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SUMMARY:Dave Eggers\, Master Writer in Residence
DESCRIPTION:Dave Eggers is the author of The Circle; A Hologram for the King (a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award); and Your Fathers\, Where are They? as well as the Prophets\, and Do They Live Forever? (short-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award). \nHe is the founder of the publishing house McSweeney’s and co-founder of Voice of Witness\, a series of books using oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. \nHe is the co-founder of educational nonprofits 826 National and ScholarMatch and was the 2015 Amnesty International chair. \nAbout the Writers Series\nCCA’s MFA Program in Writing proudly offers the Writers Series\, a year-round literary series that features a continuum of talented\, successful\, and\, in many cases\, world-renowned writers and poets. \nThe series is both a curricular requirement (Friday Seminar) for our first-year graduate students and an integral part of the college’s celebrated public programs schedule. \nAll events are free and open to the public. Unless otherwise noted in the event listing\, events are held from 4:30 to 6 p.m at the CCA Writers’ Studio.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dave-eggers-master-writer-in-residence/
LOCATION:Timken Lecture Hall\, CCA San Francisco Campus\, 1111 Eighth Street \, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161028T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161028T203000
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SUMMARY:Queer Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:BARUCH PORRAS-HERNANDEZ When he’s not hosting the SFQOM Porras-Hernandez is a writer and performer. His poetry appears in Aim for the Head  an anthology of zombie poetry (Write Bloody Publishing)\, Divining Divas 100 Poems by Gay Men on Their Muses (Lethe Press)\, Flicker and Spark Queer Poetry Anthology (Low Brow Press) and Tandem an anthology of the LitSlam contest winners for 2012 (Bicycle Comics Press). He has performed as a feature in Washington D.C.\, New York City\, Canada and all over California. Porras-Hernandez holds a Bachelor Arts in Theatre Arts\, Drama concentration from Sonoma State University. He was born in Toluca\, Mexico. \nBLYTHE BALDWIN is a performance poet\, storyteller\, and visual artist. Hailing from the Bay Area\, she attended Pitzer college where she created her own major: Narrative Arts. Blythe has performed her poetry on air with KPFA and has been televised on KCSM’s The Bay Today. She has performed spoken word at The Berkeley Poetry Slam\, The Oakland Poetry Slam\, The VettedWord Showcase\, Return to The Tender Nob: Home Theater Festival\, Califia Festival\, K’vestch Queer Open Mic\, Bawdy Storytelling\, Punk Blood Bath 2.0\, Life With Laughter\, That’s What She Said\, and The Golden Pussy Posse Show part of The International Home Theatre Festival. She has been a featured artist at The San Francisco Queer Open Mic and Modesto’s Slam on Rye. Blythe competed as a semi-finalist for the 2011 Berkeley Poetry Slam Season. She spends her days working in media production and by night writes poetry and draws comics.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queer-open-mic/
LOCATION:Modern Times Bookstore Collective\, 2919 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Breathe between the Beats
DESCRIPTION:Breathe Between The Beats\n– An evening of The Beats poets and the Zen of Haiku poetry \nFeaturing\nAMOS WHITE\nHaiku Poet & Author \nwith featured Guests and Beat poets:\nClive Matson\, Jack Foley with Helen Wendy Loo\,\nMary Holman\, and Andrew O. Dugas. \nFriday\, October 28\, 2016\nat The Beat Museum\n540 Broadway\, San Francisco\, CA\n7-9pm \nHear award winning Haiku poet and author\,\nAmos White’s breathless interpretations\nand vivid haiku with those of\nAllen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. \nFriday\, October 28 at The Beat Museum in San Francisco’s North Beach District.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/breathe-between-the-beats/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161030T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161030T170000
DTSTAMP:20260502T021201
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SUMMARY:37th Annual American Book Awards
DESCRIPTION:The Before Columbus Foundation announces the\nThirty-Seventh Annual\nAMERICAN BOOK AWARDS\nCeremonies\, October 30\, 2016\, 2:00–5:00 p.m. \nThe 2016 American Book Award winners will be formally recognized on Sunday\, October 30th from 2:00-5:00 p.m. at the SF Jazz Center\, Joe Henderson Lab\, 201 Franklin Street (at Fell)\, San Francisco\, CA. This event is open to the public. \nThe American Book Awards were created to provide recognition for outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America’s diverse literary community. The purpose of the awards is to recognize literary excellence without limitations or restrictions. There are no categories\, no nominees\, and therefore no losers. The award winners range from well-known and established writers to under-recognized authors and first works. There are no quotas for diversity\, the winners list simply reflects it as a natural process. The Before Columbus Foundation views American culture as inclusive and has always considered the term “multicultural” to be not a description of various categories\, groups\, or “special interests\,” but rather as the definition of all of American literature. The Awards are not bestowed by an industry organization\, but rather are a writers’ award given by other writers. \nThe 2016 American Book Award Winners are: \nLaura Da’\nTributaries (University of Arizona) \nSusan Muaddi Darraj\nCurious Land: Stories from Home (University of Massachusetts) \nDeepa Iyer\nWe Too Sing America:\nSouth Asian\, Arab\, Muslim\, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future (The New Press) \nMat Johnson\nLoving Day (Spiegel & Grau) \nJohn Keene\nCounternarratives (New Directions) \nWilliam J. Maxwell\nF.