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SUMMARY:Forrest Leo
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Forrest Leo: \n“An effervescent book with a cheerfully lunatic plot. Cavalier\, funny\, and totally engrossing. It’s a delicious crumpet of a novel that will leave you wondering if Forrest Leo drinks tea with the devil.”—Sara Levine\, author of Treasure Island!!! \n“Let us all bow down before the nutty and delightful romp that is The Gentleman. An assured stylist tells a hilarious story with perfect pacing and aplomb: yes\, please.”—Henry Alford\, author of Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That?: A Modern Guide to Manners \n“Simultaneously very strange and very familiar\, The Gentleman has all the right echoes and influences – the ‘scientific romance\,’ the postmodernist novel\, the comedy of manners. It’s witty and erudite\, with great whiffs of Wells and Wilde and Wodehouse – all of it beautifully combined\, with one of the best opening sentences I’ve read in years. Go on—open up!”—Geoff Nicholson\, author of The Lost Art of Walking \n\nAbout The Gentleman: \nA funny\, fantastically entertaining debut novel\, in the spirit of Wodehouse and Monty Python\, about a famous poet who inadvertently sells his wife to the devil–then recruits a band of adventurers to rescue her. \n  \nWhen Lionel Savage\, a popular poet in Victorian London\, learns from his butler that they’re broke\, he marries the beautiful Vivien Lancaster for her money\, only to find that his muse has abandoned him. \n  \nDistraught and contemplating suicide\, Savage accidentally conjures the Devil — the polite “Gentleman” of the title — who appears at one of the society parties Savage abhors. The two hit it off: the Devil talks about his home\, where he employs Dante as a gardener; Savage lends him a volume of Tennyson. But when the party’s over and Vivien has disappeared\, the poet concludes in horror that he must have inadvertently sold his wife to the dark lord. \n  \nNewly in love with Vivian\,  Savage plans a rescue mission to Hell that includes Simmons\, the butler; Tompkins\, the bookseller; Ashley Lancaster\, swashbuckling Buddhist; Will Kensington\, inventor of a flying machine; and Savage’s spirited kid sister\, Lizzie\, freshly booted from boarding school for a “dalliance.” Throughout\, his cousin’s quibbling footnotes to the text push the story into comedy nirvana. \n  \nLionel and his friends encounter trapdoors\, duels\, anarchist-fearing bobbies\, the social pressure of not knowing enough about art history\, and the poisonous wit of his poetical archenemy. Fresh\, action-packed and very\, very funny\, The Gentleman is a giddy farce that recalls the masterful confections of P.G. Wodehouse and Hergé’s beautifully detailed Tintin adventures.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/forrest-leo/
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:Anita Cruz + John Landry
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/anita-cruz-john-landry/
LOCATION:Readers Bookstore\, Fort Mason Center\, Building C\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Living Theatre
DESCRIPTION:The Living Theatre is an experimental company founded in New York in 1947 by Julian Beck (New York 1925-1985)\, painter and poet\, and the actress and stage director Judith Malina (Kiel 1926). From the very beginning the group’s activities bore the stamp of social and political commitment\, imbued with a strong libertarian matrix. \nThe Living Theatre’s name expresses the whole force of its project: the idea of a theatre that is open to life\, politics and change without ever renouncing research and experiments with new forms of expression. \nThis performance\, “Seven Meditations on Political Sadomasochism\,” is celebrated as one of the company’s most significant pieces that explores Sacher-Masoch’s Six Houses of Bondage: Love\, Money\, Property\, State\, War and Death\, with a seventh meditation on Revolutionary Change. \nContent warning: this performance contains brief nudity and simulated torture.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-living-theatre/
LOCATION:Great Star Theater\, 636 Jackson St.\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Queens Read Celebrity Autobiographies!
DESCRIPTION:Trashy! Tawdry! Page after page of smut and gossip! We love to hate them —and can’t get enough of them —they are Celebrity Autobiographies! \nCome celebrate the BEST of the absolute WORST celebrity autobiographies to ever line a bookstore shelf. To celebrate this achievement in awful celebrity prose\, our guest readers for the night are some of the most iconic queens in the Bay Area! Donna Sachet\, Sue Casa\, Sugah Betes\, MuthaChucka\, Shane Zaldivar\, and Daft-nee Gesuntheit! Your host and curator each month is James J. Siegel. \nAs always Literary Speakeasy is FREE. But for this evening\, we will be collecting donations and raffling off prizes to raise money for Strut in the Castro. So bring your donations\, order a martini\, and laugh along to some of the worst celebrity autobiographies these queens could find!! \nPerformer bios:\nDaft-nee Gesuntheit! has been a San Francisco staple since showing up on the scene six years ago. Since her inception\, she has performed at the legendary Marlena’s