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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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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-25/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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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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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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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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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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SUMMARY:Pamela Nadell
DESCRIPTION:Pamela Nadell discusses her new book\, America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today. \n\nAbout America’s Jewish Women \nWhat does it mean to be a Jewish woman in America? In a gripping historical narrative\, Pamela S. Nadell weaves together the stories of a diverse group of extraordinary people–from the colonial-era matriarch Grace Nathan and her great-granddaughter\, poet Emma Lazarus\, to labor organizer Bessie Hillman and the great justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg\, to scores of other activists\, workers\, wives\, and mothers who helped carve out a Jewish American identity. \nThe twin threads binding these women together\, she argues\, are a strong sense of self and a resolute commitment to making the world a better place. Nadell recounts how Jewish women have been at the forefront of causes for centuries\, fighting for suffrage\, trade unions\, civil rights\, and feminism\, and hoisting banners for Jewish rights around the world. Informed by shared values of America’s founding and Jewish identity\, these women’s lives have left deep footprints in the history of the nation they call home.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pamela-nadell/
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:BINDERY: Edna in a Bottle (tastes funny)
DESCRIPTION:Edna in a Bottle (tastes funny) is a new San Francisco comedy hour at The Bindery in the Haight district. Edna and her friends are trapped in a bottle and dying to perform! A colorful splash of sketch scenes\, story-telling\, circus talent and wacked-out adult comedy. And there’s nothing wrong with an eating contest here and there. Mark your calendars and come let us out of the bottle! \n  \nTickets are $12-25\, sliding. Seating is limited\, and this show often sells out — there’s no guarantee tickets will be available at the door\, so arrive early. Online sales close at 4pm the day of the show. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis event is 18+. \n  \nDoors open at 7:30pm. Show starts at 8pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nMore details coming soon — save the date and join us! \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-edna-in-a-bottle-tastes-funny-2/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190418T190000
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Susan Alexander Red Diana
DESCRIPTION:Author Susan Alexander will discuss her most recent book “Red Diana”\, a psychological thriller. Set in San Francisco\, the book is a sequel to “A Quicker Blood”.\n \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-talk-susan-alexander-red-diana/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, Main Branch\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Friends of the San Francisco Public Library":MAILTO:info@friendssfpl.org
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SUMMARY:Damon Krukowski
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \n  \n \nWays of Hearing \nby Damon Krukowski \nforward by Emily Thompson \npublished by MIT Press \n\nA writer-musician examines how the switch from analog to digital audio is changing our perceptions of time\, space\, love\, money\, and power. \nOur voices carry farther than ever before\, thanks to digital media. But how are they being heard? In this book\, Damon Krukowski examines how the switch from analog to digital audio is changing our perceptions of time\, space\, love\, money\, and power. In Ways of Hearing—modeled on Ways of Seeing\, John Berger’s influential 1972 book on visual culture—Krukowski offers readers a set of tools for critical listening in the digital age. Just as Ways of Seeing began as a BBC television series\, Ways of Hearing is based on a six-part podcast produced for the groundbreaking public radio podcast network Radiotopia. Inventive uses of text and design help bring the message beyond the range of earbuds. \nEach chapter of Ways of Hearing explores a different aspect of listening in the digital age: time\, space\, love\, money\, and power. Digital time\, for example\, is designed for machines. When we trade broadcast for podcast\, or analog for digital in the recording studio\, we give up the opportunity to perceive time together through our media. On the street\, we experience public space privately\, as our headphones allow us to avoid “ear contact” with the city. Heard on a cell phone\, our loved ones’ voices are compressed\, stripped of context by digital technology. Music has been dematerialized\, no longer an object to be bought and sold. With recommendation algorithms and playlists\, digital corporations have created a media universe that adapts to us\, eliminating the pleasures of brick-and-mortar browsing. Krukowski lays out a choice: do we want a world enriched by the messiness of noise\, or one that strives toward the purity of signal only? \nDamon Krukowski is a writer and musician. Author of The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World\, he has taught writing and sound (and writing about sound) at Harvard University. He was in the indie rock band Galaxie 500 and is currently one half of the folk-rock duo Damon & Naomi. He lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts. \nVisit Damon’s website: http://www.dadadrummer.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/damon-krukowski/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190418T213000
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SUMMARY:Lydia Fitzpatrick
