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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon : Rachel Howard\, Kristen Cosby\, Cheryl Ossola: Summer 2019
DESCRIPTION:Babylon Salon \n\npresents our Summer Reading \nSaturday\, May 18\, 2019\, 6.00 pm \nat The Armory Club\n1799 Mission Street \n(downstairs performance space)   \nfeaturing \n—\nRachel Howard \n(The Risk of Us; The Long Night)\n\nKristen Cosby\n(Atlas Obscura; The Moment; The Spirit of Disruption) \nCheryl Ossola\n(The Wild Impossibility)\n\nand many more! \n____________________\n\n \nCheck out our partner Podcast: www.grottopod.com \n____________________ \nFree Admission \nCash Bar Exotica \nDoors at 5.30\, \nReading at 6.00 \n@ the Armory Club\, \n1799 Mission St.\, San Francisco\nacross from the San Francisco Armory
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-rachel-howard-kristen-cosby-cheryl-ossola-summer-2019/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ages 7 up! Jane Solomon and Tyler Schnoebelen in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Ages 7 up! Jane Solomon and Tyler Schnoebelen in Conversation\n\n\n\n\nlaunching The Dictionary of Difficult Words: With More Than 400 Perplexing Words to Test Your Wits!  \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of The Dictionary of Difficult Words by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, May 19\, 2019 – 3:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is a bumbershoot? Or a moonbow? And what does it mean when someone absquatulates? Find out all this and more in the Dictionary of Difficult Words. Test your knowledge with more than 400 words to amaze\, confuse\, and inspire budding wordsmiths (and adults). All of the words featured in this book are difficult to spell\, hard to say\, and their meanings are obscure to most children (and most adults)! Written with simple\, easy-to-understand definitions by lexicographer Jane Solomon\, this dictionary celebrates the beauty of the English language for family trivia time spent around the printed page. \nJane Solomon spends her days writing definitions and working on various projects for Dictionary.com. She’s a member of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee\, the group that decides what new emoji pop up on our devices. You can find her online at lexicalitems.com and at the Twitter handle @janesolomon. She is based in Oakland. \nTyler Schnoebelen (@TSchnoebelen) is principal product manager at integrate.ai. Prior to joining integrate\, Tyler ran product management at Machine Zone and before that\, founded an NLP company\, Idibon. He holds a PhD in linguistics from Stanford and a BA in English from Yale. Tyler’s insights on language have been featured in places like the New York Times\, the Boston Globe\, Time\, The Atlantic\, NPR\, and CNN. He’s also a tiny character in a movie about emoji and a novel about fairies. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ages-7-up-jane-solomon-and-tyler-schnoebelen-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:READING Anna Moschovakis and Tonya Foster
DESCRIPTION:READING\nAnna Moschovakis and Tonya Foster\nMay 19\, 2019 7:00 PM\nArtists’ Television Access\n992 valencia street\, san francisco\, ca\nFREE\nFree for members
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-anna-moschovakis-and-tonya-foster/
LOCATION:Artists’ Television Access\, 992 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:STACEY ABRAMS In Conversation with Alexis Madrigal
DESCRIPTION:STACEY ABRAMS\nIn Conversation with Alexis Madrigal\nSunday\, May 19\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \nTickets Sold Out! \n\n\n\n\nStacey Abrams is an author\, serial entrepreneur\, nonprofit CEO and political leader. After serving for eleven years in the Georgia House of Representatives\, seven as Minority Leader\, in 2018\, Abrams became the Democratic nominee for Governor of Georgia\, when she won more votes than any other Democrat in the state’s history. Abrams was the first black woman to become the gubernatorial nominee for a major party in the United States. After witnessing the gross mismanagement of the 2018 election by the Secretary of State’s office\, Abrams launched Fair Fight to ensure every Georgian has a voice in our election system. Over the course of her career\, Abrams has founded multiple organizations devoted to voting rights\, training and hiring young people of color\, and tackling social issues at both the state and national levels. She is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations\, the 2012 recipient of the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award\, and a current member of the Board of Directors for the Center for American Progress. She is the author of Lead from the Outside\, a guidebook on making real change\, as well as eight romantic suspense novels under the pen name Selena Montgomery. Abrams received degrees from Spelman College\, the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas\, and Yale Law School. She and her five siblings grew up in Gulfport\, Mississippi and were raised in Georgia.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stacey-abrams-in-conversation-with-alexis-madrigal/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-26/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! YOU BET! - featured readers followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:POETS! YOU BET! – featured readers followed by an open mic \n\nWhenMon\, May 20\, 7pm – 9pm\nDescriptionNick\, Micah\, many more!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-you-bet-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Max Porter
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nLanny: a novel \nfrom Graywolf Press \n“An exhilarating\, disquieting\, joyous read. It will reach into your chest and take hold of your heart. . . . It’s a novel to press into the hands of everyone you know and say\, read this.”