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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer "It Aint Just Genre!"
DESCRIPTION:Why is fiction a wrestling match\, with literary fiction in one corner and genre fiction in another? Isn’t a mystery or a romance or science fiction as much literature as non-genre fiction? We’ll thrash those questions and more out at “It Aint Just Genre!”–Perfectly Queer’s August 14 event\, 7pm at Dog Eared Books Castro (489 Castro St.\, San Francisco). Three writers will read from their new books: Ralph Josiah Bardsley (romance)\, Tim Floreen (horror)\, and Bonnie J. Miller (speculative fiction). The readings will be followed by a panel discussion and book signing. Door prizes awarded. Wine\, edibles\, and good cheer provided for free. \nRalph Josiah Bardsley is the author of three books – Brothers\, The Photographer’s Truth\, and A Careful Heart. Brothers was a Forward Reviews Book of the Year and a Lambda Literary Award Finalist. I was born in a small town outside of Boston. My dad was in the Coast Guard so I grew up in a lot of different places – New Orleans\, Cape Cod\, North Carolina\, and Sitka\, Alaska. When I wasn’t in school\, I spent most of my time in Coast Guard hangers or reading. Today\, he lives in San Francisco\, where my hobbies include writing\, running\, and reading. \nTim Floreen writes young adult science fiction. The New York Public Library named his first novel\, Willful Machines\, one of the best teen books of 2015 and\, in a starred review\, Kirkus described it as “gothic\, gadgety\, and gay\,” which is an accurate assessment. Booklist called his second novel\, Tattoo Atlas\, “incisive\, startling\, and intense.” Tim lives in San Francisco with his partner\, their two cat-obsessed daughters\, and two very patient cats. \nBonnie J. Morris is a professor of women’s history\, a three-time Lambda Literary Award finalist and the author of fifteen books\, as well as an archivist of the lesbian music movement. She recently hosted the first exhibit of radical lesbian albums at the Library of Congress and will now be working with the Bay Area Lesbian Archives. Her new book\, SAPPHO’S BAR AND GRILL\, is a sexy time-travel romp across women’s history rebellions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-it-aint-just-genre/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:A Word for Word Staged Reading: Off the Page: Tobias Wolff Featuring "The Night in Question"
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Joel Mullennix \nOff the Page staged readings are the first step in developing a Word for Word production—taking a short story from the page to the stage. \nIn preparation for our 25th Anniversary in 2018 we’re bringing back one of our favorite writers: Tobias Wolff\, with a reading on “The Night in Question.” \nCome see the very first steps of our process\, and\, after the reading\, let us know what you think!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-word-for-word-staged-reading-off-the-page-tobias-wolff-featuring-the-night-in-question/
LOCATION:Z Below\, 470 Florida Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cary Cordova's "Heart of the Mission" Reading + Release!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading from Cary Cordova’s “Heart of the Mission” newly published by The University of Pennsylvania Press. Book signing to follow. \nIn “The Heart of the Mission” Cary Cordova combines urban\, political\, and art history to examine how the Mission District\, a longtime bohemian enclave in San Francisco\, has served as an important place for an influential and largely ignored Latino arts movement from the 1960s to the present. Well before the anointment of the “Mission School” by art-world arbiters at the dawn of the twenty-first century\, Latino artists\, writers\, poets\, playwrights\, performers\, and filmmakers made the Mission their home and their muse. \nThe Mission\, home to Chileans\, Cubans\, Guatemalans\, Mexican Americans\, Nicaraguans\, Puerto Ricans\, and Salvadorans never represented a single Latino identity. In tracing the experiences of a diverse group of Latino artists from the 1940s to the turn of the century\, Cordova connects wide-ranging aesthetics to a variety of social movements and activist interventions. The book begins with the history of the Latin Quarter in the 1940s and the subsequent cultivation of the Beat counterculture in the 1950s\, demonstrating how these decades laid the groundwork for the artistic and political renaissance that followed. Using oral histories\, visual culture\, and archival research\, she analyzes the Latin jazz scene of the 1940s\, Latino involvement in the avant-garde of the 1950s\, the Chicano movement and Third World movements of the 1960s\, the community mural movement of the 1970s\, the transnational liberation movements in Nicaragua and El Salvador\, and the AIDS activism of the 1980s. Through these different historical frames\, Cordova links the creation of Latino art with a flowering of Latino politics.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cary-cordovas-heart-of-the-mission-reading-release/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Katharine Harer + Judy Bebelaar
DESCRIPTION:The Bay Area Writing Project presents a poetry reading by Katharine Harer Jazz and Other Hot Subjects\, and BAWP poet Judy Bebelaar\, Walking Across the Pacific\, open mic follows\, light refreshments available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katharine-harer-judy-bebelaar/
LOCATION:Expressions Gallery\, 2035 Ashby Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Christine Evelyn Volker
