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SUMMARY:Richard Powers & Bill McKibben
DESCRIPTION:Richard Powers is the Pulitzer-prize and National Book Award-winning author of twelve novels\, including Orfeo\, The Echo Maker\, and The Time of Our Singing. The Overstory\, Powers most recent novel\, is a sweeping\, impassioned tale of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of – and paean to – the natural world. The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that explore the essential conflict on our planet: the one taking place between humans and nonhumans. \nBill McKibben is an author\, environmentalist\, activist\, and the co-founder of 350.org\, an international climate campaign that works in 188 countries around the world. His 1989 groundbreaking book\, The End of Nature – issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic – was the first book to alert us to global warming. He’s gone on to write a dozen more books\, most recently Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? The Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, he is the recipient of the Right Livelihood Prize\, the Gandhi Prize and the Thomas Merton Prize\, and holds honorary degrees from 18 colleges and universities.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/richard-powers-bill-mckibben/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center of San Francisco\, 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191020T170000
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SUMMARY:Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films with Arthur Dong
DESCRIPTION:Oscar-nominated and triple Sundance award-winning filmmaker Arthur Dong presents a slide show and talk from his newest book Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hollywood-chinese-the-chinese-in-american-feature-films-with-arthur-dong/
LOCATION:Koret Auditorium\, San Francisco Main Library\, 100 Larkin Avenune\, SAN FRANCISCO\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mazza Writer in Residence Peter Nachtrieb + Guests\, reading of a new play-in-progress
DESCRIPTION:Supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation \nFree and open to the public \nDetails soon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mazza-writer-in-residence-peter-nachtrieb-guests-reading-of-a-new-play-in-progress/
LOCATION:Z Space\, 450 Florida Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191021T193000
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SUMMARY:LIZ PHAIR In Conversation with Tabitha Soren
DESCRIPTION:LIZ PHAIR\nIn Conversation with Tabitha Soren\nMonday\, October 21\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nco-presented with Noise Pop \nA recording artist and touring performer for over twenty-five years\, Liz Phair has paved the way for countless musicians\, particularly women. Phair began her career in the early 1990s in Chicago by self-releasing audio cassettes under the name Girly-Sound. The intense viral response to these early tracks led to Phair signing with the independent label Matador Records\, and her debut album\, Exile in Guyville\, is considered by music critics to be a landmark of indie rock. More than two decades later\, Phair remains a major influence on contemporary music. In her forthcoming memoir\, she takes readers inside the most intimate junctures of her life\, from facing her own bad behavior and the repercussions of betraying her fundamental values\, to watching her beloved grandmother inevitably fade\, to undergoing the beauty of childbirth while being asked for an autograph by the anesthesiologist. \n  \nTabitha Soren’s photographs investigate the difficulties of everyday living.  Whether it’s the disquieting images of people in looming danger in Running\, or the anxiety-inspired oceans capes of Panic Beach\, Soren is interested in what humans can and cannot endure. In 1999\, Soren left a successful career in television\, most notably with MTV\, to become a photographer. Her work appears in several public collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Oakland Museum of California\, and has been featured in Vanity Fair\, The New York Times Magazine\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/liz-phair-in-conversation-with-tabitha-soren/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191022T190000
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SUMMARY:The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation
DESCRIPTION:Seth Donnelly’s new book The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neolilberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation deconstructs the assumption that global poverty has fallen dramatically\, and lays bare the spurious methods of poverty measurement and data on which the dominant prosperity narrative depends. Donnelly analyzes just how global poverty\, rather than being reduced\, is reproduced by the imperatives of capital accumulation on a global scale. Just as global environmental catastrophes cannot be resolved within capitalism\, rooted as it is in mechanisms of exploitation and plunder\, neither can human poverty be effectively eliminated by neoliberal “advances.” \nSeth Donnelly is a public school teacher and long-time radical activist. He will be speaking about The Lie of Global Prosperity and discussing the current situation in Haiti (a primary focus of his book) with Pierre Labossiere of the Bay Area-based Haiti Action.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-lie-of-global-prosperity-how-neoliberals-distort-data-to-mask-poverty-and-exploitation/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Gillian Conoley and Donna de la Perrière
DESCRIPTION:Gillian Conoley and Donna de la Perrière\nTuesday\, October 22\, 2019\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\nreading from new poetry \nA Little More Red Sun On The Human: New and Selected Poems \nby Gillian Conoley \npublished by Nightboat Books \nand \nWorks of Love & Terror \nby Donna de la Perrière \npublished by Talisman House \nAbout A Little More Red Sun On The Human: New and Selected Poems: \nGillian Conoley’s selected poems assemble a shockingly varied body of work\, comprising narrative\, lyric\, and fragmented forms. Her coruscating vibrant poems are informed by visual art and film\, political engagement and playful linguistic constructions. \nA Little More Red Sun on the Human: New and Selected Poems forms a completely new trajectory through decades of poetic work\, including three collections previously out of print. In a career that began by chronicling the idiosyncrasies of Texas girlhood\, Conoley’s work spirals outward toward an inquiry into spirit and matter\, the relation between the individual and the state. Throughout\, one can trace Conoley’s obsessions and concerns: democracy\, metaphysics\, motherhood\, gender and race\, futurity and history. Conoley’s new work posits an inquiry into the coming shifts of human consciousness and perception as she imagines the next world––flush with artificial intelligence\, an ever-arriving\, shape-shifting technology––and the possible communities we may yet forge between human life and a compromised planet. \nPraise for Gillian Conoley \n“Conoley’s poems have a singular energy like an organ solo or a shotgun resorting to storytelling. She adds tool handles to our histories; a set list for our waking souls. And an instrument of self-reflection that a landscape might ponder itself with. On her page\, our natures get away with nothing. All cradled by a ruthlessly loving dance of language; in her poems we meet our twins.” ––Tongo Eisen-Martin \n“Nimble\, inquisitive and intelligently elegant\, the poems in this much anticipated volume reorient phenomena to make meaning with it: personal\, inviting\, knowing\, and necessary. The range of Gillian Conoley’s attention is a marvel.”––Hoa Nguyen \n“Here we find the peculiarly American matter-of-factness of the small town exotic coming face-to-face with intellectual high-brow energy. Carson McCullers meets Gertrude Stein. Perhaps Jane Bowles is an appropriate comparison.”––The Antioch Review \n“Masterfully composed in the hot spaces and so rhythmic sounds Americans have put to their times. ‘Like gold into scar/ a twister in the skull.’”––Alice Notley \nAbout Donna de la Perrière \nDonna de la Perrière is the author of SAINT ERASURE (2010) and TRUE CRIME (2009)\, both from Talisman House. The recipient of a 2009 Fund for Poetry award\, she teaches in the MFA and undergraduate creative writing programs at California College of the Arts and San Francisco State University and curates the Bay Area Poetry Marathon reading series.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gillian-conoley-and-donna-de-la-perriere/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Amanda Yates Garcia: Initiated
