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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Ode to Our 13-Year-Old Selves
DESCRIPTION:Prompted by a fireside moment at a writing conference\, these poets with varying childhood experiences of race\, gender\, sexuality\, migration\, culture and religion\, will share work that honors their 13-year-old selves — and the surprise\, disbelief\, pride\, love\, and even derision those 13-year-old selves might have for the grown and poetry folx they have become. Participants will each open their readings by addressing themselves as their younger selves might experience them now. An unforgettable evening of vulnerable intimacy\, physical distancing\, and social connection. With Hari Alluri\, Nico Amador\, Faisal Mohyuddin\, Cynthia Dewi Oka\, and Seema Reza. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live at Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nNico Amador\nNico Amador is a poet\, community organizer and facilitator based in Vermont by way of San Diego and Philadelphia. His poems have appeared in Bettering American Poetry\, Vol 3\, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series\, Hypertext Review\, Poets Reading the News\, Poet Lore\, Bedfellows… Read More →\n\n \nCynthia Dewi Oka\nCynthia Dewi Oka is the author of Salvage (Northwestern University Press) and Nomad of Salt and Hard Water (Thread Makes Blanket). Her work has appeared widely in print and online\, including in ESPNW\, Hyperallergic\, Guernica\, Scoundrel Time\, Academy of American Poets\, American Poetry… Read More →\n\n \nSeema Reza\nSeema Reza is the author of A Constellation of Half-Lives and When the World Breaks Open. Her writing has appeared in print and online in McSweeney’s\, The Feminist Wire\, Bellevue Literary Review\, The Offing\, Full Grown People\, and The Nervous Breakdown\, among others. She has performed… Read More →\n\n \nFaisal Mohyuddin\nFaisal Mohyuddin is a writer\, artist\, and educator. He is the author of The Displaced Children of Displaced Children\, winner of the 2017 Sexton Prize in Poetry and a 2018 Summer Recommendation of the Poetry Book Society. His other awards include the Prairie Schooner’s Edward Stanley… Read More →\n\n \nHari Alluri\nHari Alluri is the author of The Flayed City (Kaya)\, Carving Ashes (CiCAC/Thompson Rivers)\, and the chapbook The Promise of Rust (Mouthfeel Press\, 2016). Winner of the 2020 Leonard A. Slade\, Jr. Poetry Fellowship for Poets of Color\, his current projects are supported by grants from… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-ode-to-our-13-year-old-selves/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Sasha Abramsky - Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod\, the World's First Female Sports Superstar
DESCRIPTION:Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod\, the World’s First Female Sports Superstar is a biography of a truly extraordinary sports figure who blazed trails of glory in the last decades of the nineteenth and first decade of the twentieth centuries. Dod was the third woman to win the Ladies’ Championships at the Wimbledon tennis tournament. She did so for the first time in 1887\, at the ludicrously young age of fifteen. She remains today the youngest person ever to have won a singles trophy in what would come to be known as the big-four Grand Slam tennis tournaments. \nDod won Wimbledon five times\, grew bored with competitive tennis\, and moved on to myriad other sports. She became the world’s leading female ice skater and tobogganist\, perfecting her talents in St. Moritz\, Switzerland; befriended Elizabeth Main\, the most skilled female mountaineer of the age\, and joined her in summiting many of Switzerland’s and Norway’s most difficult mountains; became an endurance bicyclist; played hockey for England; won the British ladies’ golf championship in 1904; and finally\, in 1908\, took the Olympic silver medal in archery in the London Olympics. \nIn her time\, she had a huge following\, with fans coming out by the thousands to cheer her on. She was feted by the media\, and repeatedly profiled by the top sports journals of the day. Had Dod lived in a different age\, this fame would have followed her throughout her life. But Dod’s years of glory occurred just before the rise of cinema\, radio\, and other electronic media. By the outset of World War I\, she was largely a forgotten figure; she died alone and without fanfare in 1960. \nLittle Wonder brings this remarkable woman’s story to life\, contextualizing it against a backdrop of rapid social change and tectonic shifts in the status of women in society. Dod was born into a world in which even upper-class women such as herself could not vote\, were restricted in owning property\, and were assumed to be fragile and delicate. True\, the monarch was a queen\, Victoria; but Victoria’s reign was hardly a bastion of feminist progress. Women of Lottie Dod’s class were expected not to work and to definitely get married. Dod turned that equation on its head; she never married and never had children\, instead putting heart and soul into training to be the best athlete she could possibly be. \nDod was one of the pioneers who paved the way for the likes of Billie Jean King\, Serena Williams\, and the top female athletes of today. She accepted no limits\, no glass ceilings\, believed she could compete with the top men in whatever sport she set her sights on\, and always refused to compromise. \nSasha Abramsky is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared over the past twenty-five years in major newspapers and magazines in the United States and United Kingdom. These include the Nation\, the Atlantic\, the New Yorker online\, Rolling Stone\, Mother Jones\, the New York Times\, the Guardian\, the Independent\, the Observer\, and the New Statesman. He has written widely about poverty and inequality; hunger; mass incarceration; the treatment of immigrants\, refugees\, and asylum seekers; along with book reviews\, cultural essays\, and travel writing. Little Wonder is Abramsky’s ninth book. He teaches writing part-time at the University of California\, Davis\, and lives in Sacramento with his wife and two children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sasha-abramsky-little-wonder-the-fabulous-story-of-lottie-dod-the-worlds-first-female-sports-superstar/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hanif Abdurraqib with Jeff Chang
DESCRIPTION:TICKETSTo purchase over the phone: 415-392-4400 \nThis event appears in the series\nSpecial Events \n\n\nHanif Abdurraqib is a poet\, essayist\, and cultural critic from Columbus\, Ohio. He is the author of the poetry collections The Crown Ain’t Worth Much and A Fortune for Your Disaster\, the essay collection They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us\, Go Ahead In The Rain\, an homage to A Tribe Called Quest\, and the forthcoming They Don’t Dance No Mo. His poetry has been published in Muzzle\, Vinyl\, PEN American\, and various other journals and his essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER\, Pitchfork\, The New Yorker\, and The New York Times. Adburraqib is a member of the poetry collective Echo Hotel with poet/essayist Eve L. Ewing. \n  \nPhotograph credit: Marcus Jackson
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hanif-abdurraqib-with-jeff-chang/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Eric Goodman: Cuppy and Stew
DESCRIPTION:Eric Goodman discusses his new novel Cuppy and Stew. \nPraise for Cuppy and Stew \n“CUPPY AND STEW is completely natural\, poignant\, and riveting from the first page to the last. An easy read in the best sense of that phrase\, and a major work of fiction.”—Ron Hansen \n“Eric Goodman’s CUPPY AND STEW: THE BOMBING OF FLIGHT 629\, A LOVE STORY reads like a fairy tale—until some pretty remarkable darkness sets in\, as the title tells us it will. Part novel\, part memoir (the author writes in the voice of his wife)\, part journalistic inquiry\, the dark forests of this tale lead down to the far more treacherous and psychological underworld of the hero’s journey—and a gritty\, hard-earned climb back to the light. A most compelling read.”—Sands Hall \n“The grim tragedy of the first US terrorist bombing in 1955 that killed the narrator’s parents hovers over this powerful story. Readers are given the complicated love story of the two who die on United Flight 629 and the moving struggle of the daughters who are orphaned by the tragedy: ‘It was me and my sissy against the world.’ CUPPY AND STEW brilliantly blends the known and the imagined and will stand as a model for new possibilities in historical fiction.”—Jim Heynen \nAbout Cuppy and Stew \nIn November\, 1955\, a young man in Denver\, Colorado\, hid twenty-five sticks of dynamite and a crude timer in his mother’s suitcase. In what the FBI would term the first example of American air piracy\, United Flight 629 blew up twelve minutes after taking off\, killing everyone aboard. Part historical novel\, part memoir\, CUPPY AND STEW tells one family’s story before and after the bomb went off. Narrated by a young girl whose parents died on Flight 629\, CUPPY AND STEW evokes the not-so-innocent 1950s\, and the struggles of Cuppy and Stew’s daughters to survive their parents’ deaths. Prize-winning novelist Eric Goodman’s sixth novel is not only his most moving but also his most personal. His wife’s parents perished on United 629.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eric-goodman-cuppy-and-stew/
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:Litquake on Lockdown: Daniel Mallory Ortberg and Something That May Shock and Discredit You
DESCRIPTION:From the New York Times bestselling author of Texts From Jane Eyreand Merry Spinster\, writer of Slate’s “Dear Prudence” column\, and cofounder of The Toast comes this hilarious and stirring collection of essays and cultural observations spanning pop culture—from the endearingly popular to the staggeringly obscure. In Daniel Mallory Ortberg’s most personal work to date\, he offers vigorous and laugh-out-loud funny accounts of both popular and highbrow culture while mixing in meditations on gender transition\, family dynamics\, and the many meanings of faith. From a thoughtful analysis of the beauty of William Shatner to a sinister reimagining of HGTV’s House Hunters\, and featuring figures as varied as Anne of Green Gables\, Columbo\, Nora Ephron\, Apollo\, and the cast of Mean Girls\, Something That May Shock and Discredit You will make you see yourself and those around you entirely anew. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live at Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nDaniel Mallory Ortberg\nDaniel Mallory Ortberg is the “Dear Prudence” advice columnist at Slate\, the cofounder of The Toast\, and the New York Times bestselling author of Texts From Jane Eyre and The Merry Spinster.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-daniel-mallory-ortberg-and-something-that-may-shock-and-discredit-you/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200605T120000
