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SUMMARY:Jewelle Gomez: The Gilda Stories
DESCRIPTION:Release Party and Celebration for The Gilda Stories: Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition.  \nCo-sponsored by the San Francisco Bay Times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jewelle-gomez-the-gilda-stories/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Aaron Shurin: The Skin of Meaning
DESCRIPTION:In The Skin of Meaning\, Aaron Shurin has collected thirty years’ worth of his provocative essays. Fueled by gender and queer studies and combined with radical traditions in poetry\, Shurin’s essays combine a highly personal and lyrical vision with a trenchant social analysis of poetry’s possibilities. \n“Reading these essays I’m struck by how fully Aaron Shurin combines a personal history with a prophetic\, conceptual\, strongly non-personal vision….His writing about AIDS\, brilliantly gathered here—rich\, fantastic\, and steely-eyed—encompasses the functions of a great novel: total immersion into a mysterious eco-political world.” –Kevin Killian \nAaron Shurin is Professor Emeritus and former Director of the MFA program at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of more than a dozen books\, including Citizen\,King of Shadows\, and Involuntary Lyrics. His honors and awards include the Gertrude Stein Award\, the Bay Area Art Award\, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aaron-shurin-the-skin-of-meaning/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160413T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160413T213000
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SUMMARY:Molly Prentiss + Tom Barbash
DESCRIPTION:Molly Prentiss reads from and discusses her debut novel\, Tuesday Nights in 1980\, with Tom Barbash. \nPraise for Tuesday Nights in 1980: \n“It isn’t easy to write a novel about art\, and even harder to write a novel about art this good\, with this much energy and verve and sense of adventure — and Molly Prentiss has done it. ‘Tuesday Nights in 1980’ is much more than an accomplished first novel; it is a beautifully written story of creation and transformation\, set against a backdrop of urban decay and political violence. I loved this book.” – Daniel Alarcón\, author of At Night We Walk in Circles & Lost City Radio \n\n“For those of us who like our novels soulful and brainy\, ambitious and deeply felt\, Molly Prentiss has given us a first work of fiction to marvel at and then savor. This is a serious young writer in full command of her craft.” – Tom Barbash\, author of Stay Up With Me \n\n“Whether her canvas is as broad as the New York City art world in the good old days of glitz and excess\, or as small as the quiet\, deeply moving connection between brother and sister\, Molly Prentiss seems able to render any expression of humanity expertly onto the page. TUESDAY NIGHTS IN 1980 has worlds in it\, all wildly appealing\, and Molly Prentiss has chops to spare. I can’t imagine the soul who won’t love this book.” – Marie-Helene Bertino\, author of 2 A.M. at the Cat’s Pajamas\n \nAbout Tuesday Nights in 1980: \nAn intoxicating and transcendent debut novel that follows a critic\, an artist\, and their shared muse as they find their way and ultimately collide amid the ever-evolving New York City art scene of the 1980s.\nWelcome to SoHo at the onset of the eighties: a gritty\, quickly gentrifying playground for artists and writers looking to make it in the big city. Among them: James Bennett\, a synesthetic art critic for the “New York Times “whose unlikely condition enables him to describe art in profound\, magical ways\, and Raul Engales\, an exiled Argentinian painter running from his past and the Dirty War that has enveloped his country. As the two men ascend in the downtown arts scene\, dual tragedies strike\, and each is faced with a loss that acutely affects his relationship to life and to art.\nIt is not until they are inadvertently brought together by Lucy Olliason a small town beauty and Raul’s muse and a young orphan boy sent mysteriously from Buenos Aires that James and Raul are able to rediscover some semblance of what they ve lost.\nAs inventive as Jennifer Egan’s “A Visit from the Goon Squad “and as sweeping as Meg Wolitzer’s “The Interestings\, Tuesday Nights in 1980 “boldly renders a complex moment when the meaning and nature of art is being all but upended\, and New York City as a whole is reinventing itself. In risk-taking prose that is as powerful as it is playful\, Molly Prentiss deftly explores the need for beauty\, community\, creation\, and love in an ever-changing urban landscape.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/molly-prentiss-tom-barbash/
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:20160413T213000
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SUMMARY:Emerging Writers Festival Day 2
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the English department and MFA program\, the Emerging Writers Festival features two days of readings by five up-and-coming writers of fiction\, poetry\, and nonfiction. On the second day of the festival\, the authors hold a panel discussion on their experiences navigating life as a writer and the complexities of the publishing industry. \nThe Festival’s second day\, April 13\, will include readings from Naomi J. Williams and Jill Talbot\, followed by the panel discussion. \nNaomi J. Williams was born in Japan and spoke no English until she was six years old. Her debut novel\, Landfalls\, was long-listed for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and Best American Honorable Mention for her short fiction. Her work has appeared in Zoetrope\, A Public Space\, One Story\, The Southern Review and elsewhere. Williams has an MA in creative writing from UC Davis and lives with her family in northern California. \nJill Talbot is the author of a memoir\, The Way We Weren’t\, and Loaded: Women and Addiction. She is the co-editor of The Art of Friction: Where (Non) Fictions Come Together and the editor of Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Brevity\,DIAGRAM\, Ecotone\, Fourth Genre\, The Normal School\, The Paris Review Daily\,Passages North\, and The Pinch. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emerging-writers-festival-day-2/