—Maggie O’Farrell \nThere’s a village an hour from London. It’s no different from many others today: one pub\, one church\, redbrick cottages\, some public housing\, and a few larger houses dotted about. Voices rise up\, as they might anywhere\, speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and walking the dogs. This village belongs to the people who live in it\, to the land and to the land’s past. \nIt also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort\, a mythical figure local schoolchildren used to draw as green and leafy\, choked by tendrils growing out of his mouth\, who awakens after a glorious nap. He is listening to this twenty-first-century village\, to its symphony of talk: drunken confessions\, gossip traded on the street corner\, fretful conversations in living rooms. He is listening\, intently\, for a mischievous\, ethereal boy whose parents have recently made the village their home. Lanny. \nWith Lanny\, Max Porter extends the potent and magical space he created in Grief Is the Thing with Feathers. This brilliant novel will ensorcell readers with its anarchic energy\, with its bewitching tapestry of fabulism and domestic drama. Lanny is a ringing defense of creativity\, spirit\, and the generative forces that often seem under assault in the contemporary world\, and it solidifies Porter’s reputation as one of the most daring and sensitive writers of his generation. \nMax Porter is the author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers\, which won the International Dylan Thomas Prize and the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award\, and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Goldsmiths Prize. \nvisit: www.maxporter.co.uk \nCritical praise for the work of Max Porter: \n‘Amazing and unforgettable.’ The Times \n‘Dazzlingly good.’ Robert MacFarlane \n‘I picked up Grief Is The Thing With Feathers in my local bookshop\, and thought\, Really? A prose-poem novel about grief and Ted Hughes? Isn’t it going to be precious and pretentious? Anyway: I think it’s brilliant. The opposite of precious\, it reads as though this were the only way it could have been done. It’s solid\, muscular\, moving\, funny and clever. I can’t wait to see what Max Porter does next. And by the way\, it takes about an hour to get through. I will read it again soon.’ Nick Hornby \n‘A luminous reading experience.’ TLS \n‘Utterly astonishing. Truly\, truly remarkable.’ Nathan Filer \n‘Compact and splendid.’ Adam Mars-Jones\, London Review of Books \n‘Heartrending\, blackly funny\, deeply resonant.’ Guardian \n‘Porter has an excellent ear for the flexibility of language and tone\, juxtaposing colloquialisms against poetic images and metaphors. The result is a book that has the living\, breathing quality of the title’s ‘thing with feathers.’. . . One of the things this luminous novel insists upon is that loss endures\, even as grief departs. Our recoveries are always partial\, and this sense of having been splintered is what finally defines us.’ New York Times  \n‘I’m not sure I’ve read anything like Max Porter’s book before. It stunned me\, full of beauty\, hilarity\, and thick black darkness. It will stay with me for a very long time.’ Evie Wyld \n‘Unlike anything I’ve read before; part memoir\, part novel\, part experimental sound-poem\, the book is a physical\, living thing that shifts between humour and sadness with a deft beat of its wing.’ Andrew McMillan \n‘Heartrending\, blackly funny\, deeply resonant\, a perfect summation of what it means to lose someone but still to love the world – and if it reminds publishers that the best books aren’t always the ones that can be pigeonholed or precis-ed or neatly packaged\, so much the better.’ Sarah Crown\, Guardian \n‘Grief Is the Thing with Feathers argues that books\, literature and poetry can help save us. This book is a sublime and painful conjuring of a family’s grief and the misfit creature with the power to both haunt and help them. It is a complex story\, not simply-told or sparse: Nothing is missing. Let it be a call for more great books of this length to be recognized for what they are — whole. Extraordinary is a book with feathers.’ Los Angeles Times \n‘An intense and startling reflection on sudden bereavement\, dark animism\, childhood and literary form.’ Brian Dillon \n‘orter’s poetic prose has infinite readings\, and demands you turn back to the beginning after each short sitting.’ Big Issue \n‘Shows us another way of thinking about the novel and its capabilities\, taking us through a dark and emotionally fraught subject\, one airy page after another\, as through transported by wings.’ Kirsty Gunn\, Guardian \n“Max Porter has written one of the only accurate representations of grief I have ever found in literature. He combines verse\, narrative\, essay\, myth\, drama\, jokes\, bad dreams\, and the language of therapy in a way that seems magical\, permanent\, utterly integrated\, as impossible to distill to its components as it would be impossible to remove or isolate grief from love\, or from life itself. Says Crow of grief\, ‘It is everything. It is the fabric of selfhood.’ Sarah Manguso \n‘In this slyly funny and thrillingly original work\, Max Porter somehow pulls a brand new story out of the darkest despair.’ Jenny Offill \n‘Less a novel than a totally new and feathered thing—hilarious\, poetic\, cheeky\, postmodern\, I guess\, but in the most earnest and emotionally forthright way. I was as gripped as I was stunned by Porter’s linguistic daredevilry\, his intelligence\, his emotional go-for-the-gut-ness. I loved this book.’ Heidi Julavits \n‘Grief is the Thing with Feathers . . . is a book to cherish. It has the perfect balance of being very sad and very funny\, full of darkness and full of light.’ Cecelia Ahern \n‘A small masterpiece.’ Listener \n‘I loved Max Porter’s Grief is the Thing with Feathers . . . Part prose\, part poetry\, the book is a lyrical exploration of grief and healing; exquisite passages of brilliance and beauty abound throughout.’ Thomas Morris \n‘It seems appropriate that the publishing firm for which T.S. Eliot once worked and wrote should put out this extraordinary book\, haunted as it is by two poets. This book is partly poetry\, partly drama\, partly fable\, and partly essay on grief. With its verbal inventiveness\, vivid imagery and profound but never swamping emotion\, this is as wild and gripping and original a book as Wuthering Heights.’ Sydney Morning Herald \n‘Art—in Porter’s witty\, sensitive\, outlandish expression of it—does not so much transport us to another world as alert us to the extraordinary beauty of our own.’ Music and Literature \nAnd here’s Jesse Ball: https://vimeo.com/167790359
URL:https://litseen.com/event/max-porter/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:You're Doing What? Older Women's Tales
