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SUMMARY:Jon Else
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/jon-else-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170125T193000
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SUMMARY:Rachel Cusk
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Cusk  discusses Transit\, the second volume in a trilogy that began with Outline (a NY Times 10 Best Books selection for 2015) with Caille Millner. \n\nPraise for Rachel Cusk: \n“[A] lethally intelligent novel . . . reading Outline mimics the sensation of being underwater\, of being separated from other people by a substance denser than air. But there is nothing blurry or muted about Cusk’s literary vision or her prose: Spend much time with this novel and you’ll become convinced that she is one of the smartest writers alive.” —Heidi Julavits\, The New York Times Book Review \nAbout Transit: \n The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline\, one of The New York Times Book Review’s ten best books of 2015.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-cusk/
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:20170125T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170125T213000
DTSTAMP:20260502T012533
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SUMMARY:Colson Whitehead w/ Alexis Madrigal
DESCRIPTION:COLSON WHITEHEAD takes on a multitude of issues with original wit and a rich imagination. In 1999\, he burst onto the literary scene with his award-winning debut novel\, The Intuitionist\, which concerned the travails of the first black woman elevator inspector in New York City. His second novel\, John Henry Days\, followed in 2001 and was met with much critical acclaim. John Updike wrote in a New Yorker review that the novel “does what writing should do; it refreshes our sense of the world.” Whitehead is also the author of The Colossus of New York\, a collection of essays about his hometown\, Apex Hides the Hurt\, Sag Harbor\, and Zone One\, a zombie novel influenced by films Whitehead watched as a child. His long-awaited new novel\, The Underground Railroad\, is a magnificent and wrenching chronicle of a young slave’s journeys as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/colson-whitehead-w-alexis-madrigal/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170126T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170126T210000
DTSTAMP:20260502T012533
CREATED:20161201T023002Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T023002Z
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SUMMARY:Bookswap w/ Marian Palaia
DESCRIPTION:This January\, we have invited the incredible local author Marian Palaia to kick off the new year! Marian’s debut novel\, The Given World\, was shortlisted for the Saroyan International Prize for Fiction\, longlisted for The PEN/Bingham First Novel Prize\, and recognized by Kirkus as a 2015 Best Novel. \nFrom a quiet family farm in Montana in the 60s to the grit and haze of San Francisco in the 70s to a gypsy-populated\, post-war Saigon\, The Given World spins around its unconventional and unforgettable heroine\, Riley. When her big brother is declared MIA in Vietnam\, young Riley packs up her shattered heart and leaves her family\, her first love\, and “a few small things” behind. By trial and error she builds a new life\, working on cars\, delivering newspapers\, tending bar. She befriends\, rescues\, and is rescued by a similarly vagabond cast of characters whose “‘unraveled souls’ sting hardest and linger the longest” (The New York Times Book Review). Foolhardy\, funny\, and wise\, Riley’s challenge as she grows into a woman is simple: survive long enough to go home again\, or at least figure out where home is\, and who might be among the living there. \nBring a book about being lost. As long as you love it\, bring it to Bookswap. You’ll talk about it in groups and hear about the books that other people brought. We’ll drink a bunch of free wine and beer and get to know our guest author. At the end\, we’ll have a big\, rowdy\, white elephant swap\, and you’ll leave with a new favorite (or ten). \n>>> Tickets are $10 and MUST BE purchased in advance. They do sell out! You can purchase them HERE. \n**** Admission includes an open bar\, swag\, and 20% off everything you buy that night.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bookswap-w-marian-palaia/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170126T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170126T210000
DTSTAMP:20260502T012533
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LAST-MODIFIED:20170114T010537Z
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SUMMARY:Be About It Zine #14 Release Party
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/madison-davis/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170130T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170130T170000
DTSTAMP:20260502T012533
CREATED:20170131T051314Z
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SUMMARY:Bass\, Hirshfield\, + Howe: A Benefit for SHE
DESCRIPTION:Ellen Bass: “Bass shows us that we are as radiant as we are ephemeral\, that in transience glistens resilient history and the remarkable fluidity of connection. Following her musings on suicide and generosity\, desire and repetition—it becomes lucidly clear that Bass is not only a poet but also a philosopher and a storyteller.” —Briana Shemroske\, Booklist \nJane Hirshfield: Jane Hirshfield’s poetry speaks to the central issues of human existence—desire and loss\, impermanence and beauty\, the many dimensions of our connection with others and the wider community of creatures and objects with which we share our lives. Demonstrating with quiet authority what it means to awaken into the full capacities of attention\, her work sets forth a hard-won affirmation of our human fate. \nMarie Howe: “Marie Howe’s poetry is luminous\, intense\, and eloquent\, rooted in an abundant inner life. Her long\, deep-breathing lines address the mysteries of flesh and spirit\, in terms accessible only to a woman who is very much of our time and yet still in touch with the sacred.” —Stanley Kunitz \nAnd Kim Rosen\, on behalf of the S.H.E. College Fund
