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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170119T193000
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SUMMARY:Jason Diamond
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith presents Jason Diamond and his hilarious and poignant new memoir\, Searching for John Hughes: Or Everything I Thought I Needed to Know about Life I Learned from Watching ’80s Movies\, the story of how a Jewish kid from a broken home in a Chicago suburb—sometimes homeless\, always restless—found comfort and connection in the likewise broken lives in the suburban Chicago of John Hughes’ oeuvre. \nA writer at heart\, Diamond decided early on that it would fall to him to write a biography of his favorite filmmaker. It didn’t matter to him that he had no qualifications\, training\, background\, platform\, or direction. Thus went the years-long\, delusional\, earnest\, and assiduous quest to reach his goal. In the meantime\, he brewed coffee\, guarded cupcake cafes\, and built up a respectable writing career. All the while\, he watched John Hughes movies religiously. Though his original biography of Hughes has long since been abandoned\, Jason has discovered he is a writer through and through\, and the adversity of going for broke has now been transformed into wisdom. Or\, at least\, a really\, really good story. \nThis is a memoir of growing up. One part big dream\, one part big failure\, one part John Hughes movies\, one part Chicago\, and one part New York. It’s a story of what comes after the “Go for it!” part of the command to young creatives to pursue their dreams—no matter how absurd they might seem at first. \nJason Diamond is a writer and editor from Brooklyn. He is the Sports Editor at Rolling Stone\, a columnist at Electric Literature\, former Literary Editor at Flavorwire\, former Associate Editor at Men’s Journal\, and the founding editor of Vol. 1 Brooklyn. He has been published by the New York Times\, Paris Review\, New York\, the Believer\, the New Republic\, the New York Observer\, Tablet\, The Rumpus\, The Awl\, and many other places. He lives in Brooklyn\, New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jason-diamond/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170119T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170119T220000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155946
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SUMMARY:Cheng\, Perez\, + Calimlim
DESCRIPTION:JANUARY ARTIST SHOWCASE AND OPENING RECEPTION co-presented by Omnidawn Publishing \nArc Gallery & Studios\n1246 Folsom St. (btw 8th and 9th)\nThursday\, January 19th\, 2017 8-10pm\nEarly Bird $8 | Pre-sale $10 | Door $12| Season Pass (includes Celebrate Your Body and APAture 2017) $50 — bit.ly/kswpresents01 \nKearny Street Workshop teams up with Omnidawn Publishing to present the book releases for Jennifer S. Cheng’s “House A” and Robert Andrew Perez’s “the field”. \nAND \nKSW’s Office Gallery re-launches! Focusing on early artists looking to mount their first solo exhibition\, we are proud to present a new exhibition by Francis Calimlim. \nbios: \nJennifer S. Cheng writes in the intersecting space of poetry and essay. Her book HOUSE A explores immigrant home-building and was selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize\, and she is also the author of Invocation: An Essay (New Michigan Press)\, an image-text chapbook. www.jenniferscheng.com \nRobert Andrew Perez lives in Berkeley and is an associate editor & book designer for speCt! in Oakland\, where he also curates readings. He is an alum of the Lambda Literary fellowship & a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for poetry. His poetry has appeared in print & online in publications such as DIAGRAM\, The Awl\, The Laurel Review & The Cortland Review\, and has forthcoming work in Vinyl. His first collection\, the field\, was published with Omnidawn in their pocket book series. He is currently writing a movie about a divorce and wine tasting; it’s a comedy. More at robertandrewperez.com. \nFrancis Calimlim was born in Quezon City\, Philippines and was raised in San Diego\, California. He has participated in a number of group shows in San Diego\, Los Angeles\, and San Francisco. He received his BFA in Multimedia at San Diego State University in 2011\, and his MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. http://www.franciscalimlimart.com/ \nOmnidawn Publishing was founded by wife and husband team Rusty Morrison and Ken Keegan to create books that are most closely aligned with each author’s vision\, and to provide an interactive and rewarding publishing experience for poets and writers. They encourage authors to participate at every point in the decision making process of book design and book production\, and thus far all have taken an active part\, deciding on or providing cover art and assisting in the design of the interior of the books. Omnidawn has been publishing poetry since 2001\, with Fabulist and New Fabulist Fiction added in 2006.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cheng-perez-calimlim/
LOCATION:Kearny Street Workshop\, 1246 Folsom St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170120T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170120T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155946
CREATED:20170113T081624Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T061037Z
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Moore
DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Moore shares his latest heart-pounding thriller\, The Dark Room. Gavin Cain\, an SFPD homicide inspector\, is in the middle of an exhumation when his phone rings. San Francisco’s mayor is being blackmailed and has ordered Cain back to the city; a helicopter is on its way. The casket\, and Cain’s cold-case investigation\, must wait. At City Hall\, the mayor shows Cain four photographs he’s received: the first\, an unforgettable blonde; the second\, pills and handcuffs on a nightstand; the third\, the woman drinking from a flask; and last\, the woman naked\, unconscious\, and shackled to a bed. The accompanying letter is straightforward: worse revelations are on the way unless the mayor takes his own life first. An intricately plotted\, deeply affecting thriller that keeps readers guessing until the final pages\, The Dark Room tracks Cain as he hunts for the blackmailer\, pitching him into the web of destruction and devotion the mayor casts in his shadow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jonathan-moore/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170121T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170121T150000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155946
CREATED:20170113T082227Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T061145Z
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SUMMARY:Songs of Protest
DESCRIPTION:Come to Adobe Books on Inauguration Day for music that will stir your protesting souls\, warm your weary hearts\, remind you of all that is beautiful and strange and hard about this thing we call democracy\, this country we call America. \nBlake Parkinson – Protesting on his bagpipes since 2001\, singing Bob Dylan covers since…? \nRosie Cima – singer songwriter\, lover not a fighter\, election nailbighter\, pulled that allnighter\, sings blues and songs lighter. \nTed Lee – \nAnd more guests to be announced!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/songs-of-protest/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170121T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170121T170000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155946
CREATED:20161223T030310Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T030310Z
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SUMMARY:Zine Release Party
DESCRIPTION:America\, I love you but you’re bringing me down : ZINE RELEASE\nThis collection of poetry\, drawings\, and personal essays presents views and experiences that do not fit into Trump’s America\, along with tips and recommendations for anyone who wants to get active in opposing his agenda. \nOrganized by Vanessa Hope Schneider\, these limited-run\, risographed zines will be available starting January 20th—inauguration day. We’ll be selling them for $14 each\, and all money will go to the Equal Justice Initiative and the Adobe Books & Arts Cooperative. \nJoin us for a reading from some of the contributors and pick up a copy. All are welcome!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zine-release-party/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170121T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170121T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155946
CREATED:20170113T090631Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T090705Z
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SUMMARY:Porchlight: BOMBS AWAY
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/porchlight-bombs-away-2/
LOCATION:Oasis\, 298 11th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170122T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170122T180000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155946
CREATED:20170109T102520Z
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SUMMARY:Resist! A Postmodern Times Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us as some of our favorite San Franciscans offer their writings on resistance in the new year.\nWith\nTony Robles\nKim Shuck\nTongo Eisen-Martin\nJennifer Joseph\nThea Matthews\nhosted by Denise Sullivan and United Booksellers of San Francisco in cooperation with San Francisco Vision
URL:https://litseen.com/event/resist-a-postmodern-times-reading/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170122T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170122T190000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155946
CREATED:20170113T093333Z
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SUMMARY:Kim Stanley Roberts + Cecelia Holland
DESCRIPTION:This event will now be on Sunday January 22nd\, but we’ll still be at The American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina Street\, San Francisco. Doors and cash bar open at 5:30pm – program begins at 6:30pm. $10 donation at the door (no one is turned away for lack of funds). As always Borderlands Books will be on hand with copies of the authors’ work. Further details will follow soon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-stanley-roberts-cecelia-holland/
LOCATION:The American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170124T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170124T200000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155946
CREATED:20161223T030720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T030720Z
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SUMMARY:Deborah Kennedy
DESCRIPTION:In Nature Speaks\, Deborah Kennedy’s captivating poetry and illustrations bring to life the profound bond between ourselves and the larger natural world. Kennedy focuses on the ecological themes of our time\, infusing art and science with insight and passion. Her powerful poetry and earth-toned ink illustrations feature the elegance of birds and strength of redwood trees\, appealing to the eye\, the mind\, and the heart. Kennedy invites us to listen to the earth to appreciate nature’s grace\, complexity\, and vigoras we move toward pathways for healing ourselves and the earth. \nAn artist and poet\, Deborah Kennedy’s work has exhibited in the United States and Europe. Her art appeared on The Berlin Wall shortly before it was torn down and was an inspiration to thousands who witnessed art at the service of social change. She lives in San Jose\, CA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deborah-kennedy/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170124T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170124T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155946
