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SUMMARY:Jennifer Egan
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Egan is the author of several novels and a short story collection. Her novel A Visit From the Goon Squad\, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize\, the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and the Los Angeles Times book prize.  Also a journalist\, she has written frequently in the New York Times Magazine.  Manhattan Beach\, Egan’s first historical novel\, will be published in October 2017. Mesmerizing\, hauntingly beautiful\, with the pace and atmosphere of a noir thriller and a wealth of detail about organized crime\, the merchant marine and the clash of classes in New York\, it is a deft\, startling\, intimate exploration of a transformative moment in the lives of women and men\, America and the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-egan-2/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171017T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171017T200000
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SUMMARY:Queer Words: In Conversation w/ Lori Ostlund + Anne Raeff
DESCRIPTION:SF award-winning authors Lori Ostlund & Anne Raeff discuss their literary works and recent travels through China with Wayne Goodman
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queer-words-in-conversation-w-lori-ostlund-anne-raeff/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171017T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171017T213000
DTSTAMP:20260415T041539
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SUMMARY:Daniel Handler w/ Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Handler discusses his new novel\, All the Dirty Parts\, with Matthew Zapruder. \n\nPraise for All the Dirty Parts \n“Take one sex-crazed teenage boy and take him seriously. Don’t make him the butt of an easy joke. Don’t make him the star of a humiliation comedy. Let him be an idiot\, a jerk\, a cad\, a hero. Make his desire into a rocket shooting him out of this too small life. Show his loneliness crash-landing him into pieces. It’s almost impossible to write tenderly and truthfully about such things. Somehow Handler has done it.” – Jenny Offill\, author of DEPT. OF SPECULATION \n\n“Sex\, desire\, love\, consent\, coercion\, sexual identity\, porn–Daniel Handler takes it all on in ALL THE DIRTY PARTS. Teenage Cole is simultaneously lovable and troubling\, but mostly he is real\, and his story not only compelling but a fantastic jumping off point for discussing ethical sexual behavior.” – Peggy Orenstein\, author of GIRLS & SEX \n\n“A spectacular portrait of teenage male desire. This beautifully concise novel\, literally composed of only the dirty parts\, had me blushing and laughing and squirming\, sometimes all at once. ALL THE DIRTY PARTS is so honest and eloquent about youthful yearning–the pent-up aggression\, the confusion\, the pure wonder–that it will surely be passed quietly around middle school locker rooms and back-alley libraries everywhere. A joyously lewd yet tender masterpiece.” – Isaac Fitzgerald\, Buzzfeed Books Editor \n\nAbout All the Dirty Parts \nCole is a boy in high school. He runs cross country\, he sketches\, he jokes around with friends. But none of this quite matters next to the allure of sex. “Let me put it this way\,” he says. “Draw a number line\, with zero is you never think about sex and ten is\, it’s all you think about\, and while you are drawing the line\, I am thinking about sex.” \n  \nCole fantasizes about whomever he’s looking at. He consumes and shares pornography. And he sleeps with a lot of girls\, which is beginning to earn him a not-quite-savory reputation around school. This leaves him adrift with only his best friend for company\, and then something startling starts to happen between them that might be what he’s been after all this time-and then he meets Grisaille. \n  \nAll The Dirty Parts is an unblinking take on teenage desire in a culture of unrelenting explicitness and shunted communication\, where sex feels like love\, but no one knows what love feels like. With short chapters in the style of Jenny Offill or Mary Robison\, Daniel Handler gives us a tender\, brutal\, funny\, intoxicating portrait of an age when the lens of sex tilts the world. “There are love stories galore\,” Cole tells us\, “This isn’t that. The story I’m typing is all the dirty parts.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-handler-w-matthew-zapruder/
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:20171018T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171018T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T041539
CREATED:20170722T011335Z
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SUMMARY:Khary Lazarre-White
