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SUMMARY:Karen Melander Magoon + Nina Serrano
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Tuesday evening in the historic literary epicenter of San Francisco to hear poets from near and far read their work! \nTuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-melander-magoon-nina-serrano/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171024T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171024T210000
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SUMMARY:Barry Gifford
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nThe Cuban Club: Stories \nfrom Seven Stories Press \nA masterpiece of mood and setting\, character and remembrance\, The Cuban Club is Barry Gifford’s ultimate coming-of-age story told as sixty-four linked tales\, a creation myth of the Fall as seen through the eyes of an innocent child on the cusp of becoming an innocent man. Set in Chicago in the 1950s and early 1960s against the backdrop of small-time hoodlums in the Chicago mob and the girls and women attached to them\, there is the nearness of heinous crimes\, and the price to be paid for them. To Roy and his friends\, these twists and tragedies drift by like curious flotsam. The tales themselves are koan-like\, often ending in questions\, with rarely a conclusion. The story that closes the book is in the form of a letter from Roy to his father four years after his father’s death\, but written as if he were still alive. Indeed\, throughout The Cuban Club Roy is still in some doubt whether divorce or even death really exists in a world where everything seems so alive and connected. Barry Gifford has been writing his Roy stories on and off for over thirty years\, and earlier Roy stories have been published as Wyoming\, Memories from a Sinking Ship and The Roy Stories. But it is in The Cuban Club that he brings the form he has created in these stories to its crystallization. Indeed\, to find precedents for The Cuban Club\, we must look not to other story collections\, but to other creation myths–to Gilgamesh\, or the Old Testament\, or Eduardo Galeano’s Memory of Fire trilogy. Roy’s age in these stories wends back and forth between six and nineteen and back to twelve. He sees with the eyes of a seer who doesn’t seem to age\, and knows not to judge the good or the bad in circumstances or people\, or even to question why things are as they are\, instead filled with the romance of the world teetering on catastrophe always\, but abounding in saving graces. \nBarry Gifford is the author of more than forty published works of fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry\, which have been translated into twenty-eight languages. His most recent prose works are The Up-Down\, Writers\, Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels\, Sad Stories of the Death of Kings\, Imagining Paradise: New and Selected Poems\, The Roy Stories\, and Landscape with Traveler. Gifford lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. More at www.barrygifford.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/barry-gifford/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171025T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171025T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T161419
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SUMMARY:Weekday Wanderlust
DESCRIPTION:Happy Fall Wanderlusters. Our next event is on the books and it’s one you won’t want to miss. Why? Well because we haven’t seen you in so long\, and we miss you. This will be our LAST event at the Hotel Rex. We’ll fill you in on all the details. AND because we have an amazing line up of writers: Frances Stroh and Laurie King from San Francisco\, and David Downie (Bay Area native) who is coming all the way from Paris\, France. Kimberley will also give a sneak peek at her new book\, too. We have so much to celebrate! Bios will be posted on our FB page. See you WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 25 for a night to remember.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/weekday-wanderlust-2/
LOCATION:Hotel Rex\, 562 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171025T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171025T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T161419
CREATED:20171020T023322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171020T023322Z
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SUMMARY:Laurie Ann Doyle w/ Alia Volz
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the release of Laurie Ann Doyle’s new book World Gone Missing: Stories.  Conversation\, readings\,  and champagne!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laurie-ann-doyle-alia-volz/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Laurie Ann Doyle":MAILTO:laurie@laurieanndoyle.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171025T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171025T210000
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SUMMARY:MFA Faculty Reading
