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SUMMARY:Jessica Friedmann
DESCRIPTION:Australian author Jessica Friedmann discusses her new essay collection Things that helped: on Postpartum Depression. Jessica will be joined by local poet and writer Lauren Levin in a conversation moderated by Lydia Kiesling (editor of the Millions)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessica-friedmann/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers with Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Adam Smyer (Knucklehead)\nTina LeCount Myers (The Song of All) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM.\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-13/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poets Julie Rogers & Gene Berson read their work
DESCRIPTION:Poets Julie Rogers & Gene Berson read their work
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-julie-rogers-gene-berson-read-their-work/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Human\, a film by Mojo Adam
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery presents a screening of the short film Human byMoJo Adam\, created to the poem of the same name by Arielle Estoria. The film is a collaborative human observation on #blacklivesmatter\, and will screen in conjunction with the Director’s Guild of American Student Film Award Winner Be the Man and Choices\, recipient of the Caucus Foundation Grant and shot courtesy of the Kodak Emerging Filmmaker Award. \n  \nTickets are $15 and can be purchased in advance here. If available\, tickets will also be available at the door. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The Bindery’s bar will be open. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nCheck out the film’s trailer below: \n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/human-a-film-by-mojo-adam/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180715T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180715T210000
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SUMMARY:Poetry!
DESCRIPTION:featuring Kyle Schlesinger  and Tim Shaner \nHosted by Kevin Killian
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-2/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180716T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180716T203000
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SUMMARY:Pride Poetry Palooza
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts The Perfectly Queer reading series for their annual celebration of queerness at Pride Poetry Palooza! Eight amazing LGBTQ poets will read from new work and discuss queer poetic inspiration. Book signings follow. Free admission\, free and delicious refreshments. Queer (and poetic) door prizes awarded at 7pm. More about Perfectly Queer here. \n  \nMore info to come. Save the date and join us!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pride-poetry-palooza-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180716T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180716T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T020531
CREATED:20170324T014129Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170922T061743Z
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-16/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! every 1st & 3rd Monday Monday\, July 16th – 7-9 pm Kathleen McClung & Dawn McGuire\,  followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:Kathleen McClung is the author of two collections of poetry\, The Typists Play Monopoly (2018) and Almost the Rowboat (2013). Her poetry\, memoir\, and fiction appear widely in journals and anthologies. Recipient of the Rita Dove Poetry Award from Salem College 2012 International Literary Awards\, Kathleen was selected by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the 2012 National Poetry Competition sponsored by the Cultural Center of Cape Cod. Nye also honored Kathleen’s work in The MacGuffin’s 2017 National Poet Hunt. Kathleen has taught writing and literature classes at Skyline College in San Bruno\, California for over twenty years. Dawn McGuire is a neurologist and author of two poetry collections\, Sleeping in Africa and Hands On. She grew up in Eastern Kentucky and was educated at Princeton University\, Union Theological Seminary\, and Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. Her scientific work is focused in two areas: developing biological and gene therapies for diseases such as Huntington’s disease and Multiple Sclerosis; and in reducing disparities in stroke and other neurologic conditions. Her poems have appeared in various literary magazine and anthologies\, and she has won several poetry awards\, including the Troubadour Prize (UK)\, the National League of American Pen Women\, and the 2011 Sarah Lawrence/Campbell Corner Academy of Language Exchange Poetry Prize for “poems that treat larger themes with lyric intensity.” She is Adjunct Professor of Neurology at the Neurosciences Institute of Morehouse School of Medicine\, and divides her time between Atlanta and Northern California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-every-1st-3rd-monday-monday-july-16th-7-9-pm-kathleen-mcclung-dawn-mcguire-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:An evening of poetry
