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SUMMARY:Sarah Griffin
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith alum\, prolific tweeter\, and International Treasure Sarah Maria Griffin joins us for the launch of her debut novel\, Spare and Found Parts. \nSpare & Found Parts tells the story of Nell\, a girl with a ticking mechanical heart\, living with her pet stoat and her genius scientist father in a futuristic Ireland ravaged by an epidemic and enduring a fragile recovery. Nell is lonely\, ambitious\, and anxious about living up to her potential—until she finds a mannequin hand while salvaging at the beach. As she begins to build herself a companion\, the city\, her father\, and her true feelings begin to reveal themselves. A soulful steampunk-dystopian romp with undertones of Station Eleven\, Gold\, Fame Citrus\, and\, of course\, Frankenstein\, Spare and Found Parts will be the highlight of your fall reading list. \nAin’t no party like a Booksmith party\, and ESPECIALLY when it’s one of our own. Join us to launch Griffski in style! \nSarah Maria Griffin is from Dublin\, Ireland\, and received a master’s degree in creative writing from National University of Ireland\, Galway. After moving to San Francisco in 2012\, she began to contribute essays about emigration to The Irish Times\, which developed into Not Lost\, a nonfiction collection published for adults. She has since returned to Dublin\, and lives in a small red brick house by the sea with her husband and cat. You can find her online at www.sarahgriff.com\, on Twitter @griffski\, and on Instagram @sarahgriffski.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-griffin/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Poetry Brothel: A Masquerade
DESCRIPTION:It’s almost October already and we still don’t know what day it is in San Francisco but we know we’re landing again soon and your city lights are guiding us in. The Poetry Brothel is back and for lack of a better phrase\, San Francisco\, we need you! Come again into our underground and listen to the soft sounds of house band The Hot Baked Goods\, watch Harvest Moon and Edie Eve dance\, watch the bright play of words that skirt the walls light up the room. We’re back in your pockets\, loves\, we’re back in your alleys\, we’re back on the slopes and we aren’t leaving until we’ve told you something precious\, something small that you can hold under you tongue like a sea shell\, like a pea of salt\, like an egg at dawn\, like something all together falling apart. Put us back together St. Francis\, we’re a flock of humming birds\, our hearts are racing\, and our songs\, our songs\, our songs. Our songs are almost too fast to see. \nThere is no strict dress code\, but we encourage you to dress for the occasion. Do not resist the Masquerade! Masks may change hands as the night unfolds\, but you are obliged to bring your own. Doors open at 8pm\, and seating is first come\, first serve. The show begins at 9pm. \nThe Poetry Brothel is a unique and immersive poetry event that takes poetry outside classrooms and lecture halls and places it in the lush interiors of a bordello. Based in concept on the fin-de-siecle bordellos in New Orleans and Paris\, many of which functioned as safe havens for fledgling\, avant-garde artists\, The Poetry Brothel’s “Madame” presents a rotating cast of poets as “whores\,” each operating within a carefully constructed character\, who impart their work in public readings\, spontaneous eruptions of poetry\, and most distinctly\, as purveyors of private\, one-on-one poetry readings in back rooms. For a small fee\, all of the “poetry whores” are available for these sequestered readings at any time during the event. Of course\, any true brothel needs a good cover; The Poetry Brothel’s is an immersive cabaret\, offering a full bar\, live jazz\, burlesque dancers\, painters\, and fortune-tellers\, with newly integrated themes\, performances and installations at each event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-poetry-brothel-a-masquerade/
LOCATION:Slide\, 430 Mason St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rod Smith + Lee Ann Brown
DESCRIPTION:Poets Rod Smith and Lee Ann Brown\, visiting respectively from Washington\, D.C. and New York City\, read their work and converse with the audience. This event is FREE. \nGetting here. \n\nRod Smith is the author of Touché (Wave Books\, 2015)\, What’s the Deal? (Song Cave\, 2010)\, Deed (University of Iowa Press\, 2007)\, In Memory of My Theories (O Books\, 1996) and several others books and chapbooks. He edits the journal Aerial\, publishes Edge Books\, and manages Bridge Street Books in Washington\, DC. He has taught writing at the Corcoran College of Art & Design\, George Mason University\, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, and the Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art. Smith edited The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley (U. Cal.\, 2014) with Peter Baker and Kaplan Harris.\n\n\n\n\n\nLee Ann Brown was born in Japan and raised in Charlotte\, North Carolina. She is the author of Other Archer (Presses Universitaires de Rouen et du Havre\, 2015)\, In the Laurels\, Caught (Fence Books\, 2013)\, Crowns of Charlotte (Carolina Wren Press\, 2013)\, The Sleep That Changed Everything (Wesleyan\, 2003)\, and Polyverse (Sun & Moon Press\, 1999)\, which won the 1996 New American Poetry Competition. In 1989\, Brown founded Tender Buttons Press\, which is dedicated to publishing experimental women’s poetry. She now lives in New York City\, where she teaches at St. John’s University and curates poetry events through Torn Page.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rod-smith-lee-ann-brown/
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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161020T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161020T210000
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SUMMARY:Bookswap 2.0 w/ Ruth Galm
DESCRIPTION:This October\, we get to come together as book (and booze) lovers once more and dish about our favourite reads. This time around\, we have invited the fabulous local author Ruth Galm\, author of Into the Valley\, to join us! Into the Valley is a spare\, poetic debut novel\, set in the American West of early Joan Didion\, tracing the drifting path of a young woman caught between generations as she skirts the law and her own oppressive anxiety. (Soho Press) \n  \n+++ Bring a book about an escape. As long as you love it\, bring it to Bookswap. You’ll talk about it in groups and hear about the books that other people brought. We’ll drink a bunch of free wine and beer and get to know our guest author. At the end\, we’ll have a big\, rowdy\, white elephant swap\, and you’ll leave with a new favorite (or ten). \n  \n>>> Tickets are $10 and MUST BE purchased in advance. They do sell out! You can purchase them HERE. \n**** Admission includes an open bar\, swag\, and 20% off everything you buy that night.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bookswap-2-0-w-ruth-galm/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:October Cante Jondo Poetry Series
