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SUMMARY:RETURN TO THE PEOPLES
DESCRIPTION:FRI. AUGUST 24TH\, 7PM \npresented by \nWORLD POETRY MOVEMENT\nMedellin\, Colombia \nTHE REVOLUTIONARY POETS BRIGADE\nSan Francisco \nCorporatism is the fascism that is manifesting in governments throughout the world by producing nationalist and populist leaders of negation and powerful military forces bent on war. Like students murdered en masse in schools in the U.S.\, like the tsunami of women jailed as drug offenders because work under capitalism makes body and soul miserable\, the World Poetry Movement (WPM) and the Revolutionary Poets Brigades say: Basta! Enough! \n\nROBERT ANBIAN\nMAHNAZ BADIHIAN\nLISBIT BAILEY\nJUDITH AYN BERNHARD\nKRISTINA BROWN\nBOBBY COLEMAN\nPAULINE CRAIG\nJOHN CURL\nAGNETA FALK\nFRANCISCO HERRERA\nMARTIN HICKEL\nJACK HIRSCHMAN\nJESSICA LOOS\nKAREN MELANDER MAGOON\nSARAH MENEFEE\nBARBARA PASCHKE\nJAMI PROCTOR-XU\nGIOVANNI ROMANO\nKIM SHUCK\nSan Francisco Poet Laureate\nMICHAEL WARR
URL:https://litseen.com/event/return-to-the-peoples/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Judith Levy-Sender\, Ramon Sender\, & 17 Years of Odd Mondays
DESCRIPTION:For 17 years\, Judith Levy-Sender and Ramon Sender organized Odd Mondays readings as community and literary events. Come celebrate their work Monday\, August 27\, from 7pm to 8pm at Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. Judy will tell the history of the Odd Mondays reading series\, why it began and how it grew\, and both she and Ramon will read from their own work. Hosted by their friend\, Rick May\, who will continue the series with readings beginning in September. Free admission and free celebratory food and drink!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/celebrating-judith-levy-sender-ramon-sender-17-years-of-odd-mondays/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Laura Van Den Berg and Anthony Marra
DESCRIPTION:Laura Van Den Berg discusses her new novel\, The Third Hotel with Anthony Marra. \n\nPraise for The Third Hotel \n\n“I love Laura van den Berg for her eeriness and her elegance\, the way the fabric of her stories is woven on a slightly warped loom so that you read her work always a bit perturbed. The Third Hotel is artfully fractured\, slim and singular; it’s a book that sings\, but always with a strange pressure more felt than heard beneath the song.” —Lauren Groff\, author of Fates and Furies \n  \n“In this gorgeous\, frighteningly smart novel\, a woman deranged by grief becomes an imposter in her own life. As inventive and inexorable as a dream\, The Third Hotel is a devastating excavation of the unconscionable demands we place on those we love\, and a profound portrait of the uncanny composite creature that is a marriage. Laura van den Berg is one of our best writers\, an absolute marvel.” —Garth Greenwell\, author of What Belongs to You \n  \n“I love the way Laura van den Berg writes. The Third Hotel is another of her beguiling little masterpieces. One that\, with ruminative grace and sublime wit\, answers and elucidates the question of what it means to be human.” —Miriam Toews\, author of All My Puny Sorrows \n  \nAbout The Third Hotel \n\nIn Havana\, Cuba\, a widow tries to come to terms with her husband’s death—and the truth about their marriage—in Laura van den Berg’s surreal\, mystifying story of psychological reflection and metaphysical mystery. \n  \nShortly after Clare arrives in Havana\, Cuba\, to attend the annual Festival of New Latin American Cinema\, she finds her husband\, Richard\, standing outside a museum. He’s wearing a white linen suit she’s never seen before\, and he’s supposed to be dead. Grief-stricken and baffled\, Clare tails Richard\, a horror film scholar\, through the newly tourist-filled streets of Havana\, clocking his every move. As the distinction between reality and fantasy blurs\, Clare finds grounding in memories of her childhood in Florida and of her marriage to Richard\, revealing her role in his death and reappearance along the way. The Third Hotel is a propulsive\, brilliantly shape-shifting novel from an inventive author at the height of her narrative powers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laura-van-den-berg-and-anthony-marra/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sanpaku with Kate Gavino
DESCRIPTION:Meet the cartoonist\, Kate Gavino! \nSanpaku tells the story of Marcine\, a woman fascinated with the Japanese idea of Sanpaku—that seeing the white around the iris of your eyes is a bad omen. But it’s everywhere Marcine looks—her grandmother has it\, some classmates at Catholic school have it\, JFK had it… Even Marcine might suffer from this odd condition. Eating a strict macrobiotic diet and meditating is supposed to help\, but no matter how much Marcine wants it to\, it can’t save her grandmother’s life or make her days at school any easier.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sanpaku-with-kate-gavino/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, Excelsior\, 4400 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, 94112
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB MEETING
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lively discussion about \n“La Balsa de Piedra” by Jose Saramago \nTo join the book group please contact iranyi@me.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spanish-language-book-club-meeting-3/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Genevieve Hudson\, Thomas Moniz\, and Nancy Au
DESCRIPTION:This event will be held at our Clement street location. \nPlease join us at Green Apple Books on Clement street on Tuesday\, August 28th at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Genevieve Hudson to celebrate her debut collection of stories (from Future Tense Books)\, Pretend We Live Here. Genevieve will be joined by two more readers; Tomas Moniz\, creator of the popular zine Rad Dad\, and Nancy Au\, a writer\, artist\, and teacher living in Oakland. Editor and publisher Brian Hurley will be moderating the reading. \n\nGenevieve Hudson. \nIn her debut collection of stories\, Pretend We Live Here\, Genevieve Hudson explores the idea of home and what it means to find one: in the body\, in the world\, in other people. Her characters are seekers\, whose actions are influenced by their slippery identities and by the strange landscapes that surround them.  \n  \n“A terrific collection of stories. There are echoes here of Flannery O’Connor\, Barry Hannah\, and Denis Johnson\, but Genevieve Hudson is her own writer–impressively and gloriously so. Her eye for the clinching detail is unnerving and her sympathies are fascinatingly conflicted. I hope\, and suspect\, this book will be the start of a long and inspiring career.” -Tom Bissell\, author of The Disaster Artist and Magic Hours \n\n“In Pretend We Live Here\, characters bleed and breathe with a caustic energy that dares the reader to keep pace as they are taken from the Deep South to Western Europe and back again. Genevieve Hudson is a new\, coming-of-age voice that spotlights rural America\, injecting it with a queer freshness that makes her writing impossible to forget.” -Jing-Jing Lee\, author of How We Disappeared \n  \nTomas Moniz \nLibrary Journal (01/01/2017): Writing professor Moniz’s Rad Dad started as a zine over ten years ago\, and this reviewer had the pleasure of critiquing that title in 2011 during its growing pains. Now\, with a few more kids\, Rad Dad has a full-fledged family\, and this latest offering [Rad Families: A Celebration] exhibits growth in depth and advice. These collected essays\, written by various contributors\, are raw\, inspired\, and artful\, capturing the joys and pains of parenting with no apologies and no lack of grace. As such\, some entries will speak more to readers than others\, but the truth and beauty they evoke is elegant and grounding\, celebrating the victories and struggles of a generation of parents: “I did not grow up in a family where anything seemed possible. The future did not really exist because surviving the present was the priority.” Topics range from sex to incarceration to adoption and include the viewpoints of mothers and fathers both new and