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SUMMARY:The Youngest Black Woman in Congress: Congresswoman Lauren Underwood
DESCRIPTION:What is it like to be the youngest black woman in Congress? Congresswoman Lauren Underwood is coming to Manny’s and she’ll tell ya! \nThere will be a smaller fundraiser for Congresswoman Underwood right before this event from 6-7 PM if you are interested in supporting her! \nAbout Congresswoman Lauren Underwood:Congresswoman Lauren Underwood serves Illinois’ 14th Congressional District and was sworn into the 116th U.S. Congress on January 3\, 2019. Congresswoman Underwood is the first woman\, the first person of color\, and the first millennial to represent her community in Congress. She is also the youngest African American woman to serve in the United States House of Representatives. \nCongresswoman Underwood serves on the House Committee on Education and Labor\, the House Committee on Veteran’s Affairs\, and the House Committee on Homeland Security. She also serves on the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee. Rep. Underwood is a member of the Future Forum\, a group of young Democratic Members of Congress committed to listening to and standing up for the next generation of Americans\, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC)\, and the LGBT Equality Caucus. \nAs a strong supporter of addressing the gun violence epidemic\, Congresswoman Underwood is a member of the Congressional Gun Violence Prevention Taskforce.Prior to her election to Congress\, Congresswoman Underwood worked with a Medicaid plan in Chicago to ensure that it provided high-quality\, cost-efficient care. She served as a Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)\, helping communities across the country prevent\, prepare for\, and respond to disasters\, bioterror threats and public health emergencies. \nAs a career public servant at HHS\, she helped implement the Affordable Care Act — broadening access for those on Medicare\, improving healthcare quality\, and reforming private insurance. Congresswoman Underwood also taught future nurse practitioners through Georgetown University’s online master’s program. Congresswoman Underwood is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Johns Hopkins University. \nShe graduated from Neuqua Valley High School and is a lifelong Girl Scout. She resides in Naperville\, Illinois.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-youngest-black-woman-in-congress-congresswoman-lauren-underwood/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sarah Parcak: Archaeology from Space
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Parcak discusses her new book\, Archaeology From Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past. \nPraise for Archaeology From Space \n“This book is so much more than the memoir of a dedicated archaeologist—it’s an open invitation for all of us to become explorers. She has pioneered crowd source archaeology\, and shows how we can join her on the adventures of discovery that we’ve always dreamed about.” —Peter Jackson\, Academy Award-winning director \n“Divining clues about what’s hidden beneath the earth from satellites high above\, Parcak takes the reader on a worldwide adventure through our shared and ancient past. With delightful wit\, infectious wonder\, and a big dose of wisdom about where we’re headed\, she offers anyone with a computer the chance to become a virtual Indiana Jones.” —Juli Berwald\, author of Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone \n“Part memoir\, part pop-history\, Sarah Parcak’s writing bursts with enthusiasm and illuminates her pioneering research that seems more like science fiction than the hard science it is. Reading this book makes me want to become a space archaeologist!”—Steve Brusatte\, University of Edinburgh paleontologist and author of the New York Times bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs \nAbout Archaeology From Space \nNational Geographic Explorer and TED Prize-winner Dr. Sarah Parcak welcomes you to the exciting new world of space archaeology\, a growing field that is sparking extraordinary discoveries from ancient civilizations across the globe. \nIn Archaeology from Space\, Sarah Parcak shows the evolution\, major discoveries\, and future potential of the young field of satellite archaeology. From surprise advancements after the declassification of spy photography\, to a new map of the mythical Egyptian city of Tanis\, she shares her field’s biggest discoveries\, revealing why space archaeology is not only exciting\, but urgently essential to the preservation of the world’s ancient treasures. \nParcak has worked in twelve countries and four continents\, using multispectral and high-resolution satellite imagery to identify thousands of previously unknown settlements\, roads\, fortresses\, palaces\, tombs\, and even potential pyramids. From there\, her stories take us back in time and across borders\, into the day-to-day lives of ancient humans whose traits and genes we share. And she shows us that if we heed the lessons of the past\, we can shape a vibrant future.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-parcak-archaeology-from-space/
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:Sarah Rose Etter: The Book of X
