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SUMMARY:Emily Carr
DESCRIPTION:McSweeney’s presents a reading of poetry by Emily Carr in her new book “Whosoever Has Let a Minotaur Enter Them\, or a Sonnet.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emily-carr/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161214T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161214T223000
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling: Happy Endings
DESCRIPTION:“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekl \nWednesday\, Dec 14th\, 2016\nat the Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa\, San Francisco\, CA)\nRemember: Party at 7:00 PM\, Stories at 8:00 PM\nTickets at http://bit.ly/happyendingsf\nListen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at\nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast\nInvite & Share this event – & Please JOIN US! \nThis Evening of ‘It’s All gonna be OK’ stories includes:\n❤ Bawdy Storytelling (storyteller!) First timer Jefferson Bergey\n❤ Got a story? Pitch it to Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com\n❤ Dirty\, dirty – & Clever! – songs by Shirley Gnome\n❤ VIP includes Reserved Seating – & Sex Toys!\n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for talking to sexy strangers\n❤ Reserved Seating puts you right up in the Splash Zone\n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #ItsOK #PublicLibationIsLegal\n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\nThe Nation’s Original Sex + Storytelling series featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits\, Live Onstage\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\nAbout Bawdy Storytelling:\nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure. \nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & hand-picked Rockstars as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal! \nPerformer Bios: \n❤ As a vocalist\, MC\, and band-leader\, Jefferson Bergey spends a majority of his musical life on his best behavior performing at private and corporate events all over Northern California. With numerous Bay Area creative projects he’s been featured at Sweetwater\, The Independent\, The John Steinbeck Association\, Special Olympics Summer Games in Long Beach\, Facebook\, and The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. As a family-friendly wedding-singer he was recently the cover-story in the San Francisco Chronicle’s Datebook. Alongside his busy performance calendar he maintains a full schedule as a voice coach for beginning singers at the Starland School of Music in Alameda and privately at his studio in North Oakland.\nYet Bergey lives a musical double-life where he takes delight in singing songs that are clearly not for all-ages or the quietly conservative. From a mind that is clearly in the gutter of Tin Pan Alley\, Bergey combines the flavors of bluesy 1950’s soda-shop pop with the acoustic soft-rock sentiments of the 1970’s. He’s a self-proclaimed musical theater dork with a penchant for pornographic puns. Bergey shares his unique brand of polite vulgarity as one of the regular songwriters for Bawdy Storytelling\, San Francisco’s original sexual storytelling show. Thanks to Dixie De La Tour\, he’s released of an album of those sex-centric custom compositions titled ‘Come For Me’ and the title-song was recently heard on the RISK! podcast. You can find him on Spotify\, iTunes\, and at jeffersonbergey.com. \n❤ From the heart of the West coast of Canada comes internationally acclaimed cabaret comedian\, Shirley Gnome! Known for her clever lyrics\, honest insights\, and gorgeous voice\, the naked truth never sounds so smooth. You may be thinking it – but this shameless songstress sings it loud and proud with “the voice of an angel dry-humping a cloud.” Fans of Garfunkel and Oats\, Flight of the Conchords and Tenacious D\, get ready to be taken to the next level. It’s award-winning\, taboo\, sexually empowering comedy that is NOT for the faint of heart. More info at ShirleyGnome.com \n❤ Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour founded Bawdy Storytelling – the Nation’s original sex and storytelling series -a decade ago\, despite being told repeatedly that nobody would get onstage to tell their stories of sex\, kink and gender (Wrong!).This multi-city live storytelling event welcomes true stories from any and all communities (LGBTQIA\, kink\, polyamory\, swingers\, vanilla\, and many more) and is bringing sex-positive storytelling to new cities all the time. Dixie and Bawdy Storytelling have been praised by press both big and small; She has been lauded as a “masterful emcee\, and her show is everything that works for storytelling—she creates a warm\, safe space in which stories can bloom with dark hilarity\, salacious textures\, and moments of deep connection.” Dixie has hosted and curated Bawdy Storytelling events at Yale Sex Week\, the Bondage Awards\, the Jewish Community Center of San Francicso\, CatalystCon Sexuality Conference\, Dark Odyssey\, FetFest\, and more\, as well as her home turf of the Bawdy Mainstage and BawdySlam shows. She can be found at @Bawdy on Twitter\, Bawdy Storytelling on Facebook and always\, always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com \n• No Refunds or Exchanges\n• Lineup Subject to Change\n• General Admission seating is first come\, first served. We recommend you arrive by 7:15 for best seating (Reserved Seating guarantees you a seat right up front)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytelling-happy-endings/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161215T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161215T213000
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SUMMARY:Peter Dale Scott
DESCRIPTION:Peter Dale Scott is a poet and political researcher whose artistic works are shaped by the subjects of his nonfiction. \nNation correspondent Larry Bensky commented that Scott has spent his career documenting “an old-boy network of far rightists\, gonzo adventurers\, profiteers\, drug-and gunrunners\, religious fanatics\, and intelligence freelancers who intersect regularly with the various government agencies they once served.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-dale-scott-2/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161217T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161217T193000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155410
