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SUMMARY:Natashia Deón in Conversation w/ Kaitlin Solimine
DESCRIPTION:Litquake is proud to host the San Francisco launch of Natashia Deón’s debut novel\, Grace. She will be in conversation with Kaitlin Solimine\, with book sales and signing to follow. \nFor a runaway slave in the 1840s south\, life on the run can be just as dangerous as life under a sadistic Massa. That’s what fifteen-year-old Naomi learns after she escapes the brutal confines of life on an Alabama plantation. Striking out on her own\, she must leave behind her beloved Momma and sister Hazel and takes refuge in a Georgia brothel run by a freewheeling\, gun-toting Jewish madam named Cynthia. There\, amidst a revolving door of gamblers\, prostitutes\, and drunks\, Naomi falls into a star-crossed love affair with a smooth-talking white man named Jeremy who frequents the brothel’s dice tables all too often. \nThe product of Naomi and Jeremy’s union is Josey\, whose white skin and blonde hair mark her as different from the other slave children on the plantation. Having been taken in as an infant by a free slave named Charles\, Josey has never known her mother\, who was murdered at her birth. Josey soon becomes caught in the tide of history when news of the Emancipation Proclamation reaches the declining estate and a day of supposed freedom quickly turns into a day of unfathomable violence that will define Josey—and her lost mother—for years to come. \nDeftly weaving together the stories of Josey and Naomi—who narrates the entire novel unable to leave her daughter alone in the land of the living—Grace is a sweeping\, intergenerational saga featuring a group of outcast women during one of the most compelling eras in American history. It is a universal story of freedom\, love\, and motherhood\, told in a dazzling and original voice set against a rich and transporting historical backdrop.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/natashia-deon-in-conversation-w-kaitlin-solimine/
LOCATION:Alamo Drafthouse Cinema\, 2550 Mission Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:An Evening w/ Emma Cline
DESCRIPTION:Emma Cline\, Author\, The Girls \nClaire Bidwell Smith\, Grief Therapist\, mother and author of “The Rules of Inheritance” and “After This: When Life is Over\, Where Do We Go?”–Moderator \nThe Girls\, the forthcoming\, highly-anticipated debut novel by Emma Cline\, tells the story of Evie\, a young woman who gets drawn into the mysterious world of a gang of girls and quickly finds herself immersed in their world and in over her her head. \nEmma’s writing has been praised by everyone from Lena Dunham to Mark Haddon for her deeply insightful observations about girls and the women they become. Emma rose to prominence when she signed a three book deal in 2014\, at the age of 25. \nJoin INFORUM at The Commonwealth Club of California for a riveting evening with Emma. \nThis is a Good Lit event\, underwritten by the Bernard Osher Foundation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-w-emma-cline/
LOCATION:Inforum at the Commonwealth Club\, 555 Post Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Moby: Porcelain
DESCRIPTION:From one of the most iconic DJs of our time\, Porcelain is a funny and harrowing account of the NYC club scene in the ’80s and ’90s. When Moby arrived in New York\, he was not only a poor\, skinny kid from Connecticut\, but also a Christian\, a vegan\, and a teetotaler. This was during the time when dance music was still largely underground in clubs like Palladium\, Mars\, and Limelight. By the end of the decade\, Moby contemplated the end in his career and put everything into one last project―the multimillion-selling album Play. Porcelain is both a chronicle of a city and a time and a deeply intimate exploration of finding one’s place. \n  \nTickets must be purchased in advance\, at this link. Prices: \n>> $30 one book / one ticket \n>> $45 one book / two tickets \n  \nPorcelain will be available on May 17th\, and you can pick up your book at the event during check-in. If you would like to coordinate in-store pick up ahead of time\, please contact events at booksmith dot com. \n  \nImportant caveats: \n>> This is a program based around Moby’s memoir Porcelain\, not a musical performance. Moby will only be signing copies of Porcelain. He will not sign any merchandise. \n>> Regarding photos: You can take photos of Moby in the signing line or during the program\, but NO posed photos or selfies with him will be allowed. \n>> Doors open at 6pm\, the program will begin at 7pm\, the signing will be held after the program. Wristbands for the signing line will be given on a first come\, first served basis upon arriving at the venue. However\, please note\, the signing could takeseveral hours to complete. Personalizations are not guaranteed. \n>> This is an 18+ show. Please bring photo ID. Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. Tickets are for standing room only. \n>> To inquire about a seat\, or for any other questions\, please email events at booksmith dot com before June 19th. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/moby-porcelain/
LOCATION:DNA Lounge\, 375 11th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Chinaka Hodge
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nDated Emcees \npublished by City Lights Books (Sister Spit Imprint). With Tongo Eisen-Martin & RyanNicole.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chinaka-hodge/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStoryTime INTERRUPTIONS
DESCRIPTION:Will feature Anne Germanacos (Tribute)\, Tony Robles (Cool Don’t Live Here No More)\, Makram Abu-Shakra (Interplay)\, Genine Lentine (Poses)\, and Luciano Aldana. With MC James Warner (All Her Father’s Guns).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-interruptions/
LOCATION:Second Act\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Word Performances: Private Parlor Show
DESCRIPTION:Word Performances with Arisa White\, Colleen McKee\, Pitta of the Mind\, Damien Alvarez\, Cybele Zufolo Siegel\, Todd Siegel\, Zarina Zabrisky\, Simon Roggue\, & Daniel Berkman – Private Parlor Show\nThursday Jun 23\, 2016\nDoors: 7:30 PM\nShow: 8:00 PM (ends at 10:30 PM) \n12 and over \n$10 in advance and $15 day of show online and at the door. \nPrivate Parlor Shows are open to all friends and fans of The Lost Church and the performers. \nSeating is first come\, first served. We recommend you buy in advance to ensure being a part of the event (parlor shows often sell out)\, but you can also try purchasing at the door on the night of the show.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/word-performances-private-parlor-show/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Elin Hilderbrand