DESCRIPTION:Please join us as we continue to celebrate the deep songs inside of us! We also will be celebrating the birthday of Amalia Alvarez! \nFeaturing:\nAmalia Alvarez\nAlicia Franco\nThea Matthews\nNaomi Quiñonez\nwith flamenco guitar by Gopal Slavonic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/october-cante-jondo-poetry-series/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Writers Grotto Fellow Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an amazing night of readings from the 2016 Grotto Fellows \nChad Koch is a founding editor of Foglifter\, San Francisco’s only queer literary journal. He recently received his MFA from San Francisco State University\, where he was editor-in-chief of Fourteen Hills. His most recent stories were published in The North American Review and Sparkle & Blink. His story\, “Lost Boys” was a semi-finalist for the 2016 Raymond Carver Short Story Award. \nCaleb Leisure received his MFA in Fiction from New York University. In 2011 he was named a NYC Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction\, and in 2014 he won the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize. He works for a small winery in Sonoma County and is at work on his first novel. He lives in Oakland. \nMarissa Ortega-Welch is a freelance radio producer in Oakland\, California. Her stories have aired on NPR’s Latino USA\, KQED\, and KPFA. She is currently the health reporter for KALW Public Radio. She’s also worked for years as a teacher and naturalist and is drawn to stories about the environment\, youth\, and informal economies. \nLisa Marie Rollins is playwright\, poet and freelance director. Most recently she directed a reading of Tearrance Chisholm’s Br’er Cotton (Playwrights Foundation) and is co-Director of Young Jean Lee’s The Shipment (Crowded Fire). She is the director of All Atheists are Muslim by Zahra Noorbakhsh and was co-producer of W. Kamau Bell’s “Ending Racism in About and Hour”. She was Poet in Residence at June Jordan’s Poetry for the People at U.C. Berkeley\, a CALLALOO Journal London Writing Workshop Fellow and an alumni in Poetry of VONA Writing Workshop. Her writing is published in Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out\, River\, Blood\, Corn Literary Journal\, Line/Break\, As/Us Literary Journal\, The Pacific Review and others. Currently\, she is finishing her new manuscript of poems\, Compass for which she received the 2016 Mary Tanenbaum Literary Award from SF Foundation. She is an Adjunct Professor at SFSU in Race and Resistance Studies. Lisa Marie is a 2015-16 member of Just Theater Play Lab and Artist-in-Residence at BRAVA Theater for Women in San Francisco. @thirdrootprod \nKaitlin Solimine’s debut novel\, Empire of Glass\, is forthcoming in Summer 2017 (Ig Publishing). Raised in New England\, she has considered China a second home for two decades. She has received the Yenching scholarship\, Fulbright Fellowship\, and Bread Loaf’s Donald E. Axinn Scholarship. A graduate of Harvard University and the MFA program at UC-San Diego\, she has published fiction and non-fiction in National Geographic News\, The Wall Street Journal\, Guernica Magazine\, Kartika Review\, China Daily\, and numerous anthologies. She recently returned from living in Singapore and now resides in San Francisco where she is co-founder of HIPPO Reads\, a network connecting academic insights to the wider public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-writers-grotto-fellow-reading/
LOCATION:The Grotto\, 490 2nd Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Party for HOUSE A
DESCRIPTION:Happy / over the moon / grateful to invite you to celebrate the publication of my first book\, HOUSE A (Omnidawn Publishing)\, selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize. \nThere will be a reading\, a projector with images\, some form of favorite childhood snacks\, adult drinks\, and of course books for sale! Tell your friends! \nHOUSE A investigates the tones and textures of immigrant home-building by asking: How is the body inscribed with a cosmology of home and vice versa? Through an assemblage of oblique letters to Mao\, incantations of “dream-geometry\,” and image-text experiments\, the book seeks to render the immersive/obscured feeling of a childhood household where the haunting of history blurs with a constellation of sheltering figures\, patterns\, and shadows. With evocative and intellectual precision\, HOUSE A maps a new poetics of American Home\, steeped in longing and rooted by displacement. \nbook // www.jenniferscheng.com/house-a\npoems // http://conjunctions.com/webcon/cheng13.htm\ninterview // http://theconversant.org/?p=10571
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-party-for-house-a/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161022T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161022T170000
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SUMMARY:Jack Spicer chapbook release
DESCRIPTION:SPECT books will be releasing a chapbook of an unncollected piece of Jack Spicer prose titled “The Wasp. Featured reading by Daniel Benjamin who wrote an afterward for the text. \nAND \nOmnidawn publishing will be releasing a new book of poetry entitled “The Field” by Robert Andrew Perez. He will be reading from the book!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jack-spicer-chapbook-release/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161022T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161022T213000
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SUMMARY:André Alexis
DESCRIPTION:Praise for André Alexis: \n“A novel about a pack of talking dogs\, you say? The very idea will most likely breed thoughts of insufferable whimsy\, like those paintings of mutts playing poker\, or of more or less effective satire\, in the vein of Animal Farm. It’s a grand thing\, then\, that this spry novel by Canadian André Alexis spends its 160 pages repeatedly defying expectations … I’m far from being a dog person\, but as a book person I loved this smart\, exuberant fantasy from start to finish.” – — Jonathan Gibbs\, The Guardian\, on Fifteen Dogs \n\n“Over the course of this novel\, slim yet epic in scope\, Alexis chronicles the fates of these strangely afflicted beasts\, shifting from thought experiment to comic parable to something more delicate\, laden with detail\, discovery and emotional nuance.” — The Globe & Mail on Fifteen Dogs \n\n“A remarkable book. Insightful\, wildly original and beautiful. Buy it.” — Mark Medley\, Books Editor at The Globe & Mail\, on Fifteen Dogs \nAbout The Hidden Keys: \nParkdale’s Green Dolphin is a bar of ill repute\, and it is there that Tancred Palmieri\, a thief with elegant and erudite tastes\, meets Willow Azarian\, an aging heroin addict. She reveals to Tancred that her very wealthy father has recently passed away\, leaving each of his five children a mysterious object that provides one clue to the whereabouts of a large inheritance. Willow enlists Tancred to steal these objects from her siblings and help her solve the puzzle. \n  \nA Japanese screen\, a painting that plays music\, a bottle of aquavit\, a framed poem and a model of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater: Tancred is lured in to this beguiling quest\, and even though Willow dies before the puzzle is solved\, he presses on. \n  \nAs he tracks down the treasure\, he must enlist the help of Alexander von Wurfel\, conceptual artist and taxidermist to the wealthy\, and fend off Willow’s heroin dealers\, a young albino named ‘Nigger’ Colby and his sidekick\, Sigismund ‘Freud’ Luxemburg\, a clubfooted psychopath\, both of whom are eager to get their hands on this supposed pot of gold. And he must mislead Detective Daniel Mandelshtam\, his most adored friend. \n  \nInspired by a reading of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island\, The Hidden Keys questions what it means to be honorable\, what it means to be faithful and what it means to sin.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andre-alexis/
