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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Gabe Hudson (Gork\, the Teenage Dragon)\nNick Farmer (creator of Belter language in The Expanse)\nIndigo Moor (Through the Stonecutter’s Window) \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-7/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cary Cordova's "Heart of the Mission" Reading + Release!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading from Cary Cordova’s “Heart of the Mission” newly published by The University of Pennsylvania Press. Book signing to follow. \nIn “The Heart of the Mission” Cary Cordova combines urban\, political\, and art history to examine how the Mission District\, a longtime bohemian enclave in San Francisco\, has served as an important place for an influential and largely ignored Latino arts movement from the 1960s to the present. Well before the anointment of the “Mission School” by art-world arbiters at the dawn of the twenty-first century\, Latino artists\, writers\, poets\, playwrights\, performers\, and filmmakers made the Mission their home and their muse. \nThe Mission\, home to Chileans\, Cubans\, Guatemalans\, Mexican Americans\, Nicaraguans\, Puerto Ricans\, and Salvadorans never represented a single Latino identity. In tracing the experiences of a diverse group of Latino artists from the 1940s to the turn of the century\, Cordova connects wide-ranging aesthetics to a variety of social movements and activist interventions. The book begins with the history of the Latin Quarter in the 1940s and the subsequent cultivation of the Beat counterculture in the 1950s\, demonstrating how these decades laid the groundwork for the artistic and political renaissance that followed. Using oral histories\, visual culture\, and archival research\, she analyzes the Latin jazz scene of the 1940s\, Latino involvement in the avant-garde of the 1950s\, the Chicano movement and Third World movements of the 1960s\, the community mural movement of the 1970s\, the transnational liberation movements in Nicaragua and El Salvador\, and the AIDS activism of the 1980s. Through these different historical frames\, Cordova links the creation of Latino art with a flowering of Latino politics.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cary-cordovas-heart-of-the-mission-reading-release/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:A Word for Word Staged Reading: Off the Page: Tobias Wolff Featuring "The Night in Question"
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Joel Mullennix \nOff the Page staged readings are the first step in developing a Word for Word production—taking a short story from the page to the stage. \nIn preparation for our 25th Anniversary in 2018 we’re bringing back one of our favorite writers: Tobias Wolff\, with a reading on “The Night in Question.” \nCome see the very first steps of our process\, and\, after the reading\, let us know what you think!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-word-for-word-staged-reading-off-the-page-tobias-wolff-featuring-the-night-in-question/
LOCATION:Z Below\, 470 Florida Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer "It Aint Just Genre!"
DESCRIPTION:Why is fiction a wrestling match\, with literary fiction in one corner and genre fiction in another? Isn’t a mystery or a romance or science fiction as much literature as non-genre fiction? We’ll thrash those questions and more out at “It Aint Just Genre!”–Perfectly Queer’s August 14 event\, 7pm at Dog Eared Books Castro (489 Castro St.\, San Francisco). Three writers will read from their new books: Ralph Josiah Bardsley (romance)\, Tim Floreen (horror)\, and Bonnie J. Miller (speculative fiction). The readings will be followed by a panel discussion and book signing. Door prizes awarded. Wine\, edibles\, and good cheer provided for free. \nRalph Josiah Bardsley is the author of three books – Brothers\, The Photographer’s Truth\, and A Careful Heart. Brothers was a Forward Reviews Book of the Year and a Lambda Literary Award Finalist. I was born in a small town outside of Boston. My dad was in the Coast Guard so I grew up in a lot of different places – New Orleans\, Cape Cod\, North Carolina\, and Sitka\, Alaska. When I wasn’t in school\, I spent most of my time in Coast Guard hangers or reading. Today\, he lives in San Francisco\, where my hobbies include writing\, running\, and reading. \nTim Floreen writes young adult science fiction. The New York Public Library named his first novel\, Willful Machines\, one of the best teen books of 2015 and\, in a starred review\, Kirkus described it as “gothic\, gadgety\, and gay\,” which is an accurate assessment. Booklist called his second novel\, Tattoo Atlas\, “incisive\, startling\, and intense.” Tim lives in San Francisco with his partner\, their two cat-obsessed daughters\, and two very patient cats. \nBonnie J. Morris is a professor of women’s history\, a three-time Lambda Literary Award finalist and the author of fifteen books\, as well as an archivist of the lesbian music movement. She recently hosted the first exhibit of radical lesbian albums at the Library of Congress and will now be working with the Bay Area Lesbian Archives. Her new book\, SAPPHO’S BAR AND GRILL\, is a sexy time-travel romp across women’s history rebellions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-it-aint-just-genre/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Danzy Senna
