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SUMMARY:Descent Into Madness (Book of the Un Release Party)
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate the release of the Book Of The Un\, my sequel to the Book of the Is\, Fail to Win. Essays in engineered disperfection! The Book of the Un is a book about Control. It’s about the patterns that I’ve witnessed over decades of experience with emerging art organizations. It deconstructs the systems that foster the Chaos that creates the ecology that makes the kind of art that changes the world. What works and what doesn’t. It’s a fascinating topic\, and so we are roping off Minna street and throwing a parade in 3 acts with all the fabulous costumes from the Fallen Cosmos and tons of interactive art and shenannigans. \nAdmission to this party is included for those that supported my kickstarter. If you’d like to attend this party\, you can buy tickets which includes a copy of the book) here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/descent-into-madness-release-party-for-the-book-of-the-un-tickets-26850023142 \nImagine all of the art and the performances overflowing from the 111 Minna Gallery onto the street… Interact with the strange characters from the Fallen Cosmos (with a potential guest appearance from the one and only Lee Von Lear!)… See what other psycho-shitshow-curiosities we have in store! \nHere is a video that KQED produced when we did the street party 5 years ago for the release of the Book of the Is:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuwM6v6aG-M\n… What will we do this time?!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/descent-into-madness-book-of-the-un-release-party/
LOCATION:Minna Alley\, 111 Minna Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Bazaar Writers Salon\nReadings by Ari Banias\, James J. Siegel\, Meryl Natchez\, and Noah Warren\nHosted by Peter Kline\nSunday\, October 2nd\, 2016\, 6:00 p.m.\nBazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St.\, San Francisco
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161003T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161003T210000
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Returns!
DESCRIPTION:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz series returns from hiatus to a new venue! Come on down to PianoFight\, in the front room and join us for dinner\, drinks and read your poem live with the Nova Jazz band. \nHosted by Jennifer Barone and Ingrid Keir with special guests.\nFree admission\, all ages\, full menu and bar.\nOpen Mic open to poets and poetry only – 3min time limit\, one really good poem to read with live jazz accompaniment. \nRegister for the event on Eventbrite here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-wordparty-tickets-27296319025?aff=pfcal&_eboga=2068039441.1472079537
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-returns/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Eowyn Ivey
DESCRIPTION:In the winter of 1885\, decorated war hero Colonel Allen Forrester leads a small band of men on an expedition that has been deemed impossible: to venture up the Wolverine River and pierce the vast\, untamed Alaska Territory. Leaving behind Sophie\, his newly pregnant wife\, Colonel Forrester records his extraordinary experiences in hopes that his journal will reach her if he doesn’t return–once he passes beyond the edge of the known world\, there’s no telling what awaits him. \nThe Wolverine River Valley is not only breathtaking and forbidding but also terrifying in ways that the colonel and his men never could have imagined. As they map the territory and gather information on the native tribes\, whose understanding of the natural world is unlike anything they have ever encountered\, Forrester and his men discover the blurred lines between human and wild animal\, the living and the dead. And while the men knew they would face starvation and danger\, they cannot escape the sense that some greater\, mysterious force threatens their lives. \nMeanwhile\, on her own at Vancouver Barracks\, Sophie chafes under the social restrictions and yearns to travel alongside her husband. She does not know that the winter will require as much of her as it does her husband\, that both her courage and faith will be tested to the breaking point. Can her exploration of nature through the new art of photography help her to rediscover her sense of beauty and wonder? \nIn To the Bright Edge of the World\, the truths that Allen and Sophie discover over the course of that fateful year change both of their lives — and the lives of those who hear their stories long after they’re gone — forever. \nEowyn LeMay Ivey was raised in Alaska and continues to live there with her husband and two daughters. She received her BA in journalism and minor in creative writing through the honors program at Western Washington University\, studied creative nonfiction at the University of Alaska Anchorage graduate program\, and worked for nearly 10 years as an award-winning reporter at the Frontiersman newspaper. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Snow Child.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eowyn-ivey/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161004T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161004T213000
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SUMMARY:Josefine Klougart
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Josefine Klougart: \n“Scandinavia now has its own Virginia Woolf. Few get as close to the human mind as Klougart.” —VG \n  \nAbout One of Us is Sleeping: \nThe English-language debut from one of Denmark’s most exciting\, celebrated young writers\, “One of Us Is Sleeping “is a haunting novel about loss in all its forms.\nWorking in the vein of Anne Carson\, Josefine Klougart’s novel is both true-to-life and incredibly poetic in its relating of a brief\, intense love affair and the grief and disillusionment that follow its end. While she recounts the time with her lover\, the narrator is also heading back home\, where her mother is dying of cancer. This contrast between recollection and the belief that certain things will always be present in your life your parents\, your childhood home\, your love and the fact that life is a continual series of endings runs throughout the book\, underpinning the striking imagery and magnificent prose.\nA powerful novel that earned Klougart numerous accolades and several award nominations including the Readers Book Award “One of Us Is Sleeping “marks the launch of a major new voice in world literature.\nJosefine Klougart has been hailed as one of Denmark’s greatest contemporary writers. She is the first Danish author ever to have two of her first three books nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. She’s been compared to a range of authors\, including Joan Didion\, Anne Carson\, and Virginia Woolf.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/josefine-klougart/
