The Racket #36 : SOUND
Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesTo celebrate our third year of existence we've decided to tap the senses, to trod upon that which is most audible, to get a bunch...
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Andrew McAfee
SFJAZZ Center 201 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesAndrew McAfee, an MIT scientist and bestselling author, studies how modern digital technologies are reshaping our world. Tickets will go on sale one month...
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Love in the Time of Piñatas
Z Below 470 Florida Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesWritten and Performed by Baruch Porras Hernandez Directed by Richard A. Mosqueda You’ve been invited! Join the writer, comedian, and solo performer Baruch Porras Hernandez...
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Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Writing Studio @ CCA 195 De Haro Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesIngrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Doubleday) is an Indie Next selection, a Barnes &...
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Savannah Shange
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United Statesdiscussing the subject of her new book Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco from Duke University Press San Francisco is the endgame...
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Raquel Salas Rivera and Carina del Valle Schorske
Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesAUTHOR Raquel Salas Rivera Raquel Salas Rivera is the 2018-19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia. They are the author of while they sleep (under the bed is another...
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Liska Jacobs: The Worst Kind of Want
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesLiska Jacobs discusses her new novel, The Worst Kind of Want with Rita Bullwinkel. About The Worst Kind of Want A trip to Italy reignites a woman’s desires...
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Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United StatesWednesday, November 20, 7:30 pm Pegasus Books Downtown Lyrics & Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent, emerging and beginning...
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Jerome Rothenberg
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United Statescelebrating two new books The President of Desolation & Other Poems from Black Widow Press The Mystery of False Attachments from Word Palace Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally...
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In Common Writers Series: Raquel Salas Rivera and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, reading and in conversation
The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesThursday, November 21 - 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series welcomes two outstanding Latina poets,...
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Eric Thurm: Avidly Reads Board Games
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesEric Thurm joins us to discuss his new book, Avidly Reads Board Games. Historic board games including, Busted!, a game from the 1970s about trying to start...
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The Best Small Fictions 2019
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesJoin us to celebrate the release of The Best Small Fictions 2019 with readings by Lori Sambol Brody, Natalie Hernandez, Joy Lanzendorfer, Kim Magowan, J.L. Montavon, and Kara...
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Ben Lerner
Sydney Goldstein Theater 275 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn conversation with Maggie Nelson Genre-bending poet, novelist, essayist, and critic Ben Lerner has received fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, Howard, and MacArthur Foundations. His...
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KSW Presents “A History of Our Naming”
Arc Studios & Gallery 1246 Folsom St., San Francisco, CaliforniaKearny Street Workshop's bi-monthly reading series celebrates new poetry releases by Michelle Peñaloza and Đỗ Nguyên Mai. About this Event On Friday, November 22nd, KSW...
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The Bridge: Between Poetry and Improv
StageWerx 466 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesHave your heart twisted and tickled by this hilarious and inspiring show that blends some of the best slam poetry and improvised comedy the Bay...
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A World Without Wars – Part 1
The Beat Museum 540 Broadway, San Francisco , CA, United StatesIN CELEBRATION OF THE PUBLICATION OF THE 6TH OVERTHROWING CAPITALISM ANTHOLOGY MAHNAZ BADIHIAN JIM NORMINGTON JOHN CURL BARBARA PASCHKE NELLIE WONG RAFAEL JESUS GONZALEZ LYNNE BARNES...
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William Gibson / Agency
Public Works 161 Erie Street, San Francisco , CA, United StatesTICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW AT THIS LINK Booksmith presents visionary novelist William Gibson reading from the sharply imagined sequel to his New York Times bestselling novel The Peripheral. He...
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D.S. Marriott reading from selected poetry
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesDS Marriot is a poet and critic, and Professor in the Department of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and in...
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Dani Shapiro & Abraham Verghese
JCCSF 3200 California St , San Francisco, CA, United StatesWhat makes us who we are? What combination of memory, history, biology, experience and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us? In 2016, celebrated...
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Palestinian Voices: Palestinians Tell Their Stories
Manny's 3092 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, San Francisco, United StatesStories are powerful and they allow us to understand our common humanity. Manny's, in partnership with Mothers on the March, is putting together an events...
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Book Talk: Child of the Moon by Jessica Semaan
Manny's 3092 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, San Francisco, United StatesIn her debut collection, Semaan offers an upfront & moving glimpse into the true nature of healing: an imperfect, nonlinear journey. "Child of the Moon"...
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Enduring Struggle, Enduring Spirits
San Francisco Public Library 100 Larkin St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesENDURING STRUGGLE, ENDURING SPIRITS: Remembering Steve Abbott and Karl Tierney on World AIDS Day Location: Latino/Hispanic meeting room, Lower Level, San Francisco Public Library, 100...
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Scarlett Sabet
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United Statesreading from her new collection of poetry Camille Scarlett Sabet is a London based poet and performer. Her poetry has been featured in GQ, Tatler, Constellation Magazine, The Violet Book and Dazed...
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Bazaar Writers Salon
Bazaar Cafe 5927 California St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesReadings by Daniel Ari, Colby Cotton, Caroline Goodwin, and Ari Moskowitz Hosted by Peter Kline Daniel Ari serves as poet laureate of Richmond, California and...
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Word for Word presents Alice Sola Kim
Z Space 450 Florida Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesWord for Word presents ALICE SOLA KIM An Off the Page Reading Monday, December 2, 7 PM at Z Below Off the Page staged readings...
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The Racket #37: Holiday
Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesThe holidays are a tinsel covered monster, roughly entangled in twinkling lights, half-choked on a nutcracker doll. The kind of slavering nog-soaked beast that comes...
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Book Release for STENCILS and Celebration of the Life and Art of David King
3rd Floor McRoskey Mattress Loft 1687 Market Street, San FranciscoThis event had been planned for some time as a launch party for David King's long-overdue monograph featuring his iconic stencil-only designs. Sadly, David passed...
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Second Stutter Annual Release Party
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesHosted by Solomon Rino with readings by George Albon, Laura Moriarty, Joseph Lease, and Norma Cole Second Stutter is a San Francisco based literary journal...
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Becoming Eve with Abby Chava Stein
CIIS Public Programs 1453 Mission St., San Francisco, CA, United StatesAbby Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of eighteenth-century...
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Mimi Lok: Last of Her Name
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesMimi Lok discusses her new book, Last Of Her Name, with Rachel Khong. Praise for Last Of Her Name "Last of Her Name is a mesmerizing and...
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