LOCATION:Fromm Hall – FR 120 – Xavier Auditorium\, USF\, 2130 Fulton St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Fireside Storytelling: ACHILLES HEEL
DESCRIPTION:Samson and his hair. Superman and kryptonite. Achilles and his … well … heel. We all have our strengths and weaknesses. Sometimes it’s that chink in the armor that makes all the difference. Join us at the next Fireside as six storytellers share their tales of that one … fateful … thing … that spelled their downfall. \nSTORYTELLERS: \nDoug Cordell\nJoe Klocek\nCaveat Magister\nMariko Tamaki\nEva D Struction\nAnne Ricketts \nFireside is a monthly storytelling series\, taking place the second Wednesday of the month in San Francisco. Come watch six storytellers tell 10-minute true stories on a particular theme\, without the aid of notes or a script\, keeping the art of storytelling alive.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fireside-storytelling-achilles-heel/
LOCATION:The Institute of Possibility\, 3359 Cesar Chavez St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jessica Knoll: Luckiest Girl Alive
DESCRIPTION:As a teenager at the prestigious Bradley School\, Ani FaNelli endured a shocking\, public humiliation that left her desperate to reinvent herself. Now\, with a glamorous job\, expensive wardrobe\, and handsome blue blood fiance\, she’s “this close” to living the perfect life she’s worked so hard to achieve. But Ani has a secret. There’s something else buried in her past that still haunts her\, something private and painful that threatens to bubble to the surface and destroy everything. \nWith a singular voice and twists you won t see coming\, Luckiest Girl Alive explores the unbearable pressure that so many women feel to have it all and introduces a heroine whose sharp edges and cutthroat ambition have been protecting a scandalous truth\, and a heart that’s bigger than it first appears. The question remains: will breaking her silence destroy all that she has worked for or\, will it at long last\, set Ani free? \nJessica Knoll has been a senior editor at Cosmopolitan and the articles editor at SELF. She grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and graduated from The Shipley School in Bryn Mawr\, Pennsylvania\, and from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva\, New York. This is her first book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessica-knoll-luckiest-girl-alive/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Write from the Gut #11
DESCRIPTION:Come to our final reading for Spring term at SF Creative Writing Institute. Event will take place at Wework Golden Gate: 25 Taylor Street. San Francisco\, CA 94102 in the 7th floor lounge. Beer and snacks will be provided. Amazing writers serving up their best works-in-progress for you to enjoy. Featured readers will be students and workshop participants of the Winter 2016 term from SF Creative Writing Institute. There will also be an open-mic for friends\, alumni and everyone else.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/write-from-the-gut-11/
LOCATION:Wework Golden Gate\, 25 Taylor St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bob Booker + Maria Medina Serafin
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in our Readers Bookstore Fort Mason for our weekly FREE poetry series! \nBrowse books and enjoy a glass of wine while listening to internationally acclaimed poets and artists such as Jonathan Richman\, David Meltzer\, Diane di Prima and California Poet Laureate Al Young. The series is curated by Friends’ Resident Poet Jack Hirschman. \nProceeds from our bookstores benefit the San Francisco Public Library. \nFeatured poet(s): Bob Booker & Maria Medina Serafin
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bob-booker-maria-medina-serafin/
LOCATION:Readers Bookstore\, Fort Mason Center\, Building C\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kemper Donovan: The Decent Proposal
DESCRIPTION:An addictively readable romantic comedy\, drama\, and mystery rolled into one\, about two very different strangers whose lives become intertwined when they receive an unusual proposition. This is a funny\, tender\, and enchanting story about love\, attraction\, and friendship: Jane Austen in Los Angeles. \nA struggling Hollywood producer\, Richard Baumbach is twenty-nine\, hung-over\, and broke. Ridiculously handsome with an innate charm and an air of invincibility\, he still believes good things will come his way. For now he contents himself with days at the Coffee Bean and nights with his best friend Mike (that s a woman\, by the way). \nAt thirty-three\, Elizabeth Santiago is on track to make partner at her law firm. Known as La Maquina The Machine to her colleagues\, she s grown used to avoiding anything that might derail her quiet\, orderly life. And yet recently she befriended a homeless man in her Venice neighborhood\, surprised to find how much she enjoys their early-morning chats. \nRichard and Elizabeth’s paths collide when they receive a proposal from a mysterious\, anonymous benefactor. They’ll split a million dollars if they agree to spend at least two hours together just talking every week for a year. Astonished and more than a little suspicious\, they each nevertheless say yes. Richard needs the money and likes the adventure of it. Elizabeth embraces the challenge of shaking up her life a little more. Both agree the idea is ridiculous\, but why not? \nWhat ensues is a delightful journey full of twists\, revelations\, hamburgers\, classic literature\, poppy music\, and above all love\, in its multitude of forms. The Decent Proposal is a heartfelt and often hilarious look at the ties that bind not just a guy and a girl but an entire\, diverse cast of characters situated within a modern-day Los Angeles brought to full and irrepressible life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kemper-donovan-the-decent-proposal/
