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SUMMARY:San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck + open mic
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck + open mic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-poet-laureate-kim-shuck-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:Advice: A Night of Stories with Porchlight
DESCRIPTION:We could all stand to hear some wisdom and guidance right about now. The Bay Area’s long-running Porch Light Storytelling Series returns with “advice”-themed tales from Steve Almond\, Dickson Lam\, Sands Hall\, Writer\, Sisonke Msimang\, Maggie Rowe\, and Betty Charbonnet Reid Soskin\, the nation’s oldest park ranger. Co-hosted by Arline Klatte and Beth Lisick. Music by Marc Capelle. Doors at 7 pm\, show at 8 pm. $20 adv / $25 door
URL:https://litseen.com/event/advice-a-night-of-stories-with-porchlight/
LOCATION:Swedish American Hall\, 2174 Market Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES: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-4/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181016T193000
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SUMMARY:John Freeman in conversation with Rebecca Solnit
DESCRIPTION:This event cosponsored by LITQUAKE in conjunction with City Lights and Grove Press \ncelebrating the release of \nFreeman’s Literary Journal: POWER Issue \npublished by Grove Press \nFrom the voices of protestors to the encroachment of a new fascism\, everywhere we look\, power is revealed. Spouse to spouse\, soldier to citizen\, looker to gazed upon\, power is never static: it is either demonstrated or deployed. Its hoarding is itself a demonstration. This thought-provoking issue of the acclaimed literary annual Freeman’s explores who gets to say what matters in a time of social upheaval. \nMany of the writers are women. Margaret Atwood posits it is time to update the gender of werewolf narratives. Aminatta Forna shatters the silences which supposedly ensured her safety as a woman of color walking in public spaces. Power must often be seized. The narrator of Lan Samantha Chang’s short story finally wrenches control of the family’s finances from her husband only to make a fatal mistake. Meanwhile the hero of Tahmima Anam’s story achieves freedom by selling bull semen. Australian novelist Josephine Rowe recalls a gallery attendee trying to take what was not offered when she worked as a life-drawing model. Violence often results from power imbalances— Booker Prize winner Ben Okri watches power stripped from the residents of Grenfell Tower by ferocious neglect. But not all power must wreak damage. Barry Lopez remembers fourteen glimpses of power\, from the moment he hitched a ride on a cargo plane in Korea to the glare he received from a bear traveling with her cubs in the woods\, asking—do you plan me harm? \nFeaturing work from brand new writers Nicole Im\, Jaime Cortez\, and Nimmi Gowrinathan\, as well as from some of the world’s best storytellers\, including US poet laureate Tracy K. Smith\, Franco-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani\, and Turkish novelist Elif Shafak\, Freeman’s: Power escapes from the headlines of today and burrows into the heart of the issue. \nJohn Freeman was the editor of Granta until 2013. His books include How to Read a Novelist\, Tales of Two Cities\, Tales of Two Americas\, and Maps\, his debut collection of poems. He is executive editor at the Literary Hub and teaches at the New School and New York University. His work has appeared in the New Yorker and the Paris Review and has been translated into twenty languages. \nRebecca Solnit is a prolific writer\, and the author of many books including Hope in the Dark\, Men Explain Things To Me\, Savage Dreams\, Storming the Gates of Paradise\, and the best-selling atlases Infinite City and Unfathomable City. Her writing has appeared in Harpers\, UK Guardian\, and Tom Dispatch. She has received numerous honors for her work including the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Sally Hacker Prize from the Society for the History of Technology\, the Harvard Mark Lynton History Prize\, the Corlis Benefideo Award for Imaginative Cartography from the North American Cartographic Information Society\, and numerous fellowships. \nLitquake is the largest independent literary festival on the West Coast\, Litquake continues its mission as a ten-day literary spectacle for booklovers\, complete with cutting-edge panel discussions\, unique cross-media events\, and hundreds of readings. Whether it’s poets reciting in a cathedral\, authors discussing science versus religion in a library\, or novelists reading in a beekeeping supply store\, the goal remains the same: whet a broad range of literary appetites\, present the literary fare in a variety of traditional and unlikely venues\, and make it vivid\, real\, and entertaining. To learn more visit: http://www.litquake.org/ \nPraise for Freeman’s: \n“There’s an illustrious new literary journal in town . . . [with] fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry by new voices and literary heavyweights . . . alike.”—Vogue.com \n“A terrific anthology . . . Sure to become a classic in years to come.”—San Francisco Chronicle \n“Ambitious.”—O Magazine \n“Freeman draws from a global cache of talent . . . An expansive reading experience.”—Kirkus Reviews \n“Looking at what John [Freeman] has put together in this first edition\, I’m struck by how many names I don’t know and how diverse and global it is. My only disappointment is that it’s going to be twice a year—I think we need it 4 times a year.”—James Wood\, Radio Boston \n“Illuminating . . . Perfect reading for our ever-accelerating times.”—NPR’s Book Concierge \n“Freeman’s is fresh\, provocative\, engrossing.”—BBC.com \n“A first-rate anthology of bold\, searching and personal writing by emerging and established writers.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune \n“Freeman’s sets a new standard for literary journals . . . It’s refreshing and full of nuanced stories that will linger with you long after you finish them.”—Chicago Literati \n“[An] infinitely relatable and beautifully crafted prose and poetry anthology . . . Freeman has assembled a thoughtful and profoundly accessible collection of work that connects our vulnerabilities\, our expectations and our hopes.”—Newcity Lit \n“[A] thrillingly unique collection of voices.”—Toronto Star
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-freeman-in-conversation-with-rebecca-solnit/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Jay Osborn
DESCRIPTION:John Jay Osborn discusses his new novel Listen to the Marriage. \n\nAbout Listen to the Marriage \n\nGretchen and Steve have been married for a long time. Living in San Francisco\, recently separated\, with two children and demanding jobs\, they’ve started going to a marriage counselor. Unfolding over the course of ten months and taking place entirely in the marriage counselor’s office\, John Jay Osborn’s Listen to the Marriage is the story of a fractured couple in a moment of crisis\, and of the person who tries to get them to see each other again. A searing look at the obstacles we put in our own way\, as well as the forces that drive us apart (and those that bring us together)\, Listen to the Marriage is a poignant exploration of marriage–heartbreaking and tender. \n  \nAbout John Jay Osborn \n\nJohn Jay Osborn graduated from Harvard Law School in 1970. He wrote The Paper Chase while he was a full-time law student. Osborn has clerked for the United States Court of Appeals\, practiced law in New York City\, taught at the University of Miami School of Law\, and practiced in the estate-planning field\, as well as giving advice and representation to artists and writers. He is the author of several novels and has written episodes for a variety of television shows. Since 1991 he has been a professor at the law school of the University of San Francisco. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-jay-osborn/