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Christine Evelyn Volker to the store to discuss and sign\, Venetian Blood\, on Sunday\, August 13th\, at 3:00pm. This will be her publication party and all are welcome to attend. \nA captivating tapestry of murder\, betrayal and family\, Venetian Blood is the story of one woman’s brave quest for the truth—before it’s too late. \nIt’s 1992 when Anna Lucia Lottol visits Venice to see an old friend and escape her failing\, childless marriage. Instead of finding serenity however\, Anna encounters a frightening world where she becomes a ruthless detective’s murder suspect. Dragged into the police station\, she lies about being in Venice the night before. Terrified of foreign justice\, she lies too\, about knowing the dead man—a money launderer from Venice who had made threats after he’d seduced her at financial conference in Milan. Anna\, talented in mathematics and physics\, working in anti-money laundering for the US Treasury Department\, struggles to make sense of an irrational city filled with illusions. With murders of long ago spiraling into the present-day and police working overtime to uncover her lies\, how can Anna find a way to clear her name\, identify the killer and keep her job? She teams up with her old friend\, and together they attempt to pry clues from uncooperative characters—some even denying what Anna has seen or heard. Bewildered\, she can’t tell if they are hiding something or if she is losing touch with reality. As she resists the charms of an Italian banker\, she must ask herself\, “Who is friend\, who is foe?” Anna—nearly killed by an unseen attacker\, beset by haunting dreams\, racing to unlock secrets—unleashes a force bent on destroying her. As the mystery turns personal\, will Anna save herself? Will she vanquish both her enemies and her darkest fears? \nCapturing the delicate beauty of Venice\, the novel is a dark love poem to the city whose sinuous canals it traces. Suspenseful and evocative\, this multi-layered work is an intimate portrayal of a woman’s perilous voyage of self-discovery. The reader is plunged into Venice’s tangled web of alleys and canals\, but soon realizes that the connections do not stop at the shores of the Adriatic. The fates of creatures far away\, the tales of people without a voice\, reverberate through the pages. \nChristine Evelyn Volker was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island. After studying for her undergraduate degree from University at Albany in Spanish Language and Literature\, and securing an MLS\, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. She retooled herself with an MBA in Finance from UC Berkeley and worked in corporate and international lending. Her career brought her to live in Milan and London. An intrepid traveler\, she is writing full time\, thanks to the support of her husband\, Stephan\, a public interest environmental lawyer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christine-evelyn-volker/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Gabe Hudson (Gork\, the Teenage Dragon)\nNick Farmer (creator of Belter language in The Expanse)\nIndigo Moor (Through the Stonecutter’s Window) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-7/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry: Gillian Hamel's Occident
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book release and reading. Additional readings by Kelly Egan and Kevin Peters.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-gillian-hamels-occident/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE ALIVE: A Mortal Celebration
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die offers a concert series proudly presenting great artists as they deserve to be presented: in the concert context of acknowledging their brilliant beaming mortal magic.\nYou’re Going to Die Presents curated shows steeped in the context of mortality\, showcasing inspiringly enlivening musical acts with movingly entertaining spoken word. \nOn Friday\, August 11th @ Great American Music Hall\, YG2D proudly presents both friends & inspiring artists\, Midtown Social & Major Powers & the Lofi Symphony… \nDeeply inspiring & guaranteed to make you sweat just as much as it makes you think\, Midtown Social presents a message of solidarity & hope\, voiced by a community of people who are as diverse\, bold\, authentic\, & vulnerable as the community in which they were forged. Midtown Social asks us all to come together\, to find common ground\, love & camaraderie\, to fight for our communities\, way of life\, & rights—and to stand together as one. \nMajor Powers & The Lo-Fi Symphony plays Adventure Rock™. Imagine Mary Poppins writing songs for Weezer during a cliff diving competition between Freddie Mercury & Tom Waits while Danny Elfman makes out with Indiana Jones during a game of Dungeons & Dragons.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-alive-a-mortal-celebration/
LOCATION:Great American Music Hall\, 859 O'Farrell Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words: "Singularities"
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words – Sausalito on August 10th\, 2017\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito as seven acclaimed authors explore the theme of Singularities. Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. Entry fee is $10 at the door\, though donations to WTAW\, a 501(c)3 nonprofit independent publishing press\, are always welcome. \nAmy Berkowitz is the author of Tender Points\, the host of the Amy’s Kitchen Organics reading series\, the founding editor of Mondo Bummer Books\, and the administrator of the Alley Cat Books residency program. This fall\, she’ll be a writer in residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City\, Nebraska. \nJessica Barksdale’s fourteenth novel\, The Burning Hour\, was published by Urban Farmhouse Press in April 2016.  