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SUMMARY:DESTINY BEYOND EARTH: INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL & IMMORTALITY WITH DR. MICHIO KAKU
DESCRIPTION:DESTINY BEYOND EARTH: INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL & IMMORTALITY WITH DR. MICHIO KAKU\nIn Conversation with Alexis Madrigal\nMonday\, April 8\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Conversations on Science \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nDr. Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist and futurist\, and the co-founder of string field theory\, a branch of the theoretical framework of string theory. His work follows the directive of Einstein\, attempting to develop a Theory of Everything that unites the four fundamental forces of the universe. His books include The Future of the Mind\, Physics of the Future\, Physics of the Impossible\, and Parallel Worlds. His most recent\, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars\, Interstellar Travel\, Immortality\, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth considers the concrete\, scientific possibility of moving human civilization to outer space\, drawing upon astrophysics\, artificial intelligence\, and cutting-edge developments in robotics\, nanotechnology\, and biotechnology to make a case for the potentials of sustainable human life as it intersects with new technology. Dr. Kaku is also the science correspondent for CBS: This Morning\, host of two weekly science radio programs\, Science Fantastic and Explorations in Science and a Professor in Theoretical Physics at the City University of New York.\n\n\nAlexis Madrigal is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology. He created and hosted Containers\, a podcast about the machinery of global capitalism and the city of Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/destiny-beyond-earth-interstellar-travel-immortality-with-dr-michio-kaku/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:DISCOVERY
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Public Works SF for six stories of rigorous inquiry and accidental revelations\, seeking the unfamiliar and encountering the unknown\, and uncovering the uncharted\nODD SALON: DISCOVERY\n  \nTuesday\, April 9th 2019 \nDoors open for pre-salon cocktail hour at 6:30\, Talks begin at 7:30 \nReserved Seats available. General Admission seats are first come\, first served. \n*Discounted Early Bird Tickets are available only up to Midnight\, Monday Feb18.* \n  \nJoin our growing membership for ticket discounts and Members-only opportunities. Find out more: Odd Salon Membership \nGET TICKETS>
URL:https://litseen.com/event/discovery/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Happy Endings
DESCRIPTION:Because everyone deserves a Happy Ending!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-endings/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:RUTH REICHL In Conversation with Steven Winn
DESCRIPTION:RUTH REICHL\nIn Conversation with Steven Winn\nTuesday\, April 9\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nRuth Reichl is the bestselling author of the memoirs Tender at the Bone\, Comfort Me With Apples\, Garlic and Sapphires\, andFor You\, Mom\, Finally; the novel Delicious!. She was editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine for ten years. Previously she was the restaurant critic for The New York Times and served as the food editor and restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Times. She has been honored with six James Beard Awards for her journalism\, magazine feature writing\, and criticism. Her forthcoming memoir\, Save Me the Plums\, will be published in April 2019. \n  \nSteven Winn is a fiction writer and award-winning arts journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times\, Good Housekeeping\, Southern Poetry Review\, and Sports Illustrated. Winn spent 28 years at the San Francisco Chronicle\, the last six as the Arts and Culture Critic. He is the author of Come Back\, Como.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ruth-reichl-in-conversation-with-steven-winn/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rachel Howard Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Howard joins us to launch her new novel\, The Risk of Us. \n\nPraise for The Risk of Us \n“An emotionally complex and amazingly suspenseful novel about love and fear.”—Jenny Offill\, author of Dept. of Speculation \n“I’ve never read anything so beautiful about the intricacies of adoption—the process itself\, and the seldom-talked-about aftermath. The prose is elegant and compressed; I often had to stop reading to catch my breath. Anyone who has ever loved a child\, in any capacity\, should read this book.”— Jamie Quatro\, author of I Want to Show You More and Fire Sermon \n“Rachel Howard’s The Risk of Us (so accurately titled) is a novel of deep pain yet also laughs—lots of them. Nothing is easy in this book\, and that’s as it should be. With risk comes a kind of awesome grace. A wonderfully written and candid examination of what it means to be a family.”— Peter Orner\, author of Last Car over the Sagamore Bridge and Love and Shame and Love \n\nAbout The Risk of Us \nA poignant\, dazzling debut novel about a woman who longs to be a mother and the captivating yet troubled child she and her husband take in. \nWhat is the cost of motherhood? When The Risk of Us opens\, we meet a forty-something woman who deeply wants to become a mother. The path that opens up to her and her husband takes them through the foster care system\, with the goal of adoption. And when seven-year-old Maresa—with inch-deep dimples and a voice that can beam to the moon–comes into their lives\, their hearts fill with love. But her rages and troubles threaten to crack open their marriage. Over the course of a year\, as Maresa approaches the age at which children become nearly impossible to place\, the couple must decide if they can be the parents this child needs\, and finalize the adoption—or\, almost unthinkably\, give her up. \nFor fans of Jenny Offill and Rachel Cusk\, The Risk of Us deftly explores the inevitable tests children bring to a marriage\, the uncertainties of family life\, and the ways true empathy obliterates our defenses.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-howard-book-launch/
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:Freud's Bar - - details to come!
