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SUMMARY:Daphne Evans
DESCRIPTION:Beyond Beauty: A Warrior’s Story is a book of triumph\, love\, tears and laughter – with a shot of “Divatude”. \nDaphne Evans is Founder and CEO of Heaven’s Door Cancer Foundation\, starting in 2005 after coming home from a double mastectomy. She has also been diagnosed and has survived ovarian cancer in 1998 and metastatic spinal carcinoma in 2009; she has been cancer free since 2010. Daphne has visited hospitals to be with her sisters and has placed cancer patients from the hospital in national magazine photo shoots and fashion runways in the San Francisco Bay Area. Sending thousands of women to spas across the country since 2005 and having girls come with stiletto shoes to take selfies before being wheeled into surgery\, her mantra is “We will NOT be defined by our diagnosis.” \nDaphne is still a Firm Administrator and Controller Consultant to law firms and eCommerce corporations and has been for nearly 20 years. She is also a fundraiser\, public speaker and philanthropist. Nominated for Woman of the Year by Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Member of Ovarian Cancer Research Fund\, Ovarian Cancer National Alliance\, The Canary Foundation\, Italian Make A Wish Foundation and Society for Oncology Massage. Board of Directors Member of Springfield Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Founder of Evans Relief Foundation. Daphne is also an ordained minister\, feeling it necessary to be with “her girls” from before surgery and in recovery. \nDaphne’s parents\, Reverend Donald and Mrs. Ida Evans have been her inspiration. Her parents taught her that to help others was a ministry that was not passé. With this shining example and encouragement\, Daphne began to volunteer at an early age to care for cancer patients\, sometimes staying for weekends to relieve the overtaxed caregivers. She visited Nicaragua after the Sandinista regime and had trucks bring clothing over the bombed out roads for the villagers while she flew in by a Russian parachute plane. She started Evans Relief Foundation and has hosted clothing drives in San Francisco during the tsunami; finding pilots of private planes to fly the supplies to the victims there. She also found jobs for young professionals stranded by Katrina and paid out of pocket to fly them to their new job locations; opening her vacant home to stranded Joplin\, MO tornado refugees. Daphne became a member of the Italian Make-A-Wish Foundation and would visit Genoa and speak directly to the children\, encouraging hotels to offer free accommodation for the children and their parents. In 2008\, she was nominated as San Francisco’s Woman of the year by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society; devoting 3 months in marathon fundraising. She could never have had the courage or the tenacity to do any of this without her parents showing her that “it is\nmore blessed to give than to receive.” \nAll proceeds from this book go towards the purchase Heaven’s Door’s Vacation Home located in Tarpon Springs\, FL for women with cancer to have a time away with a loved one. This home will be replete with spa therapy\, organic catering restaurants and “Diva counseling” staff\, Daphne has promised to make this happen at the request of a number of the cancer divas who have benefited from this charity. She is working toward making this a dream come true. Donations toward this home can be made to: Heaven’s Door Cancer Foundation\, 727 Via Casitas\, Greenbrae\, CA 94904. Heaven’s Door is a 501 (c) 3 charity.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daphne-evans/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ellen Bass\, Jane Hirshfield + Marie Howe
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/ellen-bass-jane-hirshfield-marie-howe/
LOCATION:St. John’s Presbyterian Church\, 2727 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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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! \n\nAbout I Don’t Even Own a Television \n\nI Don’t Even Own a Television is a podcast about bad books. Every two weeks\, hosts J. W. Friedman and Chris Collision get together to talk about a book you almost certainly should not read.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bad-book-party/
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:20170211T193000
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SUMMARY:Writers with Drinks
DESCRIPTION:About the readers/performers: \nTom Tomorrow is the creator of the weekly political cartoon\, This Modern World\, which appears in approximately 80 newspapers across the U.S.\, and on websites such as Daily Kos\, Truthout and Credo. His work has appeared in publications including The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, Spin\, Mother Jones\, Esquire\, The Economist\, The Nation\, U.S. News and World Report\, and The American Prospect\, and has been featured on Countdown with Keith Olbermann. In 2011\, he ended a 16 year run at Salon to create and edit a new comics section at Daily Kos. He has published nine anthologies of his work: Greetings From This Modern World\, Tune in Tomorrow\, The Wrath of Sparky\, Penguin Soup for the Soul\, When Penguins Attack\, The Great Big Book of Tomorrow\, Hell in a Handbasket\, The Future’s So Bright I Can’t Bear to Look\, and Too Much Crazy. He is also the author of a book for children\, The Very Silly Mayor. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2015. He was also the winner of the 2013 Herblock award\, a 2015 Society of Illustrators Silver Medal; the first place AAN award for cartooning in 2015\, and the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism in 1998 and in 2003. \nSarah Schulman’s latest book is Conflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm\, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair. Her recent novel The Cosmopolitans was picked as one of the “Best Books of 2016” by Publishers’ Weekly. Her other non-fiction publications include Israel/Palestine and the Queer International\, The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination\, Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences\, Stagestruck: Theater\, AIDS and the Marketing of Gay America\, and My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush Years. Her novels include The Mere Future\, The Child\, Shimmer\, Empathy\, Rat Bohemia\, People In Trouble\, After Delores\, Girls Visions and Everything\, and The Sophie Horowitz Story. Her plays include Carson McCullers\, Manic Flight Reaction\, and the theatrical adaptation of Isaac Singer’s Enemies: A Love Story. Her screenplays include The Owls (co-written with director Cheryl Dunye)\, Mommy is Coming (co-written with director Cheryl Dunye)\, and Jason and Shirley. She’s a co-producer of the documentary United in Anger: A History of ACT UP. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times\, The Nation\, and Interview. She has won a Guggenheim Fellowship in Playwrighting\, a Fullbright in Judaic Studies\, two American Library Association Book Awards\, and is the 2009 recipient of the Kessler Prize for sustained contribution to LGBT studies. Sarah is Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York\, College of State Island\, and a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University. \nSean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology. He’s the author of the books The Particle at the End of the Universe\, From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time\, and Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity. He has been awarded prizes and fellowships by the National Science Foundation\, NASA\, the Sloan Foundation\, the Packard Foundation\, the American Physical Society\, the American Institute of Physics\, and the Royal Society of London. Carroll has appeared on TV shows such as The Colbert Report\, PBS’s NOVA\, and Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman\, and frequently serves as a science consultant for film and television. \nJennifer Ouellette is the author of four popular science books for the general public: Me\, Myself and Why: Searching for the Science of Self\, The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight\, Win in Vegas\, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse\, The Physics of the Buffyverse\, and Black Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales from the Annals of Physics. She’s formerly the science editor at Gizmodo\, and also edited The Best Online Science Writing 2012. Jennifer’s work has appeared in the Washington Post\, Los Angeles Times\, New York Times Book Review\, Slate\, Smithsonian\, Mental Floss\, Pacific Standard\, Discover\, Salon\, Nature\, BOOM\, Physics Today\, Symmetry\, Physics World\, and New Scientist\, among other venues. She maintains a personal science-and-culture blog called Cocktail Party Physics\, and has also written for Quanta\, Discovery News (2008-2012)\, NOVA’s Nature of Reality blog\, and Nautilus’ Facts So Romantic blog. Jennifer was the founding director of the Science & Entertainment Exchange. She was also a Journalist in Residence at the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. She’s also been an instructor at the Santa Fe Science Writing Workshop\, and was a journalist in residence at the University of Wisconsin\, Madison’s journalism school. \nAlia Volz hosted and produced the landmark reading series Literary Death Match – SF\, from 2010-12. She is also an LDM champion; her story “Near Unison” brought home the crown from Episode 42. She has been profiled in Dark Sky Magazine\, and SF Weekly\, and has been a guest on the television show Lady Brain. San Francisco’s Litquake Festival has recruited her to curate and/or host several high-profile events—sometimes in disguise; for the good of literature\, she’s taken the stage as Anaïs Nin\, Louise Brooks\, and even WWF World Champion Slick Ric Flair. In 2014\, Alia placed second at The MOTH’s San Francisco GrandSLAM Championship. She also received a 2014 award from SF Weekly for “Best San Francisco Writer Without a Book.” To rectify that situation\, she has recently completed her first novel\, HOOF\, a contemporary western set in urban San Francisco. Alia’s stories and essays are found in Tin House\, The New York Times\, Threepenny Review (forthcoming)\, New England Review (forthcoming)\, Utne Reader\, ZYZZYVA\, Huizache\, The Rumpus\, Narratively\, Nerve\, Literary Orphans\, The Normal School\, Covered w/ Fur\, Dark Sky Magazine\, Defenestration\, The Writing Disorder’s “Best Nonfiction of 2012” anthology\, and elsewhere.\nAbout Writers With Drinks: \nWriters With Drinks has won numerous “Best ofs” from local newspapers\, and has been mentioned in 7×7\, Spin Magazine and one of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City novels. The spoken word “variety show” mixes genres to raise money for local causes. The award-winning show includes poetry\, stand-up comedy\, science fiction\, fantasy\, romance\, mystery\, literary fiction\, erotica\, memoir\, zines and blogs in a freewheeling format.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-2/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:George Saunders
DESCRIPTION:In conversation with Dana Spiotta \nFollowing the release of George Saunders’ last collection of short stories\, Tenth of December\, the New York Times Sunday Magazine cover story raved “George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year.” A MacArthur “genius\,” Saunders returns to the JCCSF to discuss his first novel\, Lincoln in the Bardo\, an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic\, historical framework into a thrilling supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. In conversation with Dana Spiotta\, author of Innocents and Others and Stone Arabia. Featuring a reading from Lincoln in the Bardo by Word for Word Performing Arts Company. \n“The best short-story writer in English – not ‘one of\,’ not ‘arguably\,’ but the best.”\n– Mary Karr\, Time
URL:https://litseen.com/event/george-saunders/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center of San Francisco\, 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Paul Auster
DESCRIPTION:Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Sunset Park\, Invisible\, The Book of Illusions\, and The New York Trilogy\, among many other works. In 2006\, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. Inventive and dexterously constructed\, Auster’s new book 4 3 2 1 tells the story of Archibald Isaac Ferguson in four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Auster is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in Brooklyn\, New York. \nTeju Cole is a writer\, art historian\, and photographer. He is the Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College and photography critic of the New York Times Magazine. Cole is the author of three books\, a novella\, Every Day is for the Thief; a novel\, Open City; and an essay collection\, Known and Strange Things. This year\, Cole became the first writer ever to be named finalist for two PEN America literary awards (for Known and Strange Things).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-auster/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sex Fail Storytelling
DESCRIPTION:Sex Fail Storytelling features tales of Sex and Romance gone awry!\nYou’ll laugh\, You’ll cry\, You’ll hopefully learn from our mistakes. There will be 2 shows 7pm and 9pm! \nFeaturing Stories by:\nJamie DeWolf host of critically acclaimed variety show Tourettes Without Regrets \nThe QUEEN of Dirty Stories Dixie De La Tour creator of Bawdy Storytelling. \nSan Francisco’s Favorite Jack of All Trades Poet\, Writer\, Comedian\, and Voice of Shipwreck: Baruch Porras-Hernandez \nSinger\, Writer\, and Burlesque Super Star Magnoliah Black!\n\nAnd your host and storyteller the always effervescent Wonder Dave! \nThere will also be some special guest burlesque performances! your admission to the show includes free entry to the Mitchell Brothers O’Farrell Theatre Strip Club.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sex-fail-storytelling/
LOCATION:The Mitchell Brother’s O’Farrell Theatre\, 895 Ofarrell Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:David Hartsough w/ Norman Solomon
