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SUMMARY:Charlie Getter & Aqueila M. Ross followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:Charlie Getter has been the ringleader for the poetry that happens in the 16th & Mission BART plaza for a decade.  Aqueila M. Ross\, we’ll tell you about shortly! \nhttp://evergreenreview.com/read/the-new-san-francisco-poetry-underground-charlie-getter/ \nKim Shuck\, San Francisco Poet Laureate\, is shouldering most of the booking duties for the time being\, in conjunction with the series’ long-time host\, Jerry Ferraz\, both San Francisco natives of Eureka Valley; both native to San Francisco poetry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charlie-getter-aqueila-m-ross-followed-by-an-open-mic/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Gabriela Alemán
DESCRIPTION:with special guests Mauro Javier Cardenas and Dick Cluster \ncelebrating the release of \nPoso Wells \npublished by City Lights Books \nAn ABA Summer/Fall 2018 Indies Introduce Selection \nCelebrated Ecuadorian author Gabriela Alemán’s first work to appear in English: a noir\, feminist eco-thriller in which venally corrupt politicians and greedy land speculators finally get their just comeuppance! \nIn the squalid settlement of Poso Wells\, women have been regularly disappearing but the authorities have shown little interest. When the leading presidential candidate comes to town\, he and his entourage are electrocuted in a macabre\, darkly hilarious accident witnessed by a throng of astonished spectators. The sole survivor—next in line for the presidency—inexplicably disappears from sight. \nGustavo Varas\, a principled journalist\, picks up the trail\, which leads him into a violent\, lawless underworld\, and ultimately to a strange group of almost supernatural blind men. Bella Altamirano\, a fearless local woman\, is on her own crusade to pierce the settlement’s code of silence\, ignoring the death threats that result from her efforts. It turns out that the disappearance of the candidate and those of the women are intimately connected\, and not just to a local crime wave\, but to a multinational magnate’s plan to plunder the country’s ecologically sensitive cloud forest. \nA political satire and noir thriller\, laced with humor and a sci-fi twist\, Poso Wells plunges its readers into dark passages where things are as uncontrolled and overheated as the lava from a smoking volcano\, which is where the story ends. \nGabriela Alemán\, based in Quito\, Ecuador\, has played professional basketball in Switzerland and Paraguay and has worked as a waitress\, administrator\, translator\, radio scriptwriter\, and film studies professor. She received a PhD at Tulane University and holds a Master’s degree in Latin American Literature from Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar. Her literary honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006; member of Bogotá 39\, a 2007 selection of the most important up-and-coming writers in Latin America in the post-Boom generation; one of five finalists for the 2015 Premio Hispanoamericano de Cuento Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia) for her story collection La muerte silba un blues; and winner of several prizes for critical essays on literature and film. Her other books include the short story collections\, Maldito corazón\, Zoom\, Fuga permanente\, and Álbum de familia; her novels in Spanish include Body Time\, Poso Wells\, and Humo. Her stories have appeared in anthologies in French\, English\, Chinese\, Hebrew\, and Serbo-Croatian. This is her first full-length work to appear in English. \nPraise for Poso Wells: \n“Poso Wells is ironic\, audacious\, and fierce. But what is it\, exactly? A satire? A scifi novel? A political detective yarn? Or the purest reality of contemporary Latin America. It’s unclassifiable––as all great books are.”––Samanta Schweblin\, author of Fever Dream \n“Poso Wells is brilliant\, audacious\, doubtlessly playful and at the same time so dark and bitter. A truly unforgettable book.”––Alejandro Zambra\, author of Multiple Choice \n“One part Thomas Pynchon\, one part Gabriel García Marquez\, and one part Raymond Chandler\, Alemán’s novel contains mystery\, horror\, humor\, absurdity\, and political commentary . . . A concoction of political thriller and absurdist literary mystery that never fails to entertain.”––Kirkus Reviews \n“By expertly weaving multiple narratives around the figure of Vinueza\, the hapless (but wealthy!) presidential candidate who resembles so many corrupt (but wealthy!) presidential candidates in the modern history of Ecuador\, Gabriela Alemán depicts with verve and humor the horrors and absurdities of a society intent on perpetuating itself.”––Mauro Javier Cardenas\, author of The Revolutionaries Try Again \n“Gabriela Alemán has a rhythm worth watching . . . she does something unexpected\, things fly apart\, she leaps into the void\, and you think\, ‘there’s no way she can pull this off’––but no\, everything fits together\, falls into place\, flows\, and the story goes on.”––Pedro Mairal\, author of The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra \n“Through scalding wit and straight-faced parody this no-holds-barred absurdist adventure that seems more a movie than a book will have you laughing till you cry as the cruelty of its South American reality sinks in. Imagine a mix of Hunter S. Thompson and Gabriel García Márquez. A small masterpiece.”––Michael Taussig\, author of Beauty and the Beast \n“This compulsively readable book is Gabriela Alemán’s debut as a novelist in the English-language. Sparklingly original\, full of dry wit\, and deliciously suspenseful\, Poso Wells could well earn Gabriela Alemán a cult following.”––Jon Lee Anderson\, author of Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life\, Guerrillas: Journeys in the Insurgent World\, and The Fall of Baghdad \n“Poso Wells explores the dichotomy between the new and old worlds of Ecuador through an exciting noir about missing women\, corrupt politicians\, and a journalist’s attempt to unravel the secrets of the infinitely labyrinthine cityscape of Poso Wells. This is an exciting debut translation of a celebrated Ecuadorian author\, and one that should lead to more translations of her work.”––Ely Watson\, A Room of One’s Own Bookstore (Madison\, WI) \n“Poso Wells is a rare achievement in which a reader comes out the other end wanting to start again. It is a bold and clever tale with a unique voice\, and it is poised to have a longstanding impression on readers for years to come.”––Rebecca George\, Volumes Bookcafe (Chicago\, IL) \n“Thriller and farce\, Poso Wells is a magical realist sci-fi\, a fierce and biting social allegory by turns hilarious and tragic\, cynical and hopeful . . . this is a twenty-first-century cautionary tale of the war between humanity and avarice . . .”––Maria Agui Carter\, director of Culture Shock and Rebel \n“Gabriela Alemán’s Poso Wells drops the reader\, as if dangling from a helicopter’s ladder\, into a riveting page-turner set in coastal Ecuador. Forces of global capitalism want to mine all that is profitable from the earth\, no matter the consequences. By the end we’re not sure if Jacob’s ladder leads to heaven or hell. The upshot of Alemán’s brilliant novel\, however: for every rapacious action\, there is an equal\, opposite\, and tenacious resistance.”––Mauricio Kilwein Guevara\, author of Autobiography of So-and-So: Poems in Prose \n“Poso Wells is an intriguing name for a thrilling novel of politics\, environmental destruction and wildly imaginative occurrences that slide right to the edge of reality. The landscape includes the threatened rape of a cloud forest\, a collection of fantastical blind heroes\, and a presidential candidate who pees himself to death on stage. The English translation is fast and clear as the story rolls towards its ending on a steaming volcano. The first English translation of noted Brazilian-Ecuadorian novelist\, Gabriela Alemán. I hope that many more follow.”––Stephen Williams\, contributor to the New York Times\, GQ\, Newsweek
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gabriela-aleman/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Arjun Singh Sethi / American Hate: Survivors Speak Out