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday April 10\n6:30pm\nAd Event \nEAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is pleased to host another installment of Freud’s Bar on Wednesday\, April 10th at 6:30pm. Presenter tbd. \nAre you interested in the world of psychology but afraid you may not understand all of the terms and jargon? Join us for monthly talks given by local Bay Area psychoanalysts. You don’t need to be a psychologist to check out Freud’s Bar. Just bring your interest and a friend! \n  \n  \n  \nABOUT THE PRESENTER \nmore to come! \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, April 10\, 2019 – 6:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/freuds-bar-details-to-come/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 7 pm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-club-3/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
DESCRIPTION:reading from \nMinutes of Glory and Other Stories \npublished by The New Press \nA dazzling short story collection from the person Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls “one of the greatest writers of our time” \n\n\n\nNgũgĩ wa Thiong’o\, although renowned for his novels\, memoirs\, and plays\, honed his craft as a short story writer. From “The Fig Tree” (“Mugumo” in this collection)\, written in 1960\, his first year as an undergraduate at Makerere University College in Uganda\, to the playful “The Ghost of Michael Jackson\,” written as a professor at the University of California\, Irvine\, these collected stories reveal a master of the short form. \nCovering the period of British colonial rule and resistance in Kenya to the bittersweet experience of independence—and including two stories that have never before been published in the United States— Ngũgĩ’s collection features women fighting for their space in a patriarchal society; big men in their Bentleys who have inherited power from the British; and rebels who still embody the fighting spirit of the downtrodden. One of Ngũgĩ’s most beloved stories\, “Minutes of Glory\,” tells of Beatrice\, a sad but ambitious waitress who fantasizes about being feted and lauded over by the middle-class clientele in the city’s beer halls. Her dream leads her on a witty and heartbreaking adventure. \nPublished for the first time in America\, Minutes of Glory and Other Stories is a major literary event that celebrates the storytelling might of one of Africa’s best-loved writers. \nOne of the leading writers and scholars at work today\, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was born in Limuru\, Kenya\, in 1938. He is the author of A Grain of Wheat; Weep Not\, Child; and Petals of Blood\, as well as Birth of a Dream Weaver\, Wrestling with the Devil\, and Minutes of Glory (all from The New Press).\nCurrently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California\, Irvine\, Ngũgĩ is recipient of twelve honorary doctorates\, among other awards. \nWhat has been said about the work of \n\n\n\nThis thrilling testament to the human spirit had\, for me\, a fierce resonance. . . . I could not help feeling that his luminous words were meant for those victims and many others being persecuted across the world\, a way of urging humanity to never surrender to the demons of fear and silence. (Ariel Dorfman\, The New York Times Book Review) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Engrossing … At once exhilarating and defiant\, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s memoir is a thought-provoking document of a grim time in Kenyan history.” (Publishers Weekly) \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Washington Post reviews Birth of a Dream Weaver\, saying “every page ripples with a contagious faith in education and in the power of literature to shape the imagination and scour the conscience.” (The Washington Post) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ngugi-wa-thiongo-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190410T213000
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SUMMARY:STILL PROCESSING with Jenna Wortham & Wesley Morris
DESCRIPTION:STILL PROCESSING\nwith Jenna Wortham & Wesley Morris\nWednesday\, April 10\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\n\nCo-presented with The New York Times \n\nJenna Wortham is the co-host of The New York Times arts and culture podcast Still Processing\, and a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. Wortham was previously a tech writer for The New York Times\, and now writes on a multitude of subjects ranging between arts and culture\, technology\, and social media\, with a focus on the contributions of black\, queer women. Wortham writes a semi-regular newsletter\, Fermentation and Formation\, and collaborates on Bloop\, a twist on Gwyneth Paltrow’s newsletter Goop\, targeted toward black women. \nCo-host of Still Processing\, Wesley Morris is also a critic-at-large for The New York Times\, regularly reviewing film\, television\, and other popular culture events through a socially conscious lens. Morris received the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism “for his smart\, inventive film criticism\, distinguished by pinpoint prose and an easy traverse between the art house and the big-screen box office.”  He was previously a film critic at The Boston Globe\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, and The San Francisco Examiner\, and a staff writer and Sportstorialist columnist at Grantland. He was also the co-host of Grantland’s film and pop culture podcast\, “Do You Like Prince Movies?” \nThis event is produced in collaboration with
URL:https://litseen.com/event/still-processing-with-jenna-wortham-wesley-morris/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Leslie Carol Roberts
DESCRIPTION:Leslie Carol Roberts discusses her new book\, Here Is Where I Walk. \n\nAbout Here is Where I Walk \nIt is in the Presidio of San Francisco\, California\, that Leslie Carol Roberts walks. The Presidio\, America’s only residential national park tucked wholly into an urban setting\, is a fading historic forest. Here is where Leslie’s memories of other places\, people\, and travels emerge. Here is where the author’s home has been for more than a decade and here is the place she raised her two children as a single mother. \nIn this thickly textured literary treasure\, Leslie turns her daily journeys\, rich with observation and recollection\, into revelations of deeper meaning. Through her daily walks into the Presidio\, Leslie accepts the invitation of the beckoning trees and finds herself colliding with the urban coyote\, the peculiar banana slug\, and the manzanita. She notes both ridiculous and poignant aspects of human ecosystems—parents bragging about Austrian ski vacations\, grocery stores packed with nannies—all in pursuit of what it means to live a life of creativity and creation. \nThe twelve episodes\, each connected to a month of the year and interwoven with field notebooks\, explore everything from Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone in the fields where he spoke with the birds to the work of Western botanist Alice Eastwood. Leslie reflects on the high school art teacher who first inspired her thinking about aesthetics\, the tragic accident that left her severely injured\, her subsequent work as a college professor teaching writing\, and the loss of a beloved student to cancer. In all this\, places of exquisite beauty and complexity provide her with exactly the scaffolding needed to survive\, with nature serving as a tonic. Here Is Where I Walk provides a vivid answer to how we can find our place\, not only in nature but within ourselves and the world we walk.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/leslie-carol-roberts/