LOCATION:Books Inc. in The Marina\, 2251 Chestnut St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Anne Waldman
DESCRIPTION:Anne Waldman is a celebrated poet\, performer\, professor\, editor\, and cultural activist. She is the former director and founder of The Poetry Project at St Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery and cofounder with Allen Ginsberg of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder\, where she is a Distinguished Professor of poetics and artistic director of the Summer Writing Program. \nWaldman is the author of over 40 books of poetry including the hybrid narrative poemManatee/Humanity (2009) and the feminist 1\,000-page epic The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment (2011)\, which won the 2012 PEN Center USA Award for Poetry. \nShe is known for her magnetizing public performances and frequently collaborates with musicians and dancers including Meredith Monk\, Thurston Moore\, and her son\, Ambrose Bye. \nWaldman will sign copies of her books following the lecture. \nThis event is cosponsored by the MFA in Writing Program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-waldman/
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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160416T130000
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SUMMARY:Terrence Brewer + Youth Speaks
DESCRIPTION:SFJAZZ Matinees- Terrence Brewer & Youth Speaks. \n\nThis is what SF/Arts curator Margo Crabtree had to say about Terrence Brewer & Youth Speaks : \n “April is National Poetry Month and SFJAZZ and Youth Speaks come together to present a family matinee of Jazz and Poetry. San Francisco’s own Terrence Brewer and his Quartet join Tammy Vaitai\, Youth Speaks Poet Mentor Fellow\, for an interactive program of music and verse. A family workshop with Doug Goodkin follows. “ \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/terrence-brewer-youth-speaks/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rolling Writers: Doubles
DESCRIPTION:A Freaky Saturday criss–cross: writers pair up to read\neach other’s work\, songwriters cover each other’s songs.\nMichael Crabtree/Nancy Hall\nAndrew Demcak/Rick May\nFred Dodsworth/John Panzer\nJacqueline Doyle/Stephen D. Gutierrez\nPeg Alford Pursell/Olga Zilberbourg \nNo charge
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rolling-writers-doubles/
LOCATION:Rolling Out Cafe\, 1722 Taraval St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Macaroni Necklace #5.2: Woltag\, Hume\, Wilson + Muhammad
DESCRIPTION:Come to San Francisco release and reading for Macaroni Necklace #5\, featuring new writing by Laura Woltag\, Angela Hume\, Mary Wilson\, and Ismail Muhammad! \nMacaroni Necklace is a Bay Area DIY literary zine dedicated to publishing (mostly) poets\, fiction writers\, and text-based artists who have yet to published a full-length collection. Reading and zines are free. \nMacaroni Necklace #5 was self-curated\, with writers picking and introducing other writers to bring into the Macaroni fold. \nLAURA WOLTAG lives in South Berkeley. Her most recent chapbook is Hush Hyletics (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs). Her poems have been installed along the Deer Creek Trail in Nevada City by Unmanned Minerals\, and appear in print in Where Eagles Dare\, Try\, OMG!\, and the\nanthology It’s Night in San Francisco but it’s Sunny In Oakland. \nANGELA HUME lives in Oakland. She is the author of the poetry chapbooks Melos (Projective Industries\, 2015)\, The Middle (Omnidawn\, 2013) and Second Story of Your Body (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs\, 2011). Her first full-length book of poetry is Middle Time (Omnidawn\, 2016). You can learn more about Angela at angelamhume.tumblr.com. \nMARY WILSON lives holds an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University\, and she is currently pursuing a PhD in English at the University of California\, Berkeley. Her poems have appeared in Gobbet\, Sun’s Skeleton\, Everyday Genius\, Anomalous\, and Coconut. \nISMAIL MUHAMMAD is a writer and Ph.D. candidate living in Oakland. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Avidly\, and Public Books. Sometimes he tweets @trapmotives.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/macaroni-necklace-5-2-woltag-hume-wilson-muhammad/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160416T213000
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SUMMARY:Youth Speaks: Grand Slam Finals
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the twentieth edition of the Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam! Two decades ago\, we hosted the country’s first-ever teen poetry slam. Forty-three young poets participated\, with hundreds turned away at the door. Now\, the annual event features close to 200 youth writers\, emcees\, and performers from throughout the Bay Area and Northern California\, and attracts nearly 10\,000 audience members. Our first slam became the seed that sowed a global youth poetry movement. \nThe Olympic-style poetry competition kicked off on February 18\, 2016 the first preliminary bout at EastSide Arts Alliance in Oakland. Young writers and poets ages 13-19 have registered for preliminary bouts in San Francisco\, Oakland and Berkeley. All preliminary and semi-final bouts are free and open to the public. Grand Slam Finals will take place at the historic Davies Symphony Hall on Saturday\, April 16 at 7:30pm. This culminating event will serve as the catalyst to our milestone 20th Anniversary Celebration.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youth-speaks-grand-slam-finals/
