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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Sheila Heti with Elif Batuman
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, February 18th at 6pm PT when Sheila Heti is joined virtually by Elif Batuman to celebrate the release of her latest novel\, Pure Colour! \nPresented in proud partnership with our friends at Elliott Bay Books\, Skylight Books\, A Room of One’s Own\, and Seminary Co-op. \nTickets include access to the virtual event with Heti and a soon to be selected interlocutor\, as well as a copy of Pure Colour with signed bookplate. Audience Q+A to follow. \nPlease note this is a ticketed event \nTickets can be purchased here \nAbout Pure Colour \nThe world is failing to remain a world. It is coming apart. The ice cubes are melting. Species are dying. People\, too—of different things. But what if this world is just a first draft\, made by some great artist in order to be destroyed? \nIn this first draft of the world\, a woman named Mira leaves home to study. There\, she meets Annie\, whose tremendous power opens Mira’s chest like a portal—to what\, she doesn’t know. When Mira is older\, her beloved father dies\, and his spirit passes into her. Together\, they become a leaf on a tree. But photosynthesis gets boring\, and being alive is a problem that cannot be solved\, even by a leaf. Eventually\, Mira must remember the human world she’s left behind\, including Annie\, and choose whether or not to return. \nPure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive\, celestially bright\, huge\, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible\, an atlas of feeling\, and an absurdly funny guide to the great (and terrible) things about being alive. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience\, and she has reimagined what a book can hold. \nAbout Sheila Heti \nSheila Heti is the author of several books of fiction and nonfiction\, including Motherhood and How Should a Person Be?\, which New York magazine called one of the “New Classics of the 21st Century.” She was named one of “The New Vanguard” by the book critics of The New York Times\, who\, along with a dozen other magazines and newspapers\, chose Motherhood as a top book of 2018. Her books have been translated into twenty-one languages. \nAbout Elif Batuman \nElif Batuman’s first novel\, The Idiot\, was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize\, and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in the UK. She is also the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them\, which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010 and holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University. Her second novel\, Either/Or\, will publish in May. \nFAQs \nCopies of the book will be shipped on or as close to publication date (2.15.22) as possible. Ticket holders will receive tracking via email. \nTicket holders will receive a login link closer to event start date with Crowdcast password. \nThis is a ticketed live-stream event\, and a recording will be available for one week after event date for those unable to watch live. \nTo attend the event\, you must purchase a ticket through the Eventbrite page linked above. Purchase of Pure Colour made through the bookstore website does not grant entry to the event. \nWe cannot ship books outside of the U.S. We apologize for any inconvenience.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-sheila-heti-with-elif-batuman/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Emily Maloney with Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, February 21st at 6pm PT when Emily Maloney celebrates her book\, Cost of Living\, with Alex Marzano-Lesnevich on Zoom! \nZoom Registration \nPraise for Cost of Living \n“In Cost of Living\, Emily Maloney explores from many perspectives\, and with deep empathy\, intelligence\, and humor the real suffering caused by medical debt and the underpayment of healthcare workers. Like Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed and Atul Gawande’s Complications\, Maloney’s memoir is at once illuminating and alarming. It will leave readers asking: why has no one ever written a book like this before?” \n—Suzanne Koven\, MD\, author of Letter to a Young Female Physician \n“Emily Maloney’s Cost of Living is a brilliant book\, a staggering indictment of a brutal and arbitrary healthcare system that shapes our days in ways so small it often goes right over our heads. On top of that\, it’s gorgeously written–clear\, exacting\, rigorous\, compassionate–in sentences that lift off the page like song.” \n—Paul Lisicky\, author of Later: My Life at the Edge of the World \n“I’ve never read anything like Emily Maloney’s Cost of Living\, a devastatingly precise\, thoughtful accounting of what it costs to stay alive in capitalist America. In essays rife with vivid characters in