BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Litseen - ECPv6.15.11//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://litseen.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Litseen REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200117T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200117T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T140315 CREATED:20191219T071724Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191219T071724Z UID:54338-1579287600-1579293000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal Vo. 35 DESCRIPTION:featuring \nK.R. MORRISON \nMore details and readers to be announced… URL:https://litseen.com/event/haight-ashbury-literary-journal-vo-35/ LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/k-r-morrison.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200117T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200117T210000 DTSTAMP:20260414T140315 CREATED:20200115T180814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200115T180814Z UID:54865-1579287600-1579294800@litseen.com SUMMARY:"SoMa Lurk" Book Release DESCRIPTION:a reading in support of “SoMa Lurk” a collection of poems and photos by José Vadi\, published by Project Kalahati. Readings by Sarah O’Neal\, Tongo Eisen-Martin and José Vadi URL:https://litseen.com/event/soma-lurk-book-release/ LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/SoMa-Lurk-Alley-Cat-Flyer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200118T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200118T220000 DTSTAMP:20260414T140315 CREATED:20191125T225035Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191125T225035Z UID:54179-1579375800-1579384800@litseen.com SUMMARY:SFJAZZ Presents The Just and the Blind with Marc Bamuthi Joseph & More DESCRIPTION:Longtime collaborators composer-violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain and spoken-word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph are joined by street dance pioneer Drew Dollaz and electrifying vocalist Lalin St. Juste in The Just and the Blind\, commissioned by Carnegie Hall. \nFramed by visually striking photography and animation projections\, the multimedia work explores racial profiling and the prison-industrial complex in a series of short vignettes that include music\, dance\, and spoken word. \nConceived and written by Marc Bamuthi Joseph\nOriginal musical score by Daniel Bernard Roumain\nDirected by Michael John Garcés \nArtists:\nMarc Bamuthi Joseph\, Spoken Word\nDaniel Bernard Roumain\, Violin/Piano/Electronics\nDrew Dollaz\, Choreographer/Dancer\nLalin St. Juste\, Vocalist \nDavid Szlasa\, Projection Designer\nXia Gordon\, Animator\nBrittsense\, Photographer\nLisa Armstrong\, Journalist \nRika Iino\, Producer\nMelissa Higgins\, Producer \nThe Just and the Blind was commissioned by Carnegie Hall and presented as part of the 2019 Create Justice Forum. URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfjazz-presents-the-just-and-the-blind-with-marc-bamuthi-joseph-more/ LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/s8_hero_thejustandblind.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200118T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200119T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T140315 CREATED:20191120T052807Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191120T052807Z UID:53905-1579379400-1579465800@litseen.com SUMMARY:You're Going to Die presents: A 10 Year Anniversary Event DESCRIPTION:Sat\, Jan 18\, 20208:30 PM  Sun\, Jan 19\, 20201:00 AM\nThe Indepedent (map)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou’re Going to Die Presents:\na YG2D 10th ANNIVERSARY EVENT!!!!\nfeaturing\nWhiskerman\n& more TBA soooooon…. \nDoors at 8:30pm\nShow at 9pm\nEnds after midnight\n@\nThe Independent\n628 Divisadero St.\nSan Francisco\, CA 94117\n21 & over\n$18 ADV – $20 DOOR\nTICKETS ONSALE 10/11 @ 10am: http://bit.ly/2LJflnF \nFor its 10 Year Anniversary Celebration\, You’re Going to Die offers a mortally conscious & enliveningly entertaining experience\, proudly presenting great artists as they deserve to be presented: in the concert context of acknowledging their musical mortal magic… & in one of our favorite venues in San Francisco! \nWhiskerman is preparing to release their fourth studio album\, Kingdom Illusion–a rock & roll vision quest that ushers the band’s elegiac psychedelia towards a louder\, pushier\, more colorful sound. Their past albums have been described as “ecstatic psychedelia\, sturdily constructed pop-rock\, pick-and-grin folk all together as a single picture.”\n“High-energy roots rock set with notes of soul\, psychedelic and folk.” – KQED\n“Ecstatic psychedelia\, sturdily constructed pop-rock\, pick-and-grin folk. ” – FLOOD Magazine\nCheck out more @ https://www.whiskerman.com/ \n& MORE TBA soooooon!!! URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-presents-a-10-year-anniversary-event/ LOCATION:The Independent\, 628 Divisadero St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/YG2D-WHISKERMAN.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="You're Going to Die":MAILTO:ned@yg2d.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200121T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200121T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T140315 CREATED:20191124T193242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T193242Z UID:54053-1579633200-1579638600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Gibby Haynes / Me and Mr. Cigar DESCRIPTION:reading from his new novel \nMe and Mr. Cigar \npublished by Soho Press \nFrom the wild and wonderful mind of Gibby Haynes—world famous Butthole Surfers front man/lyricist and self-proclaimed eternal Texan adolescent—comes the surreal tale of seventeen-year-old Oscar Lester and his trusted dog\, Mr. Cigar. \nOscar and his dog have made a pretty good life for themselves\, despite the fact that Oscar’s family has all but vanished—his father is dead; his mother has a new boyfriend. His older sister\, Rachel\, fled five years ago…right after Mr. Cigar bit off her hand. \nDespite the freak accident\, Oscar knows his dog is no menace. Mr. Cigar is a loyal protector: a supernatural creature that can exact revenge\, communicate telepathically\, and manipulate car doors and windows with ease. So\, when Rachel—now twenty-two and an artist living in New York—calls out of the blue and claims she’s being held hostage\, Oscar sees an opportunity to make things right between them. \nHe races north\, intent on both saving Rachel and fleeing the mysterious evil forces targeting his dog. And it’s only by embarking on this dual quest that Oscar starts to untangle his own life and understand the bizarre reality of Mr. Cigar. \n*Features original artwork by Gibby Haynes as full color endpapers and illustrations throughout the book. \nGibby Haynes is a musician\, visual artist\, writer\, and filmmaker best known as a founding member of the Butthole Surfers\, whose outrageous concerts spawned a global cult following and whose albums have sold millions worldwide. He lives in Brooklyn with his family. Me & Mr. Cigar is his first novel. URL:https://litseen.com/event/gibby-haynes-me-and-mr-cigar/ LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/gibby.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200122T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200122T170000 DTSTAMP:20260414T140315 CREATED:20200123T071448Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200123T071448Z UID:54959-1579680000-1579712400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Black Love Night of Poetry and Poetry Workshop! DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first Black Love of 2020! Join us for a chill night of poetry from Queer Black Artists part of QTPOC at Strut!