LOCATION:Davies Symphony Hall\, 201 Van Ness Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Esme Wang + Amy Berkowitz
DESCRIPTION:Esme Weijun Wang will discuss her debut novel\, The Border of Paradise. \nAbout The Border of Paradise: \nIn booming postwar Brooklyn\, the Nowak Piano Company is an American success story. There is just one problem: the Nowak’s only son\, David. A handsome kid and shy like his mother\, David struggles with neuroses. If not for his only friend\, Marianne\, David’s life would be intolerable. When David inherits the piano company at just 18 and Marianne breaks things off\, David sells the company and travels around the world. In Taiwan\, his life changes when he meets the daughter of a local madame the sharp-tongued\, intelligent Daisy. Returning to the United States\, the couple (and newborn son) buy an isolated country house in Northern California’s Polk Valley. As David’s health deteriorates\, he has a brief affair with Marianne\, producing a daughter.\nIt’s Daisy’s solution for the future of her two children\, inspired by the old Chinese tradition of raising girls as sisterly wives for adoptive brothers\, that exposes Daisy’s traumatic life\, and the terrible inheritance her children must receive. Framed by two suicide attempts\, “The Border of Paradise” is told from multiple perspectives\, culminating in heartrending fashion as the young heirs to the Nowak fortune confront their past and their isolation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/esme-wang-amy-berkowitz/
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:20160417T210000
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit: Quantum Entanglement
DESCRIPTION:Red Light Lit is thrilled to be part of the Jewish Community Center’s UNINHIBITED: ABOUT SEX series. Smack in the middle of a progressive city known for its pride and sex-positivity\, the JCCSF offers a safe space to explore topics that matter – in this case sex\, in all of its fascinating and multifaceted glory. \nOur theme for the evening explores the magic of Quantum Entanglement. Listen to special guest\, the 2016 Oregon Book Award finalist\, Nick Jaina\, read from his memoir “Get It While You Can” and play music alongside Bay Area Writers Lisa Alden\, Peter Bullen\, Loria Mendoza\, Dirk Petersen\, Xan Roberti\, and Katie Wheeler-Dubin as they play off Jaina’s love letter with musical acommpanment by Cellista\, Sarah Dineen\, and David Williams. Hosted by Jenn Stokes and featuring comedian Luna Malbroux. \n“Do you know about quantum entanglement? It’s when you have two particles that have interacted in some special way (I can’t figure out exactly what special way\, because all the writing on this subject is by physicists and they speak about these things very unsentimentally.) But these particles interact somehow and effect each other so much that if you separate them\, their movements continue to correlate to each other. You could be in Los Angeles with one of these particles and I could be in New York\, and if your particle spins a certain way\, my particle will spin that way too. And this connection happens instantaneously\, which is to say that it’s faster than the speed of light. It happens with bigger collections of particles too\, like diamonds.”\n–Nick Jaina\, “Get It While You Can”\nwww.nickjaina.com \nRed Light Lit explores love\, romance\, desire\, and sensuality in the form of poetry\, prose\, art and song. \nThe show will be in the beautiful Kanbar Hall and tickets are $20.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-quantum-entanglement/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center of San Francisco\, 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers on Writing: Jandy Nelson
DESCRIPTION:Young adult fiction writer Jandy Nelson reads from and discusses her work. Free. \nJandy Nelson\, like her characters in I’ll Give You the Sun (Penguin)\, comes from a superstitious lot. She was tutored from a young age in the art of the four-leaf clover hunt; she knocks wood\, throws salt and carries charms in her pockets. Her debut novel\, The Sky is Everywhere (Penguin)\, was on multiple best books of the year lists\, was a Yalsa Best Fiction for Young Adults pick\, earned numerous starred reviews\, has been translated widely and continues to enjoy great international success. Nelson\, a literary agent for many years\, received a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University and Master of Fine Arts degrees in poetry and children’s writing from Brown University and Vermont College of Fine Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-on-writing-jandy-nelson/
LOCATION:San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160419T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160419T203000
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SUMMARY:Charles Curtis Blackwell\, Vincent Kobelt\, + The All Star Revue