DESCRIPTION:Here’s to Us is an emotional\, heartwarming story from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand about a grieving family that finds solace where they least expect it. \nCelebrity chef Deacon Thorpe has always been a force of nature with an insatiable appetite for life. But after that appetite contributes to Deacon’s shocking death in his favorite place on earth\, a ramshackle Nantucket summer cottage\, his (messy\, complicated) family is reeling. Now Deacon’s three wives\, his children\, and his best friend gather on the island he loved to say farewell. The three very different women have long been bitter rivals\, each wanting to claim the primary place in Deacon’s life and his heart. But as they slowly let go of the resentments they’ve held onto for years and remember the good times\, secrets are revealed\, confidences are shared\, and improbable bonds are formed as this unlikely family says goodbye to the man who brought them all together\, for better or worse–and the women he loved find new ways to love again. \nElin Hilderbrand does her best writing on the beaches of Nantucket and on the charming streets of Beacon Hill in Boston.Here’s to Us is her seventeenth novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elin-hilderbrand/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Finding Fontainbleau & My Brain on Fire
DESCRIPTION:Finding Fontainbleau: An American Boy in France & My Brain on Fire: Paris and Other Obsessions. Finding Fontainbleau This charming memoir recounts the adventures of Thad Carhart\, his parents and siblings\, in the provincial town of Fontainebleau\, France\, in the 1950s. My Brain on Fire: Paris and Other Obsessions. In 1962\, after a misguided foray towards a career in advertising\, Leonard Pitt took the ultimate cure– a trip to Paris. He stayed seven years. While performing and teaching\, he studied the origins of the ballet\, the history of early American popular music\, the pre-Socratic philosophers\, the European witch hunt\, the history of Paris\, and more.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/finding-fontainbleau-my-brain-on-fire/
LOCATION:San Francisco Mechanics’ Institute\, 57 Post Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rikki Ducornet
DESCRIPTION:reading from her new novel \nBrightfellow \npublished by Coffee House Press \nA feral boy comes of age on a campus decadent with starched sheets\, sweating cocktails\, and homemade jams. Stub is the cause of that missing sweater\, the pie that disappeared off the cooling rack. Then Stub meets Billy\, who takes him in\, and Asthma\, who enchants him\, and all is found\, then lost. A fragrant\, voluptuous novel of imposture\, misplaced affection\, and emotional deformity. \nAn artist and writer\, Rikki Ducornet has illustrated books by Robert Coover\, Jorge Luis Borges\, Forrest Gander\, and Joanna Howard. Her paintings have been exhibited widely\, including\, most recently\, at the Pierre Menard Gallery in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, and the Salvador Allende Museum in Santiago\, Chile. \nCritical Praise for the work of Rikki Ducornet: \n“Linguistically explosive . . . one of the most interesting American writers around.”—The Nation \n“Rikki Ducornet\, in the effervescent and airy Brightfellow\, deftly executes a hefty lightness\, the lightest of a bright\, light touch that delights and spontaneously combusts right before our eyes. Like an unbounded baron in the trees\, like a goat boy on the loose in the groves of academe\, this book inscribes a lofty scaffolding of amazing mazes\, canopies of wonder. Ignited luminescence\, irresistible levitation\, iridescent images—the words skip like philosophic stones through a saturated and shimmering exhalation.” —Michael Martone\, author of Michael Martone and Winesburg\, Indiana \n“Ducornet—surrealist\, absurdist\, pure anarchist at times—is one of our most accomplished writers\, adept at seizing on the perfect details and writing with emotion and cool detachment simultaneously. I love her style because it is penetrating and precise but also sensual without being overwrought. You experience a Ducornet novel with all of your senses.”—Jeff VanderMeer
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rikki-ducornet/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Indy Press Night ft. Ig Publishing w/ Carswell + Tanner
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the release of two new novels \nMetaphysical Ukulele \nby Sean Carswell \n& \nMissile Paradise \nby Ron Tanner \nboth books published by Ig Press \nAbout Metaphysical Ukulele: \nMixing the flair of literary invention with real events in the lives of some of our most well-known writers—Herman Melville living with a tribe of cannibals; Raymond Chandler holding The Blue Dahlia screenplay hostage from Paramount Studios; Flannery O’Connor falling in love; Chester Himes threatening to decapitate his landlord\, a ukulele player who may or may not be Thomas Pynchon\, among others—Sean Carswell takes the nonfiction of the literary life and turns it into exquisite fiction\, with a ukulele thrown in to each story for good measure. At times heartbreaking\, at times absurd\, the stories in this truly one-of-a-kind collection delightfully blur the line between what is life\, and what is literature. \nSean Carswell is the author of the novels Drinks for the Little Guy\, Train Wreck Girl\, and Madhouse Fog\, and the short story collections Barney’s Crew and Glue and Ink Rebellion. He co-founded the independent book publisher Gorsky Press and the music magazine Razorcake. He currently teaches writing and literature at California State University\, Channel Islands. \nAbout Missle Paradise: \nIn the Marshall Islands\, an island-nation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that was once a testing ground for nuclear bombs\, American engineers and programmers are making and testing missiles while their “hosts\,” the indigenous Marshallese\, sweep their streets and clean their houses. It’s 2004\, the Iraq war is heating up\, and 9/11 is fresh in everyone’s minds. Following