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SUMMARY:Neal Stephenson presents Fall; or\, Dodge in Hell @ Public Works
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is excited to welcome #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves\, Anathem\, Reamde\, andCryptonomicon Neal Stephenson for his new novel Fall; or\, Dodge in Hell\, a wildly inventive and entertaining science fiction thriller — Paradise Lost by way of Philip K. Dick — that unfolds in the near future\, in parallel worlds. \n  \nPlease note: This ticketed event will be held at Public Works: 161 Erie St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103. Tickets can be purchased in advance here and are not guaranteed to be available at the door. Please read the ticketing information carefully and direct any questions to events AT booksmith DOT com. \n  \nIn his youth\, Richard Dodge Forthrast founded Corporation 9592\, a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire. Now in his middle years\, Dodge appreciates his comfortable\, unencumbered life\, managing his myriad business interests\, and spending time with his beloved niece Zula and her young daughter\, Sophia. \n  \nOne beautiful autumn day\, while he undergoes a routine medical procedure\, something goes irrevocably wrong. Dodge is pronounced brain dead and put on life support\, leaving his stunned family and close friends with difficult decisions. Long ago\, when a much younger Dodge drew up his will\, he directed that his body be given to a cryonics company now owned by enigmatic tech entrepreneur Elmo Shepherd. Legally bound to follow the directive despite their misgivings\, Dodges family has his brain scanned and its data structures uploaded and stored in the cloud\, until it can eventually be revived. \n  \nIn the coming years\, technology allows Dodges brain to be turned back on. It is an achievement that is nothing less than the disruption of death itself. An eternal afterlife — the Bitworld — is created\, in which humans continue to exist as digital souls. \n  \nBut this brave new immortal world is not the Utopia it might first seem . . . \n  \nFall\, or Dodge in Hell is pure\, unadulterated fun: a grand drama of analog and digital\, man and machine\, angels and demons\, gods and followers\, the finite and the eternal. In this exhilarating epic\, Neal Stephenson raises profound existential questions and touches on the revolutionary breakthroughs that are transforming our future. Combining the technological\, philosophical\, and spiritual in one grand myth\, he delivers a mind-blowing speculative literary saga for the modern age. \n  \n\n  \nNeal Stephenson is the bestselling author of the novels Reamde\, Anathem\, The System of the World\, The Confusion\, Quicksilver\, Cryptonomicon\, The Diamond Age\, Snow Crash\, and Zodiac\, and the groundbreaking nonfiction work In the Beginning . . . Was the Command Line. He lives in Seattle\, Washington. Author photo by Brady Hall. \n  \n\n  \nThis event is 21+. No exceptions. \n  \nAll tickets are standing room only. Requests for special seating arrangements need to be made at least three days in advance by emailing events@booksmith.com. \n  \nDoors at 6pm. Program at 7. Program includes signing. \n  \nSigning details: Mr. Stephenson will sign as many copies of the new novel as guests wish to purchase. He is happy to personalize short inscriptions such as Happy birthday but due to time constraints is not unable to copy out longer inscriptions or make up personal inscriptions on the spot. Backlist can be signed\, but within reason\, and after the major business of signing the hardcover is taken care of. Any major collectors in line with many copies to sign or any guest with many books may be asked to wait until the end of the line. \n  \nPhoto details: Candid photos are welcome\, but again for time constraints Mr. Stephenson will not be able to stop signing and pose. \n  \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \n  \nIf you can’t attend the event but would like to order a signed copy of Fall; or\, Dodge in Hell and/or any of Mr. Stephenson’s books\, order below and add your request in the special field. \n  \nRSVP not required\, but always appreciated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/neal-stephenson-presents-fall-or-dodge-in-hell-public-works/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Julia Phillips
DESCRIPTION:Julia Phillips discusses her new novel\, Disappearing Earth. \nPraise for Disappearing Earth \n“I cannot speak too highly of Julia Phillips’s thrilling\, impeccably written and splendidly imagined story\, set with rigorous attention to detail in one of the most volcanically dangerous and beautifully remote corners of the planet.  An exciting beginning from an author whose literary future looks set to be stellar.”—Simon Winchester  \n“Julia Phillips is at once a careful cartographer and gorgeous storyteller. Written with passion and patience\, this is the story of a people and the land that shapes them. A mystery of two missing girls burns at the center of this astonishing debut\, and the complexity of ethnicity\, gender\, hearth and kin illuminates this question and many more.”—Tayari Jones\, author of An American Marriage  \n“A genuine masterpiece\, but one that is easily consumed in a feverish stay-up-all-night bout of reading pleasure. It’s as much a portrait of humanity as of a small Kamchatka community.” —Gary Shteyngart \n“A feat of literary suspense. I felt like a wide-eyed kid reading Julia Phillips’s Disappearing Earth. I could live in her portrayal of this remote part of the world forever.”—Sloane Crosley\, author of I Was Told There’d Be Cake \nAbout Disappearing Earth \nOne August afternoon\, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia\, two girls–sisters\, eight and eleven–go missing. In the ensuing weeks\, then months\, the police investigation turns up nothing. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community\, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women. \nTaking us through a year in Kamchatka\, Disappearing Earth enters with astonishing emotional acuity the worlds of a cast of richly drawn characters\, all connected by the crime: a witness\, a neighbor\, a detective\, a mother. We are transported to vistas of rugged beauty–densely wooded forests\, open expanses of tundra\, soaring volcanoes\, and the glassy seas that border Japan and Alaska–and into a region as complex as it is alluring\, where social and ethnic tensions have long simmered\, and where outsiders are often the first to be accused. \nIn a story as propulsive as it is emotionally engaging\, and through a young writer’s virtuosic feat of empathy and imagination\, this powerful novel brings us to a new understanding of the intricate bonds of family and community\, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julia-phillips/
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:My Life\, My Stories / Real life. Told by SF seniors.