DESCRIPTION:An evening of discussion between lifleong activists and authors David Hartsough and Norman Solomon \ncelebrating David Hartsough’s recently released book \nWaging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist \nfrom PM Press \nAn evening to discuss the current political climate and how we can move forward constructively and powerfully. We will hear stories of courageous nonviolent responses to racism\, war and violence during sixty years of organizing actions and movements for peace and justice in the US and around the world. What has worked and what are some of the lessons learned as we build campaigns and movements to challenge Trump’s extremist policies? Where do we find hope in the gloom of the Trump presidency? The American people may be more motivated and ready to get actively involved than any time since the 1960’s. We do have the power if we mobilize it to completely change the future course of our country. \nAbout Waging Peace: \nDavid Hartsough knows how to get in the way. He has used his body to block Navy ships headed for Vietnam and trains loaded with munitions on their way to El Salvador and Nicaragua. He has crossed borders to meet “the enemy” in East Berlin\, Castro’s Cuba\, and present-day Iran. He has marched with mothers confronting a violent regime in Guatemala and stood with refugees threatened by death squads in the Philippines. \nWaging Peace is a testament to the difference one person can make. Hartsough’s stories inspire\, educate\, and encourage readers to find ways to work for a more just and peaceful world. Inspired by the examples of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.\, Hartsough has spent his life experimenting with the power of active nonviolence. It is the story of one man’s effort to live as though we were all brothers and sisters. \nEngaging stories on every page provide a peace activist’s eyewitness account of many of the major historical events of the past sixty years\, including the Civil Rights and anti–Vietnam War movements in the United States and the little-known but equally significant nonviolent efforts in the Soviet Union\, Kosovo\, Palestine\, Sri Lanka\, and the Philippines. \nHartsough’s story demonstrates the power and effectiveness of organized nonviolent action. But Waging Peace is more than one man’s memoir. Hartsough shows how this struggle is waged all over the world by ordinary people committed to ending the spiral of violence and war. \nPraise: \n“Peace will only come when all of us become the change we wish to see in this world. David Hartsough became that change and has spent the best part of sixty years working to bring peace to our troubled world. His book is one that every peace-loving person must read and learn from.” —Arun Gandhi\, president\, Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute (grandson of Mahatma Gandhi) \n“It has been my privilege to work with David Hartsough over the years and to be arrested and jailed with him for nonviolent civil disobedience. I highly recommend Waging Peace to every American who wishes to live in a world with peace and justice and wants to feel empowered to help create that world.” —Daniel Ellsberg\, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers \n“When great events happen\, such as the falling of the Berlin Wall\, we must never forget that people like David Hartsough and many others have worked hard to prepare the ground for such ‘miracles.’ David’s belief in the goodness of people\, the power of love\, truth\, and forgiveness and his utter commitment to making peace and ending war will inspire all those who read this book.” —Mairead Maguire\, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate\, Peace People\, Northern Ireland \n“David Hartsough has lived an exemplary nonviolent life. Waging Peace highlights the numerous ways he has done this in many troubled parts of the world as well as in the United States.” —Martin Sheen\, actor \n“If you want to know what it means to live a ‘life well lived\,’ read David Hartsough’s masterful book. It is not only a page turner\, but it will probably transform the way you look at your own life—your priorities\, your lifestyle\, your future.” —Medea Benjamin\, cofounder of Code Pink and Global Exchange \n“Over thirty years ago with great trepidation I went through nonviolence training in order to join the blockade at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant.   David Hartsough was my trainer\, and his personal stories inspired me to put myself on the line for what I believed in.   Later I went on to become a trainer myself\, and for some years Hartsough and I were in a training collective together.   Now he’s compiled his tales of moments of crisis and his life story into this wonderful book.   Waging Peace will inspire anyone who is concerned with social and environmental justice\, and will help you formulate your own approach to the activism so crucial now for the world!”\n—Starhawk\, Author\,The Fifth Sacred Thing\, San Francisco \n“Waging Peace is a collection of powerful and moving stories about how one remarkable person has acted on his belief that peace is possible. It’s a must-read for anyone who wants to help create the world we all hope and pray for. Be prepared to be empowered!”\n—Parker J. Palmer author of Healing the Heart of Democracy\, Let Your Life Speak\, and The Courage to Teach
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-hartsough-w-norman-solomon/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Min Jin Lee
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading\, talk\, and signing of Min Jin Lee‘s new novel\, Pachinko; a tour de force following one Korean family through the generations. The story begins in early 1900s Korea with Sunja\, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family\, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame and ruin them. Deserted by her lover\, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan. So begins a sweeping saga of an exceptional family in exile from its homeland and caught in the indifferent arc of history. Through desperate struggles and hard-won triumphs\, its members are bound together by deep roots as they face enduring questions of faith\, family\, and identity. \n  \nThere is a long and troubled history of legal and social discrimination against Koreans living in Japan\, even those who have partial ethnic Korean background. Some never disclose their heritage\, although it can follow them in their identification papers and government records. While writing Pachinko\, Min Jin (who herself was born in Korea before moving to the United States) lived in Japan with her husband and son and interviewed dozens of ethnic Koreans about their family histories. Min Jin wanted to acknowledge their stories when so much of their lives had been denied\, erased and despised. \n  \nPachinko is a popular type of adult pinball game\, which originated in Japan in the first half of the twentieth-century. Those who run and operate pachinko parlors\, many of them of Korean ethnicity\, are looked down upon socially\, but some parlors can generate immense fortunes. Many Korean-Japanese families today have some original ties to the pachinko industry. Struggling to find their place in Japanese society\, Sunja’s family finds work in the pachinko business and attempts to build their lives in a new land. \nMin Jin Lee’s debut novel\, Free Food for Millionaires\, was one of the “Top 10 Novels of the Year” for the Times (London)\, NPR’s Fresh Air\, and USA Today. Her short fiction has been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts. Her writings have appeared in Conde Nast Traveler\, Times (London)\, Vogue\, Travel + Leisure\, Wall Street Journal\, New York Times Magazine\, and Food & Wine. Her essays and literary criticism have been anthologized widely. She served as a columnist for Chosun Ilbo\, the leading paper of South Korea. She lives in New York City with her family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/min-jin-lee/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ellen Klages