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:BINDERY: Erin Gibson / Feminasty: The Complicated Woman’s Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening with Erin Gibson for her debut book of essays Feminasty: The Complicated Woman’s Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death. Please join us! \n  \nErin Gibson has a singular goal – to create a utopian future where women are recognized as humans. In FEMINASTY—titled after her nickname on the hit podcast “Throwing Shade”—she has written a collection of make-you-laugh-until-you-cry essays that expose the hidden rules that make life as a woman unnecessarily hard and deconstructs them in a way that’s bold\, provocative and hilarious. Whether it’s about shaming women for having their periods\, allowing them into STEM fields but never treating them like they truly belong\, or dictating strict rules for how they should dress in every situation\, Erin breaks down the organized chaos of old fashioned sexism\, intentional and otherwise\, that systemically keeps women down. \n  \nFeminasty is Erin Gibson’s revolutionary handbook for dismantling the patriarchy\, one pay gap joke at a time \n  \n\n  \nEmmy-nominated Southern loudmouth Erin Gibson is an expert at mixing social commentary\, political satire\, and vagina jokes into neat little comedy packages. Based in Los Angeles\, she’s one half of the Throwing Shade empire\, which includes an award winning political absurdist comedy podcast\, international live touring show\, the Funny or Die web series and a TV Land late night show. She developed her social commentary chops as the host of “Modern Lady” and sharpened them writing and directing political sketches for Funny or Die\, where you’ve seen her impersonate terrible women like Michele Bachmann\, Megyn Kelly\, Michelle Duggar and Ivanka Trump. She also created the long running Emmy-nominated “Gay of Thrones” starring her real-life hair stylist\, Jonathan Van Ness. Feminasty is her debut book of comedic essays. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of Feminasty\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-erin-gibson-feminasty-the-complicated-womans-guide-to-surviving-the-patriarchy-without-drinking-herself-to-death/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Kaag discusses his new book\, Hiking With Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are
DESCRIPTION:John Kaag discusses his new book\, Hiking With Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are. \n\nPraise For Hiking With Nietzsche \n\n“Meditative . . . thought provoking . . . Kaag has crafted a stirring account of a personal encounter with a great mind.” –Publishers Weekly \n  \n“Kaag succeeds . . . through his courage to approach Nietzsche\, and philosophy in general\, from a personal―and not just intellectual―perspective . . . .A meditative work full of self-understanding that will resonate with anyone who has ever been drawn toward the void.” –Kirkus \n\nAbout Hiking With Nietzsche \n\nA revelatory Alpine journey in the spirit of the great Romantic thinker Friedrich Nietzsche \n  \nHiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are is a tale of two philosophical journeys―one made by John Kaag as an introspective young man of nineteen\, the other seventeen years later\, in radically different circumstances: he is now a husband and father\, and his wife and small child are in tow. Kaag sets off for the Swiss peaks above Sils Maria where Nietzsche wrote his landmark work Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Both of Kaag’s journeys are made in search of the wisdom at the core of Nietzsche’s philosophy\, yet they deliver him to radically different interpretations and\, more crucially\, revelations about the human condition. \n  \nJust as Kaag’s acclaimed debut\, American Philosophy: A Love Story\, seamlessly wove together his philosophical discoveries with his search for meaning\, Hiking with Nietzsche is a fascinating exploration not only of Nietzsche’s ideals but of how his experience of living relates to us as individuals in the twenty-first century. Bold\, intimate\, and rich with insight\, Hiking with Nietzsche is about defeating complacency\, balancing sanity and madness\, and coming to grips with the unobtainable. As Kaag hikes\, alone or with his family\, but always with Nietzsche\, he recognizes that even slipping can be instructive. It is in the process of climbing\, and through the inevitable missteps\, that one has the chance\, in Nietzsche’s words\, to “become who you are.” \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-kaag-discusses-his-new-book-hiking-with-nietzsche-on-becoming-who-you-are/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Simpsons and Other Jewish Families-Mike Reiss
DESCRIPTION:Mike Reiss\, former head writier for The Simpsons\, has written more than 300 episodes and won four Emmys for his work on the show. He will be talking about his 30-year career in the writer’s room as well as his new book “Springfield Confidential.” Book sales and signing follow talk. \nPresented in conjunction with The Litquake Literary Festival.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-simpsons-and-other-jewish-families-mike-reiss/
LOCATION:Contemporary Jewish Museum\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The City Is Already Speaking: The Sound of Calle 24 Live Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join United Booksellers\, San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck\, and the poets \n\nfor what is likely to be the last live reading of 2018 from the limited edition chapbook\,\nThe City Is Already Speaking: The Sound of Calle 24 \n Featured readers:\n*Josiah Luis Alderete * Dee Allen * Simon Crafts * Flavia Elisa * E.K. Keith * Thea Matthews * Linda Noel * Raul Ruiz * Denise Sullivan & Ricardo Tavarez plus special guests.\n\njoin United Booksellers\, San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck\, and the poets of \n\nThe City Is Already Speaking: The Sound of Calle 24 \nfor what is likely to be the last live reading of 2018 from our limited edition chapbook. Featured readers on this night are…\n*Josiah Luis Alderete * Dee Allen * Simon Crafts * Flavia Elisa * E.K. Keith * Thea Matthews * Linda Noel * Raul Ruiz * Denise Sullivan & Ricardo Tavarez plus special guests. LITQUAKE DETAILS HERE\n\nThis is the first publication by United Booksellers which in addition to the above listed contributors\, also includes work from former San Francisco Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguía and California Book Award\, Griffin Poetry Prize and American Book Award winner\, Tongo Eisen-Martin. Fresh copies of the chap\, from a limited run and printed on higher quality paper stock\, will be available for sale at the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-city-is-already-speaking-the-sound-of-calle-24-live-reading/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:H. Bruce Franklin discusses his new book Crash Course: From the Good War to the Forever War
DESCRIPTION:H. Bruce Franklin discusses his new book Crash Course: From the Good War to the Forever War. \n\nAbout Crash Course \n\nGrowing up during the Second World War\, H. Bruce Franklin believed what he was told: that America’s victory would lead to a new era of world peace. Like most Americans\, he was soon led to believe in a world-wide Communist conspiracy that menaced the United States\, forcing the nation into a disastrous war in Korea. But once he joined the U.S. Air Force and began flying top-secret missions as a navigator and intelligence officer\, what he learned was eye-opening. He saw that even as the U.S. preached about peace and freedom\, it was engaging in an endless cycle of warfare\, bringing devastation and oppression to fledgling democracies across the globe. \nNow\, after fifty years as a renowned cultural historian\, Franklin offers a set of hard-learned lessons about modern American history. Crash Course is essential reading for anyone who wonders how America ended up where it is today: with a deeply divided and disillusioned populace\, led by a dysfunctional government\, and mired in unwinnable wars. It also finds startling parallels between America’s foreign military exploits and the equally brutal tactics used on the home front to crush organized labor\, antiwar\, and civil rights movements. \nMore than just a memoir or a history book\, Crash Course gives readers a unique firsthand look at the building of the American empire and the damage it has wrought. Shocking and gripping as any thriller\, it exposes a decades-long deception of the American public and commemorates the few brave souls who fought for truth and justice.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/h-bruce-franklin-discusses-his-new-book-crash-course-from-the-good-war-to-the-forever-war/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Damion Searls discusses his translation of Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl\, by Uwe Johnson. Sponsored by The Center for the Art of Translation
