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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Kiese Laymon / Heavy: An American Memoir
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Kiese Laymon for his new book Heavy: An American Memoir. More details coming soon\, but save the date and join us! \n  \nIn this powerful and provocative memoir\, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets\, lies\, and deception does to a black body\, a black family\, and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse. \n  \nKiese Laymon is a fearless writer. In his essays\, personal stories combine with piercing intellect to reflect both on the state of American society and on his experiences with abuse\, which conjure conflicted feelings of shame\, joy\, confusion and humiliation. Laymon invites us to consider the consequences of growing up in a nation wholly obsessed with progress yet wholly disinterested in the messy work of reckoning with where we’ve been. \n  \nIn Heavy\, Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about growing up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in Jackson\, Mississippi. From his early experiences of sexual violence\, to his suspension from college\, to his trek to New York as a young college professor\, Laymon charts his complex relationship with his mother\, grandmother\, anorexia\, obesity\, sex\, writing\, and ultimately gambling. By attempting to name secrets and lies he and his mother spent a lifetime avoiding\, Laymon asks himself\, his mother\, his nation\, and us to confront the terrifying possibility that few in this nation actually know how to responsibly love\, and even fewer want to live under the weight of actually becoming free. \n  \nA personal narrative that illuminates national failures\, Heavy is defiant yet vulnerable\, an insightful\, often comical exploration of weight\, identity\, art\, friendship\, and family that begins with a confusing childhood–and continues through twenty-five years of haunting implosions and long reverberations. \n  \n\n  \n“A challenging memoir about black-white relations\, income inequality\, mother-son dynamics\, Mississippi byways\, lack of personal self-control\, education from kindergarten through graduate school\, and so much more. Laymon skillfully couches his provocative subject matter in language that is pyrotechnic and unmistakably his own … Far more than just the physical aspect\, the weight he carries also derives from the burdens placed on him by a racist society\, by his mother and his loving grandmother\, and even by himself. At times\, the author examines his complicated romantic and sexual relationships\, and he also delves insightfully into politics\, literature\, feminism\, and injustice\, among other topics. A dynamic memoir that is unsettling in all the best ways.” – Kirkus Reviews\, starred \n  \n“How do you carry the weight of being a black man in America? In electrifying\, deliberate prose\, Kiese Laymon tries to answer that question from the first page of Heavy: An American Memoir to the last. He writes about what it means to live in a heavy body\, in all senses of that word. He writes of family\, love\, place\, trauma\, race\, desire\, grief\, rage\, addiction\, and human weakness\, and he does so relentlessly\, without apology. To call the way Laymon lays himself bare an act of courageous grace is beside the point but what and how he writes in this exceptional book are\, indeed\, acts of courageous grace.” – Roxane Gay \n  \n“Kiese’s heart and humor shine through\, and we are blessed to have such raw humanity rendered in prose that begs for repeat readings. We do not deserve Heavy. We do not deserve Kiese. That he is generous enough to share is a testament to his commitment to helping us all heal.”  – Mychal Denzel Smith\, New York Times bestselling author of Invisible Man\, Got the Whole World Watching \n  \n“The abundance of Heavy is going to be a gift for many hurting hearts\, in our time and beyond.” – Eve Ewing\, author of Electric Arches \n  \n\n  \nKiese Laymon is a black southern writer\, born and raised in Jackson\, Mississippi. Laymon attended Millsaps College and Jackson State University before graduating from Oberlin College. He earned an MFA in Fiction from Indiana University. Laymon is currently a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of the award-winning novel\, Long Division\, a collection of essays\, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America\, and the forthcoming memoir\, Heavy. Laymon has written for numerous publications including New York Times\, NPR\, Los Angeles Times\, Esquire\, The Guardian\, McSweeneys\, Colorlines\, The Best American Series\, Ebony and many others. He is a contributing editor of Oxford American. \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated by not required. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-kiese-laymon-heavy-an-american-memoir/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:M. NourbeSe Philip: the Leslie Scalapino 21st Century Innovative Writers Series
DESCRIPTION:Owing to a generous gift from the Leslie Scalapino-O Books Fund\, The Poetry Center very happily presents renowned poet\, essayist\, novelist and dramatist M. NourbeSe Philip\, appearing as the first featured writer in our newly-launched Leslie Scalapino 21st Century Innovative Writers Series. Ms. Philip will read from her work\, in the 3rd Floor loft space at McRoskey Mattress Co.\, on Market Street (at Gough)\, and respond to questions from the audience. This event is co-sponsored by The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade\, and is free and open to the public. \nM. NourbeSe Philip\, Tobago-born Afro-Canadian poet\, writer\, and lawyer—author of the extended poetry cycle Zong!(Wesleyan\, 2011)\, and Blank: Essays & Interviews (Bookthug\, 2018)\, among numerous other works—is recognized as a crucial poet of our collective history and our shared present time. She visits San Francisco from her home in Toronto\, Ontario. \nAfter earning a BSc from the University of the West Indies and an MA and LLB from the University of Western Ontario\, Philip was a practicing lawyer for seven years before turning full-time to writing. She is the author of works of poetry\, fiction\, and nonfiction. Her collections of poetry include Thorns (1980); Salmon Courage (1983); She Tries Her Tongue (1989); Her Silence Softly Breaks (1988)\, which won a Casa de las Américas Prize for Literature; and Zong! (2008)\, a polyvocal\, book-length poem concerning slavery and the legal system. Fred Wah has noted that Zong! “is legal poetry. This is\, legally\, poetry. … The poetry displays the agonizing tension of an exploration through the minute particulars and silences locked within the legal text\, the precise and cautious movement that tries to not tell the story that must be told.” Like much of Philip’s work\, the book asks readers to actively engage the text at the level of syllable\, fragment\, sound\, and space. \nIn addition to poetry\, Philip has published two novels: the young adult novel Harriet’s Daughter (1988)\, a runner-up for both a Canadian Library Association Prize for children’s literature and a Max and Greta Abel Award for Multicultural Literature\, and Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence (1991). Philip’s short story “Stop Frame” received a Lawrence Foundation Award in 1994. Her play Coups and Calypsos (1999) has been produced in both Toronto and London. \nPhilip’s essay collections include Frontiers: Essays and Writings on Racism and Culture (1992)\, Showing Grit: Showboating North of the 44th Parallel (1993)\, CARIBANA: African roots and continuities—Race\, Space and the Poetics of Moving (1996)\, Genealogy of Resistance and Other Essays (1997)\, and Blank: Essays and Interviews (2018). \nPhilip’s numerous honors and awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, Rockefeller Foundation\, and MacDowell Colony. She is the recipient of awards from the Canada Council for the Arts\, Ontario Arts Council\, and Toronto Arts Council. In 2001\, she was recognized by the Elizabeth Fry Society with its Rebels for a Cause Award\, and the YWCA awarded her its Women of Distinction in the Arts Award. Philip has received a Chalmers Fellowship in Poetry and has been writer-in-residence at Toronto Women’s Bookstore and McMaster University. In 2012\, she received a NALIS Lifetime Literary Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore info at nourbese.com \nOn M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! \nVIDEO: Fred Moten and M. NourbeSe Philip. A story that cannot be told\, yet must be told. Zong! and its context \nVIDEO: M. NourbeSe Philip reads “Discourse on the Logic of Language” from She Tries Her Tongue\, Her Silence Softly Breaks \nVIDEO: M. NourbeSe Philip on Belonging\, Race\, Politics\, and Art \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and The Green Arcade
URL:https://litseen.com/event/m-nourbese-philip-the-leslie-scalapino-21st-century-innovative-writers-series/
LOCATION:McRoskey Mattress Company\, Inc\, 1687 Market St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Renowned Afro-Canadian Poet\, Writer\, Lawyer M. NourbeSe Philip Appears at McRoskey Mattress Company
DESCRIPTION:Owing to a generous gift from the Leslie Scalapino-O Books Fund\, The Poetry Center very happily presents renowned poet\, essayist\, novelist and dramatist M. NourbeSe Philip\, appearing as the first featured writer in the newly-launched Leslie Scalapino 21st Century Innovative Writers Series. Ms. Philip will read from her work and will respond to questions from the audience. This event is co-sponsored by The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade\, and is hosted by the McRoskey Mattress Co. \nM. NourbeSe Philip\, Tobago-born Afro-Canadian poet\, writer\, and lawyer—author of the extended poetry cycle Zong! (Wesleyan\, 2011)\, and Blank: Essays & Interviews (Bookthug\, 2018)\, among numerous other works—is recognized as a crucial poet of our collective history and our shared present time. She visits San Francisco from her home in Toronto\, Ontario. \nDoors at 6:30pm\, event begins at 7:00pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/renowned-afro-canadian-poet-writer-lawyer-m-nourbese-philip-appears-at-mcroskey-mattress-company/
