Robert Reich: Fighting for the Common Good
2018-03-02 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | Commonwealth Club of California, 110 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA, 94105, United States
Robert Reich, Chancellor’s Professor and Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Public Policy, UC Berkeley; Former U.S. Secretary of Labor under President Clinton; Author, The Common Good
Robert Reich is one of the most beloved and influential voices in progressive politics today. In his new book, The Common Good, the former Secretary of Labor, and professor of Public Policy at U.C. Berkeley contends that America has trapped itself in a vicious cycle of “whatever it takes” that has left us more divided than ever. As a result, Americans are experiencing an erosion of trust in our media, the largest income inequality in modern history, and the resurgence of nationalist movements and racist rhetoric.
Yet despite this political bickering, Reich argues this cycle can—and must—be reversed. He believes that Americans should focus on our shared ideals and values, rather than what divides us. Join us as Robert Reich visits The Commonwealth Club to discuss The Common Good, and how we can work together to create a stronger future for all.
Reich will discuss his belief that “the political class is beholden to special interests who demand unsustainable spending, and that the unfunded liability crisis can be solved if we unshackle the engines of economic growth.”
Location: 110 The Embarcadero, Taube Family Auditorium, San Francisco
Time: 5:30 p.m. check in, 6:30 p.m. program, 7:30 p.m. book signing
Notes: Each ticket includes a copy of Robert Reich’s new book, The Common Good. Reich photo by Delaney Inamine
All ticket sales are final and nonrefundable.

Caroline Goodwin / The Paper Tree
2018-03-02 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | The Booksmith, 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, 94117, United States
Booksmith hosts an evening of poetry and conversation with Caroline Goodwin (The Paper Tree) and Linda Norton (The Public Gardens). Please join us for this special Friday evening event!

The poems in The Paper Tree are redolent in sound and rich in the details of place. Caroline Goodwin deeply knows these landscapes of which she writes, goat hair and fireweed and cedar. She spins words with such velocity and cunning that the poems weave a spell. One arrives out the other side wild with rainwater and moss, mussel shells and lupine. This is not a collection to read once, but to savor and return to again and again.
– Erin Coughlin Hollowell, author of Pause, Traveler

The Paper Tree is a brave, luminous, and beautifully wrought book “where the need to name the shape / does not even exist / and nothing can be pinned / down or held as evidence.” It begins with stems and stones, death and beads. Then Goodwin takes us deep into a teeming world characterized by perhaps, where tiny gold frogs hop away and leave a cool sheen on the arms (“A kind of sleeve”) and medicine grows in the rushes. Ultimately, the edges of that mythic landscape blur into the relentlessly technological, political, and embattled present. But when we finally enter the familiar world (of radiation, mass-incarceration, and friend requests), we do so with a broadened sense of these key particulars: mother, father, daughter, sister, ghost.”
– Chiyuma Elliott, author of California Winter League and Vigil

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Caroline Goodwin was born and raised in Alaska and moved to California in 1999 to attend Stanford as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry. She is also the author of Kodiak Herbal (MaCaHu Press, 2008), Text Me, Ishmael (Literary Pocket Book Series #2, 2012), Trapline(JackLeg Press, 2013) and Peregrine (Finishing Line Press, 2015). She lives in the Bay Area and teaches at California College of the Arts and the Stanford Writer’s Studio. From 2014 – 2016 she served as the first Poet Laureate of San Mateo County, CA.

Linda Norton is the author of a chapbook, Hesitation Kit (EtherDome), and a book, The Public Gardens: Poems and History (Pressed Wafer; introduction by Fanny Howe), a finalist for an LA Times Book Prize in 2012. Her second book, Wite-Out, is scheduled for publication this year. She is also a visual artist. Her collages have appeared on the covers of books by Claudia Rankine, Julie Carr, and others, and were exhibited in Ireland in 2014 at the Dock Arts Centre, courtesy of a grant from the U. S. Embassy in Dublin. In 2017 Linda became a citizen of Ireland/EU. You can find collages, reviews, interviews, and excerpts from her books at thepublicgardens.blogspot.com.

Writers and Wine: 16th Annual MFA Scholarship Fund Benefit
2018-03-03 17:30 - 19:30 UTC | Dolby Chadwick Gallery, 210 Post Street, Suite 205, San Francisco, CA, 94108, United States
A tasting of wines paired with writers, Karen Joy Fowler, Chang-Rae Lee, Forrest Gander and more TBA. Emceed by Lysley Tenorio, MFA Director and Tara McDonald, Wine Director, Prospect SF.

Evening Timeline:
5:30pm: Champagne reception with music by Alex Kelly
6:00pm: Wine tasting and readings
6:30pm: Raffle tickets available to purchase and break
6:45pm: Wine tasting and readings
7:15pm: Raffle
7:30pm: Evening concludes

Chang-rae Lee is the author of five novels: Native Speaker (1995); A Gesture Life (1999); Aloft (2004); The Surrendered, which was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and On Such a Full Sea (2014) which was a Finalist for the NBCC and won the Heartland Fiction Prize. His novels have won numerous awards and citations, including the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, the American Book Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, ALA Notable Book of the Year Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Literary Award, the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, and the NAIBA Book Award for Fiction. He has also written stories and articles for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Time (Asia), Granta, Conde Nast Traveler, Food & Wine, and many other publications.

Karen Joy Fowler is the author of six novels and three short story collections including We are all completely beside ourselves. The Jane Austen Book Club spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s previous novel, Sister Noon, was a finalist for the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Her debut novel, Sarah Canary, was a New York Times Notable Book, as was her second novel, The Sweetheart Season. In addition, Sarah Canary won the Commonwealth medal for best first novel by a Californian, and was listed for the Irish Times International Fiction Prize as well as the Bay Area Book Reviewers Prize. Fowler lives in Santa Cruz, California.

Forrest Gander, a writer and translator with degrees in geology and literature, was born in the Mojave Desert and lives in Petaluma, CA. Gander’s book Core Samples from the World, a meditation on the ways we are revised and translated in encounters with the foreign, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Among his recent titles are the novel The Trace, and two translations: Then Come Back: the Lost Neruda Poems and Alice, Iris, Red Horse: Selected Poems of Gozo Yoshimasu. Be With, his first book of poems since 2011, is forthcoming in 2018 from New Directions.