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bass-hirshfield-howe-a-benefit-for-she/
LOCATION:St. John’s Presbyterian Church\, 2727 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170130T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170130T170000
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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\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\n“Pola Oloixarac’s prose is the great event of the new Argentinian narrative. Her novel is unforgettable\, philosophical and very serene.” — Ricardo Piglia \n\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\, sleeps with a bourgeois former guerrilla\, and pursues her elderly professor with a highly charged blend of eroticism 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. \n“Savage 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-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Generations Edition #41
DESCRIPTION:Bay Area Generations proudly presents\nShow #41 \nThis reading of authors and poets\, features live music within a curated show. \nWe are back in San Francisco on Monday\, January 30\, 2017 at Hotel Rex\, located on Gallery Row\, in the center of San Francisco’s Arts and Theater district. \nWe start the evening with our writer’s mixer at the bar at 6:30 pm. Come share a drink over lit chat and book babble with an intriguing gaggle of Bay Area poets\, authors and writers. \nThe show starts promptly at 7:30pm. \nJoin us\nMonday\, January 30\, 2017\nat Hotel Rex\n562 Sutter St.\, San Francisco \nBay Area Generations #41\nWriter’s mixer at the bar: 6:30 pm.\nDoors Open: 7 pm. Show Begins: 7:30 pm. \n$7.00 suggested donation\n$10.00 suggested with chapbook. \nBay Area Generations is a reading series that features paired readers of different generations. Since 2013\, it has featured over 200 notable authors\, poets\, writers and playwrights in this celebrated literary series: a salon of paired readers with musical guests in a curated\, submission-based show.www.bayareagenerations.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-edition-41/
LOCATION:Hotel Rex\, 562 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170130T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170130T210000
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SUMMARY:Bad Book Party
DESCRIPTION:Join us on February 11th for a Bad Book Party\, hosted by I Don’t Even Own a Television and Friends\n– come together and celebrate all things related to Bad Books with America’s Favorite Bad Books Podcast(TM)\, I Don’t Even Own a Television!\n– your hosts\, J. W. Friedman and Chris Collision will be bringing a selection of their favorite (and least favorite!) bad books to read from and introducing a fun selection of very special guests (that we’re currently working on and will finalize as soon as we can)\n– want to join in the fun?  Bring your own favorite bad book to the event and we’ll read from it!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/24866/
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:20170131T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170131T170000
DTSTAMP:20260502T012533
CREATED:20170201T041318Z
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SUMMARY:Hari Kunzru
DESCRIPTION:Hari Kunzru reads from his new novel\, White Tears. \nPraise for White Tears \n“A compulsively readable ghost story that features masterly—tour de force—writing about early American blues.”—Rachel Kushner\, author of The Flamethrowers \n“White Tears is a masterful ghost story about a blues song which may or may not exist\, but is definitely alive. Sound\, in Kunzru’s hands\, is both force and material\, carrying fear\, power\, and revenge from body to body. When someone cries “Rewind\,” proceed with caution. History is audible.”—Sasha Frere-Jones \n“White Tears is a hallucinatory and eerily accurate journey into America’s racial unconscious—like an updated version of The Crying of Lot 49\, in which race itself is the secret and arcane system that controls all of us in ways we never fully understand. In an era when the past seems to be collapsing into the present on a daily basis\, you couldn’t find a more urgently necessary\, compulsively readable book.”—Jess Row\, author of Your Face in Mine \nAbout White Tears \nTwo twenty-something New Yorkers. Seth is awkward and shy. Carter is the glamorous heir to one of America’s great fortunes. They have one thing in common: an obsession with music. Seth is desperate to reach for the future. Carter is slipping back into the past. When Seth accidentally records an unknown singer in a park\, Carter sends it out over the Internet\, claiming it’s a long lost 1920s blues recording by a musician called Charlie Shaw. When an old collector contacts them to say that their fake record and their fake bluesman are actually real\, the two young white men\, accompanied by Carter’s troubled sister Leonie\, spiral down into the heart of the nation’s darkness\, encountering a suppressed history of greed\, envy\, revenge\, and exploitation. White Tears is a ghost story\, a terrifying murder mystery\, a timely meditation on race\, and a love letter to all the forgotten geniuses of American music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hari-kunzru/
