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SUMMARY:Eric Karpeles on Józef Czapski
DESCRIPTION:Eric Karpeles on Józef Czapski \n\n\n\nin conversation with Cynthia Haven \ncelebrating the release of three new books \nfrom New York Review Books: \nInhuman Land: A Wartime Journey through the USSR \nby Józef Czapski\, translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones\, with an introduction by Timothy Snyder \nAlmost Nothing: The 20th Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski \nby Eric Karpeles \nand \nLost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp \nby Józef Czapski\, introduction and translated from French by Eric Karpeles \nJózef Czapski (1896–1993) was a writer and artist\, as well as an officer in the Polish army. In 1918\, he enrolled in the Warsaw School of Fine Arts\, but shortly thereafter he suspended his studies in order to travel to Russia at the request of military authorities to search for officers in his division who had disappeared in action. At the end of the Russian Civil War\, he went back to his studies\, this time at Kraków’s Academy of Fine Arts\, and soon relocated to Paris with some fellow students\, thus founding the Komitet Paryski (Paris Committee)\, later known as the Kapist movement. Czapski was drafted into the army at the beginning of World War II\, soon after landing in a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp. Once free\, he was assigned to investigate another disappearance of officers\, who he would discover were victims of the Katyn Massacre\, the subject of Inhuman Land. Czapski spent the rest of his years painting and writing. \nEric Karpeles is a painter\, writer\, and translator. His comprehensive guide\, Paintings in Proust\, considers the intersection of literary and visual aesthetics in the work of the great French novelist. He has written about the paintings of the poet Elizabeth Bishop and about the end of life as seen through the works of Emily Dickinson\, Gustav Mahler\, and Mark Rothko. The painter of The Sanctuary and of the Mary and Laurance Rockefeller Chapel\, he is the also the translator of Józef Czapski’s Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp and Lorenza Foschini’s Proust’s Overcoat. He lives in Northern California. \nCynthia Haven is a 2018 National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar. She writes regularly for The Times Literary Supplement\, and has also contributed to The New York Times Book Review\, The Nation\, The Virginia Quarterly Review\, The Washington Post\, The Los Angeles Times\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, and World Literature Today. Her work has also appeared in Le Monde\, La Repubblica\, Die Welt\, Zvezda\, Colta\, Zeszyty Literackie\, The Kenyon Review\, Quarterly Conversation\, The Georgia Review\, and Civilization. She has been a Milena Jesenská Journalism Fellow with the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna\, as well as a visiting writer and scholar at Stanford’s Division of Literatures\, Languages\, and Cultures and a Voegelin Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. Peter Dale in Conversation with Cynthia Haven was published in London\, 2005. Her Czeslaw Milosz: Conversations was published in 2006; Joseph Brodsky: Conversations in 2003; An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czeslaw Milosz was published in 2011 with Ohio University Press / Swallow Press. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eric-karpeles-on-jozef-czapski/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sarah Stone
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Stone discusses her new novel\, Hungry Ghost Theater. \n\nPraise for Hungry Ghost Theater \n\n“Sarah Stone traces out the quirky\, fateful dramas of one family\, while having the visionary originality to take the longest possible view of human action. I found this an unforgettable book\, astute\, vivid\, and stubbornly ambitious in its scope.” —Joan Silber \n\n“With her laser intelligence and gorgeous prose style\, Sarah Stone has written a thrilling hybrid of a novel about the intricacies of family life and the inevitable handing down from one generation to the next of our deepest passions and pathologies. Set around the world–and in the next one–this book is both marvelously inventive and deeply humane. I loved it.”--Ann Packer. \n\nAbout Hungry Ghost Theater \n\nAn inventive\, funny\, sometimes heart-breaking exploration of the connections between art and hunger\, duty and desire\, and loss and survival. Brother and sister Robert and Julia Zamarin are trying to awaken the world to its peril with their tiny political theater company\, while their sister Eva\, a neuroscientist\, searches for the biological roots of empathy. As Julia attempts to break free of Robert’s influence\, Robert\, as lost without her as she is without him\, takes on dark material and drives away members of their company. Meanwhile\, the whole family contends with the ongoing troubles of Eva’s youngest daughter\, Arielle\, as she struggles with addiction. Finally\, after a family catastrophe\, Julia and Robert reunite to create a new piece in a possibly haunted theater institute. When Arielle shows up after her latest relapse\, they all have to find a new way of living in–and with–a world out of balance. \n  \nThe adventures of the eccentric\, memorable Zamarin family take the reader from San Francisco to Seoul\, from theater spaces to psychiatric hospitals\, from Zanzibar to the Santa Cruz Mountains\, and into and through a series of Sumerian and Tibetan hells. This imaginative\, provocative novel is a contemporary Inferno for fans of Margaret Atwood\, Ruth Ozeki\, and Lydia Millet.
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LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Amira Makansi / Literary Libations: What to Drink with What You Read
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Amira Makansi for the launch of her first book\, Literary Libations: What to Drink with What You Read. More information to come\, but please save the date and join us! \n  \nA bubbly\, boozy French 75 with The Great Gatsby. Trappist beer with Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose. Old vine California Zinfandel with The Grapes of Wrath. And don’t you dare open Bram Stoker’s Dracula on a Sunday morning without a Bloody Mary near at hand. Want to know what to pour when your book club meets to discuss the latest literary sensation? Then you need a copy of Literary Libations! \nPresented as a list and organized by genre\, Literary Libations offers pairing recommendations for nearly two hundred works of fiction across many genres. With background information on both the book and the beverage as well as an explanation of why the pairing works this is a fantastic gift for anyone who loves to read or drink. \nReaders will: \n\nLearn more about the world’s most iconic books.\nIncrease their knowledge of wine\, beer\, and spirits.\nIncrease their appreciation for famous authors.\nLearn to craft beautiful modern and classic cocktails.\nAnd gain a fun and unique way to revolutionize their book club.\n\n  \n\n  \nAmira K. Makansi is the author of Literary Libations: What to Drink With What You Read\, an informal guide to pairing great drinks with famous books. After graduating from the University of Chicago with a degree in history\, Amira quickly abandoned her quest to become a lawyer in favor of all things beverage-related. She spent her first few years out of college climbing around in stacks of wine barrels and hoeing weeds out of vineyards in France. She has served cocktails at a Michelin-starred restaurant in Chicago and cleaned hundred-year-old foudres at an Alsatian winery whose first vintage predates the French revolution. She got into writing accidentally\, when her mother had a crazy dream and wanted to turn it into a book. That book became The Sowing\, the first book in the young adult dystopian Seeds series\, which has been optioned for a Hollywood production. Now a full-time writer\, Amira is delighted to spend her days writing\, reading\, drinking\, cooking and exploring the great outdoors of her adopted state of Oregon. \n  \nRSVP appreciated by not required. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm.
