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SUMMARY:Rachel Aspen
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nGeneration Revolution:  On the Front Line\nBetween Tradition and Change in the Middle East \nfrom Other Press \nIn 2011 during the Arab Spring\, the government of Egypt transformed\nfrom a dictatorship to a democratic presidency. The chaos that\nresulted during this time erupted from a decade of social and\npolitical unrest among the Egyptian people. GENERATION REVOLUTION is\nthe story of the millennial generation in Egypt during the Arab\nSpring\, from the perspective of several different young men and women\nwhose different views explore the way Egypt has been shaped before\,\nduring\, and after the 2011 end of Hosni Mubarak’s presidency. \nAspden spent years in Egypt during the beginning of unrest in 2003 and\nmoved back again during the years following post-revolution in 2011.\nAspden offers a window into the world of the Middle East during the\nArab Spring\, before\, during\, and after Egypt’s chaotic overthrow of\ntheir President Mubarak and his successor\, the democratically elected\nMuslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi.\nThrough Aspden’s curious and unbiased gaze\, readers hear the Egyptian\nvoices of Amr\, an atheist university-educated software engineer\, Amal\,\na fiercely independent young woman who lives on her own in Cairo which\nis practically unheard of\, Ayman\, a devout Muslim teenager who chooses\nto follow ultraconservative Salafi Islam to the surprise of his\nmiddle-class parents\, and Mazen\, a fan of TV preacher Amr Khaled who\nfinds himself on the front lines during the revolution. With these\nperspectives along with others’\, readers learn that from atheists to\nultra-religious\, from conservative young men to liberal young women\,\nthe growing generation of Egypt is vastly different\, struggling to\nfind a place for various voices during chaotic government upheaval.\nAspden writes from the front lines of this new generation\, sharing\ntheir stories and harbouring their own doubts\, resentments\, and hope\nfor what is to come. \nRachel Aspden became literary editor of the New Statesman in 2006\, at\nthe age of 26. She now works at the Guardian\, and also writes on a\nfreelance basis for the New Statesman\, Observer\, Prospect and Think\nmagazine (Qatar). She lived in Cairo in 2003-4 and worked as an editor\nand reporter on the English-language Cairo Times. Since then\, from her\nUK base\, she has travelled to and reported from across the region and\nthe wider Muslim world: Yemen\, the UAE\, Turkey\, Lebanon\, Syria\,\nJordan\, the Palestinian territories\, Egypt\, Morocco\, Sudan\, Pakistan\nand north India. In 2010\, she was awarded a year-long travelling\nfellowship by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust to research\nactivists working to fight extremism within Islam.Following the Arab\nspring uprisings in 2011\, she moved back to Egypt to research this book.\nShe is currently based in London and reports for the Guardian. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-aspen/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Literary Speakeasy: A Toast to Sylvia Plath
DESCRIPTION:This month Literary Speakeasy pays tribute to one of the greatest poets of the 20th Century –Sylvia Plath. Please join us as we raise a glass and celebrate the words of this iconic poet. Five Bay Area powerhouses will be on hand to read the poems of Sylvia Plath as well as their own original work. Our poets for the evening include Annah Anti-Palindrome\, Christian Gullette\, Robert Andrew Perez\, July Westhale\, and Maw Shein Win. Your host and curator each month is James J. Siegel \nAs always\, Literary Speakeasy is absolutely FREE with NO drink minimum. Also\, everyone in attendance will get a FREE raffle ticket for their chance to win the secret Speakeasy prize at the conclusion of the show. Please come out and celebrate Sylvia Plath with an evening of beautiful words and fantastic martinis! \nAnnah Anti-Palindrome is a queer/working-class/hard- femme/JewWitch sound-artist & writer currently living in the SF bay area. She is a Lambda Literary Fellow\, a staff writer for Everyday Feminism\, and a member of Oakland’s Deviant Type Press collective. Annah’s first book\, DNA Hymn\, is a collection of poems about rural\, working-class\, queer-femme survivor identity. Annah’s poems are performed through live\, musical soundscapes made w/ a loop pedal\, kitchen utensils\, gas-masks\, raw eggs\, blood pressure cuffs\, found objects\, her body (mostly my throat)\, and more! For more info about her\, see www.annahantipalindrome. com. \nChristian Gullette’s poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as New England Review\, Smartish Pace\, Meridian\, Colorado Review\, and Cimarron Review. He was recently a finalist for the Iowa Review Poetry Prize. Currently Christian is a doctoral candidate in Swedish literature and language at the University of California\, Berkeley. He is a poetry editor for the Cortland Review. \nRobert Andrew Perez lives in Berkeley and is an associate editor and book designer for speCt! in Oakland\, where he also curates readings. He is an alum of the Lambda Literary fellowship and a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for poetry. His poetry has appeared in print and online in publications such as DIAGRAM\, The Awl\, The Laurel Review\, Vinyl and The Cortland Review. His First collection\, the field\, was published with Omnidawn. He is currently writing a movie about a divorce and wine tasting; it’s a comedy. \nJuly Westhale is a poet and essayist living in Oakland\, CA. She is the author of the chapbook The Cavalcade\, (Finishing Line Press)\, and the children’s book\, Occasionally Accurate Science (Nomadic Press\, 2017). She has poems in Cimarron\, burntdistrict\, and Quarterly West\, among others. Her essays have appeared in the Huffington Post\, Autostraddle\, The Establistment\, and have been nominated for Best American Essays. She has been awarded grants and residencies from the Vermont Studio Center\, Sewanee\, Dickinson House\, Tin House and Bread Loaf. www.julywesthale.com. \nMaw Shein Win is a poet\, editor\, and educator who lives and works in the Bay Area. Her writing has appeared in various journals\, including Cimarron Review\, Fanzine\, Eleven Eleven\, the Fabulist\, and the anthology Cross-Strokes: Poetry Between Los Angeles and San Francisco (Otis Books/Seismicity Editions). She is a poetry editor for Rivet: The Journal of Writing that Risks and a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Her most recent poetry chapbook Score and Bone (Nomadic Press) was nominated for a CLMP Firecracker Award. She is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito. http://www.el-cerrito.org/poets \nJames J. Siegel is the author of the poetry collection “How Ghosts Travel” published year by Spuyten Duyvil Press. He is also the host and curator of Literary Speakeasy at Martuni’s Piano Bar in San Francisco\, which brings together poets\, writers\, and musicians for a night of performance and martinis. His work has appeared in several journals and anthologies\, including Assaracus\, The Cortland Review\, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review\, and Divining Divas: 100 Gay Men On Their Muses.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-speakeasy-a-toast-to-sylvia-plath/
LOCATION:Martuni’s\, 4 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hank Lazer + Andrew Maxwell