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:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:Thu\, April 11\, 6:30pm – 9:00pm\nDescriptionSponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. This month’s readers TBD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-our-monthly-bilingual-poetry-series-and-open-mic-29/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Timothy Hampton
DESCRIPTION:Zone Books in conjunction with City Lights present \nan evening of discussion centering around the release of Timonthy Hampton’s new book \nBob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work \nfrom Zone Books \n\n\nBob Dylan’s reception of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature has elevated him beyond the world of popular music\, establishing him as a major modern artist. However\, until now\, no study of his career has focused on the details and nuances of the songs\, showing how they work as artistic statements designed to create meaning and elicit emotion. Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work is the first comprehensive book on both the poetics and politics of Dylan’s compositions. It studies Dylan\, not as a pop hero\, but as an artist\, as a maker of songs. Focusing on the interplay of music and lyric\, it traces Dylan’s innovative use of musical form\, his complex manipulation of poetic diction\, and his dialogues with other artists\, from Woody Guthrie to Arthur Rimbaud. Moving from Dylan’s earliest experiments with the blues\, through his mastery of rock and country\, up to his densely allusive recent recordings\, Timothy Hampton offers a detailed account of Dylan’s achievement. Locating Dylan in the long history of artistic modernism\, the book studies the relationship between form\, genre\, and the political and social themes that crisscross Dylan’s work. Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work offers both a nuanced engagement with the work of a major artist and a meditation on the contribution of song at times of political and social change. \nTimothy Hampton is a writer\, scholar\, teacher\, and translator based in Northern California. Raised in the Rockies\, educated in New Mexico\, Europe\, Canada\, and on the East Coast\, he is primarily a scholar of the Romance Languages\, and of the literature and culture of the Renaissance. His particular research interests include the relationship between literature and politics\, the philosophy of history\, and the transmission of culture. He has written widely on literature in its many forms (epic\, lyric\, dramatic\, novelistic) across several languages and national traditions. Recently\, he has been working on the history of emotion\, on multilingualism\, and on popular music. He is Professor of Comparative Literature and French at the University of California at Berkeley\, where he holds the Aldo Scaglione and Marie M. Burns Distinguished Professorship and directs the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities. \nwhat has been said about Timothy Hampton’s writing: \n“This is an essential Dylan book and unlike any other. Hampton left me with a deeper appreciation of Dylan’s uniqueness as both songwriter and singer; his methods\,his lyrical and poetic brilliance\, his many voices.” — Dean Wareham\, musician (Galaxie 500\, Luna) and author of Black Postcards \n“This is a truly powerful book written by one of the leading scholars of the history of poetry today. The writing is clear and intellectually most exciting: Dylan’s idiosyncratic genius is explained more compellingly than ever before. Hampton remains relevant\, exciting\, and persuasively accurate as he shows the genesis of the songs as musical and literary forms and assesses their originality. Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work will become a standard account\, destined to appear in class lists under ‘required reading’; it contains the searching close readings of songs that will both enable future study and require contestation for an alternative account: the study sets a gold standard.”–Nigel Smith\, William and Annie S. Paton Foundation Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature\, Princeton University \n“From classrooms to the Supreme Court to the street corner\, nobody doesn’t know Dylan songs. Yet there is surprising little writing that addresses exactly how the songs speak to us and weave themselves into the web of American language. Timothy Hampton’s Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work is a rigorous model for how this kind of critical analysis can be done. Hampton’s well-written book is the first one I would recommend to someone fascinated and mystified by Dylan’s half a century of ranging among the things that songs can articulate.”– Charles O. Hartman\, Poet in Residence at Connecticut College
URL:https://litseen.com/event/timothy-hampton/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190411T193000
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SUMMARY:Translating Contemporary Russian Literature: Marian Schwartz on Olga Slavnikova and Leonid Yuzefovich
DESCRIPTION:Translating Contemporary Russian Literature: Marian Schwartz on Olga Slavnikova and Leonid Yuzefovich\n\nGreen Apple Books on the Park | 1231 9th Avenue | San Francisco\, CA \n\n\nRSVP\n\nMarian Schwartz joins Sabrina Jaszi to talk about translating contemporary Russian literature and her latest translations of Leonid Yuzefovich’s Horsemen of the Sands and Olga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die. \nHorsemen of the Sands (Archipelago Books) contains two novellas by Leonid Yuzefovich: The Storm\, which takes place in a Soviet elementary school\, and Horsemen of the Sands\, a mystical tale about the real-life warlord R.F. Ungern-Shternberg\, who fought both the Chinese and the Bolsheviks for control of Mongolia during the Russian Civil War\, which lasted six years after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. \nIn The Storm\, a bombastic teacher lectures his young students on traffic accidents and family separation\, unwittingly stirring an emotional crisis. A lost wallet\, an office fling\, an upset stomach—the minutiae of life unveil the private tragedies at the heart of a school community. \nHorsemen of the Sands takes place a world away. An old herdsman entrances a young tank commander with the legend of Baron Ungern\, the real-life White Russian officer who conquered Mongolia. A foggy epic unfolds\, a tale of faith and revenge centering on a mysterious amulet\, said to make the wearer invincible. From the dim of the classroom to the vast Mongolian steppe\, Leonid Yuzefovich’s masterful novellas The Storm and Horsemen of the Sands drill straight to the core of human emotion. These Russian parables illuminate the fears\, passions\, and ambitions beneath the grandest acts and the tiniest gestures. \nOlga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die (Columbia University Press) tells the story of how two women try to prolong a life—and the means and meaning of their own lives—by creating a world that doesn’t change\, a Soviet Union that never crumbled.In the chaos of early-1990s Russia\, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralyzed veteran conceal the Soviet Union’s collapse from him in order to keep him—and his pension—alive until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. \nAfter her stepfather’s stroke\, Marina hangs Brezhnev’s portrait on the wall\, edits the Pravda articles read to him\, and uses her media connections to cobble together entire newscasts of events that never happened. Meanwhile\, her mother\, Nina Alexandrovna\, can barely navigate the bewildering new world outside\, especially in comparison to the blunt reality of her uncommunicative husband. As Marina is caught up in a local election campaign that gets out of hand\, Nina discovers that her husband is conspiring as well—to kill himself and put an end to the charade. Masterfully translated by Marian Schwartz\, The Man Who Couldn’t Die is a darkly playful vision of the lost Soviet past and the madness of the post-Soviet world that uses Russia’s modern history as a backdrop for an inquiry into larger metaphysical questions. \n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812