four interconnected story lines—the meltdown of a burned-out cultural liaison who has “gone native” and bitterly resents his role in keeping the Marshallese down; a young programmer who has lost his leg in a reckless solo sailing journey; the struggles of a young widow with two children whose husband drowned in a mysterious diving accident; and the destructive spiral of a Marshallese teenager whose American girlfriend rejects him when she returns to the States—Missile Paradise is an extraordinary novel that deals with the major social and political issues of our time\, including racism\, represented by the relationship between the Americans who enjoy life on Kwajalein and the subservience of the native Marshallese\, who live on the neglected and trash-strewn island of Ebeye; and climate change—the climax of the novel is a great storm and flood which forces the Marshallese on Ebeye to flee to Kwajalein. \nRon Tanner’s awards for writing include a Faulkner Society gold medal\, a Pushcart Prize\, a New Letters Award\, a Best of the Web Award\, a Maryland Arts Council grant\, and many others. He is the author of A Bed of Nails (stories)\, Kiss Me Stranger (illustrated novel)\, and From Animal House to Our House (memoir). He teaches writing at Loyola University-Maryland and directs the Marshall Islands Story Project. \nIg Publishing produces original literary fiction from writers who have been overlooked by the mainstream publishing establishment\, and political and cultural nonfiction. Their Young Adult imprint\, Lizzie Skurnick Books\, is devoted to bringing back the very best in young adult literature\, from the classics of the ’30s and ’40s to the thrillers and social issue novels of the ’70s and ’80s.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/indy-press-night-ft-ig-publishing-w-carswell-tanner/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mychal Denzel Smith
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Invisible Man\, Got the Whole World Watching: \n“This is the book that could have saved so many of our lives.” —Kiese Laymon \n\n“Mychal Denzel Smith answers the pressing but unasked question\, what would happen if all those black boys felled by bullets had a chance to make mistakes\, read books\, fall in love\, hone skills\, take new paths\, and grow up? The story is fully and unflinchingly Mychal’s and because Mychal is so distinctively self-aware\, so intellectually invested\, and emotionally raw\, it cannot simply stand in as a generic tale for all the lost black boys– except that they too would have had stories entirely their own to tell if only they had had a chance to write them. We owe it to them and more importantly to ourselves to read Mychal’s book and render visible what we would rather forget.” —Melissa Harris-Perry \n\n“If I kept a diary of my deepest thoughts\, plaguing insecurities and varied triumphs—this would be it. It is a cover to cover conversation with the reader on the complexity of (hopefully) growing to be a Black Man in the American Empire. Mychal’s coming of age book\, his first\, is a masterful meld of personal reflection\, political analysis and honest insight that yearns to be felt\, must be read and demands to be seen.”  —umi selah\, organizer and co-founder\, the dream defenders \n\nAbout Invisible Man\, Got the Whole World Watching: \nHow do you learn to be a black man in America? For young black men today\, it means coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama. It means witnessing the deaths of Oscar Grant\, Trayvon Martin\, Michael Brown\, Akai Gurley\, and too many more. It means celebrating powerful moments of black self-determination for LeBron James\, Dave Chappelle\, and Frank Ocean.\nIn “Invisible Man\, Got the Whole World Watching\,” Mychal Denzel Smith chronicles his own personal and political education during these tumultuous years\, describing his efforts to come into his own in a world that denied his humanity. Smith unapologetically upends reigning assumptions about black masculinity\, rewriting the script for black manhood so that depression and anxiety aren t considered taboo\, and feminism and LGBTQ rights become part of the fight. The questions Smith asks in this book are urgentfor him\, for the martyrs and the tokens\, and for the Trayvons that could have been and are still waiting.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mychal-denzel-smith/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club 2
DESCRIPTION:New York Times best-selling novelist Chuck Palahniuk and acclaimed artist Cameron Stewart (with cover art by legendary artist David Mack) have collaborated for one of the most highly anticipated comic book and literary event of 2016… the return of Tyler Durden. Ten years after starting Project Mayhem\, Tyler Durden lives a mundane life. A kid\, a wife. Pills to keep his destiny at bay. But it won’t last long\, the wife has seen to that. He’s back where he started\, but this go-round he’s got more at stake than his own life. The time has arrived . . . Rize or Die. \nTickets: $33\, includes a copy Fight Club 2. \nA ticket must be purchased in advance to be included in the signing event. Only copies of Fight Club 2 purchased through Booksmith will be signed. One ticket admits only one person into the signing line\, no exceptions. \nThe first four people to purchase a ticket will receive a signed\, leather-bound copy of one of Palahniuk’s previous books. The next ten people to purchase a ticket will receive a signed fake arm (realistic bloated human flesh texture included).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chuck-palahniuk-fight-club-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Melba Abela + David Meltzer
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in our Readers Bookstore Fort Mason for our weekly FREE poetry series! \nBrowse books while listening to internationally acclaimed poets and artists such as Jonathan Richman\, David Meltzer\, Diane di Prima and California Poet Laureate Al Young. The series is curated by Friends’ Resident Poet Jack Hirschman. (For a list of the scheduled readers\, please see the line up below.) \nProceeds from our bookstores benefit the San Francisco Public Library.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/melba-abela-david-meltzer/
LOCATION:Readers Bookstore\, Fort Mason Center\, Building C\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Literary Speakeasy One Year Anniversary!
