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SUMMARY:After Hours - Record Listening Night: 1972
DESCRIPTION:After Hours – Record Listening Night: 1972\nFriday\, March 1st · 7:00pm \nThe year of the Watergate break-in\, the first Price is Right\, and the release of The Godfather. Pick your favorite song from 1972 and share your memories of what the music means to you (optional). Bring your own vinyl or choose from a collection hand-picked by Mill Valley Music’s Gary Scheuenstuhl. Indulge in refreshments as DJ Jim Welte spins your favorite songs from 1972. \nAdults and high school students only. \nRegistration recommended. Click here to register. \nAdd to my:iCal/Outlook \nWhen:Friday\, March 1\, 2019 \nTime:7:00 PM – 9:00 PM \nWhere:Mill Valley Public Library – Main Reading Room\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley\, California\, 94941 \nEvent Type:Library\, Adult \nContact:(415) 389-4292
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LOCATION:Main Reading Room\, Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Teen Poetry Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Bring your poems\, verses\, spoken word pieces and prose to share at our Teen Open Mic\, hosted by Vice Youth Poet Laureate – Oakland Samuel Getachew! \nSpecial Guest Performance By: \nIsha Clarke of Destiny Arts- born\, raised\, and educated in Oakland\, Isha grew up surrounded by the art and culture that permeates this amazing city. Inspired by her surroundings\, Isha is a poet who love dance and other art forms. She hopes that her writing inspires and energizes listeners. \nOpen mic sign up begins at 7pm (must be 19 or under to sign up). First seven poets who sign up are guaranteed a spot in the open mic. Open mic begins at 7:30pm. \nIN THE SPACE ALL NIGHT \nMusic spun by DJ XCAIROCITOSX \nTiny bookmaking activities for all!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/teen-poetry-open-mic/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:What Happened When I Stopped Watching TV Book Release Party
DESCRIPTION:***Friday\, March 1st\, Wolfman Books\, Downtown Oakland\, 7:00pm*** The “What Happened When I Stopped Watching TV” Book Release Party Featuring Readings By \nAlec West\nPhilip Staley\nLena Nicodemus\nJoseph Kim \nAlec West is a 26 year old East Bay native. He has worked with incarcerated youth as a mentor and writing instructor. He graduated from the Evergreen State College in Olympia\, Washington with a degree in activism\, organic agriculture and creative writing. When he’s not writing you can find him at music events and poetry slams\, hiking in the woods\, or splitting lanes down Martin Luther King or San Pablo on his bike. He is working on a Master’s in Education as an education specialist and hopes to become a special education teacher. “What Happened When I Stopped Watching TV” is his first book. \n“What Happened When I Stopped Watching TV” is a collection of prose poetry based on the author’s experiences growing up in the Bay Area. The work focuses on themes of addiction\, rebellion and hope as characters struggle against a world that would grind them up. Through disaster\, the book brings the reader into the highs and lows of living life with eyes open\, leaping and landing heart-first. Survival comes at a cost\, but the lessons learned can bring healing across generations. \nPhilip Staley is a psychiatric nurse in the Bay Area and a contributor to the Green Windows Writing Anthology. \nWith over a decade of occult research and perfecting the art of the mental health report\, Philip’s writing focuses on the underworld components of emotional landscapes. He manages to weave tension\, humor\, and a melancholy sovereignty into relatable fiction narratives. \nPhilip has been a near lifelong writer\, cultivating plots and storylines for numerous roleplaying groups. His professional duties have taken him through the most desperate locales of several cities\, and these experiences have shaped his writing and polished the neo-noir lens\, through which he evaluates the world. \nAs a Bay Area writer\, Philip Staley enjoys field trips to unconventional locations with a laptop\, some headphones\, and a daring sense of curiosity. \nLena Nicodemus is a writer/therapist/human originally from Baltimore\, Maryland and now settled in Oakland. By day she works with children with autism and their families and by night she writes sometimes biting\, sometimes gentle works ranging in topics from explorations of the fear about not having enough time to survival humor about rape culture. \nLena’s work has appeared in local publications and performances such as Quiet Lightning\, Bay Area Generations\, and the Green Windows anthology. \n“Lena Nicodemus’ writing expands our own world. She moves through her life with her heart open\, curious\, and demanding then gifts her listeners by recreating in rich detail on paper the people and places she knows: from unanswered telephones to the variety of expressions possible on a child’s face; handmade bowls to grumpy voices. Her writing can bounce off the walls with anger or deepen a silence with intense love and compassion or demand answers to questions we didn’t realize we had. Her writing is always authentic and always relevant\, even to those with a different experience.”\n-Peggy Simmons\, founder of Green Windows
URL:https://litseen.com/event/what-happened-when-i-stopped-watching-tv-book-release-party/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Children's Storyteller Series
