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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170112T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170112T170000
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SUMMARY:Porchlight: BOMBS AWAY!
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/porchlight-bombs-away/
LOCATION:Oasis\, 298 11th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170112T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170112T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T164819
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SUMMARY:Russian Tales: San Francisco Reading
DESCRIPTION:LGBTQ Pride Readings presents three authors of new Russian novels: Arthur J. Levy (Coda: A Tale of Tchaikovsky’s Secret Love)\, Wayne Goodman (Vanya Says “Go!”)\, and Michael Aleynikov (Ivan and Misha)\, Coda spins a tale of a secret encoded in music by Tchaikovsky\, discovered in a present-day antique shop in New York City. Vanya Says “Go!” is a retelling and expansion of Mikhail Kuskin’s Wings\, the first known Gay Russian novel\, originally published in 1906. Ivan and Misha tells the story of twins and their father\, Russian-speaking emigres from Ukraine to contemporary New York. All three novels expand the idea of what a Russian novel is. This is a free event with complimentary Russian refreshments and Russian door prizes for promptness.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/russian-tales-san-francisco-reading/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170112T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170112T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T164819
CREATED:20161223T021612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T021612Z
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck: The Little House on the Prairie
DESCRIPTION:This month\, Shipwreck tries not to die of dysentery when we take it way back to Laura Ingalls Wilder’s The Little House on the Prairie (et al.). \nFeatured writers: December winner Michael Howley\, plus Tess Barry\, Daphne Gottlieb\, Tirumari Jothi\, Meg Trowbridge\, & Hope Waggoner. \n$10 gets you an open bar (21+) and two hours of utter depravity. Seats go fast; best to buy tickets early. \nTICKETS ON SALE NOW. \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event. \nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on the first Thursday of every month at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco. \nFics are blind-read by our Thespian-in-Residence\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and you choose the best ship before the writers are unmasked. The winner is cast off from polite society\, and invited back the next month to defend their title. \nCritics are saying:\n“… the most despicable literary event possible.”\n“… an affront to literature.”\n“It used to be we had to sit in dark\, sticky booths to get these kinds of sleazy thrills.”\n“Come if you are high on marijuana cigarettes and have done sex before.”\n“… a vile\, disgusting event.””Shipwreck will bring you to madness\, and you may never return.”\n“…wonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting.”\n“…punny sodomy and gross indecency.” \n— \nPLEASE NOTE: No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. We’re not dicks\, we just like dick jokes. \nShipwreck tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable for any reason.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-the-little-house-on-the-prairie/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170112T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170112T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T164819
CREATED:20161223T033128Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T033128Z
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SUMMARY:Hettie Jones
DESCRIPTION:discussing her new book \nLove\, H: The Letters of Helene Dorn and Hettie Jones  \nfrom Duke University Press \n“It works\, we’re in business\, yeah Babe!” So begins this remarkable selection from a forty-year correspondence between two artists who survived their time as wives in the Beat bohemia of the 1960s and went on to successful artistic careers of their own.\n\nFrom their first meeting in 1960\, writer Hettie Jones—then married to LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)—and painter and sculptor Helene Dorn (1927–2004)\, wife of poet Ed Dorn\, found in each other more than friendship. They were each other’s confidant\, emotional support\, and unflagging partner through difficulties\, defeats\, and victories\, from surviving divorce and struggling as single mothers\, to finding artistic success in their own right.\n\nRevealing the intimacy of lifelong friends\, these letters tell two stories from the shared point of view of women who refused to go along with society’s expectations. Jones frames her and Helene’s story\, adding details and explanations while filling in gaps in the narrative. As she writes\, “we’d fled the norm for women then\, because to live it would have been a kind of death.”\n\nApart from these two personal stories\, there are\, as well\, reports from the battlegrounds of women’s rights and tenant’s rights\, reflections on marriage and motherhood\, and contemplation of the past to which these two had remained irrevocably connected. Prominent figures such as Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary appear as well\, making Love\, H an important addition to literature on the Beats.\n\nAbove all\, this book is a record of the changing lives of women artists as the twentieth century became the twenty-first\, and what it has meant for women considering such a life today. It’s worth a try\, Jones and Dorn show us\, offering their lives as proof that it can be done.\nAbout The Author \nHettie Jones is the author of numerous books\, including her memoir of the Beat scene How I Became Hettie Jones; the poetry collection Drive; and the young adult Big Star Fallin’ Mama: Five Women in Black Music. She has published in many newspapers and magazines\, including the Village Voice\, Global City Review\, and Ploughshares. She currently teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at The New School\, the 92nd Street Y\, and the Lower Eastside Girls Club\, and she previously taught at several colleges and universities in New York and elsewhere. Jones lives in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hettie-jones/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170115
