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SUMMARY:Robin Sloan Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Robin Sloan (bestselling author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore) celebrates the release of his new novel\, Sourdough. \n\nPraise for Robin Sloan \n“A real tour de force [and] a beautiful fable…The reader is swept along by Sloan’s enthusiasm.” ―George Saunders \n\n“A book about passion–for books\, for history\, for the future…There is nothing about Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore that I didn’t love.” ―Cory Doctorow \n\n“In a time when actual books are filling up tag-sale dollar boxes\, along with VHS tapes and old beepers\, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore reminds us that there is an intimate\, adventurous joy in the palpable papery things called novels\, and in the warm little secret societies we used to call ‘bookstores.’ Robin Sloan’s novel is delightfully funny\, provocative\, deft\, and even thrilling. And for reasons more than just nostalgia\, I could not stop turning these actual pages.” ―John Hodgman \n\nAbout Sourdough \nLois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity\, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night\, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Then\, disaster! Visa issues. The brothers close up shop\, and fast. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture\, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. She must keep it alive\, they tell her―feed it daily\, play it music\, and learn to bake with it. \n  \nLois is no baker\, but she could use a roommate\, even if it is a needy colony of microorganisms. Soon\, not only is she eating her own homemade bread\, she’s providing loaves daily to the General Dexterity cafeteria. The company chef urges her to take her product to the farmer’s market\, and a whole new world opens up. \n  \nWhen Lois comes before the jury that decides who sells what at Bay Area markets\, she encounters a close-knit club with no appetite for new members. But then\, an alternative emerges: a secret market that aims to fuse food and technology. But who are these people\, exactly? \n  \nLeavened by the same infectious intelligence that made Robin Sloan’s Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore such a sensation\, while taking on even more satisfying challenges\, Sourdough marks the triumphant return of a unique and beloved young writer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robin-sloan-book-launch/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Parks 2017
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck kicks off the day with a poem and a curated series of youth readings\, followed by a set of performances organized by Vasileia; a submission-based literary mixtape\, curated through a blind selection process by Kelsey Schimmelman and Lisa Church; Quiet Lightning’s annual Neighborhood Heroes show (TBA soon); an interdisciplinary performance by LOAN; live music by Classical Revolution; live painting and an interactive art station by ArtSpan; children’s activities by Bread & Roses; a book swap; books for sale; delicious local food and drink by D’Maize Catering\, Stirm Wine Co.\, Lagunitas Brewing Co. and House Kombucha\, and (ok we can tell you one of our Heroes)\, Jason Bayani spinning some records! \nLiterary mixtape readings by: Gracia Mwamba\, Rich Baiocco\, Lisa Piazza\, Kimberly Gomes\, Raina J. Leòn\, Linda Michel-Cassidy\, Tomas Moniz\, Peter Kline\, William Vlach\, Lenore Weiss\, Abbie Jeanne Amadio\, Yael Hacohen\, and Jill Bronfman! \nSpecial thanks to Poetry in Parks’ sponsors: the San Francisco Arts Commission\, Zellerbach Family Foundation\, SOMArts Cultural Center\, and Booksmith. \nFull schedule + more info coming soon. \nRSVP not required but appreciated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-in-parks-2017/
LOCATION:Candlestick Point SRA\, 1150 Carroll Ave.\, SAN FRANCISCO\, CA\, 94124\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170909T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170909T200000
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon Fall Reading
DESCRIPTION:Laleh Khadivi\n(A Good Country; The Walking; The Age of Orphans) \nLaleh Khadivi was born in Esfahan\, Iran. Her debut novel\, The Age of Orphans\, received the Whiting Award for Fiction\, the Barnes and Nobles Discover New Writers Award and an Emory Fiction Fellowship. Her debut documentary film 900 WOMEN aired on A&E and premiered at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. She has worked as director\, producer and cinematographer of documentary films since 1999. Her fiction and non-fiction can be found in The Los Angeles Times\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, VQR\, The Sun and other publications. She is the recipient of a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Grant and a 2016 Pushcart Prize for her story Wanderlust. \nLee Daniel Kravetz\n(Strange Contagion; Supersurvivors) \nLee Daniel Kravetz is the bestselling author of Supersurvivors (Harpercollins/Harper Wave). His work has been translated into ten languages. He has written for print and television\, including The New York Times\, Psychology Today\, The San Francisco Chronicle\,and PBS. He has been featured in Time Magazine\, theHarvard Business Review\, and Fast Company\, and is a founding board member of the Lit Camp Writers Conference. \nShanthi Sekaran\n(Lucky Boy; The Prayer Room)\nShanthi Sekaran teaches creative writing at California College of the Arts\, and is a member of the Portuguese Artists Colony and the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Her work has appeared in Best New American Voices and Canteen\, and online at Zyzzyva and Mutha Magazine. Her first novel\, The Prayer Room\, was published by MacAdam Cage. \nand more!