URL:https://litseen.com/event/translating-contemporary-russian-literature-marian-schwartz-on-olga-slavnikova-and-leonid-yuzefovich/
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:Translator Marian Schwartz
DESCRIPTION:  \nMarian Schwartz discusses her latest translations from Russian\, The Man Who Couldn’t Die: The Tale of an Authentic Human Being and Horsemen of the Sands. \n\nAbout The Man Who Couldn’t Die \nIn the chaos of early-1990s Russia\, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralyzed veteran conceal the Soviet Union’s collapse from him in order to keep him–and his pension–alive until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. Olga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die tells the story of how two women try to prolong a life–and the means and meaning of their own lives–by creating a world that doesn’t change\, a Soviet Union that never crumbled.After her stepfather’s stroke\, Marina hangs Brezhnev’s portrait on the wall\, edits the Pravda articles read to him\, and uses her media connections to cobble together entire newscasts of events that never happened. Meanwhile\, her mother\, Nina Alexandrovna\, can barely navigate the bewildering new world outside\, especially in comparison to the blunt reality of her uncommunicative husband. As Marina is caught up in a local election campaign that gets out of hand\, Nina discovers that her husband is conspiring as well–to kill himself and put an end to the charade. Masterfully translated by Marian Schwartz\, The Man Who Couldn’t Die is a darkly playful vision of the lost Soviet past and the madness of the post-Soviet world that uses Russia’s modern history as a backdrop for an inquiry into larger metaphysical questions. \nAbout Horsemen of the Sands \nHorsemen of the Sands gathers two novellas by Leonid Yuzefovich: “Horsemen of the Sands” and “The Storm.” The former tells the true story of R.F. Ungern-Shternberg\, also known as the “Mad Baltic Baron\,” a military adventurer whose intense fascination with the East drove him to seize control of Mongolia during the chaos of the Russian Civil War. “The Storm” centers on an unexpected emotional crisis that grips a Russian elementary school on an otherwise regular day\, unveiling the vexed emotional bonds and shared history that knit together its community of students\, teachers\, parents\, and staff. \nAbout Marian Schwartz \nMarian Schwartz has translated over sixty volumes of Russian classic and contemporary fiction\, history\, biography\, criticism\, and fine art. She is the principal English translator of the works of Nina Berberova and translated the New York Times’ bestseller The Last Tsar\, by Edvard Radzinsky\, as well as classics by Mikhail Bulgakov\, Ivan Goncharov\, Yuri Olesha\, and Mikhail Lermontov\, and Leo Tolstoy. She is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts translation fellowships and the 2014 Read Russia Prize for Best Translation of Contemporary Russian Literature and is a past president of the American Literary Translators Association. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/translator-marian-schwartz/
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 LEWIS
DESCRIPTION:MICHAEL LEWIS\nAgainst The Rules\nIn Conversation with Jacob Weisberg\nThursday\, April 11\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nJournalist and bestselling author Michael Lewis (Moneyball\, The Big Short\, Flashboys) talks to Jacob Weisberg about his new podcast\, AGAINST THE RULES\, where he explores the corrosion of fairness in courts of law\, Wall Street\, sports\, and the art world—to understand what it has done to our society\, mostly without our noticing. The seven-episode season takes listeners from student-loan call centers to the courts of Uzbekistan to the new trading hubs of Wall Street (they’re in New Jersey). He speaks with a US Senator and the coach of the Golden State Warriors; the architect of the 9/11 settlement fund and a man who got rich off the 2008 financial crisis.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-lewis/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190412T203000
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SUMMARY:The Poetry Center presents Feliz Lucia Molina and Alli Warren at The Green Arcade
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series continues in April with a double program featuring Feliz Lucia Molina\, here from Chicago\, along with the Bay Area’s Alli Warren. Friday April 12\, they will each read their own work at The Green Arcade in San Francisco. (The prior night\, Thursday April 11\, Feliz is reading then joining Alli and the audience in conversation\, at The Poetry Center.) Supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, both events are free and open to the public.\n\nFeliz’ latest chapbook is Crystal Marys. Written from the impassive surface of the Internet and the high desert of Southern California\, Crystal Marys is a field study of social-media fatigue\, suburban youth\, Filipino immigrancy\, a denim day job in LA’s garment district\, and other sites of crystallized dis/enchantment. Molina traces life’s “beautiful unreliable narrative logic” by the devotional images of our times-the Virgin Mary\, emoji\, family photos\, profile pics\, etc. \n\nAlli Warren is the author of I Love It Though (Nightboat)\, which was nominated for the California Book Award. Other recent publications include Little Hill (The Elephants)\, Moveable C (Push Press)\, Don’t Go Home With Your Heart On (Faux Press)\, and Here Come the Warm Jets (City Lights)\, which was nominated for the California Book Award and won the Poetry Center Book Award. Her writing has been published in many venues\, including Harpers\, Poetry\, Jacket\, The Brooklyn Rail\, and Feminist Formations. Alli has lived and worked in the Bay Area since 2005
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-poetry-center-presents-feliz-lucia-molina-and-alli-warren-at-the-green-arcade/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="San Francisco Poetry Center":MAILTO:poetry@sfsu.edu
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SUMMARY:The Poetry Center at SF State Presents:  Feliz Lucia Molina