DTSTAMP:20260501T164819
CREATED:20170113T055529Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T055529Z
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SUMMARY:Poets & Writers Live
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-writers-live/
LOCATION:San Francisco Art Institute\, 800 Chestnut St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170114T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170114T150000
DTSTAMP:20260501T164819
CREATED:20170113T053639Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T053639Z
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SUMMARY:RADAR Productions: Drag Queen Story Hour For Kids
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/radar-productions-drag-queen-story-hour-for-kids/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170114T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170114T203000
DTSTAMP:20260501T164819
CREATED:20161018T003559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T003559Z
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SUMMARY:Rolling Writers: R-Dub REAL
DESCRIPTION:Memoirists\nSean Craven\nChristina Ingenito\nTania Martin\nBradley Paterson\nTony Press\nmore to come … \nSubmissions open. This will be a Moth-style evening\, with speakers telling stories from their lives without notes. A decided preference will be for self-revelatory tales of every hue. The time limit will be about eight minutes.\nWould you like to submit something for consideration? If it is a piece you have performed and can link to online\, that would be great; if it is in written form\, that would work; otherwise\, please paste a synopsis of five to ten lines into your message. One note: since this is a family café\, with children sometimes present\, profanity will not be allowed. If interested in submitting\, please write to Jon Sindell: jsind [at] sbcglobal [dot net]. The subject line of your email should read: R-Dub Real: Your Name. \nLet’s get real!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rolling-writers-r-dub-real/
LOCATION:Rolling Out Cafe\, 1722 Taraval St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170114T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170114T213000
DTSTAMP:20260501T164819
CREATED:20161129T061046Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T061046Z
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Jeff Chang (Can’t Stop Won’t Stop)\nWendy C. Ortiz (Excavation: A Memoir\, Hollywood Notebook)\nAya de Leon (Uptown Thief)\nRebecca Farivar (Correct Animal)\nAntonio Garcia Martinez (Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley)\nWITH GUEST HOST Baruch Porras-Hernandez
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170116T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170116T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T164819
CREATED:20170117T033019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170117T033019Z
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SUMMARY:Susan Alice Bickford
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-alice-bickford/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Mountain View\, 301 Castro St\, Mountain View \, CA\, 94041\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170116T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170116T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T164819
CREATED:20170109T101043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T101043Z
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SUMMARY:From Mandalay to the Bay
DESCRIPTION:From Mandalay to the Bay: An Evening of Burmese & Burmese American Poets & Writers \nPlease join us for a very special event at Alley Cat Books in San Francisco on Monday\, January 16th\, 2017 at 6pm. Renowned poet\, ko ko thett\, will be making a rare appearance in the Bay Area to celebrate his latest book\, The Burden of Being Burmese (Zephyr). He is also the co-editor of Bones Will Crow: Fifteen Contemporary Burmese Poets (Northern Illinois University Press). He will be joined by Bay Area authors\, poets\, and translators\, Htet Yi Linn\, Khin Thiri Nandar Soe\, Audrey T. Williams\, Maw Shein Win\, and Kenneth Wong. \nFree. \nFor more information\, please contact maw@redbridgepress.com \nBios of Readers \nHtet Yi Linn is an undergraduate pursuing a degree in Business Administration at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. At Cal\, she serves as the President of Burma Association at Berkeley where she works hard to bring the Cal community closer to the Burmese culture. Despite moving out of Burma at the age of 14\, she remains close to the Burmese culture and language through Burmese novels and by staying close to Burmese communities overseas. She embraces the Burmese culture and literature. She has also worked on multiple translation projects. You can find some of her writings about snippets of her life at heyhtett.wordpress.com. \nKhin Thiri Nandar Soe (her pen name is Niyawdar) writes poems and critiques on Burmese political and social culture. She is from Burma and poetry is her first love. Her poems and articles are published in Burmese revolutionary magazines such as Thitsar\, Ah Lin Eain\, Aharya\, Daung O Wai and the literary magazine Kaung Kin (The Sky). Most of her works reflect Burma’s struggle for liberation and human nature. \nko ko thett is a poet by choice and Burmese by chance. He has received an English PEN Translation Award for the seminal Bones will Crow: Fifteen Contemporary Burmese Poets (Northern Illinois University Press\, 2013\, co-edited with James Byrne). The Burden of Being Burmese (Zephyr\, 2015)\, a collection of ko ko thett’s poems that have appeared in literary journals worldwide\, is listed on ‘‘Nota Benes’’ by World Literature Today. He has read at Sharjah International Book Fair\, Hong Kong Poetry Nights and Minsheng Art Museum in Shanghai. After a whirlwind