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SUMMARY:Poetry with Jeanne Heuving\, Eleni Stecopoulos and Susan Gevirtz
DESCRIPTION:Jeanne Heuving’s latest book is Mood Indigo\, selva oscura press (2019) and she is the co-editor\, along with Tyrone Williams\, of Inciting Poetics: Thinking and Writing Poetry (Recencies Series\, University of New Mexico Press\, 2019. \nEleni Stecopoulos is the author of Visceral Poetics (ON Contemporary Practice\, 2016)\, Armies of Compassion (Palm Press\, 2010)\, and Daphnephoria (Compline\, 2012) \nSusan Gevirtz is the author of seven books of poetry\, including Aerodrome Orion & Starry Messenger\, Thrall\, and Hourglass Transcripts. Her critical works include Narrative Journey: The Fiction and Film Writing of Dorothy Richardson and Coming Events (Collected Writings)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-with-jeanne-heuving-eleni-stecopoulos-and-susan-gevirtz/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:About Last Night: A One Night Stand Storytelling Series April
DESCRIPTION:About Last Night – Join us for an evening of laughter\, sex positivity and of course hilariously true one night stand stories. 7 brave souls will once again climb on our stage to share true tales of their most intimate and embarrassing one night stands. \nAbout Last Night is a monthly San Francisco one night stand / poor life choice storytelling series. This event features real people sharing hilarious (way too personal) stories about horrifying one night stands\, awkward hookups\, and embarrassing sexual adventures. Come join us for a night of complete and utter hysteria\, and unlike most of your one night stands\, we can promise you that you won’t regret it! \nHave a story you’d like to tell? Visit our website: www.aboutlastnightstorytelling.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/about-last-night-a-one-night-stand-storytelling-series-april/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Kate Radford / Drought
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening with Kate Radford\, a sonic poetry performance and book release. Drought is fusing contemporary poetry\, cinematic landscapes and electronic harmonic compositions. This is the premiere performance in San Francisco – please join us! \n \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event\, with tickets on a sliding scale from $0-15. Advance tickets are highly recommended\, as door tickets are not guaranteed. Unless otherwise noted here\, tickets will be available at the door. \n\nDrought is a compositional performance piece using cinematic landscapes\, contemporary poetry and sound to create and explore art space as part ritual and place of transformation\, using language\, mythology and folklore to transmute collective pain inflicted on women throughout fiction and non-fiction\, the real world and our cultural subconscious\, with a focus on the orchestra of language in a fine art performance context. \n“It is challenging. But above all\, it is redemptive. It is a love song. Through pain\, beyond heartache\, and into the sun itself. The bright can burn\, but it also – illuminates….” – Kate Radford \nExploring characters hidden deep within Ovid’s metamorphoses\, transformed into original poetry\, fusing mythological narratives\, part-autobiography\, part compositional ritual. \nWritten and Performed by Kate Radford\nOriginal Compositions by Kate Radford\nLandscape Imagery by Bryony Good \n\nKate Radford is a multi-award winning poet and artist working internationally to transform women’s stories and embed cultural narratives with a legacy of possibility and transformation. \n\nREVIEWS \n★ ★ ★ ★ ‘Hauntingly beautiful!’ (Ask The Ushers) ‘A visually impressive feminist cry’ – Broadway World \n‘Radford re-tells using lyrical writing\, her own extraordinary voice and digital projections’ – Lyne Gardner\, Stagedoor \n‘A mesmerising punch in the gut’ – Voila! Festival \n“Kate is a storyteller\, a songstress\, a performance artist and a poet. The amazing thing is I think she really had no idea how brilliant she is\, she simply is THIS. She is what the best of artists are—a person bringing art—her art—to the world with no artifice.” – Grace Jasmine\, Hollywood Fringe \n“Kate will take you on a spiritual journey\, using mythological narrative to examine violence women have suffered and will suffer at the hands of man. It is not an attack but a look at old truths rooted in ancient and modern-day storytelling. Kate’s use of her foot to control the electronic music became its own form of poetry as her voice soared and roared through the dark space\, as footage of old ruins swelled the tiny theatre\, Drought became a new religion.” – Constance Hall\, LA Female Playwrights Initiative. \n“Drought begins quite disarmingly with mythic riffs on the historic ocean of female oppression. Then Kate Radford opened her mouth to sing and became that ocean. Vast and deep\, powerful and personal\, her loops lured me in and pulled me under until I surrendered. Then she returned me to the surface and laid me breathless on the shore. I almost died. I wanna do it again.” – Jonathan Liptake\, Hollywood Fringe \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all-ages event. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \nFacebook RSVP appreciated but not required. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-kate-radford-drought/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor of Welcome to Night Vale / The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon event with Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor of Welcome to Night Vale for their new novel\, The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home. Join us! \nPlease note: This event is ticketed\, with each ticket including a book\, and will take place at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St. Tickets are available in advance here. Unless otherwise noted here\, general admission tickets will be available at the door. \nIn the town of Night Vale\, there’s a faceless old woman who secretly lives in everyone’s home\, but no one knows how she got there or where she came from…until now. Told in a series of eerie flashbacks\, the story of The Faceless Old Woman goes back centuries to reveal an initially blissful and then tragic childhood on a Mediterranean Estate in the early nineteenth century\, her rise in the criminal underworld of Europe\, a nautical adventure with a mysterious organization of smugglers\, her plot for revenge on the ones who betrayed her\, and ultimately her death and its aftermath\, as her spirit travels the world for decades until settling in modern-day Night Vale. \nInterspersed throughout is a present-day story in Night Vale\, as The Faceless Old Woman guides\, haunts\, and sabotages a man named Craig. In the end\, her current day dealings with Craig and her swashbuckling history in nineteenth century Europe will come together in the most unexpected and horrifying way. \nPart The Haunting of Hill House\, part The Count of Monte Cristo\, and 100% about a faceless old woman who secretly lives in your home. \n\nJoseph Fink created the Welcome to Night Vale and Alice Isn’t Dead podcasts. He lives with his wife in the Hudson River Valley and Los Angeles. He is the author of the novel Alice Isn’t Dead.  Jeffrey Cranor co-writes the Welcome to Night Vale and Within the Wires podcasts. He also co-creates theater and dance pieces with choreographer/wife Jillian Sweeney. They live in New York. Together\, they are the authors of the New York Times best-selling novels Welcome to Night Vale\, It Devours!\, and four Welcome to Night Vale episode script books: Mostly Void\, Partially Stars\, The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe\, The Buying of Lot 37\, and Who’s a Good Boy? In 2016\, Fink and Cranor announced their podcast network “Night Vale Presents” which has produced 14 original fiction and non-fiction podcasts. For more on Welcome to Night Vale\, upcoming events\, and the books\, visit: www.welcometonightvale.com. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. The bar opens with the store at 2pm; event starts at 4pm. \nFacebook RSVP appreciated but not required. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joseph-fink-and-jeffrey-cranor-of-welcome-to-night-vale-the-faceless-old-woman-who-secretly-lives-in-your-home/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Dinerstein Knight / Hex
