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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays Reading "Poetry & Poetic Prose"
DESCRIPTION:August 9 at 7pm Pacific\, the Odd Mondays reading series brings you an hour of poetry and poetic prose on Zoom. Paul Corman-Roberts reads from his new poetry collection BONE MOON PALACE\, Penny Mickelbury from her historical novel TWO WINGS TO FLY AWAY\, and Tamsin Spencer Smith from her political thriller XISLE. Get the Zoom link from oddmondaysnoevalley@gmail.com. Buy all three books at www.foliosf.com/odd-mondays.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-reading-poetry-poetic-prose/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Tao Lin with Tommy Orange / Leave Society
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host Tao Lin again for his new novel\, Leave Society. He’ll be in conversation with Tommy Orange. Join us! \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order Leave Society here and we’ll ship it directly to you (or hold for pickup at our San Francisco shop). \nWe are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the book\nIn 2014\, a novelist named Li leaves Manhattan to visit his parents in Taipei for ten weeks. He doesn’t know it yet\, but his life will begin to deepen and complexify on this trip. As he flies between these two worlds–year by year\, over four years–he will flit in and out of optimism\, despair\, loneliness\, sanity\, bouts of chronic pain\, and drafts of a new book. He will incite and temper arguments\, uncover secrets about nature and history\, and try to understand how to live a meaningful life as an artist and a son. But how to fit these pieces of his life together? Where to begin? Or should he leave society altogether? \nExploring everyday events and scenes–waiting rooms\, dog walks\, family meals–while investigatively venturing to the edges of society\, where culture dissolves into mystery\, Lin shows what it is to write a novel in real time. Illuminating and deeply felt\, as it builds toward a stunning\, if unexpected\, romance\, Leave Society is a masterly story about life and art at the end of history. \nAbout the authors\nTao Lin is the author of the memoir Trip\, the novels Taipei and Richard Yates and Eeeee Eee Eeee\, the novella Shoplifting from American Apparel\, the story collection Bed\, and the poetry collections Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and you are a little bit happier than i am. He was born in Virginia\, has taught in Sarah Lawrence College’s MFA program\, and is the founder and editor of Muumuu House. \nTommy Orange is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma\, he was born and raised in Oakland\, California. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n 
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LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Alta Live: The Future of Quarantine
DESCRIPTION:Many years before “quarantine” entered quotidian language during the COVID-19 pandemic\, Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley were at work on a book about it\, researching centuries of medical isolation. Released in July 2021\, Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine covers the black death\, Ebola\, and coronaviruses as well as agricultural diseases\, nuclear contamination\, and technology that could alter the practice of isolation. The authors join Alta Journal books editor David L. Ulin for a conversation on their eerily predictive research and what quarantine might look like in our future. \nREGISTER \nABOUT THE GUESTS:\nGeoff Manaugh is the author of A Burglar’s Guide to the City and the creator of the architecture and technology website BLDGBLOG. He regularly writes for the New York Times Magazine\, the Atlantic\, the New Yorker\, Wired\, and many other publications. \nNicola Twilley is the cohost of the award-winning podcast Gastropod\, which looks at food through the lenses of science and history\, and is a frequent contributor to the New Yorker. \nManaugh and Twilley live in Los Angeles. \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nQuarantine is our most powerful response to uncertainty: it means waiting to see whether something hidden inside us will be revealed. It is also one of our most dangerous\, operating through an assumption of guilt. In quarantine\, we are considered infectious until proven safe. \nUntil Proven Safe tracks the history and future of quarantine around the globe\, chasing the story of emergency isolation through time and space—from crumbling Mediterranean lazzarettos built to contain the black death to an experimental Ebola unit in London\, from the hallways of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to closed-door simulations where pharmaceutical execs and epidemiologists prepare for pandemics yet to come. \nBut the story of quarantine ranges far beyond the history of medical isolation. The authors tour a nuclear waste isolation facility beneath the New Mexican desert\, see plants stricken with a disease that threatens the world’s wheat supply\, and meet NASA’s planetary protection officer\, tasked with saving Earth from extraterrestrial infections. \nWith Until Proven Safe\, Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley bring us a book as compelling as it is definitive\, an up-to-the-minute investigation of the interplay of forces—biological\, political\, technological—that shape our modern world. It is a thrillingly reported\, thought-provoking exploration of the meaning of freedom\, governance\, and mutual responsibility.• \n\n\n\n\n\nUntil Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine by Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley\nMCDbookshop.org \n$25.76\n\n\nBUY THE BOOK
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Da'Shaun L. Harrison and Kiese Laymon
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, August 11th at 6pm PT when Da’Shaun L. Harrison discusses their book\, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness\, with Kiese Laymon on Zoom! \nASL Interpretation Provided \nZoom Registration \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_IcplvrusQYe6T-3p_3sq9Q \nPraise for Belly of the Beast \n“Belly of the Beast is written with poise and lucidity. It pushes us to think past the pablum of telling fat folx all they gotta do is love themselves to enacting a movement that addresses the source and ramifications of societal anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Harrison forces us not to look away\, reminding us that all too often ‘health’ and ‘desire’ are used to annul Blackness. In a ‘post bo-po’ world\, desire and the sheer right to life can be rooted in something other than all the things named non-Black.” —Sabrina Strings\, author of Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia \n“Da’Shaun Harrison is an insightful visionary\, world-builder\, and ingenious writer who brings us into deeper understandings and frameworks of the intersections of anti-Blackness and anti-fatness. Belly of the Beast brings us closer to ourselves because it brings us closer to the truth—that anti-Blackness is the foundation to how violence shapes our relationships to our bodies and each other. Harrison not only intervenes in the terror of white supremacist paradigms but develops the tools to imagine and build a new world. Belly of the Beast eats\, and it leaves no crumbs.”—Hunter Shackelford\, author of You Might Die for This \n“I am continually blown away by Da’Shaun’s ability as a writer to wrestle so deeply and expertly with questions many of us would never even think to ask—whether they be about our world\, our politics\, our selves\, or our bodies. Every page challenges us to expand our imagination and reconstruct the ways we think\, talk\, and theorize about fatness\, Blackness\, gender\, health\, desire\, abolition\, and more. Belly of the Beast is a gift and a groundbreaker.” —Sherronda J. Brown\, editor-in-chief of Wear Your Voice magazine \nAbout Belly of the Beast \nExploring the intersections of Blackness\, gender\, fatness\, health\, and the violence of policing. \nTo live in a body both fat and Black is to exist at the margins of a society that creates the conditions for anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Hyper-policed by state and society\, passed over for housing and jobs\, and derided and misdiagnosed by medical professionals\, fat Black people in the United States are subject to sociopolitically sanctioned discrimination\, abuse\, condescension\, and trauma. \nIn Belly of the Beast\, Da’Shaun Harrison—a fat\, Black\, disabled\, and nonbinary trans writer—offers an incisive\, fresh\, and precise exploration of anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. They foreground the state-sanctioned murders of fat Black men and trans and nonbinary masculine people in historical analysis. Policing\, disenfranchisement\, and invisibilizing of fat Black men and trans and nonbinary masculine people are pervasive\, insidious ways that anti-fat anti-Blackness shows up in everyday life. Fat people can be legally fired in 49 states for being fat; they’re more likely to be houseless. Fat people die at higher rates from misdiagnosis or nontreatment; fat women are more likely to be sexually assaulted. And at the intersections of fatness\, Blackness\, disability\, and gender\, these abuses are exacerbated. \nTaking on desirability politics\, the limitations of gender\, the connection between anti-fatness and carcerality\, and the incongruity of “health” and “healthiness” for the Black fat\, Harrison viscerally and vividly illustrates the myriad harms of anti-fat anti-Blackness. They offer strategies for dismantling denial\, unlearning the cultural programming that tells us “fat is bad\,” and destroying the world as we know it\, so the Black fat can inhabit a place not built on their subjugation. \nAbout Da’Shaun L. Harrison \nDa’Shaun L. Harrison is a nonbinary abolitionist and community organizer based out of Atlanta\, GA. They once served as the Communications Director of #ATLisReady and Editor-in-Chief of Queer Black Millennial. Harrison now holds the honor of being the Associate Editor of Wear Your Voice Magazine and Lead Organizer of Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative (SNaPCo). Harrison has traveled throughout the United States and abroad to lecture at conferences and colleges and to lead workshops focused on race\, sexuality\, gender\, class\, religion\, (dis)abilities\, fatness\, and the intersection at which they all meet. You can find them on Twitter and Instagram @DaShaunLH\, or through their website\, dashaunharrison.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-dashaun-l-harrison-and-kiese-laymon/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Nawaaz Ahmed and Nina McConigley
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, August 12th at 6pm PT when Nawaaz Ahmed discusses his debut\, Radiant Fugitives\, with Nina McConigley on Zoom! \nZoom Registration \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_bvWs1Xb1R5KoaIVf1tstCg \nPraise for Radiant Fugitives \n“Radiant Fugitives indeed glows. This is such a beautiful novel\, full of light and luminous sentences. Reading it felt like basking in a generous and lucid intelligence. Ahmed writes his characters and their worlds with honesty and compassion. This is a writer to watch\, a voice we need.” —Matthew Salesses\, author of Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear \n“I’ve never read a novel like Nawaaz Ahmed’s Radiant Fugitives\, and\, I kid you not\, I’ve been waiting for this tremendous\, complex\, moving novel for years\, but never expected to receive it…There is so much of life in this book.” —Anita Felicelli\, Electric Literature \n“Lyrical and deeply moving\, Nawaaz Ahmed’s Radiant Fugitives is about the search for love\, acceptance\, and family\, both chosen and received. The novel is big-hearted and clear-eyed\, a stellar debut.” —Vanessa Hua\, author of A River of Stars \nAbout Radiant Fugitives \nA dazzling\, operatic debut novel following three generations of a Muslim Indian family confronted with a nation on the brink of change. \nWorking as a consultant for Kamala Harris’s attorney general campaign in Obama-era San Francisco\, Seema has constructed a successful life for herself in the West\, despite still struggling with her father’s long-ago decision to exile her from the family after she came out as lesbian. Now\, nine months pregnant and estranged from the Black father of her unborn son\, Seema seeks solace in the company of those she once thought lost to her: her ailing mother\, Nafeesa\, traveling alone to California from Chennai\, and her devoutly religious sister\, Tahera\, a doctor living in Texas with her husband and children. \nBut instead of a joyful reconciliation anticipating the birth of a child\, the events of this fateful week unearth years of betrayal\, misunderstanding\, and complicated layers of love—a tapestry of emotions as riveting and disparate as the era itself. \nTold from the point of view of Seema’s child at the moment of his birth\, and infused with the poetry of Wordsworth and Keats and verses from the Quran\, Radiant Fugitives is a moving tale of a family and a country grappling with acceptance\, forgiveness\, and enduring love. \nAbout Nawaaz Ahmed \nNawaaz Ahmed was born in Tamil Nadu\, India. Before turning to writing\, he was a computer scientist\, researching search algorithms for Yahoo. He holds an MFA from University of Michigan–Ann Arbor and is the winner of several Hopwood Awards. He is the recipient of residencies at MacDowell\, Yaddo\, Djerassi\, and VCCA. He’s also a Kundiman and Lambda Literary Fellow. He currently lives in Brooklyn.