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 21\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation: \nIn the basement\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nYOU’RE DOING WHAT? Older Women’s Tales of Achievement and Adventure\, Compiled and Edited by Marjorie Penn Lasky. \n“You’re Doing What? is an inspirational and insightful call to action to its readers. These stories are certain to encourage women – and men – of all ages to view aging as an opportunity to act on long deferred or never before-imagined dreams.” – Congresswoman Barbara Lee \nIn my mid-70s\, I asked myself what was I\, Marjorie Lasky\, doing scrambling off-trail in Sedona\, Arizona\, traversing slick steep slopes\, climbing to intimidating heights\, and choosing between the narrow ledge and the prickly pear. Yet each day when the scrambling ended and I was (essentially) intact\, I was amazed at what I had accomplished. Eventually I called it “My Trip of Unintended Consequences” because it inspired new challenges. One endeavor birthed this project – my collecting stories by older women\, describing their achievements and adventures. \nThe book\, YOU’RE DOING WHAT? Older Women’s Tales of Achievement and Adventure is a compilation of 62 of these memorable first-person tales and photos. In the book\, you’ll read about and view photos of daring older women of different races\, classes\, sexual orientations\, and disabilities facing challenges and choices as they age. All are embracing new adventures and changing what it means to be an “older woman.” Celebrate them! And let them inspire you despite those voices that still might challenge\, “You’re Doing What!” \nPARTICIPANTS: \nCompiler\, Marjorie Lasky \nA professor in the Contra Costa Community College District from 1973-2008\, Marjorie Lasky taught Women’s\, United States\, and Latin American History. As an older woman\, she finished a PhD dissertation\, “Off Camera: A History of the Screen Actors Guild” and a degree in Labor History at UC Davis\, served as chief negotiator and president of her faculty union\, founded Grandmother’s Against War (Bay Area)\, and\, upon retiring\, took up the saxophone. \nThere will be readings by four contributors: \nEffie Dilworth \nEffie Hall Dilworth graduated from UC Berkeley in English literature. She worked for the university for 30 years with the campus’ natural history collections as a computer programer and the administrator of a database system. In June 2013\, the Chinese Historical Society of American published a booklet her cousin\, Connie Young Yu\, and she wrote about the family soy sauce enterprise\, “Wing Nien Brand\, A Story of Longevity.” \nLydia Gans \nLydia Gans was born in Berlin\, Germany\, in 1931. Her parents were fortunate to find a sponsor who made it possible to get visas and emigrate to America. They arrived in New York in January 1938. Lydia grew up in Manhattan\, went to Hunter High School\, graduated at 17 at took the train to Berkeley. \nRose Glickman \nRose Glickman’s first book\, Russian Factory Women: Workplace and Society\, 1880-1914\, was published in 1984. She has translated a historical biography\, Agnessa: From Paradise to Purgatory\, A Voice from Stalin’s Russia\, published in 2012. \nHelen Isaacson \nHelen Isaacson was born and brought up in Brooklyn\, New York. She met her husband when they were both reporters for the student newspaper at Brooklyn College. They have lived in Washington D.C.\, London\, England\, Oberlin\, Ohio\, Ann Arbor\, Michigan and Berkeley where they moved after both retired from teaching at the University of Michigan. \nLinda Slavin Kirby \nLinda Slavin Kirby continues to hike (although she’s not climbing any more mountains)\, took her daughters on a three-week African safari to celebrate their “significant” birthdays\, and recently returned to the world of tap dancing\, which she had previously left. \nKathy Labriola \nKathy Labriola is a nurse\, counselor\, and hypnotherapist in private practice in Berkeley\, providing affordable mental health services to alternative communities. She has been a card-carrying bisexual and polyamorist for more than 40 years. She has written and published Love in Abundance: A Counselor’s Advice on Open Relationships and The Jealousy Workbook. \nSherry Lou Macgregor \nAmerican Indian and Scottish\, Sherry Lou Macgregor is an elder in the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe. Each summer she is a “puller” in the tribe’s canoe on the Tribal Canoe Journeys. Her experiences and observations on these Canoe Journeys have inspired her to document the history of Pacific Northwest Coast Indian Canoe Culture. She is currently writing a book on this subject. In 2012 she published Beyond Hearth and Home: Women in the Public Sphere in Neo-Assyrian Society. \nE. Kay Trimberger \nE. Kay Trimberger\, a sociologist\, is professor emerita at Sonoma State University. She is writing a book tentatively titled Creole Son: An Adoptive Mother’s Story of Nurture and Nature. She blogs occasionally on the Huffington Post and Psychology Today.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-doing-what-older-womens-tales/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:WOMEN’S HEALTH: TRUTH AND MISINFORMATION WITH DR. JEN GUNTER In Conversation with Ayelet Waldman
DESCRIPTION:WOMEN’S HEALTH: TRUTH AND MISINFORMATION WITH DR. JEN GUNTER\nIn Conversation with Ayelet Waldman\nTuesday\, May 21\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Conversations on Science \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nDr. Jen Gunter is OB/GYN and a pain medicine physician\, writing on topics of sex\, science\, and social media. A fierce advocate for women’s health\, Gunter is devoted to correcting the myths and misinformation perpetuated by the internet around women’s well-being and reproductive health. She is the author of The Preemie Primer\, a guide for parents of premature babies. Her forthcoming book The Vagina (and Vulva) Bible\, seeks to correct the falsehoods about women’s health and reproductive systems commonly disseminated and accepted by men and women alike. Hailed as Twitter’s resident gynecologist\, Gunter has also written for The New York Times\, The Cut\, USA Today\, and more.\n\n\nAyelet Waldman is the author of A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood\, My Marriage\, and My Life\, the novels Love and Treasure\, Red Hook Road\, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits\, and Daughter’s Keeper\, as well as of the essay collection Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes\, Minor Calamities\, and Occasional Moments of Grace.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/womens-health-truth-and-misinformation-with-dr-jen-gunter-in-conversation-with-ayelet-waldman/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:GALILEO HIGH SCHOOL & 826 VALENCIA: ‘WE BELONG HERE’ BOOK RELEASE
DESCRIPTION:REFLECTIONS ABOUT BORDERS FROM THE STUDENTS OF GALILEO HIGH SCHOOL\nTHURS. MAY 23RD\, 6:30PM \n \nJoin us for readings\, book signings\, and a celebration of our student authors. \n\n826 Valencia is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting under-resourced students ages six to eighteen with their creative and expository writing skills and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Our services are structured around the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/galileo-high-school-826-valencia-we-belong-here-book-release/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:THE RACKET!