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Rose Etter discusses her new novel\, The Book of X\, with Rita Bullwinkel. \nPraise for The Book of X \n“Etter brilliantly\, viciously lays bare what it means to be a woman in the world\, what it means to hurt\, to need\, to want\, so much it consumes everything.” –Roxane Gay\, author of Bad Feminist \n“I loved every page of this gorgeous\, grotesque\, heartbreaking novel.” –Carmen Maria Machado\, author of Her Body and Other Parties \nAbout The Book of X \nA surreal exploration of one woman’s life and death against a landscape of meat\, office desks\, and bad men. \nThe Book of X tells the tale of Cassie\, a girl born with her stomach twisted in the shape of a knot. From childhood with her parents on the family meat farm\, to a desk job in the city\, to finally experiencing love\, she grapples with her body\, men\, and society\, all the while imagining a softer world than the one she is in. Twining the drama of the everyday — school-age crushes\, paying bills\, the sickness of parents — with the surreal — rivers of thighs\, men for sale\, and fields of throats — Cassie’s realities alternate to create a blurred\, fantastic world of haunting beauty.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-rose-etter-the-book-of-x/
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:Simon Hanselmann: Bad Gateway
DESCRIPTION:Simon Hanselmann joins us to discuss his new graphic novel Bad Gateway\, the latest installment in the Megg and Mogg series. \nAbout Bad Gateway \nPerpetually intoxicated\, lovable degenerates Megg and Mogg have drifted through a consequence-free life full of raucous antics. But their heavy drug use\, once a gateway to adventure\, has begun to take a grim psychological toll. As her unstable lifestyle finally catches up to her\, Megg turns to her past to uncover the roots of the self-destructive habits that have led her down this dark path. Bad Gateway is the magnum opus that Simon Hanselmann’s previous work has been building towards\, careening into new psychological depths. \nSimon Hanselmann was born in 1981 in Launceston\, Tasmania. His New York Times best-selling Megg & Mogg series has been translated into thirteen languages\, nominated for multiple Ignatz and Eisner awards\, and won “Best Series” at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2018. He currently lives in Seattle with his wife and a rotating cast of small animals.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/simon-hanselmann-bad-gateway/
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:Impresario of Castro Street
DESCRIPTION:Huestis’ book covers 45 years of San Francisco gay history\, starting in 1974 working with the fabled theatre group Angels of Light\, his volatile relationship with Harvey Milk\, co-founding Frameline (now the oldest and largest LGBTQ Film Festival in the world)\, creating first generation AIDS docs in the ’80s and ’90s including his award-winning Sex Is…\, and producing over two decades of legendary Castro extravaganzas feting such stars as Debbie Reynolds\, Ann Miller\, Jane Russell\, Karen Black\, Patty Duke\, and John Waters.  Fasten your seatbelts…
URL:https://litseen.com/event/impresario-of-castro-street/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marc Huestis regales with readings from his long-awaited memoir Impresario of Castro Street
DESCRIPTION:Huestis’ book covers 45 years of San Francisco gay history\, starting in 1974 working with the fabled theatre group Angels of Light\, his volatile relationship with Harvey Milk\, co-founding Frameline (now the oldest and largest LGBTQ Film Festival in the world)\, creating first generation AIDS docs in the ’80s and ’90s including his award-winning Sex Is…\, and producing over two decades of legendary Castro extravaganzas feting such stars as Debbie Reynolds\, Ann Miller\, Jane Russell\, Karen Black\, Patty Duke\, and John Waters.  Fasten your seatbelts…
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marc-huestis-regales-with-readings-from-his-long-awaited-memoir-impresario-of-castro-street/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190804T193000
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SUMMARY:Oval Window - A Poetry & Music Listening Experience
DESCRIPTION:E.K. Keith presents: Oval Window – A Poetry & Music Listening Experience
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oval-window-a-poetry-music-listening-experience/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190805T190000
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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-4/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mahnaz Badihian + Youssef Alaoui - followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:“Life took me through many different experiences\, but art and poetry never left my side. “\nMahnaz Badihian is a poet\, translator and artist whose work has been published in multiple languages worldwide and presented in several exhibits. Her publications include several books of poetry in Persian and English\, and a Persian translation of Pablo Neruda’s Book of Questions\, which became an underground hit within Iran. Her most recent publication is a bilingual CD of poems by Rumi with Jack Hirschman called Like This!. “My brush and pen explain and explore life as it happens\,” says Badihian. Currently\, she resides in San Francisco\, California where she runs an online multilingual literary magazine\, MahMag.org and is a member of the San Francisco Revolutionary Poets Brigade. She had formal training in art under Master Nasr Esfahan in the ancient creative capital of Iran\, Esfahan. Her previous exhibitions have been in Baltimore\, MD; Iowa City\, IA; and London\, England. Most of her paintings are in private collections in the United States\, Europe and Middle East. “Without brush and pen\, I would be lost in the solitude and alienation that I found myself in since childhood. Whatever may affect me\, whether happiness\, war\, human suffering\, or raw creative impulse\, it has always been expressed by my brush and pen.” \nYoussef Alaoui is an Arab Latino. His family and heritage are an endless source of inspiration for his varied\, dark\, spiritual and carnal writings. He has an MFA in Poetics from New College of California. He is a quiet individual experiencing the swirling cosmos as it taps against his window in a house not far from the sea. His work has appeared in Exquisite Corpse\, Big Bridge\, 580 Split\, Dusie Press\, RIVET Journal\, Paris Lit Up\, and nominated for a Pushcart at Full of Crow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mahnaz-badihian-youssef-alaoui-followed-by-an-open-mic/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190806T190000