seasoned\, introspective and wishing for a do-over. VERDICT For the literary-minded\, this Rad Dad collective is a gem of inspired thought\, though this reviewer still loathes the book jacket. \n  \nNancy Au \n“I am a queer\, bisexual writer\, artist\, and teacher living in Oakland\, California. I graduated from U.C. Berkeley with a degree in anthropology. I have an MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University. I am currently an instructor at California State University Stanislaus\, where I teach creative writing (to biology majors!). And\, I am co-founder of The Escapery\, a collective of teachers who are dedicated to diversity\, and to writing and art as a form of resistance. \nMy short stories\, flash fiction\, creative nonfiction\, and poetry often center on the experiences of the elderly\, the young\, immigrants\, as well as with characters who struggle with mental health issues. I endeavor to write about (and to amplify\, diversify\, complicate) the voices that have been historically ignored (or stereotyped or diminished or demonized) within academia and literature. I am also particularly interested in exploring the lives of American-born Chinese and Chinese immigrants\, with an eye towards diverse perspectives and outlooks.” – Peas & Carrots
URL:https://litseen.com/event/genevieve-hudson-thomas-moniz-and-nancy-au/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Mara Altman / Gross Anatomy
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts an evening with Mara Altman\, as she celebrates her new book Gross Anatomy. Please join us! \n  \nMara Altman’s volatile and apprehensive relationship with her body has led her to wonder about a lot of stuff over the years. Like\, who decided that women shouldn’t have body hair? And how sweaty is too sweaty? Also\, why is breast cleavage sexy but camel toe revolting? Isn’t it all just cleavage? These questions and others like them have led to the comforting and sometimes smelly revelations that constitute Gross Anatomy\, an essay collection about what it’s like to operate the bags of meat we call our bodies. \n  \nDivided into two sections\, “The Top Half” and “The Bottom Half\,” with cartoons scattered throughout\, Altman’s book takes the reader on a wild and relatable journey from head to toe — as she attempts to strike up a peace accord with our grody bits. \n  \nWith a combination of personal anecdotes and fascinating research\, Gross Anatomy holds up a magnifying glass to our beliefs\, practices\, biases\, and body parts and shows us the naked truth: that there is greatness in our grossness. \n  \n\n  \n“I love how Gross Anatomy delightfully reveals Mara Altman’s upbeat and life-affirming obsession with the human body — our lovelinesses and not-so-lovelinesses. Lots of people will soon feel far more body-positive because of this book.”– Jon Ronson\, author of The Psychopath Test \n  \n “Forget that old fake news about sugar and spice. With wit and candor\, Mara Altman tells us what girls are really made of – and it’s a hair-raising revelation.”– Tom Robbins\, author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues \n  \n“Gross Anatomy is a charming\, deeply-researched\, whole-hearted embrace of our imperfections\, the things that women don’t talk about because we feel they mar our societally imposed notions of femininity. But after reading Mara Altman’s exploration of her body (and ours) you’ll feel more comfortable with yourself\, from head to toe.” – Jennifer 8. Lee\, author of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles \n  \n\n  \n \nMara Altman enjoys writing about issues that embarrass her (e.g. chin hair)\, because she has found that putting shame on the page diffuses the stigma\, leaving her with a sense of empowerment and freedom. Her first book\, Thanks for Coming\, an investigation into love and orgasm\, was translated into three languages. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, Salon and New York Magazine among other publications. Before going freelance\, She worked as a staff writer for the Village Voice and daily newspapers in India and Thailand. She is an alumna of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and lives in San Diego with quite a few other hairy beings. \n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-mara-altman-gross-anatomy/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jan Steckel at Sacred Grounds Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Lambda Literary Award-winning poet Jan Steckel is featured tonight at San Francisco’s longest-running weekly open mic at Sacred Grounds Café. Your host is Daniel Philip Brady at this open mic that has run every Wednesday night since at least 1972. Open Mic slots are five minutes\, shorter if very crowded; sign up at 7 PM. Food is good and reasonably priced. A video will be shot of you at the open mic if you don’t object\, so you can look at it later online at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sacred-Grounds-café or http://www.creativeideasforyou.com/SacredGrounds_YouTube.htm and polish your performance skills or just admire yourself.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jan-steckel-at-sacred-grounds-open-mic/
LOCATION:Sacred Grounds\, 2095 Hayes at Cole\, San Francisco\, 94117
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: Thomas Page McBee / Amateur
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts an evening with Thomas Page McBee as he celebrates his new book\, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man. Please join us! \n  \nFrom an award-winning writer whose work bristles with “hard-won strength\, insight\, agility\, and love” (Maggie Nelson)\, an exquisite and troubling narrative of masculinity\, violence\, and society. \n  \nIn this groundbreaking new book\, the author\, a trans man\, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling to untangle the vexed relationship between masculinity and violence. Through his experience boxing–learning to get hit\, and to hit back; wrestling with the camaraderie of the gym; confronting the betrayals and strength of his own body–McBee examines the weight of male violence\, the pervasiveness of gender stereotypes\, and the limitations of conventional masculinity. A wide-ranging exploration of gender in our society\, Amateur is ultimately a story of hope\, as McBee traces a new way forward\, a new kind of masculinity\, inside the ring and outside of it. \n  \nIn this graceful\, stunning\, and uncompromising exploration of living\, fighting\, and healing\, we gain insight into the stereotypes and shifting realities of masculinity today through the eyes of a new man. \n  \n\n  \n“Until I read this book\, I didn’t realize how tired I was of reading about masculinity as cold\, hard\, and fixed. Amateur is a warm hug. It’s also an invitation to everyone who’s ever struggled to accept failure\, searched for a sense of belonging\, or said “Ugh\, men” in an exasperated tone to think harder and be kinder. I want the world to read it.” – Ann Friedman\, New York Magazine columnist and co-host of Call Your Girlfriend \n  \n“Amateur is a brutally honest look at the problems with masculinity\, laced through with hope\, and joy\, and possibility. Thomas McBee confronts fears and realities with grace\, toughness and poetry. A beautiful book.” – Michelle Tea\, author of Black Wave and How to Grow Up \n  \n\n  \nThomas Page McBee is the author of the Lambda award-winning memoir Man Alive: A True Story of Violence\, Forgiveness\, and Becoming a Man\, which was named a best book of 2014 by NPR\, BuzzFeed\, Kirkus Reviews\, and Publishers Weekly. His writing has appeared in The New York Times\, Playboy\, Glamour\, The Rumpus\, and Pacific Standard. He lives in Brooklyn. \n  \nRSVP is appreciated\, but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-thomas-page-mcbee-amateur/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: MariNaomi / Losing the Girl