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SUMMARY:George Oppen Memorial Lecture: Frances Richard
DESCRIPTION:The George Oppen Memorial Lecture\nFrances Richard \n“The Mind’s Own Place and Feminine Technologies: George Oppen and Possibilities of the Political” \nSaturday DEC 17\n6:00pm* @ Unitarian Center\n1187 Franklin (at Geary)\, San Francisco\,\nadmission: $10; low income $5\nfree for SFSU students and Poetry Center members \nsupported by the Dorothy A. Fowler Trust\n*Please note early 6pm start time \nThe Poetry Center’s annual George Oppen Memorial Lecture\, presented each year since 1985\, will be given this December by poet\, scholar\, and art writer Frances Richard. \nFrances Richard is the author of Anarch. (Futurepoem\, 2012)\, The Phonemes (Les Figues Press\, 2012) and See Through (Four Way Books\, 2003)\, as well as the chapbooks Shaved Code (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs\, 2008) and Anarch. (Woodland Editions\, 2008). She writes frequently about contemporary art and is co-author\, with Jeffrey Kastner and Sina Najafi\, of Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s “Fake Estates” (Cabinet Books\, 2005). She has been a visiting scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture\, and is the recipient of a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and an Editors Prize for Reviewing from Poetry magazine; currently she is editing a volume of essays titiled Joan Jonas Is On Our Mind (Wattis Institute). She teaches at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. \nGeorge Oppen (April 24\, 1908 – July 7\, 1984) was an American poet\, best known as one of the members of the Objectivist group of poets. He abandoned poetry in the 1930s for political activism and later moved to Mexico to avoid the attentions of the House Un-American Activities Committee. He returned to poetry — and to the United States — in 1958\, and received the Pulitzer Prize in 1969. Early and late in his life\, Oppen lived in San Francisco\, where he befriended many of the younger poets active in the area. \nThe George Oppen Memorial Lecture\, established at The Poetry Center in 1985\, generally addresses the work of Oppen and his contemporaries. An edition of the Selected George Oppen Memorial Lectures\, edited by Michael Cross\, is scheduled for publication in 2017 by the National Poetry Foundation\, in Orono\, Maine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/george-oppen-memorial-lecture-frances-richard/
LOCATION:First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco\, 1187 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161217T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161217T200000
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SUMMARY:100% Mixed Zine Release Party!
DESCRIPTION:100% Mixed Zine is by and for multi ethnic Asian and Pacific Americans\, featuring interviews\, visual art\, poetry\, and feelings ♥. \nAfter nearly a year of working on the zine and making new friends\, Monika and Jess are ready to release their project 🙂 We’d like to invite you all to join us for a lil party\, and to thank our contributors\, interviewees\, and all who helped us along the way. Bring your friends and family to join in on the fun\, all ages are welcome. \nThe event will include readings\, performances\, and bringing our mixed community together in one room! Some food and drink will be provided\, but if yall wanna turn this into a potluck\, feel free to bring something to share :^) \nLuv\,\nMonika & Jess
URL:https://litseen.com/event/100-mixed-zine-release-party/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161222T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161222T200000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155410
CREATED:20161223T024715Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T024715Z
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SUMMARY:Weekday Wanderlust
DESCRIPTION:It’s the most wonderful time of the year\, and we’re closing out 2016 with a top-notch line up of readers featured in the newly released Lonely Planet anthology\, edited by our own Don George! The collection gathers stories from some of the best writers in the world and we are so fortunate to have many of them right here in the Bay Area including Marilyn Abildskov\, Natalie Baszile\, and Jeff Greenwald who will be reading for us this month. What a way to celebrate our wonderful community of travelers and writers\, and herald in the holiday season! \nCome for cheer\, and let us say cheers to you: our amazing travel writing tribe. Our readings start promptly at 7 pm but we can always be found in the Library Bar at 6 pm. We hope to see you there.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/weekday-wanderlust/
LOCATION:Hotel Rex\, 562 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170105T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170105T223000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155410
CREATED:20161223T025428Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T025428Z
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SUMMARY:YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose\, & Everything Goes
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 7:30pm\nShow at 8:15pm\nTickets at http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1400455\n$10 in advance and $10 day of show online and at the door. \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes\nis a total open mic event\, with no set or featured performers\,\nbut only the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\,\nto embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-5/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170109T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170109T200000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155410
CREATED:20170109T095548Z
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SUMMARY:New Year\, New Books!