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature\n(Princeton University) \nLauret Savoy\nTrace: Memory\, History\, Race\, and the American Landscape (Counterpoint) \nNed Sublette and Constance Sublette\nThe American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry (Lawrence Hill Books) \nJesús Salvador Treviño\nReturn to Arroyo Grande (Arte Público) \nNick Turse\nTomorrow’s Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa (Haymarket Books) \nRay Young Bear\nManifestation Wolverine: The Collected Poetry of Ray Young Bear (Open Road Integrated Media) \nLifetime Achievement:\nLouise Meriwether \nWalter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award:\nLyra Monteiro and Nancy Isenberg \nAndrew Hope Award:\nChiitaanibah Johnson
URL:https://litseen.com/event/37th-annual-american-book-awards/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161030T200000
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SUMMARY:Andrés Neuman
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Andrés Neuman: \n“Good readers will find something that can be found only in great literature\, the kind written by real poets\, a literature that dares to venture into the dark with open eyes and that keeps its eyes open no matter what . . . . The literature of the twenty-first century will belong to Andrés Neuman and a few of his blood brothers.” — Roberto Bolano \n\nAbout How to Travel Without Seeing: \nA kaleidoscopic\, fast-paced tour of Latin America from one of the Spanish-speaking world’s most outstanding writers. \nLamenting not having more time to get to know each of the nineteen countries he visits after winning the prestigious Premio Alfaguara\, Andres Neuman begins to suspect that world travel consists mostly of not seeing. But then he realizes that the fleeting nature of his trip provides him with a unique opportunity: touring and comparing every country of Latin America in a single stroke. Neuman writes on the move\, generating a kinetic work that is at once puckish and poetic\, aphoristic and brimming with curiosity. Even so-called non-places airports\, hotels\, taxis are turned into powerful symbols full of meaning. A dual Argentine-Spanish citizen\, he incisively explores cultural identity and nationality\, immigration and globalization\, history and language\, and turbulent current events. Above all\, Neuman investigates the artistic lifeblood of Latin America\, tackling with gusto not only literary heavyweights such as Bolano\, Vargas Llosa\, Lorca\, and Galeano\, but also an emerging generation of authors and filmmakers whose impact is now making ripples worldwide. \n  \nEye-opening and charmingly offbeat\, “How to Travel without Seeing: Dispatches from the New Latin America” is essential reading for anyone interested in the past\, present\, and future of the Americas.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andres-neuman/
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:20161102T193000
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SUMMARY:Am I Alone Here?: Peter Orner's San Francisco Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Catapult celebrates the release of Peter Orner’s AM I ALONE HERE? with a reading and conversation with Peter Orner and award-winning journalist and radio producer Julia Scott at Booksmith\, Wednesday\, November 2nd\, 7:30pm. Join us! \nhttp://books.catapult.co/products/am-i-alone-here \n“This book\, thank god\, defies any category. It’s partly an ode to reading\, partly a memoir of Chicago and family\, partly a travelogue\, and often it’s all of these things in one four-page essay. Orner reads Cheever in Albania\, thinks about Salinger in Haiti\, salutes his father from a taqueria in San Francisco. Although some will want to dive in randomly and skip around\, reading these exquisite essays in order allows the book to develop a momentum and cumulative power that sneaks up on you and knocks you back.” —Dave Eggers \n“Orner\, a distinguished fiction writer\, appears here as a devoted book lover\, inviting the reader to an intimate and friendly book group of two. . . . Readers will be delighted to join him\, grab one of the stories he delves into\, and enjoy his company.” —Publishers Weekly \n“AM I ALONE HERE? [is] the most beautiful\, moving book I’ve read in a very long time\, and I’ll use any opportunity to mention it. . . . I encourage anyone who loves reading\, I mean who truly loves reading\, to immediately go to a bookshop and demand a copy.” —Alexander Maksik\, author of SHELTER IN PLACE\, in THE HUFFINGTON POST
URL:https://litseen.com/event/am-i-alone-here-peter-orners-san-francisco-book-launch/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck: Stephen King’s PET SEMATARY