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts an evening with Arjun Singh Sethi\, editor ofAmerican Hate: Survivors Speak Out. More information TBA soon — save the date and join us! \n  \n“Why am I in this country now? Should I move elsewhere? Do I want to raise my kids in this country\, where hate is so visible and rampant? I’ve been in this fight for decades\, but even I struggle. Deep down\, though\, I know we need to stay the course and continue the fight.” – Marwan Kreidie\, after a pig’s head was thrown at the Al-Aqsa Islamic Society Mosque in Philadelphia \n  \nIn American Hate: Survivors Speak Out\, Arjun Singh Sethi\, a community activist and civil rights lawyer\, chronicles the stories of individuals affected by hate. In a series of powerful\, unfiltered testimonials\, survivors tell their stories in their own words and describe how the bigoted rhetoric and policies of the Trump administration have intensified bullying\, discrimination\, and even violence toward them and their communities. \n  \nWe hear from the family of Khalid Jabara\, who was murdered in Tulsa\, Oklahoma\, in August 2016 by a man who had previously harassed and threatened them because they were Arab American. Sethi brings us the story of Jeanette Vizguerra\, an undocumented mother of four who took sanctuary in a Denver church in February 2017 because she feared deportation under Trump’s cruel immigration enforcement regime. Sethi interviews Taylor Dumpson\, a young black woman who was elected student body president at American University only to find nooses hanging across campus on her first day in office. We hear from many more people impacted by the Trump administration\, including Native\, black\, Arab\, Latinx\, South Asian\, Southeast Asian\, Muslim\, Jewish\, Sikh\, undocumented\, refugee\, transgender\, queer\, and people with disabilities. \n  \nA necessary book for these times\, American Hate explores this tragic moment in U.S. history by empowering survivors whose voices white nationalists and right-wing populist movements have tried to silence. It also provides ideas and practices for resistance that all of us can take to combat hate both now and in the future. \n  \n\n  \nArjun Singh Sethi is a community activist\, civil rights lawyer\, writer\, and law professor based in Washington\, DC. He works closely with Muslim\, Arab\, South Asian\, and Sikh communities and advocates for racial justice\, equity\, and social change at the local and national levels. His writing has appeared in CNN\, The Guardian\, The Los Angeles Times\, Politico Magazine\, USA Today\, and The Washington Post\, and he is featured regularly on national radio and television. He holds faculty appointments at Georgetown University Law Center and Vanderbilt University Law School\, and presently co-chairs the American Bar Association’s National Committee on Homeland Security\, Terrorism\, and Treatment of Enemy Combatants. He lives in Washington\, D.C. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/arjun-singh-sethi-american-hate-survivors-speak-out/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lydia Kiesling Book Release
DESCRIPTION:Lydia Kiesling joins us to celebrate the release of her new novel\, The Golden State\, with Ismail Muhammad. \n\nPraise for The Golden State \n\n“The Golden State is a perfect evocation of the beautiful\, strange\, frightening\, funny territory of new motherhood. Lydia Kiesling writes with great intelligence and candor about the surreal topography of a day with an infant\, and toggles skillfully between the landscape of Daphne’s interior and the California desert\, her postpartum body and the body politic. A love story for our fractured era.”—Karen Russell\, author of Vampires in the Lemon Grove and Swamplandia! \n\n“The Golden State is a rare and important novel not only because it depicts with blazing accuracy the everyday experience of raising a young child\, but also because it uses the quotidian to reveal larger truths about humanity’s gifts and deficits. In Lydia Kiesling’s remarkable first novel\, the familiar and the foreign are not so different after all\, and what we remember may not be what is. A profound book.”—Edan Lepucki\, author of Woman No. 17 and California \n  \n“The Golden State is spectacularly good at rendering maternal obsession and panic\, and the way the narcissism involved in the attempt to hold one’s self together can turn frenetic caring to neglect. Separated from a husband stuck abroad with a green card situation and wrung out by the relentlessness of toddler-rearing\, millennial Daphne\, in her traumatized withdrawal from a privileged life\, registers that despite her intelligence\, her life has been comprised not so much of decisions as realities that seemed to ecstatically assert themselves at the time\, and that all of the measures she employs to deal with stress involve harm she’ll now be passing along to her cherished child.  Lydia Kiesling is brilliant on our certainty that for all we feel\, we don’t do nearly enough for those we love.”—Jim Shepard\, author of The World to Come \n\nAbout The Golden State \n\nIn Lydia Kiesling’s razor-sharp debut novel\, The Golden State\, we accompany Daphne\, a young mother on the edge of a breakdown\, as she flees her sensible but strained life in San Francisco for the high desert of Altavista with her toddler\, Honey. Bucking under the weight of being a single parent―her Turkish husband is unable to return to the United States because of a “processing error”―Daphne takes refuge in a mobile home left to her by her grandparents in hopes that the quiet will bring clarity. \n  \nBut clarity proves elusive. Over the next ten days Daphne is anxious\, she behaves a little erratically\, she drinks too much. She wanders the town looking for anyone and anything to punctuate the long hours alone with the baby. Among others\, she meets Cindy\, a neighbor who is active in a secessionist movement\, and befriends the elderly Alice\, who has traveled to Altavista as she approaches the end of her life. When her relationships with these women culminate in a dangerous standoff\, Daphne must reconcile her inner narrative with the reality of a deeply divided world. \n  \nKeenly observed\, bristling with humor\, and set against the beauty of a little-known part of California\, The Golden State is about class and cultural breakdowns\, and desperate attempts to bridge old and new worlds. But more than anything\, it is about motherhood: its voracious worry\, frequent tedium\, and enthralling\, wondrous love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lydia-kiesling-book-release/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Launch for Mia Ayumi Malhotra with Jennifer S. Cheng and Pinbokeh / Isako Isako
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the launch party for Mia Ayumi Malhotra‘s debut collection of poems\, Isako Isako. Joining Mia areJennifer S. Cheng (Moon: Letters\, Maps\, Poems) and the experimental improv group Pinbokeh. We hope to see you there! \n  \nIsako Isako follows a single family lineage spanning four generations of female Japanese Americans to explore the chilling historical legacies of cultural trauma — internment\, mass displacement\, and rampant racism — in the United States\, and how it weaves together with current events. \n  \nIsako Isako was born from a series of conversations Malhotra had with her maternal grandmother who shared stories about her immigration to the US from Japan after WWII\, stories about living in Japan during the war and the ensuing American occupation\, and most of all\, stories about her own mother (the author’s great grandmother). Through the women in her family\, Malhotra discovered her own history and connection to the past along with a legacy of pain\, strength\, and resiliency. \n  \n\n  \n“The personal pronoun ‘I’ has brinks on all sides\, over which you can fall and become anyone and no one. Isako Isako deeply explores these soaring and dangerous precipices of identity through the magnetic voice of a Japanese-American internment camp survivor who is both an individual and collective\, a citizen and a prisoner\, broken and healing. Mia Ayumi Malhotra has written a brilliant and searing debut.” – Maria Hummel\, author of Still Lives and House and Fire \n  \n“Isako Isako is a powerful testament to poetry’s capacity for alchemizing history\, memoir\, and the lyric: the poems here intimately address the landscapes of war and the reverberations of violence through bodies and bloodlines. Malhotra’s visionary debut collection spans generations\, countries\, and loves\, weaving the story of a mother survivor with reflections on the limits and reaches of memory.” – Brynn Saito\, author of Power Made Us Swoon \n  \n“In these poems\, haunted equally by historical events and the timelessness of human suffering\, we find a stunning imagination at work on the sacred task of bodying forth\, through an uncommon compassion\, the stories that history might otherwise eclipse. . . . Malhotra’s poetry demonstrates what is still best in us\, the counterpart to cruelty coming back in the surviving descendant’s intimacies and empathies\, her innovations in language and\, ultimately\, love.” –Pimone Triplett\, author of Supply Chain and Rumor \n  \n\n  \nMia Ayumi Malhotra is a Kundiman Fellow\, and her poems have appeared in Greensboro Review\, Drunken Boat\, Best New Poets\, and DISMANTLE: An Anthology of Writing from the VONA/Voices Writing Workshop. She received her BA from Stanford and her MFA from the University of Washington and is a founding editor of Lantern Review. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two daughters. Find her online at miamalhotra.com. \n  \n  \nJennifer S. Cheng received her BA from Brown University\, MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Iowa\, and MFA in Poetry from San Francisco State University. She is the author of MOON: Letters\, Maps\, Poems\, selected by Bhanu Kapil as winner of the Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize (May 2018)\, HOUSE A\, selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize\, and Invocation: An Essay (New Michigan Press)\, a chapbook in which fragments of text\, photographs\, found images\, and white space influence one another to create meaning. A U.S. Fulbright scholar\, Kundiman fellow\, and Bread Loaf work-study scholar\, she is the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Harold Taylor Award\, the Ann Fields Poetry Award\, the Mid-American Review Fineline Prize\, and multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her poetry and lyric essays appear in Tin House\, AGNI\, Conjunctions\, Black Warrior Review\, The Normal School\, DIAGRAM\, The Volta\, The Offing\, Sonora Review\, Seneca Review\, Hong Kong 20/20 (a PEN HK anthology)\, and elsewhere. Having grown up in Texas\, Hong Kong\, and Connecticut\, she currently lives in rapture of the coastal prairies of northern California. \n  \nPinbokeh is Nathan Chamberlain\, Josiah Branaman\, and Paul Sakai. They are from Oakland\, CA. \n  \n  \n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery at 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. Doors and the bar open at 7pm. The event starts at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-mia-ayumi-malhotra-with-jennifer-s-cheng-and-pinbokeh-isako-isako/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Readings from They Said\, A Collaborative Anthology
DESCRIPTION:Jacqueline Doyle\, Chiyuma Elliott\, Tracy Jane Gregory\, Steve Gutierrez\, Carla Harryman\, Persis Karim\, Caroline Kessler\, Rae Liberto and Dean Rader read pieces from They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing. \n\nPraise for They Said \n\nCarlos Fuentes argued that the most important literary occasions are those in which “genre” is recirculated. Writing survives—thrives\, even—on recirculation and the reconception of genre. The collaborations collected here represent such a change\, as important\, in their own way\, as concretism\, found\, sound or random poetry. Making the author plural\, through joint composition\, repositions the work\, its voice and its experiential and emotion contexts. The more seamless these collaborations seem and most do seem seamless—the more radical their gestures. Lyric\, discursive\, sometimes political these pieces manage their changes in compelling duets.—Michael Anania \n\nAccording to the Greeks\, the origin of the word anthology can literally be translated as “flowergathering”. They Said gathers the most original and complementary blossoms in the literary garden and creates rare and distinctive bouquets. From poetry to creative non-fiction and more\, from voices both familiar and yet-to-be discovered by some\, there are splendid petals here for every reader to pluck.—Lynne Thompson \n\nWith They Said\, we’re presented with an anthology of contemporary work that beautifully illustrates the generative potential and dynamic energy of collaboration—a literary art too often overlooked. For any writer or poet\, it’s impossible not to be inspired by the possibilities suggested here.—Laura Cogan and Oscar Villalon \n\nAbout They Said \n\nThey Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing includes poetry\, fiction\, and creative nonfiction\, as well as hybridized forms that push the boundaries of concepts like “genre” and “author.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/readings-from-they-said-a-collaborative-anthology/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Vanessa Hua in conversation with Lydia Kiesling
DESCRIPTION:In a powerful debut novel about modern-day motherhood\, immigration\, and identity\, a pregnant Chinese woman makes her way to California and stakes a claim to the American dream.“Vanessa Hua’s debut is an utterly absorbing novel.”—Celeste Ng\, author of Little Fires Everywhere \nHoled up with other mothers-to-be in a secret maternity home in Los Angeles\, Scarlett Chen is far from her native China\, where she worked in a factory and fell in love with the owner\, Boss Yeung. Now she’s carrying his baby. Already married with three daughters\, Boss Yeung is overjoyed because the doctors have confirmed that he will finally have the son he has always wanted. To ensure that his child has every advantage\, Boss Yeung has shipped Scarlett off to give birth on American soil. U.S. citizenship will open doors for their little prince. \nAs Scarlett awaits the baby’s arrival\, she chokes down bitter medicinal stews and spars with her imperious housemates. The only one who fits in even less is Daisy\, a spirited teenager and fellow unwed mother who is being kept apart from her American boyfriend. \nThen a new sonogram of Scarlett’s baby reveals the unexpected. Panicked\, she escapes by hijacking a van—only to discover that she has a stowaway: Daisy\, who intends to track down the father of her child. The two flee to San Francisco’s bustling Chinatown\, where Scarlett will join countless immigrants desperately trying to seize their piece of the American dream. What Scarlett doesn’t know is that her baby’s father is not far behind her. \nA River of Stars is an entertaining\, wildly unpredictable adventure\, told with empathy and wit by an author the San Francisco Chronicle says “has a deep understanding of the pressure of submerged emotions and polite\, face-saving deceptions.” It’s a vivid examination of home and belonging\, and a moving portrayal of a woman determined to build her own future. \nVanessa Hua is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of a short story collection\, Deceit and Other Possibilities. For two decades\, she has been writing\, in journalism and fiction\, about Asia and the Asian diaspora. She has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature\, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award\, and a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing\, as well as honors from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Asian American Journalists Association. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, and The Washington Post. A River of Stars is Vanessa Hua’s first novel. \nPraise for A River of Stars \n“[A] powerful debut.”—Entertainment Weekly  \n“A vibrant\, fascinating look into womanhood and how so many women’s lives are shaped by their relationship to the powerful men within them . . . Hua infuses this story with spirit and humor\, exploring the ways in which pregnancy and motherhood can be both liberating and entrapping for the women who endure them. It’s a remarkable novel\, one which makes clear the many ways in which women must struggle to make their lives their own.”—Nylon \n“Stellar.”—Bustle \n“[A] skillful debut novel . . . that is heartbreaking and\, at turns\, hilarious. . . . Hua wonderfully evokes the exigencies of lives at the margins of American culture by revealing Scarlett’s enduring ingenuity as she navigates near-destitute single motherhood.”—Publishers Weekly \n“A River of Stars is a twenty-first-century immigrant story about the terror\, drama\, and desperation of being undocumented and yet unable to leave.”—The Village Voice \n“Fans of Celeste Ng . . . might find their next read right here.”—Elle \n“[This] gripping tale of Scarlett Chen\, a Chinese boss’s mistress sent to America to birth a child\, is as moving as it is entertaining.”—Electric Lit  \n“In A River of Stars\, Vanessa Hua illuminates the lives of her characters with energy\, verve\, and heart. Hua tracks the minutest emotional terrain of these characters while simultaneously interrogating the cultural and economic forces that shape their worlds. This book holds your attention until the very last page.”—Emma Cline\, New York Times bestselling author of The Girls \n“A River of Stars is a page-turner\, a riveting story of parenthood\, migration\, and the choices we make to survive. Fierce and determined\, resourceful and resilient\, Scarlett Chen is an unforgettable protagonist you can’t help but root for.”—Lisa Ko\, author of the National Book Award finalist The Leavers \n“How does Scarlett Chen—pregnant\, with her immigration status in peril—make her way in America without friends\, language\, and money? Vanessa Hua’s compelling A River of Stars is a story of resistance\, survival\, and self-determination in a world that is seemingly indifferent to the needs of the poor and disenfranchised.”—Min Jin Lee\, author of National Book Award finalist Pachinko
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vanessa-hua/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck presents Moby Dick