DESCRIPTION:It’s time again to order up a martini and enjoy the talent of some of the best Bay Area performers! This month\, Literary Speakeasy celebrates its one-year anniversary at Martuni’s Piano Bar. And this month we have one of the best line-ups yet as we welcome Peter Bullen\, guitarist and songwriter Jeff Desira\, Ginger Murray\, Jim Provenzano\, and Anna Pulley. Your host this month and every month is James J. Siegel. \nLiterary Speakeasy is a FREE event with NO drink minimum. All attendees will receive a FREE raffle ticket for a chance to win the night’s secret Speakeasy prize. \nCome join us for our one-year anniversary\, and raise a glass to some of the best talent in the San Francisco Bay Area! \nPeter Bullen came late to writing having failed at conversation\, and also from having noticed that people give you their attention if you are holding text\, trembling a little\, and standing in front of a microphone. He was a Quiet Lightning Neighborhood Hero in 2014 his work has appeared in sparkle & blink\, eleven eleven\, Red Light Lit\, LA Review of Books\, Oakland Review\, Blotterature\, and Sweet Wolverine. He finds the listing of literary credits tedious and is always jealous of everyone else’s\, which makes his own listing highly suspect. Read more about Peter at:WETRIEDOURBEST.WORDPRESS.COM \nA native of the San Francisco Bay Area\, Jeff Desira has had a diverse musical career before coming into his own as a singer-songwriter\, crafting honest and endearing pop songs and ballads. Jeff has currently been performing with guitarist Greg Lisher (Camper Van Beethoven\, Monks of Doom)\, Andrew Griffin (Felsen/Cake/Camper Van Beethoven)\, bassist Ben Bernstein\, and vocalist Carrie Davoli. Jeff’s latest release\, “Weathervane”\, includes two singles that are being featured in the forthcoming 2016 romantic comedy “The Way We Weren’t” produced by Brian DiMuccio (20th Century Fox\, Outpost 31 Media)\, and is currently recording another solo release. Get the new debut solo album “Weathervane” by Jeff Desira at:http://www.jeffdesira.com/ or\nhttp://www.cdbaby.com/cd/jeffdesira. \nGinger Murray is a writer and performance storyteller. She has appeared just about everywhere and done just about everything. She is also an avid lover of bad girls\, radical idiots\, and thinkers. She delights in wild expressions\, stories\, and the adventures of sublime chaos. \nJim Provenzano is the author of the novels PINS\, Monkey Suits\, Cyclizen\, the Lambda Literary Award winner Every Time I Think of You\, its Lammy Finalist sequel Message of Love\, as well as the stage adaptation of PINS. He’ll be reading from his new short story collection\, Forty Wild Crushes. A journalist in LGBT media for three decades\, he lives in San Francisco.http://jimprovenzano.blogspot.com/ \nAnna Pulley’s debut book\, The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (with Cats!) was published in April 2016 through Flatiron Books. Hailing from southern Arizona\, Anna is a freelance writer living in Oakland. She has been the Managing Editor of the East Bay Express\, the Arts and Culture Editor at SF Weekly\, the Social Media and Communications Fellow at Mother Jones\, and has written about everything from bars and restaurants to news to theater to sex toys\, in addition to writing several different sex and relationship columns for The Chicago Tribune’s RedEye\, AfterEllen\, and more. Her work can also be found in New York magazine\, The Toast\, San Francisco magazine (“The Oakland Issue” won a National Magazine Award)\, BuzzFeed\, Fusion\, AlterNet\, The Bay Citizen\, Salon\, The Daily Dot\, and The Rumpus. She has also been a guest on Dan Savage’s Savage Love Podcast. \nJames J. Siegel is the host and curator of Literary Speakeasy at Martuni’s Piano Bar in San Francisco. The series celebrates its one-year anniversary this month. James is the author of the poetry collection “How Ghosts Travel\,” published earlier this year by Spuyten Duyvil Press. His work has appeared in several journals and anthologies\, including Assaracus\, The Cortland Review\, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review\, and Divining Divas: 100 Gay Men On Their Muses.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-speakeasy-one-year-anniversary/
LOCATION:Martuni’s\, 4 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin
DESCRIPTION:Co-hosted by Tamara Cushway and Michael Warr \nReadings by devorah majors\, CS Giscombe\, Al Young\, and Michael Warr \nA bookrelease party and evening of poetry celebrating \nOf Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin \nComplied by Phil Cushway\, Edited by Michael Warr \nPublished by W.W. Norton \nCity Lights celebrates the release of this stunning new anthology that illuminates today’s black experience through the voices of our most transformative and powerful African American poets. \n\nIncluded in this extraordinary volume are the poems of 43 of America’s most talented African American wordsmiths\, including Pulitzer Prize–winning poets Rita Dove\, Natasha Tretheway\, Yusef Komunyakaa\, and Tracy K. Smith\, as well as the work of other luminaries such as Elizabeth Alexander\, Ishmael Reed\, and Sonia Sanchez. Included are poems such as “No Wound of Exit” by Patricia Smith\, “We Are Not Responsible” by Harryette Mullen\, and “Poem for My Father” by Quincy Troupe. Each is accompanied by a photograph of the poet along with a first-person biography. The anthology also contains personal essays on race such as “The Talk” by Jeannine Amber and works by Harry Belafonte\, Amiri Baraka\, and The Reverend Dr. William Barber II\, architect of the Moral Mondays movement\, as well as images and iconic political posters of the Black Lives Matter movement\, Malcolm X\, and the Black Panther Party. Taken together\, Of Poetry and Protest gives voice to the current conversation about race in America while also providing historical and cultural context. It serves as an excellent introduction to African American poetry and is a must-have for every reader committed to social justice and racial harmony. \n\nPhilip Cushway is the owner of Artrock and the author of Art of the Dead. \n\n\nMichael Warr received a Creative Work Fund award for “Tracing Poetic Memory.” He is deputy director of the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/of-poetry-and-protest-from-emmett-till-to-trayvon-martin/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cesar L. Baquerizo