DESCRIPTION:Charles Curtis Blackwell\, jazz poet\, painter\, and playwright\, was born in San Francisco in 1950. His lifelong love for jazz and blues has helped him overcome the obstacle of near-blindness. He is published both nationally and internationally in a variety of magazines and publications including The New York Times\, appeared on PBS television\, and has been the recipient of many local awards. Blackwell is the author of The Fiery Response to Love’s Callings\, Is\, the Color of Mississippi Mud\, If a Pigeon Can’t Fly\, Blind Alley Cats Dream Jazz and his new album release\, Catch the First Thing Smokin’. His captivating performance reinvents the intriguing sound of jazz into transcendent poetry. \nVincent Kobelt has written poetry for the page\, the stage\, and the mic. His early work explored the murals of the Mission where he grew up\, the music of jazz\, the milk weed that cracks concrete\, the beauty of the earth\, and a cry for justice. For some time now he has been experimenting with poetry that lends itself to musical accompaniment. He has taught creative writing and California State Summer School for the Arts (CSSSA or Inner Spark) and has written numerous chapbooks: Peppers from my Tongue\, Volumes 1 and 2\, Textures of Pregnancy\, The Way Light Ripples on Water\, and Pinch of Salt. Recently he has collaborated with poet Charles Curtis Blackwell and musician Brian Kendricks on their poetry album\, Catch the First Thing Smokin’. \nThe All-Star Revue includes:\nRussell Brown as a musician plays acoustic and electric guitar\, electric bass\, and piano. Born in St. Louis educated in California\, music became a part of his life when he began playing drums in elementary school (4th grade\, age 8). In middle school (7th grade\, age 11) he started playing trombone\, which he played throughout high school. Inspired by the sound of the electric guitar\, Russell started teaching himself how to play at 13 years old. Today\, the passion and inspiration that fueled that young man still burns bright. \nSandra Poindexter’s musical experience expands from classical to jazz\, Cuban\, mariachi\, and flamenco. She is a former member of alto sax player John Handy’s group\, John Handy with Class. Some highlights over the last 15 years include The Village Vanguard in New York; The 1989 Monterey Jazz Festival; Oakland Paramount (Black Filmmaker Awards honoring Dizzy Gillespie); San Francisco\, San Mateo\, San Jose\, Russian River Jazz Festivals; and touring extensively throughout Japan. \nPoindexter is currently a member of Orquesta La Moderna Tradicion. This group has performed for over 10 years\, playing engagements such as the Summer Festival at Lincoln Center in New York; John Ford Theater in Los Angeles; San Jose and San Francisco Jazz Festivals; Stern Grove; the Smithsonian Institute in D.C.; Yoshi’s San Franciso/Oakland and La Peña in Berkeley. Sandra is currently also a member of Avotcja and Modupue as well as Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids\, with whom she toured Germany\, England\, Czechoslovakia\, Denmark\, Sweden and Switzerland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charles-curtis-blackwell-vincent-kobelt-the-all-star-revue/
LOCATION:Top of the Mark at the InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel\, 999 California St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Julien Poirier: Out of Print
DESCRIPTION:Release party for the new poetry collection \nOut of Print by Julien Poirier. With Elaine Kahn\, author of Women in Public. \nNo. 14 in the Spotlight Poetry Series published by City Lights Books \nThe third full-length collection by Julien Poirier\, Out of Print is a truly bicoastal volume\, reflecting the poet’s years in New York as well as his return to his Bay Area roots. Consider it a meetinghouse between late New York School and contemporary California surrealism\, a series of quips intercepted from America’s underground poetry telegraph\, or an absurdist mirror held up to consumerist culture. \n“Welcome Julien Poirier! What a distinct inspired voice. His work is abundant in surprise. His musical\, often bonkers play of language is\, for me\, a source of delight & revelation.”––David Meltzer \nJulien Poirier is the author of several poetry collections\, including El Golpe Chileño (Ugly Duckling\, 2010)\, Stained Glass Windows of California (Ugly Duckling\, 2012)\, and Way Too West (Bootstrap\, 2015) and Out of Print (City Lights). In 2005\, he published an experimental newspaper novel\, Living! Go and Dream (Ugly Duckling). He is also the editor of an anthology of writing by Jack Micheline\, One of a Kind (Ugly Duckling\, 2008)\, and a book of travel journals by Bill Berkson\, Invisible Oligarchs (Ugly Duckling\, 2015). A founding member of Ugly Duckling Presse Collective\, Poirier edited the newspaper New York Nights from 2001 to 2006. He has taught poetry in New York City public schools and at San Quentin State Prison. He lives in Berkeley with his wife and two daughters.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julien-poirier-out-of-print/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20160407T014852Z
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SUMMARY:Write Club SF Chapter 50: Only Happy When It Rains
DESCRIPTION:WRITE CLUB SF returns April 19th with guest host and curator\, Danielle Truppi. \nThe writers: Ismail Muhammad\, Danielle Truppi\, Roz Sternberg\, Loria Mendoza\, Louis Evans\, and Elwin Cotman. \nThe theme: April Showers \nThe bouts: POUR vs. DRAW\, SOAK vs. STEAM\, and ROOT vs. RUN \nWRITE CLUB is 3 rounds of 2 writers going head to head over a pair of opposing topics with 7 minutes each—7 MINUTES ONLY—to sway the crowd. \nYou pick the winner. Winner’s charity gets money.\n\n$5-15 Pay what you can\n21+ cash bar\, ATM available\nDoors at 7pm — Show at 8pm\nBaby-Makin’ Slow Jamz by 9:30 \n*that Garbage song from 1995 that everybody’s talking about still
URL:https://litseen.com/event/write-club-sf-chapter-50-only-happy-when-it-rains/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Two Voices Salon: Chris Clarke on Modiano
