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SUMMARY:He’s back! John Waters presents his new book Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
DESCRIPTION:No one knows more about everything—especially everything rude\, clever\, and offensively compelling—than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin mustache\, auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos\, Polyester\, the original Hairspray\, Cry-Baby\, and A Dirty Shame\, is one of the world’s great sophisticates\, and in Mr. Know-It-Allhe serves it up raw: how to fail upward in Hollywood; how to develop musical taste from Nervous Norvus to Maria Callas; how to build a home so ugly and trendy that no one but you would dare live in it; more important\, how to tell someone you love them without emotional risk; and yes\, how to cheat death itself. Through it all\, Waters swears by one undeniable truth: “Whatever you might have heard\, there is absolutely no downside to being famous. None at all.” \nTickets available mid–April.\nWatch this space for more information.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hes-back-john-waters-presents-his-new-book-mr-know-it-all-the-tarnished-wisdom-of-a-filth-elder/
LOCATION:McRoskey Mattress Company\, Inc\, 1687 Market St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190530T213000
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SUMMARY:Chia-Chia Lin
DESCRIPTION:Chia-Chia Lin discusses her debut novel\, The Unpassing. \n\nPraise for The Unpassing \n“In this spare\, deeply felt debut novel\, Lin resists received wisdom about the American dream to craft a family saga about the difficulty of grieving far from home.” —Adrienne Westenfeld\, Esquire \n“Chia-Chia Lin’s The Unpassing is a searing\, open wound of a book\, marvelously alive and\, quite simply\, remarkable. Traversing the oftentimes brutal frontier of an isolated family living in an isolated environment\, I can’t think of another novel as of late that relentlessly tackles headlong our deepest struggles for a sense of place\, of home\, and belonging. How do we push through grief? How do we find peace with not only our loved ones but ourselves? What sacrifices must we endure for friendship and connection? This is a story for our times. And a story unlike any other.” —Paul Yoon\, author of The Mountain \n“The Unpassing is a devastating debut\, igneous\, aching as if with the glow of the great northern skies beneath which it is set. More than meditation on grief; more than immigrant saga\, or bildungsroman; more than new American gothic: here\, Chia-Chia Lin has written a novel of such strange\, brittle beauty as to resemble nothing else so much as living\, itself. Her prose—at once poetic and lucid\, by turns darkly comic and haunting—achieves something like the peculiar grammar of loss. I turned the last page with heartache and wonder\, a feeling of having been undone and remade.” —D. Wystan Owen\, author of Other People’s Love Affairs \n  \nAbout The Unpassing \nOne of Esquire\, The Rumpus\, The Millions\, Literary Hub and Electric Literature‘s Most Anticipated Books of 2019 \nA searing debut novel that explores community\, identity\, and the myth of the American dream through an immigrant family in Alaska \nIn Chia-Chia Lin’s debut novel\, The Unpassing\, we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggling to make ends meet on the outskirts of Anchorage\, Alaska. The father\, hardworking but beaten down\, is employed as a plumber and repairman\, while the mother\, a loving\, strong-willed\, and unpredictably emotional matriarch\, holds the house together. When ten-year-old Gavin contracts meningitis at school\, he falls into a deep\, nearly fatal coma. He wakes up a week later to learn that his little sister Ruby was infected\, too. She did not survive. \nRoutine takes over for the grieving family: the siblings care for each other as they befriend a neighboring family and explore the woods; distance grows between the parents as they deal with their loss separately. But things spiral when the father\, increasingly guilt ridden after Ruby’s death\, is sued for not properly installing a septic tank\, which results in grave harm to a little boy. In the ensuing chaos\, what really happened to Ruby finally emerges. \nWith flowing prose that evokes the terrifying beauty of the Alaskan wilderness\, Lin explores the fallout after the loss of a child and the way in which a family is forced to grieve in a place that doesn’t yet feel like home. Emotionally raw and subtly suspenseful\, The Unpassing is a deeply felt family saga that dismisses the American dream for a harsher\, but ultimately more profound\, reality.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chia-chia-lin-2/
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:Original Plumbing: The Best of Ten Years of Trans Male Culture
DESCRIPTION:Editors Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos discuss Original Plumbing: The Best of Ten Years of Trans Male Culture. \nPraise for Original Plumbing \n“Over the course of its ten-year run\, Original Plumbing made thousands of us queer and trans people laugh\, cry\, and gasp out loud. This is how we talked with each other\, inspired each other\, and gave each other the strength to keep on living outside the box. This collection is an invaluable\, unapologetic archive of a multiplicity of queer and trans experiences.” —Kate Bornstein\, author of Gender Outlaw: On Men\, Women\, and the Rest of Us \n“When Original Plumbing burst onto the scene a decade ago\, it was an absolute game changer in trans media and representation. Mac and Kayiatos created something revolutionary. This collection is a beautiful tribute to that treasured publication\, and an authentic and moving representation of trans male culture. I’ll be revisiting its stories and images for years to come. An essential book for both longtime readers and those diving in for the first time.” —Jill Soloway\, creator of Transparent \n“More than merely aesthetically inspiring\, Original Plumbing is life-saving. It has been at the forefront of the trans revolution\, providing thoughtful\, cheeky documentation of the vibrancy of queer lives.” —Michelle Tea\, author of Against Memoir \n“For over a decade\, Original Plumbing did the Lord’s work of documenting and proliferating the stories of trans men and transmasculine folks. This book is so much more than a retrospective; it is a testament. Rocco and Amos have preserved a brilliant\, precious slice of trans history that will be revered and cherished for generations to come.” —Jacob Tobia\, author of Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story \n“A powerful realization of high def and punk rock\, Original Plumbing is the kind of book you’ll devour in one sitting\, immersing yourself in the beauty of each page.” —C. Riley Snorton\, author of Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity  \nAbout Original Plumbing \nIndependently published from 2009 to 2019\, Original Plumbing grew from a Bay Area zine to a nationally acclaimed print quarterly dedicated to trans men. For nearly ten years\, the magazine was the premier resource focused on their experiences\, celebrations\, and imaginations\, featuring writing on both playful and political topics like selfies\, bathrooms\, and safer sex; interviews with queer icons such as Janet Mock\, Silas Howard\, Margaret Cho\, and Ian Harvie; and visual art\, photography\, and short fiction. \nIn celebration of the magazine’s ten-year run\, this essential collection compiles the best of all twenty issues. Selections are reprinted in full color\, with an introduction by activist Tiq Milan and a new preface by the founding editors.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/original-plumbing-the-best-of-ten-years-of-trans-male-culture/
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:Sharma Shields and Simeon Mills