DESCRIPTION:Cesar L. Baquerizo shares his stunning debut novel\, A Safe Place with You. “Grow And Live Normally” is a clinic in Ecuador that was opened to treat general addictions before moving to what the religious families viewed as the ultimate sin – homosexuality. The center boasts that they alone are able to cure families of this hidden secret inflicting their children. The unfortunate youths are misunderstood in a time when homosexuality was not just frowned upon\, but also illegal. They are sent to the clinic by their families where they are held against their will in the sexual reorientation wing. They find themselves subjected to physical and emotional trauma that tests their strength to survive and their courage to fight for their identities. Inspired by true events\, A Safe Place With You follows a young man named Tomas DIaz and his group of new found friends as they try to find themselves during an era of heightened ignorance and hatred. Will they be able to survive the closed doors of Grow and Live Normally? At its core\, this is a story about love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cesar-l-baquerizo/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160705T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160705T200000
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CREATED:20160629T010154Z
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SUMMARY:She Writes Press: Grinell\, Giammatteo\, Simpson\, + Rea
DESCRIPTION:In Appetite\,  twenty-five-year-old Jenn Adler brings home a guru from Bangalore with a plan to marry him\, forcing her parents to come to grips with the impending marriage—and its effect on their own. \nBorn in a taxi in Manhattan\, Sheila Grinell studied at the Bronx High School of Science\, Harvard University\, and the University of California\, Berkeley. Towards the end of her forty-year career as a creator of science museums\, she began to write fiction. \nWhen Hollis Giammatteo sought a job working with the elderly\, she did so with the intention of finding models of healthy aging. And she failed. In The Shelf Life of Ashes\, Giammatteo chronicles her experiences with her wards\, as well as the trip she embarks upon when her mother\, who is convinced she is dying\, entreats her to come “home.” Trips back\, traumas triggered\, identity in crisis\, equanimity gained—this quasi-comic\, concentrated journey engages the reader in the process of naming and facing the tasks involved in growing old\, while asking a simple but weighted question: Can aging be done well? \nWhen a life-threatening illness makes it necessary for Virginia A. Simpson’s mother\, Ruth\, to come live with her\, Simpson struggles to heal their relationship before Ruth dies. Touching and vividly human\, The Space Between reminds us all that without accepting the inevitability of death and looking ahead to it with clarity\, life cannot be fully lived. \nConjuring Casanova follows ER physician Elizabeth Hillman. She’s been hurt by the men in her life far too often\, which is why she spends her free time safely alone\, reading the memoir of Giacomo Casanova\, history’s most famous libertine. But when a child in Lizzy’s care dies\, she flees to Venice\, Italy for a much-needed break. It’s there\, on a lovely rooftop\, Casanova appears beside her. \nMelissa Rea has degrees in psychology and French literature\, and is an amateur Casinovist.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/she-writes-press-grinell-giammatteo-simpson-rea/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160706T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160706T210000
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CREATED:20160629T010647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160629T010647Z
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SUMMARY:Harold Norse Centennial: Killian\, Marler + Swindell
DESCRIPTION:“Well\, it was life\,” Beat generation poet Harold Norse told the Gay and Lesbian Review in 2003. “I thought everyone was living like that.” From World War II era Manhattan\, to the expatriate scenes of Tangier and Paris\, to San Francisco during gay liberation\, Norse documented his time in visionary poetry conveyed in a gutsy American vernacular. Longtime partner of poet and librettist Chester Kallman\, Norse’s friends included William Carlos Williams\, W.H. Auden\, and James Baldwin. On the hundredth anniversary of his Brooklyn birth\, three Bay Area queer authors will discuss the impact of his life and work. \nThis series of centennial events sponsored by The Beat Museum held in San Francisco and Los Angeles offers a look back at Harold’s legacy as an unheralded voice in Beat poetry with panel discussions with writers and artists who knew him. For more information visithttp://www.kerouac.com/beat_event/harold-norse-centennial/ \nPanelists include: \n\nKevin Killian\, San Francisco poet and writer\nRegina Marler\, editor of Queer Beats\nTodd Swindell\, editor of Selected Poems of Harold Norse\nModerated by Tate Swindell of Unrequited Records
URL:https://litseen.com/event/harold-norse-centennial-killian-marler-swindell/
LOCATION:San Francisco Mechanics’ Institute\, 57 Post Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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CREATED:20160629T010927Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160629T010927Z