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LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Alia Volz
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with Vesuvio Cafe present \nA celebration of the paperback edition of \nHome Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco \nby Alia Volz \npublished by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt \nModerated by Alexis Madrigal with Alia Volz\, Doug Volz\, Meridy Volz\n(This is a live event to take place in Kerouac Alley. Seating on a first-come\, first-serve basis) \n\n\nSure\, it’s unusual to throw a book launch 18 months after publication\, but that’s the way the brownie crumbles during a pandemic…\nCo-presented safely outdoors by City Lights Books and Vesuvio Café\, this will be the first opportunity to celebrate the bestselling memoir\, Home Baked\, in person. Alexis Madrigal from NPR’s Forum will interview Alia alongside her parents Doug and Meridy Volz (co-owners of Sticky Fingers Brownies and stars of the book). We’ll have a short reading and book signing\, plus more surprises and special guests TBD.\nHome Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020) was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award\, winner of the 2020 Golden Poppy Nonfiction Book Award\, and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. It was the inaugural pick for the citywide Total SF Book Club\, and an SFPL “On the Same Page” selection. This unique story has been featured of Snap Judgement\, Criminal\, and NPR’s Fresh Air.\nJoin us in Jack Kerouac Alley to meet the people behind the wild stories.\n********\nAbout Home Baked:\nA blazingly funny\, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky Fingers Brownies\, an underground bakery that distributed thousands of marijuana brownies per month and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco.\nDuring the ’70s in San Francisco\, Alia’s mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies\, delivering upwards of 10\,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia’s future father\, and thereafter had a partner in business and life.\nDecades before cannabusiness went mainstream\, when marijuana was as illicit as heroin\, they ingeniously hid themselves in plain sight\, parading through town—and through the scenes and upheavals of the day\, from Gay Liberation to the tragedy of the Peoples Temple—in bright and elaborate outfits\, the goods wrapped in hand-designed packaging and tucked into Alia’s stroller. But the stars were not aligned forever and\, after leaving the city and a shoulda-seen-it-coming divorce\, Alia and her mom returned to San Francisco in the mid-80s\, this time using Sticky Fingers’ distribution channels to provide medical marijuana to friends and former customers now suffering the depredations of AIDS.\nExhilarating\, laugh-out-loud funny\, and heartbreaking\, Home Baked celebrates an eccentric and remarkable extended family\, taking us through love\, loss\, and finding home.\n\n\nAlexis Madrigal is the co-host of KQED’s Forum and a contributing writer at The Atlantic.\n\nAlia Volz is a homegrown San Franciscan. Her bestselling memoir Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the 2020 Golden Poppy Nonfiction Book Award. It was chosen as the inaugural pick for the San Francisco Chronicle’s citywide Total SF Book Club and was an SFPL “On the Same Page” selection. This unique San Francisco story has been featured on Snap Judgement\, Criminal\, Forum\, and NPR’s Fresh Air. \n\nDoug Volz is a professional Visionary Realist oil painter\, living in Lake County\, California. At 67\, as a retired nurse\, he devotes his time to producing works of art that inspire and elevate\, assisting the viewer to leave behind the dark encumbrances of the physical\, and to focus instead on a personal spirituality\, and a Light which frees the Spirit and heals the Heart and Mind. \n\nMeridy Volz is a working fine artist and art activist. She resides in Desert Hot Springs\, CA\, where she runs her art program\, Art with Heart\, mentoring incarcerated and at-risk teens. Her award-winning artwork is figurative\, colorful\, and Expressionistic.\n\n\n\nReviews:\nWinner of the California Bookseller Association’s Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction\nFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography\nOne of Entertainment Weekly’s “Books to Read in April”\nOne of Lambda Literary’s “Most Anticipated LGBTQ Books of April 2020”\n\n“The subtitle\, ‘My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco’ tells you much of what you need to know in terms of content. But as a portrait of a heroics\, innovation\, grit\, and pot-baking in an epidemic (in this case\, the AIDS crisis)\, it’s also strikingly relevant. And beautifully written\, too.”\n—Entertainment Weekly\, “Books to Read in April”\n\n“A beautiful evocation of the Bay Area in the years before tech bros and big money changed the city…Like Stefan Zweig’s The World of Yesterday\, this is a narrative about a time that is now gone: San Francisco as circus\, where pot was both ubiquitous and as illegal as heroin. Under Volz’s careful attention\, all of it—the era\, the place\, and her own parents—is rendered clear\, bright\, and beautiful.”\n—Paris Review\, Staff Pick\n\n“An earnest yet comic memoir by the daughter of the owner of the Sticky Fingers bakery\, purveyor of pot brownies and crusader for legalization.”\n—New York Times\, “New and Noteworthy Audiobooks”\n\n“A raunchy and rollicking account of a vanished era told by someone who paid very close attention to her larger-than-life parents. I gobbled it up like an edible.”\n—Armistead Maupin\n\n“I devoured this book! Sex\, drugs\, rock-n-roll\, a savvy business woman\, a social and medicinal revolution: What’s not to love? This is a story Alia Volz was born to tell.”\n—Rebecca Skloot\, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n\n“[A] nostalgic\, thoroughly entertaining new romp of a memoir…[An] intensely personal portrait of an unconventional childhood\, as well as a rigorously reported account of a kaleidoscopic time in San Francisco history\, an era of exuberant highs and pitch-black lows.”\n—San Francisco Chronicle\n\n“While a memoir\, Home Baked is also an intensively researched book on San Francisco and the burgeoning cannabis culture surrounding Sticky Fingers Brownies\, based on archival research and hundreds of hours of interviews with LGBT activists\, cannabis advocates and\, of course\, Volz’s parents. Home Baked also provides a timely contrast with both modern San Francisco and the blossoming cannabis industry\, which can now offer safe and legal access to the drug\, although significant reforms to the war on drugs have not materialized.”\n—Newsweek\n\n“Ample\, skillfully researched\, and cleanly narrated\, Volz’s debut is really five books in one . . . Alia in tow\, Mer and her peers travel among San Francisco\, Humboldt County and Marin\, connecting an essentially agricultural project to an urban counterculture; they also weave together less and more responsible ways to raise a kid\, almost as Volz herself weaves together her archives of the post-hippie-era Bay Area with her own vivid memories.”\n—Literary Hub
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alia-volz/
LOCATION:Kerouac Alley\, 255 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA 94133\, San Francisco\, California\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta
DESCRIPTION:Every 2nd Thursday of the month at Alley Cat Books in the heart of the Mission!Hosted and curated by Marguerite Munoz and René Vaz.Each reading we bring you three writers\, an open mic\, witty and thought provoking banter and a space that is accepting.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-3/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jaime Cortez in conversation with Rebecca Solnit
DESCRIPTION:celebrating Jaime Cortez’s debut short fiction collection \nGordo \npublished by Grove Atlantic \nShedding profound natural light on the inner lives of migrant workers\, Jaime Cortez’s debut collection ushers in a new era of American literature that gives voice to a marginalized generation of migrant workers in the West. \n—– \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———– \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \nThe first ever collection of short stories by Jaime Cortez\, Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville\, California in the 1970s. A young\, probably gay\, boy named Gordo puts on a wrestler’s mask and throws fists with a boy in the neighborhood\, fighting his own tears as he tries to grow into the idea of manhood so imposed on him by his father. As he comes of age\, Gordo learns about sex\, watches his father’s drunken fights\, and discovers even his own documented Mexican-American parents are wary of illegal migrants. Fat Cookie\, high schooler and resident artist\, uses tiny library pencils to draw huge murals of graffiti flowers along the camp’s blank walls\, the words “CHICANO POWER” boldly lettered across\, until she runs away from home one day with her mother’s boyfriend\, Manny\, and steals her mother’s Panasonic radio for a final dance competition among the camp kids before she disappears. And then there are Los Tigres\, the perfect pair of twins so dark they look like indios\, Pepito and Manuel\, who show up at Gyrich Farms every season without fail. Los Tigres\, champion drinkers\, end up assaulting each other in a drunken brawl\, until one of them is rushed to the emergency room still slumped in an upholstered chair tied to the back of a pick-up truck. \nThese scenes from Steinbeck Country seen so intimately from within are full of humor\, family drama\, and a sweet frankness about serious matters – who belongs to America and how are they treated? How does one learn decency\, when laborers\, grown adults\, must fear for their lives and livelihoods as they try to do everything to bring home a paycheck? Written with balance and poise\, Cortez braids together elegant and inviting stories about life on a California camp\, in essence redefining what all-American means. \nJaime Cortez is a graphic novelist\, visual artist\, writer\, teacher\, and occasional performer. Cortez has historically used art and humor to explore sexuality\, social justice\, HIV/AIDS\, and Chicano identity. \nRebecca Solnit is a writer\, historian\, activist\, and the author of more than twenty books on feminism\, western and indigenous history\, popular power\, social change and insurrection\, wandering and walking\, hope and disaster\, these include Cinderella Liberator\, Men Explain Things to Me\, Hope in the Dark\, River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West\,  Wanderlust: A History of Walking\, the Atlas Trilogy\, and much much more. She received numerous honors for her work. These include a Guggenheim award\, the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction\, and the Lannan Literary Award. Her memoir\, Recollections of My Nonexistence\, was released in March\, 2020. \n  \n  \nThis event is sponsored by the City Lights Foundation