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:20161005T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161005T213000
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SUMMARY:Anne Raeff + Anthony Marra
DESCRIPTION:Praise for The Jungle Around Us \n“This masterful collection records the long psychic toll of the twentieth century’s traumas\, offering portraits of people in various kinds of exile: displaced from their countries\, or uneasy in their hometowns\, or somehow alien in their own bodies and minds. Anne Raeff’s exquisite stories are remarkable for their combination of intimacy and reverence for the mysteries and private griefs her characters fold their lives around. Seldom have I read work so confident in the power of what’s left unspoken and in the deep eloquence of gesture. The Jungle Around Us is a haunting and breathtakingly beautiful book.” —Garth Greenwell\, author of What Belongs to You \n  \n“The stories in The Jungle Around Us do not try to make sense of the world–they are the world. A world of uncanny sharpness that is as bold as it is striking in its uncompromising\, haunting depictions of longing and uncertainty and grief and bliss. The jungle Anne Raeff proposes us to enter is\, in reality\, not around us\, in the intricated destinations of displacement where this book takes place–from Bolivia to Austria\, from Leningrad to Albuquerque\, from Harlem to El Tambor–but within ourselves. The protagonists in these stories are commanded by loss and desire and uprootedness and the scalding need for human connection\, but unlike those from any other work of fiction that might be too self-conscious of its own ambitions\, they struggle handling these emotions. Raeff’s characters are too complex\, too fully fleshed out\, too human to know what step to take next\, and this is\, perhaps\, the biggest feat of many she has achieved with this ravishing collection. Her talent is rare and transfixing\, and this book marks the arrival of a marvelous new voice.” —Antonio Ruiz-Camacho\, author of Barefoot Dogs \n  \nWhile struggling with fear\, danger\, and displacement\, the characters of “The Jungle around Us” form strange and powerful bonds in distant and unlikely places. A family that has escaped Vienna ends up on the edge of the Amazon\, where the parents fight yellow fever and the daughter falls in love with a village boy. Two sisters learn lessons about race and war during the Columbia University riots of1968. A young girl confronts death when her former babysitter is mysteriously murdered. In Paraguay\, two adult sisters confront their loneliness while their precocious young charge faces off with a monkey. Raeff’s stories are about embracing the world though the world contains everything we fear. \n  \nAnne Raeff is a high school teacher at East Palo Alto Academy\, where she teaches English and history. Her stories and essays have appeared in the New England Review\, ZYZZYVA\, and Guernica\, among others. Her first novel is Clara Mondschein’s Melancholia. \n  \nAnthony Marra is the New York Times-bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena\, longlisted for the National Book Award and winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize\, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction\, and the Barnes and Noble Discover Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-raeff-anthony-marra/
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:20161005T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161005T213000
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SUMMARY:iO Tillett Wright
DESCRIPTION:iO Tillett Wright presents Darling Days\, an extraordinary coming of age memoir set in the urban bohemia of 1980s New York’s Lower East Side\, where punk\, poverty\, heroin\, and art ruled the roost. Raised by single mother Rhona\, a mercurial Glamazon showgirl\, iO was encouraged from an early age to break boundaries. When a group of boys refuse to let six-year-old iO play ball\, iO instantly adopts a new persona\, becoming a boy\, a choice Rhona celebrates. It is the start of a profound exploration of gender and identity through the tenderest years\, and the beginning of a life invented and reinvented at every step. Harrowing and hilarious\, Darling Days is a provocative examination of culture and identity\, and of the courage and resilience of each child’s unique expression. \niO Tillett Wright is an artist\, activist\, actor\, speaker\, TV host and writer. iO’s work deals with identity\, be it through photography and the Self Evident Truths Project/We Are You campaign or on television as the co-host of MTV’s Suspect. iO has exhibited artwork in New York and Tokyo and was a featured contributor on Underground Culture to T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Her photography has been featured in GQ\, Elle\, New York Magazine\, and The New York Times Magazine. iO is a regular speaker at universities\, discussing expanding one’s circle of normalcy and embracing those that are different than you. A native New Yorker\, iO is now based in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/io-tillett-wright/
LOCATION:Second Act\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161005T213000
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SUMMARY:Vanessa Hua Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Vanessa Hua presents her debut collection\, Deceit and Other Possibilities\, in conversation withZYZZYVA editor Oscar Villalon. The characters in these stories vividly illustrate the conflict between self and society\, tradition and change: a Hong Kong movie idol flees a sex scandal; an obedient daughter lies about attending Stanford; a Chinatown elder is summoned to his ancestral village\, and a Korean-American pastor hides a secret agenda. Hua explores the clash of cultures and the complex\, shifting allegiances we carry with us as we make our way forward in a new land. Deceit and Other Possibilities marks the emergence of a remarkable new writer. \nVanessa Hua has appeared in The Atlantic\, New York Times\, FRONTLINE/World\,Washington Post\, and elsewhere.  Previously\, she was a staff writer at the San Francisco Chronicle\, and has filed stories from China\, South Korea\, Panama\, Burma and Ecuador. She received a 2015 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, the San Francisco Foundation’s Phelan Award for Fiction\, and is a former Steinbeck Fellow in Fiction at San Jose State University. Her novel\, A River of Stars\, is forthcoming from Ballantine. \nOscar Villalon is the managing editor of ZYZZVA\, the former books editor at the San Francisco Chronicle and a member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle. His writing has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review and The Believer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vanessa-hua-book-launch/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161006T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161006T200000