DESCRIPTION:Beth (Bich Minh) Nguyen\, the author of the memoir Stealing Buddha’s Dinner\, winner of the PEN/Jerard Award\, the novel Short Girls\, winner of an American Book Award\, and the novel Pioneer Girl. Coeditor of the anthologies Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: I & Eye and 30/30: Thirty American Stories from the Last Thirty Years. Her work has been featured in numerous university and community reads programs. \nBarbara Jane Reyes\, the author of Invocation to Daughters\, Gravities of Center\, Poeta en San Francisco\, which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets\, Diwata\, which received the Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry\, and To Love as Aswang. \nNina Schuyler\, the author of The Translator\, which won the Next Generation Indie Award for General Fiction and was shortlisted for the Saroyan International Writing Award. Her first novel\, The Painting\, was nominated for the Northern California Book Award and named a Best Book by the San Francisco Chronicle. Her short stories have been published in ZYZZYVA\, Your Impossible Voice\, Fugue\, Santa Clara Review and elsewhere. She writes a monthly column for Fiction Advocate about style. \nBruce Snider\, the author of two poetry collections\, Paradise\, Indiana\, winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize\, and The Year We Studied Women\, winner of Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. His poetry and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review\, Poetry\, New England Review\, VQR\, Threepenny Review\, Iowa Review and Best American Poetry 2012. \n  \nFree and open to the public. Reception to follow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mfa-faculty-reading/
LOCATION:USF McClaren Complex\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171026T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171026T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T161419
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SUMMARY:Helen Dimos + William Rowe
DESCRIPTION:Greece resident Helen Dimos is co-organizer of the annual Paros Poetry and Translation Symposium\, a weeklong annual conversation between languages and persons. She produces a twice-monthly English-language radio show\, peopletalk\, at Beton7 Arts Center in Athens\, where she also co-hosts Poetry Meeting\, a monthly experiment performing works in progress (in any language) with others in a “non-ego” space. No Realtor Was Compensated for This Sale (The Elephants\, April 2017) is her first book. \nWilliam Rowe’s Collected Poems was published by Crater (U.K.) in 2016. INRI\, his translation of works by Chilean poet Raúl Zurita\, was initially published by Marick Press\, 2009\, with a new edition\, carrying an introduction by Norma Cole\, out this year from New York Review of Books. Other recent publications of his poetry include Nation (Klinamen\, 2012; enlarged edition\, Knives\, Forks and Spoons\, 2015) and Incisions (Iodine\, 2014). Among the recent translated books of poetry from Spanish include: LVB\, translation of Raúl Zurita (Veer Books\, 2013); A Cruise to the Galapagos Islands\, translation of late Peruvian poet Antonio Cisneros (Shearsman\, 2013); and Corpses\, translation of late Argentine poet Néstor Perlonger (Hong Kong\, 2015).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/helen-dimos-william-rowe/
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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171026T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171026T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T161419
CREATED:20171022T022151Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T022151Z
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SUMMARY:The Return of BOOKSWAP
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first ever Bookswap in our new space\, The Bindery at 1727 Haight. \nBring a counterculture book\, or\, really\, any book you love. We’ll sit you in small groups\, get you chatting about the book you brought\, switch groups every 20 minutes or so to make sure you get to meet lots of new friends\, and then at the end\, we’ll have a big\, rowdy\, white elephant swap. You’ll leave with someone else’s fave\, and a reading list to last you months. \nWe’re thinking of this as a pre-holiday House Warming at The Bindery. Come meet the curators of the counterculture display and the Arcana Project\, hear the story of our new bookstore and gallery space\, try our premium cocktails\, and enjoy our new plush\, warm living room annex. (We have couches now!) \n  \nFree with required RSVP! This time only. \n  \nRSVP at this link. Space is limited\, so let us know early if you plan to attend.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-return-of-bookswap/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171026T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171026T213000
DTSTAMP:20260415T161419
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SUMMARY:Brittany Perham + Randall Mann