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jaime-cortez-in-conversation-with-rebecca-solnit/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210817T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210817T190000
DTSTAMP:20260508T011146
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SUMMARY:Charlie Jane Anders and Maggie Tokuda-Hall
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON TUESDAY\, AUGUST 17 AT 6PM PT WHEN CHARLIE JANE ANDERS JOINS US TO DISCUSS HER BOOK\, NEVER SAY YOU CAN’T SURVIVE: HOW TO GET THROUGH HARD TIMES BY MAKING UP STORIES\, WITH MAGGIE TOKUDA-HALL AT 9TH AVE! \nMasks required for in-store attendance.\nJoin us virtually by registering at the link below \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FlNv8KVLRaOaR5TQrw_R8w\n \nAbout Never Say You Can’t Survive\nFrom the internationally bestselling and critically-acclaimed writer Charlie Jane Anders comes a nonfiction manual about writing and life. \nCharlie Jane Anders is writing Never Say You Can’t Survive\, a nonfiction how-to book about the craft of storytelling. Full of memoir\, personal anecdote\, and insight about how to flourish during the present emergency\, Never Say You Can’t Survive is the perfect manual for fostering creativity in unprecedented times. \nAbout Charlie Jane Anders\nCHARLIE JANE ANDERS is the former editor-in-chief of io9.com\, the popular Gawker Media site devoted to science fiction and fantasy. She is the author of the highly acclaimed science fiction novel\, City in the Middle of the Night. Her debut novel\, All the Birds in the Sky\, won the Nebula Award for Best Novel and was a Hugo Award finalist. Her story\, “Six Months\, Three Days\,” won a Hugo Award. Her YA debut novel\, Victories Greater Than Death\, was published with Tor Teen in April 2021. She has also had fiction published by McSweeney’s\, Lightspeed\, and ZYZZYVA. Her journalism has appeared in Salon\, The Wall Street Journal\, Mother Jones\, and many other outlets.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charlie-jane-anders-and-maggie-tokuda-hall/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210818T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210818T190000
DTSTAMP:20260508T011146
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210804T225909Z
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SUMMARY:Kyle Beachy and José Vadi
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY\, AUGUST 18 AT 6PM PT WHEN KYLE BEACHY JOINS US TO DISCUSS HIS BOOK\, THE MOST FUN THING: DISPATCHES FROM A SKATEBOARD LIFE\, WITH JOSÉ VADI ON ZOOM! \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ReuRjV4pQ6qwvwlDyWpHxA \nPraise for The Most Fun Thing\n“A candid\, funny\, and sometimes damning rumination on why we skateboard. The most thought-provoking writing on skateboarding I’ve ever read.”—Bing Liu\, director of the Oscar-nominated documentary Minding the Gap \n“As readable as a skate mag and as complex as the best fiction\, THE MOST FUN THING imbricates themes of meaning\, community\, and the soul\, and will leave you marveling at skateboarding’s mystery and hopeful for its future. A book as much for the skateboarder as the artist and the writer\, the thinker\, the feeler.”—Mark Suciu\, professional skateboarder \n“In THE MOST FUN THING\, Kyle Beachy assembles critique\, philosophy\, anecdote\, personal history and imagination\, while being shrewd\, witty\, provocative and—above all—hugely engaging. This is my new favorite book on skateboarding.”—Iain Borden\, author of Skateboarding and the City: A Complete History \nAbout The Most Fun Thing\nPerfect for fans of Barbarian Days\, this memoir in essays follows one man’s decade-long quest to uncover the hidden meaning of skateboarding\, and explores how this search led unexpectedly to insights on marriage\, love\, loss\, American invention\, and growing old. \nIn January 2012\, creative writing professor and novelist Kyle Beachy published one of his first essays on skate culture\, an exploration of how Nike’s corporate strategy successfully gutted the once-mighty independent skate shoe market. Beachy has since established himself as skate culture’s freshest\, most illuminating\, at times most controversial voice\, writing candidly about the increasingly popular and fast-changing pastime he first picked up as a young boy and has continued to practice well into adulthood. \nWhat is skateboarding? What does it mean to continue skateboarding after the age of forty\, four decades after the kickflip was invented? How does one live authentically as an adult while staying true to a passion cemented in childhood? How does skateboarding shape one’s understanding of contemporary American life? Of growing old and getting married? \nContemplating these questions and more\, Beachy offers a deep exploration of a pastime—often overlooked\, regularly maligned—whose seeming simplicity conceals universal truths. THE MOST FUN THING is both a rich account of a hobby and a collection of the lessons skateboarding has taught Beachy—and what it continues to teach him as he strugglesto find space for it as an adult\, a professor\, and a husband. \nAbout Kyle Beachy\nKyle Beachy’s first novel\, The Slide (Dial Press\, 2009)\, won The Chicago Reader’s Best Book by a Chicago Author reader’s choice award for the year. His short fiction has appeared in journals including Fanzine\, Pank\, Hobart\, Juked\, The Collagist\, 5 Chapters\, and others.His writing on skateboarding has appeared in The Point\, The American Reader\, The Chicagoan\, Free Skateboard Magazine (UK & Europe)\, The Skateboard Mag (US)\, Jenkem\, Deadspin\, and The Classical. He teaches at Roosevelt University in Chicago and is a co-host on the skateboarding podcast Vent City with pro skater Ryan Lay and others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kyle-beachy-and-jose-vadi/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210819T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210819T190000
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SUMMARY:On the Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
DESCRIPTION:To live in a body that is fat and Black is to exist at the margins of a society that creates the conditions for anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Hyper-policed by state and society\, passed over for housing and jobs\, and derided and misdiagnosed by medical professionals\, fat Black people in the United States are subject to socio-politically sanctioned discrimination\, abuse\, condescension\, and trauma. \nDa’Shaun Harrison-a fat\, Black\, disabled\, and nonbinary trans writer-offers an incisive\, fresh\, and precise exploration of anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. They foreground the state-sanctioned murders of fat Black men and trans and nonbinary masculine people in historical analysis. From policing\, disenfranchisement\, to making invisible fat Black men\, trans\, and nonbinary masculine people\, these are some of the most pervasive and insidious ways that anti-fat anti-Blackness shows up in everyday life. \nIn Da-Shaun’s writing and work they take on desirability politics\, the limitations of gender\, the connection between anti-fatness and the carceral system\, as well as the incongruity of “health” and “healthiness” for the Black fat\, illustrating the myriad harms of anti-fat anti-Blackness. They offer strategies for dismantling denial\, unlearning the cultural programming that tells us “bad\,” and destroying the world as we know it\, so Black fat people can inhabit a place not built on their subjugation. \nJoin Da’Shaun as they have a conversation about their latest book\, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness\, their life and work\, and learn how we can all work to dismantle our cultural programming and create real change. \nFree\, suggested donation of $10. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/event-calendar/harrison-dashaun-august-19-2021 publicprograms@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-the-politics-of-anti-fatness-as-anti-blackness/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210819T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210819T200000
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SUMMARY:Maurice Carlos Ruffin in conversation with Zakiya Dalila Harris
DESCRIPTION:reading from \nThe Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You: Stories \npublished by One World \nA collection of raucous stories that offer a panoramic view of New Orleans from the author of the “stunning and audacious” (NPR) debut novel We Cast a Shadow \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Link coming soon! \n———– \nMaurice Carlos Ruffin has an uncanny ability to reveal the hidden corners of a place we thought we knew. These perspectival\, character-driven stories center on the margins and are deeply rooted in New Orleanian culture.In “Beg Borrow Steal\,” a boy relishes time spent helping his father find work after coming home from prison; in “Ghetto University\,” a couple struggling financially turns to crime after hitting rock bottom; in “Before I Let Go\,” a woman who’s been in NOLA for generations fights to keep her home; in “Fast Hands\, Fast Feet\,” an army vet and a runaway teen find companionship while sleeping under a bridge; in “Mercury Forges\,” a flash fiction piece among several in the collection\, a group of men hurriedly make their way to an elderly gentleman’s home\, trying to reach him before the water from Hurricane Katrina does; and in the title story\, a young man works the street corners of the French Quarter\, trying to achieve a freedom not meant for him. \nThese stories are intimate invitations to hear\, witness\, and imagine lives at once regional but largely universal\, and undeniably New Orleanian\, written by a lifelong resident of New Orleans and one of our finest new writers. \n\nMaurice Carlos Ruffin is the author of We Cast a Shadow\, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award\, the PEN/Open Book Award\, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and International Dublin Literary Award. A recipient of an Iowa Review Award in fiction\, he has been published in the Virginia Quarterly Review\, AGNI\, the Kenyon Review\, The Massachusetts Review\, and Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas. A native of New Orleans\, he is a graduate of the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop and a member of the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance. \n\nPraise for the work of Maurice Carlos Ruffin \n“The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You is an ode to all that makes us human. With an acute eye for beauty in seemingly hidden places\, Maurice Carlos Ruffin shows us that having true empathy for others is not only transformative but necessary for our evolution as a people. Each story grabs your heart\, squeezes the hell out of it\, and then\, somehow\, makes it fuller. I couldn’t stop feeling. Ruffin is a writer whose work will make you a better person without your knowing it.”—Mateo Askaripour\, author of Black Buck \n“These short stories ring out like the bells of St. Louis Cathedral over Jackson Square. One of our great writers of place\, Ruffin dazzles with this sonorous collection of deeply moving New Orleanian tales. Told with humor\, insight\, and radical empathy\, these stories will linger in your heart and mind like the fading song of a brass band\, vibrant and beautiful.”—Kali Fajardo-Anstine\, author of Sabrina & Corina  \n“Some are funny\, some poetic\, others near heartbreaking\, but the true hallmark Ruffin’s stories is an interest in what language can do. This is the work of a playful and exuberant writer who is always a joy to read.”—Rumaan Alam\, author of National Book Award finalist Leave the World Behind  \n“Ruffin\, more than any of the greats I read\, searches for that idea\, that style\, that genre we think is impossible to do well\, and he makes it look easy. What he is doing in these short stories is breathtaking. They are so singular and so reliant on each other for wholeness. This is wonder writing.”—Kiese Laymon\, author of Heavy