DESCRIPTION:It’s back to school\, so this month\, we’re taking our harpoons to noteworthy National Treasure and Greatest Love Story Ever Told: Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. \nFeatured writers TBA. \n$12 advance\, $15 door\, ticket includes *open bar* for 21+\, and admission to the afterparty at The Alembic (1725 Haight). Seats tend to sell out fast; we encourage you to buy early. \nPlease remember: Shipwreck tickets are non-transferable and non-refundable. \n  \nTickets on sale now.  \n  \n— \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event. \nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on the first Thursday of every month at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco. \nFics are blind-read by our Thespian-in-Residence\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and you choose the best ship before the writers are unmasked. The winner is cast off from polite society\, and invited back the next month to defend their title. \nCritics are saying:\n“… the most despicable literary event possible.”\n“… an affront to literature.”\n“It used to be we had to sit in dark\, sticky booths to get these kinds of sleazy thrills.”\n“Come if you are high on marijuana cigarettes and have done sex before.”\n“… a vile\, disgusting event.””Shipwreck will bring you to madness\, and you may never return.”\n“…wonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting.”\n“…punny sodomy and gross indecency.” \n“I do not care for this.” \n  \n— \n  \nPLEASE NOTE: No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. We’re not dicks\, we just like dick jokes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-presents-moby-dick/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Forrest Gander\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this rare reading at The Poetry Center by poet-translator — and SF State alum — Forrest Gander\, just in time for the debut of his new book of poetry\, Be With (New Directions\, 2018)\, his first book of poems since the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle nominee volume\, Core Samples from the World (New Directions\, 2011). Gander last read his work for The Poetry Center in 1996\, so this is an overdue return. This event\, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts\, is free and open to the public. \nForrest Gander\, a writer and translator with degrees in geology and literature\, was born in the Mojave Desert and lives in Petaluma\, California. Gander’s book Core Samples from the World\, a meditation on the ways we are revised and translated in encounters with the foreign\, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Among his recent titles are the novel The Trace (New Directions\, 2015)\, and two translations: Then Come Back: the Lost Neruda Poems (Copper Canyon\, 2016) and Alice\, Iris\, Red Horse: Selected Poems of Gozo Yoshimasu (editor\, with multiple translators; New Directions\, 2016). His first book of poems since 2011\, Be With\, is just out from New Directions. Gander is the recipient of grants from the Library of Congress\, the Guggenheim\, Howard\, Whiting and United States Artists Foundations\, he taught for many years as the AK Seaver Professor of Literary Arts & Comparative Literature at Brown University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore at forrestgander.com\nVIDEO: Forrest Gander and Raúl Zurita reading at the Woodberry Poetry Room\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/forrest-gander-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the San Francisco launch for the new W. W. Norton anthology New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction\, featuring readings by local contributors. More TBA soon. Save the date and join us! \n  \nA new collection of very short stories selected by Flash Fiction editor James Thomas and Robert Scotellaro. \n  \nAll of the stories in this book are exceptionally short\, revealing themselves in no more than 300 words. With a foreword by Robert Shapard and an afterword by Christopher Merrill\, this book brings you fresh approaches to an exacting form that demands precision\, a species of brevity that is surprisingly expansive. Writers say the pieces are hard to compose\, but readers say they are easy to appreciate\, a pleasure to envision\, a wonder to watch life spun out and painted in small places. Real and surreal\, lyrical and prosaic\, here are 135 stories by 89 authors\, certain to make you think. \n  \n\n  \n“Reading these wonderful tiny fictions is like stealing food from the refrigerator before\, or after\, dinner. A sublime luxury.” – Frederick Barthelme\, New World Writing \n  \n“These micro fictions violate the laws of geophysics by compressing whole lives / whole worlds / whole heartbreaks into something like diamonds: bright\, riven\, reflective\, edged\, wonderful\, and hard enough to cut through glass.” – Pam Houston\, author of Contents May Have Shifted \n  \n“New Micro’s quick\, bright stories are\, like our lives\, as brief as lightning in the blinding dark. They offer us essential truth without the inessential facts.” – John Dufresne\, author of Flash! Writing the Very Short Story \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery at 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. Doors and the bar open at 7pm. The event starts at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-micro-exceptionally-short-fiction/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kamila Shamsie
DESCRIPTION:Kamila Shamsie joins us to celebrate the paperback release of her new novel\, Home Fire. \n\nPraise for Home Fire \n\n“Home Fire left me awestruck\, shaken\, on the edge of my chair\, filled with admiration for her courage and ambition.” —Peter Carey\, Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda \n\n“Shamsie’s simple\, lucid prose plays in perfect harmony with the heartbeat of modern times. Home Fire deftly reveals all the ways in which the political is as personal as the personal is political. No novel could be as timely.” —Aminatta Forna\, author of The Memory of Love \n\n“A searing novel about the choices people make for love\, and for the place they call home.” —Laila Lalami\, Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Moor’s Account \n\n“A good novelist blurs the imaginary line between us and them; Kamila Shamsie is the rare writer who makes one forget there was ever such a thing as a line. Home Fire is a remarkable novel\, both timely and necessary.” —Rabih Alameddine\, author of An Unnecessary Woman \n\nAbout Home Fire \n\nIsma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother’s death\, she’s accepted an invitation from a mentor in America that allows her to resume a dream long deferred. But she can’t stop worrying about Aneeka\, her beautiful\, headstrong sister back in London\, or their brother\, Parvaiz\, who’s disappeared in pursuit of his own dream\, to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. When he resurfaces half a globe away\, Isma’s worst fears are confirmed. \nThen Eamonn enters the sisters’ lives. Son of a powerful political figure\, he has his own birthright to live up to—or defy. Is he to be a chance at love? The means of Parvaiz’s salvation? Suddenly\, two families’ fates are inextricably\, devastatingly entwined\, in this searing novel that asks: What sacrifices will we make in the name of love?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kamila-shamsie/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Amplify: A Storytellling Conference for People of Color
DESCRIPTION:Featuring workshops with Shanthi Sekaran on Writing Outside Your Cultural Experience\, Norman Antonio Zelaya on Cadence\, Community and Representation\, and Vanessa Hua on Narrative Journalism\, amongst others.\n\n\nWe’ve already sold 30% of our tickets in the first 3 days\, so get the Early-Bird deal and buy with a friend now! \n\n\n\nAbout Amplify \n\nWe write\, produce\, craft\, investigate\, report as a means to tell our and our communities stories\, because the stories we hear about us are not told by us. As storytellers\, we contribute to and preserve culture\, we entertain with anecdotes\, and most importantly\, we shape the popular narratives\, fictional or factual\, that inform public opinion and in turn\, public policy. \nAmplify is a chance to connect with other storytellers\, learn from their mastery\, and explore issues that influence your work including race\, class\, community\, and ethics. Keynotes include Glynn Washington from WNYC’s Snap Judgment\, Aimee Allison\, President of Democracy In Color\, Rhodessa Jones\, Director of The Medea Project\, and Mina Morita\, Artistic Director of Crowded Fire Theater. \nBuy your tickets now at bit.ly/amplifypoc
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amplify-a-storytellling-conference-for-people-of-color/
LOCATION:UC Berkeley
CATEGORIES:East Bay,San Francisco,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon
DESCRIPTION:Babylon Salon \n\npresents our Fall Reading \nSaturday\, September 8\, 2018\, 6.00 pm \nat The Armory Club\n1799 Mission Street \n(downstairs performance space)   \nfeaturing\n— \n \nDaniel Mallory Ortberg\nDaniel Mallory Ortberg’s first book\, the satirical bestseller Texts from Jane Eyre: and Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters\, was described by the Los Angeles Times Review of Books as a “splendid and wry work of humor writing” and by Elizabeth Gilbert as “candy coated in crack cocaine… it’s the best.” Ortberg’s newest book\, The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror\, has been on countless Best Books and Most Anticipated lists for 2018\, and has won praise from Kelly Link\, Charlie Jane Anders\, and Carmen Maria Machado who notes\, “the result is gorgeous\, unsettling\, splenic\, cruel\, and wickedly smart.” The co-founder of The Toast\, he has written for Gawker\, New York Magazine\, The Hairpin\, and The Atlantic. Since 2015\, Ortberg has been Slate’s Dear Prudence columnist and writes The Shatner Chatner newsletter. \n \nTommy Orange  \nThe 2018 debut novel by Tommy Orange\, THERE THERE\, was described by Janet Maslin in The New York Times this way: “Groundbreaking. Extraordinary. Tommy Orange has written a tense\, prismatic book with inexorable momentum.” Margaret Atwood has called the book “an astonishing literary debut” and Marlon James writes\, “THERE THERE drops on us like a thunderclap; the big\, booming\, explosive sound of 21st century literature finally announcing itself.  Essential.” Tommy Orange is a recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a 2014 MacDowell Fellow\, and a 2016Writing by Writers Fellow. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland\, California\, and currently lives in Angels Camp\, California. \n  \n \nLisa Locascio \nOpen Me\, Lisa Locascio’s 2018 debut novel\, was recently cited by Pulitzer-winner Viet Thanh Nguyen as “unflinching in its portrayal of sex\, desire\, racism\, and the excitement and confusion of youth. Infused with erotics and politics\, this is a novel that will haunt you.” Aimee Bender calls the novel “a kind of love letter to the female body and all its power and visceral complexity… A remarkable\, fearless debut.” Locascio’s work has appeared in The Believer\, Tin House\, n+1\, Bookforum\,and many other magazines. She is the co-publisher of Joyland and editor of 7x7LA and of the anthology Golden State 2017. She is Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Wesleyan University and the incoming Executive Director of the Mendocino Writers’ Conference. \n\n\nKatharine Dion \nKatharine Dion’s 2018 debut novel The Dependents has already been named one of the best books of the summer by TIME\, Entertainment Weekly\, O: The Oprah Magazine\, Real Simple\, and Brit + Co. The writer Kate Walbert notes that “The Dependents that grapples with important questions through generations–the way we live now\, the way we may have chosen to live then–and the consequences. Dion’s intelligence and ambition truly shine through sentence after sentence.” Dion is a graduate of Yale University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where she was awarded the Iowa Arts Fellowship. She has also been a MacDowell Fellow\, the recipient of a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation\, and a finalist for Narrative Magazine’s 30 Below contest. She lives in Berkeley\, California. \n \nIsmail Muhammad \nIsmail Muhammad is a writer and critic based in Oakland\, California. He’s a staff writer at the Millions\, a contributing editor at ZYZZYVA\, a board member at the National Books Critics Circle\, and a Ph.D. candidate in the English department at U.C. Berkeley. In addition\, he’s been a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellowship\, a Simpson Family Literary Fellow\, and a participant in the VONA 2017 workshops. His work\, which focuses on literature\, art\, identity\, and black popular and visual culture\, has appeared in publications like Slate\, New Republic\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Real Life\, and Catapult. He’s currently working on a novel about the Great Migration and queer archives of black history. Talk to him for any amount of time and you’ll probably end up learning more than you ever wanted to know about Los Angeles and/or Drake. \n____________________ \nFree Admission \nCash Bar Exotica \nDoors at 5.30\, \nReading at 6.00 \n@ the Armory Club\, \n1799 Mission St.\, San Francisco\nacross from the San Francisco Armory
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-2/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers with Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Jane Smiley (Golden Age\, Moo\, A Thousand Acres)\nR.O. Kwon (The Incendiaries: A Novel)\nMaria Dahvana Headley (The Mere Wife: A Novel) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM.\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-15/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Invocation to Daughters Barbara Jane Reyes
DESCRIPTION:2018 California Book Award Finalist \nFeminist experimental poetry in the tradition of Audre Lorde and Theresa Kyung Cha from a prominent Filipina American poet. \n“Reyes writes with conviction about the various ways imperialism transforms women into ‘capital\, collateral\, damaged soul.’ However\, the women that appear throughout the book are not merely victims; in Reyes’s radical cosmology\, these women—these daughters—are rebels\, saints\, revolutionaries\, and torchbearers\, ‘sharp-tongued\, willful.’ This book is a call to arms against oppressive languages\, systems\, and traditions.”––Publishers Weekly\, starred review \nInvocation to Daughters is a book of prayers\, psalms\, and odes for Filipina girls and women trying to survive and make sense of their own situations. Writing in an English inflected with Tagalog and Spanish\, in meditations on the relationship between fathers and daughters and impassioned pleas on behalf of victims of brutality\, Barbara Jane Reyes unleashes the colonized tongue in a lyrical feminist broadside written from a place of shared humanity. \nPraise for Invocation to Daughters: \n“Against violence against women\, Barbara Jane Reyes rips and runs\, jumping off Audre Lorde’s ‘the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house\,’ Invocation to Daughters recombines registers––prayers\, pleas and elegy––braiding a trilingual triple-threat\, a 3-pronged poetics that enjambs and reconfigures the formal with the street\, utterance with erasure\, the prose sentence with the liminal. Invocation to Daughters reminds me of the 70’s in the East Bay\, when Jessica Hagedorn met Ntozake Shange and ignited a green flash seen from horizon to horizon. Barbara Jane Reyes is one of the Bay Area’s incendiary voices.”––Sesshu Foster \n“Invocation to Daughters is a space for multitudes\, a hypnotic collection that draws from family history—particularly the complex cultural gendered dynamic between father and daughter—in order to create a manual for emancipation from the interior and exterior binds that keep us from ourselves. Through prayers\, calls to actions\, and testimonies\, Reyes invents ‘a language so that we know ourselves\, so that we may sing\, and tell\, and pray.'”––Carmen Giménez Smith \n\n\nPublisher City Lights Publishers\n\n\nFormat Paperback\nNb of pages 86 p.\nISBN-10 0872867471\nISBN-13 9780872867475
URL:https://litseen.com/event/invocation-to-daughters-barbara-jane-reyes/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Laborfest Writers Anthology 2005-2017
DESCRIPTION:Writer-contributors read to celebrate the publication of “Giving Voice: Laborfest Writers Anthology\, 2005-2017”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laborfest-writers-anthology-2005-2017/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Event: GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets\, artists\, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. \nTo participate in the open mic sessions\, please arrive by 4 and plan to listen to all of the featured poets. Seating/space is limited.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-event-gears-turning-w-kim-shuck-6/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Just Because Our Eyes Are Open Doesn’t Mean We’re Awake - New Book From Gary Gach
DESCRIPTION:Author Gary Gach points out that just because our eyes are open doesn’t mean we’re awake. He invites us to shift from our “auto-pilot” approach to life\, to a manner of living fully\, moment-to-moment. Drawing upon his 50 plus years’ practice and his experience teaching in the tradition of beloved Vietnamese Zenmaster Thich Nhat Hanh\, his is a candid\, caring\, down-to-earth voice\, a guide through the many profound\, holistic benefits of pausing … breathing … smiling. \nGary Gach is a writer\, mystic\, and lifelong meditator who has engaged in many roles: actor\, bookshop clerk\, dishwasher\, hospital admin\, office temp\, stevedore\, teacher\, and typographer. Lay-ordained by Thich Nhat Hanh in 2008\, he has authored eight previous books including The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Buddhism (Alpha\, 2001). Gary lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/just-because-our-eyes-are-open-doesnt-mean-were-awake-new-book-from-gary-gach/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alexandra and David Brown