DESCRIPTION:Brittany Perham and Randall Mann discuss their new poetry collections with Susan Steinberg. \n\nPraise for Double Portrait \n“Double Portrait\, by turns playful\, mournful\, indulgent\, musical\, insightful\, and all the way human\, comes clean about our most driving desires. . . . Imaginative and familiar\, the result is full of humor that is both rueful and sensual.” Claudia Rankine \n“This unswerving ambitious work brings the reader on a wild and thrilling journey. The poems lead into a world where desire\, the body\, memory and invention are looked at in the bright light of language: nothing forgiven\, everything laid bare. . . . This is a wonderful\, compelling book with the qualities of the best writing\, both memorable and moving.” Eavan Boland \n“If you took the superabundant abandon of Olena Kalytiak Davis and crossed its wires with the graven psychological acuity of Louise Glück\, you might get a poet like Brittany Perham. Double Portrait is full of bracing poetry\, and arrives from deep inside the soulful solid. There may be a few other books as good as this published this year. There won’t be any better.” David Rivard \n\nAbout Double Portrait \n\nEach poem in this prize-winning collection links two portraits: child and parent\, lover and beloved\, citizen and country\, spirit and body\, living and dead. Each speaker investigates what it means to be in relationship to another: what does it mean to see and be seen\, to reflect and be reflected\, to address and be addressed? \n  \nAbout Proprietary \nIn Proprietary\, Randall Mann critiques corporate culture\, depicting (and slyly rebuking) the American materialism that erupted in the 1980s and has metastasized ever since. “Please consider / Ocean Beach / out of reach\,” he writes; in these poems\, nothing is beyond the reach of his acuity. \n  \nFor years\, Randall Mann has been hailed as one of contemporary American poetry’s most daring formalists\, expertly using craft as a way of exploring racy subjects with trenchant wit and aplomb. His new collection\, Proprietary\, depicts with the insights of a longtime insider the culture of corporate America\, in which he’s worked for years\, intertwined with some of his tried-and-true subjects\, including gay life in the wildly disparate worlds of San Francisco and northern Florida.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brittany-perham-randall-mann/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171027T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171027T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T161419
CREATED:20170924T001248Z
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SUMMARY:¡Cuéntamelo! A Night of Celebration // Una Noche de Celebración
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night of celebration featuring performances\, visual art\, and readings from ¡Cuéntamelo! by Juliana Delgado Lopera. ¡Cuéntamelo! is a collection of oral histories and illustrations from LGBT Spanish-speaking immigrants who arrived in the States between the 80’s and 90’s. ¡Cuéntamelo! is due to be released by Aunt Lute Books in November. For more info\, check out: http://www.auntlute.com/cuentamelo \nThis event is free and open to the public. Venue is ADA accessible. Food and refreshments will be provided. \nReserve free tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cuentamelo-a-night-of-celebration-una-noche-de-celebracion-tickets-37930964536
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cuentamelo-a-night-of-celebration-una-noche-de-celebracion/
LOCATION:THE LAUNDRY\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171028T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171028T180000
DTSTAMP:20260415T161419
CREATED:20171022T021715Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T021715Z
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SUMMARY:NaNoWriMo Kick-Off Party
DESCRIPTION:Please join the San Francisco regional chapter of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) for their annual Kick-Off Party at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight Street\, on 10/28\, from 3-6pm. \nWrite 50\,000 words in 30 days? We must be crazy! \nThousands of writers worldwide have stepped up to the challenge\, and we’re excited for another November to test ourselves\, make new friends\, and have a great time. \nKick-Off is open to anyone: long-time SFWrimos\, new participants\, the curious\, the incredulous. \nWe will gather together to meet and greet both new and veteran participants\, to share tips and tricks\, and to hold a raffle to make money to put towards our TGIO in December (That’s our Thank Goodness It’s Over party\, for theun-initiated). Any remaining funds will be donated to the NaNoWriMo non-profit in the name of our regional group. \nRaffle items include NaNoWriMo posters\, craft of writing books\, mugs for the copious amounts of tea and coffee you will drink in November\, and two gift certificates to The Booksmith. \nJoin us for an afternoon of camaraderie and good cheer ahead of another challenging\, fun November!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nanowrimo-kick-off-party/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171029T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171029T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T161419
CREATED:20171025T011344Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171025T011344Z
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SUMMARY:SF in SF Presents: Women in Horror
DESCRIPTION:Female horror authors Erika Mailman\, Loren Rhoads\, and Dana Fredsti will read selections from their work and then answer questions on a panel moderated by author Terry Bisson. \nJoin us early for cupcakes\, candy\, snacks and drinks! \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sf-in-sf-presents-women-in-horror/