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SUMMARY:California Dreamin': A night of poetry celebrating the golden state w/ Gioia\, Ahmed\, + Lindenberg
DESCRIPTION:A reading with California Poet Laureate Dana Gioia and McSweeney’s poets Zubair Ahmed and Rebecca Lindenberg. \nThree poets coming together to read their work and share their favorite poems capturing the California ethos. There will be a wine reception and book signing. Readings to commence at 6:30.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/california-dreamin-a-night-of-poetry-celebrating-the-golden-state-w-gioia-ahmed-lindenberg/
LOCATION:a.Muse art gallery & meeting place\, 614 Alabama Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161006T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161006T213000
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SUMMARY:Best American Non-Required Reading 2016
DESCRIPTION:Anthony Marra\, Kyle Boelte\, and student contributors Isaac Schott-Rosenfield\, Sian Ee\, and Emma Hardison join us to celebrate the 12th annual installment of the annual Best American Nonrequired Reading anthology. \n\nAbout The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016 \nIf you need to fall in love with reading again or just want a reminder that high school students deserve a lot more than their reading lists give them then this is the book for you. “Best” Guest editor Rachel Kushner\, author of “The Flamethrowers\, ” works with a group of high school students out of 826 Valencia to select “The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016.” The BANR Committee gathers weekly in the basement of a small publishing house in San Francisco to read literary magazines\, chapbooks\, graphic novels\, blogs\, transcripts\, and anything else that strikes their fancy. They are assisted by a group of 826 students that meet in the basement of a robot shop in Ann Arbor\, Michigan.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/best-american-non-required-reading-2016/
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:20161006T223000
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SUMMARY:You're Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose\, & Everything Goes
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 7:30pm\nShow at 8:15pm\nTickets at http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1293673\n$10 in advance and $10 day of show online and at the door. \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes\nis a total open mic event\, with no set or featured performers\,\nbut only the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-4/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161007T213000
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SUMMARY:Bae Suah + Deborah Smith
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Bae Suah: \n“A compact\, personal account of anomie and withdrawal in a time of rapid social and economic change…an easily digested short book that nevertheless feels much very substantial—a very full story. Impressive\, and well worthwhile.” —The Complete Review on Nowhere to be Found \n\nAbout A Greater Music: \nNear the beginning of “A Greater Music\,” the narrator\, a young Korean writer\, falls into an icy river in the Berlin suburbs\, where she’s been housesitting for her on-off boyfriend Joachim. This sets into motion a series of memories that move between the hazily defined present and the period three years ago when she first lived in Berlin. Throughout\, the narrator’s relationship with Joachim\, a rough-and-ready metalworker\, is contrasted with her friendship with a woman called M\, an ultra-refined music-loving German teacher who was once her lover.\nA novel of memories and wandering\, “A Greater Music” “blends riffs on music\, language\, and literature with a gut-punch of an emotional ending\, establishing Bae Suah as one of the most exciting novelists working today. \n  \nAbout Bae Suah: \nBae Suah\, one of the most highly acclaimed contemporary Korean authors\, has published more than a dozen works and won several prestigious awards. She has also translated several books from the German\, including works by W. G. Sebald\, Franz Kafka\, and Jenny Erpenbeck. Her first book to appear in English\, “Nowhere to be Found\,” was longlisted for a PEN Translation Prize. \nAbout Deborah Smith: \nDeborah Smith’s literary translations from the Korean include two novels by the Man Booker International Prize winner Han Kang (“The Vegetarian “and “Human Acts”)\, and two by Bae Suah\, (“A Greater Music “and “Recitation”).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bae-suah-deborah-smith/
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:20161007T213000
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SUMMARY:City Arts & Lectures: Billy Collins
DESCRIPTION:Billy Collins is the first poet since Robert Frost who has managed to combine high critical acclaim with broad popular appeal. He has published eight collections of poetry\, including Questions About Angels\, The Art of Drowning\, The Trouble With Poetry and Other Poems\, and most recently\, Horoscopes for the Dead\, and Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems 2003 – 2013. Collins was United States Poet Laureate from 2001-2003\, and was New York State Poet Laureate 2004-06. He is a Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College of the City University of New York\, as well as a Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute at Rollins College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/city-arts-lectures-billy-collins/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161007T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161007T220000
DTSTAMP:20260428T140714
CREATED:20160901T003238Z
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SUMMARY:APAture 2016 Literary Showcase: Jade Cho
DESCRIPTION:APAture 2016: Here\nLiterary Arts Showcase \nKearny Street Workshop\, the Bay Area’s hub for Asian Pacific American arts\, proudly presents APAture\, a multi-day\, multidisciplinary arts festival featuring a lineup of some of today’s most exciting emerging artists from the San Francisco Bay Area. \nLiterary Showcase\nat Arc Gallery & Studios\, 1246 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\nFriday\, October 7th\, 7 – 10pm \nCo-presented by Lantern Review \nFeatured Artist: Jade Cho \nShowcase Artists: TBA \nCurators: Jason Bayani\, Kazumi Chin\, Michelle Lin \nAdmission: $5 presale\, $7–$10 at the door \nBuy your tickets today! events.sparxo.com/APAture2016 \nInvest in the future of APAture through our Indiegogo campaign:igg.me/at/APAture2016
URL:https://litseen.com/event/apature-2016-literary-showcase-jade-cho/
LOCATION:Kearny Street Workshop\, 1246 Folsom St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161008T220000
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SUMMARY:Book Party!