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of learning and listening\, hosted by My Life\, My Stories and special guest\, David Romanelli! \nMy Life\, My Stories is a local non-profit that preserves the life legacies of seniors in our community. We match a volunteer with one senior\, and over the course of several months\, the senior’s memories are recorded and transcribed into memoirs. We focus on helping underserved populations in the Bay Area including minorities\, immigrants\, homeless seniors\, vets\, and LGBTQ elders. \nOur volunteers hear inspiring\, heartbreaking\, and touching stories that\, otherwise\, would be left untold and lost forever. My Life\, My Stories wants to give seniors a public platform to share their amazing memories with the young SF community in a live event. \nDavid Romanelli is on a journey to give our elders a voice and an audience\, to bring the old and the young together. His new book\, Life Lessons from the Oldest and Wisest\, is inspired by his intergenerational program\, Drinks With Your Elders. Having brought these events to cities across the US\, Romanelli brings together elders with young people to open a bottle of wine\, and talk about life. The book shares some of the best lessons and wisdom from the elders on parenting\, marriage\, loneliness\, resilience\, and how things look different through the lens of an elder\, nearing the end of life\, looking back on the past. \nTonight’s theme is resilience. You may be surprised with what you learn and how much you can relate to someone who may be decades older than you. \nCome early\, grab a drink\, meet new friends\, and learn something new! The general flow of the evening is listed below. \n  \n6:00pm: Doors open \n6:30pm-8:00pm: Four unique seniors tell their stories and MLMS volunteers talk about their experience working with their author \n8:00pm-8:30pm: Q&A \n  \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event. Tickets can be purchased in advance for $12 here. If available\, tickets will be for sale at the door. All ticket sales from the event will go directly to My Life\, My Stories to help more seniors preserve their legacy. \n  \nCopies of David’s book\, Life Lessons from the Oldest and Wisest\, will be available for sale. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nBar opens with the doors at 6pm. Show starts at 6:30pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-life-my-stories-real-life-told-by-sf-seniors-2/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Doe in conversation with Tom DeSavia
DESCRIPTION:John Doe in conversation with Tom DeSavia\nThursday\, June 6\, 2019\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\nCity Lights in conjunction with Litquake and San Francisco’s Rock n’ Roll Book Club \npresent \nJohn Doe and Tom DeSavia in conversation \ncelebrationg the release of \n  \nMore Fun in the New World: The Unmaking and Legacy of L.A. Punk \nby John Doe and Tom DeSavia \nfrom Da Capo Press \n\nSequel to Grammy-nominated bestseller Under the Big Black Sun\, continuing the up-close and personal account of the L.A. punk scene\, with 50 rare photos \nPicking up where Under the Big Black Sun left off\, More Fun in the New World explores the years 1982 to 1987\, covering the dizzying pinnacle of L.A.’s punk rock movement as its stars took to the national — and often international — stage. Detailing the eventual splintering of punk into various sub-genres\, the second volume of John Doe and Tom DeSavia’s west coast punk history portrays the rich cultural diversity of the movement and its characters\, the legacy of the scene\, how it affected other art forms\, and ultimately influenced mainstream pop culture. The book also pays tribute to many of the fallen soldiers of punk rock\, the pioneers who left the world much too early but whose influence hasn’t faded. \nAs with Under the Big Black Sun\, the book features stories of triumph\, failure\, stardom\, addiction\, recovery\, and loss as told by the people who were influential in the scene\, with a cohesive narrative from authors Doe and DeSavia. Along with many returning voices\, More Fun in the New World weaves in the perspectives of musicians Henry Rollins\, Fishbone\, Billy Zoom\, Mike Ness\, Jane Weidlin\, Keith Morris\, Dave Alvin\, Louis Pérez\, Charlotte Caffey\, Peter Case\, Chip Kinman\, Maria McKee\, and Jack Grisham\, among others. And renowned artist/illustrator Shepard Fairey\, filmmaker Allison Anders\, actor Tim Robbins\, and pro-skater Tony Hawk each contribute chapters on punk’s indelible influence on the artistic spirit. \nIn addition to stories of success\, the book also offers a cautionary tale of an art movement that directly inspired commercially diverse acts such as Green Day\, Rancid\, Red Hot Chili Peppers\, Wilco\, and Neko Case. Readers will find themselves rooting for the purists of punk juxtaposed with the MTV-dominating rock superstars of the time who flaunted a “born to do this\, it couldn’t be easier” attitude that continued to fuel the flames of new music. More Fun in the New World follows the progression of the first decade of L.A. punk\, its conclusion\, and its cultural rebirth. \n\n\nJohn Doe\, a founding member of groundbreaking punk band X\, has recorded eight solo records and as an actor has appeared in over fifty films and television productions. \nTom DeSavia is a long time record and music publishing A&R man based in Los Angeles\, California. DeSavia began his music industry career as a journalist. \nAbout Litquake: \n\nSan Francisco’s annual Litquake literary festival was founded by Bay Area writers as a week-long literary spectacle for book lovers\, complete with cutting-edge panels\, unique cross-media events\, and hundreds of readings. Since its founding in 1999\, the festival has presented close to 1400 author appearances for an audience of over 32\,000 in its lively and inclusive celebration of San Francisco’s thriving contemporary literary scene. Litquake seeks to foster interest in literature\, perpetuate a sense of literary community\, and provide a vibrant forum for Bay Area writing as a complement to the city’s music\, film\, and cultural festivals. \nvisit: www.litquake.org \n\nAbout the Rock ‘n Roll Book Club:\nFounded in 2011\, San Francisco’s Rock ‘n Roll Book Club is a loose group of regulars and non-regulars who enjoy music and reading about it. They generally meet every other month at a bar’s backroom to discuss a book and listen to related music\, over drinks and food mentioned in the book. They read new releases\, classic memoirs\, biographies\, oral histories and music criticism\, usually focusing on music from the 60s and 70s\, preferably including sex\, drugs\, and good writing. They’ve met with authors Alice Bag (via skype)\, Robert Gordon (via Skype)\, Greil Marcus and V. Vale (RE/Search). \nvisit: Rock n’ Roll Book Club
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-doe-in-conversation-with-tom-desavia/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sham-E-Ali Nayeem
DESCRIPTION:Sham-E-Ali Nayeem reads from her new poetry collection\, City of Pearls. Also featuring readings by Monica Sok\, Seema Yasmin\, Vanessa Huang and Janice Sapigao. \nAbout Sham-E-Ali \nSham-e-Ali Nayeem is a poet and visual artist who was born in Hyderabad\, India and raised in both the UK and the US. A former public interest lawyer supporting economic justice for survivors of family violence\, Sham-e-Ali is a recipient of the Loft Literary Center’s Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship. \nAbout Monkia Sok \nMONICA SOK is a Cambodian American poet and the daughter of former refugees. She is the author of Year Zero\, winner of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Her work has been recognized with a “Discovery” / Boston Review Poetry Prize. Other honors include fellowships from Hedgebrook\, Elizabeth George Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, Kundiman\, Jerome Foundation\, Montalvo Arts Center\, MacDowell Colony\, Saltonstall Foundation\, and others. Currently\, Sok is a 2018-2020 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and a Poet-in-Residence at Banteay Srei in Oakland. Her debut poetry collection A Nail the Evening Hangs On is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2020. \nAbout Seema Yasmin \nDr. Seema Yasmin is an Emmy-award winning journalist\, author\, medical doctor and professor. She trained in medicine at the University of Cambridge and in journalism at the University of Toronto. Her first book\, about her mentor who was killed on Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17\, charts the course of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and the life of a scientist who fought to end the outbreak. Her second book\, Debunked! dissects medical myths and pseudoscience and explores why we believe what we believe. Debunked! is released in 2019. She teaches science journalism and global health storytelling at Stanford University and is the founder of the Yasmin Scholarships. \nAbout Vanessa Huang \nBorn in Berkeley and home in diaspora from California and Taipei to Atlanta\, New York\, and Tianjin\, Vanessa Huang is a multimedia poet\, artist\, and cultural worker whose practice inherits teachings from the prison industrial complex abolition\, gender liberation\, and intersecting social justice movements. For over 15 years\, Vanessa has worked to shift cultural narratives and strategies based in fear\, violence\, and exploitation towards realities centering love\, vision\, and transformation. Vanessa’s deejaying extends this practice\, continuing to conjure public/digital space for sonic healing and freedom dreams. \nAbout Janice Sapigao \nJanice Lobo Sapigao is a daughter of Filipina/o immigrants.  