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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: Caren Beilin\, reading and in conversation with Amy Berkowitz
DESCRIPTION:In Common Writers Series\, supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nFree and open to the public \nDetails soon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-caren-beilin-reading-and-in-conversation-with-amy-berkowitz/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Velvet Underground Experience - Litquake 2019
DESCRIPTION:The Velvet Underground Experience – Litquake 2019\nThursday\, October 17\, 2019\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\n  \nHat & Beard Press\, the San Francisco Rock & Roll Book Club\, and Litquake present an evening about The Velvet Underground \nwith  JC Gabel\, ML Heath\, and Richie Unterberger  \nwith rare screenings of Velvet Underground footage. \ncelebrating the release of two new books from Hat & Beard Press \nThe Velvet Underground Experience \nEdited by JC Gabel and Margot Ross \nand \nMy Week Beats Your Year: Encounters with Lou Reed \nEdited and with texts by Pat Thomas\, Compiled by Michael Heath \nAbout The Velvet Underground Experience: \nAt the heart of 1960s avant-garde New York was the convergence of Lou Reed\, John Cale\, Sterling Morrison\, and Moe Tucker\, heralding an unprecedented musical revolution. The Velvet Underground was a unique group for its time\, fueled by the visual arts\, poetry\, and stage performance\, as much by ideas of sexual transgression and the subversion of social norms. \nCompiled from archival ephemera\, unpublished photographs\, films\, album covers\, posters\, fanzines\, letters\, testimonies\, and poems\, this monograph gathers anew the Velvet Underground Experience exhibition that opened in Paris in 2016 for a US audience\, recreating the sound\, visual\, and emotional experiences of the underground scenes in New York\, where extravagances were always allowed. \nThis updated monograph explores the genesis and history of a group that\, despite its colorful collaboration with Andy Warhol\, was overlooked by success during its brief existence (1965-1970). Too radical\, too transgressive\, and too uninhibited for their time\, the Velvet Underground has become a cultural phenomenon over the decades\, one that continues to fascinate audiences around the world. \nAbout My Week Beats Your Year: Encounters with Lou Reed: \nDuring his first major sit-down with the music press in 1977\, between claiming all his songs were about guilt and revenge\, Elvis Costello casually remarked\, “I don’t really listen to Lou Reed’s records\, but I never miss an interview with him.” \nIndeed\, for all his publicly expressed loathing of the press in general and music journalists in particular\, during his long career as a rock artist\, Lou Reed was never less than entertaining in his dealings with the Fourth Estate. In fact\, one could go so far as to claim that\, for Lou\, the press became as much an implement of expression as singing\, composing\, and playing music. In a style at times very much informed by his mentor Andy Warhol\, Reed could play the media like a Marshall-amped Stradivarius. \nTo the majority of his fans\, the apotheosis of Reed’s relationship with the press\, and most prominently regarded to this day\, was the series of combative tête-à-têtes between Lou and the late great music journalist Lester Bangs\, published in CREEM Magazine during the 1970s. \nMy Week Beats Your Year: Encounters with Lou Reed features 30+ interviews spanning his solo career\, from the golden era of print rock-journalism\, to the first online blogs. The compilation is one fan’s humble attempt to move beyond the Bangs canon\, and delve deeper into the distance and intimacy\, cactus and mercury\, that constituted Lou’s post-Velvet Underground public media image. \nThis anthology will be an intimate portrait of Reed who\, in addition to being notoriously prickly (to put it mildly)\, was also intelligent\, articulate\, and deeply passionate about what was important to him\, both as a person and as a creative artist. \nHat & Beard is an independent\, Los Angeles-based publisher and print production house. With their book imprint\, Hat & Beard Press\, they create original\, illustrated nonfiction books of pop-cultural and historical significance that draw on existing cult audiences.  As a production house\, via Hat & Beard Projects\, they produce artist monographs in conjunction with art galleries\, museums\, nonprofits\, and artists themselves. They also champion the redesign and reissue of classic visual culture titles worth a second look. Hat & Beard Films works as the motion picture production arm of the company. \nFounded in 2011\, San Francisco’s Rock ‘n Roll Book Club is a loose group of regulars and non-regulars who enjoy music and reading about it. They generally meet every other month at a bar’s backroom to discuss a book and listen to related music\, over drinks and sometimes food mentioned in the book. They read new releases\, classic memoirs\, biographies\, oral histories and music criticism\, usually focusing on music from the 60s and 70s\, preferably including sex\, drugs\, and good writing. They’ve met with authors Alice Bag (via skype)\, Robert Gordon (via Skype)\, Pauline Butcher (via Skype)\, John Einarson (via Skype)\, Evelyn McDonnell (via Skype)\, and Greil Marcus and V. Vale (RE/Search). To learn more visit: The Rock & Roll Book Club
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-velvet-underground-experience-litquake-2019/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joanna Howard with Rita Bullwinkel & Forrest Gander
DESCRIPTION:Joanna Howard discusses her new memoir Rerun Era with Rita Bullwinkel and Forrest Gander. \nPraise for Rerun Era \n”Rerun Era is both a romp and a deep dive through a late-70s-and-80s childhood\, where many of us were remanded to the television for caretaking\, fueled on the intoxicants of processed foods\, where the day was vast and sometimes\, particularly if you were down south\, crushing with heat or emptiness or endless lots of red mud. There is a warm hilarity that moves through this book and a kind of cracking pain that follows. It’s a story of time\, family\, culture\, and subjectivity we all need to read\, written with a wild\, quiet\, and wide intelligence.”—Renee Gladman \n“Children are given the gift and burden of feeling the infinite in a single afternoon\, an hour\, an event—Rerun Era\, a wonderfully tactile and intimate book\, returns that gift to its readers. Each chapter explodes with the force and shine of fireworks on an unlit night.”—Catherine Lacey \n“Joanna Howard has a masterful understanding of the way memory bends time and forms startling new structures from the patterns of good sameness\, bad sameness\, strange sameness that compose our lives. She tunnels through this sameness to the glorious specificity at its core\, so that these swathes of childhood recaptured feel like they belong to me\, even though I know that I never witnessed my own life with such penetrating beauty or insight. Rerun Era is startling and new on every page\, a book that you will find yourself in\, lose yourself in\, and long to return to again and again.”