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SUMMARY:Bill McKibben\, Sy Montgomery\, Jennifer Ackerman\, Mary Ellen Hannibal For Books On B
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising Goal: $2000 \nIt’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business\, with a series of fundraisers. This event will feature Bill McKibben\, Sy Montgomery\, Jennifer Ackerman and Mary Ellen Hannibal. \nBill McKibben is an author and environmentalist who in 2014 was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize\, sometimes called the ‘alternative Nobel.’ \nSy Montgomery’s 28 books for both adults and children have garnered many honors. The Soul of an Octopus was a 2015 Finalist for the National Book Awards. The Good Good Pig\, her memoir of life with her pig\, Christopher Hogwood\, is an international bestseller. \nJennifer Ackerman has been writing about science and nature for three decades. She is the author of eight books\, including The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk\, Work\, Play\, Parent\, and Think\, just published by Penguin Press\, and the New York Times bestseller\, The Genius of Birds. \nMary Ellen Hannibal is a long-time journalist focused on natural history and literature. Her most recent book\, Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction\, was named one of 2016’s best non-fiction books by the San Francisco Chronicle. \nThis event is hosted by Charlie Jane Anders\, organizer of Writers With Drinks. \nAll proceeds benefit Books on B in Hayward. Shop online now! \n\nJune 5 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\n\nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bill-mckibben-sy-montgomery-jennifer-ackerman-mary-ellen-hannibal-for-books-on-b/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200606T170000
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon
DESCRIPTION:presents a special \nonline performance \nSaturday\, June 6\, 2020\n5pm PST / 8pm EST \n\n\nRegister for our Zoom gathering\n\n\npresents a special \nonline performance \nSaturday\, June 6\, 2020\n5pm PST / 8pm EST \n\n\nRegister for our Zoom gathering\nfeaturing\n\n\nBonnie Tsui\n(Why We Swim; American Chinatown; Writing Action)\n\n“An enthusiastic and thoughtful work mixing history\, journalism\, and elements of memoir… We’ll never be the fish\, Tsui reminds us. ‘But we get glimpses of what it’s like to be the fish. We get flashes of forgetting the water.’ How glorious.” — The New York Times Book Review\n\n \nA Boston Globe bestseller and Best Book of the Season: Amazon\, Buzzfeed\, Bustle\, The San Francisco Chronicle\n\nBonnie Tsui is a longtime contributor to The New York Times and California Sunday Magazine. She has been the recipient of the Jane Rainie Opel Young Alumna Award from Harvard University\, the Lowell Thomas Gold Award\, and a National Press Foundation Fellowship. American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods\, won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and Best of 2009 Notable Bay Area Books selection. Bonnie has also performed numerous times at Pop-Up Magazine and other live storytelling events. She helped to launch F&B: Voices from the Kitchen\, a storytelling project from La Cocina that shares stories from cooks and kitchens that are less often heard. She is also her first children’s book\, Sarah & the Big Wave\, about big-wave women surfers; it will be published by Henry Holt Books for Young Readers in spring 2021.\n\nMeng Jin\n(Little Gods)\n“Meng Jin’s beautiful debut novel is ambitious in the best ways: meticulously observed\, daringly imagined\, rich in character and history. Ranging across continents\, cultures and generations\, Jin poses profound questions: how might we know ourselves\, or the people we love? And what truths\, if any\, travel with us?” — Claire Messud\n \n“If the mark of a good novel is its ability to delicately rewire the reader’s brain\, then Meng Jin has given us a very good novel….Little Gods is a page-turner—but all the while it winks\, reminding us that possible explanations in our universe are as varied as the beings who populate it.” — The Paris Review\, Staff Pick\n\n\nMeng Jin was born in Shanghai and lives in San Francisco. A Kundiman Fellow\, she is a graduate of Harvard and Hunter College. Little Gods is her first novel.\nAlia Volz\n(Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco)\n“I devoured this book! Sex\, drugs\, rock-n-roll\, a savvy business woman\, a social and medicinal revolution: What’s not to love? This is a story Alia Volz was born to tell.” —Rebecca Skloot\, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n\nAlia Volz is the author of the new memoir Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, spring 2020). She’s a homegrown San Franciscan. Her work has been published in The Best American Essays 2017\, The New York Times\, Bon Appetit\, Threepenny Review\, Salon\, and many other places. Her unusual family story has been featured on Snap Judgement\, Criminal\, and NPR’s Fresh Air. Alia has received fellowships by the MacDowell Colony and the Ucross Foundation and has twice been awarded the Oakley Hall Memorial Scholarship from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. She was runner-up of The MOTH’s GrandSLAM Championship in 2014.\n\n\nTomas Moniz\n(Big Familia; Rad Dad; Collaboration/Colaboración)\n\n“A quiet\, thoughtful story about coming-of-age at middle age. . . . With his first novel\, poet Moniz tells a story that is simultaneously timeless and quite timely. . . . Characters deal with and talk about racism and homophobia\, gentrification and police brutality. These are some of the challenges they endure as they navigate universally human experiences like connection\, community\, birth\, and death. . . . Diverse characters and a deeply likable protagonist make this a standout debut.” — Starred Review\, Kirkus Reviews\n\n\n\nTomas Moniz edited Rad Dad\, Rad Families\, and the kids book Collaboration/Colaboración. He’s recently been published by Barrelhouse and Longleaf Review. In July 2019\, he released a chapbook\, All Friends Are Necessary\, with Mason Jar Press and his debut novel\, Big Familia\, on Acre Books (which received a STARRED Kirkus review)\, in November 2019. Big Familia was a Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Debut Novel 2020 Award\, a Finalist for a LAMBDA 2020 award for Bisexual Fiction and a Finalist for the Foreword Review Indies Award.\n\nwith music from\n  \nArt Elliot\n(Hello; Goodbye; Earth Abides)\nArt Elliot sings of apocalyptic futures\, lost loves\, ice ages and Depression-era folk art\, among other topics. Born the second son of a carpenter and a singer during the height of The Catastrophe™\, Elliot took to his iron horse and rode west at the age of 22. Art has collaborated with a few of the well-known troubadours of Sector 6 including Larry Gallagher\, The Dirty Snacks Ensemble\, Jack O’ the Clock\, and Eli Wise. He currently dwells deep underground in a bunker near what was once known as Oakland\, California.\n____________________ \nFree Admission!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-5/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Rachel Kushner in conversation with Heidi Julavits
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Kushner is the bestselling author of The Flamethrowers\, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top Ten Book of 2013; Telex from Cuba\, a finalist for the National Book Award; and\, most recently\, The Mars Room\, which was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Award\, winner of the Prix Médicis\, selected by the National Book Foundation for its “Literature for Justice” award\, and a winner of the California Book Award. She has received grants and prizes from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and her fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine.  \nHeidi Julavits is the founding editor of Believer magazine\, and the author of four novels\, including The Vanishers and The Uses of Enchantment. Her fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories\, McSweeney’s\, Zoetrope All-Story and elsewhere. She is a professor of creative writing at Columbia University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-kushner-in-conversation-with-heidi-julavits/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200610T120000
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SUMMARY:John Scalzi And Sarah Gailey For Dark Carnival
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising Goal: $2000 \nIt’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business\, with a series of fundraisers. This event will feature John Scalzi and Sarah Gailey\, reading and having a conversation. \nJohn Scalzi’s latest novel is The Last Emperox. Scalzi won the 2006 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer\, the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel for Redshirts\, and his debut novel Old Man’s War was a finalist for Hugo Award as well. \nHugo Award Winner and Bestselling author Sarah Gailey is an internationally published writer of fiction and nonfiction. Their nonfiction has been published by Mashable and the Boston Globe\, and they won a Hugo award for Best Fan Writer. Their most recent fiction credits include Vice and The Atlantic. \nThis event is hosted by Charlie Jane Anders\, organizer of Writers With Drinks. \nAll proceeds benefit Dark Carnival. Shop online now! \n\nJune 10 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\n\nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-scalzi-and-sarah-gailey-for-dark-carnival/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Alka Joshi and The Henna Artist