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maurice-carlos-ruffin/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210821T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210821T160000
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CREATED:20210731T212738Z
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SUMMARY:Jingletown Reading & Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Jingletown Reading & Open Mic is a monthly event that celebrates writers & artists committed to social justice and determined to make a positive change in our communities.\n\n\n3rd Saturday of the Month\n2-4 pm\nCurators/Hosts: Adela Najarro & harold terezon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jingletown-reading-open-mic-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210823T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210823T190000
DTSTAMP:20260508T011146
CREATED:20210804T232013Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210804T232013Z
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SUMMARY:Beth Morgan and Jean Kyoung Frazier
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON MONDAY\, AUGUST 23 AT 6PM PT WHEN BETH MORGAN JOINS US TO DISCUSS HER DEBUT NOVEL\, A TOUCH OF JEN\, WITH JEAN KYOUNG FRAZIER ON ZOOM! \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tG9Brd46Qsm15Z_rda5AKQ \nPraise for A Touch of Jen\n“A Touch of Jen is bananas good. Funny and sharp and surprising and bittersweet. Just [three chef’s kiss emojis].”\n—Carmen Maria Machado \n“Morgan has created a fabulous monster here\, legitimately Frankensteined herself a wicked\, unflinching\, dynamite novel out of razor-sharp dialogue\, toxic social media culture\, and the nonsense notion that the self is just another brand to be endlessly plumbed for content. Wildly hilarious and absolutely terrifying\, A Touch of Jen is truly a touch of genius. I loved every minute of it.”\n—Kristen Arnett\, New York Times bestselling author of WITH TEETH and MOSTLY DEAD THINGS \n“Morgan’s got swagger. A Touch of Jen will draw you in with its electric rhythm and razor-sharp wit\, but it will make you stay with its wild\, beating heart. I came for the blood-thirsty monsters\, I left moved by Morgan’s deep understanding of the day-to-day absurdity and pain of 21st century existence. A banger of a debut and the arrival of a bold new voice in fiction.”\n—Jean Kyoung Frazier\, author of PIZZA GIRL \nAbout A Touch of Jen\nA young couple’s toxic Instagram crush spins out of control and unleashes a sinister creature in this twisted\, viciously funny\, “bananas good” debut. (Carmen Maria Machado) \n“Um\, holy shit…This novel will be the most fun you’ll have this summer.” —Emily Temple\, Literary Hub \nRemy and Alicia\, a couple of insecure service workers\, are not particularly happy together. But they are bound by a shared obsession with Jen\, a beautiful former co-worker of Remy’s who now seems to be following her bliss as a globe-trotting jewelry designer. In and outside the bedroom\, Remy and Alicia’s entire relationship revolves around fantasies of Jen\, whose every Instagram caption\, outfit\, and new age mantra they know by heart. \nImagine their confused excitement when they run into Jen\, in the flesh\, and she invites them on a surfing trip to the Hamptons with her wealthy boyfriend and their group. Once there\, Remy and Alicia try (a little too hard) to fit into Jen’s exalted social circle\, but violent desire and class resentment bubble beneath the surface of this beachside paradise\, threatening to erupt. As small disturbances escalate into outright horror\, we find ourselves tumbling with Remy and Alicia into an uncanny alternate reality\, one shaped by their most unspeakable\, deviant\, and intoxicating fantasies. Is this what “self-actualization” looks like? \nPart millennial social comedy\, part psychedelic horror\, and all wildly entertaining\, A Touch of Jen is a sly\, unflinching examination of the hidden drives that lurk just outside the frame of our carefully curated selves. \nAbout Beth Morgan\nBeth Morgan grew up outside Sherman\, Texas and studied writing as an undergraduate at Sarah Lawrence College. She is currently completing an MFA at Brooklyn College. Her work has been published in The Iowa Review and The Kenyon Review Online.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beth-morgan-and-jean-kyoung-frazier/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210824T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210824T190000
DTSTAMP:20260508T011146
CREATED:20210804T231824Z
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SUMMARY:Jaime Lowe and Kim Kelly
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON TUESDAY\, AUGUST 24 AT 6PM PT WHEN JAIME LOWE JOINS US TO DISCUSS HER LATEST BOOK\, BREATHING FIRE\, WITH KIM KELLY ON ZOOM! \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_s8BbIIRxTX6p–3bdGWVmA \nAbout Breathing Fire\nA dramatic\, revelatory account of the female inmate firefighters who battle California wildfires. \nShawna was overcome by the claustrophobia\, the heat\, the smoke\, the fire\, all just down the canyon and up the ravine. She was feeling the adrenaline\, but also the terror of doing something for the first time. She knew how to run with a backpack; they had trained her physically. But that’s not training for flames. That’s not live fire. \nCalifornia’s fire season gets hotter\, longer\, and more extreme every year — fire season is now year-round. Of the thousands of firefighters who battle California’s blazes every year\, roughly 30 percent of the on-the-ground wildland crews are inmates earning a dollar an hour. Approximately 200 of those firefighters are women serving on all-female crews. \nIn Breathing Fire\, Jaime Lowe expands on her revelatory work for The New York Times Magazine. She has spent years getting to know dozens of women who have participated in the fire camp program and spoken to captains\, family and friends\, correctional officers\, and camp commanders. The result is a rare\, illuminating look at how the fire camps actually operate — a story that encompasses California’s underlying catastrophes of climate change\, economic disparity\, and historical injustice\, but also draws on deeply personal histories\, relationships\, desires\, frustrations\, and the emotional and physical intensity of firefighting. \nLowe’s reporting is a groundbreaking investigation of the prison system\, and an intimate portrayal of the women of California’s Correctional Camps who put their lives on the line\, while imprisoned\, to save a state in peril. \nAbout Jaime Lowe\nJaime Lowe is a frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine and other national publications\, and has appeared regularly on This American Life\, RadioLab\, and NPR. She is the author of Mental and Digging for Dirt and has taught writing at Wallkill Correctional Facility. Born and raised in California\, she lives in New York City. \nAbout Kim Kelly\nKim Kelly is a regular labor columnist for Teen VOGUE and the author of Fight Like Hell\, a book of intersectional labor history\, which will be published next year. She’s written about labor\, class\, politics\, and culture for the New Republic\, the Washington Post\, the Baffler\, and Esquire\, among other publications. She’s a member of the Industrial Workers of the World’s Freelance Journalist Union as well as an elected councilperson for the Writers Guild of America\, East (WGAE). Kelly is based in Philadelphia.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jaime-lowe-and-kim-kelly/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210825T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210825T190000
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SUMMARY:Iván Argüelles and Solomon Rino
DESCRIPTION:Iván Argüelles and Solomon Rino celebrate their new book of poetry \nField Hollers \npublished by Luna Bisonte Prods \n————— \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required \n(Click Here) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon!) \n————— \nFIELD HOLLERS is the collaboration of pre-dawn poets Solomon Rino and Iván Argüelles. It represents the call-and-response of two disembodied voices from opposite sides of the Bay\, voices that demand a scrupulous account of the raison d’etre of existence. Though supposedly separate the twin/voices become seamless and one. \nInnovative Mexican-American poet  Iván Argüelles is the author of numerous works\, notably “That” Goddess\, Hapax Legomenon\, Madonna Septet\, and Comedy \, Divine \, The . Among recently published works are Fragments from a Gone World\, Tamazunchale\, and Diario di un ottogenario. The long arc of his life has taken him from Mexico DF to Minnesota Chicago Italy Brooklyn and finally Berkeley. A retired librarian\, he worked at the  New York Public Library and the Library UC Berkeley. Usually associated with the surrealists\, his work has deep roots in the classics as well as modernists such as Pound and Joyce. A bilingual edition of the translation of some of his poems is in preparation. \nSolomon Rino is a playwright\, poet\, book artist and publisher. His first book was an ethnography of Tibetan ritual tradition\, Deity Men\, Reb gong Tibetan Trance Mediums in Transition. He translated from the Hungarian Miklos Radnoti’s Bor Notebook as A Wiser\, More Beautiful Death. He edited and designed the book\, Like an eye in the hand of a beggar by Leopoldo Maria Panero\, translated by Arturo Mantecón. He edits the annual journal Second Stutter representing significant voices in contemporary poetry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ivan-arguelles-and-solomon-rino/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210825T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210825T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Marc Anthony Richardson and Carolina de Robertis
