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SUMMARY:Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman: A celebration on his 95th birthday—poetry and jazz
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of the recent publication of the Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman\, edited by Neeli Cherkovski\, Raymond Foye\, and Tate Swindell\, by City Lights Books\, we’re assembling a gathering of poets\, artists\, and musicians on what would be the late poet’s 95th birthday. Hosted by McRoskey Mattress Co.\, in their wonderful 3rd floor loft space\, and co-sponsored by The Poetry Center\, City Lights Books\, and The Green Arcade\, this event is free and open to the public. Please join us. Photo of Bob Kaufman by A.D. Winans. \n“He was an original voice. No one else talked like him. No one else wrote poetry like him.”––Lawrence Ferlinghetti \nBob Kaufman (April 18\, 1925\, New Orleans\, LA – January 12\, 1986) was one of the most important—and most original—poets of the twentieth century. He is among the inaugurators of what today is characterized as the Afro-Surreal\, uniting the surrealist practice of automatic writing with the jazz concept of spontaneous composition. He seldom wrote his poems down and often discarded those he did\, leaving them to be rescued by others. He was also a legendary figure of the Beat Generation\, known as much for hopping on tables to declaim his poetry as for maintaining a monastic silence for months or even years at a time. \nKaufman produced just three broadsides and three books in his lifetime. In 1967\, Golden Sardine was published by City Lights in its famed Pocket Poets Series\, and became an instant cult classic. Collected Poems is a landmark poetic achievement\, bringing together all of Kaufman’s known surviving poems\, including an extensive section of previously uncollected work\, in a long overdue return to City Lights Books. \nMusicians: Bruce Ackley and Aurora Josephson (performing Steve Lacy’s songs to Bob Kaufman’s poems); Hafez Modirzadeh\, Francis Wong\, David Boyce \nPoets and other artists: Josiah Luis Adelberte\, Will Alexander\, Arlene Biala\, James Cagney\, MK Chavez\, Neeli Cherkovski\, Dewey Crumpler\, Justin Desmangles\, Duane Deterville\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Agneta Falk\, C.S. Giscombe\, Leticia Hernández-Linares\, Jack Hirschman\, Sarah Menefee\, Alejandro Murguía\, Jevohn Newsome\, Barbara Jane Reyes\, Kim Shuck; Tate Swindell with Jessica Loos\, Niko Van Dyke\, and Michael Young (reading “Second April”); Sunnylyn Thibodeaux\, A.D. Winans \n  \n\n“With this magnetic new unveiling\, Bob Kaufman trenchantly sunders endemic retrocausal error and neglect that has casted his fate into a secondary enclave of lesser mastery. To set the story straight it was his spirit that helped sire the Ginsberg that we know and not vice versa. It was he who magically hoisted the invisible umbrella under which Kerouac and others such as Corso were enabled to protractedly flourish. Arrested 39 times for poetic brilliance via bravura he was the absolute contrary of the sterile academic scrounging for golden verbal eggs. Never concerned with immediate notoriety he passed across unerring emptiness as a poetic lahar sweeping in all directions at once. He volcanically en-veined the Beats as a mirage enveloped Surrealist; not as a formal poet\, but one\, like Rimbaud\, who embodied butane. Following the scent of his butane on one anonymous North Beach afternoon led Philip Lamantia to audibly utter to me that Bob Kaufman as per incandescent singularity is ‘our poet.'” —Will Alexander\n“Bob Kaufman is one of our most vulnerable\, mysterious\, and beautiful poets\, a nomadic maudit\, surrealist saint of the streets\, votary of silence\, the consummate Outrider with trickster imagination and visionary power. What does it take to be such a poet-man\, veils/layers of existence laced with hardship\, suffering? Not many like this anymore. The Black American Rimbaud\, as he was christened in France. His poems make me weep and bow with humility and wonder. I last saw him\, shape-shifting shaman on Ken Kesey’s stage in Oregon\, swirling in a torque of rage\, enlightenment\, and prescience. Pure product of America’s madness: fury and tenderness. The writing is complex and lays its soul-baring down on jazz-inflected syllables and riffs for all to read and tremble within. No serious canon is complete without this insistent rhythm\, poetic acuity\, and a body’s last resort to sing.” —Anne Waldman\n“Uplifting the voice of this under-sung literary master to future’s light is the mission of the Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman. This poet’s poet on the cliff edge of no ledge is still continuing to foster new surrealizations. Read this bebopian wordsmith\, his pen turned saxophone and ink notes that are black tears.” —Kamau Daáood\n“In collecting Bob Kaufman’s work\, the editors have sought to bind earthquakes with book paste. These pages vibrate\, a pulse not from way out\, but from way in this strange\, strange country. Wearing the poet’s trembling\, subterranean eyes\, I see the dirt of imperial graves\, grocery store corpses\, swank gas chambers\, and bomb shelters cut an inverted skyline against a too orange American sun. Blinking\, I look up and the real sun seems just as radioactive\, which is perhaps what leaves me the most shaken. To call these poems ‘surreal’ seems\, now\, to muffle Kaufman’s prophetic genius. He saw us\, our images in pools of blood\, milk\, and saxophone spittle. Maybe it was ever our shivering made the ripples that distorted the reflections.” —Douglas Kearney\n“Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman should finally liberate the kaleidoscopic surrealism of this San Franciscan\, and in many respects\, secular Franciscan\, poet from the shadows of Allen Ginsberg and the other Beats. While poems like ‘Night Sung Sailor’s Prayer’ and ‘Believe\, Believe’ presage both the linguistic flights of Will Alexander and the affirmative exuberance of Ross Gay\, the bulk of the book hearkens back to familiar figures like Blake\, Apollinaire\, and Artaud. In the end\, of course\, Bob Kaufman is Bob Kaufman\, and as this collection confirms\, the poems tend to extremes\, lurching between the sweeping force of a tornado (e.g.\, ‘The American Sun’ and ‘The Ancient Rain’) and the precision of a stiletto (e.g.\, “Demolition” and ‘I Am A Camera’). Kaufman’s libertarian tendencies (see\, for example\, ‘Abomunist Manifesto’) made him a largely apolitical\, if compassionate poet\, but what comes through above all else is a human being beset by the furies and desires he/she unleashed. Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman is a memoriam of unmitigated joy and abysmal despair.” —Tyrone Williams\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured: \nCollected Poems of Bob Kaufman\, edited by Neeli Cherkovski\, Raymond Foye\, and Tate Swindell (City Lights Booksellers and Publishers) \nThe world finally catches up to Bob Kaufman\, unsung hero of Beat Generation (by Denise Sullivan\, November 1\, 2019) \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and The Green Arcade
URL:https://litseen.com/event/collected-poems-of-bob-kaufman-a-celebration-on-his-95th-birthday-poetry-and-jazz/
LOCATION:3rd Floor McRoskey Mattress Loft\, 1687 Market Street\, San Francisco\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Miranda July with Jenny Odell
DESCRIPTION:TICKETSTo purchase over the phone: 415-392-4400 \nThis event appears in the series\nSocial Studies \n\n\nMiranda July is a filmmaker\, artist\, and writer. She is the author of the novel The First Bad Man\, and the short story collection No One Belongs Here More Than You and writer\, director and star of the films The Future and Me and You and Everyone We Know. Her forthcoming crime drama Kajillionaire stars Evan Rachel Wood and Gina Rodriguez. July’s participatory art works include the website Learning to Love You More\, Eleven Heavy Things (a sculpture garden created for the 2009 Venice Biennale)\, New Society (a performance)\, and Somebody (a messaging app created with Miu Miu.) Her new book\, Miranda July\, is a chronological retrospective of her multidisciplinary work. \n  \nJenny Odell is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer\, and the author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. She has been an artist in residence at Recology SF\, the San Francisco Planning Department\, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, the Palo Alto Art Center\, ODC Dance Center\, Facebook\, and the Internet Archive and currently teaches internet art and digital/physical design at Stanford University. \n  \nPhotograph credit: Elizabeth Weinberg
URL:https://litseen.com/event/miranda-july-with-jenny-odell/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Frank Wilderson III
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nAfropessimism \npublished by Liveright Books / W.W. Norton \n\n\n\n\n\nIn the tradition of Edward Said’s Orientalism and Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin\, White Masks\, Afropessimism is an unparalleled account of the non-analogous experience of being Black. \nA seminal work that strikingly combines groundbreaking philosophy with searing flights of memoir\, Afropessimism presents the tenets of an increasingly influential intellectual movement that theorizes blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Rather than interpreting slavery through a Marxist framework of class oppression\, Frank B. Wilderson III\, “a truly indispensable thinker” (Fred Moten)\, demonstrates that the social construct of slavery\, as seen through pervasive\, anti-black subjugation and violence\, is hardly a relic of the past but an almost necessary force in our civilization that flourishes today\, and that Black struggles cannot be conflated with the experiences of any other oppressed group. In mellifluous prose\, Wilderson juxtaposes his seemingly idyllic upbringing in halcyon midcentury Minneapolis with the harshness that he would later encounter\, whether in radicalized\, late-1960s Berkeley or in the slums of Soweto. Following in the rich literary tradition of works by DuBois\, Malcolm X and Baldwin\, Afropessimism reverberates with wisdom and painful clarity in the fractured world we inhabit. \nProfessor and chair of African American studies at the University of California\, Irvine\, and author of Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid\, Frank B. Wilderson III has received an NEA Literature Fellowship and a Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award for Creative Nonfiction\, among other awards. \nWhat has been said about the work of Frank Wilderson III: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrank Wilderson slings piercing stories and scalding analyses with literary fire and intellectual rigor. His tales juke genre and high-step over high-theory mumbo jumbo\, and float Franz Fanon some new wings. Like Ralph Ellison’s bluesman\, he peers unflinching into the abyss\, testifies to its brutal histories and hopeless predicaments\, ‘to finger its jagged grain\, and to transcend it\, not through the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic\, near-comic lyricism.’ He ghostwrites our brutal pasts into present and still hopeless predicaments\, yet divines deep love and blues humor. Even if our own hopes may live elsewhere\, we cannot dismiss Afropessimism’s unnerving and undeniable truths\, nor the timeless art of its author.  \n-Timothy B. Tyson\, author of The Blood of Emmett Till \nA writer of hard\, searing lyricism…. [Wilderson] is\, to my mind\, an indispensible thinker. \n-Fred Moten\, author of The Undercommons
