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SUMMARY:George Saunders with Dan Stone
DESCRIPTION:George Saunders is the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo; Tenth of December; In Persuasion Nation; The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil; Pastoralia; CivilWarLand in Bad Decline; The Braindead Megaphone; and a children’s book\, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip. His work appears regularly in the New Yorker\, Harper’s and GQ. In 2006\, he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant.” In 2000\, The New Yorker named him one of the “Best Writers Under 40.”  He is a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. He teaches at Syracuse University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/george-saunders-with-dan-stone/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Release Party for HOWL:The Record Album
DESCRIPTION:Release Party for HOWL:The Record Album\n\n  \nConcord Music reissues Allen Ginsberg reading HOWL on vinyl \nOpening statement by Garett Caples (Poetry Editor\, City Lights)\, and Ann Charters (BEAT Scholar) \nAppearance by Bill Belmont (Producer Concord Music/Fantasy Records) and the Poet Laureate of San Francisco Kim Shuck \nReminiscences of Allen Ginsberg and readings from HOWL by Neeli Cherkovski \nCraft Recordings\, the Catalog division of Concord Music\, is pleased to announce a deluxe vinyl box set\, celebrating Allen Ginsberg’s iconic Howl And Other Poems\, one of the most important pieces of modern American literature. Due out February 23rd\, the collection offers Ginsberg’s recording of the poems\, pressed on translucent red vinyl – reproducing the original 1959 LP release\, as well as a replica of the synonymous book of poetry\, published in 1956 by City Lights for their Pocket Poets series. Also included in the box set is a photo of Ginsberg from the ’50s\, a reproduction of the original City Lights reading invite from 1956 and a booklet\, with new liner notes by Beat scholar Ann Charters\, as well as notes by poet Anne Waldman. \nAllen Ginsberg (1926–1997) was one of the best-known writers of the Beat Generation as well as a leading figure in the counterculture movement. Tirelessly prolific throughout his life\, Ginsberg was most closely associated with was Howl – a poetic rage against society’s conformism and capitalism\, which rocked the literary world upon its publication\, and has gone on to be one of the most widely performed poems of the 20th Century. \nHowl is also noteworthy\, as it was at the center of a high-profile 1957 obscenity trial\, resulting in the arrest of City Lights publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti\, and bookstore manager Shigeyoshi Murao. The trial stands today as a prominent case for First Amendment rights\, having set a legal precedent for the publication of controversial works. Murao and Ferlinghetti were ultimately acquitted of charges\, as Howl was proven to be of redeeming social importance. Two years later\, Berkeley’s Fantasy Records (home to Dave Brubeck and\, eventually\, Vince Guaraldi and Creedence Clearwater Revival) issued a recording of Ginsberg reciting the contents of the pocket poem.  Although “Howl” itself is the centerpiece of the program\, each additional reading by Ginsberg is full of passion\, showcasing his brilliance both as a poet and a performer. His vaudevillian delivery carries the full weight of his honest observations on life\, love\, spirituality and existence. \nIn his introduction\, box set producer Bill Belmont notes that Howl “established the Beat generation of poets…as a cultural movement.” He goes on to argue that “the Beats successfully transitioned the generation gap between the mid-century post-war Beatnik movement to the more culturally transformative ’60s generation. In many ways\, the Beats influenced the cultural and musical era that followed.” Indeed\, Ginsberg was closely associated with several musicians of the era – most famously with Bob Dylan\, with whom he collaborated; but his work also has been cited as an influence by the likes of the Clash and Patti Smith\, as well as more modern acts\, such as Lana Del Rey and U2. \nIn her new liner notes\, Ann Charters shares her own experiences of hearing a live reading of the poem by Ginsberg in the mid-’50s\, recalling that “Courtesy shown to his listeners\, and patience sharing his poetry with large audiences\, were as much a part of Ginsberg as his breath. They were all essential parts of his being\, a poet honored worldwide in his lifetime as the quintessential ‘rebel bard.’” Decades after its recording\, Howl And Other Poems remains a lively and intimate listen\, and a reminder of Ginsberg’s consummate genius as both a writer and a performer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/release-party-for-howlthe-record-album/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Roseann Lake / Leftover in China
DESCRIPTION:Roseann Lake visits The Bindery to discuss her new book\, Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World’s Next Superpower. Join us! \nForty years ago\, China enacted the one-child policy\, only recently relaxed. Among many other unintended consequences\, it resulted in both an enormous gender imbalance—with a predicted twenty million more men than women of marriage age by 2020—and China’s first generations of only-daughters. Given the resources normally reserved for boys\, these girls were pushed to excel in school and thrive in their careers\, as if they were sons. \nIn Leftover in China\, American journalist Roseann Lake chronicles the lives of these women\, who she first met during her years working as a television reporter in Beijing. Throughout China’s booming city centers\, Lake saw passionate\, highly-educated young Chinese women acquiring wealth\, property\, and a measure of independence in record numbers. Yet while her female colleagues ascended in their careers\, many struggled to find suitable romantic partners\, in spite of an overwhelmingly large male population and immense traditional\, parental\, and societal pressures to wed. \nKnown as “leftovers” if they’ve failed to marry by age twenty-five\, these women represent a China where gender roles have not evolved as vigorously as society itself\, and where new professional opportunities have made women less willing to compromise their careers or concede to marriage for the sake of it. Some find their potential suitors’ conservative expectations on the roles of women grating against their own sensibilities. Still others find themselves on the track to powerful careers\, surrounded exclusively by an older guard of already-married men and a dearth of compatible bachelors; the majority of China’s surplus men are poor\, uneducated\, and tied to the rural areas where they were born. \nThe result is a mounting social quagmire: a generation of millions in limbo\, torn between past and future\, born into a country advancing rapidly on the world stage while nevertheless remaining\, when it comes to matters of the heart\, caught in “a distant\, anachronistic realm that seem[s] straight out of a Jane Austen novel.” \nLeftover in China combines Lake’s rigorous reporting\, historical and demographic research\, and scores of touching (and often humorous) real life anecdotes from colleagues and friends to illuminate this curious and portentous moment in the history of the world’s most populous nation. Through her remarkably candid subjects\, Lake regales us with stories of desperate mothers hacking their daughters’ dating profiles to secure a quick proposal. She tells of professional mistresses and the extravagantly wealthy men who compete for them\, and the subtle art of saijiao\, or “the strategically executed temper tantrum.” One of Lake’s friends compares modern China to “a giant episode of Sex and the City\, except that instead of bawdy Samantha\, we have our practical and traditional Charlotte-like mothers.” \nUltimately\, Leftover in China reminds us that China’s population of young women will prove crucial for the country’s future. As Lake writes\, “Channeling their full economic engagement is not only a social imperative; it’s an economic necessity.” \n— \nRoseann Lake is The Economist’s Cuba correspondent. She was previously based in Beijing\, where she spent time as a television reporter and journalist. Her China coverage has appeared in Foreign Policy\, The Atlantic\, Salon and Vice\, among others. She divides her time between New York City and Havana.