DESCRIPTION:Authors Lucy Jane Bledsoe\, Rob Rosen\, and Aya de Leon read from their new books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-year-new-books/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170109T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170109T213000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155410
CREATED:20161018T233231Z
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SUMMARY:Manjula Martin
DESCRIPTION:About Scratch: \nA collection of essays from today’s most acclaimed authors from Cheryl Strayed to Roxane Gay to Jennifer Weiner\, Alexander Chee\, Nick Hornby\, and Jonathan Franzen on the realities of making a living in the writing world.\nIn the literary world\, the debate around writing and commerce often begs us to take sides: either writers should be paid for everything they do or writers should just pay their dues and count themselves lucky to be published. You should never quit your day job\, but your ultimate goal should be to quit your day job. It’s an endless\, confusing\, and often controversial conversation that\, despite our bare-it-all culture\, still remains taboo. In Scratch\, Manjula Martin has gathered interviews and essays from established and rising authors to confront the age-old question: how do creative people make money?\nAs contributors including Jonathan Franzen\, Cheryl Strayed\, Roxane Gay\, Nick Hornby\, Susan Orlean\, Alexander Chee\, Daniel Jose Older\, Jennifer Weiner\, and Yiyun Li candidly and emotionally discuss money\, MFA programs\, teaching fellowships\, finally getting published\, and what success really means to them\, Scratch honestly addresses the tensions between writing and money\, work and life\, literature and commerce. The result is an entertaining and inspiring book that helps readers and writers understand what it’s really like to make art in a world that runs on money and why it matters. Essential reading for aspiring and experienced writers\, and for anyone interested in the future of literature\, Scratch is the perfect bookshelf companion to On Writing\, Never Can Say Goodbye\, and MFA vs. NYC.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/manjula-martin/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170110T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170110T213000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155410
CREATED:20161017T233029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161017T233029Z
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SUMMARY:Zadie Smith w/ Dave Eggers
DESCRIPTION:British novelist\, essayist and short story writer Zadie Smith is known for her unique perspective on contemporary culture\, superb dialogue\, and emotionally rich stories.  Smith wrote her widely acclaimed debut novel White Teeth during her final year at Cambridge and went on to cement her reputation as one of the most important voices of her generation with The Autograph Man\, On Beauty\, and NW. Her newest novel Swing Time follows the lives of two aspiring dancers growing up in a poor London neighborhood.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zadie-smith-w-dave-eggers/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170112T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170112T170000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155410
CREATED:20170113T080428Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T080428Z
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SUMMARY:Porchlight: BOMBS AWAY!
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/porchlight-bombs-away/
LOCATION:Oasis\, 298 11th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170112T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170112T200000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155410
CREATED:20170109T095928Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T095928Z
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SUMMARY:Russian Tales: San Francisco Reading
DESCRIPTION:LGBTQ Pride Readings presents three authors of new Russian novels: Arthur J. Levy (Coda: A Tale of Tchaikovsky’s Secret Love)\, Wayne Goodman (Vanya Says “Go!”)\, and Michael Aleynikov (Ivan and Misha)\, Coda spins a tale of a secret encoded in music by Tchaikovsky\, discovered in a present-day antique shop in New York City. Vanya Says “Go!” is a retelling and expansion of Mikhail Kuskin’s Wings\, the first known Gay Russian novel\, originally published in 1906. Ivan and Misha tells the story of twins and their father\, Russian-speaking emigres from Ukraine to contemporary New York. All three novels expand the idea of what a Russian novel is. This is a free event with complimentary Russian refreshments and Russian door prizes for promptness.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/russian-tales-san-francisco-reading/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170112T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170112T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155410
CREATED:20161223T021612Z
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck: The Little House on the Prairie
DESCRIPTION:This month\, Shipwreck tries not to die of dysentery when we take it way back to Laura Ingalls Wilder’s The Little House on the Prairie (et al.). \nFeatured writers: December winner Michael Howley\, plus Tess Barry\, Daphne Gottlieb\, Tirumari Jothi\, Meg Trowbridge\, & Hope Waggoner. \n$10 gets you an open bar (21+) and two hours of utter depravity. Seats go fast; best to buy tickets early. \nTICKETS ON SALE NOW. \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event. \nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on the first Thursday of every month at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco. \nFics are blind-read by our Thespian-in-Residence\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and you choose the best ship before the writers are unmasked. The winner is cast off from polite society\, and invited back the next month to defend their title. \nCritics are saying:\n“… the most despicable literary event possible.”\n“… an affront to literature.”\n“It used to be we had to sit in dark\, sticky booths to get these kinds of sleazy thrills.”\n“Come if you are high on marijuana cigarettes and have done sex before.”\n“… a vile\, disgusting event.””Shipwreck will bring you to madness\, and you may never return.”\n“…wonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting.”\n“…punny sodomy and gross indecency.” \n— \nPLEASE NOTE: No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. We’re not dicks\, we just like dick jokes. \nShipwreck tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable for any reason.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-the-little-house-on-the-prairie/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170112T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170112T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155410