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, August 25th at 6pm PT when Marc Anthony Richardson joins us to discuss his novel\, Messiahs\, with Carolina de Robertis on Zoom! \nZoom Registration \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_cqwbFFuBQIS0qvGhukkbow \nPraise for Messiahs \n“Messiahs is a fever dream of storytelling. It explores racism and interracial conflict\, the deadly prison industrial complex\, climate emergency\, social death\, and more in prose that unfurls like waves of sound. Bleak\, though not without hope\, challenging\, though with numerous rewards along the way\, innovative from start to finish\, Messiahs is a marvel.” \n—John Keene\, MacArthur Fellow and author of Annotations and Counternarratives \n“In Messiahs\, Marc Anthony Richardson gives us an innovative\, intelligent\, and insightful take on several American obsessions\, including punishment\, incarceration\, and the death penalty. As much as this layered narrative presents a warning about things to come\, it also offers a profound examination of rebirth\, redemption\, second-acts. All in all an unnerving\, uncanny\, and challenging read on many levels\, but well worth the effort.” \n—Jeffery Renard Allen\, Guggenheim Fellow and author of Rails Under My Back and Song of the Shank \nAbout Messiahs \nA fiercely ecstatic tale of betrayal and self-sacrifice. \nMessiahs centers on two nameless lovers\, a woman of east Asian descent and a former state prisoner\, a black man who volunteered incarceration on behalf of his falsely convicted nephew\, yet was “exonerated” after more than two years on death row. In this dystopian America\, one can assume a relative’s capital sentence as an act of holy reform-“the proxy initiative\,” patterned after the Passion. The lovers begin their affair by exchanging letters\, and after his release\, they withdraw to a remote cabin during a torrential winter\, haunted by their respective past tragedies. Savagely ostracized by her family for years\, the woman is asked by her mother to take the proxy initiative for her brother-creating a conflict she cannot bear to share with her lover. Comprised of ten poetic paragraphs\, Messiahs’ rigorous style and sustained intensity equals agony and ecstasy. \nAbout Marc Anthony Richardson \nMarc Anthony Richardson is author of Year of the Rat\, winner of an American Book Award\, and is the recipient of a Creative Capital Award\, a PEN America grant\, and a Hurston/Wright fellowship. He teaches creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-marc-anthony-richardson-and-carolina-de-robertis/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210825T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210825T203000
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Judith Ayn Bernhard and silvi alcivar
DESCRIPTION:Judith Ayn Bernhard will read selections from her new book of stories\, Marriages (Andover Street Archives Press\, 2021)\, followed by an interview with poet silvi alcivar.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-judith-ayn-bernhard-and-silvi-alcivar/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210826T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210826T190000
DTSTAMP:20260508T011146
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SUMMARY:Michelle Ruiz Keil / Summer in the City of Roses
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host Michelle Ruiz Keil again for her second novel\, Summer in the City of Roses. More to be announced soon\, but save the date and join us! \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order Summer in the City of Roses here and we’ll ship it directly to you (or hold for pickup at our San Francisco shop). \nWe are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the book\nInspired by the Greek myth of Iphigenia and the Grimm fairy tale “Brother and Sister\,” Michelle Ruiz Keil’s second novel follows two siblings torn apart and struggling to find each other in early ’90s Portland. \n All her life\, seventeen-year-old Iph has protected her sensitive younger brother\, Orr. But this summer\, with their mother gone at an artist residency\, their father decides it’s time for fifteen-year-old Orr to toughen up at a wilderness boot camp. When their father brings Iph to a work gala in downtown Portland and breaks the news\, Orr has already been sent away against his will. Furious at her father’s betrayal\, Iph storms off and gets lost in the maze of Old Town. Enter George\, a queer Robin Hood who swoops in on a bicycle\, bow and arrow at the ready\, offering Iph a place to hide out while she tracks down Orr. \nOrr\, in the meantime\, has escaped the camp and fallen in with The Furies\, an all-girl punk band\, and moves into the coat closet of their ramshackle pink house. In their first summer apart\, Iph and Orr must learn to navigate their respective new spaces of music\, romance\, and sex-work activism—and find each other before a fantastical transformation fractures their family forever. \nTold through a lens of magical realism and steeped in myth\, Summer in the City of Roses is a dazzling tale about the pain and beauty of growing up. \n\nAbout the author\nMichelle Ruiz Keil is a Latinx writer and tarot reader with an eye for the enchanted and a way with animals. Her critically acclaimed debut novel\, All of Us With Wings\, was called “a transcendent journey” by The New York Times. A San Francisco Bay Area native\, Michelle has lived in Portland\, Oregon\, for many years. She curates the fairytale reading series All Kinds of Fur and lives with her family in a cottage where the forest meets the city.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michelle-ruiz-keil-summer-in-the-city-of-roses/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:On Psychedelic Integration and Existential Exploration
DESCRIPTION:With the second renaissance and re-emergence of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy\, the general public and therapists alike are confronted with new areas of exploration\, but with few systematic frameworks available. Questions surrounding legal access to care\, ongoing criminalization\, and medical restrictions to care limiting the therapies available\, the immediate future of psychedelic-assisted therapy remains shrouded in uncertainty\, even in the face of expanding interest. On the cusp of this new era-one of excitement but also uncertainty-one of many ways to explore this emerging landscape is through the lens of the psychospiritual and the therapeutic uses of psychedelics. \nJoin clinical psychologist\, founder of the Center for Existential Exploration\, and author Dr. Kile Ortigo and licensed clinical social worker\, psychotherapist\, and social justice advocate Mary Sanders for a conversation on the psychospiritual and therapeutic use of psychedelics\, which includes the process of psychedelic integration. Sharing insights from his latest book\, Beyond the Narrow Life\, Dr. Ortigo discusses the shared elements of intersecting complexities and possibilities surrounding questions regarding legal access to care\, ongoing criminalization\, and medical restrictions to care which limit the therapies available. Dr. Ortigo examines themes elicited by the psychospiritual and therapeutic use of psychedelics through several frameworks\, from third-wave cognitive-behavioral therapy to Jungian depth psychology\, existentialism to scientific understandings of the cosmos\, and mindfulness and compassion focused traditions to popular and secular culture. \nDr. Ortigo offers deepened wisdom into psychedelic-assisted therapy and integration through his unique approach of connecting to the greater mysteries and concerns of the human experience. \nFree\, suggested donation of $20. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/event-calendar/ortigo-kile-august-26-2021 publicprograms@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-psychedelic-integration-and-existential-exploration/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210828T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210828T160000
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SUMMARY:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON SATURDAY\, AUGUST 28 AT 3PM PT WHEN ROXANNE DUNBAR-ORTIZ IS JOINED BY KIM SHUCK TO DISCUSS HER LATEST BOOK\, NOT A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS: SETTLER COLONIALIS\, WHITE SUPREMACY\, AND A HISTORY OF ERASURE AND EXCLUSION\, ON ZOOM! \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cl7qzn9tT12C-s5NKUouog \nPraise for Not a Nation of Immigrants\n“In this book\, a precious gift drawn from an amazingly rich life and a prodigious life of learning\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz urges us to disavow the violence of the US settler nation-state\, its discursive erasures of native peoples and its material relations of dispossession. The struggle for workers’ rights and working-class solidarity\, she reminds us\, involves the fight against capitalism\, imperialism\, and colonialism for the liberation of all peoples.”\n—Gary Y. Okihiro\, author of Third World Studies: Theorizing Liberation \n“What do the Iroquois or Navajo think of the Statue of Liberty? With characteristic grit and brio\, Dunbar-Ortiz demonstrates how profoundly the settler colonial history of the United States and the ideology of ‘white nativism’ have shaped both immigration policy and immigrant identity.”\n—Mike Davis\, author of Prisoners of the American Dream \n“Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a one-woman wrecking ball against the tower of lies erected by generations of official and television historians—people who make a living glorifying slave traders and exterminators of Native Americans.”\n—Ishmael Reed \nAbout Not a Nation of Immigrants\nWhether in political debates or discussions about immigration around the kitchen table\, many Americans\, regardless of party affiliation\, will say proudly that we are a nation of immigrants. In this bold new book\, historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz asserts this ideology is harmful and dishonest because it serves to mask and diminish the US’s history of settler colonialism\, genocide\, white supremacy\, slavery\, and structural inequality\, all of which we still grapple with today. \nShe explains that the idea that we are living in a land of opportunity—founded and built by immigrants—was a convenient response by the ruling class and its brain trust to the 1960s demands for decolonialization\, justice\, reparations\, and social equality. Moreover\, Dunbar-Ortiz charges that this feel good‑-but inaccurate—story promotes a benign narrative of progress\, obscuring that the country was founded in violence as a settler state\, and imperialist since its inception. \nWhile some of us are immigrants or descendants of immigrants\, others are descendants of white settlers who arrived as colonizers to displace those who were here since time immemorial\, and still others are descendants of those who were kidnapped and forced here against their will. This paradigm shifting new book from the highly acclaimed author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States charges that we need to stop believing and perpetuating this simplistic and a historical idea and embrace the real (and often horrific) history of the United States. \nAbout Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\nRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma in a tenant farming family. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than 4 decades and is known for her lifelong commitment to national and international social justice issues. Dunbar-Ortiz is the winner of the 2017 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize\, and is the author or editor of many books\, including An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States\, a recipient of the 2015 American Book Award. She lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz-and-kim-shuck/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210830T190000