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for this vivid and compelling evening with Alka Joshi\, author of The Henna Artist\, the May selection for Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine Book Club. Tune in at 6pm Pacific time and learn why Publishers Weekly calls this novel “eloquent and moving\,” while Christian Science Monitor highlights its “vibrant characters\, evocative imagery\, and sumptuous prose.” \nA portrait of one woman’s struggle for fulfillment in a society pivoting between the traditional and the modern\, The Henna Artist takes readers on a journey through 1950s Indian culture\, a world that is at once lush and fascinating\, stark and cruel. Escaping from an abusive marriage\, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the most highly requested henna artist—and confidante—to the wealthy women of the upper class. But trusted with the secrets of the wealthy\, she can never reveal her own. Alka Joshi reads from and discusses her book\, with bestselling author Tom Barbash. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live at Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\nModerators \n\n \nTom Barbash\nTom Barbash is the author of five books\, including Dakota Winters. His short story collection Stay Up With Me was nominated for the Folio Prize and picked as a Best Book of the Year by the Independent of London\, NPR\,  San Francisco Chronicle\, and San Jose Mercury News. His novel The… Read More →\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nAlka Joshi\nAlka Joshi was born in India and raised in the U.S. since the age of nine. She has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of Arts and runs an advertising and marketing agency. She has lived in France and Italy and currently lives in Pacific Grove\, California… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-alka-joshi-and-the-henna-artist/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200616T190000
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SUMMARY:Strange Hotel: Irish Literary Sensation Eimear McBride in conversation with Brooke Warner
DESCRIPTION:The trajectory of Eimear McBride’s career is an underdog’s dream: she spent six months writing her debut novel\, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing\, and nine years trying to sell it\, only to take the literary scene by storm when it was finally published in 2013 to an avalanche of acclaim\, awards (including the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction)\, and rapturous comparisons to James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. Now\, McBride is joining Women Lit in a live virtual conversation with Brooke Warner\, publisher of She Writes Press and SparkPress\, in celebration of her eagerly awaited new novel\, Strange Hotel\, which further cements her singular place in the contemporary canon. As unforgettable as her debut\, McBride’s latest book depicts a rootless woman’s exile as she hotel-hops across the globe\, seeking to quash her ghosts and escape the dangers that haunt her.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/strange-hotel-irish-literary-sensation-eimear-mcbride-in-conversation-with-brooke-warner/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #61 (Music by: TBA)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nDoors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM sharp! Suggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Donate ahead of time via the Eventbrite ticket link on this event! \nGet beer. Get tacos. Get lit. \nThis month’s performers: TBA \nMusic by: TBA \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-61-music-by-tba/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200617T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200617T120000
DTSTAMP:20260408T234825
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SUMMARY:Armistead Maupin And Alia Volz For Rakestraw Books
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising Goal: $2000 \nIt’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business\, with a series of fundraisers. This event will feature Alia Volz and Armistead Maupin. \nAlia Volz is the author of Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, 2020). She is a MacDowell Colonist and a Ucross Foundation Fellow. Other writings appear in The Best American Essays\, The New York Times\, Golden State 2017: Best New Writing from California\, and Dig If You Will The Picture: Remembering Prince. She’s a homegrown San Franciscan from weedy hippie stock. \nArmistead Maupin’s iconic Tales of the City series has since blazed its own trail through popular culture – from a sequence of globally best-selling novels\, to a Peabody Award-winning television miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney\, to an ambitious new musical that had its world premiere at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater in 2011. In 2019 Netflix will be airing a new series based on the novels titled Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City. \nThis event is hosted by Charlie Jane Anders\, organizer of Writers With Drinks. \nAll proceeds benefit Rakestraw Books. Shop online now! \n\nJune 17 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\n\nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/armistead-maupin-and-alia-volz-for-rakestraw-books/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200618T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200618T200000
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CREATED:20200608T195700Z
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SUMMARY:Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:The Speaking Axolotl community stands con our Black familias aqui en Aztlan and other occupied territories and is committed to providing a space for AfroLatinx voices to be celebrated and heard.\n!LAS VIDAS NEGRAS IMPORTAN! \nSpeaking Axolotl is a Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday of the month in el Zoom mundo and is hosted by Josiah Luis Alderete. This month Speaking Axolotl is being curated by Beat Decolonizer y MexicaAnarchista L7. Featured readers as well as the Zoom and sign up list for the open mic will be posted later this week. \nDonations will be kindly requested to help pay the features and cover the cost of the space. \n!AQUI ESTAMOS Y NO NOS VAMOS!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic-8/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200624T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200624T120000
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Skloot And Ed Yong For East Bay Booksellers
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising Goal: $2000 \nIt’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business\, with a series of fundraisers. This event will feature Rebecca Skloot and Ed Yong. \nRebecca Skloot is the author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller\, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\, which was made into an Emmy Nominated HBO film. Her award winning science writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine; O\, The Oprah Magazine\, and many other publications. She has worked as a correspondent for WNYC’s Radiolab and PBS’s Nova ScienceNOW. She and her father\, Floyd Skloot\, co-edited The Best American Science Writing 2011. \nEd Yong is a science journalist who reports for The Atlantic\, and is based in Washington DC. His work appears several times a week on The Atlantic’s website\, and has also featured in National Geographic\, the New Yorker\, Wired\, Nature\, New Scientist\, Scientific American\, and many more. He has won a variety of awards\, including the Michael E. DeBakey Journalism Award for biomedical reporting in 2016 and the National Academies Keck Science Communication Award in 2010 for his old blog Not Exactly Rocket Science. \nThis event is hosted by Annalee Newitz. \nAll proceeds benefit East Bay Booksellers. Shop online now! \n\nJune 24 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\n\nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.l
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-skloot-and-ed-yong-for-east-bay-booksellers/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200625T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200625T210000
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SUMMARY:Uche Nduka at City Lights Books
DESCRIPTION:Facing You (City Lights Spotlight Series No. 19 \npublished by City Lights Books \n\nFrom acclaimed Nigeria-born\, Brooklyn-based poet Uche Nduka\, a book of love poems written with compact elegance and vivid eroticism. \n“The real in Nduka’s work carries the resonance not only of his Nigerian identity and experience of political violence but also the dislocation of the émigré and the frightening power relations of intimacy as mapped onto the lyric.”—Joyelle McSweeney\, Boston Review \nFacing You is a collection of love lyrics\, as well as an exploration of what goes into making the public and private self\, from acclaimed Nigerian American poet Uche Nduka. Passionate and erotic\, Facing You nonetheless resists being hermetically sealed within the relationship\, and is subject to the intrusions of “the dubious world”: war\, exile\, protest\, and police violence intrude but cannot defeat Nduka’s expressions of desire\, where reality and surreality are one. “These poems were written openly and freely about my vision and experience\,” he writes\, “crossing the wires of sex and prophecy.” \n\nUche Nduka is an itinerant poet and professor living in Brooklyn. He was born in Nigeria\, was raised bilingual in Igbo and English\, and earned his BA from the University of Nigeria. He left Nigeria in 1994 and settled in Germany after winning a fellowship from the Goethe Institute. In 2007\, he immigrated to the United States\, where he would earn his MFA from Long Island University\, Brooklyn. Nduka is the author of numerous collections of poetry and prose\, including the U.S.-published books Living in Public (2018)\, Nine East (2013)\, Ijele (2012)\, and eel on reef (2007). His work has been translated into German\, Finnish\, Italian\, Dutch\, and Romanian.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/uche-nduka-at-city-lights-books/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200628T200000
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SUMMARY:Bawdy's Post-Pride Parade Phenom!