tour of Southeast Asia and Europe for about 18 years\, ko ko thett moved back to Yangon. He writes in both Burmese and English\, and is an honorary fellow in writing at the University of Iowa. \nAudrey T. Williams is an Oakland-based writer. She is a Medical Writer by day\, and an MFA Candidate in creative nonfiction at California College of the Arts all other times. Audrey grew up in North Carolina. She writes lyrical essays and poems about her multi-cultural family life\, being Burmese and African American. She has been deeply exploring her cultural and racial identity formation\, focused on social dynamics post-Independence in Burma and post-Integration in America. Just when Audrey thought she had resolved the questions about her ancestry\, a conversation with a co-worker from India exposes a family secret…to learn more visit www.audreyTwilliams.com. \nMaw Shein Win is a poet\, editor\, and educator who lives and works in the Bay Area. Ruins of a glittering palace\, her collaborative chapbook\, with paintings by Mark Dutcher\, was published by SPA/Commonwealth Projects. She is a poetry editor for Rivet: The Journal of Writing that Risks and an instructor at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Her chapbook Score and Bone on Nomadic Press was recently nominated for a CLMP Firecracker Award. She is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito. http://www.el-cerrito.org/poets \nKenneth Wong is a Burmese-American author and blogger who grew up in Rangoon. He lives in San Francisco\, California\, and teaches Beginning Burmese at UC Berkeley. His essays\, short stories\, and poetry translations have appeared in Grain\, AGNI\, Eleven Eleven\, Myanmar Times\, Irrawaddy\, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/from-mandalay-to-the-bay/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170116T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170116T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T164819
CREATED:20170113T063515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T063515Z
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SUMMARY:The Racket #3
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-3/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170117T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170117T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T164819
CREATED:20170113T065353Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T065353Z
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SUMMARY:Thomas Perry
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/thomas-perry/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170117T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170117T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T164819
CREATED:20170109T101353Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T101353Z
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SUMMARY:Queer Words: Poetry + Prose
DESCRIPTION:Queer Words presents four poets reading new poetry and prose Tuesday\, January 17\, 7 pm at Folio Books\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. Natasha Dennerstein reads from her new collection Triptych Caliform\, David Hathwell from Muses\, Richard Loranger from Sudden Windows\, and Arisa White from You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened. Free admission and refreshments. Door prizes awarded for promptness!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queer-words-poetry-prose/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170117T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170117T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T164819
CREATED:20161201T023556Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T023556Z
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SUMMARY:Josh Mohr
DESCRIPTION:discussing his new memoir \nSirens \nfrom Two Dollar Radio \n\n\n“To the short list of genuinely great addiction memoirs we can now add Sirens\, a searing and at times hilarious account of Mohr’s lost years in the dive bars and gutters of San Francisco. Like Mary Karr and Jerry Stahl\, there is no line Mohr won’t cross\, either in his erstwhile quest for self-immolation\, or his fearless honesty in reporting back from that time. But what sets this book apart is Mohr’s unwillingness to traffic in pat notions of redemption.”—Ron Currie\, Jr. \n“This isn’t your average recovery memoir. Mohr’s honesty in this book is astonishing and necessary\, his candor about hitting bottom and relapsing deeply moving and important. It’s a hell of a compelling read.”—Cari Luna \nAcclaimed novelist Joshua Mohr provides a captivating and complicated account of his years of substance abuse and culpability in his non-fiction debut. Employing the characterization and chimerical prose for which he has been lauded\, Mohr traces his childhood swilling fuzzy navels as a latch-key kid\, through his first failed marriage\, parenthood\, heart-surgery\, and his everyday struggle against relapse. \nJoshua Mohr is the author of Some Things that Meant the World to Me\, one of Oprah Magazine‘s Top 10 reads of 2009 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller; Termite Parade\, an Editors’ Choice pick at the New York Times Book Review; Damascus\, called “Beat-poet cool” by the New York Times; and\, most recently\, Fight Song and All This Life. He recently moved with his family to Seattle\, Washington.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/josh-mohr/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170117T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170117T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T164819
CREATED:20170113T065931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T065931Z
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SUMMARY:Sara Marinelli
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/sara-marinelli/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170117T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170117T213000
DTSTAMP:20260501T164819
CREATED:20161201T025606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T025606Z
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SUMMARY:Pola Oloixarac