\nAnd a free poetry workshop lead by Tanea Lunsford Lynx! \nThis show is free. Free drinks and non alcoholic beverages will be provided! \nPOETRY WORKSHOP from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM\nBLACK LOVE POETRY SHOW from 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM! \nPoetry show Hosted by SevanKelee Boult!\nWith Literary Performances from\nLauren Wheeler!\nLisa Evans!\nand Tanea Lunsford Lynx! \nPLUS A SPECIAL APPEARANCE BY Freddie!! \nmore info coming soon! \nQTPOC at Strut is every Thursday at Strut on the third floor we focus our programming\, testing\, and services to the queer and trans people of color communities.\nSexual Health Services and PrEP Enrollments from 5pm-6:30pm.\nPoetry Workshop at 6:30 PM\nBlack Love poetry performances at 7:30 PM \nPOETRY WORKSHOP\nHave you ever wanted to write poetry? Want to take a shot at it\, join us for this beginners poetry workshop lead by Tanea Lunsford Lynx! \nQuestions please email our Community Events Manager Baruch Porras Hernandez\, baruch@sfaf.org or Text QTPOC to 474747 \nACCESSIBILITY\nThere are no stairs to enter the lobby level at Strut from the street level. The building has three floors\, and there is a stairwell with handrails and a wheelchair accessible elevator. There are 26 steps from the lobby to the 2nd floor and 48 steps from the lobby to the 3rd floor. \nPlease note\, this event will be photographed and possibly filmed. URL:https://litseen.com/event/black-love-night-of-poetry-and-poetry-workshop/ LOCATION:Strut\, 470 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/QTPOC-at-Strut.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Strut":MAILTO:info@sfaf.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200122T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200122T210000 DTSTAMP:20260414T140315 CREATED:20200115T180709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200115T180709Z UID:54841-1579716000-1579726800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Bikes to Books Winter Beer Social DESCRIPTION:Join Nicole Gluckstern and Burrito Justice\, the creators of literary bicycle tour “Bikes to Books\,” for an evening of socializing\, beer drinking\, and map chat—the first of a series of “Bikes to Books” events and meetups planned for 2020. Bicyclists\, book-ists\, beer-ists\, urbanists\, history buffs\, transit nerds\, and (honestly) anyone else are welcome! \nBegun as an homage to the 1988 naming of 12 streets for artists and authors who’d once called San Francisco their home\, this collaboration between arts journalist and event organizer\, Nicole Gluckstern\, and amateur historian and professional map-maker\, Burrito Justice\, has grown into a beloved community organization with a whole season of free events. Help us kick off our seventh season with this lo-key beer social at one of our fave neighborhood bars. No bikes required! \n21+ only (sorry kiddos). URL:https://litseen.com/event/bikes-to-books-winter-beer-social/ LOCATION:Bender’s Bar and Grill\, 806 So. Van Ness Avenue\, San Francisco\, 94110 CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/BikesToBooks_GroupPhoto_credit_NicoleGluckstern_web.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Bikes to Books":MAILTO:bikes2books@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200122T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200122T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T140315 CREATED:20191124T193133Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T193133Z UID:54050-1579719600-1579725000@litseen.com SUMMARY:David Talbot / Between Heaven and Hell DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed writer\, bestselling author\, and founder of Salon magazine\, David Talbot has brought us masterful and explosive headline-breaking stories for over 25 years with books like the New York Times bestsellers Brothers\, The Devil’s Chessboard\, and nationally recognized Season of the Witch. Now for the first time\, journalist and historian David Talbot turns inward in this intimate journey through the life-changing year following his stroke\, a year that turned his life upside down\, and ultimately\, saved him. \nIn his signature voice and with powerful storytelling\, Talbot examines the physical\, emotional\, and psychological impact his stroke has had on his identity. Along the way Talbot offers readers insider stories on the wild early days of Internet journalism\, insights into the new tech culture\, the down and dirty of Hollywood\, and much more. This is an illuminating\, often humorous\, portrait of how a health crisis can truly shift one’s perspective on life and purpose. URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-talbot-between-heaven-and-hell/ LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/BetwnHeavenHell.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200123T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200123T210000 DTSTAMP:20260414T140315 CREATED:20191124T215628Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T215628Z UID:54161-1579806000-1579813200@litseen.com SUMMARY:On Ecology and Spirituality DESCRIPTION:Throughout history\, seekers\, shamans\, and mystics have found spiritual inspiration in the natural world – in wild places at the margins of human culture. Indigenous\, Native\, and Aboriginal groups that have long identified immanent\, animate power in plants\, animals\, and abiotic features of the landscape such as rivers\, rocks\, and cliffs. \nIn the 21st century\, it is essential to reweave and reinvigorate spiritual connections with the landscape. Spiritual ecology encompasses the internal\, subjective\, emotional\, mystical or religious connections between humans and the rest of planetary life. Through experiences in nature\, people reconnect with that which is most essential\, most alive\, and most sustaining in their intimate connections with other beings\, Earth\, and the cosmos. This reconnection is as essential for sustaining life on an increasingly degraded planet\, as it is for full human flourishing. \nJoin CIIS Associate Professor of Ecology and Religion\, Elizabeth Allison for an exploration into spiritual ecology. Discover how deepening our relationship with the natural world helps us thrive. URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-ecology-and-spirituality/ LOCATION:CIIS Public Programs\, 1453 Mission St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/On-Ecology-and-Spirituality.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200123T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200123T210000 DTSTAMP:20260414T140315 CREATED:20191205T154420Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191205T154420Z UID:54201-1579807800-1579813200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Tom Lutz: Born Slippy DESCRIPTION:Tom Lutz discusses his new novel\, Born Slippy. \nPraise for Born Slippy \n“A highly literary and always engaging 21st century noir… Born Slippy confronts contemporary questions about the relativity of evil that no one can dodge.”