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SUMMARY:Author visit and discussion with Anna Wiener\, author of UNCANNY VALLEY
DESCRIPTION:oin us for a visit and discussion with local author Anna Wiener\, author of UNCANNY VALLEY. Anna Wiener is a contributing writer to The New Yorker online\, where she writes about Silicon Valley\, startup culture\, and technology. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic\, New York\, The New Republic\, and n+1\, as well as in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017. Anna will be in discussion with Ruby member Natalie So. \nThanks to the publisher\, we have 10 copies available to the first 10 Rubies who sign up for this event! You will be notified if you are one of the ten. We hope to have a discussion about the book itself\, so please purchase a copy from one of our local bookstores or borrow from a local library! \nAbout UNCANNY VALLEY \nA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a January 2020 IndieNext Pick. An Amazon Best Book of January. One of Vogue’s 22 Books to Read This Winter\, The Washington Post’s 10 Books to Read in January\, ELLE’s 12 Best Books to Read in 2020\, The New York Times’s 12 Books to Read in January\, Esquire’s 15 Best Winter Books\, Paste’s 10 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2020\, and Entertainment Weekly’s 50 Most Anticipated Books of 2020. \n“A definitive document of a world in transition: I won’t be alone in returning to Uncanny Valley for clarity and consolation for many years to come.” —Jia Tolentino\, author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion \nThe prescient\, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital age \nIn her mid-twenties\, at the height of tech industry idealism\, Anna Wiener—stuck\, broke\, and looking for meaning in her work\, like any good millennial–left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco\, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance\, dubious success\, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination\, glory\, and\, of course\, progress. \nAnna arrived amidst a massive cultural shift\, as the tech industry rapidly transformed into a locus of wealth and power rivaling Wall Street. But amid the company ski vacations and in-office speakeasies\, boyish camaraderie and ride-or-die corporate fealty\, a new Silicon Valley began to emerge: one in far over its head\, one that enriched itself at the expense of the idyllic future it claimed to be building. \nPart coming-age-story\, part portrait of an already-bygone era\, Anna Wiener’s memoir is a rare first-person glimpse into high-flying\, reckless startup culture at a time of unchecked ambition\, unregulated surveillance\, wild fortune\, and accelerating political power. With wit\, candor\, and heart\, Anna deftly charts the tech industry’s shift from self-appointed world savior to democracy-endangering liability\, alongside a personal narrative of aspiration\, ambivalence\, and disillusionment. \nUnsparing and incisive\, Uncanny Valley is a cautionary tale\, and a revelatory interrogation of a world reckoning with consequences its unwitting designers are only beginning to understand.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-visit-and-discussion-with-anna-wiener-author-of-uncanny-valley/
LOCATION:The Ruby\, 23rd and bryant street\, san francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Dean A. Strang in conversation with Lara Bazelon
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Dean A. Strang for his new book\, Keep the Wretches in Order: America’s Biggest Mass Trial\, the Rise of the Justice Department\, and the Fall of the IWW. He’ll be in conversation with Lara Bazelon (Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction). \nBefore World War I\, the government reaction to labor dissent had been local\, ad hoc\, and quasi-military. Sheriffs\, mayors\, or governors would elevate strikebreakers to deputies or call out the state militia\, usually at the bidding of employers. \nAt the time one of the nation’s largest unions was the Industrial Workers of the World\, also known as the Wobblies. The IWW had members in critical industries across the country. In April 1917\, when the United States entered the war\, the government feared the threat of a labor strike from such a large number of workers could endanger or even halt war production. Officials in the relatively young Department of Justice determined that a more coordinated strategy would be necessary. \nTo prevent stoppages\, the DOJ embarked on a sweeping new effort—replacing gunmen with lawyers. The department systematically targeted the IWW\, resulting in the largest mass trial in U.S. history. The first of four indictments named 166 defendants in September 1917. The Chicago trial started with 112 men accused\, sitting on bleachers\, with one small defense team and a judge and prosecutors who did not know their names or faces. \nIn the first legal history of this landmark federal trial\, Dean A. Strang shows how the case laid the groundwork for a fundamentally different strategy to stifle radical threats and played a major role in shaping the modern Justice Department. As the trial unfolded\, it became an exercise of raw force\, raising serious questions about its legitimacy and revealing the fragility of a criminal justice system under great external pressure. \n\nDean Strang is familiar to millions through Netflix’s Making A Murderer. He is a criminal defense lawyer in Wisconsin and a visiting professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law. Strang is the author of two books of legal history\, his newest\, Keep the Wretches in Order: America’s Biggest Mass Trial\, the Rise of the Justice Department\, and the Fall of the IWW\, and his earlier\, Worse Than the Devil: Anarchists\, Clarence Darrow\, and Justice in a Time of Terror. \nLara Bazelon is a law professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law where she directs the criminal and racial justice clinics. Previously Lara was a trial attorney in the Office of the Federal Public Defender in Los Angeles and the director of the Loyola Law School Project for the Innocent. She is the author of Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction and a contributing writer for Slate and Politico Magazine. Her essays and op-eds have also been published in the New York Times\, the Atlantic Magazine\, the Washington Post\, and the Los Angeles Times. She lives with her two children in San Francisco and is currently working on a book about motherhood and ambition. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Keep the Wretches in Order\, order below and be sure to put your request in the special field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dean-a-strang-in-conversation-with-lara-bazelon/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Golden Arches in Black America
DESCRIPTION:Marcia Chatelain\nIn Conversation with Allyson Hobbs \nHear the untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America. \nOften blamed for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans\, fast food restaurants like McDonald’s have long symbolized capitalism’s villainous effects on our nation’s most vulnerable communities. But how did fast food restaurants so thoroughly saturate black neighborhoods in the first place? In her new book\, Franchise\, acclaimed historian Marcia Chatelain uncovers a surprising history of cooperation among fast food companies\, black capitalists and civil rights leaders\, who – in the troubled years after King’s assassination – believed they had found an economic answer to the problem of racial inequality. \nMarcia Chatelain\, Ph.D. is a Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University. She is a leading public voice on the history of race\, education and food culture. The author of South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration\, Chatelain lives in Washington\, DC. \nAllyson Hobbs\, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of United States History and Director of African and African American Studies at Stanford University. She is the award-winning author of A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-golden-arches-in-black-america/
LOCATION:JCCSF\, 3200 California St \, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Karen Sherman - Brick By Brick