DESCRIPTION:GET READY FOR THE RETURN OF STEPHEN KINGTOBER. This year\, we take on Pet Sematary one month late\, upon our triumphant return from New York Comic Con. \nFeatured writers: Amanda Rosenberg\, Kathleen Miller\, Jamie Real\, Lauren Wheeler\, Nicole Love\, and Elaine Gavin. \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event. \nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on the first Thursday of every month at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco. \nFics are blind-read by our Thespian-in-Residence\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and you choose the best ship before the writers are unmasked. The winner is cast off from polite society\, and invited back the next month to defend their title. \nCritics are saying:\n“… the most despicable literary event possible.”\n“… an affront to literature.”\n“It used to be we had to sit in dark\, sticky booths to get these kinds of sleazy thrills.”\n“Come if you are high on marijuana cigarettes and have done sex before.”\n“… a vile\, disgusting event.””Shipwreck will bring you to madness\, and you may never return.”\n“…wonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting.”\n“…punny sodomy and gross indecency.” \n— \nPLEASE NOTE: No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. We’re not dicks\, we just like dick jokes. \nShipwreck tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable for any reason.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-stephen-kings-pet-sematary/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Carolina De Robertis + Micah Perks
DESCRIPTION:Carolina De Robertis is the author of internationally best-selling novels that have been translated into 17 languages. The Invisible Mountain received Italy’s Rhegium Julii Prize and was a finalist for a California Book Award\, an International Latino Book Award and the VCU Cabell First Novel Award. It was also named a best book of the year by Booklist\, O – The Oprah Magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle\, among others. The Gods of Tango received a Stonewall Book Award from the American Library Association and was named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and NBC Latino. De Robertis is the recipient of a 2012 Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is also the translator of two Latin American novels\, and her literary translations have appeared in Granta\, Zoetrope: All-Story\, McSweeney’s and elsewhere. \nMicah Perks is the author of a novel\, We Are Gathered Here; a memoir\, Pagan Time; and a long personal essay\, Alone In The Woods: Cheryl Strayed\, My Daughter and Me. Her short stories and essays have won five Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in Epoch\, Zyzzyva\, Tin House\, The Toast\, OZY and The Rumpus\, amongst many journals and anthologies. Excerpts of What Becomes Us won a National Endowment for the Arts grant and The New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. Perks received her Bachelor of Arts and Master Fine Arts from Cornell University and now co-directs the creative writing program at University of California\, Santa Cruz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carolina-de-robertis-micah-perks/
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:Steffi Drewes + nick johnson
DESCRIPTION:Steffi Drewes is the author of Tell Me Every Anchor Every Arrow (Kelsey Street Press\, 2016) as well as the chapbooks Magnetic Forest\, Cartography Askew\, and History of Drawing Circles. \nHer poems have appeared in 6×6\, Aufgabe\, Eleven Eleven\, Monday Night\, New American Writing\, No Tell Motel\, Zen Monster\, and in the anthology IT’S NIGHT IN SAN FRANCISCO BUT IT’S SUNNY IN OAKLAND (Timeless\, Infinite Light\, 2014). \nShe works as a freelance writer and organizes Featherboard Writing Series at Aggregate Space Gallery in Oakland.\nnick johnson was born near the brackish waters of the Chesapeake Bay and raised by his single mother in Baltimore. His mother\, who died when he was in his early teens\, has become a consistent presence and voice in his work\, along with themes of otherness and alienation. \nHis poems have been featured on KPFA’s Rude Awakening and have appeared in The Cincinnati Review\, Black Renaissance Noire\, Brilliant Corners\, Red Light Lit\, Metazen\, Samizdat\, and the anthology Conversations at the Wartime Café: A Decade of War. \nHis first collection of poems\, music for mussolini\, was published by Nomadic Press in March of 2016. \nWhen he’s not writing poems\, he enjoys telling long-winded stories\, Instagraming\, making spicy curries\, and drinking whiskey — typically in that order\, but not always. \nJohnson earned his BA in English from Morgan State University and his MFA in Creative Writing from California College of the Arts. \nHe lives and works in the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/steffi-drewes-nick-johnson/
LOCATION:Writers’ Studio\, SF Campus\, 195 De Haro Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Basement Series: The Morning After
DESCRIPTION:Lit Camp‘s Basement Series-the only reading series with FREE BEER-presents NY Times Bestseller Frances Dinkelspiel and Lit Camp alum Frances Stroh\, along with 5 talented newcomers in a night of alcoholically regretful readings. $5-$10 sliding scale at the door with proceeds split between Dave Eggers ScholarMatch and Lit Camp scholarships.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-basement-series-the-morning-after/
LOCATION:Sports Basement\, 1590 Bryant St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161104T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161104T213000
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SUMMARY:Wayne Miller