CREATED:20161223T033128Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T033128Z
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SUMMARY:Hettie Jones
DESCRIPTION:discussing her new book \nLove\, H: The Letters of Helene Dorn and Hettie Jones  \nfrom Duke University Press \n“It works\, we’re in business\, yeah Babe!” So begins this remarkable selection from a forty-year correspondence between two artists who survived their time as wives in the Beat bohemia of the 1960s and went on to successful artistic careers of their own.\n\nFrom their first meeting in 1960\, writer Hettie Jones—then married to LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)—and painter and sculptor Helene Dorn (1927–2004)\, wife of poet Ed Dorn\, found in each other more than friendship. They were each other’s confidant\, emotional support\, and unflagging partner through difficulties\, defeats\, and victories\, from surviving divorce and struggling as single mothers\, to finding artistic success in their own right.\n\nRevealing the intimacy of lifelong friends\, these letters tell two stories from the shared point of view of women who refused to go along with society’s expectations. Jones frames her and Helene’s story\, adding details and explanations while filling in gaps in the narrative. As she writes\, “we’d fled the norm for women then\, because to live it would have been a kind of death.”\n\nApart from these two personal stories\, there are\, as well\, reports from the battlegrounds of women’s rights and tenant’s rights\, reflections on marriage and motherhood\, and contemplation of the past to which these two had remained irrevocably connected. Prominent figures such as Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary appear as well\, making Love\, H an important addition to literature on the Beats.\n\nAbove all\, this book is a record of the changing lives of women artists as the twentieth century became the twenty-first\, and what it has meant for women considering such a life today. It’s worth a try\, Jones and Dorn show us\, offering their lives as proof that it can be done.\nAbout The Author \nHettie Jones is the author of numerous books\, including her memoir of the Beat scene How I Became Hettie Jones; the poetry collection Drive; and the young adult Big Star Fallin’ Mama: Five Women in Black Music. She has published in many newspapers and magazines\, including the Village Voice\, Global City Review\, and Ploughshares. She currently teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at The New School\, the 92nd Street Y\, and the Lower Eastside Girls Club\, and she previously taught at several colleges and universities in New York and elsewhere. Jones lives in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hettie-jones/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170115
DTSTAMP:20260426T155410
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SUMMARY:Poets & Writers Live
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-writers-live/
LOCATION:San Francisco Art Institute\, 800 Chestnut St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170114T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170114T150000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155410
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SUMMARY:RADAR Productions: Drag Queen Story Hour For Kids
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radar-productions-drag-queen-story-hour-for-kids/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170114T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170114T203000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155410
CREATED:20161018T003559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T003559Z
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SUMMARY:Rolling Writers: R-Dub REAL
DESCRIPTION:Memoirists\nSean Craven\nChristina Ingenito\nTania Martin\nBradley Paterson\nTony Press\nmore to come … \nSubmissions open. This will be a Moth-style evening\, with speakers telling stories from their lives without notes. A decided preference will be for self-revelatory tales of every hue. The time limit will be about eight minutes.\nWould you like to submit something for consideration? If it is a piece you have performed and can link to online\, that would be great; if it is in written form\, that would work; otherwise\, please paste a synopsis of five to ten lines into your message. One note: since this is a family café\, with children sometimes present\, profanity will not be allowed. If interested in submitting\, please write to Jon Sindell: jsind [at] sbcglobal [dot net]. The subject line of your email should read: R-Dub Real: Your Name. \nLet’s get real!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rolling-writers-r-dub-real/
LOCATION:Rolling Out Cafe\, 1722 Taraval St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170114T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170114T213000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155410
CREATED:20161129T061046Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T061046Z
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Jeff Chang (Can’t Stop Won’t Stop)\nWendy C. Ortiz (Excavation: A Memoir\, Hollywood Notebook)\nAya de Leon (Uptown Thief)\nRebecca Farivar (Correct Animal)\nAntonio Garcia Martinez (Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley)\nWITH GUEST HOST Baruch Porras-Hernandez