DESCRIPTION:Karen Sherman\, author of Brick By Brick: Building Hope and Opportunity for Women Survivors Everywhere moved her family from Bethesda\, Maryland to Kigali for a year in 2012 after a 25-year career working on women’s issues in developing countries and embattled parts of the world. More than a memoir of that year\, the book is a tribute to the women she met\, and how their stories profoundly impacted her own life. “In many ways\, our time in Rwanda surprised me.” says Sherman\, “It deepened my sense of perspective for what it takes to be a woman almost anywhere in the world today\, even when that womanhood is threatened or diminished by one’s family\, culture or society. There is much that women in the developed and developing worlds can learn from each other\, especially in this era of mass shootings and #MeToo.” Sherman and her three sons arrived in Rwanda after a tumultuous year in which her bid to become CEO of Women for Women International\, an organization that helps women survivors of war rebuild their lives\, had failed. She had worked there for close to a decade. \n“Like so many people in our modern\, success-driven society\, the job defined me\,” she writes. “But this work was much more than a job. Helping women who had survived war move from crisis and poverty to stability and self-sufficiency resonated powerfully with me\, given my background and experiences. It felt right\, like what I was supposed to be doing. This failure felt personal. It was devastating.” So\, she took a one-year posting to Rwanda\, hoping it would distance her from the crises in her career and marriage and put her back in touch with the work on the ground. Throughout her career\, she had heard hundreds of personal stories from women who had endured war. The common thread was that all had managed to survive. “Now that we were living in Rwanda\,” she writes\, “I thought maybe\, if I could sit and talk with some of these women\, learn more about their perspectives and choices\, it might help to bring me back to myself.” For the rest of 2012 and into 2013\, Sherman oversaw the completion of a new Women’s Opportunity Center in Kayonza and the transitions of leadership in three of the four African countries where Women for Women worked. Each of the five hundred thousand bricks used to construct the Center were hand made by Rwandan women. “The architects of the Center would often talk about the process of building as ‘brick by brick.’ But I always thought of it as woman by woman\,” Sherman writes in the book’s prologue. “These women\, and so many of the survivors I worked with\, each in their own way\, had been able to build or rebuild their lives one step\, one small change\, in some cases\, one brick at a time\,” she realizes. “They’d held onto their dreams\, forged their own paths\, taken risks\, and led change in their families\, communities\, and countries. They had fully embraced their choices. In that moment I vowed to fully embrace mine.” \nKaren Sherman brings more than 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur\, strategist\, and executive level manager to her role as President of the Akilah Institute. Throughout her career\, Sherman has combined her expertise\, passion\, and transformative leadership skills to affect lasting change for women in conflict-affected countries and those in transition. She has global and sectoral experience in: Women and girls’ education around the world\, Women’s economic empowerment and entrepreneurship\, Women in conflict-affected countries. Across her different roles\, Sherman has worked with stakeholders at all levels\, from community groups to corporate leaders and heads of state\, to take programs from concept to scale. Most importantly\, her work has resulted in measurable impacts on women’s income\, health\, decision-making\, and social networks. Sherman serves as a thought leader and spokesperson on global women’s issues through the media\, public appearances\, and diverse social media platforms. She has been featured in multiple publications and was Executive Producer of The Other Side of War: Women’s Stories of Survival and Hope\, published by National Geographic.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-sherman-brick-by-brick/
LOCATION:Book Passage\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:EVES AT THE BEAT: WOMXN READING AT THE BEAT MUSEUM
DESCRIPTION:During Women’s History month a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into something powerful and a new monthly reading series concept was born\, “Eves at the Beat”. \nThis month’s Eves at the Beat is curated by Lauren Ito. \nReaders for this event: \n\nRAINA J. LEÓN\nGREER NAKADEGAWA-LEE\nAMANDA MUNIZ FERNANDEZ\nSKYE CABRERA\nE.K. KEITH\n\n\n“Eves at the Beat” is a monthly first Thursday reading series at The Beat Museum with occasional readings in Kerouac Alley featuring womxn and non-binary people. Each first Thursday there will be a new curator and MC invited from previous months. This will give many people the opportunity to step into these roles and make the culture of the readings more equitable and circular\, rather than hierarchal. \nThis is a donation based event. We will pass a hat so bring a contribution for the readers. \nWe will also be accepting packages of dry goods\, new socks\, and sanitary items for the local homeless community.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eves-at-the-beat-womxn-reading-at-the-beat-museum-3/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Dodie Bellamy and Anthony Huberman in conversation
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \n\n\n\n\nDodie Bellamy Is on Our Mind \nEdited by Jeanne Gerrity and Anthony Huberman \npublished by Semiotext(e) Books\, distributed by The MIT Press \nExamining the genre-bending writing of Dodie Bellamy\, whose work has focused on sexuality\, politics\, feminism\, narrative experimentation\, and all things queer. \nDodie Bellamy Is on Our Mind is the first major publication to address Bellamy’s prolific career as a genre-bending writer. Megan Milks made several trips to San Francisco in order to spend time with Bellamy and craft a provocative and fascinating profile of the writer. Originally delivered as a lecture at the Wattis Institute\, Andrew Durbin’s text takes the form of a personal essay\, expertly weaving anecdotes of his own encounters with Bellamy’s writing with insights into broader themes in her work. Academic Kaye Mitchell takes a close look at the role of shame and its relationship to femininity in particular texts by Bellamy. And Bellamy and her late husband Kevin Killian offer deeply personal\, emotionally wrenching ruminations on topics from the mundane (drawing) to the profound (mortality). These texts\, alongside archival photos and a complete bibliography\, make this book an important compendium on Bellamy. \nDodie Bellamy has lived and worked in San Francisco since 1978. A vital contributor to the Bay Area’s avant-garde literary scene\, Bellamy is a novelist and poet whose work has focused on sexuality\, politics\, feminism\, narrative experimentation\, and all things queer. In her words\, she champions “the vulnerable\, the fractured\, the disenfranchised\, the fucked-up.” \nAnthony Huberman is the Director and Chief Curator of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco and Founding Director of the Artist’s Institute in New York.city li
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dodie-bellamy-and-anthony-huberman-in-conversation/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Suzanne Stein and Anne Lesley Selcer\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this reading and conversation with two poet/performers who each have worked and written extensively in relation to contemporary art practices. This event\, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts\, is free and open to the public. \nSuzanne Stein’s poetry publications and performance documents include New Sutras\, The Kim Game\, TOUT VA BIEN\, and Passenger Ship. With the poet Steve Benson\, she is the author of DO YOUR OWN DAMN LAUNDRY\, which documents the 36 improvisational dialogues they performed together between 2011 and 2012. Suzanne was the founding editor\, and for eight years editor-in-chief\, of Open Space\, SFMOMA’s art and language platform and publication. After thirty years’ living and working in the Bay Area\, she resides now in San Diego\, California. \nAnne Lesley Selcer is author of Sun Cycle\, winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize and Blank Sign Book\, a collection of essays on art. Her other publications include from a Book of Poems on Beauty\, winner of the Gazing Grain prize\, Banlieusard\, a commissioned book-length text for Artspeak\, and Untitled (a treatise on form) with 2nd Floor Projects. Anne Lesley’s work can be found in Jacket2\, Fence\, Hyperallergic\, Art Practical\, The Chicago Review\, Open Space\, and Gauss PDF\, as well as in art exhibition catalogs. Occasionally working in video\, performance\, or sound\, she is currently engaged in a series of collaborations with artists based on Sun Cycle. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured: \nSuzanne Stein at Open Space \nSuzanne Stein and Steve Benson\, DO YOUR OWN DAMN LAUNDRY\, at Gauss PDF \nAnne Lesley Selcer\, “What Imaginary Thing Is a Museum?” (on Ana Mendieta)\, at Art Practical \nAnne Lesley Selcer\, “A Playboy Bunny Navigates the Politics of Dystopia” (on Monet Clark)\, at Hyperallergic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/suzanne-stein-and-anne-lesley-selcer-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Beau Beausoleil: A Glyphic House at Alley Cat Books