DESCRIPTION:As the twentieth century draws to a close\, Maria is at the start of a life she never thought possible. She and Khalil\, her college sweetheart\, are planning their wedding. They are the perfect couple\, “King and Queen of the Racially Nebulous Prom.” Their skin is the same shade of beige. They live together in a black bohemian enclave in Brooklyn\, where Khalil is riding the wave of the first dot-com boom and Maria is plugging away at her dissertation\, on the Jonestown massacre. They’ve even landed a starring role in a documentary about “new people” like them\, who are blurring the old boundaries as a brave new era dawns. Everything Maria knows she should want lies before her—yet she can’t stop daydreaming about another man\, a poet she barely knows. As fantasy escalates to fixation\, it dredges up secrets from the past and threatens to unravel not only Maria’s perfect new life but her very persona. \nHeartbreaking and darkly comic\, New People is a bold and unfettered page-turner that challenges our every assumption about how we define one another\, and ourselves. \nDanzy Senna’s first novel\, the bestselling Caucasia\, won the Stephen Crane Award for Best New Fiction and the American Library Association’s Alex Award\, was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\, and was translated into close to a dozen languages. A recipient of the Whiting Writers Award\, Senna is also the author of the novel Symptomatic\, the memoir Where Did You Sleep Last Night?\, and the story collection You Are Free. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband\, the novelist Percival Everett\, and their sons.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/danzy-senna/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mahnaz Badihian + Jorge Molina
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact Friends’ Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mahnaz-badihian-jorge-molina/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tom Perrota: Mrs. Fletcher
DESCRIPTION:From one of the most popular and bestselling authors of our time\, a penetrating and hilarious new novel about sex\, love\, and identity on the frontlines of America’s culture wars. \nEve Fletcher is trying to figure out what comes next. A forty-six-year-old divorcee whose beloved only child has just left for college\, Eve is struggling to adjust to her empty nest when one night her phone lights up with a text message. Sent from an anonymous number\, the mysterious sender tells Eve\, “U R my MILF!” Over the months that follow\, that message comes to obsess Eve. While leading her all-too-placid life—serving as Executive Director of the local senior center by day and taking a community college course on Gender and Society at night—Eve can’t curtail her own interest in a porn website called MILFateria.com\, which features the erotic exploits of ordinary\, middle-aged women like herself. Before long\, Eve’s online fixations begin to spill over into real life\, revealing new romantic possibilities that threaten to upend her quiet suburban existence.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tom-perrota-mrs-fletcher/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jarett Kobek
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith is pleased to bring Jarett Kobek\, author of I Hate the Internet\, into the store for his brilliant follow-up novel\, The Future Won’t Be Long\, a provocative\, ecstatic story of friendship\, sex\, art\, and ambition in the twilight days of New York City’s East Village (1986-1996). \n  \nThe story centers on Adeline—featured years later in I Hate the Internet—a wealthy art student in New York City who chances upon a young man from the Midwest known only as Baby in a shady East Village squat. The two begin a fiery friendship which propels them through a decade of New York life punctuated by the deaths of Warhol\, Basquiat\, Wojnarowicz\, by the Tompkins Square Park riots\, and by the rise of club kid culture. Adeline is fiercely protective of Baby\, but he soon takes over his own education. Once just a kid off the bus from Wisconsin\, Baby soon finds himself at the center of the club kid social scene\, cavorting with Michael Alig and James St. James at The Tunnel\, Limelight\, and Alig’s infamous “Outlaw Party” at a midtown McDonald’s. \n  \nAs Adeline and Baby both develop into the artists they never expected to become\, Kobek pays tribute to the last gasps of the gritty\, drug-fueled scene of the East Village as gentrifiers begin to trickle in.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jarett-kobek/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170817T173000
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SUMMARY:Community Voices: Poets Speak
DESCRIPTION:For the past seven weeks\, every Thursday at 5pm from June 29 – August 10\, we have presented Community Voices: Poets Speak\, where Bay Area Cave Canem poets reflected on themes of our current exhibition. Now on view\, The Ease of Fiction presents the work of four African artists living in the United States as the foundation of a critical discussion about history\, fact and fiction. The readings and discussion of original work took place in the galleries. The series culminates today with a reception and an evening of poetry by the participating poets\, along with Arisa White and James Cagney\, on Thursday\, August 17\, 6-8pm. Free Admission. \nFounded by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady in 1996 to remedy the under-representation and isolation of African American poets in the literary landscape\, Cave Canem Foundation is a home for the many voices of African American poetry and is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets. \nCommunity Voices: Poets Speak is curated by Arisa White\, poet\, writer & educator.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/community-voices-poets-speak-2/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime REDIRECTIONS