DESCRIPTION:an evening of poetry with Matt Potter\, Carly Moore\, and Dia Felix \nHosted by Kevin Killian
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-of-poetry/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cara Black's Murder on the Left Bank book reading & signing
DESCRIPTION:Join Cara Black\, New York Times bestselling author of the Aimée Leduc series (set in Paris) AND Noe Valley resident for a special Summer Stride post-Bastille Day author talk! \nShe will read from her latest book\, Murder on the Left Bank\, which will be released on June 19\, 2018. \nHer previous book\, Murder in Saint-Germain\, is on the list of Kirkus Reviews’ “Best Mysteries and Thrillers of 2017” list. \nWhether you’re a Francophile or just love mysteries\, please join us for this special event.  A book signing will follow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cara-blacks-murder-on-the-left-bank-book-reading-signing/
LOCATION:Noe Valley Metting Room\, 451 Jersey St\, San Francisco\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Rush
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Rush discusses her new book\, Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore. \n\nPraise for Rising \n\n“Sea level rise is not some distant problem in a distant place. As Elizabeth Rush shows\, it’s affecting real people right now. Rising is a compelling piece of reporting\, by turns bleak and beautiful.”―Elizabeth Kolbert\, author of The Sixth Extinction \n\n“A smart\, lyrical testament to change and uncertainty. Elizabeth Rush listens to both the vulnerability and resiliency of communities facing the shifting shorelines of extreme weather. These are the stories we need to hear in order to survive and live more consciously with a sharp-edged determination to face our future with empathy and resolve. Rising illustrates how climate change is a relentless truth and real people in real places know it by name\, storm by flood by fire.”―Terry Tempest Williams\, author of The Hour of Land \n\n“A strange new kind of travel guide\, Rising is a journey through the turbulent forefront of climate change―the coastal communities\, rich and poor\, human and nonhuman\, that are already feeling the first effects of our rising seas. Elizabeth Rush sets out to put a face on a subject that is all too often depicted in abstract graphs and statistics\, and gives us a group portrait of the men and women who are fighting\, fleeing\, and adapting to the terrible disappearance of the land they live on.”―Charles C. Mann\, author of 1491 \n\n“In this moving and memorable book\, the voice of the author mingles with the voices of people in coastal communities all over the country―Maine\, Rhode Island\, Louisiana\, Florida\, New York\, California―to offer testimony: The water is rising. Some have already lost their homes; some will lose them soon; others are studying or watching or grieving. Though they haven’t met each other\, their commonality forms a circle into which we are inexorably pulled by Elizabeth Rush’s powerful words.”―Anne Fadiman\, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down \n\nAbout Rising \n\nHarvey. Maria. Irma. Sandy. Katrina. We live in a time of unprecedented hurricanes and catastrophic weather events\, a time when it is increasingly clear that climate change is neither imagined nor distant―and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways. \nIn this highly original work of lyrical reportage\, Elizabeth Rush guides readers through some of the places where this change has been most dramatic\, from the Gulf Coast to Miami\, and from New York City to the Bay Area. For many of the plants\, animals\, and humans in these places\, the options are stark: retreat or perish in place. Weaving firsthand accounts from those facing this choice―a Staten Islander who lost her father during Sandy\, the remaining holdouts of a Native American community on a drowning Isle de Jean Charles\, a neighborhood in Pensacola settled by escaped slaves hundreds of years ago―with profiles of wildlife biologists\, activists\, and other members of the communities both currently at risk and already displaced\, Rising privileges the voices of those usually kept at the margins. \nAt once polyphonic and precise\, Rising is a shimmering meditation on vulnerability and on vulnerable communities\, both human and more than human\, and on how to let go of the places we love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-rush/