DESCRIPTION:Please join Couch Press (Portland)\, Big Lucks (Austin)\, and Atelos (Berkeley) in celebrating three new books: <<(())>> by Lindsey Boldt\, The Good Life by Brandon Brown\, and Merry Hell by Sara Larsen at Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th Street in the Mission\, on Saturday October 8th at 7:00 p.m. We’ll have some wine\, all the books will be there for sale\, and all three writers will give short readings.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-party/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161008T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161008T213000
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SUMMARY:Perks\, Treadwell\, + Lee
DESCRIPTION:Writers With Drinks presents \nMicah Perks (What Becomes Us)\nElizabeth Treadwell (Holocene)\nLorelei Lee (Coming Out Like a Porn Star) \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/perks-treadwell-lee/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161009T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161009T180000
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SUMMARY:Gears Turning Poetry: Brady\, Cohen\, + Raphael w/ Dang
DESCRIPTION:Dan Brady has been featured in the Poet’s Eleven Series and S.F. Peace and Hope’s anthology. He has ties with the Bay Area Poet’s Coalition and the Haiku Poets of Northern California. He’s led workshops and hosts the Wednesday series at Sacred Grounds ”Good food and fine poetry since 1972.” His books are Orphan City\, (i)n((s(i)gh)t) to;(r(io)t) and Haiku: Infolded Meaning. \nSusan Cohen is an award-winning journalist and poet who lives in Berkeley. Her poems have appeared in Harpur Palate\, Poetry International\, River Styx\, Salamander\, Southern Humanities Review\, Verse Daily\, and the Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry among many other publications. Her second full-length collection\, A Different Wakeful Animal\, won the 2015 David Martinson-Meadowhawk Prize from Red Dragonfly Press which issued it in June. \nA long-time Portland resident\, Dan Raphael’s been active in the Northwest as poet\, performer\, publisher and reading host. Everyone in This Movie Gets Paid\, his 19th book\, came out this June from Last Word Press; previous books include The State I’m In (nine muses press) and Impulse & Warp: The Selected 20th Century Poems (Wordcraft of Oregon). His poems have appeared in over 300 magazines\, websites and anthologies including Caliban\, Big Bridge\, Otoliths\, Rattapllax\, Make it True\, Cordite\, Unlikely Stories and Pacific Northwestern Spiritual Poetry. He has given over 200 readings\, in places like Bumbershoot\, Wordstock\, Powell’s Books\, Reed College\, Ellliot Bay Books\, Penofin Jazz Festival and 80 different places in Portland. For 13 years he ran a monthly reading series at a downtown books store\, then curated Poetland—80 poets at 8 different venues over an 8 hour stretch.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gears-turning-poetry-brady-cohen-raphael-w-dang/
LOCATION:Modern Times Bookstore Collective\, 2919 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer Fall Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Novelists Laura J. Merrell\, Kate Jessica Raphael\, and Hilary A. Zaid read from new fiction at Perfectly Queer Fall Fiction Monday\, October 10\, 7pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. in San Francisco. Free admission\, door prizes\, and refreshments. A book signing will follow the readings. \nLaura J. Merrell grew up in southeast Indiana during the sad-sack seventies and anal eighties. During her senior year\, she was voted “girl most likely to be locked in the attic by her relatives.” About her writing\, Laura says\, “I’ve written ever since I knew how to because I’m a pathological storyteller.” Her blog is blackwhitepress.wordpress.com. In her novel The Hedge Tree\, the year is 1972\, Tricky Dick is in the White House\, and four-year-old Charity has managed to offend the better part of Roosevelt County\, Indiana\, by not crying at her mother’s funeral. Charity grows into a random weed that can’t find a squat in the garden. But\, if the entire world is outside the garden\, maybe it’s not all bad. \nKate Jessica Raphael is a feminist\, queer activist\, writer\, and radio journalist\, who makes her living as a law firm word processor. She lived in Palestine for eighteen months as a member of the International Women’s Peace Service and spent five weeks in an Israeli prison for her activism. In 2011\, she won a residency at Hedgebrook writer’s colony. She has contributed footage to several films about Palestine and was featured in the film “Shutdown: The Rise and Fall of Direct Action to Stop the War.” Her debut novel Murder Under The Bridge: A Palestine Mystery won the Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) silver medal for mystery. It is the first in a series. Visit her website: www.kateraphael.com. \nHilary A. Zaid is an alumna of the Tin House and Squaw Valley writers workshops. Her short fiction has appeared in Lilith Magazine\, The Southwest Review\, The UTNE Reader and CALYX\, among other periodicals. Her story “My Triple X Valentine’s at the Far Point Senior Villas” will be the feature story in the October 19 issue of Amazon’s Day One\, and her fiction is also forthcoming in the winter issue of The Tahoma Literary Review. Her prose chapbook The Dark Between the Stars was selected as the BLOOM Literary Magazine chapbook winner by judge Lucy Jane Bledsoe. See author website at www.hilaryzaid.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-fall-fiction/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Life During Wartime