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Wayne Miller: \n“In these poems\, we see the way the world around us is layered by confrontation\, love\, and remembrance. And whether it is the birth of a child\, the death of a father\, the various ways we’ve found to kill each other\, or the aftermath of a riot in response to those killings\, we carry it all forward with us\, in memory and action\, and we give it to those who follow us.” —Adrian Matejka \n\n“This is poetry at its most powerful: instrument of change\, defense against the commonplace of mall shooters and hoax bombs\, deeply entered wisdom of the body in both birth and dying\, and a bastion against loss and forgetting. Wayne Miller’s Post- doesn’t take this century lying down\, it is a ringing rejoinder to those who say poetry does not matter. In Miller’s lines\, we hear the ancient magic of sorrow transformed to hope\, elegy bent back around to ode.” —D. A. Powell\n\nAbout Post-: \nThe poems of this fourth collection from Wayne Miller exist in the wake of catastrophe. It is a world populated by rogue gunmen on shooting sprees\, a world where the only inheritance a father has to pass on is his debt. In this world\, every box could be a bomb and what comes after is what is lived. And yet\, this painful past is not set in stone. The past becomes the present\, yielding toward an immediate future.\nThe collection coalesces around a series of post-elegies triggered by three occurrences: the birth of his child\, the death of his father\, and his experience of the seeming explosion of sociohistorical and political conflict and violence over the past decade. Throughout this series\, Miller processes grief\, but also cuts through pain to open up a way forward in the aftermath of shared loss. “Post-” thrums with pathos and humor\, pain and the beauty of living.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wayne-miller/
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:Reading Next to Kilns\, Poetry\, Pots and Prose
DESCRIPTION:Red Brick Studios presents\, Reading Next to Kilns\, a free evening of art and readings ‪on Saturday\, November 5th at 7pm‬ at 1275 17th Streeet (between Capp and Mission) 3rd floor. \nFeatured readers are Rohan daCosta\, Sarah Kobrinsky\, Arisa White\, and Kenneth Wong! \nReading Next to Kilns is a spontaneous and random exhibition space for artists and writers. The series highlights working poets and writers inside a sculpture and ceramic studio in the heart of the Mission district of San Francisco. An independent collective of over twenty artists working primarily in clay\, Red Brick Studios will host this evening of poetry\, pots and prose inside their art studio during Open Studios for Mission Artist United. \nRed Brick Studios http://www.missionartistsunited.org/studios/red-brick-studio \nMission Artist United Spring Open Studios http://www.missionartistsunited.org/open_studios
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-next-to-kilns-poetry-pots-and-prose/
LOCATION:Red Brick Studio\, 3265 17th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Obsessions: a talk by Kaia Sand
DESCRIPTION:Kaia Sand is the author of the newly released A Tale of Magicians Who Puffed Up Money that Lost its Puff (Tinfish Press 2016) as well as Remember to Wave (Tinfish Press 2010)\, and interval (Edge Books)\, a Small Press Traffic book of the year in 2004; and co-author with Jules Boykoff of Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry and Public Space (Palm Press\, 2008). With Garrick Imatani\, she was an artist-in-residence from 2013-2015 at the City of Portland Archives and Records Center\, a public art commission in which they responded to the contents of historical surveillance files on local political activists. This past spring she exhibited Moth\, Flame\, Desire\, at the Portland Community College Cascade Gallery\, after serving in the Despina Artist Residency at Largo das Artes in Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil. She works across genres and media\, dislodging poetry from the book into more unconventional contexts; she documents work at kaiasand.net.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/obsessions-a-talk-by-kaia-sand/
LOCATION:Artists’ Television Access\, 992 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Peter Kline \nChris Drangle is a writer from Arkansas. His fiction received a 2016 Pushcart Prize\, and has appeared in the Idaho Review\, Epoch\, Crazyhorse\, and the Oxford American\, among others. He recently attended the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference as the Margaret Bridgman Scholar in fiction\, and taught creative writing to high school students in Kazakhstan. He earned an MFA at Cornell University\, and is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford. \nA freelance writer\, editor\, and writing coach\, Cheryl Dumesnil is the author of the recently released Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes; the 2008 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize winner\, In Praise of Falling; and the memoir Love Song for Baby X: How I Stayed (Almost) Sane on the Rocky Road to Parenthood\, and is also co-editor with Kim Addonizio of the anthology Dorothy Parker’s Elbow: Tattoos on Writers\, Writers on Tattoos. \nDanusha Laméris’s work has been published in The New York Times\, American Poetry Review\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, New Letters\, and The Sun and as well as in a variety of other journals and anthologies. Her first book\, The Moons of August\, was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the 2013 Autumn House Press poetry prize and was a finalist for the Milt Kessler Book Award. She received a special mention in the 2015 Pushcart anthology for a poem\, and her work has been featured by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac. She lives in Santa Cruz\, California and teaches private writing workshops. More at Danusha Laméris. \nRoberto Santiago received his MFA from Rutgers University and his BA from Sarah Lawrence College. He is a 2015 Sarah Lawrence Fellow\, a 2014 Lambda Literary Fellow\, and the recipient of the Alfred C. Carey Poetry Prize. His debut collection\, Angel Park\, was a finalist for the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Poetry\, and was selected by Rigoberto Gonzalez for the L.A. Times list of 23 Essential New Books by Latino Poets.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-2/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161107T193000