DESCRIPTION:Argentinian writer Pola Oloixarac in conversation about her first novel translated into English\, Savage Theories. \n\nPraise for Savage Theories: \n“A stunning vibrant maximalist whirlwind of a novel. Oloixarac’s wit and ambition are evident on every page. By comparison\, most other contemporary fiction seems a little dull and simple-minded.” — Hari Kunzru\, author of Gods Without Men \n“Monstrously clever and terribly funny. More than a debut\, this book is one many of us would spend our lives trying to write. ” — Javier Calvo \n“Pola Oloixarac’s prose is the great event of the new Argentinian narrative. Her novel is unforgettable\, philosophical and very serene.” — Ricardo Piglia \nAbout Savage Theories: \nA novel of seduction and madness\, hate and love\, set in the world of Argentinean academia and animated by the spirits of Wittgenstein\, Rousseau\, Nabokov and Bolano.\nRosa Ostreech\, a pseudonym for the novel’s beautiful but self-conscious narrator\, carries around a trilingual edition of Aristotle’s Metaphysics\, struggles with her thesis on violence and culture\, sleepswith a bourgeois former guerrilla\, and pursues her elderly professor with a highly charged blend oferoticism and desperation. Elsewhere on campus\, Pabst and Kamtchowsky tour the underground scene of Buenos Aires\, dabbling in ketamine\, sex\, video games\, and hacking. And in Africa in 1917\, a Dutch anthropologist named Johan van Vliet begins work on a theory that explains human consciousness and civilization by reference to our early primate ancestors animals\, who\, in the process of becominghuman\, spent thousands of years as prey.\nSavage Theories wryly explores fear and violence\, war and sex\, eroticism and philosophy. Its complex and flawed characters grapple with a mess of impossible\, visionary theories\, searching for their place in our fragmented digital world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pola-oloixarac/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170118T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170118T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T164819
CREATED:20170109T101547Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T101547Z
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SUMMARY:Litquake: No Shadow Without Light
DESCRIPTION:“I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no shadow unless there is also light.”\n—Margaret Atwood \nAs with the rest of the Bay Area\, Litquake has been festering over the unexpected election of Donald Trump. Do we publish a manifesto? Or curl up in the fetal position? \nYes\, times are dark indeed\, but it’s incumbent on the creative class to stand tall and contribute. And so we are proud to present these diverse and electric Bay Area voices\, who speak to our nation’s fear\, anger\, and perhaps even optimism. \nIn the words of Toni Morrison:\n“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair\, no place for self-pity\, no need for silence\, no room for fear. We speak\, we write\, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.” \nCome and join the chorus! Admission free. \nWords from: \nELMAZ ABINADER\nArab-American author\, poet\, and Mills College professor (“Children of the Roojme: A Family’s Journey from Lebanon”) \nFAITH ADIELE\nAuthor and editor (“The Nigerian-Nordic Girls Guide to Lady Problems”; “Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology”) \nROBERT MAILER ANDERSON\nNovelist and playwright (“The Death of Teddy Ballgame”; “Boonville”) \nDEVORAH MAJOR\nSan Francisco’s third Poet Laureate (“and then we became”) \nSARAH LADIPO MANYIKA\nNovelist and editor (“In Dependence”; “The Weaverbird Collection: New Fiction from Nigeria 2008”) \nALEJANDRO MURGUIA\nSan Francisco’s current Poet Laureate (“Stray Poems: San Francisco Poet Laureate Series No. 6”; “This War Called Love”) \nISHMAEL REED\nAuthor\, editor\, journalist\, SFJAZZ Poet Laureate (“The Complete Muhammad Ali”; “Black Hollywood Unchained”) \nTENNESSEE REED\nPoet and activist (“City Beautiful: Poems 1998-2006”) \nT.J. STILES\nAuthor and twice recipient of the Pulitzer Prize (“Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America”; “The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt”)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-no-shadow-without-light/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170118T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170118T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T164819
CREATED:20170113T071550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T015055Z
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SUMMARY:Cary Tennis + Danelle Morris
DESCRIPTION:All too many people start a writing project with grand ambitions but reach a crisis of completion. Finishing School helps writers reignite the passion that started them on the project in the first place and work steadily to get it done. \nUntold millions of writing projects begun with hope and a little bit of hubris lie abandoned in desk drawers\, in dated files on computer desktops\, and in the far reaches of the mind. Too often\, writers get tangled in self-abuse their self-doubt\, shame\, yearning for perfection\, and even arrogance get in the way. In this new work\, Cary Tennis and Danelle Morton help writers overcome these emotional blocks and break down daunting projects into manageable pieces. \nTennis first convened a finishing school so that writers could help one another stay on track and complete their work. Since they weren’t actually critiquing one another’s writing\, there was no jockeying for the title of best writer or the usual writing group politics; there was only a shared commitment to progress. Without guilt\, blame\, and outside critique\, students were more productive than they imagined possible. Through this program\, they were able to complete novels that they d been struggling with for almost two decades\, finish screenplays drafts\, and revive interest in long-neglected PhD theses. In this book\, the authors share this proven and easily replicable technique\, as well as their own writing success stories. \nCary Tennis wrote the advice column “Since You Asked\,” which