DESCRIPTION:Lydia Fitzpatrick discusses her debut novel\, Lights All Night Long. \n\nPraise for Lights All Night Long \n“Lights All Night Long is as delicious as it is dazzling—a mystery I was tempted to read in one sitting as well as a startling\, clear-eyed exploration of what holds us together\, regardless of location or distance. Brilliantly conceived and exquisitely observed\, Lydia Fitzpatrick’s debut shines as brightly as its title.”—Chloe Benjamin\, author of The Immortalists \n“For readers drawn to literary thrills\, Lights All Night Long offers drugs\, sex\, and murder\, but this supple\, sparkling novel is really about tender souls navigating unfamiliar terrain and human bonds warm enough to thaw snowbanks. The indecipherable language of loss\, love\, and longing is normally impossible to understand. At last\, thankfully\, we have Lydia Fitzpatrick to interpret it.”—Adam Johnson\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Orphan Master’s Son \n“Lights All Night Long is utterly brilliant and completely captivating. Lydia Fitzpatrick writes with cinematic clarity about life on margins of contemporary Russia and America. The result is one of the most propulsive\, un-put-downable literary novels I’ve read in ages.”—Anthony Marra\, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena \n“This intricate\, capacious\, startlingly inventive novel is so vivid\, and rings so true\, that its characters have taken up permanent residence in my imagination. What an accomplishment.”—R.O. Kwon\, author of The Incendiaries \n“A cross-cultural coming-of-age story that breaks your heart in the best way. Full of tender hopes and hard truths\, Lydia Fitzpatrick’s first novel marks the debut of a gifted storyteller.”—Maggie Shipstead\, author of Seating Arrangements \n  \nAbout Lights All Night Long \nFifteen-year-old Ilya arrives in Louisiana from his native Russia for what should be the adventure of his life: a year in America as an exchange student. The abundance of his new world–the Super Walmarts and heated pools and enormous televisions–is as hard to fathom as the relentless cheerfulness of his host parents. And Sadie\, their beautiful and enigmatic daughter\, has miraculously taken an interest in him. \nBut all is not right in Ilya’s world: he’s consumed by the fate of his older brother Vladimir\, the magnetic rebel to Ilya’s dutiful wunderkind\, back in their tiny Russian hometown. The two have always been close\, spending their days dreaming of escaping to America. But when Ilya was tapped for the exchange\, Vladimir disappeared into their town’s seedy\, drug-plagued underworld. Just before Ilya left\, the murders of three young women rocked the town’s usual calm\, and Vladimir found himself in prison. \nWith the help of Sadie\, who has secrets of her own\, Ilya embarks on a mission to prove Vladimir’s innocence. Piecing together the timeline of the murders and Vladimir’s descent into addiction\, Ilya discovers the radical lengths to which Vladimir has gone to protect him–a truth he could only have learned by leaving him behind. \nA rich tale of belonging and the pull of homes both native and adopted\, Lights All Night Long is a spellbinding story of the fierce bond between brothers determined to find a way back to each other. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lydia-fitzpatrick/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190418T213000
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SUMMARY:Lydia Fitzpatrick and Tony Marra
DESCRIPTION:Lydia Fitzpatrick discusses her debut novel\, Lights All Night Long with Tony Marra. \n\nPraise for Lights All Night Long \n“Lights All Night Long is as delicious as it is dazzling—a mystery I was tempted to read in one sitting as well as a startling\, clear-eyed exploration of what holds us together\, regardless of location or distance. Brilliantly conceived and exquisitely observed\, Lydia Fitzpatrick’s debut shines as brightly as its title.”—Chloe Benjamin\, author of The Immortalists \n“For readers drawn to literary thrills\, Lights All Night Long offers drugs\, sex\, and murder\, but this supple\, sparkling novel is really about tender souls navigating unfamiliar terrain and human bonds warm enough to thaw snowbanks. The indecipherable language of loss\, love\, and longing is normally impossible to understand. At last\, thankfully\, we have Lydia Fitzpatrick to interpret it.”—Adam Johnson\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Orphan Master’s Son \n“Lights All Night Long is utterly brilliant and completely captivating. Lydia Fitzpatrick writes with cinematic clarity about life on margins of contemporary Russia and America. The result is one of the most propulsive\, un-put-downable literary novels I’ve read in ages.”—Anthony Marra\, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena \n“This intricate\, capacious\, startlingly inventive novel is so vivid\, and rings so true\, that its characters have taken up permanent residence in my imagination. What an accomplishment.”—R.O. Kwon\, author of The Incendiaries \n“A cross-cultural coming-of-age story that breaks your heart in the best way. Full of tender hopes and hard truths\, Lydia Fitzpatrick’s first novel marks the debut of a gifted storyteller.”—Maggie Shipstead\, author of Seating Arrangements \n  \nAbout Lights All Night Long \nFifteen-year-old Ilya arrives in Louisiana from his native Russia for what should be the adventure of his life: a year in America as an exchange student. The abundance of his new world–the Super Walmarts and heated pools and enormous televisions–is as hard to fathom as the relentless cheerfulness of his host parents. And Sadie\, their beautiful and enigmatic daughter\, has miraculously taken an interest in him. \nBut all is not right in Ilya’s world: he’s consumed by the fate of his older brother Vladimir\, the magnetic rebel to Ilya’s dutiful wunderkind\, back in their tiny Russian hometown. The two have always been close\, spending their days dreaming of escaping to America. But when Ilya was tapped for the exchange\, Vladimir disappeared into their town’s seedy\, drug-plagued underworld. Just before Ilya left\, the murders of three young women rocked the town’s usual calm\, and Vladimir found himself in prison. \nWith the help of Sadie\, who has secrets of her own\, Ilya embarks on a mission to prove Vladimir’s innocence. Piecing together the timeline of the murders and Vladimir’s descent into addiction\, Ilya discovers the radical lengths to which Vladimir has gone to protect him–a truth he could only have learned by leaving him behind. \nA rich tale of belonging and the pull of homes both native and adopted\, Lights All Night Long is a spellbinding story of the fierce bond between brothers determined to find a way back to each other.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lydia-fitzpatrick-and-tony-marra/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190421T180000