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:20170131T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170131T213000
DTSTAMP:20260502T012533
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SUMMARY:Asturo Riley + Kay Ryan
DESCRIPTION:Atsuro Riley is known for his unparalleled ability to blend lyric and narrative modes. His stunning and highly original book Romey’s Order is a sequence of poems set in his childhood ‘blood-home\,’ the South Carolina lowcountry—and is the winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award\, The Believer Poetry Award\, the Whiting Writers’ Award\, and the Witter Bynner Award from the Library of Congress.  Riley’s work has also been honored with the Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship\, the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, the Pushcart Prize\, and the Wood Prize given by Poetry magazine.  Riley lives in San Francisco. \nKay Ryan was born in California in 1945 and grew up in the small towns of the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert.  She has lived in Marin County in Northern California since 1971. Ryan’s collections of poetry include most recently Erratic Facts\, the 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning The Best of It\, New and Selected Poems; Say Uncle\, Elephant Rocks\, and Flamingo Watching among others. About her work\, J.D. McClatchy has said: “Her poems are compact\, exhilarating\, strange affairs\, like Erik Satie miniatures or Joseph Cornell boxes. She is an anomaly in today’s literary culture: as intense and elliptical as Dickinson\, as buoyant and rueful as Frost.” Ryan’s awards include a MacArthur “Genius” Award; The National Humanities Medal awarded by President Obama in 2012; the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry\, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and an Ingram Merrill Award. Ryan was elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 2006. In 2008\, she was appointed the Library of Congress’s sixteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/asturo-riley-kay-ryan/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170131T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170131T213000
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SUMMARY:Kevin Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Isabelle Poole is pregnant and on her own\, the baby’s father—her high school art teacher—out of the picture. Not sure where to turn\, Izzy joins The Infinite Family Project\, an experiment in child and family development led by the awkwardly charming child psychiatrist Preston Grind. Funded by an eccentric billionaire\, the project is an attempt to create a “perfect little world\,” bringing together ten different families as a single family unit in order to raise exceptional children. All starts well\, with Izzy and her son thriving in their new surroundings\, but soon the equilibrium among the families begins to disintegrate and things fall apart. As her growing feelings for Dr. Grind further complicate the adventure in experimental living\, Izzy ultimately must decide what truly matters when it comes to family. \nKevin Wilson’s New York Times bestselling debut novel The Family Fang was enthusiastically embraced by readers and critics\, who called it “irresistible” (Time)\, “breathtakingly wonderful” (Miami Herald)\, “inventive and hilarious” (Wall Street Journal)\, and “a minty fresh delight” (NPR). Perfect Little World is Wilson’s much-anticipated new novel—another offbeat look at the meaning of family\, and a strange utopian experiment that could redefine what family means.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kevin-wilson/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170201T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170201T213000
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CREATED:20161201T023140Z
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SUMMARY:Ottessa Moshfegh
DESCRIPTION:Winner of The Paris Review‘s Plimpton Prize for some of her first stories\, and of the PEN Hemingway Prize for her debut novel Eileen\, Ottessa Moshfegh reads from Homesick for Another World\, her first collection—one of which has already won an O. Henry Prize. \nIn the judges’ citation for the Plimpton Prize\, Jeffrey Eugenides wrote: “What distinguishes Ottessa Moshfegh’s writing is that unnamable quality that makes a new writer’s voice\, against all odds and the deadening surround of lyrical postures\, sound unique.” \nJoin us for a reading\, conversation\, and book signing! \nOttessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from Boston. She was awarded the Plimpton Prize for her stories in The Paris Review and granted a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. Her first book\, McGlue\, a novella\, won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. Her novel Eileen won the PEN/Hemingway Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ottessa-moshfegh/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170202T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170202T200000
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SUMMARY:Weekday Wanderlust:  Janis Cooke Newman\, Jess Silber + Blane Bachelor
DESCRIPTION:Happy New Year Wanderlusters! \nWith San Francisco’s exhilarating and well-attended Women’s March swirling in our recent memory\, we can’t think of a better time to introduce you to three fantastic women writers: Janis Cooke Newman\, Jess Silber and Blane Bachelor. Their bios will soon be on our Facebook page. Come give them a warm WW welcome. \nReadings start promptly at 7pm but you know we’ll be in the Library Bar at 6pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/weekday-wanderlust-janis-cooke-newman-jess-silber-blane-bachelor/