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-fall-reading-2/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170909T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170909T213000
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks September
DESCRIPTION:Daniel H. Wilson (The Clockwork Dynasty\, Robopocalypse)\nAlexandria Marzano-Lesnevich (The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir)\nMeredith May (I\, Who Did Not Die)\nCeleste Chan (Queer Rebels)\nNatasha Dennerstein (Triptych Caliform)\nJuba Kalamka (Oogabooga Under Fascism)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-september/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170910T180000
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SUMMARY:Saporoso - Book Release Party + Reading
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Feather Press to celebrate the book release of the new\, second edition of “Saporoso – poems of Italian food & love” by Jennifer Barone and artist Lam Khong. Food\, wine\, music and tasty poems will be read by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir\, Adrian Arias\, Norma Smith and more … \nSaporoso (Italian for “tasty”) – is the latest collection of poems by Jennifer Barone in collaboration with artist Lam Khong. Saporoso reads like a robust\, Italian dinner menu that explores the sensual nature of Italian culture\, mythology\, family\, sex and love through Italian food and its natural\, aphrodisiac qualities. As she states in her poem\, “it is no small thing to eat” – through making and sharing food\, we find the basic thread of our humanity\, connection to each other and ultimately an expression of love. \nThis newly updated\, Second Edition by Feather Press – includes three new poems\, an additional section of the author’s family recipes and features beautiful drawings by artist Lam Khong. Visit featherpress.org for more.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saporoso-book-release-party-reading/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170911T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170911T200000
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CREATED:20170722T011207Z
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SUMMARY:Left Coast Writers: David Hathwell
DESCRIPTION:The French entre chien et loup describes moments at dusk when the eye\, no longer to be trusted\, can’t distinguish between a dog and a wolf. The poems in David Hathwell’s second collection take place on the threshold between light and darkness: between the familiar and the unknown\, the expected and the unforeseen\, safety and danger. Erica Dawson calls the poems “sharp and unsettling\,” and Between Dog and Wolf “an important book for times like these.” \nDavid Hathwell published Muses\, his debut collection\, in 2016\, to acclaim from\, among others\, Richard Wilbur\, Dana Gioia\, and Edmund White. His poems have appeared in more than a dozen literary magazines. A former English teacher\, he has degrees in English from Stanford and Columbia\, and a degree in music theory from Queens College of CUNY. He has studied piano at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and sung baritone in the Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco and the San Francisco Choral Society.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/left-coast-writers-david-hathwell/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170911T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170911T200000
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: Teachers on Parade
DESCRIPTION:Two of San Francisco’s favorite English professors read from works that are relevant to today’s national climate. Come hear Daniel Curzon and Margo Perin at Dog Eared Books Castro.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-teachers-on-parade/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170911T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170911T213000
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CREATED:20170720T033226Z
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SUMMARY:Salman Rushdie w/ Michael Chabon
DESCRIPTION:Salman Rushdie is the author of twelve novels including Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker)\, Shame\, The Satanic Verses\, and Haroun and the Sea of Stories\, along with one collection of short stories: East\, West. He has also published four works of nonfiction and co-edited two anthologies\, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008. His forthcoming novel\, The Golden House\, is a modern epic of love and terrorism\, loss and reinvention—a powerful\, timely story told with the daring and panache that has kept Salman Rushdie a literary and cultural force for decades.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/salman-rushdie-w-michael-chabon/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170912T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170912T133000