DESCRIPTION:Alexandra and David Brown discuss their new book\, A Year Off: A Story About Traveling the World-and How to Make it Happen for You. \n\nAbout A Year Off \n\nWait for me… Who knew the power three little words could have in starting an international travel adventure? \nA Year Off is one part memoir\, one part travel essays and one part travel guide\, documenting the story of Alexandra and David Brown\, a couple who decided to take a year off from their jobs and ‘regular lives’ to travel the world together after only knowing each other for four months. Each chapter tackles a different part of the journey\, including: \n– Practical takeaways for how to take the same leap and travel\, including tips on budgeting\, planning\, pacing and adjusting to culture shock \n– A look into David and Alexandra’s story as they traveled the world together and got to know one another \n– Colorful memories of their travels\, including a dramatic kayak ride in Milford Sound\, New Zealand\, an emotional evening in India\, a life-changing meal in the Loire Valley\, France\, a hilarious makeover in Romania… and many more\nThis inspiring book is for all the dreamers\, would-be adventurers and endearingly practical professionals looking to scratch the travel itch. With many gorgeous photographs and actionable travel advice\, A Year Off captures all the beauty and magic of the wanderlust spirit\, guiding readers on how to take the same leap and showing them just how doable a journey this type of round-the-world travel is.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexandra-and-david-brown/
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:A Year Off: A Story About Traveling the World—and How to Make It Happen for You\, by Alexandra and David Brown
DESCRIPTION:On their first date\, David started describing to Alexandra his plan to quit his job and travel around the world for a year. Without hesitation (and surprising them both) Alexandra blurted out “Wait for me.” He did. Three months after that first date they quit their jobs and embarked on a round-the world adventure together that would take them to Costa Rica\, New Zealand\, Thailand\, India\, Romania\, France\, Ireland\, and more. They traveled together for a full year—and one year after they returned to San Francisco\, they got married. \nA Year Off is the story of their journey and their romance. It combines their personal story with inspiration and practical advice for would-be travelers looking to make their own tour. It includes real-world tips on putting your career on pause\, planning your route\, setting a budget\, adjusting to life on the road\, finding your “travel rhythm\,” discovering the “traveler’s code” of  generosity and hospitality\, and finally making a soft landing when you return home. It shows that it is possible to step out of a high-achieving lifestyle for an extended\, and transformative\, adventure. Alexandra and David are now happily married and live in San Francisco with their daughter. They still travel frequently.\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlexandra Brown\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Brown
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-year-off-a-story-about-traveling-the-world-and-how-to-make-it-happen-for-you-by-alexandra-and-david-brown/
LOCATION:Mechanics Institute\, 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival Presents Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake
DESCRIPTION:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents Poetic Tuesdays guest curated by Litquake\, Poetic Tuesdays features an array of poets and music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yerba-buena-gardens-festival-presents-poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-3/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:R.O. Kwon celebrating the release of  The Incendiaries
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nThe Incendiaries  \nfrom Riverhead Books \nNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2018 by the New York Times\, Entertainment Weekly\, Elle\, Time\, Parade\, Vanity Fair\, Cosmopolitan\, Esquire\, PBS\, Vulture\,Buzzfeed\, BookRiot\, PopSugar\, Refinery29\, Bustle\, The Rumpus\, Paste\, BBC. \nA shocking novel of violence\, love\, faith\, and loss\, as a young woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult tied to North Korea. \nPhoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn’t tell anyone she blames herself for her mother’s recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers to Edwards from Bible college\, waiting tables to get by. What he knows for sure is that he loves Phoebe. \nGrieving and guilt-ridden\, Phoebe is increasingly drawn into a religious group–a secretive extremist cult–founded by a charismatic former student\, John Leal. He has an enigmatic past that involves North Korea and Phoebe’s Korean American family. Meanwhile\, Will struggles to confront the fundamentalism he’s tried to escape\, and the obsession consuming the one he loves. When the group bombs several buildings in the name of faith\, killing five people\, Phoebe disappears. Will devotes himself to finding her\, tilting into obsession himself\, seeking answers to what happened to Phoebe and if she could have been responsible for this violent act. \nThe Incendiaries is a fractured love story and a brilliant examination of the minds of extremist terrorists\, and of what can happen to people who lose what they love most. \nR. O. Kwon is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her writing is published or forthcoming in The Guardian\, Vice\, Buzzfeed\, Time\, Noon\, Electric Literature\, Playboy\, and elsewhere. She has received awards from Yaddo\, MacDowell\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, Omi International\, the Steinbeck Center\, and the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony. Born in South Korea\, she has lived most of her life in the United States. \nWhaty has been said about the work of R.O. Kwon: \nRemarkable… Every page blooms with sensuous language and the book’s mood is otherworldly\, even if its setting\, a wealthy college in the Northeast\, isn’t… These are characters in quiet crisis\, burning\, above all\, to know themselves\, and Kwon leads them\, confidently\, to an enthralling end.” —Paris Review  \n“If you only read one book this summer\, make it this complex and searing debut novel by R.O. Kwon.” —Southern Living \n“One of those slim novels that contains multitudes\, R.O. Kwon’s debut novel shows how unreliable we are as narrators when we’re trying to invent — and reinvent — ourselves.” —Vulture \n“Kwon’s prose is artfully crafted. It is spare and accessible\, then\, delightfully explosive in its literary tendencies\, the music and the flourish. Kwon has a knack for setting stunning scenes that immerse us in a world familiar yet fractured: a watery memory that we want to stay and explore\, understand. This is fantastic fiction\, dripping with detail and nostalgia—experience translated poignantly\, accessibly—scenes in this book are a dead-on dream… Images come alive\, light burns through silver halide\, and what we see on screen\, on the page\, in our minds\, is as tangible and fleeting as a film frame…. Written with sparsity and flourish\, a well-constructed narrative fractured and woven into cinematic scenes\, populated with complex characters that demand our attention in exchange for access\, The Incendiaries is at times reminiscent of a Haruki Murakami novel. Alongside Kwon’s persistent\, driven prose is a narrative of personal and interpersonal unraveling. Kwon cultivates a palpable emptiness\, a space to feel the growing sense of loss that progressively saturates these pages.” —The Rumpus \n“This lyrical\, haunting novel is a remarkable debut from Kwon\, in which she shows with real lucidity the tangled ways in which passion slips into fanaticism\, love into desperation\, and faith into folly.”—Nylon \n“Mesmerizing.” —Bustle\n \n“R.O. Kwon’s brilliant debut novel dives into the world of domestic terrorism\, and the results prove that she’s a writer to watch.” —Paste Magazine \n“Deeply engrossing.” —PBS Books \n“R.O. Kwon’s debut novel is the rare marriage of sparkling\, poetic prose and propulsive narrative…. Big ideas of God and faith are explored\, but it’s all grounded in the story of the relationship between two people\, and how loss and vulnerability can be exploited by a persuasive religion.” —Jezebel \n“If there is a novel that goes to unexpected places\, it’s The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon… Phenomenal.” —Mashable \n“The Incendiaries will make you dizzy with its powerful prose… its heartbreaking and gut-wrenching meditations on the extremes human beings will push themselves to when they lose the thing they love most will stick with you long after you finish.” —PopSugar \n“A powerful\, darkly glittering novel… The Incendiaries is a fractured love story and a brilliant examination of the minds of extremist terrorists\, and of what can happen to people who lose what they love most.” —The Rumpus \n“The Incendiaries is a God-haunted\, willful\, strange book written with a kind of savage elegance. I’ve said it before\, but now I’ll shout it from the rooftops: R. O. Kwon is the real deal.”