DESCRIPTION:Details soon! \nHosted by Noah B. Sanders
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-6/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Edgar Kunz
DESCRIPTION:Edgar Kunz joins us to discuss his debut poetry collection\, Tap Out . \nPraise for Tap Out \n“A whirlwind debut.Stories of sclerotic lives told in wrought images\, Kunz arrives with real poetic talent…[he] pulls us into his poems and keeps us there through crisp detail…(A hint: trust poets who show back to you the images you’ve seen in glimpses and tucked in the back of your mind.)…Tap Out lives in a bittersweet world\, and does so well\, but there’s also fine touches here: a mother who has had enough\, a son who sees beauty in loss…”—Nick Ripatrazone\, The Millions\, “Must Read Poetry” \n\n“There is no ground of existence that does not require (or fail to sustain) its poet. This proposition\, requiring continual re-proving\, has found again its confirmation in Edgar Kunz’s first book. In the lineage of Levine\, Jordan\, and Laux\, Tap Out presents the data of blows received and taken in fully. Yet these poems do not return blow for blow; they offer instead an unflinching\, continued allegiance to abiding connection. Without summation or comment\, they remind us that all alchemies of being are possible. Kunz’s precision-tool language of memory and witness enlarges\, pivots\, pieces together the broken into a world made new\, survivable\, holdable\, forgiven.” — Jane Hirshfield\, author of The Beauty and Come\, Thief \n\n“Tap Out is an ardent and gorgeous refusal to scorn the aches and wounds that bring us closer to mercy. Rippling with both sorrow and wonder\, Edgar Kunz’s narratives sift through the intricacies of masculinity\, working-class lives\, and abandonment. The telling isn’t singed with nostalgia that obscures pain: his muscular lines make visible the scars that tether the self to hurt\, to hope. The language is deftly scored on the page—the diction itself is revelatory. ShopRite. Larch. Chamber-throat. This book reminds us the heart has its own intelligence.” — Eduardo C. Corral\, author of Slow Lightning
URL:https://litseen.com/event/edgar-kunz/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190523T213000
DTSTAMP:20260415T235457
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SUMMARY:Music of Remembrance Presents "The Parting"
DESCRIPTION:A new chamber opera by composer Tom Cipullo and librettist David Mason commissioned by Music of Remembrance about Hungarian poet Miklós Radnóti. Starring: baritone Michael Mayes; mezzo soprano Catherine Cook; and soprano Laura Strickling. Director Erich Parce.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/music-of-remembrance-presents-the-parting/
LOCATION:San Francisco Conservatory of Music\, 50 Oak Street\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Music of Remembrance":MAILTO:info@musicofremembrance.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190523T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190523T213000
DTSTAMP:20260415T235457
CREATED:20190327T224048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190327T224048Z
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SUMMARY:GEORGE PACKER In Conversation with Clara Jeffery
DESCRIPTION:GEORGE PACKER\nIn Conversation with Clara Jeffery\nThursday\, May 23\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Social Studies \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nLongtime staff writer for The New Yorker\, George Packer has written on the Iraq war\, the civil war in Sierra Leone\, and a number of other foci of global unrest. He has written multiple books of nonfiction–including The Unwinding and The Assassin’s Gate–two novels\, and a play\, as well as essays\, articles\, and reviews for The New York Times Magazine\, Dissent\, Mother Jones\, and Harper’s\, among others. His new book\, Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century\, tells the story of the life of the polarizing American diplomat through the lens of a fictional narrator with knowledge of the very real intimate details of Holbrooke’s life\, which Packer was able to garner from his exclusive access to diaries and personal papers. The jury of the Whiting Grant\, from whom Packer received a 2017 grant for creative nonfiction\, writes\, “Irreverent\, fast-paced\, and unfailingly rigorous\, this is nonfiction writing that breaks new ground…This masterly account reads like a literary novel of the highest order while providing an insightful look into the deeper nature of power and the lives of those who hold it.” \n  \nClara Jeffery is Editor-in-Chief of Mother Jones\, a position she has held for over 10 years\, and a recipient of a PEN America award for editing. Before joining Mother Jones\, Jeffery was a senior editor for Harper’s Magazine. Jeffery began her journalistic career at Washington City Paper.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/george-packer-in-conversation-with-clara-jeffery/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190523T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190523T213000
DTSTAMP:20260415T235457
CREATED:20190329T030524Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190329T030524Z
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SUMMARY:Voice of Witness: Solito\, Solita: Crossing Borders with Youth Refugees from Central America