CREATED:20161201T023830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T023830Z
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SUMMARY:Shanthi Sekaran
DESCRIPTION:in conversation with Oscar Villalon \ncelebrating the release of \nLucky Boy \nfrom G.P. Putnam & Sons \nA gripping tale of adventure and searing reality\, Lucky Boy gives voice to two mothers bound together by their love for one lucky boy. \nSolimar Castro Valdez is eighteen and drunk on optimism when she embarks on a perilous journey across the US/Mexican border. Weeks later she arrives on her cousin’s doorstep in Berkeley\, CA\, dazed by first love found then lost\, and pregnant. This was not the plan. But amid the uncertainty of new motherhood and her American identity\, Soli learns that when you have just one precious possession\, you guard it with your life. For Soli\, motherhood becomes her dwelling and the boy at her breast her hearth. \nKavya Reddy has always followed her heart\, much to her parents’ chagrin. A mostly contented chef at a UC Berkeley sorority house\, the unexpected desire to have a child descends like a cyclone in Kavya’s mid-thirties. When she can’t get pregnant\, this desire will test her marriage\, it will test her sanity\, and it will set Kavya and her husband\, Rishi\, on a collision course with Soli\, when she is detained and her infant son comes under Kavya’s care. As Kavya learns to be a mother–the singing\, story-telling\, inventor-of-the-universe kind of mother she fantasized about being–she builds her love on a fault line\, her heart wrapped around someone else’s child. \nLucky Boy is an emotional journey that will leave you certain of the redemptive beauty of this world. There are no bad guys in this story\, no obvious hero. From rural Oaxaca to Berkeley’s Gourmet Ghetto to the dreamscapes of Silicon valley\, author Shanthi Sekaran has taken real life and applied it to fiction; the results are moving and revelatory. \nShanthi Sekaran teaches creative writing at California College of the Arts\, and is a member of the Portuguese Artists Colony and the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Her work has appeared in Best New American Voices and Canteen\, and online at Zyzzyva and Mutha Magazine. Her first novel\, The Prayer Room\, was published by MacAdam Cage. \nOscar Villalon is the Managing Editor of Zyzzyva Magazine. He has formerly served as book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle. A member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle\, he’s also a long-time juror of the California Book Awards\, sponsored by the Commonwealth Club. His writing has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review and The Believer\, and his reviews have aired on KQED’s The California Report. \nWhat has been said about the work of Shanthi Sekaran: \n“Remarkably empathetic . . . Deeply compassionate . . . Delivers penetrating insights into the intangibles of motherhood and indeed\, all humanity.” —Booklist (starred) \n“How lucky the reader who gets to devour Shanthi Sekaran’s extraordinary\, necessary novel. Lucky Boy is both timely and timeless\, depicting the comedy and delights of the world as well as its brutalities and injustices. It’s a story about immigration\, privilege\, and parenthood\, and shows us how we are connected\, and how we are\, perhaps irreparably\, divided. It swept me away and took a little piece of my heart with it. It’s a perfect book.” —Edan Lepucki\, New York Times bestselling author of California
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shanthi-sekaran/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170125T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170125T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155946
CREATED:20170113T131231Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T131231Z
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SUMMARY:Jon Else
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/jon-else-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170125T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170125T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155946
CREATED:20170113T131749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T062003Z
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SUMMARY:Rachel Cusk
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Cusk  discusses Transit\, the second volume in a trilogy that began with Outline (a NY Times 10 Best Books selection for 2015) with Caille Millner. \n\nPraise for Rachel Cusk: \n“[A] lethally intelligent novel . . . reading Outline mimics the sensation of being underwater\, of being separated from other people by a substance denser than air. But there is nothing blurry or muted about Cusk’s literary vision or her prose: Spend much time with this novel and you’ll become convinced that she is one of the smartest writers alive.” —Heidi Julavits\, The New York Times Book Review \nAbout Transit: \n The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline\, one of The New York Times Book Review’s ten best books of 2015.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-cusk/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170125T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170125T213000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155946
CREATED:20161017T233319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161017T233319Z