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime REDIRECTIONS\, on Thursday August 17th\, 7-9 pm\, in the basement room at Armory Club\, 1799 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, will feature Meg Elison (The Book of Etta)\, Nancy Jane Moore (The Weave)\, Skye Allen (The Songbird Thief)\, Sunil Patel\, and Sean Craven. With guest MC Allison Mick.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-redirections/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Danya Kukafka w/ Val Brelinski
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is proud to host Danya Kukafka as she introduces her debut novel Girl in Snow. With Danya in conversation will be fellow author Val Brelinski (The Girl Who Slept With God). Please join us! \nSet in the small suburb of Broomsville\, Colorado\, this addictive thriller begins with the discovery of high school freshman Lucinda Hayes’s dead body near a playground carousel. With the town’s golden girl murdered\, accusations quickly spread\, drawing three outsiders from the shadows. \nOddball Cameron Whitley loved—still loves—Lucinda. Though they’ve hardly ever spoken\, and any sensible onlooker would call him Lucinda’s stalker\, Cameron is convinced that he knows her better than anyone. Completely untethered by the news of her death\, Cameron’s erratic behavior provides the town ample reason to suspect that he’s the killer. \nJade Dixon-Burns hates Lucinda. Lucinda took everything from Jade: her babysitting job\, and her best friend. The worst part was Lucinda’s blissful ignorance to the damage she’d wrought. \nOfficer Russ Fletcher doesn’t know Lucinda\, but he knows the kid everyone is talking about\, the boy who may have killed her. Cameron Whitley is his ex-partner’s son. Now Russ must take a painful journey through the past to solve Lucinda’s murder and keep a promise he made long ago.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/danya-kukafka-w-val-brelinski/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Chiara Barzini
DESCRIPTION:Chiara Barzini discusses her new novel\, Things That Happened Before the Earthquake\, with Kate Schatz. \n\nPraise for Chiara Barzini \n“Chiara’s stories are beautiful\, her voice powerful. She writes with a voice that is both tense and open. The effect is surprising\, subversive\, and singular.”—Jhumpa Lahiri \n  \n“Chiara Barzini has written a wild first novel\, full of sex\, violence\, and desperate prayers to the Virgin Mary. This is a brutal and bizarre coming of age story aptly set in one of America’s many crises.”—Catherine Lacey\, author of Nobody is Ever Missing \n\n“Chiara Barzini has pulled off that most dazzling balancing act: combining a deliciously entertaining plot with effortlessly elegant prose. She has an extraordinarily keen eye for cultural nuance. Through her alter-ego Eugenia we come to discover a California as wildly foreign to us as it is to her. A brilliant\, sexy\, and unexpected take on the immigrant bildungsroman.”—Taiye Selasi\, author of Ghana Most Go. \n\nAbout Things That Happened Before the Earthquake \n\nWelcome to LA? Nineties’ Hollywood gets an Italian makeover in this poignant and ruefully funny coming-of-age novel featuring a teenage girl who’s on shaky ground—in more ways than one.\nMere weeks after the 1992 riots that laid waste to Los Angeles\, Eugenia\, a typical Italian teenager\, is rudely yanked from her privileged Roman milieu by her hippie-ish filmmaker parents and transplanted to the strange suburban world of the San Fernando Valley. With only the Virgin Mary to call on for guidance as her parents struggle to make it big\, Hollywood fashion\, she must navigate her huge new public high school\, complete with Crips and Bloods and Persian gang members\, and a car-based environment of 99-cent stores and obscure fast-food franchises and all-night raves. She forges friendships with Henry\, who runs his mother’s movie memorabilia store\, and the bewitching Deva\, who introduces her to the alternate cultural universe that is Topanga Canyon. And then the 1994 earthquake rocks the foundations not only of Eugenia’s home but of the future she’d been imagining for herself.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chiara-barzini/
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:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY\, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 7:30pm\nShow at 8pm\nGET YOUR TICKETS HERE: http://ow.ly/9k4930emzkn\n$10 online or $10 at the door. \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes\nis a total open mic event\, with no set or featured performers\,\nbut only the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-9/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Witness and Resistance in Body and Story w/ Sharon Coleman
DESCRIPTION:Two Workshops: Choose one or both to attend!  \nLifting Scars with Sharon Coleman  \nA somatic writing and movement workshop by Sharon Coleman. 2-3pm \nResilience depends on the quick scarring over of wounds\, both psychic and physical. And they remain with us usually forever. They are emblems of what has touched us. They mend muscle and thought but leave tissue that interferes with movement and neuro-plasticity. In this workshop\, we’ll use movement and writing to explore the shapes left by scars and to find movement\, resilience\, and determination from what has marked us. Wear comfortable clothes and bring a notebook and pen. \nBIO: Sharon Coleman‘s a fifth-generation Northern Californian with a penchant for languages and their entangled word roots. She has taught poetry\, creative writing and composition for fifteen years at Berkeley City College. She writes for Poetry Flash\, co-curates the reading series Lyrics & Dirges and co-directs the Berkeley Poetry Festival. She’s the author of a chapbook of poetry\, Half Circle\, and a book of micro-fiction\, Paris Blinks (Paper Press 2016.) \nThe Composer’s Notebook with Tongo Eisen-Martin \nIn this workshop from 3-4pm\, community worker and poet\, Tongo Eisen-Martin explores how engagement in community can be channeled into