appeared on Salon.com for twelve years. As an advice columnist\, he never missed a deadline\, but in his literary writing\, he found himself stalled. Through the Finishing School method that he created\, he completed his novel and now helps others through theirs in his writing workshops and international retreats. \nDanelle Morton is a journalist and the coauthor of fifteen books. Morton has worked for The New York Times\, was an associate bureau chief for People\, and has been a foreign correspondent. She was a finalist for the PEN/USA Literary Nonfiction Award and the ASME magazine award in the public interest category.She has received investigative journalism grants from The Nation Institute and the George Polk Foundation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cary-tennis-danelle-morris/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170118T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170118T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T164819
CREATED:20161201T023713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T023713Z
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SUMMARY:UNNAMED PRESS SHOWCASE
DESCRIPTION:City Lights celebrates Indy Publisher UNNAMED PRESS \nwith two new works of fiction \nOne Life  \nby David Lida \nand \nBorder of Paradise \nby Esme Weijun Wang \nWhat has been said about One Life: \n\n\n\n“ONE LIFE will be deservedly praised for the light it trains on a previously unexposed dark corner of the primitively cruel and racist U.S. justice system. But David Lida also writes\, in his remarkable novel\, about a Mexico that even very few Mexican writers have any first-hand knowledge of\, and does it in a way that readers on both sides of the border have rarely encountered.”                                                       –Francisco Goldman\,  author of ‘Say Her Name’ and ‘The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle’. \n\n\n\n“David Lida’s ONE LIFE is simply revelatory. It’s Juan Rulfo meets Raymond Chandler\, Roberto Bolaño meets Chester Himes. It’s the American justice system\, exposed\, and the inside story of the frenetic\, cruel push and pull that lures Mexican migrants from of their homes to the US. I’ve never read a book quite like this\, and neither have you.”\n—Daniel Alarcón\, author of AT NIGHT WE WALK IN CIRCLES \n“I haven’t read a book this harrowing since Atticus Lish’s PREPARATIONS FOR THE NEXT LIFE. David Lida has written an extraordinary account of the cruelty\, squalor\, and occasional enchantment of life on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border. It is an indictment of a justice system mired in cynicism and bad faith\, and an economic system that hits the poorest hardest\, and repays ambition with betrayal; but at the same time\, ONE LIFE is an incredible love story\, not just in the romantic sense\, but in the sense that it’s about coming to love life itself\, despite everything.”\n—Paul LaFarge\, author of ANOTHER LIFE \nPraise for The Border of Paradise: \n“THE BORDER OF PARADISE is a magnificent achievement – an exhortation for human tenderness and individual dignity in the most difficult of circumstances. Wang explores identity and family with a sense of drama that borders on gothic\, without ever sacrificing the psychological texture that connects us to her characters.”\n—Adrienne Celt\, author of THE DAUGHTERS \n“Wang’s prose is beautiful and restrained\, and her generous\, precise characterization makes every perspective feel organic and utterly real in the face of increasingly theatrical circumstances. The result — the story of an American family stretched and manipulated into impossible shapes — is an extraordinary literary and gothic novel of the highest order.”\n—Carmen Maria Machado\, NPR \nDavid Lida is the author of four books\, including the very well received travel narrative First Stop in the New World (Riverhead\, 2009). One Life is his first novel and will be published in Mexico in Spanish in 2016. He has been a journalist for more than twenty years\, principally in the U.S. and Mexico\, but also for magazines in England\, Canada and Peru. When David is not writing\, he works as a mitigation specialist\, conducting investigations for lawyers in the U.S. who defend clients who are charged with capital murder and facing the death penalty. He is based in Mexico City. \nEsmé Weijun Wang is an award-winning mental health advocate and speaker\, as well as a journalist and essayist. The Border of Paradise is her first novel. She lives in San Francisco. \nThe Unnamed Press publishes literature from around the world. Whether it’s fiction\, memoir or something in between\, they are always interested in unlikely protagonists\, undiscovered territories and courageous voices. To learn more visit: http://unnamedpress.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/unnamed-press-showcase/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170119T174500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170119T193000
DTSTAMP:20260501T164819
CREATED:20170113T074512Z
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SUMMARY:RADAR Productions: A Queer Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:RADAR Productions Presents: JANUARY QUEER READING SERIES at the San Francisco Library \nThursday\, January 19\, 2017\nSan Francisco Public Library\n100 Larkin Street\nLatino/Hispanic Room (basement level)\nPlease arrive by 5:45 PM\n==FREE==\nHosted by Juliana Delgado Lopera \nReading followed by artist Q&A\nDid we mention there will be cookies? \nFEATURING… \nGabrielle Glancy\nWinner of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship\, finalist for Yale Younger Poets\, The Colorado Prize and The Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award\, Gabrielle Glancy has been published in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, The American Poetry Review and many other journals and anthologies. Her book I’m Already Disturbed Please Come In was listed among the top thirty books you may have missed in 2015 by The Advocate. Curve Magazine describes Vera as “. . . a queer gem of a book… wonderful\, literary\, sexy\, funny . . \, by turns mystifying\, hilarious\, admirable\, and