DESCRIPTION:Two Voices Salon with Chris Clarke on Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano. \nWe’ll talk with Chris Clarke about his translation of French writer and Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano’s In the Cafe of Lost Youth (New York Review Books). A short\, pensive novel of bohemian Paris just after the war\, Kirkus Reviews calls it “Evocative and perfectly written—trademark Modiano\, in other words.” \nClarke is a PhD student in French at City University of New York (CUNY)\, and together with Barbara Wright\, translator of Exercises in Style: 65th Anniversary Edition\, a collection of fiction by Raymond Queneau. \nWe’ll kick off the evening as usual with a short discussion of what’s new in translation and what we’re reading now. Come prepared to join the conversation!\nFREE food and drinks.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-voices-salon-chris-clarke-on-modiano/
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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CREATED:20160408T004920Z
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SUMMARY:Litquake: A Spring Poets Supper
DESCRIPTION:April is not the cruelest month when you can enjoy a spring-inspired feast of food and poetry at Gardenias restaurant in San Francisco! Litquake’s celebration of National Poetry Month features fabulous farm-to-table cuisine\, courtesy of the former owners of Woodward’s Garden\, as well as readings by two sensational new poets\, Kimberly Grey and Solmaz Sharif. \nGardenias is the new restaurant owned by Margie Conard and her wife Dana Tommasino\, who has been called “a poet on the page as well as on the plate.” Their former restaurant\, Woodward’s Garden\, earned a Michelin Guide notation and was a top SF pick by Martha Stewart\, who said that Tommasino and Conard “spearheaded the farm-to-table movement.” \nThe evening will include a sumptuous three-course meal with complimentary wine\, as well as performances by award-winning young poets\, curated by Guggenheim Fellow D.A. Powell. \nPoets’ price: $75 per person\n(includes author readings\, three-course prix fixe\, wine) \nPatrons’ price: $100 per person\n(includes author readings\, three-course prix fixe\, wine plus signed copies of books by each reader) \nBenefactors’ price: $125 per person\n(includes author readings\, three-course prix fixe\, wine\, signed books and invitation to private reception preceding the dinner) \nBios: \nKimberly Grey’s first book\, The Opposite of Light\, was awarded the 2015 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize and will be published by Persea Books in 2016. Her work has appeared in many places including Tin House\, The Kenyon Review\, A Public Space\, PN Review\, Boston Review\, jupilat\, Black Warrior Review\, Southern Review\, TriQuarterly and other journals. A former Stegner fellow\, she teaches creative writing at Stanford University. \nD. A. Powell is the author of Tea\, Lunch\, Cocktails\, Chronic and Useless Landscape\, or A Guide for Boys\, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry in 2013. Repast\, Powell’s latest\, collects his three early books in a handsome volume introduced by novelist David Leavitt. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts\, Powell lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nSolmaz Sharif’s poetry has appeared in The New Republic\, Poetry\, The Kenyon Review\, jubilat\, Gulf Coast\, Boston Review\, Witness\, and other media. She is recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award as well as a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. She is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. Her first poetry collection\, LOOK\, will be published by Graywolf Press in 2016.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-a-spring-poets-supper/
LOCATION:Gardenias\, 1963 Sutter St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94115\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:HELLA CLOSE: Stories of Intimacy by Sex Workers
DESCRIPTION:HELLA CLOSE IS BACK by popular demand!!! \nJoin RADAR Productions on our signature series\, Hella Close\, part of our year-long Queering the Castro program! \nCurated and Hosted by Cyd Nova\nFeaturing \nAria Sa’id\nAria Sa’id is the writer of Trans Sex In The City\, a concept blog of her essays and story telling of the experiences of cosmopolitan TS girls who weren’t invited to fish slumber parties. She resides in Oakland\, and in her spare time she browses style blogs; enjoys people watching\, habesha history\, listening to D’Angelo and Aaliyah\, run on sentences and intentionally bad punctuation\, drinking americanos and chain smoking\, memorizing James Baldwin and Picasso quotes on the steps in Union Square. \nLyric Seal aka Neve Be\nLyric Seal aka Neve Be is a mouthy\, queer\, multigender femme\, disabled black punk alter-disciplinary erotic artist and sex worker writing\, talking\, singing\, dancing\, touching (hearts\, themselves\, consenting creatures)\, and creating subversive\, disability justice centered queer eruptions and home in Oakland and Seattle. They are a Staff Writer at HARLOT Magazine (harlot.media)\, a columnist at maximumrocknroll\, a member of disability justice movement builder and performance project Sins Invalid (www.sinsinvalid.org)\, co-founder/co-facilitator of The Blueberry Jam\, a group and contact improvisational dance lab for queers and all genders of people dancing against misogyny\, and the voice behind the advice column SLUMBER PARTY which can be found on crashpadseries.com. You can be nice to them on Twitter and Instagram @littlebeasthood and you can find more of their work at littlebeasthood.tumblr.com. They are available for worship\, workshops\, performances\, porn\, and friend dates to punk shows. \nNatalia García\nNatalia García was born and raised in San Francisco Califaztlán. She reads from Sad Criolla Girl\, her in progress writings on her grandparents birthplace of Al Andalusia where she lives for several years of her life. Ella