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LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Voices from the Resistance: A Conversation with Angela Davis
DESCRIPTION:Voices from the Resistance:\nAngela Davis in Conversation with Olga Talamante\nModerated by Chelis Lopez \nA fundraiser for MAESTRAPEACE Book\nand the Chicana Latina Foundation \nFriday\, November 30 at 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm \nPlease join the Chicana Latina Foundation for this special event featuring a conversation between activist\, author and educator Angela Davis and community leader Olga Talamante. Moderated by KPOO’s Chelis Lopez\, the event will also feature a musical set by the Oakland based repertory group Young Gifted and Black! \nDirectly following the conversation\, join CLF along with Angela Davis\, Olga Talamante\, Chelis Lopez and the Maestrapeace muralists Juana Alicia and Susan Cervantes for a ticketed reception in Brava’s Cabaret. \nAll proceeds from Voices of the Resistance go to support the scholarship and leadership programs of the Chicana Latina Foundation\, as well as the Maestrapeace muralists upcoming book\, MAESTRAPEACE: Murals of The San Francisco Women’s Building\, which opens with an essay by Angela Davis. \n$25 – $80. \nPresented by Brava Theater Center.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voices-from-the-resistance-a-conversation-with-angela-davis/
LOCATION:Brava Theater Center\, 2781 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SENATOR KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND
DESCRIPTION:SENATOR KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND\nIn Conversation with Marisa Lagos\nFriday\, November 30\, 2018\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Nourse Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\n\nKirsten Gillibrand has served as United States Senator from New York since 2009 where a few of her major accomplishments include leading the effort to repeal “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell\,” writing the STOCK Act which made it illegal for members of Congress to financially benefit from insider information\, and providing permanent health care and compensation to the 9/11 first responders and community survivors. She is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee\, an advocate for gun control\, and a major voice in the fight to reform the justice system for sexual assault survivors in the military and on college campuses. A proponent of transparency in government\, Gillibrand was the first member of Congress to post her official daily meetings and personal financial disclosures online. Her new book\, Bold & Brave: Ten Heroes Who Won Women the Right to Vote\, features illustrations by Maira Kalman.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/senator-kirsten-gillibrand/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:People's Culture Cafe - Poetry\, Puppets and Politics at the Howard Zinn Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:This year\, on Sunday\, Dec. 2 from 10am – 6pm\, at the Mission Campus of CCSF (1125 Valencia Street\, SF)\, the Howard Zinn Book Fair welcomes a dynamic assortment of poets\, musicians\, and puppeteers to the People’s Culture Café. We believe\, as James Connolly said that ” Until the movement is marked by the joyous\, defiant\, singing of revolutionary songs\, it lacks one of the most distinctive marks of a popular revolutionary movement\, it is the dogma of a few\, and not the faith of the multitude.” \nIn addition to the many author readings\, panel discussions and small press exhibitors\, the People’s Culture Cafe\, hosted by Tongo Eisen Martin and Josiah Luis Alderete\, will feature dozens of Bay Area poets as well as musicians and puppeteers\, for the entire day of the fair. You can sit and enjoy a tasty meal or a cup of coffee while you listen as the event takes place in the Mission Campus Cafe off the courtyard\, next to Room 154. \nJust some of the day’s performers will be: powerful bilingual spoken word and popular theater from La Colectiva\, who use their stories to organize for the rights of Domestic Workers; Radical Puppetry with Joel Schecter; local musician John Radogno sings the songs of protest and satire; SanTana’s Fairy Tales is an oral history\, storytelling project that represent the history and stories of Mexican/Mexican-American residents of Santa Ana; The Revolutionary Poets Brigade is a group of poets in the San Francisco Bay Area dedicated to bringing positive change in the world through the power of poetry\, including: Jack Hirschman\, Genny Lim\, Sarah Menefee\, John Curl and more; Tongo Eisen Martin curates the best of Bay Area poets of the political imagination with: Aqueila Lewis\, Thea Matthews\, Tureeda Mikell\, Sarah O’Nela\, Nia Pearl\, Kiani Shaw\, Monics Sok\, Jeremy Vasquez\, and Zein El-Amine. \nA $5 donation is requested fr the book fair but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. For a schedule of People’s Culture Cafe readers and more information on the Howard Zinn Book Fair check out: https://howardzinnbookfair.com/
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LOCATION:City College of San Francisco – Mission Campus\, 1125 valencia Street\, San Francisco\,\, 94110
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: Janice Lee and Brenda Iijima\, reading from their works
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series\, supported by a generous grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, continues with the second event in our premier program. Prolific essayist\, fiction writer\, and editor Janice Lee\, visiting from Portland\, Oregon\, will be joined by poet\, editor\, and publisher Brenda Iijima\, visiting from Brooklyn\, New York\, each reading from their own works. This event also marks The Poetry Center’s first-time collaboration with local landmark Alley Cat Books\, currently one of the very best bookstores and cultural centers — featuring its remarkable\, community-currated gallery and among the best-selected shelves of books — in the Bay Area. This event is free and open to the public. Please note our afternoon start-time! \nJanice Lee is a Korean-American writer\, artist\, and editor. She is the author of KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Press\, 2010)\, Daughter (Jaded Ibis\, 2011)\, Damnation (Penny-Ante Editions\, 2013)\, Reconsolidation (Penny-Ante Editions\, 2015)\, and The Sky Isn’t Blue (Civil Coping Mechanisms\, 2016). She writes about the filmic long take\, slowness\, interspecies communication\, the apocalypse\, and asks the question\, how do we hold space open while maintaining intimacy? She is Founder & Executive Editor of Entropy\, Co-Publisher at Civil Coping Mechanisms\, Contributing Editor at Fanzine\, and Co-Founder of The Accomplices LLC. She currently lives in Portland\, Oregon where she is an Assistant Professor of Fiction at Portland State University. \nBrenda Iijima’s involvements occur at the intersections and mutations of poetry\, research movement\, animal studies\, ecological sociology and submerged histories. She is the author of seven full-length collections of poetry and numerous chapbooks and artist’s books. Her most recent book\, Remembering Animals was published by Nightboat Books in 2016. She is also the editor of the eco language reader (Nightboat Books and PP@YYL). She is the editor of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs\, located in Brooklyn\, NY. Currently she is working on the collected works of Charley Shively that include his luminous and radical Fag Rag essays\, poems\, ephemera\, photos and letters. She is also researching the phenomena of extinction. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nJanice Lee\nreading and in conversation with Brenda Iijima\nThursday NOV 29\n7:00 pm @ The Poetry Center\nHUM 512\, SFSU\, free and open to the public\nsupported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund \n  \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\n415-824-1761\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and Alley Cat Books
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-janice-lee-and-brenda-iijima-reading-from-their-works/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon
DESCRIPTION:Babylon Salon \n\npresents our Winter Reading \nSaturday\, Dec 1\, 2018\, 6.00 pm \nat The Armory Club\n1799 Mission Street \n(downstairs performance space)   \nfeaturing \n— \nVanessa Hua is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of a short story collection\, Deceit and Other Possibilities\, and the novel\, A River of Stars\, which O\, The Oprah Magazine calls “a marvel” and The Economist says is “delightful.” For two decades\, she has been writing\, in journalism and in fiction\, about Asia and the Asian diaspora. She has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature\, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award\, and a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing\, as well as honors from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Asian American Journalists Association. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, and The Washington Post. She lives in the Bay Area with her family. \nBeth Winegarner‘s new book\, Tenacity: Heavy Metal in the Middle East and Africa\, examines bands and fans in the restless region and how they manage to keep their communities alive in times of struggle. Her previous book\, The Columbine Effect\, reveals how Slayer\, Satanism and Grand Theft Auto can be a healthy part of growing up. Winegarner is a veteran Bay Area journalist who has contributed to San Francisco Magazine\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, SF Weekly and the San Francisco Examiner\, as well as national publications including the New Yorker\, The Guardian\, Mother Jones and Wired. She is a member of the San Francisco Writers Grotto.  \nHeather June Gibbons is the author of the new poetry collection Her Mouth as Souvenir\, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize\, and published by the University of Utah Press. She’s also the author of two chapbooks\, Sore Songs and Flyover\, and her work has appeared widely in literary journals. A graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, she teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University. She lives in San Francisco. More about her work can be found here. \nSara Mumolo is the author of Mortar (Omnidawn\, 2013) and the Associate Director for theMFA in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College of CA. She created and curated theStudio One Reading Series in Oakland\, CA from 2007-2012\, and Cannibal Books published her chapbook\, March\, in 2011. Poems have appeared in 1913: a journal of forms\, Action Yes\, Lana Turner\, The Offending Adam\, PEN Poetry Series\, Volta\, and Volt\,among others. She has received residencies to Vermont Studio Center\, Caldera Center for the Arts\, and has served as a curatorial resident at Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland\, CA. Her next book Day Counter is forthcoming in 2019 from Omnidawn. \nChristine O’Brien grew up in New York and Beverly Hills and teaches at Saint Mary’s College of California. Her work has appeared in The Seneca Review and The Slush Pile. Her memoir Crave: A Memoir of Food and Longing\, which Booklist calls “compelling” and a “page turner\,” and Lit Hub lists as one of ten memoirs to look for in the fall of 2018\, will be published by St. Martin’s Press on November 13\, 2018. \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-3/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:2018 Howard Zinn Book Fair FIGHTING FOR THE AIR WE BREATHE
DESCRIPTION:CCSF Mission Campus\, 1125 Valencia Street \nThe Fifth Annual Howard Zinn Book Fair is an annual celebration of people’s history\, past\, present and future. This year features more than 40 readings and more than 60 tables of exhibitors. We gather together authors\, zinesters\, bloggers and publishers for a day of readings\, panel discussions and workshops exploring the value of dissident histories towards building a better future. In the spirit of the late historian Howard Zinn we recognize the stories of the ways that everyday people have risen to propose a world beyond empires big and small. The Howard Zinn Book Fair is a non-sectarian left event that welcomes a wide variety of political left traditions. \nThis year’s theme is Fighting for the Air We Breathe and will be the focus of a number of our readings. The effects of human-caused environmental devastation have become impossible to ignore. The land we live on\, the water we drink\, and the air we breathe are under threat by relentless fossil fuel extraction and the toxic byproducts of profit driven mass production. The suffocation of our natural world is paralleled in society at large.  Persistent poverty\, racism and sexism are exacerbated by countless mass shootings\, police violence\, escalating wars\, and the violence of an emboldened far right. While conventional politics often expect market forces or new technologies to solve the world’s problems\, we know the real solutions will come from the collective action of everyday people\, through the very struggles chronicled by historian Howard Zinn under the banner of “a People’s History.” \nA donation of $5 is requested but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Please join us for one of the highlights of the year for the Bay Area’s political progressives. Take a look at the Howard Zinn Book Fair website for more details.\n\nAnd please tell all your friends! \nClick here for pdf flier to print & share! 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2018-howard-zinn-book-fair-fighting-for-the-air-we-breathe/
LOCATION:CCSF mission campus\, 1125 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Fifth Annual Howard Zinn Book Fair - Fighting for the Air We Breathe
DESCRIPTION:The Fifth Annual Howard Zinn Book Fair will be held in San Francisco from 10-6 on Sunday\, December 2nd\, 2018 at the Mission Campus of City College at 1125 Valencia Street at 22nd. The fair draws upon the legacy of legendary historian and activist Howard Zinn by gathering together authors\, zinesters\, bloggers and publishers for a day of readings\, panel discussions and workshops exploring the value of dissident histories towards building a better future.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe HZBF has become an invaluable annual event for left political culture in the San Francisco Bay Area and this year will feature over 40 author readings and panel discussions on a wide range of issues relating to economic and social justice and will include  SARAH JAFFE\, ROXANNE DUNBAR-ORTIZ\, TONGO EISEN MARTIN\, PAUL ORTIZ\, CAT BROOKS\, LETICIA DEL TORO\, MEAGAN DAY\, RICHARD WALKER\, GEORGE LAKEY and many more. \nThe centerpiece of the fair is a bookroom featuring over 60 exhibitors including independent publishers\, radical journals\, and progressive organizations of all stripes. \nThe fair’s theme this year\, Fighting for the Air We Breathe\, considers the effects of human-caused environmental devastation which have become impossible to ignore. The land we live on\, the water we drink\, and the air we breathe are under threat by relentless fossil fuel extraction and the toxic byproducts of profit driven mass production. The suffocation of our natural world is paralleled in society at large.  Persistent poverty\, racism and sexism are exacerbated by countless mass shootings\, police violence\, escalating wars\, and the violence of an emboldened far right. While conventional politics often expect market forces or new technologies to solve the world’s problems\, we know the real solutions will come from the collective action of everyday people\, through the very struggles chronicled by the late historian Howard Zinn author of A People’s History of the United States. \nBuilding on Zinn’s legacy\, the mission of the HZBF is to showcase authors and organizations which chronicle the often overlooked experiences of oppressed people and their struggle for justice. Since its founding\, the HZBF has been held annually as a free\, volunteer-run\, one-day event in the Mission District of San Francisco\, drawing around 2000 attendees each year. \nThe HZBF is a unique event that cultivates a welcoming environment where discussion can flow freely; where differences can be articulated\, heard\, and debated; and where people can connect with each other and talk about creating a better world. \nPlease join us on Sunday\, Dec. 2 from 10-6 for the Fifth Annual Howard Zinn Book Fair! We request a $5 donation\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \nFor our program of speakers and exhibitors and for more info visit our website at:\nhttps://howardzinnbookfair.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-fifth-annual-howard-zinn-book-fair-fighting-for-the-air-we-breathe/