DESCRIPTION:It’s our annual installment of Porchquake! That’s when Porchlight teams up with the Litquake Literary Festival and presents an evening of stories told by authors. \nLIFE DURING WARTIME \nOur theme is ripped from the Talking Heads song and involves tales of explosive scenarios\, epic struggles\, and living each day like it could be your last. \nWith Jack Boulware\, Greg Milner\, Laurie Notaro\, Bucky Sinister\, Eric Spitznagel\, D. Watkins\, and Pamela Alma Weymouth. Doors open at 7 pm. \nEmceed by Arline Klatte and Beth Lisick \nMusic by Marc Capelle
URL:https://litseen.com/event/life-during-wartime/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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CREATED:20161001T005528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161001T005528Z
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SUMMARY:Lines & Lyrics: Cheng\, Rock\, + Shiferraw w/ Miss Erma
DESCRIPTION:Lines and lyrics from Litquake Nation! Enjoy line breaks during your lunch break\, as some of the Bay Area’s best poets and musicians share their work in the great outdoors. \nScott Brownlee is the author of Requiem for Used Ignition Cap\, which won the 2015 Orison Poetry Prize and the 2016 Bob Bush Memorial Award from the Texas Institute of Letters\, as well as three prize-winning chapbooks. \nJennifer S. Cheng is the author of HOUSE A\, selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Prize. Her poems and essays appear in Tin House\, AGNI\, Mid-American Review\, and elsewhere. She is a founding editor of Drop Leaf Press. \nMartin Rock is the author of Residuum\, winner of the 2015 Editor’s Choice Award for CSU Poetry Center’s first book prize. He is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing and Literature at University of Houston and lives in Oakland. \nMahtem Shiferraw is a poet and visual artist who grew up in Ethiopia and Eritrea. Her work has been published in various literary journals. She was the recipient of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets for her collection\, FUCHSIA. She received her MFA from Vermont College. \nMusical guest Miss Erma blends ancestry and tradition into a confident\, distinct musical voice of her own. She carries herself with a precocious self-possession reminiscent of an early Fiona Apple (if that young talent had heeded Tom Robbins’ advice to “Lighten up!”). \nPart of YBG Festival’s Poetic Tuesdays series. For our full summer schedule visit www.ybgfestival.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lines-lyrics-cheng-rock-shiferraw-w-miss-erma/
LOCATION:Jessie Square; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, 220 Stevenson St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:An evening w/ Masande Ntshanga
DESCRIPTION:reading from his acclaimed new novel \nThe Reactive \nfrom Two Dollar Radio \nHeralded in the author’s native South Africa as “the hottest novel of the year\,” The Reactive is a clear-eyed and compassionate depiction of a young HIV+ man grappling with the sudden death of his younger brother\, for which he feels unduly responsible. \nLindanathi and his friends—Cecelia and Ruan—make their living working low-paying jobs and selling anti-retroviral drugs (during the period in South Africa before ARVs became broadly distributed). In between\, they huff glue\, drift in and out of parties\, and traverse the streets of Cape Town\, where they observe the grave material disparities of their country. A mysterious masked man appears seeking to buy their surplus of ARVs\, an offer that would present the three with the opportunity to escape their environs\, while at the same time forcing Lindanathi to confront his path\, and finally\, his past. \nWith brilliant\, shimmering prose\, Ntshanga has delivered a redemptive\, ambitious\, and unforgettable first novel. \nMasande Ntshanga is the winner of the inaugural PEN International New Voices Award in 2013\, and a finalist for the Caine Prize in 2015. He was born in East London in 1986 and graduated with a degree in Film and Media and an Honours degree in English Studies from UCT\, where he became a creative writing fellow\, completing his Masters in Creative Writing under the Mellon Mays Foundation. He received a Fulbright Award\, an NRF Freestanding Masters scholarship\, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship and a Bundanon Trust Award. His work has appeared in The White Review\, Chimurenga\, VICE and n + 1. He has also written for Rolling Stone magazine. \nCritical Praise for the work of Masande Ntshanga: \n*Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize Finalist \n*Etisalat Prize for Literature Longlist \n*One of the Best Books of the Year —City Press\, The Sunday Times\, The Star\, This is Africa\, Africa’s a Country\, Sunday World \n“[The Reactive is] a searing\, gorgeously written account of life\, love\, illness\, and death in South Africa. With exquisite prose\, formal innovation\, and a masterful command of storytelling\, Ntshanga illustrates how some young people navigated the dusk that followed the dawn of freedom in South Africa and humanizes the casualties of the Mbeki government’s fatal policies on HIV & AIDS.”\n—Naomi Jackson\, Poets & Writers \n“Woozy\, touching… a novel that delivers an unexpected love letter to Cape Town\, painting it as a place of frustrated glory. The Reactive often teems with a beauty that seems to carry on in front of its glue-huffing wasters despite themselves.”\n—Marian Ryan\, Slate