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts MariNaomi as she presents her new book Losing the Girl\, the first of the three-book series Life on Earth. Please join us! \n  \nClaudia Jones is missing. Her classmates are thinking the worst… or at least the weirdest. It couldn’t be an alien abduction\, right? \n  \nNone of Claudia’s classmates at Blithedale High know why she vanished — and they’re dealing with their own issues. Emily’s trying to handle a life-changing surprise. Paula’s hoping to step out of Emily’s shadow. Nigel just wants to meet a girl who will laugh at his jokes. And Brett hardly lets himself get close to anybody. \nIn Losing the Girl\, the first book in the Life on Earth trilogy\, Eisner-nominated cartoonist MariNaomi looks at life through the eyes of four suburban teenagers: early romance\, fraying friendships\, and the traces of a mysterious — maybe otherworldly — disappearance. Different chapters focus on different characters\, each with a unique visual approach. \n  \n\n  \n“Losing the Girl is a success from top to bottom. … There are many familiar elements of teen romance here\, to be sure\, but MariNaomi approaches with a level of sophistication and humanity that’s rare for any story of this kind.” – The Comics Journal \n  \n“…gripping\, affecting graphic novel. … A moody\, compassionate reflection of  adolescence in turmoil.” – Kirkus Reviews \n  \n“(MariNaomi’s) creative artistic effects amplify the tension and awkward emotions\, transforming a familiar story of young love into something memorable and new.” – Publisher’s Weekly \n  \n\n  \nMariNaomi is the award-winning author and illustrator of four comic memoirs and creator of the Cartoonists of Color database. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and many cats and dogs. Visit her website atmarinaomi.com. \n  \n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 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/bindery-marinaomi-losing-the-girl/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Paul McHugh and Leah Garchik
DESCRIPTION:Paul McHugh discusses his new novel The Blind Pool with  Leah Garchik. \n\nPraise for The Blind Pool \n\n“A taut thriller by a terrific storyteller. The political headlines of today make it timely as hell.” Dan Rather \n\n“You’ll rip through pages to find out what happens!”– Rorke Denver\, former Navy SEAL\, New York Times best-selling-author of “Damn Few” and star of the film “Act of Valor.” \n\nAbout The Blind Pool \n\nA Russian crime ring scores entry to the USA by forging an alliance with a criminal gang that uses a West Texas private prison as their base. Felons are secretly released from that prison and sent out across the nation to work as hard-case enforcers. An assault on a bridge in the Florida Keys tips off authorities to the alliance’s grand plot to subvert\, exploit\, and terrorize the American public. But agents who start to investigate are betrayed by a high-placed FBI mole. Stakes rise to life-or-death when the agents and their women are kidnapped by the cabal. To achieve escape\, wreak vengeance and exact justice stretches the tradecraft and loyalties of these U.S. operators close to a breaking point – and beyond.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-mchugh-and-leah-garchik/
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:Flower Moon Lantern Riddles
DESCRIPTION:Clarion celebrates the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival with poetry\, music and lantern riddles.\n\nFusing poetry\, music\, theater and art\, Flower Moon Lantern Riddles features poems from the present to the 7th century BCE. Some of these poems will be sung in ancient melodies as well as modern compositions. Poems are recited in Cantonese and English.\n\nSolving riddles on lanterns was a form of group entertainment in ancient China. We will recreate this activity and give out prizes for those who guess the correct answers. There will also be riddles to take home to be solved at a later time.\n\nArtist Dennis Tom is designing the back drop for this production and more of his work will be showcased in our gallery.\n\nPerformers:\n\n\nClara Hsu\, poetry\nNellie Wong\, poetry\nGreg Pond\, poetry\n\nDavid Wong\, guqin\, guzheng\nBonnie Lee\, guqin\, guzheng\nEllen Yeung\, vocals\nVictoria Ha\, piano\nCynthia Yee\, riddles host\nDennis Tom\, art installation
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flower-moon-lantern-riddles/
LOCATION:Clarion Music Performing Arts Center\, 816 Sacramento St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Paco Marquez
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at Green Apple Books on Clement on Friday\, August 31st at 7pm as we welcome Paco Márquez to read from his new collection of poetry\, Portraits in G Minor. \n\nPraise for Portraits in G Minor \nReveling in the mystic wonders that can emerge even from “the palm of a corporate boss\,” the poems of Paco Márquez “splash the sky wide\,” exposing the magic in the quotidian — the “unnoticed silhouettes / imprinted in the grass.” In the tender violence of these portraits\, “that which spoke the rose into being” also hums through daily life\, holding a man’s hand\, looking him in the eye\, and saying\, “the kitchen window is open.” To open this book is to see the world illuminated. \n  \nOriginally from Mexico and Northern California\, Paco Marquez is also poetry editor at Washington Square. His work has appeared in Apogee\, the Squaw Valley Review\, and OccuPoetry (prior to joining the editorial team). One of his poems went up on public mural\, through the Sacramento Metropolitan Art Commission’s Del Paso Words & Walls Project. He’s been featured as Lo-Writer of the Week in Juan Felipe Herrera’s California Poet Laureate website\, and he recently completed an MFA in poetry at NYU.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paco-marquez/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-17/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Charlie Getter & Aqueila M. Ross followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:Charlie Getter has been the ringleader for the poetry that happens in the 16th & Mission BART plaza for a decade.  Aqueila M. Ross\, we’ll tell you about shortly! \nhttp://evergreenreview.com/read/the-new-san-francisco-poetry-underground-charlie-getter/ \nKim Shuck\, San Francisco Poet Laureate\, is shouldering most of the booking duties for the time being\, in conjunction with the series’ long-time host\, Jerry Ferraz\, both San Francisco natives of Eureka Valley; both native to San Francisco poetry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charlie-getter-aqueila-m-ross-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:Gabriela Alemán
DESCRIPTION:with special guests Mauro Javier Cardenas and Dick Cluster \ncelebrating the release of \nPoso Wells \npublished by City Lights Books \nAn ABA Summer/Fall 2018 Indies Introduce Selection \nCelebrated Ecuadorian author Gabriela Alemán’s first work to appear in English: a noir\, feminist eco-thriller in which venally corrupt politicians and greedy land speculators finally get their just comeuppance! \nIn the squalid settlement of Poso Wells\, women have been regularly disappearing but the authorities have shown little interest. When the leading presidential candidate comes to town\, he and his entourage are electrocuted in a macabre\, darkly hilarious accident witnessed by a throng of astonished spectators. The sole survivor—next in line for the presidency—inexplicably disappears from sight. \nGustavo Varas\, a principled journalist\, picks up the trail\, which leads him into a violent\, lawless underworld\, and ultimately to a strange group of almost supernatural blind men. Bella Altamirano\, a fearless local woman\, is on her own crusade to pierce the settlement’s code of silence\, ignoring the death threats that result from her efforts. It turns out that the disappearance of the candidate and those of the women are intimately connected\, and not just to a local crime wave\, but to a multinational magnate’s plan to plunder the country’s ecologically sensitive cloud forest. \nA political satire and noir thriller\, laced with humor and a sci-fi twist\, Poso Wells plunges its readers into dark passages where things are as uncontrolled and overheated as the lava from a smoking volcano\, which is where the story ends. \nGabriela Alemán\, based in Quito\, Ecuador\, has played professional basketball in Switzerland and Paraguay and has worked as