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Rebecca Dinerstein Knight (The Sunlit Night) for her new novel Hex. Please join us! \nNell Barber\, an expelled PhD candidate in biological science\, is exploring the fine line between poison and antidote\, working alone to set a speed record for the detoxification of poisonous plants. Her mentor\, Dr. Joan Kallas\, is the hero of Nell’s heart. Nell frequently finds herself standing in the doorway to Joan’s office despite herself\, mesmerized by Joan’s elegance\, success\, and spiritual force. \nSurrounded by Nell’s ex\, her best friend\, her best friend’s boyfriend\, and Joan’s buffoonish husband\, the two scientists are tangled together at the center of a web of illicit relationships\, grudges\, and obsessions. All six are burdened by desire and ambition\, and as they collide on the university campus\, their attractions set in motion a domino effect of affairs and heartbreak. \nMeanwhile\, Nell slowly fills her empty apartment with poisonous plants to study\, and she begins to keep a series of notebooks\, all dedicated to Joan. She logs her research and how she spends her days\, but the notebooks ultimately become a painstaking map of love. In a dazzling and unforgettable voice\, Rebecca Dinerstein Knight has written a spellbinding novel of emotional and intellectual intensity. \n\n“In her brilliant second novel\, Rebecca Dinerstein Knight cannily explores both the poisons and the antidotes of love\, ambition\, mentorship\, and yearning\, and she does it all in prose so lively that I often found myself laughing with pleasure. Hex is some dark and joyous witchery.” – Lauren Groff\, author of Florida \n“Rebecca has written a book that examines our natural and absolutely astounding reactions to each other. The language of this novel is so finely tailored\, so elegant yet organic\, so absorbing that it takes the reader a moment to realize that this is not just a deliciously engaging tale of what it is like to be social and sexual\, but that this writing is an actual incantation in itself. It is a beautiful\, spooky spell that divides and processes our innate potential for poison or pleasure.” – Jenny Slate\, actress and author of Little Weirds \n“Hex reads like a botanist’s cross-breeding of The Secret History and Department of Speculation\, full of brilliant and bodily obsession. Rebecca Dinerstein Knight is both a scientist and a magician\, and she conjures this beautiful spell of a novel with total control.” – Emma Straub\, author of Modern Lovers \n\nRebecca Dinerstein Knight is the author of the novel and screenplay The Sunlit Night\, and a collection of poems\, Lofoten. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times and The New Yorker online\, among others. Born and raised in New York City\, she lives in New Hampshire. Photo by Nina Subin. \n  \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. The bar opens at 6:30pm; event starts at 7pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Hex\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-dinerstein-knight-hex/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Odd Salon SF: System
DESCRIPTION:Early bird tickets go on sale on March 3 through Friday March 13 only. \n~ Salon details and speakers to be announced ~ \nTuesday\, April 7 at Public Works\, San Francisco \nDoors open for pre-salon cocktail hour at 6:30\, Talks begin at 7:30 \nReserved Seats available. General Admission seats are first come\, first served. \nOdd Salon Members always enjoy discounted Join our growing membership for ticket discounts and Members-only opportunities.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-salon-sf-system/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Chris Carlsson Book Launch at The Green Arcade
DESCRIPTION:Hidden San Francisco is a guidebook like no other. Chris Carlsson (of Shaping San Francisco and Foundsf fame) peels back the layers of San Francisco’s history to reveal a storied past: behind old walls and gleaming glass facades lurk former industries\, secret music and poetry venues\, forgotten terrorist bombings\, and much more. Carlsson delves into the Bay Area’s long prehistory\, examining the region’s geography and the lives of its inhabitants before the 1849 Gold Rush changed everything\, setting in motion the clash between capital and labor that shaped the modern city. Including maps\, walking guides and bike routes\, this vibrant guide brings to life the streets and hills of today’s San Francisco\, from the perspective of the students and secretaries\, longshoremen and waitresses who shaped its radical past. \nThe history of San Francisco I’ve been waiting for. It not only reorients our conceptions of the past\, it gives us walking tour itineraries so we can viscerally experience how we are participants in the region’s remaking.’ Sean Burns\, author of Archie Green: The Making of a Working Class Hero.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chris-carlsson-book-launch-at-the-green-arcade/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:C Pam Zhang: How Much of These Hills is Gold
DESCRIPTION:C Pam Zhang discusses her debut novel How Much of These Hills is Gold. \nPraise for How Much of These Hills is Gold \n“C Pam Zhang’s debut is ferocious\, dark and gleaming\, a book erupting out of the interstices between myth and dream\, between longing and belonging. How Much of These Hills Is Gold tells us that stories–like people\, like the rough and stunning landscape of California itself–are constantly in the process of being made\, broken\, and finally remade into something tender and new.” —Lauren Groff\, New York Times-bestselling author of Fates and Furies\n \n“A haunting\, riveting and truly remarkable debut. Zhang writes with the clear-eyed lucidity of ancient myth-makers whose eyes are attuned to the vicissitudes of nature and humanity.”—Chigozie Obioma\, author of Booker Prize finalist An Orchestra of Minorities \n“This exhilarating novel unweaves the myths of the American West and offers in their place a gorgeous\, broken\, soulful\, feral song of family and yearning\, origin and earth. C Pam Zhang is a brilliant\, fearless writer. This book is a wonder.” —Garth Greenwell\, author of What Belongs to You \nAbout How Much of These Hills is Gold \nAn electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush\, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape—trying not just to survive but to find a home. \nBa dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants\, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town\, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way\, they encounter giant buffalo bones\, tiger paw prints\, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets\, sibling rivalry\, and glimpses of a different kind of future. \nBoth epic and intimate\, blending Chinese symbolism and re-imagined history with fiercely original language and storytelling\, How Much of These Hills Is Gold is a haunting adventure story\, an unforgettable sibling story\, and the announcement of a stunning new voice in literature. On a broad level\, it explores race in an expanding country and the question of where immigrants are allowed to belong. But page by page\, it’s about the memories that bind and divide families\, and the yearning for home. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/c-pam-zhang-how-much-of-these-hills-is-gold/
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:Cody Simpson / Prince Neptune
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Cody Simpson for his first book\, Prince Neptune. Join us! \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event\, to be held at Booksmith (1644 Haight St.). The price of admission is equal to the cost of Prince Neptune\, which is included with each ticket. Advance tickets are highly encouraged — tickets are not guaranteed to be available at the door. \n \n\n  \nConjuring vivid imagery and drawing from the four elements: earth\, air\, fire\, and water\, Prince Neptune presents poems and prose on themes of life\, love\, fame\, escapism\, environmentalism\, with an overarching narrative of nature as a nod to the author’s passion for the earth and the environment. Simpsons poetry combines themes of freedom and the ocean with the wisdom of an old soul. \n\nCody Simpson is an LA-based Australian whose meteoric rise to fame is matched only by his incredible artistic talent. Simpson has progressed as a writer\, musician\, and celebrity at an astounding pace; from uploading videos on YouTube from his home in Australia to selling out tours around the world\, Cody is one of the most marketable artists of his generation. When he’s not touring or surfing\, he’s honing his craft on the typewriter creating new pieces of poetry. \nSimpson is an artist who brings an authentic and organic writing style well beyond his years. Still a massive force to be reckoned with in the world of music\, Cody is now ready to take on the world of writing as Prince Neptune. \n\n** Please note ** \n– This is an all-ages event. \n– The duration of this event is up to the author. \n– Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. \n– 1 ticket = 1 book\, no exceptions. The book must be purchased from Booksmith. If you already have a copy of Prince Neptune\, remember that books make great gifts! If you’ve already gifted Prince Neptune to all of your friends\, it’s ok to buy a different book from Booksmith instead — in that case\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com. \n– Signing\, photo\, and Q&A details to come. \n– If you can’t attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Prince Neptune\, place an order below and be sure to include your request in the special field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cody-simpson-prince-neptune/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mari Coates with Peg Alford Pursell / Launch for The Pelton Papers