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SUMMARY:Colson Whitehead w/ Alexis Madrigal
DESCRIPTION:COLSON WHITEHEAD takes on a multitude of issues with original wit and a rich imagination. In 1999\, he burst onto the literary scene with his award-winning debut novel\, The Intuitionist\, which concerned the travails of the first black woman elevator inspector in New York City. His second novel\, John Henry Days\, followed in 2001 and was met with much critical acclaim. John Updike wrote in a New Yorker review that the novel “does what writing should do; it refreshes our sense of the world.” Whitehead is also the author of The Colossus of New York\, a collection of essays about his hometown\, Apex Hides the Hurt\, Sag Harbor\, and Zone One\, a zombie novel influenced by films Whitehead watched as a child. His long-awaited new novel\, The Underground Railroad\, is a magnificent and wrenching chronicle of a young slave’s journeys as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/colson-whitehead-w-alexis-madrigal/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170126T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170126T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155946
CREATED:20161201T023002Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T023002Z
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SUMMARY:Bookswap w/ Marian Palaia
DESCRIPTION:This January\, we have invited the incredible local author Marian Palaia to kick off the new year! Marian’s debut novel\, The Given World\, was shortlisted for the Saroyan International Prize for Fiction\, longlisted for The PEN/Bingham First Novel Prize\, and recognized by Kirkus as a 2015 Best Novel. \nFrom a quiet family farm in Montana in the 60s to the grit and haze of San Francisco in the 70s to a gypsy-populated\, post-war Saigon\, The Given World spins around its unconventional and unforgettable heroine\, Riley. When her big brother is declared MIA in Vietnam\, young Riley packs up her shattered heart and leaves her family\, her first love\, and “a few small things” behind. By trial and error she builds a new life\, working on cars\, delivering newspapers\, tending bar. She befriends\, rescues\, and is rescued by a similarly vagabond cast of characters whose “‘unraveled souls’ sting hardest and linger the longest” (The New York Times Book Review). Foolhardy\, funny\, and wise\, Riley’s challenge as she grows into a woman is simple: survive long enough to go home again\, or at least figure out where home is\, and who might be among the living there. \nBring a book about being lost. As long as you love it\, bring it to Bookswap. You’ll talk about it in groups and hear about the books that other people brought. We’ll drink a bunch of free wine and beer and get to know our guest author. At the end\, we’ll have a big\, rowdy\, white elephant swap\, and you’ll leave with a new favorite (or ten). \n>>> Tickets are $10 and MUST BE purchased in advance. They do sell out! You can purchase them HERE. \n**** Admission includes an open bar\, swag\, and 20% off everything you buy that night.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bookswap-w-marian-palaia/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170126T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170126T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155946
CREATED:20170114T010458Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170114T010537Z
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SUMMARY:Be About It Zine #14 Release Party
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/madison-davis/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170130T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170130T170000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155946
CREATED:20170131T051314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T051314Z
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SUMMARY:Bass\, Hirshfield\, + Howe: A Benefit for SHE
DESCRIPTION:Ellen Bass: “Bass shows us that we are as radiant as we are ephemeral\, that in transience glistens resilient history and the remarkable fluidity of connection. Following her musings on suicide and generosity\, desire and repetition—it becomes lucidly clear that Bass is not only a poet but also a philosopher and a storyteller.” —Briana Shemroske\, Booklist \nJane Hirshfield: Jane Hirshfield’s poetry speaks to the central issues of human existence—desire and loss\, impermanence and beauty\, the many dimensions of our connection with others and the wider community of creatures and objects with which we share our lives. Demonstrating with quiet authority what it means to awaken into the full capacities of attention\, her work sets forth a hard-won affirmation of our human fate. \nMarie Howe: “Marie Howe’s poetry is luminous\, intense\, and eloquent\, rooted in an abundant inner life. Her long\, deep-breathing lines address the mysteries of flesh and spirit\, in terms accessible only to a woman who is very much of our time and yet still in touch with the sacred.” —Stanley Kunitz \nAnd Kim Rosen\, on behalf of the S.H.E. College Fund
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bass-hirshfield-howe-a-benefit-for-she/
LOCATION:St. John’s Presbyterian Church\, 2727 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170130T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170130T170000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155946
CREATED:20170131T072115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T072115Z
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SUMMARY:Pola Oloixarac