a waitress\, administrator\, translator\, radio scriptwriter\, and film studies professor. She received a PhD at Tulane University and holds a Master’s degree in Latin American Literature from Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar. Her literary honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006; member of Bogotá 39\, a 2007 selection of the most important up-and-coming writers in Latin America in the post-Boom generation; one of five finalists for the 2015 Premio Hispanoamericano de Cuento Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia) for her story collection La muerte silba un blues; and winner of several prizes for critical essays on literature and film. Her other books include the short story collections\, Maldito corazón\, Zoom\, Fuga permanente\, and Álbum de familia; her novels in Spanish include Body Time\, Poso Wells\, and Humo. Her stories have appeared in anthologies in French\, English\, Chinese\, Hebrew\, and Serbo-Croatian. This is her first full-length work to appear in English. \nPraise for Poso Wells: \n“Poso Wells is ironic\, audacious\, and fierce. But what is it\, exactly? A satire? A scifi novel? A political detective yarn? Or the purest reality of contemporary Latin America. It’s unclassifiable––as all great books are.”––Samanta Schweblin\, author of Fever Dream \n“Poso Wells is brilliant\, audacious\, doubtlessly playful and at the same time so dark and bitter. A truly unforgettable book.”––Alejandro Zambra\, author of Multiple Choice \n“One part Thomas Pynchon\, one part Gabriel García Marquez\, and one part Raymond Chandler\, Alemán’s novel contains mystery\, horror\, humor\, absurdity\, and political commentary . . . A concoction of political thriller and absurdist literary mystery that never fails to entertain.”––Kirkus Reviews \n“By expertly weaving multiple narratives around the figure of Vinueza\, the hapless (but wealthy!) presidential candidate who resembles so many corrupt (but wealthy!) presidential candidates in the modern history of Ecuador\, Gabriela Alemán depicts with verve and humor the horrors and absurdities of a society intent on perpetuating itself.”––Mauro Javier Cardenas\, author of The Revolutionaries Try Again \n“Gabriela Alemán has a rhythm worth watching . . . she does something unexpected\, things fly apart\, she leaps into the void\, and you think\, ‘there’s no way she can pull this off’––but no\, everything fits together\, falls into place\, flows\, and the story goes on.”––Pedro Mairal\, author of The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra \n“Through scalding wit and straight-faced parody this no-holds-barred absurdist adventure that seems more a movie than a book will have you laughing till you cry as the cruelty of its South American reality sinks in. Imagine a mix of Hunter S. Thompson and Gabriel García Márquez. A small masterpiece.”––Michael Taussig\, author of Beauty and the Beast \n“This compulsively readable book is Gabriela Alemán’s debut as a novelist in the English-language. Sparklingly original\, full of dry wit\, and deliciously suspenseful\, Poso Wells could well earn Gabriela Alemán a cult following.”––Jon Lee Anderson\, author of Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life\, Guerrillas: Journeys in the Insurgent World\, and The Fall of Baghdad \n“Poso Wells explores the dichotomy between the new and old worlds of Ecuador through an exciting noir about missing women\, corrupt politicians\, and a journalist’s attempt to unravel the secrets of the infinitely labyrinthine cityscape of Poso Wells. This is an exciting debut translation of a celebrated Ecuadorian author\, and one that should lead to more translations of her work.”––Ely Watson\, A Room of One’s Own Bookstore (Madison\, WI) \n“Poso Wells is a rare achievement in which a reader comes out the other end wanting to start again. It is a bold and clever tale with a unique voice\, and it is poised to have a longstanding impression on readers for years to come.”––Rebecca George\, Volumes Bookcafe (Chicago\, IL) \n“Thriller and farce\, Poso Wells is a magical realist sci-fi\, a fierce and biting social allegory by turns hilarious and tragic\, cynical and hopeful . . . this is a twenty-first-century cautionary tale of the war between humanity and avarice . . .”––Maria Agui Carter\, director of Culture Shock and Rebel \n“Gabriela Alemán’s Poso Wells drops the reader\, as if dangling from a helicopter’s ladder\, into a riveting page-turner set in coastal Ecuador. Forces of global capitalism want to mine all that is profitable from the earth\, no matter the consequences. By the end we’re not sure if Jacob’s ladder leads to heaven or hell. The upshot of Alemán’s brilliant novel\, however: for every rapacious action\, there is an equal\, opposite\, and tenacious resistance.”––Mauricio Kilwein Guevara\, author of Autobiography of So-and-So: Poems in Prose \n“Poso Wells is an intriguing name for a thrilling novel of politics\, environmental destruction and wildly imaginative occurrences that slide right to the edge of reality. The landscape includes the threatened rape of a cloud forest\, a collection of fantastical blind heroes\, and a presidential candidate who pees himself to death on stage. The English translation is fast and clear as the story rolls towards its ending on a steaming volcano. The first English translation of noted Brazilian-Ecuadorian novelist\, Gabriela Alemán. I hope that many more follow.”––Stephen Williams\, contributor to the New York Times\, GQ\, Newsweek
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gabriela-aleman/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Arjun Singh Sethi / American Hate: Survivors Speak Out
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts an evening with Arjun Singh Sethi\, editor ofAmerican Hate: Survivors Speak Out. More information TBA soon — save the date and join us! \n  \n“Why am I in this country now? Should I move elsewhere? Do I want to raise my kids in this country\, where hate is so visible and rampant? I’ve been in this fight for decades\, but even I struggle. Deep down\, though\, I know we need to stay the course and continue the fight.” – Marwan Kreidie\, after a pig’s head was thrown at the Al-Aqsa Islamic Society Mosque in Philadelphia \n  \nIn American Hate: Survivors Speak Out\, Arjun Singh Sethi\, a community activist and civil rights lawyer\, chronicles the stories of individuals affected by hate. In a series of powerful\, unfiltered testimonials\, survivors tell their stories in their own words and describe how the bigoted rhetoric and policies of the Trump administration have intensified bullying\, discrimination\, and even violence toward them and their communities. \n  \nWe hear from the family of Khalid Jabara\, who was murdered in Tulsa\, Oklahoma\, in August 2016 by a man who had previously harassed and threatened them because they were Arab American. Sethi brings us the story of Jeanette Vizguerra\, an undocumented mother of four who took sanctuary in a Denver church in February 2017 because she feared deportation under Trump’s cruel immigration enforcement regime. Sethi interviews Taylor Dumpson\, a young black woman who was elected student body president at American University only to find nooses hanging across campus on her first day in office. We hear from many more people impacted by the Trump administration\, including Native\, black\, Arab\, Latinx\, South Asian\, Southeast Asian\, Muslim\, Jewish\, Sikh\, undocumented\, refugee\, transgender\, queer\, and people with disabilities. \n  \nA necessary book for these times\, American Hate explores this tragic moment in U.S. history by empowering survivors whose voices white nationalists and right-wing populist movements have tried to silence. It also provides ideas and practices for resistance that all of us can take to combat hate both now and in the future. \n  \n\n  \nArjun Singh Sethi is a community activist\, civil rights lawyer\, writer\, and law professor based in Washington\, DC. He works closely with Muslim\, Arab\, South Asian\, and Sikh communities and advocates for racial justice\, equity\, and social change at the local and national levels. His writing has appeared in CNN\, The Guardian\, The Los Angeles Times\, Politico Magazine\, USA Today\, and The Washington Post\, and he is featured regularly on national radio and television. He holds faculty appointments at Georgetown University Law Center and Vanderbilt University Law School\, and presently co-chairs the American Bar Association’s National Committee on Homeland Security\, Terrorism\, and Treatment of Enemy Combatants. He lives in Washington\, D.C. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/arjun-singh-sethi-american-hate-survivors-speak-out/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lydia Kiesling Book Release