Her novels include Her Daughter’s Eyes\, The Matter of Grace\, and When You Believe. Her chapbook It Was Would All Happen in Barcelona was published by ELJ Publications in 2014. She has been a nominee for the Pushcart Prize\, Million Writers Award\, and Best-of-the-Net\, and her short stories\, poems\, and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming in the Waccamaw Journal\, Salt Hill Journal\, Little Patuxent Review\, Carve Magazine\, Palaver\, and So to Speak. She is a Professor of English at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill\, CA\, and teaches novel writing online for UCLA Extension.  She holds an MA in English Literature from San Francisco State University and an MFA from the Rainier Writers Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. \nLynn Freed’s books include seven novels\, a collection of stories\, and two collections of essays. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Harper’s\, The New Yorker\, and The Atlantic Monthly\, among many numerous others. She is the recipient of the inaugural Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, two PEN/O. Henry Awards\, and has received fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Guggenheim Foundation\, among others. Having grown up in South Africa\, she came to the U.S. as a graduate student at Columbia University\, and now lives in Northern California. \nBen Jackson is the director of The Writing Salon\, a San Francisco Bay Area creative writing school for adults. He has taught at several colleges including\, most recently\, the University of San Francisco. His poems have appeared in Southern Review\, New England Review\, FIELD\, Hudson Review\, Poetry Daily\, The Collagist\, and elsewhere. His awards include the 2015 Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry as well as residencies from Vermont Studio Center\, Jentel Artist Residency Program\, and Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts. \nMichael Mohr is a Bay Area writer\, former literary agent’s assistant\, and freelance book editor. His fiction has been published in the following: Freedom Fiction Journal; Full of Crow; Fiction Magazines; Tincture; Flash: The International Short Short Story Magazine; Aaduna; MacGuffin; Gothic City Press; Alfie Dog Press; Milvia Street; and more. His blog pieces have been included in Writers’ Digest\, The Kimberley Cameron & Associates blog; the San Francisco Writers Conference Newsletter and MASH. \nDean Rader’s debut collection of poems\, Works & Days\, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize and Landscape Portrait Figure Form(2014) was named by The Barnes & Noble Review as a Best Poetry Book of the year. He was won numerous awards for his writing\, including the 2016 Common Good Books Prize\, judged by Garrison Keillor\, and the 2015 George Bogin Award from the Poetry Society of America\, judged by Stephen Burt. He has written or co-edited three scholarly books and was the editor of the 2014 anthology 99 Poems for the 99 Percent: An Anthology of Poetry\, which hit #1 on the Small Press Distribution Bestseller list. He writes and reviews regularly for The San Francisco Chronicle\, Kenyon Review\, Ploughshares\, and The Huffington Post. Two new collections of poetry appeared in 2017: A book of collaborative sonnets written with Simone Muench\, entitled Suture (Black Lawrence Press) and Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry (Copper Canyon)\, about which\, Publisher’s Weekly writes “few poets capture the contradictions of our national life with as much sensitivity or keenness.” \nRansom Stephens is a scientist and novelist. In describing Ransom’s new book\, The Lancet Neurology said\, “Imagine a book all about hard science\, which is littered with metaphors and stories\, jokes and quips\, ideas and assumptions\, and crammed with knowledge. Ransom Stephens delivers this medley and concoction in his latest book\, The Left Brain Speaks The Right Brain Laughs\,” from Viva Editions. He’s written hundreds of articles on subjects ranging from quantum physics to parenting teenagers and produces events for Litquake. His first novel\, The God Patent\, was “the first debut novel to emerge from the new paradigm of online publishing\,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle. His second novel\, The Sensory Deception\, puts readers in the points of view of endangered animals. His next two novels coming in 2018 are: The 99% Solution and Too Rich to Die. Dr. Stephens is a beer-drinking\, cussing\, Raider fan.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-singularities/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Yalie Kamara
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Yalie Kamara to the store to discuss and sign her chapbook\, When the Living Sing\, on Thursday\, August 10th at 7:00 pm. \n“When The Living Sing is a stunning and lush collection\, teeming with bright music. Here\, the mouth is a doorway and a dirge to what beckons and consumes the speaker’s tongue declaring\, ‘I become a lyre bird mimicking their sound\, unsure of what grief means in the hyphen of my African and American throat.’ Here\, the ‘pulpy lava bullet’ of the Malombo Fruit tethers memory to family in Sierra Leone and Oakland\, California. Here\, the elegy is housed in the sanctuary of praise by traversing the distances woven with slices of Krio\, Black death\, and always finding joy amidst sorrow. Yalie Kamara is a poet with a gorgeous and wild imagination that conjures the ‘opal hue of God’s touch’ and the ‘blueberry gauze of nightfall.’ I never wanted the chapbook to end.” —Tiana Clark\, author of Equilibrium \nYalie Kamara is a Sierra Leonean-American and native of Oakland\, California. Prior to becoming an MFA candidate at Indiana University\, she worked in the service of youth and adults all over the state of California in the areas of educational access\, nonprofit management\,and community-based art facilitation. She holds Bachelors of Arts degrees in Languages and Creative Writing from UC Riverside and a Masters of Arts degree in French from Middlebury College. Among her publications\, Yalie’s work has appeared in Vinyl Poetry and Prose\, and Entropy Mag. She is a Callaloo Fellow\, is a 2017 National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellow and was a finalist for the 2017 Brunel International African Poetry Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yalie-kamara/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Boss Fight Books