Lysley Tenorio’s stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares, Manoa, and The Best New American Voices and Pushcart Prize anthologies. A Whiting Writer’s Award winner and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he has received fellowships from the University of Wisconsin, Phillips Exeter Academy, Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Born in the Philippines, Lysley currently lives in San Francisco, and is an associate professor at Saint Mary’s College of California.

Wines from Caymus Vineyards, Ordinaire Wine Shop. Beer from Lagunitas Brewery.

Babylon Salon Spring Reading
2018-03-03 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | The Armory Club, 1799 Mission St, San Francisco, CA, 94103, United States
New York Times bestselling author
Julie Lythcott-Haims
(How to Raise an Adult; Real American)
Lambda Award-winner
K.M. Soehnlein
(The World of Normal Boys; Robin and Ruby)
Why There Are Words founder & fiction writer
Peg Alford Pursell
(Show Her a Flower, a Bird, a Shadow)
Novelist & Missouri Review prize-winner
Ingrid Rojas Contreras
(Fruit from the Drunken Tree, forthcoming)
Black Lawrence Press Award-winner
Jacqueline Doyle
(The Missing Girl)
&
upcoming poet and journalist
Roxanne Hernandez
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Free Admission
Cash Bar Exotica
Doors at 5.30,
Reading at 6.00
@ the Armory Club,
1799 Mission St., San Francisco
across from the San Francisco Armory

Jackie Wang w/ Lily Hoang
2018-03-03 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | The Green Arcade, 1680 Market St, San Francisco , CA, 94102, United States
The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade present a reading and book party celebrating Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism, the newest volume in Semiotext(e)’s Interventions Series. Wang will be joined by acclaimed essayist and prolific fiction writer Lily Hoang. This is second of two Poetry Center events held in conjunction with the nationwide Poetry Coalition series on The Body. Supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation to the Academy of American Poets on behalf of the Poetry Coalition. Free.

Jackie Wang
Carceral Capitalism is a book of essays that includes Wang’s influential critique of liberal anti-racist politics, “Against Innocence,” besides essays on RoboCop, techno-policing and the aesthetic problem of making invisible forms of power legible. Wang shows that the new racial capitalism begins with parasitic governance and predatory lending that extends credit only to dispossess later, and how new carceral modes emerging since the 1990s have blurred the distinction between the inside and the outside of prison.
Wang is a student of the dream state, a black studies scholar, prison abolitionist, poet, performer, library rat, trauma monster and Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University. She is also the author of a collection of dream poems titled Tiny Spelunker of the Oneiro-Womb (Capricious) and punk zines including On Being Hard Femme.
Lily Hoang
Hoang is the author of five books, including A Bestiary (winner of the inaugural Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s Nonfiction Contest), Changing (recipient of a PEN Open Books Award) and The Evolutionary Revolution (Les Figues). She teaches in the Master of Fine Arts program at University of California, San Diego, and serves as editor at Jaded Ibis Press. Previously, she was executive editor for HTML Giant.
“Rarely have I come across tenderness, venom, and fire held so intimately, so exquisitely, as in Lily Hoang’s A Bestiary. … Hoang writes like she has nothing to lose and everything at stake.” — Maggie Nelson

Word Week "Creating Children's Poetry"
2018-03-04 12:00 - 13:30 UTC | Noe Valley Library, 451 Jersey Street, San Francisco, 94114
A short workshop with San Francisco’s 7th poet laureate, Kim Shuck. She has worked with young people for over 30 years in San Francisco public schools. In this workshop, Kim is looking for 9/10/11 year olds to write and share short poems and listen to a brief reading of poems by and for younger writers. Sunday, March 4, 2018, 12noon-1:30pm, Noe Valley Library, 451 Jersey St. Free. A Word Week 2018 event.
Kim Shuck is the daughter of a Cherokee man from Oklahoma and Polish mother. Educator, visual artist, poet, iconoclast in San Francisco, she has published two collections of poetry, one chapbook, one collection of prose poems and is working on a collection of poems to be published in 2019. She is serving as San Francisco’s seventh poet laureate.

AUTHOR EVENT! NorCalzone: a California Reading (Disorder Press )
2018-03-04 16:00 - 18:00 UTC | Adobe Books, 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
NorCalzone: a California Reading
READERS:
Joseph Graham
Ben Loory
Mira Gonzalez
Gene Morgan
Mallory Whitten
Timothy Willis Sanders
http://disorderpress.com

Bazaar Writers Salon
2018-03-04 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | Bazaar Cafe, 5927 California St, San Francisco, CA, 94121, United States
Readings by Micah Ballard, Jennifer Elise Foerster, Jenn Alandy Trahan, and Kathleen Winter
Hosted by Peter Kline
Micah Ballard is author of three full-length collections of poetry, Afterlives (Bootstrap Press, 2016), Waifs and Strays (City Lights Books, 2011), which was nominated for a California Book Award, and Parish Krewes (Bootstrap Press, 2009), and over a dozen small books, including Vesper Chimes (Gas Meter, 2014), Evangeline Downs (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2006) and Negative Capability in the Verse of John Wieners (Auguste Press, 2001). His writing has appeared in Amerarcana, Bay Poetics, Blue Book, Boog City, Chicago Review, Drunken Boat, The Emerald Tablet, Evidence of the Paranormal, Harriet: The Poetry Foundation, H_NGM_N, LIT, LiveMag NYC!, MARY: A Journal of New Writing, PEN, The Poetry Project Newsletter, The Recluse, Try!, and Vanitas, among others.
Jennifer Elise Foerster is an alumna of the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) and received her MFA from the Vermont College of the Fine Arts. She is the recipient of a NEA Creative Writing Fellowship (2017), a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship (2014), and was a Robert Frost Fellow in Poetry at Breadloaf (2017) and a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford (2008-2010). A member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, she teaches at the IAIA MFA Low-Residency Program, and co-directs For Girls Becoming, an arts mentorship program for Mvskoke youth in Oklahoma. Jennifer is the author of Leaving Tulsa, (2013) and Bright Raft in the Afterweather (2018), both published by the University of Arizona Press. This spring, she will be completing her PhD in English and Creative Writing at the University of Denver. She lives in San Francisco.
Jenn Alandy Trahan was born in Houston, Texas, and raised in Vallejo, California. She holds a BA from the University of California, Irvine, as well as an MFA and MA from McNeese State University. Though Jenn has lived in eleven cities across the country, her heart belongs to the San Francisco Giants, the Golden State Warriors, the New Orleans Saints, Seaside Donuts, Cameron Parish, Glenn, Dalton, Jean Grey, Teagan, and Keanu Reeves. Thanks to a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford, she’s been able to work on her first novel.
Kathleen Winter is the author of two poetry collections: I will not kick my friends (Elixir Press 2018), winner of the Elixir Poetry Prize, and Nostalgia for the Criminal Past, which received the 2013 Texas Institute of Letters first book award. She was granted fellowships by the Dobie Paisano Ranch; Dora Maar House; James Merrill House, Cill Rialaig Project and Vermont Studio Center. She won the Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award and Poetry Society of America The Writer/Emily Dickinson Award. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Tin House, AGNI, New Republic, New Statesman, Yale Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, 32 Poems and other journals. She lives near Glen Ellen and teaches at Sonoma State.