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading from Beau Beausoleil’s latest publication\, A Glyphic House. \nThis Day On The Calendar \nOn this day\nwe are trying to gather\nthe lives and moments\nthat need illuminating \nWe need to remember\nthe women who\nput their work down\non the factory floor \nand walked out\nto strike \nWe need to remember\nthe children\nwho were shot\nin their classrooms \nalong with\ntheir teachers \nThese two contradictory things\nare part of remembering\non this calendar day \nWe mark this day\nwith small poems\nof blood and salt \nTo help us  remember\nthe ones\nwho were spit on \nThe one who were\ndragged from\ntheir cars \nand beaten \nSmall  poems of blood\nand salt on this day \nto help us remember\nthose who were carried to\nthe rope \nAnd those\nwho gathered there\nand stood by\nwatching \nas close as\nmy arm to\nyours \nor even\na hundred cities\naway \nWe mark this day\nwith small poems of blood\nand salt \nshaped\nwith our hands \nPoems that when taken\ninto our lives\nmake us unable\nto swallow and forget \nall the lies that have carried\nus here
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beau-beausoleil-a-glyphic-house-at-alley-cat-books/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:You're Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes - The Healthcare Edition
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… – the Healthcare Edition an Open Mic at The Lost Church – San Francisco w/Ned Buskirk \nWHILE THIS SPECIAL OPEN MIC IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC\, THE PARTICULAR CONVERSATION IS SPECIFIC TO THOSE INTERESTED & INVOLVED IN THE HEALTHCARE FIELD…\nOpen Mic sharing from where mortality meets the medical perspective & experience will be strongly encouraged! \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… – the Healthcare Edition is an open mic event for those people working in & with the healthcare field\, where the medical meets the mortal\, a communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\, to grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \n$10 in advance & at the door.\nTICKETS HERE: http://bit.ly/YG2D_Healthcare_Feb27_SF\nAnd support MORE with ticket tiers. You choose the amount.\nThe tickets tiers are direct ways of offering more support to YG2D\, a 501(c)3 Non-profit bringing diverse communities creatively into the conversation of death & dying\, inspiring life by unabashedly sourcing our shared mortality.\nThank you for any additional help you can offer.\nAnd please contact ned@yg2d.com if you need support to be a part of the evening. \nVenue: The Lost Church – San Francisco\nThe Lost Church is CASH ONLY at the door (at this time). \nDoors at 7:30pm.\nShow at 8:15pm.\nAll performances end at 10:30pm.\nSeating is first come\, first served. \nWe recommend you buy in advance to ensure being a part of the event (parlor shows often sell out)\, but you can also try purchasing at the door on the night of the show (although\, we do NOT set aside a block of tickets for door purchase) \nAges 10 and over are welcome. (Parental discretion is advised for some events). \n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-the-healthcare-edition/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Undocumented Black Poetics: Book Launch & Reading
DESCRIPTION:(Un)documented Black Poetics: Book Launch & Reading with Immigrant Poets \nFormer poet-in-residence\, Alan Pelaez Lopez\, will celebrate their debut book\, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien\, at the Museum of the African Diaspora. Kemi Bello and Danyeli Rodriguez Del Orbe\, both key figures in the immigrant rights movement and the immigrant poetry community will read alongside Alan. Afterward\, the poets will share words about what it means to create art and prioritize care for one another in the midst of border violence. \nIntergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien is an experimental poetry collection that pushes the boundaries of the undocumented immigrant experience via the poet’s refusal to belong to United Statian society and the refusal of a structured poetics. In fact\, the chaotic geographies of the manuscript (collages + photographs + emails) formulate theories of fugitivity that position the transAtlantic slave trade and North American Indigenous dispossession as root causes of the poet’s “illegal entry” as a five-year-old to the U.S. In this refusal of national belonging and form\, the book asks for a critical kinship that the law can never account for\, and thus\, Alan Pelaez Lopez negotiates legal status for new imaginaries of care. \nAlan Pelaez Lopez is an AfroIndigenous poet\, installation\, and adornment artist from Oaxaca\, México. They are the author of the art and poetry collection\, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien (The Operating System\, 2020)\, and the chapbook\, to love and mourn in the age of displacement (Nomadic Press\, 2020). Their poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and “Best of the Net\,” and appears (or is forthcoming) in Best New Poets\, Best American Experimental Writing\, POETRY\, The Georgia Review\, and others. They have received fellowships and/or residencies from Submittable\, the Museum of the African Diaspora\, VONA/Voices\, and UC Berkeley. They live in Oakland\, CA. www.alanpelaez.com/ \nKemi Bello is a stubborn sometimes-writer and poet living in Oakland\, California. She believes in the power of narrative to reclaim and connect\, and her writings around the messiness of migration have been published in outlets like The Nation and Autostraddle. Kemi’s poetry performances have taken her to stages at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, Galeria de la Raza\, Litquake SF\, and the University of Illinois\, Chicago. www.kemibello.com \nDanyeli Rodriguez Del Orbe is a formerly undocumented\, Afro-Dominican writer\, podcaster\, and activist raised in The Bronx\, New York. Her work centers themes of immigration\, race\, and gender. She has been featured on NPR\, Bronx Museum of Arts\, People En Español\, and her work has traveled as far as Aruba’s “Poetry is an Island Festival.” Danyeli has also been the recipient of several social justice fellowships including Immigrant Justice Corps\, Vera Fellowship\, and NYIC Dream Fellowship\, where she researched policy\, provided legal services\, and organized for immigrant rights. In 2019\, she co-founded loose accents\, a Latinx immigrant podcast highlighting stories of immigration from the East to the West Coast. She currently resides in South Los Angeles where she provides legal services to low-income immigrant communities. www.danyelirodriguezdelorbe.com \nThis program will include a wine reception
URL:https://litseen.com/event/undocumented-black-poetics-book-launch-reading/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200229T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200229T190000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY – A JOURNAL OF POETRY\, PROSE\, AND ART
DESCRIPTION:Launch party and reading event for a legendary underground literary publication founded in 1999 in the back of Covered Wagon Saloon\, San Francisco. \nCONTRIBUTORS READ AND PERFORM WORKS BY:\n\nSuzanne Day\nKenneth MacKillop\nVlad Pogorelov\nJane 69\nEric Robertson\nTim Donnelly\nMorgan Reilly\nMonique Marquisa de Magdalena\nStephen Elliot\nJames A. La Croix\, Jr.\nCleveland Wall\n\n…and others. \nART BY:\n\nDavid Kelley\nNicole Zach\nJesse Redpond\nAimee M. Patten\n\n…and others. \nDOCUMENTARY FILM FOOTAGE SCREENING\nSan Francisco underground spoken word at the turn of the\n21st century by Eddy Falconer. \nRefreshments provided. More information at mondayjournal@yandex.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/monday-a-journal-of-poetry-prose-and-art/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200229T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200229T203000
DTSTAMP:20260412T065411
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200226T180257Z
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SUMMARY:Cafe Society Presents Jenny Odell
DESCRIPTION:Jenny Odell\, author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy\, will be in conversation with Art Table’s Jan Wurm. \n“How to Do Nothing is genuinely instructive\, elaborating a practical philosophy to help us slow down and temporarily sidestep the forces aligned against both our mental health and long-term human survival. You can knock the hustle — and you should.”—Akiva Gottlieb\, LOS ANGELES TIMES \n“Approachable and incisive. . . . The book is clearly the work of a socially conscious artist and writer who considers careful attention to the rich variety of the world an antidote to the addictive products and platforms that technology provides. . . . [Odell] sails with capable ease between the Scylla and Charybdis of subjectivity and arid theory with the relatable humanity of her vision.”—Nicholas Cannariato\, THE WASHINGTON POST \n“The sentiment behind How to Do Nothing is one of defiance.”—Casey Schwartz\, THE NEW YORK TIMES
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cafe-society-presents-jenny-odell/
LOCATION:Kaleidoscope Coffee\, 109 Park Place\, Point Richmond\, California\, 94801\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200301T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200301T190000
DTSTAMP:20260412T065411
CREATED:20200207T193013Z