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nSharma Shields and Simeon Mills discuss their new novels\, The Cassandra and The Obsoletes. \nAbout The Cassandra \nMildred Groves is an unusual young woman. Gifted and cursed with the ability to see the future\, Mildred runs away from home to take a secretary position at the Hanford Research Center in the early 1940s. Hanford\, a massive construction camp on the banks of the Columbia River in remote South Central Washington\, exists to test and manufacture a mysterious product that will aid the war effort. Only the top generals and scientists know that this product is processed plutonium\, for use in the first atomic bombs. \nMildred is delighted\, at first\, to be part of something larger than herself after a lifetime spent as an outsider. But her new life takes a dark turn when she starts to have prophetic dreams about what will become of humankind if the project is successful. As the men she works for come closer to achieving their goals\, her visions intensify to a nightmarish pitch\, and she eventually risks everything to question those in power\, putting her own physical and mental health in jeopardy. Inspired by the classic Greek myth\, this 20th century reimagining of Cassandra’s story is based on a real WWII compound that the author researched meticulously. A timely novel about patriarchy and militancy\, The Cassandra uses both legend and history to look deep into man’s capacity for destruction\, and the resolve and compassion it takes to challenge the powerful. \nPraise for The Cassandra \n“The Cassandra feels powerfully—chillingly—relevant to our own political moment\, even as it unfolds against the bleak splendor of the 1940s American West. It’s a harrowing story\, beautifully told\, of patriarchy and violence intertwining to make a combustible monster; and of the woman who speaks the truth about this monster\, only to be dismissed as unhinged.” –Leni Zumas\, author of Red Clocks \n“The Cassandra is a magnificent exploration of the consequences—both incredible and devastating—of human ingenuity and human intuition. This novel is full of magic and hope\, even while it brings up to the light some of our darkest past.” –Ramona Ausubel\, author of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty and Awayland \n“The Cassandra is a fantastic achievement of unflinching honesty\, psychic power\, and sustained empathy. Sharma Shields’s fearless reckoning with American might at the beginning of the nuclear age closes the distance between victor and victim\, historical detail and mythic truth. This fevered novel’s seer will infect you with her visions\, but her moral candor will work on you long after the dream is over.” –Smith Henderson\, author of Fourth of July Creek \nAbout The Obsoletes \nFraternal twin brothers Darryl and Kanga are just like any other teenagers trying to make it through high school. They have to deal with peer pressure\, awkwardness\, and family drama. But there’s one closely guarded secret that sets them apart: they are robots. So long as they keep their heads down\, their robophobic neighbors won’t discover the truth about them and they just might make it through to graduation. \nBut when Kanga becomes the star of the basketball team\, there’s more at stake than typical sibling rivalry. Darryl—the worrywart of the pair—now has to work a million times harder to keep them both out of the spotlight. Though they look\, sound\, and act perfectly human\, if anyone in their small\, depressed Michigan town were to find out what they truly are\, they’d likely be disassembled by an angry mob in the middle of their school gym. \nHeartwarming and thrilling\, Simeon Mills’s charming debut novel is a funny\, poignant look at brotherhood\, xenophobia\, and the limits of one’s programming. \nPraise for The Obsoletes \n“The Obsoletes is inventive\, moving\, and funny. A perfectly weird and weirdly perfect novel.”— Jess Walter\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins \n“What a debut! At turns endearing\, funny\, and imaginative\, while always well written and always with weight. I predict great things for this book and the man who wrote it. A reminder that some stories feel good to read\, even while addressing the big stuff. I love it.”— Josh Malerman\, New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box \n“Alternating between antic comedy\, freak-out horror\, and existential angst\, The Obsoletes does the seemingly impossible: it makes the joys and terrors of adolescence seem fresh and new.”— J. Robert Lennon\, author of Broken River and See You in Paradise
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sharma-shields-and-simeon-mills/
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:20190603T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190603T200000
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SUMMARY:Women at the Edges: Books About Women Breaking Creative Boundaries
DESCRIPTION:Kristin Kaye\, Bridget Quinn\, and Beth Winegarner write about women breaking creative boundaries in music\, art\, drama\, and competitive bodybuilding in their nonfiction books IRON MAIDENS: The Celebration of the Most Awesome Female Muscle in the World\, BOLD STROKES: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order)\, and TENACITY: Heavy Metal in the Middle East and Africa. Hear them read excerpts about their exceptional protagonists at “Women at the Edges\,” the Odd Mondays for June 3\, 7pm at Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. Free admission and free refreshments. A book signing follows the readings. \nHere’s more about the authors:\nKRISTIN KAYE is an award-winning author\, ghostwriter and teacher. Her most recent book\, Tree Dreams\, was described as “superbly written…with brilliantly onomatopoeic prose” by Kirkus Reviews and won the Int’l Book Award for YA Fiction. Kristin’s first book was Iron Maidens: The Celebration of the Most Awesome Female Muscle in the World\, which details her experience directing twenty-five of the world’s strongest and most muscular women in an off-Broadway show. It was a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards and described by Utne Reader as “one of 5 new titles for women who resist easy definition.” \nBRIDGET QUINN is the author of Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order)\, an Amazon pick for Best Art & Photography Books 2017 and a 2018 Amelia Bloomer List selection of recommended feminist literature from the American Library Association. Book Authority has named Broad Strokes one of its “Best Art History Books of All Time.” A denizen of The Writers’ Grotto\, Bridget is former co-host of The GrottoPod: Writers on Writing. Her forthcoming book is Suffragist States\, an illustrated history of the 19th Amendment and what happened next\, with Chronicle Books. \nBETH WINEGARNER is a journalist\, author and essayist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker\, the Washington Post\, the Guardian\, Mother Jones\, Wired\, San Francisco Magazine and many others. Her recent books include The Columbine Effect: How Five Teen Pastimes Got Caught in the Crossfire and Why Teens are Taking Them Back and Tenacity: Heavy Metal in the Middle East and Africa. She lives in San Francisco and is a member of the Writers Grotto.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/women-at-the-edges-books-about-women-breaking-creative-boundaries/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-25/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:POETS! – featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-27/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190604T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190604T193000
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Silent Reading Party