LOCATION:Weekday Wanderlust\, 562 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Charles Alexander + Susan Thackrey
DESCRIPTION:Poets Charles Alexander and Susan Thackrey read new work and converse with the audience. This event is free and open to the public. \nCharles Alexander is a poet\, bookmaker\, and founder/director of Chax Press\, author of 5 full-length books of poetry and 11 chapbooks\, editor of one critical work on the state of the book arts in America\, author of multiple essays\, articles\, and reviews. His most recent books of poetry are Pushing Water\, published by Cuneiform Press\, and the chapbooks Some Sentences Look for Some Periods\, a chapbook\, and Two Pushing Waters\, both from Little Red Leaves Textile Series. He has taught literature and writing at Naropa University\, University of Arizona\, and elsewhere\, and currently is Poet & Designer in Residence at the University of Houston-Victoria\, where he directs the MFA Creative Writing Program and manages the UHV Center for the Arts. He is a past recipient of the Arizona Arts Award\, and has participated in the TAMAAS Poetry Translation Project in Paris. In January 2016 served as a faculty member for US Poets in Mexico. He lives in Victoria\, Texas\, with his partner\, the painter Cynthia Miller. \nSusan Thackrey\, a poet who lives and works in San Francisco\, began to compose poetry at the age of three. She was an inaugurating student in the Poetics Program at New College in San Francisco in 1980\, and studied with Robert Duncan and Diane di Prima over a number of years.Thackrey has given invitational lectures on Charles Olson\, Robert Duncan\, and George Oppen\, including as a keynote speaker at the George Oppen Conference in Buffalo\, and most recently on Duncan’s The H.D. Book for The Poetry Center. Since reading Homer In Greek over a five year period with Robert Duncan and some of her poet contemporaries\, an important and lively part of her life in poetry has included variously focused and long-lived reading groups with other poets. She has earned her livelihood in various ways\, including as co-founder and co-director of the art gallery Thackrey and Robertson in San Francisco\, and for a number of years as a Jungian analyst in the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. There she has taught\, spoken and published\, focusing especially on art\, recently publishing a talk and essay on Jung’s paintings for The Red Book: Reflections on C.G. Jung’s Liber Novus (Routledge). Her poems have appeared in a number of journals\, and her books include Andalusia (Chax)\, Empty Gate (Listening Chamber)\, and George Oppen: A Radical Practice (O Books and The San Francisco Poetry Center).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charles-alexander-susan-thackrey/
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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170202T213000
DTSTAMP:20260502T012533
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck Presents: Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights
DESCRIPTION:Love\, love will tear us apart\, again. \nFeatured writers: January’s winner TBA\, plus Ivan Hernandez\, Lily Miller\, Vivenne Pustell\, Amanda Rosenberg\, & Michael Wellstein. \n$10 advance\, $12 door\, open bar for 21+. \n— \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event. \nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on the first Thursday of every month at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco.\n\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-presents-emily-brontes-wuthering-heights/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170202T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170202T213000
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SUMMARY:Viet Thanh Nguyen w/ Judson True
DESCRIPTION:Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and came to the United States as a refugee in 1975. “My memories of becoming a refugee are fragments of a dream\,” he writes\, “hallucinatory and unreliable. Soldiers bouncing me on their knees\, a tank rumbling through the streets\, a crowded barge of desperate people fleeing Vietnam.”  In his work\, including the Pulitzer-Prize winning novel The Sympathizer and his forthcoming collection of short stories\, The Refugees\, Nguyen examines the far-reaching effects of war and gives voice to life lived between two worlds\, the adopted homeland\, and the country of birth. His other books are Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War and Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. \nJudson True received a Master of Journalism from UC Berkeley before working in San Francisco government. A former spokesman for Muni\, he now serves as chief of staff for California Assemblymember David Chiu. His previous City Arts & Lectures interviews include Joan Didion\, David Remnick\, Gene Wilder\, Jill Lepore\, and Barney Frank.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/viet-thanh-nguyen-w-judson-true/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170203T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170203T200000
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SUMMARY:a reading in translation: Sho Sugita + Norma Cole