always hard to put down . . .” In addition to being a widely published writer\, Gabrielle Glancy is well known all around the world for her college admissions expertise. \nAndrea Wolf\nAndrea Abi-Karam is a mixed race genderqueer punk poet writing on the art of killing bros\, the intricacies of cyborg bodies\, trauma & delayed healing. They recently completed the manuscript EXTRATRANSMISSION a book length piece against how patriarchy and US militarism produce the hypergendered subject. Andrea is both a writer\, printer\, & publisher whose founding small press project Mess Editions seeks to publish emerging writing from queers\, people of color\, and those involved in social movements yet uninvolved in poetry & art scenes. \nCarolina de Robertis\nCarolina De Robertis\, a writer of Uruguayan origins\, is the author of the novels The Gods of Tango\, Perla\, and the international bestseller The Invisible Mountain. Her books have been translated into eighteen languages\, and have received a Stonewall Book Award\, Italy’s Rhegium Julii Prize\, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, among other honors. She is also an award-winning translator of Latin American literature\, and the co-producer\, with her wife Pamela Harris\, of the short documentary film “Farías: an Afro Uruguayan Love Story.” De Robertis teaches fiction and literary translation at San Francisco State University. She has two children who are constantly teaching her new things about cheetahs and the solar system. \nMarcela Pardo\nMarcela Pardo Ariza explores the relationship of wry humor\, queerness and representation through color sets and prop-like objects. Her photographs incorporate quotidian objects in seemingly absurd ways creating tableaux that mix recognizable elements with magical realism. Pardo is interested in the action of looking within the theatricality of “the set” and her visually provoking portraits seek to explore metaphors regarding race and gender. \nPardo is from Bogotá\, Colombia and has worked as a Curatorial Assistant at the Clocktower Gallery (Manhattan\, NY)\, a co-Director at the Swell Gallery (San Francisco\, CA) and Co-Founder/Director of NoRoof Gallery (San Francisco\, CA. Pardo has curated shows at Cranium Corporation (San Francisco\, CA); Residence/SF (San Francisco\, CA); and CTRL+SHFT collective (Oakland\, CA). Her photographic work has been shown at Glasshouse (Brooklyn\, NY); SOMArts (San Francisco\, CA)\, Embark Gallery (San Francisco\, CA)\, Zoo Labs\, guest curated by Et al. (San Francisco\, CA); and Root Division (San Francisco\, CA).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radar-productions-a-queer-reading-series/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170119T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170119T213000
DTSTAMP:20260501T164819
CREATED:20161201T022557Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T022557Z
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SUMMARY:Jason Diamond
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith presents Jason Diamond and his hilarious and poignant new memoir\, Searching for John Hughes: Or Everything I Thought I Needed to Know about Life I Learned from Watching ’80s Movies\, the story of how a Jewish kid from a broken home in a Chicago suburb—sometimes homeless\, always restless—found comfort and connection in the likewise broken lives in the suburban Chicago of John Hughes’ oeuvre. \nA writer at heart\, Diamond decided early on that it would fall to him to write a biography of his favorite filmmaker. It didn’t matter to him that he had no qualifications\, training\, background\, platform\, or direction. Thus went the years-long\, delusional\, earnest\, and assiduous quest to reach his goal. In the meantime\, he brewed coffee\, guarded cupcake cafes\, and built up a respectable writing career. All the while\, he watched John Hughes movies religiously. Though his original biography of Hughes has long since been abandoned\, Jason has discovered he is a writer through and through\, and the adversity of going for broke has now been transformed into wisdom. Or\, at least\, a really\, really good story. \nThis is a memoir of growing up. One part big dream\, one part big failure\, one part John Hughes movies\, one part Chicago\, and one part New York. It’s a story of what comes after the “Go for it!” part of the command to young creatives to pursue their dreams—no matter how absurd they might seem at first. \nJason Diamond is a writer and editor from Brooklyn. He is the Sports Editor at Rolling Stone\, a columnist at Electric Literature\, former Literary Editor at Flavorwire\, former Associate Editor at Men’s Journal\, and the founding editor of Vol. 1 Brooklyn. He has been published by the New York Times\, Paris Review\, New York\, the Believer\, the New Republic\, the New York Observer\, Tablet\, The Rumpus\, The Awl\, and many other places. He lives in Brooklyn\, New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jason-diamond/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170119T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170119T220000
DTSTAMP:20260501T164819
CREATED:20170109T101827Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T101827Z
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SUMMARY:Cheng\, Perez\, + Calimlim