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Lemony Snicket and Radio Silence. Bring a book to read to yourself in silence. Drinks and light snacks will be available. There is no admission cost and no reservations necessary. Proceeds from drink sales will benefit a public school in San Francisco\, TBD. \nSign up to receive emails about upcoming Silent Reading Parties here. \nSee you there\, readers!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-silent-reading-party/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Shortest Month Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Beyond The Shortest Month is a book club dedicated to reading and celebrating authors of color year round. \nDiscussions are the first Tuesday of each month at\nGreen Apple Books and Music\n506 Clement Street *Upstairs in our Philosophy Alcove \nThe Beyond The Shortest Month May title is Ntozake Shange’s Sassafrass\, Cypress & Indigo.\nMeeting and discussion will be on Tuesday\, June 4 at 6:30pm.\nSee you there! \nCan’t make this month? Stay tuned for the Beyond The Shortest Month pick for June 2019!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beyond-the-shortest-month-book-club/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Finn Brunton
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nDigital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists\, Utopians\, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency \nfrom Princeton University Press \n\n\nThe fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creators—from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies \nBitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent or prehistory. In fact\, it is only the best-known recent experiment in a long line of similar efforts going back to the 1970s. But the story behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and its blockchain technology has largely been untold—until now. In Digital Cash\, Finn Brunton reveals how technological utopians and political radicals created experimental money to bring about their visions of the future: protecting privacy or bringing down governments\, preparing for apocalypse or launching a civilization of innovation and abundance that would make its creators immortal. \nThe incredible story of the pioneers of cryptocurrency takes us from autonomous zones on the high seas to the world’s most valuable dump\, from bank runs to idea coupons\, from time travelers in a San Francisco bar to the pattern securing every twenty-dollar bill\, and from marketplaces for dangerous secrets to a tank of frozen heads awaiting revival in the far future. Along the way\, Digital Cash explores the hard questions and challenges that these innovators faced: How do we learn to trust and use different kinds of money? What makes digital objects valuable? How does currency prove itself as real to us? What would it take to make a digital equivalent to cash\, something that could be exchanged but not copied\, created but not forged\, and which reveals nothing about its users? \nFilled with marvelous characters\, stories\, and ideas\, Digital Cash is an engaging and accessible account of the strange origins and remarkable technologies behind today’s cryptocurrency explosion. \nFinn Brunton is assistant professor in the Department of Media\, Culture\, and Communication at New York University. He is the author of Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet and the coauthor of Communication and Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest. He has written for the Guardian\, Artforum\, and Radical Philosophy\, among many other publications. \n\n\n\n“A fascinating and important book that addresses big questions about cryptocurrency: What is money? How can virtual things have lasting value? And what does the explosion of cryptocurrency mean for the global economy? I can’t think of another book on the subject that accomplishes so much in such a concise and readable way.”—Nathan Ensmenger\, author of The Computer Boys Take Over \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“A very important book.”—Lana Swartz\, coeditor of Paid: Tales of Dongles\, Checks\, and Other Money Stuff
URL:https://litseen.com/event/finn-brunton/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:David Byrne Good News & Sleeping Beauties
DESCRIPTION:David Byrne is a Scottish-American singer\, songwriter\, musician\, record producer\, artist\, actor\, writer and filmmaker who was a founding member\, principal songwriter and lead singer and guitarist of the American new wave band Talking Heads. \nByrne has released solo recordings and worked with various media including film\, photography\, opera\, fiction\, and non-fiction. He has received Academy\, Grammy\, and Golden Globe Awards\, and has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (Bio courtesy of Wikipedia) \nTickets will go on sale one month before the Seminar; you can follow Long Now on Twitter\, Facebook and through our blog for updates on our live events\, podcasts and videos on long-term thinking.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-byrne-good-news-sleeping-beauties/
LOCATION:Castro Theater\, 429 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:AMOR TOWLES In Conversation with Michael Krasny
DESCRIPTION:AMOR TOWLES\nIn Conversation with Michael Krasny\nTuesday\, June 4\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nAmor Towles is the author of Rules of Civility and A Gentleman in Moscow\, which have been translated into over fifteen languages. Garnering attention from nearly every literary outlet\, A Gentleman in Moscow is now being adapted into a miniseries\, directed by Tom Harper and produced by and starring Kenneth Branagh. In September 2018\, Towles published A Whimsy of the World\, a short story about a young American woman who flees home to jaunt through Europe\, in Vogue and GQ. His forthcoming novel\, which is set in the 1950s and follows three 18-year-old boys driving across America\, is in early stages.\n\nMichael Krasny is a Professor of English and American Literature and author of the books Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life\, Let There Be Laughter\, and Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic’s Search. Since 1993\, he has been the host of Forum\, a news and public affairs interview program produced at KQED Radio.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amor-towles-in-conversation-with-michael-krasny/
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:20190605T080000
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SUMMARY:Ruchika Tomar
DESCRIPTION:Ruchika Tomar discusses her new novel\, A Prayer for Travelers. \nPraise For A Prayer for Travelers \n“Sometimes characters come along that demand a new kind of novel. The young women at the center of Ruchika Tomar’s A Prayer for Travelers – elusive Penny and wounded Cale – are two spirits hitchhiking through geographies of dislocation and desire. The human collisions in Tomar’s novel are emotionally seismic\, and they leave us haunted and unsettled.”--Adam Johnson\, author of The Orphan Master’s Son \n“Ruchika Tomar is an ace cartographer of the heart and its urgent\, wild\, unruly ways. Radiant with longing\, A Prayer for Travelers is an unforgettable debut.”  —R.O. Kwon\, author of The Incendiaries  \n“A Prayer for Travelers is a novel haunted by missing persons and lost souls\, written in telepathic prose. Ruchika Tomar sees through walls\, around corners\, and into the deep heart of what matters\, and moves us\, the most. A beautiful debut.”—Ben Marcus\, author of The Flame Alphabet \nAbout A Prayer For Travelers \nCale Lambert\, a bookish loner of mysterious parentage\, lives in a dusty town near the California-Nevada border\, a place where coyotes scavenge for backyard dogs and long-haul truckers scavenge for pills and girls. Cale was raised by her grandfather in a loving\, if codependent\, household\, but as soon as she’s left high school his health begins an agonizing decline. Set adrift for the first time\, Cale starts waitressing at the local diner\, where she reconnects with Penélope Reyes\, a charismatic former classmate running mysterious side-hustles to fund her dreams. Penny exposes Cale to the reality that exists beyond their small town\, and the girls become inseparable—-until one terrifying act of violence shatters their world. When Penny vanishes without a trace\, Cale must set off on a dangerous quest across the desert to find her friend\, and discover herself. \nAn audacious debut\, told in deftly interwoven chapters\, A Prayer for Travelers explores the complicated legacy of the American West and the trauma of female experience.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ruchika-tomar/