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:Michael Krasny + Calvin Trillin
DESCRIPTION:Humorist and long-time New Yorker staff writer CALVIN TRILLIN\, is a beloved humorist and chronicler of culture. This year\, Trillin published two new books: Jackson\, 1964\, a career-spanning collection of articles on race and racism\, from the 1960s to the present; and No Fair! No Fair\, a children’s book illustrated by Maira Kalman. Though his writing about food began as comic relief from his more serious pieces\, it has earned him a dedicated readership and has been collected in three books including American Fried\, Alice Let’s Eat\, and Third Helpings. Trillin’s other works include Messages From My Father; Remembering Denny\, and About Alice. \nMICHAEL KRASNY is a Professor of English and American Literature and author of the books\, Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life and Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic’s Search. Since 1993 he has been the host of “Forum\,” a news and public affairs interview program produced at KQED Radio. In his new book\, Let There be Laughter\, Krasny pairs the most iconic Jewish jokes with wise and entertaining explanations\, illuminating the cultural expressions and anxieties behind the laughs. \nSteven Winn spent 28 years at the San Francisco Chronicle\, the last six as Art and Culture Critic. He is the author of the memoir\, Come Back\, Como\, and his work has appeared in California\, Good Housekeeping\, and Sports Illustrated\, among other publications. His many past interviews for City Arts & Lectures include John Updike\, Tina Fey\, Orhan Pamuk\, and Sally Mann.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-krasny-calvin-trillin/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161024T193000
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SUMMARY:Elliot Weinberger + Stephen Sparks
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Eliot Weinberger: \n“One remains in silent amazement: How does he find these stories? How does he know everything?” —Die Zeit \n\n“His essays are dense collages of magical facts that make me ecstatic every time I read them.” —Sam Anderson\, The New York Times \n\n“As is often the case with brilliant writers\, an Eliot Weinberger sentence cannot be mistaken for that of anyone else.” —Will Heyward\, Australian Book Review \n\n“The brilliant net of details that Weinberger casts and recasts in his various inventive approaches to form is precisely what constitutes a superlative poetic imagination. And it’s what holds the essays—and us—trembling and raging and hallucinating together.” —Forrest Gander \n\n“Our personal favorite for the Nobel Prize.” —Rolling Stone (Germany)\n. \nAbout The Ghosts of Birds: \nThe Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay\, An Elemental Thing\, which pulls the reader into a “vortex for the entire universe” (Boston Review). Here\, Weinberger chronicles a nineteenth-century journey down the Colorado River\, records the dreams of people named Chang\, and shares other factually verifiable discoveries that seem too fabulous to possibly be true. The second section collects Weinberger’s essays on a wide range of subjects some of which have been published in Harper’s\, New York Review of Books\, and London Review of Books including his notorious review of George W. Bush’s memoir Decision Points and writings about Mongolian art and poetry\, different versions of the Buddha\, American Indophilia (There is a line\, however jagged\, from pseudo-Hinduism to Malcolm X )\, Bela Balazs\, Herbert Read\, and Charles Reznikoff. This collection proves once again that Weinberger is “one of the bravest and sharpest minds in the United States” (Javier Marias).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elliot-weinberger-stephen-sparks/
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:Nina Serrano + Tongo Eisen-Martin
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\, David Meltzer\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11 (www.friendssfpl.org/Poets11). \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact friend’s Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nina-serrano-tongo-eisen-martin/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Gina Berriault Award Reading ft. Suzanne Rivecca
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the winner of the 2016 Gina Berriault Award: Suzanne Rivecca. Rivecca’s short story collection\, Death is Not an Option (W.W. Norton & Company 2010)\, has been lauded by the San Francisco Chronicle as “ferociously intelligent.” \nThe Gina Berriault Award was inaugurated by Peter Orner in conjunction with Fourteen Hills Press to pay homage to the eponymous writer\, a former SFSU professor who with every story embodied a certain selflessness and unflinching compassion. The award is given annually to a writer with a similar spirit who has shown a love for storytelling and a commitment to helping young writers. \nSuzanne Rivecca was raised in West Michigan. Her first book\, Death is Not an Option\, was a finalist for The Story Prize\, the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award\, the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award\, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award. NPR said of the collection that: “[Rivecca’s] talent allows her to impressively flex the muscle of fiction\, making us keep our attention where it belongs—on these bracing stories promising a fine career.” Rivecca is the recipient of the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and writing fellowships from Stanford University\, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her short stories have received two Pushcart Prizes and inclusion in Best American Short Stories 2013.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gina-berriault-award-reading-ft-suzanne-rivecca/
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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161025T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161025T213000
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SUMMARY:Literary Pop October Special!
