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SUMMARY:52nd Annual Fall Big Book Sale
DESCRIPTION:It’s the 52nd Annual Fall Big Book Sale! \nWHEN: September 21-25\, 2016 // 10 AM – 6 PM\n(Members Preview Sale & Reception: September 20\, 4-8 PM)\nWHERE: Fort Mason Center\, Festival Pavillion (pier 3)\nWHAT: Half a million books & media for only $3 or less!\nWHY?: Proceeds support the San Francisco Public Library \nMEMBER RECEPTION:\nWe serve wine & snacks while you shop! Become a member of Friends and attend the Member Preview Sale & Reception on Tuesday\, September 21st. Members are given 1st access to the sale the eve before it goes public. Join online today (www.friendssfpl.org/membership) or in our Readers Bookstores. \nWANT FREE BOOKS? VOLUNTEER!\nIt takes a village to put on a Big Book Sale! We need volunteers from September 19 – 26. Each volunteer receives a complimentary ticket to our Preview Reception\, first look at the books as they come in\, and a $5 coupon for every shift. Sign up today at www.friendssfpl.org/volunteer or call (415) 626-7500 for more information. \nSUNDAY: THE SALE GOES ON SALE\nPsst… on Sunday\, September 25 (the last day of our sale) all items are only $1! \nPlease visit www.friendssfpl.org/bigbooksale or call (415) 626-7500 for more information.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/52nd-annual-fall-big-book-sale/
LOCATION:Festival Pavillion at Fort Mason\, 2 Marina Blvd\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160921T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160921T200000
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SUMMARY:Affinity Konar
DESCRIPTION:Co-Sponsored by Emanu-El \nIt’s 1944 when a pair of twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world\, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures\, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele’s Zoo\, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others\, and they find themselves changed\, stripped of the personalities they once shared\, their identities altered by the burdens of guilt and pain. \nThat winter\, at a concert orchestrated by Mengele\, Pearl disappears. Stasha grieves for her twin\, but clings to the possibility that Pearl remains alive. When the camp is liberated by the Red Army\, she and her companion Feliks–a boy bent on vengeance for his own lost twin–travel through Poland’s devastation. Undeterred by injury\, starvation\, or the chaos around them\, motivated by equal parts danger and hope\, they encounter hostile villagers\, Jewish resistance fighters\, and fellow refugees\, their quest enabled by the notion that Mengele may be captured and brought to justice within the ruins of the Warsaw Zoo. As the young survivors discover what has become of the world\, they must try to imagine a future within it. \nA superbly crafted story\, told in a voice as exquisite as it is boundlessly original\, Mischling defies every expectation\, traversing one of the darkest moments in human history to show us the way toward ethereal beauty\, moral reckoning\, and soaring hope. \nAffinity Konar was raised in California. She has an MFA in fiction from Columbia University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/affinity-konar/
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:20160921T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160921T213000
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SUMMARY:Ann Patchett w/ Roy Eisenhardt
DESCRIPTION:Ann Patchett is best known for her award-winning novel Bel Canto\, “a book that works both as a paean to art and beauty and a subtly sly comedy of manners” (New York Times). She is also the author of the novels Run\, The Patron Saint of Lair’s\, State of Wonder\, and The Magician’s Assistant\, and the memoir The Getaway Car.In Commonwealth\, Patchett’s much-anticipated new novel\, an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes the lives of two Southern California families. The book explores disillusionment\, guilt\, and deeply loyal friendships. Patchett lives in Nashville\, Tennessee\, where she is co-owner of Parnassus Books\, a popular independent bookstore. \nRoy Eisenhardt practiced law for twelve years in San Francisco. He was President of the Oakland Athletics and served as the Executive Director for the California Academy of Sciences. He teaches at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law. His many past interviews for City Arts & Lectures include General Colin Powell\, Oliver Sacks\, Desmond Tutu\, Linda Ronstadt\, and Doris Kearns Goodwin.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ann-patchett-w-roy-eisenhardt/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160922T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160922T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T105023
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SUMMARY:Swan Huntley
DESCRIPTION:Join California author and Columbia University alum\, Swan Huntley\, to celebrate the publication of her suspenseful debut novel. Tracing the relationship between socialite Catharine West and her mysterious lover\, William\, who has unexpected ties to her family past\, We Could Be Beautiful explores the dark psychological layers beneath a superficially glittering society.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/swan-huntley/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160922T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160922T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T105023
CREATED:20160920T232819Z
