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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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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171109T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171109T213000
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SUMMARY:Jeffrey Eugenides
DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Eugenides bestselling novels\, including Middlesex\, The Marriage Plot\, and The Virgin Suicides\, show him to be an astute observer of the crisis of adolescence\, sexual identity\, self-discovery\, and what it means to be an American in our times.  His new short story collection Fresh Complaint continues that tradition. Ranging from the reproductive antics of “Baster” to the wry\, moving account of a young traveler’s search for enlightenment in “Air Mail” (selected by Annie Proulx for The Best American Short Stories 1997)\, this collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national crises. We meet a failed poet who\, envious of other people’s wealth during the real-estate bubble\, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art collapse under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and\, in “Bronze\,” a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to a revelation about his past and his future. Narratively compelling\, beautifully written\, and packed with a density of ideas that belie their fluid grace\, Fresh Complaint proves Eugenides to be a master of the short form as well as the long.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeffrey-eugenides/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Memorial for Joe Pachinko
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by William Taylor\, Jr. \nJoe Pachinko was born 1960 in Oakland\, California. In 2003\, through his Superstition Street Press\, he republished Beat icon Lenore Kandel’s groundbreaking work The Love Book\, which was banned and suppressed upon its original release in 1966. He is the author of the novel SWAMP!\, and two poetry collections: The Urinals of Hell\, and Stumpfucker Cavalcade. His second novel\, Geek City Apocalypso was published in 2012 by Last Gasp. \nBeloved poet Joe Pachinko has left the building. Join us for a celebration of his life and work. \nPachinko’s work\, and tributes to the late poet will be read by the following: \n\nBrenda Knight\nNicole Henares\nChristopher Robin\nBrian Morrisey
URL:https://litseen.com/event/memorial-for-joe-pachinko/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171110T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171110T210000
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SUMMARY:David Rocklin: The Night Language
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is happy to welcome David Rocklin for The Night Language. Please join us! \nThe Night Language tells the story of a young man\, Prince Alamayou of Abyssinia (present day Ethiopia)\, who is taken from his home and the Abyssinian war to the court of Queen Victoria—a world he knows nothing about. With him is Philip Layard\, a young apprentice to one of the doctors on the battlefield in Abyssinia\, who becomes Alamayou’s guardian\, only friend\, and eventually\, the love of his life. When Parliament accuses Alamayou of murder\, the young prince is sentenced to return to Abyssinia\, where he will be executed. \nHis only hope comes from the very thing that cannot be uttered: the unexpected and forbidden love between Alamayou and Philip. \nInspired by true events\, The Night Language is a unique novel of love\, loss\, and the consequences of repressive societies. \n— \n“Not since Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient have I read a novel in which a character—the story and skinsong of Alamayou–has haunted language\, history\, and heart so intensely. If you read one novel this year\, let it be The Night Language. It is still possible for a reader’s heart to be broken back open.” —Lidia Yuknavitch\, author of The Small Backs of Children and The Chronology of Water \n— \nDavid Rocklin is the author of The Luminist and the founder/curator of Roar Shack\, a monthly reading series in Los Angeles. He was born and raised in Chicago and now lives in LA with his wife\, daughters\, and a 150 lb Great Dane who seriously needs to stay on his own bed. He’s currently at work on his next novel\, The Electric Love Song of Fleischl Berger. \n— \nIf you cannot attend the event\, but would like a signed copy of The NIght Language\, please follow this link and place your order\, filling out the special request field: http://www.booksmith.com/book/9781945572487
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-rocklin-the-night-language/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lucha Libro: The Bay Area's First Literary Wrestling Competition