LOCATION:McRoskey Mattress Company\, Inc\, 1687 Market St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Literary Arts Showcase | APAture 2018 - RE:place
DESCRIPTION:What better way to spend your Saturday night none other than at our Literary Arts Showcase for APAture 2018! Come through to Arc Gallery & Studios. Featuring Janice Lobo Sapigao. Showcase artists: TBA. \n*Supporter level and Festival Passes (with reserved seats) can be acquired by donating to our Indiegogo campaign! \nWe’ve asked artists to explore ‘place\,’ including but not limited to: displacement\, reclaiming space\, relationship or orientation to place\, movement and migration\, the loss or lack of place\, or the various dimensions of place (spatial-emotional\, past-present\, individual-communal\, etc.). How does ‘place’ resonate with you? \nAPAture is Kearny Street Workshop’s annual multidisciplinary arts festival celebrating emerging Asian and Pacific American (APA) artists of the San Francisco Bay Area. For 16 years\, APAture has been a site of dialogue\, collaboration\, and political action between artists and community members around contemporary issues affecting the Asian and Pacific Islander community. \nAPAture 2018: RE:place will showcase over 60 artists in book arts\, film\, literary arts\, music\, performing arts\, and visual arts\, and will present their work to approximately 1\,000 festival-goers across multiple dates and venues in the South of Market neighborhood. \nCome join us and help us celebrate our local emerging APA artists for the 17th year! You don’t want to miss this! \n$10-$12. \nPresented by Kearny Street Workshop.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-arts-showcase-apature-2018-replace/
LOCATION:Arc Gallery & Studios\, 1246 Folsom St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Toward a Calculus of Transgression: Appreciating Jean Patrick-Manchette
DESCRIPTION:Presented by City Lights Booksellers in conjunction with New York Review Books \nDonald Nicholson-Smith and James Brook discuss the life and work of the seminal genre-bending writer \ncelebrating the recent release of \nIvory Pearl \nby Jean-Patrick Manchette \npublished by New York Review Books \nJean-Patrick Manchette (1942–1995) was a genre-redefining French crime novelist\, screenwriter\, critic\, and translator. Born in Marseille to a family of relatively modest means\, Manchette grew up in a southwestern suburb of Paris\, where he wrote from an early age. While a student of English literature at the Sorbonne\, he contributed articles to the newspaper La Voie communiste and became active in the national students’ union. In 1961 he married\, and with his wife Mélissa began translating American crime fiction—he would go on to translate the works of such writers as Donald Westlake\, Ross Thomas\, and Margaret Millar\, often for Gallimard’s Série noire. Throughout the 1960s Manchette supported himself with various jobs writing television scripts\, screenplays\, young-adult books\, and film novelizations. In 1971 he published his first novel\, a collaboration with Jean-Pierre Bastid\, and embarked on his literary career in earnest\, producing ten subsequent works over the course of the next two decades and establishing a new genre of French novel\, the néo-polar (distinguished from traditional detective novel\, or polar\, by its political engagement and social radicalism). Manchette had been as equally influenced by the work of Guy Debord and the Situationists as he had by Dashiel Hammett. During the 1980s\, Manchette published celebrated translations of Alan Moore’s Watchmen graphic novels for a bande-dessinée publishing house co-founded by his son\, Doug Headline. In addition to Fatale\, Ivory Pearl\, and The Mad and the Bad\, Manchette’s novels Three to Kill and The Prone Gunman\, as well as Jacques Tardi’s graphic-novel adaptations of them (titled West Coast Blues and Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot\, respectively)\, are available in English. \nBorn in Manchester\, England\, Donald Nicholson-Smith is a longtime resident of New York City. A sometime Situationist  (1965-67)\, he has translated Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle (Zone) and Henri Lefebvre’s The Production of Space (Blackwell)\, as well as works by Guillaume Apollinaire\, Antonin Artaud\, Jean-Patrick Manchette\, Thierry Jonquet\, Paco Ignacio Taibo II\, etc. His film work includes the English-language version of René Viénet’s anti-Maoist classic Peking Duck Soup(1977). \nJames Brook is a poet and the principal editor of Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information (City Lights) and the translator of many works\, including My Tired Father by Gellu Naum and Panegyric by Guy Debord. He translated Jean Patrick Manchette’s The Prone Gunman for City Lights Books. \nPraise for Ivory Pearl and the work of Jean-Patrick Manchette: \nIvory Pearl is the kind of bold female that Virginia of Black Wings Has My Angel or my own Perdita Durango might have become had their lives taken a different turn. Manchette sets Ivory Pearl loose in perilous 1950s Cuba and smartly allows her to survive\, a master stroke by a daring\, innovative writer.\n—Barry Gifford \nThe opening chapter in particular is as sharp and brutal as anything Manchette wrote\, including his masterpiece\, The Prone Gunman. The obsessive details…might make even Ian Fleming feel uninformed…Noir fans won’t want to miss this one.\n—Publishers Weekly \nIn his final\, unfinished novel\, available for the first time in English\, Manchette departs from crime fiction—but not extreme violence—to deliver a saga of high adventure…Thanks to New York Review Books’ translations\, the English-speaking world has a generous sampling of [Manchette’s] unique fiction to enjoy. Idiosyncratic French novelist Manchette…went out in style. Short but sprawling\, the novel packs a mean punch.\n—Kirkus Reviews \n[Manchette’s] writing is lean and relentless.\n—David L. Ulin\, Los Angeles Times \nIn France\, which long ago embraced American crime fiction\, thrillers are referred to as polars. And in France the godfather and wizard of polars is Jean-Patrick Manchette…. [H]e’s a massive figure…. There is gristle here\, there is bone.\n—The Boston Globe \nManchette is legend among all of the crime writers I know\, and with good reason: His novels never fail to stun and thrill from page one.\n—Duane Swierczynski\, author of Expiration Date \nManchette called crime novels ‘the great moral literature of our time.’ Manchette pushes the Situationist strategy of derive and détournement to the point of comic absurdity\, throwing a wrench into the workings of his main characters’ lives and gleefully recording the anarchy that results.\n—Jennifer Howard\, Boston Review \nNew York Review Books also publishes: \nFatale – by Jean Patrick Manchette\, afterward by Jean Echenoz\, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith \nThe Mad and the Bad – by Jean Patrick Manchette – introduction by James Sallis\, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Sm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/toward-a-calculus-of-transgression-appreciating-jean-patrick-manchette/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:3 + 3: A Collaboration Between 3 Poets & 3 Musicians
DESCRIPTION:Three musician-poet pairs each perform a set—one new poem inspired by an original song\, one new song inspired by an original poem\, and one piece of pure collaboration. \nFEATURING:\nHeather Bourbeau – poet\nRaman Osman – musician\nMaw Shein Win – poet\nEvan Karp – musician\nNick Johnson – poet\nArula – musician \nABOUT THE ARTISTS:\nHeather Bourbeau’s writing has been published in Alaska Quarterly Review\, Eleven Eleven\, Francis Ford Coppola Winery’s Chalkboard\, The Stockholm Review of Literature\, and the anthology Nothing Short Of 100: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was a contributing writer for Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond with Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. \nRaman Osman is a Kurdish composer and master tembûr (saz) musician from Al-Hasaka\, Syria. In his early age\, he was exposed to a variety of music and cultural sources like Kurdish\, Persian\, Arabic\, Turkish\, Armenian\, Assyrian\, and more. Osman has performed at a variety of venues\, including the Damascus Opera House\, several universities in Syria\, and throughout the Bay Area. \nMaw Shein Win‘s writing has appeared in many journals and several anthologies\, including MARY: A Journal of New Writing\, Cimarron Review\, and Poetry International. Win’s most recent poetry chapbook is Score and Bone (Nomadic Press)\, and her new full-length collection Invisible Gifts: Poems (Manic D Press) was a City Lights Books bestselling paperback. She is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito. \nEvan Karp is the creator and executive director of Quiet Lightning\, founding editor of Litseen\, and half of Turk & Divis—a musical collaboration with his brother Miles. He developed the interdisciplinary performance series Under the Influence and Call and Response\, as well as the interview profile series The Write Stuff. \nNick Johnson was born and raised near the brackish Chesapeake Bay but now calls the Bay Area waters home. He received his MFA from the California College of the Arts. Johnson’s work has been featured on KPFA’s Rude Awakening and has appeared in The Cincinnati Review\, Black Renaissance Noire\, Eleven Eleven\, Metazen\, and other fine journals. His book\, music for mussolini\, was released by Nomadic Press in 2016 and was a finalist for the 2017 CLMP Firecracker Award. \nArula has been singing and composing songs since childhood. She views sound and movement as sacred expressions of a universal language—a language that connects\, empowers\, and unites people from all backgrounds. Music and dance have been central themes in her life; of all her gurus\, they are the most revered teachers. With haunting vocals amid sensual beats\, Arula creates a cohesive yet dynamic spectrum of sound. Her music is a rich interplay of her many influences; her sultry vocals and downtempo melodies take and hold shape as they blend with global music rhythms and become ancestral and grounded while dancing over trap and hip-hop beats. \n  \n3 + 3: A Collaboration Between 3 Poets & 3 Musicians