DESCRIPTION:CHILDREN’S STORYTELLER SERIES (6-7pm) \nCome enjoy a night with Adonal Foyle (Former Golden State Warriors NBA Player) reading from his children’s book series “Too-Tall Foyle“. \nAdonal Foyle – is a retired NBA player\, a published author\, national speaker\, and consultant. Adonal currently serves as the Community Ambassador for the World Champion Golden State Warriors. \nBring your young ones out for an early evening of storytelling\, book signing with Adonal\, hands on arts activities\, tiny bookmaking projects\, food\, music and more! \nIN THE SPACE ALL NIGHT \nMusic spun by DJ XCAIROCITOSX \nTiny bookmaking activities for all!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/childrens-storyteller-series/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lord: Edgar Garbelotto and Adam Morris on João Gilberto Noll
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith | 1644 Haight Street | San Francisco\, CA \n\n\nRSVP\n\nTranslators Edgar Garbelotto and Adam Morris join forces to discuss “one of Brazil’s true literary icons” (Literary Hub)—João Gilberto Noll—celebrating the release of Lord\, Two Lines Press’s third novel from the Brazilian legend called “one of the most celebrated writers in contemporary Brazilian literature” by Guernica magazine. \nCalled “masterful\, sensuous\, and disquieting” by Mexican author Cristina Rivera Garza\, Lordis the intense follow-up to Noll’s Quiet Creature on the Corner and Atlantic Hotel. Morris\, who translated two Noll titles for Two Lines Press and holds a PhD in Latin American Literature from Stanford University\, joins with Edgar Garbelotto\, who has translated Lord\, for a fascinating\, in-depth conversation. \nFind out just how one translates Noll’s quietly surreal sentences\, and how translators carefully maintain Noll’s atmosphere of menace and the surreal that many American critics have compared to the films of David Lynch. Also learn about Noll’s unique perspective on questions of identity\, his subversive reworking of classic noir tropes\, and the queer identity that underlies his highly original literary aesthetic. \n\n\n\n\nSHARE \n \n\n\n\n| ALL EVENTS >\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\nJoão Gilberto Noll\n\n\nJoão Gilberto Noll (1946–2017) is the author of nearly twenty books. His work appeared in Brazil’s leading periodicals\, and he was a guest of the Rockefeller Foundation\, King’s College London\, and the University of California at Berkeley\, as well as a Guggenheim Fellow. A five-time recipient of the Prêmio Jabuti\, and the recipient of more than ten awards in all\, he died in Porto Alegre\, Brazil\, at the age of 70.\n\n\n\n\n\nTRANSLATOR\nEdgar Garbelotto\n\n\nEdgar Garbelotto’s translations have appeared in venues including the Kenyon Review and Asymptote. An MFA candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Illinois\, he is the author of the novel Terra Incognita\, written in both Portuguese and English.\n\n\n\n\n\nTRANSLATOR\nAdam Morris\n\n\nAdam Morris has a PhD in Latin American Literature from Stanford University and is the recipient of the 2012 Susan Sontag Foundation Prize in literary translation. He is the translator of João Gilberto Noll’s Atlantic Hotel (Two Lines Press\, 2017) and Quiet Creature on the Corner (Two Lines Press\, 2016)\, and Hilda Hilst’s With My Dog-Eyes (Melville House Books\, 2014). His writing and translations have been published widely\, including in BOMB magazine\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, and many others. He lives in San Francisco.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lord-edgar-garbelotto-and-adam-morris-on-joao-gilberto-noll/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:WHAT IS DEMOCRACY? Film screening and discussion with director Astra Taylor
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, February 28\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nAstra Taylor’s engagement with philosophy\, democracy\, and political organizing transcends form\, emerging through documentary films\, books\, essays\, and social activism. Her feature documentaries include Zizek! (2005) and An Examined Life (2008). Her most recent film\, What is Democracy? (2018)\, collapses time and space\, doggedly pursuing the eponymous question\, while exploring a conglomeration of threads that refuse to be constrained by the camera’s frame\, continuing the conversation rather than offering decisive answers. The film has been called “a deliberate challenge to complacency” (The Guardian)\, and features the political activists and thinkers Cornel West and Silvia Federici. Taylor is also the author of Democracy May Not Exist\, But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone\, and the American Book Award-winning The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age. Her essays have been published in The Nation\, The Washington Post\, n+1\, The New York Times\, and The Baffler\, where she is a contributing editor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/what-is-democracy-film-screening-and-discussion-with-director-astra-taylor/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:James Weeks: Meditations Across the Kings River