music\, innovation\, and poetry. \nBIO: Born in San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker\, educator\, and poet who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. He is the author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015)\, which was nominated for a California Book Award. He has educated in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California’s San Quentin State Prison. His work in Rikers Island was featured in the New York Times. He was also adjunct faculty at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York. Subscribing to the Freirian model of education\, he designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, MS. \nYOUR ENGAGEMENT WILL AFFECT OTHERS! \nA portion of proceeds from these workshops will be donated to East Bay Sanctuary Covenant and Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ). \nFrom East Bay Sanctuary Covenant’s website: “Founded in 1982\, East Bay Sanctuary Covenant is dedicated to offering sanctuary\, solidarity\, support\, community organizing assistance\, advocacy\, and legal services to those escaping war\, terror\, political persecution\, intolerance\, exploitation\, and other expressions of violence.” \nFrom the SURJ website: “SURJ IS A NATIONAL NETWORK OF GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS ORGANIZING WHITE PEOPLE FOR RACIAL JUSTICE. Through community organizing\, mobilizing and education\, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability. We work to connect people across the country while supporting and collaborating with local and national racial justice organizing efforts. SURJ provides a space to build relationships\, skills and political analysis to act for change. We envision a society where we struggle together with love\, for justice\, human dignity and a sustainable world.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/witness-and-resistance-in-body-and-story-coleman/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Witness and Resistance in the Mind and on the Page w/ Maya Chinchilla
DESCRIPTION:At Adobe Books\, Maya Chinchilla (2-3pm) and Raina León (3-4pm) will offer workshops that encourage participants to write resistance. \nTwo workshops: Choose one or both to attend!  \nFrom writing prompt to action with Maya Chinchilla \nHow do you cultivate a reflective stance in your writing and prompts to invigorate your writing and activism? This will be addressed in Maya Chapina’s workshop at 2pm. \nBIO: Maya Chinchilla is a Guatemalan\, Bay Area-based writer\, video artist\, educator and author of “The Cha Cha Files: A Chapina Poética.” Maya received her MFA in English and Creative Writing from Mills College and her undergraduate degree from University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where she also founded and co-edited the annual publication\, La Revista. Maya writes and performs poetry that explores themes of historical memory\, heartbreak\, tenderness\, sexuality\, and alternative futures. Her work —sassy\, witty\, performative\, and self-aware— draws on a tradition of truth-telling and poking fun at the wounds we carry. \nHer work has been published in anthologies and journals including: Mujeres de Maíz\, Sinister Wisdom\, Americas y Latinas: A Stanford Journal of Latin American Studies\, Cipactli Journal\, and The Lunada Literary Anthology. Maya is a founding member of the performance group Las Manas\, a former artist-in-residence at Galería de La Raza in San Francisco\, CA\, and La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley\, CA\, and is a VONA Voices\, Dos Brujas and Letras Latinas workshop alum. She is the co-editor of “Desde El Epicentro: An anthology of Central American Poetry and Art” and is a lecturer at San Francisco State University\, UC Davis and other Bay Area universities. \nResistBot Poems with Raina J. León \nIn this workshop at 3pm\, we will write poetry and prose of resistance and use the tool\, ResistBot\, to send these pieces to our representatives and senators. Bring your notebooks\, pens\, and phones (if you have them) to text through ResistBot. \nBIO: \nRaina J. León\, PhD\, CantoMundo fellow\, Cave Canem graduate fellow (2006) and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective\, has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry\, fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of three collections of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, Boogeyman Dawn\, sombra: (dis)locate (2016) and the chapbook\, profeta without refuge (2016).  She has received fellowships and residencies with Macondo\, Cave Canem\, CantoMundo\, Montana Artists Refuge\, the Macdowell Colony\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, Vermont Studio Center\, among others. She is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly\, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latinx arts. She is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California. \nA portion of all proceeds will be donated to the Indigenous Environmental Network. From their website\, “IEN is an alliance of Indigenous Peoples whose Shared Mission is to Protect the Sacredness of Earth Mother from contamination & exploitation by Respecting and Adhering to Indigenous Knowledge and Natural Law”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/witness-and-resistance-in-the-mind-and-on-the-page-w-maya-chinchilla/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170819T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170819T160000
DTSTAMP:20260511T160341
CREATED:20170805T042931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170805T042931Z