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CREATED:20170414T010013Z
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SUMMARY:Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake & Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
DESCRIPTION:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents Poetic Tuesdays on the second Tuesday of each month at Jessie Square next to the Contemporary Jewish Museum. Guest curated by Litquake’s Brynn Saito\, Poetic Tuesdays run from 12:30pm-1:30pm and feature poets and music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-yerba-buena-gardens-festival-4/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170912T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170912T203000
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SUMMARY:Sarah Page + Tony Robles
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Tuesday evening in the historic literary epicenter of San Francisco to hear poets from near and far read their work! \nTuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact Friends’ Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-page-tony-robles/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170912T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170912T203000
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SUMMARY:Designing San Francisco: The Untold Story of How Artists and Activists Rebuilt Postwar SF
DESCRIPTION:Alison Isenberg\, Professor of History and Co-Director of the Princeton Mellon Initiative in Architecture\, Urbanism\, and the Humanities presents her new book Designing San Francisco\, the untold story of the formative postwar decades when U.S. cities took their modern shape amid clashing visions of the future. In this pathbreaking and richly illustrated book\, Isenberg shifts the focus from architects and city planners–those most often hailed in histories of urban development and design–to the unsung artists\, activists\, and others who played pivotal roles in rebuilding San Francisco between the 1940s and the 1970s. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrevious accounts of midcentury urban renewal have focused on the opposing terms set down by Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs–put simply\, development versus preservation–and have followed New York City models. Now Isenberg turns our attention west to colorful\, pioneering\, and contentious San Francisco\, where unexpectedly fierce battles were waged over iconic private and public projects like Ghirardelli Square\, Golden Gateway\, and the Transamerica Pyramid.\n\nWhen large-scale redevelopment came to low-rise San Francisco in the 1950s\, the resulting rivalries and conflicts sparked the proliferation of numerous allied arts fields and their professionals\, including architectural model makers\, real estate publicists\, graphic designers\, photographers\, property managers\, builders\, sculptors\, public-interest lawyers\, alternative press writers\, and preservationists. Isenberg explores how these centrally engaged arts professionals brought new ideas to city\, regional\, and national planning and shape novel projects across urban\, suburban\, and rural borders. San Francisco’s rebuilding galvanized far-reaching critiques of the inequitable competition for scarce urban land\, and propelled debates over responsible public land stewardship. Isenberg challenges many truisms of this renewal era–especially the presumed male domination of postwar urban design\, showing how women collaborated in city building long before feminism’s impact in the 1970s.\n\n\nAn evocative portrait of one of the world’s great cities\, Designing San Francisco provides a new paradigm for understanding past and present struggles to define the urban future.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/designing-san-francisco/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170912T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170912T210000
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SUMMARY:Ryan Gattis
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new novel \nSafe \npublished by MCD/Farrar\, Straus and Giroux \nRyan Gattis’ gritty\, fast-paced thriller\, Safe\, hurtles readers toward a shocking conclusion that asks the toughest question of all: how far would you go to protect the ones you love? \nRicky ‘Ghost’ Mendoza\, Jr. is trying to be good. In recovery and working as a freelance safecracker for the DEA\, the FBI\, and any other government agency willing to pay him\, Ghost is determined to live clean for the rest of his days. And maybe he could\, if the most important person in his life hadn’t gotten into serious financial trouble. To fix it\, all Ghost has to do is crack a safe and steal drug money from under the noses of the gangs and the Feds without getting caught. Or killed. \nRudy ‘Glasses’ Reyes runs drugs and cleans up messes for the baddest of bad men. When Ghost hits one of his safes\, Glasses must hunt him down or be held accountable. But Glasses is worried about more than just money. The heist puts everything in his life at risk—his livelihood\, his freedom\, even his family. \nRyan Gattis is the author of Kung Fu High School and All Involved\, a novel about the 1992 L.A. riots. He lives in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ryan-gattis/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170912T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170912T213000