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:Launch for Heather June Gibbons / Her Mouth as Souvenir
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the launch event for Heather June Gibbons‘ Her Mouth as Souvenir\, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize. More information to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \n  \nIn a startling voice propelled by desire and desperation on the verge of laughter\, these poems leap from the mundane to the sublime\, from begging to bravado\, from despair to reverie\, revealing the power that comes from hanging on by a thread. Poet Heather June Gibbons conjures belief in the absence of faith\, loneliness in the digital age\, beauty in the face of absurdity —all through the cataract of her sunglasses’ cracked lens. In this debut collection\, we are shown a world so turbulent\, anxious\, and beautiful\, we know it must be ours. Under pressure\, these poems sing. Includes a fore-word by Jericho Brown. \n  \n  \nFrom the poem “Bobby Reads Chekhov”: \n  \nThey say if you’re sad\, you haven’t been\nsmiling enough. Want to make better decisions?\nEat more cheese. Perception is reality\,\nmy horrible boss used to say when I’d try\nto explain anything she couldn’t see\,\nthough maybe she was right. Can we know\nreality any other way? The painter saw\npurple in the trees\, so he painted them purple.\nLeaving the gallery\, we see purple everywhere.\nStudies have shown meditation makes\nbrain waves akin to coma. Is that so\,\nyou say\, fingering your tiny screen. \n  \n\n  \n“Not since Josh Bell’s No Planets Strike have I encountered an emerging poet’s book that took the top of my head off with as sure a slice as Heather June Gibbon’s Her Mouth as Souvenir. Her language is wicked\, syncopated and full of canny stings\, with a quality of idiosyncratic consciousness that’s ut-terly contemporary. This is a singular collection\, serving notice that Gibbons is a force with whom poetry readers will be thrilled to reckon.” – Erin Belieu\, author of Six Slant and Black Box  \n  \n“Part garage-rock\, part requiem\, part power ballad\, Gibbons’ book is a whirl-ing ‘study in loss.’ These pulsing poems sing\, shout\, and interrogate everything from desire to the digital age to a Mid-western waterpark\, while luring us into their restless beauty\, fervor and humor. Her Mouth as Souvenir is both torch and torch singer as it shines its light into our mouths\, illuminating us.”  – Simone Muench\, author of Wolf Centos  \n  \n\n  \nHeather June Gibbons was born in Utah and grew up on an island in Washington state. She is the author of the poetry collection Her Mouth as Souvenir\, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize and forthcoming from the University of Utah Press. She is also the author of two chapbooks\, Sore Songs (Dancing Girl Press)\, and Flyover(Q Avenue Press). Her poems have appeared widely in literary journals\, including Blackbird\, Boston Review\, Drunken Boat\, Gulf Coast\, Indiana Review\, jubilat\, New American Writing\, and West Branch. She received an MFA in Poetry from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where she held a Callen Graduate Scholarship\, and she has been the recipient of a Full Fellowship Residency from the Vermont Studio Center\, the Pavel Strut Poetry Fellowship from the Prague Summer Program\, the Agha Shahid Ali Scholarship from the Fine Arts Work Center\, and the Harold Taylor Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Heather teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University\, and in the community as a Teaching Artist for Performing Arts Workshop\, a youth education non-profit. She lives in San Francisco. \n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery at 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-heather-june-gibbons-her-mouth-as-souvenir/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kelli Maria Korducki discusses her new book Hard To Do: The Surprising Feminist History of Breaking Up
DESCRIPTION:About Hard To Do \n\nFrom Jane Austen to Taylor Swift\, a look at the surprising politics of romantic love and its dissolution. \n  \nWhatever the underlying motives – be they love\, financial security\, or mere masochism – the fact is that getting involved in a romantic partnership is emotionally\, morally\, and even politically fraught. \n  \nIn Hard To Do\, Kelli María Korducki turns a Marxist lens on the relatively short history of romantic partnership\, tracing how the socio-economic dynamics between men and women have transformed the ways women conceive of domestic partnership. With perceptive\, reported insights on the ways marriage and divorce are legislated\, the rituals of twentieth-century courtship\, and contemporary practices for calling it off\, Korducki reveals that\, for all women\, choosing to end a relationship is a radical action with very limited cultural precedent.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kelli-maria-korducki-discusses-her-new-book-hard-to-do-the-surprising-feminist-history-of-breaking-up/