DESCRIPTION:Once called “the Marinetti of Japan” by David Burliuk\, Hirato Renkichi produced a unique brand of Futurism from the late 1910s and early 1920s through poetry\, criticism\, and guerrilla performance. Contributing to the earliest productions of Japanese avant-garde poetry\, his aggressive experimentation with speed\, spatialization\, and performability would later influence what became a lively community of Dadaist and Surrealist writers in pre-war Japan. Spiral Staircase is the forst definitve volume of Renkichi’s poems to appear in English.Sho Sugita lives in Matsumoto\, Japan. His recent poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in VOLT\, Poems by Sunday\, Chicago Review\, 6×6\, Lana Turner\, Paperbag\, A Perimeter\, and Asymptote. \n\nBorn Kawahata Seiichi on December 9th 1893 in Osaka\, Hirato Renkichi attended Sophia University in Tokyo for three years before dropping out and attending Gyosei Gakko to study Italian. He started writing poetry in 1912\, first publishing in Banso under the guidance of Kawaji Ryuko. Although he worked at Hochi Shimbun News and Chuo Geijutsu Art Publishing\, he suffered from a pulmonary disease\, often failing to make ends meet for his family. He\npassed away on July 20\, 1922 in Tokyo\, at the age of 29.\nNorma Cole is a poet and translator who lives and works in the sanctuary city of San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-reading-in-translation-sho-sugita-norma-cole/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170204T210000
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CREATED:20170114T061648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170120T032503Z
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SUMMARY:Peter Hook
DESCRIPTION:Post-punk icon\, Joy Division and New Order founding member\, and “gleefully profane” (Entertainment Weekly) storyteller Peter Hook returns to the JCCSF for a conversation on the ’80s music scene and the rise of New Order. On the eve of their U.S. tour\, following the tragic suicide of lead singer Ian Curtis\, Peter Hook and Joy Division’s remaining members resurrected themselves into New Order\, which would become one of the most influential bands of the 1980s. Their distinctive sound – a fusion of post-punk and ground-breaking electronica –inspired the dance music revolution. The band scaled the heights of success with huge hits including “Bizarre Love Triangle\,” “Perfect Kiss” and “Blue Monday\,” the biggest-selling 12-inch single of all time. On our stage and in his new memoir\, Substance: Inside New Order\, Peter chronicles the band’s rapid rise and the internal tensions that caused them to split.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-hook/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center of San Francisco\, 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170205T000000
DTSTAMP:20260502T012533
CREATED:20170131T043403Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170204T041529Z
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SUMMARY:Nepotism Night
DESCRIPTION:The return of Nepotism Night! We have another stellar lineup for you:\nPam Benjamin\nRohan DaCosta\nSecret Emchy Society\nJoe Loya\nLouise Nalbandian\nTarin Towers
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nepotism-night/
LOCATION:The Candy Kitchen\, 2807 24th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170205T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T012533
CREATED:20170131T043843Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170204T110239Z
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SUMMARY:Benjamin Hollander:  a Memorial Tribute
DESCRIPTION:Poets\, writers\, and friends gather in homage to poet\, editor\, and essayist Benjamin Hollander (1952–2016)\, reading from his work and remembering him. This event is free and open to the public. \nParticipants include George Albon\, Charles Alexander\, Todd Baron\, Arthur Bierman\, William Cirocco\, Norma Cole\, Chris Daniels\, Steve Dickison\, Elise Ficarra\, Susan Gevirtz\, Jack Hirschman\, David Lau\, Duncan McNaughton\, Sarah Menefee\, Laura Moriarty\, Murat Nemet-Nejat\, Michael Palmer\, Julien Poirier\, John Sakkis\, Len Shneyder\, Richard B. Simon\, Susan Thackrey\, Siamak Vossoughi.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/benjamin-hollander-a-memorial-tribute/
LOCATION:The Unitarian Center\, 1187 Franklin Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170206T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170206T200000
DTSTAMP:20260502T012533
CREATED:20170114T062226Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170120T032808Z
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SUMMARY:Chris Formant
DESCRIPTION:Jimi Hendrix\, Janis Joplin\, Brian Jones\, Jim Morrison\, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan\, Peter Ham—all of them iconic rock stars\, all of them dead at age twenty-seven. How could a group of great musicians all die at the same age? All evidence points to the deaths being unrelated\, but were they really? \nGantry Elliot is a relic of rock and roll era still writing for Rolling Stone magazine—covering “classic” rock and roll and struggling for relevance in the age of hip-hop and electronic dance music. Even though he’s an encyclopedia of music trivia\, Gantry can’t compete with the new kids on the block and is now reduced to watching the clock tick down on his once dynamic career. But Gantry’s vast knowledge may be the only thing that can unravel the Myth of 27. \nWhen anonymous packages start showing up at his office and then his home\, Gantry initially shrugs them off as another Myth of 27 conspiracy nerd trying to get attention. As the clues became more intimate\, more personal\, more sinister\, he realizes this is not a game: someone knows the truth\, and the truth may put Gantry’s life in serious danger. \nAptly called\, “The Da Vinci Code for rock and roll fans\,” author Chris Formant has written a terrific debut novel that creatively and deftly takes readers on a dangerous cold case hunt to uncover the mystery behind these deaths. Truth or fiction\, lies or conspiracy\, Bright Midnight will keep you guessing until its final chorus. \nFrom his early garage band days\, to a seat on the Board of Trustees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame\, Chris Formant has been a student of rock and roll his whole life. As an executive in a leading global company\, running a multi-billion dollar business\, Formant is the unlikeliest of authors of a murder mystery. But the continued unanswered questions surrounding the deaths of our most iconic rock legends led Formant to first speculate and then re-imagine what would happen if cutting edge technology were applied to these famous cold cases.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chris-formant/
