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SUMMARY:Word Week "Obi Kaufmann: California Field Atlas Book Signing"
DESCRIPTION:Artist\, poet\, and naturalist Obi Kaufmann will present his number one best-selling CALIFORNIA FIELD ATLAS at the 12th annual Noe Valley Word Week festival at Folio Books (3957 24th St. San Francisco) on Monday\, March 5\, 2018\, from 7pm to 8pm. Obi will present a short lecture and then offer signed copies for sale. Free admission. A Word Week 2018 event. \nLavishly illustrated with hundreds of hand-painted maps and wildlife renderings and based on his decades of walking the backcountry of California\, Obi’s CALIFORNIA FIELD ATLAS is a phenomenal testimony to the natural world of the Golden State and unlike anything that has come before. Full of character and color\, the CALIFORNIA FIELD ATLAS is quickly becoming a new classic\, being hailed as a “gorgeously illustrated compendium” (Sunset Magazine) and that “…it will provide you with a greater appreciation for the state’s ecological jewels and landmarks. Kaufmann’s writing offers us hope during this trying time for conservationism and climactic pushback.” (San Francisco Chronicle). Follow Obi on Instagram @coyotethunder and on Twitter @obikaufmann
URL:https://litseen.com/event/word-week-obi-kaufmann-california-field-atlas-book-signing/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-11/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers on Writing: Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:Tongo Eisen-Martin reads from and discusses his poetry. His latest book is Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights Publishers\, 2017). “I don’t know that there is a living writer whose work loves black people as much as Tongo Eisen-Martin’s work loves us.” — Kiese Laymon\, author of Long Division. Free.\n\n\n\nTongo Eisen-Martin\n\nEisen-Martin is a revolutionary poet who uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. His first full-length book of poems\, Someone’s Dead Already (Bootstrap Press)\, was nominated for a California Book Award. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, Mississippi. \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of black people throughout the U.S. He has taught in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California county jails. He has been a faculty member at Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies and designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. In October he served as Mazza Writer in Residence at The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University. Eisen-Martin’s latest curriculum\, “We Charge Genocide Again\,” has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. \n\nWriters on Writing \nEisen-Martin is a revolutionary poet who uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. His first full-length book of poems\, Someone’s Dead Already (Bootstrap Press)\, was nominated for a California Book Award. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, Mississippi. \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of black people throughout the U.S. He has taught in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California county jails. He has been a faculty member at Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies and designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. In October he served as Mazza Writer in Residence at The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University. Eisen-Martin’s latest curriculum\, “We Charge Genocide Again\,” has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-on-writing-tongo-eisen-martin/
LOCATION:San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning at Dogeared Books
DESCRIPTION:Our 116th show will be at Dogeared Books Castro on March 5\, 2018. \nSubmissions of all kinds of writing are open through end of day Feb 14. All selected authors will be paid and published in the 92nd issue of sPARKLE & bLINK\, which will feature cover art by Thomas Gardea and be handed out free to the first 100 people at the show! CLICK HERE to submit! \n  \ncurators: Sandra Wassilie + Charles Kruger
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-at-dogeared-books/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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SUMMARY:Word Week "Queer Words\, with Author and TV Producer Bud Gundy"
DESCRIPTION:KQED’s own pledge-master\, Bud Gundy\, recently published a new book\, Somewhere Over Lorain Road\, a mystery set in suburban Ohio. A gay man who had moved to San Francisco returns home to help with his dying father and gets tangled up in a cold-case murder from 40 years ago. Come hear Bud read from his book and discuss his life in public broadcasting as an Emmy award-winning television producer. Tuesday\, March 6\, 7pm\, Folio Books\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. A Word Week 2018 event. \nBud Gundy is a writer\, producer\, director\, and on-air host for KQED. He has won two Emmy Awards and his novel Elf Gift was nominated for an Over the Rainbow Award from the GLBT Round Table of the American Library Association. His latest novel Somewhere Over Lorain Road was released in February 2018. www.budgundy.com \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/word-week-queer-words-with-author-and-tv-producer-bud-gundy/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shobha Rao
DESCRIPTION:Book Release Party for \nGirls Burn Brighter \npublished by Flatiron Books \nA searing\, electrifying debut novel set in India and America\, for readers of Rupi Kaur\, about the EXTRAORDINARY BOND BETWEEN TWO GIRLS driven apart by circumstances but relentless in their search for one another. \nPoornima and Savitha have three strikes against them. They are poor. They are driven. And they are girls. \nWhen Poornima was just a toddler\, she was about to fall into a river. Her mother\, beside herself\, screamed at her father to grab her. But he hesitated: “I was standing there\, and I was thinking…She’s just a girl. Let her go…That’s the thing with girls\, isn’t it…You think\, Push. That’s all it would take. Just one little push.” \nAfter her mother’s death\, Poornima has very little kindness in her life. She is left to take care of her siblings until her father can find her a suitable match. So when Savitha enters their household\, Poornima is intrigued by the joyful\, independent-minded girl. Suddenly their Indian village doesn’t feel quite so claustrophobic\, and Poornima begins to imagine a life beyond the arranged marriage her father is desperate to secure for her. But when a devastating act of cruelty drives Savitha away\, Poornima leaves behind everything