DESCRIPTION:Argentinian writer Pola Oloixarac in conversation about her first novel translated into English\, Savage Theories. \n\nPraise for Savage Theories \n“A stunning vibrant maximalist whirlwind of a novel. Oloixarac’s wit and ambition are evident on every page. By comparison\, most other contemporary fiction seems a little dull and simple-minded.” — Hari Kunzru\, author of “Gods Without Men” \n\n“Monstrously clever and terribly funny. More than a debut\, this book is one many of us would spend our lives trying to write.” — Javier Calvo \n\n“Pola Oloixarac’s prose is the great event of the new Argentinian narrative. Her novel is unforgettable\, philosophical and very serene.” — Ricardo Piglia \n\nAbout Savage Theories \nA novel of seduction and madness\, hate and love\, set in the world of Argentinean academia and animated by the spirits of Wittgenstein\, Rousseau\, Nabokov and Bolano. \nRosa Ostreech\, a pseudonym for the novel’s beautiful but self-conscious narrator\, carries around a trilingual edition of Aristotle’s Metaphysics\, struggles with her thesis on violence and culture\, sleeps with a bourgeois former guerrilla\, and pursues her elderly professor with a highly charged blend of eroticism and desperation. Elsewhere on campus\, Pabst and Kamtchowsky tour the underground scene of Buenos Aires\, dabbling in ketamine\, sex\, video games\, and hacking. And in Africa in 1917\, a Dutch anthropologist named Johan van Vliet begins work on a theory that explains human consciousness and civilization by reference to our early primate ancestors animals\, who\, in the process of becominghuman\, spent thousands of years as prey. \n“Savage Theories” wryly explores fear and violence\, war and sex\, eroticism and philosophy. Its complex and flawed characters grapple with a mess of impossible\, visionary theories\, searching for their place in our fragmented digital world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pola-oloixarac-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170130T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170130T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155946
CREATED:20170114T024507Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Generations Edition #41
DESCRIPTION:Bay Area Generations proudly presents\nShow #41 \nThis reading of authors and poets\, features live music within a curated show. \nWe are back in San Francisco on Monday\, January 30\, 2017 at Hotel Rex\, located on Gallery Row\, in the center of San Francisco’s Arts and Theater district. \nWe start the evening with our writer’s mixer at the bar at 6:30 pm. Come share a drink over lit chat and book babble with an intriguing gaggle of Bay Area poets\, authors and writers. \nThe show starts promptly at 7:30pm. \nJoin us\nMonday\, January 30\, 2017\nat Hotel Rex\n562 Sutter St.\, San Francisco \nBay Area Generations #41\nWriter’s mixer at the bar: 6:30 pm.\nDoors Open: 7 pm. Show Begins: 7:30 pm. \n$7.00 suggested donation\n$10.00 suggested with chapbook. \nBay Area Generations is a reading series that features paired readers of different generations. Since 2013\, it has featured over 200 notable authors\, poets\, writers and playwrights in this celebrated literary series: a salon of paired readers with musical guests in a curated\, submission-based show.www.bayareagenerations.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-edition-41/
LOCATION:Hotel Rex\, 562 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170130T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170130T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155946
CREATED:20170131T051904Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T052029Z
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SUMMARY:Bad Book Party
DESCRIPTION:Join us on February 11th for a Bad Book Party\, hosted by I Don’t Even Own a Television and Friends\n– come together and celebrate all things related to Bad Books with America’s Favorite Bad Books Podcast(TM)\, I Don’t Even Own a Television!\n– your hosts\, J. W. Friedman and Chris Collision will be bringing a selection of their favorite (and least favorite!) bad books to read from and introducing a fun selection of very special guests (that we’re currently working on and will finalize as soon as we can)\n– want to join in the fun?  Bring your own favorite bad book to the event and we’ll read from it!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/24866/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170131T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170131T170000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155946
CREATED:20170201T041318Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170201T041318Z
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SUMMARY:Hari Kunzru
DESCRIPTION:Hari Kunzru reads from his new novel\, White Tears. \nPraise for White Tears \n“A compulsively readable ghost story that features masterly—tour de force—writing about early American blues.”—Rachel Kushner\, author of The Flamethrowers \n“White Tears is a masterful ghost story about a blues song which may or may not exist\, but is definitely alive. Sound\, in Kunzru’s hands\, is both force and material\, carrying fear\, power\, and revenge from body to body. When someone cries “Rewind\,” proceed with caution. History is audible.”—Sasha Frere-Jones \n“White Tears is a hallucinatory and eerily accurate journey into America’s racial unconscious—like an updated version of The Crying of Lot 49\, in which race itself is the secret and arcane system that controls all of us in ways we never fully understand. In an era when the past seems to be collapsing into the present on a daily basis\, you couldn’t find a more urgently necessary\, compulsively readable book.”