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SUMMARY:KASSIDAT: Spoken word and music
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers and Musical guests: tba \nWith your host Bloodflower \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPosted in LIVE POETRY
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kassidat-spoken-word-and-music-4/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190421T190000
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SUMMARY:Darius James
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University and New York Review Books in conjunction with City Lights present an afternoon with \nDarius James \n \ncelebrating the eagerly awaited re-release of his seminal novel \nNegrophobia: An Urban Parable \nintroduction by Amy Abugo Ongiri \npublished by New York Review Books \nDarius James’s scabrous\, unapologetically raunchy\, truly hilarious\, and deeply scary Negrophobia is a wild-eyed reckoning with the mutating insanity of American racism. A screenplay for the mind\, a performance on the page\, a work of poetry\, a mad mix of genres and styles\, a novel in the tradition of William S. Burroughs and Ishmael Reed that is like no other novel\, Negrophobia begins with the blonde bombshell Bubbles Brazil succumbing to a voodoo spell and entering the inner darkness of her own shiny being. Here crackheads parade in the guise of Muppets\, Muslims beat conga drums\, Negroes have numbers for names\, and H. Rap Remus demands the total and instantaneous extermination of the white race through spontaneous combustion. By the end of it all\, after going on a weird trip for the ages\, Bubbles herself is strangely transformed. \nDarius James is a writer and spoken-word performance artist. He is also the author of That’s Blaxploitation!: Roots of the Baadasssss ‘Tude (Rated X by an All-Whyte Jury); Voodoo Stew; and Froggie Chocolate’s Christmas Eve. His writing has appeared in multiple publications\, including The Village Voice\, Vibe\, and Spin\, and he is the co-writer and narrator of the 2012 film The United States of Hoodoo. He makes his home in Connecticut. \nPraise for the work of Darius James \nLuridly funny and unsparingly smart\, Negrophobia is American arcana of the highest order. And like all truly cool books\, destined to forever be ahead of its time.\n—Paul Beatty \nDarius James is a great writer.\n—Kathy Acker \nI opened James’s book only to topple into hell. In fact\, Negrophobia is the black version of American Psycho.\n—Dany Laferrière\, Los Angeles Times \nI read Negrophobia when I was still in grad school. . . . It was one of those good but rare occasions when I thought there might be one other person in the world that would get what I was doing.\n—Kara Walker\, DB Artmag \nComic\, manic\, and amazing\, [Negrophobia] tells more about American race relations than all of the walking dead suburban experts\, academics\, and think tank whores who tell their fellow suburbanites about how it feels to be black.\n—Ishmael Reed \nJarring\, outrageous images hurtle from nearly every page of this postmodern vivisection of the contemporary African American condition…. There is imagination and wicked humor in all of this\, as well as some piercing insight.\n—Publishers Weekly \nThis is a novel of exposure\, not solution. Those willing to take the ride will find language and imagery that provide an understanding of everything offensive and American. To see Bubbles dragged through the mire of racial and sexual taboos is to experience the reclamation of the icons and stereotypes that are the signposts of relations among Americans. It’s not an altogether pleasant experience. No one who reads Negrophobia is playing in the dark — just lost in it. The novel\, however\, is no more unpleasant an experience than\, say\, having a police baton swung at your body\, or having a steel-tipped boot kick you a few hundred times after you’ve been dragged out of your tractor-trailer. With its feet firmly planted in the satiric tradition of Voltaire Ishmael Reed\, John Kennedy Toole\, and Okot p’Bitek\, James’s book is both timely and necessary.\n—Christian Haye\, The Village Voice \nWild\, non-stop phantasmagoria…In style\, theme\, and tone\, the work of performance artist James is somewhat reminiscent of Ishmael Reed or Amiri Baraka\, but his dialog is snappier. The vibrant prose makes for lively reading. Highly recommended.\n—Library Journal \nThe black version of American Psycho…One says to oneself: Either this guy is literally crazy or I’m in the presence of a real writer…Something very serious has occurred to the American psyche\, and that this thing is tied to racism\, and that Darius James’ delirium was necessary to explain it.\n—Dany Laferriere\, Los Angeles Times \nA pop-schlock phantasmagoria that owes as much to William Burroughs as it does to S. Clay Wilson. James’s raucous debut is by far the best novel to emerge from New York’s Lower East Side literary scene.\n—Kirkus \nDarius James is a great writer.\n—Kathy Acker \nDarius James is one of the funniest writers in America\, and one of the most serious. His subject is the big one: slavery; his questions are the big ones: who is slave to what?\n—George Trow \nComic strip\, sci-fi flick\, vaudeville\, black-faced minstrel show\, and lyrical poem all rolled into one. Negrophobia is a funky\, raunchy\, angry\, hilarious nightmare vision of black culture. A ferocious send-up of African-American stereotypes and white racism. Darius James bursts into literature with a wild\, surrealistic imagination.\n—Catherine Texier \nDarius James is a dazzling scenarist\, a wanton imagist and a nubile perpetrator of the great felony on new literature. This is a writer of blazing intensity. Forever may he wave.\n—Joel Rose \nThis book is not a novel but a curse which will explode in your mind and cause your bottom to drop out. Of all the neo-hoodoo cosmogonic jesters\, Darius James proves himself to be the most promising.\n—Steve Cannon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/darius-james/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190423T210000