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books as we welcome several fantastic authors from Boss Fight Books reading from and discussing their recent titles! \nFeaturing: \nAlexa Ray Corriea\, author of the new Kingdom Hearts II\nNick Suttner\, author of Shadow of the Colossus\nChris Kohler\, author of the forthcoming Final Fantasy V \n Stick around to pick up copies of Corriea and Suttner’s books\, and get your copies signed by the authors.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/boss-fight-books/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. \nThis month’s readers TBD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-august/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Community Voices: Poets Speak devorah major
DESCRIPTION:Every Thursday at 5pm from June 29 – August 10\, join us for Community Voices: Poets Speak at the Museum of the African Diaspora where Bay Area Cave Canem poets reflect on themes of our current exhibition. Now on view\, The Ease of Fiction presents the work of four African artists living in the United States as the foundation of a critical discussion about history\, fact and fiction. The readings and discussion of original work will take place in the gallery for a maximum of 30 minutes. The series culminates with a reception and an evening of poetry by the participating poets\, along with Arisa White and James Cagney\, on Thursday\, August 17\, 6:30-8pm. Free Admission. \nFounded by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady in 1996 to remedy the under-representation and isolation of African American poets in the literary landscape\, Cave Canem Foundation is a home for the many voices of African American poetry and is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets. \nCommunity Voices: Poets Speak is curated by Arisa White\, poet\, writer & educator. \ndevorah major \ndevorah major served as San Francisco’s Third Poet Laureate (2002-2006). She has five poetry books\, the most recentl titled and then we became. major has two biographies for young adults\, a host of short stories\, essays\, and individual poems published in anthologies and periodicals as well as two novels. She is Poet-in-Residence at San Francisco’s Fine Arts Museums\, and as a Senior adjunct professor at California College for the Arts. devorahmajor.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/community-voices-poets-speak-devorah-major/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SPD Presents
DESCRIPTION:SPD Presents is a monthly reading series with the aim of fostering relationships between emerging writers and readers in our national small press community.\n~*~ \nMAYA SIMONE loves witches and zines and really wants to know your hot take on Avril Lavigne’s “sk8er boi.” She is a rising senior at Penn in Philadelphia and is so excited to leave soon. Shen she is not doing student things\, she maintains a grave garden in a cemetery. She hopes in the future to work in the literary community and live in a small town with her family of three dogs. \nEDDIE HOPELY is a writer and researcher now living in Oakland. \nLAUREN LEVIN is the author of The BraidD (Krupskaya\, 2016) and the forthcoming Justice Peace/Transmission (Timeless\, Infinite Light\, 2018). From 2011-2014\, she co–edited the Poetic Labor Project. She grew up in New Orleans and lives in Richmond\, CA with her family. \n~*~ \nFounded in 1969\, SPD is currently the only distributor in the country dedicated exclusively to independently published literature. For more information\, visit http://spdbooks.org/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spd-presents/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:David Larsen w/ Stephen Sparks
DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Art of Translation and DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes poet and translator David Larsen to the store to discuss his translation of 10th-century Arabic lexicographer Ibn Khālawayh’s Names of the Lion. He will be in conversation with Stephen Sparks. \nNames of the Lion is a thesaurus\, a word list\, a bestiary with only one beast. It was written as a virtuoso display of philological learning by a man who considered himself the greatest living authority on the Arabic language\, and was so considered by others. At the time of Ibn Khālawayh’s life and work\, the study of the Arabic language had reached a mature phase\, but although the works of Ibn Khālawayh are steeped in this tradition\, they depart from received models. His longest and most innovative text\, The Book of “Not in the Arabic Language\,” is organized aphoristically into short chapters. Each chapter begins with the phrase “In the Arabic language\, there is no X\, except for…” followed by all the exceptions to the stated rule. Names of the Lion is a chapter from this work\, which begins: “In all the speech of the Arabs and all books of Arabic philology put together\, there are no names for the lion besides what I have written for you.” Hundreds of words for lion then follow. Ibn Khālawayh produced word-lists on other subjects (names of the wind\, of the sword\, of honey\, etc). It was a well-established genre of linguistic scholarship\, and it’s not clear that lions were a particular obsession with Ibn