URL:https://litseen.com/event/3-3-a-collaboration-between-3-poets-3-musicians/
LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:3 + 3: A Collaboration Between 3 Poets & 3 Musicians
DESCRIPTION:Three musician-poet pairs each perform a set—one new poem inspired by an original song\, one new song inspired by an original poem\, and one piece of pure collaboration. \nFEATURING:\nHeather Bourbeau – poet\nRaman Osman – musician\nMaw Shein Win – poet\nEvan Karp – musician\nNick Johnson – poet\nArula – musician \nABOUT THE ARTISTS:\nHeather Bourbeau’s writing has been published in Alaska Quarterly Review\, Eleven Eleven\, Francis Ford Coppola Winery’s Chalkboard\, The Stockholm Review of Literature\, and the anthology Nothing Short Of 100: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was a contributing writer for Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond with Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. \nRaman Osman is a Kurdish composer and master tembûr (saz) musician from Al-Hasaka\, Syria. In his early age\, he was exposed to a variety of music and cultural sources like Kurdish\, Persian\, Arabic\, Turkish\, Armenian\, Assyrian\, and more. Osman has performed at a variety of venues\, including the Damascus Opera House\, several universities in Syria\, and throughout the Bay Area. \nMaw Shein Win‘s writing has appeared in many journals and several anthologies\, including MARY: A Journal of New Writing\, Cimarron Review\, and Poetry International. Win’s most recent poetry chapbook is Score and Bone (Nomadic Press)\, and her new full-length collection Invisible Gifts: Poems (Manic D Press) was a City Lights Books bestselling paperback. She is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito. \nEvan Karp is the creator and executive director of Quiet Lightning\, founding editor of Litseen\, and half of Turk & Divis—a musical collaboration with his brother Miles. He developed the interdisciplinary performance series Under the Influence and Call and Response\, as well as the interview profile series The Write Stuff. \nNick Johnson was born and raised near the brackish Chesapeake Bay but now calls the Bay Area waters home. He received his MFA from the California College of the Arts. Johnson’s work has been featured on KPFA’s Rude Awakening and has appeared in The Cincinnati Review\, Black Renaissance Noire\, Eleven Eleven\, Metazen\, and other fine journals. His book\, music for mussolini\, was released by Nomadic Press in 2016 and was a finalist for the 2017 CLMP Firecracker Award. \nArula has been singing and composing songs since childhood. She views sound and movement as sacred expressions of a universal language—a language that connects\, empowers\, and unites people from all backgrounds. Music and dance have been central themes in her life; of all her gurus\, they are the most revered teachers. With haunting vocals amid sensual beats\, Arula creates a cohesive yet dynamic spectrum of sound. Her music is a rich interplay of her many influences; her sultry vocals and downtempo melodies take and hold shape as they blend with global music rhythms and become ancestral and grounded while dancing over trap and hip-hop beats.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/3-3-a-collaboration-between-3-poets-3-musicians-2/
LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays "Central America: Why the Surge in Asylum Seekers?"
DESCRIPTION:We have all seen the horrific recent images of children separated from parents at the U.S.-Mexico border and heard stories of people from Central American countries seeking asylum in the U.S. because of dangerous conditions back home. But what are those conditions and why have so many asylum seekers been coming of late? \nActivist Trebor Healey\, Professor Susanne Jonas\, and journalist Mary Jo McConahay will discuss this topic and read a bit of their writing on the issue Monday\, October 29\, 7pm at Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. Admission and refreshments are free. A book signing will follow the event. \nHere is more about the panelists:\nTrebor Healey is the recipient of a Lambda Literary award\, two Publishing Triangle awards and a Violet Quill award. He is the author of three novels\, a book of poetry and three collections of stories. He co-edited the anthologies Beyond Definition and Queer & Catholic. www.treborhealey.com. \nTrebor works for Scalabrinianas Mision Con Migrantes Y Refugiados\, which houses about 50 Central American refugees at a time for a period of 3 months and helps them gain asylum from the Mexican Government. https://www.facebook.com/Scalabrinianas-Misi%C3%B3n-con-Migrantes-y-Refugiados-1709823382589599/ \nSusanne Jonas has been an internationally recognized writer/expert on Latin America\, particularly Guatemala/ Central America\, for five decades. She has taught Latin American & Latino Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz for 24 years and received a Distinguished Teaching Award. Since 1967\, she has written and co-edited 22 books and over 100 articles and OpEds — many translated into Spanish. Her book Of Centaurs and Doves: Guatemala’s Peace Process was designated a Choice “Outstanding” book. Since the 1990s\, she is also a specialist on Central American migration and broader Latino immigration issues\, and co-authored Guatemala-U.S. Migration: Transforming Regions (2014). She collaborates with Latin American colleagues and U.S.-based Latino community rights organizations. Her colleagues have honored her long writing/advocacy career at conferences in Latin America and the U.S. \nMary Jo McConahay is an award-winning reporter who covered the wars in Central America and economics in the Middle East. As a journalist\, her work has appeared in Time\, Newsweek\, Vogue\, Rolling Stone\, Ms.\, Salon\, Sierra\, Los Angeles Times Magazine\, Parenting\, The Progressive\, National Catholic Reporter\, and more than two dozen other magazines and periodicals. Most recently\, she has written on emotional border issues for The Texas Observer. Her books include Maya Roads: One Woman’s Journey among the People of the Rainforest\, Ricochet: Two Women War Reporters and a Friendship under Fire\, and the just-released The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts\, Minds and Riches of Latin America during World War II. Maya Roads received the Northern California Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. She covers Latin America as an independent journalist.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-central-america-why-the-surge-in-asylum-seekers/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: Anne-Marie Kinney / Coldwater Canyon
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Los Angeles-based Anne-Marie Kinney (Radio Iris) for her new novel Colwater Canyon. More details to be announced — please save the date and join us! \n  \nShep has been dealt a bad hand in life. Halfheartedly raised by a cold grandmother and chronically ill following his deployment in Desert Storm\, he self-medicates with alcohol and daydreams of salvation at the hands of women—ultimately landing on one woman in particular: Lila\, the young actress he believes is his daughter despite all evidence to the contrary. As Shep navigates the mystically rendered streets and strip malls of the San Fernando Valley with his only companion\, his dog Lionel\, he takes increasingly desperate measures to insinuate himself into her life. Kinney’s precise and considered prose examines the insistence on reshaping the past through the lens of one’s own trauma and conceived desires as a means of moving forward. Why do we so often look for solace and redemption through others\, pushing ourselves to do anything for them\, even when it harms everyone involved? \n  \n\n  \n“Hot\, gritty\, swirling\, hypnotic and sensual… an unhinged\, sweetly sinister sun-baked noir; all danger\, doomed love\, and compassion.” – Ben Loory\, author of Tales of Falling and Flying \n  \n“A stunning journey through the hard-beating heart of a California everyone needs to see and know\, and now they can through Anne-Marie Kinney’s evocative\, heartbreaking\, hopeful and hilarious novel. Her landscape is singular\, and her voice a welcome new addition to American fiction. I loved this book – and the people\, and dog\, in it.” – Susan Straight\, author of Highwire Moon and Between Heaven and Here \n  \n“Kinney’s beautiful writing propels this story of a traumatized Nebraska man navigating the diffuse loneliness of Los Angeles. Coldwater Canyon is haunting.” – J. Ryan Stradal\, author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest \n  \n\n  \nAnne-Marie Kinney is the author of two novels\, Radio Iris (2012\, Two Dollar Radio) and Coldwater Canyon (forthcoming from CCM in 2018). A New York Times Editor’s Choice pick\, Radio Iris was called “a spiky debut” and “‘The Office’ as scripted by Kafka” by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Her shorter work has been published in journals including Joyland\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, The Rattling Wall\, The Collagist\, Fanzine and Black Clock\, for which she also served as Production Editor from 2011-2016. She lives in Los Angeles. \n  \n  \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. \nRSVP is appreciated\, but not required. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-anne-marie-kinney-coldwater-canyon/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Juliana Spahr