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SUMMARY:SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB MEETING
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lively discussion about: \n(author will not be present) \nTo join the book group please contact iranyi@me.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spanish-language-book-club-meeting-7/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190423T210000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch with ALLIE LARKIN at Books Inc. in The Marina
DESCRIPTION:Join internationally bestselling author Allie Larkin for a Book Launch celebrating her charming new novel\, Swimming for Sunlight. \nWhen recently divorced Katie Ellis and her rescue dog Bark move back in with Katie’s grandmother in Florida\, she becomes swept up in a reunion of her grandmother’s troupe of underwater performers–finding hope and renewal in unexpected places\, in this sweet novel perfect for fans of Kristan Higgins and Claire Cook. \nAspiring costume designer Katie gave up everything in her divorce to gain custody of her fearful\, faithful rescue dog\, Barkimedes. While she figures out what to do next\, she heads back to Florida to live with her grandmother\, Nan. \nBut Katie quickly learns there’s a lot she doesn’t know about Nan–like the fact that in her youth Nan was a mermaid performer in a roadside attraction show\, swimming and dancing underwater with a close-knit cast of talented women. Although most of the mermaids have since lost touch\, Katie helps Nan search for her old friends on Facebook\, sparking hopes for a reunion show. Katie is up for making some fabulous costumes\, but first\, she has to contend with her crippling fear of water. \nAs Katie’s college love Luca\, a documentary filmmaker\, enters the fray\, Katie struggles to balance her hopes with her anxiety\, and begins to realize just how much Bark’s fears are connected to her own\, in this thoughtful\, charming novel about hope after loss and friendships that span generations. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, April 23\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n2251 Chestnut St\n\nSan Francisco\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-with-allie-larkin-at-books-inc-in-the-marina/
LOCATION:Books Inc. in The Marina\, 2251 Chestnut St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190424T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190424T210000
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SUMMARY:Ed Bok Lee
DESCRIPTION:reading from \nMitochondrial Night: Poems \nfrom Coffee House Press \nPoems that trace paths through time\, genealogy\, and geography\, locating the generational legacy of history. \nTaking mitochondrial DNA as his guide\, Ed Bok Lee explores familial and national legacies\, and their persistence across shifting boundaries and the erosions of time. In these poems\, the trait of an ancestor appears in the face of a newborn\, and in her cry generations of women’s voices echo. Stories\, both benign and traumatic\, travel as lore and DNA. Using lush\, exact imagery\, whether about the corner bar or a hilltop in Korea\, Lee is a careful observer\, tracking and documenting the way that seemingly small moments can lead to larger insights. \nEd Bok Lee is the author of Whorled (Coffee House Press) and a recipient of a 2012 American Book Award and the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry. Lee is the son of North and South Korean emigrants—his mother originally a refugee from what is now North Korea; his father was raised during the Japanese colonial period and Korean War in what is now South Korea. Lee grew up in South Korea\, North Dakota\, and Minnesota\, and was educated there and on both U.S. coasts\, Russia\, South Korea\, and Kazakhstan. He teaches at Metropolitan State University in Saint Paul\, Minnesota. Other honors include the Asian American Literary Award (Members’ Choice Award) and a PEN Open Book Award. \nPraise for Ed Bok Lee \n“There is a nomadic beauty to Ed Bok Lee’s Whorled\, which pulses with raw political anger and vital lyricism.” —The Guardian \n“These poems work in powerful concert to give body to an entire world of beauty\, terror\, loss\, grief\, and joy. The strength and magnetism of Lee’s voice come from his mind’s profound awareness of a person’s embeddedness in a context simultaneously personal and archetypal; social\, historical\, political\, and cosmic.” —Li-Young Lee \n“Like mitochondrion\, from whence this exhilarating book’s title comes\, the poet’s eye and spirit are ubiquitous\, examining and probing the tangled bloodlines of our social and political networks\, and the parasitic heft we are exerting on the world’s chest. Formally protean and polyphonic\, the poems change shapes and registers in a thrilling and often poignant chase after their truth. Ed Bok Lee’s Mitochondrial Night is a thrilling book by a gifted poet at the height of his powers.” —Khaled Mattawa \n“In Mitochondrial Night\, Ed Bok Lee takes us on an intimate journey through space and time\, introduces us to people and places we have and have not met\, to center us in our humblest humanity. Lee is a shaman\, he rides with his pen into the vast darkness of our pasts\, centers us in our present\, and then makes the fearless leap into the imagined\, the predestined future. He looks to raise from the dead the spirits of wars lost\, wars long forgotten\, the wars being waged now\, and he does so with a light\, lonely hand. This collection is explosive; it shatters the boundaries of self in the service of art.” —Kao Kalia Yang \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ed-bok-lee/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:A Necessary Darkness: Barbara Guest and The Open Chamber
DESCRIPTION:WEDNESDAY\, APRIL 24 7 – 9 p.m.\nFromm Hall – FR 125 – Maraschi Room\n\n\nCedar Sigo was raised on the Suquamish Reservation in the Pacific Northwest and studied at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute. He is the editor of There You Are: Interviews\, Journals\, and Ephemera\, on Joanne Kyger (forthcoming from Wave Books\, 2017)\, and author of eight books and pamphlets of poetry\, including Royals (Wave Books\, 2017)\, Language Arts (Wave Books\, 2014)\, Stranger in Town (City Lights\, 2010)\, Expensive Magic (House Press\, 2008)\, and two editions of Selected Writings (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2003 and 2005). He has taught workshops at St. Mary’s College\, Naropa University\, and University Press Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-necessary-darkness-barbara-guest-and-the-open-chamber/