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roseann-lake-leftover-in-china/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Morgan Jerkins / This Will Be My Undoing
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host Morgan Jerkins for This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black\, Female\, and Feminist in (White) America. Please join us! \n  \nJerkins’ highly-anticipated collection of linked essays interweaves her incisive commentary on pop culture\, feminism\, black history\, misogyny\, and racism with her own experiences to confront the very real challenges of being a black woman today—perfect for fans of Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist\, Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me\, and Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists. \n  \nMorgan Jerkins is only in her twenties\, but she has already established herself as an insightful\, brutally honest writer who isn’t afraid of tackling tough\, controversial subjects. In This Will Be My Undoing\, she takes on perhaps one of the most provocative contemporary topics: What does it mean to “be”—to live as\, to exist as—a black woman today? This is a book about black women\, but it’s necessary reading for all Americans. \nDoubly disenfranchised by race and gender\, often deprived of a place within the mostly white mainstream feminist movement\, black women are objectified\, silenced\, and marginalized with devastating consequences\, in ways both obvious and subtle\, that are rarely acknowledged in our country’s larger discussion about inequality. In This Will Be My Undoing\, Jerkins becomes both narrator and subject to expose the social\, cultural\, and historical story of black female oppression that influences the black community as well as the white\, male-dominated world at large. \nWhether she’s writing about Sailor Moon; Rachel Dolezal; the stigma of therapy; her complex relationship with her own physical body; the pain of dating when men say they don’t “see color”; being a black visitor in Russia; the specter of “the fast-tailed girl” and the paradox of black female sexuality; or disabled black women in the context of the “Black Girl Magic” movement\, Jerkins is compelling and revelatory. \n  \n\n  \n“Morgan Jerkins is a star\, a force\, a blessing\, a scholar and a critic\, and now can add great American essayist to that list! I found myself sighing\, nodding\, gasping\, laughing\, and crying while reading this collection-but mostly cheering! We can all sleep well at night knowing this country will inherit heart\, mind\, and soul like this. It’s safe to say I’ve never read anyone this young-barely at quarter life!-who can understand herself\, those around her\, past and present\, with such dignity and clarity and generosity. Intersectionality in America is dissected\, investigated\, celebrated and challenged all without being pedantic or preachy or pretentious. And Jerkins is the sort of benevolent intellectual you want to spend time with-who will never lie to you\, but also will never let you lie to her. I’ve long known that feminism and arts and media owe so much to the excellent work of black women and This Will be My Undoing is yet another testament to that.” —Porochista Khakpour\, author of Sons & Other Flammable Objects\, The Last Illusion\, and Sick \n  \n\n  \nMorgan Jerkins is a twenty-something-year-old living and writing in New York. She graduated from Princeton with an AB in comparative literature\, specializing in nineteenth-century Russian and modern Japanese literature\, and has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Jenkins is currently a contributing editor at Catapult and a Book of the Month judge. She has also written for Vogue\, the Atlantic\, Rolling Stone\, the New Yorker\, the Guardian\, andthe New York Times\, among many others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/morgan-jerkins-this-will-be-my-undoing/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:USF MFA Reading Series: Sam Lipsyte
DESCRIPTION:Sam Lipsyte is the author of five books of fiction\, including The Fun Parts\, Home Land\, and The Ask. A Guggenheim fellow and winner of the Believer Book Award\, he lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/usf-mfa-reading-series-sam-lipsyte/
LOCATION:USF Fromm Hall – FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:An African American and Latinx History of the United States - With Author Paul Ortiz
DESCRIPTION:Paul Ortiz’ new book An African American and Latinx History of the United States is the latest in Beacon Press’s ReVisioning American History series. (Previous titles include Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz’s An Indigenous People’s History of the United States.)\n \n\nOrtiz’ book examines U.S. history through the lens of African-American and Latinx activists. Much of the American history taught in schools is limited to white America\, leaving out the impact of non-European immigrants and indigenous peoples. The author corrects that error in a thorough look at the debt of gratitude we owe to the Haitian Revolution\, the Mexican War of Independence\, and the Cuban War of Independence\, all struggles that helped lead to social democracy. \n\n\n\n\nOrtiz shows the history of the workers for what it really was: a fatal intertwining of slavery\, racial capitalism\, and imperialism. He states that the American Revolution began as a war of independence and became a war to preserve slavery. Thus\, slavery is the foundation of American prosperity. With the end of slavery\, imperialist America exported segregation laws and labor discrimination abroad. As we moved into Cuba\, the Philippines\, and Puerto Rico\, we stole their land for American corporations and used the Army to enforce draconian labor laws. This continued in the South and in California.\n\nThe rise of agriculture in the US could not have succeeded without cheap labor. Mexican workers were often preferred because\, if they demanded rights\, they could just be deported. Convict labor worked even better. The author points out the only way success has been gained is by organizing; a great example was the “Day without Immigrants” in 2006. Of course\, as Ortiz rightly notes\, much more work is necessary\, especially since Jim Crow and Juan Crow are resurging as each political gain is met with “legal” countermeasures.\n\nThis book is a concise\, alternate history of the United States “about how people across the hemisphere wove together antislavery\, anticolonial\, pro-freedom\, and pro-working-class movements against tremendous obstacles.” It is a sleek\, vital history that effectively shows how\, “from the outset\, inequality was enforced with the whip\, the gun\, and the United States Constitution.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-african-american-and-latinx-history-of-the-united-states-with-author-paul-ortiz/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shaina Hammerman / Silver Screen\, Hasidic Jews