LOCATION:CCSF mission campus\, 1125 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:GERD STERN @ 90
DESCRIPTION:SUN. DEC. 2ND\, 7PM \nGerd Stern joins the circle of Beat nonagenarians this year\, and we’re hosting a gathering to celebrate! Gerd has worn many hats over the last 90 years\, from Beat poet to psychedelic media artist\, and most recently\, was vindicated as the poet who did not lose the Joan Anderson Letter over the side of his houseboat 60 years ago. \nJoin us for an evening of readings\, conversation\, and celebration of Gerd at 90! \nMore details to follow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gerd-stern-90/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181203T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181203T210000
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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-20/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181203T213000
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SUMMARY:City Arts & Lectures NADINE BURKE HARRIS
DESCRIPTION:In Conversation with Indre Viskontas\nMonday\, December 3\, 2018\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Nourse Theater\nSeries: “On Arts” Benefiting 826 Valencia Scholarship Program \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nAs a pediatrician working in the Bay View-Hunter’s Point neighborhood of San Francisco\, Nadine Burke Harrisnoticed that the children who came to her clinic with health problems—including ADHD\, asthma\, and eczema—had histories of severe adversity. Her research has shown that exposure to violence and stress affects the developing brains and bodies of children\, resulting in increased instances of substance dependence\, impulse control\, engagement in high-risk behavior\, and heart disease or cancer. In response to her findings\, Harris founded the Center for Youth Wellness which provides care coordination\, mental health services\, nutrition\, holistic interventions\, and medication when necessary. She is the author of The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity. \nIndre Viskontas is a cognitive neuroscientist at University of California\, San Francisco and on the faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She has published groundbreaking work on the neural basis of memory and creativity and is co-host of the podcast Inquiring Minds. Her forthcoming book\, How Music Can Make You Better\, comes out Spring 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/city-arts-lectures-nadine-burke-harris/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Norma Cole with Steve Dickison: An Omnidawn Party
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of two new books of poetry from Omnidawn Press \nFate News \nby Norma Cole \nand \n\n\n\nInside Song  \nby Steve Dickison \nabout Fate News: \nAll timing all the time! Fate News is poetry in the crosshairs of action (kairos) and clock time (chronos). With a topical setlist in four sections\, “Local\,” “On-Going\,” “Stay Songs\,” and “Harmolodics\,” Fate News relentlessly pierces the surface of lyric gesture. Its osmotic exchanges and searching encounters vibrate with the clarity of fiercely delicate shouts and murmurs\, undertones and overtones. The vision of “Mount Fiasco” is on fire. \nNorma Cole is a poet\, translator\, and visual artist. Her books of poetry include Actualities\, Where Shadows Will\, and Win These Poster and Other Unrelated Prizes Inside. To Be At Music: Essays & Talks appeared in 2010. Her visual work has been shown at 2nd floor projects in San Francisco and the Berkeley Art Museum. Born in Toronto\, Canada\, Cole lives in the sanctuary city of San Francisco. \n\n\n\nabout Inside Song : \nThese poems sense music as a generative force\, always gone other ways than culture and commerce need and declare it to travel. Half the book (Zora Neale Hurston) obliquely teases out the practice of “fieldwork” as the study of “getting into the crowd\,” and half follows from Charlie Haden’s deployment of “liberation music” as communitarian voice in the face of acts of State targeted at peoples and persons. \nSteve Dickison teaches at San Francisco State University\, where he directs The Poetry Center. His work has appeared in SFMOMA’s Open Space\, BAX 2015: Best American Experimental Poetry\, and Bomb\, which awarded him the 2014 Poetry Prize. He was born and raised in Northern Minnesota. \nOmnidawn Press is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization\, seeks to support and expand the community of writers and readers through the work we choose to publish\, which questions\, in both form and content\, the prevailing limits of convention. Omnidawn began in 2001 with the intent is to explore internal and external boundaries and push\, with compassionate insight\, the limits of risk. At the core of Omnidawn’s mission is the belief that lively\, culturally pertinent\, emotionally and intellectually engaging literature can be of great value\, and they participate in the dissemination of such work.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/norma-cole-with-steve-dickison-an-omnidawn-party/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Designing Change: A Conversation with David Hogg
DESCRIPTION:On December 4\, The Museum of Craft and Design welcomes Parkland activist\, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student and author David Hogg\, to San Francisco to share his personal story and vision for change in our country. \n“Designing Change: A Conversation with David Hogg” will include a lecture and Q&A at Minnesota Street Project followed by a reception and book signing with Hogg at the Museum of Craft and Design. Both arts venues are located within walking distance of each other in the historic Dogpatch district in San Francisco. David Hogg’s new book\, “#NeverAgain” will be on sale during the event at both locations and in advance of the lecture at MCD’s Store. \nConcurrently\, Al Farrow: Divine Ammunition\, a new exhibition of work by internationally acclaimed artist Al Farrow will be on view at the Museum of Craft and Design. Farrow is known for his works that employ used munitions-bullets\, guns\, grenades\, bombs-to make powerful sculptures of reliquaries and holy sites. Through his chosen media\, Farrow reclaims tools of destruction to evoke peaceful social commentary. \nTimes and Locations\n7:00-8:00 PM | Lecture and Q&A\nAt Minnesota Street Project\, 1275 Minnesota St.\, San Francisco \n8:30-9:30 PM | Reception & Book Signing\nAt Museum of Craft and Design\, 2569 Third St\, San Francisco \nTicket Details\nLecture and Q&A only | $30 public\, $25 MCD Members and students*\nLecture\, Q&A\, Reception and Book Signing with Author | $60 public\, $55 MCD Members and students*\n*Members and students will be required to present current membership cards or student ID upon entry. \nLecture\, Q&A\, Reception and Book Signing with Author – $60 (Lecture and Q&A only – $30). \nPresented by Museum of Craft and Design.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/designing-change-a-conversation-with-david-hogg/
LOCATION:Minnesota Street Project\, 1275 Minnesota Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Museum of Craft and Design":MAILTO:sbrosales@sfmcd.org
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SUMMARY:The Wall of Birds
DESCRIPTION:Jane Kim and Thayer Walker discuss their new book\, The Wall of Birds:One Planet\, 243 Families\, 375 Million Years. \n\nAbout The Wall of Birds \n\nA celebration of the diversity and evolution of birds\, as depicted in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s magnificent 2\,500-square-foot Wall of Birds mural by artist Jane Kim. \n  \nPart homage\, part artistic and sociological journey\, The Wall of Birds tells the story of birds’ remarkable 375-million-year evolution. With a foreword by John W. Fitzpatrick\, director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology\, and full of lush photographs of gorgeous life-size birds painted in exacting detail\, The Wall of Birds lets readers explore these amazing creatures family by family and continent by continent. Throughout\, beautifully crafted narratives and intimate artistic reflections tell of the evolutionary forces that created birds’ dazzling variety of forms and colors\, and reveal powerful lessons about birds that are surprisingly relevant to contemporary human challenges. \n  \nFrom the tiny five-inch Marvelous Spatuletail hummingbird to the monstrous thirty-foot Yutyrannus\, The Wall of Birds is a visual feast\, essential for bird enthusiasts\, naturalists\, and art lovers alike.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wall-of-birds/