DESCRIPTION:About the Book \nTens of thousands of spiritual seekers around the world have been touched by James Weeks’s online essays and affirmations. Now in book form for the first time\, Meditations Across The King’s River is inspired by James’s travels throughout the Caribbean and West Africa as an Ifa priest. Here\, readers will find hope\, encouragement\, and wisdom to sustain them on their soul’s journey. \nAbout the Author \nJames Weeks is the producer of the upcoming documentary film\, Across The King’s River. He is also a babalawo\, or priest in the Ifa spiritual tradition\, an award-winning photographer\, and a journalist who has published in Parenting magazine\, the S.F. Weekly\, Reggae Beat\, The Virgin Islands Daily News and the St. Croix Avis. James is a native of St. Croix\, U.S. Virgin Islands and currently lives in Oakland with his wife and youngest son. To learn more\, visit his website www.acrossthekingsriver.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-weeks-meditations-across-the-kings-river/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jen Beagin
DESCRIPTION:Jen Beagin discusses her new novel\, Vacuum in the Dark \n\nPraise for Jen Beagin \n“How can you resist a love story in which the object of desire is named Mr. Disgusting? Like Denis Johnson\, Jen Beagin is able to find humanity and wonder (and yes\, love) in some of the most forlorn and hopeless corners of our world.”— Tom Perrotta\, author of Mrs. Fletcher and The Leftovers \n“Pretend I’m Dead by Jen Beagin is like one of those old-fashioned classics by Charles Bukowski or John Fante or\, more recently\, Denis Johnson\, a shambling\, lyrical dispatch from the dive bars and the flop houses where the downtrodden\, divested of hope\, livelihood\, good health\, and any number of other markers of respectability\, nevertheless retain full possession of their hearts and minds\, their integrity\, their souls\, too\, perhaps–and no one nearly as triumphantly as Mona Boyle\, Beagin’s heart-breaking hero & alter-ego. Rare is the encounter with such a frank and unflinching voice reporting from life on the edge\, and rarer still the humor and compassion that Beagin manages to locate in some of the country’s\, and the psyche’s\, darkest corners. This book invaded my dreams\, took over my conversation\, and otherwise seduced me totally.”— Joshua Ferris\, author of Then We Came to the End \n“Jen Beagin has one of the freshest voices I’ve read in years – funny\, wise\, whip-smart and compassionate. I tore through Pretend I’m Dead with a deep sense of affection for all of its beautifully flawed characters and their bittersweet lives.”— Jami Attenberg\, author of The Middlesteins and All Grown Up \n\nAbout Vacuum in the Dark \nMona is twenty-six and cleans houses for a living in Taos\, New Mexico. She moved there mostly because of a bad boyfriend—a junkie named Mr. Disgusting\, long story—and her efforts to restart her life since haven’t exactly gone as planned. For one thing\, she’s got another bad boyfriend. This one she calls Dark\, and he happens to be married to one of Mona’s clients. He also might be a little unstable. \nDark and his wife aren’t the only complicated clients on Mona’s roster\, either. There’s also the Hungarian artist couple who—with her addiction to painkillers and his lingering stares—reminds Mona of troubling aspects of her childhood\, and some of the underlying reasons her life had to be restarted in the first place. As she tries to get over the heartache of her affair and the older pains of her youth\, Mona winds up on an eccentric\, moving journey of self-discovery that takes her back to her beginnings where she attempts to unlock the key to having a sense of home in the future. \nThe only problems are Dark and her past. Neither is so easy to get rid of. \nA constantly surprising\, laugh-out-loud funny novel about an utterly unique woman dealing with some of the most universal issues in America today\, Vacuum in the Dark is an unforgettable\, astonishing read from one of the freshest voices in fiction today.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jen-beagin/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mikhail Iossel\, author of Notes from Cyberground: Trumpland and My Old Soviet Feeling
DESCRIPTION:In Conversation with Will Durst\nCome to the scathing! Join Russian émigré Iossel (journalist\, novelist) and the Bay’s most illustrious political satirist Durst in what will be a raucous and biting exchange. Why suffer?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mikhail-iossel-author-of-notes-from-cyberground-trumpland-and-my-old-soviet-feeling/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nayomi Munaweera
DESCRIPTION:THURSDAY\nFebruary 28\, 2019\n7PM \nMLK Library\, Room 225/229\nSan José State University\nReading followed by an on-stage interview – conducted by SJSU Professor of English Revathi Krishnaswamy – plus a book sale and signing. \nNayomi Munaweera’s debut novel\, Island of a Thousand Mirrors was long-listed for the Man Asia Literary Prize and the Dublin IMPAC Prize. It was short-listed for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and the Northern California Book Prize. It won the Commonwealth Regional Prize for the Asian Region and was the Target Book Club selection for January 2016. Munaweera’s second novel\, What Lies Between Us was hailed as one of the most exciting literary releases of 2016 from venues ranging from Buzzfeed to Elle magazine. It won the Sri Lankan National Book Award for best English novel and the Godage Award. Munaweera teaches at Mills College and at the Ashland University low-residency MFA Program. She holds writing workshops in Sri Lanka through a program called Write to Reconcile in which she co-teaches with legendary writer\, Shyam Selvadurai. Their aim is to use writing as a tool of reconciliation and healing for survivors of the civil war in that nation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nayomi-munaweera/
LOCATION:SJSU MLK Library\, 150 E San Fernando St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95112\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:THE RACKET!