DESCRIPTION:Damion Searls discusses his translation of Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl\, by Uwe Johnson. Sponsored by The Center for the Art of Translation. \n\nAbout Anniversaries \n\nA landmark of 20th Century literature about New York in the late 1960s\, now in English for the first time. \nLate in 1967\, Uwe Johnson\, already one of the most celebrated German novelists of his generation\, set out to write a book that would take the form of an entry for every day of the year that lay ahead.  The  first entry is August 21\, 1967\, and every subsequent entry is dated the following day\, through August 20\, 1968. Of course\, Johnson had no idea what the year would bring—that was part of the challenge—but he did have his main character: Gesine Cresspahl\, a German émigré living on the Upper West Side of New York City and working as a translator for a bank\, who is the single mother of a ten-year-old daughter\, Marie. \nThe book tells the story of a year in the life of this little family in relation to the unfolding stories of the year\, as winnowed from the pages of The New York Times\, of which Gesine is a devoted if wary reader. These stories in turn are overlayed by another: Gesine\, born just as Hitler was coming to power\, has decided to tell Marie the story of her grandparents’ lives and of her own rural childhood in Nazi Germany. \nAnniversaries courts comparison to Joyce’s Ulysses\, the book of a day\, and to Proust’s In Search of Lost Time\, the book of a lifetime\, but it stands apart in its dense polyphonic interplay of voices and stories. It is a novel of private life\, a political novel\, and a new kind of historical novel\, reckoning not only with past history but with history in the making.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/damion-searls-discusses-his-translation-of-anniversaries-from-a-year-in-the-life-of-gesine-cresspahl-by-uwe-johnson-sponsored-by-the-center-for-the-art-of-translation/
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:Lit Crawl SF
DESCRIPTION:FREE! \nOne of the most anticipated literary nights of the year\, San Francisco’s Lit Crawl began in 2004\, and has grown to attract nearly 10\,000 people. Today\, it is the world’s largest such event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lit-crawl-sf/
LOCATION:The Mission\, the mission\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181020T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181020T210000
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SUMMARY:LITQUAKE! LIT-Crawl
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a great night of literary fun along 24th Street! \nPhase 1:  FLOR Y CANTO 2018 \nhttps://www.facebook.com/SFFloryCanto/ \nPhase 2:  FORUM Magazine \nhttps://www.facebook.com/ForumMagazine/ \nPhase 3:  THE RACKET \nhttps://www.facebook.com/theracketseries/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-lit-crawl/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:14th Annual Lit Crawl SF: Hazel Reading Series / The Escapery
DESCRIPTION:Date: Saturday\, October 20\, 2018\nTime: 6pm doors\, 6:30pm event\nAdmission: Free \nHazel Reading Series features an all-star lineup of readers. After the intermission\, The Escapery readers explore life’s peaks and craters\, the ways that the moonshine reaches all of us\, the glint and glare of love and death\, and the waning gleam of the moon as we move through our lives. \nOne of the most anticipated literary nights of the year\, Lit Crawl San Francisco is a massive\, one-night literary pub crawl throughout the city’s Mission District. Lit Crawl SF brings together 500+ authors and close to 10\,000 fans for the world’s largest free pop-up literary event. Started in 2004\, Lit Crawl cultivates a unique\, resonant brand: smart and silly\, worldly and wacky events presented in venues usual (bars\, cafes\, galleries\, and bookstores) and unusual (police stations\, tattoo parlors\, barbershops\, and laundromats). \nHazel Reading Series\nFeaturing:\nCiera-Jevae Gordon\nMeilan Carter-Gilkey\nNatasha Dennerstein\nSara Marinelli\nThea Matthews\nYang Huang \nThe Escapery: Your Writing Unschool\nNancy Au\nCarson Beker\nHaldane C. King\nKathryn Kruse\nPloi Pirapokin \nABOUT HAZEL READING SERIES:\nHazel Reading Series is a San Francisco-based monthly reading series and an ever-evolving community. Each month\, emerging and established women writers share their work and go on to choose next month’s readers. Hazel is a place for experimentation\, for support and community\, for writers and literature lovers of all kinds to bump into new work and new ideas. Hazel Reading Series is also invested in creating a space that represents and celebrates the diverse ethnicity\, sexuality\, ability\, age\, and form of the Bay Area’s artists. \nABOUT THE ESCAPERY:\nThe Escapery is your Writing and Other Arts Unschool. We use themed classes\, field trips\, day-long intensives\, craft intensives\, five/ten week adventures\, and more to create spaces for artists to play\, learn\, find community\, create\, and share. Playful\, community-oriented\, queer\, re-centering women/NB\, queer/trans artists\, and artists of color. No famous white men\, no tear-down workshops\, zero-tolerance for micro or macro aggressions. We are always all/no levels\, always genre-queer\, anti-competition and pro-tearing down the walls. SF/Oakland originated\, extending our kraken tentacles all over the map and in your virtual spaces. \nABOUT THE READERS:\nNancy Au is co-founder of The Escapery. Her writing appears in Tahoma Literary Review\, Lunch Ticket\, The Pinch\, Foglifter\, and elsewhere. Au’s flash fiction is included in the forthcoming Best Small Fictions 2018 anthology\, and her full-length collection\, Spider Love Song & Other Stories\, is forthcoming from Acre Books in March 2019. \nCarson Beker is co-founder of The Escapery. They are a writer\, playwright\, and storyteller. His stories have appeared in Foglifter (Pushcart Nomination 2016)\, Gigantic Sequins\, and Radar Literary Series. They were a 2016 Lambda Fellow and Tin House Workshop scholar. \nHaldane C. King is the founder of Terra Incognita Literary Reading Series and an instructor and board member of The Escapery. He earned his MFA degree in writing and consciousness from the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2012. He is an editor of WTAW Press\, a data analyst\, and helps bring literature to the people with the Why There Are Words Literary organization. \nKathryn Kruse received her MFA from the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas and holds a BA in English with a certificate in creative writing from University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was an instructor with The Escapery from 2016-2017. She founded and curated the NeonLit reading series. Her work is published\, among other places\, in Indiana Review\, The Manchester Review\, The Adirondack Review\, I Hope You’re Feeling Better Collaborative Exhibition. \nPloi Pirapokin has work featured in Tor.com\, Apogee Journal\, the Bellingham Review\, Fiction International\, Cleaver Magazine\, and more. She has received grants and fellowships from the San Francisco Arts Commission\, the Creative Capacity Fund\, the Headlands Center for the Arts\, the Ragdale Foundation\, Kundiman\, and others. Pirapokin holds an MFA in fiction from San Francisco State University. \nLEARN MORE:\nwww.litquake.org/lit-crawl-sf\nwww.facebook.com/hazelreadingseries\nwww.theescapery.org\nhttp://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/lit-crawl-sf-20181020/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/14th-annual-lit-crawl-sf-hazel-reading-series-the-escapery/
LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime SHADOW
DESCRIPTION:part of phase 2 of the 2018 San Francisco Lit Crawl\, will take place at Incline Gallery\, 766 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, Saturday October 20th\, 6.30-7.30 pm\, featuring Emer Martin (The Cruelty Men)\, Colin Winnette (The Job of the Wasp)\, Anca Szil�gyi (Daughters of the Air)\, Cyrus Armajani (Benefits of Doubt)\, and Simi Singh Juneja.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-shadow/
LOCATION:Incline Gallery\, 766 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lit Crawl: Babar in Exile
DESCRIPTION:Poets associated with and influenced by the Babarians of the Cafe Babar in the 1980s\, the Punks of Poetry\, hosted by Richard Loranger in Phase 2 of Lit Crawl. Featuring Bruce Isaacson\, Jan Steckel\, Tarin Towers\, Margery Snyder\, Kathleen Wood\, Julia Vinograd\, David Gollub\, and Paul Corman-Roberts. Intentionally Blank\, 1360 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lit-crawl-babar-in-exile/
LOCATION:Intentionally Blank\, 1360 Valencia\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Arts Showcase | APAture 2018 - RE:place
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy your Sunday afternoon with us at our Book Arts Showcase for APAture 2018 at SFPL! Featuring Jess Wu-O. Showcase artists: TBA. \n*Supporter level and Festival Passes (with reserved seats) can be acquired by donating to our Indiegogo campaign! \nWe’ve asked artists to explore ‘place\,’ including but not limited to: displacement\, reclaiming space\, relationship or orientation to place\, movement and migration\, the loss or lack of place\, or the various dimensions of place (spatial-emotional\, past-present\, individual-communal\, etc.). How does ‘place’ resonate with you? \nAPAture is Kearny Street Workshop’s annual multidisciplinary arts festival celebrating emerging Asian and Pacific American (APA) artists of the San Francisco Bay Area. For 16 years\, APAture has been a site of dialogue\, collaboration\, and political action between artists and community members around contemporary issues affecting the Asian and Pacific Islander community. \nAPAture 2018: RE:place will showcase over 60 artists in book arts\, film\, literary arts\, music\, performing arts\, and visual arts\, and will present their work to approximately 1\,000 festival-goers across multiple dates and venues in the South of Market neighborhood. \nCome join us and help us celebrate our local emerging APA artists for the 17th year! You don’t want to miss this! \nFree \nPresented by Kearny Street Workshop.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-arts-showcase-apature-2018-replace/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poets Chernoff & Chernovski
DESCRIPTION:Poets Chernoff & Chernovski
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-chernoff-chernovski/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181022T190000
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: Phoebe Robinson presents Everything is Trash\, But It's Okay at Public Works SF
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith presents a special evening with Phoebe Robinsonfor her new book\, Everything is Trash\, But It’s Okay. Please join us at Public Works! \nPlease note: this event is 21+\, and all tickets include a copy of Everything is Trash\, But It’s Okay. 1 ticket = 1 book. No exceptions. \n\nTickets can be purchased here. \nPhoebe Robinson is a stand-up comedian\, writer\, and actress who is best known as the co-creator and co-star of the hit WNYC Studios podcast 2 Dope Queens\, which was turned into four one-hour\, critically-acclaimed HBO specials. This event will be a stand-up style exploration of her second book\, Everything is Trash\, But It’s Okay. \nWouldnt it be great if life came with an instruction manual? Of course\, but like access to Michael B. Jordan’s house\, none of us are getting any. Thankfully\, Phoebe Robinson is ready to share everything she’s experienced in hopes that if you can laugh at her topsy-turvy life\, you can laugh at your own. \nWritten in her trademark unfiltered and singularly witty style\, Robinson’s latest essay collection\, Everything is Trash\, But It’s Okay\, is a call to arms. She tackles a wide range of topics\, such as giving feminism a tough love talk in hopes it can become more intersectional; telling society’s beauty standards to kick rocks; and how being a workaholic with a #NoDaysOff mentality is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs! \nRobinson also gets personal\, exploring debt she has hidden from her parents\, how dating is mainly a warmed-over bowl of hot mess\, and maybe most importantly\, meeting Bono not once\, but twice. She’s struggled with being a woman with a political mind and a woman with an ever-changing jean size. She knows about trash not only because she sees it every day\, but also because she’s seen about one hundred thousand hours of reality TV and zero hours of Schindler’s List.  Everything is Trash\, But It’s Okay is a candid perspective for a generation that has had the rug pulled out from under it too many times to count\, as well as an intimate conversation with a new best friend. \nRobinson is the New York Times best-selling author of You Can’t Touch My Hair and Other Things I Still Have to Explain. Robinson has gone on to be a staff writer for the final season of Portlandia\, act in TBS’s Search Party\, host another critically-acclaimed podcast for WNYC Studios entitled Sooo Many White Guys\, and made her film debut in the Netflix summer comedy Ibiza. Her sophomore book\, Everything is Trash\, But It’s Okay\, will be published by Dutton on October 16\, 2018. \n  \n  \n\n  \nPlease remember: tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. Public Works SF is a 21+ venue. \n  \nThis is a standing room only event; if you need a seat or other special considerations\, please contact events at booksmith dot com at least one week prior to the event. Thanks! \n  \nPlease note: Phoebe is happy to sign books and meet everyone after the show. Candid photos from the line will be allowed\, but due to time constraints Phoebe will not be able to take posed shots or selfies.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-phoebe-robinson-presents-everything-is-trash-but-its-okay-at-public-works-sf/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181023T210000
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SUMMARY:SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB MEETING
DESCRIPTION:Details soon! \nTo join the book group please contact iranyi@me.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spanish-language-book-club-meeting-5/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Preserving Fire: A meditation on the prose of Philip Lamantia