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SUMMARY:Pussypedia: Zoe Mendelson and Maria Conejo with Carol Queen
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON MONDAY\, AUGUST 30 AT 6PM PT WHEN ZOE MENDELSON AND MARIA CONEJO JOIN US TO DISCUSS THEIR BOOK\, PUSSYPEDIA: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE\, ON ZOOM! \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4hyhD6DYRHiEfUP_YY3ogw \nPraise for Pussypedia\n“Not since the 1973 publication of Our Bodies\, Ourselves has there been a book about our sexual selves that is so incisive\, so inclusive\, so frank—and so funny. Pussypedia is more than just a book about pussies\, it is a brilliant manifesto about living with one. Zoe Mendelson and Maria Conejo have created a multi-faceted masterpiece that should be read—and memorized—by every body.”—Debbie Millman\, author of Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits \n“Pussypedia is a hilarious\, ridiculously informative and absolutely necessary atlas for people with pussies. From pussy anatomy to sex and masturbation and all things in between\, Mendelson takes an inclusive and intersectional approach to demystifying all things pussy. This book is a joyful\, frank\, and comprehensive corrective to the cultural ignorance surrounding people with pussies. If pussy is the promised land\,\nthis book is the compass that will guide you there.”—Roxane Gay\, bestselling author of Bad Feminist and Hunger \n“A thorough and empowering guide to women’s health…. [Mendelson] kicks body shame to the curb and\, in delightfully sassy prose\, keeps things realistic….Conejo’s bright illustrations\, peppered throughout\, add flair. [Those] looking to ditch the shame will find this smart\, inclusive\, and practical guide the perfect resource.”—Publishers Weekly (starred) \nAbout Pussypedia\nWritten by the creators of the popular website\, this rigorously fact-checked\, accessible\, and fully illustrated guide is essential for anyone with a pussy. \nIf the clitoris and penis are the same size on average\, why is the word “small” in the definition of clitoris but strangely missing from the definition of penis? Sex probably doesn’t cause yeast infections? But racism probably does cause BV? Why is masturbating so awesome? How hairy are butt cracks . . . generally? Why is labiaplasty on a global astronomical rise? Does egg freezing really work? Should I stick an egg-shaped rock up there or nah? \nThere is still a shocking lack of accurate\, accessible information about pussies and many esteemed medical sources seem to contradict each other. Pussypedia solves that with extensive reviews of peer-reviewed science that address old myths\, confusing inconsistencies\, and the influence of gender narratives on scientific research––always in simple\, joyful language. \nThrough over 30 chapters\, Pussypedia not only gives the reader information\, but teaches them how to read science\, how to consider information in its context\, and how to accept what we don’t know rather than search for conclusions. It also weaves in personal anecdotes from the authors and their friends––sometimes funny\, sometimes sad\, often cringe-worthy\, and always extremely personal––to do away with shame and encourage curiosity\, exploration\, and agency. \nA gift for your shy niece\, your angsty teenager\, your confused boyfriend\, or yourself. Our generation’s Our Bodies\, Ourselves\, with a healthy dose of fun. \nAbout the Authors\nZoe Mendelson: Journalist\, information designer\, content strategist. Her writing has appeared in Fast Company\, WIRED\, Hyperallergic\, Slate\, Next City\, the LA Times. Her projects have been covered by The New York Times en Espanol\, New York Magazine\, CityLab\, PBS\, Univision\, and Buzzfeed. Previous projects include official emojis for Mexico City\, a data narrative about drones\, and a civic-engagement platform for nihilist millennials. Mendelson studied at Barnard College in New York City. \nMaria Conejo: Visual Artist from Fine Arts School in Mexico. Her main media is drawing\, her work revolves around female bodies representation. She has been awarded with the national grant FONCA twice in the program JOVENES CREADORES. She was finalist in the first Biennial of Illustration in Mexico\, organized by Pictoline and The New York Times. Her work has been shown at SWAB Art Fair Barcelona\, De Kooning Studio in NYC in 2019\, at Juxtapoz Club House in Art Basel Miami and Salon Acme 6 Art Fair in Mexico City in 2018.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pussypedia-zoe-mendelson-and-maria-conejo-with-carol-queen/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual event: Angela Chen and Sherronda J. Brown on Asexuality Possibilities
DESCRIPTION:Register for the Zoom event https://bit.ly/Asexuality09-01-21 or watch on live on YouTube.\n \nPresented by the San Francisco Public Library and The Booksmith: Angela Chen\, author of Ace\, and Sherronda J. Brown discuss asexuality\, the little-known sexual orientation\, and what all of us can learn–about desire\, identity\, culture\, and relationships–when we use an asexual lens to see the world.  \nAngela Chen is the author of Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire\, Society\, and the Meaning of Sex\, which was selected as one of the Best Books of 2020 by NPR. Her reporting and essays have also appeared in publications like The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Atlantic\, The Guardian\, Paris Review\, Lapham’s Quarterly\, and more.   \nSherronda J. Brown (she/they) is a Southern-grown essayist\, editor\, and storyteller with a focus on media analysis and cultural critique\, currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief of Wear Your Voice Magazine. In addition to writing and thinking about asexuality\, their special interests include Blackness and queerness in horror narratives.  \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-angela-chen-and-sherronda-j-brown-on-asexuality-possibilities/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library – Virtual Library
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210907T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210907T190000
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SUMMARY:9th Ave: Shruti Swamy with Meng Jin
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, September 7th at 6pm PT when Shruti Swamy joins us to discuss her debut novel\, The Archer\, with Meng Jin at 9th Ave!\n\n\nMasks Required for In-Person Attendance\nRegister at the link below to join us online\nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_yBzAFdhjR2aJms0xtt-VkQ\n\n\nCan’t join us in person but want a personalized copy?\nOrder your copy of The Archer here by September 7\, write who you would like the book made out to in your order comment\, and we will handle the rest!\nYour order will ship after the event date.\n\n\nPraise for The Archer\n“This novel swallowed me whole. The Archer is the kind of book you always hope for: lush and sensual\, tasted and felt\, with striking images that play out like film behind the eyes. Swamy evokes an India that resists flat stereotype and teems with exuberance\, beauty\, and life. The Archer is timeless yet utterly modern as it asks what it means for a woman to make a life of art.” \n—C Pam Zhang\, author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold \n“Shruti Swamy is a writer to celebrate. Her fiction is provocative\, precise\, and gorgeously inventive.” \n—Megha Majumdar\, author of A Burning \n“This is a singular work\, a story of a dancer\, and of a hungry self seated at the table of womanness and desire and art\, told with unparalleled originality and elegance. Swamy writes with a thrilling clarity of vision that wakes the sleepwalker right into joyful consciousness. Every word is intimate\, honest\, ecstatic—utterly alive.” \n—Meng Jin\, author of Little Gods \nAbout The Archer\nKiese Laymon called Shruti Swamy’s debut book of stories\, A House Is a Body\, “one of the greatest short story collections of the 2020s.” Now\, Swamy brings us an accomplished and immersive coming-of-age novel set in the Bombay of the 1960s and 1970s.\n\nAs a child\, Vidya exists to serve her family\, watch over her younger brother\, and make sense of a motherless world. One day she catches sight of a class where the students are learning Kathak\, a precise\, dazzling form of dance that requires the utmost discipline and focus. Kathak quickly becomes the organizing principle of Vidya’s life\, even as she leaves home for college\, falls in love with her best friend\, and battles demands on her time\, her future\, and her body. Can Vidya give herself over to her art and also be a wife in Bombay’s carefully delineated society? Can she shed the legacy of her own imperfect\, unknowable mother? Must she\, herself\, also become a mother?\n\nIntensely lyrical and deeply sensual\, with writing as rhythmically mesmerizing as Kathak itself\, The Archer is about the transformative power of art and the possibilities that love can open when we’re ready.\n\nAbout Shruti Swamy\nShruti Swamy is the author of the story collection\, A House Is a Body\, which was a finalist for the Pen/Robert Bingham Prize\, the L.A. Times Book Prize for First Fiction\, and longlisted for the Story Prize. Her work has been published by the Paris Review\, McSweeney’s\, and anthologized in the O. Henry Prize Stories. Her debut novel\, The Archer\, will be published by Algonquin Books in September 2021. She lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-ave-shruti-swamy-with-meng-jin/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210909T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210909T183000