DESCRIPTION:JANUARY ARTIST SHOWCASE AND OPENING RECEPTION co-presented by Omnidawn Publishing \nArc Gallery & Studios\n1246 Folsom St. (btw 8th and 9th)\nThursday\, January 19th\, 2017 8-10pm\nEarly Bird $8 | Pre-sale $10 | Door $12| Season Pass (includes Celebrate Your Body and APAture 2017) $50 — bit.ly/kswpresents01 \nKearny Street Workshop teams up with Omnidawn Publishing to present the book releases for Jennifer S. Cheng’s “House A” and Robert Andrew Perez’s “the field”. \nAND \nKSW’s Office Gallery re-launches! Focusing on early artists looking to mount their first solo exhibition\, we are proud to present a new exhibition by Francis Calimlim. \nbios: \nJennifer S. Cheng writes in the intersecting space of poetry and essay. Her book HOUSE A explores immigrant home-building and was selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize\, and she is also the author of Invocation: An Essay (New Michigan Press)\, an image-text chapbook. www.jenniferscheng.com \nRobert Andrew Perez lives in Berkeley and is an associate editor & book designer for speCt! in Oakland\, where he also curates readings. He is an alum of the Lambda Literary fellowship & a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for poetry. His poetry has appeared in print & online in publications such as DIAGRAM\, The Awl\, The Laurel Review & The Cortland Review\, and has forthcoming work in Vinyl. His first collection\, the field\, was published with Omnidawn in their pocket book series. He is currently writing a movie about a divorce and wine tasting; it’s a comedy. More at robertandrewperez.com. \nFrancis Calimlim was born in Quezon City\, Philippines and was raised in San Diego\, California. He has participated in a number of group shows in San Diego\, Los Angeles\, and San Francisco. He received his BFA in Multimedia at San Diego State University in 2011\, and his MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. http://www.franciscalimlimart.com/ \nOmnidawn Publishing was founded by wife and husband team Rusty Morrison and Ken Keegan to create books that are most closely aligned with each author’s vision\, and to provide an interactive and rewarding publishing experience for poets and writers. They encourage authors to participate at every point in the decision making process of book design and book production\, and thus far all have taken an active part\, deciding on or providing cover art and assisting in the design of the interior of the books. Omnidawn has been publishing poetry since 2001\, with Fabulist and New Fabulist Fiction added in 2006.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cheng-perez-calimlim/
LOCATION:Kearny Street Workshop\, 1246 Folsom St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170120T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170120T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T164819
CREATED:20170113T081624Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T061037Z
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Moore
DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Moore shares his latest heart-pounding thriller\, The Dark Room. Gavin Cain\, an SFPD homicide inspector\, is in the middle of an exhumation when his phone rings. San Francisco’s mayor is being blackmailed and has ordered Cain back to the city; a helicopter is on its way. The casket\, and Cain’s cold-case investigation\, must wait. At City Hall\, the mayor shows Cain four photographs he’s received: the first\, an unforgettable blonde; the second\, pills and handcuffs on a nightstand; the third\, the woman drinking from a flask; and last\, the woman naked\, unconscious\, and shackled to a bed. The accompanying letter is straightforward: worse revelations are on the way unless the mayor takes his own life first. An intricately plotted\, deeply affecting thriller that keeps readers guessing until the final pages\, The Dark Room tracks Cain as he hunts for the blackmailer\, pitching him into the web of destruction and devotion the mayor casts in his shadow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jonathan-moore/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170121T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170121T150000
DTSTAMP:20260501T164819
CREATED:20170113T082227Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T061145Z
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SUMMARY:Songs of Protest
DESCRIPTION:Come to Adobe Books on Inauguration Day for music that will stir your protesting souls\, warm your weary hearts\, remind you of all that is beautiful and strange and hard about this thing we call democracy\, this country we call America. \nBlake Parkinson – Protesting on his bagpipes since 2001\, singing Bob Dylan covers since…? \nRosie Cima – singer songwriter\, lover not a fighter\, election nailbighter\, pulled that allnighter\, sings blues and songs lighter. \nTed Lee – \nAnd more guests to be announced!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/songs-of-protest/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170121T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170121T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T164819
CREATED:20161223T030310Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T030310Z
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SUMMARY:Zine Release Party
DESCRIPTION:America\, I love you but you’re bringing me down : ZINE RELEASE\nThis collection of poetry\, drawings\, and personal essays presents views and experiences that do not fit into Trump’s America\, along with tips and recommendations for anyone who wants to get active in opposing his agenda. \nOrganized by Vanessa Hope Schneider\, these limited-run\, risographed zines will be available starting January 20th—inauguration day. We’ll be selling them for $14 each\, and all money will go to the Equal Justice Initiative and the Adobe Books & Arts Cooperative. \nJoin us for a reading from some of the contributors and pick up a copy. All are welcome!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zine-release-party/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170121T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170121T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T164819
CREATED:20170113T090631Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T090705Z
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SUMMARY:Porchlight: BOMBS AWAY
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/porchlight-bombs-away-2/
LOCATION:Oasis\, 298 11th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170122T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170122T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T164819
CREATED:20170109T102520Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T102520Z
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SUMMARY:Resist! A Postmodern Times Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us as some of our favorite San Franciscans offer their writings on resistance in the new year.\nWith\nTony Robles\nKim Shuck\nTongo Eisen-Martin\nJennifer Joseph\nThea Matthews\nhosted by Denise Sullivan and United Booksellers of San Francisco in cooperation with San Francisco Vision