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SUMMARY:Diane di Prima reading and birthday celebration
DESCRIPTION:Diane di Prima reading and birthday celebration
URL:https://litseen.com/event/diane-di-prima-reading-and-birthday-celebration/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStoryTime
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime\, featuring Rachel Howard (The Risk of Us)\, Rosa del Duca (Breaking Cadence)\, and others\, will occur at Laundry Gallery\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, on Thursday August 8th\, 7-9 pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-2/
LOCATION:THE LAUNDRY\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words Presents: Wilderness
DESCRIPTION:Journey into the wild with Why There Are Words on August 8\, 2019\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito for a thrilling night of readings from six accomplished authors on the theme of “Wilderness.” Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10 entry fee at the door. Cash bar. \n\nDaphne Kalotay’s books include the award-winning novels Sight Reading and Russian Winter and the fiction collection Calamity and Other Stories\, shortlisted for the Story Prize. Published in 20+ languages\, her work has received fellowships from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation\, MacDowell\, and Yaddo\, among others. She teaches at Princeton University but makes her home in Somerville\, Massachusetts\, and her short story “Relativity” was the 2017 One City One Story Boston selection. She is working on a new book of short stories\, and her new novel\, Blue Hours\, will be published this July from Triquarterly. \n\nKim Magowan lives in San Francisco and teaches in the Department of Literatures and Languages at Mills College. Her short story collection Undoing (2018) won the 2017 Moon City Press Fiction Award. Her novel The Light Source is forthcoming from 7.13 Books in 2019. Her fiction has been published in Atticus Review\, Cleaver\, The Gettysburg Review\, Hobart\, New World Writing\, Smokelong Quarterly\, and many other journals. Her story “Madlib” was selected for Best Small Fictions 2019 (Sonder Press). Her story “Surfaces” was selected for Wigleaf’s Top 50 2019. She is the Fiction Editor of Pithead Chapel. \n\nValerie Nieman’s third collection\, Leopard Lady: A Life in Verse\, debuted last fall at the Coney Island Museum\, where the curator wrote: “Steeped in sideshow tradition\, and addressing issues of race\, gender\, self-concept\, and creative expression\, your book is beautifully written.” Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Georgia Review\, The Missouri Review\, Chautauqua\, and many other journals\, and have been selected for numerous anthologies\, including Endlessly Rocking: Whitman 200\, Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods\, and Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. She has held North Carolina\, West Virginia\, and NEA creative writing fellowships. She teaches at John C. Campbell Folk School\, NC Writers Network\, and many other venues. Her fourth novel\, To the Bones\, arrived in spring from West Virginia University Press. A graduate of WVU and Queens University of Charlotte and a former journalist\, she teaches creative writing at North Carolina A&T State University. \n\nMike Smith teaches at Delta State University and is the author of the poetry collection\, Pocket Guide to Another Earth\, out now from Dos Madres Press\, and the memoir\, And There Was Evening and There Was Morning\, (WTAW Press 2017). He’s published three prior collections of poetry\, including Byron in Baghdad and Multiverse\, both from BlazeVOX Books (Buffalo\, NY). In addition\, his translation of Goethe’s Faust: A Tragedy\, was published by Shearsman Books in 2012. His most recent translation project is Contemporary Chinese Short-Short Stories\, published by Columbia University Press. Together with software engineer Brandon Nelson\, he created and curates The Zombie Poetry Project. \n\nAlex Tilney is a graduate of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers and has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony. His writing has appeared in The Southwest Review\, The Journal of the Office for Creative Research\, and Gelf Magazine. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner\, theater artist Sarah Hughes. His first novel\, The Expectations\, is forthcoming from Little\, Brown in July 2019. \n\nBeth Winegarner is a journalist\, author and essayist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker\, the Washington Post\, the Guardian\, Mother Jones\, Wired\, San Francisco Magazine and many others. Her recent books include The Columbine Effect: How Five Teen Pastimes Got Caught in the Crossfire and Why Teens are Taking Them Back (2013) and Tenacity: Heavy Metal in the Middle East and Africa(2018). She is a member of the Writers Grotto. \nWhy There Are Words (#WTAW) is an award-winning national reading series founded in Sausalito in 2010 by Peg Alford Pursell\, now expanded to seven additional cities in the U.S. The series draws a full house of Bay Area residents every second Thursday to Studio 333\, located at 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito\, CA 94965. The series is a program of WTAW Press\, a 501(c)(3) publisher of exceptional literary books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-presents-wilderness/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Matt Maiocco & Brad Mangin: Letters to 87