DESCRIPTION:Editors Steven Mayers and Jonathan Freedman discuss Solito\, Solita: Crossing Borders with Youth Refugees from Central America with Lauren Markham. \nAbout Solito\, Solita \nThey are a mass migration of thousands\, yet each one travels alone. Solito\, Solita (Alone\, Alone) is an urgent collection of oral histories that tells–in their own words–the story of young refugees fleeing countries in Central America and traveling for hundreds of miles to seek safety and protection in the United States. \nFifteen narrators describe why they fled their homes\, what happened on their dangerous journeys through Mexico\, how they crossed the borders\, and for some\, their ongoing struggles to survive in the United States. In an era of fear\, xenophobia\, and outright lies\, these stories amplify the compelling voices of migrant youth. What can they teach us about abuse and abandonment\, bravery and resilience\, hypocrisy and hope? They bring us into their hearts and onto streets filled with the lure of freedom and fraught with violence. From fending off kidnappers with knives and being locked in freezing holding cells to tearful reunions with parents\, Solito\, Solita‘s narrators bring to light the experiences of young people struggling for a better life across the border. \nThis collection includes the story of Adri n\, from Guatemala City\, whose mother was shot to death before his eyes. He refused to join a gang\, rode across Mexico atop cargo trains\, crossed the US border as a minor\, and was handcuffed and thrown into ICE detention on his eighteenth birthday. We hear the story of Rosa\, a Salvadoran mother fighting to save her life as well as her daughter’s after death squads threatened her family. Together they trekked through the jungles on the border between Guatemala and Mexico\, where masked men assaulted them. We also meet Gabriel\, who after surviving sexual abuse starting at the age of eight fled to the United States\, and through study\, legal support and work\, is now attending UC Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voice-of-witness-solito-solita-crossing-borders-with-youth-refugees-from-central-america/
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:20190524T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190524T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T235457
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190329T034438Z
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SUMMARY:Poets Jericho Brown and Dexter L. Booth
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 24\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation: \nThe basement at the store\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nWebsite \nJericho Brown reads from The Tradition \nJericho Brown is the recipient of the Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and the Guggenheim Foundation. His first book\, Please (New Issues\, 2008)\, won the American Book Award\, and his second book\, The New Testament (Copper Canyon\, 2014)\, was named one of the best poetry books of the year by Library Journal and received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. His third collection is The Tradition (Copper Canyon\, 2019). His poems have appeared in The Nation\, The New Republic\, The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Time\, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry. \nBrown earned a PhD from the University of Houston\, an MFA from the University of New Orleans\, and a BA from Dillard University. He is an associate professor and the director of the Creative Writing program at Emory University in Atlanta. \nDexter L. Booth\nDexter L. Booth is the author of one poetry collection\, Scratching the Ghost \, which won the 2012 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. His poems have been published in Grist\, Willow Springs\, and New Delta Review. Booth teaches poetry and English composition at Arizona State University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-jericho-brown-and-dexter-l-booth/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190525T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190525T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T235457
CREATED:20190430T215707Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190430T215707Z
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SUMMARY:Rolling In The Aisles
DESCRIPTION:Rolling In The Aisles \nSaturday\, May 25   6 pm\nRolling Out\n1722 Taraval St.\, between 26th and 27th Avenues\nSan Francisco \nOur second annual evening of literary humor\, featuring: \nClyde Always\, Daniel Ari\, Peter Bullen\, Michael Crabtree\, \nB.Lynn Goodwin\, Kurt Luchs\, Colleen McKee\, Maw Shein Win\, Jon Sindell\, and James Warner. \nSubmissions closed \n  \nAbout Rolling Writers \nLike the baker Rageneau in Cyrano\, master baker Bruno Tsé supports the arts. And our pastry-preparing patron of poetry and prose shows love for the muse by giving his Taraval Street café up for lit readings\, with themed musical and gustatory accoutrements. \nRolling–Out: 1722 Taraval\, between 27th and 28th Avenues\, \nSan Francisco. The L-Taraval streetcar line stops at 26th Avenue. \nTo submit work for an upcoming theme\, please write the host\, Jon Sindell\, at jsind [at] sbcglobal [net]\, pasting your work into the body of the email\, and marking the subject line as follows: RW [Name Of Show]\, [Writer’s Name]. You must submit personally—no submissions by representatives will be considered. Unless otherwise indicated on the Upcoming Events page\, limit prose submissions to 1\,200 words; shorter submissions are preferred. This series primarily features complete works of fiction and memoir\, but poetry and reasonably self-contained novel excerpts are presented to a limited extent. Submissions are rolling—we generally consider submissions until a lineup is filled. \nWon’t you join us?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rolling-in-the-aisles/
LOCATION:1722 Taraval St.\, between 26th and 27th Avenues San Francisco\, San Francisco\, CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190526T143000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190526T160000
DTSTAMP:20260415T235457
CREATED:20190329T005338Z
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SUMMARY:Walker Talks!