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:1st Tuesday's Spoken Word & Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:1st Tuesday’s Spoken Word TV showcase is a community event that creates a positive space for expression through the arts. \nWe highlight local talent and bring awareness to local business\, including Radio Africa and Kitchen Cuisine and the new Cafe Envy. \nThis event is an upscale\, black carpet affair where artists receive lots of press coverage\, exposure and a great experience to share their art. We highlight spoken word artists\, poets\, storytellers\, singers\, artists and more. \nJoin us every 1st Tuesday from 7:30-9:30pm. This is a free event & Cafe Envy’ has extended their Happy Hour menu just for this special evening. \nWe’re doing this to build community & on our own so come out and support. \n#BigMouthProductions #1stTuesdaysRemixTV #BayviewHuntersPoint
URL:https://litseen.com/event/1st-tuesdays-spoken-word-open-mic/
LOCATION:Cafe Envy\, 1701 Yosemite Ave\, San Francisco\, 94124
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Big Mouth Productions":MAILTO:karwanna1@gmail.com
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181205T210000
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SUMMARY:George Lakey
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nHow We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning \nby George Lakey \nfrom Melville House \nA lifetime of activist experience informs this playbook for building and conducting nonviolent direct action campaigns — teaching us how to achieve real progressive change. \n\nToday’s new direct action campaigns require a new\, down-to-earth guide to effective campaigning. George Lakey’s How We Win is that timely guide. The Women’s March of January 21\, 2017 was estimated at four million people — the largest assembly of activist protest in U.S. history. Many of those assembled were in the streets for the first time\, or returning after a period of inactivity. \nLakey\, a lifelong activist\, helps us understand our political moment (extreme polarization\, ripe for political change)\, teaches us how to plan a campaign to overcome that polarization\, demonstrates how to launch these ideas into action\, and shows us how to grow and sustain our movements. This is what democracy looks like. \nGEORGE LAKEY has been active in direct action campaigns for six decades. Recently retired from Swarthmore College\, where he was the Eugene M. Lang Visiting Professor for Issues in Social Change\, Lakey was arrested for the first time at a civil rights demonstration in March 1963\, and most recently on March 29\, 2018 in the Power Local Green Jobs Campaign. He lives in Philadelphia. \nWhat has been said about the work of George Lakey: \n“If you want to be a soldier\, you can go to West Point. If you want to be a nonviolent change-maker — well\, this is an awfully good place to start. George Lakey has been near the center of American resistance for decades\, and so he has both remarkable stories and remarkable insights — not to mention some remarkable colleagues who add their perspective to this necessary manual!” \n–Bill McKibben\, co-founder of 350.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/george-lakey/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:2ND SET: ‘OVERTHROWING CAPITALISM’ ANTHOLOGY RELEASE
DESCRIPTION:WED. DEC. 5TH\, 7PM \nBy popular demand\, we’ve added a second night of readings from the newly released Overthrowing Capitalism: Volume Five. \nFeatured readers: \n\nLincoln Bergman\nWilliam Crossman\nAnita Odena Cruz\nRomeo Cruz\nCarol Denney\nArnoldo Garcia\nLapo Guzzini\nDan Katz\nKaren Melander Magoon\nJanice Mirikitani\nAlejandro Murguia\nJeanne Powell\nStephen Schur\nNina Serrano\nCathleen Williams\nNellie Wong\nAndrena Zawiinsky\nFady Zouby\nFacilitator:\nRosemary Manno
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2nd-set-overthrowing-capitalism-anthology-release/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181205T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181205T213000
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Poetry from USF's Graduate Program in Writing
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the concluding event in Prof. D. A. Powell‘s “San Francisco Poetics\,” an open classroom experience celebrating poets in San Francisco. The founding director of the University of San Francisco’s Master of Fine Arts degree in writing program\, Aaron Shurin (pictured)\, will read and discuss his own work and how it relates to ideas of community and culture in San Francisco. Graduate students from the USF’s MFA program will read poems written this semester. Please join us! \n  \n\n  \nThis is a free\, all-ages event open to the public. \n  \nRSVP appreciated by not required. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-poetry-from-usfs-graduate-program-in-writing/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joshua Rivkin and R.O. Kwon
DESCRIPTION:Joshua Rivkin discusses his new biography\, Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly\, with R.O. Kwon. \n\nPraise for Chalk \n\n“Reviled when young\, revered when old\, the elusive Twombly surprisingly emerges in this fascinating biography\, which traces the difficulties of tracking down the man as thoroughly as it fills in the blurred\, half-erased likeness. This is the record of a heroic journey of discovery.” —acclaimed author and memoirist Edmund White\n \n\n“Joshua Rivkin’s sensitive eye and investigative ambition expand and enrich our understanding of Cy Twombly’s genius in this tenderly rendered biography.”—Rachel Corbett\, author of You Must Change Your Life \n\n“So much more than a study of the life and work of the famously guarded Twombly. At once candid and tender\, meditative and unsparing . . . this book is a gift to Twombly devotees and newcomers alike—as imbued with beauty\, genius\, and vitality as the artist’s work that is its subject.” —Lacy Johnson\, author of The Other Side \n\nAbout Chalk \n\nThe first book to explore the life and work of painter Cy Twombly\, one of the most important and influential artists of the Twentieth Century \nCy Twombly was a man obsessed with myth and history—including his own. Shuttling between stunning homes in Italy and the United States where he perfected his room-size canvases\, he managed his public image carefully and rarely gave interviews. \nUpon first seeing Twombly’s remarkable paintings\, writer Joshua Rivkin became obsessed himself with the mysterious artist\, and began chasing every lead\, big or small—anything that might illuminate those works\, or who Twombly really was. \nNow\, after unprecedented archival research and years of interviews\, Rivkin has reconstructed Twombly’s life\, from his time at the legendary Black Mountain College to his canonization in a 1994 MoMA retrospective; from his heady explorations of Rome in the 1950s with Robert Rauschenberg to the ongoing efforts to shape his legacy after his death. \nIncluding previously unpublished photographs\, Chalk presents a more personal and searching type of biography than we’ve ever encountered\, and brings to life a more complex Twombly than we’ve ever known. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joshua-rivkin-and-r-o-kwon/