—Alexandra Kleeman  \nAbout Rerun Era \nRerun Era is a captivating\, propulsive memoir about growing up in the environmentally and economically devastated rural flatlands of Oklahoma\, the entwinement of personal memory and the memory of popular culture\, and a family thrown into trial by lost love and illness that found common ground in the television. Told from the magnetic perspective of Joanna Howard’s past selves from the late ’70s and early ’80s\, Rerun Era circles the fascinating psyches of her part-Cherokee teamster truck-driving father\, her women’s libber mother\, and her skateboarder\, rodeo bull-riding teenage brother. \nIlluminating to our rural American present\, and the way popular culture portrays the rural American past\, Rerun Eraperfectly captures the irony of growing up in rural America in the midst of nationalistic fantasies of small town local sheriffs and saloon girls\, which manifested the urban cowboy\, wild west theme-parks\, and The Beverly Hillbillies. Written in stunning\, lyric prose\, Rerun Era gives humanity\, perspective\, humor\, and depth to an often invisible part of this country\, and firmly establishes Howard as an urgent and necessary voice in American letters. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joanna-howard-with-rita-bullwinkel-forrest-gander/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Disasterama! Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the release of Disasterama!: Adventures in The Queer Underground 1977 – 1997 by Alvin Orloff. A compelling and hilarious memoir of social life in the queer underground at a time when the manic frivolity of queer liberation and youth collided with the deadly reality of plague. \nOrloff will be in conversation with Alia Volz\, author of the forthcoming memoir\,  Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco. There will also be a show from The Disasterama Dancers and Tony Vaguely.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/disasterama-release-party/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: Amy Berkowitz and Caren Beilin\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:In Common Writers Series\, supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nFree and open to the public \nDetails soon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-amy-berkowitz-and-caren-beilin-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:K.R. MORRISON\, WILLIAM TAYLOR JR\, ZARINA ZABRISKY\, JON BENNETT\, JULIE VALIN\, TODD CIRILLO
DESCRIPTION:K.R. MORRISON\, WILLIAM TAYLOR JR\, ZARINA ZABRISKY\, \nJON BENNETT\, JULIE VALIN\, TODD CIRILLO\nFRI. OCT. 18TH\, 7PMAn evening of poetry and music featuring the following Bay Area writers: \n\nK.R. MORRISON\nWILLIAM TAYLOR JR.\nZARINA ZABRISKY\nJON BENNETT\nSongcraft by San Francisco writer/songwriter\nJULIE VALIN\nfrom Grass Valley\, CA\nTODD CIRILLO\nfrom New Orleans\, LA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/k-r-morrison-william-taylor-jr-zarina-zabrisky-jon-bennett-julie-valin-todd-cirillo/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:APAture 2019 & Litquake present Proclaim (a literary arts showcase)
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by Litquake 2019 \nJoin us at Arc Gallery & Studies for APAture 2019 presents Proclaim (a literary arts showcase)! Featuring Jennifer S. Cheng\, Jayinee Basu\, Sagaree Jain\, Celeste Chan\, Christine No\, Lisa Kee Hamasaki\, Jen Soong\, Angie Sijun Lou. For artist bios click here! \nThis year\, in honor of the 20th anniversary of APAture\, our theme is DECLARE. DECLARE is an acknowledgement of both the legacies of our past and the legacies we’ll establish in the future. We invite you to submit work related to legacies\, families (chosen\, biological\, or beyond)\, communities\, decolonization\, representation\, futurism\, agency\, and more. We also welcome work across all themes. \nAPAture is Kearny Street Workshop’s annual multidisciplinary arts festival celebrating emerging Asian and Pacific American (APA) artists of the San Francisco Bay Area. For 20 years\, APAture has been a site of dialogue\, collaboration\, and political action between artists and community members around contemporary issues affecting the Asian and Pacific Islander community. \nAPAture 2019: Declare will showcase over 60 artists in book arts\, film\, literary arts\, music\, performing arts\, and visual arts\, and will present their work to approximately 1\,000 festival-goers across multiple dates and venues in the South of Market neighborhood. \nCome join us and help us celebrate our local emerging APA artists! You don’t want to miss this! \nAPAture 2019: Declare Festival Schedule: \n(Multiple Locations in SF) Arc Gallery & Studios 1246 Folsom St. | Hotel Utah 500 4th St. | American Bookbinders Museum 355 Clementina St. | Roxie Theater 3117 16th St. | SOMArts 934 Brannan St. \n**OPENING RECEPTION\, BOOK ARTS SHOWCASE\, AND CLOSING RECEPTION ARE FREE. ALL OTHER SHOWCASES ARE TICKETED EVENTS** \nAPAture Opening Reception and Visual Arts Showcase\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/2426475590955249/\nfeat. Anh Bui\nFriday\, October 4th\, 6-10 pm (Opening Reception)\nSaturday\, October 4th – 27th (Visual Arts Showcase on display)\nArc Gallery & Studios\, 1246 Folsom Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94103 \nMusic Showcase\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/1033721316830856/\nfeat. Versoul\nFriday\, October 5th\, 9-1 am\nHotel Utah\, 500 4th Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94107 \nBook Arts Showcase\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/2487329794721381/\nfeat. Anand Vedewala\nSunday\, October 13th 1-4 pm\nAmerican Bookbinders Museum 355 Clementina Street. San Francisco 94103 \nLiterary Arts Showcase\nfeat. Jennifer S. Cheng\nSaturday\, October 18th\, 7-10 pm\nArc Gallery & Studios\, 1246 Folsom Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94103 \nFilm Showcase\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/2362679250672771/\nfeat. Alle Hsu\nSunday\, October 20th\, 2:30-5 pm\nRoxie Theater\, 16th Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94103 \nPerforming Arts Showcase\nfeat. Hien Huynh\nSaturday\, October 25th\, 8-10pm\nSOMArts\, 934 Brannan Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94103 \nAPAture Closing Reception\nSunday\, October 27th\, 1-4 pm\nArc Gallery & Studios\, 1246 Folsom Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94103 \n#APAture2019 #Declare \nPLEASE NOTE: \nREFUNDS CAN BE GIVEN UP TO ONE DAY BEFORE EVENT\nIF YOU ARE UNABLE TO ATTEND\, BUT WISH TO DONATE\, YOU MAY PURCHASE A PRE-SALE GENERAL TICKET IN LIEU. GENERAL DONATIONS ARE ALSO GLADLY ACCEPTED\, AND CAN BE MADE THROUGH OUR WEBSITE\nALL PROCEEDS WILL GO DIRECTLY TO THE FUNDING OF APATURE 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/apature-2019-litquake-present-proclaim-a-literary-arts-showcase/
LOCATION:Arc Studios & Gallery\, 1246 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, California\, 94103
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ed Hardy: Deeper Than Skin