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SUMMARY:Witness and Resistance in Body and Story w/ Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:Two Workshops: Choose one or both to attend!  \nLifting Scars with Sharon Coleman  \nA somatic writing and movement workshop by Sharon Coleman. 2-3pm \nResilience depends on the quick scarring over of wounds\, both psychic and physical. And they remain with us usually forever. They are emblems of what has touched us. They mend muscle and thought but leave tissue that interferes with movement and neuro-plasticity. In this workshop\, we’ll use movement and writing to explore the shapes left by scars and to find movement\, resilience\, and determination from what has marked us. Wear comfortable clothes and bring a notebook and pen. \nBIO: Sharon Coleman‘s a fifth-generation Northern Californian with a penchant for languages and their entangled word roots. She has taught poetry\, creative writing and composition for fifteen years at Berkeley City College. She writes for Poetry Flash\, co-curates the reading series Lyrics & Dirges and co-directs the Berkeley Poetry Festival. She’s the author of a chapbook of poetry\, Half Circle\, and a book of micro-fiction\, Paris Blinks (Paper Press 2016.) \nThe Composer’s Notebook with Tongo Eisen-Martin \nIn this workshop from 3-4pm\, community worker and poet\, Tongo Eisen-Martin explores how engagement in community can be channeled into music\, innovation\, and poetry. \nBIO: Born in San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker\, educator\, and poet who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. He is the author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015)\, which was nominated for a California Book Award. He has educated in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California’s San Quentin State Prison. His work in Rikers Island was featured in the New York Times. He was also adjunct faculty at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York. Subscribing to the Freirian model of education\, he designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, MS. \nYOUR ENGAGEMENT WILL AFFECT OTHERS! \nA portion of proceeds from these workshops will be donated to East Bay Sanctuary Covenant and Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ). \nFrom East Bay Sanctuary Covenant’s website: “Founded in 1982\, East Bay Sanctuary Covenant is dedicated to offering sanctuary\, solidarity\, support\, community organizing assistance\, advocacy\, and legal services to those escaping war\, terror\, political persecution\, intolerance\, exploitation\, and other expressions of violence.” \nFrom the SURJ website: “SURJ IS A NATIONAL NETWORK OF GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS ORGANIZING WHITE PEOPLE FOR RACIAL JUSTICE. Through community organizing\, mobilizing and education\, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability. We work to connect people across the country while supporting and collaborating with local and national racial justice organizing efforts. SURJ provides a space to build relationships\, skills and political analysis to act for change. We envision a society where we struggle together with love\, for justice\, human dignity and a sustainable world.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/witness-and-resistance-in-body-and-story-w-tongo-eisen-martin/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170819T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170819T160000
DTSTAMP:20260511T160341
CREATED:20170805T043316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170805T043316Z
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SUMMARY:Witness and Resistance in the Mind and on the Page w/ Raina J. León
DESCRIPTION:At Adobe Books\, Maya Chinchilla (2-3pm) and Raina León (3-4pm) will offer workshops that encourage participants to write resistance. \nTwo workshops: Choose one or both to attend!  \nFrom writing prompt to action with Maya Chinchilla \nHow do you cultivate a reflective stance in your writing and prompts to invigorate your writing and activism? This will be addressed in Maya Chapina’s workshop at 2pm. \nBIO: Maya Chinchilla is a Guatemalan\, Bay Area-based writer\, video artist\, educator and author of “The Cha Cha Files: A Chapina Poética.” Maya received her MFA in English and Creative Writing from Mills College and her undergraduate degree from University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where she also founded and co-edited the annual publication\, La Revista. Maya writes and performs poetry that explores themes of historical memory\, heartbreak\, tenderness\, sexuality\, and alternative futures. Her work —sassy\, witty\, performative\, and self-aware— draws on a tradition of truth-telling and poking fun at the wounds we carry. \nHer work has been published in anthologies and journals including: Mujeres de Maíz\, Sinister Wisdom\, Americas y Latinas: A Stanford Journal of Latin American Studies\, Cipactli Journal\, and The Lunada Literary Anthology. Maya is a founding member of the performance group Las Manas\, a former artist-in-residence at Galería de La Raza in San Francisco\, CA\, and La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley\, CA\, and is a VONA Voices\, Dos Brujas and Letras Latinas workshop alum. She is the co-editor of “Desde El Epicentro: An anthology of Central American Poetry and Art” and is a lecturer at San Francisco State University\, UC Davis and other Bay Area universities. \nResistBot Poems with Raina J. León \nIn this workshop at 3pm\, we will write poetry and prose of resistance and use the tool\, ResistBot\, to send these pieces to our representatives and senators. Bring your notebooks\, pens\, and phones (if you have them) to text through ResistBot. \nBIO: \nRaina J. León\, PhD\, CantoMundo fellow\, Cave Canem graduate fellow (2006) and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective\, has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry\, fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of three collections of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, Boogeyman Dawn\, sombra: (dis)locate (2016) and the chapbook\, profeta without refuge (2016).  