—Jess Row\, author of Your Face in Mine \nAbout White Tears \nTwo twenty-something New Yorkers. Seth is awkward and shy. Carter is the glamorous heir to one of America’s great fortunes. They have one thing in common: an obsession with music. Seth is desperate to reach for the future. Carter is slipping back into the past. When Seth accidentally records an unknown singer in a park\, Carter sends it out over the Internet\, claiming it’s a long lost 1920s blues recording by a musician called Charlie Shaw. When an old collector contacts them to say that their fake record and their fake bluesman are actually real\, the two young white men\, accompanied by Carter’s troubled sister Leonie\, spiral down into the heart of the nation’s darkness\, encountering a suppressed history of greed\, envy\, revenge\, and exploitation. White Tears is a ghost story\, a terrifying murder mystery\, a timely meditation on race\, and a love letter to all the forgotten geniuses of American music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hari-kunzru/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170131T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170131T213000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155946
CREATED:20161017T233456Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161017T233456Z
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SUMMARY:Asturo Riley + Kay Ryan
DESCRIPTION:Atsuro Riley is known for his unparalleled ability to blend lyric and narrative modes. His stunning and highly original book Romey’s Order is a sequence of poems set in his childhood ‘blood-home\,’ the South Carolina lowcountry—and is the winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award\, The Believer Poetry Award\, the Whiting Writers’ Award\, and the Witter Bynner Award from the Library of Congress.  Riley’s work has also been honored with the Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship\, the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, the Pushcart Prize\, and the Wood Prize given by Poetry magazine.  Riley lives in San Francisco. \nKay Ryan was born in California in 1945 and grew up in the small towns of the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert.  She has lived in Marin County in Northern California since 1971. Ryan’s collections of poetry include most recently Erratic Facts\, the 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning The Best of It\, New and Selected Poems; Say Uncle\, Elephant Rocks\, and Flamingo Watching among others. About her work\, J.D. McClatchy has said: “Her poems are compact\, exhilarating\, strange affairs\, like Erik Satie miniatures or Joseph Cornell boxes. She is an anomaly in today’s literary culture: as intense and elliptical as Dickinson\, as buoyant and rueful as Frost.” Ryan’s awards include a MacArthur “Genius” Award; The National Humanities Medal awarded by President Obama in 2012; the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry\, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and an Ingram Merrill Award. Ryan was elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 2006. In 2008\, she was appointed the Library of Congress’s sixteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/asturo-riley-kay-ryan/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170131T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170131T213000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155946
CREATED:20161223T032418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T032418Z
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SUMMARY:Kevin Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Isabelle Poole is pregnant and on her own\, the baby’s father—her high school art teacher—out of the picture. Not sure where to turn\, Izzy joins The Infinite Family Project\, an experiment in child and family development led by the awkwardly charming child psychiatrist Preston Grind. Funded by an eccentric billionaire\, the project is an attempt to create a “perfect little world\,” bringing together ten different families as a single family unit in order to raise exceptional children. All starts well\, with Izzy and her son thriving in their new surroundings\, but soon the equilibrium among the families begins to disintegrate and things fall apart. As her growing feelings for Dr. Grind further complicate the adventure in experimental living\, Izzy ultimately must decide what truly matters when it comes to family. \nKevin Wilson’s New York Times bestselling debut novel The Family Fang was enthusiastically embraced by readers and critics\, who called it “irresistible” (Time)\, “breathtakingly wonderful” (Miami Herald)\, “inventive and hilarious” (Wall Street Journal)\, and “a minty fresh delight” (NPR). Perfect Little World is Wilson’s much-anticipated new novel—another offbeat look at the meaning of family\, and a strange utopian experiment that could redefine what family means.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kevin-wilson/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170201T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170201T213000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155946
CREATED:20161201T023140Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T023140Z
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SUMMARY:Ottessa Moshfegh
DESCRIPTION:Winner of The Paris Review‘s Plimpton Prize for some of her first stories\, and of the PEN Hemingway Prize for her debut novel Eileen\, Ottessa Moshfegh reads from Homesick for Another World\, her first collection—one of which has already won an O. Henry Prize. \nIn the judges’ citation for the Plimpton Prize\, Jeffrey Eugenides wrote: “What distinguishes Ottessa Moshfegh’s writing is that unnamable quality that makes a new writer’s voice\, against all odds and the deadening surround of lyrical postures\, sound unique.” \nJoin us for a reading\, conversation\, and book signing! \nOttessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from Boston. She was awarded the Plimpton Prize for her stories in The Paris Review and granted a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. Her first book\, McGlue\, a novella\, won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. Her novel Eileen won the PEN/Hemingway Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ottessa-moshfegh/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170202T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170202T200000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155946