Bar in the Hayes Valley Follies\, Cookie Dough’s Monster Show at The Edge Bar\, Sunday’s A Drag at The Starlight Room\, and Oasis as Jo Polniaczek (pronounced Pole-nuh-check) in Facts of Life and Charlotte York in Sex and the City. Fond of fundraising\, she participates in galas for the Academy of Friends; she is a Princess of the Imperial Court\, a miracle worker and shiny gem in the community. Befriend her on Facebook for more fun and frivolity. \nDonna Sachet started her adventure in San Francisco over twenty years ago and the City has applauded her fun-loving spirit\, quick wit\, and musical talent ever since. Donna can be seen throughout the Community\, judging contests\, emceeing fund-raisers\, cutting ribbons\, and hosting parties and was featured in individual stories in The SF Chronicle\, SF Bay Guardian\, GLOSS magazine\, and on ABC television. Donna currently writes a biweekly column for the publication Bay Area Reporter and stars in the weekly Sunday’s A Drag brunch shows\, now in its eleventh year\, at the Starlight Room atop the Sir Francis Drake Hotel. In 2009\, Donna Sachet was the first drag personality in history to sing the National Anthem for a major league sports game at AT&T Park for the SF Giants. A short film about her\, named Sachet\, was completed in 2014 and included in the Frameline Film Festival. \nMuthaChucka is a tireless performer\, fundraiser and political dragtivist based in San Francisco\, host of her own show in the Castro\, Sex\, Drags & Rock n Roll at the Midnight Sun & SOMA party Try Some Thing at the Stud. Mutha has worked on behalf of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation\, AIDS Housing Alliance\, Tenderloin Tessies Holiday Dinners\, Project Open Hand\, and countless other charities in the Bay Area and beyond! Having discovered her love of performing at an early age MuthaChucka has been amazing audiences with her fierce lipsynch\, unique song choices\, and gracious hosting ever since! With a rubbery face of a thousand expressions and a clever sensibility that never fails to amuse\, she has made people laugh and cry with her riveting performances and twisted sense of humor! For calendar and booking information check out www.Muthachucka.com. \nShane Zalidvar has been living in San Francisco for nearly three years since moving from Florida and graduating from Oaksterdam University. During that time\, drag in the Bay area has become his art-therapy. He says\, “The performer community has incredible talent and invites authenticity to shine way beyond the stage. I’m lucky to be a part of it with a sensual\, androgynous\, and sometimes creepy style. Come see for yourself\, it’s so much fun!” \nSUE CASA is best described as the village idiot. With an amazing ability to paint the same exact face every time and wear the same exact wig\, her look is…well….recognizable. She is a hostess of the weekly Monster Show at the Edge Bar\, and Miss Trannyshack 2013. \nSugah Betes is an anachronism. She’s a larger than life character. Really she’s larger than most things in the room. She’s a funny girl with a real smart mouth on her. Her style is sequins and petticoats and her make-up is modified clown. She is a co-hostess of The Monster Show\, the Castro’s longest running drag show.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queens-read-celebrity-autobiographies/
LOCATION:Martuni’s\, 4 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Closing Reception A Home For the Homeless: Artists and Poets in Search of An Answer
DESCRIPTION:Artists and Poets in Search of an Answer is a provocative response to the homeless crisis with art\, photography\, poetry\, critiques and perhaps an answer or two. Featuring photography by Joe Ramos and Cammie Toloui\, installations by the UNDERCOVER collective with video by Sietske Tjallingii\, art by Kate Akimbo\, painting by Annice Jacoby\, graphics from WRAP archive including work by Patrick Piazza\, Art Hazelwood\, Veronica Solis\, Ronnie Goodman\, and poems by Jack Hirschman\, Alejandro Murguía\, Alessandra Bava\, Tony Robles\, Norman Zelaya\, Cesar Love\, Virginia Barrett\, Michael Koch\, Yevgeny Yevtushenko and others. \nClosing Reception on Friday August 26th\, 2016 from 6-9pm \nFeaturing LIVE PRINTING with master graphic community artists including Patrick Piazza\, Txutuo Perez\, Art Hazelwood & more. Original prints available from the show’s artists. See FREE POSTERS made on the spot or try printing one yourself. \nThe gathering will also include SOAPBOX\, a participatory performance event for advocates\, heartbreakers\, change makers\, everyone with a fresh idea. Come have your five minutes on the SOAPBOX along with local celebs & creative provocateurs. Let’s use imagination and celebration\, mingle dignity and rage with constructive here-and-now good ideas that break the impasse around chronic homelessness in our beautiful city. Let us banish the shame and the blame and build off the good work and sacrifice of decades of artist activism\, community outcry and valuable lives grossly crushed. The best ideas will be captured and shared.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/closing-reception-a-home-for-the-homeless-artists-and-poets-in-search-of-an-answer/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Literary Pop!