she has ever known to find her friend. Her journey takes her into the darkest corners of India’s underworld\, on a harrowing cross-continental journey\, and eventually to an apartment complex in Seattle. Alternating between the girls’ perspectives as they face ruthless obstacles\, Girls Burn Brighter introduces two heroines who never lose the hope that burns within them. \nShobha Rao moved to the United States from India at the age of seven. She is the author of the short story collection An Unrestored Woman. She is the winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction\, and her story “Kavitha and Mustafa” was chosen by T. C. Boyle for inclusion in Best American Short Stories 2015. She lives in San Francisco. \nPraise for Girls Burn Brighter: \n“Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao blew my heart up. Heart-shards everywhere. I am in awe of the warmth and humanity in this book\, even as it explores some incredibly dark places. I’m going to be thinking about Girls Burn Brighter for a while\, and you’re going to be hearing a lot about it.” —Charlie Jane Anders\, author of All the Birds in the Sky \n“Enchanting… The resplendent prose captures the nuances and intensity of two best friends on the brink of an uncertain and precarious adulthood… An incisive study of a friendship’s unbreakable bond.” —Kirkus Reviews
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shobha-rao/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shobha Rao
DESCRIPTION:Shobha Rao Book Release Party for\n\nGirls Burn Brighter \npublished by Flatiron Books \nA searing\, electrifying debut novel set in India and America\, for readers of Rupi Kaur\, about the EXTRAORDINARY BOND BETWEEN TWO GIRLS driven apart by circumstances but relentless in their search for one another. \nPoornima and Savitha have three strikes against them. They are poor. They are driven. And they are girls. \nWhen Poornima was just a toddler\, she was about to fall into a river. Her mother\, beside herself\, screamed at her father to grab her. But he hesitated: “I was standing there\, and I was thinking…She’s just a girl. Let her go…That’s the thing with girls\, isn’t it…You think\, Push. That’s all it would take. Just one little push.” \nAfter her mother’s death\, Poornima has very little kindness in her life. She is left to take care of her siblings until her father can find her a suitable match. So when Savitha enters their household\, Poornima is intrigued by the joyful\, independent-minded girl. Suddenly their Indian village doesn’t feel quite so claustrophobic\, and Poornima begins to imagine a life beyond the arranged marriage her father is desperate to secure for her. But when a devastating act of cruelty drives Savitha away\, Poornima leaves behind everything she has ever known to find her friend. Her journey takes her into the darkest corners of India’s underworld\, on a harrowing cross-continental journey\, and eventually to an apartment complex in Seattle. Alternating between the girls’ perspectives as they face ruthless obstacles\, Girls Burn Brighter introduces two heroines who never lose the hope that burns within them. \nShobha Rao moved to the United States from India at the age of seven. She is the author of the short story collection An Unrestored Woman. She is the winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction\, and her story “Kavitha and Mustafa” was chosen by T. C. Boyle for inclusion in Best American Short Stories 2015. She lives in San Francisco. \nPraise for Girls Burn Brighter: \n“Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao blew my heart up. Heart-shards everywhere. I am in awe of the warmth and humanity in this book\, even as it explores some incredibly dark places. I’m going to be thinking about Girls Burn Brighter for a while\, and you’re going to be hearing a lot about it.” —Charlie Jane Anders\, author of All the Birds in the Sky \n“Enchanting… The resplendent prose captures the nuances and intensity of two best friends on the brink of an uncertain and precarious adulthood… An incisive study of a friendship’s unbreakable bond.” —Kirkus Reviews
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shobha-rao-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bonnie Siegler: Signs of Resistance: A Visual History of Protest in America
DESCRIPTION:Bonnie Siegler discusses her new book\, Signs of Resistance: A Visual History of Protest in America with Roman Mars. \n\nAbout Signs of Resistance \n\nIn hundreds of iconic\, smart\, angry\, clever\, unforgettable images\, Signs of Resistance chronicles what truly makes America great: citizens unafraid of speaking truth to power. \nTwo hundred and forty images—from British rule and women’s suffrage to the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War; from women’s equality and Black Lives Matter to the actions of our forty-fifth president and the Women’s March—offer an inspiring\, optimistic\, and visually galvanizing history lesson about the power people have when they take to the streets and stand up for what’s right.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bonnie-siegler-signs-of-resistance-a-visual-history-of-protest-in-america/
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:Joseph Lease
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new poetry collection \nThe Body Ghost \nfrom Coffee House Press \nSpare\, airy\, exacting poems whose quietness is often at an ironic counterpoint to their fiery leftist politics. “Promise me the rich can’t sleep\,” Joseph Lease begs in The Body Ghost\, offering poems as light on the page as nursery rhymes\, and as powerful as prayer. Here\, verse conjures up the body in pain\, the body politic in collapse\, and the tensile strength of the filaments that connect us. \nJoseph Lease’s critically acclaimed books of poetry include The Body Ghost (Coffee House Press\, forthcoming in 2018)\, Testify (Coffee House Press\, 2011)\, and Broken World (Coffee House Press\, 2007). Lease has received The Academy of American Poets Prize and numerous grants and awards in poetry and poetics from Columbia University\, Brown University\, Harvard University\, and California College of the Arts. He is a Professor of Writing and Literature at California College of the Arts and a member of the Advisory Board of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. \nWhat has been said about The Body Ghost: \n“I really don’t know how Joseph Lease does this. Reaches such lyric heights with such delicacy. With skillful use of anaphora\, and perfect\, various\, open-verse forms transformed page to page\, Lease is a tour de force master of prosody\, of the subtle music of words evoking\, in this