Khālawayh. However\, the Asiatic lion (Panthera leo persica) was endemic to Syria\, and a real-life scourge of the pastoral economy\, and no one who encounters a lion in the wild ever forgets it. \nIs Names of the Lion a work of literature? If by “literature” you mean an intentional work of poetry or artistic prose\, then it’s not. But that’s a narrow definition: “Pleasure reading” is a much broader category than that\, at least for the seekers and dreamers and students of the world. Formally\, the text will be familiar to everyone. It is a list\, and there is abundant precedent for the list as a poetic form. In our day\, the list poem is a standard exercise of Creative Writing because it never fails to yield interesting results. So even though Ibn Khālawayh had no conception of Names of the Lion as a work of poetry\, to enjoy it as one is practically irresistable. You could call it Ibn Khālawayh’s answer to poetry\, even his vengeful attack on it.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-larsen-w-stephen-sparks/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:John Burley\, The Quiet Child
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz presents author John Burley for a book talk and signing of his new novel\, The Quiet Child. John Burley is the award-winning author of The Absence of Mercy\, honored with the National Black Ribbon Award\, and of The Forgetting Place. With its suburban setting\, domestic focus\, and atmospheric prose\, The Quiet Child is sure to appeal to readers of literary suspense.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-burley-the-quiet-child/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Daniel H. Wilson presents The Clockwork Dynasty
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is excited to host Daniel H. Wilson\,New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse\, as he turns his pen to a new kind of thriller in The Clockwork Dynasty — join us! \nPresent day: When a young anthropologist specializing in ancient technology uncovers a terrible secret concealed in the workings of a three-hundred-year-old mechanical doll\, she is thrown into a hidden world that lurks just under the surface of our own. With her career and her life at stake\, June Stefanov will ally with a remarkable traveler who exposes her to a reality she never imagined\, as they embark on an around-the-world adventure and discover breathtaking secrets of the past… \nRussia\, 1725: In the depths of the Kremlin\, the tsar’s loyal mechanician brings to life two astonishingly humanlike mechanical beings. Peter and Elena are a brother and sister fallen out of time\, possessed with uncanny power\, and destined to serve great empires. Struggling to blend into pre-Victorian society\, they are pulled into a legendary war that has raged for centuries. \nThe Clockwork Dynasty expertly draws on Wilson’s robotics and science background\, combining unforgettable characters with visionary technology in a richly-imagined and heart-pounding tale that will have you rooting for the avtomats and wondering how many of them are still living among us…
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-h-wilson-presents-the-clockwork-dynasty/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Claire Cameron w/ Lydia Kiesling
DESCRIPTION:Claire Cameron discusses her new novel\, The Last Neanderthal\, with The Millions’ Lydia Kiesling. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/claire-cameron-w-lydia-kiesling/
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:Forest Leo: The Gentlemen
DESCRIPTION:A funny\, fantastically entertaining debut novel\, in the spirit of Wodehouse and Monty Python\, about a famous poet who inadvertently sells his wife to the devil–then recruits a band of adventurers to rescue her. \nWhen Lionel Savage\, a popular poet in Victorian London\, learns from his butler that they’re broke\, he marries the beautiful Vivien Lancaster for her money\, only to find that his muse has abandoned him. Distraught and contemplating suicide\, Savage accidentally summons the Devil—the polite “Gentleman” of the title—who appears at one of the society parties Savage hates. The two hit it off\, but when the party’s over and Vivien has disappeared\, the poet concludes in horror that he must have inadvertently sold his wife to the dark lord. \nNewly in love with Vivien\, Savage plans a rescue mission to Hell that includes Simmons\, the butler; Tompkins\, the bookseller; Ashley Lancaster\, swashbuckling Buddhist; and Savage’s spirited kid sister\, Lizzie\, freshly booted from boarding school for a “dalliance.” Throughout\, his cousin’s quibbling footnotes to the text push the story into comedy nirvana. Fresh\, action-packed and very\, very funny\, The Gentleman is a giddy farce that recalls the masterful confections of P.G. Wodehouse and Hergé’s beautifully detailed Tintin adventures. \nForrest Leo was born in 1990 on a homestead in remote Alaska\, where he grew up without running water and took a dogsled to school. He holds a BFA in drama from New York University\, and has worked as a carpenter\, and a photographer\, and in a cubicle. He lives in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/forest-leo-the-gentlemen/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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CREATED:20170803T003146Z