DESCRIPTION:Amanda Yates Garcia discusses her new memoir\, Initiated: Memoir of a Witch. \nPraise for Initiated \n“Mythic journeys to the underworld\, goddesses\, ecstasies\, fairy tales\, ghosts\, love\, sex\, female empowerment\, challenging the patriarchy: Initiated is full of my favorite things\, told with savage grace by my favorite oracle\, the powerful and devastatingly enchanting Amanda Yates Garcia. This book will change your life.”—Francesca Lisa Block \n“I see Amanda Yates Garcia realizing a kind of magic choreography here: reaching back through millennia\, dragging forth darkness by the handful\, recalling ancient women misremembered\, denied\, hounded and destroyed\, holding the pain of misogyny and changing it with intention\, into light.”—Grace Krilanovich\, author of The Orange Eats Creeps \n“Yates Garcia takes us on a sweeping\, expansive\, generous\, and beautifully intuitive journey into feminine power in Initiated. She leads us fearlessly into the dark underworld of patriarchal oppression\, intergenerational trauma\, loss and grief\, where\, she says\, every witch must go to find her magic. This book is a powerful political protest and a call to return to first principles as a nation\, a society\, and a people. Come to it seeking your own artistic and intellectual path\, and leave trusting yourself\, trusting others\, and trusting in the unconditional love you will find in the collective soul of the world.”—Sarah Gerard\, author of Binary Star \nAbout Initiated \nSmoke Gets in Your Eyes meets Women Who Run With The Wolves in this haunting\, mystical memoir about finding meaning\, beauty\, and power through a life in witchcraft. \nAn initiation signals a beginning: a door opens and you step through. Traditional Wiccan initiates are usually brought into the craft through a ceremony with a High Priestess. But even though Amanda Yates Garcia’s mother\, a practicing witch herself\, initiated her into the earth-centered practice of witchcraft when she was 13 years old\, Amanda’s real life as a witch only began when she underwent a series of spontaneous initiations of her own. \nDescending into the underworlds of poverty\, sex work\, and misogyny\, Initiated describes Amanda’s journey to return to her body\, harness her power\, and create the magical world she longed for through witchcraft. Hailed by crows\, seduced by magicians\, and haunted by ancestors broken beneath the wheels of patriarchy\, Amanda’s quest for self-discovery and empowerment is a deep exploration of a modern witch’s trials – healing ancient wounds\, chafing against cultural expectations\, creating intimacy – all while on a mission to re-enchant the world. Peppered with mythology\, tales of the goddesses and magical women throughout history\, Initiated stands squarely at the intersection of witchcraft and feminism. With generosity and heart\, this book speaks to the question: is it possible to live a life of beauty and integrity in a world that feels like it’s dying? \nDeclaring oneself a witch and practicing magic has everything to do with claiming authority and power for oneself\, of taking back our planet in the name of Love. Initiated is both memoir and manifesto calling the magical people of the world to take up their wands: stand up\, be brave\, describe the world they want\, then create it like a witch.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amanda-yates-garcia-initiated/
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:LAUNCH for Mimi Lok / Last of Her Name\, w/Rita Bullwinkel
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to host the launch party for Mimi Lok‘s debut story collection\, Last of Her Name. She’ll be in conversation with Rita Bullwinkel (Belly Up). Please save the date and join us! \nLast of Her Name is an eye-opening novella and story collection about the intimate\, interconnected lives of diasporic women and the histories they are born into. Set in a wide range of time periods and locales\, including 80s UK suburbia\, WWII Hong Kong and urban California\, Mimi Lok’s debut features an eclectic cast of outsiders: among them\, an elderly housebreaker\, wounded lovers\, and kung-fu fighting teenage girls. \nThe title story follows the parallel\, interweaving journeys of a mother and daughter as they grapple with their respective foes\, taking us from the suburbs of England to a Chinese village on the eve of World War II\, and exploring the hidden lives and secret histories within an immigrant family. Collectively\, Lok artfully presents unique exploration of love\, longing\, and endurance. \n\nMimi Lok is the recipient of a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award and an Ylvisaker Award for Fiction\, a finalist for the 2018 Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize\, and a finalist for the Susan Atefat Arts and Letters Prize for nonfiction. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in McSweeney’s\, Electric Literature\, Nimrod\, Lucky Peach\, Hyphen\, the South China Morning Post\, and elsewhere. Mimi is also the executive director and editor of Voice of Witness\, a human rights/oral history nonprofit she co-founded that amplifies marginalized voices through a book series and a national education program. Mimi currently lives in San Francisco\, CA. Find her online at mimilok.com. \nRita Bullwinkel is the author of the story collection Belly Up. Her writing has been published in Tin House\, Conjunctions\, BOMB\, Vice\, NOON\, and Guernica. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony\, Brown University\, Vanderbilt University\, Hawthornden Castle\, and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction and her translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an Editor at Large for McSweeney’s. She lives in San Francisco. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThe Bindery bar opens at 7pm. Event starts at 7:30pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Last of Her Name\, order below and put your request in the comments field. To request signed copies of Rita’s book\, follow the same instructions here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-mimi-lok-last-of-her-name-w-rita-bullwinkel/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T190000
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SUMMARY:John Hodgman / Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-hodgman-medallion-status-true-stories-from-secret-rooms/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jake Brennan: Disgraceland