DESCRIPTION:with Garrett Caples and Friends \nCelebrating the release of \nPreserving Fire: Selected Prose \nBy Philip Lamantia \nEdited by Garrett Caples \npublished by Wave Books \nPreserving Fire recounts the life and thought of Surrealist\, Beat Generation\, and San Francisco Renaissance poet Philip Lamantia through his fugitive prose works. Ranging from poetry to politics to mythology to dance\, from manifestos to travelogues to wartime declarations of conscientious objection\, these writings—expertly collected by Garrett Caples—offer a dynamic picture of Lamantia’s multifaceted intellectual life and the artistic movements he helped shape. \nPhilip Lamantia (1927–2005) was an influential Surrealist\, Beat\, and San Francisco Renaissance poet. He is the author of many books\, including Erotic Poems\, Touch of the Marvelous\, Meadowlark West\, Tau and Journey to the End\, and The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia. \nGarrett Caples is the editor of Philip Lamantia’s Preserving Fire: Selected Prose (Wave Books\, forthcoming 2018)\, as well as the author of Power Ballads (Wave Books\, 2016)\, Retrievals (2014)\, The Garrett Caples Reader (1999)\, Complications (2007)\, and Quintessence of the Minor (2010). He is also the co-editor of The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia (2013)\, Particulars of Place (2015) by Richard O. Moore\, and Incidents of Travel in Poetry: New and Selected Poems (2016) by Frank Lima. He is an editor at City Lights Books and curates the Spotlight Poetry Series there. He was also a contributing writer to the San Francisco Bay Guardian. He has written articles and blogged for the Poetry Foundation and occasionally blogs for blogcitylights.com. He has a Ph.D. in English from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and lives in San Francisco. \nPhilip was a visionary like Blake\, and he really saw the whole world in a grain of sand.\n—Lawrence Ferlinghetti \nPhilip Lamantia’s Collected Poems is beyond scale\, weight\, or measure. There is no proportion in this intertwining of soul-buildings. These are the inexorable and ineffable projects of an inspired consciousness set at full tilt in raging protest\, kisses\, prayers\, blessings and outraged demands. All from the deepest silence and farthest travel. The reader’s excitement is carried by Lamantia’s spiritual and physical beat. This surreal and mantic project drives farther than anything before or after. Breathtaking! These works are of synesthetic beauty to the eye\, the ear\, and the open interior of the heart. They come from the peaks and herbs and forests where the meadowlark speaks.\n—Michael McClure
URL:https://litseen.com/event/preserving-fire-a-meditation-on-the-prose-of-philip-lamantia/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Yeah Yeah Yeah's Nick Zinner\, Zachary Lipez & Stacy Wakefield / 131 Different Things
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening with the Yeah Yeah Yeah’sNick Zinner\, Zachary Lipez\, and Stacy Wakefield for their new book\, 131 Different Things. Please join us! \n  \nWhen Sam\, a bartender in New York\, hears that his ex\, Vicki\, his one true love\, has quit AA and is out drinking again\, he embarks on a quest to find her. Sam and his sidekick Francis trek from dive bars to gay bars to rocker bars—encountering skinheads\, party promoters\, underage drug dealers\, and dominatrixes—but they are always one step behind Vicki. It begins to seem like 131 different things are keeping the lovers apart. Before the night is over\, Sam will have to wrestle with what he is really looking for. \nNick Zinner—who plays guitar in the three-time Grammy-nominated band Yeah Yeah Yeahs—provides the visual framework for this inventive novella with his intimate photography. Known for his essays and music writing for Noisey\, Vice\, and Penthouse\, Zachary Lipez brings his pithy\, multilayered\, and self-deprecating voice to this debut work of fiction. The prose and photography are tied together in a playful taxonomic scheme by editor and art director Stacy Wakefield\, the author of the novel The Sunshine Crust Baking Factory. The three artists have collaborated on four previous books\, most recently Please Take Me Off the Guest List. \n  \n\n  \nZachary Lipez lives in New York City\, where he has tended bar for the last twenty years. He is a regular contributor to Noisey\, and his music and culture writing have also appeared in Vice\, Hazlitt\, Pitchfork\, Bandcamp Daily\, Talkhouse\, Inc.\, and Penthouse. \nNick Zinner plays guitar in the three-time Grammy-nominated band Yeah Yeah Yeahs and hardcore group Head Wound City. His photos have been published in four previous books\, as well as in the New York Times\, Vice\, and Rolling Stone. He has exhibited in solo shows in Tokyo\, Berlin\, New York\, London\, Los Angeles\, and Mexico City. \nStacy Wakefield’s artist books\, published for many years under the imprint Evil Twin\, have been collected by institutions including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and London’s Tate Modern. She runs a studio dedicated solely to book design and production. Her first novel\, The Sunshine Crust Baking Factory\, was published by Akashic in 2015. She lives in the Catskills and Brooklyn. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery at 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is a free\, 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 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-yeah-yeah-yeahs-nick-zinner-zachary-lipez-stacy-wakefield-131-different-things/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181023T213000
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SUMMARY:Chaya Bhuvaneswar discusses her new story collection\, White Dancing Elephants with Lydia Kiesling
DESCRIPTION:Chaya Bhuvaneswar discusses her new story collection\, White Dancing Elephants with Lydia Kiesling. \n\nPraise for White Dancing Elephants \n\n“Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s debut collection maps with great assurance the intricate outer reaches of the human heart. What a bold\, smart\, exciting new voice\, well worth listening to; what an elegant story collection to read and savor.” Lauren Groff \n\n“A bold\, honest\, often provocative first collection from a fresh new voice.” Jeff VanderMeer \n\n“Reading Chaya Bhuvaneswar is like receiving Lasik via literature—the world you return to is a little clearer and sharper for the time you’ve spent in her pages. She is a formidable talent\, formally accomplished and intellectually alive.”  Anthony Marra \n\nAbout White Dancing Elephants \n\nA woman grieves a miscarriage\, haunted by the Buddha’s birth. An artist with schizophrenia tries to survive hatred and indifference in small-town India by turning to the beauty of sculpture and dance. Orphans in India get pulled into a strange “rescue” mission aimed at stripping their mysterious powers. A brief but intense affair between two women culminates in regret and betrayal. A boy seeks memories of his sister in the legend of a woman who weds death. And fragments of history\, from child brickmakers to slaves in Renaissance Portugal\, are held up in brief fictions\, burnished\, made dazzling and unforgettable. \nIn sixteen remarkable stories\, Chaya Bhuvaneswar spotlights diverse women of color–cunning\, bold\, and resolute–facing sexual harassment and racial violence\, and occasionally inflicting that violence on each other. Winner of the 2017 Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize\, White Dancing Elephants marks the emergence of a new and original voice in fiction and explores feminist\, queer\, religious\, and immigrant stories with precision\, drama\, and compassion. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chaya-bhuvaneswar-discusses-her-new-story-collection-white-dancing-elephants-with-lydia-kiesling/
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:William E. Glassley presents "A Wilder Time"
DESCRIPTION:Bill Glassley returns to Bird & Beckett to present his newly published book\, A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice (Bellevue Literary Press\, 2018). \nIn A Wilder Time\, Glassley\, a surfer turned geologist at the University of California at Davis and an emeritus researcher at Aarhus University\, Denmark\, retraces his several expeditions to Greenland alongside Danish colleagues Kai Sorensen and John Korstgard in this thoughtful volume about how his scientific work shifted his perspective on notions of wilderness. The men spent weeks camped out and “isolated from the rest of humanity” to sample\, photograph\, and measure ancient bedrock. Though their scientific interests were purely academic\, Glassley says\, their experiences were “almost mystical.” Glassley divides his narrative into three primary sections\, each featuring observations that helped to change his perception of Greenland’s vast terrain. The first part\, “Fractionation\,” deals with ways in which Glassley’s expectations had been altered. In the second\, “Consolidation\,” he comes to terms with the reality that “ignorance is an integral part of being aware.” The third\, “Emergence\,” contains “small epiphanies about our place in existence.” Glassley documents his observations\, spending considerable time and effort among “rolling outcrops\, tundra plains and pockets\, massive rock walls and glaciated peaks.” Evincing humility in the midst of the great “unshaped wild\,” Glassley exudes a palpable and infectious sense of wonder that is bound to draw contemplative readers. \nBill’s first presentation of material from this book to the public took place in a reading at Bird & Beckett in the summer of 2016\, in the company of artist and poet Elsa Marley. Bill and Elsa began collaborating on a parallel project in 1999\, looking at Greenland for evidence of the effects of climate change demonstrated in Bill’s scientific data and Elsa’s paintings and poems.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/william-e-glassley-presents-a-wilder-time/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:In Situ: Guy Debord\, Raoul Vaneigem\, and the Situationist Moment