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the launch party for Mari Coates and her new novel The Pelton Papers. She’ll be in conversation with Peg Alford Pursell (A Girl Goes into the Forest). Join us! \nA richly imagined novel based on the life of artist Agnes Pelton\, whose life tracks the early days of modernism in America. Born into a family ruined by scandal\, Agnes becomes part of the lively New York art scene\, finding early success in the famous Armory Show of 1913. Fame seems inevitable\, but Agnes is burdened by shyness and instead retreats to a contemplative life\, first to a Long Island windmill\, and then to the California desert. Undefeated by her history—family ruination in the Beecher-Tilton scandal\, a shrouded Brooklyn childhood\, and a passionate attachment to another woman—she follows her muse to create more than a hundred luminous and deeply spiritual abstract paintings. \n\nMari Coates lives in San Francisco\, where\, before joining University of California Press as a senior editor\, she was an arts writer and theater critic. Her regular column appeared in the SF Weekly with additional profiles and features appearing in the San Francisco Chronicle\, East Bay Monthly\, Advocate\, and other news outlets. Her stories have been published in the literary journals HLLQ and Eclipse\, and she is grateful for residencies at I-Park\, Ragdale\, and Hypatia-in-the-Woods\, which allowed her to develop and complete The Pelton Papers. She holds degrees from Connecticut College and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Find her online at maricoates.com. Author photo by Lynn Shepodd. \n \nPeg Alford Pursell is the author of A Girl Goes into the Forest and of Show Her a Flower\, A Bird\, A Shadow\, the 2017 Indies Book of the Year for Literary Fiction. Her work has appeared in Permafrost\, the Los Angeles Review\, Joyland Magazine\, and other journals and anthologies. She is the founder and director of the national reading series Why There Are Words and of WTAW Press. \n  \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. The bar opens at 6:30pm; event starts at 7pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of The Pelton Papers\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mari-coates-with-peg-alford-pursell-launch-for-the-pelton-papers/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Robert Williams at City Lights Books
DESCRIPTION:Robert Williams: The Father of Exponential Imagination \npublished by Fantagraphics \nRobert Williams: The Father of Exponential Imagination is a comprehensive\, career-spanning collection of the iconic painter’s fine art\, including over 300 oil paintings as well as drawings\, sculptures\, and more. Simply put\, this is the definitive volume that Williams has been working towards his entire career. \nIn the late 20th and early 21st century\, diverse forms of commonplace and popular art appeared to be coalescing into a formidable faction of new painted realism. The new school of imagery was a product of art that didn’t fit comfortably into the accepted definition of fine art. It embraced some of the figurative graphics that formal art academia tended to reject: comic books\, movie posters\, trading cards\, surfer art\, and hot rod illustration\, to mention a few. \nThis alternative art movement found its most apt participant in one of America’s most controversial underground artists\, the painter\, Robert Williams. It was this artist who brought the term “lowbrow” into the fine arts lexicon\, with his groundbreaking 1979 book\, The Lowbrow Art of Robt. Williams. Williams pursued a career as a fine artist years before joining the art studio of Ed “Big Daddy” Roth in the mid-1960s. From this position he moved into the rebellious\, anti-war circles of early underground comix\, as one of the celebrated ZAP cartoonists. \nFeaturing an introductory essay by Coagula Art Journal founder Mat Gleason along with a new foreword and annotations by Williams himself\, as well as rare photos\, artifacts\, and ephemera. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-williams-at-city-lights-books/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kathy Valentine: All I Ever Wanted
DESCRIPTION:Kathy Valentine\, bassist for The Go-Go’s\, discusses her new memoir All I Ever Wanted. \nAbout All I Ever Wanted \nGo-Go’s bassist Kathy Valentine’s story is a roller coaster of sex\, drugs\, and of course\, music; it’s also a story of what it takes to find success and find yourself\, even when it all comes crashing down. \nAt twenty-one\, Kathy Valentine was at the Whisky in Los Angeles when she met a guitarist from a fledgling band called the Go-Go’s—and the band needed a bassist. The Go-Go’s became the first multi-platinum-selling\, all-female band to play instruments themselves\, write their own songs\, and have a number one album. Their debut\, Beauty and the Beat\, spent six weeks at the top of the Billboard 200 and featured the hit songs “We Got the Beat” and “Our Lips Are Sealed.” The record’s success brought the pressures of a relentless workload and schedule culminating in a wild\, hazy\, substance-fueled tour that took the band from the club circuit to arenas\, where fans\, promoters\, and crew were more than ready to keep the party going. For Valentine\, the band’s success was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream—but it’s only part of her story. All I Ever Wanted traces the path that took her from her childhood in Texas—where she all but raised herself—to the height of rock n’ roll stardom\, devastation after the collapse of the band that had come to define her\, and the quest to regain her sense of self after its end. Valentine also speaks candidly about the lasting effects of parental betrayal\, abortion\, rape\, and her struggles with drugs and alcohol—and the music that saved her every step of the way. Populated with vivid portraits of Valentine’s interac-tions during the 1980s with musicians and actors from the Police and Rod Stewart to John Belushi and Rob Lowe\, All I Ever Wanted is a deeply personal reflection on a life spent in music. \nAbout the Author \nKathy Valentine is a working musician and songwriter known for being part of the all-female band the Go-Go’s. She wrote or cowrote many of the band’s most renowned songs\, including “Vacation” and “Head Over Heels.” In addition to playing music and writing songs\, Valentine has worked as an actor\, public speaker and spokesperson\, and producer. In 2017 she created “She Factory\,” an event series to raise money for women-centered nonprofits. She currently lives in her hometown of Austin with her daughter\, where she plays in a band and is completing her first college degree. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kathy-valentine-all-i-ever-wanted/
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:Melville House @ City Lights
DESCRIPTION:Melville House Publishers is celebrated by City Lights! \nThree authors with recently released books join us for an evening of spirited discussion \nMalcolm Harris in conversation with Curtis White\, moderated by Jenny Odell \nMalcolm Harris celebrates the release of SHIT IS FUCKED UP AND BULLSHIT: History Since the End of History  \nCurtis White celebrates the release of Living in a World that Can’t Be Fixed: Reimagining Counterculture Today \nJenny Odell is the author of How to Do Nothing \n—————– \nabout Shit Is Fucked Up and Bullshit: History Since The End Of History \n\nFrom the writer hailed for giving voice to a generation in Kids These Days comes a bold rejection of a society in which inequality\, student debt\, and exploitation have come to define our lives. \n\n\nOur economic situation\, political discourse\, and future prospects have gotten much worse since a guy brought a sign that said “Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit” to the Occupy Wall Street protests. We all knew what he meant then . . . but where are we now? And how has so much happened since the so-called end of history? \nMalcolm Harris\, one of our sharpest and most versatile critics\, tackles these questions in over 30 new and selected pieces\, examining everything from the lowering of wages to the rise of fascism–and the maddening cultural landscape in between. Along the way\, he cops to being the guy who tricked protestors into thinking Radiohead was playing Occupy Wall Street; investigates why the robots that will replace us so often look like sex objects; and\, most comfortingly\, assures us that Marx saw the necessity of a crisis moment just like the one we’re in. \nRarely does a writer come along who can turn our world so thoroughly upside-down that we can finally understand it for what it really is\, but Harris’s wry and biting essays do just that\, and help us laugh at what we see. \n——————– \nabout Living In A World That Can’t Be Fixed \n\n“This is a book about counterculture\, and that’s a problem . . . “ \n\n\nSo begins Curtis White’s thrilling call for the revitalization of counterculture today. \nThe problem\, White argues\, is twofold: first\, most of us think of counterculture as a phenomenon stuck in the 1960s\, and\, second\, what passes as counterculture today … simply isn’t. Nevertheless\, a reimagined counterculture is our best hope to save the planet\, bypass social antagonisms\, and create the world we actually want to live in. Now. \nWhite—”the most inspiringly wicked social critic of the moment” (Will Blythe\, Elle)—shows how the products of our so-called resistance\, from Ken Burns to Black Panther\, rarely offer a meaningful challenge to power\, and how our loyalty to the “American Lifestyle” is self-defeating and keeps us from making any real social change. \nThe result is an inspiring case for practicing civil disobedience as a way of life\, and a clear vision for a better world—full of play\, caring\, and human connection. \n——————— \n\n\nabout How To Do Nothing \n\n\nA galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention—and our personal information—that redefines what we think of as productivity\, reconnects us with the environment\, and reveals all that we’ve been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world \n\n\nNothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity . . . doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. \nSo argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). Odell sees our attention as