DESCRIPTION:Feliz’ latest chapbook is Crystal Marys. Written from the impassive surface of the Internet and the high desert of Southern California\, Crystal Marys is a field study of social-media fatigue\, suburban youth\, Filipino immigrancy\, a denim day job in LA’s garment district\, and other sites of crystallized dis/enchantment. Molina traces life’s “beautiful unreliable narrative logic” by the devotional images of our times-the Virgin Mary\, emoji\, family photos\, profile pics\, etc.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-poetry-center-at-sf-state-presents-feliz-lucia-molina/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190412T210000
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SUMMARY:Show Me as I Want to be Seen with Porchlight Storytelling
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of storytelling presented in collaboration with Contemporary Jewish Museum and San Francisco’s storytelling series\, Porchlight. Each storyteller is sharing a personal story inspired by the CJM exhibition Show Me as I Want to be Seen. \nTaking the work of French Jewish artist and writer Claude Cahun (1894–1954) along with her lifelong lover and collaborator Marcel Moore (1892–1972) as its starting point\, Show Me as I Want to Be Seen examines the complex and empowered representation of a fluid identity. Claude (born Lucy Schwob) and Marcel (born Suzanne Malherbe) are recognized as pioneers in their bold representations of an unfixed self. \nThis exhibition positions their work in dialogue with ten contemporary artists whose artworks—in mediums ranging from painting and sculpture to video and 3-D mapping—also address the opaque\, constructed\, and shifting self. The contemporary artists in the exhibition are Nicole Eisenman\, Rhonda Holberton\, Hiwa K\, Young Joon Kwak\, Zanele Muholi\, Toyin Ojih Odutola\, Gabby Rosenberg\, Tschabalala Self\, Davina Semo\, and Isabel Yellin. Show Me as I Want to Be Seen is on display at the Contemporary Jewish Museum from February 7 to July 7\, 2019. \nExperience live storytelling exploring our understanding of self and the fluidity of identity. \nShown here: Tschabalala Self\, Perched\, 2016. Oil\, acrylic\, flashe\, handmade paper\, fabric\, and found material. Courtesy of the artist and Kate Werble Gallery\, New York. Photo: Elizabeth Bernstein.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/show-me-as-i-want-to-be-seen-with-porchlight-storytelling/
LOCATION:CIIS Public Programs\, 1453 Mission St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190414T160000
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SUMMARY:Fire & Rain: Ecopoetry of California contributors read
DESCRIPTION:Publisher Lucille Lang Day and poet Joan Gelfand are joined by several Bay Area colleagues who are among the 150 contributors throughout the state whose poems make up “Fire & Rain: Ecopoetry of California” (Scarlet Tanager Books\, 2018). http://www.scarlettanager.com/ “Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California\, edited by Lucille Lang Day and Ruth Nolan\, is not only a beautiful and thorough anthology but an homage to California\, its varieties of landscapes\, and the amazing poetry it has evoked. Like no other collection in its focus\, it presents for the reader experiences of life and personal perspectives on the region while also providing an invaluable resource for teachers of creative writing and literature and the ecology\, habitats\, and species of the state.” — Pattiann Rogers\, recipient of the John Burroughs Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Nature Poetry http://www.scarlettanager.com/fire-and-rain.html
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fire-rain-ecopoetry-of-california-contributors-read/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190414T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190414T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T133851
CREATED:20190227T021501Z
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SUMMARY:GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets\, artists\, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. \nTo participate in the open mic session\, please arrive by 4 and plan to listen to all of the featured poets. Seating/space is limited. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPosted in LIVE POETRY
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gears-turning-w-kim-shuck-4/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190414T173000
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SUMMARY:LOTERIA READING SERIES No. 1: La Luna\, La Arãna\, La Estrella
DESCRIPTION:LOTERIA READING SERIES\, No. 1: La Arãna\, La Luna\, La Estrella \nAn afternoon reading with \nRaina J. León \nThea Matthews \nMK Chavez \nSunday\, April 14th\, 2019 \nDoors: 4PM \nProgram: 4:30PM \nFree Entry \nInstitute Of advanced Uncertainty \n@ McRoskey 3RD FLOOR FACTORY LOFT \n1687 Market Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94103
URL:https://litseen.com/event/loteria-reading-series-no-1-la-luna-la-arana-la-estrella/
LOCATION:Institute Of advanced Uncertainty\, P.O. Box 460908\, San Francisco\, 94146
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Institute Of advanced Uncertainty":MAILTO:advanceduncertainty@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190415T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190415T200000
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SUMMARY:New Poetry & 100 Years of Ferlinghetti at Odd Mondays
DESCRIPTION:Shauna Hannibal\, Fernando Martí\, and Zack Rogow\, three poets with new collections\, read from their work and from the work of Lawrence Ferlinghetti at “New Poetry & 100 Years of Ferlinghetti\,” the Odd Mondays for April 15. Celebrate National Poetry Month and Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s first century at Folio Books\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. 7pm start. Free admission and free refreshments–including birthday cake! \nHere’s more about the poets who are reading:\nShauna Hannibal is the author of Hannibal (Forklift Books\, 2017)\, her debut collection of poetry which Laura Kasischke has called “a wildly important and game-changing book by a poet whose sensibility brings us\, through poetry\, an entirely new way of seeing the world\, ourselves in it\, and the art of the poem.” She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson. She lives in San Francisco near Golden Gate Park and is working on her 2nd book while training to become a massage therapist. \nFernando Martí is a poet\, story-writer\, printmaker\, architect\, and housing activist. Originally from Ecuador\, he has been deeply involved in San Francisco’s struggles for affordable housing\, community land and climate justice since the mid-90s. His work reflects his formal training in urbanism\, his roots in rural Ecuador\, and his current residence in the heart of Empire. His poetry and prints inhabit the space between ancestral traditions of place and utopian construction in the age of catastrophic climate change. His artwork can be seen regularly on justseeds.org\, and his writing has appeared in publications as varied as El Tecolote\,Left Turn and Shelterforce\, as well as a ‘zine called Amor y Lucha. \nZack Rogow is the author\, editor\, or translator of more than twenty books or plays. His poetry collections include Irreverent Litanies; as well as The Number Before Infinity\, and Talking with the Radio. His coauthored play Colette Uncensored had a staged reading at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC\, and ran in London and San Francisco. Rogow’s blog\, Advice for Writers\, has more than 200 posts. He serves as a contributing editor of Catamaran Literary Reader. www.zackrogow.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-poetry-100-years-of-ferlinghetti-at-odd-mondays/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190415T210000