DESCRIPTION:Lydia Kiesling joins us to celebrate the release of her new novel\, The Golden State\, with Ismail Muhammad. \n\nPraise for The Golden State \n\n“The Golden State is a perfect evocation of the beautiful\, strange\, frightening\, funny territory of new motherhood. Lydia Kiesling writes with great intelligence and candor about the surreal topography of a day with an infant\, and toggles skillfully between the landscape of Daphne’s interior and the California desert\, her postpartum body and the body politic. A love story for our fractured era.”—Karen Russell\, author of Vampires in the Lemon Grove and Swamplandia! \n\n“The Golden State is a rare and important novel not only because it depicts with blazing accuracy the everyday experience of raising a young child\, but also because it uses the quotidian to reveal larger truths about humanity’s gifts and deficits. In Lydia Kiesling’s remarkable first novel\, the familiar and the foreign are not so different after all\, and what we remember may not be what is. A profound book.”—Edan Lepucki\, author of Woman No. 17 and California \n  \n“The Golden State is spectacularly good at rendering maternal obsession and panic\, and the way the narcissism involved in the attempt to hold one’s self together can turn frenetic caring to neglect. Separated from a husband stuck abroad with a green card situation and wrung out by the relentlessness of toddler-rearing\, millennial Daphne\, in her traumatized withdrawal from a privileged life\, registers that despite her intelligence\, her life has been comprised not so much of decisions as realities that seemed to ecstatically assert themselves at the time\, and that all of the measures she employs to deal with stress involve harm she’ll now be passing along to her cherished child.  Lydia Kiesling is brilliant on our certainty that for all we feel\, we don’t do nearly enough for those we love.”—Jim Shepard\, author of The World to Come \n\nAbout The Golden State \n\nIn Lydia Kiesling’s razor-sharp debut novel\, The Golden State\, we accompany Daphne\, a young mother on the edge of a breakdown\, as she flees her sensible but strained life in San Francisco for the high desert of Altavista with her toddler\, Honey. Bucking under the weight of being a single parent―her Turkish husband is unable to return to the United States because of a “processing error”―Daphne takes refuge in a mobile home left to her by her grandparents in hopes that the quiet will bring clarity. \n  \nBut clarity proves elusive. Over the next ten days Daphne is anxious\, she behaves a little erratically\, she drinks too much. She wanders the town looking for anyone and anything to punctuate the long hours alone with the baby. Among others\, she meets Cindy\, a neighbor who is active in a secessionist movement\, and befriends the elderly Alice\, who has traveled to Altavista as she approaches the end of her life. When her relationships with these women culminate in a dangerous standoff\, Daphne must reconcile her inner narrative with the reality of a deeply divided world. \n  \nKeenly observed\, bristling with humor\, and set against the beauty of a little-known part of California\, The Golden State is about class and cultural breakdowns\, and desperate attempts to bridge old and new worlds. But more than anything\, it is about motherhood: its voracious worry\, frequent tedium\, and enthralling\, wondrous love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lydia-kiesling-book-release/
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 Mia Ayumi Malhotra with Jennifer S. Cheng and Pinbokeh / Isako Isako
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the launch party for Mia Ayumi Malhotra‘s debut collection of poems\, Isako Isako. Joining Mia areJennifer S. Cheng (Moon: Letters\, Maps\, Poems) and the experimental improv group Pinbokeh. We hope to see you there! \n  \nIsako Isako follows a single family lineage spanning four generations of female Japanese Americans to explore the chilling historical legacies of cultural trauma — internment\, mass displacement\, and rampant racism — in the United States\, and how it weaves together with current events. \n  \nIsako Isako was born from a series of conversations Malhotra had with her maternal grandmother who shared stories about her immigration to the US from Japan after WWII\, stories about living in Japan during the war and the ensuing American occupation\, and most of all\, stories about her own mother (the author’s great grandmother). Through the women in her family\, Malhotra discovered her own history and connection to the past along with a legacy of pain\, strength\, and resiliency. \n  \n\n  \n“The personal pronoun ‘I’ has brinks on all sides\, over which you can fall and become anyone and no one. Isako Isako deeply explores these soaring and dangerous precipices of identity through the magnetic voice of a Japanese-American internment camp survivor who is both an individual and collective\, a citizen and a prisoner\, broken and healing. Mia Ayumi Malhotra has written a brilliant and searing debut.” – Maria Hummel\, author of Still Lives and House and Fire \n  \n“Isako Isako is a powerful testament to poetry’s capacity for alchemizing history\, memoir\, and the lyric: the poems here intimately address the landscapes of war and the reverberations of violence through bodies and bloodlines. Malhotra’s visionary debut collection spans generations\, countries\, and loves\, weaving the story of a mother survivor with reflections on the limits and reaches of memory.” – Brynn Saito\, author of Power Made Us Swoon \n  \n“In these poems\, haunted equally by historical events and the timelessness of human suffering\, we find a stunning imagination at work on the sacred task of bodying forth\, through an uncommon compassion\, the stories that history might otherwise eclipse. . . . Malhotra’s poetry demonstrates what is still best in us\, the counterpart to cruelty coming back in the surviving descendant’s intimacies and empathies\, her innovations in language and\, ultimately\, love.” –Pimone Triplett\, author of Supply Chain and Rumor \n  \n\n  \nMia Ayumi Malhotra is a Kundiman Fellow\, and her poems have appeared in Greensboro Review\, Drunken Boat\, Best New Poets\, and DISMANTLE: An Anthology of Writing from the VONA/Voices Writing Workshop. She received her BA from Stanford and her MFA from the University of Washington and is a founding editor of Lantern Review. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two daughters. Find her online at miamalhotra.com. \n  \n  \nJennifer S. Cheng received her BA from Brown University\, MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Iowa\, and MFA in Poetry from San Francisco State University. She is the author of MOON: Letters\, Maps\, Poems\, selected by Bhanu Kapil as winner of the Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize (May 2018)\, HOUSE A\, selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize\, and Invocation: An Essay (New Michigan Press)\, a chapbook in which fragments of text\, photographs\, found images\, and white space influence one another to create meaning. A U.S. Fulbright scholar\, Kundiman fellow\, and Bread Loaf work-study scholar\, she is the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Harold Taylor Award\, the Ann Fields Poetry Award\, the Mid-American Review Fineline Prize\, and multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her poetry and lyric essays appear in Tin House\, AGNI\, Conjunctions\, Black Warrior Review\, The Normal School\, DIAGRAM\, The Volta\, The Offing\, Sonora Review\, Seneca Review\, Hong Kong 20/20 (a PEN HK anthology)\, and elsewhere. Having grown up in Texas\, Hong Kong\, and Connecticut\, she currently lives in rapture of the coastal prairies of northern California. \n  \nPinbokeh is Nathan Chamberlain\, Josiah Branaman\, and Paul Sakai. They are from Oakland\, CA. \n  \n  \n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery at 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. Doors and the bar open at 7pm. The event starts at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-mia-ayumi-malhotra-with-jennifer-s-cheng-and-pinbokeh-isako-isako/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Readings from They Said\, A Collaborative Anthology