the most precious—and overdrawn—resource we have. Once we can start paying a new kind of attention\, she writes\, we can undertake bolder forms of political action\, reimagine humankind’s role in the environment\, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress. \nFar from the simple anti-technology screed\, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often\, How to do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative\, timely\, and utterly persuasive\, this book is a four-course meal in the age of Soylent. \n———————– \n\n\n\nMalcolm Harris is a freelance writer and an editor at The New Inquiry. His work has appeared in the New Republic\, Bookforum\, the Village Voice\, n+1\, and the New York Times Magazine. His first book was Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials. He lives in Philadelphia. \nJenny Odell is an artist and writer who teaches at Stanford\, has been an artist-in-residence at places like the San Francisco dump\, Facebook\, the Internet Archive\, and the San Francisco Planning Department\, and has exhibited her art all over the world. She lives in Oakland. \nCurtis White is a novelist and social critic whose works include Memories of My Father Watching TV\, The Middle Mind\, and\, most recently\, The Science Delusion\, We\, Robots\, and Lacking Character. He is the founder (with Ronald Sukenick) of FC2\, a publisher of innovative fiction run collectively by its authors. He lives in Port Townsend\, WA. \nMelville House is an independent publisher located in Brooklyn\, New York. It was founded in 2001 by sculptor Valerie Merians and fiction writer/journalist Dennis Johnson\, in order to publish Poetry After 9/11\, a book of material culled from Johnson’s groundbreaking MobyLives book blog. The material consisted of things sent in to the blog by writers and poets in response to the 9/11 attacks\, and Johnson and Merians felt it better represented the spirit of New York than the call to war of the Bush administration. Melville House is also well-known for its fiction\, with two Nobel Prize winners on its list: Imre Kertesz and Heinrich Boll. In particular\, the company has developed a world-wide reputation for its rediscovery of forgotten international writers — its translation of a forgotten work by Hans Fallada\, Every Man Dies Alone\, launched a world-wide phenomenon. The company also takes pride in its discovery of many first-time writers — such as Lars Iyer (Spurious)\, Tao Lin (Shoplifting from American Apparel)\, Jeremy Bushnell (The Weirdness) and Christopher Boucher (How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive) — all of whom have gone on to greater success.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/melville-house-city-lights/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Center Book Award Reading: Ashley Toliver and Jason Bayani\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this reading by Poetry Center Book Award winner Ashley Toliver\, for her work Spectra (Coffee House Press\, 2018). She’ll be joined by award judge Jason Bayani\, reading and in conversation. Supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts\, this event is free and open to the public. \n\nAshley Toliver’s Spectra is an immensely moving work. Its three-act structure entrenches within the violent friction between nature and manmade forms and between nature and the human body. Under Toliver’s carefully measured pen\, this movement through violence brought to mind for me\, persistence: the persistence to withstand the structures of domesticity (and all those structures domesticity is nestled under); the persistence to withstand an attack from within the body as that same body is bearing a new life. It is Toliver’s persistence that tempers and\, at times\, wields the flame of this violence\, it is this persistence that seeks to create from absence\, and from the first page to the last it absolutely mesmerizes me. In the poem “Standing Outside Your House with a Match and a Gallon of Gasoline”\, Toliver writes “I still don’t know what kind of woman/ I am. But as the flame nears the fingers/ that trust the match\, as close as the skin/ can stand it to singe\, I call this the nerve/ to find out—”. As taken as I am by the journey within the book\, I am also moved by the vision the book creates\, a vision of a woman holding both the fire of life and death in her hands\, that searches within it all with a keen strength and wonder. And how gorgeous and powerful of a vision Ashley Toliver makes\, what this vision\, when we acknowledge it from a Black woman’s lens\, means within the context of this time; what it pulls back from erasure; what it invokes and empowers. I am deeply in awe of this book— this book that is constantly seeking\, that seeks to reclaim and repossess\, that knows this is worthy of our persistence\, at least until death\, which\, as Toliver writes\, is “the last road to awe I know.”—Jason Bayani\n\nAshley Toliver is the author of Spectra (Coffee House Press\, 2018)\, which in addition to being awarded The Poetry Center Book Award\, was a finalist for the 2018 Believer Book Award\, 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award\, and the Oregon Book Award. She teaches poetry at the The Attic Institute in southeast Portland and serves as poetry editor at Moss. A Journal of the Pacific Northwest. Her work has been supported by fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation\, Oregon Literary Arts\, and the Academy of American Poets. She received her MFA from Brown University in 2013. \nJason Bayani is the author of Locus (Omnidawn Publishing\, 2019) and Amulet (Write Bloody Publishing\, 2013). He’s an MFA graduate from Saint Mary’s College\, a Kundiman fellow\, and works as the artistic director for Kearny Street Workshop\, the oldest multi-disciplinary Asian Pacific American arts organization in the country. His publishing credits include World Literature Today\, Muzzle Magazine\, Lantern Review\, and other publications. Jason performs regularly around the country and debuted his solo theater show “Locus of Control” in 2016 with theatrical runs in San Francisco\, New York\, and Austin.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-center-book-award-reading-ashley-toliver-and-jason-bayani-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Namwali Serpell & Carmen Maria Machado
DESCRIPTION:TICKETSTo purchase over the phone: 415-392-4400 \nThis event appears in the series\nSocial Studies \n\n\nNamwali Serpell is a Zambian writer who teaches at the University of California\, Berkeley. She won the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing\, and her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The New York Review of Books\, and The Best American Short Stories. Her first novel\, The Old Drift\, which Salman Rushdie calls a “dazzling debut\,” tells the stories of three Zambian families across three generations\, from the precolonial past into the near future. It was listed as one of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2019. \nIn 2018\, the New York Times named Carmen Maria Machado’s  Her Body and Other Parties one of “15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century.” Machado’s most recent publication\, the memoir of trauma and abuse\, In The Dreamhouse\, has garnered further acclaim. “Machado has already dazzled us with her brilliant fiction writing and she exceeds all expectations as she breaks new ground in what memoir can do.” — Roxanne Gay. \n  \nPhotograph credit: Peg Skorpinski (left) & Art Streiber (right)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/namwali-serpell-carmen-maria-machado/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's 'Twitterpated'
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 9th\, 2020 \nat the Verdi Club \n2424 Mariposa\, San Francisco\, CA \nRemember: Bang-O at 7:00 PM\, Stories at 8:00 PM \nWant a sample of Bawdy? \nListen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at \nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis Evening of Stories\, Songs & Sex Toys features: \n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour \n❤ Legendary Author/Speaker/Kinkster Race Bannon \n❤ Songs by Bawdy’s brilliant cohort\, Jefferson Bergey \n❤ Pitch your story to Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com \n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for making new friends \n❤ Bang-O Grand Prizes from Good Vibrations \n❤ Bawdy’s new merchandise\, FINALLY #BawdyGotMeLaid \n❤ Reserved Seating puts you right up front \n❤ Custom Bawdy Cocktails to help you get your flirt on #CBT #UnicornsButthole #EthicalSlut \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nFor Millions of Years\, Sexual Folklorist & Podcast host Dixie De La Tour has brought the Nation’s Perverrati together & onto the Bawdy Storytelling stage to tell their own infamously true tales of lust\, love\, kinky collisions\, gender redefinition\, sexual identity\, life-changing hook-ups\, educational one-night stands & everything in between. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThe Original Sex + Storytelling series\, featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits\, Live Onstage \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nAnd we know you’re on FetLife\, ya pervert. Join the Bawdy Storytelling group there! \nhttps://fetlife.com/groups/46341 \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nPerformer Bios: \n❤ Dixie De La Tour is a sexual folklorist\, professional storyteller\, podcaster\, teacher\, coach\, community builder and most of all\, a facilitator. She is also the Founder\, Curator & Host of the Award-winning and NSFW storytelling series\, Bawdy Storytelling (“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly\, “The Original Sex and Storytelling series” – Playgirl) that’s been lauded for its transformational\, relatable\, empowering performances. This live stage series is currently headed into its 13th year\, the groundbreaking Bawdy Storytelling podcast has had over 1.5 million downloads\, plus it’s been acknowledged as a ‘Best Of’ Sex podcast from Forbes\, GQ Magazine\, Marie Claire\, Uproxx\, Daily Mail UK\, Bustle and (twice!) by Esquire Magazine. \nDixie has been Sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (“Saint Kiss & Make You Tell”) for her work to reduce stigma and eliminate shame\, and she recently became a Muppet. Discover more about Dixie De La Tour and Bawdy Storytelling at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling\, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/bawdystorytelling on Twitter at @Bawdy and always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com \nIn addition to story and public speaking coaching for her own series\, Dixie coaches for TEDx\, Women in Technology\, offers custom Brand Storytelling coaching\, has led storytelling events in Libraries\, teaches Storytelling for the Classroom and has been a featured teller for the National Storytelling Conference. Ultimately\, this story-loving southerner is passionate about storytelling’s ability to keep people safe\, reduce social anxiety and connect us with strangers. Stories help you find your people! \n❤ Kinky sex has been one of Race Bannon’s passions as a practitioner\, organizer\, writer\, educator\, commentator\, activist and leader since his first explorations of the leather world starting in 1973. Race’s accomplishments include co-founder of the Kink Aware Professionals referral service; leader of The DSM Project that began to change how psychotherapy professionals view kink; author of the bestselling Learning The Ropes: A Basic Guide to Safe and Fun BDSM Lovemaking; founder of Daedalus Publishing Company\, the first company dedicated to publishing nonfiction leather/SM/fetish books; prolific writer; former sex advice columnist; former producer and host of the first kink internet talk show Bound To Talk; past Board member of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom\, Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities\, NLA International and Avatar Club Los Angeles; co-founder of NLA Los Angeles; and member of Chicago Hellfire Club\, The 15 Association\, and Society of Janus. Race is currently on the Board of the Leather Hall of Fame. Recently Race was inducted into the Society of Janus Hall of Fame. He is featured in the documentaries Vice and Consent\, Out of the Darkness: The Reality of S&M and Folsom Forever\, was a BDSM consultant for the movie Exit to Eden\, and is currently an Executive Producer for Divine Deviance\, an upcoming documentary about the global kink/BDSM/fetish scene. Race is also a popular speaker who has delivered the keynote address for a number of events. He has been awarded the 2006 National Leather Association International’s Lifetime Achievement Award\, 2010 Mister Marcus Hernandez Lifetime Achievement Award (Man) Pantheon of Leather Community Service Award\, the 2011 Philip M. Turner Lifetime Achievement Award\, the 2013 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change Leather Leadership Award\, 2014 San Francisco Bay Area Leather Alliance Co-Man of the Year (tie)\, and the 2016 NorCal/Northwest Regional Pantheon of Leather Award. You can read some of Race’s writings at www.bannon.com or www.racebannon.com or in the Bay Area Reporter (ebar.com) where he is the leather/kink columnist. \n❤ Straddling the line between sentimental and sleazy\, Jefferson Bergey blends gritty\, soulful pop with elements of folk\, blues\, and country with a penchant for the ridiculous in his original compositions. \nThe Oakland based singer-songwriter performs his family-unfriendly music all over the Bay Area. He’s a frequent contributor\, writing custom songs for the award-winning\, San Francisco based\, Bawdy Storytelling. As a solo acoustic act\, Bergey’s sound is akin to folky musical theater in a coffee shop…if the coffee shop also sold sex toys and sativa gummy bears. His polite vulgarity may not be for the very young and impressionable or the very old and conservative but he won’t tell you how to raise your kids or upset your grandparents. \nHe can be seen and heckled every Monday night at his Risqué residency at Scopo Divino in San Francisco. For well over two years straight\, he’s put on a unique and interactive show where he plays original music and cover songs suggested by those in attendance who haven’t already left in disgust. \nBergey’s music can be heard on the RISK! and Bawdy Storytelling podcasts. He has performed at The Independent\, Sweetwater\, Great American Music Hall\, Jewish Community Center in SF\, John Steinbeck Association\, Special Olympics in Long Beach\, Punchline SF\, and SF Sketchfest. \nHis newest EP titled ‘Always Up (To Go Down)’ was originally written for Bawdy Storytelling and is flanked by a few of his ‘inter-lewds’\, now fleshed out with piano\, bass\, and pedal steel. It also features the talents of Natalie Smith (Cape Weather) on vocals. \nwww.jeffersonbergey.com \nhttps://www.patreon.com/jeffersonbergey \nhttps://www.facebook.com/jefferson.bergey \nhttps://www.instagram.com/jeffersonbergey \n• No Refunds or Exchanges \n• Lineup Subject to Change \n• ASL Interpretation available with prior written notice. Contact BawdyStorytelling@gmail.com for more information \n• General Admission seating is first come\, first served. We recommend you arrive when doors open for best seating (Reserved Seating guarantees you a seat right up front) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & the LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com \nTwitter: @Bawdy \n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-twitterpated/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:National Poetry Month: Stegner Fellows Reading + Happy Hour!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special Ruby happy hour in honor of National Poetry Month featuring readings by Monica Sok\, Safia Elfhillo\, Claire Meuschke\, and Taneum Bambrick; all current Stegner fellows at Stanford University. Drinks and bites served at 5:30pm followed by performances! \nAbout the poets: \nMonica Sok is a Cambodian American poet and the daughter of former refugees. She is the author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon Press\, 2020). Her work has been recognized with a “Discovery” Prize from 92Y. She has received fellowships from Poetry Society of America\, Hedgebrook\, Elizabeth George Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, Kundiman\, Jerome Foundation\, MacDowell Colony\, and others. Sok has taught poetry to Southeast Asian youths at Banteay Srei and the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants in Oakland. She is originally from Lancaster\, Pennsylvania. \nSafia Elhillo is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press\, 2017)\, which received the the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and an Arab American Book Award\, and Girls That Never Die (One World/Random House 2021)\, as well as a novel in verse forthcoming in 2021 from Make Me A World/Random House. A co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket Books\, 2019)\, Elhillo was listed in Forbes Africa’s 2018 “30 Under 30” and is a 2019-2021 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. \nClaire Meuschke is the author of Upend (Noemi Press\, 2020). From the Bay Area\, she has lived in New York City\, New Mexico\, and Arizona. She is poetry editor for Contra Viento and assistant poetry editor for DIAGRAM. She is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and lives in Oakland. \nTaneum Bambrick is the author of VANTAGE\, which was selected by Sharon Olds for the 2019 American Poetry Review/Honickman first book award (Copper Canyon Press). Her chapbook\, Reservoir\, was selected by Ocean Vuong for the 2017 Yemassee Chapbook Prize. Her poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in theNew Yorker\, The American Poetry Review\,PENAmerica\, and elsewhere. She is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. \nNOTE: This event is co-ed but we ask that all our guests be mindful of the Ruby’s mission to create a safe space that prioritizes the voices of women and nonbinary artists. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-poetry-month-stegner-fellows-reading-happy-hour-tickets-91356199853
URL:https://litseen.com/event/national-poetry-month-stegner-fellows-reading-happy-hour/
LOCATION:The Ruby\, 23rd and bryant street\, san francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joanne McNeil: Lurking: How a Person Became a User