LOCATION:FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, USF\, 2130 Fulton St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Myla Goldberg / Feast Your Eyes
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Myla Godberg reading from her new novel Feast Your Eyes. More information to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us for Myla’s only Bay Area appearance! \n  \nFeast Your Eyes\, framed as the catalogue notes from a photography show at the Museum of Modern Art\, tells the life story of Lillian Preston: “America’s Worst Mother\, America’s Bravest Mother\, America’s Worst Photographer\, or America’s Greatest Photographer\, depending on who was talking.” After discovering photography as a teenager through her high school’s photo club\, Lillian rejects her parents’ expectations of college and marriage and moves to New York City in 1955. When a small gallery exhibits partially nude photographs of Lillian and her daughter Samantha\, Lillian is arrested\, thrust into the national spotlight\, and targeted with an obscenity charge. Mother and daughter’s sudden notoriety changes the course of both of their lives and especially Lillian’s career as she continues a life-long quest for artistic legitimacy and recognition. \n  \nNarrated by Samantha\, Feast Your Eyes reads as a collection of Samantha’s memories\, interviews with Lillian’s friends and lovers\, and excerpts from Lillian’s journals and letters — a collage of stories and impressions\, together amounting to an astounding portrait of a mother and an artist dedicated\, above all\, to a vision of beauty\, truth\, and authenticity. \n  \n\n  \n“A riveting portrait of an artist who happens to be a woman.” – Kirkus Reviews (starred) \n  \n“Reading Myla Goldberg’s Feast Your Eyes reminded me of other unlikely adventure stories\, like Hillary’s summit of the Himalayas\, or Shackleton’s return from Antarctica. Only here the human constraints are still more challenging: making art as a single mother in a twentieth century dominated\, and distorted\, by men. This is an unflinching\, deeply moving portrait of the artist\, and a bravura performance in and of itself. I loved this book.” – Joshua Ferris\, author of Then We Came to the End and To Rise Again at a Decent Hour \n  \n\n  \nMyla Goldberg is the bestselling author of Feast Your Eyes\, The False Friend\, Wickett’s Remedy\, and Bee Season\, which was a New York Times Notable Book\, winner of the Borders New Voices Prize\, and a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN award\, the NYPL Young Lions award\, and the Barnes & Noble Discover award. It was adapted to film and widely translated. In addition to her novels\, she has written an essay collection\, a children’s book\, and short stories that have appeared in Harper’s. She teaches in the fiction programs at Sarah Lawrence and NYU and has been known to sing and play accordion and banjo in the Brooklyn art-punk band The Walking Hellos. She was also the subject of a song by The Decemberists\, “Song for Myla Goldberg.” She lives in Brooklyn with her husband Jason Little and their two daughters. \n  \n\n  \n  \nThis event is free and all ages. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you’d like a signed copy of Feast Your Eyes\, and/or any of Myla’s books\, order below and be sure to include your request in the special field. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/myla-goldberg-feast-your-eyes/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Neda Atanasoski in conversation with Kalindi Vora
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of their new book \nSurrogate Humanity: Race\, Robots\, and the Politics of Technological Futures \npublished by Duke University Press \n(part of the Perverse Modernities Series edited by Lisa Lowe and Jack Halberstam) \nIn Surrogate Humanity Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora trace the ways in which robots\, artificial intelligence\, and other technologies serve as surrogates for human workers within a labor system entrenched in racial capitalism and patriarchy. Analyzing myriad technologies\, from sex robots and military drones to sharing-economy platforms\, Atanasoski and Vora show how liberal structures of antiblackness\, settler colonialism\, and patriarchy are fundamental to human—machine interactions\, as well as the very definition of the human. While these new technologies and engineering projects promise a revolutionary new future\, they replicate and reinforce racialized and gendered ideas about devalued work\, exploitation\, dispossession\, and capitalist accumulation. Yet\, even as engineers design robots to be more perfect versions of the human—more rational killers\, more efficient workers\, and tireless companions—the potential exists to develop alternative modes of engineering and technological development in ways that refuse the racial and colonial logics that maintain social hierarchies and inequality. \nNeda Atanasoski is Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and author of Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity. \nKalindi Vora is Professor of Gender\, Sexuality\, and Women’s Studies at the University of California\, Davis\, and author of Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor. \nPerverse Modernities transgresses modern divisions of knowledge that have historically separated the consideration of sexuality\, and its concern with desire\, gender\, bodies\, and performance\, on the one hand\, from the consideration of race\, colonialism\, and political economy\, on the other\, in order to explore how the mutual implication of race\, colonialism\, and sexuality has been rendered perverse and unintelligible within the logics of modernity.  Books in the series have elaborated such perversities in the challenge to modern assumptions about historical narrative and the nation-state\, the epistemology of the human sciences\, the continuities of the citizen-subject and civil society\, the distinction between health and morbidity\, and the rational organization of that society into separate spheres.  