DESCRIPTION:RADAR Productions presents Lucha Libro\, the Bay Area’s first-ever literary wrestling competition\, taking place at The Park Gym on Saturday\, November 11th\, 2017. Lucha Libro will feature five emerging queer and trans writers of color facing off in a live writing challenge in front of screaming fans.  The winner will have a chapbook published by Foglifter in Summer 2018. \n  \nPresented in collaboration with Foglifter\, The Booksmith\, Quiet Lightning\, and Dog Eared Books\, Lucha Libro happens on Saturday\, November 11th\, 2017 at 3:30 p.m. in the ring at Park Gym in the legendary Castro District\, at 1960 Harrison St\, San Francisco\, California 94103. Tickets are $10 at the door. Writers must submit work by October 1st\, and the five final contestants will be announced on November 1st. \n  \nInspired by Peru’s own literary wrestling competitions\, intended to break down barriers to publication and challenge elitism in the literary world\, RADAR Productions’ Lucha Libro provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for emerging queer and trans writers of color to share their work in front of a live audience. \nRADAR Productions is a San Francisco-based queer literary arts non-profit organization. RADAR Productions serves queer audiences and artists in San Francisco through free and affordable literary arts programs that authentically reflect Queer communities’ experiences. RADAR creates a platform for emerging queer artists\, commissions the creation of new work\, and gives voice to innovative Queer writers and artists.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lucha-libro-the-bay-areas-first-literary-wrestling-competition/
LOCATION:The Park Gym\, 1960 Harrison St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:THIS IS FOR THE MOSTLESS: BOOK LAUNCH
DESCRIPTION:Book Launch for This is for the mostless by Jason Magabo Perez. Special guests: Aimee Suzara\, Janice Lobo Sapigao and Jason Bayani. \nTHIS IS FOR THE MOSTLESS (WordTech Editions\, 2017)\, writer and performer Jason Magabo Perez’s debut book\, is a lyrical collection of autobiographical poems\, essays\, fictions\, and oral histories. Moving against discipline and genre\, from city to city\, barrio to barrio\, these stories and sympathies are filled with familia and trauma\, and cast with wildly divergent figures as iconic as Don Cheadle and Mandy Moore\, and as obscure as Cobra Commander and Perez’s own mother\, a Filipina migrant nurse who in 1976 was framed by the FBI for murder. Ultimately\, Perez celebrates and mourns the multiple migrations and afterlives of grandmothers\, gangsters\, girlfriends\, superheroes\, and poets. This book is about and most definitely for all of the mostless. \n“Jason Magabo Perez pulls me into his stories like the ink of a comic book or opening hook. He drops 1972\, Redlands\, Manila\, the smell of eucalyptus\, Raid and fried fish\, and ain’t no ipis will interrupt this flow. All the aunties\, cousins and homies are here\, and there’s an earnest\, tender urgency in these verses and jagged lines and tangles that refuse to forget. He makes me want to listen.” – JAI ARUN RAVINE\, AUTHOR OF THE ROMANCE OF SIAM \n“When the poet you are reading raises pen to sky and cuts its belly open\, revealing river of ancestor hair\, uncut\, uncombed\, rife with angels and stories\, and holds it aloft\, unsorted\, to show you you–historical\, non-fictional\, truthfully and wholeheartedly loved\, shivering silver sardine in the oily tin of our im/migrant story…then the poet you are reading is Jason Magabo Perez\, and you are blessed. Read this book like postdated scripture\, and be loved.” – DENIZEN KANE\, POET/EMCEE\, TYPICAL CATS \n“These poems mark the time of millennial southern California\, the time of brown boyhood\, the time after death and before birth. ‘A time when we’re beginning to notice that we are so death & so penniless. / So penny-skinned.’ Perez asks how to live in the wake of violence and disconnection and a girl asks the alphabet. A balm of persistence\, commemoration becomes a promise of a time beyond time: ‘Today\, we’re coloring the king.'” – KIMBERLY ALIDIO\, AUTHOR OF AFTER THE PROJECTS THE RESOUND \n“This is for the mostless is a smartly forged momentum and memento\, a forward-thinking look back. From one line to the next\, Jason Magabo Perez can compel a tear or noisy nostalgia; mostly\, we are asked-with the urgency of justice and artful storying-to take all things that happen in our suburbs\, cities\, and histories deeply and consciously personal.” – VEJEA JENNINGS\, AUTHOR OF FREE LUNCH
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-for-the-mostless-book-launch/
LOCATION:Arkipelago Books\, 1010 MISSION ST\, SAN FRANCISCO\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171111T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171111T213000
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks November
DESCRIPTION:Ben Loory (Tales of Falling and Flying)\nStephen Elliott (The Adderall Diaries)\nAnnalee Newitz (Autonomous)\nMaggie Shen King (An Excess Male)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-november/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171112T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171112T200000
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SUMMARY:Elevate Reading w/ Park\, Stein\, Chavez\, + Orth