URL:https://litseen.com/event/frank-wilderson-iii/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:9th Avenue: John Kaag at Green Apple Books
DESCRIPTION:ohn Kaag discusses his new book\, Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life. \nPraise for Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds \n“Kaag’s reading of James is as elucidating as readers have come to expect from him. Once again\, he writes in a clear\, focused\, and winningly self-aware style that makes friends of James and himself for anyone who wonders if life is worth living. A book in which Kaag further carves out his niche in philosophy: personal\, practical\, and crucial.”—Kirkus Reviews \n“Not since Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance have I read such a mesmerizing confluence of personal experience and formal thought as John Kaag’s American Philosophy: A Love Story. That combination is on display again in his Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds—a brief and powerful book about one of America’s most profound minds\, William James\, and what he can teach us about what makes life worth living.”―Robert D. Richardson\, author of William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism \n“In this beautifully written book\, which is filled with bracing insights\, John Kaag shows why William James has had a deep\, life-altering\, therapeutic effect on his readers over the past century—and can continue to have the same effect on new readers today.”—Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen\, author of American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas \nAbout Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds \nIn 1895\, William James\, the father of American philosophy\, delivered a lecture entitled “Is Life Worth Living?” It was no theoretical question for James\, who had contemplated suicide during an existential crisis as a young man a quarter century earlier. Indeed\, as John Kaag writes\, “James’s entire philosophy\, from beginning to end\, was geared to save a life\, his life”—and that’s why it just might be able to save yours\, too. Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds is a compelling introduction to James’s life and thought that shows why the founder of pragmatism and empirical psychology—and an inspiration for Alcoholics Anonymous—can still speak so directly and profoundly to anyone struggling to make a life worth living. \nKaag tells how James’s experiences as one of what he called the “sick-souled\,” those who think that life might be meaningless\, drove him to articulate an ideal of “healthy-mindedness”—an attitude toward life that is open\, active\, and hopeful\, but also realistic about its risks. In fact\, all of James’s pragmatism\, resting on the idea that truth should be judged by its practical consequences for our lives\, is a response to\, and possible antidote for\, crises of meaning that threaten to undo many of us at one time or another. Along the way\, Kaag also movingly describes how his own life has been endlessly enriched by James.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-avenue-john-kaag-at-green-apple-books/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kawai Strong Washburn: Sharks in the Time of Saviors
DESCRIPTION: Kawai Strong Washburn discusses his debut novel Sharks in the Time of Saviors. \nPraise for Sharks in the Time of Saviors \n“Sharks in the Time of Saviors is the novel you never knew you were waiting for. Old myths clash with new realities\, love is in a ride or die with grief\, faith rubs hard against magic\, and comic flips with tragic so much they meld into something new. All told with daredevil lyricism to burn. A ferocious debut.”—MARLON JAMES\, author of Black Leopard\, Red Wolf \n“Sharks in the Time of Saviors bursts with life. It is bright and beautifully noisy. It’s so good it hurts and hurts to where it heals. It is revelatory and unputdownable. Washburn is an extraordinarily brilliant new talent. This family saga is shark tooth sharp. Its pages shoot off crackles and sparks\, and you come out of it changed. It is sublime.”—TOMMY ORANGE\, author of There There \n“Sharks in the Time of Saviours is a brilliant novel and one of the most engaging and memorable books I’ve read this year. Sentences sparkle\, the narrative voices remain distinctive and complete\, and the deep notes of magic sound under the realism of poverty and loss. I didn’t want it to end.”—SARAH MOSS\, author of Ghost Wall \nAbout Sharks in the Time of Saviors \nIn 1995 Kailua-Kona\, Hawaii\, on a rare family vacation\, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water\, everyone fears for the worst. But instead\, Noa is gingerly delivered to his mother in the jaws of a shark\, marking his story as the stuff of legends. \nNainoa’s family\, struggling amidst the collapse of the sugarcane industry\, hails his rescue as a sign of favor from ancient Hawaiian gods—a belief that appears validated after he exhibits puzzling new abilities. But as time passes\, this supposed divine favor begins to drive the family apart: Nainoa\, working now as a paramedic on the streets of Portland\, struggles to fathom the full measure of his expanding abilities; further north in Washington\, his older brother Dean hurtles into the world of elite college athletics\, obsessed with wealth and fame; while in California\, risk-obsessed younger sister Kaui navigates an unforgiving academic workload in an attempt to forge her independence from the family’s legacy. \nWhen supernatural events revisit the Flores family in Hawai’i—with tragic consequences—they are all forced to reckon with the bonds of family\, the meaning of heritage\, and the cost of survival. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kawai-strong-washburn-sharks-in-the-time-of-saviors-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lake Like a Mirror at The Ruby SF: Ho Sok Fong and Natascha Bruce in conversation with Meng Jin
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the release of Ho Sok Fong’s Lake Like a Mirror\, translated by Natascha Bruce\, at The Ruby SF\, an arts and letters-focused work and gathering space for creative Bay Area women of all definitions. Ho Sok Fong and Natascha Bruce will be in conversation with writer Meng Jin. \nBy an author described by critics as “the most accomplished Malaysian writer\, full stop\,” Lake Like a Mirror is a scintillating exploration of the lives of women buffeted by powers beyond their control. Squeezing themselves between the gaps of rabid urbanization\, patriarchal structures and a theocratic government\, these women find their lives twisted in disturbing ways. \nIn precise and disquieting prose\, Ho Sok Fong draws her readers into a richly atmospheric world of naked sleepwalkers in a rehabilitation center for wayward Muslims\, mysterious wooden boxes\, gossip in unlicensed hair salons\, hotels with amnesiac guests\, and poetry classes with accidentally charged politics—a world that is peopled with the ghosts of unsaid words\, unmanaged desires and uncertain statuses\, surreal and utterly true. \nLight reception at 6:00. Conversation begins at 6:30. \n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lake-like-a-mirror-at-the-ruby-sf-ho-sok-fong-and-natascha-bruce-in-conversation-with-meng-jin/
LOCATION:The Ruby\, 23rd and bryant street\, san francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mazza Writer in Residence Wendy Trevino\, with Zaina Alsous\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Under the heading “A border\, like race\, is a cruel fiction”—a line drawn from one of the poems in Wendy Trevino‘s remarkable book\, Cruel Fiction—Trevino\, The Poetry Center’s Mazza Writer in Residence for Spring 2020\, will be joined as part of her week-long residency by Palestinian poet Zaina Alsous\, for two public events. On Thursday April 23\, the two poets will each read and join in conversation with one another and with the audience\, at The Poetry Center. The following night\, Friday April 24\, they each read their work at Moe’s Books on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. Supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation—with the Poetry Center evening co-sponsored\, thanks to Rabab Abdulhadi\, by AMED: the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative\, at the College of Ethnic Studies\, San Francisco State University—these events are free and open to the public. \n\nWendy Trevino’s Cruel Fiction (Commune Editions) tells the truth about life as we know and endure it\, restlessly picking at the hangnails of both history and heartbreak. Trevino posits race as a “cruel fiction\,” nationality as its attendant mythology. Trevino asks: How do we resist these fictions without reproducing their murderous\, hierarchical logics? For Trevino\, “poetry is not enough” as long as we are not enough. Trevino’s insurgent colloquialism is a sleight of hand. Cruel Fiction speaks plainly but never simply. Trevino reflects on the lies with which we arm ourselves to refute the lies used against us. Against the near-orgasmic collective delusions of Obamamania\, Trevino recounts solidarities fostered during the Occupy movement. Exhilarating sonnet sequences titled “Popular Culture & Cruel Work\,” and “Brazilian Is Not a Race” interrogate the inter-sections of pop and protest. —Momtaza Mehri\, Somali-British poet\, Young People’s Laureate for London 2018-19\n\nWendy Trevino was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She now lives and works in San Francisco. Her chapbook 128-131 was published by Perfect Lovers Press in 2013. Her chapbook Brazilian Is Not a Race was published by Commune Editions in 2016\, followed by her first full-length book\, Cruel Fiction\, also from Commune Editions\, 2018. Her chapbook #YourHarveyWeinstein was also published by Spoilsport Editions—an online press she started with writer Oki Sogumi—in 2017. Her poems have appeared in various print and online journals\, including Abraham Lincoln\, Armed Cell\, the Capilano Review\, LIES\, Macaroni Necklace\, Mondo Bummer\, ELDERLY\, and Open House. Selected as The Poetry Center’s Mazza Writer in Residence for Spring 2020\, Wendy is not an experimental writer. \nZaina Alsous is a prison abolitionist\, a daughter of the Palestinian diaspora\, and a movement worker in South Florida. Her poetry\, reviews\, and essays have been published inPOETRY Magazine\, The Kenyon Review\, the New Inquiry\, Adroit\, and elsewhere. She edits for Scalawag Magazine\, a publication dedicated to unsettling dominant narratives of the U.S. South. Her chapbook Lemon Effigies won the Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize and was published by Anhinga Press. Her first full-length collection of poetry\, A Theory of Birds\, won the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize\, selected by Hayan Charara and Fady Joudah\, and was published by the University of Arkansas Press\, Fall 2019. Born and raised in North Carolina\, she currently lives in Miami\, Florida\, while pursuing an MFA in poetry and teaching undergraduate writing at the University of Miami. More at zainaalsous.com \n\nfrom “Brazilian Is Not A Race\,” Wendy Trevino\n\nA border\, like race\, is a cruel fiction\nMaintained by constant policing\, violence\nAlways threatening a new map. It takes\nTime\, lots of people’s time\, to organize\nThe world this way. & violence. It takes more\nViolence. Violence no one can confuse for\nAnything but violence. So much violence\nChanges relationships\, births a people\nThey can reason with. These people are not\nUs. They underestimate the violence.