DESCRIPTION:The last Sunday of each month\n(except June/July and December)\nfrom 2:30 to 4 pm \nThe last Sunday of every month (except the summer months and December)\, Walker Brents III holds his audience spellbound with his wide-ranging investigations into topics literary\, mythological and otherwise — in the past\, his subjects have ranged from William Blake to Bob Dylan\, Shakespeare to the Shahnameh\, the Kalevala to the story of Layla and Majnun…
URL:https://litseen.com/event/walker-talks/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190528T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190528T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T235457
CREATED:20190329T004756Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190329T004756Z
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SUMMARY:SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB MEETING
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lively discussion about: \n(author will not be present) \nTo join the book group please contact iranyi@me.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spanish-language-book-club-meeting-8/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190529T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190529T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T235457
CREATED:20190329T004847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190329T004847Z
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SUMMARY:SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB MEETING
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lively discussion about: \n(author will not be present) \nTo join the book group please contact iranyi@me.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spanish-language-book-club-meeting-9/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190529T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190529T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T235457
CREATED:20190329T034607Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190329T034607Z
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SUMMARY:Roof Books Night with Sara Larsen and Kit Robinson
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 29\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation: \nThe basement at Moe’s\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nWebsite \nPlease join us as we celebrate two new titles from Roof Books. Come up to More Moe’s an hour before the basement reading for a glass of wine and to meet the poets. \nKit Robinson was born in Evanston\, Illinois\, grew up in Cincinnati\, went to Yale\, and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area ever since. His new book of poetry is Thought Balloon from Roof Books. Other works include Leaves of Class (Chax\, 2017)\, Marine Layer (BlazeVOX\, 2015)\, A Mammal of Style (with Ted Greenwald\, Roof\, 2013)\, Determination (Cuneiform\, 2010)\, The Messianic Trees: Selected Poems\, 1976-2003 (Adventures in Poetry\, 2009) and more than 20 other books. \nSara Larsen is the author of Merry Hell (Atelos\, 2016)\, and All Revolutions Will Be Fabulous (Printing Press\, 2014). She is also the author of several chapbooks including Riot Cops En Route To Troy and The Hallucinated\, among others. With David Brazil\, she edited over sixty issues of the literary zine TRY! from 2008 to 2011. She lives in the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roof-books-night-with-sara-larsen-and-kit-robinson/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190530T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190530T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T235457
CREATED:20190329T032156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190329T032156Z
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SUMMARY:He’s back! John Waters presents his new book Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
DESCRIPTION:No one knows more about everything—especially everything rude\, clever\, and offensively compelling—than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin mustache\, auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos\, Polyester\, the original Hairspray\, Cry-Baby\, and A Dirty Shame\, is one of the world’s great sophisticates\, and in Mr. Know-It-Allhe serves it up raw: how to fail upward in Hollywood; how to develop musical taste from Nervous Norvus to Maria Callas; how to build a home so ugly and trendy that no one but you would dare live in it; more important\, how to tell someone you love them without emotional risk; and yes\, how to cheat death itself. Through it all\, Waters swears by one undeniable truth: “Whatever you might have heard\, there is absolutely no downside to being famous. None at all.” \nTickets available mid–April.\nWatch this space for more information.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hes-back-john-waters-presents-his-new-book-mr-know-it-all-the-tarnished-wisdom-of-a-filth-elder/
LOCATION:McRoskey Mattress Company\, Inc\, 1687 Market St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190530T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190530T213000
DTSTAMP:20260415T235457
CREATED:20190329T030811Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190329T030811Z
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SUMMARY:Chia-Chia Lin
DESCRIPTION:Chia-Chia Lin discusses her debut novel\, The Unpassing. \n\nPraise for The Unpassing \n“In this spare\, deeply felt debut novel\, Lin resists received wisdom about the American dream to craft a family saga about the difficulty of grieving far from home.” —Adrienne Westenfeld\, Esquire \n“Chia-Chia Lin’s The Unpassing is a searing\, open wound of a book\, marvelously alive and\, quite simply\, remarkable. Traversing the oftentimes brutal frontier of an isolated family living in an isolated environment\, I can’t think of another novel as of late that relentlessly tackles headlong our deepest struggles for a sense of place\, of home\, and belonging. How do we push through grief? How do we find peace with not only our loved ones but ourselves? What sacrifices must we endure for friendship and connection? This is a story for our times. And a story unlike any other.” —Paul Yoon\, author of The Mountain \n“The Unpassing is a devastating debut\, igneous\, aching as if with the glow of the great northern skies beneath which it is set. More than meditation on grief; more than immigrant saga\, or bildungsroman; more than new American gothic: here\, Chia-Chia Lin has written a novel of such strange\, brittle beauty as to resemble nothing else so much as living\, itself. Her prose—at once poetic and lucid\, by turns darkly comic and haunting—achieves something like the peculiar grammar of loss. I turned the last page with heartache and wonder\, a feeling of having been undone and remade.” —D. Wystan Owen\, author of Other People’s Love Affairs \n  \nAbout The Unpassing \nOne of Esquire\, The Rumpus\, The Millions\, Literary Hub and Electric Literature‘s