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Shaina Hammerman as she launches her first book\, Silver Screen\, Hasidic Jews. Joining her in conversation is Helene Wecker (The Golem and the Jinni). Don’t miss it! \n  \nMotivated by Woody Allen’s brief comedic transformation into a Hasidic Jew in Annie Hall\, cultural historian Shaina Hammerman examines the effects of real and imagined representations of Hasidic Jews in film\, television\, theater\, and photography. Although these depictions could easily be dismissed as slapstick comedies and sexy dramas about forbidden relationships\, Hammerman uses this ethnic imagery to ask meaningful questions about how Jewish identity\, multiculturalism\, belonging\, and relevance are constructed on the stage and silver screen. \n  \n— \n  \nShaina Hammerman teaches Jewish studies\, cultural history\, film\, and literature at the University of San Francisco\, Mills College\, and San Quentin State Prison. She holds a Ph.D. in Jewish History and Culture from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. \n  \nHelene Wecker grew up in suburban Chicago\, and received her Master’s in Fiction from Columbia University. Her first novel\, the New York Times bestseller\, The Golem and the Jinni\, was published by HarperCollins in 2013. Its sequel\, THE IRON SEASON\, will arrive in 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shaina-hammerman-silver-screen-hasidic-jews/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:THE RACKET! #16 - Grief
DESCRIPTION:Featuring: \nSarah Klineman\, Amy Harcourt\, Vincent Chu\, Galadrielle Allman\, Elizabeth Bernstein\, Jacqueline Hampton and Jennifer Lewis \nHosted by Noah B. Sanders \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/165709004068905/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-16-grief/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nancy Huang / Favorite Daughter
DESCRIPTION:In town from Austin\, TX\, Nancy Huang will be reading from her first book of poems\, Favorite Daughter. Reading with her are Bay Area poets Arati Warrier and Kiana Young—join us! \n  \nFavorite Daughter is a poetry collection trying to uproot America from inside the body\, and find where China is buried underneath. Divided into four parts\, Daughter explores ideas like navigating hybridity\, localism\, and harmony in ways that disturb commonly-held notions about broad terms like “belonging” and “cultural struggle.” A compilation of immigration stories\, Chinese radio segments\, Google translate entries\, and dictionary remixes\, Huang immerses herself in everything she is uncertain of. \n— \nNan Huang (黄洁) is a queer Chinese-American poet. She is a winner of the 2016 Write Bloody Poetry contest\, an Andrew Julius Gutow Academy of American Poets Prize\, a James F. Parker Award in Poetry\, a 2015 YoungArts Finalist prize\, and more. She has received fellowships from VONA and Tin House\, and is a former member of UT Spitshine. She competed/resisted at CUPSI 2017 in Chicago\, where all her poems were nominated for Best of the Rest. Her debut poetry collection\, Favorite Daughter\, is out by Write Bloody Publishing. \nArati Warrier is a South Asian American poet from Austin\, TX\, by way of diaspora. She graduated from UT\, Austin in May 2016 with a bachelor’s degree in English and Asian American Studies. She featured on the final stage at Women of the World Poetry Slam 2014\, is a recipient of the Andrew Julius Gutow Academy of American Poets prize\, and is a 2014 national collegiate poetry slam champion. Familiar with both the stage and the page\, Arati has been on five slam poetry teams\, was awarded “Best Poem” at the national collegiate poetry slam\, and has been published in Junoesq Literary Magazine and The Aerogram. She has opened for poets like Dominique Christina\, Denice Frohman\, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib\, Sam Sax\, and Sarah Kay. Arati’s other interests include dancing\, reading\, and loving intentionally. She currently works as a part time vegetable enthusiast and a full time high school English teacher. \nKiana Young is an unapologetically queer\, mixed race Chinese-American poet\, educator\, and activist from Southern California. In 2016 and 2017\, they represented CalSLAM at the CUPSI national collegiate poetry slam\, helping their team earn 8th and 13th place\, respectively. Kiana was a member of the 2016 Queer Emerging Artist Residency cohort with Destiny Arts Center in Oakland\, CA. In 2017\, Kiana was a finalist for the Write Bloody Poetry Chapbook contest\, and was a featured performer and speaker at Syracuse University. She also has three years of experience as a consent and sexual violence prevention educator in the Bay Area. This year\, Kiana will be graduating from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Rhetoric and Public Discourse and a minor in LGBT Studies––which means that they are a scholarly gay and you shouldn’t argue with them. Currently\, she works as a speech and debate coach for middle school and high school youth of color in the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nancy-huang-favorite-daughter/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Vincent Chu / Like a Champion
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to host the launch for Vincent Chu’s debut story collection\, Like a Champion! Please join us. \nIn eighteen stories that shine a light on people who are far from champions\, Like a Champion is an ode to underdogs and long shots\, sad office parties and one-sided basketball games\, disappointed worker bees and hopeful lovers. \nA lonely businessman on a cruise finds comfort in an unlikely companion. Two high school friends try to survive their last backyard wrestling match only to learn that not all endings can be choreographed. An expat teacher struggles with her new life overseas until a familiar stranger joins the faculty. A young woman fails to make progress in a strip mall boxing gym before discovering strength in her breaking point. \nVincent Chu’s work is funny and big-hearted\, and imbued with a generosity and warmth that reminds us that moments of glory can happen when we least expect it. \n— \n“In Like a Champion\, Vincent Chu decidedly hands us a triumphant collection of surprising\, energetic stories and good\, weird\, sometimes sad people. It is an intimate book that made me laugh out loud more than once. We are safe in Chu’s hands as he tackles the anxious thoughts of people who want to be loved and included\, of characters all-too-painfully human\, and he knows exactly when to close the door on these stories. I read this book thinking\, oh bless their hearts\, bless all of our hearts.” — Leesa Cross-Smith\, author of Every Kiss A War and Whiskey & Ribbons.\n— \nVincent Chu was born in Oakland\, California. His fiction has appeared in PANK Magazine\, East Bay Review\, Pithead Chapel\, Cooper Street\, Stockholm Review\, Chicago Literati\, WhiskeyPaper and elsewhere. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Sundress Publications Best of the Net. This is his debut collection. He wrote most of the stories in Cologne\, Germany. He can be found online at www.vincentchuwriter.com or @herrchu.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vincent-chu-like-a-champion/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Solnit and Joan Halifax