She has received fellowships and residencies with Macondo\, Cave Canem\, CantoMundo\, Montana Artists Refuge\, the Macdowell Colony\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, Vermont Studio Center\, among others. She is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly\, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latinx arts. She is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California. \nA portion of all proceeds will be donated to the Indigenous Environmental Network. From their website\, “IEN is an alliance of Indigenous Peoples whose Shared Mission is to Protect the Sacredness of Earth Mother from contamination & exploitation by Respecting and Adhering to Indigenous Knowledge and Natural Law”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/witness-and-resistance-in-the-mind-and-on-the-page-w-raina-j-leon/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170819T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170819T210000
DTSTAMP:20260511T160341
CREATED:20170817T043851Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170817T043851Z
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SUMMARY:Cedar Sigo\, Peter Burghardt\, Anne McGuire
DESCRIPTION:A night of poetry with Cedar Sigo reading new works from his new books\, Peter Burghardt launches his new chapbook\, and Anne McGuire presents a mix of music and poetry
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cedar-sigo-peter-burghardt-anne-mcguire/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170821T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170821T210000
DTSTAMP:20260511T160341
CREATED:20170324T014120Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170818T051520Z
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-5/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170822T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170822T203000
DTSTAMP:20260511T160341
CREATED:20170622T012834Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170622T012834Z
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SUMMARY:Laura Kyriazis + Zaid Shlah
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact Friends’ Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laura-kyriazis-zaid-shlah/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170822T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170822T210000
DTSTAMP:20260511T160341
CREATED:20170712T235457Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170712T235457Z
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SUMMARY:Timothy McSweeney's Grand 50th Issue Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Did you know McSweeney’s glorious 50th issue is due August 29th? That’s right\, FIFTY! We’ve pulled all the stops for this one\, including can’t-miss new work from writers who we’ve long published — Jonathan Lethem\, Lydia Davis\, Sherman Alexie\, Etgar Keret\, Sheila Heti\, Diane Williams\, Sarah Vowell\, John Hodgman\, Steven Millhauser (among many others) — and fantastic new writing from authors who we’ve long admired\, including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\, Thomas McGuane\, Kevin Young\, and Carrie Brownstein. The book itself will be hardback with a dust jacket that folds into two different covers\, and folds entirely open to a poster by Tucker Nichols. Choose whatever cover fits your mood\, or tack it to the wall and reveal the gem hidden underneath. OKAY\, we’ve said enough\, now to why we’re really here…. \nIt’s a party! There will be drinks (by Fort Point Beer Company) and mingling and happy moments to share. If we figure out the sound system\, there may even be music. (Group meditation is cool\, though\, right?)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/timothy-mcsweeneys-grand-50th-issue-release-party/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170822T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170822T210000
DTSTAMP:20260511T160341
CREATED:20170817T045454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170817T045454Z
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SUMMARY:Brontez Purnell
DESCRIPTION:Join us at The Bindery as we welcome Brontez Purnell for the release of his novel Since I Laid My Burden Down. \nDeShawn lives a high\, creative\, and promiscuous life in San Francisco. But when he’s called back to his cramped Alabama hometown for his uncle’s funeral\, he’s hit by flashbacks of handsome\, doomed neighbors and sweltering Sunday services. Amidst prickly reminders of his childhood\, DeShawn ponders family\, church\, and the men in his life\, prompting the question: Who deserves love? \nA raw\, funny\, and uninhibited stumble down memory lane\, Brontez Purnell’s debut novel explores how one man’s early sexual and artistic escapades grow into a life. \n— \nBrontez Purnell has been publishing\, performing\, and curating in the Bay Area for over ten years. He is author of the cult zine Fag School\, frontman for his band The Younger Lovers\, and founder and choreographer of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company. Formerly a dancer with Gravy Train!!!\, a queer electro indie band that gained national prominence in the mid-2000s\, Purnell’s other prominent artistic collaborations include his supporting role in the queer independent feature film\, “I Want Your Love” (dir. Travis Mathews\, 2012). He was a guest curator for the Berkeley Art Museum’s L@TE program in 2012\, awarded an invitation to the 2012 Radar Lab queer arts summer residency\, honored by Out Magazine’s 2012 Hot 100 List and 2013 Most Eligible Bachelors List\, and most recently won the 2014 SF Bay Guardian’s Goldie for Performance/Music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brontez-purnell/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170825T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170825T200000