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco in 1940 is a haven for the unconventional. Tourists flock to the cities within the city: the Magic City of the World’s Fair on an island created of artifice and illusion; the forbidden city of Chinatown\, a separate\, alien world of exotic food and nightclubs that offer authentic experiences\, straight from the pages of the pulps; and the twilight world of forbidden love\, where outcasts from conventional society can meet. \nSix women find their lives as tangled with each other’s as they are with the city they call home. They discover love and danger on the borders where magic\, science\, and art intersect. \nInspired by the pulps\, film noir\, and screwball comedy\, Passing Strange is a story as unusual and complex as San Francisco itself from World Fantasy Award winning author Ellen Klages. \nEllen Klages is the author of two acclaimed historical novels: The Green Glass Sea\, which won the Scott O Dell Award\, and the New Mexico Book Award; and White Sands\, Red Menace\, which won the California and New Mexico Book awards. Her story\, “Basement Magic”\, won a Nebula Award and Wakulla Springs\, co-authored with Andy Duncan\, was nominated for the Nebula\, Hugo\, and Locus awards\, and won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella. She lives in San Francisco\, in a small house full of strange and wondrous things.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ellen-klages/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Oki Sogumi + Wendy Trevino
DESCRIPTION:Poets Oki Sogumi and Wendy Trevino read from new work\, and engage in conversation with one another and their audience. This event is free and open to the public. \nOki Sogumi first surfaced in Seoul\, Korea c. 1988 and resides in Philadelphia\, USA. Her chapbooks include Underglazy (Portable Press at Yo-Yo labs) and Smear Jelly Dreaming A goo daughter & Time Travel and Friendship (Museum of Expensive Things). She is currently writing a sci-fi novella (forthcoming from Publication Studio Oakland) that chronicles the end of the world.\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. 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. Wendy is not an experimental writer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oki-sogumi-wendy-trevino/
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:Ethel Rohan
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith is delighted to host the launch party for Ethel Rohan’s debut novel\, The Weight of Him. Ethel will read from the book and be in conversation with Edan Lepucki\, followed by a Q&A and book signing. Join us! \nThe Weight of Him tells the story of Billy Brennan. At four hundred pounds\, Billy can always count on food. From his earliest memories\, he has loved food’s colors\, textures and tastes. The way flavors go off in his mouth. How food keeps his mind still and his bad feelings quiet. Food has always made everything better\, until the day Billy’s beloved son Michael takes his own life. \nBilly determines to make a difference in Michael’s memory and undertakes a public weight-loss campaign\, to raise money for suicide prevention—his first step in an ambitious plan to save himself\, and to save others. However\, Billy’s dramatic crusade appalls his family\, who want to simply try to go on. \nDespite his crushing detractors\, Billy gains welcome allies: his community-at-large; a co-worker who lost his father to suicide; a filmmaker with his own dubious agenda; and a secret\, miniature kingdom that Billy populates with the sub-quality dolls and soldiers he saves from disposal at the toy factory where he works. But it is only if Billy can confront the truth of the suffering and brokenness within and around him that he and others will realize the recovery they need. \nSet in rural\, contemporary Ireland\, The Weight of Him is an unforgettable\, big-hearted novel about loss and reliance that moves from tragedy to recrimination to what can be achieved when we take the stand of our lives. \n————————–————————–———\n“The Weight of Him is an achingly sad\, achingly lovely novel that speaks to the essential core of our shared human experience. I will not soon forget it. Ethel Rohan\, a prodigiously skilled short story writer\, has proved herself\, in this debut novel\, to be a master of the long form as well.” — Robert Olen Butler\, author of Perfume River \n“In The Weight of Him Ethel Rohan shows herself to be one of those rare\, courageous writers who dare to take on the ‘ordinary’ and show just how extraordinary it really is. A brave and moving book.” — John Banville\, author of The Blue Guitar \n“Ethel Rohan is a writer of great courage and emotional intelligence. She can also tell a damn good story. The Weight of Him is about loss and about life. It is involving\, terrifying and ultimately quite beautiful.” — Tom Barbash\, author of Stay Up With Me\n————————–————————–——— \nEthel Rohan’s debut novel\, The Weight of Him\, won the inaugural Plumeri Fellowship. She is the author of two story collections\, Goodnight Nobody and Cut Through the Bone\, the former longlisted for The Edge Hill Prize and the latter longlisted for The Story Prize. An award-winning short story writer\, her work has appeared in The New York Times\, World Literature Today\, Tin House Online\, GUERNICA Magazine\, The Stinging Fly\, and many others. Raised in Dublin\, Ireland\, she lives in San Francisco and received her MFA in fiction from Mills College\, CA. She is a member of San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. \nEdan Lepucki is the author of the novella If You’re Not Yet Like Me and the New York Times bestselling novel\, California. Her next novel\, Woman No. 17\, will be published in May. She’s a contributing editor at The Millions and the founder of Writing Workshops Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ethel-rohan-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170216T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170216T213000
DTSTAMP:20260502T175858
CREATED:20161201T025747Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T025747Z
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SUMMARY:Katie Kitamura
DESCRIPTION:Katie Kitamura reads from and discusses her novel\, A Separation. \nPraise for Katie Kitamura: \n“A slow burn of a novel that gathers its great force and intensity through careful observation and a refusal to accept old\, shopworn narratives of love and loss.” —Jenny Offill\, author of Dept. of Speculation \n“The burnt landscape\, the disappearance of a man\, the brilliantly cold\, precise\, and yet threatening\, churning tone of the narrator—make A Separation an absolutely mesmerizing work of art.” —Rachel Kushner\, author of The Flamethrowers \n“Profound and gripping. I had that rare sense of feeling like I was in a creation specifically made out of words\, that couldn’t have been made out of any other substance. Kitamura combines the calm complexity of Joseph Conrad with the pacing and reveal of Patricia Highsmith. This novel is a wonder and a pleasure.” —Rivka Galchen\, author of Atmospheric Disturbances and Little Labors \n“Hemingway’s returned to life—and this time\, he’s a woman.” —Tom McCarthy\, author of Satin Island \n\nAbout A Separation: \nA mesmerizing\, psychologically taut novel about a marriage’s end and the secrets we all carry. \n\nA young woman has agreed with her faithless husband: it’s time for them to separate. For the moment it’s a private matter\, a secret between the two of them. As she begins her new life\, she gets word that Christopher has gone missing in a remote region in the rugged south of Greece; she reluctantly agrees to go and search for him\, still keeping their split to herself. In her heart\, she’s not even sure if she wants to find him. Adrift in the wild landscape\, she traces the disintegration of their relationship\, and discovers she understands less than she thought about the man she used to love. \n\nA story of intimacy and infidelity\, A Separation is about the gulf that divides us from the lives of others and the narratives we create for ourselves. As the narrator reflects upon her love for a man who may never have been what he appeared\, Kitamura propels us into the experience of a woman on the brink of catastrophe. A Separation is a riveting stylistic masterpiece of absence and presence that will leave the reader astonished\, and transfixed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katie-kitamura/