case\, passionate feelings of caring\, of grief\, of sorrow for this broken world. These poems are unique; nothing I have read is like them.” —Norman Fischer \n“Currents of immediacy and intensity surge through Joseph Lease’s poems in The Body Ghost. Amid the flotsam of voices overheard in hospital rooms and snippets of media chatter repeating on TV and laptop screens\, Lease traces a lyric as light as air\, revealing gravities at the core of the ephemeral. This is a vision as palpable as the ghost body of our neoliberal society evanescing before us.” —John Keene \n“The Body Ghost is part of a body of work that is significant and reveals Joseph Lease to be a major force in contemporary American literature.” —Sheila Murphy \n“Joseph Lease’s is a singularly moving and devastatingly beautiful voice in contemporary poetry. The haunting iterations and luminous specificity of his powerful new collection The Body Ghost channel the sadness\, rage\, and desire of this fraught historical moment in a vibrant minor key. Lease’s musical repetition is a site of political awakening; a site of hope\, demolition\, and mourning: ‘we made / this sky of drones to eat your voice\,’ ‘lavender sky\, sky like whiskey—the way\, the way / we live in bodies.’ Flipping between one version of reality and its repetition evokes a gap of inequality within the lyric self which cleaves and doubles its singing: ‘you didn’t\, you did.’ Lease’s stunning poetry is simultaneously a solid\, a liquid\, and a gas\, its acrobatics and multivocal simultaneity offering models for examining everything from privilege and property to the poignant death of a family member. And at its center\, always\, is a beating heart.” —Trace Peterson \n“When I was very young\, my father\, a ‘skin doctor\,’ would show gleaming models of body parts at medical fairs. They frightened my sisters\, but they were also illuminations of a whole world. Joseph’s poems are like these terrifying wholes/holes. They travel into us. Joseph has been making an American Buddhist poetry\, and he is as maximalist as flesh and bone. He gives me the sensation that poetry is in gleaming hands\, healing and grasping and letting go. He is the future of poetry.” —David Shapiro \n“What is The Body Ghost? Who is The Body Ghost? I too became The Body Ghost from the minute I opened this book\, where ‘the light that’s burning every second now—’ commanded an urgency\, a charged presence. These incantatory poems are capacious and revelatory\, allowing space for grief\, for healing\, and perhaps for an elegy to the music of poetry where ‘sound gives life—.’ Interrelationships are explored\, an interconnectivity\, where one is both participant and accountable. What a relief to be invited in\, to feel alive and participate so presently in a collection that asks for this deep engagement\, which burrows to locate ‘the / soul beneath the soul beneath the soul.’ We need The Body Ghost right now.” —Jennifer Firestone \n“These poems\, rife with music and sly\, playful inquiries into the world\, have some of Frank O’Hara’s metropolitan freshness and directness; they’re charming in their artful\, lyrical gestures (‘the elegies / are taking off their clothes . . .’)\, but also plangent at key moments in their genuine moral and social critique (‘… tear up maps— / democracy is anyone’s eyes— feel / like you might have\, might have / killed someone’). Yes\, The Body Ghost is a spectral fan dance or a poetic striptease of sorts—its haunted\, incremental engines\, lavish white spaces\, and agile floating lines (like tracks in amassed snow sometimes)\, its neo-Dickinson dashes leading the entranced reader toward revelatory clues\, needling truths\, and insistent joys.” —Cyrus Cassells
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joseph-lease/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joseph Lease
DESCRIPTION:Joseph Lease reading from his new poetry collection\n\nThe Body Ghost \nfrom Coffee House Press \nSpare\, airy\, exacting poems whose quietness is often at an ironic counterpoint to their fiery leftist politics. “Promise me the rich can’t sleep\,” Joseph Lease begs in The Body Ghost\, offering poems as light on the page as nursery rhymes\, and as powerful as prayer. Here\, verse conjures up the body in pain\, the body politic in collapse\, and the tensile strength of the filaments that connect us. \nJoseph Lease’s critically acclaimed books of poetry include The Body Ghost (Coffee House Press\, forthcoming in 2018)\, Testify (Coffee House Press\, 2011)\, and Broken World (Coffee House Press\, 2007). Lease has received The Academy of American Poets Prize and numerous grants and awards in poetry and poetics from Columbia University\, Brown University\, Harvard University\, and California College of the Arts. He is a Professor of Writing and Literature at California College of the Arts and a member of the Advisory Board of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. \nWhat has been said about The Body Ghost: \n“I really don’t know how Joseph Lease does this. Reaches such lyric heights with such delicacy. With skillful use of anaphora\, and perfect\, various\, open-verse forms transformed page to page\, Lease is a tour de force master of prosody\, of the subtle music of words evoking\, in this case\, passionate feelings of caring\, of grief\, of sorrow for this broken world. These poems are unique; nothing I have read is like them.” —Norman Fischer \n“Currents of immediacy and intensity surge through Joseph Lease’s poems in The Body Ghost. Amid the flotsam of voices overheard in hospital rooms and snippets of media chatter repeating on TV and laptop screens\, Lease traces a lyric as light as air\, revealing gravities at the core of the ephemeral. This is a vision as palpable as the ghost body of our neoliberal society evanescing before us.” —John Keene \n“The Body Ghost is part of a body of work that is significant and reveals Joseph Lease to be a major force in contemporary American literature.” —Sheila Murphy \n“Joseph Lease’s is a singularly moving and devastatingly beautiful voice in contemporary poetry. The haunting iterations and luminous specificity of his powerful new collection The Body Ghost channel the sadness\, rage\, and desire of this fraught historical moment in a vibrant minor key. Lease’s musical repetition is a site of political awakening; a site of hope\, demolition\, and mourning: ‘we made / this sky of drones to eat your voice\,’ ‘lavender sky\, sky like whiskey—the way\, the way / we live in bodies.’ Flipping between one version of reality and its repetition evokes a gap of inequality within the lyric self which cleaves and doubles its singing: ‘you didn’t\, you did.’ Lease’s stunning poetry is simultaneously a solid\, a liquid\, and a gas\, its acrobatics and multivocal simultaneity offering models for examining everything from privilege and property to the poignant death of a family member. And at its center\, always\, is a beating heart.” —Trace Peterson \n“When I was very young\, my father\, a ‘skin doctor\,’ would show gleaming models of body parts at medical fairs. They frightened my sisters\, but they were also illuminations of a whole world. Joseph’s poems are like these terrifying wholes/holes. They travel into us. Joseph has been making an American Buddhist poetry\, and he is as maximalist as flesh and bone. He gives me the sensation that poetry is in gleaming hands\, healing and grasping and letting go. He is the future of poetry.” —David Shapiro \n“What is The Body Ghost? Who is The Body Ghost? I too became The Body Ghost from the minute I opened this book\, where ‘the light that’s burning every second now—’ commanded an urgency\, a charged presence. These incantatory poems are capacious and revelatory\, allowing space for grief\, for healing\, and perhaps for an elegy to the music of poetry where ‘sound gives life—.’ Interrelationships are explored\, an interconnectivity\, where one is both participant and accountable. What a relief to be invited in\, to feel alive and participate so presently in a collection that asks for this deep engagement\, which burrows to locate ‘the / soul beneath the soul beneath the soul.’ We need The Body Ghost right now.” —Jennifer Firestone \n“These poems\, rife with music and sly\, playful inquiries into the world\, have some of Frank O’Hara’s metropolitan freshness and directness; they’re charming in their artful\, lyrical gestures (‘the elegies / are taking off their clothes . . .’)\, but also plangent at key moments in their genuine moral and social critique (‘… tear up maps— / democracy is anyone’s eyes— feel / like you might have\, might have / killed someone’). Yes\, The Body Ghost is a spectral fan dance or a poetic striptease of sorts—its haunted\, incremental engines\, lavish white spaces\, and agile floating lines (like tracks in amassed snow sometimes)\, its neo-Dickinson dashes leading the entranced reader toward revelatory clues\, needling truths\, and insistent joys.” —Cyrus Cassells
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joseph-lease-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Word Week "Food Literature: International Cuisine"
DESCRIPTION:Local writers Cara Black\, Andrew McIntyre\, and Anne Raeff read passages from their works that discuss food\, cooking\, and eating. Hosted by Olive This Olive That\, an olive oil boutique & tasting bar\, you can hear these talented authors discuss their interest in international cuisine and sample some of the shop’s olive oils and balsamic vinegars. Delicious fun for all! Wednesday\, March 7\, 7:00 pm\, Olive This Olive That\, 304 Vicksburg St.\, Noe Valley. A Word Week 2018 event. \nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\nCara Black writes the New York Times and USA Today best-selling Aimée Leduc Investigation series set in the different arrondissements of Paris. She’s lives in Noe Valley and loves Bernie’s coffee. She gets to Paris whenever she can. Her latest book is MURDER IN SAINT-GERMAIN. Her website is www.carablack.com. \nAndrew McIntyre has published more than 50 short stories in numerous magazines\, including Catamaran Literary Reader\, The Copperfield Review\, Gold Dust Magazine\, The Mississippi Review\, Pindeldyboz\, Parting Gifts\, 3:AM Magazine\, and The Noe Valley Voice. He is the author of THE SHORT\, THE LONG\, AND THE TALL (Merilang Press\, 2010)\, a collection of 34 stories\, all published between 2000 and 2010. \nAnne Raeff’s short story collection THE JUNGLE AROUND US won the 2015 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her novel WINTER KEPT US WARM will be published in February 2018. She is proud to be a high school history and English teacher working primarily with recent immigrants. She too is a child of immigrants. Much of her writing draws on her family’s experiences as refugees from war and the Holocaust.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/word-week-food-literature-international-cuisine/
LOCATION:Olive This Olive That\, 304 Vicksburg Street\, San Francisco\, 94114
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Solmaz Sharif
DESCRIPTION:Solmaz Sharif\, author of Look (Graywolf Press\, 2016) and a National Book Award finalist\, reads from her poetry and essays. “In Sharif’s rendering\, Look is at once a command to see and to grieve the people these words describe — and also a means of implicating the reader in the violence delivered upon these people.” — The New York Times Book Review. Free.\nLocation: Humanities Building\, Room 587\nDirections: View Directions on Google Maps\n\n\n\n\nBorn in Istanbul to Iranian parents\, Solmaz Sharif holds degrees from New York University and University of California\, Berkeley\, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People. Her work has appeared in the New Republic\, Poetry\, The Kenyon Review\, Granta and others. The former managing director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop\, Sharif has been recognized with a “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize\, Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. She received a 2016 Lannan Literary Fellowship and the Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University. A former Stegner Fellow\, Sharif is a lecturer at Stanford University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/solmaz-sharif-2/
LOCATION:San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Thursdays en la Misión
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our monthly poetry series celebrating the Latinidad of the Latino Cultural District. This series focuses on the experiences of people of color in the Bay Area\, featuring local poets chosen from the Mission’s deep literary culture. Each reading features an established poet and a newcomer. ____________________________________________________ Friends of the San Francisco Public Library se enorgullece en anunciar Thursdays en la Misión\, una serie mensual de poesia celebrando la latinidad de nuestro Distrito Cultural Latino. La serie se centará en las experiencias de las personas de color en el Bay Area. Vamos a destacar una variedad de poetas locales elegidos de la profunda cultura literaria de la Misión. Cada evento contará con lecturas de dos poetas; uno establecido y uno menos conocido
URL:https://litseen.com/event/thursdays-en-la-mision/