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170116T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170116T170000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155410
CREATED:20170117T033019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170117T033019Z
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SUMMARY:Susan Alice Bickford
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-alice-bickford/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Mountain View\, 301 Castro St\, Mountain View \, CA\, 94041\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170116T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170116T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155410
CREATED:20170109T101043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T101043Z
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SUMMARY:From Mandalay to the Bay
DESCRIPTION:From Mandalay to the Bay: An Evening of Burmese & Burmese American Poets & Writers \nPlease join us for a very special event at Alley Cat Books in San Francisco on Monday\, January 16th\, 2017 at 6pm. Renowned poet\, ko ko thett\, will be making a rare appearance in the Bay Area to celebrate his latest book\, The Burden of Being Burmese (Zephyr). He is also the co-editor of Bones Will Crow: Fifteen Contemporary Burmese Poets (Northern Illinois University Press). He will be joined by Bay Area authors\, poets\, and translators\, Htet Yi Linn\, Khin Thiri Nandar Soe\, Audrey T. Williams\, Maw Shein Win\, and Kenneth Wong. \nFree. \nFor more information\, please contact maw@redbridgepress.com \nBios of Readers \nHtet Yi Linn is an undergraduate pursuing a degree in Business Administration at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. At Cal\, she serves as the President of Burma Association at Berkeley where she works hard to bring the Cal community closer to the Burmese culture. Despite moving out of Burma at the age of 14\, she remains close to the Burmese culture and language through Burmese novels and by staying close to Burmese communities overseas. She embraces the Burmese culture and literature. She has also worked on multiple translation projects. You can find some of her writings about snippets of her life at heyhtett.wordpress.com. \nKhin Thiri Nandar Soe (her pen name is Niyawdar) writes poems and critiques on Burmese political and social culture. She is from Burma and poetry is her first love. Her poems and articles are published in Burmese revolutionary magazines such as Thitsar\, Ah Lin Eain\, Aharya\, Daung O Wai and the literary magazine Kaung Kin (The Sky). Most of her works reflect Burma’s struggle for liberation and human nature. \nko ko thett is a poet by choice and Burmese by chance. He has received an English PEN Translation Award for the seminal Bones will Crow: Fifteen Contemporary Burmese Poets (Northern Illinois University Press\, 2013\, co-edited with James Byrne). The Burden of Being Burmese (Zephyr\, 2015)\, a collection of ko ko thett’s poems that have appeared in literary journals worldwide\, is listed on ‘‘Nota Benes’’ by World Literature Today. He has read at Sharjah International Book Fair\, Hong Kong Poetry Nights and Minsheng Art Museum in Shanghai. After a whirlwind tour of Southeast Asia and Europe for about 18 years\, ko ko thett moved back to Yangon. He writes in both Burmese and English\, and is an honorary fellow in writing at the University of Iowa. \nAudrey T. Williams is an Oakland-based writer. She is a Medical Writer by day\, and an MFA Candidate in creative nonfiction at California College of the Arts all other times. Audrey grew up in North Carolina. She writes lyrical essays and poems about her multi-cultural family life\, being Burmese and African American. She has been deeply exploring her cultural and racial identity formation\, focused on social dynamics post-Independence in Burma and post-Integration in America. Just when Audrey thought she had resolved the questions about her ancestry\, a conversation with a co-worker from India exposes a family secret…to learn more visit www.audreyTwilliams.com. \nMaw Shein Win is a poet\, editor\, and educator who lives and works in the Bay Area. Ruins of a glittering palace\, her collaborative chapbook\, with paintings by Mark Dutcher\, was published by SPA/Commonwealth Projects. She is a poetry editor for Rivet: The Journal of Writing that Risks and an instructor at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Her chapbook Score and Bone on Nomadic Press was recently nominated for a CLMP Firecracker Award. She is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito. http://www.el-cerrito.org/poets \nKenneth Wong is a Burmese-American author and blogger who grew up in Rangoon. He lives in San Francisco\, California\, and teaches Beginning Burmese at UC Berkeley. His essays\, short stories\, and poetry translations have appeared in Grain\, AGNI\, Eleven Eleven\, Myanmar Times\, Irrawaddy\, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/from-mandalay-to-the-bay/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170116T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170116T200000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155410
CREATED:20170113T063515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T063515Z
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SUMMARY:The Racket #3
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-3/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170117T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170117T200000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155410
CREATED:20170113T065353Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T065353Z
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SUMMARY:Thomas Perry
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/thomas-perry/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170117T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170117T200000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155410
CREATED:20170109T101353Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T101353Z
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SUMMARY:Queer Words: Poetry + Prose
