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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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SUMMARY:Melissa Febos
DESCRIPTION:Melissa Febos talks about Abandon Me\, her new memoir\, with Mallory Ortberg. \n\nPraise for Abandon Me: \n\n“A powerful\, poignant meditation on not only the pain of loss but also the maddening\, intoxicating\, confusing and exhilarating effects of true human closeness.” –  Meghan Daum\, author of THE UNSPEAKABLE \n\n“Abandon Me is a voluptuous book about the relationship between sex and surrender\, desire and addiction\, vulnerability and power. Febos unfolds her dark romance with erotic charge and sensuous poetry.” –  Sarah Hepola\, author of BLACKOUT \n\n“It’s rare to read a book as generous as it is genius. Febos intimately explores addiction\, pain\, pleasure\, the uncontrollable character and the strangely joyful and terrifying nuances of abandonment. I don’t know that I’ve ever felt more thankful to read a book. Abandon Me found me when I most needed it.” –  Kiese Laymon\, author of HOW TO SLOWLY KILL YOURSELF AND OTHERS IN AMERICA \n\n“An intricately constructed and emotionally devastating book about the appearance and disappearance of love. Febos is a strikingly talented writer who pushes at the boundaries of her form and shows us just how amazing and expansive it can be.” –  Jenny Offill\, author of DEPT. OF SPECULATION \n\nAbout Abandon Me: \n\nIn her critically acclaimed memoir\, Whip Smart\, Melissa Febos laid bare the intimate world of the professional dominatrix\, turning an honest examination of her life into a lyrical study of power\, desire\, and fulfillment.\nIn her dazzling Abandon Me\, Febos captures the intense bonds of love and the need for connection — with family\, lovers\, and oneself. First\, her birth father\, who left her with only an inheritance of addiction and Native American blood\, its meaning a mystery. As Febos tentatively reconnects\, she sees how both these lineages manifest in her own life\, marked by compulsion and an instinct for self-erasure. Meanwhile\, she remains closely tied to the sea captain who raised her\, his parenting ardent but intermittent as his work took him away for months at a time. Woven throughout is the hypnotic story of an all-consuming\, long-distance love affair with a woman\, marked equally by worship and withdrawal. In visceral\, erotic prose\, Febos captures their mutual abandonment to passion and obsession — and the terror and exhilaration of losing herself in another.\nAt once a fearlessly vulnerable memoir and an incisive investigation of art\, love\, and identity\, Abandon Me draws on childhood stories\, religion\, psychology\, mythology\, popular culture\, and the intimacies of one writer’s life to reveal intellectual and emotional truths that feel startlingly universal.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/melissa-febos-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Patty Yumi Cottrell
DESCRIPTION:Patty Yumi Cottrell in conversation about her new novel\, Sorry to Disrupt the Peace. \nPraise for Patty Yumi Cottrell \n\n“Patty Yumi Cottrell’s prose does so many of my favorite things–some too subtle to talk about without spoiling\, but one thing I have to mention is the way in which her heroine’s investigation of a suicide draws the reader right into the heart of this wonderfully spiky hedgehog of a book and then elbows us yet further along into what is ultimately a tremendously moving act of imagination.” —Helen Oyeyemi\, author of What Is Not Yours Is \n\n“In this completely absorbing novel of devastation and estrangement\, Patty Yumi Cottrell introduces herself as a modern Robert Walser. Her voice is unflinching\, unforgettable\, and animated with a restless sense of humor.” —Catherine Lacey\, author of Nobody Is Ever Missing \n\n“Patty Yumi Cottrell’s adoption of the rambling and specific absurd will and must delight. This is a graceful claim not just about writing but about a way of being in the world\, an always new and necessary way to contend with this garbage that surrounds us\, these false portraits of our hearts and minds. This book is not a diversion–it’s a lifeline.” —Jesse Ball\, author of How to Set a Fire and Why \n\nAbout Sorry to Disrupt the Peace \n\nHelen Moran is thirty-two years old\, single\, childless\, college-educated\, and partially employed as a guardian of troubled young people in New York. She’s accepting a delivery from IKEA in her shared studio apartment when her uncle calls to break the news: Helen’s adoptive brother is dead. According to the internet\, there are six possible reasons why her brother might have killed himself. But Helen knows better: she knows that six reasons is only shorthand for the abyss. Helen also knows that she alone is qualified to launch a serious investigation into his death\, so she purchases a one-way ticket to Milwaukee. There\, as she searches her childhood home and attempts to uncover why someone would choose to die\, she will face her estranged family\, her brother’s few friends\, and the overzealous grief counselor\, Chad Lambo; she may also discover what it truly means to be alive.\nA bleakly comic tour de force that’s by turns poignant\, uproariously funny\, and viscerally unsettling\, this debut novel has shades of Bernhard\, Beckett and Bowlesand it announces the singular voice of Patty Yumi Cottrell.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patty-yumi-cottrell/
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:A Celebration of Jane Austen