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning at The American Bookbinders Museum
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Quiet Lightning 101\, a literary mixtape performed live by the authors and handed out as a book to the first 100 people at this free show: \nWesley Cohen » josé vadi » Kate Ambash » Sarah Heady » Lorraine Lupo » Brennan DeFrisco » Cassandra Dallett | Elizeya Quate » Abe Becker » Allie Marini » J. K. Fowler » Sarah Henry » Keith Gaboury » Joanell Serra \nall ages\ncurated by Kelsey Schimmelman + Christine No \nfeaturing cover art by M M. Blü Voelker \nLagunitas on draft \nmore info + links to all artists: quietlightning.org/bookbinders \naccepting submissions for our SEVEN YEAR anniversary show: https://www.facebook.com/events/693003144209866/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-at-the-american-bookbinders-museum/
LOCATION:American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Two Voices Salon w/ Donald Nicholson-Smith
DESCRIPTION:Join us at a special Two Voices Salon to celebrate the release of prize-winning Moroccan poet Abdellatif Laabi’s latest book\, In Praise of Defeat\, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith. \nDonald Nicholson-Smith is a translator and editor focused on psychology and social criticism\, more recently moving to fiction–especially noir fiction–and poetry. He has received numerous awards and was short-listed for the French-American Prize for his translation of Apollinaire’s Letters to Madeleine; and has also been named a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres for services to French literature in translation. \nAbdellatif Laabi is a novelist\, poet and playwright\, and the French translator of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish\, the Moroccan poet Abdallah Zrika\, the Iraqi poet Abdelawahab Al Bayati and the Syrian novelist Hanna Minna. He has edited numerous anthologies\, most notably one of twentieth-century Moroccan poetry. He received the Prix Goncourt de la Poésie in 2009 and the Académie française’s Grand prix de la Francophonie in 2011. \nSnacks and beverages provided\, please come join the conversation!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-voices-salon-w-donald-nicholson-smith/
LOCATION:Center for the Art of Translation office\, 582 Market St #700\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161110T210000
DTSTAMP:20260502T021201
CREATED:20161025T012255Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161025T012255Z
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SUMMARY:José Kozer
DESCRIPTION:José Kozer is recognized in the Spanish-speaking world as the foremost Cuban poet of his generation and an inheritor of the neo-baroque tradition after José Lezama Lima. Kozer is author of 52 books of poetry and prose\, and has lived in the U.S. since the 1960s. \nKozer’s poetry has been translated to English\, Portuguese\, German\, French\, Italian\, Hebrew and Greek\, has been widely anthologized and has appeared in numerous literary journals from all over the world\, and from publishers such as Gallimard (France) and Fischer Verlag (Germany)\, where only 15 poets of the Latin American 20th century appeared. A 1997 symposium on Kozer’s poetry\, held at University of California\, Irvine\, produced a full-length book\, La Voracidad Grafómana: José Kozer (UNAM University in Mexico City). \nBorn in Havana\, Cuba\, of Jewish parents who emigrated from Poland and Czechoslovakia\, Kozer left his native land in 1960 and lived in New York until 1997\, the year he retired from Queens College\, where he taught Spanish and Latin American literatures for 32 years.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jose-kozer/
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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161110T194500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161110T210000
DTSTAMP:20260502T021201
CREATED:20161018T002339Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T002339Z
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SUMMARY:Maggie Nelson
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a reading by Maggie Nelson\, the author of nine books of poetry and prose\, including the nonfiction collections The Argonauts\, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner and New York Times bestseller\, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning\, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year\, Bluets\, The Red Parts\, and Women\, the New York School\, and Other True Abstractions; and the poetry collections Something Bright\, Then Holes and Jane: A Murder\, finalist for the PEN/ Martha Albrand Art of the Memoir. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction\, an NEA in Poetry\, a Literature Fellowship from Creative Capital\, and an Arts Writers Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation. She currently directs the MFA in Writing Program for the School of Critical Studies at CalArts and lives in Los Angeles. \nThe MFA Reading Series presents free literary readings and discussions that are open to the public. The series is co-sponsored by USF’s English department.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maggie-nelson/
LOCATION:FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, USF\, 2130 Fulton St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161111T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161111T183000