DTSTAMP:20260511T160341
CREATED:20170622T003219Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170622T003219Z
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Grotto Writers: 3 Minute Reads
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fast-paced and irreverent evening\, showcasing new work from the students of the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto writing classes. On this Friday evening\, both fiction and nonfiction writers will read their work — but only for 3 minutes each! Their instructors (Grotto authors) will enforce the time limit. Join us for wine\, fun\, and fresh new writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-grotto-writers-3-minute-reads-3/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170825T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170825T210000
DTSTAMP:20260511T160341
CREATED:20170815T115052Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170815T115052Z
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit: Summer of Lust
DESCRIPTION:Red Light Lit is thrilled to be part of the “Summer of Lust: Comedy and Arts Festival\,” featuring the photography of Shelbie Dimond. The show will be hosted by Luna Malbroux with musical guest\, Emily Jane White. Featured writers include Amber Flame\, Kar A. Johnson\, Sarah Kobrinsky\, Ari Moskowitz\, Sarah Bethe Nelson\, Christine No alongside a live musical score by David Williams. \nAdvanced tickets strongly suggested: $15 in advance\, $20 at the door.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-summer-of-lust-2/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170828T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170828T200000
DTSTAMP:20260511T160341
CREATED:20170825T231101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170825T231101Z
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SUMMARY:The Racket #10: BIRTH
DESCRIPTION:Our monthly reading series returns with a bevy of writers talking about BIRTH. \nIs it pregnancy? Metamorphosis? A staggering change in life? Well\, we’ll find out. \nOur readers: KAR A. Johnson\, Miah Jeffra\, Mike Hsu\, Jennifer Lewis and Shideh Etaat.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-10-birth/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Noah B. Sanders":MAILTO:sanders.noah@gmail.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170829T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170829T193000
DTSTAMP:20260511T160341
CREATED:20170718T040545Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170718T115501Z
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Barone + James Cagney
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Barone\, host of the WordParty poetry and jazz series and author of “Saporoso – poems of Italian food and love” will be reading from new work along with poet James Cagney\, reading from his latest. Hosted by Jack Hirschman and the North Beach Library. \nvisit: www.jenniferbarone.wordpress.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-barone-and-james-cagney/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170829T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170829T200000
DTSTAMP:20260511T160341
CREATED:20170815T005951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170815T005951Z
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SUMMARY:The Singing Ship Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Noe Valley Author Rebecca Winterer discusses her debut novel\, The Singing Ship\, in conversation with Peg Alford Pursell Tuesday\, August 29\, 7 p.m. at Folio Books\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. Pursell is the organizer of the North Bay reading series Why There Are Words. The Singing Ship\, “a novel about traversing boundaries\,” is set in Winterer’s native Australia. It won the Del Sol Press First Novel Prize. It is the story of two sisters who fight an unorthodox battle for truth after an attack in the Australian Outback. Free admission\, champagne\, and cake. An author signing follows the discussion. www.facebook.com/events/124981894791558
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-singing-ship-book-launch/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170829T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170829T213000
DTSTAMP:20260511T160341
CREATED:20170621T130322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T130322Z
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SUMMARY:Daniel Magariel
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Magariel discusses his new book\, One of the Boys. \n\nPraise for One of the Boys \n“Brilliant\, urgent\, darkly funny\, heartbreaking—a tour de force with startling new things to say about class\, masculinity\, addiction\, and family.  Daniel Magariel is an exciting new presence in American writing.” (George Saunders\, author of Tenth of December and Lincoln in the Bardo) \n“Precise and coiled and urgent. Magariel is able–as few writers can–to say so much in so little. A propulsive and intense debut.” (Hanya Yanagihara\, author of A Little Life) \n“With a charismatic\, macho\, drug-addicted dad\, the young narrator pays an awful price to be One of the Boys in the riveting debut novel by Daniel Magariel. Move over Great Santini\, this patriarch is rendered with such artful love\, you’ll be haunted by his presence long after you close this graceful and heartbreaking book.” (Mary Karr\, author of Lit and The Liar’s Club) \n\nAbout One of the Boys \nThe three of them—a twelve-year-old boy\, his older brother\, their father—have won the war: the father’s term for his bitter divorce and custody battle. They leave their Kansas home and drive through the