DESCRIPTION:Joanne McNeil discusses her new book Lurking: How A Person Became a User with Jenny Odell. \nPraise for Lurking \n“The internet isn’t ‘out there’ somewhere; it’s coextensive with the brain of any writer who’d be worth reading on the subject. In Lurking\, Joanne McNeil writes as an internet ‘supertaster\,’ a veteran of more platforms and forums and flame wars and start-ups than most of us could ever imagine. She employs a trees-not-forest style\, immersing herself in the paradoxes\, and reinscribing her body at the scene. By risking a freely figurative language\, she hacks the mystery at its source.”—JONATHAN LETHEM \n“Without a doubt\, Joanne McNeil is the most original writer on technology working today. This poetic\, empathetic\, and incisive history of the internet will resonate deeply with anyone who goes online to listen and learn\, not shout and grandstand. Never cynical or reductive\, McNeil traces the commercialization of the digital world in unexpected and insightful ways\, revealing what has been lost\, what stolen\, and what utopian possibilities may still be recovered. Lurkers may not be inclined to rally around a manifesto\, but this profound and refreshing meditation will certainly do the trick. Lurkers of the world unite\, or at least read this book.”—ASTRA TAYLOR\, author of The People’s Platform \n“We all know what it’s like to spend time online\, but nobody has written about it with more depth and beauty than Joanne McNeil. Lurking makes the connections between internet protocol and human dignity tangible\, whether reflecting on her early days as an avid 90s web user or zooming out for critical insight into today’s tech giants and tomorrow’s possibilities. I learned something new on every page.”—JACE CLAYTON\, author of Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture \nAbout Lurking \nA concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of view of the user. \nIn a shockingly short amount of time\, the internet has bound people around the world together and torn us apart and changed not just the way we communicate but who we are and who we can be. It has created a new\, unprecedented cultural space that we are all a part of—even if we don’t participate\, that is how we participate—but by which we’re continually surprised\, betrayed\, enriched\, befuddled. We have churned through platforms and technologies and in turn been churned by them. And yet\, the internet is us and always has been. \nIn Lurking\, Joanne McNeil digs deep and identifies the primary (if sometimes contradictory) concerns of people online: searching\, safety\, privacy\, identity\, community\, anonymity\, and visibility. She charts what it is that brought people online and what keeps us here even as the social equations of digital life—what we’re made to trade\, knowingly or otherwise\, for the benefits of the internet—have shifted radically beneath us. It is a story we are accustomed to hearing as tales of entrepreneurs and visionaries and dynamic and powerful corporations\, but there is a more profound\, intimate story that hasn’t yet been told. \nLong one of the most incisive\, ferociously intelligent\, and widely respected cultural critics online\, McNeil here establishes a singular vision of who we are now\, tells the stories of how we became us\, and helps us start to figure out what we do now.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joanne-mcneil-lurking-how-a-person-became-a-user/
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:Author Event /// Arroz con Pollo and Apple Pie: Raising Bicultural Children
DESCRIPTION:Author Event with Maritere R. Bellas //// Parenting Expert Topic – Bilingualism\, Biculturalism\, Multiculturalism & Award-Winning Author\, Influencer\, Speaker\, Podcast Host\, Features Writer
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-event-arroz-con-pollo-and-apple-pie-raising-bicultural-children/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers with Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Juliana delgado Lopera (Fiebre Tropical)\nCyrus Grace Dunham (A Year Without a Name)\nJulia Serano (Whipping Girl\, 99 Erics: A Kat Cataclysm Faux Novel)\nTara Ison (Ball: Stories)\nThea Matthews (Unearth [The Flowers])\nBeth Lisick (Edie on the Green Screen) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit a local non-profit TBA\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 7 PM. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-28/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lisa Brown: Long Story Short: 100 Classic Books in 3 Panels
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Brown discusses her new book\, Long Story Short: 100 Classic Books in 3 Panels. \nAbout Long Story Short \nDoes Proust get you down? Do you find The Unbearable Lightness of Being simply unbearable? Is The Inferno your own private hell? Do you long to be conversant about classics like Moby Dick\, the Bhagavad Gita\, Madame Bovary\, and\, um\, Twilight? \nBestselling illustrator Lisa Brown (The Airport Book; Baby\, Mix Me a Drink) did her homework. Long Story Short offers 100 pithy and skewering three-panel literary summaries\, from curriculum classics like Don Quixote\, Lord of the Flies\, and Jane Eyre to modern favorites like Beloved\, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\, and Atonement\, conveniently organized by subjects including “Love\,” “Sex\,” “Death\,” and “Female Trouble.” Lisa Brown’s Long Story Short is the perfect way to turn a traipse through what your English teacher called “the canon” into a frolic—or to happily cram for the next occasion that requires you to appear bookish and well-read. \nAbout Lisa Brown \nLisa Brown draws things like illustrations and comics\, writes things like books and book reviews\, and teaches things to kids and college students. Her debut picture book\, How to Be\, was one of the Thirteen Best Children’s Books for Family Literacy.  She is a comics contributor at The Rumpus and teaches illustration at the California College of the Arts. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and son. You can find her online at americanchickens.com or on Twitter: @lisabrowndraws.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-brown-long-story-short-100-classic-books-in-3-panels/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bonnie Tsui: Why We Swim
DESCRIPTION:Bonnie Tsui discusses her new book\, Why We Swim\, with Caroline Paul. \nPraise for Why We Swim \n “A beautifully written love letter to water and a fascinating story. I was enchanted.”–Rebecca Skloot\, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks \n“The only thing better than reading Bonnie Tsui’s writing about swimming is swimming itself—and both are sublime. Why We Swim is an aquatic tour de force\, a captivating story filled with adventure\, meditation\, and celebration.”– Susan Casey\, New York Times bestselling author of The Wave and Voices in the Ocean \n“This is a jewel of a book\, a paean to the wonders of water and our place within it.” –James Nestor\, author of Deep: Freediving\, Renegade Science\, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves \n“Magnificent. Only a truly great story can hold my attention and Why We Swim had me nailed to the chair . . . I love this book.” – Christopher McDougall\, bestselling author of Born to Run and Natural Born Heroes \nAbout Why We Swim \nHumans\, unlike other animals that are drawn to water\, are not natural-born swimmers. We must be taught. Our evolutionary ancestors learned for survival; now in the twenty-first century we swim in freezing Arctic waters and piranha-infested rivers to test our limits. Swimming is an introspective and silent sport in a chaotic and noisy age; it’s therapeutic for both the mind and body; and it’s an adventurous way to get from point A to point B. It’s also one route to that elusive\, ecstatic state of flow. These reasons\, among many others\, make swimming one of the most popular activities in the world. \nWhy We Swim is propelled by stories of Olympic champions\, a Baghdad swim club that meets in Saddam Hussein’s palace pool\, modern-day Japanese samurai swimmers\, and even an Icelandic fisherman who improbably survives a wintry six-hour swim after a shipwreck. New York Times contributor Bonnie Tsui\, a swimmer herself\, dives into the deep\, from the San Francisco Bay to the South China Sea\, investigating what about water—despite its dangers—seduces us and why we come back to it again and again. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bonnie-tsui-why-we-swim/
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:Wendy Liu
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nAbolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism \nfrom Repeater Books \nFormer insider turned critic Wendy Liu busts the myths of the tech industry\, and offers a galvanising argument for why and how we must reclaim technology’s potential for the public good. \nInnovation. Meritocracy. The possibility of overnight success. What’s not to love about Silicon Valley? \nThese days\, it’s hard to be unambiguously optimistic about the growth-at-all-costs ethos of the tech industry. Public opinion is souring in the wake of revelations about Cambridge Analytica\, Theranos\, and the workplace conditions of Amazon warehouse workers or Uber. We’re starting to see the cracks in the edifice\, as we realise that the wealth that the tech industry is so good at creating is neither sustainable nor always desirable. \nAbolish Silicon Valley is both a heartfelt personal story about the wasteful inequality and unsubstantiated lies of Silicon Valley\, and a rallying call to engage in the radical politics needed to upend the status quo. Going beyond the idiosyncrasies of the individual founders and companies that characterise the industry today\, Liu delves into the structural factors of the economy that led to Silicon Valley in its current form\, and links them to the economy at large. Ultimately\, she proposes a more radical way of developing technology\, where innovation is conducted for the benefit of society at large\, and not merely to enrich a select few. \n\nWendy Liu is a former startup founder who now writes about the political economy of the tech industry and why tech workers need to unionise.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wendy-liu/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kaouther Adimi: Our Riches