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:Aaron Hamburger: Nirvana Is Here
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning author Aaron Hamburger (The View from Stalin’s Head\, Faith for Beginners) reads from his new novel Nirvana Is Here. When his ex-husband is accused of sexual harassment in the #metoo era\, history professor Ari Silverman is forced to confront long-buried trauma from his childhood\, where he and his high school crush bonded over the raw emotion of Kurt Cobain’s lyrics in the segregated suburbs of 1990s Detroit. Nirvana Is Here explores issues of identity\, race\, sex\, and family with both poignancy and unexpected humor. “A touching\, finely wrought portrait of secrets lying like buried ordinance beneath ordinary lives. The delicacy and observational wit of Aaron Hamburger’s prose are a marvel.”–Louis Bayard\, author of Courting Mr. Lincoln \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDog Eared Books (Castro) \n\n489 Castro St.\nSan Francisco\, CA 94114
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aaron-hamburger-nirvana-is-here/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Neal Stephenson presents Fall; or\, Dodge in Hell @ Public Works
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is excited to welcome #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves\, Anathem\, Reamde\, andCryptonomicon Neal Stephenson for his new novel Fall; or\, Dodge in Hell\, a wildly inventive and entertaining science fiction thriller — Paradise Lost by way of Philip K. Dick — that unfolds in the near future\, in parallel worlds. \n  \nPlease note: This ticketed event will be held at Public Works: 161 Erie St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103. Tickets can be purchased in advance here and are not guaranteed to be available at the door. Please read the ticketing information carefully and direct any questions to events AT booksmith DOT com. \n  \nIn his youth\, Richard Dodge Forthrast founded Corporation 9592\, a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire. Now in his middle years\, Dodge appreciates his comfortable\, unencumbered life\, managing his myriad business interests\, and spending time with his beloved niece Zula and her young daughter\, Sophia. \n  \nOne beautiful autumn day\, while he undergoes a routine medical procedure\, something goes irrevocably wrong. Dodge is pronounced brain dead and put on life support\, leaving his stunned family and close friends with difficult decisions. Long ago\, when a much younger Dodge drew up his will\, he directed that his body be given to a cryonics company now owned by enigmatic tech entrepreneur Elmo Shepherd. Legally bound to follow the directive despite their misgivings\, Dodges family has his brain scanned and its data structures uploaded and stored in the cloud\, until it can eventually be revived. \n  \nIn the coming years\, technology allows Dodges brain to be turned back on. It is an achievement that is nothing less than the disruption of death itself. An eternal afterlife — the Bitworld — is created\, in which humans continue to exist as digital souls. \n  \nBut this brave new immortal world is not the Utopia it might first seem . . . \n  \nFall\, or Dodge in Hell is pure\, unadulterated fun: a grand drama of analog and digital\, man and machine\, angels and demons\, gods and followers\, the finite and the eternal. In this exhilarating epic\, Neal Stephenson raises profound existential questions and touches on the revolutionary breakthroughs that are transforming our future. Combining the technological\, philosophical\, and spiritual in one grand myth\, he delivers a mind-blowing speculative literary saga for the modern age. \n  \n\n  \nNeal Stephenson is the bestselling author of the novels Reamde\, Anathem\, The System of the World\, The Confusion\, Quicksilver\, Cryptonomicon\, The Diamond Age\, Snow Crash\, and Zodiac\, and the groundbreaking nonfiction work In the Beginning . . . Was the Command Line. He lives in Seattle\, Washington. Author photo by Brady Hall. \n  \n\n  \nThis event is 21+. No exceptions. \n  \nAll tickets are standing room only. Requests for special seating arrangements need to be made at least three days in advance by emailing events@booksmith.com. \n  \nDoors at 6pm. Program at 7. Program includes signing. \n  \nSigning details: Mr. Stephenson will sign as many copies of the new novel as guests wish to purchase. He is happy to personalize short inscriptions such as Happy birthday but due to time constraints is not unable to copy out longer inscriptions or make up personal inscriptions on the spot. Backlist can be signed\, but within reason\, and after the major business of signing the hardcover is taken care of. Any major collectors in line with many copies to sign or any guest with many books may be asked to wait until the end of the line. \n  \nPhoto details: Candid photos are welcome\, but again for time constraints Mr. Stephenson will not be able to stop signing and pose. \n  \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \n  \nIf you can’t attend the event but would like to order a signed copy of Fall; or\, Dodge in Hell and/or any of Mr. Stephenson’s books\, order below and add your request in the special field. \n  \nRSVP not required\, but always appreciated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/neal-stephenson-presents-fall-or-dodge-in-hell-public-works/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Julia Phillips
DESCRIPTION:Julia Phillips discusses her new novel\, Disappearing Earth. \nPraise for Disappearing Earth \n“I cannot speak too highly of Julia Phillips’s thrilling\, impeccably written and splendidly imagined story\, set with rigorous attention to detail in one of the most volcanically dangerous and beautifully remote corners of the planet.  An exciting beginning from an author whose literary future looks set to be stellar.”—Simon Winchester  \n“Julia Phillips is at once a careful cartographer and gorgeous storyteller. Written with passion and patience\, this is the story of a people and the land that shapes them. A mystery of two missing girls burns at the center of this astonishing debut\, and the complexity of ethnicity\, gender\, hearth and kin illuminates this question and many more.”—Tayari Jones\, author of An American Marriage  \n“A genuine masterpiece\, but one that is easily consumed in a feverish stay-up-all-night bout of reading pleasure. It’s as much a portrait of humanity as of a small Kamchatka community.” —Gary Shteyngart \n“A feat of literary suspense. I felt like a wide-eyed kid reading Julia Phillips’s Disappearing Earth. I could live in her portrayal of this remote part of the world forever.”—Sloane Crosley\, author of I Was Told There’d Be Cake \nAbout Disappearing Earth \nOne August afternoon\, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia\, two girls–sisters\, eight and eleven–go missing. In the ensuing weeks\, then months\, the police investigation turns up nothing. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community\, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women. \nTaking us through a year in Kamchatka\, Disappearing Earth enters with astonishing emotional acuity the worlds of a cast of richly drawn characters\, all connected by the crime: a witness\, a neighbor\, a detective\, a mother. We are transported to vistas of rugged beauty–densely wooded forests\, open expanses of tundra\, soaring volcanoes\, and the glassy seas that border Japan and Alaska–and into a region as complex as it is alluring\, where social and ethnic tensions have long simmered\, and where outsiders are often the first to be accused. \nIn a story as propulsive as it is emotionally engaging\, and through a young writer’s virtuosic feat of empathy and imagination\, this powerful novel brings us to a new understanding of the intricate bonds of family and community\, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julia-phillips/
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:My Life\, My Stories / Real life. Told by SF seniors.