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SUMMARY:Adam Gopnik Performs In: The Gates
DESCRIPTION:The New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik presents a one-man show of stories from his thirty years as a husband\, father\, and writer in New York City. Directed by Catherine Burns. \nGopnik has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986. His books include the essay collections Paris to the Moon\, Through the Children’s Gate\, and Winter: Five Windows on the Season; the children’s novels The King in the Window and The Steps Across the Water; and a book about cooking and eating\, The Table Comes First: Family\, France\, and the Meaning of Food. He has received three National Magazine Awards and the George Polk Award for magazine writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adam-gopnik-performs-in-the-gates/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170913T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170913T193000
DTSTAMP:20260624T003847
CREATED:20170824T134717Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170825T003829Z
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SUMMARY:Tales and Legends from Mexico w/ Marcos Barraza
DESCRIPTION:Marcos Barraza is a writer of varied topics such as physics\, society\, history and technology. His latest book\, Cuentos y Legendas (Tales and Legends)\, is a compendium of historical tales from Victoria de Durango\, the capital of the Spanish province of Nueva Vizcaya which today represents the Mexican states of Durango and Chihuahua.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tales-and-legends-from-mexico-with-marcos-barraza/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170913T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170913T210000
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CREATED:20170721T234149Z
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SUMMARY:Daniel Kane
DESCRIPTION:discussing his new book \nDo You Have a Band?”: Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City \nfrom Columbia University Press \nDuring the late 1960s\, throughout the 1970s\, and into the 1980s\, New York City poets and musicians played together\, published each other\, and inspired one another to create groundbreaking art. In “Do You Have a Band?”\, Daniel Kane reads deeply across poetry and punk music to capture this compelling exchange and its challenge to the status of the visionary artist\, the cultural capital of poetry\, and the lines dividing sung lyric from page-bound poem. \nKane reveals how the new sounds of proto-punk and punk music found their way into the poetry of the 1960s and 1970s downtown scene\, enabling writers to develop fresh ideas for their own poetics and performance styles. Likewise\, groups like The Fugs and the Velvet Underground drew on writers as varied as William Blake and Delmore Schwartz for their lyrics. Drawing on a range of archival materials and oral interviews\, Kane also shows how and why punk musicians drew on and resisted French Symbolist writing\, the vatic resonance of the Beat chant\, and\, most surprisingly and complexly\, the New York Schools of poetry. In bringing together the music and writing of Richard Hell\, Patti Smith\, and Jim Carroll with readings of poetry by Anne Waldman\, Eileen Myles\, Ted Berrigan\, John Giorno\, and Dennis Cooper\, Kane provides a fascinating history of this crucial period in postwar American culture and the cultural life of New York City. \nDaniel Kane is reader in English and American literature at the University of Sussex in Brighton. His books include We Saw the Light: Conversations Between the New American Cinema and Poetry (2009) and All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s (2003).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-kane/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170913T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170913T223000
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CREATED:20170815T111438Z
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's 'JoyRide'