DESCRIPTION:Matt Maiocco & Brad Mangin discuss their new book\, Letters to 87: Fans Remember the Legacy of Dwight Clark. \nAbout Letters to 87 \nRare photos and heartfelt letters from fans of San Francisco 49ers hero Dwight Clark \nFeaturing essays by Edward J. DeBartolo Jr.\, Ronnie Lott\, Joe Montana\, Brian Murphy\, and Kelly Clark\, Letters to 87 offers rare photos and heartfelt letters from fans of San Francisco 49ers hero Dwight Clark. \nFootball fans will always remember “The Catch” as the moment a dynasty was born. When Dwight Clark received the touchdown pass that sent the 49ers to their first Super Bowl in 1982\, an indelible moment was etched into the history of the NFL. Later\, as Clark battled ALS\, he and sportswriter Matt Maiocco put out a call to fans\, asking them to share their memories of this moment. The letters that Clark and Maiocco received tell the story of how the man who wore number 87 brought together a city and a franchise through his sincerity\, his loyalty\, and his spirit for life and the game. \nAll royalties will go the the Golden Heart Fund\, a nonprofit arm of the 49ers that helps support former 49er players. Find out more at www.lettersto87.com. \nAbout the Authors \nMatt Maiocco\, beat reporter for NBC Sports Bay Area\, has covered the San Francisco 49ers for over a decade. Michael Zagaris\, legendary sports\, music\, and fashion photojournalist\, has served as team photographer for the San Francisco 49ers since 1973. Brad Mangin is a photographer who\, since 1987\, has captured the biggest stars in professional sports. All three reside in the San Francisco Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matt-maiocco-brad-mangin-letters-to-87/
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:Writers with Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, August 10\, 2019:\nNamwali Serpell (The Old Drift)\nYangsze Choo (The Night Tiger)\nSeth Katz (Psycho-Tropic)\nLynn Breedlove (45 Thought Crimes) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit a local nonprofit\, TBA.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 7 PM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-23/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190810T130000
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SUMMARY:Boots to Books Literary Walking Tour
DESCRIPTION:Join Bikes to Books for our newest iteration—a walking tour of literary North Beach! Finally a tour for all the folks who have told us “I’d love to come\, but I just don’t bike.” This one-mile excursion through literary North Beach visits some of our favorite Bikes to Books locations and authors and a bunch of new ones\, visiting over sixty years of literary history in a two-hour tour. We’ll be handing out complementary copies of our companion sixteen-page minizine and showing folks how to fold them as well! \nMeet OUTSIDE City Lights Books\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, SF\, at 12:45 PM \nTour ends in Jack Kerouac Alley\, next door to City Lights Books \nEvent is Free\, with maps and posters available for purchase.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/boots-to-books-literary-walking-tour/
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:20190812T180000
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Pod Save America Host Dan Pfeiffer
DESCRIPTION:Dan Pfeiffer has been one of the main voices in the room and commenting on the room for the last couple years on the Democratic side. \nDan Pfeiffer. What a man! \nHe served as Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama\, focusing on communications\, political\, and digital strategy. \nOne of the President’s longest serving advisers\, Dan joined the Obama campaign at the outset\, serving first as traveling press secretary and then eventually becoming the campaign’s communications director. He entered the White House as Deputy Communications Director and\, by the end of 2009\, had risen to Communications Director.He held that post until his appointment as Senior Advisor in early 2013. \nDuring his time at the White House\, Dan has helped transition the communications apparatus into the digital age utilizing social media like Twitter\, Facebook\, Medium and Instagram\, as well as scheduling the first presidential interviews with digital media platforms like Buzzfeed and Vox. \nIn 2015\, Dan joined CNN as a political commentator.He is now one of the co-hosts of the breakthrough podcast Pod Save America and is a New York Times Bestselling Author of Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama\, Twitter\, and Trump which he will be signing at the event. \nAbout Yes We (Still) Can: \n#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! \nFrom Obama’s former communications director and current co-host of Pod Save America comes a colorful account of how politics\, the media\, and the Internet changed during the Obama presidency and how Democrats can fight back in the Trump era. On November 9th\, 2016\, Dan Pfeiffer woke up like most of the world wondering WTF just happened. \nHow had Donald Trump won the White House? How was it that a decent and thoughtful president had been succeeded by a buffoonish reality star\, and what do we do now?Instead of throwing away his phone and moving to another country (which were his first and second thoughts)\, Pfeiffer decided to tell this surreal story\, recounting how Barack Obama navigated the insane political forces that created Trump\, explaining why everyone got 2016 wrong\, and offering a path for where Democrats go from here. \nPfeiffer was one of Obama’s first hires when he decided to run for president\, and was at his side through two presidential campaigns and six years in the White House. Using never-before-heard stories and behind-the-scenes anecdotes\, YES WE (STILL) CAN examines how Obama succeeded despite Twitter trolls\, Fox News (and their fake news)\, and a Republican Party that lost its collective mind.An irreverent\, no-BS take on the crazy politics of our time\, YES WE (STILL) CAN is a must-read for everyone who is disturbed by Trump\, misses Obama\, and is marching\, calling\, and hoping for a better future for the country.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-conversation-with-pod-save-america-host-dan-pfeiffer/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tim Murphy: Correspondents