LOCATION:American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171030T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171030T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T161419
CREATED:20171022T021115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T021115Z
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SUMMARY:The Racket #12
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, October 30th we’ll be welcome a bevy a talented readers – Joe Wadlington\, Pamela Alma Weymouth\, Allison Landa\, Allison Payne – as well as our featured reader\, Lucky Boy author\, Shanthi Sekeran. \nShanthi will be reading from the book as well as signing and answering questions. \nHosted by Noah Sanders
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-12/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171031T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171031T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T161419
CREATED:20171022T020108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T020108Z
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SUMMARY:Pauline Craig + Stephen Kopel
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Tuesday evening in the historic literary epicenter of San Francisco to hear poets from near and far read their work! \nTuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pauline-craig-stephen-kopel/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171101T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171101T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T161419
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SUMMARY:Cristina García
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nHere In Berlin: A Novel \nfrom Counterpoint Press \n\nHere in Berlin is a portrait of a city through snapshots\, an excavation of the stories and ghosts of contemporary Berlin—its complex\, troubled past still pulsing in the air as it was during World War II. Critically acclaimed novelist Cristina García brings the people of this famed city to life\, their stories bristling with regret\, desire\, and longing. \nAn unnamed Visitor travels to Berlin with a camera looking for reckonings of her own. The city itself is a character—vibrant and postapocalyptic\, flat and featureless except for its rivers\, its lakes\, its legions of bicyclists. Here in Berlin she encounters a people’s history: the Cuban teen taken as a POW on a German submarine\, only to return home to a family who doesn’t believe him; the young Jewish scholar hidden in a sarcophagus until safe passage to England is found; the female lawyer haunted by a childhood of deprivation in the bombed-out suburbs of Berlin who still defends those accused of war crimes; a young nurse with a checkered past who joins the Reich at a medical facility more intent to dispense with the wounded than to heal them; and the son of a zookeeper at the Berlin Zoo\, fighting to keep the animals safe from both war and an increasingly starving populace. \nA meditation on war and mystery\, this is an exciting new work by one of our most gifted novelists\, one that seeks to align the stories of the past with the stories of the future. \n\nCristina García is the author of seven novels\, including Dreaming in Cuban\, a finalist for the National Book Award that just celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary; The Agüero Sisters\, Monkey Hunting\, A Handbook to Luck\, The Lady Matador’s Hotel\, and King of Cuba. Her work has been translated into fourteen languages. García has edited anthologies\, written children’s books\, published poetry\, and taught at universities nationwide. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cristina-garcia/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171101T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171101T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T161419
CREATED:20170930T000710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171007T020309Z
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SUMMARY:Kitty Stryker
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is proud to host Kitty Stryker for her latest work — an anthology — Ask: Building Consent Culture. Join us at THE BINDERY! \nHave you ever heard the phrase “It’s easier to ask forgiveness than permission?” Violating consent isn’t limited to sexual relationships\, and our discussions around consent shouldn’t be\, either. \nTo resist rape culture\, we need a consent culture—and one that is more than just reactionary. Left confined to intimate spaces\, consent will atrophy as theory that is never put into practice. The multi-layered power disparities of today’s world require a response sensitive to a wide range of lived experiences. \nIn Ask\, Kitty Stryker assembles a retinue of writers\, journalists\, and activists to examine how a cultural politic centered on consent can empower us outside the bedroom\, whether it’s at the doctor’s office\, interacting with law enforcement\, or calling out financial abuse within radical communities. More than a collection of essays\, Ask is a testimony and guide on the role that negated consent plays in our lives\, examining how we can take those first steps to reclaim it from institutionalized power.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kitty-stryker/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171102T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171102T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T161419