DESCRIPTION:Algerian author Kaouther Adimi discusses his new novel Our Riches. Sponsored by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. \nPraise for Our Riches \n“An understated\, lyrical story of reading and resistance over the tumultuous generations.”—Kirkus Reviews (Starred) \n“Adimi’s confident prose displays Ryad and Charlot’s emotional depth while nimbly shuttling the reader through nearly a century of history. This is a moving tribute to the enduring power of literature.”—Publishers Weekly \n“Fascinating: Adimi synthesizes the private minutiae of the great and sometimes forgotten publisher Edmond Charlot with the history of the times in a surprisingly light\, almost breezy fashion\, making this a fast\, interesting\, and engaging read.”—Adam Hocker\, Albertine Bookstore \nAbout Our Riches \nThe powerful English debut of a rising young French star\, Our Riches is a marvelous\, surprising\, hybrid novel about a beloved Algerian bookshop \nOur Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot\, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses (Our True Wealth)\, the famous Algerian bookstore/publishing house/lending library. He more than fulfilled its motto “by the young\, for the young\,” discovering the twenty-four-year-old Albert Camus in 1937. His entire archive was twice destroyed by the French colonial forces\, but despite financial difficulties (he was hopelessly generous) and the vicissitudes of wars and revolutions\, Charlot (often compared to the legendary bookseller Sylvia Beach) carried forward Les Vraies Richesses as a cultural hub of Algiers. Our Riches interweaves Charlot’s story with that of another twenty-year-old\, Ryad (dispatched in 2017 to empty the old shop and repaint it). Ryad’s no booklover\, but old Abdallah\, the bookshop’s self-appointed\, nearly illiterate guardian\, opens the young man’s mind. Cutting brilliantly from Charlot to Ryad\, from the 1930s to current times\, from WWII to the bloody 1961 Free Algeria demonstrations in Paris\, Adimi delicately packs a monumental history of intense political drama into her swift and poignant novel. But most of all\, it’s a hymn to the book and to the love of books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kaouther-adimi-our-riches/
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:Readings by Aaron Shurin and Gillian Conoley
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a special evening with beloved Bay Area writers Aaron Shurin (The Blue Absolute) and Gillian Conoley (A Little More Red Sun on the Human: New and Selected Poems). Please join us for a night of readings! \nAbout The Blue Absolute \nUrban and pastoral\, highly figured and fragmented\, grieving and dreaming\, the prose poems of The Blue Absolute set people moving and thinking amidst a flurry of dashes\, dots\, perspective shifts\, and the fragmented action of San Francisco\, the great city on the edge. \nThe Blue Absolute’s prose poems are hot boxes of lyrical language combusting with daily life. People move and think amidst a flurry of dots and dashes in a constant shift of perspective and action—urban and pastoral\, highly figured and fragmented\, grieving and dreaming—each poem a compressed but fluid zone of almost psychedelic intensity. The book closes with “Shiver\,” an American epic\, at once a lament for and vision of a great city on the edge: San Francisco past\, present\, and future. \nAaron Shurin is the author of fourteen books of poetry and prose\, most recently Flowers & Sky: Two Talks (Entre Rios Books\, 2017)\, The Skin of Meaning: Collected Literary Essays and Talks (University of Michigan Press\, 2015)\, and two books from City Lights: Citizen (poems\, 2012) and King of Shadows (essays\, 2008). His work has appeared in over forty national and international anthologies\, from The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry to Italy’s Nuova Poesia Americana: San Francisco\, and has been supported by grants from The National Endowment for the Arts\, The California Arts Council\, The San Francisco Arts Commission\, and the Gerbode Foundation. A pioneer in both LGBTQ studies and innovative verse\, Shurin was a member of the original Good Gay Poets collective in Boston\, and later the first graduate of the storied Poetics Program at New College of California. He has written numerous critical essays about poetic theory and compositional practice\, as well as personal narratives on sexual identity\, gender fluidity\, and the AIDS epidemic. A longtime educator\, he’s the former director and currently Professor Emeritus for the MFA Writing Program at the University of San Francisco. \n\nAbout A Little More Red Sun on the Human \nA selection of poems by celebrated poet Gillian Conoley that spans her arresting body of work: from the idiosyncrasies of Texas girlhood toward an encompassing inquiry into spirit and matter\, individual and state. \nGillian Conoley’s new and selected poems assemble a shockingly varied body of work\, comprising narrative\, lyric\, and fragmented forms. Her coruscating vibrant poems are informed by visual art and film\, political engagement and playful linguistic constructions. Throughout\, one can trace Conoley’s obsessions and concerns: democracy\, metaphysics\, motherhood\, gender and race\, futurity and history. \nGillian Conoley was awarded the 2017 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. A Little More Red Sun on the Human: Selected Poems is forthcoming with Nightboat Books in Fall 2019. Her seventh poetry collection\, PEACE\, was named an Academy of American Poets Standout Book for 2014 and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Conoley’s work has received the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize\, a National Endowment for the Arts grant\, and a Fund for Poetry Award. Her translations of Henri Michaux\, Thousand Times Broken\, appeared with City Lights in 2014. Conoley is Poet-in-Residence and Professor of English at Sonoma State University\, where she edits Volt. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of The Blue Absolute and/or A Little More Red Sun on the Human\, click on the appropriate title(s) in this sentence and be sure to put your request in the special field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/readings-by-aaron-shurin-and-gillian-conoley/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tess Taylor with Ilya Kaminsky
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of Tess Taylor’s \n \nRift Zone:poems \npublished by Red Hen Press \nand \n \nLast West \npublished by Museum of Modern Art Books \nabout Rift Zone \nRIFT ZONE\, Taylor’s much-anticipated third book traces literal and metaphoric fault lines—rifts between past and present\, childhood and adulthood\, what is and what was. Circling Taylor’s hometown—an ordinary California suburb lying along the Hayward fault—these poems unearth strata that include a Spanish land grant\, a bloody land grab\, gun violence\, valley girls\, strip malls\, redwood trees\, and the painful history of Japanese internment. Taylor’s ambitious and masterful poems read her home state’s historic violence against our world’s current unsteadinesses—mass eviction\, housing crises\, deportation\, inequality. They also ponder what it means to try to bring up children along these rifts. What emerges is a powerful core sample of America at the brink—an American elegy equally tuned to maternal and to geologic time. \nabout Last West \nLast West is a book-length commission from the Museum of Modern Art. It will be published by the Museum of Modern Art (NYC) this February and part of the Dorothea Lange Words & Pictures exhibit. The book revisits the work of Dorothea Lange in California in contemporary poems examining issues of migrancy\, shelterlessness\, and climate change as they appear in Lange’s work and continue to affect us today. \nabout Ilya Kaminski’s Deaf Republic \nDeaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy\, Petya\, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear―they all have gone deaf\, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. At once a love story\, an elegy\, and an urgent plea\, Ilya Kaminsky’s long-awaited Deaf Republic confronts our time’s vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them. \nTess Taylor is a poet and the poetry critic for NPR’s All Things Considered. Her books include Work & Days (Red Hen Press\, 2016)\, named one of the best poetry books of 2016 by The New York Times; The Forage House (Red Hen Press\, 2013)\, a finalist for the Believer Poetry Award which The San Francisco Chronicle called “stunning\,” and the chapbook The Misremembered World\, which was selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook fellowship. In February 2020\, Last West\, an exciting book length commission from the Museum of Modern Art\, will be published in conjunction with the MOMA show\, Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures. In his introduction to the collection\, Ilya Kaminsky calls Taylor’s voice “invaluable” and a “poet for our moment.”  Her work explores California and the American West\, her life as a critic\, and the intersection of poetry and journalism. \nIlya Kaminsky is the author of the widely acclaimed Deaf Republic (Graywolf\, 2019)\, a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry\, which Kevin Young\, writing in The New Yorker\, called a work of “profound imagination.” Poems from Deaf Republic were awarded Poetry magazine’s Levinson Prize and the Pushcart Prize. He is also the author of Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo Press\, 2004)\, and Musica Humana (Chapiteau Press\, 2002). Kaminsky has won the Whiting Writer’s Award\, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award\, the Dorset Prize\, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship\, and the Foreword Magazine’s Best Poetry Book of the Year award. Recently\, he was on the short-list for the Neusdadt International Literature Prize. His poems have been translated into numerous languages and his books have been published in many countries including Turkey\, Holland\, Russia\, France\, Mexico\, Macedonia\, Romania\, Spain and China\, where his poetry was awarded the Yinchuan International Poetry Prize. His poems have been compared to work by Anna Akhmatova\, Osip Mandelstam\, and Marina Tsvetaeva.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tess-taylor-with-ilya-kaminsky/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Emily St. John Mandel: The Glass Hotel