DESCRIPTION:7pm Doors 8pm Show! \nLiterary Pop is back! The show where\, writeres\, storytellers and comedians tackle their pop culture obsessions is appropriately themed this month with each of our writers tackling a different monster\, villain or horror theme! \nThis month we’ll bring you: \nAnnalee Newitz on Kaiju!\nKristee Ono on Harley Quinn!\nTshaka Menelik Imhotep Campbell on American Horror Story!\nCasey Childers on John Carpenter’s The Thing!\nWonder Dave on Night of the Living Dead and Dark Shadows!\nChaser Juggs on Snidely Whiplash! \nNatasha Muse on Satan! \nTickets are $9 in advance or $12 at the door! \nHope to see you for this very spooky Literary Pop!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-pop-october-special/
LOCATION:Doc’s Lab\, 124 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Lethem
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling author Jonathan Lethem returns with A Gambler’s Anatomy\, a devilishly entertaining novel about an international backgammon hustler who’s convinced he’s psychic—or is it just a brain tumor? Bruno Alexander has traveled the world winning fortune and fame with his mysterious\, even uncanny talent. But when a dark blot begins to distort his vision\, he must return to California for the experimental surgery that might save his life. Amidst the pseudo-radical chaos of the Berkeley scene and a succession of femme fatales and scheming false friends\, Bruno must come to terms with the fact that his luck may have finally run out. \nJonathan Lethem is the New York Times bestselling author of nine novels\, including Dissident Gardens\, The Fortress of Solitude\, and Motherless Brooklyn; three short story collections; and two essay collections\, including The Ecstasy of Influence\, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction\, Lethem’s work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Harper’s Magazine\, Rolling Stone\, Esquire\, and The New York Times\, among other publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jonathan-lethem/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161025T193000
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SUMMARY:Ibram X. Kendi
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Stamped from the Beginning: \n“Ibram Kendi is an important new voice in African American intellectual and social history. This book\, an intellectual history of racist ideas\, promises to break important new ground for scholarly and general audiences interested in the construction of racism in America.” —Peniel E. Joseph\, author of Stokely: A Life and Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour \n\n“Both a penetrating treatise and a wonderfully accessible work of intellectual history\, Stamped from the Beginning reveals the heritage of ideas behind the modern dialectic of race-denial and race-obsession. By historicizing our entrenched logic of racial difference\, Kendi shows why “I don’t see color” and other professions of post-racialism remain inexorable alibis for white supremacy. Stamped from the Beginning has done the cause of anti-racism a great service.” —Russell Rickford\, Assistant Professor\, Cornell University\, and author of We Are an African People: Independent Education\, Black Power\, and the Radical Imagination \n\n“Richly sourced and engaging\, Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning is a highly accessible yet provocative study that seeks to complicate our understanding of racist ideas and the forces that produce them.” —Yohuru Williams\, Professor of History and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences\, Fairfield University \n\nAbout Stamped from the Beginning: \nAmericans like to insist that we are living in a postracial\, color-blind society. In fact\, racist thought is alive and well; it has simply become more sophisticated and more insidious. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in “Stamped from the Beginning\,” racist ideas in this country have a long and lingering history\, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit.\nIn this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative\, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti Black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. “Stamped from the Beginning” uses the lives of five major American intellectuals to offer a window into the contentious debates between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and antiracists. From Puritan minister Cotton Mather to Thomas Jefferson\, from fiery abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison to brilliant scholar W. E. B. Du Bois to legendary anti prison activist Angela Davis\, Kendi shows how and why some of our leading proslavery and procivil rights thinkers have challenged or helped cement racist ideas in America.\nAs Kendi provocatively illustrates\, racist thinking did not arise from ignorance or hatred. Racist ideas were created and popularized in an effort to defend deeply entrenched discriminatory policies and to rationalize the nation’s racial inequities in everything from wealth to health. While racist ideas are easily produced and easily consumed\, they can also be discredited. In shedding much needed light on the murky history of racist ideas\, “Stamped from the Beginning” offers us the tools we need to expose them and in the process\, gives us reason to hope.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ibram-x-kendi/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161026T213000
DTSTAMP:20260428T071510
CREATED:20160901T230321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160901T230321Z
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SUMMARY:Brit Benett