DESCRIPTION:Poets Hank Lazer and Andrew Maxwell present recent work\, then engage in conversation with one another and their audience. This event is free and open to the public. \nHank Lazer has published twenty-four books of poetry\, including Poems Hidden in Plain View (2016\, in English and in French)\, Brush Mind: At Hand (2016)\, N24 (2014) and N18 (2012)\, Portions (2009)\, The New Spirit (2005)\, Elegies & Vacations (2004)\, and Days (2002). Selected Poems and Essays of Hank Lazer\, completed by a group of translators\, was published by Central China Normal University Press in 2015. Lazer’s Selected Poems have also been published in Italy and will be appearing shortly in Cuba (including 11 tracks for jazz-poetry improvisations with soprano saxophonist Andrew Raffo Dewar). Readings and interviews can be accessed through PennSound\, as well as in special issues of Plume #34 and Talisman #42. In 2015\, Lazer was selected to receive Alabama’s most prestigious literary prize\, the Harper Lee Award\, for lifetime achievement in literature. His books of criticism include Opposing Poetries (two volumes\, 1996) and Lyric & Spirit: Selected Essays 1996-2008 (2008). With Charles Bernstein\, he edits the Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series for the University of Alabama Press. Lazer retired from the University of Alabama in January 2014 from his positions as Associate Provost for Academic Affairs\, Executive Director of Creative Campus\, and Professor of English. \nAndrew Maxwell‘s recent collections include Candor is the Brightest Shield (Ugly Duckling\, 2015)\, Peeping Mot (Apogee\, 2013) and the ongoing Beggars of Life\, a collaboration with artist Nathan Gelgud. Increasingly interested in short-form literature\, much of Maxwell’s current work is epigrammatic in nature. A selection of his aphorisms is currently on display as an LED scroll in the installation THIS KNOWN WORLD at MOCA Los Angeles\, and Conversion Table\, a collection of small remarks without propositional attitudes\, was issued in September on Mindmade Books. He runs the Poetic Research Bureau with Joseph Mosconi in Los Angeles\, where he also hosts a weekly radio show of international roots music on KXLU 88.9FM\, “The Dream of Harry Lime.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hank-lazer-andrew-maxwell/
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:Meg Elison
DESCRIPTION:About The Book of Etta \nIn the gripping sequel to the Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel The Book of the Unnamed Midwife\, one woman undertakes a desperate journey to rescue the future. \nEtta comes from Nowhere\, a village of survivors of the great plague that wiped away the world that was. In the world that is\, women are scarce and childbearing is dangerous yet desperately necessary for humankind’s future. Mothers and midwives are sacred\, but Etta has a different calling. As a scavenger. Loyal to the village but living on her own terms\, Etta roams the desolate territory beyond: salvaging useful relics of the ruined past and braving the threat of brutal slave traders\, who are seeking women and girls to sell and subjugate. \nWhen slavers seize those she loves\, Etta vows to release and avenge them. But her mission will lead her to the stronghold of the Lion a tyrant who dominates the innocent with terror and violence. There\, with no allies and few weapons besides her wits and will\, she will risk both body and spirit not only to save lives but also to liberate a new world’s destiny. \nAbout the Author \nMeg Elison is the author of THE BOOK OF THE UNNAMED MIDWIFE\, a post-apocalyptic feminist speculative novel\, Tiptree recommendation\, and winner of the Philip K. Dick Award. Her sequel\, THE BOOK OF ETTA\, will be published in early 2017. She has also been published in McSweeney’s\, The Establishment\, The Mary Sue\, Tor.com\, Compelling Science Fiction\, Motherboard\, and many other places. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. Find her online\, where she writes like she’s running out of time.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meg-elison/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Calder G. Lorenz
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith is excited to host Calder G. Lorenz for the launch of his debut novel\, One Way Down (Or Another)\, just out from Civil Coping Mechanisms. Calder will be in conversation withMicah Ballard – please join us! \nHell\, if I stay in San Francisco\, I’ll end up worse than dead\, I’ll end up working just so that I can afford to be broke. I’ll end up like the men who stood in line to build the Golden Gate Bridge\, only to fall from the heavens\, replaced by the next man in line\, just another asshole caught in a net\, suspended there\, broken back and all\, dangling\, hung out halfway to hell. \nThe voice above belongs to a young man who will cross every barrier he’d promised himself was un-crossable. He will have fistfights\, soul fights. He will relapse. He will try to go home. He will try his best to ruin his life and the question is this: will he succeed?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/calder-g-lorenz/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Daniel Handler
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Handler discusses Three Masquerades\, a collection of novellas by Rachel Ingalls. Daniel Handler assembled this collection for Pharos Editions\, a press that is dedicated to bringing to light out-of-print\, lost or rare books of distinction. \n\nPraise for Rachel Ingalls \n\nSo deft and austere in its prose\, so drolly casual in its fantasy… – John Updike  \n\nShortly after beginning each of the novellas in this remarkable collection\, I was seized with a haunting conviction that I was reading works I would not easily forget. – Joseph Heller \n\nRachel Ingalls ‘ elegantly written tales mix reality and fantasy in surprising ways\, casting a dark light on the conventions of our lives\, our ideas about marriage\, youth and age… she deserves to be as well-known in America as she is in England.”  —Alison Laurie \n\nAbout Three Masquerades \n“I See a Long Journey” and “On Ice\,” novellas that Mr. Handler considers basically perfect\, originally appeared with a third\, “Blessed Art Though\,” a story that he considers to be in an entirely different tone. He felt that “Friends in the Country” from Ms. Ingalls later collection\, “The End of a Tragedy\,” was a more natural companion to the two earlier works. The author happily agreed. \n  \n“I See a Long Journey” introduces us to Flora who is induced by her husband\, James\, to take a vacation only because his chauffeur Michael\, custodian of their persons and their purse\, will accompany them. Things\, as they so often do in Ingalls world\, will go appalling awry.  “Friends in the Country” wherein a young couple drive outside of London for a Friday dinner and find themselves trapped for the weekend in a manner that surpasses Stephen King\, if not in outright horror then certainly in subtlety and suggestiveness. “On Ice” finds Beverley with her fiance at an elegant hotel where she is introduced to a grande dame whose funeral Beverley’s convinced she had witnessed 10 years before. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-handler/
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:Bawdy's 'Decadent' 10 Year Anniversary Show
DESCRIPTION:Our theme: ‘Decadent!’\nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – celebrates TEN YEARS – a decade of Sex and Storytelling – in San Francisco! We feature Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as an award-winning One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their true stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure. \nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & sex-positive Locals as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. \nHey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal! \n* Line-up subject to change\n* No refunds or exchanges\n* General Admission seating is limited. Doors open at 6:30 PM; we recommend you arrive by 7:00 for good seating
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdys-decadent-10-year-anniversary-show/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bawdy's 'Best of Bawdy' 10 Year Anniversary Show
DESCRIPTION:Bawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – celebrates TEN YEARS in San Francisco – Yes\, a Decade of Sex and Storytelling! We feature Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as an award-winning One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their true stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure. \nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & sex-positive Locals as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal! \n* Line-up subject to change\n* No refunds or exchanges\n* General Admission seating is limited. Doors open at 9:30 PM; we recommend you arrive early for good seating. Stories start at 10:00 PM