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-w-masande-ntshanga/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161012T213000
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CREATED:20160901T010431Z
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SUMMARY:Litquake Presents a Julio Cortázar Celebration
DESCRIPTION:City Lights and the Center for the Art of Translation join us for a celebration of the legendary Argentine writer Julio Cortázar. \nWith readings by: \nMauro Javier Cardenas \nSilvia Oviedo \nKatherine Silver \nand more \n\nPraise for Julio Cortázar: \n“Anyone who doesn’t read Cortazar is doomed. Not to read him is a serious invisible disease which in time can have terrible consequences. Something similar to a man who has never tasted peaches. He would quietly become sadder . . . and\, probably\, little by little\, he would lose his hair.” —Pablo Neruda \n“Some people run the world\, others are the world. Cortázar’s poems are the world; they have a special consideration for the unknown.” ––Enrique Vila-Matas on Save Twilight \n“The most magnificent novel I have ever read\, and one to which I shall return again and again.” —C.D.B. Bryan\, The New York Times Book Review on Hopscotch \n\nAbout Julio Cortázar: \nJulio Cortázar was an Argentine novelist\, short story writer\, and essayist. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom\, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in the Americas and Europe. He has been called both a “modern master of the short story” and\, by Carlos Fuentes\, “the Simón Bolívar of the novel.” \nRead Cortázar’s Art of Fiction interview in the Paris Review. \n\nAbout Stephen Kessler’s translation of Save Twilight: \nThe power of Eros\, the enduring beauty of art\, a love-hate nostalgia for his Argentine homeland\, the bonds of friendship and the tragic folly of politics are some of the themes of Save Twilight. Informed by his immersion in world literature\, music\, art\, and history\, and most of his own emotional geography\, Cortázar’s poetry traces his paradoxical evolution from provincial Argentinean sophisticate to cosmopolitan Parisian Romantic\, always maintaining the sense of astonishment of an artist surprised by life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-presents-a-julio-cortazar-celebration/
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:20161013T210000
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SUMMARY:Good Girls Marry Doctors
DESCRIPTION:Featuring:\nAyesha Mattu · Piyali Bhattacharya · Nayomi Munaweera\nNeelanjana Banjerjee · Tanzila Ahmed · Tara Dorabji \nModerated by:\nBarnali Ghosh \nJoin editor Piyali Bhattacharya and several contributors to the new anthology Good Girls Marry Doctors as they read and discuss the cultural\, political\, and social burdens (along with the assorted hilarious moments) that come with being a South Asian American daughter. \nRefreshments will be provided. Books will be available for purchase. You can also purchase a copy from our website. Southern Exposure is ADA accessible. This event is free and open to the public. \nStreet parking is limited at this venue. We suggest taking Muni (nearby lines: 9\, 12\, 27\, 33)\, BART (16th street or 24th street)\, or taxi. \nDoors open at 6:30 pm. Event begins at 7 pm. \nStay tuned for more information about this event! \nQuestions? Please email us at marketing@auntlute.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/good-girls-marry-doctors/
LOCATION:Southern Exposure\, 3030 20th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Variny Yim
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street Thursday\, October 13th at 7:00 p.m.\, as we welcome Author Variny Yim as she reads from and discusses her book The Immigrant Princess. \n  \nBook Description: When three generations of women from the Cambodian royal family live as immigrants in the U.S.\, they struggle to find meaning and relevance in a new country that challenges their traditions and forces them to build a new life. Career-driven Sophea Lim\, the oldest granddaughter\, is saddled with the cultural responsibility of taking care of her mother and grandmother. However\, when she loses both a promotion and her American boyfriend\, she blames it on her traditional Cambodian upbringing and starts a war in her close-knit family. Although Sophea has an ally in her younger sister Ravy\, her mother and grandmother find her first-world complaints trivial compared to the real-world suffering of two-million Cambodians who perished at the hands of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge including her father. Turmoil erupts when Ravy encourages Sophea to move out of the house she shares with her mother and grandmother. Will Sophea shirk her responsibility to take care of her elders? Is her quest for independence worth hurting the two people she loves most? \n  \nAs always\, this in store event is free and open to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/variny-yim/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jade Chang w/ Chloe Veltman