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, Sept 13th\, 2017\n\n\n\nat the Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa\, San Francisco\, CA)\n\n\nRemember: Bang-O at 7:00 PM\, Stories at 8:00 PM\n\n\nWonder what this show is about? Listen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at\n\n\nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast\n\n\nWe don’t limit you. Why are you limiting yourself? #storytelling#Unedited#TheRealDeal\n\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nThis Evening of  ‘We need more Joy’ stories & songs includes:\n\n\n❤ Sexual Folklorist & Carnal Curator Dixie De La Tour\n\n\n❤ Custom Bawdy Songs from the inimitable Rachel Lark\n\n❤ Wanna be part of this show? Pitch your story to Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com by Aug 18th! \n\n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for talking to sexy strangers\n\n\n❤ Reserved Seating puts you right up front\, in the action\n\n\n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #ItsOK#PublicLibationIsLegal\n\n\n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure.\n\n\n \n\n\nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & hand-picked Rockstars as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal!\n\n\n \n\n\n• No Refunds or Exchanges\n\n\n• Lineup Subject to Change\n\n\n• General Admission seating is first come\, first served. We recommend you arrive by 7:15 for best seating (Reserved Seating guarantees you a seat right up front)\n\n\n \n\n\nPerformer Bios:\n\n \n\n❤ Rachel Lark is a San Francisco based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Her music has been featured on The Savage Lovecast and Salon.com and she tours regularly throughout the U.S. and Europe. She was signed last year to not a cult records with her new studio album\, They’ve Done Studies\, set to be released in Spring 2017. She recently debuted a new show at DNA Lounge that she successfully funded through a Kickstarter campaign\, and is touring as Rachel Lark and the Damaged Goods right now – but she’ll be back from tour and rocking Bawdy’s stage on July 12th! Find out more about Lark at www.rachellark.com\, www.facebook.com/larksongs & at @rachellarkmusic\n\n\n \n\n\n❤ Dixie De La Tour is a sexual folklorist\, storyteller\, entrepreneur\, podcaster\, teacher\, catalyst\, coach\, community builder\, facilitator\, & instigator (& that’s just for starters). She is also the founder\, curator & host of the award-winning sex and storytelling series\, Bawdy Storytelling (“The nation’s original sex and storytelling series” – Playgirl\, “The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly)\nCalled “a stiff shot of courage in a push-up bra”\, Dixie is passionate about storytelling’s power to connect strangers. A former sex party producer & dating site community manager\, she founded Bawdy Storytelling (a multi-city brand of sex-positive self advocacy that’s changing the world and making our relationships more authentic and accessible)\nAs a storyteller\, Dixie’s own dating stories can been heard on the Risk! podcast and her own Bawdy Storytelling podcast (which was selected by Esquire.com as a top 5 ‘Best Sex Podcast’) Ping her (she likes that) at @Bawdy\, facebook.com/DixieDeLaTour & at www.BawdyStorytelling.com\n\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show of 2016\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & the LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event)\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nWant more Bawdy?\n\n\nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com\n\n\nTwitter: @Bawdy\n\n\n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-joyride/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kim Shuck Poet Laureate Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join us when Kim Shuck\, San Francisco’s seventh poet laureate\, is inaugurated.  Kim\, a life long resident of San Francisco\, will read her poetry and discuss her plans as poet laureate. \nA book sale by the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library follows the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-shuck-poet-laureate-celebration/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170914T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170914T210000
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CREATED:20170324T014540Z
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. \nThis month’s readers TBD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-in-september/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170914T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170914T210000
DTSTAMP:20260624T003847
CREATED:20170721T234329Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170721T234329Z
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SUMMARY:Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:Tongo Eisen Martin celebrates the release of Number 61 in the Pocket Poets Series Heaven Is All Goodbyes published by City Lights Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tongo-eisen-martin/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170914T210000
DTSTAMP:20260624T003847
CREATED:20170816T005011Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T005011Z
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SUMMARY:Martha Ronk + Paul Vangelisti