She was named one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s 2017 Women to Watch by KQED Arts. She is the author of two books of poetry: Like a Solid to a Shadow (Timeless\, Infinite Light\, 2017) and microchips for millions (Philippine American Writers and Artists\, Inc.\, 2016) and three other chapbooks. She is a VONA/Voices and Kundiman Fellow\, and the Associate Editor of TAYO Literary Magazine. She co-founded Sunday Jump open mic in L.A. She earned her M.F.A. in Writing from CalArts\, and she has a B.A. in Ethnic Studies with Honors from UC San Diego. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sham-e-ali-nayeem/
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:RECLAIMING THE FUTURE: PRIVACY\, ETHICS & ORGANIZING IN TECH WITH MEREDITH WHITTAKER & KADE CROCKFORD
DESCRIPTION:RECLAIMING THE FUTURE: PRIVACY\, ETHICS & ORGANIZING IN TECH WITH MEREDITH WHITTAKER & KADE CROCKFORD\nFriday\, June 7\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Conversations on Science \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nAs Director of the Technology for Liberty Program at the ACLU of Massachusetts and MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellow\, Kade Crockford works to protect and expand core First and Fourth Amendment rights and civil liberties in the digital 21st century\, focusing on how systems of surveillance and control impact not just the society in general but their primary targets—people of color\, Muslims\, immigrants\, and dissidents. The Information Age produces conditions facilitating mass communication and democratization\, as well as dystopian monitoring and centralized control. The Technology for Liberty Program aims to use our unprecedented access to information and communication to protect and enrich open society and individual rights. Kade has written for The Nation\, The Guardian\, The Boston Globe\, WBUR\, and many other publications\, and regularly appears in local\, regional\, and national media as an expert on issues related to technology\, policing\, and surveillance. \nMeredith Whittaker is a Distinguished Research Scientist at New York University\, Co-founder and Co-director of the AI Now Institute\, dedicated to researching the social implications of artificial intelligence and related technologies\, and the founder of Google’s Open Research group. She has worked extensively on issues of privacy and security in numerous capacities\, including as co-founder of M-Lab\, a globally distributed network measurement system that provides the world’s largest source of open data on internet performance and as co-founder of Simply Secure. Whittaker has advised the White House\, the FCC\, the City of New York\, the European Parliament\, and many other governments and civil society organizations on artificial intelligence\, internet policy\, measurement\, privacy\, and security.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reclaiming-the-future-privacy-ethics-organizing-in-tech-with-meredith-whittaker-kade-crockford/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:RECLAIMING THE FUTURE: PRIVACY\, ETHICS & ORGANIZING IN TECH WITH MEREDITH WHITTAKER & KADE CROCKFORD
DESCRIPTION:RECLAIMING THE FUTURE: PRIVACY\, ETHICS & ORGANIZING IN TECH WITH MEREDITH WHITTAKER & KADE CROCKFORD\nFriday\, June 7\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Conversations on Science \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nAs Director of the Technology for Liberty Program at the ACLU of Massachusetts and MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellow\, Kade Crockford works to protect and expand core First and Fourth Amendment rights and civil liberties in the digital 21st century\, focusing on how systems of surveillance and control impact not just the society in general but their primary targets—people of color\, Muslims\, immigrants\, and dissidents. The Information Age produces conditions facilitating mass communication and democratization\, as well as dystopian monitoring and centralized control. The Technology for Liberty Program aims to use our unprecedented access to information and communication to protect and enrich open society and individual rights. Kade has written for The Nation\, The Guardian\, The Boston Globe\, WBUR\, and many other publications\, and regularly appears in local\, regional\, and national media as an expert on issues related to technology\, policing\, and surveillance. \nMeredith Whittaker is a Distinguished Research Scientist at New York University\, Co-founder and Co-director of the AI Now Institute\, dedicated to researching the social implications of artificial intelligence and related technologies\, and the founder of Google’s Open Research group. She has worked extensively on issues of privacy and security in numerous capacities\, including as co-founder of M-Lab\, a globally distributed network measurement system that provides the world’s largest source of open data on internet performance and as co-founder of Simply Secure. Whittaker has advised the White House\, the FCC\, the City of New York\, the European Parliament\, and many other governments and civil society organizations on artificial intelligence\, internet policy\, measurement\, privacy\, and security.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reclaiming-the-future-privacy-ethics-organizing-in-tech-with-meredith-whittaker-kade-crockford-2/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers with Drinks : Special Latin American Night!
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 8\, 2019:\nSpecial Latin American Night! \nMauro Javier Cardenas (The Revolutionaries Try Again)\nRachelle Linda Escamilla (Imaginary Animal)\nCristina Rivera Garza (The Taiga Syndrome)\nGabriela Alemán (Poso Wells\, Humo)\nIngrid Rojas Contreras (Fruit of the Drunken Tree)\nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit a local nonprofit\, TBA.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 7 PM.make
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-special-latin-american-night/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poetry Marathon
DESCRIPTION:* Saturday\, June 8\n____ Guest co-curators: Eric Dolan & Lisa Wenzel ____\nReaders:  Tongo Eisen-Martin  *  Jennifer Elise Foerster\nStacy Johnson  *  Jevohn Newsome  *  Linda Norton\nDjenanway Se-Gahan  *  Hunter Thomas\nLisa Wenzel  *   Maw Shein Win \n  \n* Saturday\, July 20\n____ Curator: Tongo Eisen-Martin ____\nReaders:  TBA \n  \n       * Saturday\, September 28\n100 Thousand Poets For Change / Bay Area Poetry Marathon joint event\n____ Curator: Donna de la Perrière ____\nReaders:  TBA \n  \n_____________________________________________________ \nAll events will be held at ALLEY CAT BOOKS\,\n3036 24th Street (in the Mission\, between Harrison & Treat)\n\nDoors open at 7:00pm.  Readings begin at 7:30pm sharp. \n+ + + + + + +\nFor more information\, email Donna de la Perrière at baypoma@zoho.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poetry-marathon-5/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Chinatown: Greg Pond and Dee Allen. Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Poets Greg Pond and Dee Allen. will read from their new publications. They will be joined by trumpeter Greer Rocket. \nGreg Pond is an American poet born in Brooklyn\, New York\, to Panamanian immigrants. He moved to San Francisco in the late 1970’s and had a thirty-plus year career in radio\, commercial and local cable television. Some of his duties included programming coordination and producing public service announcements and special programs. \nGreg has published two books of poetry: Aftermoon and Blackened Blue. \nHis poems can be found in the Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal and Overthrowing Capitalism anthologies.  \nSince his retirement from his career Greg started The Visiting Poet\, a service that offers poetry readings to assisted-living facilities and hospitals. Greg is also a volunteer facilitator of Poetically Speaking\, a weekly telephone conference-call program for seniors. \nGreg will introduce his two books of poetry\, 4:00 am (light) and 4:00 am (dark) \nDee Allen. is an African-Italian performance poet based in Oakland\, California. Active on the creative writing and Spoken word tips since the early 1990s. Author of 4 books (Boneyard\, Unwritten Law\, Stormwater and his newest\, Skeletal Black\, all from POOR Press) and 19 anthology appearances (including Poets 11: 2014\, Feather Floating On the Water\, Rise\, Your Golden Sun Still Shines\, What is Love\, The City is Already Speaking\, The Land Lives Forever and the newest from Los Angeles-based Vagabond Books\, Extreme) under his figurative belt so far.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-in-chinatown-greg-pond-and-dee-allen-book-launch/