DESCRIPTION:Passage tells the story of Warrior\, a young black man navigating the snowy winter streets of Harlem and Brooklyn in 1993. Warrior is surrounded by deep family love and a sustaining connection to his history\, bonds that arm him as he confronts the urban forces that surround him—both supernatural and human—including some that seek his very destruction. \nFor Warrior and his peers\, the reminders that they\, as black men\, aren’t meant to be fully free\, are everywhere. The high schools are filled with teachers who aren’t qualified and don’t care as much about their students’ welfare as that they pass the state exams. Getting from point A to point B usually means eluding violence\, and possibly death\, at the hands of the “blue soldiers” and your own brothers. Making it home means accepting that you may open the door to find that someone you love did not have the same good fortune. \nWarrior isn’t even safe in his own mind. He’s haunted by the spirits of ancestors and of the demons of the system of oppression. Though the story told in Passage takes place in 1993\, there is a striking parallel between Warrior’s experience and the experiences of black male youth today\, since nothing has really changed. Every memory in the novel is the memory of thousands of black families. Every conversation is a message both to those still in their youth and those who left their youth behind long ago. Passage is a novel for then and now. \nKhary Lazarre-White is a writer\, social justice advocate\, attorney\, and activist who has dedicated his life to the educational outcome and opportunities for young people of color at key life stages. His support base is far-reaching and diverse\, built over the past twenty-two years as co-founder and executive director of The Brotherhood/Sister Sol. He has received awards for his work\, including the Oprah Winfrey Angel Network Use Your Life Award\, the Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World Award\, awards from Black Girls Rock! and the Andrew Goodman Foundation\, and a Resident Fellowship Award to the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center. Khary Lazarre-White is a highly influential presence among national policymakers and broadcast\, print\, and social media outlets. He has written for the Huffington Post\, NYU Press\, Nation Books\, and MSNBC.com\, and has edited three books\, The Brotherhood Speaks\, Voices of the Brotherhood/Sister Sol\, and Off the Subject. He lives in Harlem\, New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/khary-lazarre-white/
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:20171018T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171018T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T041539
CREATED:20170926T002341Z
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SUMMARY:‘Huncke & Louis’ Film Screening w/ Laki Vazakas
DESCRIPTION:Filmmaker Laki Vazakas returns to the Beat Museum for a screening of his film Huncke & Louis\, shot in 1993\, and offering a tender\, candid glimpse into the lives of seminal (if under-acknowledged) Beat Generation writer Herbert Huncke\, and his longtime friend and companion Louis Cartwright. Tate Swindell will be joining Laki in a discussion of the film\, and Huncke’s life and work.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/huncke-louis-film-screening-with-laki-vazakas/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171019T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171019T213000
DTSTAMP:20260415T041539
CREATED:20170621T233918Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T233918Z
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SUMMARY:John Kaag
DESCRIPTION:Paperback release for John Kaag’s new book\, American Philosophy. \n\nPraise for American Philosophy \n“Kaag’s accounts are accurate\, engaging and scrupulous. They show profound learning. They’re also genuinely entertaining\, recapturing lost details of thinkers’ personal lives without sensationalism. The further you go on in the book\, and the more of Kaag’s skillful miniatures you take in\, the deeper it becomes. You realize he is also making an unconventional argument for who was right\, and who was wrong\, in the classical tradition of American philosophy from about 1830 to 1930\, in Transcendentalism and Pragmatism and Idealism and beyond. It is an argument strikingly suited to our time . . . American Philosophy succeeds\, not as a textbook or survey\, but a spirited lover’s quarrel with the individualism and solipsism in our national thought.” ―Mark Greif\, The New York Times Book Review \n\n“John Kaag hits the sweet spot between intellectual history and personal memoir in this transcendently wonderful love song to philosophy . . . this is the most enthralling book of intellectual history I’ve read since David Edmonds’ and John Eidinow’s Wittgenstein’s Poker . . . With its lucid\, winning blend of autobiography\, biography\, and serious philosophical reflection\, American Philosophy provides a magnificently accessible introduction to fundamental ideas about freedom and what makes life significant. It’s an exhilarating read.” ―Heller McAlpin\, NPR \n\n“Is life worth living?” This is the age-old but forever timely question at the center of this remarkable and daring memoir. Part history of American philosophy\, part personal narrative\, American Philosophy: A Love Story\, takes us deeply into that ‘epic love affair with wisdom’ that is philosophy\, but it does so through the wonderfully intimate lens of the author himself\, a young and accomplished philosopher who has summoned the nerve to expose his flaws\, his failures\, his deepest doubts about it all\, a rare act of creative courage and generosity that leads us to where the heart of true philosophy lies: to a deep and abiding sense of wonder. This is an absolutely stellar memoir.” ―Andre Dubus III \n\nAbout American Philosophy \nJohn Kaag is a dispirited young philosopher at sea in his marriage and his career when he stumbles upon West Wind\, a ruin of an estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that belonged to the eminent Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking. Hocking was one of the last true giants of American philosophy and a direct intellectual descendent of William James\, the father of American philosophy and psychology\, with whom Kaag feels a deep kinship. It is James’s question “Is life worth living?” that guides this remarkable book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-kaag/