\nIt’s been awhile. We are who we are\nTo them\, even when we don’t know who we\nAre to each other & culture is a\nRecord of us figuring that out.\n \n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nZaina Alsous and Wendy Trevino\nreading from their work\nFriday April 24\n7:00 pm @ Moe’s Books\n2476 Telegraph Avenue (at Dwight Way)\, Berkeley\nfree and open to the public\nsupported by the Sam Mazza Foundation \nFeatured: \n“Mexican Is Not a Race\,” Wendy Trevino in conversation with Chris Chen\, The New Inquiry\, April 6\, 2017 \nNick Estes on Wendy Trevino’s Cruel Fiction\, “Verso authors pick their favorite books of the year\,” 17 December 2019 \nFree pdf download: Wendy Trevino\, Brazilian Is Not a Race\, Commune Editions\, 2016 \n“Zaina Alsous Named Winner of 2019 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize\,” University of Arkansas Press \nMore on Zaina Alsous \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mazza-writer-in-residence-wendy-trevino-with-zaina-alsous-reading-and-in-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:Robert Hass & Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:Robert Hass and Matthew Zapruder read from their new poetry collections\, Summer Snow and Father’s Day. \nAbout Summer Snow \nA major collection of entirely new poems from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials and The Apple Trees at Olema \nA new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is always an event. In Summer Snow\, his first collection of poems since 2010\, Hass further affirms his position as one of our most highly regarded living poets. Hass’s trademark careful attention to the natural world\, his subtle humor\, and the delicate but wide-ranging eye he casts on the human experience are fully on display in his masterful collection. Touching on subjects including the poignancy of loss\, the serene and resonant beauty of nature\, and the mutability of desire\, Hass exhibits his virtuosic abilities\, expansive intellect\, and tremendous readability in one of his most ambitious and formally brilliant collections to date. \nAbout Father’s Day \n“Zapruder’s new book\, Father’s Day\, is firmly situated in its (and our) political moment\, and is anchored by a compelling gravity and urgency.” ―The Washington Post \nThe poems in Matthew Zapruder’s fifth collection ask\, how can one be a good father\, partner\, and citizen in the early twenty-first century? Zapruder deftly improvises upon language and lyricism as he passionately engages with these questions during turbulent\, uncertain times. Whether interrogating the personalities of the Supreme Court\, watching a child grow off into a distance\, or tweaking poetry critics and hipsters alike\, Zapruder maintains a deeply generous sense of humor alongside a rich vein of love and moral urgency. The poems in Father’s Day harbor a radical belief in the power of wonder and awe to sustain the human project while guiding it forward.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-hass-matthew-zapruder/
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:Zaina Alsous and Wendy Trevino\, Mazza Writer in Residence\, reading from their work
DESCRIPTION:Under the heading “A border\, like race\, is a cruel fiction”—a line drawn from one of the poems in Wendy Trevino‘s remarkable book\, Cruel Fiction—Trevino\, The Poetry Center’s Mazza Writer in Residence for Spring 2020\, will be joined as part of her week-long residency by Palestinian poet Zaina Alsous\, for two public events. Following their Thursday April 23 reading and conversation at The Poetry Center\, on Friday April 24\, they each read their work at Moe’s Books on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. Arrive early\, to find some books in this incredible bookstore—and to make sure you get a seat! Supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation\, these events are free and open to the public. \nZaina Alsous is a prison abolitionist\, a daughter of the Palestinian diaspora\, and a movement worker in South Florida. Her poetry\, reviews\, and essays have been published in POETRY Magazine\, The Kenyon Review\, the New Inquiry\, Adroit\, and elsewhere. She edits for Scalawag Magazine\, a publication dedicated to unsettling dominant narratives of the U.S. South. Her chapbook Lemon Effigies won the Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize and was published by Anhinga Press. Her first full-length collection of poetry\, A Theory of Birds\, won the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize\, selected by Hayan Charara and Fady Joudah\, and was published by the University of Arkansas Press\, Fall 2019. Born and raised in North Carolina\, she currently lives in Miami\, Florida\, while pursuing an MFA in poetry and teaching undergraduate writing at the University of Miami. More at zainaalsous.com \nWendy Trevino was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She now lives and works in San Francisco. Her chapbook 128-131 was published by Perfect Lovers Press in 2013. Her chapbook Brazilian Is Not a Race was published by Commune Editions in 2016\, followed by her first full-length book\, Cruel Fiction\, also from Commune Editions\, 2018. Her chapbook #YourHarveyWeinstein was also published by Spoilsport Editions—an online press she started with writer Oki Sogumi—in 2017. Her poems have appeared in various print and online journals\, including Abraham Lincoln\, Armed Cell\, the Capilano Review\, LIES\, Macaroni Necklace\, Mondo Bummer\, ELDERLY\, and Open House. Selected as The Poetry Center’s Mazza Writer in Residence for Spring 2020\, Wendy is not an experimental writer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nRelated event: \nMazza Writer in Residence\nWendy Trevino with Zaina Alsous\nreading and in conversation\nThursday April 23\n7:00 pm @ The Poetry Center\nHumanities 512\, San Francisco State University\nfree and open to the public\nsupported by the Sam Mazza Foundation \nFeatured: \n“Mexican Is Not a Race\,” Wendy Trevino in conversation with Chris Chen\, The New Inquiry\, April 6\, 2017 \nNick Estes on Wendy Trevino’s Cruel Fiction\, “Verso authors pick their favorite books of the year\,” 17 December 2019 \nFree pdf download: Wendy Trevino\, Brazilian Is Not a Race\, Commune Editions\, 2016 \n“Zaina Alsous Named Winner of 2019 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize\,” University of Arkansas Press \nMore on Zaina Alsous \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and Moe’s Books
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zaina-alsous-and-wendy-trevino-mazza-writer-in-residence-reading-from-their-work/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Silent Book Club SF
DESCRIPTION:Bring a book\, bring a friend\, and join Silent Book Club for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club\, there’s no assigned reading. All books and all ages are welcome. \nWe’ll kick off introvert happy hour at 4pm with some light chatter and informal book recommendations before settling in to read quietly\, but if you’d rather just pull up a chair and read\, by all means do so. No one will be shushed or shamed. The bar will be open for late afternoon libations. \nHappy reading and hope to see you there! \n\nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nPhoto by Cody Pickens for O Magazine
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silent-book-club-sf-9/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Maurice Carlos Ruffin in conversation with Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
DESCRIPTION:Maurice Carlos Ruffin reading from \nWe Cast A Shadow \npublished by One World \n\nAbout We Cast a Shadow: \n“An incisive and necessary” (Roxane Gay) debut for fans of Get Out and Paul Beatty’s The Sellout\, about a father’s obsessive quest to protect his son—even if it means turning him white \nLonglisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize • “Stunning and audacious . . . at once a pitch-black comedy\, a chilling horror story and an endlessly perceptive novel about the possible future of race in America.”—NPR \nNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND THE WASHINGTON POST \n“You can be beautiful\, even more beautiful than before.” This is the seductive promise of Dr. Nzinga’s clinic\, where anyone can get their lips thinned\, their skin bleached\, and their nose narrowed. A complete demelanization will liberate you from the confines of being born in a black body—if you can afford it. \nIn this near-future Southern city plagued by fenced-in ghettos and police violence\, more and more residents are turning to this experimental medical procedure. Like any father\, our narrator just wants the best for his son\, Nigel\, a biracial boy whose black birthmark is getting bigger by the day. The darker Nigel becomes\, the more frightened his father feels. But how far will he go to protect his son? And will he destroy his family in the process? \nThis electrifying\, hallucinatory novel is at once a keen satire of surviving racism in America and a profoundly moving family story. At its center is a father who just wants his son to thrive in a broken world. Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s work evokes the clear vision of Ralph Ellison\, the dizzying menace of Franz Kafka\, and the crackling prose of Vladimir Nabokov. We Cast a Shadow fearlessly shines a light on the violence we inherit\, and on the desperate things we do for the ones we love. \nPraise for We Cast a Shadow \n“We Cast a Shadow asks some of the most important questions fiction can ask\, and it does so with energetic and acrobatic prose\, hilarious wordplay and great heart. . . . Love is at the core of this funny\, beautiful novel . . . . At any moment\, Ruffin can summon the kind of magic that makes you want to slow down\, reread and experience the pleasure of him crystallizing an image again. . . . Read this book.”—Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah\, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) \n“A full-throated novelistic debut of ferocious power and grace . . . a story that refracts the insanity of the world into a shape so unique you wonder how this book wasn’t there all along.”—Lit Hub \n“Propulsive . . . We Cast a Shadow proves that the eeriest works of speculative fiction are those that hit closest to home.”—Vulture \n\nMaurice Carlos Ruffin has been a recipient of an Iowa Review Award in fiction and a winner of the William Faulkner–William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition for Novel-in-Progress. His work has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review\, AGNI\, The Kenyon Review\, The Massachusetts Review\, and Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas. A native of New Orleans\, Ruffin is a graduate of the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop and a member of the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance. \nBorn and raised in New Orleans\, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton studied creative writing at Dartmouth College and law at UC Berkeley. Her debut novel\, A Kind of Freedom\, \, was a 2017 National Book Award Nominee\, a New York Times Notable Book of 2017 and a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. Her work has been published in The New York Times Book Review\, Oprah.com\, Lenny Letter\, The Massachusetts Review\, Grey Sparrow Journal\, and other publications. She lives in the Bay Area\, California\,
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maurice-carlos-ruffin-in-conversation-with-margaret-wilkerson-sexton/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Daniel Denvir at City Lights Books
DESCRIPTION:All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It \npublished by Verso Books (part of the Jacobin Series) \n\nAmerican history told from the vantage of immigration politics \n\n\nIt is often said that with the election of Donald Trump nativism was raised from the dead. After all\, here was a president who organized his campaign around a rhetoric of unvarnished racism and xenophobia. Among his first acts on taking office was to block foreign nationals from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States. But although his actions may often seem unprecedented\, they are not as unusual as many people believe. This story doesn’t begin with Trump. For decades\, Republicans and Democrats alike have employed xenophobic ideas and policies\, declaring time and again that “illegal immigration” is a threat to the nation’s security\, wellbeing\, and future. \nThe profound forces of all-American nativism have\, in fact\, been pushing politics so far to the right over the last forty years that\, for many people\, Trump began to look reasonable. As Daniel Denvir argues\, issues as diverse as austerity economics\, free trade\, mass incarceration\, the drug war\, the contours of the post 9/11 security state\, and\, yes\, Donald Trump and the Alt-Right movement are united by the ideology of nativism\, which binds together assorted anxieties and concerns into a ruthless political project. \nAll-American Nativism provides a powerful and impressively researched account of the long but often forgotten history that gave us Donald Trump. \nDaniel Denvir is a Fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute and host of The Dig\, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. His journalistic work covers criminal justice\, the drug war\, immigration\, and politics and has appeared in the New York Times\, Jacobin\, Vox\, the Nation\, the Guardian\, and elsewhere. \nPraise for All-American Nativism \n\n“As Daniel Denvir’s exceptional book shows\, the history of US immigration politics is central to understanding how our many crises have converged in this moment. It’s precisely the kind of analysis our movements need to pry open the fissures of the current order\, and join in common struggle for a better world.” \n– Naomi Klein\, author of No Is Not Enough \n\n\n\n“This is the book we need\, a searing work of scholarship that explains how we entered the current hellscape of American politics and what we have to do to get out. The roots of white nativism are deep\, as Denvir’s book makes clear\, but like all roots can be pulled up and killed. All-American Nativism will help us do so.” \n– Greg Grandin\, author of The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America \n\n\n“In this timely book\, Daniel Denvir tackles an important question: what is old and what is new in Trump’s nativism? Denvir helps us understand both the historical roots and the more recent routes by which ‘build the wall’ came to be the central rallying cry of racial-nationalism. A must-read for anyone who wants to know how we got here.” \n– Mae Ngai\, author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America \n\n\n“All American Nativism excavates the history of anti-immigrant politics in the United States and reveals a difficult truth: Donald Trump is the symptom\, and not the cause\, of a bipartisan consensus underlying the current war on immigrants. In this sense\, Denvir’s book is an invaluable tool for organizers and activists who subscribe to what Paulo Freire meant by praxis\, where reflection and action are required to bring about transformative change.” \n– Pablo Alvarado\, National Day Laborer Organizing Network \n\n\n“All-American Nativism powerfully explores the deep roots of nativism in national life as well as how Trump’s agenda is itself the culmination of the policies and the logic pursued for decades by both major parties. In the process\, Daniel Denvir masterfully demonstrates the relationship between today’s debates over immigration and ongoing struggles against neoliberal austerity\, mass incarceration\, and the violence of the security state. In this way\, the book not only offers a diagnosis of the present\, but also a stirring vision of solidarity and change. This is an essential and profound work\, providing critical insights about the American experience and where to go from here.” \n– Aziz Rana\, author of The Two Faces of American Freedom \n\n\n“Traces the development of anti-immigrant sentiment.” \n– Cora Currier\, The Intercept \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-denvir-at-city-lights-books/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ali Warren
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nLittle Hill \npublished by City Lights Books \n\nAward-winning poet explores new formal terrain in seven long poems against the violence of the present political moment. \nThe third full-length collection from Bay Area poet Alli Warren\, Little Hill comprises seven long poems written with propulsive prosody in a daybook fashion\, examining our present\, politically charged moment. These poems are at once energetic and contemplative\, intimate and direct\, as Warren focuses her attention on capitalism\, gender\, love\, inequality\, and resistance. Despite the dystopian now\, Warren finds promise in the smallest human instances of tenderness\, ecological connection\, and political solidarity. Little Hill is about learning to live and love in the 21st century while not shying away from all there is to struggle against. \n“[Warren] has begun writing longer poems\, putting her stamp on a running notational mode whose other practitioners include Stephanie Young\, Anselm Berrigan\, and Jacqueline Waters. I think you can hear the durational projects\, the self-conscious day-scores\, of Bernadette Mayer and of Lewis Warsh farther back in the tradition.”—Brian Blanchfield\, pen.org \nPraise for Little Hill: \n“In Little Hill Alli Warren’s principle method is articulation of exquisite units of speech (thought) that\, maintaining separation\, are capable of connection. The line might be a sentence or a part of one . . . I mean a delicious sense of grammatical distinctness is maintained. The poet\, also a lone unit\, seems to exist less in relation than as that lone one\, condemning this hard world with its villain work and elusive hierarchies. The language is precise\, lush\, unexpected and often thrilling. Articulation would seem to be the true other\, or maybe nature is. The book is gift more than condemnation\, though as the latter it’s unsparing. Still\, it’s a gift.”––Alice Notley\, author of For the Ride and Benediction \n“The number of gasps and everything else gets lost in the concentration of Little Hill. Alli Warren keeps company with those rare poets whose every new book is their best. ‘This is an old machine with a pulley / It makes music work\,’ Warren writes\, reworking the ancient technology of poetry to a shine! Dear Poet\, thank you for the wow WOW wowing!”––CAConrad\, author of While Standing in Line for Death \n“Reading Alli Warren’s Little Hill\, I find it incredible that amidst the relentless circulation of capital and commodities—and despite attempts to make all life yield to the logics of extraction\, work\, accumulation\, and the entrepreneurial self—a remainder is created\, that of poetry. Little Hill embodies a poetics of radical uncertainty\, one that attends to its horrific condition of possibility and is produced through the unmooring catastrophes that define our present moment: the destruction of the earth\, mass imprisonment\, late-capitalism—the litany does not end there. ‘I saw the death of the earth in a child’s toy\,’ she writes. Everywhere the speaker looks there is ‘congealed shit\, sometimes on sale.’ Yet yearning\, even as it is raised tentatively\, is not crushed. In and against it all\, a question is raised—the question of what it means to love in times of terror.”—Jackie Wang\, author of Carceral Capitalism
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ali-warren/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Kaag: Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds
DESCRIPTION:John Kaag discusses his new book\, Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life. \nPraise for Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds \n“Kaag’s reading of James is as elucidating as readers have come to expect from him. Once again\, he writes in a clear\, focused\, and winningly self-aware style that makes friends of James and himself for anyone who wonders if life is worth living. A book in which Kaag further carves out his niche in philosophy: personal\, practical\, and crucial.”– Kirkus Reviews \n“Not since Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance have I read such a mesmerizing confluence of personal experience and formal thought as John Kaag’s American Philosophy: A Love Story. That combination is on display again in his Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds—a brief and powerful book about one of America’s most profound minds\, William James\, and what he can teach us about what makes life worth living.”―Robert D. Richardson\, author of William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism \n“In this beautifully written book\, which is filled with bracing insights\, John Kaag shows why William James has had a deep\, life-altering\, therapeutic effect on his readers over the past century—and can continue to have the same effect on new readers today.”—Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen\, author of American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas \nAbout Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds \nIn 1895\, William James\, the father of American philosophy\, delivered a lecture entitled “Is Life Worth Living?” It was no theoretical question for James\, who had contemplated suicide during an existential crisis as a young man a quarter century earlier. Indeed\, as John Kaag writes\, “James’s entire philosophy\, from beginning to end\, was geared to save a life\, his life”—and that’s why it just might be able to save yours\, too. Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds is a compelling introduction to James’s life and thought that shows why the founder of pragmatism and empirical psychology—and an inspiration for Alcoholics Anonymous—can still speak so directly and profoundly to anyone struggling to make a life worth living. \nKaag tells how James’s experiences as one of what he called the “sick-souled\,” those who think that life might be meaningless\, drove him to articulate an ideal of “healthy-mindedness”—an attitude toward life that is open\, active\, and hopeful\, but also realistic about its risks. In fact\, all of James’s pragmatism\, resting on the idea that truth should be judged by its practical consequences for our lives\, is a response to\, and possible antidote for\, crises of meaning that threaten to undo many of us at one time or another. Along the way\, Kaag also movingly describes how his own life has been endlessly enriched by James. \nEloquent\, inspiring\, and filled with insight\, Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds may be the smartest and most important self-help book you’ll ever read.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-kaag-sick-souls-healthy-minds/
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:Aaron Smith: The Book of Daniel
DESCRIPTION:Aaron Smith discusses his new poetry collection\, The Book of Daniel\, with sam sax and Randall Mann. \nPraise for The Book of Daniel \n“Smith’s poems expound a complicated and distinctly queer relationship to beauty. . . . He levels a caustic wit at the pantheons of pop culture and modern poetry\, but also strikes resounding notes of hurt and rage at homophobia\, misogyny\, rejection\, and loss.”\n–The New Yorker \n“Aaron Smith writes with arresting\, melancholy literalness about bruises\, exaltations\, arousals\, delectations\, and defeats. He doesn’t mess around with filigree. He sticks to abject delineation\, punchy straightforwardness—a new way of being formal and naked. I believe in these gripping poems\, and in their message to the world.”– Wayne Koestenbaum \n“‘Does anyone have / a poem to Cher?’ I doubt it’s as honest or fresh as the poems in The Book of Daniel. Can a poet be as well-versed in Plath\, Lorde\, Olds\, and Baraka as he is in celebrity and pop culture? Spoiler alert: hell\, yeah. With the gift of a high-speed Internet connection\, Smith maneuvers the confusing messages of grief\, rejection\, and\, yes\, contemporary poetry. Poets beware: you are not off the hook. Smith brilliantly challenges everything you hold sacred.”– Yona Harvey \nAbout The Book of Daniel \nA tour de force\, Aaron Smith’s fourth collection of poetry\, The Book of Daniel\, resists the easy satisfactions of Beauty while managing the contemporary entanglements of art\, sex\, and grief. Part pop-thriller\, part queer rage\, and part mourning\, these poems depict not only the complications of representation in the age of social media but a critique of identity. Taking on subjects as diverse as the literary canon\, his mother’s incurable cancer diagnosis\, gay bashing\, celebrity gossip\, bigotry\, violence on TV\, and Alexander McQueen’s suicide\, Smith proves that the confessional lyric is not dead. In tangents as wild as they are reigned\, with his characteristic blend of directness\, vulnerability and humor\, these poems take on the world as it is\, a world we love even as it resists all intimacy. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aaron-smith-the-book-of-daniel/
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:Femail: The Art of Sustainable Fashion
DESCRIPTION:TICKETSTo purchase over the phone: 415-392-4400 \nThis event appears in the series\nSpecial Events \n\n\nCamilla Carper and Janelle Abbott met at Parsons School of Design in 2008. After college\, both returned to their respective homelands on the West Coast: San Francisco and Seattle. Their need to maintain a friendship from afar was resolved with FEMAIL: an art and fashion collaboration conducted remotely by sending work back and forth through the USPS. Each time the pair passes work from one to the next\, new scraps and remnants are added\, sometimes\, things are taken away. They work reactively\, intuitively\, and with commas\, always. In this way\, what is created by FEMAIL is a documentation of duo’s conversations and ultimately\, their friendship. \n  \nAvery Trufelman produces original pieces about architecture and design for the award-winning podcast 99% Invisible by Radiotopia. In September of 2018\, she made a six-part series about clothing and fashion called Articles of Interest\, which was declared one of the best podcasts of 2018 by the New Yorker\, and the finale was called the”best podcast episode of the year” by Vulture.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/femail-the-art-of-sustainable-fashion/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rufi Thorpe: The Knockout Queen
DESCRIPTION:Rufi Thorpe discusses her new novel\, The Knockout Queen. \nPraise for The Knockout Queen \n“Is it cheesy to say The Knockout Queen knocked me off my feet? I couldn’t put it down\, and when I had to\, I did so only reluctantly\, shakily. With unrelenting humor and terrifying intelligence\, Rufi Thorpe tells the story of an unlikely high school friendship—the kind of friendship from which you never recover—with intensity and attentiveness. This captivating\, generous book is a moving examination on human motivation\, darkness\, and love—calling attention to the ways we can be deeply different\, and yet so much the same.” – Rachel Khong\, author of Goodbye\, Vitamin \n“Fearless\, tender\, and savagely alive\, The Knockout Queen is unlike anything you’ll read this year. Rufi Thorpe’s third novel is about unruly thoughts and unruly bodies\, about violence and love\, about doing the wrong thing for the right reasons and the drag of human being. You won’t be able to look away. You might even recognize yourself.” – Chloe Benjamin\, best-selling author of The Immortalists \n“The Knockout Queen is an intense\, unflinching examination of friendship\, the threads that connect us in such strange ways. Rufi Thorpe navigates this difficult terrain thanks to a masterful use of detail and a wonderfully dark sense of humor that lands at just the right moment. Michael and Bunny are two of the most unique characters I’ve ever met\, drawn with such precision that it’s impossible to leave them behind. This is a hypnotic\, beautiful novel\, and Rufi Thorpe is an unbelievably unique talent.” – Kevin Wilson\, best-selling author of Nothing to See Here \nAbout The Knockout Queen \nA dazzling and darkly comic novel of love\, violence\, and friendship in the California suburbs \nBunny Lampert is the princess of North Shore⁠—beautiful\, tall\, blond\, with a rich real-estate-developer father and a swimming pool in her backyard. Michael⁠⁠—with a ponytail down his back and a septum piercing⁠—lives with his aunt in the cramped stucco cottage next door. When Bunny catches Michael smoking in her yard\, he discovers that her life is not as perfect as it seems. At six foot three\, Bunny towers over their classmates. Even as she dreams of standing out and competing in the Olympics\, she is desperate to fit in\, to seem normal\, and to get a boyfriend\, all while hiding her father’s escalating alcoholism. Michael has secrets of his own. At home and at school Michael pretends to be straight\, but at night he tries to understand himself by meeting men online for anonymous encounters that both thrill and scare him. When Michael falls in love for the first time\, a vicious strain of gossip circulates and a terrible\, brutal act becomes the defining feature of both his and Bunny’s futures⁠⁠—and of their friendship. With storytelling as intoxicating as it is intelligent\, Rufi Thorpe has created a tragic and unflinching portrait of identity\, a fascinating examination of our struggles to exist in our bodies\, and an excruciatingly beautiful story of two humans aching for connection.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rufi-thorpe-the-knockout-queen/
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:Robert Mailer Anderson at City Lights Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:Windows on the World \nCo-authored with Zack Anderson \nIllustrations by Jon Sack \npublished by Fantagraphics Books \nSet in a New York City in mourning\, this poignant graphic novel explores the push-and-pull between love and obligation. \nOn the morning of September 11\, 2001\, an undocumented worker named Balthazar busses tables at New York City’s famous Windows on the World restaurant. Back in Mexico\, his family watches their TV screen in horror as the Twin Towers collapse. Refusing to give up hope that Balthazar is alive\, his son Fernando embarks on a treacherous journey across the border to New York to find him. Along the way\, Fernando learns what it means to be undocumented in America — encountering at turns an indifferent bureaucracy and a supportive group of fellow immigrants who help guide him through his quixotic mission to bring his family back together. \nNow a major motion picture! \nRobert Mailer Anderson is a San Francisco Library Laureate as well as a novelist\, screenwriter\, producer\, and activist. He is the author of the novel Boonville. \nJon Sack is a US and UK based artist and writer whose comic books include La Lucha and Iraqi Oil For Beginners.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-mailer-anderson-at-city-lights-bookstore/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Adam Levin: Bubblegum