LOCATION:Clarion Music Performing Arts Center\, 816 Sacramento St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Clarion Music Performing Arts Center":MAILTO:info@clarionmusic.com
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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-6/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190609T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T135013
CREATED:20190501T232709Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190501T232709Z
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SUMMARY:Josh Frank with Paul Myers / Giraffes on Horseback Salad: Salvador Dali\, the Marx Brothers\, and the Strangest Movie Never Made
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon event with Josh Frankfor his book Giraffes on Horseback Salad. With him in conversation is Paul Myers. Please join us! \nGiraffes on Horseback Salad is a never-made Marx Brothers film written by Salvador Dali. Thought to be lost forever\, this mislaid masterpiece has finally arrived — recreated as a graphic novel. The lushly illustrated graphic novel\, adapted by Josh Frank with Tim Heidecker (Tim and Eric) reveals the true history of this incredible find. Join us for an illustrated talk about this incredible story with special guest host Paul Myers accompanied by live harp performance by Josh Frank with multi media piece and special Marx/Dali shorts. \n\nJosh Frank is a writer\, producer\, director and composer. Josh has spent the last 5 years writing and adapting Giraffes on Horseback Salad with the full support of the Marx and Dali estates. He has penned numerous plays\, including an authorized adaptation of Werner Hergoz’s Stroszek\, stage musicals\, including The Jonathan Richman Musical\, screenplays\, including an adaptation of Mark Vonnegut’s The Eden Express\, and Flup\, a 3D CGI musical feature film with puppets. He is the author of Fool The World\, the Oral History of the Band Called Pixies (St. Martins Press USA/Virgin Books U.K.) and In Heaven Everything Is Fine – – The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers” (Simon and Schuster/Free Press). His third book (published by Harper Collins in the Spring 2014)\, with collaborator Black Francis\, frontman for The Pixies is called The Good Inn. Over the last decade\, Frank has worked with some of the most interesting and innovative musicians\, filmmakers\, producers and artists in the industry\, including Black Francis\, David Lynch and Harold Ramis. He has interviewed over 200 of America’s most notable names in entertainment for his books and screenplays. ​In his spare time\, he built\, owns\, and operates the Blue Starlite Mini-Urban Drive-In Movie Theatre in Austin\, Texas\, the first Mini-Urban Drive-In Movie Theater in the world. \nBerkeley\, California based (Toronto\, Canada raised)\, writer and musicianPaul Myers is the author of the critically acclaimed biographies Kids In The Hall: One Dumb Guy (House of Anansi)\, A Wizard A True Star: Todd Rundgren In The Studio (Jawbone Press)\, and It Ain’t Easy: Long John Baldry and the Birth of the British Blues (Greystone Books). Paul has also contributed to a number of periodicals and websites\, including Mojo Magazine\,FastCoCreate\, Paste\, Crawdaddy\, and Mix Magazine. He has been a regular feature at both the SF Sketchfest and LitQuake festivals in San Francisco. In 2008 he was nominated for a Gemini Award (Canadian Emmy) for writing the music documentary Long John Baldry: In The Shadow Of The Blues (Bravo Canada/BBC 4). Paul is also an experienced musician and songwriter and is currently one half of the San Francisco rock duo\, The Paul & John (Inner Sunset\, 2014 Mystery Lawn Music)\, and all of the electronic music project Flam! (Garden Variety\, 2018 Bandcamp). Follow Paul Myers on Twitter and Instagram: @pulmyears. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Giraffes on Horseback Salad\, order below and put your request in the comments field. For signed copies of Josh’s other books\, order here; for signed copies of Paul’s books\, order here — in both cases\, be sure to include your request in the special field. \nThe Bindery bar opens with doors at 2pm. Show starts at 4pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/josh-frank-with-paul-myers-giraffes-on-horseback-salad-salvador-dali-the-marx-brothers-and-the-strangest-movie-never-made/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190609T173000
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CREATED:20190603T135412Z
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SUMMARY:LOTERIA READING SERIES\, No. 3: La Luna\, El Arbol\, El Pino
DESCRIPTION:INSTITUTE OF (advanced) UNCERTAINTY + McROSKEY 3RD FLOOR FACTORY LOFT  \nare pleased to present: LOTERIA READING SERIES\, No. 3: La Luna\, El Arbol\, El Pino \n J.K. FOWLER \nMARGUERITE MUNOZ \nJULIAN TALAMANTEZ BROLASKI \nCURATED BY MK CHAVEZ \n  \nSUNDAY\, JUNE 9th\, 2019   \nDoors ➬ 4PM  \nProgram ➬ 4:30PM \nFREE ENTRY! \n  \nINSTITUTE OF (advanced) UNCERTAINTY \n@ McROSKEY 3RD FLOOR FACTORY LOFT \n1687 MARKET STREET (@ GOUGH)\, S.F.\, CA \nWHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE \n  \nBART ➬ Van Ness Station\nMUNI METRO ➬ F | K | L | M | N | 6 | 7 \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/loteria-reading-series-no-3-la-luna-el-arbol-el-pino/
LOCATION:Institute Of advanced Uncertainty [I.O.U.]\, 296 Ivy Street\, btwn. Gough and Franklin\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Institute Of advanced Uncertainty":MAILTO:advanceduncertainty@gmail.com
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190609T200000
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CREATED:20190501T224038Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190501T224038Z
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SUMMARY:Best Breakup Ever Book Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:Come to a book party that is an experience of celebration for those who are single\, happily coupled\, heartbroken\, recently divorced. Come one come all.\n*Laughter\n*Book Signing\n*Tarot\n*Appetizers\n*Beverages!\n*Self-care experiences \nAbout BBE!\nThis is more then just a book. You are stepping into a warm\, funny\, friendly space where someone is talking about all the aspects of a breakup while making you LAUGH OUTLOUD. Drawing on her 20-plus years as a tarot reader and decade as a life coach Hirschman shares tools\, practices\, and suggestions to help you reflect AND move forward. You’ll get chapters about picking the right and WRONG movies to watch\, songs to listen to\, and TV series to tuck in at night. There’s even letting go rituals to free you from the prickly bonds of a breakup. This book is a perfect combination of levity and expertise and a must read for someone going through this transition. This is THE tool-kit every broken heart needs. \nAbout the Author\nApril Hirschman is a Leadership and Transition Coach\, belly dancer\, tarot reader\, filmmaker\, yoga instructor\, artist\, amateur stand-up comedian\, and one of the 10 Priestesses you should know in the 21st century! She smoked her first vape with Armi¬stead Maupin and put on her makeup with John Cameron Mitchell. She lives in California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/best-breakup-ever-book-launch-party/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190610T210000
DTSTAMP:20260421T135013
CREATED:20190430T222622Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190430T222622Z
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SUMMARY:Off The Page with William Trevor "Broken Homes" and "Sitting with the Dead" (rights pending) Directed by Paul Finocchiaro
DESCRIPTION:JUN 10\nWilliam Trevor “Broken Homes” and “Sitting with the Dead” (rights pending)\nDirected by Paul Finocchiaro\n“Every sentence William Trever wrote was perfectly crafted\, yet he had a love of storytelling:  his first loyalty was always to the rider’s desire to find out what was going to happen next.”  —The Guardian\n7:00 PM\, Z Below | Reserve Seats
URL:https://litseen.com/event/off-the-page-with-william-trevor-broken-homes-and-sitting-with-the-dead-rights-pending-directed-by-paul-finocchiaro/
LOCATION:Z Space\, 450 Florida Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190611T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190611T133000
DTSTAMP:20260421T135013