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Solnit is a writer\, historian\, and activist. A long-time resident of San Francisco\, she has written on geography\, community\, the environment\, art\, politics\, hope\, and feminism in her seventeen books including Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas\, Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas\, and  2016’s Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas\, River of Shadows\, Men Explain Things to Me\, A Field Guide to Getting Lost\, and Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school and frequent contributor to the political site Tomdispatch.com\, Solnit is a contributing editor to Harper’s\, where she is the first woman to regularly write the Easy Chair column (founded in 1851). \nRoshi Joan Halifax is a Buddhist teacher\, Zen priest\, anthropologist\, and pioneer in the field of end-of-life care. She is Founder\, Abbot\, and Head Teacher of Upaya Institute and Zen Center in Santa Fe\, New Mexico. She received her Ph.D. in medical anthropology in 1973 and has lectured on the subject of death and dying at many academic institutions and medical centers around the world. She received a National Science Foundation Fellowship in Visual Anthropology\, was an Honorary Research Fellow in Medical Ethnobotany at Harvard University\, and was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Library of Congress.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-solnit-and-joan-halifax/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:André Aciman / Call Me By Your Name & Enigma Variations
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host André Aciman reading from his sensational novels Call Me By Your Name—now a major motion picture nominated for three Golden Globes—andEnigma Variations. \nPlease note: Due to popular demand\, this event has been moved to Booksmith (1644 Haight St.). The event is free to attend\, but seating is limited.  \nAndré Aciman’s Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents’ cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction\, when\, during the restless summer weeks\, unrelenting currents of obsession\, fascination\, and desire intensify their passion and test the charged ground between them. Recklessly\, the two verge toward the one thing both fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. It is an instant classic and one of the great love stories of our time. \nA USA Today bestseller\, Los Angeles Times bestseller\, and New York Times Notable Book of the Year\, Call Me by Your Name was named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post\, Chicago Tribune\, Publishers Weekly\, The Seattle Times\, and New York Magazine\, and the film has been called “far and away the best movie of the year” by rogerebert.com; Esquire says it has “some of the most emotional moments in film history.” \n—Enigma Variations— \nEnigma Variations charts the life of a man named Paul\, whose loves remain as consuming and as covetous throughout his adulthood as they were in his adolescence. Whether the setting is southern Italy\, where as a boy he has a crush on his parents’ cabinetmaker\, or a snowbound campus in New England\, where his enduring passion for a girl he’ll meet again and again over the years is punctuated by anonymous encounters with men—whether he’s on a tennis court in Central Park or on a New York sidewalk in early spring. Paul’s attachments are ungraspable\, transient\, and forever underwritten by raw desire. \nAhead of every step Paul takes\, his hopes\, denials\, fears\, and regrets are always ready to lay their traps. Yet the dream of love lingers. We may not always know what we want. We may remain enigmas to ourselves and to other. But sooner or later\, we discover who we’ve always known we were. \n— \n“[Aciman is] up to something bolder this time . . . Aciman is all the way himself here. He writes with the ferocity of a writer who’s finally getting his vision down\, and he has to say it\, has to get it out. He’s made a magnificent\, living thing.” —Paul Lisicky\, New York Times Book Review  \n“A breathless\, sketched rendering of one man’s life in love\, Aciman’s novel speaks earnestly not only of longing and lust\, but also of more complicated emotions . . . [Aciman] portrays Paul convincingly as a sensuous and self-aware figure\, forever treading the border between melodrama and tragedy.” —Publishers Weekly  \n— \nAndré Aciman is the author of Call Me By Your Name\, Out of Egypt\, Eight White Nights\, False Papers\, Alibis\, and Harvard Square\, and the editor of The Proust Project (all published by FSG). He teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and lives with his wife in Manhattan. \nPlease note: \n>>> This event will be at Booksmith at 1644 Haight. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n>>> This is a free event\, but seating is limited.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andre-aciman-call-me-by-your-name-enigma-variations/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lily Hoang + Jackie Wang
DESCRIPTION:Poets Lily Hoang and Jackie Wang read from their work\, in their first-ever appearances at The Poetry Center. This is the first of two Poetry Center events held in conjunction with the nationwide Poetry Coalition series on The Body. Supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation to the Academy of American Poets on behalf of the Poetry Coalition. Free.\n\n\n\n\nLily Hoang\nHoang is the author of five books\, including A Bestiary (winner of the inaugural Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s Nonfiction Contest)\, Changing (recipient of a PEN Open Books Award) and The Evolutionary Revolution (Les Figues). She teaches in the Master of Fine Arts program at University of California\, San Diego\, and serves as editor at Jaded Ibis Press. Previously\, she was executive editor for HTML Giant. \n“Rarely have I come across tenderness\, venom\, and fire held so intimately\, so exquisitely\, as in Lily Hoang’s A Bestiary. … Hoang writes like she has nothing to lose and everything at stake.” — Maggie Nelson \n  \nJackie Wang\nWang’s Carceral Capitalism\, the newest volume in Semiotext(e)’s Interventions Series\, is a book of essays that includes her influential critique of liberal anti-racist politics\, “Against Innocence\,” besides essays on RoboCop\, techno-policing and the aesthetic problem of making invisible forms of power legible. Wang shows that the new racial capitalism begins with parasitic governance and predatory lending that extends credit only to dispossess later\, and how new carceral modes emerging since the 1990s have blurred the distinction between the inside and the outside of prison. \nWang is a student of the dream state\, a black studies scholar\, prison abolitionist\, poet\, performer\, library rat\, trauma monster and Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University. She is the author of the nonfiction book Carceral Capitalism (Semiotexte/MIT Press)\, a collection of dream poems titled Tiny Spelunker of the Oneiro-Womb (Capricious) and a number of punk zines including On Being Hard Femme.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lily-hoang-and-jackie-wang/
