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SUMMARY:Litquake Presents a Julio Cortázar Celebration
DESCRIPTION:City Lights and the Center for the Art of Translation join us for a celebration of the legendary Argentine writer Julio Cortázar. \nWith readings by: \nMauro Javier Cardenas \nSilvia Oviedo \nKatherine Silver \nand more \n\nPraise for Julio Cortázar: \n“Anyone who doesn’t read Cortazar is doomed. Not to read him is a serious invisible disease which in time can have terrible consequences. Something similar to a man who has never tasted peaches. He would quietly become sadder . . . and\, probably\, little by little\, he would lose his hair.” —Pablo Neruda \n“Some people run the world\, others are the world. Cortázar’s poems are the world; they have a special consideration for the unknown.” ––Enrique Vila-Matas on Save Twilight \n“The most magnificent novel I have ever read\, and one to which I shall return again and again.” —C.D.B. Bryan\, The New York Times Book Review on Hopscotch \n\nAbout Julio Cortázar: \nJulio Cortázar was an Argentine novelist\, short story writer\, and essayist. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom\, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in the Americas and Europe. He has been called both a “modern master of the short story” and\, by Carlos Fuentes\, “the Simón Bolívar of the novel.” \nRead Cortázar’s Art of Fiction interview in the Paris Review. \n\nAbout Stephen Kessler’s translation of Save Twilight: \nThe power of Eros\, the enduring beauty of art\, a love-hate nostalgia for his Argentine homeland\, the bonds of friendship and the tragic folly of politics are some of the themes of Save Twilight. Informed by his immersion in world literature\, music\, art\, and history\, and most of his own emotional geography\, Cortázar’s poetry traces his paradoxical evolution from provincial Argentinean sophisticate to cosmopolitan Parisian Romantic\, always maintaining the sense of astonishment of an artist surprised by life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-presents-a-julio-cortazar-celebration/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Good Girls Marry Doctors
DESCRIPTION:Featuring:\nAyesha Mattu · Piyali Bhattacharya · Nayomi Munaweera\nNeelanjana Banjerjee · Tanzila Ahmed · Tara Dorabji \nModerated by:\nBarnali Ghosh \nJoin editor Piyali Bhattacharya and several contributors to the new anthology Good Girls Marry Doctors as they read and discuss the cultural\, political\, and social burdens (along with the assorted hilarious moments) that come with being a South Asian American daughter. \nRefreshments will be provided. Books will be available for purchase. You can also purchase a copy from our website. Southern Exposure is ADA accessible. This event is free and open to the public. \nStreet parking is limited at this venue. We suggest taking Muni (nearby lines: 9\, 12\, 27\, 33)\, BART (16th street or 24th street)\, or taxi. \nDoors open at 6:30 pm. Event begins at 7 pm. \nStay tuned for more information about this event! \nQuestions? Please email us at marketing@auntlute.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/good-girls-marry-doctors/
LOCATION:Southern Exposure\, 3030 20th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Variny Yim
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street Thursday\, October 13th at 7:00 p.m.\, as we welcome Author Variny Yim as she reads from and discusses her book The Immigrant Princess. \n  \nBook Description: When three generations of women from the Cambodian royal family live as immigrants in the U.S.\, they struggle to find meaning and relevance in a new country that challenges their traditions and forces them to build a new life. Career-driven Sophea Lim\, the oldest granddaughter\, is saddled with the cultural responsibility of taking care of her mother and grandmother. However\, when she loses both a promotion and her American boyfriend\, she blames it on her traditional Cambodian upbringing and starts a war in her close-knit family. Although Sophea has an ally in her younger sister Ravy\, her mother and grandmother find her first-world complaints trivial compared to the real-world suffering of two-million Cambodians who perished at the hands of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge including her father. Turmoil erupts when Ravy encourages Sophea to move out of the house she shares with her mother and grandmother. Will Sophea shirk her responsibility to take care of her elders? Is her quest for independence worth hurting the two people she loves most? \n  \nAs always\, this in store event is free and open to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/variny-yim/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161014T190000
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SUMMARY:Jade Chang w/ Chloe Veltman
DESCRIPTION:Journalist and editor Jade Chang discusses her much-buzzed debut novel\, The Wangs vs. the World. Charles Wang is mad at America. A brash\, lovable immigrant businessman who built a cosmetics empire and made a fortune\, he’s just been ruined by the financial crisis. Now all Charles wants is to get his kids safely stowed away so that he can go to China and attempt to reclaim his family’s ancestral lands and his pride.Charles pulls Andrew\, his aspiring comedian son\, and Grace\, his style-obsessed daughter\, out of schools he can no longer afford. Together with their stepmother\, Barbra\, they embark on a cross-country road trip from their foreclosed Bel-Air home to the upstate New York hideout of the eldest daughter\, disgraced art world it-girl Saina. But with his son waylaid by a temptress in New Orleans\, his wife ready to defect for a set of 1\,000-thread-count sheets\, and an epic smash-up in North Carolina\, Charles may have to choose between the old world and the new\, between keeping his family intact and finally fulfilling his dream of starting anew in China.Outrageously funny and full of charm\, The Wangs vs. the World is an entirely fresh look at what it means to belong in America and how going from glorious riches to (still name-brand) rags brings one family together in a way money never could.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jade-chang-with-chloe-veltman/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:North Beach Stories w/ Ray Hanna