DESCRIPTION:Literature and Pop Culture collide!\nDoors at 7pm show at 8pm \nCome and listen as poets\, fiction writers\, essayists\, comedians and storytellers share their pop culture obsessions. This month we’ll feature; Kwan Booth on Pokemon Go\, Amy Stephenson on Murder She Wrote\, Danny Thanh Nguyen on Lifetime Made for TV Movies\, Tess Barry on Mike Tyson\, your host Wonder Dave on Loretta Lynn and\, special guest comedian and King of the Nerds reality TV Contestant Jacob Rubin!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-pop-2/
LOCATION:Doc’s Lab\, 124 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Flash Fiction Collective September Reading
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the end of summer / the start of SF summer with the Flash Fiction Collective and 11 amazing writers from the Grotto: \nHeather Bourbeau\nJenny Bitner\nJane Ciabattari\nChristopher Cook\nLaurie Doyle\nThaisa Frank\nVanessa Hua\nChad Koch\nJoshua Mohr\nEthel Rohan\nLizette Wanzer \nJenny Bitner’s short stories and flash fiction have been published in Best American Nonrequired Reading\, Writing That Risks\, PANK\, The Sun\, Mississippi Review and Fence magazine. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Virginia and teaches Flash Fiction at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. \nHeather Bourbeau’s fiction and poetry have been published in 100 Word Story\, Duende\, Francis Ford Coppola Winery’s Chalkboard\, The Stockholm Review of Literature\, and Tupelo Press. Her piece “Hopscotch” was nominated for a 2015 Pushcart Prize. Her journalism has appeared in The Economist\, The Financial Times\, Foreign Affairs\, and Foreign Policy. She was a contributing writer to Not On Our Watch: A Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond with Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. She has worked with various UN agencies\, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia and UNICEF Somalia. \nJane Ciabattari is the author of the story collections\, Stealing the Fire and California Tales\, and of stories published in 100WordStory and New Flash Fiction Review and many other publications. She writes the Between the Lines column for BBC.com\, a weekly column for the Literary Hub\, and contributes regularly to NPR. She is vice president /online and a former president of the National Book Critics Circle and a member of the Flash Fiction Collective. \nChristopher Cook is an award-winning writer and author whose work has appeared in Harper’s\, Mother Jones\, the Atlantic\, The Nation\, and elsewhere. He is the author of Diet for a Dead Planet Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis\, and is completing a memoir about living and growing up on the road. Check him out at www.christopherdcook.com. \nLaurie Ann Doyle is the winner of Alligator Juniper’s National Fiction Award\, as well as nominations for Best New American Voices and the Pushcart Prize. Her new book of short stories\, World Gone Missing\, is a finalist for the Livingston Press (University of West Alabama) fiction prize\, and a story from the collection appears in their fiction anthology. Other stories and essays have been published in Jabberwock Review\, Arroyo Literary Review\, Dogwood Journal\, Under the Sun and elsewhere. She’s a co-founder of Babylon Salon\, San Francisco’s long running reading series\, and teaches writing at UC Berkeley. www.laurieanndoyle.com \nThaisa Frank’s sixth book\, Enchantment\, includes two semi-autobiographical novellas and thirty-three stories. Heidegger’s Glasses (2010)\, about the mythical haven of an underground mine during WWII\, sold to ten foreign countries. She is also the author of Sleeping in Velvet and A Brief History of Camouflage. Her nonfiction book Finding Your Writer’s Voice has been translated into Portuguese and Spanish and is used in MFA programs. \nVanessa Hua\, author of Deceit and Other Possibilities and a forthcoming novel\, is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award\, and a Steinbeck Fellowship. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic\, New York Times\, ZYZZYVA\, Guernica\, and elsewhere. \nChad Koch is a founding editor of Foglifter\, San Francisco’s only queer literary journal. He recently received his MFA from San Francisco State University\, where he was editor-in-chief of Fourteen Hills. His most recent stories were published in The North American Review and Sparkle & Blink. His story\, “Lost Boys” was a semi-finalist for the 2016 Raymond Carver Short Story Award. \nJoshua Mohr is the author of five novels\, including “Damascus\,” which The New York Times called “Beat-poet cool.” He’s also written “Fight Song” and “Some Things that Meant the World to Me\,” one of O Magazine’s Top 10 reads of 2009 and a San Francisco Chronicle best-seller\, as well as “Termite Parade\,” an Editors’ Choice on The New York Times Best Seller List. His novel “All This Life” recently won the Northern California Book Award. \nEthel Rohan is an award-winning flash and short story writer. Her first novel\, The Weight of Him\, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in February\, 2017. \nLyzette Wanzer is an Affiliate Artist at Headlands Center for the Arts. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. A flash fiction connoisseur and essay aficionado\, her work has appeared in Callaloo\, Tampa Review\, The MacGuffin\, Ampersand Review\, Journal of Advanced Development\, Journal of Experimental Fiction\, Pleiades\, Flashquake\, Glossalia Flash Fiction\, Potomac Review\, International Journal on Literature and Theory\, Fringe Magazine\, Aesthetica Magazine\, and others. She is a contributor to The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays (Wyatt-MacKenzie\, 2012) and 642 Tiny Things to Write About (Chronicle Books\, 2015). Lyzette is the 2016 First Place winner in the national Kay Snow Nonfiction Competition.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flash-fiction-collective-september-reading/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books\, 900 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Overexposure Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Do you have poetry\, prose\, hybrid monsters\, mutant works-in-progress locked away in your notebook? \nBring them to light at Overexposure! \nSign-up starts at 7\nPerformance at 7:30 SHARP featuring three special guests.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/overexposure-open-mic/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Epicenter: Kim Addonizio