DESCRIPTION:Legendary American tattoo artist Ed Hardy discusses his groundbreaking tattoos\, flash\, drawings\, and artworks with Jeff Gunderson\, contributor to Ed Hardy: Deeper than Skin:Art of the New Tattoo. \nAbout Ed Hardy: Deeper than Skin \nEd Hardy’s (b. 1945) unique vision spans decades\, creating an indelible mark on popular culture. Accompanying a major exhibition\, this profusely illustrated survey of his life in art traces his inspirations\, rooted both in traditional American tattooing of the first half of the twentieth century and in the imagery of Japan’s ukiyo-e era. Hardy\, raised in Southern California\, became intrigued with tattoo art at the age of ten\, setting up shop in his parents’ den. After attending the San Francisco Art Institute in the 1960s\, he rejected a graduate fellowship from Yale to apprentice at studios up and down the West Coast. It was his intention to rescue tattooing from its subculture\, “outsider” status and elevate it to at least the level of folk art. \nHardy’s success at breathing new life into the art form is chronicled in a plethora of tattoo designs\, paintings\, drawings\, prints\, and three-dimensional work spanning fifty years. While the world that inspires him may be lost\, Hardy’s distinct visual language is vibrantly alive within American visual vernacular\, synonymous to some with the spirit of the West Coast itself. \nDonald Edward Talbott Hardy was born in 1945 in Des Moines\, Iowa\, and grew up in Corona del Mar\, on the Southern California coast. For over twenty years\, Hardy worked exclusively as a tattoo artist\, developing the medium’s potential and fueling the late twentieth-century boom in the practice. In the late 1980s he returned to painting\, drawing\, and printmaking while continuing to tattoo\, and his work was exhibited widely. In the millennial year 2000\, Hardy created a 4- by 500-foot scroll painting\, 2000 Dragons. He describes this piece as a decisive turning point in its scale and expansive gesture that freed him to explore abstract elements along with recognizable forms in his art. In 2005\, Hardy licensed his designs to Christian Audigier\, who developed popular merchandise featuring Hardy’s tattoo imagery. \nHardy has written and published more than thirty books on alternative art under his imprint Hardy Marks. In 2010\, Ed Hardy: Tattoo the World\, a film by Emiko Omori was released\, and in 2013\, Wear Your Dreams: My Life in Tattoos\, an autobiography with Joel Selvin\, was published by St. Martin’s Press. Hardy divides his time between San Francisco and Honolulu\, where he has had a home and studio since the 1980s. \nJeff Gunderson has been the Librarian and Archivist at the San Francisco Art Institute since 1981. He has written on the history of California photography\, the San Francisco art scene of the 1940s\, and done presentations on artists Joan Brown\, Elmer Bischoff\, Ed Ruscha\, Charles Howard\, the history of LGBTQ art in San Francisco\, the history of Bay Area conceptual art\, and the influence of art libraries on artists.  He also did the introductory essay to Black Power/Flower Power: Photographs by Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch.  He is currently working on a collection of essays about open water swimming.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ed-hardy-deeper-than-skin/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:2019 Moby Dick Reading Marathon
DESCRIPTION:Breaching on Saturday\, October 19: San Francisco’s 2019 Moby Dick reading marathon. Mark your calendars for this tribute to a classic American novel – and start storing up sleep for this 24-hour literary voyage. Info at: https://maritime.org/events/mobydick/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2019-moby-dick-reading-marathon/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Pam Grossman / Waking the Witch
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special late afternoon event in conjunction with the Modern Witches Confluence\, presenting Pam Grossman for her new book Waking the Witch. Please join us! \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event. Seats are limited\, and advance tickets are highly recommended. Tickets can be purchased here. Unless otherwise noted here tickets will be available at the door. \n\nWitches have been with us for centuries and have a long history of being associated with evil and diabolism. But beginning in the 19th century\, the archetype of the witch got reclaimed and reframed as an agent of positive – if subversive – transformation. This illustrated talk will excavate and celebrate the evolution of this magical\, feminist icon. Touching on historical events\, pop occulture in film and television\, and her own personal story\, author and podcast host Pam Grossman will trace how the witch went from hideous hag to Hermione\, and discuss the ways in which witches continue to reflect our fears and fantasies about feminine power today. \n\nPam Grossman is the creator and host of The Witch Wave podcast and the author of Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women\, Magic\, and Power(Gallery Books) and What Is A Witch (Tin Can Forest Press). Her writing has appeared in such outlets as the New York Times\, TIME.com\, Sabat Magazine\, HuffPost\, and her occulture blog\, Phantasmaphile. She is co-founder of the Occult Humanities Conference at NYU\, and her art exhibitions and magical projects have been featured in such publications as Artforum\, Art in America\, and the New Yorker. You can find her at PamGrossman.com and @Phantasmaphile. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThe Bindery bar opens with the store at 2pm. Event starts at 5pm. \nFacebook RSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Waking the Witch\, order below and put your request in the comments field. To request signed copies of any of Pam’s other books\, follow the same instructions here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pam-grossman-waking-the-witch/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Litcrawl Hits The Green Arcade with Sonoma County Writers Camp and Queer Words Podcast
DESCRIPTION:Once again the city-wide events of Litquake descend on us for two Litcrawl readings this Saturday night. \nOne of the most anticipated literary nights of the year\, San Francisco’s Lit Crawl is a massive\, one-night literary pub crawl throughout the city’s Mission District. Lit Crawl SF brings together 500+ authors and close to 10\,000 fans for the world’s largest free pop-up literary event. Started in 2004\, Lit Crawl cultivates a unique\, resonant brand: smart and silly\, worldly and wacky events presented in venues usual (bars\, cafes\, galleries\, and bookstores) and unusual (police stations\, tattoo parlors\, barbershops\, and laundromats). \nPhase one: 5:00pm-6:00pm\nSonoma County Writers Camp \nWith Nayomi Munaweera – Island of a Thousand Mirrors; Lucy Jane Bledsoe – A Thin Bright Line; Shanthi Sekaran – Lucky Boy; Ellen Sussman – A Wedding in Provence; Devi Laskar -The Atlas of Reds and Blues; and Elizabeth Stark – Shy Girl. \nPhase 2: 6:30-7:30\nQueer Words Podcast \nWith Richard May – Inhuman Beings and Ginger Snaps: Photos & Stories (with photographer David Sweet); Nona Caspers – The Fifth Woman; Avery Cassell – Behrouz Gets Lucky. \nFor more details see: Litquake.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litcrawl-hits-the-green-arcade-with-sonoma-county-writers-camp-and-queer-words-podcast/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T193000
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SUMMARY:Hazel Reading Series at Litcrawl 2019