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:NEW DATE! In Common Writers Series: Kiese Laymon\, reading and in conversation with Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:Thanks to a generous grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, The Poetry Center In Common Writers Series will present six double-programs (twelve events in all) during 2018–19\, featuring a series of remarkable writers from across the US\, paired in conversation and performance with (for the most part) local area writers with whom they share strong affinities. Each featured guest writer appears at The Poetry Center—we’re doing outreach in particular to students and faculty in SF State’s College of Ethnic Studies—reading here and in conversation with their paired writer\, and then off-campus with both writers reading their work at one of the Bay Area’s local bookstores. We want to recognize our local bookstores as crucial cultural centers and\, paradoxically maybe\, among the most long-lived and durable cultural sites in this violently gentrified greater community. For our second program in the series\, renowned novelist and essayist Kiese Laymon is joined by San Francisco poet Tongo Eisen-Martin. Free and open to the public. \nKiese Laymon will be presenting his powerful new book Heavy: An American Memoir (Scribner\, 2018)\, traveling to San Francisco from his hometown of Jackson\, Mississippi. He’ll read and join Tongo Eisen-Martin in conversation at The Poetry Center during the afternoon\, Thursday December 6\, then the two of them will each present their own work that same evening at Oakland’s landmark Marcus Books\, “the oldest African American-themed bookstore in the country.” \n“Oh my god. I just finished Heavy by Kiese Laymon. It is. Astonishing. Difficult. Intense. Layered…. Wow. Just wow.” —Roxane Gay \nKiese Laymon is a black southern writer\, born and raised in Jackson\, Mississippi. Laymon attended Millsaps College and Jackson State University before graduating from Oberlin College. He earned an MFA in Fiction from Indiana University. Laymon is currently a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of the award-winning novel\, Long Division\, a collection of essays\, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America\, and Heavy: An American Memoir\, brand new from Scribner in October 2018. Laymon has written for numerous publications including New York Times\, NPR\, Los Angeles Times\, Esquire\, The Guardian\, McSweeneys\, Colorlines\, The Best American Series\, Ebony and many others. He is a contributing editor of Oxford American. \nBorn in San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is the author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015) and Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights Books\, Pocket Poets Series\, 2017). He is a movement worker\, educator\, and poet who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. Subscribing to the Freirian model of education\, he designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, MS. Eisen-Martin was The Poetry Center’s premier Mazza Writer in Residence in 2017. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nKiese Laymon and Tongo Eisen-Martin\nreading from their works\nThursday DEC 6\n*6:30 door; readings 7:00pm sharp @ Marcus Books\n3900 Martin Luther King Jr. Way (one block west of MacArthur BART)\, Oakland\, free and open to the public\nsupported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nFEATURE: Kiese Laymon\, What Bill Cosby Taught Me About Sexual Violence and Flying\nVIDEO: Kiese Laymon with Mark Anthony Neal\, on Heavy: An American Memoir \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\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-date-in-common-writers-series-kiese-laymon-reading-and-in-conversation-with-tongo-eisen-martin/
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:Chaya Bhuvaneswar in conversation with Louise Aronson
DESCRIPTION:celebrating Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s new book \nWhite Dancing Elephants \nfrom Dzanc Books \nIn luminous\, vivid\, searingly honest prose\, the stories in White Dancing Elephants center on the experiences of diverse women of color—cunning\, bold\, and resolute—facing sexual harassment and racial violence\, as well as the violence women inflict upon each other. One woman’s miscarriage is juxtaposed against the story of the Buddha’s birth. Another cheats with her best friend’s husband\, only to discover it’s her friend she most yearns for. In three different stories\, three artists struggle to push courageous works into the world\, while a woman with an incurable disease competes with her engineer husband’s beautiful android. \nCombining the speculative elements and wry psychological realism beloved by readers of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Margaret Atwood\, Danzy Senna and Sandra Cisneros\, this collection introduces Chaya Bhuvaneswar as an original and memorable new voice. White Dancing Elephants is the winner of the 2017 Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize. \nChaya Bhuvaneswar is a practicing physician and writer whose work has appeared in Narrative Magazine\, Tin House\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Awl\, jellyfish review\, aaduna and elsewhere\, with poetry forthcoming in Natural Bridge\, Quiddity\, apt magazine\, Hobart and more. Her poetry and prose juxtapose Hindu epics\, other myths and histories\, and the survival of sexual harassment and racialized sexual violence by diverse women of color. She received the Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize\, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship\, and a Henfield award for her writing. Her work received four Pushcart Prize anthology nominations in 2017. Follow her on Twitter at @chayab77 including for upcoming readings and events. \nLouise Aronson is a geriatrician\, writer\, educator\, and professor of medicine at the University of California\, San Francisco (UCSF) where she directs UCSF Medical Humanities. A graduate of Harvard Medical School and the Warren Wilson Program for Writers\, Dr. Aronson has received the Gold Professorship in Humanism in Medicine\, the California Homecare Physician of the Year award\, and the American Geriatrics Society Clinician-Teacher of the Year award\, as well as numerous awards for her teaching\, educational research and writing. She is the author of the PEN America debut fiction award finalist\, A History of the Present Illness\, and the forthcoming non-fiction Elderhood: Redefining Medicine\, Life\, and Old Age in America. Her articles\, essays and stories appear regularly in literary and medical journals\, newspapers and blogs\, including the New York Times\, New England Journal of Medicine\, JAMA\, Narrative Magazine\, Bellevue Literary Review\, and the Lancet. \nPRAISE FOR WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS: \n“A magnificent collection of stories that defy conventions\, stereotypes\, and reveal the universal complexity we all share as humans—gifted and flawed individuals\, who struggle to reconcile the mixed signals of our own hearts.”\n—Jamie Ford\, author of House on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet \n“Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s debut collection maps with great assurance the intricate outer reaches of the human heart. What a bold\, smart\, exciting new voice\, well worth listening to; what an elegant story collection to read and savor.”\n—Lauren Groff\, author of Florida \n“Reading Chaya Bhuvaneswar is like receiving Lasik via literature—the world you return to is a little clearer and sharper for the time you’ve spent in her pages. She is a formidable talent\, formally accomplished and intellectually alive.”\n—Anthony Marra\, Whiting-award winning author of The Constellation of Vital Phenomena \n“Bhuvaneswar’s daring mix of ancient\, contemporary\, and dystopic stories carries us to the heart of rarely exposed longing\, loss\, and the politics of violence and endurance in remarkable\, elegant\, heart-stopping prose.”\n—Jimin Han\, author of A Small Revolution \n“From the first page\, I was swept away by the riveting undertow of Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s inventive and spellbinding stories\, each moment cast in powerfully intelligent prose. White Dancing Elephants is a remarkable debut; we are so lucky to hold this book in our hands.”\n—Laura van den Berg\, author of The Third Hotel \n“White Dancing Elephants is a searing and complex collection\, wholly realized\, each piece curled around its own beating heart. Tender and incisive\, Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a surgeon on the page; unflinching in her aim\, unwavering in her gaze\, and absolutely devastating in her prose. This is an astonishing debut.”\n—Amelia Gray\, author of Isadora \n“A bold\, honest\, often provocative first collection from a fresh new voice.”\n—Jeff VanderMeer\, author of Annihilation \n“Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a master of literary stealth. Seduced by her luminous\, intimate voice\, I was unprepared for the shattering force of her honesty and insight. Authentic\, fearless and wholly original\, White Dancing Elephants is a knockout collection.”\n—Jillian Medoff\, author of This Could Hurt \n“Filled with dark music\, nuance\, and intelligence\, White Dancing Elephants takes readers on a thrilling journey. In sharp takes\, Chaya Bhuvaneswar unfolds the complexities of race and gender\, tragedy and eros. This unforgettable collection will hold its readers captive to the very last page.”