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdys-best-of-bawdy-10-year-anniversary-show/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Juan Pablo Villalobos
DESCRIPTION:Mexican writer Juan Pablo Villalobos dicusses his new novel\, I’ll Sell You a Dog\, with Mauro Javier Cardenas. \nPraise for I’ll Sell You a Dog \n“I’ll Sell You A Dog is a reminder of how effortless literature should be to love. This unexpected ride through a character’s second childhood\, his building\, neighbourhood and history is so magically twisted that it could be real. As ever Villalobos writes a peephole through politics and time\, to simply watch us dance in all our lurid whimsy.”—DBC Pierre \n“Short\, dark\, comic\, ribald and surreal . . . manic-impressive.”—Dwight Garner\, New York Times \n‘One of the wittiest\, most whimsical\, most enjoyable novels to have been published in Spanish for a long time.’ Alberto Manguel\, The Guardian \nAbout I’ll Sell You a Dog \nLong before he was the taco seller whose ‘Gringo Dog’ recipe made him famous throughout Mexico City\, our hero was an aspiring artist: an artist\, that is\, till his would-be girlfriend was stolen by Diego Rivera\, and his dreams snuffed out by his hypochondriac mother. Now our hero is resident in a retirement home\, where fending off boredom is far more gruelling than making tacos. Plagued by the literary salon that bumps about his building’s lobby and haunted by the self-pitying ghost of a neglected artist\, Villalobos’s old man can’t help but misbehave. \n  \nHe antagonises his neighbours\, tortures American missionaries with passages from Adorno\, flirts with the revolutionary greengrocer\, and in short does everything that can be done to fend off the boredom of retirement and old age . . . while still holding a beer. \n  \nA delicious take-down of pretensions to cultural posterity\, I’ll Sell You a Dog is a comic novel whose absurd inventions\, scurrilous antics and oddball characters are vintage Villalobos.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/juan-pablo-villalobos/
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:Ari Banias\, Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano + Cintia Santana
DESCRIPTION:Ari Banias\, Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano\, and Cintia Santana read at Alley Cat Books\, Saturday\, January 28\, 2017 at 7:00 pm\, in support of Ari Banias’s new book\, Anybody (W.W. Norton). This event is organized by San Francisco poet and novelist Kevin Killian. \nAri Banias is the author of the book Anybody (W.W. Norton\, 2016)\, and the chapbook What’s Personal is Being Here With All of You (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs). His poems have appeared in Boston Review\, Poetry\, A Public Space\, and the anthology Troubling the Line: Trans & Genderqueer Poetry & Poetics. The recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown & Stanford University\, he lives in Berkeley & works at Small Press Distribution.Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano is the author of the poetry collections\, Amorcito Maricón; Santo de la Pata Alzada; and\, Tragic Bitches\, which he co-wrote with Adelina Anthony and Dino Foxx. Lorenzo is the editor of Queer Codex: Chile Love; Queer Codex: Rooted; and\, the forthcoming Joto: An Anthology of Queer Chicano Poetry. A member of the Macondo Writers community and former writer for Change.org’s “Race in America” and “Gay Rights” blogs\, his work appears in Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry; For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough; Queer in Aztlán; as well as the journals\, ZYZZYVA; and\, Yellow Medicine Review. Lorenzo is the founder of Kórima Press\, a queer Chicana/o Press; and\, Publisher and Executive Director of Justice Matters Press\, a multiracial social and racial justice press. \nCintia Santana’s poems\, fiction\, and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, Narrative\, Pleiades\, RHINO\, Spillway\, The Threepenny Review\, and other journals. Santana received her MFA in Fiction from Sarah Lawrence College\, and her MA and PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University. She is the recipient of a CantoMundo Fellowship and a Djerassi Resident Artist Program Fellowship. Mary Szybist selected Santana’s poetry for inclusion in the Best New Poets 2016 anthology. Currently\, Santana teaches poetry and fiction workshops in Spanish\, as well as literary translation courses at Stanford University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ari-banias-lorenzo-herrera-y-lozano-cintia-santana/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:L.A. Kaufman
DESCRIPTION:Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism \nfrom Verso Press \nA vibrant\, groundbreaking history of American radicalism since the Sixties \n\nWhat happened to the American left after the Sixties? This engrossing account traces the evolution of disruptive protest over the last 40 years to tell a larger story about the reshaping of American radicalism\, showing how the direct-action blockades\, occupations\, and campaigns of recent activist movements have functioned as laboratories for political experimentation and renewal. \nPropelled by more than 100 candid interviews conducted over a span of decades\, this elegant and lively history showcases the voices of key players in an array of movements – environmentalist\, anti-nuclear\, anti-apartheid\, feminist\, LGBTQ\, anti-globalization\, racial-justice\, anti-war\, and more – across an era when American politics shifted to the right\, and issue- and identity-based organizing eclipsed the traditional ideologies of the left.  \nAs Kauffman\, a longtime movement insider\, examines how groups from ACT UP to Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter have used direct action to catalyze change against long odds\, she details the profound influence of feminism and queerness on radical political practice and how enduring divisions of race have shaped the landscape of activism. Written with nuance and humor\, and revealing deep connections between movements usually viewed in isolation\, Direct Action is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how protest movements erupt — and how they can succeed. \nL.A. Kauffman has spent more than 30 years immersed in radical movements\, as an organizer\, strategist\, journalist\, and observer. Her writings on grassroots activism and social movement history have been published in The Nation\, Mother Jones\, n+1\, The Baffler\, and many other outlets. Kauffman was the mobilizing coordinator for the massive anti-war marches of 2003-2004; she has been called a “virtuoso organizer” by journalist Scott Sherman for her role in saving community gardens and public libraries in New York City from developers. Visit L.A. Kauffman’s twitter-feed \nWhat has been said of L.A. Kauffman’s work: \n“It is impossible to overstate the importance of this book. Chances are that even if you know something about the recent history of the left in America\, you probably only know a few isolated parts. L.A. Kauffman has connected a vast field of dots to create an overview\, and she has done with dispatch\, clarity\, and elegance. Her book is essential reading for today\, and will be for tomorrow.” \n– Luc Sante \n“You could not ask for a better guide through recent social movement history than L. A. Kauffman. A champion of radical causes with decades of experience on the frontlines of civil disobedience\, she chronicles the fascinating evolution of a set of protest tactics today’s activists take for granted. Kauffman has done a tremendous public service: by helping us better understand the past\, in all its glory and folly\, we can be more effective dissidents and rabble rousers tomorrow. This startling\, inspiring book is for anyone who has ever felt the urge to put their body on the line and shut things down for something they believe in.” \n– Astra Taylor\, author of The People’s Platform and co-founder of the Debt Collective