DESCRIPTION:Hazel Reading Series is back and is excited to participate at Litcrawl 2019 with some of the best writers of 2019!\nJoin us on October 19th\, Phase II\, 6:30-7:30 pm\, at The Woods\, for another unforgettable night of prose and poetry. \nFeaturing:\nCeleste Chan\nKirin Khan\nRaina León\nSara Marinelli\nDominica Phetteplace \nThe readers\nCeleste Chan teaches creative writing to LGBTQ youth with Queer Ancestors Project and coordinates QTPOC Free School. A Hedgebrook\, Lambda\, and VONA fellow\, she works across documentary\, creative writing\, performance\, and oral history projects. From 2008-2018\, she co-directed Queer Rebels\, a queer and trans people of color arts project\, and toured work to Austin\, New York\, Montreal\, Tijuana\, Berlin\, and beyond. A Hedgebrook\, Lambda Literary\, and VONA fellow\, Celeste’s work can be found in several journals and anthologies\, including cream city review and The Rumpus. www.celestechan.com \nKirin Khan is a writer living in Oakland\, California\, who calls\nAlbuquerque\, New Mexico\, her hometown\, and Peshawar\, Pakistan\, her homeland. Kirin is an alumnus of VONA\, Las Dos Brujas\, and the Tin House Writers Workshop\, and she is a 2017 PEN Emerging Voices Fellow\, a 2017 SF Writers Grotto Fellow\, a 2018 AWP Writer to Writer Mentee\, and a 2018 Steinbeck Fellow. Her work has appeared in The Margins\, sPARKLE & bLINK\, Your Impossible Voice\, 7×7 LA\, and elsewhere. Currently\, Kirin is working on her first novel. \nRaina J. León\, Cave Canem graduate fellow (2006)\, CantoMundo fellow\, Macondo fellow\, and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective\, has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry\, fiction and nonfiction. Her first collection of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, was a finalist for both the Cave Canem First Book Poetry Prize (2005) and the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize (2006). Her second book\, Boogeyman Dawn (2013\, Salmon Poetry)\, was a finalist for the Naomi Long Madgett Prize (2010). Her third book\, sombra : (dis)locate\, was published in 2016 as well as her first chapbook\, profeta without refuge. She has received fellowships and residencies with Cave Canem\, CantoMundo\, Montana Artists Refuge\, the Macdowell Colony\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, Vermont Studio Center\, the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Annamaghkerrig\, Ireland and Ragdale. She also is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly\, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latino and Latina arts. She is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California. www.rainaleon.com \nBorn and raised in Naples\, Italy\, Sara Marinelli is a writer and educator based in San Francisco. Her writing appears in Blue Mesa Review\, New American Writing\, and many Italian publications. She teaches Comparative Literature and Humanities at the USF and SFSU. She is the co-foudner and curator of the Hazel Reading Series\, an all-women reading series; and every week she hosts an Italian music program on KUSF radio. Sara is currently working on her first novel.\nwww.saramarinelli.com \nDominica Phetteplace writes fiction and poetry. Her work has appeared in Zyzzyva\, Asimov’s\, Analog\, F&SF\, Clarkesworld\, Lightspeed\, Copper Nickel\, Ecotone\, Wigleaf\, The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy and Best Microfiction 2019. Her honors include a Pushcart Prize\, a Rona Jaffe Award\, a Barbara Deming Award and fellowships from I-Park\, Marble House Project and the MacDowell Colony. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley and the Clarion West Writers Workshop.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hazel-reading-series-at-litcrawl-2019/
LOCATION:the woods\, 910 Valencia st.\, San Francisco\, CA - California\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nia King - - Queer and Trans Artists of Color Vol III ft. Anthony James Williams\, Luna Merbruja\, Paradise Khanmalek\, and co-editor Maliha Ahmed
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is so excited to welcome back Nia King to discuss her new anthology Queer and Trans Artists of Color Volume Three. She will be joined by several contributors including\, Anthony James Williams\, Luna Merbruja\, Paradise Khanmalek\, and co-editor Maliha Ahmed. \nFor the last year\, Nia King and co-editor Maliha Ahmed have been hard at work on Queer & Trans Artists of Color\, Volume 3\, featuring interviews with Anthony J. Williams\, Osa Atoe\, Venus Di’Khadijah Selenite\, Ah Mer Ah Su\, Gabby Rivera\, Joamette Gil\, Mey Rude\, Kai Cheng Thom\, Jia qing wilson-yang\, Sarah Burke\, Sam Levin\, Arielle Twist\, Paradise Khanmalek\, Qwo-Li Driskill\, and Kamal Al-Solaylee! The launch party will be a talk show-style event where Nia interviews queer and trans artists of color live before an audience. \nThis event will be free and open to the public. There will also be free food for all in attendance! \n  \nAbout the Contributors: \nNia King is a queer Black/Lebanese/Hungarian Jewish author and podcaster from Canton\, MA who lived in Oakland\, CA from 2008-2019. She has been hosting and producing We Want the Airwaves podcast (available in iTunes) since 2013. She self-published her first book\, Queer & Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives\, with co-editors Jessica Glennon-Zukoff and Terra Mikalson in 2014\, and her second book\, Queer & Trans Artists of Color\, Volume 2\, edited by Elena Rose\, in 2016. Nia’s writing and comics have been published at Colorlines.com\, East Bay Express\, and Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory. She received a Best of the East Bay Award in 2016 and was featured in KQED’s Bay Brilliant series (formerly Women to Watch) in 2018. She loves and misses Oakland dearly. You can find more of her work at niaking.com. \nAnthony James Williams (they/them pronouns) is a Black queer non-binary writer\, sociology PhD student\, and facilitator. They’re responsible for popularizing the hashtag #MasculinitySoFragile and their published writing (Hazlitt\, The Outline\, Electric Lit) focuses on race\, sexuality\, and mental health. Their prior Black student organizing led the University of California system to divest $25 million from private prisons. Find them on twitter @anthoknees or antjwilliams.com. \nLuna Merbruja is a Mexican-Athabaskan writer and artist. They are the author of the Lambda Literary Award-nominated poetry book\, Heal Your Love. They have published short stories and essays in The Resilience Anthology\, Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic\, and the second edition of Colonize This! Feel free to follow their work at luna.merbruja.com\, IG: @LunaMerbruja\, or contact by email: lunamerbruja@gmail.com. \nParadise Khanmalek is an Iranian American artist\, poet\, and graphic designer from Los Angeles. She creates illustrated books of poetry\, takes photographs\, and most recently self-published a book of semi-academic poetic text about entropy\, gender\, and the semiotics of the visual world. Find her work online at Pardislili.com and @Humanchandelier on Instagram. \n  \nIf you are interested and able to help contirbute to the fund to pay for artists travel expenses\, ASL interpretation at the event and a caterer please check out https://www.gofundme.com/f/queer-amp-trans-artists-of-color-volume-3-launch?member=2377338 \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSaturday\, October 19\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nia-king-queer-and-trans-artists-of-color-vol-iii-ft-anthony-james-williams-luna-merbruja-paradise-khanmalek-and-co-editor-maliha-ahmed/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mark Mallman: The Happiness Playlist
DESCRIPTION:Mark Mallman discusses his new book\, The Happiness Playlist: The True Story of Healing My Heart With Feel-Good Music. \nPraise for The Happiness Playlist \n”Mark Mallman is legitimately original\, exclusively motivated by a desire to conquer the strange obstructions he builds inside his mind.” –Chuck Klosterman (Foreword by)\, author of Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota \n”This brave and masterfully written book is a testament to the power of love and art. Read it and become obsessed.” —Diablo Cody\, Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Juno and creator of United States of Tara \n”The Happiness Playlist is funny\, thought-provoking\, and just plain helpful. It’s the best book on grief that I’ve ever picked up. The examination of music-listening as a method to combat heartbreak is a joy to read. You need it.” —-Craig Finn\, frontman of the critically acclaimed band The Hold Steady \nAbout The Happiness Playlist \nMinneapolis rock legend Mark Mallman woke at 3 a.m. with a crushing panic attack that wouldn’t end. He responded by pouring songs into a happiness playlist and leaning on the wisdom of friends. This is the true story of a man beset by grief\, healed by music\, and learning to laugh through it all.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mark-mallman-the-happiness-playlist/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T210000