DESCRIPTION:A COMICAL & MUSICAL JOURNEY\nTHROUGH SAN FRANCISCO’S GOLDEN AGE \nNorth Beach Stories is Ray Hanna’s searing comical and musical journey through the nightlife of the West Coast. Master storyteller\, musician\, and shameless name-dropper\, Ray Hanna has seen it all\, on the streets of North Beach and beyond—all the sleaze\, drugs\, trailblazing strippers\, and punks acting out\, Timothy Leary performing at a Broadway nightclub\, sheer rock-and-roll madness at the Mabuhay—all in a night’s work in Hanna’s world. He was also in San Francisco to encounter Lenny Bruce’s legacy\, and shares the real story behind Lenny’s most outrageous moment\, purported to have occurred right above the Beat Museum. It’s all here—all true\, all first-person and verified accounts of real showbiz Babylon tales compiled over the past 45 years by musician/comedian/actor Ray Hanna. He remembers\, “I was so lucky to be here at a golden age and time. It was a wild\, wide-open\, rip-roaring kind of town. This city was luring people with ideas\, a cosmopolitan place filled with performers and bon vivants from all over the world who had seen a lot. All these comics\, musicians\, and actors relocating here to develop and do the work\, artists re-inventing ourselves in front of your eyes.” \nDrawing on his current one-man show 50 Songs; his play The Devil and Lenny Bruce\, co-written with Lou Gottlieb; and his book Screams from the Road\, Hanna fills the evening with his own oddly detailed perspective on a lifetime in and around San Francisco\, including his encounters with the famous and the near-famous. Based in the city\, Ray headlined comedy\, cabaret\, and theatre venues all over the world\, logging some 6000 appearances over 24 years. North Beach Stories marks Hanna’s first Bay Area appearance of any kind in over 20 years. During the last two decades\, Ray has upped his commitment to the music\, and has appeared regularly with a number of working rock bands in Oregon; for the past 11 years leading the Reckless Rockhounds. Ray remembers\, “In the comedy clubs\, I was known as the ‘piano guy’. Since then\, I have worked very hard at the humbling process of removing the quotation marks from piano guy.” \nAn awe-struck seeker\, a father\, and a worldly-wise\, but not-yet-jaded troubadour with a lifetime of experiences\, Ray Hanna delivers the emotional truth behind a remarkable era in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/north-beach-stories-w-ray-hanna/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Racket Reading Series #1
DESCRIPTION:Hello! \nAdobe Books has been kind enough to give me the reins to a monthly reading series. \nI’m calling it The Racket – like people making noise\, people pulling one over on you – typical reading series stuff. \nFor our opening salvo into the wide world of reading series\, I’m bringing together some fantastic writers (to be announced shortly) and hoping that you\, friends and lovers of reading alike\, will come and celebrate great writing and maybe buy some books or just stand there awkwardly sipping a Tecate. \nReaders will include: \nTravis Peterson\nChad Koch\nNancy Davis Kho \nAll are welcome. \nMore information to come.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-reading-series-1/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:David Szalay w/ Ethan Nosowsky
DESCRIPTION:Long-listed for the 2016 Man Booker Prize\, David Szalay presents All That Man Is. This ambitious\, form-busting novel interrogates the state of modern manhood through the stories of nine different characters\, each at a different stage of life\, away from home\, and striving—in the suburbs of Prague\, an overdeveloped Alpine village\, beside a Belgian motorway\, in a dingy Cyprus hotel—to understand what it means to be alive\, here and now. Szalay uses the ostensibly separate narratives to craft a picture of the shared existence and predicament of the twenty-first-century man. All That Man Is masters a new kind of psychological realism that vibrates with detail\, intelligence\, relevance\, and devastating pathos. \nDavid Szalay is the author of London and the South-East\, which won the Betty Trask Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; The Innocent; and Spring. In 2013\, he was named one of Granta‘s Best of Young British Novelists. He lives in Budapest. \nEthan Nosowsky is Editorial Director at Graywolf Press. He began his career at Farrar\, Straus and Giroux and has also been Editorial Director at McSweeney’s. He has edited books by Jeffery Renard Allen\, Hilton Als\, Kevin Barry\, David Byrne\, Vikram Chandra\, Geoff Dyer\, Dave Eggers\, Sarah Manguso\, Maggie Nelson\, and Jenny Offill among many others. He has taught in the Creative Writing program at Columbia University and has contributed to The Believer\, Bookforum\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, and Threepenny Review. He lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-szalay-w-ethan-nosowsky-2/
LOCATION:Second Act\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kevin Smokler
DESCRIPTION:The inimitable and always entertaining Kevin Smokler returns to Booksmith for the launch of his new book\, Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to 80s Teen Movies and the Places They Happened. The Breakfast Club! The Goonies! Back to the Future! Ferris Bueller’s Day Off! Pretty in Pink! Dead Poets Society! These movies left an indelible mark on America\, and\, probably\, your psyche. \nKevin Smokler attended Goonies Day in Astoria\, Oregon\, took a Lost Boys tour of Santa Cruz\, California\, and visited retro arcades\, movie theaters\, record stores\, and the Dirty Dancing resort in Lake Lure\, NC. He interviewed actors\, writers\, and directors. Mostly\, he did what he does best\, which is to add his keen and witty commentary to the conversation about American Culture and the things that bring us together. \nKevin Smokler is the author of the essay collection Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books you Haven’t Touched Since High School (2013) which the Atlantic Wire called “truly enjoyable” and the editor of Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times\, A San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book of 2005. His writing on pop culture has appeared in the LA Times\, Salon\, BuzzFeed\, Vulture\, the San Francisco Chronicle and on NPR. In 2013\, he was BookRiot’s first ever Writer in Residence. \nHe can be found on twitter at @weegee. He lives in San Francisco with his wife\, cat and most of MTV’s first year on vinyl.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kevin-smokler/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:An evening with Lidija Dimkovska