URL:https://litseen.com/event/l-a-kaufman/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Pola Oloixarac
DESCRIPTION:Argentinian writer Pola Oloixarac in conversation about her first novel translated into English\, Savage Theories. \n\nPraise for Savage Theories \n“A stunning vibrant maximalist whirlwind of a novel. Oloixarac’s wit and ambition are evident on every page. By comparison\, most other contemporary fiction seems a little dull and simple-minded.” — Hari Kunzru\, author of “Gods Without Men” \n\n“Monstrously clever and terribly funny. More than a debut\, this book is one many of us would spend our lives trying to write.” — Javier Calvo \n\n“Pola Oloixarac’s prose is the great event of the new Argentinian narrative. Her novel is unforgettable\, philosophical and very serene.” — Ricardo Piglia \n\nAbout Savage Theories \nA novel of seduction and madness\, hate and love\, set in the world of Argentinean academia and animated by the spirits of Wittgenstein\, Rousseau\, Nabokov and Bolano. \nRosa Ostreech\, a pseudonym for the novel’s beautiful but self-conscious narrator\, carries around a trilingual edition of Aristotle’s Metaphysics\, struggles with her thesis on violence and culture\, sleeps with a bourgeois former guerrilla\, and pursues her elderly professor with a highly charged blend of eroticism and desperation. Elsewhere on campus\, Pabst and Kamtchowsky tour the underground scene of Buenos Aires\, dabbling in ketamine\, sex\, video games\, and hacking. And in Africa in 1917\, a Dutch anthropologist named Johan van Vliet begins work on a theory that explains human consciousness and civilization by reference to our early primate ancestors animals\, who\, in the process of becominghuman\, spent thousands of years as prey. \n“Savage Theories” wryly explores fear and violence\, war and sex\, eroticism and philosophy. Its complex and flawed characters grapple with a mess of impossible\, visionary theories\, searching for their place in our fragmented digital world. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pola-oloixarac-3/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bill Hayes
DESCRIPTION:A moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls “the evanescent\, the eavesdropped\, the unexpected” of life in New York City\, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks. \n“If you are lonely or bone-tired or blue\, you need only come down from your perch and step outside. New York—which is to say\, New Yorkers—will take care of you.” \nBill Hayes came to New York City in 2008 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by. But\, at forty-eight years old\, having spent decades in San Francisco\, he craved change. Grieving over the death of his partner\, he quickly discovered the profound consolations of the city’s incessant rhythms\, the sight of the Empire State Building against the night sky\, and New Yorkers themselves\, kindred souls that Hayes\, a lifelong insomniac\, encountered on late-night strolls with his camera. \nAnd he unexpectedly fell in love again\, with his friend and neighbor\, the writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks\, whose exuberance—“I don’t so much fear death as I do wasting life\,” he tells Hayes early on—is captured in funny and touching vignettes throughout. What emerges is a portrait of Sacks at his most personal and endearing\, from falling in love for the first time at age seventy-five to facing illness and death (Sacks died of cancer in August 2015). Insomniac City is both a meditation on grief and a celebration of life. Filled with Hayes’s distinctive street photos of everyday New Yorkers\, the book is a love song to the city and to all who have felt the particular magic and solace it offers. \nBill Hayes is the author of The Anatomist\, Five Quarts\, and Sleep Demons. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction and was a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times\, and his writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books and Salon\, among other publications. His photographs have been featured in Vanity Fair\, the New York Times\, and the New Yorker.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bill-hayes/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Layli Long Soldier + Truong Tran
DESCRIPTION:Poets Layli Long Soldier and Truong Tran read from new work\, then engage with one another and their audience in conversation. Free and open to the public. \nLayli Long Soldier earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA with honors from Bard College. She is the author of the chapbook Chromosomory (2010) and\, new this March\, the book Whereas (Graywolf Press\, 2017)\, recipient of the prestigious Whiting Award for 2016. She has been a contributing editor to Drunken Boat and is poetry editor at Kore Press. In 2012 her participatory installation\, Whereas We Respond\, was featured on the Pine Ridge Reservation. In 2015\, Long Soldier was awarded a National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation and a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry. “I am\,” she writes\, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe\, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation ― and in this dual citizenship I must work\, I must eat\, I must art\, I must mother\, I must friend\, I must listen\, I must observe\, constantly I must live.” \nTruong Tran is an artist and writer living in San Francisco. His books include Placing the Accents\, Dust and Conscience\, The Book of Perceptions\, Within The Margins\, Four Letter Words\, I Meant To Say Please Pass The Sugar and the children’s book Going Home Coming Home. His works have been translated into Dutch\, French\, Spanish and Vietnamese. He has been twelve years a lecturer at SFSU and is currently The Visiting Assistant Professor at Mills College where he teaches writing workshops at the intersection of poetry and the visual arts. His latest body of exploration\, entitled “The PreEmptive Works\,” will be forthcoming in 2018. \nBecause We Come from Everywhere: Poetry and Migration\nMarch 2017 Poetry Center programming appears under the sign of this line by Juan Felipe Herrera\, in conjunction with 20+ member organizations from across the country constituting the newly formed Poetry Coalition
URL:https://litseen.com/event/layli-long-soldier-truong-tran/
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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CREATED:20161201T025906Z
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SUMMARY:Eric Puchner
DESCRIPTION:Eric Puchner will read from his newest collection of short stories Last Day on Earth. \nPraise for Eric Puchner: \n“Eric Puchner is an alchemist who captures the joy and danger in everyday life and\, with precision\, humor\, and empathy\, turns these moments into gold. These stories allow us to look at our own lives more closely and with more courage and understanding–a poignant and unforgettable collection from a great storyteller.” – Yiyun Li\, author of Dear Friend\, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life \n\nAbout Last Day on Earth: \nFrom the award-winning author of Music Through the Floor and Model Home\, a riveting and profoundly moving story collection by a writer uncannily in tune with the heartbreak and absurdity of domestic life (Los Angeles Times). \nA boy on the edge of adolescence fears his mother might be a robot; a psychotically depressed woman is entrusted with taking her niece and nephew trick-or-treating; a reluctant dad brings his baby to a coke-fueled party; a teenage boy tries to prevent his mother from putting his estranged father’s dogs to sleep. Ranging from a youth arts camp to an aging punk band’s reunion tour\, from a dystopian future where parents no longer exist to a ferociously independent bookstore\, Last Day on Earth revolves around the endlessly complex\, frequently surreal system that is family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eric-puchner/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170117T091816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T020402Z
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon Spring Reading