unforgettable scenes and stitched through with vulnerability\, Maloney offers a clear-eyed assessment of our disastrous medical system. From the years-long medical debt of surviving a suicide attempt to the deadly fate facing untreated pain patients\, Maloney’s writing indicts the system while honoring the humanity of those caught in it. Everyone with a mortal body should read this book. I hope it creates change.” \n—Alex Marzano-Lesnevich\, author of The Fact of a Body \nAbout Cost of Living \nThe searing intimacy of Girl\, Interrupted combined with the uncomfortable truths of The Empathy Exams in a collection of essays chronicling one woman’s experiences as both patient and caregiver\, giving a unique perspective from both sides of the hospital bed. \nWhat does it cost to live? \nWhen we fall ill\, our lives are itemized on a spreadsheet. A thousand dollars for a broken leg\, a few hundred for a nasty cut while cooking dinner. Then there are the greater costs for even greater misfortunes. The car accidents\, breast cancers\, blood diseases\, and dark depressions. \nWhen Emily Maloney was nineteen she tried to kill herself. An act that would not only cost a great deal personally\, but also financially\, sending her down a dark spiral of misdiagnoses\, years spent in and out of hospitals and doctor’s offices\, and tens of thousands owed in medical debt. To work to pay off this crippling burden\, Emily becomes an emergency room technician. Doing the grunt work in a hospital\, and taking care of patients at their most vulnerable moments\, chronicling these interactions in searingly beautiful\, surprising ways. \nShocking and often slyly humorous\, Cost of Living is a brilliant examination of just what exactly our troubled healthcare system asks us to pay\, as well as a look at what goes on behind the scenes at our hospitals and in the minds of caregivers. \nAbout Emily Maloney \nEmily Maloney’s work has appeared in Glamour\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, Best American Essays\, and the American Journal of Nursing\, among others. She has worked as a dog groomer\, pastry chef\, general contractor\, tile setter\, and catalog model and has sold her ceramics at art fairs. Maloney has twice been awarded a MacDowell Fellowship. She lives in Evanston\, Illinois.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-emily-maloney-with-alex-marzano-lesnevich/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:9th Ave: Isaac Fellman with Charlie Jane Anders
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, February 22nd at 7pm PT when Isaac Fellman celebrates the launch of his new novel\, Dead Collections\, with Charlie Jane Anders at 9th Ave! \nThis event is free to attend\, but registration is required for those attending in person. \nRegister on Eventbrite for in-person here \nMasks and Proof of Vaccination are Required for In-Person Attendance. \nOr watch online by registering here \n(No need to register via Eventbrite for online attendance) \nPraise for Dead Collections \n“This book kept delighting and astonishing me with little insights and conversations that felt like I was eavesdropping on people I desperately wanted to be friends with. Utterly refreshing and thrilling. Dead Collections is a marvel that left me feeling as if miracles might lurk behind every doorway and inside every old box of papers.” –Charlie Jane Anders\, author of Victories Greater Than Death \n“There’s something of the feeling that comes from hanging out at your friend’s work after-hours – a little fuzzy\, a little surreal\, a sense of getting away with something without a commensurate sense of what\, if any\, rules one is breaking. A remarkably efficient book about untidyness.” –Daniel M. Lavery\, author of Something That May Shock and Discredit You \nAbout Dead Collections \nA whirlwind romance between an eccentric archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means to be at home in your own body in this clever\, humorous\, and heartfelt novel. \nWhen archivist Sol meets Elsie\, the larger than life widow of a moderately famous television writer who’s come to donate her wife’s papers\, there’s an instant spark. But Sol has a secret: he suffers from an illness called vampirism\, and hides from the sun by living in his basement office. On their way to falling in love\, the two traverse grief\, delve into the Internet fandom they once unknowingly shared\, and navigate the realities of transphobia and the stigmas of carrying the “vampire disease.” \nThen\, when strange things start happening at the collection\, Sol must embrace even more of the unknown to save himself and his job. DEAD COLLECTIONS is a wry novel full of heart and empathy\, that celebrates the journey\, the difficulties and joys\, in finding love and comfort within our own bodies. \nAbout Isaac Fellman \nIsaac Fellman is the author of The Breath of the Sun (published under