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:20171019T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171019T223000
DTSTAMP:20260415T041539
CREATED:20170926T001504Z
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling: Sexual Napalm
DESCRIPTION:October brings Bawdy back to the Verdi Club with tales of unforgettable sexual chemistry. Got your own story to tell on our stage? Send a voice memo to dixie@bawdystorytelling.com. Check back for more info on this month’s San Francisco lineup!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytelling-sexual-napalm/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171021T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171021T160000
DTSTAMP:20260415T041539
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SUMMARY:Bikes to Books 4-year Anniversary
DESCRIPTION:Combining San Francisco history\, art\, literature\, cycling\, and urban exploration\, Bikes to Books began as an homage to the 1988 street-naming project spearheaded by City Lights founder and former San Francisco Poet Laureate\, Lawrence Ferlinghetti\, in which 12 San Francisco streets were renamed for famous artists and authors who had once made San Francisco their home. The resulting 7.1-mile tour is a diverting and unique way to celebrate both the literary and the adventurous spirit of San Francisco. Learn about the authors and neighborhoods that made San Francisco a known literary hub\, from South Park to North Beach\, Jack London to Jack Kerouac\, all from the comfort of your own bicycle seat!\n \nBring bikes with gears\, snacks\, and enthusiasm.  \nIn honor of the authors who inspired our tour\, we invite participants to bring small excerpts or quote from their favorites to be read on location throughout the ride.  \nThis is an urban ride of moderate difficulty\, recommended for riders 16 years of age and older.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bikes-to-books-4-year-anniversary/
LOCATION:Jack London Street\, Jack London Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Bikes to Books":MAILTO:bikes2books@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171021T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171022T180000
DTSTAMP:20260415T041539
CREATED:20170926T002530Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T014725Z
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SUMMARY:10th Annual Beat Museum Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:HOSTED BY TERRY ADAMS\, LEAH LUBIN & FRED DODSWORTH \nFor the 10th year running\, we feature the living poets\, poets laureate\, former Stegner Fellows\, local published poets\, as well as brilliant old and new-timers\, plus musicians and performance artists from all over the Bay Area (including Europe this year). Diverse voices will resonate with the all-embracing spirit of the original San Francisco Beat Movement in the aura of memorabilia downstairs in the Beat Museum. \nDray Zera and Umor Hague\, young performers from the UK will join us\, along with Clive Matson\, Caroline Goodwin\, Avotcja\, Q.R. Hand\, Peter Kline\, Jack Foley (with Sangye Land)\, Gwen O’Gara\, William Taylor\, Chris Vannoy (from San Diego)\, Kim Adonizio\, Brittany Perham\, Sarah Kobrinsky\, The Word Music Continuum\, and 20 or so others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/10th-annual-beat-museum-poetry-festival/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171021T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171021T180000
DTSTAMP:20260415T041539
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SUMMARY:Crossing Borders: Remembering Francisco X. Alarcón
DESCRIPTION:The International Center of the San Francisco Public Library\, in collaboration with Carayan Press\, present Cruzando Fronteras/Crossing Borders poetry series first presented at the Main Library back in 2011. This special edition\, We Remember You\, features various poets reading their work in either Spanish or English and selections from the poetry of Francisco X. Alarcón (1954-2016) as an homage to the poet.\nGuest Poets: Camincha\, Avotcja\, Betty Sánchez\, Edwin Lozada\, Christina Lloyd\, and others.\nFor more information visit: fronteras.carayanpress.com \nThis is a Reading\, Writing & Poetry program from SFPL. We love reading/sharing/creating words.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/crossing-borders-remembering-francisco-x-alarcon/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171021T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171021T220000
DTSTAMP:20260415T041539
CREATED:20171007T014955Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171007T014955Z
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SUMMARY:This is not a reality party - presented by Poets Reading the News