DESCRIPTION:with Donald Nicholson Smith with Anselm Jappe \non the occasion of the release by PM Press of \nGuy Debord – by Anselm Jappe \nTranslated by Donald Nicholson-Smith • Foreword by T.J. Clark \n& \nLetters to My Children and the Children of the World to Come – by Raoul Vaneigem \nTranslated by Donald Nicholson-Smith \nabout Guy Debord: \nThis is the first and best intellectual biography of Guy Debord\, prime mover of the Situationist International (1957–1972) and author of The Society of the Spectacle \, perhaps the seminal book of the May 1968 uprising in France. Anselm Jappe offers a powerful corrective to the continual attempts to incorporate Debord’s theoretical work into “French theory.” Jappe’s focuses\, to the contrary\, on Debord’s debt to the Hegelian-Marxist tradition\, to Karl Korsch and Georg Lukács\, and more generally to left-Marxist currents of council communism. His close reading of Debord’s magnum opus supplies a superb gloss that has never been rivaled despite the great flood of writing on the Situationists in recent decades. \nAt the same time\, Debord is placed squarely in context among the Letterist and Situationist anti-artists who\, in the aftermath of World War II\, sought to criticize and transcend the legacy of Dada and Surrealism. Jappe’s book offers a lively account of the Situationists’ theory and practice as this “last avant-garde” made its way from radical bohemianism to revolutionary agitprop. \nGuy Debord has been translated into many languages. This PM reprint edition benefits from a new author’s preface and a bibliographical update. \nPraise: \n“A clear-headed account . . . far and away the best we have so far.”\n—Times Literary Supplement \n“The only book on Debord in either French or English that can be unreservedly recommended . . . particularly useful for its extensive treatment of the Marxian connection that is usually ignored in culture-oriented accounts of the Situationists.”\n—Ken Knabb\, editor of Situationist International Anthology \n“Jappe successfully gets to grips with the content of Debord’s and the SI’s activity in a way that is accessible and doesn’t require a vast amount of prior knowledge or an extensive vocabulary of obscure jargon in order to understand it. Debord has got a somewhat undeserved reputation for having an impenetrable and complex writing style—a myth which Jappe goes a long way towards refuting by examining the major concepts in Society of the Spectacle and other works\, and putting them in the context of a wider historical basis and in terms of the SI as a whole.”\n—Do or Die \n“Political writing is always instrumental as well as utopian. Debord’s is no exception. Only sometimes writing has to reconcile itself to the idea that its time of instrumentality—its time as a weapon—lies a little in the future. Jappe’s book is true to its subject\, above all\, because it reads Debord\, and helps us read him\, with that future in mind.”\n—T.J. Clark\, from the Foreword \nabout Letters to My Children and the Children of the World to Come: \nReaders of Vaneigem’s now-classic work The Revolution of Everyday Life\, which as one of the main contributions of the Situationist International was a herald of the May 1968 uprisings in France\, will find much to challenge them in these pages written in the highest idiom of subversive utopianism. \nSome thirty-five years after the May “events\,” this short book poses the question of what kind of world we are going to leave to our children. “How could I address my daughters\, my sons\, my grandchildren and great-grandchildren\,” wonders Vaneigem\, “without including all the others who\, once precipitated into the sordid universe of money and power\, are in danger\, even tomorrow\, of being deprived of the promise of a life that is undeniably offered at birth as a gift with nothing expected in return?” \nLetters to My Children provides a clear-eyed survey of the critical predicament into which the capitalist system has now plunged the world\, but at the same time\, in true dialectical fashion\, and “far from the media whose job it is to ignore them\,” Vaneigem discerns all the signs of “a new burgeoning of life forces among the younger generations\, a new drive to reinstate true human values\, to proceed with the clandestine construction of a living society beneath the barbarity of the present and the ruins of the Old World.” \nPraise: \n“In this fine book\, the Situationist author\, whose writings fueled the fires of May 1968\, sets out to pass down the foundational ideals of his struggle against the seemingly all-powerful fetishism of the commodity and in favor of the force of human desire and the sovereignty of life.”\n—Jean Birnbaum\, Le Monde \n“A startling and invigorating restatement for the present ghastly era of humanity’s choice: socialism or barbarism.”\n—Dave Barbu\, Le Nouveau Père Duchesne \nAnselm Jappe was born in Bonn in 1962. He is an independent scholar currently teaching art history and political and economic theory at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris and at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Sassari in Sardinia. He is the author of several works of critical theory. A collection of his essays translated by Alastair Hemmens is The Writing on the Wall: On the Decomposition of Capitalism and Its Critics (London: Zero\, 2017). \nBorn in Manchester\, England\, Donald Nicholson-Smith is a longtime resident of New York City. A sometime Situationist  (1965-67)\, he has translated Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle (Zone) and Henri Lefebvre’s The Production of Space (Blackwell)\, as well as works by Guillaume Apollinaire\, Antonin Artaud\, Jean-Patrick Manchette\, Thierry Jonquet\, Paco Ignacio Taibo II\, etc. His film work includes the English-language version of René Viénet’s anti-Maoist classic Peking Duck Soup(1977).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-situ-guy-debord-raoul-vaneigem-and-the-situationist-moment/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Kiese Laymon / Heavy: An American Memoir