CREATED:20170929T232528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171007T020411Z
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SUMMARY:Poems from Far and Wide
DESCRIPTION:Founding editors of McSweeney’s Poetry Series\, Dominic Luxford and Jesse Nathan\, join Ilya Kaminsky and special guests to serve up a sharp collection of poems from around the globe and across generations in celebration of their curated poetry anthology In the Shape of a Human Body I Am Visiting the Earth: Poems from Far and Wide. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poems-from-far-and-wide/
LOCATION:Churchill’s Office\, 194 Church St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171102T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171102T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T161419
CREATED:20171022T022322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T022322Z
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck Presents: The Stepford Wives
DESCRIPTION:Finish the ironing and give up your photography dreams: Ira Levin’s The Stepford Wives gets the Shipwreck treatment on Thursday\, November 2 at 7PM. \nFeatured writers: Louis Evans\, Ash Fisher\, Returning Champ Ken Grobe\, Persephone Karnstein\, and one more TBA. \n$12 advance\, $15 door\, includes open bar for 21+. Tickets on sale now. \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event. \nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on the first Thursday of every month at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco. \nFics are blind-read by our Thespian-in-Residence\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and you choose the best ship before the writers are unmasked. The winner is cast off from polite society\, and invited back the next month to defend their title.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-presents-the-stepford-wives/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171103T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171103T193000
DTSTAMP:20260415T161419
CREATED:20171022T005437Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T005437Z
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SUMMARY:Tracy K. Smith
DESCRIPTION:MFA-Writing invites all to our weekly Fall reading series — we bring in today’s most vital voices for the benefit of the entire CCA community. This week’s visiting author is US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith (Ordinary Light\, Life On Mars).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tracy-k-smith-2/
LOCATION:California College of Arts\, 1111 8th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171103T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171103T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T161419
CREATED:20170926T002647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T014936Z
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SUMMARY:The Wild Poets of Telegraph Hill
DESCRIPTION:A READING FROM THREE WORKS-IN-PROGRESS \nfeaturing PHIL COUSINEAU\, TERRY TARNOFF\, & MARK BITTNER \nIn the tradition of old North Beach\, when it was common for writers to share their current works\, Phil Cousineau\, Terry Tarnoff\, and Mark Bittner read from their latest novels and discuss what it’s like to live in—and write about—one of the world’s most iconic literary neighborhoods. \nMark Bittner is the author of The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill and stars in the acclaimed documentary of the same name. He is currently at work on a memoir about his eighteen years living on the streets of North Beach. He’s been on Telegraph Hill since 1973. \nTerry Tarnoff is the author of four novels and playwright of The Bone Man of Benares. He is currently at work on The Thousand Year Journey of Tobias Parker\, a kaleidoscopic novel set in North Beach that’s about to be re-released in a second edition. It recounts the story of one family’s curious destiny. Terry has lived on Telegraph Hill since 1978. \nPhil Cousineau is author of over forty books and twenty documentary films\, and is the co-host with Carlos Santana of the current PBS television series\, Global Spirit. Phil is working on his eagerly anticipated book that combines art history\, mythology\, and travel lore\, “Who Stole the Arms of the Venus de Milo?” set partially in North Beach. He’s the “new guy in the hood\,” having lived on Telegraph Hill only since 1995\, but claims that he feels like he’s lived there all his life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wild-poets-of-telegraph-hill/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171103T210000
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SUMMARY:Cutting Edge Writers Reading for new great weather for MEDIA Anthology