Word Week "Obi Kaufmann: California Field Atlas Book Signing"
2018-03-05 19:00 - 20:00 UTC | Folio Books, 3957 24th St, San Francisco , CA, 94114, United States
Artist, poet, and naturalist Obi Kaufmann will present his number one best-selling CALIFORNIA FIELD ATLAS at the 12th annual Noe Valley Word Week festival at Folio Books (3957 24th St. San Francisco) on Monday, March 5, 2018, from 7pm to 8pm. Obi will present a short lecture and then offer signed copies for sale. Free admission. A Word Week 2018 event.
Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of hand-painted maps and wildlife renderings and based on his decades of walking the backcountry of California, Obi’s CALIFORNIA FIELD ATLAS is a phenomenal testimony to the natural world of the Golden State and unlike anything that has come before. Full of character and color, the CALIFORNIA FIELD ATLAS is quickly becoming a new classic, being hailed as a “gorgeously illustrated compendium” (Sunset Magazine) and that “…it will provide you with a greater appreciation for the state’s ecological jewels and landmarks. Kaufmann’s writing offers us hope during this trying time for conservationism and climactic pushback.” (San Francisco Chronicle). Follow Obi on Instagram @coyotethunder and on Twitter @obikaufmann

POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
2018-03-05 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

Writers on Writing: Tongo Eisen-Martin
2018-03-05 19:00 - 21:45 UTC | San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco , CA, 94132, United States
Tongo Eisen-Martin reads from and discusses his poetry. His latest book is Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights Publishers, 2017). “I don’t know that there is a living writer whose work loves black people as much as Tongo Eisen-Martin’s work loves us.” — Kiese Laymon, author of Long Division. Free.

Tongo Eisen-Martin

Eisen-Martin is a revolutionary poet who uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. His first full-length book of poems, Someone’s Dead Already (Bootstrap Press), was nominated for a California Book Award. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson, Mississippi.
Originally from San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of black people throughout the U.S. He has taught in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California county jails. He has been a faculty member at Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies and designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. In October he served as Mazza Writer in Residence at The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University. Eisen-Martin’s latest curriculum, “We Charge Genocide Again,” has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country.

Writers on Writing
Eisen-Martin is a revolutionary poet who uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. His first full-length book of poems, Someone’s Dead Already (Bootstrap Press), was nominated for a California Book Award. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson, Mississippi.
Originally from San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of black people throughout the U.S. He has taught in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California county jails. He has been a faculty member at Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies and designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. In October he served as Mazza Writer in Residence at The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University. Eisen-Martin’s latest curriculum, “We Charge Genocide Again,” has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country.

Quiet Lightning at Dogeared Books
2018-03-05 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | Dog Eared Books Castro, 489 Castro Street, San Francisco , CA, 94114, United States
Our 116th show will be at Dogeared Books Castro on March 5, 2018.
Submissions of all kinds of writing are open through end of day Feb 14. All selected authors will be paid and published in the 92nd issue of sPARKLE & bLINK, which will feature cover art by Thomas Gardea and be handed out free to the first 100 people at the show! CLICK HERE to submit!

curators: Sandra Wassilie + Charles Kruger

Word Week "Queer Words, with Author and TV Producer Bud Gundy"
2018-03-06 19:00 - 20:00 UTC | Folio Books, 3957 24th St, San Francisco , CA, 94114, United States
KQED’s own pledge-master, Bud Gundy, recently published a new book, Somewhere Over Lorain Road, a mystery set in suburban Ohio. A gay man who had moved to San Francisco returns home to help with his dying father and gets tangled up in a cold-case murder from 40 years ago. Come hear Bud read from his book and discuss his life in public broadcasting as an Emmy award-winning television producer. Tuesday, March 6, 7pm, Folio Books, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. A Word Week 2018 event.
Bud Gundy is a writer, producer, director, and on-air host for KQED. He has won two Emmy Awards and his novel Elf Gift was nominated for an Over the Rainbow Award from the GLBT Round Table of the American Library Association. His latest novel Somewhere Over Lorain Road was released in February 2018. www.budgundy.com