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nDu Bois’s Telegram : Literary Resistance and State Containment \npublished by Harvard U. Press \n\nIn 1956 W. E. B. Du Bois was denied a passport to attend the Présence Africaine Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Paris. So he sent the assembled a telegram. “Any Negro-American who travels abroad today must either not discuss race conditions in the United States or say the sort of thing which our State Department wishes the world to believe.” Taking seriously Du Bois’s allegation\, Juliana Spahr breathes new life into age-old questions as she explores how state interests have shaped U.S. literature. What is the relationship between literature and politics? Can writing be revolutionary? Can art be autonomous\, or is escape from nations and nationalisms impossible? \nDu Bois’s Telegram brings together a wide range of institutional forces implicated in literary production\, paying special attention to three eras of writing that sought to defy political orthodoxies by contesting linguistic conventions: avant-garde modernism of the early twentieth century; social-movement writing of the 1960s and 1970s; and\, in the twenty-first century\, the profusion of English-language works incorporating languages other than English. Spahr shows how these literatures attempted to assert their autonomy\, only to be shut down by FBI harassment or coopted by CIA and State Department propagandists. Liberal state allies such as the Ford and Rockefeller foundations made writers complicit by funding multiculturalist works that celebrated diversity and assimilation while starving radical anti-imperial\, anti-racist\, anti-capitalist efforts. \nSpahr does not deny the exhilarations of politically engaged art. But her study affirms a sobering reality: aesthetic resistance is easily domesticated. \nJuliana Spahr is Professor of English at Mills College. She is the author of eight volumes of poetry\, including The Winter the Wolf Came\, Well Then There Now\, and Response\, winner of the National Poetry Series Award. She is also the editor\, with Claudia Rankine\, of American Women Poets in the 21st Century and received the O. B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library. \n\nWhat has been said about Du Bois’s Telegram: \n“This book is thrilling. Spahr develops a truly original\, even clarion\, account of the relationship of social movements\, avant-garde and politically charged writing\, and the foreign policy arm of the U.S. A great deal of the power of Du Bois’s Telegram has to do with the way it makes totally unexpected connections among separate discourses\, and makes the connections seem necessary and obvious\, at a stroke. It is common to praise a book for being potentially field-changing; this book suggests the possibility of changing several fields.“—Christopher Nealon\, Johns Hopkins University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/juliana-spahr-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kim Adrian discusses her new memoir\, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet with Amy Wallen
DESCRIPTION:Kim Adrian discusses her new memoir\, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet with Amy Wallen. \n\nPraise for The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet \n\n“A stunning merger of form and content; a remarkable portrait-becomes-self-portrait; andsomething like a master class in complicity.”—David Shields\, author of Reality Hunger \n\n“The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet is a revelation. By structuring the book in the unconventional form of a glossary\, Adrian allows the reader into the very intimate mechanics of her memory. Each page I read pulled me deeper under the book’s peculiar spell. Through Adrian’s rigorous attention to detail I found myself involuntarily drawn into her perspective\, both as a child and a grown woman\, hungry to make sense of this troubled family and this vibrantly unstable mother.”—Alysia Abbott\, author of Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father \n\n“This is desperately serious work\, an exacting memoir that excavates\, with compassion for all involved\, the harrowingly repetitive patterns of abuse as well as moments of something like hope\, crushable and delicate\, thwarted\, and yet renewable. An agonized\, beautiful\, unflinching account.” —Lee Upton\, author of Visitations: Stories \n\nAbout The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet \n\nClear-sighted\, darkly comic\, and tender\, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet is about a daughter’s struggle to face the Medusa of generational trauma without turning to stone. Growing up in the New Jersey suburbs of the 1970s and 1980s in a family warped by mental illness\, addiction\, and violence\, Kim Adrian spent her childhood ducking for cover from an alcoholic father prone to terrifying acts of rage and trudging through a fog of confusion with her mother\, a suicidal incest survivor hooked on prescription drugs. Family memories were buried–even as they were formed–and truth was obscured by lies and fantasies. \nIn The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet Adrian tries to make peace with this troubled past by cataloguing memories\, anecdotes\, and bits of family lore in the form of a glossary. But within this strategic reckoning of the past\, the unruly present carves an unpredictable path as Adrian’s aging mother plunges into ever-deeper realms of drug-fueled paranoia. Ultimately\, the glossary’s imposed order serves less to organize emotional chaos than to expose difficult but necessary truths\, such as the fact that some problems simply can’t be solved\, and that loving someone doesn’t necessarily mean saving them. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-adrian-discusses-her-new-memoir-the-twenty-seventh-letter-of-the-alphabet-with-amy-wallen/
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:Shipwreck Presents: Stephen King's Greatest Hits
DESCRIPTION:Strap in for six of Stephen Kings terrifyingest\, coke-iest\, popular-iest books: The Shining\, Misery\, Carrie\,It\, Christine\, and\, of course\, his seminal text on craft\, On Writing. \nFeatured writers TBA. \n$12 advance\, $15 door\, ticket includes *open bar* for 21+\, and admission to the afterparty at The Alembic (1725 Haight). Seats tend to sell out fast; we encourage you to buy early. \nPlease remember: Shipwreck tickets are non-transferable and non-refundable. Tickets on sale now. \n— \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. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-presents-stephen-kings-greatest-hits/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Adam Hochschild
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nLessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays \npublished by University of California Press \nIn this rich collection\, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all is his concern for social justice and the people who have fought for it. The articles here range from a California gun show to a Finnish prison\, from a Congolese center for rape victims to the ruins of gulag camps in the Soviet Arctic\, from a stroll through construction sites with an ecologically pioneering architect in India to a day on the campaign trail with Nelson Mandela. Hochschild also talks about the writers he loves\, from Mark Twain to John McPhee\, and explores such far-reaching topics as why so much history is badly written\, what bookshelves tell us about their owners\, and his front-row seat for the shocking revelation in the 1960s that the CIA had been secretly controlling dozens of supposedly independent organizations. \nWith the skills of a journalist\, the knowledge of a historian\, and the heart of an activist\, Hochschild shares the stories of people who took a stand against despotism\, spoke out against unjust wars and government surveillance\, and dared to dream of a better and more just world. \nAdam Hochschild is a journalist and author who has written on issues of human rights and social justice. His books include the bestselling King Leopold’s Ghost. He has been a finalist twice for the National Book Critics Circle Award and once for the National Book Award. He has been awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and is a two-time recipient of the Gold Medal of the California Book Awards. \nWhat has been said about the work of Adam Hochschild: \n“Adam Hochschild’s brilliant and sprawling books on inhumanity and injustice have made him an international treasure. Now\, with Lessons from a Dark Time\, we have Hochschild in more bite-sized (well\, meal-sized) form. His journalism ranges widely\, literally around the world\, but it’s always written with the same careful craft and indignant eloquence that we’ve come to admire so much.”—Jeffrey Toobin\, author of American Heiress; staff writer\, New Yorker;and chief legal analyst\, CNN \n“This book reveals Adam Hochschild’s journalism in all its glory. His facts are like jewels\, luminous in their importance. As a reporter and historian\, he turns facts into stories so dynamic and vivid that I couldn’t put the book down. This is important work by a gifted writer at the top of his game.”—Elizabeth Farnsworth\, author\, filmmaker\, former chief correspondent\, PBS NewsHour \n“Lessons From a Dark Time is an elegant collection that showcases all of Adam Hochschild’s singular talents as a master essayist\, historian\, literary critic\, and narrative writer. In search of a fair and humane world\, he tackles big issues of social injustice by focusing on particular people\, giving us their lives and travails with the grace and nuance of a wise storyteller. These pieces are special and enduring—a chronicle of our time\, past and present\, told always on an intimate human scale.”—Barry Siegel\, Pulitzer Prize winner; Director\, Literary Journalism Program\, University of California\, Irvine \n“Lessons from a Dark Time offers us an inspiring but clear-eyed perspective on what has been—and what can be—accomplished through resistance\, persistence\, and vision. A wonderful book for our time.”—Eric Stover\, Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center at the University of California\, Berkeley and coauthor of Hiding in Plain Sight: The Pursuit of War Criminals from Nuremberg to the War on Terror \n“One wanders through this collection like the proverbial kid in a candy store. All the essential issues of our time are here\, from colonialism to surveillance to development to McCarthyism to the life of the revolutionary\, all shaped brilliantly into unforgettable stories\, all brightly illuminated by Hochschild’s bracing intelligence and sparkling prose. Start at Kerala or the Congo and finish in Catalonia or Berkeley. Dip in here and there\, or read straight from first page to last. Whatever path you take\, Lessons from a Dark Time is a delightful\, vital book.”—Mark Danner\, author of Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War \n“These timely\, trenchant essays offer a concentrated sample of Adam Hochschild’s unique gift for illuminating the history of present-day moral conflicts. Their range is amazing\, from the Congo to Siberia to Berkeley\, but they are united by Hochschild’s wry\, compassionate sensibility and voice.”—Robert Worth\, author of A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil\, from Tahrir Square to ISIS \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adam-hochschild-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sally McGrane