DESCRIPTION:reading from her new novel \nA Spare Life \nTranslated by Christina Kramer \npublished by Two Lines Press \nHosted by Scott Esposito \nIt is 1984\, and 12-year-old twins Zlata and Srebra live in communist Yugoslavia. In many ways their lives are like that of young girls anywhere\, except for one immense difference: Zlata’s and Srebra’s bodies are conjoined at their heads. \nA Spare Life tells the story of their emergence from girls to young adults\, from their desperately poor\, provincial childhoods to their determination to become successful\, independent women. After years of discovery and friendship\, their lives are thrown into crisis when an incident threatens to destroy their bond as sisters. They fly to London\, determined to be surgically separated—but will this dangerous procedure free them\, or only more tightly ensnare them? \nIn A Spare Life master poet and award-winning novelist Lidija Dimkovska lovingly tells the lives of two astonishing girls caught up in Eastern Europe’s transition from communism to democracy. A saga about families\, sisterhood\, and being outcasts\, A Spare Life reveals an existence where even the simplest of actions is unlike any we’ve ever experienced. \nLidija Dimkovska is the recipient of numerous awards\, including the 2013 European Union Prize for Literature for A Spare Life. She is also the author of the poetry collection pH Neutral History (Copper Canyon Press\, 2012)\, which was a finalist for the 2013 Best Translated Book Award\, and Do Not Awaken Them With Hammers(Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2006). She lives in Ljubljana\, Slovenia. \nChristina E. Kramer is a professor of Slavic and Balkan languages and linguistics at the University of Toronto. She is the author of numerous books on the Macedonian language and the Balkans and is the translator of Freud’s Sister\, The Time of the Goats\, and My Father’s Books. She lives in Toronto. \nWhat has been said about A Spare Life: \n\n\n\n“Lidija Dimkovska enriches our contemporary museum of literary wonders with her powerful\, grotesque\, weird details and episodes told within the merry old novelistic tradition.”\n— Dubravka Ugrešić\, author of Baba Laid an Egg \n“A Spare Life uses the boldest of metaphors – the life of conjoined twins – to embody the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia. This strange and wonderful novel brings to mind Elena Ferrante and Magda Szabó in the acuity of its social observation and the depth of its mordant humor.”— Katie Kitamura\, author of The Longshotand A Separation \n“Dimkovska has an eye for detail befitting of a poet and the stark\, unrelenting prose of a master storyteller.A Spare Life is a weird and wonderful book\, capturing the quirk and complexity of both a declining Yugoslavia\, and the inseparable lives of two sisters with clarity\, wit\, and heart.”— Sara Nović\, author of Girl at War\, finalist for the\nLos Angeles Times Book Prize
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-lidija-dimkovska/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sarah Griffin
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith alum\, prolific tweeter\, and International Treasure Sarah Maria Griffin joins us for the launch of her debut novel\, Spare and Found Parts. \nSpare & Found Parts tells the story of Nell\, a girl with a ticking mechanical heart\, living with her pet stoat and her genius scientist father in a futuristic Ireland ravaged by an epidemic and enduring a fragile recovery. Nell is lonely\, ambitious\, and anxious about living up to her potential—until she finds a mannequin hand while salvaging at the beach. As she begins to build herself a companion\, the city\, her father\, and her true feelings begin to reveal themselves. A soulful steampunk-dystopian romp with undertones of Station Eleven\, Gold\, Fame Citrus\, and\, of course\, Frankenstein\, Spare and Found Parts will be the highlight of your fall reading list. \nAin’t no party like a Booksmith party\, and ESPECIALLY when it’s one of our own. Join us to launch Griffski in style! \nSarah Maria Griffin is from Dublin\, Ireland\, and received a master’s degree in creative writing from National University of Ireland\, Galway. After moving to San Francisco in 2012\, she began to contribute essays about emigration to The Irish Times\, which developed into Not Lost\, a nonfiction collection published for adults. She has since returned to Dublin\, and lives in a small red brick house by the sea with her husband and cat. You can find her online at www.sarahgriff.com\, on Twitter @griffski\, and on Instagram @sarahgriffski.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-griffin/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Poetry Brothel: A Masquerade