DESCRIPTION:Praise for The Mothers: \n“Brit Bennett is the real thing. The Mothers is a stellar novel — moving\, thoughtful. Stunning. I couldn’t put it down. I’m so excited to have this brilliant new voice in the world.”  –Jacqueline Woodson\, National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming  and Another Brooklyn \n“Brit Bennett’s masterful debut is brimming with unforgettable scenes and the sort of keenly-observed\, precise language that makes you look at your own relationships anew. Told with the wisdom of a seasoned\, compassionate storyteller\, The Mothers is a novel about community\, friendship\, grief and growth. The two women at the center of this novel are characters you will find yourself thinking about long after you’ve turned the last page– they pull you in close and never let you go. Bennett is a brilliant and much-needed new voice in literature.” –Angela Flournoy\, author of National Book Award-finalist The Turner House\n \n“Brit Bennett’s The Mothers is an engaging and assured debut novel of depth\, and introspective power. It succeeds as a brilliant study of a modern black woman\, and as a lyrical and majestic portrait of her place in society.” —Chigozie Obioma\, author of The Fishermen \n\n“Conveys the complexities and challenges of young love with refreshing honesty and beautiful sentences. I cared about Brit Bennett’s characters\, and the choices they made\, and couldn’t stop reading this remarkable debut.” –Vendela Vida\, author of The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty \n\nAbout The Mothers: \nA dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice\, “The Mothers “is a surprising story about young love\, a big secret in a small community and the things that ultimately haunt us most.\nSet within a contemporary black community in Southern California\, Brit Bennett’s mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community\, love\, and ambition. It begins with a secret.\n“All good secrets have a taste before you tell them\, and if we’d taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths\, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret\, plucked too soon\, stolen and passed around before its season.”\nIt is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner\, a rebellious\, grief-stricken\, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother’s recent suicide\, she takes up with the local pastor’s son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one\, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it’s not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance and the subsequent cover-up will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth. As Nadia hides her secret from everyone\, including Aubrey\, her God-fearing best friend\, the years move quickly. Soon\, Nadia\, Luke\, and Aubrey are full-fledged adults and still living in debt to the choices they made that one seaside summer\, caught in a love triangle they must carefully maneuver\, and dogged by the constant\, nagging question: What if they had chosen differently? The possibilities of the road not taken are a relentless haunt.\nIn entrancing\, lyrical prose\, “The Mothers “asks whether a “what if” can be more powerful than an experience itself. If\, as time passes\, we must always live in servitude to the decisions of our younger selves\, to the communities that have parented us\, and to the decisions we make that shape our lives forever.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brit-benett/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161026T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161026T213000
DTSTAMP:20260428T071510
CREATED:20161018T002159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T002159Z
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SUMMARY:USF MFA Faculty Reading
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the fall MFA in Writing Faculty Reading featuring the work of: \nLaleh Khadivi\, author of the novels The Age of Orphans and The Walking. Honors include the Whiting Award\, Barnes and Noble Discover New Writers Award\, NEA Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. \nDave Madden\, author of the story collection\, If You Need Me I’ll Be Over There and The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy\, a nonfiction book. Bernard DeVoto Fellow in Nonfiction at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Tennessee Williams Scholar in Fiction at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. \nD.A. Powell\, author of the poetry collections Cocktails and Chronic\, both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry\, and Useless Landscape\, or A Guide for Boys\, winner of the  2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. Recipient of Kingsley Tufts Prize\, the Pushcart Prize\, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. \nSusan Steinberg\, author of the short story collections The End of Free Love\, Hydroplane\, and Spectacle. Recipient of a United States Artists Ziporyn Fellowship in Literature and a Pushcart Prize. \nFree and open to the public. Reception to follow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/usf-mfa-faculty-reading/
LOCATION:FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, USF\, 2130 Fulton St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161027T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161027T203000
DTSTAMP:20260428T071510
CREATED:20161018T004501Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T004501Z
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SUMMARY:Geneva Chao + Mg Roberts
DESCRIPTION:Genève/Geneva Chao has a B.A. In French Translation and Literature from Barnard College and an MA/MFA from San Francisco State University’s Creative Writing program. Her poems and translations have been published in Boxkite\, Can We Have Our Ball Back?\, (Satellite) Telephone\, n/a literary journal\, New American Writing\, DIAGRAM\, the L.A. Telephone Book\, and others. Her book one of us is wave one of us is shore (Otis Books | Seismicity Editions\, 2016) was also a finalist for the Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. Her translations of Gérard Cartier’s Tristran and Nicolas Tardy’s (with François Luong) Encrusted on the Living have appeared from [lx] press\, where she is an editor. She has twice been a Tamaas resident for work on the intersectionality of language/poetry and dance/the body. Her book Hillary Is Dreaming is forthcoming from Make Now Books.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMg Roberts is a teacher\, poet\, and multimedia artist. She’s currently co-editing an anthology on the urgency of avant-garde writing written for and by writers of color entitled Responses\, New writing\, Flesh. She is a Kelsey Street Press member and the Northern California Kundiman Co-chair. She lives in Oakland with her three daughters\, two hens\, Goldendoodle\, and geologist husband. Her second poetry collection Anemal\, Uter Meck is forthcoming in 2017 from Black Radish Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/geneva-chao-mg-roberts/
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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161027T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161027T213000
DTSTAMP:20260428T071510
CREATED:20160922T000532Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160922T000532Z
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SUMMARY:Patrick Hoffman w/ Oscar Villalon