DESCRIPTION:Jane Austen lived and wrote 200 years ago\, but her books are still avidly read and her plain life studied today. What is it about her novels and Jane herself that continue to fascinate readers? Danine Cozzens\, co-chair of the Jane Austen Society\, Northern California Region\, will speak to this point at Word Week’s A Celebration of Jane Austen. In addition\, four local authors will read from some of Jane’s finished work. New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors Cara Black and Mary McNear will read from Northanger Abbey and Pride and Prejudice\, poet and novelist Marylee McNeal from Mansfield Park\, and short story author Richard May from Persuasion. The event is free. Jane Austen inspired door prizes will beawarded\, and Netherfield punch will be served. A free Word Week 2017 event www.facebook.com/Word-Week-314929538630095
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-celebration-of-jane-austen/
LOCATION:Umpqua Bank\, 3938 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Judith Ayn Bernhard + Aung Taik
DESCRIPTION:Judith Ayn Bernhard & Aung Taik – POETS! – featured readers followed by an open mic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/judith-ayn-bernhard-aung-taik/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Meredith Maran
DESCRIPTION:After the death of her best friend\, the loss of her life’s savings\, and the collapse of her once-happy marriage\, Meredith Maran—whom Anne Lamott calls “insightful\, funny\, and human”—leaves her San Francisco freelance writer’s life for a 9-to-5 job in Los Angeles. Determined to rebuild not only her savings but herself while relishing the joys of life in La-La land\, Maran writes The New Old Me\, “a poignant story\, a funny story\, a moving story\, and above all an American story of what it means to be a woman of a certain age in our time” (Christina Baker Kline\, number-one New York Times–bestselling author of Orphan Train). \n“High time we had a book that celebrates becoming an elder! Meredith Maran writes of the difficulties of loss and change and aging\, but makes it clear that getting on can be more interesting\, more fun\, and a lot more exciting than youth.” — Abigail Thomas\, author of the New York Times bestseller What Comes Next and How to Like It\n“The New Old Me is a book I don’t just want to read – I need to read it. So does everyone else who’s getting older and wants to live fully\, with immediacy and enjoyment\, which is to say\, everyone.” — Anne Lamott\, author of the New York Times bestsellers Bird by Bird and Some Assembly Required\n“Meredith Maran is my new role model for getting older without getting old.” — Kate Christensen\, author of the PEN/Faulkner award winner The Great Man \nMeredith Maran is the author of fourteen books\, including The New Old Me\, Why We Write About Ourselves\, Why We Write\, My Lie\, and A Theory of Small Earthquakes. She’s a book critic and essayist for newspapers and magazines including the Los Angeles Times\, the Boston Globe\, the Chicago Tribune\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, and Salon.com. The recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo\, and a member of the National Book Critics Circle\, Meredith lives in a restored historic bungalow in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meredith-maran-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Zoey Leigh Peterson
DESCRIPTION:In this moving and enormously entertaining debut novel\, longtime romantic partners Kathryn and Chris experiment with an open relationship and reconsider everything they thought they knew about love. \nAfter nine years together\, Kathryn and Chris have the sort of relationship most would envy. They speak in the shorthand they have invented\, complete one another’s sentences\, and help each other through every daily and existential dilemma. When Chris tells Kathryn about his feelings for Emily\, a vivacious young woman he sees often at the Laundromat\, Kathryn encourages her boyfriend to pursue this other woman—certain that her bond with Chris is strong enough to weather a little side dalliance. \nAs Kathryn and Chris stumble into polyamory\, Next Year\, For Sure tracks the tumultuous\, revelatory\, and often very funny year that follows. When Chris’s romance with Emily grows beyond what anyone anticipated\, both Chris and Kathryn are invited into Emily’s communal home\, where Kathryn will discover new romantic possibilities of her own. In the confusions\, passions\, and upheavals of their new lives\, both Kathryn and Chris will be forced to reconsider their past and what they thought they knew about love. \nOffering a luminous portrait of a relationship from two perspectives\, Zoey L. Paterson has written an empathic\, beautiful\, and tremendously honest novel about a great love pushed to the edge. Deeply poignant and hugely entertaining\, this story shows us what lies at the mysterious heart of relationships\, and what true openness and transformation require. \nZoey Leigh Peterson was born in England\, grew up all over the United States\, and now lives in Canada. Her fiction has appeared in The Walrus\, Grain\, PRISM international\, and has been anthologized in The Journey Prize Stories and Best Canadian Stories. She is the recipient of the Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction (The Malahat Review) and the Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award (The New Quarterly).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoey-leigh-peterson/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tuesdays at North Beach
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Tuesday evening in the historic literary epicenter of San Francisco to hear poets from near and far read their work! \nTuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, David Meltzer\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact friend’s Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tuesdays-at-north-beach/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Weekday Wanderlust: Hua\, Salum + Rohan