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:Launch for Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl / Rad Girls Can
DESCRIPTION:Join feminist artists and activists Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl—the Bay Area duo behind the New York Timesbest-selling books Rad Women Worldwide and Rad American Women A-Z\, for the San Francisco launch of their third bookRad Girls Can. “This is a celebration of and a thank you to every girl who has have ever stood up\, spoken out\, taken a chance\, tried something new\, or followed a dream\,” they write in the introduction of their latest collaboration. The book features fifty rad girls from around the world\, who have done something to make the world a better place. Sabrina Moyle\, the co-author of Be the Change: The Future is in Your Hands and co-founder of Hello!Lucky\, will lead a discussion with Kate and Miriam about their activism\, love of reading\, writing and drawing\, and we will end this interactive evening with storytelling\, artwork\, activism and creativity! \n  \nAs Kate and Miriam embark on a national book tour this summer and fall\, they will use gatherings like these in bookshops around the country to inspire more radness and activism in the world. \n  \nAll big people and little people are welcome. Voter registration forms will be available. #radgirlscan #bethechangebook \n  \n\n  \nKate Schatz is a feminist writer\, activist\, and educator. She is the author of the New York Times best sellers Rad American Women A-Z and Rad Women Worldwide\, and the accompanying journal\, My Rad Life. Kate is the co-founder of Solidarity Sundays\, a nationwide network of feminist activist groups\, and she speaks often about politics\, resistance\, feminism\, race\, parenting\, and more. \n  \n  \nMiriam Klein Stahl is a Bay Area artist\, educator and activist and the New York Times-bestselling illustrator of Rad American Women A-Z and Rad Women Worldwide. In addition to her work in printmaking\, drawing\, sculpture\, paper-cut and public art\, she is also the co-founder of the Arts and Humanities Academy at Berkeley High School where she’s taught since 1995. As an artist\, she follows in a tradition of making socially relevant work\, creating portraits of political activists\, misfits\, radicals and radical movements. As an educator\, she has dedicated her teaching practice to address equity through the lens of the arts. Her work has been widely exhibited and reproduced internationally. She lives in Berkeley\, California with her wife\, artist Lena Wolff\, daughter Hazel\, and their dog Lenny. \n  \n\n  \nThis event is free and all ages. RSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-kate-schatz-and-miriam-klein-stahl-rad-girls-can/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit: Love Is The Drug
DESCRIPTION:Red Light Lit is releasing its first poetry anthology\, Love Is The Drug & Other Dark Poems💜Featured readers include: Cassandra Dallett\, Miah Jeffra\, Tomas Moniz\, Christine No\, Sarah Bethe Nelson\, Riss Rosado\, Tara Rose\, Kristina Sergeevna Ten\, and Amos White. David Williams will play a live musical score with musical guests Jeremi Rebecca Hush and Paige Michele Sargent. \nTickets are $10 in advance. $15 at the door. Link for ticketing will be up ASAP. \nADVANCE PRAISE OF THE ANTHOLOGY: \n“Love Is the Drug is so shimmering and personal. These little moments when we achieve\, with the aid of another\, some kind of sublime\, and time and space sort of dissolve and we’re right where it feels we’re meant to live—those little moments are quick sparkles\, these efforts to pin them down in poetry feel as sweaty and muscular\, as desperate and full of passion\, as the sex itself. Each one a little flare\, a little death\, an I was here.”\n—MICHELLE TEA\, author of Against Memoir and Black Wave
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-love-is-the-drug/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's 'Transformed'
DESCRIPTION:The Award-winning Bawdy Storytelling Podcast is based on our revered sex and storytelling stage series – which has been the measuring stick for storytelling for nearly 12 Years now. Nothing rivals being at a live Bawdy: making new friends through Bang-O\, watching the storytellers walk that tightrope to land a standing ovation\,\, drinks\, camaraderie with other open-minded\, sex-positive people\, and winning pervy grand prizes! #BawdyGetsYouLaid \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThursday\, June 21st\, 2018 \nat the Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa Street\, San Francisco CA \nTickets at https://bawdyjackpotsf.eventbrite.com \nRemember: Bang-O & Games at 7 PM\, Stories at 8 PM \nWant a sample? Listen to our podcast at \nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis evening of ‘Yeah\, We go there’ stories & songs includes: \n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist & Storyteller Dixie De La Tour \n❤ YOU? Pitch your story to Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com by 6/29 \n❤ Play Bang-O\, Bawdy’s beloved icebreaker \n❤ WIN Prizes\, just for talking to sexy strangers \n❤ Lube Giveaways from UberLube & Good Clean Love \n❤ Condom Giveaways from Lucky Bloke \n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #SchlongIslandIcedTea \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! \nA REVIEW of Bawdy Storytelling : “Stories are powerful. No other medium has the ability to move\, inspire\, or change us quite like a well-crafted narrative. Never has this been more true than the world of sex\, where fear\, shame\, and misinformation abound. This is all a high-minded and roundabout way of telling you to check out Thursday’s edition of Bawdy Storytelling\, a rousing and arousing night of true sex stories that promises to make you laugh\, make you think\, and make you hard … pressed to find a more interesting thing to do on a Thursday night.” – SF Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nNamed #1 on Marie Claire’s 14 Best Sex Podcasts: \nhttps://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/news/a21284/best-sex-podcasts/ \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nNamed 1 of Uproxx’s 10 Best Sex Podcasts to listen to right now: \nhttps://uproxx.com/life/best-sex-podcasts-right-now/ \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nVoted 1 of Esquire’s 10 Best Sex Podcasts\, no matter your taste: \nhttps://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/sex/a46389/best-sex-podcasts \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nPerformer Bios: \n❤ Dixie De La Tour is a Sexual Folklorist\, storyteller\, entrepreneur\, teacher\, catalyst\, coach\, community builder\, facilitator\, & instigator (& that’s just for starters). She is the founder\, curator & host of the award-winning sex and storytelling series\, Bawdy Storytelling (“The nation’s original sex and storytelling series” – Playgirl\, “The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly) \nCalled “a stiff shot of courage in a push-up bra”\, Dixie is passionate about storytelling’s power to connect strangers. A former sex party producer & adult dating site community manager\, she founded Bawdy Storytelling\, a multi-city brand of sex-positive self advocacy that’s changing the world and making our relationships more authentic and accessible. Dixie has presented and hosted at Yale Sex Week\, Kink.com’s Bondage Awards\, the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco’s series ‘Uninhibited: About Sex’\, CatalystCon Sexuality Conference\, Dark Odyssey kink conferences\, FetFest kink events\, and more\, as well as her home turf of the Bawdy Mainstage\, Bona Fide Storytelling and BawdySlam shows. \nAs a storyteller\, Dixie’s stories can been heard on the Risk! podcast and her own Bawdy Storytelling podcast (which was selected by both Esquire.com & Uproxx as a top 5 ‘Best Sex Podcast’) Ping her (she likes that) at @Bawdy\, facebook.com/DixieDeLaTour & at www.BawdyStorytelling.com \nNo refunds or exchanges. Lineup subject to change. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThe Original Sex + Storytelling series\, featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits\, Live Onstage \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & 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•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com \nTwitter: @Bawdy \n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-transformed/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Release party for "the World has a Timestamp\, and so do I" by Ash Tre` Philips
DESCRIPTION:Release party for “the World has a Timestamp\, and so do I” by Ash Tre` Philips
URL:https://litseen.com/event/release-party-for-the-world-has-a-timestamp-and-so-do-i-by-ash-tre-philips/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Pop-up Zine-fest & Reading
DESCRIPTION:SF Zine-fest hosts hosts a pop up in the back gallery featuring work from local artists\, writers and zine-makers \n  \nReading at 7 (readers TBA)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pop-up-zine-fest-reading/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mark Leidner (Tyrant Books) West Coast Book Release + Pinball Party