DESCRIPTION:Journalist and editor Jade Chang discusses her much-buzzed debut novel\, The Wangs vs. the World. Charles Wang is mad at America. A brash\, lovable immigrant businessman who built a cosmetics empire and made a fortune\, he’s just been ruined by the financial crisis. Now all Charles wants is to get his kids safely stowed away so that he can go to China and attempt to reclaim his family’s ancestral lands and his pride.Charles pulls Andrew\, his aspiring comedian son\, and Grace\, his style-obsessed daughter\, out of schools he can no longer afford. Together with their stepmother\, Barbra\, they embark on a cross-country road trip from their foreclosed Bel-Air home to the upstate New York hideout of the eldest daughter\, disgraced art world it-girl Saina. But with his son waylaid by a temptress in New Orleans\, his wife ready to defect for a set of 1\,000-thread-count sheets\, and an epic smash-up in North Carolina\, Charles may have to choose between the old world and the new\, between keeping his family intact and finally fulfilling his dream of starting anew in China.Outrageously funny and full of charm\, The Wangs vs. the World is an entirely fresh look at what it means to belong in America and how going from glorious riches to (still name-brand) rags brings one family together in a way money never could.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jade-chang-with-chloe-veltman/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:North Beach Stories w/ Ray Hanna
DESCRIPTION:A COMICAL & MUSICAL JOURNEY\nTHROUGH SAN FRANCISCO’S GOLDEN AGE \nNorth Beach Stories is Ray Hanna’s searing comical and musical journey through the nightlife of the West Coast. Master storyteller\, musician\, and shameless name-dropper\, Ray Hanna has seen it all\, on the streets of North Beach and beyond—all the sleaze\, drugs\, trailblazing strippers\, and punks acting out\, Timothy Leary performing at a Broadway nightclub\, sheer rock-and-roll madness at the Mabuhay—all in a night’s work in Hanna’s world. He was also in San Francisco to encounter Lenny Bruce’s legacy\, and shares the real story behind Lenny’s most outrageous moment\, purported to have occurred right above the Beat Museum. It’s all here—all true\, all first-person and verified accounts of real showbiz Babylon tales compiled over the past 45 years by musician/comedian/actor Ray Hanna. He remembers\, “I was so lucky to be here at a golden age and time. It was a wild\, wide-open\, rip-roaring kind of town. This city was luring people with ideas\, a cosmopolitan place filled with performers and bon vivants from all over the world who had seen a lot. All these comics\, musicians\, and actors relocating here to develop and do the work\, artists re-inventing ourselves in front of your eyes.” \nDrawing on his current one-man show 50 Songs; his play The Devil and Lenny Bruce\, co-written with Lou Gottlieb; and his book Screams from the Road\, Hanna fills the evening with his own oddly detailed perspective on a lifetime in and around San Francisco\, including his encounters with the famous and the near-famous. Based in the city\, Ray headlined comedy\, cabaret\, and theatre venues all over the world\, logging some 6000 appearances over 24 years. North Beach Stories marks Hanna’s first Bay Area appearance of any kind in over 20 years. During the last two decades\, Ray has upped his commitment to the music\, and has appeared regularly with a number of working rock bands in Oregon; for the past 11 years leading the Reckless Rockhounds. Ray remembers\, “In the comedy clubs\, I was known as the ‘piano guy’. Since then\, I have worked very hard at the humbling process of removing the quotation marks from piano guy.” \nAn awe-struck seeker\, a father\, and a worldly-wise\, but not-yet-jaded troubadour with a lifetime of experiences\, Ray Hanna delivers the emotional truth behind a remarkable era in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/north-beach-stories-w-ray-hanna/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20161017T230159Z
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SUMMARY:The Racket Reading Series #1
DESCRIPTION:Hello! \nAdobe Books has been kind enough to give me the reins to a monthly reading series. \nI’m calling it The Racket – like people making noise\, people pulling one over on you – typical reading series stuff. \nFor our opening salvo into the wide world of reading series\, I’m bringing together some fantastic writers (to be announced shortly) and hoping that you\, friends and lovers of reading alike\, will come and celebrate great writing and maybe buy some books or just stand there awkwardly sipping a Tecate. \nReaders will include: \nTravis Peterson\nChad Koch\nNancy Davis Kho \nAll are welcome. \nMore information to come.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-reading-series-1/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:David Szalay w/ Ethan Nosowsky
DESCRIPTION:Long-listed for the 2016 Man Booker Prize\, David Szalay presents All That Man Is. This ambitious\, form-busting novel interrogates the state of modern manhood through the stories of nine different characters\, each at a different stage of life\, away from home\, and striving—in the suburbs of Prague\, an overdeveloped Alpine village\, beside a Belgian motorway\, in a dingy Cyprus hotel—to understand what it means to be alive\, here and now. Szalay uses the ostensibly separate narratives to craft a picture of the shared existence and predicament of the twenty-first-century man. All That Man Is masters a new kind of psychological realism that vibrates with detail\, intelligence\, relevance\, and devastating pathos. \nDavid Szalay is the author of London and the South-East\, which won the Betty Trask Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; The Innocent; and Spring. In 2013\, he was named one of Granta‘s Best of Young British Novelists. He lives in Budapest. \nEthan Nosowsky is Editorial Director at Graywolf Press. He began his career at Farrar\, Straus and Giroux and has also been Editorial Director at McSweeney’s. He has edited books by Jeffery Renard Allen\, Hilton Als\, Kevin Barry\, David Byrne\, Vikram Chandra\, Geoff Dyer\, Dave Eggers\, Sarah Manguso\, Maggie Nelson\, and Jenny Offill among many others. He has taught in the Creative Writing program at Columbia University and has contributed to The Believer\, Bookforum\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, and Threepenny Review. He lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-szalay-w-ethan-nosowsky-2/