DTSTAMP:20260502T021201
CREATED:20161018T001028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T001028Z
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SUMMARY:Yaa Gyasi
DESCRIPTION:Yaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville\, Alabama. She holds a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where she held a Dean’s Graduate Research Fellowship. \nShe lives in Berkeley\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yaa-gyasi/
LOCATION:Writers’ Studio\, SF Campus\, 195 De Haro Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161112T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161112T213000
DTSTAMP:20260502T021201
CREATED:20161018T004915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T004915Z
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SUMMARY:Pittard\, Kahn\, + O’Gara
DESCRIPTION:Hannah Pittard (Listen to Me\, Reunion)\nElaine Kahn (Women in Public)\nGwynn O’Gara (Snake Woman Poems\, Winter at Green Haven) \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/pittard-kahn-ogara/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161113T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161113T180000
DTSTAMP:20260502T021201
CREATED:20160929T015848Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160929T015848Z
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SUMMARY:Gears Turning: Twaddle\, Schweigman\, + Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:Originally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet\, movement worker and educator. 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. His latest book of poems titled\, 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. \nKurt Schweigman is co-editor of Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California (Scarlet Tanager Books\, 2016). His poetry appears in Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets (Michigan State University Press\, 2008). Kurt was a featured poet at the prestigious Geraldine R. Dodge 12th Biennial Poetry Festival and the first spoken word poet to receive an Archibald Bush Foundation artist fellowship in literature. Although retired from competition\, he has won Poetry Slams across the United States and in Germany. Kurt has a Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology from the University of Oklahoma. Born and raised in Rapid City\, South Dakota\, he now resides in Oakland and is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. \nJohn Twaddell “Ye’es”\, is of the Tsimshian First Nations\, Gitando Tribe. John is of the Gisbudwada Clan literally translated as Black Fish commonly known as Killer Whale. John maintains cultural identification and oral traditions through association with the California Indians Story Teller Association and the San Francisco Tlingit & Haida Community Council which he actively supports and participates as guest story teller. He has participated in Cultural Events held at North West Indian College\, Bellingham and Tlingit & Haida Cultural celebration in the San Francisco Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gears-turning-twaddle-schweigman-eisen-martin/
LOCATION:Modern Times Bookstore Collective\, 2919 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161114T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161114T210000
DTSTAMP:20260502T021201
CREATED:20161025T012736Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161025T012736Z
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SUMMARY:Alice Notley: The Descent of Alette Day 1
DESCRIPTION:Alice Notley reads The Descent of Alette \nMonday & Tuesday NOV 14–15\n7pm @ The Lab\, 2948 16th Street\, San Francisco\nadmission: $10 per night\, $5 low income\nfree for SFSU students and Poetry Center and/or Lab members \nco-sponsored by The Poetry Center and False Starts Reading Series at The Lab \nAcross two nights\, Monday and Tuesday NOV 14 and 15\, Alice Notley will read the entirety of her visionary book-length poem\, The Descent of Alette (Penguin Poets\, 1996). \nIn The Descent of Alette\, Alice Notley presents a feminist epic\, a bold journey into the deeper realms. Alette\, the narrator\, finds herself underground\, deep beneath the city\, where spirits and people ride endlessly on subways\, not allowed to live in the world above. Traveling deeper and deeper\, she is on a journey of continual transformation\, encountering a series of figures and undergoing fragmentations and metamorphoses as she seeks to confront the Tyrant and heal the world. Using a new measure\, with rhythmic units indicated by quotation marks\, Notley has created a “spoken” text\, a rich and mesmerizing work of imagination\, mystery\, and power. \nAlice Notley was born in Bisbee\, Arizona in 1945 and grew up in Needles\, California in the Mojave Desert. She was educated in the Needles public schools\, Barnard College\, and The Writers Workshop\, University of Iowa. She is the author of numerous books of poetry\, and of essays and talks on poetry\, and has edited and co-edited books by Ted Berrigan and Douglas Oliver. She edited the magazine CHICAGO in the 70s and co-edited with Oliver the magazines SCARLET and Gare du Nord in the 90s. She is the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Book Award\, the Griffin Prize\, the Shelley Memorial Award\, the Lenore Marshall Prize\, and the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Prize. Her latest book is Certain Magical Acts\, from Penguin.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alice-notley-the-descent-of-alette-day-1/
LOCATION:The Lab\, 2948 16th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161117T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161117T210000