CREATED:20170131T041043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T041043Z
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SUMMARY:Weekday Wanderlust:  Janis Cooke Newman\, Jess Silber + Blane Bachelor
DESCRIPTION:Happy New Year Wanderlusters! \nWith San Francisco’s exhilarating and well-attended Women’s March swirling in our recent memory\, we can’t think of a better time to introduce you to three fantastic women writers: Janis Cooke Newman\, Jess Silber and Blane Bachelor. Their bios will soon be on our Facebook page. Come give them a warm WW welcome. \nReadings start promptly at 7pm but you know we’ll be in the Library Bar at 6pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/weekday-wanderlust-janis-cooke-newman-jess-silber-blane-bachelor/
LOCATION:Weekday Wanderlust\, 562 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170202T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170202T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155946
CREATED:20170131T040545Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T040545Z
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SUMMARY:Charles Alexander + Susan Thackrey
DESCRIPTION:Poets Charles Alexander and Susan Thackrey read new work and converse with the audience. This event is free and open to the public. \nCharles Alexander is a poet\, bookmaker\, and founder/director of Chax Press\, author of 5 full-length books of poetry and 11 chapbooks\, editor of one critical work on the state of the book arts in America\, author of multiple essays\, articles\, and reviews. His most recent books of poetry are Pushing Water\, published by Cuneiform Press\, and the chapbooks Some Sentences Look for Some Periods\, a chapbook\, and Two Pushing Waters\, both from Little Red Leaves Textile Series. He has taught literature and writing at Naropa University\, University of Arizona\, and elsewhere\, and currently is Poet & Designer in Residence at the University of Houston-Victoria\, where he directs the MFA Creative Writing Program and manages the UHV Center for the Arts. He is a past recipient of the Arizona Arts Award\, and has participated in the TAMAAS Poetry Translation Project in Paris. In January 2016 served as a faculty member for US Poets in Mexico. He lives in Victoria\, Texas\, with his partner\, the painter Cynthia Miller. \nSusan Thackrey\, a poet who lives and works in San Francisco\, began to compose poetry at the age of three. She was an inaugurating student in the Poetics Program at New College in San Francisco in 1980\, and studied with Robert Duncan and Diane di Prima over a number of years.Thackrey has given invitational lectures on Charles Olson\, Robert Duncan\, and George Oppen\, including as a keynote speaker at the George Oppen Conference in Buffalo\, and most recently on Duncan’s The H.D. Book for The Poetry Center. Since reading Homer In Greek over a five year period with Robert Duncan and some of her poet contemporaries\, an important and lively part of her life in poetry has included variously focused and long-lived reading groups with other poets. She has earned her livelihood in various ways\, including as co-founder and co-director of the art gallery Thackrey and Robertson in San Francisco\, and for a number of years as a Jungian analyst in the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. There she has taught\, spoken and published\, focusing especially on art\, recently publishing a talk and essay on Jung’s paintings for The Red Book: Reflections on C.G. Jung’s Liber Novus (Routledge). Her poems have appeared in a number of journals\, and her books include Andalusia (Chax)\, Empty Gate (Listening Chamber)\, and George Oppen: A Radical Practice (O Books and The San Francisco Poetry Center).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charles-alexander-susan-thackrey/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170202T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170202T213000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155946
CREATED:20170119T014556Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T014556Z
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck Presents: Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights
DESCRIPTION:Love\, love will tear us apart\, again. \nFeatured writers: January’s winner TBA\, plus Ivan Hernandez\, Lily Miller\, Vivenne Pustell\, Amanda Rosenberg\, & Michael Wellstein. \n$10 advance\, $12 door\, open bar for 21+. \n— \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event. \nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on the first Thursday of every month at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco.\n\nFics are blind-read by our Thespian-in-Residence\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and you choose the best ship before the writers are unmasked. The winner is cast off from polite society\, and invited back the next month to defend their title. \nCritics are saying:\n“… the most despicable literary event possible.”\n“… an affront to literature.”\n“It used to be we had to sit in dark\, sticky booths to get these kinds of sleazy thrills.”\n“Come if you are high on marijuana cigarettes and have done sex before.”\n“… a vile\, disgusting event.””Shipwreck will bring you to madness\, and you may never return.”\n“…wonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting.”\n“…punny sodomy and gross indecency.” \n— \nPLEASE NOTE: No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. We’re not dicks\, we just like dick jokes. \nShipwreck tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable for any reason.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-presents-emily-brontes-wuthering-heights/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170202T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170202T213000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155946