Shobha Rao
2018-03-06 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, 94133, United States
Book Release Party for
Girls Burn Brighter
published by Flatiron Books
A searing, electrifying debut novel set in India and America, for readers of Rupi Kaur, about the EXTRAORDINARY BOND BETWEEN TWO GIRLS driven apart by circumstances but relentless in their search for one another.
Poornima and Savitha have three strikes against them. They are poor. They are driven. And they are girls.
When Poornima was just a toddler, she was about to fall into a river. Her mother, beside herself, screamed at her father to grab her. But he hesitated: “I was standing there, and I was thinking…She’s just a girl. Let her go…That’s the thing with girls, isn’t it…You think, Push. That’s all it would take. Just one little push.”
After her mother’s death, Poornima has very little kindness in her life. She is left to take care of her siblings until her father can find her a suitable match. So when Savitha enters their household, Poornima is intrigued by the joyful, independent-minded girl. Suddenly their Indian village doesn’t feel quite so claustrophobic, and Poornima begins to imagine a life beyond the arranged marriage her father is desperate to secure for her. But when a devastating act of cruelty drives Savitha away, Poornima leaves behind everything she has ever known to find her friend. Her journey takes her into the darkest corners of India’s underworld, on a harrowing cross-continental journey, and eventually to an apartment complex in Seattle. Alternating between the girls’ perspectives as they face ruthless obstacles, Girls Burn Brighter introduces two heroines who never lose the hope that burns within them.
Shobha Rao moved to the United States from India at the age of seven. She is the author of the short story collection An Unrestored Woman. She is the winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction, and her story “Kavitha and Mustafa” was chosen by T. C. Boyle for inclusion in Best American Short Stories 2015. She lives in San Francisco.
Praise for Girls Burn Brighter:
“Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao blew my heart up. Heart-shards everywhere. I am in awe of the warmth and humanity in this book, even as it explores some incredibly dark places. I’m going to be thinking about Girls Burn Brighter for a while, and you’re going to be hearing a lot about it.” —Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Sky
“Enchanting… The resplendent prose captures the nuances and intensity of two best friends on the brink of an uncertain and precarious adulthood… An incisive study of a friendship’s unbreakable bond.” —Kirkus Reviews

Shobha Rao
2018-03-06 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, 94133, United States
Shobha Rao Book Release Party for

Girls Burn Brighter
published by Flatiron Books
A searing, electrifying debut novel set in India and America, for readers of Rupi Kaur, about the EXTRAORDINARY BOND BETWEEN TWO GIRLS driven apart by circumstances but relentless in their search for one another.
Poornima and Savitha have three strikes against them. They are poor. They are driven. And they are girls.
When Poornima was just a toddler, she was about to fall into a river. Her mother, beside herself, screamed at her father to grab her. But he hesitated: “I was standing there, and I was thinking…She’s just a girl. Let her go…That’s the thing with girls, isn’t it…You think, Push. That’s all it would take. Just one little push.”
After her mother’s death, Poornima has very little kindness in her life. She is left to take care of her siblings until her father can find her a suitable match. So when Savitha enters their household, Poornima is intrigued by the joyful, independent-minded girl. Suddenly their Indian village doesn’t feel quite so claustrophobic, and Poornima begins to imagine a life beyond the arranged marriage her father is desperate to secure for her. But when a devastating act of cruelty drives Savitha away, Poornima leaves behind everything she has ever known to find her friend. Her journey takes her into the darkest corners of India’s underworld, on a harrowing cross-continental journey, and eventually to an apartment complex in Seattle. Alternating between the girls’ perspectives as they face ruthless obstacles, Girls Burn Brighter introduces two heroines who never lose the hope that burns within them.
Shobha Rao moved to the United States from India at the age of seven. She is the author of the short story collection An Unrestored Woman. She is the winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction, and her story “Kavitha and Mustafa” was chosen by T. C. Boyle for inclusion in Best American Short Stories 2015. She lives in San Francisco.
Praise for Girls Burn Brighter:
“Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao blew my heart up. Heart-shards everywhere. I am in awe of the warmth and humanity in this book, even as it explores some incredibly dark places. I’m going to be thinking about Girls Burn Brighter for a while, and you’re going to be hearing a lot about it.” —Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Sky
“Enchanting… The resplendent prose captures the nuances and intensity of two best friends on the brink of an uncertain and precarious adulthood… An incisive study of a friendship’s unbreakable bond.” —Kirkus Reviews

Bonnie Siegler: Signs of Resistance: A Visual History of Protest in America
2018-03-06 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | Green Apple Books on the Park, 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, 94122, United States
Bonnie Siegler discusses her new book, Signs of Resistance: A Visual History of Protest in America with Roman Mars.

About Signs of Resistance

In hundreds of iconic, smart, angry, clever, unforgettable images, Signs of Resistance chronicles what truly makes America great: citizens unafraid of speaking truth to power.
Two hundred and forty images—from British rule and women’s suffrage to the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War; from women’s equality and Black Lives Matter to the actions of our forty-fifth president and the Women’s March—offer an inspiring, optimistic, and visually galvanizing history lesson about the power people have when they take to the streets and stand up for what’s right.