DESCRIPTION:PINBALL. BOOZE. LIT. \nA brief reading and free party from TYRANT BOOKS to drop-kick UNDER THE SEA\, a new book by Mark Leidner\, out into the world. \nFacebook Event Page (RSVP appreciated): \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/407447059759501 \nAMANDA NADELBERG (author of fun and mesmerizing poetry collections SONGS FROM A MOUNTAIN and BRIGHT BRAVE PHENOMENA) will read some micro poems | amandanadelberg.com \nNick Mamatas (author of many sardonic\, macabre\, and genre-bending books) will read from MIXED UP\, a hybrid cocktail recipe/flash fiction book co-edited with Molly Tanzer | https://www.amazon.com/Mixed-Up-Cocktail-Recipes-Discerning/dp/1510718036 \nMark Leidner will read from UNDER THE SEA | https://nytyrant.com/products/under-the-sea-by-mark-leidner \nERIC RAYMOND (author of the novel CONFESSIONS FROM A DARK WOOD and ranked International Flipper Pinball Association member) will host and MC | ericraymond.com \nBYOB + some premium beverages and snacks provided + books will be for sale.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mark-leidner-tyrant-books-west-coast-book-release-pinball-party/
LOCATION:Free Gold Watch\, 1767 Waller Street\, San Francisco\, 94117
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eric Raymond":MAILTO:eric@ericraymond.com
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SUMMARY:Paul Park & Terry Bisson\, with guest moderator Cliff Winnig
DESCRIPTION:Doors open: 6:00pm\nEvent starts: 6:30pm \nThe American Bookbinders Museum\n355 Clementina\nSan Francisco\, CA \nBooks for sale via Borderlands Books \nThe SF in SF podcast is provided by SOMA FM
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-park-terry-bisson-with-guest-moderator-cliff-winnig/
LOCATION:The American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:LaborFest 2018 Dying to Work: Death and Injury in the American Workplace
DESCRIPTION:Writer and labor lawyer Jonathan Karmel has written Dying to Work: Death and Injury in the American Workplace\, about the cost to workers and their families of the lack of health and safety protection on the job. He visits workers and gets their stories on the deaths and permanent injuries that have destroyed their lives. He also looks at the complete failure of the workers compensation system\, which has been taken over by the employers and insurance industry. This means that seriously injured workers are being left out in the cold\, ending up permanently disabled by the obstacles and roadblocks placed by insurance companies and a worker comp system now run by profiteers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laborfest-2018-dying-to-work-death-and-injury-in-the-american-workplace/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:THE RACKET! #21 Nature
DESCRIPTION:It’s summer time and instead of throwing on a banana hammock and crisping our flesh to a chestnut glow\, we’re going to get a bunch of writers together in a small\, dark\, musty room and talk about NATURE. It’s the same thing right? \nhttps://www.facebook.com/theracketseries/ \nHosted by Noah B. Sanders
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-21-nature/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Generations #59
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nThe Bindery hosts the 59th installment of Bay Area Generations. More info TBA soon — for now\, save the date! \n\nThis month’s Guest Curator is Kathleen McClung. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n\nThere is a $10 suggested donation\, which includes a chapbook. *No one turned away for lack of funds.* \n\nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n\nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-59/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rachel Heng and Ingrid Rojas Contreras
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Heng discusses her new novel\, Suicide Club with Ingrid Rojas Contreras. \n\nPraise for Suicide Club \n\n“How can such a young writer know all these things? Rachel Heng’s first novel is as keen as a sharpened blade. SUICIDE CLUB is on the money about where our current obsessions are leading us and yet she makes us care about her characters in deep and old-fashioned ways. It reminded me again and again of Orwell and Huxley. I have the feeling that this is the beginning of a long and illustrious career.”―James Magnuson \n\n“I happily lost a whole weekend to SUICIDE CLUB. This life-affirming book about death lingers long after the last page. ‘Be careful what you wish for’ has never been so chilling\, or so gripping.” ―Erin Kelly\, author of He Said/She Said \n  \n“SUICIDE CLUB bends genre with grace and artistry\, delivering us to the outermost reaches of what’s familiar and affirming what dares to still exist there: family\, friendship\, and forgiveness. With superb writing\, Rachel Heng has crafted a world inside of a world gone mad\, one where love faces its most difficult test. This is an exciting\, bold\, inventive novel.” ―Kristen Iskandrian\, author of Motherest \n\n“The future is here. Let’s welcome one of its stars. Talented and ferociously intelligent\, Heng has produced a glittering debut.” ―Joanna Briscoe\, author of You \n\nAbout Suicide Club \n\nIn Rachel Heng’s debut set in near future New York City―where