DESCRIPTION:Cutting Edge Writers Reading for new great weather for MEDIA Anthology \nAlley Cat Books and great weather for MEDIA present a rollicking evening of cutting edge poets and prose writers from across the Bay Area and the U.S. They come together to celebrate the release of great weather’s new anthology\, The Other Side of Violet\, which features work by intense wordsmiths – including those you’ll hear tonight – along with interviews with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Paul Harding and award-winning poet and novelist Tim Z. Hernandez. Come prepared for revelations\, epiphanies\, and a few broad smiles. \nThis evening features writers from across the US and beyond\, including Jessica Barksdale (Oakland)\, Carol Dorf (Berkeley)\, Patrick Cahill (SF)\, Maw Shein Win (Poet Laureate of El Cerrito)\, Julian Mithra (Oakland)\, Jan Steckel (Oakland)\, Richard Loranger (Oakland)\, and great weather editor Jane Ormerod (from NY and UK). There will be a brief open mic to start the evening. \nBased in New York City\, great weather for MEDIA publishes established and emerging writers from across the United States and beyond. \nPlease stop by\, get yourself dangerously verbiaged up\, and pick up a copy of The Other Side of Violet to call your very own. \nRelease party for The Other Side of Violet \na reading by\nJessica Barksdale\nCarol Dorf\nPatrick Cahill\nMaw Shein Win\nJulian Mithra\nJan Steckel\nRichard Loranger\nand Jane Ormerod \nhosted by Jane Ormerod \nFriday\, November 3\n6:45 pm \nfree of charge \nAlley Cat Books\n3036 – 24th Street\nSan Francisco\, CA \nPERFORMER BIOS \nJessica Barksdale’s fourteenth novel\, The Burning Hour\, was published by Urban Farmhouse Press in April 2016. Her short stories\, poems\, and essays have appeared in\, or are forthcoming\, in Waccamaw Journal\, Salt Hill Journal\, Little Patuxent Review\, and So to Speak. She is a Professor of English at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill\, California\, and teaches novel writing online for UCLA Extension. In addition\, Jessica holds an MA in English Literature from San Francisco State University and an MFA from the Rainier Writers Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University.\nPatrick Cahill co-edits Ambush Review\, a San Francisco based literary and arts magazine. He received his Ph.D. in History of Consciousness at UCSC. His poetry twice received the Central Coast Writers Award. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Left Curve\, San Francisco Peace and Hope\, Digging Our Poetic Roots\, Otoliths\, Aji\, Into The Void\, and riverbabble.\nCarol Dorf is the author of the chapbooks Theory Headed Dragon (Finishing Line Press) and Some Years Ask (Locofo Chaps\, Moria Press.) Her poetry appears in Sin Fronteras\, Antiphon\, The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics\, Scientific American\, Maintenant\, and Best of Indie Lit New England. Carol is poetry editor of Talking Writing and teaches mathematics in Berkeley. \nRichard Loranger is a writer\, performer\, visual artist\, and all around squeaky wheel\, currently residing in Oakland\, CA. His recent book of flash prose\, Sudden Windows (Zeitgeist Press\, 2016)\, has been warmly received. He is also the author of the Poems for Teeth\, The Orange Book\, and nine chapbooks. Other recent work can be found in Oakland Review #4\, Full of Crow (Winter 2017 Fiction Issue)\, and the online anthology HIV Here and Now. You can find more about his work and scandals at www.richardloranger.com. \nJulian Mithra\, primarily a performance artist\, hovers between genre and gender\, border-mongering and mongreling. Resisting essentialisms\, they roll out monologues\, collage black & white zines\, clip poem videos\, and rubber stamp imprints. They hold an MA in Folklore from UC Berkeley. Their work has been featured in Gendertrash Café\, Milvia Street\, Storm Cellar\, Whirlwind\, Sharkpack Review\, and enough/enough. \nJan Steckel is a former pediatrician who left the practice of medicine because of chronic pain. Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press\, 2011) won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press\, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press\, 2006) also won awards for LGBT writing. Her award-winning fiction and poetry appear in Scholastic Magazine\, Yale Medicine\, Bellevue Literary Review\, and elsewhere. She lives in Oakland\, California. \nMaw Shein Win is a poet\, editor\, and educator who lives and works in the Bay Area. Her writing has appeared in various journals\, including Cimarron Review\, Fanzine\, Eleven Eleven\, the Fabulist\, and others. Her most recent poetry chapbook is Score and Bone on Nomadic Press\, and her full-length poetry collection will be published by Manic D Press in spring 2018. She is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito. \nJane Ormerod is the author of the full-length poetry collections Welcome to the Museum of Cattle and Recreational Vehicles on Fire (both from Three Rooms Press)\, and the chapbook 11 Films (Modern Metrics/EXOT Books). Her work also appears in publications including Maintenant\, Flapperhouse\, Marsh Hawk Press Review\, Post (BLANK)\, Sensitive Skin\, and Paris Lit Up. Born on the south coast of England\, Jane now lives in New York City and performs extensively across the United States and beyond. She is a founding editor of great weather for MEDIA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cutting-edge-writers-reading-for-new-great-weather-for-media-anthology/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171103T220000
DTSTAMP:20260415T161419
CREATED:20171022T005821Z
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SUMMARY:Fireside: “The Last Hurrah?”