CREATED:20190429T211710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190429T211710Z
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SUMMARY:Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake at Jessie Square
DESCRIPTION:The monthly collaboration between Litquake: San Francisco’s Literary Festival and the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival features an array of Bay Area poets and musicians.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-at-jessie-square-2/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190611T210000
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SUMMARY:Allan Peterson
DESCRIPTION:reading poetry from \nThis Luminous: New and Selected Poems \nfrom Panhandler Books \nFrom the vast complexities of a world in which synesthesia is our natural translator\, Allan Peterson’s poems convey the consistent message that the ordinary isn’t. Selected from books and chapbooks covering almost thirty years of writing\, Peterson’s work draws heavily from landscapes like the Gulf Coast\, the sciences\, history\, and the author’s background in visual arts. Details of perception and observation demonstrate why these reflective works\, often dense with images and intuitive jumps\, have received national and international recognitions. \nBoth poet and visual artist\, Allan Peterson is the author of five previous poetry collections and is a recipient of fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and the State of Florida. His second book\, All the Lavish in Common\, won the Juniper Prize from the University of Massachusetts. His third\, Fragile Acts\, from McSweeney’s\, was a finalist for both The National Book Critics Circle and Oregon Book Awards. \nPraise for Allan Peterson’s Previous Work \n“Peterson is one of our most valuable poet-thinkers and thinker-poets\, a writer who can show us how much is within our grasp and much is beyond it.” — LA Review of Books \n“His observing eye\, as astute as the most finely-honed telephoto lens\, is such that he¹s able to transform even the ordinary into something so exquisite it provokes wonder and awe.” —Mary Jo Bang \n“Like ‘Brazil’s undiscovered caverns of amethyst’\, Allan Peterson’s Fragile Acts is a major find.” —John Ashbery \n“He puts music to the tension between the desperate human experience and the cool removal of the cosmos. His poems are refreshingly discrete artifacts—perfected and edgy—raw at the same time. “ —Laura Kasischke \n“Allan Peterson’s meditations on domestic tranquility and ecocatastrophe are so smart that they could actually make you smarter” —Boston Review \n“Soul-poppingly magnetic”—The Rumpus
URL:https://litseen.com/event/allan-peterson/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190611T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190611T213000
DTSTAMP:20260421T135013
CREATED:20190501T232851Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190501T232851Z
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SUMMARY:Kathryn Scanlan / Aug 9—Fog
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Kathryn Scanlan for her first book\,Aug 9—Fog. More to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nFifteen years ago\, Kathryn Scanlan found a stranger’s five-year diary at an estate auction in a small town in Illinois. The owner of the diary was eighty-six years old when she began recording the details of her life in the small book\, a gift from her daughter and son-in-law. The diary was falling apart—water-stained and illegible in places—but magnetic to Scanlan nonetheless. \nAfter reading and rereading the diary\, studying and dissecting it\, for the next fifteen years she played with the sentences that caught her attention\, cutting\, editing\, arranging\, and rearranging them into the composition that became Aug 9—Fog (she chose the title from a note that was tucked into the diary). “Sure grand out\,” the diarist writes. “That puzzle a humdinger\,” she says\, followed by\, “A letter from Lloyd saying John died the 16th.” An entire state of mourning reveals itself in “2 canned hams.” The result of Scanlan’s collaging is an utterly compelling\, deeply moving meditation on life and death. \nIn Aug 9—Fog\, Scanlan’s spare\, minimalist approach has a maximal emotional effect\, remaining with the reader long after the book ends. It is an unclassifiable work from a visionary young writer and artist—a singular portrait of a life revealed by revision and restraint. \n\nKathryn Scanlan lives in Los Angeles. Her stories have appeared in NOON\, Fence\, American Short Fiction\, Tin House\, Caketrain\, and The Iowa Review\, among other publications. Author photo by Roxane Hopper. \n\nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event\, with mature themes. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Aug 9—Fog\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kathryn-scanlan-aug-9-fog/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190611T213000
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CREATED:20190502T090412Z
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SUMMARY:Ryan Jacobs
DESCRIPTION:Ryan Jacobs discusses his new book\, The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery\, Mayhem and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World’s Most Expensive Fungus. \nAbout The Truffle Underground \nBeneath the gloss of star chefs and crystal-laden tables\, the truffle supply chain is touched by theft\, secrecy\, sabotage\, and fraud. Farmers patrol their fields with rifles and fear losing trade secrets to spies. Hunters plant poisoned meatballs to eliminate rival truffle-hunting dogs. Naive buyers and even knowledgeable experts are duped by liars and counterfeits. \nDeeply reported and elegantly written\, this page-turning exposé documents the dark\, sometimes deadly crimes at each level of the truffle’s path from ground to plate\, making sense of an industry that traffics in scarcity\, seduction\, and cash. Through it all\, a question lingers: What\, other than money\, draws people to these dirt-covered jewels? \nPraise for The Truffle Underground \n“In elegant\, mesmerizing prose\, Ryan Jacobs has delivered a forest-to-table page-turner from the outer limits of our foodie culture\, a place where colorful farmers\, serial dog murderers and famous chefs grapple over a crudely foraged fungus that’s traded in parking lots and bars\, like heroin. The Truffle Underground is an eye-opener for anyone who’s picked up a fork.”—Steve Fainaru\, New York Times bestselling author of League of Denial and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter \n“The Truffle Underground is a fascinating\, genre-blending romp. It’s a business book\, a mystery\, a science lesson\, and a love story that’s as seductive as the buttery fungus at the heart of it all.”—Derek Thompson\, national bestselling author of Hit Makers and staff writer at The Atlantic \n“Investigative journalist and first-time author Jacobs does a remarkable job reporting from the front lines of the truffle industry\, bringing to vivid life French black-truffle farmers\, Italian white-truffle foragers\, and their marvelously well-trained dogs.”—Booklist (starred review)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ryan-jacobs/
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:20190612T213000
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CREATED:20190501T233033Z
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SUMMARY:William E. Jones / I'm Open to Anything
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts William E. Jones for his debut novel I’m Open to Anything\, out now from We Heard You Like Books. More information to come soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nA perverse and explicit new take on the coming of age novel\, William E. Jones’s I’m Open to Anything explores bohemian Southern California of the late 1980s and early 90s\, before gentrification ruined everything. The book’s narrator flees a crumbling industrial wasteland in the Midwest and finds himself in sunny Los Angeles without a car\, working in a neighborhood video store and spending many hours watching films. He explores his adopted city and befriends a number of men\, most of them immigrants\, who teach him the finer points of sex. He acquires the skill of fisting\, giving his partners intense pleasure\, and at the same time hearing the stories of their lives. They too have fled their hometowns: one to escape torture at the hands of a Salvadoran death squad; another to study anthropology after years of wandering and religious questioning. \nAlternating between explicit scenes of kinky sex and intimate conversations about matters of life and death\, I’m Open to Anything is a porno novel of rare ambition and humor. The book recalls Olympia Press’s heyday\, when authors made quick money churning out dirty books\, but couldn’t hide the intellectual obsessions that made them writers in the first place. \n\nWilliam E. Jones’s previous book\, True Homosexual Experiences (also published by We Heard You Like Books)\, a biography of Straight to Hell’s iconoclastic editor Boyd McDonald\, celebrates the frank\, raunchy language of the first queer ’zine. Jones brings the same unsparing and profane attitude to I’m Open to Anything\, his debut novel. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThe Bindery bar opens at 7pm. Event starts at 7:30pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of I’m Open to Anything\, order below and put your request in the comments field. For signed copies ofTrue Homosexual Experiences\, order here and sure to include your request in the special field. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/william-e-jones-im-open-to-anything/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alix Ohlin