URL:https://litseen.com/event/resist-a-postmodern-times-reading/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170122T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170122T190000
DTSTAMP:20260501T164819
CREATED:20170113T093333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T061654Z
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SUMMARY:Kim Stanley Roberts + Cecelia Holland
DESCRIPTION:This event will now be on Sunday January 22nd\, but we’ll still be at The American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina Street\, San Francisco. Doors and cash bar open at 5:30pm – program begins at 6:30pm. $10 donation at the door (no one is turned away for lack of funds). As always Borderlands Books will be on hand with copies of the authors’ work. Further details will follow soon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-stanley-roberts-cecelia-holland/
LOCATION:The American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170124T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170124T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T164819
CREATED:20161223T030720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T030720Z
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SUMMARY:Deborah Kennedy
DESCRIPTION:In Nature Speaks\, Deborah Kennedy’s captivating poetry and illustrations bring to life the profound bond between ourselves and the larger natural world. Kennedy focuses on the ecological themes of our time\, infusing art and science with insight and passion. Her powerful poetry and earth-toned ink illustrations feature the elegance of birds and strength of redwood trees\, appealing to the eye\, the mind\, and the heart. Kennedy invites us to listen to the earth to appreciate nature’s grace\, complexity\, and vigoras we move toward pathways for healing ourselves and the earth. \nAn artist and poet\, Deborah Kennedy’s work has exhibited in the United States and Europe. Her art appeared on The Berlin Wall shortly before it was torn down and was an inspiration to thousands who witnessed art at the service of social change. She lives in San Jose\, CA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deborah-kennedy/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170124T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170124T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T164819
CREATED:20161201T023830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T023830Z
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SUMMARY:Shanthi Sekaran
DESCRIPTION:in conversation with Oscar Villalon \ncelebrating the release of \nLucky Boy \nfrom G.P. Putnam & Sons \nA gripping tale of adventure and searing reality\, Lucky Boy gives voice to two mothers bound together by their love for one lucky boy. \nSolimar Castro Valdez is eighteen and drunk on optimism when she embarks on a perilous journey across the US/Mexican border. Weeks later she arrives on her cousin’s doorstep in Berkeley\, CA\, dazed by first love found then lost\, and pregnant. This was not the plan. But amid the uncertainty of new motherhood and her American identity\, Soli learns that when you have just one precious possession\, you guard it with your life. For Soli\, motherhood becomes her dwelling and the boy at her breast her hearth. \nKavya Reddy has always followed her heart\, much to her parents’ chagrin. A mostly contented chef at a UC Berkeley sorority house\, the unexpected desire to have a child descends like a cyclone in Kavya’s mid-thirties. When she can’t get pregnant\, this desire will test her marriage\, it will test her sanity\, and it will set Kavya and her husband\, Rishi\, on a collision course with Soli\, when she is detained and her infant son comes under Kavya’s care. As Kavya learns to be a mother–the singing\, story-telling\, inventor-of-the-universe kind of mother she fantasized about being–she builds her love on a fault line\, her heart wrapped around someone else’s child. \nLucky Boy is an emotional journey that will leave you certain of the redemptive beauty of this world. There are no bad guys in this story\, no obvious hero. From rural Oaxaca to Berkeley’s Gourmet Ghetto to the dreamscapes of Silicon valley\, author Shanthi Sekaran has taken real life and applied it to fiction; the results are moving and revelatory. \nShanthi Sekaran teaches creative writing at California College of the Arts\, and is a member of the Portuguese Artists Colony and the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Her work has appeared in Best New American Voices and Canteen\, and online at Zyzzyva and Mutha Magazine. Her first novel\, The Prayer Room\, was published by MacAdam Cage. \nOscar Villalon is the Managing Editor of Zyzzyva Magazine. He has formerly served as book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle. A member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle\, he’s also a long-time juror of the California Book Awards\, sponsored by the Commonwealth Club. His writing has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review and The Believer\, and his reviews have aired on KQED’s The California Report. \nWhat has been said about the work of Shanthi Sekaran: \n“Remarkably empathetic . . . Deeply compassionate . . . Delivers penetrating insights into the intangibles of motherhood and indeed\, all humanity.” —Booklist (starred) \n“How lucky the reader who gets to devour Shanthi Sekaran’s extraordinary\, necessary novel. Lucky Boy is both timely and timeless\, depicting the comedy and delights of the world as well as its brutalities and injustices. It’s a story about immigration\, privilege\, and parenthood\, and shows us how we are connected\, and how we are\, perhaps irreparably\, divided. It swept me away and took a little piece of my heart with it. It’s a perfect book.” —Edan Lepucki\, New York Times bestselling author of California
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shanthi-sekaran/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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