DESCRIPTION:It’s almost October already and we still don’t know what day it is in San Francisco but we know we’re landing again soon and your city lights are guiding us in. The Poetry Brothel is back and for lack of a better phrase\, San Francisco\, we need you! Come again into our underground and listen to the soft sounds of house band The Hot Baked Goods\, watch Harvest Moon and Edie Eve dance\, watch the bright play of words that skirt the walls light up the room. We’re back in your pockets\, loves\, we’re back in your alleys\, we’re back on the slopes and we aren’t leaving until we’ve told you something precious\, something small that you can hold under you tongue like a sea shell\, like a pea of salt\, like an egg at dawn\, like something all together falling apart. Put us back together St. Francis\, we’re a flock of humming birds\, our hearts are racing\, and our songs\, our songs\, our songs. Our songs are almost too fast to see. \nThere is no strict dress code\, but we encourage you to dress for the occasion. Do not resist the Masquerade! Masks may change hands as the night unfolds\, but you are obliged to bring your own. Doors open at 8pm\, and seating is first come\, first serve. The show begins at 9pm. \nThe Poetry Brothel is a unique and immersive poetry event that takes poetry outside classrooms and lecture halls and places it in the lush interiors of a bordello. Based in concept on the fin-de-siecle bordellos in New Orleans and Paris\, many of which functioned as safe havens for fledgling\, avant-garde artists\, The Poetry Brothel’s “Madame” presents a rotating cast of poets as “whores\,” each operating within a carefully constructed character\, who impart their work in public readings\, spontaneous eruptions of poetry\, and most distinctly\, as purveyors of private\, one-on-one poetry readings in back rooms. For a small fee\, all of the “poetry whores” are available for these sequestered readings at any time during the event. Of course\, any true brothel needs a good cover; The Poetry Brothel’s is an immersive cabaret\, offering a full bar\, live jazz\, burlesque dancers\, painters\, and fortune-tellers\, with newly integrated themes\, performances and installations at each event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-poetry-brothel-a-masquerade/
LOCATION:Slide\, 430 Mason St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rod Smith + Lee Ann Brown
DESCRIPTION:Poets Rod Smith and Lee Ann Brown\, visiting respectively from Washington\, D.C. and New York City\, read their work and converse with the audience. This event is FREE. \nGetting here. \n\nRod Smith is the author of Touché (Wave Books\, 2015)\, What’s the Deal? (Song Cave\, 2010)\, Deed (University of Iowa Press\, 2007)\, In Memory of My Theories (O Books\, 1996) and several others books and chapbooks. He edits the journal Aerial\, publishes Edge Books\, and manages Bridge Street Books in Washington\, DC. He has taught writing at the Corcoran College of Art & Design\, George Mason University\, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, and the Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art. Smith edited The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley (U. Cal.\, 2014) with Peter Baker and Kaplan Harris.\n\n\n\n\n\nLee Ann Brown was born in Japan and raised in Charlotte\, North Carolina. She is the author of Other Archer (Presses Universitaires de Rouen et du Havre\, 2015)\, In the Laurels\, Caught (Fence Books\, 2013)\, Crowns of Charlotte (Carolina Wren Press\, 2013)\, The Sleep That Changed Everything (Wesleyan\, 2003)\, and Polyverse (Sun & Moon Press\, 1999)\, which won the 1996 New American Poetry Competition. In 1989\, Brown founded Tender Buttons Press\, which is dedicated to publishing experimental women’s poetry. She now lives in New York City\, where she teaches at St. John’s University and curates poetry events through Torn Page.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rod-smith-lee-ann-brown/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161020T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161020T210000
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SUMMARY:Bookswap 2.0 w/ Ruth Galm
DESCRIPTION:This October\, we get to come together as book (and booze) lovers once more and dish about our favourite reads. This time around\, we have invited the fabulous local author Ruth Galm\, author of Into the Valley\, to join us! Into the Valley is a spare\, poetic debut novel\, set in the American West of early Joan Didion\, tracing the drifting path of a young woman caught between generations as she skirts the law and her own oppressive anxiety. (Soho Press) \n  \n+++ Bring a book about an escape. As long as you love it\, bring it to Bookswap. You’ll talk about it in groups and hear about the books that other people brought. We’ll drink a bunch of free wine and beer and get to know our guest author. At the end\, we’ll have a big\, rowdy\, white elephant swap\, and you’ll leave with a new favorite (or ten). \n  \n>>> Tickets are $10 and MUST BE purchased in advance. They do sell out! You can purchase them HERE. \n**** Admission includes an open bar\, swag\, and 20% off everything you buy that night.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bookswap-2-0-w-ruth-galm/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161020T190000
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SUMMARY:October Cante Jondo Poetry Series
DESCRIPTION:Please join us as we continue to celebrate the deep songs inside of us! We also will be celebrating the birthday of Amalia Alvarez! \nFeaturing:\nAmalia Alvarez\nAlicia Franco\nThea Matthews\nNaomi Quiñonez\nwith flamenco guitar by Gopal Slavonic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/october-cante-jondo-poetry-series/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161021T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161021T190000
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Writers Grotto Fellow Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an amazing night of readings from the 2016 Grotto Fellows \nChad Koch is a founding editor of Foglifter\, San Francisco’s only queer literary journal. He recently received his MFA from San Francisco State University\, where he was editor-in-chief of Fourteen Hills. His most recent stories were published in The North American Review and Sparkle & Blink. His story\, “Lost Boys” was a semi-finalist for the 2016 Raymond Carver Short Story Award. \nCaleb Leisure received his MFA in Fiction from New York University. In 2011 he was named a NYC Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction\, and in 2014 he won the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize. He works for a small winery in Sonoma County and is at work on his first novel. He lives in Oakland. \nMarissa Ortega-Welch is a freelance radio producer in Oakland\, California. Her stories have aired on NPR’s Latino USA\, KQED\, and KPFA. She is currently the health reporter for KALW Public Radio. She’s also worked for years as a teacher and naturalist and is drawn to stories about the environment\, youth\, and informal economies. \nLisa Marie Rollins is