Perverse modernities\, in this sense\, have included queer of color and queer anticolonial subcultures\, racialized sexualized laborers migrating from the global south to the metropolis\, nonwestern desires and bodies and their incommensurability with the gendered\, national or communal meanings attributed to them\, and analyses of the refusals of normative domestic “healthy” life narratives by subjects who inhabit and perform sexual risk\, different embodiments\, and alternative conceptions of life and death.  The project also highlights intellectual “perversities\,” from disciplinary infidelities and epistemological promiscuity\, to theoretical irreverence and heterotopic imaginings. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/neda-atanasoski-in-conversation-with-kalindi-vora/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Franny Choi and sam sax / Soft Science
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Franny Choi (Floating\, Brilliant\, Gone)\, in town to read from her second collection of poems\, Soft Science. Joining her is sam sax (Madness and Bury It). Don’t miss this evening of readings with these phenomenal young poets! \n  \nIn Franny Choi’s highly-anticipated collection\, Soft Science\, she uses the myth of the cyborg to explore queer\, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems guides readers as Choi asks questions not just of identity\, but of consciousness — of how to speak and love\, in a world filled with strange (and sometimes violent) distances. We are dropped straight into the tangled intersections of technology\, gender\, violence\, erasure\, agency\, and loneliness. And we’re asked to examine the biggest question: “What does it mean to be human?” \n  \n\n  \n“Wearing a crown of sonnets like a dime store tiara\, Franny Choi’s cyborg cephalopod is a creature of unending amazements\, unfurling tendril after tendril—some surgical\, some sensual\, some weaponized\, some rubberized—brandishing hypodermics\, vibrators\, cigarettes\, smartphones\, or simply snapping in time to the beat. With uncanny tonal and technical dexterity\, she can play upon your emotions\, tickle your sweet spot\, then press all of your buttons at once. At once raw and radiant\, these brilliant poems are at their most human when they assert their alienness\, at their most ferocious when they dare to be vulnerable.” – Monica Youn\, author of Blackacre  \n  \n“In Soft Science\, the reigning consciousness is split\, human teetering into machine\, machine forced to demonstrate its humanness via acts of ritual testing\, a passion play in which alienation seeks authenticity and dissociation pursues kin. Franny Choi’s generous inventiveness transmutes the book’s violent lore into a ferocious tenderness. In its conceptual heft\, formal virtuosity\, queer imagination\, multi-dexterous approach to language\, and tonal intricacy\, Soft Science is a crucial book for our time – perhaps the book for our time.” – Diane Seuss\, author of Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl \n  \n“Franny Choi’s Soft Science offers an exceptional exploration both of all that comprises the intimate and of all that consumes the communal in our lives. Whether tracking the adventures of the ‘cyborg’ or eavesdropping on conversations between sisters\, it’s all the same world. These striking poems ring through with a singular voice\, creating a society that helps us understand our own. When you open a book of poems\, ‘isn’t that what you came to see?’ Choi builds a world not only of striking beauty and lucid politics\, but also\, more importantly\, with love.” – A. Van Jordan\, author of The Cineste \n  \n\n  \nFranny Choi is a poet\, performer\, editor\, and playwright. She is the author ofFloating\, Brilliant\, Gone and the chapbook Death by Sex Machine. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine\, American Poetry Review\, the New England Review\, and elsewhere. She is a Kundiman Fellow\, Senior News Editor for Hyphen\, cohost of the Poetry Foundation’s podcast VS\, and member of the Dark Noise Collective. Her second collection\, Soft Science\, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in April 2018. A current Zell Postgraduate Fellow at the University of Michigan\, she is currently based near Detroit\, MI. Author photo by Qurissy Lopez. \n  \nsam sax is a queer\, jewish\, poet\, & educator. He’s the author of Madness(Penguin\, 2017) winner of The National Poetry Series and Bury It (Wesleyan University Press\, 2018) winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. He’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Lambda Literary\, & the MacDowell Colony. He’s the two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion\, author of four chapbooks & winner of the Gulf Coast Prize\, The Iowa Review Award\, & American Literary Award. His poems have appeared in BuzzFeed\, The New York Times\, The Nation\, Poetry Magazine + other journals. He’s the poetry editor at BOAAT Press & will be a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University this Fall. Author photo by Hollis Rafkin-Sax. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event\, with mature themes. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of Soft Science\, and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/franny-choi-and-sam-sax-soft-science/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Independent Bookstore Day
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 27\, 2019 – 10:00am to 11:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nIndependent Bookstore Day is two things: \n\nyour one & only chance to buy one-of-a-kind\, limited edition books and literary gifts.  Never again; never online. AND\nit’s a party in a bookstore!\n\nWe’re still developing the plans for the day\, but so far we know we’ll have: \n\nfree on-demand poetry by Silvi of The Poetry Store from noon to 2pm.  Her time is on us\, but tips are appreciated.\na free scavenger hunt around the store\nfree beer (locally made\, of course) from about 2pm onward\n\nMore detail tk!  Save April 27\, 2019! \n\n\n\n\nEvent Categories:\n\nClement St
URL:https://litseen.com/event/independent-bookstore-day-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY!