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of learning and listening\, hosted by My Life\, My Stories and special guest\, David Romanelli! \nMy Life\, My Stories is a local non-profit that preserves the life legacies of seniors in our community. We match a volunteer with one senior\, and over the course of several months\, the senior’s memories are recorded and transcribed into memoirs. We focus on helping underserved populations in the Bay Area including minorities\, immigrants\, homeless seniors\, vets\, and LGBTQ elders. \nOur volunteers hear inspiring\, heartbreaking\, and touching stories that\, otherwise\, would be left untold and lost forever. My Life\, My Stories wants to give seniors a public platform to share their amazing memories with the young SF community in a live event. \nDavid Romanelli is on a journey to give our elders a voice and an audience\, to bring the old and the young together. His new book\, Life Lessons from the Oldest and Wisest\, is inspired by his intergenerational program\, Drinks With Your Elders. Having brought these events to cities across the US\, Romanelli brings together elders with young people to open a bottle of wine\, and talk about life. The book shares some of the best lessons and wisdom from the elders on parenting\, marriage\, loneliness\, resilience\, and how things look different through the lens of an elder\, nearing the end of life\, looking back on the past. \nTonight’s theme is resilience. You may be surprised with what you learn and how much you can relate to someone who may be decades older than you. \nCome early\, grab a drink\, meet new friends\, and learn something new! The general flow of the evening is listed below. \n  \n6:00pm: Doors open \n6:30pm-8:00pm: Four unique seniors tell their stories and MLMS volunteers talk about their experience working with their author \n8:00pm-8:30pm: Q&A \n  \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event. Tickets can be purchased in advance for $12 here. If available\, tickets will be for sale at the door. All ticket sales from the event will go directly to My Life\, My Stories to help more seniors preserve their legacy. \n  \nCopies of David’s book\, Life Lessons from the Oldest and Wisest\, will be available for sale. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nBar opens with the doors at 6pm. Show starts at 6:30pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-life-my-stories-real-life-told-by-sf-seniors-2/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Doe in conversation with Tom DeSavia
DESCRIPTION:John Doe in conversation with Tom DeSavia\nThursday\, June 6\, 2019\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\nCity Lights in conjunction with Litquake and San Francisco’s Rock n’ Roll Book Club \npresent \nJohn Doe and Tom DeSavia in conversation \ncelebrationg the release of \n  \nMore Fun in the New World: The Unmaking and Legacy of L.A. Punk \nby John Doe and Tom DeSavia \nfrom Da Capo Press \n\nSequel to Grammy-nominated bestseller Under the Big Black Sun\, continuing the up-close and personal account of the L.A. punk scene\, with 50 rare photos \nPicking up where Under the Big Black Sun left off\, More Fun in the New World explores the years 1982 to 1987\, covering the dizzying pinnacle of L.A.’s punk rock movement as its stars took to the national — and often international — stage. Detailing the eventual splintering of punk into various sub-genres\, the second volume of John Doe and Tom DeSavia’s west coast punk history portrays the rich cultural diversity of the movement and its characters\, the legacy of the scene\, how it affected other art forms\, and ultimately influenced mainstream pop culture. The book also pays tribute to many of the fallen soldiers of punk rock\, the pioneers who left the world much too early but whose influence hasn’t faded. \nAs with Under the Big Black Sun\, the book features stories of triumph\, failure\, stardom\, addiction\, recovery\, and loss as told by the people who were influential in the scene\, with a cohesive narrative from authors Doe and DeSavia. Along with many returning voices\, More Fun in the New World weaves in the perspectives of musicians Henry Rollins\, Fishbone\, Billy Zoom\, Mike Ness\, Jane Weidlin\, Keith Morris\, Dave Alvin\, Louis Pérez\, Charlotte Caffey\, Peter Case\, Chip Kinman\, Maria McKee\, and Jack Grisham\, among others. And renowned artist/illustrator Shepard Fairey\, filmmaker Allison Anders\, actor Tim Robbins\, and pro-skater Tony Hawk each contribute chapters on punk’s indelible influence on the artistic spirit. \nIn addition to stories of success\, the book also offers a cautionary tale of an art movement that directly inspired commercially diverse acts such as Green Day\, Rancid\, Red Hot Chili Peppers\, Wilco\, and Neko Case. Readers will find themselves rooting for the purists of punk juxtaposed with the MTV-dominating rock superstars of the time who flaunted a “born to do this\, it couldn’t be easier” attitude that continued to fuel the flames of new music. More Fun in the New World follows the progression of the first decade of L.A. punk\, its conclusion\, and its cultural rebirth. \n\n\nJohn Doe\, a founding member of groundbreaking punk band X\, has recorded eight solo records and as an actor has appeared in over fifty films and television productions. \nTom DeSavia is a long time record and music publishing A&R man based in Los Angeles\, California. DeSavia began his music industry career as a journalist. \nAbout Litquake: \n\nSan Francisco’s annual Litquake literary festival was founded by Bay Area writers as a week-long literary spectacle for book lovers\, complete with cutting-edge panels\, unique cross-media events\, and hundreds of readings. Since its founding in 1999\, the festival has presented close to 1400 author appearances for an audience of over 32\,000 in its lively and inclusive celebration of San Francisco’s thriving contemporary literary scene. Litquake seeks to foster interest in literature\, perpetuate a sense of literary community\, and provide a vibrant forum for Bay Area writing as a complement to the city’s music\, film\, and cultural festivals. \nvisit: www.litquake.org \n\nAbout the Rock ‘n Roll Book Club:\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 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)\, Greil Marcus and V. Vale (RE/Search). \nvisit: Rock n’ Roll Book Club
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-doe-in-conversation-with-tom-desavia/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sham-E-Ali Nayeem