LOCATION:Friends of the San Francisco Public Library\, 710 Van Ness Ave.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Friends of the San Francisco Public Library":MAILTO:info@friendssfpl.org
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SUMMARY:Word Week "Language & Power: Celebrating International Women's Day"
DESCRIPTION:Our celebration of International Women’s Day will be led by three powerful women reading from their work and talking about how their writing has empowered them through language used in new and different ways. Thursday\, March 8\, 7pm at Folio Books\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. Book signing after the readings. Free admission and refreshments. A Word Week 2018 event. \nOur guests:\nCassandra Dallett poet and memoir writer\, author of Wet Reckless (2014)\, Raw and five chapbooks (2015)\, and a full-length collection\, Collapse\, this year. She lives in Oakland\, is a two-time Pushcart nominee and Literary Death Match winner publishing online and in print magazines\, such as Slip Stream\, Sparkle and Blink\, Chiron Review etc. \nNatasha Dennerstein\, Australian ex-pat\, poet and artist\, author of Anatomize (2015) Triptych Caliform (2016)\, and edgy novella in verse About a Girl (2017)\, all published by Norfolk Press. She has authored a chapbook Seahorse (2017) and published poetry in many journals including Landfall\, Snorkel\, Shenandoah\, Bloom\, Transfer\, Red Light Lit etc. \nKim Shuck is the current poet laureate of San Francisco. Daughter of a Cherokee man from Oklahoma and Polish mother. Educator\, visual artist\, poet\, iconoclast in San Francisco\, she has published two collections of poetry\, one chapbook\, one collection of prose poems and is working on a collection of poems to be published in 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/word-week-language-power-celebrating-international-womens-day/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20180129T122056Z
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SUMMARY:Vegas Tenold
DESCRIPTION:discussing his new book \nEverything You Love Will Burn \npublished by Nation Books \nSix years ago\, Vegas Tenold embedded himself among the members of three of America’s most ideologically extreme white nationalist groups-the KKK\, the National Socialist Movement\, and the Traditionalist Workers Party. At the time\, these groups were part of a disorganized counterculture that felt far from the mainstream. \nBut since then\, all that has changed. Racially-motivated violence has been on open display at rallies in Charlottesville\, Berkeley\, Pikesville\, Phoenix\, and Boston. Membership in white nationalist organizations is rising\, and national politicians\, including the president\, are validating their perceived grievances. \nEverything You Love Will Burn offers a terrifying\, sobering inside look at these newly empowered movements\, from their conventions to backroom meetings with Republican operatives. Tenold introduces us to neo-Nazis in Brooklyn; a millennial Klanswoman in Tennessee; and a rising star in the movement\, nicknamed the “Little Führer” by the Southern Poverty Law Center\, who understands political power and is organizing a grand coalition of far-right groups to bring them into the mainstream. \nEverything You Love Will Burn takes readers to the dark\, paranoid underbelly of America\, a world in which the white race is under threat and the enemy is everywhere. \n\n\nVegas Tenold is an award-winning journalist. He has covered the far right in America for years\, as well as human rights in Russia\, conflict in central Africa and the Middle East\, and national security. A graduate of Columbia University’s School of Journalism\, his work has appeared in publications including the New York Times\, Rolling Stone\, New Republic\, and Al Jazeera America. He was born and raised in Norway\, and lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vegas-tenold/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Patton Oswalt presents I'll Be Gone in the Dark at Public Works SF
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to welcome Patton Oswalt to Public Works SF to discuss his late wife Michelle McNamara’s book I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer. \nTickets start at $15 and are on sale now. Signing information and other details coming soon! Stay tuned. \n\n“You’ll be silent forever\, and I’ll be gone in the dark.” \nOver the course of more than ten years\, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south\, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. In 1986 he disappeared\, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area. \nThree decades later\, Michelle McNamara\, a true-crime journalist who created the popular website True Crime Diary\, was determined to find the violent psychopath she called the Golden State Killer. Michelle pored over police reports\, inter-viewed victims\, and embedded herself in the online communities that were as obsessed with the case as she was. \nAt the time of the crimes\, the Golden State Killer was between the ages of eighteen and thirty\, Caucasian\, and athletic—capable of vaulting tall fences. He always wore a mask. After choosing his victims—he favored suburban couples—he often entered their homes when no one was there\, studying family pictures\, mastering the layouts. He attacked while they slept\, using a flashlight to awaken and blind them. Though they could not recognize him\, his victims recalled his voice: a guttural whisper through clenched teeth\, abrupt and threatening. \nI’ll Be Gone in the Dark—the masterpiece McNamara was writing at the time of her sudden death—offers an atmospheric snapshot of a moment in American history and a chilling account of a criminal mastermind and the wreckage he left behind. It is also a portrait of a woman’s obsession and her unflagging pursuit of the truth. Framed by an introduction from Gillian Flynn and an afterword by McNamara’s husband\, Patton Oswalt\, the book was completed by Michelle’s lead researcher and a close colleague. Utterly original and compelling\, it is destined to become a true-crime classic—and may at last unmask the Golden State Killer. \n\nPatton Oswalt is a comedian\, actor\, and writer. From his award-winning comedy specials to his many memorable film roles and guest appearances on his favorite TV shows (including Parks and Recreation\, for which he received a TV Critics Choice Award)\, Oswalt continues to choose work that inspires him and entertains audiences. He tours regularly and extensively\, headlining both in the United States\, Canada\, and the UK. \nOn TV\, Oswalt had a starring role on Adult Swims The Heart\, She Holler\, was a series regular on Showtimes United States of Tara\, recurred on the SyFy series Caprica\, and has had many guest roles on Veep\, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.