— Chris Kraus\, author of I Love Dick and After Kathy Acker. \n“Lutz has the seven deadly sins nailed and rethought for our 2020 world. You’ve got to dig this book!” — James Ellroy \n“What a pleasure\, to sink under the comedic spell of Tom Lutz’s debut novel! The perfect book for a dreary day– a gleeful\, twisty tale of an unlikely friendship. Its antagonist young bloviating Dmitry Heald\, with his wild schemes and hair-raising tales\, is the guy you can’t trust to go to the market\, while the older Frank\, his boss\, is a man who should know better\, and yet can’t resist. Infinitely entertaining. I’d put it on the shelf between Tom Robbins and Martin Amis\, if a place can be cleared there.” — Janet Fitch\, author of The Revolution of Marina M. and Chimes of a Lost Cathedral \nAbout Born Slippy \nA globetrotting novel about the seductions of and resistance to toxic masculinity. \n“Frank knew as well as anyone how stories start and how they end. This fiery mess\, or something like it\, was bound to happen. He had been expecting it for years.” \nFrank Baltimore is a bit of a loser\, struggling by as a carpenter and handyman in rural New England when he gets his big break\, building a mansion in the executive suburbs of Hartford. One of his workers is a charismatic eighteen-year-old kid from Liverpool\, Dmitry\, in the US in the summer before university. Dmitry is a charming sociopath\, who develops a fascination with his autodidactic philosopher boss\, perhaps thinking that\, if he could figure out what made Frank tick\, he could be less of a pig. Dmitry heads to Asia and makes a neo-imperialist fortune\, with a trail of corpses in his wake. When Dmitry’s office building in Taipei explodes in an enormous fireball\, Frank heads to Asia\, falls in love with Dmitry’s wife\, and things go from bad to worse. \nCombining the best elements of literary thriller\, noir and political satire\, Born Slippy is a darkly comic and honest meditation on modern life under global capitalism. \n  URL:https://litseen.com/event/tom-lutz-born-slippy/ LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/lutz.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200124T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200124T200000 DTSTAMP:20260414T140315 CREATED:20191124T220313Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191125T031901Z UID:54175-1579888800-1579896000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Our Voices Our Stories SF presents Ingrid Rojas Contreras DESCRIPTION:Ingrid Rojas Contreras will join OVOSSF founder Lisa D. Gray in a conversation about her novel Conteras’ novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree. About OVOSsf Our Voices\, Our Stories SF began in 2014 with 16 amazing writers and four engaging book chats one of which featured Natalie Bazile of Queen Sugar Fame and the legendary Eunetta Boone\, the first black woman showrunner on the Disney Channel. We bring you high-quality authors eager to share and discuss their work. \nThe evening culminates in a book chat between Lisa D. Gray (the Founder and Curator of this landmark series)\, and one or more of the authors. The authors write across genres\, so when you come\, you hear everything from fiction to travel writing and poetry to memoir. These women’s stories paint vivid pictures of what it’s like to live in the world as a woman of color. They explore themes and topics everyone can relate to and understand. \nAbout Ingrid Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Doubleday) is an Indie Next selection\, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection\, and a New York Times editor’s choice. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, Buzzfeed\, Nylon\, and Guernica\, among others. Rojas Contreras has received numerous awards and fellowships from Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, VONA\, Hedgebrook\, The Camargo Foundation\, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture. She is the book columnist for KQED\, the Bay Area’s NPR affiliate. She teaches writing at the University of San Francisco\, and works with immigrant high school students as part of a San Francisco Arts Commission initiative bringing writers into public schools. She is working on a family memoir about her grandfather\, a curandero from Colombia who it was said had the power to move clouds. \nFruit of the Drunken Tree Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister Cassandra enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogotá\, but the threat of kidnappings\, car bombs\, and assassinations hover just outside the neighborhood walls\, where the godlike drug lord Pablo Escobar continues to elude authorities and capture the attention of the nation. \nInspired by the author’s own life\, and told through the alternating perspectives of the willful Chula and the achingly hopeful Petrona\, Fruit of the Drunken Tree contrasts two very different\, but inextricable coming-of-age stories. In lush prose\, Rojas Contreras sheds light on the impossible choices women are often forced to make in the face of violence and the unexpected connections that can blossom out of desperation. \nAbout Lisa Lisa D. Gray is a writer\, curator\, and social justice warrior who loves to cook and sees possibilities waiting to burst free in bubbles blown into air. Her interests range from dancing (her first career goal: Rockette) to star gazing\, and if an animal lived with her\, it’d be a turtle. She writes about the things that intrigue and perplex her and does it with humor and insight. She earned an MFA from Mills College and completed a residency at the Vermont Studio Center and a fellowship at The Fine Arts Works Center. Her work appears in the As Us Literary Journal. Mission at Tenth and the anthology New Haven Noir for which she won an Edgar Award in 2018. She’s a member of the San Francisco Writers Grotto and a Fellow at The Ruby in San Francisco. She is completing her first novel. \nWe encourage you to purchase the book using the PURCHASE BOOKS link on our website. Books sales will also occur on site. URL:https://litseen.com/event/our-voices-our-stories-sf-presents-ingrid-rojas-contreras/ LOCATION:African American Art & Culture Complex\, 762 Fulton St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Ingrid-Rojas-Contreras.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200124T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200124T210000 DTSTAMP:20260414T140315 CREATED:20200115T181142Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200115T181142Z UID:54879-1579892400-1579899600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Amber Tamblyn discusses her latest book with Saru Jayaraman DESCRIPTION:Emmy-winning actress\, writer\, and Time’s Up founder AMBER TAMBLYN discussing her latest book\, Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution with Saru Jayaraman\, President of One Fair Wage and “San Francisco Chronicle Visionary of the Year 2019” at the McRoskey Mattress Company in San Francisco. \nAMBER TAMBLYN is known for saying the unsayable with wit and passion. Her new book\, Era of Ignition is no exception\, taking on gender inequality\, reproductive rights\, sexual assault\, and pay parity—all through the lens of her own experiences of growing up in Hollywood. It’s a feminist manifesto for our times\, lauded required reading for anyone who wants to help change the world for the better. URL:https://litseen.com/event/amber-tamblyn-discusses-her-latest-book-with-saru-jayaraman/ LOCATION:McRoskey Mattress Company\, Inc\, 1687 Market St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/WomenLit_Amber-Tamblyn-Promotional-Flyer-jpeg-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Womenlit":MAILTO:julia@wildboundpr.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200124T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200124T220000 DTSTAMP:20260414T140315 CREATED:20200123T080316Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200123T080316Z UID:54997-1579892400-1579903200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Bad Seeds: A Live Storytelling Event DESCRIPTION:Bad Seeds–Presented by Back Pocket \nA storytelling event about: \noutliers\, social pariahs\, failures\, and good people doing bad things. \nFeaturing strangers\, journalists\, artists\, and the cousin you avoid at family reunions. \nFeaturing: \n5 hand-picked storytellers \nRare vinyl and deep soul music by Sam G \nDrinks by Fort Point Beer URL:https://litseen.com/event/bad-seeds-a-live-storytelling-event/ LOCATION:Minnesota Street Project\, 1275 Minnesota Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Bad-Seeds.