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SUMMARY:Birds of Paradise at LitQuake Lit Crawl
DESCRIPTION:Birds of Paradise at LitQuake Lit Crawl\n\n\nSaturday October 19th\, 2019\, from 8-9pm\nat Lone Palm\, 3394 22nd Street\, San Francisco CA 94110 \nPresented by Feather Press and hosted by Ingrid Keir\nFeaturing: Jennifer Barone\, Cassandra Dallett\, EK Keith\, and Lauren Ito 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/birds-of-paradise-at-litquake-lit-crawl/
LOCATION:Lone Palm\, 3394 22nd Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T220000
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SUMMARY:Richard Powers & Bill McKibben
DESCRIPTION:Richard Powers is the Pulitzer-prize and National Book Award-winning author of twelve novels\, including Orfeo\, The Echo Maker\, and The Time of Our Singing. The Overstory\, Powers most recent novel\, is a sweeping\, impassioned tale of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of – and paean to – the natural world. The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that explore the essential conflict on our planet: the one taking place between humans and nonhumans. \nBill McKibben is an author\, environmentalist\, activist\, and the co-founder of 350.org\, an international climate campaign that works in 188 countries around the world. His 1989 groundbreaking book\, The End of Nature – issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic – was the first book to alert us to global warming. He’s gone on to write a dozen more books\, most recently Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? The Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, he is the recipient of the Right Livelihood Prize\, the Gandhi Prize and the Thomas Merton Prize\, and holds honorary degrees from 18 colleges and universities.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/richard-powers-bill-mckibben/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center of San Francisco\, 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191020T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191020T170000
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SUMMARY:Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films with Arthur Dong
DESCRIPTION:Oscar-nominated and triple Sundance award-winning filmmaker Arthur Dong presents a slide show and talk from his newest book Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hollywood-chinese-the-chinese-in-american-feature-films-with-arthur-dong/
LOCATION:Koret Auditorium\, San Francisco Main Library\, 100 Larkin Avenune\, SAN FRANCISCO\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191021T210000
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SUMMARY:Mazza Writer in Residence Peter Nachtrieb + Guests\, reading of a new play-in-progress
DESCRIPTION:Supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation \nFree and open to the public \nDetails soon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mazza-writer-in-residence-peter-nachtrieb-guests-reading-of-a-new-play-in-progress/
LOCATION:Z Space\, 450 Florida Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191021T213000
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SUMMARY:LIZ PHAIR In Conversation with Tabitha Soren
DESCRIPTION:LIZ PHAIR\nIn Conversation with Tabitha Soren\nMonday\, October 21\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nco-presented with Noise Pop \nA recording artist and touring performer for over twenty-five years\, Liz Phair has paved the way for countless musicians\, particularly women. Phair began her career in the early 1990s in Chicago by self-releasing audio cassettes under the name Girly-Sound. The intense viral response to these early tracks led to Phair signing with the independent label Matador Records\, and her debut album\, Exile in Guyville\, is considered by music critics to be a landmark of indie rock. More than two decades later\, Phair remains a major influence on contemporary music. In her forthcoming memoir\, she takes readers inside the most intimate junctures of her life\, from facing her own bad behavior and the repercussions of betraying her fundamental values\, to watching her beloved grandmother inevitably fade\, to undergoing the beauty of childbirth while being asked for an autograph by the anesthesiologist. \n  \nTabitha Soren’s photographs investigate the difficulties of everyday living.  Whether it’s the disquieting images of people in looming danger in Running\, or the anxiety-inspired oceans capes of Panic Beach\, Soren is interested in what humans can and cannot endure. In 1999\, Soren left a successful career in television\, most notably with MTV\, to become a photographer. Her work appears in several public collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Oakland Museum of California\, and has been featured in Vanity Fair\, The New York Times Magazine\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/liz-phair-in-conversation-with-tabitha-soren/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191022T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191022T203000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20191016T034259Z
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SUMMARY:The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation
DESCRIPTION:Seth Donnelly’s new book The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neolilberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation deconstructs the assumption that global poverty has fallen dramatically\, and lays bare the spurious methods of poverty measurement and data on which the dominant prosperity narrative depends. Donnelly analyzes just how global poverty\, rather than being reduced\, is reproduced by the imperatives of capital accumulation on a global scale. Just as global environmental catastrophes cannot be resolved within capitalism\, rooted as it is in mechanisms of exploitation and plunder\, neither can human poverty be effectively eliminated by neoliberal “advances.” \nSeth Donnelly is a public school teacher and long-time radical activist. He will be speaking about The Lie of Global Prosperity and discussing the current situation in Haiti (a primary focus of his book) with Pierre Labossiere of the Bay Area-based Haiti Action.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-lie-of-global-prosperity-how-neoliberals-distort-data-to-mask-poverty-and-exploitation/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191022T210000
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SUMMARY:Gillian Conoley and Donna de la Perrière