DESCRIPTION:A party worthy of San Francisco’s vibrantly absurd art & literary scene! \nPoets Reading the News is celebrating its FIRST YEAR publishing journalism in verse! Join us for the literary party of the century\, hosted at the gorgeous Royal Towers in San Francisco’s North Beach\, featuring stunning views of the city. Art installations\, dance\, and poetic performance will bring the night to life. The theme of the evening is that this is NOT a reality party – and no one is required to be themselves\, or anyone else for that matter. \nIf so in the mood\, dress like yourself from ten years ago. \nThe fun will go beyond this one night- all sales from tickets and the bar will go towards publishing the first Poets Reading the News book! Pre-sales will be available\, as well. \nMore details:\nEach ticket comes with one free drink\nPerformances are from 7-8 pm\nCash & Venmo bar\nWheelchair accessible\nLimited street parking- taxis or public transportation encouraged\nAll money goes towards creating a book!\nEarly bird tickets are gonna fly off the shelves (get the pun?) so act fast \nPOETS READING THE NEWS LOVES YOU!!! ♥ ♥ ♥
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-not-a-reality-party-presented-by-poets-reading-the-news/
LOCATION:Royal Towers\, 1750 Taylor St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Poets Reading the News":MAILTO:editors@poetsreadingthenews.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171021T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171021T213000
DTSTAMP:20260415T041539
CREATED:20170816T010640Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T010640Z
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks: Strange Romance
DESCRIPTION:NOTE: THIRD SATURDAY OF THE MONTH DUE TO LITQUAKE \nDevorah Major (Brown Glass Windows\, and then we became)\nMargaret Rhee (Radio Heart; or\, How Robots Fall Out of Love)\nThomas Centolella (Almost Human)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-strange-romance/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171022T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171022T123000
DTSTAMP:20260415T041539
CREATED:20171020T023215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171020T023215Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:Come one and all and bring your friends\, partner and neighbors to a gathering in which favorite poems will be shared. Or you can come and simply listen and enjoy. The number of poems one can read will depend on the number of people attending who want to share their poetry. You may read one or several. The host Sally Love Saunders has a passion for poetry and gathering people around to write and read. Today we will simply read and listen. Hope to have you there. \nSally Love Saunders is a widely published Poet\, Poetry Therapist\, Lecturer\, Free-Lance Writer and Workshop Leader. Sally’s work has appeared in the New York Times\, Times International\, The London Times\, The Denver Post\, and among over three hundred other anthologies\, magazines and newspapers. She has received many prizes for her poetry. “A Johnny Appleseed Poet\,” Sally travels all over the country running workshops. It is her absolute conviction that “Everyone is a Poet!” Sally has developed fun techniques to help individuals to get in touch with their own unique creativity.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-festival/
LOCATION:Cultural Integration Fellowship 2650 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, 2650 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, 94118
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Sally Love Saunders":MAILTO:slovesndrs@aol.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171022T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171022T193000
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SUMMARY:Aaron Shurin
DESCRIPTION:Poet Aaron Shurin will read from his new book Flowers & Sky: Two\n Talks which brings together two lectures and a suite of unpublished \npoems by one of our finest lyric poets. These intimate talks use \nShurin’s own work to illustrate the power and practice of image-\nmaking at the deepest level. \nShurin is the author of twelve books of poetry and prose\, most \nrecently The Skin of Meaning: Collected Literary Essays and Talks by\n University of Michigan Press (2016) and Citizen by City Light Books \n(2012). A master of the prose poem\, his career could be considered\n a love letter to San Francisco and the gay community there.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aaron-shurin/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171022T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171022T213000
DTSTAMP:20260415T041539
CREATED:20171022T025359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T025359Z
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SUMMARY:CaConrad + Dara Wier
DESCRIPTION:CaConrad and Dara Wier read from their new poetry collections from Wave Books\, While Standing in Line for Death and In the Still of the Night. \n\nAbout While Standing in Line for Death \nAfter his boyfriend Earth’s murder\, CAConrad was looking for a (Soma)tic poetry ritual to overcome his depression. This new book of 18 rituals and their resulting poems contains that success\, along with other political actions and exercises that testify to poetry’s ability to reconnect us and help put an end to our alienation from the planet. \n  \nAbout In the Still of the Night \n“That’s how one human leaves us” ends the first poem of Dara Wier’s startling new collection\, a surprisingly raw and fluid exploration of grief. Wier records her thoughts with clarity and immediacy\, showing us the unraveling and reconstruction of her world and consciousness after a significant loss.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/caconrad-dara-wier/
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:20171024T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171024T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T041539