DESCRIPTION:Alix Ohlin discusses her new novel\, Dual Citizens. \nPraise for Dual Citizens \n“Ohlin’s story of sisters wraps its tendrils deep as any family. Dual Citizens leads a reader through landscapes of compassion and crisis in this deeply felt\, iridescent novel of the spells and surprises a sibling creates.”—Samantha Hunt\, author of The Dark Dark \n“For long-time admirers of Alix Ohlin’s fiction\, the psychological complexity and keen observations in this novel will come as no surprise. In Dual Citizens\, Ohlin examines the conflicting desires of two sisters from Montreal with a riveting precision reminiscent of fellow Montreal native Mavis Gallant. However\, unlike Gallant’s Montreal girls\, Ohlin’s are not of a generation ‘trained to be patient’ but to follow their ambitions. A lifelong witness to one’s shifting longings\, this wise and luminous novel shows\, is a sibling.”—Idra Novey\, author of Those Who Knew \n“This novel sneaks up on you the way life does—full of chance and yearning. It’s a precise\, subtle\, sad and graceful story about how we care for each other\, and how we try to\, and how we fail.”—Jia Tolentino\, author of Trick Mirror \nAbout Dual Citizens \nLark and Robin are half-sisters whose similarities end at being named for birds. While Lark is shy and studious\, Robin is wild and artistic. Raised in Montreal by their disinterested single mother\, they form a fierce team in childhood regardless of their differences. As they grow up\, Lark excels at school and Robin becomes an extraordinary pianist. At seventeen\, Lark flees to America to attend college\, where she finds her calling in documentary films\, and her sister soon joins her. \nLater\, in New York City\, they find themselves tested: Lark struggles with self-doubt\, and Robin chafes against the demands of Juilliard. Under pressure\, their bond grows strained and ultimately is broken\, and their paths abruptly diverge. Years later\, Lark’s life is in tatters and Robin’s is wilder than ever. As Lark tries to take charge of her destiny\, she discovers that despite the difficulties of their relationship\, there is only one person she can truly rely on: her sister. \nIn this gripping\, unforgettable novel about art\, ambition\, sisterhood\, motherhood\, and self-knowledge\, Alix Ohlin traces the rich and complicated lives of two indelible women. Dazzlingly insightful and beautifully crafted\, Dual Citizens captures the unique language of sisters and makes visible the imperceptible strings that bind us to the ones we love for good.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alix-ohlin/
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:Erik Davis
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nHigh Weirdness: Drugs\, Esoterica\, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies \nfrom MIT Press \nA study of the spiritual provocations to be found in the work of Philip K. Dick\, Terence McKenna\, and Robert Anton Wilson\, High Weirdness charts the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality that arose from the American counterculture of the 1970s. These three authors changed the way millions of readers thought\, dreamed\, and experienced reality—but how did their writings reflect\, as well as shape\, the seismic cultural shifts taking place in America? \nIn High Weirdness\, Erik Davis—America’s leading scholar of high strangeness—examines the published and unpublished writings of these vital\, iconoclastic thinkers\, as well as their own life-changing mystical experiences. Davis explores the complex lattice of the strange that flowed through America’s West Coast at a time of radical technological\, political\, and social upheaval to present a new theory of the weird as a viable mode for a renewed engagement with reality. \nErik Davis is an American journalist\, critic\, podcaster\, counter-public intellectual whose writings have run the gamut from rock criticism to cultural analysis to creative explorations of esoteric mysticism. He is the author of Techgnosis: Myth\, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information\, The Visionary State: A Journey through California’s Spiritual Landscape\, and Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica. \nVisit: http://techgnosis.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/erik-davis/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ted Chiang and Robin Sloan
DESCRIPTION:Ted Chiang discusses his new story collection\, Exhalation\, with Robin Sloan. \nPraise for Ted Chiang \n“Ted Chiang’s stories are lean\, relentless\, and incandescent.”—Colson Whitehead\, author of The Underground Railroad \n“Ted Chiang writes with such a matter-of-fact grace and visionary power that one simply takes on faith that his worlds and his characters exist\, whether they are human or robot or parrot; he is the rare author who makes me feel\, also\, that he believes in his readers\, in our integrity and our imagination.”—Karen Russell\, author of Orange World \n“Ted Chiang has no contemporary peers when it comes to the short story form. His name deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Carver\, Poe\, Borges\, and Kafka. Every story is a universe. Every story is a diamond. You will inhale Exhalation in a single\, stunned sitting\, because true genius doesn’t come along nearly as often as advertised. This is the real thing.”—Blake Crouch\, author of Dark Matter \n“From Ted Chiang’s singular mind comes another innovative and mind-bending collection of short stories. With boundless empathy\, curiosity\, and wisdom\, Chiang asks all the important questions that come with being human. Reading Exhalationis like standing outside on a clear\, starry night. Chiang’s writing does what good writing should: make the universe feel both vast and small at the same time.”—Rachel Khong\, author of Goodbye\, Vitamin \nAbout Exhalation \nFrom an award-winning science fiction writer (whose short story “The Story of Your Life” was the basis for the Academy Award-nominated movie Arrival)\, the long-awaited new collection of stunningly original\, humane\, and already celebrated short stories \nThis much-anticipated second collection of stories is signature Ted Chiang\, full of revelatory ideas and deeply sympathetic characters. In “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate\,” a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and the temptation of second chances. In the epistolary “Exhalation\,” an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications not just for his own people\, but for all of reality. And in “The Lifecycle of Software Objects\,” a woman cares for an artificial intelligence over twenty years\, elevating a faddish digital pet into what might be a true living being. Also included are two brand-new stories: “Omphalos” and “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom.” \nIn this fantastical and elegant collection\, Ted Chiang wrestles with the oldest questions on earth–What is the nature of the universe? What does it mean to be human?–and ones that no one else has even imagined. And\, each in its own way\, the stories prove that complex and thoughtful science fiction can rise to new heights of beauty\, meaning\, and compassion.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ted-chiang-and-robin-sloan/
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: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-27/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:POETS! – featured readers followed by an open mic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-10/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Robert Macfarlane and Steve Silberman / Underland