\, Parks and Recreation\, Justified\, Two and a Half Men\, Portlandia\, Bored to Death\, Flight of the Conchords\, The Sarah Silverman Program\, Tim and Erics Awesome Show\, and Seinfeld\, among others. He is also very well known for playing Spence on The King of Queens for nine seasons. He was also a regular contributor to Countdown with Keith Olbermann\, Real Time with Bill Maher\, and Lewis Blacks Root of All Evil. Oswalt also has a regular\, bi-monthly show at the new Largo at the Coronet Theater in Los Angeles. Both of his published books Zombie Spaceship Wasteland (2011) and Silver Screen Fiend (2015) are New York Times Best Sellers. \nMichelle McNamaras (1970-2016) fascination with unsolved murders began as a teenager\, when a young girl was killed less than half a mile from her familys home. As an adult\, she channeled her obsession into the website True Crime Diary. After earning an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Minnesota\, she sold two television pilots to ABC and Fox and a screenplay to Paramount. She lived in Los Angeles and is survived by her husband\, Patton Oswalt\, and their daughter\, Alice. \n  \n\n  \nPlease remember: tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. Public Works SF is a 21+ venue. \n  \nThis is a standing room only event; if you need a seat or other special considerations\, please contact events at booksmith dot com at least one week prior to the event. Thanks!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patton-oswalt-presents-ill-be-gone-in-the-dark-at-public-works-sf/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Robert Reich
DESCRIPTION:In Conversation with Mina Kim Robert Reich is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He served as Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration\, for which Time Magazine named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the twentieth century. He has written fourteen books\, including the best sellers Aftershock\, The Work of Nations\, and Beyond Outrage\, Saving Capitalism\, and Economics in Wonderland. He is a founding editor of the American Prospect magazine\, chairman of Common Cause\, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and co-creator of the award-winning documentary\, Inequality for All. His forthcoming book is called The Common Good.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-reich/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Endless Summer
DESCRIPTION:Madame Nielsen\, one of Denmark’s most daring artists\, joins Scott Esposito to discuss The Endless Summer\, translated by Gaye Kynoch and published by Open Letter Books. \nA passionate love story about a Danish woman and a much younger Portuguese artist\, The Endless Summer confronts ideas of time\, sexuality\, and tragedy in a style reminiscent of both Proust and Lars Von Trier. \nEmotional and visceral\, the novel drifts through time and space\, relating the lives\, loves\, and dissolutions of everyone who surrounds this unexpected couple\, including the woman’s ex-husband who holds the family at gunpoint\, her daughter\, and her lovers\, who include a boy who finds himself and his true sexual identity in America. There is also the young boy who “is perhaps a girl\, but does not yet know it\,” who narrates it all. \nPropelled by a captivating story\, the real charm of the novel is its impeccable style and atmosphere\, which is imbued with longing\, a nostalgia for times that thrum with possibility\, even if the endless summer may not last forever.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-endless-summer/
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:Madame Nielsen with Scott Esposito
DESCRIPTION:Madame Nielsen discusses their new novel\, The Endless Summer with Scott Esposito. Sponsored by The Center for the Art of Translation. \n\nPraise for The Endless Summer \n\n“The Endless Summer by Madame Nielsen is my literary discovery of the year.” ―Sjón \n\n“Once in a while\, after you’ve finished a book and put it down\, you wish that the author was a good friend and you could call her whenever you felt sad. It’s not something that happens often. But it does when you read Karen Blixen and Marguerite Duras and Virginia Woolf. And Madame Nielsen.”―Christian Kracht \n\nAbout The Endless Summer \n\nA passionate love story about a Danish woman and a much younger Portuguese artist\, The Endless Summer confronts ideas of time\, sexuality\, and tragedy in a style reminiscent of both Marcel Proust and Lars Von Trier. \n  \nEmotional and visceral\, the novel drifts through time and space\, relating the lives\, loves\, and dissolutions of everyone who surrounds this unexpected couple: the woman’s former husband\, who holds the family at gunpoint; her daughter and her lovers\, who include a boy who finds himself and his true sexual identity in America; and the young boy who “is perhaps a girl\, but does not yet know it\,” who narrates everyone’s stories. \n  \nPropelled by a captivating story\, the real charm of the novel resides in its impeccable style and atmosphere\, which gathers a sense of longing\, a slight nostalgia for times that ache with possibility\, while knowing that even the endless summer doesn’t last forever.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/madame-nielsen-with-scott-esposito/
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:Lee Bruno / Misfits\, Merchants & Mayhem
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is excited to host Lee Bruno presenting his new book\, Misfits\, Merchants & Mayhem: Tales from San Francisco’s Historic Waterfront\, 1849-1934—join us! \nThe waterfront is where it all began for San Francisco. It’s where untold numbers of adventurers and fortune-hunters first stepped foot upon the land that embodied possibility. It’s where ships from around the world\, carrying sea-faring gold seekers\, maritime traders\, free-spirited mavericks\, and hopeful immigrants\, came to anchor. And it’s where the unconventional\, opportunistic\, and indefatigable embarked. Misfits\, Merchants & Mayhem shares the stories of exceptional newcomers and outliers\, whose intrepid spirits helped to transform a small port into one of the most beautiful\, unpredictable\, and beloved cities in the world. \nLee Bruno explores nearly a century of waterfront history\, ranging from the Gold Rush to the Jazz Age\, telling the tales of the enterprising entrepreneurs\, reckless financiers\, tireless reformers\, visionary architects and city planners\, and bohemian artists\, musicians\, and poets who all heeded the call of promise. With more than 100 historical images\, Misfits\, Merchants & Mayhem celebrates the famous (and infamous) characters whose charismatic personalities and perseverance created the institutions\, businesses\, and cultural fabric of San Francisco. \n— \nEver since discovering his great grandfather Reuben Hale’s inspiring letters and speeches\, Lee Bruno has been digging into San Francisco’s rich history. Lee\, who received his MS in science journalism from Boston University\, is the author of Panorama: Tales from San Francisco’s 1915 Pan-Pacific International Exposition (Cameron + Company) and has been writing for over 20 years about business and technology for the Economist\, the Guardian\, MIT Technology Review\, Red Herring magazine\, and Wired\, among others. He has lived in San Francisco for more than 30 years\, raising a family of four boys with his wife and enjoying long open-water swims with the eccentrics at the South End Rowing Club.