DESCRIPTION:Babylon Solan Spring Reading presents National Book Award-nominated author of seven novels Cristina García\, and Best-selling author and editor Josh Mohr.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-solan-spring-reading/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170117T093212Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170117T093212Z
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SUMMARY:Megan Marshall
DESCRIPTION:From a Pulitzer Prize-winning author comes Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast\, a brilliantly rendered life of one of our most admired American poets \nSince her death in 1979\, Elizabeth Bishop\, who published only one hundred poems in her lifetime\, has become one of America’s most revered poets. And yet—painfully shy and living out of public view in far-flung locations like Key West and Brazil—she has never been seen so fully as a woman and artist. Megan Marshall makes incisive and moving use of a newly discovered cache of Bishop’s letters—to her psychiatrist and to three of her lovers—to reveal a much darker childhood than has been known\, a secret affair\, and the last chapter of her passionate romance with Brazilian modernist designer Lota de Macedo Soares. \nThese elements of Bishop’s life\, along with her friendships with fellow poets Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell\, both important champions of her work\, are brought to life with novelistic intensity. And by alternating the narrative line of biography with brief passages of memoir\, Megan Marshall\, who studied with Bishop in her storied 1970s poetry workshop at Harvard\, offers the reader an original and compelling glimpse of the ways poetry and biography\, subject and biographer\, are entwined. \nMegan Marshall is the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for Margaret Fuller\, and the author of The Peabody Sisters\, which won the Francis Parkman Prize\, the Mark Lynton History Prize\, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2006. She is the Charles Wesley Emerson College Professor and teaches narrative nonfiction and the art of archival research in the MFA program at Emerson College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/megan-marshall/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170117T092956Z
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SUMMARY:Yiyun Li
DESCRIPTION:Dear Friend\, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life \npublished by Random House \nIn her first nonfiction book\, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li explores a question we ask ourselves: How does one make life livable? \nStartlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom\, this is a luminous account of a life lived with books. Written over two years while the author battled suicidal depression\, Dear Friend\, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life is a painful and yet richly affirming examination of what makes life worth living. \nYiyun Li grew up in China and has spent her adult life as an immigrant in a country not her own. She has been a scientist\, an author\, a mother\, a daughter—and through it all she has been sustained by a profound connection with the writers and books she loves. From William Trevor and Katherine Mansfield to Søren Kierkegaard and Philip Larkin\, Dear Friend is a journey through the deepest themes that bind these writers together. \nInterweaving personal experiences with a wide-ranging homage to her most cherished literary influences\, Yiyun Li confronts the two most essential questions of her identity: Why write? And why live? Dear Friend is a beautiful\, interior exploration of selfhood and a journey of recovery through literature: a long letter from a writer to like-minded readers. \nYiyun Li grew up in Beijing and came to the United States in 1996. She has received fellowships and awards from Lannan Foundation and Whiting Foundation. Her debut collection\, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers\, won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award\, PEN/Hemingway Award\, Guardian First Book Award\, and California Book Award for first fiction. Her novel\, The Vagrants\, won the gold medal of California Book Award for fiction\, and was shortlisted for Dublin IMPAC Award. Gold Boy\, Emerald Girl\, her second collection\, was a finalist of Story Prize and shortlisted for Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages. She was selected by Granta as one of the 21 Best Young American Novelists under 35\, and was named by The New Yorker as one of the top 20 writers under 40. MacArthur Foundation named her a 2010 fellow. She is a contributing editor to the Brooklyn-based literary magazine\, \nAdvance praise for Dear Friend\, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life \n“In this exquisite\, intimate\, lyrical memoir\, Yiyun Li reveals her life in flashes appended to an arrestingly coherent philosophy of time\, self\, and place. Uniting the discipline of a scientist with the empathy of a novelist\, she scatters profound and often difficult truths through these generous\, wise\, challenging pages.”—Andrew Solomon\, author of Far from the Tree \n“Yiyun Li has written a remarkable account of her literary life\, begun in her youth in China with the books that first engaged her in the great conversations of literature. In her own emergence as an important and gifted writer in English she has brought a new voice to that great world. She has also been\, in the deepest sense\, sustained by it. Her new book is a meditation on the fact that literature itself lives and gives life.”—Marilynne Robinson\, author of Gilead \n“Literature\, national identity versus the individual self\, the clash of public and private\, the mysterious nature of relationship\, indeed\, human nature itself—these subjects and more are explored with remarkable subtlety and rare\, limpid mental beauty. A must-read for anyone trying to stay sane in a world that might be perceived as insane.”—Mary Gaitskill\, author of The Mare \n“This extraordinary book is the story of a writer being made and making herself. It is the story of depression coming in waves and being beaten back through love and stubbornness. And also it is one of our finest writers scrutinizing the books that have mattered most to her.”—Akhil Sharma\, author of Family Life \n“Reading Yiyun Li feels like being inside a mind—a quietly forceful\, unrelenting mind. Within the limits of language\, which she all but touches\, she unfolds an argument with the self. She is suspicious of the very concept of the self\, but she does not\, ultimately\, refuse its possibilities. ‘What a long way it is from one life to another\,’ she writes\, while closing that space.”—Eula Biss\, author of On Immunity
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yiyun-li-3/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Asya Abdrahman\, Faith Adiele + Tonya M. Foster