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:20170206T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170206T210000
DTSTAMP:20260502T012533
CREATED:20170131T044418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T044418Z
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning at The Stud Bar
DESCRIPTION:A literary mixtape performed live once by the authors and published as sPARKLE & bLINK 82\, free for the first 100 people \nSIDE A \nJoe Wadlington » Heather Bourbeau » Peter Bullen » Stephen Guai-Wu » MK Chavez » Rae Liberto » AshleyRose Sanchez » Miah Jeffra » Siamak Vossoughi » Adam Moskowitz » Peter Max Lawrence » Paul Corman-Roberts \nRAFFLE FOR THE STUD + TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER \nSIDE B \nPaul Corman-Roberts » Kyrsten Bean » Ingrid Keir » Kate Folk » Sage Curtis » Laura Zink » Kate Seifert » Kathryn Reeve » Cassandra Dallett » Paul Corman-Roberts » Isabella Borgeson\n\nfeaturing art by Irene Nelson \ncurated by Josey Rose + Christine No
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-at-the-stud-bar/
LOCATION:The Stud Bar\, 399 9th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170207T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170207T210000
DTSTAMP:20260502T012533
CREATED:20170114T063153Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170120T033045Z
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SUMMARY:Tim Z. Hernandez
DESCRIPTION:Tim Z. Hernandez celebrating the release of \nAll They Will Call You \nfrom University of Arizona Press \nwith special guests: Margi Dunlap\, Connie Ann Mart\, and Lance Canales \nAll They Will Call You is the harrowing account of “the worst airplane disaster in California’s history\,” which claimed the lives of thirty-two passengers\, including twenty-eight Mexican citizens—farmworkers who were being deported by the U.S. government. Outraged that media reports omitted only the names of the Mexican passengers\, American folk icon Woody Guthrie penned a poem that went on to become one of the most important protest songs of the twentieth century\, “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee).” It was an attempt to restore the dignity of the anonymous lives whose unidentified remains were buried in an unmarked mass grave in California’s Central Valley. For nearly seven decades\, the song’s message would be carried on by the greatest artists of our time\, including Pete Seeger\, Dolly Parton\, Bruce Springsteen\, Bob Dylan\, and Joan Baez\, yet the question posed in Guthrie’s lyrics\, “Who are these friends all scattered like dry leaves?” would remain unanswered—until now. \nTim Z. Hernandez will be joined by Margi Dunlap and Connie Ann Mart\, two women directly related to the song and the incident\, as well as Lance Canales\, a musician who helped secure a long-overdue memorial for the Mexican victims of the crash. \nCombining years of painstaking investigative research and masterful storytelling\, award-winning author Tim Z. Hernandez weaves a captivating narrative from testimony\, historical records\, and eyewitness accounts\, reconstructing the incident and the lives behind the legendary song. This singularly original account pushes narrative boundaries\, while challenging perceptions of what it means to be an immigrant in America\, but more importantly\, it renders intimate portraits of the individual souls who\, despite social status\, race\, or nationality\, shared a common fate one frigid morning in January 1948. \nTim Z. Hernandez was born and raised in California’s San Joaquin Valley. An award-winning poet\, novelist\, and performer\, he is the recipient of the American Book Award for poetry\, the Colorado Book Award for poetry\, the Premio Aztlán Prize for fiction\, and the International Latino Book Award for historical fiction. His books and research have been featured in the Los Angeles Times\, the New York Times\, CNN\, Public Radio International\, and National Public Radio. Hernandez holds a BA from Naropa University and an MFA from Bennington College. Hernandez makes his home in El Paso\, where he is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at El Paso’s MFA Program in Creative Writing. You can find more information at his website\, www.timzhernandez.com \nMargi Dunlap is a resident of Pilot Hill\, California\, where she retired after 34 years working in immigrant rights and immigration law. She is the niece of Martin Hoffman\, the musician who is credited with turning Woody Guthrie’s poem\, “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee)” into the popular protest song that later went on to be recorded by music icons such as Pete Seeger\, Bruce Springsteen\, Joan Baez\, and many others. \nConnie Ann Mart is a resident of West Marin County\, California\, where she makes her living as controller for West Marin Senior Services. She is the niece of pilot Frank Atkinson\, who perished in the 1948 plane wreck at Los Gatos Canyon. \nLance Canales\, a musician who collaborated with Hernandez on creating a new arrangement of the song that now includes the names of the Mexican victims. \nWhat has been said of Tim Z. Hernandez work:\n“Tim Z. Hernandez is the real thing. This epic\, tragic story is finally being told\, and it is in the best possible hands.”