DESCRIPTION:Sham-E-Ali Nayeem reads from her new poetry collection\, City of Pearls. Also featuring readings by Monica Sok\, Seema Yasmin\, Vanessa Huang and Janice Sapigao. \nAbout Sham-E-Ali \nSham-e-Ali Nayeem is a poet and visual artist who was born in Hyderabad\, India and raised in both the UK and the US. A former public interest lawyer supporting economic justice for survivors of family violence\, Sham-e-Ali is a recipient of the Loft Literary Center’s Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship. \nAbout Monkia Sok \nMONICA SOK is a Cambodian American poet and the daughter of former refugees. She is the author of Year Zero\, winner of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Her work has been recognized with a “Discovery” / Boston Review Poetry Prize. Other honors include fellowships from Hedgebrook\, Elizabeth George Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, Kundiman\, Jerome Foundation\, Montalvo Arts Center\, MacDowell Colony\, Saltonstall Foundation\, and others. Currently\, Sok is a 2018-2020 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and a Poet-in-Residence at Banteay Srei in Oakland. Her debut poetry collection A Nail the Evening Hangs On is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2020. \nAbout Seema Yasmin \nDr. Seema Yasmin is an Emmy-award winning journalist\, author\, medical doctor and professor. She trained in medicine at the University of Cambridge and in journalism at the University of Toronto. Her first book\, about her mentor who was killed on Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17\, charts the course of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and the life of a scientist who fought to end the outbreak. Her second book\, Debunked! dissects medical myths and pseudoscience and explores why we believe what we believe. Debunked! is released in 2019. She teaches science journalism and global health storytelling at Stanford University and is the founder of the Yasmin Scholarships. \nAbout Vanessa Huang \nBorn in Berkeley and home in diaspora from California and Taipei to Atlanta\, New York\, and Tianjin\, Vanessa Huang is a multimedia poet\, artist\, and cultural worker whose practice inherits teachings from the prison industrial complex abolition\, gender liberation\, and intersecting social justice movements. For over 15 years\, Vanessa has worked to shift cultural narratives and strategies based in fear\, violence\, and exploitation towards realities centering love\, vision\, and transformation. Vanessa’s deejaying extends this practice\, continuing to conjure public/digital space for sonic healing and freedom dreams. \nAbout Janice Sapigao \nJanice Lobo Sapigao is a daughter of Filipina/o immigrants.  She was named one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s 2017 Women to Watch by KQED Arts. She is the author of two books of poetry: Like a Solid to a Shadow (Timeless\, Infinite Light\, 2017) and microchips for millions (Philippine American Writers and Artists\, Inc.\, 2016) and three other chapbooks. She is a VONA/Voices and Kundiman Fellow\, and the Associate Editor of TAYO Literary Magazine. She co-founded Sunday Jump open mic in L.A. She earned her M.F.A. in Writing from CalArts\, and she has a B.A. in Ethnic Studies with Honors from UC San Diego. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sham-e-ali-nayeem/
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:RECLAIMING THE FUTURE: PRIVACY\, ETHICS & ORGANIZING IN TECH WITH MEREDITH WHITTAKER & KADE CROCKFORD
DESCRIPTION:RECLAIMING THE FUTURE: PRIVACY\, ETHICS & ORGANIZING IN TECH WITH MEREDITH WHITTAKER & KADE CROCKFORD\nFriday\, June 7\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Conversations on Science \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nAs Director of the Technology for Liberty Program at the ACLU of Massachusetts and MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellow\, Kade Crockford works to protect and expand core First and Fourth Amendment rights and civil liberties in the digital 21st century\, focusing on how systems of surveillance and control impact not just the society in general but their primary targets—people of color\, Muslims\, immigrants\, and dissidents. The Information Age produces conditions facilitating mass communication and democratization\, as well as dystopian monitoring and centralized control. The Technology for Liberty Program aims to use our unprecedented access to information and communication to protect and enrich open society and individual rights. Kade has written for The Nation\, The Guardian\, The Boston Globe\, WBUR\, and many other publications\, and regularly appears in local\, regional\, and national media as an expert on issues related to technology\, policing\, and surveillance. \nMeredith Whittaker is a Distinguished Research Scientist at New York University\, Co-founder and Co-director of the AI Now Institute\, dedicated to researching the social implications of artificial intelligence and related technologies\, and the founder of Google’s Open Research group. She has worked extensively on issues of privacy and security in numerous capacities\, including as co-founder of M-Lab\, a globally distributed network measurement system that provides the world’s largest source of open data on internet performance and as co-founder of Simply Secure. Whittaker has advised the White House\, the FCC\, the City of New York\, the European Parliament\, and many other governments and civil society organizations on artificial intelligence\, internet policy\, measurement\, privacy\, and security.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reclaiming-the-future-privacy-ethics-organizing-in-tech-with-meredith-whittaker-kade-crockford/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:RECLAIMING THE FUTURE: PRIVACY\, ETHICS & ORGANIZING IN TECH WITH MEREDITH WHITTAKER & KADE CROCKFORD
DESCRIPTION:RECLAIMING THE FUTURE: PRIVACY\, ETHICS & ORGANIZING IN TECH WITH MEREDITH WHITTAKER & KADE CROCKFORD\nFriday\, June 7\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Conversations on Science \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nAs Director of the Technology for Liberty Program at the ACLU of Massachusetts and MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellow\, Kade Crockford works to protect and expand core First and Fourth Amendment rights and civil liberties in the digital 21st century\, focusing on how systems of surveillance and control impact not just the society in general but their primary targets—people of color\, Muslims\, immigrants\, and dissidents. The Information Age produces conditions facilitating mass communication and democratization\, as well as dystopian monitoring and centralized control. The Technology for Liberty Program aims to use our unprecedented access to information and communication to protect and enrich open society and individual rights. Kade has written for The Nation\, The Guardian\, The Boston Globe\, WBUR\, and many other publications\, and regularly appears in local\, regional\, and national media as an expert on issues related to technology\, policing\, and surveillance. \nMeredith Whittaker is a Distinguished Research Scientist at New York University\, Co-founder and Co-director of the AI Now Institute\, dedicated to researching the social implications of artificial intelligence and related technologies\, and the founder of Google’s Open Research group. She has worked extensively on issues of privacy and security in numerous capacities\, including as co-founder of M-Lab\, a globally distributed network measurement system that provides the world’s largest source of open data on internet performance and as co-founder of Simply Secure. Whittaker has advised the White House\, the FCC\, the City of New York\, the European Parliament\, and many other governments and civil society organizations on artificial intelligence\, internet policy\, measurement\, privacy\, and security.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reclaiming-the-future-privacy-ethics-organizing-in-tech-with-meredith-whittaker-kade-crockford-2/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers with Drinks : Special Latin American Night!