DESCRIPTION:Patrick Hoffman follows up his sensational debutThe White Van with Every Man A Menace\, the inside story of an increasingly ruthless ecstasy-smuggling ring. San Francisco is about to receive the biggest delivery of MDMA to hit the West Coast in years. Fresh from prison\, Raymond Gaspar follows his imprisoned boss’s orders to check on their once-reliable buyers and distributors\, but quickly finds himself caught in a web of backstabbing and deceit. Stretching from the Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia to the Golden Gate of San Francisco\,Every Man A Menace offers an unflinching account of the making\, moving\, and selling of the drug known as Molly—happiness sold by the brick and paid for with bloodshed and betrayal. \nPatrick will be in conversation with Oscar Villalon\, managing editor of ZYZZVA\, former books editor at the San Francisco Chronicle\, and a member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle. His writing has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review and The Believer. \nPatrick Hoffman is a writer and private investigator based in Brooklyn. His first novel\, The White Van\, was a finalist for the Crime Writers’ Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and was named aWall Street Journal Best Book of the Year. He was born in San Francisco and lived there for half his life\, working as an investigator\, both privately and at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patrick-hoffman-w-oscar-villalon/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161027T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161027T230000
DTSTAMP:20260428T071510
CREATED:20161018T005238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T005238Z
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SUMMARY:YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: WHEN THEY DIED
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die Presents…\nWHEN THEY DIED\n– an evening of stories & music –\n[about those we’ve lost & how we lost them] \nThursday\, October 27th\nSwedish American Hall\nDoors at 7:00pm\nShow at 8:00pm\nTickets at https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1334761\n$15 in advance and at the door. \nFeauturing some of You’re Going to Die’s favorites: \nAvi Vinocur [of Goodnight\, Texas]\nAndrew Blair\nMichelle Murphy\nEd Wolf\nMorgan Bolender\nScott Ferreter\nChelsea Coleman\nKat Marie Yoas\nAngela Hennessy \nYou’re Going to Die is a communal exploration of death & dying\, one driven by creativity\, fueled by arts & entertainment\, writing & music\, interviews & stories\, through any means & all social forums available\, but always with the continued commitment to bring people creatively into the conversation of death & dying\, while helping to inspire & empower out of an unabashed embrace of our losses & mortality…
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-when-they-died/
LOCATION:Swedish American Hall\, 2174 Market Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161028T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161028T190000
DTSTAMP:20260428T071510
CREATED:20160922T001125Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160922T001125Z
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SUMMARY:Hannah Hart
DESCRIPTION:Hannah Hart\, the wildly popular YouTube personality and author of theNew York Times bestseller My Drunk Kitchen\, is back! This time\, she’s stirring up memories and tales from her past. \nBy combing through the journals that Hannah’s kept for much of her life\, this collection of narrative essays deliver a fuller picture of her life\, her experiences\, and the things she’s figured out about family\, faith\, love\, sexuality\, self-worth\, friendship and fame. \nRevealing what makes Hannah tick\, this sometimes cringe-worthy\, poignant collection of stories is sure to deliver plenty of Hannah’s wit and wisdom\, and hopefully encourage you to try your hand at her patented brand of reckless optimism. \nTickets: $26\, includes a copy of Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded(tax included). \nOnly copies of Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded or My Drunk Kitchen purchased through Booksmith will be signed. One ticket admits only one person into the signing line\, no exceptions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hannah-hart/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161028T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161028T200000
DTSTAMP:20260428T071510
CREATED:20161018T000500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T000500Z
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SUMMARY:Dave Eggers\, Master Writer in Residence
DESCRIPTION:Dave Eggers is the author of The Circle; A Hologram for the King (a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award); and Your Fathers\, Where are They? as well as the Prophets\, and Do They Live Forever? (short-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award). \nHe is the founder of the publishing house McSweeney’s and co-founder of Voice of Witness\, a series of books using oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. \nHe is the co-founder of educational nonprofits 826 National and ScholarMatch and was the 2015 Amnesty International chair. \nAbout the Writers Series\nCCA’s MFA Program in Writing proudly offers the Writers Series\, a year-round literary series that features a continuum of talented\, successful\, and\, in many cases\, world-renowned writers and poets. \nThe series is both a curricular requirement (Friday Seminar) for our first-year graduate students and an integral part of the college’s celebrated public programs schedule. \nAll events are free and open to the public. Unless otherwise noted in the event listing\, events are held from 4:30 to 6 p.m at the CCA Writers’ Studio.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dave-eggers-master-writer-in-residence/
LOCATION:Timken Lecture Hall\, CCA San Francisco Campus\, 1111 Eighth Street \, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161028T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161028T203000
DTSTAMP:20260428T071510
CREATED:20161018T233422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T233422Z