DESCRIPTION:Sally McGrane\n\n\nClement: Sally McGrane\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, November 1\, 2018 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will be held at our Clement St. location. \nSally McGrane discusses her new novel\, Moscow at Midnight. \n\nPraise for Moscow at Midnight \n\n“Everyone’s talking about Russia but this is a book that really takes you there\, a crime thriller with a truly documentary eye\, full of insights about Russian people\, politics and culture- while never failing to intrigue and excite.” —Peter Pomerantsev\, author of Nothing is True and Everything is Possible \n\n“A worthy successor to John le Carré . . . A fast-paced spy thriller\, full of unexpected twists and turns.” —Buchbord  \n\n“Great! Tense right up to the final page . . . A multi-layered\, thrilling novel that is difficult to resist and hard to put down\, even at the end.” —Süddeutsche Zeitung \n\nAbout Moscow at Midnight \n\nDownsized by the CIA\, Max Rushmore is re-hired by a private contractor—operating on a tightened budget in a world of ratcheting tensions—to return to Moscow and investigate the death of a beautiful nuclear waste disposal expert. But Max\, whose non-transferable skills include never having met a Russian he couldn’t drink under the table\, soon uncovers all sorts of inconsistencies: could it be that she is not dead at all? So begins a game of cat-and-mouse that takes the agent across Russia as he follows his only clue: a rare Siberian diamond. With all the breathless tension of classic espionage novels\, Moscow at Midnight is both humorous and utterly enthralling—a fast-paced page-turner of the old school. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sally-mcgrane/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:9th Ave: Anita Felicelli and Peg Alford Pursell
DESCRIPTION:Anita Felicelli discusses her debut story collection\, Love Songs for a Lost Continent with Peg Alford Pursell. \n\nPraise for Love Songs for a Lost Continent \n\n“Love Songs for a Lost Continent is an expansive\, inventive meditation on the shifting landscape of identity\, on how people can be shaped and reshaped by violence and power and love. Anita Felicelli has a singular eye for the moments that transfigure lives\, and this tremendous debut collection announces the arrival of a stunning new voice.”– Laura van den Berg\, author of The Third Hotel \n  \n“Love Songs for a Lost Continent is the kind of work that we all need to be reading right now. Filled with heart and heat\, these beautiful stories pursue and reinvent ideas of home and self in ways that push our national conversation on identity.”- Bich Minh Nguyen\, author of Pioneer Girl and Stealing Buddha’s Dinner \n  \n“[This is] the book we needed to read yesterday… a book we will still be reading tomorrow.”- Porochista Khakpour\, author of Sick and Sons and Other Flammable Objects \n\nAbout Love Songs for a Lost Continent \n\nAnita Felicelli’s debut collection delivers a dazzling array of precisely drawn characters searching for identity in the seemingly narrow spaces of their everyday lives. \n  \nFrom the glittering heat of India to the palm-lined streets of Silicon Valley\, the backwoods of Kentucky to the vanilla-bean fields of Madagascar\, immigrants\, daughters\, and lovers explore what it means to lose and to love\, to continually reinvent oneself while honoring the personal histories and lost continents that shape us all.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-ave-anita-felicelli-and-peg-alford-pursell/
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:great weather for MEDIA Book Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the publication of great sweather for MEDIA’s latest anthology\, Suitcase of Chrysanthemums and meet an indie press looking for new voices. \nFeaturing contributors and special guests Zoë Christopher\, Kit Kennedy\, Calder G. Lorenz\, Richard Loranger\, Mary Mackey\, and William Taylor Jr.\, plus editors David Lawton and Jane Ormerod. \nSuitcase of Chrysanthemums is an exhilarating collection of contemporary poetry and fiction from established and emerging writers across the United States and beyond. Submissions for our next anthology are open until January 15 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/great-weather-for-media-book-release-party/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Humanities West presents Late Czarist Russian Artistic Brilliance
DESCRIPTION:Nov 2\, 7:30-9:30pm\, and Nov 3\, 10am-4pm \nLate Czarist Russian Artistic Brilliance is a two-day program of lectures\, discussions\, and musical performances exploring the enduring contributions of Russian art\, music\, and literature created during the twilight years of Czarist Russia. \nThe phrase “European with Asian characteristics” expresses an continuing fascination with the prolific contributions to world culture created during the late 1800’s by Russian artists\, including the music of Tchaikovsky\, Scriabin\, Rachmaninoff\, Stravinsky\, and Prokofiev; the artwork of Kramskoy\, Repin\, and Levitan; and the writings of Pushkin\, Gogol\, Turgenev\, Tolstoy\, Dostoevsky\, and Chekhov. This program will examine the cultural and historical influences that helped Russians\, and then the rest of the West\, to recognize and to reward the gifts of these Russian artists. \nThe Friday evening program opens with A Russian Success Story\, a lecture/performance by Robert Greenberg\, confirming the emergence of a concert music tradition in 19th-century Russia as one of the great success stories in the history of European art. Russia began the 19th century with virtually no native tradition of concert\, or “literate music.” This talk shows how\, by the end of the century\, Russia was able to export music across the globe and boast two of the world’s greatest schools of music\, while producing composers who would change the nature of European literate music. \nSaturday presenters are Luba Golburt (UC Berkeley) with a presentation on Pushkin or Gogol: Two Blueprints for 19th-Century Russian Literature\, Gary Hamburg (Claremont-McKenna College) with Dostoevsky and the Golden Age of Russian Literature\, and Molly Brunson (Yale) on Painting the Russian Word. \nThe program includes a musical performance introduced by Clifford ‘Kip’ Cranna (SF Opera). Excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s brilliant operatic setting of Pushkin’s verse novel Eugene Onegin will be performed by soprano Rhoslyn Jones and baritone Eugene Brancoveanu. \n$25-$80. \nPresented by Humanities West.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/humanities-west-presents-late-czarist-russian-artistic-brilliance/
LOCATION:Marines’ Memorial Club\, 609 Sutter St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Silent Book Club SF
DESCRIPTION:Bring a book\, bring a friend\, and join us at the Bindery for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club\, there’s no assigned reading. All books and all ages are welcome. \n  \nWe’ll kick off introvert happy hour at 4pm with some light chatter and informal book recommendations before settling in to read quietly\, but if you’d rather just pull up a chair and read\, by all means do so. No one will be shushed or shamed. The bar will be open for late afternoon libations. \n  \nHappy reading and hope to see you there! \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-silent-book-club-sf/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays "Talking About Theatre with Lily Janiak & Joel Mullennix"
DESCRIPTION:Theatre lovers everywhere! Come by Folio Books\, 3957 24th St.\, Monday\, November 5 at 7pm for a special treat. Maxine Einhorn will be speaking with critic Lily Janiak and director/actor Joel Mullennix about their individual perspectives on theatre at Odd Mondays’ “Talking About Theatre.” Janiak is the theatre critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. Mullennix is a director and performer at the Word for Word Performing Arts Company in San Francisco. How does a professional reviewer/critic watch and evaluate a production? How and why does the director choose to work with a particular play? How does the performer get into character? Bring questions and hear about upcoming Bay Area productions. Free admission. Free refreshments. \nABOUT THE PANELISTS:\nLily Janiak joined the San Francisco Chronicle as theater critic in May 2016. Previously\, her writing appeared in Theatre Bay Area\, American Theatre\, SF Weekly\, the Village Voice\, and HowlRound. She holds a B.A. in theater studies from Yale and an M.A. in drama from San Francisco State University. \nJoel Mullennix is a performer and director with numerous performance credits\, especially with Word for Word Performing Arts Company\, both at the Magic Theater and Z Space in San Francisco. He won the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for directing Olive Kitteridge and has directed numerous Word for Word productions\, such as Stories by Alice Munro\, Which is More Than I Can Say About Some People\, and most recently Deep Kiss by Tobias Wolff at Word for Word’s 25-Year Anniversary Performance at Z Space. \nMaxine Einhorn is a Londoner\, an educator\, having lectured and managed a department in colleges in inner London for over 25 years before coming to San Francisco and joining the Education Department at KQED Public Media. She has a B.A. in History from the University of Sussex and an M.A. in Film and TV from the University of London and has taught film studies\, communications\, and media literacy. She has researched and written education guides for independent film productions in London and San Francisco and\, now retired\, is a senior programmer with the Mostly British Film Festival.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-talking-about-theatre-with-lily-janiak-joel-mullennix/
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-19/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tim Mohr in conversation with Penelope Houston