Most Anticipated Books of 2019 \nA searing debut novel that explores community\, identity\, and the myth of the American dream through an immigrant family in Alaska \nIn Chia-Chia Lin’s debut novel\, The Unpassing\, we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggling to make ends meet on the outskirts of Anchorage\, Alaska. The father\, hardworking but beaten down\, is employed as a plumber and repairman\, while the mother\, a loving\, strong-willed\, and unpredictably emotional matriarch\, holds the house together. When ten-year-old Gavin contracts meningitis at school\, he falls into a deep\, nearly fatal coma. He wakes up a week later to learn that his little sister Ruby was infected\, too. She did not survive. \nRoutine takes over for the grieving family: the siblings care for each other as they befriend a neighboring family and explore the woods; distance grows between the parents as they deal with their loss separately. But things spiral when the father\, increasingly guilt ridden after Ruby’s death\, is sued for not properly installing a septic tank\, which results in grave harm to a little boy. In the ensuing chaos\, what really happened to Ruby finally emerges. \nWith flowing prose that evokes the terrifying beauty of the Alaskan wilderness\, Lin explores the fallout after the loss of a child and the way in which a family is forced to grieve in a place that doesn’t yet feel like home. Emotionally raw and subtly suspenseful\, The Unpassing is a deeply felt family saga that dismisses the American dream for a harsher\, but ultimately more profound\, reality.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chia-chia-lin-2/
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:20190531T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190531T213000
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CREATED:20190329T031422Z
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SUMMARY:Original Plumbing: The Best of Ten Years of Trans Male Culture
DESCRIPTION:Editors Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos discuss Original Plumbing: The Best of Ten Years of Trans Male Culture. \nPraise for Original Plumbing \n“Over the course of its ten-year run\, Original Plumbing made thousands of us queer and trans people laugh\, cry\, and gasp out loud. This is how we talked with each other\, inspired each other\, and gave each other the strength to keep on living outside the box. This collection is an invaluable\, unapologetic archive of a multiplicity of queer and trans experiences.” —Kate Bornstein\, author of Gender Outlaw: On Men\, Women\, and the Rest of Us \n“When Original Plumbing burst onto the scene a decade ago\, it was an absolute game changer in trans media and representation. Mac and Kayiatos created something revolutionary. This collection is a beautiful tribute to that treasured publication\, and an authentic and moving representation of trans male culture. I’ll be revisiting its stories and images for years to come. An essential book for both longtime readers and those diving in for the first time.” —Jill Soloway\, creator of Transparent \n“More than merely aesthetically inspiring\, Original Plumbing is life-saving. It has been at the forefront of the trans revolution\, providing thoughtful\, cheeky documentation of the vibrancy of queer lives.” —Michelle Tea\, author of Against Memoir \n“For over a decade\, Original Plumbing did the Lord’s work of documenting and proliferating the stories of trans men and transmasculine folks. This book is so much more than a retrospective; it is a testament. Rocco and Amos have preserved a brilliant\, precious slice of trans history that will be revered and cherished for generations to come.” —Jacob Tobia\, author of Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story \n“A powerful realization of high def and punk rock\, Original Plumbing is the kind of book you’ll devour in one sitting\, immersing yourself in the beauty of each page.” —C. Riley Snorton\, author of Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity  \nAbout Original Plumbing \nIndependently published from 2009 to 2019\, Original Plumbing grew from a Bay Area zine to a nationally acclaimed print quarterly dedicated to trans men. For nearly ten years\, the magazine was the premier resource focused on their experiences\, celebrations\, and imaginations\, featuring writing on both playful and political topics like selfies\, bathrooms\, and safer sex; interviews with queer icons such as Janet Mock\, Silas Howard\, Margaret Cho\, and Ian Harvie; and visual art\, photography\, and short fiction. \nIn celebration of the magazine’s ten-year run\, this essential collection compiles the best of all twenty issues. Selections are reprinted in full color\, with an introduction by activist Tiq Milan and a new preface by the founding editors.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/original-plumbing-the-best-of-ten-years-of-trans-male-culture/
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:20190601T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190601T213000
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SUMMARY:Sharma Shields and Simeon Mills
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nSharma Shields and Simeon Mills discuss their new novels\, The Cassandra and The Obsoletes. \nAbout The Cassandra \nMildred Groves is an unusual young woman. Gifted and cursed with the ability to see the future\, Mildred runs away from home to take a secretary position at the Hanford Research Center in the early 1940s. Hanford\, a massive construction camp on the banks of the Columbia River in remote South Central Washington\, exists to test and manufacture a mysterious product that will aid the war effort. Only the top generals and scientists know that this product is processed plutonium\, for use in the first atomic bombs. \nMildred is delighted\, at first\, to be part of something larger than herself after a lifetime spent as an outsider. But her new life takes a dark turn when she starts to have prophetic dreams about what will become of humankind if the project is successful. As the men she works for come closer to achieving their goals\, her visions intensify to a nightmarish pitch\, and she eventually risks everything to question those in power\, putting her own physical and mental health in jeopardy. Inspired by the classic Greek myth\, this 20th century reimagining of Cassandra’s story is based on a real WWII compound that the author researched meticulously. A timely novel about patriarchy and militancy\, The Cassandra uses both legend and history to look deep into man’s capacity for destruction\, and the resolve and compassion it takes to challenge the powerful. \nPraise for The Cassandra \n“The Cassandra feels powerfully—chillingly—relevant to our own political moment\, even as it unfolds against the bleak splendor of the 1940s American West. It’s a harrowing story\, beautifully told\, of patriarchy and violence intertwining to make a combustible