DESCRIPTION:Emily St. John Mandel discusses her new novel\, The Glass Hotel. \nPraise for The Glass Hotel \n“Long-anticipated… At its heart\, this is a ghost story in which every boundary is blurred\, from the moral to the physical… In luminous prose\, Mandel shows how easy it is to become caught in a web of unintended consequences and how disastrous it can be when such fragile bonds shatter under pressure. A strange\, subtle\, and haunting novel. – Kirkus Reviews\, starred \n“Mandel’s wonderful novel (after Station Eleven) follows a brother and sister as they navigate heartache\, loneliness\, wealth\, corruption\, drugs\, ghosts\, and guilt… This ingenious\, enthralling novel probes the tenuous yet unbreakable bonds between people and the lasting effects of momentary carelessness.”– Publisher’s Weekly\, starred \nAbout The Glass Hotel \nVincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette\, a five-star hotel on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis\, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobby’s glass wall: “Why don’t you swallow broken glass.” Leon Prevant\, a shipping executive for Neptune-Avradimis\, reads the words and orders a drink to calm down. Alkaitis\, the owner of the hotel and a wealthy investment manager\, arrives too late to read the threat\, never knowing it was intended for him. He leaves Vincent a hundred dollar tip along with his business card\, and a year later they are living together as husband and wife. \nHigh above Manhattan\, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitis is running an international Ponzi scheme\, moving imaginary sums of money through clients’ accounts. He holds the life savings of an artist named Olivia Collins\, the fortunes of a Saudi prince and his extended family\, and countless retirement funds\, including Leon Prevant’s. The collapse of the financial empire is as swift as it is devastating\, obliterating fortunes and lives\, while Vincent walks away into the night. Until\, years later\, she steps aboard a Neptune-Avramidis vessel\, the Neptune Cumberland\, and disappears from the ship between ports of call. \nIn this captivating story of crisis and survival\, Emily St. John Mandel takes readers through often hidden landscapes: campgrounds for the near-homeless\, underground electronica clubs\, the business of international shipping\, service in luxury hotels\, and life in a federal prison. Rife with unexpected beauty\, The Glass Hotel is a captivating portrait of greed and guilt\, love and delusion\, ghosts and unintended consequences\, and the infinite ways we search for meaning in our lives. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emily-st-john-mandel-the-glass-hotel/
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:Homewreck: A Shipwreck Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:Get ready\, matchmakers: we’re going back to Austenland for a night of charming romantic misunderstandings and youthful hubris. Join us to wreck EMMA from the comfort of your home. \nTo the best of technology’s ability\, this will be like a regular Shipwreck. Six great writers will submit erotic fanfiction about a character from Emma\, Baruch will read them anonymously\, Amy and Casey will host\, you’ll laugh and drink too much. The show will stream for free on Booksmith’s Facebook page and our Twitch stream. At the end\, anyone who’s donated by purchasing a ticket will vote for the winner. \nTicket proceeds—and do please feel free to buy in multiples—go toward keeping our skeleton crew running during the shutdown (and paying the writers and performer). \nThanks\, as ever\, for laughing with us. \nFeatured writers: Joe Wadlington\, Alan Leggitt\, Molly Sanchez\, Sarah Lynn Rogers\, Nate Waggoner\, and Viv Pustell. \nvv “TICKET” PRICES BELOW vv \n  \n\n\n\n\nBooks:\n\n\n\n\n\n$5 Ticket\n\n$5.00\nSKU: SW5\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n$10 Ticket\n\n$10.00\nSKU: SW10\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n$25 Ticket\n\n$25.00\nSKU: SW25
URL:https://litseen.com/event/homewreck-a-shipwreck-fundraiser/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Launch for Jennifer Hasegawa / La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening with Jennifer Hasegawa to launch her debut book\, La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living. More information to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nFrom the small towns strung along the coast of the Big Island of Hawai‘i to the land-locked landscapes of Paraguay to the volcanic surface of Venus\, this is a field guide to flora\, fauna\, and mineralia encountered\, real and imagined. Packed tightly into exploratory rocket segments\, these poems ignite our gravest flaws to send our grandest potentials into orbit\, sprinkling us all with an antidotal salve to viewing any life as ordinary. \nBanzai has a literal translation of “10\,000 years” and was used by the Japanese as a rallying cry in imperialistic and militaristic contexts. Today\, the word has a comparatively neutral translation of “Hurrah!” in Japan and beyond. In La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living\, Hasegawa aims to reclaim banzai\, recasting the language of war and dogmatic loyalty into the language of a life and poetry created against racism and harmful norms\, and toward tolerance and self-acceptance. \nJennifer Hasegawa is a poet and photographer. She’s sold funeral insurance door-to-door and had her suitcase stolen from a plastic surgery clinic in Paraguay. The manuscript for her first collection of poetry\, La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living\, received the Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award. Hasegawa’s work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, has appeared in The Adroit Journal\, Bamboo Ridge\, and Tule Review; and is forthcoming in Bennington Review and Vallum. She was born and raised in Hilo\, Hawai‘i and lives in San Francisco. \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. The bar opens at 6:30pm; event starts at 7pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-launch-for-jennifer-hasegawa-la-chicas-field-guide-to-banzai-living/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Grace Notes: Poets at Grace Cathedral
DESCRIPTION:Join Litquake for our annual National Poetry Month celebration\, at Grace Cathedral atop the city’s Nob Hill\, for readings from some of America’s best poets: Kazim Ali\, Natalie Diaz\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, and Jane Hirshfield. Curated and hosted by Rebecca Foust\, bookstore provided by Russian Hill Books. Sales and signings to follow. FREE \nModerators \n\n\n \nRebecca Foust\nRebecca Foust was the Poet Laureate of Marin County and is the author of Paradise Drive\, All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song\, and God\, Seed\, as well as three chapbooks including The Unexploded Ordnance Bin\, released November 2019.\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n \nJane Hirshfield\nJane Hirshfield’s ninth collection\, Ledger (Knopf)\, just released. Chancellor emerita of the Academy of American Poets and recently elected into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences\, she works frequently at the intersection of poetry and science. Her essays\, poems\, and translations… Read More →\n\n\n \nTongo Eisen-Martin\nTongo Eisen-Martin is the author of Someone’s Dead Already and Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)\, which won the 2018 California Book Award.\n\n\n \nNatalie Diaz\nNatalie Diaz is author of the new poetry collection Postcolonial Love Poem\, as well as the award-winning When My Brother Was an Aztec. She has received many honors\, including a MacArthur Fellowship\, a US Artists Ford Fellowship\, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. She teaches at Arizona… Read More →\n\n\n \nKazim Ali\nKazim Ali’s many books include The Far Mosque\, which won an Alice James Books award and Inquisition (2018)\, as well as the prose books The Disappearance of Seth\, Bright Felon\, and Resident Alien. Ali co-founded Nightboat Books and is a professor at U.C. San Diego.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/grace-notes-poets-at-grace-cathedral/
LOCATION:Grace Cathedral\, 1100 California Street\, San Francisco\, 1100 California Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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