DESCRIPTION:Litquake is proud to host the San Francisco launch of Kim Addonizio’s newest books\, the memoir Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life\, and the poetry collection Mortal Trash . She will be in conversation\, with book sales and signing to follow. \nKim Addonizio is used to being exposed. As a writer of provocative poems and stories\, she has encountered success along with snark: one critic dismissed her as “Charles Bukowski in a sundress.” (“Why not Walt Whitman in a sparkly tutu?” she muses.) Now\, in this utterly original memoir in essays\, she opens up to chronicle the joys and indignities in the life of a writer wandering through middle age. \nAddonizio vividly captures moments of inspiration at the writing desk (or bed) and adventures on the road—from a champagne-and-vodka-fueled one-night stand at a writing conference to sparsely attended readings at remote Midwestern colleges. Her crackling\, unfiltered wit brings colorful life to pieces like “What Writers Do All Day\,” “How to Fall for a Younger Man\,” and “Necrophilia” (that is\, sexual attraction to men who are dead inside). And she turns a tender yet still comic eye to her family: her father\, who sparked her love of poetry; her mother\, a former tennis champion who struggled through Parkinson’s at the end of her life; and her daughter\, who at a young age chanced upon some erotica she had written for Penthouse. \nAt once intimate and outrageous\, Addonizio’s memoir radiates all the wit and heartbreak and ever-sexy grittiness that her fans have come to love—and that new readers will not soon forget. \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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-epicenter-kim-addonizio/
LOCATION:Alamo Drafthouse Cinema\, 2550 Mission Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Justin Chin Tribute
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nJustin Chin: Selected Works \nEdited by Jenifer Joseph\, with commentary by R. Zamora Linmark\, Michelle Tea\, Tim Liu\, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka \nfrom Manic D Press \nHosted by Jennifer Joseph \nwith colleagues & writers who will be reading Justin’s work:  Kevin Killian (Spreadeagle) and Rabih Alameddine (An Unnecessary Woman)\, filmmaker Henry Machtay\, Larry-Bob Roberts (The International Homosexual Conspiracy)\, Thea Hillman (Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word))\, Maw Shein Win (Ruins of a Glittering Palace)\, Alvin Orloff (Why Aren’t You Smiling?)\, and Daphne Gottlieb (15 Ways to Stay Alive). \nJustin Chin’s fearless and fierce voice was resolute in relating his worldview\, whether directly or through metaphorical language. As a queer Asian American\, born and raised in Southeast Asia within a devoutly Christian\, ethnically Chinese family of medical professionals\, Chin’s early life experience informed his writing and framed his point of view. In his literary works\, the seemingly conflicted duality of existence is paramount: sacred and profane\, saints and sinners\, health and illness\, hope and despair\, life and death. His works also explore his experience of living with HIV\, which progressed into AIDS in his final years. \nThis unique collection of Chin’s literary legacy will serve as both a primer for those new to his works\, as well as a loving tribute by those writers who knew him and his work best. Notable literary figures pay tribute to the poet/writer with personal commentaries on works selected from his seven books. \nAmong many others\, contributing writers include R. Zamora Linmark (Rolling the R’s)\, Michelle Tea (How To Grow Up)\, Timothy Liu (Don’t Go Back To Sleep)\, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka (Night at the Pahala Theatre). \nJustin Chin (1969-2015) was the award-winning author of four poetry books\, two essay collections\, one book each of short fiction\, and text-based performance art works. His writing appeared in literary magazines\, including Beloit Poetry Journal\, and anthologies\, including American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon). He taught at UC Santa Cruz and at San Francisco State University. He was a recipient of fellowships and grants from the California Arts Council\, Djerassi Foundation\, Franklin Furnace Fund\, PEN American Center\, and PEN Center USA West\, among others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/justin-chin-tribute/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tongo Eisen-Martin + Jasmine Gibson
DESCRIPTION:HUM 512\, SFSU\, free\nGetting here: http://poetry.sfsu.edu/contact-us \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. He has taught in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California county jails. He designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He is also arevolutionary poet who uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. His latest book of poems\, Someone’s Dead Already (Bootstrap Press)\, was nominated for a California Book Award. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, MS. \nJasmine Gibson is a Philly jawn now living in Brooklyn and soon to be psychotherapist for all your gooey psychotic episodes that match the bipolar flows of capital. She spends her time thinking about sexy things like psychosis\, desire and freedom. She has written for Mask Magazine and LIES Vol II: Journal of Materialist feminism and has now published a chapbook\, Drapetomania\, off of Commune Editions. \nThe Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\nhttp://poetry.sfsu.edu/\nStreaming video at Poetry Center Digital Archive\nhttps://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/poetrycenter\nVideo clips at Poetry Center Video Highlights\nhttps://vimeo.com/channels/poetrycenter
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tongo-eisen-martin-jasmine-gibson/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Jodzio w/ Folk\, Madden\, + Vernor
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith presents John Jodzio\, celebrating the release of Knockout with a night of readings from local writers Kate Folk\, Dave Madden\, author of If You Need Me I’ll Be Over There\, and Kara Vernor\, author of Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song. \nKnockout is the unified collection of stories that create flawless portraits of deeply flawed figures on the edge of the American Dream. \nJohn Jodzio‘s work has been featured in This American Life\, McSweeney’s\, and One Story\, among others. He’s the author of three short story collections — Knockout\, Get In If You Want To Live and If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home. He lives in Minneapolis. \nKate Folk’s stories have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Colorado Review\,Puerto del Sol\, Joyland\, and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco. Visit her on Twitter @katefolk. \nDave Madden is the author of If You Need Me I’ll Be Over There and The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy. His shorter work has appeared in Harper’s\, Prairie Schooner\, The Rumpus\, DIAGRAM\, Rappahannock Review\, The Normal School\, Denver Quarterly\, and elsewhere. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco. \nKara Vernor’s fiction has appeared in Wigleaf\, No Tokens\, PANK\, The Los Angeles Review\, and elsewhere. She is an Elizabeth George Foundation Scholar at the Northwest Institute for Literary Arts and was a Best Small Fictions 2015 finalist. Her chapbook\, Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song\, is available from Split Lip Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-jodzio-w-folk-madden-vernor/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon Fall Reading