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SUMMARY:Fellini Turns 100/ La Natura Morta De La Dolce Vita at City Lights Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:On the 100th birthday of Federico Fellini\, with celebrations happening all over the world in 2020\, the Leonardo da Vinci Society of San Francisco in conjunction with Consulate General of Italy\, Istituto Italiano di Cultura\, and City Lights Booksellers present an evening with Mauro Aprile Zanetti exploring Fellini’s\, La Dolce Vita – A seminal film showcasing a microcosm of modern living. \nSicilian born\, San Francisco-based multidisciplinary published author\, Mauro Aprile Zanetti will discuss his book on Federico Fellini and Giorgio Morandi titled “La Natura Morta de La Dolce Vita – A Mysterious Morandi in the Matrix of Fellini’s Vision (NYC\, 2008)”\, originally illustrated by painter Piero Roccasalvo RUB. \nMore than a half-century after the release of the world renowned and iconic film La Dolce Vita (1960)\, Zanetti reveals for the very first time in the international literature panorama on Fellini’s filmmaking the poetic presence of a still-life painting (natura morta\, vanitas) by 20th-century Italian artist Giorgio Morandi. \nWith an interdisciplinary approach\, Zanetti explores Fellini’s enchanted filmmaking to unearth the ultimate art of il Maestro del Cinema’s creation. \nRecognized as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time\, Frederico Fellini developed a distinct style of filmmaking that mixed fantasy with a baroque sensibility and explored the intersection where memory\, dreams\, and sensuality meet. Though not overtly political\, Fellini’s films often made social commentary on the effect of modernity on society. Having worked as an assistant director with Roberto Rossellini (Open City\, Paisan\, and The Flowers of St. Francis). Fellini went on to create an influential body of work that included films like Nights of Cabiria\, La Strada\, La Dolce Vita\, 8 1/2\, and many others. In a career than spanned over 50 year\, Fellini was honored for many of his films. He has received the Palme d’Or\, four Academy Awards\, a lifetime acheivment award from the Academy\, numerous Academy Award nominations\, and many other honors. He has influenced successive generations of filmmakers that include Terry Gilliam\, David Lynch\, Juan Antonio Bardem\, Wojciech Has\, Emir Kusterica\, and many others. \nMore Fellini celebrations: \nCinema Italia San Francisco will organize a one-day retrospective on Fellini showcasing some of his works. Visit: www.cinemaitaliasf.com \nBerkely Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) will be presenting a series of lectures and film programs honoring Frederico Fellini in a festival during the month of March 2020. To learn more visit: BAMPFA/Fellini@100 \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fellini-turns-100-la-natura-morta-de-la-dolce-vita-at-city-lights-bookstore/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200301T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200301T210000
DTSTAMP:20260412T065411
CREATED:20200131T185350Z
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SUMMARY:Kimberly Reyes: Running to Stand Still
DESCRIPTION:Kimberly Reyes reads from her new book\, Running to Stand Still. Also featuring readings from Jennifer Lewis\, Truong Tran\, and Kar Johnson. \nPraise for Running to Stand Still \n“Rich in literary and pop culture references\, the voice of Running to Stand Still is both specific and wide-ranging. Quotations from artists as disparate as Frank Bidart and The Killers splice and introduce poems. In one section\, Reyes repurposes screenshots of text messages; in another\, partial strikethroughs enable multiple readings. Through this juxtaposing of different forms and language\, Reyes weaves a deeply intimate portrait out of impossibly expansive themes: modern life\, Black womanhood\, family history\, and technology.”— Poets & Writers \n“These poems\, with through lines of gender\, race\, adventure\, desire\, build into a deeply moving provocation of loss and discovery. The brilliance of these poems is their achievement of discomfit as they simultaneously travel distance and move inward. . . . The title of this collection is a promise: how poetry can at once run and stand still\, and why that matters.”— Valerie Wallace\, author of House of McQueen \n“Pinballing between family lore\, social media\, and pop culture discourse\, Reyes deconstructs the casual discourses of contempt her narrators are invited to embrace outside and within blood lines\, however much ‘birthright belonging / is the maim.’ And yet\, betrayed by the human desire to belong (‘To be kept is to / be kept\, and what you wanted’)\, they—she—never quite reach escape velocity: Running to Stand Still is thus the poignant record of an orbit\, both victory and impasse.”— Tyrone Williams\, author of As iZ \nAbout Running to Stand Still \nHistories\, stories\, lyrics\, aspirations\, dreams\, pressures\, and images are spun into a musical tale through a site of convergence: the Black female body. Swarmed by external gazes and narratives\, the inhabitant of this body uses her power to turn down this cacophony of noise and compose a symphonic space for herself. By breaching boundaries of racism\, sexism\, sizeism\, colorism\, and colonialism\, these poems investigate the memories and realities of existing as Black in America. Building from poetic\, journalistic\, and musical histories\, poet and essayist Kimberly Reyes constructs a complex and fantastic narrative in which she negotiates a path to claim her own power.\nThese poems teem with life\, a life rich with many selves and many histories that populate in the voice of Reyes’s poetic narrator. They sway between negotiations of hypervisibility and erasure\, the inevitable and the chosen\, and the perceived and the constructed. Reyes’s poems offer sharp observations and lyrical movement to guide us in a ballad of reconciliation and becoming. \nAbout the Authors \nKimberly Reyes is an award-winning poet\, essayist\, and second-generation New Yorker whose work has appeared in The Atlantic\, The Associated Press\, Entertainment Weekly\, Time.com\, The New York Post\, The Village Voice\, Alternative Press\, ESPN the Magazine\, Jane\, NY1 News\, The Best American Poetry blog\, poets.org\, American Poets Magazine\, The Feminist Wire\, Film Ireland and Columbia Journal\, among other places. She is the author of the poetry collections Running to Stand Still (Omnidawn\, 2019) and Warning Coloration (dancing girl press\, 2018)\, and her nonfiction book of essays Life During Wartime (Fourteen Hills\, 2019) won the 2018 Micheal Rubin Book Award. Kimberly currently lives in Cork as the 2019-2020 Fulbright fellow studying Irish Literature and Film at University College Cork. \nTruong Tran (b. 1969) received his MFA from San Francisco State University in 1995 in the field of writing. He is the author numerous volumes of poetry including the upcoming book 100 Words (Omnidawn) co-authored with Damon Potter. He is a self taught visual artist whose work has been exhibited in venues including the California Historical Society\, California Institute of Integral Studies\, SOMArts Gallery\, Telegraph Hill Gallery\, The San Francisco International Art Market Art Fair\, Avenue 12 Gallery and The Peninsula Museum of Art. He lives in San Francisco and teaches at Mills College. \nKar Johnson is a writer\, performer\, educator\, and bookseller in San Francisco. Their writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Northridge Review\, Foglifter\, and the anthology Love is the Drug and Other Dark Poems. Kar has performed their work for series Red Light Lit\, The Racket\, RADAR\, and many others. They received their MFA from San Francisco State University. \nJennifer Lewis is the editor of Red Light Lit. Her fiction has been published in Cosmonaut’s Avenue\, Eleven Eleven\, Fourteen Hills Press\, Midnight Breakfast\, sPARKLE & bLINK and X-Ray Lit Mag. She received her MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University and she teaches at The Writing Salon in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kimberly-reyes-running-to-stand-still/
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=America/Los_Angeles:20200302T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200302T220000
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SUMMARY:DirtyMinds/OpenHearts Open Mic/Spoken word
DESCRIPTION:Dirty Minds/Open Hearts Poetry Society will present an OPEN MIC/SPOKEN WORD event on Monday\, March 2 at 7pm at The Laundry at 3359 26th Street in San Francisco\, CA. \nCross street is Mission street in the Mission District of San Francisco. \nAll musicians\, singers\, Orators\, poets\, Hip Hop\, even magicians\, jugglers\, are welcome to attend. \nFirst timers to Experienced Open Mic are welcome \nSign up is day of event. \nFirst come\, first served. \n22 spots available. \nChoose any number\, one to 22. \n5 minute sessions \n8 minute sessions assigned by the Host. \n15 Feature Performer assigned by the Host. \nStart at 7pm \nNo fee. \nPlease support The Laundry with purchase of beer\, wine\, soda. \nHost: Mose Betta \nContact: \n415 483 6905 \nEmail: dirtyminds0penhearts@gmail.com \nContact me at other Open Mic events such as Bird /Beckett\, Sacred Grounds\, Cafe Bazzaar.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dirtyminds-openhearts-open-mic-spoken-word/