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SUMMARY:Reimagine Candlelight Vigil with Poet Victoria Chang
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, September 9 \n8:00pm–9:30pm EDT \n\n\nThis is a digital event. You should receive information in your ticket or from the host about how to join online. \n\nFree\nRSVP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAt this month’s Reimagine Candlelight Vigil\, our special guest is award-winning poet Victoria Chang. Let’s honor our loved ones and celebrate the transformation of loss into creativity.\n\nReimagine has been hosting candlelight vigils throughout the pandemic in order to break down taboos and hold space for all that we’ve lost. At this special gathering\, poet and writer Victoria Chang will read her work\, revisit themes explored in Reimagine’s Asian American Table Talk series\, and discuss the power of writing to discover meaning amidst grief and trauma. \nVictoria Chang \nVictoria Chang is the author of the forthcoming Dear Memory (Milkweed Editions\, 2021)\, a collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations. Her poetry books include OBIT\, Barbie Chang\, The Boss\, Salvinia Molesta\, and Circle. OBIT received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award\, and the PEN Voeckler Award; it was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Prize and the Griffin Poetry Prize\, and was long-listed for the National Book Award. She is also the author of a children’s picture book\, Is Mommy?\, illustrated by Marla Frazee and named a New York Times Notable Book\, and a middle grade novel\, Love\, Love. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Fellowship\, the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award\, a Pushcart Prize\, a Lannan Residency Fellowship\, and a Katherine Min MacDowell Colony Fellowship. She lives in Los Angeles and is the program chair of Antioch University’s low-residency MFA program. \n\n\n\nTYPE:\nRITUAL & CEREMONYTALK\, PANEL\, & CONVERSATIONWRITING & LITERATURECOMMUNITY GATHERINGCELEBRATION & REMEMBRANCE\n\nTRACK:\nARTS & ENTERTAINMENTCOVID-19GRIEF
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reimagine-candlelight-vigil-with-poet-victoria-chang/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Offsite: Tinder Live! with Lane Moore at Rickshaw Stop
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, September 9 at 8pm PT when author and comedian Lane Moore brings her hilarious Tinder Live! show to San Francisco’s beloved Rickshaw Stop!\nBook sales provided by Green Apple Books \n$20 standing adv / $25 limited seated adv (SOLD OUT) / $30 doors\nThis is an All Ages show\nAll attendees must be fully vaccinated and be able to show proof (card\, phone\, or QR code). Let’s keep everyone safe and sound during this return to live shows!* \nAbout Tinder Live!\nTinder Live has been named one of the best comedy shows in NYC for good reason. Produced and hosted by NYC based comedian\, Lane Moore (The Onion\, Brooklyn Magazine’s “50 Funniest People In Brooklyn\,” former Cosmopolitan Magazine sex & relationships editor\, and author of #1 bestseller\, How To Be Alone: If You Want To And Even If You Don’t\, praised as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times\, New York Magazine\, NPR\, Fast Company\, Marie Claire\, and many others)\, Tinder Live is a totally improvised\, anything-can-happen interactive comedy showstopper with helpful and oftentimes ridiculous Tinder tips\, tricks\, real-time swiping\, and messaging (and sometimes even real-time phone calls with Tinder matches)! You’ll relate to Moore’s live-swiping and laugh at her reactions and find inspiration in her ridiculous\, random emoji-filled messages (and sometimes even phone calls!) to would-be suitors. It’s also a great show to attend with a date\, Tinder or otherwise. \nBut don’t expect cheap shots…this show has a huge heart. In between laughs\, Lane reminds us how challenging it can be to find a match in the digital age. Even if you’ve never been on an online dating site\, you will love this show. \n“Tinder LIVE! is truly addictive entertainment…[it’s] ingenious. Moore transforms the banter on a dating app into compelling long-form improvisation. Ms. Moore\, a cagey and humane performer\, has developed an instinct for turning the raw materials of sexually charged chat with ordinary strangers into honed and generous jokes. “TinderLive” has a comic momentum and energy that is unusual. The way she manipulates tone and pace reveals an artist supremely confident in her form\, not to mention a flirt par excellence.” –The New York Times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/offsite-tinder-live-with-lane-moore-at-rickshaw-stop/
LOCATION:Rickshaw Stop\, 155 Fell St.\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon presents Anna North\, Vince Granata\, Tonya M. Foster\, Mia P. Manansala and Zoe FitzGerald Carter
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to partner with Babylon Salon for their Fall event\, featuring readings by Anna North\, Vince Granata\, Tonya M. Foster and Mia P. Manansala\, with music by Zoe Fitzgerald Carter! \nPlease note: this is a free\, virtual event. Zoom information will soon be announced here. \n\nAbout the authors \nAnna North is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the author of two previous novels\, America Pacifica and The Life and Death of Sophie Stark\, which received a Lambda Literary Award in 2016. She has been a writer and editor at Jezebel\, BuzzFeed\, Salon\, and the New York Times\, and she is now a senior reporter at Vox. She grew up in Los Angeles and lives in Brooklyn. Order her books: Outlawed and The Life and Death of Sophie Stark. \nVince Granata received his BA in history from Yale University and his MFA in creative writing from American University. He has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts\, the I-Park Foundation\, and the Ucross Foundation\, and residencies from PLAYA and the MacDowell Colony. His work has appeared in The Massachusetts Review\, The Chattahoochee Review\, and Fourth Genre\, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and listed as Notable in Best American Essays 2018. Order his book: Everything is Fine. \nTonya M. Foster is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court\, and the bilingual chapbook La Grammaire des Os; and coeditor of Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art. Her writing and research focus on ideas of place and emplacement\, and on intersections between the visual and the written. She is an editor at Fence Magazine\, and at The African-American Review. Her poetry\, prose\, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Callaloo\, Tripwire\, boundary2\, MiPOESIAS\, NYFA Arts Quarterly\, the Poetry Project Newsletter\, and elsewhere. Tonya is a recipient of awards and fellowships from the Ford and the Mellon Foundations\, from NYFA; and has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts and at the Macdowell colony. Her next collections are a cross-genre collection on New Orleans—A Mathematics of Chaos::Thingification (forthcoming from Ugly Presse 2021)\, and Monkey Talk\, a cross-genre series about race\, paranoia\, aesthestics\, and surveillance. She is an Assistant Professor at California College of the Arts. Order her book\, A Swarm of Bees in High Court \nMia P. Manansala (MAH-nahn-sah-lah) (she/her) is a writer and book coach from Chicago who loves books\, baking\, and bad-ass women. She uses humor (and murder) to explore aspects of the Filipino diaspora\, queerness\, and her millennial love for pop culture. She is the winner of the 2018 Hugh Holton Award\, the 2018 Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award\, the 2017 William F. Deeck – Malice Domestic Grant for Unpublished Writers\, and the 2016 Mystery Writers of America/Helen McCloy Scholarship. She’s also a 2017 Pitch Wars alum and 2018-2020 mentor. A lover of all things geeky\, Mia spends her days procrastibaking\, playing JRPGs and dating sims\, reading cozy mysteries\, and cuddling her dogs Gumiho\, Max Power\, and Bayley Banks (bonus points if you get all the references). Her debut novel\, Arsenic and Adobo\, came out May 4\, 2021 with Berkley/Penguin Random House and is the first in the Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery series. Order her book\, Arsenic and Adobo. \nZoe FitzGerald Carter is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School and has written for numerous publications including The New York Times\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, Salon and Vogue. Imperfect Endings won first place in the Pacific Northwest Writer’s Association’s literary contest\, was excerpted in O magazine and chosen as a finalist for the National MS Society’s Books for a Better Life Awards in the “Inspirational Memoir” category. It was also a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. Zoe is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto\, where she teaches memoir. She has also taught (and run) writing workshops from Hawaii to Vermont\, and currently teaches memoir and songwriting at Left Margin Lit in Berkeley\, CA. In the last couple of years\, she’s been focusing on her career as a musician. Her first CD\, Waiting for the Earthquake came out in 2017 and can be found on all the streaming platforms. Her new album\, Waterlines\, was released in 2021. Order her book\, Imperfect Endings. \n\nPlease note: this is a free\, virtual event. Zoom information will soon be announced here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-presents-anna-north-vince-granata-tonya-m-foster-mia-p-manansala-and-zoe-fitzgerald-carter/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual: Susan Nguyen\, Felicia Zamora\, Mai Der Vang