DESCRIPTION:Jake Brennan discusses his new book\, Disgraceland: Musicians Getting Away With Murder and Behaving Very Badly. \nPraise for Disgraceland \n“Through his gritty and powerful stories\, Brennan breathes new life into the music and musicians we’ve known all our lives.”—Aaron Mahnke\, author and creator of Lore \n“Jake Brennan is writing from a crossroads- the junction of music and crime. One road leads to the Elysian Fields\, the other\, to the Underworld. Some of these magicians have been down both.”—T Bone Burnett\, Oscar and Grammy winning musician and producer \n“Mix the true crime mythology of rock ‘n’ roll with a dash of transgressive fiction\, then add 10 cc of adrenaline and twice that in anabolic steroids. Employing due caution\, enter Jake Brennan’s brain as translated in Disgraceland to observe the dark results–Elvis locked in unholy union with the parasitic Colonel Tom Parker\, why Jerry Lee Lewis was called the Killer\, Altamont. Axl Rose. Chuck Berry. And\, of course\, the truly twisted Phil Spector. It all works brilliantly because Jake genuinely loves rock ‘n’ roll just as much as he enjoys indulging his imagination and wickedly stylish sense of humor.”—Dennis McNally\, author of A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead \nAbout Disgraceland \nFrom the creator of the popular rock ‘n’ roll true crime podcast\, DISGRACELAND comes an off-kilter\, hysterical\, at times macabre book of stories from the highly entertaining underbelly of music history. \nYou may know Jerry Lee Lewis married his thirteen-year-old cousin but did you know he shot his bass player in the chest with a shotgun or that a couple of his wives died under extremely mysterious circumstances? Or that Sam Cooke was shot dead in a seedy motel after barging into the manager’s office naked to attack her? Maybe not. Would it change your view of him if you knew that\, or would your love for his music triumph? \nReal rock stars do truly insane thing and invite truly insane things to happen to them; murder\, drug trafficking\, rape\, cannibalism and the occult. We allow this behavior. We are complicit because a rock star behaving badly is what’s expected. It’s baked into the cake. Deep down\, way down\, past all of our self-righteous notions of justice and right and wrong\, when it comes down to it\, we want our rock stars to be bad. We know the music industry is full of demons\, ones that drove Elvis Presley\, Phil Spector\, Sid Vicious and that consumed the Norwegian Black Metal scene. We want to believe in the myths because they’re so damn entertaining. \nDISGRACELAND is a collection of the best of these stories about some of the music world’s most beloved stars and their crimes. It will mix all-new\, untold stories with expanded stories from the first two seasons of the Disgraceland podcast. Using figures we already recognize\, DISGRACELAND shines a light into the dark corners of their fame revealing the fine line that separates heroes and villains as well as the danger Americans seek out in their news cycles\, tabloids\, reality shows and soap operas. At the center of this collection of stories is the ever-fascinating music industry–a glittery stage populated by gangsters\, drug dealers\, pimps\, groupies with violence\, scandal and pure unadulterated rock ‘n’ roll entertainment.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jake-brennan-disgraceland/
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:Ibram X. Kendi in conversation with Jelani Cobb
DESCRIPTION:IBRAM X. KENDI\nin conversation with Jelani Cobb\nThursday\, December 12\, 2019\n7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nTICKETS \nTo purchase over the phone: 415-392-4400 \nThis event appears in the series\nCultural Studies \n  \nIbram X. Kendi is a historian and the Founding Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. His books include The Black Campus Movement and Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America\, in which Kendi chronicles how racist ideas were developed\, disseminated and enshrined in American society\, leading us to a present state of racism that is more sophisticated and insidious than ever. Kendi’s newest book\, How to Be An Antiracist\, re-energizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America\, asking us to think about what an antiracist society might look like\, and how we can play an active role in building it. \nJelani Cobb has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 2015\, writing on subjects of race\, politics\, history\, and culture. Cobb’s books include The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress\, To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic\, and the collection\, The Devil and Dave Chappelle and Other Essays. He is the Ira J. Lipman Professor of Journalism at Columbia University\, specializing in post-Civil War African American history\, 20th century and modern American politics\, and the history of the Cold War.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ibram-x-kendi-in-conversation-with-jelani-cobb/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John James with Henri Cole
DESCRIPTION:John James with Henri Cole\nThursday\, December 5\, 2019\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\n    \ncelebrating the release of John James’ new collection of poetry \nThe Milk Hours \npublished by Milkweed Editions \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWinner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize\, The Milk Hours is an elegant debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist in a state of loss. \n“We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery.” So begins the title poem of this collection\, whose recursive temporality is filled with living\, grieving things\, punctuated by an unseen world of roots\, bodies\, and concealed histories. Like a cemetery\, too\, The Milk Hours sets unlikely neighbors alongside each other: Hegel and Murakami\, Melville and the Persian astronomer al-Sufi\, enacting a transhistorical poetics even as it brims with intimacy. These are poems of frequent swerves and transformations\, which never stray far from an engagement with science\, geography\, art\, and aesthetics\, nor from the dream logic that motivates their incessant investigations. \nIndeed\, while John James begins with the biographical—the haunting loss of a father in childhood\, the exhausted hours of early fatherhood—the questions that emerge from his poetic synthesis are both timely and universal: what is it to be human in an era where nature and culture have fused? To live in a time of political and environmental upheaval\, of both personal and public loss? How do we make meaning\, and to whom—or what—do we turn\, when such boundaries so radically collapse? \nJohn James is the author of The Milk Hours\, selected by Henri Cole as winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where he is pursuing a PhD in English at the University of California\, Berkeley. \nHenri Cole was born in Fukuoka\, Japan\, to a French mother and an American father. He has published nine collections of poetry\, including Middle Earth\, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer.  He has received many awards for his work\, including the Jackson Prize\, the Kingsley Tufts Award\, the Rome Prize\, the Berlin Prize\, the Lenore Marshall Award\, and the Medal in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent collection of poetry is Nothing to Declare. New York Review Books recently published a collection of prose title Orphic Paris. He teaches at Claremont McKenna College and lives in Boston. \nAbout Milkweed Editions \nJust as the common milkweed plant is the site of metamorphosis for monarch butterflies\, Milkweed Editions seeks to be a site of metamorphosis in the literary ecosystem. We take risks on debut and experimental writers\, we invest significant time and care in the editorial process\, and we enable dynamic engagement between authors and readers. We operate as a nonprofit to pursue these ends without overbearing financial pressure. And yet\, though profits aren’t our primary focus\, helping our authors succeed certainly is. Just so\, since our founding in 1980\, we’ve published over 350 books of literary fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry and now have over four million copies in circulation. We believe that literature has the potential to change the way we see the world\, and that bringing new voices to essential conversations is the clearest path to ensuring a vibrant\, diverse\, and empowered future.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-james-with-henri-cole/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Michael Nava: Carved in Bone