DESCRIPTION:Queer Words presents four poets reading new poetry and prose Tuesday\, January 17\, 7 pm at Folio Books\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. Natasha Dennerstein reads from her new collection Triptych Caliform\, David Hathwell from Muses\, Richard Loranger from Sudden Windows\, and Arisa White from You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened. Free admission and refreshments. Door prizes awarded for promptness!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queer-words-poetry-prose/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170117T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170117T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155410
CREATED:20161201T023556Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T023556Z
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SUMMARY:Josh Mohr
DESCRIPTION:discussing his new memoir \nSirens \nfrom Two Dollar Radio \n\n\n“To the short list of genuinely great addiction memoirs we can now add Sirens\, a searing and at times hilarious account of Mohr’s lost years in the dive bars and gutters of San Francisco. Like Mary Karr and Jerry Stahl\, there is no line Mohr won’t cross\, either in his erstwhile quest for self-immolation\, or his fearless honesty in reporting back from that time. But what sets this book apart is Mohr’s unwillingness to traffic in pat notions of redemption.”—Ron Currie\, Jr. \n“This isn’t your average recovery memoir. Mohr’s honesty in this book is astonishing and necessary\, his candor about hitting bottom and relapsing deeply moving and important. It’s a hell of a compelling read.”—Cari Luna \nAcclaimed novelist Joshua Mohr provides a captivating and complicated account of his years of substance abuse and culpability in his non-fiction debut. Employing the characterization and chimerical prose for which he has been lauded\, Mohr traces his childhood swilling fuzzy navels as a latch-key kid\, through his first failed marriage\, parenthood\, heart-surgery\, and his everyday struggle against relapse. \nJoshua Mohr is the author of Some Things that Meant the World to Me\, one of Oprah Magazine‘s Top 10 reads of 2009 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller; Termite Parade\, an Editors’ Choice pick at the New York Times Book Review; Damascus\, called “Beat-poet cool” by the New York Times; and\, most recently\, Fight Song and All This Life. He recently moved with his family to Seattle\, Washington.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/josh-mohr/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170117T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170117T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155410
CREATED:20170113T065931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T065931Z
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SUMMARY:Sara Marinelli
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sara-marinelli/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170117T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170117T213000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155410
CREATED:20161201T025606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T025606Z
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SUMMARY:Pola Oloixarac
DESCRIPTION:Argentinian writer Pola Oloixarac in conversation about her first novel translated into English\, Savage Theories. \n\nPraise for Savage Theories: \n“A stunning vibrant maximalist whirlwind of a novel. Oloixarac’s wit and ambition are evident on every page. By comparison\, most other contemporary fiction seems a little dull and simple-minded.” — Hari Kunzru\, author of Gods Without Men \n“Monstrously clever and terribly funny. More than a debut\, this book is one many of us would spend our lives trying to write. ” — Javier Calvo \n“Pola Oloixarac’s prose is the great event of the new Argentinian narrative. Her novel is unforgettable\, philosophical and very serene.” — Ricardo Piglia \nAbout Savage Theories: \nA novel of seduction and madness\, hate and love\, set in the world of Argentinean academia and animated by the spirits of Wittgenstein\, Rousseau\, Nabokov and Bolano.\nRosa Ostreech\, a pseudonym for the novel’s beautiful but self-conscious narrator\, carries around a trilingual edition of Aristotle’s Metaphysics\, struggles with her thesis on violence and culture\, sleepswith a bourgeois former guerrilla\, and pursues her elderly professor with a highly charged blend oferoticism and desperation. Elsewhere on campus\, Pabst and Kamtchowsky tour the underground scene of Buenos Aires\, dabbling in ketamine\, sex\, video games\, and hacking. And in Africa in 1917\, a Dutch anthropologist named Johan van Vliet begins work on a theory that explains human consciousness and civilization by reference to our early primate ancestors animals\, who\, in the process of becominghuman\, spent thousands of years as prey.\nSavage Theories wryly explores fear and violence\, war and sex\, eroticism and philosophy. Its complex and flawed characters grapple with a mess of impossible\, visionary theories\, searching for their place in our fragmented digital world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pola-oloixarac/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170118T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170118T200000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155410
CREATED:20170109T101547Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T101547Z
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SUMMARY:Litquake: No Shadow Without Light