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday September 10\, Babylon Salon’s Fall Reading features PEN America and VCU Cabell First Novelist Award-winner Ramona Ausubel(Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty); New York Times bestselling novelist J Ryan Stradal (Kitchens of the Great Midwest); poet\, critic & NPR All Things Considered commentator Tess Taylor (Work & Days); artist & memoirist Frances Stroh (Beer Money); short story writer John Jodzio(Knockout). \nOUR NEW LOCATION: The Armory Club [downtown performance space]\, 1799 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, 94103. FREE admission – Cash bar exotica. Doors open at 5:30 PM\, reading at 6:00 PM. More details:www.babylonsalon.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-fall-reading/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160910T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160910T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T024300
CREATED:20160720T004333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160720T004333Z
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SUMMARY:Rolling Writers: R-Dub Doubles Three
DESCRIPTION:R–Dub Doubles Three\nWriters will pair up to read each other’s work\,\nSongwriters will cover each other’s songs\n\n\nReaders\nHeather Bourbeau/Maw Shein Win\nRebecca Foust/Terry Lucas\n\nmore to be announced\n\nThis special program is not submissions–based.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rolling-writers-r-dub-doubles-three/
LOCATION:Rolling Out Cafe\, 1722 Taraval St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160910T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160910T210000
DTSTAMP:20260502T024300
CREATED:20160828T062104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160828T062104Z
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SUMMARY:Ronnie Burk: A Man of Letters
DESCRIPTION:Unrequited Records is thrilled to announce an event in San Francisco for the latest tribute album…Ronnie Burk: A Man of Letters. \nTo celebrate this release there will a Poetry reading and party on September 10 at 7PM at Alley Cat Books in San Francisco. The San Francisco readers include: \nLorna Dee Cervantes\nDiane Di Prima\nInés Hernández-Ávila\nElaine Katzenberger\nMonica Sanchez\nMia Kirsi Stageberg\nTodd Swindell\n\nThe first half of this album contains various rare recordings of Ronnie including radio interviews & call-ins\, specially taped segments for the ACTUP pirate radio show\, as well as a visit to local San Francisco Lowell High School. \nHear Ronnie read Arthur Rimbaud\, his own poetry including a brilliant collage letter to Andrei Codrescu\, on confronting internal homophobia\, the Aquarian love revolution\, the rainbow credit card\, rage as healing & how love is our greatest weapon. \nThe second half features more than two dozen friends & admirers reading Ronnie’s poems or sharing their remembrances & tribute poems. \nAvailable on 12-inch vinyl\, digipak CD or digital download\, each version is unique and contains material that the others do not.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ronnie-burk-a-man-of-letters/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160910T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160910T213000
DTSTAMP:20260502T024300
CREATED:20160825T002357Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160825T002357Z
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SUMMARY:Wappler\, Chen\, Tilahun\, Hardy\, + Gelin
DESCRIPTION:Margaret Wappler (Neon Green)\nCurtis Chen (Waypoint Kangaroo)\nNa’amen Gobert Tilahun (The Root)\nHollie Hardy (How to Take a Bullet\, And Other Survival Poems)\nDominique Gelin (Millennials Ruin Everything\, The Lazy Brunch Hour) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wappler-chen-tilahun-hardy-gelin/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160911T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160911T153000
DTSTAMP:20260502T024300
CREATED:20160720T004705Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160720T004705Z
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SUMMARY:Chana Bloch + Susan Cohen
DESCRIPTION:Susan Cohen’s new book of poems is “A Different Wakeful Animal.” A journalist\, she has taken up poetry seriously over the past decade\, publishing two chapbooks and one book of poems prior to the current book. \nChana Bloch is the author of five books of poems (her latest is “Swimming in the Rain: New and Collected Poems\, 1985-2015”) as well as six books of translation from Hebrew poetry\, ancient and contemporary\, and a critical study of George Herbert. Bloch is Professor Emerita of English Literature and Creative Writing at Mills College\, where she taught for many years and directed the Creative Writing Program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chana-bloch-susan-cohen/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160912T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160912T200000
DTSTAMP:20260502T024300
CREATED:20160825T003605Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160825T003605Z
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: Two (2) Generations
DESCRIPTION:Authors from two generations present their latest works. Edmund Zagorin reads from “The Face of Our Town\,” the life of a Millennial Techie\, and Daniel Curzon presents “How To Cyberbully Your Teacher\,” based on his own experiences.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-two-2-generations/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160913T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160913T210000
DTSTAMP:20260502T024300
CREATED:20160828T062526Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160828T062526Z
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SUMMARY:Pan Dulce Poets: Summer Series!