DESCRIPTION:Adam Levin discusses his new novel Bubblegum. \nPraise for Bubblegum \n“Adam Levin is one of our wildest writers and our funniest\, and Bubblegum is a dazzling accomplishment of wit and inventiveness – an irrepressible and insanely entertaining examination of our obsessive culture that doesn’t forget to be fond of that which it is satirizing. Levin’s keen and ornery mind\, reveling in the world with vast energy\, shows us new ways of loving it.”George Saunders\, author of the Booker Prize-winning Lincoln in the Bardo  \n“Adam Levin’s brilliant\, inventive\, fully imagined alternative world gives us insight and clarity about the actual world we live in.  We are implicated\, warned\, but what a hilarious ride. Bubblegum is a wild\, ambitious\, and original novel.  Levin is a wonder.”Dana Spiotta\, author of Eat the Document \n“With Bubblegum\, Adam Levin has created a cubist painting about consumerism\, fetishization\, and the increasingly blurred line between life and advertisement in a hyper-materialist\, post-IRL society. Levin masterfully creates a world without the internet to examine the impact and insanity it has sewn into the American project\, and he does so while gleefully skewering our unraveling vernacular. A freaky marvel of a tome.”Catherine Lacey\, author of Certain American States\, The Answers and Nobody is Ever Missing \nAbout Bubblegum \nBubblegum is set in an alternate present-day world in which the Internet does not exist\, and has never existed. Rather\, a wholly different species of interactive technology–a “flesh-and-bone robot” called the Curio–has dominated both the market and the cultural imagination since the late 1980s. Belt Magnet\, who as a boy in greater Chicago became one of the lucky first adopters of a Curio\, is now writing his memoir\, and through it we follow a singular man out of sync with the harsh realities of a world he feels alien to\, but must find a way to live in.\nAt age thirty-eight\, still living at home with his widowed father\, Belt insulates himself from the awful and terrifying world outside by spending most of his time with books\, his beloved Curio\, and the voices in his head\, which he isn’t entirely sure are in his head. After Belt’s father goes on a fishing excursion\, a simple trip to the bank escalates into an epic saga that eventually forces Belt to confront the world he fears\, as well as his estranged childhood friend Jonboat\, the celebrity astronaut and billionaire.\nIn Bubblegum\, Adam Levin has crafted a profoundly hilarious\, resonant\, and monumental narrative about heartbreak\, longing\, art\, and the search for belonging in an incompatible world. Bubblegum is a rare masterwork of provocative social (and self-) awareness and intimate emotional power.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adam-levin-bubblegum/
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:OFFSITE: An Evening with Mikel Jollett / Hollywood Park
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Quiet Lightningpresent The Airborne Toxic Event’s Mikel Jollett for his only San Francisco/Bay Area. He will be reading from and discussing his memoir\, Hollywood Park. \n \nPlease note: This ticketed event will be held at First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco: 1187 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA 94109. Tickets can be purchased in advance here and are not guaranteed to be available at the door. Please read the ticketing information carefully and direct any questions to events@booksmith.com. \n\nWe were never young. We were just too afraid of ourselves. No one told us who we were or what we were or where all our parents went. They would arrive like ghosts\, visiting us for a morning\, an afternoon. They would sit with us or walk around the grounds\, to laugh or cry or toss us in the air while we screamed. Then they’d disappear again\, for weeks\, for months\, for years\, leaving us alone with our memories and dreams\, our questions and confusion … \nSo begins Hollywood Park\, Mikel Jollett’s remarkable memoir. His story opens in an experimental commune in California\, which later morphed into the Church of Synanon\, one of the country’s most infamous and dangerous cults.  Per the leader’s mandate\, all children\, including Jollett and his older brother\, were separated from their parents when they were six months old\, and handed over to the cult’s “School.”  After spending years in what was essentially an orphanage\, Mikel escaped the cult one morning with his mother and older brother.  But in many ways\, life outside Synanon was even harder and more erratic. \nIn his raw\, poetic and powerful voice\, Jollett portrays a childhood filled with abject poverty\, trauma\, emotional abuse\, delinquency and the lure of drugs and alcohol.  Raised by a clinically depressed\, narcissistic mother\, tormented by his angry older brother\, subjected to the unpredictability of troubled step-fathers and longing for contact with his father\, a former heroin addict and ex-con\, Jollett slowly\, often painfully\, builds a life that leads him to Stanford University and\, eventually\, to finding his voice as a writer and musician. \nHollywood Park is told at first through the limited perspective of a child\, and then broadens as Jollett begins to understand the world around him. Although Mikel Jollett’s story is filled with heartbreak\, it is ultimately an unforgettable portrayal of love at its fiercest and most loyal. \n\nMikel Jollett is the frontman of the indie band The Airborne Toxic Event. Prior to forming the band\, Jollett graduated with honors from Stanford University. He was an on-air columnist for NPR’s All Things Considered\, an editor-at-large for Men’s Health and an editor at Filter magazine. His fiction has been published in McSweeney’s.  \n\nThis event is held at First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco: 1187 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA 94109. \nDoors at 6:30pm. Program at 7:30. Program includes signing. Duration of event is up to the author. \nImportant signing and photo details to come. \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have any special needs\, please write to events@booksmith.com no later than 48 hours before the event and we will do our absolute best to accommodate you. \nIf you can’t attend the event but would like to order a signed copy of Hollywoord Park\, order below and add your request in the special field. \nRSVP is not required\, but always appreciated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/offsite-an-evening-with-mikel-jollett-hollywood-park/
LOCATION:First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco\, 1187 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Mikel Jollett / Hollywood Park
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Quiet Lightning present The Airborne Toxic Event’s Mikel Jollett for his only San Francisco/Bay Area. He will be reading from and discussing his memoir\, Hollywood Park. \nPlease note: This ticketed event will be held at First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco: 1187 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA 94109. Tickets can be purchased in advance here and are not guaranteed to be available at the door. Please read the ticketing information carefully and direct any questions to events AT booksmith DOT com. \nWe were never young. We were just too afraid of ourselves. No one told us who we were or what we were or where all our parents went. They would arrive like ghosts\, visiting us for a morning\, an afternoon. They would sit with us or walk around the grounds\, to laugh or cry or toss us in the air while we screamed. Then they’d disappear again\, for weeks\, for months\, for years\, leaving us alone with our memories and dreams\, our questions and confusion … \nSo begins Hollywood Park\, Mikel Jollett’s remarkable memoir. His story opens in an experimental commune in California\, which later morphed into the Church of Synanon\, one of the country’s most infamous and dangerous cults.  Per the leader’s mandate\, all children\, including Jollett and his older brother\, were separated from their parents when they were six months old\, and handed over to the cult’s “School.”  After spending years in what was essentially an orphanage\, Mikel escaped the cult one morning with his mother and older brother.  But in many ways\, life outside Synanon was even harder and more erratic. \nIn his raw\, poetic and powerful voice\, Jollett portrays a childhood filled with abject poverty\, trauma\, emotional abuse\, delinquency and the lure of drugs and alcohol.  Raised by a clinically depressed\, narcissistic mother\, tormented by his angry older brother\, subjected to the unpredictability of troubled step-fathers and longing for contact with his father\, a former heroin addict and ex-con\, Jollett slowly\, often painfully\, builds a life that leads him to Stanford University and\, eventually\, to finding his voice as a writer and musician. \nHollywood Park is told at first through the limited perspective of a child\, and then broadens as Jollett begins to understand the world around him. Although Mikel Jollett’s story is filled with heartbreak\, it is ultimately an unforgettable portrayal of love at its fiercest and most loyal. \n\nMikel Jollett is the frontman of the indie band The Airborne Toxic Event. Prior to forming the band\, Jollett graduated with honors from Stanford University. He was an on-air columnist for NPR’s All Things Considered\, an editor-at-large for Men’s Health and an editor at Filter magazine. His fiction has been published in McSweeney’s. \n\nThis event is held at First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco: 1187 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA 94109. \nDoors at 6:30pm. Program at 7:30. Program includes signing. Duration of event is up to the author. \nImportant signing and photo details to come. \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have any special needs\, please write to events@booksmith.com no later than 48 hours before the event and we will do our absolute best to accommodate you. \nIf you can’t attend the event but would like to order a signed copy of Hollywoord Park\, order below and add your request in the special field. \nRSVP is not required\, but always appreciated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-mikel-jollett-hollywood-park/
LOCATION:First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco\, 1187 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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SUMMARY:Ainissa Ramirez