DESCRIPTION:Reading and Q&A with the six-time Lambda Literary Award-winning mystery writer\, Michael Nava. \nMichael Nava is the author of an acclaimed series of eight novels featuring gay\, Latino criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios\, who The New Yorker called “a detective unlike any previous protagonist in American noir.” The New York Times Book Review has called Nava “one of our best” writers. He is also the author of an award-winning historical novel\, The City of Palaces\, set at the beginning of the 1910 Mexican revolution. His first new Rios novel in 20 years\, Carved in Bone\, was released by Persigo Press on October 1\, 2019. Set in San Francisco in 1984\, Kirkus praised the book for its “refreshing emotional depth and a gay narrative seldom seen in thrillers.” Publisher’s Weekly said of the novel: “An authentic portrait of [San Francisco] in the early days of the AIDS crisis complements a satisfying mystery.” \nIn addition\, he is the writer/producer of the Henry Rios Mysteries Podcast which adapted the first Rios novel\, Lay Your Sleeping Head into an 18-episode audio drama available on I-tunes\, Spotify and other podcast platforms. In 2019\, he founded Persigo Press\, through which he hopes to publish LGBTQ writers and writers of color who write genre fiction that combines fidelity to the conventions of their genre with exceptional literary merit.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-nava-carved-in-bone/
LOCATION:James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center of San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St. San Francisco\,\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mazza Writer in Residence Peter Nachtrieb\, a playwriting workshop and conversation
DESCRIPTION:Supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation \nFree and open to the public \nDetails soon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mazza-writer-in-residence-peter-nachtrieb-a-playwriting-workshop-and-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Benedicte Maurseth in conversation with David Rothenberg
DESCRIPTION:discussiing the subject of \nTo Be Nothing: Conversations with Knut Hamre\, Hardanger Fiddle Master \nby Benedicte Maurseth \npublished by Terra Nova Press/The MIT Press \n\nDialogues between student and master about music\, learning\, teaching\, the healing power of art\, and the art of life itself. \nKnut Hamre has devoted his life to playing the Hardanger fiddle—a unique folk violin with resonating strings beneath\, like a sitar’s—and to teaching new generations the secrets of this ancient music\, rooted in a stark and beautiful land. Benedicte Maurseth is one of his most accomplished students\, an internationally known artist who has recorded for the ECM label. In a book that brings to mind such classics as Zen and the Art of Archery and Wabi Sabi\, the student and her master together explore the quest for excellence and originality in the heart of a living tradition. \nAt once mystical and practical\, To Be Nothing is a series of dialogues about music\, learning\, teaching\, the healing power of art\, and the art of life itself. With photographs evoking the rugged landscapes and people from which this music springs and the exquisite beauty of the fiddles themselves\, this is a work as serene as a fjord\, and as deep. \nBenedicte Maurseth is a Norwegian folk musician\, composer\, and writer. She began her study of the Hardanger fiddle with Knut Hamre at the age of eight. She has toured in Norway and internationally\, and has made several recordings on Grappa and ECM. In 2017 she was awarded the NOPA Music Prize for her outstanding contribution to the Norwegian music scene. \nvisit: https://www.maurseth.net/ \nDavid Rothenberg is the Series Editor of Terra Nova Books and is distinguished professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is the author of many books investigating music in nature\, including Why Birds Sing\, Survival of the Beautiful\, and Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise. His writings have been translated into more than eleven languages and among his twenty one music CDs is One Dark Night I Left My Silent House\, on ECM. \nTerra Nova Books aim to show how environmental issues have cultural and artistic components\, in addition to the scientific and political. Combining essays\, reportage\, fiction\, art\, and poetry\, Terra Nova Books reveal the complex and paradoxical ways the natural and the human are continually redefining each other. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/benedicte-maurseth-in-conversation-with-david-rothenberg/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Adam Rippon / Beautiful on the Outside
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a special event with Adam Rippon\, the first openly gay U.S. male athlete to win a medal in a Winter Olympics\, for his memoir Beautiful on the Outside. More to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nPlease note: this is a ticketed event\, to be held at Booksmith (1644 Haight St.) in San Francisco. Each ticket includes a presigned copy of Beautiful on the Outside. Tickets are available here. \nYour mom probably told you it’s what on the inside that counts. Well\, then she was never a competitive figure skater. Olympic medalist Adam Rippon has been making it pretty for the judges even when\, just below the surface\, everything was an absolute mess. From traveling to practices on the Greyhound bus next to ex convicts to being so poor he could only afford to eat the free apples at his gym\, Rippon got through the toughest times with a smile on his face\, a glint in his eye\, and quip ready for anyone listening. Beautiful on the Outside looks at his journey from a homeschooled kid in Scranton\, Pennsylvania\, to a self-professed American sweetheart on the world stage and all the disasters and self-delusions it took to get him there. Yeah\, it may be what’s on the inside that counts\, but life is so much better when it’s beautiful on the outside. \n\nAdam Rippon is an Olympic athlete and medal-winning figure skater. He won the 2010 Four Continents Championships and the 2016 U.S. National Championships and was selected to represent the United States at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang\, South Korea. He came out as gay in October 2015 and\, at the 2018 Winter Olympics\, won a bronze medal as part of the figure skating team event\, thus becoming the first openly gay U.S. male athlete to win a medal in a Winter Olympics. Later that year\, he won season 26 of Dancing with the Stars with professional dancer Jenna Johnson. Hilarious and inspirational\, Adam is absolutely beloved by his thousands of fans. \n\n– This is an all-ages\, ticketed event. Each ticket admits one person and includes a pre-signed copy of Beautiful on the Outside. No exceptions. \n– The duration of this event is up to the author. \n– Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. \n– If you can’t attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Beautiful on the Outside\, order below and be sure to put your request in the special field. \n– Adam cannot sign memorabilia. Photos will be allowed from attendees’ phones. \n– Accessibility is important to us! If you have any special needs\, please write to events@booksmith.com and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you. \n– Facebook RSVP appreciated but not required. \n\n\n\n\nBooks:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adam-rippon-beautiful-on-the-outside/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T210000