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SUMMARY:Snack Bar Collective #2 Release: GROSS
DESCRIPTION:Snack Bar Collective presents its second issue: GROSS! Featured readers include Amy Berkowitz\, Tom Comitta\, Carrie Hunter\, George Pfau\, and more!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/snack-bar-collective-2-release-gross/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160922T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160922T213000
DTSTAMP:20260501T105023
CREATED:20160720T010422Z
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SUMMARY:Alexander Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Alexander Weinstein: \n“A darkly mesmerizing\, fearless\, and exquisitely written work. Stunning\, harrowing\, and brilliantly imagined.” ―Emily St. John Mandel\, author of Station Eleven \n\n“[Weinstein’s] stories look like SF―consider the childless couple living in a virtual-reality community whose child there is wiped out by a computer virus―but read like literary fiction. Calling all fans of Margaret Atwood and Emily St. John Mandel.” ―Barbara Hoffert\, Library Journal Prepub Alert \n\nAbout Children of the New World: \nAN EXTRAORDINARILY RESONANT AND PROPHETIC COLLECTION OF SPECULATIVE SHORT FICTION FOR OUR TECH-SAVVY ERA BY DEBUT AUTHOR ALEXANDER WEINSTEIN \n  \nChildren of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants\, memory manufacturers\, dangerously immersive virtual reality games\, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human distance\, while others inhabit a post-collapse landscape made primitive by disaster\, which they must work to rebuild as we once did millennia ago. \n  \nIn “The Cartographers\,” the main character works for a company that creates and sells virtual memories\, while struggling to maintain a real-world relationship sabotaged by an addiction to his own creations. In Saying Goodbye to Yang\, the robotic brother of an adopted Chinese child malfunctions\, and only in his absence does the family realize how real a son he has become. \n  \nChildren of the New World grapples with our unease in this modern world and how our ever-growing dependence on new technologies has changed the shape of our society. Alexander Weinstein is a visionary new voice in speculative fiction for all of us who are fascinated by and terrified of what we might find on the horizon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexander-weinstein/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160923T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160923T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T105023
CREATED:20160828T063555Z
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SUMMARY:Birthright: The Book Party
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the celebration of my new book of poems\, Birthright. Special guests to include Maurisa Thompson and Kim Shuck.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/birthright-the-book-party/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160923T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160923T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T105023
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SUMMARY:Pattie McCarthy + Denise Newman
DESCRIPTION:Pattie McCarthy is author of five full length books of poetry with Apogee Press. The most recent\, “Quiet Book”\, came out this year. Pattie has also published many chapbooks and has been the recipient of a Pew Foundation grant\, among other awards. Pattie is a Phililadelphia poet\, and her first readings from “Quiet Book” will be this September on her West Coast tour. \nDenise Newman is a poet and translator living in San Francisco. Her translation of The Painted Room by the Danish poet Inger Christensen will was published by the Harvill Press\, U.K. She is the author of two chapbooks\, Why Pear? (Em Press) and Of Later Things Yet to Happen (Meow Press). Her poems have appeared in Volt\, apex of the M\, Chain\, and Five Fingers Review\, where she is a staff editor. She has been a Djerassi Resident Artist\, and she teaches creative writing at the California College of Arts and Crafts and at Mills College. Her most recent books are The New Make Believe\, published by the Post Apollo Press in 2010\, and her translation of Inger Christenen’s novel Azorno.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pattie-mccarthy-denise-newman/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160923T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160923T213000
DTSTAMP:20260501T105023
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SUMMARY:Juan Gabriel Vásquez
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Juan Gabriel Vasquez: \n“The narrative escalates\, the mystery deepens\, and the scope of the story widens with each page. This terrific novel draws on Colombia’s tragic history and cycles of violence to tell the story of a troubled man trying to come to grips with the distant forces and events that have shaped his life.” —Khaled Hosseini \n\n“A fine and frightening study of how the past preys upon the present…” —John Banville \n\n“I felt myself under the spell of a masterful writer. Juan Gabriel Vásquez has many gifts–intelligence\, wit\, energy\, a deep vein of feeling–but he uses them so naturally that soon enough one forgets one’s amazement at his talents\, and then the strange\, beautiful sorcery of his tale takes hold.”  —Nicole Krauss \n\n“Juan Gabriel Vásquez is one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature.”  —Mario Vargas Llosa \n\n“For anyone who has read the entire works of Gabriel García Márquez and is in search of a new Colombian novelist… a thrilling new discovery.” —Colm Tóibín \n\nAbout Reputations: \nFrom the brilliant mind of the author of “The Sound of Things Falling\,” a powerful novel about a legendary political cartoonist.\nJavier Mallarino is a living legend. He is his country’s most influential political cartoonist\, the consciousness of a nation. A man capable of repealing laws\, overturning judges’ decisions\, destroying politicians’ careers with his art. His weapons are pen and ink. Those in power fear him and pay him homage.\nAt sixty-five\, after four decades of a brilliant career\, he’s at the height of his powers. But this all changes when he’s paid an unexpected visit from a young woman who upends his sense of personal history and forces him to re-evaluate his life and work\, questioning his position in the world.\nIn “Reputations\,” Juan Gabriel Vasquez examines the weight of the past\, how a public persona intersects with private histories\, and the burdens and surprises of memory. In this intimate novel\, Vasquez plumbs universal experiences to create a masterful story\, one that reverberates long after you turn the final page.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/juan-gabriel-vasquez/
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:20160924T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160924T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T105023
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SUMMARY:100 Thousand Poets For Change
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Bob Booker and Philip Hackett \nOPEN MIC\n(signup begins at 10am)\nFEATURED POETS\nCharles Curtis Blackwell\nDiego DeLeo\nJessica Loos\nLucho (saxophone)\nCharles Marion\nRichard Voorhees\nPeter Sherburn-Zimmer\nStormin’ Norman (saxophone)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/100-thousand-poets-for-change/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160924T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160924T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T105023
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SUMMARY:LPP+ Residency: Tom Comitta / Closing Reading
DESCRIPTION:For the month of September the LPP+ Resident is LA based Tom Comitta. In partnership with Et al.etc. Tom will do a reading for the closing of his residency with LPP. \nThe reading will be at Et al. etc. Gallery in Minnesota Street Projects and will also serve as a closing event for Cybele Lyle’s solo exhibition ‘Bring me here\, now take me away’ \nFor this event\, Comitta will read from his novel-in-progress The City of Nature\, for which he has collected nature descriptions from over a hundred novels into one “Frankenstein” of a nature novel. All characters have been removed apart from chirping birds\, trotting horses\, and the whale from Moby-Dick. Doubling as a kind of data analysis\, the book documents how novels exploit nature to carry human drama through its peaks and troughs. Clouds and rain bring gloom (“the ground sobs”) and thunder brings rage\, but when the sun returns it’s all smiles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lpp-residency-tom-comitta-closing-reading/
LOCATION:Minnesota Street Project\, 1275 Minnesota Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160924T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160924T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T105023
CREATED:20160920T233505Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poetry Marathon’s 100TPC
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 24 is 2016’s global\n100  THOUSAND  POETS  FOR  CHANGE  DAY \nCome to the Bay Area Poetry Marathon’s 100TPC event\,\nand join other poets\, musicians\, artists\, dancers\, photographers\, & performing artists\,\naround the USA & across the planet\, \nin a demonstration & celebration of poetry\nto promote serious social\, environmental\, & political change. \nThis year’s event\, curated by \nBAPM series curator Donna de la Perrière\, includes:\n \nXochiquetzal Candelaria  *  Aja Couchois Duncan\nEdward Foster  *  Tonya Foster  *  Kit Schluter\nAlicia Franco  *  Arisa White  *  Al Young\n \nDoors open at 6:30pm.\nReading begins at 7:00pm *sharp*
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poetry-marathons-100tpc/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160925T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160925T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T105023
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SUMMARY:Charlie Getter
DESCRIPTION:Bio in his own words:\n“I am a poet and performer from the street corner  of 16th and Mission in San Francisco… have a birthmark on my belly the shape of the Island of Jamaica and that has grown as I’ve advanced in age and girth….have performed in ten different states and on the interweb….belong to the Collaborative Arts Insurgency that founded the 16th and Mission reading series and am a founding (and current) editor of the 16th and Mission Review… hold an MFA in poetics from the New College of California (may it rest in peace) and have been published just about everywhere I have cared to and also write plays\, four of which have been produced. I have a yellow dog named Tugboat that weighs over a hundred pounds.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charlie-getter/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160927T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160927T213000
DTSTAMP:20260501T105023
CREATED:20160720T011808Z
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Safran Foer w/ Steven Winn
DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of two bestselling\, award-winning novels\, Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close\, and a bestselling work of nonfiction\, Eating Animals. His much anticipated new novel\, Here I Am\, will be published in September 2016.  Unfolding over four tumultuous weeks\, in present-day Washington\, D.C.\, Here I Am is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. As Jacob and Julia and their three sons are forced to confront the distances between the lives they think they want and the lives they are living\, a catastrophic earthquake sets in motion a quickly escalating conflict in the Middle East. At stake is the very meaning of home–and the fundamental question of how much life one can bear.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jonathan-safran-foer-w-steven-winn/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160928T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160928T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T105023
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SUMMARY:Loose Lips Book Launch w/ Cecil Baldwin
DESCRIPTION:Shipwreck Presents: A Literary Erotic Fanfic Competition based on The Princess Bride. It’s a Shipwreck! It’s a book launch party! It’s everything you’ve ever wanted! \n  \nThe San Francisco-based team behind the literary erotic fanfiction competition SHIPWRECK heads to The Public Works SF for one unforgettable night in October to take on William Goldman’s The Princess Bride in celebration of the launch of Shipwreck’s first anthology\, LOOSE LIPS\, forthcoming from Grand Central Publishing on 9/27. \nSHIPWRECK invites six Great Writers to write fanfic about characters from one Great Book\, and you get to decide the winner before we reveal who wrote what. How? All fics are read by our Thespian-In-Residence\, Cecil Baldwin. \nSee! Six respected writers debase themselves for applause and dick jokes. Marvel! As beloved characters are plucked from their worlds and made to do stuff they were never meant to do in places they were never meant to see. Pray! That you never have to sit on stage and face a crowd while someone else reads your fanfic. Drink! A lot\, probably. \nFeaturing: Gina Gold\, Jane Harrison\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, Kate Schatz\, Michelle Threadgould\, and Maggie Tokuda-Hall. \n[No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. We’re not dicks\, we just like dick jokes. Shipwreck is brought to you by Booksmith\, Amy Stephenson\, and Casey Childers.]
URL:https://litseen.com/event/loose-lips-book-launch-w-cecil-baldwin/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160929T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160929T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T105023
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LAST-MODIFIED:20160811T004541Z
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SUMMARY:Affinity Konar: Mischling
DESCRIPTION:Co-Sponsored by Emanu-El \nIt’s 1944 when a pair of twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world\, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures\, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele’s Zoo\, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others\, and they find themselves changed\, stripped of the personalities they once shared\, their identities altered by the burdens of guilt and pain. \nThat winter\, at a concert orchestrated by Mengele\, Pearl disappears. Stasha grieves for her twin\, but clings to the possibility that Pearl remains alive. When the camp is liberated by the Red Army\, she and her companion Feliks–a boy bent on vengeance for his own lost twin–travel through Poland’s devastation. Undeterred by injury\, starvation\, or the chaos around them\, motivated by equal parts danger and hope\, they encounter hostile villagers\, Jewish resistance fighters\, and fellow refugees\, their quest enabled by the notion that Mengele may be captured and brought to justice within the ruins of the Warsaw Zoo. As the young survivors discover what has become of the world\, they must try to imagine a future within it. \nA superbly crafted story\, told in a voice as exquisite as it is boundlessly original\, Mischling defies every expectation\, traversing one of the darkest moments in human history to show us the way toward ethereal beauty\, moral reckoning\, and soaring hope. \nAffinity Konar was raised in California. She has an MFA in fiction from Columbia University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/affinity-konar-mischling/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160929T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160929T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T105023
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SUMMARY:Zach Wyner
DESCRIPTION:Friends\, \nPlease join us for an evening of literary-laced bonhomie to celebrate Zach Wyner and his debut novel\, What We Never Had\, Rare Bird Books. \nThe Where: The Booksmith on September\, 29th at 7:30PM. \nThe What: Join us for a rolling conversation and reading by two Bay Area debut novelists. \nZach Wyner and Calder G. Lorenz\, One Way Down (Or Another)\, Civil Coping Mechanisms\, 2017\, will share stories of why they write and what they hope to find at the end of this long road we call publication. \nWe hope to see you there. And to perhaps share a drink at The Zam Zam after the event. \nCheck out Zach Wyner’s debut novel\, What We Never Had\, either at your local independent bookstore\, or on Indiebound or Amazon. Your support really makes a difference.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zach-wyner-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160930T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160930T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T105023