lives last three hundred years and the pursuit of immortality is all-consuming―Lea must choose between her estranged father and her chance to live forever. \nLea Kirino is a “Lifer\,” which means that a roll of the genetic dice has given her the potential to live forever―if she does everything right. And Lea is an overachiever. She’s a successful trader on the New York exchange―where instead of stocks\, human organs are now bought and sold―she has a beautiful apartment\, and a fiancé who rivals her in genetic perfection. And with the right balance of HealthTech™\, rigorous juicing\, and low-impact exercise\, she might never die. \n  \nBut Lea’s perfect life is turned upside down when she spots her estranged father on a crowded sidewalk. His return marks the beginning of her downfall as she is drawn into his mysterious world of the Suicide Club\, a network of powerful individuals and rebels who reject society’s pursuit of immortality\, and instead choose to live―and die―on their own terms. In this future world\, death is not only taboo; it’s also highly illegal. Soon Lea is forced to choose between a sanitized immortal existence and a short\, bittersweet time with a man she has never really known\, but who is the only family she has left in the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-heng-and-ingrid-rojas-contreras/
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:On Doing Nothing by Roman Muradov
DESCRIPTION:On Doing Nothing by Roman Muradov \nIn an age of obsessive productivity and stress\, this illustrated ode to idleness invites readers to explore the pleasures and possibilities of slowing down. Beloved author and illustrator Roman Muradovweaves together the words and stories of artists\, writers\, philosophers\, and eccentrics who have pursued inspiration by doing less. He reveals that doing nothing is both easily achievable and absolutely essential to leading an enjoyable and creative life. Cultivating idleness can be as simple as taking a long walk without a destination or embracing chance in the creative process. Peppered with playful illustrations\, this handsome volume is a refreshing and thought-provoking read. \nRoman Muradov is an award-winning author and illustrator\, originally from Russia\, now living in San Francisco\, where he is a professor at California College of the Arts. His work has appeared in numerous publications including the New Yorker\, the New York Times\, The Paris Review\, Vogue\, and Lucky Peach\, and he is the recipient of the prestigious Art Directors Club Young Guns award and two medals from the Society of Illustrators. His previous books include the graphic novels (In a Sense) Lost & Found\, Jacob Bladders and the State of the Art\, The End of a Fence\, and Aujourd’hui Demain Hier. He also designed the Penguin Classics Centennial Editions of James Joyce’s Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. He has a penchant for long\, aimless walks and an imaginary dog named Barchibald. \n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRoman Muradov
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-doing-nothing-by-roman-muradov/
LOCATION:Mechanics Institute\, 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Matthew Zapruder: My Favorite Book
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nTuesday\, July 24\, 2018 – 6 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nMain Library\, 100 Larkin St. San Francisco\, CA 94102\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nSMC professor Matthew Zapruder will read in the Koret Auditorium at the San Francisco Public Library as part of SF Grotto’s live podcast series.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matthew-zapruder-my-favorite-book/
LOCATION:Koret Auditorium\, San Francisco Main Library\, 100 Larkin Avenune\, SAN FRANCISCO\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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SUMMARY:Open Books: Cara Black
DESCRIPTION:Join us when Cara Black reads from her new Aimée Leduc novel Murder on the Left Bank.  In this novel a confession fifty years in the making puts Aimée on a collision course with the Black Hand\, a cabal of corrupt Parisian cops.  When a friend’s child is kidnapped while wearing her daughter’s hoodie\, Aimée realizes that the case has crossed into the realm of the personal in more ways than one. \nA book sale by the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library follows the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/open-books-cara-black/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, Main Branch\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer Plus Reading "Nick White & Friends"