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 8\, 2019:\nSpecial Latin American Night! \nMauro Javier Cardenas (The Revolutionaries Try Again)\nRachelle Linda Escamilla (Imaginary Animal)\nCristina Rivera Garza (The Taiga Syndrome)\nGabriela Alemán (Poso Wells\, Humo)\nIngrid Rojas Contreras (Fruit of the Drunken Tree)\nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit a local nonprofit\, TBA.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 7 PM.make
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-special-latin-american-night/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poetry Marathon
DESCRIPTION:* Saturday\, June 8\n____ Guest co-curators: Eric Dolan & Lisa Wenzel ____\nReaders:  Tongo Eisen-Martin  *  Jennifer Elise Foerster\nStacy Johnson  *  Jevohn Newsome  *  Linda Norton\nDjenanway Se-Gahan  *  Hunter Thomas\nLisa Wenzel  *   Maw Shein Win \n  \n* Saturday\, July 20\n____ Curator: Tongo Eisen-Martin ____\nReaders:  TBA \n  \n       * Saturday\, September 28\n100 Thousand Poets For Change / Bay Area Poetry Marathon joint event\n____ Curator: Donna de la Perrière ____\nReaders:  TBA \n  \n_____________________________________________________ \nAll events will be held at ALLEY CAT BOOKS\,\n3036 24th Street (in the Mission\, between Harrison & Treat)\n\nDoors open at 7:00pm.  Readings begin at 7:30pm sharp. \n+ + + + + + +\nFor more information\, email Donna de la Perrière at baypoma@zoho.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poetry-marathon-5/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Chinatown: Greg Pond and Dee Allen. Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Poets Greg Pond and Dee Allen. will read from their new publications. They will be joined by trumpeter Greer Rocket. \nGreg Pond is an American poet born in Brooklyn\, New York\, to Panamanian immigrants. He moved to San Francisco in the late 1970’s and had a thirty-plus year career in radio\, commercial and local cable television. Some of his duties included programming coordination and producing public service announcements and special programs. \nGreg has published two books of poetry: Aftermoon and Blackened Blue. \nHis poems can be found in the Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal and Overthrowing Capitalism anthologies.  \nSince his retirement from his career Greg started The Visiting Poet\, a service that offers poetry readings to assisted-living facilities and hospitals. Greg is also a volunteer facilitator of Poetically Speaking\, a weekly telephone conference-call program for seniors. \nGreg will introduce his two books of poetry\, 4:00 am (light) and 4:00 am (dark) \nDee Allen. is an African-Italian performance poet based in Oakland\, California. Active on the creative writing and Spoken word tips since the early 1990s. Author of 4 books (Boneyard\, Unwritten Law\, Stormwater and his newest\, Skeletal Black\, all from POOR Press) and 19 anthology appearances (including Poets 11: 2014\, Feather Floating On the Water\, Rise\, Your Golden Sun Still Shines\, What is Love\, The City is Already Speaking\, The Land Lives Forever and the newest from Los Angeles-based Vagabond Books\, Extreme) under his figurative belt so far.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-in-chinatown-greg-pond-and-dee-allen-book-launch/
LOCATION:Clarion Music Performing Arts Center\, 816 Sacramento St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Clarion Music Performing Arts Center":MAILTO:info@clarionmusic.com
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SUMMARY:GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets\, artists\, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. \nTo participate in the open mic session\, please arrive by 4 and plan to listen to all of the featured poets. Seating/space is limited. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPosted in LIVE POETRY
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gears-turning-w-kim-shuck-6/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190609T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T061931
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SUMMARY:Josh Frank with Paul Myers / Giraffes on Horseback Salad: Salvador Dali\, the Marx Brothers\, and the Strangest Movie Never Made
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon event with Josh Frankfor his book Giraffes on Horseback Salad. With him in conversation is Paul Myers. Please join us! \nGiraffes on Horseback Salad is a never-made Marx Brothers film written by Salvador Dali. Thought to be lost forever\, this mislaid masterpiece has finally arrived — recreated as a graphic novel. The lushly illustrated graphic novel\, adapted by Josh Frank with Tim Heidecker (Tim and Eric) reveals the true history of this incredible find. Join us for an illustrated talk about this incredible story with special guest host Paul Myers accompanied by live harp performance by Josh Frank with multi media piece and special Marx/Dali shorts. \n\nJosh Frank is a writer\, producer\, director and composer. Josh has spent the last 5 years writing and adapting Giraffes on Horseback Salad with the full support of the Marx and Dali estates. He has penned numerous plays\, including an authorized adaptation of Werner Hergoz’s Stroszek\, stage musicals\, including The Jonathan Richman Musical\, screenplays\, including an adaptation of Mark Vonnegut’s The Eden Express\, and Flup\, a 3D CGI musical feature film with puppets. He is the author of Fool The World\, the Oral History of the Band Called Pixies (St. Martins Press USA/Virgin Books U.K.) and In Heaven Everything Is Fine – – The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers” (Simon and Schuster/Free Press). His third book (published by Harper Collins in the Spring 2014)\, with collaborator Black Francis\, frontman for The Pixies is called The Good Inn. Over the last decade\, Frank has worked with some of the most interesting and innovative musicians\, filmmakers\, producers and artists in the industry\, including Black Francis\, David Lynch and Harold Ramis. He has interviewed over 200 of America’s most notable