California Poet Laureate Al Young. The series is curated by Friends’ Resident Poet Jack Hirschman. (For a list of the scheduled readers\, please see the line up below.) \nProceeds from our bookstores benefit the San Francisco Public Library.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julie-rogers-adrian-arias/
LOCATION:Readers Bookstore\, Fort Mason Center\, Building C\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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