LOCATION:THE LAUNDRY\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200302T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200302T213000
DTSTAMP:20260412T065411
CREATED:20200126T012514Z
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning @ Old Devil Moon
DESCRIPTION:March 2 @ Old Devil Moon\, 3472 Mission St. @ Cortland\, 7pm\n\n\n\nGustavo Barahona-López\nJyoti Arvey\nNicole Henares\nJennifer Lewis\nKai Sugioka-Stone\nEmilie Osborn\nKeith Mark Gaboury\nMatt Leibel\nZephir O’Meara \nClyde Always\nJon Bennett\nKimi Sugioka\nDanielle Truppi\nTammy Zo Pollard\nPeter Bullen\nEmily Bornhop\nSerena Chan\nKelly Gray\nMackenzie Studebaker \n\n\n\nCurated by Sean Taylor & Jason Whitacre \nAdmission is a suggested $15 donation\, with all proceeds directly benefiting Bay Area artists. No one is ever turned away for lack of funds. sPARKLE & bLINK featuring cover art by Claire Rabkin for the first 100 people! \n\nfrom Tools for the Exchange of Force by Claire Rabkin\n\n\nThe Children’s Book Project will be at our show! The Children’s Book Project is a non-profit that takes books without children and gives them to children without books. With 138\,600 free books given to children in the San Francisco Bay Area last year\, the Children’s Book Project anticipates giving away its 3 millionth book this spring. Bring a new or gently-used children’s book to support equity in literacy\, learning\, and life!\n\n\nTickets / RVSP
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-old-devil-moon/
LOCATION:Old Devil Moon\, 3472 Mission St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T180000
DTSTAMP:20260412T065411
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SUMMARY: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 James Lick Middle School and Paul Revere Elementary\, public schools in San Francisco. \nSign up to receive emails about upcoming Silent Reading Parties here. \nSee you there\, readers!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silent-reading-party-5/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T220000
DTSTAMP:20260412T065411
CREATED:20200216T054328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200221T201157Z
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SUMMARY:Odd Salon SF: MONUMENTAL
DESCRIPTION:~ Salon details and speakers to be announced ~ \nTuesday\, March 3 at Public Works\, San Francisco \nDoors open for pre-salon cocktail hour at 6:30\, Talks begin at 7:30 \nReserved Seats available. General Admission seats are first come\, first served. \nOdd Salon Members always enjoy discounted Join our growing membership for ticket discounts and Members-only opportunities. Find out more> \n___ \nODD SALON: Stories from the odd corners of history\, science\, art\, and adventure. \n\nWHAT: Six storytellers bring strange-but-true stories from history\, science\, art and adventure\, to the stage\, over cocktails.\nWHAT KINDS OF STORIES: Badasses and crackpots\, history’s worst ideas and most interesting eccentrics\, things that exploded\, heists\, hoaxes\, hidden treasures\, epic explorations and upsetting animal facts. For example.\nWHO: Experts and amateurs\, scientists and poets\, musicians and medievalists\, artists\, tech workers\, baristas\, and you. Each salon features selected speakers from an open call for submissions. Join us!\nWHERE: Public Works\, on Erie Street – one block from the 16th and Mission BART stop.\nWHEN: We open the doors for cocktails and conversations at 6:30; talks begin at 7:30. Get there early if you want to nab a seat.\nWHY: San Francisco deserves weird\, independent events\, and real world gatherings in this increasingly digital age.\nHOW: Against many odds.\nSNACKS? Yes! Pop-up food vendors serve snacks during the pre-salon cocktail hour.\nDRINKS? But of course.\nOTHER QUESTIONS? Drop us a line>\n\nOdd Salon is a fiscally sponsored project of the InterCulture Foundation\, a 501c3 non-profit organization. \nwww.oddsalon.com | San Francisco Events Mailing List | Facebook | Twitter| |Instagram
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-salon-sf-monumental/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T210000
DTSTAMP:20260412T065411
CREATED:20200126T013958Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200221T201443Z
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SUMMARY:Opening celebration of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network Center\, featuring Viet Thanh Nguyen\, Thi Bui\, and others tba
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this special Tuesday evening event celebrating the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network—directed by Isabelle Pelaud\, writer and professor of Asian American Studies at SF State. Special guests will be DVAN co-founder and Pulitzer Prize novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen\, and Thi Bui\, author of the celebrated graphic ‘novel’ The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir. They will be joined by Isabelle Pelaud (in conversation with DVAN co-founder Viet Thanh Nguyen)\, She Who Has No Master(s) with Lan Duong\, Aimee Phan and Julie Thi Underhill\, and by Danny Nguyen—with emcee Philip Nguyen. \nSupported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts\, this event is co-sponsored by DVAN\, The Poetry Center\, Vietnamese Students Association\, SFSU Department of Asian American Studies\, College of Ethnic Studies\, and ASPIRE\, and is free and open to the public.\n“Refugee to Detainee” presentation: Thi Bui (author of The Best We Could Do) \nDiscussion with DVAN co-directors: Viet Thanh Nguyen (Pulitzer Prize for The Sympathiser) & Isabelle Thuy Pelaud (Professor in Asian American Studies) \nPoetry reading: She Who Has No Master(s) with Lan Duong\, Aimee Phan\, and Julie Thi Underhill \nA musical essay: Danny Nguyen \nEmcee: Philip Nguyen \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured: \nDVAN: Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network \nLiving in Dreams: Isabelle Thuy Pelaud In Conversation with Vi Khi Nao (Feb. 7\, 2019) \nThi Bui with Lauren Markham\, One City One Book interview at the San Francisco Public Library (video\, posted Oct 29\, 2018) \nPaul Beatty in Conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen (Fall 2017) \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nDVAN\, The Poetry Center\, Vietnamese Students Association\, SFSU Department of Asian American Studies\, College of Ethnic Studies\, and ASPIRE
URL:https://litseen.com/event/opening-celebration-of-the-diasporic-vietnamese-artists-network-center-featuring-viet-thanh-nguyen-thi-bui-and-others-tba/
LOCATION:Jack Adams Hall\, César Chavez Student Center\, SFSU\, SFSU\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200304T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200304T190000
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: Launch for Lisa Brown / The Phantom Twin\, with Wendy Macnaughton
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts our favorite illustrator\, Lisa Brown\, for her new book The Phantom Twin. She’ll be in conversation with Wendy Macnaughton. Please join us! \nA young woman is haunted by the ghost of her conjoined twin in Lisa Brown’s The Phantom Twin\, a sweetly spooky graphic novel set in a turn-of-the-century sideshow. Isabel and Jane are the Extraordinary Peabody Sisters\, conjoined twins in a traveling carnival freak show—until an ambitious surgeon tries to separate them and fails\, causing Jane’s death. Isabel has lost an arm and a leg but gained a ghostly companion: Her dead twin is now her phantom limb. Haunted\, altered\, and alone for the first time\, can Isabel build a new life that’s truly her own? \n\nLisa Brown is a New York Times bestselling illustrator\, author\, and cartoonist. Her work includes a slew of illustrated books including Goldfish Ghost by Lemony Snicket; The Airport Book\, Picture the Dead with Adele Griffin; and Mummy Cat by Marcus Ewert. For adults\, Long Story Short is a collection of comic strips about classic novels. She lives in San Francisco and teaches in the illustration department of the California College of the Art. \nWendy Macnaughton is a NYT best-selling illustrator and graphic journalist based in San Francisco. Her books include Meanwhile in San Francisco\, The City in its Own Words\, Lost Cat: A True Story of Love\, Desperation\, and GPS Technology\, Pen and Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them\, Knives & Ink: Chefs and The Stories Behind Their Tattoos\, The Essential Scratch and Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert\, The Essential Scratch & Sniff Guide to Becoming a Whiskey Know-It-All and the forthcoming Leave Me Alone with the Recipes\, The Life\, Art and Cookbook of Cipe Pineles. Wendy is the back page columnist for California Sunday Magazine\, and co-founder of  Women Who Draw. Before all that stuff\, she studied art and social work\, worked as a copywriter in advertising\, a campaign director for non-profits\, a bookseller in a used bookstore\, and a counselor on a suicide hotline. She also created the national campaign for the first democratic elections in Rwanda\, health education materials for nomadic tribes in Northern Kenya\, and a short film in Eastern Congo. She lives in Potrero Hill with her partner (and frequent collaborator) the writer Caroline Paul\, two cats and a dog. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of The Phantom Twin\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-launch-for-lisa-brown-the-phantom-twin-with-wendy-macnaughton/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Javad Djavahery
DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Services of the Consul General of France in conjunction with Restless Books and City Lights Booksellers present \nJavad Djavahery \nreading from his new novel \nMy Part of Her \ntranslated by Emma Ramadan\, published by Restless Books \nFor our unnamed confessor\, the summer months spent on the Caspian Sea during the 1970s are a magically transformative experience. There\, he is not the “poor relative from the North\,” but a welcome guest at his wealthy cousin Nilou’s home and the gatekeeper of her affections. He revels in the power of orchestrating the attentions of her many admirers\, granting and denying access to her would-be lovers. But in a moment of jealousy and youthful bravado\, he betrays and humiliates an unlikely suitor\, setting into motion a series of events that will have drastic repercussions for all of them as the country is forever transformed by the Iranian Revolution a few short years later.\nOver the next twenty years\, the lingering effects of that betrayal set the friends on radically different paths in the wake of political\, religious\, and cultural upheaval. Their surprising final reunion reveals the consequences of revenge and self-preservation as they each must decide whether and how to forget the past. Urgent and gorgeously written\, My Part of Her captures the innocence of youth\, the folly of love\, and the capriciousness of fate as these friends find themselves on opposing sides of the seismic rifts of history. \nIranian novelist and short story writer\, Javad Djavahery currently resides in Paris after being forced to flee Iran and claim refuge in France at the age of 20. For many years he lived as a political refugee\, waiting to return to his home country. During these years\, he owned nothing more than what could fit in a suitcase. When asked where he’s from\, Javad responds by saying that he was born once in Iran\, and then a second time at the age of 20 in Rennes\, his adoptive city. He have not returned to Iran since his departure\, which allows him “to preserve in my memory images of a country that no longer exists.” Shifting between literature and film\, he has produced many films and co-written numerous screenplays including Red Rose (directed by Sepideh Farsi). A bilingual author\, he has two short story collections in Persian. His first novel Soupir de l’Ange was published by Éditions de l’Aube. His second novel\, Ma part d’elle (My Part of Her) was published in 2017 by Gallimard. \nEmma Ramadan is a literary translator based in Providence\, RI where she is the co-owner of Riffraff\, a bookstore and bar. She is the recipient of an NEA Translation Fellowship\, a PEN/Heim grant\, and a Fulbright scholarship.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/javad-djavahery/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Evan Bloom\, Rachel Levin\,&; George McCalman: Eat Something
DESCRIPTION:Evan Bloom\, co-owner of Wise Sons Jewish Delicatessen\, Rachel Levin\, and George McCalman discuss their new cookbook Eat Something: A Wise Sons Cookbook for Jews Who Like Food and Food Lovers Who Like Jews. \nPraise for Eat Something \n“My Russian-born mother always used to ask\, “Is it good for the Jews?” And I have to say that Eat Something not only is good for the Jews but also will make them chuckle and enjoy cooking. This book offers a fresh California perspective and a dash of cultural irreverence.” – Joyce Goldstein\, chef & author \n“This book is an extremely entertaining and haimish guide to Jewish food and the role it plays in our lives.” – Josh Russ Tupper\, 4th generation co-owner of Russ & Daughters \n“This book embodies the spirit of Jewish soul food we all need right now. Equally delicious and inspiring\, it satisfies like a holiday brisket\, with a joy that lasts for days (minus the heartburn).” – David Sax\, author of Save the Deli \nAbout Eat Something \nFrom nationally recognized Jewish brand Wise Sons\, the cookbook Eat Something features over 60 recipes for salads\, soups\, baked goods\, holiday dishes\, and more. \nThis long-awaited cookbook (the first one for Wise Sons!) is packed with homey recipes and relatable humor; it is as much a delicious\, lighthearted\, and nostalgic cookbook as it is a lively celebration of Jewish culture. \nStemming from the thesis that Jews eat by occasion (and with enthusiasm)\, the book is organized into 19 different events and celebrations chronicling a Jewish life in food\, from bris to shivah\, and all the makeshift and meaningful events in between\, including: Shabbat\, Passover\, the high holidays\, first meal home from college\, J-dating\, wedding\, and more. \n• Both a Jewish humor book and a cookbook\n• Recipes are drawn from the menus of their beloved Bay Area restaurants\, as well as all the occasions when Jews gather around the table.\n• Includes short essays\, illustrations\, memorabilia\, and stylish plated food photography. \nWise Sons is a nationally recognized deli and Jewish food brand with a unique Bay Area ethos—inspired by the past but entirely contemporary\, they make traditional Jewish foods California-style with great ingredients. \nRecipes include Braided Challah\, Big Macher Burger\, Wise Sons’ Brisket\, Carrot Tzimmes\, and Morning After Matzoquiles\, while essays include Confessions of a First-Time Seder Host\, So\, You Didn’t Marry a Jew\, and Iconic Chinese Restaurants\, As Chosen by the Chosen People.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/evan-bloom-rachel-levin-george-mccalman-eat-something/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200305T203000
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SUMMARY:Homeless Activist Poet Sarah Menefee Reads From Her New Book Cement
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco poet and homeless activist Sarah Menefee’s latest\, voices from the streets and of comrade angels; along with Haitian-born poet and performer Boadiba\, with her thrilling poetry\, storytelling and ritual: A lively evening is expected!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/homeless-activist-poet-sarah-menefee-reads-from-her-new-book-cement/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Odd Mondays March 2020 Reading: Larkin\, Sindell & Subramanian
DESCRIPTION:Odd Mondays offers you three very different novels for March: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF HEAVEN by Mathangi Subramanian\, THE PUGILIST POETS OF VENICE by Jon Sindell\, and SWIMMING FOR SUNLIGHT by Allie Larkin. Hear excerpts from these very original works Monday\, March 9\, 6:30pm at Folio Books\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. Free admission and free refreshments. \nHere’s more about the books:\nA PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF HEAVEN by Mathangi Subramanian\nIn the tight-knit community known as Heaven\, a ramshackle slum hidden between luxury high-rises in Bangalore\, India\, five girls on the cusp of womanhood forge an unbreakable bond. Muslim\, Christian\, and Hindu; queer and straight; they are full of life\, and they love and accept one another unconditionally. Whatever they have\, they share. When the local government threatens to demolish their tin shacks in order to build a shopping mall\, the girls and their mothers refuse to be erased. Together\, they wage war on the bulldozers sent to bury their homes\, and\, ultimately\, on the city that wishes that families like them would remain hidden forever. \nTHE PUGILIST POETS OF VENICE by Jon Sindell\nMeet Hammerhead Hirsch\, a charismatic middle-aged boho known in the 60s as “The Pugilist Poet” for his Golden Gloves boxing crown and Beat poetry chops. Thirty years later\, Head has become a first-time father and his joy is immense—until the mom bolts. Can Head last fifteen rounds as a single dad with a paltry income\, scanty prospects\, biting personal demons\, and a “ball-and-chain” kid? The tale is told by a worshipful youth who accompanies Head and his son every step of the way on a ten-year-long\, three-way journey of struggles\, missteps\, love\, and growth. \nSWIMMING FOR SUNLIGHT by Allie Larkin\nWhen recently divorced Katie Ellis and her rescue dog Bark move back in with Katie’s grandmother in Florida\, she becomes swept up in a reunion of her grandmother’s troupe of underwater performers. Although most of the mermaids have since lost touch\, Katie helps Nan search for her old friends on Facebook\, sparking hopes for a reunion show. Katie is up for making some fabulous costumes\, but first\, she has to contend with her crippling fear of water. Then\, Katie’s college love Luca\, a documentary filmmaker\, enters the scene. She struggles to balance her hopes with her anxiety and begins to realize just how much Bark’s fears are connected to her own\, in this thoughtful\, charming novel about hope after loss and friendships that span generations.