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200126T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200126T180000 DTSTAMP:20260414T140315 CREATED:20191124T191647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T191647Z UID:54026-1580054400-1580061600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Silent Book Club SF DESCRIPTION:Bring a book\, bring a friend\, and join Silent Book Club for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club\, there’s no assigned reading. All books and all ages are welcome. \nWe’ll kick off introvert happy hour at 4pm with some light chatter and informal book recommendations before settling in to read quietly\, but if you’d rather just pull up a chair and read\, by all means do so. No one will be shushed or shamed. The bar will be open for late afternoon libations. \nHappy reading and hope to see you there! \n\nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nPhoto by Cody Pickens for O Magazine URL:https://litseen.com/event/silent-book-club-sf-4/ LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Silent-Book-Club-at-The-Bindery-in-San-Francisco-by-Cody-Pickens.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200126T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200126T200000 DTSTAMP:20260414T140315 CREATED:20200126T005239Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200126T005239Z UID:55064-1580061600-1580068800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon DESCRIPTION:Readings by Susan Browne\, Peter Kline\, Emily Pinkerton\, and Marco Rafalà\nHosted by Brittany Perham \nSusan Browne’s poetry has appeared in Ploughshares\, The Sun\, Subtropics\, The Southern Review\, Superstition Review\, Rattle\, New Ohio Review\, B O D Y\, American Life in Poetry\, The American Journal of Poetry\, Love’s Executive Order\, and 180 More\, Extraordinary Poems for Every Day. She has published two books of poetry\, Buddha’s Dogs and Zephyr. Awards include prizes from Four Way Books\, the Los Angeles Poetry Festival\, the River Styx International Poetry Contest\, and The Fischer Poetry Prize. She received a fellowship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center\, and her work has been nominated for three Pushcart Awards. She has also collaborated to create a word/music CD. Her third collection\, Just Living\, recently won the Catamaran Poetry Prize. She lives in Oakland\, California. www.susanbrownepoems.com \nPeter Kline teaches writing at the University of San Francisco and Stanford University. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow\, he has also received residency fellowships from the Amy Clampitt House\, James Merrill House\, and Kimmel Harding Nelson Foundation. His poetry has appeared in Ploughshares\, Poetry\, Tin House\, and many other journals\, as well as the Best New Poets series\, the Verse Daily website\, and the Random House anthology of metrical poetry\, Measure for Measure. Since 2012 he has directed the San Francisco literary reading series Bazaar Writers Salon. He is the author of two poetry collections\, Deviants (Stephen F. Austin State University Press\, 2013)\, and Mirrorforms\, published by Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions in November 2019. www.peterklinepoetry.com \nEmily Pinkerton holds an MFA from San Francisco State University\, and her writing has previously appeared in ZYZZYVA\, Juked\, BlazeVOX\, and Berkeley Poetry Review\, among others. Emily is the author of three chapbooks: Natural Disasters (Hermeneutic Chaos Press\, 2016)\, Bloom (Alley Cat Press\, 2018) and Adaptations (Nomadic Press\, 2018). She was a 2017-2018 Writer in Residence at Alley Cat Books in San Francisco and is a 2020 Fellow at The Writers Grotto. More of Emily’s publications can be found at thisisemilypinkerton.tumblr.com\, and she tweets as @neongolden. \nMarco Rafalà is a first-generation Sicilian American novelist\, musician\, and writer for award-winning tabletop role-playing games. He earned his MFA in Fiction from The New School and is a cocurator of the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series in New York City. Born in Middletown\, Connecticut\, he now lives in Brooklyn\, New York. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review and LitHub. How Fires End is his debut novel. URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-15/ LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/bazaar.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200127T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200127T210000 DTSTAMP:20260414T140315 CREATED:20191205T154447Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191205T154447Z UID:54203-1580153400-1580158800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Anna Wiener: Uncanny Valley DESCRIPTION:Anna Wiener discusses her new memoir Uncanny Valley. \nPraise for Uncanny Valley \n“I’ve never read anything like Uncanny Valley\, which is both a searching bird’s-eye study of an industry and a generation\, as well as an intimate\, microscopic portrait of ambition and hope and dread. Anna Wiener writes about the promise and the decay of Silicon Valley with the impossibly pleasurable combination of a precise\, razored intellect and a soft\, incandescent heart. Her memoir is diagnostic and exhilarating\, a definitive document of a world in transition: I won’t be alone in returning to it for clarity and consolation for many years to come.”  —Jia Tolentino\, author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion \n“Uncanny Valley is a generation-defining account of the amoral late-capitalist tech landscape we are fatally enmeshed in. With grace and humor\, Anna Wiener shows us the misogyny\, avarice\, and optimistic self-delusion of our cultural moment\, wrapped up in the gripping story of a young woman navigating the blurred boundaries of a seductive world. Insightful\, compelling and urgent.” —Stephanie Danler\, author of Sweetbitter: A Novel \n“Like Joan Didion at a startup.”—Rebecca Solnit\, author of Call Them By Their True Names \n“A rare mix of acute\, funny\, up-to-the-minute social observation\, dead-serious contemplation of the tech industry’s annexation of our lives\, and a sincere first-person search for meaningful work and connection. How does an unworn pair of plain sneakers ‘become a monument to the end of sensuousness’? Read on.”—William Finnegan\, author of Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life \nAbout Uncanny Valley \nThe prescient\, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital age \nIn her mid-twenties\, at the height of tech industry idealism\, Anna Wiener—stuck\, broke\, and looking for meaning in her work\, like any good millennial–left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco\, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance\, dubious success\, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination\, glory\, and\, of course\, progress. \nAnna arrived amidst a massive cultural shift\, as the tech industry rapidly transformed into a locus of wealth and power rivaling Wall Street. But amid the company ski vacations and in-office speakeasies\, boyish camaraderie and ride-or-die corporate fealty\, a new Silicon Valley began to emerge: one in far over its head\, one that enriched itself at the expense of the idyllic future it claimed to be building. \nPart coming-age-story\, part portrait of an already-bygone era\, Anna Wiener’s memoir is a rare first-person glimpse into high-flying\, reckless startup culture at a time of unchecked ambition\, unregulated surveillance\, wild fortune\, and accelerating political power. With wit\, candor\, and heart\, Anna deftly charts the tech industry’s shift from self-appointed world savior to democracy-endangering liability\, alongside a personal narrative of aspiration\, ambivalence\, and disillusionment. \nUnsparing and incisive\, Uncanny Valley is a cautionary tale\, and a revelatory interrogation of a world reckoning with consequences its unwitting designers are only beginning to understand. URL:https://litseen.com/event/anna-wiener-uncanny-valley/ LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Wiener.