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck Presents: Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code
DESCRIPTION:Come find out which person on the Shipwreck crew is a direct descendant of Jesus Christ! \nFeatured writers: Evan Burton\, Michael Howley\, Tara Marsden\, Jared Schwartz\,Na’amen Tilahun\, and Ash Fisher. \n$10 advance tickets / $12 at the door. Ticket includes open bar for 21+. \n— \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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-presents-dan-browns-the-da-vinci-code/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160707T223000
DTSTAMP:20260504T150220
CREATED:20160629T012337Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160629T012337Z
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SUMMARY:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 7:30pm\n$10 now or at the door.\nTickets available now: http://ticketf.ly/1tdKyn9\nProceeds go to the future of YG2D.\n[If you’re unable to pay the entry fee\, please contact me.] \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes\nis a total open mic event\, with no set or featured performers\,\nbut only the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want.\nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-3/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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CREATED:20160629T012556Z
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SUMMARY:Bill Lascher: Eve of a Hundred Midnights
DESCRIPTION:On New Year’s Eve\, 1941\, just three weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor\, the Japanese were bombing the Philippine capital of Manila\, where journalists Mel and Annalee Jacoby had married just a month earlier. The couple had worked in China as members of a tight community of foreign correspondents with close ties to Chinese leaders; if captured by invading Japanese troops\, they were certain to be executed. Racing to the docks just before midnight\, they barely escaped on a freighter—the beginning of a tumultuous journey that would take them from one island outpost to another. While keeping ahead of the approaching Japanese\, Mel and Annalee covered the harrowing war in the Pacific Theater—two of only a handful of valiant and dedicated journalists reporting from the region. \nSupported by deep historical research\, extensive interviews\, and the Jacobys’ personal letters\, Bill Lascher recreates the Jacobys’ thrilling odyssey and their love affair with the Far East and one another. Bringing to light their compelling personal stories and their professional life together\, Eve of a Hundred Midnights is a tale of an unquenchable thirst for adventure\, of daring reportage at great personal risk\, and of an enduring romance that blossomed in the shadow of war. \nBill Lascher is a journalist whose work has appeared in The Guardian\, Pacific Standard\, Gizmodo\, Portland Monthly\, and other publications. He was a 2011 Knight Digital Media Center multimedia and convergence fellow at the University of California\, Berkeley\, Graduate School of Journalism. He is a graduate of Oberlin College\, the Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism at USC\, and the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies\, and lives in Portland\, Oregon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bill-lascher-eve-of-a-hundred-midnights/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160709T210000
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CREATED:20160629T012912Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160629T012912Z
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SUMMARY:Harold Norse Centennial: Brooks\, Nawrocki + Swindell
DESCRIPTION:Feautring: \nPoet + Writer Adrian Brooks \nPoet + Friend of Norse Jim Nawrocki \nFounder of Unrequited Records Tate Swindell
URL:https://litseen.com/event/harold-norse-centennial-brooks-nawrocki-swindell/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160709T213000
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CREATED:20160602T013742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160602T013742Z
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks: Charles Stross\, Sarah Kuhn\, + Shruti Swamy
DESCRIPTION:Charles Stross (The Nightmare Stacks)\nSarah Kuhn (Heroine Complex)\nShruti Swamy (Prairie Schooner) \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. \nVariety is more that just the name of Prince’s favorite girl-singer sidekick. It’s more than just having sex dressed as Alien Greenspan every once in a while. It’s also a Literary Imperative! Which is why Writers With Drinks combines erotica with literature\, stand-up comedy with science fiction and poetry with essays. Plus mystery\, romance\, memoir\, rants and “other.” \nAll proceeds benefit local non-profits. Charlie Jane Anders MCs and vamps.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-charles-stross-sarah-kuhn-shruti-swamy/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160710T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160710T180000
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CREATED:20160629T013616Z
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SUMMARY:Gears Turning Poetry : Moore Jr.\, Ferraz\, + Rades