CREATED:20170722T011533Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170722T011533Z
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SUMMARY:Reza Farazmand
DESCRIPTION:In the follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Poorly Drawn Lines\, beloved webcomic artist Reza Farazmand returns with a new collection of comics that hilariously skewers our modern age. Comics for a Strange World takes readers through time\, space\, and alternate realities\, reuniting fans with favorite characters and presenting even more ridiculous scenarios. A squirrel adapts to human society by purchasing a cell phone—and a gun. And an old man shares memories of the Internet with his granddaughter: “A vast network of millions of idiots. Together\, the idiots created endless shitty ideas. It was a true renaissance of shit.” In the world of Poorly Drawn Lines\, nothing is too weird or too outlandish for parody. \nFeaturing 50 percent brand-new content alongside some of the most popular comics of the past year\, Comics for a Strange World will be the perfect gift for your most sardonic friend or family member. \nReza Farazmand lives and draws in San Francisco. He started putting his comics on the Internet in college at pdlcomics.tumblr.com\, and was soon surprised to learn that this activity could make for an actual career. His work has since been featured in and around such places as television sets\, websites\, magazines\, and now this book. When he’s not writing or drawing\, Reza enjoys drinking coffee and looking at things on screens. He is generally a pretty good guy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reza-farazmand/
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:20171024T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171024T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T041539
CREATED:20171022T015918Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T015918Z
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SUMMARY:Karen Melander Magoon + Nina Serrano
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\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-melander-magoon-nina-serrano/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171024T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171024T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T041539
CREATED:20170721T234657Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170721T234657Z
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SUMMARY:Barry Gifford
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nThe Cuban Club: Stories \nfrom Seven Stories Press \nA masterpiece of mood and setting\, character and remembrance\, The Cuban Club is Barry Gifford’s ultimate coming-of-age story told as sixty-four linked tales\, a creation myth of the Fall as seen through the eyes of an innocent child on the cusp of becoming an innocent man. Set in Chicago in the 1950s and early 1960s against the backdrop of small-time hoodlums in the Chicago mob and the girls and women attached to them\, there is the nearness of heinous crimes\, and the price to be paid for them. To Roy and his friends\, these twists and tragedies drift by like curious flotsam. The tales themselves are koan-like\, often ending in questions\, with rarely a conclusion. The story that closes the book is in the form of a letter from Roy to his father four years after his father’s death\, but written as if he were still alive. Indeed\, throughout The Cuban Club Roy is still in some doubt whether divorce or even death really exists in a world where everything seems so alive and connected. Barry Gifford has been writing his Roy stories on and off for over thirty years\, and earlier Roy stories have been published as Wyoming\, Memories from a Sinking Ship and The Roy Stories. But it is in The Cuban Club that he brings the form he has created in these stories to its crystallization. Indeed\, to find precedents for The Cuban Club\, we must look not to other story collections\, but to other creation myths–to Gilgamesh\, or the Old Testament\, or Eduardo Galeano’s Memory of Fire trilogy. Roy’s age in these stories wends back and forth between six and nineteen and back to twelve. He sees with the eyes of a seer who doesn’t seem to age\, and knows not to judge the good or the bad in circumstances or people\, or even to question why things are as they are\, instead filled with the romance of the world teetering on catastrophe always\, but abounding in saving graces. \nBarry Gifford is the author of more than forty published works of fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry\, which have been translated into twenty-eight languages. His most recent prose works are The Up-Down\, Writers\, Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels\, Sad Stories of the Death of Kings\, Imagining Paradise: New and Selected Poems\, The Roy Stories\, and Landscape with Traveler. Gifford lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. More at www.barrygifford.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/barry-gifford/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171025T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171025T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T041539
CREATED:20171022T012003Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T012003Z
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SUMMARY:Weekday Wanderlust