DESCRIPTION:This will be our last monthly Fireside. Yes\, really. So we decided for our Last Hurrah that we should invite some of our favorite storytellers across 8 years of Fireside to come tell our favorite stories again. Believe us\, these are GREAT. After this\, we may go to a quarterly format and ponder some changes to format … or not. Either way\, join us for our last hurrah!!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fireside-the-last-hurrah/
LOCATION:The Institute of Possibility\, 3359 Cesar Chavez St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171104T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171104T180000
DTSTAMP:20260415T161419
CREATED:20170622T011702Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170622T011702Z
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SUMMARY:Launch Party w/ Teri Emory
DESCRIPTION:Join essayist\, editor\, and author Teri Emory for a Launch Party celebration of her much-buzzed debut novel\, Second Acts. \nThe interwoven tales of three women unfold in the voices of Sarah\, Miriam\, and Beth\, whose unshakable friendship takes root in a Buffalo college dorm in the late 1960s. Fueled by the optimism and bravado of that era\, they charge into adulthood with high expectations and lofty ideas. They were\, as Beth would later observe\, -the first generation of women to feel entitled to interesting lives. \nAt times\, they find themselves living long distances from each other as each of them seeks new directions and new locales–midtown Manhattan\, a Florida suburb\, coastal Savannah\, the hills of Rome. Nonetheless\, they remain deeply connected in the decades after college\, sharing their joys and shepherding each other through heartache. With emotional courage and wry humor\, they come to terms with a disconcerting postscript to the Age of Aquarius: Life–inevitably\, unsparingly\, repeatedly–demands compromise. \nIn the year leading up to 9/11\, the three women\, now middle aged\, are tested by unwelcome drama at home\, unforeseen challenges at work\, and unresolved conflicts about decisions made long ago. Sustained by their abiding friendship\, Sarah\, Miriam and Beth confront hard truths about themselves and the choices they have made. They must let go of past regrets and make peace with present circumstances as they begin the second acts of their lives. \nSecond Acts is a story of love\, loss\, and renewal\, and a testament to the enduring power of female friendship.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-party-w-teri-emory/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171105T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T161419
CREATED:20171020T023435Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171020T023435Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch + Remembrance for Francesca Rosa
DESCRIPTION:Francesca Rosa’s passing in October 2016 brought to an untimely end the career  of one of the more remarkable and overtly political authors associated with the New Narrative movement in San Francisco. This book presents selections from the three titles published by Ithuriel’s Spear Press from 2005 to 2015 under her pen name\, F.S. Rosa. It begins with an appreciatory essay by Hilton Obenzinger and ends with a lengthy biographical interview conducted by Bay Area literary critic and author Robin Tremblay-McGaw.  F. S. Rosa was co-publisher of Ithuriel’s Spear Press. This book includes selections from Lunchtime at the Muqata’a\, The Divine Comedy of Carlo Tresca\, and from her collection of short stories Post War and Other Stories. Francesca was a rank and file union member and a long time student of labor and history of the Left in America. She lived\, loved and worked in San Francisco. Please join us as we gather to read from her writings and celebrate her life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-remembrance-for-francesca-rosa/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171105T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171105T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T161419
CREATED:20171022T004705Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T004705Z
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Dinika Amaral\, Cate Lycurgus\, Aaron Poochigian\, and Sibongile Sithe\nHosted by Peter Kline \nDinika Amaral was born and raised in Bombay\, India. A former banker with JP Morgan Chase\, she has an M.A. and M.F.A. from New York University. Her work has appeared in Guernica\, the Times of India\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Golden Handcuffs Review\, the Denver Quarterly\, the Massachusetts Review\, and in the Iowa Review (winner of the Tim McGinnis award). Presently\, a Steinbeck Fellow\, she lives with her husband in San Jose\, California. \nCate Lycurgus’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review\, Tin House\, Gulf Coast\, and elsewhere. A 2014 Ruth Lilly Fellowship Finalist\, she has also received scholarships from Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences. Cate currently lives south of San Francisco where she takes care of her father\, edits interviews for 32 Poems\, and teaches professional writing. \nAaron Poochigian earned a PhD in Classics from the University of Minnesota and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. His book of translations from Sappho\, Stung With Love\, was published by Penguin Classics in 2009\, and his translation of Apollonius’ Jason and the Argonauts was released October 2014. For his work in translation he was awarded a 2010-2011 Grant by the National Endowment for the Arts. His first book of original poetry\, The Cosmic Purr (Able Muse Press)\, was published in 2012 and\, winner of the 2016 Able Muse Poetry Prize\, his second book Manhattanite will be out in the Fall of 2017. His thriller in verse\, Mr. Either/Or\, will be released by Etruscan Press in Fall of 2017. His work has appeared in such journals as The Guardian\, POETRY and The Times Literary Supplement. \nSibongile Sithe was born and raised in Cincinnati\, OH. She received her BA from Yale University where she was awarded the Elmore A. Willets and Wallace Prizes for fiction. She is at work on a first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-7/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171106T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171106T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T161419
CREATED:20170324T014121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170915T061509Z