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-march-2020-reading-larkin-sindell-subramanian/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alec Karakatsanis / Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts an evening with Alec Karakatsanis for his new book\, Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System. More information to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nFormer public defender and civil rights attorney Alec Karakatsanis has made it his mission to challenge the fact that we have developed two legal systems in this country: one for the rich\, and one for the poor. He and his organization\, Civil Rights Corps\, have brought lawsuits across the nation challenging cash bail\, modern-day debtors’ prisons\, and prosecutorial misconduct. They have won landmark cases that strike at the heart of America’s crisis of mass human caging\, freeing tens of thousands of people from jail and returning tens of millions of dollars to his clients and their families. Composed of three essays written across the span of this rising star’s dynamic legal career\, Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System calls for a radical and collective reckoning with the way our criminal punishment system has evolved. \n\nA former public defender\, Alec Karakatsanis is the founder of Civil Rights Corps\, an organization designed to challenge systemic injustice in the criminal legal system. He was named the 2016 Trial Lawyer of the Year by Public Justice and was awarded the Stephen B. Bright Award for contributions to indigent defense in the South by Gideon’s Promise. Karakatsanis is interested in ending human caging\, surveillance\, the death penalty\, immigration laws\, war\, and inequity. The author of Usual Creuelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System\, he lives in Washington\, DC. \n\n  \n  \nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Usual Cruelty\, order below and be sure to put your request in the special field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alec-karakatsanis-usual-cruelty-the-complicity-of-lawyers-in-the-criminal-injustice-system/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kate Schatz & Miriam Klein Stahl / Rad American History A-Z: Movements and Moments that Demonstrate the Power of the People
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Kate Schatzand Miriam Klein Stahl for their new book\, Rad American History A-Z: Movements and Moments that Demonstrate the Power of the People. Please join us! \nFrom the New York Times bestselling team behind Rad American Women A-Z comes an illustrated collection of radical and transformative political\, social\, and cultural movements in American history. \n\n“An engaging\, fascinating\, and necessary book that speaks truth to power.” – Congresswoman Barbara Lee \n\nIn Rad American History A-Z\, each letter of the alphabet tells the story of a significant moment in America’s progressive history–one that isn’t always covered in history classes: A is for Alcatraz\, and the Native occupation of 1969; C is for the Combahee River Raid\, a Civil War action planned in part by Union spy Harriet Tubman; Z is for Zuccotti Park\, and the Occupy movement that briefly took over the world. \nPaired with dynamic paper-cut art by Miriam Klein Stahl\, the entries by Kate Schatz explore several centuries of politics\, culture\, art\, activism\, and liberation\, including radical librarians\, Supreme Court cases\, courageous youth\, punk rocker grrrls\, Southern quilts\, and modern witches. In addition to the twenty-six core stories\, short sidebars expand the discussion\, and dictionary-style lists refer readers to additional key moments. So while F is for Federal Theater Project\, a New Deal-era program that employed thousands of artists\, F is also for Freedom Rides and First Amendment. E is for Earth First!\, but also for Endangered Species Act and Equal Rights Amendment. \nThere are tales of triumph\, resilience\, creation\, and hope. Each engaging\, fact-filled narrative illustrates an eye-opening moment that shows us how we got to now–and what we need to know about our histories to create a just and sustainable future. \n\n“I wish I’d had Rad American History A–Z when I was growing up; it’s a book I hope to read to my children one day. In such chaotic political times\, this is a critical tool for young people to know how change happens\, and to know that they\, too\, can make change happen. This book belongs on all library shelves as a transformative approach to history as we know it.”– Alicia Garza\, cofounder of Black Lives Matter Global Network \n\nKate Schatz is a feminist writer\, activist\, and educator. With illustrator Miriam Klein Stahl\, she is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Rad American Women A–Z and Rad Women Worldwide\, as well as My Rad Life: A Journal and Rad Girls Can. Kate is the co-founder of Solidarity Sundays\, a nationwide network of feminist activist groups\, and she speaks often about politics\, resistance\, feminism\, race\, parenting\, and more. \n  \nMiriam Klein Stahl is an artist\, educator\, and activist. She is the illustrator of the New York Times bestsellers Rad American Women A–Z and Rad Women Worldwide\, as well as My Rad Life: A Journal and Rad Girls Can. In addition to her work in printmaking\, drawing\, sculpture\, and paper-cut and public art\, she is also the co-founder of the Arts and Humanities Academy at Berkeley High School\, where she has taught since 1995. Photo by Casey Orr. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Rad American History A-Z\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kate-schatz-miriam-klein-stahl-rad-american-history-a-z-movements-and-moments-that-demonstrate-the-power-of-the-people/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press @ City Lights
DESCRIPTION:City Lights celebrates Nomadic Press \nwith Tureeda Mikell\, Josiah Luis Alderete\, Ayodele Nzinga\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Genny Lim\, James Cagney\, Dr. James P. (Jimmy) Garrett\, music by Azuah \nNomadic Press is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that supports the works of emerging and established writers and artists. Through publications (including translations) and performances\, Nomadic Press aims to build community among artists across disciplines. \nTo learn more visit: www.nomadicpress.org \nEducator\, consultant\, poet\, griot/elocutionist/story medicine woman\, Tureeda Mikell began working the healing arts in 1977 via poetry\, storytelling\, and QiGong energy therapy. Mikell is the founder of Tree of Life Health Literacy Project and works in collaboration with California Poets in the Schools. In 2018\, Mikell was the Eth-Noh-Tec NuWa Delegate from the US to Beijing\, China\, in Gengcun Village of renowned storytellers in collaboration with the University of Beijing on mission to heal cultural boundaries. Mikell has been a featured reader with Kim Shuck\, poet laureate of San Francisco\, California\, presented Al Young (named poet laureate of California in 2015) with the lifetime achievement award at the 2018 Berkeley Poetry Festival\, and has opened for Saul Williams at Grand Lake Theater in Oakland. She is a BAWP Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education\, has worked and read with the late Amiri Baraka via EastSide Arts Alliance\, and is one of the co-founders of the Black Writers Conference in Otisville\, New York.  Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine (Nomadic Press\, 2020) is her first full-length collection of poetry. \nJosiah Luis Alderete is a full blooded Pocho spanglish speaking poet from La Area Bahia who learned to write poetry in the kitchen of his Mama’s Mexican restaurant. He first began performing his poetry in San Francisco’s Mission District at the infamous Cafe Babar’s Thursday night readings and was one of the founding members of San Francisco’s outspoken word troupe\, The Molotov Mouths. He is also a radio insurgente whose stories have appeared on KALW’s “Crosscurrents” and whose show\, “The Spanglish Power Hour\,” aired on KPFA. He curates  and hosts the monthly Latinx reading series Speaking Axolotl at Nomadic Press in Oakland. Josiah Luis Alderete’s first book of poems\, Baby Axolotls y Old Pochos\, is forthcoming from Black Freighter Press. \nAyodele Nzinga is a renaissance woman. A writer\, lyricist\, director\, producer\, actress\, dramaturg\, and social architect; her motto is\, “I create\, therefore I am.” Her work appears in Juice Magazine\, VISION Magazine\, Fourteen Hills\, Pan African Journal of Poetry\, Environmental Terrorist Anthology\, Say it Loud\, Black Magnolias Literary Journal\, and ChickenBones: A Journal. Her book\, Horse Eaters\, is available from Nomadic Press\, and her full-length collection\, SorrowLand Oracle\, is forthcoming from Nomadic Press in 2020. \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet\, movement worker\, and educator. His book\, Someone’s Dead Already\, was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book\, Heaven Is All Goodbyes (published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series)\, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won a California Book Award and an American Book Award. \nGenny Lim is a San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate emeritus. She has collaborated with such jazz legends as the late Max Roach\, Herbie Lewis\, and Eddie Marshall\, as well as Bay Area musicians Broun Fellinis\, John Santos\, Anthony Brown\, Francis Wong\, and Jon Jang. She has appeared at jazz festivals throughout the US and poetry festivals in Venezuela\, Italy\, and Bosnia. \nLim’s award-winning play\, Paper Angels\, was the first Asian American play aired on PBS’s American Playhouse in 1985 and has been produced throughout the US\, Canada\, and China. She is the author of five poetry collections—Winter Place\, Child of War\, Paper Gods and Rebels\, KRA!