DESCRIPTION:Mississippi-born author Nick White is visiting San Francisco on his book tour. He’ll be reading with friends Lucy Jane Bledsoe\, Dave Madden\, and Hilary Zaid at a Perfectly Queer Plus reading at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. on Tuesday\, July 24\, from 7pm to 8pm. Nick will read from his short story collection\, Sweet & Low. Free admission\, free refreshments\, and sweet door prizes. Book signing follows the readings. \nHere’s more about the authors:\nLucy Jane Bledsoe will read from her new novel\, The Evolution of Love. She is the author of six novels\, including The Evolution of Love and A Thin Bright Line. Her fiction has won a California Arts Council Fellowship in Literature\, an American Library Association Stonewall Award\, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize\, a Pushcart nomination\, a Yaddo Fellowship\, and two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships. Her story collection\, Lava Falls\, is forthcoming this fall. Bledsoe lives in the Bay Area\, where she spends as much time as possible kayaking in the bay\, as well as hiking and cycling in the hills. \nDave Madden is the author of the story collection\, If You Need Me I’ll Be Over There\, and a nonfiction book on taxidermy. He’ll read from the story collection. Dave has been a fellow at the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences\, as well as the MacDowell Colony. He currently directs the MFA program at the University of San Francisco. \nNick White is the author of the novel How to Survive a Summer and the just-released short-story collection Sweet and Low. He is an Assistant Professor of English at The Ohio State University’s MFA Program in Creative Writing. His stories\, poems\, and essays have appeared in a variety of places\, including The Kenyon Review\, Guernica\, The Hopkins Review\, Indiana Review\,The Literary Review\, and Lit Hub. \nHilary Zaid will read from her recent novel Paper Is White\, about which Alexander Chee\, author of Queen of the Night and How to Write an Autobiographical Novel\, has said: “Written across histories as seemingly varied as Lithuania’s Jewish Kovno Ghetto and Queer Nation San Francisco\, Paper Is White connects them in a very different sort of adventure novel\, where remembering someone you love becomes one of the most radical things you can do.” Hilary was 2017 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and is an alumna of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and the Tin House Writers’ Workshop.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-plus-reading-nick-white-friends/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Perfectly Queer SF":MAILTO:perfectlyqueersf@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Inside Raymond Chandler's Creation of The Big Sleep - Reading
DESCRIPTION:The first fully annotated edition of Raymond Chandler’s 1939 classic The Big Sleep features hundreds of illuminating notes and images alongside the full text of the novel and is an essential addition to any crime fiction fan’s library.\n\n“Nothing\, even a book as singular and archetypal as The Big Sleep\, comes from nowhere. What a gift\, to see in part how Chandler made it. Under just three names\, these annotators number among them two poets\, an archivist and literary scholar\, a gifted crime novelist\, and three sleuths; reading it conveys the vicarious thrill of their innumerable discoveries. Chandler lucked out.”  Jonathan Lethem\, from the forward \nThe three annotators will talk and read: \nOWEN HILL is the author of two mystery novels\, a book of short fiction\, and several books of poetry. He has reviewed crime novels for the Los Angeles Times and the East Bay Express. In 2005 he was awarded the Howard Moss residency for poetry at Yaddo. He is currently coediting the Berkeley Noir anthology\, forthcoming in 2020. \nPAMELA JACKSON is an editor\, scholar\, and librarian specializing in California literary and cultural history. She holds a PhD from UC Berkeley and an MLIS from UCLA and was coeditor\, with Jonathan Lethem\, of The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick. \nANTHONY DEAN RIZZUTO is a professor of English at Sonoma State University\, where he teaches (among other things) California ethnic literature and hard-boiled fiction. He is also a bookseller at Moe’s Books in Berkeley. He received his PhD from the University of Virginia.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/inside-raymond-chandlers-creation-of-the-big-sleep-reading/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180724T210000
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SUMMARY:SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB MEETING
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lively discussion about \n“Hasta no verte Jesus Mio” by Elena Poniatowska \nTo join the book group please contact iranyi@me.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spanish-language-book-club-meeting-2/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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