DESCRIPTION:September’s edition of Pan Dulce Poets presents the ecstaic poetry of Kari Riesgo Bañuelos\, Natalie Enright and Naomi Quiñonez. \nOpen Mic sign up starts at 7pm and coffee & canela are free during readings.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pan-dulce-poets-summer-series/
LOCATION:La Reyna Bakery\, 3114 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160913T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160913T213000
DTSTAMP:20260502T024300
CREATED:20160811T000436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160811T000436Z
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SUMMARY:Mauro Javier Cardenas w/ Oscar Villalon
DESCRIPTION:Mauro Javier Cardenas discusses his debut novel\, The Revolutionaries Try Again\, with Zyzzyva magazine’s Oscar Villalon. \nFeaturing a performance by the Word for Word Theatrical Company! \nPraise for The Revolutionaries Try Again: \n“Exuberant\, cacophonous . . . Cardenas dizzyingly leaps from character to character\, from street protests to swanky soirees\, and from lengthy uninterrupted interior monologues to rapid-fire dialogues and freewheeling satirical radio programs\, resulting in extended passages of brilliance.” —Publishers Weekly\, review *starred* \n“An unhinged novel about three childhood friends contemplating a presidential run against the crooked Ecuadorian president Abdalá “El Loco” Bucaram. This is double-black-diamond high modernism\, so do some warm-up stretches before you crack this baby.” —Shelf Awareness \n“In The Revolutionaries Try Again\, Mauro Javier Cardenas has taken the edifice of arch modernism and suffused it with tender details of a boyhood in Ecuador. The long\, unraveling sentences reveal an extraordinarily musical ear. This is a debut that will last.” —Karan Mahajan \n“Beware of this writer! The book you’re holding bites. If the reader dares enter after this warning\, he’ll never forget it\, and the memory will stay just as sharp as the humor and velocity in the stories themselves. Incisive\, forceful\, and written in an English that’s fiercely subversive\, The Revolutionaries Try Again evokes a pair of great Latin American novels: Bolaño’sThe Savage Detectives and Cortázar’s Hopscotch. But this book goes even further: it’s the novel we’ve been waiting for\, witness to the most recent wave of immigration from Latin America to the US\, told through the eyes of a privileged class that forces their conationals out of their countries. It’s been ten years since a book this alive\, this incandescent\, has fallen into my hands.” —Carmen Boullosa \nAbout The Revolutionaries Try Again: \nThree former members of an idealistic Jesuit volunteer group attempt to transform Ecuador in the lost decade of austerity packages and the populist demagogy of El Loco Bucaram. Antonio\, an expat and artist in San Francisco\, wants to believe he’s left his country’s extreme poverty behind for good\, but his childhood friend Leopoldo\, now a political bureaucrat\, persuades him to return to make a run for office. Meanwhile\, Rolando suspects his girlfriend Eva will leave him if he acts on his violent revolutionary impulses\, so he agrees to stage political plays with her instead. Their relationship is strained by the struggles they’ve hidden from each other: her brother’s disappearance by paramilitary squadrons\, his sister’s misfortunes crossing the border to the United States.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mauro-javier-cardenas-w-oscar-villalon/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160914T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160914T210000
DTSTAMP:20260502T024300
CREATED:20160811T001156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160811T001156Z
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SUMMARY:Alex Dolan Book Launch in San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Please help me launch my new book\, THE EMPRESS OF TEMPERA\, at the Bookshop in West Portal. This will be the only event I’m doing in San Francisco\, and I’d really appreciate the support. I hope you can make it!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alex-dolan-book-launch-in-san-francisco/
LOCATION:Bookshop West Portal\, 80 W Portal Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94127\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160915T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160915T200000
DTSTAMP:20260502T024300
CREATED:20160825T004908Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160825T004908Z
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SUMMARY:Third Thursday Has a Birthday Party
DESCRIPTION:Please join the American Bookbinders Museum on Thursday\, September 15\, as we celebrate the museum’s first year in our new home. There will be refreshments\, cake\, good conversation\, and perhaps even a few surprises. We hope to see old friends and new\, to honor the people who have brought the museum so far\, and to thank our volunteers\, staff\, donors\, and friends. \nPlease come!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/third-thursday-has-a-birthday-party/
LOCATION:American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160915T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160915T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T024300
CREATED:20160825T005106Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160825T005106Z
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SUMMARY:Mary Mackey: The Village of Bones
DESCRIPTION:“Mary Mackey’s The Village of Bones gives us the vivid adventures of The Clan of the Cave Bear\, the magic of The Mists of Avalon and Lord of the Rings\, and the beauty of Avatar. Filled with the belief that love drives out fear\, it contains stunning twists that will leave you wanting more.” —Dorothy Hearst\, author of the Wolf Chronicles \nIn 4386 B.C.\, a young priestess named Sabalah conceives a magical child with a mysterious stranger named Arash. Sabalah names the child Marrah. This child will save the Goddess-worshiping people of Europe from nomad invaders called eastmen\, but only if her mother can keep her alive long enough to grow up. Warned in a vision of the coming invasion\, Sabalah flees west with Arash to save her baby daughter\, only to discover that she is running into the arms of her worst enemies. In the dark forests of northern Europe\, other humanlike species left over from the Ice Age still exist. \nMary Mackey is the author of fourteen novels including The Village of Bones: Sabalah’s Tale\,The Year the Horses Came\, The Horses at the Gate\, and The Fires of Spring\, all of which tell the story of Sabalah and Marrah’s struggle to save the Goddess-worshiping cultures of Neolithic Europe from nomad invaders. Her novels have appeared on The New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle bestseller lists\, been translated into twelve languages\, and longlisted for the James Tiptree\, Jr Literary Award. She has also written seven volumes of poetry includingSugar Zone\, winner of the 2012 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence. A screenwriter as well as a novelist and poet\, Mary has sold feature-length scripts to Warner Brothers as well as to independent film companies. She sometimes writes comedy under her pen name Kate Clemens. At present\, she lives in Northern California with her husband Angus Wright. Her literary papers are archived in the Sophia Smith Special Collections Library\, Smith College\, Northampton\, MA. You can learn more about her\, read her blog interview series People Who Make Books Happen\, and sample her work at www.marymackey.com. \n“Grand adventure and a grand reading experience … sexy\, explosive.” —Pat Conroy\, author ofThe Prince of Tides \n“A fascinating evocation of a prehistoric world…” —Marion Zimmer Bradley\, author of The Mists of Avalon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-mackey-the-village-of-bones/