DESCRIPTION:Tim Murphy discusses his new novel\, Correspondents. \nPraise for Correspondents \n“Murphy artfully connects multiple narratives to produce a sprawling tale of love\, family\, duty\, war\, and displacement. It is above all a stinging indictment of the ill-fated war in Iraq and the heavy tolls it continues to exact on its people.”–Khaled Hosseini\, author of The Kite Runner \nAbout The Correspondents \nThe world is Rita Khoury’s oyster. The bright and driven daughter of a Boston-area Irish-Arab family that has risen over the generations from poor immigrants to part of the coastal elite\, Rita grows up in a 1980s cultural mishmash. Corned beef and cabbage sit on the dinner table alongside stuffed grape leaves and tabooleh\, all cooked by Rita’s mother\, an Irish nurse who met her Lebanese surgeon husband while working at a hospital together. The unconventional yet close-knit family bonds over summers at the beach\, wedding line-dances\, and a shared obsession with the Red Sox. \nRita charts herself an ambitious path through Harvard to one of the best newspapers in the country. She is posted in cosmopolitan Beirut and dates a handsome Palestinian would-be activist. But when she is assigned to cover the America-led invasion of Baghdad in 2003\, she finds herself unprepared for the warzone. Her lifeline is her interpreter and fixer Nabil al-Jumaili\, an equally restless young man whose dreams have been restricted by life in a deteriorating dictatorship\, not to mention his own seemingly impossible desires. As the war tears Iraq apart\, personal betrayal and the horrors of conflict force Rita and Nabil out of the country and into twisting\, uncertain fates. What lies in wait will upend their lives forever\, shattering their own notions of what they’re entitled to in a grossly unjust world. \nEpic in scope\, by turns satirical and heartbreaking\, and speaking sharply to America’s current moment\, Correspondents is a whirlwind story about displacement from one’s own roots\, the violence America promotes both abroad and at home\, and the resilience that allows families to remake themselves and endure even the most shocking upheavals.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tim-murphy-correspondents/
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:20190813T210000
DTSTAMP:20260420T195518
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SUMMARY:Happy Endings: Teachers & Creatures
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
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-endings-teachers-creatures/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190813T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190813T213000
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SUMMARY:Joshua Furst / Revolutionaries
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith welcomes Joshua Furst (The Sabotage Café) to the store for his second novel\, Revolutionaries\, a long\, strange trip through the heart of the sixties and beyond as seen through the eyes of the revolution’s poster child. Please join us! \n> Review in The New York Times \n> Review in The New Yorker \nFred is the sole offspring of Lenny Snyder\, the famous (or notorious) pied piper of the counterculture\, and in middle age he hates being reminded of it. But neither can he ignore any longer his psychedelically bizarre childhood. From infancy\, for instance\, he was called Freedom (in fact his given name) not only by those who should have known him but also by members of the burgeoning movement led by his father\, who happily exploited having his wife and his toddling\, then walking and talking\, and finally observant son in tow. Thanks to Fred\, this charismatic\, brilliant\, volatile ringmaster is as captivating in these pages as he was to his devoted disciples back then. We watch Lenny organize hippies and intellectuals\, stage magnificent stunts\, and gradually lose his magnetic confidence and leading role as the sixties start slipping away. He demands loyalty but gives none back in return\, a man who preaches love but treats his family with almost reflexive cruelty. And Fred remembers all of it–the chaos\, the spite\, the affection. A kaleidoscopic saga\, this novel is at once a profound allegory for America–where we’ve been and where we’re going–and a deeply intimate portrait of a father and son who define our times. \n\nJoshua Furst is the author of Short People and The Sabotage Café\, as well as several plays that have been produced in New York\, where for a number of years wrote and directed plays in the downtown theater scene. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he’s the recipient of a Michener Fellowship\, the Chicago Tribune‘s Nelson Algren Award\, and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Ledig House. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University. Author photo by Michael Lionstar. \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 Revolutionaries\, order below and put your request in the comments field; to request a signed copy of any of Joshua’s other books\, do the same via this link.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joshua-furst-revolutionaries/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190813T213000
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SUMMARY:Monica L. Smith Cities: The First 6\,000 Years