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for this special event at Artist Television Access with four of the latest ELEVATE residents! ELEVATE is a collaboration between Real Time and Space and Small Press Traffic to provide studio space and performance opportunities to experimental writers.\n_________________\nNOVEMBER 12\, 2017\na reading & performance with\nthe four recent ELEVATE residents: Steve Orth\, MK Chavez\, Suzanne Stein and Julian Francis Park \nat ARTIST TELEVISION ACCESS\, 992 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, 94107 \nevent admission suggested donation of $6-12 \nJULIAN FRANCIS PARK has poems in Blind Field (forthcoming)\, Entropy\, HOLD (forthcoming)\, Horny Poetry Review (forthcoming)\, and Writing w/o Walls\, narrative excerpted in Queen Mob’s Tea House\, reviews in Jacket2 and Tripwire\, and a chapter\, “On the Historical Conditions of Accumulation\,” in Rosa Luxemburg: A Permanent Challenge for Political Economy. Julian does intake for Causa Justa/Just Cause’s Tenants’ Rights Clinic\, and facilitates a free\, weekly writing workshop with the Bay Area Public School at the Omni Commons. Julian also works on Omni’s newsletter\, The Commoner. Tweets @jfpark3 \nSUZANNE STEIN’s publications include The Kim Game\, TOUT VA BIEN\, and Hole in Space. With Steve Benson\, she is the author of Do Your Own Damn Laundry\, which documents the 36 improvisational dialogues they performed together between 2011-2012. She is the founding editor of SFMOMA’s Open Space. \nOakland-based writer\, MK CHAVEZ is the author of several chapbooks including Mothermorphosis (2016\, Nomadic Press) a full-collection of her work\, Dear Animal\, was released in October 2016 by Nomadic Press. Chavez is co-founder/curator of the reading series Lyrics & Dirges\, curator of Uptown Friday Readings in Oakland\, and co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival. Chavez’s work has been published widely in print and online. Her poem The New Whitehouse\, Finding Myself In The Ruins\, was selected by Eileen Myles for the 2017 Cosmonauts Avenue Poetry Award. \nSTEVE ORTH is from Kansas City\, MO and has lived in the Bay Area since 2000. With Lindsey Boldt\, he began publishing small books\, under the moniker Summer BF Press\, which published many classics such as Typing Wild Speech by Dana Ward\, The Truth About Ted by Bruce Boone\, and many others. Steve also edited Where Eagles Dare Magazine and curated Hybrid Moments Reading Series. He was a founding member of the short lived\, but memorable\, La Commune Books & Café\, a collectively owned bookstore in Oakland\, CA. Steve is also a writer\, and his latest\, Cyborg Legs (OMG! Press\, 2015) is a fable involving grocery stores.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elevate-reading-w-park-stein-chavez-orth/
LOCATION:Small Press Traffic\, 1111 8th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171113T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171113T200000
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: Non-Fiction November
DESCRIPTION:Authors Lucy Jane Bledsoe\, Peter Gajdics\, and Julia Serano read from and discuss their works of non-fiction.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-non-fiction-november/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171113T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171113T210000
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SUMMARY:Jerome Rothenberg
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nTechnicians of the Sacred\, Third Edition: A Range of Poetries from Africa\, America\, Asia\, Europe\, and Oceania\, Revised and Expanded\, 50th Anniversary \npublished by University of California Press \nHailed by Robert Creeley as “both a deeply useful book and an unequivocal delight” and by the LA Times Book Review as one of the hundred most recommended American books of the late 20th century\, Jerome Rothenberg’s landmark anthology Technicians of the Sacred has educated and inspired generations of poets\, artists\, musicians\, and other readers\, exposing them to the multiple possibilities of poetry throughout the world. Juxtaposing “primitive” and archaic works of art from many cultures with each other and with avant-garde and experimental poetry\, Jerome Rothenberg contends that literature extends beyond specific temporal and geographic boundaries\, while acting as a retort to those who would call that larger humanity into question. A half-century since its original publication\, this revised and expanded third edition provides readers with a wealth of newly gathered and translated texts from recently reinvigorated indigenous cultures\, bringing the volume into the present and further extending the range and depth of what we recognize and read as poetry.\nJerome Rothenberg is an internationally acclaimed poet and anthologist. His more than ninety books include the multivolume Poems for the Millennium\, coedited with Pierre Joris\, Jeffrey Robinson\, and John Bloomberg-Rissman. He is Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts and Literature at the University of California\, San Diego.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jerome-rothenberg/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171114T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171114T203000
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SUMMARY:Rosemary Manno + Clif Ross
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/rosemary-manno-clif-ross/
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:20171114T190000
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SUMMARY:STEVE ZOLNO at Books Inc. in The Marina