CREATED:20160920T235837Z
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SUMMARY:Incidents of Travel in Poetry: The Poems of Frank Lima
DESCRIPTION:Join City Lights’ Poetry Editor Garrett Caples\, and Berkeley-based poet\, Julien Poirier\, for a presentation from their co-edited\, posthumous Frank Lima anthology\, Incidents of Travel in Poetry. A classically trained chef\, born in Spanish Harlem in 1939\, Lima’s poems are steeped in the pain and playfulness of the urban milieu in which they were created. Caples and Poirier will also read from their own works\, including Caples’ new collection Power Ballads\, published this month by Wave Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/incidents-of-travel-in-poetry-the-poems-of-frank-lima/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160930T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160930T203000
DTSTAMP:20260501T105023
CREATED:20160921T000106Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160921T000106Z
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SUMMARY:Tanya Holtland\, Jennifer S. Cheng\, + Maxwell Shanley
DESCRIPTION:Join Seattle-based poet Tanya Holtland and featured poets Jennifer S. Cheng (HOUSE A\, forthcoming from Omnidawn) and Maxwell Shanley (THERE ARE TREES I SEE MY DEATH IN\, forthcoming from Drop Leaf Press) to celebrate the release of Holtland’s chapbook\, INNER RIVER\, available now from Drop Leaf Press. \nDrop Leaf Press’ first chapbook series launches with Tanya Holtland’s INNER RIVER\, whose unusual format carries us across the breadth of the page and into the depths of our darkest and saturated currents of being. In verse both formal and experimental\, Holtland interposes the geographies and geometries of natural landscapes with the metaphysical processes of memory and the building (and re-building) of a self. \nAbout Our Readers: \nTANYA HOLTLAND is a poet with roots in California and many other places. Her poetry and nonfiction appear in The Collagist\, Statement Magazine\, Mary: A Journal of New Writing\, OXALIS\, and elsewhere. She holds English and Creative Writing degrees from San Francisco State University. Currently she makes a home in Seattle\, where there is so much water. \nJENNIFER S. CHENG is the author of HOUSE A\, selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize\, forthcoming this October. A Fulbright scholar\, Kundiman fellow\, and Pushcart Prize nominee\, she has an image-text chapbook\, Invocation: An Essay (New Michigan Press)\, and her work appears in Tin House\, AGNI\, DIAGRAM\, The Normal School\, The Volta\, and elsewhere. Having grown up in Texas\, Hong Kong\, and Connecticut\, she currently lives in San Francisco\, where she is a founding editor of Drop Leaf Press. www.jenniferscheng.com \nMAXWELL SHANLEY lives in San Francisco\, where he works as a bookseller. He is currently completing an MFA at San Francisco State University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tanya-holtland-jennifer-s-cheng-maxwell-shanley/
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:20160930T203000
DTSTAMP:20260501T105023
CREATED:20160929T005203Z
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SUMMARY:Mark Thompson Memorial Reading
DESCRIPTION:Mark Thompson lived until August 9\, 2016 as a gay man\, author\, activist\, proud leatherman\, and lover. He wrote or edited several landmark Queer books\, including the trilogy Gay Spirit\, Gay Soul\, and Gay Body as well as the books The Fire in the Moonlight: Stories from the Radical Faeries; Leatherfolk: Radical Sex\, People\, Politics\, and Practice; and Long Road to Freedom: The Advocate History of the Gay and Lesbian Movement. \nCome together Friday\, September 30 at 7pm to celebrate Mark’s words and life at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. in San Francisco. Free admission and free refreshments. Copies of a selection of Mark’s books will be available for purchase. \nReaders include Joey Cain\, Brendan Cook\, Ganymede\, Trebor Healey\, Rick May\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, Carol Queen\, Andrew Ramer\, Will Roscoe\, Sister Merry Peter\, Karen Sundheim\, Justin Tanis\, Jim Van Buskirk\, and Ken White. Trebor Healey and Rick May will mc.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mark-thompson-memorial-reading/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161001T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161002T020000
DTSTAMP:20260501T105023
CREATED:20160831T234420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160831T234420Z
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SUMMARY:Descent Into Madness (Book of the Un Release Party)