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Kiese Laymon for his new book Heavy: An American Memoir. More details coming soon\, but save the date and join us! \n  \nIn this powerful and provocative memoir\, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets\, lies\, and deception does to a black body\, a black family\, and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse. \n  \nKiese Laymon is a fearless writer. In his essays\, personal stories combine with piercing intellect to reflect both on the state of American society and on his experiences with abuse\, which conjure conflicted feelings of shame\, joy\, confusion and humiliation. Laymon invites us to consider the consequences of growing up in a nation wholly obsessed with progress yet wholly disinterested in the messy work of reckoning with where we’ve been. \n  \nIn Heavy\, Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about growing up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in Jackson\, Mississippi. From his early experiences of sexual violence\, to his suspension from college\, to his trek to New York as a young college professor\, Laymon charts his complex relationship with his mother\, grandmother\, anorexia\, obesity\, sex\, writing\, and ultimately gambling. By attempting to name secrets and lies he and his mother spent a lifetime avoiding\, Laymon asks himself\, his mother\, his nation\, and us to confront the terrifying possibility that few in this nation actually know how to responsibly love\, and even fewer want to live under the weight of actually becoming free. \n  \nA personal narrative that illuminates national failures\, Heavy is defiant yet vulnerable\, an insightful\, often comical exploration of weight\, identity\, art\, friendship\, and family that begins with a confusing childhood–and continues through twenty-five years of haunting implosions and long reverberations. \n  \n\n  \n“A challenging memoir about black-white relations\, income inequality\, mother-son dynamics\, Mississippi byways\, lack of personal self-control\, education from kindergarten through graduate school\, and so much more. Laymon skillfully couches his provocative subject matter in language that is pyrotechnic and unmistakably his own … Far more than just the physical aspect\, the weight he carries also derives from the burdens placed on him by a racist society\, by his mother and his loving grandmother\, and even by himself. At times\, the author examines his complicated romantic and sexual relationships\, and he also delves insightfully into politics\, literature\, feminism\, and injustice\, among other topics. A dynamic memoir that is unsettling in all the best ways.” – Kirkus Reviews\, starred \n  \n“How do you carry the weight of being a black man in America? In electrifying\, deliberate prose\, Kiese Laymon tries to answer that question from the first page of Heavy: An American Memoir to the last. He writes about what it means to live in a heavy body\, in all senses of that word. He writes of family\, love\, place\, trauma\, race\, desire\, grief\, rage\, addiction\, and human weakness\, and he does so relentlessly\, without apology. To call the way Laymon lays himself bare an act of courageous grace is beside the point but what and how he writes in this exceptional book are\, indeed\, acts of courageous grace.” – Roxane Gay \n  \n“Kiese’s heart and humor shine through\, and we are blessed to have such raw humanity rendered in prose that begs for repeat readings. We do not deserve Heavy. We do not deserve Kiese. That he is generous enough to share is a testament to his commitment to helping us all heal.”  – Mychal Denzel Smith\, New York Times bestselling author of Invisible Man\, Got the Whole World Watching \n  \n“The abundance of Heavy is going to be a gift for many hurting hearts\, in our time and beyond.” – Eve Ewing\, author of Electric Arches \n  \n\n  \nKiese Laymon is a black southern writer\, born and raised in Jackson\, Mississippi. Laymon attended Millsaps College and Jackson State University before graduating from Oberlin College. He earned an MFA in Fiction from Indiana University. Laymon is currently a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of the award-winning novel\, Long Division\, a collection of essays\, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America\, and the forthcoming memoir\, Heavy. Laymon has written for numerous publications including New York Times\, NPR\, Los Angeles Times\, Esquire\, The Guardian\, McSweeneys\, Colorlines\, The Best American Series\, Ebony and many others. He is a contributing editor of Oxford American. \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated by not required. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-kiese-laymon-heavy-an-american-memoir/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:M. NourbeSe Philip: the Leslie Scalapino 21st Century Innovative Writers Series
DESCRIPTION:Owing to a generous gift from the Leslie Scalapino-O Books Fund\, The Poetry Center very happily presents renowned poet\, essayist\, novelist and dramatist M. NourbeSe Philip\, appearing as the first featured writer in our newly-launched Leslie Scalapino 21st Century Innovative Writers Series. Ms. Philip will read from her work\, in the 3rd Floor loft space at McRoskey Mattress Co.\, on Market Street (at Gough)\, and respond to questions from the audience. This event is co-sponsored by The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade\, and is free and open to the public. \nM. NourbeSe Philip\, Tobago-born Afro-Canadian poet\, writer\, and lawyer—author of the extended poetry cycle Zong!(Wesleyan\, 2011)\, and Blank: Essays & Interviews (Bookthug\, 2018)\, among numerous other works—is recognized as a crucial poet of our collective history and our shared present time. She visits San Francisco from her home in Toronto\, Ontario. \nAfter earning a BSc from the University of the West Indies and an MA and LLB from the University of Western Ontario\, Philip was a practicing lawyer for seven years before turning full-time to writing. She is the author of works of poetry\, fiction\, and nonfiction. Her collections of poetry include Thorns (1980); Salmon Courage (1983); She Tries Her Tongue (1989); Her Silence Softly Breaks (1988)\, which won a Casa de las Américas Prize for Literature; and Zong! (2008)\, a polyvocal\, book-length poem concerning slavery and the legal system. Fred Wah has noted that Zong! “is legal poetry. This is\, legally\, poetry. … The poetry displays the agonizing tension of an exploration through the minute particulars and silences locked within the legal text\, the precise and cautious movement that tries to not tell the story that must be told.” Like much of Philip’s work\, the book asks readers to actively engage the text at the level of syllable\, fragment\, sound\, and space. \nIn addition to poetry\, Philip has published two novels: the young adult novel Harriet’s Daughter (1988)\, a runner-up for both a Canadian Library Association Prize for children’s literature and a Max and Greta Abel Award for Multicultural Literature\, and Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence (1991). Philip’s short story “Stop Frame” received a Lawrence Foundation Award in 1994. Her play Coups and Calypsos (1999) has been produced in both Toronto and London. \nPhilip’s essay collections include Frontiers: Essays and Writings on Racism and Culture (1992)\, Showing Grit: Showboating North of the 44th Parallel (1993)\, CARIBANA: African roots and continuities—Race\, Space and the Poetics of Moving (1996)\, Genealogy of Resistance and Other Essays (1997)\, and Blank: Essays and Interviews (2018). \nPhilip’s numerous honors and awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, Rockefeller Foundation\, and MacDowell Colony. She is the recipient of awards from the Canada Council for the Arts\, Ontario Arts Council\, and Toronto Arts Council. In 2001\, she was recognized by the Elizabeth Fry Society with its Rebels for a Cause Award\, and the YWCA awarded her its Women of Distinction in the Arts Award. Philip has received a Chalmers Fellowship in Poetry and has been writer-in-residence at Toronto Women’s Bookstore and McMaster University. In 2012\, she received a NALIS Lifetime Literary Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore info at nourbese.com \nOn M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! \nVIDEO: Fred Moten and M. NourbeSe Philip. A story that cannot be told\, yet must be told. Zong! and its context \nVIDEO: M. NourbeSe Philip reads “Discourse on the Logic of Language” from She Tries Her Tongue\, Her Silence Softly Breaks \nVIDEO: M. NourbeSe Philip on Belonging\, Race\, Politics\, and Art \n  \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 and The Green Arcade
URL:https://litseen.com/event/m-nourbese-philip-the-leslie-scalapino-21st-century-innovative-writers-series/
LOCATION:McRoskey Mattress Company\, Inc\, 1687 Market St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Renowned Afro-Canadian Poet\, Writer\, Lawyer M. NourbeSe Philip Appears at McRoskey Mattress Company