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of International Women’s Day and in collaboration with the Museum of the African Diaspora\, memoirist and travel writer Faith Adiele\, poet and essayist Tonya Foster\, and visual artist Asya Abdrahman will discuss the ways they make place and navigate the literary\, artistic and academic worlds in which they live and work. The event will include readings by the authors and offer opportunities for visual and literary artists to respond to each other’s work. The event takes place within in the context of the current MoAD exhibition\, Where Is Here\, curated by Jacqueline Francis and Kathy Zarur. Admission: $10 General | $5 Student/Senior | Free for MoAD Members and SFSU Students \nAsya Abdrahman is a San Francisco-based mixed media and installation artist who considers the intersection of cultural identity\, human rights and the environment in her work. Of Somali\, Eritrean\, and Ethiopian heritages\, she fled her East African homeland during a time of regional wars. Abdrahman’s work promotes cultural and ecological survival\, advanced through her use of human\, natural\, found\, and recycled resources. In addition to exhibiting her art throughout the Bay Area\, Abdrahman is the founder of Pay It Forward (PIF) Gallery in Oakland. She regularly produces and curates exhibitions at the historic Red Vic and contributes art and writing to Women Eco Artists Dialog. Her work is featured at MoAD in the current exhibition Where Is Here. \nFaith Adiele was raised in the Pacific Northwest\, and earned two MFAs from writing programs at the University of Iowa. She is the author of the travel memoir Meeting Faith\, which won the PEN Open Book Award\, and co-editor of Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology. She’s completing a mixed-media family history inspired by My Journey Home\, her PBS documentary about finding her Nigerian family\, and her ebook/audiobook\, The Nigerian-Nordic Girl’s Guide to Lady Problems. She is an Associate Professor at California College of the Arts and teaches at The Writers’ Grotto and VONA/Voices\, where she launched the nation’s first writing workshop for travelers of color. Adiele lives in Oakland and runs a monthly African Book Club. Visit her at adiele.com and @meetingfaith. \nTonya M. Foster was born in Bloomington\, Illinois and raised in New Orleans.  She holds an MFA from the University of Houston. She is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court (Belladonna*\, 2015) and co-editor of Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art. Her work has appeared in Callaloo\, MiPoiesis\, NYFA Arts Quarterly\, The Poetry Project Newsletter\, and elsewhere. A recipient of fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Macdowell Colony\, the Ford Foundation\, the Mellon Foundation\, and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York\, Foster is an Assistant Professor of Writing & Literature and Graduate Writing at California College of the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/asya-abdrahman-faith-adiele-tonya-m-foster/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Two Line Press Reading
DESCRIPTION:A Night of Literature in Translation with Two Lines \nJoin us for an evening of literature at Amado’s\, in the Mission District in San Francisco! \nThe night will include music\, conversation\, and live readings from Issues 25 and 26. We’ll provide snacks and a cash bar. You’ll also get a chance to meet Two Lines staff and hear more about upcoming issues of the journal\, and grab a sneak peek at our forthcoming book. \nAll proceeds support Two Lines Press. Your $10/$15 ticket includes a free issue of the journal. Check back for ticket purchase details.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-line-press-reading/
LOCATION:Amado’s\, 998 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Norman Ohler
DESCRIPTION:Norman Ohler in conversation about his new book\, Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich \n\nPraise for Norman Ohler \n\n“A huge contribution … Remarkable.” —Antony Beevor\, BBC 4 Today \n\n“Ohler’s astonishing account of methamphetamine addiction in the Third Reich changes what we know about the Second World War … Blitzed looks set to reframe the way certain aspects of the Third Reich will be viewed in the future.” — Guardian \n  \n“Blitzed tells the remarkable story of how Nazi Germany slid towards junkie-state status. It is an energetic … account of an accelerating\, modernizing society\, an ambitious pharmaceuticals industry\, a military machine that was looking for ways to create an unbeatable soldier\, and a dictator who couldn’t function without fixes from his quack … It has an uncanny ability to disturb.” — Times (UK) \n\nAbout Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich \n\nThe Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical\, mental\, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history\, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs. On the eve of World War II\, Germany was a pharmaceutical powerhouse\, and companies such as Merck and Bayer cooked up cocaine\, opiates\, and\, most of all\, methamphetamines\, to be consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives to millions of German soldiers. In fact\, troops regularly took rations of a form of crystal meth—the elevated energy and feelings of invincibility associated with the high even help to explain certain German military victories. \n  \nDrugs seeped all the way up to the Nazi high command and\, especially\, to Hitler himself. Over the course of the war\, Hitler became increasingly dependent on injections of a cocktail of drugs—including a form of heroin—administered by his personal doctor. While drugs alone cannot explain the Nazis’ toxic racial theories or the events of World War II\, Ohler’s investigation makes an overwhelming case that\, if drugs are not taken into account\, our understanding of the Third Reich is fundamentally incomplete.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/norman-ohler/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170201T024447Z
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SUMMARY:Damion Searls
DESCRIPTION:The Inkblot: Hermann Rorschach\, His Iconic Test\, and the Power of Seeing \nfrom Crown Books \nThe captivating untold story of Hermann Rorschach and his famous inkblot test\, which has shaped our view of human personality and become a fixture in popular culture \nIn 1917\, working alone in a remote Swiss asylum\, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach devised an experiment to probe the human mind. For years he had grappled with the theories of Freud and Jung while also absorbing the aesthetic of a new generation of modern artists. He had come to believe that who we are is less a matter of what we say\, as Freud thought\, than what we see. \nRorschach himself was a visual artist\, and his test\, a set of ten carefully designed inkblots\, quickly made its way to America\, where it took on a life of its own. Co-opted by the military after Pearl Harbor\, it was a fixture at the Nuremberg trials and in the jungles of Vietnam. It became an advertising staple\, a cliché in Hollywood and journalism\, and an inspiration to everyone from Andy Warhol to Jay Z. The test was also given to millions of defendants\, job applicants\, parents in custody battles\, workers applying for jobs\, and people suffering from mental illness—or simply trying to understand themselves better. And it is still used today. \nDamion Searls draws on unpublished letters and diaries as well as a cache of previously unknown interviews with Rorschach’s family\, friends\, and colleagues to tell the unlikely story of the test’s creation\, its controversial reinvention\, and its remarkable endurance—and what it all reveals about the power of perception. Elegant and original\, The Inkblots shines a light on the twentieth century’s most visionary synthesis of art and science. \n\nDamion Searls has written for Harper’s\, n+1\, and The Paris Review\, and has translated the work of authors including Rilke\, Proust\, and five Nobel Prize winners. He has been the recipient of Guggenheim\, NEA\, and Cullman Center fellowships.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/damion-searls/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Wendy Garling
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street Tuesday\, March 14h at 7:00pm as we welcome Author Wendy Garling\, reading from and discussing her book Stars at Dawn. \n  \nIn this retelling of the ancient legends of the women in the Buddha’s intimate circle\, lesser-known stories from Sanskrit and Pali sources are for the first time woven into an illuminating\, coherent narrative that follows his life from his birth to his parinirvana or death. Interspersed with original insights\, fresh interpretations\, and bold challenges to the status quo\, the stories are both entertaining and thought-provoking—some may even appear controversial. \n  \nFocusing first on laywomen from the time before the Buddha’s enlightenment—his birth mother and stepmother\, his co-wives\, and members of his harem when he was known as Prince Siddhartha—then moving on to the Buddha’s first female disciples\, early nuns\, and to female patrons\, Wendy Garling invites us to open our minds to a new understanding of their roles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wendy-garling/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20161223T030840Z