DESCRIPTION:Gillian Conoley and Donna de la Perrière\nTuesday\, October 22\, 2019\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\nreading from new poetry \nA Little More Red Sun On The Human: New and Selected Poems \nby Gillian Conoley \npublished by Nightboat Books \nand \nWorks of Love & Terror \nby Donna de la Perrière \npublished by Talisman House \nAbout A Little More Red Sun On The Human: New and Selected Poems: \nGillian Conoley’s selected poems assemble a shockingly varied body of work\, comprising narrative\, lyric\, and fragmented forms. Her coruscating vibrant poems are informed by visual art and film\, political engagement and playful linguistic constructions. \nA Little More Red Sun on the Human: New and Selected Poems forms a completely new trajectory through decades of poetic work\, including three collections previously out of print. In a career that began by chronicling the idiosyncrasies of Texas girlhood\, Conoley’s work spirals outward toward an inquiry into spirit and matter\, the relation between the individual and the state. Throughout\, one can trace Conoley’s obsessions and concerns: democracy\, metaphysics\, motherhood\, gender and race\, futurity and history. Conoley’s new work posits an inquiry into the coming shifts of human consciousness and perception as she imagines the next world––flush with artificial intelligence\, an ever-arriving\, shape-shifting technology––and the possible communities we may yet forge between human life and a compromised planet. \nPraise for Gillian Conoley \n“Conoley’s poems have a singular energy like an organ solo or a shotgun resorting to storytelling. She adds tool handles to our histories; a set list for our waking souls. And an instrument of self-reflection that a landscape might ponder itself with. On her page\, our natures get away with nothing. All cradled by a ruthlessly loving dance of language; in her poems we meet our twins.” ––Tongo Eisen-Martin \n“Nimble\, inquisitive and intelligently elegant\, the poems in this much anticipated volume reorient phenomena to make meaning with it: personal\, inviting\, knowing\, and necessary. The range of Gillian Conoley’s attention is a marvel.”––Hoa Nguyen \n“Here we find the peculiarly American matter-of-factness of the small town exotic coming face-to-face with intellectual high-brow energy. Carson McCullers meets Gertrude Stein. Perhaps Jane Bowles is an appropriate comparison.”––The Antioch Review \n“Masterfully composed in the hot spaces and so rhythmic sounds Americans have put to their times. ‘Like gold into scar/ a twister in the skull.’”––Alice Notley \nAbout Donna de la Perrière \nDonna de la Perrière is the author of SAINT ERASURE (2010) and TRUE CRIME (2009)\, both from Talisman House. The recipient of a 2009 Fund for Poetry award\, she teaches in the MFA and undergraduate creative writing programs at California College of the Arts and San Francisco State University and curates the Bay Area Poetry Marathon reading series.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gillian-conoley-and-donna-de-la-perriere/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191022T210000
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SUMMARY:Amanda Yates Garcia: Initiated
DESCRIPTION:Amanda Yates Garcia discusses her new memoir\, Initiated: Memoir of a Witch. \nPraise for Initiated \n“Mythic journeys to the underworld\, goddesses\, ecstasies\, fairy tales\, ghosts\, love\, sex\, female empowerment\, challenging the patriarchy: Initiated is full of my favorite things\, told with savage grace by my favorite oracle\, the powerful and devastatingly enchanting Amanda Yates Garcia. This book will change your life.”—Francesca Lisa Block \n“I see Amanda Yates Garcia realizing a kind of magic choreography here: reaching back through millennia\, dragging forth darkness by the handful\, recalling ancient women misremembered\, denied\, hounded and destroyed\, holding the pain of misogyny and changing it with intention\, into light.”—Grace Krilanovich\, author of The Orange Eats Creeps \n“Yates Garcia takes us on a sweeping\, expansive\, generous\, and beautifully intuitive journey into feminine power in Initiated. She leads us fearlessly into the dark underworld of patriarchal oppression\, intergenerational trauma\, loss and grief\, where\, she says\, every witch must go to find her magic. This book is a powerful political protest and a call to return to first principles as a nation\, a society\, and a people. Come to it seeking your own artistic and intellectual path\, and leave trusting yourself\, trusting others\, and trusting in the unconditional love you will find in the collective soul of the world.”—Sarah Gerard\, author of Binary Star \nAbout Initiated \nSmoke Gets in Your Eyes meets Women Who Run With The Wolves in this haunting\, mystical memoir about finding meaning\, beauty\, and power through a life in witchcraft. \nAn initiation signals a beginning: a door opens and you step through. Traditional Wiccan initiates are usually brought into the craft through a ceremony with a High Priestess. But even though Amanda Yates Garcia’s mother\, a practicing witch herself\, initiated her into the earth-centered practice of witchcraft when she was 13 years old\, Amanda’s real life as a witch only began when she underwent a series of spontaneous initiations of her own. \nDescending into the underworlds of poverty\, sex work\, and misogyny\, Initiated describes Amanda’s journey to return to her body\, harness her power\, and create the magical world she longed for through witchcraft. Hailed by crows\, seduced by magicians\, and haunted by ancestors broken beneath the wheels of patriarchy\, Amanda’s quest for self-discovery and empowerment is a deep exploration of a modern witch’s trials – healing ancient wounds\, chafing against cultural expectations\, creating intimacy – all while on a mission to re-enchant the world. Peppered with mythology\, tales of the goddesses and magical women throughout history\, Initiated stands squarely at the intersection of witchcraft and feminism. With generosity and heart\, this book speaks to the question: is it possible to live a life of beauty and integrity in a world that feels like it’s dying? \nDeclaring oneself a witch and practicing magic has everything to do with claiming authority and power for oneself\, of taking back our planet in the name of Love. Initiated is both memoir and manifesto calling the magical people of the world to take up their wands: stand up\, be brave\, describe the world they want\, then create it like a witch.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amanda-yates-garcia-initiated/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:LAUNCH for Mimi Lok / Last of Her Name\, w/Rita Bullwinkel
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to host the launch party for Mimi Lok‘s debut story collection\, Last of Her Name. She’ll be in conversation with Rita Bullwinkel (Belly Up). Please save the date and join us! \nLast of Her Name is an eye-opening novella and story collection about the intimate\, interconnected lives of diasporic women and the histories they are born into. Set in a wide range of time periods and locales\, including 80s UK suburbia\, WWII Hong Kong and urban California\, Mimi Lok’s debut features an eclectic cast of outsiders: among them\, an elderly housebreaker\, wounded lovers\, and kung-fu fighting teenage girls. \nThe title story follows the parallel\, interweaving journeys of a mother and daughter as they grapple with their respective foes\, taking us from the suburbs of England to a Chinese village on the eve of World War II\, and exploring the hidden lives and secret histories within an immigrant family. Collectively\, Lok artfully presents unique exploration of love\, longing\, and endurance. \n\nMimi Lok is the recipient of a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award and an Ylvisaker Award for Fiction\, a finalist for the 2018 Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize\, and a finalist for the Susan Atefat Arts and Letters Prize for nonfiction. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in McSweeney’s\, Electric Literature\, Nimrod\, Lucky Peach\, Hyphen\, the South China Morning Post\, and elsewhere. Mimi is also the executive director and editor of Voice of Witness\, a human rights/oral history nonprofit she co-founded that amplifies marginalized voices through a book series and a national education program. Mimi currently lives in San Francisco\, CA. Find her online at mimilok.com. \nRita Bullwinkel is the author of the story collection Belly Up. Her writing has been published in Tin House\, Conjunctions\, BOMB\, Vice\, NOON\, and Guernica. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony\, Brown University\, Vanderbilt University\, Hawthornden Castle\, and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction and her translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an Editor at Large for McSweeney’s. She lives in San Francisco. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThe Bindery bar opens at 7pm. Event starts at 7:30pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Last of Her Name\, order below and put your request in the comments field. To request signed copies of Rita’s book\, follow the same instructions here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-mimi-lok-last-of-her-name-w-rita-bullwinkel/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T085204