DESCRIPTION:Happy Fall Wanderlusters. Our next event is on the books and it’s one you won’t want to miss. Why? Well because we haven’t seen you in so long\, and we miss you. This will be our LAST event at the Hotel Rex. We’ll fill you in on all the details. AND because we have an amazing line up of writers: Frances Stroh and Laurie King from San Francisco\, and David Downie (Bay Area native) who is coming all the way from Paris\, France. Kimberley will also give a sneak peek at her new book\, too. We have so much to celebrate! Bios will be posted on our FB page. See you WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 25 for a night to remember.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/weekday-wanderlust-2/
LOCATION:Hotel Rex\, 562 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171025T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171025T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T041539
CREATED:20171020T023322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171020T023322Z
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SUMMARY:Laurie Ann Doyle w/ Alia Volz
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the release of Laurie Ann Doyle’s new book World Gone Missing: Stories.  Conversation\, readings\,  and champagne!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laurie-ann-doyle-alia-volz/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Laurie Ann Doyle":MAILTO:laurie@laurieanndoyle.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171025T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171025T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T041539
CREATED:20171022T010335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T010335Z
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SUMMARY:MFA Faculty Reading
DESCRIPTION:Beth (Bich Minh) Nguyen\, the author of the memoir Stealing Buddha’s Dinner\, winner of the PEN/Jerard Award\, the novel Short Girls\, winner of an American Book Award\, and the novel Pioneer Girl. Coeditor of the anthologies Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: I & Eye and 30/30: Thirty American Stories from the Last Thirty Years. Her work has been featured in numerous university and community reads programs. \nBarbara Jane Reyes\, the author of Invocation to Daughters\, Gravities of Center\, Poeta en San Francisco\, which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets\, Diwata\, which received the Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry\, and To Love as Aswang. \nNina Schuyler\, the author of The Translator\, which won the Next Generation Indie Award for General Fiction and was shortlisted for the Saroyan International Writing Award. Her first novel\, The Painting\, was nominated for the Northern California Book Award and named a Best Book by the San Francisco Chronicle. Her short stories have been published in ZYZZYVA\, Your Impossible Voice\, Fugue\, Santa Clara Review and elsewhere. She writes a monthly column for Fiction Advocate about style. \nBruce Snider\, the author of two poetry collections\, Paradise\, Indiana\, winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize\, and The Year We Studied Women\, winner of Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. His poetry and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review\, Poetry\, New England Review\, VQR\, Threepenny Review\, Iowa Review and Best American Poetry 2012. \n  \nFree and open to the public. Reception to follow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mfa-faculty-reading/
LOCATION:USF McClaren Complex\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171026T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171026T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T041539
CREATED:20170816T010315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T010315Z
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SUMMARY:Helen Dimos + William Rowe
DESCRIPTION:Greece resident Helen Dimos is co-organizer of the annual Paros Poetry and Translation Symposium\, a weeklong annual conversation between languages and persons. She produces a twice-monthly English-language radio show\, peopletalk\, at Beton7 Arts Center in Athens\, where she also co-hosts Poetry Meeting\, a monthly experiment performing works in progress (in any language) with others in a “non-ego” space. No Realtor Was Compensated for This Sale (The Elephants\, April 2017) is her first book. \nWilliam Rowe’s Collected Poems was published by Crater (U.K.) in 2016. INRI\, his translation of works by Chilean poet Raúl Zurita\, was initially published by Marick Press\, 2009\, with a new edition\, carrying an introduction by Norma Cole\, out this year from New York Review of Books. Other recent publications of his poetry include Nation (Klinamen\, 2012; enlarged edition\, Knives\, Forks and Spoons\, 2015) and Incisions (Iodine\, 2014). Among the recent translated books of poetry from Spanish include: LVB\, translation of Raúl Zurita (Veer Books\, 2013); A Cruise to the Galapagos Islands\, translation of late Peruvian poet Antonio Cisneros (Shearsman\, 2013); and Corpses\, translation of late Argentine poet Néstor Perlonger (Hong Kong\, 2015).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/helen-dimos-william-rowe/
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:20171026T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171026T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T041539
CREATED:20171022T022151Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T022151Z
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SUMMARY:The Return of BOOKSWAP