DESCRIPTION:Details soon! \nHosted by Noah B. Sanders
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-5/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BERKELEY ARTS & LETTERS: Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Arts & Letters presents a panel discussion on the future of artificial intelligence and the nature of human existence. \n  \nPlease note: This event is ticketed\, and will take place at Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St.\, Berkeley. Tickets\, including discounted book bundles\, are available in advance here. Unless otherwise noted here\, general admission tickets will be available at the door. \n  \nAdvances in artificial intelligence have forever altered the way we live — from Alexa in your living room to autonomous vehicles and drone warfare — and AI is poised to define the coming decades for better or worse. Tech giants\, including Google and Facebook\, are engaged in an AI arms race\, while Elon Musk\, the late Stephen Hawking\, and other thought leaders have warned that unsupervised\, self-improving machine learning poses a major threat to society. So where is AI headed next\, and how will this rapidly emerging technology impact our world? \n  \nIn Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI\, science world luminary John Brockman has assembled twenty-five of the most important scientific thinkers to discuss the groundbreaking opportunities and potential dangers that AI presents. The result is an unparalleled round-table examination of the mind\, thinking\, intelligence\, and what it means to be human. \n  \nJoining us for an evening of conversation are four Bay Area contributors: \n  \n–  Chris Anderson: former EIC of Wired; cofounder and CEO of 3DRobotics.\n–  Anca Dragan: UC Berkeley professor; cofounder of the prestigious Berkeley AI Research Lab. \nLeading the panel is Possible Minds editor John Brockman\, founder of the powerhouse international literary and software agency Brockman\, Inc. as well as the publisher of Edge.org\, an online salon that the Guardian has called the worlds smartest website. \n  \nPlease join us! \n  \n\n  \n“Pithy essays on artificial intelligence. . . . Readers . . . will not find a better introduction than this book.” – Kirkus \n  \n“While the [Possible Minds] authors disagree on the answers\, they agree on the major question: what dangers might AI present to humankind? Within that framework\, the essays offer a host of novel ideas. . . . Enlightening\, entertaining\, and exciting reading.” – Publishers Weekly \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: \n  \n– Duration of event is subject to authors’ preference. \n– Signing and additional details coming soon. \n– This event is all ages. RSVP is appreciated but not necessary. \n– Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you. \n– If you can’t attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Possible Minds\, and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-arts-letters-possible-minds-twenty-five-ways-of-looking-at-ai/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:REBECCA SOLNIT
DESCRIPTION: Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nRebecca Solnit is an incisive voice on topics ranging from feminism to the environment\, western and indigenous history to literary criticism\, and from hope and disaster to popular power and social change. She has published twenty books\, including three collections of essays–Hope in the Dark\, Men Explain Things to Me\, and The Mother of All Questions–as well as a trilogy of atlases of American cities and a work of literary criticism on Eadweard Muybridge. Her most recent work\, Call Them By Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)\, brings a measure of light and hope to the sobering topics of police brutality\, lack of gun regulation\, and other acts of violence in America. Solnit is a columnist at Harper’s and a frequent contributor to The Guardian. \nAstra Taylor’s engagement with philosophy\, democracy\, and political organizing transcends form\, emerging through documentary films\, books\, essays\, and social activism. Her feature documentaries include Zizek! (2005) and An Examined Life (2008). Her most recent film\, What is Democracy? (2018)\, collapses time and space\, doggedly pursuing the eponymous question\, while exploring a conglomeration of threads that refuse to be constrained by the camera’s frame\, continuing the conversation rather than offering decisive answers. The film has been called “a deliberate challenge to complacency” (The Guardian)\, and features the political activists and thinkers Cornel West and Silvia Federici. Taylor is also the author of Democracy May Not Exist\, But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone\, and the American Book Award-winning The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age. Her essays have been published in The Nation\, The Washington Post\, n+1\, The New York Times\, and The Baffler\, where she is a contributing editor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-solnit-2/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jill Abramson: This Is Now with Angie Coiro
DESCRIPTION:One of the news media’s most qualified voices examines critical information battlegrounds: old media vs. new\, documented veracity vs. clickbait. \nJill Abramson follows four companies— The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, BuzzFeed\, and VICE— over a decade of disruption and radical adjustment. The two venerable newspapers wrestle the challenge of an aging readership; the two upstarts confront a ballooning but fickle audience of millennials. \nShe profiles the defenders of the legacy presses and the larger-than-life characters behind the new speed-driven media competitors. Those players include Jeff Bezos and Marty Baron (The Washington Post)\, Arthur Sulzberger and Dean Baquet (The New York Times)\, Jonah Peretti (BuzzFeed)\, and Shane Smith (VICE) as well as their reporters and anxious readers. \nWhat does all this portend for the discriminating news consumer? Join us for a This Is Now conversation featuring former Executive Editor of the New York Times and Harvard lecturer\, Jill Abramson.