DTSTAMP:20260502T021201
CREATED:20161019T001715Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161019T001715Z
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SUMMARY:Michael McClure
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of his new collection of poetry \nMephistos and Other Poems \npublished by City Lights!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-mcclure/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161118T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161118T183000
DTSTAMP:20260502T021201
CREATED:20161018T001200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T001200Z
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SUMMARY:CA Conrad
DESCRIPTION:CA Conrad’s childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He is the author of eight books of poetry and essays\, the latest ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness (Wave Books) is the winner of the 2015 Believer Magazine Book Award. \nHe is a Pew Fellow and has also received fellowships from Lannan Foundation\, MacDowell Colony\, Headlands Center for the Arts\, Banff\, and Ucross. \nVisit CA Conrad’s website for more info\, including about the documentary The Book of Conrad (Delinquent Films\, 2016).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ca-conrad/
LOCATION:Writers’ Studio\, SF Campus\, 195 De Haro Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161118T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161118T210000
DTSTAMP:20260502T021201
CREATED:20161118T021746Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161118T021746Z
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SUMMARY:Haight Ashbury Literary Journal 40th Issue
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Beat Museum for a celebration of our latest issue\, an event that features poets Joanne Mallari\, Cesar Love\, Alice Rogoff\, Will Walker and others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/haight-ashbury-literary-journal-40th-issue/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161118T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161118T213000
DTSTAMP:20260502T021201
CREATED:20161018T232626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T232626Z
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SUMMARY:Kelly Luce
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Kelly Luce: \n“Kelly Luce makes a persuasive case for why she should be one of your favorite new short-story writers.” – SF Chronicle on Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail \n\n“Luce manages to effortlessly capture both what it’s like to be a foreigner in Japan & to write in a believable way from the perspective of a native.” – The Japan Times \n\nAbout Pull Me Under: \nA searing debut novel from one of the most imaginative minds in fiction.\nKelly Luce’s “Pull Me Under” tells the story of Rio Silvestri\, who\, when she was twelve years old\, fatally stabbed a school bully. Rio\, born Chizuru Akitani\, is the Japanese American daughter of the revered violinist Hiro Akitani–a Living National Treasure in Japan and a man Rio hasn’t spoken to since she left her home country for the United States (and a new identity) after her violent crime. Her father’s death\, along with a mysterious package that arrives on her doorstep in Boulder\, Colorado\, spurs her to return to Japan for the first time in twenty years. There she is forced to confront her past in ways she never imagined\, pushing herself\, her relationships with her husband and daughter\, and her own sense of who she is to the brink.\nThe novel’s illuminating and palpably atmospheric descriptions of Japan and its culture\, as well its elegantly dynamic structure\, call to mind both Ruth Ozeki’s “A Tale for the Time Being “and David Guterson’s “Snow Falling on Cedars.” “Pull Me Under” is gripping\, psychologically complex fiction–at the heart of which is an affecting exploration of home\, self-acceptance\, and the limits of
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kelly-luce/
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:20161119T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161119T210000
DTSTAMP:20260502T021201
CREATED:20161118T022723Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161118T022723Z
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SUMMARY:Once in a Lifetime Event: Judy Grahn\, CA Conrad\, + Katie Ebbitt
DESCRIPTION:CAConrad\, Judy Grahn\, and Katie Ebbitt will read poetry on Saturday\, November 19\, 2016 at 7 p.m\, for a “Once in a Lifetime” event organized by San Francisco poet and novelist Kevin Killian. CAConrad and Judy Grahn are mutual admirers of each other\, but have not yet actually met\, so this reading will be practically historic\, while Katie Ebbitt will be able to tell future generations that she was there too\, and she gave her first reading in San Francisco with two giants. \nCAConrad’s childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He is the author of 9 books of poetry and essays the latest While Standing In Line For Death is forthcoming from Wave Books in September 2017. He is a Pew Fellow and has also received fellowships from Lannan Foundation\, MacDowell Colony\, Headlands Center for the Arts\, Banff\, RADAR\, Flying Object and Ucross. For his books\, essays\, and details on the documentary The Book of Conrad (Delinquent Films\, 2016)\, please visit http://CAConrad.blogspot.com/ \nJudy Grahn is perhaps best known as a poet\, and also as author of Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words\, Gay Worlds\, and her memoir A Simple Revolution\, the Making of an Activist Poet. She teaches creative writing\, mythology\, Women’s Spirituality\, LGBTQ studies\, and new origin stories when the spirit moves her. \nKatie Ebbitt is author of the chapbook ANOTHER LIFE (Counterpath Press). Her work is available at Tarpaulin Sky\, The FanZine\, and Queen Mob’s. She is a LMSW in New York City and is writing a full length book on illness\, disability\, and disease remission. \nTHANKS to Alley Cat Books for hosting us; THANKS to Steve Dickison for the use of his 2014 photo of Judy Grahn\, and THANKS to Melissa Buzzeo for her recent photo of CA Conrad.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/once-in-a-lifetime-event-judy-grahn-ca-conrad-katie-ebbitt/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161120T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161120T220000