DESCRIPTION:events and special offers tba \nhttp://www.indiebookstoreday.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/independent-bookstore-day/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's Folsom Street Fair AfterParty (9/29\, SF)
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 29th\, 2019 \nRemember: Games & Cocktails at 7:00 PM\, Stories at 8:00 PM – but we’ll party till Late! \nat the Re-bar Seattle\, 1114 Howell Street\, Seattle WA \nWant a sample? Listen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at \nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis Over-the-Top Folsom Street Fair Afterparty event includes: \n❤  Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour \n❤ Play Bang-O (& Sniff Test! & OKPervert!) & make new friends \n❤  Reserved Seating puts you right up in the action – Get yours in advance \n❤  Custom Cocktails like the C.B.T.\, the Ethical Slut\, Bawdy Got Me Laid & More! \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n\nPerformers to come – Stay Tuned \n\nAnd for One Night Only\,  join us for a rousing game(s) of \n❤ OKPervert – It’s like an Analog Craigslist Casual Encounters\, but everyone’s right there in the room with you #NoSpammers \n❤ Sniff Test – Bring your you-scented unmentionables and join us for a little pheromone dating. Man\, you smell GOOD \n❤ and Bang-O\, Bawdy’s trademarked way to make new friends and hear inspired stories from strangers \nP.S. We’re always the best date in town but this one – this one is mega-date material! This evening of stories features brand new bawdiness\, and recaps of winning stories. Our Reserved packages are sold only in advance\, so get yours before they’re gone\, cause this show is gonna SELL OUT. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nAbout Bawdy Storytelling: \nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure. \nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & hand-picked Rockstars as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal! \nPerformer Bios: \n❤ Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour founded Bawdy Storytelling – the Nation’s Original Sex and Storytelling series – a dozen years ago\, knowing that the world needed a place for people to tell their stories of sex\, kink and gender.This multi-city live storytelling event (and Podcast!) welcomes true stories from any and all communities (LGBTQIA\, kink\, polyamory\, swingers\, vanilla\, and many more) and is bringing sex-positive storytelling to new cities all the time. Dixie and Bawdy Storytelling have been praised by press both big and small; She has been lauded as a “masterful emcee\, and her show is everything that works for storytelling—she creates a warm\, safe space in which stories can bloom with dark hilarity\, salacious textures\, and moments of deep connection.” Dixie has hosted and curated Bawdy Storytelling events at Yale Sex Week\, the Bondage Awards\, the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco\, CatalystCon Sexuality Conference\, Dark Odyssey\, FetFest\, and more\, as well as her home turf of the Bawdy Mainstage and BawdySlam shows. She can be found at @Bawdy on Twitter\, Bawdy Storytelling on Facebook and always\, always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com \n\n• No Refunds or Exchanges \n• Lineup Subject to Change \n• General Admission seating is first come\, first served. We recommend you arrive when doors open for best seating (Reserved Seating guarantees you a seat right up front) \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & the LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event) \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com \nTwitter: @Bawdy \n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-folsom-street-fair-afterparty-9-29-sf/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:National Poetry Month Open Mic at Odd Mondays
DESCRIPTION:All poetry is local\, specific to one place and one person\, writing into the universal void\, but join with us to celebrate National Poetry Month Monday\, April 29\, 7pm to 8pm at Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St. Neighborhood poets Helen Dannenberg and Jeff Kaliss/Writer are the featured readers\, but anyone who lives\, works\, or goes to school in Noe Valley is invited to share poetry they’ve written or a favorite poem by someone else for 5 minutes at a time at the open mic. Sign up by oddmondaysnoevalley@gmail.com or at 6:45pm on the day. \nHere’s information on our featured poets:\nHelen Dannenberg has written with OWL (Older Writers Lab) this past year and participated in workshops with Sally Love Saunders. She has also received choreography fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, as well as support from the California Arts Council. As a choreographer/performer\, she used spoken word in her pieces. She will have a poem in the upcoming Inpluse Magazine. \nA longtime entertainment journalist and author specializing in music\, Jeff Kaliss has more recently published poetry and other genres in journals and periodicals. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and hosts the Poetry for the People Podcast at City College of San Francisco. He frequents open mics and concertizes poetry with jazz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/national-poetry-month-open-mic-at-odd-mondays/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Grace Schulman