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-25/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190415T210000
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CREATED:20190227T033821Z
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SUMMARY:POETS! - Ronald Sauer & Agnetta Falk followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:POETS! – Ronald Sauer & Agnetta Falk followed by an open mic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-ronald-sauer-agnetta-falk-followed-by-an-open-mic/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190416T200000
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SUMMARY:The Effect of Tech on San Francisco with Cary McClelland and Kim-Mai Cutler
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco is changing at warp speed. Famously home to artists and activists\, and known as the birthplace of the Beats and the LGBTQ movement\, in recent decades the Bay Area has been reshaped by Silicon Valley\, the engine of the new American economy. \nThe richer the region gets\, the more unequal and less diverse it becomes\, and cracks in the city’s facade–rapid gentrification\, an epidemic of evictions\, rising crime\, atrophied public institutions–have started to show. \nWho has been displaced? How has San Francisco become the City emplematic of wealth disparity? What are the intersections between racism\, gentrification\, wealth creation\, and politics amongst all of these changes. \nHere to be in conversation are Cary Mclelland\, who wrote the book Silicon City to investigate how the growth of the digital economy has affected San Francisco and journalist Kim-Mai Cutler. \n\nSee Less
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-effect-of-tech-on-san-francisco-with-cary-mcclelland-and-kim-mai-cutler/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190416T210000
DTSTAMP:20260509T133851
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SUMMARY:Philosopher of Utopia: Celebrating the New Graphic Biography of Herbert Marcuse
DESCRIPTION:Nick Thorkelson\, Andrew T. Lamas\, and a special guest TBD \ndiscussing the new book \nHerbert Marcuse\, Philosopher of Utopia: A Graphic Biography \nby Nick Thorkelson\, edited by Paul Buhle and Andrew T. Lamas\, with a foreword by Angela Y. Davis & published by City Lights Books \nThis comics-format biography brings Marcuse’s life\, work\, and times to a new generation. From his youth in Weimar Germany and early studies with Martin Heidegger\, to his emigration from Nazi Germany along with colleagues of the Frankfurt School\, to his rise as one of its major theorists along with Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin\, to his status as a countercultural icon\, readers are introduced to the theories and circumstances that made Marcuse into one of the world’s most influential intellectuals. \nMentor to a young Angela Davis and often referred to as the unofficial faculty advisor to the New Left\, Marcuse’s controversial critique of the “comfortable unfreedoms” of post-WWII capitalism entered popular consciousness with the 1964 publication of One-Dimensional Man\, which sold over 100\,000 copies in its first years in print. His argument for the possibility of a more humane and sustainable world was grounded in a personal knowledge of the violence of authoritarianism\, and the risk of its resurgence. Perennially relevant\, radical\, and inspiring\, Marcuse’s concept of the Great Refusal —”the protest against that which is”—is a guide for our times. \n“Nick Thorkelson’s exploration of the ideas and personality of Herbert Marcuse is exactly the sort of comic book I have longed to read. It is engaging\, artful\, and explores the world of revolutionary ideas. Books like this keep the fire going inside.”––Joe Sacco \n“I believe that Marcuse’s ideas can be as valuable today as they were fifty years ago.”––Angela Y. Davis\, from the foreword \nNick Thorkelson is a cartoonist living in Boston. He has done cartoons on local politics for The Boston Globe and in support of organizations working on economic justice\, peace\, and public health. He is the co-author and/or illustrator of The Earth Belongs to the People\, The Underhanded History of the USA\, The Legal Rights of Union Stewards\, The Comic Strip of Neoliberalism\, and Economic Meltdown Funnies\, and has contributed to a number of nonfiction comics anthologies. He is working on a graphic novel about the end of the Sixties\, A Better World Is Possible. Nick also moonlights as a musician\, animator\, graphic designer\, and painter. \nAndrew T. Lamas teaches urban studies and critical theory at the University of Pennsylvania\, is co-editor of The Great Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements (Temple University Press\, 2017)\, and serves on the boards of the International Herbert Marcuse Society\, the Radical Philosophy Review\, and the Bread and Roses Community Fund.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/philosopher-of-utopia-celebrating-the-new-graphic-biography-of-herbert-marcuse/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190416T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190416T213000
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CREATED:20190227T011118Z
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SUMMARY:JELANI COBB In Conversation with Hilton Als
DESCRIPTION:JELANI COBB\nIn Conversation with Hilton Als\nTuesday\, April 16\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Social Studies \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nJelani Cobb has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 2015\, writing on subjects of race\, politics\, history\, and culture. Cobb’s books include The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress\, To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic\, and the collection\, The Devil and Dave Chappelle and Other Essays. He has also contributed essays and articles to the Washington Post\, The New Republic\, Essence\, Vibe\, The Progressive\, and TheRoot.com. Across his body of work\, Dr. Cobb regularly interrogates intersections of race\, social justice\, and American politics\, suffusing them with his characteristic incisiveness and wit. His awards include the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism\, and fellowships from the Fulbright and Ford foundations. Dr. Cobb was a 2018 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Commentary\, “for combining masterful writing with a deep knowledge of history and a deft reporter’s touch to bring context and clarity to the issue of race at a time when respectful dialogue on the subject often gives way to finger-pointing and derision.”  He is the Ira J. Lipman Professor of Journalism at Columbia University\, specializing in post-Civil War African American history\, 20th century and modern American politics\, and the history of the Cold War. \nHilton Als is an essayist\, author\, and has been the lead theatre critic for The New Yorker since 2012. Als received the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism\, “for bold and original reviews that strove to put stage dramas within a real-world cultural context\, particularly the shifting landscape of gender\, sexuality and race.”  He is the author of The Women\, and White Girls\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and the winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Non-fiction. His writing\, regardless of form\, explores race\, sexuality\, class\, art\, and American identity provocatively\, exploding the boundaries of the genre in which it is contained.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jelani-cobb-in-conversation-with-hilton-als/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bright: Mui Poopoksakul in conversation with Saskia Vogel