DESCRIPTION:Martha Ronk has published 11 books of poetry\, most recently the photography-focused Ocular Proof (Omnidawn\, 2016)\, Transfer of Qualities\, prose poems (named to long list for the National Book Award) and National Poetry Series selection Vertigo\, indebted to W.G. Sebald. Her most recent chapbook\, Familiar/Unfamiliar (Magra Books\, 2017)\, addresses Los Angeles. Recent poems appear in Volt\, Lana Turner and Conjunctions. She lives in Los Angeles. \nPaul Vangelisti has published more than 30 books of poetry and is a noted translator from Italian. In 2015 he edited Amiri Baraka’s S.O.S.: Poems 1961 – 2013\, for Atlantic-Grove\, and in the same year his book of sonnets\, Solitude\, appeared in a bilingual edition in Italy. In 2016 a new collection of poems\, Border Music\, was published by Talisman House. His translation of Adriano Spatola’s The Position of Things: Collected Poems\, 1961 – 1992\, received the Academy of American Poets translation prize in 2010. Vangelisti lives and works in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/martha-ronk-paul-vangelisti/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170817T045621Z
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SUMMARY:Paul Madonna: Close Enough for the Angels
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is excited to present a special evening with Paul Madonna as he introduces his latest release Close Enough for the Angels\, along with a gallery showing of his iconic work. Please join us at The Bindery! \nEmit Hopper was a one-hit wonder—twice. First as a rock and roller in the 80s\, then as a literary darling in the 90s. Now it’s twenty years later\, and despite his desire to remain a simple laundromat owner\, stardom has found him once again. As he’s drawn back into the limelight he meets Julia\, a former celebrity chef with an enigmatic past. But when she disappears while hiking with two other women\, Emit finds himself chasing down a mystery that promises to leave him forever changed. \nFrom the artist and author of All Over Coffee and Everything is its own reward\, Paul Madonna uses his signature blend of drawing and storytelling to deliver a beautiful and entertaining novel filled with suspense\, surprise\, and humor. \nWith over one hundred lush and haunting drawings\, this full-length\, character-driven story is a fresh and innovative reinvention of the illustrated novel. \n— \n“Madonna captures snapshots in time as he explores the relationship between image and text… that’s so gorgeously rendered in Madonna’s precise yet fluid pen-and-ink style\, it feels like it could be anywhere and everywhere.” — Publisher’s Weekly \n— \nPaul Madonna is the award-winning artist and writer. He is the creator of the series All Over Coffee\, which ran in the San Francisco Chronicle for twelve years\, and is the author of four books. His drawings and stories have appeared internationally in numerous books and journals as well as in galleries and museums\, including the San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum\, the Oakland Museum of California\, and an upcoming solo exhibition at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. Paul is a former editor fortherumpus.net\, has taught drawing at the University of San Francisco\, and frequently lectures on creative practice\, even when not asked. He holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University\, and was the first (ever!) Art Intern at MAD magazine\, for which he proudly received no money. \nMore info: http://www.booksmith.com/event/paul-madonna-close-enough-angels-bindery
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-madonna-close-enough-for-the-angels/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170915T203000
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CREATED:20170905T111545Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170905T111545Z
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SUMMARY:Brutal Conditions of US Agriculture Workers Documented in Photo Essays
DESCRIPTION:The conditions of farm workers have deteriorated greatly since the 1970s and 80s.  Taking inflation into account\, wages are less than half. In photographs and testimonies\, In the Fields of the North / En los Campos del Norte shows that these conditions are provoking a new wave of organizing efforts. It is the first book to do so visually\, and in the words of farm workers themselves.  It is a completely bilingual book\, with extensive captions for all the images and oral histories in accessible narrative form. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“What is distinctive about David Bacon´s work is his persistence and determination to be present at decisive moments in the lives of workers. His photo essays allow us to feel that we are there\, observing the events unfolding.  We are witnesses to intimate moments of farmers working at dawn in the onion fields.  We hear the testimonies of people participating in political action – with the strength of the community filling the air.”  Gaspar Rivera-Salgado\, professor of Chicano Studies\, UCLA David Bacon is a California-based writer and photographer.  He is the author of several books about migration\, including The Children of NAFTA\, Communities Without Borders and Illegal People – How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants. Bacon was a factory worker and union organizer for two decades with the United Farm Workers\, the International Ladies Garment Workers and other unions. Today he documents the changing conditions in the workforce\, the impact of the global economy\, war and migration\, and the struggle for human rights. His photography has been exhibited in the U.S. Mexico and Europe\, and his articles and photoessays have been published widely. As a photojournalist\, David Bacon has been documenting through photographs and stories the lives of farm workers since 1988.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brutal-conditions-of-us-agriculture-workers-documented-in-photo-essays/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170915T210000