LOCATION:Modern Times Bookstore Collective\, 2919 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160915T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160915T213000
DTSTAMP:20260502T024300
CREATED:20160720T005104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160720T005104Z
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SUMMARY:Colson Whitehead
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Colson Whitehead: \n“It’s a book you want to read rather than one you should read…while still providing the chilling\, fleshy pleasures of zombies who lurch\, pursue\, hunger. . . . One of the best books of the year.” — Esquire on Zone One \n\n“The freshest racial allegory since Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.” — Walter Kirn\, Time on The Intuitionist \n\n“[Whitehead] takes on a multitude of issues with a rich and probing imagination. His reputation is likely to soar.” — Ishmael Reed\, The Washington Post Book World on John Henry Days \n\nAbout The Underground Railroad: \nFrom prize-winning\, bestselling author Colson Whitehead\, a magnificent\, wrenching\, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. \n  \nCora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all the slaves\, but Cora is an outcast even among her fellow Africans\, and she is coming into womanhood; even greater pain awaits. Caesar\, a recent arrival from Virginia\, tells her about the Underground Railroad\, and they plot their escape. Matters do not go as planned — Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her — but they manage to find a station and head north. \n  \nIn Whitehead’s ingenious conception\, the Underground Railroad is not a metaphor — a secret network of tracks and tunnels has been built beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar’s first stop is South Carolina\, where both find work in a city that at first seems like a haven. But the city’s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens — and Ridgeway\, the relentless slave-catcher sent to find her\, arrives in town. Forced to flee again\, Cora embarks on a harrowing journey\, state-by-state\, seeking true freedom. \n  \nLike Gulliver\, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey — Whitehead brilliantly recreates the unique terrors for black people in states in the pre-Civil War era. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman’s ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage\, and a shattering\, powerful meditation on the history we all share.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/colson-whitehead/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160916T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160916T143000
DTSTAMP:20260502T024300
CREATED:20160825T005518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160825T005518Z
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SUMMARY:Gayle Forman
DESCRIPTION:Every woman who has ever fantasized about driving past her exit on the highway instead of going home to make dinner\, and every woman who has ever dreamed of boarding a train to a place where no one needs constant attention–meet Maribeth Klein. A harried working mother who’s so busy taking care of her husband and twins\, she doesn’t even realize she’s had a heart attack. \nSurprised to discover that her recuperation seems to be an imposition on those who rely on her\, Maribeth does the unthinkable: she packs a bag and leaves. But\, as is often the case\, once we get where we’re going we see our lives from a different perspective. Far from the demands of family and career and with the help of liberating new friendships\, Maribeth is able to own up to secrets she has been keeping from herself and those she loves. \nWith bighearted characters–husbands\, wives\, friends\, and lovers–who stumble and trip\, grow and forgive\, Leave Me is about facing the fears we’re all running from. Gayle Forman is a dazzling observer of human nature. She has written an irresistible novel that confronts the ambivalence of modern motherhood head on and asks\, what happens when a grown woman runs away from home? \nGayle Forman is a bestselling\, award-winning author of young adult novels. Her novel If I Stay won the 2009 NAIBA Book of the Year Award and was a 2010 Indie Choice Honor Award winner. The film adaptation of If I Stay was released in 2014. Forman is also a journalist whose articles have appeared in numerous publications\, including Seventeen\, Cosmopolitan\, and Elle. She has visited more than forty countries and wrote a nonfiction book about her travels titled You Can’t Get There from Here: A Year on the Fringes of a Shrinking World. Forman lives in Brooklyn\, New York\, with her husband and two daughters.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gayle-forman/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160916T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160916T213000
DTSTAMP:20260502T024300
CREATED:20160811T001952Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160811T001952Z
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SUMMARY:Bona Fide Storytelling's 'Didn't See It Comin'
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, Sept 16th\, 2016\nParty at 6:30\, Stories at 7:30 PM\nat the Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa / San Francisco\, CA\nThis is our EARLY SHOW (Bawdy Storytelling is at 10:30)\nSee BOTH shows with a Full Evening Wristband! \nWinner of Best Storytelling Event 2016 (SFist.com)\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & the LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (Best Storytelling)\, & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event) \nThis Evening of No Holds Barred Storytelling includes:\nGot a Story? Pitch it to Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com\nMusic & more to come\nPlay Bang-O to make new friends & WIN Prizes!\nCocktails to go with your Stories\, because you’re all grown up now\nOfficiated by Award-winning Storyteller Dixie De La Tour \nBawdy Storytelling has expanded – now\, we’re Bona Fide\, TOO! How our new storytelling series works:\n– This is a live stage performance series – you’re hearing what happened\, right from the source!\n– Stories told at Bona Fide are True\, firsthand recountings\n– Stories are Told (not Read)\n– Stories are told in about 10 minutes\n– This is PG-13 Storytelling. You’ll laugh\, you’ll cry – it’s way better than CATS! \nPerformer Bios: \nAward-Winning Storytelling Producer and Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour created Bawdy Storytelling (the Nation’s original sex and storytelling series) almost 10 years ago\, and earlier this year she gave birth to a brand new series\, Bona Fide Storytelling. She is passionate about all forms of story\, and spends her days as a storytelling coach\, traveling event producer\, master of ceremonies and teller of her own true tales. She has taught storytelling at Yale\, been heard on the Risk! Podcast many times and has been Sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence for her work to reduce sexual shame and stigma. Dixie has been lauded by Master Storyteller Mike Daisey as a “masterful emcee\, and her show is everything that works for storytelling—she creates a warm\, safe space in which stories can bloom with dark hilarity\, salacious textures\, and moments of deep connection.” She lives in San Francisco with her partner\, Bent\, and their Saint Bernard\, Quake\, and you can find out more about Dixie and her work at www.BawdyStorytelling.com\, and follow her on Twitter at @Bawdy and on Instagram and Facebook at Bawdy Storytelling. \n* No Refunds or Exchanges\n* Line-up subject to change