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate the release of the Book Of The Un\, my sequel to the Book of the Is\, Fail to Win. Essays in engineered disperfection! The Book of the Un is a book about Control. It’s about the patterns that I’ve witnessed over decades of experience with emerging art organizations. It deconstructs the systems that foster the Chaos that creates the ecology that makes the kind of art that changes the world. What works and what doesn’t. It’s a fascinating topic\, and so we are roping off Minna street and throwing a parade in 3 acts with all the fabulous costumes from the Fallen Cosmos and tons of interactive art and shenannigans. \nAdmission to this party is included for those that supported my kickstarter. If you’d like to attend this party\, you can buy tickets which includes a copy of the book) here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/descent-into-madness-release-party-for-the-book-of-the-un-tickets-26850023142 \nImagine all of the art and the performances overflowing from the 111 Minna Gallery onto the street… Interact with the strange characters from the Fallen Cosmos (with a potential guest appearance from the one and only Lee Von Lear!)… See what other psycho-shitshow-curiosities we have in store! \nHere is a video that KQED produced when we did the street party 5 years ago for the release of the Book of the Is:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuwM6v6aG-M\n… What will we do this time?!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/descent-into-madness-book-of-the-un-release-party/
LOCATION:Minna Alley\, 111 Minna Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161002T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161002T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T105023
CREATED:20160921T232847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160921T232847Z
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Bazaar Writers Salon\nReadings by Ari Banias\, James J. Siegel\, Meryl Natchez\, and Noah Warren\nHosted by Peter Kline\nSunday\, October 2nd\, 2016\, 6:00 p.m.\nBazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St.\, San Francisco
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161003T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161003T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T105023
CREATED:20160831T235616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160831T235616Z
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Returns!
DESCRIPTION:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz series returns from hiatus to a new venue! Come on down to PianoFight\, in the front room and join us for dinner\, drinks and read your poem live with the Nova Jazz band. \nHosted by Jennifer Barone and Ingrid Keir with special guests.\nFree admission\, all ages\, full menu and bar.\nOpen Mic open to poets and poetry only – 3min time limit\, one really good poem to read with live jazz accompaniment. \nRegister for the event on Eventbrite here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-wordparty-tickets-27296319025?aff=pfcal&_eboga=2068039441.1472079537
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-returns/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161004T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161004T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T105023
CREATED:20160921T233356Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160921T233356Z
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SUMMARY:Eowyn Ivey
DESCRIPTION:In the winter of 1885\, decorated war hero Colonel Allen Forrester leads a small band of men on an expedition that has been deemed impossible: to venture up the Wolverine River and pierce the vast\, untamed Alaska Territory. Leaving behind Sophie\, his newly pregnant wife\, Colonel Forrester records his extraordinary experiences in hopes that his journal will reach her if he doesn’t return–once he passes beyond the edge of the known world\, there’s no telling what awaits him. \nThe Wolverine River Valley is not only breathtaking and forbidding but also terrifying in ways that the colonel and his men never could have imagined. As they map the territory and gather information on the native tribes\, whose understanding of the natural world is unlike anything they have ever encountered\, Forrester and his men discover the blurred lines between human and wild animal\, the living and the dead. And while the men knew they would face starvation and danger\, they cannot escape the sense that some greater\, mysterious force threatens their lives. \nMeanwhile\, on her own at Vancouver Barracks\, Sophie chafes under the social restrictions and yearns to travel alongside her husband. She does not know that the winter will require as much of her as it does her husband\, that both her courage and faith will be tested to the breaking point. Can her exploration of nature through the new art of photography help her to rediscover her sense of beauty and wonder? \nIn To the Bright Edge of the World\, the truths that Allen and Sophie discover over the course of that fateful year change both of their lives — and the lives of those who hear their stories long after they’re gone — forever. \nEowyn LeMay Ivey was raised in Alaska and continues to live there with her husband and two daughters. She received her BA in journalism and minor in creative writing through the honors program at Western Washington University\, studied creative nonfiction at the University of Alaska Anchorage graduate program\, and worked for nearly 10 years as an award-winning reporter at the Frontiersman newspaper. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Snow Child.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eowyn-ivey/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161004T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161004T213000
DTSTAMP:20260501T105023
CREATED:20160901T000157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160901T000157Z
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SUMMARY:Josefine Klougart