dedica suss escrituras a las que como ella no son ni de aquí\, ni de allá. \nTitiana Kumeh\nT. Kumeh is a Black queer art model\, a performance artist\, a writer\, and a ho-slash-professional lover. She fronts a punk rock band called Ugly\, a woman of color project that debuts May 2016. She has a BFA from San Francisco State University and a Master’s in Journalism from UC Berkeley. She hated grad school\, and her first reading was about that. In the past she’s written about communities of color\, education\, health\, and sex worker rights for publications such as the Los Angeles Times\, the New York Times\, and Mother Jones. Now she’s more interested in writing for and about herself. She’s performed at SomArts Cultural Center\, the Berkeley Art Museum\, the Lab\, Interface Gallery\, and with the Brontez Purnell Dance Company. She regularly poses for artists in studios and schools around the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hella-close-stories-of-intimacy-by-sex-workers/
LOCATION:Books Inc. In the Castro\, 2275 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20160408T010214Z
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SUMMARY:Karen Melander Magoon + Miguel Robles
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in our Readers Bookstore Fort Mason for our weekly FREE poetry series! \nBrowse books and enjoy a glass of wine while listening to internationally acclaimed poets and artists such as Jonathan Richman\, David Meltzer\, Diane di Prima and California Poet Laureate Al Young. The series is curated by Friends’ Resident Poet Jack Hirschman. \nProceeds from our bookstores benefit the San Francisco Public Library. \nFeatured poet(s): Karen Melander Magoon & Miguel Robles
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-melander-magoon-miguel-robles/
LOCATION:Readers Bookstore\, Fort Mason Center\, Building C\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20160408T010832Z
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SUMMARY:InsideStoryTime SUPERPOWERS
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime SUPERPOWERS\, in the downstairs room at the Armory Club\, 1799 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, on Thursday April 21st 2016\, 7-9 pm\, will feature Seanan McGuire (Indexing: Reflections)\, Charlie Anders (All the Birds in the Sky)\, Daryl Gregory (Harrison Squared)\, Elwin Cotman (Hard Time Blues)\, and Jessica May Lin. With guest MC Dhaya Lakshminarayanan. (Note: this event was originally to take place at the Make-out Room but had to relocate — apologies for any confusion.)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-superpowers/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20160408T011210Z
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SUMMARY:Anna Pulley: The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (With Cats!)
DESCRIPTION:Lesbian sex has been confounding people since the dawn of time. What is it that two women do together exactly? The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (with Cats!)\, a humorous guide to lesbian sex\, dating rituals\, and relationships\, aims to dispel all myths. Haiku paired with hilarious watercolor illustrations of cats in various stages of sexual awkwardness will enlighten\, demystify\, remystify\, and most importantly entertain as you learn all the aspects involved in girl-on-girl action.\n\nThis laugh-out-loud book is the perfect gift to amuse and educate your friends\, loved ones\, and lovers.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nANNA PULLEY is a writer in Oakland\, California. Her work has appeared in New York magazine and Mother Jones\, on BuzzFeed\, AlterNet\, The Toast\, and Salon\, and in zines tastefully peppered with Ani DiFranco lyrics. She’s been a repeat guest on Dan Savage’s podcast\, Savage Love\, and is a sex and relationship columnist for the Chicago Tribune and AfterEllen.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anna-pulley-the-lesbian-sex-haiku-book-with-cats/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160423T220000
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CREATED:20160408T012740Z
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SUMMARY:Write of Way Literary Festival
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco Art Institute will host the 1st annual Write of Way Literary Festival\, a series of readings and a bazaar featuring 25 of the best Bay Area independent literary organizations! Come celebrate independent literature! \nThe event is free and open to the public. \nList of Participating Literary Organizations \n826 Valencia\nAmbush Review\nBay Area Generations\nBazaar Writers Salon\nBeastCrawl\n¿Donde Esta Mi Gente?\nEleven Eleven\nThe Escapery: Your Writing Unschool\nFoglifter Press\nFourteen Hills\nThe God Particle\nLiminal\nLit Camp\nLyrics & Dirges\nManic D Press\nMilvia Street\nMixed Race Writers\nNomadic Press\nPandemonium Press\nPaper Press\nPassages on the Lake\nQueer Rebels\nRed Light Lit\nSF Creative Writing Institute\nSF Writers Grotto\nSanta Clara Review\nStudio 18: Spoken Word\nTransit Books\nUntitled Magazine\nVelRo
URL:https://litseen.com/event/write-of-way-literary-festival/
LOCATION:San Francisco Art Institute\, 800 Chestnut St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Explosive Poetry w/ Shiloh Jines\, Maxe Crandall & Jason Zuzga