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her book \nStrange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage \npublished by Turtle Point Press \nGrace Schulman is an award-winning poet and the author of seven collections of poems. She has had long posts as Poetry Editor of the Nation magazine\, Director of the Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y\, and Distinguished Professor at CUNY’s Baruch College\, where she still teaches. But her love for her scientist husband and her care for him through his long illness proved to be among her greatest inspirations. It called forth her deepest grief at his loss. \nHow did Schulman maintain the independence\, solitude\, and freedom she required within the bounds of marriage? And what made her marriage endure through a decade of living apart? “In my experience\, the phrase ‘happy marriage’ is a term of opposites\, like ‘friendly fire’ or ‘famous poet.’ My marriage has been a feast of contradiction . . . ” Strange Paradise looks at this\, Schulman’s remarkable career\, her friendships with great writers\, her work as an historic impresario at the Y\, her religious and philosophical leanings\, and her grand love affair with New York―all in her magical prose. \nPraise for the writing of Grace Schulman: \n“One of the permanent poets of her generation.”—Harold Bloom \n“Grace Schulman makes me want to live to be four hundred years old\, because she makes me feel there is so much out there\, and it’s unbearable to miss any of it.”—Wallace Shawn \n“In a graceful\, engaging memoir\, Schulman . . . writes candidly about her marriage to virologist Jerome Schulman\, her literary aspirations\, and her grief following her husband’s recent death. . . . An affecting recollection of a life rich in literature and love.” ―Kirkus Reviews \nGrace Schulman received the 2016 Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in American Poetry\, awarded by the Poetry Society of America. Her seventh collection of poems is Without a Claim\, (Mariner\, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, 2013). In prose\, her 2018 memoir is Strange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage (Turtle Point)\, and her collection of essays is First Loves and Other Adventures (U of Michigan Press\, 2010). \nAmong her honors are the Aiken Taylor Award for poetry\, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, New York University’s Distinguished Alumni Award\, and a Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has won five Pushcart Prizes and has been featured seven times on Poetry Daily. About her poems\, Harold Bloom has written\, “Grace Schulman has developed into one of the permanent poets of her generation.” And Wallace Shawn has said\, “When I read her\, she makes me want to live to be four hundred years old\, because she makes me feel that there is so much out there\, and it’s unbearable to lose any of it.” \nEditor of The Poems of Marianne Moore (Viking\, 2003)\, she is Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College\, C.U.N.Y. Schulman is former director of the Poetry Center\, 92nd Street Y\, 1974-84\, and former poetry editor of The Nation\, 1971-2006. She lives in New York City and East Hampton\, N. Y. \nThe Hudson Review was one of the first literary journals to publish her poems\, essays\, and translations\, which have subsequently been published here and abroad. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/grace-schulman/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SAMIN NOSRAT & LINDY WEST In Conversation with Allison P. Davis
DESCRIPTION:SAMIN NOSRAT & LINDY WEST\nIn Conversation with Allison P. Davis\nMonday\, April 29\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Social Studies \nTickets Sold Out! \n\n\n\nSamin Nosrat is a cook\, teacher\, and author of the James Beard Award-winning cookbook Salt\, Fat\, Acid\, Heat. She is an Eat columnist at The New York Times Magazine and the host and executive producer of the Netflix original documentary series based on her book. Nosrat learned to cook at Chez Panisse\, alongside Benedetta Vitali and Dario Cecchini in Italy\, and at the former restaurant Eccolo in Berkeley. As an undergrad at UC Berkeley\, Nosrat studied poetry with Bob Hass\, Shakespeare with Stephen Booth\, and journalism with Michael Pollan. \n\nLindy West is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and the author of the New York Timesbestselling memoir Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman\, as well as the forthcoming essay collection The Witches Are Coming. In 2018 West adapted Shrill as a half-hour comedy for Hulu. Set to air in 2019\, the show stars Saturday Night Live‘s Aidy Bryant.  West’s work has also appeared in This American Life\, The Guardian\, Cosmopolitan\, GQ\, Vulture\, Jezebel\, The Stranger\, and others. She is the founder of I Believe You\, It’s Not Your Fault\, an advice blog for teens\, as well as the co-founder of the reproductive rights destigmatization campaign #ShoutYourAbortion. \nAllison P. Davis is a senior culture writer for New York Magazine’s The Cut\, and a contributor to GQ.   She’s profiled artists ranging from Lena Dunham to Michael B. Jordan\, and written on subjects ranging from the first female rapper to sex robots. Davis is a graduate of the University of California\, Berkeley School of Journalism.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/samin-nosrat-lindy-west-in-conversation-with-allison-p-davis/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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