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Josefine Klougart: \n“Scandinavia now has its own Virginia Woolf. Few get as close to the human mind as Klougart.” —VG \n  \nAbout One of Us is Sleeping: \nThe English-language debut from one of Denmark’s most exciting\, celebrated young writers\, “One of Us Is Sleeping “is a haunting novel about loss in all its forms.\nWorking in the vein of Anne Carson\, Josefine Klougart’s novel is both true-to-life and incredibly poetic in its relating of a brief\, intense love affair and the grief and disillusionment that follow its end. While she recounts the time with her lover\, the narrator is also heading back home\, where her mother is dying of cancer. This contrast between recollection and the belief that certain things will always be present in your life your parents\, your childhood home\, your love and the fact that life is a continual series of endings runs throughout the book\, underpinning the striking imagery and magnificent prose.\nA powerful novel that earned Klougart numerous accolades and several award nominations including the Readers Book Award “One of Us Is Sleeping “marks the launch of a major new voice in world literature.\nJosefine Klougart has been hailed as one of Denmark’s greatest contemporary writers. She is the first Danish author ever to have two of her first three books nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. She’s been compared to a range of authors\, including Joan Didion\, Anne Carson\, and Virginia Woolf.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/josefine-klougart/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161005T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161005T213000
DTSTAMP:20260501T105023
CREATED:20160901T000804Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160901T000804Z
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SUMMARY:Anne Raeff + Anthony Marra
DESCRIPTION:Praise for The Jungle Around Us \n“This masterful collection records the long psychic toll of the twentieth century’s traumas\, offering portraits of people in various kinds of exile: displaced from their countries\, or uneasy in their hometowns\, or somehow alien in their own bodies and minds. Anne Raeff’s exquisite stories are remarkable for their combination of intimacy and reverence for the mysteries and private griefs her characters fold their lives around. Seldom have I read work so confident in the power of what’s left unspoken and in the deep eloquence of gesture. The Jungle Around Us is a haunting and breathtakingly beautiful book.” —Garth Greenwell\, author of What Belongs to You \n  \n“The stories in The Jungle Around Us do not try to make sense of the world–they are the world. A world of uncanny sharpness that is as bold as it is striking in its uncompromising\, haunting depictions of longing and uncertainty and grief and bliss. The jungle Anne Raeff proposes us to enter is\, in reality\, not around us\, in the intricated destinations of displacement where this book takes place–from Bolivia to Austria\, from Leningrad to Albuquerque\, from Harlem to El Tambor–but within ourselves. The protagonists in these stories are commanded by loss and desire and uprootedness and the scalding need for human connection\, but unlike those from any other work of fiction that might be too self-conscious of its own ambitions\, they struggle handling these emotions. Raeff’s characters are too complex\, too fully fleshed out\, too human to know what step to take next\, and this is\, perhaps\, the biggest feat of many she has achieved with this ravishing collection. Her talent is rare and transfixing\, and this book marks the arrival of a marvelous new voice.” —Antonio Ruiz-Camacho\, author of Barefoot Dogs \n  \nWhile struggling with fear\, danger\, and displacement\, the characters of “The Jungle around Us” form strange and powerful bonds in distant and unlikely places. A family that has escaped Vienna ends up on the edge of the Amazon\, where the parents fight yellow fever and the daughter falls in love with a village boy. Two sisters learn lessons about race and war during the Columbia University riots of1968. A young girl confronts death when her former babysitter is mysteriously murdered. In Paraguay\, two adult sisters confront their loneliness while their precocious young charge faces off with a monkey. Raeff’s stories are about embracing the world though the world contains everything we fear. \n  \nAnne Raeff is a high school teacher at East Palo Alto Academy\, where she teaches English and history. Her stories and essays have appeared in the New England Review\, ZYZZYVA\, and Guernica\, among others. Her first novel is Clara Mondschein’s Melancholia. \n  \nAnthony Marra is the New York Times-bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena\, longlisted for the National Book Award and winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize\, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction\, and the Barnes and Noble Discover Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-raeff-anthony-marra/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161005T213000
DTSTAMP:20260501T105023
CREATED:20160921T233647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160921T233647Z
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SUMMARY:iO Tillett Wright
DESCRIPTION:iO Tillett Wright presents Darling Days\, an extraordinary coming of age memoir set in the urban bohemia of 1980s New York’s Lower East Side\, where punk\, poverty\, heroin\, and art ruled the roost. Raised by single mother Rhona\, a mercurial Glamazon showgirl\, iO was encouraged from an early age to break boundaries. When a group of boys refuse to let six-year-old iO play ball\, iO instantly adopts a new persona\, becoming a boy\, a choice Rhona celebrates. It is the start of a profound exploration of gender and identity through the tenderest years\, and the beginning of a life invented and reinvented at every step. Harrowing and hilarious\, Darling Days is a provocative examination of culture and identity\, and of the courage and resilience of each child’s unique expression. \niO Tillett Wright is an artist\, activist\, actor\, speaker\, TV host and writer. iO’s work deals with identity\, be it through photography and the Self Evident Truths Project/We Are You campaign or on television as the co-host of MTV’s Suspect. iO has exhibited artwork in New York and Tokyo and was a featured contributor on Underground Culture to T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Her photography has been featured in GQ\, Elle\, New York Magazine\, and The New York Times Magazine. iO is a regular speaker at universities\, discussing expanding one’s circle of normalcy and embracing those that are different than you. A native New Yorker\, iO is now based in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/io-tillett-wright/
LOCATION:Second Act\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161005T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161005T213000
DTSTAMP:20260501T105023
CREATED:20160921T233855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160921T233855Z
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SUMMARY:Vanessa Hua Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Vanessa Hua presents her debut collection\, Deceit and Other Possibilities\, in conversation withZYZZYVA editor Oscar Villalon. The characters in these stories vividly illustrate the conflict between self and society\, tradition and change: a Hong Kong movie idol flees a sex scandal; an obedient daughter lies about attending Stanford; a Chinatown elder is summoned to his ancestral village\, and a Korean-American pastor hides a secret agenda. Hua explores the clash of cultures and the complex\, shifting allegiances we carry with us as we make our way forward in a new land. Deceit and Other Possibilities marks the emergence of a remarkable new writer. \nVanessa Hua has appeared in The Atlantic\, New York Times\, FRONTLINE/World\,Washington Post\, and elsewhere.  Previously\, she was a staff writer at the San Francisco Chronicle\, and has filed stories from China\, South Korea\, Panama\, Burma and Ecuador. She received a 2015 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, the San Francisco Foundation’s Phelan Award for Fiction\, and is a former Steinbeck Fellow in Fiction at San Jose State University. Her novel\, A River of Stars\, is forthcoming from Ballantine. \nOscar Villalon is the managing editor of ZYZZVA\, the former books editor at the San Francisco Chronicle and a member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle. His writing has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review and The Believer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vanessa-hua-book-launch/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161006T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161006T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T105023
CREATED:20160929T011032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160929T011032Z
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SUMMARY:California Dreamin': A night of poetry celebrating the golden state w/ Gioia\, Ahmed\, + Lindenberg
DESCRIPTION:A reading with California Poet Laureate Dana Gioia and McSweeney’s poets Zubair Ahmed and Rebecca Lindenberg. \nThree poets coming together to read their work and share their favorite poems capturing the California ethos. There will be a wine reception and book signing. Readings to commence at 6:30.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/california-dreamin-a-night-of-poetry-celebrating-the-golden-state-w-gioia-ahmed-lindenberg/
LOCATION:a.Muse art gallery & meeting place\, 614 Alabama Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161006T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161006T213000
DTSTAMP:20260501T105023
CREATED:20160929T010334Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160929T010334Z
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SUMMARY:Best American Non-Required Reading 2016
DESCRIPTION:Anthony Marra\, Kyle Boelte\, and student contributors Isaac Schott-Rosenfield\, Sian Ee\, and Emma Hardison join us to celebrate the 12th annual installment of the annual Best American Nonrequired Reading anthology. \n\nAbout The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016 \nIf you need to fall in love with reading again or just want a reminder that high school students deserve a lot more than their reading lists give them then this is the book for you. “Best” Guest editor Rachel Kushner\, author of “The Flamethrowers\, ” works with a group of high school students out of 826 Valencia to select “The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016.” The BANR Committee gathers weekly in the basement of a small publishing house in San Francisco to read literary magazines\, chapbooks\, graphic novels\, blogs\, transcripts\, and anything else that strikes their fancy. They are assisted by a group of 826 students that meet in the basement of a robot shop in Ann Arbor\, Michigan.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/best-american-non-required-reading-2016/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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