DESCRIPTION:Monica L. Smith is an archaeologist whose principal research interests are the human interaction with material culture\, urbanism as a long-term human phenomenon\, and the development of social complexity. \nSmith’s newly published book\, Cities: The First 6\,000 Years\, explores the archeology\, history\, and contemporary observations of cities and discusses the development of networked infrastructure\, the rise of an entrepreneurial middle class\, and the culture of consumption in the urban realm. \nTickets will go on sale one month before the Seminar; you can follow Long Now on Twitter\, Facebook and through our blog for updates on our live events\, podcasts and videos on long-term thinking.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/monica-l-smith-cities-the-first-6000-years/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Long Now Foundation":MAILTO:services@longnow.org
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SUMMARY:Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake at Jessie Square
DESCRIPTION:The monthly collaboration between Litquake: San Francisco’s Literary Festival and the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival features an array of Bay Area poets and musicians.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-at-jessie-square-4/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190814T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190814T213000
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SUMMARY:Kelechi Ubozoh and L.D. Green / We've Been Too Patient: Voices From Radical Mental Health
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Kelechi Ubozoh and L.D. Green\, editors of the new anthology We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices From Radical Mental Health\, along with contributors Jeneé Darden\, Ramon(a) Rio\, Sascha Altman DuBrul\, andShizue Seigel for an evening of readings and conversation. Please join us! \nOvermedication\, police brutality\, electroconvulsive therapy\, involuntary hospitalization\, traumas that lead to intense altered states and suicidal thoughts: these are the struggles of those labeled “mentally ill.” While much has been written about the systemic problems of our mental-health care system\, this book gives voice to those with personal experience of psychiatric miscare often excluded from the discussion\, like people of color and LGBTQ+ communities. It is dedicated to finding working alternatives to the “Mental Health Industrial Complex” and shifting the conversation from mental illness to mental health. \n\n“Justice is not possible unless we make space for the stories of the margins. What more powerful elucidation can there be than to cast light on the margins of the mind? We’ve Been Too Patient shreds stigma and replaces it with dignity\, autonomy\, and power. This anthology heralds the necessity of our messy radical neurodivergent brains\, so that we might call forth a world where we are never again forced to be ‘too patient.’” – Sonya Renee Taylor\, activist and author of The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love \n\nL. D. Green is a genderqueer writer\, performer\, educator\, and mental health advocate. They co-edited and contributed to We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health and have published and performed in many other venues\, including The Body is Not an Apology and Foglifter. They write poetry\, non-fiction and speculative fiction and are a Lambda Literary Fellow. They are an English professor at Los Medanos College. \nKelechi Ubozoh is a nationally recognized Nigerian-American writer and mental health advocate featured in The S Word documentary and O\, The Oprah Magazine. Her first book\, We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health\, will be released from North Atlantic Books and Penguin Random House in Summer of 2019. \nJeneé Darden is an award-winning journalist\, public speaker and mental health advocate from Oakland. She’s also a host and reporter for NPR station KALW. Jeneé blogs at Cocoa Fly and is pitching a book about Black sexuality. Her first book\, When a Purple Rose Blooms\, is a collection of essays and poetry about Black womanhood. Jeneé is an alum of UC San Diego and the University of Southern California. \nRamon(a) Rio is a Xicanx non-binary queer trans-femme radical Licensed Clinical Social Worker and community organizer.  Ramon(a) was a former writer for The Body is Not an Apology.  Ramon(a) is also a trainer with Bloom\, a Transgender Healing Collective\, and is a leader with the Hayward Collective. \nSascha Altman DuBrul is cofounder of The Icarus Project\, a network of peer based mental health support groups and media project.  He has a Masters from Silberman School of Social Work\, worked as a Recovery Specialist/Trainer at Columbia’s Center for Practice Innovations and is currently Training Director for the Institute for the Development of Human Arts. \nShizue Seigel is a Japanese American writer/editor whose six books include Civil Liberties United\, Endangered Species\, Enduring Values\, and In Good Conscience. Over 50 years ago\, she had to kill the person her parents raised her to be to make space to find herself. She hopes freedom comes more easily to women and girls today. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \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. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kelechi-ubozoh-and-l-d-green-weve-been-too-patient-voices-from-radical-mental-health/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190815T220000
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SUMMARY:Edna in a Bottle (tastes funny)
DESCRIPTION:Edna in a Bottle (tastes funny) is a new San Francisco comedy hour at The Bindery in the Haight district. Edna and her friends are trapped in a bottle and dying to perform! A colorful splash of sketch scenes\, story-telling\, circus talent and wacked-out adult comedy. And there’s nothing wrong with an eating contest here and there. Mark your calendars and come let us out of the bottle! \nTickets are $12-25\, sliding. Seating is limited\, and this show often sells out — there’s no guarantee tickets will be available at the door\, so arrive early. Online sales close at 4pm the day of the show. \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis event is 18+. \nDoors open at 7:30pm. Show starts at 8pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nMore details coming soon — save the date and join us!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/edna-in-a-bottle-tastes-funny-6/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190818T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190818T180000