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:20180301T210000
DTSTAMP:20260420T060418
CREATED:20180129T114731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180206T050657Z
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SUMMARY:Brittney Cooper: Eloquent Rage
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to welcome Brittney Cooper to read from and discuss Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower. She will be in-conversation with Alicia Garza; please join us! \nIn the tradition of bell hooks\, Roxane Gay and Audre Lorde\, America’s leading young black feminist celebrates dissent—both personal and public\, reminding us that anger is a powerful source of energy that can give us the strength to keep on fighting. \n— \n“Cooper personifies what Sonia Sanchez called “homegirl and hand-grenade”—here\, like the homegirl she is\, Cooper gives us the uncensored truth about how America has become what it is today\, and reminds us in no uncertain terms that Black people\, and particularly Black women\, have the brilliance\, foresight\, and vision to bring a different America to fruition\, should we choose to use our powers for good rather than evil.” —Alicia Garza\, Special Projects Director\, National Domestic Workers Alliance and Co-Founder\, Black Lives Matter \n“Cooper may be the boldest young feminist writing today. Her critique is sharp\, her love of Black people and Black culture is deep\, and she will make you laugh out loud even as she kicks the clay feet out from under your cherished idols.” — Michael Eric Dyson \n— \nBrittney Cooper writes a popular monthly column on race\, gender\, and politics for Cosmo. A professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University\, she co-founded the Crunk Feminist Collective\, and her work has appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Los Angeles Times\, Ebony.com\, and TheRoot.com\, among many others. \nAlicia Garza is an Oakland-based organizer\, writer\, public speaker and freedom dreamer who is currently the Special Projects Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance\, the nation’s leading voice for dignity and fairness for the millions of domestic workers in the United States. Garza\, along with Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors\, also co-founded the Black Lives Matter network\, a globally recognized organizing project that focuses on combatting anti-Black state-sanctioned violence and the oppression of all Black people. Since the rise of the BLM movement\, Garza has become a powerful voice in the media. Her articles and interviews have been featured in Time\, Mic\, The Guardian\, Elle.com\, Essence\, Democracy Now!\, and The New York Times. \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery at 1727 Haight. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Eloquent Rage\, order here and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brittney-cooper-eloquent-rage/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180301T210000
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CREATED:20180129T114915Z
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck Presents READY PLAYER ONE (w/ Komedio!)
DESCRIPTION:This March\, we’re partnering with local geniuses Komedio Comedy to imagine a world that revolves around the specific movies and video games that One Dude likes. Let’s ‘wreck Ready Player One before the movie comes out. \n  \nFeatured writers: Marc Abrigo\, Tirumari Jothi\, Stephen Ku\, Kristee Ono\, Thomas Paras\, and Molly Sanchez. \n  \n$12 advance\, $15 at the door\, ticket includes open bar (!) for 21+ and afterparty admission at The Bindery. Tickets on sale now. \n  \n— \n  \nWelcome to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction competition. \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.”\n“Shipwreck will bring you to madness\, and you may never return.”\n“…wonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting.” \n— \nPLEASE NOTE: No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. \nWere not dicks\, we just like dick jokes. \n— \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable for any reason. Thanks!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-presents-ready-player-one-with-komedio/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180301T210000
DTSTAMP:20260420T060418
CREATED:20180129T124551Z
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SUMMARY:Will Boast + Molly Antopol
DESCRIPTION:Will Boast discusses his new novel\, Daphne with Molly Antopol. \nPraise for Daphne \n“Will Boast has written a novel that exquisitely marries ancient mythology and au courant medicine to tell our favorite tale\, the love story\, with insights both age-old and brand-spanking new. It’s a fine\, fine ride.”- Antonya Nelson\, author of Bound and Funny Once \n“Richly meditative and quietly suspenseful\, Daphne breathes fresh vigor into timeless questions about love and risk―the unknowable cost of fully opening one’s heart to another. Will Boast writes beautifully about life’s daily moral gambles\, and Daphne is an outright marvelous debut.”- Laura van den Berg\, author of Find Me \n“In his stunning first novel\, Boast turns the myth of Daphne and Apollo into a modern love story about social anxiety and physical debilitation…Sharply observant\, both of the limits of human longing and of the fear of feeling trapped inside one’s body\, Boast’s understated tale is at once tragic and enchanting.”- Booklist\, Starred Review \nAbout Daphne \nElegantly written and profoundly moving\, this spellbinding debut affirms Boast’s reputation as a “new young American voice for the ages” (Tom Franklin). Born with a rare (and real) condition in which she suffers degrees of paralysis when faced with intense emotion\, Daphne has few close friends and even fewer lovers. Like her mythic namesake\, even one touch can freeze her. But when Daphne meets shy\, charming Ollie\, her well-honed defenses falter\, and she’s faced with an impossible choice: cling to her pristine\, manicured isolation or risk the recklessness of real intimacy. Set against the vivid backdrop of a San Francisco flush with money and pulsing with protest\, Daphne is a gripping and tender modern fable that explores both self-determination and the perpetual fight between love and safety.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/will-boast-and-molly-antopol/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180301T223000
DTSTAMP:20260420T060418
CREATED:20180219T081159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180219T081159Z
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SUMMARY:You're Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, March 1\, 2018\n7:30 PM  10:30 PM\nThe Lost Church (map)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors at 7:30pm\nShow at 8pm\n$10 online & at the door…\nTICKETSSSSSS: http://ticketf.ly/2C4dYMP \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\,\na communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\,\nto embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-11/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180302T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180302T170000
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SUMMARY:Robert Reich: Fighting for the Common Good