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lee-bruno-misfits-merchants-mayhem/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Robert Reich with Mina Kim
DESCRIPTION:Robert Reich is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He served as Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration\, for which Time Magazine named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the twentieth century. He has written fourteen books\, including the best sellers Aftershock\, The Work of Nations\, and Beyond Outrage\, Saving Capitalism\, and Economics in Wonderland. He is a founding editor of the American Prospect magazine\, chairman of Common Cause\, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and co-creator of the award-winning documentary\, Inequality for All. His forthcoming book is called The Common Good.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-reich-with-mina-kim/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Word Week "Memoir & Prosecco"
DESCRIPTION:Memoirs are hot right now! At Memoir & Prosecco\, local authors of different types of memoir will read from their work. Following the readings\, moderator Mary Jo McConahay will lead the panel in a discussion of writing memoir\, the why and the how. Mary Jo is a Noe Valley resident\, a college instructor of memoir\, and an award-winning memoirist herself. Prosecco will be liberally served. Friday\, March 9\, 7pm-8:30pm at 4175 24th St. in Noe Valley. Free admission and refreshments. Books for sale and signing. A Word Week 2018 event. \nOur panel:\nModerator Mary Jo McConahay is an author and journalist. Her new book on World War II in Latin America\, The Tango War\, comes out in September from St. Martin’s Press. Her memoir Maya Roads\, One Woman’s Journey Among the People of the Rainforest received numerous awards\, including the Northern California Book Award and the Independent Publishers Award. Another short memoir\, Ricochet\, Two Women War Reporters and a Friendship Under Fire\, won a Global E-book award and is now a real print book published by waynegoodmanbooks. \nErika Atkinson\, from the prairies of central Canada\, has lived in San Francisco since 1978. She is the author of five books: the memoirs Happily Lost In Time And Place\, Frozen Stillness: A Journey to Antarctica\, More Miles and Moments\, and Ode to the Castro and Exhort the Goddesses\, a poetry collection. \nTsun Yuan Chen is a retired Head and Neck Surgeon. He was born in Mainland China and studied in Taiwan and Tokyo before arriving at these shores. He divides his time between San Francisco\, Umbria\, and Provence with his life partner\, at home everywhere and nowhere\, making alienation a fine art of his life. He has written Along Alien Roads\, which he calls an “autobiographical novel.” \nLinda Joy Myers‘s passion about memoir writing led her to create the National Association of Memoir Writers. Her two prizewinning memoirs Don’t Call Me Mother and Song of the Plains proved to her that creating a story is transformative and life changing. Author of The Power of Memoir and Journey of Memoir\, Linda teaches the intensive “Write Your Memoir in Six Months.” \nRamon Sender Barayon was born in Madrid\, Spain\, in 1934. San Francisco Tape Music Center (1963). Trips Festival (Jan 1966). Morningstar Ranch (1966). Articles in The Co-Evolution Quarterly\, Whole Earth Review. Being of the Sun (Harper & Row 1974). Novel\, Zero Weather (1980) Memoir A Death in Zamora (UNM Press 1988) He currently co-directs the Odd Mondays reading series at Folio Books with wife Judith Levy-Sender. Music: Other Minds “Gallivants and Garnishes.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/word-week-memoir-prosecco/
LOCATION:4175 24th Street\, Noe Valley\, San Francisco\, 94114
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Word Week " Noe Valley Authors Festival"
DESCRIPTION:Local authors exhibit their books for sale and signing from 1pm to 5pm. Readings by some of the authors exhibiting occur at 2pm\, 3pm\, and 4pm. Free admission. A glass of Prosecco or Pellegrino for every purchase! A Word Week 2018 event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/word-week-noe-valley-authors-festival/
LOCATION:4175 24th Street\, Noe Valley\, San Francisco\, 94114
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180310T163000
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SUMMARY:Orlando Ortega-Medina
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Orlando Ortega-Medina for Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions\, which was shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize 2017. Join us for an afternoon reading and discussion! \nFor fans of Hanif Kureishi and Margaret Atwood\, this collection of thirteen gripping and intriguing short stories are about sexuality\, death\, obsession\, and religion. Sometimes bleak\, occasionally violent\, and often possessed of a dark humor\, each story contains characters who are flawed individuals trying their best to make sense of their lives. \n“Ortega-Medina’s prose is elegant and potent throughout\, with visceral passages bathed in lyricism.”—Kirkus Reviews \n— \nOrlando Ortega-Medina was born in California and is of Judeo-Spanish descent via Cuba. He studied English Literature at UCLA and has a Juris Doctor law degree from Southwestern University School of Law. Orlando is now a British citizen and currently lives in London\, where he practices US immigration law. @OOrtegaMedina \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Jerusalem Ablaze\, order here and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/orlando-ortega-medina/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Word Week "Therapy Animals Change Lives!"