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:20170217T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170217T210000
DTSTAMP:20260502T175858
CREATED:20170217T034310Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170217T034310Z
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SUMMARY:The Five-Fingered Mitten: A Michigan-ish Reading
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Killian hosts a special historic reading featuring five writers with ties to Washtenaw County\, Michigan. \nVisiting writers and current Michiganders David Kuhnlein and Addy Malinowski will be joined by local writers and ex-Michigan residents Kellie Nadler\, Yalitza Ferraras\, and Amy Berkowitz. \nAbout our writers: \nAccording to his friends David Kuhnlein’s work is “disgusting”. He coaxes unconscious material to the surface by dangling his body like a worm above the page. His recent collection of essays titled Anything but Surgery explores the relationship between sexuality\, disease\, chronic pain\, and surrender. David Kuhnlein is a writer\, filmmaker and farmer living and working in Ypsilanti\, Michigan. Some of his work can be found on his blog: cryoutinanimals.tumblr.com \nAddy Malinowski is a noise musician and poet from the Detroit area. Addy would like to think he’s investigating intersecting affective realities of addiction\, social-disease\, and memory in his work and would like to thank his friends and fellow creatures the trees\, birds\, and land-mammals for their sustained generosity & love. \nAmy Berkowitz is the author of Tender Points\, the co-organizer of Sick Fest\, and the host of the Amy’s Kitchen Organics reading series. In 2014\, she was the inaugural Writer in Residence at Alley Cat Bookstore & Gallery. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan where she won a Hopwood Writing Award; this is likely the first time she’s mentioned her MFA in a bio. She moved from Ann Arbor to San Francisco almost seven years ago and has no regrets. \nYalitza Ferreras was recently a Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University. Her writing appears in Best American Short Stories\, Colorado Review\, and the anthologies: Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education and Daring to Write: Contemporary Narratives by Dominican Women. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan where she won the Delbanco Thesis Prize\, and is the recipient of fellowships from Djerassi Resident Artists\, the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto\, and Voices of Our Nation. She was raised in New York and the Dominican Republic\, and currently lives in San Francisco where she is working on a novel and a collection of short stories. \nKellie Nadler is a somatic writer and artist whose work can be found in the Oaken Transformations Art and Sculpture Walk\, Oxford Magazine\, Dressing Room Poetry Journal\, and the Rukeyser Living Archive. She’s a non-traditional educator\, working to bring students’ social and emotional needs into classroom learning. She’s taught incarcerated women\, college students\, at-risk teens\, and illiterate adults. She was teaching creative writing at Eastern Michigan University before she decided to uproot and move to the East Bay\, where she’s been living for the past couple of months.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-five-fingered-mitten-a-michigan-ish-reading/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170218
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170219
DTSTAMP:20260502T175858
CREATED:20170217T035021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170217T035021Z
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SUMMARY:Art and VR
DESCRIPTION:ARTandVR is taking over North Beach’s HACK Temple for an immersive exhibition of virtual reality\, electronic music\, visionary speakers\, and interactive art. \nDance between projections and light displays\, take in a tea ceremony\, and learn tips on creating a utopian future in the main cathedral. Find a comfy nook to lounge in our virtual meditation circle\, create new worlds\, or explore an alternate reality. \nBridging the gap between the art and tech communities of San Francisco\, ARTandVR serves as a platform for local artists and a petri dish for future creation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/art-and-vr/
LOCATION:HACK Temple\, 906 Broadway\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170218T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170218T140000
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CREATED:20170217T034503Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170217T034503Z
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SUMMARY:From All Points But the Center Brunch Reading
DESCRIPTION:Monthly Reading Series featuring 4-6 readers & performers\nfree mini writing workshop at 11am\nreadings begin at noon\nPotluck- Bring a dish to share! \nSuggested donation of $10 NOTAFLOF \nFeaturing Terrilynn Cantlon\, Jessica Hahn\, Shara DeShara and Nicia De’Lovely \nMini Writing Workshop with Mg Roberts! \nBios:\nDeShara Darshell is a MFA Candidate at California College of the Arts where she she studies Writing and a co-founder of the Daughter’s Tongue Coalition. DeShara is a Callaloo fellow and has released two poetry video on her Youtube channel\, Supershardom. She is also published in the latest edition of the Oakland Review\, and Art Cult Zine. You can find more of her work via her Instagram under the #butimcrazy hashtag.\nIG: Supershara\nFB Page: DeShara Darshell\nYoutube Supershardom \nJessica Erica Hahn was born on a renovated WWII ship off the coast of Florida to globetrotting parents\, but spent much of her life in San Francisco\, where she lives to this day. She’s a special education teacher by trade\, a mother of three\, a spontaneous traveler\, and an avid reader. She self published a couple of books in the 1990s\, and has had shorter\, more recent pieces in Peripheral Surveys\, Prime Number\, The Tonopah Review\, Prime Mincer\, Ontologica\, Wordrunner E-Chapbooks\, Holy Cow! Press\, and more! \nCheck out our community membership option at www.oaklandliminal.com/shop/ to attend more community events at LIMINAL!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/from-all-points-but-the-center-brunch-reading/
LOCATION:LIMINAL\, 3037 38th Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94619\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170218T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170218T200000