DESCRIPTION:Owing to a generous gift from the Leslie Scalapino-O Books Fund\, The Poetry Center very happily presents renowned poet\, essayist\, novelist and dramatist M. NourbeSe Philip\, appearing as the first featured writer in the newly-launched Leslie Scalapino 21st Century Innovative Writers Series. Ms. Philip will read from her work and will respond to questions from the audience. This event is co-sponsored by The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade\, and is hosted by the McRoskey Mattress Co. \nM. NourbeSe Philip\, Tobago-born Afro-Canadian poet\, writer\, and lawyer—author of the extended poetry cycle Zong! (Wesleyan\, 2011)\, and Blank: Essays & Interviews (Bookthug\, 2018)\, among numerous other works—is recognized as a crucial poet of our collective history and our shared present time. She visits San Francisco from her home in Toronto\, Ontario. \nDoors at 6:30pm\, event begins at 7:00pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/renowned-afro-canadian-poet-writer-lawyer-m-nourbese-philip-appears-at-mcroskey-mattress-company/
LOCATION:McRoskey Mattress Company\, Inc\, 1687 Market St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Literary Arts Showcase | APAture 2018 - RE:place
DESCRIPTION:What better way to spend your Saturday night none other than at our Literary Arts Showcase for APAture 2018! Come through to Arc Gallery & Studios. Featuring Janice Lobo Sapigao. Showcase artists: TBA. \n*Supporter level and Festival Passes (with reserved seats) can be acquired by donating to our Indiegogo campaign! \nWe’ve asked artists to explore ‘place\,’ including but not limited to: displacement\, reclaiming space\, relationship or orientation to place\, movement and migration\, the loss or lack of place\, or the various dimensions of place (spatial-emotional\, past-present\, individual-communal\, etc.). How does ‘place’ resonate with you? \nAPAture is Kearny Street Workshop’s annual multidisciplinary arts festival celebrating emerging Asian and Pacific American (APA) artists of the San Francisco Bay Area. For 16 years\, APAture has been a site of dialogue\, collaboration\, and political action between artists and community members around contemporary issues affecting the Asian and Pacific Islander community. \nAPAture 2018: RE:place will showcase over 60 artists in book arts\, film\, literary arts\, music\, performing arts\, and visual arts\, and will present their work to approximately 1\,000 festival-goers across multiple dates and venues in the South of Market neighborhood. \nCome join us and help us celebrate our local emerging APA artists for the 17th year! You don’t want to miss this! \n$10-$12. \nPresented by Kearny Street Workshop.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-arts-showcase-apature-2018-replace/
LOCATION:Arc Gallery & Studios\, 1246 Folsom St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Toward a Calculus of Transgression: Appreciating Jean Patrick-Manchette
DESCRIPTION:Presented by City Lights Booksellers in conjunction with New York Review Books \nDonald Nicholson-Smith and James Brook discuss the life and work of the seminal genre-bending writer \ncelebrating the recent release of \nIvory Pearl \nby Jean-Patrick Manchette \npublished by New York Review Books \nJean-Patrick Manchette (1942–1995) was a genre-redefining French crime novelist\, screenwriter\, critic\, and translator. Born in Marseille to a family of relatively modest means\, Manchette grew up in a southwestern suburb of Paris\, where he wrote from an early age. While a student of English literature at the Sorbonne\, he contributed articles to the newspaper La Voie communiste and became active in the national students’ union. In 1961 he married\, and with his wife Mélissa began translating American crime fiction—he would go on to translate the works of such writers as Donald Westlake\, Ross Thomas\, and Margaret Millar\, often for Gallimard’s Série noire. Throughout the 1960s Manchette supported himself with various jobs writing television scripts\, screenplays\, young-adult books\, and film novelizations. In 1971 he published his first novel\, a collaboration with Jean-Pierre Bastid\, and embarked on his literary career in earnest\, producing ten subsequent works over the course of the next two decades and establishing a new genre of French novel\, the néo-polar (distinguished from traditional detective novel\, or polar\, by its political engagement and social radicalism). Manchette had been as equally influenced by the work of Guy Debord and the Situationists as he had by Dashiel Hammett. During the 1980s\, Manchette published celebrated translations of Alan Moore’s Watchmen graphic novels for a bande-dessinée publishing house co-founded by his son\, Doug Headline. In addition to Fatale\, Ivory Pearl\, and The Mad and the Bad\, Manchette’s novels Three to Kill and The Prone Gunman\, as well as Jacques Tardi’s graphic-novel adaptations of them (titled West Coast Blues and Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot\, respectively)\, are available in English. \nBorn in Manchester\, England\, Donald Nicholson-Smith is a longtime resident of New York City. A sometime Situationist  (1965-67)\, he has translated Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle (Zone) and Henri Lefebvre’s The Production of Space (Blackwell)\, as well as works by Guillaume Apollinaire\, Antonin Artaud\, Jean-Patrick Manchette\, Thierry Jonquet\, Paco Ignacio Taibo II\, etc. His film work includes the English-language version of René Viénet’s anti-Maoist classic Peking Duck Soup(1977). \nJames Brook is a poet and the principal editor of Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information (City Lights) and the translator of many works\, including My Tired Father by Gellu Naum and Panegyric by Guy Debord. He translated Jean Patrick Manchette’s The Prone Gunman for City Lights Books. \nPraise for Ivory Pearl and the work of Jean-Patrick Manchette: \nIvory Pearl is the kind of bold female that Virginia of Black Wings Has My Angel or my own Perdita Durango might have become had their lives taken a different turn. Manchette sets Ivory Pearl loose in perilous 1950s Cuba and smartly allows her to survive\, a master stroke by a daring\, innovative writer.\n—Barry Gifford \nThe opening chapter in particular is as sharp and brutal as anything Manchette wrote\, including his masterpiece\, The Prone Gunman. The obsessive details…might make even Ian Fleming feel uninformed…Noir fans won’t want to miss this one.\n—Publishers Weekly \nIn his final\, unfinished novel\, available for the first time in English\, Manchette departs from crime fiction—but not extreme violence—to deliver a saga of high adventure…Thanks to New York Review Books’ translations\, the English-speaking world has a generous sampling of [Manchette’s] unique fiction to enjoy. Idiosyncratic French novelist Manchette…went out in style. Short but sprawling\, the novel packs a mean punch.\n—Kirkus Reviews \n[Manchette’s] writing is lean and relentless.\n—David L. Ulin\, Los Angeles Times \nIn France\, which long ago embraced American crime fiction\, thrillers are referred to as polars. And in France the godfather and wizard of polars is Jean-Patrick Manchette…. [H]e’s a massive figure…. There is gristle here\, there is bone.\n—The Boston Globe \nManchette is legend among all of the crime writers I know\, and with good reason: His novels never fail to stun and thrill from page one.\n—Duane Swierczynski\, author of Expiration Date \nManchette called crime novels ‘the great moral literature of our time.’ Manchette pushes the Situationist strategy of derive and détournement to the point of comic absurdity\, throwing a wrench into the workings of his main characters’ lives and gleefully recording the anarchy that results.\n—Jennifer Howard\, Boston Review \nNew York Review Books also publishes: \nFatale – by Jean Patrick Manchette\, afterward by Jean Echenoz\, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith \nThe Mad and the Bad – by Jean Patrick Manchette – introduction by James Sallis\, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Sm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/toward-a-calculus-of-transgression-appreciating-jean-patrick-manchette/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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