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jill-abramson-this-is-now-with-angie-coiro/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Renowned SF Poet Lew Ellingham Celebrates Birthday With Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate Lew Ellingham’s 80+ (?) birthday wherein he will launch his new book\, 2018; new narrative exponent\, poet\, and playwright Kevin Killian talks about his Semiotext(e) book Fascination\, (his newest is Stage Fright: Selected Plays from San Francisco Poets Theater); and poet Patrick Mellon launches his first book\, Alkali Shores\, the most recent publication from local publisher Ithuriel’s Spear. \n\nLew’s new offering is 2018\, “Give Me My Words”\, the author’s manuscripts chronologically presented through 2018\, with the addition of a memoir or eulogy\, “Compton”\, the final story of a friend who recently died\, an Alzheimer’s victim — almost all the settings are in San Francisco\, prose poems or stories usually a single page in length\, gathered in a jumbled mind.\n\nPatrick Mellor’s new poetry book from Ithuriel’s Spear\, Alkali Shores\, is his first book of poems and was written over the last 15 years. Its aim is to represent the intersection of biological and cultural history expressed in individual human cognition and universal mythology.\nMellor has studied paleobiology\, botany\, and philosophy at Oxford and San Francisco State universities\, specializing in the botany and ecology of the California deserts\, philosophy of mind and early modern rationalism. \nKevin Killian will read from Fascination\, a memoir of gay life in 1970s Long Island by one of the leading proponents of the New Narrative movement. \nFascination brings together an early memoir\, Bedrooms Have Windows (1989) and a previously unpublished prose work\, Bachelors Get Lonely. The two together depict the author’s early years struggling to become a writer in the sexed-up\, boozy\, drug-ridden world of Long Island’s North Shore in the 1970s. Fascination offers a moving and often funny view of the loneliness and desire that defined gay life of that era—a time in which Richard Nixon’s resignation intersected with David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs—from one of the leading voices in experimental gay writing of the past thirty years. “Move along the velvet rope\,” Killian writes in Bedrooms Have Windows\, “run your shaky fingers past the lacquered Keith Haring graffito: ‘You did not live in our time! Be Sorry!'” \n  \n The fun begins at 7pm. All welcome.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/renowned-sf-poet-lew-ellingham-celebrates-birthday-with-book-launch/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lloyd Kahn
DESCRIPTION:A Celebration of The Pacific Ocean: Lloyd Kahn’s Latest Book\, Driftwood Shacks: Anonymous Architecture Along the California Coast \nfrom Shelter Publications \nPreceded by Discussion and Vintage Photos of NorCal Surfing in the ’50s — Before Wetsuits \n\n\n\nLloyd Kahn is the editor-in-chief of Shelter Publications\,  an independent California publisher. Shelter Publications specializes in books on building and architecture\,as well as health and fitness.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lloyd-kahn/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jan Steckel and Tom Odegard at #we
DESCRIPTION:#we presents Tom Odegard speaking on “Being Intersex” and reading poetry on the subject\, and Jan Steckel speaking on “Bi Babes in the Woods” and reading bi poems from her new book Like Flesh Covers Bone. A Q&A will follow. Hosted by Richard Loranger.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jan-steckel-and-tom-odegard-at-we/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Folkland Book Club featuring books from Small Press Distribution
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a monthly book club featuring titles from Small Press Distribution. Pick up a free copy of our February book at the January Book Club meeting (1/30)\, or at the Main Library Reference desk starting on January 31 while supplies last. \nFEBRUARY’S BOOK CLUB PICK: PRIMITIVITY: STORIES BY AMY SAYRE BAPTISTA \nThe landscape of Amy Sayre Baptista’s PRIMITIVITY is mapped by cracked asphalt and dark woods\, by broken bridges spanning greedy rivers\, sunbaked dirt and ghost roads\, séances held in gun repair shops\, and retribution exacted in long grasses and hog pits and Segway tracks. These nine stories weave together a community borrowed from history and spanning centuries in a re-imagined Pike County\, a geographical conundrum found in three different states yet joined by the same hungry river. From strangers to spiritualists to families bound by love and blood\, the characters who populate Sayre Baptista’s stories tell tall tales of survivorship in the American south. To enter PRIMITIVITY’s pages is to arrive in a harsh yet beguiling topography of ghosts\, thieves\, and a hangman’s lament. \nAmy Sayre Baptista’s writing has appeared in The Best Small Fictions (2017)\, Corium\, SmokeLong Quarterly\, Ninth Letter\, The Butter\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, and other journals. She was a SAFTA fellow (2015)\, a CantoMundo Poetry fellow (2013)\, and a scholarship recipient to the Disquiet Literary Festival in Lisbon\, Portugal (2011). She performs with Kale Soup for the Soul\, a Portuguese-American artist’s collective\, and Poetry While You Wait (Chicago). She is a co-founder of Plates&Poetry\, a community arts program focused on food and writing. She has an MFA in Fiction from the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign\, and teaches Humanities at Western Gov-ernors University. She lives in Illinois. \nOur Book Club moderator\, Nirvana Shahriar is a senior undergraduate student at the University of California\, Berkeley. A lover of language and literature\, she studies English and Linguistics. Her love for language\, and interest in both the written and spoken word has led her to fa-cilitate classes at UC Berkeley that are structured around liter-ature\, like book clubs. Experienced in facilitating and leading discussion\, Nirvana is looking forward to more literary reads with new folks and faces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/folkland-book-club-featuring-books-from-small-press-distribution/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library – Main Branch\, 125 - 14th Street\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Nona Caspers and Friends