DTSTAMP:20260502T021201
CREATED:20161118T023222Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161118T023222Z
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SUMMARY:LOAN presents: A Night of Poetry and Music
DESCRIPTION:Please attend a very special night of poetry and music\, presented by LOAN (Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Chris Peck\, Miles Wick and Jon Rogers). \nFirst set\, 7:00pm: LOAN\, Bonnie Kwong (poet) and Oliver Mok (guitarist) \nSecond Set\, 8:30pm: LOAN\, Josiahluis Alderete (poet) and Eli Carlton-Pearson (guitarist) \nAt the Red Poppy Art House in San Francisco\n$10-20\, All Ages Welcomed \nHere’s a little preview of the magic to come: \nLOAN \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDtHFhS5oCA \nBonnie Kwong + Oliver Mok\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ctQCMHGnp4 \nJosiahluis Alderete + Eli Carlton-Pearson\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74yLKxwJHZU \nDon’t miss this!\nLove\,\nLOAN
URL:https://litseen.com/event/loan-presents-a-night-of-poetry-and-music/
LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161121T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161121T210000
DTSTAMP:20260502T021201
CREATED:20161118T023845Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161118T023845Z
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SUMMARY:Final Odd Mondays of the Season!
DESCRIPTION:A Pot Pourri for A Post-Election World \nNicole Wong\, Andrew McIntyre\, and Gerald Heather \nFREE ADMISSION \nSee the world through the eyes of Nicole Wong\, children’s writer\, health adviser. “Balm to our souls” is what we say of her writing\, and her volunteer cooperation with Odd Mondays. \nAndrew McIntyre: bibliophile\, book merchant at Folio’s Bookstore and writer of The Short\, The Long\, and The Tall. He will share his always-humorous tales. \nAnd \nOur witty political commentator and TV interviewee\, Gerald Heather\, Professor Emeritus at San Francisco State\, will host questions and answers about the election. \nPlease join us in shared community in a tough\, post-election world!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/final-odd-mondays-of-the-season/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161121T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161121T213000
DTSTAMP:20260502T021201
CREATED:20161018T232806Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T232806Z
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SUMMARY:Henrietta Rose-Innes + Julie Shigekuni w/ Aaron Bady
DESCRIPTION:About Nineveh: \nKatya Grubbs is Cape Town’s only ethical pest removal specialist. She expertly wrangles every manner of wild critter\, creature or beast with the help of her unwitting nephew\, Toby. When she is hired to remove the exotic beetles that have overrun Nineveh\, a new luxury housing development on the coast\, Katya finds that bugs aren t the only unwelcome creatures hiding in the new (but inhabited) apartments. As she investigates further\, it becomes clear that Nineveh is fast becoming an environmental\, not to mention architectural\, blunder. With marshlands encroaching on its borders\, and the nearby seaside more menace than attraction\, Katya becomes immersed in the world of Nineveh’s few residentsthe mysterious caretakers and scavenger crews that survive in its shadow. It is only when her estranged fathera professional exterminator fallen on hard timesreappears in her life\, that Nineveh’s deeper secrets are exposed. \n\nAbout In Plain View: \nDaidai and her husband Hiroshi have what many of their friends believe is a perfect life. Daidai has recently left her job as curator of the Japanese American Museum in Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo so that she and Hiroshi\, a university professor\, can try for a baby. Frustrated by their lack of success so far\, and by their increasingly clinical love life\, Daidai befriends Satsuki\, one of Hiroshi’s graduate students. Newly arrived from Japan\, Satsuki clings to her friendship to Daidai and quickly becomes a mainstay in their household.\nSpurred by a revelation concerning Satsuki’s estranged mother and a disturbing trip to Japan where Daidai discovered Satsuki’s father was engaged in illegal\, and illicit\, activities\, Daidai begins to seriously question Satsuki’s seemingly innocent connection to three possible murders.\nDaidai’s concerns about Satsuki are dismissed as jealousy by her husband until Daidai’s investigation will lead to a harrowing confrontation between the two women\, and Satsuki’s true intentions will be revealed. At once a taut psychological thriller and examination of cultural divides\, Shigekuni’s “In Plain View” is never as it appears.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/henrietta-rose-innes-julie-shigekuni-w-aaron-bady/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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