Joseph Lease
2018-03-07 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, 94133, United States
reading from his new poetry collection
The Body Ghost
from Coffee House Press
Spare, airy, exacting poems whose quietness is often at an ironic counterpoint to their fiery leftist politics. “Promise me the rich can’t sleep,” Joseph Lease begs in The Body Ghost, offering poems as light on the page as nursery rhymes, and as powerful as prayer. Here, verse conjures up the body in pain, the body politic in collapse, and the tensile strength of the filaments that connect us.
Joseph Lease’s critically acclaimed books of poetry include The Body Ghost (Coffee House Press, forthcoming in 2018), Testify (Coffee House Press, 2011), and Broken World (Coffee House Press, 2007). Lease has received The Academy of American Poets Prize and numerous grants and awards in poetry and poetics from Columbia University, Brown University, Harvard University, and California College of the Arts. He is a Professor of Writing and Literature at California College of the Arts and a member of the Advisory Board of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.
What has been said about The Body Ghost:
“I really don’t know how Joseph Lease does this. Reaches such lyric heights with such delicacy. With skillful use of anaphora, and perfect, various, open-verse forms transformed page to page, Lease is a tour de force master of prosody, of the subtle music of words evoking, in this case, passionate feelings of caring, of grief, of sorrow for this broken world. These poems are unique; nothing I have read is like them.” —Norman Fischer
“Currents of immediacy and intensity surge through Joseph Lease’s poems in The Body Ghost. Amid the flotsam of voices overheard in hospital rooms and snippets of media chatter repeating on TV and laptop screens, Lease traces a lyric as light as air, revealing gravities at the core of the ephemeral. This is a vision as palpable as the ghost body of our neoliberal society evanescing before us.” —John Keene
“The Body Ghost is part of a body of work that is significant and reveals Joseph Lease to be a major force in contemporary American literature.” —Sheila Murphy
“Joseph Lease’s is a singularly moving and devastatingly beautiful voice in contemporary poetry. The haunting iterations and luminous specificity of his powerful new collection The Body Ghost channel the sadness, rage, and desire of this fraught historical moment in a vibrant minor key. Lease’s musical repetition is a site of political awakening; a site of hope, demolition, and mourning: ‘we made / this sky of drones to eat your voice,’ ‘lavender sky, sky like whiskey—the way, the way / we live in bodies.’ Flipping between one version of reality and its repetition evokes a gap of inequality within the lyric self which cleaves and doubles its singing: ‘you didn’t, you did.’ Lease’s stunning poetry is simultaneously a solid, a liquid, and a gas, its acrobatics and multivocal simultaneity offering models for examining everything from privilege and property to the poignant death of a family member. And at its center, always, is a beating heart.” —Trace Peterson
“When I was very young, my father, a ‘skin doctor,’ would show gleaming models of body parts at medical fairs. They frightened my sisters, but they were also illuminations of a whole world. Joseph’s poems are like these terrifying wholes/holes. They travel into us. Joseph has been making an American Buddhist poetry, and he is as maximalist as flesh and bone. He gives me the sensation that poetry is in gleaming hands, healing and grasping and letting go. He is the future of poetry.” —David Shapiro
“What is The Body Ghost? Who is The Body Ghost? I too became The Body Ghost from the minute I opened this book, where ‘the light that’s burning every second now—’ commanded an urgency, a charged presence. These incantatory poems are capacious and revelatory, allowing space for grief, for healing, and perhaps for an elegy to the music of poetry where ‘sound gives life—.’ Interrelationships are explored, an interconnectivity, where one is both participant and accountable. What a relief to be invited in, to feel alive and participate so presently in a collection that asks for this deep engagement, which burrows to locate ‘the / soul beneath the soul beneath the soul.’ We need The Body Ghost right now.” —Jennifer Firestone
“These poems, rife with music and sly, playful inquiries into the world, have some of Frank O’Hara’s metropolitan freshness and directness; they’re charming in their artful, lyrical gestures (‘the elegies / are taking off their clothes . . .’), but also plangent at key moments in their genuine moral and social critique (‘… tear up maps— / democracy is anyone’s eyes— feel / like you might have, might have / killed someone’). Yes, The Body Ghost is a spectral fan dance or a poetic striptease of sorts—its haunted, incremental engines, lavish white spaces, and agile floating lines (like tracks in amassed snow sometimes), its neo-Dickinson dashes leading the entranced reader toward revelatory clues, needling truths, and insistent joys.” —Cyrus Cassells

Joseph Lease
2018-03-07 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, 94133, United States
Joseph Lease reading from his new poetry collection

The Body Ghost
from Coffee House Press
Spare, airy, exacting poems whose quietness is often at an ironic counterpoint to their fiery leftist politics. “Promise me the rich can’t sleep,” Joseph Lease begs in The Body Ghost, offering poems as light on the page as nursery rhymes, and as powerful as prayer. Here, verse conjures up the body in pain, the body politic in collapse, and the tensile strength of the filaments that connect us.
Joseph Lease’s critically acclaimed books of poetry include The Body Ghost (Coffee House Press, forthcoming in 2018), Testify (Coffee House Press, 2011), and Broken World (Coffee House Press, 2007). Lease has received The Academy of American Poets Prize and numerous grants and awards in poetry and poetics from Columbia University, Brown University, Harvard University, and California College of the Arts. He is a Professor of Writing and Literature at California College of the Arts and a member of the Advisory Board of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.
What has been said about The Body Ghost:
“I really don’t know how Joseph Lease does this. Reaches such lyric heights with such delicacy. With skillful use of anaphora, and perfect, various, open-verse forms transformed page to page, Lease is a tour de force master of prosody, of the subtle music of words evoking, in this case, passionate feelings of caring, of grief, of sorrow for this broken world. These poems are unique; nothing I have read is like them.” —Norman Fischer
“Currents of immediacy and intensity surge through Joseph Lease’s poems in The Body Ghost. Amid the flotsam of voices overheard in hospital rooms and snippets of media chatter repeating on TV and laptop screens, Lease traces a lyric as light as air, revealing gravities at the core of the ephemeral. This is a vision as palpable as the ghost body of our neoliberal society evanescing before us.” —John Keene
“The Body Ghost is part of a body of work that is significant and reveals Joseph Lease to be a major force in contemporary American literature.” —Sheila Murphy
“Joseph Lease’s is a singularly moving and devastatingly beautiful voice in contemporary poetry. The haunting iterations and luminous specificity of his powerful new collection The Body Ghost channel the sadness, rage, and desire of this fraught historical moment in a vibrant minor key. Lease’s musical repetition is a site of political awakening; a site of hope, demolition, and mourning: ‘we made / this sky of drones to eat your voice,’ ‘lavender sky, sky like whiskey—the way, the way / we live in bodies.’ Flipping between one version of reality and its repetition evokes a gap of inequality within the lyric self which cleaves and doubles its singing: ‘you didn’t, you did.’ Lease’s stunning poetry is simultaneously a solid, a liquid, and a gas, its acrobatics and multivocal simultaneity offering models for examining everything from privilege and property to the poignant death of a family member. And at its center, always, is a beating heart.” —Trace Peterson
“When I was very young, my father, a ‘skin doctor,’ would show gleaming models of body parts at medical fairs. They frightened my sisters, but they were also illuminations of a whole world. Joseph’s poems are like these terrifying wholes/holes. They travel into us. Joseph has been making an American Buddhist poetry, and he is as maximalist as flesh and bone. He gives me the sensation that poetry is in gleaming hands, healing and grasping and letting go. He is the future of poetry.” —David Shapiro
“What is The Body Ghost? Who is The Body Ghost? I too became The Body Ghost from the minute I opened this book, where ‘the light that’s burning every second now—’ commanded an urgency, a charged presence. These incantatory poems are capacious and revelatory, allowing space for grief, for healing, and perhaps for an elegy to the music of poetry where ‘sound gives life—.’ Interrelationships are explored, an interconnectivity, where one is both participant and accountable. What a relief to be invited in, to feel alive and participate so presently in a collection that asks for this deep engagement, which burrows to locate ‘the / soul beneath the soul beneath the soul.’ We need The Body Ghost right now.” —Jennifer Firestone
“These poems, rife with music and sly, playful inquiries into the world, have some of Frank O’Hara’s metropolitan freshness and directness; they’re charming in their artful, lyrical gestures (‘the elegies / are taking off their clothes . . .’), but also plangent at key moments in their genuine moral and social critique (‘… tear up maps— / democracy is anyone’s eyes— feel / like you might have, might have / killed someone’). Yes, The Body Ghost is a spectral fan dance or a poetic striptease of sorts—its haunted, incremental engines, lavish white spaces, and agile floating lines (like tracks in amassed snow sometimes), its neo-Dickinson dashes leading the entranced reader toward revelatory clues, needling truths, and insistent joys.” —Cyrus Cassells