DESCRIPTION:Join us as Dr. Jennifer Henley\, Manager\, San Francisco SPCA Animal Assisted Therapy Program\, shares her insight on the Human-Animal bond. Free admission and refreshments. Saturday\, March 10\, 2018\, 4pm-5pm at Umpqua Bank\, 3938 24th St. in Noe Valley. A Word Week 2018 event. \nYou often think of the SPCA as a place for animal rescue\, however did you know they have one of the largest animal therapy programs in the World. With the help of 300 volunteers\, therapy animals touch the lives of such diverse groups as returning veterans with PTSD to children having challenges with reading. Each year over 100\,000 members of our community benefit from animal therapy which includes specially trained dogs and even a pig! \nOur speaker:\nDr. Jennifer Henley joined the Peace Corps (Cameroon). Upon completion of her service she relocated to SF and began working for the SF SPCA. Her primary interest is in the human-animal bond and its therapeutic benefits. This led to her current position as head of the Animal Assisted Therapy department at the San Francisco SPCA. The department works with nearly 300 volunteers\, whose pets go through extensive certification to be qualified to visit people in hospitals\, nursing homes\, psychiatric centers/behavioral health clinics\, schools\, libraries\, SF Jail\, and day programs for developmentally disabled persons.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/word-week-therapy-animals-change-lives/
LOCATION:Umpqua Bank Noe Valley\, 3938 24th Street\, San Francisco\, 94114
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Literary Pop Takes Over Writers With Drinks!
DESCRIPTION:MK Chavez (Mothermorphosis\, Dear Animal)\nMaggie Tokuda-Hall (Also an Octopus)\nKelly Anneken (Twenty Minutes to Sell)\nNatalia Vigil (What Always Was)\nAmanda Muniz (KQED Presents: Bad Immigrants)\nSam DiSalvo (More Fun at Blondie’s) \nPlus guest host Wonder Dave!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-pop-takes-over-writers-with-drinks/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Gears Turning w/ Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:Monthly poetry reading with your host Kim Shuck \nDetails soon! \nTo participate in the open mic session\, please plan to arrive by 4 and listen to all of the featured readers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gears-turning-w-kim-shuck/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Event: GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:Monthly poetry event hosted by Kim Shuck \nDetails soon! \nTo participate in the open mic sessions\, please arrive by 4 and plan to listen to all of the featured poets. Seating/space is limited.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-event-gears-turning-w-kim-shuck/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers on Writing: Lynne Tillman
DESCRIPTION:Lynne Tillman reads from and discusses her novels\, short stories and nonfiction. Her new book is Men and Apparitions (Soft Skull Press\, 2018). “Lynne Tillman has always been a hero of mine — not because I ‘admire’ her writing\, (although I do\, very\, very much)\, but because I feel it. Imagine driving alone at night. You turn on the radio and hear a song that seems to say it all. That’s how I feel.” — Jonathan Safran Foer. Free. \n  \n\nLocation: Humanities Building\, Room 211\n\n\nDirections: View on Google Maps\n\n  \nLynne Tillman \nTillman’s novel No Lease on Life was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction\, and her essay collection What Would Lynne Tillman Do? was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Tillman’s writing appears often in artists’ books and museum catalogs\, including\, most recently\, those of Raymond Pettibon\, Joan Jonas\, Cindy Sherman and Carroll Dunham. Tillman is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation grant for arts writing\, and is a professor and writer-in-residence at University of Albany. She also teaches in New York City’s School of Visual Arts\, in its art criticism and writing Master of Fine Arts program. \n\nWriters on Writing \nThe Creative Writing Department opens its Writers on Writing course to the public this spring. Taught by Dodie Bellamy\, the course features faculty and visiting writers reading from their works and discussing their creative process.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-on-writing-lynne-tillman/
LOCATION:San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Peter Carey / A Long Way From Home
DESCRIPTION:The two-time Booker Prize-winning author now gives us a wildly exuberant\, wily new novel that circumnavigates 1954 Australia\, revealing as much about the country/continent as it does about three audacious individuals who take part in the infamous 10\,000-mile race\, the Redex Trial. \nIrene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in southeastern Australia. Together they enter the Redex Trial\, a brutal race around the ancient continent\, over roads no car will ever quite survive. With them is their lanky\, fair-haired navigator\, Willie Bachhuber\, a quiz show champion and failed schoolteacher who calls the turns and creeks crossings on a map that will remove them\, without warning\, from the white Australia they all know so well. This is a thrilling high-speed story that starts in one way\, and then takes you someplace else. It is often funny\, more so as the world gets stranger\, and always a page-turner even as you learn a history these characters never knew themselves. \nSet in the 1950s\, this is a world every American will recognize: black\, white\, who we are\, how we got here\, and what we did to each other along the way. \nA Long Way from Home is Peter Carey’s late-style masterpiece. \n— \nPeter Carey is the author of thirteen previous novels. In addition to the Booker Prize\, his honors include the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Born in Australia\, he has lived in New York City for more than twenty-five years.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-carey-a-long-way-from-home/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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