DESCRIPTION:Robert Macfarlane\, who has been called the “greatest nature writer of his generation\,” makes a rare West coast visit to celebrate the publication of his masterpiece\, Underland. He’ll be joined in conversation by science writer and author Steve Silberman. \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event — tickets can be purchased in advance here. The price of admission is equal to the cost of Underland\, which is included with each ticket. \nHailed as “the great nature writer of this generation” (Wall Street Journal)\, Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of prize-winning books about the intersection between the human and the natural world. In Underland\, he delivers his masterwork: an epic exploration of Earth’s vast subterranean landscape in myth\, literature\, memory\, and the land itself. \nDelving into what is known as “deep time\,” the dizzying expanses of geologic time that stretch away from the present\, Macfarlane takes us on an exhilarating journey to Arctic sea caves\, Bronze Age burial chambers\, the catacombs of Paris\, the underground fungal networks through which trees communicate\, a dark matter research lab searching for the origins of the universe\, and a deep-sunk “hiding place” designed to store nuclear waste for 100\,000 years to come. \nGlobal in its geography\, contemporary in its concerns\, and written with great lyricism and power\, Underland uncovers our complex\, crucial relationship with the worlds beneath our feet. \n\nRobert Macfarlane is the author of the prize-winning booksMountains of the Mind\, Wild Places\, and The Old Ways. He has contributed to Harper’s\, Granta\, The Observer\, The Times Literary Supplement\, and the London Review of Books. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College\, Cambridge. Author photo by Bryan Appleyard. \nSteve Silberman is an award-winning science writer and the author ofNeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity\, which Oliver Sacks called “a sweeping and penetrating history presented with a rare sympathy and sensitivity.” The book became a widely-praised bestseller in the United States and the United Kingdom. His TED talk\, The Forgotten History of Autism\, has been viewed more than a million times and translated into 35 languages. He lives with his husband Keith in San Francisco. Author photo by Tanya Rosen-Jones. \n\n** Please note ** \n– This is an all-ages event. \n– The duration of this event is up to the authors. \n– Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. \n– 1 ticket = 1 book\, no exceptions. The book must be purchased from Booksmith. If you already have a copy of Underland\, please remember that books make great gifts! If you’ve already gifted Underland to all of your friends\, it’s ok to buy a different book from Booksmith instead — in that case\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com. \n– If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of any of Rob’s books\, order here and be sure to put your request in the comments field; for signed copies of Steve’s book\, order here and be sure to include your request.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-macfarlane-and-steve-silberman-underland/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Launch for Dr. Naomi Wolf / Outrages: Sex\, Censorship\, and the Criminalization of Love
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a special event to launch Dr. Naomi Wolf‘s new book Outrages: Sex\, Censorship\, and the Criminalization of Love. More information to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event — tickets can be purchased in advance here. The price of admission is equal to the cost of Outrages\, which is included with each ticket. \nUntil 1857\, the State did not link the idea of homosexuality to deviancy. In the same year\, the concept of the obscene was coined. New York Times best-selling author Naomi Wolf’s Outrages is the story\, brilliantly told\, of why this two-pronged State repression took hold — first in England and spreading quickly to America — and why it was attached so dramatically\, for the first time\, to homosexual men. Before 1857\, it wasn’t homosexuality that was a crime\, but the act of sodomy. But in a single stroke\, not only did love between men become illegal\, but anything referring to this love alsowas ruled obscene\, unprintable\, unspeakable. Wolf paints the dramatic ways this played out among a bohemian group of sexual dissidents\, including American poet Walt Whitman and closeted English critic John Addington Symonds\, as\, decades before the infamous 1895 trial of Oscar Wilde\, dire prison terms became the government’s penalty for homosexuality. Most powerfully\, Wolf recounts how a dying Symonds helped write the book on sexual inversion that created our modern understanding of homosexuality. And she argues that his secret memoir\, mined here fully for the first time\, stands as the first gay rights manifesto in the West. \n\nNaomi Wolf‘s most recent books include Vagina\, Give Me Liberty\, and The End of America\, all New York Times best-sellers\, and of the landmark international bestseller\, The Beauty Myth. She lives in New York City. \n\n** Please note ** \n– This is an all-ages event. \n– The duration of this event is up to the author. \n– Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. \n– 1 ticket = 1 book\, no exceptions. The book must be purchased from Booksmith. If you already have a copy of Outrages\, remember that books make great gifts! If you’ve already gifted Outrages to all of your friends\, it’s ok to buy a different book from Booksmith instead — in that case\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com. \n– If you’d like a signed copy of any of Naomi’s books but are unable to attend the event\,order here and be sure to include your request in the special field. \n– RSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-dr-naomi-wolf-outrages-sex-censorship-and-the-criminalization-of-love/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ocean Vuong and Rebecca Solnit
DESCRIPTION:Ocean Vuong discusses his new novel\, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous with Rebecca Solnit. \nPraise for On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous \n“A bruised\, breathtaking love letter never meant to be sent. A powerful testimony to magic and loss. A marvel.” —Marlon James\, author of Black Leopard\, Red Wolf \n“On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous will be described — rightly—as luminous\, shattering\, urgent\, necessary. But the word I keep circling back to is raw: that’s how powerful the emotions here are\, and how you’ll feel after reading it – scoured down to bone. With a poet’s precision\, Ocean Vuong examines whether putting words to one’s experience can bridge wounds that span generations\, and whether it’s ever possible to be truly heard by those we love most.” —Celeste Ng\, author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere \n“This book—gorgeous is right there in the title—finds incredible\, aching beauty in the deep observation of love in many forms. Ocean Vuong’s debut novel contains all the power of his poetry\, and I finished the book knowing that we are seeing only the very beginning of his truly magnificent talent.” —Emma Straub\, author of Modern Lovers and The Vacationers \n“Ocean Vuong runs up against the limits of language—this book is addressed to a mother who cannot read it—and expands our sense of what literature can make visible\, thinkable\, felt across borders and generations and genres. This is a courageous\, embodied inquiry into the tangle of colonial and personal histories. It is also a gorgeous argument for astonishment over irony—for the transformative possibilities of love.” —Ben Lerner\, author of Leaving the Atocha Stationand 10:04 \n“One is not often given the chance to apply words like “brilliant” and “remarkable” to any novels\, certainly not first novels.  Thank you\, Ocean Vuong\, for this brilliant and remarkable first novel.” —Michael Cunningham\, author of The Hours \nAbout On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous \nOn Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker\, Little Dog\, is in his late twenties\, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known\, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son\, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race\, class\, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment\, immersed as we are in addiction\, violence\, and trauma\, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness\, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one’s own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard. \nWith stunning urgency and grace\, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds\, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive\, and how to make of it a kind of joy\, powers the most important debut novel of many years.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ocean-vuong-and-rebecca-solnit/
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:Punk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World: Poems and Notebooks of Ed Smith