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SUMMARY:Well-RED Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Feature: Dennis Noren and Anshu S. Johri.  \nAnshu Johri authors poems\, short stories and plays in English and Hindi. She has a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from San Jose State University. Her work in English has appeared in Dukool\, Vine leaves Literary Journal\, Calliope\, Creation and Criticism\, Caesura\, Storizen and an anthology Desi Girls published by Hope Road Publishing U.K. She has appeared and recited her poetry at local radio stations in Berkeley (KPFA @94.1FM) and San Jose (KKUP@91.5). She has organized several poetry and literary events through local non-profit organizations located in the Bay Area. She is also a founder of a group called “Suncatchers” with her kids\, and performs “poetry and musical interpretation of poetry” at Alzheimer’s centers and various senior centers located in the South Bay. Her published books in Hindi include Khule Prishtha (Bare Pages\, poems\, 1990)\, Shesh Phir (More Later\, short stories\, 2004)\, Boond ka Dwandwa (Dilemma of a Raindrop\, poems\, 2014) and Adrishya Kinara (Invisible Shores\, stories\, 2015). Her Audiobook of Hindi fiction Adrishya Kinara is now available at Audible\, Itunes and CDbaby. Her poems and stories have appeared in reputed Hindi literary journals of the world. She was a guest speaker at a discourse on “New Feminism and New Responses” among other writers from different languages\, organized by the Sahitya Academy of India\, a highly reputed literary organization of India in Bangalore in June 2015. Besides writing her other interests are theatre\, painting and music. She can be contacted at anshu@udgam.com. \nDennis Noren is an enthusiastic participant in the poetry community of the South Bay. He is on the Poetry Center San José Advisory Board and organizes the Center’s activity at the Edwin Markham House at History Park. Dennis was one of five winners of the 2012 Poetry on the Move contest and first prize winner of the 2010 Tokutomi Haiku Contest.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/well-red-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Works/San José\, 365 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170808T203000
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CREATED:20170622T012858Z
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SUMMARY:Julie Rogers + Steven Gray
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact Friends’ Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julie-rogers-steven-gray/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170803T004811Z
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SUMMARY:Heather Harpham: Happiness
DESCRIPTION:Happiness begins with a charming courtship between hopelessly attracted opposites: Heather\, a world-roaming California girl\, and Brian\, an intellectual\, homebody writer\, kind and slyly funny\, but loath to leave his Upper West Side studio. Their magical interlude ends\, full stop\, when Heather becomes pregnant—Brian is sure he loves her\, only he doesn’t want kids. Heather returns to California to deliver their daughter alone\, buoyed by family and friends. Mere hours after Gracie’s arrival\, Heather’s bliss is interrupted when a nurse wakes her\, “Get dressed\, your baby is in trouble.” \nThis is not how Heather had imagined new motherhood – alone\, heartsick\, an unexpectedly solo caretaker of a baby who smelled “like sliced apples and salted pretzels” but might be perilously ill. Brian reappears as Gracie’s condition grows dire; together Heather and Brian have to decide what they are willing to risk to ensure their girl sees adulthood. \nThe grace and humor that ripple through Heather Harpham’s writing transform the dross of heartbreak and parental fears into a clear-eyed\, warm-hearted view of the world. Profoundly moving and subtly written\, Happiness radiates in many directions–new\, romantic love; gratitude for a beautiful\, inscrutable world; deep\, abiding friendship; the passion a parent has for a child; and the many unlikely ways to build a family. Ultimately it’s a story about love and happiness\, in their many crooked configurations. \nHeather Harpham has written six solo plays\, including BURNING which toured nationally. Her fiction\, essays and reviews have appeared in MORE Magazine and Water~Stone Review. Harpham is the recipient of the Brenda Ueland Prose Prize\, a Marin Arts Council Independent Artist Grant and a grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and SUNY Purchase and lives along the Hudson River with her family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/heather-harpham-happiness/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake & Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
DESCRIPTION:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents Poetic Tuesdays on the second Tuesday of each month at Jessie Square next to the Contemporary Jewish Museum. Guest curated by Litquake’s Brynn Saito\, Poetic Tuesdays run from 12:30pm-1:30pm and feature poets and music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-yerba-buena-gardens-festival-3/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170807T213000
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SUMMARY:Lunada Literary Lounge Fall Season Opener
DESCRIPTION:LUNADA Literary Lounge – Fall Season Opener\nSpoken Word * Música * Open Mic\nMonday\, August 7\, 2017 | 7:30 pm \nFeaturing Chris Abani\, Denise Chavez\, & special guests. Open Mic sign-up 7:00pm. \nPlease arrive early\, anticipating a full house. \nAt Lunada’s Fall Season Opener we swing the gate wide with a fierce and resounding bang\, featuring a special evening of visiting writers and faculty of the Las Dos Brujas Writers Workshops. Nigerian novelist\, poet\, essayist\, screenwriter and playwright Chris Abani\, will join leading Chicana playwright and novelist Denise Chavez\, in exchange with additional local luminaries from around the Bay\, to celebrate the celestial phenomena and 17 year lunar literary tradition we represent. \nOPEN MIC sign-up starts at 7:00pm: 8 spots on the list\, 5 min. ea.