Word Week "Food Literature: International Cuisine"
2018-03-07 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | Olive This Olive That, 304 Vicksburg Street, San Francisco, 94114
Local writers Cara Black, Andrew McIntyre, and Anne Raeff read passages from their works that discuss food, cooking, and eating. Hosted by Olive This Olive That, an olive oil boutique & tasting bar, you can hear these talented authors discuss their interest in international cuisine and sample some of the shop’s olive oils and balsamic vinegars. Delicious fun for all! Wednesday, March 7, 7:00 pm, Olive This Olive That, 304 Vicksburg St., Noe Valley. A Word Week 2018 event.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Cara Black writes the New York Times and USA Today best-selling Aimée Leduc Investigation series set in the different arrondissements of Paris. She’s lives in Noe Valley and loves Bernie’s coffee. She gets to Paris whenever she can. Her latest book is MURDER IN SAINT-GERMAIN. Her website is www.carablack.com.
Andrew McIntyre has published more than 50 short stories in numerous magazines, including Catamaran Literary Reader, The Copperfield Review, Gold Dust Magazine, The Mississippi Review, Pindeldyboz, Parting Gifts, 3:AM Magazine, and The Noe Valley Voice. He is the author of THE SHORT, THE LONG, AND THE TALL (Merilang Press, 2010), a collection of 34 stories, all published between 2000 and 2010.
Anne Raeff’s short story collection THE JUNGLE AROUND US won the 2015 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her novel WINTER KEPT US WARM will be published in February 2018. She is proud to be a high school history and English teacher working primarily with recent immigrants. She too is a child of immigrants. Much of her writing draws on her family’s experiences as refugees from war and the Holocaust.

Solmaz Sharif
2018-03-07 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco , CA, 94132, United States
Solmaz Sharif, author of Look (Graywolf Press, 2016) and a National Book Award finalist, reads from her poetry and essays. “In Sharif’s rendering, Look is at once a command to see and to grieve the people these words describe — and also a means of implicating the reader in the violence delivered upon these people.” — The New York Times Book Review. Free.
Location: Humanities Building, Room 587
Directions: View Directions on Google Maps

Born in Istanbul to Iranian parents, Solmaz Sharif holds degrees from New York University and University of California, Berkeley, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People. Her work has appeared in the New Republic, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Granta and others. The former managing director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Sharif has been recognized with a “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize, Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. She received a 2016 Lannan Literary Fellowship and the Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University. A former Stegner Fellow, Sharif is a lecturer at Stanford University.

Thursdays en la Misión
2018-03-08 17:00 - 18:00 UTC | Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, 710 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
Join us for our monthly poetry series celebrating the Latinidad of the Latino Cultural District. This series focuses on the experiences of people of color in the Bay Area, featuring local poets chosen from the Mission’s deep literary culture. Each reading features an established poet and a newcomer. ____________________________________________________ Friends of the San Francisco Public Library se enorgullece en anunciar Thursdays en la Misión, una serie mensual de poesia celebrando la latinidad de nuestro Distrito Cultural Latino. La serie se centará en las experiencias de las personas de color en el Bay Area. Vamos a destacar una variedad de poetas locales elegidos de la profunda cultura literaria de la Misión. Cada evento contará con lecturas de dos poetas; uno establecido y uno menos conocido

Word Week "Language & Power: Celebrating International Women's Day"
2018-03-08 19:00 - 20:00 UTC | Folio Books, 3957 24th St, San Francisco , CA, 94114, United States
Our celebration of International Women’s Day will be led by three powerful women reading from their work and talking about how their writing has empowered them through language used in new and different ways. Thursday, March 8, 7pm at Folio Books, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. Book signing after the readings. Free admission and refreshments. A Word Week 2018 event.
Our guests:
Cassandra Dallett poet and memoir writer, author of Wet Reckless (2014), Raw and five chapbooks (2015), and a full-length collection, Collapse, this year. She lives in Oakland, is a two-time Pushcart nominee and Literary Death Match winner publishing online and in print magazines, such as Slip Stream, Sparkle and Blink, Chiron Review etc.
Natasha Dennerstein, Australian ex-pat, poet and artist, author of Anatomize (2015) Triptych Caliform (2016), and edgy novella in verse About a Girl (2017), all published by Norfolk Press. She has authored a chapbook Seahorse (2017) and published poetry in many journals including Landfall, Snorkel, Shenandoah, Bloom, Transfer, Red Light Lit etc.
Kim Shuck is the current poet laureate of San Francisco. Daughter of a Cherokee man from Oklahoma and Polish mother. Educator, visual artist, poet, iconoclast in San Francisco, she has published two collections of poetry, one chapbook, one collection of prose poems and is working on a collection of poems to be published in 2019.