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bona-fide-storytellings-didnt-see-it-comin/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160919T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160919T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T024300
CREATED:20160919T230846Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160919T230846Z
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Barone + CaraVida
DESCRIPTION:Come hear Jennifer Barone & Cara Vida feature their latest poetry and more. Music and cabaret stylings will ensue with Daniel Heffez on sax and Wendy Loomis on piano. Open mic hosted by Jerry Ferraz. Bring your poems to this wonderfully\, warm\, local book store.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-barone-caravida/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160920T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160920T200000
DTSTAMP:20260502T024300
CREATED:20160920T232444Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160920T232444Z
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SUMMARY:Short Nonfiction
DESCRIPTION:Queer essay authors Julia Serano (Whipping Girl)\, Aaron Shurin (The Skin of Meaning)\, and Yuska Lutfi Tuanakotta (Gentlemen Prefer Asians) will read from their essay collections Tuesday\, September 20\, 2016 from 7pm to 8pm at Folio Books\, 3957 24th Street in the Noe Valley neighborhood of San Francisco. A panel discussion on the art of essay writing and author book signings will follow the readings. Free refreshments. No admission charge.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/short-nonfiction/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160920T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160920T210000
DTSTAMP:20260502T024300
CREATED:20160811T003107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160811T003107Z
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SUMMARY:Joseph Fink + Jeffrey Cranor
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith presents Welcome to Night Vale creators Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor for the release of\, not just one\, but two new books based on the #1 international podcast. Mostly Void\, Partially Stars: Welcome to Night Vale Episodes\, Volume 1 AND The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe: Welcome to Night Vale Episodes\, Volume 2 are collections of episodes featuring  the history and origins of the podcast\, introductions by the performers\, behind-the-scenes commentary from the creators\, and original illustrations by series artist Jessica Hayworth. \nJoseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor will be in-conversation with Glen David Gold\, they will answer questions from the audience\, and they will sign copies of the books (books only\, no merch will be signed\, see details below). \nIn June of 2012\, the creators of Welcome to Night Vale began airing twice-monthly podcasts\, hoping to be heard by anyone outside their close circles. By the anniversary show a year later\, the fanbase had exploded\, vaulting the podcast into the #1 spot on iTunes. Since then\, its popularity has grown by epic proportions\, hitting more than 100 million downloads\, and Night Vale has expanded to a successful live multi-cast international touring stage show and a New York Times bestselling novel\, and a new podcast network Night Vale Presents. Now the first two seasons are available as books\, offering a valuable reference guide to past episodes. \nPlease note: this event is at Sundance Kabuki\, 1881 Post St \nTicket information: \n$27.00 One ticket\, Volume 1 book (all ages)\n$27.00 One ticket\, Volume 1 book (21+) \n$40.00 One ticket\, both books Volume 1 and Volume 2 (all ages)\n$40.00 One ticket\, both books Volume 1 and Volume 2 (21+)\n \nImportant details:  \n\nBalcony seating is 21+ and the main floor is all ages. Please choose a ticket option that works with your age group and the ages of those in your party. We are expecting a full house. The theater has open seating.\nOnly books will be signed\, including copies of Welcome to Night Vale: the Novel purchased through the Booksmith\, but NO memorabilia/merchandise.\nRegarding photos: You can take photos in the signing line or during the program\, but NO posed photos or selfies with the authors will be allowed.\nDoors open at 6pm\, the program will begin at 7pm\, the signing will be held after the program. Please note\, the signing could take several hours to complete. Personalizations are not guaranteed.\nIf you cannot attend the event\, but would like to request a signed copy of a Welcome to Night Vale book\, order below and put your request in the comments field.\nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joseph-fink-jeffrey-cranor/
LOCATION:Sundance Kabuki\, 1881 Post Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94115\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160920T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160920T210000
DTSTAMP:20260502T024300
CREATED:20160920T232228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160920T232228Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry into the Beyond
DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Art of Translation welcomes Japanese poet and performance artist Yoshimasu Gozo and poet Forrest Gander to San Francisco for a performance and discussion of Gozo’s work\, including upcoming poetry collection Alice Iris Red Horse (New Directions). Edited by Gander\, Alice Iris Red Horse gathers translations of Gozo’s major works that span his entire career. Also included are illuminating interviews and reproductions of Gozo’s artwork and performances. \nYoshimasu Gozo\, born in Tokyo\, has performed worldwide. His work has been described as “so unorthodox that it defies the print medium and can be delivered only as performance.” He has received many literary and cultural awards\, including the Takami Jun Prize\, the Rekitei Prize\, the Purple Ribbon\, and the 50th Mainichi Art Award for Poetry. \nForrest Gander is the author of numerous books of poetry\, fiction\, translation\, and essays. He has won the Whiting Writers’ Award\, a Howard Foundation Award\, the Jessica Nobel Maxwell Memorial Prize\, two Gertrude Stein Awards for innovative North American writing\, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, and United States Artists. His 2011 collection Core Samples from the World was an NBCC and Pulitzer Prize finalist for poetry. He has taught at Harvard and Brown. \nAlice Iris Red Horse\, edited by Forrest Gander with introduction and notes by Derek Gromadski\, features translations from the Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu\, Hiroaki Sato\, Eric Selland\, Jeffrey Angles\, Richard Arno\, Derek Gromadzki\, Forrest Gander\, Sayuri Okamoto\, Auston Stewart\, and Kyoko Yoshida.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-into-the-beyond/
LOCATION:SF Camerawork\, 1011 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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