DESCRIPTION:Robert Reich\, Chancellor’s Professor and Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Public Policy\, UC Berkeley; Former U.S. Secretary of Labor under President Clinton; Author\, The Common Good \nRobert Reich is one of the most beloved and influential voices in progressive politics today. In his new book\, The Common Good\, the former Secretary of Labor\, and professor of Public Policy at U.C. Berkeley contends that America has trapped itself in a vicious cycle of “whatever it takes” that has left us more divided than ever. As a result\, Americans are experiencing an erosion of trust in our media\, the largest income inequality in modern history\, and the resurgence of nationalist movements and racist rhetoric. \nYet despite this political bickering\, Reich argues this cycle can—and must—be reversed. He believes that Americans should focus on our shared ideals and values\, rather than what divides us. Join us as Robert Reich visits The Commonwealth Club to discuss The Common Good\, and how we can work together to create a stronger future for all. \nReich will discuss his belief that “the political class is beholden to special interests who demand unsustainable spending\, and that the unfunded liability crisis can be solved if we unshackle the engines of economic growth.” \nLocation: 110 The Embarcadero\, Taube Family Auditorium\, San Francisco\nTime: 5:30 p.m. check in\, 6:30 p.m. program\, 7:30 p.m. book signing \nNotes: Each ticket includes a copy of Robert Reich’s new book\, The Common Good. Reich photo by Delaney Inamine \nAll ticket sales are final and nonrefundable.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-reich-fighting-for-the-common-good/
LOCATION:Commonwealth Club of California\, 110 The Embarcadero\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180302T210000
DTSTAMP:20260420T060418
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SUMMARY:Caroline Goodwin / The Paper Tree
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts an evening of poetry and conversation with Caroline Goodwin (The Paper Tree) and Linda Norton (The Public Gardens). Please join us for this special Friday evening event! \n  \nThe poems in The Paper Tree are redolent in sound and rich in the details of place. Caroline Goodwin deeply knows these landscapes of which she writes\, goat hair and fireweed and cedar. She spins words with such velocity and cunning that the poems weave a spell. One arrives out the other side wild with rainwater and moss\, mussel shells and lupine. This is not a collection to read once\, but to savor and return to again and again. \n– Erin Coughlin Hollowell\, author of Pause\, Traveler \n  \nThe Paper Tree is a brave\, luminous\, and beautifully wrought book “where the need to name the shape / does not even exist / and nothing can be pinned / down or held as evidence.” It begins with stems and stones\, death and beads. Then Goodwin takes us deep into a teeming world characterized by perhaps\, where tiny gold frogs hop away and leave a cool sheen on the arms (“A kind of sleeve”) and medicine grows in the rushes. Ultimately\, the edges of that mythic landscape blur into the relentlessly technological\, political\, and embattled present. But when we finally enter the familiar world (of radiation\, mass-incarceration\, and friend requests)\, we do so with a broadened sense of these key particulars: mother\, father\, daughter\, sister\, ghost.” \n– Chiyuma Elliott\, author of California Winter League and Vigil \n  \n— \n  \nCaroline Goodwin was born and raised in Alaska and moved to California in 1999 to attend Stanford as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry. She is also the author of Kodiak Herbal (MaCaHu Press\, 2008)\, Text Me\, Ishmael (Literary Pocket Book Series #2\, 2012)\, Trapline(JackLeg Press\, 2013) and Peregrine (Finishing Line Press\, 2015). She lives in the Bay Area and teaches at California College of the Arts and the Stanford Writer’s Studio. From 2014 – 2016 she served as the first Poet Laureate of San Mateo County\, CA. \n  \nLinda Norton is the author of a chapbook\, Hesitation Kit (EtherDome)\, and a book\, The Public Gardens: Poems and History (Pressed Wafer; introduction by Fanny Howe)\, a finalist for an LA Times Book Prize in 2012. Her second book\, Wite-Out\, is scheduled for publication this year. She is also a visual artist. Her collages have appeared on the covers of books by Claudia Rankine\, Julie Carr\, and others\, and were exhibited in Ireland in 2014 at the Dock Arts Centre\, courtesy of a grant from the U. S. Embassy in Dublin. In 2017 Linda became a citizen of Ireland/EU. You can find collages\, reviews\, interviews\, and excerpts from her books at thepublicgardens.blogspot.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/caroline-goodwin-the-paper-tree/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180303T193000
DTSTAMP:20260420T060418
CREATED:20180128T231808Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180206T051238Z
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SUMMARY:Writers and Wine: 16th Annual MFA Scholarship Fund Benefit
DESCRIPTION:A tasting of wines paired with writers\, Karen Joy Fowler\, Chang-Rae Lee\, Forrest Gander and more TBA. Emceed by Lysley Tenorio\, MFA Director and Tara McDonald\, Wine Director\, Prospect SF. \n  \nEvening Timeline: \n5:30pm: Champagne reception with music by Alex Kelly \n6:00pm: Wine tasting and readings \n6:30pm: Raffle tickets available to purchase and break \n6:45pm: Wine tasting and readings \n7:15pm: Raffle \n7:30pm: Evening concludes \n  \nChang-rae Lee is the author of five novels: Native Speaker (1995); A Gesture Life (1999); Aloft (2004); The Surrendered\, which was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and On Such a Full Sea (2014) which was a Finalist for the NBCC and won the Heartland Fiction Prize. His novels have won numerous awards and citations\, including the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award\, the American Book Award\, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award\, ALA Notable Book of the Year Award\, the Anisfield-Wolf Literary Award\, the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award\, and the NAIBA Book Award for Fiction. He has also written stories and articles for The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, Time (Asia)\, Granta\, Conde Nast Traveler\, Food & Wine\, and many other publications. \n  \nKaren Joy Fowler is the author of six novels and three short story collections including We are all completely beside ourselves. The Jane Austen Book Club spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s previous novel\, Sister Noon\, was a finalist for the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Her debut novel\, Sarah Canary\, was a New York Times Notable Book\, as was her second novel\, The Sweetheart Season. In addition\, Sarah Canary won the Commonwealth medal for best first novel by a Californian\, and was listed for the Irish Times International Fiction Prize as well as the Bay Area Book Reviewers Prize. Fowler lives in Santa Cruz\, California. \n  \nForrest Gander\, a writer and translator with degrees in geology and literature\, was born in the Mojave Desert and lives in Petaluma\, CA. Gander’s book Core Samples from the World\, a meditation on the ways we are revised and translated in encounters with the foreign\, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Among his recent titles are the novel The Trace\, and two translations: Then Come Back: the Lost Neruda Poems and Alice\, Iris\, Red Horse: Selected Poems of Gozo Yoshimasu. Be With\, his first book of poems since 2011\, is forthcoming in 2018 from New Directions. \n  \nLysley Tenorio’s stories have appeared in The Atlantic\, Zoetrope: All-Story\, Ploughshares\, Manoa\, and The Best New American Voices and Pushcart Prize anthologies. A Whiting Writer’s Award winner and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, he has received fellowships from the University of Wisconsin\, Phillips Exeter Academy\, Yaddo\, The MacDowell Colony\, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Born in the Philippines\, Lysley currently lives in San Francisco\, and is an associate professor at Saint Mary’s College of California. \n  \nWines from Caymus Vineyards\, Ordinaire Wine Shop. Beer from Lagunitas Brewery.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-and-wine-16th-annual-mfa-scholarship-fund-benefit/