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, June 28th\, 2020 \nat the Verdi Club \n2424 Mariposa\, San Francisco\, CA \nRemember: Bang-O at 7:00 PM\, Stories at 8:00 PM \nWant a sample of Bawdy? \nListen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at \nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis Evening of Stories\, Songs & Sex Toys features: \n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour \n❤ Legendary Author/Speaker/Kinkster Race Bannon \n❤ Songs by Bawdy’s brilliant cohort\, Jefferson Bergey \n❤ Pitch your story to Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com \n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for making new friends \n❤ Bang-O Grand Prizes from Good Vibrations \n❤ Bawdy’s new merchandise\, FINALLY #BawdyGotMeLaid \n❤ Reserved Seating puts you right up front \n❤ Custom Bawdy Cocktails to help you get your flirt on #CBT #UnicornsButthole #EthicalSlut \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nFor Millions of Years\, Sexual Folklorist & Podcast host Dixie De La Tour has brought the Nation’s Perverrati together & onto the Bawdy Storytelling stage to tell their own infamously true tales of lust\, love\, kinky collisions\, gender redefinition\, sexual identity\, life-changing hook-ups\, educational one-night stands & everything in between. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThe Original Sex + Storytelling series\, featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits\, Live Onstage \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nAnd we know you’re on FetLife\, ya pervert. Join the Bawdy Storytelling group there! \nhttps://fetlife.com/groups/46341 \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nPerformer Bios: \n❤ Dixie De La Tour is a sexual folklorist\, professional storyteller\, podcaster\, teacher\, coach\, community builder and most of all\, a facilitator. She is also the Founder\, Curator & Host of the Award-winning and NSFW storytelling series\, Bawdy Storytelling (“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly\, “The Original Sex and Storytelling series” – Playgirl) that’s been lauded for its transformational\, relatable\, empowering performances. This live stage series is currently headed into its 13th year\, the groundbreaking Bawdy Storytelling podcast has had over 1.5 million downloads\, plus it’s been acknowledged as a ‘Best Of’ Sex podcast from Forbes\, GQ Magazine\, Marie Claire\, Uproxx\, Daily Mail UK\, Bustle and (twice!) by Esquire Magazine. \nDixie has been Sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (“Saint Kiss & Make You Tell”) for her work to reduce stigma and eliminate shame\, and she recently became a Muppet. Discover more about Dixie De La Tour and Bawdy Storytelling at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling\, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/bawdystorytelling on Twitter at @Bawdy and always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com \nIn addition to story and public speaking coaching for her own series\, Dixie coaches for TEDx\, Women in Technology\, offers custom Brand Storytelling coaching\, has led storytelling events in Libraries\, teaches Storytelling for the Classroom and has been a featured teller for the National Storytelling Conference. Ultimately\, this story-loving southerner is passionate about storytelling’s ability to keep people safe\, reduce social anxiety and connect us with strangers. Stories help you find your people! \n❤ Kinky sex has been one of Race Bannon’s passions as a practitioner\, organizer\, writer\, educator\, commentator\, activist and leader since his first explorations of the leather world starting in 1973. Race’s accomplishments include co-founder of the Kink Aware Professionals referral service; leader of The DSM Project that began to change how psychotherapy professionals view kink; author of the bestselling Learning The Ropes: A Basic Guide to Safe and Fun BDSM Lovemaking; founder of Daedalus Publishing Company\, the first company dedicated to publishing nonfiction leather/SM/fetish books; prolific writer; former sex advice columnist; former producer and host of the first kink internet talk show Bound To Talk; past Board member of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom\, Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities\, NLA International and Avatar Club Los Angeles; co-founder of NLA Los Angeles; and member of Chicago Hellfire Club\, The 15 Association\, and Society of Janus. Race is currently on the Board of the Leather Hall of Fame. Recently Race was inducted into the Society of Janus Hall of Fame. He is featured in the documentaries Vice and Consent\, Out of the Darkness: The Reality of S&M and Folsom Forever\, was a BDSM consultant for the movie Exit to Eden\, and is currently an Executive Producer for Divine Deviance\, an upcoming documentary about the global kink/BDSM/fetish scene. Race is also a popular speaker who has delivered the keynote address for a number of events. He has been awarded the 2006 National Leather Association International’s Lifetime Achievement Award\, 2010 Mister Marcus Hernandez Lifetime Achievement Award (Man) Pantheon of Leather Community Service Award\, the 2011 Philip M. Turner Lifetime Achievement Award\, the 2013 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change Leather Leadership Award\, 2014 San Francisco Bay Area Leather Alliance Co-Man of the Year (tie)\, and the 2016 NorCal/Northwest Regional Pantheon of Leather Award. You can read some of Race’s writings at www.bannon.com or www.racebannon.com or in the Bay Area Reporter (ebar.com) where he is the leather/kink columnist. \n❤ Straddling the line between sentimental and sleazy\, Jefferson Bergey blends gritty\, soulful pop with elements of folk\, blues\, and country with a penchant for the ridiculous in his original compositions. \nThe Oakland based singer-songwriter performs his family-unfriendly music all over the Bay Area. He’s a frequent contributor\, writing custom songs for the award-winning\, San Francisco based\, Bawdy Storytelling. As a solo acoustic act\, Bergey’s sound is akin to folky musical theater in a coffee shop…if the coffee shop also sold sex toys and sativa gummy bears. His polite vulgarity may not be for the very young and impressionable or the very old and conservative but he won’t tell you how to raise your kids or upset your grandparents. \nHe can be seen and heckled every Monday night at his Risqué residency at Scopo Divino in San Francisco. For well over two years straight\, he’s put on a unique and interactive show where he plays original music and cover songs suggested by those in attendance who haven’t already left in disgust. \nBergey’s music can be heard on the RISK! and Bawdy Storytelling podcasts. He has performed at The Independent\, Sweetwater\, Great American Music Hall\, Jewish Community Center in SF\, John Steinbeck Association\, Special Olympics in Long Beach\, Punchline SF\, and SF Sketchfest. \nHis newest EP titled ‘Always Up (To Go Down)’ was originally written for Bawdy Storytelling and is flanked by a few of his ‘inter-lewds’\, now fleshed out with piano\, bass\, and pedal steel. It also features the talents of Natalie Smith (Cape Weather) on vocals. \nwww.jeffersonbergey.com \nhttps://www.patreon.com/jeffersonbergey \nhttps://www.facebook.com/jefferson.bergey \nhttps://www.instagram.com/jeffersonbergey \n• No Refunds or Exchanges \n• Lineup Subject to Change \n• ASL Interpretation available with prior written notice. Contact BawdyStorytelling@gmail.com for more information \n• General Admission seating is first come\, first served. We recommend you arrive when doors open for best seating (Reserved Seating guarantees you a seat right up front) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & the LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com \nTwitter: @Bawdy \n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdys-post-pride-parade-phenom/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's 'Packs a Wallop' Livestream - 8/1