DESCRIPTION:Jacqueline Doyle\, Chiyuma Elliott\, Tracy Jane Gregory\, Steve Gutierrez\, Carla Harryman\, Persis Karim\, Caroline Kessler\, Rae Liberto and Dean Rader read pieces from They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing. \n\nPraise for They Said \n\nCarlos Fuentes argued that the most important literary occasions are those in which “genre” is recirculated. Writing survives—thrives\, even—on recirculation and the reconception of genre. The collaborations collected here represent such a change\, as important\, in their own way\, as concretism\, found\, sound or random poetry. Making the author plural\, through joint composition\, repositions the work\, its voice and its experiential and emotion contexts. The more seamless these collaborations seem and most do seem seamless—the more radical their gestures. Lyric\, discursive\, sometimes political these pieces manage their changes in compelling duets.—Michael Anania \n\nAccording to the Greeks\, the origin of the word anthology can literally be translated as “flowergathering”. They Said gathers the most original and complementary blossoms in the literary garden and creates rare and distinctive bouquets. From poetry to creative non-fiction and more\, from voices both familiar and yet-to-be discovered by some\, there are splendid petals here for every reader to pluck.—Lynne Thompson \n\nWith They Said\, we’re presented with an anthology of contemporary work that beautifully illustrates the generative potential and dynamic energy of collaboration—a literary art too often overlooked. For any writer or poet\, it’s impossible not to be inspired by the possibilities suggested here.—Laura Cogan and Oscar Villalon \n\nAbout They Said \n\nThey Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing includes poetry\, fiction\, and creative nonfiction\, as well as hybridized forms that push the boundaries of concepts like “genre” and “author.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/readings-from-they-said-a-collaborative-anthology/
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:Vanessa Hua in conversation with Lydia Kiesling
DESCRIPTION:In a powerful debut novel about modern-day motherhood\, immigration\, and identity\, a pregnant Chinese woman makes her way to California and stakes a claim to the American dream.“Vanessa Hua’s debut is an utterly absorbing novel.”—Celeste Ng\, author of Little Fires Everywhere \nHoled up with other mothers-to-be in a secret maternity home in Los Angeles\, Scarlett Chen is far from her native China\, where she worked in a factory and fell in love with the owner\, Boss Yeung. Now she’s carrying his baby. Already married with three daughters\, Boss Yeung is overjoyed because the doctors have confirmed that he will finally have the son he has always wanted. To ensure that his child has every advantage\, Boss Yeung has shipped Scarlett off to give birth on American soil. U.S. citizenship will open doors for their little prince. \nAs Scarlett awaits the baby’s arrival\, she chokes down bitter medicinal stews and spars with her imperious housemates. The only one who fits in even less is Daisy\, a spirited teenager and fellow unwed mother who is being kept apart from her American boyfriend. \nThen a new sonogram of Scarlett’s baby reveals the unexpected. Panicked\, she escapes by hijacking a van—only to discover that she has a stowaway: Daisy\, who intends to track down the father of her child. The two flee to San Francisco’s bustling Chinatown\, where Scarlett will join countless immigrants desperately trying to seize their piece of the American dream. What Scarlett doesn’t know is that her baby’s father is not far behind her. \nA River of Stars is an entertaining\, wildly unpredictable adventure\, told with empathy and wit by an author the San Francisco Chronicle says “has a deep understanding of the pressure of submerged emotions and polite\, face-saving deceptions.” It’s a vivid examination of home and belonging\, and a moving portrayal of a woman determined to build her own future. \nVanessa Hua is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of a short story collection\, Deceit and Other Possibilities. For two decades\, she has been writing\, in journalism and fiction\, about Asia and the Asian diaspora. She has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature\, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award\, and a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing\, as well as honors from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Asian American Journalists Association. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, and The Washington Post. A River of Stars is Vanessa Hua’s first novel. \nPraise for A River of Stars \n“[A] powerful debut.”—Entertainment Weekly  \n“A vibrant\, fascinating look into womanhood and how so many women’s lives are shaped by their relationship to the powerful men within them . . . Hua infuses this story with spirit and humor\, exploring the ways in which pregnancy and motherhood can be both liberating and entrapping for the women who endure them. It’s a remarkable novel\, one which makes clear the many ways in which women must struggle to make their lives their own.”—Nylon \n“Stellar.”—Bustle \n“[A] skillful debut novel . . . that is heartbreaking and\, at turns\, hilarious. . . . Hua wonderfully evokes the exigencies of lives at the margins of American culture by revealing Scarlett’s enduring ingenuity as she navigates near-destitute single motherhood.”—Publishers Weekly \n“A River of Stars is a twenty-first-century immigrant story about the terror\, drama\, and desperation of being undocumented and yet unable to leave.”—The Village Voice \n“Fans of Celeste Ng . . . might find their next read right here.”—Elle \n“[This] gripping tale of Scarlett Chen\, a Chinese boss’s mistress sent to America to birth a child\, is as moving as it is entertaining.”—Electric Lit  \n“In A River of Stars\, Vanessa Hua illuminates the lives of her characters with energy\, verve\, and heart. Hua tracks the minutest emotional terrain of these characters while simultaneously interrogating the cultural and economic forces that shape their worlds. This book holds your attention until the very last page.”—Emma Cline\, New York Times bestselling author of The Girls \n“A River of Stars is a page-turner\, a riveting story of parenthood\, migration\, and the choices we make to survive. Fierce and determined\, resourceful and resilient\, Scarlett Chen is an unforgettable protagonist you can’t help but root for.”—Lisa Ko\, author of the National Book Award finalist The Leavers \n“How does Scarlett Chen—pregnant\, with her immigration status in peril—make her way in America without friends\, language\, and money? Vanessa Hua’s compelling A River of Stars is a story of resistance\, survival\, and self-determination in a world that is seemingly indifferent to the needs of the poor and disenfranchised.”—Min Jin Lee\, author of National Book Award finalist Pachinko
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vanessa-hua/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck presents Moby Dick