DTSTAMP:20260502T175858
CREATED:20161223T024443Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T024443Z
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SUMMARY:RADAR Productions: Missing You
DESCRIPTION:RADAR Productions Presents: MISSING YOU–an investigation of queer memory in The Mission// \nCo-sponsored by the GLBT Historical Society// \nJoin us for a night of film\, storytelling and drag\nFebruary 18\, 2017\nBrava Theatre\n$10 pre-sale/ $15 at the door\n \nGet your tickets here:\nhttp://tinyurl.com/j5hsfro \nFeaturing:\n▼ The legendary ¡VIVA 16! documentary by Augie Robles and Valentín Aguirre\n▼ Storytelling by STILL HERE\n▼ Drag performance by Persia and special guests. \nShort narrative: This event investigates queer memory in The Mission. Through storytelling\, film and drag it is meant to unearth and materialize queer ghosts that linger in The Mission and investigate the transformations of memory and place. \n▼YOUR MEMORIES CAN BE PART OF THE SHOW! ▼\nWe’re collecting memories and creating a cosmology of queer memory. Share yours here:\nhttps://goo.gl/forms/Rc1W8KZAp6eMwbwZ2 \nABOUT–\n¡VIVA 16!\nThis film celebrates the emergence of a queer Latinx community in San Francisco. Using interviews and footage shot directly in queer Latinx spaces\, Valentin Aguirre and Augie Robles premiered this short documentary (27.5 minutes) in 1994. From Esta Noche\, to La India Bonita\, to AIDS activists ¡VIVA 16! bears witness to a resilient world of queer latinidad in and around 16th Street before the onslaught of gentrification. \nSTILL HERE\nStill Here San Francisco amplifies the voices and experiences of Queer/LGBTQI people raised in San Francisco. Still Here disrupts the assumption that everyone in San Francisco is from somewhere else and exposes essential narratives about coming out\, loss\, HIV/AIDS\, class and economic disparity\, and the meaning of home and family in a “gay mecca.” By sharing their San Francisco stories\, Still Here’s artists re-imagine\, re-invent\, and re-examine San Francisco’s (queer) history and remind us that they are steadily “Still Here.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radar-productions-missing-you/
LOCATION:Brava Theater Center\, 2781 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170219T160000
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SUMMARY:Sunnylyn Thibodeaux + Lauren Levin
DESCRIPTION:Sunnylyn Thibodeaux will read to celebrate the release of her new chapbook\, What’s Going On\, along with Lauren Levin\, whose book\, The Braid\, is fresh out from Krupskaya\, at 2pm on Sunday\, February 19th at Bird & Beckett Books: 653 Chenery Street at Diamond\, in San Francisco — two blocks from Glen Park BART\, MUNI lines J\, 23\, 35\, 36\, 44\, 52\, and Interstate 280. Please join us! \nSunnylyn Thibodeaux is the author of AS WATER SOUNDS (Bootstrap Press\, 2014) and PALM TO PINE (2011) and the forthcoming Universal Fall Precautions (Spuyten Duyvil\, 2017). Small books include 20/20 Yielding (Blue Press\, 2005)\, Hidden Driveways Ahead\, Room Service Calls (Lew Gallery\, 2009)\, United Untied (Private Edition\, 2008) and What’s Going On (Bird & Beckett. She co-edits Auguste Press and Lew Gallery Editions. \nLauren Levin is the author of THE BRAID (Krupskaya\, 2016) and the forthcoming TWO ESSAYS (Timeless\, Infinite Light\, 2018) as well as several chapbooks\, including The Lens (Little Red Leaves\, 2014) and Working (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs\, 2012). From 2011-2014\, she co–edited the Poetic Labor Project. She grew up in New Orleans and lives in Richmond\, CA with her family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sunnylyn-thibodeaux-lauren-levin/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170219T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170219T170000
DTSTAMP:20260502T175858
CREATED:20170131T060322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T060322Z
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SUMMARY:KASSIDAT Poetry Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Blood Flower \nAn afternoon of local poets reading from their latest publications
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kassidat-poetry-reading-series/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170219T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170219T213000
DTSTAMP:20260502T175858
CREATED:20170202T050022Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170202T050022Z
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SUMMARY:Pals 'N' Gals
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special round of paired readers in this post-Valentines Day Bazaar Cafe series of flash prose and poetry. Readers include:\nIngrid Keir & MK Chavez\nChristine No & Josey Rose Duncan\nGrant Faulkner & Andy Dugas\nPaul Corman-Roberts & Peter Thomas Bullen.\nOur special guest musician is Azuah\n\n\nRecent Posts
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pals-n-gals/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170219T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170219T193000
DTSTAMP:20260502T175858
CREATED:20170131T061356Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T061356Z
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SUMMARY:Petra Kuppers + Stephanie Heit
DESCRIPTION:At this unique event\, Stephanie Heit and Petra Kuppers will hold open spaces of healing by sharing scores and insights from Tendings\, small everyday collaborative practices that combine experiential anatomy\, eco-specific investigations\, somatic exercises\, and writing. They will follow these practical explorations with sample writings from Stephanie’s The Color She Gave Gravity\, and Petra’s PearlStitch\, feminist poetics in queer/crip/mad space.\nStephanie Heit is a poet\, dancer\, and teacher of somatic writing\, Contemplative Dance Practice\, and Kundalini Yoga. She lives with bipolar disorder and is a member of the Olimpias\, an international disability performance collective. Her debut poetry collection\, The Color She Gave Gravity (The Operating System 2017)\, was a Nightboat Poetry Prize finalist. Her work most recently appeared in Midwestern Gothic\, Typo\, Streetnotes\, Nerve Lantern\, QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology\, Spoon Knife Anthology\, Theatre Topics\, and Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance.\nstephanieheitpoetry.wordpress.com\nPetra Kuppers is a disability culture activist\, a community performance artist\, and a Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan\, teaching in performance studies. She also teaches on the low-residency MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College. Her most recent poetry collection\, PearlStitch\, appeared with Spuyten Duyvil Press (2016). She is the Artistic Director of The Olimpias\, an international disability culture collective\, and in 2016/7 she was engaged in the Asylum Project\, co-led with her partner Stephanie Heit.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/petra-kuppers-stephanie-heit/
LOCATION:California College of Arts\, 1111 8th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170220T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170220T183000
DTSTAMP:20260502T175858
CREATED:20170217T035403Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170217T035403Z
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SUMMARY:Rise and Resist!