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate Nona Caspers’ latest book\, the novel\, The Fifth Woman. Publisher’s Weekly said\, “This gem of a collection is a transcendent portrayal of bereavement\, showing how death elevates the mundane and affects everything humans do\, see and think.” The San Francisco Chronicle called the book “… mesmerizing\, moving…” \nYears after Caspers’s unnamed narrator loses her first lover in a tragic accident\, she finds herself wondering\, “What did she want from me? What are the things that matter?” In vivid\, richly detailed vignettes\, the book tracks the cyclical nature of grief and remembrance across a life fractured by loss. At times dryly comical\, at other times radiantly surreal\,The Fifth Woman is a testament to the resurrecting power of memory and enduring love. \nCaspers will share the stage with two of her former graduate students from the Creative Writing program at SFSU. Author signing and book sale by Dog Eared Books Castro to follow event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nona-caspers-and-friends/
LOCATION:James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center of San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St. San Francisco\,\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
DESCRIPTION:  \n   reading from \nMinutes of Glory and Other Stories \npublished by The New Press \nA dazzling short story collection from the person Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls “one of the greatest writers of our time” \n\n\n\nNgũgĩ wa Thiong’o\, although renowned for his novels\, memoirs\, and plays\, honed his craft as a short story writer. From “The Fig Tree” (“Mugumo” in this collection)\, written in 1960\, his first year as an undergraduate at Makerere University College in Uganda\, to the playful “The Ghost of Michael Jackson\,” written as a professor at the University of California\, Irvine\, these collected stories reveal a master of the short form. \nCovering the period of British colonial rule and resistance in Kenya to the bittersweet experience of independence—and including two stories that have never before been published in the United States— Ngũgĩ’s collection features women fighting for their space in a patriarchal society; big men in their Bentleys who have inherited power from the British; and rebels who still embody the fighting spirit of the downtrodden. One of Ngũgĩ’s most beloved stories\, “Minutes of Glory\,” tells of Beatrice\, a sad but ambitious waitress who fantasizes about being feted and lauded over by the middle-class clientele in the city’s beer halls. Her dream leads her on a witty and heartbreaking adventure. \nPublished for the first time in America\, Minutes of Glory and Other Stories is a major literary event that celebrates the storytelling might of one of Africa’s best-loved writers. \nOne of the leading writers and scholars at work today\, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was born in Limuru\, Kenya\, in 1938. He is the author of A Grain of Wheat; Weep Not\, Child; and Petals of Blood\, as well as Birth of a Dream Weaver\, Wrestling with the Devil\, and Minutes of Glory (all from The New Press).\nCurrently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California\, Irvine\, Ngũgĩ is recipient of twelve honorary doctorates\, among other awards. \nWhat has been said about the work of \n\n\n\nThis thrilling testament to the human spirit had\, for me\, a fierce resonance. . . . I could not help feeling that his luminous words were meant for those victims and many others being persecuted across the world\, a way of urging humanity to never surrender to the demons of fear and silence. (Ariel Dorfman\, The New York Times Book Review) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Engrossing … At once exhilarating and defiant\, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s memoir is a thought-provoking document of a grim time in Kenyan history.” (Publishers Weekly) \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Washington Post reviews Birth of a Dream Weaver\, saying “every page ripples with a contagious faith in education and in the power of literature to shape the imagination and scour the conscience.” (The Washington Post)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ngugi-wa-thiongo/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Charlie Jane Anders
DESCRIPTION:The Hugo\, Nebula and Locus awards all agree on Charlie Jane Anders\, as do the devotees of her stunning 2016 achievement in literary science fiction\, All the Birds in the Sky. This author is a Kepler’s favorite! \nVivid\, charming\, quick-witted and ever-curious\, Anders’ professional work ranges from captivating short stories and novels to a spoken-word variety show of over ten years\, the lauded Writers With Drinks in San Francisco. Her vibrant speaking presence and dauntless intellectual curiosity have made this author an invaluable jewel in the Bay Area writing community for decades. She’s not only someone whose work you want to read\, but someone you want to meet. \nNow you have the chance! \nThe Literary Foundation is so excited to welcome Charlie Jane back to the stage for a talk and book-signing based around her latest novel\, The City in the Middle of the Night. This story is set in January\, a dying planet\, half lit by endless sun and half-plunged into icy night\, where our protagonist Sophie has recently been exiled to the darkness. Left for dead\, Sophie crafts unusual friendships which help her to survive night … and with the help of a ragtag supporting crew\, this student revolutionary is poised to change the world. \nAttend with a friend\, bask in the glow of a rising literary star\, and get your book signed!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charlie-jane-anders/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Mikhail Iossel w/ Matthew Zapruder - - Notes from Cyberground