Vegas Tenold
2018-03-08 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, 94133, United States
discussing his new book
Everything You Love Will Burn
published by Nation Books
Six years ago, Vegas Tenold embedded himself among the members of three of America’s most ideologically extreme white nationalist groups-the KKK, the National Socialist Movement, and the Traditionalist Workers Party. At the time, these groups were part of a disorganized counterculture that felt far from the mainstream.
But since then, all that has changed. Racially-motivated violence has been on open display at rallies in Charlottesville, Berkeley, Pikesville, Phoenix, and Boston. Membership in white nationalist organizations is rising, and national politicians, including the president, are validating their perceived grievances.
Everything You Love Will Burn offers a terrifying, sobering inside look at these newly empowered movements, from their conventions to backroom meetings with Republican operatives. Tenold introduces us to neo-Nazis in Brooklyn; a millennial Klanswoman in Tennessee; and a rising star in the movement, nicknamed the “Little Führer” by the Southern Poverty Law Center, who understands political power and is organizing a grand coalition of far-right groups to bring them into the mainstream.
Everything You Love Will Burn takes readers to the dark, paranoid underbelly of America, a world in which the white race is under threat and the enemy is everywhere.

Vegas Tenold is an award-winning journalist. He has covered the far right in America for years, as well as human rights in Russia, conflict in central Africa and the Middle East, and national security. A graduate of Columbia University’s School of Journalism, his work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Rolling Stone, New Republic, and Al Jazeera America. He was born and raised in Norway, and lives in Brooklyn.

Patton Oswalt presents I'll Be Gone in the Dark at Public Works SF
2018-03-08 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Public Works, 161 Erie Street, San Francisco , CA, 94103, United States
Booksmith is thrilled to welcome Patton Oswalt to Public Works SF to discuss his late wife Michelle McNamara’s book I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer.
Tickets start at $15 and are on sale now. Signing information and other details coming soon! Stay tuned.

“You’ll be silent forever, and I’ll be gone in the dark.”
Over the course of more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. In 1986 he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area.
Three decades later, Michelle McNamara, a true-crime journalist who created the popular website True Crime Diary, was determined to find the violent psychopath she called the Golden State Killer. Michelle pored over police reports, inter-viewed victims, and embedded herself in the online communities that were as obsessed with the case as she was.
At the time of the crimes, the Golden State Killer was between the ages of eighteen and thirty, Caucasian, and athletic—capable of vaulting tall fences. He always wore a mask. After choosing his victims—he favored suburban couples—he often entered their homes when no one was there, studying family pictures, mastering the layouts. He attacked while they slept, using a flashlight to awaken and blind them. Though they could not recognize him, his victims recalled his voice: a guttural whisper through clenched teeth, abrupt and threatening.
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark—the masterpiece McNamara was writing at the time of her sudden death—offers an atmospheric snapshot of a moment in American history and a chilling account of a criminal mastermind and the wreckage he left behind. It is also a portrait of a woman’s obsession and her unflagging pursuit of the truth. Framed by an introduction from Gillian Flynn and an afterword by McNamara’s husband, Patton Oswalt, the book was completed by Michelle’s lead researcher and a close colleague. Utterly original and compelling, it is destined to become a true-crime classic—and may at last unmask the Golden State Killer.

Patton Oswalt is a comedian, actor, and writer. From his award-winning comedy specials to his many memorable film roles and guest appearances on his favorite TV shows (including Parks and Recreation, for which he received a TV Critics Choice Award), Oswalt continues to choose work that inspires him and entertains audiences. He tours regularly and extensively, headlining both in the United States, Canada, and the UK.
On TV, Oswalt had a starring role on Adult Swims The Heart, She Holler, was a series regular on Showtimes United States of Tara, recurred on the SyFy series Caprica, and has had many guest roles on Veep, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Parks and Recreation, Justified, Two and a Half Men, Portlandia, Bored to Death, Flight of the Conchords, The Sarah Silverman Program, Tim and Erics Awesome Show, and Seinfeld, among others. He is also very well known for playing Spence on The King of Queens for nine seasons. He was also a regular contributor to Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Real Time with Bill Maher, and Lewis Blacks Root of All Evil. Oswalt also has a regular, bi-monthly show at the new Largo at the Coronet Theater in Los Angeles. Both of his published books Zombie Spaceship Wasteland (2011) and Silver Screen Fiend (2015) are New York Times Best Sellers.
Michelle McNamaras (1970-2016) fascination with unsolved murders began as a teenager, when a young girl was killed less than half a mile from her familys home. As an adult, she channeled her obsession into the website True Crime Diary. After earning an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Minnesota, she sold two television pilots to ABC and Fox and a screenplay to Paramount. She lived in Los Angeles and is survived by her husband, Patton Oswalt, and their daughter, Alice.

Please remember: tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. Public Works SF is a 21+ venue.

This is a standing room only event; if you need a seat or other special considerations, please contact events at booksmith dot com at least one week prior to the event. Thanks!

Robert Reich
2018-03-08 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | Nourse Theatre, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, CA, 94117, United States
In Conversation with Mina Kim Robert Reich is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He served as Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration, for which Time Magazine named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the twentieth century. He has written fourteen books, including the best sellers Aftershock, The Work of Nations, and Beyond Outrage, Saving Capitalism, and Economics in Wonderland. He is a founding editor of the American Prospect magazine, chairman of Common Cause, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and co-creator of the award-winning documentary, Inequality for All. His forthcoming book is called The Common Good.

The Endless Summer
2018-03-08 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | Green Apple Books on the Park, 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, 94122, United States
Madame Nielsen, one of Denmark’s most daring artists, joins Scott Esposito to discuss The Endless Summer, translated by Gaye Kynoch and published by Open Letter Books.
A passionate love story about a Danish woman and a much younger Portuguese artist, The Endless Summer confronts ideas of time, sexuality, and tragedy in a style reminiscent of both Proust and Lars Von Trier.
Emotional and visceral, the novel drifts through time and space, relating the lives, loves, and dissolutions of everyone who surrounds this unexpected couple, including the woman’s ex-husband who holds the family at gunpoint, her daughter, and her lovers, who include a boy who finds himself and his true sexual identity in America. There is also the young boy who “is perhaps a girl, but does not yet know it,” who narrates it all.
Propelled by a captivating story, the real charm of the novel is its impeccable style and atmosphere, which is imbued with longing, a nostalgia for times that thrum with possibility, even if the endless summer may not last forever.

Madame Nielsen with Scott Esposito
2018-03-08 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | Green Apple Books on the Park, 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, 94122, United States
Madame Nielsen discusses their new novel, The Endless Summer with Scott Esposito. Sponsored by The Center for the Art of Translation.