DESCRIPTION:It’s back to school\, so this month\, we’re taking our harpoons to noteworthy National Treasure and Greatest Love Story Ever Told: Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. \nFeatured writers TBA. \n$12 advance\, $15 door\, ticket includes *open bar* for 21+\, and admission to the afterparty at The Alembic (1725 Haight). Seats tend to sell out fast; we encourage you to buy early. \nPlease remember: Shipwreck tickets are non-transferable and non-refundable. \n  \nTickets on sale now.  \n  \n— \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event. \nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on the first Thursday of every month at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco. \nFics are blind-read by our Thespian-in-Residence\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and you choose the best ship before the writers are unmasked. The winner is cast off from polite society\, and invited back the next month to defend their title. \nCritics are saying:\n“… the most despicable literary event possible.”\n“… an affront to literature.”\n“It used to be we had to sit in dark\, sticky booths to get these kinds of sleazy thrills.”\n“Come if you are high on marijuana cigarettes and have done sex before.”\n“… a vile\, disgusting event.””Shipwreck will bring you to madness\, and you may never return.”\n“…wonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting.”\n“…punny sodomy and gross indecency.” \n“I do not care for this.” \n  \n— \n  \nPLEASE NOTE: No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. We’re not dicks\, we just like dick jokes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-presents-moby-dick/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Forrest Gander\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this rare reading at The Poetry Center by poet-translator — and SF State alum — Forrest Gander\, just in time for the debut of his new book of poetry\, Be With (New Directions\, 2018)\, his first book of poems since the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle nominee volume\, Core Samples from the World (New Directions\, 2011). Gander last read his work for The Poetry Center in 1996\, so this is an overdue return. This event\, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts\, is free and open to the public. \nForrest Gander\, a writer and translator with degrees in geology and literature\, was born in the Mojave Desert and lives in Petaluma\, California. Gander’s book Core Samples from the World\, a meditation on the ways we are revised and translated in encounters with the foreign\, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Among his recent titles are the novel The Trace (New Directions\, 2015)\, and two translations: Then Come Back: the Lost Neruda Poems (Copper Canyon\, 2016) and Alice\, Iris\, Red Horse: Selected Poems of Gozo Yoshimasu (editor\, with multiple translators; New Directions\, 2016). His first book of poems since 2011\, Be With\, is just out from New Directions. Gander is the recipient of grants from the Library of Congress\, the Guggenheim\, Howard\, Whiting and United States Artists Foundations\, he taught for many years as the AK Seaver Professor of Literary Arts & Comparative Literature at Brown University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore at forrestgander.com\nVIDEO: Forrest Gander and Raúl Zurita reading at the Woodberry Poetry Room\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/forrest-gander-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the San Francisco launch for the new W. W. Norton anthology New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction\, featuring readings by local contributors. More TBA soon. Save the date and join us! \n  \nA new collection of very short stories selected by Flash Fiction editor James Thomas and Robert Scotellaro. \n  \nAll of the stories in this book are exceptionally short\, revealing themselves in no more than 300 words. With a foreword by Robert Shapard and an afterword by Christopher Merrill\, this book brings you fresh approaches to an exacting form that demands precision\, a species of brevity that is surprisingly expansive. Writers say the pieces are hard to compose\, but readers say they are easy to appreciate\, a pleasure to envision\, a wonder to watch life spun out and painted in small places. Real and surreal\, lyrical and prosaic\, here are 135 stories by 89 authors\, certain to make you think. \n  \n\n  \n“Reading these wonderful tiny fictions is like stealing food from the refrigerator before\, or after\, dinner. A sublime luxury.” – Frederick Barthelme\, New World Writing \n  \n“These micro fictions violate the laws of geophysics by compressing whole lives / whole worlds / whole heartbreaks into something like diamonds: bright\, riven\, reflective\, edged\, wonderful\, and hard enough to cut through glass.” – Pam Houston\, author of Contents May Have Shifted \n  \n“New Micro’s quick\, bright stories are\, like our lives\, as brief as lightning in the blinding dark. They offer us essential truth without the inessential facts.” – John Dufresne\, author of Flash! Writing the Very Short Story \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery at 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. Doors and the bar open at 7pm. The event starts at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-micro-exceptionally-short-fiction/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kamila Shamsie
DESCRIPTION:Kamila Shamsie joins us to celebrate the paperback release of her new novel\, Home Fire. \n\nPraise for Home Fire \n\n“Home Fire left me awestruck\, shaken\, on the edge of my chair\, filled with admiration for her courage and ambition.” —Peter Carey\, Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda \n\n“Shamsie’s simple\, lucid prose plays in perfect harmony with the heartbeat of modern times. Home Fire deftly reveals all the ways in which the political is as personal as the personal is political. No novel could be as timely.” —Aminatta Forna\, author of The Memory of Love \n\n“A searing novel about the choices people make for love\, and for the place they call home.” —Laila Lalami\, Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Moor’s Account \n\n“A good novelist blurs the imaginary line between us and them; Kamila Shamsie is the rare writer who makes one forget there was ever such a thing as a line. Home Fire is a remarkable novel\, both timely and necessary.” —Rabih Alameddine\, author of An Unnecessary Woman \n\nAbout Home Fire \n\nIsma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother’s death\, she’s accepted an invitation from a mentor in America that allows her to resume a dream long deferred. But she can’t stop worrying about Aneeka\, her beautiful\, headstrong sister back in London\, or their brother\, Parvaiz\, who’s disappeared in pursuit of his own dream\, to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. When he resurfaces half a globe away\, Isma’s worst fears are confirmed. \nThen Eamonn enters the sisters’ lives. Son of a powerful political figure\, he has his own birthright to live up to—or defy. Is he to be a chance at love? The means of Parvaiz’s salvation? Suddenly\, two families’ fates are inextricably\, devastatingly entwined\, in this searing novel that asks: What sacrifices will we make in the name of love?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kamila-shamsie/
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:Amplify: A Storytellling Conference for People of Color
DESCRIPTION:Featuring workshops with Shanthi Sekaran on Writing Outside Your Cultural Experience\, Norman Antonio Zelaya on Cadence\, Community and Representation\, and Vanessa Hua on Narrative Journalism\, amongst others.\n\n\nWe’ve already sold 30% of our tickets in the first 3 days\, so get the Early-Bird deal and buy with a friend now! \n\n\n\nAbout Amplify \n\nWe write\, produce\, craft\, investigate\, report as a means to tell our and our communities stories\, because the stories we hear about us are not told by us. As storytellers\, we contribute to and preserve culture\, we entertain with anecdotes\, and most importantly\, we shape the popular narratives\, fictional or factual\, that inform public opinion and in turn\, public policy. \nAmplify is a chance to connect with other storytellers\, learn from their mastery\, and explore issues that influence your work including race\, class\, community\, and ethics. Keynotes include Glynn Washington from WNYC’s Snap Judgment\, Aimee Allison\, President of Democracy In Color\, Rhodessa Jones\, Director of The Medea Project\, and Mina Morita\, Artistic Director of Crowded Fire Theater. \nBuy your tickets now at bit.ly/amplifypoc