playwright\, poet and freelance director. Most recently she directed a reading of Tearrance Chisholm’s Br’er Cotton (Playwrights Foundation) and is co-Director of Young Jean Lee’s The Shipment (Crowded Fire). She is the director of All Atheists are Muslim by Zahra Noorbakhsh and was co-producer of W. Kamau Bell’s “Ending Racism in About and Hour”. She was Poet in Residence at June Jordan’s Poetry for the People at U.C. Berkeley\, a CALLALOO Journal London Writing Workshop Fellow and an alumni in Poetry of VONA Writing Workshop. Her writing is published in Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out\, River\, Blood\, Corn Literary Journal\, Line/Break\, As/Us Literary Journal\, The Pacific Review and others. Currently\, she is finishing her new manuscript of poems\, Compass for which she received the 2016 Mary Tanenbaum Literary Award from SF Foundation. She is an Adjunct Professor at SFSU in Race and Resistance Studies. Lisa Marie is a 2015-16 member of Just Theater Play Lab and Artist-in-Residence at BRAVA Theater for Women in San Francisco. @thirdrootprod \nKaitlin Solimine’s debut novel\, Empire of Glass\, is forthcoming in Summer 2017 (Ig Publishing). Raised in New England\, she has considered China a second home for two decades. She has received the Yenching scholarship\, Fulbright Fellowship\, and Bread Loaf’s Donald E. Axinn Scholarship. A graduate of Harvard University and the MFA program at UC-San Diego\, she has published fiction and non-fiction in National Geographic News\, The Wall Street Journal\, Guernica Magazine\, Kartika Review\, China Daily\, and numerous anthologies. She recently returned from living in Singapore and now resides in San Francisco where she is co-founder of HIPPO Reads\, a network connecting academic insights to the wider public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-writers-grotto-fellow-reading/
LOCATION:The Grotto\, 490 2nd Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Party for HOUSE A
DESCRIPTION:Happy / over the moon / grateful to invite you to celebrate the publication of my first book\, HOUSE A (Omnidawn Publishing)\, selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize. \nThere will be a reading\, a projector with images\, some form of favorite childhood snacks\, adult drinks\, and of course books for sale! Tell your friends! \nHOUSE A investigates the tones and textures of immigrant home-building by asking: How is the body inscribed with a cosmology of home and vice versa? Through an assemblage of oblique letters to Mao\, incantations of “dream-geometry\,” and image-text experiments\, the book seeks to render the immersive/obscured feeling of a childhood household where the haunting of history blurs with a constellation of sheltering figures\, patterns\, and shadows. With evocative and intellectual precision\, HOUSE A maps a new poetics of American Home\, steeped in longing and rooted by displacement. \nbook // www.jenniferscheng.com/house-a\npoems // http://conjunctions.com/webcon/cheng13.htm\ninterview // http://theconversant.org/?p=10571
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-party-for-house-a/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jack Spicer chapbook release
DESCRIPTION:SPECT books will be releasing a chapbook of an unncollected piece of Jack Spicer prose titled “The Wasp. Featured reading by Daniel Benjamin who wrote an afterward for the text. \nAND \nOmnidawn publishing will be releasing a new book of poetry entitled “The Field” by Robert Andrew Perez. He will be reading from the book!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jack-spicer-chapbook-release/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161022T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161022T213000
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CREATED:20160901T014950Z
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SUMMARY:André Alexis
DESCRIPTION:Praise for André Alexis: \n“A novel about a pack of talking dogs\, you say? The very idea will most likely breed thoughts of insufferable whimsy\, like those paintings of mutts playing poker\, or of more or less effective satire\, in the vein of Animal Farm. It’s a grand thing\, then\, that this spry novel by Canadian André Alexis spends its 160 pages repeatedly defying expectations … I’m far from being a dog person\, but as a book person I loved this smart\, exuberant fantasy from start to finish.” – — Jonathan Gibbs\, The Guardian\, on Fifteen Dogs \n\n“Over the course of this novel\, slim yet epic in scope\, Alexis chronicles the fates of these strangely afflicted beasts\, shifting from thought experiment to comic parable to something more delicate\, laden with detail\, discovery and emotional nuance.” — The Globe & Mail on Fifteen Dogs \n\n“A remarkable book. Insightful\, wildly original and beautiful. Buy it.” — Mark Medley\, Books Editor at The Globe & Mail\, on Fifteen Dogs \nAbout The Hidden Keys: \nParkdale’s Green Dolphin is a bar of ill repute\, and it is there that Tancred Palmieri\, a thief with elegant and erudite tastes\, meets Willow Azarian\, an aging heroin addict. She reveals to Tancred that her very wealthy father has recently passed away\, leaving each of his five children a mysterious object that provides one clue to the whereabouts of a large inheritance. Willow enlists Tancred to steal these objects from her siblings and help her solve the puzzle. \n  \nA Japanese screen\, a painting that plays music\, a bottle of aquavit\, a framed poem and a model of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater: Tancred is lured in to this beguiling quest\, and even though Willow dies before the puzzle is solved\, he presses on. \n  \nAs he tracks down the treasure\, he must enlist the help of Alexander von Wurfel\, conceptual artist and taxidermist to the wealthy\, and fend off Willow’s heroin dealers\, a young albino named ‘Nigger’ Colby and his sidekick\, Sigismund ‘Freud’ Luxemburg\, a clubfooted psychopath\, both of whom are eager to get their hands on this supposed pot of gold. And he must mislead Detective Daniel Mandelshtam\, his most adored friend. \n  \nInspired by a reading of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island\, The Hidden Keys questions what it means to be honorable\, what it means to be faithful and what it means to sin.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andre-alexis/