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first ever Bookswap in our new space\, The Bindery at 1727 Haight. \nBring a counterculture book\, or\, really\, any book you love. We’ll sit you in small groups\, get you chatting about the book you brought\, switch groups every 20 minutes or so to make sure you get to meet lots of new friends\, and then at the end\, we’ll have a big\, rowdy\, white elephant swap. You’ll leave with someone else’s fave\, and a reading list to last you months. \nWe’re thinking of this as a pre-holiday House Warming at The Bindery. Come meet the curators of the counterculture display and the Arcana Project\, hear the story of our new bookstore and gallery space\, try our premium cocktails\, and enjoy our new plush\, warm living room annex. (We have couches now!) \n  \nFree with required RSVP! This time only. \n  \nRSVP at this link. Space is limited\, so let us know early if you plan to attend.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-return-of-bookswap/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171026T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171026T213000
DTSTAMP:20260415T041539
CREATED:20170621T234029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T234029Z
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SUMMARY:Brittany Perham + Randall Mann
DESCRIPTION:Brittany Perham and Randall Mann discuss their new poetry collections with Susan Steinberg. \n\nPraise for Double Portrait \n“Double Portrait\, by turns playful\, mournful\, indulgent\, musical\, insightful\, and all the way human\, comes clean about our most driving desires. . . . Imaginative and familiar\, the result is full of humor that is both rueful and sensual.” Claudia Rankine \n“This unswerving ambitious work brings the reader on a wild and thrilling journey. The poems lead into a world where desire\, the body\, memory and invention are looked at in the bright light of language: nothing forgiven\, everything laid bare. . . . This is a wonderful\, compelling book with the qualities of the best writing\, both memorable and moving.” Eavan Boland \n“If you took the superabundant abandon of Olena Kalytiak Davis and crossed its wires with the graven psychological acuity of Louise Glück\, you might get a poet like Brittany Perham. Double Portrait is full of bracing poetry\, and arrives from deep inside the soulful solid. There may be a few other books as good as this published this year. There won’t be any better.” David Rivard \n\nAbout Double Portrait \n\nEach poem in this prize-winning collection links two portraits: child and parent\, lover and beloved\, citizen and country\, spirit and body\, living and dead. Each speaker investigates what it means to be in relationship to another: what does it mean to see and be seen\, to reflect and be reflected\, to address and be addressed? \n  \nAbout Proprietary \nIn Proprietary\, Randall Mann critiques corporate culture\, depicting (and slyly rebuking) the American materialism that erupted in the 1980s and has metastasized ever since. “Please consider / Ocean Beach / out of reach\,” he writes; in these poems\, nothing is beyond the reach of his acuity. \n  \nFor years\, Randall Mann has been hailed as one of contemporary American poetry’s most daring formalists\, expertly using craft as a way of exploring racy subjects with trenchant wit and aplomb. His new collection\, Proprietary\, depicts with the insights of a longtime insider the culture of corporate America\, in which he’s worked for years\, intertwined with some of his tried-and-true subjects\, including gay life in the wildly disparate worlds of San Francisco and northern Florida.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brittany-perham-randall-mann/
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:20171027T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171027T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T041539
CREATED:20170924T001248Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170924T001248Z
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SUMMARY:¡Cuéntamelo! A Night of Celebration // Una Noche de Celebración
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night of celebration featuring performances\, visual art\, and readings from ¡Cuéntamelo! by Juliana Delgado Lopera. ¡Cuéntamelo! is a collection of oral histories and illustrations from LGBT Spanish-speaking immigrants who arrived in the States between the 80’s and 90’s. ¡Cuéntamelo! is due to be released by Aunt Lute Books in November. For more info\, check out: http://www.auntlute.com/cuentamelo \nThis event is free and open to the public. Venue is ADA accessible. Food and refreshments will be provided. \nReserve free tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cuentamelo-a-night-of-celebration-una-noche-de-celebracion-tickets-37930964536
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cuentamelo-a-night-of-celebration-una-noche-de-celebracion/
LOCATION:THE LAUNDRY\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171028T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171028T180000
DTSTAMP:20260415T041539
CREATED:20171022T021715Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T021715Z
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SUMMARY:NaNoWriMo Kick-Off Party