his pre-transition first name)\, which won the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Science Fiction\, Fantasy\, and Horror. He is an archivist at a queer historical society in San Francisco. \nAbout Charlie Jane Anders \nCharlie Jane Anders is the author of Victories Greater Than Death\, the first book in a new young-adult trilogy\, along with the forthcoming short story collection Even Greater Mistakes. She’s also the author of Never Say You Can’t Survive (August 2021)\, a book about how to use creative writing to get through hard times. Her other books include The City in the Middle of the Night and All the Birds in the Sky. Her fiction and journalism have appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, Slate\, McSweeney’s\, Mother Jones\, the Boston Review\, Tor.com\, Tin House\, Teen Vogue\, Conjunctions\, Wired Magazine\, and other places. Her TED Talk\, “Go Ahead\, Dream About the Future” got 700\,000 views in its first week.With Annalee Newitz\, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-ave-isaac-fellman-with-charlie-jane-anders/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Kristi Yamaguchi with Forum
DESCRIPTION:Bay Area native\, Olympic gold medalist and Dancing with the Stars winner\, Kristi Yamaguchi\, joins Forum to talk figure skating\, the winter Olympics\, life after competition and how she’s supporting children’s literacy through her nonprofit Always Dream. \nIn Person: $10 / Livestream: Free. \nhttps://www.kqed.org/event/1616 live@kqed.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kristi-yamaguchi-with-forum/
LOCATION:The Commons\, KQED Headquarters\, 2601 Mariposa Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Alphabet Rockers\, You Are Not Alone
DESCRIPTION:Listen as the Grammy-nominated team read You Are Not Alone\, a debut picture book that empowers kids to love their beautiful selves\, celebrate their identities\, stand up to hate and have each other’s backs no matter what. Then\, move the furniture to create a dance floor or bring your device outside to continue the celebration with movement. For kids and their families. \nFree \nhttps://sfpl.org/events/2022/02/26/authors-alphabet-rockers-you-are-not-alone sfplcpp@sfpl.org 415-557-4400
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alphabet-rockers-you-are-not-alone/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Shayda Kafai in conversation with Zena Sharman
DESCRIPTION:Shayda Kafai\, author of Crip Kinship\, and Zena Sharman\, author of The Care We Dream Of\, discuss how disability justice is foundational to combating legacies of cis-heteropatriarchy\, white supremacy\, classism and capitalism in LGBTQ+ health and crip cultural productions. \nASL and CART services are available for this event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-shayda-kafai-in-conversation-with-zena-sharman/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library – Virtual Library
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Faux Queen: A Life in Drag with Fauxnique
DESCRIPTION:Iconic Bay Area drag artist and choreographer Monique Jenkinson\, better known to many as Fauxnique\, joins host Peaches Christ for an evening of stories from her new memoir\, which chronicles her journey through ballet\, fake eyelashes and San Francisco’s nightlife underground to become the first cisgender woman crowned as a pageant-winning drag queen. \nIn Person: $10 / Livestream: Free. \nhttps://www.kqed.org/event/1621 live@kqed.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/faux-queen-a-life-in-drag-with-fauxnique/
LOCATION:The Commons\, KQED Headquarters\, 2601 Mariposa Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Migrant Futures: Undocumented Poets Series
DESCRIPTION:Poetry\, performance\, and conversation with curator and host Javier O. Huerta \nfeaturing: Jennif(f)er Tamayo + Aline Mello + Alan Pelaez Lopez \nThursday May 5\nDoors 7PM\, event & livestream begin 7:30PM pacific \n@ Medicine for Nightmares\, 3036 24th Street\, SF\n+ livestream \nMore info \nHosted by Small Press Traffic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/migrant-futures-undocumented-poets-series/
LOCATION:Medicine For Nightmares\, 3036th 24th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Migrant Futures: Undocumented Poets Series
DESCRIPTION:Poetry\, performance\, and conversation with curator and host Javier O. Huerta \nfeaturing: Javier Zamora + Gladys Wangeci Gitau-Damaskos + Yosimar Reyes \nFriday May 6\nDoors 7PM\, event & livestream begin 7:30PM pacific \n@ Medicine for Nightmares\, 3036 24th Street\, SF\n+ livestream \nMore info \nHosted by Small Press Traffic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/migrant-futures-undocumented-poets-series-2/
LOCATION:Medicine For Nightmares\, 3036th 24th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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