DESCRIPTION:“I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no shadow unless there is also light.”\n—Margaret Atwood \nAs with the rest of the Bay Area\, Litquake has been festering over the unexpected election of Donald Trump. Do we publish a manifesto? Or curl up in the fetal position? \nYes\, times are dark indeed\, but it’s incumbent on the creative class to stand tall and contribute. And so we are proud to present these diverse and electric Bay Area voices\, who speak to our nation’s fear\, anger\, and perhaps even optimism. \nIn the words of Toni Morrison:\n“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair\, no place for self-pity\, no need for silence\, no room for fear. We speak\, we write\, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.” \nCome and join the chorus! Admission free. \nWords from: \nELMAZ ABINADER\nArab-American author\, poet\, and Mills College professor (“Children of the Roojme: A Family’s Journey from Lebanon”) \nFAITH ADIELE\nAuthor and editor (“The Nigerian-Nordic Girls Guide to Lady Problems”; “Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology”) \nROBERT MAILER ANDERSON\nNovelist and playwright (“The Death of Teddy Ballgame”; “Boonville”) \nDEVORAH MAJOR\nSan Francisco’s third Poet Laureate (“and then we became”) \nSARAH LADIPO MANYIKA\nNovelist and editor (“In Dependence”; “The Weaverbird Collection: New Fiction from Nigeria 2008”) \nALEJANDRO MURGUIA\nSan Francisco’s current Poet Laureate (“Stray Poems: San Francisco Poet Laureate Series No. 6”; “This War Called Love”) \nISHMAEL REED\nAuthor\, editor\, journalist\, SFJAZZ Poet Laureate (“The Complete Muhammad Ali”; “Black Hollywood Unchained”) \nTENNESSEE REED\nPoet and activist (“City Beautiful: Poems 1998-2006”) \nT.J. STILES\nAuthor and twice recipient of the Pulitzer Prize (“Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America”; “The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt”)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-no-shadow-without-light/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170118T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170118T200000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155410
CREATED:20170113T071550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T015055Z
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SUMMARY:Cary Tennis + Danelle Morris
DESCRIPTION:All too many people start a writing project with grand ambitions but reach a crisis of completion. Finishing School helps writers reignite the passion that started them on the project in the first place and work steadily to get it done. \nUntold millions of writing projects begun with hope and a little bit of hubris lie abandoned in desk drawers\, in dated files on computer desktops\, and in the far reaches of the mind. Too often\, writers get tangled in self-abuse their self-doubt\, shame\, yearning for perfection\, and even arrogance get in the way. In this new work\, Cary Tennis and Danelle Morton help writers overcome these emotional blocks and break down daunting projects into manageable pieces. \nTennis first convened a finishing school so that writers could help one another stay on track and complete their work. Since they weren’t actually critiquing one another’s writing\, there was no jockeying for the title of best writer or the usual writing group politics; there was only a shared commitment to progress. Without guilt\, blame\, and outside critique\, students were more productive than they imagined possible. Through this program\, they were able to complete novels that they d been struggling with for almost two decades\, finish screenplays drafts\, and revive interest in long-neglected PhD theses. In this book\, the authors share this proven and easily replicable technique\, as well as their own writing success stories. \nCary Tennis wrote the advice column “Since You Asked\,” which appeared on Salon.com for twelve years. As an advice columnist\, he never missed a deadline\, but in his literary writing\, he found himself stalled. Through the Finishing School method that he created\, he completed his novel and now helps others through theirs in his writing workshops and international retreats. \nDanelle Morton is a journalist and the coauthor of fifteen books. Morton has worked for The New York Times\, was an associate bureau chief for People\, and has been a foreign correspondent. She was a finalist for the PEN/USA Literary Nonfiction Award and the ASME magazine award in the public interest category.She has received investigative journalism grants from The Nation Institute and the George Polk Foundation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cary-tennis-danelle-morris/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170118T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170118T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155410
CREATED:20161201T023713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T023713Z
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SUMMARY:UNNAMED PRESS SHOWCASE
DESCRIPTION:City Lights celebrates Indy Publisher UNNAMED PRESS \nwith two new works of fiction \nOne Life  \nby David Lida \nand \nBorder of Paradise \nby Esme Weijun Wang \nWhat has been said about One Life: \n\n\n\n“ONE LIFE will be deservedly praised for the light it trains on a previously unexposed dark corner of the primitively cruel and racist U.S. justice system. But David Lida also writes\, in his remarkable novel\, about a Mexico that even very few Mexican writers have any first-hand knowledge of\, and does it in a way that readers on both sides of the border have rarely encountered.”                                                       –Francisco Goldman\,  author of ‘Say Her Name’ and ‘The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle’. \n\n\n\n“David Lida’s ONE LIFE is simply revelatory. It’s Juan Rulfo meets Raymond Chandler\, Roberto Bolaño meets Chester Himes. It’s the American justice system\, exposed\, and the inside story of the frenetic\, cruel push and pull that lures Mexican migrants from of their homes to the US. I’ve never read a book quite like this\, and neither have you.”\n—Daniel Alarcón\, author of AT NIGHT WE WALK IN CIRCLES \n“I haven’t read a book this harrowing since Atticus Lish’s PREPARATIONS FOR THE NEXT LIFE. David Lida has written an extraordinary account of the cruelty\, squalor\, and occasional enchantment of life on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border. It is an indictment of a justice system mired in cynicism and bad faith\, and an economic system that hits the poorest hardest\, and repays ambition with betrayal; but at the same time\, ONE LIFE is an incredible love story\, not just in the romantic sense\, but in the sense that it’s about coming to love life itself\, despite everything.”