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by Rock ‘n Roll Book Club in conjunction with City Lights and Algonquin Books \ncelebrating the release of \n\nBurning Down the Haus: Punk Rock\, Revolution\, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall \nby Tim Mohr \nPublished by Algonquin Books \n\nIt began with a handful of East Berlin teens who heard the Sex Pistols on a British military radio broadcast to troops in West Berlin in 1980\, and it ended with the collapse of the East German dictatorship. Punk rock was a life-changing discovery. The buzz-saw guitars\, the messed-up clothing and hair\, the rejection of society and the DIY approach to building a new one: In their gray surroundings\, where everyone’s future was preordained by some communist apparatchik\, punk represented a revolutionary philosophy—quite literally\, as it turned out. \nBut as the East German punks became more numerous\, more visible\, and more rebellious\, security forces—including the dreaded secret police\, the Stasi—targeted them. They were spied on by friends and even members of their own families; they were expelled from schools and jobs; they were beaten by police and imprisoned. Instead of backing down\, the punks fought back\, playing an indispensable role in the underground movements that helped bring down the Berlin Wall. \nThe story of East German punk rock is about much more than music; it is a story of extraordinary bravery in the face of one of the most oppressive regimes in history. Rollicking\, cinematic\, deeply researched\, highly readable\, and thrillingly topical\, Burning Down the Haus brings to life the young men and women who successfully fought authoritarianism three chords at a time—and is a fiery testament to the irrepressible spirit of resistance. \nTim Mohr is an award-winning literary translator of authors such as Alina Bronsky\, Wolfgang Herrndorf\, and Charlotte Roche. He has also collaborated on memoirs by musicians Gil Scott-Heron\, Duff McKagan of Guns n’ Roses\, and Paul Stanley of KISS. His own writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review\, New York Magazine\, and Inked\, among other publications\, and he spent several years as a staff editor at Playboy magazine\, where he edited Hunter S. Thompson\, John Dean\, and Harvey Pekar\, among others. Prior to starting his writing career he earned his living as a club DJ in Berlin. \nPenelope Houston is one of the pioneering women of American punk music. As the lead singer and songwriter for the seminal San Francisco Punk band The Avengers\, she trailblazed the first wave of American punk influencing many future musicians. Music critic Greil Marcus described The Avengers as “San Francisco’s best punk band – in their moments\, they were\, you knew\, better than any other band playing that night anywhere in the world.” Penelope’s later solo forays into acoustic and electric music blended the influences of punk\, folk\, rock\, blues and americana leading to the release of over 11 albums. She makes her home in San Francisco. \nAbout the Rock ‘n Roll Book Club \nAdvance praise for Burning Down the Haus: \n“The Best Punk Book since Please Kill Me.”\n—Legs McNeil\, author of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk \n“Burning Down the Haus is not just an immersion into the punk rock scene of East Berlin\, it’s the story of the cultural and political battles that have shaped the world we live in today.  Tim Mohr delivers the soundtrack for the revolution that we’ve all been waiting for.”\n—DW Gibson\, author of The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the Twenty-First Century \n“In East Germany\, where non-conformity meant jail time\, punks’ ripped clothes and spiked hair were a show of courage and defiance. Squatting in derelict apartments and burning their lyrics before the secret police could get ahold of them\, these teenagers wrote the soundtrack for a rebellion that helped bring down the Berlin Wall. Tim Mohr tells the story of their DIY revolution with the thoroughness of a historian and the panache of a cultural insider. Burning Down the Haus is a riveting cultural history that also serves as a rallying call against authoritarianism everywhere.”\n—Ruth Franklin\, author of the NBCC Award-winning Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life \n“The true story of how teenage kicks turned into political opposition. With meticulous research and impassioned prose\, Tim Mohr brings to life the saga of a bunch of East German punk rock kids who broke the state that wanted to break them. A book to warm an old punk’s heart.”\n—Claire Dederer\, author of Love and Trouble \n“Equal parts terrifying and exhilarating\, Burning Down the House is a fabulously alive history of punk rock behind the Iron Curtain\, where simply dressing like a punk could get you hauled in by Stasi\, the dreaded East German secret police. Mohr ties the fearless music-driven resistance to authoritarianism and mass surveillance in the 1980s to our current fraught times\, showing how even the most formidable forms of oppression can be shaken by highly motivated\, creative kids with riotous rage and a driving beat. A thrilling\, inspiring read.”\n—Rob Spillman\, editor of Tin House and author of All Tomorrow’s Parties \n“An appealing\, lively cultural history worth reading in an era of corporate punk nostalgia.”\n—Kirkus Reviews \n“You say you want a revolution? Tim Mohr’s spellbinding Burning Down the Haus reveals how a bunch of young East German punks in the 1980s made their wild music into a clarion loud enough to topple the Berlin Wall. With a sharp eye for the prosaic brutality of the repressive state and an ear locked on the furies in the music\, Mohr has crafted an unforgettable story that is part cultural history\, part political thriller and entirely true.”\n—Peter Ames Carlin\, author of Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon \n“Berlin has always been a crazy city\, and a dramatic stage for the epic struggle between powerful ideological forces and the individual desire to be free. In case you weren’t sure just how political music\, fashion\, and a certain attitude can be: read this book. Burning Down the Haus is wonderful.”\n—Norman Ohler\, author of Blitzed \n“This is a crazily inspiring\, strange\, beautiful story that deserves to be remembered\, and Mohr is a wonderfully compassionate writer. What a combination!”\n—Johann Hari\, NYT bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections \n“Tim Mohr’s book details a fascinating period of time in the history of punk music. I am so glad he documented that moment in history for punk rock and for the world.”\n—Greg Gaffin\, singer/songwriter for Bad Religion and author of Population Wars and Anarchy Evolution
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tim-mohr-in-conversation-with-penelope-houston/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning
DESCRIPTION:On November 5\, Quiet Lightning returns for a series of 9 surprises: \nPeter Bullen\nShirley Huey\nFernando Meisenhalter\nMaia Bull\nCassandra Dallett\nSarah Henry\nSean Taylor\nPaolo Bicchieri\nBrian Kirven \n  \nThis is a FREE\, all-ages show! WHERE IS IT? Ok ok: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou get it: Cupid’s Span in Rincon Park!!! \nMonday\, November 5\, 2018\nReadings begin at 7:30pm \nBut come early\, bring some dinner or a drink if you want\, it’s turn back the clock the night before so sunset will be *just after 5pm* … let’s do this together\, taking in the Bay Lights with a monster mixtape! \nThe first 100 people will receive a book featuring all of the selected writing and photography by Evan Karp. \nRSVP / invite a friend
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-5/
LOCATION:RIncon Rark\, The Embarcadero & Folsom St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:election Night with ZYZZYVA
DESCRIPTION:Election Night with Zyzzyva\nHosted by Oscar Villalon\, ZYZZYVA Managing Editor \nwith Nestor Gomez\, Matthew Zapruder\, Caille Millner\, Dean Rader\, Ismail Muhammad\, Vanessa Hua\, and D.A. Powell \nCome join a roster of ZYZZYVA contributors and friends of the journal as we follow the returns on the various congressional elections around the country and in our state. Featuring short readings spread out through the night. \nIssue No 13 – Of & About the Environment (the fall 2018 installement of Zyzzyva) will be on hand for sale that evening. \nThe issue includes work by: \nHéctor Tobar on living in Los Angeles\, before and after air quality regulations; Lauret Edith Savoy traces “the geology of us”; Juli Berwald on “the blob\,” the mysterious oceanic phenomenon that left destruction in its wake; Obi Kaufmann on the importance of reframing the language of conservation. \nArundhati Roy discusses with John Freeman her work as an activist and a writer\, and examines the great danger before us all. \nPoems by Jane Hirshfield\, John Sibley Williams\, Rebecca Foust\, Daniel Neff\, Maggie Millner\, Sophie Klahr\, and Emily Pinkerton. \nFiction by Ben Lasman (ceding the field of work to the robots)\, Manuel Muñoz (the vulnerability of those who work our fields)\, and Louis B. Jones (the tea compost isn’t the only rancidness found living off the grid). \nAnd More Fiction and Poetry: \nStories by Emma Copley Eisenberg\, Elena Graceffa\, and\, marking his First-Time-in-Print\, David Paul; poetry by Ruth Madievsky\, Jennie Malboeuf\, and Paul Wilner. \nArt: Featuring Obi Kaufmann’s watercolors of California’s fauna and flora. \n \nZYZZYVA’s first issue was published in 1985\, under founding editor Howard Junker. In 2011\, Laura Cogan became ZYZZYVA’s first new editor in more than 25 years. She and Managing Editor Oscar Villalon make up ZYZZYVA’s editorial team. Every issue is a vibrant mix of established talents and new voices\, providing an elegantly curated overview of contemporary arts and letters with a distinctly San Francisco perspective. \nTheir publishing history is as illustrious as it is groundbreaking. This is the journal that first published Jim Gavin and Jill Soloway\, F.X. Toole and Po Bronson—and introduced American readers to Haruki Murakami (in issue No. 13). Their list of contributors includes\, among many others\, Peter Orner\, Kay Ryan\, David Guterson\, Tom Bissell\, Tatjana Soli\, Ron Carlson\, Luis Alberto Urrea\, Amy Hempel\, D.A. Powell\, Matthew Dickman\, Herbert Gold\, Daniel Sada\, Adam Johnson\, Karl Taro Greenfeld\, Sandow Birk\, Richard Misrach\, Aimee Bender\, Diego Enrique Osorno\, Sherman Alexie\, Daniel Handler\, Adrienne Rich\, Robert Hass\, Czeslaw Milosz\, Wanda Coleman\, Raymond Carver\, Tom Barbash\, William T. Vollmann\, Dagoberto Gilb\, Lawrence Ferlinghetti\, Ed Ruscha\, Richard Diebenkorn\, Ursula K. Le Guin\, Robert Creeley\, and M.F.K. Fisher. \nVisit: www.zyzzyva.org \nto learn more