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nThe Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another \nfrom The MIT Press \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the bestselling tradition of Stuff Matters and The Disappearing Spoon: a clever and engaging look at materials\, the innovations they made possible\, and how these technologies changed us. \nIn The Alchemy of Us\, scientist and science writer Ainissa Ramirez examines eight inventions—clocks\, steel rails\, copper communication cables\, photographic film\, light bulbs\, hard disks\, scientific labware\, and silicon chips—and reveals how they shaped the human experience. Ramirez tells the stories of the woman who sold time\, the inventor who inspired Edison\, and the hotheaded undertaker whose invention pointed the way to the computer. She describes\, among other things\, how our pursuit of precision in timepieces changed how we sleep; how the railroad helped commercialize Christmas; how the necessary brevity of the telegram influenced Hemingway’s writing style; and how a young chemist exposed the use of Polaroid’s cameras to create passbooks to track black citizens in apartheid South Africa. These fascinating and inspiring stories offer new perspectives on our relationships with technologies. \nRamirez shows how materials were shaped by inventors\, but also how those materials shaped culture\, chronicling each invention and its consequences—intended and unintended. Filling in the gaps left by other books about technology\, Ramirez showcases little-known inventors—particularly people of color and women—who had a significant impact but whose accomplishments have been hidden by mythmaking\, bias\, and convention. Doing so\, she shows us the power of telling inclusive stories about technology. She also shows that innovation is universal—whether it’s splicing beats with two turntables and a microphone or splicing genes with two test tubes and CRISPR. \nAinissa Ramirez is a materials scientist and sought-after public speaker and science communicator. A Brown and Stanford graduate\, she has worked as a research scientist at Bell Labs and held academic positions at Yale University and MIT. She has written for Time\, Scientific American\, the American Scientist\, and Forbes\, and makes regular appearances on PBS’s SciTech Now.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ainissa-ramirez/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alia Volz in conversation with Paul Yamazaki
DESCRIPTION:Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco \nby Alia Volz \npublished by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt \n\n\nA blazingly funny\, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky Fingers Brownies\, an underground bakery that distributed thousands of marijuana brownies per month and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco—for fans of Armistead Maupin and Patricia Lockwood \nDuring the ’70s in San Francisco\, Alia’s mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies\, delivering upwards of 10\,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia’s future father\, and thereafter had a partner in business and life. \nDecades before cannabusiness went mainstream\, when marijuana was as illicit as heroin\, they ingeniously hid themselves in plain sight\, parading through town—and through the scenes and upheavals of the day\, from Gay Liberation to the tragedy of the Peoples Temple—in bright and elaborate outfits\, the goods wrapped in hand-designed packaging and tucked into Alia’s stroller. But the stars were not aligned forever and\, after leaving the city and a shoulda-seen-it-coming divorce\, Alia and her mom returned to San Francisco in the mid-80s\, this time using Sticky Fingers’ distribution channels to provide medical marijuana to friends and former customers now suffering the depredations of AIDS. \nExhilarating\, laugh-out-loud funny\, and heartbreaking\, Home Baked celebrates an eccentric and remarkable extended family\, taking us through love\, loss\, and finding home. \n\n\nAlia Volz is a homegrown San Franciscan. Her writing appears in The Best American Essays 2017\, the New York Times\, Tin House\, Threepenny Review\, River Teeth\, Nowhere magazine\, Utne Reader\, New England Review and the recent anthologies Dig If You Will the Picture: Writers Reflect on Prince and Golden State 2017: Best New Writing from California. A 2018 MacDowell Colony fellow\, Volz has also been an Artist in Residence with Writing Between the Vines and the Soaring Gardens Artists Retreat. The Squaw Valley Community of Writers awarded her the Oakley Hall Memorial Scholarship twice. She was runner-up of The Moth’s GrandSLAM Championship in 2014 and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. \nPaul Yamazaki is the chief book buyer at City Lights Booksellers and has been a life-long booktrade advocate serving on many boards of non-profits and literary organizations.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alia-volz-in-conversation-with-paul-yamazaki/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ottessa Moshfegh: Death in Her Hands
DESCRIPTION:Ottessa Moshfegh discusses her new novel Death in Her Hands. \nPraise for Death in Her Hands \n“When it comes to evoking the jagged edge of contemporary anxiety there might not be a more insightful writer working today than Moshfegh. That is if the boundless dark potential of the human psyche is your thing. If it’s not\, this atmospheric\, darkly comic tale of a pathologically lonely widow and the thrills lurking in her sylvan retreat might not be for you. But\, sophisticated reader that you are\, you’re not afraid of the dark. Right?” —The Millions \n“Perhaps the most jarring genre of fiction is the kind that takes you deep into the gradual unraveling of a person’s mind. Moshfegh does a masterful job with Death In Her Hands\, which follows a protagonist who believes she’s solving a murder. The book moves seamlessly from suspenseful to horrifying\, retaining the reader’s attention all the while.” —Marie Claire \n“Ottessa Moshfegh is always a must-read\, and her latest combines ‘horror\, suspense and pitch-black comedy’ to deliver a fascinating tale guided by an unreliable narrator.” —Paste\, 25 Most Anticipated Novels of 2020 \nAbout Death in Her Hands \nFrom one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents\, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new home \nWhile on her normal daily walk with her dog in the nearby forest woods\, our protagonist comes across a note\, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground with a frame of stones. Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn’t me. Here is her dead body. Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no idea what to make of this. She is new to this area\, having moved here from her longtime home after the death of her husband\, and she knows very few people. And she’s a little shaky even on her best days. Her brooding about this note quickly grows into a full-blown obsession\, and she begins to devote herself to exploring the possibilities of her conjectures about who this woman was and how she met her fate. Her suppositions begin to find echoes in the real world\, and with mounting excitement and dread\, the fog of mystery starts to form into a concrete and menacing shape. But as we follow her in her investigation\, strange dissonances start to accrue\, and our faith in her grip on reality weakens\, until finally\, just as she seems to be facing some of the darkness in her own past with her late husband\, we are forced to face the prospect that there is either a more innocent explanation for all this or a much more sinister one–one that strikes closer to home. \nA triumphant blend of horror\, suspense\, and pitch-black comedy\, Death in Her Hands asks us to consider how the stories we tell ourselves both guide us closer to the truth and keep us at bay from it. Once again\, we are in the hands of a narrator whose unreliability is well earned\, only this time the stakes have never been higher. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ottessa-moshfegh-death-in-her-hands/
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:Karen Tei Yamashita
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of her new short fiction collection \nSansei and Sensibility \npublished by Coffee House Press \nGenerations of Japanese Americans merge with Jane Austen’s characters in these lively stories\, pairing uniquely American histories with reimagined classics. \nIn these buoyant and inventive stories\, Japanese Americans shift the boundaries of Jane Austen’s classic tales\, questioning what inheritance—familial\, cultural\, artistic—really means. In ’60s California and beyond\, a woman examines the contents of her dead aunt’s freezer\, Mr. Darcy is captain of the football team\, a dental hygienist collects a community’s gossip while cleaning his neighbors’ teeth\, and station wagons\, not horse-drawn carriages\, are the transit of the day. These narratives that traverse class\, race\, and gender leap into our modern world with Yamashita’s signature wit and humor. \nKaren Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books\, including I Hotel\, finalist for the National Book Award\, and most recently\, Letters to Memory\, all published by Coffee House Press. Recipient of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature and a U.S. Artists’ Ford Foundation Fellowship\, she is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nPraise for Sansei and Sensibility \n“Dazzling. An extraordinarily inventive collection of short stories that takes us from Japan to Brazil to the fractured heart of suburban postwar Japanese America. Whether she is riffing on Jane Austen\, channeling Jorge Luis Borges\, or meditating on Marie Kondo\, Yamashita is a brilliant and often subversive storyteller in superb command of her craft.” —Julie Otsuka \n“Through vignettes\, recipes\, and correspondence\, master writer Karen Tei Yamashita takes us through the rabbit hole of Japanese America—in particular\, her hometown of Gardena\, California\, where an ethnic community culturally transformed a middle-class bedroom town. Part Ozu meditation of everyday life\, part modern folk tale with colorful characters like a truth-telling dental hygienist\, Sansei and Sensibility offers a unique and necessary perspective of what it means to be the aging grandchild of Asian immigrants\, wondering what you will leave behind for the next generation. As in all of her books\, Yamashita deconstructs form and genre to create a work that both delights and challenges.” —Naomi Hirahara \n“This capacious collection is witty\, sharp—funny at times\, angry at times—always amazing\, and never\, never dull. I think Jane Austen would be surprised\, but delighted. I surely am.” —Karen Joy Fowler \nPraise for the work of Karen Tei Yamashita \n2010 National Book Award Finalist\n2011 American Book Award Winner \n“This powerful\, deeply felt\, and impeccably researched fiction is irresistibly evocative and overwhelming in every sense.” —Publishers Weekly \n“The extraordinary testimony of a revolutionary past. . . . I Hotel is crammed with detail\, with real-life pamphlets\, speeches\, quotes\, and news reports humming and crackling in the background. The whole thing makes for an astonishing\, and carefully structured\, collage of both local and global movement.” —The Nation \n“Immensely entertaining.” —Newsday \n“Shaped and voiced with literary flair\, this is clearly a book Yamashita felt compelled to write\, and her sense of purpose makes this historical excavation feel deeply personal.” —Kirkus \n“Yamashita incorporates satire and the surreal in prose that is playful yet knowing\, fierce yet mournful.”—San Francisco Chronicle
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-tei-yamashita/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Stephanie Danler: Stray