DESCRIPTION:Please join the San Francisco regional chapter of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) for their annual Kick-Off Party at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight Street\, on 10/28\, from 3-6pm. \nWrite 50\,000 words in 30 days? We must be crazy! \nThousands of writers worldwide have stepped up to the challenge\, and we’re excited for another November to test ourselves\, make new friends\, and have a great time. \nKick-Off is open to anyone: long-time SFWrimos\, new participants\, the curious\, the incredulous. \nWe will gather together to meet and greet both new and veteran participants\, to share tips and tricks\, and to hold a raffle to make money to put towards our TGIO in December (That’s our Thank Goodness It’s Over party\, for theun-initiated). Any remaining funds will be donated to the NaNoWriMo non-profit in the name of our regional group. \nRaffle items include NaNoWriMo posters\, craft of writing books\, mugs for the copious amounts of tea and coffee you will drink in November\, and two gift certificates to The Booksmith. \nJoin us for an afternoon of camaraderie and good cheer ahead of another challenging\, fun November!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nanowrimo-kick-off-party/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171029T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171029T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T041539
CREATED:20171025T011344Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171025T011344Z
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SUMMARY:SF in SF Presents: Women in Horror
DESCRIPTION:Female horror authors Erika Mailman\, Loren Rhoads\, and Dana Fredsti will read selections from their work and then answer questions on a panel moderated by author Terry Bisson. \nJoin us early for cupcakes\, candy\, snacks and drinks! \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sf-in-sf-presents-women-in-horror/
LOCATION:American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171030T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171030T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T041539
CREATED:20171022T021115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T021115Z
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SUMMARY:The Racket #12
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, October 30th we’ll be welcome a bevy a talented readers – Joe Wadlington\, Pamela Alma Weymouth\, Allison Landa\, Allison Payne – as well as our featured reader\, Lucky Boy author\, Shanthi Sekeran. \nShanthi will be reading from the book as well as signing and answering questions. \nHosted by Noah Sanders
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-12/
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:20171031T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171031T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T041539
CREATED:20171022T020108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T020108Z
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SUMMARY:Pauline Craig + Stephen Kopel
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\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pauline-craig-stephen-kopel/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171101T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171101T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T041539
CREATED:20170721T234852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170721T234852Z
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SUMMARY:Cristina García
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nHere In Berlin: A Novel \nfrom Counterpoint Press \n\nHere in Berlin is a portrait of a city through snapshots\, an excavation of the stories and ghosts of contemporary Berlin—its complex\, troubled past still pulsing in the air as it was during World War II. Critically acclaimed novelist Cristina García brings the people of this famed city to life\, their stories bristling with regret\, desire\, and longing. \nAn unnamed Visitor travels to Berlin with a camera looking for reckonings of her own. The city itself is a character—vibrant and postapocalyptic\, flat and featureless except for its rivers\, its lakes\, its legions of bicyclists. Here in Berlin she encounters a people’s history: the Cuban teen taken as a POW on a German submarine\, only to return home to a family who doesn’t believe him; the young Jewish scholar hidden in a sarcophagus until safe passage to England is found; the female lawyer haunted by a childhood of deprivation in the bombed-out suburbs of Berlin who still defends those accused of war crimes; a young nurse with a checkered past who joins the Reich at a medical facility more intent to dispense with the wounded than to heal them; and the son of a zookeeper at the Berlin Zoo\, fighting to keep the animals safe from both war and an increasingly starving populace. \nA meditation on war and mystery\, this is an exciting new work by one of our most gifted novelists\, one that seeks to align the stories of the past with the stories of the future. \n\nCristina García is the author of seven novels\, including Dreaming in Cuban\, a finalist for the National Book Award that just celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary; The Agüero Sisters\, Monkey Hunting\, A Handbook to Luck\, The Lady Matador’s Hotel\, and King of Cuba. Her work has been translated into fourteen languages. García has edited anthologies\, written children’s books\, published poetry\, and taught at universities nationwide. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cristina-garcia/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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