\, inviting poets\, storytellers\, emcees\, musicians\, laureates and first-timers to share their voices under the lunar spotlight. \nHost & Curator: Sandra García Rivera \n$5.00 Admission: Please arrive early\, in anticipation of a full house. \nGALERIA DE LA RAZA\n2857 24th Street\, at Bryant\nSF\, CA 94110\nLUNADA is the Bay Area’s only full moon bilingual literary ritual & performance gathering devoted to spoken word\, música\, song\, and story. Located in the heart of the Mission District at Galería de la Raza\, and guest curated by some of the Bay Area’s most dynamic word slingers and artists\, each LUNADA features community poets\, local legends\, visiting mystics\, and other mero meros of the stage. Voted Best Literary Night of 2016 by the SF Bay Guardian. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \n\nChris Abani is a novelist\, poet\, essayist\, screenwriter and playwright. Born in Nigeria to an Igbo father and English mother\, he grew up in Afikpo\, Nigeria\, received a BA in English from Imo State University\, Nigeria\, an MA in English\, Gender and Culture from Birkbeck College\, University of London and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. He has resided in the United States since 2001. He is the recipient of the PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award\, the Prince Claus Award\, a Lannan Literary Fellowship\, a California Book Award\, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award\, a PEN Beyond the Margins Award\, the PEN Hemingway Book Prize and a Guggenheim Award. Through his TED Talks\, public speaking and essays Abani is known as an international voice on humanitarianism\, art\, ethics\, and our shared political responsibility. His critical and personal essays have been featured in books on art and photography\, as well as Witness\, Parkett\, The New York Times\, O Magazine\, and Bomb. \nDenise Chávez is a leading Chicana playwright and novelist who comes out of the Southwest United States. Chávez has been honored with many awards for her literary contribution in Chicana writing. New Mexico State University awarded her play “The Wait” with Best Play. In 1995\, she received the New Mexico Governor’s Award in literature and the El Paso Herald Post Writers of the Pass distinction. This same year she was awarded with the Premio Aztlan Award\, American Book Award\, and Mesilla Valley Writer of the Year Award\, all for her work of Face of an Angel. She is also a founding member of the National Institute of Chicana Writers. Chávez focuses her writing in the Southwest\, “in heat and dust” where she claims “love is as real as the land.” From here\, she draws inspiration for her characters that reflect the love that “is as real as the land.” She has written over of 21 plays\, novels\, and a children’s book. Chávez is also represented in anthologies including An Anthology: The Indian Rio Grande\, Voices: An Anthology of Nuevo Mexicanos Writers\, An Anthology of Southwestern Literature\, as well as many others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunada-literary-lounge-fall-season-opener/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Augustus Rose
DESCRIPTION:Augustus Rose discusses his new novel\, The Readymade Thief with Robin Sloan. \n\nPraise for The Readymade Thief \n“In his highly addictive and multi-faceted first novel\, Augustus Rose pits an irrepressible and gritty young heroine against a sinister group of fanatics. The Readymade Thief is a kickass debut from start to finish.”—Colson Whitehead\, author of The Underground Railroad \n\n“The Readymade Thief is my favorite kind of book: an improbable one. The novel is a map of things—urban exploration\, secret societies\, the city of Philadelphia\, Marcel Duchamp\, very possibly the Home Alone movies—and if those things don’t seem to fit together\, well\, that’s the magic of the improbable book\, and the transmutation of obsessions\, by energy and intellect\, into something wholly new: a novel that’s unexpected\, uncategorizable\, unputdownable.”—Robin Sloan\, author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore \n\n“The Readymade Thief is a brilliant\, suspenseful\, and cinematic novel with an unforgettable heroine and a big story about art\, the nature of consciousness\, and all points in between. Be prepared to lose yourself in it.”—Edan Lepucki\, author of California and Woman No. 17 \n\nAbout The Readymade Thief \nLee Cuddy is seventeen years old and on the run\, alone on the streets of Philadelphia. \nAfter taking the fall for a rich friend\, Lee reluctantly accepts refuge in the Crystal Castle—a cooperative of homeless kids squatting in an austere\, derelict building. But homeless kids are disappearing from the streets in suspicious numbers\, and Lee quickly discovers that the secret society’s charitable façade is too good to be true. She finds an unexpected ally in Tomi\, a young artist and hacker whose knowledge of the Internet’s black market is rivaled only by his ability to break into and out of buildings. From abandoned aquariums to highly patrolled museums to the homes of vacationing Philadelphians\, Tomi and Lee can always chart a way to the next\, perfect hide-out. \nBut the harder Lee tries to escape into the unmapped corners of the city\, the closer she unwittingly gets to uncovering the disturbing agenda of the very men who pull the strings of the secret society she’s hoped to elude\, a group of fanatics obsessed with the secrets encoded in the work of early-twentieth-century artist Marcel Duchamp. What these men want is more twisted than anything Lee could’ve imagined\, and they believe Lee holds the key to it all. \nThe Readymade Thief  heralds the arrival of an astoundingly imaginative and propulsive new voice in fiction for fans of Marisha Pessl and Ernest Cline.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/augustus-rose/
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:Justin McFarr