\n—Diana Abu-Jaber\, author of Life Without a Recipe \n“Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s stories reveal a rare sensitivity to the strange and complicated acrobatics of the human heart. These are astonishing\, urgent portraits of people trying to see the world for what it is and what it might be.”\n—Emily Geminder\, author of Dead Girls and Other Stories \n“White Dancing Elephants dazzles from the start.  There are so many wonderful stories in this collection that center on female characters of color in all sorts of situations.  Readers are treated to deep characters\, mesmerizing language\, and a story that propels forward across a city and the landscape of a mind effortlessly.  This is a new gifted voice in contemporary literature and we are so lucky to have it!”\n—Victoria Chang\, American Book Award-winning author of Barbie Chang \n“The stories in White Dancing Elephants show impressive dexterity and range. The prose can be rich and intricate one moment\, then shifts registers into sharp humor; the characterization is many-dimensional; Bhuvaneswar’s ability to take on larger topics\, such as Bhopal\, and to locate and intensify their complexity within individuals is amazingly fine.”\n—Peter Rock\, Alex-award winning author of My Abandonment \n“Bhuvaneswar’s stories are as insightful as they are ineffable and as devastating as they are delightful. As I read these important and hilarious tales about the lives of queer people of color\, I kept asking myself\, ‘You can do this in writing?’”\n—Emma Eisenberg\, GLAAD-nominated journalist and author of The Third Rainbow Girl \n“Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s deft and poignant stories bring the whole damned world into clearer focus. A pure pleasure to read\, White Dancing Elephants is a remarkable book that will stay with me for a long time.”\n—Skip Horack\, author of The Other Josep \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chaya-bhuvaneswar-in-conversation-with-louise-aronson/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime LAPSARIANS
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime LAPSARIANS will occur at Edinburgh Castle\, 950 Geary Street\, San Francisco\, Thursday December 6th\, 7-9 pm\, featuring Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Fruit of the Drunken Tree)\, and others. lapsarians n. (lap-?ser-?-?n) Believers in the Fall. Origin: Latin lapsus\, a fall.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-lapsarians/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Castle Pub\, 950 Geary St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:WOULD YOU BE CAUGHT DEAD IN THAT OUTFIT?
DESCRIPTION:WOULD YOU BE CAUGHT DEAD IN THAT OUTFIT?\nA multimedia event celebrating the aesthetics of ’80s and ’90s underground clubbing by pájaros\, maricones\, mariposas\, mariquitas and those who love them. \nCurated by artists Juliana Delgado Lopera & Rebeka Rodriguez in collaboration with Aunt Lute Books\, this 1980s Latinx fashion extravaganza will include: \n*A runway featuring YOU – fabulous young and elder queers! \n*A kiki panel on the resiliency of people living and performing on 16th street in the 80s and 90s [FULL LINEUP TO BE ANNOUNCED] \n*A cute and cuir photo booth \n*DRAG! \nAnd more! Bring your best looks for a chance to win some fabulous prizes (glamorous books)! \nThis event is FREE! Ages 21 and up. The Stud is ADA accessible. \n  \n  \nWhen:  December 6\, 2018 @ 7pm\nWhere: The Stud (399 9th St\, San Francisco\, CA) \n===== \nAbout the curators:\nJuliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer\, historian based in San Francisco. The recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary award\, she’s the author of Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017) and ¡Cuéntamelo! Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants (Aunt Lute 2017)\, which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. She is currently the Creative Director of RADAR Productions. \nRebeka Rodriguez is an artist\, curator\, and cultural producer working in San Francisco communities. She is currently the Civic Engagement Manager at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the founder of BYOQ\, a daytime music\, art & performance festival. \nAunt Lute Books is a nonprofit women’s publishing press based in San Francisco. For over thirty years\, we have been publishing literature that voices the perspectives of women who have been traditionally under-represented in mainstream and small press publishing.         \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/would-you-be-caught-dead-in-that-outfit/
LOCATION:The Stud Bar\, 399 9th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers with Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Jaymee Goh (The Sea is Ours: Steampunk Tales of Southeast Asia)\nJennifer S. Cheng (Moon: Letters\, Maps\, Poems)\nBryan Thao Worra (On the Other Side of the Eye)\nAlan Chazaro (Ghost Town Literary Review)\nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-18/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Michael Lally will read from and sign his new book Another Way to Play: Poems 1960-2017
DESCRIPTION:From a ’60s-era verse letter to John Coltrane to a 2017 examination of Life After Trump\, Another Way to Play collects more than a half century of engaged\, accessible\, and deeply felt poetry from a writer both iconoclastic and embedded in the American tradition. In the vein of William Carlos Williams and Frank O’Hara\, Lally eschews formality in favor of a colloquial idiom that pops straight from the page into the reader’s synapses. This is the definitive collection of verse from a poet who has been around the world and back again: verse from the streets\, from the political arena\, from Hollywood\, from the depths of the underground\, and from everywhere in between.  As Lally himself writes: “I suffered\, I starved\, and so did my kids\, / I did what I did for poetry I thought / and I never sold out\, and even when I did / nobody bought.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-lally-will-read-from-and-sign-his-new-book-another-way-to-play-poems-1960-2017/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tongues of Fire Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:TONGUES OF FIRE Reading Series \n8pm \nbound together anarchist collective bookstore\, 1369 Haight St. \nFeaturing Anna Allen\, James Warner\, Phyllis Oscar\, and others!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tongues-of-fire-reading-series/
LOCATION:Bound Together Bookstore\, 1369 Haight St\,\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Event: GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets\, artists\, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. \nTo participate in the open mic sessions\, please arrive by 4 and plan to listen to all of the featured poets. Seating/space is limited.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-event-gears-turning-w-kim-shuck-8/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Dana Frank in conversation with John Lindsay-Poland