\n—Lauren Groff\, author of Fates and Furies and Florida \n“Every explosive requires a fuse. That’s R. O. Kwon’s novel\, a straight\, slow-burning fuse. To read her novel is to follow an inexorable flame coming closer and closer to the object it will detonate—the characters\, the crime\, the story\, and\, ultimately\, the reader.”\n—Viet Thanh Nguyen\, author of The Sympathizer and The Refugees \n“The Incendiaries probes the seductive and dangerous places to which we drift when loss unmoors us. In dazzlingly acrobatic prose\, R. O. Kwon explores the lines between faith and fanaticism\, passion and violence\, the rational and the unknowable.”\n—Celeste Ng\, author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You \n“A swift\, sensual novel about the unraveling of a collegiate relationship and its aftermath. Kwon writes gracefully about the spiritual insecurities of millennials.”\n—Karan Mahajan\, author of The Association of Small Bombs \n“This debut novel is absolutely electric\, something new in the firmament. Everyone should read this book.”\n—Garth Greenwell\, author of What Belongs to You \n“A classic love triangle between two tormented college students and God. The Incendiaries brings us\, page by page\, from quiet reckonings with shame and intimacy to a violent\, grand tragedy. In a conflagration of lyrical prose\, R. O. Kwon skillfully evokes the inherent extremism of young love.”\n—Tony Tulathimutte\, author of Private Citizens \n“An impressive\, assured debut about the hope for personal and political revolution and all the unexpected ways it flickers out. Kwon has vital things to say about the fraught times we live in.”\n—Jenny Offill\, author of Dept. of Speculation \n“A profound\, intricate exploration of how grief and lost faith and the vulnerable storm of youth can drive people to irrevocable extremes\, told with a taut intensity that kept me up all night. R.O. Kwon is a thrilling writer\, and her splendid debut is unsettled\, irresistible company.”\n—Laura van den Berg\, author of The Isle of Youth and Find Me \n“Written in dazzling\, spare prose… Kwon’s novel expertly addresses questions of faith and identity while managing to be formally inventive in its construction… In this intriguing cult story\, Kwon thoroughly explores her characters’ motivations\, making for an urgent and disarming debut.” —Publishers Weekly \n“Kwon successfully defines her characters’ depth while maintaining an air of intrigue and suspense. Throughout\, she looks at the imperfections in all our lives and how our interactions may lead us down paths unbeknownst to ourselves. With a breezy yet intense style\, newcomer Kwon is a writer to watch.” —Library Journal
URL:https://litseen.com/event/r-o-kwon-celebrating-the-release-of-the-incendiaries/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer SF "Ancestors: Real\, Imagined\, & Literary"
DESCRIPTION:Our ancestors can be the real people who came before us or the imagined people of literature or the real people who imagined that literature. Perfectly Queer wants to explore these different types of ancestors with the help of authors Wayne Goodman\, Andrew Lam\, and Anand Vedawala. Join us Tuesday\, September 11\, 7pm at Dog Eared Books Castro for ancestors in stories\, children’s books\, personal essays\, and the first Gay novels in England\, Russia\, and the U.S. Free admission\, free refreshments. Door prizes awarded promptly at 7pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-sf-ancestors-real-imagined-literary/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Claudia Dey / Heartbreaker
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Claudia Dey for her American debut\, Heartbreaker! Please join us. \n  \nAn isolated town.\nThe remains of a mysterious cult.\nAnd a woman who disappears. \n  \nIt’s 1985. Pony Darlene Fontaine has lived all her fifteen years in “the territory\,” a settlement founded decades ago by a charismatic cult leader. In this strange town run on a sinister economic resource\, the women crimp their hair and wear shoulder pads\, and the teenagers listen to Nazareth and Whitesnake on their Walkmans. Pony’s family lives in the bungalow at the farthest edge of town\, where the territory borders the rest of the wider world–a place none of the townspeople have ever been. \n  \nExcept for Billie Jean Fontaine\, Pony’s mother. When Billie Jean arrived in the territory seventeen years prior–falling from the open door of a stolen car–the residents took her in and made her one of their own. She was the first outsider they had ever laid eyes on. Pony adores and idolizes her mother\, but like everyone else in the territory she is mystified by her. Billie Jean refuses to describe the world she came from. \n  \nOne night\, Billie Jean grabs her truck keys\, bolts barefoot into the cold October darkness–and vanishes. Beautiful\, beloved\, and secretive\, Billie Jean was the first person to be welcomed into the territory. Now\, with a frantic search under way for her missing mother\, Pony fears: Will she be the first person to leave it too? \n  \nTold from the three unforgettable perspectives of a daughter\, a killer dog\, and a teenage boy named Supernatural\, this novel is startling in its humor and wrenching in its wisdom about the powers\, limits\, and dangers of love. Heartbreaker is an electrifying page-turner about a woman reinventing herself in order to survive–and a daughter who must race against the clock to untangle the mysteries left in her mother’s wake. \n  \n\n  \n“A dark star of a book\, glittering with mordant humor and astonishing\, seductive strangeness and grace. I am a giant fan of Claudia Dey’s wild brain.” –Lauren Groff\, author of Fates and Furies \n  \n“Heartbreaker gave me chills all the way through. It is deeply original — in its wildness\, its structure\, its wisdom\, and its world. It convinced me that the deepest of human (and animal) urges is the pull to find one’s true home — which lies in the hearts of just a few others. I floated in the perfection of its ending. I loved this novel’s shining sensitivity. I loved its every page.” –Sheila Heti\, author of Motherhood and How Should a Person Be? \n  \n“Devoted as I am to the oddities of remote northern lands\, I could not put this book down. By turns hilarious and harrowing\, Heartbreaker‘s icy exactitude is direct\, disturbed\, and entirely splendid.” – Samantha Hunt\, author of The Dark Dark \n  \n“I want Van Halen to write the soundtrack and the Coen brothers to make the movie. Heartbreaker plays out as a vivid\, tender\, complex magic\, a totally compulsive\, singular\, and wild read. The people in this book are so alive\, and the book itself feels unthinkably new.” – Leslie Feist\, musician \n  \n“I was kidnapped by this novel. Original\, alluring\, and memorable\, Claudia Dey’s Heartbreaker–an electrifying story about buried pasts\, dark secrets\, and dangerous love that shimmers and sparks–will get under your skin.” – Iain Reid\, author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things \n  \n“Heartbreaker makes high and hilarious art from the emotional Pop Rocks and glittery junk of a certain way of being young. And vulnerable. Also\, it has one of the most awesome dogs in literature. . . . A thrillingly original\, wholly spellbinding\, and luminous novel.” – Rivka Galchen\, author of Atmospheric Disturbances \n  \n\n  \n  \nClaudia Dey is the author of Stunt\, a Globe and Mail and Quill & Quire Book of the Year. Her plays have been produced internationally and nominated for the Governor General’s Award and Trillium Book Award. Dey’s writing has appeared in many publications\, including The Paris Review and The Believer. She has also worked as a horror film actress and a cook in lumber camps across northern Canada\, and is co-designer of Horses Atelier. Claudia Dey lives in Toronto. Heartbreaker is her American debut. \n  \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/claudia-dey-heartbreaker/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Elaine Mokhtefi