DESCRIPTION:Live. Virtual. Now\, Bawdy is available wherever *you* are! \nHappening on Zoom on Saturday\, August 1st at 7 PM PST/9 PM CST/10 PM EST \nWanna know what time that is for You? \nhttps://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/ \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Best Erotic Podcast for 2020” – Oprah Magazine \nhttps://bit.ly/BawdyOprahBestOf2020 \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis evening of Stories\, Songs & B*ttplugs includes: \n• Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour \n• ‘Edge Play’ author Jane Boon \n• Erotic Activist Victor Warring \n• Second Gen Sex-Positive Revolutionary Jessica Cohen \n• FemDom audio dramatist Ms Natasha Strange \n• Clever songs by musical genius Shirley Gnome \n• Join the #ButtplugClub – our EXHIBITIONIST ticket sales end Monday\, July 27th (because shipping) \n• Try our new VOYEUR ticket for behind the scenes access\, enhanced chat & more (available till showtime) \n• Sponsored by the best lube out there: Uberlube! \n• Prizes include Quarantine Fashion from Dirty Masks \n• Sexy Bath Prizes from Hip Modern Soap Co. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nForbes Magazine calls Bawdy Storytelling the Best: \nhttp://bit.ly/BawdyForbes \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nSPECIAL: \nExhibitionists\, Join the #ButtplugClub by this Sunday night (July 27th) & you’ll receive: a hefty custom Bawdy buttplug\, black velvet Buttplug cozy\, Bawdy button\, our new sticker\, a FULL SIZE bottle of Uberlube – and you’ll be part of the show as a Panelist! #Exhibitionist \nor \nBuy the Voyeur ticket at get behind-the-scenes access & enhanced chat capabilities (to slide into those DMs) Every Exhibitionist needs a Voyeur! \nHave you always wished that you could be there for a live Bawdy Storytelling? Well\, now you can. Announcing the new Bawdy 2.0! The Online version of our Bawdy Storytelling live show. Finally\, an upside to this whole Global Pandemic thing: you can be part of Bawdy Storytelling LIVE\, as it happens\, and since a Livestream participant can be anywhere\, we’ll feature storytellers from all over the world telling their story. Maybe one of ‘em will be You! \nHow it works: Dixie will host 4 Infamous Adventurers as they share their true tales of Sex\, Kink or Gender – plus\, this time we’ll have original – & Bawdy! – music by the talented Shirley Gnome. \nWe’re hosting this show via Zoom.us and the webinar room has a limited capacity. Our first Livestream’ed Bawdy Storytelling Sold Out really fast\, so make sure you grab your tickets right away – cause we want you there! Finally\, where you live is irrelevant! I’ve often dreamed that every city could have a Bawdy\, and now the whole WORLD can tell their story (and you can hear it\, too). \nWe’re offering tiered ticket pricing for this online event: \n• The Pandemic Price Ticket \n• The General/Solo Ticket \n• The Household/Group Ticket \n• The Voyeur Ticket \n• The Exhibitionist Ticket \nPlease spread the word to all your friends around the world who might want to come\, and tell em Bawdy is now a Livestream! It’s virtual\, which means that you can be part of Bawdy\, no matter where you are! Post the info on social media\, & email this link to friends. We need your help to get the word out about this new version of Bawdy! \nPerformer Bios: \n• Dixie De La Tour is a sexual folklorist\, professional storyteller\, podcaster\, teacher\, coach\, community builder and most of all\, a facilitator. She is also the Founder\, Curator & Host of the Award-winning storytelling series\, Bawdy Storytelling (“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly\, “The Original Sex and Storytelling series” – Playgirl) that’s been lauded for its transformational\, relatable\, empowering performances. Dixie has recently been a featured storyteller for the National Storytelling Conference\, and in addition to story and public speaking coaching for her own series\, she coaches individuals for events such as TEDx\, Women in Technology\, and hosts and coaches events for Classrooms\, Kink Conferences and Public Libraries. \nThis Bawdy Storytelling live stage series is 13 years strong\, the Bawdy Storytelling podcast has over 450 5 star reviews – plus it’s been labeled a ‘Best Of’ Sex podcast from Forbes\, GQ Magazine\, Marie Claire\, Uproxx\, Daily Mail UK\, Women’s Health\, Bustle\, Cosmo and (twice!) by Esquire Magazine. \nUltimately\, this story-loving southerner is passionate about storytelling’s ability to keep people safe\, reduce social anxiety and connect us with strangers. Dixie has also been Sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (“Saint Kiss & Make You Tell”) for her work to reduce stigma and eliminate shame\, and she recently became a Muppet. Discover more about Dixie De La Tour and Bawdy Storytelling at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling\, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/bawdystorytelling/ on Twitter at @Bawdy and always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com Remember\, Stories help you find your people! \n• Jane Boon lives in New York City and Los Angeles with her husband\, Norm Pearlstine. She studied technology and policy at MIT and later received a Ph.D. in industrial engineering. Jane has written for publications like The Wall Street Journal\, Bloomberg Businessweek\, Time.com\, McSweeneys.net\, and TravelandLeisure.com. Jane enjoys improv and playing dress up\, including the time she wore a corset\, garters and thigh-high stockings as a dominatrix in the Fox TV series\, Gotham. EDGE PLAY is her first novel. \nLinks to where EDGE PLAY is sold: \nhttps://www.amazon.com/Edge-Play-Jane-Boon-ebook/dp/B088FY7YRB/. & \nhttps://bookshop.org/books/edge-play/9781682451328 \n• Natasha Strange has been a professional dominatrix for 25 years\, specializing in creative sadistic escapism. Offering sessions in a wide variety of disciplines\, she has cultivated a deep understanding of what draws people to kink. She believes that most people who indulge in kink and BDSM are searching to fulfill emotional needs. As a dominant she uses those emotional goals as a guide when addressing physical desires. \nWhen not tormenting her adoring submissives\, she is a BDSM coach and kink educator helping destigmatize non-standard sexual desires. She is the author of a BDSM primer for adults who are curious about kink called Kinky Sex Tips for Curious Girls: A BDSM Activity Book for Beginners. It’s full of color pages\, geeky puns\, fun activities\, puzzles and solid information about kink\, consent and communication. \nShe is also the co-owner of Sub Rosa\, a boutique BDSM play and education space located in Portland Oregon. \n• Victor Warring is a Somatic Sexuality Educator\, a Sexuality & Relationship Coach and an Erotic Activist. He is also an antiracism/racial equity community educator. He has a background in somatic psychotherapy\, cultural anthropology\, theatre and movement improvisation including Playback Theatre\, improvisational storytelling. \nVictor values the power of storytelling as a leveler of human experience. It is our primary form of community gathering and ritual connection since the days of our hunter gatherer forebears sitting around yellow fire light deep into the night. \nVictor currently lives and practices in Ashland\, OR. \n• Jessica Cohen says: Growing up in the Bay Area\, I’ve had plenty of opportunity to hear and tell some stories. Along the way I got a BA in Art. I’ve had a wide range of jobs in my time\, Nanny\, Salesperson\, Barista\, Fortuneteller\, Comic Con Celebrity Wrangler\, currently I am working as a Freelance Illustrator. I’m an avid reader\, gamer and a frequent writer. I am a collector of stories and a weaver of lore for my Wasteland and D&D communities. I have performed for Bawdy Storytelling 3 times and I once had the honor of being nominated for Best of Bawdy. \nArt: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BurningGroundGraphix \nTarot: http://www.tarotofthewaste.com/ \nWebsite: http://www.jessicatcohen.com/ \n• From the west coast of Canada comes the multi-award winning cabaret musician\, Shirley Gnome\, whose all-original\, uncensored music about human nature is hilarious\, honest\, subversive\, smart\, empowering\, taboo and not for the faint of heart. Her cleverly carnal lyrics go down smooth with her inappropriately gorgeous vocals\, and her charm will disarm you through even the most provocative topics. Her outlandish cover songs transform top 40 hits into dark social satire. \nAfter a surprise win of Patrick Maliha’s The People’s Champ of Comedy in 2012\, Gnome began working her charms in comedy clubs\, music venues\, and burlesque festivals across Canada. Gnome’s underground cult status got an international upgrade when she hit the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2013\, receiving rave reviews. She continued this success by touring internationally\, wowing audiences and critics alike with sell out shows across Canada\, the US\, Australia\, and New Zealand. She closed out the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s all-woman showcase UpFront in 2017. Her party anthem The Glitter Song went viral that same year\, stacking up over half a million views. \nShe signed with 604 Records\, and her 4th album Taking It Up The Notch debuted at #1 on the iTunes comedy charts in Canada when it debuted in 2017. In 2020\, her follow up release with 604 Records (Comedy Here Often?)\, Decoxification\, also went to number #1. She has released five full-length albums since her debut in 2009\, which you can hear frequently on SiriusXM stations all over North America. You may have also heard her on Dan Savage’s chart topping podcast The Savage Lovecast. \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com \nListen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at http://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \nOn Twitter: @Bawdy \nOn Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bawdystorytelling/ \nOn Facebook at www.Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling \nSupport us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/Bawdy \nWatch us on YouTube at http://bit.ly/BawdyTV \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Original Sex + Storytelling series\, featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits\, Live Onstage” – Playgirl \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Best Erotic Podcast for 2020” – Oprah Magazine \nhttps://bit.ly/BawdyOprahBestOf2020 \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nForbes Magazine calls Bawdy Storytelling the Best: \nhttp://bit.ly/BawdyForbes \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n1 of Esquire’s 10 Best Sex Podcasts\, no matter your taste: \nhttp://bit.ly/BawdyBestOfEsquire (for 2018\, 2019 – & 2020!) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n1 of GQ Magazine’s Best Sex Podcasts (to make you Better in Bed): \nhttps://www.gq.com/story/best-sex-podcasts \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n#1 on Marie Claire’s 14 Best Sex Podcasts: \nhttps://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/news/a21284/best-sex-podcasts/ \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n1 of Uproxx’s 10 Best Sex Podcasts to listen to right now: \nhttps://uproxx.com/life/best-sex-podcasts-right-now/ \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nBuzzfeed says Bawdy Storytelling is a Sex & Relationship podcast you should be listening to: \nhttp://bit.ly/BawdyBuzzfeed \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nHustler Magazine says “Dixie De La Tour is elevating \ndirty talk to an art form…” ow.ly/Laab50wC0KH \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nBustle says Bawdy Storytelling is a “Sexy Date Idea for a Long Term Relationship” \nhttps://www.bustle.com/p/9-sexy-date-ideas-for-long-term-relationships-8624566 \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of Best Storytelling Show (SFist.com)\, Best Storytelling Show (SF Weekly)\, Best Storytelling Show (LA Weekly) & 2-Time Best Literary Event (SF Bay Guardian) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-packs-a-wallop-livestream-8-1/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200813T133000
DTSTAMP:20260408T234825
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SUMMARY:Lunch Visit and Discussion with Molly Wizenberg\, author of THE FIXED STARS
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion and Q&A with Molly Wizenberg\, author of The Fixed Stars. Molly will be in conversation with Ruby member Sana Javeri Kadri. Thanks to the publisher\, we have 3 copies of the book available to the first three people who sign up! Books will also be on sale the day of! \nThis is a potluck lunch so stay tuned on what to bring! \nAbout The Fixed Stars \nAt age 36\, while serving on a jury\, Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler\, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it\, but something inside her had changed irredeemably. Instead\, she would discover that the trajectory of our lives is rarely as smooth or as logical as we’d like to believe. \nLike many of us\, Wizenberg had long understood sexual orientation as a stable part of ourselves: we’re “born this way.” Suddenly she realized that her story was more complicated. Who was she\, she wondered\, if something at her very core could change so radically? \nTHE FIXED STARS (Abrams Press; May 12\, 2020; U.S. $25.00; Hardcover) by New York Times bestselling and James Beard Award–winning author Molly Wizenberg is a taut\, electrifying memoir exploring timely and timeless questions about desire\, identity\, and the limits and possibilities of family. In honest and searing prose\, Wizenberg forges a new path: through the murk of separation and divorce\, coming out to family and friends\, learning to co-parent a young child\, and realizing a new vision of love. \nTHE FIXED STARS is a frank and moving story about letting go of rigid definitions and ideals that no longer fit\, and learning instead who we really are. \nAbout the Author \nMolly Wizenberg is the author of two bestselling books\, A Homemade Life and Delancey\, and the James Beard Award–winning blog Orangette. She has written for the Washington Post\, the Guardian\, Saveur\, and Bon Appétit\, and she also cohosts the podcast Spilled Milk. With chef Brandon Pettit\, Wizenberg cofounded the award-winning Seattle restaurants Delancey and Essex. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lunch-visit-and-discussion-with-molly-wizenberg-author-of-the-fixed-stars-tickets-93595559839
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunch-visit-and-discussion-with-molly-wizenberg-author-of-the-fixed-stars-2/
LOCATION:The Ruby\, 23rd and bryant street\, san francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200901T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200901T190000
DTSTAMP:20260408T234825
CREATED:20200827T200348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200827T200348Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Eula Biss
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tueday\, September 1 at 6pm for the launch of bestselling author Eula Biss’ new book\, Having and Being Had on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84064965260 \nWebinar ID: 840 6496 5260 \nPraise for Having and Being Had \n“A major achievement. Having and Being Had\, rather than leading through narrative\, turns individual words and phrases\, like capitalism\, consumers\, great America\, husbandry\, art\, and work\, into fields of inquiry in order to frame a life. With astute consideration\, this expansive and intimate accumulation asks the questions that touch all our lives.” —Claudia Rankine \n“Eula Biss’s prescient new book gave me new language for things I didn’t know I felt about money\, capitalism\, and my place inside of an economy that always requires so much of me and gives back so little. A brilliant\, lacerating re-examination of our relationship to what we own and why\, and who in turn might own us in ways we didn’t know we consented to—what could be more necessary now?” —Alexander Chee \nAbout Having and Being Had \nA timely and arresting new look at affluence by the New York Times bestselling author of On Immunity and Notes from No Man’s Land \n“My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts\,” Eula Biss writes\, “the time before I owned a washing machine and the time after.” Having just purchased her first home\, the poet and essayist now embarks on a provocative exploration of the value system she has bought into. Through a series of engaging exchanges—in libraries and laundromats\, over barstools and backyard fences—Having and Being Had examines our assumptions about class and property and the ways we internalize the demands of capitalism. Described by The New York Times as a writer who “advances from all sides\, like a chess player\,” Biss offers an uncommonly immersive and deeply revealing new portrait of work and luxury\, of accumulation and consumption\, of the value of time and how we spend it. Ranging from IKEA to Beyoncé to Pokemon\, Biss asks\, of both herself and her class\, “In what have we invested?”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-eula-biss-2/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200903T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200903T190000
DTSTAMP:20260408T234825
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200827T195105Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Carole Stivers and John Markoff
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, September 3 at 6:00pm PST when Carole Stivers discusses her debut novel\, The Mother Code\, with John Markoff on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81537772295 \nWebinar ID: 815 3777 2295 \nPraise for The Mother Code \n“Carole Stivers is far from the first to wonder if motherhood can be scientifically replicated\, but this is a thoughtful and thought-provoking addition to that meditation. An end-of-times tale that focuses less on what has been lost and more on what and who might be saved (and how). Stivers’ wonderful story settles right on the line between human and machine\, as blame and threat and rescue and love shift from character to character in surprising and powerful ways.”—Karen Joy Fowler\, New York Times bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves \nAbout The Mother Code \nIn this mind-bending debut novel\, Carole Stivers explores what it means to be a mother in a world that is more chilling and precarious than ever. \nIt is 2049. When a U.S. attempt at stealth biowarfare goes awry\, a team of scientists is engaged to ensure human survival on earth. Their best efforts fail\, and they must turn to their last resort: a plan to place genetically engineered children inside the cocoons of large-scale robots—to be incubated\, birthed\, and raised by these machines\, which have been programmed with the latest advances in artificial intelligence: the Mother Code. \nKai is born in America’s desert Southwest\, his only companion his robotic Mother\, Rho-Z. Equipped with the knowledge and intuition of a human mother\, Rho-Z raises Kai and teaches him how to survive. As children like him come of age\, their Mothers transform too—in ways that were never predicted. When government survivors decide that the machines who raised the children must be destroyed\, Kai must fight to save the only parent he has ever known.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-carole-stivers-and-john-markoff-2/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200904T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200904T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Henri Cole and Forrest Gander