DESCRIPTION:Hello Wanderlusters and Happy March! We can’t wait until this month’s reading because we have a POWERHOUSE lineup on deck. Join us as we welcome three outstanding San Francisco writers: Vanessa Hua\, Jeremy Saum\, and Ethel Rohan. Bios will be posted soon to our FB page. Readings\, as usual\, are at the Hotel Rex (562 Sutter Street) and start promptly at 7pm\, but you know you can always find us in the Library Bar at 6pm. Drop in\, say Hi\, and celebrate the great writers of the San Francisco Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/weekday-wanderlust-hua-salum-rohan/
LOCATION:Hotel Rex\, 562 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cleve Jones w/ Wayne Goodman
DESCRIPTION:Noted LGBTQ activist Cleve Jones will discuss his memoir When We Rise and his life in “The Movement” (as he calls it) with local author and event host Wayne Goodman. This will be Jones’s first public appearance following the broadcast of the ABC televsion mini-series based on his work. Books will be available for purchase and signing. A free Word Week 2017 event www.facebook.com/Word-Week-314929538630095 \nbiographies:\nBorn in 1954\, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were. Like thousands of other young people\, Jones\, nearly penniless\, was drawn in the early 1970s to San Francisco\, a city electrified by progressive politics and sexual freedom. His career as an activist began in San Francisco when he befriended pioneer gay rights leader Harvey Milk. After Milk’s death\, Jones co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and conceived the idea of the AIDS Memorial Quilt\, which memorializes over 85\,000 Americans who have died from AIDS. He lives in San Francisco and works as a labor activist. \nWayne Goodman is a local author of four novels\, including most recently Vanya Says “Go!\, and host and curator of several local reading series. He has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for 50 years (with too many cats). When not writing or working on events\, he enjoys playing Gilded Age piano music by Women\, Gay\, and Black composers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cleve-jones-w-wayne-goodman/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:WordParty Poetry + Jazz Night featuring Genny Lim
DESCRIPTION:The WordParty poetry & jazz night returns to PianoFight every Third Tuesday of the Month in 2017! \nOur special guest for March (National Women’s History Month) will be Genny Lim – the current SF Jazz Poet Laureate! Genny is known to frequently collaborate with musicians including the late Max Roach\, Herbie Lewis and Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra. She has performed at World Poetry Festivals in Venezuela\, Italy and Bosnia and on recordings on Asian Improv Records with Francis Wong and Jon Jang. Genny has four poetry collections\, “Paper Gods and Rebels\,” “Child of War\,” “Winter Place” and her most recent “KRA!” She is the author of multiple children’s books and the award-winning play\, “Paper Angels\,” featured on PBS and the Seattle Fringe Festival in 2016. \nCome on down to PianoFight\, in the front room and join us for dinner\, drinks and some live poetry and jazz with the Nova Jazz band. Hosted by Jennifer Barone and Ingrid Keir. \nFree admission\, all ages\, full menu and bar. Sign-up at 6:45pm. Open Mic is open to poets and poetry ONLY – 3min time limit\, one really good poem to read with live jazz accompaniment. It’s on!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wordparty-poetry-jazz-night-featuring-genny-lim/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Immigrant Writers on Embodying 2 Cultures at Once
DESCRIPTION:Moderated and co-hosted by Kirstin Chen. \nHow do immigrant writers navigate multiple cultural and geographical perspectives? In this reading and panel discussion\, Kirstin Chen\, Ingrid Rojas Contreras\, Andrew Lam\, and Juliana Delgado Lopera will share how they encapsulate two—or more—sometimes radically different cultural identities in their work and the complications and opportunities that arise when those identities intermingle on the page. \nCopies of the authors’ books will be available for sale and signing. Free refreshments! This event is in the Library Meeting Room on the ground floor of the Noe Valley Library. A free Word Week 2017 eventwww.facebook.com/Word-Week-314929538630095 \nBiographies:\nKIRSTIN CHEN is the author of the novels Bury What We Cannot Take\, forthcoming in 2018\, and Soy Sauce for Beginners. A former Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing\, her short stories have appeared in Zyzzyva\, Hobart\, Pank\, and others. Born and raised in Singapore\, she currently lives in San Francisco. \nINGRID ROJAS CONTRERAS was born in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Electric Literature\, and Guernica\, among others. She has a column called Book Spine at KQED. Her debut novel\, The Fruit of the Drunken Tree\, is forthcoming from Doubleday in 2018. \nANDREW LAM is the author of two books of literary essays\, “Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora\,” “East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres\,” and a collection of short stories\, “Birds of Paradise Lost.” He is also an editor at New America Media and has a column with the Shanghai Daily and is widely published in many newspapers and magazines. \nJULIANA DELGADO LOPERA is an award-winning Colombian writer\, oral-historian\, literary-drag-queen based in San Francisco. The author of ¡Cuéntamelo! an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latin@ immigrants\, Juliana is the executive director of RADAR Productions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/immigrant-writers-on-embodying-2-cultures-at-once/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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