DESCRIPTION:APRIL 16\, 2019 | 7:30PM\nBright: Mui Poopoksakul in conversation with Saskia Vogel\n\nThe Bindery | 1727 Haight Street | San Francisco\, CA \n\n\nRSVP\n\nMui Poopoksakul talks about her translation of Duanwad Pimwana’s Bright\, the first-ever novel by a Thai woman to appear in English translation\, with Saskia Vogel\, moderated by Laura Goode. \n\n\n“Bright will prove to be seminal for Thailand’s place in the literary world.” — Prabda Yoon\, author of Moving Parts \n\n\nWhen five-year-old Kampol is told by his father to sit in front of their run-down apartment building and await his return\, the confused boy does as he’s told—he waits and waits and waits\, until he realizes his father isn’t coming back anytime soon. Adopted by the community\, Kampol is soon being raised by figures like Chong the shopkeeper\, who rents out calls on his telephone and goes into debt extending his customers endless credit. \nDueling flea markets\, a search for a ten-baht coin lost in the sands of a beach\, pet crickets that get eaten for dinner\, bouncy ball fads\, and loneliness so merciless that it kills a boy’s appetite all combine into this first-ever novel by a Thai woman to appear in English translation. Duanwad Pimwana’s urban\, at times gritty vignettes are balanced with a folk-tale-like feel and a charmingly wry sense of humor. Together\, they combine into the off-beat\, satisfying\, and sometimes magical coming-of-age story of an unforgettable young boy and the timeless legends\, traditions\, and personalities that go into his formation. \n\n\n\n“Duanwad Pimwana has a knack for finding the gap between who we are and who we’d like to be\, and deftly inserting her scalpel there. Across the villages and cities of Thailand\, her characters exist in a state of constant anxiety\, unable to fit in but having nowhere else to go.” —Jeremy Tiang\, author of State of Emergency \n\n\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSHARE \n \n\n\n\n| ALL EVENTS >\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTRANSLATOR\nMui Poopoksakul\n\n\nMui Poopoksakul is a lawyer turned translator with a special interest in contemporary Thai literature. She is the translator of Prabda Yoon’s The Sad Part Was and Moving Parts\, both from Tilted Axis Press. She is translating a novel and a story collection by Duanwad Pimwana\, both forthcoming in 2019 from Two Lines Press and Feminist Press\, respectively. A native of Bangkok who spent two decades in the U.S.\, she now lives in Berlin\, Germany.\n\n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\nSaskia Vogel\n\n\nSaskia Vogel was born and raised in Los Angeles and now lives in its sister city\, Berlin\, where she works as a writer and Swedish-to-English literary translator. Her debut novel Permission will be published in five languages in spring 2019. It’s being adapted for television. Previously she worked as Granta magazine’s global publicist and as an editor at the AVN Media Network\, where she reported on pornography and adult pleasure products. She volunteers her time as the honorary secretary of SELTA and as part of the team that organizes Viva Erotica\, an annual film festival in Helsinki that explores the art\, history\, and culture of sex on film.\n\n\n\n\n\nAPRIL 16\, 2019 | 7:30PM\nBright: Mui Poopoksakul in conversation with Saskia Vogel\n\nThe Bindery | 1727 Haight Street | San Francisco\, CA \n\n\nRSVP\n\nMui Poopoksakul talks about her translation of Duanwad Pimwana’s Bright\, the first-ever novel by a Thai woman to appear in English translation\, with Saskia Vogel\, moderated by Laura Goode. \n\n\n“Bright will prove to be seminal for Thailand’s place in the literary world.” — Prabda Yoon\, author of Moving Parts \n\n\nWhen five-year-old Kampol is told by his father to sit in front of their run-down apartment building and await his return\, the confused boy does as he’s told—he waits and waits and waits\, until he realizes his father isn’t coming back anytime soon. Adopted by the community\, Kampol is soon being raised by figures like Chong the shopkeeper\, who rents out calls on his telephone and goes into debt extending his customers endless credit. \nDueling flea markets\, a search for a ten-baht coin lost in the sands of a beach\, pet crickets that get eaten for dinner\, bouncy ball fads\, and loneliness so merciless that it kills a boy’s appetite all combine into this first-ever novel by a Thai woman to appear in English translation. Duanwad Pimwana’s urban\, at times gritty vignettes are balanced with a folk-tale-like feel and a charmingly wry sense of humor. Together\, they combine into the off-beat\, satisfying\, and sometimes magical coming-of-age story of an unforgettable young boy and the timeless legends\, traditions\, and personalities that go into his formation. \n\n\n\n“Duanwad Pimwana has a knack for finding the gap between who we are and who we’d like to be\, and deftly inserting her scalpel there. Across the villages and cities of Thailand\, her characters exist in a state of constant anxiety\, unable to fit in but having nowhere else to go.” —Jeremy Tiang\, author of State of Emergency \n\n\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBOOKS & JOURNALS\nABOUT\nEDUCATION\nBLOG
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bright-mui-poopoksakul-in-conversation-with-saskia-vogel/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jenny Odell
DESCRIPTION:Jenny Odell discusses her new book\, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. \nPraise for How To Do Nothing \n“Self-help for the collectively minded\, How to Do Nothing is as thoughtful and morally serious as it is fun to read. This book will change how you see the world.”—Malcolm Harris\, author of Kids These Days  \n“Your chaotic\, fraught internal weather isn’t an accident\, it’s a business-model\, and while ‘thoughtful resistance’ isn’t ‘productive\,’ Odell proves that it is utterly necessary.”—Cory Doctorow\, author of Radicalized and Walkaway \n“In a media and tech ecosystem simultaneously obsessed with “digital detox” and building personal brands\, How to Do Nothing is a breath of fresh air grounding readers in the complex\, interdependent actual ecosystems of the physical world. Jenny Odell writes with remarkable clarity and compassion. Each chapter reads like going on a fascinating walk through a park in conversation with an old friend (who happens to also be able to tell you about every single bird in the park\, which is awesome). It’s a book I already know I’ll be returning to and referencing for a long time.”—Ingrid Burrington\, author of Networks of New York    \nAbout How To Do Nothing \nA galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention—and our personal information—that redefines what we think of as productivity\, reconnects us with the environment\, and reveals all that we’ve been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world \nNothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity . . . doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. \nSo argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). Odell sees our attention as the most precious—and overdrawn—resource we have. Once we can start paying a new kind of attention\, she writes\, we can undertake bolder forms of political action\, reimagine humankind’s role in the environment\, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress. \nFar from the simple anti-technology screed\, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often\, How to do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative\, timely\, and utterly persuasive\, this book is a four-course meal in the age of Soylent.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jenny-odell/