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, September 4th at 6pm PST when Henri Cole is joined by Forrest Gander to read from and discuss his latest collection of poetry\, Blizzard\, on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82199696731 \nWebinar ID: 821 9969 6731 \nAbout Blizzard \nA powerful new collection by an award-winning poet. \nDaring\, tender\, truthful\, the poems in Blizzard\, Henri Cole’s tenth book\, build on a reputation for quiet mastery. Whether he is wrestling with the mundane\, history and its disasters\, or sexual love\, he can sound both classical and contemporary\, with the modern austerity of Constantine Cavafy and Elizabeth Bishop. Often exploring the darker places of the heart\, his sonnets do not lie down obediently but spark with an honest self-awareness. \nCole’s lucid\, empathetic poems—with lyrical beauty and ethical depth—seem to transmute the anxious perplexities of our time. \nAbout Henri Cole \nHenri Cole was born in Fukuoka\, Japan\, in 1956. He has published nine previous collections of poetry and received many awards for his work\, including the Jackson Poetry Prize\, the Kingsley Tufts Award\, the Rome Prize\, the Berlin Prize\, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize\, and the Award of Merit Medal in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent book is Orphic Paris\, a memoir. He teaches at Claremont McKenna College \nAbout Forrest Gander \nForrest Gander was born in the Mojave Desert and grew up in Virginia. In addition to writing poetry\, he has translated works by Coral Bracho\, Alfonso D’Aquino\, Pura Lopez-Colome\, Pablo Neruda\, and Jaime Saenz. The recipient of grants from the Library of Congress\, the Guggenheim\, Howard\, Whiting\, and United States Artists Foundations\, he taught for many years as the AK Seaver Professor of Literary Arts & Comparative Literature at Brown University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-henri-cole-and-forrest-gander-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Greg Mania and Sam Lansky
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, September 8 at 6pm PST when Greg Mania discusses his new memoir\, Born to Be Public\, with Sam Lansky on Zoom. \nZoom Login Info \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86579834543 \nWebinar ID: 865 7983 4543 \nAbout Born to Be Public \nPraise for Born to Be Public \n“Comedic gold.” – O\, The Oprah Magazine \n“Greg Mania is the Cheesecake Factory of writers\, and I say that with the utmost reverence: extravagant\, unapologetic\, hilarious\, and fucking good.” – Lindy West\, author of Shrill and The Witches Are Coming \n“This book is a hilarious wonder. Not only does it prove that Greg Mania was\, indeed\, born to be a public (and beloved) icon\, but also that he was born to be a celebrated writer. It’s sheer delight.” – Alissa Nutting\, author of Tampa and Made for Love \nAbout Born to Be Public \nIn this unique and hilarious debut memoir\, writer and comedian Greg Mania chronicles life as a “pariah prodigy.” From inadvertently coming out to his Polish immigrant parents\, to immersing himself in the world of New York City nightlife\, and finding himself and his voice in comedy. Born to Be Public is a vulnerable and poignant exploration of identity (and the rediscovery of it)\, mental health\, sex and relationships\, all while pursuing a passion with victories and tragicomic blunders. At once raw and relatable\, Mania’s one-of-a-kind voice will make you shed tears from laughter and find its way into your heart. \nAbout the Author \nGreg Mania is a writer\, comedian\, and award-winning screenwriter based in New York City. His words have been published in Vanity Fair\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\, PAPER\, Out\, BOMB\, The Millions\, Electric Literature\, The Rumpus\, HuffPost\, among other international online and print platforms. His debut memoir\, Born to Be Public\, will be published by CLASH Books this summer. \nIn film and TV\, he has recently co-wrote and co-produced his first feature-length film\, Deadman’s Barstool\, which is currently available to stream on Amazon Prime Video. His pilot script\, MANIA\, has just won the Grand Prize of the Fourth Annual Stage 32 Comedy Writing Contest. He has also been named the Overall Winner of the Third Annual Filmmatic Screenplay Awards and Second Place Winner at WILLiFEST\, was nominated for Best Script at the Ninth Annual New Media Film Festival in Los Angeles and the Palm Springs International Comedy Festival\, and\, as of writing this\, has also been named an official selection in comedy festivals and competitions in Austin\, Portland\, and Atlanta. \nPlease don’t let all these fancy awards and nominations fool you\, he’s still on a family plan.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-greg-mania-and-sam-lansky-2/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200910T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200910T180000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Sophie Yanow and Suzy Exposito
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, September 10 at 5pm PDT when Sophie Yanow launches her new graphic novel\, The Contradictions\, with Suzy Exposito on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82968999585 \nWebinar ID: 829 6899 9585 \nPraise for The Contradictions \n“Yanow is an author/illustrator to watch.” —Publishers Weekly \n“With deft sketches and minimal text\, [Yanow] shows how the streets of a city can simultaneously foster and crush social change\, and how urban humans cling to personal freedom in an increasingly monitored world.” —The Atlantic \nAbout The Contradictions \nThe Eisner Award–winning story about a student figuring out radical politics in a messy world \nSophie is young and queer and into feminist theory. She decides to study abroad\, choosing Paris for no firm reason beyond liking French comics. Feeling a bit lonely and out of place\, she’s desperate for community and a sense of belonging. She stumbles into what/who she’s looking for when she meets Zena. An anarchist student-activist committed to veganism and shoplifting\, Zena offers Sophie a whole new political ideology that feels electric. Enamored—of Zena\, of the idea of living more righteously—Sophie finds herself swept up in a whirlwind friendship that blows her even further from her rural California roots as they embark on a disastrous hitchhiking trip to Amsterdam and Berlin\, full of couch surfing\, drug tripping\, and radical book fairs. \nCapturing that time in your life where you’re meeting new people and learning about the world—when everything feels vital and urgent—The Contradictions is Sophie Yanow’s fictionalized coming-of-age story. Sophie’s attempts at ideological purity are challenged time and again\, putting into question the plausibility of a life of dogma in a world filled with contradictions. Keenly observed\, frank\, and very funny\, The Contradictions speaks to a specific reality while also being incredibly relatable\, reminding us that we are all imperfect people in an imperfect world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-sophie-yanow-and-suzy-exposito/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200915T190000
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #64 (Music by: TBA)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nDoors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM sharp! Suggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Donate ahead of time via the Eventbrite ticket link on this event! \nGet beer. Get tacos. Get lit. \nThis month’s performers: TBA \nMusic by: TBA \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-64-music-by-tba/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Carl Phillips and Kimberly Reyes
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, September 17th at 6pm PDT when Carl Phillips discusses his latest poetry collection\, Pale Colors in a Tall Field\, with Kimberly Reyes on Zoom.\n\nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link to join the webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83365473355 \nWebinar ID: 833 6547 3355 \nAbout Pale Colors in a Tall Field \nA powerful\, inventive collection from one of America’s most critically admired poets. \nCarl Phillips’s new poetry collection\, Pale Colors in a Tall Field\, is a meditation on the intimacies of thought and body as forms of resistance. The poems are both timeless and timely\, asking how we can ever truly know ourselves in the face of our own remembering and inevitable forgetting. Here\, the poems metaphorically argue that memory is made up of various colors\, with those most prominent moments in a life seeming more vivid\, though the paler colors are never truly forgotten. The poems in Pale Colors in a Tall Field approach their points of view kaleidoscopically\, enacting the self’s multiplicity and the difficult shifts required as our lives\, in turn\, shift. This is one of Phillips’s most tender\, dynamic\, and startling books yet. \nAbout the Author \nCarl Phillips teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. His recent books include Wild Is the Wind and the prose collection The Art of Daring: Risk\, Restlessness\, Imagination.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-carl-phillips-and-kimberly-reyes-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200924T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200924T190000
DTSTAMP:20260408T234825
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Rowan Ricardo Phillips and Marcelo Hernadez Castillo