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, February 26\n7:00pm\n\nEAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Mikhail Iossel to discuss his new new book Notes From Cyberground: Trumpland and My Old Soviet Feeling\, on Tuesday\, February 26th at 7pm. He will be in conversation with Matthew Zapruder. \nAmerica under Donald Trump. Russia under Vladimir Putin. Many have ridiculed them. None have done so with such scathing wit as Mikhail Iossel. From a youth spent in the USSR to a life remade in the USA\, Iossel shares the brunt of this experience on Facebook\, where thousands follow his blistering posts on Trump’s America and Putin’s Russia\, and his lyrical\, eerily timely reflections on life under totalitarianism. Notes from Cyberground brings together a choice selection of Iossel’s aphorisms\, ranging from a few words to a few hundred words. Each chapter covers a month from Election Day 2016 to October 2018. Even when comical\, this gem of a book is dead serious. It will bring solace to anyone who feels distressed by today’s surreal politics \n  \n* * * \n  \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nMikhail Iossel\, the Leningrad-born author of the story collection Every Hunter Wants to Know (W. W. Norton) and coeditor of the anthologies Amerika: Russian Writers View the United States (Dalkey Archive\, 2004) and Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia (Tin House\, 2010)\, is a professor of English/Creative Writing at Concordia University in Montreal and the founding director of the Summer Literary Seminars international program. Back in the Soviet Union\, he worked as an electromagnetic engineer/submarine demagnetizer and as roller-coaster security guard\, and belonged to the organization of samizdat writers\, Club-81. He came to the US in 1986\, at the age of thirty\, a whole and complete life behind him\, and started writing in English in 1988. Among his awards are Guggenheim\, NEA\, and Stegner Fellowships. His stories and other prose\, in English and in translation to several languages\, have appeared in NewYorker.com\, Guernica\, Literarian\, AGNI\, North American Review\, Threepenny Review\, Interia\, Boulevard\, Best American Short Stories\, and elsewhere. \nMATTHEW ZAPRUDER is the author of four collections of poetry. His poetry\, essays\, and translations have appeared in publications including The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Tin House\, and The Believer. An associate professor in the Saint Mary’s College of California MFA program and English department\, he is also editor at large at Wave Books and\, from 2016 to 2017\, was the editor of the poetry page of the New York Times Magazine. He lives in Oakland\, California\, with his wife and son.\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, February 26\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mikhail-iossel-w-matthew-zapruder-notes-from-cyberground/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Maxine Gordon on the life and legacy of Jazz legend Dexter Gordon
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nSophisticated Giant:The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon \nby Maxine Gordon (Author)\, Farah Jasmine Griffin (Foreword)\, Woody Louis Armstrong Shaw III (Afterword) \npublished by University of California Press \nSophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon (1923–1990)\, one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography\, history\, and memoir\, Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began\, weaving his “solo” turns with her voice and a chorus of voices from past and present. Reading like a jazz composition\, the blend of research\, anecdote\, and a selection of Dexter’s personal letters reflects his colorful life and legendary times. It is clear why the celebrated trumpet genius Dizzy Gillespie said to Dexter\, “Man\, you ought to leave your karma to science.” \nDexter Gordon the icon is the Dexter beloved and celebrated on albums\, on film\, and in jazz lore–even in a street named for him in Copenhagen. But this image of the cool jazzman fails to come to terms with the multidimensional man full of humor and wisdom\, a figure who struggled to reconcile being both a creative outsider who broke the rules and a comforting insider who was a son\, father\, husband\, and world citizen. This essential book is an attempt to fill in the gaps created by our misperceptions as well as the gaps left by Dexter himself. \n\n\nMaxine Gordon is an independent scholar with a lifetime career working with jazz musicians. As an oral historian and archivist in the fields of jazz and African American cultural history\, Sophisticated Giant fulfills the promise she made to her late husband\, jazz saxophonist and Academy Award-nominated actor Dexter Gordon\, to complete his biography.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maxine-gordon-on-the-life-and-legacy-of-jazz-legend-dexter-gordon/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lively discussion about “Patricia sigue Aqui” by Maria Minguez Arias. \nFor more information about the bookclub please contact J. Iranyi <iranyi@me.com> \n  \nPosted in BOOK CLUB
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spanish-language-book-club-meeting-6/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:DESTINY BEYOND EARTH: INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL & IMMORTALITY WITH DR. MICHIO KAKU In Conversation with Alexis Madrigal
DESCRIPTION:DESTINY BEYOND EARTH: INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL & IMMORTALITY WITH DR. MICHIO KAKU\nIn Conversation with Alexis Madrigal\nMonday\, April 8\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Conversations on Science \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nDr. Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist and futurist\, and the co-founder of string field theory\, a branch of the theoretical framework of string theory. His work follows the directive of Einstein\, attempting to develop a Theory of Everything that unites the four fundamental forces of the universe. His books include The Future of the Mind\, Physics of the Future\, Physics of the Impossible\, and Parallel Worlds. His most recent\, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars\, Interstellar Travel\, Immortality\, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth considers the concrete\, scientific possibility of moving human civilization to outer space\, drawing upon astrophysics\, artificial intelligence\, and cutting-edge developments in robotics\, nanotechnology\, and biotechnology to make a case for the potentials of sustainable human life as it intersects with new technology. Dr. Kaku is also the science correspondent for CBS: This Morning\, host of two weekly science radio programs\, Science Fantastic and Explorations in Science and a Professor in Theoretical Physics at the City University of New York.\n\n\nAlexis Madrigal is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology. He created and hosted Containers\, a podcast about the machinery of global capitalism and the city of Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/destiny-beyond-earth-interstellar-travel-immortality-with-dr-michio-kaku-in-conversation-with-alexis-madrigal/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tommy Orange