DESCRIPTION:Management and Educational Consultant Steve Zolno discusses his encouraging and timely book\, The Future of Democracy: Lessons from the Past and Present to Guide Us on Our Path Forward. \nWhat is democracy and where did it come from? Is it a new development or was it always present in human society? And perhaps the most important question: what can we do to preserve and strengthen democracy among the forces that oppose it? \nIn this book we explore trends throughout history that have brought democratic – and undemocratic – government to people wherever civilization exists. We discuss where democracy has been most\, and least\, successful and why. But our most important task is to clarify what each of us can do\, as politicians or ordinary citizens\, to bring the benefits of democracy more fully into the personal and political lives of those who cherish it. \nIncludes the section: Guide to Voting in a Democracy \n\n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n2251 Chestnut St\n\nSan Francisco\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/steve-zolno-at-books-inc-in-the-marina/
LOCATION:Books Inc. in The Marina\, 2251 Chestnut St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171116T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171116T210000
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SUMMARY:Red\, Yellow\, Green: Alejandro Saravia + María José Giménez
DESCRIPTION:AUTHOR\n\nAlejandro Saravia\n\n\nAlejandro Saravia was born in Cochabamba\, Bolivia\, and since 1986 has lived in Quebec\, where he works as a journalist. His publications include the novel Rojo\, amarillo y verde (2003)\, Borealis Antología Literaria de El Dorado (Verbum Veritas – La cita trunca Editores\, Ottawa\, 2011)\, Dieciocho voces de la poesía hispano-canadiense (Acento Editores\, Guadalajara\, México\, 2009)\, Cuentos de nuestra palabra en Canadá: primera hornada(Editorial Nuestra Palabra\, Toronto\, 2009)\, Las imposturas de Eros\, cuentos de amor en la posmodernidad (Editorial Lugar Común\, Ottawa\, 2009)\, The Fourth River (Chatham University\, Pittsburgh\, 2009) Retrato de una nube\, Primera antología del cuento hispano canadiense (Editorial Lugar Común\, Ottawa\, 2008)\, La poésie prend le métro (Éditions Adage\, Montréal\, 2004) and Boreal\, Antología de poesía latinoamericana en Canadá(Editorial Verbum Veritas – La cita trunca\, Ottawa\, 2002).He is co-director of Montreal’s Hispanic-Canadian collective The Apostles Review. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nTRANSLATOR\nMaría José Giménez\n\n\nMaría José Giménez is a Venezuelan-Canadian poet and translator. Recipient of a 2016 Gabo Prize for Translation and fellowships from the NEA\, The Banff International Literary Translation Centre\, and the Katharine Bakeless Nason Endowment\, María José is co-director of Montreal’s collective The Apostles Review and Assistant Translation Editor for Drunken Boat.\n\n\n\n\n\nNOVEMBER 16\, 2017 | 7:30PM\n\nRSVP\n\nBolivian-Canadian writer Alejandro Saravia and poet and translator María José Giménez discuss his new novel\, Red\, Yellow\, Green\, the first to be translated into English\, as well as the tumultuous existence of the exile\, the crossings of language\, and Latino-Canadian literature.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-yellow-green/
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=UTC:20171116T213000
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SUMMARY:Emma Cline
DESCRIPTION:Emma Cline’s fiction has appeared in Tin House\, Granta\, and The Paris Review\, and she was the recipient of the 2014 Paris Review Plimpton Prize. Her debut novel\, The Girls\, was named one of the best books of the year by NPR\, The Guardian\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Esquire\, Vogue\, Publishers Weekly\, and more. \n“The Girls is a seductive and arresting coming-of-age story\, told in sentences at times so finely wrought they could almost be worn as jewelry…a spellbinding story. Cline gorgeously maps the topography of one loneliness-ravaged adolescent heart. She gives us the fictional truth of a girl chasing danger beyond her comprehension\, in a summer of Longing and Loss.”\n– The New York Times \n“Emma Cline has an unparalleled eye for the intricacies of girlhood\, turning the stuff of myth into something altogether more intimate. She reminds us that behind so many of our culture’s fables exists a girl: unseen\, unheard\, angry. Thi
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emma-cline/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171116T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171116T223000
DTSTAMP:20260420T015506
CREATED:20171022T004058Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T004058Z
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's Hurts So Good