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SUMMARY:For Small Creatures Such As We: A Conversation with Sasha Sagan
DESCRIPTION:Sasha Sagan was raised by secular parents\, the astronomer Carl Sagan and the writer and producer Ann Druyan. They taught her that the natural world and vast cosmos are full of profound beauty\, that science reveals truths more wondrous than any myth or fable. \nWhen Sasha herself became a mother\, she began her own hunt for the natural phenomena behind our most treasured occasions—from births to deaths\, holidays to weddings\, anniversaries\, and more—growing these roots into a new set of rituals for her young daughter that honor the joy and significance of each experience without relying on religious frameworks. \nSasha’s first book\, For Small Creatures Such as We\, is part memoir\, part guidebook\, and part social history—a luminous exploration of Earth’s marvels that require no faith in order to be believed. \nJoin Sasha as she shares these rituals\, stories of her experiences celebrating life itself\, and the power of our families and beliefs to bring us together. \nCopies of Sasha Sagan’s book\, For Small Creatures Such as We\, will be available for sale at this event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/for-small-creatures-such-as-we-a-conversation-with-sasha-sagan/
LOCATION:CIIS Public Programs\, 1453 Mission St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jodie Hollander: My Dark Horses
DESCRIPTION:Jodie Hollander reads from her new poetry collection\, My Dark Horses. With readings by poets Francesca Bell and Amanda Moore. \nAbout My Dark Horses \nSet against the charms and vicissitudes of growing up in a family of musicians\, Jodie Hollander’s beautifully-structured and compelling debut follows the story of a daughter’s maturing relationship with her mother. Interspersed with versions of Rimbaud\, and always alert to the surreal comedy of the human condition\, these powerful and immediate poems chart with huge passion\, musicality and insight a complex journey towards familial understanding and reconciliation. \nJodie Hollander was raised in a family of classical musicians. Her work has appeared in publications such as The Poetry Review\, The Dark Horse\, The Rialto\, Verse Daily\, The Warwick Review\, The Manchester Review\, Australia’s Best Poems\, 2011\, and Australia’s Best Poems of 2015. Her debut pamphlet\, The Humane Society\, was released with Tall-Lighthouse in 2012. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in South Africa\, and was awarded a MacDowell Colony fellowship in 2015. \nFrancesca Bell’s poems appear in many journals\, including ELLE\, New Ohio Review\, North American Review\, Prairie Schooner\, and Rattle. Her translations from Arabic and German appear in Arc\, B O D Y\, Circumference\, Mid-American Review\, and The Massachusetts Review. She is the co-translator of Palestinian poet Shatha Abu Hnaish’s collection\, A Love That Hovers Like a Bedeviling Mosquito (Dar Fadaat\, 2017)\, and the author of Bright Stain (Red Hen Press\, 2019). She is the former poetry editor of River Styx and lives with her family in California. \nAmanda Moore’s poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies including ZZYZVA\, Cream City Review\, Best New Poets\, and Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting. Her craft and lyric essays have appeared in theBaltimore Review\, Hippocampus\, on the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center Blog\, and Women’s Voices for Change\, where she is a contributing editor for Poetry Sunday. She is the recipient of awards from The Writing Salon\, Brush Creek Arts Foundation\, and The Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. She received her MFA in poetry from Cornell University\, where she served as Managing Editor for EPOCH magazine. Currently a Board member for the Marin Poetry Center and 2019 Fellow at The Writers Grotto\, Amanda is a high school teacher and lives by the beach in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco with her husband and daughter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jodie-hollander-my-dark-horses/
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:Su Hwang: Bodega
DESCRIPTION:Su Hwang reads from her new poetry collection\, Bodega. \nPraise for Bodega \n“If we are not in denial\, to name one life\, one narrative\, we must name many. This is a responsibility that Su Hwang steps into with elegant care. Her poems in Bodegaare observant and cinematic\, tracing the ways our many-languaged lives come up against each other in these united states. I’ve been waiting for a collection like this\, difficult and prismatic as it is.”―Solmaz Sharif \n“If\, as Wittgenstein posited\, words are probes capable of reaching great depths\, then Su Hwang’s Bodega is a quarry―mining directly into the immigrant heart\, the daughter’s heart\, the American heart. A Barbie is burned and buried ‘without pomp or ballyhoo\,’ the earth ‘slackens\,’ to then reveal a ‘map of storied constellations\,’ and a mother cleans her daughter’s ear with a wood pen: ‘a / series of tiny / digs.’ Real excavation always rends and breaks and works to bring something new into the light. I am grateful for this book\, for all of Hwang’s illuminations.”―Kaveh Akbar \n“Through the poetry of family and community\, the collective and the self\, Su Hwang’s Bodega delivers an unflinching lyric missive to\, and for\, the complicated hearts that power a city––those whose voices and lives\, beautifully and resolutely rendered\, defy dismissal.”―Khadijah Queen \nAbout Bodega \nAgainst the backdrop of the war on drugs and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots\, a Korean girl comes of age in her parents’ bodega in the Queensbridge projects\, offering a singular perspective on our nation of immigrants and the tensions pulsing in the margins where they live and work. \nIn Su Hwang’s rich lyrical and narrative poetics\, the bodega and its surrounding neighborhoods are cast not as mere setting\, but as an ecosystem of human interactions where a dollar passed from one stranger to another is an act of peaceful revolution\, and desperate acts of violence are “the price / of doing business in the projects where we / were trapped inside human cages–binding us / in a strange circus where atoms of haves / and have-nots always forcefully collide.” These poems also reveal stark contrasts in the domestic lives of immigrants\, as the speaker’s own family must navigate the many personal\, cultural\, and generational chasms that arise from having to assume a hyphenated identity–lending a voice to the traumatic toll invisibility\, assimilation\, and sacrifice take on so many pursuing the American Dream. \n“We each suffer alone in / tandem\,” Hwang declares\, but in Bodega\, she has written an antidote to this solitary hurt–an incisive poetic debut that acknowledges and gives shape to anguish as much as it cherishes human life\, suggesting frameworks for how we might collectively move forward with awareness and compassion.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/su-hwang-bodega/
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:GOVERNOR JERRY BROWN & MIRIAM PAWEL
DESCRIPTION:GOVERNOR JERRY BROWN & MIRIAM PAWEL\nIn Conversation with Lara Bazelon\nFriday\, October 25\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nJoin author Miriam Pawel and Governor Jerry Brown for a conversation about The Browns of California\, Pawel’s panoramic history of California and its impact on the nation\, from the Gold Rush to Silicon Valley-told through the lens of the family dynasty that led the state for nearly a quarter century. Even in the land of reinvention\, the story is exceptional: Pat Brown\, the beloved father who presided over California during an era of unmatched expansion; Jerry Brown\, the cerebral son who became the youngest governor in modern times – and then returned three decades later as the oldest. Through the prism of their lives\, we gain an essential understanding of California and an appreciation of its importance.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/governor-jerry-brown-miriam-pawel/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191027T170000