LOCATION:Dolby Chadwick Gallery\, 210 Post Street\, Suite 205\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180303T200000
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CREATED:20180129T095020Z
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon Spring Reading
DESCRIPTION:New York Times bestselling author\nJulie Lythcott-Haims \n(How to Raise an Adult; Real American) \nLambda Award-winner\nK.M. Soehnlein \n(The World of Normal Boys; Robin and Ruby) \nWhy There Are Words founder & fiction writer\nPeg Alford Pursell \n(Show Her a Flower\, a Bird\, a Shadow) \nNovelist & Missouri Review prize-winner\nIngrid Rojas Contreras \n(Fruit from the Drunken Tree\, forthcoming)\nBlack Lawrence Press Award-winner\nJacqueline Doyle\n(The Missing Girl) \n& \nupcoming poet and journalist \nRoxanne Hernandez \n____________________ \nFree Admission \nCash Bar Exotica \nDoors at 5.30\, \nReading at 6.00 \n@ the Armory Club\, \n1799 Mission St.\, San Francisco\nacross from the San Francisco Armory
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-spring-reading/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180303T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180303T210000
DTSTAMP:20260420T060418
CREATED:20180128T230903Z
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SUMMARY:Jackie Wang w/ Lily Hoang
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade present a reading and book party celebrating Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism\, the newest volume in Semiotext(e)’s Interventions Series. Wang will be joined by acclaimed essayist and prolific fiction writer Lily Hoang. This is second of two Poetry Center events held in conjunction with the nationwide Poetry Coalition series on The Body. Supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation to the Academy of American Poets on behalf of the Poetry Coalition. Free.\n\n\n\n\nJackie Wang\nCarceral Capitalism is a book of essays that includes Wang’s influential critique of liberal anti-racist politics\, “Against Innocence\,” besides essays on RoboCop\, techno-policing and the aesthetic problem of making invisible forms of power legible. Wang shows that the new racial capitalism begins with parasitic governance and predatory lending that extends credit only to dispossess later\, and how new carceral modes emerging since the 1990s have blurred the distinction between the inside and the outside of prison. \nWang is a student of the dream state\, a black studies scholar\, prison abolitionist\, poet\, performer\, library rat\, trauma monster and Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University. She is also the author of a collection of dream poems titled Tiny Spelunker of the Oneiro-Womb (Capricious) and punk zines including On Being Hard Femme. \nLily Hoang\nHoang is the author of five books\, including A Bestiary (winner of the inaugural Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s Nonfiction Contest)\, Changing (recipient of a PEN Open Books Award) and The Evolutionary Revolution (Les Figues). She teaches in the Master of Fine Arts program at University of California\, San Diego\, and serves as editor at Jaded Ibis Press. Previously\, she was executive editor for HTML Giant. \n“Rarely have I come across tenderness\, venom\, and fire held so intimately\, so exquisitely\, as in Lily Hoang’s A Bestiary. … Hoang writes like she has nothing to lose and everything at stake.” — Maggie Nelson
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jackie-wang-lily-hoang-book-party/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180304T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180304T133000
DTSTAMP:20260420T060418
CREATED:20180302T135725Z
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SUMMARY:Word Week "Creating Children's Poetry"
DESCRIPTION:A short workshop with San Francisco’s 7th poet laureate\, Kim Shuck. She has worked with young people for over 30 years in San Francisco public schools. In this workshop\, Kim is looking for 9/10/11 year olds to write and share short poems and listen to a brief reading of poems by and for younger writers. Sunday\, March 4\, 2018\, 12noon-1:30pm\, Noe Valley Library\, 451 Jersey St. Free. A Word Week 2018 event. \nKim Shuck is the daughter of a Cherokee man from Oklahoma and Polish mother. Educator\, visual artist\, poet\, iconoclast in San Francisco\, she has published two collections of poetry\, one chapbook\, one collection of prose poems and is working on a collection of poems to be published in 2019. She is serving as San Francisco’s seventh poet laureate. \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/word-week-creating-childrens-poetry/
LOCATION:Noe Valley Library\, 451 Jersey Street\, San Francisco\, 94114
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:AUTHOR EVENT! NorCalzone: a California Reading (Disorder Press )
DESCRIPTION:NorCalzone: a California Reading \nREADERS: \nJoseph Graham \nBen Loory \nMira Gonzalez \nGene Morgan \nMallory Whitten \nTimothy Willis Sanders \nhttp://disorderpress.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-event-norcalzone-a-california-reading-disorder-press/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180304T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180304T200000
DTSTAMP:20260420T060418
CREATED:20180219T071024Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180219T071024Z