DESCRIPTION:Doors and Bang-O at 7pm. Stories start at 8pm. Come early and make a few new friends! We recommend you arrive by 7.15pm. \nTickets: $30 reserved premium seating\, $20 advance general admission. \nPERFORMERS \nThis evening features tales of hurting – but in a good way – and is hosted by nationally-known sexual folklorist Dixie De La Tour. Come on out and play some Bang-O before the show for a chance to win prizes just for talking to sexy strangers! The bar will be serving Bawdy-themed cocktails\, so expect some interesting conversation. \nWe’ll be posting more details about the storytellers and musical act soon. \nGot a story about a time when you found out how good hurt can be that you’d like to share at the show? Send a voice mail with your pitch to dixie@bawdystorytelling.com.  If you’re selected\, you get a free coaching session from Dixie for the show\, and your chance to shine on our stage.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-hurts-so-good/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171117T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171117T210000
DTSTAMP:20260420T015506
CREATED:20170929T235703Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171020T024909Z
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SUMMARY:Cristina Rivera Garza w/ Mauro Javier Cardenas
DESCRIPTION:Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza discusses her new novel\, The Iliac Crest\, with Mauro Javier Cardenas. \nPraise for The Iliac Crest \n“An intelligent\, beautiful story about bodies disguised as a story about language disguised as a story about night terrors. Cristina Rivera Garza does not respect what is expected of a writer\, of a novel\, of language. She is an agitator.” —Yuri Herrera\, author of Kingdom Cons \n“Like the ocean itself\, Cristina Rivera Garza writes a world where borders shift and dissolve. In the curves of the fantastic\, the highest realism is born. This world is weird. This world is so deeply true. Reader\, I love this wholly perfect book.”—Samantha Hunt\, author of Mr. Splitfoot \n“Warning: Cristina Rivera Garza is an explosive writer yet to be fully accounted for in English. She is an insubordinate stylist\, a skilled creator of atmospheric and haunting language\, and The Iliac Crest is a willfully queer piece where the workings of her wild imagination destabilize everything.” —Lina Meruane\, author of Seeing Red \nAbout The Iliac Crest
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cristina-rivera-garza-with-mauro-javier-cardenas/
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:20171119T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171119T180000
DTSTAMP:20260420T015506
CREATED:20171111T082836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171111T082836Z
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SUMMARY:Let's Create The World We Want! The 4th Howard Zinn Book Fair
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\nIt’s been a tough year in the US for anyone who cares about fairness\, justice and equality and a lot of folks may be giving into cynicism and even despair over the apparent destruction of the few vestiges of democracy left in this country. However\, one bright spot is the 4th Annual Howard Zinn Book Fair which focuses on The World We Want!\n\n\n \n\n\nWe gather together authors\, zinesters\, bloggers and publishers for a day of nearly 60 readings\, panel discussions and workshops exploring the value of dissident histories towards building a better future with visions that excite our passions. In the spirit of the late historian Howard Zinn we recognize the stories of the ways that everyday people have risen to propose a world beyond empires big and small. There will also be a big room full of radical book sellers\, publishers and community organizations who all have fresh\, vibrant views on the kind of world we could have and are working hard to make that happen.\n\n\n \n\n\nWe will have over 120 speakers\, including:\n\n\n \n\n\n* Adam Hochschild\, NY Times Best-Selling author of Spain in Our Hearts and King Leopold’s Ghost\n\n\n \n\n\n* Sekou Odinga\, former Black Panther Party member and recently released political prisoner\, author of In the Whirlwind\n\n\n \n\n\n* Rebecca Solnit\, Harper’s contributing editor and author of The Mother of All Questions and Men Explain Things to Me will discuss What’s Next for the Resistance\n\n\n \n\n\n* Punk icon\, Michelle Cruz Gonzales\, author of the Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Punk Band\n\n\n \n\n\n* Sasha Lilly\, local activist\, Pacifica Radio host and author/editor of numerous books including Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult\n\n\n \n\n\nWe will also have a five session track dedicated to exploring what ‘Black Reconstruction In Our Time’ would look like based on the seminal writings of W.E.B. Du Bois.\n\n\n \n\n\nYou can see our full line-up of amazing speakers and exhibitors at: howardzinnbookfair.com\n\n\n \n\n\nThe Howard Zinn Book Fair has become one of the largest gatherings of progressive-thinking people in SF in recent years and is sure to cheer even the most jaded cynic. Please join us Sunday\, Nov. 19 from 10am to 6pm at SF City College’s Mission Campus at 1125 Valencia Street near 22nd and help create the world we really want!\n\n\n \n\n\n\nChild care will be available\, the Mission Campus cafe will be open and\, thanks to a bunch if generous donors\, the whole event is free!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lets-create-the-world-we-want-the-4th-howard-zinn-book-fair/
LOCATION:City College of San Francisco – Mission Campus\, 1125 valencia Street\, San Francisco\,\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171120T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171120T210000