DESCRIPTION:Observe President’s Day and join the resistance. Say NO to Trump’s agenda of hate and division. Love and Solidarity. Amor y Solidaridad. Bring signs and banners. Castro Street and Market\, San Francisco. Regardless of weather. \nSpeakers will include some of the real activists portrayed in the ABC mini-series\, “When We Rise.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rise-and-resist/
LOCATION:Harvey Milk Plaza\, 2401 Market Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170220T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170220T210000
DTSTAMP:20260502T175858
CREATED:20170117T023037Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170117T023037Z
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SUMMARY:Ian Rankin
DESCRIPTION:It’s the 30th anniversary of Ian Rankin’s Detective Inspector John Rebus! In his latest outing he may have stopped smoking and drinking\, but he hasn’t stopped flouting the rules. 2017 marks the thirtieth anniversary of one of crime fiction’s greatest characters\, John Rebus\, created by one of the world’s leading crime writers\, Ian Rankin. Rebus’s anniversary coincides with the release of the much-anticipated Rather Be the Devil\, Rankin’s 21st Rebus novel.\nRather Be the Devil finds John Rebus\, as incapable of settling into his retirement as he is of playing by the rules\, investigating a cold case from the 1970s involving a gorgeous and wealthy female socialite who was found dead in a bedroom at one of Edinburgh’s most luxurious hotels. No one was ever found guilty\, but the scandalous circumstances of the murder have kept the town talking for over forty years. Now\, Rebus has his own reasons to investigate\, but his inquiries—along with those of Malcolm Fox and Siobhan Clarke—quickly make him some very dangerous and powerful enemies who will stop at nothing to ensure that the case remains unsolved and the gossip falls on deaf ears.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ian-rankin-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170221T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170221T200000
DTSTAMP:20260502T175858
CREATED:20170117T023626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170117T023626Z
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SUMMARY:Joyce Carol Oates
DESCRIPTION:A BOOK OF AMERICAN MARTYRS \nfrom Ecco Press \nA BOOK OF AMERICAN MARTYRS intimately links the stories of two very different families. Luther Dunphy is an ardent Evangelical who envisions himself as acting out God’s will when he assassinates an abortion provider in his small Ohio town. Augustus Voorhees\, the idealistic doctor who is killed\, leaves behind a wife and children scarred and embittered by grief. As the story moves forward\, the daughters of these men—one a boxer\, the other a journalist—continue to be inextricably tied by the dramatic connection they share. As she alone can\, Oates renders whole these two very different families—with very different values and views. Epic and intimate\, the narrative explores their warring convictions with dazzling equanimity. A story as immediate as today’s headlines\, it also offers a larger perspective on the ways that issues tear us apart as individuals and as a nation. \nJoyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal\, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award\, the National Book Award\, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time\, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys\, Blonde (a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize)\, and the New York Times bestsellers The Falls (winner of the 2005 Prix Femina Etranger) and The Gravedigger’s Daughter. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. In 2003 she received the Common Wealth Award for Distinguished Service in Literature\, and in 2006 she received the Chicago Tribune Lifetime Achievement Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-carol-oates-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:20170221T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170221T200000
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CREATED:20170131T063108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T063108Z
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SUMMARY:Valeria Luiselli
DESCRIPTION:Green Apple Books and 826 Valencia present Valeria Luiselli and student writers for a special event for Tell Me How it Ends\, Luiselli’s new book-length essay about her work with undocumented Latin-American children facing deportation. \n\nPraise for Valeria Luiselli \n\n“Luiselli follows in the imaginative tradition of writers like Borges and Márquez\, but her style and concerns are unmistakably her own… Luiselli has become a writer to watch\, in part because it’s truly hard to know (but exciting to wonder about) where she will go next.” —The New York Times \n\n“Although buoyant\, Luiselli’s work never seems flippant\, perhaps because of her precise prose style . . . Linear at first glance\, it soon opens out into a world of stories\, like a mouth with one tooth from every artist in the world.” —Chicago Tribune \n\n“Valeria Luiselli is one of the most exciting new writers working today.” —Los Angeles Times \n\nAbout Tell Me How it Ends \n\nStructured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American children facing deportation\, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman’s essay of the same name) humanizes these young migrants and highlights the contradiction of the idea of America as a fiction for immigrants with the reality of racism and fear—both here and back home. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/valeria-luiselli/
LOCATION:826 Valencia\, 826 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170221T213000
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CREATED:20170217T035534Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170217T035534Z
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SUMMARY:The Word Party
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir\, Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. FREE admission\, all ages\, full menu and bar in the front room. Open Mic for poetry only – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-word-party/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170221T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170221T193000
DTSTAMP:20260502T175858
CREATED:20170117T024840Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170117T024840Z
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SUMMARY:Marc Bojanowski
DESCRIPTION:From the author of The Dog Fighter\, hailed by Geoff Dyer as “the most exciting debut…by an American writer since Eugenides’s The Virgin Suicides\,” comes Journeyman\, a tightly wound novel by Marc Bojanowski about dwelling\, building\, belonging\, love\, and the value of a place to call home. \nNolan Jackson is a journeyman carpenter by trade and a wanderer by nature. Set in 2007\, while fellow Americans fight in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars\, Nolan builds tract homes across California\, traveling between jobs. Following a shocking workplace accident in his temporary home of Las Vegas\, he uproots himself from the tentative relationships he has made and heads west towards the ocean. On his way he passes through his brother’s town\, where circumstances force him to stay put. Bereft of his trailer and his tools\, Nolan turns to the task of building the foundations of a meaningful life. The specter of war and questions of the Western-film notions of masculinity are woven throughout the novel; from the damage to Nolan’s family by the Vietnam War in which his father fought\, to the ubiquity and consequence of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan\, to slow unraveling of his brother’s marriage and mental state\, to the mysterious series of arsons being set around their small town. \nOne of “31 Brilliant Books That You Really Must Read This Spring.” — Buzzfeed\n“A rich but unrefined seam of allegorical meaningfulness [runs] through this pleasing tale.” — The Irish Times\n“Bojanowski keeps it simple … his direct\, unassuming style keeps the reader engaged in the ultimately optimistic story of Nolan’s attempt to overcome the contradictions in his life.” — Herald Scotland \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marc-bojanowski/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170221T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170221T213000
DTSTAMP:20260502T175858
CREATED:20161017T233623Z
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SUMMARY:Roxane Gay w/ Anna Sale
DESCRIPTION:Roxane Gay’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Best American Mystery Stories 2014\, Best American Short Stories 2012\, A Public Space\, McSweeney’s\, Tin House\, Oxford American\, American Short Fiction\, The New York Times Book Review\, Bookforum\, Time\, The Los Angeles Times\, The Nation\, The Rumpus\, Salon\, and many others. She is an associate professor of English at Purdue University\, contributing op-ed writer at The New York Times\, founder of Tiny Hardcore Press\, essays editor for The Rumpus\, and co-editor of PANK\, a nonprofit literary arts collective. She is also the author of the books Ayiti\, An Untamed State\, and Bad Feminist. Her forthcoming publications include Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body\, a sharp\, honest memoir about food\, weight\, self-image and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself\, and the shot story collection\, Difficult Women\, slated to be released in January. \nAnna Sale is the host and managing editor of Death\, Sex & Money\, WNYC’s interview show about the big questions and hard choices that are often left out of polite conversation. Death\, Sex & Money was named the number one podcast of 2015 by New York Magazine and is an iTunes Editors’ Choice podcast.  Before developing Death\, Sex & Money\, Anna covered politics for years\, including the 2013 New York City mayoral race\, the 2012 presidential campaign\, and the statehouse beat in Connecticut and West Virginia. She has contributed to Fresh Air with Terry Gross\, This American Life\, NPR News\, Marketplace\, Studio 360\, PBS Newshour\, and Slate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roxane-gay-w-anna-sale/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Elinor Lipman
DESCRIPTION:At thirty-two\, Faith Frankel has returned to her claustro-suburban hometown\, where she writes institutional thank-you notes for her alma mater. It’s a peaceful life\, really\, and surely with her recent purchase of a sweet bungalow on Turpentine Lane her life is finally on track. Never mind that her fiance is off on a crowdfunded cross-country walk\, too busy to return her texts (but not too busy to post photos of himself with a different woman in every state). And never mind her witless boss\, or a mother who lives too close\, or a philandering father who thinks he’s Chagall.When she finds some mysterious artifacts in the attic of her new home\, she wonders whether anything in her life is as it seems. What good fortune\, then\, that Faith has found a friend in affable\, collegial Nick Franconi\, officemate par excellence . . .Elinor Lipmanmay well have invented the screwball romantic comedy for our era\, and here she is at her sharpest and best. On Turpentine Lane is funny\, poignant\, and a little bit outrageous. \nElinor Lipman is the author of ten novels\, including The View from Penthouse B and The Inn at Lake Devine;one essay collection\, I Can’t Complain; and Tweet Land of Liberty: Irreverent Rhymes from the Political Circus. She lives in Massachusetts and New York City. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elinor-lipman/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Darnielle
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling author of Wolf in White Van John Darniellevisits the Booksmith to celebrate the publication of his second novel\, Universal Harvester. \n  \nJeremy works at the Video Hut in Nevada\, Iowa — a small town in the center of the state\, the first “a” in Nevada pronounced “ay.” This is the late 1990s\, and while the Hollywood Video in Ames poses an existential threat to Video Hut\, there are still regular customers\, a rush in the late afternoon. It’s good enough for Jeremy: It’s a job\, quiet and predictable\, and it gets him out of the house\, where he lives with his dad and where they both try to avoid missing Mom\, who died six years ago in a car wreck. \n  \nBut when a local schoolteacher comes in to return her copy of Targets — an old movie\, starring Boris Karloff\, one Jeremy himself had ordered for the store—she has an odd complaint: “There’s something on it\,” she says\, but doesn’t elaborate. Two days later\, a different customer returns She’s All That\, a new release\, and complains that there’s something wrong with it: “There’s another movie on this tape.” \n  \nJeremy doesn’t want to be curious. But he takes a look and\, indeed\, in the middle of the movie the screen blinks dark for a moment and She’s All That is replaced by a black-and-white scene\, shot in a barn\, with only the faint sounds of someone breathing. Four minutes later\, She’s All That is back. But there is something profoundly unsettling about that scene; Jeremy’s compelled to watch it three or four times. The scenes recorded onto Targets are similar\, undoubtedly created by the same hand. Creepy. And the barn looks much like a barn just outside of town. \n  \nThere will be no ignoring the disturbing scenes on the videos. And all of a sudden\, what had once been the placid\, regular old Iowa fields and farmhouses now feels haunted and threatening\, imbued with loss and instability and profound foreboding. For Jeremy\, and all those around him\, life will never be the same . . .
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-darnielle-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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