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200128T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200128T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T140315 CREATED:20191124T193010Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T193010Z UID:54047-1580238000-1580243400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Andre Perry / Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now DESCRIPTION:reading from his new book \nSome of Us Are Very Hungry Now: a collection of essays \npublished by 2 Dollar Radio \nWith luminous insight and fervent prose\, Andre Perry’s debut collection of personal essays\, Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now\, travels from Washington DC to Iowa City to Hong Kong in search of both individual and national identity. While displaying tenderness and a disarming honesty\, Perry catalogs racial degradations committed on the campuses of elite universities and liberal bastions like San Francisco while coming of age in America. \nThe essays in Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now take the form of personal reflection\, multiple choice questions\, screenplays\, and imagined talk-show conversations\, while traversing the daily minefields of childhood schoolyards and Midwestern dive-bars. The impression of Perry’s personal journey is arresting and beguiling\, while announcing the author’s arrival as a formidable American voice. \nWhat has been said about Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now: \n*A “Most Anticipated Book of 2019” —LitReactor\, The A.V. Club\, Big Other \n“Beautiful\, brilliant\, bold… Tantamount to a slice from the Americana songbook. These essays are ballads\, images from the self\, isolated and marginalized in other countries and in his own land. These are songs of identity and sexuality and expectations the world has of African American males from those perspectives. Here’s hoping this book will mark the start of a long and varied journey for Perry. If the goal of a literary traveler is to show how connected we are to one another\, his debut collection is an assured indication of deeper glories yet to come.”\n—Christopher John Stephens\, PopMatters \nAndre Perry is an essayist and arts advocate. He received his MFA from the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program and his work has appeared in The Believer\, Catapult\, Granta and other journals. He co-founded Iowa City’s Mission Creek Festival\, a celebration of music and literature\, as well as the multidisciplinary festival of creative process\, Witching Hour. He continues to live and work in Iowa City. This is his first book. URL:https://litseen.com/event/andre-perry-some-of-us-are-very-hungry-now/ LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Some-of-Us-Are-Very-Hungry-Now-Andre-Perry.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200128T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200128T210000 DTSTAMP:20260414T140315 CREATED:20191124T165803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T165803Z UID:53738-1580239800-1580245200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Crissy Van Meter: Creatures DESCRIPTION:Crissy Van Meter discusses her new novel\, Creatures. \nPraise for Creatures \n“Creatures is the kind of beautiful book that makes you want to lick the salt from its pages. It’s so physically present you can feel the waves hit your body\, smell the sea life\, hear the roar of the ocean as your hair whips around your face in the breeze. Crissy Van Meter has written a book about the complexities of love and families\, yes\, but it’s also a careful look at intimacy through the lens of a person learning and relearning how to love the people who continually let us down. It’s inventive and surprising. The text is tactile; a punch to the heart. It’s one of the best novels I’ve read this year.”—Kristen Arnett\, New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things \n“Crissy Van Meter pulls us into depths of loneliness\, sweetness\, pain\, history\, and pulsing vulnerability in prose swift and clear as an ocean current\, in Creatures. On Winter Island\, time and landscape ache with memory; need spills over in subtle moments of intense connection\, fracture\, deprivation\, and wound; unconditional love may be a concept as unreachable as the mainland\, and as isolating. Like water\, loss and longing fill the space between each prism of a word in this gorgeous\, jewel-tone debut.” —Sarah Gerard\, author of Sunshine State \n“At the intersection of the natural world and the human heart\, Van Meter explores alcoholism\, absence\, daughterly loyalties and longing in this slim and beautiful tale that contains a whole aqueous universe in its depths.”—Melissa Broder\, author of The Pisces \nAbout Creatures \nOn the eve of Evangeline’s wedding\, a dead whale is trapped in the harbor of Winter Island\, the groom may be lost at sea\, and Evie’s mostly absent mother has shown up out of the blue. From there\, in this mesmerizing\, provocative debut\, Evie remembers and reckons with her complicated upbringing in this lush\, wild land off the coast of Southern California. \nEvie grew up with her well-meaning but negligent father\, surviving on the money he made dealing the island’s world-famous strain of marijuana\, Winter Wonderland. Although he raised her with a deep respect for the elements\, the sea\, and the creatures living within it\, he also left her to parent herself. With wit\, love\, and bracing ashes of anger\, Creatures probes the complexities of love and abandonment\, guilt and forgiveness\, betrayal and grief—and the ways in which our ability to love can be threatened if we are not brave enough to conquer the past. \nLyrical\, darkly funny\, and ultimately cathartic\, Creatures exerts a pull as strong as the tides. \n  URL:https://litseen.com/event/crissy-van-meter-creatures/ LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Van-Meter.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200129T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200129T200000 DTSTAMP:20260414T140315 CREATED:20200126T212235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200126T212235Z UID:55244-1580322600-1580328000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Author Talk: Lincoln Mitchell DESCRIPTION:San Francisco native Lincoln Mitchell will discuss his new book with Penelope Houston\, the singer for the seminal San Francisco punk band The Avengers and accomplished solo artist.\nIn San Francisco Year Zero: Political Upheaval\, Punk Rock and a Third Place Baseball Team\, Mitchell deftly weaves together the personal and the political\, tracing the city’s current state back to three key events that all occurred in 1978: the assassination of George Moscone and Harvey Milk (occurring fewer than two weeks after the massacre of Peoples Temple members in Jonestown\, Guyana); the explosion of the city’s punk rock scene; and a breakthrough season for the San Francisco Giants.\nSponsored by the San Francisco History Center\nA book sale follows the event. URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-talk-lincoln-mitchell/ LOCATION:Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room\, SF Main Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco\, 94102 CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/author-talk-lincoln-mitchell.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="san francisco public library":MAILTO:anissa.malady@sfpl.