DESCRIPTION:Elaine Mokhtefi discusses her new book\, Algiers\, Third World Capital: Freedom Fighters\, Revolutionaries\, Black Panthers. \n\nPraise for Algiers\, Third World Capital \n\n“Algiers\, Third World Capital is a return to a time when Algiers was Mecca and the Vatican for revolutionaries. Indeed\, at the time Amilcar Cabral said: ‘Muslims go on pilgrimage to Mecca\, Christians in the Vatican and national liberation movements in Algiers.’”– Kader Bakou\, Le Soir d’Algerie (French) \n\n“Elaine Mokhtefi has written a fascinating insider’s account of the Black Panthers’ exile in Algiers in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Legendary figures take to the stage in the world capital of the national liberation movements: Ahmed Ben Bella\, Frantz Fanon\, Eldridge Cleaver. Mokhtefi was a key intermediary between the Panthers and the FLN during her own time in Algiers\, and a militant anti-imperialist. This is a clear-eyed\, first-hand recollection of the way things fall apart.”– Jeremy Harding\, author of Border Vigils \n\nAbout Algiers\, Third World Capital \n\nA fascinating portrait of life with the Black Panthers in Algiers: a story of liberation and radical politics \n  \nFollowing the Algerian war for independence and the defeat of France in 1962\, Algiers became the liberation capital of the Third World. Here\, Elaine Mokhtefi\, who as a young American woman had become involved in the struggle and worked with leaders of the Algerian Revolution\, including Frantz Fanon\, found a home. As a journalist and translator\, she lived among guerrillas\, revolutionaries\, exiles and visionaries and was even present in the making of the groundbreaking film The Battle of Algiers. \nMokhtefi crossed paths with some of the era’s brightest stars: Stokely Carmichael\, Timothy Leary\, Ahmed Ben Bella\, Jomo Kenyatta and Eldridge Cleaver. She was instrumental in the establishment of the International Section of the Black Panther Party in Algiers and was close at hand as the group became involved in intrigue\, murder and international hijackings. She traveled for and with the Panthers and organised Cleaver’s clandestine departure for France.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elaine-mokhtefi/
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:Poets Maw Shein Win\, Melissa Stein\, Margaret Stawowy & Miriam Bird Greenberg
DESCRIPTION:Poets Maw Shein Win\, Melissa Stein\, Margaret Stawowy & Miriam Bird Greenberg
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-maw-shein-win-melissa-stein-margaret-stawowy-miriam-bird-greenberg/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ingrid Rojas Contreras celebrating the release of her debut novel  Fruit of the Drunken Tree
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of her debut novel \nFruit of the Drunken Tree  \nfrom Random House \nA mesmerizing debut set in Colombia at the height Pablo Escobar’s violent reign about a sheltered young girl and a teenage maid who strike an unlikely friendship that threatens to undo them bothSeven-year-old Chula and her older sister Cassandra enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogotá\, but the threat of kidnappings\, car bombs\, and assassinations hover just outside the neighborhood walls\, where the godlike drug lord Pablo Escobar continues to elude authorities and capture the attention of the nation.\nWhen their mother hires Petrona\, a live-in-maid from the city’s guerrilla-occupied slum\, Chula makes it her mission to understand Petrona’s mysterious ways. But Petrona’s unusual behavior belies more than shyness. She is a young woman crumbling under the burden of providing for her family as the rip tide of first love pulls her in the opposite direction. As both girls’ families scramble to maintain stability amidst the rapidly escalating conflict\, Petrona and Chula find themselves entangled in a web of secrecy that will force them both to choose between sacrifice and betrayal.\nInspired by the author’s own life\, and told through the alternating perspectives of the willful Chula and the achingly hopeful Petrona\, Fruit of the Drunken Treecontrasts two very different\, but inextricable coming-of-age stories. In lush prose\, Rojas Contreras sheds light on the impossible choices women are often forced to make in the face of violence and the unexpected connections that can blossom out of desperation. \nIngrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Electric Literature\, Guernica\, and Huffington Post\, among others. She has received fellowships and awards from The Missouri Review\, Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, VONA\, Hedgebrook\, The Camargo Foundation\, Djerassi Resident Artists Program\, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures. She is the book columnist for KQED Arts\, the Bay Area’s NPR affiliate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ingrid-rojas-contreras-celebrating-the-release-of-her-debut-novel-fruit-of-the-drunken-tree/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Marilyn Berlin Snell / Unlikely Ally
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the launch party for Marilyn Berlin Snellfor her new book Unlikely Ally: How the Military Fights Climate Change and Protects the Environment. Please join us! \n  \nWhat do national security and defense mean in the ecologically destabilizing age of climate change? In California\, the US military has begun to redefine these concepts by taking on a largely unrecognized yet crucial role in renewable-energy innovation and in preserving cultural and natural treasures. Environmental stewardship is law on installations throughout the United States\, but a few bases in Southern California have taken a more comprehensive approach—one in which energy security and protection of threatened and endangered species are embedded in the practice of national defense. Unlikely Ally takes us through these bases to examine what twenty-first-century sustainable-energy infrastructure looks like; whether combat readiness and species protection can successfully coexist; how cutting-edge technology and water-conservation practices could transform life in a resource-constrained world; and how the Department of Defense’s scientific research into the metabolic secrets of the endangered desert tortoise could speed human travel to Mars. With investigative journalist Marilyn Berlin Snell as our guide\, we explore a martial culture in California informed by science\, strategic imperative\, state and federal law\, and visionary leadership. \n  \n\n  \n“Marilyn Berlin Snell brings the paradox of military sustainability into full view in this lively account from California’s desert and coastal training grounds\, showing how national security and natural security can manage to work together.” – David Havlick\, author of Bombs Away: Militarization\, Conservation\, and Ecological Restoration \n  \n“Uncovers a surprising bright spot on our fraught horizon.” – Mary Ellen Hannibal\, author of Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction \n  \n\n  \nMarilyn Berlin Snell is an independent journalist whose work focuses on the environment and politics. She was staff writer for Sierra\, the magazine of the Sierra Club\, from 2000 to 2008 and founding director of the magazine’s Investigative Journalism Project. Her freelance work has appeared in publications including the New York Times\, Mother Jones\, The Nation\, and Discover. Visit her website at www.marilynberlinsnell.com. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery at 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is a free and all-ages event\, with mature themes. The bar opens with doors at 7pm; event begins at 7:30. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Unlikely Ally\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-marilyn-berlin-snell-unlikely-ally/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 7 pm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-club-2/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:GARY SHTEYNGART
DESCRIPTION:In Conversation with Isabel Duffy\nWednesday\, September 12\, 2018\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Nourse Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nGary Shteyngart was born in Leningrad in 1972 and came to the United States seven years later. He is the author of the novels Super Sad True Love Story\, which won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and was selected as one of the best books of the year by more than forty news journals and magazines around the world; Absurdistan\, which was chosen as one of the ten best books of the year by The New York Times Book Reviewand Time magazine; and The Russian Debutante’s Handbook\, winner of the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. His work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Travel + Leisure\, Esquire\, GQ\, The New York Times Magazine\, and many other publications and has been translated into twenty-six languages. Shteyngart lives in New York City and upstate New York. \n\nAll $46 Orchestra tickets include copy of Gary Shteyngart’s new book\, “Lake Success”. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gary-shteyngart/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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