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SUMMARY:Queer Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:BARUCH PORRAS-HERNANDEZ When he’s not hosting the SFQOM Porras-Hernandez is a writer and performer. His poetry appears in Aim for the Head  an anthology of zombie poetry (Write Bloody Publishing)\, Divining Divas 100 Poems by Gay Men on Their Muses (Lethe Press)\, Flicker and Spark Queer Poetry Anthology (Low Brow Press) and Tandem an anthology of the LitSlam contest winners for 2012 (Bicycle Comics Press). He has performed as a feature in Washington D.C.\, New York City\, Canada and all over California. Porras-Hernandez holds a Bachelor Arts in Theatre Arts\, Drama concentration from Sonoma State University. He was born in Toluca\, Mexico. \nBLYTHE BALDWIN is a performance poet\, storyteller\, and visual artist. Hailing from the Bay Area\, she attended Pitzer college where she created her own major: Narrative Arts. Blythe has performed her poetry on air with KPFA and has been televised on KCSM’s The Bay Today. She has performed spoken word at The Berkeley Poetry Slam\, The Oakland Poetry Slam\, The VettedWord Showcase\, Return to The Tender Nob: Home Theater Festival\, Califia Festival\, K’vestch Queer Open Mic\, Bawdy Storytelling\, Punk Blood Bath 2.0\, Life With Laughter\, That’s What She Said\, and The Golden Pussy Posse Show part of The International Home Theatre Festival. She has been a featured artist at The San Francisco Queer Open Mic and Modesto’s Slam on Rye. Blythe competed as a semi-finalist for the 2011 Berkeley Poetry Slam Season. She spends her days working in media production and by night writes poetry and draws comics.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queer-open-mic/
LOCATION:Modern Times Bookstore Collective\, 2919 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161028T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161028T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T071510
CREATED:20160922T001308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160922T001308Z
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SUMMARY:Breathe between the Beats
DESCRIPTION:Breathe Between The Beats\n– An evening of The Beats poets and the Zen of Haiku poetry \nFeaturing\nAMOS WHITE\nHaiku Poet & Author \nwith featured Guests and Beat poets:\nClive Matson\, Jack Foley with Helen Wendy Loo\,\nMary Holman\, and Andrew O. Dugas. \nFriday\, October 28\, 2016\nat The Beat Museum\n540 Broadway\, San Francisco\, CA\n7-9pm \nHear award winning Haiku poet and author\,\nAmos White’s breathless interpretations\nand vivid haiku with those of\nAllen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. \nFriday\, October 28 at The Beat Museum in San Francisco’s North Beach District.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/breathe-between-the-beats/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161030T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161030T170000
DTSTAMP:20260428T071510
CREATED:20161025T011644Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161025T011644Z
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SUMMARY:37th Annual American Book Awards
DESCRIPTION:The Before Columbus Foundation announces the\nThirty-Seventh Annual\nAMERICAN BOOK AWARDS\nCeremonies\, October 30\, 2016\, 2:00–5:00 p.m. \nThe 2016 American Book Award winners will be formally recognized on Sunday\, October 30th from 2:00-5:00 p.m. at the SF Jazz Center\, Joe Henderson Lab\, 201 Franklin Street (at Fell)\, San Francisco\, CA. This event is open to the public. \nThe American Book Awards were created to provide recognition for outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America’s diverse literary community. The purpose of the awards is to recognize literary excellence without limitations or restrictions. There are no categories\, no nominees\, and therefore no losers. The award winners range from well-known and established writers to under-recognized authors and first works. There are no quotas for diversity\, the winners list simply reflects it as a natural process. The Before Columbus Foundation views American culture as inclusive and has always considered the term “multicultural” to be not a description of various categories\, groups\, or “special interests\,” but rather as the definition of all of American literature. The Awards are not bestowed by an industry organization\, but rather are a writers’ award given by other writers. \nThe 2016 American Book Award Winners are: \nLaura Da’\nTributaries (University of Arizona) \nSusan Muaddi Darraj\nCurious Land: Stories from Home (University of Massachusetts) \nDeepa Iyer\nWe Too Sing America:\nSouth Asian\, Arab\, Muslim\, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future (The New Press) \nMat Johnson\nLoving Day (Spiegel & Grau) \nJohn Keene\nCounternarratives (New Directions) \nWilliam J. Maxwell\nF.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature\n(Princeton University) \nLauret Savoy\nTrace: Memory\, History\, Race\, and the American Landscape (Counterpoint) \nNed Sublette and Constance Sublette\nThe American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry (Lawrence Hill Books) \nJesús Salvador Treviño\nReturn to Arroyo Grande (Arte Público) \nNick Turse\nTomorrow’s Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa (Haymarket Books) \nRay Young Bear\nManifestation Wolverine: The Collected Poetry of Ray Young Bear (Open Road Integrated Media) \nLifetime Achievement:\nLouise Meriwether \nWalter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award:\nLyra Monteiro and Nancy Isenberg \nAndrew Hope Award:\nChiitaanibah Johnson
URL:https://litseen.com/event/37th-annual-american-book-awards/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161030T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161030T200000
DTSTAMP:20260428T071510
CREATED:20160901T230959Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160901T230959Z
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SUMMARY:Andrés Neuman
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Andrés Neuman: \n“Good readers will find something that can be found only in great literature\, the kind written by real poets\, a literature that dares to venture into the dark with open eyes and that keeps its eyes open no matter what . . . . The literature of the twenty-first century will belong to Andrés Neuman and a few of his blood brothers.” — Roberto Bolano \n\nAbout How to Travel Without Seeing: \nA kaleidoscopic\, fast-paced tour of Latin America from one of the Spanish-speaking world’s most outstanding writers. \nLamenting not having more time to get to know each of the nineteen countries he visits after winning the prestigious Premio Alfaguara\, Andres Neuman begins to suspect that world travel consists mostly of not seeing. But then he realizes that the fleeting nature of his trip provides him with a unique opportunity: touring and comparing every country of Latin America in a single stroke. Neuman writes on the move\, generating a kinetic work that is at once puckish and poetic\, aphoristic and brimming with curiosity. Even so-called non-places airports\, hotels\, taxis are turned into powerful symbols full of meaning. A dual Argentine-Spanish citizen\, he incisively explores cultural identity and nationality\, immigration and globalization\, history and language\, and turbulent current events. Above all\, Neuman investigates the artistic lifeblood of Latin America\, tackling with gusto not only literary heavyweights such as Bolano\, Vargas Llosa\, Lorca\, and Galeano\, but also an emerging generation of authors and filmmakers whose impact is now making ripples worldwide. \n  \nEye-opening and charmingly offbeat\, “How to Travel without Seeing: Dispatches from the New Latin America” is essential reading for anyone interested in the past\, present\, and future of the Americas.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andres-neuman/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161102T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161102T203000