DTSTAMP:20260420T015506
CREATED:20170324T014121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170922T061541Z
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-8/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171121T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171121T203000
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CREATED:20171022T020655Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T020655Z
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SUMMARY:Avotcja + David Hathwell
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/avotcja-david-hathwell/
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:20171128T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171128T203000
DTSTAMP:20260420T015506
CREATED:20171022T020717Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T020717Z
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SUMMARY:Gail Mitchell + Michael Koch
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/gail-mitchell-michael-koch/
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:20171128T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171128T210000
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CREATED:20170817T045322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170817T045322Z
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SUMMARY:Spring Washam: A Fierce Heart
DESCRIPTION:“Cultivating a fierce heart is about learning to embrace it all\, even the most painful aspects of our life—every experience and all of ourself.”\n– Spring Washam \nIn A Fierce Heart\, Spring Washam shares her contemporary\, unique interpretation of the Buddha’s 2\,500-year-old teachings\, with short chapters that get to the heart of mindfulness\, wisdom\, loving kindness\, and compassion. \nWoven throughout the book are stories from the author’s life\, family\, and ancestors\, along with many soulful\, heartfelt stories from all over the world. Washam’s teachings focus on social action\, multiculturalism\, and youth\, making the Dharma welcoming to as large and wide a community as possible. \nAnyone who has suffered will benefit from the life-saving teachings of this charismatic teacher. Her humor\, enthusiasm\, and energy are a refreshing addition to the pantheon of books on mindfulness. \n—\nSpring Washam is a founding member and core teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center\, and a well-known meditation and dharma teacher based in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spring-washam-a-fierce-heart/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171129T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171129T210000
DTSTAMP:20260420T015506
CREATED:20171022T021856Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T021856Z
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SUMMARY:Helen Benedict w/ Ayelet Waldman
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host Helen Benedict for her new novel Wolf Season. She’ll be in conversation with Ayelet Waldman (A Really Good Day). Join us! \nAfter a hurricane devastates a small town in upstate New York\, the lives of three women and their young children are irrevocably changed. Rin\, an Iraq War veteran\, tries to protect her blind daughter and the three wolves under her care. Naema\, a widowed doctor who fled Iraq with her wounded son\, faces life-threatening injuries and confusion about her feelings for Louis\, a veteran and widower harboring his own secrets and guilt. Beth\, who is raising a troubled son\, waits out her marine husband’s deployment in Afghanistan\, equally afraid of him coming home and of him never returning at all. As they struggle to maintain their humanity and find hope\, their war-torn lives collide in a way that will affect their entire community. \nHelen Benedict\, a professor at Columbia University\, writes frequently about justice\, women\, soldiers\, and war. She is the author of seven novels\, including Wolf Season (forthcoming from Bellevue Literary Press) and Sand Queen\, a Publishers Weekly “Best Contemporary War Novel.” A recipient of both the Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism and the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism\, Benedict is also the author of five works of nonfiction and the play The Lonely Soldier Monologues: Women at War in Iraq. She lives in New York. \nAyelet Waldman is the author of A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood\, My Marriage\, and My Life\, the novels Love and Treasure\, Red Hook Road\, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits\, and Daughter’s Keeper\, as well as of the essay collection Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes\, Minor Calamities\, and Occasional Moments of Grace and the Mommy-Track Mystery series. She is the editor of Inside This Place\, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons and of the forthcoming Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation. She was a Federal public defender and an adjunct professor at the UC Berkeley law school where she developed and taught a course on the legal implications of the War on Drugs. She lives in Berkeley\, California\, with her husband\, Michael Chabon\, and their four children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/helen-benedict-w-ayelet-waldman/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171202T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171202T200000