DESCRIPTION: Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nWith his stunning debut novel\, There There\, Tommy Orange asks readers to examine their assumptions about who Native Americans are and how and where they live. The fierce and sorrowful novel grapples with the complex and painful history of a multigenerational Native American family living in Oakland\, at once celebrating their rich spiritual heritage and illuminating the profound consequences of systematic discrimination. A recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts\, Orange is a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes. He does not take the responsibilities and impact of his public voice lightly\, telling PBS that “when people think the only way to be Native or the only way to look Native is based on a historical\, head-dressed feathered image\, you have already disappeared.” \nJeff Chang is a journalist\, music critic\, and the author of Who We Be\, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop\, and We Gon’ Be Alright. He is the former Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University and currently serves as Vice President of Narrative\, Arts\, and Culture at Race Forward
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tommy-orange-2/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Gomez Farrell at Alameda Authors Series 3
DESCRIPTION:For the third year\, AAUW Alameda presents a spring series of talks featuring authors who live and write in Alameda and nearby\, now co-sponsored by the Friends of the Alameda Free Library. Our February author Rebecca Gomez Farrell will discuss her novel Wings Unseen and her current writing projects. \nBiography \nRebecca Gomez Farrell writes all the speculative fiction genres she can conjure up. Her first fantasy novel\, Wings Unseen\, debuted in August 2017 from Meerkat Press. You can find her short stories in over 20 anthologies\, magazines\, and websites including Dark Luminous Wings\, Beneath Ceaseless Skies\, and Fright into Flight. Becca co-leads the 400-member strong East Bay Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Meetup group and organizes a chapter of the national Women Who Submit writing organization\, which encourages female writers to send their work out for publication. She also co-moderates Facebook resource groups for female-identifying writers and is a regular participant in the Bay Area literary reading scene. Becca’s food\, drink\, and travel blog\, theGourmez.com\, has garnered multiple accolades and influences every tasty bite of her fictional worldbuilding. Fiction Website: RebeccaGomezFarrell.com. Social Media: @theGourmez.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-gomez-farrell-at-alameda-authors-series-3/
LOCATION:Alameda Free Library\, Stafford Room\, 1550 Oak Street\, Alameda\, ca\, 94501
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Anya Martin and Nick Mamatas
DESCRIPTION:Anya Martin and Nick Mamatas
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anya-martin-and-nick-mamatas-2/
LOCATION:The American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Christie Aschwanden / Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon event with acclaimed FiveThirtyEight science writer Christie Aschwanden for her new book Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery. More information to be announced — please save the date and join us! \n  \nIn recent years recovery has become a sports and fitness buzzword. Anyone who works out or competes at any level is bombarded with the latest recovery products and services: from drinks and shakes to compression sleeves\, foam rollers\, electrical muscle stimulators\, and sleep trackers. \n  \nIn Good to Go\, Aschwanden takes readers on an entertaining and enlightening tour through this strange world. She investigates whether drinking Gatorade or beer after training helps or hinders performance; she examines the latest trends among athletes\, from NFL star Tom Brady’s infrared pajamas to gymnast Simone Biles’ pneumatic compression boots to swimmer Michael Phelps’ “cupping” ritual; and she tests some of the most controversial methods herself\, including cryochambers\, float tanks\, and infrared saunas. \n  \nAt a time when the latest recovery products and services promise so much\, Good to Go seeks answers to the fundamental question: Do any of them actually help the body recover and achieve peak performance? \n  \n\n  \nChristie Aschwanden is the lead writer for science at FiveThirtyEight and health columnist for the Washington Post. A finalist for the National Magazine Award\, her writing has appeared in Outside\, Discover\, Smithsonian and O\, The Oprah Magazine. She lives in Colorado. \n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens with doors at 2pm; event starts at 4pm. \n  \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Good to Go\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christie-aschwanden-good-to-go-what-the-athlete-in-all-of-us-can-learn-from-the-strange-science-of-recovery/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20190129T231400Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Chinese Writers Discuss their Writing
DESCRIPTION:More than ten Chinese writers from the Bay Area will talk about their passion for literature and how and why they write. They will give tips on how to finish a book and share interesting stories from their writing journeys. The talk will be followed by Q&A\, book signing\, and refreshments provided by the writers. The program will be conducted in Mandarin. \n  \nMain Library\nLatino/Hispanic Community Room A/B
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-chinese-writers-discuss-their-writing/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, Main Branch\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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