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SUMMARY:Silent Book Club SF
DESCRIPTION:Bring a book\, bring a friend\, and join Silent Book Club for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club\, there’s no assigned reading. All books and all ages are welcome. \nWe’ll kick off introvert happy hour at 4pm with some light chatter and informal book recommendations before settling in to read quietly\, but if you’d rather just pull up a chair and read\, by all means do so. No one will be shushed or shamed. The bar will be open for late afternoon libations. \nHappy reading and hope to see you there! \n\nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nPhoto by Cody Pickens for O Magazine
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silent-book-club-sf-3/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190820T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190820T213000
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SUMMARY:LAUNCH for R.H. Herron w/Sophie Littlefield / Stolen Things
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to host R. H. Herron for the launch of her first suspense novel\, Stolen Things. Joining her in conversation is the one and only Sophie Littlefield\, whose new novel That’s What Frenemies Are For is out in July. Please join us!\n“Mama? Help me.” \nLaurie Ahmadi has worked as a 911 police dispatcher in her quiet Northern California town for almost two decades\, but nothing in her nearly twenty years of experience could prepare her for the worst call of her career—her teenage daughter\, Jojo\, is on the other end of the line. She is drugged\, disoriented\, and in pain\, and even though the whole police department springs into action\, there is nothing Laurie can do to help. \nJojo\, who has been sexually assaulted\, doesn’t remember how she ended up at the home of Kevin Leeds\, a pro football player famous for his work with the Citizens Against Police Brutality movement\, though she insists he would never hurt her. And she has no idea where her best friend\, Harper\, who was with her earlier in the evening\, could be. \nAs Jojo and Laurie begin digging into Harper’s private messages on social media to look for clues to her whereabouts\, they uncover a conspiracy far bigger than they ever could have imagined. With Kevin’s freedom on the line and the chances of finding Harper unharmed slipping away\, Laurie and Jojo begin to realize that they can’t trust anyone to find Harper except themselves\, not even the police department they’ve long considered family . . . and time is running out. \n\nR.H. Herron is the pseudonym of an author who lives and teaches writing in California. For seventeen years she worked as a 911 fire/medical dispatcher\, and this book is loosely inspired by actual events. Author photo by Tawnie Ashley. \n  \nSophie Littlefield is the author of more than twenty bestselling adult and YA novels. She is the recipient of an Anthony Award and an RT Book Reviews Reviewers’ Choice Award\, and she has been shortlisted for Edgar\, Macavity\, Barry\, and Crimespree awards. The New York Times has called her “a regular writing machine.” Author photo by Thomas Zielinski. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \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 any of Sophie’s books\, order here and include your request in the comments field. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-r-h-herron-w-sophie-littlefield-stolen-things/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190821T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190821T210000
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SUMMARY:The End of the End of the World Literary Café Presents:  Benjamin Heim Shephard and Lynn Breedlove
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by James Tracy\, author of Dispatches Against Displacement (AK Press)\, Hillbilly Nationalists (Beacon Press) and the forthcoming (with Hilary Moore) No Fascist USA! The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements (City Lights)\n \nIlluminations on Market Street is a heartbreaking\, bitterly funny\, and revelatory look back at a time of crisis in San Francisco\, at the height of the AIDS epidemic. This roman à clef proves the personal is political. It was written with great insight and punishing honesty by veteran social justice and queer activist Benjamin Heim Shepard. The writer of several nonfiction books about politics and the counterculture\, Shepard mined the contents of a personal journal from 30 years ago to create a slightly fictionalized saga of a city under siege and the souls in freefall who populated it. \n45 Thought Crimes (Manic D Press) is Lynn Breedlove’s new book about spirituality for skeptics\, in the body of the beloved. It’s church at a punk show\, a letter to bees\, a map in a crisis\, a guidebook to histories\, to love in a riot. Compassionate table flipping\, commitment to the tactile\, a swipe at the inevitable. Breedlove is also the author of the novel Godspeed\, singer for the bands Tribe 8 / Homobiles / Commando\, and writer/performer of Lynnee Breedlove’s One Freak Show. His work won him the 2012 Harvey Milk LGBT Club Award for Activism.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-end-of-the-end-of-the-world-literary-cafe-presents-benjamin-heim-shephard-and-lynn-breedlove/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190821T210000
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SUMMARY:Tupelo Hassman: gods with a little g