monster; and of the woman who speaks the truth about this monster\, only to be dismissed as unhinged.” –Leni Zumas\, author of Red Clocks \n“The Cassandra is a magnificent exploration of the consequences—both incredible and devastating—of human ingenuity and human intuition. This novel is full of magic and hope\, even while it brings up to the light some of our darkest past.” –Ramona Ausubel\, author of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty and Awayland \n“The Cassandra is a fantastic achievement of unflinching honesty\, psychic power\, and sustained empathy. Sharma Shields’s fearless reckoning with American might at the beginning of the nuclear age closes the distance between victor and victim\, historical detail and mythic truth. This fevered novel’s seer will infect you with her visions\, but her moral candor will work on you long after the dream is over.” –Smith Henderson\, author of Fourth of July Creek \nAbout The Obsoletes \nFraternal twin brothers Darryl and Kanga are just like any other teenagers trying to make it through high school. They have to deal with peer pressure\, awkwardness\, and family drama. But there’s one closely guarded secret that sets them apart: they are robots. So long as they keep their heads down\, their robophobic neighbors won’t discover the truth about them and they just might make it through to graduation. \nBut when Kanga becomes the star of the basketball team\, there’s more at stake than typical sibling rivalry. Darryl—the worrywart of the pair—now has to work a million times harder to keep them both out of the spotlight. Though they look\, sound\, and act perfectly human\, if anyone in their small\, depressed Michigan town were to find out what they truly are\, they’d likely be disassembled by an angry mob in the middle of their school gym. \nHeartwarming and thrilling\, Simeon Mills’s charming debut novel is a funny\, poignant look at brotherhood\, xenophobia\, and the limits of one’s programming. \nPraise for The Obsoletes \n“The Obsoletes is inventive\, moving\, and funny. A perfectly weird and weirdly perfect novel.”— Jess Walter\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins \n“What a debut! At turns endearing\, funny\, and imaginative\, while always well written and always with weight. I predict great things for this book and the man who wrote it. A reminder that some stories feel good to read\, even while addressing the big stuff. I love it.”— Josh Malerman\, New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box \n“Alternating between antic comedy\, freak-out horror\, and existential angst\, The Obsoletes does the seemingly impossible: it makes the joys and terrors of adolescence seem fresh and new.”— J. Robert Lennon\, author of Broken River and See You in Paradise
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sharma-shields-and-simeon-mills/
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:Women at the Edges: Books About Women Breaking Creative Boundaries
DESCRIPTION:Kristin Kaye\, Bridget Quinn\, and Beth Winegarner write about women breaking creative boundaries in music\, art\, drama\, and competitive bodybuilding in their nonfiction books IRON MAIDENS: The Celebration of the Most Awesome Female Muscle in the World\, BOLD STROKES: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order)\, and TENACITY: Heavy Metal in the Middle East and Africa. Hear them read excerpts about their exceptional protagonists at “Women at the Edges\,” the Odd Mondays for June 3\, 7pm at Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. Free admission and free refreshments. A book signing follows the readings. \nHere’s more about the authors:\nKRISTIN KAYE is an award-winning author\, ghostwriter and teacher. Her most recent book\, Tree Dreams\, was described as “superbly written…with brilliantly onomatopoeic prose” by Kirkus Reviews and won the Int’l Book Award for YA Fiction. Kristin’s first book was Iron Maidens: The Celebration of the Most Awesome Female Muscle in the World\, which details her experience directing twenty-five of the world’s strongest and most muscular women in an off-Broadway show. It was a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards and described by Utne Reader as “one of 5 new titles for women who resist easy definition.” \nBRIDGET QUINN is the author of Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order)\, an Amazon pick for Best Art & Photography Books 2017 and a 2018 Amelia Bloomer List selection of recommended feminist literature from the American Library Association. Book Authority has named Broad Strokes one of its “Best Art History Books of All Time.” A denizen of The Writers’ Grotto\, Bridget is former co-host of The GrottoPod: Writers on Writing. Her forthcoming book is Suffragist States\, an illustrated history of the 19th Amendment and what happened next\, with Chronicle Books. \nBETH WINEGARNER is a journalist\, author and essayist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker\, the Washington Post\, the Guardian\, Mother Jones\, Wired\, San Francisco Magazine and many others. Her recent books include The Columbine Effect: How Five Teen Pastimes Got Caught in the Crossfire and Why Teens are Taking Them Back and Tenacity: Heavy Metal in the Middle East and Africa. She lives in San Francisco and is a member of the Writers Grotto.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/women-at-the-edges-books-about-women-breaking-creative-boundaries/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-25/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:POETS! – featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-27/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Silent Reading Party
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Lemony Snicket and Radio Silence. Bring a book to read to yourself in silence. Drinks and light snacks will be available. There is no admission cost and no reservations necessary. Proceeds from drink sales will benefit a public school in San Francisco\, TBD. \nSign up to receive emails about upcoming Silent Reading Parties here. \nSee you there\, readers!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-silent-reading-party/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Shortest Month Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Beyond The Shortest Month is a book club dedicated to reading and celebrating authors of color year round. \nDiscussions are the first Tuesday of each month at\nGreen Apple Books and Music\n506 Clement Street *Upstairs in our Philosophy Alcove \nThe Beyond The Shortest Month May title is Ntozake Shange’s Sassafrass\, Cypress & Indigo.\nMeeting and discussion will be on Tuesday\, June 4 at 6:30pm.\nSee you there! \nCan’t make this month? Stay tuned for the Beyond The Shortest Month pick for June 2019!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beyond-the-shortest-month-book-club/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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