DESCRIPTION:Stephanie Danler discusses her new memoir\, Stray. \nAbout Stray \nFrom the bestselling author of Sweetbitter\, a memoir of growing up in a family shattered by lies and addiction\, and of one woman’s attempts to find a life beyond the limits of her past. Stray is a moving\, sometimes devastating\, brilliantly written and ultimately inspiring exploration of the landscapes of damage and survival. \nAfter selling her first novel–a dream she’d worked long and hard for–Stephanie Danler knew she should be happy. Instead\, she found herself driven to face the difficult past she’d left behind a decade ago: a mother disabled by years of alcoholism\, further handicapped by a tragic brain aneurysm; a father who abandoned the family when she was three\, now a meth addict in and out of recovery. After years in New York City she’s pulled home to Southern California by forces she doesn’t totally understand\, haunted by questions of legacy and trauma. Here\, she works toward answers\, uncovering hard truths about her parents and herself as she explores whether it’s possible to change the course of her history. \nLucid and honest\, heart-breaking and full of hope\, Stray is an examination of what we inherit and what we don’t have to\, of what we have to face in ourselves to move forward\, and what it’s like to let go of one’s parents in order to find a peace–and family–of one’s own.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stephanie-danler-stray/
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:Margaret Randall in conversation with Garrett Caples
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of Margaret Randall’s new book \nI Never Left Home: Poet\, Feminist\, Revolutionary \nfrom Duke University Press \nIn 1969\, poet and revolutionary Margaret Randall was forced underground when the Mexican government cracked down on all those who took part in the 1968 student movement. Needing to leave the country\, she sent her four young children alone to Cuba while she scrambled to find safe passage out of Mexico. In I Never Left Home\, Randall recounts her harrowing escape and the other extraordinary stories from her life and career. \nFrom living among New York’s abstract expressionists in the mid-1950s as a young woman to working in the Nicaraguan Ministry of Culture to instill revolutionary values in the media during the Sandinista movement\, the story of Randall’s life reads like a Hollywood production. Along the way\, she edited a bilingual literary journal in Mexico City\, befriended Cuban revolutionaries\, raised a family\, came out as a lesbian\, taught college\, and wrote over 150 books. Throughout it all\, Randall never wavered from her devotion to social justice. \nWhen she returned to the United States in 1984 after living in Latin America for twenty-three years\, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service ordered her to be deported for her “subversive writing.” Over the next five years\, and with the support of writers\, entertainers\, and ordinary people across the country\, Randall fought to regain her citizenship\, which she won in court in 1989. \nAs much as I Never Left Home is Randall’s story\, it is also the story of the communities of artists\, writers\, and radicals she belonged to. Randall brings to life scores of creative and courageous people on the front lines of creating a more just world. She also weaves political and social analyses and poetry into the narrative of her life. Moving\, captivating\, and astonishing\, I Never Left Home is a remarkable story of a remarkable woman. \nPraise for the work of Margaret Randall \n“A revolutionary woman and remarkable writer places her long journey within the context of her conflicted past and our own divided present. . . . A striking remembrance by an intellectual whose radical\, fierce nature is unflappable.” — Kirkus Reviews \n\n“Every Margaret Randall book or poem is a jewel to be savored\, but this text may be the best yet. Beautifully written\, it is Randall’s first comprehensive memoir. With her moves through the 1950s’ expressionist art world in New York through the 1960s Mexican literary scene\, the Cuban Revolution looms large and beckons Randall to participate\, which eventually brings the scrutiny of Uncle Sam attempting to strip her of her citizenship. Throughout\, Randall’s early and deep feminism is a guiding light.” — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\, author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States \n“Margaret Randall hails from a heroic era when poets aspired to change life. Nominally a memoir\, I Never Left Home is really a full-blown autobiography\, chronicling her life as a poet\, a woman\, a feminist\, a mother\, a lesbian\, an incest survivor\, and a participant in a quarter century of Latin American social and political revolution. Her experiences as coeditor of one of the 1960s most important international literary magazines are gripping\, but it’s her account of the Reagan administration’s attempt to deport her from the land of her birth as an undesirable alien that makes I Never Left Home so necessary in the present moment. Few U.S. poets have dared to dream as big\, fight as hard\, or accomplish as much.” — Garrett Caples\, coeditor of The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia \n“Margaret Randall’s life is the story of our twentieth century\, with all of its lucid wonder\, its dark passages and contradictions. Illuminating and enthralling.” — Achy Obejas\, author of The Tower of the Antilles \nGarett Caples is the poetry editor at City Lights Books\, journalist\, and a published poet.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/margaret-randall-in-conversation-with-garrett-caples/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: John Yau and Andrew Joron\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:For the final double-program in The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series for Spring 2020\, we are delighted to host renowned poet and art critic John Yau\, on a rare visit from New York City. He’ll be joined by poet\, translator\, and SF State faculty member Andrew Joron\, reading and in conversation at The Poetry Center on Thursday May 7; then the following night\, Friday May 8\, we move across the Bay\, for John Yau together with poet/performer and editor of SFMOMA’s online magazine Open Space\, Claudia La Rocco\, reading and in conversation at Pro Arts Gallery & Commons\, right downtown (12th Street BART) in Frank Ogawa Plaza. Supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, these events are free and open to the public. \nDetails soon \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nJohn Yau and Claudia La Rocco\nreading and in conversation\nFriday May 8\n7:00 pm @ Pro Arts Gallery & Commons\n150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza\, Oakland\nfree and open to the public\nsupported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-john-yau-and-andrew-joron-reading-and-in-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:Jia Tolentino & Jenna Wortham
DESCRIPTION:TICKETSTo purchase over the phone: 415-392-4400 \nThis event appears in the series\nSocial Studies \n\n\nCalled “the best young essayist at work in the United States” by Rebecca Solnit\, Jia Tolentino is a staff writer for The New Yorker\, covering everything from the viral video app TikTok\, to the ubiquitous upscale activewear brand Outdoor Voices\, to Edith Wharton’s heroine and the new norm of begging celebrities to run you over with a truck. Her essay collection Trick Mirror examines religion\, psychedelic drugs\, weddings\, the internet\, and everything in between\, tied together by the logic of an immensely sharp cultural critic observing and thinking hard about the world she exists within. Previously\, Tolentino was the deputy editor at Jezebel and a contributing editor at the Hairpin. Her criticism has appeared in the Times Magazine\, Grantland\, the Awl\, Pitchfork\, The Fader\, Time\, and Slate. \nJenna Wortham is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. After receiving a bachelor’s degree in medical anthropology from the University of Virginia\, Wortham moved to San Francisco to work with San Francisco Magazine\, Girlfriend Magazine\, write for SFist and later\, Wired. Wortham joined The New York Times in 2008 and has since covered pop culture\, technology\, race\, and queer identity. Her writing has appeared in Girl Crush Zine\, The Morning News\, Matter\, Vogue\, The Awl\, Bust\, The Hairpin\, and The Fader among other publications. In 2016\, Wortham started co-hosting the culture podcast Still Processing with Wesley Morris. She is coeditor of the forthcoming visual anthology Black Futures with Kimberly Drew. \n\nPhotograph credit: Elena Mudd (left) & Ryan Pfluger (right)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jia-tolentino-jenna-wortham/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Anne Raeff: Only the River
DESCRIPTION:Anne Raeff discusses her new novel Only the River with ZYZZYVA managing editor Oscar Villalon. \nPraise for Only the River \n“In this novel\, Anne Raeff weaves a multigenerational tale of love and war while at the same time casting a magic spell. Her authorial voice is incantatory. Characters and events caught in recent tragedies take on aspects of myth. The novel feels unique\, timely\, and yet timeless. I couldn’t put it down.” ––Elizabeth Farnsworth\, author of A Train Through Time  \nAbout Only the River \nFrom California Book Award silver medalist and Simpson Literary Prize finalist author Anne Raeff\, comes a novel of two families set in New York and Nicaragua over several generations as their lives collide in mysterious ways. \nFleeing the ravages of wartime Vienna\, Pepa and her family find safe harbor in the small town of El Castillo\, on the banks of the San Juan River in Nicaragua. There her parents seek to eradicate yellow fever while Pepa falls under the spell of the jungle and the town’s eccentric inhabitants. But Pepa’s life–including her relationship with local boy Guillermo–comes to a halt when her family abruptly moves to New York\, leaving the young girl disoriented and heartbroken. \nAs the years pass\, Pepa’s and Guillermo’s lives diverge\, and Guillermo’s homeland slips into chaos. Nicaragua soon becomes engulfed in revolutionary fervor as the Sandinista movement vies for the nation’s soul. Guillermo’s daughter transforms into an accidental revolutionary. Pepa’s son defies his parents’ wishes and joins the revolution in Nicaragua\, only to disappear into the jungle. It will take decades before the fates of these two families converge again\, revealing how love\, grief\, and passion are intertwined with a nation’s destiny. \nSpanning generations and several wars\, Only the River explores the way displacement both destroys two families and creates new ones\, sparking a revolution that changes their lives in the most unexpected ways.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-raeff-only-the-river/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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