—Luis Alberto Urrea \n“An important and moving book\, exploring the theme of identity and loss and disenfranchisement—topics that have never been more urgent than they are now. Hernandez has illuminated the present with this original and riveting examination of the past.”—Susan Orlean \n“There’s something miraculous about the storytelling feat Tim Z. Hernandez has pulled off in All They Will Call You. With great compassion and patience\, he has immersed himself in a long-forgotten episode of California history\, and uncovered a multilayered epic of love\, injustice\, and family fortitude\, stretching across generations and borders. This is an intelligent\, empathic\, and deeply moving work.”—Héctor Tobar \n“In his lyrics to ‘Plane Wreck at Los Gatos\,’ my father\, Woody Guthrie\, asked a simple question\, ‘Who are these friends?’ and finally someone has answered that question. It was unknown if their stories would ever come to light\, or if they would simply remain ghosts without names\, as if they had no lives at all—as if they didn’t count. Through Hernandez’s amazing work\, I now know who these people were\, their lives\, their loves\, and their journeys. All They Will Call You is a heart-wrenching read for anyone who cares\, and the names—now etched in stone in a far-off graveyard—have become friends who will travel with me as long as I am walking.”—Arlo Guthrie
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tim-z-hernandez/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sarah Schulman
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street Tuesday\, February 7th at 7:00pm as we welcome Author Sarah Schulman\, reading from and discussing her book Conflict is Not Abuse. \n  \nFrom intimate relationships to global politics\, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between Conflict and Abuse\, Schulman directly addresses our contemporary culture of scapegoating. This deep\, brave\, and bold work reveals how punishment replaces personal and collective self-criticism\, and shows why difference is so often used to justify cruelty and shunning. Rooting the problem of escalation in negative group relationships\, Schulman illuminates the ways cliques\, communities\, families\, and religious\, racial\, and national groups bond through the refusal to change their self-concept. She illustrates how Supremacy behavior and Traumatized behavior resemble each other\, through a shared inability to tolerate difference. \n  \nThis important and sure to be controversial book illuminates such contemporary and historical issues of personal\, racial\, and geo-political difference as tools of escalation towards injustice\, exclusion\, and punishment\, whether the objects of dehumanization are other individuals in our families or communities\, people with HIV\, African Americans\, or Palestinians. Conflict Is Not Abuse is a searing rejection of the cultural phenomenon of blame\, cruelty\, and scapegoating\, and how those in positions of power exacerbate and manipulate fear of the “other” to achieve their goals. \n  \nSarah Schulman is a novelist\, nonfiction writer\, playwright\, screenwriter\, journalist and AIDS historian\, and the author of eighteen books. A Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellow\, Sarah is a Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the City University of New York\, College of Staten Island. Her novels published by Arsenal include Rat Bohemia\, Empathy\, After Delores\, and The Mere Future. She lives in New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-schulman-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170207T210000
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CREATED:20170114T063914Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170120T033451Z
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SUMMARY:Launch Party with Meredith Jaeger
DESCRIPTION:Join local author Meredith Jaeger for a Launch Party celebrating her stunning debut novel\, The Dressmaker’s Dowry. For readers of Lucinda Riley\, Sarah Jio\, or Susan Meissner\, this gripping historical debut novel tells the story of two women: one\, an immigrant seamstress who disappears from San Francisco’s gritty streets in 1876\, and the other\, a young woman in present day who must delve into the secrets of her husband’s wealthy family only to discover that she and the missing dressmaker might be connected in unexpected ways.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-party-with-meredith-jaeger/
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:20170208T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170208T210000
DTSTAMP:20260502T012533
CREATED:20170114T073746Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170120T033705Z
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SUMMARY:Suzun Lucia Lamaina
DESCRIPTION:A social documentary photographic essay about former members of the Black Panther Party. Ms. Lamaina spent five years traveling throughout the United States photographing former Party members. The contemporary portraits and stories reflect their time in the Party and how their individual legacies have progressed. \nPublished in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party. These Panthers\, who dedicated their lives to community service and were known as “Rank and File” members\, are long overdue for recognition in serving the people–body and soul.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/suzun-lucia-lamaina/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170208T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170208T220000
DTSTAMP:20260502T012533
CREATED:20170114T064237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170204T041400Z
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SUMMARY:Fireside Storytelling: Surprise!