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, September 13th at 6pm PT when Susan Nguyen is joined by Mai Der Vang and Felicia Zamora for a reading celebrating her debut collection\, Dear Diaspora\, on Zoom! \nZoom Registration \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_QylrXyjITH2FjW2LW5ZmHg \nPraise for Dear Diaspora \n“Dear Diaspora is a capacious and wholly felt account of a speaker’s contending with place and memory. Susan Nguyen’s gorgeous book maps out the longing of a particular Vietnamese immigrant experience—in its main character\, the adolescent Suzi—and also captures\, through its documentary research\, a collection of voices of Vietnam War refugees in the aftermath. Against a backdrop of love and desire is the search to knit together a place of belonging and origin\, rooted both in the sensual world and in the realm of the imagination. Dear Diaspora is a heartbreaking and breathtaking debut.”—Cathy Linh Che\, author of Split \n“Susan Nguyen\, in Dear Diaspora\, asks: ‘At the center of your calamity\, what grows?’ Nguyen’s gorgeously rendered poems answer that question with language and imagination. There’s devastation in this book—an absent father figure\, displacement of the speaker\, a fragmented Vietnamese diaspora\, but out of this devastation emerges beauty. The speaker in this book collects broken things such as cicada wings that become whole in her rich internal world. Nguyen’s talent is palpable from the first line\, and what a gift this book is. In her poem ‘Grief as a Question\,’ Nguyen writes: ‘no one told me grief could be so ordinary.’ But out of grief and woundedness emerges a voice that is anything but ordinary.”—Victoria Chang\, author of Obit \n“‘Last night I had the American dream\,’ Nguyen writes\, puncturing the dream bubble in which ‘America’ exists as the only and inevitable state of success and belonging. In this collection\, diaspora\, specifically Vietnamese diaspora\, is verdant and lush—suffused with green light\, mustard greens\, grass and trees—blooming through the drought of American love for Nguyen’s speakers. The poems in Dear Diaspora offer us a lexicon we’ve needed to imagine how we might arrive at and receive one another better in land and language\, in memory and touch.”—Natalie Diaz\, author of Postcolonial Love Poem \nAbout Dear Diaspora \nDear Diaspora is an unapologetic reckoning with history\, memory\, and grief. Parting the weeds on a small American town\, this collection sheds light on the intersections of girlhood and diaspora. The poems introduce us to Suzi: ripping her leg hairs out with duct tape\, praying for ecstasy during Sunday mass\, dreaming up a language for buried familial trauma and discovering that such a language may not exist. Through a collage of lyric\, documentary\, and epistolary poems\, we follow Suzi as she untangles intergenerational grief and her father’s disappearance while climbing trees to stare at the color green and wishing that she wore Lucy Liu’s freckles. \nWinner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry\, Dear Diaspora scrutinizes our turning away from the trauma of our past and our complicity in its erasure. Suzi\, caught between enjoying a rundown American adolescence and living with the inheritances of war\, attempts to unravel her own inherited grief as she explores the multiplicities of identity and selfhood against the backdrop of the Vietnamese diaspora. In its deliberate interweaving of voices\, Dear Diaspora explores Suzi’s journey while bringing to light other incarnations of the refugee experience. \nAbout Susan Nguyen \nSusan Nguyen hails from Virginia but currently lives and writes in the desert. She earned her MFA in Poetry from Arizona State University\, where she won the Aleida Rodriguez Memorial Prize and fellowships from the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing. In 2018\, PBS NewsHour named her one of “three women poets to watch.” Her work appears in diagram\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. Her debut collection\, Dear Diaspora\, won the 2020 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Visit her at www.susanpoet.com. \nAbout Felicia Zamora \nFelicia Zamora is a poet\, educator\, and editor currently living in OH. She is the author of six books of poetry including: I Always Carry My Bones\, winner of the 2020 Iowa Poetry Prize released from the University of Iowa Press in April 2021\, Quotient forthcoming from Tinderbox Editions in 2021\, Body of Render\, winner of the 2018 Benjamin Saltman Award from Red Hen Press (2020)\, Instrument of Gaps (Slope Editions\, 2018)\, & in Open\, Marvel (Parlor Press\, 2018)\, and Of Form & Gather\, winner of the 2016 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize (University of Notre Dame Press). She’s received fellowships and residencies from CantoMundo\, Ragdale Foundation\, PLAYA\, Moth Magazine\, and Noepe Center at Martha’s Vineyard\, authored two chapbooks\, won the 2019 Wabash Prize for Poetry and the 2015 Tomaž Šalamun Prize\, and was the 2017 Poet Laureate of Fort Collins\, CO. Her poems and essays are found or forthcoming in AGNI\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day\, American Poetry Review\, Boston Review online\, Georgia Review\, Guernica\, Literary Hub\, Missouri Review Poem-of-the-Week\, Orion\, POETRY\, Poetry Daily\, Poetry International\, Prairie Schooner\, The Nation\, and others. She is an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Cincinnati and is the associate poetry editor for the Colorado Review. \nAbout Mai Der Vang \nMai Der Vang is the author of Yellow Rain (Graywolf Press\, 2021)\, and Afterland (Graywolf Press\, 2017)\, winner of the 2016 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets\, longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award in Poetry\, and a finalist for the 2018 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship\, she served as a Visiting Writer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her poetry has appeared in Poetry\, Tin House\, the American Poetry Review\, among other journals and anthologies. Her essays have been published in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, espnW\, and elsewhere. Mai Der also co-edited How Do I Begin: A Hmong American Literary Anthology with the Hmong American Writers’ Circle. A Kundiman fellow\, Mai Der has completed residencies at Civitella Ranieri and Hedgebrook. Born and raised in Fresno\, California\, she earned degrees from the University of California\, Berkeley and Columbia University. She teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Fresno State.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-susan-nguyen-felicia-zamora-mai-der-vang/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:On Radical Friendship
DESCRIPTION:The divides we experience within us and between us are not only a threat to our physical and emotional health-they are also the weapons and the outcomes of structural oppression. Meditation teacher and author Kate Johnson believes that through wise relationships it is possible to transform the barriers created by societal injustice. Drawing on her experiences as a leading meditation teacher and personal stories of growing up multiracial in a racist world\, Kate brings a fresh take on time-honored wisdom to help us connect more authentically with ourselves\, with our friends and family\, and within our communities. \nIn Kate’s latest book\, Radical Friendship\, she illuminates seven strategies to help us embody our deepest values in our relationships. Kate shares meditation and reflection practices to help everyone cultivate vibrant\, harmonious\, revolutionary friendships. Grounded in the Buddha’s teachings on spiritual friendship\, Kate offers us a path of depth and hope and shows us the importance of working toward collective wellbeing\, one relationship at a time. \nJoin licensed psychologist and CIIS faculty Elizabeth Markle for a conversation with Kate as they lead us on a journey to becoming better friends by offering ways to show up for each other’s liberation at every stage of a relationship. \nFree\, suggested donation of $10. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/event-calendar/johnson-kate-september-15-2021 publicprograms@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-radical-friendship/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Grant Faulkner and Melanie Abrams
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON FRIDAY\, SEPTEMBER 17 AT 6PM PT WHEN GRANT FAULKNER DISCUSSES HIS BOOK ALL THE COMFORT SIN CAN PROVIDE WITH MELANIE ABRAMS AT 9TH AVE! \nMasks Required for In-Person\nJoin us online by registering at the link below \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GyfaQ2hGRuifzatEVoJfeg \nPraise for All the Comfort Sin Can Provide\n“Somewhere between sinister and gleeful the characters in Grant Faulkner’s story collection All the Comfort Sin Can Provide blow open pleasure—guilty pleasure\, unapologetic pleasure\, accidental pleasure\, repressed pleasure. Really\, at the heart of all identity is the reach for pleasure\, and then what actually comes\, all those moments of slippage where we do the wrong thing\, take a ridiculous risk\, double down on failure\, land in a forsaken place\, slip the mainstream of things enough to change and become. These characters exude beauty from their flaws. These stories are lit.”–Lidia Yuknavitch \n“Full of bad behavior and a ferocious desire for escape\, All the Comfort Sin Can Provide is a catalog of longing. Faulkner’s arresting characters broadcast their worst decisions from grimy motel rooms\, greasy kitchens\, and sprawling American highways\, each of them hellbent on the promise of something better.”–Kimberly King Parsons \n“All the Comfort Sin Can Provide delivers on the promise of Grant Faulkner’s daring debut with a follow-up collection of stories that excavates possibility\, salvation\, and the deceptive comforts one finds in so many pleasures.”–Adam Johnson \nAbout All the Comfort Sin Can Provide\nWith raw\, lyrical ferocity\, All the Comfort Sin Can Provide delves into the beguiling salve that sin can promise—tracing those hidden places most of us are afraid to acknowledge. In this collection of brutally unsentimental short stories\, Grant Faulkner chronicles dreamers\, addicts\, and lost souls who have trusted too much in wayward love\, the perilous balm of substances\, or the unchecked hungers of others\, but who are determined to find salvation in their odd definitions of transcendence. \nTaking us from hot Arizona highways to cold Iowa hotel rooms\, from the freedoms of the backwoods of New Mexico to the damnations of slick New York City law firms\, Faulkner creates a shard-sharp mosaic of desire that careens off the page—honest\, cutting\, and wise. \nAbout Grant Faulkner\nGrant Faulkner is the Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and the co-founder of 100 Word Story. He recently published the short story collection All the Comfort Sin Can Provide\, and he’s also the author of Fissures\, a collection of 100-word stories.  His essays on creativity have been published in The New York Times\, Poets & Writers\, LitHub\, Writer’s Digest\, and The Writer\, and his book\, The Art of Brevity\, is forthcoming in 2022. He also co-hosts Write-minded\, a weekly podcast on writing and publishing. \nAbout Melanie Abrams\nMelanie Abrams is the author of the novels Playing and Meadowlark and the forthcoming The Joy of Cannabis: 75 Ways to Amplify Your Life through the Science and Magic of Cannabis. She is a developmental editor and photographer and teaches writing at the University of California\, Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/grant-faulkner-and-melanie-abrams/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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