DESCRIPTION:HOSTED BY KEVIN KILLIAN \n/Shiloh Jines/ received her BA from the University of Tennessee (Knoxville) in creative writing with an emphasis in poetry. In 2014\, she did an internship at The Pioneer House of Letterpress and Design\, formerly known as Yee-haw Industries\, which inspired a love of antique wood type and the southern handmade aesthetic. Jines is currently an MFA canidate in creative writing and book art at Mills College in Oakland\, California. Shiloh makes poem-books\, printed matter\, experimental videos & installations that explore temporal\, tactile & sensual dissonance which manifest in queer feminine memory. https://www.tumblr.com/search/shiloh%20jines \n/Maxe Crandall/ is a Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University and a tutor in the Hume Center for Speaking and Writing. They hold a PhD in English and Gender Studies from the University of Michigan. Maxe is at work on a critical biography titled Gertrude Stein and Men and has co-authored several academic articles on transgender performance with fellow PWR lecturer Dr. Selby Wynn Schwartz. A playwright and poet\, Maxe is the author of the chapbooks Together Men Make Paradigms and Emoji for Cher Heart. The play Together Men Make Paradigms premiered at Dixon Place (NYC) with an all poet and activist cast and was a finalist for the 2014 Leslie Scalapino Award. Prior to Stanford\, Maxe taught literature\, creative writing\, and academic writing at Columbia University\, Temple University\, and the Georgia Institute of Technology. In Columbia’s Undergraduate Writing Program\, Maxe began and co-directed the pilot program “Readings in Gender and Sexuality\,” where they developed courses grounded in activist writing\, intersectional feminism\, and social justice. http://maxecrandall.com/ \nAfter a series of jobs in New York publishing and a residential poetry fellowship year at the Fine Arts Work Center\, /Jason Zuzga/ completed an M.F.A. in poetry and nonfiction at the University of Arizona\, followed by a year as the poet-in-residence in the James Merrill House. He is currently a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania\, pursuing a Ph.D. in the English Department\, where he has taught classes such as “BAD KIDS” “SPOKEN ANIMAL” “HAUNTED HOUSES” and “20th C POETRY.” His debut book of poetry\, HEAT WAKE was published by Saturnalia Books in March 2016. His poetry and nonfiction has been published in numerous journals\, such as Tin House\, the Yale Review\, and the Paris Review. He is the Other/Nonfiction co-editor of FENCE. Words that appear in his new book include “queer\,” “Ava Gardner” and “tardigrade.” http://jasonzuzga.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/explosive-poetry-w-shiloh-jines-maxe-crandall-jason-zuzga/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kuwentuhan (Talkstory) Collective Performance
DESCRIPTION:Kuwentuhan (Talkstory) Collective Performance featuring: Arlene Biala\, Javier O. Huerta\, Urayoán Noel\, Barbara Jane Reyes\, Aimee Suzara\, Lehua M. Taitano\, Angela Narciso Torres \n“How one creates a poem is as interesting as the spaces in one’s life.” —Al Robles (1930–2009) \nOur three-day Kuwentuhan (Talkstory) residency culminates in a Collective Performance featuring all seven poet/performers utilizing the extent of the beautiful loft space on the 3rd Floor at McRoskey Mattress Co. in a simultaneous interpretation of their version of Kuwentuhan\, involving the audience in a participatory role. The evening’s performance will be documented for an experimental short film by SFSU’s DocFilm Institute. \nKuwentuhan (Talkstory) takes the Tagalog term\, a phoneticized form adapted through the colonial Spanish\, as its title\, proposition\, and starting point. Kuwentuhan (“necessary step towards big talk\,” by one definition) is orally based\, informal in nature\, usually spontaneous\, and is always an opportunity for people to converge and share. It occurs in all kinds of social spaces as talkstory circle. We envision this collaboration between artist(s)\, audiences\, and the Poetry Center\, as a way of enlarging this circle beyond ethnic boundaries\, in contested urban spaces. \nMany thanks to the Manilatown Heritage Foundation at I-Hotel\, Alley Cat Books\, the Bayanihan Community Center\, McRoskey Mattress Co.\, The Green Arcade\, DocFilm Institute\, poster artist Trinidad Escobar\, and the Creative Work Fund.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kuwentuhan-talkstory-collective-performance/
LOCATION:McRoskey Mattress Company\, Inc\, 1687 Market St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Yuri Herrera + Aaron Bady
DESCRIPTION:Yuri Herrera\, author of staff favorite Signs Preceding the End of the World\, discusses his new novel\, The Transmigration of Bodies\, with Aaron Bady. \nPraise for Yuri Herrera: \n‘Yuri Herrera must be a thousand years old. He must have travelled to hell\, and heaven\, and back again. He must have once been a girl\, an animal\, a rock\, a boy\, and a woman. Nothing else explains the vastness of his understanding.’ — Valeria Luiselli\, author of Faces in the Crowd \n‘In its hundred-odd pages\, Signs Preceding the End of the World manages to be many things at once: an allegory\, a dark myth\, an epic\, a compelling meditation on language.’ — Adam Levy\, Music and Literature \n‘Yuri Herrera is Mexico’s greatest novelist.’ — Francisco Goldman\, author of Say Her Name \n\nAbout The Transmigration of Bodies: \nA plague has brought death to the city. Two feuding crime families with blood on their hands need our hard-boiled hero\, The Redeemer\, to broker peace. Both his instincts and the vacant streets warn him to stay indoors\, but The Redeemer ventures out into the city’s underbelly to arrange for the exchange of the bodies they hold hostage.\nYuri Herrera’s novel is a response to the violence of contemporary Mexico. With echoes of Romeo and Juliet\, Roberto Bolano and Raymond Chandler\, “The Transmigration of Bodies” is a noirish tragedy and a tribute to those bodies loved\, sanctified\, lusted after\, and defiled that violent crime has touched. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yuri-herrera-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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