DESCRIPTION:Moe’s welcomes first time novelist Justin McFarr as we help him launch The Bear Who Broke the World. \nJustin McFarr grew up in the Bay Area during the 70’s and 80’s as a latchkey kid. He is a proud graduate of both UCLA and the MPW program at USC\, and has attended the New York State Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore College and the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. His short stories have been published in numerous magazines and online journals\, and will be collected in the forthcoming Controlled Chaos: Stories from Wheeler Street Press. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his family. The Bear Who Broke The World is his first novel. \nAbout The Bear Who Broke the World: \n1976. Berkeley\, California. 11-year-old Daedalus Stephen O’Neill and his 6-year-old brother Demian spend the Bicentennial summer struggling to find normalcy and refuge from the dangerous indifference of the adults that surround them. With an impetuous mother\, an unpredictable boyfriend\, and a menacing neighbor to protect themselves against\, the brothers are forced to navigate their own way through an unrestrained world of drugs\, alcohol\, and sexual activity.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/justin-mcfarr/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Janelle Brown
DESCRIPTION:Who do you want people to think you are? \nBay Area-native Janelle Brown celebrates the release of her propulsive new novel\, Watch Me Disappear. \nA year after Billie Flannigan a Berkeley mom with an enviable life goes missing on a hike\, the husband and daughter she leaves behind struggle to maintain the illusion of normal life. Meanwhile\, alcohol and depression\, and loose ends that just don’t make sense erode the foundations of the life they once had. \nBrown\, the bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted and This is Where We Live\, does it again with a heart-stopping new novel that will leave you breathless. \nWith by-lines in nationally syndicated magazines across the country including Vogue\, Elle\, Wired\, and Self\, Brown is an unstoppable force. Her work has been lauded by The San Francisco Chronicle\, the Los Angeles Times\, and more. Join us as we toast one of the Bay Area’s own on the release of her explosive new book!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/janelle-brown/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170807T210000
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CREATED:20170803T004320Z
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SUMMARY:Donnelle McGee + Vincent Meis - POETS! - Featured Readers Followed by an Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Donnelle McGee reads recent poems and other work. Vincent Meis reads from his novel\, Deluge (Fallen Bros. Press\, 2016).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/donnelle-mcgee-vincent-meis-poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Calligraphy Typewriters: The Selected Poems of Larry Eigner
DESCRIPTION:With Jennifer Bartlett\, Norma Cole\, Steve Dickison\, Richard Eigner\, Norman Fischer\, Jack Foley\, Kathleen Frumkin\, Lyn Hejinian\, Stephen Ratcliffe\, Kit Robinson \nJoin us for a celebration of Larry Eigner’s Selected Poems on what would be his 90th birthday. \nLarry Eigner (August 7\, 1927\, Swampscott\, MA – February 3\, 1996\, Berkeley\, CA) began writing poetry at age eight and was first published at age nine. Revered by poets and artists across a broad spectrum of generations and schools\, Eigner’s remarkably moving poetry was created through enormous effort: because of severe physical disabilities\, he produced his texts by typing with only one index finger and thumb on a 1940 Royal manual typewriter\, creating a body of work that is unparalleled in its originality. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/calligraphy-typewriters-the-selected-poems-of-larry-eigner/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170622T004325Z
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SUMMARY:Swan Huntley
DESCRIPTION:The Descendants meets Single White Female in this captivating novel about a woman who moves her family to Hawaii\, only to find herself wrapped up in a dangerous friendship\, from the celebrated author of We Could Be Beautiful. \nWhen Nancy and her family arrive in Kona\, Hawaii\, they are desperate for a fresh start. Nancy’s husband has cheated on her; they sleep in separate bedrooms and their twin sons have been acting out\, setting off illegal fireworks. But Hawaii is paradise: they plant an orange tree in the yard; they share a bed once again and Nancy resolves to make a happy life for herself. She starts taking a yoga class and there she meets Ana\, the charismatic teacher. Ana has short\, black hair\, a warm smile\, and a hard-won wisdom that resonates deeply within Nancy. They are soon spending all their time together\, sharing dinners\, relaxing in Ana’s hot tub\, driving around Kona in the cute little car Ana helps Nancy buy. As Nancy grows closer and closer to Ana skipping family dinners and leaving the twins to their own devices she feels a happiness and understanding unlike anything she’s ever experienced\, and she knows that she will do anything Ana asks of her. A mesmerizing story of friendship and manipulation set against the idyllic tropical world of the Big Island\, The Goddesses is a stunning psychological novel by one of our most exciting young writers. \nSwan Huntley is the author of We Could Be Beautiful. She earned her MFA from Columbia University and has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Ragdale Foundation. She lives in California and Hawaii. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/swan-huntley-2/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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