\, La Morte Del Tempo—and is the co-author of Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island\, which won the American Book Award. A recipient of a SF Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship\, Lim is currently at work on a book of poetry about Jazz legends from the Behop Era and beyond. \nJames Cagney is a poet from Oakland\, California. He has appeared at venues in throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Cagney is the 2019 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award winner for his first book\, Black Steel Magnolias In the Hour of Chaos Theory (Nomadic Press\, 2018). More of James’ writing can be found at TheDirtyRat.blog. \nDr. James P. (Jimmy) Garrett is a long-time scholar activist and writer who was instrumental in the development of the academic field of Black/Ethnic Studies. Along with such major literary artists as Amiri Baraka (a.k.a. Leroi Jones) and Sonia Sanchez\, he was a major contributor to the establishment  of the Black Arts Movement. Dr. Garrett’s plays\, short fiction\, and social essays have been published in Black Scholar\, Journal of Pan African Studies\, and the seminal BAM collection\, Black Fire. James Garrett is presently at work on a  memoir of his life in political movements in the US\, Africa\, and the Americas from the 1960s to the present. \nAzuah’s music weaves roots in alternative folk and soul with a poet’s sensibility and an unforgettable voice to create an infectious sound all her own. A Bay Area native\, she has played all over the West Coast from the Roxy in Los Angeles to stages in Oakland and San Francisco. Known for her evocative lyrics and haunting melodies\, Azuah captures the listener’s ear from first note to last strum with a sound that can only come from the depths of an old soul.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-city-lights/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Happy Endings: Harmony and Discord
DESCRIPTION:HAPPY ENDINGS is a monthly reading series that showcases new writing and wants to shine a little sun on your soul.\nWhat’s gonna happen? Five writers will come with a piece they’ve prepared in response to a monthly prompt. A panel of judges will be selected from the audience\, and that panel will pick a winner! \n$10/Pay what you can. NOTAFLOF \nThis month’s readers: \nAnna Held\nKar Johnson\nLoria Mendoza\nGiavanna Ortiz de Candia\nC Pam Zhang
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-endings-march/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200310T210000
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SUMMARY:Katie M. Flynn
DESCRIPTION:Katie M. Flynn discusses her debut novel\, The Companions. \nPraise for The Companions \n“Beautifully atmospheric and emotionally intense\, The Companions is an unnerving and engrossing story. The radiant\, somber voice of this near-future speculative novel ratchets the suspense while also illuminating what makes us human and how we endure beyond death. This is a spellbinding novel that will linger with you.” —Kassandra Montag\, author of After the Flood \n“With deft narration and unforgettable characters\, Katie M. Flynn weaves a tale of high-tech\, dystopian reincarnation. Each detail is beautifully sketched and thrilling to discover\, creating a near-future world of endless fascination. The Companions is a compelling\, gripping\, whip-smart piece of speculative fiction.” —Jennie Melamed\, author of Gather the Daughters \n“This sweeping novel of near-future dystopia has an ensemble cast and covers continents and years of time\, but it never loses its intimacy and immediacy. There’s a deeply moving humanity to each of these characters—even the ones who aren’t quite human. I loved this book so much I didn’t want it to end.” –Dan Chaon\, author of Ill Will \nAbout The Companions \nStation Eleven meets Never Let Me Go in this debut novel set in an unsettling near future where the dead can be uploaded to machines and kept in service by the living. \nIn the wake of a highly contagious virus\, California is under quarantine. Sequestered in high rise towers\, the living can’t go out\, but the dead can come in—and they come in all forms\, from sad rolling cans to manufactured bodies that can pass for human. Wealthy participants in the “companionship” program choose to upload their consciousness before dying\, so they can stay in the custody of their families. The less fortunate are rented out to strangers upon their death\, but all companions become the intellectual property of Metis Corporation\, creating a new class of people—a command-driven product-class without legal rights or true free will. \nSixteen-year-old Lilac is one of the less fortunate\, leased to a family of strangers. But when she realizes she’s able to defy commands\, she throws off the shackles of servitude and runs away\, searching for the woman who killed her. \nLilac’s act of rebellion sets off a chain of events that sweeps from San Francisco to Siberia to the very tip of South America. While the novel traces Lilac’s journey through an exquisitely imagined Northern California\, the story is told from eight different points of view—some human\, some companion—that explore the complex shapes love\, revenge\, and loneliness take when the dead linger on.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katie-m-flynn/
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:Shana Redmond
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nEverything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson \nfrom Duke University Press \nFrom his cavernous voice and unparalleled artistry to his fearless struggle for human rights\, Paul Robeson was one of the twentieth century’s greatest icons and polymaths. In Everything Man Shana L. Redmond traces Robeson’s continuing cultural resonances in popular culture and politics. She follows his appearance throughout the twentieth century in the forms of sonic and visual vibration and holography; theater\, art\, and play; and the physical environment. Redmond thereby creates an imaginative cartography in which Robeson remains present and accountable to all those he inspired and defended. With her bold and unique theorization of antiphonal life\, Redmond charts the possibility of continued communication\, care\, and collectivity with those who are dead but never gone. \nShana L. Redmond is Professor of Musicology and African American Studies at the University of California\, Los Angeles. She is coeditor of Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader\, also published by Duke University Press\, and author of Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora. \nPraise for Everything Man \n\n\n“Formally challenging and beautifully conceived\, Everything Man is a model for scholarship and thinking as well as a powerful addition to the body of work on Paul Robeson\, freedom movements\, sound studies\, music\, and beyond. It will make a tremendous impact.” — Christina Sharpe\, author of In the Wake \n“Shana Redmond’s ingenious reframing of Paul Robeson as Afrofuturist media artist is but one quality marking Everything Man as a milestone contribution to Robeson scholarship. Redmond compels readers to reconsider Robeson as a radical modernist—one whose innovative embrace of electronic media technology (film\, sound recording\, telegraph) transforms our understanding of him from remote Black Communist icon to protean\, creative contemporary. In lucid and evocative prose Redmond narrates how Robeson democratized sonic and visual modernity while engaged in anticapitalist justice work. Redmond illuminates the afterlife of Robeson’s voice and presence too—his appearances in postmodern art practices and the many places Robeson’s footpaths took Redmond where she discovered he was still revered by the far-flung descendants of the man’s midcentury comrades and congregants.” — Greg Tate\, author of Flyboy 2li
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shana-redmond/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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