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CREATED:20171122T035846Z
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon Winter '17 Reading
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday Dec 2\, Babylon Salon welcomes an all-female lineup of award-winning writers: ACHY OBEJAS (Ruins; Days of Awe) Poet ARISA WHITE (Hurrah’s Nest: A Penny Saved); BARBARA JANE REYES (Invocation to Daughters; To Love as Aswang); LAURIE ANN DOYLE (World Gone Missing); and KATE FOLK (2016-18 Affiliate Artist at the the Headlands Center for the Arts) \n@ The Armory Club\, downstairs performance space. 1799 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, 94103. FREE ADMISSION– Cash bar exotica. Doors open at 5:30 PM\, reading at 6:00 PM. www.babylonsalon.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-winter-17-reading/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171204T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171204T210000
DTSTAMP:20260420T015506
CREATED:20171110T073021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171201T073012Z
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SUMMARY:Jeanne Powell & Avotcja - POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeanne-powell-avotcja-poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171205T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171205T213000
DTSTAMP:20260420T015506
CREATED:20171022T024814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T024814Z
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SUMMARY:Charif Shanahan + Sam Sax
DESCRIPTION:Charif Shanahan and Sam Sax read from their latest poetry collections. \n\nAbout Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing \nWinner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award \nIn this affecting poetry debut\, Charif Shanahan explores what it means to be fully human in our wounded and divided world. In poised yet unrelenting lyric poems\, Shanahan–queer and mixed-race–confronts the challenges of a complex cultural inheritance\, informed by colonialism and his mother’s immigration to the United States from Morocco\, navigating racial constructs\, sexuality\, family\, and the globe in search of “who we are to each other . . . who we are to ourselves.” \nAbout Madness \nWinner of the 2016 National Poetry Series CompetitionIn \nIn this powerful debut collection\, sam sax explores and explodes the linkages between desire\, addiction\, and the history of mental health. These brave\, formally dexterous poems examine antiquated diagnoses and procedures from hysteria to lobotomy; offer meditations on risky sex; and take up the poet’s personal and family histories as mental health patients and practitioners. Ultimately\, Madness attempts to build a queer lineage out of inherited language and cultural artifacts; these poems trouble the static categories of sanity\, heterosexuality\, masculinity\, normality\, and health. sax’s innovative collection embodies the strange and disjunctive workings of the mind as it grapples to make sense of the world around it.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charif-shanahan-sam-sax/
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:20171206T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171206T193000
DTSTAMP:20260420T015506
CREATED:20171020T023621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171020T023621Z
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SUMMARY:Rabih Alameddine
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Main Library as Rabih Alameddine reads from\, and discusses\, his new novel The Angel of History. \nSet over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic\, The Angel of History follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life\, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS. Hovered over by the presence of alluring\, sassy Satan who taunts Jacob to remember his painful past and dour\, frigid Death who urges him to forget and give up on life\, Jacob is also attended to by 14 saints. Set in Cairo and Beirut; Sana’a\, Stockholm\, and San Francisco; Alameddine gives us a charged philosophical portrait of a brilliant mind in crisis. This is a profound\, philosophical and hilariously winning story of the war between memory and oblivion we wrestle with every day of our lives.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rabih-alameddine/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171207T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171207T203000
DTSTAMP:20260420T015506
CREATED:20171208T023108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171208T023108Z
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime ATTRACTORS
DESCRIPTION:Will feature readings from: Sarah Ladipo Manyika (Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun)\,\nRaina Leon (Profeta Without Refuge)\,\nJanine Kovac (Spinning)\,\nAndrew J. Thomas (Strangeland)\,\nand Sam Gong.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-attractors/
LOCATION:Martuni’s\, 4 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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