Praise for The Endless Summer

“The Endless Summer by Madame Nielsen is my literary discovery of the year.” ―Sjón

“Once in a while, after you’ve finished a book and put it down, you wish that the author was a good friend and you could call her whenever you felt sad. It’s not something that happens often. But it does when you read Karen Blixen and Marguerite Duras and Virginia Woolf. And Madame Nielsen.”―Christian Kracht

About The Endless Summer

A passionate love story about a Danish woman and a much younger Portuguese artist, The Endless Summer confronts ideas of time, sexuality, and tragedy in a style reminiscent of both Marcel Proust and Lars Von Trier.

Emotional and visceral, the novel drifts through time and space, relating the lives, loves, and dissolutions of everyone who surrounds this unexpected couple: the woman’s former husband, who holds the family at gunpoint; her daughter and her lovers, who include a boy who finds himself and his true sexual identity in America; and the young boy who “is perhaps a girl, but does not yet know it,” who narrates everyone’s stories.

Propelled by a captivating story, the real charm of the novel resides in its impeccable style and atmosphere, which gathers a sense of longing, a slight nostalgia for times that ache with possibility, while knowing that even the endless summer doesn’t last forever.

Lee Bruno / Misfits, Merchants & Mayhem
2018-03-08 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | The Bindery, 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , 94117, United States
The Bindery is excited to host Lee Bruno presenting his new book, Misfits, Merchants & Mayhem: Tales from San Francisco’s Historic Waterfront, 1849-1934—join us!
The waterfront is where it all began for San Francisco. It’s where untold numbers of adventurers and fortune-hunters first stepped foot upon the land that embodied possibility. It’s where ships from around the world, carrying sea-faring gold seekers, maritime traders, free-spirited mavericks, and hopeful immigrants, came to anchor. And it’s where the unconventional, opportunistic, and indefatigable embarked. Misfits, Merchants & Mayhem shares the stories of exceptional newcomers and outliers, whose intrepid spirits helped to transform a small port into one of the most beautiful, unpredictable, and beloved cities in the world.
Lee Bruno explores nearly a century of waterfront history, ranging from the Gold Rush to the Jazz Age, telling the tales of the enterprising entrepreneurs, reckless financiers, tireless reformers, visionary architects and city planners, and bohemian artists, musicians, and poets who all heeded the call of promise. With more than 100 historical images, Misfits, Merchants & Mayhem celebrates the famous (and infamous) characters whose charismatic personalities and perseverance created the institutions, businesses, and cultural fabric of San Francisco.
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Ever since discovering his great grandfather Reuben Hale’s inspiring letters and speeches, Lee Bruno has been digging into San Francisco’s rich history. Lee, who received his MS in science journalism from Boston University, is the author of Panorama: Tales from San Francisco’s 1915 Pan-Pacific International Exposition (Cameron + Company) and has been writing for over 20 years about business and technology for the Economist, the Guardian, MIT Technology Review, Red Herring magazine, and Wired, among others. He has lived in San Francisco for more than 30 years, raising a family of four boys with his wife and enjoying long open-water swims with the eccentrics at the South End Rowing Club.

Robert Reich with Mina Kim
2018-03-08 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | Nourse Theatre, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, CA, 94117, United States
Robert Reich is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He served as Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration, for which Time Magazine named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the twentieth century. He has written fourteen books, including the best sellers Aftershock, The Work of Nations, and Beyond Outrage, Saving Capitalism, and Economics in Wonderland. He is a founding editor of the American Prospect magazine, chairman of Common Cause, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and co-creator of the award-winning documentary, Inequality for All. His forthcoming book is called The Common Good.

Word Week "Memoir & Prosecco"
2018-03-09 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | 4175 24th Street, Noe Valley, San Francisco, 94114
Memoirs are hot right now! At Memoir & Prosecco, local authors of different types of memoir will read from their work. Following the readings, moderator Mary Jo McConahay will lead the panel in a discussion of writing memoir, the why and the how. Mary Jo is a Noe Valley resident, a college instructor of memoir, and an award-winning memoirist herself. Prosecco will be liberally served. Friday, March 9, 7pm-8:30pm at 4175 24th St. in Noe Valley. Free admission and refreshments. Books for sale and signing. A Word Week 2018 event.
Our panel:
Moderator Mary Jo McConahay is an author and journalist. Her new book on World War II in Latin America, The Tango War, comes out in September from St. Martin’s Press. Her memoir Maya Roads, One Woman’s Journey Among the People of the Rainforest received numerous awards, including the Northern California Book Award and the Independent Publishers Award. Another short memoir, Ricochet, Two Women War Reporters and a Friendship Under Fire, won a Global E-book award and is now a real print book published by waynegoodmanbooks.
Erika Atkinson, from the prairies of central Canada, has lived in San Francisco since 1978. She is the author of five books: the memoirs Happily Lost In Time And Place, Frozen Stillness: A Journey to Antarctica, More Miles and Moments, and Ode to the Castro and Exhort the Goddesses, a poetry collection.
Tsun Yuan Chen is a retired Head and Neck Surgeon. He was born in Mainland China and studied in Taiwan and Tokyo before arriving at these shores. He divides his time between San Francisco, Umbria, and Provence with his life partner, at home everywhere and nowhere, making alienation a fine art of his life. He has written Along Alien Roads, which he calls an “autobiographical novel.”
Linda Joy Myers‘s passion about memoir writing led her to create the National Association of Memoir Writers. Her two prizewinning memoirs Don’t Call Me Mother and Song of the Plains proved to her that creating a story is transformative and life changing. Author of The Power of Memoir and Journey of Memoir, Linda teaches the intensive “Write Your Memoir in Six Months.”
Ramon Sender Barayon was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1934. San Francisco Tape Music Center (1963). Trips Festival (Jan 1966). Morningstar Ranch (1966). Articles in The Co-Evolution Quarterly, Whole Earth Review. Being of the Sun (Harper & Row 1974). Novel, Zero Weather (1980) Memoir A Death in Zamora (UNM Press 1988) He currently co-directs the Odd Mondays reading series at Folio Books with wife Judith Levy-Sender. Music: Other Minds “Gallivants and Garnishes.”