DESCRIPTION:Life\, as they say\, is full of surprises … and sometimes it’s “Ohhhh!” and sometimes it’s “Uh ohhhhh.” But one thing’s for sure\, a good surprise makes for a great story. Please join us at our next Fireside as six storytellers jump on stage to tell their tales of — wait for it — waaaaait for it — SURPRISE!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fireside-storytelling-surprise/
LOCATION:The Institute of Possibility\, 3359 Cesar Chavez St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170209T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170209T200000
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CREATED:20161223T033329Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T033329Z
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SUMMARY:Remembering Tom Hayden: A Life of Activism and Radical Reform
DESCRIPTION:moderated by Steve Wasserman\, with Clara Bingham\, Willie Brown Jr.\, and Judy Gumbo \npresented by Mechanics’ Institute Library in conjunction with City Lights and Yale University Press \nTom Hayden\, the principal author in 1962 of the founding manifesto of Students for a Democratic Society\, the Port Huron Statement\, led an extraordinary life of organizing\, writing\, and political reform. He put himself on the line during Mississippi Summer in 1964\, was a principal opponent of the Vietnam War\, a defendant in the Chicago Seven trial\, and served nearly 20 years in the California legislature. His death in Santa Monica at age 76 in October 2016 offers an occasion to think more deeply about the prospects of change and making history in America\, past\, present\, and future. \nThis evening we celebrate the release of \nHell No: The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Peace Movement \nBy Tome Hayden \npublished by Yale University Press \n“Hell no” was the battle cry of the largest peace movement in American history-the effort to end the Vietnam War\, which included ?thousands of veterans. The movement was divided among radicals\, revolutionaries\, sectarians\, moderates\, and militants\, which legions of paid FBI informants and government provocateurs tried to destroy. Despite these obstacles millions? marched\, resisted the draft on campuses\, and forced two sitting presidents from office. This movement was a watershed in our history\, yet today it is in danger of being forgotten\, condemned by its critics for everything from cowardice to stab-in-the-back betrayal. In this indispensable ?essay\, Tom Hayden\, a principal anti-Vietnam War organizer\, ?calls to account elites who want to forget the Vietnam peace movement and ?excoriates those who trivialize its ?impact\, engage in caricature of protestors and question their patriotism. In so doing\, he seeks both a reckoning and a healing of national memory. \nCritical Praise for Hello No:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/remembering-tom-hayden-a-life-of-activism-and-radical-reform/
LOCATION:San Francisco Mechanics’ Institute\, 57 Post Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170210T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170210T210000
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CREATED:20170131T050013Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T050013Z
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SUMMARY:Lunada Spring Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Featured artists ASHA\, Joseph Jason Santiago LaCour\, and Raphael Cohen. \nOpen Mic sign-up 7:15pm\, hosted by Sandra García Rivera. \nThe Lunada 2017 Spring season opener features spoken word at it’s finest\, with the passion and power of three poets whose work challenges the pueblo to Recognize\, Rise\, and Resist. We will amplify the poems of South Bay poet ASHA\, righteous evolutionary Joseph Jason Santiago LaCour\, and an excerpt from the solo performance of Raphael Cohen called Rebel Elegant\, about the life of former NBA star Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf. The Lunada OPEN MIC invites poets\, lyricists\, emcees\, musicians\, storytellers\, laureates and first-timers to share their inspiration under the lunar spotlight.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunada-spring-reading-series/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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