CREATED:20170119T014734Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T014734Z
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SUMMARY:Viet Thanh Nguyen w/ Judson True
DESCRIPTION:Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and came to the United States as a refugee in 1975. “My memories of becoming a refugee are fragments of a dream\,” he writes\, “hallucinatory and unreliable. Soldiers bouncing me on their knees\, a tank rumbling through the streets\, a crowded barge of desperate people fleeing Vietnam.”  In his work\, including the Pulitzer-Prize winning novel The Sympathizer and his forthcoming collection of short stories\, The Refugees\, Nguyen examines the far-reaching effects of war and gives voice to life lived between two worlds\, the adopted homeland\, and the country of birth. His other books are Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War and Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. \nJudson True received a Master of Journalism from UC Berkeley before working in San Francisco government. A former spokesman for Muni\, he now serves as chief of staff for California Assemblymember David Chiu. His previous City Arts & Lectures interviews include Joan Didion\, David Remnick\, Gene Wilder\, Jill Lepore\, and Barney Frank.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/viet-thanh-nguyen-w-judson-true/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170203T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170203T200000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155946
CREATED:20170131T041653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T041653Z
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SUMMARY:a reading in translation: Sho Sugita + Norma Cole
DESCRIPTION:Once called “the Marinetti of Japan” by David Burliuk\, Hirato Renkichi produced a unique brand of Futurism from the late 1910s and early 1920s through poetry\, criticism\, and guerrilla performance. Contributing to the earliest productions of Japanese avant-garde poetry\, his aggressive experimentation with speed\, spatialization\, and performability would later influence what became a lively community of Dadaist and Surrealist writers in pre-war Japan. Spiral Staircase is the forst definitve volume of Renkichi’s poems to appear in English.Sho Sugita lives in Matsumoto\, Japan. His recent poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in VOLT\, Poems by Sunday\, Chicago Review\, 6×6\, Lana Turner\, Paperbag\, A Perimeter\, and Asymptote. \n\nBorn Kawahata Seiichi on December 9th 1893 in Osaka\, Hirato Renkichi attended Sophia University in Tokyo for three years before dropping out and attending Gyosei Gakko to study Italian. He started writing poetry in 1912\, first publishing in Banso under the guidance of Kawaji Ryuko. Although he worked at Hochi Shimbun News and Chuo Geijutsu Art Publishing\, he suffered from a pulmonary disease\, often failing to make ends meet for his family. He\npassed away on July 20\, 1922 in Tokyo\, at the age of 29.\nNorma Cole is a poet and translator who lives and works in the sanctuary city of San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-reading-in-translation-sho-sugita-norma-cole/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170204T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170204T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155946
CREATED:20170114T061648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170120T032503Z
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SUMMARY:Peter Hook
DESCRIPTION:Post-punk icon\, Joy Division and New Order founding member\, and “gleefully profane” (Entertainment Weekly) storyteller Peter Hook returns to the JCCSF for a conversation on the ’80s music scene and the rise of New Order. On the eve of their U.S. tour\, following the tragic suicide of lead singer Ian Curtis\, Peter Hook and Joy Division’s remaining members resurrected themselves into New Order\, which would become one of the most influential bands of the 1980s. Their distinctive sound – a fusion of post-punk and ground-breaking electronica –inspired the dance music revolution. The band scaled the heights of success with huge hits including “Bizarre Love Triangle\,” “Perfect Kiss” and “Blue Monday\,” the biggest-selling 12-inch single of all time. On our stage and in his new memoir\, Substance: Inside New Order\, Peter chronicles the band’s rapid rise and the internal tensions that caused them to split.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-hook/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center of San Francisco\, 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170204T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170205T000000
DTSTAMP:20260426T155946
CREATED:20170131T043403Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170204T041529Z
UID:24840-1486236600-1486252800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Nepotism Night
DESCRIPTION:The return of Nepotism Night! We have another stellar lineup for you:\nPam Benjamin\nRohan DaCosta\nSecret Emchy Society\nJoe Loya\nLouise Nalbandian\nTarin Towers
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nepotism-night/
LOCATION:The Candy Kitchen\, 2807 24th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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