DESCRIPTION:with David Trinidad\, Amy Gerstler\, D.A. Powell\, Kevin Killian\, Dodie Bellamy\, Randall Mann\, and Roberto Bedoya \ncelebrating the release of \nPunk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World: Poems and Notebooks of Ed Smith \nby Ed Smith\, Edited by David Trinidad \npublished by Turtle Point Press \nIn Punk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World\, David Trinidad brings together a comprehensive selection of Ed Smith’s work: his published books; unpublished poems; excerpts from his extensive notebooks; photos and ephemera; and his timely “cry for civilization\,” “Return to Lesbos”: put down that gun / stop electing Presidents. \nEd Smith blazed onto the Los Angeles poetry scene in the early 1980s from out of the hardcore punk scene. The charismatic\, nerdy young man hit home with his funny/scary off- the- cuff- sounding poems\, like “Fishing”: This is a good line. / This is a bad line. This is a fishing line. \nEd’s vibrant “gang” of writer and artist friends― among them Amy Gerstler\, Dennis Cooper\, Bob Flanagan\, Mike Kelley\, and David Trinidad― congregated at Beyond Baroque in Venice\, on LA’s west side. They read and partied and per-formed together\, and shared and published each others’ work. \nEd was more than bright and versatile: he worked as a math tutor\, an animator\, and a typesetter. In the mid- 1990s\, he fell in love with Japanese artist Mio Shirai; they married and moved to New York City. Despite productive years and joyful times\, Ed was plagued by mood disorders and drug problems\, and at the age of forty- eight\, he took his own life. \nEd Smith’s poems speak to living in an increasingly dehumanizing consumer society and corrupt political system. This “punk Dorothy Parker” is more relevant than ever for our ADD\, technology- distracted times \nEd Smith (1957–2005) was a poet involved in the punk and alternative arts scenes in Los Angeles in the early 1980s. His books were Fantasyworld (1983) and Tim’s Bunnies (1988). His poems appeared in Rolling Stone\, St. Mark’s Poetry Project Newsletter\, and other publications. Smith also worked as an animator on Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Clues. \nDavid Trinidad is the author of more than twenty books of poetry\, collabora-tions\, and edited volumes. These include Swinging on a Star (2017)\, Notes on a Past Life (2016)\, Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems (2011)\, and Plasticville (2000)\, finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Trinidad is editor of A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos (2011)\, which won a Lambda Literary Award. He is a professor of poetry in the English and Creative Writing Department at Columbia College\, Chicago. \nCritical Praise For Punk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World: \n“In the very early ’80s Ed was intimidatingly skinny and gorgeous and as reckless and charismatic as that guy in The Libertines who got caught doing coke with Kate Moss\, but very\, very talented and massively intelligent\, and even when he was a little too wild\, he was always so kind and heartbreakingly sweet and smart. Saying he was our Rimbaud is way too lazy\, but there was that. I thought of him as LA’s John Wieners. Ed’s poetry has Wieners’s deep melancholy and low-key\, note-perfect lyricism\, mixed with Ed’s strange\, bright ideas and his dead-pan\, startling sense of humor. I’m one of the many people who misses his poetry a lot.” ―Dennis Cooper \n“Years ago my wife slept with Ed Smith and wrote him into her novel; we goggled\, bemused by his ubiquity. It was a time when Ed was everywhere\, or so it seemed\, and his energy and taste for the zany and the outrageous fit right in with what we in San Francisco appreciated most about the heroic LA artists―Bob Flanagan\, Mike Kelley\, Amy Gerstler\, Dennis Cooper\, so many more. The present anthology is not only the best of Ed’s writing but contains in his notebooks the single greatest account of the genius brewing in the Southland at that moment. Hats off to David Trinidad for bringing it all back home―his exquisite care in selecting and contextualizing is the greatest gift he could have given his late friend.” ―Kevin Killian \n“Sappho invented civilization\, and Ed Smith made it punk.”―Tony Trigilio
URL:https://litseen.com/event/punk-rock-is-cool-for-the-end-of-the-world-poems-and-notebooks-of-ed-smith/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alex Espinoza / Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Alex Espinoza for his new bookCruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime. With him in conversation is the one and only Carla Trujillo! Please join us! \nAcclaimed author Alex Espinoza takes readers on an uncensored journey through the underground\, to reveal the timeless art of cruising. Combining historical research and oral history with his own personal experience\, Espinoza examines the political and cultural forces behind this radical pastime. From Greek antiquity to the notorious Molly houses of 18th century England\, the raucous 1970s to the algorithms of Grindr\, Oscar Wilde to George Michael\, cruising remains at once a reclamation of public space and the creation of its own unique locale — one in which men of all races and classes interact\, even in the shadow of repressive governments. \nIn Uganda and Russia\, we meet activists for whom cruising can be a matter of life and death; while in the West he shows how cruising circumvents the inequalities and abuses of power that plague heterosexual encounters. Ultimately\, Espinoza illustrates how cruising functions as a powerful rebuke to patriarchy and capitalism — unless you are cruising the department store restroom\, of course. \n\n“Alex Espinoza’s much-anticipated book takes readers on a unique ‘cruise’ through places of public gay-sex connections\, from early times to today’s apps and sites; and the result is as lively and entertaining as a boldly intimate\, and wonderfully written\, memoir.” – John Rechy \n“Espinoza’s painstakingly documented love letter to cruising is a rare achievement. Not only does he excavate an oft-hidden and -policed queer history\, but he also topples the myth that LGBTQ progress conforms to a single\, ‘straight’ narrative. In a culture that often flattens queer stories to fit assimilationist standards\, Espinoza’s book stands out as a beacon for future queer writers\, thinkers\, and activists. Reading these accounts\, I felt myself drawn into a past both wonderful and strange\, a world I hope we will continue to celebrate and preserve.” – Garrard Conley \n“Against all they have tried to do to bury our revolutionary past\, Alex Espinoza brings it to life in a work that is equal parts secrets shared in confidence\, sweeping historical account\, and learned analysis. Against all the neutering of our social movements and the treacly lure of assimilation\, Espinoza’s fast-paced\, compelling narrative shows readers the radical community of struggle\, contact and solace from which we came\, and to which we belong still.” – Jordy Rosenberg \n\nAlex Espinoza is the author of the novels The Five Acts of Diego Leónand Still Water Saints\, a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times\, the New York Times Magazine\, NPR\, Salon\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, and elsewhere. His awards include a 2014 Fellowship in Prose from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2014 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for The Five Acts of Diego León. He lives in Los Angeles. \n  \nCarla Trujillo was born in New Mexico and received a PhD in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin\, Madison. Her first novel\, What Night Brings (Curbstone Press\, 2003)\, received the Miguel Mármol Prize for best first work of fiction by a Latino/a writer\, the Latino Book Award for fiction\, and the Paterson Fiction Prize. It was a finalist for the LAMBDA Literary Award\, ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year\, and was an honorable mention for the Gustavas Myers Book Award. What Night Brings was one of three finalists for the University of Washington’s “common book” for 2009 . Carla is the editor of Living Chicana Theory (1998) and Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About (1991)\, which won the Lambda Literary Award and the Out/Write Vanguard Award. The anthologies and the novel are widely used in college and high school classrooms. Carla has also written various articles on identity and higher education. She is a founding member Macondo Writers Workshop. In addition to Macondo\, she has taught at Lambda Literary Foundation’s Emerging Writers Retreat\, U.C. Berkeley\, Mills College\, and San Francisco State University. Carla lives in Berkeley\, California. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of any of Alex’s books\, order here and include your request in the comments field; to request a signed copy of any of Carla’s books\, order here and be sure to include your request in the comments field. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alex-espinoza-cruising-an-intimate-history-of-a-radical-pastime/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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