names in entertainment for his books and screenplays. ​In his spare time\, he built\, owns\, and operates the Blue Starlite Mini-Urban Drive-In Movie Theatre in Austin\, Texas\, the first Mini-Urban Drive-In Movie Theater in the world. \nBerkeley\, California based (Toronto\, Canada raised)\, writer and musicianPaul Myers is the author of the critically acclaimed biographies Kids In The Hall: One Dumb Guy (House of Anansi)\, A Wizard A True Star: Todd Rundgren In The Studio (Jawbone Press)\, and It Ain’t Easy: Long John Baldry and the Birth of the British Blues (Greystone Books). Paul has also contributed to a number of periodicals and websites\, including Mojo Magazine\,FastCoCreate\, Paste\, Crawdaddy\, and Mix Magazine. He has been a regular feature at both the SF Sketchfest and LitQuake festivals in San Francisco. In 2008 he was nominated for a Gemini Award (Canadian Emmy) for writing the music documentary Long John Baldry: In The Shadow Of The Blues (Bravo Canada/BBC 4). Paul is also an experienced musician and songwriter and is currently one half of the San Francisco rock duo\, The Paul & John (Inner Sunset\, 2014 Mystery Lawn Music)\, and all of the electronic music project Flam! (Garden Variety\, 2018 Bandcamp). Follow Paul Myers on Twitter and Instagram: @pulmyears. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Giraffes on Horseback Salad\, order below and put your request in the comments field. For signed copies of Josh’s other books\, order here; for signed copies of Paul’s books\, order here — in both cases\, be sure to include your request in the special field. \nThe Bindery bar opens with doors at 2pm. Show starts at 4pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/josh-frank-with-paul-myers-giraffes-on-horseback-salad-salvador-dali-the-marx-brothers-and-the-strangest-movie-never-made/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190609T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190609T173000
DTSTAMP:20260419T061931
CREATED:20190603T135412Z
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SUMMARY:LOTERIA READING SERIES\, No. 3: La Luna\, El Arbol\, El Pino
DESCRIPTION:INSTITUTE OF (advanced) UNCERTAINTY + McROSKEY 3RD FLOOR FACTORY LOFT  \nare pleased to present: LOTERIA READING SERIES\, No. 3: La Luna\, El Arbol\, El Pino \n J.K. FOWLER \nMARGUERITE MUNOZ \nJULIAN TALAMANTEZ BROLASKI \nCURATED BY MK CHAVEZ \n  \nSUNDAY\, JUNE 9th\, 2019   \nDoors ➬ 4PM  \nProgram ➬ 4:30PM \nFREE ENTRY! \n  \nINSTITUTE OF (advanced) UNCERTAINTY \n@ McROSKEY 3RD FLOOR FACTORY LOFT \n1687 MARKET STREET (@ GOUGH)\, S.F.\, CA \nWHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE \n  \nBART ➬ Van Ness Station\nMUNI METRO ➬ F | K | L | M | N | 6 | 7 \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/loteria-reading-series-no-3-la-luna-el-arbol-el-pino/
LOCATION:Institute Of advanced Uncertainty [I.O.U.]\, 296 Ivy Street\, btwn. Gough and Franklin\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Institute Of advanced Uncertainty":MAILTO:advanceduncertainty@gmail.com
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190609T200000
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SUMMARY:Best Breakup Ever Book Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:Come to a book party that is an experience of celebration for those who are single\, happily coupled\, heartbroken\, recently divorced. Come one come all.\n*Laughter\n*Book Signing\n*Tarot\n*Appetizers\n*Beverages!\n*Self-care experiences \nAbout BBE!\nThis is more then just a book. You are stepping into a warm\, funny\, friendly space where someone is talking about all the aspects of a breakup while making you LAUGH OUTLOUD. Drawing on her 20-plus years as a tarot reader and decade as a life coach Hirschman shares tools\, practices\, and suggestions to help you reflect AND move forward. You’ll get chapters about picking the right and WRONG movies to watch\, songs to listen to\, and TV series to tuck in at night. There’s even letting go rituals to free you from the prickly bonds of a breakup. This book is a perfect combination of levity and expertise and a must read for someone going through this transition. This is THE tool-kit every broken heart needs. \nAbout the Author\nApril Hirschman is a Leadership and Transition Coach\, belly dancer\, tarot reader\, filmmaker\, yoga instructor\, artist\, amateur stand-up comedian\, and one of the 10 Priestesses you should know in the 21st century! She smoked her first vape with Armi¬stead Maupin and put on her makeup with John Cameron Mitchell. She lives in California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/best-breakup-ever-book-launch-party/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190610T210000
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SUMMARY:Off The Page with William Trevor "Broken Homes" and "Sitting with the Dead" (rights pending) Directed by Paul Finocchiaro
DESCRIPTION:JUN 10\nWilliam Trevor “Broken Homes” and “Sitting with the Dead” (rights pending)\nDirected by Paul Finocchiaro\n“Every sentence William Trever wrote was perfectly crafted\, yet he had a love of storytelling:  his first loyalty was always to the rider’s desire to find out what was going to happen next.”  —The Guardian\n7:00 PM\, Z Below | Reserve Seats
URL:https://litseen.com/event/off-the-page-with-william-trevor-broken-homes-and-sitting-with-the-dead-rights-pending-directed-by-paul-finocchiaro/
LOCATION:Z Space\, 450 Florida Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190611T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190611T133000
DTSTAMP:20260419T061931
CREATED:20190429T211710Z
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SUMMARY:Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake at Jessie Square
DESCRIPTION:The monthly collaboration between Litquake: San Francisco’s Literary Festival and the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival features an array of Bay Area poets and musicians.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-at-jessie-square-2/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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