DESCRIPTION:Tupelo Hassman discusses her new novel\, gods with a little g\, with Laura Albert. \nAbout gods with a little g \nFrom the acclaimed author of Girlchild\, this gritty\, irreverent novel sees a young misfit grow into hope \nRosary\, California\, is not an easy place to grow up\, particularly without a mom. So cut off from the rest of the world that even the Internet is blocked\, Rosary is a town run by evangelicals but named by Catholics (and the evangelicals aren’t particularly happy about that). It’s a town on very formal relations with its neighbors\, one that doesn’t have much traffic in or out and that boasts an oil refinery as well as a fairly sizable population of teenagers. \nFor Helen and her friends\, the Tire Yard\, sex\, and beer are the best ways to pass the days until they turn eighteen and can leave town entirely. Her best friends\, Win and Rainbolene\, late arrivals to Rosary\, are particularly keen to depart—Rain because she’ll finally be able to get the hormones she needs to fully become herself. Watching over them is Aunt Bev\, an outcast like the kids\, who runs the barely tolerated Psychic Encounter Shoppe. As time passes\, though\, tensions build for everyone and threats against the Psychic Encounter Shoppe become serious actions. In Tupelo Hassman’s gods with a little g\, these flawed\, lovable characters discover aspects of each other’s hearts that reshape how they think about trust and family\, and how to make a future you can see.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tupelo-hassman-gods-with-a-little-g/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190822T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190822T203000
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SUMMARY:THE RACKET! #33
DESCRIPTION:The Racket #33 : FRIENDSHIP w/ Tomas Moniz\nThursday\, August 29th\, Alley Cat Books\, 7PM\nft. Kate Folk\, Jane McDermott\, Carvell Wallace\, Michelle Schlachta\, Michelle Gonzalez\n\n\nOne of our very favorites\, Tomas Moniz\, has a brand new novella out – All Friends Are Necessary (Mason Jar Press). To celebrate this brand new novella we’re gathering a few of Tomas writerly friends and a few of our writerly friends to talk about a little thing called FRIENDSHIP. We imagine that even though the theme bubbles with images of long conversations and tear-jerking laughter that\, because it is The Racket\, it’ll get pretty weird.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-33/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Noah B. Sanders":MAILTO:sanders.noah@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190822T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190822T213000
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SUMMARY:LAUNCH for Susan Steinberg w/Ryan Van Meter / Machine
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to host the launch for Susan Steinberg‘s first novel\, Machine. She’ll be joined in conversation by Ryan Van Meter. Please join us! \nSusan Steinberg’s first novel\, Machine\, is a dazzling and innovative leap forward for a writer whose most recent book\,Spectacle\, gained her a rapturous following. Machinerevolves around a group of teenagers—both locals and wealthy out-of-towners—during a single summer at the shore. Steinberg captures the pressures and demands of this world in a voice that effortlessly slides from collective to singular\, as one girl recounts a night on which another girl drowned. Hoping to assuage her guilt and evade a similar fate\, she pieces together the details of this tragedy\, as well as the breakdown of her own family\, and learns that no one\, not even she\, is blameless. \nA daring stylist\, Steinberg contrasts semicolon-studded sentences with short lines that race down the page. This restless approach gains focus and power through a sharply drawn narrative that ferociously interrogates gender\, class\, privilege\, and the disintegration of identity in the shadow of trauma. Machine is the kind of novel—relentless and bold—that only Susan Steinberg could have written. \n\nSusan Steinberg is the author of Spectacle\, Hydroplane\, and The End of Free Love. She is the recipient of a United States Artists Fellowship\, a National Magazine Award\, and a Pushcart Prize. She teaches at the University of San Francisco. Author photo by Noah Doely. \n  \n\n \nRyan Van Meter is the author of If You Knew Then What I Know Now\, as well as other essays published in magazines and selected for anthologies including The Best American Essays. He is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of San Francisco. Author photo by Bennett Honson. \n\n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \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 any of Susan’s other books\, order here; to request signed copies of Ryan’s book\, order here and do the same. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-susan-steinberg-w-ryan-van-meter-machine/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Mystical Voice: San Francisco Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman speaks about the mystical strain of Judaism\, popularly called Kabbalah. This short\, lunchtime gallery talk is inspired by the work of Annabeth Rosen\, whose practice draws on cycles of destruction and creation. \nSan Francisco Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman is a translator and activist who has written more than fifty volumes of poetry and essays. \nPresented in conjunction with the current exhibition “Annabeth Rosen: Fired\, Broken\, Gathered\, Heaped.” \nFREE with regular admission as follows: Members and youth 18 and under\, Free; General Admission\, $16; Students with a valid ID and Seniors\, $14. \nPresented by Contemporary Jewish Museum.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-mystical-voice-san-francisco-poet-laureate-jack-hirschman/
LOCATION:Contemporary Jewish Museum\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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