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CREATED:20170913T095632Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170913T100019Z
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SUMMARY:The Junkyard 2017 Reading Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Simone Herko Felton and Esme Cohen\, currently two sophomores at Lowell High school in South San Francisco and the founders of the schools creative writing club and very own literary magazine\, Junkyard. \n“The whole idea behind it is like finding tools in a Junkyard. In the mess of humanity that is a junkyard or high school\, it’s about finding the things that are valuable which can be such a mixture of different things.” -Simone \n“The junkyard is all about celebrating the unique things that you find.” -Esme \nCome support a group of 12 who are keeping the arts alive and well\, at such a young age. Join us at the Beat Musuem to hear this literary staff read their own work featured in the publication. \nWill be selling hard copies: $5 for Lowell students and $7 for the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-junkyard-2017-reading-showcase/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170917T153000
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CREATED:20170826T142112Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170828T115817Z
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SUMMARY:Magra Books Reading: Paul Vangelisti + Sean Pessin Host
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the first two seasons of titles from the independent publisher\, Magra Books (magrabooks.com). Gillian Conoley will read from her just published chapbook\, Preparing One’s Consciousness for the Avatar\, along with Martha Ronk reading from her 2016 title\, Unfamiliar Familiar; Art Beck from his new translation\, Martial\, Epigrams; Dennis Phillips from his Desert Sequence chapbook; and Neeli Cherkovski from his forthcoming Magra chapbook\, Odes for Ezra Weston Pound. Part of the presentation will also be a memorial tribute to Ray DiPalma (1943-2016)\, whose For a Curved Surface is one of Magra’s initial offerings. Based in Los Angeles and Tuscany\, Magra Books is a series of chapbooks\, printed in editions of 300 copies\, featuring unique works by important writers. Each volume\, typically 32 pages in length\, presents writers who are up to the all-encompassing challenge of producing work that strives to make “news that stays news.” Writers who are passionate about language\, language that knows no borders. Hosting the event will be Paul Vangelisti and Sean Pessin\, part of Magra Book’s editorial staff.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/magra-books-reading-paul-vangelisti-sean-pessin-host/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170918T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170918T200000
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CREATED:20170720T033406Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170720T033406Z
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SUMMARY:About Alice: An Onstage Reading
DESCRIPTION:A reading of the two-character play that Calvin Trillin has adapted from the book he wrote about his late wife\, the educator Alice Stewart Trillin. Directed by Leonard Foglia. Cast to be announced. \nCalvin Trillin has been writing for The New Yorker since 1963. His many books include the comic novels “Floater” and “Tepper Isn’t Going Out”; the memoirs “Messages from My Father” and “About Alice\,” which he has recently adapted into a play; “The Tummy Trilogy\,” a collection of three books about food; and “Jackson\, 1964: And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America.” He was awarded the Thurber Prize for American Humor for his book “Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff.” \nLeonard Foglia has directed Broadway productions of “Master Class\,” “Thurgood\,” “The People In The Picture”; the Broadway revivals of “The Gin Game\,” “On Golden Pond\,” and “Wait Until Dark”; and opera productions\, including the world premières of “Moby Dick\,” “Everest\,” “Cold Mountain\,” “The End of the Affair\,” and “Three Decembers.” As a librettist\, he wrote and directed “El Pasado Nunca Se Termina\,” “Cruzar La Cara De La Luna” with composer Jose Martinez\, and “A Coffin in Egypt” with composer Ricky Ian Gordon. \nNOTE: Advance sales open to members only at this time. To become a City Arts & Lectures member\, click here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/about-alice-an-onstage-reading/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170918T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170918T210000
DTSTAMP:20260624T003847
CREATED:20170324T014121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170915T061509Z