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SUMMARY:John Hodgman / Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-hodgman-medallion-status-true-stories-from-secret-rooms/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T085204
CREATED:20190822T231409Z
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SUMMARY:Jake Brennan: Disgraceland
DESCRIPTION:Jake Brennan discusses his new book\, Disgraceland: Musicians Getting Away With Murder and Behaving Very Badly. \nPraise for Disgraceland \n“Through his gritty and powerful stories\, Brennan breathes new life into the music and musicians we’ve known all our lives.”—Aaron Mahnke\, author and creator of Lore \n“Jake Brennan is writing from a crossroads- the junction of music and crime. One road leads to the Elysian Fields\, the other\, to the Underworld. Some of these magicians have been down both.”—T Bone Burnett\, Oscar and Grammy winning musician and producer \n“Mix the true crime mythology of rock ‘n’ roll with a dash of transgressive fiction\, then add 10 cc of adrenaline and twice that in anabolic steroids. Employing due caution\, enter Jake Brennan’s brain as translated in Disgraceland to observe the dark results–Elvis locked in unholy union with the parasitic Colonel Tom Parker\, why Jerry Lee Lewis was called the Killer\, Altamont. Axl Rose. Chuck Berry. And\, of course\, the truly twisted Phil Spector. It all works brilliantly because Jake genuinely loves rock ‘n’ roll just as much as he enjoys indulging his imagination and wickedly stylish sense of humor.”—Dennis McNally\, author of A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead \nAbout Disgraceland \nFrom the creator of the popular rock ‘n’ roll true crime podcast\, DISGRACELAND comes an off-kilter\, hysterical\, at times macabre book of stories from the highly entertaining underbelly of music history. \nYou may know Jerry Lee Lewis married his thirteen-year-old cousin but did you know he shot his bass player in the chest with a shotgun or that a couple of his wives died under extremely mysterious circumstances? Or that Sam Cooke was shot dead in a seedy motel after barging into the manager’s office naked to attack her? Maybe not. Would it change your view of him if you knew that\, or would your love for his music triumph? \nReal rock stars do truly insane thing and invite truly insane things to happen to them; murder\, drug trafficking\, rape\, cannibalism and the occult. We allow this behavior. We are complicit because a rock star behaving badly is what’s expected. It’s baked into the cake. Deep down\, way down\, past all of our self-righteous notions of justice and right and wrong\, when it comes down to it\, we want our rock stars to be bad. We know the music industry is full of demons\, ones that drove Elvis Presley\, Phil Spector\, Sid Vicious and that consumed the Norwegian Black Metal scene. We want to believe in the myths because they’re so damn entertaining. \nDISGRACELAND is a collection of the best of these stories about some of the music world’s most beloved stars and their crimes. It will mix all-new\, untold stories with expanded stories from the first two seasons of the Disgraceland podcast. Using figures we already recognize\, DISGRACELAND shines a light into the dark corners of their fame revealing the fine line that separates heroes and villains as well as the danger Americans seek out in their news cycles\, tabloids\, reality shows and soap operas. At the center of this collection of stories is the ever-fascinating music industry–a glittery stage populated by gangsters\, drug dealers\, pimps\, groupies with violence\, scandal and pure unadulterated rock ‘n’ roll entertainment.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jake-brennan-disgraceland/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T085204
CREATED:20191024T150805Z
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SUMMARY:Ibram X. Kendi in conversation with Jelani Cobb
DESCRIPTION:IBRAM X. KENDI\nin conversation with Jelani Cobb\nThursday\, December 12\, 2019\n7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nTICKETS \nTo purchase over the phone: 415-392-4400 \nThis event appears in the series\nCultural Studies \n  \nIbram X. Kendi is a historian and the Founding Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. His books include The Black Campus Movement and Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America\, in which Kendi chronicles how racist ideas were developed\, disseminated and enshrined in American society\, leading us to a present state of racism that is more sophisticated and insidious than ever. Kendi’s newest book\, How to Be An Antiracist\, re-energizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America\, asking us to think about what an antiracist society might look like\, and how we can play an active role in building it. \nJelani Cobb has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 2015\, writing on subjects of race\, politics\, history\, and culture. Cobb’s books include The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress\, To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic\, and the collection\, The Devil and Dave Chappelle and Other Essays. He is the Ira J. Lipman Professor of Journalism at Columbia University\, specializing in post-Civil War African American history\, 20th century and modern American politics\, and the history of the Cold War.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ibram-x-kendi-in-conversation-with-jelani-cobb/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T170000
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CREATED:20191024T152917Z
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SUMMARY:John James with Henri Cole