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amplify-a-storytellling-conference-for-people-of-color/
LOCATION:UC Berkeley
CATEGORIES:East Bay,San Francisco,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon
DESCRIPTION:Babylon Salon \n\npresents our Fall Reading \nSaturday\, September 8\, 2018\, 6.00 pm \nat The Armory Club\n1799 Mission Street \n(downstairs performance space)   \nfeaturing\n— \n \nDaniel Mallory Ortberg\nDaniel Mallory Ortberg’s first book\, the satirical bestseller Texts from Jane Eyre: and Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters\, was described by the Los Angeles Times Review of Books as a “splendid and wry work of humor writing” and by Elizabeth Gilbert as “candy coated in crack cocaine… it’s the best.” Ortberg’s newest book\, The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror\, has been on countless Best Books and Most Anticipated lists for 2018\, and has won praise from Kelly Link\, Charlie Jane Anders\, and Carmen Maria Machado who notes\, “the result is gorgeous\, unsettling\, splenic\, cruel\, and wickedly smart.” The co-founder of The Toast\, he has written for Gawker\, New York Magazine\, The Hairpin\, and The Atlantic. Since 2015\, Ortberg has been Slate’s Dear Prudence columnist and writes The Shatner Chatner newsletter. \n \nTommy Orange  \nThe 2018 debut novel by Tommy Orange\, THERE THERE\, was described by Janet Maslin in The New York Times this way: “Groundbreaking. Extraordinary. Tommy Orange has written a tense\, prismatic book with inexorable momentum.” Margaret Atwood has called the book “an astonishing literary debut” and Marlon James writes\, “THERE THERE drops on us like a thunderclap; the big\, booming\, explosive sound of 21st century literature finally announcing itself.  Essential.” Tommy Orange is a recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a 2014 MacDowell Fellow\, and a 2016Writing by Writers Fellow. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland\, California\, and currently lives in Angels Camp\, California. \n  \n \nLisa Locascio \nOpen Me\, Lisa Locascio’s 2018 debut novel\, was recently cited by Pulitzer-winner Viet Thanh Nguyen as “unflinching in its portrayal of sex\, desire\, racism\, and the excitement and confusion of youth. Infused with erotics and politics\, this is a novel that will haunt you.” Aimee Bender calls the novel “a kind of love letter to the female body and all its power and visceral complexity… A remarkable\, fearless debut.” Locascio’s work has appeared in The Believer\, Tin House\, n+1\, Bookforum\,and many other magazines. She is the co-publisher of Joyland and editor of 7x7LA and of the anthology Golden State 2017. She is Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Wesleyan University and the incoming Executive Director of the Mendocino Writers’ Conference. \n\n\nKatharine Dion \nKatharine Dion’s 2018 debut novel The Dependents has already been named one of the best books of the summer by TIME\, Entertainment Weekly\, O: The Oprah Magazine\, Real Simple\, and Brit + Co. The writer Kate Walbert notes that “The Dependents that grapples with important questions through generations–the way we live now\, the way we may have chosen to live then–and the consequences. Dion’s intelligence and ambition truly shine through sentence after sentence.” Dion is a graduate of Yale University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where she was awarded the Iowa Arts Fellowship. She has also been a MacDowell Fellow\, the recipient of a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation\, and a finalist for Narrative Magazine’s 30 Below contest. She lives in Berkeley\, California. \n \nIsmail Muhammad \nIsmail Muhammad is a writer and critic based in Oakland\, California. He’s a staff writer at the Millions\, a contributing editor at ZYZZYVA\, a board member at the National Books Critics Circle\, and a Ph.D. candidate in the English department at U.C. Berkeley. In addition\, he’s been a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellowship\, a Simpson Family Literary Fellow\, and a participant in the VONA 2017 workshops. His work\, which focuses on literature\, art\, identity\, and black popular and visual culture\, has appeared in publications like Slate\, New Republic\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Real Life\, and Catapult. He’s currently working on a novel about the Great Migration and queer archives of black history. Talk to him for any amount of time and you’ll probably end up learning more than you ever wanted to know about Los Angeles and/or Drake. \n____________________ \nFree Admission \nCash Bar Exotica \nDoors at 5.30\, \nReading at 6.00 \n@ the Armory Club\, \n1799 Mission St.\, San Francisco\nacross from the San Francisco Armory
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-2/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers with Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Jane Smiley (Golden Age\, Moo\, A Thousand Acres)\nR.O. Kwon (The Incendiaries: A Novel)\nMaria Dahvana Headley (The Mere Wife: A Novel) \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-15/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Invocation to Daughters Barbara Jane Reyes
DESCRIPTION:2018 California Book Award Finalist \nFeminist experimental poetry in the tradition of Audre Lorde and Theresa Kyung Cha from a prominent Filipina American poet. \n“Reyes writes with conviction about the various ways imperialism transforms women into ‘capital\, collateral\, damaged soul.’ However\, the women that appear throughout the book are not merely victims; in Reyes’s radical cosmology\, these women—these daughters—are rebels\, saints\, revolutionaries\, and torchbearers\, ‘sharp-tongued\, willful.’ This book is a call to arms against oppressive languages\, systems\, and traditions.”––Publishers Weekly\, starred review \nInvocation to Daughters is a book of prayers\, psalms\, and odes for Filipina girls and women trying to survive and make sense of their own situations. Writing in an English inflected with Tagalog and Spanish\, in meditations on the relationship between fathers and daughters and impassioned pleas on behalf of victims of brutality\, Barbara Jane Reyes unleashes the colonized tongue in a lyrical feminist broadside written from a place of shared humanity. \nPraise for Invocation to Daughters: \n“Against violence against women\, Barbara Jane Reyes rips and runs\, jumping off Audre Lorde’s ‘the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house\,’ Invocation to Daughters recombines registers––prayers\, pleas and elegy––braiding a trilingual triple-threat\, a 3-pronged poetics that enjambs and reconfigures the formal with the street\, utterance with erasure\, the prose sentence with the liminal. Invocation to Daughters reminds me of the 70’s in the East Bay\, when Jessica Hagedorn met Ntozake Shange and ignited a green flash seen from horizon to horizon. Barbara Jane Reyes is one of the Bay Area’s incendiary voices.”––Sesshu Foster \n“Invocation to Daughters is a space for multitudes\, a hypnotic collection that draws from family history—particularly the complex cultural gendered dynamic between father and daughter—in order to create a manual for emancipation from the interior and exterior binds that keep us from ourselves. Through prayers\, calls to actions\, and testimonies\, Reyes invents ‘a language so that we know ourselves\, so that we may sing\, and tell\, and pray.'”––Carmen Giménez Smith \n\n\nPublisher City Lights Publishers\n\n\nFormat Paperback\nNb of pages 86 p.\nISBN-10 0872867471\nISBN-13 9780872867475
URL:https://litseen.com/event/invocation-to-daughters-barbara-jane-reyes/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Laborfest Writers Anthology 2005-2017
DESCRIPTION:Writer-contributors read to celebrate the publication of “Giving Voice: Laborfest Writers Anthology\, 2005-2017”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laborfest-writers-anthology-2005-2017/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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