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, September 24 at 6pm PDT when Rowan Ricardo Phillips reads from his latest collection\, Living Weapon\, with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83770739482\nWebinar ID: 837 7073 9482\n\nPraise for Living Weapon\n“Over and again\, Phillips strives—within his own poems—to chip away at an explicit definition of what exactly we mean when we say ‘poetry’ . . . Throughout the collection\, Rowan Ricardo Phillips refuses to abandon the past; instead\, he interrogates its ghosts—in all their terrible admixture of violence and beauty—and\, despite every reason not to\, he sings.” —Will Brewbaker\, Los Angeles Review of Books\n“In his dazzling third collection\, Phillips (Heaven) explores social ills while celebrating poetry’s ability to provide solace and sense during times of upheaval . . . Phillips’s latest is lyrical\, imaginative\, and steeped in a keen understanding of current events.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n“The truths of Phillips’s book are plain and perceptive\, harsh and oddly soothing.” —Nick Ripatrazone\, The Millions\n\nAbout the Author\nRowan Ricardo Phillips is the author of the books of poems Heaven (FSG\, 2015) and The Ground (FSG\, 2012)\, as well as the essay collections The Circuit and When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness. His many awards include a Whiting Writers’ Award\, the PEN/Osterweil Award\, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award\, the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing\, and the Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award. He lives in New York City and Barcelona.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-rowan-ricardo-phillips-and-marcelo-hernadez-castillo-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200925T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200925T130000
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SUMMARY:Presentation: Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Pepin Silva and Lewis Watts will present an illuminating slide show and talk about the new edition of Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era. \nThrough dozens of archival photographs and oral accounts from the neighborhood residents and musicians who experienced it at its height\, the Harlem of the West SF Project celebrates this unique and rediscovered chapter in jazz history and the African-American experience on the West Coast. The Project is a platform for the Fillmore’s musicians\, nightclub owners and residents of the 1940s and 1950s to tell the neighborhood’s history in their own words\, as well as feature rarely seen photographs and memorabilia. The new edition of Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era book has been recently republished by Heyday Books. The edition features newly discovered photographs and memorabilia\, as well as additional interviews with those who lived and played in the Fillmore at the height of its glory \nElizabeth Pepin Silva is an award-winning documentary filmmaker\, photographer\, writer and former day manager of the historic Fillmore Auditorium. She holds a degree in journalism from San Francisco State University. Instagram \nLewis Watts is a photographer\, archivist and professor emeritus of art at UC Santa Cruz with a longstanding interest in the cultural landscape of the African diaspora in the Bay Area and internationally. Instagram  \nCo-sponsored by Heyday Books and the Museum of the African Diaspora. \nConnect with Heyday Books – Twitter | Instagram \nWe encourage everyone to purchase a copy of the book through the Museum of African Diaspora bookstore website. \nRegistration: https://bit.ly/HarlemWest9-25-20 \nSFPL YouTube Live: https://youtu.be/wIdScOqs20A \n– \n–
URL:https://litseen.com/event/presentation-harlem-of-the-west-the-san-francisco-fillmore-jazz-era/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library – Virtual Library
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200927T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200927T190000
DTSTAMP:20260408T234825
CREATED:20200912T193028Z
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SUMMARY:BAWDY STORYTELLING: THE OFFICIAL AFTERPARTY OF FOLSOM STREET FAIR
DESCRIPTION:We need Kink Community\, now more than ever. \nAnd Bawdy Storytelling is the perfect way to come together this year – right after Folsom Street Fair\, hosted by Margaret Cho! \nDate: Sunday\, September 27th\, 2020  \nTime:  7 PM PST/9 PM CST/10 PM EST. \nTickets are available in Tiered Pricing (starting at $10 for Pandemic Pricing\, all the way up to our Exhibitionist Panel – where you’re a part of the show\, and join our performers on the screen!) The Best Deal? Become a member of Bawdy’s Patreon (at the Sexy Sidekick – $10/month level and higher) and you’ll get FREE tickets to our Livestreams – plus the Replays\, too. Please get your tickets right away to make sure you can be part of each night of one-of-a-kind stories\, weird antics\, and open-minded community. \nThis evening of Stories\, Songs & S*x Toys includes: \n• Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour \n• Storytellers to come – Stay Tuned! \n• Music by the brilliant Jefferson Bergey \n• Buy the Exhibitionist/Panelist Ticket & get a Cool GIFT #ButtPlugClub \n• Try our new Voyeur ticket for behind the scenes access\, enhanced chat & more \n• Sponsored by the best lube out there: Uberlube! \n• Prizes include Quarantine Fashion from Dirty Masks \n• Sexy Bath Prizes from Hip Modern Soap Co. \nWant Free Tickets to this show? Become a Member of our Patreon and get free tickets\, free livestream replays & much. more! \nNot a member of Bawdy’s Patreon yet? Become a member NOW and in addition to ad-free podcast episodes and our new behind-the-scenes story coaching series\, you’ll get free tickets and free replays for Bawdy’s Livestreams!erf
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytelling-the-official-afterparty-of-folsom-street-fair/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200930T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200930T190000
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CREATED:20200827T200559Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: francine j. harris
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wenesday\, September 30 at 6pm PDT when francine j. harris joins us to read from her new collection\, Here is the Sweet Hand on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83537126052\nWebinar ID: 835 3712 6052 \nPraise for Here is the Sweet Hand \n“Entering mid-career with her extraordinary third book\, harris . . . fully emerges as one of the best and most relevant contemporary poets. She writes with a historical and linguistic reach . . . She is also in league with some of the great practitioners of poetry that makes no distinction between the personal and the political\, such as Gwendolyn Brooks\, Robert Hayden\, and Adrienne Rich. Yes\, I believe she’s that good\, writing with a timeless rhetorical force and a finely tuned ear for contemporary speech\, about race\, queerness\, love\, and grief.” —Craig Morgan Teicher\, NPR \n“harris reveals one of the roles of the contemporary poet: to expose unpleasant truths of the past and present\, to call out the aspects of our worst selves . . . harris is an expert practitioner and guide; we are always in her orbit\, captivated as she manipulates language\, un-doing worn traditions\, engaging the reader intimately\, and unforgettably.” —Mandana Chaffa\, Chicago Review of Books \n“This is a book full of ‘heat\,’ of being beneath and being above\, of desire\, neighbors\, the news\, the horrors of systemic racism played out in a 19th-century orphanage and a shooting on a train — all presented without the censoring influence of traditional continuity . . . there is no point in questioning Here Is the Sweet Hand. It is better to let her voice be the center and take pleasure in change.” —Lynn McGee\, Lambda Literary \nAbout the Here is the Sweet Hand \nThe poems in Here is the Sweet Hand explore solitude as a way of seeing. In particular\, the speakers in francine j. harris’ third collection explore the mystique\, and myth\, of female loneliness as it relates to blackness\, aging\, landscape and artistic tradition. \nThe speakers in these poems are often protagonists. Against the backdrop of numerous American cities and towns\, and in a time of political uncertainty\, they are heroines in their quest to find logic through their own sense of the world. \nThe poems here are interested in the power of observation. But if there is authority in the individual versus the collective\, Here is the Sweet Hand also poses questions about the source of that power\, or where it may lead. \nAs in her acclaimed previous collections\, harris’ skillful use of imagery and experimentation with the boundaries of language set the stage for unorthodox election commemoration\, subway panic\, zoomorphism\, and linguistic battlefields. From poems in dialogue with the artistry of Toni Morrison and Charles Burnett to poems that wrestle with the moods of Frank Stanford and Ty Dolla $ign\, the speakers in this book signal a turn at once inward and opening.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-francine-j-harris-2/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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