DESCRIPTION:John James with Henri Cole\nThursday\, December 5\, 2019\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\n    \ncelebrating the release of John James’ new collection of poetry \nThe Milk Hours \npublished by Milkweed Editions \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWinner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize\, The Milk Hours is an elegant debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist in a state of loss. \n“We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery.” So begins the title poem of this collection\, whose recursive temporality is filled with living\, grieving things\, punctuated by an unseen world of roots\, bodies\, and concealed histories. Like a cemetery\, too\, The Milk Hours sets unlikely neighbors alongside each other: Hegel and Murakami\, Melville and the Persian astronomer al-Sufi\, enacting a transhistorical poetics even as it brims with intimacy. These are poems of frequent swerves and transformations\, which never stray far from an engagement with science\, geography\, art\, and aesthetics\, nor from the dream logic that motivates their incessant investigations. \nIndeed\, while John James begins with the biographical—the haunting loss of a father in childhood\, the exhausted hours of early fatherhood—the questions that emerge from his poetic synthesis are both timely and universal: what is it to be human in an era where nature and culture have fused? To live in a time of political and environmental upheaval\, of both personal and public loss? How do we make meaning\, and to whom—or what—do we turn\, when such boundaries so radically collapse? \nJohn James is the author of The Milk Hours\, selected by Henri Cole as winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where he is pursuing a PhD in English at the University of California\, Berkeley. \nHenri Cole was born in Fukuoka\, Japan\, to a French mother and an American father. He has published nine collections of poetry\, including Middle Earth\, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer.  He has received many awards for his work\, including the Jackson Prize\, the Kingsley Tufts Award\, the Rome Prize\, the Berlin Prize\, the Lenore Marshall Award\, and the Medal in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent collection of poetry is Nothing to Declare. New York Review Books recently published a collection of prose title Orphic Paris. He teaches at Claremont McKenna College and lives in Boston. \nAbout Milkweed Editions \nJust as the common milkweed plant is the site of metamorphosis for monarch butterflies\, Milkweed Editions seeks to be a site of metamorphosis in the literary ecosystem. We take risks on debut and experimental writers\, we invest significant time and care in the editorial process\, and we enable dynamic engagement between authors and readers. We operate as a nonprofit to pursue these ends without overbearing financial pressure. And yet\, though profits aren’t our primary focus\, helping our authors succeed certainly is. Just so\, since our founding in 1980\, we’ve published over 350 books of literary fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry and now have over four million copies in circulation. We believe that literature has the potential to change the way we see the world\, and that bringing new voices to essential conversations is the clearest path to ensuring a vibrant\, diverse\, and empowered future.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-james-with-henri-cole/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T193000
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SUMMARY:Michael Nava: Carved in Bone
DESCRIPTION:Reading and Q&A with the six-time Lambda Literary Award-winning mystery writer\, Michael Nava. \nMichael Nava is the author of an acclaimed series of eight novels featuring gay\, Latino criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios\, who The New Yorker called “a detective unlike any previous protagonist in American noir.” The New York Times Book Review has called Nava “one of our best” writers. He is also the author of an award-winning historical novel\, The City of Palaces\, set at the beginning of the 1910 Mexican revolution. His first new Rios novel in 20 years\, Carved in Bone\, was released by Persigo Press on October 1\, 2019. Set in San Francisco in 1984\, Kirkus praised the book for its “refreshing emotional depth and a gay narrative seldom seen in thrillers.” Publisher’s Weekly said of the novel: “An authentic portrait of [San Francisco] in the early days of the AIDS crisis complements a satisfying mystery.” \nIn addition\, he is the writer/producer of the Henry Rios Mysteries Podcast which adapted the first Rios novel\, Lay Your Sleeping Head into an 18-episode audio drama available on I-tunes\, Spotify and other podcast platforms. In 2019\, he founded Persigo Press\, through which he hopes to publish LGBTQ writers and writers of color who write genre fiction that combines fidelity to the conventions of their genre with exceptional literary merit.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-nava-carved-in-bone/
LOCATION:James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center of San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St. San Francisco\,\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T085204
CREATED:20190823T014854Z
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SUMMARY:Mazza Writer in Residence Peter Nachtrieb\, a playwriting workshop and conversation
DESCRIPTION:Supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation \nFree and open to the public \nDetails soon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mazza-writer-in-residence-peter-nachtrieb-a-playwriting-workshop-and-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T085204
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SUMMARY:Benedicte Maurseth in conversation with David Rothenberg
DESCRIPTION:discussiing the subject of \nTo Be Nothing: Conversations with Knut Hamre\, Hardanger Fiddle Master \nby Benedicte Maurseth \npublished by Terra Nova Press/The MIT Press \n\nDialogues between student and master about music\, learning\, teaching\, the healing power of art\, and the art of life itself. \nKnut Hamre has devoted his life to playing the Hardanger fiddle—a unique folk violin with resonating strings beneath\, like a sitar’s—and to teaching new generations the secrets of this ancient music\, rooted in a stark and beautiful land. Benedicte Maurseth is one of his most accomplished students\, an internationally known artist who has recorded for the ECM label. In a book that brings to mind such classics as Zen and the Art of Archery and Wabi Sabi\, the student and her master together explore the quest for excellence and originality in the heart of a living tradition. \nAt once mystical and practical\, To Be Nothing is a series of dialogues about music\, learning\, teaching\, the healing power of art\, and the art of life itself. With photographs evoking the rugged landscapes and people from which this music springs and the exquisite beauty of the fiddles themselves\, this is a work as serene as a fjord\, and as deep. \nBenedicte Maurseth is a Norwegian folk musician\, composer\, and writer. She began her study of the Hardanger fiddle with Knut Hamre at the age of eight. She has toured in Norway and internationally\, and has made several recordings on Grappa and ECM. In 2017 she was awarded the NOPA Music Prize for her outstanding contribution to the Norwegian music scene. \nvisit: https://www.maurseth.net/ \nDavid Rothenberg is the Series Editor of Terra Nova Books and is distinguished professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is the author of many books investigating music in nature\, including Why Birds Sing\, Survival of the Beautiful\, and Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise. His writings have been translated into more than eleven languages and among his twenty one music CDs is One Dark Night I Left My Silent House\, on ECM. \nTerra Nova Books aim to show how environmental issues have cultural and artistic components\, in addition to the scientific and political. Combining essays\, reportage\, fiction\, art\, and poetry\, Terra Nova Books reveal the complex and paradoxical ways the natural and the human are continually redefining each other. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/benedicte-maurseth-in-conversation-with-david-rothenberg/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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