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SUMMARY:Ron Currie
DESCRIPTION:Ron Currie’s three previous works of fiction have dazzled readers and critics alike with their originality\, audacity\, and psychological insight. A writer of unique vision and huge imagination\, Currie excels at creating complex\, troubled\, yet endearing characters\, and his work has won comparison to everyone from Kurt Vonnegut to George Saunders. \nK.\, the intriguing narrator of Currie’s new novel\, The One-Eyed Man\, joins the ranks of other great American literary creations who show us something new about ourselves. Like Jack Gladney from White Noise\, K. is possessed of a hyper-articulate exasperation with the world\, and like Ignatius J. Reilly in A Confederacy of Dunces\, he is a doomed truth teller whom everyone misunderstands. After his wife Sarah dies\, K. loses his metaphorical capacity\, becoming so wedded to the notion of clarity that he infuriates everyone\, friends and strangers alike. When he intervenes in an armed robbery\, K. finds himself both an inadvertent hero and the star of a new reality television program. Together with Claire\, a grocery store clerk with a sharp tongue and a yen for celebrity\, he travels the country\, ruffling feathers and gaining fame at the intersection of American politics and entertainment. But soon\, through a conflagration of biblical proportions\, he discovers that the world will fight viciously to preserve its delusions about itself. \nK.’s quixotic effort to fully understand the world he lives in makes for a singular and entertaining novel\, one which further establishes Ron Currie’s position as one of today’s rising stars in fiction. \nRon Currie is the author of the novels Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles and Everything Matters! and the short story collection God is Dead\, which was the winner of the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award. In 2009\, he received the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His books have been translated into fifteen languages. He lives in Portland\, Maine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ron-currie/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Logic Magazine
DESCRIPTION:Logic Magazine wants to tell the story of technology with its founding editors: Ben Tarnoff\, Moira Weigel\, Jim Fingal\, Christa Hartsock and Logic contributors Tim Hwang\, Miriam Posner\, and Conrad Amenta. \nLogic is a new magazine devoted to technology and society. Please join us for a celebration of their debut issue\, “Intelligence\,” which explores how technology works—and whom it works for. Hear thier editors read from our founding manifesto\, and listen to contributors tackle topics as varied as: coding’s gender crisis\, the failure of collective intelligence in the Age of Trump\, and the industrialization of medicine through software. \nLearn more about the magazine\, and read their manifesto\, at logicmag.io. \nBen Tarnoff writes about technology and politics for The Guardian and Jacobin. His most recent book is The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature. \nMoira Weigel writes about gender and technology for The New York Times\, The Guardian\, and The New Republic. She is the author of Labor Love: The Invention of Dating. \nJim Fingal is a software developer and the Head of Product Engineering at Amino. He is the co-author\, with John D’Agata\, of The Lifespan of a Fact. \nChrista Hartsock is a software developer and a 2017 Code for America Fellow. \nTim Hwang is a Fellow at Data & Society and has worked with the Berkman Center\, Creative Commons\, the Electronic Frontier Foundation\, and the Institute for the Future. \nMiriam Posner teaches in the Digital Humanities program at the University of California\, Los Angeles. \nConrad Amenta writes about video games and culture for Kill Screen and works as a healthcare researcher in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/logic-magazine/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joan Frank
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith is excited to host the San Francisco launch party for Joan Frank‘s fourth novel and winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction\, All The News I Need. Joan will be in conversation with Peg Alford Pursell. Join us! \n  \nFrances Ferguson is a lonely\, sharp-tongued widow who lives in the wine country. Oliver Gaffney is a painfully shy gay man who guards a secret and lives out equally lonely days in San Francisco. Friends by default\, Fran and Ollie nurse the deep anomie of loss and the creeping\, animal betrayal of aging. Each loves routine but is anxious that life might be passing by. To crack open this stalemate\, Fran insists the two travel together to Paris. The aftermath of their funny\, bittersweet journey suggests those small changes\, within our reach\, that may help us save ourselves—somewhere toward the end. \n  \n“I was in thrall to these sentences\, their music\, their compassion and truth and disarming humility.” — Sam Michel\, Juniper Prize for Fiction judge and author of Strange Cowboy\n“Joan Frank is a human insight machine.” — Carolyn Cooke\, author of Amor and Psycho: Stories\n“Joan Frank is a writer of sublime power who reveals the lives of her characters with such care\, insight\, and elegance\, that deeply buried feelings of victory and loss become inextricably bound up with our own.” — Simon Van Booy\, author ofFather’s Day
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joan-frank/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20161201T030153Z
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SUMMARY:Paul La Farge w/ Daniel Handler
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Handler talks with Paul La Farge about his latest novel\, The Night Ocean. \nPraise for The Night Ocean: \n“Magnificent. The Night Ocean is an impossible\, irresistible novel\, a love letter to the unloveable that speaks the unspeakable.” – Lev Grossman\, author of the Magicians trilogy \n“A whole damned hustling heart-broken double-talking meaning-haunted world it is a privilege to enter.” – Peter Straub \n“Paul La Farge has crafted the perfect novel – a work that constantly twists into unexpected realms\, that illuminates the nature of love and deception\, and that is as funny as it is profound. The Night Ocean is a gift to readers.” – David Grann\, author of The Lost City of Z \n\n“The Night Ocean is straight up brilliant. That’s no surprise since it’s written by Paul La Farge\, one of the smartest\, wildest literary talents in the game today….A sly\, witty\, but still loving send-up of H.P. Lovecraft and some of the grand anxieties of the American 20th century.” — Victor LaValle\, author of The Ballad of Black Tom \n\n“It has been years since I read a novel with so much joy\, impatience and awe. The Night Ocean overflows with difficult love\, not least of all that of our narrator\, Marina\, who indirectly reminds us of how we are pushed around by dreams\, ghosts\, chance\, and history. I have long been a tremendous admirer of all of La Farge’s work; this novel is my favorite.” – Rivka Galchen\, author of Atmospheric Disturbances \n\nAbout The Night Ocean: \nFrom the award-winning author and New Yorker contributor\, a riveting novel about secrets and scandals\, psychiatry and pulp fiction\, inspired by the lives of H.P. Lovecraft and his circle.\nMarina Willett\, M.D.\, has a problem. Her husband\, Charlie\, has become obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft\, in particular with one episode in the legendary horror writer’s life: In the summer of 1934\, the “old gent” lived for two months with a gay teenage fan named Robert Barlow\, at Barlow’s family home in central Florida. What were the two of them up to? Were they friends–or something more? Just when Charlie thinks he’s solved the puzzle\, a new scandal erupts\, and he disappears. The police say it’s suicide. Marina is a psychiatrist\, and she doesn’t believe them.\nA tour-de-force of storytelling\, The Night Ocean follows the lives of some extraordinary people: Lovecraft\, the most influential American horror writer of the 20th century\, whose stories continue to win new acolytes\, even as his racist views provoke new critics; Barlow\, a seminal scholar of Mexican culture who killed himself after being blackmailed for his homosexuality (and who collaborated with Lovecraft on the beautiful story “The Night Ocean”); his student\, future Beat writer William S. Burroughs; and L.C. Spinks\, a kindly Canadian appliance salesman and science-fiction fan — the only person who knows the origins of The Erotonomicon\, purported to be the intimate diary of Lovecraft himself.\nAs a heartbroken Marina follows her missing husband’s trail in an attempt to learn the truth\, the novel moves across the decades and along the length of the continent\, from a remote Ontario town\, through New York and Florida to Mexico City. The Night Ocean is about love and deception — about the way that stories earn our trust\, and betray it.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-la-farge-w-daniel-handler/