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Micah Ballard\, Jennifer Elise Foerster\, Jenn Alandy Trahan\, and Kathleen Winter\nHosted by Peter Kline \nMicah Ballard is author of three full-length collections of poetry\, Afterlives (Bootstrap Press\, 2016)\, Waifs and Strays (City Lights Books\, 2011)\, which was nominated for a California Book Award\, and Parish Krewes (Bootstrap Press\, 2009)\, and over a dozen small books\, including Vesper Chimes (Gas Meter\, 2014)\, Evangeline Downs (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2006) and Negative Capability in the Verse of John Wieners (Auguste Press\, 2001). His writing has appeared in Amerarcana\, Bay Poetics\, Blue Book\, Boog City\, Chicago Review\, Drunken Boat\, The Emerald Tablet\, Evidence of the Paranormal\, Harriet: The Poetry Foundation\, H_NGM_N\, LIT\, LiveMag NYC!\, MARY: A Journal of New Writing\, PEN\, The Poetry Project Newsletter\, The Recluse\, Try!\, and Vanitas\, among others. \nJennifer Elise Foerster is an alumna of the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) and received her MFA from the Vermont College of the Fine Arts. She is the recipient of a NEA Creative Writing Fellowship (2017)\, a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship (2014)\, and was a Robert Frost Fellow in Poetry at Breadloaf (2017) and a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford (2008-2010). A member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma\, she teaches at the IAIA MFA Low-Residency Program\, and co-directs For Girls Becoming\, an arts mentorship program for Mvskoke youth in Oklahoma. Jennifer is the author of Leaving Tulsa\, (2013) and Bright Raft in the Afterweather (2018)\, both published by the University of Arizona Press. This spring\, she will be completing her PhD in English and Creative Writing at the University of Denver. She lives in San Francisco. \nJenn Alandy Trahan was born in Houston\, Texas\, and raised in Vallejo\, California. She holds a BA from the University of California\, Irvine\, as well as an MFA and MA from McNeese State University. Though Jenn has lived in eleven cities across the country\, her heart belongs to the San Francisco Giants\, the Golden State Warriors\, the New Orleans Saints\, Seaside Donuts\, Cameron Parish\, Glenn\, Dalton\, Jean Grey\, Teagan\, and Keanu Reeves. Thanks to a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford\, she’s been able to work on her first novel. \nKathleen Winter is the author of two poetry collections: I will not kick my friends (Elixir Press 2018)\, winner of the Elixir Poetry Prize\, and Nostalgia for the Criminal Past\, which received the 2013 Texas Institute of Letters first book award. She was granted fellowships by the Dobie Paisano Ranch; Dora Maar House; James Merrill House\, Cill Rialaig Project and Vermont Studio Center. She won the Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award and Poetry Society of America The Writer/Emily Dickinson Award. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Tin House\, AGNI\, New Republic\, New Statesman\, Yale Review\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, 32 Poems and other journals. She lives near Glen Ellen and teaches at Sonoma State.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-8/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180305T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180305T200000
DTSTAMP:20260420T060418
CREATED:20180302T135819Z
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SUMMARY:Word Week "Obi Kaufmann: California Field Atlas Book Signing"
DESCRIPTION:Artist\, poet\, and naturalist Obi Kaufmann will present his number one best-selling CALIFORNIA FIELD ATLAS at the 12th annual Noe Valley Word Week festival at Folio Books (3957 24th St. San Francisco) on Monday\, March 5\, 2018\, from 7pm to 8pm. Obi will present a short lecture and then offer signed copies for sale. Free admission. A Word Week 2018 event. \nLavishly illustrated with hundreds of hand-painted maps and wildlife renderings and based on his decades of walking the backcountry of California\, Obi’s CALIFORNIA FIELD ATLAS is a phenomenal testimony to the natural world of the Golden State and unlike anything that has come before. Full of character and color\, the CALIFORNIA FIELD ATLAS is quickly becoming a new classic\, being hailed as a “gorgeously illustrated compendium” (Sunset Magazine) and that “…it will provide you with a greater appreciation for the state’s ecological jewels and landmarks. Kaufmann’s writing offers us hope during this trying time for conservationism and climactic pushback.” (San Francisco Chronicle). Follow Obi on Instagram @coyotethunder and on Twitter @obikaufmann
URL:https://litseen.com/event/word-week-obi-kaufmann-california-field-atlas-book-signing/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180305T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180305T210000
DTSTAMP:20260420T060418
CREATED:20170324T014124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170922T061640Z
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-11/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180305T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180305T214500
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CREATED:20180128T230723Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180206T051551Z
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SUMMARY:Writers on Writing: Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:Tongo Eisen-Martin reads from and discusses his poetry. His latest book is Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights Publishers\, 2017). “I don’t know that there is a living writer whose work loves black people as much as Tongo Eisen-Martin’s work loves us.” — Kiese Laymon\, author of Long Division. Free.\n\n\n\nTongo Eisen-Martin\n\nEisen-Martin is a revolutionary poet who uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. His first full-length book of poems\, Someone’s Dead Already (Bootstrap Press)\, was nominated for a California Book Award. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, Mississippi. \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of black people throughout the U.S. He has taught in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California county jails. He has been a faculty member at Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies and designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. In October he served as Mazza Writer in Residence at The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University. Eisen-Martin’s latest curriculum\, “We Charge Genocide Again\,” has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. \n\nWriters on Writing \nEisen-Martin is a revolutionary poet who uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. His first full-length book of poems\, Someone’s Dead Already (Bootstrap Press)\, was nominated for a California Book Award. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, Mississippi. \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of black people throughout the U.S. He has taught in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California county jails. He has been a faculty member at Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies and designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. In October he served as Mazza Writer in Residence at The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University. Eisen-Martin’s latest curriculum\, “We Charge Genocide Again\,” has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-on-writing-tongo-eisen-martin/
LOCATION:San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180305T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180305T210000
DTSTAMP:20260420T060418
CREATED:20180128T225149Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180206T051714Z
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning at Dogeared Books
DESCRIPTION:Our 116th show will be at Dogeared Books Castro on March 5\, 2018. \nSubmissions of all kinds of writing are open through end of day Feb 14. All selected authors will be paid and published in the 92nd issue of sPARKLE & bLINK\, which will feature cover art by Thomas Gardea and be handed out free to the first 100 people at the show! CLICK HERE to submit! \n  \ncurators: Sandra Wassilie + Charles Kruger
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-at-dogeared-books/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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