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SUMMARY:Thoughts on How to Write an Autobiographical Novel with Alex Chee
DESCRIPTION:Explore the entangling issues of life\, literature\, and politics in Alexander Chee’s Thoughts on How to Write an Autobiographic Novel.  Learn how we form our identities in life and art – and how to fight when our dearest truths are under attack.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/thoughts-on-how-to-write-an-autobiographical-novel-with-alex-chee/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191028T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191028T203000
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SUMMARY:Reclaiming Judaism From Zionism - Reading With Several Contributors
DESCRIPTION:In this powerful collection of personal narratives\, forty Jews of diverse backgrounds tell a wide range of stories about the roads they have traveled from a Zionist world view to activism in solidarity with Palestinians and Israelis striving to build an inclusive society founded on justice\, equality\, and peaceful coexistence. \nReclaiming Judaism from Zionism will be controversial.  Its contributors welcome the long overdue public debate.  They want to demolish stereotypes of dissenting Jews as ‘self-hating\,’ traitorous\, and anti-Semitic.  They want to introduce readers to the large and growing community of Jewish activists who have created organizations such as Jewish Voice for Peace\, If Not Now\, and Open Hillel. They want to strengthen alliances with progressives of all faiths. Above all\, they want to nurture models of Jewish identity that replace ethnic exclusiveness with solidarity\, Zionism with a Judaism once again nourished by a transcendent ethical vision. \nLinda Hess is senior lecturer emerita in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University.\n\nSydney Levy\, a queer Latinx\, is a co-coordinator of the caucus of Jews of Color\, Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews in solidarity with Palestine\, and a steering committee member of both the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights and the Global Jewish Network in Solidarity with Palestine.\n\nHilton Obenzinger is a recipient of the American Book Award. His books include This Passover and the Next I Will Never Be in Jerusalem (1980)\, American Palestine: Melville\, Twain\, and the Holy Land Mania (1999)\, and Treyf Pesach (2017). He is currently Associate Director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford University.\n\nHenri Picciotto served on the JVP Board of Directors from 2002 to 2009 and chaired it for much of that period.   He has authored or co-authored many books and articles on math education.\n\nCecilie Surasky has worked as a professional communicator in a variety of social justice movements\, and her film work and political analysis has been featured in film festivals and news outlets all over the world.\n\nJordan Wilson-Dalzell is a queer poet writing about intersections of disability\, feminism\, Judaism\, survivorhood and social justice; her next poetry book\, Baptism by Flame\, will be about finding a home in Judaism that reflects her values.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reclaiming-judaism-from-zionism-reading-with-several-contributors/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism With contributors Linda Hess\, Hilton Obenzinger\,  Henri Picciotto\, Cecilie Surasky and Jordan Wilson-Daizell
DESCRIPTION:In this powerful collection of personal narratives\, forty Jews of diverse backgrounds tell a wide range of stories about the roads they have traveled from a Zionist world view to activism in solidarity with Palestinians and Israelis striving to build an inclusive society founded on justice\, equality\, and peaceful coexistence. \nReclaiming Judaism from Zionism will be controversial.  Its contributors welcome the long overdue public debate.  They want to demolish stereotypes of dissenting Jews as ‘self-hating\,’ traitorous\, and anti-Semitic.  They want to introduce readers to the large and growing community of Jewish activists who have created organizations such as Jewish Voice for Peace\, If Not Now\, and Open Hillel. They want to strengthen alliances with progressives of all faiths. Above all\, they want to nurture models of Jewish identity that replace ethnic exclusiveness with solidarity\, Zionism with a Judaism once again nourished by a transcendent ethical vision. \nLinda Hess is senior lecturer emerita in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University.\n\nSydney Levy\, a queer Latinx\, is a co-coordinator of the caucus of Jews of Color\, Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews in solidarity with Palestine\, and a steering committee member of both the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights and the Global Jewish Network in Solidarity with Palestine.\n\nHilton Obenzinger is a recipient of the American Book Award. His books include This Passover and the Next I Will Never Be in Jerusalem (1980)\, American Palestine: Melville\, Twain\, and the Holy Land Mania (1999)\, and Treyf Pesach (2017). He is currently Associate Director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford University.\n\nHenri Picciotto served on the JVP Board of Directors from 2002 to 2009 and chaired it for much of that period.   He has authored or co-authored many books and articles on math education.\n\nCecilie Surasky has worked as a professional communicator in a variety of social justice movements\, and her film work and political analysis has been featured in film festivals and news outlets all over the world.\n\nJordan Wilson-Dalzell graduated from Pitzer College with a degree in creative writing. Her work has been published in the magazines Passwords\, Abramelin\, Eskimpi\, andCadaverine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reclaiming-judaism-from-zionism-with-contributors-linda-hess-hilton-obenzinger-henri-picciotto-cecilie-surasky-and-jordan-wilson-daizell/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T210000
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SUMMARY:Jarett Kobek
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of his new novel \nOnly Americans Burn in Hell \npublished by We’ve Heard You Like Books \n\n‘Brilliantly funny … the best satire of our contemporary nightmare that you will ever see\, and very possibly the last’ Alan Moore \nIt’s 2019 and America is ruled over by a billionaire reality TV star. Its media is owned by a transnational class of the shameless and the depraved. And its people have been silently robbed of their wealth\, their dignity and their democracy. \nIn this brave new world\, going to see a superhero movie counts as activism\, and arguing with the other serfs on social media is political engagement. BUT EVERYTHING’S FINE – as long as you never\, ever ask yourself who makes money from the ticket sales and the ratings\, or who owns Twitter. \nIt’s 2019 and Jarett Kobek has done the only thing a dissident American novelist can do in those circumstances: he’s joined the party and written fantasy novel about an immortal fairy queen and a shadowy billionaire philanthropist sheikh called Dennis. \nHilarious\, provocative and unmissable\, Only Americans Burn in Hell is the only novel for our certifiably insane times. \nJarett Kobek is a Turkish-American writer living in California. His novel I HATE THE INTERNET was an international bestseller\, translated into nine languages\, and published in twelve countries.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jarett-kobek-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Gary Janetti: Do You Mind If I Cancel?