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:Moshin Hamid
DESCRIPTION:Named one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by Time Magazine\, the New York Times\, Washington Post and the Huffington Post \nFrom the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist\, a love story that unfolds across the rapidly changing face of a volatile world. \nIn a country teetering on the brink of civil war\, two young people meet sensual\, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle\, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair\, and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes\, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts\, they begin to hear whispers about doors doors that can whisk people far away\, if perilously and for a price. As the violence escalates\, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind\, they find a door and step through. . . . \nExit West follows these remarkable characters as they emerge into an alien and uncertain future\, struggling to hold on to each other\, to their past\, to the very sense of who they are. Profoundly intimate and powerfully inventive\, it tells an unforgettable story of love\, loyalty\, and courage that is both completely of our time and for all time. \nMohsin Hamidis the internationally bestselling author of Moth Smoke\, The Reluctant Fundamentalist\, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia\, and Discontent and its Civilizations. His award-winning novels have been adapted for the cinema\, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize\, and translated into more than thirty languages. His essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, and the New Yorker\, among many other publications. Hamid now resides in Lahore\, his birthplace\, after living for a number of years in New York and London.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/moshin-hamid/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170109T104039Z
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SUMMARY:Deepak Unnikrishnan
DESCRIPTION:Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing \nIn the United Arab Emirates\, foreign nationals constitute over 80% of the population. Brought in to construct the towering monuments to wealth that bristle the skylines of Abu Dhabi and Dubai\, this labor force works without the rights of citizenship\, endures miserable living conditions\, and is eventually required to leave the country. Until now\, the humanitarian crisis of the so-called “guest workers” of the Gulf has barely been addressed in fiction. With his stunning\, mind-altering book Temporary People\, debut author Deepak Unnikrishnan delves into their histories\, myths\, struggles\, and triumphs\, and illuminates the ways in which temporary status affects psyches\, families\, memories\, stories\, and languages. \nCombining the irrepressible linguistic invention of Salman Rushdie and the darkly funny satirical vision of George Saunders\, Deepak Unnikrishnan presents twenty-eight linked stories that careen from construction workers who shapeshift into luggage and escape a labor camp\, to a woman who stitches back together the bodies of those who’ve fallen from buildings in progress\, to a man who grows ideal workers designed to live twelve years and then perish—until they don’t\, and found a rebel community in the desert. In this polyphony of voices\, Unnikrishnan brilliantly maps a new\, unruly global English\, and in giving substance and identity to the anonymous workers of the Gulf\, he highlights the disturbing ways in which “progress” on a global scale is bound up with dehumanization. \nDeepak Unnikrishnan is a writer and taleteller from Abu Dhabi (and now\, Chicago). He has lived on the East Coast and in the Midwest\, reciting and mining his myths in Teaneck\, New Jersey\, Brooklyn\, New York\, and Chicago’s North and South sides. He has studied and taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and presently teaches at New York University Abu Dhabi. Temporary People\, his first book\, was the inaugural winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deepak-unnikrishnan/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:AMERARCANA: A Bird & Beckett Review
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a concert and reading in celebration of the Shuffle Boil Special Issue of AMERARCANA: A Bird & Beckett Review\, guest edited by David Meltzer and Steve Dickison. The evening will feature live music by outstanding Bay Area musicians David Boyce\, Hafez Modirzadeh\, and Marshall R. Trammell — all of whom\, as writers\, are contributors to the current issue of the journal. Participating poets and writers tba. This event is free and open to the public. \nDavid Boyce is a tenor saxophonist\, music educator\, and founding member of the renowned postmodern jazz trio Broun Fellinis. He’s toured Japan and Europe and performs regularly in the Bay Area with a variety of musical ensembles playing everything from straight ahead jazz to RnB/Soul to experimental improv. Much more at brounsoun \nHafez Modirzadeh has performed internationally over the last 20 years with such musicians as Ornette Coleman\, Don Cherry\, Zakir Hussein\, Steve Lacy\, Oliver Lake\, George Lewis\, Peter Apfelbaum\, William Lowe\, James Newton\, Wadada Leo Smith\, Omar Sosa\, Royal Hartigan\, and many Asian and Asian American musical artists such as Fred Ho\, Miya Masaoka\, Liu Chi Chao\, Danongan Kalanduyan\, Mark Izu\, Anthony Brown\, Akira Tana\, and Kenny Endo. His recorded output as a leader includes three recent recordings on Pi Records: In Convergence Liberation\, Post-Chromodal Out!\, and\, with trumpeter Amir ElSaffar\, Radif Suite. He is currently professor of World Culture in Music at San Francisco State University where he directs the World Music and Dance Program. \nMarshall Trammell is the Chief Investigator at Music Research Strategies\, his platform for creative inquiry and social engagement. He is a Bay Area-based percussionist who has collaborated with Pauline Oliveros\, Marco Eneidi\, Suzanne Thorpe\, Dohee Lee\, Hong-Kai Wang (Taiwan)\, Genny Lim\, Saul Williams\, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten\, Leon Sun\, Francis Wong\, Jon Jang\, Chris Cogburn\, Donald Robinson\, William Winant\, India Cooke.  Mr. Trammell performs in the electro-acoustic duo Black Spirituals\, who tour extensively in Europe and the USA\, and have performed in special locations like Issue Project Room (NYC)\, the Exploratorium Resonance Series (SF) and Heritage Hall in Guelph\, Canada. \nBecause We Come from Everywhere: Poetry and Migration\nMarch 2017 Poetry Center programming appears under the sign of this line by Juan Felipe Herrera\, in conjunction with 20+ member organizations from across the country constituting the newly formed Poetry Coalition
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amerarcana-a-bird-beckett-review/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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