LOCATION:Second Act\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kevin Smokler
DESCRIPTION:The inimitable and always entertaining Kevin Smokler returns to Booksmith for the launch of his new book\, Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to 80s Teen Movies and the Places They Happened. The Breakfast Club! The Goonies! Back to the Future! Ferris Bueller’s Day Off! Pretty in Pink! Dead Poets Society! These movies left an indelible mark on America\, and\, probably\, your psyche. \nKevin Smokler attended Goonies Day in Astoria\, Oregon\, took a Lost Boys tour of Santa Cruz\, California\, and visited retro arcades\, movie theaters\, record stores\, and the Dirty Dancing resort in Lake Lure\, NC. He interviewed actors\, writers\, and directors. Mostly\, he did what he does best\, which is to add his keen and witty commentary to the conversation about American Culture and the things that bring us together. \nKevin Smokler is the author of the essay collection Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books you Haven’t Touched Since High School (2013) which the Atlantic Wire called “truly enjoyable” and the editor of Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times\, A San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book of 2005. His writing on pop culture has appeared in the LA Times\, Salon\, BuzzFeed\, Vulture\, the San Francisco Chronicle and on NPR. In 2013\, he was BookRiot’s first ever Writer in Residence. \nHe can be found on twitter at @weegee. He lives in San Francisco with his wife\, cat and most of MTV’s first year on vinyl.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kevin-smokler/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:An evening with Lidija Dimkovska
DESCRIPTION:reading from her new novel \nA Spare Life \nTranslated by Christina Kramer \npublished by Two Lines Press \nHosted by Scott Esposito \nIt is 1984\, and 12-year-old twins Zlata and Srebra live in communist Yugoslavia. In many ways their lives are like that of young girls anywhere\, except for one immense difference: Zlata’s and Srebra’s bodies are conjoined at their heads. \nA Spare Life tells the story of their emergence from girls to young adults\, from their desperately poor\, provincial childhoods to their determination to become successful\, independent women. After years of discovery and friendship\, their lives are thrown into crisis when an incident threatens to destroy their bond as sisters. They fly to London\, determined to be surgically separated—but will this dangerous procedure free them\, or only more tightly ensnare them? \nIn A Spare Life master poet and award-winning novelist Lidija Dimkovska lovingly tells the lives of two astonishing girls caught up in Eastern Europe’s transition from communism to democracy. A saga about families\, sisterhood\, and being outcasts\, A Spare Life reveals an existence where even the simplest of actions is unlike any we’ve ever experienced. \nLidija Dimkovska is the recipient of numerous awards\, including the 2013 European Union Prize for Literature for A Spare Life. She is also the author of the poetry collection pH Neutral History (Copper Canyon Press\, 2012)\, which was a finalist for the 2013 Best Translated Book Award\, and Do Not Awaken Them With Hammers(Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2006). She lives in Ljubljana\, Slovenia. \nChristina E. Kramer is a professor of Slavic and Balkan languages and linguistics at the University of Toronto. She is the author of numerous books on the Macedonian language and the Balkans and is the translator of Freud’s Sister\, The Time of the Goats\, and My Father’s Books. She lives in Toronto. \nWhat has been said about A Spare Life: \n\n\n\n“Lidija Dimkovska enriches our contemporary museum of literary wonders with her powerful\, grotesque\, weird details and episodes told within the merry old novelistic tradition.”\n— Dubravka Ugrešić\, author of Baba Laid an Egg \n“A Spare Life uses the boldest of metaphors – the life of conjoined twins – to embody the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia. This strange and wonderful novel brings to mind Elena Ferrante and Magda Szabó in the acuity of its social observation and the depth of its mordant humor.”— Katie Kitamura\, author of The Longshotand A Separation \n“Dimkovska has an eye for detail befitting of a poet and the stark\, unrelenting prose of a master storyteller.A Spare Life is a weird and wonderful book\, capturing the quirk and complexity of both a declining Yugoslavia\, and the inseparable lives of two sisters with clarity\, wit\, and heart.”— Sara Nović\, author of Girl at War\, finalist for the\nLos Angeles Times Book Prize
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-lidija-dimkovska/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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