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:Oliver Nachtwey in conversation with Adrian Daub
DESCRIPTION:City Lights inconjunction with the Goethe Institut and Verso Books present \nOliver Nachtwey in conversation with Adrian Daub \n \ndiscussing the subject of Oliver Nachtwey’s new book \nGermany’s Hidden Crisis:Social Decline in the Heart of Europe \nfrom Verso Books \nTranslated by Loren Balhorn and David Fernbach \nRecipient of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation 2016 Hans-Matthöfer-Preis for Economic Writing. \n\nUpward social mobility represented a core promise of life under the “old” West German welfare state\, in which millions of skilled workers upgraded their Volkswagens to Audis\, bought their first homes\, and sent their children to university. Not so in today’s Federal Republic\, where the gears of the so-called “elevator society” have long since ground to a halt. In the absence of the social mobility of yesterday\, widespread social exhaustion and anxiety have emerged across mainstream society. Oliver Nachtwey analyses the reasons for this social rupture in postwar German society and investigates the conflict potential emerging as a result. He concludes that although the country has managed to muddle through thus far\, simmering tensions beneath the surface nevertheless threaten to undermine the German system’s stability in the years to come. \n>visit this link to read an interview with Olver Natchwey< \nOliver Nachtwey is Associate Professor of Social Structure Analysis at the University of Basel\, and a fellow at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. His research interests include labour and industrial sociology\, political sociology\, the comparative study of capitalism\, and social movements. \n\nAdrian Daub is Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Stanford University\, where he directs the Program in Feminist\, Gender and Sexuality Studies. He is the author of Tristan’s Shadow: Sexuality and the Total Work of Art (2013)\, Four-Handed Monsters: Four-Hand Piano Playing and Nineteenth Century Culture (2014) and (with Charles Kronengold) The James Bond Songs: Pop Anthems of Late Capitalism (2015). His essays and cultural criticism have appeared in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung\, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Die Zeit in German\, and in n+1\, The New Republic and the Los Angeles Review of Books in English.” \nThe Goethe-Institut is the cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany with a global reach. They promote knowledge of the German language abroad and foster international cultural cooperation. They convey a comprehensive image of Germany by providing information about cultural\, social and political life in our nation. Their cultural and educational programs encourage intercultural dialogue and enable cultural involvement. They strengthen the development of structures in civil society and foster worldwide mobility. \n\n\nWhat has been said about Germany’s Hidden Crisis: \n“A true masterpiece. Focusing on the case of Germany—which has long been mispresented and misperceived as a paragon of economic success and political stability—Oliver Nachtwey offers a detailed account of the crisis of contemporary capitalism. Moving at the forefront of leading theories of political economy\, the book develops an empirically grounded synthetic perspective on ‘regressive modernity\,’ a concept of which much can be expected for future progress in the study of capitalist development.” \n– Wolfgang Streeck \n\n\n\n“A major critical review of Europe’s most important country\, its socio-economics\, its politics\, and its self-diagnoses.” \n– Göran Therborn \n\n\n“In this comprehensive sociological study\, the author assembles sobering news from Germany\, a country the elites of which routinely pride themselves of presiding over a stable\, prosperous\, and socially inclusive society. To which there is even some truth\, comparatively speaking. Yet capitalism thrives on credible promises and on hopes being redeemed. As elsewhere in the West\, German elites are increasingly distrusted and hopes frustrated\, giving rise to virulent fears and anxieties. As private and public debt\, near-stagnation and growing inequality shape gloomy perceptions\, a disjunction occurs between ongoing technical and economic modernization\, on the one hand\, and the notion of ‘progress’ that used to be associated with it. This is a condition for which Nachtwey coins the term ‘regressive modernity’. Among its characteristics are a decline of collective action and public goods production and the ‘de-institutionalization’ of social and economic conflict. Instead of anything resembling organized class struggle\, we see symptoms of diffuse and ‘anomic’ rebelliousness ranging from short-lived ‘occupy’-style mobilizations to the outbursts of rightist mobs. Nachtwey has written a lucid analysis highlighting the social causes of our current perplexities.” \n– Claus Offe \n\n\n“It needs at once sociological imagination\, an interpretive sense for statistics and explanatory sharpness to be able to decipher the anxious and conflict-laden atmosphere in a country that looks extremely well-ordered\, affluent and healthy from the outside. Oliver Nachtwey\, impressively combining these three talents\, has managed to prompt such a necessary change of perspective with regard to contemporary Germany: In his fascinating study he not only informs us about how downward mobility\, precariousness and polarization have grown over the last decades in Germany\, but also about how people suffering from these developments fight against the downgrading of their lives—be it by inventing new forms of protest\, be it by joining nationalist movements. A must to read for everyone interested in the dark side of the economic wealth of Western countries.” \n– Axel Honneth \n\n\n“Oliver Nachtwey has written an empirically grounded book of great topicality. He focuses on Germany\, but his analysis is of much wider relevance. Nachtwey reveals that the ‘elevator effect’\, which reduces the significance of social distinctions\, is finished. A ‘downward escalator effect’ now makes class disparities visible again. Growing insecurity\, increasing inequality and swelling precarianization lead to a renaissance of both left-wing revolts and right-wing authoritarianism.” \n– Marcel van der Linden \n\n\n“An insightful account of the crises threatening German stability.” \n–Morning Star
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oliver-nachtwey-in-conversation-with-adrian-daub/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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