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-robert-anbian-michael-koch/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170919T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170919T203000
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CREATED:20170720T034912Z
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SUMMARY:Jeanne Powell + Clyde Always
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Tuesday evening in the historic literary epicenter of San Francisco to hear poets from near and far read their work! \nTuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact Friends’ Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeanne-powell-clyde-always/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170919T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170919T190000
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CREATED:20170826T143933Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170826T143933Z
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SUMMARY:Brontez Purnell
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/brontez-purnell-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170919T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170919T213000
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CREATED:20170604T223440Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170607T021358Z
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SUMMARY:Michael Chabon
DESCRIPTION:In Conversation with Isabel Duffy. \nSeries: “On Arts” Benefiting 826 Valencia Scholarship Program. \nAn “immensely gifted writer and magical prose stylist” (Michiko Kakutani\, The New York Times)\, Michael Chabon is celebrated for his remarkable ability to transport his readers.  His many novels include The Mysteries of Pittsburgh\, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union\, Wonder Boys\, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay\, and Telegraph Avenue. His most recent\, Moonglow\, is based on stories he was told by his ailing grandfather during a visit in 1989. It is part novel\, part memoir\, in which he has “stuck to facts except when facts refused to conform with memory\, narrating purpose\, or the truth as I prefer to understand it. Wherever liberties have been taken … the reader is assured that they have been taken with due abandon.”  The book follows his grandparents as their lives weave through much of the 20th century. \nYou can purchase tickets online.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-chabon-3/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170919T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170919T213000
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CREATED:20170621T232530Z
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SUMMARY:Josephine Rowe
DESCRIPTION:Josephine Rowe discusses her new novel\, A Loving\, Faithful Animal. \n\nPraise for A Loving\, Faithful Animal \n\n“A subtle and haunting meditation on childhood\, escape\, the bonds and the limits of family\, and the long reach of trauma. Rowe is a serious talent\, and her debut novel is both gorgeous and stunning.” —Emily St. John Mandel\, author of Station Eleven \n“A Loving\, Faithful Animal lured me in with astonishing\, poetic prose\, and a glimpse of an Australia I don’t always see in fiction. But the true thrill of the novel is the carousel of haunting characters Josephine Rowe creates with unbelievable precision. An unflinching look at the ways we fail the people we love\, at the cruelty of family\, its toxicity\, and beauty. The book is a deep\, multi-faceted portrait of the inheritance of damage\, one that left me aching and inspired.” —Stephanie Danler\, New York Times bestselling author of Sweetbitter \n“Josephine Rowe writes like someone who\, having been quiet a long time\, has thought carefully and viciously about what must be said. In this flinty debut\, Rowe fashions a string of refractory surfaces―the family members of a veteran―to remind us just how far\, into love and time\, the atrocity of war will reach.” ―Kathleen Alcott\, author of Infinite Home \n\nAbout A Loving\, Faithful Animal \nIt is New Year’s Eve 1990\, in a small town in southeast Australia. Ru’s father\, Jack\, one of thousands of Australians once conscripted to serve in the Vietnam War\, has disappeared. This time Ru thinks he might be gone for good. As rumors spread of a huge black cat stalking the landscape beyond their door\, the rest of the family is barely holding on. Ru’s sister\, Lani\, is throwing herself into sex\, drugs\, and dangerous company. Their mother\, Evelyn\, is escaping into memories of a more vibrant youth. And meanwhile there is Les\, Jack’s inscrutable brother\, who seems to move through their lives like a ghost\, earning both trust and suspicion. \n  \nA Loving\, Faithful Animal is an incandescent portrait of one family searching for what may yet be redeemable from the ruins of war. Tender\, brutal\, and heart-stopping in its beauty\, this novel marks the arrival in the United States of Josephine Rowe\, the winner of the 2016 Elizabeth Jolley Prize and one of Australia’s most extraordinary young writers. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/josephine-rowe/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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