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-7/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171106T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171106T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T161419
CREATED:20170929T222257Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171020T023950Z
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning at Peacock Lounge
DESCRIPTION:Thanks to everyone who submitted! \nWe received 96 submissions for this show and will announce the featured authors the week of Oct 23. \nAll authors will be paid and will read/perform as a literary mixtape\, with no introductions or banter. \nThe first 100 people @ Peacock Lounge will receive a book featuring all of the selected writing and cover art by a local artist. \nCurated by Kate Folk + Evan Karp! \n** This show is 21+ **
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-at-peacock-lounge/
LOCATION:Peacock Lounge\, 552 Haight St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171107T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171107T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T161419
CREATED:20171022T020531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T020531Z
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SUMMARY:Lynne Barnes + Jessica Loos
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Tuesday evening in the historic literary epicenter of San Francisco to hear poets from near and far read their work! \nTuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lynne-barnes-jessica-loos/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171107T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171107T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T161419
CREATED:20170721T235014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170721T235014Z
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SUMMARY:Barbara Jane Reyes
DESCRIPTION:Barbara Jane Reyes celebrates City Lights Spotlight Series No. 16\, Invocation To Daughters. Reading together with David Brazil.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/barbara-jane-reyes/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171107T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171107T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T161419
CREATED:20170930T000233Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171020T024134Z
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SUMMARY:Tom Gauld w/ Mallory Ortberg
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is pleased to welcome acclaimed Guardian cartoonist Tom Gauld as he presents a best-of collection of literary humour cartoons — Baking with Kafka. With Tom will be Mallory Ortberg—join us! \nIn his inimitable style\, British cartoonist Tom Gauld has opened comics to a crossover audience and challenged perceptions of what the medium can be. Noted as a “book-lover’s cartoonist\,” Gauld’s weekly strips in The Guardian\, Britain’s most well-regarded newspaper\, stitch together the worlds of literary criticism and pop culture to create brilliantly executed\, concise comics. \nFrom sarcastic panels about the health hazards of being a best-selling writer to a list of magical items for fantasy writers (such as the Amulet of Attraction\, which summons mainstream acceptance\, Hollywood money\, and fresh coffee)\, Gauld’s cartoons are timely and droll—his trademark British humour\, impeccable timing\, and distinctive visual style sets him apart from the rest. Lauded both for his frequent contributions to New Scientist\, The Guardian and The New York Times\, and his Eisner-nominated graphic novels\, Tom Gauld is one of the most celebrated cartoonists working today. In Baking with Kafka\, he proves this with one witty\, sly\, ridiculous comic after another. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tom-gauld-with-mallory-ortberg/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171108T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171108T213000
DTSTAMP:20260415T161419
CREATED:20170930T000558Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171020T024422Z
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SUMMARY:John Hodgman
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith can’t wait to host writer\, comedian and actor John Hodgman for his new book Vacationland! \nAlthough his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts\, in 2016 that routine didn’t seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Everyone is doing it now. \nDisarmed of falsehood\, he was left only with the awful truth: John Hodgman is an older white male monster with bad facial hair\, wandering like a privileged Sasquatch through three wildernesses: the hills of Western Massachusetts where he spent much of his youth; the painful beaches of Maine that want to kill him (and some day will); and the metaphoric haunted forest of middle age that connects them. \nVacationland collects these real life wanderings\, and through them you learn of the horror of freshwater clams\, the evolutionary purpose of the mustache\, and which animals to keep as pets and which to kill with traps and poison. There is also some advice on how to react when the people of coastal Maine try to sacrifice you to their strange god. \nThough wildly\, Hodgmaniacally funny as usual\, it is also a poignant and sincere account of one human facing his forties\, those years when men in particular must stop pretending to be the children of bright potential they were and settle into the failing bodies of the wiser\, weird dads that they are. \nJoin us! Click here for tickets. \n  \n  \nJohn Hodgman is a writer\, comedian\, and actor. He is the author of three New York Timesbestselling books: The Areas of My Expertise\, More Information Than You Require\, and That Is All. After an appearance to promote his books on The Daily Show\, he was invited to return as a contributor\, serving as the show’s “Resident Expert” and “Deranged Millionaire.” This led to an unexpected and\, frankly\, implausible career in front of the camera. He has performed comedy for the president of the United States\, at a TED conference\, and in a crypt in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn\, New York. He is the host of the popular Judge John Hodgmanpodcast\, in which he settles serious disputes between real people\, such as “Is a hot dog a sandwich?” He also contributes a weekly column under the same name for The New York Times Magazine. \n  \nSigning and other details coming soon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-hodgman/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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