\n—Paul LaFarge\, author of ANOTHER LIFE \nPraise for The Border of Paradise: \n“THE BORDER OF PARADISE is a magnificent achievement – an exhortation for human tenderness and individual dignity in the most difficult of circumstances. Wang explores identity and family with a sense of drama that borders on gothic\, without ever sacrificing the psychological texture that connects us to her characters.”\n—Adrienne Celt\, author of THE DAUGHTERS \n“Wang’s prose is beautiful and restrained\, and her generous\, precise characterization makes every perspective feel organic and utterly real in the face of increasingly theatrical circumstances. The result — the story of an American family stretched and manipulated into impossible shapes — is an extraordinary literary and gothic novel of the highest order.”\n—Carmen Maria Machado\, NPR \nDavid Lida is the author of four books\, including the very well received travel narrative First Stop in the New World (Riverhead\, 2009). One Life is his first novel and will be published in Mexico in Spanish in 2016. He has been a journalist for more than twenty years\, principally in the U.S. and Mexico\, but also for magazines in England\, Canada and Peru. When David is not writing\, he works as a mitigation specialist\, conducting investigations for lawyers in the U.S. who defend clients who are charged with capital murder and facing the death penalty. He is based in Mexico City. \nEsmé Weijun Wang is an award-winning mental health advocate and speaker\, as well as a journalist and essayist. The Border of Paradise is her first novel. She lives in San Francisco. \nThe Unnamed Press publishes literature from around the world. Whether it’s fiction\, memoir or something in between\, they are always interested in unlikely protagonists\, undiscovered territories and courageous voices. To learn more visit: http://unnamedpress.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/unnamed-press-showcase/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170119T174500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170119T193000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155410
CREATED:20170113T074512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T060348Z
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SUMMARY:RADAR Productions: A Queer Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:RADAR Productions Presents: JANUARY QUEER READING SERIES at the San Francisco Library \nThursday\, January 19\, 2017\nSan Francisco Public Library\n100 Larkin Street\nLatino/Hispanic Room (basement level)\nPlease arrive by 5:45 PM\n==FREE==\nHosted by Juliana Delgado Lopera \nReading followed by artist Q&A\nDid we mention there will be cookies? \nFEATURING… \nGabrielle Glancy\nWinner of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship\, finalist for Yale Younger Poets\, The Colorado Prize and The Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award\, Gabrielle Glancy has been published in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, The American Poetry Review and many other journals and anthologies. Her book I’m Already Disturbed Please Come In was listed among the top thirty books you may have missed in 2015 by The Advocate. Curve Magazine describes Vera as “. . . a queer gem of a book… wonderful\, literary\, sexy\, funny . . \, by turns mystifying\, hilarious\, admirable\, and always hard to put down . . .” In addition to being a widely published writer\, Gabrielle Glancy is well known all around the world for her college admissions expertise. \nAndrea Wolf\nAndrea Abi-Karam is a mixed race genderqueer punk poet writing on the art of killing bros\, the intricacies of cyborg bodies\, trauma & delayed healing. They recently completed the manuscript EXTRATRANSMISSION a book length piece against how patriarchy and US militarism produce the hypergendered subject. Andrea is both a writer\, printer\, & publisher whose founding small press project Mess Editions seeks to publish emerging writing from queers\, people of color\, and those involved in social movements yet uninvolved in poetry & art scenes. \nCarolina de Robertis\nCarolina De Robertis\, a writer of Uruguayan origins\, is the author of the novels The Gods of Tango\, Perla\, and the international bestseller The Invisible Mountain. Her books have been translated into eighteen languages\, and have received a Stonewall Book Award\, Italy’s Rhegium Julii Prize\, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, among other honors. She is also an award-winning translator of Latin American literature\, and the co-producer\, with her wife Pamela Harris\, of the short documentary film “Farías: an Afro Uruguayan Love Story.” De Robertis teaches fiction and literary translation at San Francisco State University. She has two children who are constantly teaching her new things about cheetahs and the solar system. \nMarcela Pardo\nMarcela Pardo Ariza explores the relationship of wry humor\, queerness and representation through color sets and prop-like objects. Her photographs incorporate quotidian objects in seemingly absurd ways creating tableaux that mix recognizable elements with magical realism. Pardo is interested in the action of looking within the theatricality of “the set” and her visually provoking portraits seek to explore metaphors regarding race and gender. \nPardo is from Bogotá\, Colombia and has worked as a Curatorial Assistant at the Clocktower Gallery (Manhattan\, NY)\, a co-Director at the Swell Gallery (San Francisco\, CA) and Co-Founder/Director of NoRoof Gallery (San Francisco\, CA. Pardo has curated shows at Cranium Corporation (San Francisco\, CA); Residence/SF (San Francisco\, CA); and CTRL+SHFT collective (Oakland\, CA). Her photographic work has been shown at Glasshouse (Brooklyn\, NY); SOMArts (San Francisco\, CA)\, Embark Gallery (San Francisco\, CA)\, Zoo Labs\, guest curated by Et al. (San Francisco\, CA); and Root Division (San Francisco\, CA).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radar-productions-a-queer-reading-series/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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