DESCRIPTION:  \ndiscussing their new books \nThe Long Honduran Night: Resistance \, Terror\, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup \nBy Dana Frank \nfrom Haymarket Books \nand \nPlan Colombia: U.S. Ally Atrocities and Community Activism \nby  John Lindsay-Poland \npublished by Duke University Press \nabout The Long Honduran Night: \n\n\nA story of resistance\, repression\, and US policy in Honduras in the aftermath of a violent military coup. \n\n\nThis powerful narrative recounts the dramatic years in Honduras following the June 2009 military coup that deposed President Manuel Zelaya\, told in part through first-person experiences\, layered into deeper political analysis. It weaves together two broad pictures: first\, the repressive regime that was launched with the coup\, and the ways in which U.S. policy has continued to support that regime; and second\, the brave and evolving Honduran resistance movement\, with aid from a new solidarity movement in the United States. \nAlthough it is full of terrible things\, this is not a horror story: the book directly counters mainstream media coverage that portrays Honduras as a pit of unrelenting awfulness\, in which powerless people sob in the face of unexplained violence. Rather\, it’s about sobering challenges with roots in political processes\, and the inspiring collective strength with which people face them. \nabout Plan Colombia: \nFor more than fifty years\, the United States supported the Colombian military in a war that cost over 200\,000 lives. During a single period of heightened U.S. assistance known as Plan Colombia\, the Colombian military killed more than 5\,000 civilians. In Plan Colombia John Lindsay-Poland narrates a 2005 massacre in the San José de Apartadó Peace Community and the subsequent investigation\, official cover-up\, and response from the international community. He examines how the multibillion-dollar U.S. military aid and official indifference contributed to the Colombian military’s atrocities. Drawing on his human rights activism and interviews with military officers\, community members\, and human rights defenders\, Lindsay-Poland describes grassroots initiatives in Colombia and the United States that resisted militarized policy and created alternatives to war. Although they had few resources\, these initiatives offered models for constructing just and peaceful relationships between the United States and other nations. Yet\, despite the civilian death toll and documented atrocities\, Washington\, DC\, considered Plan Colombia’s counterinsurgency campaign to be so successful that it became the dominant blueprint for U.S. military intervention around the world. \nDana Frank is Professor of History Emerita at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America (2005; repr. Haymarket 2016); Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism (Beacon\, 1999); Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing\, Gender\, and the Seattle Labor Movement\, 1919-1929 (Cambridge\, 1994); Local Girl Makes History: Exploring Northern California’s Kitsch Monuments (City Lights\, 2007); and\, with Howard Zinn and Robin D. G. Kelley\, Three Strikes: Miners\, Musicians\, Salesgirls and the Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century (Beacon\, 2001). Her contribution to Three Strikes has been reprinted\, with a new introduction\, by Haymarket Books as Women Strikers Occupy Chain Store\, Win Big (2012). Since the 2009 military coup her articles about human rights and U.S. policy in Honduras have appeared in The Nation\, New York Times\, Politico Magazine\, Foreign Affairs.com\, Foreign Policy.com\, Miami Herald\, Los Angeles Times\, The Baffler\, and many other publications\, and she has testified before both the U.S. Congress and Canadian Parliament. \nJohn Lindsay-Poland is Healing Justice Associate at the American Friends Service Committee and author of Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama and Plan Colombia: U.S. Ally Atrocities and Community Activism published by Duke University Press. \n\n\n\n\nReviews\n\n\n\n“I congratulate and thank Dana Frank for giving us this book and for documenting the role of the United States in the long night of terror that we have lived in Honduras since the 2009 coup d’etat. Her contribution to historic memory stands as our witness.” \n—Bertha Oliva\, general coordinator\, Committee of the Families of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras \n  \n“Dana Frank has written a searing portrait of a nation in crisis\, a book that is startling\, enraging\, and humane all at once. Her most important accomplishment is never losing sight of the hardships and treachery that ordinary Hondurans have had to endure these last several years\, nor the dignity with which they have survived it all.” \n−Daniel Alarcon\, Executive Producer of Radio Ambulante\, author of At Night We Walk in Circles \n  \n“The Long Honduran Night breaks the deafening silence that has followed recent American intervention in Honduras. It graphically documents the awful legacy of this intervention.” \n−Stephen Kinzer\, award-winning author and foreign correspondent \n  \n“If you’ve any interest at all in Honduras\, U.S. foreign policy\, Central America\, why so many Central Americans are migrating north…or in a powerful\, informative\, and extremely good read\, do pick up Dana Frank’s book\, The Long Honduran Night. It’s a surprisingly readable book that tells not only the tragic story of another failed state and the forces that continue to work against establishing real democracies in Central America\, but also inspires in its stories of everyday people— in Honduras and the United States— who work against difficult odds to create change\, often by placing their lives at risk.” \n−María Martin\, independent journalist \n  \n“Free from academic jargon\, conversant with modern Honduran history\, and steeped in passion\, this testimonial book is the best primer\, in English\, about the coup\, and resistance to it\, that destroyed Honduran democracy on June 28\, 2009. Dana Frank not only registers her solidarity movement and legislative initiatives in the U.S. on behalf of the multifaceted resistance to the coup and defense of Human Rights\, her keen outsider’s eye brings the novice gaze of contemporary Honduran political life into the country’s cities and villages\, its valleys and mountains\, as well as into demonstrations and street marches\, conversations in cabs\, radio stations\, and more. Almost ten years after the coup\, Frank’s book transits seamlessly between the social fabric and intimate lives of hundreds of Hondurans she has met personally during her many years in the country. Frank manages this while referencing key historical processes and their current legacies\, an important and necessary feat on its own\, but also valuable because it informs the current plight of Hondurans who flee their country into the U.S. seeking asylum in the aftermath of 2009 coup.” \n−Dario A. Euraque\, Professor of History and International Studies\, Trinity College \n  \n“A historian and activist offers a damning indictment of corruption\, human rights violations\, and failed U.S. policy in Honduras. Frank (Emerita\, History/Univ. of California\, Santa Cruz; Women Strikers Occupy Chain Store\, Win Big: The 1937 Woolworth’s Sit-Down\, 2012\, etc.) offers a heady mix of personal experience\, historical context\, and contemporary condemnation of the chain of events that brought Honduras into a state of chaos. She examines events in Honduras following the coup d’état that ousted President Manuel Zelaya in 2009 and the constitutional crisis and regime that followed. Despite the author’s lobbying of Congress to influence Honduran policy\, the region destabilized and fell into a quagmire of corruption and violence. Also unhelpful were the State Department\, which insultingly viewed Latin America as America’s “backyard\,” and other areas of the U.S. government that consciously chose to look the other way even as it continued to “dance with dictators.” These days\, Honduras has a notorious reputation for violence\, especially in the wake of its refugee crisis\, exemplified by the much-publicized “caravan” of 57\,000 undocumented\, unaccompanied minors that fled Central American countries in 2014. “Those parents had known exactly how brutal the alternatives were at home\,” writes Frank. “Just like the parents who sent their kids north\, they were trying to imagine\, and build\, a future for their loved ones.” As to the cause\, the author boldly calls it as it is: “But let’s be clear: those gangs and drug traffickers took over a broad swath of daily life in Honduras in part because the elites who ran the government permitted and even profited from it. Who was the gang\, in this story?” Readers who aren’t invested in Latin American history or politics may find the political narrative somewhat lackluster\, but the author’s on-the-ground reports are gripping. Frank even finds times for a bit of dark humor: “When\, exactly\, did I start using the term ‘axe murderer’ all the time?”An important\, little-known history that offers much truth and little reconciliation.” \n−Kirkus Reviews \n  \n“I have covered Honduras ever since the 2009 coup. Dana Frank’s insightful and very human portrait of the country’s resistance is required reading for anyone who wants to understand what’s really going on in Honduras and why it matters.” \n−Adam Raney\, journalist\, Al Jazeera English and Univision
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dana-frank-in-conversation-with-john-lindsay-poland/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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