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200129T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200129T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T140315 CREATED:20191124T192851Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T192851Z UID:54044-1580324400-1580329800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Samuel C. Woolley / The Reality Game DESCRIPTION:discussing his new book \nThe Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth \npublished by Public Affairs \n\nFake news posts and Twitter trolls were just the beginning. What will happen when misinformation moves from our social media feeds into our everyday lives? \nDespite Samuel Woolley’s warnings as early as 2013\, the problem of online disinformation stormed our political process in 2016 and has only worsened since. Yet as Woolley shows in this urgent book\, it may pale in comparison to what’s to come: human-like automated voice systems\, machine learning\, “deepfake” AI-edited videos and images\, interactive memes\, virtual reality\, and more. In stories both deeply researched and compellingly written\, Woolley describes this future and imagines its profound impact on our politics. \nInformation literacy is an essential ingredient in a healthy democracy\, and The Reality Game shows how the breakneck rate of technological change is making it nearly impossible. Woolley argues for a new culture of invention\, one built around accountability and especially transparency. We cannot afford to continue re-litigating the past. Instead\, we must follow signals to prevent manipulation in the future–and use our new tools not to control people but to empower them. \nDr. Samuel Woolley is a writer and researcher specializing in the study of automation/AI\, emergent technology\, politics\, persuasion\, and social media. He is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and program director for computational propaganda research at the Center for Media Engagement\, both at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining UT\, Woolley founded and directed the Digital Intelligence Lab at the Institute for the Future\, a 50-year-old think tank based in the heart of Silicon Valley. He also cofounded and directed the research team at the Computational Propaganda Project at the Oxford Internet Institute\, University of Oxford. He has written on political manipulation of technology for a variety of publications including Wired\, the Atlantic Monthly\, Motherboard/VICE\, TechCrunch\, theGuardian\, Quartz and Slate. His research has been featured in publications such as the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, and the Wall Street Journal and on The Today Show\, 60 Minutes\, and Frontline. His work has been presented to members of NATO\, the US Congress\, the UK Parliament\, and to numerous private entities and civil society organizations. His PhD is from the University of Washington. He tweets from @samuelwoolley. URL:https://litseen.com/event/samuel-c-woolley-the-reality-game/ LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/RealityGame.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200129T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200129T210000 DTSTAMP:20260414T140315 CREATED:20191220T070042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191220T070042Z UID:54443-1580324400-1580331600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Poet Danez Smith: Homie DESCRIPTION:Buy Tickets\nCo-presented with JCCSF \nAward-winning poet Danez Smith (Don’t Call Us Dead) is a groundbreaking force\, celebrated for deft lyrics\, urgent subjects and performative power. A poet\, performer and multidisciplinary artist\, Smith has galvanized diverse communities nationwide with their profound contemplations on race and gender\, desire and mortality. Join Smith as they read from and share their new collection\, Homie\, a magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship at a time when our country is overrun by violence\, xenophobia and disparity\, speaking from within a body defined by race\, queerness and diagnosis. Part friendship diary\, part bright elegy\, part war cry\, Homie is the exuberant new book written for Danez and Danez’s friends\, and for you and for yours.  $20 \n“These poems can’t make history vanish\, but they can contend against it with the force of a restorative imagination. Smith’s work is about that imagination – its role in repairing and sustaining communities\, and in making the world more bearable.”\n–New Yorker\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nDanez Smith\nDanez Smith is a black\, queer\, poz writer and performer from St. Paul\, Minnesota. Danez is the author of Don’t Call Us Dead\, winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the Midwest Booksellers Choice Award\, and a finalist for the National Book Award\, and [insert] boy… Read More → URL:https://litseen.com/event/poet-danez-smith-homie/ LOCATION:Jewish Community Center of San Francisco\, 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Homie.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200129T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200129T210000 DTSTAMP:20260414T140315 CREATED:20191124T164838Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T164838Z UID:53728-1580326200-1580331600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Lizzie O'Shea: Future Histories DESCRIPTION:Lizzie O’Shea discusses her new book Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace\, Tom Paine\, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology. \nPraise for Future Histories \n“Before we became big data bundles for the lackeys of Dorsey\, Jobs\, Zuckerberg\, and Bezos\, to exploit\, the digital revolution seemed to promise a democratic utopia\, a commons in cyberspace not governed by neoliberal norms. Can we realize that revolutionary dream and stop desiring our own domination? Incredibly\, yet thrillingly and plausibly\, Lizzie O’Shea argues that\, if only we can mobilize history to serve rather than enervate us\, the answer is yes.”—Stuart Jeffries \n“There has never been a better time to pull the politics of platform capitalism into the foreground where it belongs. Lizzie O’Shea brings a hacker’s curiosity\, a historian’s reach and a lawyer’s precision to bear on our digitally saturated present\, emerging with a compelling argument that a better world is there for the taking.”—Scott Ludlam \n“A potent\, timely\, and unrepentantly radical reminder of history’s creative potential. Lizzie O’Shea’s Future Histories should be required reading for anyone planning on surviving—and even repairing—our grim technological moment.”—Claire L. Evans \nAbout Future Histories \nWhen we talk about technology we always talk about tomorrow and the future — which makes it hard to figure out how to even get there. In Future Histories\, public interest lawyer and digital specialist Lizzie O’Shea argues that we need to stop looking forward and start looking backwards. Weaving together histories of computing and progressive social movements with modern theories of the mind\, society\, and self\, O’Shea constructs a “usable past” that can help us determine our digital future. \nWhat\, she asks\, can the Paris Commune tell us about earlier experiments in sharing resources–like the Internet–in common? How can Frantz Fanon’s theories of anti colonial self-determination help us build digital world in which everyone can participate equally? Can debates over equal digital access be helped by American revolutionary Tom Paine’s theories of democratic\, economic redistribution? What can indigenous land struggles teach us about stewarding our digital climate? And\, how is Elon Musk not a future visionary but a steampunk throwback to Victorian-era technological utopians? \nIn engaging\, sparkling prose\, O’Shea shows us how very human our understanding of technology is\, and how when we draw on the resources of the past\, we can see the potential for struggle\, for liberation\, for art and poetry in our technological present. Future Histories is for all of us–makers\, coders\, hacktivists\, Facebook-users\, self-styled Luddites–who find ourselves in a brave new world. URL:https://litseen.com/event/lizzie-oshea-future-histories/ LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/OShea.