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:Michael Krasny + Calvin Trillin
DESCRIPTION:Humorist and long-time New Yorker staff writer CALVIN TRILLIN\, is a beloved humorist and chronicler of culture. This year\, Trillin published two new books: Jackson\, 1964\, a career-spanning collection of articles on race and racism\, from the 1960s to the present; and No Fair! No Fair\, a children’s book illustrated by Maira Kalman. Though his writing about food began as comic relief from his more serious pieces\, it has earned him a dedicated readership and has been collected in three books including American Fried\, Alice Let’s Eat\, and Third Helpings. Trillin’s other works include Messages From My Father; Remembering Denny\, and About Alice. \nMICHAEL KRASNY is a Professor of English and American Literature and author of the books\, Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life and Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic’s Search. Since 1993 he has been the host of “Forum\,” a news and public affairs interview program produced at KQED Radio. In his new book\, Let There be Laughter\, Krasny pairs the most iconic Jewish jokes with wise and entertaining explanations\, illuminating the cultural expressions and anxieties behind the laughs. \nSteven Winn spent 28 years at the San Francisco Chronicle\, the last six as Art and Culture Critic. He is the author of the memoir\, Come Back\, Como\, and his work has appeared in California\, Good Housekeeping\, and Sports Illustrated\, among other publications. His many past interviews for City Arts & Lectures include John Updike\, Tina Fey\, Orhan Pamuk\, and Sally Mann.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-krasny-calvin-trillin/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Elliot Weinberger + Stephen Sparks
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Eliot Weinberger: \n“One remains in silent amazement: How does he find these stories? How does he know everything?” —Die Zeit \n\n“His essays are dense collages of magical facts that make me ecstatic every time I read them.” —Sam Anderson\, The New York Times \n\n“As is often the case with brilliant writers\, an Eliot Weinberger sentence cannot be mistaken for that of anyone else.” —Will Heyward\, Australian Book Review \n\n“The brilliant net of details that Weinberger casts and recasts in his various inventive approaches to form is precisely what constitutes a superlative poetic imagination. And it’s what holds the essays—and us—trembling and raging and hallucinating together.” —Forrest Gander \n\n“Our personal favorite for the Nobel Prize.” —Rolling Stone (Germany)\n. \nAbout The Ghosts of Birds: \nThe Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay\, An Elemental Thing\, which pulls the reader into a “vortex for the entire universe” (Boston Review). Here\, Weinberger chronicles a nineteenth-century journey down the Colorado River\, records the dreams of people named Chang\, and shares other factually verifiable discoveries that seem too fabulous to possibly be true. The second section collects Weinberger’s essays on a wide range of subjects some of which have been published in Harper’s\, New York Review of Books\, and London Review of Books including his notorious review of George W. Bush’s memoir Decision Points and writings about Mongolian art and poetry\, different versions of the Buddha\, American Indophilia (There is a line\, however jagged\, from pseudo-Hinduism to Malcolm X )\, Bela Balazs\, Herbert Read\, and Charles Reznikoff. This collection proves once again that Weinberger is “one of the bravest and sharpest minds in the United States” (Javier Marias).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elliot-weinberger-stephen-sparks/
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:20161025T183000
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SUMMARY:Nina Serrano + Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Tuesday evening in the historic literary epicenter of San Francisco to hear poets from near and far read their work! \nTuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, David Meltzer\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11 (www.friendssfpl.org/Poets11). \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact friend’s Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nina-serrano-tongo-eisen-martin/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Gina Berriault Award Reading ft. Suzanne Rivecca
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the winner of the 2016 Gina Berriault Award: Suzanne Rivecca. Rivecca’s short story collection\, Death is Not an Option (W.W. Norton & Company 2010)\, has been lauded by the San Francisco Chronicle as “ferociously intelligent.” \nThe Gina Berriault Award was inaugurated by Peter Orner in conjunction with Fourteen Hills Press to pay homage to the eponymous writer\, a former SFSU professor who with every story embodied a certain selflessness and unflinching compassion. The award is given annually to a writer with a similar spirit who has shown a love for storytelling and a commitment to helping young writers. \nSuzanne Rivecca was raised in West Michigan. Her first book\, Death is Not an Option\, was a finalist for The Story Prize\, the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award\, the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award\, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award. NPR said of the collection that: “[Rivecca’s] talent allows her to impressively flex the muscle of fiction\, making us keep our attention where it belongs—on these bracing stories promising a fine career.” Rivecca is the recipient of the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and writing fellowships from Stanford University\, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her short stories have received two Pushcart Prizes and inclusion in Best American Short Stories 2013.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gina-berriault-award-reading-ft-suzanne-rivecca/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Literary Pop October Special!
DESCRIPTION:7pm Doors 8pm Show! \nLiterary Pop is back! The show where\, writeres\, storytellers and comedians tackle their pop culture obsessions is appropriately themed this month with each of our writers tackling a different monster\, villain or horror theme! \nThis month we’ll bring you: \nAnnalee Newitz on Kaiju!\nKristee Ono on Harley Quinn!\nTshaka Menelik Imhotep Campbell on American Horror Story!\nCasey Childers on John Carpenter’s The Thing!\nWonder Dave on Night of the Living Dead and Dark Shadows!\nChaser Juggs on Snidely Whiplash! \nNatasha Muse on Satan! \nTickets are $9 in advance or $12 at the door! \nHope to see you for this very spooky Literary Pop!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-pop-october-special/
LOCATION:Doc’s Lab\, 124 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Lethem
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling author Jonathan Lethem returns with A Gambler’s Anatomy\, a devilishly entertaining novel about an international backgammon hustler who’s convinced he’s psychic—or is it just a brain tumor? Bruno Alexander has traveled the world winning fortune and fame with his mysterious\, even uncanny talent. But when a dark blot begins to distort his vision\, he must return to California for the experimental surgery that might save his life. Amidst the pseudo-radical chaos of the Berkeley scene and a succession of femme fatales and scheming false friends\, Bruno must come to terms with the fact that his luck may have finally run out. \nJonathan Lethem is the New York Times bestselling author of nine novels\, including Dissident Gardens\, The Fortress of Solitude\, and Motherless Brooklyn; three short story collections; and two essay collections\, including The Ecstasy of Influence\, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction\, Lethem’s work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Harper’s Magazine\, Rolling Stone\, Esquire\, and The New York Times\, among other publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jonathan-lethem/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ibram X. Kendi
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Stamped from the Beginning: \n“Ibram Kendi is an important new voice in African American intellectual and social history. This book\, an intellectual history of racist ideas\, promises to break important new ground for scholarly and general audiences interested in the construction of racism in America.” —Peniel E. Joseph\, author of Stokely: A Life and Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour \n\n“Both a penetrating treatise and a wonderfully accessible work of intellectual history\, Stamped from the Beginning reveals the heritage of ideas behind the modern dialectic of race-denial and race-obsession. By historicizing our entrenched logic of racial difference\, Kendi shows why “I don’t see color” and other professions of post-racialism remain inexorable alibis for white supremacy. Stamped from the Beginning has done the cause of anti-racism a great service.” —Russell Rickford\, Assistant Professor\, Cornell University\, and author of We Are an African People: Independent Education\, Black Power\, and the Radical Imagination \n\n“Richly sourced and engaging\, Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning is a highly accessible yet provocative study that seeks to complicate our understanding of racist ideas and the forces that produce them.” —Yohuru Williams\, Professor of History and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences\, Fairfield University \n\nAbout Stamped from the Beginning: \nAmericans like to insist that we are living in a postracial\, color-blind society. In fact\, racist thought is alive and well; it has simply become more sophisticated and more insidious. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in “Stamped from the Beginning\,” racist ideas in this country have a long and lingering history\, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit.\nIn this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative\, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti Black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. “Stamped from the Beginning” uses the lives of five major American intellectuals to offer a window into the contentious debates between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and antiracists. From Puritan minister Cotton Mather to Thomas Jefferson\, from fiery abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison to brilliant scholar W. E. B. Du Bois to legendary anti prison activist Angela Davis\, Kendi shows how and why some of our leading proslavery and procivil rights thinkers have challenged or helped cement racist ideas in America.\nAs Kendi provocatively illustrates\, racist thinking did not arise from ignorance or hatred. Racist ideas were created and popularized in an effort to defend deeply entrenched discriminatory policies and to rationalize the nation’s racial inequities in everything from wealth to health. While racist ideas are easily produced and easily consumed\, they can also be discredited. In shedding much needed light on the murky history of racist ideas\, “Stamped from the Beginning” offers us the tools we need to expose them and in the process\, gives us reason to hope.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ibram-x-kendi/
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:Brit Benett
DESCRIPTION:Praise for The Mothers: \n“Brit Bennett is the real thing. The Mothers is a stellar novel — moving\, thoughtful. Stunning. I couldn’t put it down. I’m so excited to have this brilliant new voice in the world.”  –Jacqueline Woodson\, National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming  and Another Brooklyn \n“Brit Bennett’s masterful debut is brimming with unforgettable scenes and the sort of keenly-observed\, precise language that makes you look at your own relationships anew. Told with the wisdom of a seasoned\, compassionate storyteller\, The Mothers is a novel about community\, friendship\, grief and growth. The two women at the center of this novel are characters you will find yourself thinking about long after you’ve turned the last page– they pull you in close and never let you go. Bennett is a brilliant and much-needed new voice in literature.” –Angela Flournoy\, author of National Book Award-finalist The Turner House\n \n“Brit Bennett’s The Mothers is an engaging and assured debut novel of depth\, and introspective power. It succeeds as a brilliant study of a modern black woman\, and as a lyrical and majestic portrait of her place in society.” —Chigozie Obioma\, author of The Fishermen \n\n“Conveys the complexities and challenges of young love with refreshing honesty and beautiful sentences. I cared about Brit Bennett’s characters\, and the choices they made\, and couldn’t stop reading this remarkable debut.” –Vendela Vida\, author of The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty \n\nAbout The Mothers: \nA dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice\, “The Mothers “is a surprising story about young love\, a big secret in a small community and the things that ultimately haunt us most.\nSet within a contemporary black community in Southern California\, Brit Bennett’s mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community\, love\, and ambition. It begins with a secret.