URL:https://litseen.com/event/election-night-with-zyzzyva/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Caroline J Thibeaux
DESCRIPTION:Caroline J Thibeaux discusses her new book The Dragonglass Bowl: The Dream Walker’s Path. \n\nAbout The Dragonglass Bowl \n\nIs a dream a thing of Shadow or Light? \n\nIf you knew the truth would you dare to dream again? \n\nFor a thousand years the Light of Ashar has protected the land of Ellaria because the people of Ellaria have protected the secret\, forgotten through time\, of Dragonglass. \n\nAs an apprentice scribe\, all Bhryen ever wanted was to prove that his blood was true and that he served his land and his people with honor\, hoping to one day become a Defender of the Light. When he is drawn into the mystery of a strange artifact\, the safe world he knows starts to fall apart. His sleep becomes threatened by dreams\, dreams that are surely touched by a dark and forbidden magic. \n\nWhile the threat of war draws closer\, Bhryen is pulled into the center of this vortex of chaos\, all the while struggling to keep a dangerous knowledge he shares with only a fey\, young boy. The lives of those he loves depends on safeguarding the secret. \n\nA darkness stirs and\, despite the advice of well-meaning friends\, only Bhryen alone has the ability to find and stop it though it might risk discovery of what he has become. The price of becoming a hero is the risk of a fall from grace.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/caroline-j-thibeaux/
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:BOOKSMITH: Jesse Jarnow / Wasn't That a Time: The Weavers\, the Blacklist\, and the Battle for the Soul of America
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Jesse Jarnow (Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America) for his new book Wasn’t That a Time: The Weavers\, the Blacklist\, and the Battle for the Soul of America. Please join us! \n  \nFollowing a series of top 10 hits that became instant American standards\, the Weavers dissolved at the height of their fame. Wasn’t That a Time: The Weavers\, the Blacklist\, and the Battle for the Soul of America details the remarkable rise of Pete Seeger’s unlikely band of folk heroes\, from basement hootenannies to the top of the charts\, before a coordinated harassment campaign at the hands of Congress’s House Un-American Activities Committee and the emergent right-wing media saw them unable to find work and dropped by their label while their songs still hovered on Billboard’s lists. \nTurning the black-and-white 1950s into vivid color\, Wasn’t That a Time uses the Weavers to illuminate a dark and complex period of American history. Emerging while a highly divided populace was bombarded and further divided by fake news — and progressive organizations and individuals found themselves repressed under the pretenses of national security — the Weavers would rise\, fall\, and rise again. With origins in the radical folk collective the Almanac Singers and the ambitious People’s Songs\, both pioneering the use of music as a transformative political organizing tool\, the singing activists in the Weavers set out to change the world with songs as their weapons. \nUsing previously unseen journals and letters\, unreleased recordings\, once-secret government documents\, and other archival research\, veteran music journalist and WFMU DJ Jesse Jarnow uncovers the immense hopes\, incredible pressures\, and daily struggles of the four distinct and often unharmonious personalities at the heart of the Weavers. With a class and race-conscious global vision of music that now make them seem like time travelers from the 21st century\, the Weavers would transform material from American blues singer Lead Belly (“Goodnight Irene”)\, the Bahamas (“Wreck of the John B”)\, and South Africa (“Wimoweh”) into songs that remain ubiquitous from rock clubs to Broadway shows. \nFeaturing quotes about the Weavers’ influence from David Crosby\, the Beach Boys’ Al Jardine\, and the Byrds’ Roger McGuinn\, Wasn’t That a Time explores how the group’s innocent-sounding harmonies might be heard as a threat worthy of decades of investigation by the FBI — and how the band’s late ’50s reformation engendered a new generation of musicians to take up the Weavers’ non-violent weaponry: eclectic songs\, joyous harmonies\, and the power of music. \n  \n\n  \nJesse Jarnow is the author of Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock and Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America. His writing on music\, technology\, and culture has appeared in the New York Times\, Rolling Stone\, Pitchfork\, Relix\, Wired.com\, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn\, New York and hosts the Frow Showon the independent Jersey City radio station\, WFMU. \n\n\n  \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. \nRSVP is appreciated\, but not required.  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Wasn’t That a Time\, and/or any of Jesse’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-jesse-jarnow-wasnt-that-a-time-the-weavers-the-blacklist-and-the-battle-for-the-soul-of-america/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:George Albon in conversation with Maxwell Shanley
DESCRIPTION:George Albon in conversation with Maxwell Shanley \ncelebrating the release of Lyric Multiples: Aspiration\, Practice\, Immanence\, Migration \n\n\n\nfrom Nightboat Press \nA poet’s capacious and visionary sequence of essays exploring language and aesthetics in contemporary society \nLyric Multiples comprises four essays written over the last decade. The subject is poetry but the essays range over such topics as the evolution of the human call\, ascensional modes of thinking\, pop songs\, the built environment and its discontents\, the post-punk moment\, its fruitful aftermath\, and much else. Throughout this book\, Albon explores unencountered varieties of aesthetic experience and the contributions they make to an ideal of social interconnectivity. \nGeorge Albon’s most recent books are Fire Break\, winner of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Award for Poetry in 2014\, and Aspiration. He lives in San Francisco. \nMaxwell Shanley\, author of There Are Trees (Drop Leaf Press)\, is the Sales & Marketing Assistant at Stanford University Press and a former used book buyer at Green Apple Books & Music. He is currently completing an MFA at San Francisco State University\, where he formerly served as the Managing Editor of Fourteen Hills. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in New American Writing\, Berkeley Poetry Review\, DIAGRAM\, CutBank\, MIDTERM\, Border Crossing\, Camas: The Nature of the West\, Slipstream\, Transfer Magazine\, The Burden of Light: Poems on Illness and Loss\, Four Ties Lit Review\, and has been performed by Theatrikos Theatre Company. He lives in San Francisco. \nWhat has been said about the work of George Albon: \n“Lyric Multiples is a triumph from beginning to end—a miracle of sustained argument and elaboration. In a process of continuous vision and revision\, words and images appear\, return\, slip around the corners\, only to return again to form multivalent entrances to truth.” —Kevin Killian \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/george-albon-in-conversation-with-maxwell-shanley/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Micah Perks with Kate Schatz and Lucy Jane Bledsoe / True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening with Micah Perks for her linked story collection True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape. Joining here are Kate Schatz (Rad Girls Can) and Lucy Jane Bledsoe (Lava Falls). Save the date! \n  \n  \nMagical and funny\, profound and seductive\, the linked stories inTrue Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape explore the life-bending power of love. In these interwoven lives\, ardent desire meets a keen sense of reality deep in the heart of progressive California. When Sadie opens a funky bookstore in Santa Cruz\, she is swept off her feet by Daniel\, a true-blue romantic — athletic\, bookish\, from Santiago\, Chile. Their connection is heady and erotic\, and it echoes through the love lives around them: from Harry Houdini’s first encounter with the widow Winchester to the threatening intimacy between a wife and her brother to a grumpy teenager who inspires her divorced parents. Years later\, when Sadie and Daniel take an overdue trip to Paris\, their blended family doesn’t blend so well\, sending them back to rediscover their roots. In these interconnected lives\, the desire for passion is as strong as the desire to escape\, and the terror of claustrophobic connection competes with the deepest human yearning. An intoxicating look at the complexity and simplicity of embracing and running from love. By the award-winning author of What Becomes Us. \n  \n\n  \n“What an enticing cast of characters readers get to meet here! Micah Perks writes so well of love in many of its forms and stages\, and she populates her book with such a memorable crew. No one is exempt from struggle and disappointment\, and yet there is always a chance for transcendence\, too.” – Aimee Bender\, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake andThe Color Master \n  \n“A writer whose stories are endearingly hard headed and tender hearted\, and whose characters are so very alive that they practically escape off the page when you encounter them. This collection will cure what ails you.” – Kelly Link\, author of Get In Trouble and Pretty Monsters \n  \n“The stories in True Love connect in the most satisfying way. You begin with a journalist who interviewed Harry Houdini about his night with lost souls in the Winchester House\, a light story that gains weight from the six million Jews who did not escape. Then you have the chance to follow his granddaughter in her sad affair with a lover from Chile\, a legacy. The stories are about escape in the deepest ways\, from marriage and family and self and even from time and place\, and the writing is beautiful\, believable\, disorienting. Sit down and watch the show\, because I guarantee you don’t know what’s coming. . .” – David Vann\, author of Bright Air Black and Aquarium \n  \nMicah Perks grew up in a log cabin on a commune in the Adirondack wilderness. She is the author of two other novels\, What Becomes Us and We Are Gathered Here\, and a memoir\, Pagan Time. Her short stories and essays have won five Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in Epoch\, Zyzzyva\, Tin House\, The Toast\, OZY and The Rumpus\, amongst many journals and anthologies. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. More info and work at micahperks.com. \n  \nKate Schatz is the New York Times-bestselling author of Rad American Women A-Z\, Rad Women Worldwide\, Rad Girls Can\, and the illustrated journal My Rad Life. She’s a writer\, activist\, public speaker\, and educator\, who’s been passionate about both writing and politics since she was a kid. She’s a co-founder of Solidarity Sundays\, a nationwide network of feminist activist groups\, and she lives with her kids\, cats\, and partner on the island of Alameda. More at radgirlscan.com. \n  \nLucy Jane Bledsoe‘s most recent novel\, The Evolution of Love\, came out in May 2018\, and her collection of short fiction—a novella and stories at the intersection of wilderness\, family\, and survival—will be released in September 2018. Her work has won many awards\, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Literature\, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize\, the American Library Association Stonewall Award\, and two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships. \n  \n  \n\n  \n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of True Love and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-micah-perks-with-kate-schatz-and-lucy-jane-bledsoe-true-love-and-other-dreams-of-miraculous-escape/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:What Future 2018
DESCRIPTION:Co-editor Rose Eveleth\, and contributors Lauren Smiley\, and Annalee Newitz discuss What Future: The Year’s Best Ideas To Reclaim\, Reanimate And Reinvent Our Future. \n  \nRose Eveleth is a producer\, designer\, writer and animator. She’s dabbled in everything from research on pelagic invertebrates to animations about beer to podcasts about fake tumbleweed farms. These days\, she explores how humans tangle with science and technology. She’s been a columnist for BBC Future and Motherboard\, the producer of the Story Collider\, the special media manager at Nautilus\, a new digital magazine about science\, culture and philosophy and the managing editor for LadyBits\, a place where women are smart about science. She also edited the Smart News blog at Smithsonian Magazine\, and founded Science Studio\, a home for all the best science multimedia on the web. Even before that she was an editor of all things animated at TED Education\, and a contributing editor at Smart Planet. Most recently she helped ESPN’s award winning documentary series 30 for 30 launch their podcast and is currently the producer and host of Flash Forward\, a podcast about the future. \n  \nLauren Smiley is based in San Francisco and writes about humans in the tech age for WIRED\, San Francisco Mag\, California Sunday Magazine\, and New York Magazine. \n  \nAnnalee Newitz is the author of the Science Fiction novel\, Autonomous\, the non-fiction books Scatter\, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction and Pretend We’re Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture\, and is an editor-at-large for Ars Technica\, a freelance science journalist for magazines and newspapers as well as the co-host\, with Charlie Jane Anders\, of the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. Newitz is the founder of io9\, and was the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo. Newitz’s writing has appeared in Slate\, The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Wired\, The Smithsonian Magazine\, The Washington Post\, 2600\, New Scientist\, Technology Review\, Popular Science\, Discover and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. \n\nAbout What Future \n\nThe future is here and\, frankly\, it sucks. Without doubt\, our culture is at a crossroads. Political strife and economic crises are byproducts of a larger looming challenge\, one in which we will have to ask ourselves what constitutes a meaningful life. We must do the hard work of imagining a different kind of reality for ourselves. It’s work that anticipates the worst but sees hope on the other side of catastrophe\, or at least possibility; that presumes disaster and says\, now what? A best-of-the-year anthology\, What Future is a collection of long-form journalism and essays published in 2016 that address a wide range of topics crucial to our future\, from the environmental and political\, to human health and animal rights\, to technology and the economy. What Future includes writing from authors Elizabeth Kolbert\, Jeff Vandermeer\, Bill McKibben\, Kim Stanley Robinson\, as well as the scientists\, journalists\, and philosophers who are proposing the options that lay not just ahead\, but beyond\, in prestigious magazines and journals such as The Atlantic and The New Yorker.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/what-future-2018/
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:EILEEN MYLES
DESCRIPTION:EILEEN MYLES\nIn Conversation with Stephen Best\nThursday\, November 8\, 2018\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Nourse Theater\nSeries: “On Arts” Benefiting 826 Valencia Scholarship Program \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nEileen Myles is the author of more than twenty books of essays\, fiction\, and poetry\, including Chelsea Girls\, Cool For You\, and I Must Be Living Twice. A counter-culture icon and activist\, Myles ran for president in 1992 as a “openly female & queer” candidate\, promising to refuse to live in the White House while there were still homeless people living in America\, to decrease defense spending by 75%\, and to offer free healthcare. Myles has described the campaign as part protest\, part performance art. This fall\, Myles returns to poetry with Evolution. “Poetry always\, always\, always is a key piece of democracy\,” they told The New York Times Magazine in 2016. “It’s like the un-Trump: The poet is the charismatic loser. You’re the fool in Shakespeare; you’re the loose cannon. As things get worse\, poetry gets better\, because it becomes more necessary.” \nStephen Michael Best is an associate professor of English at University of California\, Berkeley. He is the author of The Fugitive’s Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession\, and his work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation\, the Hellman Foundation\, the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, and the Ford Foundation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eileen-myles/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Heart of the Goddess: Art\, Myth and Meditations on the World’s Sacred Feminine
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at Green Apple Books on Clement street on Thursday\, November 8th at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Hallie Iglehart Austen to discuss her newest book (from Monkfish Publishing) The Heart Of The Goddess: Art\, Myth and Meditations of the World’s Sacred Feminine.  \nPraise for The Heart of the Goddess. \nThis extraordinary compilation of the art\, values and living lessons of Goddess culture dating from 30\,000 years ago to the present\, from Africa to Hawaii\, Siberia to North America\, is a multicultural tapestry of artwork\, historical background\, and meditations organized by the themes of creation\, transformation and celebration\, bringing focus and expression to the myth and spirituality of the feminine. \n“A collection of more than 70 Goddess figures from cultures throughout the world. Each is a treasure…inspiring us to embody the Goddess’s virtues in our lives.”–Yoga Journal \n  \n“A beautiful book…an excellent resource for information and inspiration from many cultures.”–Starhawk\, author of The Spiritual Dance and \n  \n“…a mythical journey to every corner of the Earth…a delightful book of life-affirming legends\, rituals\, and images that help us envision a more balanced and creative world.”–Riane Eisler\, author of The Chalice and the Blade \n  \n“What a treasure! Decades of scholarship and oceans of love have been poured into gathering this exquisite collection of goddesses from all the world’s wisdom traditions. By gazing at the images and contemplating their stories\, I felt myself joyously reclaiming the feminine face of the Holy One…. I love love love this book.”–Mirabai Starr\, author of God of Love: A Guide to the Heart of Judaism\, Christianity & Islam \n  \n  \nHallie Iglehart Austen grew up on a farm and has lived close to the earth most of her life. After graduating from Brown University\, she drove from England to Nepal and back again over the course of a year. This journey\, described in her first book “Womanspirit” led to a synthesis of spirituality and feminism\, which she began teaching in the 1970s. Since then\, she has led workshops\, rituals and conferences at universities\, the United Nations\, and theological schools among other places. Hallie Iglehart Austen is cofounder of Seaflow: Protect Our Living Oceans\, which educates the public about the dangers of active sonars and other ocean noise to whales\, dolphins\, and all sea life. She also initiated All One Oceans\, establishing over fifty beach cleanup stations in California\, Hawai’i\, Iowa\, and Alabama and is starting a pilot project for grade school students on ocean plastic pollution. Hallie lives in the San Francisco Bay Area\, and gives classes and private consultations on dream work\, life transition rituals\, and Wisdom Healing Qigong.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-heart-of-the-goddess-art-myth-and-meditations-on-the-worlds-sacred-feminine-3/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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