DESCRIPTION:Gary Janetti discusses his new book\, Do You Mind If I Cancel? (Things That Still Annoy Me). \nPraise for Do You Mind If I Cancel? \n“Gary Janetti’s book is so rolling-on-the-floor funny\, so brilliantly observant\, and so full of heart\, I’m sure a jealous Prince George will decree that Gary be locked up in the Tower of London.”— Kevin Kwan\, New York Times bestselling author of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy \n“The writing of Gary Janetti\, whether televised or tweeted\, is famously incisive and sharp-tongued. What a revelation it was\, therefore\, to discover in these revealing personal essays an artist of great tenderness and vulnerability. And he’s still funny as hell.”— Armistead Maupin\, New York Times bestselling author of The Tales of the City \n“Almost as soon as I began to read Gary Janetti’s Do You Mind If I Cancel?\, I found myself feeling the way I felt when I first encountered Fran Lebowitz and David Rakoff: laughing and wanting to shout out the best bits to whoever else was in the room\, even if no one else was there. This crazy quilt of memoir\, cultural history\, one-liners aplenty\, and periodic arias of hopefulness\, frustration\, and brashly rude rage\, is a work of intertwined great humor and great feeling. I’ve already lost my copy\, snatched up by its next eager reader.”— Benjamin Dreyer\, New York Times bestselling author of Dreyer’s English \nAbout Do You Mind If I Cancel? \nGary Janetti\, the writer and producer for some of the most popular television comedies of all time\, and creator of one of the most wickedly funny Instagram accounts there is\, now turns his skills to the page in a hilarious\, and poignant book chronicling the pains and indignities of everyday life. \nGary spends his twenties in New York\, dreaming of starring on soap operas while in reality working at a hotel where he lusts after an unattainable colleague and battles a bellman who despises it when people actually use a bell to call him. He chronicles the torture of finding a job before the internet when you had to talk on the phone all the time\, and fantasizes\, as we all do\, about who to tell off when he finally wins an Oscar. As Gary himself says\, “These are essays from my childhood and young adulthood about things that still annoy me.” \nOriginal\, brazen\, and laugh out loud funny\, Do You Mind if I Cancel? is something not to be missed. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gary-janetti-do-you-mind-if-i-cancel/
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:Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow
DESCRIPTION:Hannu Rajaniemi\, Meg Elison\, Annalee Newitz discuss their contributions to Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrowwith editor Torie Bosch. \nAbout Future Tense Fiction \nFuture Tense Fiction is a collection of electrifying original stories from a veritable who’s-who of the most interesting authors working on the margins of speculative literature and science fiction. \nFeaturing Carmen Maria Machado\, Emily St. John Mandel\, Charlie Jane Anders\, Paolo Bacigalupi\, Madeline Ashby\, Mark Oshiro\, Meg Elison\, Maureen McHugh\, Deji Bryce Olukotun\, Hannu Rajaniemi\, Annalee Newitz\, Lee Konstantinou\, and Mark Stasenko–Future Tense Fiction points the way forward to the fiction of tomorrow. \nA disease surveillance robot whose social programming gets put to the test. A future in which everyone receives universal basic income–but it’s still not enough. A futuristic sport\, in which all the athletes have been chemically and physically enhanced. An A.I. company that manufactures a neural bridge allowing ordinary people to share their memories. Brimming with excitement and exploring new ideas\, the stories collected by the editors of Slate’s Future Tense are philosophically ambitious and haunting in their creativity. At times terrifying and heartwrenching\, hilarious and optimistic\, this is a collection that ushers in a new age for our world and for the short story. \nAnnalee Newitz writes science fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of the novel Autonomous\, nominated for the Nebula and Locus Awards\, and winner of the Lambda Literary Award. As a science journalist\, she’s written for the Washington Post\, Slate\, Ars Technica\, the New Yorker\, and The Atlantic\, among others. Her book Scatter\, Adapt\, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinctionwas a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in science. She was the founder of io9\, and served as the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo and the tech culture editor at Ars Technica. She has published short stories in Lightspeed\, Shimmer\, Apex\, and Technology Review’s Twelve Tomorrows. She was the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT\, worked as a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation\, and has a Ph.D. in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley. Her new novel\, The Future of Another Timeline\, comes out September 2019. \nMeg Elison is a science fiction author and feminist essayist. Herdebut novel\, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife\, won the 2014 Philip K.Dick award. Her second novel was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick\,and both were longlisted for the James A. Tiptree award. She has been published in McSweeney’s\, Fantasy & Science Fiction\, Catapult\, and many other places. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of the University of California\, Berkeley. Find her online\, where she writes like she’s running out of time. \nHannu Rajaniemi is the author of four novels including The Quantum Thief(winner of 2012 Tähtivaeltaja Award for the best science fiction novel published in Finland and translated into more than 20 languages)\, and Invisible Planets\, a short story collection. His most recent book is Summerland\, an alternate history spy thriller in a world where the afterlife is real. His short fiction has been featured in Slate\, MIT Technology Review and the New York Times. Hannu lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a co-founder and CEO of HelixNano\, a venture- and Y Combinator–backed biotech startup. \nTorie Bosch is the editor of Future Tense\, a partnership of Slate\, New America\, and Arizona State University. She was also the co-editor of the 2017 edition of What Future: The Year’s Best Ideas to Reclaim\, Reanimate & Reinvent the Future (The Unnamed Press).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/future-tense-fiction-stories-of-tomorrow/
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:JOHN LITHGOW In Conversation with Calvin Trillin
DESCRIPTION:JOHN LITHGOW\nIn Conversation with Calvin Trillin\nWednesday\, October 30\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nJohn Lithgow is an award-winning actor with two Tonys\, six Emmys\, and two Golden Globes to his name. His forthcoming book of poetry\, Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse\, features his own never-before-seen drawings\, and chronicles the last few years in politics with Lithgow’s characteristic sharp wit and propulsive lyricism. \nJournalist\, humorist\, and devoted eater\, Calvin Trillin is a most beloved chronicler of culture. His long association with The New Yorker Magazine began in 1963 with his U.S. Journal articles\, compiled as he traveled the country\, searching for obscure stories and developing a taste for regional delicacies. Though his writing about food began as comic relief from his more serious pieces\, it has earned him a dedicated readership and has been collected in multiple books. Calvin Trillin is also a board member of City Arts & Lectures.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-lithgow-in-conversation-with-calvin-trillin/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Impromptu writing online via Zoom!