night to Albuquerque\, eager to begin again\, united by the thrilling possibility of carving out a new life together. The boys go to school\, join basketball teams\, make friends. Meanwhile their father works from home\, smoking cheap cigars to hide another smell. But soon the little missteps—the dead-eyed absentmindedness\, the late night noises\, the comings and goings of increasingly odd characters—become worrisome\, and the boys find themselves watching their father change\, grow erratic\, then dangerous. \n\nSet in the sublimely stark landscape of suburban New Mexico and a cramped apartment shut tight to the world\, One of the Boys conveys with propulsive prose and extraordinary compassion a young boy’s struggle to hold onto the pieces of his shattered family. Tender\, moving and beautiful\, Daniel Magariel’s masterful debut is a story of resilience and survival: two foxhole-weary brothers banding together to protect each other from the father they once trusted\, but no longer recognize. With the emotional core of A Little Life and the speed of We the Animals\, One of the Boys is among the most remarkable debut novels you’ll ever read.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-magariel/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170830T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170830T200000
DTSTAMP:20260511T160341
CREATED:20170822T071324Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170822T225722Z
UID:28461-1504116000-1504123200@litseen.com
SUMMARY:An Expensive Hoax: Environmental Writers Respond to Trump
DESCRIPTION:“Snowing in Texas and Louisiana\, record setting freezing temperatures throughout the country and beyond. Global warming is an expensive hoax!” —Donald J. Trump\, Jan. 29\, 2014  \nAnd with that tweet\, the would-be President of the United States declared war on the environment. Donald Trump has also opined that climate change was invented by the Chinese to hurt U.S. manufacturing\, tweeted that wind power is dangerous for our health\, deregulated mining waste disposal\, forced the EPA to delete mentions of global warming on its website\, and taken aim at national monuments\, with an eye toward stripping them of their protected status. \nAnd that’s only in the first six months of his presidency. Where will this lead? What can writers and activists do to stem the tide of anti-environmental actions?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-expensive-hoax-environmental-writers-respond-to-trump/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170830T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170830T213000
DTSTAMP:20260511T160341
CREATED:20170621T130438Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T130438Z
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SUMMARY:Gabriel Tallent
DESCRIPTION:Gabriel Tallent discusses his new novel\, My Absolute Darling. \n\nPraise for My Absolute Darling \n“There are books we like well enough to recommend\, but there are a very few— To Kill a Mockingbird\, Catch-22\, The Things They Carried— that we remember forever. To my own shortlist I can now add My Absolute Darling\, by Gabriel Tallent. Fourteen-year-old Turtle Alveston is a brilliantly rendered creation\, and her father is the most terrifyingly believable human monster to inhabit the pages of a novel since Harry Powell in The Night of the Hunter. This book is ugly\, beautiful\, horrifying\, and uplifting.” —Stephen King \n“I read My Absolute Darling in one sitting\, well past midnight\, despite an early-morning flight: the book is that impossible to put down. Gabriel Tallent depicts Turtle’s battle for her independence–body\, mind\, and soul–with brutal honesty and overwhelming tenderness. The result is a heartrending debut that will shock\, then shake\, then inspire you.” —Celeste Ng\, New York Times-bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You \n“It is unreal how vivid and compelling this book is. Turtle Alveston is one of the most vibrant characters I’ve come across in a long time\, and every scene in this astonishing novel packs so much tension\, so much insight\, such beautiful prose and such masterful handling of detail\, I simply could not stop reading.” —Phil Klay\, National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment \n\nAbout My Absolute Darling \nTurtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen\, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks\, tide pools\, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds\, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive\, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated since the death of her mother\, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father\, Martin. Her social existence is confined to the middle school (where she fends off the interest of anyone\, student or teacher\, who might penetrate her shell) and to her life with her father. \nThen Turtle meets Jacob\, a high-school boy who tells jokes\, lives in a big clean house\, and looks at Turtle as if she is the sunrise. And for the first time\, the larger world begins to come into focus: her life with Martin is neither safe nor sustainable. Motivated by her first experience with real friendship and a teenage crush\, Turtle starts to imagine escape\, using the very survival skills her father devoted himself to teaching her. The reader tracks Turtle’s escalating acts of physical and emotional courage\, and watches\, heart in throat\, as she struggles to become her own hero–and in the process\, becomes ours as well. \nShot through with striking language in a fierce natural setting\, My Absolute Darling is an urgently told\, profoundly moving read that marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gabriel-tallent/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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