DTSTAMP:20260428T071510
CREATED:20161019T000444Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161019T000444Z
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SUMMARY:Am I Alone Here?: Peter Orner's San Francisco Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Catapult celebrates the release of Peter Orner’s AM I ALONE HERE? with a reading and conversation with Peter Orner and award-winning journalist and radio producer Julia Scott at Booksmith\, Wednesday\, November 2nd\, 7:30pm. Join us! \nhttp://books.catapult.co/products/am-i-alone-here \n“This book\, thank god\, defies any category. It’s partly an ode to reading\, partly a memoir of Chicago and family\, partly a travelogue\, and often it’s all of these things in one four-page essay. Orner reads Cheever in Albania\, thinks about Salinger in Haiti\, salutes his father from a taqueria in San Francisco. Although some will want to dive in randomly and skip around\, reading these exquisite essays in order allows the book to develop a momentum and cumulative power that sneaks up on you and knocks you back.” —Dave Eggers \n“Orner\, a distinguished fiction writer\, appears here as a devoted book lover\, inviting the reader to an intimate and friendly book group of two. . . . Readers will be delighted to join him\, grab one of the stories he delves into\, and enjoy his company.” —Publishers Weekly \n“AM I ALONE HERE? [is] the most beautiful\, moving book I’ve read in a very long time\, and I’ll use any opportunity to mention it. . . . I encourage anyone who loves reading\, I mean who truly loves reading\, to immediately go to a bookshop and demand a copy.” —Alexander Maksik\, author of SHELTER IN PLACE\, in THE HUFFINGTON POST
URL:https://litseen.com/event/am-i-alone-here-peter-orners-san-francisco-book-launch/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161103T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161103T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T071510
CREATED:20161019T000639Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161019T000639Z
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck: Stephen King’s PET SEMATARY
DESCRIPTION:GET READY FOR THE RETURN OF STEPHEN KINGTOBER. This year\, we take on Pet Sematary one month late\, upon our triumphant return from New York Comic Con. \nFeatured writers: Amanda Rosenberg\, Kathleen Miller\, Jamie Real\, Lauren Wheeler\, Nicole Love\, and Elaine Gavin. \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event. \nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on the first Thursday of every month at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco. \nFics are blind-read by our Thespian-in-Residence\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and you choose the best ship before the writers are unmasked. The winner is cast off from polite society\, and invited back the next month to defend their title. \nCritics are saying:\n“… the most despicable literary event possible.”\n“… an affront to literature.”\n“It used to be we had to sit in dark\, sticky booths to get these kinds of sleazy thrills.”\n“Come if you are high on marijuana cigarettes and have done sex before.”\n“… a vile\, disgusting event.””Shipwreck will bring you to madness\, and you may never return.”\n“…wonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting.”\n“…punny sodomy and gross indecency.” \n— \nPLEASE NOTE: No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. We’re not dicks\, we just like dick jokes. \nShipwreck tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable for any reason.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-stephen-kings-pet-sematary/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161103T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161103T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T071510
CREATED:20161025T012050Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161025T012050Z
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SUMMARY:Carolina De Robertis + Micah Perks
DESCRIPTION:Carolina De Robertis is the author of internationally best-selling novels that have been translated into 17 languages. The Invisible Mountain received Italy’s Rhegium Julii Prize and was a finalist for a California Book Award\, an International Latino Book Award and the VCU Cabell First Novel Award. It was also named a best book of the year by Booklist\, O – The Oprah Magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle\, among others. The Gods of Tango received a Stonewall Book Award from the American Library Association and was named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and NBC Latino. De Robertis is the recipient of a 2012 Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is also the translator of two Latin American novels\, and her literary translations have appeared in Granta\, Zoetrope: All-Story\, McSweeney’s and elsewhere. \nMicah Perks is the author of a novel\, We Are Gathered Here; a memoir\, Pagan Time; and a long personal essay\, Alone In The Woods: Cheryl Strayed\, My Daughter and Me. Her short stories and essays have won five Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in Epoch\, Zyzzyva\, Tin House\, The Toast\, OZY and The Rumpus\, amongst many journals and anthologies. Excerpts of What Becomes Us won a National Endowment for the Arts grant and The New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. Perks received her Bachelor of Arts and Master Fine Arts from Cornell University and now co-directs the creative writing program at University of California\, Santa Cruz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carolina-de-robertis-micah-perks/
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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