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200130T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200130T193000 DTSTAMP:20260414T140315 CREATED:20191124T170346Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T170346Z UID:53919-1580409000-1580412600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Author Mary Ladd in conversation with Author Leticia Hernandez DESCRIPTION:Mary Ladd\, author of The Wig Diaries\, will be in conversation with Leticia Hernandez\, author of Mucha Muchacha\, Too Much Girl. \nThe Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd’s debut disrespectful cancer book. Delivered with bold gallows humor\, it intimately address the gravity of cancer and invites the reader to bear witness to both the horror and the joke(s). Armed with creative sensibility\, Ladd robs her diagnosis of its dour weightiness. Refusing to tiptoe around the gnarlier elements of treatment and recovery\, the narrative is powerful in its unvarnished honesty and contagious lust for life exemplified by hilarious anecdotes. \nA uniquely fresh modern and black comedy take on cancer\nCovers and pokes fun at everything from diagnosis to treatment to medical bills\nIllustrated by San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist Don Asmussen\, who has cancer for the second time \n“I love this book.”—Mary Roach\, author of the books Grunt\, Stiff\, Spook\, and Bonk \n“This looks like a hoot and a half. I want more.”—Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket)\, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events \n“Clear-eyed\, fun\, and reassuring\, it’s the perfect guide!”—Vanessa Hua\, author of A River of Stars and Deceit and Other Possibilities \nMary Ladd’s writing has appeared in Playboy\, Time Magazine\, the San Francisco Chronicle and in five anthologies. She is a Writers Grotto member who collaborated with Anthony Bourdain on his Bay Area episodes of No Reservations. Illustrator Don Asmussen is the creator of Bad Reporter\, a twice-weekly political comic strip in the San Francisco Chronicle that is syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate. URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-mary-ladd-in-conversation-with-author-leticia-hernandez/ LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-07-at-1.46.02-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200130T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200130T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T140315 CREATED:20191124T192742Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T192742Z UID:54041-1580410800-1580416200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Carmen Maria Machado with Esmé Weijun Wang DESCRIPTION:in conversation and celebrating the release of \nCarmen Maria Machado’s \nIn The Dream House \npublished by Graywolf Press \nIn the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad\, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman\, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. \nAnd it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope—the haunted house\, erotica\, the bildungsroman—through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence\, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian\, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. \nMachado’s dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit\, playfulness\, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings\, fairy tales\, Star Trek\, and Disney villains\, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching\, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be. \nCarmen Maria Machado is the author of Her Body and Other Parties\, a finalist for the National Book Award. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, she is the writer in residence at the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Philadelphia with her wife. Visit: https://carmenmariamachado.com/ \nEsmé Weijun Wang is the author of The Collected Schizophrenias and The Border of Paradise. She received the Whiting Award in 2018 and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists of 2017. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan and lives in San Francisco. Visit: https://esmewang.com/ URL:https://litseen.com/event/carmen-maria-machado-with-esme-weijun-wang/ LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CarmenMachado.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200130T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200130T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T140315 CREATED:20200123T201547Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200123T201547Z UID:55028-1580410800-1580416200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Literary Speakeasy's toast to 2020 DESCRIPTION:It’s time for the first Literary Speakeasy of 2020! We are celebrating with five amazing writers – Heather Bourbeau\, Vincent Chu\, Kevin Dublin\, Lauren Ito\, and Sarah Kobrinsky. It’s going to be an amazing night of poetry and prose. Come raise a glass to Bay Area authors! \nLiterary Speakeasy is always FREE and there is NO drink minimum. Arrive early for a FREE raffle ticket for your chance to win the evening’s secret Speakeasy prize. \nPerformer bios:\nHeather Bourbeau’s fiction and poetry have been published in Alaska Quarterly Review\, Cleaver\, Eleven Eleven\, Francis Ford Coppola Winery’s Chalkboard\, The Stockholm Review of Literature\, and the anthologies Nothing Short Of 100: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story and America\, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience (Sixteen Rivers Press). She has worked with various UN agencies\, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia and UNICEF Somalia. \nVincent Chu is a Bay Area writer and author of the debut story collection Like a Champion. His fiction has appeared in STILL Magazine\, Fjords Review\, Pithead Chapel\, PANK Magazine\, East Bay Review\, The Collapsar\, Stockholm Review and elsewhere. He is a 2019 Hambidge Center Fellow and member of The Writers Grotto. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from UCLA. Vincent lives in San Francisco and can be found online at @herrchu. He is working on his first novel. \nKevin Dublin is editor of Etched Press and author of the chapbook How to Fall in Love in San Diego. He has been the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing\, North Carolina Poetry Society\, and more. His words have appeared in North Carolina Literary Review\, Menacing Hedge\, Poetry International\, The Rumpus\, and more. He holds an MFA from San Diego State University and enjoys developing web apps for writers. Kevin also leads workshops as a part of Litquake’s Elder Writing Project\, at Syzygy Academy SF\, and all over the Bay Area. Follow him on Twitter @PartEverything. \nLauren Ito is a Seattle-born Gosei (fifth generation Japanese American) poet\, designer\, and community craftswoman committed to advancing equity through art and design. As a poet\, Lauren delves into the tensions inherited within diasporic experiences\, including explorations of American concentration camps\, identity\, and home. Lauren’s art been featured by The Seattle Times\, Japanese American National Museum\, Nomadic Press\, The City is Already Speaking Anthology\, and various performance venues\, such as the Mission Arts Performance Project\, Lit Crawl San Francisco\, and Gears Turning. She is a 2019 Grotto Rooted & Written Fellow\, 2019 Novalia Collective Fellow\, and Asian American Women Arts Association Emerging Curators Fellow. She is currently working on her first manuscript. Lauren lives in San Francisco and can almost always be found by the sea. \nSarah Kobrinsky was the 2013-2015 Poet Laureate of Emeryville\, CA. Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything (New Rivers Press) is her first collection of poetry. Her poems and stories have appeared in Magma Poetry\, Eleven Eleven\, Monkeybicycle\, *82 Review\, 100 Word Story\, Fjords Review\, among many others. She was long-listed for the 2019 University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize. She was born in Canada\, raised in North Dakota\, seasoned in England\, and tempered in California. Sarah and her husband have a handmade dinnerware company called Jered’s Pottery. URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-speakeasys-toast-to-2020/ LOCATION:Martuni’s\, 4 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Literary-Speakeasy-Jan-2020.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200130T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200130T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T140315 CREATED:20200126T015128Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200126T015128Z UID:55143-1580410800-1580416200@litseen.com SUMMARY:The Racket 38 : Flight DESCRIPTION:It’s 2020! The future is here! We’ve got flying cars and robot butlers and harmless lasers that come out of our fingers because it’s the future! Oh wait\, no\, no we don’t. We have ignorance and we have\, oh my\, we have a general regression in terms of social views and\, well\, yeah. Doesn’t matter though\, ’cause it’s 2020 and it’s a new year and even if everything feels like a broken septic tank\, come hang out and celebrate the ticking forward of the biggest hand of all. \nFree beer until the free beer has been consumed. \nThe Readers (So Far): \nNick O’Brien\nChelsea Davis\nAnna Allen\nPeter Thomas\nClaire Calderon\nSpencer Tierney\nCandy Shue URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-38-flight/ LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/racket.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200130T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200130T210000 DTSTAMP:20260414T140315 CREATED:20191124T215515Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T215515Z UID:54158-1580410800-1580418000@litseen.com SUMMARY:The Map to Wholeness: A Conversation with Suzy Ross DESCRIPTION:? ? ? The seemingly random events that comprise our lives can be understood as serving a higher purpose when examined through the proper lens; they are in fact the critical steps that comprise our hero’s journey. Those who choose to travel this path will emerge completely transformed—healthier\, happier\, and in touch with their life’s purpose. \nAuthor and professor Dr. Suzy Ross draws on her extensive research to create a map for those ready to embark on their most important adventure. By understanding the larger meaning of our circumstances from a bird’s eye perspective\, we learn to rest in faith and confidence\, freed from crippling judgment and self-blame. We will live more deliberately\, consciously\, and joyfully\, while simultaneously heightening our experiences of change. In her first book\, \, Dr. Ross identifies the thirteen phases of personal transformation and illuminates the personal journeys of three ordinary individuals who have descended into the darkness of their psyches\, integrating a personal life-changing event\, and emerging transformed. \nJoin Dr. Ross for a conversation about how to identify our unique location on the journey\, deepen our experiences\, and avoid the common pitfalls that block progress. \nCopies of Dr. Ross’ book\, : – \, \, — 13 will be available for sale at this event. URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-map-to-wholeness-a-conversation-with-suzy-ross/ LOCATION:CIIS Public Programs\, 1453 Mission St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/The-Map-to-Wholeness.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200130T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200130T210000 DTSTAMP:20260414T140315 CREATED:20200126T005450Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200126T005450Z UID:55066-1580410800-1580418000@litseen.com SUMMARY:InsideStorytime: Convergence DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime CONVERGENCE\, featuring Mimi Lok (Last of Her Name)\, Nancy Au (Spider Love Song And Other Stories)\, Jeffrey Kingman (On A Road)\, Ari Moskowitz\, and Munashe Kaseke\, will take place at Laundry Gallery\, 3359 26th Street San Francisco\, in the downstairs room at the back with the Soviet piano\, on Thursday January 30th 2000 7-9 pm. URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-convergence/ LOCATION:THE LAUNDRY\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, 94110 CATEGORIES:San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cover-of-Last-of-Her-Name-by-Mimi-Lok.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200130T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200130T220000 DTSTAMP:20260414T140315 CREATED:20200123T075925Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200123T075925Z UID:54991-1580410800-1580421600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Dani Shapiro & Abraham Verghese DESCRIPTION:What makes us who we are? What combination of memory\, history\, biology\, experience and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us? In 2016\, celebrated writer and memoirist Dani Shapiro took a genetic test on a whim\, believing that she knew her history well – the daughter of Orthodox Ashkenazi Jews\, raised on her father’s stories of their family and ancestors. But her DNA revealed that the man she’d known as her father for her whole life was not biologically related to her. With this news\, her history – and the entire life she had lived – suddenly crumbled beneath her. \nShapiro’s instant New York Times bestselling memoir\, Inheritance\, published to wide acclaim earlier this year\, is about secrets – secrets within families\, kept out of shame or self-protectiveness; secrets we keep from one another in the name of love. Hear how Dani Shapiro lost and found herself via DNA testing\, and how her life has changed since publishing Inheritance. \nShe is joined by Dr. Abraham Verghese\, Professor and Vice Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine\, for this fascinating exploration of genealogy\, paternity and love. URL:https://litseen.com/event/dani-shapiro-abraham-verghese-2/ LOCATION:JCCSF\, 3200 California St \, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Shapiro-and-Verghese.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200201T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200201T153000 DTSTAMP:20260414T140315 CREATED:20200123T161327Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200123T161327Z UID:55021-1580565600-1580571000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Sarah Kay & Phil Kaye Live in San Francisco DESCRIPTION:Project VOICE is proud to present a special evening of live performance with two world-renowned spoken word poets: Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye. \nShowtime : February 1st 2pm\, Doors Open 1:30pm\nProject VOICE is proud to present a special evening of live performance with two world-renowned spoken word poets: Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye. The duo have collectively performed in thirty countries on stages from TED Talks to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)\, and garnered over twenty million views online. Their most recent poetry books have both been Amazon bestsellers: “All Our Wild Wonder” by Sarah Kay and “Date & Time” by Phil Kaye. Their work was featured in Uniqlo’s “Poetry Beyond the Page” artist series\, and sold in stores around the world. They are co-directors of Project VOICE – an organization that partners with schools and uses spoken word poetry to entertain\, educate\, and inspire.\nPhil and Sarah will be available after the show to sign and sell their books URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-kay-phil-kaye-live-in-san-francisco/ LOCATION:Brava Theater Center\, 2781 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Project-Voice.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR