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SUMMARY:Poetry with Gregory Pond and Silvi Alcivar
DESCRIPTION:Gregory Pond was born in Brooklyn\, NY to Panamanian parents and moved to San Francisco in the late 1970’s. Author and publisher of four books of poetry\, aftermoon and Blackened Blue\, 4:00 a.m. (DARK) and 4:00 a.m. (LIGHT). He has been featured in the Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal and Overthrowing Capitalism anthologies and has read all over the Bay Area\, including events sponsored by SF Public Library\, Howard Zinn Book Fair and Queer Rebels. He is currently a member of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade and as The Visiting Poet\, he offers readings to hospitals and assisted-living facilities\, as well as volunteering as facilitator of Poetically Speaking\, a weekly conference-call program for seniors featuring classic and contemporary poetry.\n~\nSilvi Alcivar’s poetry lives in the moment two strangers meet over her red royal typewriter–the anonymity an invitation to speak\, the typewriter keys a willing listener. As poet and owner of The Poetry Store since 2008\, Silvi’s written and sold an estimated 75K poems that live in wallets\, on refrigerators\, and an army bunker in antarctica. She’s worked events as small as a stranger’s living room\, intimate as a funeral\, big as a 5000 person party\, appeared on The California Report Magazine\, the TEDx stage\, published in anthologies\, and exhibited art in galleries through the bay area. She holds degrees in writing and art from Cornell University and Penn State. Follow her @thepoetrystore.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-with-gregory-pond-and-silvi-alcivar/
LOCATION:Black & Brown for Justice\, Peace and Equality\, 474 Valencia St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Obi Kaufmann and T.J. Stiles at Night of Ideas
DESCRIPTION:Litquake is proud to again partner with San Francisco’s annual edition of the global marathon event Night of Ideas (Nuit des Idées)\, at the city’s Main Library. Presented in collaboration with the French Consulate in San Francisco\, San Francisco Public Library (SFPL)\, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)\, and KQED\, this free seven-hour marathon of philosophical debate\, talks\, performances\, and music features top thinkers from San Francisco and beyond\, in a format designed to spur dialogue on the theme “Living on the Edge.” \nEvents run from 7 pm to 2 am throughout the evening. Multiple stages throughout the Main Library will host concurrent programming\, music and dance performances\, yoga\, breakout sessions and opportunities for engagement and debate amongst attendees. Litquake’s portion of the evening begins at 7:30 pm on the second floor of the Library\, which will be themed “Wonder & Worry.” We are honored to present a lecture by Bay Area naturalist\, painter\, poet\, and writer Obi Kaufmann\, author of several books including the award-winning California Field Atlas\, which blends science and art to illuminate the multifaceted array of the natural world. FREE\, advanced registration TBA \nLitquake’s second portion of the evening begins at 9:30 pm on the fourth floor of the Library at the information desk\, which will be themed “Telling Heroes from Villains”. Americans have changed their minds about whether certain icons are villains or heroes—but T.J. Stiles argues that we’re still not asking the right questions about them\, or about us. \nAbout Night of Ideas\nCo-produced in the United States by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy\, the Institut Français and local partners\, Night of Ideas/Nuit des Idées has been mounted in New York City since 2015 and in Los Angeles since 2017. Last year\, more than 6\,000 guests attended Night of Ideas at the San Francisco Public Library. The event begins in Paris on January 30\, 2020 and is held annually in more than 120 cities around the world. \n\n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n \nObi Kaufmann\nObi Kaufmann is a Bay Area author\, poet\, painter\, and naturalist. He grew up in the East Bay as the son of an astrophysicist and a psychologist\, and spent most of high school practicing calculus and breaking away in the evenings to scramble around Mount Diablo and map its creeks… Read More →\n \nT.J. Stiles\nTwo-time Pulitzer Prize recipient T.J. Stiles won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in History for Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America\, and the 2010 Pulitzer for Biography and the 2009 National Book Award for Nonfiction for The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/obi-kaufmann-at-night-of-ideas/
LOCATION:Koret Auditorium\, San Francisco Main Library\, 100 Larkin Avenune\, SAN FRANCISCO\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Tommy Orange: Author of There\, There
DESCRIPTION:Tommy Orange\, author of one of the best books of 2019\, There\, There\, is coming to Manny’s!! \nOne of the 10 best books fo the year by the NYT Book Review. \nNew York Times best seller. \nPulitzer Prize Finalist. \nOne of the Best Books of the Year according to The Washington Post\, NPR\, Time\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Entertainment Weekly\, The Boston Globe\, GQ\, The Dallas Morning News\, Buzzfeed\, BookPage\, Publishers Weekly\, Library Journal\, and Kirkus Reviews. \nThere\, There\, is one of the best books of 2019 and it’s (local) author\, Tommy Orange\, is coming to Manny’s to chat about his story\, the book\, sign copies\, and discuss what it’s like being hailed as one of the greatest authors of now. \nAbout There\, There:\nTommy Orange’s shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow\, all connected to each other in ways they may not yet realize. There is Jacquie Red Feather\, newly sober and working to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene\, who is pulling his life back together after his uncle’s death\, has come to work at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil has come to perform traditional dance for the very first time. Together\, this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American—grappling with a complex and painful history\, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality\, with communion and sacrifice and heroism. Hailed as an instant classic\, There There is at once poignant and laugh-out-loud funny\, utterly contemporary and always unforgettable. \nAbout Tommy Orange:\nTommy Orange is a recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a 2014 MacDowell Fellow\, and a 2016 Writing 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. \nThe New York Times Review of the Book:\nYes\, Tommy Orange’s New Novel Really Is That Good
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-conversation-with-tommy-orange-author-of-there-there/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Smack Dab Queer Open Mic feat. Fureigh!
DESCRIPTION:Smack Dab Queer Open Mic is a free LGBTQIA community Our slogan? slogan “All ages\, all genders\, all the time.” We’re the longest running QT Open mic in the bay and we welcome YOU to join us to share: stories\, poems\, a song\, dance\, your visual art or your latest manifesto. Want to simply join us as friends\, family and supportive allies in Queer and Trans community? Come on in!\nAbout our February feature:\nFureigh (they/them) picks up a guitar and “shreds melodically\,” according to Rolling Stone. After five years in the critically acclaimed Brooklyn-based queer rock band the Shondes (“the next Sleater-Kinney?” –VH1)\, Fureigh co-founded the The Homobiles (“the Bay’s mainstay queer party punk supergroup” –East Bay Express; “songs about cars and babes” — plus bathhouses\, street harassment and San Francisco glory days)\, featured in Mx. Justin Vivian Bond’s curation of the New York Live Arts Festival. Fureigh has shared the stage with Margaret Cho\, Jody Bleyle of Team Dresch\, and more\, and played guitar in the trans superhero rock opera the Red Shades. They’re currently working on their debut solo album. \nIf you’d like to perform at the open mic\, please come sign up at 4:30pm and bring five minutes of whatever you want to share {we do pay attention to time.} \n*Accessibility* Manny’s is accessible from sidewalk level with double doors. All areas are wheelchair accessible. The bathrooms are gender neutral and have wheelchair accessibility. The room our event is in has a variety of seating for a variety of body sizes including straight backed chairs\, armchairs and some comfy sofas. Sound is comfortably amplified. Manny’s is not fragrance free. \n*About free EventBrite tickets: You don’t have to sign up for a ticket BUT this helps us with exposure/promo and in estimating attendance. ♥ \n*How to get to us:* Manny’s\, 3092 16th Street at Valencia\, is a block from 16th and Mission Bart\, and near the 22\, 14\, 49\, and 33 Muni lines.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/smack-dab-queer-open-mic-feat-fureigh/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays in February: Au\, Felicelli\, & Flynn-Goodlett
DESCRIPTION:Nancy Au (Spider Love Song)\, Anita Felicelli (Chimerica)\, and Luiza Flynn-Goodlett (Harm’s Way and Twice Shy) will read at Odd Mondays February 3\, 6:30pm Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St in Noe Valley. Free admission & free refreshments. \nSPIDER LOVE SONG by Nancy Au is set mostly in Chinese American communities in California. “Only a writer who knows how closely bound are heartbreak and resilience could write stories as emotionally stirring as these”[Kirkus] In CHIMERICA\, Anita Felicelli gives us down-and-out Tamil American trial lawyer Maya Ramesh. “Felicelli creates a novel that showcases not only the violence of the courtroom\, but the true centrality of art and nature in our lives.”[Electric Literature] TWICE SHY by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett is “full of sharp-toothed love and quick-witted fury; not for the faint of heart.”[author Frederick Speers] “When the other world spread arms to/embrace\, I chose this\, opened my eyes.”[from HARM’S WAY]
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-in-february-au-felicelli-flynn-goodlett/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200203T190000
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SUMMARY:Joshua Yaffa in conversation with Amanda Silverman
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Joshua Yaffa for his new book Between Two Fires: Truth\, Ambition\, and Compromise in Putins Russia. He’ll be in conversation with Mother Jones editorial director Amanda Silverman. Please join us! \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event\, to be held at The Bindery (1727 Haight St.). The price of admission may be applied\, at the event\, toward the purchase of Between Two Fires\, or to a beverage at The Bindery’s bar. Advance tickets are highly encouraged — tickets are not guaranteed to be available at the door. \n\n“Unforgettable . . . This is a book about Putin’s Russia that is unlike any other.” – Patrick Radden Keefe\, author of Say Nothing \nIn this rich and novelistic tour of contemporary Russia\, Joshua Yaffa introduces readers to some of the country’s most remarkable figures — from politicians and entrepreneurs to artists and historians — who have built their careers and constructed their identities in the shadow of the Putin system. Torn between their own ambitions and the omnipresent demands of the state\, each walks an individual path of compromise. Some muster cunning and cynicism to extract all manner of benefits and privileges from those in power. Others\, finding themselves to be less adept\, are left broken and demoralized. What binds them together is the tangled web of dilemmas and contradictions they face. \nBetween Two Fires chronicles the lives of a number of strivers who understand that their dreams are best — or only — realized through varying degrees of cooperation with the Russian government. With sensitivity and depth\, Yaffa profiles the director of the country’s main television channel\, an Orthodox priest at war with the church hierarchy\, a Chechen humanitarian who turns a blind eye to persecutions\, and many others. The result is an intimate and probing portrait of a nation that is much discussed yet little understood. By showing how citizens shape their lives around the demands of a capricious and frequently repressive state — as often by choice as under threat of force — Yaffa offers urgent lessons about the true nature of modern authoritarianism. \n\nJoshua Yaffa is a correspondent for The New Yorker in Moscow. For his work in Russia\, he has been named a fellow at New America\, a recipient of the American Academy’s Berlin Prize\, and a finalist for the Livingston Award. Author photo by Max Avdeev. \nAmanda Silverman is the editorial director (newsroom) based in Mother Jones San Francisco office. Before joining Mother Jones\, Amanda worked as a story editor for Foreign Policy’s print magazine. Prior to that\, she was the deputy editor of The New Republic. \n— \n** Please note ** \n– This event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n– This is an all-ages event. \n– The duration of this event is up to the author. \n– Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. \n– Should you decide to purchase Between Two Fires at the event\, you can apply the cost of your ticket toward the price of the book. You may instead choose to apply the cost of your ticket toward a drink at The Bindery’s bar. \n– Accessibility is important to us! Please let us know in advance if you have any special needs and we will do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com. \n– Facebook RSVP is appreciated\, but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joshua-yaffa-in-conversation-with-amanda-silverman/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jennifer S. Hirsch / Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex\, Power\, and Assault on Campus
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Jennifer S. Hirsch\, co-author with Shamus Khan of the new book Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex\, Power\, and Assault on Campus. Please join us! \nSexual Citizens is a groundbreaking study that transforms how we see and address the most misunderstood problem on college campuses: widespread sexual assault. \nThe fear of campus sexual assault has become an inextricable part of the college experience. And for far too many students\, that fear is realized. Research has shown that by the time they graduate\, as many as one in three women and almost one in six men will have been sexually assaulted. But why is sexual assault such a common feature of college life? And what can be done to prevent it? Sexual Citizens provides answers. Drawing on the Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation (SHIFT) at Columbia University\, the most comprehensive study of sexual assault on a campus to date\, Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan present an entirely new framework that emphasizes sexual assault’s social roots\, transcending current debates about consent\, predators in a “hunting ground\,” and the dangers of hooking up. \nSexual Citizens is based on years of research interviewing and observing college life—with students of different races\, genders\, sexual orientations\, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Hirsch and Khan’s landmark study reveals the social ecosystem that makes sexual assault so predictable\, explaining how physical spaces\, alcohol\, peer groups\, and cultural norms influence young people’s experiences and interpretations of both sex and sexual assault. Through the powerful concepts of “sexual projects\,” “sexual citizenship\,” and “sexual geographies\,” the authors offer a new and widely-accessible language for understanding the forces that shape young people’s sexual relationships. Empathetic\, insightful\, and far-ranging\, Sexual Citizens transforms our understanding of sexual assault and offers a roadmap for how to address it. \n\nJennifer S. Hirsch is a professor of sociomedical sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University\, and codirects SHIFT\, the Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation\, at Columbia University. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Sexual Citizens\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-s-hirsch-sexual-citizens-a-landmark-study-of-sex-power-and-assault-on-campus/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Beau Beausoleil reads from two new collections of his work - open mic follows
DESCRIPTION:Bird & Beckett is proud to present a San Francisco poet of exquisite talents and profound dedication to humanity. Beau Beausoleil’s long history as a bookseller and his many years leading the Al-Mutanabbi Street Project speak to his dedication to to the word\, to the world and to the heart. \nTonight\, Beau will read from his recent volume of poems\, Harness of Bone\, and from his just-released book of new and selected poems from 1976 to present\, A Glyphic House. \nLearn more about Beau at this link:\nwww.narratively.com/resurrecting-the-book-market-of-baghdad
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beau-beausoleil-reads-from-two-new-collections-of-his-work-open-mic-follows/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ocean Vuong with Tommy Orange
DESCRIPTION:Showered with critical acclaim\, Ocean Vuong’s 2016 poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds cemented his status as a young new voice. His equally beloved debut novel\, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous\, is a stunning portrait of family\, love\, and the power of storytelling. Written as a letter from a son to a mother\, the book asks perennial and pressing questions about race\, class\, masculinity\, addiction\, and trauma\, all with the characteristic care and love that Vuong lends the page. Born in Vietnam and raised in Connecticut\, Vuong is an Assistant Professor in the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at Umass-Amherst. His writing has been featured in The Atlantic\, Harpers\, The Nation\, The New Yorker\, and the American Poetry Review. \n“[On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous] is one of the best novels I’ve ever read…Ocean Vuong is a master. This book a masterpiece.” — Tommy Orange \nTommy Orange’s stunning debut novel\, There There\, grapples with the complex and painful history of a multigenerational Native American family living in Oakland\, at once celebrating their rich spiritual heritage and illuminating the profound consequences of systematic discrimination. A recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts\, Orange is a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ocean-vuong-with-tommy-orange/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Silent Reading Party
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Lemony Snicket and Radio Silence. Bring a book to read to yourself in silence. Drinks and light snacks will be available. There is no admission cost and no reservations necessary. Proceeds from drink sales will benefit James Lick Middle School and Paul Revere Elementary\, public schools in San Francisco. \nSign up to receive emails about upcoming Silent Reading Parties here. \nSee you there\, readers!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silent-reading-party-4/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:“Uncanny Valley” Author Anna Wiener in Conversation w/ Casey Newton
DESCRIPTION:New Yorker writer Anna Wiener’s new book “Uncanny Valley” is a brilliant memoir of a half-decade lived in San Francisco as tech changes the community for better and for worse. We’ll discuss how working at fast-growing tech startups changed her perspective on privacy\, social networks\, and the city she lives in. \nAbout Uncanny Valley: A Memoir: \nTechnology journalist Wiener looks at Silicon Valley life in this insider-y debut memoir that sharply critiques start-up culture and the tech industry. In 2013\, Wiener left an assistant job at a New York literary agency to work for an e-book start-up run by young men who were uninterested in reading books. That job led to a move to San Francisco\, where she worked in customer support at a data analytics start-up\, then at a start-up that focused on software development. Wiener humorously describes the employee perks at the office (“a miniature theme park” with a wraparound bar\, a roof deck\, a speakeasy)\, though she decided to primarily work from home “in sagging leggings.” \nWiener writes of how she struggled to be taken seriously in a male-dominated industry that lacked diversity; attended lavish work events—at a Michelin-starred restaurant in Lake Tahoe—while San Francisco’s homeless population increased; communicated with coworkers using just emoji; and watched 20-somethings get rich overnight. She eventually became disillusioned with her job (“I was burning out and failing up”) and left in 2018 to pursue writing\, but not before buying up her vested stock options. Wiener is an entertaining writer\, and those interested in a behind-the-scenes look at life in Silicon Valley will want to take a look.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/uncanny-valley-author-anna-wiener-in-conversation-w-casey-newton/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Brooke Barker & Boaz Frankel / Let's Be Weird Together
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith holds a special in-store event with Brooke Barker (Sad Animal Facts and Sad Animal Babies) and Boaz Frankel\, creators of the new book Let’s Be Weird Together. Please join us! \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event\, to be held at Booksmith (1644 Haight St.). The price of admission is equal to the cost of Let’s Be Weird Together\, which is included with each ticket. Advance tickets are highly encouraged — tickets are not guaranteed to be available at the door. \n\nConversations made up entirely of inside jokes. Netflix passwords\, bizarre dreams\, even French fries\, all shared without a second thought. From husband-wife team Brooke Barker  and Boaz Frankel\, heres that rare relationship book that captures the rituals and mini universe (Population: 2) that a couple can create together\, in a sweet\, small package with all the humor\, charming illustrations\, and endearing quirkiness that makes their It’s Different Every Day Page-A-Day Calendar and Barkers New York Times-bestselling Sad Animal Facts each cult favorites. \nCelebrating the uniqueness that makes each person\, and each relationship\, special\, Let’s Be Weird Together includes a humorous timeline of how a loved ones oddball habits go from annoying to swoon-worthy over time. Illustrations celebrate the Tiny Acts of Heroism you do for your #1 person — like saying youre full when theres only one bite of cake left\, so they can enjoy it. Plus\, fun facts on the habits of lovesick animals (theyre just like us!): Bowerbirds collect blue items to impress mates. Perfect for Valentines and anniversary gifts\, its a hip\, not-at-all saccharine way to say\, “I-love-you-slash-I-love-being-weird-with-you!” \n\n \nBrooke Barker is the creator of the Sad Animal Facts Instagram account and author of the New York Times bestselling book of the same name and its sequel\, Sad Animal Babies. Brooke has contributed to the New York Times\, Lenny Letter\, the Guardian\, Cup of Jo\, The Stranger\, and more. Her books have been translated into nine languages and her comics have been featured by New York Magazine\, Forbes\, Bustle\, Entertainment Weekly\, Fast Company\, Mashable\, POPSUGAR\, Parade\, and the Guardian\, among others. Brooke currently works as a freelance writer and illustrator. \nBoaz Frankel is a filmmaker\, writer\, and talk show host. For six years Boaz hosted the Pedal Powered Talk Show\, a talk show built into a bicycle that traveled all over the United States. When Boaz isn’t breaking Guinness World Records for the most high fives in an hour\, appearing on NBC’s TODAY show\, or starring in a Dutch television segment called Boaz Goes Dutch\, he creates quirky documentaries\, curates a kazoo museum\, and takes Kip (Boaz and Brooke’s dog) on long walks. \nToday\, Brooke and Boaz live in Pittsburgh\, PA with an adorable dog named Kip. You can find them at their local Dairy Queen indulging in their favorite Blizzard flavors (M&M with no chocolate syrup for Brooke and Reeses for Boaz)\, exploring the streets of Pittsburgh with Kip\, and befriending the local wildlife\, be it dead or alive (Brooke has a fascination with road killBoaz once pulled over to take a picture of a dead skunk for her). Let’s Be Weird Together is their first book together\, but the creative couple have been collaborating on the It’s Different Every Day Page-A-Day Calendar since 2014\, a contagiously fun calendar that breaks the mundanity of daily life by offering a new surprise each day. \n\n** Please note ** \n– This is an all-ages event. \n– The duration of this event is up to the authors. \n– Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. \n– 1 ticket = 1 book\, no exceptions. The book must be purchased from Booksmith. If you already have a copy of Let’s Be Weird Together\, remember that books make great gifts! If you’ve already gifted Let’s Be Weird Together to all of your friends\, it’s ok to buy a different book from Booksmith instead — in that case\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com. \n– Signing\, photo\, and Q&A details to come. \n– If you can’t attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Let’s Be Weird Together\, place an order below and be sure to include your request in the special field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brooke-barker-boaz-frankel-lets-be-weird-together/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Author Mary Ladd in conversation with Peter Lawrence Kane
DESCRIPTION:The 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.   \n\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\n  \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 \n  \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. \nPeter Lawrence Kane was the editor of SF Weekly from 2017-19 and continues to contribute to the paper. He has only 11 more national parks to go before reaching all 61 in America\, which is going to require at least three expensive trips to Alaska.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-mary-ladd-in-conversation-with-peter-lawrence-kane/
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:Cutting Up The Century: A Burroughs Birthday Miscellany
DESCRIPTION:with Joan Hawkins\, Alex Wermer-Colan\, Peter Hale\, and Jon Longhi \ncelebrating the release of \nWilliam S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century \nEdited by Joan Hawkins and Alex Wermer-Colan \npublished by University of Indiana Press \n\nWilliam S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century is the definitive book on Burroughs’ overarching cut-up project and its relevance to the American twentieth century. Burroughs’s Nova Trilogy (The Soft Machine\, Nova Express\, and The Ticket That Exploded) remains the best-known of his textual cut-up creations\, but he committed more than a decade of his life to searching out multimedia for use in works of collage. By cutting up\, folding in\, and splicing together newspapers\, magazines\, letters\, book reviews\, classical literature\, audio recordings\, photographs\, and films\, Burroughs created an eclectic and wide-ranging countercultural archive. This collection includes previously unpublished work by Burroughs such as cut-ups of work written by his son\, cut-ups of critical responses to his own work\, collages on the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal\, excerpts from his dream journals\, and some of the few diary entries that Burroughs wrote about his wife\, Joan. \nWilliam S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century also features original essays\, interviews\, and discussions by established Burroughs scholars\, respected artists\, and people who encountered Burroughs. The essays consider Burroughs from a range of starting points—literary studies\, media studies\, popular culture\, gender studies\, post-colonialism\, history\, and geography. Ultimately\, the collection situates Burroughs as a central artist and thinker of his time and considers his insights on political and social problems that have become even more dire in ours. \nJoan Hawkins is Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Media School at Indiana University. She is author of Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avant-garde and editor of the anthology Downtown Film and TV Culture\, 1975-2001. She co-organized the Burroughs Century conference and symposium held at Indiana University Bloomington in 2014. \nAlex Wermer-Colan is a Council of Library and Information Resources Postdoctoral Fellow at Temple University’s Digital Scholarship Center. He researched and edited The Travel Agency is on Fire\, a collection of unpublished archival prose poems Burroughs produced by cutting up a range of canonical texts. Wermer-Colan was the organizer of the William S. Burroughs Centennial Conference held at the City University of New York in 2014.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cutting-up-the-century-a-burroughs-birthday-miscellany/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Dmitry Samarov Returns With His New Book Soviet Stamps
DESCRIPTION:Dmitry’s new book is Soviet Stamps\, wherein he recounts how he became an artist. Through written vignettes\, artwork\, and family photos the book charts Samarov’s emigration from the USSR in 1978\, on to his attempts to fit into American society and peripatetic attempts to earn a living\, while continuing to create artwork. Published in a limited-edition\, foil-stamped hardcover run of 800 signed-and-numbered copies. \nDmitry will be in conversation with Ben Terrall\, author of the locally sourced underground ‘zine Namaste\, Motherf**ker!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dmitry-samarov-returns-with-his-new-book-soviet-stamps/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200205T210000
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: 'Gay Like Me' with author Richie Jackson
DESCRIPTION:Richie Jackson is an award-winning Broadway\, television and film producer. He is coming to Manny’s to talk about his new book ‘Gay Like Me’. \nIn this poignant and urgent love letter to his son\, award-winning Broadway\, TV and film producer Richie Jackson reflects on his experiences as a gay man in America and the progress and setbacks of the LGBTQ community over the last 50 years. \n“My son is kind\, responsible\, and hardworking. He is ready for college. He is not ready to be a gay man living in America.”\nWhen Jackson’s son born through surrogacy came out to him at age 15\, the successful producer\, now in his 50s\, was compelled to reflect on his experiences and share his wisdom on life for LGBTQ Americans over the past half-century. \nGay Like Me is a celebration of gay identity and parenting\, and a powerful warning for his son\, other gay men and the world. Jackson looks back at his own journey as a gay man coming of age through decades of political and cultural turmoil.\nJackson’s son lives in a seemingly more liberated America\, and Jackson beautifully lays out how far we’ve come since Stonewall — the increased visibility of gay people in society\, the legal right to marry\, and the existence of a drug to prevent HIV. But bigotry is on the rise\, ignited by a president who has declared war on the gay community and fanned the flames of homophobia. A newly constituted Supreme Court with a conservative tilt is poised to overturn equality laws and set the clock back decades. Being gay is a gift\, Jackson writes\, but with their gains in jeopardy\, the gay community must not be complacent. \nAs Ta-Nehisi Coates awakened us to the continued pervasiveness of racism in America in Between the World and Me\, Jackson’s rallying cry in Gay Like Me is an eye-opening indictment to straight-lash in America. This book is an intimate\, personal exploration of our uncertain times and most troubling questions and profound concerns about issues as fundamental as dignity\, equality\, and justice. \nGay Like Me is a blueprint for our time that bridges the knowledge gap of what it’s like to be gay in America. This is a cultural manifesto that will stand the test of time. Angry\, proud\, fierce\, tender\, it is a powerful letter of love from a father to a son that holds lasting insight for us all. \nMore about Richie Jackson: \nRichie Jackson is an award-winning Broadway\, television and film producer who most recently produced the Tony Award-nominated Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song on Broadway. He executive produced Showtime’s Nurse Jackie (the Emmy and Golden Globe nominee for Best Comedy Series) for seven seasons and co-executive produced the film Shortbus\, written and directed by John Cameron Mitchell. As an alumnus of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts\, he endowed a fellowship program\, the Richie Jackson Artist Fellowship\, at his alma mater in 2015 to assist graduates in the transition from academia to a lifelong career in the arts. He and his husband\, Jordan Roth\, were honored with the Trevor Project’s 2016 Trevor Hero Award. They live in New York City with their two sons. \nCheck out his website: www.richiejacksongaylikeme.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-talk-gay-like-me-with-author-richie-jackson/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Elaine Kahn
DESCRIPTION:reading from her new book \nRomance or The End: poems \npublished by Soft Skull Press \nRomance or The End takes up the tools of romantic narrative in order to perform the rupture between self and story that occurs at the onset of trauma. Using known and pathologized literary arcs\, Elaine Kahn unspools the fundamental instability of truth\, love\, and language to create an experiential portrait of narrative’s power to both disfigure and restore. \nROMANCE or THE END \nThis is a book about love. \nAnd it is a book about lies. \nLove can be a lie\, but it is also always true. \nThis is a book about truth. \nThis is a book about story. \nThere is no such thing as a true story\, and so there are no stories in this book. \nWithout a story\, there is separation. \nThis is a book about separation. \nEverything is a story. Even the truth. \nThere is nothing truer in this world than the lie of love. \n\nElaine Kahn is the author of Women in Public (City Lights Publishers\, 2015)\, as well as several chapbooks\, including I Told You I Was Sick: A Romance (After Hours Ltd\, 2017)\, A Voluptuous Dream During an Eclipse (Poor Claudia\, 2012)\, and Customer (Ecstatic Peace Library\, 2010). Her writing has appeared in Frieze\, The Brooklyn Rail\, jubilat\, Poetry Foundation\, Art Papers\, and elsewhere. She received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and teaches at Pomona College and the Poetry Field School. She lives in Los Angeles\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elaine-kahn/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alexis Coe / You Never Forget Your First
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith welcomes back Alexis Coe (Alice + Freda Forever) for her new book\, You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington. Please join us! \nYoung George Washington was raised by a struggling single mother\, demanded military promotions\, caused an international incident\, and never backed down — even when his dysentery got so bad he had to ride with a cushion on his saddle. But after he married Martha\, everything changed. Washington became the kind of man who named his dog Sweetlips and hated to leave home. He took up arms against the British only when there was no other way\, though he lost more battles than he won. \nAfter an unlikely victory in the Revolutionary War cast him as the nation’s hero\, he was desperate to retire\, but the founders pressured him into the presidency — twice. When he retired years later\, no one talked him out of it. He left the highest office heartbroken over the partisan nightmare his backstabbing cabinet had created. \nBack on his plantation\, the man who fought for liberty must confront his greatest hypocrisy — what to do with the men\, women\, and children he owns — before he succumbs to death. \nWith irresistible style and warm humor\, You Never Forget Your First combines rigorous research and lively storytelling that will have readers — including those who thought presidential biographies were just for dads — inhaling every page. \n\n“Every now and then a fresh\, new biography told by a gifted storyteller on a familiar figure captures our imagination. So it is with this spirited and engaging biography of George Washington.” – Doris Kearns Goodwin\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Leadership and Team of Rivals \n“A bewitching combination of erudition and cheek\, You Never Forget Your First is a playful\, disruptive work of history.” – Jennifer Egan\, New York Times bestselling author of Manhattan Beach \n“If you think there is nothing new to learn about George Washington\, then you have a treat in store with Alexis Coe’s You Never Forget Your First. In this keen and savage analysis of our longstanding Washington canon\, Coe dramatically reshapes our understanding of the president who could not tell a lie (actually\, he could\, and did). The result is a humorous\, sympathetic and refreshingly human portrait of Washington that is destined to become a classic.” – Karen Abbott\, New York Times bestselling author of The Ghosts of Eden Park \n“Alexis Coe energetically dusts off an old-boys genre to present a life in full\, without sentiment or whitewashing. It’s a public service\, and it’s also a lot of fun.” – Irin Carmon\, New York Times bestselling co-author of Notorious RBG \n\nAlexis Coe is an award-winning historian and author of the narrative history book Alice + Freda Forever (soon to be a major motion picture). Coe is a consulting producer on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s forthcoming George Washington series on the History Channel\, and has frequently appeared on CNN. She’s the cohost of Audible’s “Presidents Are People\, Too!” and the host of “No Man’s Land.” Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The New York Times Magazine\, The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Slate\, Time\, and many others. She holds a graduate degree in American history\, and was a Research Curator at the New York Public Library. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of You Never Forget Your First\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexis-coe-you-never-forget-your-first/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Josiah Luis Alderete and James Cagney
DESCRIPTION:This event\, the first in The Poetry Center reading series for 2020\, is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and is free and open to the public. \nJosiah Luis Alderete is a full-blooded Pocho Spanglish speaking poeta from La Area Bahia. He began to write poetry in the kitchen of his Mama’s Mexican restaurant and began performing his work in the Mission District of San Pancho at Cafe Babar back in the ’90’s. He was a founding member of San Francisco’s outspoken word troupe The Molotov Mouths (whose collected writings were published by Manic D Press in 2003). Over the years Josiah Luis has been featured at numerous literary events in La Area Bahia. He is also a radio insurgente whose stories have appeared on KALW’s “Crosscurrents” and whose show “The Spanglish Power Hour” aired on KPFA. In 2017 he was named an AIR New Voice
URL:https://litseen.com/event/josiah-luis-alderete-and-james-cagney/
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:David Talbot - Between Heaven And Hell
DESCRIPTION:If anyone knows hard work\, it’s David Talbot. A bestselling author and journalist of books such as Season Of The Witch and The Devil’s Chessboard\, nothing seemed capable of stopping him from churning out his signature wit and insight onto the page. Everything changed the day he had his stroke. In his new book\, Between Heaven And Hell\, Talbot dives into the event that tipped his life on its side. Please join us in welcoming David Talbot back to BookShop West Portal to discuss his journey back to health and writing on Thursday\, February 6th at 7PM!\n—-\n“A deeply affecting examination of mortality\, ambition and the priorities of a man who dodged death to live better days.” — Dave Eggers\, bestselling author of The Circle\, Zeitoun\, and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius\n—-\nThis book is perfect for:\n– Fans of David Talbot\n– Anyone dealing with or recovering from health issues (particularly stroke or brain injury) and looking for insight and inspiration\n– Gen Xers and baby boomers who understand their risk for stroke\n– Entrepreneurs scared of burnout
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-talbot-between-heaven-and-hell-2/
LOCATION:Bookshop West Portal\, 80 W Portal Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94127\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Fanny Renoir Variety Show
DESCRIPTION:Join Fanny Renoir and friends for an evening of poetry\, music\, performance\, and films! \nFeaturing: \n\nDOMINIC ANGERAME\nHOWARD MUNSON\nJEFF GIORDANO\nANTHONY BUCHANAN\nJESSICA LOOS\nNATHAN MAY\nROSEMARY MANNO\nKATZ FORSMAN\nJEAN FORSMAN\nJERRY FERRAZ\nBASCIA\nRAYNER\nSELEN OSTURK\nPETER DANIEL WEBSTER
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fanny-renoir-variety-show/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200206T210000
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CREATED:20191124T170028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T170028Z
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SUMMARY:Garth Greenwell: Cleanness
DESCRIPTION:Garth Greenwell discusses his new novel\, Cleanness\, with R.O. Kwon. \nPraise for Cleanness \n“Garth Greenwell is an intensely beautiful and gorgeous writer. I can think of no contemporary author who brings as much reality and honesty to the description of sex—locating in it the sublime\, as well as our deepest degradation\, sweetness\, confusion\, and rage. Most American literature seems neutered by comparison. His perfect noticing extends to the way we experience love and loneliness\, the feeling of exile\, and the eternal search for home.”—Sheila Heti\, author of Motherhood \n“So rarely do words make comprehensible the inevitability and confusion of desire as Garth Greenwell’s writing does. His sensibility is akin to James Baldwin’s\, and he observes the world with eyes like those of Tolstoy. With shimmering prose and undiluted intensity\, Cleanness captures the indefinableness of pain and intimacy\, love and alienation\, vulnerability and sustainability.”—Yiyun Li\, author of Where Reasons End \n“In Cleanness\, I found an end to a loneliness I didn’t know—until now—how to describe. Greenwell maps the worlds our language walls off—sex\, love\, shame and friendship\, the foreign and the familiar—and finds the sublime. There are visceral shocks like I’ve never encountered in print\, and they delighted me\, again and again. With each plunge we take beneath the surface of life\, lost and new worlds appear. This could only be the work of a master.”—Alexander Chee\, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel \n“If Henry James were alive in this strange century\, if Thomas Mann had been allowed to write raw sex\, if Virginia Woolf had slummed it more\, if Proust had been born in Kentucky\, if they all commingled their blood and brains\, we might get something like Garth Greenwell. Cleanness lives between Europe and America\, between novel and story\, between fiction and the self. It is indescribable\, and it is genius.”—Rebecca Makkai\, author of The Great Believers \n“I don’t know how Garth Greenwell writes such delicate\, profane fiction. These stories are grace and salt\, tenderness and shadow. Reading this book made me want to sit with my emotions and desires; it made me want to be a better writer.”—Carmen Maria Machado\, author of Her Body and Other Parties \nAbout Cleanness \nIn the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut\, What Belongs to You\, Garth Greenwell deepens his exploration of foreignness\, obligation\, and desire \nSofia\, Bulgaria\, a landlocked city in southern Europe\, stirs with hope and impending upheaval. Soviet buildings crumble\, wind scatters sand from the far south\, and political protesters flood the streets with song. \nIn this atmosphere of disquiet\, an American teacher navigates a life transformed by the discovery and loss of love. As he prepares to leave the place he’s come to call home\, he grapples with the intimate encounters that have marked his years abroad\, each bearing uncanny reminders of his past. A queer student’s confession recalls his own first love\, a stranger’s seduction devolves into paternal sadism\, and a romance with another foreigner opens\, and heals\, old wounds. Each echo reveals startling insights about what it means to seek connection: with those we love\, with the places we inhabit\, and with our own fugitive selves. \nCleanness revisits and expands the world of Garth Greenwell’s beloved debut\, What Belongs to You\, declared “an instant classic” by The New York Times Book Review. In exacting\, elegant prose\, he transcribes the strange dialects of desire\, cementing his stature as one of our most vital living writers. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/garth-greenwell-cleanness/
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:The Buried Ships of San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Every day\, thousands of us walk above and over the buried hulls of ships\, old wharves\, and cargo. Muni streetcars below the street pass right through the oaken hull of a 19th-century ship. Nearly a thousand ships came from all over the world to San Francisco in the early years of the Gold Rush. Almost fifty of them burned to the waterline in the 1851 fire; others used as warehouses were surrounded by wharves that were constantly being extended. Everything was subsequently buried as the sandy hills were leveled to push the shoreline out to deeper water. A revised historical map of Yerba Buena Cove (recently featured by National Geographic) serves as a basis for the presentation\, and was recently developed by San Francisco Maritime Museum staff working with archaeologists. Copies of the map will be available for purchase.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-buried-ships-of-san-francisco/
LOCATION:Mechanics Institute\, 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200207T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200207T203000
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SUMMARY:Lidia Yuknavitch / Verge
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery welcomes the fierce and fabulous Lidia Yuknavitch back for her first collection of stories\, Verge. Please join us! \nI tell you\, do not go near that place. Do not go near it. Graywolves guard the ground there. Girls are growing from guts\, enough for a body and language all the way out of this world. \nAn eight-year-old trauma victim is enlisted as an underground courier\, rushing frozen organs through the alleys of Eastern Europe. A young janitor transforms discarded objects into a fantastical\, sprawling miniature city until a shocking discovery forces him to rethink his creation. A brazen child tells off a pack of schoolyard tormentors with the spirited invention of an eleventh commandment. A wounded man drives eastward\, through tears and grief\, toward an unexpected transcendence. \nLidia Yuknavitch’s bestselling novels The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children\, and her groundbreaking memoir The Chronology of Water\, have established her as one of our most urgent contemporary voices: a writer with a rare gift for tracing the jagged boundaries between art and trauma\, sex and violence\, destruction and survival. In Verge\, her first collection of short fiction\, she turns her eye to life on the margins\, in all its beauty and brutality. A book of heroic grace and empathy\, Verge is a viscerally powerful and moving survey of our modern heartache life. \n\nLidia Yuknavitch is the nationally bestselling author of the novels The Book of Joan\, The Small Backs of Children\, Dora: A Headcase\, and the memoir The Chronology of Water. She is the recipient of two Oregon Book Awards and a Willamette Writers Award\, and has been a finalist for the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize and the PEN Center Creative Nonfiction Award. She lives in Portland\, Oregon. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. The bar opens with doors at 2pm; event starts at 7pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Verge\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lidia-yuknavitch-verge/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200207T210000
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SUMMARY:KSW Presents Meng Jin and Mimi Lok
DESCRIPTION:Kearny Street Workshop celebrates the latest book releases from Meng Jin and Mimi Lok!\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nOn Friday\, February 7th\, KSW Presents Meng Jin\, author of Little Gods (HarperCollins\, 2020)\, and Mimi Lok\, author of Last of Her Name (Kaya Press\, 2019). This reading is a celebration of their books\, powerful stories about Asian women that bend time and place in their journeys to seek answers and connection in the aftermath of grief\, displacement\, and diaspora. \n+++ \nCALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: We are opening up submissions for writers to be a part of this reading. Please see below for more information. Apply here: https://kearnystreet.submittable.com/submit/157639/ksw-presents-meng-jin-and-mimi-lok \nWHEN: Friday\, February 7th\, from 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM. \nWHERE: Arc Gallery & Studios\, 1246 Folsom Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94103. \nHOW MUCH: $8 Pre-sale\, $20 Support Level (reserved seats) available. \n*There is limited seating at the venue\, you may purchase supporter level tickets to reserve seats. If you have a disability and/or need to be seated during the event\, please contact us at info@kearnystreet.org and we’ll work to accommodate you. \nFEATURES \nMENG JIN was born in Shanghai and lives in San Francisco with her partner Neel and her puppy Tofu. A Kundiman Fellow\, she is a graduate of Harvard and Hunter College. Little Gods is her first novel. \nABOUT LITTLE GODS \nOn the night of June Fourth\, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan\, a brilliant physicist who until this moment has successfully erased her past\, fighting what she calls the mind’s arrow of time. \nWhen Su Lan dies unexpectedly seventeen years later\, it is her daughter Liya who inherits the silences and contradictions of her life. Liya\, who grew up in America\, takes her mother’s ashes to China—to her\, an unknown country. In a territory inhabited by the ghosts of the living and the dead\, Liya’s memories are joined by those of two others: Zhu Wen\, the woman last to know Su Lan before she left China\, and Yongzong\, the father Liya has never known. In this way a portrait of Su Lan emerges: an ambitious scientist\, an ambivalent mother\, and a woman whose relationship to her own past shapes and ultimately unmakes Liya’s own sense of displacement. \nA story of migrations literal and emotional\, spanning time\, space and class\, Little Gods is a sharp yet expansive exploration of the aftermath of unfulfilled dreams\, an immigrant story in negative that grapples with our tenuous connections to memory\, history\, and self. \nMIMI LOK is the author of the story collection Last of Her Name. The title story was a finalist for the 2018 Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize. She is the recipient of a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award and an Ylvisaker Award for Fiction\, and was a finalist for the Susan Atefat Arts and Letters Prize for nonfiction. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in McSweeney’s\, Electric Literature\, Nimrod\, Lucky Peach\, Hyphen\, the South China Morning Post\, and elsewhere. Mimi is also the executive director and editor of Voice of Witness\, a human rights/oral history nonprofit she cofounded that amplifies marginalized voices through a book series and a national education program. \nABOUT LAST OF HER NAME \nMimi Lok’s Last of Her Name is an eye-opening story collection about the intimate\, interconnected lives of diasporic women and the histories they are born into. Set in a wide range of time periods and locales\, including ’80s UK suburbia\, WWII Hong Kong and contemporary urban California\, the book features an eclectic cast of outsiders: among them\, an elderly housebreaker\, wounded lovers and kung-fu fighting teenage girls. Last of Her Name offers a meditation on female desire and resilience\, family and the nature of memory. \nCALL FOR SUBMISSIONS \nWe are opening up submissions for writers to be a part of this reading. We will only be able to accept up to five readers. \nEligibility: We welcome writers of all genres\, and strive to spotlight those of the Asian Pacific diaspora and people of color. We are especially interested in showcasing emerging writers who have had little stage time or few publications. \nAt this time\, KSW Presents cannot provide payment for writers who submit to be a part of this reading series\, but we are actively pursuing funding for this program. \nHow to Apply: Submit work that explores this upcoming event’s theme\, that can be read or performed within 3 minutes or less. Apply here (no fee): https://kearnystreet.submittable.com/submit/157639/ksw-presents-meng-jin-and-mimi-lok \nABOUT KEARNY STREET WORKSHOP \nFounded in 1972\, during the height of the Asian American cultural movement\, Kearny Street Workshop (KSW) is the oldest Asian Pacific American multidisciplinary arts organization in the country. We offer classes and workshops\, salons\, and student presentations\, as well as professionally curated and produced exhibitions\, performances\, readings\, and screenings. KSW makes artists out of community members and community members out of artists. For the past 45 years\, KSW has nurtured the creative spirit\, offered an important platform for new voices to be heard\, and connected artists with community. \nSOCIAL MEDIA \nSocial media posts featuring images have a higher chance of being seen! \nPlease share any social media posts with our official event flyer. \nHandles to tag: \nTwitter: @kearnystreet \nInstagram: @kearnystreetworkshop
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ksw-presents-meng-jin-and-mimi-lok/
LOCATION:Kearny Street Workshop\, 1246 Folsom St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Megan Fernandes with Sam Sax\, Jay Deshpande\, and Kai Carlson-Wee at City Lights Books!
DESCRIPTION:Megan Fernandes reads from her new collection of poetry \nGood Boys \npublished by Tin House Books \nIn an era of rising nationalism and geopolitical instability\, Megan Fernandes’s Good Boys offers a complex portrait of messy feminist rage\, negotiations with race and travel\, and existential dread in the Anthropocene. The collection follows a restless\, nervy\, cosmically abandoned speaker failing at the aspirational markers of adulthood as she flips from city to city\, from enchantment to disgust\, always reemerging—just barely—on the trains and bridges and barstools of New York City. A child of the Indian ocean diaspora\, Fernandes enacts the humor and devastation of what it means to exist as a body of contradictions. Her interpretations are muddied. Her feminism is accusatory\, messy. Her homelands are theoretical and rootless. The poet converses with goats and throws a fit at a tarot reading; she loves the intimacy of strangers during turbulent plane rides and has dark fantasies about the “hydrogen fruit” of nuclear fallout. Ultimately\, these poems possess an affection for the doomed: false beloveds\, the hounded earth\, civilizations intent on their own ruin. Fernandes skillfully interrogates where to put our fury and\, more importantly\, where to direct our mercy. \nMegan Fernandes is a writer and academic living in New York City. She is the author of The Kingdom and After (Tightrope Books 2015). Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the New Yorker\, Tin House\, Ploughshares\, Denver Quarterly\, Chicago Review\, Boston Review\, Rattle\, Pank\, the Common\, Guernica\, the Academy of American Poets\, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, among others. She is a poetry reader for the Rumpus and an Assistant Professor of English at Lafayette College. She holds a PhD in English from the University of California\, Santa Barbara and an MFA in poetry from Boston University. \nSam Sax is a queer Jewish writer and educator. He’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Lambda Literary\, The MacDowell Colony\, the Blue Mountain Center\, and the Michener Center for Writers. He’s the winner of the 2016 Iowa Review Award and his poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review\, Gulf Coast\, Ploughshares\, Poetry\, and other journals. \nJay Deshpande is the author of Love the Stranger and The Rest of the Body (both from YesYes Books). Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in New England Review\, AGNI\, Boston Review\, Denver Quarterly\, Narrative\, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships from Kundiman and Civitella Ranieri and is a winner of the Scotti Merrill Award. He is a 2018-2020 Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford. (ISBN 9781936919338) \nKai Carlson-Wee is the author of RAIL\, published by BOA Editions in 2018. His photography has been featured in Narrative Magazine and his poetry film\, Riding the Highline\, has screened at film festivals across the country. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow\, he lives in San Francisco and teaches poetry at Stanford University. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/megan-fernandes-with-sam-sax-jay-deshpande-and-kai-carlson-wee-at-city-lights-books/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200207T220000
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SUMMARY:About Last Night: A One Night Stand Storytelling Series Feb
DESCRIPTION:About Last Night – Join us for an evening of laughter\, sex positivity and of course hilariously true one night stand stories. 7 brave souls will once again climb on our stage to share true tales of their most intimate and embarrassing one night stands. \nAbout Last Night is a monthly San Francisco one night stand / poor life choice storytelling series. This event features real people sharing hilarious (way too personal) stories about horrifying one night stands\, awkward hookups\, and embarrassing sexual adventures. Come join us for a night of complete and utter hysteria\, and unlike most of your one night stands\, we can promise you that you won’t regret it! \nHave a story you’d like to tell? Visit our website: www.aboutlastnightstorytelling.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/about-last-night-a-one-night-stand-storytelling-series-feb/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200207T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200210T000000
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SUMMARY:Marcelo Hernandez Castillo in conversation with Jose Antonio Vargas
DESCRIPTION:celebrating Marcelo Hernandez Castillo’s new book \nChildren of the Land \npublished by HarperCollins \n\n\nThis unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in the United States recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man’s attempt to build a future in a nation that denies his existence. \n“You were not a ghost even though an entire country was scared of you. No one in this story was a ghost. This was not a story.” \nWhen Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was five years old and his family was preparing to cross the border between Mexico and the United States\, he suffered temporary\, stress-induced blindness. Castillo regained his vision\, but quickly understood that he had to move into a threshold of invisibility before settling in California with his parents and siblings. Thus began a new life of hiding in plain sight and of paying extraordinarily careful attention at all times for fear of being truly seen. Before Castillo was one of the most celebrated poets of a generation\, he was a boy who perfected his English in the hopes that he might never seem extraordinary. \nWith beauty\, grace\, and honesty\, Castillo recounts his and his family’s encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe\, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer who had one hand on his holster\, of the hours he spent making a fake social security card so that he could work to support his family\, of his father’s deportation and the decade that he spent waiting to return to his wife and children only to be denied reentry\, and of his mother’s heartbreaking decision to leave her children and grandchildren so that she could be reunited with her estranged husband and retire from a life of hard labor. \nChildren of the Land distills the trauma of displacement\, illuminates the human lives behind the headlines and serves as a stunning meditation on what it means to be a man and a citizen. \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo is the author of Cenzontle\, winner of the A. Poulin\, Jr. prize (BOA editions 2018)\, winner of the 2019 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award in poetry\, a finalist for the Norther California Book Award and named a best book of 2018 by NPR and the New York Public Library. As one of the founders of the Undocupoets campaign\, he is a recipient of the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers” Award. He holds a B.A. from Sacramento State University and was the first undocumented student to graduate from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared or is featured in The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, People Magazine\, and PBS Newshour\, among others. He lives in Marysville\, California where he teaches poetry to incarcerated youth and also teaches at the Ashland University Low-Res MFA program. \nJose Antonio Vargas is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist\, Emmy-nominated filmmaker\, and Tony-nominated producer. His work has appeared internationally in Time magazine\, as well as in the San Francisco Chronicle\, The New Yorker\, and the Washington Post. In 2014\, he received the Freedom to Write Award from PEN Center USA. A leading voice for the human rights of immigrants\, he founded the non-profit media and culture organization Define American\, named one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. An elementary school named after him will open in his hometown of Mountain View\, California in 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcelo-hernandez-castillo-in-conversation-with-jose-antonio-vargas/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200207T213000
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SUMMARY:Soul Food for Thought Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Manny’s monthly open mic! Everyone is welcomed. \nCome to Manny’s for our monthly open mic nights. Poets\, readers\, performers – all are welcome here! \nFebruary 7th\, the one and only Randy James will be organizing our monthly open-mic night for the community. Anyone with something to read in welcome to our strange. Be BRAVE and be BEAUTIFUL. \nSign-up at 7PM. \nSee you there!\n****event will be taking place at the front.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/soul-food-for-thought-open-mic-night-3/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200208T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200208T150000
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SUMMARY:Spoken Poetry with Afro-Mexican poet Jeremy Vasquez & Afro-Salvadoreña writer Olivia Peña
DESCRIPTION:At Adobe Books and Arts Coop in partnership with PASEO ARTISTICO: CELELBRACÍON AFRO-LATINX\nSaturday February 8\, 2pm\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOlivia Peña is a Black-Salvadoran writer and storyteller. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of San Francisco. Her work has appeared in The Acentos Review\, Primary Treasure Magazine\, and Spectrum Magazine. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJeremy M. Vasquez is an entrepreneur\, published author\, San Francisco Educator\, healer\, artist and unapologetically Black. Jeremy Michael Vasquez is an artist\, author\, healer and educator in San Francisco. As a spoken word and musical artist\, he has performed at many community events as well as educational and correctional facilities. Serving as a keynote speaker at conferences\, colleges\, universities\, and public schools nationwide\, Jeremy continues to use his pain as a platform for change. With his poetry\, he has been called to free people through stories \n\n\n\n\n\n\nCome celebrate and bring awareness to Latinos of African Descent through art\, performances\, workshops\, classes and historical archives in El Tecolote. Paseo Artistico honors The Mission District’s Ancestors of African Descent and the movements for racial justice both locally and throughout the Americas.   \nmore info at www.paseoartistico.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spoken-poetry-with-afro-mexican-poet-jeremy-vasquez-afro-salvadorena-writer-olivia-pena/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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