\n“All good secrets have a taste before you tell them\, and if we’d taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths\, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret\, plucked too soon\, stolen and passed around before its season.”\nIt is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner\, a rebellious\, grief-stricken\, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother’s recent suicide\, she takes up with the local pastor’s son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one\, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it’s not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance and the subsequent cover-up will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth. As Nadia hides her secret from everyone\, including Aubrey\, her God-fearing best friend\, the years move quickly. Soon\, Nadia\, Luke\, and Aubrey are full-fledged adults and still living in debt to the choices they made that one seaside summer\, caught in a love triangle they must carefully maneuver\, and dogged by the constant\, nagging question: What if they had chosen differently? The possibilities of the road not taken are a relentless haunt.\nIn entrancing\, lyrical prose\, “The Mothers “asks whether a “what if” can be more powerful than an experience itself. If\, as time passes\, we must always live in servitude to the decisions of our younger selves\, to the communities that have parented us\, and to the decisions we make that shape our lives forever.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brit-benett/
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:USF MFA Faculty Reading
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the fall MFA in Writing Faculty Reading featuring the work of: \nLaleh Khadivi\, author of the novels The Age of Orphans and The Walking. Honors include the Whiting Award\, Barnes and Noble Discover New Writers Award\, NEA Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. \nDave Madden\, author of the story collection\, If You Need Me I’ll Be Over There and The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy\, a nonfiction book. Bernard DeVoto Fellow in Nonfiction at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Tennessee Williams Scholar in Fiction at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. \nD.A. Powell\, author of the poetry collections Cocktails and Chronic\, both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry\, and Useless Landscape\, or A Guide for Boys\, winner of the  2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. Recipient of Kingsley Tufts Prize\, the Pushcart Prize\, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. \nSusan Steinberg\, author of the short story collections The End of Free Love\, Hydroplane\, and Spectacle. Recipient of a United States Artists Ziporyn Fellowship in Literature and a Pushcart Prize. \nFree and open to the public. Reception to follow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/usf-mfa-faculty-reading/
LOCATION:FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, USF\, 2130 Fulton St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Geneva Chao + Mg Roberts
DESCRIPTION:Genève/Geneva Chao has a B.A. In French Translation and Literature from Barnard College and an MA/MFA from San Francisco State University’s Creative Writing program. Her poems and translations have been published in Boxkite\, Can We Have Our Ball Back?\, (Satellite) Telephone\, n/a literary journal\, New American Writing\, DIAGRAM\, the L.A. Telephone Book\, and others. Her book one of us is wave one of us is shore (Otis Books | Seismicity Editions\, 2016) was also a finalist for the Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. Her translations of Gérard Cartier’s Tristran and Nicolas Tardy’s (with François Luong) Encrusted on the Living have appeared from [lx] press\, where she is an editor. She has twice been a Tamaas resident for work on the intersectionality of language/poetry and dance/the body. Her book Hillary Is Dreaming is forthcoming from Make Now Books.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMg Roberts is a teacher\, poet\, and multimedia artist. She’s currently co-editing an anthology on the urgency of avant-garde writing written for and by writers of color entitled Responses\, New writing\, Flesh. She is a Kelsey Street Press member and the Northern California Kundiman Co-chair. She lives in Oakland with her three daughters\, two hens\, Goldendoodle\, and geologist husband. Her second poetry collection Anemal\, Uter Meck is forthcoming in 2017 from Black Radish Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/geneva-chao-mg-roberts/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Patrick Hoffman w/ Oscar Villalon
DESCRIPTION:Patrick Hoffman follows up his sensational debutThe White Van with Every Man A Menace\, the inside story of an increasingly ruthless ecstasy-smuggling ring. San Francisco is about to receive the biggest delivery of MDMA to hit the West Coast in years. Fresh from prison\, Raymond Gaspar follows his imprisoned boss’s orders to check on their once-reliable buyers and distributors\, but quickly finds himself caught in a web of backstabbing and deceit. Stretching from the Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia to the Golden Gate of San Francisco\,Every Man A Menace offers an unflinching account of the making\, moving\, and selling of the drug known as Molly—happiness sold by the brick and paid for with bloodshed and betrayal. \nPatrick will be in conversation with Oscar Villalon\, managing editor of ZYZZVA\, 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. \nPatrick Hoffman is a writer and private investigator based in Brooklyn. His first novel\, The White Van\, was a finalist for the Crime Writers’ Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and was named aWall Street Journal Best Book of the Year. He was born in San Francisco and lived there for half his life\, working as an investigator\, both privately and at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patrick-hoffman-w-oscar-villalon/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: WHEN THEY DIED
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die Presents…\nWHEN THEY DIED\n– an evening of stories & music –\n[about those we’ve lost & how we lost them] \nThursday\, October 27th\nSwedish American Hall\nDoors at 7:00pm\nShow at 8:00pm\nTickets at https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1334761\n$15 in advance and at the door. \nFeauturing some of You’re Going to Die’s favorites: \nAvi Vinocur [of Goodnight\, Texas]\nAndrew Blair\nMichelle Murphy\nEd Wolf\nMorgan Bolender\nScott Ferreter\nChelsea Coleman\nKat Marie Yoas\nAngela Hennessy \nYou’re Going to Die is a communal exploration of death & dying\, one driven by creativity\, fueled by arts & entertainment\, writing & music\, interviews & stories\, through any means & all social forums available\, but always with the continued commitment to bring people creatively into the conversation of death & dying\, while helping to inspire & empower out of an unabashed embrace of our losses & mortality…
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-when-they-died/
LOCATION:Swedish American Hall\, 2174 Market Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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