DESCRIPTION:July’s reading is about community. We’ve got two poets who have come to the Bay from parts east and one home grown poet. All three of these great writers have helped to foster a mutually supportive\, dedicated and healthy poetry scene while being from and of very different places. \nLeroy F. Moore Jr. is a dedicated activist\, a solid community member and a fierce poet. His first book\, Black Kripple Delivers Poetry and Lyrics is the result of many years of writing and reading in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world. His writing touches issues of poverty\, feminism\, disability and various forms of injustice. His work ranges from lyric to anthemic. \nJerry Ferraz has been a fixture in various poetry venues through the years. From Café Babar to Bird and Beckett this poet has written\, played his guitar\, curated and fostered other poets for decades. Come hear him here at Modern Times and also catch his regular reading series at Bird and Beckett in Glen Park. \nJane Rades holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her paintings and poems reveal the edges of vision in the everyday. Her books A Rosary of Poems\, Five Decades and Two Years in the Tarot\, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Fortuneteller as well as her deck of tarot cards all invite the reader/viewer to look deep. \nThis a Calle 24/Latino cultural heritage district\nSecond Sunday\, Paseo Artístico event
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gears-turning-poetry-moore-jr-ferraz-rades/
LOCATION:Modern Times Bookstore Collective\, 2919 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160710T180000
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CREATED:20160629T014008Z
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SUMMARY:Mixed Poetry Series Poesía Revuelta
DESCRIPTION:Mixed Poetry Series Poesía Revuelta\, features Jack Hirschman\, Dottie Payne\, QR Hand\, and Daniel Flores\, hosted by Jorge Argueta\, plus Kalpulli Kiaketzalli Aztec Dancers\, Acción Latina\, 2958 24th Street\, San Francisco\, free\, 4:00 (415/795-0024\, www.jorgeargueta.com)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mixed-poetry-series-poesia-revuelta/
LOCATION:Acción Latina\, 2958 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160711T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160711T200000
DTSTAMP:20260504T150220
CREATED:20160629T235141Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160629T235141Z
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SUMMARY:Left Coast Writers: Dystopia + Manifesto Readings
DESCRIPTION:The Left Coast Writers® present an evening of selected readings.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/left-coast-writers-dystopia-manifesto-readings/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160711T200000
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CREATED:20160629T235708Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160629T235708Z
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: The Long and Short of It
DESCRIPTION:Three writers of long (novels\, novellas) and short fiction (short stories) read from their work Monday\, July 11\, 7pm at Books Inc. Opera Plaza. \nMichael Aleynikov is the author of the novel Ivan and Misha\, the four novellas of Quartet\, and numerous short stories published in literary magazines and anthologies. \nJim Provenzano’s new short story collection is 40 Wild Crushes. He has published 5 novels including Message of Love and Every Time I Think of You and many short stories. \nNa’amen Gobert Tilahun has just published his first novel The Root\, a scifi thriller. His short fiction has appeared in several literary magazines. \nAfter the authors read\, they’ll participate in a short discussion of the variety and vagaries of writing short fiction vs. long. \nRefreshments will be served. \nDoor prizes at 7pm to reward prompt arrival! \nA free event open to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-the-long-and-short-of-it/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160711T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160711T213000
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CREATED:20160629T235335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160629T235335Z
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SUMMARY:Zora O’Neill
DESCRIPTION:Praise for All Strangers Are Kin: \n\n“Part travelogue\, part Bildungsroman\, part ethnography\, this work is as intricate and nuanced as the Arabic language itself. O’Neill masterfully weaves together vignettes\, linguistic musings\, and a colorful cast of thousands into an always-thoughtful\, often hysterically funny paean to a part of the world about which most Americans remain woefully ignorant.” –Suketu Mehta\, author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found \n“Zora O’Neill is the perfect travel companion: smart\, curious\, witty and knowledgeable. In time where the news out of the Middle East is too often grim\, she finds warmth and humor. By refusing to tread along the same paths that so many news reporters are confined to\, and in so doing\, she reveals to us rich new possibilities for understanding–all in a deceptively breezy tone.” – Carla Power\, author of National Book Award Finalist If the Oceans Were Ink \n“Zora O’Neill is a wonderful writer\, a hakawati who can spin a tale with the best of them.” – Rabih Alameddine\, bestselling author of The Hakawati and An Unnecessary Woman \n\nAbout All Strangers Are Kin: \n\nThe “shadda” is the key difference between a pigeon (“hamam”) and a bathroom (“hammam”). Be careful\, our professor advised\, in the first moment of outright humor in class\, that you don t ask a waiter\, Excuse me\, where is the pigeon? or\, conversely\, order a roasted toilet. If you ve ever studied a foreign language\, you know what happens when you first truly and clearly communicate with another person. As Zora O Neill recalls\, you feel like “a magician.” If that foreign language is Arabic\, you just might feel like a wizard. They say that Arabic takes seven years to learn and a lifetime to master. O Neill had put in her time. Steeped in grammar tomes and outdated textbooks\, she faced an increasing certainty that she was not only failing to master Arabic\, but also driving herself crazy. She took a decade-long hiatus\, but couldn t shake her fascination with the language or the cultures it had opened up to her. So she decided to jump back in this time with a new approach. Join O Neill for a grand tour through the Middle East. You will laugh with her in Egypt\, delight in the stories she passes on from the United Arab Emirates\, and find yourself transformed by her experiences in Lebanon and Morocco. She’s packed her dictionaries\, her unsinkable sense of humor\, and her talent for making fast friends of strangers.From quiet\, bougainvillea-lined streets to the lively buzz of crowded medinas\, from families homes to local hotspots\, she brings a part of the world that is thousands of miles away right to your door. A natural storyteller with an eye for the deeply absurd and the deeply human\, O Neill explores the indelible links between culture and communication. A powerful testament to the dynamism of language\, “All Strangers Are Kin” reminds us that learning another tongue leaves you rich with so much more than words.