DESCRIPTION:Come join us to write together from the comfort of home! This chance to meet via computer or mobile device (or by phone) is surprisingly akin to being together in “real life” (!!) and offers the added bonus of seeing each participant as though we are sitting across from each other. \nWe do short\, timed writings together from writing prompts (or from words drawn from the magic word pouch!). We read our impromptu work out loud and receive good\, specific feedback from the group\, words or phrases that strike people\, images\, feelings the work evokes. (There is no critique\, no advice for strengthening the writing\, because this is spontaneous writing\, not polished work.) This is a great chance to encourage agile writer’s minds\, to stretch\, to bypass our critic and censor\, practice sharing our impromptu work\, grow larger in ourselves. I think you’ll find these online sessions can be surprisingly warm and filled with lovely connections. 🙂 \nRegister here on Meetup:\nhttps://www.meetup.com/Desert-People-Writing-Together/events/265241826/ \nAbout the leader of this session\, Riba Taylor\nI’m in my 18th year of teaching community college English and have been leading on-the-ground spontaneous writing groups for the past 2-1/2 years at the Cathedral City library (near Palm Springs). For more details about me and writing\, please scroll down on this page to “About the retreat leader”:\nhttps://499words.org/retreat/ \n(All times are Pacific time.)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/impromptu-writing-online-via-zoom/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,North Bay,San Francisco,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Word for Word Presents: “EXACTLY!” THEY SAID…  A Festival of Short Stories by California Writers Brought Straight to the Stage
DESCRIPTION:Word for Word Presents:\n“EXACTLY!” THEY SAID…\nA Festival of Short Stories by California Writers Brought Straight to the Stage  \nSUBMISSIONS NOW CLOSED\nNovember 1-7 \nHaving transformed short stories verbatim to the stage for the past 25 years\, Word for Word now wants to extend this singular experience to writers throughout California. The selected short stories reflect many points of view\, from a rich diversity of California’s writers. Festival activities will include a writers salon featuring Greg Sarris (Grand Avenue\, Watermelon Nights\, How A Mountain was Made) and Amy Tan (“The Bonesetter’s Daughter”\, “The Joy Luck Club”) and other activities. The festival will culminate in staged readings of five jury selected short stories by adults and six jury selected stories by teens\, performed in Word for Word’s signature Off the Page style.  \nClick Here to see a full list of winners\, including picture and bios. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFESTIVAL SCHEDULE\nLaunch of the Festival Of Short Stories\nwith Greg Sarris and Amy Tan\nFriday November 1\, 7 PM\nJewish Community High School of the Bay\, 1835 Ellis St.\, San Francisco 94115 \nKick of the festival with a writer’s Salon with two of Word for Word’s favorite authors\, Greg Sarris and Amy Tan! These two luminaries will speak about the nature of the short story and their experiences with having Word for Word bring their works to the stage. \nWord for Word will revisit snippets the companies past productions of “Citizen” (Sarris) and “Immortal Heart” (Tan). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“I am so in love with Word for Word and what they do. I come from a community who generally does not read. After my American Indian community had seen Slaughterhouse\, they were inspired to read.”  \n–Greg Sarris \nGreg Sarris is a Native American author whose books include Grand Avenue and Watermelon Nights. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Word for Word is a marvel. While respecting the author’s every word\, the company also manages to create something completely new\, going well beyond the page into an art that has no words. I was completely bowled over by the acting\, the stage\, the costumes\, the choreography—the sheer power of the experience of watching words come to life.” \n–Amy Tan \nAmy Tan is the celebrated author of The Joy Luck Club\, The Bonesetter’s Daughter\, Saving Fish from Drowning\, and other novels. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGET TICKETS TO FESTIVAL LAUNCH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdult Winners – Program #1\nFeaturing “Arithmetic” by Michael Alenyikov\, “The 14 Mission” by Anita Cabrera”\, “The Ruins” by Lindsey Crittenden \nSaturday\, November 2\, 8 PM – Z Below\, 470 Florida St\, San Francisco 94110 \nThis program features staged readings of our jury selected winners. \n\n\n\n\nGET TICKETS TO ADULT PROGRAM #1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdult Winners – Program #2\nFeaturing “Blue Ruin” by Katherine Lieban\, “Cancer Poems” by Kim Addonizio \nSunday\, November 3\, 5 PM – Z Below\, 470 Florida St\, San Francisco 94110 \nThis program features staged readings of our jury selected winners. \n\n\n\n\nGET TICKETS TO ADULT PROGRAM #2\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTeen Winners\nFeaturing”Middle School Advice” by Kenzo Fukuda\, “Atop the Saltback Mountain” by Tess Horton\, “Here’s a Theory Darling” by Sofi Orkin\, “The Magnolia Man” by Stella Pfahler\, “Matter of the Heart and Mind” by Charlotte Pocock and “Cancer” by Maya Reihanian  \nThursday\, November 7\, 7:30 PM – Children’s Creativity Museum at Yerba Buena Gardens \nThis program features staged readings from our teen category. Come out and revel at our next generation of writers! \n\n\n\n\nGET TICKETS TO TEEN WINNERS\n\n\n\n\nStand with the bear! Be a literary champion and support California writers by sponsoring or partnering with “Exactly!” They Said…\nSponsorship / Partner benefits available.\nContact Vanessa Flores at vflores@zspace.org or at 415. 659.8134 to learn more.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/word-for-word-presents-exactly-they-said-a-festival-of-short-stories-by-california-writers-brought-straight-to-the-stage/
LOCATION:various venues\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mikhal Dekel: Tehran Children
DESCRIPTION:Mikhal Dekel discusses her new book\, Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey. \nPraise for Tehran Children \n“A revelatory history\, a saga of flight and welcome\, of death and head-down survival\, a powerful narrative built for this moment. Dekel’s sweeping storytelling is marked by heartbreaking restraint and historical sensitivity.”—Charles King\, Georgetown University\, author of Odessa and Midnight at the Pera Palace \n“Though their story is seldom told\, most Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust did so by taking the road east\, into the Soviet Union. In tracing the harrowing journey of her father’s escape\, Mikhal Dekel provides a multi-layered and nuanced account. . . . Her exploration of the peculiar refugee world in 1940s Tehran — especially the tense relations between Jewish and Catholic Polish refugees in that city – makes the book an important and timely addition to the literature of the Holocaust and modern refugee history.” — Tom Reiss\, author of The Orientalist and The Black Count \n“In this brilliantly conceived narrative\, Mikhal Dekel reconstructs her father’s and grandmother’s circuitous journeys by land and sea through Iran on the way from Poland to Palestine in the years of the Holocaust. Retracing their lives as she lives her own\, in turn she illuminates a series of unexpected places absent from many maps of the refugee experience of the era. A striking book.”—Samuel Moyn\, Yale University\, author of Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World \nAbout Tehran Children \nAuthor Mikhal Dekel’s father\, Hannan Teitel\, and her aunt Regina were two of these refugees. After they fled the town in eastern Poland where their family had been successful brewers for centuries\, they endured extreme suffering in the Soviet forced labor camps known as “special settlements.” Then came a journey during which tens of thousands died of starvation and disease en route to the Soviet Central Asian Republics of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. While American organizations negotiated to deliver aid to the hundreds of thousands of Polish Jews who remained there\, Dekel’s father and aunt were two of nearly one thousand refugee children who were evacuated via Polish military transport to Iran\, where they were embraced by an ancient Persian-Jewish community celebrating familiar rituals in unfamiliar ways. Months later\, their Zionist caregivers escorted them via India to Mandatory Palestine\, where\, at the endpoint of their 13\,000 mile journey\, they joined hundreds of thousands of refugees (including over one hundred thousand Polish Catholics). The arrival of the “Tehran Children” was far from straightforward\, as religious and secular parties vied over their futures in what would soon be Israel. \nBeginning with the death of the inscrutable Tehran Child who was her father\, Dekel fuses memoir with extensive archival research to recover this astonishing story\, with the help of travel companions and interlocutors including an Iranian colleague\, a Polish PiS politician\, a Russian oligarch\, and an Uzbek descendent of Korean deportees. The history she uncovers is one of the worst and the best of humanity\, of fate and destiny\, of hospitality and of cruelty\, of love and hate. The experiences her father and aunt endured\, along with so many others\, ultimately reshaped and redefined their lives and identities and those of other refugees and rescuers\, profoundly and permanently\, during and after the war. \nWith literary grace\, Tehran Children presents a unique narrative of the Holocaust\, whose governing symbol is not the concentration camp\, but the refugee\, and whose center is not Europe\, but Central Asia and the Middle East. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mikhal-dekel-tehran-children/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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