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zora-oneill/
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:20160712T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160712T200000
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CREATED:20160629T235945Z
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SUMMARY:She Writes Press: Ainsworth\, Sweeney\, Nye\, + Pearl
DESCRIPTION:From the privacy of a confidential read\, and with the perspective of both client and healer\, Tell Me Your Story: How Therapy Works to Awaken\, Heal\, and Set You Free moves you through the stages of therapy from the initial phone call to the final goodbye connecting body\, mind\, and spirit with inner wisdom to reclaim and enjoy your most authentic life. \nTuya Pearl is the pen name of a psychotherapist from Southern California. \nJust when US WAVE Livvy Delacourt thinks she and her team of psychic Nazi hunters are ready for whatever The Reich can throw at them\, Hitler adds to the mix a spy who also happens to be a wizard. An emotional journey through paranormal realms\, Expect Deception: An Operation Delphi Novel is a fast-paced\, suspenseful tale of what happens when US Navy psychics pit themselves against their Nazi counterparts. \nJoAnn Smith Ainsworth experienced WWII food rationing\, Victory Gardens\, and blackout sirens as a child. \nWhen Eliza Waite chooses to leave a stagnant life in rural Washington State and join the masses traveling north to Alaska in 1898 during the tumultuous Klondike Gold Rush\, she encounters challenges and successes in both business and love. Using Gold Rush history\, diary entries\, and authentic pioneer recipes\, Eliza Waite transports readers to the sights sounds\, smells\, and tastes of a raucous and fleeting era of American history. \nA native New Yorker\, Ashley Sweeney lives and writes in La Conner\, Washington. \nAfter a devastating firestorm destroys Risa Nye’s Oakland\, California home and neighborhood\, she has to dig deep to discover her inner strength and resilience. There Was a Fire Here is the story of how Nye adjusts to the turning point that will forever mark the “before and after” in her life—and a chronicle of her attempts to honor the lost symbols of her past even as she struggles to create a new home for her family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/she-writes-press-ainsworth-sweeney-nye-pearl/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160712T213000
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CREATED:20160630T000531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160630T000531Z
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SUMMARY:Jesse Ball: How to Set a Fire and Why
DESCRIPTION:Long-time Green Apple favorite Jesse Ball joins us for a special celebration of his latest novel\, How to Set a Fire and Why. \nPraise for Jesse Ball: \n“How to Set a Fire and Why is a rare and startling work. Days after I read it\, I find that I can’t stop thinking about it\, and what I’ve realized is that this is a book I will not forget. This is a harrowing\, subtle\, and absolutely electrifying novel.” —Emily St. John Mandel\, bestselling author of Station Eleven\n\n\n“The beautifully blunt narration of a gifted delinquent propels this excellent sixth novel…. Lucia details a philosophy that smartly parallels the novel’s own–namely\, that writing literature is\, like arson\, an act of creation and destruction…. Thrilling…. A song of teenage heartbreak sung with a movingly particular sadness\, a mature meditation on how actually saying something\, not just speaking\, is what most makes a voice human.”  —Publishers Weekly (starred\, boxed review)\n\n\n\n“Profound… Ball performs the remarkable task of pruning away layers of readerly skepticism in order to find the inherent beauty of small moments.” —Jonathon Sturgeon\, Flavorwire\, on A Cure for Suicide\n\n\nAbout How to Set Fires and Why: \nThe highly acclaimed author of A Cure for Suicide now gives us a singular\, blistering novel about a teenage girl who has lost everything and will burn anything. \n  \nLucia’s father is dead; her mother is in a mental institute; she’s living in a garage-turned-bedroom with her aunt. And now she’s been kicked out of school again. Making her way through the world with only a book\, a zippo lighter\, a pocket full of stolen licorice\, a biting wit\, and striking intelligence she tries to hide\, she spends her days riding the bus to visit her mother and following the only rule that makes any sense to her: “Don’t do things you aren’t proud of.” But when she discovers that her new school has a secret Arson Club\, she’s willing to do anything to be a part of it\, and her life is suddenly lit up. And as her fascination with the Arson Club grows\, her story becomes one of misguided friendship and\, ultimately\, destruction.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jesse-ball-how-to-set-a-fire-and-why/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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